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I. - STATE AND COUNTY DESCRIBED |
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- Ohio Always a State
- Surface of Country
- Chief Rivers
- Geology of the State
- Geology of the County
- Building Stone, Clays, Etc.
- Drainage, Soil and Natural Wealth
- "Ohio, Good and True" |
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II. - PRIMITIVE MEN IN THE COUNTY |
13-26 |
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- Mound Builders in Morrow County
- Location of Mounds
- Sacred to the Indians
- The Original Ohio Man
- Garden of Eden in Morrow County?
- The Indians as a Race
- Ohio, the Battle Ground
- Near-By Indian Massacres
- Indian Tables by Pioneers
- Early Indian Trails |
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III. - AS STATE AND PEOPLE |
27-41 |
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- Ohio a State
- Physical Aspects
- First Settlements
- Coal, Iron and Salt
- Interior Commerce
- Education and Charity
- Future Development
- The Ancestry of the Ohioan. |
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IV. - EVOLUTION OF OHIO COUNTIES |
42-53 |
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- Controversy Over New Counties
- Division of the Northwest Territory
- Counties of the Northwest Territory
- Original State Counties |
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V. - MORROW COUNTY OFFICIALLY |
54-75 |
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- Morrow County Opponents
- Rival Claims at Columbus
- Morrow's Final Campaign
- Minority Report on New Counties
- How the Gilead Claim Won
- County's Creative Act
- First Year of Infancy
- Political Record
- Official Representatives of the County
- Morrow County Infirmary |
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VI. - PIONEER MEN AND WOMEN |
76-105 |
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- Change Since Pioneer Days
- Men and Women Together
- Old Roads
- Immigration From 1830 to 1838
- Tales of Pioneers
- Ross N. Mateer, Mt. Gilead Pioneer
- The Remarkable Rinehart Family
- "From First to Last" (By Mrs. Martha M. Harlan)
- Indians and a Scalping Knife
- First White Settlers
- The Legislative Struggles
- Progress
- "In the Long Ago" (By Capt. L. N. Cunard)
- Mt. Gilead in February, 1848
- Mt. Gilead's Day of Days
- The Boys of Morrow County
- First Newspapers
- Exciting Financial Episode
- Godfather of Mt. Gilead
- A Memory Prodigy
- Mrs. Smith DeMuth's Recollections |
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CHAPTER VII. - FARMING IN MORROW COUNTY |
106-122 |
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- Rich and Varied Soil
- Mixed Husbandry
- Agricultural Implements
- First Farm Machinery
- Underdraining and Ditching
- Grass Crops and Live Stock
- Fruit Culture
- The Farmers' Broadening Life
- Morrow County Agricultural Society (By Robert F. Bartlett)
- "Johnny Appleseed" (By A. J. Baughman) |
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VIII. - MORROW COUNTY WAR HISTORY |
125-180 |
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- Underground Railway Stations - 126
- Three Months' Men from Morrow County - 128
- Three Months' Men in Civil War - 128
- Company I, Third Regiment, O. V. I. (Three Years) - 129
- Company C, Fifteenth Regiment - 131
- Company A, Twentieth Regiment - 133
- Companies C and E, Twenty-Sixth Regiment - 136 - 138
- Company E, Thirty-First Regiment - 138
- Company B, Forty-Third Regiment - 139
- An Escaped Andersonville Prisoner - 141
- Fifty-Fifth Infantry - 146
- Company C, Sixty-Fourth Regiment - 147
- - Portrait of John B. Gatchell - 147
- Company D, Sixty-Fifth Infantry - 148
- - Portrait of John O. Bartlett - 150
- - Portrait of John S. McKibbin - 152
- - Portrait of Gilbert E. Miller - 153
- Company K, Sixty-Sixth Regiment - 155
- Companies F, G and K, Eighty-First Regiment - 155
- Company C, Eighty-Second Infantry - 158
- Companies B and C, Eighty-Fifth Regiment - 158
- Company I, 87th Regiment O. V. I. - 158
- 88th Regiment O. V. I. - 159
- Companies C and D, Ninety-Sixth Regiment - 159
- - Portraits of Lieutenant Colonel Albert H. Brown - 159
- A War Reminiscence - 163
- One Hundred and Second, - 166
- One Hundred and Twenty-First, - 166
- One Hundred and
Twenty-Eighth, - 168
- One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth, - 168
- One Hundred and
Seventy-Fourth, - 169
- One Hundred and Seventy-Ninth, - 170
- One Hundred and Eighty-Seventh and Eightieth Infantry Regiments - 170
- Artillery and Cavalry - 171
- Ohio Boys in Other Commands - 174
- Colored Soldiers, Morrow County - 176
- United States Navy - 176
- United States Army - 177
- Spanish-American War - 177 |
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IX. - THE COURTS AND THE BAR. |
181-197 |
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- First Year of Bench and Bar
- Other Leading Lawyers
- The Divorce Business
- Changes in Court Systems
- Circuit Bench
- Resident Practicing Attorneys
- Made Their Marks Abroad
- Judges, Attorneys, Sheriffs and Clerks |
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X. - SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS |
198-223 |
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- State School Laws
- Pioneer Schools
- Defects in Present System
- "Lickin' and Larnin'" Teachers
- Union Schools of Mount Gilead
- Superintendents
- Distinguished Graduates
- High School Graduates (1876-1910)
- Teachers and Course of Study
- Hesper Mount Seminary
- Jesse Harkness
- The Alum Creek Academy
- Ohio Central College
- Press and County Coextensive. |
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XI. - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION |
224-232 |
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- Demands on the Pioneer Doctor
- Early Physicians of the County
- Morrow County Medical Society |
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CHAPTER XII. - MT. GILEAD AND VICINITY |
233-255 |
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- First Forest Lands Taken Up
- Clearing Off the Forests
- First Permanent Settlers
- Whetstone Laid Out
- The Young and Harris Families
- How the Pioneers Lived
- Nathan Nichols, Jr., and Descendants
- Other Pioneer Families and Citizens
- Distant Produce Markets
- Mt. Gilead as it is
- Railroads and Industries |
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CHAPTER XIII. - PAST AND PRESENT MT. GILEAD |
256-270 |
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- Early Business Men
- Mayors and Municipal Matters
- Memorial Day and Soldier Dead
- Mt. Gilead As It Is
- Railroads and Industries
- Banks of Mt. Gilead |
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CHAPTER XIV. - CHURCHES OF MT. GILEAD |
271-280 |
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- Presbyterian Church in Mount Gilead
- The Methodist Church
- The Baptist |
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CHAPTER XV. - FRATERNAL, SOCIAL AND LITERARY |
281-299 |
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- First Lodge (Odd Fellows)
- Other Odd Fellow Bodies
- The Masons in Mount Gilead
- Patriotic Societies
- Knights of Pythias
- Sketch of Pythianism
- Literary Clubs
- Mount Gilead Free Public Library
- Temperance Movements |
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CHAPTER XVI. - GILEAD AND CARDINGTON TOWNSHIPS |
300-319 |
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- Natural Features of Gilead Township
- Political
- Early Settlers
- Pioneer Mills and Roads
- First Villages
- Territory of Township
- John Beatty
- Edison
- Cardington Township
- Isaac Bunker and Family
- Old Mills and Hospitable Millers
- Indian Village on the Whetstone
- Settlement Around the Whetstone Mills
- Approved Bee Hunting
- First Road
- Water Courses and Drainage |
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CHAPTER XVII. - VILLAGE OF CARDINGTON |
321-352 |
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- Founded, Platted and Improved
- Mayors of Cardington
- Early Events and Settlers
- Founding of the Churches
- The Park Museum
- Founding of Industries
- Hon. Caleb H. Norris and C. S. Hamilton
- Cardington in 1850
- Cardington Sixty Years Ago
- Railroad Better Than Court House
- The Old Carding Mill
- Cardington in 1911 |
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CHAPTER XVIII. - CHESTER AND SOUTH BLOOMFIELD |
353-373 |
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- First Settlers of Chester
- The Chester Settlement
- First Mills in the Township
- Churches and Schools
- Chesterville
- First Churches
- Chesterville (Miles' Cross Roads) Founded
- South Bloomfield
- Township
- Schools and Churches
- Sparta of the Present
- Methodist and Christian Churches
- Sparta of the Past
- Bloomfield |
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CHAPTER XIX. - BENNINGTON AND CANAAN TOWNSHIPS |
374-389 |
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- Events Up to the Early Thirties
- Marengo
- Pagetown and Vail's Cross Roads
- Morton's Corners
- Canaan Township
- Friends in Need
- Churches of the Township
- Denmark
- Climax |
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CHAPTER XX. - CONGRESS AND FRANKLIN TOWNSHIPS |
390-402 |
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- Soil and Drainage of Congress Township
- Pioneers
- Williamsport
- Franklin Township
- Defunct Towns
- School Houses
- John Cook and Others
- Pulaskiville |
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CHAPTER XXI. - HARMONY AND LINCOLN TOWNSHIPS |
403-417 |
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- Physical Features of Harmony Township
- SettlersPrior to 1830
- Later Settlers
- Religious Organizations
- Penlan
- Lincoln Township Erected
- Pioneer Settlers
- Churches and Schools
- Fulton |
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CHAPTER XXII. - NORTH BLOOMFIELD AND PERRY |
418-431 |
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- Formation and Natural Features of North Bloomfield
Township
- Early Settlers and Settlements
- Roads and Post Offices
- Blooming Grove
- Perry Township
- Physical Characteristics
- Organized
- The Early Arrivals
- Churches and Schools
- Johnsville
- North Woodbury |
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CHAPTER XXIII. - PERU AND TROY TOWNSHIPS |
432-455 |
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- General Description of Peru Township
- Churches and Schools Side by Side
- Pioneer Characters and Events
- South Woodbury
- West Liberty
- Old Time Trapping and Hunting
- Early Settlement on Alum Creek
- General Description of Troy Township
- First White Settlers
- Steam Corners |
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CHAPTER XXIV. - WASHINGTON AND WESTFIELD |
456-470 |
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- Washington Township Generally
- Benjamin Sharrock and Other Pioneers
- Schools and Churches
- Iberia
- Westfield Township
- The Shaws
- Schools, Roads and Mails
- Westfield
- Whetstone (Olentangy) and St. James |
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