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Other pioneer settlers in Claibourne township were Richard Ward. Peter Jackson ( 1835), Jacob Beem ( 1834), Alexander and George Cowgill. Michael Cramer. Abraham Decker, Benjamin Fisher, Isaac Gearheart, Syl- vester Grindle, Elisha Higbee, Isaac Headley, Joseph Murphy ( 1834), Charles Morse, Samuel Moses ( 1835). Isaac D. Stewart, William H. Sher- man, William and John Wynegar ( 1837). Tobias Robinson (1838), John Warner ( 1837), Martin Walters and Abraham Taylor, brothers-in-law ( 1838).
The first road in this township was probably the highway passing north
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and south through Richwood. In 1825 Cyprian Lee and Henry Swartz took the contract for cutting this road from the southern to the northern line of the township. They only cleared away the underbrush and smaller trees, leaving many obstacles in the shape of larger trees. The road was made fifteen feet wide.
The schools and churches of the township are treated in separate chap- ters under general topic headings.
MILLS OF THE TOWNSHIP.
Here, as well as in every new country, the matter of getting milling facilities early as possible was one of great interest to the pioneer band who here sought to build for themselves homes. For several weeks the family of Henry Swartz ground, in a hand coffee mill, all the meal the family used. John Swartz, of the Scioto river country, possessed a hand mill upon which by terrible struggles in the course of a few hours one could produce a fairly good quality of corn meal. Robert Cotrell and other settlers of Claibourne township frequently took advantage of this mill and, when not in use by Swartz, would keep it going for themselves.
A horse mill was constructed by Adam Dilsaver a short distance from Richwood. His customers had to furnish their own horse-power and as three or four horses were necessary to propel the cumbersome machinery. several would sometimes arrange to be there at the same time. So slow was the process that it had to be running nearly all the time and many a farmer had to leave home at two o'clock in the morning in order to be on hand to take his turn. Occasionally, this horse-mill was obliged to run all night.
Richard Irwin, one and a half miles east of Richwood, also had a similar mill. Some of the farmers preferred going forty miles to a real water mill than to use their horses on these horse-power mills. A large four-horse load was once taken to a mill on Mad river in Champaign county, where the press of business was so great that several weeks elapsed before the hungry settlers in this township obtained grists. A mill on Owl creek. in Knox county, was also sometimes patronized, but usually the mills on Darby creek were available. No water grist-mills are known to have been erected in Claibourne township
John Dilsaver operated a small tannery for a few years on his farm south of Richwood. Another was operated a long time at Richwood by the sons of John Graham.
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BURYING GROUNDS.
At the Sidle Methodist Protestant church, two miles south of Richwood, the earliest burials were made, and this came to be the leading cemetery in Claibourne township. Here, on lands formerly belonging to Henry Swartz, burials were commenced while the country was still an unbroken forest. The first burials were probably the two small children of Henry Swartz and wife. Among the early burials were those of Mr. Garner, John Logue, Mrs. Ira Bennett and Mrs. Rose. When Jacob Sidle became owner of this tract he generously donated an acre for cemetery purposes. Later it came into the hands of the township authorities and was cared for by the township, which made several additions thereto.
At the old Lenox schoolhouse, a quarter of a mile northwest of Rich- wood, there was also another early burying place. At Stony Point in the western part of the township is another cemetery.
RICHWOOD.
This is the second largest incorporation within the limits of Union county. Its population in 1910 was 1,729 and it has been making a steady growth ever since. It is beautifully situated and has more than three miles of brick paved streets. Perhaps there is not another town of its size in the commonwealth with as much paving and general excellent improvements as Richwood has today. In 1840 it had a population of 99; in 1870 it had in- creased to 436; in 1880 it had reached 1,317-a wonderful increase.
To acquaint the reader of today with the first events of this sprightly little city, Marysville's only rival, it may be stated that it is located in the central portion of Claibourne township. It has a history running back four score and two years, for it was platted in August, 1832. by Philip Plummer, proprietor. He had come into the possession of the William Pelham sur- vey. No. 6.307, of twelve hundred acres, and during the summer of 1832 first came from Mt. Vernon, Knox county. with his brother, Thomas Plummer, Elisha Merriot and Dr. John P. Brookins, a physician in search of a good location in which to practice his profession. The village was platted by Thomas G. Plummer, deputy county surveyor, under direction of Surveyor Levi Phelps, and the plat was acknowledged before Ira Woods, justice of the peace, August 20, 1832. The party all returned to Mt. Vernon and soon after Philip Plummer and Dr. Brookins returned to Richwood.
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The original plat contains a full description of the location, stating that it is situated in a traet of land known as "Richwoods," about four miles west of the Scioto river, at the headquarters of Ottaway Run on a broad and beautiful knob of table-land unsurpassed in fertility. The distances from many towns and villages are minutely given, and it is said that "the trees in the Richwoods are beech, blue ash, gray ash, black ash, hackberry or hoop ash, mulberry, wild cherry. black walnut, white walnut, white oak, buckeye, honey- locust. lynden tree, sugar or hard maple, soft maple. box elder, dog-wood, coffee tree, hickory, red elm, white elm, with a copse wood of spice brush, prickly ash, burning bush, grape vine, bladder bush and bramble. The herb- age is principally maiden hair, pea vine, yellow root, ginseng. Indian and madder, etc. The soil is of the richest loam, mixed with a small proportion of sand; the sub-stratum is limestone and gravel, mixed with clay. The town plat is on an elevation of from fifteen to twenty feet from the bottom."
This original platting covered an area of almost forty-five acres. The principal street north and south was Franklin, one hundred feet wide, with Fulton and Clinton streets, parallel with it. The three streets east and west were Blagrove, Ottaway and Bomford.
In 1832 but three families settled in the new forest-covered village, Philip Plummer, John P. Brookins and Absalom Carney. Philip Plummer was born in Maryland and emigrated to Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Sometime after he came to Richwood he became a Methodist minister, preaching there and elsewhere. Later in life he returned to Mt. Vernon and died there.
William Philips was one of the early settlers at Richwood and he speaks of Mr. Plummer as follows: "He was a man of taste and refinement and loved good society, so while the better class of people appreciated him there were those who disliked him. He was kind and obliging and ready to do anything in his power for the new comers. He was an excellent talker. He was a thorough temperance man, and. selling lots, he would sell to none who would sell whisky. believing that it would injure the property of the town and community. In this most of the early settlers encouraged him, and consequently log-rollings. house-raisings, etc .. were done on temperance principles. An orderly community grew up and its good example and correct principles are felt today in the society of the village."
Dr. Brookins was an early pioneer and an excellent character. ( See Medical chapter.)
Absalom Carney was a blacksmith and built his shop on lot No. 148, on East Bomford street. He only remained a few years and moved to Missouri,
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where it is related that he and his family, except one daughter, were killed by the Indians.
In September, 1833, William Phillips and wife, Isabella ( Woods), emi- grated from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, and settled on lot 48, at the south- east corner of Franklin and Blagrove streets. He had a family of eight children. including a son, Alfred G., who was killed at the battle of Atlanta in 1863. The senior Phillips died January 15, 1880, at Marysville. By trade he was a potter and followed that for many years, at least a quarter of a century, at Richwood.
From a diary he kept the following market quotations have been ex- tracted ( from 1834 to 1838) :
John Woods, debtor to making vest $ .50
James Scott. debtor to one gun. 12.00
James Scott, debtor to eight and three-quarters yards of muslin 1.26
Thomas Cheney, debtor to one wagon. 45.00
Philip Plummer, debtor to 15 bushels of ashes 93
Philip Plummer, debtor to making roundabout .62
Henry Swartz, creditor by one and a half gallons honey- -75
John T. Evans, debtor to one calf-skin 2.50
William Surpliss, creditor by 4,250 brick (4.25) 18.06
David Hawk, creditor by one pound coffee. .18
David Hawk, creditor by one-quarter pound tea .22
William Lockhart, creditor by four pounds hutter .25
John Calloway, debtor to two jugs .25
M. Bentley. debtor four bushels potatoes. 1.00
Ira Bennett, creditor by two turkeys 1.00 1 ! 1 1 1 1
N. W. Woodruff, creditor by one day's labor .50 1
Joseph Murphy, recording ear-mark .25
Joseph Wilson, one palm hat .25
Jacob Delsaver, creditor by 36 pounds buckwheat .90
Ira Bennett, creditor four and a half pounds lard .48
Ira Bennett, creditor by six pounds pork .37
C. Dowell, debtor to two bushels corn .75
John Darling, debtor to one ax 2.00 1 1 1
Starret Irwin, debtor to six lights glass 1
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Philip Plummer. debtor to one pair shoes .44
Philip Plummer, debtor to five pounds coffee
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Philip Plummer, debtor to four elementary spellers. .50
Abraham Decker, debtor to twelve chickens .97
John Woods, born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, in 1799, arrived at Richwood in July, 1833. and purchased one hundred and twelve acres just north of the original plat. He was a tailor and followed this trade besides attending to his farming interests.
John Carney, an old Baptist minister, arrived in 1833, and preached at times, but did not survive long. In 1834 Christian Goul, Nathan Richard- son, Adam Burge, William Price, John T. Evans and Henry Sayer located in the village.
The village did not grow very rapidly, as by 1840 it only had about twenty families. During that year it is known that the following were residents : David Houk, a wagon-maker ; Sterrett Irwin, a carpenter ; Hugh Thompson, a farmer, who died soon after ; L. H. Hastings ; J. B. W. Haynes, who came in 1840. from Virginia, an earnest Abolitionist and a dealer in real estate ; Samuel Jenkins, a laborer ; William Sirpliss ; William Price, who later operated a grist mill here; Dr. Brookins; Ziba Fisher, a farmer who had been in the Indian service under General Anthony Wayne, who died at the advanced age of one hundred and one years. There were possibly a half dozen others in the village in some one role or another.
The first store was opened in Richwood by Burdick & Calloway, in August. 1833, in a log building on lot No. 102. Hezekiah Burdick was a local Methodist Episcopal minister and had farmed southeast of Marysville on Mill creek. John Calloway was born at the Scioto salt works in Jackson county, Ohio, in 1802, where his father was engaged in making salt. He had made and lost a fortune before coming to Richwood, where the stock of goods owned by him and his partner were all crated from Marysville in a wagon. This store was not a success and did not thrive very long.
The second mercantile venture was that of Cyprian Lee and Mains Wasson. They brought in their stock in 1835 and the management of the store was left to L. H. Hastings. About a year later it was sold to Henry Swartz and Doctor Brookins. In 1840 the only store in the village was that conducted by Mr. Hastings. No other man had so much mercantile experience at Richwood as did L. H. Hastings, who was thus engaged in the place for more than forty years. He died at Richwood in 1882.
Merchandising then was a hard proposition to solve. Money was scarce and produce hard to get to market and brought a very low price on the (32)
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market. Eggs were usually quoted at three cents a dozen. Nearly every family kept a cow and made butter. However, these articles were given to the dealer in exchange for goods and then sent by traveling wagons to mar- kets at Columbus and other far-away points. The money scarcity made credit almost necessary and this broke up many a worthy merchant. Coon and deer skins, maple sugar, pork, honey and saddles of venison were the most current articles of exchange. Venison sold at from fifty to seventy- five cents a saddle and these were packed and taken to Columbus. Many times the merchant lost even by these operations.
The churches of Richwood at this date ( 1914) are the Methodist Epis- copal, Methodist Protestant, Church of Christ, Baptist, African Baptist and Presbyterian, all of which are mentioned at length in the chapter on churches in this volume. The lodges of the town are the Odd Fellows, Masons and Knights of Pythias orders, all treated in detail in a separate chapter.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
This town was incorporated by County Commissioners William Porter, William F. Fulton and Nelson Cone, March 6, 1855, through a petition signed by forty citizens, who named B. F. McMillan, J. W. B. Haynes and H. O. S. Heistand to act as agents in the premises. This step was taken on account of the proposed building of the Atlantic & Great Western railroad. This road was not constructed as they thought it would be, so the corpora- tion matter did not progress very fast. For a number of years no mayor was elected after the first mayor. Charles W. Rosette, in 1855. He also served in 1856-57. The next mayor was in 1864. when James B. W. Haynes was elected and was followed by J. W. Jones, elected in 1868. The clerk's records begin with 1868. since which date the mayors have been as follows: J. W. Jones : 1870, T. P. Cratty : 1872, W. W. Kile: 1873, H. Sabine: 1874. L. A. Hedges, 1876, J. P. Slemmons : 1878, J. S. Gill; 1880, H. M. Wright : 1882, H. M. Wright: 1884. Thomas P. Cratty: 1886. W. J. Rucker: 1888. Jason Case : 1892. C. H. Jacobs: 1849. M. W. Hill: 1896. C. H. Jacobs: 1898: M. IV. Hill: 1900, J. L. Jolliff : 1902, M. W. Hill : 1908, C. S. Norris: 1910, D. S. Ogan ; 1912, M. W. Hill: 1913, A. B. Conkright.
The present town officials are : mayor, .\. B. Conkright : clerk, Paul B. Van Winkle : treasurer, E. E. Moore : police. C. W. Sloop ; health officer. John Allen : council. A. R. Klipstine. Jonah Blue, E. J. Fissel, George Hunt. John Moore and J. M. Wilkins.
In 1892 a good brick city building was erected at an expense of about
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ten thousand dollars, in which are the fire department, council chambers. opera house and jail. The town now owns and is protected from fire by a late pattern of a motor truck costing about seven thousand five hundred dol- lars. The town is an exception to most small towns in that it has expended upwards of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in well paved brick streets. This improvement was commenced in 1907 and now amounts to over three and one-half miles in length. Street wells sunk in clusters here and there furnish the town with ample water supply though there is no regular water- works system.
The electric light plant is a private concern and was established October 19. 1898. The 1914 report to the auditor of state shows the town had a bonded debt of about one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars, running at four per cent. interest per annum.
In 1907. an electric trolley line was constructed by a Pittsburg company from Delaware to Richwood. giving hourly service.
The principal industry of Richwood is the great tile industry, established about ten years ago by the Richwood Clay Manufacturing Company. which plant has come to be very extensive and profitable to the town and its owners.
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS IN 1914.
Attorneys -- Simmons & Haines, S. W. Van Winkle, Arthur G. Stiles. Agricultural Implements-W. H. Conboy, Gill & Hershberger.
Banks-First National, Richwood Banking Company, Farmers Deposit Bank.
Barber Shops-B. O. Rutter, Bentley & Grandstaff, Howard Cahill. Eugene Peyton, W. C. Jacobs.
Bakers-Frank De Turk, Henry Schmelzer.
Blacksmith Shops-Spratt Brothers, O. E. Stout, F. L. Moffitt, John Powell, Schmetzer & Son.
Clothing-O. G. Bolenbaugh, William Berke, A. I. Glick.
Cement Contractors-C. S. Gill, Harrison Sloop. George Daymude.
Creamery-The Westerville Company.
Drugs -- J. W. Kyle & Son, M. C. Wolgamot.
Dentists-O. L. Mathers. J. P. Brooks.
Dray Lines-F. L. Spangler, O. E. Mathers.
Elevator-R. W. Lenox, Gill & Hershberger.
Furniture-Winters & Hutchinson, Griffith & Sanders.
Garages-W. H. Conboy, Sanders & Doyle. Kagay Brothers & Shaeffer.
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Groceries-Miller & Stewart. Hall & Son, Benjamin Humphreys, C. E. King, O. L. Murphy, A. D. Parish, O. G. Spring, Miller & Son.
Dry Goods-B. F. Carmine, Wilkins "Factory Store."
Hardware-Shipley & McAllister, Peet Hardware Company.
Harness-D. A. Newby.
Hotel-"Villa," Carl Allgower, proprietor.
Jewelers-Joseph Embry, L. Hubbard, Thomas Nickol.
Lumber-Richwood Lumber Company.
Meat Markets-E. I. Fissel, Bixler & Andrew, H. O. Spring.
Mills-City Roller Flouring Mills.
Millinery- Miss H. A. Frantz, Mrs. Verna Campbell, Le Chance Mil- linery Parlor.
Newspaper-The Gasette.
Physicians-W. B. and H. C. Duke, T. F. and F. M. Wurtsbaugh, E. L. Roebuck, B. P. Hall, S. J. Brown.
Photograph Gallery-Gail B. John.
Racket Store-"Porter's Surprise Store."
Restaurants-E. E. Moore, "Busy Bee," P. J. Speyer.
Stock Dealers -- R. W. Lenox and others.
Shoe Repair-Ed. Mead.
Tailors-W. H. Richards, C. M. Sanders.
Veterinary Surgeons-L. L. Street, R. J. Brobock.
POSTOFFICE HISTORY.
This is now a third-class office and has six rural free delivery routes extending out into the country. Dr. J. P. Brookins was the first postmaster and retained the office until his departure from the town in 1847. In his day mails were very irregular and scant. but it is related that he would never let the mail bags leave without something in them. If there was no mail to send he himself would hastily write a communication to some friend, open the empty sack. insert it and then lock it up again!
The following have served as postmasters: John P. Brookins, July 15, 1833; William H. Ferguson, March 7, 1848: Samuel Poppleton, January 5. 1856; E. S. D. Reed, July 20, 1857; J. J. Thompson, September 15, 1858; W. H. Ferguson, June 25, 1862 ; A. J. Blake, May 29, 1866; Sarah A. Moore, December 17, 1869; Jane Moore, March 27, 1871 ; William W. Kile, Janu- ary 22, 1872: E. S. Hubbard, March 22, 1876; Mary E. Ferguson, May 5, 1885; J. W. Crawford, February 9. 1891 ; T. J. Williams, February 16, 1895 ;
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W. S. Burgoon, March 2. 1899; C. H. Huffman, March 31, 1903; Owen Livingston, July 18, 1912.
TIIE HOTELS OF RICHWOOD.
The first man to provide the weary traveler with lodging and suitable meals at this place was William Sirpless. He made no claim at con- ducting a hotel or even an inn, but at his log house he did do the best he could, aided by his good wife, a splendid old-fashioned cook. He was suc- ceeded by David Houk, whose dwelling house also served as his "hotel." This house stood on the west side of Franklin street. After a few years he re- moved to Easton, Ohio. Jesse Reed later kept hotel at the same place. About 1843 J. B. W. Haynes, at the corner of Franklin and Bomford streets, ran a hotel and later went across the street and ran the old Houk tavern stand. He later built a two-story building on lot No. 97. B. C. Bigelow succeeded him at that point.
About 1849-50 John Mulvain erected a hotel where later the Parsons House stood. In the winter of 1854-55 R. W. Weisz, then a merchant, built a hotel, later known as the Beem House, and in June, 1855, he moved into it as landlord. In 1866 he sold to John Meyer. O. Beem was the next pro- prietor. J. W. Gaston purchased the property and leased it to A. Faris & Son. There have been many changes since Faris, and today the only com- mercial hotel in the town is the Villa, owned by Carl Allgower, who conducts a modern hotel.
MANUFACTURING AT RICHWOOD.
Though a small place, there has from an early day been found here the true spirit of fostering home manufacturing plants. About 1842 J. S. Gill, Sr., commenced the manufacture of wooden bowls on an extensive scale. At first he located on lot No. 36, Clinton street, and later at No. 438 South Fulton street. In 1869 his factory burned, but he rebuilt and continued a year or more longer. He then moved over the line into Indiana where he still operated his plant successfully.
From the former history of Union county it is learned that the largest establishment at Richwood in 1882 was the saw and planing mill of Been & Biddle. Mr. Biddle stationed a portable saw mill in 1873 on the site of their present extensive mills and in the fall of that year erected a two-story frame milling plant, using the upper story for a carpenter shop. Later changes were effected in the firm and proprietorship and in December, 1875. Orin
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Beem retired and C. N. Biddle became junior member in the company, later styled Beem & Biddle. A stationary boiler and engine were placed in the mill and all went well until a fire in June, 1876, caused a loss of $3,000, with no insurance. The mill was rebuilt and run bigger than before. In the fall of 1877 a planing mill was added, thirty by sixty feet in size. It was at about this time that the enterprising firm began to furnish lumber to the great car shops of Barney & Smith, Dayton. The Altman Taylor Company of Mans- field also bought of them large quantities of hickory lumber for finishing threshing machines. In 1880, when hard wood lumber was getting scarce. they commenced to make wheelbarrows from elm. They made trays for the Revolving Scraper Company, of Columbus, and entered into a contract in 1882 to furnish 100,000 wheelbarrow sets for forty-four thousand dollars. Over six thousand dollars was spent in securing new machinery for this new work. The lumber was taken from the stump, and to assist in preparing it, a mill was installed in Jackson township. About thirty men were then em- ployed the year round."
The Richwood Lumber Company is about the only concern now operat- ing in hardwood lumber in the town.
A third of a century ago there was in operation in Richwood a good woolen mill on East Ottaway street. This factory was built in 1869. Five hundred pounds of wool were purchased by these mills annually. Loveless, Howe & Bishop were the proprietors. The large planing mills of S. M. & A. J. Blake, started in 1871, were then running full blast. In 1871 Champ. Lyon & Randall built a large flax mill, costing seven thousand dollars. It operated until flax ceased to be one of the good crops here.
CLAIBOURNE.
This hamlet had a population of one hundred and forty in 1910. It is situated on the Erie Railroad in the southwestern part of the township. It was platted March 14, 1881, by Frederick J. Sager for William Jolliff, Jr., the proprietor. G. W. Warner was the first resident of the place. He was appointed postmaster in 1879 and the same year opened up a stock of mer- chandise in a building which he completed in September of that year. Through his influence the railroad company laid a side track to the village during the winter of 1880-81 and establishd a station there. The first dwellings were built in 1881 and by 1882 there were about fifteen families located there. The first doctor to establish himself here was Dr. T. F. Wurtsbaugh. By the
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close of 1882 the village had a saw mill, a blacksmith shop, a millinery store, two general stores, a shoe shop, a hotel, a neat brick school building and a Methodist Protestant church.
The postoffice at Claibourne was established in August, 1879. The fol- lowing have served as postmasters. George M. Warner, August 5, 1879 (appointed) ; George W. Moore, August 28, 1885; Samuel Warner, August 14, 1889: George W. Moore, August 22, 1893: J. S. Styer, July 26, 1897; N. R. Hildreth, October 14, 1897; S. J. Brown, June 2, 1900; Milton L. Dow, October 9, 1901 ; F. H. Reed, January 9, 1906; Clara M. Moore, Feb- ruary 14, 1907; James J. McIntire, November 16, 1910; George W. Moore, March 13, 1912.
CHAPTER XXX.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Washington township is the extreme northwestern subdivision of Union county. Its outlines are quite regular, as it is bounded by four straight lines. Logan county is on the west while on the north is Hardin and Marion coun- ties. Jackson township bounds it on the east and York township on the south. The boundary line between it and York township is the Greenville Treaty Line of 1795.
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