CHAPTER I—RELATED STATE HISTORY	33
In This Chapter There is Set Out Something of the General History of Ohio From the Days the First White Man Set Foot Upon the Northwest Territory Down to the Present Day, All Briefly Summarized With a View to an Intro-duction to the Story of the Opening to Settlement of the Region Now Com-prised Within the Bounds of Greene County.
CHAPTER II—TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF GREEN COUNTY	59
Location and Boundaries of Greene County—Valleys of the Little Miami River and of Beaver Creek—Presence of Cliff Limestone—Elevation—Geological Series —The Gorge of the Little Miami--Glacial Drift—Water Supply—Source of the Famous Yellow Spring—A Word Concerning the Scenic Beauties of This Region.
CHAPTER III—THE MOUND BUILDERS OF GREENE COUNTY	72
Evidences of the Former Presence Here of a Race That Left Enduring Trace of Its Existence—Probable Methods of Mound Builders—Seventy-six Material Remains of the Operations of This Prehistoric People in This County— Review of These Evidences by Prof. Warren K. Moorhead, a Former Greene County Man and a Pioneer in the Movement to Preserve From Obliteration the Last Evidences of This Departed Race.
CHAPTER IV—THE INDIANS AND OLD CHILLICOTHE	80
Here is Found the Story of the Wresting From an Arrested and Non-progressive Race the Fair Lands Contained Within Greene County, With Particular Refer-ence to the Various Campaigns Against the Indians That Centered Around the Indian Village or Chillicothe, Now Marked by the Presence of the Hamlet Known as Oldtown, Together With a Brief History of the Shawnees and Special Reference to Tecumseh, the Last Great Leader of His Tribe—Daniel Boone—Darnell's Leap for Life--The Story of Jennie Cowan, and Other Incidents of the Days of Indian Occupancy.
CHAPTER V—COUNTY ORGANIZATION	96
Act Erecting Greene County a Civic Unit of the New State of Ohio Was En-acted on March 24, 1803, But Did Not Become Operative Until May Following, Which Date Therefore May Be Regarded as the Birthday of Greene County—Boundaries of the New' County When Set Off, the Same Extending to the State Line on the North— Further Boundary Limitations—Organization of County Gov-ernment—Location of the County Seat and How the Same Came to Get Its Greek Name—Establishment of County Government and Early Acts of the Court—First Meeting of the Board of Commissioners—Simple Needs of the Early Set-tlers and a Contrast of Conditions Then and Now—Population Statistics.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER VI—PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF GREENE COUNTY	122
Building In Which the First Business Connected With the Establishment of Government In Greene County Was Transacted Was a Little Log Cabin In the Woods--Business Later Carried On In Pioneer Tavern In Xenia Until In. Due Time a Regular "Temple of Justice" Was Erected, This Being Succeeded After Nearly Forty Years By a Second and That, in Turn, by the Present Handsome Court House a Half Century Later—Jail, Infirmary and Children's Home.
CHAPTER VII—ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS	157
In This Chapter Will Be Found the Names of All Who Have Served, Greene County In an Official Capacity Since the Days of the Beginning of the County Government, Together With Personal Reference to Many of Them, This List Including Also Those Who Have Represented the County in the State House of Representatives and In the State Senate, Concluding With the Roster of the Present County Officials and the Salaries Attaching to Each Office
CHAPTER VIII—OLD SETTLERS AND PIONEER LIFE	169
Coming of the First White Men to This Region and the Gradual Settlement of the Country Hereabout With Permanent Settlers—Stories of Pioneer Life and of Conditions of Pioneer Living, With Personal References to Many of the Original Settlers of the County and a Recountal of Typical Experiences Undergone By Those Who Made This Region a Fit Habitation and Abiding Place for Those Who Should Come After.
CHAPTER IX—TOWNSHIPS OF GREENE COUNTY	189
Territory That Composed This County in 1803 Was Divided Into Four Townships, Which, In Good Time, As the Country Became More Populous, Became Divided and Subdivided Until Now There are Twelve Townships, the Last of Which Was Set Off as a Separate Entity In 1858—Something Relating to Township Government and the Multiplicity of Officials Required to Carry on the Affairs of the Same, Together With a Roster of the Present Officials of the Various Townships of the County.
CHAPTER X—MAD RIVER AND VANCE TOWNSHIPS	193
Two of the Townships That Many Years Ago Were Lost to Greene County, the First-Named Having, Originally Carried the Limits of This County Northward to the Lake—Mad River Became a Part of Champaign County When That County Was Organized in 1805 and Vance Township Was Lost to Clark County When the Latter Came Into Being in 1817.
CHAPTER XI—BEAVERCREEK TOWNSHIP	204
This Is the Township That May Be Referred to As the Cradle of Greene County, For It Was In the Log Cabin of Owen Davis, Then Occupied by Peter Borders, In This Township, That the Official Meeting Was Held Which Set Up a Form of Government for the New County in 1803—Changes in Boundaries—Topography and Drainage—Early Settlement and Tales of the Pioneers—Agricultural Interests, Towns and Villages and Other Notes.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XII—CAESARSCREEK TOWNSHIP	224
One of the Original Four Townships Erected at the Time Greene County Set Up In Business—Boundary Changes—Topography and Drainage—Early Settlers—First Election—Growth and Development—Agricultural Interests—the Village of Paintersville
CHAPTER XIII—SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP	238
Also One of Greene County's Original Townships, Its Present Boundaries Were Not Finally Established Until 1856—Topography and Drainage—Early Settlers—First Election—Sugar-Making In the Old' Days—Agricultural Interests—Village of Bellbrook and the Famous "Magnetic" Springs.
CHAPTER—XIV—XENIA TOWNSHIP	271
Central Township. In the County and the Seat of the County Seat, This Township Did Not Come Into Being Until More Than Two Years After the Four Original Townships Had Been Erected—Confusion Regarding Original Limits - Present Boundaries—Topography and Drainage—First Election and Early Enumeration of "Freemen Over the Age of Twenty-one"—the Village of Oldtown.
CHAPTER XV—BATH TOWNSHIP	282
Pursuant to an Order of the Commissioners Under Date of March 3, 1807, This Township Was Organized at an Election Held on the Following April 29, and Retained Its Original Boundaries Until Miami Township Was Cut Off From It In the Summer of 1808, Also Losing Further Territory When Clark County Was Created in 1817— Topographical Features—Early Settlers—Some Sidelights On the History of the Township—the Village of Byron—Miami Conservancy District and What the Creation of the Huffman Retarding Basin May Mean for the Apparently Doomed Village of Osborn—Fairfield and the Wright Aviation Field.
CHAPTER XVI—MIAMI TOWNSHIP	296
Organized in 1808, This Township Lost Some Territory When Ross Township Was Created In 1811, and a Further Stretch of Territory When Clark County Came Into Being—Boundaries and Topographical Features— Early Settlers and Tales of the Pioneers—A Communist Settlement—Agricultural Conditions—The Village of Clifton, the Antioch Bone Cave and Other Notes.
CHAPTER XVII—ROSS TOWNSHIP	309
Since the Date of Its Organization In 1811 This Township Has Undergone Three Changes of Boundary Line, Its Present Delimitation Having Been Established In 1853 When New Jasper Township Became a Separate Organization—Geographical Features—Early Settlers—Agricultural Conditions—Grape Grove and Gladstone.
CHAPTER XVIII—SILVERCREEK TOWNSHIP	317
Since Its Organization In 1811 This Township Has Twice Suffered a Loss of Territory, a Slice Hiving Been Sacrificed to New Jasper Township In 1853, and Another Portion to Jefferson Township In 1858—Topographical Features—Early Settlers—Pioneer Reminiscences-Transportation—Early Industries—Schools and Churches and Other Notes:
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XIX—CEDARVILLE TOWNSHIP	324
First Effort .0n the Part of the People of This Part of the County to Erect a New Township in 1848 Was Met With Such Determined Resistance That It Was Not Until Two Years Later, In 185o, That the Continued Effort Was Successful and the Boundaries Then Established Have Remained Unchanged—Topographical Features—Early Settlers—Agricultural Conditions and Other Notes—Mt. Ida, a "Paper" Village.
CHAPTER XX—NEW JASPER TOWNSHIP	334
Formerly a Part of Five Different Townships, This Township Came Into Being in 1858 In Response to a Petition of One Hundred and Twenty-eight Residents, Whose Petition Set Out In a 'Curious Roundabout Way the Boundaries They Wished Established for Their New Township—Topographical Features—Early Settlers— Agricultural Conditions—the Village of New Jasper and Stringtown.
CHAPTER XXI—SPRING VALLEY TOWNSHIP	340
Prior to Its Creation In 1856, This Township Had Been a Part of three. Other Townships—Original Boundaries Unchanged—Topography and Drainage—Early Settlers--Agricultural Conditions—the Village of Spring Valley—Other Efforts at Town Making That Did Not Prove Quite So Successful.
CHAPTER XXII—JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP	351
Last Township In the County to Be Organized Was Set Off In the Summer of 1858 on Petition of Some of the Leading Citizens of Bowersville and a Majority of the Householders In the Territory Described In the Petition— Topography and Agricultural Conditions—Early Settlers—the Village of Bowersville.
CHAPTER XXIII—THE TOWN OF CEDARVILLE	362
As the "Village of Milford," Cedarville Became an Officially Recognized Social and Commercial Center in the Summer of 1816 and Has Thus Had More Than a Century of Development—Early Commercial Enterprises and Industrial Develop-ment—Business 'Interests In 1874—the Town In 1881—Development of the Lime Industry--Schools, Lodges, Churches and Banks—Famous Old Fire Department —Municipal Development, Public Library and Commercial Directory for 1818.
CHAPTER XXIV - THE CITY OF YELLOW SPRINGS	376
Seat of Antioch College and of the Famous Spring Which Gave It the Name It Bears, This Center Dates From the Establishment of a Settlement There By a Son of Owen Davis the Pioneer Miller and the Postoffice at That Point Has an Unbroken Record From May 10, 1805—Tavern Licensed to Do Business There In That Year—the Coming of the Railroad and the Story of the Town During the Days When the Yellow Spring Attracted Health Seekers From Far Distant Points—Commercial Directory of Today.
CHAPTER XXV—THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN	387
Second Largest City In Greene County Received Its First Official Recognition With the Filing of a Plat of the Town on May 31, 1816--Additions to Town Since Then—Jamestown In '83-I—Summary of Business Interests— Reminiscences of W. A. Paxon—Cyclone of 1884—Destructive Fires—Municipal Development and Commercial Directory.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXVI—THE DOOMED TOWN OF OSBORN	398
Beginning of the End of a Town, Which Has Had a Period of Development Covering a Period of Nearly Seventy Years—Osborn Platted on May 20, 1851, Enjoyed Normal Development Until the Creation of the Huffman Retarding Basin as a Part of the Conservancy Board's Flood Prevention Plans Made It Clear That the Town Would Be Doomed to Inundation During Flood Periods, Since Which Time Property Is Being Taken Over With a View to the Abandonment of the Village
CHAPTER XXVII—AGRICULTURE	404
In This Chapter There Is Set Out Something of the Conditions That Confronted the Pioneer Who Settled Here With a View to Carving a Farm Out of the Forests and How Those Conditions Were Met and Overcome—Changes Time Has Wrought—Statistics Relating to Crop and Live-Stock Production In Greene. County.
CHAPTER XXVIII—SCHOOLS OF GREENE COUNTY	425
From the Days of the Little Log School House at the Cross Roads to the Present Time of the Highly Organized High Schools and Consolidated Rural Schools There Have Been Many Changes In Conditions and Methods and These Are Briefly Set Out Here—Qualifications of Teachers—Summary of School Statistics by Towns and Townships—Miscellaneous Statistics and Some Tales of Pioneer Schools—Xenia City Schools
CHAPTER XXIX—HIGHER INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING IN GREENE COUNTY	452
Almost From the Day of the Beginning of a Social Order Here Greene County People Have Been Properly Mindful of Its Institutions of Higher Learning, a Seminary Having Been Established at Xenia as Early as 1805— Bellbrook Academy —Xenia Female Academy—Xenia Female Seminary and Collegiate Institute--Xenia Female College—Xenia College—Antioch College—Cedarville College—Xenia Theological Seminary—Wilberforce University.
CHAPTER XXX—CHURCHES OF GREENE COUNTY	484
Not Long After the Beginning of Settlement In This Valley of the Little Miami Pioneer Churches Came to Be Organized and In Many Instances These Pioneer Organizations Have Been Maintained to the Present Day—Of the More Than One Hundred Churches Organized In Greene County at Least Twenty-five Have Been Abandoned With the Passing of the Years and the Changing Conditions of Living—History of Most of the Churches of the County That Still Maintain an Effective Organization.
CHAPTER XXXI—THE PRESS FOR A HUNDRED YEARS	544
First Newspaper Greene County Was The Ohio Vehicle, Established In January, 1814, Since Which Time Thee Have Been Many Papers, Some of Which Have Long Been Forgotten - History of Greene County Journalism Replete With Interesting Stories, Some of Which Have Been Preserved by the Historian In This Chapter.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXII—THE BENCH AND BAR OF GREENE COUNTY	565
Fruitless Task to Attempt to Classify the Lawyers of the County on the Basis of Their Respective Abilities and Any Discussion of the Early Lawyers of the County Would Be Incomplete That Did Not Make Mention of the Conditions Under Which They Practiced—Associate Judges of the Day Long Gone—Leading Lawyers of the Past Generation—Judicial System Prior to 1851—First Court of Greene County—Common Pleas Court—the Probate Court—Prosecuting Attorneys—Roster of Greene County Lawyers—County Law Library.
CHAPTER XXXIII—THE MEDICAL PROFESSION	588
Back in 1830 Physicians Were Subjected to a. Special Tax and From an Ancient Document of That Period There is Obtained a Roster of the Physicians Then Practicing In Greene County, Including Some Others That Were Listed as "Steam Doctors"—Something Regarding the Amazing Prevalence of the "Patent Medicine" Habit Back In -the Old Days—Some of the Early Physicians of This County, With Brief Biographies of Many of Them, and a List of the Physicians That Have Practiced In This County From the Days of the Beginning—Medical Officers' Reserve Corps—Greene County Medical Society
CHAPTER XXXIV—FRATERNAL AND' BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS	608
Here Are Found the Names and Something Regarding. the Organization- of the Various Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations Carrying on Their Work In This County, Including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Daughters of America, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
CHAPTER XXXV—LITERARY, SOCIAL, TEMPERANCE AND PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS	631
Woman's Club, Organized in Xenia In the Spring of 1867, Claims Precedence as the First Woman's Club Organized In the United States—Something Relating to Other Social and Kindred Organizations In Greene County, Including the Junior Woman's Club, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Veterans.
CHAPTER XXXVI—MILITARY HISTORY	646
Going Back to the Days of the American Revolution, Greene County Has Had Participants In Every War Waged by the United States Since That Period and This Chapter Sets Out at Some Length Something of the Details of That Service, With Particular Reference to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War,* the Spanish-American War and the Present World War, With a Roster of Those Who Had Entered the Latter Service Up to April t, 1918.
CHAPTER XXXVII—BANKS AND BANKING	676
Herein Is Set Out Something of the History of Banking In This County, With Reference to the Days of the Old "Wild Cat" Money and a Brief History of the Several Banking Institutions Now Doing Business In the County.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXXVIII— TRANSPORTATION—HIGHWAYS AND RAILWAYS	687
One of the First Problems That Confronted the Pioneer Was the Building of Roads Through the Wilderness and the Question of Transportation Ever Since Has Been an Important One—Mileage of Roads by Townships—Toll Roads of Another Day—Something About Road Laws—the Coming of the Railroads and the Later Coming of the Electric Railways.
CHAPTER XXXIX—THE CITY OF XENIA	701
County Seat of Greene County Was Laid Out as the Seat of Local Justice In the Fall of 1803 and Has Ever Since Had a Steady and Substantial Growth—Review of Conditions In 1811 as Recalled by an Old Settler—Early Commercial Enterprises—Incorporation of the Village In 1817—Later Development, With a Review of Industrial and Commercial Conditions and Municipal Development, Together With a Commercial Directory for the Year 1918.
CHAPTER XL—SOME GREENE COUNTY CITIZENS OF A PAST GENERATION	755
Herein Are Set Out Brief Biographies of Some of the Men Who Have in Days Past Helped to Add to the Fame of the Name of Greene County, Including the names of Whitelaw Reid, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Coates Kinney, Thomas Barlow Walker, John Little, Benjamin Whiteman, William Maxwell and John Paul.
CHAPTER XLI—SIDELIGHTS ON THE HISTORY OF GREENE COUNTY	763
Miscellaneous Facts Relating to the History of the County, Including an Interesting Letter of 1809 the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, the First and Last Hanging In the County, the Inspiration of "Sheridan's Ride," a Heretofore Unpublished Poem of T. Buchanan Read, the Story of the First Piano Manufactured In the County, the Tale of the Opening of Greene Street, Some Legislative Acts of Importance to the County, Some Facts Relating to the Saloons of the County, Old. Marriage. Permits, Lincoln Xenia In 1861, an Old-Time Fiddler, "The. Rented Farm," a Poem, and Lastly, the Study of Biography.

 

HISTORICAL INDEX

A

"A Century of Service" - 511

Adams, Zina B. - 389

Agriculture - 404-424

Agricultural Statistics - 215, 234, 256, 304, 315, 337, 344, 355, 404

Alexander, John - 580, 703

Alexander, William -111, 567, 580

Alpha, Village of - 218

Amusements of the Pioneers - 187

Antioch College - 459

Armstrong, Rev. Robert - 104, 178, 243, 329, 485, 771

Associate Judges - 566

Aviation Field Near Fairfield - 294

B

Ball, Dr. Ewlass - 594

Banks and Banking - 676-686

Baptist Churches - 529-532

Bath Township -

  Boundaries of - 282

  Byron, Village of - 287

  Early Settlement - 283

  Enumeration of Voters - 283

  Fairfield, Village of - 291

  Flood-Prevention Plans - 288

  Osborn's Pending Doom - 290

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 429

  Topography and Drainage - 282

  Transportation - 287

  When Organized - 282

  Wright Aviation Field - 294

Battle of Tippecanoe - 34

Beatty, William A. - 107, 110, 124, 135, 143, 159, 276, 647, 701, 705

Beavercreek Township-

  Agricultural Interests - 215

  Changes in Boundaries. - 205

  Early Settlement - 208

  Population of - 120

  Railroads - 213

  Residents of in 1803 - 212

  Schools - 429

  Topography and Drainage - 207

  Trebeins - 222

  Village of Alpha - 218

  When Organized - 204

  Zimmermanville - 222

Bell, Dr. William - 593

Bellbrook Academy - 454

Bellbrook, Village of - 258

Bench and Bar, The - 565-587

Beveridge, Rev. Thomas, D. D. - 470, 472, 473, 494

Big Four Railroad - 696

“Binding Out" of Paupers - 149

Biography, the Value of - 788

Bone Cave Near Clifton - 306

Bonner, Frederick - 179, 511

Boone, Daniel - 85, 87, 169, 177

Boundaries of County - 96

Bowersville, Village of - 356

Breeders of Note in Greene County - 416

Bridges of County - 692, 725

Bullitt, Capt. Thomas - 85

Byron, Village of - 287

C

Cabins of the Pioneers - 183

Caesarscreek Township-

  Agricultural Interests - 234

  Boundaries of - 224

  Enumeration in 1804 - 230

HISTORICAL INDEX.

Caesarscreek Township-

  First Settlers - 727

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 431

  Topography and Drainage - 727

  Village of Paintersville - 232

  Voters of in 1804 - 229

  Winchester, Plat of - 234

  When Organized - 724

Caesarsville - 101

Campaign Incident of 1840 - 254

Capitals of Ohio - 46

Carson, Rev. James G., D. D. 166, 473, 496

Catholic Churches - 541

Cattle - 419

Cedarville College - 466, 505

Cedarville, Town of - 362-375

Cedarville Township-

  Agricultural Interests - 332

  Boundaries of - 325

  Cedarville, Village of - 332

  Early Settlers - 328

  First Election - 327

  Mt. Ida, a Memory Only - 333

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 431

  Topography and Drainage - 327

  Transportation - 327

  When Organized - 324

Champion Fire Company - 370

Children's Home, The - 153

Cholera Scourge of 1848 - 712, 727

Christian Churches - 537

Churches of Greene County - 484-543

Civil War, The - 49, 649

Clark, Gen. George Rogers - 36, 177

Claysville (Roxanna) - 346

Clifton, Village of - 306

Clothing of the Pioneers - 186

Colleges and Seminaries - 452-483

Collier, James - 246, 271, 703

Colored Churches in Greene County - 543

Colored Families Effect Settlement - 339

Commission Government for Xenia - 742

Commissioned Officers in Civil War - 657

Common Pleas Court - 572, 578

Communist Settlement - 302

Congress Lands - 53, 206, 238, 279

Connecticut Reserve, The - 51

Consolidation of Schools - 433

Constitutional History of Ohio - 47

Contrast in Fiscal Affairs - 113

Corn Statistics - 407

County Auditors - 162

County Board of Education - 428

County Clerks - 161

County Commissioners - 159

County Coroners - 161

County Draft Board - 674

County Finances - 112

County Infirmary - 149

County Officials, Roster of -157-168

County Organization - 96-121

County Poor Fund - 153

County Recorders - 162

County Seat, Location of - 101

County Superintendent of Schools - 425

County Surveyors - 158

County Treasurers - 161

County's Contribution to War - 672

County's Original Boundaries - 96

County's Part in Civil War - 650

County's Public Buildings - 122-156

Court House History - 122-134

Covenanter Church - 502

Cowan, Jennie, Story of - 93

Coy, Jacob - 210, 533

Crop Statistics - 215, 234, 256, 304, 315, 337, 344, 404

Cyclone of 1884 - 393

D

Dairy Products - 420

Daniels Post No. 500, G. A. R. - 644

Daughters of America - 627

Daughters of the American Revolution - 639

Darnell's Leap for Life - 91

Davidson, Dr. Andrew W. - 592

Davis, Lewis, Story of - 299

Davis, Owen - 96, 104, 105, 107, 122, 169, 173, 208, 219, 300, 376, 573

Dean, William and Daniel - 336

Debt of Greene County - 116

Degree of Pocahontas - 624

Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad - 697

Dillon, Dr. J. S. - 596

Distilleries - 412

Doctors of Greene County - 588-607

HISTORICAL INDEX.

Dohrman's Grant - 53

Draft for World War in 1917 - 668

Drainage - 59, 207, 227, 274, 282, 298, 311, 319, 327, 336, 353

Dunker Church - 532

Dunlavey, Francis - 580

E

Early Enumeration Lists - 195, 202, 230, 247, 277, 283, 298, 311, 318

Early Physicians of Greene County - 603

Early Poll-Book Lists - 194, 202, 212, 230, 247, 276, 283

Early Tax Levies - 112

Educational - 425-451

Electric Railway Lines in County - 699

Elevation of Greene County - 61

Ellsberry, William - 582

English Traders, Activities of - 34

Erie Railroad - 696

F

Fairfield, Village of - 291

Fallen Timbers, Battle of - 34, 43

Farm and Garden Crops - 409

Farming in the Old Days - 405

Farm Life in Greene County - 404-424

Fate of Two Villages at Stake - 290, 400

Fertilizers - 413

Financial Contribution to World War - 675

Finances of County - 112

Finley, Dr. R. S.- 598

Fire Company Wins State Prize - 370

Fires of Destructive Proportions - 394, 613, 721

First Commissioners of County - 101, 108

First Court Held at Xenia - 124

First Court House - 125

First Court in Greene County - 570

First Doctor at Xenia - 592

First House in Xenia - 701

First Miller, The - 173

First Newspaper in County - 544

First Piano Manufactured in County - 775

First School House in County - 429

First Seminary in County - 452

First Settlers of Greene County - 170

First Woman's Club in America - 631

Flood of 1913 - 288

Flood-Prevention Plans - 288, 400

Folck, Dr. John George - 597

Food of the Pioneers - 184

Forage Crops - 412

Fraternal Order of Eagles - 630

Fraternal Organizations - 608, 630

French and Indian War -35, 43

French Settlements - 34

Friends Church - 539

G

Galloway, Dr. Clark Madison - 599

Galloway, James - 85, 106, 161, 176. 485, 574

Garrett, Cyrus - 771

Geological Formations in County - 62

Girty, Simon - 84. 177

Glacial Drift, Evidences of - 68

Gladstone, Hamlet of - 316

Governors of Ohio - 55

Gowdy, James - 705

Graduates of Xenia High School - 450

Grand Army of the Republic, The - 642

Grape Grove, Hamlet of - 316

Greene County Children's Home - 153

Greene County in War Times - 646-675

Greene County in World War - 669

Greene County Library - 731

Greene County Medical Society - 606

Greene County's Organization - 96

Greene, Dr. Randolph R. - 595

Greenville Treaty Line, The -52, 97

Greenwood Springs, Plat of - 345

H

Hagenbuck, Dr. W. A. - 598, 604

Hanging of a Wife Murder - 769

Harlan, Aaron - 583

Harmar, Gen. Josiah - 43, 83

Harrison, Gen. William Henry - 34, 39

Institutions of Learning - 452-483

Highways of Greene County - 687

Hivling, John - 708

Hog Drive in the Old Days - 421

Hogs - 420

Hoover, Dr. Reuben C. - 595

HISTORICAL INDEX.

Horses - 417

Huffman Retarding Basin - 289

Hussey, Christopher - 353

Howard, Roswell F - 582

How Xenia Got its Name - 104

Imprisonment for Debt - 575

Improved Order of Red Men - 623

Incorporation of Xenia - 709

Independent Order of Odd Fellows - 617-620

Indiana Territory - 40

Indians and Old Chillicothe - 80-95

Indian Wars - 33, 43

Industries of Cedarville - 366

Infirmary Superintendents - 152

Jailed for Playing Cards - 109

Jail History - 139-149

Jamestown, City of - 387-397

Jefferies, James - 782

Jefferson Township—

  Agricultural Interests - 355

  Boundaries of - 351

  Bowersville, Village of - 356

  Early Settlers - 353

  Industries of - 355

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 435

  Topography and Drainage - 353

  When Organized - 351

Johnson, Dr. Joseph - 593

Journalism, Local - 544-564

Judicial System Prior to 1851 - 569

Judiciary, The - 65, 578

Junior Order of United American Mechanics - 625

Junior Woman's Club - 631

Junkin, Launcelot - 432, 500

K

Kenton, Simon - 85, 110, 169, 194, 199, 640

Kinney, Coates - 758

Knights of Pythias - 620-623

Kyle, Rev. Joseph, D. D. - 474

Kyle, Samuel - 98, 201, 276, 297, 330, 566

L

Lamme, Capt. Nathan - 244

Land Grants of Ohio, The - 50

Land Titles Defective - 337

Land Surveys, System of - 36

Largest Barn in State - 305

La Salle, Expedition of - 33

Laughead, David - 85, 276, 280, 704

Law Library - 585

Lawrence, Dr. Horace - 594

Lawyers of a Past Generation - 580

Lawyers of Greene County - 565-587

Lawyers, Taxing of in Early Days - 569

Legislative Acts of Importance - 778

Lewis Post No. 347, G A R. - 642

Library of Greene County Bar - 585

Lime Industry, Development of - 367

Lincoln in Xenia in 1861 - 782

Literary and Kindred Organizations - 631-645

Little, John - 760

Live Stock - 415-424

Loafing Discouraged - 110

Loyal Order of Moose - 629

Lutheran Church - 541

M

Madden, Dr. William P. - 599

Mad River and Vance Townships 193-203

"Magnetic" Springs at Bellbrook - 263

Mann, Horace - 459, 463

Marker at Historic Spot - 640

Market House in Old Days - 137

"Marriage Permits" in Old Days - 781

Marshall, John - 701

Martin, Dr, Joshua - 593

Martin, Dr. Samuel - 593

Masonic Order, The - 608-617

Maumee Road Lands, The - 53

Maxwell, William - 761

Medical Officers Reserve Corps - 603, 667

Medical Profession, The - 588-607

Men of Prominence in Other Days - 755

Methodist Episcopal Churches - 511-526

Methodist Protestant Churches - 526

Mexican Border War in 1916 - 663

Mexican War, The - 48, 646

HISTORICAL INDEX.

Miami Conservancy District - 288, 400

Miami Township-

  Agricultural Interests - 304

  Boundaries of - 296

  Clifton, Village of - 306

  Communist Settlement - 302

  Early Settlement - 298

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 436

  Tales of the Pioneers - 299

  Topography and Drainage - 298

  Transportation - 304

  When Organized - 296

  "Whitehall" - 305

Milford, Original Name of Cedarville - 362

Military History of County - 646-675

Military Lands, The - 52, 206, 226, 239, 278, 297, 310, 317, 326, 335, 341, 352

Military Record of Ohio - 48

Moorman, Dr. Micajah - 596

Mound Builders, The - 72-79

Mt. Ida, Plat of - 333

Munger, Judge Edmund H. - 580

Murders in Beavercreek Township - 213

Mc

McCune, Dr. - 597

McMillan, Rev. Hugh - 467. 497, 504

N

Neff House, Story of - 383

Negro Churches - 543

Negro Population of County - 120

Negro Secret Societies - 630

Nesbit, Benoni - 583

Nesbit, Wilbur Dick - 362, 507, 559, 757

New Germany, Village of - 223

New Jasper Township-

  Agricultural Interests - 337

  Boundaries of - 334

  Early Industries - 337

  Early Settlers - 336

  Land Troubles - 337

  New Jasper, Village of - 338

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 437

  Stringtown - 339

  Topography and Drainage - 336

  When Organized - 334

New Jasper, Village of - 338

Newspapers of Greene County - 544-564

Northwest Territory, The - 33, 34, 38, 39, 41, 43

O

Oats and Minor Grains - 408

Ohio Company, The - 35, 37

Ohio Land Company Purchase - 50

Ohio Politics - 55

Ohio State Boundary Lines - 57

Ohio's Admission to Union - 44, 96

Ohio's Military Record - 48

Ohio's Successive Capitals - 46

Old Chillicothe (Oldtown) - 82

Old Settlers and Pioneer Life - 169-188

Oldtown, Village of - 280, 640

Orchard and Garden Fruits - 414

Order of the Eastern Star - 616

Ordinance of 1787, The - 37, 57

Organization of County - 96-121

Original Plat of Jamestown - 387

Osborn, the "Doomed Town" - 398-403

P

Paintersville, Village of - 232

Pastor Paid in Deerskins - 251

Patent Medicines, Former Demand for - 590

Patriotic Societies - 639-645

Paul, John - 103, 105, 107, 108, 114, 134, 157, 162, 173, 276, 570, 701, 761

Paxon, W. A. - 388, 391, 783

Peddler Robbed and Murdered - 286

Pennsylvania Lines, The - 693

Physicians of Greene County - 588-607

Pinkney Pond, The - 214

Pioneer Conditions - 169, 188

Pioneer Reminiscences - 179, 252, 320, 390, 433, 45, 702, 763, 781

Pioneer Wedding - 252

Political Review of State - 55

Poll Books of the Pioneers - 194, 202, 212, 230, 247, 276, 283

Pontiac's Conspiracy - 35

"Poor House," The - 149

Population Statistics - 41, 119

Pork-packing in the '30s - 266

HISTORICAL INDEX.

Presbyterian Churches - 507, 510

Present Court House - 130

Press, The - 544-564

Prices of Commodities in Old Days - 775

Private Schools in Xenia - 443

"Prison Bounds" - 575

Prisoner Burned in Lock-Up - 293

Probate Court, The - 576

Prominent in Past Generations - 755

Prosecuting Attorneys - 579

Prosperity, Present Era of - 117

Public Buildings of County - 122-156

Public Square at County Seat - 134

Q

Quakers - 539

Quebec Act, The - 36

Quinn, Matthew - 212, 486, 771

R

Railroad Bonds, County's Investment in - 698

Railways of Greene County - 687

Read, T. Buchanan, Heretofore Unpublished Poem of - 773

Reaper, the Invention of - 268

Reformed Churches - 532-537

Reformed Presbyterian Church - 502, 509

Refugee Tract, The - 53

Registered .Live Stock - 416

Reid, Dr, Alexander - 595

Reid, Dr. John M. - 595

Reid, Whitelaw - 331, 503, 559, 756

Related State History - 33-58

Religious Life of Greene County - 484

Revolutionary Period, The - 36

Revolutionary Soldiers, Graves of - 641

Roads and Road Making - 687

Robbery and Murder of Peddler - 286

Robinson, George F. - 567, 647, 650

Robinson, Plat of - 345

Ross Township—

  Agricultural Interests - 315

  Boundaries of - 309

  Early Settlers - 311

  Origin of Name - 309

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 437

  Topography and Drainage - 311

  Villages of - 316

Roster of Company I - 665

Roster of County Officials - 157-168

Roster of Greene County Bar - 584

Roster of Greene County Physicians - 600

Roxanna (Claysville) - 346

Royal Arch Masons - 612

S

Salaries of County Officials - 167

Sale of Part of Public Square - 111

Saloons - 779

School Sections - 54

Schools of Greene County - 425-451

Scroggy, Thomas E. - 583

Searl, Dr. Edward F. - 596

Seceders, The - 485

Second Court House - 127

Secret Societies - 608-630

Selective Draft in Greene County - 668

Shawnees, The - 81

Sheep - 423

Sherer, Judge Charles C - 584

"Sheridan's Ride," Inspiration of - 770

Sheriffs of Greene County - 163

Shoups Station - 222

Sidelights on County History - 763-789

Silvercreck Township—

  Boundaries of - 317

  Churches - 323

  Coming of the Moormans - 321

  Early Industries - 321

  Early Settlers - 319

  Population of - 120

  Residents of in 1811 - 318

  Schools - 439

  Story of Sylvester Strong - 319

  Topography and Drainage - 319

  Transportation - 322

  When Organized - 317

Simple Needs of Early Settlers - 115

Singing Schools of Other Days - 182

"Sleepy Tom" - 418

Smith Advertising Company - 563

Smith, Dr. Raymond W. - 599

Snoden, James - 248

Society of Friends - 539

Soldiers' and Sailors' Home - 763

Sorgum and Maple Products - 410

Spahr, Dr. Camaralza - 596

HISTORICAL INDEX,

Spahr, Philip - 336

Spanish-American War, The - 50, 661

Spencer, Charles L. - 580

Spring Valley Township—

  Agricultural Interests - 344

  Boundaries of - 340

  Churches - 344

  Claysville (Roxanna) - 346

  Early Industries - 343

  Early Settlers - 342

  Plats of Proposed Towns 345

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 343, 440

  Spring Valley, Village of - 347

  Roads and Bridges - 344

  Transylvania - 346

  When Organized - 340

Spring Valley, Village of - 347

State Encampment, G. A. R., at Xenia - 643

State Representatives - 164

State Senators - 164

Statistics Relating to Schools - 426

St. Clair, General - 33, 38

"Steam Doctors" - 589

Steele, Thomas - 442

Stewart, Dr. J. M. - 598

Stock-Show Prize Winners - 415

Stores Built on Public Square - 137

Streams in Greene County - 59

Stringtown - 339

Strong, Sylvester, Story of - 319

Sugarcreek Township—

  Agricultural Interests - 256

  Bellbrook, Village of - 258

  Boundaries of - 238

  Early Churches - 251

  Early Settlers - 241

  First Election - 246

  Magnetic Springs, The - 263

  Military History - 250

  Mills - 253

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 440

  Sugar Making in Other Days - 251

  When Organized - 238

Sugar-making in Other Days - 255

Symmes Purchase, The - 42, 51

T

Taverns, How Licensed - 106

Taxing Doctors in Old Days - 588

Teachers, Qualifications of - 426

Tecumseh - 86

Temperance Crusade in 1874 - 634

Templeton, Dr. Joseph - 593

Territorial Counties - 39, 42

Territorial Legislature - 39

Territorial Settlement - 41

"The Covenanters," a Poem - 507

"The Rented Farm," a Poem - 783

Thorn, Dr. Edwin I. - 598

Tippecanoe, Battle of - 34

Tobacco - 411

Toll Roads of Other Days - 689

Topography and Geology of Greene County - 59-71

Topography of Ohio - 58

Towler, Rev. James - 174, 702, 763

Township Officials - 189

Townships of Greene County - 189-192

Townsley, Thomas - 328, 485

Tragedy at Bellbrook in 1858 - 265

Tragedy in Miami Township - 303

Transportation -687-700

Transylvania - 346

Travel in Pioneer Days - 172

Trebeins, Village of - 222

Trouble With Land Titles - 337

Turnbull, James - 369, 434

U

United Brethren Church - 541

United Presbyterian Churches - 485, 502

V

Vance, Joseph C. - 103, 106, 107, 115, 141, 173, 243, 258, 486, 574

Virginia Military District - 36, 52

Vote on New Court House - 130

W

Walker, Thomas Barlow - 759

Walton, Moses - 348

Ward, William - 197

HISTORICAL INDEX.

War of 1812, The - 48, 647

War With Germany - 666

Water Courses of Greene County - 59

Watering Place at Yellow Springs - 376

Water Supply of County - 70

Watt, Dr. George - 597

Wayne, Gen. Anthony - 34, 43

Wheat - 408

Whipped by Order of Court - 170

'Whisky, an Early "Necessity" - 177

"Whitehall" - 305

Whiteman, Gen. Reniarnin - 5, 100, 104, 122, 140, 173, 208, 296, 301, 566, 570, 647, 761

Wilberforce University - 475

Williams, Remembrance - 702

Wilson, John, First Settler - 171, 241

Winans, Dr. Mathias - 389, 395, 581, 594

Winans James J. - 581

Winchester, Plat of - 234

Winters, Rev. David - 533

Woman's Christian Temperance Union - 631

Woman's Club, First in Country - 631

Woolsey, Dr. Jeremiah - 594

World War, The - 666

Wright Aviation Field - 294

Wright, Samuel - 701

X

Xenia College - 454

Xenia Female Academy - 454

Xenia Female Seminary - 458

Xenia, The County Seat—

  Appearance of in 1811 - 701

  Cemeteries - 726

  Churches - 484

  Commission Government - 742

  Commercial Directory - 751

  Early Business Interests - 705

  Early Records Missing - 711

  Fire Department - 720

  Fires - 721

  First House in Town - 701

  Incorporation of - 709

  Industrial Development - 748

  Library - 731

  Location of - 104, 701

  Naming of, The - 104

  Police Department - 725

  Population of - 120

  Postoffice - 736

  Public Buildings - 729

  Public Utilities - 715-720

  Schools - 441

  Sewerage System - 722

  Turning Point in Development - 711

  When Laid Out - 701

Xenia Theological Seminary - 468

Xenia Township—

  Agricultural Interests - 275

  Boundaries of - 271

  Early Settlers - 280

  First Election - 275

  Population of - 120

  Schools - 441

  Topography and Drainage - 274

  Village of Oldtown - 280

  When Organized - 271

  Xenia, the County Seat - 701

Y

Yellow Springs, Town of - 376-386

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