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man race. The same may be said of all those whose observations and reasonings result in the improvement of our fruits and vegetables, and our domestic animals. Agriculture and horticulture of late years have made rapid advances toward the front rank of the sciences, but they still fail to stand where their real importance demands them to be placed, in the social and scientific scale. Among the noblest works of the earnest, thinking men of Sandusky county, is that to improve agri- culture and bring the pursuit of it into a proper position in the opinions of high- minded and scientific men, by the organi- zation of the society named at the head this chapter.
COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
In the summer of 1852 Doctor La- Quinio Rawson, who had become the owner of valuable farming lands within the city limits, began to turn his attention to the cultivation of the soil. He at once began to call the attention of neighbors and friends to the advantages which would be derived to the farmers of the county, and the people generally, by the formation of an agricultural society. His reasonings and persistent urgency of the movement, soon brought others to his support, and resulted in a meeting at the court-house in Fremont, on the 31st day of August, 1852, at which the society was organized.
At this meeting Hon. John Bell was chosen chairman, and Daniel Capper secretary pro tem. Sardis Birchard and Jonas Smith were made a committee for the appointment of a board of directors for the ensuing year. This committee, after consultation, reported as directors for the ensuing year the following names : LaQuinio Rawson, president of said board; Samuel Hafford, vice president; Stephen Buckland, treasurer ; Daniel Cap- per, secretary ; and James Vallette, Isaac Glick, Samuel Skinner, Alvin Coles, and
D. Adams, managers, which appointments and report, on motion, were adopted and approved by the meeting. The meeting then adopted a constitution, which pro- vides, in substance, as follows:
First .- That the officers of the society sliould be a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and five managers, who together constituted a board of directors for the general management of the affairs · of the society, to be elected annually by the members of the society, and hold their respective offices until their successors should be chosen.
Second .- That the members of the society should be residents of the county, and pay the sum of one dollar annually to the treasurer.
Third .- That competitors for premiums must be members of the society.
Fourth .- That notice of the articles for which premiums would be awarded by the society should be published in a newspaper, or in hand-bills, at least one month previous to the day of exhibition.
Fifth .- That all articles offered for premiums must be owned by the persons offering the same, or by members of their families, and products of the soil or manufactured articles must be produced within the county.
Sixth .- That awarding committees to examine the articles offered for premium, and award premiums thereon, should be annually appointed by the di- rectors.
Seventh .- That awarding committees should com- ply with the provisions of the law requiring competi- tors for premiums on crops and other improvements to furnish full and correct statements of the process and expense of cultivation, or expense of manufac- ture or production, etc.
Eighth .- That competitors for the premiums on crops be required to have the ground and its pro- duce accurately measured by not less than two dis- interested persons, whose statements must be verified by affidavit.
Ninth .- That premiums on crops of grain and grass should not be awarded on the crops of less than one acre of land, and those on root crops on not less than one-fourth of an acre; the whole quantity produced and the amount of land specified shall be measured or weighed-the root crops to be estimated by weight, divested of the tops, and sixty pounds to be considered a bushel; and grain crops to be meas- ured or weighed according to the usual standards; the rules in relation to other crops and productions to be agreed on by the directors of the society.
Tenth .- The tenth and last article of the constitu- tion provided that the annual exhibitions should be held at some period between the first day of Septem- ber and the first day of November, the premiums on crops to be awarded if thought necessary.
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The foregoing is the substance of every provision in the first constitution of the first agricultural society in the county.
The names of the members of this so- ciety when this constitution was adopted, are recorded in this work as upon a roll of honor, to be hereafter remembered with gratitude by the future patrons of hus- bandry in the county. They are:
Matthew M. Coe, Samuel Hafford, James Parks, Edward Leppelman, Daniel Capper, John Bell, F. I. Norton, James Vallette, Isaac Glick, Samuel Skin- ner, Jonas Smith, J. F. R. Sebring, L. E. Boren, Jacob Lesher, David Garvin, Jacob Bowlus, Peter Burgoon, LaQ. Rawson, J. S. Olmsted, Alvin Coles, F. S. White, S. Birchard, C. D. Hall, George R. Haynes, L. B. Otis, E. F. Dickinson, C. Edgarton, S. Buckland, J. P. Haynes, James Mitchell, J. L. Greene, William Kepler, Horace E. Clark, F. Van- dercook, R. P. Buckland, G. M. Tillotson, B. J. Bartlett, A. J. Dickinson, C. O. Tillotson, George Engler, J. R. Pease, D. Adams, J. S. Fouke, J. B. G. Downs, John S. Tyler, Homer Everett, John Moore, Samuel Thompson, Jesse Dorcas, Aaron Loveland, John Lefever, Daniel Tindall, Henry Nichols, J. C. Wales, J. Justice, Philip King, Paul Tew, Samuel Fennimore, C. J. Orton, Dean & Bal- lard, James Moore, William A. Hill, W. M. Stark, Isaac Knapp, Daniel G. Shutts, Joseph R. Clark, Christian Doncyson, H. Shiveley, James H. Hafford, Jacob Kridler, Thomas L. Hawkins, W. B. Steven- son, John Orwig, Seneca Hitt, J. F. Smith, N. P. Birdseye, Adam Jordan, Norton Russell, F. Lake, George Cogswell, A. B. Taylor, John Younkman, W. C. Shutts, Hiram Haff, Miles W. Plain, Jesse Emerson, Martin Bruner, Sidney Forgerson, Lyman Miller, C. King, Orlin Sylva, John Whitmore, Isaac Mowrer, Henry Bowman, Hiram Miller, A. J. Hen- per, Edwin Doud, S. H. Tibbals, F. M. Clayton.
FIRST MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS.
The board of directors of the Sandus- ky County Agricultural Society, chosen as we have mentioned above, met at the of- fice of the secretary on the 4th day of Sep- tember, 1852 ; present, LaQuinio Raw- son, Samuel Hafford, Stephen Buckland, Daniel Capper, James Vallette, Samuel Skinner.
The board, after due consultation and deliberation, resolved that the first fair of said society should be held at Fremont, on the 13th day of October, 1852; and
they also then and there resolved to in- vite all the members of the society to ex- hibit at said fair horses, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, field crops, fruit, dairy products, and manufactured articles, and at the same time fixed the premiums on the various articles to be exhibited.
Although it might be interesting in the future to publish a detailed statement of the premiums offered at this first county fair, we omit the details, because we in- tend giving the premiums actually awarded, what for, and the amounts, which will give all the facts the reader will desire, and will avoid, at the same time, a repetition of matter in this connec- tion.
AWARD OF PREMIUMS.
At the first annual fair of the Sandusky County Agricultural Society, held in 1852, premiums were awarded as follows:
Class A, Cattle. - Best yoke of working oxen over four years old, to Isaac Glick, of Ballville, $5. Best bull over four years old, William Hill, of Scott township, $3; second best bull, Otho Lease, of Jack- son township, $1. Best bull over three years old, D. Seaman, Ballville township, $3; second best over three years old, Lyman Miller, Green Creek town- ship. Best bull over one year old, James Vallette, of Ballville township; second best bull, John Lefever, Green Creek township, $1. Best milch cow, John Moore, of Ballville township, $3; second best milch cow, James Vallette, Ballville township, $2. Best fat ox, John Moore, Ballville township, $3. Best two year old heifer, George Cogswell, Sandusky town- ship, $2; second best two year old heifer, Samuel Fennimore, of Ballville township, $1. Best yearling heifer, William Kessler, of Sandusky township, $2; second best yearling heifer, D. Seaman, Ballville township, $I.
Class B, Horses .- Best stallion, S. H. Tibbals, York township, $3; second best stallion, John Colvin, York township, $2. Best brood mare and colt, P. Burgoon, Sandusky township, $3; second best brood mare and colt, John Whit- more, Townsend township, $2. Best pair matched horses, J. C. Wales, of York township, $3; sec- ond best pair matched horses, H. Haff, Townsend township, $2. Best gelding over four years old, J. Hale, Sandusky township, $3; second best gelding over four years old, B. J. Bartlett, Sandusky. Best work horse over four years old, Otho Lease, of Jack- son, $2; second best work horse over four years old,
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E. Doud, York, $I. Best carriage horse, William Tew, Townsend township, $2. Best three year old colt, C. G. Green, Ballville township, $3; second best three year old colt, N. Bowlus, Sandusky town- ship, $2. Best two year old colt, W. Shutts, York township, $2; second best two year old colt, Hiram Haff, Townsend township, $1. Best yearling colt, John Whitmore, Townsend township, $2; second best yearling colt, John Whitmore, $I. Best three year old stallion, J. Gibbs, Riley township, $3; sec- . ond best three year old stallion, William Shrader, $2. Best jack, Joseph R. Clark, Riley township, $2. · Class C, Sheep .- Best buck, Hiram Haff, Town- send township, $2; second best buck, S. Hafford, Ballville township, $1. Best pen of five ewes, D. Capper, Sandusky township, $2; second best pen of five ewes, S. Fennimore, Ballville township, $I.
Class D, Hogs .- Best boar over one year old, James Vallette, Ballville township, $2. Best breeding sow, John Moore, Ballville township, $2; second best breeding sow, James Vallette, $1. Best fat hog, S. Thompson, Sandusky township, $2. Best pen of pigs, William Kepler, Sandusky township, $2.
Class E, Fowls .- Best lot five domestic fowls, P. Brush, Ballville township, $2; second, James F. Hults, $I.
Class F, Dairy and Kitchen-Best roll five pounds butter, Mrs. Treat, Ballville township, $2; second do. Mrs. S. Buckland, Sandusky township, $1. Best lot cheese, Mrs. P. Tew, Townsend township, $2. Best bread, Mrs. P. Brush, Ballville township $2 ; second do. Mrs. S. Buckland, Sandusky town- ship, $I.
Class G, Fruit .- Best variety table fruit, Lyman Miller, Green Creek township, $2; second do. A. Loveland, Sandusky township, $1. Best lot winter fruit, H. Bowlus, Sandusky township, $1; second do. William King, Ballville, $1. Best lot grapes, Mrs. L. B. Otis, Sandusky township, $I. Best quinces, Mrs. Russell, Green Creek township, $1; second do. Mrs. S. Treat, Ballville township, $1; third do. Mrs. R. P. Buckland, Sandusky township, $I.
Class H .- Best acres of corn, H. Haff. Town- send township, $5; second do. William Hyatt, Ball- ville township $2. Best variety garden corn, Mrs. Dickinson, Sandusky township, $1. Best potatoes, George Brim, Woodville township, $1. Best turnips, George Hyatt, Ballville township, $1. Best squashes, Miles W. Plain, Greek Creek township, $I. Best beets, Mrs. Vallette, Ballville township, $1 Best honey, Mrs. S. A. Loveland, Sandusky township, $I.
Class I .- Best farin wagon, J. C. Wade, York township, $3; second do. M. Halderman, Rice town- ship, $2. Best straw cutter, William Orr, Sandusky township, $I. Best dressed calf skin, Dickinson & Co., Sandusky township, $1. Best side harness leather, same, $2; second do. M. Justice, $I. Best buggv, William Raymond, Sandusky township, $3. Best barrel flour, James Moore, Ballville township,
$2. Best bacon, M. W. Plain, Green Creek town- ship, $2. Best two-horse buggy harness, James Kridler, Sandusky township, $2. Best farm harness, M. W. Plain, Green Creek, $2. Best lot fruit trees, J. A. Watrous, Green Creek, diploma. Best tin roof, Canfield & Co., diploma. Best sofa, J. W. Stevenson, Sandusky, $3; second do. same, $2. Best card table, same, $2. Best panel door, F. Luke, Sandusky, $2. Best domestic carpet, M. W. Plain, Green Creek, $2; second do, S. E. Edgerton, San- dusky, $I.
Class K .- Best woollen stockings, Mrs. Tew, Twonsend, $2; second do. Mrs. Tyler, Sandusky, $I. Best comforter, Mrs. Norton, Sandusky, $I. Best made quilt, Mrs. Hyatt, Ballville, $2; second do, Mrs. Zimmerman, Sandusky, $I. Embroidery, A. M. Olmsted, Sandusky, $2; do. Miss E. Knapp, $2; do. Miss A. Kepler, $1; do. Mrs. Thorndyke, $1; do. Miss E. Ball, $1. Needlework, Mrs. Thorn- dyke, $2; do. Mrs. Parker, 2; do. Mrs. Boren, $1; do. Mrs. J. Nyce, $2; do. Miss Taylor, $1; do. Mrs. Momeny, $2. Best coverlet, Mrs. Younkman, $2; second do. Mrs. Treat. Embroidery, Miss Justice, $1; do. Miss S. E. Ball, $1. Drawing, Miss A. Nor- ton, $1; do. Miss O. Dickinson, $1; do. Miss S. Dick- inson, $1. Best variety house plants, Mrs. J. W. Wilson; second do. Miss Olmsted. Best collection wax work flowers, Mrs. Orton, $I. Best basket of flowers, Mrs. C. King, $1. Needlework, Mrs. Wells, $1; do. Miss Montgomery, $1; do. Miss Ray- mond.
RECEIPTS.
From voluntary subscriptions and donations, and from fees. . $236 54
From the county treasury under the law to encourage the formation of agricultural
societies . 200 00
For lumber sold after the fair 58 88
Total
$495 42
DISBURSEMENTS.
For lumber $105 00
For laborers. 88 00
For printing. 23 00
For brass band. 15 00
Premiums awarded. 205 00
Total expenses. .$436 00
Balance in the treasury on settlement. $59 42
This detailed statement of premiums awarded, to whom and what for, and the statement of the receipts and disburse- ments of the first agricultural fair in the county, may not now be of much interest to the reader. But the time is coming when, like the incidents of early pioneer
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life, to the present age, all the particulars of the first fair will be deeply interesting to those who would watch the progress of the society in all its phases, and more especi- ally to that portion of the people of the county who would measure the progress of the county in the most important of all the industries pursued by man.
WHERE THE FIRST FAIR WAS HELD.
The society had acquired no land on which to hold the fair of 1852. However, it procured the right to sufficient room to begin. If the reader will take the map of Fremont, find State street, and follow it to the east end of the bridge over the San- dusky River, and find lots number four hundred and sixty-four and four hundred and sixty-five, fronting that street on the south side of it, and notice numbers four hundred and thirty and four hundred and thirty-one in the rear of them, they will find the ground where the first agricultural fair was held, beginning on the thirteenth day of October, 1852.
The memoranda of the finances of this first fair are worth preserving in history, and the names of the men and women who organized or patronized the society, are worthy of preservation, and will receive the honor due them for the starting of an institution which has been productive of so much good already and promises so more in the future of the county.
FAIR OF 1853.
A meeting of the board was held on the 15th day of September, 1853, at which it was resolved that the second fair of said society be held at Fremont on the 12th and 13th days of October, 1853; also a resolution fixing the premiums for differ- ent articles, animals, and agricultural prod- ucts, and works of art and domestic in- dustries. This fair was held on ground, the use of which, for the purpose, was donated by General John Bell, on the east
side of the river, on an out-lot since sub- divided, and about where in-lots eleven hundred and sixty-two and eleven hundred and sixty.three now are in the third ward of the city, as now bounded.
The receipts for this year were as fol- lows:
Balance in treasury, 1852 .. $ 59 42 Amount received by voluntary subscriptions
and fees imposed on members 356 78
Received from county. 200 00
From sale of lumber, etc. 62 45
From sale of bull.
41 76
$720 41
EXPENDITURES.
Payment on premium list .$188 00
Paid lumber, labor, printing, etc. 325 22
Loss on county bull. II 25
Unpaid bills last year. 55 67
583 71
Balance in treasury. .$136 67
At a meeting of the society held at the court-house in Fremont, on the 8th day of July, 1854, the following officers for the ensuing year were chosen, to-wit:
Horatio Adams, president; W. H. Rey- nolds, vice-president; Hiram Hurd, treas- urer; A. Thorpe, secretary; C. G. San- ford, John Moore, Lewis Wright, Stephen Buckland, and Jeremiah Gibbs, managers. At a meeting held at the court-house in Fre- mont, June 17, 1854, the next fair was ap- pointed to be held in Clyde, Ohio, on the 26th and 27th days of September, 1854. At a meeting in Clyde in July, 1854, a premium list was made out and published. The fair for that year was accordingly held at Clyde on the days appointed, with the following results :
Total receipts, including two hundred dol- lars paid by the county and balance from the preceding year, amounted to. $483 45
Total disbursements. 413 4I
Balance in treasury. .$ 70 04
On the 25th day of April, 1855, the board met in Fremont; present, LaQ. Rawson, president; William Russell, vice- president; C. R. McCulloch, treasurer ;
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D. Capper, secretary, and Paul Tew, Henry Nichols, and Samuel Skinner, man- agers.
On motion it was ordered that James Vallette be and is appointed one of the managers of the society, in the place of Samuel Treat, deceased.
At this meeting the society took the 'first step towards purchasing a suitable parcel of land on which to build proper structures, whereon to hold their future fairs, and LaQ. Rawson, Daniel Capper, James Vallette, and C. R. McCulloch, were appointed a committee to negotiate for or purchase the ground, and also to make out and publish a premium list for the next fair.
THE FAIR OF 1855.
The annual fair of the society for the year 1855, was held on the 2d, 3d, and 4th days of October of that year, on the ground bargained for by the committee above named, being what was then known as the east part of out-lot number one hundred and sixteen, in the city of Fre- mont. The purchase was made of Downs & Company, and consisted of seven and two one-hundredths acres, bounded by the river on the east, and situated east of their mill race.
The result of the fair held in 1855, was financially as follows :
Receipts from certificates of membership. . $ 366 82 From donations to purchase and improve
fair grounds. 646 00
From county treasury.
489 08
From unpaid subscriptions. 148 50
J. C. Wales' note from former treasurer. 5 00
Donations from publishers of papers 14 20
Total
$1,669 60
EXPENDITURES.
Paid expenses of fair. $ 39 99 Paid printing. 27 00
Paid premiums. 162 80
Paid silver cups. 24 06
Paid improvement of fair grounds 564 53
Paid Morgan & Downs on land ... 691 89
Total.
1,510 27
Balance
$ 159 33
The society from this time had a local habitation as well as a name.
At a meeting of the members of the society, held pursuant to notice at the of- fice of John Bell, in Fremont, on the Ist day of March, A. D. 1856, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: LaQ. Rawson, president; William Rus- sell, vice-president; C. R. McCulloch, treasurer ; Daniel Capper, secretary; James Vallette, Samuel Skinner, Martin Wright, Nathan P. Birdseye, Paul Tew, managers.
On the 22d day of August, 1856, at a meeting of the board, it was ordered that the annual fair for the year should be held on the 7th, 8th, and 9th days of October. A premium list was made out and pub- lished soon after, and the annual fair held accordingly. The financial results of this fair were a total expenditure, including two hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents for premiums, and two hundred and eighteen dollars for fitting up the grounds, amounting to six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Receipts, six hundred and thirty-eight dol- lars and forty-three cents. Being an ex- cess of expenditures over receipts of eighty-seven cents.
At a meeting of the members of the society, held at the office of John Bell, on the 28th day of February, 1857, John Bell chairman and B. Amsden secretary, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: L. Q. Rawson president ; Jacob Winters, vice-president; J. F. R. Sebring, secretary; Daniel Capper, treas- urer; H. R. Adams, James Vallette, James Parks, Daniel Smith, and Peter King, managers.
FAIR OF 1857.
The board met at the office of John Bell, in Fremont, Ohio, on the 18th day of April, 1857, and ordered that J. F. R. Sebring, Daniel Capper, James Vallette,
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and L. Q. Rawson, be appointed an exec- utive committee to prepare and publish a premium list, and fix the day, and to pre- pare the grounds for the next fair.
The journal of the society hitherto re- corded the premium list, the premiums awarded, and the financial results of the year's transactions, but no such record is made for the fair of 1857, and therefore the figures in these respects are omitted. But it is quite apparent that a fair was held in 1857, because the record shows that on the third day of the fair in that year, the society, at the office of the secretary, on the fair ground, pursuant to public notice, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: L. Q. Rawson, presi- dent; S. Buckland, treasurer; Daniel Cap- per, secretary; James Parks, Charles Powers, A. Thorp, J. Vallette, and Jacob Winters, managers. We have thus given the meetings, officers, and financial results of the society and its fairs up to the year 1857, and the election of officers for the ensuing year.
FAIR OF 1858.
The fair of 1858 was successfully held on their ground in Fremont, and on the last day of this fair, according to notice, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: James Vallette, president; James Parks, vice-president; S. Buckland, treasurer; William E. Haynes, secretary ; L. Q. Rawson, U. B. Lemmon, and Charles Powers, managers.
Each year of the fair produced an en- larged premium list, and increased pre- miums for the various articles exhibited.
THE FAIR OF 1859.
This fair was duly and successfully held on the same ground purchased by the so- ciety, but the minutes of the proceedings do not show who were elected officers and managers for the ensuing year.
FAIR OF 1860.
On the third day of the fair, held on
the society's grounds, in October, 1860, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Daniel Capper, president ; John M. Smith, secretary; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; John S. Gardner, vice- president; Jesse Emerson, Benjamin In- man, Saxton S. Rathbun, Timothy Wil- cox, and Alfred Black, managers.
On the 8th day of January, 1861, the society had paid for, and received a deed from Morgan & Downs, conveying to the society the east part of out-lot number one hundred and sixteen, in Fremont, con- taining seven and two-hundreths acres of land, for a fair ground. For this ground the society paid the sum of one thousand and fifty-three dollars. It was a very good location, affording shade and convenient access to the Sandusky River for water. But time afterwards showed the ground was subject to inundation by the river, and the fences and other structures were sometimes swept off by flood. For these reasons and also to accommodate the ex- pansion of the society in the future, this land was sold, and other ground bought, as will be noticed further on.
On the 5th day of June, 1861, the board met at the store of Theodore Clapp, in Fremont. At this meeting there were present, D. Capper, president; Theodore Clapp, treasurer; and Platt Brush, Benja- min Inman, Saxton S. Rathbun, and Jesse Emerson, directors. At this meeting John M. Smith was elected secretary, to fill the vacancy caused by the absence of A. J. Hale, former secretary, and Amos R. Carver was elected vice-president, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John S. Gardner, former vice-president, the persons so elected to serve in the re- spective offices for the ensuing year, and until their successors should be elected. At this meeting Theodore Clapp, Platt Brush, and John M. Smith, were appointed a committee to make out a premium list
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for the year, to be submitted to the board at their next meeting.
On the 22d day of June, 1861, the board again met at the store of Theodore Clapp. At this meeting those present were D. Capper, president; Theodore Clapp, treasurer ; John M. Smith, secre- tary; and Platt Brush, Benjamin Inman, · Saxton S. Rathbun, Jesse Emerson, and Timothy Wilcox, directors.
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