400 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO. clerk; Louis Painter, treasurer; F. B. Stowell, John Sager, justices of the peace; D. F. Linck, George Stagg, constables; S. H. Kidd, Z. McGuire, R. D. Jones, Peter Geiger, O. A. Mann, F. B. Stowell, John Ryan, J. B. Roberts, G. W. Stagg, E. Compton, J. H. Souder, board of education. EARLY SCHOOLS. Joseph Edgar taught school in Truro township, before moving into Jefferson, and immediately after taught a few pupils in this township, probably as early as 1816. He taught at home, and his pupils were from the families of the Staggs, Ducks, and Rhoads. Peter Wills taught school a little later, in a small log school-house, which stood on what is now the H. G. Black farm, just south of Black Lick station. Worthy Mitchem was the most noted, and the most valuable, teacher in the township. She did much good in the township, and served the people in the capacity of instructor for their children for over a quarter of a century, beginning as early as 1824. The school was upon the land of Frederick Neiswender. A term of three months was taught, for two dollars per pupil, and the instruction being thorough, parents sent their children from a considerable distance to attend. Many came from Mifflin and Plain townships, as well as from the small settlements in Jefferson. There are still a few old men residing in these townships we have named who recall, with pleasure and satisfaction, the days they spent in the small, quaintly furnished, log school-house, where Worthy Mitchem held the spelling-book and birch. The benches where huge slabs, supported on pins driven into them at each end, and the desks were inclined shelves, which rested on stout arms fastended in the chinks of the log walls. PHYSICIANS. Dr. Ezekiel Whitehead, of New Jersey, was the first physician in the township, and practiced there for many years, being as successful as could be expected in so small a population, and with the competition of other physicians in the adjoining townships. He removed to Jersey village, over the line, in Licking county, where he now resides, and was followed in Jefferson by Doctors J. Schaffer and David Kemble, who each remained several years. There is now no physician resident in the township. MILLS. As early as 1809 or 1810, Jacob Tharp erected a gristmill on Black lick, near William Headley's residence. There was a saw-mill in connection with the grist-mill, and both were used for a number of years. It was sold by Tharp to the. Headley family. The next mill was built by James Alexander and Andrew Allison, on Rocky fork. Mr. Somerville succeeded them as the owner, and he sold the mill to Peter Early. This mill is now run by Kitzmiller & Benedict. Not long after the saw-mill just spoken of, and generally known as the Early mill, was built, Isaac Baldwin put one in operation on Black lick, near the center of the township; and still later, John Havens built one on black lick, just east of the locality now known as Havens' corners. This was burned. The only permanent mill in the township, at present, besides Kitzmiller & Benedict's is one on the road west of Havens' corners, owned by Isaac Souder, and built by him in 1874. STONE QUARRY. There is a fine stone quarry on the property of Mr. S. R. Armstrong, just east of Black Lick station. After the building of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Mr. Armstrong, who had previously taken some stone from this quarry, began to do an extensive business. His sales ran as high as three thousand dollars per year. The material is a good article of sandstone, and has been largely used in Columbus and other places. The Blind Asylum shows, perhaps, as much of it as any one building, but it has also been used for the foundations of the Union depot; the Pan Handle round house, and several other large buildings were built of this stone. It is also .extensively used for window cappings and sills, and there is scarcely a street in Columbus where it is not to be seen in some form. THE TAYLOR STATION METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Preaching by the Methodists was commenced at Taylor's station, soon after the village was laid out. In 1853 a class was organized, consisting of the following members : Michael A. Ebright and wife, Elijah Fishpan and wife, Mordacai Fishpan and wife, John Leckrone and wife, William Hughes and wife, David Ortman and wife, Alonzo Sherman and wife, J. P. Gordon and wife, and Alexander Cook and wife. The class was organized by the Rev. Richard Pitser and Jacob Young. Michael A. Ebright was the first class leader. In 1858 a lot was bought by John Leckrone, of David Taylor, and by the latter deeded to the following trustees for the church : William Hughes, Charles Buckingham, Alonzo Sherman, David Ortman, John Leckrone, Michael A. Ebright, Elijah Fishpan. Upon this lot a frame building was erected, at a cost of six hundred dollars. The present pastor of the Taylor's Station Methodist Episcopal church is the Rev. J. R. Kemper; class leaders, James More, ____ Fultz; stewards, S. J. Mason, A. Morrison. THE CHRISTIAN UNION CHURCH was built at Havens' corners, in 1871, at a cost of about nine hundred dollars, though the society was organized prior to that time. It consisted, in 1868, of the following members: Shuah, Lucy, Austin A., George M., Kelton S., Manning F., Nancy, Amba, Permelia, Kesiah, and Cordon Mann; Abram, Catharine, Ephraim, Henry, John, and Sophroma Sager; John, Christina, Rebecca, David P., and Frank M. Lytle; David C., and Amanda Runnell; E. W., Elizabeth, and Mary Ayres; Joseph, Mary, and Mary, jr., Sherman ; Rebecca Smith, Margaret E., and Mary Havens; Nancy, Allen, C. H., Peter, and George W. Cline; Henry Busey, Rufus Putnam, Theodore Heischmann, Elizabeth Kitzmiller, J. S. Hook, Martha E. Hook, Elizabeth Cisco, Sarah A. Decker, Jasper Cheney, and Daniel DeWitt. The first pastor and organizer of the church was the Rev. R. M. Demham. The present pastor is the Rev. George Stevenson, and the elders of the church are Abram Sager, Shuah Mann, and Martin Welch. The church has between   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 401   forty-five and fifty members, and is in a prosperous condition.   VILLAGES.   The village of Smithville, now called Black Lick station, is a small cluster of houses upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near the southern boundary line of the township. It was laid out in the year 1852, by William A. Smith.   Grahamsville, or, as it is now universally called, Taylorstown, or Taylor's station, is upon the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, about two miles west of Black Lick, and south of the center of section three. The section was held by the heirs of L. Brien until 1850, when it was conveyed by them to David Taylor, esq., at ten dollars per acre. He laid out the village which now bears his name, in 1853; built there a warehouse and saw-mill, and caused to be erected several houses. The place had a small growth during the first few years after its establishment, but has not increased in the same proportion during later years, and is only a very small hamlet.   POST-OFFICES.   The first post office established in the township was Ovid, at Headley's corners, in 1832. Dr. Ezekiel Whitehead was the first postmaster. William Headley succeeded him after a few years, and held the position for a long period. The office was discontinued in 1875.   Black Lick post-office was established at the station in 1852, and Thomas McCollum was the first postmaster commissioned. He was succeeded by C. S. Morris, and he by Ezekiel Compton, who is the present incumbent. An office was established in June, 1879, at Havens' corners, with R. J. Rhoads as postmaster.   CLINTON.   Clinton—township number one, range number eighteen, United States military lands--consists of just one of the original surveyed townships, of five miles square. It was subdivided into four quarters, or sections, the original owners of which were the following named gentlemen: Jonathan Dayton, the first and third sections; John Rathbone, the second section; and George Stephenson, the fourth section. The date of their entries, was March 12, 1800.   The township is level, east of the river almost perfectly so. Its principal stream is the Olentangy river—formerly called Whetstone creek—which flows south through the western portion of the township, uniting its waters with those of the Scioto river, at Columbus.   INDIANS,   of the Wyandot, and other tribes, remained in the township, and region, for a number of years after the white settlers took possession of the soil. Intercourse between them and the whites was of a friendly nature, and only during the year of 1812, after the surrender of General Hull, by which the whole northwest was exposed to the ravages of the enemy, were there any anticipations of difficulty by the inhabitants. One evening, shortly after that unfortunate event, the settlers on the river were greatly alarmed by a report that the Indians were over-running the northern part of the State, and massacreing the inhabitants, and settlers in Clinton fled in terror to Franklinton, and a few went to Zanesville, for protection. Andrew Wilson says the report reached his father's house after nightfall, and that he, though but six years of age, distinctly remembers the excitement that ensued. After a night of dismal forebodings, in Franklinton, the refugees returned to their homes, and soon afterwards learned of the falsity of the alarm.   On the west bank of the Olentangy, on the farm of James H. Hess, was a burying-ground of a former race —probably Indians—which was opened in the summer of 1879, and from twelve to fifteen skeletons exhumed. They were in two parallel trenches, which were about twelve feet apart, and some three and a half feet deep. A large number of arrows, tomahawks and other rude implements of war, had previously been found, indicating that a battle had once been fought there.   WILD GAME.   The country, in its native state, and for many years after its first settlement, abounded in game of all kinds—deer, wild turkeys, and some smaller game being particularly numerous. There were not a great many bears in the township, or vicinity, but they would frequently pass through it, and a number have been killed within its bounds. Deer were more plenty than cattle are now, and venison was a common article of food. It was not an unusual circumstance for a settler to bring down a fine buck with his rifle, from his cabin door. One of the most successful hunters among the pioneers was David Beers, jr., who had a cabin on what is now 'Squire Peggs' farm, which he made his headquarters while he pursued his favorite sport. He began to hunt when a boy of fOurteefourteenid nothing else for seven years. He used to say that he had hunted in every county in the State,   402 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   and that the first eighty acres of land that he bought he paid for with the products of his gun, In one day, in this township, he killed one bear and five deer. The last deer killed in this township were, probably, those shot by W. S. Shrum and John Fleniken, about the year 1840. They shot them (four in number) on the Morse farm, in the east part of the township. Wolves were plenty, and Were perhaps, more dreaded than any other of the beasts of the forest. They would come up to the cabin doors of the settlers, often protected only by a blanket, or quilt, and rendered night anything but pleasant with their piercing howls. Sheep were not safe from them, unless shut up in pens, and the pioneers suffered considerable loss from their ravages. Wild turkeys were caught by means of a rail pen, which was built over the end of a ditch dug in the ground, and covered over. The birds were decoyed into the inclosure with corn, scattered in the ditch. When. once within the pen, they were safely imprisoned, for they would never go down into the ditch to get out, invariably seeking a means of egress above. And squirrels were exceedingly plentiful. They were so numerous, and destructive to the crops of the settlers, as to be regarded only as pests, and various means were resorted to to rid the country of them. Large hunting parties were organized, and thousands acre destroyed in that way. Mr. Shrum states that in a few moments one morning, before breakfast, he, and a brother, killed thirty-two of them, without the use of a gun.   SETTLEMENT.   The first settlement of the territory now constituting the township of Clinton, was commenced as early as 1800, along the Olentangy, on the west side. Among the first families that arrived, were those of Balser Hess, John Lisle, and a family by the name of Henderson. Balser Hess came from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, with a family, consisting of his wife and eight children. He stopped in Ross county (as now constituted) a couple of years, and then came to this township, and located where his grandson, James H. Hess, now lives, subsequently taking up three hundred and twenty acres of land there. It is thought that this family made the first improvement in the township, for they cut their way into the woods of Clinton, the son, Daniel, going ahead of the team, and with his axe preparing the way for the slowly moving train. The first house erected by the pioneer, Hess, was a double log structure, which, although not a tavern, was a common stopping place with travelers. Mr. Hess' occupation in Pennsylvania, was that of a shoemaker and tanner of leather, and he followed the same trade after his settlement here, tanning the first leather and making the first shoes in the township. People came from Chillicothe to get their boots and shoes made by Mr. Hess, and his pay very seldom consisted of legal tender. One of the first pioneers in the township, Mr. Hess was also one of the first of their number who died, his death occurring in December, 1806. He was the first adult person buried in Union cemetery. His wife's experience of pioneer life was in strange contrast to his, surviving him nearly half a cen tury. She died in 1855, at an advanced age, having raised nine children, all now dead but one.. The youngest, at the time of his death, was fifty-seven years of age. The names of the children, were: Daniel, Mary, Eve, Polly, Balser, Catharine, Betsey, Susan, Sarah, and Moses; Susan—now Mrs. Israel Carpenter, and living in Illinois—is the only survivor. Daniel and Moses lived and died in this township, the former a short distance west of his father, and the latter on the homestead. Daniel Hess was one of the first justices of the peace in the township, being elected soon after its organization, in 1812.   John Lisle, a native of Ireland, emigrated to Ohio, from Kentucky, in 1798, and first located in Franklinton, his family being among the first inhabitants of that old town. In 1799, or 1800, he moved into Clinton, and settled where J. O. Lisle now lives, and subsequently died there, his wife, Rachel, surviving him. Their children, all of whom are now deceased, were: Robert, Margaret, Elizabeth, James, Rebecca, Jane, John, and Rachel. Robert married Abigail McIntyre, of Fairfield county, and resided in Clinton until 1817, when he removed to Hamilton township, and settled where his son, Harvey, now resides; Margaret became the wife of James McElvain, an early resident of this county, but later of Indiana. Elizabeth married Luther Powers, and moyed to the same State; James, who lived in Hamilton township, married Mary Golliford; Rebecca was the wife of Joseph Young, of Fairfield county, and Jane, of Samuel Maynard, who lived in Clinton, for several years, when he moved to Sandusky county; John married Thankful Maynard, and removed, soon afterwards, to Indiana; Rachel was the wife of William Sackett, and first settled in Fairfield, and afterward in Putnam county.   The Henderson family located on land now owned by Thomas Hess. There were three sons in the family —Alexander, Samuel, and Adam—all now supposed to be dead.   Hugh and Elijah Fulton, brothers, were among the first settlers of the township. Hugh lived where the family of Henry Slyh now does, west of the river. He had four sons, who finally sold to Jacob Slyh, and moved to Michigan. Elijah Fulton settled just north of the Hesses, and died there at an early date.   Samuel McElvain and family located, soon after 1800, on the farm just north of where W. S. Shrum now lives. They subsequently moved to Columbus.   John Hunter, the first settler on the east side of the river, in this township, occupied the south part of the land now constituting the college grounds. Above him, in successive order, were two families by the name of Vance, and Herdoff, Droddy, Smart, Simmons, and others hereafter mentioned.   A CENTENARIAN.   David Beers, sr., one of the oldest, and most active, pioneers of Clinton, was a resident of the township from 1804 until 1850, when he died at the great age, it is said (his exact age not being known), of one hundred and four years. He was a native of New Jersey, and when seven   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 403   years of age, with a little two-year-old sister, was stolen by the Indians. The two children, and their widowed mother, were going on a journey on horse-back when all three were captured by the savages. The children were separated from the mother (whom they never saw again, and who was undoubtedly killed), and taken over into Canada. David was kept in captivity for seven years, when, by some exchange of prisoners between the whites and Indians, he was released. His sister, however, was taken to the region of upper Sandusky, and remained there among the Indians during her life. She became the wife, successively, of three Indian chiefs, her last husband being the well-known Wyandot, Between-the-Logs. Some years after his settlement in Clinton, Mr. Beers heard of a white woman living with the Indians at Upper Sandusky, and he made a visit to the tribe, where he found his long lost, sister, contented and happy in her savage life. David Beers removed, with his family, from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1802. He remained in Fairfield county two years, when he moved to this township and located just north of the college grounds. In 1809 he settled where North Columbus now is. The old hewed log house, in which he lived, is still standing. He died there, May 16th, of the same year above stated. He was the father nine children, they are: Conrad, David, Elizabeth (who became the wife of Ransom Coe), Moses, Peter, Catharine, Solomon, Rachel, and George W. Five are yet living; they are: Moses and Catharine, (wife o I). P. Wilcox), who live in Missouri; Peter, who lives in Iowa; Rachel (Mrs. Wheaton), and George W., who live in Clinton. Conrad died in North Columbus. His son, Moses, and a daughter, Mrs. Spencer, reside in this township. Three other sons live in the west, and a daughter in Lorain county. David Beers, jr., some of whose hunting exploits are briefly mentioned elsewhere, settled in Clinton, where he remained until 1831, when he moved to Mifflin, and settled on Alum creek, and resided there until his death. He was justice of the peace of that township for thirty years, when he was succeeded by his son, David, who still retains the Office, having served twenty-one years. He was twice married, and was the father of ten children, three of whom are deceased; of the remainder, Washington, David, Daniel, and Gertrude reside in Mifflin township, Ellen in Clinton, Mrs. Elizabeth Holden in Champaign county, and Mrs. Eliza Spangler in Columbus.   John Wilson, in 1797, married Rachel Cresswell, in Miffln county, Pennsylvania, and immediately after started, with his bride, for the far west. They traveled on pack-horses, as far as Pittsburgh or Wheeling, carrying with them a few articles of household necessity, and then put their horses on a flat-boat, on which they, also; came down the Ohio river to the mouth of the Scioto, thence up to Chillicothe, on their horses. They lived on the Kinnickinnick, in Ross county, till 1804, when they came to what is now Clinton township, and settled upon fifty acres, now occupied by their son, Andrew Wilson. The father died here, October 2, 1879, at the age of over eighty-one years; his wife survived him about three years, and was about the same age at the time of her death. They had a family of three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters is now living in Fremont, Ohio, and the other in Iowa. Andrew Wilson, the only surviving son, was born in Clinton, February 16, 1806, and is the oldest man in the township, who was born in it his wife was Chloe, daughter of Jason Bull.   Denman Coe, of Connecticut, emigrated to Wayne county, Pennsylvania, where he remained a year or two, and then, in 1807, came to Ohio. After remaining a short time in Worthington, he located in Clinton, on the Harbor road, on the Henry Innis farm. He lived there some five or six years, and then returned to Pennsylvania, where he subsequently died. Dudley and Ransom, his sons, received the homestead, on which Dudley resided until his death. He was married, at the age of fifty, to Sarah Hoskins, of Holmes county, by whom he had four sons and two daughters, all now living. Ransom Coe, in 1815, purchased, of Caleb Rice, a hundred acres of land, now owned by his son, A. F. Coe, which he cleared up, and on which he lived until his death, in October, 1855. At the time of his death, he owned over five hundred acres of land. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of David Beers, sr. She survived her husband some thirteen years. They had a family of six children, two of whom are deceased—Henry, who died, unmarried, in Clinton, and Mrs. Salinda Stewart, the eldest daughter, who died in Burlington, Iowa. Three of the surviving children reside in this township—Mrs. Lovilla Ackerman, Alvin, and A. F. Coe ; Mrs. Rachel Stone lives in Delaware county.   Harvey Coe, a younger brother of Ransom, settled in Mifflin township, where his widow and son, James H. Coe, now live.   In 1809, or 1810, Joseph Shrum bought, and settled upon, eighty-eight acres in this township, where W. S. Shrum, his son, now lives. He was a native of Germany, and in 1800, when eighteen or nineteen years of age, he emigrated to this country. For a year or two, he lived in Little York, Pennsylvania, and then came to Franklin county, and located in Hamilton township, where he had a distillery, for a couple of years, on the Shoaf farm, on the Chillicothe road. Afterwards, he bought one hundred and sixty acres in the same township, now the Klickinger farm, which he lost on account of imperfect title, when he came into this township and settled, as already stated. Soon after his settlement, he built a distillery on the west bank of the Olentangy, just south of his residence. The still was burned down in 1824, or 1825, but he rebuilt it the same year, but on the east side of the river, and carried on distilling until 1837, when he retired from active business. January I, 1809, he was married to Elizabeth McGranahan, by whom he had seven children. She died in 1823, and he was married twice afterwards, but had no children by these subsequent marriages. Mr. Shrum was killed, in September, 1859, by a train 'of cars on the Piqua road, while driving over the long crossing, west of Jones mill, living forty-eight hours after the accident. At the time of his death, he was over eighty-eight years of age. Although owning and operating a distillery, he was a strictly temperate   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 304   man in his habits. For thirty years he was a member of the Franklinton dragoons. A son and two daughters are now living: W. S. Shrum, born in this township, in. 1814, and now residing on the homestead; Mrs. Elizabeth Reams, in Michigan, and Mrs. Lucy Gillen, in the State of Illinois.   At an early date, quite a number of New England people came into the township, and settled mostly along the Columbus and Worthington road, which originally run a somewhat different course from what it now does. One of the first was Abraham Ingham, who came from Barkhampstead, Connecticut with his family, then [1808] consisting of his wife and three children. The year he had made a trip to this western wilderness, to take a look at the country, walking the whole distance both ways, and averaging over fifty miles a day the round trip, and some days traveled sixty-five miles. The family settled on the David Bristol property, a mile and a half south of Worthington, where they lived until 1812, at which time Mr. Ingham purchased of Daniel Case the farm now occupied by his son, George W. Ingham. At the time he erected his cabin here, on this now thickly settled road, the nearest neighbor was half a mile away, and only woods in every direction. Mr. Ingham, after a useful life, died in this township, in 1840, his wife surviving him thirty years. They raised a family of six children, four of whom are yet living, viz.: Mrs. Arnold, in Delaware county, aged over eighty; A. C. Ingham, in the .town of Delaware, aged seventy-nine; George W. who lives in this township, on the old homestead, and a daughter.—Mrs. Wilcox—in Iowa City, Iowa. George W. was born in this township in 1816.   At the same time, Jordan Ingham, an older brother of Abraham, moved out with his family, and settled on the farm adjoining his brother on the south. He died about the year 1843, and his wife previously. The only member of the family now living resides in Iowa.   Daniel Case came from Hartford county, Connecticut, in 1811, and settled on the farm, a part of which is now owned by his son, William Case. His dwelling stood on the bank of the river, near where the mill now does. Mr. Case died in 1817. Of his five children, two only are now living—William, as above mentioned, and Rodney, in Kentucky.   Prominent among the pioneers of this township were Thomas Bull and family, who arrived in Worthington, in the fall of 1812, removing from the State of New York. They remained the first winter in Worthington, and in the spring came to this township, Mr. Bull having purchased in the Rathbone section, lots eight, nine and ten, comprising something over six hundred acres. He settled upon lot eight. Thomas Bull was a native of Vermont, born November, 1762, and died in Clinton, October, 1823. His wife Sylvia (Benedict), was a native of Connecticut, born in 1766, and died here at the age of about eighty years. They raised a family of four sons and two daughters—Chloe, Jason, Nathan T., Alonson, Hiram and Edith. They all came to Ohio with their parents, except Chloe, who carne subsequently with her husband, Isaac Brevoort, who was drowned a short time afterward which crossing the Olentangy river. Jason Bull lived on the farm just north of his son-in-law, Andrew Wilson, and died there, February, 1861. He was a local Methodist preacher. Alonson died in Columbus; Hiram, on the Mississippi, below New Orleans, where he had settled; Edith became the wife of a Dr. Beach, and resided in Marion county, Ohio.   Dr. Nathan T. Bull, the only survivor of the family, and now residing in this township, was born in Clinton, county, New York, September 29, 1795; .married, January, 1820, Fidelia, daughter of Eber and Rebecca Wilson, who removed from Washington county, New York, to this township, with his family, in 1818. Mr. Wilson resided on the farm now occupied by Mr. Fuller, for two years, when he removed to Lower Sandusky (now Fremont), and shortly afterward to the Maumee river, where he settled near Perrysburg. Mrs. Bull was born August 23, 1798. With the exception of her hearing, which has become of late years considerably impaired, Mrs. Bull still retains her faculties in an excellent state of preservation. Dr. and Mrs. Bull have lived together as man and wife, for the unusual period of three score years, and have, now living, seven children, twenty-two grandchildren, and sixteen great-grandchildren.   John Smith came from Francestown, New Hampshire, in 1812. He worked for Squire Samuel Wilson above Worthington, about a year when he married his employer's eldest daughter, Olive. In 1814 he purchased of Thomas Bull, lot number nine, in Clinton township, now owned and occupied by Mrs. Catharine Smith. Mr. Smith was a zealous christian man, and was actively engaged, during most of his life; in religious and reformatory work. He was in Minnesota, as a sort of missionary among the Ojibway Indians, for several years. He was the first president of the first temperance society, and of the first anti-slavery society in Franklin county. He organized the first Sunday-school in this township, and was its superintendent for about thirty years. He died April, 1865, his wife surviving him a few months. They raised a family of six children: Rev. Samuel D. Smith, now pastor of the Presbyterian church in Reynoldsburg, this county; Elizabeth C., now widow of William F. Breck, and residing in Parker City, Pennsylvania; John A., Jeremiah B. and Joseph, all deceased, and Mary M., who married William L. Starr, and lives in Nebraska. Joseph Smith, above mentioned, was the husband of Catharine Piatt who is still living in Clinton, on the old homestead. Mrs. Smith is a sister of John J. Piatt, the poet.   Roswell Wilcox and family came to this county from Simsbury, Connecticut, in 1805. The journey which was made by wagon, consumed three weeks, and from Granville to Worthington they traveled by blazed trees—the country was then almost a complete wilderness. They located, for a short time, in Franklinton, when they moved about two miles above Worthington, in the Wilson neighborhood, where they lived some eight years. In 1814 Wilcox moved with his family to this township,. and settled where Joseph Guitner now lives, having erected a saw-mill, where the Hess mill now stands, in   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 405   1810. He resided there until his death. His wife survived him, and died in Delaware county. They had a family of eight children, of whom I). P. Wilcox now living in Missouri, is the only survivor. A daughter, Emily, was the wife of Apollos Maynard.   Philologus Webster and family, and his sons, Peter, John, and Harvey, and their families, moved into the township during the war of 1812. They came from Connecticut—John, and family, from Hartford, and the rest from Simsbury. They came by wagon, and were three months making the journey. The father settled where the aged widow of Elihu now lives, and died there a few years afterward. Peter also settled on a portion of the old homestead. John located in Columbus, where he lived some ten years, when he settled in Clinton, on the farm now owned by Mr. Little, but lived on the east side of the road ; his son, Amason Webster, born in Columbus, in 1815, is still a resident of this township. Harvey died in this township, though he made no actual settlement; he was the father of Lewis H. Webster, a member of the bar of Columbus. Elihu married Mary Anderson, who still survives him, at the age of over eighty years. Rhoda, who became the wife of Farin Olmstead, and lived in Blendon township, subsequently removed to Madison county, and, finally, to Iowa, where she died. Levi died in Clinton, at the age of eighteen.   Roswell Cook and family moved in from Connecticut, in the winter of 1815, and at the same time came his sons, Rodney and Chauncey, with their wives. The father bought and settled upon the farm now occupied by Rodney's son, Clement Cook. After his death, which took place in Delaware county, the elder son had the home place, and Chauncey lived on a portion of the farm south of his brother.   Edward Stanley, sr., from Connecticut, arrived about the same time as the Cooks, and located where Erskine A. Fuller now lives; he died there, and his son, Edward, afterward occupied the place.   Ezekiel Tuller, also from Connecticut, came to Ohio in 1814, and after living a few years in Sharon township, settled in Clinton, where James Wetmore now resides. None of the family are now left.   John Buck came out with -the Cook family. He was then single, but afterward married Diadamia Cowles, and settled on the place now occupied by his son, William. The father and mother both resided here until their death.   Sadosa Bacon, from Connecticut, purchased in 1813, the farm now occupied by his son, John. In 1817 he married Anna Case, and lived upon his farm until his death in 1822. He was a traveling Methodist preacher.   Philip Zinn settled in Columbus in 1813 ; afterwards bought and located on the north part of what is now the college grounds. He was an' early mail-carrier from Columbus to Chillicothe, and from Columbus to Delaware. He was also much engaged in transporting goods by wagon from the east to Columbus. He died in Pennsylvania while on such a trip. His children, Adam Zinn and Mrs. John Garner, live in this township, and Peter, a lawyer, below Cincinnati.   In 1819 Alexander Shattuck, born in Groton, Massachusetts, September 9, 1797, came to this county with his brother, Simon, and wife, Sarah Simpson, who settled in Perry township. He was a carpenter, and worked at his trade for some time after his arrival. His first purchase of land was ninety acres, still occupied by his widow. It was then uncleared except a few acres, and contained a log cabin. He was married in Worthington, February 17, 1830, to Flora Andrews who came with her parents to Ohio from Connecticut, when six years of age. She was born July 24, 1808. To them have been born two sons and ten daughters, all now living but one son. William Shattuck who lives on the farm next south of his mother's, is one of the leading farmers in the township. Alexander Shattuck died October 23, 1870.   Henry Innis, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, married, in Harrison county, Ohio, Isabella Clifford Pegg, and in 1817, came to Franklin county. He located in Franklinton, where -he kept a tavern some four years, when he moved to Clinton, and settled on the farm now occupied by Abraham Carl. He erected the brick house now occupied by the family of A. R. Innis, his youngest son, in 1840. He resided there until his death, April 13, 1865, aged seventy-three. His widow, born July 3o, 1793, is still living. They raised a family of nine children, four of whom survive—Colonel Gustavus S. Innis, manager of the State Reform farm, at Lancaster; William H., one of the substantial farmers of Clinton ; Mrs. James Durrett, in Scioto township, Pickaway county ; and Adam R., also in Clinton. Elizabeth was the wife of Frederick Roder, formerly of Clinton, now of Delaware county ; Mary married Mr. Jimeson, of Blendon township; Minerva was the wife of Joseph Mock, of Clinton, and died June, 1879 ; Isabella C., was the wife of Silas Wilcox ; and Elias P., died at the age of twenty-one.   The Maynards—two families—the most of whom settled in Sharon township, came, with some others, from Massachusetts, to this county, in the year 1806. In Connecticut, the emigrants were arrested for traveling on the Sabbath, in violation of the old blue laws of that State. Two men of the party went back with the officer to the magistrate, who had caused their arrest, and succeeded in getting off in some way without suffering the penalty to which they had made themselves liable. Moses Maynard settled in Worthington, and, Stephen, his brother, west of the river, in the same township. Apollos Maynard, son of Moses, born September 12, 1796, married, in 1820, Emily Wilcox, daughter of Roswell Wilcox and Dorcas Pinney, and subsequently, in 1832, purchased, for one thousand dollars, seventy-seven acres in Clinton, where North Columbus now stands. On the place west of High street, was a cabin built by Jacob Loy, and this Mr. Maynard moved to the east side of the street, and occupied. He subsequently erected the brick house occupying the same site, or nearly so. He died, March 24, 1868. Mrs. Maynard died December 20, 1857. Two children were born to them—George Clinton, who died August 2, 1860; and Laura Maynard, now living in North Columbus.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 406   Samuel G. Flenniken emigrated from Pennsylvania in 1798, settling at first on the Lancaster road, below Columbus. He was born in North Carolina, and raised in Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Morehead, in Chillicothe, in 1798. About 1820 he moved, with his family, to Clinton township, where he bought the land on which the county infirmary was to be located. His purchase was made from the McIlvaine heirs. He was elected associate judge in 1817, and served until his death, in 1845, a period of twenty-eight years. He raised nine children, seven sons and two daughters. His son, Samuel W. Flenniken, lives in Brown township, on Little Darby creek. Eliza S. married Joseph R. Anderson, and lives near Columbus, on the Dublin pike. Dorcas J. married Daniel Lakin, and settled in the southwest corner of Clinton township. Two of her sons live in Perry township—George W., on the bank of the Scioto river, and Samuel W., near the Clinton township line. Sarah Flenniken remained single and lives with her sister, Mrs. Anderson, near Columbus. The remainder of the children of Judge Flenniken went to the west, where they died.   Casper Kiner came to this county from Pennsylvania in 1824. He lived a couple of years south of Columbus, and then located where the college grounds are, in Clinton township, where he remained for a year. He then moved to Coshocton county, where he resided seven years, when he moved back to Clinton. He settled on the farm, a portion of which is now occupied by his son, Jacob, and lived there the balance of his life. He raised a family of ten children, of whom three sons and a daughter are now living, viz: Jacob, Henry, and John, in this township, and Mrs. Nathaniel Smith, near Georgesville.   Walter Fields moved into this township in 1824, from Athens county, Ohio, where he had lived six years. He located on one hundred acres of land, now owned by L. L. Pegg, just east of his son, Albert Fields' farm. In 1867 he moved to the farm now occupied by his son, where he died ten years afterwards. His father, John Fields, and his family, came from Athens county in 1828, and settled upon the same lot. He died in 1864, at the age of one month and a few days over one hundred years.   Jacob Slyh came from Jefferson county, Virginia, in October, 1828, his wife and father coming out with him. They remained in Columbus through the winter, and then came to Clinton and settled a mile south of where he now lives. At this writing he is aged eighty-one, and his wife seventy-eight. They have five surviving children, all of whom are married. William occupies the homestead.   Frederick Weber emigrated to the United States, from Germany, in the spring of 1830, and lived one year in York county, Pennsylvania, and three years in Stark county, Ohio, when, in 1834, he moved to this township, and settled where he now lives. This place, which he purchased of Thomas Johnson, consisted of sixty-eight acres, on which there was a log cabin, and only five acres cleared. This part of the township was then very new, wet, and heavily timbered. Mr. Weber has now three hundred and ten acres. In Stark county he married his first wife, who died in 1851, and who was the mother of his ten children, seven of whom are now living. In 1862 he married his present wife, Mrs. Amelia Schwartz, of Columbus.   Windsor Atcheson, who resides in the southeast part of the township, at the age of seventy-seven, has been a resident of Franklin county since 1828. In 1813, he came from Center county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, with his parents, who settled in Stark county. In 1828, he came to Lockbourne, and worked on the canal two or three years, when he went to Columbus. In 1842, he located in Montgomery (now Marion) township, west of where the round house now is, and in 1846, moved into Clinton. For many years he has been engaged in the manufacture of brick. July 29, 1852, he was mai ried to Maria Kiser, and has a family of five children.   Robert Innis, a brother of Henry, before mentioned, moved into the township, from Harrison county, Ohio, in 1834, and settled on the farm now occupied by his widow, Mary Innis, now aged nearly seventy-one. Mr. Innis died August 19, 1879, aged nearly seventy-five. There are eight children of Robert Innis, all married and settled in life.   Joseph Pegg, who settled in Clinton in 1833, came from Philadelphia, with his father, Elias Pegg, who was among the early settlers in the old town of Franklinton. Elias Pegg, his son, now lives there, and his daughter, Mrs. Henry Innis, now in her eighty-seventh year, resides in this township, and Mrs. Samuel Fisher, another daughter, at Hilliard. Joseph Pegg was married in Franklinton, to Matilda Crawford, and, the year above stated, purchased of Henry Innis, a farm of sixty-eight acres, on which he resided until his death, in 1854. His wife died a few years since. They had eleven children, all of whom are living, with the exception of a daughter, who was killed in childhood, by a tree, cut down by the hired man, falling upon her. Elias W. Pegg, son of Joseph Pegg, is justice of the peace of Clinton, a position he has filled with credit many years.   J. P. Little and wife came to Ohio from Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1833. They lived in Licking county about three years, then they moved to this township, and purchased of John Webster, sr., the farm they still occupy. Mr. Little was born February 13, 1802, in Greene county, Pennsylvania. His wife (Anna Beck) whom he married in 183o, was a native of Washington county, same State, and is now aged sixty-six. They have raised six children, end all of them are now living.   PIONEER SCHOOLS.   The first school in Clinton, according to Andrew Wilson and others, was kept by Miss Griswold, in an old log cabin on the Lisle farm, in the summer of 1809 or 181o. The house had only part of a puncheon floor, and greased paper for windows. The children who led east of the river, of whom John Wilson sent four, had to wade the stream to get to the school.   In 1812 Michael M. Baker, an Irishman, opened a school in a log house on the Maynard farm, north of the   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 467   college grounds, then owned by Joseph Smart. Jonas B. Ward and Roswell Fisk were early teachers in the same house.   A school was kept by Miss Becky Gordon in a vacant log dwelling on the Hess farm, as early as 1817.   The first school in the Cook neighborhood was taught by Diadamia Cowles, afterwards wife of John Buck, in the summer of 1816. The school was kept in a log structure, previously used as a stable by Roswell Cook. The first school-house was built in 1815, on Webster's run, on the top of the hill, northeast of the late Edward Stanley's residence. The first pedagogue was Timothy Sedgwick, of Connecticut, who taught a winter school. The first summer school was kept.by Miss Rachel Cook, whose tuition was partly paid in grain.   In the fall of 1819, or following winter, a small log school-house was erected nearly opposite where the present Methodist Episcopal church now stands, in which James Ferson kept the first school. He was a man of excellent character and qualifications, as a teacher, and taught a large and successful school.   A hewed log house was built a few years afterward, just north of the old school-house which has also long since disappeared. The now venerable Dr. Bull was one of the earliest teachers in this house, teaching two winters.   The township is, at present, divided into eight school. districts outside of the city limits, and each district contains a good brick school-house.   CHURCHES.   CLINTON CHAPEL.   Meetings by the Methodists in Clinton were commenced, in 1819, at the log house of Eber Wilson, on the farm now owned by Mr. Fuller. The first circuit preachers were John Tivis and Leroy Swomstedt, who preached, alternately, once in two weeks. A class was formed, with the following members: Thomas Bull and wife, Nathan 'I'. Bull, Alonson Bull, Edith Bull, Fidelia Wilson, Abel Tinckum and wife, Louis Gay and wife, Eber Wilson and wife, Jason Bull and wife, and widow Delano. Meetings were held at Eber Wilson's house about two years, and, after that, at the dwelling of Thomas Bull, until his death, some eighteen months. Subsequent to this, and until the erection of the church, they were held at the old school-house, which stood just west of where the church now stands. The church was built about the year 1838, and was the first meeting-house in the township. The ground for the church and graveyard was set apart, for the purpose, in the will of Thomas Bull, one of the society's most zealous members. The church has been fairly prosperous, and meetings have continued, without interruption, up to the present time. Andrew Wilson and Amoson Webster are the present class-leaders. A Sabbath-school has been in existence, in connection with this church, for over forty-five years, and is now flourishing. It contains a good library. Amoson Webster is the superintendent.   THE M'KENDREE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH,   in the eastern part of the township, was organized at the dwelling of John Baker, in 1852. Rev. Urich Heath who was then on the circuits officiated in its organization. The constituent members were twelve in number, as follows: Henry Innis and wife, Robert Innis and wife, David Canfield and wife, Mrs: John Baker, and Mrs. Cornelius Sharp. The church, a small frame house, was erected the same year the society was organized.   THE BAPTIST CHURCH,   west of the river, called the Clinton Predestinarian Baptist church, was organized at the Union church, by Elder Samuel Carpenter, of Lancaster, and Elder Hiram Hendren, of Canal Winchester, in August, 186o. The members composing the organization, were: Rev. Daniel Hess and wife, Josiah Kinnear and wife, Sarah Hess, Aaron Hard, Jemima Hard, Melissa Hard, Ansel Hard, Myron Hard, and Robert Walcott. Aaron Hard was elected the first deacon. The first meetings of the society were held irregularly at the Union church, and subsequently, in the Walcott school-house, in Perry township. The church, a neat brick structure, was built in 187o. .The first pastor was Rev. Hiram Hendren, who preached one year, when he was succeeded by Rev. Daniel Hess, who continued as pastor until October, 1877, when he resigned. Since then Rev. George 'fussing, of Columbus, has officiated as pastor. William Winegardner is the present church clerk.   THE UNION CHURCH,   near the west line of the township, was erected by the Episcopalians of Clinton, and a German Reformed society, in Perry township, in the fall of 1852. The lot, of one-half acre, was donated by Jacob Slyh.   The German Reformed society was organized by Rev. Jacob Weaver, at the Kenny log school-house, on the twenty-second of June, 1851. The original members of the society were: Jacob Fogle and wife (Mary Ann), John Kenny and wife (Nancy), Rodolfus Phinegar and wife (Elizabeth), Mathias G. Slough and wife (Lydia), Frederick Wiser, and Mary Whip. The first officers chosen by the church were : Jacob Fogle, and Rodolfus Phinegar, elders; John Kenny, and Mathias G. Slough, deacons. The successive pastors of the Reformed church have been as follows: Jacob Weaver, George W. Willard, Henry Willard, and Joseph Halley. Subsequent to Henry Willard, the Rev. John Voght preached for some time as a supply. The society, at the present time, numbers about twenty-six members. The elders are Jacob Fogle and James Kenny, and R. Phinegar, deacon.   The Protestant Episcopal society, with which the German Reformed united in the erection of the church previously mentioned, was organized at the time the church was built, in 1852. The membership consisted of Jacob Slyh and wife (Emeline), Daniel Lakin, Washington Lakin and wife (Rebecca), and Elizabeth Lisle. Jacob Slyh was elected senior Warden, and Daniel Lakin, junior warden. There are now about twenty-one members. Rev. Messrs. Roberts, Richards, Ross, Ruth, Nash, Jones, and Young .(the present minister), have been the successive pastors of the church.   The Winebrenarians ("Church of God") had an or-   408 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   ganization in this township for a number of years, and in 1852 erected a brick church in Clintonville, which is now used for a dwelling.   FIRST SUNDAY-SCHOOL.   The first Sabbath-school in the township was organized by John Smith, at his house, in 1832 He had charge of the school for a number of years, keeping it for three or four years in his own house, and afterwards in a log school-house west of the site of the Methodist Episcopal church.   MILLS AND OTHER INTERESTS.   In the first settlement of the county the. pioneers were compelled to make extended journeys to get their grain ground into flour. To go thirty or forty miles to mill—to Chillicothe, as the first settlers did—and through unbroken forests, was no small undertaking. The grist was ground in the order of its reception at the mill, and the few mills then in existence were so overcrowded with business that several days would be required some times to get the grist through the mill. A man who has had some experience says " one in going to mill could eat his grist while waiting for it." Frequently, the mortar-and pestle was brought into use. A cavity burnt into the top of a stump, or block, a spring-pole, or sapling, with a pestle attached by means of bark--these were the sum total of the parts and mechanism of the mortar and pesttle-mile-mill this the people pounded their corn. Frequently, they had " jointed " corn—corn cut from the cob with a joiner's plane. The first grist-mills of any considerable advantage to the county were those of Colonel Kilbourne and Samuel Dyer, the former near Worthington, and the latter on Darby creek, where Georgesville now stands. These were erected about the year 1805. The first grist-mill in the township was erected by David Beers, sr., in 181o. 1810.ill is now owned by the Messrs. Hess. Mr. Beers sold the mill, in 1816, to his son-in-law, I). P. Wilcox, who operated it until 1839, or 1840, when he sold it to James Mateer. Mr. Mateer subsequently sold it to John B. Piatt, who was succeeded by the Messrs. Hess.   The grist-mill farther up the river, now owned by Jacob Weisenhammer, was originally built on the Olen-tangy, in Sharon township, by Stephen Maynard, about the year 1813, and was afterwards moved to its present location. It is the same mill, just as the boy's jack-knife was the same, which had had three new handles and two new blades. George Whip owned this mill for some thirty years, and it is known as Whip's mill. Roswell Wilcox, in 18ro, 1810ted the first saw-mill in the township, just below the Beers grist-mill. The two mills were run by the same flume, which caused some trouble and litigation between the owners. A saw-mill was built about the year 1814, near Whip's mill, by Dan Case and Belias H. Skeels. The saw-mill in the eastern part of the township, was moved in and put up by Messrs. Jennings and Jeffries, about two years ago. A saw-mill had previcpreviouslyerected there by William Keyes, of Westerville, who afterwards moved it to Columbus.   There were, at one time, three distilleries in the township, which did an extensive business in the manufacture of liquor. The most important manufacturing interest in the township, at the present time, is that of brick- making, a large number of brickyards being in active operation.   TAVERNS.   The first house in the township, kept for the entertainment of the public, was opened by Peter Haroff, in his dwelling, on the old Columbus road, near where the college grounds now are. The house consisted of three or four log cabins, joined together, and in it the early township elections were held. About the year 1814, the Wilcox tavern was erected, by Roswell Wilcox. The building was a frame, and stood where the residence of Joseph Guitner now stands, and of which the old tavern now forms a part. Mr. Wilcox kept the tavern until his death.   PHYSICIANS.   Dr. Charles H. Wetmore, the pioneer physician of the township, removed to this county from the city of New York, in the year 1819. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry, of Lansingburgh, New York, and afterwards read with Dr. Burrett, of Troy; he attended lectures at the college of physicians and surgeons of the University of New York, and was licensed to practice in 1808. He first began the practice of his profession in Troy, but was practicing in New York City at the time of his removal to Ohio. Dr. Wetmore died, September ro, 1810, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. Dr. Nathan T. Bull, born in Clinton county, New York, September, 29, 1795, came to this township, with his parents, Thomas and Sylvia Bull, in 1812. Adopting the medical profession, he went, when about thirty-one years.years ofto Cincinnati, and attended lectures at the Ohio medical college, of that city, having previously read with Dr. Comstock. He began the practice of his profession in Hamilton county, where he continued some six or seven years, when he came back to Clinton, with the intention of engaging in other pursuits; but so great was the need of physicians at that time, t hat he reconsidered his resolution. From that time, until within a few years, Dr. Bull has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine.   VILLAGES.   In 1846 or '47 Alonson Bull laid out a few building lots on the Columbus and Worthington road, which were bought and improved by mechanics. He did not design it for a village, and had no plat of his lots recorded. His purpose was merely to afford homes for a few mechanics, for the benefit of the neighborhood. The few houses erected, however, formed the nucleus around which grew up a little town, and took the name of Clintonville. A postoffice was established there in October, 1847, with James Ferguson as postmaster.   In 1842 Solomon and George W. Beers laid out forty acres into lots on the road, about a mile, south of Clintonville. They recorded their plat, and named the place North Columbus. The first lots were purchased by Alexander Shattuck and he erected the second house, William Carroll building the first. The first store was opened there by a man by the name of Bender. In 1859   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 409   Kinnear’s addition, consisting of fifteen acres, was laid out by Samuel Kinnear, and in 187o an addition of one hundred and seven acres on the east side of the street, by George Williams. The town is now embraced within the corporation limits of Columbus.   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,   THE FIELD FAMILY.   Walter Field and wife (formerly Mary Ranney), emigrated from the headwaters of the Allegheny river, in Pennsylvania, to Athens county, Ohio, in 1819, where Mr. Field bought fifty acres of land, which he cleared and improved. He first came to Ohio in 1818, and selected his Land. His father and mother, John Field and wife, came to Ohio the same year-1818-and settled in Athens county, where they remained until 1826, when they removed to Clinton township, Franklin county, where Walter Field and family had removed in 1825. Here John Field died in March, 1864, at the age of one hundred years, one month, and seventeen days. His wife died in 1846.   Walter Field bought one hundred acres of land in the northeast corner of Clinton township, in 1825, on which he built a cabin and made a home. The land was then in its native state, covered with a heavy growth of timber, which took years of labor to remove and leave the soil fit for cultivation. After improving this land, he purchased one hundred and fifty-five acres west of his home, on which he moved in 1867. He died in 1877, aged eighty years. His wife died in 1875, aged seventy-five years.   The children of Walter and Mary Ranney Field were: Elizabeth, John, Frederick, and Artamissa, who were born in Athens county; and Zenas C., Louisa A., Jason B., Albert, and Andrew W., who were born after their removal to Clinton township. Elizabeth married Robert Barnes, and now lives in Wakeman, Huron county, this State; John married Mary Wood, in Cattaraugus county, New York, and settled in Indiana, whence he removed to Illinois, where he now lives; Frederick lives with his brother Albert, on the old homestead; Artamissa married John Fry, and lives in Franklin township, this county; Zenas went to the West, and became a pioneer in Oregon, where he endured great hardships, and took part in many campaigns against the Indians, and while engaged in this duty he took a severe cold, which settled on his lungs and threw him into consumption, from which he died in 1859; Louisa A. married George Sunderland, and lives in Sharon township, this county; Jason B. went to the West, in 1855, and has not been heard from since 1857; Andrew went to Kansas, in 1858, and in the spring of 1859 was overtaken on the plains in a severe storm, and perished.   Albert Field was born in Clinton township, August 3, 1835. In October, 1859, he married Elizabeth Harter, whose father was an early settler in Licking county, and afterwards settled in Clinton township, Franklin county, where he made a home. Mr. and Mrs. Field have had three children-daughters-named Linda J., Huldah R., and Carrie A. Huldah, the second daughter, was married, December 24, 1878, to Taylor W. Smith. All live at home.   Mr. Field enlisted in company C, One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment Ohio infantry, August 20, 1862. He was with his regiment in the battles of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863; Wilson Creek, November 26, 1863; Buzzard's Roost, May 8, 1864; Resaca, May 14, 1864; Rome, May 17, 1864; and Kenesaw Mountain, June 22, 1864; all these battles being in the State of Georgia. During the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 22, 1864, he was struck in the left leg by a shell, and the next morning suffered amputation of the limb. He was taken to Chattanooga, where he remained in hospital until August 19, when he was taken to Nashville, from there to Louisville, and to Camp Chase, Columbus, September 1st. He was in the hospital fourteen months before his leg became entirely healed and his health good. On August 17, 1865, he was discharged from the service, at Tripler United States- military hospital, Columbus. Since his discharge he has been engaged in farming, a part of the time in Kansas, but most of the time in Clinton township, this county, on the place he now owns. During a great part of the time, for ten years previous to his mother's death, he devoted his time to caring for her. At the same time his wife was engaged in the same duty toward her mother in the adjoining township of Sharon.   Mr. and Mrs. Field, with their children, now own and occupy the old homestead of one hundred and forty-two acres, in the northeast quarter of Clinton township   THE WEBSTER FAMILY.   John Webster and his wife, Lydia, natives of Hartford, Connecticut, were married and lived in that State a number of years after marriage. In about 1813 they emigrated to Ohio, bringing with them their family, consisting, at that time, of two children-Charles L., and John. They settled in Columbus, where Mr. Webster worked at his trade, that of shoemaker, for a number of years. Here were horn five children: Amason, Mary, Oliver, Ezra G., and Cynthia L.   The father and mother of John Webster, by name Philologus and Sarah Webster, came to Ohio at the same time, in aout 1813, and settled near the center of the northwest quarter section of Clinton township, where they bought over two hundred acres of land.   John Webster and family remained in Columbus several years, but finally gave up his business there and removed to a part of his father's original land, where he bought a small farm. He died May 20, 186o, having survived his wife, Lydia, who died January /3, 1839, more than twenty years. Of their children, Charles L. became a physician, and settled in Illinois, where he died; John is a Methodist minister, and Ranneyn Illinois; Mary married G. Weaver, and lives in Iowa; Oliverbornin Athens5, 1839; Ezra G. has been a member of the legislature of Illinois, and is now living in that State; Cynthia I,. (Now Mrs. Ingles), lives a widow, in Madison county.   Amason Webster was horn on High street, Columbus, where his parents lived at that time, on July 30, 1815. When a. small child, his parents removed to Clinton township, where he has ever since lived. His youth was spent in the hard work incident to an early settlement in the woods, in clearing the land and cultivating the soil. When twenty-four years of age-on the 27th of June, 5839-he was married to Miss Mary Pinney, daughter of Levi Pinney, who settled in Worthington, in 1803. After marriage, they remained on his father's farm one year, when he rented the farm he now occupies for a term of five years. At the expiration of that time he bought the farm, of ninety acres, on which he has since had his home.   There were born to Amason and Mary Webster four children, two of whom are now living. They were: Julia, who married and died in Illinois, and whose daughter now lives in the home of Mr. Webster; Orrell E., who married Lewis Legg, and lives on a part of the home farm; Joseph Trimble Webster, who enlisted in the One hundred and Thirty-third regiment Ohio infantry, and was made sergeant in his company-he was ambitious and willing to work while his strength lasted, in consequence of which he was overtaxed with duties, and contracted disease from which he died eight days after his return to his home; and Charles L., who married Tillie N. Grant, and lives in the southern part of Sharon township, near the line.   Mrs. Mary Pinney Webster, wife of Amason Webster, was born in Sharon township, August 6, 1815. Her parents were Levi Pinney and Charlotte Beach, who were the first couple married at Worthington after its settlement; They were married on the tenth day of February, 1804, and commenced housekeeping in Sharon township, where their daughter, Mary, was born. She enjoyed the advantages of a religious education when young, and at the age of thirteen, connected herself with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she ever after remained a consistent member. She was greatly interested in Sunday-school work, with which she was connected for nearly fifty years, most of the time as a teacher. For a number of years previous to her death, she was treasurer of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. She was also a member of the Franklin County Pioneer association. She died July 9, 1858, surrounded by her family, and in the hope of a blessed resurrection. She left a husband, a son, and a daughter, to mourn the loss of a true and faithful wife, and a kind, loving, and tender motliar.   Portraits of Amason Webster, his wife, and three children accompany this sketch, and will be found on another page of this book.     DR. CHARLES HENRY WETMORE   The subject of this sketch was the son of the Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore, the youngest of a family of twelve children, and was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the twelfth day of May, 1783. His mother died a few   52   410 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   months after, and while yet in his boyhood, his father also died. Not withstanding the loss of his parents at so early an age, he was enabled, by the practice of industry and economy, to acquire a thorough education. Entering Yale college in x800, he completed the required course, and graduated in 1804. Here he was associated with many who, in after life, were distinguished for varied excellence in their respective public relations. Among these, his classmates, we find the honored names of Ezra S. Ely, Christopher E. Gadsden, Richard C. Lansing, John Pierpont, Henry R. Storrs, and John C. Calhoun. Having completed his preparations for the practical duties of life, he entered upon the study of law. This he did not long pursue, but abandoned it for a profession More in consonance with the kindly and generous qualities of his heart and mind.   In 1805 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry, of Lansingburg, New York, at the same time teaching in the academy at that place, under the charge of the Rev. Samuel Blatchford. Continuing his medical studies with Dr. Eli Burrett, of Troy, and having attended medical lectures at the College of Physicans and Surgeons of the University of New York, he received from the censors of the Rensellaer County Medical society a license to practice "physic and surgery," March 15, 18o8. After practicing his profession some months in Troy, he removed to Waterford, in 1810, where he was early admitted to the confidence of leading families, and received the warm support of many friends.   During the war of 1812 he was commissioned, by Governor Tompkins, surgeon of the One Hundred and Forty-fourth regiment New York infantry, He was, however, only a short time in active service, peace having been declared soon after the regiment was ordered to the field. In the year 1814 he married Eliza, daughter of John Rathbone, of the city of New York, a wealthy retired merchant, who was the owner of large and valuable tracts of land in central Ohio, and whose name is even yet familiar to many persons in this State. In 1816 Dr. Wetmore removed to the city of New York, where he at once formed new acquaintances and friends, and was soon established in a lucrative practice.   His father-in-law having, as has been stated, extensive landed interests in Ohio, he was induced to remove there in 5819. On the seventh of November, of that year, he started from New York city on his journey to Ohio, in a two-horse wagon, with his wife and three young children, man and maid servant, arriving in Zanesville December rst, where he tarried a few days with his brother-in-law, Dr. D. W. Rhodes, arriving in Worthington, at Demas Adams' hotel, on the eighteenth of December.   His first professional call in Worthington was on January 4, I820, to the house of Jonathan Parks (an obstetrical case), and January 6th, his second call, was on the Right Rev. Philander Chase, first bishop of the diocese of Ohio. On the thirty-first of December, 1820, the following entry appears upon his hooks:   "This ends the year 1820, being one year and two weeks' residence in Ohio. On the thirteenth of November, removed from the village and commenced housekeeping on Rathbone section number one, in my own house, having a log house and stable, not finished, although comfortable. Family all well. Charged last year, or rather this year, $637.81."   It will be remembered that this was the day of low prices in all the various callings of life—professional and otherwise. During this year the following entries, among others, appear on his books, viz.: "Demas Adams, to visit for wife, 25 cents;" "Ezra Ginwald, visit for son, 25 cents;" " Bishop Chase, to visit, emetic tartar for son, and extracting tooth for wife, 5o cents." The bishop's residence was one mile south of the Kilbourne hotel. Other charges, varying from twenty-five to seventy-five cents, for visit and medicine, are found running through the year. In those days there were no prescription druggists, and every physician was obliged, of necessity, to furnish the medicine prescribed.   On removing to his farm he continued his profession, combining with it agricultural pursuits, and soon became widely known as a skilful and successful physician. At this early period sickness prevailed to an alarming extent throughout the country. It was not unusual, at about this period of time, for the doctor to start from home on a circuit of many miles, from Alum creek to the Scioto, from the southern part of Delaware county to the Darby plains, returning after an- absence of two days or more. The road, in many cases was but a mere trace through the woods, admitting of travel on horseback only. The hardship and exposure incident to the profession had its effect upon a constitution never robust, and his infirm health compelled him to withdraw from the active discharge of professional duties, after an arduous and laborious practice of more than a quarter of a century in that locality.   Dr. Wetmore's genial, cordial, social disposition, and hospitable nature, made his home—" Locust Grove "—widely known, and a favorite resort of the educated and refined. Here he lived through many ensuing years, in possession of the richest sources of enjoyment.   On the twenty-fourth of February, 1853, Eliza, wife of Dr. Wetmore, died at Columbus. She was loved and revered by all who knew her. She animated her family circle by her cheerful and affectionate disposition. Her conversation was intelligent and instructive, and her life was governed by strict religious principle. She was the ideal of the household, and the sweet remembrance of her many virtues will be fondly cherished when she has long slept with her ancestors.   Dr. Wetmore, in his declining years, was active and vigorous to an unusual degree, and retained his faculties unimpaired to the last. He died at the family homestead, where he was temporarily sojourning, on the tenth of October, 1868, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.   PLAIN.   Plain township is the northeast corner township of Franklin county, and is bounded upon the north by Delaware county, upon the east by Licking, south by Jefferson township, and west by Blendon. It was first known as township number two, in range seventeen, and was so designated upon the maps. It is a part of the United States military survey. The fourth, or southeast, quarter was laid out in one hundred acre lots, for the benefit of the Revolutionary soldiers, who held one hundred acre warrants, and the patents issued accordingly. The north half of the township was laid off in sections, a mile square, and afterward divided into quarter sections. Section three, the southwest quarter, was patented to Dudley Woodbridge in 1800, and two years later sold to John Huffman, then of Washington county, Pennsylvania, but afterward a well known citizen of Franklin county, for a consideration of one gallon of whiskey per acre, or four thousand gallons of whiskey, to be delivered at Marietta. Mr. Huffman, in 5822, divided the land among his children.   THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF PLAIN.   The township was first settled in 1804 or 1802, and though the soil was not regarded as the best, the population increased quite fast and regularly. This may be in part accounted for by the fact that the water was good, and the locality considered as a healthy one. There has   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 411   been a controversy as to who was the first settler of Plain, most of those who are good authority upon local history, affirming that it was Joseph Scott, but some contending for the priority of settlement of a man named Morrison, who is said to have come in a very short time before. Scott, who was from Pennsylvania, settled either in the year 18o1 or 18o2, but in all probability the former, upon what is now known as the Caleb Farver farm, near the south line of the township, and in the southwest part of section four. A tract of ground in this locality was generally known among the early settlers, and ,even now spoken of; as " Scott's plains." This pioneer remained in the township for a number of years, and then removed to Union county, Ohio, where he died. Morrison settled near the northern boundary of section three, where Anthony Wayne Taylor's residence now is, and built his cabin ten or fifteen rods above Mr. Taylor's house. The broad expanse of level land in this vicinity was named after him, " Morrison's prairie."   Adam Baughman and his wife, Priscilla (Hoffman), of Washington county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to the township in 1805, and located upon Scott's plains, or prairie, in the southwest part of the township. They had two children when they moved into the township, and a number were born afterward. Their names, with those of the persons whom they married, and other information, are given in the following: Eve, died in infancy; Elizabeth lives in the township; Louisa, wife of Thomas Havens, is deceased; Solomon, who married Margaret Swickard, and subsequently Martha Arnold, and Catharine (Mrs. M. Swickard), are in the township; Mary is in California; Peter and Reuben, in the township; Abram, deceased; Levi, in Blendon. Adam Baughman, the pioneer, remained a resident of the township until his death, which occurred in 1853, and his wife until her death, in r865.   Henry Hoffinan, son of John Hoffman, who owned one quarter of the township—the southwest—came in at the same time as the Baughmans.   George Baughman and his wife, Barbara, came in 1807, and located on Big lick, but in 1812, removed to Mifflin township, and settled on Big Walnut, above the present village of Gahanna. Samuel Baughman, the oldest son of George, was married when he came to the township, to Elizabeth Hoffman. The other descendants of George and Barbara Baughman were : Elizabeth (Mrs. David Ridenour), Susan (Mrs. John Agler), Henry, David, Jesse, and Sarah (Mrs. Jonathan Swickard). All are deceased except the last named. The Baughmans were an important family in the early history of the township.   'Squire Thomas B. Patterson, also of Pennsylvania, came in 1805, and located near where Jonathan Swickard now lives. He has no representative now in the township or vicinity. One son, Hoffman, went to Illinois, and died there.   Jesse Byington, another early settler, of whose family not one is left, came in soon after Patterson, and located on what is now the Frank Johnson farm.   Lorin Hiels came about the same time as Byington, and lived in the township until 1875, when he died. Zimri, his brother, lived where Dennis B. Strait at present resides.   Gilbert and Philip Waters were early and prominent settlers. They were from Pennsylvania. Both were smart men. The latter, according to the testimony of several old settlers, taught the first school in the township. Gilbert Waters made his settlement where Nelson Wilkins now lives, but after a few years removed into the northern part of the township.   Matthias Dague, and his son, by the same name, Daniel and George Dague, emigrated from Pennsylvania, previous to 1810, for in that year the last-named was married to Mary Baughman, they being the first couple joined in wedlock in the township. Matthias Dague, sr., settled in the southwestern part of the township, and Matthias, Dague, jr., where Job Wilson now lives. Daniel settled upon Rocky fork.   Matthew and George Campbell came into the township when small boys, with their widowed mother, their father having died in Pennsylvania. This was in 18o6. George Campbell married Amanda Farver. Both are now deceased. They reared a family of six children, viz. : William, now a substantial farmer of Plain township; Rebecca Montgomery, in Columbus; Mary E. Ranney, in New Albany; James, in Plain; Cicero, in Brooklyn, New York, and Sarah Jane Laugham in Philadelphia.   Previous to the war of 1812, there had arrived in the township several settlers, not heretofore mentioned, and soon after, the settlement had become quite large. Among the arrivals were: John Robinson, Jacanias Rose, William Goodhart, John Shesler, and Roger and Benoni Hill.   David Cook, and his son, Emyl, came to Jefferson township, from New Jersey, in 1811, and moved into Plain in 1819. Emyl Cook married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Cisco, of the first-mentioned township. He is now ninety-four years of age. A son, Nathaniel, is one of the leading farmers of the township.   John Smith came from Berger (now Passaic) county, New Jersey, in 1813, and located on what is now the George Daily farm, in the northeast part of the township. John I. Smith, his son, came to the township, in 1818, bringing with him his wife, Catharine McCloud, and settled on the farm next to his father's. His children were : George and James (deceased), Archibald, Abraham, and Mary Ann (Cole), residents of the township. Archibald, the eldest son, is aged seventy-six, and lives upon a farm which he bought in 1833. Just previous to the arrival of John I. Smith, came his brothers, Daniel, Henry, and David, who settled in the same locality, which became known as the Smith settlement.   About the same time (1818), John and James Daniels came from Pennsylvania, and, soon after, the settlement was increased by the arrival of William Yantis and Joseph Moore, both from Pennsylvania. Yantis settled on the Nelson Wilkins farm, near New Albany, and Moore in the north part of the township.   Christian Horlocker, a native of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, was born in 1769; came into Plain, in 1816, and settled on the northwest quarter of section   412 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   fifteen, which he entered from the government. He was. a pioneer in Fairfield county, as early as 1804, and lived for six years in Prairie township, and four years near Greencastle. Mr. Horlocker's first wife was Barbara Wagner. This union was blessed with four children. By his second wife, Mary Crites, he had seven children, and by his third, Mary Myers, nine. But one by his first marriage survives—Samuel Horlocker, who resides near Galena, Ohio. Four of his children by his second marriage are living: John, Peter, and the Rev. Daniel, in Franklin county, and William, in Nebraska. Those children of the third marriage who are still, living, are: Christian, in Franklin county; Sarah, in Columbus; Anna, in Union county; David and George, in Dacotah, and Mary Jane, in Delaware county. Christian Horlocker, the patriarch and pioneer, died in Plain, in 1857. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.   Jacob and Catharine Wagner, of Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, came to Plain in the year 1819, and made their settlement upon Sugar run. Jacob Wagner died in 1838, and his wife in 1833. They had, when they emigrated from Pennsylvania, six children : Mary A., Elizabeth (Horlocker), James, Jacob, Catharine (wife of G. H. Wagner), and Abraham, all of whom are dead except the last named. Those born after the arrival of the family in Plain were George, David, John, and Harriet. David and Harriet are deceased; John lives in Blendon township, and George in Plain. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, and earned a reputation for bravery second to none. He is a man of affairs, and much thought of in the neighborhood, as is testified to by the fact that he has long held the office of justice of the peace; has served as executor and administrator of twenty-four estates, and has been guardian of ten or more children.   John Clymer, Jacob Bevelheimer, and John Alspach made their settlements about the same time as the Wagners.   Daniel Triplett, of Leesburgh, Virginia, arrived in the township in February, 1816, when the snow was two feet deep. He had traded for six hundred acres of land, and it was upon this that he made his settlement in the northern part of the township. He married, in 1817, Sarah Archer, from New Jersey, with whom he lived until his death in 1859. His wife survived him eight years. Their descendants were G. W., Delilah, and Huldah. G. W. is probably the oldest man living, who was born in the township. He has lived in one place sixty-three years. He married Agnes, daughter of William H. and Cynthia Jolley, of Licking county. Delilah Triplett married Orrin Landon, and resides in Kokomo, Indiana; Huldah is the wife of Nelson Wilkins, and lives in New Albany.   Peter Quinn and his wife, Elizabeth Cramer, came from Union county, Pennsylvania, .to Fairfield county, Ohio, and after living there for two years, moved in 1820, into Plain township. Their descendants were Abram, now in Oregon; David, for many years a resident of Blendon township, but now a merchant in New Albany ; Loh (Mrs. H. Parks), in Iowa; Sarah, John and Jackson, de ceased; Mary (Mrs. J. Campbell), in Missouri ; Sophia (Mrs. U. Campbell), in Blendon; Samuel, deceased, and Cicero, in Mfflin township.   Anthony Wayne Taylor, his wife, Melinda, and one child, John P., emigrated from Hardy county, Virginia, in 1822, and settled at the place where Mr. Taylor now resides. By his own thrift he has become the owner of upwards of one thousand acres of land. Mrs. Taylor died in 1875, and Mr. Taylor is still living. Their children were Huldah, Dora, William, Lorenzo, and Buren. The three last named are residents of the township.   Joel and Mary B. Ranney came in to Plain in 1820, and in 1826, Joel Ranney, jr., and his wife, Mary E., arrived, and located about a mile and a half east of New Albany. Mr. Ranney bought a good farm, and returning east, worked in the Portland stone quarries, to earn money to pay for it. The Ranneys had ten children, six of whom are living, viz.: Mary A. Hoffman, in Columbus; S. W., in New Albany; Harriet (Headley), in Nebraska; Emily R. (Clark), in Kansas; and John H., and Joel C., in the same State.   Frederick Henry, and his wife, Christina Kramer, came in from Pennsylvania, in 1826, and settled where their son, Jacob, now lives. Their children, in the order of age, were Jacob, Sarah Alspach, Rachel Wagner, Samuel, George, Elizabeth Alspach, Mary Newbold, and Louis.   Ezekiel Park, who now lives in Harlem township, Delaware county, came into Plain in 1826, from Hampshire county, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Crist.   Samuel Rigel, a native of Pennsylvania, came into the township in 1828, from Fairfield county, Ohio, where he had married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Hoy. For his second wife, he married Mrs. Miller (nee Wilson). Mr. Mr. Rigel is still living and is located in Westerville, where he has been for the past thirteen years. His children were: Daniel and Joseph, both deceased ; Diana (Ulery), in Delaware county; Catharine (McClurg), in Columbus, and Fanny (Crist), in Blendon township.   Abram Williams came in from New Jersey, in 1830. Betsey, his daughter, married the Rev. Daniel Horlocker, now resident in Columbus.   Isaac Williams and his wife, Elizabeth, came from Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1832, and located where their son, Isaac B., now lives, in the northern part of the township. Isaac Williams died, in 1862, and his wife two years earlier. Their children were: Catharine (deceased), Enos, John (deceased), Abraham, Isaac B., Elizabeth (Waters), Almeda (deceased), Alanson, Richard, Ann (Glick), and Jane (Fairchild). All but the last two were born before their parents emigrated to the township.   David Morrison and his wife, Nancy (Mann), came from Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1837, and located at their present place of residence.   John and Rebecca Robinson came in the same year as the above, from Pennsylvania. A son, George W., is a leading mechanic of Westerville, and has been located there for twenty-one years. He married Ann, daughter of Gilbert Waters, of Plain township, elsewhere spoken of.   Abraham A and Dulcinsa Strait, of Sussex county,   DAVID QUINN   The subject of this sketch was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1814. His parents were Peter and Elizabeth Quinn. In 1818, when he was but four years of age, his parents removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, where they remained two years, after which they came to Franklin county, and located in Plain township, where Mr. Quinn purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he made a permanent home, and where both himself and his wife spent the remainder of their lives.   David Quinn obtained a limited education at the schools then taught, after he became thirteen years of age. On the 9th day of April, 1835, he was united in marriage to Catharine Eyer, immediately after which he settled on an eighty acre lot, which he had purchased from his father, in the northwest part of the township. No clearing had been made on his place, and with his young wife he settled in the green woods, where they lived fourteen years, clearing and improving the land. In 1849 he sold his farm, and bought one hundred acres of wild land in Blendon township, which he also improved, and where they lived twenty-three years, when he also sold this land, and returned to Plain township. He had previously bought a brick store building in the village of New Albany, where he engaged in the mercantile business in 1871, and where he has since remained.   To Mr. and Mrs. Quinn have been born three children, as follows : Elizabeth, who married Adam Neiswander, and died, leaving one child; Sarah Jane, who married H. H. McCurdy, and lives in New Albany, and Angeline, who died when a little more than three years of age.   Mrs. Quinn died November 6, 1876. She had lived a consistent christian lite as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was well prepared for the last change in this life. Mr. Quinn is also a member of the same church. Since the death of his wife he has made his home with his only surviving daughter, Mrs. Sarah J. McCurdy, and her husband, in New Albany.   A portrait of Mr. Quinn appears in connection with this sketch of his life.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 413   New Jersey, settled near New Albany, in 1839. Their children were: George R., now in Westerville; William I)., Henry H., and Dennis B., in Plain township. Den-. nis B. has been county commmissioner and auditor.   FIRST EVENTS.   The first marriage of whites in Plain township was that of George Dague and Mary Baughman, July 10ro, 181o. George Dague died in 1871, and his wife in 1810.   The first death was that of Eve, daughter of Adam Baughman.   The first barn raised in the township belonged to George Baughman. It was built in the season of 18078, and his neighbors from Plain, Blendon, Mifflin, Jefferson and Truro townships assisted at the raising. Those who belonged in Plain; were Adam and Samuel Baughman, Joseph and James Scott, and Henry Hoffman. From Blendon there came Simeon Moore, sr., Simeon Moore, jr., and some of the Phelps family; from Jefferson, Matthias Dague and sons; from Truro, the Edgars and others; and from Mifflin, Frederick and John Agler, John Scott, Isaac Johnson and A. Anderson.   The first frame house was built by Daniel Triplett in 1819. It stood just north of the present residence of his son, G. W. Triplett.   The first brick house was erected by Henry Smith.   The first burial place was set apart in 1814, on land given by John Smith. It so happened that he was the first person buried in the lot which his generosity had given to the people of the settlement. Soon after the time that this cemetery, which is on the Reynoldsburg and Johnstown road, was established, another one was opened upon what is now known as the Caleb Farver farm, then owned by Joseph Scott. About the same time a regular place of burial was set off from the farm of Daniel Triplett.   THE FIRST SCHOOL.   It is known, absolutely, that the first school in the township was taught by Philip Waters, and there was but one term in seven years. The school-house was on the northeast part of the Alspach farm. There was a school-house. on the Triplett farm, as early as 1821; Jacob Smith, of Jefferson township, taught there, and was, in all probability, the first teacher after Waters.   ORGANIZATION.   The township was organized in 181o, and originally included the territory now embra1810,n Blendon and Jefferson. The early records have been lost, and no man's memory retains the names of the first officers elected. John Scott and Simeon Moore, the latter an early settler in what is now Blendon, were the first justices of the peace. The next year Jacob Thorp, who lived in what is now the township of Jefferson, was elected in place of Scott. Simeon Moore was re-elected in 1.814, and in 1815 the choice fell upon Jacob Smith and Thomas B. Patterson, the first of Jefferson, and the latter of Plain (according to present boundaries). George Wells was elected in 1817; Thomas B. Patterson was re-elected in 1818; Asa Whitehead, in 1819; John Davis, in 182o; Thomas B. Patterson, re-elected in 1821; John Davis and Abraham Williams, in 1823, and both reelected in 1826; Daniel Swickard and Joseph Moore, in 1829. These were all the justices of the peace elected prior to 1830.   THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST   was organized in Plain township, in 1826. Among the early pioneer members of the church were Daniel and Catharine Cramer, Jacob and Catharine Wagner, Frederic and Christina Henry, Rev. John and Mary Clymer, and George and Eva Cramer. Of this number there is but one living, namely: George Cramer. The early ministers were George _____ , Bishop Samuel Heistand, Lewis Cramer, Bishop John Russell, Benjamin Moore, Elias Vandenmark, Bishop William Hanby, William Hastings, and John. Montgomery. Two are still living—Elias Vandenmark and ex-Bishop Wm. Hanby. The church, in its early days, worshipped in the log cabin of the settlers, and in school-houses, and, besides, held annual camp meeting. The church has three organized societies in Plain township, each of which has a house of worship of its own. Franklin chapel is a large and well-built brick structure, and was erected in 1836,well-built of one thousand, one hundred dollars. The trustees were Jacob Wagner, Frederic Henry, Ezekiel Park, George Cramer and M. F. Clymer. The pastor, at the time the church was built, was W. W. Davis, now dead. The church was dedicated by Bishop William Hanby. The present trustees of the church are: George Wagner, J. P. Coil, Jacob Henry, Jacob Alspach, and G. F. Cummins. The pastor is Rev. S. Manger ; J. B. Resler, presiding elder. The present membership is eighty-seven. Mount Pleasant chapel was built in the year 1857, at a cost of about nine hundred dollars. It is a good brick structure, well furnished. The building trustees were Martin Swickard, Jacob Swickard, and George Dague. The preserit trustees are John Martin, Frederic and Noah present; George Dague, pastor; J. B. Resler, presiding elder. The number of members is forty-six. Rocky Fork chapel is a small framed structure, which has been used as a house of worship for many years. The trustees of this society are J. E. Park, Levi Baughman, Abraham Crist, Peter Searfass, and W. F. Park. The church numbers forty-two members. Among them are Ezekiel. Park, who has been connected with the church about fifty years, and Abraham Crist, who has been a member for forty-three years. The pastor and presiding elder of this society are the same as those of the other two. The total membership of the three societies is one hundred and seventy-five.   METHODISM.   The circuit now called New Albany circuit, having but five appointments, was formerly called Blendon circuit, and embraced in its territory Johnstown, Alexandria, Reynoldsburgh, Pickerington, Galena, and Worthington It was larger than the present district, containing several circuits and stations, now called Columbus district.   Plain chapel was built in 1836, at a cost of twelve hundred dollars. The first Methodist Episcopal church, of Plain, was organized prior to that date. The early min-   414 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICK AWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   isters were James Casper, Charles Waddell, Russel Bigeloe, Samuel P. Shaw, Nathan Emery, John Clark, David Whitcomb, James Ferree, Abner Goff, Jacob Young, Olive O. Spencer, Joseph Trunble, Uriah Heath, James Gilneth, Andrew Perkins, Andrew Murphey; and those later were David Lewis, William Porter, George G. West, Sheldon Parker, Isaac Williams, James Gurley, Alexander Mehamey, Samuel C. Riker, William Pitzger, John Miller, James Ellis, Joseph Adair, John White, J. Q. Lakin, J. and Ralph Watson. Under the administration of Andrew Murphey, at a. protracted meeting of nine weeks' duration, one hundred and one persons professed religion, and nearly all connected themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church. The church has now but fifteen members, having been reduced by deaths and removals. The present board of trustees are Jacob Williams, Isaiah Needles, John S. Miller, Wellington Landon, Oliver Waters, and C. W. Williams; Isaac B. Williams, secretary.   NEW ALBANY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.   About 1805 or 1806, Joshua Williams, then living where the village of Galena, Delaware county, now is, began to preach in Plain township, at the Baughman cabin, and continued until 1808, when the Revs. Benjamin Lakin and John Grave began to visit the settlement as regular appointees. The station did not enjoy great prosperity, and no society was organized, or appointment maintained, in the neighborhood. A class was organized at Archibald Smith's in 1834, and another at the schoolhouse a half mile north of New Albany. The class in the Smith neighborhood was composed 'of the following persons: Archibald Smith and wife, Mary Evans, Isaac Smith and wife, Roland Evans, James Smith and wife, and John Hughes. In 1846, the Revs. G. G. West and Sheldon Parker opened an appointment which combined the class from the Smith settlement and one from Jefferson township. They continued preaching, at the school-house north of New Albany, until 1848, when the present church edifice in the village was completed, and a great revival was held there, which inaugurated the establishment of Methodism in New Albany. The church has ever since been maintained, in a fair degree of prosperity, and at present numbers one hundred and three members. The present pastor is Rev. R. Watson. George Goodrich is local preacher. 'Job Wilson and Joseph Goodrich are stewards, and Job Wilson, Joseph Goodrich, George Cisco, and W. K. Evans, class leaders. J. N. Browning is superintendent of the Sunday-school. The church trustees are: David Quinn, George Goodrich, Joseph Goodrich, J. N. Smith, Homer Smith, Isaac Browning, Joseph Cisco, and Nelson Wilkins.   THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH   was organized July 13, 1848, the ministers present being Revs. H. L. Hitchcock, of Columbus, J. Harrison, of Reynoldsburg, S. H. Rose, of Alexandria, and M. B. Starr, a missionary in this field. The charter members were James M. and Sarah Woodruff, Naman and Roxanne Case, Charles Pettit and wife, Louisa Landon, Louis Hard and Wife, Matilda Stedman and Susan J. Marvin. The first officers were : Deacons, James Woodruff and Naman Case; trustees, Naman Case, Charles Pettit, Z. T. Guerin ; clerk, Louis Hard. The first minister was the Rev. Milton B. Starr. The first sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered October 14, 1848. The council was organized by the appointment of Rev. H. L. Hitchcock as chairman, and Rev. Milton Starr, scribe. The present officers are as follows: Deacon, Thomas Simmond; trustees, Thomas Simmond, John Ross, Rowland Phelps; clerk, G. E. Simmond. The church has no regular pastor.   THE EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION   has a small wooden church in the northwestern part of the township. The church society was organized early in the history of the township, and its first members were Christian Bevelheimer, Peter Quinn, Daniel Swickard, Christian Horlocker, Daniel Stauffer, Samuel and Sarah Rigel, and Conrad Cring.   THE PHYSICIANS   of the village are: Sylvester W. Ranney, I. N. Smith, and A. B. Beem, the later late of Licking county. I)r. Ranney graduated from the Sterling medical college, of Columbus, in 1836, and has been in practice in New Albany ever since. I)r. Smith was born in the township, and is a son of Archibald Smith. He graduated in Cincinnati, and has been in practice in the village for over two years. The physicians who have practiced in the township are : Z. F. Guerin, Henry Goodrich (who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and is still a resident of the township), Dr. McGill, David Camp, Stephen and Charles Stimpson, father and son, Dr. Ward, Frank Brooks, I)r. Gilchrist, Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Anderson, now of Gahanna, and Dr. Holmes, now in Florida.   TEMPERANCE.   As early as 182o there was a temperance agitation in this township, a thing quite unusual at that time in the Ohio settlements. Abraham Williams was the leading spirit in the reform. Meetings were held to test the feeling of the community in regard to the matter of dispensing with whiskey at raisings, husking-bees, etc. It was found that many were in favor of prohibiting the use of liquor on such occasions, but as the inhabitants were by no means unanimous in that decision, no definite action was taken, and at most of the social gatherings, and occasions of united labor, whiskey was furnished as in the other settlements, at an early day. Later, about 1835, there was another flurry of temperance feeling which soon subsided, however, and left, probably, a residue of good. Meetings were held, at this time, at Jacob Wagner's.   MILLS.   There is, and has been, no grist-mill in the township.   The first saw-mill was built on Rocky fork in 1827, by Daniel Kramer. The next was erected on Black lick near his present residence, by Archibald Smith. It was put in operation in 1834, and was continued in use about fifteen years. Christian Bevelheimer and Daniel Swickard built mills at later dates.   The only permanent or stationary mill, at present, in     GEORGE W. TRIPLETT   was born in Plain township, Franklin county, Nov. 22, 1818. His father, Daniel Triplett, emigrated from Leesburg, Loudoun county, Va., and settled in Ohio in 1816. Here he married Sarah Archer, who tame from New Jersey several years previously. Before his marriage he had purchased the first section of six hundred and forty acres in Plain township, where he remained during his life. To them were born three children, one son and two daughters, of whom George W. Triplett was the eldest.   George W. Triplett, the subject of this sketch, obtained an education at the subscription and select schools of the day, and Oct. 30, 1848, married Agnes Jolly, daughter of Rev. William H. Jolly, a Universalist minister, who was among the first of that denomination to settle in the State. To Mr. and Mrs. Triplett were born five children, as follows :   Arthur, born June 29, 1849 ; married Mary Montgomery, and lives in Harlem township, Delaware county.   Florence, born Dec. '25, 1850 ; lives with her parents on the home place.   Alice, born May 11, 1853; died Sept. 20, 1854.   George, born April 9, 1862 ; lives at home with his parents.   Pearl, born May 13, 1868; also at home.   Immediately after their marriage, George W. Triplett and his wife settled on his father's farm, which became his by inheritance after the death of his father in 1859. He has spent his life on the farm on which he was born, and has always taken great interest in all matters pertaining to agricultural pursuits, in which he has achieved merited success. His farm of two hundred and twenty acres is well appointed and well tilled, and the home occupied by himself and family, a neat brick residence, is kept in excellent order. It is situated a mile and a half northeast of New Albany, and is Well portrayed in the representation accompanying this sketch. Portraits of George W. Triplett and Mrs. Agnes Triplett, his wife, also appear in this connection.   HISTORY OF FRANKLAN ANn PICKAWAY COUNTiES, OHIO - 419   the township is the steam saw-mill in the southeastern part of the township, owned by Martin Ealey. Beside the Brooks tile factory, this is the only mechanical industry in the township.   POST-OFFICE.   There is but one post-office in the township, and that is at New Albany. It is named Hope, and was established in 1838. The first postmaster was Daniel Landon, commissioned May 15, 1838, and continued by reappointment until April 15, 1853. The present postmaster is John W. Goodrich.   THE VILLAGE OF NEW ALBANY,   located a little south and east of the center of .the township, was laid out in May, 1837, by Daniel Landon and William Yantis, each being the owner of one half of the land laid out in lots. The village had quite a prosperous growth for a few years, and was of considerable advantage to the country round about. The village was incorporated. In April, 1856, was held the first charter election, which resulted in the choice of the following officers: S. Ogden, mayor; C. S. Ogden, recorder; F. Johnson, J. McCurdy, C. Baughman, A. B. Beem, S. Stinson, councilmen; R. Phelps, marshal. Following are the officers elected in 1879: James Carpenter, mayor, Miles H. DeWitt, clerk ; John Ulery, marshal; J. W. Goodrich, treasurer; E. Rice, L. Hines, Alexander Carpenter, G. D. Ulery, I). Quinn, Isaac Browning, councilmen; Christopher Horlocker, commissioner. The village is a special school district. A good school building of brick, two stories in height, was erected in 1872, at a cost of three thousand dollars. The building trustees were S. W. Ranney, George W. Holmes, J. W. Goodrich, J. J. Boston, Louis Hine, and H. H. McCurdy. The first superintendent after the new school-house was built, was R. P. Mills. The schools have at present about fifty pupils, and are in a very satisfactory condition, under the superintendency of Mr. Homer Smith, son of Archibald Smith. New Albany has two hotels, kept by A. J. Fix, and G. D. Ulery; three stores, F. Johnston's, D. Quinn's, and John W. Goodrich's. Mr. Johnston has been in business in the village since 1854. Wagon-making is carried on by Alexander Carpenter, and Zachariah McGuire; blacksmithing by Miles H. DeWitt, and Louis Hine; and shoemaking by William Johnston.   OTHER VILLAGES.   Loren Hills, and Lester Humphrey, in 1826, laid out a village plat on the Granville road, near where New Albany now is, and named it "Lafayetteville," but no improvements were made there, and the ground was, a few years later, given back to agriculture.   Francis Clymer laid out a village in 1835, upon his farm, and named it Mount Pleasant, but this, too, was a failure, and was abandoned.   BROWN.   This township is bounded on the north by Canaan township, Madison county, and Washington; west by Canaan and Jefferson townships, in the same county; south by Prairie, and east by Norwich, Washington, and Jefferson townships. The surface presents the same level plain which characterizes the townships comprising this portion of Franklin county, except along the extreme western boundary, where it is cut by numerous small ravines. It has no stream of water, except Big Darby creek. This flows along the entire western line of the township, and was considered, in the early settlement, of much importance.   The soil is mainly gravel, though in some portions a black loam predominates. In productiveness, the township is fully up to the average.   Michael Sullivant and Lyne Starling formerly owned much of the land in this township.   SETTLEMENT.   The first settlement of Brown township was made along Big Darby creek, and began in, perhaps, 1808 or 1810. The eastern portion remained a dense wilderness, until as late as 1840. The writer is unable to state to whom belongs the honor of having been the first settler in Brown township. Adam Blount was one of the earliest settlers. He was from Virginia. Joseph Belchey, a son-in-law, came with him.   John Patterson, also from Virginia, located here, about the same time, but, after a few years, returned to his former home.   John Hayden, a native of Pennsylvania, came from Hamilton county, in 1818, locating upon the farm now occupied by Jacob High, in Brown township, and here he died, in March, 1827. He was twice married. The children, by the first wife were: Elizabeth, David, Isaac, and Rachel, who are all deceased, except the eldest, now the widow of Dr. Rathbun, from whom the writer obtained the principal items of early history for the township. The children of John Hayden, by the second marriage, were: Hannah, William B., Nancy, Joseph, Jeremiah, and Sarah, only one of whom is living.   James Boyd, from Tennessee, settled in the township   416 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   in 1820. None of the family now live in the township.   James Rinier, a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Brown township, in 1822. After a few years, he moved to Hamilton county.   Knowlton Bailey settled in the township quite early.   Obil Beach, whose wife was Elizabeth Kilbourn, came from Vermont to Ohio, in 1817, and located near Plain city, Madison county, where he died, as did also his wife. The children were: Susan, Amos, Marova, Uri, Ambrose, Rhoda, Sarah, Lorenzo, Roswell, and Obil O. and Orin O. (twins). Two of Uri's children live in Brown township--Malona C. (Mrs. John Kilgore), and Uri, who married Elleanor Downing. Chauncey Beach, a son of Ambrose, who married Elizabeth Kilgore, also lives in Brown township.   Jacob Frances and wife, Winnie Adams, were natives of Virginia. Early in the present century they settled in Athens county, Ohio. After living. there a few years, the family located in Madison county, and, in 1825, made purchase of the land in Brown township, now occupied by a son, Henry. This was covered with a dense wood, but by determined and well directed effort, this has disappeared, and in its stead, we find broad acres, whose product yields a rich return to the husbandman. Mr. Francis died in August, 1840, and his wife some two years later. The children were as follows: Elizabeth, John, Sarah, Mary, Joseph, Henry, Nancy, Winnie, Hester, Jacob, and James. One only lives in the township: Henry, who married Elizabeth Hunter, now occupies the old homestead. From this gentleman the writer obtained the following names of settlers who were living in the township in 1825: George and Ananias Harris, Benjamin Morris, John Ross, and Samuel Ballinger. James Huggett came about, the same time.   Abram Reece and Theresa King, his wife, were from Virginia, and came to Franklin county in 1812. Ten years later they removed to Madison county, where they lived until 1831, when they located permanently in this township. The farm is still occupied by the heirs. Mr: Reece died May 5, 1875, and his wife September 2, 1860. There were ten children in the family, six only of whom are now alive, and but three reside in this county: Robert, who married Sarah A. Slyh; David, not married, and Wilson, who married Jane Walker. All of these sons were soldiers in the Union army during the rebellion.   Henry C. Alder, whose wife was Elizabeth Patterson, is a grandson of Jonathan Alder, of whom we learn as follows: In March, 1782, he and his brother, David, were in the woods, near their home, in what is now West Virginia, when they were surprised by a party of Indians, and Jonathan, being but a mere boy (nine years of age), was easily captured. The brother ran, but was thrust through with a spear, killed, and afterwards scalped. Jonathan was finally adopted by the Shawnee tribe, and lived with the wife of Colonel Lewis, one of the chiefs. In June, subsequent to his capture, occurred the defeat of Crawford. After Wayne's victory, Alder, having in the meantime married an Indian woman, came to live on Big Darby creek. He became dissatisfied with his wife, and, after considerable trouble, succeeded in effecting a separation, when he returned to his family in Virginia, where he married Mary Blount, with whom he returned to his former home on Big Darby creek, in Madison county, and here he died in about 1850. A son, Henry, purchased in 1835, the farm in Brown township where Henry C. Alder now lives. Jonathan Alder lived with the Indians twenty-four years, and when he left them could talk but little English.   Thomas Kilgore was born in Pennsylvania, soon after which event his parents removed to Kentucky. In 1798 they came to Ohio, and for a few years, lived at Chillicothe. Thomas came to Madison county. He married Jane Patterson, and located in Canaan township, some two miles southwest of Plain city. Here he died on January 9, 1873. His wife died June 5, 1863. Of the eight children composing the family, three settled in Brown township: John, who married Malone C. Beach; Sarah, who became the wife of Jeremiah Sherwood, now deceased, and Elizabeth, who married Chauncey Beach.   John Lloyd and wife, Margaret Evans, were natives of Wales. They were married there on Saturday, and the following Monday, took passage for America. They arrived in Columbus on June 1, 184o, and the latter part of the same month, located in Brown township, erecting the log cabin a short distance from where stands the substantial brick dwelling now occupied by the family. He now owns five hundred and sixty acres of land, which he purchased in a wild state, paid for by honest labor, and has the greater part of it cleared, and under cultivation. His wife died August 9, 1878. The children were Mary (who is deceased), John, Elizabeth, Richard, Margaret, David and Anna.   N. E. Ferris who married Maria L. Samuels, located in Brown township in 1840. He became prominent among its best citizens. He died March 23, 1879. None of his children live in the township.   John Helser purchased the farm he now occupies, in 1844. His wife was Elizabeth Hendell. Two of his sons live in the township: Levi W., who married Mary Brant, and Frank, whose wife was Mary Schofield.   William Winegardner, and Daniel and Nathan Walker settled in the township about the same period as the above, and now occupy a prominent place in the township.   John McCoy and wife, Elizabeth Bell, came from Harrison county, Ohio, to Brown township, in 1849. He purchased a tract of wild land, consisting of five hundred acres in the southern portion of the township. This is now occupied by his descendants. He died in 1864, and his widow now resides in West Jefferson, Ohio. The children were Jane (Mrs. Judge Clark), John, Col-more, Jacob, James, Alexander, William, Hannah (Mrs. D. Priest), and Mary A. (Mrs. B. Carson).   Charles A. Holmes came with his parents from New York to Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, early in its settlement. The Mormons became unpleasantly numerous, and in 1856 he sold and located in the eastern portion of Brown township, then all woods. He married Mary J. Ferris, a native of Columbus. Mr. Holmes died October   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   SOLOMON JACKSON WOOLLEY.   This gentleman, in some respects, one of the most remarkable characters in Franklin county, is a native of the Buckeye State, born near Zanesville, Muskingum county, on the twelfth day of January, 1828, the first son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Askins) Woolley, poor but very worthy people, to whom our hero owes many of his traits and much excellent early training. Mr. Woolley describes his mother as "not an educated woman, but a woman of remarkable natural abilities." On her father's side, she was of Holland descent, and her ancestors, including her father and grandfather, had been people of considerable substance in Amsterdam, where they carried on a large manufactory of silks, linens, etc. Jacob Askins, her father, during a commercial voyage to Eng' land, some time in the last century, was overtaken by a terrible storm, which so disabled the vessel upon which he was a passenger that she drifted for several months at the mercy of the winds and waves, and was finally driven across the Atlantic, and cast a wreck upon the shores of Virginia, nearly all originally on board having perished. Mr. Askins, then still a young man, was among the survivors, but was deterred by his dreadful experiences from again venturing upon the sea, and decided to settle in the new world, to which he had so strangely emigrated. He settled in Loudoun county in the Old Dominion, married a Miss Shafer, and after some years, removed to Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, where he reared his family, including Elizabeth, who was the mother of S. J. Woolley. Mr. Woolley's ancestors on the father's side were English, but emigrated from the mother country long before the Revolutionary war, and were among the first settlers of New Jersey. Jacob Woolley, his grandfather, removed to Athens county, Ohio, when that part of the State was almost an unbroken wilderness, and settled upon what is now called Jonathan's creek. His son, Isaac, father of the subject of this sketch, was bred a stone-cutter, and afterwards spent most of his time away from the paternal home, working at his trade. After his first marriage, which was to a Miss Stokely, of Muskingum county, he settled on a place of his own near Zanesville, from which he removed, when Solomon was but one year old, to another, three miles from Amesville, in Ames township, Athens. county, on a branch of Federal creek, where most of his family were reared. By this marriage he had several sons, half-brothers of Solomon, who, in after years, generously remembered them, as will be presently and more fully recorded. Their mother died while they were young, and Mr. Woolley, in the year 1827, took Miss Elizabeth Askins to wife. Several years afterwards, he sold the Athens county farm, and purchased another in Star township, Hocking county, where he resided for many years. Solomon was still very young at the time of the removal, but rendered all the assistance he could in the labors of the farm, and in due time, as the half-brothers, one after another, grew to manhood and went away, he took upon himself its chief burdens, as his father was absent a large part of the time, pursuing his vocation of stone-cutter. He found little time or opportunity for schooling, nine months in all, or three terms of about three months each, in the primitive country schools of that day, comprising the whole of his formal education. Until he was fourteen years of age, he had never had an hour's training in school. About that time the people of the neighborhood spontaneously agreed that they ought to have a school-house, and forthwith set about the erection of a rude affair, which was ready for occupancy within a fort- night after the vote to build it was taken. Mr. Woolley thus pleasantly describes this antique structure:   "The architecture of this school-house did not correspond with that of the present day. It was made of round logs, with a clap-board roof, laid on loose, with weight-poles on top, to hold the clap-boards down; the floor was laid with what we called puncheons—a tree split in wide pieces, from two to eight inches thick, and hewn on one side; the chimney was made at one end, of stone, and we gathered up enough newspapers to paste over the windows, in place of glass; the paper, being oiled, transmitted a very mellow light. Slabs, or boards, were fastened around the walls, for our writing desks, and pins upon the walls to hang our hats and dinners on. Our seats were made of small trees, split in two, with the split side dressed, and four pins, or legs, underneath, making each of the proper height for a seat."   The schools kept in such buildings in those days, were of the kind, long since. passed away in this State, known as "subscription schools." Miss Rebecca Prindle was the first teacher in this school, and so young Woolley's the preceptor, except his mother, from whom he had already received, as he subsequently learned, valuable instruction at home. The old-fashioned spelling-school was held by her once every week in term-time. In the summer he attended a Sabbath-school nearly four miles from his home. He was even now remarked as different from other young people of his age, preferring to associate with men rather than boys, and poring over his book at noon-time, during recesses, and in spare hours at home, rather than engage in play as the others did. He learned rapidly within the limited round of studies to which his opportunities confined him, and has since considerably redeemed his early deficiencies by persistent and careful reading, and is now fairly accounted among well-disciplined and well-informed men.   When but sixteen years of age, young Woolley achieved a notable business and industrial triumph. Through bad management his father's finances became involved, and he was compelled to borrow four hundred dollars at ten per cent. interest, giving a mortgage upon his farm by way of security. A year rolled speedily around, and nothing was realized toward the extinguishment of the debt. It was considered in the neighborhood inevitable that the mortgagee would get the place by foreclosure. At this crisis Solomon came to the rescue, and proposed that while his father should continue at his trade for the support of the family, he would undertake the sole charge of the farm (one hundred and sixty acres) in a vigorous effort to make enough to lift the mortgage. It was agreed to. Within eighteen. months the full sum must be raised, and Solomon saw that with the best of management it was only possible to effect it by sowing most of the land to wheat, and that then, with a good harvest and fair price, success was certain. He had not only the entire responsibility to shoulder, but almost the entire labor to do, since his adult half-brothers had now all gone   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   from home, and his yoimger brothers were too small to be of much service. He buckled fearlessly and stoutly, however, to his task. Beginning his day of labor at four o'clock, he worked three hours until breakfast, and then, with brief intermissions for dinner and supper, he he kept on until dark and on moonlight nights until far into the evening. His faithful toil, though it brought him many hours, of weariness and somewhat impaired his health, met with its reward. It turned out to be "a good wheat year," and Solomon's crop—"good, Well-filled grains, of a superior quality"---was the finest in that region. Wheat, too, was higher than usual, and he sold for a good price. Consequently, when the mortgage fell due, he had the proud satisfaction of releasing it in full, and presenting it to his lately burdened and anxious, but now overjoyed and grateful parents. His first commercial venture, however—an enterprise which was taken in hand as soon as the troubles and labors induced by the mortgage were well out of the way--was not so fortunate. In the spring of 1845, he discovered an earthly substance upon his father's place, which turned red in course of burning or baking, and which, after sundry experiments, he concluded would be an acceptable substitute for Spanish brown or Venetian red. As soon as his big wheat crop was disposed of, he set about the erection of a horse-mill for grinding the stuff, though he had not the slightest experience as a millwright, and in his effort incurred the risk of unlimited ridicule from his neighbors. It was finished in about six months, and did run successfully, notwithstanding the unfavorable prophecies of his-friends. He prepared about twelve hundred pounds of the new "Spanish brown," and soon afterwards started with it on his first visit to a large city. Taking a steamer at Pomeroy, he went to Cincinnati, and there made diligent and persistent attempts to sell the novel product. The real article of commerce, however, was bringing but a small price, and all the dealers were fully stocked with it, so that he did not succeed in effecting a single sale, and finally left the whole for sale on commission with the firm of Springman & Son, from whom he does not appear ever to have received a single remittance on its account. His first independent enterprise was thus a flat failure. Young Woolley made no complaint, but returned quietly to his rural home, where he remained, the last of his regular residence beneath the old roof-tree, during the winter of 1845-6.   The next spring, at his own solicitation, he went to Chauncey to learn the trade of cabinet-making, but left it shortly for the purpose of enlisting among the volunteers in the Mexican war. Visiting home, however, before enlistment, he there met with so much opposition that he changed his plans, and went to work for two months with Mr. H. Kanode at Logan, Hocking county. He then served Mr Alvin Finney as a laborer for a month, when he went to Chillicothe, and obtained em-. ployment in .a slaughter-house for a short time. He had now got about twenty dollars ahead; and determined to embark in book-agency, Arranging with a Hartford (Connecticut) firm, the publishers of a "History of the United States," for a supply of books, he went to Cincinnati to procure the first lot shipped to him, and returning to Pomeroy, at once began his journey from house to house, in the effort to sell his wares. It was disheartening. work at first, and several days elapsed before a single sale was made. Meanwhile he had revisited home, and in the neighborhood, by giving adequate security—for such was the general want of confidence in his success as a book-canvasser, notwithstanding his financial' victory on the farm the year before, that he could get nothing "on time" without giving security—he purchased, on credit, a cheap old horse and the wood-works of a buggy, which he rigged up for.his business, and started out again. He soon began to make sales, and rapidly reaped a tolerable harvest, selling over one hundred and fifty books in a comparatively short time. He remained at this work until the fall of 1848, traversing parts of Ohio and Virginia, and then intended to launch out more extensively into the business, but was forestalled by a Columbus firm, which secured the general agency for his book for all the western country, and effectually shut him out of the canvass.   Mr. Woolley now retired, temporarily, from. the book business, but in no way discouraged by his various, reverses and checks, he determined to make a bold push for the great metropolis of the country, the city of New I York, to see what opportunities it had to offer in the way I of business. At Kingston in Ross county, he engaged to accompany a party going with a drove of horses to that city, taking his own horse with the lot. They started about the first of March, 1849. It proved a singularly interesting and eventful journey to the youthful adventurer. He records, with enthusiastic delight, his observations of scenery, especially in the region traversed by the Alleghenies, of the towns and farming country passed through on their slow journey to the seaboard, which was reached in about six weeks. After staying at Chatham near New York, ten days, to put the horses in suitable order for market, they were sold, and among them the horse owned by young Woolley, for which he realized seventy-five dollars. He did not engage in any employment in the city, but, after investing most of his means in a lot of brass clocks and some more books, the former of which he had shipped to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and the books to Logan, Ohio, he embarked on the river Hudson for Albany. On the way thither, late at night, the "Empire," the steamboat on which he had taken passage, came in collision with a schooner heavily loaded with lumber, in Newburg bay, and sank with consider, able loss of life. Mr. Woolley had not yet retired at the time of the collision, and with some difficulty made his escape to the schooner, losing all his clothing, except what he had on, but thankful to escape with life, especially when compelled to view the heart-rending scene of terror, panic, and drowning that speedily succeeded upon and near the "Empire." Albany was reached in safety upon another steamer the next morning, where cars were taken for Buffalo, and there he took passage on the steamer " Baltic" for Cleveland, en-route home. Upon this vessel he was destined to meet with another   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   thrilling adventure. When about twelve miles out, the "Baltic" collided with a propeller, which did considerable damage, and led the captain of the former to return to Buffalo. An inspection of the injury, the next morning, however, resulted in a decision that the vessel might safely proceed on her voyage. She again put to sea, and Cleveland was reached without further incident. Mr. Woolley proceeded thence homeward by stage, receiving generous aid and hospitality, after his money was exhausted, from Judge Robison and other friends at Wooster.   After resting a few days at home, Mr. Woolley started for Fort Wayne, to sell his clocks. It was now the middle of August; the wheat crop of the year had failed, and the cholera had broken out in many places. It was, apparently, a very unfavorable season for such operations as his; and the clock peddlars, with which the neighborhood of Fort Wayne was then overrun, had already made an unlucky and discouraging canvass of the whole region. But the young speculator was not daunted, and, setting vigorously and intelligently to work, his clocks and books were soon all disposed of, in and about the localities to which they had respectively been consigned. .Returning in November, he was able to make an investment in land to the amount of one hundred and eighty acres, in the same township where his family resided. He realized at least one thousand dollars from this one operation. He afterwards made a present of eighty acres from it to Isaac Casey, his half-brother.   He now, in the latter part of 1849, at the instance of a friend, Dr. T. P. Jackson, turned his attention to the then comparatively new business of taking portraits by the daguerreotype process. Early in the next year, with an apparatus and stock, purchased in Cincinnati, and only four days' instruction, received from Mr. V. L. Richardson, a Zanesville artist, at an expense of as many dollars, he embarked in this business, to which much of his future life was faithfully and successfully devoted. His beginnings were very small, however. At New Plymouth, his first point, he took no pictures for a week, but had more encouragement the second week, and then moved on to McArthurstown, where he seems to have become disheartened at his poor success, both in getting orders and in managing his chemicals so as to take good portraits, and sold his apparatus to one G. W. Pitcher. A siege with the chills and fever followed, which lasted about three months. Procuring a larger apparatus than before, Mr. Woolley started out again, and operated, with varying success, at Logan and Amesville, where he again sold out. Purchasing another outfit in Cincinnati, he took it to Virginia (that part of it now West Virginia), where he visited Parkersburgh, Harrisville, Point Pleasant, Buffalo, and Ripley, making some progress, but not yet doing very well. It was now January, 1857, and most of this year was spent in another Ohio tour. The next year he took his apparatus and stock down the Ohio river, landed at Henderson, Kentucky, and remained there and at other points in that State for several months. At Madisonville, the county seat of Hopkins county, he saw, for the first time, a slave sold, a young negro girl being struck off at auction by the sheriff. Another place of interest visited was Russellville, the birthplace of the notorious forger, Monroe Edwards. From Kentucky, Mr. Woolley pushed into Tennessee, visiting Nashville, Franklin, Lebanon, Gallatin, and Memphis. At the latter place he took passage on the steamer "Charleston," for New Orleans, where he embarked upon a gulf steamer for Franklin, in the Attakapas country. In this place he stayed but nine days, returning to New Orleans by way of the Bayou Plaquemine, and thence going to Bayou Sara, where, and at St. Francisville, Morganza, and other places in Northern Louisiana, he operated successfully during the early part of 1853. On the sixteenth of April, at Springville, Louisiana, he was initiated into the mysteries of the Sons of Temperance. He returned to New Orleans the latter part of the month, and there re-embarked for Cincinnati, and the dear old home in Hocking county. A few weeks were passed pleasantly here, and, on Independence day, 1853, he started for New York, to revisit that city and see the World's fair, then being held in the well-remembered Crystal Palace, in the upper part of the city. During this visit he purchased a new instrument for daguerreotyping, and several hundred dollars' worth of stock, and returned, as from his former eastern trip, by way of Albany, Buffalo, and Cleveland, but without the perils of the trip of four years previous. He set up his new apparatus at home, and took a large number of portraits, and also operated with much success at Athens and Pomeroy. At the latter place he dropped daguerreotyping for a time, and entered upon a new and bold undertaking. Purchasing a flatboat and its load of sash for one thousand and foi ty-one dollars, he embarked with it, in person, down the river, having, also, two families, a small party of emigrants, on board. Dropping slowly down the Ohio and Mississippi, at times leaving the frail and uncomfortable vessel and going on to some important point in a steamer, he arrived, with his animate and inanimate cargo, after many adventures and dangers, and a thoroughly disagreeable voyage in general, at Memphis. He found that he could sell none of his sash here at a profit, but, nevertheless, disposed of a small amount at this place, and, presently, of a much larger quantity at Vicksburgh. At the latter point he sold the flatboat to the heads of the families on board.   His total loss by this venture was about eight hundred dollars, but he considered it a decided advantage to him in the long run. From Vicksburgh, he went to Bayou Sara again, to begin another tour of business as a daguerrean artist. He operated in a number of towns in this region, and on the twenty-fourth of June reached his first point in Texas, at the pleasant town of Marshall. He remained here over a month, and thence proceeded to what eventually became an extensive tour of the State, which he found remarkably profitable, and by which he far more than redeemed his recent losses. At Jefferson he sold his apparatus to a Mrs. Hargrave, and then traveled, by stage, to Shreveport, where he awaited the arrival of another instrument from New York. Re-entering Texas, he made another tour of travel and business in   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   the State during 1855 and a part of 1856, visiting a large number of important towns, and everywhere observing men and things with his characteristic shrewdness and care. About the middle of the latter year, he returned to his father's home, now removed to a farm, fifteen miles northwest of Columbus. In August, his health having been impaired by his long and arduous labors in a southern climate, he went to New York city, to reside for a time at Dr. Taylor's water-cure establishment, where he soon reaped decided benefit. He had now accumulated about seven thousand dollars as the gains of honest industry; but aspiring to still higher rank in the profession, he took the opportunity of his short residence in New York city to learn the art of taking portraits on paper and glass, with the then celebrated firm of Meade Brothers. Upon his return, he opened a photograph gallery in Columbus, and continued in business there for several months. In October, 1857, he lost, by consumption, his own and only brother, to whom he was very greatly attached. The next month he bought a tract of seven hundred acres of land in Brown township, Franklin county, about three miles from the present Hilliard's station, on the Columbus, Cincinnati & Indiana Central railway, the same which he has since developed into the beautiful and very valuable "Appledale farm." During this year he took another professional tour through Ohio, and made a second visit to Kentucky, during which, at the State fair, in Henderson, his photographic work was honored with the first premium offered by the society. In December, he revisited Louisiana, and operated there, and in Texas, until the last of June, 1858, when he returned to Columbus, and spent some time and money in improving his new place near Hilliard's. In November, he again went south, and at Pattersonville, Louisiana, formed a partnership with a Dr. Cissna, and with him built a floating gallery, for business along the rivers and lakes of that region. This arrangement was dissolved the next June, and Mr. Woolley spent the rest of the summer in Ohio, occupying a part of it with the erection of a handsome marble monument over the remains of his brother. In the fall of this year (1839), he made more ample preparations for business, by the engagement of Mr. Asa Bushby, a landscape and portrait painter of some note, to travel with him, color pictures, and perform such other duties as his special talents and training fitted him for. With him another and final southern trip was projected, and the pair arrived at Alexandria, Louisiana, on the twenty-sixth of December, where they remained two months, and afterwards visited one or two points in Texas, when Mr. Bushby, disgusted with southern experiences, although they paid well, withdrew and returned to his home in Massachusetts. Mr. Woolley continued the tour in the Lone Star State, with greater success than ever, making in a single month, at Bonham, for example, nearly six hundred dollars net profit. This trip kept him away from home for many months, being the longest absence he had had; and he did not come north until after the great drama of the Rebellion had opened, when he took passage on the "Grey Eagle," the last' boat which was allowed by the rebels to leave New Orleans for the north, and reached Columbus in safety, about the first of June. By this one trip, extending over something less than two years, he had netted about five thousand dollars.   His traveling business, now for a time over, Mr. Woolly —Wed down to the improvement of his large tract in Franklin county. It had originally been exceedingly swampy and rough—apparently about the most hopeless piece of landed property in that part of the country; and the neighbors scouted the idea of his being able to make any thing of it. They expected to see him "pour money down a rat hole," and prophesied that he would sink his entire fortune amid its bogs. He set resolutely to work, however, clearing, draining, planting an orchard, etc., until, by successive improvements from year to year, he has made this once forbidding tract one of the most productive and valuable farming properties in Ohio. Early realizing that an immense amount of drainage must be done, he purchased and set up a tile-mill on his own premises, which has been sufficient to equip fifteen or sixteen miles of tile-drain on his farm, as well as to fill numerous orders for his neighbors. His success in. the reclamation of this unpromising purchase (made from Mr. M. L. Sullivant, the great Illinois farmer, at fifteen dollars per acre), is one of the most noteworthy features of his career, and has, of itself, sufficed to make his name known far and wide.   In 1862 Mr. Woolley determined to do something of his old work inside the army lines. Proceeding to Fayetteville, Virginia, he opened a gallery in such rooms as were to be had. The provost marshal here at this time was Col. R. B. Hayes, now president of the United States, from whom Mr. Woolley received sundry favors. Driven from house to house, however by the necessities of military occupation, he was finally forced to fit up a cow shed for his artistic operations. He remained here through the winter and most of the spring, leaving on the fifteeth. of May for home. He now had his aged and infirm parents removed to his own farm, near Hilliard's, where they died in due course of nature, and were remembered by their son, by way of external honor, in the erection of a noble monument, of Scotch grey stone, standing sixteen feet high, and built at a cost of eight hundred dollars. He afterwards operated inside the army lines, at Corinth, Mississippi, having now a photographic tent of his own, one hundred by twenty-five feet in size, the largest of the kind then. used anywhere with the army. He was here during the battle of Corinth, October 3, 1862, in which he lost a nephew, killed in the ranks, whose remains he had decently buried in the cemetery at that place. His health was very poor while here, and he was unable to work more than half the time; yet, by careful superintendence of four picture-rooms which he had established in and about Corinth, he cleared over three thousand dollars in this one venture. In 1863 he operated at Memphis and other points; but was compelled, by the state of his health, to spend part of this and several after years at the water-cure, in New York city, before. mentioned. While on his way to Little Rock, Arkansas, in the fall of the year, he had a narrow escape   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   from capture by the rebels—a large steamer, in full sight of that upon which he was, being taken and destroyed by them. At this place he remained until May, 1864, and cleared four thousand dollars. During the following summer, at the request of his fellow-townsmen and on the commission of the governor, he undertook a recruiting expedition among the negroes at the south, to raise men to fill the quota of Brown township. He visited many points in Tennessee and Alabama for this purpose; but the field had been too persistently and diligently gleaned, and he returned without success, but generously bearing all his own expenses, and returning every penny of the three thousand seven hundred dollars raised in the township for the procurement of recruits.   His career in the portrait business was now ended, as he supposed, and he was to give thenceforth his entire time and attention to the development of his home property. In the fall of 1867, however, his health compelled him to go to Dr. Trail's water-cure, at St. Anthony, Minnesota, to spend the winter. He took his photographic apparatus along and opened a room in that place, where it was destroyed by fire shortly aftewards. Much sympathy was expressed for him at Dr. Trail's, and offers of pecuniary aid were made, which he, of course, declined, and returned to his home the March following. His life since has been comparatively uneventful. Although an ardent and unswerving Republican since the birth of the party he has declined to go actively into politics, and has invariably refused office, although frequently tendered him, except once, when he accepted a petty township office rather than pay the penalty with which he was threatened; and he has also filled some school offices in his township. He has not spent much time upon secret societies, but was made a Free and Accepted mason in 1857, at Logan, Hocking county; and is the original granger of Franklin county, having been instrumental in securing the organization of the first grange of the Patrons of Husbandry within its borders. In religion he has long been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is fairly orthodox in his views, yet an independent thinker, with broad sympathies and liberal tendencies. He is a vegetarian in his dietetic belief; but is by no means rigid or troublesome in the application of his principles, at the home table or elsewhere. His feelings are strongly with any society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. While still a boy, he notes the killing by his shot of one of the deer that abounded in the forest adjoining his early home; but declares that " the poor thing made such a pitiful crying that I could never be induced to shoot at another." He would not rob or tear up a bird's nest, or allow other boys to touch one. Some humane views of his on this subject of killing birds, communicated to the Ohio Farmer a number of years ago, were very kindly received and led to his engagement as regular correspondent of that paper—an arrangement which was maintained with mutual satisfaction for six or seven years. He has also written much, mainly agricultural topics, for the National Agriculturist; the American Patron; the Western Rural, of Chicago; the Dirigo Rural, of Bangor, Maine; the Western Patron, of Findlay, Ohio; the Southern Agriculturist, of Columbia, South Carolina; the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Telegraph ; the Ohio State Journal, of Columbus ; and the Drainage and Farm Journal, of Indianapolis, Indiana. To the topic largely treated by the last named, as indicated by its title, he has given especial attention; and his writings thereon, growing as they do out of his large practical experience, have especial value. One communication of his, traversing an opinion expressed by the Drainage and Farm Journal, converted the editor of that magazine, and brough it into harmony with Mr. Woolley's views. In 1878, an essay upon drainage, prepared by him, took the prize of twenty-five dollars, offered by the State board of agriculture, for the best paper upon this theme; and it will be found printed in full in the report of the Board for that year. His writings, although devoid of rhetorical effect and making no attempt at exhibition of scholarship, have proved thorougly acceptable and useful to sensible, practical men.   Of late years, Mr. Woolley has given much attention to the growth of Devon cattle and Southdown sheep, from the sale of which he has realized large sums. About the only designation in the way of businesss which he himself, as indicated by the return-card upon his envelopes, is "Proprietor of the Appledale Herd of Devon Cattle." With his vegetarian proclivities, he would not be likely to neglect fruit-raising; and the orchard which was among his first improvements nearly twenty years ago, with subsequent additions, is now in fine bearing condition, and is a very valuable feature of the property. It comprises about forty acres, mainly set to apples and pears, producing, of the former alone, about four hundred bushels last year.   Mr. Woolley is a quiet, self-contained man, not familiar in his manners, nor easy in the formation of acquaintances; yet he is thoroughly faithful and tenacious in his friendships. His retiring nature is not the result of timidity or lack of nerve, as his long and courageous battle with the fiickle Dame Fortune would indicate, as also the following incident : About two years ago, while engaged in cider-making, the end of a forefinger was unluckily smashed. It needing immediate attention, as he thought, and disdaining to await the services of a physician, he had his pocket-knife taken out and opened by a friend, and then coolly and deliberately amputated his finger at the first joint. It healed up without difficulty, "at the first intention," and presents a more sightly appearance than most of the fingers which the doctors amputate.   His practical benevolence to his relatives is also well worth a note. The gift of an eighty-acre farm to a half-brother has already been recorded. To another he presented a farm in Union county, of one hundred acres, worth four thousand dollars; and to a brother-in-law he gave another farm in the same county, of sixty acres, held at three thousand dollars. In the later years of his parents he also voluntarily relinquished a mortgage which he had taken on their farm, to save it from falling into the hands of designing men, and handed the place over to them unincumbered.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   In response to the great desire of his many friends in Ohio and elsewhere, Mr. Woolley is now engaged in writing an autobiography. It is almost finished, and promises to be a volume of great interest, not only to those with whom his own life has come in contact, but to those who desire to see the record of a life devoted to the honest pursuit of life's great ends and works, and all beautiful with generosity, kindness, and truth.   Mr. Woolley was united in the holy bonds of matrimony August 30, 1869, to Miss Fannie Virginia Crom well, also of Franklin county, by the Rev. Daniel Horlocker, at the residence of the latter, near Groveport. In August and September, 1876, they took a pleasant trip to the Centennial exposition at Philadelphia, visiting on their way Harper's Ferry, Valley Forge, Mount Vernon, and other interesting historic points. In their pleasant home at "Appledale," enjoying the fruits of their labor, and with the promise of a serene and sunny course and ending of life, we now bid them farewell.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 417   4, 1874. The children were Nancy M. (deceased), Anna E. (Mrs. James Vanschoyck), and Wilbur C., who lives on the home farm.   PHYSICIANS.   The first doctor, to permanently locate in Brown township, was John Rathbun, in 1839. Dr. Rathbun was a skilful practitioner, and a valued member of the community. His practice was extensive and lucrative. At this time but one physician resides in the township, D. H. Welling, who is a graduate of the Eclectic college at Cincinnati, in the class of 1876 and 1877. Dr. Welling is spoken of as devoted to the profession of his choice, and a rising practitioner.   INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.   Under this head. the writer finds little to record, as Brown is exclusively an agricultural township. In 1837 Isaac Hayden erected a saw-mill on Big Darby creek, the first in the township, not a vestage of which now remains. Numerous steam saw-mills have had an existence in the township; they Were of the portable variety. The only manufacturing establishment now in this township is the tile and brick works, which were established by S. J. Woolley, some fourteen years since. The location is on the Hilliard pike, in the northwest part of the township. Mr. Woolley does a large business; employing twelve men, and having invested, in real estate, buildings, etc., ten thousand dollars. His sales for 1878, aggregated four thousand dollars. Mr. Woolley is among the prominent farmers in the township; his farm comprising six hundred acres of land, forty of which is in orcharding. He also pays considerable attention to the breeding of Devon cattle.   EARLY EVENTS.   The first frame house in the township was built by Henry Alder, in about 1834. It is now occupied by a son, Henry C. The second frame house was built by Dr. Ruthbun, in 1841. This is still occupied by his widow, who settled here in 1829. Henry Francis erected the first brick house in the township, and is still a resident therein. A private post-office was established here in July, 1848, and called "Darby." Joseph O'Harra was the first postmaster, though not commissioned. The office was, after a few years, abandoned, and none now exists in the township. The first store in the township was opened by Sylvester Brown, many years since.   ORGANIZATION.   The territory, as at present embraced within the boundaries of Brown township, was formerly a part of the townships of Norwich, Prairie, and Washington. It was erected a separate township in the spring of 1830, but no records are now extant showing who were the township officials elected on organization. The present (1879) officers are: R. K. Reese, Cornelius Beyer, and Levi W. Helser, trustees; Samuel Patterson, clerk; Samuel Francis, treasurer; Uri Beach, assessor; Lemuel Rathbun and A. J. Carter, constables, and twelve supervisors. Following is a list of the justices of the peace for Brown township, from its organization until the present time: Jacob S. Rogers, James Layton, John D. Acton, Paul Alder, Joseph O'Harra, William Walker; Henry Francis, James Huggett, Chauncey Beach, N. E. Ferris, John Kilgore, George M. Clover, Richard Jones, Robert Bynner, and the present incumbents, Henry C. Alder and Robert K. Reece, who were elected to the position at the spring election of 1879.   CHURCHES.   METHODIST CHURCH.   The first christian organization in Brown township was that known as the McCoy Methodist Episcopal church, in the south part of the township. This grew to be a flourishing church, and, in time, a comfortable frame meetinghouse was erected. This church has ceased to exist, and the building has been converted into a barn.   WELSH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.   This is now the only christian organization in the township. The eastern portion of the township is largely settled by people of this nationality. The writer is indebted to John Lloyd, esq., for the data from which the following sketch is prepared. As early as the year 1845, services were held in a little log school-house, standing near the present church edifice, and during the same year an organization was effected. It was composed of the following members: John E. Rowland and wife, Francis Jono, and wife, John Bibb and wife, and, possibly, two or three others. Services were held in the schoolhouse until about 1860, when the present brick meetinghouse was erected. Its cost was about eight hundred dollars. The trustees were: John Lloyd, Francis Jones, and Robert Bynner. A Sabbath-school was formed here, many years since, and has continued, with varying success, until the present time. The average attendance is small now, perhaps thirty. This is mainly due to the formation of a school in Norwich township, easier of access. Thomas W. Jones, is the present superintendent. The preachers of the Congregational faith who have, from time to time, spoken to this people, are : First, Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Franklinton, and, later, of Columbus, the pioneer of this denomination in Franklin county; following him—Revs. Seth Howells, David M. Evans, John H. Jones, Reese Powell, John Jones, James Davis, and Evan Jones. The church has no regular pastor at this time. The present deacons are: Francis Jones and Edward Evans.   SCHOOLS.   The first school remembered was held during the winter of 1820, in a little log cabin standing on the farm of Adam Blount. The teacher was Marantha Adams, and the children comprising the school were mainly of the families of Blount, Patterson, Hayden, and Belchy. The pioneer school-house was erected on the farm of James O'Harra. Some years later, it was a small affair. The pioneer school-house in the eastern portion of the township was built in the fall of 1840, and stood near the Welsh church. A man named Lynn taught a term of school in this building the subsequent winter. The school was made up from the families of Jones, Huggett, Evans, Roberts, Samuels, Bynner, Richards, Riggs, Rogers, Morris, Wilcox, Clover, Marshall, and a few   53   418 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   others, all first settlers in this portion of the township. In, perhaps, the year 1847, a number of colored people formed an association for the advancement of the cause of education for the children of their race. A tract of land was purchased in Brown township, buildings erected, and a school formed. It was finally abandoned, but the writer is not conversant with the causes which produced this result. Nothing is now left to mark the location of this institution. The present township board of education are: Willson Reece, president; Samuel Patterson, clerk; Thomas Jones, John Major, F. E. Linn. H. C. Alder, and Benjamin Davis.   ANCIENT REMAINS.   Along Big Darby creek, in the western part of Brown township, there existed, in the early settlement, many evidences of that mysterious people of whom so much has been written, and so little known—the Mound Builders. On the farm of Henry Francis there is yet remaining quite an extensive mound, and toward the creek were numerous others, which have now disappeared. These were evidently tumuli, or burial places, as many human bones were found during the excavation of these works. There was also an enclosure, or fort, on the farm of H. C. Alder, esq., with two circles, enclosing, perhaps, one-half acre of ground. Its location was upon the high bank of the creek, toward which was the usual opening, found in works of this kind. It was composed of gravel, which has been removed for building and other purposes. Human bones were also found here. It is highly probable that this was a favorite camping ground for the Indians, as stone hatchets, arrow points, skinning knives, etc./were found in great number by the settlers. Mr. Francis has a number of fine specimens found here.   SHARON.   This is known as township two, in range eighteen, and is one of the townships included in the United States military district. The original township was known as Liberty, and at that time it extended for a considerable distance into what is now Delaware county. Franklin county, when first organized, comprised but four townships, of which this was located in the northeast, Franklin in the northwest, Darby in the southwest, and Harrison in the southeast. The name was changed from Liberty to Sharon, March 4, 1806, and it was finally established, with its present boundaries, Match 4, 1816. It is now five miles square, and is bounded on the east by Blendon, on the south by Clinton, on the west by Perry township in Franklin county, and has for its northern boundary the Delaware and Franklin county line.   The first election, held in the original township of Liberty, took place at the house of Joseph Beaty, June 21, 1803, at which time Joseph Hunter and Ezra Brown were elected justices of the peace. At the same election Jeremiah Morrow was made the first representative from the State of Ohio to congress.   NATURAL FEATURES.   At the date of the advent of the early settlers, Sharon township, Franklin county, like nearly all portions of Ohio, was covered by a dense forest, consisting here of oak, elm, beech, maple, ash, walnut, and other varieties of timber. When these were removed, by the gradual process of clearing and burning, a rich soil was revealed, especially in the valleys of the Olentangy, and the numerous runs which help to form that stream. The entire surface of the township is naturally well drained, the land being of a sufficiently rolling nature-to effect this without the use of any great artificial drainage. The Olentangy river runs from north to south through the township, a number of small runs emptying into it on either side. The eastern part of the township is drained by a number of small runs that empty into Alum creek, in Blendon township.   ORIGINAL OWNERS.   Sharon township, or at least the western part of it, was originally owned by General Jonathan Dayton, of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and Doctor Jonas Stanberry, of New York city. It is included in the military lands, appropriated by congress in 1796, to satisfy the claims against the government of the United States, held by officers and soldiers who served in the Revolutionary war. These lands were surveyed about 1798, into tracts of five miles square, which were divided into quarters, containing each four thousand acres.   On the fourteenth day of December, 1802, a colony was formed in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut, to purchase land and found homes in Ohio. Articles of agreement were made and signed by the owners of the land, comprising four sections (or quarters) situated upon and near the Whetstone (now Olentangy) river, in the military tract, as follows: " In the eighteenth range, first township and first section, second township, second and third sections, and third township, second section, containing sixteen thousand acres." The price agreed upon was one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.   The purchasers in the formation of the colony agreed   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 419   between themselves that one lot of one hundred acres should be perpetually used for the purpose of providing a school, and a lot of one hundred acres should be used for the benefit of a Protestant Episcopal church. Also, two roads should be laid out, one running north and south, and one running east and west through the tract. It was also agreed that at the crossing of these roads a square plat, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, should be laid out and divided into one hundred and sixty lots, four of which, and those lying on the four central corners, should be given as a public square, to remain for a green or parade. One of the town lots was also reserved for a school lot, and one for a Protestant Episcopal church lot.   In the year 1804, the entire tract was partitioned off, and divided among the members of the company, each of whom received a little less than one hundred acres, with a certain number of village lots. The following is a list of the original colony, and the lots apportioned to each person: James Kilbourn, lots 93, 94, 116, 117; Thomas T. Phelps, 5, 6, 156; Abner Pinney, 54, 59, 7o, 102, 127, 128, 129, 130; Russell Atwater, 3o, 4o, 46, 86, 9o, 108, 119, .120, 121, 122, 135, 136; Jedediah Norton, 15, 41, 42, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 74, 83, 85, 87, 92, 106, Iii, 113; Job Case, 84, 88, 91, 95, 155; Levi Hays, 13, 14, 19; Levi Buttles, 3, 4, 29, 149, 24; Jeremiah Curtis; 68, 69; Zophar Topping, I, 20, 8o; Ebenezar Street, 57, 81, Nathan Stewart, 67, 99, 100, In), 143; Roswell Wilcox, 133; Lemuel Kilbourn, 45; Jonas Stansberry, 36; Abner P. Pinney, 28; Josiah Topping, 23, 24, 53; Azariah Pinney, 44; Moses Andrews, 21, 22; Samuel Sloper, 51, 52; William Thompson, 63, 77, 82, 103, 115, 141, 142, 146, 159, 160; Alexander Morrison, sr., 2, 26, 39, 58, 72; Samuel Beach, 11, 12, 147, 148 ; John Gould, 18, 109; Alexander Morrison, jr., 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 77, 114, 125 , 126; Ezra Griswold, 16, 17, 61, 62, 78; William Vining, 104, 105, 123, 124 ; John Topping, 131, 132; Israel P. Case, 27; Israel Case, 37, 38, 137, 138 ; David Bristol, 7, 8, 6o, 61; Glass Cochran, 97, 107, 112, 139, 140, 15o, 151, 152, 153, 154; Lemuel G. Humphrey, Ambrose Case, and Jacob Mills, 9, 93, 98; James Allen, 65, 69, 96; Nathaniel W. Little, 25, 71, 75, 118, 144, 157, 158; Ichabod Plumb, 101 ; James Kilbourn, and others, committee, 10, 35, 64, 76, 134.   SETTLEMENT.   In the winter of 1801 and 1802, a company of enterprising men in the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts, organized a company under the name of the Scioto company, the object being to form a community of congenial tastes at some point in the territory of Ohio, near its principal stream, the Scioto river. Of their number, Rev. James Kilbourn was largely instrumental in promoting the enterprise, and he was appointed as agent to visit the west, and examine the country. He made his trip of exploration in the spring of 1802, and after traveling one thousand miles on foot through the wilderness, he selected sixteen thousand acres of land in sections two and three, of what is now township two, in range eighteen (Sharon township), and section one, in township one, and section two, in township three. He returned to Connecticut in the fall of the same year, and reported the purchase and location of the lands to the company. The following year he came on again, and preparation was made for the removal of the families who were to become the pioneers in this part of the wilderness. During the summer of 1803, Lemuel Kilbourn came to Ohio, with his family, accompanied by the following persons: Levi Pinney, Alexander Morrison, jr., Abner P. Pinney, William Morrison, Adna Bristol, E. C. Brown, and Israel P. Case. This party came in advance for the purpose of erecting cabins for the use of the colony, and also to erect a mill. On the fifteenth day of September, 1803, James Kilbourn, Ezra Griswold, with various others, and their families, commenced their journey toward the setting sun. Ezra Griswold, with his family, first completed the journey, arriving on the ground where is now situated the village of Worthington (then a perfect wilderness), on the twenty-sixth day of October. The other emigrants arrived soon afterwards. Ezra Griswold occupied a cabin on village lot number seventy-one; William Thompson, on seventy; David Bristol, on sixty; James Kilbourn, on sixty-one; Samuel Beach, on ninety-two; Zophar Topping, on eighty-three; Alexander Morrison, on eighty-two; Nathan Stewart, on one hundred; and Glass Cochran, on one hundred and one. All used the same well, which was dug on the south church lot. A school-house was immediately built on south college lot, and the same winter the first school was taught by Thomas T. Phelps. The first female teacher was Clarissa Thompson, who taught in the summer of 1804. It is a fact that the first timber cut for any kind of building purposes, in the woods, where the village now stands, was for a school-house, and the first house erected was a school-house. And as with the first settlers matters of education were foremost in their minds, and first in their work in the new country, so has it continued with the inhabitants of this town to the present day. Worthington attained notoriety for furnishing the best schools of all kinds to be found in the State, and at the present time has an excellent public school, as well as a normal school.   Colonel James Kilbourn came to Ohio to 1802, as agent of the Scioto company. He made a purchase of sixteen thousand acres of land, situated about the present town of Worthington, and, in 1803, brought out the colony of which he was agent. He was an Episcopal minister, and held the first service of that church in this part of the country. He was a prominent man in the early and later affairs of the colony; was instrumental in building the Worthington factory; kept a public house forty years or more; served in congress during 1812 and 1814; was in the State legislature in 1823, and again in 1838, besides filling various minor offices with credit. He was thrice married, first to Lucy Fitch, in Connecticut. She died in 1807, and he married Cynthia Goodale. By his first wife his children were: Hector, Lucy, Harriet, Orrel, and Byron. The latter became a distinguished civil engineer, and founded the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; he was also a member of the legislature of that State. His other children were: Eliza and Cynthia (twins), Lin-   420 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   coin, Charlotte, and James. His son, Lincoln, is engaged in the hardware business in Columbus. Colonel Kilbourn died in April, 1850.   Roswell Tuller came from Simsbury, Connecticut, to Ohio in 1803, with his wife and six children. They had three children after settling in Ohio. He remained in Sharon township a few years, and moved to Delaware county, where he was killed by a stroke of lightning. His son, Jonathan D., is the only one of the family now in the township.   Captain Abiel Case came soon after 1803. He owned a farm north of Worthington, and commanded a company in the war of 1812.   Moses Carpenter came very early, and remained a few years, when he went to Cincinnati. About 1829 he again came to Sharon township, and bought a small farm near the north line. His children were: Rodney, and Olive. Rodney lives near Worthington. Olive married a man named Cummings, and went to California, where she died.   James Russell came to Worthington at a. very early day. He was a machinist, and a natural genius, and while living here constructed an orrery, to illustrate the revolutions of the heavenly bodies. This he sold in the east. His children were: Holman, James, Otis, Salome, Jerusha, and Mary Ann. The daughters married, and some of them are now living in Columbus.   Arias Kilbourn came soon after 1803. He was a hard worker, and after the factor was established worked there. He accumulated quite a large property, and owned a farm east of Worthington. Two of his sons went to the South, where they made homes. In his late years he took up the practice of dentistry, and went south, winters, to practice. His second wife was Phebe, daughter of Judge Stansberry. Both were buried in Worthington.   Judge Recompense Stansberry came soon after the Scioto company, and bought a tract of land in the south part of Worthington, where he lived and died. He was a prominent man in the country, and was appointed associate judge in 1849. In 1821, and again in 1841, he was postmaster at Worthington. Phebe, his only child, married Riggs Chapman, a merchant of Worthington. After the death of her first husband, she married Arias Kilbourn.   Jacob Fairfield was a well-known blacksmith, in an early day. His father was Jacob Fairfield, who had two sons, Jacob and John. Jacob Fairfield, sr., married, for his second wife, Mrs. Sabra Lewis, widow of Jedediah Lewis, who came to Worthington in 1807.   Isaac Case came from Simsbury, Connecticut, to Worthington, in 1804, with his family, consisting of wife and five children. Two more were born after settlement. He bought a farm of ninety-five acres, west of the river, but lived in the town, where he built a cabin, going from thence to his farm while engaged in clearing the land. He remained in the village a year or two, and then erected a cabin on his land, with no chimney, but simply a hole in the roof, through which the smoke could escape.. They soon had a: puncheon floor and chimney. His children were: Orlando, who married and died on the farm; Melona, who died with consumption; Pyrene, who was twice married, and died in Kentucky—her fiat husband was a tanner and currier, and had charge of that department in the Worthington factory; Philo, who died in Indiana, leaving a small family of children; Isaac Newton, who married Emily Vining, by whom he had two children—she died, and he married Mrs. Julia Case, by whom he has one child—and Jane, who married and died in Union county.   Samuel Wilson came to Ohio, from Cooperstown, Otsego county, New York, in 1802. His birthplace was in New Hampshire, but he lived some time in New York, and was married before emigrating. Chillicothe was the first place in which he settled, remaining two years, after which he came to Sharon township, in 1804. One hundred acres of land were bought by him, on the east side of the river, and north of Worthington. A part of it was owned by Roswell Wilcox. When he came to Ohio he had four children, and three more were born here. He died in 1813. The children were: Laura, who married John Smith, and lived and died in Clinton township; Elizabeth, who married Alden Fuller, and died at Central college; Samuel, who was in the war of 1812 for a short time, and afterwards captain of a company of light-horse under the old State militia laws—he owned the old homestead after his father's death, and died there; Sarah, who married Jonathan Finney, and died in Delaware county; Jane, who married Ozem Gardner, and lived near Flint post-office, where she died in 1869; Lucy, who married John Seller, and died in Delaware county; John M., who married Jane Payne, now owns the old homestead, and lives on the west side of the river. Samuel Wilson, sr., came from New York by way of Pittsburgh, in a sleigh; from Pittsburgh by boat to Portsmouth, and up the Scioto river in a keelboat, to Chillicothe. The first house in that city, covered with a shingle roof, was built by him. After he came to Worthington he managed Colonel Kilbourn's grist-mill some eight or ten years. He died in 1813, and his wife died in about 1847.   Bela M. 'fuller came from Simsbury, Hartford county, Connecticut, to Ohio, in 1805, and settled in Worthington. He came in November, and in the spring of 1806, bought one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Perry-township, where he died in 1831. Early in the summer of 1812 he took a load of provisions to Sandusky, arriving just after news was received that war had been declared. He remained in Sandusky, with his team, until September, when he came home. He was sick when he left Sandusky, but managed to drive to Delaware, and from there sent a message home for assistance. His son, Flavel, went on, and brought him home. His children were Flavel, Homer, Flora, Elvira (who died in infancy), Lydia, Holcomb, Achilles, Aurelius and Elvira.   Flavel Tuller came with his father in 1805, then ten years of age. When seventeen years old, in 1812, he went as teamster in the quartermaster's department, where he remained some three months, conveying provisions and supplies from Urbana Co the army, under General Tupper. His early education was obtained in Worthington.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 421   where he studied for a time in Bishop Chase's school. In 1832 he married Lucinda Holcomb, by whom he had eight children : Franklin F. and Homer (twins); Henry who died in 1834; Susan, Lucinda, and Henrietta. Before his marriage about 1816, he built two boats on the Olentangy, which he loaded with produce, cheese, potatoes, butter, pork, etc., and floated them down to the Mississippi river, when he sold them, bringing, up finally, at Natchez, Mississippi. About three years after his first venture he built another boat, which he took directly to Natchez, and there disposed of his entire stock. About 1822 he engaged in business in Worthington with his brother, Homer, remaining with him until about 1860. Together they built the first distillery in Perry township. The first year they did not do much business, but the second year they commenced before the Christmas holidays, and worked, almost continuously, one hundred days and nights, sleeping in their clothing. They cleared, at this time, about fifteen hundred dollars. In 1826 Mr. Tuller started a packing-house for pork, which he operated for about ten years. When in business in Worthington, they procured their goods by way of Baltimore and Wheeling in wagons; afterwards by wagon from Sandusky, until the canal was completed, when they were sent to Columbus. He has in his family a Bible that was sunk in Lake Erie in November, 1838, when the schooner "Toledo" went down. It was recovered, with other goods during the same season. Mr. Tuller held an office in the old State militia. He now lives with his son, Franklin, in Worthington, aged eighty-four years.   Homer Tuller, brother of Flavel 'Fuller, was his partner in business for many years. He married Ann Eliza Kilbourn. Flora, a sister, married Treadwell Moore, and moved to Wooster, where she died. Lydia married James E. Woodbridge, and moved to Mt. Union, where she died. Holcomb married Jane Woodruff, and settled in Dublin, where she died. Achilles died at Mt. Vernon, Indiana. Aurelius died young. Elvira married R. W. Shawhan, and lives in Tiffin.   Mr. Chapman came very early, and settled on the west side of the river, some three miles north of Worthington. He had a large family, consisting of Ridge, Polly, Sally, Albert, Lucinda, Lucius, Harriet, and Sylvia. His son, Albert, is a physician at Dublin.   Josiah Fisher came about the same time as Chapman, and owned a tract of land adjoining him, which he cleared and improved. His wife died there, and he sold his land and moved to Illinois. Dr. Timothy Fisher, his son, lives at Marion.   Mr. Starr came early, and settled north of Vining, in the north part of Sharon township, on the west side of the river, where he died. His widow married a man who worked for them, and afterwards sold the farm, and removed to near Carey, Ohio. One of the family still lives there.   Charles Thompson came from Massachusetts in about 1806, when about twenty years of age. His father, Judge William Thompson, came al the same time, and settled a mile north of Worthington. They remained on this land, clearing and improving it, until 1817, when Charles Thompson married Orill Morrison, and moved to a tract of land owned by his father, in Delaware county. He remained there but about six months, when he returned to his father's, and worked with him about two years. He then moved to a farm a mile further north, where he lived the remainder of his days. Their children were Pamelia, William, Henry, Catharine, Harriet, and Mary. Pamelia married Louis Johnson, and lives at the old homestead; Catharine married Christopher Calkins, and died in Delaware county; Harriet married Horatio Wright, and died in Worthington; Mary is engaged in the millinery business in Worthington; William died when a child.   Jonathan Park came to Ohio from Bernardston, Franklin county, Massachusetts, in 1806. He first settled, with his family, in the Rogers settlement, on the west side of the river. He remained there about one year, when he moved to Middlebury, in what is now Liberty township, Delaware county, where he remained several years, finally returning to Sharon township. He bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, east of Worthington, where he built a cabin, and improved his land. In 1865 he moved into Worthington, where he died the same year. His wife died in 1878. Their children were: Rodney J., who lives in Missouri; Hulburt H., in Rock Island county, Illinois; William S., in Worthington, where he has a farm—he is also part owner of the Miami Powder works, at Xenia, Ohio; Sophia A. who lives in De Kalb county, Illinois; Sylvia M., who lives in Greene county; and Juliette, who was the youngest child.   Moses Maynard emigrated to Ohio, from Massachusetts, in 1806, with his family, consisting of eight children, as follows: Eber, Asa, Joel, Achsa, Moses, Electa, Apollos, and Lovisa. Mrs. Maynard died before he came west. He purchased two hundred acres of land from Nathan Stewart, besides several town lots in Worthington. Eber, his son, married in Massachusetts, and after settling here, went hack after his wife. He worked with his father on the farm, and died there. Asa never married, and for many years taught school. Joel died when a young man. Achsa married Orange Johnson in 1814, and settled in Worthington. In 1863 they moved to Columbus, where he died in 1876. She lives with her daughter, Mrs. F. C. Sessions. Moses, jr., married and died in Worthington. Electa died young. Apollos died south of Worthington. Lovisa married Potter Wright, and died in Worthington.   Samuel Abbott came about the same time as Starr, and bought two hundred acres of land, near the north line of the township. This property he sold, and moved to Worthington, where he served as justice of the peace in 1820. A son, James, is engaged in the hardware business in Columbus. Another son lives in Washington city. Squire Abbott died in Worthington; his eldest son died near Granville, and his youngest died in California.   Jedediah Lewis came from Westfield, Massachusetts, with the Granville company, in 1806, with his family. He remained at Granville but a few months, when he removed to Worthington, where he built a saw-mill on the   422 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO.   Olentangy. This mill he run for a short time, and died nine months after his settlement here. He built a cabin of buckeye logs when he first came, and for several years green sprouts and leaves started from the logs. Following are the names of his children : Elias, Prudence, Martin, Lucy, Eliza, and Jedediah. Immediately after her husband's death, Mrs. Lewis caused a frame building that he had erected near the river, to be moved into the village, on the lot now owned by Dr. Jedediah Lewis, in which the family lived many years. It was torn down in 1878. Mrs. Lewis afterward married Jacob Fairfield, sr. Of her children: Elias lives in Worthington; Prudence, a widow, in Virginia; Martin, a physician in Louisville, Kentucky; Lucy, a widow, in Columbus; Ezra, who died in Xenia; and Jedediah, who studied medicine in the Worthington medical college in 1840, and now lives in Worthington. He has practiced medicine in Indiana and Kentucky, and is now practicing here.   Elias Lewis was born in Lyme, Connecticut, and came to Worthington with his father's family in 18o6. His father died in 1807, and on Elias fell the care of the family. He supported the rest of the children and his mother until 182o, when he married Martha Wiley, by whom he had three sons and two daughters. His wife died in 1853, and in 1857 he married Eliza Paramore, by whom he had one son. His second wife died in 1866. Mr. Lewis learned the trade of brick-laying and plastering, and followed that business for thirty years. He built the chimneys and plastered Bishop Chase's house, in about 182o or 1821, Salmon P. Chase carrying the brick and mortar he used. During the building of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad, he had charge of a gang of men in constructing ten miles of the road bed. On the completion of the road he ran an omnibus from Worthington to Columbus, and aften ten years continued the same line from Worthington village to the railroad station, and operates it now.   Stephen Maynard came to Ohio with the Granville company in 1807, and aoon afterward bought land on the west side of the Olentangy, his farm extending to the river. His children were : Stephen, Joshua, Samuel, Nathan, James, and two daughters, Thankful and Betsey. All married and settled in this vicinity, but none now reside here.   Potter Wright came to Ohio in charge of machinery for a cotton-mill, which belonged to W. Webb, but for some reason it was not put in operation here, and was shipped to Coldrain. Mr. Wright came back to Worthington, where he worked in the factory for a time. In about 1823 he erected a building, and put in a carding-machine and a cloth-dresser. He also started a blacksmith shop, and manufactured machinery for making woolen cloth. He continued at this business until 1852 or 1853. He married Louisa Maynard, a daughter of Stephen Maynard,' and raised a family of eight children. He died in 1855, and his wife died some years later. Two of their children live in Illinois. Horatio owns a farm near Worthington, and lives in the village. H. W. lives in the east part of the town, where he has a sawmill. He also owns a farm. Cynthia lives at the old home in Worthington. James P. is engaged in the mercantile business in the same place.   Deacon Goodrich came from Connecticut about 1807, and settled in the north part of the village of Worthington. His children were Bela, John, Levi and several others. Mr. Goodrich was well along in years when he came to Ohio, and lived with his son, John, who opened a store in the north part of town. He afterwards sold his business, and moved to Texas. The other children moved to other parts.   Isaiah Wallace came very early, but at what date is not known. His son, Norman Wallace, was a drummer in the war of 1812. All moved from here many years ago.   Stephen Hoyt was an early settler, and one of the first blacksmiths in Worthington.   Orange Johnson came from Mansfield, Connecticut, to Ohio in 1813. His business there was the manufacture of combs, and the expense of his journey was met on the road by the sale of this, article of merchandise. He engaged in the manufacture of combs in Worthington immediately after his arrival, working in an upper room of Col. Kilbourn's hotel, where he continued until 1814, when he married Achsa Maynard. After marriage he removed his shop to his house, and continued there until 1816, when he erected a brick building for his manufacturing business. He worked at this until 1827, and did a good business, accumulating some property. When he commenced in Worthington, his capital amounted to sixteen dollars and fifty cents. In 1827 he gave up this business, and was one of the incorporators of the Columbus and Sandusky turnpike. Col. Kilbourn was also one of the incorporators, and surveyed the road. Mr. Johnson was one of the leading commissioners, and principal agent of the company from first to last. The road was eight years in building, and while connected with it, Mr. Johnson accumulated a handsome property. At the same time he owned and managed a farm near Worthington. He, with two others, made the first survey for the railroad from Columbus to Xenia. He moved to Columbus in 1862; was for many years a director of the old Clinton bank, and afterwards a director of the Franklin State and National bank. He erected the Johnson and the Sessions blocks in Columbus, and died there in 1876. His daughter married F. C. Sessions, of Columbus, and her mother passes her declining years with them.   Dr. Starr came very early, but did not practice medicine here. James, his son, owned a tract of land north of town, which he sold, and then removed to Texas.   Deacon Abbott was an early blacksmith in Worthington. He was a prominent member and deacon in the Presbyterian church, and owned a farm north of town. When well along in years, he went to Granville, and died there at the residence of is son. His remains were brought back to Worthington for interment.   Milton Green came from Vermont, about 1812, and worked at carpenter work in the Worthington factory while it was in operation.   William Page worked in the factory, about 1816, in the cloth fulling department.   HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, OHIO - 423   Joseph Poole came from New York, quite early, and had a farm well cleared, near where Flint post-office now is, in 1817. He was a hard worker, and was the father of ten children: Simeon, Abijah, Joshua, Thomas, Joseph, and five daughters, one of whom married Marcus Cole, and one married a man named Higgins. None of the family now live in this vicinity.   Chester Griswold came to Ohio from Sackett's Harbor, New York, but at what date is not known. He was employed in the Worthington factory, as book-keeper, and when the business was suspended he left this part of the country.   James Starr owned a farm north of Worthington, quite early, but where he went from here is not now known.   Berkley Comstock came to Ohio, from Vermont, very early, bringing with him his wife, and settled about two miles north of Worthington, and went from home as a soldier in the war of 181 z; his wife died about the time of the close of the war, and he married Margaret Dixon, and raised a large family. Rodney, his son, lives on the old farm; James lives near Worthington, and Theodore, in Columbus.   Richard Dixon, a native of Ireland, was an early settler. He came before 1812, and worked in the factory at Worthington after it was established. A daughter married Milton Geer, who was also a native of Ireland, and came to Ohio with her father. Another daughter, Margaret, married Mr. Comstock.   Ira Kellogg came to Ohio very early, and was one of the first mail carriers from the region of Darby creek to Worthington.   Mrs. Cynthia Barker, came with her husband in an early day —about 1810. He died, and for many years she was a school teacher here and in the vicinity.   Rev. Henry Matthews was a well-known local Methodist preacher in this section, in an early day. Mathew. Matthews, a brother, was connected with the Worthington factory. Another brother, Vincent, was a brick-mason. There were other members of the same family—Hiram and Harvey, and several sisters.. Their father died here.   Mr. Harrington was an early settler, who went as a soldier in the war of 1812, and died when on his return, and nearly home, leaving a widow.   John Snow came to Ohio in 1814, from Providence, Rhode Island, and settled in Worthington with his family. Here he engaged in the drug business, at which he continued until his death, in 1852. There were three children: William T., George R., and John H., the latter of whom died in New Orleans in 1832. Mr. Snow was a very prominent Free Mason, and became the first grand master of the fraternity in Ohio. To him and Thomas J. Webb belongs the credit of systematizing the work of the craft in Ohio and the west. At one time he held the third office in the grand chapter of the United States, which met in New York, and also held the second office in the grand encampment of Knights Templar in the United States. As grand master of the State of Ohio, his jurisdiction extended throughout the west and south, in which the charters of many lodges bear his signature.   Demas Adams came to Worthington previous to 1816. He married a daughter of Colonel James Kilbourn, and was an assistant in the factory or store.   Stephen M. Frothingham settled in Worthington before 1816. He was a machinist, and after coming here engaged in the manufacture of carding-machines. He had a shop, in which he carried on this business several years. Ebenezer, his brother, came about the same time. He was a clothier, and worked in the factory.   Obediah Benedict was a blacksmith in Worthington in 1816.   Asa Weaver owned a farm west of town in an early day. His house was in the village. William Thrall was a blacksmith in the factory.   Eliphalet, Peter, Samuel, and Brooks Barker were early comers, and lived in Worthington many years. Samuel and Peter were carpenters, and worked at that business.   Nathan Mason was an excellent machinist. He came from Providence, Rhode Island, in about 1814, and worked in the machinery department of the Worthington factory. When he came here he was single, but married Sally Wiley, by whom he had one daughter.   A man named Cole was an early settler. He was a graduate of an eastern college, and for many years was a school teacher in this vicinity. He went east, where he died. Many of his descendants now live in Franklin county.   Bishop Philander Chase came to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Worthington, where he purchased five lots, besides a farm of one hundred and fifty acres, south of the village. His farm had about sixty acres of land cleared and fitted for cultivation, and cost him two thousand and fifty dollars. The year he arrived he was appointed principal of the Worthington academy, .and at the same time preached at the same place, and conducted the services of the Episcopal church. He soon had five parishes on his hands; and gave up his principalship of the academy. The first convention of the Episcopal church in Ohio was held in Columbus, in January, 1818, of which he was president. On June 3, 18i8, the convention again assembled, at Worthington, and at this meeting, Rev. Philander Chase was elected the first bishop of the Episcopal church in Ohio. He was consecrated to his high office, in Philadelphia, February 11, 1819. On Sunday, June 6, 1819, he confirmed seventy-nine persons. His parochial district comprised Delaware, Berkshire, Columbus, and Worthington. He established a school at his house, where he erected such buildings as he could, about 1818. This he continued under many disadvantages for a number of years. His son, Rev. Philander Chase, jr.; taught with him. He was also a teacher in the old college building. In the spring of 1823 it was proposed that an Episcopal college be established in Ohio to educate men for the ministry. Bishop Chase went to England to raise funds to build a college, and returned in the fall of 1824. In June, 1825, the trustees of the Ohio theological seminary met at Zanesville, and the same month the convention located the seminary at Worthington. Bishop Chase continued this   424 - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES, 01110.   school at his own house until 1826, when he made arrangements to purchase a tract of land in Knox county, where the seminary was, eventually, permanently located. At this time he had thirty students at his own house, under the instruction of his son, Philander. On September 9, 1831, he resigned the episcopate of Ohio, and the presidency of the seminary. He soon after removed to Illinois, where he was again elected bishop, in 1835. He established a college in that State while administering his episcopal duties.   Salmon P. Chase came to Ohio, to live with his uncle, Bishop Chase, in 1820, when but twelve years of age. He did chores about the farm, drove the cows to pasture and home again, took grain to the mill, and was kept busy when not in school. He once received instructions from his uncle to kill and dress a pig, which was to be roasted for dinner; he knew how to go to work to kill and scald the diminutive porker, but either the water was too hot, or he left the pig in too long, for when he expected to remove the bristles easily, he could hardly pull out one at a time; he was aware that the pig must be ready in time for dinner, and bethought himself of his cousin Philander's razor, which he procured, and with which he neatly shaved the pig. The job was well done, and reflected credit on the barber, but was bad for the keen edge of the razor. Salmon was also accustomed to ride a horse belonging to 'Squire Chas. E. Burr, the same animal being a favorite with the college professors, and others; he found that by sticking his heels in the sides of the horse, it would resent the indignity by kicking. He enjoyed the fun, and continued it until the horse would kick everything behind him, and could not be used for any purpose. Salmon lived with his uncle from June, 1820, until November, 1822. Mr. Elias Lewis, of Worthington, now in his eighty-third year, when a brick-layer, had Salmon P. Chase for a mortar-carrier, and speaks with pride of the fact that a man who, afterwards became governor of Ohio and chief justice of the United States, once carried mortar him.   Ozem Gardner came from Otsego county, New York, to Ohio, in 1817, then not quite twenty-one years of age. Some two or three years after his settlement he bought a parcel of land three miles north of Worthington,. exchanging land in Lewis Center for it, with a man named Conine. He has since added to his purchase. There were several cabins, and something of a clearing, when he purchased. For five or six years he lived with Mr. Corn-stock, a mile south of his place, at the same time clearing and improving his land. One season he burned brick on Mr. Thompson's land, near Mr. Comstock's, and three seasons burned brick at Worthington. In 1823 he married Jane Wilson, and commenced house-keeping on his own place. They raised eight children: Harriet, Joseph, Samuel W., Ozem B., Lucy J., Leonidas H., Paryntha, and Althina. One child died in infancy; Harriet married John Potter, who ownes a nursery on the adjoining farm; Joseph lives in Geneva township, Delaware county; Samuel is a merchant in Columbus; Ozem B. was chaplain of the thirteenth Kansas infantry, and was captured by bushwhackers, and shot, at Cabin creek, Arkansas; Jucy J. died; Leonidas lives on a part of the home farm; Paryntha married John De Witt, and lives in Morrow county; Althina lives at home, unmarried, and cares for her aged father. Mrs. Gardner died in 1869. Ozem Gardner was an original abolitionist, and his house was an asylum for many fugitive slaves. It was a station on the " under-ground railroad," from slavery to freedom. He has assisted more than two hundred fugitives on their way, in all weathers and at all times of day or night. No slave hunters ever came to his house, and no slave once in his care was ever captured. He used to conduct them to Eden, in Delaware county, or to the Quaker settlement; sometimes up Alum creek, to another friendly station.   John Bishop emigrated from Poughkeepsie, New York, to Ohio in 1817, and made a settlement in Blentlon township, purchasing land on which now stands the village of Westerville. He brought his family, consisting of wife and children, who were: John, William, Walter, Sarah, Esther, Angeline, and Elizabeth. His children married and settled elsewhere, and his wife died. In old age he came to Sharon and lived a few years, until his death, with his son, William.   William Bishop came to Ohio from Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1818, and became an apprentice to a saddler in Worthington. After learning his trade he married Charlotte Wolcott, of Granville, and opened a saddler's shop in Worthington, where he continued until about 1850, when he commenced keeping hotel in the same place. He continued in the hotel until 1864. His first wife died, and he married Mrs. Nancy Stickney, who survives him. They had one son, Frank W., who is the present postmaster of Worthington, as well as township clerk. His children by his first wife were: Celia, Erville, Edward, Luella, and three who died in infancy.   Ozais Burr came from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Ohio, in 1818, bringing with him his family, consisting of a wife, eight sons and one daughter. He purchased two hundred and sixty acres of land, a mile north of Worthington, on the pike, from Squire Nourse and another man. There were four cabins on the land, and a partial clearing of some forty-five acres, when he took possession of it. He still further improved it, and built a framed house and barn soon after his arrival. His children were: Philo, who is in the treasury department at Washington city; Jonathan N., who is a physician, at Mount Vernon; Charles E., who owns a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of the old homestead ; Erastus, who is an Episcopal clergyman in Portsmouth; George C., who moved to Illinois, where he died; Levi J., who lives in Jackson, Michigan, where he is engaged in the mercantile business; William Henry, who went to the Mexican war and never returned; Catharine, who married Rev. Mr. Ufford, of Delaware, Ohio, and died in Iowa, from cholera; and Philander, who is a merchant in Worthington, Indiana.   Rev. Uriah Heath was assigned to Worthington, by conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, in 1839 and 1840. He was largely instrumental in founding the female seminary of the Methodist church in Ohio, during   FLAVEL TULLER.   The parents of the subject of this sketch were, Bela M. Tuller, born June 19, 1773, and Lydia Holcomb, born June 19, 1776; both natives of Simsburg, Hartford county, Connecticut, where they were raised, and where they were married on the fifth of November, 1794. After marriage they remained in the neighborhood of their home, where they had five children. In the fall of 1806, the family removed to Ohio, and in the latter part of October joined the colony of eastern people at Worthington, near which place they remained until the following March, when Mr. Tuller bought one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in the township of Perry, and some two miles west of Worthington. On this land was a log cabin, a log barn, and a partial clearing of some twenty-five acres. Hard labor was yet to be done to prepare the land for cultivation; but a strong constitution, backed by an iron will, soon forced the mighty forest to give way, and it was not many years ere there was a large clearing and abundant crops growing on the hitherto uncultivated soil. In this log cabin home in the woods were born other children, four in number, making a family of nine members besides the parents. The children were: Flavel, Homer, Flora, Elvira (who died in infancy), Lydia, Holcomb, Achilles, Aurelius, and Elvira, the second.   Flavel Tuller, the subject of this sketch, was born in Simsburg, Connecticut, December 7, 1795, and was nearly eleven years of age at the time the family settled in Ohio. The duties of a man fell to him very early in life, and he soon did his part toward providing for the necessities of the family. The land on which their home was located was on the main road to Sandusky, and as they were soon enabled to raise grain and stock to sell, a ready market was found at their own door, where emigrants were glad of an opportunity to provide themselves with supplies. In 1812, Bela M. Tuller sold a load of flour and agreed to deliver it at Sandusky, where he arrived in safety immediately after the receipt of information that war had been declared with England. As teams were needed to work on the fortifications, he was detained until September, when he became sick and was allowed to return to his home. On his arrival in Delaware he was so ill as to be unable to proceed to his destination, and word was sent to his son, Flavel, who went to him, and conveyed him to his home. He never recovered from the effects of this sickness, and died in 1821.   Flavel Tuller engaged as a teamster, in conveying supplies from Urbana to the advance posts of the army, in the war of 1812, in which service he continued three months. He then returned to his home, where he remained until he became of age, soon after which, with his brother, Homer, he built a distillery on their farm. The first season they run this business they made nothing, but the second season they cleared some fifteen hundred dollars, after which they disposed of the business. The man to whom they sold was unable to pay for the property, and to cancel his debt sold them his farm. Both were hard-working, frugal, and honest young men, and it was not long before they had a reputation for fair dealing, that gave them almost unlimited credit among men of property. As they were able they bought land, until they were possessed of considerable real estate, which increased in value as the country became settled. All was not fair sailing, for they sometimes met with losses; but in the end perseverance gained the day, and they found themselves in the way to secure a competence.   Sometime after disposing of their distillery business, Flavel and Homer Tuller engaged in mercantile business, at Worthington, where they continued some twenty years, when they closed out their stock, and entered into the work of slaughtering and packing pork. They labored at this for some years, when they closed their labors in this direction, and transported two loads of pork and provisions down the river, to the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi, where the cargo was disposed of.   On the twenty-sixth day of January, 1832, Flavel Tuller was married to Mrs. Lucinda Holcomb, daughter of William Webster. To them were given four children : Franklin F., and Henry Homer (twins), the latter died in infancy; Susan Lucinda, who married H. H. Hall, and now lives in Ashtabula; Henrietta S., married Horace W. Wright, and lives in Worthington. Franklin F., the eldest son, married Eliza J. Foster, by whom he had three children. She died September i 5, 1879, at the early age of thirty-four years.   Flavel Tuller has resided in Worthington, where he has managed his various enterprises these many years, and now, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, lives with his son, Franklin F. Mrs. Tuller, wife of Flavel Tuller, died at their home, October 3o, 1875.