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Early in 1873, Dr. Hazzard & Son bought Sir Walter Scott, a Rose of Sharon, and, on the 15th of May, Hon. Alexander Waddle offered his splendidly bred herd at public sale. This herd consisted of thirty-one head, mostly descendants of imported cows and bulls which he had bought twenty years before, and not a single vitiating cross could be found in any pedigree, but yet high prices were not realized. Hon. John Howell paid $370 for Zara, belonging to the Zealous tribe, but he got Zelia of the same tribe, for $55. John Waddle and Dr. Haz- zard bought several cows. Mr. L. B. Sprague led off Blushing Maid, but Mr. John Heiskell preferred a Blushing Queen, and Mr. E. Merritt chose Beulah, while Mr. R. Hunt thought Zenith superior. Lord Stanwich did not live long enough to make much impression, Lord of the Isles was slaughtered, Zenobia failed to breed, but Mary, Zealous and Blushing Beauty became full of years, and did not go to the shambles until after a life of service. This was the last of the pioneer herds, all of which have subserved their mission, and their own- . ers are worthy of commendation, and should be remembered as public benefac-
tors. These veteran short-horners have realized that, however infallible the truism, like begets like, when applied to natural types, it is exceedingly tickle, when human hands essay to wield its prowess; that if animal form in the hands of Bakewell was as plastic as softened wax, not many Bakewells are produced in a century: that eminent breeders, like distinguished poets, are born, not made; that short-horn breeding inures to philanthropy, rather than to personal aggrandizement; that while its incertitude infatuates its votaries, it draws heavily upon their material resources.
Notwithstanding, as the old breeders retire, fortunately, the ranks are speedily filled by new adventurers, each hoping, that if a Bakewell or Colling should be needed, he will be the coming man.
Following closely Mr. Waddle's retirement, I. H. Hollingsworth, Esq .. established a new herd in the same neighborhood, by the purchase of several fine animals of Messrs. Hadley & King, Clinton County, Ohio. Mr. Hollings- worth wisely laid a good base, as time and good management will dem- onstrate. About this time, Mr. L. B. Sprague purchased Horace Mann, a bull of the Red Rose by Skipton tribe, bred by Mr. D. Selsor, Madison County, Ohio. On July 15, 1874, at the Ackley House stables, Mr. John Waddle offered twelve cows and one bull at public auction, but prices ruled so low that they were soon withdrawn from market. At this sale, Dr. Hazard & Son purchased Mistletoe 4th, a Donna Maria. But, on January 6. 1575, Mr. Waddle again brought his herd before the public, and closed it out at low figures. Mr. Levi Jones was, however, unfortunate in the purchase of Harmony Belle, a descend- ant of Dahlia, she failing to breed, but Dr. Hazzard & Son took Roval Lad 2d, a two-year-old bull of the Donna Maria tribe, at $160. Mr. William Wildman organized his herd by a draft of good animals from the herd of Mr. S. H. Had- ley, Clinton County, Ohio. In the fall of this year. Mr. J. M. Hodge concluded to engage in short-horn breeding, and purchased some very nice and fashion- ably bred animals of prominent breeders in Kentucky. June 22, 1876, Mr. L. B. Sprague made his final sale. Another fine day, a large crowd greeted Mr. Sprague.
At this sale, twenty five cows averaged $136; Horace Mann had become unsound and brought only $SO, but Mr. N. B. Sprague paid $245 for Oak Grove Duke, a young bull of the Caroline by Dashwood sort. At this sale, Mr. C. F. Roher purchased a number of fine cows and heifers; also Mr. George Watson
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HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
& Son, N. B. Sprague, D. Heiskell and several citizens of the county were pur- chasers. Mr. Roher headed his herd with Linwood Chief, a very fine young bull, bred by Mr. Bryan, near Urbana. Ohio, but, in November, Mr. Roher sold all the stock he had so recently collected, at public sale. At this sale, Mr. W. S. Thompson bought the bull just referred to, and four cows. During this year. Dr. Hazzard purchased Scottish Bluebell of C. M. Clark, Esq., and Victo- ria 10th and 11th of Mr. John Wilson. In 1877, Mr. George Watson & Son bought Equinox, a young bull of the Red Rose by Earnesty tribe, with several cows, of Mr. J. G. Dun, and made several important private sales. Clifton Duke 4th died about this time. October 3, 1878, Mr. W. Stickney bought at William D. Baird's sale a very nice cow of the Imported Princess by Belted Will tribe, and Dr. Hazzard & Son, a heifer calf of the same sort. Early in 1879, Mr. N. B. Sprague offered at public sale a draft from his herd; his cattle were in good condition. and brought fair prices. At this sale, Mr. Moore Good- fellow secured several fine animals, and Mr. Jacob Yeazel. Jr., bought Mr. Sprague's best breeding cow. Several other farmers of this county bought young bulls, but the females were generally taken by strangers.
This year was characterized by great activity among the short-horners in sales and purchases. Watson & Son sold ten head at good prices, and Hazzard & Son disposed of thirteen head, including Royal Lad 2d. W. S. Thompson sold Linwood Chief, and bought Loudon Duke from H. H. Hankin's herd, also four cows, all in calf, of J. D. Dun. Mr. D. Calvin procured three splendidly bred heifers from the herd of H. C. Merridith, Indiana. Messrs. M. J. Hodge and William Stickney brought from Kentucky some nicely bred young bulls, and Watson & Son bought three cows of Messrs. Black & Hays, Pickaway and Ross Counties, Ohio, and Hazzard & Son purchased Col. Foote of Mr. C. Dye, Miami County, Ohio. The quietude of ISSO was broken by Mr. N. B. Sprague buying a young bull of Mr. R. G. Dun; Mr. W. S. Thompson a Rose of Sharon cow at Hills & Co.'s sale, Delaware, Ohio, and Mr. A. Mouke a cow and bull calf of the same parties. There were at the present time ten established short- horn herds in the county (one bull and four cows constitute a herd), besides a number of bulls and cows owned by farmers not professional breeders. These ten herds aggregate 170 head of as pure bred short-horns as the country can produce, and contain representatives of all the leading tribes and families. Short-horn blood introduced into our county sixty years ago has produced a wonderful effect upon our common stock, adding 50 per cent to their value. An animal is rarely seen in the eastern portion of the county that does not show more or less of the short-horn characteristics.
It is worthy of record, that there is not a white bull, and but very few white cows, in any short-horn herd in Clark County. Red, red and white, and roan are the colors most desirable, and if the fashion continues to drift in the same direction, solid red will eventually be the prevailing color. Another not- able fact is, that Mr. C. F. Rohrer was the first and the only man to own a herd of short-horns west of Mad River, up to this date- December 11, 1880. Owing to the fact that a few of the central Western States are required to supply the export trade, which is but in its incipiency, young thoroughbred short-horn bulls are more eagerly sought after by farmers than at any previous time. Good, straight-pedigreed, blocky. and red colored yearling bulls will readily bring from 850 to $150, which will pay the breeder and the purchaser. Heifers geu- erally bring a little higher figure, their value being largely determined by the fancy the owner and buyer may have for the particular tribe to which the indi- vidual belongs. The average weight of a yearling bull is about nine hundred pounds; a yearling heifer will fall below this 200 pounds.
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HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
DEVON CATTLE.
J. J. Scarff, Esq., is the oldest and most extensive breeder of Devons in the county. His fine herd adds a very pleasing feature to our annual fair, w hence he enters upon an extended tour, exhibiting at many of the district and State fairs, both East and West, returning late in the fall with a huge bundle of red and blue ribbons, trophies of victory in the show-ring.
His only competitor in this county is Mr. Jesse Mead, who purchased his first Devons from him in 1868-69.
He also bought two females of Mr. James Buckingham, Ohio, in 1871-72, and one of Mr. G. Frantz, Ohio, the same year; he further added to his herd, by buying two cows of Mr. R. G. Hart, Michigan, in 1875, and a cow and calf of J. Showard, Esq., Ohio, in 1878. His herd at this time numbers thirty-one head. Mr. Mead is a regular exhibitor at our county fair, and, between these two rival herds, the badge of honor oscillates. Mr. Mead's herd frequently accompanies Mr. Scarff's through the whole fall campaign, winning many red ribbons over all competitors.
If short-horns have found a habitat east of Mad River, the Devons have been domiciled on its western banks.
Mr. John Gowar is the only person that ever gathered a herd of Devons east of Mad River, and his enterprise was unsatisfactory and short lived, there- fore grade Devons are rarely seen in the eastern portions of our county.
Messrs. Scarff & Mead find ready sale for their surplus stock at paying fig- ures; the latter has but recently received an order from a gentleman in New Mexico, for a draft from his herd.
HOLSTEIN CATTLE
have but recently been introduced into our county. Mr. W. Smith, of Bethel Township, about two years ago brought some very fine specimens of this breed from Pennsylvania, and, at the fair of 1879, they made their formal debut in the show-ring, thus seeking a public recognition of their avowed excellence, and challenged criticism by comparison with rival breeds. They promise to meet that long-felt want of farmers, to wit, extra dairy and butcher qualities com- bined, and will doubtless prove formidable rivals of the
ALDERNEYS,
which have already strongly intrenched themselves in public favor in certain localities, especially in and about Springfield, although but a few herds kept for breeding purposes have ever existed in the county. Mr. H. G. Hamlin began collecting his herd in 1875, from noted breeders of this sort of cattle, and claims the honor of having introduced the first registered Alderney bull (Marston) into the county. Since the establishment of his herd, he has sold about seventy head at private sale.
Ove heifer sold when two years old, and with her first calf, gave seventeen and one-half quarts of milk per day, and when at three years old, made seventeen and one-half pounds of butter per week. Mr. Hamlin has introduced into the county somo eight or ten head of registered Alderneys, and has on hand now seven. He reports that the demand for young stock is good at an advanced price.
Mr. Edward Harrison, of Springfield, has cultivated this breed of cattle perhaps as assiduously and as successfully as any of his cotemporaries. His herd is certainly the peer of any, in purity of blood, and in all the useful qual- ities for which this breed of cattle is distinguished, which gives to his surplus
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HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
stock a commanding place in the market. Mr. Harrison has introduced twelve gilt-edged pedigreed Alderneys into the county, and has now on hand a very superior herd.
Several years ago, Mr. W. B. Saylor, near New Carlisle, gathered a herd of choice Alderneys, and since his decease his widow has carefully preserved them in all their useful excellence, and has now in her possession several fine speci- mens of her own breeding. Where Mr. Saylor made his original purchases I have no means of knowing at hand.
Mr. J. J. Scarff, New Carlisle, a few years since purchased a registered Alderney, from which he has reared three calves, and, judging from his recog- nized ability and experience as a breeder of Devons, it will not be long before this nuclens will be developed into a herd of the first magnitude. Mr. Charles Anthony's La Belle Desreaux 2d. * No. 5096, is one of the most beautiful speci- mens of her race, possessing strongly marked characteristics of the breed, yet as symmetrical in form. and as mellow to the touch, as a first-class short-horn; she also gives abundant evidence of her high-born royalty by the highest test known, viz., the ability to uniformly reproduce herself. Mr. Anthony purchased this beautiful cow in Champaign County, Ohio, paying $200 for her.
Mr. William Garrison, of Mad River Township, is the fortunate owner of two heifers from this noble cow. William N. Whiteley, Esq., brought into this county a very finely bred cow (Della T.), but sold her to Mr. C. O. Gardner, of Springfield. Miss Susan Sintz and Mrs. Julia A. Burnett also own one or more registered Alderneys.
Besides those above referred to as registered, there are many others scat- tered through the county of the so-called Alderneys, but we have classed all those that cannot be registered as grades, however superior they may be in all the useful points of excellence.
For much of my information in regard to this breed of cattle, in our county, I am under obligations to my friend Mr. Edward Harrison, who remarks that the first introduction among us is involved in great obscurity and like the most of innovations, they had to win their way into popular favor. But a few years ago, a car load of these cattle were brought here from the East, but they brought such low figures that the experiment has never been repeated; nevertheless, fifty head of registered Alderneys have been owned in this county.
Since the foregoing was prepared for the press, it has been ascertained that Mr. Joseph Garst, of Pike Township, is the owner of a trio of fine Jer- seys, one of them registered in the American Jersey herd-book-the other two eligible to record in said book, applications for registry having already been forwarded. The animals referred to are as follows:
Nannie, No. 2,008; calved, March 29, 1875; sire, Kentucky, No. 628; Dam, Frances, No. 1,SOS.
Fonna, No. ; calved February 19, 1878; sire, Crown Prince, No. 330; Dam, Nannie, No. 2,008.
James, No. -; calved February 5, 1881; sire, Crown Prince 2d, No. 920; Dam, Nannie, No. 2,008.
$ American Jersey Cattle Herd Book.
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HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM SPRINGFIELD. OHIO, TO SEVERAL OF THE IMPORTANT CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
SPRINGFIELD TO
MILES.
SPRINGFIELD TO
MILE.8.
Cincincinati.
80
Philadelphia.
592
Dayton. .
24
New York.
712
('leveland.
165
Boston (Mass). 822
Crestline ..
88
Niagara Falls.
3.0
Delaware.
50
Detroit. .
204
Franklin
41
Pittsburgh
238
Urbana.
14
Omaha ..
723
Bellefontaine.
32
San Francisco. 2,637
Sandusky ..
135
St. Louis
421
Mechanicsburg
17
Buffalo. .
34S
Xenia ..
20
Salt Lake City.
1,813
London.
20
Kansas City.
697
Columbus.
45
Horse Shoe Bend.
353
Troy (Ohio).
18
Chattanooga ..
415
Chicago.
981
Mammoth Cave.
212
Washington, C. H.
35
Indianapolis.
130
Jackson ..
108
Savannah.
1,220
Toledo.
139
Galveston
1,444
New Orleans ..
1,000
Burlington
341
Washington, D. C.
532
POPULATION IN DETAIL OF SUBDIVISIONS.
This is from the census bulletins. No. 113 to 117, of corrected returns of the enumeration of 1880, and is therefore the official figures of Clark County population:
Bethel Township, including the following villages, 3,133: Donnelsville Village, 195; * Medway Village, 199; New Carlisle Village, 818.
German Township, including the following villages, 2,100; * Tremont Vil- lage, 279; * Lawrenceville Village, S2.
Greene Township, including the following villages, 1,522: * Clifton Village (part of), 22 (see Miami Township, Greene County). * Concord Village, 118: Cortsville Village, 57.
Harmony Township, including the following villages, 1,816; * Brighton Village, 93; Harmony Village, 81; * Plattsburg Village, 53; Vienna Village, 170.
Madison Township, including the following villages, 2,396; * Selma Vil- lage, 214; South Charleston Village, 932.
Mad River Township, including village of Enon, 1,812; Enon Village, 362.
Moorefield Township, including the village of Bowlusville, 1,345; * Bowlus- ville Village. 53.
Pike Township, including the following villages, 1,758; * Dialton Village, 95; #North Hampton Village, 173.
Pleasant Township, including village of Catawba, 1,581; Catawba Village. 250.
Springfield Township, including the following places, 24,455; * Edwards- ville, 129; * East Springfield Village, 148; * Florenceville Village, 12; * La- gonda Village, 474; * Sugar Grove Village, 146.
First Ward, 2,211: Second Ward, 2,100; Third Ward, 2.905; Fourth Ward, 1,396: Fifth Ward. 2,967; Sixth Ward. 3.368; Seventh Ward, 2,666; Eighth Ward, 1.351: Ninth Ward, 1,766; Springfield City, 20,730; West Springfield Village, 245.
NOTE-Village of Clifton. in Greene Township, and Miami Township. Greene County. 267.
It will be borne in mind that only a portion of the village of Clifton is in this county.
*The asterisk denotes that the linnts of the town or village are not clearly defined, and the population is there- fore, to some extent, estimated.
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JAS. P. LEFFEL SPRINGFIELD TP.
415-416
MRS. ELIZABETH LEFFEL (DECEASED
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419
HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
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Harmony
14.0
7.1
9.7
18.1
13.2
13.4
Lagonda.
Medway.
Medway
18.2,24.1
24.8
12.4
4.6
5.7
17.0
13.5
New Carlisle.
17.8 24.8
25.5
9.1
4.9
8.4
17.7
14.2
4.4
New Carlisle.
Lawrenceville.
Lawrenceville
6.5|
19.6
16.0
5.2
9.0
10.9
12.5
7.4
13.6 11.3
Northampton.
Northampton ..
10.2
22.5
19.7
2.7
5.3
8.8 16.4
11.1
9.9
7.6
3.7
Lisbon.
18.7
7.6 10.2
22.8
17.9 18.1
6.5
10.6
21.7
22.4
17.2 20.1
18.2 16.1;
8.7
Pitchin.
Flattsburg.
Selma.
l'barlestor.
South: Charleston ..
18.7
10.0
12.6
25.3
20.4
20.5
8.9
12.9/ 24 .:
24.9
19.7
22.1
2.4
7.5
5.3
4.6
South
Springfield.
Springfield.
8.1;
13.0 13.7
12.2
7.3
7.5
5.9
12.4
8.2| 15.0
14.6
3.3
7.0 17.9.13.9 18.7
18.7/20.4
7.3
Vienna
18.6
2.5
5.1
22.7 17.8 18.0
4.6|10.1 21.6
22.3
17.1
20.0. 6.1;13.8.
2.2
12.1
7.5.10.6:17.8
Eagle City.
6.0 17.0|14.5
7.5
9.0| 10.5 10.0
6.0 13.51
14.0
2.0
C.O. 14.6: 10.6 15.4 15.4| 17.1|
4.0
3.0 14.4
Eagle City.
TABLE OF DISTANCES BETWEEN THE SEVERAL TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF CLARK COUNTY.
Donnelaville ..
14.0
20.3
21.0
8.0
Enon.
15.6
20.5|21.2 11.5
2.5
Enon.
Harmony.
Lagonda.
9.2
14.0 11.3
12.6
9.7
9.9
5.5
Donnelsville.
Dialton ..
9.0 25.2 19.0
Dialton.
Catawba
10.8
6.3
Catawba.
Brighton
17.1
Brighton.
Bowiusville.
Bowlusville.
Tremont.
Tremont ..
19.5
4.7
7.3
23.6
18.7
18.9
5.5|11.0 22.5
23.2/18.0
20.9
2.9 11.6
Lisbon.
Pitchin.
14.7
16.9
18.9
18.8
13.9
13.0
8.4
9.0
17.7
18.4
23.2 18.0 29.9
7.0;
4.8
9.9
Selma
19.5
14.6
17.0
23.6 18.7
17.8; 12.0 13.8 21.5
2.4 11.1 11.8
6.6
9.5 10.61
6.6 11.4 11.4|13.1
3.2/ 20.3|
13.2
5.8| 10.8:12.0
Vienna.
:
·
Plattsburg.
420
DECENNIAL APPRAISEMENT OF REAL PROPERTY. CLARK COUNTY.
TOWNSHIPS, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
Number of Acres.
Value of Land.
Average Value per
Valueof Buildings,
Aggregate Value of
Average Value per
Value of City, Town
Value of Buildings.
Aggregate Value
of Lots and Build-
Aggregate Value
City, Town and
of Real Estate on
duplicate of 1880.
Number acres of
Number of acres
meadow or past-
Number of acres
11. ultivate or Woodland. _
Bethel Township ....
20975 2374
$833510 103010;
$39 73 43 39
$252470
$1085980 118090
$51 77 49 74
$24550
$58805
$83360
83360
112320
New Carlisle .
7100
13450
20550
20550
29690
Medway. ..
23210
819661
35 31
152900
972561
41 90
1820
8560
10380
Northampton.
926348
939100
16580
1229
3428
German Township
21237
774458
36 46;
151890
320348
43 61
21010
25630
46640
46640
+
Lawrenceville.
19724
782950
39 69
115860
898810 69560
46 37
12400
20940
33340
33340
30460
Greene 'Township ...
20213
773078
38 24
73400
846478
41 87
846478
$28600
13912
1021
Clifton School District.
2411
97583
40 47
14850
112433
46 63
112133
122710
1777
353
Clifton
1050
GIO
1660
1660
==
23771
920789
38 73
144860
1065649
44 82
1005649
1018840
14381
4518
48.12
Bowlusville ...
19570
090160
35 27
78660|
769120
39 28
769120
743400
8369
100031
1204
South Charleston School District ..
6312
262092
41 52
3×250
300342
47 58
300342
280840
2133
36911
485
South Charleston.
31650
1162365
36 72
113710
1276075
40 31
1276075
1323410
15643
10627
5380
Lisbou ..
Harmony ...
3030
8940
11970
11970
Vienna
1250
300
1550
1550
Brightun ..
1510
5000
6510
6510
Mattsburg.
25974
895976
34 49
64870
960846
36 98
13230
19900
33130
33130
Catawba.
30260
1652587
54 61
474420
2127007
70 29
4510
5300
9810
9810
Sugar Grave ...
4900
4300
9200
9200
Kant Springfield ...
6350
4130
10480
10480
Springfield City ..
3683739
3351331
7035070;
7035070
6004920
Totals ....
249187
£98463991
£39 51
$1702900: $11529299
$16 27
$3941964
$3631656|
$7476620: $19005919
$18001860
155396
47143:
46618
* In Bethel Township valuation.
+ In Pike Township valuation. In German Township valuation.
€ In Harmony Township valuation.
" In Springfield Township valuation.
NOTI .- From the official report of the Auditor of State , for 1880 ,Issu 2 in April, 1881.
HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
12566
7350
6058
Pleasant Township.
902580 33930
2127007
2146040
20882
1953
7425
Springfield Township.
O
0
Srever's Addition
...
Tremont ..
770
650
1420
1420
898810
895690
12454
4387
69560
83050
1050
867
17
Mad River Township. Nuon School District ... Enon ..
1500
57880
38 58
11680
3570
5100
8670
8670
972561
996010
16271
801
6135
Pike Townshlp ...
10380
+
$1162830 129300
17263 2079
1049 63
2663
New Cariisla School District ..
150801
Lands and Build-
acre, including
and Village lots.
Buildings.
ings.
ings.
in each Towns'p,
Village.
Aggregate Value
arable or piow
land.
ure land.
Acre
Etc.
45 56
1770
1000
2770
2770
3310
Cortsville
Moorefield Township ....
3870
580
3290
3870
49100
87100
136500
136500
182730
Harmony Township ..
820
1170
1990
1990
15-10;
6150
7690
7690
..
O
" In Greene Township valuation.
¿ In Moorefield Townsnfp valuation.
2:26
Donnelsvillo ...
Madison Township ...
060846
+
$1085980 118000
421
HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY.
VALUATION OF REAL PROPERTY IN TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
NAMES OF TOWNS AND VIL- LAGES.
In what Township Situated.
Value of lots and lands.
Value of buildings.
Aggregate value of lots, lands and buildings.
Aggregate value of
lots, lands and
bldg's, na egnal-
ized by the State Board in 1870.
Bow hisville ..
Moorefield
S580
$3200
$3870
$2838
Brighton
Harmony ..
1250
300
1550
3820
Pleasant.
12230
19900
33120
29507
Clifton ..
Greene.
1770
1000
2770
7412
Crisville.
Greene.
1050
610
1660
1122
Docuelsville.
Bethel
7100
13450
20550|
2634S
East Springfield
Springfield.
6250
4130
10480
5813
Enon ..
Mad River.
12400
20940
33340|
25635
Harmony
Harmony
770
650
1420
+1283
Lisbon
Harmony
3570
5100
8670
7872
New Carlisle
Bethel
24555
58805
833601
67593
Northampton
Pike.
1510
5000
6510!
5007
Platsburg.
Harmony
4900
4300
9200
South Charleston
Madison
49460
97100
136560
147876
*Sagar Grove.
Springfield
4510
5300
9810
Tremont.
German
21010
25630
46640
19985
Vienna
Harmony
3030
8940
11970
9949
Totals in towns
$160225
$280325
441550
377812
City of Springfield.
7035070
4401903
Add for farm lands.
11529299
11022311
Total real property in Co.
$19005919
$15804526
820
1170
1990
1676
Medway
Bethel.
1820
8560
10380
7744
*Seever's Addition
Springfield
1540
6150
7690
5799
* Lawrenceville.
German.
AS RETURNED TO THE STATE BOARD FOR YEAR 1880.
*No valuation reported in 1870.
fNoblesville in 1870.
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PART IV.
HISTORY OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD.
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BY OSCAR T. MARTIN.
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" Where peered the hut, the palace towers. * * Joy gaily carols where was silence rude, And cultured thousands throng the solitude."
We are acquainted with no history which approaches to our notion of what a history ought to be; with no history which does not widely depart either on the right hand or the left from the exact line .- LORD MACAULEY.
423
424
CITY OF SPRINGFIELD.
BY OSCAR T. MARTIN.
TTO dignify with the sonorous name of history the unpretentious narrative of events which here follows may be an unwarranted assurance. It is simply an attempt to gather in a connected chain links which have been loosely scat- tered around us. They have been found in disconnected sketches, historical collections, jottings in the press, and in the memories of the elder citizens. It has been well said that an outline scrawled with a pen which seizes the marked features of a countenance will give a much stronger idea of it than a bad paint- ing in oils. If these pages will, therefore, by a strict adherence to facts, and a partiality to dates and prominent circumstances connected with the origin and growth of the city, outline its progress and present to the reader a comprehen- sive glance of the subject, more will be accomplished, in the opinion of the writer, than if an attempt had been made at literary display, or accuracy sacri- fired for the graces of rhetoric. Much has been written here which, perhaps, had better been omitted, and it is equally true that much has been omitted which should have been written; and, while the censor may be just in his most caustic criticisms, yet the great historian whose words we have placed upon the lintel has given us the consolation that this will not be the first failure in his- torical ventures.
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