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| CHAPTER 1 - |
WILLIAMS COUNTY ANTIQUITIES |
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- The Mound Builders
- Their works in Williams County
- General Description of mounds
- Implements made by the extinct race
- Conflicting theories |
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| CHAPTER 2. - |
EARLY JURISDICTION |
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- Title to lands
- Treaty of 1783
- Virginia's claim of sovereignty
- The Greenville treaty
- The county of Wayne
- Representatives in first legislative assembly
- Under the jurisdiction of Montgomery, Miami, and Shelby counties
- Claims of the Indians
- Cessions of territory by the Red Men
- Formation of Williams county |
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| CHAPTER 3. - |
THE FORMATIVE PERIOD |
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- Organization of the
county
- First county officials
- Different sessions of the board of county commissioners
- The selection of Defiance as the first permanent seat of justice
- Election of county officers in the fall of 1826
- Defalcations of certain county officials
- Opening of roads in the present county limits
- Personal mention of prominent men
- Organization of townships in the present Williams county
- Character of the population
- "County-seat fight," and the removal of the seat of justice to Bryan. |
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| CHAPTER 4. - |
THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE |
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- Importance of the
question
- The origin of the difficulty
- Mitchell & Bradley's map
- Exception clause in first State constitution
- The Harris line
- The Fulton line
- The Wabash and Lake Erie canal
- Attack upon official surveying party
- Major Stickney and his connections with the boundary dispute
- Removal of the obstreperous Acting-Governor Stevens of Michigan
- Dispute finally settled by Congress
- Legal phases of the question |
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| CHAPTER 5. - |
FROM 1841 TO 1861 |
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- Seat of justice at
Bryan
- Reduction in size of county by erection of Defiance and Fulton counties
- Efforts to remove the county seat
- the embryo village of Bryan
- First session of the commissioners at Bryan, and their first official
acts
- The old log court-house
- Difficulties in building the brick courthouse
- Early railway projects
- The building of the Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana road
- Early postoffices
- History of efforts to establish newspapers
- Census of 1860. |
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| CHAPTER 6. - |
THE COUNTY'S WAR RECORD |
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- Period of peace
- War with Mexico
- The sectional strife
- Opposition to the government's policy
- First organization of troops
- The Fourteenth regiment
- The Thirty-eighth, Sixty-eighth, One Hundredth, One Hundred and
Eleventh, One Hundred and Forty-second regiments of infantry
- The Third and Ninth regiments of cavalry
- Field and staff officers furnished by Williams county. |
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| CHAPTER 7. - |
THE LAST FORTY YEARS |
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- Chronological record of
events from the close of the war to 1905
- Census of 1900 |
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| CHAPTER 8. - |
POLITICS AND OFFICIAL HONORS |
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- Political history of
the county, beginning with 1824, and including a roster of
National, State and county officers, brought down to date,
with biographical mention of many of the favored
individuals. |
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| CHAPTER 9. - |
RESOURCES AND EARLY
ENTERPRISES |
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- Industry and
agriculture
- Topography and geology of the county
- The drift deposit
- Agricultural products
- Agricultural societies and fairs
- Patrons of husbandry
- Primitive manufactures
- Early mercantile establishments
- Statistics of 1904. |
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| CHAPTER 10. - |
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT |
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- Early schools and
schoolmasters
- Description of the primitive schoolhouses
- Old-fashioned spelling-schools
- School books
- Statistics concerning the present day schools in the county. |
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| CHAPTER 11. - |
BENCH AND BAR |
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- List of associate
judges under the old Constitution, with SKETCHES of
some of them
- Early court of common pleas
- First sessions of court in William county
- Common pleas judges with sketches
- The district court
- Prosecuting attorneys
- Probate court and judges
- Clerks of the courts
- Sheriffs
- Members of the bar. |
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| CHAPTER 12. - |
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION |
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- Afflictions of the
pioneers
- The ravages of malarial fever
- SKETCHES of early physicians
- County medical society |
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| CHAPTER 13. - |
ST. JOSEPH TOWNSHIP |
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- Afflictions of the
pioneers
- The ravages of malarial fever
- SKETCHES of early physicians
- County medical society |
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| CHAPTER 14. - |
PULASKI TOWNSHIP |
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- The second oldest
township
- Boundaries
- Topographical features
- First settlement
- Progress of the township
- City Cemetery
- Social organizations. |
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| CHAPTER 15. - |
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP |
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- Organization
- John Stubbs and other pioneers
- Village of Stryker
- Church notes |
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| CHAPTER 16. - |
BRADY TOWNSHIP - Started 6/7/2019 |
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- Natural features
- SKETCHES of pioneers
- Their homes and schools
- West Unity
- Mills and stores
- Churches
- Lockport |
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| CHAPTER 17. - |
CENTRE TOWNSHIP |
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- Organization
- The first settlers
- Schools and churches |
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| CHAPTER 18. - |
FLORENCE TOWNSHIP |
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- Organization
- Natural features
- SKETCHES of early settlers
- Edon
- Columbia M. E. Church
- Other churches and social organizations
- Blakeslee |
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| CHAPTER 19. - |
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP |
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- Erection of township
- Creeks
- Notable pioneers
- A Revolutionary soldier
- The Schamp murder |
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| CHAPTER 20. - |
BRIDGEWATER TOWNSHIP |
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- Antiquities and natural
features
- Bridgewater center and Ainger
- The Smith settlement
- SKETCHES of pioneers
- Mills, schools, and churches |
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| CHAPTER 21. - |
MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP |
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- Theron Landon and other
early settlers
- The village of Hamer
- The first election
- Town of Alvordton
- Churches and schools |
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| CHAPTER 22. - |
SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP |
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- Organization
- Cosmopolitan population
- Natural features
- George Bible, the deerhunter
- Other early settlers
- Montpelier
- Churches and social organizations
- Hiram Louden Post G. A. R. |
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| CHAPTER 23. - |
NORTHWEST TOWNSHIP |
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- Natural advantages
- Aaron Burr Goodwin, the Knights, and other pioneers
- Religious history
- Early industries
- Columbia |
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| CHAPTER 24. - |
MADISON TOWNSHIP |
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- Chapter of country
- Pioneer SKETCHES
- Early schools
- Industries
- Pioneer and Kunkle
- "Basswood" church and others |
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,
arranged in Alphabetical Order, beginning |
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