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Clark, of Vermillion; Benjamin Bailey, of Townsend: John Fuller, of Eldridge; Justus Miner, of Wakeman: Azel Miner, of New London; Bradford Sturtevant, of Ruggles: Joseph Ramsdell, of Dan- bury, and Gayus Munger, of York, Sandusky county. This society celebrated in 1878, its fifty-third anni- versary. Its life has been, as might be supposed from its strong organization, a vigorous one, and its work extensive and valuable.
MEDICAL.
Dr. Moses C. Sanders was the president of the first medical society that had an existence in the Fire-lands. This is a fact shown by the appearance of his name signed to a call for a meeting of the society, June 4, 1822, and published in May of the same year, in the Sandusky Clarion. Nothing further appears in re- gard to this medical society, in the files of old news- papers, and the records, if there ever were any, are now undiscoverable. It is probable that the organiza- tion had but a short life, for
THE FOURTEENTH DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY
was organized in 1824, and as it was a large, and for a number of years a very prosperous society, it in all likelihood crowded the smaller one out of existence. Following is the first newspaper mention of this or- ganization :
MEDICAL NOTICE -Pursuant to an act to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of re ulating the practice of physic and surgery in this State, I hereby notify the medical gentlemen, resident in the counties of Richland, Huron, Lorain, Sandusky and Seneca that a meeting will be holden at Norwalk, the last Tuesday of May next, at ten o'clock, a.m., for the purpose of organizing a medical society agreeable to said act. It is expected that there will be a general attendance of physicians of this district, as the eleventh section of the act provides that no person, other than members of one of the medical societies in this State shall be per- mitted to practice physic or surgery after the Ist of July next.
NORWALK, April 10, 1824
DANIEL TILDEN.
The above and the following are from the Sandusky Clarion, the latter being in the issue of June 2, 1824.
COMMUNICATION .- Agreeable to the act, on the 25th instant, came on at Norwalk the first meeting of the Fourteenth Medical Society in this State. The meeting was full, and upon the whole, we were much pleased with the respectable display of parchment. At three o'clock the gentlemen present proceeded to organize by choosing-
Dr. Tilden, of Norwalk, president: Dr Anderson, of Sandusky, vice president; Dr. Mantor, of Elyria, secretary; Dr. Fay, of Milan, treas- urer; Dr. Lucas. of Uniontown: Dr. G C. Miller, of Mansfield; Dr Baker, of Florence; Dr. Sanders, of Peru; Dr Strong, of Blooming- ville, censors.
The annual meeting of 1825 was also held at Norwalk, a number of new members were received and the following officers elected: Nathan H. Mantor, president: John B. Johnson, vice president; Amos B. Harris, secretary; Lyman Fay, treasurer; George G. Baker, Moses C. Sanders, Daniel Tilden, Eli Dresback and Charles E. Ford, censors.
The third annual meeting was held May 30, 1826, and the following officers elected: Moses C. Sanders, president: George Anderson, vice president; Amos B. Harris, secretary; Lyman Fay, treasurer; George G. Baker, Daniel Tilden, Nathan H Mantor, Daniel Brainard, Jr., and Joel Luther, censors,
The fourth meeting was held at Norwalk on the 29th of May, 1827, and the officers elected were as follows: Allen G. Miller, president; George G. Baker, vice president; A. B. Harris, secretary; Lyman Fay, treasurer; George G. Baker, William F. Kittredge, Moses C. Sanders, Daniel Tilden, and Eli Dresback, censors.
It was shown that there were at that time the fol- lowing regularly licensed practicing physicians and surgeons in Huron county: George G. Baker, Daniel Tilden, M. C. Sanders, George Anderson, Lyman Fay, William F. Kittredge, William W. Nugent, C. B. Harris, H. M. Clark, Joseph Pearce, Andrew McMillan, Richard P. Christophers, Samuel Stephens, Charles Smith, Samnel B. Carpenter, W. Merriman, Lemuel Powers, and A. H. Brown, eighteen in all. The other connties of the district together had but sixteen.
The following are the officers for 1828 and 1829:
1828-President, George G. Baker; Vice President, Moses C. Sanders, Secretary, Amos B. Harris; Treas- urer, Lyman Fay; Censors, Wm. F. Kittredge, Allen G. Miller, Eber W. Hubbard, Moses C. Sanders, Daniel Tilden.
1829-President, Moses C. Sanders; Vice President, Daniel Tilden; Secretary, Amos B. Harris; Treasurer, Lyman Fay; Censors, George G. Baker, Nathan H. Manter, Wm. F. Kittredge, Wm. W. Nugent, Henry Knhn.
At the meeting in 1830, a resolution was passed approving the efforts then making for the suppres- sion of intemperance. Geo. Anderson was elected President. No mention of the society can be found later than the above years, and it is probable that the organization was not sustained much later than the above date-the last one given.
THE DELAMATER MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
is the next in order. It was organized at a meeting of the medical profession of Norwalk and the neigh- boring towns, held at the office of Drs. Reid and Ford, November 18th, 1858. Drs. A. N. Reid, Thomas M. Cook, and L. Galpin were appointed to draw up a constitution, which, at a later session on the same day, was adopted. The constitution opened with a preamble expressing the fittingness of men of congenial minds and similar pursuits associating themselves together for the promotion of kind feeling and the free interchange of opinions, and in addition to this general statement of the objects of the organi- zation, prescribed certain rules for self-government, and further exhibited its aim in the fifth and sixth clauses by expressions in favor of adopting the code of ethics of the American Medical Association, and of constituting itself a court, before which should be heard all complaints of breach of etiquette and all questions of ethics. The charter members of the association were Drs. Charles Smith, of Lyme; L. Galpin and W. F. Dean, of Milan: Thomas M. Cook, of Monroeville; Wm. W. Stillson and J. W. Goodson,
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of Bellevue; A. C. Eaton, of Peru; S. McCarmon, of Greenfield; A. N. Read, J. B. Ford and -Baker, of Norwalk. Dr. Charles Smith was elected presi- dent and Dr. J. B. Ford secretary. The society has, since its organization, held quarterly meetings in the various towns of Erie and Huron counties where it has had members, for the consideration of subjects interesting to the profession, and for the furtherance of social relations and well-being. Its constitution has been subscribed by many others than the few charter members, and bears the signatures of some of the most prominent physicians of the past and present in both counties. It has now over twenty active members. R. A. Severance is its président, J. B. Ford, secretary, and C. S. Kreider, treasurer.
THE ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY,
composed of the allopathic physicians of Sandusky and vicinity, was organized, in the city just named, in the year 1850, its members being Drs. Daniel Til- den, Aaron Austin, E. S. Lane, Chas. Cochran, Robert R. McMeens and Landerdall. The first president was Dr. Tilden, and the secretary, Dr. Lane. The society, during the war, did not main- tain an active organization; but when the cause of distraction from civil pursuits no longer existed, it was resuscitated, and has ever since remained in active existence. Dr. H. J. Donahoe was for many years its president, and was succeeded by Dr. P. H. Clemens, the present incumbent. The vice presidents are Drs. Cook and Story, and the secretary, Dr. W. R. Page. The society has about twenty members, holds monthly meetings, and has done much to pro- duce social good fellowship among members of the profession.
TEMPERANCE.
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THE HURON COUNTY TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.
This organization was a direct ontgrowth of the very successful local organizations in Norwalk and other points in the county, and came into being June 7, 1850, at which time, pursuant to call, a meeting was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Nor- walk. A preamble and pledge were adopted, and the following officers elected: Rev. S. C. Parker, president; G. F. Stewart, secretary; Charles E. Newman, treas- urer. All of the officiating clergymen of the county who became members of the organization were made vice presidents.
After this preliminary organization, the first an- nual meeting of the league was held at Monroeville, November 8th, of the same year above designated, and the following officers were elected: Rev. J. C. Bowles, president; Charles E. Newman, secretary; Charles Vancise, treasurer. At the next meeting, held at Norwalk, December 6th, the constitution was so modi- fied as to allow all temperance societies in the county to become auxilliary to the league. From this time on for several years temperance work was prosecuted with great diligence and to excellent effect, a strong
public feeling being aroused and much good accom- plished. All of the clergymen and other public speakers who were willing to give their labor for the cause were enlisted in the work; it was decided to have one temperance address delivered in each town- ship every three months. The following gentlemen were enrolled as county lecturers, and made addresses in all parts of the county during the year 1851 and the first quarter of 1852: Rev. C. W. Clapp, Rev. S. B. Page, Rev. E. S. Grumley, Rev. M. W. Fairfield. Rev. E. P. Salmon, Rev. F. P. Hall, Rev. R. S. Lockwood, Rev. Mr. Boardman, Rev. Alfred Newton, Rev. S. H. Waldo, Rev. Ira Smith, Rev. John Kelley, John R. Osborne, S. T. Worcester, G. T. Stewart, Charles Kent, E. W. Tucker, DeMorris Pratt, D. H. Beckwith, Timothy Baker, Jr., C. F. Woodruff, B. T. Hunt, B. F. Roberts. It was arranged that quar- terly meetings should be held in various places in the county, and that on the Fourth of July of each year should be held the annual temperance celebration, which should also be a patriotic reunion of all who had the cause of temperance at heart. The speeches de- livered in the summer of 1851, preceding the State election, on the adoption of the new constitution, with a separate vote on the section prohibiting license for the sale of intoxicating liquors, had a great influence in throwing the vote of Huron county upon the anti- license side. The vote of the townships upon this question stood as follows:
FOR AGAINST
FOR AGAINST LICENSE. LICENSE.
Bronson
116
73
Norwich.
65
6%
Clarksfield.
20
153
Peru.
65
62
Fitchville
32
111
Richmond
7
38
Fairfield
48
167
Ridgefield
109
৳9
Greenfield
8J
99
Ripley
47
88
Greenwich
76
38
Sherman
56
39
Hartland
68
Townsend
108
61
Lyme.
102
57
Wakeman
34
6×
Norwalk
225
223
New Haven
119
50
Total .
1,480
1,635
New London
73
113
The officers elected at the second annual meeting, held at Norwalk, July 4, 1851, were as follows: Gen. Jeremiah Cole, president; Charles E. Newman, sec- retary; Edward E. Husted, treasurer.
During the excitement of the presidential cam- paign of 1852, the meetings were mostly suspended, but they were resumed in 1853. The following offi- cers were elected that year, the meeting being held July 4th, at Norwalk: James Green, president; Charles E. Newman, secretary; Edward E. Husted, treasurer. Following are the officers elected in later years: 1854, Frederick Sears, president; Frederick A. Wildman, secretary; Erastus Gray, treasurer. 1856, Charles B. Simmons, president; Charles W. Manahan, secretary; Erastus Gray, treasurer. The league was disbanded in 1852, because of the slavery agitation, the disruption of old political parties, the formation of new ones, and the prevalence of various absorbing and exciting problems in the nation. No attempt was made to revive it until 1820. A meet- ing was held upon the 8th of January of that year, and the following officers were chosen: Charles W. Manahan, president; Henry J. Baldwin, secretary; Levi Kilburn, treasurer.
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This organized league did not long continue in ex- istence. Something was accomplished, but not much. The interest died out, and the league was a second time disbanded. After the wide-spread and intense excitement of the crusade, in 1873, had roused the people to an intensity of action before unknown, the Huron county temperance league, at present in ex- istence, was organized upon a strong basis, and in- cluding all other temperance societies, both township organizations, and those having a county breadth. The first officers of the new league were elected at a meeting held May 22, 1874, at the Methodist Episco- pal church in Norwalk. They were as follows: N. S. C. Perkins, of Norwalk, president; Mrs. E. Sum- ner, Bellevue; Mrs. S. T. Guard, Monroeville; Mrs. R. C. Powers, New London; Mrs. Danforth, Peru; Mrs. L. S. Johnson, Peru, vice presidents; Mrs. H. Brown, Norwalk, secretary; Mrs. T. H. Drake, Mon- roeville, treasurer. The present officers of the league are: Rev. C. C. Creegan, president; Mrs. H. E. Farr, secretary; Mrs. M. A. Corwin, treasurer. The league has constantly kept up its organization. has been one of the most active in the State, and is, at the present writing, in a thoroughly prosperous condition.
THE FARMERS' EXPORTING COMPANY OF HURON COUNTY,
was one of the earliest organizations effected in the county, and was, for a short time, of considerable importance. No records of the organization exist, and only a little light is thrown upon the nature and object of the society, by the brief notices that are to be found in the files of the Sandusky Clarion. It appears that the Farmers' Exporting Company was organized some time prior to 1822, for an advertise- ment, dated July 26th, of that year, calls a "meeting to be held at Captain Boalt's inn, in Norwalk, for the purpose of taking measures for the transportation of a drove of cattle to the cast." There were many difficulties at that early day, in getting a market for what little could be raised in excess of consumption, upon the Reserve, and this company assisted mate- rially, for a few years, the farmers of the company, who could do but little except by organized effort. When, or by whom the company was formed, does not fully appear. The directors were Luther Coe, Ebenezer Guthrie, John McMillen, - Raymond, and Effeuctus Starr.
HURON COUNTY SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.
The earliest Sunday school union of which there is any record, was organized in 1825, at a meeting held in Norwalk, and was known as the Huron County Sunday School Union. It remained in existence but a short time. The following were its officers: Rev. John Beach, president; Rev. Enoch Conger, David Gibbs, and Asahel Morse, vice-presidents; Ichabod Marshall, treasurer; Zachriah Marion, secretary; Henry Buckingham, depository.
The Sunday school union of Huron county, now in
existence, was organized July 29, 1863, at a meeting held in Norwalk, pursuant to call, and attended by a large number of the churches of the county, with- out regard to denomination. Judge Parker, Henry M. Holliday, C. E. Newman, Rev. J. D. McCord, S. B. French, E. Bemiss, Rev. L. Bailey, R. G. Gan- nings, D. B. Simons, N. H. Spencer, J. L. Patton, and Rev. G. H. Walter were appointed a committee to draw up a constitution.
" The object of the union," as stated in this con- stitution, " shall be to unite all evangelical christians in the county in efforts to promote the cause of Sun- day schools, establishing new schools where they are needed, and awakening an increased interest and efficiency in such as are already in operation."
The first officers of the union were as follows: N. S. C. Perkins, president; C. E. Newman, correspond- ing secretary; Rev. J. D. McCord, recording secre- tary; Joel Smith, treasurer; C. E. Pennewell, Rev. C. F. Lewis, and Rev. L. Bailey, central committee: Rev. A. Newton, Norwalk; Mrs. Johnson, Bronson; Rev. C. Moors, Fairfield; C. A. Willard, Lyme; Rev. J. E. Weed, Ridgefield; John Saunders, Peru; John Sherman, Wakeman; D. B. Simmons, Townsend; Rev. J. H. Walter, Milan; D. Laughlin, Hartland; J. L. Patton, Clarksfield; Judge Parker Greenfield; A. Morrifield, New London; J. H. Niles, Norwich; Rev. J. C. Thompson, Fitchville; Rev. F. C. Paine, Ripley; Renben Linden, New Haven; E. Bemiss, Groton; Samuel Dodd, Greenwich, vice-presidents. The Sun- day school union, now after an active and useful ex- istence of sixteen years, is better than ever able to further the ends for which it was organized.
ERIE COUNTY FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPANY.
This company, for the purpose of insurance against fire, upon the mutual plan, was organized August 13, 1877, at Sandusky, with the following charter mem- bers: Henry Miliner, Calvin Caswell, J. B. Witter, B. H. Rogers, T. B. Taylor, M. B. Rice, I. G. Tay- lor, T. B. Eddy, R. F. Fowler, E. A. Beebe, Orlando Ransom, E. W. Hughes, H. C. Norton, C. W. Liv- ingood, W. G. Benschooten, Andrew Smith, Peter Mainzer, C. H. Rockwell, D. H. Benschooten, J. F. Greene, George Taylor, O. C. Tillinghast, Reuben Turner. The organization was perfected by the elec- tion of the following officers: Calvin Caswell, pres- ident; Gardner Benschooten, vice-president; Andrew Smith, Orlando Ransom, D. H. Benschooten, direc- tors; T. B. Taylor, secretary; Reuben Turner, treas- urer.
THE HURON COUNTY FARMERS' INSURANCE COMPANY
is the outgrowth of a movement that began in Ripley township, and its organization was effected March 11, 1878, the following gentlemen being the charter members: A. D. Stotts, R. C. Johnson, James R. Knight, A. W. Barker, A. Robinson, J. A. Frost, W. W. Martin, S. E. Peck, D. S. Washburne, Lorenzo D. Keller. On the 14th of March the following offi-
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cers were elected: A. D. Stotts, president; R. C. Johnson, vice-president; R. C. Johnson, secretary; James R. Knight, treasurer; S. E. Peck, J. A. Frost, W. W. Martin, directors. The object of the company is to insure its members at the lowest possible rates consistent with sound business principles. . During the first year of its existence, the company has as- snmed risks of over three hundred thousand dollars.
CHAPTER XIX.
MILITARY HISTORY OF THE FIRE-LANDS.
EIGHTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
THIS regiment was originally organized as a "three months' regiment," under the first call of the president, most of the companies having been enlisted between the 16th and 22d days of April, 1861, and all of them arriving at Camp Taylor as early as April 29th. On the 2d of May, all the companies hav- ing been mustered into the service, the regiment was ordered to Camp Dennison, where it arrived on the 3d, during a drenching rain, and many of the men, for the first time in their lives, slept in the open air, with only a soldier's blanket for floor, roof, walls and bed-clothes. The regimental organization was here completed by the appointment of the field and staff officers. In- structions in the " drill" now commenced, and vig- orous efforts were put forth to fit the regiment for service; but it soon became evident that the troops at this camp would not be sent to the field as three months' men, and an effort was made to re-enlist the regiment for three years. To this every company responded except Company I, and the regiment of nine companies was mustered into the service for three years, on the 22d, 25th and 26th of June.
In the following September Company I joined the regiment at Grafton, Virginia.
On the 9th day of July, 1861, the regiment left Camp Dennison for Grafton, Virginia, and on the 12th arrived at West Union, Preston county, Vir- ginia, on the summit of the Alleghany mountains where they are crossed by the great western turnpike, and along which Garnett's rebel army was then being rapidly driven by Mcclellan's troops. For some weeks after this, the regiment was stationed at various places among the mountains and along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, during which time it suffered severely from typhoid fever. At one time over three hundred were in the hospital, and some thirty-four deaths resulted from the fever in a short time.
On the 24th of September the regiment partici- pated in an attack on Romney. At the "Hanging Rock " it was exposed to a severe fire, and lost several men in killed and a number wounded. The regiment again participated in an attack on Romney, October 24th, which, being evacuated by the enemy, was occu- pied by the troops under General Kelly until January
12, 1862. The next fight was at Blue's Gap. In January the troops were removed to Patterson's creek, and the following month to Paw-Paw tunnel.
On February 14th the Eighth participated in a brisk fight at Bloomey Gap, in which Colonel Baldwin, with his staff and a part of his command were cap- tured. General Lander died March 2d, and shortly after the division was sent to the Shenandoah valley, where General Shields took command.
On March 221 the outposts at Winchester were attacked by Ashby, and General Shields severely wounded. The next day the battle of Winchester was fought. But few of the troops had ever been under fire, and none of them, as then organized, in any serious engagements. Colonel Kimball com- minded, and made the arrangements to whip " Stonewall " Jackson, who had arrived during the night. The battle was one of the most severe of the war. Jackson, toward evening, attempted to turn our right flank, but was met by Tyler's brigade in front, when Colonel Kimball threw several regiments on his right flink, and, after a desperate fight, which, in some instances, was hand to hand, the enemy was routed and driven from the field. [This was "hot" work; the writer was there, and knows whereof he speaks. ] The regiment followed the enemy up the valley, skirmishing at Woodstock, Mount Jackson, Edinburgh and New Market; thence it joined . McDowell at Fredericksburg. Here it remained a few days, and was ordered back to the valley again. In the meantime Banks had executed one of those retrograde movements for which he became eminently conspicuous ere the close of the war.
In August following the Eighith was united to the Second Corps, then commanded by Sumner, and with this corps it continued to ast during the remain- der of its service.
After much marching, skirmishing and a few light engagements, the Potomas was crossed at chain bridge, and the march through Maryland commenced which ended in the battle of South Mountain and Antietam, near Reedyville. The whole army was missed by the morning of Sep- tember 16th, and a furious artillery duel commenced. One of the first of the enemy's shots killed W. W. Farmer, a color-sergeant of the Eighth. The c.n- nonade lasted all day. The next day the battle of Antietam was fought. The Second Corps crossed the river and occupied the center of the line. It did effective work that day. In this battle the regiment lost one hundred and sixty-two in killed and wounded. Among the killed were Lieutenants De- lany and Lantry, of Company B. Lieutenant H. H. Bill, Company E, and Lieutenant C. W. Barnes, Company D.
In the terrible battle of Fredericksburg, on Decem- ber 13th, the Eighth formed the right wing of the for- lorn hope. Among the killed in this battle was Cap- tain Allen, Company 1. At the battle of Chancel-
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lorsville, beginning April 28. 1863. the Eighth was almost constantly under fire for four days, and yet its loss was only two killed and eleven wounded. The brigade was at this time and subsequently com- manded by General Carroll, and the Eighth Regiment by Colonel Franklin Sawyer.
No further active service was hal until the Gettys- burg campaign. In that battle the regiment bore a conspicuous part, capturing three stands of colors, and losing in killed and wounded one hundred and fonr officers and men. After the escape of Lee's army across the Potomac, the Eighth marched with the army to the Rapidau. But we have not space to record all the fighting done by this regiment. Suffice it to say, that, from this date until June 25, 1864, when. its term of service having expired, and the little squad, numbering buts seventy-two officers and men fit for duty, were taken from the trenches before Petersburg and returned to Ohio for muster out, they were almost constantly in active service of the severest character. The regiment was formally mus- tered ont on July 13. 1864. at Cleveland, Ohio, by Captain Donglass. United States army.
THIRTY-SECOND OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.
This was one of the first organizations raised in the State on the basis of three years' service. Its rendezvous was Camp Bartley near Mansfield, but. before completion it was transferred to Camp Denni- son where it was completed, organized, equipped and sent to the field, under the auspices of Colonel Thos. H. Ford, formerly Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio.
On the fifteenth of September, 1861, the regiment left Camp Dennison for West Virginia. As was the case with most, if not all, of the first regiments from Ohio, it was poorly equipped and armed with the al- most useless, old, smooth-bore muskets of a by-gone age. The regiment was moved by railroad, and ar- rived at Grafton September 18th, and marched the next day for Beverly, West Virginia, where it arrived on the 22d. It was here assigned to the command then stationed on Cheat Mountain summit.
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