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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
they arrived in Pike township about the first of October, 1843, and the whole family soon became closely identified with the then few inhabitants of the township. Dr. Holland was educated in private schools, then common in New England. After reaching the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of Latin under the instruc- tion of Rev. M. Bascom, to prepare himself for the study of medi- cine. He read medicine with the most prominent members of the profession of the day, and united with the Massachusetts State Medical Association. At the age of twenty-six he commenced the practice. From 1792 to the year of his removal from Massa- chusetts, 1843, he practiced his profession. After arriving in Fulton county, at the age of ninety years, he practiced some, even when he had to be carried to and from his house and vehicle. It can be said with truth that no other township in Fulton county, save Pike, has laid to rest a man born ten years before the Revolution, except Clinton. George Mikesell, Sr., was born December 15, 1766, and came to Clinton township in September, 1837, and died there Octo- ber 9, 1840. Robert A. Moore was the next physician in Pike town- ship, and a very eccentric man he was in all his ways. The next was Dr. James S. Richards, called the "Indian doctor," who came from Pennsylvania. And lastly, Samuel B. Finney, whose prac- tice has been world-wide in late years, and who from poverty and obscurity has risen to wealth and fame, a mystery to all who visit him, and a severe thorn to the medical fraternity surrounding. He is now located and in practice in Delta.
Dover township, from its first settlement in 1836, to 1845, was a land of "fever and ague to the very edge." It has been no exag- geration of the historian to say, that for a few years after 1838, in the summer and fall, the largest half of the population were lan- guishing on beds of ague and fever, many a housewife being com- pelled to keep house and do the work for a family between the passing away of the "sweating stage" and the next "ague" attack. In this interval a large amount of work was done by them, and had to be, because help was scarce in such times as these. This picture is but a fair sample of conditions then, which had to be endured until the winter frosts brought relief. Quinine was to them the staff of life, and often meant more than bread to the languishing individual. Dr. Blaker was the first resident physician in Dover, followed in succession by Drs. William Hyde, McCann, V. Gurley, S. T. Worden, B. M. Delano, Henry Herriman and Wel- come C. Robinson, each of whom engaged in general practice before Ottokee and Spring Hill had an existence as villages. These early physicians have long since passed away and knowledge of their careers largely disappeared with them. Henry Herriman. was born in Livingston county, New York, January 18, 1811, and settled in Fulton county, in 1844. He farmed and practiced medicine in Dover township, and also filled the office of justice of the peace. He enlisted in the Union army in Company A, Sixty-seventh regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the medical department, and was honorably discharged in 1865. After Spring Hill started, the first
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physician was Dr. William Hyde, who educated for the profession Noah W. Jewell, later a prominent physician in Wauseon. Dr. Jewell succeeded Dr. Hyde, and next in order was Dr. Robert C. Ely, followed by Drs. Buchanan, Leach, Webb, Estelle H. Rorick and George P. Campbell.
Noah W. Jewell, who is spoken of above, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, January 21, 1826; moved with his family to then Lucas county, Ohio, in the year 1842, in the vicinity of Spring Hill. At the age of twenty-one he commenced to study medicine with Dr. William Hyde, who had recently moved into the neighborhood, and remained with him as a student for two years. During the fall of 1848, owing to the amount of sickness and lack of physicians, he treated quite a number of families without the aid of his preceptor, allowing him the fee. In the spring of 1849 he commenced to prac- tice medicine for himself. In 1850 he concluded to attend medical lectures. Accordingly, in the month of October he mounted his horse and rode into Wayne county, the place of his birth, intend- ing to sell his horse there, and with the proceeds attend medical lectures during the winter. Failing to sell as expected, he left his horse with a friend and started for Cleveland, Ohio, on foot, where he arrived in due time, matriculated at the college, bought a text- book on anatomy and received a ticket of general admission to all the lectures, good for six weeks. At the end of this time his money was all gone and he was compelled to return home. Thus armed with a little knowledge of anatomy and what he had seen in the clinics of the college, he went forth again to battle with disease, feeling at least that he was as competent as any of his competitors. In January, 1855, he married and moved to Toledo, Ohio, and prac- ticed medicine in that city during the summer and fall. In January, 1856, he moved to Wauseon, then beginning to thrive on the Air Line railroad, and within the bounds of his old field of practice. In the fall of 1859 he removed to Valparaiso, Indiana, opened an office in that city and practiced until the spring of 1861, when in response to the earnest solicitations of many of his old patrons he moved back to Wauseon, where he resided the remainder of his life. During the war he was commissioned surgeon for Fulton county to examine applicants for exemption from military duty, and served during the continuance of the war. While in Val- paraiso, he learned the business of dentistry as taught in that early day, and when he returned to Wauseon, he practiced jointly medi- cine, surgery and dentistry for many years. In the fall of 1864 he concluded to attend lectures again and obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and to that end he attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College during the season of 1864 and 1865. He learned after a time that he could not graduate at that institution, however well qualified he might be, in consequence of their rules requiring two full courses of lectures, and his course at Cleveland in 1850 being only a partial course, it rendered him ineligible as a candidate for graduation. At the close of the session he returned home, and not
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wishing to make another break in practice he concluded to avail himself of the opportunity of attending the spring session of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery for the year 1865, the only college in the west at that time holding a spring session. He repaired at once to Cincinnati, entered the college, and at the close of the term received his diploma, bearing date of June 19, 1865. After his graduation he attended medical lectures at Chicago, .in 1873, and at Philadelphia and Baltimore, in the year 1881.
George P. Campbell was born March 19, 1847, at Carmichaeltown, Green county, Pennsylvania, and moved to Ohio in 1855. He read medicine with Dr. J. H. Todd, of Wooster, Ohio, and graduated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, in March, 1870. He located at Ridgeville, Henry county, Ohio, soon after graduating and practiced there until May, 1872, when he moved to Tedrow, Fulton county, where he practiced his profession nearly twenty years. He then removed to Wauseon and attended to a large and lucrative practice until his death, which occurred a few years since.
Mention of other Fulton county physicians is made in the bio- graphical department of this work, and some are also given a place in chapters upon affairs with which they were prominently identi- fied.
An association of the physicians of the county has nominally been in existence for thirty-seven years. It was organized on Feb- ruary 15, 1868, and prospered and grew in membership and interest for several years, becoming auxiliary to the State Medical Society. Then the interest in the local society seemed to decline and the meetings were poorly attended until for long intervals there were no meetings held. Efforts to revive the organization met with poor success until recently ; but now meetings are being held with good attendance, and the organization gives promise of being a perma- nent one, contributing to the promotion of social fellowship, scien- tific advancement and the high standing of the profession in Fulton county.
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CHAPTER XII
CLIMATOLOGY OF WAUSEON, FULTON COUNTY, OHIO
From the recorded observations made and kept by Thomas Mike- sell during the thirty-five years, 1870 to 1904, inclusive.
T HE one thing in which every person is interested, is the weather. Climate is the sum of atmospheric conditions as recorded for a long period of time; or, in other words, the totality of the weather. "The study of the causes of the weather and the laws of storms, constitutes that branch of science known as meteorology ; climatology is to be considered as a subdivision of meteorology." A long series of observations on the pressure of the atmosphere, the temperature, the rainfall and snowfall, the time and frequency of frost, extremes of heat and cold, direction and force of the wind, sunshine and cloudiness, the humidity and electrification of the air, are needful to comprehend the climate of a given place.
Our storms come to us from the west (southwest to west), rarely from the south or northwest; and our areas of fair weather from the northwest - hence cooler. Thunderstorms are almost always in the southeast quadrant of the storm as a whole, and from two hundred to six hundred miles from the center of the storm. The cold wind blows out from the thunder cloud, in all directions, if the storm is heavy. The thunderstorm is a part of the general storm, or cyclone, but is partially independent after starting on its course. A tornado is a small, funnel shaped, whirl- ing cloud, that is very destructive, and is related somewhat to the thunderstorm. A hurricane is a rapidly moving wind that goes in straight lines, and is sometimes very destructive. A cold wave is a flow of cold air from an anti-cyclone. As a rule the cyclone brings storm and warmer, and the anti-cyclone brings fair and cooler.
As spring advances over the country, it does not come directly from the south, but from the southwest. Northwestern Ohio is about 10 days later than the southwestern part of the state, and about that much earlier than the northeastern part. The change in autumn is about the same, only in reverse order.
Observations were made one mile north of Wauseon, Ohio, till March 1, 1902, and since then in Wauseon, just one mile south of the old station. The old station was in north latitude 41 degrees and 36 minutes, and west longitude 84 degrees and seven minutes,
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and 800 feet above the sea (225 fect above Lake Erie). The new station is one minute south of the old, with same longitude, and altitude of 780 feet above the sea.
Wauseon is located about forty-two miles west-southwest from Lake Erie. The land in this vicinity is nearly level, with a general slight slope to the southeast. The descent averages about one foot to four hundred and twenty fect. The difference in elevation of the highest and lowest points on the surface in this vicinity is not over thirty-five feet. The highest point in Fulton county is said to be a few rods east of the quarter-post on the north line of section 3, town 7 north and range 6 east, in Dover township. From this point the water flows west into Bean Creek, northeast
TABLE 1
MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MEAN TEMPERATURES, WITH AVERAGES, OR NORMALS IN DEGREES, FAHRNENHEIT.
YEARS
JAN.
FEB.
MAR.
APR.
MAY
JUNE
JULY
Avc.
SEPT.
Ост.
Nov.
DEC.
1870 ..
27.9
27.7
32.6
50.2
62.3
70.0
74.7
70.1
66.4
53.1
39.4
25.1
49.4
1871. .
25.9
27.1
40.9
50.4
60.2
68.4
70.9
72.
58.7
53.0
32.5
21.9
48.5
1872
21.0
22.5
27.8
49.3
59.0
70.0
74.8
72.8
64.2
49.6
30.5
17.1
46.5
1873 ..
16.6
22.1
30.7
44.4
58.5
72.4
72.2
71.4
61.1
47.0
31.6
30.8
46.6
1874 ..
31.9
27.5
34.2
38.6
60.3
71.4
73.5
70.1
64.8
50.9
28.9
28.2
48.4
1875
12.2
11.3
29.5
41.5
57.5
67.7
71.5
66.3
59.1
46.0
33.2
34.5
44.2
1876.
32.31
31.0
29.9
44.4
59.0
70.0
74.9
72.5
60.2
46.
38.
17.9
48.1
1877 ..
20.0
33.4
26.5
47.2
57.7
68.7
72.3
71.0
64.4
55.6
37.7
38.8
49.4
1878
28.2
29.5
43.2
54.8
56.8
67.2
75.3
71.5
64.3
50.
39.4
22.6
50.3
1879. .
21.3
24.5
35.7
47.3
59.1
67.1
74.9
69.3
57.9
59.0
38.3
29.6
48.7
1880. .
37.7
31.7
31.1
47.7
64.3
67.1
70.5
70.0
64.2
51.5
27.9
20.7
48.7
1881
16.4
21.9
30.9
41.2
63.8
65.5
73.1
72.1
71.1
54.8
39.0
34.9
48.7
1882 ..
25.
35.4
37.8
44.6
52.2
66.0
67.7
70.6
62.6
52.9
37.7
24.0
48.1
1883 ..
18.7
23.61
28.0
45.4
52.71
66.51
70.0
65.5
57.2
48.7
40.3
28.41
45 .-
1885. .
15.6
11.9
24.5
45.3|
56.9
66.5
74.4
65.8
60.7
46.9
38.5
28.3 44.6
1886 ..
19.0
25.0
34.5
50.8!
60.4!
67.4
73.0
69.5
63.2
52.0
34.9
19.3!
47.4
1887. .
19.3
28.3
31.5
46.2
63.2
69.2
77.1
68.8
61.6
46.5
37.1
26.9
48.0
1889. .
29.4
20.2
37.2
47.2|
58.4
64.8
71.5
68.0
61.0
45.2
38.1
38.71
48.3
1890 ..
33.2
32.9
30.8
48.5
56.1
72.8
72.7
67.6
58.8
50.1
40.3
27.6|
49.3
1891 ..
27.9
30.9
30.7
31.7
45.7
56.4
70.2
70.6
73.4
69.2
62.9 50.6
36.8
27.9
47.1
1894. .
30.0
23.5
41.8
49.0
56.81
72.2
74.7
69.
65.2 50.6
34.4
32.3
50.0
1895. .
18.4
17.9
30.5
50.5
60.61
72.2
72.0
73.0
67.7. 44.4.
36.9
29.0
47.8
1896
25.1
26.7
30.3
55.1
66.2
68.0
71.6
70.6
60.1: 46.3
40.9
29.5
49.2
1897 ..
21.2
27.9
36.6
46.7
55.7
66.4
74.9
67.2
65.4 55.0
38.4
27.81 48.6
1898 ..
27.7
27.3
41.8
46.5
32.4
61.1
71.2
72.4
72.8
59.8 55.6
41.0
27.0
49.1
1900 ..
27.
22.9
27.9
48.8
62.0
67.4
72.1
75.4
67.3 58.5
38.6
28.7
49.8
1901 ..
25.7
15.7
34.6
47.4
57.3
70.3
77.4
72.0
63.7| 51.8
35.4
24.0
48.0
1902 ..
24.4
20.8
39.3
46.2
59.8
64.5
72.7
66.4
59.3.
51.7
46.1
26.
48.1
1903 ..
23.8
25.5
42.3
47.3
62.1
63.1
70.9
67.3
62.1
50.7
34.4
20.6 47.5
1904 ..
15.8
18.1
34.6
41.4
58.1
65.8
69.2
66.2
62.2
48.2
37.8
24.1
45.1
Normal
23.1
24.8
33.4
47.1
58.9
68.5
72.7
69.9
62.9, 50.7
36.7
27.3 48.0
1888. .
17.5
24.7
29.7
46.
55.2
69.3
71.6
69.9
59.2
46.0
40.1
34.9
25.5
47.5
1893. .
13.7
22.7
35.1
46.0
56.6
59.6
70.3
74.2
71.4
65.9 51.3
35.9
25.8 49.8
1899. .
24.1
20.1
31.3
49.6
56.5
69.2
68.
69.8
67.6
49.1
35.4
35.5
49.2
1892. .
19.2
29.9
44.9
58.3
69.5
70.1
68.4
67.8
53.2
35.5 24.51
47.2
1884. .
14.5
26.2|
33.1
31.21 46.7
72.7
70.8
62.6 49.8
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into Bad Creek, and southeast into Turkey Foot Creek - the streams that drain the central part of the county. Three and a half miles north of this place is another where the water flows in all directions away from the highest single hill in the county.
Table I shows many curious conditions. January is the coldest month with a normal or average temperature of 23.1 degrees, and July is the warmest month, with a normal of 72.7 degrees. The warmest years were 1878, 50.3 degrees, and 1894, 50.0 degrees; the coldest years, 1875, 44.2 degrees, and 1885, 44.6 degrees; while the annual normal . is 48.0 degrees. The highest monthly mean temperature was 77.4 degrees, July, 1901 (and 77.1 degrees, July, 1887) ; the coldest was 11.3 degrees, February, 1875 (and 11.9
TABLE 2 SEASONAL TEMPERATURES AND RANGES.
LOWEST TEMPERATURE
YEARS
TO
MAR. 31
DEc. 1
FEB. 28
MAR. 1
MAY 31
JUNE 1
Auc. 31
SEPT. 1
Nov. 30
APR. 1
SEPT.30
ANNUAL
RANGE
MEAN
DAILY
RANGE
WINTER OF
DEGREE
DATE
1870.
30.8|
29.2
48.4!
69.2
53.0
65.6
109.0
18.3
1869-70
-10.0
Feb. 21
1871 ..
31.7
26.0
50.5
70.6
48.1
63.5
122.0
19.3
1870-71
-13.0
Dec. 24
1872 ..
25.11
21.
45.4
72.5
48.1
65.0
118.8
19 6
1871-72
-24.5
¡Dec. 21
1873 ..
23.4
18.6
44.5
72.0
46.6
63.3
124.
19.1
1872-73
-29.2
Jan. 29
1874 ..
31.2
30.1
44.4
71.7
48.2
63.1
117.5
23.1
1873-74
-13 0
Jan. 16
1875. .
28.0
17.2
42.8
68.5
46.1
60.6
120.
23.9
1874-75
-24.0
Feb. 18
1876. .
32.2
32.6
44.4
72.5
48.3
63.5
106.0
17.5
1875-76
- 2.0
Dec. 18
1877 ..
27.2
23.8
43.8
70.7
52.6
63.5
109.0
18.9
1876-77
-14.0
Jan. 9
1878 ..
35.5
32.2
51.6
71.3
51.5
65.0
107.0
17.7
1877-78
- 4.0
Jan. 7 Jan. 3
1879.
28.7
22.8
47.4
70.4
51.7
62.6
118.0
18.4
1878-79
-21.0
Dec. 26
1881. .
23.6
19.7
45.3
70.2
55.
64.5
115.5
18.8
1880-81
-18.8
Dec. 29
1882 ..
34.6
22.1
44.9
68.1
51.1
60.6
108.9
19.2
1881-82
3.3
Jan. 24.
1883
26.4
22.1
12.0
67.3
48.7
59.5
110.5
22.5
1882-83
-17.5
Jan. 22
1884. .
28.5
23.0
45.4
69.3
52.2
63.2
127.7
24.5
1883-84
-31.7
Jan. 25
1885. .
22.4
17.3
42.2
68.9
48.7
61.6
127.4
22.6
1884-85
-32.4
Dec. 19
1886 ..
29.1
24.1
48.6
70.0
50.0
64.0
116.9
23.6
1885-86
-18.8
Feb. 5
1887.
26.7
22.
47.0
43.7
70.3
48.4
61.9
111.7
22.7
1887-88
-14.0
Jan. 28
1889. .
29.8
25
47.6
68.1
48.1
61.8
107.5
22.5
1888-89
-13.1
Feb. 13
1890. .
34.7
34.9
45.4
71.0
49.7
62.8
100.3
21.9
1889-90
- 0.3
Mar. 6
1891 ..
31.5
28.8
45.6
69.1
50.7
63.5
104.1
22.6
1800-91
- 3.6
Mar. 1
1892. .
30.3
28.2
44.6
71.2
49.1
63.1
121.7
20.7
1891-92
-23.0
Jan. 20
1893 ..
26.4
20.6
45.9
71.1
50.1
63.1
111.6
23.6
1892-93
-15.0
Jan. 15
1894. .
32.0
27.1
49.2
72.3
50.1
64.6
107.0
23.8
1893-94
- · 6.9
Feb. 24
1895.
29.7
27.0
47.2
72.4
49.7
66.
116.9
24.7
1894-95
-16.4
Feb. 5
1896.
29.6
26.9
50.5
70.3
49.1
65.
109.3
20.6
1895-96
- 9.8
Jan. 4
1897 ..
31.2
26.2
46.3
69.5
52.9
62.7
123.2
22.6
1896-97
-21.0
Jan. 25
1898 ..
32.6
27.6
49.3
72.0
50.7
64.6
108.3
21.9
1897-98
- 7.7
Feb. 3
1899.'.
26.6
23.3
48.3
72.1
52.1
64.9
115.0
22.3
1898-99
-17.3
Feb. 9
1900
28.9
25.9
46.2
71.6
54.8
65.5
103.6
21.9
1899-00
- 5.9
Feb. 9
1901
28.7
23.4
46.4
78.2
50.3
64.7
112.4
22.7
1900-01
-11.4
Feb. 15
1902.
28.8
23.1
48.4
67.9
52.5
61.5
104.7
21.9
1901-02
-11.4
Dec. 21
1903 ..
32.8
25.1
50.6
67.1
49.1
62.1
106.1
22.5
1902-03
- 9.3
Jan. 12
1904 ..
24.7
18.2
44.7
67.1
49.4
60.5
110.4
21.3
1903-04
-14.4
Jan. 3
Bermel. . 1
29.1
25.2
46.5
70.3
50.1
63.3
113.4
21.4
.- 14.1
Jan. 7
1888. .
33.7
33.0
47.7
69.2
47.9
64.0
116.1
18.8
1879-80
- 3.0
-19.5
27.2
23.0
71.7
48.4
64.4
120.7
23.8
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CLIMATOLOGY
degrees, February, 1885, and 12.2 degrees, January, 1875). The warm winters of 1875-76 and 1889-90, March was the coldest month of the whole winter. In the winters of 1871-72, 1873-74, 1876-77, December was the coldest month. In several years, Feb- ruary was colder than January. In 1874, 1898 and 1903, April was very little warmer than March. In 1878 May was scarcely warmer than April. In the summers of 1873, 1884, 1888, 1891, 1892, 1895 and 1899, the mean temperatures of the months of June, July and August were almost alike, and in 1884 and 1891, September may be added to these. In 1879, October was warmer than September. Decem- ber was warmer than November in 1875, 1877, 1889 and 1891.
Table II shows that the coldest winter (three months) was 17.2, 1874-75 (and 17.3, 1884-85). The same winters, counting from
TABLE 8 MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES.
YEARS
JAN.
FEB.
MAR.
APR.
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUG.
SEPT.
Ост.
Nov.
DEc.
AN- NUAL
1870.
49.0
45.0
55.0
84.0
85.0
96.0
92.5
89.0
90.0
75.5
71.5
56.0/
96.0
1871. .
65.0|
61.0
67.5
80.0
91.0
90.2
94.0
97.5
90.0
80.2
57.4
55.0
97.5
1872 ..
46.0
60.0
60.0
87.0
86.0
93.0
94.4
94.0
93.5
82.0
54.8
10.0
94.4
1873.
44.6
54.6
58.5
82.6
85.5
95.3
92.0
94.6
90.6
84.0
65.0
57.7
95.8
1874. .
61.5
49.5
71.0
74.0
109.2
99.0
104.5 102.0
97.0
81.3
67.0
51.5 104.5
1875
45.5
54.5
79.5
83.0
95.0
96.0
94.0
92.0
94.0
79.0
61.5
70.0
96.0
1876.
69.5
61.0
66.5
75.5
91.0
94.0
96.0
96.0
80.5
75.5
74.6
42.6 96.0
1877.
52.5
57.0
56.0
78.0
95.0
90.0
94.0
92.0
87.0
86.0
60.0
60.6 95.0
1878. .
50.0
55.0
72.5
84.0
82.5
97.0
98.0|
91.
89.0
83.0
64. 0
40.0 98.0
1879.
49.5
45.0
70.0
85.0
90.
97.0
96.0
94.0
88.0
87.
72.5
57.0 97.0
1880.
62. 0
62.7
61.7
80.0
87.7
92.0
97.3
92.5
89.0
80.5
60.0
50.
97.3
1881.
39.4
47.4
50.0
83.3
94.5
89.5
98.5|101.0
100.3
80.5
66.5
56.5|101.0
1882.
52.7
57.5
66.0
81.5
79.8
92.5
92.5
87.6
87.2
83.0
74.6
44.6 92.5
1883. .
43.0
60.1
69.1
84.4
89.3
89.0
92.3
93.0
89.1
85.2
66.4
56.0 98.0
1884. .
50.5
57.7
64.7
78.6
82.0
92.2
91.6
94.3
95.3
87.5
63.0
56.3 95.8
1885. .
47.6
50.6
55.7
82.5
83.3
89.8
98.0
90.7
87.5
78.4
68.6
53.7 98.0
1886. .
52.3
56.6
74.6
84.3
88.61
94.61
98.6
94.6
90.1
83.6
70.6
55.9 98.6
1887. .
58.6
95.3
83.3
67.7
57.8 101.2
1888. .
43.6
52.3
70.8
86.0
84.0
91.3
85.4
93.3
94.4
89.5
80.5 81.6
69.2
50.1 100.0
1891 ..
52.8
56.5
62.2
80.8
84.8
93.5
90.8
98.7
88.3
81.4 85.4
80.7
75.7
72.8
58.4 99.6
1896.
51.8
64.3
66.3
89.0
91.7
91.8
93.0
97.0
89.6
77.8 94.0
64.8
56.6 102.2
1898.
63.6
61.6
70.6
80.0
82.8
93.7|100.6
97.7
96.6
96.8
93.6
88.6
61.8
59.8 97.7
1900. .
56.2
63.8
51.0
82.8
90.7
90.7
92.6
98.6
96.0
91.7
66.8
57.8 98.6
1901 ..
51.6
57.1
71.8
86.0
86.3
97.8 101.0
97.1
96.2
82.1
64.3
62.8|101.0
1902 ..
45.8
54.4
69.8
85.0
93.0
93.2 94.7
92.4
87.7
80.0
75.8
49.6 94.7
1903.
59.0
49.2
80.0
82.0
93.2
92.4
96.8
96.0
93.2
83.3
71.0|
41.0 96.8
1904 ..
39.0
50.0
69.2
77.6
90.6
90.0
96.0
90.0
90.4
79.0
68.9
59.4
96.0
Normal
52.7
55.1
65.9
82.2
88.4
93.6
96.3
95.2
92.0
82.6
66.7
55.2 97.7
1890. .
66.0
63.6
60.6
77.5
87.6
96.5
97.7|100.0
88.3
95.8
88.5
62.7
59.0 98.7
1893 ..
48.6|
47.7
68.
81.6
86.7
94.6
94.8
96.6
1894. .
56.3
58.3
78.4
85.3
87.4
97.1 100.1
98.3
97.8
66.2
57.7 100.1
1895 ..
50.5
61.4
67.
85.2
96.3
90.6
98.7
98.8
96.7
1897. .
58.4
46.4
64.0
81.2
82.7
93.3|102.2
94.6
99.3
95.3
96.3
89.3
68.8
54.4 100.6
1899 ..
53.0
61.8
66.0
91.0
91.6
92.3 101.2
97.7
94.3|
97.5
91.7
76.0
76.5
56.3 97.7
1889. .
54.7
51.7
70.8
79.3
60.6
77.3
83.2
1892 ..
54.8
55.2
58.7 67.8
70:0
58.7 97.0
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56.4
61.5
83.5
62.3
64.5 94.4
92.6 100.5
58.6 100.5
65.6 96.6
99.8
94.6 94:6
87.4
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HISTORY OF FULTON COUNTY
November I to March 31, were 22.0 and 22.4. The warmest winter, three months, was 34.9, 1889-90: of five months 35.5, 1877-78. The warmest spring. March, April and May, was 51.6, in 1878; the coolest, 42.0, in 1883. The warmest summer, June, July and August, was 73.3, in 1901; the coolest, 67.1, in 1903 and 1904. The warmest autumn, September, October and November, was
TABLE 4 MONTHLY AND ANNUAL MINIMUM TEMPERATURES.
YEARS
JAN.
FEB.
MAR.
APR.
MAY
JUNE
JULY
Auc.
SEPT.
Ост.
Nov.
DEC.
AN- NUAL
1870
*2.0*10.0
2.0
28.0
42.0
48.0
50.0
41.0
41.0
31.7
21.0*13.0
*13.0
1871 ..
*2.0
0.0
22.5
28.0
32.2
39.4
43.2
47.5
24.9
21.4
*3.4 *24.5 *24.5
1872
*12.0 *14.5
3.2
12.7
28.9
45.5
50.1
41.8
30.3
27.2
4.0
10.0 *29.2
1874.
*13.0
*6.3
7.0
6.0
29.0
38.0
45.0
42.0
30.5
12.0
6.0 *5.3*13.0
1875. .
*20.0 *24.0 *13.0
10.0
29.8
36.0
45.0
41.0
29.0
17.0
4.7 *2.0*24.0
1876 . .
7.0
*0.3
*0.5
23.5
23.2
48.5
40.5
54.0
52.0
39.0
31.8
10.0
17.7*14.0
1878
*4.0
*3.2
20.5
30.0
31.4
42.0
56.0
45.7
40.5
23.
21.0
*9.0
*9.0
1879
*21.0
*6.5
10.8
15.5
29.0
43.0
54.0
45.0
31.0
20.8
7.3
*3.0*21.0
1880
17.5
4.5
15.0
17.0
32.6
46.5
45.0
51.4
49.3
40.5
30.8
10.5
11.0 *14.5
1882.
3.3
14.7
19.4
20.0
27.5
40.0
47.5
48.8
38.5
22.5
4.5
*5.4
17.5
1884.
*31.7
*8.1
*7.5
21.5
28.6
48.0
43.9
38.9
30.5
18.0
4.7
*32.4 *32.4
1885.
*29.4 *24.3
*6.6|
11.5
21.0
38.0
46.5
40.1
31.3
14.
16.1
*6.8|*29.4
1886
₾14.0 *18.3
5.0
14.3
32.3
36.5
46.0
46.6
39.2
24.9
15.3
8.3
*3.7 *19.5
1888
*14.0
#8.8
*6.2
23.3
23.3
35.3
38.0
46.5
45.0
27.6
17.1
8.6
14.8*13.1
1890 ..
0.7
5.0
*0.3
21.4|
28.5
38.8
42.5
40.5
39.2
37.3
19.6
1.0
9.0
*3.6
1892
*23.0
3.4
6.0
19.6
31.8
52.5
44.0
46.6
38.6
21.2
13.8
*6.9 *23.0
1894. .
*6.0
*6.9
5.6
22.6
32.6
35.2
43.7
40.0
31.8
23.4|
11.0
*5.2
*6.9
1895 . .
*10.7
*16.4
*2.3
21.6
29.4
41.6
44.7
45.3
32.2
13.4
13.4
*4.7
*16.4
1897. .
*21.0
0.6
11.7
15.6
32.8
37.8
53.1
42.2
43.8
38.0
25.4
8.4
#5.3
*7.7
1899
*12.8 *17.3
5.7
14.7
36.2
43.3
47.8
48.6
29.3
19.7
22.7
*5.4*17.3
1900.
*4.3
*5.9
*4.4
20.8
26.0
40.4
46.8
53.1
35.2
25.4
9.4
1.6
*5.0
1901
#10.0 *11.4
*1.2
22.4|
32.3
36.7
50.6
47.2
31.7
23.7
11.0*11.4 *11.4
1902.
*3.4*10.0
9.4
21.6
31.0
40.8
47.2
44.0
32.3
27.3
19.7 *1.0*10.0
1903 . .
*9.3
*6.3
20.2
18.8
25.3
44.8
46.2
45.2
34.7
22.5
9.2 *1.4
*9.3
1904. . |
14.4
*7.1
13.8
19.
29.0
44.7
44.2
42.4
34.2
22.6
4.7 *10.2 *14.4
Normal ..
*10.2
*6.6
4.2
19.2
30.7
41.6
47.1
43.8 32.7
22.6 9.7
*5.1
*15.7
· Below Zero.
55.6, in 1881, and 54.8 in 1900: the coolest. 46.1 in 1875. The warmest growing season, April I to September 30, was 66.0, in 1895; the coolest, 59.5 in 1883.
Tables III and IV show that the lowest temperature ever re- corded here, was 32.4 degrees below zero (Dec. 19, 1884), and the highest was 104.5 degrees (July 7, 1874) ; a range of 136.9
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1887.
*19.5
0.3
6.7
17.4
40.3
44.6
40.5
41.0
47.3
40.3
26.8
18.4
6.4 *4.6 *15.0
1896.
*9.8
*6.5
0.3|
21.2
43.3
44.6
50.0
43.6
41.3
27.6
31.1
12.
*7.0*21.0
1898
6.7
*7.7
8.7
15.7
33.8
43.7
43.0
35.6
29.2
17.4
5.5
*0.3
1891
3.3
0.3
*8.7
6.3
22.7
32.8
44.4
48.6
45.7
33.0
25.0
*8.5
*18.8 *18.8
1881. .
*14.5 *11.5
13.2
5.2
33.0
27.4
34.5
43.4
41.0
28.8
26.5
5.7
19.8
5.0*14.0
1889. .
0.8*13.1
10.3
19.3
25.6
37.9
46.0
44.2
29.
39.
21.0
10.6*10.0*10.0
1877. .
*14.0
14.6
*2.5
25.0
28.5
51.0
42.0
38.3
29.7
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