The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 47

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1882
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Number of Pages: 1081

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1836 -- Benjamin Blackburn, George Harlan, Otho Evans. 1837-38-Benja- min Blackburn, John Hopkins, Otho Evans. 1839-40-Benjamin Blackburn, John Hopkins, Jacob Pence. 1841 -- William H. Hamilton, John Hopkins, Jacob Pence. 1842-William H. Hamilton, John Hokpins, Benjamin Black- burn. 1843-William H. Hamilton, James Sweney, Benjamin Blackburn. 1844-David Evans, James Sweney, Benjamin Blackburn. 1845-David Evans, James Sweney, Isaac Leming. 1846-David Evans, Benjamin Black- burn, Isaac Leming. 1847-49-John M. Snook, Benjamin Blackburn, Isaac Leming. 1850-Henry Sherwood, Benjamin Blackburn, Isaac Leming. 1851 .- Henry Sherwood, Benjmain Blackburn, Jacob Egbert. 1852-59-Henry Sherwood, David Deardorff, Jacob Egbert. 1860 -- Henry Sherwood, David Deardorff, William H. Hamilton. 1861-66 -Henry Sherwood, Joseph S. Reece, William H. Hamilton. 1867-Henry Sherwood, Hugh J. Death, Will- iam H. Hamilton. 1868-Ephraim L. Mehan, Hugh J. Death, William H. Hamilton. 1869-70-Ephraim L. Mehan, L. G. Anderson, John M. Dyer. 1871 -- Joel Evans, L. G. Anderson, John M. Dyer, 1872-Joel Evans, L. G. Anderson, John Bone. 1873 -- Joel Evans, Nathan Keever, John Bone. 1874 -77-W. P. Mounts, Nathan Keever, John Bone. 1878-W. P. Mounts, Na- than Keever, Perry Lukens. 1879-80-W. P. Mounts, E. K. Snook, Perry Lukens.

ASSOCIATE JUDGES.

Under the constitution of 1802, the Court of Common Pleas was composed of a President Judge and three Associate Judges, appointed by the Legislature for seven years. William James, 1803-4; Jacob D. Lowe, 1803-24; Ignatius Brown, 1803-24; Nathan Kelley, 1804-4; Jacob Reeder, 1804-7; Peter Burr, 1807-10; George Harlan, 1810-16; Matthias Corwin, 1816-24; George Harns- berger, 1824-25; Wyllys Pierson, 1824-34; George Kesling, 1824-34; Michael H Johnson, 1825-34; Benjamin Baldwin, 1834-38; David Morris, 1834-35; Samuel Caldwell, 1834-35; James Cowan, 1835-42; John Hart, 1835-42; Eg. bert T. Smith, 1838-39; William S. Mickle, 1839-46; Daniel Crane, 1842-49; Richard Parcell, 1842-51; James Cowan, 1846-51; Rezin B. Edwards, 1849- 51.

PROBATE JUDGES.

The office of Probate Judge was created by the constitution of 1851. John C. Dunlevy, 1852-55; James M. Smith, 1855-58; James C. Sabin, 1858-60; John C. Dunlevy. 1860-64; James Scott, 1864, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dunlevy; William W. Wilson, 1865-69; Thomas R. Thatcher, 1869-72; William W. Wilson, 1872, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thatcher; John W. Keys, 1872-79; Joseph W. O'Neall, 1879.

MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.

Territorial Legislature, 1801-Francis Dunlevy and Jeremiah Morrow.

First General Assembly, March, 1803-Senators, Jeremiah Morrow and Francis Dunlevy; Representatives, John Bigger and William James.

Second General Assembly, December, 1803-Senators, John Bigger and William C. Schenck; Representative, Ephraim Kibby.

Third General Assembly, 1804-Senators, John Bigger and William C. Schenck; Representatives, Matthias Corwin and Peter Burr.

Fourth General Assembly, 1805 -- Senator, John Bigger; Representatives. Peter Burr and Matthias Corwin.

Fifth General Assembly, 1806 -- Senator, Richard Thomas; Representa- tives, Peter Burr and Matthias Corwin.

Note The Senatorial district was then composed of Warren, Butler, Mont- gomery, Greene and Champaign Counties.

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Sixth General Assembly, 1807-Senators, Richard S. Thomas and John Bigger; Representatives, George Harlan and Matthias Corwin.

Seventh General Assembly, 1808-Senator, John Bigger; Representatives, Matthias Corwin, George Harlan and John James.

Note-Warren County was then a separate Senatorial district.

Eighth General Assembly, 1809-Senator, John Bigger; Representatives, Matthias Corwin, Michael H. Johnson, Jesse Newport.

Ninth General Assembly, 1810-Senator, John Bigger; Representatives, Matthias Corwin, David Morris, Nathan Kelly.

Tenth General Assembly, 1811 -- Senator, John Bigger; Representatives, Matthias Corwin, Jesse Newport. David Morris.

Eleventh General Assembly, 1812-Senator, Thomas B. Van Horne; Repre- sentatives, John Welton, Michael H. Johnson.

Twelfth General Assembly, 1813-Senator, John Bigger; Representatives, Matthias Corwin, Michael H. Johnson.

Thirteenth General Assembly, 1814-Senator, John Bigger; Representa- tives, Matthias Corwin, Michael H. Johnson.

Fourteenth General Assembly, 1815-Senator, John Bigger; Representa- tives, Matthias Corwin, Samuel Caldwell.

Fifteenth General Assembly, 1816-Senator, Thomas B. Van Horne; Rep- resentatives, Michael H. Johnson, David Sutton.

Sixteenth General Assembly, 1817-Senator, Thomas B. Van Horne; Rep- resentatives, Michael H. Johnson, Nathaniel McLean.

Seventeenth General Assembly, 1818 -- Senator, Michael H. Johnson; Rep- resentatives, Nathaniel McLean, David Sutton.

Eighteenth General Assembly, 1819 -- Senator, Nathaniel McLean; Repre- sentatives, John Bigger, George Kesling.

Nineteenth General Assembly, 1820-Senator, Nathaniel McLean; Repre- sentatives, John Bigger, William C. Schenck.

Twentieth General Assembly, 1821-Senator, Nathaniel McLean; Repre- sentatives, John Bigger, Thomas Corwin.

Twenty-first General Assembly, 1822-Senator, Nathaniel McLean; Rep- resentatives, John Bigger, Thomas Corwin.

Twenty-second General Assembly, 1823-Representatives, John M. Hous- ton, David Sutton.

Twenty-third General Assembly, 1824 -- Senator, Samuel Caldwell; Rep- resentatives, Matthias Corwin, John Bigger.

Twenty-fourth General Assembly, 1825-Senator, Samuel Caldwell; Rep- resentatives, John Bigger, George J. Smith.

Twenty-fifth General Assembly, 1826 -- Senator, Jacob D. Miller; Repre- sentatives, George J. Smith, John Hopkins.

Twenty-sixth General Assembly, 1827-Senator, Jeremiah Morrow; Repre- sentatives, George J. Smith, John Hopkins.

Twenty-seventh General Assembly, 1828-Senator, Samuel Caldwell; Rep- resentatives, Benjamin Baldwin, James McEwen.

Twenty-eighth General Assembly, 1829-Senator, Samuel Caldwell; Rep- resentatives, Thomas Corwin, Jeremiah Morrow.

Twenty-ninth General Assembly, 1830-Senator, John Bigger; Represen- tatives, Joseph Whitehill, Jacoby Hallack.

Thirtieth General Assembly, 1831-Senator, John Bigger: Representa- tives, Joseph Whitehill, Jacoby Hallack.

Thirty-first General Assembly, 1832-Senator, Jacoby Hallack; Represent- ative, Joseph Whitehill.

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Thirty-second General Assembly, 1833-Senator, Jacoby Hallack; Repre- sentatives, John Bigger, Benjamin Baldwin.

Thirty-third General Assembly, 1834-Senator, John M. Houston; Rep- resentative, Joseph Whitehill.

Note Joseph Whitehill resigned and Thomas R. Ross was elected to fill the vacancy June 1, 1835, and served in an extra session convened June 8, 1835. Thirty-fourth General Assembly, 1835-Senator, John M. Houston; Rep- resentatives, Jeremiah Morrow, John Hunt.

Thirty-fifth General Assembly, 1836-Senator, George J. Smith; Repre- sentative, John Hunt.

Thirty-sixth General Assembly, 1837-Senator, George J. Smith; Repre- sentative, A. H. Dunlevy.

Thirty-seventh General Assembly, 1838 -- Senator, George J. Smith; Rep- resentative, John Hunt.

Thirty-eighth General Assembly, 1839-Senator, George J. Smith; Rep- resentative, William Sellers.

Thirty-ninth General Assembly, 1840-Senator, Isaac S. Perkins; Repre- sentative, John Probasco, Jr.

Note-The Senatorial district was then composed of Warren and Greene. Fortieth General Assembly, 1841-Senator, Isaac S. Perkins; Represent- ative, John Probasco, Jr.

Forty-first General Assembly, 1842-Senator, W. H. P. Denny; Repre- sentative, John Probasco, Jr.

Forty-second General Assembly, 1843-Senator, W. H. P. Denny; Repre- sentative, Edward Noble.

Forty-third General Assembly, 1844-Representative, Edward Noble. Note Montgomery and Warren then composed the Senatorial district. Forty-fourth General Assembly, 1845-Representative, Edward Noble. Forty-fifth General Assembly, 1846-Senator, John Hopkins; Representa- tive, Robert Wilson.

Forty-sixth General Assembly, 1847 --- Senator, John Hopkins; Representa- tive, Robert Wilson.

Forty-seventh General Assembly, 1848-Representative, John A. Dodds. Forty-eighth General Assembly, 1849-Representative, John A. Dodds. Forty-ninth General Assembly, 1850-Representative, John A. Dodds.

Note The Forty-ninth was the last held under the constitution of 1802. Under the first constitution, members of the Legislature were elected annually; under the constitution of 1851, they are elected every two years.

Fiftieth General Assembly, 1852-Representative, Durbin Ward.

Fifty-first General Assembly, 1854-Senator, Granville W. Stokes; Rep- resentative, Daniel Crane.

Fifty-second General Assembly, 1856 -- Representative, Seth S. Haines. Fifty-third General Assembly, 1858-Senator, Lauren Smith; Representa- tive, J. Milton Williams.

Fifty-fourth General Assembly, 1860-Representatives, James Scott, Mah- lon Wright.

Fifty-fifth General Assembly, 1862 -- Senator, A. G. McBurney; Repre- sentative, James Scott.

Fifty-sixth General Assembly, 1864-Senator, A. G. McBurney; Repre- sentative, James Scott.

Fifty-seventh General Assembly, 1866-Representative, J. H. Coulter. Fifty-eighth General Assembly, 1868-Representative, James Scott. Fifty-ninth General Assembly, 1870-Representative, W. W. Wilson.

. Sixtieth General Assembly, 1872-Representative, James Scott.

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Sixty-first General Assembly, 1874-Senator, Benjamin Butterworth; Rep- resentative, James Scott.

Sixty-second General Assembly, 1876-Senator, Peter M. Dechant; Rep- resentative, Thomas M. Wales.

Note-Peter M. Dechant died and William H. Stokes was elected to fill the vacancy. Sixty-third General Assembly, 1878-Senator, William H. Stokes; Rep- resentative, Thomas M. Wales.

Sixty-fourth General Assembly, 1880-Senator, J. L. Mounts; Represent- ative, James Scott.

Sixty-fifth General Assembly, 1882-Senator, Lewis G. Anderson; Repre- sentative, James Scott.

MEMBERS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS.

Convention of 1802-Jeremiah Morrow, Francis Dunlevy.

Convention of 1850-George J. Smith, J. Milton Williams.

Convention of 1873-Thomas F. Thompson.

OTHER OFFICERS.

Members of Congress-Jeremiah Morrow, 1803 to 1813; John McLean, 1813 to 1816; Thomas R. Ross, 1819 to 1825; Thomas Corwin, 1831 to 1840; Jeremiah Morrow, 1840 to 1843; Thomas Corwin, 1859 to 1861.

United States Senators-Jeremiah Morrow, 1813 to 1819; Thomas Corwin, 1845 to 1850.

Governors of Ohio-Jeremiah Morrow, 1822 to 1826; Thomas Corwin, 1.840 to 1842.

Lieutenant Governor-Andrew G. McBurney, 1866 to 1868.

Judges of Supreme Court of Ohio-John McLean, 1816 to 1823; Joshua Collett, 1829 to 1836.

Judge of United States Supreme Court-John McLean, 1829 to 1861.

Cabinet Members-John McLean, Postmaster General, 1823 to 1829; Thomas Corwin, Secretary of Treasury, 1850 to 1853.

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PART IV.

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.

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TURTLE CREEK TOWNSHIP-LEBANON.

COMPILED BY JOSIAH MORROW.

[The writer of the following township and town history desires to be re- garded as its compiler rather than its author. Several papers by other hands have been consulted and freely used. Records have been examined wherever it was possible to find them. On the subject of the early settlement of the township, the chief authority is A. H. Dunlevy. During the last twenty-five years of his life, Mr. Dunlevy wrote and published in various newspapers a number of articles on the early settlement of Lebanon and vicinity. These ar- ticles, which give much of the pioneer history of the township, were collected and preserved by the writer, and it has been his purpose in the following pages to give all the important facts contained in them. Mr. Dunlevy wrote from memory, and scarcely ever took the trouble to verify his dates by an examina- tion of records. The dates given by him are sometimes changed in the follow- ing pages, and the facts derived from his papers are united with those obtained from other sources. The writer desires to express his great obligations to An- thony Howard Dunlevy, who wrote more than any other person concerning the early history of the Turtle Creek Valley, in which he lived for eighty-four years, and who died at the venerable age of eighty eight years, while these pages were being prepared for the press. At the time of his death, he believed, after in- vestigation, that he was the oldest living man born north of the Ohio River.

The valuable journals of the Shaker Society at Union Village, extending over a period of more than seventy-five years, have been freely opened to the examination of the writer. Much assistance has been derived from the files of the Western Star. The officers of various societies and churches have freely given the aid which could be derived from the records under their charge. Acknowledgments are due to many intelligent persons in different parts of the township, and in other places, for generous assistance. No source of informa- tion available to the writer has been left unsearched. Fully sensible of its im- perfections, the compiler trusts that the history will be found trustworthy in all important matters.]

ORGANIZATION.

Turtle Creek Township was organized August 15, 1804. Originally, the township included a part of Union and all of Salem Township north and west of the Little Miami. The original boundaries were as follows: "Beginning on the Little Miami River, on the south side of Section No. 9, Township 4, Range 4, thence west, including two tiers of sections off of the south side of the Fourth Range, to the county line, at the south side of Section No. 3, Town- ship 2, Range 4; thence south six miles to the south side of Section No. 3, Township 3, Range 3; thence east eight miles to the northeast corner of Sec- tion No. 32, and southeast corner of Section No. 33, Township 5, Range 3; thence south to the Little Miami, between Sections 31 and 25; thence up the Miami

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along the same to the beginning." Elections were held at the house of Ephraim Hathaway, in Lebanon.

The east, north and west boundaries of the township remain as originally established. The south boundary only has been changed. The township is the largest in the county, and contains sixty-three entire sections and seven fractional sections.

EARLY SETTLEMENTS.

The first settlement in the township was made at Bedle's Station in 1795. September, 1795, is believed to be the time at which the first families were brought to that place and lived in the cabins protected by Bedle's Block House. Here William Bedle, with his sons-in-law and their families, lived in much simplicity. The clothing of the grandchildren is said to have been made principally out of dressed deerskin, and some of the larger girls were sometimes clad in buckskin petticoats and short gowns. Within two or three years, other settlers gathered around in such numbers that Bedle's Station, as it was long known, although the blockhouse erected as a protection against the Indians proved to be unnecessary, became a well-known place and quite a strong settle- ment.

The first cabin in the immediate vicinity of Lebanon was built by John Shaw, a member of the Seceder Church, in the fall of 1795, and the next spring he brought his family to the place. He had a large family of six sons and as many daughters, nearly all full-grown, large and robust. He owned the west half of the section on which the northwest part of Lebanon stands, and was soon able to clear and cultivate a considerable tract.

Ichabod Corwin, who owned the east half of the same section, came from Bourbon County, Ky., and settled, in March, 1796, on land now in the north- west part of Lebanon. His first cabin was on the west side of the North Brauch of Turtle Creek. He had first seen this land while serving on a military expe- dition against the Indians. In the winter and spring of 1799 and 1800, he built a second and better house of hewed logs, pointed with lime mortar and covered with walnut shingles, put on with pegs instead of nails. It stood near the center of the town of Lebanon as afterward laid out, and became known as " the house of Ephraim Hathaway on Turtle Creek "-the first seat of justice of Warren County. In the spring and summer of 1796, Mr. Corwin succeeded in clearing and planting with corn about twelve acres. Before the corn was worked, the Indians stole all his horses. He returned to Kentucky to obtain another team. He there purchased a yoke of oxen and hired a Yankee to drive them to the plow-a work then unknown to the Kentuckians. After his horses were stolen, he carried meal or flour from Waldsmith's mill, on the Little Mi- ami, twenty miles distant, to provide his family with bread. Ichabod Corwin died October 26, 1834. On his tombstone we read: "The deceased was the first settler on the place where Lebanon now stands -- March, 1796."

Henry Taylor settled on the west half of Section 5 before the close of the year 1796. He built a house on the south side of Turtle Creek, half a mile be- low the site of Lebanon. His residence was a frame one-story building, covered with split-and-shaved weather-boards and shingles made on the ground, and was tenantable as late as 1840. About 1803, he sold his place and moved to Butler County, Ohio.

Samuel Manning, a native of New Jersey, emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1795. He purchased of Benjamin Stites the west half of the sec- tion on which the court house stands, at $1 per acre, and settled east of the site of Lebanon about 1796. He died at Lebanon in 1837, aged seventy-five years.

John Osborn, Sr., also settled east of Lebanon about the year 1796. He

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died at Lebanon in 1859, aged ninety years. Among the early settlers east of Lebanon were Daniel Banta, Jacob Trimble, William Dill, Patrick Meloy, and several brothers named Bone.

During most of the winter and spring of 1798-99, a company of Indians had their camp on the hillside south of the Cincinnati pike and on the western part of what is known as Floraville, in Lebanon. They encamped for a short time for several succeeding springs in the vicinity of Lebanon, for the purpose of making sugar.

In 1798, Matthias Corwin, the father of Gov. Corwin, settled on a farm northeast of Lebanon. His mother, brothers and sisters accompanied him from Kentucky. It is said that, while the neighbors were raising his cabin, Matt- hias Corwin took his gun, and, going but a short distance into the woods, killed a large supply of turkeys for the dinner prepared on the occasion. A flock of several hundred wild turkeys, and droves of six or eight deer, would sometimes be seen; at other times, both deer and turkeys were scarce.

Ichabod B. Halsey was an early settler and prominent citizen of the town- ship. He was the son of Maj. Daniel Halsey, of New Jersey, and received from his father a section of land on condition that he would settle upon it and improve it. The section was No. 31, north of Lebanon, and contained over eight hundred acres, all good land. Mr. Halsey became one of the wealthiest and most prosperous citizens of the township; but, about 1822, he lost all his property by becoming surety for his friends. His splendid farm and his chat- tels were sold to pay the debts of the business firm for which he had become surety, and he and his family were turned out of their comfortable home. Much sympathy was expressed for the unfortunate pioneer, but the sympathy of Judge Francis Dunlevy took a practical turn. The Judge invited Mr. Hal- sey and his famtly to make their home on his farm, which was gladly accepted. Twenty acres were assigned them at one corner of the farm, where a cabin was built and other improvements made with the aid of neighbors. Here the un- fortunate family had a rude but comfortable home for some years. Before the organization of Turtle Creek Township, Mr. Halsey's land was in Franklin Township, and his name is found in the list of Trustees of the latter township.

In the autumn of 1798, Aaron Hunt and family settled in the section south of the present site of Red Lion. They emigrated from Washington County. Penn. Aaron, the father, and his oldest son, Charles, made the journey on horseback to Cincinnati, where they awaited the arrival of the remainder of the family, who came down the Ohio on a flat-boat. In the winter of 1799-1800, John Hunt, son of Aaron, then a lad seven years of age, broke his arm between the elbow and shoulder by falling against the sharp end of a log There was no doctor within less than thirty miles. John's mother assumed to responsi- bility of acting as surgeon for the broken arm, and set the fractured bone, and soon the young patient mended rapidly. "In 1802, the first wheat crop raised by the Hunt family ripened. The only implement the family had with which to harvest it was a butcher knife. Mrs. Hunt, at her own suggestion, started for Cincinnati to purchase a sickle, leaving a babe three months old in the care of the children. She went on horseback, riding on a man's saddle, taking with her a piece of linen manufactured by herself with which to buy the sickle. After an absence of three days and two nights, having been detained one day by a storm, she returned with the needed implement. The babe did well in her absence. The wheat was cut, threshed and ground, but it proved to be 'sick wheat,' the bread made from it producing sickness at the stomach and vomit- ing."

Benjamin Morris emigrated from New Jersey about 1794, and, after pass- ing a few years in Hamilton County, came, in 1797, to the neighborhood now

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known as Green Tree. About the same time, his father, Isaac Morris, pur- chased and settled upon a tract of about four hundred acres, now owned by the North Family of Shakers.

David Reeder, on February 28, 1797, received a deed from Jedediah Tin- gle for 320 acres, one-half of Section 12, west of Lebanon, for which he paid $213.33. About the same time, he settled upon this tract and gave name to that branch of Turtle Creek which flows past the Children's Home, which was long known as Reeder's Run. Jedediah Tingle, about 1797, settled upon the north half of the same section.

Elder Daniel Clark, the pioneer Baptist preacher, in 1797 settled upon a lit- tle tract of land purchased by him about four miles northeast of the site of Lebanon. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and was licensed to preach in that State, and, about 1790, removed to Columbia, where he preached to the Bap- tists in the absence of Elder John Smith. James McBride, in his pioneer biographies, says of the Baptists at Columbia: "In February, 1792, the con- gregation resolved to build a house of worship, which was to be thirty-six feet long by thirty feet wide, with galleries. It was not completed until late in the year 1793. On September 23, 1793, Elder John Gano, a venerable Baptist minister, visited Columbia and preached to a large and attentive congregation in a beautiful grove of elms near the village (the meeting-house not being yet completed). After the sermon, Mr. Gano, in connection with the pastor, Mr. Smith, ordained Daniel Clark to the Gospel ministry, in a solemn and impressive manner. This was the first ordination in the Miami country." Elder Clark is regarded as not only the first ordained minister in the Miami country, but the first in the Northwest Territory. He began preaching at the Clear Creek and Turtle Creek Baptist Churches about 1798, and continued to preach at Lebanon until he became too feeble by reason of old age. He died in 1834, aged ninety years. He is described as a plain man, with little education, his sermons being marked by frequent quotations from the Scriptures. The Bible is said to have been the only book with which he was familiar, except, perhaps, " Pilgrim's Progress," but his life and conduct commanded respect and confi- dence.

The first mill in the township was built by Henry Taylor, on Turtle Creek, near where the present western boundary of Lebanon crosses the stream. It was built about 1799. Samuel Gallaher, an early settler on Turtle Creek, was a millwright, and assisted in building Taylor's mill. Another millwright of the early times was named Sample, whose marriage to the daughter of Henry Taylor, in 1798, was the first wedding in the Turtle Creek settlement.

A man named Gunsawly is said to have been the first shoemaker in the settlement. He went from house to house, making and mending shoes for the settlers. Some of the first settlers, however, did their own cobbling.

The wheelwright business at that time was an important one, as the flax and wool for clothing was all homespun.

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The History of Warren County, Ohio, Part 47

Author: W. H. Beers & Co. Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1081

Author: W. H. Beers & Co.
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