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GREENE COUNTY 1803 1908. EDITED BY A COMMITTEE OF THE HOME COMING ASSOCIATION. XENIA, OHIO THE ALDINE PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1908 |
GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, XENIA, OHIO
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FOREWORD. No. one could be more conscious of the shortcomings of this book than the Committee which has labored to prepare it. It is perhaps inevitable that with so large a subject and so' short a time for preparing the material many things should. be omitted that might properly have found place, and certain sections and interests suffer in comparison with. others. We can but regret that this is so. We may at least take satisfaction in the thought that the book is thoroughly a Greene County product. The contributors are all residents or ex-residents who have written specially for this purpose, and all of the artistic and mechanical work has been done in the county with the 'single exception of the engraving. The photographs, except when taken by members of the Committee, have been credited as far as possible to their makers. While it is hoped that the book will more than pay expenses, the object in preparing it has been, not to make money for the Home Coming, but to produce at a modest price a lasting memento of what promises to be a most interesting event in the history of the county—the first general return of former residents. The historical sketch of the county embodies much original work, yet it is necessarily based on the older histories, the debt to which is herewith gratefully acknowledged. Acknowledgments should also be made to the large number of persons who have assisted the Committee, either as contributors or as representatives or in other ways. The hearty response. met with in most cases where help was sought will be one of the pleasantest memories of our labors. AUSTIN McDOWELL PATTERSON, Chairman, ALICE GALLOWAY EAVEY, DEETTA GREINER WILSON. JOHN M . DAVIDSON, MARSHALL D. LUPTON. Xenia, August, 1908. |
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FOREWORD COUNTRY BRED. A POEM. . . . RIDGELY TORRENCE A REMINISCENCE . . . HENRY M. MACCRCKENN THE OLD "FEMALE SEMINARY" HELEN SKIN STARRETT THE DEAR OLD PLACES. A POEM . . . AMOS R. WELLS THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY . . WARREN K. MOOREHEAD A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GREENE COUNTY . . . DEETTA GREINER WILSON SOME OF THE MEN WHO HAVE MADE GREENE COUNTY . . . . . J. F. ORR MASSIE'S CREEK. A POEM . . . WILBUR D. NESBIT A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY AND ITS TOWNSHIPS. BATH . . . . . . . H. B. BELMER BEAVER CREEK. CAESAR'S CREEK. CEDARVILLE . . . . . . F: A. JURKAT JEFFERSON. MIAMI. YELLOW SPRINGS . . C. H. ELLIS CLIFTON . . . . D. E. SPAHR NEW JASPER Ross SILVER CREEK SPRING VALLEY SUGAR CREEK XENIA . . . . . . JAMES R. HALE XENIA CITY.. . . . . "HOKE " SMITH GREENE, THE CHAMPION LIVE—STOCK COUNTY, O. E. BRADFUTE ANTIOCH COLLEGE . . . . JOHN M. DAVIDSON DAVIDSON CEDARVILLE COLLEGE.. . . . . F. A. JURKAT THE O. S. & S. O. HOME . . . . R. E. BARNES WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY . . . . J. H. JONES XENIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY . . W. G. MOOREHEAD ORGANIZATION OF THE .GREENE COUNTY HOME COMING ASSOCIATION VIEWS OF BUSINESS HOUSES, ETC. vi |
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The Spirit Pool, Clifton. (Painting). |
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Old Female Seminary Clifton Road at Wilberforce. (Drawing) Indian Riffle. (Drawing). Prehistoric Remains Ancient Work near Cedarville. (Map) Memorial Stone at ldtownn Scenes at Oldtow Kenton's Tree The Old Court House. Court House Group Xenia Public Library (Photo by W. P. McKay) Xenia Female College. The Court House Map of Greene County. Cedarville Cliffs: The Falls from Above (Drawing. Cedarville Cliffs: The Pass. (Drawing) Cedarville Cliffs: Tickling Rock. (Drawing). Some County Institutions Cedarville Cliffs: The Rapids. (Drawing). Scenes in Fairfield. The Little Miami and Mad Rivers Scenes in Osborn Zimmerman, Shoups, Alpha, and Union School I louse New jasper and aintersvillee Scenes in Cedarville Scenes in Cedarville Scenes in Bowersvillee vii |
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Whitehall The Little Miami above Yellow Springs. (Drawing) The Glen at Yellow Springs On the Little Miami Terrace above Yellow Springs. (Drawing) Scenes in Yellow Springs Scenes at Clifton Steamboat Rock, Clifton Scenes in Ross Township Scenes in Jamestown Scenes in Jamestown. Scenes in Spring Valley Scenes in Bellbrook The Old Tavern, Bellbrook. (Drawing) Andrews' Ford and Bonner's Lily Pond Street Scenes in Xenia Some of Xenia's School Buildings Xenia Churches Xenia Churches Catholic Church, Xenia Y. M. C. A. Building, Xenia Scenes in Xenia Indian Riffle Bridge. (Drawing) Antioch College.. (Drawing) Cedarville College Carnegie Library Cedarville College The Administration Building, O. S. and S. O. Home The Row of Cottages, O. S. and S. O. Home The Back. Lawn, O. S. and S. O. Home Marching to School, O. S. and S. O. Home The Front Lawn, O. S. and S. O. Home McDowell Lake, O. S. and S. O. Home. ( Photo by Jesse Clark) James A. Shorter Hall, Wilberforce O'Neil Hall, Wilberforce John G. Mitchell Hall, Wilberforce Galloway Hall, Wilberforce Xenia Theological Seminary, the New Building |
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The Xenia National Bank. Citizens National Bank. The Commercial & Savings Bank The Peoples Building & Savings Co. Hutchison & Gibney Sayre & Hemphill Drug Store. The McDowell & Torenc Lumber Co The Dodds Apartments R. M. Smart H. E. Schmidt & Co. European Hotel Jobe Boters && C. Nesbitt & Weaver Haller, Hanes & Higgin. The J. P. Bocklett Supply Co. Koch's Sample Shoe Store John T. Barnett& Co. F. J. H. Schell The Xenia Water Co. Dowing's Art Studio The Sutton Music Store Arbogust & Co. H. H. Thrall, Druggist Donges' Drug Store Robert H. Snead L. S. Barnes & Co. Keyes & Nesbitt ix |
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Ida S. Sinz Kany, the Tailor John A. North The Central Electric Supply Co Baldner & Fletcher Osterly Millinery W. O. Maddux & Co. Johnson & Dean S. B. LeSourd & Co. R. S. Kingsbury C. S. Frazer E. H. Hunt Frank B. Scott Wright & Carruthers Thomas M. Moore C. C. Henrie George W. Slusher Oak Lawn Farm |
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Painted by John Davidson. The Spirit Pool, Clifton In this pool, according to the Indian tradition, a Shawnee maiden, in love with an Indian youth, drowned herself long ago. Thereafter, it was said, those who visited the pool, might frequently hear her sobbing and calling in the night. COUNTRY BRED. IN NEW YORK. RIDGELY TORRENCE. Where the sister rivers meet the deep sea daughters With the tidal sieve Dwell the careless livers by the waters, Dying as they live. Theirs is not the gladness of the pleasant places On the ancient beach But the city's madness in their faces Pales from each to each. Theirs is not the trouble of the solemn meadows And the sacred rain But to find the bubble in the shadows And to lose again. They are cruel seekers, they are restless movers And their feet digress From their mighty speakers and their lovers Unto senselessness. I am sick of striving, I am tired of hoping And my pulses cry For a hillside hiving bees and sloping Into quiet sky. That's the hill that bore me, there I watch the grasses In my fathers' keep. All they knew before me gently passes In the winds of sleep. There the sounds are slender, there the Dreamer growing With the song he sings Smiles to find the tender evening glowing With a look of wings: |