A Standard History of


Ross County, Ohio


An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular

Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial,

Industrial, Civic and Social Development.


Under the Editorial Supervision

of

LYLE S. EVANS


ILLUSTRATED


VOLUME I & II


THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK

1917



ROSS COUNTY COURTHOUSE COURTHOUSE (BUILT 1858). CHILLICOTHE, OHIO







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400 425 450 475
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600 625 650 675
700 725 750 775
700 825 850 875
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INTRODUCTION


As Ohio was the first American commonwealth to be laid out in the old Northwest Territory between the Ohio River and the Upper Mississippi, so Ross County was the nucleus of its civil life at the time of its birth. Chillicothe was for a time the capital of the territory and the state, and great pioneers, politicians and statesmen were drawn thither. Several of the most distinguished of them had their homes at and near the political center, which, by virtue of its public standing, also became a noteworthy resort for sociability and culture. Even more than Marietta, the pioneer settlement of the Northwest Territory, did Chillicothe reflect the most advanced life of the new America beyond the mountains. All this has been illustrated in the history of the earlier periods covered by this work.


Ross County is naturally proud of its early history and the superb records of its founders, and this spirit of just pride has been inherited by several generations of men and women; for it is a fact which has been demonstrated by this history that there is no county in the United States where the descendants of the founding families have clung to their ancestral soil and homes with such fondness and tenacity as those of Ross. The county supports the oldest newspaper published continuously under the same name in the world, and the majority of its most prosperous institutions carry the burdens of age successfully and vigorously. If any more remarkable illustration of the "staying" powers of an American section than that afforded by Ross County can be adduced it is not within the knowledge of the author.


The prime reasons for this high standard of life, and the lifelong choice of Ross County as an abiding place for individuals and families, are that it is progressive in agriculture and the industries; its people are both sociable and just; its schools, churches and libraries are well supported and well managed ; its professional men and women are able and practically helpful—in a word, Ross County presents all the essentials demanded by a people who claim the rights of a moral and legitimate pursuit of happiness and full opportunities for the advancement of all.


In presenting this history to the people of Ross County and an even larger public, the editor wishes to convey his thanks not only


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to his associate and advisory editors, but to all newspaper men and women, and numerous business and professional citizens, who have cheerfully and promptly furnished information requested on a variety of topics. In a few instances—a very few—we have not obtained as complete data as desired, but the exceptions have made the rule stronger and more gratifying. Altogether, the work has been a pleasure, and we trust its perusal will be as pleasurable as its development.


LYLE S. Evans.


CONTENTS


CHAPTER I


NATURE'S HANDIWORK


THE OLD SCIOTO COUNTRY-DRAINAGE-GEOLOGY-DRIFT DEPOSITS -SOILS-BEASTS, BIRDS, FISH AND SNAKES-ITS FORESTS-• FLORA OF THE SCIOTO VALLEY - FRESH FROM NATURE'S HAND - 1


CHAPTER II


STORY OF THE RACES


PREHISTORIC REMAINS NEAR CHILLICOTHE-MOUND CITY-WALLED TOWNS- LIBERTY TOWNSHIP INCLOSURES-BIG HEAD OF PREHISTORIC MAN-RACIAL CONFLICTS-FRENCH COLONIZATION-CLAIM LOUISIANA-CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH AND ENGLISH TRADERS-THE SCIOTO DELAWARES IN 1751-FRENCH AND INDIANS CAPTURE ENGLISH TRADERS-THE SCIOTO SHAWNEES-COMMINGLING OF OHIO INDIAN TRIBES-BOUQUETS EXPEDITION-LORD DUNMORE'S WAR-BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT - CORNSTALK AND LOGAN-SHAWNEES LAST OHIO INDIANS TO SURRENDER-FIRST WHITES TO ATTEMPT HOME-MAKING IN THE SCIOTO VALLEY - 16


CHAPTER III


EXTENSION OF LAW AND ORDER


ACQUIRING NATIONAL TITLE TO OHIO SOIL-DUNMORE'S SQUATTERS EVICTED-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF LAND SURVEYS-THE ORDINANCE OF 1787-OHIO COMPANY'S PURCHASE-MILITARY AND CIVIL FRICTION-SURVEYS OF OHIO PUBLIC LANDS-THE VIRGINIA MILITARY LANDS-CONGRESS LANDS-CHILLICOTHE LAND DISTRICT-SURVEY OF THE MILITARY LANDS-FIRST SETTLEMENT


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IN THE SCIOTO COUNTRY-SETTLEMENTS EXTEND NORTHWARD FROM MANCHESTER -CHILLICOTHE OF THE WHITES FOUNDED-WASHINGTON COUNTY ORGANIZED-FIRST JUDICIARY-INDIANS AT LAST SUBDUED-MORE PIONEER COUNTIES OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY-THE ORIGINAL ROSS COUNTY OF 1798-PROCESSES OF DIVISION AND REDUCTION-CHILLICOTHE NATURAL SEAT OF EARLY GOVERNMENT-FIRST TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVES-LOOKING TOWARD STATEHOOD-COMMONWEALTH BORN AT CHILLICOTHE-SHIFTING OF POPULATION CENTER MAKES COLUMBUS THE CAPITAL - 36


CHAPTER IV


THE SIMPLE LIFE


PIONEER JOURNEYING TO THE SCIOTO VALLEY -PREPARING FOR THE HOME-SOMETHING MORE THAN A SHACK-SLEEPING, EATING AND DRINKING - WILD GAME - DRESS AND MANNERS - FOOD PRICES AND BUSINESS-THE SCIOTO COUNTRY STORES-BRINGING IN STOCK-HOSPITALITY AND SOCIABILITY-BEE HUNTING-MILLING - PRIMITIVE IMPLEMENTS, BUT EARLIER SEASONS - HOG STICKING AND PORK PACKING-MONEY AND BARTER-EDUCATION -SPELLING AND SINGING SCHOOLS-THE WOMAN PIONEER-GENERAL PICTURE OF THE SIMPLE LIFE - 58


CHAPTER V


TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION


ZANE'S AND TOD IS TRACES-POSTOFFICES AND MAILS-THE FLAT BOAT TRADE-FAMOUS STAGE LINES-ALLEGES BAD STAGE SERVICE-WORSE AND WORSE-PIONEER TURNPIKES-THE PORTSMOUTH & COLUMBUS TURNPIKE-BUILDING OF THE GRAND CANAL-OF SPECIAL BENEFIT TO CHILLICOTHE-FLAT BOATS, TOLLS AND CREWS-CHANGING THE ROUTE-COMMERCIALLY - OPENED-GRAND COLLECTION OF WORN-OUT NAGS-WAGES AND FREIGHTS-A JONAH MUD HOLE-CANAL RULES-RAILROAD VS. CANAL-ODD ACCIDENTS-FAMOUS OLD BOATS-GARFIELD GETS IN FIRST- ROCKEFELLER'S WAGES RAISED-GOOD OLD CANAL DAYS-DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN THE SCIOTO VALLEY-THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1913-WORK OF THE MILITIA AT CHILLICOTHE -RAILROAD RELIEF-THE BELPRE & CINCINNATI RAILROAD- MARIETTA & CINCINNATI RAILROAD ORGANIZED - RIVAL ROUTES - THE ACTUAL BUILDING-THE ROAD EMBARRASSED-RECEIVER AP-


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POINTED-COMPANY REORGANIZED-THE SCIOTO & HOCKING VALLEY ABSORBED-THE LINE OPENED TO CINCINNATI-CONNECTION WITH BALTIMORE & OHIO-GENERAL REPAIR SHOPS AT CHILLCOTHE-RECEIVER FOR REORGANIZED COMPANY-THE DAYTON & SOUTHEASTERN RAILROAD-SCIOTO & HOCKING VALLEY RAILROAD-THE IRON RAILROAD-BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN-THE SCIOTO VALLEY ROAD AWAKENS-NORFOLK 8o WESTERN LINES - 77


CHAPTER VI


GENERAL COUNTY MATTERS


ST. CLAIR CONSPIRES AGAINST STATEHOOD AND ROSS COUNTY-WORTHINGTON AND BALDWIN TO THE RESCUE-THE ROSS COUNTY OF 1798-PROPOSED COUNTIES TO BE CARVED-THE FIRST COURTHOUSE-THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS MEETS-THE OLD COURTHOUSE AND STATEHOUSE- "PRISON BOUNDS" IN CHILLICOTHE - THE PUBLIC SQUARE EARLY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-THE COURTHOUSE OF THE PRESENT-CREATION OF THE TOWNSHIPS-PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY-THE LATEST STATISTICS-STUDY OF ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE-GENTLEMEN FARMERS-FIRST AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AND EARLY FAIRS-THE SECOND SOCIETY-THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF THE PRESENT-ROSS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY-COUNTY'S POPULATION BY DECADES - 123


CHAPTER VII


BENCH AND BAR


FIRST TERRITORIAL COURT AT MARIETTA-ERA OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE-JUSTICE AS DOLED OUT BY SQUIRE SMITH-ONLY ONE CITIZEN HAD HIS WHISKY BARRELS "TOMAHAWKED"-DOUBTFUL CHOICE OF PENALTIES-FIRST. COURT HELD IN ROSS COUNTY -FIRST OHIO DIVORCE-TERRITORIAL FEES OF COURT OFFICERS, ATTORNEYS AND JURORS-STATE CHANGES IN THE JUDICIARY-FIRST TERM OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-FIRST ATTORNEYS' LICENSES BY THE STATE-SUITS FOR DEBT-THE WHIPPING POST, BUSY INSTITUTION-BRANDED WITH RED HOT IRON-EXECUTIONS OF MURDERERS-PROBATE JUDGES-PERSONNEL OF THE BENCH AND BAR-ALLEN G. THURMAN-WILLIAM ALLEN, GOVERNOR-THE PLATT/ WING BOOK AGENT-THOMAS SCOTT-WILLIAM CREIGHTON, JR.-JESSUP M. COUCH-WILLIAM K.


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BOND—MICHAEL BALDWIN—BENJAMIN G. LEONARD—WILLIAM S. MURPHY—FREDERICK GRIM KE--JOHN H. KEITH—WILLIAM H. SAFFORD—A CITIZEN JUDGE—EDWARD SING—RICHARD DOUGLAS—LEVIN BELT—JOHN THOMPSON—JOSEPH SILL—CHARLES W. GILMORE— JOSEPH MILLER— THADDEUS A. MINSHALL - 140


CHAPTER VIII


ROSS COUNTY IN WAR


PIONEER OHIO SOLDIERS ALWAYS PREPARED—THE WAR OF 1812—No PARLOR SOLDIERS OLD CAMP BULL—FOUR DESERTERS SHOT AT CAMP—INNOCENT YOUTH SHOT AS DESERTER—LADIES PRESENT MAJOR C ROG HAN WITH SWORD—ROSTER OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATES—THE STATE MILITIA—THE CHILLICOTHE INDEPENDENT BLUES—THE GERMAN GRENADIER GUARDS— LOOKED DOWN ON " CORN STALK MILITIA''—MILITARY GATHERING OF 1844—TROOPS FOR THE MEXICAN WAR—THE CHILLICOTHE GREYS—THE CIVIL WAR—FIRST EVENTS IN ROSS COUNTY—PUT UP THE FLAG—COLORED TROOPS—THE MORGAN RAID—BURNING THE BRIDGE—THE FIGHTING SEVENTY-THIRD—RECEPTION TO THE SIXTY-THIRD AND THE SEVENTY- THIRD—THE SEVENTY-THIRD IN THE FIELD—SEVENTY-THIRD REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY—GEN. SAMUEL H. HURST—THE SIXTY-THIRD OHIO INFANTRY—COMPANY B, TWENTY-SIXTH INFANTRY—COMPANY H, THIRTY-THIRD—GEN. JOSHUA W. SILL—THE GERMAN COMPANY E, THIRTY-SEVENTH—MANY WERE PRISONERS OF WAR—ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT., OHIO NATIONAL GUARD—THE COLORED TROOPS—OTHER COMMANDS FROM ROSS COUNTY—PART IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR—WATCHFUL WAITING IN CAMP—OTHER CITIZEN SOLDIERS—IN THE PHILIPPINES—KILLED IN THE SERVICE—THE HOME RELIEF—COMPANY H, OHIO NATIONAL GUARD—MISCELLANEOUS CHILLICOTHE COMPANIES—A. L. BROWN POST NO. 162, GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC - 180


CHAPTER IX


PIONEER HISTORY OF CHILLICOTHE


THE FOUNDERS OF CHILLICOTHE--MASSIE LAYS OUT CHILLICOTHE — THE FORTUNATE HUNDRED — GEN. NATHANIEL MASSIE —FIRST SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINIA MILITARY DISTRICT—SURVEYS ALONG THE SCIOTO—REV. J. B. FINLEY—DR. AND GOVERNOR


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EDWARD TIFFIN-GOVERNOR WORTHINGTON AND ADENADUNCAN MCARTHUR AND FRUIT FARM-COL. JOHN MCDONALD -FELIX RENICK AND EARLY STOCK RAISING-BARRING OUT SLAVERY FROM OHIO-TIFFIN AND BALDWIN ON SLAVERY-GENERAL MASSIE 'S LETTER-OHIO THE FIRST FREE SOIL STATE -NOTED CENTERS OF GOVERNMENT-ABRAMS ' BIG HOUSE-SAVAGE SURGICAL TREATMENT-WHITES GATHER AT ABRAMSRELIGIOUS AND MILITARY CENTER-NEW HOPE CHURCH ORGANIZED - PIONEER HISTORICAL EVENTS - WALNUT. STREET/ METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH-COMPETITOR FOR THE WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY-PIONEER SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS-CHILLICOTHE IN 1807-TECUMSEH AND THE CHILLICOTHE COUNCIL-POLITICS AND EARTHQUAKE SHOCK-DR. SAMUEL MCADOW-DR. JOSEPH SCOTT-OTHER EARLY PHYSICIANS-THE FAMOUS MADEIRA HOTEL-THE EARLIER CHILLICOTHE INNS-FIRST BRIDGE OVER THE SCIOTO-INDUSTRIAL UPRISING-THE HYDRAULIC ASSOCIATION - FIRST. TOWN CORPORATION - THE SECOND TOWN CORPORATION - 219


CHAPTER X


CORPORATE AND PUBLIC MATTERS


WHEN CHILLICOTHE BECAME A CITY-PASSING FROM TOWN TO CITY -FIRST ELECTION-FIRST PAVING ORDINANCE-TOWN AND CITY MARKETS-CHILLICOTHE 'S FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY-FIRST STEPS TOWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM- COMPLETION OF EASTERN AND WESTERN SCHOOLS-ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL BOARD-SCHOOL LIBRARY FORMED-MALE TEACHERS OFF FOR THE WAR-CHANGES IN SCHOOL BUILDINGS-BUILDING ERECTED FOR COLORED PUPILS-SYSTEM REORGANIZED (1874) - PRESENT STATUS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS-POLICE PROTECTION-FIRE DEPARTMENT AND WATER SUPPLY-THE BUCKET BRIGADE -WATER BASINS AND CISTERNS-DEPARTMENT IN 1845-IMPROVED SIDE-BRAKE ENGINES-ORGANIZATION OF NOS. 3, 4 AND 5 -FIRST UNIFORMED COMPANY-WORK AT THE GREAT FIRE OF 1852-DETAILS OF THE CONFLAGRATION-INITIAL STEPS TOWARD WATER WORKS-FIRST STEAM FIRE ENGINE-ORGANIZATION OF PAID DEPARTMENT ( 1879-80) -PRESENT DEPARTMENT-CONSTRUCTION OF PRESENT WATER WORKS-THE CITY PARK-THE DRIVING PARK-GRAND VIEW AND GREEN LAWN CEMETERIES-THE CITY HOSPITAL-THE POSTOFFICE-ELECTRIC TRANSPORTATION, LIGHT AND POWER-HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY-LOGAN NATURAL GAS AND FUEL COMPANY-IMPORTANT EVENTS CON-


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NECTED WITH THE CITY-THE 1840 CAMPAIGN-CHILLICOTHE 'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL-COMING OF THE RAILWAY, THE TELEGRAPH AND THE TELEPHONE-THE NEW COURTHOUSE UNDER WAY-FIRST STRIKE AT CHILLICOTHE-THE RAILWAY SHOPS OF THE B. & 0.-PASSING OF THE OLD BRIDGE-HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND CITY CENTENNIAL THE STATE CENTENNIAL-WHY MR. MASSIE DID NOT SPEAK-THE CENTENNIAL LOAN EXHIBIT - 275


CHAPTER XI


CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES


PRESBYTERIANS AND METHODISTS FOUND CHURCHES-THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-EARLY METHODISM-THE WALNUT STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-TRINITY METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-THE THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES-THE FIRST EVANGELICAL CHURCH-THE EVANGELICAL SALEM CHURCH-CALVARY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH-THE CATHOLIC CHURCHES-PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-BRIDGE STREET CHURCH OF CHRIST-WATTS STREET UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH-QUINN CHAPEL, AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES—CHILLICOTHE HISTORIC IN AMERICAN MASONRY-PIONEER OHIO LODGES-GRAND LODGE OF OHIO ORGANIZED-NOTABLE EARLY MEMBERSHIP-INDIAN MASONS-OTHER INTERESTING ITEMS-PAST MASTERS AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS- CHILLICOTHE CHAPTER No. 4, ROYAL ARCH MASONS-CHILLICOTHE COUNCIL No. 4, ROYAL AND SELECT MASTERS-CHILLICOTHE COMMANDERY No. 8, KNIGHTS TEMPLAR-THE MASONIC TEMPLE-THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS AND IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN-MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICACHILLICOTHE AERIE No. 600, FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES-OTHER SECRET AND BENEVOLENT BODIES-THE GESANG VEREIN EINTRACHT-THE RICHARD ENDERLIN WELFARE HOUSE-ASSOCIATED CHARITIES AND ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY-LABOR ORGANIZATIONS-WOMEN 'S CLUBS-LITERARY REPUTATIONS ABROAD - 314


CHAPTER XII


NEWSPAPERS, INDUSTRIES AND BANKS


THE SCIOTO GAZETTE-THE FIRST EDITOR-MAXWELL'S CENTINEL -ITS FIRST HOME-DISTINGUISHED MEN-AN ENTERPRISING PAPER-THE GAZETTE FROM FIRST TO LAST-FIRST RELIGIOUS


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PAPER IN AMERICA—PREDECESSORS OF THE ADVERTISER—THE NEWS- ADVERTISER—THE GERMAN PRESS AND UNSERE ZEIT-- CHILLICOTHEAN INDUSTRIES—INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT—TANNERIES—FLOUR MILLS—RISE AND FALL OF PORK PACKING—WOOD, STONE AND BRICK MANUFACTURES—THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER---FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOPS—OTHER PRESENT-DAY INDUSTRIES—THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE—EARLY BANKING AT CHILLICOTHE—HISTORICAL RELICS REVEALED-THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK—THE ROSS CoUNTY NATIONAL BANK— CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK— CITIZEN'S' NATIONAL BANK—THE SAVINGS BANK-VALLEY SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY—BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS - 354


CHAPTER XIII


THE TOWNSHIP OUTSIDE THE CITY


SCIOTO TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED—SHRINKING TO In PRESENT AREA—PHYSICAL BEAUTIES—EARLY SURVEYS IN SCIOTO TOWNSHIP—THE WALLACES—THE REYNOLDS AND THE HAYNES FAMILIES—OTHER PIONEERS OF THE TOWNSHIP—NATURE'S INDUSTRIES - 378


CHAPTER XIV


CONCORD TOWNSHIP AND FRANKFORT


BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE TOWNSHIP—OLD CHILLICOTHE OF THE SHAWNEES— ONLY BREAK WITH THE SHAWNEES—POPEJOY PLACE AND THE INDIAN QUEEN—FIRST MILL AND GENERAL STORE —SETTLERS PREVIOUS TO 1812-FRANKFORT VILLAGE—ITS SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC LIBRARY—MUNICIPAL LIGHT AND WATER PLANTS—THE BAPTISTS FORMED FIRST CHURCH—THE METHODIST CHURCHES—PRESBYTERIAN ORGANIZATIONS—THE CATHOLICS —SECRET AND BENEVOLENT LODGES—INDUSTRIES, FINANCES AND THE SUN - 386


CHAPTER XV


PAXTON TOWNSHIP AND BAINBRIDGE


PICTURESQUE AND FERTILE—PAPER TOWN OF NEW AMSTERDAM— TWO HISTORIC SKIRMISHES WITH THE SHAWNEES—NATHAN REEVES AND HIS LANDS—MASSIE 'S MANSION IN THE WILDERNESS —THE TOWNSHIP UNDER TERRITORY AND STATE—MASSIE FOUNDS


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BAINBRIDGE-MERCHANTS AND BANKERS-THE VILLAGE OF TODAY-MASONS AND ODD FELLOWS-THE METHODISTS-THE PRESBYTERIANS - 399


CHAPTER XVI


GREEN TOWNSHIP AND KINGSTON


IN A STATE OF NATURE-THE FIRST GENERATION OF PIONEERS-WILLIAM MC COY - COL. JOHN ENTREKIN - JOHN CROUSE, MILLER, DISTILLER AND MUSICIAN- ABRAHAM EYESTONE-JOHN GOODMAN-THE REEDY S-S A MUEL WHITSEL-T HE MILITARY FREDERICKS-A CHRONIC GUNNER AFTER INDIANS-THE MAYS -THE BITZER BROTHERS-THE MILLER FAMILIES-JOHN HAYS -HUGH LITTLE-THE THOMAS, DURHAM AND ENTREKIN PROPERTIES JAMES DOWNS - THOMAS WRIGHT, THE LITERARY WEAVER-ABRAHAM JONES-TOWNSHIP REDUCED TO PRESENT AREA-KINGSTON FOUNDED AS INGTOWN-T HE FIRST LOT SOLD (29) -EARLY MERCHANTS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN-POSTOFFICE AND CORPORATION- VILLAGE OF THE PRESENT-SOCIETIES AND CHURCHES - THE OLD MOUNT PLEASANT ACADEMY - SECOND GENERATION OF TOWNSHIP PIONEERS-FLOUR AND GRIST MILLS -EARLY DISTILLERIES-COTTON, WOOLEN AND PAPER MILLS-TANNERIES 410


CHAPTER XVII


COLERAIN TOWNSHIP AND ADELPHI


VARIED NATURAL FEATURES-ORIGIN OF THE NAME-SET OFF AS COLDRAIN- LOGAN AND CAPTAIN JOHNNIE-A FIGHTING TOWNSHIP - PIONEERS OF 1796-1815 - ADELPHI FOUNDED BY THE ABRAMS BROTHERS-EARLY EVENTS AND ADELPHI PIONEERS-VILLAGE INCORPORATION-ADELPHI OF THE PRESENT-MINERAL WATERS-THE ADELPHI BANK-SOCIETIES-ADELPHI I BORDER NEWS-THE CHURCHES-ADELPHI 'S OLD CEMETERIES-HALLSVILLE-EARLY MILLS NEAR ADELPHI AND HALLSVILLE-ONLY ONE GUNPOWDER FACTORY 432


CHAPTER XVIII


TOWNSHIPS AND MINOR TOWNS


DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP AND CLARKSBURG-TWIN TOWNSHIP AND BOURNEVILLE - OLD BOURNEVILLE CEMETERY - SPRINGFIELD


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TOWNSHIP AND HOPETOWN-UNION TOWNSHIP-LIBERTY TOWNSHIP AND LONDONDERRY-OLD BURIAL PLACES-BUCKSKIN TOWNSHIP-SOUTH SALEM-SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND ACADEMY-LYNDON-PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP AND RICHMONDALE--FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP-THE HERMIT OF THE SCIOTO-HUNTINGTON AND HARRISON TOWNSHIPS - 447





INDEX


Abrams, big house, 245

Abrams, Henry, 439

Abrams, house, 129

Abrams, Reuben, 144, 150, 245, 272, 439

Acton, W. A., 564

Adams, A. R., 333

Adams county, 52

Adams, David, 403

Adams, H. S., 303

Adams, John W., 204

Adelphi founded, 439; pioneers, 439; village incorporated, 440; churches, 442; societies, 442

Adelphi Bank, 441

Adelphi Border News, 442

Adelphi's Old Cemeteries, 443 "Adena," 230

Agricultural statistics, 133

Albin, Albert B., 740

Albright, Edward L., 598

Allen, Caleb C., 360, 361, 932

Allen, Edward H., 203, 282

Allen, John W., 110 Allen, Richard, 335

Allen, William, 156, 158

Allston, Raymond, 205 Alum cliffs, 481

Ambrose, Samuel, 204

American Pad and Textile Company, 372

American system of land surveys, 39

Anderson, 467

Anderson, David C., 117, 210, 928

Anderson, James C., 823

Anderson, L. C., 528

Anderson, Mahlon, 467

Anderson, R. H., 212

Anderson, Thomas, 212

Anderson, William C., 317

Anderson, W. Marshall, 109, 137

Andersonville, 467

Andrews, John, 363

Anti-slavery leaders, 242

Anti-slavery legislation, 241

Arbenz, F. C., 307

Arganbright, S. W., 691

Arledge, Henry W., 753

Assassination of Thomas Herrod, 391

Associated Charities of Chillicothe, 349

Atwell, William J., 862

Augustus, David, 465

Ault, Charles, 671


Bailey, William F., 794

Bailhache, John, 358

Bainbridge laid out, 405; merchants and bankers, 406; present industries, 406; societies, 406; incorporated, 407; churches, 408

Bainbridge Lodge No. 196, Free and Accepted Masons, 407

Bainbridge Lodge No. 437, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 407

Baird, Frank E., 638

Baker, James H., 358, 362

Baker, Joseph, 467

Baker, William, 450

Baldwin, Michael, 57, 125, 144, 153, 156, 165, 242, 247

Ball, W. S., 212

Ballache, J., 340

Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., 115

Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, 116, 119, 303

Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company, 115

Bank of Chillicothe, 373

Banks, T. E., 713

Barmann, George, 626

Barmann, Louise, 628

Barnhart, H. A., 774

Barnes, James, 326, 359

Barnes, James Q., 203

Barnett, Benjamin, 469

Barrerre, Granville, 474

Barrett, David M., 209

Barrett, John, 476

Barrett, Walter S., 602

Batelle, C. D., 322

Bathauser, C. M., 323

Baum, Christian, 456

Bauman, Martin, 330

Beach, John, 439

Beach, Thomas, 199, 203

Beasts, 10

Beaver, Michael, Sr., 463

Beck, Jacob, 469

Bee hunting, 69

Beecher, Philemon, 337, 340

Belleview Cemetery, Adelphi, 443

Belpre, Chillicothe & Cincinnati Railway, 301

Belpre & Cincinnati Railroad Company, 109

Belt, Levin, 153, 175, 326, 337, 340

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 346


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Bennett, Alice, 307

Bennett, P. N., 333

Bennett, Thomas H., 430

Berg, Leonard, 216

Beyerly, Wade J., 624

Biggs, H. W., 317, 332

Birds, 10

Bishop, Robert F., 322

Bitzer, Conrad 415, 436

Bitzer, George B., 920

Bitzer, Jacob, 415

Bitzer, John, 415

Bitzer, William, 415

Bitzer, William R., 771

Blackburn, James R., 193

Blacker, John H., 604

Blain, James H., 717

Boggs, John, 79, 80, 182

Boggs, M., 362

Bohn, Peter, 676

Bohnen, C. J., 329

Bond, J. R. S., 362

Bond, William K., 91, 156, 163

Bone, Autimer S., 869

Bone, J. G., 682

Bonner, Mathias, 217

Bookwalter, Luther M., 202, 203

Boone, Daniel, 388

Boots, John, 477

Borgess, Otto H., 330

Borrows, James M., 279

Borst, Frank M., 534

Borst, George, Jr., 586

Boulger, Thomas J., 331

Bouquet's expedition, 30

Bourneville, 451

Bourneville Cemetery, 456

Bower, David M., 731

Bower, R. E., 138

Bowers, Frederick B., 656

Bowdle Cemetery, 466

Bowdle, Charles E., 655

Bowdle, Henry, 464

Bowdle, Thomas, 464

Bowsher, Jacob, 436

Boyer, Daniel, 477

Brandle, George W., 211, 212, 214

Bray, Frederick, 127

Brehmer, Louis, 594

Brewer, Pinkney, 548

Bridge Street Church of Christ, Chillicothe, 333

Briggs, Dudley F., 915

Briggs, Joseph, 393

Briggs, Samuel, 393

Brink, Isaac, 272, 417

Britton, James, 295

Brook, Ancil, 323

Brooke, George D., 511

Brooks, P. W., 297

Brown, A. L., Post No. 162, Grand Army of the Republic, 215

Brown, Allison L., 210

Brown, Austin H., 448

Brown, Charles E., 200

Brown, H. A., 216

Brown, Henry R., 608

Brown, Hiram E., 762

Brown, John F., 192

Brown, Timothy, 428

Brown, Walter, 213

Brown, White, 448

Brown, William, 449

Brown, W. W., 212

Brownlee, W. R., 365

Brush, G. W., 322

Brush, Henry, 151, 182, 339, 340

Buckskin Creek, 470

Buckskin Creek pioneers, 471

Buckskin township area, 470

Buckwater, Addison, 365

Buckwalter, Martin L., 204

Building and Loan Associations, Chillicothe, 377

Bunn, Jacob, 437

Burkett, Lewis H., 203

Burridge, R. W., 137

Business Section in Chillicothe (view), 368

Bush, James, 393

Bush, James M., 808

Bush, Michael, 393

Butler, Lawrence M., 657


Cahill, James A., 107

Caldwell, Jacob S., 573

Caldwell, James D., 340

Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chillicothe, 330

Campbell, John, 439

Campbell, Joseph, 182

Campbell Light Guards, 214

Campbell, William, 455

Camp Bull, 184, 294

Camp Logan, 294

Canal Boat (view), 86

Canal celebration at Chillicothe, 90

Canal lands, 45

Carlisle, John, 79

Carpenter, Benjamin 0., 360

Carpenter, Joseph, 356

Carroll, Richard, 213

Carson, Irwin, 317

Cary, Archibald, 51

Case, Thomas W., 571

Cash, Abner J., 572

Cass, Lewis, 339

Cemetery Hill, 380

Centennial Loan Exhibit, Chillicothe, 311

Central National Bank, 376

Central School Building (view), 281

Champion Bed Lounges Company, 372

Chandler, Charles E., 322

Chandler, William, 128

Chapin, Dwight L., 325

Chapman, H. W., 307

Chapman, Warren, 216

Charles, Jacob, 429

Chenoweth, A. L., 138

Cherrington, Arthur P., 323

Cherrington, W. D., 323

Chestnut, Daniel, 575


INDEX - xvii


Chillicothe, 54, 57; founders, 219; laid out, 221; description of in 1796, 227; "Fruit Hill," 236; antislavery legislation, 241; seat of government, 244; churches, 247; pioneer historical events, 250; churches, 250, 251; first settlers, 251; pioneer schools and teachers, 255; desertion of in 1807, 258; physicians, 263; earlier inns, 267; early industries, 270; incorporated, 272; incorporated as a city, 274; first municipal election, 277; town and city markets, 277; free public library, 278; public school system, 280; first board of education, 282; high school, 283; school system reorganized, 283; fire department, 284; water works, 291; parks, 293; hospitals, 296; postoffice, 296; transportation, 297; early politics, 298; important events, 300; Semi-Centennial, 301; City Centennial, 303; churches, 314; historical in American Masonry, 336; societies, 336; industries, 367; industrial development, 368; banks, 373


Chillicothe Advertiser, 364

Chillicothe Aerie No. 600, Fraternal Order of Eagles, 346

Chillicothe Anzeiger, 367

Chillicothe Central School, 283

Chillicothe Century Club, 351

Chillicothe Chamber of Commerce, 367, 372

Chillicothe Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons, 343

Chillicothe City Hospital, 296

Chillicothe City Park, 293

Chillicothe Commandery No. 8, Knights Templar, 343

Chillicothe Council No. 4, Royal and Select Masons, 343

Chillicothe Electric Railroad, Light and Power Company, 297

Chillicothe Evening Post, 364

Chillicothe Foundry and Machine Works, 371

Chillicothe Greys, 191

Chillicothe Historical Society, 303

Chillicothe Independent Blues, 181, 188, 190

Chillicothe land district, 47

Chillicothe Lodge No. 52, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 346

Chillicothe Market House, 129

Chillicothe National Bank, 374

Chillicothe Street Railroad, 297

Chillicothe Wochenblatt, 367

Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, 118

Circuit courts, 150

Citizens, National Bank, 376

City corporation, 276

City Hospital (view), 296

Civil war, 193

Clark, George, 450

Clark, Joseph, 466

Clark, Milton H., 450

Clark, Milton L., 550

Clarke, Theodore R., 897

Clarksburg, 447, 450

Clausen, C. E., 329

Claybaugh, Joseph, 324

Climer, Edwin P., 665

Climer, LeRoy, 812

Cochran, Hugh, Jr., 453

Cochran, Hugh, Sr., 142, 452

Coldrain township originally, 433

Colerain township location, 432; natural features, 432; origin of name, 433; township pioneers, 435; early mills, 444


College lands, 45

Collette, John, 127

Collier, J. R., 476

Collins, Joseph S., 359

Colored Methodists of Chillicothe, 334

Colored troops in the Civil war, 194

Common Pleas court, 150

Company B, Twenty-sixth Regiment, 205

Company H, Ohio National Guard, 213

Company H, Thirty-third Regiment, 205

Company H, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio National Guard, 211

Concord township established, 386; area, 386; first mill and general store, 392; first settler, 392; early settlers, 393; schools, 394; churches, 395


Congress lands, 45, 47

Cook, Isaac, 464

Cook, Isaac S., 496

Cook, Randolph, 333

Coover, Gideon, 454

Coover, Gideon S., 844

Coppel, Charles F., 617

Copperas Mountain, 882

Core, John, 453

Corey, Nathan, 393

Corey, Stephen, 393

Corken, Robert, 468, 483

Cornstalk, 31

Corn Stalk Militia, 189

Cory, Oliver A., 857

Couch, Asa F., 204

Couch, Jessup M., 156, 163

Country Scenes (views), 446

Counts, C. L., 566

Counts, J. E., 679

Counts, Lillie E., 680

Courtenay, Austin M., 321, 322

Court House of the Present (view), 122

Cox, Edward, 213

Cox, George W., 507

Cox, John M., 138

Cox, Merrett, 814

Cox, Nathan, 469

Crawford, Noble, 471


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Creighton, Joseph H., 322

Creighton, William, 144

Creighton, William, Jr., 153, 156, 162

Crispin, Rachel D., 660

Croghan, George, 25

Croghan sword presentation, 185

Crook, Isaac, 323

Crothers, Samuel, 323

Crouse, David, 429, 430

Crouse, Jeremiah, 431

Crouse, John, 412, 424

Crouse, Shepherd, 430

Crouse's Mill, 460

Crum, George C., 322

Cryder, David, 460

Cryder, John, 79

Cryder, Michael, 457, 460

Cryder, Michael, Sr., 460

Cunningham, Seymour, 303

Curry, Otway, 358, 361

Cushman, I. J., 473

Cutler, Jarvis, 340

Cutler, Manasseh, 39

Cutler, William P., 109

Cutright, Elijah, 303

Cutright, Elijah, Jr., 632

Cutright, Henry, 545

Cutright, James, 459

Cutright, John, 293


Daily, Charles L., 799

Daily, William R., 759

Davenport, Anthony S., 465

Davis, Charles, 478

Davis, E. H., 358

Davis, F. S., 322

Davis, Isaac, 144

Davis, W. W., 533

Dawson, Isaac, 439

Dawson, Thomas, 435

Dawson, Zedekiah, 435

Day, Elam, Jr., 209

Day, Louis M., 525

Day, S. A., 212

Dayton & Southeastern Railroad, 116

Deerfield township erected, 447; pioneers, 448

Defebaugh, Daniel K., 438

DeHaven, Harmon, 426

Delawares, 26

Delano, L. G., 137

Denney, James, 182

Denny, George, 359

Descher Machine Works, 372

Deserters shot at Camp Bull, 184

De Voss, D. Garfield, 707

Dexter, Alfred D., 331

Dexter, James A., 833

Dickey, James H., 474, 476

Dickey, William, 476

Dickinson, T. G., 322

Dill, Lewis G., 876

Dimmitt, J. G., 322

Dixon, Hiram, 666

Dixon, Simon R., 651

Doherty, George M., 203

Dolerman's Grant, 45

Donation Tract, 45

Douglas, Albert, 193, 303

Douglas, Albert, Jr., 155

Douglas, Richard, 173, 182, 326

Douglass, William H., 137

Dowing, Abishai D., 203

Dowler, John T., 850

Downs, James, 416

Downs, Thomas, 542

Drainage, 2

Dresbach, Daniel, 80

Drift deposits, 8

Driving Park, Chillicothe, 294

Drummond, Charles M., 866

Drummond, Josiah, 467

Drummond, Miley E., 917

Drummond, Wesley N., 793

DuBois, G. W., 326

DuBois, Jacob E., 565

Duggleby, William, 792

Dumm, Peter, 434, 437, 439

Dungan, Irvine L., 325

Dublap, Charles M., 703

Dunlap, Isaac, 193

Dunlap, James, 144, 187, 463

Dunlap, Lorenzo, 467

Dunlap, William C., 214

Dunmore's squatters evicted, 37

Dunning, Smith G., 476

Durham, Jacob, 416


Earhart, John, 203

Early Methodist charges, Chillicothe, 319

Eddy, Augustus, 322

Edinger, Tobias, 633

Edwards, Frederick, 153

Egan, Hugh F., 442, 443, 532

Eighteen-forty Campaign in Chillicothe, 298

Eighty-ninth Infantry, 208

Elliott, David, 454

Ely, Seneca W., 109, 358, 360

Emerich, John, 482

Emmitt, James, 88, 365

Emmitt, W. Y., 340

Enderle, Frederick, 587

Enderlin, Richard, 216, 307, 557

Enderlin, Richard, Welfare House, 348, 773

England, Joseph, 216

Engle family, 438

Engle, James, 438

Engle, Matthias, 438

English traders, 25

Enoch, William, 232

Entrekin, John, 891

Entrekin, John C., 213, 217, 362, 411, 416

Entrekin, John R., 891

Ensworth, William, 80

Erdmann, Zachariah, 733

Erskine, Walter J., 692

Esker, F. J., 218

Euterpean Club, 353

Evans, James M., 826

Evans, John, 465


INDEX - xix


Evans, William E., 214, 340

Everett, S. L., 365

Ewing, Samuel H., 205

Ewing, Thomas, 154

Executions of murderers, 152

Eyestone, Abraham, 412, 430


Fagan, Z. W., 323

Falter, Adam, 855

Famous old canal boat, 100

Famous Scioto Valley, 14

Farden, James A., 216

Farlow, John, 450

Farmersville, 481

Fearing, Paul, 125

Felton, Cyrus D., 322

Fennimore, James, 79

Ferguson, James, 144, 272

Fields, J. R., 443

Fifth Colored United States Infantry, 210

Finley, James, 460

Finley, James B., 227, 262, 321

Finley, Robert W., 401

Findlay, Samuel, 54, 144, 182, 247, 272

Findley, William T., 324

Fire lands, 45

First agricultural society, 136

First bridge over the Scioto, 269

First Chillicothe board of education, 282

First Chillicothe corporation, 272

First Chillicothe justices of the peace, 141

First Chillicothe Pr e s b y t erian Church, 250

First county board of commissioners, 127

First court held in Ross county, 144

First courthouse, 126

First courts, 126

First Evangelical Church, Chillicothe, 327

First Judiciary of Northwest Territory, 51

First Log-cabin Church, 1796-7 (view), 252

First Methodist Episcopal Church (view), 252

First municipal election, 277

First National Bank of Chillicothe, 375

First National Bank of Kingston, 423

First Ohio divorce, 145

First Presbyterian Church, Chillicothe, 315

First religious paper in America, 363

First State House at Chillicothe, 1800 (view), 55

First state licenses to practice law, 151

First strike at Chillicothe, 302

First Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory, 140

Fish, 10

Fishburn, William H., 318

Fitch, Thomas D., 362

Fitzgerald, George R., 340

Flat boats, 88

Floods in the Scioto Valley, 101

Flora, 13

Florentine Pottery Company, 372

Foraker, J. B., 474

Forests, 11

Foster, Aaron, 454

Foster, James, 359

Foster, James C., 539

Foster, John, 478

Foster, John C., 559

Foster, J. C., 305

Foster, Martha, 831

Foster, Thomas, 478

Foulke, Lewis W., 138, 266, 280, 623

Fox, Arthur, 223, 487

Foy, Jacob, 427

Frankfort (original Oldtown), 387; schools, 394; churches, 395; village, 394; municipal light and water plants, 395; secret and benevolent lodges, 397; finances, 398; industries, 398


Frankfort Lodge No. 309,

Free and Accepted Masons, 397

Frankfort Public Library, 394

Frankfort School Building (view), 387

Frankfort Sun, 398

Frankfort's Main Street (view), 394

Franklin, Charles L., 623

Franklin, Gustavus L., 138

Franklin, Gustavus S., 620

Franklin, Robert, 211

Franklin, Robert S., 214

Franklin township location, 477; pioneers, 478; soil, 478

Frederick, Daniel, 413

Frederick, Henry, 413

Frederick, Peter, 413

Frederick, Solomon, 413

Free, Charles H., 905

Free, Charles 0., 641

Free, Edward, 647

Free, William A., 646

Freeman, Edmund, 356

Freeman, George, 138

French colonization, 23

French grant, 45

French Louisiana, 24

Frick, Gottfried, 635

Fromm, B., 366

Fromm, Charles, 366

Fromm, Charles A., 553

"Fruit Hill," 236

Fry, Benjamin St. J., 322

Fry, George W., 760

Fuller, Joseph S., 832

Fullerton, Hugh S., 317, 472

Fullerton, James S., 473

Fullerton, William, 266


Gage, William, 476

Gage, W. A., 195


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Galbraith, E. J., 138

Galbraith, Robert C., 325, 396, 473, 487

Gardner, J. H., 323

Garfield, James A., 100

Garrett, Silas F., 670

Gates, Henry, 807

Gates, James, 340

Gatwood, James A., 218

Gearhart, Charles B., 827

Gehm, Paul J., 330

Gentlemen farmers, 136

Geology, 3

German Company E, Thirty-seventh Regiment, 208

German Evangelical Protestant Church, Chillicothe, 253

German Evangelical Salem Church, Chillicothe, 329

German Grenadier Guards, 188

German Lutheran Cemetery, Adelphi, 443

Gesang Verein Eintracht, 347

Gibbs, Frank L., 591

Gibson, Thomas, 127, 340

Gillespie, James, 469

Gillespieville, 469

Gilmore, Charles W., 178

Gilmore, Tiffin, 212

Gilmore, William E., 155, 193, 199, 205, 931

Gimperling, 117

Ginther, William, 769

Gist, Christopher, 25

Glenn, Samuel A., 209

Glenn, William H., 208, 209

Goodman, Charles, 764

Goodman, Daniel, 438

Goodman, John, 413

Goodman, Oliver P., 568

Gossard, Philip, 454

Gossett, Charles E., 785

Grabill, Josiah, 788

Gregg, James C., 8$9

Graham, Alexander, 467

Graham, William, 316

Grand Canal, 86

Grand Lodge of Ohio, 337

Grand View Cemetery, 295

Grassy Ford, 400

Graves, John, 477

Great fire of 1852, 287

Great flood of 1913, 103

Green, Isaac, 427

Green, John L., 109, 154

Green Lawn Cemetery, 295

Green Summit Cemetery, Adelphi, 443

Green township, location, 410; description, 410; pioneers, 410, 425; established, 418; mills, 428; industries, 429


Gregg, John, 836

Gregg, Robert, 144

Griffin, Douglas R., 782

Griffin, Philip, 137

Griffith, John, 477

Grimes, Oliver N., 766

Grimke, Frederick, 156, 170

Grover, James L., 322

Grubb, James, 57, 242, 244

Gunlock, Casper D., 678

Gunpowder factory short lived, 445

Gunsaulus, F. W., 323

Guthrey, John, 144

Guthrie, Jane, 353

Guy, Ebenezer, 469

Guy, Erastus, 205


Haase, F., 328

Haddon, L. C., 323

Hall, R. B., 138

Hall, Willard A., 138

Haller, George V., 452

Haller, Jacob, 452

Haller's Bottom, 452

Hallsville, 444

Halpin, D. M., 331

Halsey, Samuel W., 365

Hamlin, Chauncey L., 325

Hamilton, Arthur L., 211, 214

Hamilton county, erected, 52

Hamman, George, 899

Hampsen, James, 477

Hanawalt, Frank A., 912

Hanawalt, James S., 919

Hanging Rock Near Bainbridge (view), 9

Hanks, Thomas, 484

Hanley, Joseph M., 685

Hanly, J. M., 138

Hanna, M. E., 212

Hare, Daniel, 453

Hare, Philip, 451

Hargraves, C. P., 322

Harman, Othias S., 544

Harmount, Sarah E., 802

Harness, James V., 677

Harness, Job, 456

Harness, John, 456

Harness, Joseph, 468

Harness, Robert L., 697

Harper, Frank, 365

Harr, Everard, 127, 247, 272, 319

Harrison township, 481

Harshman, Lorenz A., 330

Hart, M., 334

Harvey, W. F., 322

Hatfield, George F., 864

Haubeil, George F., 667

Hawkes, J. A., 81

Hawkes, W. B., 81

Haynes, Charles M., 925

Haynes family, 383

Haynes, George, Sr., 459, 460

Haynes, William J., 904

Hays, John, 415

Heagler, E. H., 323

Hearn, Daniel W., 256, 282

Hegler, Almer, 648

Hegler, Austin A., 723

Heinzelman, George J., Jr., 923

Henderson, Thomas,337

Hermit of tne Scioto, 479


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Herr, William, 322

Herrnstein, George J., 714

Herrod, Thomas, 390

Hess, Charles, 690

Hewitt, William, 479

Hickle, Henry, 795

Hickle, William M., 909

Hicks, Thomas, 464

Higbee, Edgar, 206

Higby, Dexter, 477

Higby, James 0., 693

Higby, Joseph H., 675

Higgins, Thomas W., 203

High Bank prairie, 468

High School Building (view), 281

Hill, Joseph H., 203

Hillman, William G., 317

Hillsborough and Cincinnati Railroad Company, 111

Himes, Isaac, 203

Hindman, William M., 318

Hinson, Henry, 203

Hinton, Elias, 435

Hinton, Elias N., 742

Hinton, Thomas, 435

Hog sticking, 70

Holderman, Frank, 752

Holderman, Simon, 540

Holman, Abraham, 431

Holman, John, 431

Holman, John, Sr., 427

Home Telephone Company, Chillicothe, 297

Hook, Cornelius, 683

Hopetown, 457, 460

Hopetown mounds, 18

Horse Shoe Bend Of Paint Creek, 877

Hough, John, 365

Houk, Hamilton D., 663 H

ouk, Jacob, 212

Houk, Robert T., 503

Houser, Louis S., 106, 214, 506

Howard, Charles H., 214

Howland, Elizabeth T., 333, 662

Howells, William C., 358

Howser, Oscar M., 815

Hoyt, Charles, 715

Hoyt, Loy E., 717

Hudson, Frederick, 363

Huff, Thomas, 601

Huggart, T. S., 474, 476

Huggins, John N., 474

Hughey, W. F., 322

Hunter, George F., 365

Hunter, Hocking H., 154

Hunter, William H., 305, 366

Huntington, Samuel, 339

Huntington township, 480

Hurst, A. C., 322

Hurst, Levi, 465

Hurst, Luther, 211

Hurst, Samuel H., 137, 156, 192, 200, 203, 362

Huston, John, 473

Hutchins, Thomas, 41

Hutt, John, 256

Hutt, Mrs. John, 256

Hydraulic Association, 270

Hyer, Jacob, 200, 203


Ice, Newton E., 672

Illustrations—The Stone Face, Bainbridge, 3; Hanging Rock Near Bainbridge, 9; View in Paint Creek Valley, 17; Logan Elm, 32; First State House at Chillicothe, 1800, 55; Old-Time Fire Place, 61; Some Ross County Hogs, 71; Ye Olden Bridge, 79; Old Stage Coach, 81; Canal Boat, 86; Court House of the Present, 122;. Self-explanitory Bronze Tablet, 126; Ross County

Infirmary, 131; Rural Scenes in Ross County, 135; Residence of Governor McArthur, Fruit Hill, 232; First Log-Cabin Church, 1796-7, 252; First Methodist Episcopal Church, 252; The Old Chillicothe Academy, 257; Old State Dam Near Chillicothe, 271; Public Library, 279; High School Building, 281; Central School Building, 281; City Hospital, 296; Masonic Temple, 345; Business Section in Chillicothe, 368; Frankfort School Building, 387; Old Style Saw Mill, 392; Frankfort's Main Street, 394; Township Hall, Bainbridge, 407; Island Near Kingston, 411; Main Street, Kingston, 422; Main Street, Adelphi, 441; Country Scenes, 446; Salem Academy, South Salem, 472


Immell, Alfred M., 786

Immell, Woodford E., 788

Improved Order of Red Men, 345, 442

Independent Order of Ground Hogs, Kingston, 423

Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 30

Indian History, 883

Indian Masons, 341

Indian Mounds of Horse Shoe Bend of Paint Creek, 881

Indian Queen Hotel, 392

Indian Tribes, 26, 29

Indiana Territory, 54

Ing, Thomas, 419

Ingham, Hezekiah, 430, 465

Ingham, Isaiah, 430, 465

Ingham, James, 466

Ingham, William, 466

Ingtown (original Kingston), 419

Ireland, A. C., 287

Iron Railroad, 118

Irwin, James C., 472

Irwin, Joseph T., 473

Island near Kingston (view), 411


Jackson, J. C., 322

Jackson, Peter, 449

James, Peter, 335

James, Thomas, 251, 326


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Jamison, J. M., 323

Janes, Edmund S., 321

Jefferson county, erected, 52

Jefferson township, location, 476

Jenkins, John W., 726

Jenkins, Thomas B., 210

Johnnie, Captain, 434

Johnson, George K., 327

Johnson, James, 333

Johnston, Nathaniel, 255

Jolin, Charles 0., 190

Jones, Abraham, 418

Jones, Arsene J., 652

Jones, Boyton G., 871

Jones, Jesse, 755

Jones, J. Finley, 704

Jones, Martha L., 861

Jones, Milton P., 914

Jones, Peter, 437

Jones, William C., 358, 360

Jud, J., 327

Juncker, Henry D., 330

Juneman Electric Light and Power Company, 297

Junk, O. M., & Co., 395

Junk, Martha, 720

Junk, Mary, 720

Junk, Thomas, 719


Karshner, Philemon S., 735

Kauffman, Edward, 346

Kearan, Edward, 452

Kearan, William, 452

Keen, S. A., 323

Keene, C. M., 333

Keeper's Ford, 400

Keepers, J. G., 637

Keith, John H., 156, 171

Kellogg, Ezra B., 326

Kennedy, Archibald, 110

Kennerly, W. Whitfield, 330

Kent, William, 402

Kenton, Simon, 151, 388

Kercheval, Robert, 360

Kerns, Benjamin, 468

Kerr, Joseph, 268

Keys, William, 182, 267

Kilgore, James, 468

King, Edward, 172, 188, 326, 340

King, George, 451

King, I. F., 323 King, John, Jr., 116

Kingston founded, 419; early merchants and professional men, 421; incorporated, 422; postoffice, 422; societies, 423; churches, 423, 424


Kingston Tribune, 423

Kinnickinnick Creek, 410

Kinsley, Charles R., 531

Klein, Philip, 340

Kline, George, 825

Knights of Columbus, 347

Knights of Pythias, 347

Knoles, Charles W., 712

Knus, G. G., 328

Kohler, A. F. F., 329

Kramer, Michael, 885

Krieder, M. G., 81


Labor Organizations, 351

Ladies' Union Relief Society, 193

Lamb, David A., 204

Lancaster Road, 419

Landrum, C. H., 696

Landrum, William T., 674

Langham, Elias, 54, 127, 144, 187, 251, 272, 340

Lansing, Horace, 212, 213

Lansing, R. H., 340

Larich, Isaac, 437

Larkins, John, 431

Lash, J. W., 138

Last conflicts with the Shawnees, 401

Latham, Allen, 109, 364

Latham, Allen G., 280

Lathrop, A. H., 323

Latta, William, 138

Laughbaum, J. A., 330

Lavery, Fannie, 792

Lavery, Finley, 792

Lavery, Martha, 792

Lawrence, William V., 217

Layton, Seymour, 903

Leedom, William, 389

Leffingwell, Samuel L., 214

Lehman, T., 329

Leonard, B. G., 156, 167

Leslie, John M., 138, 515

Levi, Moses, 340

Lewis, Matthias, 867

Lewis, Minnie E., 868

Lewis, R. G., 362

Lewis, Samuel, 132

Lewisville, 467

Liberty township mounds, 20; area, 467; pioneers, 468

Limestone road, 78

Limestones, 3

Litter, Jacob, 208

Little, Hugh, 416

Little, Samuel, 417

Live stock, 240

Logan, 31

Logan, Chief, 434

Logan Elm (view), 32

Logan Natural Gas and Fuel Company, 298

Londonderry, 467, 469

Londonderry Cemetery Association, 470

Long, Jacob, 428

Long, John B., 517

Long, Richard, 200, 203

Looker, Othniel, 273

Looker, T. H., 198

Lord Dunmore's War, 30

Lord, Thomas, 51

Lowes, J. A. I., 473

Lowry, Asbury, 322, 323

Lucas, Robert, 228

Lucas, Thomas, 203

Luccock, J. W., 323

Lummis, Charles F., 358, 362

Lunbeck, E. C., 884


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Lutz, Fred L., 750

Lybrand, Archibald, 203

Lyndon, 474


Macomb, David B., 198

Madeira Guards, 215

Madeira Hotel, 266

Madeira, John, 81, 109, 267

Mahan, John, 456

Main Street, Adelphi (view), 441

Main Street, Kingston (view), 422

Mallow, Jesse B., 582,

Manary, James, 463

Manchester, 49

Manly, Robert W., 305, 322

Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad, 111, 112, 114, 115

Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad Company, 109

Marine, Lewis F., 888

Markel, John, 417

Marr, Frank T., 138, 514

Marshall, De Witt C., 512

Martin, George D., 340

Martin, John H., 204

Martin, Z. R., 80

Marzluff, Frank D., 628

Mason, John M., 324

Masonic Temple, Chillicothe, 344

Masonic Temple Company, 345

Masonic Temple (view), 345

Massie, D. Meade, 303

Massie, David M., 304, 311, 362

Massie, Henry, 337

Massie, Nathaniel, 48, 56, 57, 219, 222, 233, 242, 243, 272, 388, 400, 404

Massie 's mansion in the wilderness, 403

Maullar, Frank B., 695

Maumee Road lands, 45

Maxwell's Sentinel, 356

May, George, 417

May, Henry, 414, 431

May, Jacob, 280

May, James, 414

Mayo, Archibald, 155

McAdow, Josiah, 130

McAdow, Samuel, 130, 263, 322, 334

McArthur, Duncan, 182, 183, 232, 261, 262, 388

McCalla, George, 838

McClintick, James, 156, 171

McClintick, W. H., 323

McClintick, William T., 130, 192, 195, 303

McCollister, Daniel, 429

McCollister, Warren, 903

McCommon, James S., 203

McCoy, James, 79, 80

McCoy, James B., 461

McCoy, John, 247, 250, 462

McCoy, Joseph, 461

McCoy, Joseph M., 901

McCoy, Lee, 213

McCoy, Samuel F., 117, 156

McCoy, Thomas, 250, 462

McCoy, William, 411

McCracken, Samuel, 84

McCrackin, Isaac, 455

McCrea, Charles, 466

McCreary, L. W., 333

McCutcheon, Joseph, 268

McDill, J. W., 474

McDonald, John, 237, 454, 575

McDougal, Charles, 198

McDougal, David S., 198

McDougal, John, 151, 251

McDowell, William, 265

McFarland, John, 256, 323

McGinnis, Charles W., 210

McGinnis, George F., 190, 191

McGinnis, Maj. Gen., 198

McGlaughlin, W. P., 323

McKee, Edward R., 214, 307, 498

McKell, James C., 203

McKell, William, 280

McLaughlin, Alexander, 272

McLean, Jeremiah, 322

McLean, N. C., 201

McLene, Jeremiah, 144, 151

McNeal, Floyd C., 801

McNeil, John, 393

McQueen, Glenroie, 319

McRoberts, Alexander, 458

McShooler, Justus G., 203

McVey, Edmund, 154

McVicker, Hector, 505

McWilliams, T. S., 318

Mead, D. E., 117

Mead, George H., 502

Mead Pulp and Paper Company, 371, 500

Medical societies, 138

Meggenhofen, Edward, 636

Meigs, Return J., 225

Melcher, J. C., 364

Merkle, Joseph, 217

Merrill, Stephen D., 473

Merriman, Samuel, 437

Metcalfe, Minnie E., 868

Metcalfe, Wilbur S., 734

Mettler, William E., 854

Metzger, Charles, 820

Mick, John E., 218

Miesse, B. F., 138

Miley, John, 320

Mills, William B., 311

Miller, Abraham, 415

Miller, A. P., 196, 362

Miller families, 415

Miller, George, 80

Miller, George W., 699

Miller, Jacob, 80

Miller, James, 293

Miller, James D., 661

Miller, Joseph, 154, 179

Miller, L. D., 842

Miller, Orley W., 924

Miller, William, 923

Minear, Ephraim H., 818

Ministerial lands, 45

Minshall, Addison P., 521

Minshall, Thaddeus A., 179, 206, 517


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Modern Woodmen of America, 346

Moffitt, Jeremiah, 476

Moffitt, John, 476

Moffitt, Joshua, 476

Moffitt's Town, 477

Montgomery, James, 144

Moomaw, John A., 710

Moore, James, 469

Moravian lands, 45

Morgan, J. B. F., 138, 851

Morgan, John F., 862

Morgan raid, 194

Moritz, Daniel H., 330

Morrow, Jeremiah H., 780

Motter, J. R., 680

Mound City, 17, 19

Mount Logan, 6, 457

Mount Pleasant Academy, 424

Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, 424

Moxley, C. C., 929

Mulnix, Joseph H., 209

Murdock, D. Y., 323

Murphy, Edgar G., 327

Murphy, Eugenia M., 785

Murphy, Thomas I., 784

Murphy, W. S., 156, 168

Murray, George A., 873

Murray, John B., 331

Musselman, Henry, 458, 460

Myers, Jacob, 454

Myers, Joseph P., 297


Nashee, George, 358, 359

Nave, O. J., 323

Naylor, A. R., 476

Neal, W. L., 333

Neely, Joseph H., 895

New Amsterdam, 400

Newell, William C., 730

New Hope Church, 247, 315

New Hope Presbyterian Church, 247

Newman, Robert W., 911

News-Advertiser, 364

Newspapers, 354

News-Register Company, 366

Nichols, Francis M., 778

Noland, R. Grattan, 326, 350

Norfolk & Western Railroad, 120

Norris, Anna E., 806

Norris, Frank, 706

Norris, Joseph M., 806

North Fork Valley, 387

Northwest Territory, 1787 (map), 38

Norton, Augustus, 887

Norton, Carlos A., 359

Noted centers of government, 244

Nugent, John H., 193, 217

Nye, Wiliam S., 110


O'Bannon, John, 48

Ogden, John W., 214

Ogle, Fred M., 851

Ohioan, 364

Ohio & Erie Canal, 86, 88

Ohio Company's purchase, 40, 45

Ohio Concrete Sewer Company, 372

Ohio correspondent, 366

Ohio Importing Company, 137

Ohio Indian tribes, 29

Ohio public lands, surveyed, 41

Ohio the first Free-Soil state, 244

Ohio Stage Company, 80

Ohio State Militia, 181

Old burial places, 470

Old Chillicothe Academy, 256

Old Chillicothe Academy (view), 257

Old Chillicothe of the Shawnees, 387

Old Stage Coach (view), 81

Old State Dam Near Chillicothe (view), 271

Old statehouse, 129

Old-Style Saw Mill (view), 392

Old-Time Fire Place (view), 61

Old-time schools, 73

Oldtown (Frankfort), 78, 388

One Hundred Forty-ninth Regiment,

Ohio National Guard, 209

Ordinance of 1787, 39, 241

Original Ross county, 125

Orr, A., 334

Orr, Thomas, 322, 340, 459, 468

Orr, Thomas J., Jr., 687

Orr, Zebulon, 459, 468

Ostrander, Edward, 428

Overley, Martin, 458

Overly, Jacob, 558


Paint Creek, 3, 5, 387, 470

Paint Creek Valley (view), 17

Paint Valley Lodge No. 496,

Knights of Pythias, 497

Palmer, Byron, 323

Parcells, P., 359

Parker, Nathaniel M., 191

Parrett, George C., 819

Parrett, Hugh, 213

Pasco, Martin K., 333

Past masters of Scioto Lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M., 342

Patton, John V., 203

Patton, William, 144, 150

Paxton township description, 399; Indian skirmish, 401; early settlers, 402; erected, 405; officers, 405; churches, 408

Peabody, William W., 210

Peck, Henry, 450

Peet, E. W., 326

Perkins, George, 214, 215, 217, 218, 297

Perry, G. W. C., 303, 362

Perry, John F., 912

Peters, Samuel R. 203

Phillips, Charles B., 333

Phillips, John P., 493

Physicians, 138

Pierce, Isaac, 51

Pierce, J. O., 325

Pike, Sam, 365

Pilot Knob, 476

Pine, Clement W., 365

Pinto, Lawrence G., 657


INDEX - XXV


Pioneer Chillicothe churches, 251

Pioneer fireplace, 60

Pioneer journeying, 59

Pioneer milling, 69

Pioneer Ohio Masonic Lodge, 336

Pioneer turnpikes, 83

Pioneer wedding, 76

Pioneer's wife, 65

Pisgah Presbyterian church, 474

Pittenger, Nicholas, 476

Platter, Mary A., 138

Platter, Peter, Sr., 456

Pleasant, John E., 664

Plyley, Caspar, 454

Plymouth Congregational Church, Chillicothe, 332

Poland, John A., 509

Poland Park, Chillicothe, 295

Poland, William, 195, 213, 507

Polland, William, 306

Pollock, John, 273

Pontius, Frederick, 427

Pontius, William A., 203

Pool, John W., 643

Popejoy 's Place, 392

Population of county (1820-1910), 139

Pork packing, 70

Porter, William, 323

Portsmouth and Columbus Turnpike, 84

Prehistoric mounds, 16

Prehistoric skull, 22

Presbyterian Church, Chillicothe, 251

Preston, John C., 203

Price, William H., 109, 110

Pricer, William S., 535

Priestley, William H., 324

Primitive implements, 70

Probate courts, 150, 156

Proposed county of Massie, 126

Proposed county of McArthur, 126

Public Library (view), 279

Public schools, 132

Pugsley, J. J., 474

Pumroy, John N., 360

Purdum, Estelle (Jones), 613

Purdum, James, 211

Purdum, Nelson, 218

Puthuff, William H., 340

Putnam, David, 337

Putnam, Fred, 729

Putnam, John, 365

Putnam, Rufus, 43, 51, 217, 337, 339

Pyle, John, 746


Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 334

Quinn, James, 334, 460


Railroads, 108

Raine, William, 366

Ramey Manufacturing Company, 372

Randall, E. G., 305

Ratcliff, John, 477

Ratcliff, Simon, 469

Rattlesnake Knob, 6, 482

Reed, George, 193

Reed, Robert, 931

Reed, William, 454

Reedy, Abraham, 429

Reedy family, 413

Reeves Crossing, 402

Reeves, Nathan, 402

Reeves, Phillip W., 902

Redfern, Francis N. R., 748

Refugee tract, 45

Rehwinkle, F. H., 195, 208, 216, 340

Reinicke, J. A., 330

Reiterman, Harry, 830

Remley, John W., 829

Renick, Alexander, 137, 488

Renick, David, 85

Renick, Felix, 109, 136, 150, 240, 468

Renick, George, 136

Renick, William, 84

Rennie, David P., 203

Renshaw, John, 79

Residence of Governor McArthur, Fruit Hill (view), 232

Revolutionary soldiers, 186

Reynolds family, 383

Reynolds, Hobby, 190

Rice, James, 430

Rice, Mary E., 645

Rice, Valentine, 217, 643

Richard Enderlin Welfare House, The, 348, 773

Richardson, George, 215

Richmonddale, 476

Riemenschneider, C. C., 327

Riley, Clinton C., 595

Riley, Josephine (Griesheimer), 596

Riley, Leroy B., 191

Rindt, Charles C., 921

Ritchie, George, 426

Ritchie, James, 419, 431

Ritchie, Matthew, 425

Ritchie, William, 425

Rittenour, Anthony, 477

Rittenour, George C., 521

Rittenour, J. M., 537

Rittenour, John W., 743

Rittenhouse, Cephus C., 724

River trade, 79

Roads, Philip A., 210

Robbins, Gilbert E., 38, 524

Roberts, William, 438

Robertson, Alexander, 463

Robins, Huston, 362

Robins, Huston T., 872

Robinson, Andrew P., 549

Robinson, George L., 398

Robinson, John P., 322, 464

Robinson, Joshua, 463

Robinson, S. S., 193

Robinson, William, 464

Rockefeller, John D., 100

Rockhold, Brown & Co., 406

Rockhold, E. E., 562

Rodgers, Benjamin, 462

Rodgers, John, 462

Rodgers, William, 462

Roemer, John L., 318


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Rogers, W. S., 217

Roper, John T., 217

Ross County Academy of Medicine, 138

Ross County Anti-Tuberculosis Society, 349

Ross County Bank, 374

Ross County Infirmary (view), 131

Ross County National Bank, 376

Ross county, original, 52; reduction of, 125; medical societies, 138

Ross County Riflemen, 191

Ross, James, 52

Ross, John, 210

Ross, John W., 322

Ross, William, 109

Rotroff, John M. 849

Rowe, James, 130, 190

Royal Arcanum, 347

Rozelle, Ebenezer, 210

Rudell, William, 898

Rudisill, J. E., 323

Rural Scenes in Ross County (view), 135

Rumer, Anna H., 350

Ruse, Killian, 439

Rutledge, William, 128


Safford, Edwin, 212

Safford, Jonas P., 203

Safford, W. H., 155, 303

St. Andrew's Chapel, Chillicothe, 327

St. Clair, Arthur, 40, 123, 125, 272

St. Mark's Mission, Chillicothe, 327

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Chillicothe, 253, 331

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chillicothe, 325

St. Peter 's Catholic Church, Chillicothe, 330

Salem Academy, 472

Salem Academy, South Salem (view), 472

Sales, John, 449

Salt Creek, 476

Salt sections, 45

Sanders, Albert H., 204

Santo, Augustus, 768

Sargent, Winthrop, 51

Savings Bank at Chillicothe, 377

Sawyer, Nathan, 136

Scarce, J. B., 138

Schettler, Otto, 329

Schilder, Joseph L., 555

Schiller, Adam, 841

Schmidt, Fred, 536

Schmieder Carriage Company, 868

Schmieder, Henry W., 868

Schmitt, George J., 599

Schmitt, Mary A., 600

Schneider, David L., 868

Schnur, George H., 330

Scholl, Albert, 630

School lands, 45

Schooley, John, 469

Schooley's, 469

Schreiner, Frederick, 512

Schultz, Charles, 193

Schultz, Ferdinand F., 333

Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad, 114, 118

Scioto country, 1

Scioto country stores, 67

Scioto Delawares, 26

Scioto Gazette, 354

Scioto Gazette Company, 362

Scioto Lodge No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons of Chillicothe, 337, 340

Scioto River, 457

Scioto Shawnees, 27

Scioto township organized, 378; physical beauties, 380; early surveys, 381; pioneers, 382; colored pioneers, 384

Scioto Valley, 1

Scioto Valley Railroad Company, 120

Scott, David H., 538

Scott, James, 144, 151

Scott, Joseph, 265

Scott, Thomas, 130, 143, 144, 156, 160, 250

Scott, Verner T., 828

Scott, W. H., 323

Scoville, Edgar E., 332, 333

Searle, Roger, 325

Sears & Nichols Company, 372, 777

Sears, Charles M., 218

Sears, C. W., 322

Sears, L. A., 777

Second Chillicothe corporation, 273

Second Regiment of Ross County, 194

See, A. B., 323

Seeling, Fred H., 906

Self-explanatory Bronze Tablet (view), 126

Sellenings, A., 307

Seney, Amasa I., 775

Seniff, Michael, 427

Seventy-third Regiment, 198, 199, 200, 203

Seymour Bridge, 883

Seymour, Werter M., 709

Sexton, H. C., 322

Shasteen, Harrison, 918

Shaw, S. R., 334

Shawnees, 27, 33, 401

Sherer, Theodore, 192

Shoemaker, Sampson, 848

Shook, James V., 554

Shriner, Daniel F., 442

Sifford, Lewis, 467

Sigler, O. E., 761

Silbaugh, W. H., 138

Sill Guards, 213

Sill, Joseph, 177, 198

Sill, Joshua W., 205, 206

Silliman, Wyllys, 150

Sisk James, 464

Sixty-third Regiment, 199, 204

Skerrett, Joseph S., 198

Skerrett, W. H., 188

Slager, Schuyler, 889


INDEX - xxvii


Slimmer, Peter, 461

Smith, Enoch, 400

Smith, George, 430

Smith, George B., 669

Smith, G. H., 362

Smith, Henry, 319

Smith, Jacob, 400

Smith, John B., 216

Smith, Jonathan G., 333

Smith, J. M., 333

Smith, Lawrence, 216

Smith, N. R., 256

Smith, Orland, 113, 199, 200, 203

Smith, O. J., 688

Smith, Samuel, 142, 463

Snakes, 10

Soils, 10, 244

Some Ross County Hogs (view), 71

Sommerville, James, 455

South Salem, 471

Spahr, B. N., 323

Spanish-American War, 211

Spargur, Head & Company, 406

Speer, William, 247, 315, 424

Spence, Edwin E., 763

Spencer, Jesse, 439 Sprague, Caleb, 430

Springfield township—First school, 460; location, 457; pioneers, 457

Sproat, Amasa D., 280

Sproat, B. F., 88

Spurck, Peter, 337, 340

Squier, E. F., 358

Squier, E. George, 361

Stage, George G., 333 Stage lines, 80

Staggs, Benjamin A., 727

Stanberry, Henry, 154

Standard Cereal Company, 372

Stanhope, John, 809

Stanley, James, 429 State Bank, 374

State Centennial Celebration, Chillicothe, 304

State Dam (Three Locks), 478

State judiciary, 149

State militia, 187

State Supreme Court, 148

State Teachers' Association, 132

Station Prairie, 50, 468

Stearns, Timothy, 424

Steel, Alexander, 616

Steel, Jeanette, 617

Steel, Samuel S., 907

Steele, Samuel A., 843

Stephens, Ira, 797

Steuart, Charles A., 337, 340

Stewart, Adam, 469

Stewart, Arthur, 272

Stinson, William C., 318

Stitt, Charles W., 799

Stitt, David M., 822

Stitt, Joseph R., 784

Stitt, Moses, 462

Stiverson, W. G., 334

Stockton, John, 182

Stone, Benjamin F., 203, 279

Stone Face, Bainbridge (view), 3

Storm, Peter, 453

Story, Clark, 297

Story, Clark W., 492

Story, W. A., 297

Strauser, Henry, 437

Streitenberger, Hiram, 556

Stroup, John, 426

Stroup, Joseph, 426

Sugar-Loaf, 6

Summers, David, 847

Sumner Guards, 215

Sutherland, W. H., 323

Swepstone, Alonzo T. 894

Swinehart, Robert, 770

Sykes, John S., 206

Symmes' Purchase, 45


Taylor, Amos, 468

Taylor, Barzillia, 640

Taylor, J. L., 360

Taylor, Lewis H., 530

Taylor, Thomas R., 322

Tecumseh and the Chillicothe Council, 261

Territorial court fees, 146

Territorial representatives, first, 53

Terry, Elmon R., 592

Teter, Samuel, Sr., 452

Thatcher, N. W., 136

Third Presbyterian Church, Chillicothe, 323

Thomas, David, 416

Thomas, James M., 297

Thompson, Jeremiah M., 788

Thompson, John, 176

Thompson, John C., 473

Thurman, Allen G., 156

Tiffin, Edward, 54, 57, 228, 242, 272, 319

Tiffin, Joseph, 272, 297

Tiffin medallion, 229

Timmons, Ann E., 804

Timmons, James, 451

Timmons, John W., 802

Timmons, J. W., 212

Timmons, Steven, 448

Tinker, Elisha A., 618

Tod, George, 337

Tod 's Trace, 78

Tomlinson, John, 297

Tootle, Wilson A., 659

Town and city markets, 277

Townsend, Edward E., 705

Townships created, 131

Township schools, 133

Township Hall, Bainbridge (view), 407

Trimble, Cary A., 193, 200

Trimble, Jim, 430,

Trimble, William, 182

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, Chillicothe, 322

Truitt, E. E., 791

Tulleys, E. J., 790

Tulleys, Henry C., 593

Tulleys, Julia M., 593


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Tupper, Benjamin, 51

Turner, T. A 323

Turnpike lands, 45

Twenty-seventh Colored United States Infantry, 210

Twin Branches of Paint Creek, 451

Twin township early settlers, 451; location, 451

Tyler, George H., 362

Tyler, G. W., 334


Umsted, David, Sr., 427

Union Church cemetery, 466

Union Shoe Manufacturing Company, 372

Union township area, 461; pioneers, 461; towns, 466

United States Branch Bank, Chillicothe, 374

United States Military lands, 45

Unsere Zeit, 366

Urmston, Benjamin, 269


Valley Bank, Chillicothe, 374

Valley of Paint Creek, 399

Valley Savings Bank and Trust Company, 377

Van Anda, C. A., 322

VanGundy, Christopher, 429

Van Horn, Isaac, 337

VanMeter, J. M., 303

Vaughan, Newton A., 738

Vaughters, George A., 629

Vause, James M., 698

Vause, Joseph I., 675

Vernum, James M., 341

Vester, Victor H., 634

Vigo, 469

Vincent, Wesley, 711

Virginia land claims, 44

Virginia Military District, 45, 223

Virginia Military lands, 45

Virginia survey, 48

Voorhees, C. Brooks, 332

Voss, James, 136


Waddle, C. C., 303, 366

Waddle, E. F., 212

Waddle, Eleanor, 353

Waddle, Nancy, 193

Waddle, William, 266, 490

Walke, Anthony, 85, 198

Walker, Mrs. Benjamin, 931

Walker, W. E., 335

Wallace, Cadwallader, 382

Wallace, Mary A., 654

Wallace, R. H., 323

Wallace, Samuel, 426

Wallace, Samuel L., 199, 653

Wallace, William A., 560

Walnut Creek, 432

Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Chillicothe, 253, 319

Walters, Daniel, 426

Warner, Hugh W., 611

Warner, L. E., 282

Warner, Levi, 464

Washington County, 51

Watson, S. N., 326

Watt, Matt H., 340

Watterson, Henry, 279

Watts, James, 701

Watts Street United Brethren Church, Chillicothe, 333

Waw-wil-a-way, 391

Weakley, John W. 322

Weaver, D. E., 334

Webb, James, 265

Webster, James S., 439

Weider, Jacob, 460

Wells, Bezaleel, 52

Wenis, Ed S., 303, 362

West, John H., 756

West, William H., 543

Western Reserve, 45

Western Theological Seminary, 254

Wetterstroem, A., 328

Wharton, Zachariah, 323

Whipping Post in action, 152

Whitcomb, James, 323

Whitsel, Samuel, 413

Wiedler, Edward U., 212

Wild game, 64

Willard, James O., 119

Williams, Abraham J., 151

Williams, Joseph, 584

Willingham, Barlow S., 1025

Willis, Nathaniel, 251, 340, 356, 363

Wilson, Albert, 214

Wilson, Allen, 333

Wilson, C. M., 138

Wilson, E. H., 334

Wilson, James, 471

Wilson, Nathaniel, 916

Wilson, Noah L., 109, 192

Wilson, Robert G., 256, 315

Wilson, Thomas K., 917

Wiltshire, J. E., 886

Wiltshire, John M., 563

Wiltshire, J. S., 843

Wiltshire, W. H., 673

Winn, Jane, 353

Winders, John, 464

Wiseman, John, 365

Withgott, James D., 606

Withgott, Thomas, 464, 466

Wittich, Paul, 208

Wittwer, Edward J., 720

Wolcott, William, 214

Wolfe, A. R., 619

Wolfe, Jacob, 280

Women's Clubs, 351

Woman pioneer, 74

Wood, James A., 213

Wood, J. D., 212

Woodrow, Thomas, 117, 317

Woodrow, William M., 859

Woodside, Jonathan F., 156, 364

Woodson, John P., 336

Woodson, Lewis W., 336

Woodson, Thomas, 336

Woodson, Thomas W., 336

Worthington, James F., 85


INDEX - xxix


Worthington, Thomas, 54, 56, 57, 125, 127, 142, 144, 230, 242, 243, 261, 429

Wright, John, 650

Wright, Thomas, 417


Yaple, Alfred, 157, 474

Yaple, Luther B., 589

Yaple, Wallace D., 305

Yeatman, Griffin, 339

Yellow Bud, 466 

Ye Olden Bridge (view), 79

Yeoman, Samuel N., 117

Yockey, S. B., 424

Young Men's Gymnasium and Library Association, 278

Young, William, 323


Zachary, James W., 333

Zane's Grant, 45

Zane's Trace, 78

Zimmerman, Israel, 439

Zurhmely, Robert, 574