The history of Clinton County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory, Volume 2, Part 16

Author: Durant, Pliny A. ed; Beers (W.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Chicago : W. H. Beers
Number of Pages: 1410


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THE CINCINNATI, WILMINGTON & ZANESVILLE RAILROAD.


In 1852. work was begun in Adams Township in the construction of the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville Railroad. Adams Township, at an elec- tion previously held, had voted in favor of the county issuing bonds to the amount of $200,000, to assist in building it .* The first station or stopping place for trains in Adams Township was at Andrew's Mill. In 1855, the sta- tion was changed by the railroad company from Andrew's Mill to a point on the road a half-mile farther east, near Burton's Mill, formerly Holaday's, Asa Green donating to the company sufficient land for a switch and other needed railroad purposes. The building of the railroad was another great event to the citizens of Adams Township and Clinton County, and marked a new era in the history of both. It reduced the time required to make a trip to Cincinnati to less than three hours, so that one could make the round trip in a day and bave several hours for business in the city. All were greatly gratified with the building of the railroad, except the regular wagoners. They made a busi- ness of hauling produce to the city, and of bringing back a load of merchan- dise for the merchants at the towns in the interior. They argued that the facility and rapidity of transportation by rail would throw them out of their usual employment. And so it did. They had to dispose of their teams and wagons, and find other pursuits in life. Heretofore, the surplus products of the farms were hauled to Cincinnati in wagons, the teamsters and farmers find- ing bed and board at the wayside taverns, where, after their wagons were se- curely placed in the wagon-yard and the teams stabled, fed and watered, they gathered in groups around the fire and spent their evenings in interchange of ideas and in telling stories and cracking jokes, varied occasionally by a drink all around at the bar of the inn. But the genius of steam came and put a stop


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to it all. The country taverns along the pike, in the bar-rooms of which at night, around the blazing fires, many a good story had boon told and many a joke and jest and laugh went round, were closed for want of custom. No wonder that Henry Clay, the " mill-boy of the slashes," and Tom Corwin, the "wagoner's boy," were popular with these sturdy men of the past generation. Tom Corwin, as the old couplet had it in the campaign of 1840,


"At the crack of his whip, he would halloo Whoa! Haw! Hurrah for Tom Corwin the wagoner's, boy!''


VILLAGES.


There are only two villages in the township, Sligo and Ogden, neither of which is incorporated. Sligo had no existence prior to the building of the Goshen & Wilmington Turnpike. A man by the name of George Taylor, a . hatter by trade, had a shop there on a lot in the forks of the road long before the town was laid out. This lot was afterward owned by John Kimbrough, on which he built a house in 1841 or 1842, the first two-story house erected in the town. In this building he kept hotel for several years. A toll-gato house (the first one) was built by John Shields in 1840. The lot is now owned by the heirs of John Murphy. The second toll-gate house was built by Rebecca Kersey, sister of Thomas Kersey, but the gate was kept by the Widow Beach. The toll-gate was taken down several years ago, but the house is still standing. John Swindler was the first blacksmith at Sligo, and John Hawthorn the next. Hawthorn left in the spring of 1839, and went to Eaton. John Kimbrough commenced smithing in the same shop, a log one, in 1839. It stood north of the pike, but on the south side of the old road. That shed was torn down, and a brick one built by Kimbrough, in 1841.


Soon afterward, George Slack built a two-story brick residence on the south side of the pike and occupied it until he moved West. It is now owned by Stillings. Simon Harvey settled on his farm and lived there long before Sligo was a town. The town got its name from the brand of iron that was used at the smithshop at the time, it having been made at the Sligo Mills, in Pittsburgh, they probably having taken the name from a town of that name in the northern part of Ireland. Matthias O'Neall, who owned a farm south of the pike, sold to John Kimbrough an acre and a half of land July 12, 1841, and a year later sold him three-fourths of an acre more. This was afterward divided up into smaller lots by Kimbrough, and sold to various persons. He built his smithshop on one of the lots. Kimbrough, in 1842, also bought three-fourths of an acre of Rebecca Kersey. She had some years before bought seventeen acres of William Hadley. She afterward sold lots to Calvin An- drew, J. W. Slack, H. S. Slack, Delos Ferris and Mary J. Hadley. O'Neall afterward sold lots to E. & J. Hadley, Delos Ferris and Simon Harvey. Will- iam S. Riley sold a lot to E. K. Howland April 17, 1848, and afterward sold lots to Jesse Thatcher and Cyrus E. Carter. Edward S. Davis sold fourteen and a half acres to Mary S. Hadley, in December, 1848, and later sold two and a fourth acres to William Henson, and one- fourth of an acre to Sarah Hardesty.


Jesse Thatcher built the house now owned by Samuel Furgeson. William S. Riley built the house owned by Evelyn Moore. John J. Longshore built the house now owned by the Widow Lancaster. Of the earlier residents of Sligo, there were John Kimbrough, John H. Longshore, Delos Ferris, George Slack, J. W. Slack, Allen Hazard, John H. Moore, Dr. W. W. Sheppard, Si- mon Hadley, Simon Harvey, Calvin Andrew, William S. Riley, Jesse Thatcher, Ira Kimbrough, ' John M. Brazil, Isaac Schooley, Edward S. Davis, David Thatcher, Cyrus E. Carter, Henry Harvey, John P. Black, Elihu Hambleton, Henry Hazard, Alfred Hollcraft, Jabez H. Hadley, Egbert K. Howland, Will-


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jam Henson and Ira Ferris. Allon Hazard, Jacob Hadley, William L. Had- ley, John H. Moore and James Haney, were some of the earlier storokeepers. Joseph W. Slack for many years was engaged in the manufacture of carriages, buggies and wagons, sometimes giving employment to as many as fifteen men.


Ogden had no existence until some years after the railroad was built. It was first called Linden, but there being a station on the Marietta & Cincinnati road by the name of Lyndon, many mistakes occurred in shipping freight out from Cincinnati, causing confusion and delay in receiving them. The name, therefore, was abandoned, and that of Ogden substituted, being named for Ogden on the Pacific Railroad. It was made a passenger and freight station in 1855, by the railroad authorities; $700 were raised by the citizens of the vicinity and donated to the railroad company for the purpose of getting the station established at that point, the stopping-place for passengers, therefore, being about half a mile farther wost, at Andrew's Mill. Afterward, there was some land donated to the company for stockpens, switch, etc. To Asa Groen belongs the credit of getting the station established there more than to any other person. He put up the first building in Ogden. It was used as a sta- tion-house and storeroom, and has been occupied ever since as such, some ad- ditions having been added since. He also put up the freight depot with the assistance of some other parties of the neighborhood. A small house, built by Peyton Burton, was moved across the creek to a lot and used for a residence by John Marsh, the first station agent. John Wisman built the second resi- dence in Ogden He was a miller by trade Asa Green laid off five lots in 1857, on the south side of the railroad, on land bought of John B. Carter. In 1859, Jacob Beard built a residence. In December, 1860, Carter laid off four lots on the north side of the railroad, and Asa Green five. In June, 1866, there was a meeting-house lot and five others laid off by Asa Green, mak- ing twenty in all. In the spring of 1864, David F. Carter built a residence, now owned by Joseph Smith, and in March of that year I. W. Quinby bought the corner lot of Asa Green, and moved a two-story frame building from Sligo upon it. He used the lower story for a storeroom, and fitted up the upper story for a residence. In October of that year, he and Amos Huffman, under the firm name of Quinby & Huffman, opened a store in the lower room. In 1864, Abraham Haney built a residence since known as the Joseph Coate prop- erty. Various other residences were built from time to time. Adam Osborn built the first blacksmith shop about 1864, and has occupied it continuously ever since. The station and railroad agents have been as follows, and in the following order: John Marsh, Jacob Beard, Isaac Roberts, Huffman & Osborn, Jeremiah Kimbrough, George W. Owens and Clare & Colter.


POST OFFICES.


There have been two post offices in Adams Township. The first was at Sligo, established the 13th of March, 1844. This post office remained located at Sligo until the 8th of September, 1865, when it was removed to Ogden by order of the Post Office Department in order to avoid the expense of conveying the mail from the station at Ogden to and from Sligo, and to afford better mail facilities. The following are the names of the various Postmasters, and when appointed:


At Sligo-George Slack, March 13, 1844; William W. Sheppard, March 11, 1850; Allen Hazard, January 15, 1852; Joseph W. Slack, October 31, 1857; William W. Sheppard, December 8, 1862.


At Ogden -- Isaiah W. Quinby, September 8, 1865; David S. Osborn, Feb- ruary 20, 1866; Isaac Roberts, September 30, 1867; Isaiah H. Osborn, De- cember 15, 1873; Samuel G. Green, February 5, 1875; George W. Owens,


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SCHOOLHOUSES.


In the year 1808, the first schoolhouse was built in the township. It was erected on the land of Isaac Harvey, about one-fourth of a mile north of Todd's Fork. As early as 1812 or 1813, there was a small log schoolhouse built on the Nathaniel Carter farm, a short distance west of the present residence of Elijah Coate. As early as 1814, there was a schoolhouse built on the Isaac Stout farm, near his north line, about one-fourth of a mile east of Lytle's Creek Meeting-House. In 1813 or 1814, a schoolhouse was built on the farm of George Carter, who had recently purchased it of Jeremiah Kimbrough. It was built by the neighbors, of logs, Jeremiah Kimbrough, Thomas Kersey and Nathan Mendenhall assisting Carter in the work. Other schoolhouses were built from time to time, as the farms were opened up. About 1820, there was a schoolhouse built in the woods near Lytlo's Creek Moeting-House, and soon after another on the road leading from the Lebanon road to the Maden settlement, on Todd's Fork. The first schoolhouse at Springfield was bailt by the Friends of Springfield Monthly Moeting, in 1835. It was under their control and management for many years, and afterward became a district schoolhouse. There was a schoolhouse built at an early day on Isaac Chew's land, more lat- terly known as the McKnight farm. In 1834, there was a frame schoolhouse built on what was then the Holaday farm, afterward and since known as the Quinby farm. It was weather-boarded on the outside, and ceiled overhead on the inside. Between the studdings in the sides and ends, mortar made of clay had been filled in to make it warm and answer instead of plastering. These walls were whitewashed from time to time with blue clay. Around the room next the wall were placed rudely constructed benches made from slabs obtained at the saw-mill. Built out from the wall all around, and supported by brackets underneath, were wide boards that answered the purpose of desks. The scholars sat facing the wall, except the smaller children, who were seated around the stove that occupied the center of the room. About the year 1845, there was a neat frame schoolhouse built at Lytle's Creek Meeting-House, by the Society of Friends. After several years, it became a district schoolhouse, under the control of the Boards of Education of Adams and Union Townships. All these schoolhouses have passed away. Scarcely a vestige of them remains to mark the spots where they once stood. With the adoption of the school law of 1853, a different system of maintaining schools from that which had before prevailed was inaugurated. The township was divided into subdistricts, and redistricted throughout. The old schoolhouses were generally abandoned, new sites procured, and new schoolhouses erected. These were in the main commodious and comfortable, and furnished with properly-sized and substan- tial desks, with folding seats. In this respect the schoolhouses of the pres- ent day are in marked contrast with those of the early days. The log fire- place, the greased paper windows, the stools and seats without a support for the back, the absence of blackboard and maps were common then.


SCHOOL-TEACHERS.


The first school in what is now Adams Township was taught by William Holaday, in the Harvey Schoolhouse, in the year 1808, soon after it was erected. George Carter began teaching as early as 1812 or 1813. He taught in a schoolhouse on his own farm for several terms, and afterward at Lytle's Creek, and various other places in the county. Warren Sabin, Joseph Doan, son of Joseph Doan, Sr., John Harvey, son of William Harvey, James Dakin, Henry Harvey, Eli Harvey, son of William Harvey, Thomas Kersey, Hiram


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Maden and James Osborn were teachers of the early days, in point of time ranging from 1808 up to 1825. Among what may be termed the second genera- tion of teachers, were William Cooper, James Crawford, Thomas Green and Henry Zimmerman. William Cooper owned an acre of land on the State road, in the Osborn neighborhood, on which he built a small house in which he taught a few of the children of the neighborhood, occasionally teaching some district school. He was a bachelor, and lived entirely alone. Of him it can be said emphatically that he ruled by love, and the same may be said of George Carter. Cooper was a kindly-hearted and benevolent man, making at times sundry little presents to his pupils, in a quiet way that was sure to win their esteem. The little house in which he lived so long, and in which he gathered around him his little flock, is still standing, although removed to the opposite side of the road from where it formerly stood. James Crawford was also a bachelor. He was a strict disciplinarian, requiring good order on the part of the pupils, and neatness and exactness in their work. He taught much at Lytle's Creek, and for many years in what was known as the Quinby School- house. Henry Zimmerman was the great grammar-school teacher of forty years ago. He knew Kirkham's grammar by rote. He was the author of a grammar. He was an itinerant teacher, eccentric in manner and disposition, and voluble of speech. His memory was wonderful. Any one might read a verse from the Bible at random, and he could immediately give the number and chapter of the verse, and probably repeat the next verse.


All of the first generation of teachers are gone. But few of the second generation yet remain. Of those who taught in Adams Township, or lived in it from 1835 to 1860, may be mentioned Rachel Lomax, William Bates, Jacob Connor, Jesse G. Starbuck, Jabez Hadley, Amos Coffman, Thomas Hinds, Jo- sephine Quinby, Thomas M. Quinby, Elwood Hollingsworth, Joseph Moore, J. M. Moore, Jesse H. Kirk, Obediah Allen, Miriam Quinby, Wilson Hobbs, Joseph Hale, Aaron Harvey, Cyrus Green, Jeptha Garner, Rebecca Harvey, Eliza Ogborn, Susan Thornberry, Jeremiah Howell, E. B. Harlan, Hannah Quinby, I. W. Quinby, David S. Pyle.


CHURCHES.


About the year 1809, an indulged meeting of the Society of Friends was held in the Harvey Schoolhouse, the request for the same having been granted by the Centre Monthly Meeting. In 1812, the first church in the township was built at Springfield, and a preparatory meeting established. The ground on which it was built was the graveyard ground near by, being donated for that purpose by Isaac Harvey. In 1818, the privilege of holding a monthly meeting was granted the society, which has been held there continuously ever since. The meeting-house at Springfield was built in 1850, it being the third one built at that locality.


In 1817, the Friends' Church at Lytle's Creek was built by the Friends of that vicinity. William Jones and Eli Millikan were the carpenters. Three acres of land were donated by Richard Fallis for a church site. It is no longer used as a church, having been sold to Emer McMillan, to whose farm it was removed about ten years ago. It was used as a house of worship until 1869. In the year 1866, two new churches were built by contributions from the membership of the Methodist Protestant, Church, in the way of subscrip- tions in money, material and labor, under the direction of the Rev. Winans, assisted by Thomas McDonald, an influential member of the Methodist Prot- estant Church. The one at Ogden was known as the Ogden Methodist Protes- tant Church, and that at Sligo by the name of Union Chapel. In 1869, the membership having become very weak, and the Society of Friends at Lytle's


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Creek Meeting-House being desirous of changing their place of meeting to that locality, the Trustees sold the church at Ogden for a merely nominal con- sideration to the Society of Friends and deeded the same to them through the intervention of a third party. They have occupied it ever since as a house of public worship. For several years, dating back as far as 1842, there were Methodist meetings held at intervals at the Quinby Schoolhouse. These meetings were conducted by the Rev. James Villars, who is still living, and who, some ten years ago, built Villars' Chapel, in Vernon Township.


Politically, Adams Township has been strongly Republican since the for- mation of the party in 1855. Prior to that it was a Whig township. It has been so overwhelmingly Republican that in township elections but little at- tention has at times been paid to the politics of certain candidates for office. When it came to a State or county election, her Republican majority was im- mense, considering the number of her electors. For years, the Democratic vote did not embrace one-tenth of the total vote cast. At one time, it ran down as low as thirteen during the time of the war. In 1876, the township gave at . the Presidential election 175 votes for Hayes, and 29 for Tilden. In 1880, the vote for Garfield was 191, and the vote for Hancock 23.


ADAMS TOWNSHIP IN THE WAR.


The township responded nobly to the call for troops at the beginning of ',' the war, and ever afterward until its close. There were always enough volun- teers to fill the township's quota of troops and keep it clear of the different. drafts of men that were ordered. A young man by the name of Isaac Tyson is said to have been the first volunteer. The company and regiment in which he enlisted are difficult to ascertain, as he left no relatives in the township. It is not now known that he lived to return from the war. The following is a list of the names of the soldiers who volunteered in the service, from the town- ship so far as can be ascertained, with the company and regiment in which each served, if now known:


William H. Andrew, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Wesley Andrew, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Jacob Andrew, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Abraham Anson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


John Anson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Clinton Anson, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Benjamin Anson, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Joshua Albertson, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


John M. Brazil, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Asa Carter, Company -, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


John Carter, Company -, One Hundred and Ninety.third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


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Mahlon Daugherty, Company K, Thirteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.


James Hartman, Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Albert Harvey, Company -, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Calvin Haines, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


James Harvey, Company I, Seventy-ninth , Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


John Hazard, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Joseph Halo, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Henry Harvey, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


EnCEJohn Harlan, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Aaron Harvey, Company D, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery. '


Benjamin F. Howell, Company -, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


David Jenks, Company F, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Garland Jobe, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. William Jobe, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Andrew Jobe, Company D, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


David H. Ogborn, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


William Maden, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Isaiah H. Osborn, Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteor In- fantry.


Seth W. Osborn, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Philip R. Osborn, Company -, Eleventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Henry Osborn, Company C, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment - Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


M. W. Osborn, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Peter Osborn, Jr., Company -, One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Andrew Pennington, Company H, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


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Christopher Pennington, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry.


Jesse C. Quinby, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Patrick Reagan, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Daniel Reagan, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


B. H. Simpson, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


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First Lieut. Joseph W. Slack, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.


Robert P. Snowden, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Bennett Sniff, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio. Volunteer In- fantry.


George H. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer


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Joseph H. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


John C. Smith, Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Isaac Tyson, company and regiment unknown.


Jonathan F. Tyrrell, company and regiment unknown.


William C. Worthington, Company I, Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry.


James Whetsel, Company D, Thirty-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


Of these Wesley Andrews, Joseph Hale and Henry Harvey died in the serv- ice from sickness. The latter two were brought home for burial, and were interred at Springfield. Hale was the Sergeant Major of the Seventy-ninth Regiment. He died at or near Frankfort, Ky., and Harvey near Louisville. Garland Jobe was killed in battle in West Virginia. Seth Osborn, after being discharged from the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry on account of sick- ness, re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-third Regiment shortly before the war closed. B. H. Simpson was transferred to Company I, First United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers. It would be interesting to trace the his -. tory of each of these soldiers while in the service and since, but space forbids. Some are dead, and some are living. Some are yet in the county and town- ship, while others have sought homes farther west. Wherever they are, may success and prosperity crown their efforts, and happiness and enjoyment center in their breasts, and, as their country's defenders, may they ever be remem- bered.


List of the names of soldiers who volunteered elsewhere, and who now re- side in Adams Township:


Joseph B. Carson, Company -, Thirteenth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Cavalry.


John Edwards, Company H, Fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer In- fantry.


F. F. Ham, Company B, Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Amos Huffman, Company C, Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Jesse Hampton, Company F, Seventh Kentucky Cavalry.




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