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Welcome to
Richland County,  Ohio
History & Genealogy

Source:
History of Richland Co., Ohio
Past and Present

Illustrated

Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co.
1807 - 1880

TABLE OF CONTENTS

   

HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OHIO

CHAPTER I. - 11
 - Introductory,
 - Topography,
 - Geology,
 - Primitive Races,
 - Antiquities,
 - Indian Tribes
 
CHAPTER II. - 19
 - Exploration in the West  
CHAPTER III. - 37
 - English Explorations,
 - Traders,
 - French and Indian War in the West,
 - English Possession
 
CHAPTER IV. - 48
 - Pontiac's Conspiracy, Its Failure,
 - Bouquet's Expedition,
 - Occupation by the English
 
CHAPTER V. - 52
 - American Exploration
 - Dunmore's War
 - Campaign of George Rogers Clarke
 - Land Troubles
 - Spain in the Revolution
 - Murder of the Moravian Indians
 
CHAPTER VI - 60
 - American Occupation,
 - Indian Claims
 - Early Land Companies
 - Early American Settlements in the Ohio Valley
 - First Territorial Officers
 - Organization of Counties
 
CHAPTER VII - 73
 - Indian War of 1795
 - Harmar's Campaign,
 - St. Clair's Campaign,
 - Wayne's Campaign
 - Close of the War
 
CHAPTER VIII - 79
 - Jay's Treaty
 - The Question of State Rights and National Supremacy,
 - Extension of the Ohio Settlements,
 - Land Claims,
 - Spanish Boundary Question
 
CHAPTER IX. - 85
 - First Territorial Representatives in congress,
 - Division of the Territory
 - Formation of States,
 - Marietta Settlement,
 - Other Settlements
 - Settlements in the Western  Reserve
 - Settlement of the Central Valleys,
 - Further Settlements in the Reserve and elsewhere
 
CHAPTER X. - 121
 - Formation of the State Government,
 - Ohio a State,
 - The State Capital,
 - Legislation,
 - The "Sweeping" Resolutions
 
CHAPTER XI. - 127
 - The War of 1812,
 - Growth of the State, canal,
 - Railroads and Other Improvements,
 - Development of State Resources
 
CHAPTER XII. - 132
 - Mexican War,
 - Continued Growth of the State,
 - War of the Rebellion,
 - Ohio's Part in the Conflict
 
CHAPTER XIII - 138
 - Ohio in the Centennial,
 - Address of Edward D. Mansfield, L. L. D.,
 - Philadelphia, August 9, 1876
 
CHAPTER XIV. - 148
 - Education,
 - Early School Laws,
 - Notes,
 - Institutions and Educational Journals,
 - School System
 - School Funds,
 - Colleges and Universities
 
CHAPTER XV - 151
 - Agriculture,
 - Area of the State,
 - Early agriculture in the West,
 - Markets,
 - Live Stock,
 - Nurseries,
 - Fruits, etc.
 - Cereals
 - Root and Cucurbitaceous Crops,
 - Agricultural Implements,
 - Agricultural Societies,
 - Pomological and Horticultural Societies
 


HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY

CHAPTER XVII - TOPOGRAPHY and GEOLOGY 165
 - The Divide - The Water-Courses
 - Soil
 - Surface Deposits
 - Gold
 - Iron Ore
 - Geological Structure
 - Economic Geology
 
CHAPTER XVIII. - ARCHAEOLOGY 176
 - Mound Builders
 - Mounds Classified
 - Mounds and  Earth-Works in Richland County
 - Relics
 - Copper and Stone Implements
 - Axes, Mauls, Hammers, etc.
 - Mortars and Pestles
 - Plates, Thread-Sizers, Shuttles, etc.
 - Wands and Badges
 - Paint Cups
 - Pipes
 
CHAPTER XIX. - AGRICULTURE 193
 - Agricultural Societies
 - Their History and Progress
 - The County Society, its Exhibitions and its Several Grounds
 - The Bellville Fair
 - The Plymouth Fair
 - Horticulture and the Horticultural Society
 - Its Influence on the Growth of Fruit Culture in the County
 - Statistics of Agriculture, Taxable Property, etc.
 
CHAPTER XX - INDIAN TRIBES IN THE COUNTY 200
 - Wyandots or Hurons
 - Ottawas
 - Delawares
 - Shawanees
 - GREENTOWN
 - JEROMEVILLE
 - Captain Pipe
 - Thomas Armstrong
 - Other Chiefs
 - John M. Armstrong, his Education, Marriage, Work and Death
 - Indian Villages
 - Manners
 - Customs
 - Food
 - Hunting
 - Marriage Ceremonies
 - Religion
 - Feasts at Greentown and Jeromeville
 - Removal
 
CHAPTER XXI - FIRST WHITE MAN IN THE COUNTY 213
 - James Smith and his Captivity
 - Major Robert Rogers and his Rangers
 - The Old Sandusky Trail
 - Girty and other White Renegades
 - Moravians and Their Missionaries
 - Crawford's March through the County
 - Captivity of Christian Fast
 - Explorers and Hunters
 
CHAPTER XXII - THE SURVEYORS 220
 - Ordinance for the Survey of the Northwest Territory
 - Ranges
 - Townships
 - James Hedges
 - Maxfield and William Ludlow
 - Jonathan Cox
 - Descriptions of the Surveyors' Field-notes, etc.
 
CHAPTER XXIII - DIVISION INTO TOWNSHIPS 227
 - Wayne County
 - Fairfield County
 - Knox County
 - Richard County Attached to Knox
 - Madison Township
 - Green Township
 - Richland County
 - Act for Organization
 - County Seat
 - First Division of the County
 - Madison, Green, Jefferson and Vermillion Townships
 - Troy and Mifflin
 - Worthington and Montgomery
 - Blooming Grove, Springfield and Washington
 - Orange
 - Milton
 - Franklin
 - Leepsic, Name changed to Perry
 - Monroe
 - Plymouth and Sandusky
 - Hanover
 - Clear Creek
 - Sharon
 - Ashburn
 - North Bloomfield
 - Vernon
 - Congress
 - Formation of Crawford County
 - Ashland County
 - Morrow County
 - Jackson Township
 - Butler
 - Weller
 - Cass
 
CHAPTER XXIV - EARLY SETTLEMENTS AND THEIR EXTENSION. 227
 - The Territory of Richland County
 - First Settler and Settlement
 - The Newmans and Brubakers
 - The Newman Cabins
 - Pole Cabins
 - Catharine Brubaker
 - First Saw-Mill
 - Arrival of Michael Newman
 - The Fountain Cabin
 - Early Settlers on the Black Fork
 - First Grist-Mill
 - Laying out a Town
 - Jacob Newman
 - Michael and "Mother" Beam
 - Second Settlement in the County
 - The McCluer Settlement
 - First Roads
 - Settlements in 1809
 - Settlements in 1810 and 1811
 - Opening of the County by the Army in 1812
 - Settlements in 1814 and 1815
 - Wagon Trains and other means of Transportation
 - Taverns and Towns
 - Social Matters
 - Ring Fights
 - Wood-Choppings, Quiltins, Corn-Huskings, etc.
 - Wolf Pens
 - First Temperance Society
 - The Iris Schoolmaster
 - Fourth of July and Militia Musters
 - Ax Presentation
 - Agricultural Statistics
 - Health
 - Congressmen from Richland.
 
CHAPTER XXV. - THE GOOD OLD DAYS 248
 - Cabins and their Furniture
 - Early Educational Facilities
 - Clothing and its Manufacture
 - Superstitions
 - Salt
 - Homony Blocks
 - Meal
 - Distilleries
 - Whisky and Its Use
 - Singing,  Spelling and Dancing Schools
 - Camp Meetings
 - Modes of Emigration
 - Emigrants' Trials
 - Observance of the Sabbath
 - Marriages
 - Deaths
 - Incidents
 - Mills and Milling
 - Flat-Boats on the Black Fork
 - Militia Drills
 - Pioneer Jokes
 - Johnny Appleseed's Nurseries
 - Old Indian Landmarks
 
CHAPTER XXVI. - THE PIONEER SOCIETY 260
 - The Meeting at Hemlock Falls
 - The Organization at Bellville
 - The Organization in 1869
 - Constitution
 - The Centennial Meeting
 - The Meeting in 1879
 - General Brinkerhoff's Address
 - A List of the Pioneers
 
CHAPTER XXVII. - "JOHNNY APPLESEED." 269
CHAPTER XVIII. - INDIAN TROUBLES 272
 - War of 1812
 - Alarm of the Settlers
 - Block Houses
 - Greentown Indians and their Removal
 - James Copus
 - His Influence over the Indians
 - Burning of the Indian Village
 - Capt. Armstrong
 - The Killing of an Indian by Morrison and McCulloch
 - The Jones Tragedy
 - Search for the Murderers of Jones
 - The Killing of Ruffner and the Zimmers
 - Sketch of Ruffner
 - Battle on the Black Fork and the Murder of James Copus
 - Removal of the Copus Family
 - Mrs. Sarah Vail
 - Killing of Two Indians near Mansfield
 
CHAPTER XXIV - WAR OF 1812 286
 - War Preparations in the State
 - Condition of the Frontier
 - Hull's Surrender
 - Disposition of Troops
 - Erection of Block-Houses
 - Sketch of General Beall's Life
 - Organization of his Army
 - Scarcity of Supplies
 - Beall's March
 - Camp Council
 - Meeting Among the Troops
 - General Harrison Arrives
 - His Speech
 - General Beall's Difficulty with General Wadsworth
 - Arrested, Court-Martialed and  Acquitted
 - His Brigade Disbanded
 - The Expedition of General Crooks and Colonel Anderson
 - The Statement of John F. Rice regarding the Battle on Lake Erie and Death of Tecumseh
 
CHAPTER XXX. - THE MEXICAN WAR 295
 - First Troops raised in the County
 - McLaughlin's and Ford's Companies
 - Letter of Dr. William Smith
 - Second Year of the War
 - George Weaver's Company
 - Its Part in the Conflict
 
CHAPTER XXXI. - RAILROADS 302
 - The Mansfield & New Haven, and Monroeville & Sandusky Roads
 - First Train in May 1846
 - Arrival of the First Train in Mansfield, and its  Appearance
 - The Roadbed
 - Breaking Ground at Mansfield
 - The Depot
 - Grain Trade
 - Oxford & Huron Road
 - The Mansfield & Sandusky Road
 - The Columbus & Lake Erie Bond
 - Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Road
 - Baltimore & Ohio Road
 - The Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Road
 - Springfield & Mansfield Road
 - The Bellefontaine Road
 - Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago, or the Pennsylvania Road
 - The Atlantic & Great Western, Name Changed
 - The Mansfield, Coldwater & Lake Michigan Road
 - The Telegraph
 - The Telephone
 
CHAPTER XXXII. - THE WAR  OF THE REBELLION 313
 - Commencement of the War
 - First News in Mansfield
 - Public Meetings
 - Major McLaughlin and the First Company
 - Departure for Columbus
 - Miller Moody's Company
 - The 15th and 16th Regiments in the Field
 - Their Return
 - Captain M. R. Dickey's Company
 - Captain A. C. Cummins' Company
 - Other Companies
 - Return of the Three-Months Men
 
CHAPTER XXXIII. - FIRST THREE-YEARS TROOPS 323
 - Re-enlistment of Three-Months Men
 - Unsuccessful attempts of Captain Beekman's Company to enter the Three Months Service and their Return
 - Organization of Companies in the County
 - Thomas Ford Commissioned to Raise the 43d Regiment
 - Camp Mordecai Bartley
 - The 15th Regiment
 - Departure of the 22d
 - Roster of the 32d
 - Its Life in the Field
 
CHAPTER XXXIV. - THE 15TH REGIMENT 331
 - Roster
 - Organization
 - Life at Camp Bartley
 - Leaves for the Front
 - Life in the Field
 - Sent to Texas
 - Muster-Out and Return
 - The 2d Cavalry
 - Its service in the War
 
CHAPTER XXXV. - THE SHERMAN BRIGADE 338
 - Earliest Steps
 - Mr. Sherman's Arrival in Mansfield
 - Note
 - Interview with R. Brinkerhoff
 - Commencement of Recruiting
 - William Blair Lord
 - Captains Gass, McIlvaine, Ayers and Others
 - Selection of Camp Buckingham
 - Arrival of Major R. S. Granger
 - His Former Life, Character and Standing
 - He Puts the Camp Under Military Discipline
 - Organization of the 64th and 65th Regiments
 - The Cavalry and Artillery
 - Senator Sherman's Letter to the Brigade
 - Quartermaster Brinkerhoff Detached from the Brigade
 - The Brigade's Departure for the Front
 - Its Disintegration as a Brigade
 - Rosters and Histories of the 64th, the 65th, the Cavalry and the Artillery
 
CHAPTER XXXVI. - WAR HISTORY CONCLUDED. 355
 - The 102d and its Organization
 - Death and Burial of Major McLaughlin
 - War Meetings
 - Bounties
 - Departure of the 103d
 - Its Roster
 - Its History in the Field
 - Its Discharge
 - The 120th
 - Recruiting to Avoid a Dratt
 - Draft
 - Camp Mansfield Established
 - Drafted Men in Camp
 - 120th Regiment Organized
 - Roster
 - History in the Field
 - Consolidation with the 114th
 - Drafted Men in Camp Mansfield
 - Their Departure
 - Other Calls for Troops
 - Militia
 - Sanitary Fair
 - Ohio National Guard
 - 163d Regiment
 - Close of the War
 - Return of Troops
 
CHAPTER XXXVII. - A CHAPTER OF TRAGEDIES 366
 - Murder at Millsborough
 - John Welch Kills His Wife
 - The Bowland - Barker Affair
 - A Negro Killed
 - Return J. M. Ward
 - The Murder of Hall and the Pedller
 - Ward's Confession
 - The Steingraver Murder
 - Killing of Mock by Pool
 - Murder of Mrs. Lunsford
 - A Boy Kills his Brother
 - Murder of William Finney
 - The Killing of Alfred Palm
 - How Mansfield Treated her Thieves adn Blacklegs
 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. - THE MANSFIELD BAR 377
 - The First Courts of the County
 - The First Grand Jury
 - The Early Lawyers of Mansfield
 - The Visiting Lawyers
 - The President Judges
 - General McLaughlin
 - General Robert Bentley
 - Thomas A. Ford
 - Mordecai Bartley
 - Judge Brinkerhoff
 
- L. B. Matson
 - Milton W. Worden
 - General Brinkeroff's Review of the Mansfield Bar.
 

HISTORY OF RICHLAND COUNTY - Continued

CHAPTER XXXIX. - THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF RICHLAND COUNTY 384
 - The Old Block-Houses as Court Houses
 - The First Brick Court House
 - The Present Court House
 - The Jails, Infirmary, etc.
 
CHAPTER XL - A LIST OF THE COUNTY OFFICERS FROM 1813 TO 1880 391
CHAPTER XLI. - BLOOMING GROVE TOWNSHIP 393
 - Organization
 - Physical Features
 - Settlers and Settlements
 - Pioneer Incidents and Adventures
 - The Stoner and Foulks Families
 - Mills
 - Schools and Churches
 - TRUCKSVILLE
 - ROME
 - SHENANDOAH
 
CHAPTER XLII. - BUTLER TOWNSHIP 401
 - Organization
 - Topography
 - Early Settlers
 
- Churches
 - Schools
 - The Village of LAFAYETTE
 - Mills
 - The Grange
 - A Wolf Hunt
 
CHAPTER XLIII. - CASS TOWNSHIP 404
 - Boundaries and Physical Features
 - Settlements
 - Indians
 - First Methodist Church
 - Schools and School Teachers
 - Towns
 - Old SALEM
 - LONDON
 - PLANKTOWN
 - SHILOH
 - Its Early Settlers
 - Buildings
 - Schools and Churches
 - The Shiloh Review
 
CHAPTER XLIV. - FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP 413
 - Organization and Topography
 - Agriculture, etc.
 - Indian Occupation
 - Roads
 - First Settlers and Settlement
 - First Hotels
 - Distillery
 - The Lead Mine
 - Bear Hunting
 - "Shining" for Deer
 - A Snake Story
 - First Elections
 - Mills
 - Schools and Churches
 
CHAPTER XLV. - JACKSON TOWNSHIP 419
 - Organization
 - Name
 - Topographical Features
 - Hunting Grounds
 - Archaeological
 - First Settlements
 - Judge McClure
 - First Road
 - Uriah Watson
 - First Cabin
 - White Hunters
 - Early Settlers
 - Public Meetings
 - Town Hall
 - Schools
 - Churches
 
CHAPTER XLVI. - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 426
 - Description
 - Streams
 - Timber
 - Organization
 - Early Officers
 - Reduction to its Present Limits
 - List of Voters - 427
 - First Settlement
 - Indians' Final farewell
 - Pioneer List of 1869
 - BELLVILLE - 429
 - Newspapers
 - BANGOR
 - Early Schools
 - Religion
 - Churches
 - Societies
 - First Orchards - 435
 - Distillery - 435
 - Birth - 435
 - Marriage
435
 - Mills
 - Tornado 435
 - Stories
 - Bushong Murder - 437
 - The Meritess
 - Soldiers of 1812
 
CHAPTER XLVII. - EARLY HISTORY OF MADISON TOWNSHIP AND MANSFIELD 443
 - MADISON Township
 - Its Formation, Physical Features and Population
 - Survey
 - Established on the Rocky Fork
 - Name
 - First Settlers
 - First Cabin
 - First White Child
 - Pioneer Matters
 - A Number of First Tings
 - General Crooks
 - The Block-Houses
 - John M. May
 - The Sturges Firm
 - Indians
 - What Rev. James Rowland and other Pioneers Say
 - Early Hotels, etc.
 
CHAPTER LII. - MIFFLIN TOWNSHIP 528
 - Location, Organization and Boundary
 - Physical Features
 - Crawford's March
 - Home of the Red Men
 - Indian Relics
 - Settlers and Settlements
 - Daniel Hoover and his Bear Stories
 - James McDermott
 - Robert Bentley
 - Surveyed
 - Schools and Chuirches
 - Bridges on the Black Fork
 - Mills
 - Villages
 - Population
 
CHAPTER LIII. - MONROE TOWNSHIP 537
 - Boundaries and Physical Feathers
 - Pipe's Cliff
 - Captain Pipe
 - Early Settlers and Settlements
 - Schools and School Teachers
 - Pioneers and their Reminiscences
 - Bears, Wildcats, and Wild Turkeys
 - Names of Settlers in 1819
 - Election
 - Churches
 - Mills
 - PINHOOK
 
- LUCAS
 - Population
 
CHAPTER LIV. - PERRY TOWNSHIP 547
 - Description
 - Streams
 - Organization
 - Early Officers
 - Subsequent Territorial Changes
 - Early Settlers
 - Mills, Villages
 - Churches
 - Lost Run
 
CHAPTER LV. - PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP 554
 - Organization, Survey an dPhysical Features
 - The Wyandot Trail
 - First Settlers and Settlements
 - First Marriages and Deaths
 - Yearian and the Bear
 - The Martial Band
 - Charles and William Bodley
 - Entertainments
 - First Post Office
 - Frist Frame and Brick Houses
 - First Preachers and Churches
 - PLYMOUTH VILLAGE
 Its location and Growth
 - The Settlements around Plymouth
 - A Number of First Things
 - Mills and Distilleries
 - Churches
 - Change of Name
 - First Mayor
 - Schools
 - Railrods
 - Wheat Market
 - The Call for Volunteers
 - The Cemeteries
 
- Banks
 - Newspapers
 - Population
 - General Business
 
CHAPTER LVI. - SANDUSKY TOWNSHIP 563
 - Its Primitive Condition
 - Crawford's March
 - Hunting Ground
 - Early Settlers and Settlements
 - The "Riblett" House
 - Mrs. Hibner and the Bear
 - Organization of the Township
 - First Election
 - Schools
 - Churches
 - Origin of the Name
 
CHAPTER LVII. - SHARON TOWNSHIP 566
 - Organization
 - Water and Soil
 - Indian Occupation
 - roads
 - First Settlers
 = Indian Dance and other Reminiscences
 - First Election
 - Indian Trails
 - Mills
 - SHELBY
 - Its Establishment and Early History
 - Schools and School Buildings
 - Churches
 - The Press of Shelby
 - Insurance Companies
 - VERNON STATION
 
CHAPTER LVIII. - SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP 581
 - Location
 - Organization
 - Name
 - Springs
 - Physical Features
 - Agriculture and Timber
 - Settlers and Settlements
 -
The Finney and Roe Families and the Underground Railway
 - Churches and Sabbath Schools
 - Schools
 - Saw-Mills and Grist Mills
 - Villages
 - Population
 
CHAPTER LIX. - TROY TOWNSHIP 592
 - Original Boundaries
 - Early Entries
 - Early Settlers
 - Indians
 - Political Records
 - LEXINGTON
 - Churches
 - Schools
 - Lexington Seminary
 - Cemetery
 - Division of the Township
 - Village of Steam Corners
 
CHAPTER LX. - WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP 600
 - Organization
 - Springs and Water-Courses
 - First Election
 - Early Settlers and their Adventures
 -
First Road
 - First Public House
 - Early Schoolhouses and Teachers
 - The Black Cane Company
 - The First Temperance Organization
 - First Brick House
 - The Churches
 - Mills
 - WASHINGTON VILLAGE
 
CHAPTER LXI. - WELLER TOWNSHIP 609
 - Organization
 - Topography
 - Improvements
 - Early Settlers
 - Incidents and Reminiscences of Pioneer Life
 - The Englishmen's "Castle"
 - Soldiers of the Late War
 - The County Infirmary
 - Schools and Churches
 - The Railroads
 - Olivesburg Superstitions
 
CHAPTER LXII. - WORTHINGTON TOWNSHIP 625
 - Organization
 - Streams, Springs and Timber
 - Abner Davis
 - Scenery Along the Clear Fork
 - Fairview Rock
 - Chasm Rocks
 - Hemlock Falls
 - Standing Rock
 - Eagle's Nest
 - Pioneer Thrashing Floor
 - Indian Hill
 - Prospect Hill
 - Fountain Cavern
 - Giant's Ploshare
 - Watts' Hill
 Dripping Rock
 - First Settlers
 - Wolves
 - The Pigeon Roost
 - Adventure with a Bear
 - Mills
 - Churches
 - Newville
 - Winchester
 - Independence
 - HILLTOWN
 - LYONS
 
CHAPTER LXIII - AUBURN TOWNSHIP 637
 - Organization
 - Physical Features
 - Jedediah Morehead
 - Two Hermits
 - First Settlers
 -
First
 - George Myers
 - Churches
 - Villages
 
CHAPTER LXIV. - JACKSON TOWNSHIP 640
 - CRESTLINE, Its Early History
 - VERNON STATION
 -
The First Railroad
 - Laying out of Crestline
 - First Buildings
 - A Railroad Town
 - Incorporated
 - List of Mayors
 - Educaitonal Matters
 - The Churches
 - Secret Societies
 - Growth, Hotels, etc.
 - Mills
 - The Press
 - Water Works
 
CHAPTER LXV. - POLK TOWNSHIP AND GALION 640
 - Location
 - Name
 - Early Settlers
 - First Roads
 - An Indian Camp
 - Mills
 - First Schools and Teachers
 - Early Religious Societies and Preachers
 - The Establishment of Galion
 - First Post Office and Store
 - Churches
 - The Railroads
 - Banks
 - The Press
 
CHAPTER LXVI - VERNON TOWNSHIP 649
 - Organization
 - Topography
 - Hunting Grounds
 - First Settlers and Settlements
 - WEST LIBERTY
 - DeKALB
 - Liberty Church
 
CHAPTER LXVII. - CLEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP 651
 - Its Formation
 - Boundaries and Physical Features
 - Antiquities
 - Early Settlers and Settlements
 -
Mills
 - Churches
 - Schools
 - SAVANNAH
 
CHAPTER LXVIII. - GREEN TOWNSHIP 654
 - Survey
 - The Village of GREENTOWN
 -
Organization
 -
The Man Green
 - HECKWELDER
 - Early Settlers
 - War of 1812 and Block-Houses
 - Indian Trails
 - Scenery
 - Water Courses
 - Site of the old Indian Village
 - Distilleries
 - Mills
 - Churcues
 - PERRYVILLE
 - Education
 
CHAPTER LXIX. - HANOVER TOWNSHIP 659
 - Notes of the Survey
 - Organization and Physical Features
 - Early Features
 - LOUDENVILLE
 
- The Bank
 - Milts
 - The Business of Loudenville
 - Secret Societies
 - The Church and Schools
 - The Press
 - The Mayors
 
CHAPTER LXX. - MILTON TOWNSHIP 652
 - Organization
 - Boundaries, etc.
 - Springs
 - Surveys
 - Soil and Timber
 - Hunting Grounds
 - An Official Document
 -
Early Settlers, etc.
 
CHAPTER LXXI. - MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP 664
 - Survey
 - First Settlers and Settlements
 - Esquire Newell
 - Churches
 - Old HOPEWELL
ASHLAND
 - Its Early Settlers, etc.
 - First Carriage
 - Francis Graham's Recollections
 - Post Office
 - School
 - The Ashland College
 - The Churches of Ashland
 - The Business of Ashland
 - The Newspapers and other Publications
 
CHAPTER LXXII. - ORANGE TOWNSHIP 672
 - Formation
 - Indian Trails
 - Indians and Indian Relics
 - Ancient Relics
 - First Settlers
 - First Road
 - Mills
 - Orange Village
 - Churches
 

Townships in Morrow County, formerly Richland:
 
CHAPTER LXXIV. - CONGRESS TOWNSHIP 679
 - Boundaries and Physical Features
 - Early Settlements
 - Village of WILLIAMSPORT
 - Schoolhouses
 - Post Office
 - United Brethren Church
 - Pioneers
 - First MIll
 - Mount Tabor Chapel
 - German Reformed Church
 - Christian Church
 - Schools
 
CHAPTER LXXV. - NORTH BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP 681
 - Boundaries
 - Survace
 - Settlers
 
- Village of BLOOMING GROVE
 -
Churches
 - Stores, Shops, etc.
 - Village of WEST POINT
 - Early Settlers
 
- Churches
 - School
 

BIOGRAPHIES:

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City of Mansfield 687
Blooming Grove Township 744
Butler Township 767
Cass Township 774
Franklin Township 784
Jackson Township 788
Jefferson Township 797
Madison Township 815
Mifflin Township 822
Monroe Township 830
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Perry Township 859
Plymouth Township 864
Sandusky Township 874
Sharon Township 877
Springfield Township 893
Troy Township 898
Washington Township 902
Weller Township 911
Worthington Township 915

CRAWFORD COUNTY

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Auburn Township 935
Jackson 936
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Polk Township 938

ASHLAND COUNTY

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Ashland Township 938
Hanover Township 939
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Green Township 939

MISCELLANEOUS ............................ 939

VIEWS & PORTRAITS

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Gass, James R.  
Johnson, James  

 

NOTES

Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 - The History of Ohio - and Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,40, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36 and 40, were written by Mr. A. A. Graham, the compiler of the History; Chapter 34 was written by Mr. Graham and Col. R. C. Brown.

Chapters 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37, 38 and 39 of the County History by Mr. N. N. Hill, Jr.

Chapter 25 of this past of the book, was written by Miss Rosella Rice.

Of the Township histories, Chapters 41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63,  64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73 snf 74 were written by N. N. Hill, Jr.; Chapters 69, 74 and 75 by Mr. J. A. Kanl.  Chapters 42 and 61, by Mr. John Ward, and Chapters 46 and 54 by Mr. A. L. Garber.

 



 

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