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PREFACE.
To THE READER :
I have now completed the task assigned me by the Committee on Publications, appointed by the
Western Ohio Pioneer Association. The entire labor of collecting material for this work was
placed on me by this Committee, and when completed, to be presented to them for their approval
or rejection.
In this work I have not satisfied myself in many respects, for I have reason to think I have failed
in obtaining a great deal of interesting matter that should have a place in this volume, and in what
I have obtained I know there are many unpleasant but unintentional mistakes, especially in some
of the names and dates of the first settlers. Though I obtained the most of them from the oldest
inhabitants, yet I found they could not tell exactly the year of their immigration to this country,
(or some of them, at least,) hence they are responsible for what inaccuracies may appear in these
pages. I have done all I could to arrive at the exact facts. All I, or any one else could expect under
the circumstances was an approximation to accuracy.
To those gentlemen who have kindly favored me with their contributions for this work I tender
my sincere thanks for their timely aid in furnishing so much valuable matter tor this work. Tour
articled, gentlemen, will appear in these pages and they wilt speak for themselves, and will
present a better tribute to the memory of their authors than anything I could say; so, wishing each
of you a long and happy life, I bid you good bye.
JOSHUA ANTRIM.
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History of Champaign County
Simon Kenton
Tecumseh
Pioneers of Ohio
Building Log Cabin
Log Cabin, (Continued)
History of Urbana,
Schools,
Civil, Polity, Medical Men, &c.,
Early Population and Marriages of Urbana,
Military Operations in War of 1812,
Simon Kenton
John Hamilton
Pioneer Settlers of Urbana
Hull's Trace
Phenomenal
Tornado at Bellefontaine in the Year 1825,
The Lost Child (HOPKINS)
Andrew Hellman, the Murderer
Review of Hellman's Confession
Hellman in Logan County
Execution of Hellman
Lost Child (CURL), 1816
The Lost Child, (Poetry)
Early Settlement of Mad river Township
Zane Township in 1805
First Settlers in Jefferson Township
First Settlers in Monroe Township
First Settlement of Liberty Township
Bokes Creek Township
Rush Township, Champaign County
Perry Township, Logan County
John Enoch
John Shelby
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Riddle Rntan
N. Z. McCulloch
Johnny Appleseed
Loren Dow
Rev, David Merrill
Rem. George Walker
White Pilgrim
Poem at the Grave of Same, (White Pilgrim)
The First Churches,
The M. E. Church, Urbana,
Mount Tabor
Quaker Church, at Darby
Tharp's Run Church
Methodist Church in Zane Township
Universalist
Spain's Run Methodist Church
First Merchants,
William Hubbard,
Abram Sanders Platt,
Logan County
Simon Kenton
Jonathan Alder
First Settlement in Logan County
New Court-house
Pioneer Sketches - Haller
Aaron Guttridge
Early Recollections - Sarah M. Moore,
William Boggs
William Johnson
Jacob Johnson
William Baldwin
Henry Cowgill
Thomas Cowgill, Sr.,
Archibald Stewart
Simeon Morecraft
Col. John Thomas,
Salem Township,
Governor Vance
Marriage Record of Champaign County
Marriage Record of Logan County
Poll Books of Early Elections in Champaign County
Poll Books of Early. Elections in Logan County
Concord Township, - T. S. McFarland,
Spotty, - Wm. Hubbard,
Recollections of Bar Of Logan County,
Ka-los-i-tah, - T. Hubbard,
Pioneer History - N. Z. McColloch,
Nancy Stewart, - Sarah M. Moore
Bellefontaine Forty Years Ago
Hull's Surrender at Detroit,
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The Pioneers, - Dr. Brown,
An Old Burying Ground
Our Soldiers, - Mrs. Sarah M. Moore
Fifty. Years Ago
Pioneer Meetings at Middleburg and West Liberty
Pioneer Incidents
Remarks . by Archibald Hopkins
First Quarterly Meeting
Remarks by Dr. Brown
Remarks by Samuel Carter
Remarks by Volney Thomas
At the Old Home, ( Poem.) - Hubbard
Oh, Give Them Back,
Pioneer Sketches, - Roberts
Recollections of My Childhood,
Polly Latty
Hidden Treasure
Pioneer Polly
Pioneer Practice of Medicine
The Old Pioneers —Forty Years Ago, (Poem)
Mv First Visit to West Liberty
Fifty Years Ago,
Tornado at Urbana, - Patrick,
Pere Dugan,
Fifty Years Ago
Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Mary Madden,
John Chestier,
Henry Weaver,
The pioneer Meeting
Logan Comity Tornado
The Property Destroyed
Incidents
How King's Creek Got its Name
Death Of Hon. Moses B. Corwin
The Ludlow Road
Ex-Governor Vance's Family
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