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house, or to chop. They all worked, young and old, and the little entry of forty acres increased in size to a quarter section, all paid for, with all these fine improvements you see all around. No one asked a favor of him in vain. Ever ready and willing to help where he could, he has the love and respect of the entire neighborhood, while he enjoys, in his declining years, the fruit of a well spent life.
This little picture hits but few now. The larger number have long since gone to their long home. Don't despise the little cabin that you may yet see remaining as you glide along your nice roads in your easy pheaton. It was once the home of love and happiness. Little feet danced cheerily over that puncheon floor, and the great log fire in that chimney cheered the inmates on many a long winter evening, and witnessed the baking of corn bread on the back of an old shovel many years. The hominy block was as indispens- able as the rifle. Their meat was game, and their bread of corn meal was made upon a plan as rural as the corn was reduced to meal. How do you suppose, now, that having neither a horse nor an ox to take a little corn away off to some mill to get it ground, the family got meal to make bread with ? Take an old shovel or a piece of sheet iron, punch it full of holes ; then take an ear of dry corn and roll it over it, like over a grater, and meal is produced slowly but surely, and then-corn-dodgers, Johnny cake, hoe cake or pone. Hunger may be a good cook, but your fine pastry never tasted nicer than the corn bread made by the pioneer mothers.
Ladies, how would you now like to get up a dinner for a large family with- out a cooking stove, or any other of the modern conveniences in housekeep- ing, over a big log fire, with nothing but a long-handled skillit, Dutch oven, and iron kettle? It would puzzle you some, I think. Yet it was a long time after the first settlers came here before anybody saw a cooking stove.
Settlers from the eastern states, who had a little money and talked English, fared better; stayed at home and worked their way through. Those that I have described were my countrymen, and the Irish settlers, who took up the land west of the Sandusky river, and settled in the Wolf creek.
I would be pleased to give you some of the incidents of early life in our good old county and short sketches of the lives of the men and women who first located in each township, but must abstain.
I would like to mention the names of the first settlers of each township. I have collected many of them, but for fear that I might miss some of them I will not name any. Amongst them was one soldier of the revolution and many that were in the war of 1812.
So rapid was the increase of population that from the time those lands were first brought into market and up to 1830, Seneca contained 5,157 souls, including Tiffin, about one-half of the present population of this city. The influx of emigration in the next ten years was so great that in 1840 we had a population of 18,139. It seems like a dream of fancy that in the short life of one man a county like ours should be turned from a howling forest to the state of improvement, of wealth and refinement that Seneca now presents. Vast fields in a good state of cultivation, fine residences all over the county, mills, factories, railroads, school honses and churches, printing presses and newspapers, postoffices and telegraphs, and everything that nature and art
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can contribute to elevate our people higher and still higher in the scale of humanity, and I feel justified when I say that on the score of wealth, health. morals and intelligence, old Seneca has no superior amongst her neighbors.
Let me say a few words about Tiffin. Josiah Hedges laid out Tiffin proper in 1821. Fort Ball had already been located by Mr. Spencer. The postoffice was over there and some of the most influential of the early settlers lived in Fort Ball. The troubles between the rival proprietors of these villages were at times very severe, but ended in the purchase by Mr. Hedges of the entire plat of Fort Ball, and the location of the court house on the Tiffin side of the river. Fort Ball was named after Lieutenant-Colonel James V. Ball. the commander of a squadron of cavalry under General Harrison. Tiffin was named after Edward Tiffin, who was the first governor of Ohio after her organization as a state, and a particular personal and political friend of Mr. Hedges. Your humble servant had the honor of being the last mayor of the old town of Tiffin and the first mayor of the city of Tiffin upon the union of the two villages. Let me remind you of the old sycamore that stood on the right bank of the river now in Mechanicsburg. The boundary line of the city, as then organized, ran through the sycamore sonthwardly. Forty-three years ago a couple of exiled German boys formed a closer ac- quaintance and friendship under that tree-one that lasted for life. When the city council entrusted the description of the boundaries of the new city to me, I described that tree as a land-mark. The tree and one of those boys have long since passed away. The residence of Dr. Hovey, in the second ward, covers a part of the ground where the old fort stood.
In 1840 the population of the several villages in Seneca was as follows :
Attica 145
Bascom. 34
Bettsville. 23
Bloomville. 13
Caroline
Fort Ball.
129
Fort Seneca.
52
Green Springs
30
Melmore.
190
Risdon
30
Rome. 80
Republic 161
Springville
35
Sulphur Springs.
Time will not permit me to give you anything like a statistical statement of the resources of the county. Allow me only to say that Seneca in the scale of wealth, population, etc., is an average county amongst the eight ?- eight counties of the state.
In 1870 she had a population of 30,828. In 1875 she harvested the crop of 54,000 acres of wheat. In 1876 she pays $244,000 taxes. Her public buildings may not be of the best, but her schools and other institutions of learning are not surpassed in any county around her. She is one in only eighteen coun- ties in the state that is not in debt. Her people commit less crime compared
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with her population than any other county in the state. We have no paupers running at large. In all departments of life, her citizens who have acquired honorable distinction are self-made men. She enumerates 12,000 children entitled to the benefits of the common schools, and pays $79,000 per year for their education. The personal and real property of the county for taxable purposes increased from about $3,000,000 in 1850 to nearly $18,000,000 in 1874. In 1826 her taxes did not exceed $300.
But I must close, and in so doing let me rehearse a short ode on the Fourth of July, by an unknown author. It is so very much in harmony with the spirit of this festive occasion :
"To the sages who spoke, to the heroes who bled,
To the day and the deed strike the harp-string of glory ; Let the song of the ransom'd remember the deed,
And the tongue of the eloquent hallow the story.
O'er the bones of the bold, Be that story long told.
And on Fame's golden tablet their triumphs unfurled. Who on freedom's green hills freedom's bauner unfurl'd,
And the beacon fires raised that gave light to the world.
'Twas for us and our children to conquer or die, Undaunted they stood, when the war storin burst o'er them : Each blade drew a thunderbolt down from the sky,
Till the foeman turned pale and lay withered before them.
Then from Liberty's band Went a shout through the land,
As the rainbow of peace their fair heritage spanned, Where the banner of freedom in pride was unfurl'd, And the beacon fire rose that gave light to the world.
They are gone-mighty men ! and they sleep in their fame; Shall we ever forget them ? Oh, never ! no, never !
Let our sons learn from us to embalm each great name, And the anthem send down " Independence forever !"
Wake, wake heart and tongue, Keep the theme ever young ;
Let their deeds through the long line of ages be sung, When on freedom's green hills freedom's banner unfurl'd, And the beacon fire raised that gave light to the world."
At the close of the oration Rev. W. A. Samson fervently addressed the Throne of Grace, after which the choir sang the doxology, the audience joining. The benediction by Rev. Mr. Samson closed the exercises, which had been very interesting and impressive, and had stamped themselves in- delibly upon the memories of all present. The balance of the day was spent in the usual manner.
The celebration was a success in every particular, and redounded to the credit of the different committees and officers having it in charge.
At night, on the public square, the display of fire-works took place. Everything passed off satisfactorily, and it was a good ending of a memor- able occasion.
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A
PAGE.
Abbott, Rush.
351
Academy. Fostoria. 562
Adams, Perry M.
3.8.4
Adams township
169, 174-475
Agricultural works.
.399
Agricultural society
401
Ague.
214
Albrecht, Andrew. 251
Anway, William 149
Ancient Order of Hibernians 349 Appendix No 1.
639
.. No. 2
.. No. 3. 679
Army roads .. 8g
Armstrong, Robert.
145
Armstrong, William W
Arnold, William.
600
Arrival in Tiffin.
2.17
Assembly, members of. 138
616
Attica.
Journal.
.616
B
Backlogs. 193 Ball, Colonel. 142, 523
Ball, game of
Bagby, Captain 50 Banks 337 Baptist church. 276 Barrack, J. W. .628
Bar festival. 379
8
Battle Island.
11
Beaver, the.
87
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Bartoe, General.
ii
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PAGE.
Beard, John.
507
Bench and Bar
351
Between the logs.
73
Big Spring township
174
Big Odle.
425
Big Spring.
486
Bishop, David.
174
Birchard, Judge.
133
Blackman's Corners.
149
Blackstrap.
216
Bloom township.
. 165, 492
Bloomville
4.95
Blue Jacket ..
86
Boyer's family, Dr.
250
Bourne, S.
157
Bog iron
235
Bollinger, Philip.
622
Boyds.
192
Bowe, Erastus.
144
Bredoon's death
250
Brohl, Henry
334
Brewer, N. L.
383
Brish, Henry C.
5.05
Bridges in Pleasant.
573
Bridges.
259
Brickyards
241
Brick buildings
211
Bridge, first.
173
Brown. Ezra and Case
Browse.
210
Brush dam case.
208
Brownell, Thomas.
62
Bruderbund, der. 419
11
Butcher shop.
245
Building stone
234
Bunn, J. F
3.83
C
Cabin building. 186
Canal, work on the
216
Canal tax
221
Caroline. 616
Candidates
85
Cat swamps. .
213
Catholic chapel.
2.11
Campbell, William
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PAGE.
Cass, Lewis, letter of.
54
Cave, the.
GOS
Centennial in Attica
617
Centennial in Tiffin. 679
Census of 1880.
631
Change .210
Charlie
L37
Chills.
.211
Cholera.
.261
Churches.
191, 274, 283
Church directory 201
Christmas, J. W.
158
Churn factory 400 Clark's expedition 28
Clinton township.
163, 166, 504
Colwell, N. P.
.590
Cold creek
609
Conneaut.
34
Conclusion 638
Constitutional convention.
682
Commissioners
165
Court house.
175
Court house burnt.
150
Coon cooking. .2211
Counties organized
35
Council with Indians.
82
County officers to 1850. 633
Cowdery, Oliver.
361
Combstock's death. 131
80
Cook's, Elutherus, speech.
56
Crawford, William
11
Crawford township
Cramer, U. F. 395
385
Cramer, Frederick.
515
Crawford, Mrs. Harriet.
Creeks, the.
Creeger family, the.
253
Cronise, N. and F
.384
Croghan's letter.
81
Crouse, Rev. Joshua. 293 Crum, John 509
115, 126
Crow
Crowell, Samuel.
98
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Cramer, Charles H.
Cronise, Henry.
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D
PAGE.
Dalton's speech.
Davis, William.
199
Dawalt, John.
543
Deer hunting.
118
Dildine, Frank
353
Dildine, Daniel
513
Dickinson, R.
167
Dirge of the State House Beil.
660
Ditto, John.
524
Dog dance.
97
Dockweiler, John.
.549
Drake
Dresbach, Dr. Ely.
359
Drift .
233
Drunkenness, cure of. 215
Druids, U. A. O.
349
Du esel.
249
Dugout.
215
Dumond's, Isaac L, speech.
E
Earthquake, the.
Ebenezer church.
Eden township. 525
Egbert. Uriah. 570
Elections in townships
163
Election, first county.
165
English Lutheran church
F
Ferry, the.
Fiege, John and Louisa
310
Fire, the great. 311
Finlev, Revs.
Fisher, Dr. James.
.393
Fluimmerfelt, Cornelius.
.572
Flummerfelt, D. V
Flat Rock ( see Thompson).
Ford. Johnson.
Fort Lawrence. S
Fort Recovery
Fort Meigs. 39
Fort Stevenson
11
Fort Seneca.
81
Fort Ball.
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Fort Ball artillery
118
Forest culture.
212
Fortifications, ancient.
145, 150
Foster, C. W
555
Foster, Charles.
5577
Fostoria lawyers. 559
Fostoria academy 5.62
Fostoria schools. 5.63
Fostoria lodges.
.565
Frink, Theodore M.
490
G
Gas light company 898
General muster
119
Geology .
German Ev. church.
:275
German Reformed church.
Gerhart, Rev. E. V
270
German settlers.
199
Girty, Simon.
188
Glasgow.
157
Goetschius, N. and J
514
Good Hunter. 118
Goodin. John
Good, Dr. J. H. 278
Greenville, treaty of.
3.3
Gross, Henry, sen
217
Gross, Henry, jun.
103
H
Hall, Luther A.
Harris, Mark A.
Hard Hickory 118, 134, 136
Hampton, J. C. 501 Harmon, General.
Hamilton, Henry
Hedges. Josiah. 237 Heck, George. 601 Heaton, Micajah 532 Heidelberg College,
Higgins, Judge D).
Hirt, Frances J.
Hominy block .. छप्रा
Hoffman's, Fred., family 282
Honey creek. 150
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Hopewell township
PAGE. 166, 510
Hottal, J. K.
353
Hossler, Jacob. 500
Holtz, Jacob.
Hotels.
Horse race.
120
Howard, Joseph
373
333 Hubbard, Dr. E. B.
Hulburt, Judge 125
Ilull, General.
10
Hunter's mill 146
Hurons, legend of the.
.643
I
Infirmary.
121
Ingham, Mrs. Sally.
123, 128
Insurance companies
310
Irvine, General.
9
Islands of Erie (ode).
53
J
Jackson's proclamation. 161
Jackson township. 175, 516 Jail .. 169, 178
Jaqua, Richard.
151
Jerks, the
Jiggers. 216
Johnny cake. प्रभा
18
Judge Tappan.
38
Judicial districts 353
351
Jury, first ..
210
K
Keller, John. 505
Kelley, Benjamin.
584
Kelley, Charles. .5-1
Kellogg, P'. F. 157
Keppel, G. B. 383
Keppel, HI. C. 3.94
Kershaw, W. L. 395
Kilbourne, Colonel. 150 Kilbourne road.
Kitchen furniture
188
Johnson, Colonel.
Judges.
Hurricane, the.
vii
PAGE. Kingseed, Martin
.558
Kniseley.
.21, 115
Knight, Dr.
16
Knights of Pythias.
3.44
Knights of Honor.
3.41
Knepper, Prof. O. C.
334
Koenigsaamen, Anton
604
Kuhn, Dr. Henry
.391
L
Landon, Alfred 386
Land law.
159
Land districts.
15.8
Land sales. 161
251
Lang, William
386
Lang, Lafayette L. 385
Lamberson, Daniel. 5.08
Law students. 386 Leahy, James F 3.85
Legislature of territory.
36
Lease, Lloyd N.
Liberty township.
175. 518
Life in the woods.
102 Library, public. 100 Little Turtle
30
Logantown ..
SO
Logan's death.
SO
Loomis, J. D.
100
Loudon township. 174, 559
Loudon township pioneers
Louisiana purchase
Lucas, Governor .. 123
Lugenbeel, Andrew
306
Lutes, N. B.
381
M
Marsh, Peter.
Martin, Samuel S. 533
Martin, Robert M. C. 534
Mason, Governor. 130
Masons, F. and A
3.15
Maule, John.
McIntosh, General
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Lang's, Henry, family
Logan, General. 26
Logan's speech.
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Mckinley
13
MeMeens, Dr. Robert
.50, 470
McEwen, William
522
Mccutchen, Joseph
72
McCulloch, William
145
McNeal, Milton.
165
McCauley. John.
625
M. E. church.
274
Medical society. 394
Melmore (a poem)
18
Metzger family
Message, the first. 665
416
Miasma
214, 243
Militia.
419
Mohawk Indian ..
307
Monumental association
50
Mound builders.
215
Montgomery, Rev. James.
90
M. P. church.
259
Moore, Maurice. .624
Mormons, the. 647
Morrison road.
Mueller. Christ. .310
Musgrave, Elijah. 593
Myers, James.
15
N
Naylor. J. M. 103
New Fort Ball 146
Noble, Harrison ..
381
Noble, Warren P. 880
1.85
Noel, John.
453
C
Oakley. 140, 170
O'Connor, Dr. J. D. .395 Odd Fellows. 342 Officers. county
Ogle, Joseph.
Old, Betsey
Olentangy. 10, 17
194 Old man, the
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Mexican war.
Money, scarcity of.
" No precious gem," etc.
INDEX.
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PAGE. Old state house, the.
650 Organizing territory
Organizing county 101 Orphans' home. 613
Osceolas ..
446
Owen, David E.
309
P
Page, II. N., letter of. 55
Parson's Dr. Usher, speech
62
Perry's victory.
17
Pennington, R. G.
374
Philip's family 219
Philharmonic society 120
Piankeshaw's speech
386
Pioneer association 415
Pioneer residences. 247
13
Pittenger, John.
$07
Pittenger, Benjamin.
308
Pittenger, J. II.
251
Pleasant township
174, 570
Plank roads
317
Plane, Jacob
218
Pork, Peter 116
Population, 1880. 631
Protestant Episcopal
Presbyterian church. 277
Press, the .. 106
376
Putnam, R.
225
R
Railroads 265
Ranges
156 Rawson, Abel.
355
Reed township
174 579
Reid, John T
500
Reid, R. W.
113 Rebellion, war of the Regiments raised 1.57
Reiniger, Gustavus G 596
Representatives +11
Rex, Jeremiah.
628
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Pillars, James.
Pipe, the.
Politics. 317
Purdy, Major James.
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PAGE.
Reservations, sale of.
160
Revenues, surplus.
316
Revolutionary soldiers. 111
Rice, Caleb.
571
513 Rickenbaugh, David. Risdon, David 144, 165
Ridgley, J. H.
5.59
Roenunas . 73
Roller, Frederick 50
Robinson, Lowell
493
Rule, Daniel.
484
Rummell, George.
301
S
Salem church.
290
Saw mill.
Scalps, invoice of.
121
Schools of Titlin.
Scipio township
165, 596
Schwartz, J. B.
3.85
Sea, Sidney
366
Searles, John
534
Sections
157
Senators.
1.39
Seneca, John Steel.
118, 131
Seneca township
163, 503
Seneca Blues. 446
Seitz, Elder Lewis.
19.6
Seney, Mrs. Ann
Seney, Joshua.
366
Seney, George E.
375
Seewald, Philip.
255
Shawhan, R. W
.297
Shakes
213
Silva, Captain.
50
Sink holes
616
Slavery
25
Slover.
Slosser, George and Peter.
Snyder. John and Christ.
251, 299
Smith, Samuel.
541 Soldiers of the war of 1812.
Soldiers in the war with Mexico. Soil, the.
Souder, Rev. John. 5.49
Sow-dows-ky
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Spencer vs. Hedges
PAGE. 208
Spencer, Jesse.
171
Spicer's robbery
111
Spink, Jámes.
146
28 St. Clair's expedition
Staib family
597
State organized. 37
Stanley, Mrs. Tabitha.
107
St. Jago's letter.
50
St. Joseph's Catholic church
259
St. John's B. S.
348
Staub, Philip.
571
St. Mary's Catholic church.
289
St. Patrick's T. A. society
3.15 249
Stevenson, James T.
623
Stickney, Edson T.
5.57
Stores
213
Stove works
302
Sugar making
210
Sullivan, G. E.
385
Survey
15.6 517
Swander family
25
Sum-mon-de-wot.
74
Sycamore township
173
T
Taxes 411
Tallioferro, Isaac, letter of.
55
Tecumseh
3.8
Telegraph .. 327
Thames, battle of the.
48
Thompson township
607
Thompson town.
613 Tiffin
39, 49
Tiffin, first plat of.
212
Tiflin, additions to.
212, 259
Tiffin corporation.
320
Tiffin papers, the
Tiffin, officers of.
Tiffin, Governor Edward 196 Tiffin light guards. 149
Titus, R. R.
575
Toledo war, the.
121
Todd, Lance
.591
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Tippecanoe
1.16
Symmes, John C.
Stevens, Guy.
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Topography
Township lines. . .. 157
Townships organized.
163
Toucey's, Isaac, letter.
50
Turner, Mrs. Rachael
550
U
United Brethren church.
287
V
Van Burenite salutatory
655
Van Metre reserve.
159
Van Matre ... .5229
Venice township. .615
Venice township in the war.
W
Warner, Benjamin F 136
War records.
War of 1812. .39
4.15
War with Mexico.
16
Washington Guards.
417
Watson, Cooper K
372
Water works.
400
Wayne's, General Anthony, expedition.
Well, flowing.
610
Welch, Hugh
537
Weller, LL J.
35.5
Western reserve.
155
Western exchange
247
White Crow.
116
Whitney, Jasper.
613
Williams, Dr. B. D.
579
Williard, Dr. G. W
273
Wilsou, James P
502
Wingenund
13
Wind mills.
100
Wipingstick
11
Witches, killing of.
119
Woodchopper, the
Woolen mills 182
Wolf scalps.
121
Worthington, James
91
Wright's Brothers.
113
Wyandot treaty
Y
Young America
Young, John.
158
Zahm, Victor J
Z
630
Zouaves
449
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