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SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
The township has taken great interest in edu- cation, and given particular attention to supply- ing an excellent class of school-buildings. It is stated, on the authority of a State official, that Beaver leads all the other townships in this re- spect.
There are eleven districts, and every one of them is provided with a commodious and hand- some brick house, with belfry, inside blinds, and modern furniture, costing from $2,700 to $3,500, whose attractive appearance reflects great credit upon the people of the township.
A small log meeting-house was built in 1808, by the Lutheran and Reformed congregations. Mount Olivet Reformed congregation was formed in 1810. Paradise church was built on section nine in 1849. The old Overholtzer Mennonite church was erected in 1825 and the present one in 1871. The Dunkers built their present church in 1872. Calvary Evangelical church at North Lima was organized in 1836, and their present edifice erected in 1876. A Methodist church, not now in existence, was organized at North Lima in 1840.
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CHAPTER XI.
GOSHEN.
The township of Goshen (number seventeen, range four) contains thirty-two square miles. Its principal streams are the Middle fork of Beaver creek, which rises in Perry, flows through the eastern part of Goshen, and a branch of the Mahoning river, which rises in section nineteen and flows in a general course northerly through the western portion of the township, and leaves it about a mile east of the northwest corner.
The township of Goshen has an undulating surface, and yields to the landscape outlines of quiet beauty in infinite variety. The soil is fertile and well adapted to grazing and the rais- ing of small fruits.
FIRST SETTLEMENTS.
Anthony Morris came in 1804, and settled in section thirty-one. His wife was Hannah French. He was overseer of the poor in 1812. His daughter Sarah married James Bruff, who came in r822.
Barzilla French also settled on part of section thirty-one.
Thomas French first came to Damascus in 1805, and his brother Elijah soon after. Thomas married a daughter of Jonas Cattell, who located in Salem.
Horton Howard entered several sections of land in Goshen for a man named Hoopes and acted as his agent. The tract was bought by Benjamin Wright in 1847 and divided among. his five daughters.
David Venable came to Goshen in 1805 and settled as a tenant on the farm of Jonas Cattell.
Isaac and Thomas Votaw came from Win- chester, Virginia, in 1806. Isaac purchased two hundred and forty acres on section nineteen and died in 1820. He had two sons, Benjamin and David, and was trustee of the township in 1812-18. Thomas Votaw settled in section six, and served as supervisor and trustec. He had three sons, Thomas, Samuel and Isaac. De- scendants of both Isaac and Thomas live in the township.
Robert Armstrong was an early settler and held various township offices. His descendants still live in the township.
About 1806 Stacy Shreeve came with his wife 25 *
from New Jersey and settled in section nineteen. John, his son, lives on the old homestead.
Joseph Kindele, a brother-in-law of Shreeve, also located on section nineteen in 1806.
James Brooke came from York State in 1806, and settled in section seven. A daughter of Mr. Brooke married Dr. James Hughes and re- sides in Berlin.
Isaac Ellison came from Virginia in 1806 and married a daughter of James Cattell, locating on section seven. Zachariah Ellison, father of Isaac, came in 1816 and settled in section nineteen. He married Mary, a sister of Isaac Votaw, and died at the age of eighty.
William and James Cattell came before 1810. William settled about a mile west of Goshen. James had a large family of daughters and settled on section nineteen.
Samuel Davis, of Salem, entered section twen- ty as early as 1804, receiving a deed from the Government dated November 1, 1808. He gave the southeast quarter of the section to his daughter Rachael, who married Lewis Towns- end, a brother of Mrs. Dr. Benjamin Stanton, of Salem. The northeast quarter was given to William Davis, a son, who was killed on the mountains a few years after, when the property passed to his children.
Joshua Morris came in about 1810 and lo- cated a farm a little north of William Fawcett. He sold it in 1818 to James Hemingway, from New Jersey, whose son James was clerk of the township from 1827 to 1842.
Aaron Stratton, elder brother of Michael and Stacy, came from New Jersey in 18c8 and settled in section twenty-three, on Beaver creek, where he soon after built a grist-mill, which well ac- commodated the country round. The property was sold in 1834 to Emor F. Weaver, and after- wards to Samuel Mathers.
Henry Hinchman came from New Jersey about 1808 with a large family of children,- John, Henry, Aaron, Hannah, Elizabeth, Grace, and Mary, -- and settled on section thirty-six. His son Henry lives in the township. Aaron published a newspaper in 1842, which he printed in his father's house. He afterwards removed to Salem.
Benjamin Butler, Hannah his wife, and their children, Lawrence, Ellen, Hannah, John, Meribah, Ann, and Sarah, came from near Phil-
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adelphia, by the way of Lancaster, Harrisburg, and Pittsburg, in a two-horse wagon, and were about four weeks on the route. They arrived at Salem in April, 1811. Mr. Butler was poor and settled on the farm of Robert French, in section thirty-six, where he lived a year. He then moved into the present township of Goshen and occupied land owned by Aaron Street, near the western boundary, and lived there two years. A Friend gave him an opportunity to buy and build, and he purchased one hundred and sixty acres on section eighteen, where Elihu Cobb lives, and moved into a building of round logs which he there erected. He lived in this until August, 1828, when he died.
John Butler, son of Benjamin, purchased a farm adjoining the Friends' meeting-house, and in 1825 built a two-story cabin, of hewn logs, in which he began housekeeping in August of that year. His wife was Priscilla Fawcett, whom he married at the Friends' meeting house in Salem. In 1829 he purchased the farm he now occupies, which was at that time all woods. Here he built, in 1830, a log house with a shingle roof, but, his wife dying in that year, he changed his plans, and did not move to the farm until his second marriage, in 1834. While living with his father on the farm in section eighteen, it fell to his lot to do the "milling." He generally carried to mill about two bushels of grain. The mill was nearly due east from the farm, on a branch of Beaver creek, was known as the "Stratton mill," and was probably built about 1809.
Mr. Butler, a prominent member of the So- ciety of Friends, was appointed one of the as- sociated executive committee of Friends of the Central Indian Superintendency of the United States.
William Fawcett, with his wife, came from Virginia in 1811, and purchased one hundred and sixty-four acres on section thirty-two.
Samuel and Thomas Langstaff in 1812 set- tled on section eighteen, where now is a hamlet called " Boswell."
Joseph Wright came from New Jersey in 1810, settled first on section thirteen, and moved there- from to section fourteen. He lived to old age, and served the township in various offices almost continuously until the time of his death.
Benjamin Malmshury came from New Jersey
with his wife and children about 1812, and bought one hundred and sixty acres on section thirty-six.
Bazel Perry and his wife came from Maryland in 1811 and settled on section five, east of Thomas Votaw. He was not an aspirant for position evidently, for in 1813 he declined the honor of an election to the office of constable.
Benjamin Lloyd settled on the southwest quar- ter of section twenty-one.
Caleb Shinn settled in the township very early, where some of his descendants remain.
Richard Templin, from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a moulder bv trade, settled in sec- tion thirteen about 1825. His son John moved to Patmos about 1831, and settled on section three. John King, from the same place, and also a moulder, settled on section one in 1831, where Joshua Bowman lives. His son Joseph lives in Patmos.
Jesse Straughn, in October, 1820, caine from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and lived a while with John Straughn, his brother. In 1822 he settled on section thirty-four, of which he bought seventy-four acres. Daniel Straughn, father of John and Jesse, some years earlier settled the east half of section thirty-four, and gave it to his children.
Stacy Stratton (a brother of Michael and Aaron Stratton, who came in 1806) came from Burling- ton county, New Jersey, and settled first on Mr. Cattell's farm, on the Ellsworth road.
Adam Fast, in 1816, purchased the southwest quarter of section one, and was probably the first person who settled in that part of the township. Jacob Leyman, from Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, who married the daughter of Mr. Fast, received from him this piece of land in 1821.
Peter Gloss, about 1820, bought land in the southeast quarter of section twelve, where he built a factory and manufactured wooden bowls. He afterwards settled upon the Cessna farm.
Josiah and Jacob Bowman (sons of Philip Bowman, who settled in Green township,) about 1831 settled on the northeast quarter of section one. This part of the section was entered by a man named Bowers in 1816.
Drade Husk entered and settled upon the northwest quarter of section two, which was afterwards purchased by Raphael Campbell.
William Bradshaw, in 1832, came from Bucks
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county, Pennsylvania, and bought one hundred and six acres of section nine. This land was entered by William Swenn as early as 1820.
Among other early settlers may be mentioned Noah Deed, Christian and David Countryman, Isaac Evans, Enoch Gaus, Joseph Mirl, Nathan Brown, Benjamin and Joshua Owen, Thomas Johnson, Levi Rakestraw, Charles Curl, and Abraham Keffer.
ORGANIZATION.
Goshen was incorporated September 11, 1810. The first volume of records contains, as the first minute of proceedings, under date of December 30, 1810, an account of the appointment of Thomas Watson to the office of constable by the trustees. The names of the trustees are not given.
January 8, 1812, "the township officers met on the first Second day of March," and settled the town accounts. April 6, 1812, the following resolution was passed at a meeting of the in- habitants :
Resolved, That Isaac Votaw, Michael Stratton, Thomas Conn, Thomas French, and Joel Sharp be a committee to view the southeast quarter of section number sixteen, and to conclude on a suitable piece of ground for to set a house for to hold elections in, and to warn the inhabitants to meet and raise a sufficient house for that purpose, and to have the house to hold the fall election in.
The following officers were chosen at this meeting: Joseph Wright, township clerk ; Michael Stratton, Isaac Votaw, Levi Jennings, trustees ; Anthony Morris, Isaac Barber, overseers of the poor ; Thomas French, Josiah Stratton, ap- praisers of property ; Robert Armstrong, Asa Ware, fence-viewers; Barzilla French, Stacy Shreeve, Thomas Votaw, Thomas Conn, Abram Warrington, supervisors ; George Baum, treasurer; Joseph Kindle, constable.
There seems to have been some difficulty in securing a constable, for, on April 10, 1813, out of thirty-three persons named for that office, thirty were summoned, of whom twenty-eight refused to serve, and were fined. The following is the list of the names chosen : Isaac Ellison, Bazel Perry, Henry Hinchman, Christian Coun- tryman, Joseph Hoile, Simeon Jennings, Isaac Gaus, William Johnson, Levi Rakestraw, Joshua Owen, Enoch Gaus, Joseph Mirl, Joel Sharp, Charles Stratton, Nathan Brown, Robert French, John Webb, Noah Reed, David Countryman, Robert McKim, Evan Gaus, Levi Hoile, Joshua
Morris, William Faucett, Richard Webb, Abra- ham Barber, Thomas Johnson, Jonathan Votaw, Benjamin Owen, Samuel Votaw, Charles Curl, Abraham Keffer.
VILLAGES.
Damascus, situated on the line between But- ler and Goshen townships, was platted and laid out by Horton Howard in 1808. It contains about four hundred inhabitants, and on the Goshen side has one church (Wesleyan), a post- office, academy, steam saw-mill, woolen-mill, and several stores and shops. The post-office was established in 1828 with James B. Bruff as post- master.
Patmos was first settled by Benjamin Regle, John Templin, William Ware, and Levi A. Ley- man. James W. Templin opened the first store in 1850. Levi A. Leyman was the first post- master, appointed in 1850, and continued in of- fice twelve years. While Leyman and Captain Coit, of Ellsworth, were cogitating upon a name for the new post-office which should be different from any other in the State, they noticed an open music book near by upon whose pages appeared the good old time "Patmos." The word was spoken and the name adopted, and "Patmos " it remains. The postmasters who have succeeded Mr. Leyman have been Mrs. Catharine Roller, William Bradshaw, and J. W. Templin. The settlement contains a post-office, store, saw-mill, blacksmith shop, carriage shop, and a dozen dwellings.
Boswell post-office was established in 1850, John Martin first postmaster.
Garfield post-office was established in 1875 at Garfield station, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad. S. A. Fogg was appointed postmaster.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
The Friends at an early day formed by far the largest part of the population of the township, and instituted schools, which they kept up even after the organization of the township into school districts. There were at one time nine schools under the care of a visiting committee appointed by the " monthly meeting," whose territory com- prised the townships of Butler and Goshen. Several of these were family schools.
The first school in the town was opened in the winter of 1812 at the log meeting-house in
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Goshen, a settlement near the west line of the township. The house was in size about 15 x 24 feet, and was built for both school and "meet- ing " purposes. The first teacher was Samuel Votaw, a son of Isaac Votaw, an early settler in the northwest section of the township.
A school was opened a little later near the Stratton mill, and was taught by Daniel Stratton. The teachers who served at the school in the Goshen neighborhood after Mr. Votaw were Martha Townsend (now Mrs. Martha Stanton, living at Salem), who taught in the fall of 1814; William Green, an Irishman ; William Titus, a Yankee; and Joshua Crew, who let the pupils do as they pleased ; Benjamin Marshall, who taught three winters ; John Butler, who taught ten winters ; Isaac Trescott, Solomon Shreeve, Jesse Lloyd, and Stephen Roberts.
At Damascus a school was first taught by Joshua Lynch, afterwards by James Bruft, John P. Gruel, Jacob Hole, Simeon Fawcett, Lydia Maria Stanley, and others.
Professor Israel P. Hole, with his brother Jacob, afterwards established a school in a large two-story building of brick, situated is spacious grounds on the Goshen side. This they con- tinued for three or four years, when the Friends purchased the property for a "quarterly-meeting school." Jesse Lloyd, William P. Pinkham, and Otis Beal were the principal teachers.
There was a school in the Votaw settlement in its earlier years, mostly taught by females. Elizabeth Blackburn taught during several sum- mers. James Hemingway taught in the Benja- min Malmsbury neighborhood.
A log school-house was built and a school supported by subscription about 1825, in what is now district number one, half a mile east of Patmos. Andrew Templin was the first teacher, The town has eight school districts.
The first church or "meeting-house " was built by the Friends. It was burned in 1842. In 1852 their present brick church was erected. A Methodist class was formed about 1820. Their present building on section eight was built in 1863. Two miles east of Patmos is the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church, built in 1847, and another Methodist church exists at Damascus.
A newspaper called the Self-Examiner was published at Goshen a short time in 1842.
CHAPTER XII.
GREEN.
Green township is bounded on the north by the townships of Ellsworth and Canfield, east by Beaver, west by Perry and Goshen, and north by Salem and Perry, in Columbiana county. Its surface is undulating, broken only by the valleys lying along the middle fork of Beaver creek, which fork flows in a general southeasterly direc- tion through the township, passing into Salem township about a half mile west of the corpora- tion of Washingtonville. Another fork of Bea- ver creek rises in the northeast part of the town- ship, and flows southerly through the second tier of sections from the east, and passes out on the south border at Washingtonville.
The soil of the township is well adapted to the cultivation of trees, small fruits, and grain. The valleys and slopes are heavily timbered with oak, chestnut, and beech. Woodlands and culti- vated fields abound, and form on every hand pictures pleasing to the eye.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS.
The early settlers of Green were for the most part Germans, attracted to the then far West by the excellence of the land.
Section one was unoccupied for many years. It was finally bought by Eben Newton, of Can- field, whence it was known as the "Newton tract."
The first settlers of section two were Henry Pyle and wife, who came from Germany about 1804. A daughter of Pyle married David Love- land, and her descendants still live in this sec- tion. "Loveland," a station on the Niles & New Lisbon railroad, is in this section, and has a post- office, saw-mill, Evangelical church, etc.
Section three remained in possession of a man by name of Rhodes until 1829, when it was sold to John Beard, Casper Kenreich, Nicholas Knauff, and John Goodman.
Section four was first settled by Henry Beard, with his wife and five children, who came to this county in 1804 from Germany and much of the section still remains in possession of his family and their connections. A union church stands on this section.
Of section five James Webb entered the south half, paying $1.25 per acre ; and John Beard, son of Henry, purchased the north half.
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Section six was first owned by Philip Bauman who exchanged for it land he owned in Red- stone, Pennsylvania, and afterward divided it among his children.
In 1804 section seven was entered by Michael Durr and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary.
Section eight had for its first owners a man named Rupert, John D. Cook, and James Webb.
Jacob and Philip Cool, George and Jacob Countryman, John Hafely and Van Amier were the first settlers on sections nine and ten.
Section eleven remained unsettled many years, its owners living in the East. Jacob Miller and Michael and George Culp were the first to open the way.
The west part of section twelve was settled by Philip Houts, a German, who divided it among his children. On the place was a large spring, where Houts built a distillery, which was in ope- ration for many years, until about 1830. A school-house stands in the northwest corner of the section.
Sections thirteen and twenty-four were pur- chased by Joshua Calvin for his sons, who came from New Jersey, with their families, arriving April 27, 1816. A school-house stands on the southwest corner of section thirteen, and a Bap- tist church and burying-ground on section twenty- four.
Section fourteen was entered by a stranger who sold it to Abram Garber. The Niles & New Lisbon railroad has a station on this section called Greenford.
Section fifteen was settled in 1808 by Lewis Baker, a native of Kentucky, who married Eliza- beth, daughter of John Zimmerman, who en- tered section thirty-four.
Section sixteen was the "school lot," and was sold in 1849 to John D. Cook, - Bly, Wesley Coy, M. Kenreich, and others.
Section seventeen was entered by Job Cooke, and divided among his sons. A couple of small coal banks have been opened in this section.
About 1810 James Wilson entered section eighteen, and divided it among his children.
Abram Warrington located section nineteen about 1811, and divided it between the four sons of Edward Bonsall, who had married Warring- ton's daughter Rachel. The sons were Edward, Ivan, Joshua, and Isaac. Edward started a
nursery forty years ago, which is still in operation. One coal mine in this section yields about forty thousand bushels annually.
About 1808 Elisha Teeter entered section twenty for his sons-John, Jonathan, William, and Wilson. In 1822 the first steam mill in this part of the country was erected by Wilson Teeter. A coal bank opened by the Teeters fifty years ago is, with one exception, the largest in the township. It contains a vein three feet thick and extends half a mile under the surface.
Sections twenty-one and twenty-two were held as "reserved lands" for many years, but were finally settled by Jeremiah Callahan, Philip Bush, Jacob Wilhelm, Caleb Roller, John Stahl, and others. A Disciple church and graveyard are situated on section twenty-one and a school- house stands on its north side.
In 1816 section twenty-three was sold to Michael Roller and Michael Dressel by a man from Pennsylvania who had previously entered it.
In 1804 sections twenty-five and twenty-six were entered, it is believed by John Harness and Jacob Momert, who years after sold to the Stouffers, Rollers, Knopp, and others. A school house stands on the southwest quarter of section twenty-six.
Some time in 1804 Peter Weikert and John Carr, neighbors in Adams county, Pennsylvania, started westward on horseback to view the coun- try for the purpose of finding homes for their families where soil and climate were both good. Pleased with section twenty-seven Weikert en- tered it at Steubenville, while Carr went farther west. Section twenty-seven is still in possession of the Weikert family. One son, Dr. Andrew Weikert, is a practicing physician at Green village.
In 1804 Elias Adgate and William and James Callahan, all brothers-in-law, from Redstone, Pennsylvania, entered section twenty-eight, and divided it among themselves, each afterward di- viding his share among his children. Two other brothers of the Callahans, Jeremiah and Jesse, settled in this section for a short time previous to 1812.
Section thirty-three was entered by Samuel Davis in 1803. He received a deed from the Government signed by Thomas Jefferson, dated March 10, 1807. He disposed of it by gift and sale. About 1819 John Briggs built a grist-mill
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on the creek, and a few years later another was built by Aaron Holloway, which is still standing, a short distance below the first.
John Zimmerman, of Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, entered seetion thirty-four in 1804 and moved upon it with his family the next year. Subsequently he divided it among his five sons and three daughters.
From Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, came three brothers in an early day, Michael, Baltzer, and Caleb Roller. Michael entered section thirty-five in 1804, divided it among his sons, Jacob, William, Thomas, and James, Land was given for a church and burying-ground in a very early day by the Rollers. Part of Washington- ville is located in sections thirty-five and thirty- six of this township.
Baltzer Roller entered section thirty-six in 1803. His son, Colonel Jacob B., served the district as State Representative for twenty-one years. He was in General Harrison's army and at Fort Meigs. While stooping to drink at a spring in the woods near the fort one day, a ball from an Indian's rifle grazed the back of his head. He grasped his gun and fired at the re- treating Indian, but missed him.
ORGANIZATION.
Green township was incorporated June 3, 1806, and was then in Columbiana county, where it remained until attached to Mahoning county, upon its organization in 1846. It originally con- tained thirty-six square miles, but was reduced to thirty-two by the organization of Perry town- ship in 1832.
GREEN VILLAGE
is situated near the center of the township, on sections fifteen and twenty-two, and was first laid out by Lewis Baker, Jacob Wilhelm, and Jacob Cook. Abram Stofer (or Stauffer) kept the first store. Samuel Hardman, David Weikert, and J. M. Hole succeeded him. The first post-office was established in 1831, and William Van Horn was the first postmaster. He has been succeeded by David Weikert, William Roller, Daniel Beam, N. P. Callahan, A. S. Griffith, and Henry Shray.
The village contains three churches, Lutheran, German Lutheran, and Swedenborgian, a post- office, school-house, drug-store, two dry goods and grocery stores, a tannery, steam saw- and planing-mill, grist-mill, two blacksmith shops, two
wagon shops, two shoe shops, and one millinery store. In the village are two practicing physi- cians.
WASHINGTONVILLE.
This town was laid out about 1832, principally through the exertions and influence of Michael Frederick, and is situated in the townships of Green and Salem. It contains two churches (Methodist and Evangelical Lutheran), a post- office, school-house, three hotels, two blacksmith shops, four grocery stores, one dry goods store, one drug store, two carriage shops, two shoe shops, about seventy-five dwellings, and has a population of eight hundred.
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