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Walter Wasburne, (a nephew of Joseph,) came into Fitchville in 1833, and lived there until his death, in 1866. He had a large family, of whom one son, Henry G. came into the county, in 1830. He first located in Fitchville, but shortly afterward came into Greenwich, and took np and cleared the farm where he now resides-lot eleven, section three. He mar- ried Ann Maria Van Benschooten, of Berlin, township, by whom he had three children, who are still living- D. S., now in Riple , Alice E. (Gaskins), in Maine, and Jay, in Fitchville.
The Giffords came into the township at different dates, ranging from 1829 to 1865, though Edward, who came during the last mentioned year, had settled in Ripley in 1837. He married Almira, a daughter of Eleazer L. Saulsbury, and is at present living about a mile and a half south of Greenwich station. Joseph Gifford (deceased) came in 1829, and his brother, Humphrey, arrived in 1831. They settled upon lot forty-eight, in section one. The former married Silva Jenney, and the latter her sister, Jane. Abramı Gifford came in 1832, and Micajah in 1843.
William Carl came from Greenwich, Fairfield county, Connecticut, in 1830, by the lake route from Buffalo to Sandusky, which so many of the emigrat- ing families of this period chose. He brought with him his wife, Martha, and seven children: Mary Jane (now Mrs. R. Griffin), Daniel H., John M., Nathan, Rhoda Ann (S. S. Hawkins), Elvira (B. H. Fowler), in Ripley, and William, who resides where his father settled-lot four, section four. All of these descend- ants are living in, or near, Greenwich. except Rhoda Ann, who died in 1867. Two daughters were born after the Carls emigrated to this township, Emma
C.A. SUTTON.
MRS.C. A.SUTTON.
RESIDENCE OF CHAS.A. SUTTON & HOMESTEAD OF THE LATE ARANSON SUTTON , GREENWICH, HURON CO.O.
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and Sarah, who are now in Wood county, Ohio. William Carl died in 1864, at the age of eighty years, and his wife March 25, 1879, aged eighty-six.
Luther Mead came in 1830, and settled upon lot thirty-one, section three-land that his father had bought many years before. Marcus E., William, Leander and Annie are his children, and live in the township. Joseph died in 1850.
Amos Mead and his wife, Catharine, came from Dutchess county, New York, in 1831, and settled upon lot five, in section one. Garrett V. Mead, his son, is still living where he settled, lot six, in the same section. He married Sallie Fancher, by whom he had eight children, five of whom are living, viz .: Daniel, in Kansas; Hiram, in Hartland township; Aaron, in Kansas; Moses B., in Berea, and Eliza Jane (Fish), in Monroeville.
S. P. Haviland and his wife, Lovina, and two sons, came to Greenwich in 1831, from Putnam county, New York, and took up land in lot twenty-six, section two. Mr. Haviland afterwards bought lot twenty, section four, at the center, where he now resides. His children are: Samuel, in Toledo; William. B., postmaster at Greenwich station; Alfred S., in Kan- sas, and Nelson M., in Toledo.
Lorenzo and Samantha Barritt, of Mendon. Monroe county, New York, settled upon lot thirty, section one, in 1832. Mr. Barritt was a prominent man in the militia, and held commissions as lieutenant and cap- tain. He died in 1878. His children were Zelotes E., who lives in Greenwich; Synthia C. (Mrs. P. Welch), of Ripley; Mary L. (Mrs. N. Smith), in this township; Clarissa and Walter, both deceased.
Abijah and Abiagail Griffin arrived in 1833, from Hunter, Greene county, New York, bringing with them four children. Mr. Griffin purchased, of Robert O. Saulsbury, lot ten, in section two, and there made his home. His children, who came with him to Ohio, were: Phebe (Mrs. Williamson), of Norwalk, mother of Hon. J. A. Williamson; Tamer (Mrs. J. Kings- bury), who died in 1854; Robert B. and Riley, in Greenwich. An elder brother, Ezekiel, moved in, in the spring of 1826, and lived in the township until his death in 1871.
Dr. Henry Reynolds arrived in 1836, from Catta- raugus county, New York. He has five children liv- ing: Russell, a physician, at Chicago Junction; Lavilla (Mrs. J. Sutton), in this township; Hannah (York), in Ruggles; Cornelia (Hurlburt), and Robert H., a physician, at Greenwich station, William, a son who died, was a physician. The family, for several generations, has seemed to have a peculiar bent for the study of medicine.
Moses M. and Abigail Burgess, of Greene county, New York, and their daughter, Abigail Ann, came to this township in 1838, and made themselves a home upon a farm in the Mead tract, purchased of Na- thaniel Brown. All these are now living in the township. Abigail married a Watson. Of the chil- dren born in the township, Emory I. is living in this
township, Egbert N. was a volunteer in the union army, and died in the service.
John Ellis and wife arrived in 1838, from Onon- daga county, New York, and his brother, Wm. B. Ellis, came three years later. The first named had married Rachel Rickart, and the latter her sister Esther. They have large farms in the southwest cor- ner of the township. John Ellis' children are: Sid- ney H., in Ripley; Therza B., John R. and Martin, in this township; Clara Leone and Palina, in Ripley, and Sarah, in Richland county. Wm. B. Ellis' chil- dren are: George W., Eliza Ann, Irwin, Lilly and Emma. M. A. Hall and his wife, Mary Ann (Robin- son), came from Steuben county, in 1840, and took up a piece of land-lot two, section four,-where they now reside, then owned by the Rev. Joseph Edwards, of Ripley. Gideon B. Coutant came to the township in 1843, and his brother, at a later date. Adam and Barbara Brenneman, and their son. John, came in 1844, from Richland county, where they had removed ten years previous from Lancaster county, Pennsyl- vania. They located upon lot six, section four; John married Barbara Rickart, and lives upon the farm where he first settled with the old folks. They are both dead.
A large and prominent family who became resi- dents in the township, at a much later day, was that of George Thomas, of Otsego county, New York. Uri B. came in 1846, the other later. George H. is in Fairfield; S. W., in Ripley; Washington L. and Adaline (Hills), in Michigan; Andrew J., in Bronson, and Benda L. in Hartland. One son, Walter W., was killed in the army.
ORGANIZATION.
Greenwich was attached, in 1815, to New Haven, or was within the jurisdiction of that township (for civil purposes). In 1819, Greenwich, Fitchville and Hartland were united, and an election was held in that year, at the house of Thomas B. White, for the purpose of choosing officers for the territory included within the three. Hartland was detached in 1820, and in 1823, Greenwich was separated from Fitchville and organized as a separate township, the first election being held at Thomas B. White's house, and the fol- lowing officers elected: Jeremiah Rusco, Henry Wash- burne, trustees; David W. Briggs, clerk ; Varney Pearce, justice of the peace; Ephraim F. Barker, constable.
The township received its name from the town of Greenwich, Connecticut.
Following are the officers of 1818: O. Travis, H. Horr, Willis Sisson, trustees: H. Travis, treas- urer; William B. Haviland, clerk: H. M. Krytser, J. B. Smith, justices of the peace; James Sutton, Frank E. Hopkins, constables.
FIRST FACTS.
Adna Carpenter, son of Henry Carpenter, was the first white child born in the township. He is now
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living in Iowa. Samantha Barker was probably the second, a child of Upton Clark, third, and C. A. Washburne the fourth.
Henry Carpenter, father of the first born, was the first person who died in the township. His death, cansed by over exertion, occurred in November, 1818. He was buried in a coffin constructed of hewed black walnut planks. Hannah Barker died from child birth, May 23, 1819, and she was the second person whose demise the little band of pioneers were called to mourn. The coffin, in which her remains were buried, was made from the boards of a wagon-box, which were rudely stained with logwood.
The first marriage in the township, was that of David W. Briggs and Alzina, daughter of E. F. and Hannah Barker. They were made one by Squire Rundel Palmer, of Fitchville, in August, 1819. Briggs died in 1861. His is widow still living, and in Greenwich.
The first log cabin was built in 1817, near the northeast corner of the township. Henry Carpenter built the first permanent residence, a log house, a little later in the same year. The first frame house was built by Joseph Washburne, in 1827, on lot twenty- seven, section two, and the first brick house was erected at the center, by Cyrus G. Mead.
The first tavern was built at the center by Benja- min Kniffin, who also had a store there. The store opened by Ezra Smith, near Joseph Washburne's, in the northeast corner of the township, in the year 1824. was the first. He sold goods there for four years, and then removed to Peru (Macksville), where he followed the business for twelve years more, when he died.
Many of the orchards in the township and vicinity were planted with trees that were grown from the seed sown by Alzina Barker (Mrs. Briggs), upon the Car- penter place, in 1818. All of the seeds were selected from greening apples, but not a single apple borne by any of the trees raised from those seeds has produced an apple having any resemblance to the fruit from which they sprung. Ephraim Barker and Varney Pearce brought trees from Norwalk in 1819, and it was from one of these that the first apples were picked that ripened in the township. Mordecai Jenney, at a later period, started a nursery upon his land, and supplied from it many farmers with fruit trees.
The first building that was raised without the use of whisky was a log barn, put up by Willis Smith. Those who assisted in the work were told upon the start that contrary to custom no liquor would be given out, but they took hold willingly, worked hard and were furnished with a substantial dinner and supper by Mrs. Smith. A fine field of grain owned by Mr. Smith became ready for the sickle when he was bedridden with rheumatism, and he, was obliged to depend upon his neighbors to save the crop from going to waste. It seemed for several days as if the saving of the harvest could not be accomplished
unless Mr. Smith sacrificed his principles and fur- nished the men whisky; but he adhered to the line of what he considered conscientiously his duty, and finally, one bright morning, the neighbors were seen at work gathering the fully ripened grain, and soon it was safely stored away.
The first mill was built by Joseph Washburne, in 1823, near where the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railroad crosses the Vermillion river, in the northeast corner of the township. It was both a saw and grist mill. The iron parts Mr. Washburne brought from the east, and the stones he had roughly chiseled from "hard heads" found near by. They ground slowly but not exceeding fine. No other grist mill was built in the township until a very recent date. The Ruscos built the second saw mill in 1827, upon the west branch of the Vermillion, near what is now known as the diagonal or angling road. Both of these mills were destroyed many years ago. The Rusco mill was burned.
The first Fourth of July celebration was gotten up by Ephraim Barker, Solomon Doud, and others, and held at the center, in 1823. Nearly all of the people in the township, and many from the neighbor- ing settlements were present. Briggs, the famous hunter, supplied the venison for the dinner, and Ephraim Barker cooked it. Speeches were made, not unlike the Fourth of July oratorical pyrotechnics of more recent times, and the celebration proved a very agreeable affair.
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
For a number of years after the first settlers came into Greenwich, there was no regularly ordained minister living in the township, and when there was preaching, it was by some of the ministers from neighboring townships. Religious meetings were held frequently, and preachers of all denominations had assurance when they came here that they would be met by audiences of large size (for these times) and gladly listened to. The township has, at the present day, a large element of Quaker population, and many of its earliest pioneers were of this people. The first Quakers, or Friends, as they call themselves, came to Greenwich in 1818, just eighteen years after the first Friends' settlement in Ohio. They organized the first society for the purpose of religious worship-one which has been strongly sustained through all of its more than sixty years' existence, and which is to-day in a most healthful and flourishing condition.
THE FRIENDS' CHURCH
was organized in 1823. The first meeting was held at Joseph Washburne's house. The society then consisted of Joseph Washburne and his three sons: Benjamin, Henry and James, R. and J. L. Frost, Henry Carpenter and John Jenney. After a year or so, the place of meeting was changed to Henry Washburne's house, aud then to James Kniffin's, where the Friends met for several years, or until they had built a log
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church upon a lot given for the purpose, by James Kniffin. This lot was the one still owned by the society, and is located about one hundred and twenty rods east of the center. The log church which was built in 1834, gave place in 1845, to a commodions and comfortable, but plain, frame structure, which is the present place of worship of a society, numbering about two hundred souls. The society holds meet- ings every Sabbath and Fifth day. The present ministers of the church are: Rachel Washburne, Al- fred Bartlett, Prudence D. Hathaway and George Bartlett. Joseph Coutant, Humphrey Gifford, James Bartlett, Daniel Smith, Phebe Ann Bartlett, Phebe Coutant, Lovina Haviland, Sarah Gifford and Phebe Healy, elders. Joseph Coutant, Daniel Smith and Thomas Eddy, trustees.
THE METHODIST DENOMINATION
has two organized churches in the township, one in the southeast quarter and one at Greenwich station. The Methodists of Greenwich had, with their brethren of Fitchville, a class organization at an early day. It was effected at a meeting held at T. B. White's house. The oldest organization now in existence in the township is what is known as the Nineveh Metho- dist Episcopal Church, the majority of whose mem- bers live in section one, in the southeast part of the township. It was organized in 1836, by the Rev. John Quigley, circuit preacher, and was constituted by the following members: Asel Mead and wife, Henry Lyon and wife, and Mrs. John Hess, at whose house the church was organized. Samuel Dond and wife, and G. V. Mead and wife, were received into membership at an early date after the establishment of the church. Preaching was had at Mrs. Hess' house for a number of years, then at Daniel Bloomer's and Samuel Doud's, and, after that, in the log and framed school houses in the vicinity until 1858, when the church building now in nse was erected, at a cost of about one thousand two hundred dollars. The trustees at this time were Isaac Smith, David Sutliff, Aranson Sutton, M. M. Burgess, James Sutton, Daniel G. Fancher and Samuel Doud.
The Rev. John Quigley was the first pastor of the church. John K. Brown was the first class leader. He was succeeded by Daniel Bloomer, Franklin Sizer and M. M. Burgess, under whose management a great revival occurred in 1857, by which the church grew from a membership of less than a score to over ninety. The church was then divided into four classes. It
has now a membership of about one hundred persons. The class leaders are Samuel G. Watson, David Sut_ liff, John Strimple, Daniel Shoup; Emory J. Burgess. David Sutliff, stewards; Samuel G. Watson, William Strimple, Shadrach H. Reed, Daniel Shoup, David Sutliff, John Strimple, Z. B. Coutant, trustees.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at Greenwich Station was organized in 1869 by Rev. A. K. Owen, who, during the winter of that year, held a protract- ed meeting at the school house opposite the present
church edifice. The North Greenwich class, organ- ized in 1860 by the Rev. John Kellam, was consoli- dated with the Greenwich Station organization, and soon after the Edward's corners (Ripley) class, organ- ized in 1837, came into the union. After a strong organization had thus been effected, steps were taken toward building, with the result, that in the summer of 1871 the present church edifice was completed and dedicated. The cost was about 84,500. The pastors of the church since the close of Mckean's charge have been Revs. H. G. Dubois, George McKillip, C. C. Ball, John McNabb, J. F. Brant, C. R. Russel and P. F. Graham, the present incumbent, who also preaches at the Universalist Church. The present officers of the church are as follows: N. Carl, O. S. Griffin, Alice Nickerson, James McMillen, J. F. Welch, class leaders; F. B. Nickerson, M. A. Hall, O. S. Griffin, stewards; B. H. Fowler, Sunday school superintendent; N. D. Welch, L. P. Sisson, B. H. Fowler, John Jenney, Z. E. Barrett, E. McCullow, trustees.
No denominations other than the Friends and the Methodists have church organizations in the town- ship. Other churches have existed for short periods.
SCHOOLS.
The first school was taught by James Nixon, who, with his father, Robert Nixon, was obliged to leave Ireland at the time of the Irish revolution, and chose America as the country in which to begin life anew, and drifted, by some chance, to this locality. The school was held in an abandoned log house, one mile south of the center, in the winter of 1820-21. About 1825, a school house was built at the center, and Tracy Case was the first teacher who occupied it. The second school house was built by James Mitchell's residence, near the center of section four. Willis R. Smith, assisted by his wife, gave instruction in writing to a number of young men (some of them married), in the winter of 1824-25. About a dozen men at- tended this school. It was held evenings, in Mr. Smith's house, which he fitted up for the purpose, with writing desks made of slabs, which were fastened to the wall as sloping shelves. Some of these, then, young men have become well off. All of them have owned farms in the' township and been successful in life.
The township has nine regular school districts and one special district, the village of Greenwich station, which was incorporated as a special school district in 1842. Graded schools were established in the village in that year. The board of education, then elected, consisted of Oscar Travis, E. J. McCullow, R. H. Reynolds, John R. Judson and Hyatt Travis. The first superintendent was W. C. Kincel. He was suc- ceeded by the present incumbent, J. L. Young. The number of youth, of school age, in the special district, in 187, was one hundred and seventy; it is now over two hundred and ten, and the average daily attendance is one hundred and thirty-four.
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
Dr. Richard Morton was the first resident physician in the township, and came in about the year 1825, at first practicing in partnership with Dr. Moses C. Sanders, of Peru, who was quite popular among the men of his time in Greenwich. Dr. Campbell, of Fair- field, had some practice in Greenwich at an early day, and so also had Dr. Wm. McLadd, of Fitchville, and Dr. Johns, of New Haven. There was for a short time in the settlement a physician by the name of George W. Sampson, who made his home with Ben- jamin Washburne. Lovana Mitchell, who came into the township with her husband, James Mitchell, in 1821, before there were any physicians there, was very useful in the capacity of midwife, and deserves the gratitude and kindly recollection of the community. She often traveled alone and afoot at night, by the light of a torch, utterly regardless of the weather, and her fearlessness and power of physical endurance were only equalled by her professional skill. It is said that she never lost but one patient. She died in 1863, in her eighty-fourth year.
Among the physicians who practiced in the town- ship for short periods were Dr. Wm. Rice, who was a partner of Dr. Morton, and Dr. Andrews, of Ruggles. Dr. G. Hutchins and Dr. Owen were also among those who might be termed transient residents. Dr. Henry Reynolds, of New York State, began practice in 1836, and has practiced constantly in the township and surrounding country since, until within three or four years. Dr. S. R. Haviland, who came in 1831, has also practiced most of the time since his settle- ment.
The physicians now resident in Greenwich are Drs. Amos Ewing, R. H. Reynolds and D. W. Rumbaugh. Dr. Ewing, of the allopathic school, who has been in practice in the village since 1868, is a graduate of the Cleveland Medical College; Dr. Reynolds, a son of Dr. Henry Reynolds, is a graduate of the Eclectic School of Cincinnati, and has been in practice since 18:1. Dr. Rumbaugh came in the latter part of 1878. He is of the allopathie school, and received his medi- cal education in the St. Louis and Cleveland colleges.
SOCIETIES.
THE GREENWICH FAIR ASSOCIATION.
This association was organized in April, 1875, when a meeting was held at which it was moved and adopted that an association should be formed for the purpose of holding a union fair, in the township, sometime in June of that year. The organization was perfected by the clection of the following officers: M. B. Thomas, president; L. P. Sisson, vice president; W. A. Hossler, secretary: John S. Berry, treasurer; J. W: Beach, (Ruggles), H. C. Washburne, (New Lon- don), William P. Noble, (Ripley), William A. Knapp, (Fitchville), George H. Thomas, (Fairfield), William Sutton, S. McCullow, H. J. Gifford, A. H. Leonard,
(Greenwich), and John Stoner, (of Butler township, Richland county), directors. Grounds were leased of the land and building association upon which the fair association erected suitable buildings, and here fairs have been regularly held every season since the incep- tion of the plan. These fairs have annually been held in the spring or early summer, and the exhibi- tions, especially in the stock department, have been of a character which justly entitles the association to much credit. The officers elected in 1878, are as fol- lows: B. H. Fowler, president; L. P. Sisson, vice president; W. A. Hossler, secretary; John S. Berry, treasurer; W. J. Beach, W. Hannah, D. D. Wash- burne. H. Horr, William A. Knapp, directors.
HURON GRANGE, NO. 186.
The Patrons of Husbandry effected an organization under the above name, October 30, 1823, the charter members being: Frank Salisbury, C. A. Washburne and wife; H. Griffin and wife; D. D. Washburne and wife; H. J. Gifford and wife, William Sut- ton, Miss O. Wickoff, Miss Martha Salisbury, E. Culbertson, Preston Palmer, W. J. Washburne and wife, J. A. Frost and wife, A. Jennings, J. Strim- ple and wife, and Miss L. Frost. The first officers elected were: J. A. Frost, master; H. J. Gifford, over- seer; J. Strimple, secretary; Frank Salisbury, trea- surer; D. D. Washburne, lecturer; A. D. Jenney, chaplain; H. Griffin, steward; H. Griffin, assistant steward; W. J. Washburne, gate keeper; Carrie Wic- koff, lady assistant steward; Martha Salisbury, Flora; Mrs. H. J. Gifford, Ceres; Margaret Washburne, Po- mona. Following are the present officers; J. A. Frost, master; H. Horr, overseer; H. E. Reed, lec- turer J. Stri ple, chaplain; W. H. Sisson, secretary; H. D. St. John, steward; J. R. Ellis, gate keeper; Mrs. H. Horr, lady assistant steward; Mrs. W. H. Sisson, Pomona; Mrs. G. W. Ellis, Flora; Mrs. C. A. Sutton, Ceres; C. H. Horr, treasurer. Number of members, forty-eight.
LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.
This organization, which has operated most power- fully and favorably in the interests of Greenwich, particularly the village, was incorporated by speciel act of the legislature in 1873, and the company was organized with a capital stock of thirteen thousand. The incorporators were: L. P. Lisson, U. B. Thomas, Lorenzo Barrett, A. Ewing, J. B. Smith, W. A. Hos- sler, W. T. Smith and S. W. Thomas. The first officers elected were the following, who, by the way, still remain in their several places: U. B. Thomas, president; J. B. Smith, secretary; J. W. Richardson, treasurer. The object of the association was the en- conragement of local business interests and the devel- opement of the village. With this end in view, the association purchased the Townsend farmi of one hundred and twenty acres, adjacent to the village, and laid off forty acres of it in town lots. These
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Mrs. H.J. H. Carl.
RESIDENCE OF JOHN M. CARL., GREENWICH, HURON CO.,O.
DAVID SUTLIFF.
MRS. DAVID SUTLIFF.
RESIDENCE OF DAVID SUTLIFF, GREENWICH, HURON CO.,O.
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lots, or a great proportion of them, were quickly dis- posed of, at reasonably remunerative figures, to good parties, and upon them were built the comfortable and beautiful homes which now form the new village upon the northwest side of the C., C., C. & I .. R. R. The first building was erected in 1874. The village of. Greenwich had, in that year, a population of but seventy souls, and now has upwards of five hundred and fifty-an increase which is directly attributable to the stimulating effect of the land company's enter- prise. The full title of this organization, under which it was incorporated, was the Greenwich land company and building association, but this name in- plied more than was covered by the scope of the com- pany's intention. It was not designed that the com- pany should be a building association, but simply a land company, and it has only given encouragement to building enterprises by the loan of its otherwise unemployed capital.
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