Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 27

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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Number of Pages: 1189


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Bushels of seed orid.


I Allen


17 50


2,III


1,613


2,130


827


1,265


896


2 Amanda


4,565


1,526


2,250


1,519


2,146


1,485


3 Biglick


35


3,553


844


1,056


2,021


2,826


2,023


4 Blanchard


139


12,378


543


697


2,513


3,767


1,668


5 Cass


41


3,472


1,343


2,014


643


1,053


795


6 Delaware


29


3,300


1,533


3,268


1,036


1,487


1,372


Eagle


54


4,781


779


993


1,578


806


1,298


8 Jackson


29


2,780


730


837


1,362


1,855


530


9 Liberty


64


5,480


. 2,364


3,505


343


484'


1,032


IO Madison


41


2,865


565


738


1,201


1,702


867


II Marion


192


21,340


1,947


2,768


1,368


1,934


911


13 Pleasant


38


3,250


822


1,047


2,699


3,465


1,882


14 Portage


50


3,717


1,889


3,287


122


148


29


15 Union


24


2,420


1,068


1,281


1,884


2,816


1,404


16 Van Buren


50


4,41I


1,269


1,792


1,389


1,798


1,764


17 Washington


12


1,200


745


801


814


1,009


510


Total


865


81,623


21,263


30,653


23,400


32,348


20,226


TOWNSHIPS


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Doz. Prod. No. trees Fm. Gallons of Lbs.honey No.hives


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which syrup syrup 1908


1908


1908


I Allen


22,752


40,459


37,470


2,964


1,075


1,560


40


2 Amanda


4,500


60,180


80,900


1,125


500


1,900


85


3 Biglick


57,900


64,770


3,849


1,544


1,600


60


4 Blanchard


66,150


67,555


365


85


741


49


5 Cass


15,000


46,270


39,100


1,550


172


...


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6 Delaware


....


37,670


78,980


1,688


727


15


4


7 Eagle


... .


46,350


97,900


2,309


794


...


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8 Jackson


....


32,920


38,300


380


125


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.


9 Liberty


5,100


74,600


39,345


2,555


960


1,608


116


IO Madison


46,800


37,916


950


282


600


20


II Marion


107,600


44,500


60,300


465


285


3,300


IIO


12 Orange


68,940


102,935


105


60


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13 Pleasant


6,400


44,128


117,395


. ..


...


. ..


. .


14 Portage


32,300


30,000


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...


. .


15 Union


....


49,480


76,660


623


197


3,735


180


16 Van Buren


60,153


50,450


664


232


3,215


186


17 Washington


4,000


19.980


20,460


96


50


...


. .


Total


165,352


828,780


1,040,436


18,688


7,116


18,284


850


..


....


1,868


2,249


2,081


2,787


1,760


12 Orange


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TOWNSHIPS


HORSES No. owned in 1908


CATTLE No. owned in 1908


SHEEP No. owned


HOGS


WOOL


No. owned Pounds shorn


I Allen


265


570


1,044


1,048


5,508


2 Amanda


490


961


3,202


1,483


25,586


3 Biglick


411


822


1,591


1,087


11,145


4 Blanchard


508


1,723


1,680


2,345


14,379


5 Cass


428


873


1,715


1,649


5,565


6 Delaware


518


1,330


3,514


2,263


22,341


7 Eagle


463


1,326


2,477


2,402


7,510


8 Jackson


426


1,106


3,493


2,003


22,250


9 Liberty


464


977


1,364


1,852


10,963


10 Madison


423


1,098


2,244


1,902


11,161


II Marion


501


1,136


2,699


1,841


17,830


12 Orange


572


1,498


3,069


2,191


18,370


13 Pleasant


639


1,355


959


2,714


4,736


14 Portage


255


418


793


648


6,315


15 Union


657


1,466


2,690


2,449


13,045


16 Van Buren


433


1,176


2, III


1,981


11,411


17 Washington


356


715


1,275


907


2,360


Total


7,872


18,100


35,920


30,765


210,575


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CHAPTER XIX.


TOWNS AND VILLAGES


Sketches of Arcadia, Arlington, Benton Ridge, Cannonsberg, Deweyville, Findlay (Including Gas and Oil Industry and Findlay College ), Fostoria, Houcktown, Jenera, McComb, Mt. Blanchard, Mt. Cory, Rawson, Shawtown, Van Buren, Vanlue, West Independence, Will- iamstown, Etc.


ARCADIA.


This town was laid out in July, 1855, by David Peters and Ambrose Peters. It com- prised 135 lots, on the south part of the north half, and the north part of the south half of the southwest quarter of Section 22. Other additions were made by William Wheelan and Charles E. Jordan. The town is lo- cated about nine miles northeast of Find- lay at the crossing of the Lake Erie & Western and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroads, and has a population of about six hundred. The country surround- ing it is rich and well improved, and there seems to be no good reason why Arcadia should not become in time quite a busy place. Its inhabitants are intelligent and enterprising and already quite a large trade is done here. The main street has been paved with brick at a cost of $12,000.


The business of the town is represented by the following concerns :


G. W. Dick, secretary and treasurer; Fred P. Conaway, teller. This bank has a capital stock of $25,000, of which $13,750 is paid stock. Two general stores, one drug store, two hardware stores, handling buggies and farming implements, one grocery store, one meat market, two barber shops, two saw mills, one repair shop, one tin shop, one tile factory, one concrete factory, one elevator mill, two blacksmith and wagon repair shops, two livery barns, one electric light plant, two depots.


Arcadia has two churches-one Methodist Episcopal and one Lutheran Church-and one four-room schoolhouse. In Fraternal Organizations there are lodges of the Knights of Pythias, Rathburn Sisters, Mac- cabes, and Modern Woodmen. There is also located here two doctors, one preacher and one undertaker. The Odd Fellows in- stituted a lodge here in July, 1874, and had a membership of forty-four, which has since moved to Fostoria.


The Arcadia Bank & Savings Company, with the following officers: Abraham Eber- The Lake Erie & Western Railroad was sole, president : John Baker, vice-president; completed through Arcadia in the spring of


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1859. The N. Y., C. & St. L. Railway com- located in Madison Township at the cross- menced laying its tracks here on the 28th of ing of the Toledo and Ohio Central and Northern Ohio Railroads, and in conse- quence has ample passenger and shipping facilities. At present there is a good pros- pect of an extention of the T. G. & S. Elec- tric through the town. May, 1881, and on the 2nd day of June the cars ran across Main Street. The Toledo, Fostoria and Findlay Electric Line runs parallel with the Lake Erie and Western from Findlay to Fostoria.


The town of Arcadia was incorporated in 1859, at which time George W. Kimmel was elected mayor, and Dr. D. B. Spahr, clerk. The office of mayor has since been filled by the following persons: Jacob Peters, Joseph Dillery, E. B. Warner, C. E. Jordan, J. E. Beeson, A. D. Harbaugh, George Stahl, J. W. Fisher, Joseph Dillery, Henry Ludwig, William Karn, J. B. Gordon, R. F. Taylor, Ad. Huffman, J. E. Bricker, W. H. Dillery, the last mentioned being the present incum- bent. Joseph Dillery was elected mayor five times and J. E. Bowman was six times elected clerk.


In 1859 a post office was established here with A. W. Frederick, postmaster, who has been succeeded by David Peters, Jacob Peters, William Karn, Joseph Smart, Wil- liam Moffat, J. H. Beeson, W. Moore, J. H. Wheeland, Harrison Nye, A. M. Nye, and J. C. O'Neil. The last mentioned has re- signed and C. W. Blake has been appointed to fill the office.


ARLINGTON.


This town was laid out in November, 1854, by Robert Hurd, Esq., on the south- west part of Section 6, and the southeast part of Section I. It originally contained seventeen lots, but since its first platting, successive additions have been made, until now it is quite a village, its Main Street extending for a distance of one mile. It is front, with upper rooms for rent. Societies


Upon the establishment of a post office here in 1846, Dr. B. Beach was appointed postmaster, and has been succeeded by L. P. Wing, E. B. Vail, W. K. Drake, Thomas Stark, Phillip Wilch, L. S. Lafferty, E. P. Lease, C. F. King, Holmes Wheeler, Levi W. Hinchey and the present incumbent N. D. Stein, who has held the office for the last six years.


The trade of the place was insignificant until after the location of the railroads, when it sprang up by leaps and bounds. The population in 1880 was one hundred and thirty-six, whereas in 1909 it is over five hundred.


In 1892 the town was incorporated and James Huff was the first mayor, he being succeeded in turn by Eli Bowman, Dr. Thomas B. Trovenger, Holmes Wheeler, Dr. John Trovenger, N. S. Wescot, L. E. Huston and the present mayor E. J. Pugh, now nearing the end of his second term.


The finance of the town is being looked after by the Farmers and Merchants Bank- ing Company, incorporated under the laws of Ohio in 1900 with a capital stock of $25,000, surplus of $1,000, and resources of $112,000. The officers are Pres., R. J. Dorney; Vice-Pres., B. G. Bibler; Cashier, H. O. Fellers; and Assist. Cashier, Miss D. Dorcas Dorney. The company owns its own building, a fine pressed brick and glass


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are represented by the Odd Fellows, with of Pythias with Pythian Sisters, Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans with the Lady auxiliaries, Modern Wood- men of America.


There are three general stores, two hard- ware stores, one drug store, one hotel and three restaurants, one shoe store, one cloth- ing store, one furniture store, two milliner stores, one harness shop, one meat market, two grain elevators, two livery barns, two pool rooms, one confectionery store, one bakery, one moving picture show, four bar- ber shops, three blacksmiths, and two coal yards. There are also one saw-mill, with planing-mill attached, one hoop factory, one tinner and roofer, and a stone-crusher on the confines of the village. One stock yard is located here' from which are shipped an estimate of one hundred car loads of stock each year, Mr. Isaac Bishop being the main shipper.


Arlington is supplied with four churches, one Methodist Protestant, one Methodist Episcopal, one German Lutheran and one English Lutheran, with two resident pas- tors. Three physicans look after the physi- cal welfare of the people both in town and the surrounding country. The village prides itslf on having a good schoolhouse of six rooms and an enumeration of two hundred and forty scholars.


In a business as well as in a social way, Arlington is certainly a lively town of its size, and the residents take great pride in the advantages they enjoy. Of course the bulk of the trade is maintained by the farm- ing community, which here is a source of unfailing wealth in this productive country.


Of the twenty-five rural mail routes in Rebeccas, Maccabees and Ladies, Knights the county, Arlington has two-Nos. 14 and 15-that carry the mail to the surrounding farm community.


Arlington also has a municipal Electric Light Plant, built by the town at a cost of $14,000, with which it lights its own streets and furnishes electric lighting to its citizens at a fair rate.


The Arlingtonian, a bright newspaper, is edited by Frank Bitler, who is equal to the task of demonstrating to the public how to run a newspaper.


BENTON RIDGE.


The town of Benton Ridge is situated on the gravely ridge running from Findlay west into Putnam County, and nine miles in a south-westerly direction from Findlay. It was laid out in November, 1835, by Wil- liam Mires, on the east half of the north- west quarter of Section 35, and was origin- ally composed of but thirty-six lots. In 1855 William Powell made an addition of five lots, and in 1867. he made a further ad- dition of eleven lots, and in 1868 he made a third addition of ten lots. The town was named in honor of the sturdy Missouri Sena- tor, Thomas Hart Benton, who served that State uninterruptedly as U. S. Senator from 1821 to 1851, and was contemporaneous with Clay, Calhoun and Webster. The lo- cation is beautiful and healthy, and is sur- rounded by a rich and productive agricul- tural country.


The immediate vicinity of the town was settled at a very early day by the Powells- William, Jacob, John and Daniel-David M. Baldwin, Jacob Engle, Solomon Foglesong.


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Knepper, Michael Fisher, Owen Hughs and Farmers, Bell and Home telephones, with other like enterprising frontiersmen.


The business of the town is confined prin- cipally to supplying the surrounding country with some of the most necessary articles of trade. Not having as yet any convenient railroad facilities (a branch of the C. H. & D .- now in the interest of the Baltimore & Ohio system-passing a mile and a quarter north of the village), the town has made ad- vancement slowly, but has held its own, with a steady trend to improvement in build- ing and trade.


A post office was established here in 1840, called Benton Ridge, and D. M. Baldwin, William Miller, Phillip Ballard, Isaac Sperow, M. Merchant, T. J. Saunders, J. G. Saunders, J. H. Saunders, H. W. Hughes, Peter Baldwin, Newton Cherry and J. H Whistler (the present incumbent), have held the office of postmaster.


In 1875 the town was incorporated as a hamlet for special purposes of police pro- tection, and later as a town, with R. S. Palmer as mayor, followed by William Brown, William Wittenmyer, E. M. Jones, A. D. Whistler, Frank Alword, John West- ley Powell, Byron E. Powell and the present incumbent, Amos Wittenmyer.


The business of the town consists of two general stores, two meat markets, two drug stores-a small stock kept by each of the two doctors-two barber shops, two black- smith shops with wagon and carriage re- pair, with one each of hotel, restaurant, tin shop, bakery, photograph gallery and jewelry, furniture store, fence material dealer, two coal dealers, saw and planing- mill, and a cement block factory.


Benton Ridge is supplied with the


a local exchange of two hundred phones. They have two churches, Methodist Epis- copal and Evangelical, one resident minister and two doctors.


The special school district, which com- poses not only the village, but a large ex- tent of the surrounding farming country, have built a beautiful and commodious pressed-brick schoolhouse at the eastern end of town, with a cement basement and two stories above, comprising four rooms. Sur- rounding the building are spacious play- grounds and shade trees for the pleasure of the pupils. The enumeration is about one hundred and seventy of school age. The present population of the town is four hundred.


CANNONSBURG.


This town, located in Union Township, was founded by Benjamin Marshall, Frank- lin Ballard, William McConnell and James C. Marshall. It was laid out on the east part of Section 35 and the west part of Sec- tion 36 and consisted of 36 lots, with two streets, or rather roads, crossing at right angles. At one time it was a place of con- siderable neighborhood importance, and the author has been informed more than forty years ago by some of the then oldest in- habitants that they remembered the time when it was as large as Findlay then was. But it never rose to the dignity of more than a small country village. Railroads came just near enough to it to ruin what trade it had.


In 1867, the author commenced the prac- tice of medicine in this village, and at that time it had two general stores, one grocery


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and drug store, two churches, two wagon and buggy shops, one blacksmith shop, one grist-mill, one shoemaker, one preacher and three doctors. But all these have passed and in 1908, three of the four corners were planted in crops, and it resembled Goldsmith's "Deserted Village."


A post office was established here in 1841, with Thompson Bartell as postmaster, since which time E. P. Leslie, H. P. Eaton, D. W. Cass, Fuller Ballard, Henry Lue, J. D. Buss, J. A. Combs, Sr., J F. Steinman, J. A. Kimmell, J. A Combs, Jr, and Lydia A. Rossman have held the office. The office was discontinued several years ago.


DEWEYVILLE.


Deweyville was laid out by John B. Williams on the south part of the west part of the south- west quarter of the northwest quarter, and the north part of the west part of the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 15, Pleasant Township. The plat of said village consisting of 40 lots, was acknowledged June 5, 1880, be- fore Edwin Phifer, surveyor, and recorded July 19th, 1880, by Joseph F. Guntzwiler, re- corder. This village has not been incorporated.


FINDLAY.


Findlay, now the county seat of Hancock County, was first laid out in the year 1821, by Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory, and in the autumn of the same year, Wilson Vance and family removed to the place. Mr. Vance was soon joined by Squire Carlin, William Taylor, John Patterson, W. L. Henderson, John Boyd, Reuben Hales and Parlee Carlin, with others, so that in a few years quite a village had sprung up.


The town was replatted in 1829, and on the


26th of September of that year, Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory appeared before Judge McKinnis, one of the associate judges of the county, and acknowledged the platting of the town of Findlay, consisting of 156 lots of fifty by two hundred feet. The town plat was lo- cated on Section 13, in Township I north, Range 10 east.


The lands in this section-598 acres in all- were entered in parcels of fifty-five acres by Vance, Neil and Cory, seventy-six acres by McIlvain and Neil, seventy-five acres by Asa M. Lake, eighty-eight acres by John Gardner, one hundred and twenty-seven acres by Elna- than Cory, seventy-nine acres by James Gil- ruth, and eighty acres by Joseph Westenhaver. John Gardner received a patent for his, dated June 3rd, 1822, signed by President James Monroe. He afterwards sold to Thomas and John Simpson, and they to Wilson Vance, March 14th, 1828. This tract was the west part of the southeast quarter of Section 13, and contained eighty-eight acres. The consid- eration by Vance to the Simpsons was three hundred dollars. The east part of the south- east quarter, was owned by Vance, Neil and Cory, and was that part of the section on which the town was laid out. The lots numbered on Main Street, from north to south. The lot now occupied by the old Squire Carlin resi- dence-corner of Main and Front Streets, southwest-was No. I, and the business room of J. S. Patterson & Sons, corner of Main and Sandusky Streets, No. 16, the then south- ern boundary of the town. In these numbers, from one to sixteen, the Public Square, now the Courthouse Square, was not counted. There were seventy-six lots on the west side of Main Street, the lot on the corner of Front and West Streets being the last number on that side.


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On the east side of Main Street, the lot oc- cupied by the Tavern Hotel, is numbered twen- ty-seven, and on South Main Street the lot on the northeast corner of Main and Sandusky Streets, now occupied by the Frey Drug Co., was numbered ninety-six. There were eighty lots on the east side of Main Street, ending with No. 156, owned by the late Mrs. W. C. Cox, and on the corner of Front and East Streets. No part of the land between Front Street and the river was laid out into lots at that time.


The following certificate of Wilson Vance, surveyor, was attached to the town plat :


"Ist. All streets and alleys cross at right angles due north and south."


"2nd. Main Street is one hundred feet wide.


"3rd. Broadway (the space between Main- Cross and Front Streets north of the rear end of the Court House) is one hundred and fif- teen and a half wide.


"4th. Main-Cross Street is eighty-two and one-half feet wide.


"5th. Crawford, Putnam, Front, Back (now Sandusky), East and West Streets are each sixty-six feet wide.


"6th. Farmers and Mechanics alleys are each thirty-three feet wide, and all other alleys are sixteen and one-half feet wide."


Attached to the plat, by the proprietors, Vance and Cory, was the following acknowl- edgment :


"The public grounds, streets and alleys, are to the best of our knowledge, correctly desig- nated by the notes attached to said plat, and are appropriated as public ways for the benefit of said town, and to no other use whatever."


Thirty-nine lots were donated to the county commissioners, in trust, to be sold, the. proceeds


arising from such sale to be used in the con- struction of county buildings. The ground known as the Public Square was not named as one of the lots donated for county purposes, and by the terms of the acknowledgment above referred to it was appropriated for public use for the benefit of the town and it so remains, unless a subsequent contract with the proprie- tors, or the town authorities, placed it in the hands of the county commissioners, of which I have not been able to find a record.


On the 10th day of October, 1829, the com- missioners of Hancock County, met "for the purpose of taking into their care their propor- tion of the town lots of Findlay, which were deeded to said commissioners, by Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory, and said Charles McKin- nis and John P. Hamilton, present, ordered that the aforesaid lots be offered at public sale, on the ninth day of November next. It is fur- ther ordered, that the county auditor advertise said sale." On November 9th, 1829, the com- missioners, Charles McKinnis and John P. Hamilton, present, proceeded to sell the above mentioned lots, and the following sales were made: Lots 2, 8, 9, 13, 17, 26, 29, 32, 43, 46, 51, 61, 79, 86, 89, 92, 95, 98, 104, 105, 108, III, 116, 142, 146, 148, 156, sold for prices ranging from five dollars for No. 148, to two hundred dollars for No. 8. The aggregate re- ceived was $1,025.40. The first frame house in the town was built by Squire Carlin, and stood on the same lot on which he afterward built the brick house on the southwest corner of Main and Front Streets, and now used for business purposes. This same frame building was afterwards moved to the east side of South Main Street on the north side of the alley be- tween Hardin and Lincoln Streets, and at the present owned by John Parker.


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The second frame building was erected by William Taylor, who occupied it as a dwelling, hotel and dry goods store. This building stood on the lot adjoining the Davis Opera House, on the south. Many years ago it was removed to the west end of Sandusky Street, where it was burned down. It was about twenty-five feet square and a story and a half high. As Mr. Squire Carlin built the first frame build- ing, so he also built the first brick building in the town, on the lot aforementioned. This too he used as a dwelling and dry goods store.


Benjamin Cox, the first resident of the town, was also the first tavern keeper, carrying on bus- iness in a log house, on the east side of Main Street, between Front Street and the river bridge. The town was then a straggling vil- lage of log huts, with streets and alleys im- passable the greater part of the year, and with no business to talk of, except some traffic with the Indians and now and then the task of enter- taining a lone traveler in his search for a home in the wilderness. As the population increased and buildings multiplied, more room was wanted, and additions were demanded, land holders adjoining the old town platted and offered for sale numbers of lots.


In February, 1830, William Byall's addition of twenty lots was laid out. This addition was on the south side of Sandusky Street, east of Main Street. In 1837 Joseph and Elnathan Cory laid out an addition of forty lots. In 1840 John C. Howard laid out eleven lots, Jon- athan Parker eight lots. Cory's addition of thirteen lots was laid out and Baldwin's addi- tion of twelve lots and Vance and Cory's ad- dition of seventy-eight lots were laid out in 1848.


S. & P. Carlin's addition, on the south side of East Sandusky Street, was made in 1848


and consisted of thirty-nine lots and in 1852 they made another addition of twenty-eight lots. An addition of fourteen lots was made in 1854 by Nathan Miller. A sub-division of out-lots was made by J. M. Coffinberry, and Wilson Vance made an addition of 115 lots in the same year. Hurd's addition of four lots and the Western Addition were laid out in 1855.


Byal's second addition was made in 1860 and Vance's addition of III lots was made the same year. Cory's addition to Vance and Cory's addition was laid out in 1863. The continuation of Vance and Cory's of forty-four lots was made in 1866. E. Barnd made an addition in 1868. Another continuation of Vance and Cory's was made in 1869. Jones and Adams addition was laid out in 1873 and in 1875 P. Carlin made an addition of sev- enteen lots.


These various additions met with a ready sale, and are now occupied for the most part by beautiful residences and fine busines houses. Pleasant streets, substantial sidewalks and beautiful grounds all tell of the energy and in- dustry of the owners. The tract of land occu- pied by these additions was at the early settle- ment of the place scarcely more than a swamp or swale, worth at most no more than govern- ment price, but is now worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars.


EAST FINDLAY.


But the old town and these many additions do not comprise the whole of the town of Find- lay. East Findlay-an addition to Findlay- was laid out by James H. Wilson in August, 1847, on the north part of the west half of the . northwest quarter of Section 19 and comprised but forty lots. In 1863 the proprietor laid


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out an addition of thirty-five lots and thirteen out-lots which he designated as the continua- tion of East Findlay. In October of the same year, Cory's addition to East Findlay consist- ing of eleven lots, was laid out, and in 1866 Cory laid out nine lots more, and in 1873 he added nineteen additional lots. This addition, or suburb of Findlay, which comprises all that part of the town east of Eagle Creek, is pleas- antly located and the principal streets, running east and west, correspond with like streets of the main town. There are a number of com- fortable residences here. The streets are wide and bordered with shade trees. There are sev- eral manufacturing establishments here, which are noticed elsewhere in this work. The chil- dren of this part of town attend school at the Huber building.




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