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PREFACE
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CHAPTER I.
- Sketch of the Country and Settlement Prior to
Organization - NOT STARTED |
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- Traversed Before the Territory of Ohio Was Named
by One of It's Subsequent Settlers
- Its
Inhabitant Before the State Was Organized
- Its Citizens When Fairfield County Was Created
- With Incidents of Frontier Life and Adventure. |
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CHAPTER II.
- Continuation of the Early Outline
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- More About the First Settlers
- Quakers From Maryland Find Their Way in 1806
- Incidents Connected With Their Emigration, and in
the Movements of Other Settlers
- Who They Were and What Became of Them.
- The Privations Endured and Dangers Encountered
- More Towns Laid Out
- The First Mills
- The Scene of an Encounter With Indians
- Inconveniences of the Country
- Efforts for a New County
- An Early Election
- Fairfield Divided
- Three New Counties Created By One Bill
- Strife For the Seat of Justice of Knox |
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CHAPTER III. - KNOX COUNTY
ORGANIZED - NOT STARTED |
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The First Term of Common Pleas
- Report of Commissioners on Seat of Justice
- The First Criminal Trials
- "The Enforcement of the Laws."
- Upon Hedrick's Bare Back
- Forty Stripes Laid on a Poor White Man's Naked
Skin!
- The Public Whipping on the Public Square of Mount
Vernon.
- Action of the County Commissioners, A. D. 1808
- The First Officers, and Some Account of Them.
- The First Grand Juries and First Petit Juries.
- The First Election
- First Licensed Preachers, Merchants and Tavern
Keepers.
- Extraordinary Wolf Session
- Rigid Honesty and Economy of Officers |
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CHAPTER IV.
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The Country as Seen in 1801.
- A Tragedy in Owl Creek in 1800, and the Place of
Its Occurrence
- Reminiscences of Early Settlers and Their Families
- The First Terrible Store Visits Mount Vernon
- The First Doctor and His Reception.
- The Butlers, The Walkers
- Gilman Bryant, Jim Craig and Their Exploits
- Who Gave the Name to Mount Vernon.
- Who Built the First Cabin?
- Early Preaching
- Fighting and Other Incidents of the Frontier, and
Amusing Events of the Ancient Times. |
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CHAPTER V. - NOT STARTED |
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Resume of the County Seat Question
- The Grapes Were Sour, and Mount Vernon is Discovered
By the Clintonians to Be "Ineligible and Unhealthy."
- The Legislature of 1808-9 Were in Some Doubt.
- The Antivernonites Think the County Should Be Enlarged
- The General Assembly of Ohio Think Not.
- Agitation Continues 1810-11 and 1811-12
- The Dream is Over
- The Inhabitants Beg For Roads
- The Great Clinton Library Struggles For Legislative
Recognition, and The Light Expires! |
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CHAPTER VI. - TRANSACTIONS OF THE YEAR 1809. -
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The Commissioners in Trouble About
Taxes.
- The Heavy Drain On the Treasurer For Wolf Scalps.
- The Clerk's Brain Becomes Confused By Repeated
Demands.
- The Wolves Invade the Town
- Doings of the Court and Commissioners.
- The County Jail Completed.
- The First Settlement With the Treasurer, and Sketch of
That Officer. |
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CHAPTER VII. - THE SEAT OF
JUSTICE FOR THE LAST TIME. -
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Ben Butler's Version of the Way Mount Vernon Was
Made the Permanent County Seat, Showing That Old
Virginia Was Up to Tricks. |
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CHAPTER VIII. - SIXTH TERM OF
COURT - JANUARY 1ST, 1810 -
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The Law and the Testimony
- Courts, Finance, and Election, 1810. |
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CHAPTER IX.
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Sketch of the First White Man Knows to
Have Been
Upon the Ko-Ko-Sing.
- The Indian Captive in 1779
- The Adjutant in 1812
- And Commissioner in 1824. |
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CHAPTER X.
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What Was Done By Courts and Commissioners in the
Years 1811-12-13 and 1814 That May Be of Interest to
Citizens of the County
- County Roads
- County Buildings
- County Revenue
- What It Cost to Guard a Prisoner and to Bury a
Negro in 1812-14
- Prices of Bark and Rabbit Skins
- The Glorious Fourth Commemorated by Strong's
Settlement. |
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CHAPTER XI.
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The Eccentric Chapter in Our Early History
- Being All That is Known of the History of Johnny
Appleseed. |
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CHAPTER XII.
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Knox County During The War
- Population Pretty Much at a Stand Still
- Events
- Volunteers, &c.
- Some Incidents of a More Stirring Character
- A Touch of Indian Warfare
- Forts and Block-Houses Erected to Save Lives and
Scalps. |
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CHAPTER XIII. - NOTABLE EVENTS OF
1815 - NOT STARTED |
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Nineteen Indictments For Fights and Frays
- New Roads Established
- The Jail a Costly Thing.
- Licenses to Preach, To Sell and To Entertain
- The Supreme Court for seven Terms
- The Old
Folks Sing.
- What Pay Soldiers Received in Olden Time.
- The Lawyers Get Into the County
- Election of 1815 for State and County Officers. |
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CHAPTER XIV. - MASONIC
INSTITUTIONS. - NOT
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Historical Sketch of Masonry in Knox County
- Its Origin
- Chronological Statement of Its Early Events and
Public Transactions
- And the Present Condition of the Various Orders. |
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CHAPTER XV. - THE OWL CREEK BANK
OF MOUNT VERNON. - NOT
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Its Public and Private History - Let It Be
Believed From Odium! |
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CHAPTER XVI - INCIDENTS AND
EVENTS OF 1816. - NOT
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The First Paper at Mount Vernon
- Gleanings From the Old Register
- Some Account of the Business Men of That Time.
- Of the Marriages, Increase of Populations, etc.
- Some of the Deaths
- Addresses of Candidates
- King Caucus Appers
- Elections
- Priceof Salt, Etc. |
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CHAPTER XVII - KNOX COUNTY IN
1817 - NOT STARTED |
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Illustrations of the Spirit of the Times
- Theatricals
- Missionaries to Be Sent to Connecticut
- Small-Pox Excitement
- Trials of Interest
- Patriotic Outgushings of Popular Feeling
- Combination of Mechanics
- Bill of Prices
- First Delegate to the State Institution
- Another Town
- More Whiskey and More Marriages |
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CHAPTER XVIII - CONDITION OF THE
COUNTRY IN 1818 - NOT
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Ruin Impending
- Much Suffering
- A Few Quaint Advertisements
- Efforts to Start a Sabbath-School, and to Sell
Young Ladies!
- Horse-Thieves and Counterfeiters Abound
- A Jail-Bird Escapes
- A Cripple Runs
- Habeas Corpus Trials
- A Grand Circular Hunt |
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CHAPTER XIX - HISTORY OF THE
PRESS IN KNOX COUNTY - NOT
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The Ohio Register
- The Aurora
- Standard
- Advertister
- Watchman
- Gazette
- Day Book
- Banner
- True Whig
- Times
- The Various Daily and Weekly Papers, Religious and
Political Publications, and Some Account of the
Editors and Their Adventures. |
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CHAPTER XX - EVENTS FROM 1820 TO
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White Male Inhabitants and Voters At Various
Elections Within This Time
- Some Account of the Finances and Revenue
- The Last of the Indian
- A Warning
- The Old Court-House "Falls, and a New One is
Projected
- Other Occurrences |
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CHAPTER XXI - LITERARY AND OTHER
SOCIETIES - NOT STARTED |
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The Mount Vernon Polemic Society
- The Thespian
- The Library Society
- The Lyceum
- The Franklin
- Mechanics
- Historical, and Its Library |
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CHAPTER XXII. - HON ANTHONY
BANNING - NOT STARTED |
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CHAPTER XXIII.
- RICHLAND COUNTY DURING HER TUTELAGE - FINISHED |
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- Divided Into Two Townships
- The Earliest Settlers
- Voters
- Officers and Matters Worth Remembering |
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CHAPTER XXIV.
- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TOWNSHIPS SEVERED FROM OLD KNOX
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- Chester, Bloomfield and Franklin
- Their History Until Morrow Was Created |
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CHAPTER XXV -
SYCAMORE - NOT STARTED |
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Sycamore
- And the Two Last Sycamores |
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CHAPTER XXVI - MIDDLEBURY
TOWNSHIP - FINISHED |
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CHAPTER XXVII - BERLIN TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXVIII - BROWN TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXIX -
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXX -
MONROE TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXXI -
PIKE TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXXII - HOWARD TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXXIII - MORRIS TOWNSHIP -
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CHAPTER XXXIV - WAYNE TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXV - LIBERTY TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXVI - HILLIAR TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXVII - MILFORD TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXVIII - MILLER TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXIX - MORGAN TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XL - PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLI - CLAY TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLII - JACKSON TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLIII - BUTLER TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLIV - HARRISON TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLV - UNION TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLVI - COLLEGE TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLVII - CLINTON TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XLVIII - INDEPENDENT
ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS - NOT
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CHAPTER XLVIX - VARIOUS PUBLIC
OFFICERS - NOT STARTED |
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Senators in State Legislature |
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CHAPTER L - DAN S. NORTON
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CHAPTER LI - KENYON COLLEGE AND
THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - NOT
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CHAPTER LII - THE FAMOUS RACE OF
SEELEY'S BULL vs. TOM'S HORSE -
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