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" Here various tastes and ages blend ; The young and old, and friend with friend In social groups we see; Sweet children, too, are gathering round, And in their little hands are found Tokens of love for thee.
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" Thrice welcome, sire! Our sons behold The friend of whom their fathers told, And taught them to revere;
O, bless them. in thy Master's name, And his unfailing love proclaim To every listening ear.
" Walk round our Zion, now, and tell Her strength, and mark her bulwarks well, On every hand we see; New Ebenezers help us raise,
Lifting our voice in grateful praise, In songs of jubilee.
" Thankful for what our Lord hath done, Still to the throne we daily come, Yet greater things to see;
And there the tear in secret falls,
As on his God the Christian calls, In earnest prayer for thee.
" May Jesus bless and make thee wise In training souls for yonder skies, 'Till life and labor cease; Then to thy everlasting rest, In spotless robes of glory dressed. Go thou in perfect peace."
"The Doctor preached a long sermon, embracing the history of the mother Church, down to the emigration of the daughter. Without glasses, he read his manuscript in a clear, distinct & full voice. After announcing the text, Zach. 1:5, "Your fathers! where are they?" He informed his audience that he stood between the living & the dead -that the number now living in his parish was the number that had died out of it dur-
* * ing his ministry. * * *
"Stopping in the midst of his discourse to rest, the choir sang "Pilgrim Fathers."
" He went on to describe the origin of the mother church, its ministers & its men & women, who, fresh from the great awak- ening of 1740, gave character to it, & laid up example & prayers for their descendants. * * * * *
"The concluding prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Burton, of the Baptist Church, some of whose members are from the old Granville Stock. The 44th Psalm was sung,
"Lord, we have heard thy works of old."
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"The Choir introduced the exercises of the evening, by singing, " I have set watchmen upon thy walls."
" After Dr. Cooley had offered- prayer, the pastor gave a history of the daughter Church, now fifty years old. He named the one [two, ?] hundred and seventy-six emigrants, who, in 1805, in seven companies, came on in ox wagons. Of these, two hundred and two had died, & the fifty-two heads of. families had all died but the five survivors present.
* * "The Choir sang,
" This is my rest forever."
"Full of emotions, the venerable guest arose to give his paternal advice to the generations before him, now entering on their second half-century, & spoke about twenty-five minutes. * * "He concluded by saying 'This is our last meeting on earth, you will soon hear of my decease, & I shall soon be numbered with my fathers. I will make the appoint- ment for our next meeting at the right hand of the Judge. Who will meet me there? Will you all agree to be there? '
"Rev. Dr. Hall, President of the University, offered the concluding prayer.
"Mr. H. Hamlen, the Chorister, & his son, accompanied with a melodeon, sang
DR. COOLEY'S FAREWELL. Composed for the Occasion, by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney of Hartford, Conn. " It is the last time, brethren, That in communion sweet, Hither, in pastures green, shall turn Your aged shepherd's feet; For he is growing weary, His four-score years are told, And trustfully he draweth near The dear Redeemer's fold : Farewell!
" Vine of His blessed planting, Here, in the glorious West, On your fresh budding leaflets His loving favor rest. Long may your ripened clusters Breathe heavenly fragrance deep, When, numbered with my fathers, In christian hope I sleep : Farewell! Farewell!
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"Elias Gilman, Esq., aged ninety years, the oldest of the 1805 emigrants, the oldest member of the church, & the oldest person in the township, rose in his slip & read the following motion, which was seconded by George Little, aged sixteen, the youngest male member :
"I move the adjournment of this meeting fifty years, to the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and five, to meet at the place which shall then be occupied by this church.'
* * X " The motion was put and carried.
"In requesting Dr. Cooley to pronounce the blessing, it was stated that he would now leave town, to return no more, & that he wished to give the parting hand to his relatives, to his former hearers, to all whom he had baptised, to the children of the Sabbath school, & others interested in the occasion. He stood in front of the pulpit, & the aisles were so cleared, that they who had left his hand, & heard some expression of kind- ness from his lips, could pass out & make room for others. * " A few days after his return home, he wrote. "The scene in your dear village, on the 17th, ex- ceeded, I must say, any event in all my past life. . The parting hand of such a crowd touched my heart, & can never be for- gotten on my part."
"Just before he stepped into the carriage, the Treasurer of the Committee of Arrangements passed into his hand $125."
In regard to temperance Mr. Little makes the following record as applying to 1855: "Look out on the streets in the dark and you will see cigars moving along not higher than the railing ; and at ten at night you will hear from young voices evidences that they have been drinking something stronger than water."
The Hydraulic Co. began to consider the propriety of dis- posing of their water works. The stock was not paying any dividend, and was calling for further outlays.
The Council passed an ordinance declaring the pond in the northeast part of town a nuisance, and providing for filling it up at an expense of $200.
The deaths were sixty-three; among them, Mrs. Lydia Dickinson, daughter of Jesse Munson, and formerly wife of Judge T. Rose, Feb. 27th, aged eighty-seven ; Jeremiah
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French, April Ist, aged sixty-eight ; Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, wife of David Thomas, May 4th, aged seventy-three; Mrs. Adah Hillyer, youngest daughter of Jesse Munson, wife of Justin Hillyer, May 24th, aged seventy-nine; Mrs. Rachel Gilman, wife of Elias Gilman, Esq., Aug. 7th, aged eighty ; Judson Tyler, July 25th, aged seventy-nine; Hon. T. M. Thompson, Sept. 15th, aged eighty-six ; Simeon Reed, Sept. · 16th, aged sixty-two; Mrs. Hannah Granger, daughter of Timothy Spelman, Esq., wife of Ralph Granger, Nov. 27th, aged fifty-nine ; Mrs. Martha, wife of Edward Nichol, Nov. 27th, aged seventy-six ; Hiram Rose, Dec. 20tlı, aged eighty- nine. All these were prominent citizens and long time residents, and six of them were members of the first colony.
Mr. Thompson was in the legal profession in early life. For some years he was Secretary of State of Pennsylvania, under his uncle, Gov. Thos. McKean, who was a signer of the Decla- ration of Independence, & after whom himself was named. He afterward entered the business of merchandising in Steuben- ville, Ohio. Thence he removed to Granville with his goods. He soon went to a tract of several hundred acres of land that he had located in the township north of Granville. This town- ship was named after him, Mckean; he declining to have it called after his surname, but consenting to lend his middle name for that use. After a few years he returned to this town- ship, purchasing a farm on Burgh St. Late in life he came to the village, & two years after, went to Marysville, O. to reside with his youngest daughter, where he died. Four of his daughters married ministers. Though a man of good legal at- tainments he never practiced law in Ohio. He was of modest demeanor, unassuming, always honorable, honest as light, sac- rificing his own interests & those of his family rather than do a questionable act.
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1856. Hon. Jno. A. Sinnet, our fellow-townsman, became State Representative.
The College was removed to the hill north of town and a new building was erected, the removal of one of the old ones completing the accommodations for the present.
An act was passed making it a misdemeanor to sell or give away any intoxicating liquor, or to let any building or room for such purpose, or to appear in the village in a state of intoxication.
The New Year's Sermon records, "I never heard in one night so much noise and profanity as on the night previous to the 4th of July."
Hon. Daniel Humphrey became Presidential Elector.
The deaths were twenty-six; of them, Mrs. Lucretia Linnel, wife of Knowles Linnel, Aug. 15th, aged sixty-one.
In 1857, The Denisonian, a college periodical, was started, and the Herbarium. also, published by the young ladies of the Female College.
There were twenty-eight deaths; of whom, Mrs. Clarissa Bancroft, daughter of Judge T. Rose, wife of Hon. S. Bancroft, Jan. 25th, aged sixty-nine; Elias Gilman, Esq., Jan. 28th, aged ninety-two; Matilda, wife of Dea. T. M. Rose, Mar. Ist, aged fifty-eight.
Esq. Gilman was one of the original members of the colony, a man of gifted intellect, trusted with large business transactions by his fellow citizens & by strangers, & wearing the honors of civic life with decorum. In early life, owing to the drinking habits of society, he indulged in the use of intoxicants; but by the grace of God, & greatly to the credit of his manhood, he threw off the bondage & stood high in the confidence and es- teem of his fellow-men to the day of his death.
In 1858, the Welsh Hills Cemetery was enlarged by the purchase from Norton Case of one and one-half acres. This
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purchase was made by the Welsh Methodists and the Welsh Congregationalists unitedly, and it and the original grounds given by Mr. Rees were made one cemetery, all uniting to enclose and beautify the grounds. The place has continued to be improved from time to time until it is now the beautiful Welsh Hills Cemetery.
The deaths were twenty-seven; among them, Miriam, daughter of Dea. Lemuel Rose, wife of Elkanah Linnel, Mar. 17th, aged seventy-three ; Fanny, wife of Sereno Wright, Sen., Mar. 26th, aged seventy-three ; Mrs. Anna Lot, formerly wife of Frederic Case, June 9th, aged seventy-seven ; Joshua Stark, June 29th, aged sixty-nine; Sereno Wright, Sen., Dec. 19th, aged seventy-nine.
1859. All day Saturday, June 4th, a strong, cold north wind blew. At night a calm fell upon the air. On Sunday morn- ing, June 5th, there was a very heavy frost, seriously dam- aging all field crops, gardens and fruits. Some of the corn was knee high. Some farmers at once proceeded to plow up and plant anew. Others planted between the rows, design- ing to take their choice of the two crops as soon as a prefer- ence should be indicated. Others relied solely on the old. The result was generally in favor of replanting.
The New Year's record says: "At the last election of the Town Council, the law and order ticket prevailed, and twelve or fourteen culprits have been fined, five or six sent to jail, and our nights are more quiet than formerly. Still there are children that feel that they must go somewhere every night."
April 7th, a lock-up was ordered to be constructed under the Town Hall, which was then being built by the corpora- tion. This hall is a frame structure, 62 x 38 feet, erected by Mr. Wallace Carpenter, for the sum of $3,000, standing at the northeast corner of Broad and Main Streets, in the center of the public square, beside the Methodist Church.
June 7th, an act was passed to prevent the disturbance of religious and other meetings. A notice was also ordered to be served on four several parties that "in selling ale or other
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intoxicating drinks for the purpose of being drank in or about the premises they were violating an ordinance of the village."
Of the twenty-eight deaths were, John Huggins, Jan. 14th, aged fifty-seven ; Jos. Blanchard, Jan. 29th, aged eighty-eight ; Mrs. L. E. Bancroft, May 13th, aged fifty-two; Ed. Nichol, Sept. 3d, aged seventy-eight; Jacob Cook, Oct. 3d, aged seventy-three. It was also the year of Dr. Cooley's death in old Granville, Mass.
In 1860, the War of the Great Rebellion began. [See Special Chapter.]
The U. S. census enumerated 404 families, 2120 souls in the township; 157 families, 799 souls in the village. The property in the township was estimated at $1,744,777.
March 11th, the Congregational Church bid farewell to the old frame house erected in 1816, having provided for the erection of a new brick structure.
The Council made an allowance of $12 a year for the care of the town clock.
The water works were sold at Sheriff's sale, Rev. Alvah Sanford bidding them off for $234 ; there being an indebted- ness upon the works of $1,275.
The deaths were twenty-nine; of them were Archibald Ackley, June 9th, aged seventy-two ; Mary, wife of Nicodemus Griffith, Sept. 5th, aged ninety; Thomas Cramer, Dec. 27th, aged eighty-four; Mrs. Elizabeth Eager, Aug. 17th, aged seventy-seven ; Spencer Wright, Esq., Aug. 22d, aged eighty ; Amos Campbell, Dec. 27th, aged seventy-five.
January 2Ist, died Alva and Mary A., son and daughter of Abraham and Angeline Walker, of consumption, and within an hour's time of each other; aged sixteen and twenty-one.
1861. The brick church, eighty feet by fifty-three, was erected at a cost of $10,600. The ground floor provides room for church parlors, conference room, furnaces, hall and stairway. The audience room was planned after the old house. A large pipe organ was placed in the gallery at a
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cost of $1,200. Fourteen years later an addition was put upon the north end large enough to accommodate the organ and choir just back of the pulpit, while the room beneath the organ is used as a kitchen. The audience room will seat seven hundred with comfort. The cap of the steeple is 107 feet high, and the iron support of the weather vane is ten feet higher.
May 21st, a sort of salary-grab ordinance was passed by the Council, allowing each member fifty cents for each attendance upon the Council meetings.
Died in the township fifty-six; of whom were, Ormond Rose, Jan. 28th, aged seventy ; Lucy, wife of Wm. Smedley, having been first the wife of Ethan Bancroft, Mar. 22d, aged seventy-six ; Lydia, wife of Dea. Eli Butler, June 19th, aged sixty-four; Anna W., wife of N. Griffith, July 18th, aged fifty-six; Silence, daughter of Dea. Lemuel Rose, wife of Joshua Stark, Dec. 27th, aged sixty-six ; Theodore Gaylord, Feb. 15th, aged eighty-five; Rosanna H. Warren, Mar. 11th, aged seventy ; Polly Lamson, April 6th, aged eighty-five.
1862. The New Year's Sermon says :
"In the earlier periods of the war it was thrown out by differ- ent orators in the Hall, that Granville would not, like the other parts of the country, turn out our quota of volunteers for the. army. This meant that literary & religious pre-eminence so dwarfed our souls that we would not do our part. Now look at facts, Our township is enrolled 344 men, of whom the Presi- dent has called for 138. By the 22d of Aug. 157 of our town- ship volunteered, besides those who enlisted at Marietta & other places. This makes us 19 above our quota, while every other township in the county has had to have some drafted."
Hon. John A. Sinnet became State Senator for two years.
The deaths were thirty; among whom were Anna, widow of David Pittsford, February 27th, aged ninety-four ; Sophia, widow of John Starr, December 14th, aged seventy; Mrs. Mary Werden, February 5th, aged seventy-six; Mrs. Ruth Falley, November 29th, aged seventy-eight.
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1863. The township had sent to the army thirty-five soldiers above its quota.
A plat of ground, containing twenty-one acres, lying just south of Mr. Parnassus, was beautifully laid out as a cemetery, under the name of "Maple Grove Cemetery."
A large cistern, made as a reservoir for water in case of fire, was filled up by order of the Town Council.
The dead were forty-one; of whom were, Thomas Little, Esq., March 31st, aged eighty-eight; Aaron Pratt, June 16th, aged sixty-nine; Rev. Ezra Going, December 26th, aged sixty-eight ; Matthew Adams, September 24th, aged ninety- two; Mrs. J. W. Thompson, March 23d, aged eighty-four ; Mrs. Hannah A. Fosdick, May 12th, aged fifty-two; John Follett, May 27th, aged seventy-one; Mrs. Elizabeth W. Prichard, June 15th, aged sixty ; Mrs. Sally Follett, June 23d, aged seventy-three ; Daniel Rose, shot in battle of Chat- tanooga, September 20th, aged twenty-four; Samuel L. Rose, shot in the same battle, died October 21st, aged thirty-six ; Thomas Ingham, June 15th, aged ninety-two.
Dr. Little left the place in December, 1864.
Died, Miss Fanny Wright, January 14th, aged fifty-nine ; Mrs. Hannah S. Munson, January 19th, aged eighty-four ; Mrs. Mary Weeks, May 9th, aged eighty-four.
In 1865, the brick building for the accommodation of Gran- ville Female College, was erected by Hon. W. P. Kerr, the principal, in fulfillment of his contract with the Trustees to put up a building that should cost at least $1,800. It con- tains below, several recitation rooms and a gymnasium, and a large hall on the floor above. The total cost instead of being $1,800, amounted in those times of war prices, to $5,500, or more.
A star badge was voted to the Marshal April 10th.
June 22d, an order for $23.50 was voted to " S. B. Hamlen for damages done by the riot on April 10, 1865." This was on the occasion of a jubilation at the close of the war. Mr. Hamlen being Mayor, had, for prudential reasons, refused to
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permit the firing of the cannon on the town square. The firing was accordingly done on the top of Prospect Hill. But those in charge of this part of the programme, being in- censed at the Mayor's refusal, brought the gun into the street in front of his dwelling, having given it a final loading as heavy as they dared, and pointing it directly at the house, dis- charged it, breaking all the windows.
Deaths, Mrs. Statira Cooley, January 2d, aged seventy- five; Mrs. Dolly Gaylord, April 12th, aged ninety-two; Mrs. Martha Root Dilley, July 8th, aged forty-eight ; Mrs. Belinda Root Carroll, May 7th, aged sixty ; Stephen G. Goodrich, August 14th, aged seventy-four.
1866. Mr. George B. Whiting became postinaster July 2d.
Deaths, L. Alonzo Graves, May 23d, aged fifty-three ; David M. Knapp, August 8th, aged fifty-five; Campbell Messenger, September 3d ; Mrs. Deborah Root, November 2Ist, aged seventy-nine ; A. P. Prichard, January 30th, aged sixty-seven ; Captain Levi Rose, February 23d, aged eighty- four ; Benjamin Linnel, May 5th, aged seventy-four ; Deacon Daniel Shepardson, November 24th, aged eiglity.
Mr. Prichard came to the place in 1816 with Hon. T. M. Thompson, as his clerk in a small dry goods store, He was a practical chemist, of accurate business habits, & ingenious. He was soon counted among the first business men of the place, & was ever a leader in such public enterprises as the Water Works, Cemetery, &c. After being connected with the furnace, & dry goods trade for some time he confined his attention to drugs. He was long a prominent member of the Episcopal church.
1867. The Collegian was started in July by the Calliopean Society of Denison University.
Rev. E. Garland, an early teacher of the Male Academy, and otherwise identified with the Granville Congregational Church, returned to the place for a home in his old age.
Deaths, Mrs. Cinderilla Case, January 4th, aged eighty-six ; Mrs. Clarissa Abbott, August 21st, aged sixty-two; Mrs. Har- riet B. Kerr, July 9th, aged thirty-nine; Mrs. Rosetta
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Houghton, (formerly Mrs. William Paige,) August 10th, aged seventy-seven ; Elkanah Linnel, October 2d, aged eighty-six ; Miss Ann Jones, September 2d, aged eighty-two; Mrs. Nancy Wood, December 13th, aged sixty-tliree ; Henry Butler, August 22d, aged sixty-seven ; Mrs. Abigail Houghton, Feb- ruary 29th, aged seventy-eight; Mrs. Phebe Paige, January 6th, aged eighty-eight; Major General Charles Griffin, Sep- tember 15th, aged forty-one.
1868. The foundation of the second brick building for the accommodation of Denison University was laid, the corner stone being laid in 1869. The new road leading to the College grounds, from Main Street, at the foot of Prospect Hill, was authorized.
Deaths, Mrs. Lydia Partridge, March 26th, aged ninety- two; Mrs. Elizabeth Partridge, October 16th, aged forty-four ; Mrs. Sarah Moore, October 11th, aged seventy-five. General Augustine Munson, April 12th, aged eighty-five.
He was born in Granville, Massachusetts, September 30th, 1783, being the youngest son of Jesse Munson. He was prob- ably the youngest member of the colony, and at the same time one of its most enterprising, untiring and sagacious. In youth he was inured to toil and exposure, and in the pursuit of his occupations shrank not from hardship and privation. He improved his eastern opportunities for education, coming west at the age of twenty-two.
It was his enterprise that secured the first successful saw mill, two miles east of Granville, in 1806. In 1808 he added a flouring mill. In 1816 he, (with his brother Jeremiah), started the Granville Furnace, and soon after, the Forge for making wrought iron, the latter being near his flour and saw inills. Considering the scanty resources of a new country, the pressing wants of the people, and his almost universal success in his undertakings, probably no one has out of his personal devices, contributed more to meet the material wants of Granville than did he. He was an expert musician. He was prominent in military matters under the old militia laws. For several years he was prominent and influential in political life, being a member of the Legislature.
July 6, 1869, the Town Council passed an ordinance making
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the municipal government conform to a State Statute which was of general application, requiring elections to be held the first Monday of April, the officers to be a Mayor, Clerk, Treas- urer, Street Commissioner, Marshal and six Trustees; the Mayor, and Council of Trustees to appoint the subordinate officers. A prison was established and put under the care of the Marshal. The Village was made a road district under the care of the Street Commissioner, who is responsible to remove nuisances from the streets, and to attend carefully to the cleanliness of the Village. Former ordi- nances were re-enacted. The corporation limits were ex- tended, leaving, after some amendment, the bounds as follows: The north boundary is the south line of the farm north of the hill, once A. A. Bancroft's, to the Mt. Vernon and Welsh Hills Roads, which roads it follows to Clear Run, thence down the run to the line of the farm east of town, once Norton Case's; then following said line and its direction to a point in the New Cemetery for the east boundary. On the south the line is the south line of the old burial lot and its direction, and the west boundary is the east line of the Sheldon Swan place. [See map, page 46.]
The preliminary surveys of the Atlantic & Erie Railway were made through this township in the fall. This road was projected from Toledo through the coal fields of Perry county, Ohio, to Pomeroy, and on to Norfolk, Virginia, in a pretty direct course. The grading having been done throughout this part of the line the enterprise failed. The track was afterwards utilized by the Ohio Central Railroad.
Mr. Ralph Parsons erected on the north side of Broad Street a fine two story store building, twenty-four feet front and seventy-two feet deep.
The Collegian and Denisonian united and became the Den- ison Collegian, the Franklin Society uniting with the Calli- opean in its support.
Deaths, Mrs. Loano Eno, April 27th, aged seventy-nine; Mrs. Polly Wells, May 19th, aged seventy-three ; Mrs. Mind-
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well Graves, aged ninety-nine; Mrs. Mary Mead, August 19th, aged sixty-seven ; Mrs. Lydia F. Gray, October 29th, aged sixty-seven ; Nathaniel Paige, January 6th, aged ninety- three ; Cyrus Moore, August 18th, aged eighty-three.
In the spring of 1870, Granger's Addition was laid off in lots which were sold at auction, Granger Street (being a con- tinuation of Morning Street, northward to the Welsh Hills Road) and Spelman Street (being a short street parallel with Market Street, running from Granger Street to the Mt. Vernon Road) were recognized as highways.
By an ordinance, animals were forbidden to run at large at night between the hours of sunset and sunrise.
Deaths, Hon. Samuel Bancroft, Jan. 27th, aged ninety- one ; Dr. W. W. Bancroft, June 22d, aged sixty-four ; Daniel Howe, Sept. 20th, aged eighty-three; Mrs. Olive C. Reed, Mar. - , aged seventy-six.
Judge Bancroft was a man unusually affable in his social life, invariably speaking in pleasant tones & with a smile on his face. He followed to this place from Granville, Mass., the young lady to whom he was attached, & they were soon thereafter married. He held many offices of trust & responsibility, the chief being that of Associate Judge.
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