History of Seneca County, Ohio, containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, school, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of the Northwest territory; history of Ohio; statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc, Part 28

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1088

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In April, 1845. a disagreement between Platt and Ricker in re the building of the jail was settled by arbitration. The business of the board during the year was confined to road affairs.

In January. 1846, the commissioners ordered the auditor to effect an insurance on the court house. The tax levy for 1846 was 5 mills for county. bridge and public buildings, 1 mill for school, and 3 mills for road purposes.

In March, 1847. H. T. Dewey was permitted to place a clock in the court house steeple, which he should be allowed to remove at pleasure if the county or citizens did not deem it worthy of being paid for. This was not adopted. but some years after Philip Siebold furnished a clock, which was used until the last court house was taken down.

In March. 1847. Josiah Hedges surrendered his toll-bridge charter (granted under the acts of January 13. 1829. February 9, 1830. February 7. 1332, and February 7, 1833) to the commissioners, ou condition that the county would build a free bridge. The original bridge, at the north end of Washing- ton Street, was swept away January 1. 1847. In March and April the board appropriated moneys to build the Washington Street bridge and other bridges throughout the county. The tax levy ordered was 1 mill for road, 116 mills for county, 3% of a mill for school and -3, of a mill for bridge pur- poses.

In March, 184S, the council of Tiffin was authorized to build on the public square, in part occupied by the court house, and on the south side of the same. along Market Street, a market house and engine house, and to have control of the same for twelve years, after which the commissioners retained the privilege of disposing of the location, while the council held that of disposing of the buildings. In December John W. Patterson, William Lang and F. W. Green formed a joint committee of the commissioners and council to superintend the digging of a well on the public ground of Tiffin.

In June, 1849, the commissioners adopted the professional tax, assessed as follows: Physicians, George A. Hudson. B. N. Freeman, J. S. Sparks, H. Niles, Peter J. Smith, $1.50 each; W. W. Belville, $1; B. Raymond. E. Lynch, S. W. Bricker, James Fisher, Andrew Hepburn. Joseph Boehler, R. McD. Gibson, Henry Ladd, Robert C. Castles, George W. Patterson, Simon Bircher. Benjamin E. Vanatta. J. M. Ball, William L. Hamilton. H. L. Harris, $2 each; Ely Dresbach. J. A. McFarland. $4 each; Henry Kuhn. Rufus Nor- ton. Joseph Myers, 53 each; George Sprague. Grafton Bernard. Andrew Ben- ham. J. D. Davidson, Jonathan Munger, Benjamin W. Day, Alonzo Lockwood, William Wilson. John Bricker, Josiah Brown, R. P. Frazier. R. D. Williams. David Heming. Isaiah Frederick, F. S. Kendall. Cyrus Pierce. Walter D. Hutchins. W. G. Remer. S. B. Owings, D. N. Pelezs and F. A. Warren, $1 each.

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In June, 1849, the commissioners adopted the professional tax in the case of the lawyers, and assessed them as follows: W. W. Culver. $1.50; John L. Lamaraux, Leander Stem, James P. Pillars. John L. Graves, Richard Williams and William M. Johnson, $1 each; William Lang, $250; Joel W. Wilson. Warren P. Noble. R. G. Pennington, Jesse Stem, $3 each: Luther A. Hall. $2; Abel Rawson and William H. Gibson, $4 each.

In March, 1852, Philip Spielman. county clerk, presented a petition from the bar, requesting a complete index to the court dockets to be made. The clerk was ordered to make a complete index up to that time, for which reason- able pay would be granted, and to continue the index henceforth without pay.

John J. Steiner was appointed auditor, September 13, 1852, rice Richard Williams, deceased,

May 24, 1853. commissioners Saul. Burns and Clark decided to purchase a farm to be used as a poor farm. On the 25th the board examined the farms of H. H. Steiner, Henry Creager. Charles Miller, W. C. Hedges, Henry Carpen- penter, David Rickenbaugh and Daniel Brown. March 18, 1854, the lands of Samuel Herrin, I. C. B. Robinson and heirs of J. C. Murray were purchased. In December. 1855. the commissioners visited the infirmaries of Champaign and Clarke Counties. and David C. Mvers was instructed to draft the buildings at Champaign.

In June, 1852. the board appropriated $100 for the benefit of the Teachers' Institute, on petition of S. S. Rickley and others. A number of appropria- tions was made for the purpose of building new bridges and repairing old ones in the several townships. The grant of a part of the public square by the county to the city of Tiffin, made March 10, 1848, was rescinded March 17. 1852, by the commissioners: Barney Zimmerman. David Burns and Samuel Saul.

John C. Dewitt was appointed surveyor, rice G. H. Heming, resigned, September 9, 1853.

Thomas Heming was appointed county treasurer, June 9, 1854.

January 31, 1856, the commissioners, accompanied by D. C. Myers and N. N. Speilman, visited the poor farm, and staked out the site of the infirmary buildings. September 19. same year. the board accepted the buildings.

In June, 1856. the sum of $36, in uncurrent and counterfeit money, was destroyed by the treasurer.

The petition of Joseph Hedges, to have a strip of forty-four feet taken off of the public square. for the purpose of widening Virgin Alley, was negatived by the board, December 6. 1856.

In December, 1858, the board appropriated $100 to Independent Fire Company No. 4, toward the purchase of a fire engine.

In December, 1858, the auditor of Seneca County was ordered to redeem the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 12, Town 3, Range 12, Wood County, sold by Wood County for the taxes of 1856 and 1857. This land belonged to Seneca County from 1845 to January, 1862, when it was sold to M. P. Skinner for a small consideration.

In March, 1859, the first order was issued to have the newspapers in the auditor's office bound.

In March, 1860, the petition to incorporate the town of Bettsville was dis- missed for the reason that the board did not consider it just "to incorporate men against their will."

September 7, 1861, the Soldiers' Relief Committee, of Tiffin, petitioned the board to aid in the support of volunteers' families. The sum of $250 was appropriated. December 16, 1861, a tax levy of one-half of 1 mill per

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dollar on assessment was ordered, and on the same day $4,500 were borrowed from Tomb. Huss & Co., for one year at 6 per cent for the retired soldiers' families.

In 1861 the controversy between the corporation of Tiffin and the county commissioners. in respect to the title of the court house square, was amicably settled. The city agreed to pay all costs and waive claim to title, and to join the county in building a new engine house.

In September, 1862, the commissioners authorized the issue of bonds to be negotiated by John M. Naylor, military treasurer, and proceeds applied to the payment of bounties to volunteers. September 6, the sum of $2,000 was borrowed from Samuel Herrin at 8 per cent interest, to be applied to the relief of soldiers' families. In January, 1863, the plan for distribution of relief fund was changed. the new plan granting $2.65 per week to a soldier's wife without children, and $4.64 to a wife with three or more children. In March, 1863, a sum of $3,000 was transferred from the county fund to the relief fund. A bounty of $25 was offered in May, 1863, to all who would enlist in the One Hundred and First Regiment or in the One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment. In June a further transfer of $2,000 was made from the county to the relief fund. The amount of soldiers' remittance from December. 1863, to March 10, 1864, was $8,535, and of the relief fund $7, 290. From March 10. to June 9, 1864, the amount of soldiers' remittance was $4, - 530; from June to September 8, $1,610, and from September 8 to December 8, 1864, $6,850.26 relief fund and $3,566.25 soldiers' bounty. The soldiers' remittance was $31,278. From December 8, 1864, to March 8, 1865, there was paid out as soldiers' remittance, $16,640; military fund, $5, 169.65; relief, $12,873.80. and bounties, $37,570.36.

In February, 1864, the sum of $2,000 was transferred from the relief fund to the county fund in lieu of the transfer of 1863. In March, 1866, the amount of relief money due the townships and wards of the county was $9, 443, to be distributed among 1,472 necessitous persons, being a fraction of $6.41} to each person. The amount of relief appropriated for February. 1866, was $7,360, or $5 to each person entitled thereto.

In June, 1866, there were only 286 persons entitled to moneys from relief fund in the county. The sum of $7,672.43 was appropriated, of which $6,864 was ordered to be distributed in the several townships and wards. July 5, 1866, the amount to be refunded by the townships to the county treasurer was $12,759.44.

A sum of $140 was appropriated by the county to Ind. Steam Fire Com- pany No. 4, toward the purchase of a steam engine.

Edson T. Stickney was appointed county treasurer April 29, 1865, vice S. W. Shaw, deceased.

June 9, 1865, permission was granted for cattle, sheep and geese to run at large within Seneca County.

In April, 1865, the question of the distribution of relief fund was consid- ered and equalized; a few townships, having received more than their quota, were ordered to pay the amount overdrawn to the county treasurer.

From March 8, to May 1, 1865; $1,655. 78 were paid out to soldiers' fam- ilies; $11, 497.45 soldiers' remittance, and $508 soldiers' bounty. From May 1, to September 12, 1865, the amount of soldiers' remittance was $47,890.45; of relief, $9,443; of bounty, $27,271.49; volunteer bounty and military, $90. From September 12. 1865, to March 8, 1866. the soldiers' remittance amounted to $1,647.75; military fund. $1.656.25; township bounty, $38,688. 25; and volunteer bounty, $41.62.

J. J. Reid

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In July, 1866, the transfer of moneys from the relief, military and volun- teer bounty fund to the county and bridge fund, was ordered. The sum of $7,000 was transferred from the relief and military fund, and $7,586.09 from the volunteer bounty fund.

From March to September, 1866, there was paid out for relief of soldiers' families, $8,006.53; soldiers' remittance, $477.33; volunteer bounty, $263.45; military, $3,255.60; township bounty, $16, 177.84.

To recount the work of the county board since 1866 is beyond the scope or object of this history. The most important acts of that body are noticed how- ever, in connection with that division of the history which they effect. Thus, the history of court houses and jails is given with this chapter, and so on to the end. In closing the organic chapter the historian takes much pleasure in acknowledging the courtesies of the late Auditor Stoner, of the Deputy Audi- tor, and of Auditor Norton, the present incumbent, and in congratulating the county on possessing many valuable records of this important office.

Treasurer Heabler .-- The death of County Treasurer Heabler resulted in the discovery of a large deficit in the county funds. The first inquiry was made by the county commissioners, George Heabler and Capt. Miller, chief clerk in the deceased treasurer's office, in presence of George Hepler, Lester Sutton and A. B. Brant, a committee appointed by the bondsmen. The cash actually received was $153,541.22, and assets, $140,689, leaving $12,852,22 unaccounted for. Mr. Heabler was city as well as county treasurer, and on his bonds were the following citizens:

First County Bond-S. A. Ringle, G. W. Lemmon, Jacob Wise, Isaac Tanner, William King, George W. Hoke, E. Weaver, George Hepler, John F. Hoke, Henry Meyer (tailor), A. B. Brant, Samuel Ernest, Lester Sutton, Henry Woolfert, J. M. Sillcox, Samuel H. Leonard, J. W. Link, Henry Heab- ler.

Second County Bond-J. L. Couch, Lester Sutton, W. Everingim, J. F. Hoke, S. A. Ringle, A. B. Brant, Jacob Wise, W. Souerwine, W. King, Edward Weaver, S. H. Leonard, H. F. Myers, C. Smeltz, Isaac Tanner, George Hepler. George Heabler, Henry Heabler.

First City Bond-J. L. Couch, F. Steigmeyer, G. W. Steigmeyer, M. C. Steinmetz, W. Souerwine, W. Everingim, Andrew Hoern, J. W. Armatage.

Second City Bond-Lester Sutton, James L. Couch, J. F. Hoke, S. A. Ringle, A. B. Brant, James Wise, Henry Heabler.

Recorder's Office. - Recorder Bennehoff completed, in May, 1885, a general index record of all patent deeds recorded in the county, by which he can tell in a moment whether or not the patent deed of any piece of land in the county is recorded. This is a great convenience, as heretofore it took from one to twenty-four hours to ascertain this. The plan of the book is excellent and a credit to the Recorder.

Public Buildings of the County .- In the first pages of this chapter it is stated that the commissioners sold to Elijah Farquson the contract for build- ing the first jail, July 4, 1825. This was a solid log box, laid off in two compartments, with its vulnerable points marked by wagon-tire bindings. At the south end of this little penal institution there was a frame building erected, which was the jailer's official residence for some short time, and, in its later days, John Fiege's cabinet-shop. This building stood on the southeast corner of the public square, was completed the last day of March, 1826, at a cost of $450. The brick used in building the chimney of this jail were the first burned in the county. Thomas Chadwick was the brick manufacturer, while the jailer, William Toll, was the bricklayer, the first completing his kiln in the

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summer of 1827, and the latter finishing the chimney in the fall of same year.

During the winter of 1840-41 this pioneer county building was torn down, as it was declared to be a trap for inducing practical jokes on the law.

Second Jail .- Succeeding the demolition of the old county prison, male- factors were variously disposed of.

Proposals to build a county jail at Tiffin were advertised for up to June, 1843. when the bid of Epraim Riker, $3, 487, to build a jail and sheriff's house on Madison Street, opposite St. Mary's Cemetery. was approved.

The new county jail and sheriff's residence was completed in April, 1878. The contractors were: N. N. Speilman, of Tiffin, excavation, drainage, stone work and brick work: Fort Wayne Foundry Company, the iron work; Scudder Chamberlain, Tiffin, carpenter work; W. F. Gearhart & Co., Dayton, Ohio, galvanized iron work: Rood & Co., Toledo, plumbing and gas-fitting: G. B. Alexander, Delaware, painting and glazing; J. S. Norton & Co., Toledo, slate work and cresting: Miller & Herrig. Tiffin, plastering. D. W. Gibbs, of Toledo, was the architect. This building fronts on Market Street, in rear of the new court house. Under Sheriff Whalen's administration this institution is well managed.

Court Houses. -- The first meetings of the commissioners' board were held in Abel Rawson's office until December, 1824, when the county rented from George Park a room in Eli Norris' tavern, standing where is now the National Hall Building. This room was used as the clerk's and auditor's office, and commissioners' room, until moved to the Hedges Building. on Virgin Alley, a two-story frame house which stood on a part of the site of the present Adrer- tiser office.# and in which Judge Lane opened the first court April 12, 1824. The recorder and sheriff used their own offices and charged the county rent for same. In May, 1829, the commissioners arranged with Donaldson, trustee of the Methodist meeting-house, to have the use of such house for terms of courts until the completion of a county building. then proposed. This old church, a brick structure. stood where the Joseph Harter marble yard is now located; was early English in style, and used by the sacred and profane indis- criminately. until August 19, 1836. when the first county court house was completed. (Vide Transactions of the Commissioners' Board. Chap. IV. )

The court house, which was begun in 1834. and completed August 19, 1836. was destroyed by fire. May 24, 1841. Owing to the energy of the peo- ple, part of the county records was saved. The office of Cowdery & Wilson was in this building, in connection with which is the story of Judge Lang's extraordinary escape. Cowdery learned that a number of valuable papers were not yet saved from the flames, and asked Judge Lang, then a young man, to rescue the " pigeon-hole " and its contents. Without hesitating the latter leaped into the room, cast out the "pigeon hole," and jumped from the window at the moment when the logs and sand of the second floor fell in. Even after leaping to the ground, the cornice and debris came tumbling down, from under which he had to be extricated.

From the destruction of the first court house to the completion of the sec- ond one, in January, 1843, courts were held in the Methodist Protestant Church, while the official business of the county was carried on at such places as suited the convenience of the officers. July 23, 1841, John Baugher, under con- tract with the county, entered upon this work of rebuilding. The walls of the old house, then standing, were used in the restored structure, and this

#The Hedges frame building on Virgin Alley was purchased about 1856, by P. H. Ryan, for $200, and moved to mouth of Rock Creek.

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(with the additions made in 1866) was the court house of Seneca County. until the spring of 1884. when the building was removed to give place to the present house, the officers being transferred to a large brick building and frame annex. which fronted on Market Street, opposite the "Lang House," just cast of the south vestibule of the present building and the county jail. The cost of resto- ration was over $4. 400. The court house square was cleared of the old locust trees in April, 1863.

The New Court House. - The corner-stone of this magnificent building was laid June 24, 1884, with appropriate ceremonies. The members of the com- mittee. appointed by the commissioners to arrange for the laying of the corner- stone. met at the office of N. L. Brewer, and organized by electing N. L. Brewer, chairman: J. A. Norton treasurer. and E. B. Myers secretary. On motion the following named gentlemen were appointed as a finance committee, to raise funds to bear the necessary expenses of the occasion:

J. A. Norton, chairman; A. B. Hovey, John M. Naylor, S. B. Sneath, John D. Loomis, George E. Seney and John M. Kaull. The ward committees comprised: First Ward. E. B. Hubbard. Jacob Scheibley and Joseph Van Nest: Second Ward. Ai Kaup. William Dore, W. P. Noble: Third Ward. J. M. Hershberger. R. W. Shawhan and Jeremiah Rex: Fourth Ward. J. H. Ridgely. George D. Loomis and John Ehrenfried; Fifth Ward, J. N. Willard. A. M. Hart and Julius Kiessling.

The corner-stone is a huge rock six feet two inches in length, two feet ten inches wide, and one foot seven inches thick, and weighs over 6,000 pounds. It was placed in position by the Masonic order, with the usual impressive cer- emonies. The officers officiating were G. M., J. M. Goodspeed, of Athens; P. G. M .. A. H. Newcomb, Toledo. Sam Stackerwilliams, Newark: G. S. W .. A. F. Vance. Urbana; G. J. W., Levi C. Goodale, Cincinnati: G. Treas .. J. M. Chamberlain. Newark: G. Sec., John D. Caldwell. Cincinnati: G. Tyler, C. C. Park. Tiffin: G. Chaplain, Rev. J. S. Reager; G. J. Deacon, Dr. C. E. Davis.

Gen. W. H. Gibson delivered the orations in English, while Judge Will- iam Lang delivered an historical address in German. J. H. Good. D. D., invoked the blessing on the work. Mayor Royer delivered the address of wel- come. Rev. Mr. Reager offered prayer, and then the huge copper box. contain- ing mementoes of our times, was placed within the stone, which was put in position by the Masons. The box contains the following mementoes:

Copies of the Seneca Advertiser, Tiffin Tribune, Tiffin News, Tiffin Presse, Daily Herald, Daily Courier, Fostoria Democrat, Fostoria Review, Bettsville Enterprise, Green Spring Times, Bloomville Record, Attica Journal, College Monthly.

Historical sketches and names of officers,

and members of the following societies: Tiffin Lodge No. 11. F. & A. M.

Methodist Episcopal Church.

Trinity Episcopal Church.

First Evangelical Church.

Presbyterian Church. First Baptist Church. St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Tiffin Public Schools. Tiffin Lodge Knights of Pythias.

Knights of St. George. St. Patrick's F. A. and B. A. Heidelberg College. Seneca County Medical Society.

Tiffin Turner Society. K. of P., Pickwick Lodge.

Grace Reformed Church.

Tiffin Zouaves.

Ebenezer Evangelical Church. Tiffin Fire Department.

Tiffin Bruderbund Society.

Isaac P. Rule Post, G. A. R.

Leander Stem Post, G. A. R.

Eureka Lodge, Prudential order of Amer- ica. First Reformed Church.

I. O. O. F., Kansas, Seneca Co., Ohio.

St. Joseph's Church membership. Bloomville G. A. R.

Electric Light Company. Green Spring I. O. O. F., Roll of Lodge.

Venice Lodge I. O. O. F., Roll. Adrian Lodge No. 494, I. O. O. F.

Wyandot Lodge No. 141, I. O. O. F. Fostoria Lodge No. 317.

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Seneca Lodge 35.

Oakley Lodge 317. Bloomville Lodge 667. Melmore Lodge 174. Tiffin Water Works.

Also: Court docket of May term, 1884. Premium list Seneca County Agricultural Society, 1883.

Catalogue Heidelberg College, 1884. Official Directory of the City of Tiffin, Seneca County.

Caldwell & Lane, Iron Contractors. Tiffin Public Library catalogue and offi- cers.

Spanish 25 cent piece of 1784. List of Attorneys in Seneca County. Photograph of old court house building, and historical sketch of same. Gold dollar. silver dollar, silver 50 cent piece, silver 25 cent piece, silver 10 cent piece, silver 5 cent piece, nickel coin. copper 1 and 2 cent coins.

Memorial badge and Ohio Building Stone Company's memo.

Cards of Contractor R. C. Greenlee. Lang's History of Seneca County. Card of Commercial and National Ex- change Banks.

The memorial badge worn by the participants in this celebration was quite in keeping with the elaborate details of the ceremony. The cost of this mon- ument to Seneca County's advancement, was about $215,000, or about $5.40 per capita of the estimated number of inhabitants in 1885. A complete state- ment of costs and expenses in connection with the building of the new court house, purchasing additional real estate, etc., is given as follows:

Real estate appropriated by proceedings in the probate court:

Property of Fiege Bros. $18,000 00

Property of H. F. Fiege.

6,900 00

Property of William Lang.

3 600 00

Property of Vannest heirs.

2,300 00

Attorney's fee: N. L. Brewer

250 00

Court costs.

266 61

$31,316 61

Deduct amount received for the Fiege Buildings ... 665 00

Engine House. ..

100 00

Fence around old grounds. 455 00

$1,220 00

Total addition to real estate ..

M. E. Myers, architect for plans and specifications.

$30,096 61 4,500 00

COURT HOUSE BUILDING.

Original contract price. $145,778 00

Extra work in foundation.

1,355 90

Repairing damage done by frost, etc.

834 00

Other extras to date ..

658 65

Estimate of all future extras.

500 00

Total cost of building.

149,126 55

OTHER CONTRACTS LET.

Shaw, Kendall & Co., steam heating.

7,950 00

Contract price of boiler house.

$4,464 00

Extra on boiler house, jail connection, etc.

604 16

5,068 16

Estimate on furniture (order not yet completed).

8,000 00

Tower and office clocks in place.

) 00

Tower bell in place.

815 00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Grading lot, paving walks and street estimated. ...

2,000 00

Gas or electric light fixtures. .

1,500 00

R. G. Pennington, superintendent, May 1, 1883, to November 1, 1885

3,175 32

Rent for Probate office, hree years.

300 00

Advertising for bids and other items.

300 00

$214,821 64

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The total value of taxable property in the county is $21,845, 520; so it will be seen that the total assessment in behalf of this improvement will be less than 1 per cent. on such valuation; and if paid for in ten years will require the pay- ment of $1 per year upon every thousand dollars of valuation on the duplicate. A figure representing the goddess of justice surmounts this magnificent structure, being placed in position May 26, 1885.

County Poor Institution .- In the pages dealing with the transactions of the commissioners' board, the minutiæ of the history of the Infirmary and Poor Farm are given: while in the political chapter the vote on the question of their establishment, as well as the votes polled for members of the infirmary direct- ors' board. are of record. June 7, 1841, the question of establishing an infirmary was submitted to the board. Fourteen years later a site was selected in Eden Township, and in 1856 a building was erected by Messrs. Speilman. Myers and Toner, under contract with the commissioners. The farm comprises 240 acres which (with improvements) is valued at $78,000.

CHAPTER V.

POLITICAL HISTORY.

TAROM what has been written in the history of Ohio, regarding her politics, as well as that which appears in the Organic Chapter, just given, the reader may acquaint himself with the events leading up to the organization of this division of the State. From 1824 to 1832 county elections were held accord- ing to law; but owing to the comparatively small interest taken in local affairs, the distances and inconveniences of travel, such elections were carried out much on the principle of society elections of the present day, with one great objection, that men gathered at the polls. voted. drank whisky, smoked, swore, wrestled and fought, all for holiday fun. In 1832 this free and easy method may be said to disappear. The campaign of that year called forth all the energies of the people and their standard bearers, and gave to political life a stimulus which won for it an important place in the minds of the people. Since that time party warfare has been carried on regularly. The first elec- tions were held in the county (Thompson and Seneca Townships) in October, 1820. when twenty votes were polled for the offices of Sundusky County. In September, 1821, nominating caucuses were held at Lower Sandusky, and in October of that year the candidates received the following vote in what is now known as Seneca County:

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Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.) Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1088

Author: Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.)
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Chicago : Warner, Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1088