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WAGON AND CARRIAGE MAKING.
Among the oldest followers of this branch of man- nfacturing is S. R. Parker, who began in Plymouth in 1857. The business is now conducted by his son, S. Parker. Other firms in the same trade are Webb, Burgoyne & Co., and Lynch & Clark.
CORN PLANTER MANUFACTURERS.
Two establishments are engaged in the manufacture of corn planters. S. S. Smith began in 1864, and A. Medsker & Co. in 1876.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cabinet making is carried on by John Beelman and the firm of Kaylor & Sweet. The planing mills are operated by Andrew Clark and James Tubbs. J. N. Slater is engaged in the manufacture of harness. Milling is carried on by Ross Cuykendall and Henry Wolf.
BANKING.
The First National Bank of Plymouth was estab- lished December 15, 1871, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. The following gentlemen composed the board of directors: H. C. Breckenridge, John De Viney, D. W. Slocum, L. L. Kilburn, S. M. Rob- inson, William Cuykendall, Moses Billstein. H. C. Breckenridge was chosen president, John DeViney, vice president, and F. B. Tucker, cashier. The com- pany's present organization is as follows: President, J. Brinkerhoff; vice president, S. M. Robinson; cash- ier, W. B. Cnykendall; board of directors, J. Brink- erhoff, S. M. Robinson, M. Billstein, D. W. Slocum, D. Wyandt, H. P. Stentz, Phillip Upp.
PROFESSIONS.
The law is represented by W. W. Drennan, Esq., John W. Bell, Esq., and F. Dow Gunsaullus, Esq. The physicians in practice are Doctors R. Bevier, W. H. Sykes, J. A. Tucker, James M. Fackler, Samuel Holtz, T. S. Seeley, (dentist).
BUSINESS HOUSES, 1879.
HOTELS .- National House, George Connell; Daniels House, George M. Daniels.
DRY GOODS .- F. W. Kirtland & Co., D. B. King & Co., Kilburn & Co., W. O. Hutchinson & Co., H. M. Parker.
GROCERIES .-- D. & J. Wyandt, J. O. Brewbaker, J. G. Streit, G. M. Eidt.
DRUGS .- E. L. Austin, Long & Lobb, John B. Gilman, T. J. Webber. BOOTS AND SHOES .- George Hanick, J. H. McCormick, Wells Rogers.
HARDWARE. - A. Upp, H. C. Gallup, (tin and sheet iron), G. J. Rhodes, L. W. LaDow.
EGGS, POULTRY, BUTTER, ETC .- Jacob Culp, James K. Smith, Shupe & Dubois.
HARNESS .-- Schaeffer & Mckean, Seiler & McClinchy.
CLOTHING .- Spear & Shield, William Miller. PHOTOGRAPHS .- Joseph Forward.
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS .- C. J. Poncefor. BOOKS, STATIONERY, ETC .- M. Webber.
LIVERY .- Corr T. Smith, Smith Lofland.
JEWELRY .- George W. Hoffman.
MEAT MARKETS .- Bachrach Bros., A. Knappenberg, Adam Mayers, Christian Ericso n.
The present postmaster of Plymouth is Myron Web- ber who was commissioned March 13, 1869.
The first cemetery in the village was where the Lu- theran church stands. The present cemetery, which is naturally one of the most beautiful in the country, was purchased and laid out, in 1874, by the Greenlawn Cemetery Association.
CHICAGO JUNCTION.
This village of phenominally sudden development, owes its existence to the railroads. It was formed in the spring of 1875, at the junction of the western, or Chicago division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad with the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark road, as it
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was then called, which is now operated also by the Baltimore and Ohio company. It was thought by many that a city would soon grow here in the woods, and in fact there was much to induce such opinion. The railroad company erected extensive repair shops and a round-house, employed a large number of men, and projected other works, which, had they been accomplished, would have rendered necessary the employment of many more. William Watson, a farmer who had considerable land at the Junction, laid out nine acres, in forty-three lots, and they were quickly sold at from one hundred to five hundred dol- lars per quarter acre. John Miller, L. Kontz, T. F. Frazier, and Mr. Hampshire, also laid out village lots which, like Mr. Watson's, were eagerly taken up at fancy prices by people who flocked in from all direc- tions expecting to realize a fortune. The village thus formed had a rapid growth for a year and a half, but then the railroad industries diminished in importance and things came to a stand still. There has been no increase in population or business since, but instead a falling off. Houses that once brought a large rent now, (March, 1829), stand unocenpied; the railroad company give employment to a comparatively small number of men, and as there are no manufacturing establishments to maintain the business activity of the village, it has settled into a condition of dullness, in strange contrast to its former brief bustle and buoy- ancy. The people, however, are still hopeful, and believe that when the railroad is finished through to Pittsburgh that there will result an improvement in the condition of Chicago Junction, which will rival its most palmy days.
The people of the place, as soon as it had com- - menced to grow, built a school house and a church, the former at a cost of about one thousand dollars. The church is of the denomination known as
THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHEREN.
It was started in 1876 with seven or eight members and now has eighty or ninety. The first minister was the Rev. W. A. Keesey. He preached in the congre- gation for three years, when his place was filled by John W. Aumiller, the present incumbent. The house of worship was built in the summer of 1876, at a cost of about thirty-six hundred dollars. W. S. Snyder, W. A. Keesey, Russell Raynolds, Phillip Faulkner and Richard G. Richards, were the trustees. The first class leader was Daniel Cain, and the first steward L. D. Sweetland. The present class leaders are Charles Coulthard and Daniel Cain, and the stew- ards, Avis Richards and Alice Burge.
PROFESSIONS, BUSINESS HOUSES AND TRADES.
The postmaster at Chicago Junction is W. B. Keefer, who was commissioned January 23, 1825.
The physicians are A. R. Kaufman, D. H. Young, Jr., and R. N. Raynolds.
Samuel Bowleby put up the first building in the vil- lage, and had the first store and hotel in the village.
Besides the raildroal cating house, there is now one goo l hotel, the Junction House, of which William Oehm is proprietor.
Following are the business firms and individuals engaged in the trades in 1879.
GROCERIES .- A. M. Fry, W S. Beelman, E. M. Nichols. Allen Silcox, Miss H. M. Jeesup.
DRY GOODS. - King & Warner.
DRUGS-E. A. Sykes, Elias Mason.
HARDWARE .- John Trego.
MILLINERY .- Mrs. Flickinger and Mirs Snow.
BOOTS AND SHOES .- M. J. Bell, William Lenamacher.
TAILORING .- S. Snyder.
MEAT MARKETS .- Kellogg & Auway, Lang & Grushaber.
BAKERY AND RESTAURANT. - Mrs. R. F. Officer.
LIVERY .- A. J. Crawford, Charles Stotts.
BLACKSMITHS. - M. K. Trembly, F. Hemrich.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
THOMAS TILLINGHAST MULFORD
was born in Kingston, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1798. He is the third, in a family of four, the children of Nathan and Polly Tillinghast Mulford, who were natives of Long Island. They married there, and eventually removed to Pennsylvania, as above stated, where they passed the remainder of their days.
The education of the gentleman who is the subject of this sketch, was acquired at the common school, which, in the new and sparsely settled locality where the family resided afforded but meager facilities. The opportunities were, however, fully utilized and a fair education obtained.
In the fall of 1819, Mr. Mulford, in company with four young men of his immediate neighborhood. came on foot to Ohio. The journey was an arduons one, but in due time it came to an end. The Mecca of their pilgrimage was reached. Soon after arriving in New Haven township, Mr. Mulford and Elisha Stew- ard purchased a tannery in what is now New Haven village, and this business Mr. Mulford prosecuted for some sixteen years.
In the fall of 1820, Mr. Mulford visited Connecti- cut, where, in Lyme township, New London county, he was united in marriage to Miss Phebe, daughter of Elisha and Mary Calkins Steward, March 25, 1821, and in a few days subsequent returned to Ohio. The children of this marriage are: Lewis, who was born June 13, 1822, deceased: Polly, who was born Octo- ber 15, 1824. She married George Moore, who died, and she became the wife of Francis Chapman, now living in New Haven township; has six children. Emeline, who was born January 19, 1828, and died in infancy; Almira, who was born March 23, 1830. She married Dr. William Smith, and now resides in Van Wert county, Ohio; her children, living, are seven. Marion, who was born March 19, 1833, He married Elizabeth Born, of Buffalo, New York, and now re- sides on the old homestead; have three children . Har-
REUBEN SKINNER
John Skinner
Maria IRunner
RESIDENCE OF JOHN SKINNER , NEW HAVEN TP., HURON CO., O.
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riet, who was born March 19, 1835, and married Dr. Charles Richards, now residing at Joliet, Illinois.
In about 1827, Mr. Mulford purchased one hundred and nine acres of land, in lots number eighty-eight and eighty-nine, in the first section of New Haven township, upon which he located when he retired from the tanning business, and upon which he still resides, in the full enjoyment of those improvements and comforts he has wrought a lifetime to consummate. He is now the possessor of one hundred and eighty- two acres of land. Mrs. Mulford died September 1, 1860.
Politically, Mr. Mulford has been a life-long member of the democratic party. In his township he has held numerous offices, among which is the responsible one of trustee, an office he has held many years. His elegant house, a fine view of which appears in this volume, was erected in 1876, and cost some three thousand dollars.
JOHN SKINNER
was born February 24, 1805, in the State of New Jersey, and is the fifth child of Reuben and Sarah Coleman Skinner. When John was one year and a half old his parents removed with their family to Wheeling, now West Virginia. Here they lived some two years, and removed to Knox county. Ohio, loca- ting near the village of Fredericktown. They lived here until 1815, in February of which year they came to Hnron county and made a permanent settlement in New Haven township, purchasing some one hun- dred and forty acres in lots one hundred and three and that part of one hundred and four west of the river, in the first section. This was then an entire wilderness. A log house was soon constructed near the site now occupied by the residence of the subject of this sketch, a fine view of which appears in this volume. Upon this place the parents passed the re- mainder of their days, the mother dying March 4, 1841; the father died April 22, 1861.
John, of whom these lines are written, was edu- cated at common school. He has been twice married: he married Emeline, daughter of Ebenezer and Deb- orah Frisbee, of New Haven township, in 1832. and, soon after, purchased a small piece of land in the fourth section, with the intention of adding to it as opportunity or necessity demanded. The death of his wife, which occurred in 1835, frustrated his plans, and he sold his lands, and, with a brother, went into the business of merchandising at New Haven. Soon becoming dissatisfied with this avocation, he aban- doned it, and assumed charge of the old farm. This he still ocenpies. He was married to his present companion on May 4, 1836. One child was born of the first wife: Emeline, who married Eayer O. Stiles, and located in the State of New Jersey, where she died. The children by present wife are: Ambrose, who died in infancy; William H. H., who is unmar-
ried and lives at home: Harriet, who married John Blanchard, is now deceased: Edward R., who married Ellen Woodworth, and lives in New Haven township; Annie M., who married Ralph C. Snyder, and resides in New Haven township; and an infant son, who died unnamed.
Some thirty-five years since, Mr. and Mrs. Skinner became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of New Haven, and Mrs. Skinner still continues a member. Mr. Skinner has ever been an honest, up- right citizen, of the unpretending kind, but has been selected by the inhabitants of New Haven township for some of its most important offices.
Mr. Skinner, on attaining his majority, wheeled into line with the old whig party, and, on the forma- tion of the republican party, became a member of it, and is to-day a staunch supporter of its principles. During the Rebellion he was so outspoken in favor of the old flag. that he was singled out for assassination by the rebel society known as Knights of the Golden Circle, then having an organization in New Haven township.
RICHARD G. RICHARDS.
Prominent among the citizens of New Haven town- ship is the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch. He was born December 18, 1819, in Newport, Herkimer county, New York, and is the fifth of a family of fourteen, the children of Richard and Naney Newton Richards. His education was ac- quired in the district school of his birthplace. At the age of eighteen he went to Joliet, Illinois, where he engaged in farming, an occupation in which he has since acquired the handsome competency he now en- joys. After a sojourn of less than two years in Joliet he returned to his native place. Here he remained until October, 1839, when he came to Ohio and pur- chased, on February 6, 1840, the farm of ninety-nine acres, a portion of which he still occupies. Some eighty-four acres of this land is platted, and com- prises nearly the entire portion of the village of Chi- cago Junction lying southwest of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. This farm, when first located by Mr. Richards, was entirely unimproved, and heavily tim-
bered, but by hard work has been brought to a profit- able state of cultivation. February 22. 1842, Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss Mariah. daughter of James and Eunice Felton, who came from Wayne county, New York (where the daughter was born February 15, 1820), loeating in Norwich township, immediately south of Havana village, in 1831. The children of this marriage are: Two in- fants who died soon after birth; Ethelbert, who died in infancy; Avis, who lives at home: John H., who married Emma Fry, he died July 9, 1875: Charles, who married Mrs. Emma Richards, and now resides in Will county, Illinois; Frank, now fitting for the legal profession at the Theological University, Eving-
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ston, Illinois, and Aaron, who resides with Charles in Illinois.
Mrs. Richards deceased May 4, 1874, of apoplexy. Some twenty-two years since Mr. and Mrs. Richards became christians, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Richmond township, with which Mrs. Richards continued a faithful and consistent member until her death, and Mr. Richards until June, 1848, when, for convenience in attending worship, he withdrew by letter and united with the United Breth- ren Church at Chicago Junction, toward the erection of whose church edifice he aided materially.
In politics Mr. Richards was first an old line whig and afterward a republican, one of the staunch and unwavering kind.
Richard Richards, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was one of several brothers, natives of Wales, England. He married there and reared three sons and one daughter. He came to the United States immediately subsequent to the close of the war of the Revolution, and settled not far from Utica, New York, where he remained during his life. The children were: David, who died while crossing the ocean and was buried at sea; Richard, the father of the present Richard G., who came to Ohio in June, 1839, locating in New Haven township, where he died in December, 1842; his wife died in July, 1844; John, who married Sally Tanner, and died in New York, December 18, 1869, and Gwyn, who married John Jones, and died in Newport, New York.
JOHN LOVELAND.
Prominent among the early settlers in New Haven township, is John Loveland. He was born in Nor- wich, Windsor county, Vermont, July 29, 1798. The youngest of thirteen children. His parents were Joseph and Mercy Bigelow Loveland, who were both natives of Connecticut; were married in that State in 1772, and removed to Vermont four years later, where they passed the remainder of their days. The father died in 1813 and the mother in 1834.
John Loveland was educated in the common school of his native place, and the winter of 1815 he went to Pennsylvania and lived with an older brother until attaining his majority. During the winter of 1821-22. he came to Ohio, and, on June 29th, arrived in New Haven township, and for about two years lived in what is now Plymouth village. January 24, 1824, he purchased a distillery, and mill connected with it, located on Huron river, on the corner of lot thirty- three, in the second section, in New Haven township. On May 24th, of the same year, he was married to Flora, daughter of Joseph and Elsa Dana, of New Haven township. She died July 6, 1831, leaving two children, John ,B., who married Martha Watts and lives in Fremont, and William W., who married Susan Scott and lives in Van Buren, Michigan. Mr. Love- land was married a second time on November 3, 1831,
to Calista, daughter of Josiah and Polly Curtis, of New Haven. The children of this marriage are: George W., who married Delila Parker and lives in Plymouth township, Richland county; Mary E., who married Augustus Calvin (deceased); Elizabeth C., who married Jesse Snyder (deceased); La Fayette, who married Mary Cook (deceased); Rockwell R., who married Roxy Knight (deceased); Almira J., who married Edwin Woodworth, now living in New Haven township; Oscar A., who married Hattie Mal- lory and lives on the old homestead, and Flora A., who married Henry Loveland and resides in the State of New York.
After prosecuting the bu iness of distilling ardent spirits for some years, the avocation became odious and was abandoned. Mr. Loveland next built a saw mill, which he operated some time. In the mean- time, he had purchased a farm of a hundred acres, in lot thirty-four, in the second section, and, upon discontinuing the milling business, he began farming, and in this he has been eminently successful. He now owns one hundred and eighty-nine acres of land. Mr. and Mrs. Loveland are life-long and worthy mem- bers of the Baptist Church. Politically, he is a rigid adherent to the sterling principles of the republican party.
WILLIAM MOTSON,
son of George and Elizabeth Motson, was born in Boston, England, February, 13, 1827. His father died when he was eight years of age, and his mother in 1862. He married Mary Cooper, of Burn, Eng- land, who was born in February, 1827, and in 1852 emigrated to the United States. He worked at ditch- ing and under-draining in New Jersey, for three years, when he came to Huron county, Ohio, and purchased twenty acres on lot number twenty-four in the third section of New Haven township, building his log cabin near the location of his present frame house. This was the first building erected on what is now the town plat of Chicago Junction, and Mr. Motson is properly regarded as the founder of that enterpris- ing village, having struck the first blow there for the purpose of improvement. He added to his first pur- chase of twenty acres, at various times, until he ob- tained one hundred acres, on the east side of the railroad, forty acres of which he laid off into village lots, when the question of a town was no longer a matter of speculation. He bought, at a more recent date, sixty-one and a half acres on the west side of the railroad, which lies in the township of Richmond, and has platted four acres of this. He has paid for his land, which he has purchased at different times, from twelve to one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre, and has sold a large number of lots, the price of which has ranged from fifty to five hundred dollars. While Mr. Motson has been greatly bene- fitted, financially, through the circumstance of an
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active railroad village having grown up where he was the first to locate, yet his success and prosperity are largely attributable to his own industry and prudence. He began here without a dollar, and before a village was thought of he had his land paid for. Mr. Motson still follows farming, although a cousiderable of his time is occupied in looking after the interests of his
village real estate. He possesses the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens as to his capacity and character, as attested in the fact of his election at various times to township offices, having served as supervisor of highways for a period of ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Motson have never been blessed with children.
RIPLEY.
RIPLEY is township number one in range twenty- two. It is bounded upon the south by Richland county, east by Greenwich township, north by Fair- field, and west by New Haven. The township is generally level or gently rolling, and the soil is a fine, rich clay loam which originally was covered with a very heavy growth of timber, and now returns bounteous harvests to the farmer. The township is generally regarded as one of the most valuable, agri- culturally, in the county. No streams of importance flow through, or rise within its bounds.
INDIANS.
The great abundance of maple trees made this part of the county a favorite camping place for the Indians. They were accustomed to come regularly in the spring and make maple sugar. For a number of years after the whites came, the red men carried on this harmless and not excessively laborious occupation, the nearest . approach to anything like industry that they ever undertook. Some of their bark sap tronghs were found in the woods as late as 1830. The Indians also hunted here, but their principal object in visiting what is now Ripley township was to make maple sugar. There were other and better hunting grounds farther east, and their tribes often passed through upon a trail which led to the Black River country, where game was more abundant. The game consisted of deer and occasional bear, and the various smaller animals common to the northern part of Ohio and the entire west. There were wolves, too, and "shack hogs"-both great annoyances to the first settlers. The remains of their habitations found by the early settlers, and the dams still existing, indicated that beavers were quite numerous. No remarkable stories are told of experience with the Indians or adventure with wild animals.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
For an explanation of the following table the read- er is referred to the history of Wakeman township:
RIPLEY, TOWN NUMBER ONE, IN THE TWENTY- SECOND RANGE,
CLASSIFICATION NO. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed
€
8
d.
6 Jonathan Sturges 748
2
6
Jonathan Lewis
921
11
Lathrop Lewis
596
4
6
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344
CLASSIFICATION NO. 2, SECTION 2.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Elizabeth Thorp
6
1
Lewis B. Sturges
265
15
Jos. Sturges' heirs, 339
15
70
6
12
David Jennings, 3d 255
3
80
6
John Wasson
161
5
10
161
5
10
Stephen Jennings,
195
5
5
Grace Spalding
90
1
1
İ
135
10
6
Elizabeth Sturges
150
0
150
0
0
Mary Gardner
123
16
0
Isaac Bronson
30
5
516
Titus Hurlbutt
1961
3
0
14
90
316
Footing of Classification No. 2, £1,3#
CLASSIFICATION NO. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss. Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Peter Burr
9
1
Peter Burr
282
9
1
Moses Jennings
599
12
9
Moses Jennings David Osborne
48
4
216
David Osborne
21
0
0
0
Samuel Wakeman
19
12
7
Alep Kent
185
0
John Wozord
185
0
John Disbrow
15
0
15
14
0
James Bennitt
26
3
44
26
3
0
Joseph Bennitt
56
0
Joseph Bennitt
56
0
7
Elias Bennitt
19
15
19
15
4
Joseph Crossman
5
12
5
12
Stephen Jennings
195
5
Jabez Perry's heirs
14
11
216
Footing of Classificatiou No. 3 #1,344 7
CLASSIFICATION No. 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
8
d.
£
$
d
Rev. Hezek'h Ripley 368
19
Rev. Hezek'h Ripley 368 217 Aaron Turney
19
2
247
1
1
0
Jonathan Lewis
921
11
Lathrop Lewis Caleb Bruster
18
307
10
Sturges Lewis
11
26
5
7
Stephen Turney
Sturges Lewis
15º
11
Aaron Turuey Lathrop Lewis
50
8
9
5
5
2
Andrew Jennings
210
Abigail Jennings
49
16
=
=
49
16
1
Shubael Gorham
4
15
Shubael Gorham
4
15
0
Mary Penfield
139
14
1
Jome Knapp
0
16
0
Footing of Classification No. 4, £1,344
7 0
£
8
€
S.
d.
Samuel Beers
96
5
21
0
Wm. Abigail Burr
58
17
Wm. Abigail Burr,Jr 50
50
2
6
7
Thomas Staples Esther Lord
7
1
1-
15
11
12
11
816 1
Eliphalet Thorp
401
6
d.
€ 401
S
£
d.
7206
65
S.
d.
Jonathan Sturges 748
2
0 07423 4
2499010 0 1 0
210
0
0
Lathrop Lewis
7
0
0
0
174
599
0
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
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EARLY SETTLERS.
There was a settlement in the southwest part of Ripley township, in 1820. Seth Foster, a man by the name of Decker, and another by the name of Jaralman, and a son of the latter, lived there in the year mentioned, according to the statement of T. T. Mulford, of New Haven. Foster and Decker, who were from New York State, returned there after a short residence in the new country. Jaralman died, and his son moved away. Nothing is known in Ripley of those few men, who were its transitory pioneers. The first permanent settlement was made by the fam- ilies of Moses Inscho, D. Broomback, and James Dickson, in 1825, and the following year. Broomback took up lot thirteen, in section four. He did not remain long in the township. Dickson settled upon lot ten, near Broomback, but not long after moved into the eastern part of the township.
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