The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 115

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254

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Here a half-sister of his wife, a daughter of her father's second marriage, Peggy, was married about the year 1798, to one Jewitt Gamble, to whom numerous children were born- children whose descendants are to-day scattered all through the South. This Jewitt Gamble was a brother of Robert Gamble, one of Staunton's leading merchants of that day, a man who after- ward removed to Richmond, and became one of the heaviest business men of that city and im - mensely wealthy. He married Letitia, a daughter of Gen. James Breckenridge, and left two sons, one of whom became Governor of Florida and the other of Missouri. One of his daughters married William Wirt, one Chancellor Harper, of South Carolina, and one W. H. Cabill, Gover- nor of Virginia.

In Harrisonburg, Col. Curry greatly prospered, and here his second child, James A., was born, March 30, 1787, who, coming with his parents into Union County, lived to a ripe old age and died March 1, 1874. And here was born a son, Otway, March 30, 1789, who died when but three years old. Here, too, was born Harriet, their first girl child, who died an infant, in her second year. Here, too, was born Harriet Smith, April 3, 1793, who came with her parents to Ohio, was married to James Buck, and died in Union County August 10, 1845.

In the fall of 1797, Col. Curry determined to remove to the territory of Ohio, in which the State of Virginia had reserved an immense tract of land for the use of her soldiers in the war of the Revolution. It was the soldier's ultima thule, and glowing accounts of its vast reaches of forest and alluvial bottom lands having reached Virginia, thither flocked the men of war, with their families and friends, in rapidly increasing numbers. Selling his property, Col. Curry with his little family safely sheltered in a great wagon drawn by five horses, started October 5, 1797. for his long journey over the mountains of Virginia. Reaching Morganstown on the Monongahela River, he embarked on a flat-boat and made the remainder of the journey down that stream and the Ohio, and to the confines of the territory of his destination by water.

This voyage was very tedious, some six months having been consumed in making it, and very hazardous. The winter of 1797-98 was a hard one, the rivers full of ice and floating trees, so that very often the devoted family thought themselves doomed to destruction. However, the mouth of the Scioto River was finally entered, and after weeks of contest against its angry cur- rent, the wanderers at length reached what was afterward known as High Bank Prairie, Ross County, landing April 1, 1798. Here Col. Curry erected his first house, a cabin without door, floor, or window, in which he lived for two years. He then removed to the present site of Greenfield, Highland County, where, for eleven years, he lived and cultivated the land. Here three children were born-Stephenson, December 3, 1801, who died in Union County, April 2, 1861; Otway, March 26, 1804, who died in Marysville February 15, 1855; and Louisa, July 21, 1807, who came with her parents to Union County, where she married Nelson Cone and still lives. The settlement at Greenfield was a prosperous and healthy one, numbering some 200 souls; and during the whole of Col. Curry's residence there, not a physician lived in the place. The nearest doctor was at Chillicothe, twenty miles away, and when sickness did occur, Col. Curry was always called upon for prescriptions. He was surgeon, too, for broken limbs and fract- ured bones, but it is not recorded that he ever undertook to amputate an offending member.

Col. Curry held but one office, we believe, while living in Highland County, that of Brigade Inspector. His service as an officer in the Revolutionary army was, of course, well known, and he had been often urged to take a part in military matters, but had steadily refused. Duncan McArthur had been for a long time the Inspector, but had, for some reason, become unpopular, when, one general muster (1806 probably), it was decided to oust him. An officer named Christian Platter said, " Let's elect a man who has some sense," whereupon the voters, with one single exception, cast their ballots for Col. Curry (McArthur getting just one vote), who had, at once, though protesting and unwilling, to take the office. McArthur, who had before this been a frequent visitor and an industrious reader of the Colonel's ample library of books, never again entered Col. Curry's door. At the next election, Col. Curry peremptorily refused, and Gen. McArthur was again given the place. In this connection an amusing story is told.

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McArthur was so elated that he broke in three barrels of whisky, inviting the boys to help themselves as they desired and be happy. A grand old carousal, worthy the time and the men, followed. Col. Curry's horse got loose, and going home, warned the family to send for its master. His son, James A., started immediately, and midway met a man named Hamilton, drunk and happy. He was sober enough, however, to declare that the " muster was over; that it bad been a glorious time; that there had been a great outpouring of spirit, and that over 300 souls were down !"

Col. Curry brought with him warrants for many thousand acres of land, issued for military services. He had also a warrant for 9,000 acres issued because of money paid into the treas- ury of the State of Virginia. The military warrants were variously laid, portions in what is now Ross and Highland and Fayette Counties, Ohio, one of a thousand acres in South western Kentucky, and in 1807, one of a thousand acres (Survey No. 1,440) in what is now Jerome Town- ship, Union County. Other warrants were intrusted to a man by the name of Harrod, the founder of Harrodsburg, Ky., and lost.

The treasury warrant was never laid. The old Colonel had too much land, so he kept this warrant to look at, satisfied and doubtless gratified to think that some day his grandchildren could use and enjoy it. But alas for the uncertainty of human calculations, after his death, the warrant fell into the hands of Silas G. Strong, was lost and never recovered. Years after, when the matter came to be investigated, the State of Virginia was found to have no lands left upon which a warrant could be laid, and as the United States Government could never be persuaded to father the treasury land debts of the mother of States, that 9,000-acre principality was found to be eternally gone. Nevertheless, the writer was once told in Richmond that the State had doubtless a good many mountain peaks yet untaken, whereon the warrant or its re-issue might be laid.

The year 1811, Col. Curry removed himself and family to the Jerome Township land. His son, James A., had, in company with a man by the name of Joseph Bell, gone up the winter be- fore and made a clearing on the place now owned by W. W. Curry, and a man named Call had cleared a portion of the present farm of John Nonemaker, and erected a cabin. In the Call cabin Col. Curry began life in a wilderness for the third time. The country was practically un- settled, only a few houses being scattered along the Darby, and Indians were everywhere. The savages were far from being peacebly disposed, and as the war with England of 1812 was im- pending, the most serious consequences to the family of Col. Curry were feared, as the result of his rash removal to the wilds of Madison County. Illustrative of the dangers then supposed to attend such a residence, an old letter addressed "Col. James Curry, Madison County, Ohio, to the care of Mr. Cadwalader Wallace, Chillicothey," is a point. This letter, postmarked Harri- sonburg, Va., February 16, 1813, bears the following request : " Mr. Wallace will oblige Alex Herring (the writer), by forwarding this to Col. Curry, as it is probable he has moved from his residence in Madison County, for fear of the Indians." The Colonel, nevertheless, had not re- moved from his newly made home, where the letter finally reached him. But the family had many frights, and not a few thrilling adventures. An experience of unusual interest is narrated elsewhere, when the brave mother, arming her two children, Stephenson and Otway, made ready to defend her little home against savage assault. In this home and on this farm, now owned, as stated, by John Nonemaker, Col. James Curry lived the remainder of his days. The territory was then Madison County, and the Colonel was no sooner well located than his fellow- citizens returned him to the Legislature of the State, representing the district composed of Delaware and Madison Counties. This was for the session of 1812-13, when the capital was at Chillicothe. The nomination was altogether unexpected, and of course unsolicited. As proof of this, Mr. James Cone, of Jerome, remembers reading, when a chunk of a boy, a letter, dated at Delaware, and signed by a committee, stating that a convention of citizens had without con- sulting him, presumed to place his name at the head of their ticket. The letter ended by say- ing that they hoped he would feel free to give his influence in favor of the ticket so nominated. In wonderful contrast this to the modern way of procuring candidates for office. The succeed- ing winter, that of 1813-14, the Colonel was again sent to represent the district, the Legisla- ture again meeting in Chillicothe. This session (or possibly the one before) the new capital, Columbus was projected, and the membership must have numbered very many choice spirits. The following letter in the clearly cut chirography of Samuel P. Ilildreth, one of Ohio's early historians, and by him signed, shows that there was fun as well as legislation going on at Chilli- cothe that session :

MARIETTA, January 20, 1813.

MY DEAR COLONEL: Your favor by hand of Col. Barber was duly received, and it is quite pleasing to me that I still retain a place in your memory. I am happy to hear that things go on smoothly in No. 6,* and I would have given all my old shoes to have been with you on that evening when " Crazy Bill "t was initiated in the mysteries of the Directorship of Columbus, that city which is to be the Babylon of Ohio. It must have been a lively and happy evening with you-on one side was Col. Jim'sI pipe throwing ont continued volleys of smoke, on the other Gen. Casse' ¿ broad mouth throwing out continued volleys of laughter, with here and there interspersed Ludlow's chain

* A room doubtless of the hotel.

+ Who was this?

Į Col. Curry.

Gen. Lewis Cass.

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of canses and effects ; and the sallies of wit and humor from the rest of the company, all combined, must have had a very happy effect, and would have relaxed the stern muscles of Diogenes had he been there. I should have highly enjoyed the scene could I have been present ; but as I could not be, 1 can console myself with the thought that some of my friends were there and were happy, which to me is at all times a pleasing reflection. I am happy to hear that my friend Lndlow has been successful, as he is really a worthy and deserving man, and will fill the station* with propriety and ability. I am also pleased that the office of Major General has fallen to the lot of Mr. Cass. He will support it with dignity and show to the people of the State of Ohio that its Legislature has not mistaken their confidence. This election will probably put to sleep any further inquiries respecting the Major General of the Sec- ond Division. I have to regret that my acquaintance with Col. Curry could not have been longer, but from what few days we were acquainted I feel a growing attachment, which twice that number of years will not obliterate, and believe me, sir, when I say I shall consider that day which introduced you to my acquaintance as one of the most interesting in my calendar. However, I hope and trust that our knowledge of each other is not to end here, but that we shall yet pass many happy hours together.

With sentiments of respect, I am your friend, S. P. HILDRETH.

COL. J. CURRY, Member of the Legislature, Chilliothe, Ohio.

Col. Curry was returned from the Delaware and Madison district, the winter of 1814-15, and in the session of 1815-16 we find him again a member from that district, the Legislature still convening at Chillicothe. The next year and the first in which the Legislature sat at Co- lumbus, the new capital, 1816-17, the two counties were each given a representation, and Col. Curry's own county, Madison, took up a new man, one Isaac Miner.

The Colonel was not retired to private life, however, for this year (1816) he was chosen one of the electors who met at Chillicothe, and cast the vote of the State for James Monroe of Vir- ginia, for President, and Daniel D. Tompkins of New York, for Vice President. His associates were John G. Young, Abraham Shepherd, Aaron Wheeler, Othniel Looker, John Patterson, Ben- jamin Hough and William Skinner.

The sessions of the Legislature of 1817-18 and 1818-19, Miner continued to sit for the county, but that of 1819-20, Col. Curry was returned as Madison's representative. This, the eighteenth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, the last in which the Colonel ever sat as a member, was held at Columbus, that "modern Babylon," and it is to be supposed that Mr. Hil- dreth was there and all the genial spirits who the winter of 1813-14 had made the walls of " No. 6" at Chillicothe echo with sallies of wit and volleys of laughter. This session, a bill for the organization of Union County, was introduced into the Senate by Gen. Foos, then representing Franklin, Madison and Delaware, and passed. The bill went to the House Friday, December 24, 1819, and on motion of Col. Curry was made the order for the following Tuesday, when it was passed and became a law.

June 3, 1811, Col. Curry was made the happy father of another son, his last child, and the only one ever born in Madison County. To this son the name of Robert Burns was given, a very appropriate reproduction of that borne by his first-born child. This son, now an old man with whitened hair, but when last in Ohio as light of heart and as playful as when thirty years younger, yet lives, having years ago removed to the State of Kansas.

The Colonel's only other living child, a daughter, married, as has been stated, to Mr. Nelson Cone, and yet lives in Jerome Township in sight of the spot where seventy-two years ago her parents first made their home. A venerable, intelligent, gentle woman, though sadly afflicted, she still lives, the joy of her household, respected, loved, revered by every one, kin and stranger, who comes within her sweet presence.

But though Col. Curry did not again return to the duty of making laws, he was, in the years 1822-23-24-25-26-27 and 1828, one of the Associate Judges of the county who executed them. The courts were held in Milford, and from the April term of 1822 to the August term of 1823, the bench was constituted : John A. McDowell, President Judge, David Mitchell. William Gabriel, James Curry, Associates. The November term of 1823, Gustavis Swan was President Judge, same Associates. April term of 1824, Ebenezer Lane became President Judge, and the same Associates held till the February term of 1826, when Robert Nelson was appointed in place of Col. Curry. October term of 1827, Ebenezer Lane still presiding ; Col. C. returned to the bench, displacing David Mitchell. February term of 1828, Gustavis Swan again became Presiding Judge, so continuing Col. Curry, William Gabriel and Robert Nelson as Associates to and including the September term of 1828.

This was the last of Col. Curry's office holding, and as he was now some seventy-six years of age, he was probably quite willing to relinquish into other and younger hands the duties of office, which in either a military or civil capacity he had been with but little cessa- tion fulfilling continuously for fifty years. Full of honors, and enjoying to the utmost the con- fidence and esteem of the people of the county he had been instrumental in organizing, he at a ripe old age retired to his farm, to spend peacefully, what few days might yet remain for him. Though old in years, he was still strong and vigorous, it is remembered, in body and mind. He succumbed, however, to an attack of apoplexy, dying July 5, 1834, at 10 o'clock A. M. Two days after, his body was laid to rest by that of his beloved wife, who had preceded him some eight years, and the two yet lay side by side in a quiet corner of the old farm, which in 1807 he had covered with Survey 1440. So ceased the life of Col. James Curry. In estimating his character, we have only to point to the fact that while as an officer, civil or military, he achieved no illustrious fame, he was steadily and persistently successful in every position he undertook to

* What position was this ?

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fill and failed in none. As a citizen, husband, father, few men excelled him in the respect with which he was held by his neighbors and friends, and in the love and esteem borne him by his wife and children. He had been a captivating man in youth, and Mrs. Nelson Cone now de- clares that he was the handsomest man she ever saw ; she remembers her uncle John's state- ment that her father and mother were the handsomest couple ever married in Staunton. Mrs. Cone mentions, too, his appearance on horseback, " the finest" she ever saw. He was of medium height, about five feet ten, weighed some two hundred pounds, was very broad across the shoulders and back, and was of wonderful strength and activity. In dress, while not particular on the farm, he was scrupulously exact and neat when going abroad to the legis- lature or to court. He was of very regular habits and most punctilious as to his children and other members of his household. He would never go to the table, or pay any attention to a no- tice that a meal was ready, unless asked, "Please come to dinner, father," and when scated the children while small were not permitted to speak aloud. He insisted on perfect obedience, yet was very kind. He kept his money in the till of a chest, and Mrs. Cone remembers that when a child she would frequently find money lying on the floor near by, as if accidently dropped, which she would always carry to her father. His reply invariably was, " Why, how careless. Well, Louise, you can keep it for yourself." As to his political creed, he was an uncompro- mising Jacksonian Democrat, hating the very name of Federalism. His two sons, Stephenson and Otway, came, however, in time to be anti-Jacksonian, Otway particularly leading in many a wordy, excited debate with his father. These boys, the old gentlemen was accustomed to call his little tories.

In religion, he was perhaps more a Baptist than anything else, though lie was never a church member. Nevertheless he always said grace at the table, and up to his wife's death, possibly after, conducted family worship each and every morning. Mr. Nelson Cone remem- bers talking with him as to the division of the Baptists on the communion question, and that he took sides with the "open communion" faction. However, the good man himself tells us what were his religious beliefs away along back in 1782, when a young man of thirty, and it is not known that he had at all changed his sentiments in after years. An old faded, course grained, fool's-cap sheet, dated October 7,' 82, and signed with a fine, flowing hand, James Curry, tells the story :

Eternal God I I am Thy creature, brought into being by Thy power, and hitherto hast been the care of Thy in dulgent providence. Thou midst me happy in my first parents after Thy image, the whole man upright, disposed- only to do Thy blessed will. But by the unhappy disobedience of this man I became (as well as the rest of mankind) a sinner. Am by nature a child of wrath, am inclined to evil, to rebel against Thee, my rightful love. Am indis- posed to holiness, my heart naturally at enmity with God, nor subject to His law as my choice; and Thon mightest be glorified in my damnation without the least imputation of injustice. I am ruined in myself, and in Thee only is my help. But in the unaccountable power of Thy grace, Thou hast devised a plan, well ordered in all things, and sure, by the incarnation, obedience and death of Thine eternal Son, whereby the demands of justice are fully satisfied and a righteousness wrought out, by which sinners of mankind may have a right to eternal life upon God's own terms. The record of Thy Word is that Thou hast given to us (sinners) eternal life, and that this life is in Thy Son, declaring that there is no condemnation to thiem that believe in Him. Everything has been done on Thy part, great God ! to convince me of Thy gracious purpose and rich grace. Thou offerest an eternal life in Thy Son. I de- sire, however unworthy of the unspeakable grace, to credit Thy Word, and to believe that Jesus Christ is both an able and willing Savior, and that depending on Him I shall not perish, and that He has made a sufficient satisfaction to justice for my sins, and that in His righteousness imputed I shall stand complete in all the Word of God. I make choice of Jesus Christ ay my only Savior, in all His offices as my Teacher, Savior and Ruler, looking to be saved from sin in its dominion and consequent wrath through HIim, depending on Him alone as the foundation of all my hopes, for every blessing and grace I need. In Him do I desire to make choice of God the Father as my Heavenly Father, and the Holy Spirit as my guide, director and sanctifier, God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to whom I surrender myself, as my God and everlasting portion. Believing in this, I do what is the will of God. In evidence of the sincerity of my soul in this solemn transaction, I subscribe unto the Lord with my hand.

October 7, '82. JAMES CURRY.

This was written along toward the close of his army life, when a young, unmarried man, and must be taken as the sum of his convictions as to religion. No sect is favored, no creed proclaimed ; but what a grand, though simple, expression of faith in God, in Jesus Christ, and in the the efficacy of the Christian's plan of salvation ! The unbelieving reader will hardly repress an emotion of exultation at the eloquent simplicity of this hundred-year-old piece of parchment, coming as it were from the tomb, to warn and convict. It almost surpasses belief, that the grand old soldier was, indeed, never an acknowledged member of any one of the churches of that day.

" Uncle " David Winget, who lived years in his family, says that he was reserved in manner, but a good talker when aroused and encountering a peer. lle was a great reader, and had, for that day, a very large library of books, historical, religious, scientific and poetic. About every newspaper then published in America came to him as a regular subscriber, and the writer has now in possession piles of such, running back to the Revolutionary war, and beyond, carefully stitched (by his own hand, doubtless), for preservation. Few men of that day were more intel- ligent than Col. Curry, whose advice, on all matters (so Mr. Winget says), business and social, was sought by everybody.

He was hot tempered, but ever courteous. His hair was dark and closely cut ; forehead high and broad ; eyes hazel ; nose straight ; chin as shapely as could have been molded. His face, always closely shaven, is said to have nearly resembled that of his son, James A.

Such, finally, is what the writer hereof can make out of the few facts obtainable of the life

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of Col. James Curry. Books have been searched, and letters written, with a diligence and labor little imagined ; but it must be, after all, confessed to small purpose. The great State of Vir- ginia is absolutely without a history in detail of the grand part taken by her sons in the war of the Revolution. A letter written to the writer by a distinguished citizen of Augusta County, confesses that there is no history of that county in the war of the Revolution extant; and yet it was that day the principal one in wealth and population of the State. It comprised, indeed, everything west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, covering the famous valley of Virginia, between the Ridge and the Alleghanies, into which it was Washington's declared purpose to retire if defeated north of the Potomac, and with his trained army of Spartan followers defend himself and his country to the last.

CAPT. JAMES A. CURRY, deceased. The subject of this sketch was born in Harrison- burg, Rockingham Co., Va., March 30, 1787. When eleven years of age (1798), his father, Col. James Curry, removed with his family to Ohio, and effected a settlement in Highland Coun- ty, twelve miles from Chillicothe. Highland was then the border of an unexplored wilderness, extending west and north over the entire State. The red man still claimed it as his heritage, and the wild animals roamed at will over its hills and valleys. Young Curry, then a boy of twelve summers, possessing to some extent the fearlessness and spirit of Boone for hunting, longed for an adventure. He attired himself in his hunting costume, which consisted of a tow shirt and buckskin pants, and with his game-sack and rifle and a dozen dogs, five of which were his own, he started out, and after a tramp of several hours encountered a bear, which he killed. It was the largest of its species known to have been killed in Highland County. On one occasion when but a lad, he made a trip of 100 miles to get a physician to attend on a sick brother. His route lay through a densely-wooded forest, and the distance was traveled principally during nights. February, 1811, in company with Joseph Bell, he came to what is now Union County. The snow was two feet deep, and with these surroundings they felled some trees and erected a " half-faced camp," which served as a shelter for them during the spring and summer. The sit- uation of the camp was about forty rods northeast of Sugar Run Falls. Here he cleared a field and raised a crop of corn. The latter part of the summer he went back to Highland County, and in the fall returned to Union County, accompanied by his parents. Early in the summer of 1812, he enlisted with a company of forty-day volunteers, and with the necessary military equip- ments, mounted his horse and went to Urbana, where he joined a company of horse from High- land County, and served in Col. Carr's regiment. On his way to Urbana he followed the paths and made the whole trip without seeing a single person. His steed, " old Jack," although an animal twenty-one years old, served him efficiently during his military career. In February, 1813, Capt. Curry (he having been previously chosen to that rank), was ordered to report with his company for duty and join the army of the Northwest, under Gen. Harrison. He was camped at Delaware, Upper Sandusky, Wapakoneta, Falls St. Marys and Fort Meigs. After the war closed, he was offered a Captaincy in the regular army, which he declined. Capt. Curry had come to Ohio when young, and his advantages for an education were very limited, but through his own diligence and efforts to secure learning, he acquired a good education, which was of great practical use to him in after years. The chief elements of his education, and in which he displayed a marked thoroughness, were geography, natural philosophy and history .. Natural philosophy was so easily mastered by him that he gave it the version of " natural sim- plicity." In boyhood he formed strong tastes for reading, and his extensive knowledge was all obtained through the avenues of literature. Ile was a man wholly self-acquired, and no doubt the best historian in the county. A man of strong conversational powers, he was able to en- tain any one in the most pleasing manner. As a man, he was generous and hospitable, and never turned from his door the needy and distressed. He died near New California, March 1, 1874, aged eighty-seven. March 18, 1817, he was married to Miss Phebe Winget, a daughter of Stephen and Hannah Winget, natives of Washington County, Penn. They removed to Madison County, Ohio, in 1801. Mrs. Winget was, before her marriage, a Cary, and was a distant rela- tive of Alice and Phebe Cary, and also of llon. Samuel F. Cary. Mrs. Winget was left a widow in 1807, with six children. She died in 1860, aged eighty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Curry reared a family of ten children-five sons and five daughters, viz .: John; Harriet, widow of William Baird; Nancy; Mariah, widow of John Woodburn; James, deceased; Samantha, deceased; William W .; Phebe, wife of W. H. Williams; David; and James A., deceased, who died in the army. Mrs. Curry is still living on the old homestead at the advanced age of eighty-four years. She is enjoying good health, and in possession of all her mental faculties. She spent two days at the " world's fair," in 1882, and there saw the improvements of the country of threescore years, which was all accomplished under her observation. John Curry, the eldest son and child, was born in Jerome, December 22, 1817. December 9, 1845, he was married to Tabitha W. Gill, daughter of Jesse Gill, by whom he has had eleven children, viz .: Allen T., Lewis C., Thomas H., Frank P., Olive C. (wife of J. D. McCampbell), Jesse G., Stephenson, Jennie, Mantie, James E. and John M. Mr. Curry owns a valuable farm of 347 acres, and is a successful farmer and stock-raiser. Mrs. Curry is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Politically, Mr. Curry is Democratic.

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The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 115

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1254

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254