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27
Fortifications
88
Fort Recovery
33
Forty-First Ohio Regiment.
231
Fourth Ohio Regiment.
226
Fox Lake
102
Franklin Township.
384
Franklin Township Methodism
271
Fraternal Societies
281
Fredericksburg
387
Fredericksburg Methodist Episcopal
Church
270
Fredericksburg United Presbyterian
Church
264
Freemasonry
280
French
Grant.
25
French Settlement Church
274
Fuller Sisters
405
Future of Agriculture.
207
G
Gallagher, Joseph
298
General Features of Wayne County. 98
General Reliquia.
94
General Representation from Wayne
County
176
General St. Clair
33
Geology of District.
80
Glaciation in Wayne County. 69
Grand Army of the Republic.
285
Greene Township
369
Greene Township Presbyterians.
261
Greenville Treaty Line.
...
115
H
Hay, Benton G ..
298
Hubbell, Harvey H
299
Human Relics
77
I
Implements of Aborigines
91
Improved Order of Red Men.
284
Independent Order of Odd Fellows ..
282
Indiana Territory.
35
Indian Chiefs
87
Indian Massacre
52
Indian Trails.
50
Indian Treaties
27
Indian Tribes.
32
Indians Cause Powder Explosion 405
Indians, Latest Tribes ..
47
Indians of Wayne County.
50,
85
Infirmary Directors
183
Infirmary, Wayne County
127
J
Jacksonian Celebration.
436
Jacob's Lutheran Church, Franklin
Township
254
Jails of Wayne County
124
"Johnny Appleseed"
407
Jones, Charles
300
Judges of Common Pleas Court. . 177, 288
K
Keeler, Thomas B.
294
Killbuck, Indian Chief.
51
Killbuck Swamp
104
Knights of Honor
285
Knights of Pythias
283
L
Lakes and Swamps
74, 102
Latest Tribes of Indians.
47
Lattasburg
367
Lawyers of 1812
289
Lawyers Who Died While Members
of the Wayne County Bar
304
Lawyers Who Were Members of the Wayne County Bar and Died Else- where 309
Legislative Representatives
175
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HISTORICAL INDEX.
London Company
18
Lutheran Church, Plain Township. . 253
Lutherans in Plain Township. 252
Mc
McClure, Addison S
292
Mckinney, John R 299
M
Maag, Edward.
298
Marietta, First Settlement at.
24
Market House Destroyed.
423
Market Prices, Early Day 391
Market Quotations for 1909
390
Marshallville
372
Marshallville Presbyterian Church. . 260
Masons, Free and Accepted.
280
Massacre of Sixteen Indians
52
Maumee, Battle of the.
33
Mayors of Wooster
415
Medical Profession
322
Meech, James B.
296
Mennonite Church, Amish.
276
Mennonite Church, Salem 277 Mennonite Church, Sonneberg Swiss. 274
Mennonite Church, Sugarcreek Town-
ship
276
Methodist Episcopal Church. 266
Methodist Episcopal Church, Cres-
ton
271
Methodist Episcopal Church, Fred-
ericksburg
270
Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrville 272 Metz, Asbury Durbin. 295
Mexican War, Wayne County in. 221
Military Campaigns
36.
Military History of Wayne County .. 219
Military Lands.
25, 26
Miller, George W.
297
Milton Township 356
Milton Township Catholic Church .
273
Moccasin Last Stone.
78
Moore, W. C.
328
Moravian Lands 26
Moreland Village 386
Morgan Block House
385
Morr, John
298
Mounds
90
Mount Eaton
389
Mullins, Walter J.
300
N
Name of Wayne County, Origin of .. 121
Navigation
349
New France
18
Newkirk, Eugene W.
294
Newman's Creek Swamp.
103
Newspapers of Wayne County
312
Ninth Ohio Cavalry Regiment.
236
Northwest Territory
17
0
Oak Hill Cemetery.
423
Odd Fellows
282
Office Buildings, County .
126
Ohio Canal
342
Ohio Company
18
. "Ohio Spectator"
312
Old Mohican
66
One Hundred and Second Ohio Regi-
ment
234
One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Regi-
ment
235
One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Regiment 232
Ordinance of 1787.
19
Organization of Early Counties.
29
Organization of Ohio Land Company
21
Organization of Townships.
118
Organization of Wayne County.
114
Origin of Name of Wayne County .. 121
Original Squatters
20
Orrville
556
Orrville "Courier"
319
Orrville "Crescent"
318
Orrville Industries
557
Orrville Methodist Episcopal Church 272
Orrville Presbyterian Church.
260
Orrville Reminiscence
559
P
Paint Township
388
Paintville Presbyterian Church.
262
Patton's Lake
103
Peckinpaugh, Thomas W.
298
Pensioners of War of 1812
221
Pensioners, Revolutionary
220
Physicians, Early-day
325
Physicians, Present-day
339
Pigeon Roost
76
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Pioneer Families
113
Pioneer Mill of Wayne County.
428
Pioneers, Where From.
108, 195
Reformed Church, Wooster
. ..
.245, 249
Plain Township
380
Plain Township Disciples Church.
255
Plain Township Farmers' Club.
217
Plymouth Company
18
Poe, Adam
397
Population by City, Towns and Vil-
lages
403
Population by Townships. 403
Population in 1787
20
Population of Wayne County
403
Population of Wooster.
403
Pottery
95
Prairies
102
Preglacial Drainage
67
Preglacial Topography.
57
Presbyterian Church, Apple Creek ..
261
Presbyterian Church, Marshallville ..
260
Presbyterian Church, Orrville.
260
Presbyterian Church, Paintville. 262
Presbyterian Church, Sugarcreek .. 260 Presbyterian Church, Westminster .. 259
Presbyterian Church, Wooster, First 256
Presbyterians in Canaan Township .. 260
Presbyterians in Greene Township .. 261
Present-day Lawyers
292
Present-day Physicians
339
Probate Judges
180
Primitive Schools
185
Production of Crops
197, 198, 199, 200, 201
Process of Agriculture
195
Progressive Farmers' Association.
217
Property Valuation
129
Prosecuting Attorneys
183, 289
Public School System.
187
Public Schools of Wooster
434
R
Railroad Era
343
Railroads of Wayne County 342
Ramsey, Warren 297
Recorders, County
183
Red Men, Improved Order of.
284
Reformed Church, Canaan Township 250
Refornied Church, East Union Town- ship 250
Reformed Church, Marshallville.
249
Reformed Church, Milton Township. 250
Reformed Church, Orrville
249 *
Reformed Lutheran Church, St.
Paul's
253
Refugee Tract
26
Reminiscence by Philip Fritz.
358
Representatives in Congress.
174
Representatives in Legislature.
175
Revolutionary Pensioners
220
Rider, Cyrus A
301
Robison, James D
331
Royal Arcanum
284
Russell, Price
295
S
St. Clair, General.
33
St. James Episcopal Church.
266
St. Michael's Catholic Church.
273
St. Paul's Reformed Lutheran Church 253
Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church 273
Salem Lutheran Church, Plain Town-
ship
252
Salem Mennonite Church
277
Salt Creek Township.
386
Salt Works on the Killbuck
402
School Statistics
190
School System, Public.
187
Schools at Shreve.
189
Schools, Primitive.
185
Schools, Rural, Centralization of.
191
Second Baptist Church, Wooster.
245
Second Grade of Territorial Govern-
ment
34
Second Survey of Public Lands.
24
Second Territorial Government.
28
Senators
175
Settlements, First, in Wayne County 112
Shaffer, Hiram M.
338
Shaffer, Moses
337
Shawnees
49
Sheriffs
180
Slireve
5603
Shreve Christian Church.
255
Shreve
"News"
321
Shreve Schools
189
Sixteenth Ohio Regiment.
228
Smith, Harry R.
296
Smithville
371
Smithville High School.
188
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Smyser, Martin L.
294
Snyder, James E. 300
Soil Composition 90
Soil of Wayne County.
193
Soldiers' Monument
426
Sonneberg Settlement
375
Sonneberg Swiss Mennonite Church. 274
Spanish-American War
238
Spooner, M. L.
297
Starn, George A
298
State Senators
175
Stone, Edgar E.
297
Streams of Wayne County.
100
Sugarcreek Presbyterian Church.
260
Sugarcreek Township 373
Sugarcreek
Township
Mennonite
Church
276
Surface of County.
101
Surveyors, County 182
Surveys of Public Lands.
24
Symmes Purchase
24
T
Territorial Council, First.
34
Territorial Days
28
Territorial Government Ended.
36
Territorial Legislature, Third Session 35
Territorial Officers
28
The "Mayflower".
23
Third Session, Territorial Legisla- ture 35
Thomas, Alfred J. 299
Topography, Preglacial 57
Topography of Wayne County 98
Township Histories
353
Townships, Organization of.
118
Trails, Indian
50
Treasurers, County 178
Treaties with Indians. 27
Treaty of Fort Harmar. 27
Trees of Wayne County.
99
Trinity English Lutheran Church. . 254
Trinity Methodist Church, Wooster. 269
Turnpikes of Wayne County
342
Two Noted Characters.
392
U
United Presbyterian Church.
262
United Presbyterian Church, Dalton. 262
United Presbyterian Church, Freder-
icksburg
264
United States Military Lands
26
University of Wooster.
438
V
Valuation of Property
129
Village Plats
404
Village Sites
93
Virginia Military Lands.
25
Volunteers, First
224
W
Warner, Charles J
336
Water Navigation.
349
Wayne County Agricultural Society. 216
Wayne County Boundaries, 1808.
117
Wayne County Early Boundaries
114
Wayne County Indian Trails 50
Wayne County in Mexican War. 221
Wayne County Jails.
124
Wayne County Lawyers.
292
Wayne County, Organization of
114
Wayne County Organized.
118
Wayne Presbyterian Church
261
Wayne Township
368
Weather and Crops Years Ago. 396
Wertz, Ed. S.
299
Welker, Martin
293
Wenger, D
296
West Lebanon 390
West Lebanon Evangelical Church .. 253
Westminster Presbyterian Church .. 259
West Salem
5606
West Salem "Reporter" 320
Western Reserve
25, 116
"Widow Blockhouse" Gets Married. 430 Wiley, Aquila 300
Wooster Board of Trade. 421
Wooster Brush Works 426
Wooster City Hall. 418
Wooster, City of. 410
Wooster City Water Works. 418
Wooster "Daily News"
316
Wooster
"Democrat"
315
Wooster, Election of 1824. 413
Wooster Electric Light Plant. 420
Wooster, Fire Department. 416
Wooster Gas Light Company
419
Wooster Incorporated.
412
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Wooster "Journal and Democratic
Times" 313
Wooster, Mayors of. 415
Wooster Nursery Company 427
Wooster Opera Houses.
417
Wooster, Population of.
403
Wooster Postoffice
421
Wooster, Present City Officers.
415
Wooster Public Library
422
Wooster Public Schools.
434
Wooster "Republican"
313
Wooster, Town Presidents
414
Wooster Township
379
Wooster University
438
Wyandots
48
Y
Yocum, Charles M.
295
Yost, William C.
296
Z
Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Wooster
250
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Adair Family
56028
Adair, Robert L. 56022
Addleman, William 856
Alcock, Forbes 1284
Alexander, A. S.
1250
Alexander, Samuel K.
1262
Ames, Samuel S.
579
Amstutz, David C
874
1386
Amstutz, Joel B .. 953
Anthony, Frederick
1214
Appleman, Robert S. 582
Appleman, William 582
Armstrong, David Calvin 1208
Armstrong, David D. 804
Armstrong, Joseph 960
Armstrong, Thomas, Jr. 880
Aukerman, Louis Emerson. 1063
Ault, Clement L. 929
B
Baker, Harry E. 1404
Barden, Edwin Albert 1128
Barden, William 1379
Barden, William A.
1374
Barnard, George D.
1108
Barnard, Martin H.
1130
Barnhart, William Ralph, Jr 1436
Beal, David
1380
Beals, Daniel 853
Beals, Jacob
854
Beazell, Matthew
827
Bechtel, John
734
Bechtel, Tillman O. 1243
Beckley, Conrad Rumple. 576
Beekley, Charles Elmer
1094
Beer, James Dinsmore
618
Bell, William 894
Berger, John David. 865
Bertolette, Harry B. 995
Bevington, Benjamin S.
730
Biddle, Charles W
1125
Bidle, George C. 1010
Bixler, William 1351
Blackwood, David G. 749
Bliss, William Herbert 587
Blosser, P. S .. 802
Blough, David 56047
Bolen, Charles Wesley 584
Boor, John 600
Bower, Adam B. 1167
Bowman, David 1292
Bowman, Theo. P. 653
Braden, David H 646
Brenizer, George 1364
Brenneman, Amandus W .. 1366
Brenneman, Daniel Webster 1042
Brenneman, Samuel M 792
Brinkerhoff, Amos
1154
Brinkerhoff, Ira 892
Brinkerhoff, Joseph W. 1184
Brooks, A. A.
678
Brown, Allen 1000
Brown, Elmer 780
Brown, Joseph McCauley 1032
Brown, Thomas Pendleton. 1079
Bruce, Oliver D.
764
Bryson, Willis B.
1268
Buchanan, John W. 1002
Bucher, Levi 1156
Burchfield, Charles E. 794
Burkholder, Amos
979
Burkholder, Elmer U. 1222
Burkholder, Noah S. 951
Burkholder, Simon D.
1171
Burkholder, William
937
C
Cameron, Robert, Sr.
660
Campbell, Alexander Thompson. 742
Campbell, Archibald B. 654
Camron, W. J. 1398
Carnahan, Thomas E. 955
Case, S. Grant
1411
Caskey, John Snodgrass.
624
Amstutz Family
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Caskey, William 829
Christy, James W. 636
Fetzer, Jonathan 1302
Christy, Raymond F 708
Fike, Adam W. 694
Christy, Welker G. 635
Fike, George A. 1180
Coffman, Henry 1150
Fike, William A 1181
Conrad, John C. 815
Fisher, George A.
1256
Cook, Sylvanus G.
738
Fisher, James Howard.
1016
Cooney, Nelson R
1209
Flack, Robert C.
784
Cope, B. G.
1272
Fluhart, Edmond Z.
688
Cramer, John
850
Fogel, Adam
732
Cramer, William Albert. 1100
Folsom, Charles E 1460
Crane, Cyrus G .. 1462
Forrer, George F 1283
Crater, George 1162
Forrer, Henry H. 1203
Craven, John 1176
France, John B. 569
Criley, John M. 967
Franks, Louis K 1419
Critchfield, Mrs. Adelaide M. 56012
Frary, Orange W 884
Critchfield, Lyman R. 560°
Frary, William 760
Frick, Jacob 1376
Fritz, Joseph Owen 658
Fulton, Luther H. 1133
Funck, Ross W 1440
Funk, Laban
1005
Funk, Willis D. 1310
D
Dague, Gabriel C. 1328
Dague, Thomas Jefferson 1424
Danford, John H. B. 599
Davis, Thomas Kirby 5604
Dawson, Norman B 938
Des Voignes, W. L .. 701
Deuell, William Henry
878
Dix, Albert
796
Dohner, Harvey B. 932
Douglas, Ben 1080
E
Eason, Samuel Brown 832
Emrich, George P 1115
Etling, Abram 1439
Etling, John E 1352
Evans, David G. 783
Evans, William S
787
Ewing, Thomas E 860
Eyman, Charles B. 1023
Eyman, Simon B. 1337
F
Fahr, Charles 750
Fair, Andrew A. 1232
Feeman, William E 668
Felton, A. K. 1225
G
Garver, William Wallace. 936
Gaut, Mathew 768
Gearhart, Jacob 926
Geiselman, Cyrenius 1173
Geiselman, John Franklin. 1065
George, Franklin Warren. 680
Gerig, Benjamin 1143
Gerlach, Albert 590
Gilbert, E. E ..
1227
Gill, Samuel George. 1280
Gill, William M. 1250
Gindlesperger, James B. 746
Gish, Jacob 945
Gish, Michael S 944
Good, Clayton 747
Graber, Charles A 1331
Graber, Daniel
1045
Graber, Rudolph 1258
Grady, Oliver George 869
Grant, Edward M. 810
Graven, Marion 614
Graven, Thomas Arthur 613
Gray, Charles Milton 567
Gray, James Lloyd 607
Gregory, Joseph B.
1319
Grosjean, Louis Eugene 1086
Critchfield, Lyman R., Jr 704
Crosby, Howard 1152
Crummel, John W
775
Curry, David C. 1320
Cutter, John W. 728
Ferguson, James Walter. 1134
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
H
J
Hackenberg, Adam 1453
Haller, Henry A 674
Halteman, Ammon S. 966
James, David 752
Jeffries, Lemuel P 1136
Jennings, Henry 996
Jones, Lake F. 1408
Jontz, Joseph 1048
Jordan, Willard Brown
1050
K
Karch, Frederick 964
Kaufman, Oscar David. 1140
Kaufman, Thomas Johnson 1096
Kean, Olin Lee 1040
Hartzler, John 1053
Keck, D. B.
1218
Haskins, Benjamin Edward 943
Kepler, Benjamin F
1431
Haupert, Charles 913
Hay, Benton Givler 1384
Heckman, Frank 791
Heckman, Jacob 1255
Heller, A. J.
690
Heller, William E. 675
Henry, Stephen M
824
Herman, Adam George 1336
Hills, Oscar Armstrong. 1334
Hoegner, William F.
1446
Hofacre, Alonzo Lawrence 1097
Hoff, Daniel
1341
Hohenshil, David 1295
Holmes, Franklin
864
Hooke, Joseph William. 725
Horn, Alonzo D. 1375
Horn, C. Willis 1014
Hostetler, David
814
Lance, Milward
1047
Landes, Elmer S 593
Landis, George 1036
La Viers, William N 952
Lawrence, Abbott
1069
Hostettler, William 1358
Hough, Isaac N. 604
Housel, Peter 770
Houser, John H 1211
Hubbell, Will Herman 1437
Huffman, Daniel V 948
Hunsicker, T. C. 1451
Hunter, Wellrose 1355
I
Irvin, George H
682
Jackson, George 1236
Jacot, William 1021
Hamilton, James A. 676
Hamlin, Simon 1254
Hammer, Jacob J 1348
Hard, Curtis Volosco
800
Harrison, John F
625
Harrison, Ohio J.
786
Harrison, Richard 759
Harrison, Stephen
626
Harrold, Christopher John. 638
Hartel, John V 1332
Hartzler, Albert I.
1139
Hartzler, Gideon 957
Kean, William F 1240
1109
Kister, John A. 1378
Knepp, Henry Milton 629
Knight, Lyman C 1395
Koehler, John P. 1030
Kollert, Charles J 1220
Kosier, William D. 1360
Kountz, Harry 798
Krick, Charles
578
Krick, Jacob 1076
Krick, Philip
1252
L
Lance, Andrew J 1400
Lance, Edwin 1339
Lance, James 1443
Hostetler, John B.
812
Hostetler, Jonathan K 1174
Hostetler, Levi F. 806
Hostetter, Joseph Warren 740
Lawrence, Mrs. David. 1172
Lawrence, Martin 1224
Lehr, Joseph Wellington. 620
Leickheim, Max J. 710
Leiner, Daniel 1019
Lewis, William A 1248
Lindsey, Harvey 1146
Litsinger, Thomas H 1077
Long, William L. 588
Longenecker, H. F. 1382
Longenecker, Samuel B.
1119
Kersteter, Samuel
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Lowe, John Jacob. 756
Lupold, Robert L. 724
Mc
McCance, Hiram 1061
McClaran, John C 1264
Mcconahay, Hugh 1448
McConnell, David W. 1346
McFadden, Howard Roy 1039
McGuff, John 950
McIlvaine, Daniel W 922
McIlvaine, David E 672
McIlvaine, George A 871
McIntire, Ezra D.
656
McIntyre, Gilbert D 663
McMillen, DeWitt Howard. 719
McSweeney, John,
720
M
Marsh, L. Cody 1028
Marthey, Joseph Peter 1102
Martin, John 1164
Mateer, Horace Nelson 642
Matty, Samuel
1060
Meech, James B
632
Meese, Ira F 1444
Meier, Hugh M. 797
Meier, James 616
Meier, John
608
Mellinger, Benedict 876
Mellinger Family 876
Mellinger, Melchor 876
Mellinger, William M 863
Messner, John
858
Metsker, Eli 925
Mettetal, Charles Elmer 1082
Miller, Jacob A. 992
Miller, John H.
1127
Miller, Joseph 1188
Miller, Joseph 941
Miller, M. M.
931
Miller, Samuel Harrison
648
Minier, James B.
1416
Moine, Charles R. 1347
Moine, Julius 1315
Moomaw, R. M. 1025
Morgan, Joshua H. 918
Morganroth, William 1407
Morlan, Micajah Milo 727
Moser, David P.
1104
Moser, Jacob A. 1015
Mougey, Forest 1430
Mougey, Peter 1434
Munson, Charles 762
Munson, Isaac 763
Musser, William 1012
Mussleman, David W 1463
Myers, David
610
Myers, Elmer F 887
Myers, Isaac A. 1363
Myers, John A. 56020
Myers, William C. 650
N
Neumeyer, Frederick W 1189
Neuroth, Charles 970
Nirode, William Franklin.
1072
Nolin, John Bunyan
627
Nolt, Samuel A. 1213
O
Odenkirk, Homer B.
1413
Oldman, Willey Sylvester 831
Oldroyd, Asbury B 771
Orr, Abner G. 1204
Orr, Clinton M. 890
Orr, Dudley S 1356
Orr, Smith, 56023
Orr, Thomas W
1238
Otto, Michael D.
1267
P
Peake, Henry A.
1393
Perilstein, Joseph 847
Peterman, Andrew Jackson. 664
Pfeiffer, George
1299
Pinkley, Orlando George.
1124
Piper, H. Lincoln 1263
Piper, William.
1293
Plasterer, George W. 928
Pontius, Isaac 684
Porter, Harvey 1433
Power, James B
1106
Putnam, James Bedell. 1279
Q
Quinby, Edward M.
808
R
Ramseyer, Daniel
985
Raudebaugh, John A.
1317
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Rehm, Andrew J. 1183
Rehm, George W 1457
Shelly, James Garfield. 1249
Rehm, Jacob 1197
Sheppard, John Wesley. 1312
Rehm, Jacob F 1230
Sherck, Joseph 754
Sherrick, Joseph S. 667
Shibler, Jacob S. 821
Shie, David P. 867
Rickabaugh, Francis Lee. 1044
Rickabaugh, George 1381
Rickel, Michael 1131
Sidle, Lucurtis P 670
Rieder, Cyrus A. 836
Ries, William Nicholas. 56031
Rittenhouse, Joseph H. 1245
Ross, William F. 562
Ross, William Howard.
562
Rouch, Mahlon
1401
Royer, Josiah F.
1290
Rudy, Albert M
1371
Rudy, Clyde E.
1396
Rudy, Daniel L.
998
Rudy, David
1361
Rudy, Guy M. 1367
Rudy, Levi S. 1357
Rumbaugh, Miller I 1308
Ryland, Ai 1314
S
Sanborn, Joseph G. 988
Sanderson, Amos 698
Sanderson, John C. 1073
Saurer, Albert S. 630
Saurer, Arty C. 826
Schauff, Frank E 1434
Schmid, Rudolph 1027
Schmuck, Samuel 1112
Schollenberger, H. A. 1219
Schorger, John 1343
Schorle, Jacob
956
Schultz, John C.
1233
Steiner, Daniel
973
Scott, James Cutter 1008
Seas, J. F. 702
Seelye, William James
56023
Stepfield, Alexander E. 920
Seiberling, J. H. 744
Seigley, John M. 971
Sell, Charles R. 560#
Sell, Jacob
883
Strauss, Henry H 56033
Studer, Benjamin 1056
Studer, L. S. 790
Studer, Rudolph 1326
Swanson, Swen A. 1142
Swart, Adrian C. 1111
1335
Snure, Jacob C .. 980
Snyder, John Robert. 1068
Soliday, L. Lyman. 1303
Soliday, Sidney Grant 1064
Solliday, William A. 991
Sommer, Daniel A. 1372
Souers, Solomon
1084
Spangler, Wesley
1024
Spear, Wesley Wells.
568
Spencer, Ezra R.
1286
Stahl, John V 1414
Stair, Frederick
1091
Stair, Irvin O 1011
Stam, Jacob 1054
Steel, Ephraim J 820
Steele, Enoch 977
Steele, William 1340
Steele, Wilson 976
Steiner, John S 1458
Steiner, Ulrich 1178
Stewart, Frank E 700
Stitt, James T 1144
Stout, Daniel S. 592
Sell, W. Frank 882
Serfass, Andrew 1344
Shamp, James A. 571
Shank, Charles M 1034
Shank, William W 1455
Shelly, Jacob 1261
Reinhardt, John F
1349
Rice, T. E. 686
Shilling, Jesse R. 1166
Shisler, John W. 823
Sigler, Henry P. 1449
Slemmons, David I. 935
Smedley, Lehman J 1020
Smith, Benjamin H 1148
Smith, Cyrus D 574
Smith, Robert J 580
Smucker, Jonas 982
Smyser, Harmon 1330
Smyser, Martin L. 56024
Snavely, Chris. R
Rehm, John W. 692
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Swartz Family 716
Swartz, Hiram B. 712
Swartz, Samuel 716
Welty, Peter 838
Wenger, David 1206
Wenger, Emanuel H. 1241
Wenger, Frederick 1195
Wertenberger, Orlow H. 1304
Taggart, Frank 56019
Taggart, James 1200
Taggart, Samuel M. 706
Taggert, John William. 1158
Tate, Michael
1160
Tate, William 1168
Tawney, Philip G.
1368
Taylor, Charles E. 1324
Taylor, James B. 56011
Taylor, Kaiser W.
1122
Thompson, Ervin W 696
Thorne, Charles Embree. 1316
Todd, J. H ..
840
Tschantz, John H. 1092
Tuttle, Augustus S. 933
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Wooster Nursery Company 860
Wooster Public Library 1117
Worst, William Henry 640
Wright, Elmer Francis. 940
Wright, William Henry 1037
1392
W
Wagner, Henry 1452
Wagner, Orrin 1454
Walter, Albert P.
984
Ward, James M. 848
Warfel, David H 1353
Wasson, Rezin B. 1274
Wayne County Democrat Co.
1399
Weaver, David J. 1191
Weaver, Thomas .
1259
Weidman, Jesse H. 959
Weiker, Peter
872
Weiser, Charles A. 564
Wells, Uriah F 765
Weltmer, James A. 1270
Welty, Andrew J: 1327
Wertz, Edwin 1088
Wertz, William H. H.
888
Weygandt, William Edwin.
56032
Wheeler, Warden
776
White, William F ..
947
Whitmore, Charles Wesley 1192
Whorton, Robert 1246
Wiler, William Henry 1159
Wiley, Aquila 736
Wiley, John H. 1300
Williams, O. C. 585
Winkler, Wesley J 1288
Wintersteen, Henry C. 1311
Wintersteen, William F 1199
Wood, Samuel 1216
Woodward, Davis Dempsey 1291
Wyer, Christian A. Y
Yarger, James A.
1006
Yocum, Lincoln A. 816
Yocum, Ohio M. 633
Yoder, Christian Z. 1228
Yoder, John 1278
Yoder, Menno Peter 1057
Young, George M.
1459
Z
Zaring, James Lee. 56034
Zaugg, Wesley Henry 56048
Zimmerman, Ezekiel B. 1410
Zimmerman, John W 1422
Zimmerman, Nathan R.
1421
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Swinehart, Benjamin F. 1323
Swinehart, John I 1307
T
Van Nest, M. M. 56037
Vanover, Francis Marion.
1296
Villard, John Heinrich . 968
WAYNE COUNTY COURT HOUSE
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HISTORICAL.
CHAPTER I.
THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
The discovery of what is now known as North America, by Se- bastian Cabot in 1498, was at a time when no white man had probably trod- den upon the soil of this country. It was the empire, as is generally believed, of the native American, a barbaric people who roamed not unlike the wild beasts of the field over its extensive domain, all untamed and ungoverned by any regular type of civilized, Christianized life. The discoveries of both Columbus and Cabot opened up the immigration for the European countries. Soon Spain, England and France-the great rival nations-vied one with the other for possession and final occupancy of the New World.
It was Spain that had the distinction of being the founder of the first colony in North America, the same being established at St. Augustine, Flor- ida, in 1565, it being by forty years the most aged city in the United States.
The second colony was planted by the French people in 1604, at Port Royal, in Acadia, the original name of Nova Scotia. The third settle- ment was effected by the English at Jamestown, Virginia, in the month of April, 1607, the first English settlement on the continent.
The French people had commenced to make rapid strides toward settle- ment and naturally England soon became alarmed at the French encroach- ments in the north part of the new-found world, as then known and styled. Hence the country was divided into two grand divisions, that portion lying between the thirty-fourth and forty-fifth degrees of northern latitude, and James I by grant disposed of that portion of the country included between the forty-fourth and forty-first degrees to an association of merchants, called the London Land Company, and to the Plymouth Company, which later set- tled New England, between the thirty-eighth and forty-fifth degrees. The Cabots had visited Nova Scotia as early as 1498, though there was no
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European colony established until the above named, but Henry IV of France had as early as 1603 granted Acadia to De Monts, a Frenchman, and his followers, and some Jesuits, who for a number of years tried to form a settlement in Port Royal and St. Croix, but who were finally expelled from the country by the English governor and colonists of Virginia, who claimed the country by right of discovery of Sebastian Cabot. The grant to De Monts comprised the lands between the fortieth and forty-sixth degrees of latitude, and hence included the lands at present composing the state of Ohio.
The grant of James I of England to the London Company also em- braced Ohio, and the grant of the same monarch to the Plymouth Company compassed a portion of it. France, much desiring to hold sway and possess this domain, sent forth her boldest adventurers to explore and really possess the country in question. Among these men may be mentioned La Salle, Champlain and Marquette. Forts were built by them on the lakes and the Mississippi, Illinois, Maumee and Wabash rivers, and the whole Northwest Territory was included by them in the province of Louisiana. In brief, ac- cording to the geographers the entire country was known as New France, except that east of the great ranges of mountains whose streams flow into the Atlantic ocean, and of this portion they even claimed the basin of the Kennebec and all of Maine to the east of that valley. As early as 1720 they had strong and well fortified posts on the Wabash river, and a line of com- munication was established to Acadia by way of this stream, the lakes and the St. Lawrence. The English not only claimed the Northwest Territory by reason of discovery and by grant of the King of England, but by virtue of the purchase of the same from the Indians by treaty at Lancaster, in 1744. By that treaty the Six Nations ceded the territory to the English, as they claimed. For the purpose of formally possessing it and vying with the French in its settlement, a company, denominated the Ohio Company, was organized in 1750 and during that year obtained a grant from the British Parliament for six hundred thousand acres of land on or near the Ohio river, and in 1750 the English built and established a trading post-"trading house"-at a place called Loramie's Store, on the Great Miami river, and which was the first English establishment erected in the Northwest Territory, or in the great Mississippi valley. In the early part of 1752 the French demolished this trading house and carried the inhabitants off to Canada. This brought on somewhat of a conflict, and the Ottawas and Chippeways assisting the French, fourteen of the Indian warriors were killed and many more wounded before the affair was adjusted.
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