PART V (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) TOWNSHIP HISTORIES SPRINGFIELD, HARMONY, PLEASANT, MOOREFIELD, GERMAN, PIKE, BETHEL, MAD RIVER, GREEN AND MADISON SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. BY F. M. M'ADAMS. "Say shall the rough woodland pioneers, Of Mississippi's wide-extended vale Claim no just tribute of our love and tears, And their names vanish with the passing gale? "With veteran arms the forest they subdued, With veteran arts subdued the savage foe; Our country, purchased with their valiant blood, Claims for them all that gratitude can do. "Their arduous labors gave us wealth and ease; Fair Freedom followed from their doubtful strife; Their well-aimed measures gave us lasting peace And all the social blessedness of life. "Then let their offspring, mindful of their claims, Cherish their honors in the lyric band; O, save from dark oblivion's gloomy reign The brave, the worthy fathers of our land." Springfield Township is the geographical center of Clark County, and is bounded north by Moorefield Township, east by Harmony, south by Green and west by Mad River, Bethel and German. It is six miles wide from north to south, and has an average length of nearly eight and a half miles. Its total area is about 32,450 acres, the city of Springfield included. It comprises forty-nine complete, and three fractional, sections of Congress lands. The township, as it now is, was erected by the County Commissioners-John Black, James Foley and John Heaton-on the 2d day of June, A. D. 1818, and was described as follows: "Beginning on the north boundary of the 8th Range, at the southwest corner of Section No. 7, in the 4th Township and 9th Range; thence north with the section line until said line intersects Mad River; thence down said river to the west line of Section 22 of Township 4; thence north with said line to the northwest corner of Section 23; thence east with the north line of said Section 23 to Mad River; thence up the same to the north boundary of the 9th Range; thence east with said range line to the northeast corner of Township 5; thence south with the line dividing Townships 5 and 6 to the north boundary of the 8th Range; thence west on said range line to the place of beginning. And the same to be called Springfield Township. Election to be held at Springfield." This township had an existence in name and in fact, as a part of Champaign County, previous to the erection of Clark County, but that its territory was the same as now is doubtful. At one time, it included a part, if not all, of Green Township, as will be seen by the order of the County Commissioners: "April 25, 1818.-Ordered by the board that the fractional township taken from the county of Greene, lying south of Springfield Township, be and the same is hereby attached to and made a part of the said township of Springfield, and to be known and called by the name of Springfield Township." No record can be found giving the acts of the township officials prior to 1818, but the papers filed at Urbana furnish the following facts: On the 7th of April, 1805, Robert Renick was elected Justice of the Peace, receiving thirty-one votes. Jonathan Donnels was elected a Justice of the Peace 606 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. the same day, receiving twenty-six votes. There were two other candidates - Joseph Layton and William Lemon, who each received twenty-three votes. Number of electors, fifty-four. The next election of which record can be found was held the first Monday in April, 1808, and resulted as follows: Justice of the Peace, Nathaniel Pinckard; Clerk, Green B. Field; Treasurer, Samuel Simonton; Lister, John Crossley; Constable, Nathan Dudley; Trustees, N. Pinckard, John Perrin and Abram Curry; Overseers of the Poor, Francis Best and Jonathan Milhollin. Pinckard's election was contested at Samuel Simonton's house April 30, same year. The contest failed, and Pinckard served his full term. Number of electors, 113. On the 3d day of April, 1809, at the election for township officers, the following were elected: Justices of the Peace, John Snodgrasss and John B. Lemon; Trustees, Abel Renick, Joseph Reid and Andrew Hodge; Clerk, Isaac Vanduzen; House Appraiser, G. Foos; Overseers of the POor, Samuel Carey and John Reid; Constables, Francis Best and James Wallingsford. The number of electors at this election was 140. 1810, April 2.-Trustees, John Humphreys, John Perrin and John Reid; Clerk, Joseph Snodgrass; Treasurer, John Lingle; Overseers of the Poor, Jonathan Milhollin and G. Foos; House Appraiser, Daniel Goble. Number of electors, eighty-three. 1811, April 2.-Trustees, John Lingle, William Hall and James Bishop; Lister, Daniel Goble; Clerk, John Dougherty; Treasurer, John Lingle; Constable, Daniel Goble; Justice of the Peace, Green B. Field; House Appraiser, John Crossley; Fence Viewers, James Rea and Walter Smallwood; Overseers of the Poor, William McCartney and James Steele. Number of electors, fifty. Green B. Field resigned his commission December 11, same year. 1812, January 11.-Jonah Baldwin was elected Justice of the Peace, commissioned by Return Jonathan Meigs, Governor. Number of electors, twenty-two. 1812, April 6.-Elected, Trustees, John Reid, John Ambler and John Dougherty; Justice of the Peace, John Snodgrass; Appraiser, John Dudley; Clerk, John Dougherty; Lister, Daniel Goble; Constables, Thomas Armstrong and Daniel Goble; Overseers of the Poor, Griffith Foos and James Rea. Number of electors, fifty-five. THE EARLY OFFICIALS OF SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. The first election for township officers of Springfield Township, after the erection of Clark County, was held on the 6th day of April, 1818. Thomas Patton and John Reid were then serving as Trustees of the township under a previous election. Nathaniel Pinckard was Clerk of this election, and Alexander McBeth, James Stewart and Stephen Cammel, Judges There is no record to be found showing the township officers immediately prior to this date. At this election, John Reid, Thomas Patton and Jonah Baldwin were elected Trustees; Hiram Goble and Israel Balis, Constables; John Ambler, Nathan Reddish, John Smith, Newman Scarlet and Nicholas Prickett, Road Supervisors; Griffith Foos and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; John Lingle, Appraiser and Lister; Thomas West, Jr., Township Clerk; John Ambler, Treasurer; Pierson Spinning and Joseph Perrin, Fence Viewers. John Dougherty and Samuel Smith were then serving as Justices of the Peace. April 5,1819.-Township officers were elected as follows: Thomas Patton, Maddox Fisher and David Hannah, Trustees; James Johnston, John Dougherty, John Ambler, Matthew Wood, Peter Sintz, John Snodgrass, Merrifield SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 607 Vicory and Andrew Benson, Supervisors; Cooper Ludlow and William Hall, Listers; John Reid and Griffith Foos, Overseers of the Poor; Saul Henkle, Township Clerk; Louis Bancroft and Joseph Cowen, Constables; John Ambler, Treasurer; James Rea and Griffith Foos, Fence Viewers. John Dougherty resigned his magisterial office on the 19th of October, 1819, and on the 8th day of November following, David Higgins was elected his successor. The following-named electors were selected to serve as Jurors for the year 1820: Grand Jurors-Thomas Patton, John Buckles, Andrew Benson, John Leffel, Daniel McMillen, Benjamin Edwards, Maddox Fisher, Pierson Spinning, Robert Rennick, John Reid, William Kirkpatrick, David Hannah, Jacob Lingle, Robert Christie. Petit Jurors Joseph Perrin, John Ambler, Thomas Armstrong, James Steele, Nicholas Prickett, James Buckles, George Benson, Richard Hopkins, Peter Sintz, John Perrin, William Meenick, Griffith Foos. April 3,1820.-Officers elected for the present year were: Thomas Patton, Maddox Fisher and Peter Sintz, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; John Boyce and Nathan Adams, Constables; John Driscol, George Benson and John Ambler, Supervisors; John Lingle and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; Robert Rennick, Appraiser; Jeremiah A. Minter, Fence Viewer; Saul Henkle, Clerk. June 24, 1820.-Ira Paige was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, to succeed the expired term of Samuel Smith. On the 25th of September following, Paige resigned his commission and was succeeded by Joseph Perrin, whose commission dates October 20, 1820. April 5, 1821.-Officers were elected this day as follows: Thomas Patton, Peter Sintz and George W. Jewett, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Robert Rennick and Abner West, Constables; Saul Henkle, Clerk; Jacob Lingle and Jeremiah A. Minter, Overseers of the Poor; Robert Rennick and Sampson Hubbell, Appraisers; Robert Rennick, Lister; James Hall and John Reid, Fence Viewers. On the first Monday in April, 1821, and in accordance with an act of the General Assembly, the electors of the township voted to divide the township into districts, for school purposes, and on the 21st day of the same month, the Trustees districted the territory as follows: (1.) All that territory west of Mad River constituted the First District. (2.) All that part of Springfield lying west of the street which runs north and south between the houses of William Werden and Sampson Hubbell, including a strip of Mill Run between the first and second plats of the village, constituted the Second District. (3.) All that part of Springfield lying east of said street and the land lying north to Buck Creek constituted the Third District. (4.) All that territory embraced by the following description constituted the Fourth District: Beginning at the northeast corner of Section 4 and Range 9 (original surveyed township), and running west to Mad River; thence down Mad River to Section 16; thence south with the township line to Section 7 in said township; thence east on line between Sections 1 and 2 and 7 and 8, to the east boundary of Township 4; thence to the beginning. (5.) The south half of Sections 26, 20 and 14, and the whole of Sections 25, 19 and 13, Township 5, Range 5, constituted the Fifth District. (6.) Sections 1, 2, 7 and 8 constituted the Sixth District. 1822, April 2.-Elected township officers as follows: Thomas Patton, Maddox Fisher and Peter Sintz, Trustees; Abner West, Lewis Bancroft, Constables; John Ambler, Treasurer; Jacob Lingle and Richard W. Hunt, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Perrin, Township Clerk. 608 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. For the year 1823, the Trustees selected Grand and Petit Jurors as follows Grand Jurors-John Humphreys, Ira Paige, Nicholas Prickett, Peter Sintz, David Cowan, Jacob Lingle, Jonathan Milhollin and John Reid. Petit Jurors -Maddox Fisher, Jonah Baldwin, William Patton, Thomas Patton and Andrew Benson. 1823, March 10.-Elected township officers as. follows: John Humphreys, Thomas Patton and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Ambler and Sampson Hubbell, Appraisers; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Ambler, Treasurer; David Dunkin and William Werden, Fence Viewers. On the 23d day of August, 1823, the Trustees contracted with A. D. Merriness to build a bridge on the road from Springfield to Peter Sintz's, over the branch of Buck Creek and between the bridges on Buck Creek and Mad River. The job was taken at $71.50. Of this amount, $58.08 3/4 was paid in subscription, and the remainder, $12.41 1/4, was paid in cash by the township. 1823, October 14.-Joseph Perrin was re-elected Justice of the Peace; commission dated October 27, 1823. 1824, March 1.-John Humphreys, William Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Moore, John Perrin, Peter Sintz, Nicholas Prickett, Pierson Spinning, were selected as Grand Jurors for the ensuing year; and George Benson, George Reid, William Miner, Sampson Hubbell, John Dougherty and John Kirkpatrick, were chosen Petit Jurors. 1824, April 5.-Elected, John Snodgrass, Justice of the Peace; John Humphreys, Thomas Patton and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Vicory and Samuel Brakney, Constables; John Heiskill and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; Sampson Hubbell and Lewis Bancroft, Appraisers; Reuben Donald and David Duncan, Fence Viewers. 1825, April 4.-Elected, John Humphreys, Oliver Armstrong and Thomas Patton, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Vicory and Joseph Cowan, Constables; John Ambler, Appraiser and Luster, Charles Cavalier and Pierson Spinning, Overseers of the Poor; John Berry and David Dunkin, Fence Viewers. 1825, June 4.-John Smith and Jacob Shaffer, for refusing to be qualified as Supervisors of Roads, were each fined $2 for said refusal. Joseph Cowan was fined $2 for refusing to qualify as Constable, and Charles Cavalier was fined a like amount for failing to qualify as Overseer of the Poor. 1825, October 10.-The keeping of Otis Gilmore (pauper) was sold for one year to Humphrey Nichols for $48.50. 1826, February 4.-John Dougherty appointed to the Board of Trustees, vice Thomas Patton, deceased. 1826, February 11.-The township was re-districted for school purposes; number of districts increased from six to nine. 1826, April 3.-Elected John Humphreys, John Ambler and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Bacon, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; A. D. Merriness and Joseph Cowan, Constables; John Perrin and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; James Wallace and Jacob Clark, Fence Viewers. 1826, June 7.-James Reddish was elected Justice of the Peace, vice John Snodgrass, deceased. This election was contested and set aside, and on the 15th day of June, 1826. Joseph Cowan was elected. His commission bears date July 22, 1826. 1826, October.-A special election was held to fill a vacancy in the office, of Justice of the Peace, occasioned by the death of William Wilson. 1826, November 1l.-Joseph Perrin re-elected Justice of the Peace; commissioned November 27, 1826. PAGE 609 - PICTURE OF WM. TROXELL PAGE 610 - BLANK SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 611 Ambrose Blount elected to succeed William Wilson, Justice of the Peace; commissioned October 28, 1826. 1827, April 2.-Township officers elected as follows: John Humphreys, John Ambler and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; William Berry and John Dugan, Constables; Sampson Hubbell and Maddox Fisher, Overseers of the Poor. 1828, April 7.-Elected Oliver Armstrong, Sampson Hubbell and Joseph Perrin, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; John Cook and Anthony Bird, Constables; Jacob H. Howell and Gabriel Icenberger, Fence Viewers; Sampson Hubbell and Griffith Foos. Overseers of the Poor. 1828, October 14,-The Trustees selected Jurors for the ensuing year as follows: John Ambler, John Dougherty, John Perrin, Grffith Foos and James Taylor as Grand Jurors; and David Cowan, John Humphreys, Peter Sintz, Charles Cavalier and Andrew Edgar, Petit Jurors, to serve at the November term of the Court of Common Pleas. 1829, April 6.-Elected Joseph Perrin, Sampson Hubbell and David Cowan, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; A. D. Merriness and John Berry, Constables; John Ambler and Griffith Foos, Sr., Overseers of the Poor; D. Whitridge and Jacob Icenberger, Fence Viewers. 1829, April 18.-John Heiskell and John Cook were appointed Overseers of the Poor, in place of Griffith Foos and John Ambler, who were elected and refused to serve. Trustees rented of Jacob S. Woodward a brick office, for which they agree to pay $9 per year. 1829, July 25.-Matthew Woods was elected Justice of the Peace, to succeed the expired term of Joseph Cowan. 1829, October 31.-Ambrose Blount and Reuben Miller were elected Jus. tices of the Peace, to succeed Joseph Perrin and A. Blount. 1830, April 6.-Elected Sampson Hubbell, David Cowan and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; A. D. Merriness and John Fluke, Constables; John Bacon, Treasurer; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; Griffith Foos and John Heiskell, Overseers of the Poor; John Williamson and Jacob R. Crane, Fence Viewers. 1830, July 17.-At a special election held for the election of a Justice of the Peace, vice Isaac Woods, deceased, Joseph Cowan was duly elected. 1831, March 7.-John Berry was allowed $3 for making a coffin for Isaac, a black man and pauper. 1831, March 8.-Ordered that J. L. Torbert be allowed $6 for eight days' services as Clerk. 1831, April 4.-Elected David Cowan; John Perrin and David Pettigrew, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke' and Jacob L. Harrison, Constables; John C. Fletcher and Jacob R. Crann, Overseers of the Poor; John Tonkinson and G. Claiborn, Fence Viewers. 1831, October 11.-Andrew Edgar, Oliver Armstrong, John Perrin, John Keifer, John Humphreys, George Benson, Solomon Scott, James S. Christie, Jonathan Lehman, John Reid, Joseph Snodgrass, Obediah Harkney, John Tuttle, Andrew Gowdy, William Patton, Isaac -Richardson, Anthony Leffel, David Berry and Charles Stewart were chosen to serve as Jurors in the Court of Common Pleas. It was ordered that the Township Trustees be paid 75 cents per day for their official services. 1832, April 2.-Elected John Humphreys, David Cowan and David Pettigrew, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke and John L. Berry, Constables; A. Blount and Richard Spencer, Overseers of the Poor. 1832, November 19.-Ambrose Blount and Reuben Miller were re-elected Justices of the Peace for Springfield Township. 612 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. 1833, March 4.-An allowance of 75 cents per day was ordered in favor of Trustees for thirteen days' services during the year, and a like per diem compensation to Clerk Torbert for twelve days' services. 1833, April 1..-David Cowan, David Pettigrew and Oliver Armstrong were elected Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; Griffith Foos and Jeremiah Warder, Overseers of the Poor; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke and Anthony Bird, Constables. 1833, May 27.-John Fluke, Constable, was instructed to warn" old Mr. Butts" to leave the township. 1833, August 10.-Joseph Cowan was re-elected Justice of the Peace. 1833, November 23.-Edward H. Cumming was elected Justice of the Peace, to succeed Ambrose Blount, deceased. 1834, April 7.-David Cowan, David Pettigrew and Armstrong were elected Trustees; John Fluke, Baker W. Peck and William Hedges, Constables; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; E. C. Ross and John Williamson, Overseers of the Poor. 1834, April 19.-Sampson Hubbell and Reuben Miller were appointed Overseers of the Poor, in place of E. C. Ross and John Williamson, who neglected to qualify. 1834, October 14.-Charles Cavalier, Jeremiah Warder, Griffith Foos, Solomon Scott, James Reid, Sr., George Benson, Anthony Bird, Andrew Edgar, Maxwell Patton, Robert Gowdy, Henry Bechtle, William Enoch, Andrew Gowdy, Peter Sintz, John Keifer, Obadiah Harkney, John Householder, Isaac Ward, John Spence and A. D. Merriness, were selected as Jurors for the year. 1835, April 6.-David Cowan, Ira Paige and Sampson Hubbell were elected Trustees; John Fluke, Samuel McCracken, James Reid, Constables; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; Jacob Lingle, Clerk; Griffith Foos and Isaac Hendershott, Overseers of the Poor. 1835, April 18.-John Tate was appointed Trustee of Springfield Township in place of David Cowan, excused. Adam Stewart and Pierson Spinning were appointed Overseers of the Poor in place of Isaac Hendershott and Griffith Foos, who failed to qualify according to law. John Householder was appointed Fence Viewer in place oŁ Peter A. Sprigman, who failed to qualify according to law. Griffith Foos was fined $2 for refusing to serve as Overseer of the Poor, and Peter A. Sprigman was fined $2 for refusing to serve as Fence Viewer. The ear-mark of James Stout, recorded June 20, 1835, " a crop off each ear and an underbit in the left." J. R. Tonge was appointed Clerk of Springfield Township November 14, 1835, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the absence of Jacob Lingle. Reuben Miller was re-elected Justice of the Peace November 9, 1835. PIONEERS OF SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. James Rea was a Pennsylvanian, who settled, about the year 1802, where Harvey Tuttle now lives. His sons were James, John and Andrew. John succeeded John Buckles as owner of a flouring-mill on Beaver Creek, on the site of "Junction Mills." Mr. Rea improved the race, and in 1835 was succeeded by Robert Rodgers. Peter Sintz, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania in April, 1776, and was the son of Nicholas and Margaret. (Metzger) Sintz, he a native of Germany and she of Pennsylvania. In boyhood, Peter moved to Virginia with his parents, and in 1802 he came to Springfield. In 1804, he married Elizabeth Critz, a native of Maryland, to whom was born seven children, viz., Margaret, Nicholas, Mary, George, Susan, Peter and Elizabeth. He built his cabin in Section 23, on the farm where his daughter Susan now lives, accumulated a large estate, and died, SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 613 September 30, 1858, and his wife November 15, 1863. His parents also settled here, his mother dying in 1822, and his father in 1823. In the spring of 1802, James and John Reid came from Virginia and selected land in Section 10, then went back to their native State, and the same fall returned to Springfield with the whole family, viz., John, Joseph, Nancy, Thomas, Betsey, James, William, Robert and George. They first built a cabin in the village on the present site of Meyers' livery stable, and began to clear the land in Section 10, where in a year or two they erected a cabin and removed to it, and there Margaret, the widow of James, now resides with her family, in a fine brick residence, which has displaced the rude log structure of the pioneer days. Cooper Ludlow was born in New Jersey in 1783: was married, in 1803, to Elizabeth Reeder, and in 1804 settled three miles west of Springfield, where he opened a tannery. To Elizabeth Ludlow were born Ellen, Mary, Stephen, John and Jacob; and, she dying in 1813, her husband was married in 1815 to Elizabeth Layton, who had born to her Joseph, Jason, Silas, Abram, George, Cornelius, James, Catherine and William. Cooper Ludlow died in 1832. John Perrin was born in Washington County, Maryland, in 1778, and there married to Amelia Ingram, a native of that county, born in 1778. In 1806, he and family came to Springfield, and he purchased the whole of Section 3. His family consisted of five children, viz., Edward, Joseph, John, William, Minerva E. and Emery, the two former of whom were born before coming to this county. He died in 1848, and his wife in 1847, and his sons John and William are among the leading citizens of the township, and his daughter resides in Springfield. About the year 1806, Edward Armstrong settled on Section 5, now owned by Dr. Hazzard. He built and operated a distillery for a time, and his wife was an excellent woman, and a Baptist. In 1806, John Dugan settled in the eastern part of the township. He was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1787; was married to Polly Hall, a native of Kentucky, born in 1792, of which union the following children were the issue: Sarah, William, Margaret, James and John. Mr. Dugan died July 2, 1868, and his wife July 21, 1867. Francis and Isabel Best, natives of Virginia, settled on the site of P. P. Mast's residence in 1806, where they died. They had ten children-six sons and four daughters. John and Jane Snodgrass came from Kentucky in 1806, settling in Section 11. He died in May, 1826, aged sixty-three, and his wife in May, 1859, aged eighty-seven. John Hatfield was born in Virginia in 1798, and in 1799 his father, Nathaniel, came with the family to Kentucky, thence to Greene County, Ohio, in 1805, and in 1806 to Section 7, in the south part of this township, where he died in 1812. In 1821, John married Eva Garlough, daughter of John Garlough, twelve children being born of this union, five living. In 1853, he removed to his present farm in Green Township, where he is yet living, in his eighty-fourth year. Andrew Benson was born in Bath County, Virginia, in 1781; came to this township in 1806; was married to Sarah Rennick, also a Virginian, born 1796, daughter of Robert and Mary Rennick, March 26, 1812. They had six children; four lived to be grown, and two yet survive R. H. and J. M. Benson. Andrew died November 28, 1826, and his wife February 28, 1848. . George H. Benson, a brother of Andrew's, was born in the same county and State in 1787; came to this township in 1807, and married, in 1818, Isabel Rennick, also a daughter of Robert and Mary Rennick. She was born in this 614 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. township in 1801, and had ten children; eight grew to maturity. She died March 28, 1866, and her husband February 27, 1877. Nathan Reddish was born in Maryland in 1783; came to Greene County, Ohio, previous to 1808; was married to Matilda Miller, and in 1810 settled on Section 14, Springfield Township, where he engaged in a tannery, which he car ried on until 1834. He was married three times; had five children by first, none by his second wife, and tluee by his last wife, who was Harriet Oxtoby, the sister of Henry Oxtoby. She was born in England in 1792, and died in 1874. Dr. John Reddish is now the only surviving child of Nathan Reddish. Lewis Skillings came to this county in 1810, settling in the northeast part of Green Township, and in a few years moving across the line into this township, where he died in 1869. His wife, Anna (Craig) Skillings, came to this county in 1808, and died in 1866. Both were members of the " Fletcher Chapel," and have left worthy descendants, who honor their name. In 1810, Matthew and Jane Wood came from Kentucky and settled where George Alt now lives. He died in 1830, and his wife in 1856. Isaac Wood was born in New York in 1771; was married to Jane Corey, of New Jersey, in 1797, who was born in 1779, coming to this county in March, 1812, settling in Section 15, Springfield Township, removing the following year to Section 9, where his son, Thomas S. Wood, now resides. They had thirteen children. Five sons yet reside in this county, and a daughter in Allen County, who are the survivors of the family. Isaac Wood died in 1825, and his widow in 1871. John Foster was an early settler on Beaver Creek, and built the original mill on that stream, at the site of " Junction Mills," about 1808, and, during and after the war of 1812, operated this rude mill successfully. William Hall was a staid Baptist, and an early settler of the eastern part of the township. Peter Printz was born in Maryland in 1811, and came with his parents, in 1815, to this township, settling in Section 1, in the southwestern part of the township. He there grew up, and married Catherine Kelly in 1841, who had born to her eleven children. She was a native of this county, and yet resides on her husband's estate. Both Peter and his parents died on this farm. In 1815, Adam and Maria Alt, of Maryland, settled in this township. where he died in 1876. His widow is yet living. Herbert Huffman settled in the northeastern part of the township as early as 1815, and possibly earlier. He died in 1820, and his wife, Sarah, in 1842. Luke Byrd was a Baptist preacher of excellent repute, who settled in the eastern part of the township in 1816. He died August 31, 1823, aged fifty-five, and his wife, Catherine, in September, 1835, aged seventy-two. They reared a numerous family, who, with their descendants, occupy prominent places in business and social circles of the township. Benjamin Foos lived on Section 4, Township 5; was an active business man, and died in the prime of life. Moses Bishop was born in Pennsylvania in 1804; came to Ohio with his parents in 1806, and, in 1816, from Warren County to the eastern part of this township, where he is yet living. His parents were from New Jersey, and had five children, only two now surviving, viz., Moses and Margaret. The deceased are David, Delila and Edward. One of the most eccentric pioneers of the township was Andrew Pinneo, who was born in Vermont in 1770; came to Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, in 1816; thence to Section 8, Springfield Township, settling on the farm now owned by George Zimmerman. He married Esther Waters, of Vermont, who had seven children; two now survive, viz., Mrs. Jane Hawkins, of Harmony SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 615 Township, and George, who lives in Illinois. Mr. Pinneo was in the war of 1812, and died about 1859, his wife having died about 1843. John Stickney, an Englishman, born in 1780, came to the township in 1819, where he carried on the blacksmith's trade, which he had learned in his native land, where he was also married to Sarah Cook. He and wife were ear nest Methodists, he dying in 1850, and she in 1867. His son Henry now resides on the old homestead in the southeastern part of the township, on Section 3, and is one of the leading farmers of the county. In 1820, Henry Wolf and his wife, Elizabeth (Haller) Wolf, with their family, settled in Section 6, in the northeastern corner of the township. They were from Virginia, and he built and conducted a distillery for a number of years. They had nine children, and Samuel, the seventh child, now resides upon the old homestead. Caleb Tuttle was the fourth son of Silvanus and Mary (Brown) Tuttle, who settled in Moorefield Township in 1808. He was born in Virginia May 14, 1799, and, March 21, 1822, married Mary Prickett, daughter of Nicholas Prickett, one of the pioneers of the country. By this union, he became the father of Silvanus, Isaiah, David, William H., Thomas, Catherine, Eliza, Margaret, Mary E., Rachel and Laura. Mr. Tuttle, now in his eighty-third year, is residing on Section 6, in the northeastern part of the township, and is one of the best-known pioneers of the county. John Buckles came to the township from the southern part of the State, and operated a flouring-mill and stillhouse on Beaver Creek, near the present site of "Junction Mills." He was the father of a large family. James, David, Robert, Thomas, William, John and Abraham were his sons. The father was a Baptist, and his sons James and Abraham were ministers of that denomination. LAGONDA. This thrifty village is situated on the Springfield Branch of the C., C., C. & I. R. R., on the southwest corner of Section 24 and the northwest corner of Section 23. It is separated from Edwardsville by the west line of Section 23. The name is of Indian origin. Lagonda was founded by Simon Kenton in the year A. D. 1799 or 1800. Kenton, John Humphreys and six other white families came from Kentucky and made a settlement north of Springfield. Soon the necessity of a grist-mill presented itself, and the intrepid Kenton at once prepared to build one. In this he was actuated more by a desire to meet the wants of the little colony than to engage in the enterprise through pecuniary motives, for, be it remem bered, the wilderness had not yet began its rosenate blooming. The mill was built, and it was the first building of Lagonda. It was located about forty rods east of the place where the Lagonda bridge now is, and on the north side of the creek. It was constructed of logs, and was 18x18 feet in dimensions, puncheon floor, clapboard roof, and this held on by weight-poles instead of nails. The machinery, which, except the bolting apparatus, was propelled by water-power, was of the simplest kind, and home-made. Customers, when their wheat had been ground to flour, were required to carry it up a ladder to the bolting room, and there bolt it for themselves, turning the bolting-cloth by a winch. One of the early citizens (Caleb Tuttle) who, when a boy, had overtaxed his youthful muscle at this bolting process, averred that his recollections of Simon Kenton were in no way pleasant, reminding him of hard work at the winch. There were only a few pounds of iron in all the machinery of this mill, and probably not one pound of nails. Kenton built a rude dwelling near his mill. 616 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. In those days, the Government offered, and sometimes paid, a bonus to parties who erected mills in the settlements, but the records at hand fail to show that the old pioneer ever received anything on this account. Tiring of the milling business, Kenton, on the 29th of July, 1814, sold the property to William Ward, and, on the 5th day of December of the same year, it was purchased of Ward by William Beesly and Nicholas Prickett: The purchasers, being energetic, and possessing some money, set about to improve the property. A saw-mill was built, and a long-felt public want supplied. This saw-mill was in most respects similar to those of later years. It had, however, connected with it a churn, which was operated by a rod attached to the upper part, of the saw-frame. When the saw was in operation, the churning process worked nicely. Mr. Beesly erected a carding and fulling mill, and became somewhat noted for enterprise. He built a dwelling for himself and family, and several houses for the use of the employes about him. Peter Kitt, about the year 1812 or 1814, erected a whisky distillery near the large spring on the farm now owned by J. T. Warder. Up to this time, Lagonda and Springfield were " neck and neck " in the race of progress, and the existing rivalry between the two points was spirited. Settlers began to take up claims on the higher lands, and evidences of settlement and civilization increased year after year. On the 5th of January, 1830, the widows of William Beesly and Nicholas Prickett sold their respective dowers in the real estate of their husbands, and on the 29th of June following, Oliver Armstrong purchased, at Sheriff's sale, the unsold interests of the other heirs. On the 1st day of August, 1830, Jeremiah Warder purchased the realty of the entire village, the appurtenances, consisting of eight or ten dwellings, saw-mills, woolen-factory and grist-mill. The price paid was $3,000. Mr. Warder's business tact gave new impetus to affairs. He erected a large mill on the south side of the creek, built a dam across the stream, thus increasing the water-power required for the several mills. The old mill was transformed into a distillery, and business flourished. The mill built by Mr. Warder served long and well, and was patronized from all points of the compass for many miles distant. It was finally taken down, about the year 186-1, by Mr. J. T. Warder. About the year 1828, John Hunt opened up and conducted a store, in a little log house which stood near where the office now stands; afterward, Mulholland kept a jewelry store in the same room. Years later, Mrs. George Warder and Cyrus McLaughlin conducted an extensive business in general merchandise in a storeroom erected for the purpose. The building was destroyed by fire in the year 1854. John O'Connor sold dry goods in the village from 1868 to 1872. SCHOOLS. The first English school of the neighborhood of Lagonda was held one and a fourth miles northeast of the village, in a rude log house which stood east of the Clark Union Pike, on the Crabill farm, and near its south line. The house, the teacher, the pupils and the forest which covered the land have passed away, and no written record remains from which reliable data can be gathered. Some years later, the old Baptist Church, situated half a mile nearly north of the village, was occupied as a schoolhouse, and, although it was fitted up with slab seats, and slanting boards ranged against the wall for writing-desks, it was much more complete in its appointments than was its predecessor. At this time, the school district extended from a mile north of Lagonda on the. north, to some distance beyond and south of the Springfield & South Charleston SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 617 Pike of the present day; and from the Urbana Pike on the west to the road on the east side of the farm of Edward Merritt. That part of Springfield east of the "Fountain House" was also included in its limits. Necessity created a second school for this territory. This was held in a small house on the Charleston road, south of William Warder's residence. One Board of Directors usually had charge of both schools, and this board was Daniel Berger, Sr., N. Thresher and Lawrence. Of the teachers who held sway in those days, mention may be made of Charles Cadwallader, who taught in the north end of the district, and Michael Haufman, on the south. This was about 1840 and previous. In the year 1845, the old log church before mentioned was abandoned as a schoolhouse, and a room in the village was fitted up for temporary use, in which Rev. William J. Shuey was employed as teacher. The room was small, and so dilapidated as to be unfit for the purpose,'and was accordingly abandoned after a year's use. In 1846, a tag of $300 was levied on the taxable property of the district, and expended in the erection of a brick house 20x25 feet in size, which, though too small from the first, served the purpose for twelve years. In the year 1858, a levy was made on all the taxable property of Springfield Township and a part of Moorefield Township for the purpose of building a schoolhouse to meet the demands of the district, and $1,200 was expended in the erection of a brick house 30x45 feet. This building has since been made higher, and a room added on the east side. The population of the district continued to increase so rapidly that this building, in time, lacked capacity, for a hundred scholars were often in attendance at one time. LAGONDA UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH. On the 14th day of February, 1845, this society organized by electing Adam Shuey, William T. Hough and Daniel Berger Trustees; George Arbogast was elected Clerk. Previous to this date, and for several years, the ministers of this denomination had held fruitful meetings at the old Baptist Church near the village of Lagonda. Of these preachers, Benjamin P. Wheat was most efficient. Adam Shuey, George Arbogast, William Moore, William T. Hough, Daniel Berger and William C. Miller were of the original membership. In the latter part of the year above mentioned, Newcomer's Chapel was built by this society. The house was built on the site of Newcomer's Cemetery. It was of brick, 32x40 -feet, and cost $450. Those who contributed most liberally to the expense were Adam Shuey, William T. Hough, Daniel Berger, William Moore, William C. Miller, George Arbogast, John Haws, Adam Baker and W. J. Shuey. The house was dedicated by Rev. William Rhinehart. The membership was at this time about forty. Newcomer's Chapel served the society twenty-five years, and became a thing of the past, and now, in the bivouac of the dead near where stood this temple, "Each in his narrow bed forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Of the early ministers and the dates of their labors with this society, little can be stated with accuracy. The society in 1870 built their present commodious church on a lot near the center of the village, donated by Mrs. Ann A. Warder. It is a brick building, 31x53 feet in size, and cost $3,500. The principal contributors to the building fund were Warder, Mitchell & Co., Daniel Berger, J. W. Reed, William H. Berger, Washington Graham, G. Eberle, H. H. Culp, Isaac Zimmerman, G. Zimmerman, R. Mitchell, W. W. Neal, A. Pettigrew, William Karr, P. P. Mast, 618 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. J. Lehman, J. Seitz, J. Finney, J. Erter, S. Rhoades, Ad Shuey and M. Heindel. The house was dedicated in October, 1870, by Bishop Glossbrenner. The society is now under the pastoral care of Rev. R. F. Powell, and enjoys a good share of prosperity. Membership, 160. Official list: Clerk, H. C. Laybourn; Leaders, H. C. Laybourn, D. C. Lawrence; Stewards, John M. Laybourn, Stanley Leedale, B. F. Brubaker, Phillip Haerr; Trustees (church), D. C. Lawrence, William H. Berger, J. W. Reed; Trustees (parsonage), Henry C. Laybourn, William B. Alexander, John Wells. The society maintains an active Sabbath school, having twenty classes, taught by efficient teachers. The Uniform Lessons are in use in the school. LAGONDA FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH. Of the extinct churches of the township, mention should be made of a society which worshiped in a rude log church on Section 24, on the south side of the Clark Union Pike, leading from Springfield to Mechanicsburg, and on the Zimmerman farm. This was a preaching point of the Free-Will Baptists as early as 1825, and up to about the year 1850. The date of this organization can be stated with no certainty; it may have been only a place of occasional preaching, as no records remain from which its history can be perpetuated. The house was once used as a schoolhouse. The people who worshiped here have gone the way of all the earth, and the aged men of the neighborhood remember the church-goers of this old sanctuary as among the incidents of long ago. THE UNION MEETING-HOUSE. In the year 1831, a number of Free-Will Baptists, who had organized some time previous at the house of James Donnels, in Harmony Township, feeling the need of a house of worship, were joined by a number of citizens of various religious beliefs in the enterprise of building an undenominational church, free to all religious denominations. The site selected was in the northeastern part of Springfield Township, on Section 6, and on the old Columbus road, six miles northeast of Springfield. The deed for the building site bears date of February 25, 1831, but the subscription to the building fund was taken in February, 1827. The deed was executed by Joseph Hannah and David Hannah to Thomas Thompson, James Donnels and John Bishop, Trustees, and their official successors. The principal original members of the society were James Donnels and wife, John Bishop and wife, two daughters of James Bishop, Col. James McQuiddy and wife, Nathaniel Beasley and wife, John Prickett and wife. The contributors to the building fund have nearly all passed away, but their names and their donations to this fund are matters of no little interest: George H. Benson subscribed $10, one-half in cash; John Rea, $10, onehalf in cash; John B. McDonald, $10; James Taylor, in carding and fulling, $6; William Mitchell, $3, one-half in cash; Nathan Reddish, $5; Sampson, Hubbell, in hats, $5; Alfred Thompson, in lime, $1.50; Pierson Spinning, in goods, $5; John Heiskell, in hats, $2; Saul Henkle, $1; Oliver Armstrong, five bushels of corn; John Bishop, twenty bushels of corn; James Bishop, ten bushels of corn; James Foley, twenty-five bushels of corn; Sylvanus Tuttle, $10; Caleb Tuttle, twelve bushels of corn; William Bishop, $15; George Rankin, fifteen lights of sash; Isaac Lumbeck, fifteen lights of sash; William Denham, twelve lights of sash; James Christie, fifteen lights of sash; Elijah Lott, fifteen lights of sash; Joseph Snodgrass, trade, $3; Amos Huff, $4; John Kingore, two barrels of flour; Absalom Foley, fifteen bushels of wheat; George Wolfe, twelve gallons of whisky; Henry Wolfe, four days' hauling; Matthew Inman, $2; James Halsey, $1; Susan Longbrake, half a month's work by one of the boys; David Hannah, twenty gallons of whisky; George Buckland, $2. PAGE 619 - BLANK PAGE 620 - PICTURE OF JOHN THORPE - HARMONY TP. PAGE 621 - PICTURE OF MRS. ELIZABETH THORPE - MOTHER PAGE 622 - BLANK SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 623 The house was built of brick, and was about 32 x 40 feet in size. The brick work was done by John Thornton. David Dudley, Elias Hutchins, Golden, Cyrus Dudley, Abram Alden, and other ministers of the Free-Will Baptist denomination, preached here between the years 1833 and 1856. The noted Mormons, Joe Smith and Rigdon, have filled the sacred desk of this meeting-house. Between the years 1840 and 1860, the Presbyterians maintained stated services here, and at one time had a society of some strength. The preachers of this persuasion were McLain, Gray, Edwards, Dunlap, Roe and others. The Presbyterians organized the Sabbath-school work here, and from that date (say 1844) it has been maintained with more or less permanence. In this good work, the names of H. H. Tuttle, John Bird and William Bird stand prominent. The various societies which have in all these years been instituted at the Union Meeting-House, have been fated to be short-lived; but withal, the neighborhood has been favored with the preaching of the Word with something like regularity. No restrictions are placed on the use of the house for religious worship, and the following plan as to the division of time has existed for years: The Regular Baptists have undisputed possession on the first Sabbath and the Saturday before in each month; the Presbyterians have the second Sabbath and the Saturday before; and the Free-Will Baptists have the third Sabbath and the Saturday before. Connected with this account properly belongs an outline sketch of an organization of the Regular Baptists in the township antedating those above mentioned: On the 15th of June, 1816, a number of persons met at the house of James Buckles and organized into a society. Subsequently, they adopted tenets of doctrine, and became a society of some strength in after years. The original members were Nathaniel Reeves, Mary A. Reeves, John Buckles, Mary Buckles, Nicholas Prickett, William Hall, Swain Ogden, William Beasley and James Buckles. This organization built a log church a few rods from the site of the Union Meeting-House, and on the opposite of the old Columbus road. Here they continued to worship for a number of years previous to 1840. On the 5th of September of that year, a remnant of the society which remained sold and conveyed to Caleb Tuttle the house and church lot on which the house stood for $100. The grantors in this conveyance were Sylvanus Tuttle, Mary Tuttle, Eunice Yeazel, Margaret Tuttle, Rachel Kitt and Ann Collins. This money was paid over to the benefit of the Union Meeting-House, and thereafter Caleb Tuttle has served as a Trustee on the part of the Regular Baptist society in the Union Meeting-House. Notwithstanding the sale of their property, the society continued in existence several years later. In the year 1848, the society disbanded, as appears from the following entry, copied from the book of records: "July 1, 1848.-Whereas, in the providence of God, it appears necessary that we should dissolve, with the expectation of uniting with the church at Little Beaver Creek, in Clark County, Ohio. Abner Whiteley, Clerk." BETHEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The society of Bethel was organized about the year 1851. Previous to this date, the ministers of this denomination preached at the house of W. C. Kelley, and the class afterward was led by him. The original members were: W. C. Kelley and Miranda Kelley, his wife; Daniel Crown and his wife; Sophia Knob, Elizabeth Steelman, Ann Markley, Mary Miller and W. Graham. Steps were taken early in the year 1851 to build a house of worship, and Levi Rinehart, of Springfield, having donated a suitable site on Section 25, the house was soon under way. It was built by a general subscription fund; was a frame, 24x36 feet, and was erected at a cost of nearly $300, and, though a cheap 624 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. structure, it met the wants of the people admirably. The house was contracted and built by Jonathan N. Baker, and formally dedicated by J. W. Weakly in June, 1851. For a number of years following its erection, the society enjoyed reasonable prosperity, having for its Pastors the following-named members of the Cincinnati Conference: Timothy Wones, J. C. Deem, Charles Swayne, William Fitzgerald, N. McDonald, W. L. Hypes, Jesse Botkin, A. N. Spahr, John S. Pumphrey, M. G. Baker, - Beall, Samuel Brown, M. A. Head, A. M. Griffith, S. S. Conrey, J. L. Gregg, George Owen, William Mahon, Barrow, Charles Kalbfus, Jeremiah B. Ellsworth and others. Its original Board of Trustees was D. Crown, B. F. Mayne, John Inlow, Peter Prince, Jr., and W. C. Kelley. Richard Kelley served in the position of Leader and Sabbath-school Superintendent for ten years. The society was for a number of years a part of the Springfield District, Cincinnati Conference. An evil day at length overtook Bethel; many of the membership grew careless and neglected the social and public means of grace; others hung their harps upon the willows, and finally the trumpeter of glad tidings was left to preach to less than half a dozen faithful souls. Bethel was abandoned in 1880, at a time when, for miles in every direction, no church-going bell called the people to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. A few members attached themselves to other societies, and some drifted out on the tide of the world. Bethel was, and is not. EMERY CHAPEL (METHODIST EPISCOPAL). In the year 1835, a house of worship was built in the neighborhood of the present Emery Chapel, and was on a lot donated by Adam Mayne, on the east side of the Yellow Springs road. This was the first church built by the Methodists in this part of the country. Previous to this, the people of this denomination held their worship in part at the residences of the principal members, and in part at a log church called Ebenezer, and which stood in the same neighborhood. This first chapel was christened " Emery Chapel," but it was as frequently called Mayne's Meeting-House. It was a frame, 24$36 feet in its dimensions, and was enlarged some years later by an addition of twenty feet to the north end, making it 24x56 feet. The principal membership of the society in those days were William Albin, Richard Martin, Adam Mayne, Daniel Martin, John Adams, David Marquart and Joel Elwell, together with other members of the family of each. May ne's Meeting-House was succeeded by the present Emery Chapel in the year 1853. It is built on a lot donated by James P. Leffel, and is nearly three-fourths of a mile north of the original one, and on the east side of the Yellow Springs road, on Section 7, three miles south of Springfield. It is a brick structure, and was built at a cost of $1,400. The names of Adam Mayne, Anthony Leffel, Orlando Harris, Daniel Leffel, Peter F. Lehman, Henry Leffel, William Runyon, William Kershner and B. F. Mayne are associated with the building and history of the present church of Emery society, and their liberality, coupled with that of others, has left for them a lasting monument in this edifice. In the half-century that measures the life of this society, many men and women deserving mention have come and gone; a few remain, who delight to retrospect the departed years, and, from the storehouse of memory, recite the record of the good old times. Of the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church who have preached to this people, mention can be made of Clark, Gonzales, French, Eddy, White, Barrett, McDowel, Ingalls, Spahr, Seaman, Thurber, Conrey, Boucher, Smith, Davidson, Beall, Selman, Hypes, Clark, Grover, McDonald, Wones, Botkin, Baker, Owen, Ellsworth, Gowdy, Fitzgerald, Griffith, SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 625 Head, Kalbfus, Pumphrey, Swayne, Gregg, Young, Miller, and a number of others. Orlando Harris, Richard Martin, Daniel Pennell, William Printz, B. F. Mayne, Henry Albert, Jacob Drake, William Kelley and John B. Sparrow have held the position of Leader. The society maintains a well-organized Sabbath school, the organization of which dates back nearly forty years. Buried in the cemetery adjoining Emery Chapel are the bodies of Adam Mayne, died in April, 1857, aged seventy-five; Catherine Mayne, died July, 1869, aged eighty-five; Thomas Leffel, died October, 1856, aged sixty; David Martin died September 1874, aged seventy-seven. SCHOOL NOTES OF SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, BY DISTRICTS, 1880. District No 1 is located in the southeastern part of the township. The house is of brick, and stands near the corners of Sections 1, 2, 7 and 8. The district enumerates, white males, 21; females, 11; total, 32. No colored pupils. Lizzie Crossley, teacher; wages per month, $50. District No. 2 is on the Charleston Pike, near the east line of Section 16, and about three miles east of Springfield. The district enumerates, white males, 22; females, 25; colored males, 1; total, 48. R. D. Evans, teacher; wages per month, $50. District No. 3 occupies the northeastern part of the township. The house is on Section 6, and joining the "Union Meeting-House." This district enumerates, white males, 15; females, 14; colored males, 2; females, 1; total, 42. A. T. Allen, teacher; wages per month, $45. District No. 4 is in the southern part of the township. The schoolhouse is sometimes called "Congress Hall." It is of brick and on Section 19, one mile north of the line of Green Township, three miles southeast of Spring field. This district enumerates, white males, 43; females, 34; colored males, 6; females, 2; total, 85. James T. Tuttle, teacher; wages per month, $60. District No. 5 is located nearly two miles southeast of the city of Springfield. The schoolhouse is of brick, and is on the west side of Selma Pike, on Section 27. The district enumerates, white males, 44; females, 45; colored males, 5; females, 12; total, 106. Miss Anna Sergeant, teacher; wages per month, $50. District No. 6 is located north of the National road, and near Benson's Mill. The house is on the left of the pike leading to Benson's Mill, and Section 17. It is a brick structure and handsomely and substantially built. The district enumerates, white males, 9; females, 15; colored males, 3, females, 6; total, 33. J. M. Finney, teacher; wages per month, $45. District No. 7 is in the southwestern part of the township near Emery Chapel. The house is on Section 2, and has two departments. Is known as "Possum" The district enumerates, white males, 64; females, 49; colored males, 1; females, 1; total, 115. Teachers, H. C. Gibbs and Miss Emily Stuart; wages per month, $60 and $45 respectively. District No. 9 is known as" Rockway." The house is situated on the National road west of Sugar Grove, northeast quarter of Section 22, Town 5, Range 9. It has two departments This district enumerates, white males, 76; females, 66; total, 142. Teachers, Z. Taylor and Miss S. E. Boyd; wages, $60 and $45 respectively. The house was built in 1858. District No. 13 is situated at Lagonda. The house has three departments, is substantially built of brick and occupies an elevated position north of the village on Section 24. The district enumerates, white males, 131; females, 118; colored males, 2; females, 9: total, 260. Teachers, John W. Pearce, wages $60 626 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. per month; Maggie Quinn, wages $50 per month; Lottie Quinn, wages $50 per month. The building is heated by a furnace. District No. 14 is situated at East Springfield near the city limits of Springfield. The building is north of the Charleston Pike and south of the National road, on Section 22. It is a brick house, having two departments and maintains two schools. The district enumerates, white males, 51; females, 60; colored males, 12; females, 21; total, 144. Teachers, Joseph A. James, wages $60 per month; C. E. Kendricks, wages $60 per month. District No. 15 is situated north of Fern Cliff Cemetery, and is bounded north by Moorefield Township line, and west by Mad River. The house stands on Section 6, Town 4. Enumerates, white males, 33; females, 29; colored males, 6; females, 16; total, 84. Wesley Cook, teacher; wages, $50 per month. District No. 16, called also Gray's District, is near the city limits, south of the National road. The school has two departments and employs two teachers. The district enumerates as follows: White males, 70; females, 50; colored males, 3; females, 7; total, 130. B. D. Long and Mary E. Christ, teachers; wages $55 and $30 respectively. Elsewhere is found a statement showing the boundary and limit of each school district, when the township was first divided into districts for school purposes. The following statement exhibits the condition of schools of Springfield Township for the year ending August 31, 1880: Total amount of school moneys received within the year, $14,427.30; amount paid teachers within the year, $7,445.50; paid for sites and buildings, $1,380.45; fuel and contingent expenses, $2.068.17; grand total of expenditures, $10,894.12. Balance on hand September 1, 1880, $3,533.18. Number of subdistricts, 12; schoolhouses erected within the year, 1; value, $1,180; whole number of schoolhouses, 12; number of school rooms, 16; total value of school property, $15,000; teachers employed, 16; average wages paid teachers, $50; ladies, $45; rate of school tax in mills, 3.8; pupils enrolled during the year-girls, 455; boys, 540; total, 995; average daily attendance-boys, 293; girls, 214; total, 507; number enrolled between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years-boys, 78; girls, 84; total, 162. Number of pupils in each branch of study: Alphabet, 116; reading, 670; spelling, 319; writing, 648; arithmetic, 456; geography, 174. English grammar, 120; drawing, 54; map drawing, 68; natural philosophy, 8; algebra, 51. SUGAR GROVE. The village of Sugar Grove is situated 'two miles west of Springfield on the National road. It was laid out March 25, 1874, by the Springfield Brick Manufacturing Company-Peter A. Schindler, President. It is on the northeast quarter of Section 16, Town 4, Range 9. Sugar Grove comprises sixty lots, twenty-three of which front south on the National road or Main street. The village extends from the National road on the south, to the track of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad on the north. This railroad has a station, office and passenger depot, and is generally termed Springfield Station.. The Western Union Telegraph Company has an office here, J. McGreevy, operator. This station was established in the year 1875, and the agents from the first to the present have been John F. Mumford, Thomas H. Lee, J. N. Moses and J. McGreevy. The old brick building which stands on the opposite side of the National road from Sugar Grove, was built about the year 1840 by Daniel Leffel, and was used for several years as a hotel-was called Sugar Grove Hotel. It was SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 627 destroyed by fire and was rebuilt by Peter Sintz, Jr., and is now owned by the Leffel family. EDWARDSVILLE. The village of Edwardsville was laid out by Elizabeth E. Edwards August, 1870. Its position is on both sides of the Clark Union Pike (Lagonda avenue) southwest of and. adjoining the village of Lagonda, being a part of the east half of Section 29, Town 5, Range 9. It consists of 214 lots, many of which are improved by neat, cosy residences erected thereon, and occupied by the families of mechanics, employed in the shops and manufactories of Lagonda and Springfield. The village is barely beyond the city limits. It contains no public business interest. EAST SPRINGFIELD. This suburban hamlet was laid out and platted July, 1869, by A. Raffensberger. It is situated on Section 22, on the south side of High street (Charleston Pike). It comprises 120 lots, sixteen of which front north on High street. About thirty lots have improvements begun or completed, and the village gives promise of future prosperity. RICEVILLE. This village was laid out on the east side of Clifton Pike by Henry C. Rice March, 1871. It is situated immediately south of the city limits, and is on the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 33, Town 5, and contains twenty-five acres. The streets are named Henry, Clay and Rice; thus perpetuating the name of its founder. The plat contains ninety-five lots, which are nearly all unimproved. CHAMBERSBURG. At the junction of the Fairfield and Yellow Springs Pikes, three miles south of the city of Springfield, is a cluster of houses deserving to be classed with the villages of Clark County. A fine brick schoolhouse on the north, and Emery Chapel on the south, a well improved and fertile country surrounding, and an industrious, sober community, make this little hamlet a desirable rural retreat. SUBURBAN BUSINESS. Beyond the corporate limits of Springfield, on the numerous thoroughfares that center in that city, are located a number of business enterprises, among which we mention the following: ST. JOHN SEWING MACHINE COMPANY. The St. John Sewing Machine Company occupy a building on the left bank of Buck Creek, north of the National road, and near the bridge spanning that stream. This building was used previous to 1876 by Foos & Mulligan as a furniture factory. The "Old Hydraulic Race" which furnishes the water supply for this business, was built by the Snyders about 1855. The present company have occupied the factory since 1876, employ forty hands, and use annually about four hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber in the manufacture of the St. John Sewing Machine. DUGAN'S LIME WORKS. The extensive limekilns of Matthew Dugan are located on the right bank of Mad River, a few rods above Rock Point Mill, two miles west of the city of Springfield. Mr. Dugan began the lime business here in 1873, and has exten- 628 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. sive sale for his lime in Cincinnati. He employs a large force of hands and produces 280 car loads of lime per year. Matthew Dugan, proprietor, Cincinnati, Ohio. HOLCOMB'S LIME WORKS. The lime business was established on Mad River, below Rock Point Mill, in the year 1864. These works furnish lime for the markets of Springfield, Dayton, Urbana and other cities. They produce nearly three hundred car loads per year, run three kilns, and employ a strong force of workmen. A. Holcomb, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio; John Lowrie, foreman. JUNCTION MILLS. Judson Redmond, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio. This flouring mill is situated on Beaver Creek, about four miles east of Springfield, on Section 5, and a half mile north of the National road. The first mill built on this site was erected about the year 1808, by John Foster, who operated it for a number of years before, during and after the war of 1812. John Buckles was the next owner. He attached a distillery to it and operated both the mill and still for several years, but the date of his purchase and the number of years he owned it cannot be accurately stated. Buckles sold to John Rea, and Rea, in 1835, sold to Robert Rodgers, who, in 1837, built a sawmill in connection. In 1839, the whole premises were destroyed by fire. Mr. Rodgers rebuilt the grist-mill in 1840. In 1847, Thomas M. McCormick bought a half interest, and Rodgers and McCormick conducted the business together. After the death of Rodgers, McCormick ran the business for a time, but becoming embarrassed, assigned. About the year 1858, Lewis C. Huffman bought the mill of Hugh Wilson, assignee of McCormick, and, in 1866, Mr. Huffman sold it to the present owner, Judson Redmond, for $8,000. Mr. Redmond expended several hundred dollars in improvements in 1870, since which time it has been in success ful working order, running night and day much of the time. It has three runs of buhrs, eighteen-feet overshot wheel, has a daily capacity of forty barrels of flour. The name "Junction Mills" is given on account of its location at the confluence of Beaver Creek and Sinking Creek. BENSONS MILL. This mill is situated on Beaver Creek, Section 12, three and a half miles northeast of Springfield. It was built by Oliver Armstrong and Pierson Spinning in the year 1832. These parties operated the mill until the death of Armstrong, following which Cyrus Armstrong and Henry Shugh carried on for the greater part of the time till the year 1852, when it was bought by J. M. Benson, the present proprietor. Mr. Benson made some improvements in the machinery and remodeled the building at a total expense of about $8,000. The mill is in active operation and is regarded as one of the best on these waters. It is a frame, four stories high, thirty-nine by sixty-five feet in dimensions, four run of buhrs, uses the Leffel turbine wheel and does general milling business. J. M. Benson, proprietor, P. O. Springfield. LEFFEL'S SAW-MILL. This mill is on the left bank of Mill Creek, on the Fail-field and Mud Run Pike, three and a half miles from Springfield, and nearly a mile east of Mad River Township line. It was built by William Harris before the year 1840, and was afterward owned and run by Reed Wright. It was bought by James SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 629 P. Leffel, since which time it has been called "Leffel's Saw-Mill." The waterpower of Mill Creek proving insufficient, steam-has been added of late, but the mill is now in a state of idleness, and has, in all probability, seen its quota of usefulness and its best days. It is the property of James P. Leffel. SNYDER'S MILLS. The flouring-mill and distillery of J. & D. L. Snyder are on Mad River, a short distance north of Sugar Grove. The mill was first erected by Elijah Harnett, and by him sold to Henry Snyder, the father of the present proprietors. The Snyders built a distillery and operated that up to 1862, since which time the distillery business has not been carried on, and the building, much of the time has been used for storage and other legitimate purposes. The mills were destroyed by fire in 1854, and promptly rebuilt. It uses three Leffel wheels, three run of buhrs, and is four-story frame. TAYLOR'S MILL is situated on Section 11, northwest quarter, and on Beaver Creek, five miles east of Springfield. It was first erected by James Taylor in 1830, and had in connection with it a carding and fulling mill. The carding and fulling attachments were operated up to the year 1845, when it was abandoned. Mr. Taylor died in 1849, and the mill was remodeled by Charles Morgan, who pur chased it of Taylor's administrator. Mr. Morgan owned and run the mill until his death in 1869. It was then purchased by Samuel Taylor, the present owner of Taylor's Mill. It was a frame, three stories high, thirty-six by ninety feet in dimensions. This mill, with its contents, was destroyed by lightning on the 9th of May, 1875, at a loss of $12,000. The next year, 1876, Samuel Taylor rebuilt on the same site the present mill. It is of brick, Mansard or curb roof, thirty-six by fifty-eight feet, costing $8,000. It has an excellent power and uses the " Iron overshot wheel," made by Stout, Mills & Temple, of Dayton, Ohio. The mill has a basement and three stories and is valued at $12,000. The flour of this mill has a large and increasing trade in the city of Springfield, besides shipping some flour and other products to New York City. Samuel Taylor, proprietor; P. O. Springfield. RUBSAM'S MILL. This mill is situated on the right bank of Mad River, and below the mouth of Buck Creek. It is on Section 10, two miles west of Springfield, and one fourth of a mile south of the National road. This mill was originally built by Daniel Hertzler in the year 1865; it was completed and ready to run at the time of the murder of Hertzler. Samuel Huffman, Hertzler's son-in-law, became the owner following Hertzler's death, and operated the mill till 1869, when he traded it to John W. Rubsam, the present owner. Rubsam leased it to Crain, Hotsenpiller & Wilson, who operated it for three and a half years. Following the expiration of this time, Mr. Rubsam ran the mill himself till early in 1880. It has been standing idle since then. The mill is a four-story frame, forty by sixty feet in size, uses two Leffel wheels and one Burns' wheel; it has a good water power and does a general milling busniess. LEFFEL'S MILL. One of the extinct mills of Mad River was the one built by Andrew Leffel in 1833, and which stood a few rods above Rubsam's Mill, and between that and the railroad bridge. It was a three-story frame, and was operated by Mr. Leffel about ten years. He then sold it to James Robinson, who attached a dis- 630 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. tillery to it and continued milling and distilling until both establishments were destroyed by fire about the year 1850. They were never rebuilt. GRISSO'S MILL-OR ROCK POINT. This excellent flouring-mill is on the line of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad, three and a half miles west of Springfield, and on the right bank of Mad River. It was erected in 1831-32, by Peter Sintz, Sr., and was improved in 1880 by J. & S. Arthur, the present owners. Mr. Sintz managed the milling business here nearly twenty years, and then leased it to George Grisso for five years. The Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company (N. Y., P. & O.) then purchased it of Sintz about the year 1864. It was subsequently sold at Sheriff's sale, and was purchased by George Grisso for $6,500. Grisso ran the business till 1879, when Joseph Arthur became the owner, and in a short time was succeeded by his two sons, J. & S. Arthur. The building is six stories high, forty by sixty feet in size, uses two American turbine wheels, and is valued at $8,000. Does all kinds of custom work. J. & S. Arthur, proprietors, Springfield, Ohio. REBERTS' MILL. Reberts' Mill was erected in 1838 by Samuel Todd. It is situated on Mill Creek, two miles southwest of Springfield, on Section 9. Todd carried on a general milling business for three years after the erection of the mill, and was then succeeded by Ed Swope for about two years; then John Rench, and afterward Henry Baker carried on the business. In the year 1852, Andrew Rebert bought the mill of John Rench, and for the next twenty years thereafter did a general milling business. At the end of this time, he rented it to Aaron Reasor for three years, then to Frederick Cramer for two years, and lastly to Samuel Louk. The building is forty feet square, three stories high, uses Leffel's wheel, has two runs of buhrs and is valued at $5,000. Capacity, thirty barrels of flour per day. Andrew Rebert, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio. The original mill on this site was one of the oldest in the country. We do not know its history, but it was patronized long before the county was organized by the pioneers who came a long distance, from all directions, for flour, and to get their grinding done. PADEN'S WOOLEN FACTORY. In the year 1844, James Paden built a factory on Mill Creek for the manufacture of rolls, yarns and woolen fabrics generally. He carried on carding, spinning, weaving and fulling up to the year of his death, in 1868. After Mr. Paden's death, the business was conducted by his son David until the year 1880. It has not done much business of late. The factory is a two- story frame, uses the Leffel wheel, and is located on Section 9, two and a half miles Southwest of Springfield. Adam Grube, proprietor of Grubs's Brick Works. Kilns on North Market street, beyond the city limits. P. H. Murphy, florist and ornamental gardener, North Market street, beyond the city limits. THE BYRD CEMETERY. This burial-place was laid out by John Snodgrass about 1820, and is located on Section 11, nearly four miles east of Springfield, and 200 yards north of the National road, on a bluff near the left of Beaver Creek. It is well inclosed but somewhat neglected in other respects, and the following list tells of pioneers who have found here their "six feet of earth." PAGE 631 - PICTURE OF L. W. HAUGHY - SOUTH CHARLESTON PAGE 632 - BLANK SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP. - 633 Herbert W. Huffman, died October, 1820, aged thirty-three; Sarah Huff man, died March, 1842, aged fifty-two; Silvanus Tuttle, died January, ary, 1843, aged eighty-two; Mary Tuttle, died May, 1848, aged eighty-five; Luke Byrd, died August 31, 1823, aged fifty-five; Catharine Byrd, September, 1835; John D. Jenkins, died March, 1848, aged eighty-two; William Beesley, died January, 1825, aged fifty-one; Mary Tuttle, died May, 1856, aged seventy-two. Quite a number of graves of those buried in the early years of the history of this cemetery are unmarked by any memorial. SINKING CREEK CEMETERY. This place of public interment was laid out by the Sinking Creek Baptist society in 1817, and is located on Section 5, near the right bank of Sinking Creek, one-half mile north of Junction Mills, is twelve rods wide and twenty rods long, and is inclosed by a substantial board fence. The marble slabs erected to perpetuate the memory of the dead tell of the names, ages and date of death of a number who were pioneers of the neighborhood as follows: George Reid, died January, 1860, aged sixty-six; James Reid, died May, 1857, aged seventy-two; Reuben Kesler, died April, 1878, aged eighty-nine; John Dugan, died July, 1868, aged eighty-one; Mary Dugan, died 1867, aged seventy-five; James Rea, died May, 1824, aged fifty-seven; John Snodgrass, died May, 1826, aged sixty-three; Jane Snodgrass, died May, 1859, aged eighty-seven; Jonathan H. Wallace, died April, 1850, aged sixty-nine; Rev. William Jones, died December, 1847, aged eighty-two; James Price, died July, 1846, aged sixty-six; Mary Price, died December, 1856, aged eighty-two. THE PERRIN CEMETERY. At an early day a few persons were interred upon the farm of John Perrin, Sr., in Section 3, and Mr. Perrin buried his wife and children in this ground, and there he himself was buried in 1848. This graveyard was regularly platted and laid off in lots, but little now remains to mark the graves of those outside the Perrin family. Their plat is inclosed by a neat iron fence, and headstones tell of the silent sleeper beneath the grassy mound This ground is now used as a private family cemetery. The Roller Cemetery, in Section 23, west of Springfield, was begun about 1820, and is yet used as a burial-place; a number of the early settlers are buried in this ground, and nice monuments mark the graves. Other cemeteries in this township is the Newcomer Cemetery, in Section 24, north of Lagonda, where there is quite a large burial ground, and on which lot the United Brethren Society built their chapel in 1845; and the Huffman Cem etery, in Section 21, on the Valley Pike, close to the line of Bethel Township, on the hill overlooking the Mad River Valley. This is a small lot, thirty by fifty feet, and has been used mostly by Jacob Huffman and his descendants. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The following is a list of names of Justices of the Peace of Springfield Township, with the date of their several commissions, from 1834 to 1880: Anthony Byrd, November 17, 1834; Reuben Miller, November 19,1835; J. S. Halsey, August 10, 1836; Anthony Byrd, December 5, 1837; A. D. Merriness, December 20, 1837; John R. Leman, March 26, 1838; Samuel Mott, November 21, 1838; Reuben Miller, December 24, 1840; John Whiteley, April 10, 1843; Reuben Miller, December 19, 1843; Samuel Parsons, November 27, 1844; William Whiteley, April 10, 1846; Pierson Spinning, December 19, 1846; William Whiteley, April 10, 1849; Pierson Spinning, October 19, 1849; 634 - HISTORY OF CLARK COUNTY. John Coffield, March 25, 1850; Samuel Parsons, October 26, 1850; Anthony Byrd, April 21, 1852; Pierson Spinning, November 4,1854; Alfred D. Coombs, October 18, 1853; Anthony Byrd, May 4, 1855; Pierson Spinning, October -, 1855; Reuben Miller, October 27, 1856; James S. Christie, February 21, 1857; Anthony Byrd, April, 1858; Reuben Miller, October -, 1859; James S. Christie, February, 1860; Joseph D. Wood, April, 1861; Reuben Miller, October 30, 1862; D. A. Harrison, February 24, 1863; George C. Richardson, December 11, 1863; J. D. Wood, April 23, 1864; J. D. Wood, September, 1865; Charles Evans, February, 27, 1867; J. D. Wood, November 17, 1868; Reuben Miller, November 17, 1868; Reuben Miller, November 21, 1871. J. J. Smith, February 27, 1873; Alden H. Gillett, April 13, 1874; J. J. Smith, February 23, 1876; Henry Hollenback, April 4, 1877; J. J. Smith, February 15, 1879; William H. Burnet, November 5, 1879; Henry Hollenback, April 16, 1880. POLL-BOOK of the election held in Springfield Township May 30, 1818, for the election of two Justices of the Peace, to succeed the official terms of John Dougherty and John Snodgrass: NAMES OF ELECTORS. 1 Maddox Fisher. 2 Samuel Smith. 3 Hiram Goble. 4 Timothy Stickley. 5 Richard W. Hunt. 6 John Hunt. 7 Oliver Simpson. 8 James Lowry. 9 Zebulon Lewis. 10 James Steel. 11 James Craig. 12 Ambrose Blount. 13 James Perry. 14 Sampson Hubbell. 15 Hatfield Martin. 16 Merrifield Vicory. 17 Orrin Atkins. 18 Joseph Perrin. 19 Zephania Platt. 20 John Lingle. 21 Abner West. 22 John Killon. 23 James Grube. 24 Richard Burnett. 25 William Wilson. 26 Jacob Clark. 27 Isaac Mason. 28 James Gates. 29 Andrew Edgar. 30 Anson Vicory. 31 James Norton. 32 Thomas Kelly. 33 Joel Walker. 34 William Ross. 35 John McBeth. 36 Cornelius Morris. 37 Joseph Greer. 38 George Rankin. 39 James Johnston. 40 Uriah Craig. 41 Joel M. F. Butler. 42 John B. McDonald. 43 Jacob Lingle. 44 James Wallace. 45 James Shipman. 46 William Hath. 47 James D. Clements. 48 Joseph Reid. 49 Humphrey Nichols. 50 Christian Snideger. 51 Andrew McBeth. 52 William Scott. 53 Alexander McBeth, Jr. 54 James Buckels. 55 William Patton. 56 William Irwin. 57 John Dougherty. 58 John Lewis. 59 Merrifield Vicory. 60 William Carpenter. 61 Thomas Buckels. 62 Nathan Geer. 63 Isaac OnG 64 Thomas H. Moore. 65 Joseph S. Cowen. 66 William Wilson. 67 John Rea. 68 Matthew Woods. 69 Ira Paige. 70 William A. Needham. 71 John Buckels. 72 Abraham D. Merriness. 73 Allen Mead. 74 Robert Gamble. 75 Stephen Caramel. 76 Boswell Kitridge. 77 Hezekiah Stout. 78 David Lard. 79 John Snodgrass. 80 John Smith. 81 John Lyon. 82 William Thornton. 83 Walter Smallwood. 84 John Kirkpatrick. 85 William Moody. 86 Derick Vanpelt. 87 Samuel Davis. 88 Lemuel Clark. 89 John Akin. 90 James Akin. 91 Saul Henkle. 92 Joshua Glover. 93 William Nichols. 94 Charles Cavalier: 95 Henry Rogers. 96 Nathan Dudley. 97 John E. Delrymple. 98 Elizander Elliott. 99 David Day. 100 Henry Gates. 101 Richard Dillon. 102 William Hall. 103 Waitstill M. Cary. 104 Robert McBeth. 105 James Denham. 106 Samuel Cary. 107 John Dugan. 108 Thomas Patton. 109 Griffith Foos. 110 Thomas Armstrong.. 111 John Dudley. 112 Solomon Scott. 113 Thomas West, Jr. 114 Edward Armstrong.. 115 Israel Baylis. 116 Maxwell Patton. 117 Richard Hopkins. 118 James Steel. 119 James Rea.. 120 Isaac Wood, Jr. 121 George Reid. 122 Richard Polleston. 123 William Cowen. 124 John B. Croney. 125 James Rudy. 126 James Reid. 127 Robert Reid. HARMONY TOWNSHIP. - 635 NAMES OF CANDIDATES. NAMES OF CANDIDATES. John Dougherty received......... 100 votes. David Hannah received....... 36 votes. John Snodgrass................... ..... 71 votes. John Buckels................. 4 votes. James Paige............ .. .. .. ......... 35 votes. Humphrey Nichols........... 2 votes. James Buckels.................. . 1 vote. THOMAS WEST, JR., THOMAS PATTON, THOMAS ARMSTRONG, SOLOMON SCOTT, Clerks. GRIFFITH Foos, Judges of Election. VOTES. The following shows the vote of Springfield Township, including Springfield, by semi-decennial periods, from 1805 to 1880: 1805, 54; 1810, 64; 1815, 125; 1820, 189; 1825, 258; 1830, 375; 1835, 663; 1840, 827; 1845, 716; 1850,* 1,126; 1855, 332; city, 896; 1860, 442; city, 1,236; 1865, 473; city, 1,442; 1870, 521; city, 2,421; 1875, 655; city, 3,731; 1880, 948; city, 5,433. SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS. 1880.-Trustees, George Zimmerman, William Davidson, - Harrison; Clerk, John Kingour; Treasurer, J. W. Parsons; Constable, G. W. Daily; Justices of the Peace, J. J. Smith, Henry Hollenbeck, W. W. Burnett. 1880.-Road Supervisors: (1) David Tonkinson; (2) Henry Coblentz; (3) Luke Byrd; (4) Thomas Shaw; (5) T. E. Lott; (6) A. I. Paige; (7) Abram Slough; (8) George Tuttle; (9) S. P. Houlton; (10) John Henkle; (11) W. T. Haley; (12) Silas Byrd; (13) J. L. McClellan; (14) Henry Cline; (15) James Paden; (16) Thomas Crabill. 1880.-Board of Education: (1) W. H. Craig; (2) Adam Kesler; (3) Judson Redmund; (4) George S. Knaub; (5) E. O. Kershner; (6) W. H. Tuttle; (7) Ed Jacobs; (9) A. Holcomb; (13) Simon Fox; (14) W. R. Duke; (15) Samuel Hyer; (16) Daniel Hill. (NOTE.--Districts 8, 10, 11 and 12 have no existence.) (RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE)