CHAPTER I.
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THE DAWN OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION.—First White Men in the West —Joliet and
Marquette — Chevalier La Salle the First White Man in the Ohio Valley—Account of his
Journey — Probable Exploration of the Muskingum — Englishmen in the Ohio Valley,
1730-1751— The Ohio Land Company of Virginia — Its Unsuccessful Attempt to Found a
Settlement — Colonel Bouquet's Military Expedition, 1764 — George Washington on the
Ohio, 1770 — The Massacre of Indians at Yellow Creek, 1774 — The County of Illinois—
State Claims Ceded — Important Treaties with the Indians - 17
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CHAPTER II.
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INDIANS OF THE OHIO VALLEY.— Original Tribes in Ohio — The Iroquois and Their
Conquest of the Country—The Delawares of the Tuscarawas and the Muskingum— Noted
Chieftains —The Shawnees and their History — Their Hostility to the Whites -- Other Indian
Nations — The Manner of Savage life — Life in the Wilderness — Hunting the Elk and the
Buffalo — War Songs and Dances— Courtship among the Savages - 33
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CHAPTER III.
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TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC LANDS.— An Act Providing for the
Survey of Ohio Lands, 1785 —Names of the Surveyors Chosen — List of Squatter Settlers in
Eastern Ohio in 1785 — Frontier Life — The Beginning of the Survey —Particulars of the
Experiences of the Surveyors, in 1785-6 — The Survey of the First Seven Ranges -- The
Moravian Reservations — The Ohio Company's Purchase — Symmes' Purchase — Donations
of Ebenezer Zane — The Military District — Land Offrces Established — Later Land
Legislation—The Ordinance of 1787 - 46
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CHAPTER IV
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THE OHIO COMPANY.—The Company Organized at a Meeting in Boston in 1786 —
Purchase of a Tract of Land on the Muskingum—The Ordinance of Freedom— Dr. Cutter's
Part in its Authorship —Measures Respecting the Proposed City and Colony — Provisions for
Schools and Churches — Survey of the Lands — The Offer of Donations to Settlers—
Embarrassment of the Company — The Purchase as Finally Made — Its Boundaries— The
Donation Tract - 66
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CHAPTER V.
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IMPORTANT EVENTS IN TERRITORIAL HISTORY.—The plans and purposes of the
Ohio Company—Dr. Cutler's prediction Concerning the Ohio Country — The Journey across
the Mountains — Arrival of the Party at the Site of Marietta, April 7, 1788 — Names
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of the First Settlers in Ohio — Progress of the First Season — Governor St. Clair—
Washington County Established — Territorial Courts—The First Townships in the
Territory—First Territorial Legislature, 1779— The Convention of 1802 — The State
Constitution Formed— The State Admitted into the Union —Progress of the Settlements in
Washington County 77
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CHAPTER VI.
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WAR WITH THE INDIANS —1790 TO 1795. —The Rise of the War Cloud
—Arrangements for a Treaty — The Treaty of Fort Harmar, January 9, 1879 — Renewal of
Border Warfare — Surveyors Attacked — The Settlement at Big Bottom — The Massacre —
War Begins — Settlers Attacked — The White Scouts and their Methods --Events of 1792-3
—Indian Atrocities — A Colony Formed at the Mouth of Olive Green Creek; 1794 — Closing
Events of the War —Wayne's Victory - 88
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CHAPTER VII.
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PIONEER LIFE IN NOBLE COUNTY.—The Western Pioneers—Description of their
work —Pioneer Gatherings—Description of the Log Cabin and the Manner of its Erection —
The Kitchen Utensils of the Pioneer Household—The Bill of Fare and How it was Prepared
—Fish and Game—Pioneer Agriculture—Rude Implements—Hard Work — Woman's Work
— The Spinning Wheels and the Looms — All Clothing of Home Manufacture — The Kinds
of Garments in Fashion Long Ago — Literary, Religious and Educational Advantages — The
Pioneer Preachers—The Early Schools —Manner of Travel --Earliest Settlers of The County. -
108
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CHAPTER VIII.
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THE FORMATION OF NOBLE COUNTY.—Guernsey County Erected in 1810 —
Erection of Monroe County in 1813 — Its Organization in 1815 — Morgan County Formed,
1819 — A New County Proposed —Origin of the Name — The Matter Before the Legislature
— Copy of a Petition Presented in 1849 — Noble County Erected, March 11, 1851 -- The Act
as Finally Passed — Sarahsville, the County Seat —First County Elections —Doings of the
County Commissioners —Erection of a Public Building - 120
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CHAPTER IX.
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CIVIL HISTORY OF NOBLE COUNTY.— The County Seat Controversy — Its Beginning
— The Question of Re-location — The Rival Sites — Sarahsville and the Caldwell Farm —
The Advocates of a Change Successful -- A Legal Contest— History of the Litigation —
Building of the Court House in Caldwell—Removal of the County Officers, 1858 — Civil List
— County Officers from 1851 to 1887 - 133
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CHAPTER X.
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INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.— Early Roads — The First Route of Travel in Noble
County— The Summerfield and Batesville Turnpike —Postoffices and Mails — Railroads—
The Sharon Railroad Projected in 1849 — The " Calico " Railroad — The Cincinnati,
Wheeling & New York—The Cleveland & Marietta Railroad—Its Inception and Progress —
Completion of the Road in 1871-2 — What Noble County Did toward Building It —The
Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati Narrow Gauge - 143
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CHAPTER XI
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PHYSICAL FEATURES AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF NOBLE COUNTY.—
Topography — Surface, Soil and Streams— The Importance of the Coal Area— Possibility of
Future Mining Wealth —Salt The Pioneer Saltmakers— The Olive Salt Works Established in
1814 — Description of the Primitive Apparatus — The Decline of the Industry — Gas and
Petroleum—The Oldest Oil Well in Ohio — " Seneca Oil" — Old- time Gas and Oil Wells in
Noble County — History of Petroleum Production in the Duck Creek Valley—The Excitement
of 1860 — The First Producing Wells - 152
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CHAPTER XII.
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THE LEGAL PROFESSION.— First Term of Common Pleas Court in Noble County—
Held at Olive in April, 1851 — Other Early Terms of Court — Associate Judges — Courts at
Sarahsville and Caldwell— Noble County Bar--The Lawyers Prior to 1851 — Lawyers of
Later Years— Hon. Isaac Parrish — Jabez Belford — Edward A. Brat- ton and Other
Sarahsville Lawyers— William Priestly—Irwin G. Dudley — Hon. William H. Frazier —
William C. Okey — Biographies and Sketches—Benjamin F. Spriggs — D. S. Spriggs —
James S. Foreman —Judge D. S. Gibbs — lion. J. M. Dalzell — William Chambers —John
M. Amos—McGinnis & Weems — C. M. Watson — Young Lawyers - 170
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CHAPTER XIII.
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THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.—Remarks Upon the Physician's Vocation — Early
Medical Practitioners in Noble County —Dr. Ziba Lindley, of Brookfield, 1815 — Dr. David
McGarry, the Pioneer Physician — Dr. William McKee — Mr. James F, Capell and Other
Physicians of Sarahsville— Medical History of Sharon, Summerfield and Batesville —The
Physicians of Caldwell, Early and Late—The Profession in Other Towns and Villages - 187
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CHAPTER XIV
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THE COUNTY PRESS.—Growth and Influence of Modern Journalism — History of the
Whig and Republican Papers in Noble County— " The Investigalor " published at Olive in
1851— Description of an Early Copy — Adverlisers and Items — " The Noble County Patriot
" at Sarahsville — " The Christian Harbinger " —" The Republican " and Consolidated
Republican "— " The Noble County Republican " at Caldwell — Successive Owners — The "
Caldwell Journal"— Democratic Papers of the County — The Democratic Courier at
Sarahsville in 1851— Removal to Caldwell — " The Spectator " — " The Citizens' Press " —
" The Caldwell Press "— " The Noble County Democrat "— Brief Notices of Former Editors -
205
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CHAPTER XV.
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NOBLE COUNTY IN THE WAR.—Introductory — Old Time Musters — The " Cornstalk
" Militia— The First Response from Noble County— Company I, of the Twenty-fifth
Regiment, Raised at Summerfield—The Twenty-sixth Regiment—Thirteenth Regiment—
Thirty-sixth Regiment — Twentieth Regiment (Reorganized) — Forty-second
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Regiment — Garfield's Old Command — Sixty-second Regiment —Sixty-third Regiment —
Seventy-eighth Regiment — Ninety-second Regiment— One Hundred and Sixteenth
Regiment — One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment — One Hundred and Seventy-sixth
Regiment — Miscellaneous List—The Hoskinsville Rebellion— Both Sides of the
Matter—Biographies of Military Men from Noble County — Soldiers' Reunions - 215
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CHAPTER XVI.
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CALDWELL.—The Origin of the Town — The Selection of its Site as the County Seat in 1854 —Donation by Samuel Caldwell— Survey of the Town Plat — Additions —Sale of Lots in 1857 — The Erection of the Court House — First Buildings Erected — The First Stores —First Settlers —Mercantile and Industrial Interests—List of Inhabitants in 1862 — The Village in Its Early Years — Improvements —Business— The Noble County Bank —
Caldwell Building and Loan Association — The Caldwell Woolen Factory — Flouring-Mill
— The Public School Building— Business Men of To-day— Incorporation, and Village
Officers— Churches and Societies — Caldwell Fair Association —Personal Sketches - 294
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CHAPTER XVII.
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OLIVE.— Its Organization as a Township of Morgan County, 1819 — Reorganization in
1851 —Names of Taxpayers in 1826 — New England Settlers — The Pioneers — Their
Names, Nativities, and Characteristics — Robert Caldwell and Others — Samuel Alien, the
Pioneer Miller of the Valley —Judge Clark — Captain Blake — 'Squire Free — Early and
Prominent Families — Early Industries — Distilleries— Old-time Farming Implements —
Reminiscences of an Early Setller — An Early School— Olive, the Oldest Village — Its
Origin, Growth and Decline — Other Villages — " Socum," Moundsville, South Olive and
Dudley — Churches - 314
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CHAPTER XVIII.
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CENTER.— Organization of the Township, 1851 —First Election — Pioneer Settlers—First
Entry of Land— Bates' Mill— Horse-Mills —Further Account of the Early Settlers — Union
Township Organized in 1822 — Taxpayers in 1833 — Old-time Hunters — Oxen as
Whisky-drinkers — Corn Huskings — Family Sketches — The Township War Record — The
Tobacco Industry — Sarahsville, the Old County Seat— Founded in 1829 — Origin of the
Name — The Growth of the Town — Mercantile and Industrial — Schools — Churches —
Lodges - 334
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SHARON. — Organization of the Township — Samuel Sailor, the Hunter, an Early Pioneer
— the Archibald Family make a Settlement in 1815 — Anecdotes of Sailor — How He
Defended His Neighbor's House— How He Arrived Late at a Raising— Hunting — The
Wileys, Longs and Others — Attempt to Locate the County Seat of Morgan near Sharon
—Reminiscences of Early Days — The Horse-Mills — The Post- Boy — County Officers -
359
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CHAPTER XX.
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MARION.- Taxpayers in 1833 —Marion Township Erected in 1851 — Early Settlers — The
Pioneers from the Delaware — Old Settlers Still Living — The Irish Settlement — Names of
the Pioneer Irish and Scotch Settlers —Prominent Early Families—Moses Horton, the Founder
of Summerfield — Early Schools — Lexington, an Extinct Village —Ginseng Digging— Deer
Hunting— A Novel Marriage Ceremony — Personal Mention— The " Dutch Indians" — An
Amusing Trial — The Village of Freedom — Summerfield — Its Early Settlers — Industries
— Merchants — Churches - 381
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CHAPTER XXI
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BROOKFIELD. - Original Extent—New England Influences—A Permanent Population —
The " Federal Trail "— First Settlement Made in 1806 by the Dye Family — Judge William
Rannells and Other Pioneers— Settlement Progresses Slowly —Experiences of an Early
Family — A Peculiar Industry— The Manufacture of Castor Oil — Land Owners in 1826 —
Valuation and Taxes for that Year—Personal Mention—Early Schools — A Novel Saw-Mill
— The Settlers on Bates' Branch—The First Postoffice —Family Sketches — Brookfield
Church - 419
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CHAPTER XXII.
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STOCK. — Its Boundaries—Early Settlement on the East Fork —The Enochs, Crows,
Grandons, Morrises and Archers— The Crow Family and the Indians—Other Early Pioneers
— The Last Indian Camp on Sailor's Run in 1812 — Religion of the Pioneers —Large
Families — Early Mills — First Brick Houses— Hunting Adventure—The Yankee Settlers—
First Orchards in the Township—Hardships of the Year 1816 — Taxpayers of 1833 — Asa
Barton —Early Schools — German Settlers — Villages — Carlisle — East Union —
Churches - 439
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CHAPTER XXIII.
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SENECA. —Seneca as a Township of Guernsey County — Richland Township — Real
Estate Owners in 1830 —Pioneer Settlers—Timothy Bates —His Mill and Distillery
—How the Distillery Served as a Meeting-House — An Early School—How a Wheat Field
Was Harvested by Moonlight — Wolf Scalps — School Section — First Store — Sketches of
the Pioneers — Hunting and Going to Mill — Adventures of Abraham Rich — Family
Sketches Mount Ephraim " Moss Tavern " Churches of the Township - 465
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CHAPTER XXIV.
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NOBLE. —Early Elections and Electors — Poll Book List for 1820 -- Taxes in 1822 — An
Early Indian Trail — Formerly a Part of Buffalo Township — The Memorable Election of
1816— The Family of John Noble, Senior --Mention of Early and Prominent Families
—Joseph Lippitt — An Irishman’s Trick A Bear Story — Early Schools — Personal Sketches
- 483
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CHAPTER XXV.
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WAYNE. - Election — Its Boundaries Described — Taxpayers of 1830 —Joseph Reeves —
John Vorhies — The First Permanent Resident of the Township — The Wards — Bryans —
Bursons — Yohos -- Carpenters — Laws — Richeys — Lowreys — Mendenhalls and other
Early Settlers — Thompson's Mill — Early Religious Meetings - 507
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CHAPTER XXVI.
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ELK.—Elk Township in 1822— Taxes in Early Years — Original Extent of Territory—
Alteration of Boundaries in 1851 — Property-Holders in 1833 — Pioneer Settlers — The
Davis Family — Frederick Miller—His Eccentricities— The Pryors— The Enochs— Matthew
Gray — The Crums — Other Early Settlers— First German Settlers, 1836— Thrift and
Enterprise -- Crumtown — Harriettsville — The Village Founded by Moses T. Spence in 1839
— Its Progress and Present Status— Societies — Churches - sc 513
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CHAPTER XXVII
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JEFFERSON.— Erection of the Township — Originally Included in Enoch and Aurelius
Townships — Pioneer Settlers — David Ales' Tavern — The Cholera Epidemic —
Reminiscences of an Old Settler — Family Sketches— Dexter City— Its Origin and Growth—
A Neat and Enterprising Town— Business Men, Societies, Churches, etc, Middleburg—
Account of its Early Industries— Site of the Village in 1834 — Middleburg Schools - 531
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
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JACKSON.— Olive Green Township — Organized in 1819 — Change of Name — First
Justices of the Peace —Taxpayers in 1826 — Aaron Hughs the First Settler — Hunting
Adventures, and other Details of Pioneer Life — Reasoner's Run— Slow Progress of
Settlement — An English Colony Arrives in 1817 and Doubles the Population — Their
Adventures— Seventeen Inmates of One Cabin—The Earliest Families— Early Schools—
Politics in Early Years— Bell making by the Keiths — Wilbur Sprague's Narrow Escape—
Shot by an Indian —Stores and Business Interests— Churches - 544
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CHAPTER XXIX.
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ENOCH.— Organized as a Township of Monroe County in 1822— Property-Holders in
1833— Reorganization of the Township in 1851— Change of Boundary— Derivation of the
Name—The Pioneer Settlers— Hunters and Hunting— Anecdotes— The German Settlement
— The Pioneer Germans— How They Managed to Pay for Lands—Later German Settlers—
Newburg — Its Rise and Decline — Fulda — Mercantile — Schools — Churches — St.
Mary's Roman Catholic Church - 561
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CHAPTER XXX.
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BEAVER.—Pioneer Settlers—Largely from Maryland—Their Condition and Characteristics
— Adventures with Bears and Panthers— How " Whisky Run " got its Name" Frolics "
—John House's Mill — Mention of Early Settlers — Anecdotes — Organization of Beaver
Township, 1816—Tax List in 1830 — The Boundaries of the Township as Established in 1851
— Change of Boundary —Early Merchants— Family Sketches — Early Schools — Batesville
— Its Origin and Growth — A Neat and Thrifty Town — Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc -
576
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CHAPTER XXXI
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BUFFALO.—Erection -- Early Settlers— Owners of Real Estate in 1830— Abram Rich—
The Mileys — Jacob Gregg John Drake—Other Early Settlers—Religious - 592
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