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Morgan County, Ohio
History & Genealogy

Source:
HISTORY OF MORGAN CO., OHIO
with
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

of some of its
PIONEERS AND PROMINENT MEN
By Charles Robertson, M. D.
Revised and Extended by the Publishers
Chicago:
L. H. Watkins & Co.
1886

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. - THE EARLY NORTHWEST ---- pg. 17
   - Robert Chevalier LaSalle
 -
the first White Explorer of the Ohio Valley
 - His Journey of 1669-70
 - Probability of his having Explored the Muskingum
 - The West little known to the English prior to 1740
 - Early Englishmen in the Ohio Valley
 - DeBienville's Expedition, 1749
 - Curious Discovery at the mouth of the Muskingum
 - The Colonial Ohio Land Company, of Virginia
 - Its Efforts to Promote Settlement Unsuccessful
 - First Military Expedition of the English in the Ohio Valley
 - Colonel Bouquet's Bloodless Victory
 - Washington on the Ohio in 1770
 - Virginia Establishes the County of Illinois
 - Early Ownership of the Northwest
 - Conflicting Claims
 - Cession of Various State Claims
 - Indian Treaties, 1784 to 1795.
CHAPTER II. - THE ABORIGINES OF OHIO ---- pg. 31
   - Southeastern Ohio Before its Occupation by the White Man
 - Evidence of a Great but Extinct People
 - Indians of Ohio
 - Original Tribes
 - Conquest of the Country by the Iroquois
 - Indian Towns
 - The Delawares of the Muskingum and the Tuscarawas
 - Their Traditions
 - Other Indian Nations
 - Estimate of the Number of Warriors, 1778
 - Colonel James Smith's Account of his Experience Among the Indians of the Muskingum Valley, 1755
 - Interesting Pictures of Savage Life in the Wilderness
 - Reminiscences by William Corner
 
- An Indian Trail in Morgan County.
CHAPTER III. -  MEASURES REGARDING TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS ---- pg. 43
   - The Ordinance of 1784
 - The Act of 1785 Regarding Western Lands and the Survey Thereof
 - Squatters and Intruders on the Public Lands
 - Attempts to Disperse Them
 - Names of Squatter Settlers in Eastern Ohio in 1785
 - Preparations for Establishing a Garrison at the Mouth of the Muskingum
 - Fort Harmar built in 1785
 - The Survey of the First Seven Ranges
 - The Work Begun and Abandoned in 1785 is Resumed and Continued in 1786
 - A Virginia Cornhusking, 1786
 - The Sale of a Tract to the Ohio Company
 - The Survey Resumed under the Act of May 18, 1796
 - Manner of Disposing of Public Land
 - Donations to Ebenezer Zane
 - The Military Lands
 - Establishment of Land Offices
 - The Ordinance of 1787
CHAPTER IV. - THE OHIO COMPANY ---- pg. 61
   - First Steps Toward Organizing the Ohio Company
 - Conference of Generals Putnam and Tupper
 - Meeting in Boston
 - Statement of its Objects
 - Dr. Cutler Appointed to Conduct negotiations with Congress
 - His Ability and Success as an Agent
 - The Ordinance of Freedom
 - Reasons for Selecting Lands on the Muskingum
 - The Proposed City and Colony
 - Measures in Relation to the Same
 - The Survey
 - Final Adjustment of the Company's Affairs
 - The Purchase as Finally Concluded
 - The Donation Lands
 - Division of Lands Among Shareholders.
CHAPTER V. - WASHINGTON COUNTY AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY ---- pg. 71
   - 1788 to 1803
 - Remarkable Prediction about the Ohio Country by Dr. Cutler
 - The Company of Adventurers
 - Their Winter Journey Across the Mountains
 - Arrival of the Mayflower at the Muskingum, April 7, 1788
 - Names of the Founders of Marietta
 - Origin of the term Buckeye
 - Establishment of Townships
 - The Birth of a State
 - Attempt to Legalize Slavery in Ohio
 - Settlements at Belpre and Waterford
 - The Settlement at Big Bottom.
CHAPTER VI. - THE INDIAN WAR - 1790 TO 1795 ---- pg. 81
   - Primary Causes of the War
 - Preparations for a Treaty
 - The Treaty Made at Fort Harmar in January, 1789
 - Attack on the Ohio Company's Surveying Party
 - The Colony at Big Bottom
 - Murder of the Settlers
 - Two Men Elude the Indians and Warn the neighboring Settlements
 - The Colony Formed at Olive Green in 1794
 - The Indian Silver-hells
 - Wayne's Victory.
CHAPTER VII. - PIONEERS AND PIONEER LIFE ---- pg. 99 - Partially Done
   - Description of the Log Cabin and the Manner of its Erection
 - The Kitchen Utensils of the Pioneer Household
 - The Bill of Fare and How it was prepared
 - Fish and Game
 - Pioneer Agriculture
 - Rude Implements
 - Woman's Work
 - Pioneer Preachers
 - The Early Schools
 - Manner of Travel.
CHAPTER VIII. - CIVIL HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY ---- pg. 108
   - Morgan County Erected December 29, 1817
 - Its Original Boundaries
 - Organization in 1819
 - First Election in April 1819
 - Controversy over the County Seat
 - McConnelsville Selected
 - Attempt to Change the Location of the Seat of Changes in the County's Boundaries
 - Township Organization
 - Children's Home
 - County Justice
 - Infirmary
 - How the Pauper Question was Managed in Olden Times
 - Civil Roster.
CHAPTER IX. - INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS AND RIVER NAVIGATION ---- pg. 125
   - Early Roads
 - Mails and Postoffices
 - Old-Time Star Routs
 - Pioneer Boating on the Muskingum
 - The "Orleans" Boats
 - The "Rufus Putnam" Passage Up the Muskingum in January, 1824
 - McConnelsville Navigators
 - The River Improvement
 - Railroad Projects
 - A Railroad at Last
 - The Bridge at McConnelsville
 - Early Mills.
CHAPTER X. - THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ----pg. 150 FINISHED 9/12/2022
   - The Origin of the Underground Railroad
 - Its Route in Morgan County
 - Success of the Road
 - Anecdotes and Incidents of Slavery Days
 - A Prominent Official of the Road in Morgan County
 - How Slaves were Assisted to Gain their Liberty
 - Slave Hunters and Isaac Clendenin
 - A Spy's Uncomfortable Predicament
 - Escape of a White Man's Wife and Children.
CHAPTER XI. - PHYSICAL FEATURES OF MORGAN COUNTY ---- pg. 157
   - Topography
 - Soil and Productions
 - Agricultural and Mineral Resources
 - Coal
 - Salt Manufacturing
 - Zuriel Sherwood, The Pioneer Saltmaker of Morgan County
 - How Salt was Carried to Market in the Early Days
 - Natural Gas
 - Stone's Well
 - Petroleum
 - The Extent of the Business, 1860-1854.
CHAPTER XII. - MILITARY ---- pg. 166 - FINISHED 9/19/2022
   - Volunteer Militia -166
 - Early organization in Morgan County - 166
 - The Mexican Campaign - 169
 - Morgan in the Rebellion - 170
 - 17th Regiment - Co. H - 171
 - 26th Regiment - 2d Co. - 172
 - 25th Reg. - Co. H. - 174
 - 2nd West Virginia Cavalry - Co. E - 177
 - Capt. Scott's Cavalry Co. - 179
 - 18th Regiment - 179
 - 17th Regiment - three years - 181
 - 62d Regiment - Cos. B & I - 183
 - 77th Regiment - Co. F - 190
 - 78th Regiment - Co. E - 193
 - 86th Regiment - Co. F - 198
 - 97th Regiment - Cos. C & D - 199
 - 122d Regiment - Co. C - 206
 - 161st Regiment, Ohio National Guard - 210
 - 1st Regiment Heavy Artillery - 214
 - 182d Regiment - Co. C - 217
 - 78th O. V. I. - Co. D - 218
 - 77th O. V. I. - Co. K. 218
 - U. S. Signal Detachment - 219
 - 193d O. V. I. - Co. E - 219
 - Miscellaneous List - 219
 - Captain Joseph Francis Sonnanstine - 221
 - Hughes Post No. 285, G. A. R. - 221
 - Reminiscences of Prison Experience - 222
Sharon's note:  You will see some extra titles I found in this chapter within the pages' titles.
CHAPTER XIII. - MORGAN'S RAID ---- pg. 227 FINISHED 9/19/2022
   - His raid in Ohio
 - Morgan's Retreat
 - He Encamps in Deerfield Township
 - Experience of the Zanesville Scouts
 - Consternation at McConnelsville on Receipt of a Despatch, "Morgan is Coming"
 - The Crossing of the River at Eagleport by the Rebels
 - The Skirmish
 - A Citizen Killed
 - Capture and Imprisonment of Morgan
 - His Escape.
CHAPTER XIV. - LOCAL POLITICS - THE COUNTY PRESS ---- pg. 235
   - Origin of the "Brimstone" and "Junto" Factions in the County
 - Their Leaders
 - The Local Press
 - Progress and Influence of Journalism
 - The First Paper "The Morgan Sentinel"
 - "The Genius of Liberty"
 - The First Democratic Organ
 - The Newspaper War in McConnelsville
 - Description of an Early Copy of "the "Sentinel"
 - "Morgan Record"
 - "Valley Democrat"
 - "Democratic Guard"
 - "The Chronicle"
 - "The Enquirer"
 - "The Conservative"
 - "The McConnelsville Democrat"
 - Whit and Republican Papers
 - "The Advocate"
 - "The Whig Standard"
 - Contents of an Early Number
 - "The Independent"
 - The McConnelsville Herald"
CHAPTER XV. - THE BENCH AND BAR OF MORGAN COUNTY ---- pg. 252 FINISHED 9/11/2022
   - The First Courts
 - The Primitive Court House
 - The Early Courts and Lawyers
 - John Doland, the First Attorney
 - Hon. John E. Hanna
 - James L. Gage
, and Other Early Lawyers
 - Hon. J. M. Gaylord
 - Hon. Elijah Hayward
 - Hon. E. E. Evans
 - Colonel Melvin Clarke
 - Hon. Isaac Parrish
 - Hon. C. B. Tompkins
 - Judge F. W. Wood
 - Royal T. Sprague
 - General F. B. Pond
 - Biographies of Members of the Present Bar
 - Judge Newell Corner, Hon. E. M. Stanbery
CHAPTER XVI. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ---- pg. 270  FINISHED 7/25/2020
   - The First Physician
 - Dr. David McGarry at Olive Before the Formation of Morgan County
 - Dr. Ziba Adams
 
- Other Early Doctors
 - Dr. Samuel A. Barker
 - His Life and Public Services
 - Dr. P. B. Johnson
 
- His Influence and Prominence as a Politician
 - Dr. Charles Robertson
 
- Present Members of the Profession.
CHAPTER XVII. - McCONNELLSVILLE ---- pg. 291 IN PROCESS starting 7/18/2020
   - Original Plat of the Town, 1817
 - Donation of Lots by General McConnel
 
- Jacob Kahler, the First Settler
 - The Pioneers of the Village
 - Hotel Keepers
 - Merchants and Mechanics
 - Anecdotes
 - A Picture of Pioneer Village Life
 - Later Settlers and Industries
 - Banks
 - Incorporation of the Town
 - Property Holders in 1836
 - A Glance at the Names of Former Business Men
 - Business of 1886
 - Reminiscences
 - Celebration of the Fourth, 1820
 - Telegraph Companies
 - Early Schools
 - The New Schoolhouse
 - Temperance Work in the Town and County
 - Early Temperance Workers
 - The McConnelsville Ordinance
 - Churches of McConnelsville
 - Lodges
 - BIOGRAPHIES
CHAPTER XVIII. - MORGAN ---- pg. 333 - FINISHED 7/27/2020
   - Early Elections
 - The First Magistrate
 - Roster of Pioneers
 - Deacon Miles
 - The Juntos and Brimstones
 - Old Joe
 - Election Customs
 - Memorable Contest Between the Juntos and the Brimstones
 - Early Courts
 - Court Attendance of Pioneer Days
 - Tavern Gatherings Reminiscences
 - Personal Incidents
CHAPTER XIX. - MALTA - THE VILLAGE AND THE TOWNSHIP ---- pg. 342 IN PROCESS starting 7/24/2020
   - Malta Village
 - Platted in 1817
 - The Early Settlers
 - The Pools, Bells and Others
 - Judge Young
 
- The Ferry
 - The First Stores and Industries
 - The Origin and Growth of Various Business Interests
 - Manufacturers
 - The Brown-Manly Plow Company
 - Churches, Lodges, Etc.
 - Malta Township
 - Its organization
 - Pioneer Settlers
 - A Novel Mill
 - Dawes' Store and Tannery
 - Abe and Bill Hughes and Their Advent.
CHAPTER XX. - PENN ---- pg. 378 - FINISHED 9/12/2022
   - Early Settlers from Belmont and Jefferson Counties
 - Names of Pioneers
 - Organization of the Township
 - First Election
 - Later Settlers
 - Anecdote
 - Family Sketches
 - Pierpont's Mill
 - Pennsville
 - An Old Village
 - Laid Out in 1828
 - Growth of the First Decade
 - Churches
 - I. O. O. F.
CHAPTER XXI. - WINDSOR ---- pg. 391  - IN PROCESS 7/25/2020
   - The Largest Township of the County
 - The Earliest Settlement
 - The Big Bottom Massacre
 - Site of the Block House
 - New England Influences
 - Fruit Culture
 - Early Inhabitants Along the River
 - The Hill Farms and "Rabbit Lands"
 - The Old Mill at Luke Clute
 - Pioneer Families
 - Melancholy Event at a Wolfe Hunt
 - Joel Sherman Killed
 - The Noted Fisherman of the Valley
 - Canoeing
 - A Pioneer's Experiences
 - Remarkable Religious Excitement
 - The "Six Weeks' Meeting" in 1819
 - Early Schools and Teachers
 - Mercantile and Industrial Items
 - The Village of Stockport
 - A good Trading Point
 - The Settlement, Origin and Growth of the Town
 - Lodges
 - Churches
 - BIOGRAPHICAL
CHAPTER XXII. - MARION ---- pg. 430 - FINISHED 9/11/2022
   - A Part of Athens County until 1845
 - Its Original Boundaries
 - A Prosperous and Well-Improved Township
 - An Industrious and Thrifty Population
 - The Early Settlers
 - The Influence of the Friends
 - Captain Lovell's Experiences
 - Other Pioneers
 - Primitive Election Methods
 - Early Justices
 - Scarcity of Money
 - The Village of Chester Hill
 - Its Origin
 - Early Settlers and Their Occupation
 - The Town in the Woods Becomes Wealthy and Prosperous
 - Schools, Churches, Lodges, Etc.
 - Personal Mention
CHAPTER XXIII. - DEERFIELD ---- pg. 452 - FINISHED 7/19/2020
   - An Old Township
 - The First Justice
 - Early Elections
 - Names of Voters and Candidates
 - Character of the Inhabitants
 - A Permanent Population
 - An Honorable Record
 - Pioneer Life
 - Hunting
 - Family Sketches
 
- The Saylors
 - Stanberys, Moodys, Masseys, and other Early Settlers
 - The Village of Triadelphia
 - The First Anti-Slavery Society in the County
 - Its Organization in 1836
 - Names of Its members
 - Churches of Deerfield.
CHAPTER XXIV. - MEIGSVILLE ---- pg. 461 - FINISHED 7/28/2020
   - An Early Settlement
 - Character of the Pioneers
 - First Settlements along the Marietta Road and on Meigs Creek
 - The First election in the Township, 1819
 - Names of Voters at this Election
 - Other Early Settlers
 - John Duffy and the Lawyer
 - Schools
 - Early Mills and Stores
 - Family Sketches
 - Pioneer Pictures
 - Churches.
CHAPTER XXV. - BRISTOL ----pg. 469 - IN PROCESS 7/26/2020
   - Organization
 - Topography
 - Nativity of the First Settlers
 - David Stevens, the Pioneer
 - Social Gatherings
 - Log Rollings
 - Raisings
 - Corn Shuckings
 - Quiltings
 - Dances
 - Arthur and William Jenkins
 -
The Fordyces
 - Berg. W. Talbot
 - Land Sharks
 - Experience of the Early Settler
 - Matthew Wilson
 - Experience of an Early Mail Carrier
 - Initial Events
 - List of Early Settlers
 -
The "Old Bristol Meeting House"
 - Pioneer Ministers
 - Johnny Appleseed
 - Adrial Huzzey, the Shoemaker and Preacher
 - Later Settlers
 - New Bristol
 - Churches.
CHAPTER XXVI. - UNION ---- pg. 489 - FINISHED
   - Organization in 1821
 - Formerly a Part of Deerfield
 - Surface and Drainage
 - Lawless Character of a Few Early Settlers
 - Slow Progress of Improvements
 - The Quigleys and the Corners
 - Mrs. Quigley and the Bear
 - Names of Early Settlers
 - Family Sketches
 - Early Events
 - The First Mill
 - First Frame House
 - First Brick House
 - The First Election
 - Villages
 - Ringgold
 - Origin and History
 - Morganville and Rosseau.
 - BIOGRAPHIES
CHAPTER XXVII. - HOMER ---- pg. 498 - IN PROCESS 7/28/2020
   - Introductory and Descriptive
 - Mineral Resources
 - Oil
 - A Part of Ames Township in 1805
 - Homer and Marion Together
 - Population 1820 to 1840
 - Pioneer Settlers
 -
The Aldermans
 
- The Lovells
 - Other Early and Prominent Families
 - Reminiscences and Personal History
 -
First Improvements
 - Village
 - Their Origin and Date
 - Churches, Societies, Etc.
CHAPTER XXVIII. - BLOOM ---- pg. 508 - FINISHED 7/28/2020
   - Organization of the Township
 - Early Settlers
 
- A Farm for Sale Cheap
 - First Election
 - Settlers of 1819 and later years
 -
Sick Wheat
 - Squirrel Migration
 - First Peaches
 - Church History
 - A Puzzled Parson
 - Latter Settlers and Miscellaneous Events
 -
A Great Rail Splitter
 - The Martin's, McCune's and John F. Talley
 
- First Improved Stock
 - First Brick Houses
 - Early Mills
 - Villages:  Airington, Eagle port and Rokeby
 - Reminiscences
 - Cloth "Kicking"
 - Cost of a Pair of Boots.
CHAPTER XXIX. - YORK ---- pg. 519 - IN PROCESS 7/28/2020
   - Organization
 - The Deavers, Longstreths, Pletchers, Wellers, Stoneburners
 
- The First Settlers
 
- Andrew Gossman and the Panther
 - Old Dragon
 - Deavertown
 - Early Recollections of Mrs. T. L. Grey
 - Initial Events
 - Lodges
 - Churches
 - Deavertown in 1886.
CHAPTER XXX. - MANCHESTER ---- pg. 527 - FINISHED 8/2/2014
   - The Township Organized
 - Reduction of Territory
 - Earliest Settlement
 - The Pioneers
 -
First Election for Justices
 - Names of Voters
 - Anecdote of Old Ned. Gen. McConnel
and a Cider Treat
 - Frederick Wood
 
- Establishment of Wood Grove Postoffice
 - First Mill
 - Villagers
 - Seeleyville
 - Societies
 - Odd Fellows and Masons.
CHAPTER XXXI. - CENTER ---- pg. 531 - FINISHED
   - Organization of the Township
 - First Election, 1819
 - Election Contests
 - A Peculiar Document
 - List of Pioneer Voters
 - Early Settlers
 
- Their Character
 - Their Experiences and Hardships
 - "Essence" Smith
 - The Native Woods
 - Clearing
 - Visiting
 - Going to Mill
 - Religious Privileges
 - Elder Hussey
 - "Early Candle-Light" Meetings
 - School Privileges
 - Early Teachers
 - Early Mail Routes
 - Personal Mention.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

Atkinson, Morris K. - 500
Buck, John - 144
Barker, Samuel A., M.D. - 270
Barker, Luther Dana - 296
Brokaw, Obadiah - 398
Chadwick, Justus - 412
Chappellear, George J. - 492
Children's Home - 116
Coburn, Nicholas - 104
Corner, George L. - 368
Davis, Joshua - 344
Davis, William, Capt. - 136
Donovan, A. J. - 400
Dunsmoor, Hiel - 360
Durbin, William - 516
Edwards, Forster - 452
Gatewood, W. Emmett, M.D. - 282
Gaylord, James M., Hon. - 320
Gibson, C. J., Capt. - 168
Hambleton, John R. - 440
Henery, David A., Lieut. - 200
Henery, Nathan B., Rev. - 416
Hook, Isaac N., Capt. - 132
Huffman, George W. - 432
Johnson, Perley B., M.D. - 272
Lane, T. B. - 426
Lane, Jesse D. - 426
McConnelsville in 1840 - 292
McConnelsville in 1886 - 292
McConnel, Alexander, Gen. - 290
McDermott, John - 390
Manly, James - 348
Manly, W. H. - 384
Massey, William - 456
Mellor, William V. - 376
Mellor, Samuel - 376
Miller, John - 348
Montgomery, J. J. - 408
Morgan, Carleton C., Capt. - 128
Murduck, Jackson C. - 184
Nixon, Joseph W. - 460
Noyes, Hiram Judson, M. D. - 280
Parmiter, John - 472
Pierrot, Eugene - 392
Pond, Francis B., Gen. - 260
Robertson, Charles, M.D. - 287
Sherwood, William - 252
Sherwood, Edwin - 353
Smith, Eli C. - 495
Stanbery, E. M., Hon. - 264
Swayne, Eugene R. - 506
Thomas, John E. - 372

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