Proprietor	Survey Number	Acres
Baylor Hill James Culbertson James Culbertson Lewis Stark Baylor Hill Hughes Woodson Maj.-Gen. Horatio Gates John McAdams Stephen Mason Warner and Addison Lewis James Wright James Ryalls George Friskett James Lemmon Thomas Christie William Tompkins James Culbertson William White James Wright William Moore William White James Merriweather Thomas Browder James Merriweather Francis Dade Thomas Browder Simpson Foster (representatives) Benjamin Grimes James Galloway, Jr.	558 605 616 786 1324 1352 1560 2247 2267 2272 2962 3283 3376 3376 3400 3745 and 3746 4148 and 4149 4367 4371 4372 4378 and 4554 4473 and 4624 4503 4504 4561 4667 5352 5626 6550	1,000 666 500 1,000 1,000 700 2,500 1,333 1/3 1,200 1,000 1,000 200 100 200 528 1,000 650 250 130 140 455 500 340 199 125 50 100 153 1/3 150
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James Galloway, Jr. James Taylor William Fitzhugh   Baylor Hill   James Galloway, Jr.	6972 14132 615 1324 7011	600 75 1,000 1,000 70

At the first election held in the townShip at the house of John W. Walker on December 2 I, 185o, the followiJofficers were elected : Trustees, Thomas A. Reid, Hugh Watt and Samuel Barred; clerk, Samuel Thatcher ; treasurer, J. C. Nisbet; constable, John M. Crain. This election brought out one hundred and seventy-three voters, and it is fair to presume that most of the qualified voters cast their ballots at this first election in the township. TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. Cedarville township is one of the best farming districts of the state. The soil, a rich, black loam, has a goodly depth and with proper crop rota-tion has maintained its pristine fertility to a remarkable degree. Within the last few years the addition of commercial fertilizer has brought up the poorer sections of the township to where they produce as good crops as those more favored by nature. The entire township lies in the basin of the Little Miami river, and is drained into that watercourse through Massies and Caesars creeks and their various branches. The township has been one of the chief centers of the limestone and lime industries for many years. Forty or fifty years ago the manufacture of lime was the most important industry in the village of Cedarville. Massies creek in several places has cut its channel through the stone, the gorge being in some places as much as forty feet in depth. The township, also boasts of one of the finest Indian mounds in the state, a full description of which is given in the chapter dealing with the geological formation of the county. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. The wayfarer who travels the excellent highways that now thread the township in every direction never stops to think that there was a day not so long ago when the roads of the township were practically impassible for three or four months a year. The Townsleys, among the first of the settlers, opened the first road to the county seat, the road beginning near the site of the present village of Cedarville. The first roads were hardly more than bridle paths through the woods, but they answered the purpose until better ones could be provided. The first road which might be dignified by the name of a highway was the Columbus pike, which was built through the township in the middle of the '40s. It was the first gravel road in the township, and when a line of large overland stages began running over this road in 1845 328 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO between Columbus and Cincinnati, the people of Cedarville township and Greene county thought they were at last in touch with the outside world. A little later the Federal road was laid out through the township, this road being the longest straight road in the whole county, In the latter part of the '40s the township was all excited over the building of the railroad from Columbus to Xenia, which was to pass through the center of the township from northeast to southwest,' and through the village of Cedarville. This is the only railroad which has ever reached the township, although not the only one that has been projected. Between 1896 and 1902 there were repeated attempts to get an electric line through the township, but these never got farther than the paper stage. One line was surveyed and apparently at one time a road was going to be built, but the project finally was abandoned after one man had lost a considerable fortune in trying to get it under construction. EARLY SETTLERS. The Townsley family were the first to locate within what is now Cedarville township, Thomas Townsley, the first of the family to arrive, reaching here in 1800. He purchased one thousand acres one mile north of the present site of Cedarville, immediately built his cabin and started in to make his home in the wilderness. In the spring of 1801 he returned to Kentucky and helped his brother John to bring his family to the township. The two families lived in the same cabin during the spring and summer of 1801 and in the fall of that year gathered the first corn grown in Cedarville township. In 1802 the Townsleys were joined by William McClelland, also a Kentuckian, who located with his family on one hundred and fifty acres along Massies creek about a mile from the present site of Cedarville. He came in the spring of 1802 and succeeded in raising enough corn the first year to furnish sufficient corn meal for the first winter. The same year, 1802, Alexander McCoy arrived from Kentucky with his wife and nine children and bought six hundred acres west of where Cedarville later came to be established. He built a cabin, began clearing a small tract and produced his first crop the same year of his arrival. The year 1802 saw a number of settlers locating in what was to become Greene county the following year, and Cedarville township nearly half a century later. It must be understood that Greene county did not have a definite existence as a separate county until May 10, 1803, the day on which the associate judges first met and divided it into townships. Up until that time it had been a part of Montgomery or Franklin counties, the most of Cedarville township falling within what was then—in 1802—the county of Franklin. Among the other arrivals in 1802 were David Mitchell, of Kentucky, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 329 who with his wife and four children, located on a quarter section three miles northwest of the present site of Cedarville. He had owned one thousand acres in Kentucky, but like so many of the other early settlers of Greene county, left that state on account of his hatred of slavery. Another of these Kentucky arrivals of 1802, who came here to get away from slavery, was David Laughead. He bought five hundred acres on Clarks run for one dollar and seventy-five cents an acre and soon had one of the most prosperous farms in the county. It is probable that Captain Herrod arrived in the township in 1802. He and his family settled east of where Cedarville presently became established and continued to make his home in the township until his death. It is impossible to trace the incoming of these first settlers by years, as a glance at one of the early poll-books shows that by the time of the opening of the War of 1812 there were literally hundreds of them. scattered over the county. All that can be done in this connection is to select a few of these worthy pioneers concerning whom some definite record has been preserved. Scores and hundreds of others were no doubt equally worthy citizens, but nothing definite is known of their careers in the county. Scores of them died and left no record of their families ; other scores lived here a few years and then moved on to other parts of the state or else moved on west to Indiana or other states still farther to the west. A study of the poll-books of the first three decades reveals the fact that hundreds of names found there are not represented in the county today. That is a part of the history of every county in Ohio, and Greene county is no exception to the rule. SOME OF THE "FIRST FAMILIES." Between 1802 and 1805 a number of settlers located along the branches of the several creeks traversing the township. It was considered a good plan to build a cabin along the bank of a creek in order to be assured of an ample water supply. Major James Galloway, Jr., seemed to have lived in the township a short time after his arrival here in 1803, but evidently he soon located in the county seat. He was the first county surveyor and as such it is evident that he lived in Xenia. He married Martha Townsley, a daughter of Thomas Townsley, in 1805, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Robert Armstrong, one of, if not the first, minister in Greene county. It might be noted here that James Townsley, a son of John, was born in 1802, the first boy born in what is now known as Cedarville township. Sally McCoy, who became the wife of Innis Townsley, was born in 1803, and has the honor of being the first girl born in the township. James Galloway, Jr., died September 11, 1850, at the age of sixty-eight. Rev. Robert Armstrong came to the township in 1804 and entered a 330 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO tract of land on which he lived until his death in 1821 at the age of fifty-five. He was a very active man and was one of the leaders in the county as long as he lived. A more extended mention of his interesting career is given in the chapter devoted to the churches of the county. The first member of the Bull family to locate in the township was James Bull, a native of Virginia, who came to Cedarville township in 1803. His father, William, a Revolutionary soldier, also came to the county at the same time, dying October 31, 1811, at the age of seventy-one. James Bull died in 1872 at the age of ninety-six. Many of the representatives of the family are still residents of the county. William McFarland arrived with his family from Kentucky in 1804. He bought one hundred fifty acres along Massies creek near the present village of Cedarville. He was a man of considerable education for those days and soon became one of the leaders in his community and later in the affairs of the county. He was foreman of the first grand jury in 1804. He died September 1, 1816, and is one of the hundreds of early pioneers who are resting in the Massies Creek cemetery. A number of arrivals in 1805 have left some definite record of their families. Among these are the Kyles, Morelands, Smalls, Reids and Bromagens, the latter the first German family to locate in the township as far as is known. The Kyles are numerously represented in the county today, and for more than a century have been prominent in every phase of the growth of the county. Samuel Kyle was the first of the family to arrive in the county, coming in 1805 and locating on a large tract west of the present town of Cedarville along Massies creek. He had been married before coming from Kentucky, his wife dying in this township in 1813, leaving him with six children. In 1815 he married Rachel Jackson and by the second marriage had fifteen more children, making a total of twenty-one children for the first representative of the family in the county. It is probable that he holds the record for the largest number of children in the county. Samuel Kyle died on February 25, 1851, at the age of seventy-nine. He served as county surveyor and for many years was one of the associate judges of the county, a record of which is given in the chapter on the Bench and Bar of the county. He was the grandfather of Charles H. Kyle, the present judge of the court of common pleas of the county. SOME OTHER EARLY COMERS. William Moreland, a Kentuckian, located in 1805 three miles east of the present town of Cedarville on a tract of about two hundred acres. James Small, a brother-in-law of Samuel Kyle, was one of the 1805 group who came from Kentucky. He bought one hundred and fifty acres just north GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 331 of where Cedarville later came to be established and there he settled, although he also bought a quarter section in what is now Miami township. He had a family of ten children, two of his children living to be the oldest residents of the township. James Small died on April 23, 1842, at the age of eighty-four and is buried in the Massies Creek cemetery. He was one of the Revolutionary soldiers who located in the township. James Reid, the grandfather of Whitelaw Reid, the most famous man Greene county has ever produced, was a native of Ireland. In 1805 he arrived in what later came to be organized as Cedarville township and bought a large tract on which he settled with his wife and family of several children. One of his sons, Robert Charlton Reid, married Marion Whitelaw Ronald in 1820, and it was a son of this marriage who eventually became the most famous man of Greene county. A sketch of the life of Whitelaw Reid may be found in another chapter in this volume. James Reid, the first of the family, died April 13, 1822, and is buried in the Massies Creek cemetery. Robert Charlton Reid died on October 17, 1865. One other noteworthy arrival in 1805 was Elias Eliah Bromagen, the first native of Germany to locate in the township. He came directly from Prussia to Greene county, bringing with him his wife and large family of children. He set to work in the spring of his arrival and harvested a good crop the fall of the same year. He continued to reside in the township until his death in 1828. In 1806 a widow of the name of Miller located here with her seven children. She had a brother, John Stephens, who had located in the township a short time previously, and lived with him until she had a cabin ready for her occupancy. She and her children had a very trying time in getting here. They started from Pittsburgh down the Ohio river, but their raft was wrecked at a place called Boat's Run, and they made the way from there to this county on foot, carrying all of their few worldly possessions. The family prospered and one of the sons, Jacob, became one of the substantial farmers of the township. At the time of his death in February, 1885, Jacob Miller was probably the oldest resident in the township. James White, of Kentucky, arrived in 1806 and at once bought a quarter section adjoining the Bromagen tract. He had two sons and three daughters and a wife who excelled in the art of dyeing dress goods. She was an expert spinner and developed a method of coloring goods which brought her services in wide demand. James White died on July 9, 1817, at the age of sixty-three and is buried at Cedarville. Thomas Paris came from Virginia about 1809 and bought five hundred acres along Massies creek on which he lived until his death, October 6, 1823. He had one of the first orchards in the township, although practically 332 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO all the early settlers started an orchard within the first few years of their arrival. John Paris, another member of the family, became the first postmaster of the village of Cedarville in 1834, continuing in office for ten years. John Paris died on July 22, 1858. The village of Cedarville was laid out in 1816 and has thus had a continuous history for more than a century. Much of the early history of the township clusters around the village and is treated of in detail in the. chapter devoted to the town. The town has held most of the industries of the township, most of the churches, and in other ways has included a large part of the active history of the township of which it now contains more than half the population. PRESENT AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS. Cedarville township prides itself on its farming and stock-raising, being particularly proud of its stock raisers. Some of the farmers of the township rank with the leaders in the state and nation when it comes to producing a high grade of live stock. The name of O. A. Bradfute is known, from one end of the country to the other as a breeder of Aberdeen-Angus cattle, and there are other breeders in the township who have made names for themselves which extend far beyond the confines of the township. But the township is also known for the quality of its grains and fruits; its clovers and ensilages; its milk and egg products ; and for everything that a farmer produces on the modern farm—from silos to sausage. The last reports shows the township credited with the following grain yield for 1916: Wheat, 71,131 bushels; rye, 4,614 bushels; oats, 3,946 bushels; corn, 210,719 bushels; clover seed, 4.9 bushels. During this same year the farmers of the township produced fourteen acres of ensilage and 146 tons of sugar corn, much of which went to fill the sixty-one silos of the township, the largest number in any township in the county. There were 3,316 tons of timothy hay; 512 tons of clover hay; 130 acres of alfalfa producing 380 tons of alfalfa for hay or ensilage; and, so the record states, 67 acres of clover were plowed under. The farmers also used 685,740 pounds of commercial fertilizer, considerably more than was used in any other township in the county. Among miscellaneous crops may be mentioned the following : Tomatoes, 48 bushels; potatoes, 1,270 bushels; onions, 370 bushels; 421 sugar trees producing 214 gallons of syrup; apples, 2,840 bushels; peaches, 40 bushels; cherries, 18 bushels. The live stock of the township figured up as follows on March 1, 1917: Horses, 1,155; cattle, 2,298; sheep, 3,012, (largest number in the county) ; hogs, 5,970, with 320 lost by cholera; and 16 cholera-infected farms reported. There were 19,271 gallons of cream sold; 55,053 gallons of milk sold; and GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 333 30,111 pounds of home-made butter taken to market. The hens laid 42,960 dozen eggs. The township reports 17,088 acres under cultivation ; 2,358 acres in pasture; 1,875 acres in woodland; 196 acres of orchards; 512 acres of waste land; with a total acreage of 22,029. The woodland is gradually decreasing, although most of the farmers with woodland are keeping their wood lots intact. MOUNT IDA. Cedarville township had at least one interesting village of the "paper" variety, a village which was born of the brain of Robert Jackson. This creature of his imagination responded to the classical name of Mount Ida, and found a resting place in Military Survey Nos. 605 and 616. It was surveyed by J. Culbertson on April 24, 1841, certified by a justice of the peace on June 19, 1841, and filed for record on June 23, 1841. That plat shows one street, with twelve lots on the west side and five lots on the east—a total of seventeen lots. This village is another case of a man who had a vision which he attempted to materialize, only to find that it was a vision after all. Today the place is not even a memory, and would be unknown if its plat were not recorded among the archives in the court house. CHAPTER XX. NEW JASPER TOWNSHIP. When one looks at the map of Greene county as it stands today, he is left to wonder at the processes which were followed in the laying out of some of the townships. For an even half century after the county was organized in 1803 there was no New Jasper township, but on a sunny day in June, 1853, there appeared before the board of county commissioners a lengthy petition signed by one hundred and twenty-eight voters who were residents of a certain tract of territory which they wished to have set off as a new township. They had been living in five different townships for many years : they were from Cedarville, Ross, Silvercreek, Caesarscreek and Xenia townships, portions of which five townships they prayed might be formed into a new township to be known as New Jasper. Why did these forefathers take this step? Did they think they could live happier lives? Was it a political move, a religious, educational, social, fraternal, financial or civic motive which moved them to this action ? There was no village of any considerable size within the limits of the proposed township ; all of its prospective inhabitants were within easy distance of Jamestown, Cedarville or Xenia. Yet, for some reason these one hundred and twenty-eight voters, and practically all of them farmers, appeared anxious to have a township which they could call their own. Accordingly, they signed a petition and presented it on June 9, 1853, to the county commissioners, the petition setting forth in a curious roundabout way the limits of their proposed township. This petition and the answer thereto appear on the records couched in the following language: The petition of John Fudge and one Hundred and Twenty Seven other Householders was this day presented to the Board of Commissioners praying that a new Township may be set off embracing the Territory included in the following lines, to wit : Beginning in the Township road leading from Xenia to Jamestown at the corner between the lands of Jonathan Williamson and Hugh Boyd and in the line of Cedarville Township ; thence easterly with the line of Cedarville Township to the crossing of the McCrosky road ; thence with the said McCrosky road to the corner of Hugh J. McCrosky thence southerly to the- corner of Junkins and George ; thence nearly the same course to the Northwest corner of Gideon Spahr's Farm ; thence with his line nearly the same course to John Spahr's Northeast corner ; thence with the same course with his line to Levy Turner's Northwest corner ; thence same course to the south fork of Caesar's Creek ; thence down the creek -with the meanderings thereof to the land line of Elijah Turner ; thence with his line and Gideon Baynard's to Thomas Bone's line ; thence with this line to John Fudge's line ; thence with the line of said Fudge and Bone to the line of David Ford ; GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 335 thence with the line of said Ford and Fudge to Samuel Petterson's line ; thence with the line of said Petterson and Ford and John Lucas to the corner between said Petterson and C. and G. Weaver thence with this line to Caesar's Creek ; thence up the creek to the corner between John Tresslar and Abel Wilkinson ; thence with their line to Wilford McDaniel's line ; thence with the line of John Tresslar, W. McKindric Johnson, George Mallow and R. W. Johnson to the line of G. Gultice. It appearing to the Board of Conimissioners that a majority of the Householders residing within the boundary of said proposed township have signed said petition and that thirty days previous notice of the application has been given by advertisement at three public places within the bounds of said proposed township ; it is therefore ordered by the Board of Commissioners that the boundaries of said township so made be recorded in a book according to the provisions of the statute ; and that said Township be called and Known by the name of New Jasper and the Commissioners thereupon gave notice of the election of officers in said Township. The petition was granted and the new township started off on its career in the authorized legal manner. As in the case of other townships cut off from townships earlier formed, the first settlers of the township are recorded in the previously formed townships. In the case of New Jasper the poll-books of five other townships would have to be searched in order to trace the incoming of the settlers; even then it would not be possible to determine where the voters lived, since the poll-books do not give the residence of the voters within the township. For this reason it is exceedingly difficult to trace the early settlers who located within the limits of what became New Jasper township in 1853. MILITARY SURVEYS IN THE TOWNSHIP. All of the land within the township falls in the Virginia Military Survey, thirteen surveys being wholly or partly within the limits of the township as it is defined today. These. surveys, their proprietors, number and acreage thereof, are ziven in the appended table :

Proprietor.	Survey Number	Acres.
Samuel Eddins William McGuire John Belfield Tarpley White Clement Biddle John McAdams Benjamin Spiller Richard Anderson Benjamin Spiller Alexander Armstrong Richard Call Warner and Addison Lewis	817 and 8380 1240 1373 1376 1378 1995 2358 2383 3910 4546 4809 2244	1,000 666 2/3 1,100 1,000 1,200 1,333 1/3 1,480 2,533 1/3 1,300 133 177 2/3 1,000

336 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. The surface of New Jasper township contains some of the best and some of the poorest land in the county. It has a diversified surface, with extensive level tracts and some which are so rolling as to be termed hilly. There are several places in the township Where for more than half a century a fine quality of stone has been quarried, there being two especially fine quarries opened. The highest point in the township marked by the government lies near the northwestern corner, near Stringtown, the altitude there being one thousand fifty-nine feet. There are a number of places in the township slightly less than one thousand feet above sea level, most of these lower places being along the lower course of the branch of Caesars creek. This creek drains the entire township, the surface being thrown in relief in such a manner that the rainfall is readily carried away. EARLY SETTLERS. As has been stated, it is difficult to determine the early settlers of New Jasper township owing to the fact that this township was a part of several other townships all during its pioneer clays. It appears from the best evidence that William G. Sutton, a native of Kentucky, who arrived in 1812 with his family, was the first permanent settler to make his home in the territory now comprised within the township. Closely following Sutton, and while the War of 1812 was in progress, came the Bales family. This family consisted of Elijah Bales and his wife and minor children, together with four of his sons, John, Jacob, Elijah and Jonathan, with their wives and families. The Bales family came from Tennessee, a state which furnished quite a number of the early settlers of the county. The Shooks, Deans and Spahrs came during the period of the War of 1812. Three Shook brothers arrived in 1813, David, Harmonia and John, the latter having a family. William and Daniel Dean were the first representatives of that family to locate here. Philip Spahr came with his family in December, 1814, and the descendants of this family are still found in the county in large numbers. Following the close of the War of 1812, in 1815 and including the period up to 1820, there were but few settlers who located within the limits of what is now New Jasper township. Among these were Leonard Hagle, William Long, Jacob Smith, the Coffers, Clines and a few other families. But the region apparently did not attract many new settlers; rather it was settled up by the numerous children of the first settlers. With every one of the first families having from ten to twenty children each, it did not take many years to furnish a sufficient number of settlers to occupy the township as it stands today. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 337 LAND TROUBLES. Many of the first settlers had difficulty in getting the titles to their lands straightened out, the difficulty arising from the fact that some unprincipled Kentuckian by the name of Coleman sold so many fraudulent tax-rights to unsuspecting settlers. This made it necessary for some of the settlers to pay for their land A second time, rather than lose it with all the improvements they had placed on it. The commissioners' records bear ample witness to this trickery on the part of Coleman, and there were other land grafters in those early days. Most of the land in the county was bought for from two dollars and a half to ten dollars an acre. When a settler was unable to make his payments he frequently had to lose everything he had invested, together with whatever improvements he had made. EARLY INDUSTRIES. The subject of industries in New Jasper township may be very briefly dismissed, since it has probably had fewer than any township in the county. For some reason there were no mills along Caesars creek in this section, the settlers going to the mills at Xenia, Oldtown, Cedarville or Jamestown. It is true that there is one early mill on record—a combination saw-mill and corn-cracker—which was run by water power, but it disappeared so long ago that it is difficult to determine where it stood. THE STONE INDUSTRY. Excellent limestone crops out in various places in New Jasper township, and efforts have been made at different times to open quarries. Long & Mallow opened a stone quarry along the banks of Caesars creek, west branch, and near where the railroad crosses the creek. The railroad built a spur down to the quarry in order to handle the output of the quarry, which, as first projected, was to be the largest and best equipped the county had thus far seen. The firm spent thousands of dollars in stripping off the dirt and getting ready to take out the stone. They even went so far as to put in a tile factory in order to make use of the clay which they were stripping from the stone. But the firm was in active business only three or four years, closing down the quarry in about 1908, and the railroad company has since removed the spur which was installed. Another firm which. was interested in getting out stone in New Jasper township was the firm of Conklin & Bickett, which had a quarry near the one of Long & Mallow. AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS. There is considerable rough land in New Jasper township, this arising from the fact that it is crossed by the several branches of Caesars creek. There is an outcropping of limestone along the main branch of the creek, (22) 338 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and a large amount of stone has been taken from the township in two or three quarries. The land which is in the valley of the streams is very productive, however, while the higher land is capable of good crops under modern farming methods. New Jasper is considerably smaller than Ross township and yet it has about three times as much waste land, having 512 acres to 186 acres for Ross, the total acreage of New Jasper being 12,006 against 21,278 for Ross. The crops for the year ending March 1, 1917, for New Jasper township were reported as follows : Wheat, 44,120 bushels; rye, 131 bushels; oats, 10,117 bushels; corn, 147,241 bushels; Irish potatoes, 200 bushels; timothy hay, 820 tons; clover hay, 796 tons; clover seed, 312 bushels; alfalfa, 69 acres; alfalfa hay, 210 tons; ensilage, 5 acres; ensilage, 511 tons (evidently not all from the five acres) ; apples, 4,800 bushels; peaches, 220 bushels; cherries, 26 bushels; pears, 18 bushels. The township reported 21 silos. The live stock report for the same year: Horses, 647; cattle, 991; sheep, 996; wool clip, 5,120 pounds; hogs, 3,066; hogs died from cholera, 1,140; cholera infected farms, 18; cows produced 16,18o gallons of cream for sale, 6,486 gallons of milk for sale and 8,127 pounds of home-made butter. In 1916, New Jasper had 8,750 acres under cultivation; 1,642 acres in pasturage; 986 acres of woodland; 146 acres of orchards; 512 acres of waste land; total acreage of 12,006. The farmers used 426,110 pounds of commercial fertilizer and one ton of lime in their efforts to secure better crops. They also plowed under 512 acres of clover sod. Drainage in the township amounted to a total of 532 rods for the year 1916. The township reported 1,200 maple trees as being tapped for the purpose of making molasses and sugar. The sugar crop amounted to only 36 pounds and the molasses yield to 740 gallons. It is evident that the entire crop of the maple trees was not reported to the assessor. VILLAGE OF NEW JASPER. There are two villages known as New Jasper, the old town of the name being about a mile from the railroad, the other, usually designated as New Jasper Station, being on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The latter is hardly a village and does not pretend to be anything more than a station stop on the railroad, although it has a store, an elevator, a church and a few dwelling houses. It came into existence after the railroad was completed through the county in the latter '70s. The original village of New Jasper is more than half a century old; in fact, there was a store there three-quarters of a century ago. It had hoped to be on the railroad line which was to connect Xenia and Jamestown, but as fate would have it, the little village was left about a mile to the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 339 south of the road. This effectually dashed whatever hopes it may have had concerning its future possibilities as a village. There is no record of the town being platted, but tradition is responsible for stating that a man of the name of Slagle was the first settler on the site, and if the place may be said to have had a founder, this Slagle may be credited with the honor. There has always been a store in the village, while a blacksmith shop completes the business enterprises of the hamlet. The store has changed hands so frequently that it would be impossible to trace the shifting ownership. Its present owner is John A. Fudge, who has been there longer than most of his predecessors. Doctor Davis has been located in the village for several years, and has built up a large practice in the surrounding community. There is one church, the Methodist, but there has never been a school house in the village, the nearest school building at the present time being about a mile south of the town. The population of the village is not more than fifty. NEW JASPER STATION. After the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was built through New Jasper township, the station of New Jasper was started where the railroad company built a siding. An elevator was built and has been operated by John Jenks & Son, of Jamestown, for a number of years. The place has never been platted. STRINGTOWN. In the northwestern part of New Jasper township is a collection of houses clustered along the road, which, for a number of years, was known as Stringtown. At the present time .there are nine houses which might be considered as a part of the "town," and five of these are occupied by colored families. There is no store or church at this point. To this immediate vicinity there came in the years before the Civil War a number of colored families to make their homes. They were from the South and were settled on farms in the corner of the township by their owners. It seems that the colored families, four in number, were freed by their masters, who, in a sincere desire to help the poor people, came to this county and bought about four hundred acres of land and gave it to them for their permanent homes the remainder of their days. These colored families were the Curls, Smiths, Brooks and Fergusons, well remembered by the older generation of the township, although they have long since left the township, most of them and their descendants finally locating in Xenia. The colored people living along the road in Stringtown are not of this group, being later corners into the township. The Young family now owns the old Curl and Smith farms. CHAPTER XXI. SPRING VALLEY TOWNSHIP. Spring Valley township came into existence more than half a century after Greene county was organized. Prior to its creation in 1856 it had been a part of three other townships, Sugarcreek, Caesarscreek and Xenia, each of these three townships having been in existence more than fifty years. The greater portion of the Spring Valley township as set off in 1856 had been included within the limits of Sugarcreek township since 1803. The fact that the township had been included for more than fifty years within other townships previously organized renders it a difficult matter to follow the careers of its early settlers. Its voters up to 1856 were to be found on the poll-books of one or the other of the three townships which contributed of their territory to form the township in that year. Spring Valley was one of the three townships organized in the '50s, the other two being New Jasper (1853) and Jefferson (1858). As in the case of the other two it is difficult to see the benefit to be derived from the organization of the township, but the fact remains that a sufficient number of voters of Sugarcreek, Caesarscreek and Xenia townships agreed upon the organization of a new township in 1856 in order to make its creation possible. Their petition was presented to and granted by the commissioners on December 3, 1856, the petition as shown by the commissioners' record being as follows: The petition of Robert Evans, Ambrose Elkins and R. D. Page and other citizens and householders of Sugar Creek, Caesars Creek and Xenia Townships, Greene County, Ohio, praying the Board of County Commissioners to set off a new township, composed of territory taken from territory heretofore included in the bounds of Sugar Creek, Caesars Creek and Xenia Townships, was this day taken up and read in open session. The Commissioners having taken testimony on the filing of said petition, which to them was satisfactory, that the intention of the petitioners had been legally administered and that the signers of the said petition in number contained a majority of all the householders in said bounds. It is therefore ordered that the territory included in the bounds as particularly set in said petition be and the same is hereby set off a new township and by the name and style of Spring Valley Township. The township as organized in 1856 was bounded on the west by Sugarcreek township, on the north by Beavercreek, Sugarcreek and Xenia townships, on the east by Xenia and Caesarscreek townships and on the south by Warren and Clinton counties. The greatest length of the township is seven miles and its greatest width a little less than six miles. It was originally GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 341 heavily wooded, but practically all of the timber has disappeared, the last report on March 1, 1917, crediting it with only 1,642 acres of woodland out of a total area of about 15,000 acres. The township is well provided with natural means of drainage. The Little Miami river enters it from Sugarcreek township three miles from the Warren county line and meanders through the southwestern corner of the township. Caesars creek courses from the north through the eastern middle of the township. The many branches of these two watercourses afford ample drainage for all the township, Glady run and Andersons fork being the largest of the minor streams. The fact that the township is crossed by the Little Miami river and Caesars creek is responsible for most of the broken land found within its limits, although the 1917 report to the township assessor schedules only 131 acres of what was termed "waste" land. There is no better farming land in the county than is to be found in the township, and the crops grown by its farmers will compare favorably with those grown by the farmers in any other part of the state. THE VIRGINIA MILITARY SURVEY. Practically all of the township falls within the Virginia Military Survey, all, in fact, except about two square miles in the extreme southwestern corner, that part west of the Little Miami river. There are twenty-seven surveys, wholly or in part in the township, eight of which are of one thousand acres each or more. Only four of them call for less than one hundred acres. A complete list of the proprietors of these surveys, together with the number and acreage of each survey, is given in the appended table:

Proprietor.	Survey Number	Acres
Churchill Jones Francis Muire Albert Gallatin Albert Russell John Crittenden Samuel Eddins Leroy Edwards Benjamin Moseley William Smalley Robert Gibbons (heir) Aaron Mercer David Price John Gibson Alexander Anderson	417 432 571 598 904 1044 1281 1297 1965 1295 2233 2424 2425 2426	1,000 1,000 776 2/3 1,000 1,000 1,000 677 666 100 1,000 900 200 400 733 1/3
342 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO
Lewis Booker   Lewis Booker   George Holland   George Holland   William Fowler   Ichabod B. Miller   Nathaniel Massie   Henry Field (representatives) James Galloway, Jr.   James Galloway, Jr.   Allen Latham  Pamelia and Penelope Russell Moses Bradford	3576 3577 3583 3584 4499 4595 4704 4871 5131 9365 12248 2565 15237	475 250 280 230 60 200 460 500 80 43 1,000 1,730 5

EARLY SETTLERS It has been stated that all of the early settlers of this township were identified with one of the three townships which contributed of their territory in 1856 to form Spring Valley township. The names of every pioneer of the territory now comprised within the township may be found on the poll-books of either Sugarcreek, Xenia or Caesarscreek townships, most of them being identified with Sugarcreek. Among the arrivals during the year 1803-1805 may be mentioned William, Samuel and Robert McKnight, Amos Compton, Edward Mercer, Jesse Sanders and Josiah Elam. The' Elam family became one of the most prominent of the early families of the township, and many of the descendants are still found in the county to this day. Josiah Elam had fought in the Revolutionary War, and was married several years before coming to the county. One of his sons was old enough to participate in the War of 1812. Josiah Elam and his wife reared a family of ten children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood and married. One of the Elams, John B., born in Greene county, later settled in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became one of the most prominent lawyers of that state. In 1816 a group of settlers from Pennsylvania located in what was later to become Spring Valley township. It was the custom in those clays for some one in the East to organize a party of at least half a dozen families and conduct them to the newer states in the West, and it was such a party that found a home in Greene county in Spring Valley in 1816. Numerous other such groups of settlers came from Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, Kentucky and Tennessee. The Collins family was one of the most prominent of the Pennsylvania party of 1816. Spring Valley township boasts a number of citizens who have made a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO 343 name for themselves along some particular line. Among these sons of Spring Valley may be mentioned the following : Michael Daugherty, who operated the first oil (flax) mill in the county; John Clark, an associate judge for twenty years; George Barrett, a wool manufacturer; James E. Hawes, common pleas judge for two terms; I. M. Barrett and Joseph G. Gest, both of whom represented the county in the General Assembly of the state ; Levi Riddell, county surveyor; T. R. Schnebly, for many years one of the leading lawyers of Xenia; William J. Alexander, teacher and lawyer for a generation, and Moses Walton, for many years an extensive dealer in cattle and hogs. EARLY INDUSTRIES. The tracing of the early industries of the county is an extremely difficult matter. All of the early mills have disappeared so long ago that the oldest inhabitant scarcely remembers anything definite about them. The location of most of them is now more or less a matter of tradition, and since no written account has been preserved concerning them, it is impossible to ascertain any very definite information about them. It is specifically stated that in 1880 the township had three flour-mills, two saw-mills, one woolen factory, one oil mill and one tow-mill. There was a large pork-packing establishment in the village of Spring Valley which had been established in 1855 by Moses Walton. His sons were engaged in the manufacture of bagging for several years prior to the burning of their plant in December, 1881. The first woolen-mill made its appearance in 1844 in the village of Spring Valley under the direction of George Barrett. The linseed-oil industry was started by James Daugherty in 1829 along Glady run and in 1832 Michael Daugherty, his father, built a mill on the site of the village, and engaged in the manufacture of both oil and, somewhat later, carded wool. The pork-packing industry began in 1855 and continued with gradually decreasing business until it was discontinued by Walton in 1883. After Walton quit killing hogs in 1883 he continued curing hams and bacon until 1893, getting his fresh meat from Chicago. SCHOOLS. The township in common with all the other in the county began its educational career with the rude log school houses. These gave way to frame buildings and some of these. again later to brick structures. As the population of the township increased from year to year additional school buildings were erected until they reached the maximum number of eleven in the '70s. With the introduction of the idea of consolidation some of the schools have been abandoned. 344 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO CHURCHES. Spring Valley township has had its full share of the churches of the county from the beginning, although there are not as many in the township today as there were fifty years ago. The Methodists have the largest membership and at one time had five churches in the township. The Baptists once had two flourishing churches, but they have, disappeared. The first church in the township was organized by the Friends as early as 1808, their log. church standing about three miles east of the village of Spring Valley. A complete history of the churches of the township may be seen in the chapter devoted exclusively to the churches. ROADS AND BRIDGES. The township is well provided with good roads and they are being improved each year. Formerly there were a number of toll roads, but these were gradually taken over by the county, and it has been several years since the traveler had to stop every few miles and pay his two cents per mile for the privilege of driving along the road. The streams are spanned with substantial bridges, the largest bridge in the county being the one across the Little Miami just below Roxanna, near the south line of the township. There is another bridge across the Little Miami at the village of Spring Valley. Caesars creek is spanned by four bridges in the township, one bridge spanning the creek on the line between Spring Valley and Caesarscreek townships. AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS. The farmers of Spring Valley have been prosperous for a hundred years, but never more so than in 1918. Their crops are the equal of any other township in the county and Greene county claims to be second to none in the state. The following summary of the crops, amount of live stock, and general agricultural statistics has been taken directly from the report compiled from the township assessor's report for the spring of 1917. The major crops grown by the farmers with their yield were as follows : Wheat, 47,436 bushels corn, 139,716 bushels of shelled corn; oats, 6,727; winter barley, 416 bushels; acres of ensilage, 14; tons of sugar corn, 49; potatoes, 1,780 bushels; onions, 180 bushels ; sugar trees, 1,240; timothy hay, 926 tons; clover hay, 510 tons; alfalfa, 72 acres, and 161 tons; tobacco, 7,460 pounds. Joseph Benson had fifteen acres of tobacco in 1917, for which he received twenty-five cents a pound in the spring of 1918. In the way of live stock the township reported the following: Horses, 880; cattle, 1,593; sheep, 1,075; wool clip, 370 pounds; hogs, 6,137; hogs GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 345 died of cholera, 527; hog-cholera farms, 22. The dairy business in figures looked prosperous, as witness these figures : cream sold, 3,723 gallons; butter, home-made, 7,174 pounds; milk sold, 10,677 gallons. The humble hen contributed 71,140 dozens of eggs. The question of keeping the soil in condition to produce the best crops has been one of increasing importance. Last year the farmers of the township turned under 391 acres of clover sod. They also used 437,120 pounds of commercial fertilizer and two tons of lime on their land. Among other interesting statistics relating to the farmers of Spring Valley township as revealed by the last report to the county auditor are the following: Acres cultivated, 10,140; pasture land, 2,712 acres; timber land, 1,642 acres; orchards, 43 acres; waste land, 131 acres; total acres owned in the township, 14,668. ROBINSON. One of the most pretentious of the early villages of Greene county—on paper—was the quondam village of Robinson. There is probably not a person now living in the county who would be able to give a complete history of this once flourishing village as it existed in the mind of its fond promoter. But a reference to the official records shows the existence of such a village in what is now Spring Valley township. The site was laid in Military Survey No. 904, and the owner was one Edward Robinson. The site was surveyed in May, 1837, by Moses Collier, then surveyor of the county, and recorded on May 25, 1837. It contained ninety-four lots, most of them being sixty-six by one hundred and fifty feet. It had a so-called Main street of sixty-six feet in width, and other streets of varying width, while the whole site was girdled with a street—a boulevard, it would be called today. It was a good looking and prosperous town—on paper. GREENWOOD SPRINGS. The plat of Greenwood Springs was surveyed by Robert Evans on March 1, 1854, and, recorded three days later. The site was owned by W. H. Moseley and was a part of Military Survey No. 12248, lying in what is now Spring Valley township, along the Little Miami river and the railroad. Part of the lots were between the river and the railroad, the remainder being east of the railroad. This is another of the proposed towns of the county that owe their platting to the railroad, but which, like several others, was not destined to get beyond the paper stage. The entire plat contained forty lots, fourteen between the river and railroad, the remainder being across the railroad track. 346 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO CLAYSVILLE OR ROXANNA. The village of Claysville or Roxanna, located in the southwest corner of Spring Valley, on the east side of the Little Miami river, is on a part of Military Survey No. 4704. The beginning of the village was due to the building of the railroad through the county in the middle of the '40s. The site of about five and a half acres was surveyed into twelve lots by Samuel T. Owens, then surveyor of Greene county, and recorded on April 29, 1845. The proprietor was Elias Adsit, according to the public records, although one John Speer is said to have been interested in the townsite. It was too close to Spring Valley; two miles to the north, to hope to become a place of any importance and never had more than a half dozen houses in it. There was a grain elevator built along the railroad shortly after the railroad was built through the county, but it was never extensively used. A. Alexander owned and operated the elevator for several years, but it has been discontinued for a quarter of a century. At the present time the village of Roxanna has a population of seven. TRANSYLVANIA. A village by the name of Transylvania was platted by Samuel T. Owens, county surveyor, for the heirs of J. W. Merrick. E. F. Drake and Benoni Nesbit were the agents and attorneys for the heirs and had the surveying done and took charge of the sate of the lots. There were only ten lots, "irregular for most part, located' on southwest bank of the Little Miami, in part of sections 18 and 24, township 4, range 5." The survey was made on the 16th and 17th of May, 1850. The plat was sworn to and acknowledged by Lydia Merrick on November 30, 1850: This proposed village was immediately west of the Little Miami, across the river from the town of Spring Valley, along the Xenia-Cincinnati pike. Its platting was the extent of its history. There was a small hamlet bearing the name of Transylvania in existence on the above site as early as the '20S. This Transylvania was the forerunner of the village of Spring Valley. When the railroad was surveyed through the township in the fore part of the '40s, the Waltons decided that the best site for the town would be on the east side of the Little Miami, and accordingly platted their town on that side. This meant the dissolution of whatever was left of the ancient village of Transylvania, its few inhabitants and business enterprises moving across the river to the new site. Little is known of the original Transylvania other than that a man by the name of Jeffrey Truman had a tavern there, and presumably had a small store of some description. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 347 SPRING VALLEY. The village of Spring Valley is one of the villages which came into being following the building of the Little Miami railroad through the county in the '40s, and owes its existence primarily to the railroad. It was surveyed in 1842 by Samuel T. Owens, surveyor of Greene county, for the two men who owned the town site, Edward and Moses Walton, father and son. The site lies in Military Survey No. 4871, originally owned by Churchill Jones. For some reason the owners of the townsite did not appear before the county recorder to have their plat filed until February 16, 1844. The Waltons appeared before Joseph Mason, a justice of the peace, on February 14, 1844, and their sworn statement on that day sets forth a full description of the site. It is recited that the surveying was done on January 18, 19 and 20, 1842, by Owens; that Owens filed his report on January 31; that the plat contained 11.57 acres, of which Moses Walton owned 7.39 acres and Edward Walton had 4.18 acres ; that it was located on survey No. 4871; finally, that there was a total of forty lots, all of which are carefully delineated. Since the original plat was made there have been a number of additions to it, a summary of which is given in the appended table. The table shows the proprietors of the additions, the number of lots, and the dates of the recording of the additions.

Proprietors.	Lots.	Date of Recording.
Moses Walton Edward Walton Edward Walton Edward Walton Michael Daughertses Moses Walton Moses Walton Moses Walton J. F. Stump T. M. Scarff	17 16 6 6 10 28 73 30 23 12	March 30, 1848 1848 May 3, 1849 April 15, 1854 July 15, 1872 April 26, 1878 April, 1882 October, 1881 October 26, 1886 April, 1909

The plat records in the court house note that lots 1-48, inclusive, were vacated on February 20, 1884. The lots credited to Moses and Edward Walton in 1848 appear to have been in part, at least, resurveys of the original site. The record is not clear on this point, but is given as it appears. 348 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO HISTORY OF THE TOWN'S DEVELOPMENT. The town of Spring Valley came into existence fourteen years before the township of Spring Valley was organized, the town being in Sugarcreek township at the time it was platted in 1842. The township of Spring Valley was not set off by the county commissioners until 1856. The town is located on the Columbus-Cincinnati pike, where the road crosses the railroad, while one side of the town abuts the Little Miami river. It is in a good location for a trading center, and with the railroad and good highways, the town has enjoyed a steady growth. The electric line which formerly connected the town with Dayton is being dismantled in the spring of 1918, and thus the town loses direct connection with Dayton. This electric line was projected to operate between Dayton and Wilmington, but it was never built any further than from Dayton to Spring. Valley. Spring Valley has had an uneventful career for more than three-quarters of a century. It has had its share of the small industries common to towns of this size; there have been saw-mills, flour-mills, wagon shops, shoe-repair shops, blacksmith shops, tailor shops, tinshops, and the usual complement of merchants of various kinds. There can be no question that the village at one time in its career was of much more importance industrially than it is at the present time. Most of the industrial enterprises of the township have been centered in the village, an account of which has been given in part in the discussion of the township. Moses Walton, one of the proprietors of the town, was the most important man in the village for a long period of years, and continued active in business until his death, December 8, 1807. He was a very successful business man, and it seemed that he made a success of everything to which he turned his hand.. At one and the same time he had the largest general store in the village, packed large quantities of pork each year, and engaged in farming on an extensive scale. His sons inherited their father's ability to manage industrial enterprises, and for a number of years prior to 1881 they had probably the largest bagging factory in the county in Spring Valley. Their plant burned down in 1881 and they never rebuilt. The two sons of Moses Walton, Moses, Jr., and Samuel, were in partnership from 1868 until the business was closed. The linseed-oil-mill and woolen-mill of Michael Daugherty have already been mentioned. Daugherty was an Irishman and a superior business man, if his career in Spring Valley may be taken to substantiate the statement. He had the first industry in the village, and, like his contemporary, Moses Walton, was a man of varied interests. He ground linseed oil, carded wool, engaged in the dry-goods business, bought and sold stock and drove it overland to Baltimore and other eastern markets, and also killed and packed thousands of hogs annually. He also found time, with the assistance of his good wife, to rear ten children, all of whom grew GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 349 to maturity. They are now all deceased, not a member of this large family livig in the county today. It is not too much to say that these two sterling old pioneers of Spring Valley, Moses Walton and Michael Daugherty, did more for the town in the first half century of its existence than any other two men. Since their day scores of business men have come and gone, but these two have never had their counterpart—they stand on a niche apart from their successors in the business world as represented by the village of Spring Valley. SPRING VALLEY IN 1874. A local newspaper in 1874 summarized the village of Spring Valley as follows : Population, 550, two groceries, one dry-goods store, one shoeshop, one drug store, two blacksmith shops, one woolen factory, one hotel, one tin-shop, one cooper shop, one livery stable, one grain dealer, one harness shop, one oil-mill (flax-seed oil), one flour-mill, one pork-packing establishment, and one so called "bagging-mill," operated by S. and M. Walton, which was also known as a tow-mill, this particular mill of Spring Valley being engaged in making flax material for the bags used in packing cotton in the South. The local mill did not make the bags. The village, furthermore, had three physicians, a lawyer, four churches and a school house. The cooper shop was operated for several years by Giles Kinney and was the largest industry of its kind in the county. Walton had a number of partners in the pork-packing business, being associated at one time with William Byrd and at another time with Aurelius Alexander. The old carding factory of Daugherty closed down after Barrett opened his woolen-mill. I. M. Barrett opened his woolen-mill in 1865 along the railroad about three-quarters of a mile north of the village, using both water and steam 1910,. It was closed in 1910, the building still standing in a good state of preservation. The village now has three churches : Friends, Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant. The Methodist Episcopal congregation erected a handsome new structure in 1907. The building, which was made of concrete blocks, was erected at a cost of about eight thousand dollars. The same year also saw the completion of a new school building, which was likewise constructed of concrete blocks. The use of concrete blocks in the construction of these two public buildings may account for the interest taken in the cement-block industry in the village. THE SPRING VALLEY OF TODAY. The passing of the years has seen the passing of all of the early industries of Spring Valley. Gone forever is the pork-packing industry, the woolen industry, the linseed-oil industry, the cooperage industry, and