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600 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO Pomeroy associates. Mr. Rathburn had in the meantime become the son-in-law of Mr. Daniel. Mr. Daniel continued the management and the presidency of The First National Bank of Pomeroy, with Mr. George W. Plantz, another son-in-law, as cashier in the place of Mr. Mon-tague, until the year 1878, when the bank was placed in voluntary liquidation. It was immediately succeeded by The First City Bank, unincorporated, with Mr. George W. Plantz as principal owner and cashier, in which position he served until his death in 1914, when his son, Mr. Wyatt G. Plantz, succeeded him as cashier, thus making the third generation of bankers to own or control this old institution through its various changes and seventy-seven years of existence. In the meantime The First National Bank of Chattanooga, established by Mr. Rathburn, had become one of the largest and most progressive institutions of the South. In 1864 Mr. H. S. Horton, seeing the need of a second bank in Pomeroy, organized The Bank of Pomeroy, under state laws, with a capital of $50,000, of which he became president, securing Mr. A. D. Brown, of Athens, as its cashier. This bank had its offices on the second floor of what was then known as the Branch Building, now the Whaley Building, on the east side of Court Street. In 1870 Mr. Horton organized The Pomeroy National Bank, capital $100,000, with which The Bank of Pomeroy became merged, and, having bought the Eiselstein Building, on the corner of Court and Front streets, moved its offices to that building, which continued to be its home for thirty-four years (or the year of 1904), when the building it now occupies on the corner of Court and Second streets was erected. Mr. Horton continued as president for twenty-five years. Mr. J. S. Blackaller was the first cashier of the National Bank. About the year 1895 the capital of this bank was reduced from $100,000 to $50,000 owing to losses. Upon the death of Mr. Hor-ton he was succeeded in the presidency by Mr. George McQuigg, who in turn was succeeded. by Mr. Horace M. Horton, the son of the first president, who was later succeeded by Mr. R. E. Hamblin, of Athens, and he by Judge P. B. Stansbury, upon whose death John .McQuigg, the son of George McQuigg, a former president, and who had been with the bank all of his business life, upwards of fifty years, came into the presidency. Upon the death of Mr. John McQuigg in 1923, Mr. Hart Stansbury, son of Judge P. B. SOUTHEASTERN OHIO - 601 Stansbury, also a former president, came into the presidency, and Mr. E. M. Nye, who had been a colleague of Mr. John McQuigg through his long service, became its vice president, and Mr. George Nye, a brother of E. M. Nye, its cashier. Mr. E. M. Nye is at this time probably the oldest banker in point of service of any banker in Meigs County. In the year 1904 W. F. Reed, son of Darius Reed, the druggist, who had joined Daniel and Rathburn in building the old bank building on the corner of Court and Second streets, and who had assisted in the organization of the old First National Bank in 1863, returned from the West, where for eighteen years he had successfully managed the Bank of Syracuse at Syracuse, a frontier town of Kansas; and in company with Mr. George H. Parker, for many years with the old Syracuse Salt & Coal Company of Syracuse, Ohio, organized The Farmers Bank & Trust Company of Pomeroy, with a capital of $50,000. They built for their home the brick building now occupied by their successor, The Farmers Bank & Savings Company, with which the trust company was merged in the year 1921. Mr. Reed and Mr. Parker, after twenty-three years of service, are still president and cashier, respectively, of "The Farmers Bank" and going strong. Their bank has become a "Roll of Honor Bank," by which is meant that their surplus and profits exceed their capital, while in the meantime they have paid their stockholders a fair dividend each year. So much for the history of banking in Pomeroy, the county seat of Meigs County. MIDDLEPORT The history of banking in Middleport, the village adjoining Pomeroy on the west and also located upon the Ohio River, began when Mr. R. R. Hudson, a man of much energy and large and many interests, organized The First National Bank of Middleport, with a capital of $50,000. Mr. John B. McElhinny, a member of a prominent family of Meigs County, was made cashier, and Mr. Charles E. Hudson, son of R. R. Hudson, was the assistant cashier. Mr. Hudson's many outside interests requiring an unlimited capital was not conducive to conservative banking and The First National Bank of Middleport ceased to function about the year 1878, with great loss to stockholders and depositors. 602 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO Upon the failure of the Hudson bank, IVIr. D. H. Lasley, while county treasurer of Meigs County, aided by his brother, Judge W. H. Lasley, both citizens of Pomeroy, organized The Bank of Middleport under the state laws. Dr. William Lasher, who had accumulated a small fortune in the drug business and in the practice of medicine in Middleport, became its president, Mr. D. H. Lasley its vice president, and Mr. George R. Bullard its cashier'. They built for their home the two-story brick building on the corner of Second and Race streets, now occupied by the Calder-wood book store. This bank also was short lived, going out of existence about the year 1877, and also with loss to its stock-holders and depositors. Following The Bank of Middleport came The Middleport National Bank, organized with a capital of $50,000 by Mr. E. C. Fox of Sidney, Ohio, who came to Middleport for the purpose of going into the banking business. The offices of The Middleport National Bank were in the three-story brick building on the southwest corner of Second and Coal streets. Following the liquidation of The Middleport National Bank, brought about by the refusal of the comptroller of currency to continue its charter, Mr. Fox continued in the banking business at the same location, as a private banker, under the title of The Middleport Bank, with himself as president and Frederick Radford as cashier. In 1905 Mr. Fox sold out his private bank to Mr. T. S. Armentrout, who, soon realizing the condition of the bank he had purchased, made an assignment for the benefit of the creditors thereof and the affairs were subsequently wound up through bankruptcy. Following the failure of The Middleport Bank in 1905, Mr. C. E. Rathburn and Mr. J. B. Downing organized The Citizens National Bank of Middleport, with a capital of $25,000, with themselves as president and vice president, respectively, and Mr. Russell as cashier. Until the year 1920 they occupied the brick building on the southwest corner of Second and Race streets known as the Lindsey Building. In 1920 a number of citizens of Middleport and vicinity, thinking a second bank was needed, organized The Mutual National Bank of Middleport, with Mr.. A. W. McKay, the superintendent of schools of Middleport, as president, Mr. Bart Rawlings, of Rutland, as vice president, and Mr. A. R. Swartz, late of Coolville, cashier ; capital, $50,000. 602 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO Upon the failure of the Hudson bank, Mr. D. H. Lasley, while county treasurer of Meigs County, aided by his brother, Judge W. H. Lasley, both citizens of Pomeroy, organized The Bank of Middleport under the state laws. Dr. William Lasher, who had accumulated a small fortune in the drug business and in the practice of medicine in Middleport, became its president, Mr. D. H. Lasley its vice president, and Mr. George R. Bullard its cashier. They built for their home the two-story brick building on the corner of Second and Race streets, now occupied by the Calderwood book store. This bank also was short lived, going out of existence about the year 1877, and also with loss to its stock-holders and depositors. Following The Bank of Middleport came The Middleport National Bank, organized with a capital of $50,000 by Mr. E. C. Fox of Sidney, Ohio, who came to Middleport for the purpose of going into the banking business. The offices of The Middleport National Bank were in the three-story brick building on the southwest corner of Second and Coal streets. Following the liquidation of The Middleport National Bank, brought about by the refusal of the comptroller of currency to continue its charter, Mr. Fox continued in the banking business at the same location, as a private banker, under the title of The Middleport Bank, with himself as president and Frederick Radford as cashier. In 1905 Mr. Fox sold out his private bank to Mr. T. S. Armentrout, who, soon realizing the condition of the bank he had purchased, made an assignment for the benefit of the creditors thereof and the affairs were subsequently wound up through bankruptcy. Following the failure of The Middleport Bank in 1905, Mr. C. E. Rathburn and Mr. J. B. Downing organized The Citizens National Bank of Middleport, with a capital of $25,000, with themselves as president and vice president, respectively, and Mr. Russell as cashier. Until the year 1920 they occupied the brick building on the southwest corner of Second and Race streets known as the Lindsey Building. In 1920 a number of citizens of Middleport and vicinity, thinking a second bank was needed, organized The Mutual National Bank of Middleport, with Mr.. A. W. McKay, the superintendent of schools of Middleport, as president, Mr. Bart Rawlings, of Rutland, as vice president, and Mr. A. R. Swartz, late of Coolville, cashier ; capital, $50,000. SOUTHEASTERN OHIO - 603 It having become evident that there was not sufficient business in Middleport for two banks, The Citizens and The Mutual were merged in 1924, The Citizens increasing its capital to $75,000, and taking over the building owned by The Mutual on the opposite corner of Second and Race streets known as the DeMaine Building, where they continue to do a conservative and profitable business under their original organization, thus probably serving the community better than any bank had heretofore done. RACINE In die year 1906 Mr. W. P. Carver, of Harrisville, West Virginia, came to Racine, a village of Meigs County on the Ohio River about eight miles east of Pomeroy, and organized The Racine Banking Company, a state bank, with Mr. Wade Cross, a prom-inent merchant, as president, Mr. Carver as cashier, and Mr. C. B. Crow as assistant cashier. Their office was the small frame building next to or adjoining the large Cross brick store building near the river. Two factions developing in the bank, Mr. Crow, the assistant cashier, organized "The Home Bank" of Racine, also a state bank, with Mr. W. A. Ellis, another prominent merchant, as president, whereupon Mr. Carver and Mr. Cross converted The Racine Banking Company into "The First National Bank" of Racine, with a capital of $25,000, and built a fine new home for themselves on the main street of the village, while The Home Bank built a fine cement block building on the opposite side of the same street for their home. Upon the death of Mr. Cross, Mr. J. C. Hayman, a brother-in-law, succeeded him as president, and upon the death of Mr. Hayman, Mr. C. O. Miles became president. In 1924 Mr. Carver retired as cashier and Mr. H. H. Blackmore became cashier, and upon the election of Mr. Blackmore as county auditor of the county Mr. W. S. Reed, of Long Bottom, became cashier. Upon the death of W. A. Ellis, Mr. C. B. Crow became president of The Home Bank, and Miss Vera Beegle cashier. Both institutions seem to find sufficient business in their locality to justify existence. RUTLAND For many years J. N. Rathburn & Sons had been the leading merchants of Rutland, an interior village of Meigs County, and 39-VOL. 2 604 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO of a large territory adjoining. There being no bank in Rutland, it became the custom for the patrons of the Rutland store to take credit for their surplus funds and trade it out as needed. This custom grew to such an extent that a bank in the store was determined upon and established, with the result that "Rathburn's Bank," with a capital of $10,000, is a well-known and prosperous institution of that part of the county, and although Mr. J. N. Rathburn and his son, Mr. N. E. Rathburn, have passed on, Mr. C. E. Rathburn, the remaining son, now a merchant of Middleport and also the president of the Citizens National Bank there, continues to carry on, with the assistance of Mr. N. E. McNaughton as cashier. CHAPTER CLV PRESENT DAY FACTS ABOUT MEIGS COUNTY TWO TRUNK LINE RAILWAYS AND THE MAJESTIC oHIO FURNISH TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES-GOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW INDUSTRIES-NEARLY 200 MILES OF IMPROVED ROADWAYS-OVER 2,700 FARMS VALUED AT MORE THAN $8,000,000-PRODUCTIVE OIL AND GAS WELLS AND IMPORTANT ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES-COUNTY'S PUBLIC UTILITIES VALUED AT NEARLY $5,000,000 AND THE GRAND DUPLICATE IS OVER $22,000,000 - 605 TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES A county which is traversed by major divisions of two trunk-line railroads and whose eastern border lies upon the shores of the Ohio River, and has ferry boat connection with the B. & O. on the eastern shore, is highly favored in facilities for transportation and Meigs County is in this advantageous position. The Hocking Valley Division of the Van Sweringen system and the Kanawha & Michigan Division of the New York Central line are the steam roads referred to and the improved Ohio affords water transportation of vast and rapidly growing value. A condensed history of this majestic waterway forms an important part of the general history included in Volume I of this work. It carries many details relating to the river's canalization—its cost, its completeness, its effects in cheapening freight charges and in bringing new kinds of shipments into the current of river traffic. A Pomeroy writer has spoken eloquently of the part this improvement has played in "affording water transportation the entire 1,000 miles of the river's length and over the Mississippi from the head of navigation to the gulf," and he adds : UP AND DOWN THE MEIGS SHORE LINE "This method of transportation is now being used in a large way by merchants and manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville and other cities. Such concerns as the Carnegie Steel Company, Wheeling Steel Corporation, Jones & - 605 - 606 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO Laughlin and the Standard Oil Company own their fleets of barges and power boats, transporting raw material and manufactured products in vast quantities at an immense saving. "Manufactured products are delivered extensively over the Middle States directly by water and a large territory west of the Mississippi is reached by rail shipment, after partial transportation by water, at an appreciable saving. Freight destined for Pacific Coast points and all foreign countries is transported by river equipment to New Orleans and reshipped from there in ocean going vessels. This method of transportation is an economic feature of inestimable value and is not subject to any rate or schedule regulation of Federal or state government." INDUSTRIAL ADVANTAGES EXIST According to the last census Meigs County could claim the existence of forty industries, with a total annual pay roll of $842,517 and annual products amounting to $2,044,465. Among these is a foundry which is reported to have produced "the major quantity of drilling-rig castings used in the world's oil and gas fields." "This district offers excellent manufacturing sites," says a Pomeroy authority, "economic and abundant fuel, the hub-center of market and distribution, the greatest known inland water transportation, healthy living conditions, attractive and wholesome amusements, that meet every desire of good citizenship." MODERN HIGHWAYS The growth of Meigs County's improved roads continues and the future is full of promise for important additions. A late report made by the county surveyor records the fact that Meigs now has 25.5 miles of hard-surfaced state highways, 74 miles of traffic-bound state highways, 82 miles of gravel or traffic-bound county roads, and 1 mile of hard-surfaced county roads. A Meigs County writer recently set forth the situation and the prospects in these words : "The program of the Highway Commissions of both the states of Ohio and West Virginia have provided along the river district within the past few years a large mileage of improved highways, providing long stretches of good motoring throughout the valley, the scenic beauty of which is unsurpassed." When this was writ- SOUTHEASTERN OHIO - 607 ten it was confidently claimed that a hard-surfaced highway con-necting the capital of West Virginia with that of Ohio would soon be completed. In this connection it was stated that "the Pomeroy Bend district was an intermediate point on this highway," while "the Ohio State Route, No. 7—Pittsburgh to Cincinnati—finds its half-way point at the Pomeroy Bend." The Pomeroy & Middleport Telephone Company has about 1,000 subscribers, and farmers who have telephone service in the districts outside the two centers named number about 2,000. PRODUCTIVE FARMS THE RULE In 1925 Meigs County's 2,710 farms were valued, with their buildings, at $8,656,412, and their 1924 crops were worth $1,327,809. Some idea of the character of the county's crops may be gathered from the returns for 1923, when 154,000 bushels of wheat and 756,000 bushels of corn were produced, and when the farms grew 23,000 tons of hay and 93,280 bushels of potatoes. In 1920 247,377 acres of land were under cultivation. The county's rich river-bottom lands produce grains and vegetables in great abundance and her hillsides are dotted with orchards whose fruits are known far and wide for their unsur-passed flavor. On this score a Pomeroy authority has said : "Poultry and dairy products, every variety of vegetables, melons and fruits, are produced in quantities greatly exceeding home consumption, with a large surplus being shipped to less favored districts. The production can be increased to meet de-mands of many times present population." In 1926 the county contained 266,805 acres of land in its rural districts and the real and personal property value in those sections amounted to $14,286,100. OIL AND GAS WELLS OF TODAY In the last seven or eight years an oil and gas field of about 175 wells has been developed northeast of Pomeroy, in Salisbury, Sutton and Chester townships. There are also a few wells in Bedford and Lebanon townships. The principal companies and individuals interested are the Ohio Fuel Gas, Pure Oil, Preston, Daily Oil & Gas, H. P. Goddard, and R. G. Gillispie. On the Nease Settlement pike is situated a compressor with four engines having a combined capacity of 1,200 h. p., which 608 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO sends the gas, 5,000,000 feet a day, through an eighteen-inch pipe, seventy-five miles to Sugar Grove, Fairfield County, whence it is distributed, with the product of other fields, to Columbus and other Central Ohio cities. Part of the gas is specially adapted to the manufacture of high-grade gasoline. In connection with the compressor the Preston Oil Company has a plant producing. 1,200 to 1,500 gallons of gasoline a day. This is shipped in tank cars to Massachusetts, Tennessee and the West, in fact wherever the highest grade gasoline is in demand. The Buckeye Pipe Line takes the bulk of the oil, assembling it at its pumping station on Bowman's Run and pumping it, ten to twenty barrels a day from each well, to Marietta. The same field extends into Cheshire and Addison townships of Gallia County, where development is most active at present. VALUATION OF MEIGS COUNTY'S PUBLIC UTILITIES |
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1925 |
Electric Light Companies— Ohio Power Southern Ohio Electric Mutual Electric Light Pomeroy & Middleport Electric Total Express Companies— American Railway Express Total Natural Gas Companies— Ohio Fuel Gas Ohio & Kanawha Fuel & Light United Fuel Gas Total Pipe Line Companies— Buckeye Pipe Line Total |
. $ 531,950 164,470 ... ... $ 696,420 . $ 1,750 $ 1,750 . $ 628,180 1,610 ... $ 629,790 . $ 18,240 $ 18,240 |
. $ 241,410 ... 130,620 111,620 $ 483,650 . $ 1,840 $ 1,840 . $ 564,300 1,690 160 $ 566,150 . $ 10,870 $ 10,870 |
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Steam Railroads— Hocking Valley (Pomeroy Belt) Hocking Valley (River Div.) Kanawha & Michigan (M. & N. Ry.) Kanawha & Michigan (Main Line) Total Street Suburban and Interurban Railroads Ohio River Railway & Power Total Telephone Companies— Citizens Telephone (Rutland) Citizens Telephone (Tuppers Plains) Ewington Telephone Exchange Ohio Bell Telephone Ohio Telephone & Telegraph Pomeroy & Middleport Telephone Total Telegraph Companies— Western Union Telegraph Total Waterworks Companies— Meigs Water Company Total |
. $ 243,980 368,960 23,470 2,247,730 $2,884,140 . $ 149,330 $ 149,330 . $ 44,460 1,110 290 6,790 45,110 66,810 $ 164,570 . $ 17,890 $ 17,890 . $ 77,580 $ 77,580 |
. ... 613,020 ... 2,218,630 2,831,650 . $ 152,000 $152,000 $ 40,870 1,110 290 1,070 47,180 66,090 162,610 . 16,450 16,450 . 77,580 77,560 |
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$4,639,710 |
$4,302,800 |
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Adding other kinds of property values to the foregoing gave Meigs County a grand duplicate in 1926 of $22,021,920. The importance of the county's steam railroad interests can be measured in part by a glance at the foregoing table, and it should be noted that her Pomeroy-Middleport interurban line continues to operate in spite of motor cars and trucks. 610 - SOUTHEASTERN OHIO SPANNING THE OHIO AT THE BEND Pomeroy and Middleport are naturally expecting striking and lasting. benefits from the bridge which is being constructed across the Ohio River, with an approach on the Ohio side from each of these towns. No one was found at the Pomeroy Bend when data for this history was being. gathered who knew what individuals or corporations are constructing. the bridge. The contracting organization is the Dravo Construction Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and much progress had been made up to March 1, 1928. The chief evidence of this was to be found on the hillside fronting the river just below Pomeroy, where trees had been felled and other preparations made for the approaches referred to. This work had already cost about $70,000, and the bridge itself, it is estimated, will cost $1,000,000. Among the rumors heard at the Bend was one to the effect that the United States Steel Corporation was back of the enterprise and planning to build a second Gary on the high bottoms at the bridge's West Virginia end, the bridge being needed to connect their proposed great plants on that side with the New York Central and Hocking Valley railroads on the Ohio shore. H. P. Skinner, Meigs County historian, in an article published March 2, 1928, in the Pomeroy Daily Tribune, wrote with some enthusiasm of the benefits to be expected from the proposed bridge, laying especial stress upon the effect it would have in causing to pass through the Pomeroy Bend section a great many tourists, with the further improvement of its highways. He made the point that the Bend was on a direct line running from Columbus, O., to Charleston, W. Va. POMEROY AND MIDDLEPORT INDUSTRIES When the mines are active the mining and shipping of coal is on a large scale. Other industries which have given or still give a productive touch to the community are worthy of mention : Salt, planing mills, flouring mills, lumber, machinery, cement work, oil and gas, rigs and reels, bottling, etc. AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IS GREAT By H. P. Skinner Many of the hills of Meigs are now being cultivated by the fourth generation and great have been the changes from the first SOUTHEASTERN OHIO - 611 to the fourth. In the earlier day little or no thought was given to the maintenance of soil fertility and much of the land became depleted in productive power by both exhaustion and erosion. But with the introduction of scientific agriculture through press and college a better day dawned. The present and the previous generations have given much attention to the maintenance and improvement of the soil. Barnyard manure is now carefully husbanded, acid phosphate and lime are liberally used, nitrogen and humus are restored by the use of legumes, and thus in the last quarter of a century the productivity of the soil generally has been notably increased. Another contributing cause to the upbuilding of the soil is the partial change from grain and hay to dairying, poultry, and fruit. While the corn acreage is much smaller than formerly, the acre production is much larger, some of the hill farmers getting into the hundred-bushel class. The Letart Bottoms are the garden of the county, and with the good roads development their product is shipped by truck 100 miles or more north, while her hilltops produce thousands of bushels of high-grade Rome Beauty and other apples. During the past few years the agricultural advancement of the county has been both intensified and broadened by the efficient work of the county extension agent, G. W. Kreitler. INDEX Abandon one-room schools, 129 Abolitionist egged and stoned, 115 Aborigines fond of land of Licking, 30 About three thousand souls in 1817, 507 Adams Township Pool (Monroe Co.), 432 Advertising novelty business aids Coshocton's growth, 230 Advertising novelty industries listed, 234-5; markets world-wide, 236 Agricultural progress is great (Meigs Co.), 610 Ahyoma watched fearfully, 45 Alexandria a high school center, 139 Alexandria Bank, 117 American Legion Posts, Guernsey Co., 373 American Red Cross, Guernsey Co., 373-4 American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. locates in Cambridge, 355 An Early McConnelsville bank, 542 Aroused by the fall of Sumter, 532 Atherton, Gibson, 105 Atlantic & Lake Erie R. R., 281 Back to beginnings (Morgan Co.), 504 Bailey, T. J., 547 Baird Furnace, Production Cost Table, 295 Baird, Samuel, 295 Baltimore & Ohio R. R. in Guernsey Co., 377 B. & O.'s big Newark payroll, 149 Banking in Meigs County, 599 Banks (Licking Co.), Beginnings and present organization, 115 Banks of today (Morgan County), 542 Baptist Church, New Lexington, 322 Baptists in Perry Co., early activities, 261 Baptists of Licking County, 60 Barrick, Philip, 49 Batesville, 463 ' Bearfield township, Perry County, 249 Beatty, Zaccheus, 349 Beginning of Middleport, The, 563 Bell Tavern, 55 Bell, William, Jr., 106 Benwood Pool (Monroe Co.), 431-2 Big Bottom Massacre, The, 493 Bigger boats for salt, 527 Black Hand in Licking Narrows, 44 Black Horse Tavern, 55 Blast Furnaces, Perry Co., 295 Bloom township (Morgan Co.), 518 Board of Control (Licking), 135 Bore trees 500 years old, 38 Bouquet, Col. Henry, 169 Bouquet as a commander (Judge Nicholas quoted), 173 Bouquet at Fort Pitt, 169 Bouquet marches 'westward, 169 Bouquet's "bloodless victory" at the Forks, 169 Bouquet's last camp, location of, 171 Bownocker, J. A., quoted, 211; 576 Brice, Benj. W., 103 Brick, clay, coal, glass sand, 146 Brine from old ocean at Pomeroy, 578 Brister, E. M. P., quoted, 67 Bristol township (Morgan Co.), 517 Brodhead, Col. Daniel, marches against Indians, 176 Brownsville, 139 Brumback, Jefferson, 104 Buckeye Pipe Line boosts oil production (Perry Co.), 297 Buckingham, Bradley, 55 Buckingham, Jerome, 104 Built flatboats at McConnelsville, 529 Busy port on the Ohio, A, 575 Caffee, Amos H., 104 Caldwell Becomes County Seat, 453 Caldwell site platted, 453 Caldwell, the county seat, 486 Caldwell's first buildings, 454 Caldwell's First Church, 455 Caldwell's Great Soldiers' Reunion, 470 Caldwell's present newspapers, 486 Caldwell's three banks, 484 "Calico" railroad fiasco (Noble Co.), 465 Cambridge Bridge, 364 Cambridge Church History, 399 Cambridge, Early Families of, 349 Cambridge Favorably Situated, 405 Cambridge Fire Dept., 409 Cambridge Founded by Gomber and Beatty, 349 Cambridge in about 1910, 355 Cambridge Industries, 355, 405 Cambridge Labor Table, 409 Cambridge Made County Seat, 338, 354 Cambridge Officials, 1928, 411 Cambridge Oil Field, 386 Cambridge, Oldest House in, 350 Cambridge Public Library, 382 Cambridge Public Schools, 391 Cambridge Schools in 1908, 398 Cambridge Scouts Pursue Morgan's Raiders, 367 Cambridge Soldiers' Monument Unveiled, 371 Cambridge Water Works, 409 Cambridge Whipping Post, 339 - 613 - 614 - INDEX Cambridge's Early Schools, 397 Camp No. 16, location of, 171 Canal Begun at Licking Summit, 1825, 63 Canal Filled at Newark, 67 Canal Records, 69 Captain Travis' Muskingum Lore, 524 Capture Four at Supper Table, 494 Carlisle Early Tobacco Market, 462 Carney, Frank, 118 Case, Lucius, 104 Cass, Lewis, comes to Coshocton, 186 Catholics in Perry County, early activities, 263 Celebration Committee (July 4, 1925), 71 Celoron and Gist visits contrasted, 164 Census Returns, Perry County, 308 Center Township (Morgan County), 520 Central Ohio Railroad, The, 149 Changed but not abandoned, 73 Changes by townships, Meigs County population, 598 Chapter of Licking County biography, 99 Chapter of Noble County Miscellanies, A, 479 Cheers for Departing Rangers, 82 Chester lost to Pomeroy, 561 Chester once a busy spot, 562 Choate under death's shadow, 496 Christian Apostolic Church, 61 Christian Union Church (Licking County), 61 Christopher Gist at Muskingum's Forks, 159 Church and fire bells rang, 86 Church of God, 61 Churches and pastors, Meigs County, 571 Churches and schools, early (Meigs County), 567 Churches, McConnelsville-Malta, 546 Churches, Newark's Early, 57 Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanesville R. R., 279 Civil War, The (Morgan County), 532 Claflin Sisters, The, 103 Claytown Township, Perry County, 249 Clem, Johnny, 103 Cleveland & Marietta Line Constructed (Guernsey County), 378 Coal Deposits and Production, Perry County, 29; Coal nearly everywhere, but little mined, 544 Coal Township, Perry County, 249 Cochran, Henry C., on Mound Builders, 39; on the Canal, 68; on Oil and Gas, 94 Colborn, E. S., 300 Columbia Center, 139 C. B. L. & N., The, 79 Columbus-Newark Trolley Line, 79 C. N. & Z. Co., The, 79 Comly, James M., 301; founder of Lexington, 315 Conesville coal field developed, 196 Congregational Church, 61 Congressmen from Licking, 109 Corning, 252; oil field, 296 Coshocton Age, The, 215 Coshocton banks, 211-12 Coshocton, early growth of, 229 Coshocton, 1802-1927, 229 Coshocton churches, 236 Coshocton city officials, 237 Coshocton clubs, 237 Coshocton, derivation of name, 186 Coshocton important "Underground Railroad" station, 207 Coshocton industries in 1909, 230 Coshocton industries, 1914, 1927, list of, 233 Coshocton laid out, 184 Coshocton mercantile activities, 236 Coshocton Republican, The, 213 Coshocton County, 155 Coshocton County benefited by Ohio Canal, 191 Coshocton County coal development, 195 Coshocton County coal production, 197 Coshocton County congressmen, 227 Coshocton County Courthouse built, 189 Coshocton County farm figures, 219 Coshocton County, historic details, 223 Coshocton County illiterates few, 219 Coshocton County in Civil war, 201 Coshocton County Indian villages and trails, 166 Coshocton County industries strong, 219 Coshocton County in Mexican war, 200 Coshocton County in Spanish-American war, 203 Coshocton County in War of 1812, 199 Coshocton County in World war, 205 Coshocton County newspapers, 213 Coshocton County officials, 227 Coshocton County Oil and Gas Wells, Earliest, 208 Coshocton County Pioneers, 183 Coshocton County population statistics, 219 Coshocton County public utilities valuation, 223 Coshocton County railroads, 207 Coshocton County road building, 226 Coshocton County schools, 225 Coshocton County Settled, 183 Coshocton County soldiers in Spanish-American war, 203 Coshocton County telephone companies, 227 Coshocton County World war casualties, 205-6 Coshocton County's first court, 186 County founded (Licking) in 1808, 49 County has 1,353 Oil and Gas Wells, 97 County officers (Morgan) 1928-9, 550 County seat struggle, Perry County, 247 Court held in a church, 564 Courthouse No. 1 (Morgan County), 509 Croghan, George, 163 Crooks, Joseph E., 327 Crooksville, 327 Crooksville Manufactories, 329 Crooksville Oil and Gas Field, 329 Crooksville today, 328 Croton, 139 Croton Bank, 118 Curtis, Samuel R., 100 Daily Tribune, The, 213 Dalzell, James M., initiates soldiers' reunion, 470 Death toll in World war (Licking), 89 Deavertown a busy place in the sixties, 519 Deerfield Township (Morgan County), 515 INDEX - 615 Delawares come to the Forks, 165 Democrat, The, 547 Denison University, 112; of today, 114 Denison, William S., 114 Dennis, Edson B., 107 Dennis, Joel M., 107 Dent, Frederick, 55, 104 Derived from a famous source, 558 Descendants proud of record, 81 Detailed description of old fort, 35 Details from Census tables, Meigs County, 598 Dille, Israel, 105 Disciples of Christ (Licking County), 61 Drilled for oil on Duck Creek, 1860, 477 Drumm's (Samuel) Millstones, 35 Duke, Basil, writes about Morgan's Raid, 368 Durban, Raymond, 547 Dye, Ezekiel, comes to Noble County, 455 Earliest official appointments, 562 Early Churches, Story of, 479 Early Courts in Meigs County, 563 Early Newark Churches, 57 Early Newark was decidedly wet, 51 Earthworks in the townships, 156 Effigy of a mighty eagle, 37 Electric Street Cars, Cambridge, 378, 381 Elias Hughes and John Ratliff, 46 "Eliza of Guernsey," The, 359-60 Elkins, Stephen B., 302 English, Samuel, 56 Enter Electricity, 78 Episcopalians (Licking County), 61 Etna, 139 Evangelical Church, 61 Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Lexington, 320 Ewing, Thomas, 100, 105 Failures and partial failures (oil wells), 580 "Famous Natives," Licking County's, 152 Farewell the Mule, 78 Farrall quoted on Gnadenhutten massacre, 180 Fast flowing tide of pioneers, 505 Fenwick, Bishop, 263 Few whites here during Indian wars, 43 Finck, William E., 305 First common pleas court (Licking County), 50 First merchants in 1805, 55 First Methodist Episcopal Church, 59 First musical organization, 115 First National Bank, 116 First Steamboat from Marietta, 524 First three roads, The, 544 "Firstlings," A few of the, 505 "Firsts" of Newark, 52 Five "jiggers" of whiskey daily, 64 Five sought the prize (County seat), 502 Flatboat on Wills Creek in 1826, 359 Flatboat transported over National Road, 360 Flatboats and their cargoes, 523 Fleeing slaves at Middleport, 581 Flint a treasure ridge to aborigines, 34 Flory, Jesse A., 106 Flour mills multiply, 529 Follett, Charles, 106 Follett, John F., 107 Forks formed the hub of many trails, 156 Forty-two prehistoric sites, 492 Found forks good place for Newark's site, 52 Found oil and gas in a salt well, 579 Four courthouses built, 49 Fourth of July celebrated, 1807, 56 Franklin National Bank, Newark, 116 Free, John W., raises company, 286 Furnished four congressmen, 550 Gains made since 1891 (Noble County schools), 488 Galbreath, C. B., quoted, 91 Gallia and Athens drawn upon, 557 Gas and oil wells, by townships, 97 Gas in salt well, 1870 (Guernsey County), 385 Gas production halts, 96 Gas Wells, Perry County, 297 Gave Pomeroy an impetus, 563 General Schenck gave Newark broad thoroughfares, 51 Geologists say ice caps reversed the Muskingum, 491 Girty, Simon, stirs up Delawares, 182 Gist and Celoron visits contrasted, 164 Gist, Christopher, at Muskingum's forks, 159 Gist passed through Licking in 1751, 46 Glass sand, brick, clay, coal, 146 Glenford Fort, prehistoric enclosure, 239 Glenford village, 250 Gnadenhutten Massacre, 179 et seq. Goddard, Charles C., 105 Gomber, Jacob, 349 Good for the farmer (Ohio Canal), 64 Good record made in 1812 (war), 81 G. A. R., Lamert post, 86 Granville Banks, The, 117 Granville the college town, 137 Granville votes large sum for high school, 131 Gratiot, 139 Gray freed 500, 537 Gray, John, last survivor of Revolution, 471 Graysville Pool (Monroe County), 431 Great mineral wealth in Meigs County, 575 Griffin, Charles, 103 Guards off for Lancaster, 533 Guernsey County, 333; Banks, 417; Created, 337; Coal production, 416; Churches of to-day, 399; History, miscellaneous items, 377; in the County's Wars, 365; Farms and factories, 413; men in Congress, 419; officers, 1928, 420 Guernsey County public buildings constructed, 338; population statistics, 413; public utilities, 414 Guernsey County Roads, 414; School Enrollment, 390; Schools, 389; School Statistics, 391 Guernsey County Seat Contest, 354 Guernsey County Statistics, 4,13; surveyed, 337 616 - INDEX Guernsey County, Townships and Towns Organized, 337; townships set off, 338; towns laid out, 340 Guernsey County and Cambridge in 1839, 342 Guernsey County and the National Road, 345 Guernsey County's First Railroad, 377 Guernsey County's Oil and Gas Wealth, 383 Guernsey County's World War Dead, 374 Guernsey Earthenware Co., Cambridge, 356 "Guernsey Times,"' 410 Halfield, David, 55 Hall, Dr. Jeremiah, 114 Hanover, 139; high school, 131; rural high school, 131 Happy thought well wrought out, 148 Hardy Pioneer, The (Verse), 498 Harmony Gas Dome Described, 387 Harmony Oil and Gas Field (Guernsey County), 386 Harris, Horatio J., 103 Harris, Mary, first white resident in Coshocton County, 167 Harrison rural high school, 131 Harrison Township, .Perry County, 250 Hartford rural high school, 132 Hartley, Charles A., 587, 591, 595 Hebron, a busy little center, 139. Hebron Bank, 118 Hebron on the Pike, Newark miles away, 72 Hebron Village high school, 132 Heckwelder, John, 179 Heisey, A. H., 95 Herald and Democrat (Morgan County), 547 Heron, David, 55 High schools of Licking County, 129 Hiramsburg laid out, 462 Historic points, Licking County's, 152 Holiness Mission Church, 61 Holy Trinity Church, New Lexington, 320 Homer, 139 Homer field, The, 94 Homer Township (Morgan County), 518 Hopewell Township, Perry County, 250 Horace Holt's Weavers' Reeds, 596 Howe, Henry, visits Monroe County, 426 Howell, James B., 103 How old are the earthworks'? 30 How townships were formed (Meigs), 561 Hughes, Elias, 46 Humrickhouse, Thomas, preserves Medi11's papers, 214 Hundredth anniversary celebrated, 147 Hunter, Samuel M., 106 Hutchins, Colonel, in Bouquet's expedition, 175 Icecap's outwash, The, 29 Icecaps reversed Muskingum, say Geologists, 491 Ice cargoes from Cleveland, 530 Ice sheet's vast outwash, The, 119 Incumbents in Noble County offices, 490 Indian Tale, 425 Indian Trails Nos. Three and Five, 166 Indians in Guernsey County, 334 Indians in Morgan, The, 493 Indians in the "devil's hole," 597 Industrial advantages exist (Meigs County), 606 Industrial Gas Co., Cambridge, 384 Industry, Agriculture, a powerful team, 143 Interstate. Iron and Steel Co., Cambridge, 356 Interurban railroads, 151 In the big battles (Morgan County), 534 In the World war. (Morgan County), 535 In World war (Licking County), 88 Iron Bridge Field (Monroe County), 430 Iron Ores, Perry County, 294 Jacks of all trades needed, 506 Jackson Ridge Field (Monroe County), 431 Jacksontown, 139 Jackson Township, Perry County, 250 Jail cost, $530, The, 508 "Jeffersonian" Survives and Prospers, 410 Johnstown a thriving village, 138 Johnstown Banking Co., The, 117 Johnstown building new high school, 132 Jones, John David, 105 Jones, Thomas, 100 Judge Metcalf's Tavern, Cambridge, 353 Junction City, 250 Just the soil for orchards, 507 Keelboats appear, 527 Kibler, Charles H., 105 Kibler, Colonel, quoted, 105 Kibler, Edward, Sr., 106 "Kids" and "Mossbacks," 216 King, Samuel D., 100 Kirkersville Bank, 118 Kirkersville is small, but has a bank, 139 Knight rented coal lines from Putnam, 565 Kreitler, G. W., 611 Lahkopis had won! 45 Lamert Post, G. A. R., 86 Land tilted, says Carney, 123 Last R. R. misses county seat, 78 Leader, The, a weekly, 112 "Legend of the Black Hand," 44 Legislature proposed Morgan County's organization in 1817, 501 Letart Bottoms, 611 Lichtenau founded, 181; abandoned, 182 Licking Bank and Trust Co., 116 Licking Baptist Church, The, 58 Licking County, 27 Licking County and Newark as they are to-day, 143 Licking County Agricultural Society, 39 Licking County biography, chapter of, 99 Licking County churches today, 59 Licking County in War with Spain, 87 Licking County mound builders, 29 Licking County officers, 1928, 110 Licking County Teachers' Association, 135 Licking County's clay deposits, 110 Licking County's "famous natives," 152 Licking County's historic points, 152 Licking County's population by townships, 1900-1920, 143 Licking County's Soldiers' Memorial Association, 87 INDEX - 617 Licking County's towns, villages and townships, 137 Licking Gorge, 123 Licking in the war of the Rebellion, 81 Licking men in Congress, 109 Licking Mound Builders, The, 39 Licking Narrows, The, 69 Licking rural high school, 133 Licking section of the canal, 68 Licking Valley drawn in at the narrows, 120 Licking volunteers, a regiment of, 85 Licking's death toll in World war, 89 Licking's distinguished sons, deceased, 99 Licking's sons served in 5 wars, 81 Lima rural high school, 133 Lime Kilns, Perry County, 298 Locating County Seat (Morgan's), 501 Long array of prehistoric works, 30 Ludowici Celadon Tile Plant, 316 Lutheran and Christian Union churches, 61 MacGahan, J. A., 301 Made salt day and night, 476 Madison Academy, Mount Perry, 271 Madison Township, Perry County, 251 Mail Schedules, Early, 354 Malta Township (Morgan County), 511 Manchester Township (Morgan County), 520 Mansion House, Cambridge, 353 Manure carefully husbanded, 611 Many centuries old, 36 Marble shaft marks spot, 497 Marietta & Pittsburgh R. R. Co., 466 Marion Township (Morgan County), 515 Mary Ann Furnace, The, 114 Master stream of this section, The, 27 Mathiot, Joshua, 104 Matson, W. D., 547 Maxville a tobacco town, 258 Maxwell, James, 56 McConnelsville-Malta, 549 McConnelsville-Malta churches, 546 McConnelsville the winner, 503 McDonald, Col. Angus, defeats Shawnees, 176 McDougal's wideawakes true to name, 84 McGarry, Samuel, supports Noble County bill, 447 McKee, Ezra, supports Noble County bill, 447 McKee, Robert, early postmaster, 460 Medi11, Joseph, and the Republican, 213 Medi11 sees Lincoln's genius, 214 Meigs County, 553 Meigs County churches and their pastors, 571 Meigs County in three wars, 581 Meigs County in war with Spain, 587 Meigs County long a. salt producer, 577 Meigs County newspapers, 591 Meigs County officers, 599 Meigs County today, Facts about, 605 Meigs County's dead in World war, 588 Meigs County's population, 597 Meigsville Township (Morgan County), 516 Methodists are strong (Licking County), 60 Methodists in Perry County, early activities, 262 Methodists, New Lexington, 319 Middleport bank history, 601 Mineral Wealth, Perry County, 293 Miscellaneous Elements of Morgan County history, 537 Miscellaneous past and present items (Meigs County), 591 Moat once encircled it, 36 Modern highways (Meigs County), 606 Monday Creek Township, Perry County, 251 Monroe County, 421; has but five earth-works, 421; Early settlers and settlements, 422; Described by Howe, 426; farm figures, 435; farm and factory statistics, 439; officers, present, 440; oil and gas development, 429; oil and gas companies, valuation of, 435; population statistics, 439; road figures, 435; school statistics, 436; telephone companies, 436, 439. Monroe Township, Perry County, 252 Moore, David, 55 Moore, Hon. C. Ellis, 419 Moravian Indians massacred, 179 Moravians at Schoenbrunn, 179 More Presbyterians arrive, 58 Morgan at Eagleport, 534 Morgan considered women and children, 586 Morgan County, 491 Morgan County Banks, 541 Morgan County history miscellanies, 537 Morgan County politics, 543 Morgan County's aborigines, 492 Morgan County's dead in World war, 535 Morgan County's part in the country's wars, 531 Morgan Raid, The John, 534 Morgan Raiders in Perry County, 288 Morgan riflemen formed, 531 Morgan Township, 511 Morgan's Raid in Guernsey County, 366 Morgan's raid through Meigs, 582 Morris, Hon. James R., quoted, 422 Motley host of blacks, A, 582 Mounds in Guernsey County, 333 Mount Ephraim platted, 462 Mouth at Nashport or Dresden, 28 Muskingum had a "gunboat," 530 Muskingum River reversed, 491 Muskingum, The, played big part in Morgan's settlement, 523 Narrow gauge railroad, 467 National Road, Early Travel Upon, 347 National Road (Guernsey County), 345 National Fload stirred activity, 71 Natural gas companies, 151 Nazarene Church, 61 Nearby mines kept prices down, 578 "Near-cut" Glass Works, Cambridge, 356 Nearly 600 miles of good roads, 149 Negro Baptists, Licking County, 61 Negro Methodists, Licking County, 61 Newark Advocate and American Tribune, 110 Newark and the B. & O. Railroad, 147 Newark & Zanesville Electric Ry. Co., 79 Newark Baptist Church, 59 Newark Centennial, 1925, 71 Newark city officers, 110 618 - INDEX Newark Country Club, 39 Newark Gazette, The, 111 Newark gets place on trunk line, 76 Newark, Somerset & Straitsville R. R., 280 Newark Trust Company, The, 116 Newark's building records broken, 145 Newark's early churches, 57 Newark's early schools, 56 Newark's first railroad reaches Lake Erie, 75 Newark's first street railway, 78 Newark's fourth railroad taps coal field, 77 Newark's new school buildings, 125 Newark's school officials, 126 Newark's third railroad built, 77 Newark's two parochial schools, 127 Newcastle Pool (Monroe County), 431 New Lexington a Modern City, 317; churches, 319; fire department, 317; high school, 326; history of, 315; manufactories, 316; newspapers, 275; public schools, 325; waterworks, 318; wins county seat contest, 249. New Lexington and Somerset in county seat contest, 247 Newly won prize in peril, 503 Newspapers, Editors, Meigs County, 591 Newspapers of Licking County, 110 Newspapers, Perry County, 273 Nicholas, Judge S. H., on location of Camp 16, 171; on Bouquet as a commander, 173 Noble County, 443; created, 445; banks, 483; courthouse, 453; has few mounds, 443; in the Civil war, 469; miscellanies, 479; newspapers, 485; officers, 490; pioneers of, 455; roads, early, 459 Noble County Seat Contest, 449 Noble County's First Court, 448; first election, 447; first post offices, 460; public utilities, 488; underground railroad, 484; World war dead, 473. Noble's excellent schools, 487 Norpell, Carl, 107 Noted Granville Works, The, 33 Nye, Nial, Nyesville postmaster, 566 Oakfield oil and gas wells, 297 Offices at McConnelsville, 528 Officers but no county building (Morgan County), 508 Officers render good service, 88 Ohio canal a boon to farmers, 63; a boon to Coshocton County, 191; built, 191 Ohio River & Western R. R. (Guernsey County), 378 Ohio White Brick Co., 317 Ohio's only narrow gauge railroad, 467 Oil and gas development in Licking County, 93; by townships, 97; in Guernsey County, 383; in Morgan County, 547; wells of today (Meigs County), 607 Oil discovered in Noble County in 1814, 475; in Perry County, 296; production grows, 96 Old Newark River, The, 27 Olive, Noble's oldest village, 461 One of Newark's first steam roads in early fifties, 75 Only 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, 156 Orchards, Just the soil for, 507 Organization of Meigs County townships, 561 Orthodox Roumanian Church, 61 Paid no heed to serious warnings, 494 Park National Bank, Newark, 117 Pataskala Banks, 118 Pataskala bears an Indian name, 138 Pataskala village. high school, 133 Penn Township (Morgan County), 512 Pennyroyal Reunions (Guernsey County), 381 Pennsylvania R. R. in Guernsey County, 378 Pentecostal Mission, 61 Perry County, 239; aborigines, 239; Banks, 311; Baptists' early activities, 261; Catholics, Early activities of, 263; Census re-turns, 308; churches, 259; congressmen, 305; court house of 1829, 244; dead in World war, 292; Indians and Indian trails, 241; in the Civil war, 284; in the Mexican war, 283; in the Spanish-American war, 288; in the World war, 291; jails, early, 243; men of note, 299; Methodists' early activities, 262; mines, farms and shops, 307; mounds and mound builders, 239; newspapers, 273; officers, 312; organ-ized, 243; population well mixed, 307; public utiliities, table, 309; railroads, 279; roads, 310; schools, earliest, 267; schools, present day, 310; soldiers in Spanish-American war, 289; telephone history, 312; tobacco crops in early days, 258; today, 307; towns and townships, 249 Perry County's Mineral Wealth, 293 Phillips, Thomas W., 106 Pike Township, Perry County, 253 Pioneer, The Hardy (Verse), 498 Pioneers, Some Meigs County, 565 Pioneers waited for peace on the frontier, 557 Pleasant Township, Perry County, 254 Pomeroy and Middleport industries, 610 Pomeroy Banks and Bankers, 599 Pomeroy coal, The, in Meigs County, 576 Pomeroy in early days, 562 Pomeroy, Samuel W., 575 Pomeroy's many churches, 568 Pony express, 72 Population changes by townships and towns (Morgan County), 545-6 Population changes by townships (Noble County), 490 Population data (Morgan County), 545 Population, Meigs County's, 597 Population of valued quality (Licking), 143 Poultry and dairy products (Meigs County), 607 Practical lithologists, 40 Praise due "Squirrel hunters," 86 Prehistoric Licking River, 118 Prehistoric man was active in Coshocton County, 155 Prehistoric Picture Makers, Meigs County's, 553 Prehistoric times in the land of Licking, 27 Presbyterian Church, New Lexington, 320 Presbyterians, The, Licking County, 59 INDEX - 619 Present and future of oil and gas, 94 Present day facts about Meigs County, 605 Present strength and bright prospects (Newark), 145 Primitive Baptists (Licking County), 61 Principals and Teachers, Cambridge schools, 394 Production in short tons, coal, Meigs County, 577 Productive farms the rule (Meigs County), 607 Providing flour a problem, 506 Publicity from worthy source, 152 Public-spirited Obadiah Brokaw, 497 Public Utilities, Licking County, 150 Public Utilities, Value of (Meigs County), 608 Public Utilities, Value of, Noble County, 488 Public Utility Valuations (Morgan County), 550 Racine banking history, 603 Racine remains recorded, 555 Railroads, Perry County, 279 Ratliff, John, 46 Reading Township, Perry County, 254 Recruiting grew apace (Licking), 85 Reed, W. F., 599 Reed's Station, now Crooksville, 327 Rehoboth a tobacco town, 258 Rendville, 252 Reversed Muskingum and Licking, 28 Richey, Gen. Thomas, 305 Robb, David, Indian agent, 334 Roberts Mound, Perry County, 240 Rockefeller, John D., 114 Rome Beauty and other apples, 611 Roscoe and the Ohio Canal, 192 Rosecrans, William, 100 Roye, Edward, 103 Rusk, Jeremiah M., 302 Rutland's banks and bankers, 603 St. Albans rural high school, 133 St. Aloysius Academy, 271 St. Benedict Parochial School, Cambridge, 398 St. Joseph's, Perry County, 264 St. Louisville, 139 St. Rose's Catholic Church, New Lexington, 325 Salt dropped from, $2.50 to 40 cents, 577 Salt in Morgan County, 544 Saltlick Township, Perry County, 257 Salvation Army (Licking County), 61 Samuel Drumm's flint mill-stones, 35 Sarahsville Made County Seat, 447; contest arises, 449; loses fight, 450 Sarahsville surveyed and platted, 461 Sarchet, Thomas, Sr., builds flatboat, 359 Schenck, Gen. William C., 99 Schoolhouse was a home, too, 567 School statistics, Perry County, 310 Schools are making progress (Morgan County), 546 Schools of Newark, 126 Schools of the present day (Meigs County), 571 Scioto and Hocking Valley R. R., 279 Scott, Elza, bores salt well, 381-2 Scribner, Charles, 104 Second company leaves, 533 Separation the spectre, 538 Seventh Day Adventists, 61 Seward, Charles W., 106 Sharon College founded, 462 Sharon platted, 461 Shawnee, 257 Shawnees defeated by McDonald, 176 Shenandoah wrecked in Noble, 486 Sheridan, Gen. Philip H., 301 Sherwood, Robert, 55 Shetrone, H. C., quoted, 156 Shipped apples in big canoes, 524 Sistersville field, 429, 430, 431 Skimmed the oil off, 475 Skinner, H. P., 582, 610. Slackwater navigation proposed, 528 Smith, James, adopted by Indians, 167 Smith, Col. James, guide for Bouquet, 175 Smucker, Isaac, 105 Smythe, B. G., 99 Smythe, George B., 105 Smythe, Phil B., 106 Snider-Flautt Lumber Co., 317 Soil just right for orchards, 507 Soldiers' Reunion at Caldwell, 470 Some earliest schools and churches (Meigs County), 567 Some early pioneers (Meigs County), 565 Some Middleport churches, 568 Some Sample Newark "firsts," 52 Some Wyandots in Wigwams, 43 Somerset and New Lexington in county seat contest, 247 Somerset first county seat of Perry County, 243 Somerset, history of, 254 Somerset loses county seat contest, 249 Somerset newspapers, 273 Southard, Milton I., 105 Spanish war, Licking County in the, 87 Spanning the Ohio at the Bend, 610 Sperry Farm Oil Well (Monroe County), 432 Spot favored by the mound builder, 553 Squatters in Monroe County, 425 Squirrel hunters, Praise due the, 86 Stanbery, Henry, 100 Stanbery, James R., 100 Stanbery, William, 100 Star Manufacturing Co., 316 Station on the "underground," A, 520 Steady growth of coal production, 576 Story of early churches, A, 479 Summerfleld Founded, 457-8, 462 Summit Township Pool (Monroe County), 432 Sunday Creek Oil and Gas Co., 296 Swapping townships, 504 Sycamore tree of vast girth, 597 Taylor, James H., 299 Teachers and principals, Newark schools, 126 Telephone companies, 151 That old "wooden" railroad, 76 They fought well through the war, 83 620 - INDEX They were saved in time, 554 Thorn Township, Perry County, 257 Thornville, 258 Three Catholic churches (Licking County), 60 Three more companies volunteer, 84 Thurston field, The, Fairfield County, 94 "Tickle Pitcher," The, 360 Times-Age, The, 213 Tisher, Father Jacob, 422, 425 Toboso, 139 Tomahawks finished what bullets missed, 495 Took twenty years to get first railroad, 76 To perpetuate the memorial, 498 Towns of Licking County, when and by whom laid out, 140 Township records full of Morgan County history, 511 Townships and their prehistoric remains (Licking County), 34 Townships (Licking County), when settled and organized, 140 Townships, Meigs County's, 561 Trail Run Field (Monroe Co.), 430 Transportation facilities, Meigs County, 605 Travis, Capt. Erven, 524 Tribune and Times-Age merged, 213 Twelve pioneers were slain, 496 "Twin Cities" of Morgan County, 549 Two early-day Congressmen, 597 Two exempted districts, 571 Two refining plants, 96 Underground Railroad, Coshocton County, 207 Underground Railroad (Guernsey County), 381 Underwood, Mell G., 305 Union rural high school, 133 Union Township (Morgan County), 517 United Brethren churches (Licking County), 60 United Brethren Church, New Lexington, 321 Up and down the Meigs Shore line, 605 Utica Banks, 117 Utica has had a large growth, 138 Valuation of Meigs County's public utilities, 608 Valuation of public utilities (Licking), 150 Valued Central Storehouse, A, 35 VanBuskirk, John, 55 Vinton and Ewing came, 565 Virtually no contest between red men and pioneers, 43 War of the rebellion, The, 581 War with Spain (Morgan County), 535 Warrior spares the boy Stacey, 495 "Washington Republican," 411 Wehrle, August T., 95 Wehrle, "William W., 95 Wehrles, The, 95 Well abandoned when operators quarrel, 579 Were humans sacrificed at old fort? 37 West Lafayette, 212 What does the writing mean? 554 What they lived on, 49 Wheat 75 cents on the canal, 64 Wheeling & Lake Erie R. R., affects coal mining (Coshocton County), 196 When Johnny went marching away, 83 When Washington crossed the "neck", 558 Whiskey five times a day, 64 White athletic field, 146 White Eyes friend of the whites, 182 White, Samuel, 103 Why did the aborigines build it? 38 Williams, Charles, Coshocton pioneer, 183 Williamsburg, now Batesville, 463 Wills Creek History, 359 Wills Creek Steamer in 1875, 363 Wilson, Archibald, Jr., 55 Wilson, James F., 103 Wilson, Dr. J. N., on Newark, 55 Wilson Mound, Perry Co., 240-41 Wilson, William, 105 Windsor Township (Morgan County), 512 Wolfe, W. G., 391 Woman wields the axe, 495 Wonders of Flint Ridge, The, 33 Wood, Charles R., 104 Woods, William B., 103 Woodsfield site cleared, 427 Woodsfield, the county seat, 440-41 Word picture of pony express, 72 World war dead (Morgan County's), 535 World war dead, Noble County's, 473 World war death toll, Licking's, 89 World war, Licking County in the, 88 Worthy man, A, 596 Wrestling with the wilderness, 506 Wright, George B., 104 York Township (Morgan County), 519 Zane's Trace and the National Road (Guernsey County), 345 Zane's Trace in Perry County, 242 Zeisberger, David, 179 |