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CLINTON COMMANDERY NO. 5, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. .
This commandery was granted a dispensation July 22, 1843, and was instituted in October of that year by Em. Sir William J. Rees, general grand generalissimo, United States America. Its past commanders have been : Em. Sir Rev. Joseph Muenscher, D. D., 1843 to 1852; Em. Sir Benjamin F. Smith, 1852 to 1855; Em. Sir Jonathan N. Burr, M. D., 1855 to 1873; Em. Sir C. Sherman Pyle, 1873 to 1874; Em. Sir Alexander Cassil, 1874 to 1881 ; Em. Sir Richard B. Marsh, 1881 to 1883; Em. Sir C. Sherman Pyle, 1883 to 1884; Em. Sir W. F. Baldwin, 1884 to 1886; Em. Sir Samuel C. Thompson, M. D., 1886 to 1887: Em. Sir W. F. Baldwin, 1887 to 1888; Em. Sir William M. Koons, 1888 to 1889; Em. Sir Joseph C. Gordon, M. D., 1889 to 1890; Em. Sir William J. Vance, 1890 to 1891 ; Em. Sir Howard Harper, 1891 to 1892; Em. Sir Will E. Fisher, 1892 to 1893; Em. Sir William J. McFeely, 1893 to 1894; Em. Sir Harvey H. Cassil, 1894 to 1896; Em. Sir Robert S. Hull, 1896 to 1897 ; Em. Sir Dennis Quaid, 1897 to 1898; Em. Sir Charles C. Iams, 1898 to 1899; Em. Sir Frank O. Levering, 1899 to 1901 ; Em. Sir Russell J. Ash, 1901 to 1902; Em. Sir Henry C. Devin, 1902 to 1903; Em. Sir William H. Thompson, 1903 to 1904; Em. Sir Oren Poppelton, 1904 to 1905; Em. Sir Robert M. Greer, 1905 to 1906; Em. Sir Banner M. Allen, 1906 to 1907; Em. Sir George E. Canning, 1907 to 1908; Em. Sir William E. Grant, 1908 to 1909 ; Em. Sir Henry J. Shipley, 1909 to 1910.
The 1911 officers of this Commandery were: Leonard E. Rawlinson, commander : Gail O. Cooksey, generalissimo; Charles C. Iams, captain gen- eral; William A. Ackerman, senior warden; Clinton Williams, junior warden; Rev. William E. Hull, prelate; Charles A. Bope, treasurer ; Samuel H. Peter- man, recorder; Charles F. Hall, standard bearer; John C. Levering, sword bearer ; Charles E. Ayers, warder.
MASONIC CLUB, MT. VERNON.
This club is composed entirely of members of the Masonic fraternity and is purely of a social nature. The club parlors are on the second floor of the Temple, and are open every day and evening, except Sunday. Visiting Ma- sons are always welcome. The object is to interest and supply harmless amusement for the members. To provide a place where one can bring his guests and feel that they will be well entertained. To promote friendship among Masons and to advance the general welfare of Masonry.
No book, periodical, newspaper or other article of property is allowed to be mutilated or removed from the club rooms without permission from the board of directors.
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During all sessions, regular and special of the Masonic bodies, members of said bodies are prohibited the use of the club rooms.
ODD FELLOWSHIP.
This old and excellent fraternal order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was early in the field in Ohio. It organized a lodge, known as Mt. Vernon No. 20, only thirteen years after the first lodge was formed within Ohio. It dates its history from June 21, 1843. The charter members were as follows: Richard Blake, Liberty Waite, Lorenzo D. Nash, William Sulli- van and Robert Wright, all long since deceased. Up to 1881 there had been more than five hundred names enrolled as members of this the pioneer Odd Fellows lodge in the county of Knox. Its present standing is one hundred and fifty-one, with officers as follows: James Neibarger, noble grand; Stephen Rine, vice grand; George Moore, secretary; M. M. Murphy, treas- urer ; Charles Van Wicklen, George Clark and James Latta, trustees.
This lodge leases a hall in what is known as the National Union Hall.
Quindaro Lodge No. 316, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Mt. Vernon, was instituted June 9, 1857, by the following charter membership : G. B. Arnold, J. M. Byers, A. C. Elliott, J. Frank Andrews, John Lamb, T. P. Frederick, Sr., and John Jennings, all having withdrawn from Lodge No. 20 for the purpose of organizing this new lodge. At their first meeting were initiated Israel Underwood and L. Munk. This lodge purchased the James W. Miller property and remodeled it for hall purposes and purchased other desirable property and have ever been in a good financial condition. The membership in 191I was two hundred and twenty-five, with officers as fol- lows: John Simpson, noble grand; Bruce E. Gleason, vice-grand; William Denman, chaplain; C. A. Beck, secretary ; John Calvin Hunt, financial secre- tary ; Frank L. Bennett, treasurer. The trustees are G. R. Hagaman, Charles Scottie, S. A. Green.
Kokosing Encampment No. 38, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Mt. Vernon, was instituted October 23, 1849. The encampment branch is the higher branch of Odd Fellowship, made up of the fifth degree members. The charter members of this organization were: I. M. Campbell, A. Ehle, L. G. Prentis, R. C. Kirk, Henry Phillips, A. P. Mather, U. Stevens.
The encampment now enjoys a membership of seventy, with officers as follows: Oscar G. Swanson, chief patriarch; Thomas Trick, high priest ; Melvin D. Rice, senior warden; C. G. Harris, junior warden; John C. Hunt. scribe ; M. M. Murphy, treasurer ; Charles Scottie, William P. Hough, S. A. Green, trustees.
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Centerburg Lodge No. 666, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted at Centerburg. Knox county. June 22, 1877, by Grand Master Henry Hedges. The charter members were: C. M. Jennings, George W. Granstaff. William A. Dumbauld. George Peardon. M. F. Hasson, John Burk- holder. Ira Barr, William Mahan. William Crowell, J. E. Esterday, Levi Kile. William Smith, A. M. Murphy, John Miller, J. W. Hopkins, T. O. Freeman. James Headington and W. A. Paul.
The lodge now has a membership of sixty-five. It has had twenty-three past and present noble grands. The lodge meets every Saturday evening in lodge rooms over Hicks & Wooline's store, corner Main and Hartford streets.
Sycamore Valley Lodge No. 553. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted at Brandon, Miller township. Knox county, July 31, 1873. by the following charter membership: John L. Slater, A. M. Welsh, H. C. Harris, Adam Williams, W. S. Harrod. N. A. Chambers, H. J. Glaze, Orlando Truman, John C. Jacobs, G. H. Phillips, J. Hartsook, Morgan Beaver, Will- iam Beaver and T. D. Poland. In 1880, aided by the community, this lodge erected a fine two-story frame hall on the corner of Granville and Sycamore streets, the same costing one thousand dollars. At this date (1911) this lodge is possessed of a membership of one hundred and sixty. They have owned their own hall since 1878. The present officers are : Frank D. Ward. noble grand : Alfred D. Shutt vice-grand : Charles G. Weaver, financial secre- tary : J. F. Ward. recording secretary : Anson E. Lockwood, treasurer.
Ellicott Lodge No. 267, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Fred- ericktown. was instituted April 11, 1855, with the following charter mem- bership: A Love, T. Mosure, G. Cole, B. F. Mosure, R. Cole, N. B. Rowley, G. W. Condon. J. Z. Griffith. Alden Snow. Jr., J. B. Roberts and J. W. Con- don.
At their first regular meeting the following were made Odd Fellows: D. S. Headley. C. G. Mount and R. Ewers. In 1881 this lodge had a membership of one hundred and ten. In 1872 this lodge dedicated their new hall, a frame structure sixty by sixty-five feet and three stories high, the lower rooms in- tended for commercial rooms, the second as a hall and the third floor as a lodge room. proper. The cost of this building was about six thousand dollars.
Knox Encampment No. 211, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, was instituted at Fredericktown, June 30, 1877, by Grand Patriarch J. W. Porch, of Mansfield. The charter members of the encampment were : William Gordon, Henry Cassell, Abraham Stephens. G. W. Glosser, Levi Cassell, M. P. Howes and J. C Ebersole.
Bartholo Lodge No. 692, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Pike township. at the village of Amity, was instituted October 23, 1879, with a
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charter membership of ten men, J. L. Black, C. W. Wright, James McGinley, Jeremiah Belt, L. G. Mavis, L. A. Wright, James Reed, Ziba Leonard, H. W. Phillips and J. Hetrick. In 1881 the lodge enjoyed a membership of twenty- nine. At present it has eighty members, with officers as follows: S. D. Simmons. noble grand; G. M. Keoshig, vice-grand ; recording secretary, A. J. Kunkle; permanent secretary, Mr. Fletcher; H. E. Fletcher, treasurer. This lodge has owned its own hall since 1899.
At Brinkhaven, Lodge No. 905 was instituted June 30, 1908, and now has a membership of thirty-six. The present officers are: E. C. Jones, noble grand; H. W. Titus, vice-grand; C. E. Slate, secretary. This lodge, though young, is prospering well and adding to its membership.
Owl Creek Lodge No. 686 was instituted in 1879 with nine members. Its present membership is fifty-five. They occupy a leased hall. This is located at Levering.
Kokosing Lodge No. 807, at Howard village, was instituted June 16, 1893, by fifteen charter members. The lodge now has a membership of forty. They have owned a hall of their own since 1908 which cost near four thou- sand dollars. The present officers of this lodge are: J. L. Lentz, noble grand: W. H. Humbert, vice-grand; M. M. Critchfield, recording secretary : F. C. Morris, financial secretary ; E. A. Wolfe, treasurer.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
This modern civic society was first represented in Knox county by the formation of a lodge known as Timon Lodge No. 45, of Mt. Vernon, April 18, 1872. The first officers and charter members were W. A. Crouch, chan- cellor commander ; J. Monroe Till, vice-chancellor; Richard F. West, prel- ate: Edward Vincent, keeper of records and seal: John M. Armstrong, mas- ter of exchequer: William T. Elwell, master of finance; Henry H. King, master at arms; William B. Norton, inner guard.
Those first initiated here were : J. H. Trimble, Hon. A. J. Beach, Will- iam M. Harper, Samuel H. Peterman and J. Allen Mitchell. In 1880 this lodge had a membership of one hundred and sixty. Its present membership is three hundred and twenty-nine, and the present officers are: William C. Ap- pleton, chancellor commander; John W. Champion, vice-commander: C. R. Appleton, prelate . Arthur M. Mitchell, master of work: George A. Faddis, keeper of records and seal; L. F. Strang, master of finance; P. A. Berry, master of exchequer : J. H. Masteller, master at arms.
Castle Hall was built in 1906 on Gambier street at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars. including lots. It was erected by the Pythian Castle Hall
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Company, the present trustees of which are: L. A. Culbertson, William M. Koons. George C Doup, Jed S. Montis, George A. Faddis, Clarence Crippen and S. D Church. There is also a Uniform Rank division here.
At Fredericktown this order is well represented by Wayne Lodge No. 303, instituted August 8, 1888, and now has a membership of one hundred and eighty The officers at the present time are: W. A. Kinney, chancellor commander : Herbert Wharton, vice-commander; Harry Vance, prelate ; Ralph Duke, master of work; C. J. Lovell, master of arms ; A. M. Terry, keeper of records and seals; C. F. Fink, master of finance; L. C. Zolman, master of exchequer ; George Schroeder, inner guard; Foster Gay, outer guard. The trustees are W. L. Ely, D. B. Purdy and E. V. Ackerman, M. D.
At Bladensburg is Colfax Lodge No. 688, organized in 1895: has twenty-two members.
At Centerburg is Hawthorne Lodge No. 228, with a membership of one hundred and forty-nine.
The Bladensburg lodge has at present the following officers: C. V. Horn, chancellor commander ; E. V. Hall, vice-commander ; Lee McKee, mas- ter of exchequer : C. F. Cummings, master of works ; inner guard, J. C. Mc- Queen : outer guard, H. Merideth ; keeper of records and seal, W. W. Stone- hocker.
Hawthorne Lodge No. 228. Knights of Pythias, at Centerburg, was or- ganized September 26. 1886. Its present officers are : J. L. Waldorf, chancel- lor commander : J. B. Messmore, vice-commander: D. M. Hasson, prelate ; E. B. Walter, master of work : J. W. Rinehart, master at arms : H. E. Dilger, keeper of records and seal; W. D. Willis, master of finance; A. T. Willey, master of exchequer : Glen Baker. inner guard: Vint Robertson, outer guard.
Kokosing No. 71. Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, was established at Mt. Vernon. August 8, 1887, by thirty members and officers. The original officers were : L. G. Hunt, captain ; William Appleton, first lieutenant ; H. C. Parker, second lieutenant.
The order has grown and been doing excellent work. Its membership is now thirty-seven and its officers are : C. L. Mild, captain; G. C. Wagner, first lieutenant ; L. B. Hunt, second lieutenant : C. G. Hunt, recorder ; W. C. Appleton. treasurer. Of its officers it may be said that Col. L. G. Hunt served four years for the Fifth Regiment of Ohio, and twelve years as quar- termaster-general. Major William Appleton, of the First Regiment, com- menced his duties in 1900, serving twelve years, having served eight years as adjutant of the Fifth Ohio Regiment.
This Mt. Vernon company has won several prizes in drills, commencing in 1889 at Lancaster and again at Zanesville in 1890.
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At this date W. C. Appleton is major of the Second Battalion of the First Ohio Regiment of Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias.
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS.
This modern social and fraternal order is well sustained at Mt. Vernon. Lodge No. 140 was organized here with about fourteen members, November 14, 1889. They first met on the east side of the square, then in the old Cres- cent Club building on South Gay street, then on South Main street in the Mc- Dermott building. Since 1904 they have leased fine quarters in the Kirk building at the southwest corner of the square. The present membership is two hundred and seventy-two and the officers are as follows: George S. Allspaugh, exalted ruler; J. M. Conroy, esteemed leading knight ; E. L. Par- ker, esteemed loyal knight; W. H. Fitz, esteemed lecturing knight ; D. B. Tut- tle, chaplain. The secretary is W. C. Appleton and the treasurer is R. W. Stauffer. The trustees are George R. Spearman, E. M. Conroy and A. L. Byrns. The total number of deaths in the order thus far in its history is twenty-three.
CHAPTER XVI.
MILITARY HISTORY OF KNOX COUNTY.
Whatever may be said for or against warfare, such has been the almost universal method of settling differences between one nation and another ever since the creation of man, and how much longer this idea will obtain we leave the reader to conjecture.
THE WAR OF 1812-14.
Some of the citizens of Knox county have participated in five special wars for the betterment of the United States and its territories and posses- sions, the war with England, known as the war of 1812-14; the Texan war, in 1836: the Mexican war, 1846-48; the Civil war, 1861-65. and the Spanish- American war, 1898.
When the war of 1812 broke out between the United States and England, it must be remembered that Knox county was still only a wilderness, cov- ered with dense forests, with only here and there a clearing and its accom- panying log cabin, the wave of white emigration having just commenced to be felt on the soil of this goodly territory. Mt. Vernon was but a small collection of log houses, within a thick forest and underbrush not fairly cleared from the few laid-out streets. Yet Mt. Vernon became the rendezvous for volunteers for that war, the last real tussle with the English lion. Two and more companies of men were raised from this vicinity. Col. Samuel Kratzer was a prominent man of the village and the militia part of the soldiers were placed under his able command and he, with his brave men, marched to the defense at Mansfield. He came to Mt. Vernon certainly as early as 1805 as a tavern keeper and had a part in the county-seat contest which made Mt. Vernon and not Clinton the permanent county seat. He had acted as a tax collector in 1805 in Fairfield county. At Lancaster he had failed and. half dejected, came to Knox county to start life all over. He was a fine. large man and wore buckskin breeches, it is said. Here, at his new place, he appears to have been major of a regiment of militia, of which com- mand Alexander Enos was the colonel. Capt. Joseph Walker. another im- portant factor in early Knox county affairs, also had his part in this war.
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He owned land and built the first cabin home on what came to be platted as Mount Vernon. He came here from Pennsylvania in 1804. Major Jere- miah Munson, who resided near Granville, Licking county, was the officer designated by the government to recruit for this war, and came to Mt. Vernon for that purpose on a day when the militia was to assemble for general muster and drill exercise. This was July 8, 1812, and upon the call of Major Munson for volunteers the whole of Capt. Joseph Walker's company, numbering forty-two men, volunteered. The following is the roster, or muster-roll. of this company under command of Col. Lewis Cass, who mus- tered them into the United States army for one year: Joseph Walker, captain; R. M. Brown, lieutenant ; John Elliott, first sergeant; John Barney, second sergeant; Archibald Crawford, third sergeant; Peter Kyle, fourth sergeant : Samuel Everett, first corporal; George Dickinson, second corporal ; Josiah Trimby, third corporal; Lewis Grandstaff, fourth corporal. Privates : Abraham Everett, James Wood, Harley Strong, Michael Barton, David Elwell, John H. Mefford, Philip Walker, Andrew Welker, Paris Sprague, Joseph King, John McConnell, Riverius Newell, Emanuel Hawn, Michael Davis, William Wallace, John Smith, Samuel Yoeman, John Sunderland, Alex Enos, Jacob Wolf, Alexander Walker, Robert Davidson, Powell Walker, Isaac Rogers, John Ryan, Benjamin Simpkins, Daniel Swigart, Adam Lynn, Nicholas Kyle, Rawley Clark, fifer; Henry Clemmens, drummer.
John H. Mefford served later as lieutenant and was in Captain John Spencer's company from Licking county. He was a justice of the peace at Mt. Vernon many years, a man of much executive ability, was associate judge and generally popular. He died at Findlay, Ohio, in 1845.
When Hull surrendered Captain Walker's company returned home by the way of Greentown.
Another active man in that strife was Captain John Greer, who raised a company in the eastern part of Knox county, of which Daniel Sapp was lieutenant and George Sapp, ensign. When the frontier was threatened by the Indians and the Zimmers, Ruffner and James Copus were murdered, the militia was called out and marched from Mt. Vernon under Major Kratzer to Mansfield, where they constructed forts and assisted in guarding the frontier line from that place to Wooster.
Not a few of the brave men of Knox county, with gun and bullet pouch, went to the defense of Fort Meigs without organization, but the decisive battle was over before they reached that point. Among these is now re- called John Stilly, an adjutant in Colonel Kratzer's militia, and rendered service in defense of the northern borderland against the Indian raids.
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The nearest the seat of war got to Knox county was in that part now within the bounds of Richland county. Hitherto, for many years, the In- dians had been peaceable and friendly, therefore the whites had not once thought of protecting their homes by block-houses, and so it was when the war broke out that none were in existence along this southern frontier, where they were the most demanded for safety .. It was not until the surrender of Hull. August 16, 1812, that the pioneer settlers began the erection of such fortifications. Before that event people had confidence in the army, feeling that it would stand between them and danger from the savages, hence his surrender came like a clap of thunder from out a clear sky at noonday. Upon the surrender of Hull, the entire militia of Ohio was sent forward to the scene of strife. A company of men under Captain Williams, from Coshoc- ton, had preceded Colonel Kratzer, of Mt. Vernon, and erected a block house on the public square at Mansfield (then a village), and one at the same place by Captain Shaffer. As if by magic, these protective block-houses sprang up all along the frontier lines. Among them was the one at Fredericktown and also one at Clinton, this county. Many families too far distant to get into these block-houses, or preferring to remain near their own homes, col- lected together and fortified the strongest of their cabins. It was not long after Hull's cowardly surrender that the frontier was fairly well protected. Gen. William Henry Harrison, at West End, near Upper Sandusky, awaited supplies and reinforcements ; at Mansfield was Colonel Kratzer with several block houses finished ; at Wooster, General Beall was collecting a good- sized army, and between Wooster and Mansfield the different block-houses were rapidly garrisoned by the troops of Beall and Kratzer. This was the condition of affairs in September, 1812.
GENERAL HARRISON'S FAMOUS SPEECII. ,
General Beall's army was halted for a rest and a council with men of standing in the state of Ohio. This stopping place was called "Camp Coun- cil." It was almost impossible to secure rations, as the army had advanced into and through a section unsettled to any great extent. This made the men discouraged and mutiny was in sight. After being in camp about one week, and the evening before the men who did not believe in such treatment of soldiers were to leave the post and wend their way homeward as best they could, a stranger suddenly made his appearance from the south on the Huron trail. The sentinel, named Hackethorn, who was stationed on this post, says the stranger was on horseback and was followed by seven mounted Indians, in single file.
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"Halt!" said the sentinel. The stranger stopped and said he desired to pass the lines. "You can't pass without the countersign." "I don't know the countersign." "You can't pass then," replied Hackethorn. "But I must pass," said the stranger, and started up his horse. Hackethorn cocked his musket, and the man halted again. He then informed the stranger if he moved a step forward that he would be a dead man. "You would not shoot a man, would you?" said the stranger. "I would." After some further parley, Hackethorn called to the next sentry, and in this way conveyed the intelligence to the officer of the guard, who came out and at once addressed the stranger as General Harrison, and allowed him to pass.
Harrison turned to Hackethorn and said, "That's right, young man. Let no one pass without the countersign ; it's the only way to keep 'em at gun's length."
Harrison rode into camp at dark and located his headquarters. At six in the morning the men were all ordered to parade in close columns, standing at "parade rest." Some fifty of the men appeared with their knapsacks and blankets buckled on ready to commence their homeward march. At this moment, all unbeknown to the men, the commander of the armies of the Northwest made his appearance from his tent and, mounting an old tree top lying between him and the column of soldiers, addressed the troops as follows :
"Fellow-soldiers, we are called upon to vindicate our rights, to repel the insults and chastise the arrogance of a supercilious nation, which has invaded our rights, insulted our flag, impressed our citizens and totally dis- regarded our remonstrances. It is thus demonstrated, that we must either teach that nation that the progeny of the Revolutionary fathers have not de- generated and become dastards, or tamely submit to the dictation of that haughty people, and be reduced to vassalage. Can there be found a man in this brigade who is willing to surrender to the British government the liberties achieved by the Revolutionary patriots? I trust no such individual can be found in the state or nation.
"I have been informed that rebellion against the authority of your gen- eral has been threatened and that mutiny is to be consummated this morning by the mutineers departing for home. Soldiers, if you go home, what will your neighbors say? Will they not frown upon you? How will your wives look upon you? They will shut the door against you. Young men, your sweethearts would scorn you; all would call you cowards. No class of peo- ple are so immediately interested in defending their country as those in Ohio. The Indians have already commenced their incursions in your state, and al- ready have barbarously murdered several families. Should we abandon the defense of the state, the British army could safely march to the Ohio river,
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and take possession of the state. You are defending your wives and children, your fathers and mothers and your property. It is true you have met with some privations, but, as soon as we can obtain the necessaries required, all crooked things shall be made straight. Your sufferings are light, compared with those of your sires in the war of the Revolution. They were content with such fare as the limited means of the colony at that time could furnish. They could ofttimes be traced when marching to meet the enemy in bloody conflicts, by the blood that issued from their bare feet upon the frozen earth. Fellow soldiers, cultivate a spirit of subordination, patriotism and courage, and ere long the recent victory gained at Detroit by the enemy shall be refunded with double interest, and ultimately the haughty British lion shall be subdued by the talons of the American eagle."
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