| PREFACE |
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CHAPTER I - LIMITATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS |
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High-Water Mark of Iron Industries
- Lack of Superior Fuel Coal
- Varied and More Substantial Prosperity
- Commercial Advantages
- Distinct Coal Bason
- The Gifts of Nature
- Topography of Lower Scioto Valley
- The Scioto River
- Its Drainage System
- Ohio River Drainage
- Mineral Products
- Prehistoric Readings
- Early Forest Growths
- Tree Colonization
- Flower Garden of the Scioto
- The Beasts
- Scioto Valley Birds
- Fish
- Snakes
- All A Background for Man |
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CHAPTER II - PREVIOUS TO THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 |
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Greatest Historic Waterways West of Ohio
- French Scheme of Colonization in Force
- French Northwest Territory
- French Formally Claim Louisiana
- English Serve Notice of Possession
- First Ohio Company and Agent Gist
- George Croghan
- Party Starts for the Scioto Valley
- In the Land of the Delawares
- Great Shawnee Town on Both Sides of the Ohio
- Savage exhibition of Woman's Rights (?)
- The Indians of the Scioto Valley
- Shawnees Migrate Northwardly
- The Delawares Move Westwardly
- Bouquets's Expedition
- Shawnees Last to Surrender
- A Northwest Territory Assured
- Lifting of Indian and State Titles
- Lord Dunmore's Squatters |
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CHAPTER III. - THE ORDINANCE OF 1878 |
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American System of Land Surveys
- Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784
- Cutler's Ordinance of 1787
- The South Its Warmest Supporter
- Three or Five States Authorized
- First Surveys of Western Lands
- First Land Sales
- Futile Home-Making Attempt of 1785
- Military and civil Friction
- Washington County Organized First Judiciary
- Indians at Lat Subdued |
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CHAPTER IV. - THE SCIOTO LAND COMPANY AND FRENCH
GRANT |
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The Scioto Land Company and the Ohio Company
- The Two Entirely Distinct
- Seemed Purely Speculative
- Why the Bubble Burst
- Contract to Purchase Shares in the Ohio Company
- Failure of the Scioto Company
- Putnam the Principal Loser
- Courteous Treatment by the Ohio Company
- Another Account of Company and Immigrants
- Gallipolis Founded by General Putnam
- Gervais, a Friend in Need
- Allotment of the French Grant
- The Ninety-two Original Owners
- French Replaced Largely by Yankees
- Story by Thayer D. White
- Burrsburg A. Failure
- Making Peach and Apple Brandy Profitable
- Well Known Settlers
- Hunt Improves the Gervais Purchase
- Asa Boynton and His Work
- Pioneer Mills
- All the Other Boyntons
- The Whites
- The Other Purchaser of the Gervais Tract
- First Settlers Other than the French
- The Salladays
- Vermonters |
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CHAPTER V. - PIONEER SETTLEMENTS AND SETTLERS |
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the Salt Springs of Jackson County
- Daniel Boone Sees the Country
- Othe rCaptives Visit the Springs
- The Ohio Company Claims the Springs
- Found Outside the Purchase
- Located and Made Popular
- Price of Salt Reduced
- Springs Under State Control
- Poneer Samuel Marshall
- Isaac Bonser, Forerunner of Sciotoville
- Settlement on the Little Scioto
- John Lindsey, Marshall's Close Friend
- Major Bonser, A Strayer
- First State Road of the Region
- Alexandria Founded
- Traxler Settles at Portsmouth
- Henry Massie Founds the Town
- Water-Logged Alexandria Sinks
- Ironton and Its furnace Men
- John and Thomas W. Means
- The Union Furnace
- Iron in Civil War Times
- John Campbell, Father of Ironton
- First Hot-Blast Furnace in America
- Deaths of Furnace Men, 1849-60
- Dissolution of the Ohio Iron and Coal Company
- The Famous Hecla Furnace
- Natural Advantages of the Region
- Civil War, the Great Stimulant
- Dr. William W. Mather
- Dr. Caleb Briggs
- The Beginnings of Vinton County |
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CHAPTER VI. - PIONEEER PICTURES |
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Actual Settlers on the French Grant
- The Five Pioneers
- Mons. Gervais Again
- Dudutt, Successful French Farmer
- Brisk, Bright, Warm Little Frenchman
- Nervous About His Hospitality
- A Tragic Misfortune
- A. C. Vincent Spurns a King-to be
- A Varied Life
- A Mind to Coolly Meet adversity
- The Cadots and Dutiels
- Simple Cutting of Bad Domestic Knot
- Story of a Stow-away
- Laziest Man on the Grant
- Mons. Ginat, Pettifogger
- A Doctor of Sharp Angles
- Forced Hospitality
- Survivors of Original, Colonists
- Salladay Kills Last Buffalo
- Unsuccessful Remedy for Consumption
- Major Belli, of the Old School
- The Lucases Found Lucasville
- Gov. Robert Lucas
- Turning form the Personal
- A Pioneer is a Type
- Packing Goods from the East
- The Log Cabin
- Sleeping Accommodations
- Cooking
- Wild Game
- Dress and Manners
- Market Prices
- The Scioto Country Stores
- Raising Bees
- Bringing in Stock
- Hospitality
- Bee Hunting
- Milling
- Agricultural Implements
- Hog Sticking and Packing
- Money and Barter
- Education
- Spelling School
- Singing School
- Resting on His Arms
- The Woman Pioneer. |
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CHAPTER VII. - TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION |
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The Ohio (Grand) Canal
- Brief Record of It
- Famous Floods in the Ohio Valley
- More Permanent Railroad Relief
- Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad
- Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
- The Scioto Valley Road Awakens
- Norfolk and Western Lines
- Chesapeake and Ohio South Shore Line
- Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
- Dayton, Toledo and Ironton. |
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PART II
SCIOTO COUNTY
(See
Sciota County) |
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CHAPTER I - COUNTY FOUNDATIONS |
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Samuel Marshall and His Rivals
- Legislation Affecting the Scioto Valley
- Scioto County Created
- The Four Pioneer Townships
- Development of the Present County
- The Importance of Judge Collins
- First County Officers
- Stephen Carey, of the Run
- Joseph Feurth
- Moses Fuqua and Cynthia Collins
- Public Estimate of the Associate Judges
- Fierce Guardian of the Peace
- Judge Samuel Reed
- Portsmouth Rising as a County Seat Claimant
- First Schools
- David Gharry
- Building of the First Court House
- Whippings in the First and Second Jails
- Third and Fourth Jails
- The County Infirmary
- Children's Home of Scioto County
- Judicial Changes - The County Offices
- Chronological Creation of Townships
- County Population, 1810-30
- Township Population, 1840-80
- Population by Townships, 1890-1910
- Property Value and Taxation, 1814 - 1914
- Financial Details for 1914
- Contributions to the County's Progress
- Iron Ore Deposits
- Fine Grained Sand-Rock
- Scioto River Navigation
- Scioto River Brides
- A great Railroad Bridge in the Building
- Pikes and Good Roads |
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CHAPTER II. - PURELY PERSONAL PROFESSIONS |
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First Practicing Lawyers
- Nathan Clough, Pioneer Resident Attorney
- Ezra Osborn, Champion Officeholder
- How Tracy Was Drawn to Portsmouth
- Prosecuting Attorney From 1821 to 1849
- Edward Hamilton
- Quietly Strong and Always Urbane
- What Peck Taught the County
- Jordan, Who Supplanted His Teacher
- Supreme Control of Temper
- James M. Ashley
- Why He left Portsmouth
- The Bar of Today
- Early Healers of Body and Soul.
- Doctor Duflignnne as a Real Estate Owner
- Dr. Thomas Waller, Perhaps First
- Portsmouth's First Citizen
- Dr. Giles S. B. Hempstead
- Founder of Academy of Medicine
- Medical Societies
- Joseph Corson, M. D.
- Dr. William J. McDowell
- Dr. Cyrus M. Finch, Celebrated Surgeon
- Dr. David B. Cotton
- Dr. James P. Bing
- Other Early Physicians
- Female Practitioners |
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CHAPTER III - THE COUNTY IN FOUR WARS |
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Two Scioto Companies of 1812
- Captain Roop's Company
- Brig-Gen. Robert Lucas
- Gen. William Kendall
- The Mexican War
- A Waste of Fine Material
- Gen. Edward Hamilton, The Central Figure
- The Civil War, Not a Surprise
- The Kinney Light guards
- The Portsmouth Rifles
- First Scioto Soldiers to Fall
- Captain McDowell's Company
- Troops Raised in the First Three Months
- Companies Under W. W. Riley and S. A. Currie
- Death of the Gallant Captain Bailey
- Military Strength in 1862
- Proposed Natural Armory
- Volunteers, 2,520, by January 1, 1864
- Aid at Home
- Fifty-sixty, Broadly Representative
- Gen. Peter Kinney
- Gen. William H. Raynor
- Other Officers of the Fifty-sixty
- Capt. John Cook
- The Organization
- The Thirty-third Infantry
- Gen. J. W. Sill
- Lieut.-col. O. F. Moore
- Maj. J. V. Robinson
- The Ninety-First Regiment
- Co___ J. A. Turley
- The Fifty-Third Regiment
- Gen. Wells S. Jones
- The Thirteenth Missouri Becomes the Twenty-second Ohio
- The Grosbeck Regiment
- The Second Kentucky Infantry
- Eifort, of the Second Kentucky Cavalry
- Scioto County Captains
- Battery L.
- The Heavy Artillery
- Company of Sharp-shooters
- The Spanish-American War
- Victims of the War |
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CHAPTER IV. - PORTSMOUTH TOWN AND CITY |
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Incorporated as a Town
- First Council Meeting and Officers
- Regulating the Town Market
- Street Supervisor or Commissioner
- Original Act Amended
- Streets Renamed
- Curbing Sports and Young Sports
- Nucleus of Police Force
- Twice a City
- First city Government
- Expansion of Corporate Area
- Heads of the Town Government
- Creation of Municipal Offices
- John R. Turner, Star Official
- Portsmouth and Wayne Township Equalized
- Early Efforts Toward Public Hygiene
- Early Sewers Constructed
- Founding of the First Waterworks
- building of the Present Water System
- The Mayors of the City
- Fire and Police Departments
- Great Fires of the '90s
- Portsmouth's Public Libraries
- The Postoffice
- City Transportation and Lighting. |
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CHAPTER V. - SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS |
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The Subscription and Tuition Schools
- Massie's School Lots
- Legislation in 1821
- Statutory Progress in 1825-31
- The Seminary
- Educational Muster in 1836
- Founding of the System
- The Fourth Street School Built
- School Districts and Managing Board
- System as First Organized
- Increased Accommodations Demanded
- The Second Street School Built
- Under Municipal Rule
- The Board of Education Supreme
- Schools for Colored Pupils
- High School, on Gallia Street
- New Fourth Street School
- Board Constituted as at Present
- Union Street School
- New High School
- List of City Superintendants
- Small But Lively Newspaper Field
- First Ventures
- The Western Times
- The Tribune and Edward Hamilton
- The Blade and Personal Journalism
- The Correspondent
- The Times and James W. Newman
- Rise of the Morning Star. |
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CHAPTER VI - CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES |
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CHAPTER VII - BANKS AND BUSINESS |
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CHAPTER VIII - MINOR CENTERS OF POPULATION |
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PART III
LAWRENCE COUNTY
(See
Lawrence County) |
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CHAPTER I. - NATURAL AND IMPROVED RICHES |
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CHAPTER II. - OF GENERAL COUNTY INTEREST |
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CHAPTER III. - THE IRON INDUSTRIES |
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CHAPTER IV - THE CIVIL WAR |
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CHAPTER V. - IRONTON AND THE VILLAGES |
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CHAPTER VI. - IRONTON CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES |
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