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George W. Carey
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George W. Carey.
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1880 Samuel Irons ..
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George W. Carey
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1881 'Samuel Irons
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The Warren County Horticultural Society .- This society was organized at a meeting in the Mechanics' Institute Hall at Lebanon March 30, 1867. The following are the names of the first officers: President, Dr. James Scott; Vice Presidents, William Ritchey and James B. Graham; Secretary, George W. Frost ; Treasurer, Charles A. Smith; Executive Committee, Samuel Irons, George Longstreth, Benjamin Dawson, Moses Harlan, John T. Mardis and Dr. James Clark. The society holds regular monthly meetings. During the first ten years of the history of the society, several exhibitions of fruits, flowers and garden products were given under its auspices. The exhibition of the society held at Lebanon in August, 1874, during the meeting at Lebanon of the State Horticultural Society, was one of more than usual interest, and was continued for two days. Since 1875, the society has co-operated with the County Agri- cultural Society in its annual fairs, and has given no annual horticultural exhi- bitions independent of the fairs. In 1877, the society ceased to hold its meet. ings in a public hall, and adopted the plan, which has been continued until the present time, of meeting at the residences of the different members, according to a schedule agreed upon before the beginning of each year. At each meet- ing, an essay is read and discussed; fruits, flowers and vegetables, in their sea- son, exhibited; general questions relating to horticulture are discussed; a din- ner is served, and considerable time given for social enjoyments. The meet- ings are both pleasant and profitable. The society has recently largely in- creased its membership, and it exerts a good influence in the improvement of the gardens, orchards and dooryards of the county.
The Presidents of the society: Dr. James Scott, 1867; Benjamin Dawson, 1868-70; Samuel Irons, 1871-73; S. S. Scoville, M. D., 1874; John T. Mar- dis, 1875-79; William T. Whitacre, 1880-81. Secretaries: George W. Frost, 1864-71; Marion D. Egbert, 1872-75; William H. Bean, 1876-82.
GROWTH OF POPULATION AND WEALTH.
The population of Warren County at different periods will be shown by the following figures:
Year.
Population.
1803
.(estimated) 4,270
1810
9,925
1820
17,837
1830
21,468
1840
23.141
1850
25,560
1860
.26,902
1870
26,689
1880
28,392
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These figures exhibit in a striking manner the fact that, twenty-five years ago, the county reached a position when its population manifested a decided tendency to remain stationary. This has been the case with all the older agri- cultural counties of Ohio. While there has been in Ohio a marked increase of population from its first settlement, in recent years the increase has been con- fined to those counties in which there were either unoccupied lands, mining and manufacturing interests, or cities. As long as the county could offer im- migrants a large tract of unoccupied territory, it grew in population with mar- velous rapidity, but the ratio of increase became less with each decade until 1870. The slight decrease between 1860 and 1870 is doubtless due to the effects of the great civil war. The influx of population to the cities is one of the most important and striking features of the progress of population in mod- ern times. The rapid increase of population in three counties adjoining War- ren is due to the growth of the three cities, Cincinnati, Dayton and Hamilton. Gen. James A. Garfield, in a letter published in the Ohio Statistical Report of 1871, pointed out the fact that by far the largest item of increase in population in Ohio is found in the growth of eleven of the largest cities, and that, sub- tracting the growth of these cities, the population of the eleven counties in which they were situated had remained nearly stationary. In one-third of the older counties, the population had for ten years remained nearly stationary, and in several counties there had been a positive decrease. "All the merely ag- ricultural districts," said Gen. Garfield, " are suffering a constant drain of pop- ulation to supply the growth of cities and towns."
Warren County, however, made some increase between 1870 and 1880. What effect on the increase of population the development of manufacturing interests at Franklin and the opening up of railroad communication with the county seat may have, time alone can determine.
POPULATION IN 1880, BY TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
[Names of villages are indented and placed under the townships in which they are respectively situated, and the population of the township includes, in every case, that of all villages within it.
The villages marked with an asterisk (*) are unincorporated, and their popu- lation is given only approximately, as their limits cannot be sharply defined. ]
Clear Creek Township, including the following villages. 2,782
*Red Lion Village. 163
*Ridgeville Village. 74
Springboro Village. 553
Deerfield Township, including the following villages. 2,011 *Foster's Crossing village (part of). 155 (See Hamilton Township.)
Mason Village 431
*Socialville Village. 59
"Twenty Mile Stand Village 47
Franklin Township, including the village of Franklin. 4,148
Franklin Village. 2,385
Hamilton Township, including the following villages. 2,523
*Cozaddale Village .. 143
*Dallasburg Village.
49
*Foster's Crossing Village (part of). (See Deerfield Township.) 67
*Hopkinsville Village
Maineville Village 324
*Murdoch Village 31
*South Lebanon Village 42
*Zoar Village 23
Harlan Township, including the following villages. 2,242
Butlerville Village. 167
*Level Station Village. 46
*Middleboro Village. 45
*Pleasant Plain Village. 151
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Massie Township, including the village of Harveysburg.
1,431
Harveysburg Village.
589
Salem Township, including the following villages 2,052
Fredericksburg Village.
52
Morrow Village
946
Roachester Village.
116
Turtle Creek Township, including the following villages. *Genntown Village.
99
Lebanon Village
2,703
*Union Village.
175
*Deerfield Village
311
Washington Township, including the following villages.
1,390
*Freeport Village.
85
*Fort Ancient Village
34
Wayne Township, including the following villages.
2,904
*Corwin Village ...
188
*Mount Holly Village
165
*Raysville Village ..
110
Waynesville
793
Total population
28,392
NOTE-Foster's Crossing Village in Deerfield and Hamilton Townships, 202.
POPULATION BY TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES, 1870, 1860 AND 1850.
1870.
1860.
1850.
TOWNSHIPS
AND
VILLAGES.
Total.
Native.
Foreign.
White.
Colored.
White.
Colored.
White.
Colored.
Clear Creek.
2605
2509
96
2502
103
2728
57
2655
115
Springboro
477
448
29
458
19
472
40
390
64
Deerfield ..
1965
1804
161
1886
79
1970
51
1835
28
Mason.
387
359
28
374
13
414
27
408
23
Franklin ..
3012
2799
213
2959
53
2930
37
2502
42
Franklin.
1832
1710
122
1802
30
962
10
Hamilton ...
2466
2308
158
2268
198
2338
2063
5
Maineville.
290
282
8
286
4
Harlan (a) ..
2396
2238
158
2392
4
Butlerville.
191 70
68
2
70
217
1178
122
42
Sale m (a) (c).
2102
1882
220
2064
38
3814
49
3507
18
East Morrow.
262
235
27
262
Fredericksburg
64
50
14
64
..
3
720
458
1
Roachester
155
147
8
134
21
218
12
Turtle Creek
5650
5290
360
5354
296
5235
199
5288
143
Lebanon
2749
2580
169
2531
218
2320
169
1960
128
Union.
232
175
57
232
8
1686
33
1689
23
Deerfield.
274
253
21
274
22
1404
6
1560
6
Fort Ancient
43
36
7
5
37
160
2943
122
3859
222
Corwin.
135
119
16
134
1
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Crosswicks
48
46
2
34
14
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Mount Holly
205
193
12
203
2
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...
...
Waynesville.
745
716
29
743
2
825
4
739
5
a) In 1860 Harlan from Salem.
(6) In 1850 Massie from Washington and Wayne.
c) In 1860 part of Union to Salem.
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Harveysburg.
388
384
4
300
88
420
25
287
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Morrow
708
578
130
56
1207
1
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Freeport.
37
32
Wayne (b).
2905
2785
120
2745
Union (c) ..
1089
1021
68
1081
Washington (b).
1229
1173
11
191
208
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1270
1237
33
1053
441
7
295
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5,799
Union Township, including village of Deerfield.
1,110
New Columbia
180
705
42
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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
The assessment of property under the laws for the collection of taxes affords an imperfect means of comparing the wealth of the county at different periods. It gives by no means the market value, being generally much below the selling price. It is, however, the best means at our command to show the growth of the wealth of the county. Subjoined are the statistics for several years, giving the total value of all real estate, both in the towns and in the country:
YEAR.
Value of Lands.
Average Value per Acre of Farming Lands.
Value of Real Property in Towns.
Total Value of Real Property in the County.
1825
$1,316,210
$5 61
$171,344
$1,487,554
1895
1,416,068
5 11
188,116
1,604,184
1840
2,245,822
8 33
175,287
2,421,109
1846
5,204.232
20 90
431,518
5,635,750
1858
7,868,742
31 10
789,778
8,658,515
1859
8,862,912
802,372
9,178,026
1870
14,330,864
56 80
1,957,709
16,288,573
1880
44 80
13,116,717
A change in the mode of assessing property was adopted in 1846, after which the valuation approached much nearer the true value than in the preced- ing years. This accounts for the great rise in values between 1841 and 1846. Prior to 1826, real estate in Ohio was put upon the duplicate for taxation for State purposes only. All lands in the State were divided, for the purposes of taxation, into three grades, called first quality, second quality and third quality, and a uniform rate of taxation was fixed by the Legislature for all lands of the same grade. For six years succeeding the organization of Warren County, the rate of taxation on lands of the first quality did not exceed 1 cent per acre, and at no time prior to 1826 did it reach 4 cents per acre. There were re-valua- tions of the real property of Ohio in the years indicated in the table. The value of property is given in the table as it was returned by the Appraisers and before it was equalized by the State Board of Equalization.
VALUE OF REAL ESTATE BY TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNS IN 1870. [The State Board of Equalization deducted 161; per cent from the fol- lowing valuations.]
MAMES OF TOWNSHIPS.
Number of Acres.
Value of Land.
Average Value per
Value of Buildings,
etc.
Aggregate Value of
Lands and Buildings.
Ave age Value per
Buildings.
Clear Creek.
26,949
$1,719,494
$68 81
$270,495
$1,989,989
$73 84
Deerfield.
20,566
1,121,852
54 55
173,333
1,295,185
62 98
Franklin
22,043
1,201,516
54 51
189,250
1,390,766
63 09
Harlan.
28,879
928,808
32 58
140,775
1,064,078
37 50
Hamilton.
22,425
905,026
40 35
190,162
1,095,188
48 88
Massie.
18,768
571,062
41 49
81,539
652,601
48 14
Salem.
18,754
524,135
88 10
105,800
629,935
45 79
Turtle Creek
48,562
2,781,256
62 70
862,440
3,093,696
71 02
Union ..
11,697
648,628
55 45
109,825
758,453
64 84
Washington
21,158
664,639
31 41
71,481
786,120
34 79
Wayne.
87,992
1,423,083
50 84
201,770
1,624,853
58 05
Totals.
252,988
$12,483,994
$49 29
$1,896,870
$14,990,864
$56 80
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NAMES OF TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
IN WHAT TOWNSHIP SITUATED.
Value of Lots Value of Build- ings. and Lands.
Value of Lots, Lands and Buildings.
Black Hawk
Harlan
$440
$700
$1,140
Butlerville.
Harlan
3,985
19,665
23,650
Corwin
Wayne.
2,360
12,275
14,695
Crosswicks.
Wayne.
720
700
1,420
Dallasburg ..
Hamilton.
490
2,475
2,965
Deerfield.
Union
10,282
20,925
31,207
East Morrow
Salem .
20,290
20,400
40,690
Fort Ancient.
Washington
499
2,600
3,093
Foster's Crossings.
Hamilton.
1,037
11,000
12,037
Franklin.
Franklin
72,525
137,264
209,789
Fredericksburg.
Salem .
495
2,400
2,895
Gainsboro ..
Deerfield
1,064
700
1,310
Harveysburg.
Massie.
14,798
54,270
69,068
Hopkinsville
Hamilton.
536
2,400
2,936
Lebanon.
Turtle Creek
256,260
687,049
943,309
Mary Ellen
Union.
1,550
2,025
3,575
Mason.
Deerfield
16,200
57,880
74,080
Maineville.
Hamilton
16,596
41,260
57,856
Middleboro
Harlan
685
2,300
2,985
Morrow.
Salem .
46,454
90,150
196,604
Mount Holly.
Wayne
1,000
2,865
3,865
New Columbia.
Harlan.
3,625
12,000
15,625
Osceola ..
Harlan.
380
1,000
1,380
Raysville.
Wayne.
1,665
3, 725
5,390
Red Lion
Clear Creek.
2,893
8,825
11,718
Ridgeville
Clear Creek.
2,375
5,875
8,250
Roachester.
Salem ..
2,046
4,000
6,046
Springboro.
Clear Creek
28,946
64,750
93,696
Utica. .
Clear Creek.
1,835
8,100
4,435
Waynesville
Wayne.
51,826
118,585
170,411
West Woodville.
Harlan
260
825
585
Total in towns
.$564,221
$1,893,488
$1,957,709
Total in towns and country.
$16,288,578
VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY BY TOWNSHIPS AND TOWNS IN 1853. [The State Board of Equalization added 6 per cent to the appraisements as given in the table. ]
NAMES OF TOWNSHIPS.
Number of Acres.
Average Value per Acre.
Aggregate Value.
Clear Creek.
27,456
$84 93
$965,088
Franklin
22,585
36 00
801,260
Deerfield
21,144}
33 00
697,760
Union.
16,931
30 00
507,930
Turtle Creek
43,695
37 50
1,638,563
Wayne ..
24,497}
32 00
783,920
Salem
37,426
26 00
973,276
Hamilton.
22,057
29 00
639,653
Washington
20,600
20 00
412,000
Massie
16,605₺
27 00
449,342
Totals
252,947
$31 10
$7,808,742
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NAMES OF TOWNS.
IN WHAT TOWNSHIP.
Value of Buildings.
Value of Lots.
Aggregate Value.
Springboro
Clear Creek.
$26,873
$8,712
$35,585
Ridgeville.
Clear Creek.
3,300
395
3,695
Franklin
Franklin.
70,350
25,159
95,509
Mason ..
Deerfield.
37,760
Gainesboro
Deerfield.
1,055
Deerfield
Union
13,025
12,575
25,600
Mary Ellen
Union
750
650
1,400
Fredericksburg
Union
1,110
435
1,545
Lebanon.
Turtle Creek.
308,409
Waynesville
Wayne
107,646
32,936
140,582
Crosswicks.
Wayne
475
355
830
Mount Holly
Wayne
2,565
720
3,285
Corwin
Wayne
5,900
2,080
7,980
Morrow
Salem
75,137
Maineville
Hamilton.
19,110
8,803
27,913
Fort Ancient
Washington
2,190
1,543
8,733
Harveysburg .
Massie.
13,540
6,215
19,755
Total of towns.
$176,834
$100,578
$789,773
Total of real property in towns and country in 1853
$8,658,515
POLITICS.
The political history of Warren County may be summed up in the state- ment that the majority of her voters were at first anti-Federalists, or Jefferso- nian Republicans, and, in later years, Anti-Democratic. The names of the polit- ical parties to which a majority of the people belonged at different periods are anti-Federal, or Republican, from 1801 to 1828; National Republican, from 1828 to 1834; Whig, from 1834 to 1855; and Republican, from 1855 to the present time.
When new political parties were being formed, about 1828, the voters of Warren County were for awhile nearly equally divided between the Jackson and the anti-Jackson parties. At the October election in 1828, the Jackson candidates for the General Assembly and for Governor received a small major- ity, but at the Presidential election, in November of the same year, the Adams men succeeded in giving their candidate a majority of thirty-seven votes in the county. The next year, the county took its place among those which were thenceforward decidedly anti-Jackson.
The history of political parties in the two counties of Butler and Warren presents a curious subject for the sociologist. These two counties were created by the same act of the Legislature; they were settled about the same date; they lie side by side, and have the same fertile soil; for more than a quarter of a century, they were alike in politics, and gave similar majorities for the same State and national tickets; but about 1830, they separated in politics, and from that time forward have never given majorities for the same party. For fifty years, Butler has been decidedly Democratic, and Warren decidedly anti-Dem- ocratic.
The method of nominating candidates for office is a subject of interest and importance. Previous to 1828, candidates were generally placed before the people without the intervention of a party caucus, a political convention or a primary election; yet, in the bitter contest over the formation of a State gov- ernment in 1802, the Republicans of Hamilton County nominated ten candi- dates for members of the convention called to form a constitution. After the establishment of a newspaper at Lebanon, the names of candidates for county offices and members of the Legislature were usually announced by themselves
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or their friends in that paper for several weeks prior to the election. Some- times there were seven or eight candidates for a single office, but usually there were but two or three. The personal popularity of the candidate and his fit- ness for the office were of more importance than his views on national political questions. Although the Republicans outnumbered their opponents more than two to one, Federalists were sometimes elected county officers and members of the Legislature.
In 1824, the leading men of the county, who had before been united in their efforts to elect Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, were for the first time di- vided in their choice for President. The name of Francis Dunlevy was placed on the Electoral ticket for John Quincy Adams; John Bigger and young Tom Corwin supported Henry Clay; Judge Kesling supported Andrew Jackson; and Thomas R. Ross, who preferred Crawford, in the absence of an Electoral ticket in Ohio for Crawford, also supported Jackson, while the friends of all the Pres- idential candidates united in the support of Jeremiah Morrow, who was that year a candidate for re-election to the office of Governor, and received nearly the whole vote of the county. It is worthy of note, too, that, although Henry Clay received fewer votes in the county than either Adams or Jackson, yet John Bigger, who was a supporter of Clay, and whose name was placed on the Clay Electoral ticket, was this same year elected a Representative of the county in the Legislature.
The first national political convention in the United States for the nomi- nation of candidates for President and Vice President was held by the National Republican party at Baltimore, December 12, 1831. At that time, Warren and Butler Counties constituted a Congressional district, and, some weeks before the assembling of the Baltimore convention, there was held, at a tavern near the line separating the two counties, a mass meeting of the opponents of the administration of Jackson, at which Gov. Morrow was appointed to represent the district in the national convention. He accepted the appointment and at- tended the convention, which nominated Henry Clay and John Sergeant for President and Vice President.
In 1828, party lines were closely drawn between the Adams men and Jack- son men. Rallying committees were appointed in the various townships for the purpose of getting out a full vote at the election for President. At that time and for many succeeding years, one of the most hotly contested questions at issue was which was the old Republican party. Both parties claimed to be the original Jeffersonian Republicans. Federalist, the name of the party to which Washington and Hamilton belonged, had long before become a term of reproach.
In 1828 or the year following, for the first time in the history of elections in the county, an effort was made to elect members of the Legislature as partisan supporters of a particular candidate for President, and a Jackson ticket was nominated at a caucus of the party leaders. This method of choosing mem- bers of the General Assembly seems to have been distasteful to the majority of the staid yeomanry at that time, but before many years elapsed, the Whigs, who controlled the county, began to make party nominations, both for legislators and county officers. At a large Whig mass meeting, held at Waynesville in 1840, John Probasco was nominated for the Legislature, and candidates were selected for county officers to be elected that year.
Nominations were made by the Whigs at mass meetings for several years. The balloting for candidates at these meetings was conducted in a loose manner, and there were abundant facilities for fraud. A living witness narrates having seen, in a mass meeting held in a grove north of Lebanon, one voter deposit forty tickets for his candidate in the hat which served as a ballot-box.
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The primary-election system was introduced by the Whigs before the death of their party, and it has been continued by the Republicans until the present time. At the primaries, Judges and Clerks of the election are chosen, poll- books are kept, tally-sheets made out, and formal returns are made to a County 'Central Committee.
The political campaign of 1840 was one of peculiar interest to the Whigs ot Warren County. The county furnished that year the successful candidates for Governor and member of Congress, while the successful candidate for Pres- ident resided in the adjoining county of Hamilton. The bitter contest between the opposing parties began early in the spring, and was continued with increas- ing excitement until the Presidential election. Harrison and Tyler had been nominated at Harrisburg December 6, 1839. Corwin was nominated for Gov- ernor at a great mass meeting at Columbus, February 22, 1840. The public mind was soon put in commotion by mass meetings and mass conventions, some of which were of enormous size. A very large mass convention of the Whigs of the Fourth Congressional District, composed of the counties of Warren, Clin- ton and Highland, was held at Wilmington May 22. For two or three weeks before the meeting, local committees were at work throughout Warren to have a large delegation from the county in attendance, and their efforts were success- ful. It was estimated that there were 10,000 persons present at the convention, a large proportion being from Warren County. The people went on foot, on horseback, in wagons, and in log cabins and immense canoes placed on wheels, drawn by six horses. They carried banners, flags, coon-skins and kegs of hard cider, and sang doggerel ballads made for the occasion, accompanied with the noise of drums, fifes and fiddles. There were three large canoes and one log cabin from Warren County at the Wilmington convention. Nathaniel McLean, of Warren County, was President of the meeting, and Thomas Corwin was the orator. Before the address of Corwin, the main business before the convention was transacted. The people from the three counties, being separated into three meetings, appointed fifty delegates from each county for the purpose of nomi- nating a candidate for Congress. The delegates, having met, reported to the convention that they had agreed upon ex-Gov. Jeremiah Morrow as the candi- date for the unexpired term of Hon. Thomas Corwin, and also for the ensuing full term. This report was then unanimously confirmed by a vote of the whole convention. J. Milton Williams, Esq., of Warren County, had, in a speech in Wilmington the previous evening, declined being a candidate for Congress.
The largest mass meeting held in the United States in this campaign, noted for monster assemblies, was at Dayton, where the body of people assembled covered ten acres by actual measurement. Thousands of the Whigs of Warren County attended this immense gathering. In September, Gen. Harrison, Gov. Thomas Metcalfe, of Kentucky, and others, addressed a Whig meeting in a grove north of Lebanon, at which about five thousand were present. Gov. Wilson Shannon and Senator William Allen addressed a Democratic meeting at the same place in this campaign. It was during this campaign that Corwin, the Whig candidate for Governor, became most widely known as a popular and effective political speaker. One of the best of the poetic effusions of this mem- orable political contest was by John W. Van Cleve, of Dayton, and was sung to a popular air. The opening stanza was:
"Success to you, Tom Corwin! Tom Corwin, our hearts love you! Ohio has no nobler son, In worth there's none above you, And she will soon bestow On you her highest honor, And then our State will proudly show Without a stain upon her."
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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY.
STATISTICS OF VOTES IN WARREN COUNTY.
1803-At the first election for Governor, Warren was a part of Hamilton
County.
1805-For Governor, Edward Tiffin, Republican, 473 ; no votes for any oppo-
nent returned.
1807-For Governor, Nathaniel Massie, Republican, 281 ; Return J. Meigs, Jr., Federalist, 136 ; total, 417.
1808-For Governor, Thomas Worthington, Republican, 460 ; Samuel Hunt- ington, Federalist, 263 ; Thomas Kirker, Federalist, 64 ; total, 787.
1810-For Governor, Thomas Worthington, Republican, 538; Return J. Meigs, Jr., Federalist, 170 ; total, 708.
1812-For Governor, Return J. Meigs, Jr., War Federalist, 472 ; Thomas
Scott, Anti-Federalist, 268 ; total, 740.
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