CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY - 17
The French Coming in 1604—Grant of James I—Forts Built from Lakes to the
Mississippi—New France, so-called—English Claim the Territory—Treaty with the Six
Nations—The Ohio Company—Moravian Missionaries—Northwest Territory Annexed to and
Made a Part of the Province of Quebec—Virginia's Claim North of the Ohio River—Finally
Secured to the United States —Ordinance of 1787—Slavery Excluded—Populations—Original
Squatters—Character of the People—Organization of the Ohio Land Company—New
Englanders Come in Second "Mayflower"—First Settlement Under Ordinance of 1787—Surveys
and Public Land Grants—The French Grant—United States Military Lands—The Moravian
Lands—The Refugee Tract—Dohrman's Grant —Indian Treaties—Treaty of Fort Harmar—First
Territorial Officers—Second Territorial Government—Early Territorial Laws—Organization of
Early Counties—Early Ohio Villages and Towns.
CHAPTER II—INDIAN TRIBES AND MILITARY CAMPAIGNS - 32
Military Expeditions Against the Indians—The Greenville Treaty of 1795—Governor St.
Clair—Harmar's Defeat—Battle of Falling Timbers—Peace Secured—Second Grade of
Territorial Government—First Council and House of Representatives—The Territory of Indiana
Created in 1800—Wayne County's Representatives—State Government Commenced March 3,
1803—Military Campaigns in Wayne County—The Burning of Colonel Crawford—Beall's
Campaign—Battle of the Cow Pens—Latest Tribes of Wayne County Indians—The
Delawares—Wyandots—Shawnees—Indians of Wayne County, Strictly Speaking—Wayne
County Indian Trails—Chief Killbuck—Massacre of Sixteen Indians at Wooster.
CHAPTER III—GLACIATION, ARCHAEOLOGY, MOUND BUILDERS, ETC. - 55
Widely Separated Geological Formations—Opinions as to Dividing Line—Preglacial
Topography—Nature and Magnitude of the Glacial Effects—An Island in a Silurian
Sea—Altitudes in Wayne County—Preglacial Streams and their Outlets—The First Dry Land in
the United States—Long Periods of Waiting—Nature's Convulsions—Formation of Coal
Deposits—A River that No Man ever Saw—Preglacial Drainage Lines—Current of Streams
Reversed—Glaciation in Wayne County—Lakes and Swamps—Early Wild Game—A
Remarkable Pigeon Root—Human Relics Found in the Drift of Wayne County—The Moccasin
Last Stone—Geology of the District—Description of the Stone—Conclusions—Other
Evidences—Animal Remains Found in the Muck Swamps—The Indians of Wayne
County—Prominent Indian Chiefs—Fortifications and Enclosures—Mounds—Implements and
Artifacts of the Aborigines—Village Sites—General Reliquia—Pottery—Burials.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IV—TOPOGRAPHY AND GENERAL FEATURES - 98
Surface Once Covered by Deep Sea—Composition of Soil—Area of County and
Townships—Once Heavily Timbered—Streams of the County—Surface of the
County—Prairies—The Lakes—Newman's Creek Swamp—Once a Favorite Retreat for Wild
Animals and Game—Killbuck Swamp—Coal Mines of the County.
CHAPTER V—EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY - 108
Pioneers Largely from Pennsylvania—Character of the Pioneers—Early Conditions—Hospitality
Ever Foremost—Old Ways Superseded by New Methods —First Settlements in the
County—Pioneer Families.
CHAPTER VI—ORGANIZATION OF WAYNE COUNTY - 114
Appointment of Governor St. Clair—Wayne, the Third County Formed in the Northwest
Territory—Early Boundaries—Old Greenville Treaty Line—Detroit, the County Seat—The
Connecticut Western Reserve—Boundaries of Wayne County in 1808—Ashland County Taken
from Wayne—Wayne County Organized in 1812—Organization of Townships—Origin of Name
of Wayne County.
CHAPTER VII—COUNTY GOVERNMENT - 122
First Election of County Officers—Commissioners Form First Four Townships—First County
Seat—Court House History—Wayne County Jails—Old and New County Office
Buildings—County Infirmary—The Children's Home—Property Valuation of County.
CHAPTER VIII—CIVIL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY - 130
The Present Generation's Indebtedness to the Past—Early Civilization and Pioneer Renown
Attributable* to Great Ancestry—Education—The Revolutionary Purpose—The
Constitution—Founders of Government in the Northwest—Pioneer Mothers—Indian
Government—Their Customs—Treaty Negotiations—Organized Government in Wayne
County—Territorial Council—Territorial Legislature—Early Laws—The Constitution of
1802—Elective Franchise of the Constitution of 1802—The City of Wooster—Township and
Town Government—Our Great Constitutional System—Early Method of Enforcing the
Law—Professional Influences—Early Lawyers and Physicians—The Constitution of
1851—Influence of Party Organization Among the People—The Heredity of Governing
Capacity—Organization of Townships Completed—Forty Years of Government—Able County
Administrations—Clean Judicial Record—Wayne County as the Source of Northwestern
Government—Individual and Social Life—Great Principles of the Pioneer Fathers and Mothers
—Wayne County Centennial Celebration—Wayne and Associate Counties Prolific of Great
Men.
CHAPTER IX—COUNTY, STATE AND NATIONAL REPRESENTATION - 174
Members of Congress—Members of the Constitutional Convention—State Senators—Members
of the House of Representatives—General Representation from Wayne County—The Circuit
Court—Judges of Common Pleas Court—Associate Judges—Clerks of Common Pleas
Court—County Treasurers—County Auditors—Probate Judges—Sheriffs—County
Commissioners—County Surveyors—County Recorders—Prosecuting Attorneys—Infirmary
Directors.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER X—EDUCATIONAL - 185
Early Attention to Education—Primitive Schools—The Pioneer Instructors—The Public School
System—Smithville High School—First Schools of Wayne County Townships—Schools at
Shreve—Canaan Academy—School Statistics of Wayne County—Present Standing of Wayne
County Schools—Centralization of Rural Schools—Advantages of Centralization.
CHAPTER XI—AGRICULTURE - 193
The Soil—The Waverly Floor—Glacial Influence of the Soil—Early Settlements Near
Springs—The Progress of Agriculture—The Pioneer Period—Primitive Implements—Little
Market Demand for Early Products—Completion of Ohio Canal Affords Outlet—Production of
Cereal Crops, 1851-9—The Development Period—Production of Cereal Crops, 1860-9 and
1870-9—The Expansion Period—Production of Cereal Crops, 1880-9, 1890-9 and
1900-9—Livestock Statistics—The Scientific Period—Minor Crops—Average Areas—The Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station—Litigation over Bond Issue—The Institution's Work of Great
Value and Importance—The Future of Agriculture in Wayne County—Yields of Unfertilized
Land—Average Yield of Crops—Yields from Acid Phosphate—Yields from Complete
Fertilizer—Yields from Unfertilized Land—Yields from Open-yard and Fresh Manure, and from
Phosphated Manure—Station Experiments a Safe Guide to General Practice—PossiAgricultural
Society—Progressive Farmers' Association—Plain Township bility of Larger
Yields—Demonstration of Means nd Methods—Wayne County Farmers' Club.
CHAPTER XII—MILITARY HISTORY OF WAYNE COUNTY - 218
Wayne County Block Houses—Necessity for Protection—Fort Stidger—Construction of
Forts—Revolutionary Pensioners in 1840—Pensioners of the- War of 1812—Wayne County in
the Mexican War—List of Soldiers from this County—Wayne County and the Civil War—The
First Volunteers—Fourth Ohio Regiment—Its History—Sixteenth Ohio Regiment—Noted for its
Fine Discipline—Forty-first Ohio Regiment—One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment—One
Hundred and Second Regiment—One Hundred and Seventh Regiment—Ninth Ohio
Cavalry—Miscellaneous Detachments from Wayne County —In Memoriam—The First Soldier
Wounded from Wayne County—Soldiers of the Spanish-American War—Officers and Members
of Company D, Eighth Ohio Regiment.
CHAPTER XIII—THE CHURCHES OF WAYNE COUNTY - 241
High Moral Sentiment and Respect for Sacred Things Among Pioneers—Baptist Church—First
Church Formed in Wayne County—The -Wooster Church—Baptist Church of
Millbrook—Second Baptist Church at Wooster, Colored—Reformed Church at
Wooster—Reformed Church of Reedsburg—Reformed Church of Marshallville—Reformed
Church of Orrville—Reformed Church, Canaan Township—Reformed Church, Milton
Township—Reformed Church, East Union Township—Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Wooster—Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church—Lutherans in Plain Township—Salem Lutheran
Church, Wayne Township—Canaan Lutheran Churches—Evangelical Lutheran
Church—Lutheran Church, Plain Township—St. Paul's Reformed Lutheran Church—English
Lutheran Mission Church—West Lebanon Evangelical
CONTENTS.
Church—Jacob's Lutheran Church—Trinity English Lutheran Church—Evangelical
Churches—Evangelical Association—Church of Christ—Shreve Christian Church—Disciple
Church, Plain Township—First Presbyterian Church, Wooster—Westminster Presbyterian
Church—Marshallville Presbyterian Church—Sugarcreek Presbyterian Church—Orrville
Presbyterian Church—Presbyterians in Canaan Township—Wayne Pbyterian
Church—Presbyterianism in Greene Township—Applecreek Presbyt an Church—Paintville
Pres- byterian Church—Other Presbyterian 'Churches i the County—United Presbyterian
Church—Fredericksburg United Presbyterian Church—Dalton United Presbyterian
Church—Church of God—Franklin Township Church of God—St. James Episcopal
Church—Methodist Episcopal Church—First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wooster—Trinity
Methodist Episcopal Church of Wooster—Fredericksburg Methodist Episcopal Church—Canaan
Township Methodism—Bend Church—Methodism in Franklin Township—Creston Methodist
Episcopal Church—Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrville, and Other Churches —The Catholic
Church—St. Mary's Church, Wooster—St. Michael's Church—Milton Township Catholic
Church—Sts. Peter and Paul's Church—French Settlement Church—At Sterling—Died Among
Strangers—Scnneberg Swiss Mennonite Congregation—Amish Mennonite Church—Mennonite
Church of Sugarcreek Township—Salem Mennonite Church—Congregational Church—Other
Early Churches.
CHAPTER XIV—FRATERNAL SOCIETIES - 280
Freemasonry—Various Bodies at Wooster—West Salem Lodge—Oddfellowship— Knights of
Pythias—Improved Order of Red Men—Royal Arcanum—Knights of Honor—Grand Army of
the Republic—Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the Grand Army, and Daughters of Veterans.
CHAPTER XV—BENCH AND BAR - 287
A Proud Record and Interesting History—Character of the Bar—Judges of Common
Pleas—Circuit Judges, Fifth District—Early Prosecuting Attorneys —Lawyers of
1812—Present-day Wayne Ccunty Attorneys—Former Members of Wayne County Bar
Practicing Elsewhere—Lawyers Who Died While Members of the Bar of Wayne
County—Members of the Wayne County Bar who Died Elsewhere.
CHAPTER XVI—NEWSPAPERS OF WAYNE COUNTY - 312
Ohio Spectator—Ohio Oracle—Wooster Journal and Democratic Times—Wooster
Democrat—Wooster Republican, Weekly and Daily—Wooster Correspondent—Republican
Advocate—Western Telegraph—Democratic Republican—Present Wayne County Democrat and
Daily News—The .Wayne County Standard—American Eagle—Wayne County
Herald—Wooster Journal—The Jacksonian—The Evening News—The Evening Journal—The
Orrville Crescent and Orrville Courier—The Dalton Gazette—The Creston Journal—The
Doylestown Journal—West Salem Reporter—Shreve News.
CHAPTER XVII—THE MEDICAL PROFESSION - 322
Pioneer Doctor Early in the New Settlements—Their Heroism and Sacrifice—Brilliant and
Eminent Men in the Ranks of Wayne County Physicians—Often Hard Work and Poor
Pay—Early Treatment—Deceased Early Physicians—Present-day Physicians.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XVIII—RAILROADS, CANALS AND TURNPIKES - 342
Legislative Enactment—The Ohio Canal—The Railroad Era—Mass-meetings in the Interest of
Railroads—Much Opposition, but Successful Outcome—Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago
Railroad—Other Railroads of Wayne County—Navigating the Killbuck and Salt Creek—A
Reminiscence.
CHAPTER XIX—TOWNSHIP HISTORY - 353
Chippewa Township—First Settlements—Doylestown—Milton Township—First
Events—Towns of the Township—Fatal Boiler Explosion—Reminiscence by Philip
Fritz—Canaan Township—A Reminiscence by Isaac Notestine—Canaan Academy—Congress
Township—Pioneer Happenings—Congress Village—Chester Township—Earliest
Settlers—Towns and Villages—Wayne Township—The Pioneer Band—The Wasson
Family—Greene Township—First Settlement —Other Early Events—Smithville—Baughman
Township—Marshallville—Fairview, or Burton City—Sugarcreek Township—Early
Settlements—Towns and Villages—Dalton—Sonneberg Settlement—East Union
Township—An Early Indian Scare—Recollections of Noah Brown—Towns of the
Township—Wooster Township—Benjamin Jones—Plain Township—First Settlers—Towns and
Villages—Remains of Buffaloes and Cedar Trees—Clinton Township—First
Happenings—Franklin Township—Indians Burn the Butler Cabin—The Morgan Block
House—Death of Old Chief Lyon—Moreland Village—Salt Creek
Township—Fredericksburg—Paint Township—Facts of Early History—Mount Eaton—West
Lebanon.
CHAPTER XX—MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS - 391
Early-day Market Prices—Market Quotations for 1909—First White Man to Die in Wayne
County—Two Noted Characters, Driskel and Brawdey—Weather and Crops Years Ago—Adam
Poe, the Indian Fighter—Poe Whips Five Indians—Concerning Adam Poe's Death—Wayne
County Man Hung Lincoln Conspirators—Salt Works on the Killbuck in 1815—Population of
Wayne County by Decades—By Townships—City, Town and Village Population—City of
Wooster—Village Plats of the County—Indians Cause Powder Explosion— • The Fuller
Sisters—An American "Ole Bull"—"Johnny Appleseed."
CHAPTER XXI—THE CITY OF WOOSTER - 410
Its Naming—Its Selection as County Seat—Location—First Events—Wooster
Incorporated—Election of March, 1824—Entries in Record of Board of Trustees—Town
Presidents—Mayors of Wooster—Present City Officers—The Fire Department—Wooster Opera
Houses—The City Hall—Paving, Sidewalks and Sewers—City Water Works—Wooster Gas
Light Company—Electric Light Plant—Wooster Postoffice—Board of Trade—Public
Library—Old Market House Destroyed by a Mob—Oak Hill Cemetery—Soldiers'
Monument—The Metal Band Stand—Wooster Brush Works—Wooster Nursery Company—
Pioneer Mill of Wayne County—Snowflake Flouring Mills—Other Industries—
Banks of Wooster—An Early Bank Failure—Building and Loan Companies— Present Banks of
Wooster—Public Schools—The Jacksonian Celebrations—Wayne County's Centennial
Celebration—Days of Mourning in Wooster—Deaths of Garfield and McKinley.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXII—UNIVERSITY OF WOOSTER - 439
The Period of Inception and Preparation—Period of Experiment—Period of
Establishment—That of Maintenance—Period of Rapid Development—The New Wooster—The
Faculty—The Trustees—The Alumni—History by Departments—Those Which Have
Disappeared—The Medical Department—The Military Department—The Post-graduate
Department—The Library—The Preparatory Department—The Summer School—The Musical
Department—Homes for Children of Foreign Missionaries—The Florence H. Severance Bible
and Missionary Training School—Miscellany—Honorary Degrees—The College
Publications—The School of Expression—The Literary Societies—Prizes and
Honors—Vacations and Holidays—Dramatic Productions—Physical Culture and
Athletics—Fraternities and Sororities—Class
Spirit—DisciplineCo-education—Expenses—Department of Propaganda—Relations of the
University to the City and County—A Prophecy.
CHAPTER XXIII—TOWNS OF THE COUNTY - 552
Doylestown Village—Postoffice—Churches—Lodges and Societies—Industries
—Banking—Town of Creston—Postoffice—Incorporation—Banking—Town of Orrville—Its
Industries—Banking—Orrville Before the Civil War—An Orrville Reminiscence—Village of
Shreve—Officers—Postoffice—Churches and Lodges —Industrial Concerns—Village of West
Salem—Mayors and Town Officers—Postal History—Various Industries—Churches and
Lodges—Other Interests
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 560
HISTORICAL INDEX
A
Acreage of Wayne County - 99
Adair, John S. - 297
Adam Poe, the Indian Fighter - 397
Address of Lyman R. Critchfield - 163
Agricultural Experiment Station - 203
Agricultural Society, Wayne County - 216
Agriculture - 193
Agriculture, Future of - 207
Agriculture, Progress of - 195
Allen, Edward - 1040
Altitudes in Wayne County - 58
Amish Mennonite Church - 276
Animal Remains in Swamps - 84
An American "Ole Bull" - 407
Apple Creek Presbyterian Church - 261
Associate Judges - 178
Artifacts of Aborigines - 91
Attorneys, Prosecuting - 183
Auditors, County - 179
Average Crop Areas - 203
B
Band Stand - 426
Banks of Wooster - 431, 434
Baptist Churches - 241
Baptist Church, Millbrook - 245
Battle of Falling Timbers - 33
Battle of the Cow Pens - 46
Battle of the Maumee - 33
Battles, William S. - 334
Baughman Township - 372
Beall's Campaign - 45
Bench and Bar - 286
Bend Church - 271
Big Killbuck - 59
Bissell, Samuel Norton - 327
Blachley, William B. - 333
Block Houses - 219
Boiler Explosion - 358
Boundaries of Wayne County, Early - 114
Boundaries, Wayne County, in 1808 - 117
Brawdey, Steve - 393
Building and Loan Companies - 433
Burbank - 362
Burials, Ancient - 96
Burning of Butler Cabin - 385
Burning of Colonel Crawford - 42
Burton City - 373
C
Campaigns - 32
Canaan Academy - 190
Canaan Lutheran Church - 252
Canaan Township - 360
Canaan Township Methodism - 270
Canaan Township Presbyterians - 260
Canals of Wayne County - 342
Carlin, Eugene - 298
Catholic Churches - 272
Centennial Celebration - 436
Centralization of Schools - 191
Chester Township - 366
Chief Killbuck - 51
Chief Lyon, Death of - 386
Children's Home - 128
Chippewa Township - 353
Christian Church, Shreve - 255
Church of Christ - 254
Church of God - 265
Church of God, Franklin Township - 266
Churches, Early - 278
Churches of Wayne County - 241
Circuit Court - 177, 288
City of Wooster - 410
Civil and Political History - 130
Education - 132
Revolutionary Purpose - 132
The Constitution - 133
Founders of Government - 134
Indian Government - 136
Organized Government - 141
Territorial Council - 141
Territorial Legislature - 142
Early Laws - 142
Constitution of 1802 - 143
Elective Franchise of Constitution of 1802 - 144
City of Wooster - 146
Township and Town Government - 147
Early Method of Enforcing Law - 151
Professional influences - 151
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Constitution of 1851 - 153
Influence of Party Organization - 154
Heredity of Governing Capacity - 155
Forty Years of Government - 157
Wayne County as the Source of Northwestern Government - 161
Individual and Social Life - 162
Great Principles of the Pioneer Fathers and Mothers - 163
Wayne and Associate Counties Prolific of Great Men - 172
Civil War, Wayne County and the - 223
Clerks of Common Pleas Court - 178
Clinton Township - 382
Coal Mines - 105
Coe, Silas N. - 300
Colonel Crawford - 37
Commissioners, County - 180
Common Pleas Court - 177
Common Pleas Court, Clerks of - 178
Company D, Eighth Ohio Regiment - 238
Composition of Soil - 98
Congregational Church - 278
Congressional Representatives - 174
Congress Township - 362
Congress Village - 365
Connecticut Western Reserve - 116
Constitutional Convention, Members - 174
Cornell, Lorenzo - 295
County Auditors - 179
County Commissioners - 180
County Government - 122
County Infirmary - 127
County Office Buildings - 126
County Recorders - 183
County Seat, First - 122
County Surveyors - 182
County Treasurers - 178
Court House History - 123
Cow Pens, Battle of the - 46
Crawford, Colonel, Burning of - 42
Crawford, Colonel William - 37
Crawford's Expedition - 36
Creston - 554
Creston "Journal" - 320
Creston Methodist Episcopal Church - 271
Critchfield, Lyman R. - 292
Critchfield, Lyman R., Address by - 163
Critchfield, Lyman R., Jr. - 295
Critchfield, Reno H. - 299
Crop Areas, Average - 203
D
Dalton - 374
Dalton "Gazette" - 319
Dalton United Presbyterian Church - 264
Day, Stephen F. - 326
Days of Mourning - 437
Death of Old Chief Lyon - 386
Delawares - 47
Disciple Church, Plain Township - 255
Dohrman's Tract - 26
Doylestown - 355, 552
Doylestown Industries - 553
Doylestown "Journal" - 320
Doylestown Postoffice - 553
Downing, D. T. - 298
Drainage, Preglacial - 67
Driskel, John - 393
E
Early Boundaries of Wayne County - 114
Early Churches - 278
Early Counties, Organization of - 29
Early-day Market Prices - 391
Early Ohio Villages and Towns - 30
Early Prosecuting Attorneys - 289
Early Settlement of Wayne County - 108
Early Territorial Days - 28
Eason, Benjamin - 301
Eason, Samuel B. - 294
East Union Township - 375
Educational History - 185
Eighth Ohio Regiment - 238
Enclosures - 88
English Claim Northwest Territory - 18
English Lutheran Mission Church - 253
Episcopal Church - 266
Evangelical Association - 254
Evangelical Church, West Lebanon - 253
Evangelical Churches - 254
Evangelical Lutheran Christ Church - 251
Evangelical Lutheran Church - 252
Experiment Station, Agricultural - 203
F
Fairview - 373
Falling Timbers, Battle of - 33
Farmers Club, Plain Township - 217
Fatal Boiler Explosion - 358
Fenwick, Bishop, Death of - 274
Firestone, Leander - 329
Firestone, W. W. - 330
First Council - 34
HISTORICAL INDEX.
First County Seat - 122
First English Settlement - 18
First House of Representatives - 34
First Methodist Church, Wooster - 266
First Presbyterian Church, Wooster - 256
First Schools - 188
First Settlement at Marietta - 24
First Settlements in Wayne County - 112
First Soldier Wounded from Wayne County - 237
First Survey of Public Lands - 24
First Territorial Officers - 28
First Volunteers - 224
First White Man to Die in Wayne County - 392
Forest Trees - 99
Former Members of Wayne County Bar Practicing Elsewhere - 301
Fort Harmar, Treaty of - 27
Fortifications - 88
Fort Recovery - 33
Forty-First Ohio Regiment - 231
Fourth Ohio Regiment - 226
Fox Lake - 102
Franklin Township - 384
Franklin Township Methodism - 271
Fraternal Societies - 281
Fredericksburg - 387
Fredericksburg Methodist Episcopal Church - 270
Fredericksburg United Presbyterian Church - 264
Freemasonry - 280
French Grant - 25
French Settlement Church - 274
Fuller Sisters - 405
Future of Agriculture - 207
G
Gallagher, Joseph - 298
General Features of Wayne County - 98
General Reliquia - 94
General Representation from Wayne County - 176
General St. Clair - 33
Geology of District - 80
Glaciation in Wayne County - 69
Grand Army of the Republic - 285
Greene Township - 369
Greene Township Presbyterians - 261
Greenville Treaty Line - 115
H
Hay, Benton G. - 298
Hubbell, Harvey H. - 299
Human Relics - 77
I
Implements of Aborigines - 91
Improved Order of Red Men - 284
Independent Order of Odd Fellows - 282
Indiana Territory - 35
Indian Chiefs - 87
Indian Massacre - 52
Indian Trails - 50
Indian Treaties - 27
Indian Tribes - 32
Indians Cause Powder Explosion - 405
Indians, Latest Tribes - 47
Indians of Wayne County - 50, 85
Infirmary Directors - 183
Infirmary, Wayne County - 127
J
Jacksonian Celebration - 436
Jacob's Lutheran Church, Franklin Township - 254
Jails of Wayne County - 124
"Johnny Appleseed" - 407
Jones, Charles C. - 300
Judges of Common Pleas Court - 177, 288
K
Keeler, Thomas B. - 294
Killbuck, Indian Chief - 51
KIllbuck Swamp - 104
Knights of Honor - 285
Knights of Pythias - 283
L
Lakes and Swamps - 74, 102
Latest Tribes of Indians - 47
Lattasburg - 367
Lawyers of 1812 - 289
Lawyers Who Died While Members of the Wayne County Bar - 304
Lawyers Who Were Members of the Wayne County Bar and Died Elsewhere - 309
Legislative Representatives - 175
HISTORICAL INDEX.
London Company - 18
Lutheran Church, Plain Township - 253
Lutherans in Plain Township - 252
Mc
McClure, Addison S. - 292
McKinney, John R. - 299
M
Maag, Edward - 298
Marietta, First Settlement at - 24
Market House Destroyed - 423
Market Prices, Early Day - 391
Market Quotations for 1909 - 390
Marshallville - 372
Marshallville Presbyterian Church - 260
Masons, Free and Accepted - 280
Massacre of Sixteen Indians - 52
Maumee, Battle of the - 33
Mayors of Wooster - 415
Medical Profession - 322
Meech, James B. - 296
Mennonite Church, Amish - 276
Mennonite Church, Salem - 277
Mennonite Church, Sonneberg Swiss - 274
Mennonite Church, Sugarcreek Township - 276
Methodist Episcopal Church - 266
Methodist Episcopal Church, Creston - 271
Methodist Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg - 270
Methodist Episcopal Church, Orrville - 272
Metz, Asbury Durbin - 295
Mexican War, Wayne County in - 221
Military Campaigns - 32, 36
Military History of Wayne County - 219
Military Lands - 25, 26
Miller, George W. - 297
Milton Township - 356
Milton Township Catholic Church - 273
Moccasin Last Stone - 78
Moore, W. C. - 328
Moravian Lands - 26
Moreland Village - 386
Morgan Block House - 385
Morr, John C. - 298
Mounds - 90
Mount Eaton - 389
Mullins, Walter J. - 300
N
Name of Wayne County, Origin of - 1z1
Navigation - 349
New France - 18
Newkirk, Eugene W. - 294
Newman's Creek Swamp - 103
Newspapers of Wayne County - 312
Ninth Ohio Cavalry Regiment - 236
Northwest Territory - 17
0
Oak Hill Cemetery - 423
Odd Fellows - 282
Office Buildings, County - 126
Ohio Canal - 342
Ohio Company - 18
"Ohio Spectator" - 312
Old Mohican - 66
One Hundred and Second Ohio Regiment - 234
One Hundred and Seventh Ohio Regiment - 235
One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Regiment - 232
Ordinance of 1787 - 19
Organization of Early Counties - 29
Organization of Ohio Land Company - 21
Organization of Townships - 118
Organization of Wayne County - 114
Origin of Name of Wayne County - 121
Original Squatters - 20
Orrville - 556
Orrville "Courier" - 319
Orrville "Crescent" - 318
Orrville Industries - 557
Orrville Methodist Episcopal Church - 272
Orrville Presbyterian Church - 260
Orrville Reminiscence - 559
P
Paint Township - 388
Paintville Presbyterian Church - 262
Patton's Lake - 103
Peckinpaugh, Thomas W. - 298
Pensioners of War of 1812 - 221
Pensioners, Revolutionary - 220
Physicians, Early-day - 325
Physicians, Present-day - 339
Pigeon Roost - 76
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Pioneer Families - 113
Pioneer Mill of Wayne County - 428
Pioneers, Where From - 108, 195
Plain Township - 380
Plain Township Disciples Church - 255
Plain Township Farmers' Club - 217
Plymouth Company - 18
Poe, Adam - 397
Population by City, Towns and Villages - 403
Population by Townships - 403
Population in 1787 - 20
Population of Wayne County - 403
Population of Wooster - 403
Pottery - 95
Prairies - 102
Preglacial Drainage - 67
Preglacial Topography - 57
Presbyterian Church, Apple Creek - 261
Presbyterian Church, Marshallville - 260
Presbyterian Church, Orrville - 260
Presbyterian Church, Paintville - 262
Presbyterian Church, Sugarcreek - 260
Presbyterian Church, Westminster - 259
Presbyterian Church, Wooster, First - 256
Presbyterians in Canaan Township - 260
Presbyterians in Greene Township - 261
Present-day Lawyers - 292
Present-day Physicians - 339
Probate Judges - 180
Primitive Schools - 185
Production of Crops - 197, 198, 199, 200, 201
Process of Agriculture - 195
Progressive Farmers' Association - 217
Property Valuation - 129
Prosecuting Attorneys - 183, 289
Public School System - 187
Public Schools of Wooster - 434
R
Railroad Era - 343
Railroads of Wayne County - 342
Ramsey, Warren - 297
Recorders, County - 183
Red Men, Improved Order of - 284
Reformed Church, Canaan Township - 250
Reformed Church, East Union Township - 250
Reformed Church, Marshallville - 249
Reformed Church, Milton Township - 250
Reformed Church, Orrville - 249
Reformed Church, Wooster - 245, 249
Reformed Lutheran Church, St. Paul's - 253
Refugee Tract - 26
Reminiscence by Philip Fritz - 358
Representatives in Congress - 174
Representatives in Legislature - 175
Revolutionary Pensioners - 220
Rider, Cyrus A. - 301
Robison, James D. - 331
Royal Arcanum - 284
Russell, Price - 295
S
St. Clair, General - 33
St. James Episcopal Church - 266
St. Michael's Catholic Church - 273
St. Paul's Reformed Lutheran Church 253 Sts. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church 273 Salem
Lutheran Church, Plain Township - 252
Salem Mennonite Church - 277
Salt Creek Township - 386
Salt Works on the Killbuck - 402
School Statistics - 190
School System, Public - 187
Schools at Shreve - 189
Schools, Primitive - 185
Schools, Rural, Centralization of - 191
Second Baptist Church, Wooster - 245
Second Grade of Territorial Government - 34
Second Survey of Public Lands - 24
Second Territorial Government - 28
Senators - 175
Settlements, First, in Wayne County - 112
Shaffer, Hiram M. - 338
Shaffer, Moses - 337
Shawnees - 49
Sheriffs - 180
Shreve - 560 3
Shreve Christian Church - 255
Shreve "News" - 321
Shreve Schools - 189
Sixteenth Ohio Regiment - 228
Smith, Harry R. - 296
Smithville - 371
Smithville High School - 188
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Smyser, Martin L. - 294
Snyder, James E. - 300
Soil Composition - 96
Soil of Wayne County - 193
Soldiers' Monument - 426
Sonneberg Settlement - 375
Sonneberg Swiss Mennonite Church - 274
Spanish-American War - 238
Spooner, M. L. - 297
Starn, George A. - 298
State Senators - 175
Stone, Edgar E. - 297
Streams of Wayne County - 100
Sugarcreek Presbyterian Church - 260
Sugarcreek Township - 373
Sugarcreek Township - Mennonite Church - 276
Surface of County - 101
Surveyors, County - 182
Surveys of Public Lands - 24
Symmes Purchase - 24
T
Territorial Council, First - 34
Territorial Days - 28
Territorial Government Ended - 36
Territorial Legislature, Third' Session - 35
Territorial Officers- 28
The "Mayflower" - 23
Third Session, Territorial Legislature - 35
Thomas, Alfred J. - 299
Topography, Preglacial - 57
Topography of Wayne County - 98
Township Histories - 353
Townships, Organization of - 118
Trails, Indian - 50
Treasurers, County - 178
Treaties with Indians - 27
Treaty of Fort Harmar - 27
Trees of Wayne County - 99
Trinity English Lutheran Church - 254
Trinity Methodist Church, Wooster - 269
Turnpikes of Wayne County - 342
Two Noted Characters - 392
U
United Presbyterian Church - 262
United Presbyterian Church, Dalton - 262
United Presbyterian Church, Fredericksburg - 264
United States Military Lands - 26
University of Wooster - 438
V
Valuation of Property - 129
Village Plats - 404
Village Sites - 93
Virginia Military Lands - 25
Volunteers, First - 224
W
Warner, Charles J. - 336
Water Navigation - 349
Wayne County Agricultural Society - 216
Wayne County Boundaries, 1808 - 117
Wayne County Early Boundaries - 114
Wayne County Indian Trails - 50
Wayne County in Mexican War - 221
Wayne County Jails - 124
Wayne County Lawyers - 292
Wayne County, Organization of - 114
Wayne County Organized - 118
Wayne Presbyterian Church - 261
Wayne Township - 368
Weather and Crops Years Ago - 396
Wertz, Ed. S. - 299
Welker, Martin - 293
Wenger, D. - 296
West Lebanon - 390
West Lebanon Evangelical Church - 253
Westminster Presbyterian Church - 259
West Salem - 560 6
West Salem "Reporter" - 320
Western Reserve - 25, 116
"Widow Blockhouse" Gets Married - 430
Wiley, Aquila - 300
Wooster Board of Trade - 421
Wooster Brush Works - 426
Wooster City Hall - 418
Wooster, City of - 410
Wooster City Water Works - 418
Wooster "Daily News" - 316
Wooster "Democrat" - 315
Wooster, Election of 1824 - 413
Wooster Electric Light Plant - 420
Wooster, Fire Department - 416
Wooster Gas Light Company - 419
Wooster Incorporated - 412
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Wooster "Journal and Democratic Times" - 313
Wooster, Mayors of - 415
Wooster Nursery Company - 427
Wooster Opera Houses - 417
Wooster, Population of - 403
Wooster Postoffice - 421
Wooster, Present City Officers - 415
Wooster Public Library - 422
Wooster Public Schools - 434
Wooster "Republican" - 313
Wooster, Town Presidents - 414
Wooster Township - 379
Wooster University - 438
Wyandots - 48
Y
Yocum, Charles M. - 295
Yost, William C. - 296
Z
Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wooster - 250
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
A
Adair Family - 560 28
Adair, Robert L. - 560 22
Addleman, William - 856
Alcock, Forbes - 1284
Alexander, A. S. - 1250
Alexander, Samuel K. - 1262
Ames, Samuel S. - 579
Amstutz, David C. - 874
Amstutz Family - 1386
Amstutz, Joel B. - 953
Anthony, Frederick - 1214
Appleman, Robert S. - 582
Appleman, William - 582
Armstrong, David Calvin - 1208
Armstrong, David D. - 804
Armstrong, Joseph - 960
Armstrong, Thomas, Jr. - 880
Aukerman, Louis Emerson - 1063
Ault, Clement L. - 929
B
Baker, Harry E. - 1404
Barden, Edwin Albert - 1128
Barden, William - 1379
Barden, William A. - 1374
Barnard, George D. - 1108
Barnard, Martin H. - 1130
Barnhart, William Ralph, Jr. - 1436
Beal, David - 1380
Beals, Daniel - 853
Beals, Jacob - 854
Beazell, Matthew - 827
Bechtel, John - 734
Bechtel, Tillman O. - 1243
Beckley, Conrad Rumple - 576
Beekley, Charles Elmer - 1094
Beer, James Dinsmore - 618
Bell, William - 894
Berger, John David - 865
Bertolette, Harry B. - 995
Bevington, Benjamin S. - 730
Biddle, Charles W. - 1125
Eddie, George C. - 1010
Bixler, William - 1351
Blackwood, David G. - 749
Bliss, William Herbert - 587
Blosser, P. S. - 802
Blough, David - 560 47
Bolen, Charles Wesley - 584
Boor, John N. - 600
Bower, Adam B. - 1167
Bowman, David - 1292
Bowman, Theo. P. - 653
Braden, David H. - 646
Brenizer, George - 1364
Brenneman, Amandus W. - 1366
Brenneman, Daniel Webster - 1042
Brenneman, Samuel M. - 792
Brinkerhoff, Amos - 1154
Brinkerhoff, Ira - 892
Brinkerhoff, Joseph W. - 1184
Brooks, A. A. - 678
Brown, Allen - 1000
Brown, Elmer - 780
Brown, Joseph McCauley - 1032
Brown, Thomas Pendleton - 1079
Bruce, Oliver D. - 764
Bryson, Willis B. - 1268
Buchanan, John W. - 1002
Bucher, Levi - 1156
Burchfield, Charles E. - 794
Burkholder, Amos - 979
Burkholder, Elmer U. - 1222
Burkholder, Noah S. - 951
Burkholder, Simon D. - 1171
Burkholder, William - 937
C
Cameron, Robert, Sr. - 660
Campbell, Alexander Thompson - 742
Campbell, Archibald B. - 654
Camron, W. J. - 1398
Carnahan, Thomas E. - 955
Case, S. Grant - 1411
Caskey, John Snodgrass - 624
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Caskey, William - 829
Christy, James W. - 636
Christy, Raymond F. - 708
Christy, Welker G. - 635
Coffman, Henry - 1150
Conrad, John C. - 815
Cook, Sylvanus G. - 738
Cooney, Nelson R. - 1209
Cope, B. G. - 1272
Cramer, John - 850
Cramer, William Albert - 1100
Crane, Cyrus G. - 1462
Crater, George - 1162
Craven, John - 1176
Criley, John M. - 967
Critchfield, Mrs. Adelaide M. - 560 12
Critchfield, Lyman R. - 560 9
Critchfield, Lyman R., Jr. - 704.
Crosby, Howard - 1152
Crummel, John W. - 775
Curry, David C. - 1320
Cutter, John W. - 728
D
Dague, Gabriel C. - 1328
Dague, Thomas Jefferson - 1424
Danford, John H. B. - 599
Dais, Thomas Kirby - 560
Dawson, Norman B. - 938
DesVoignes L. - 701
Deuell, William Henry - 878
Dix, Albert - 796
Dohner, Harvey B. - 932
Douglas, Ben - 1080
E
Eason, Samuel Brown - 832
Emrich, George P. - 1115
Etling, Abram - 1439
Etling, John E. - 1352
Evans, David G. - 783
Evans, William S. - 787
Ewing, Thomas E. - 860
Eyman, Charles B. - 1023
Eyman, Simon B. - 1337
F
Fahr, Charles - 750
Fair, Andrew A. - 1232
Feeman, William E. - 668
Felton, A. K. - 1225
Ferguson, James Walter - 1134
Fetzer, Jonathan - 1302
Fike, Adam W. - 694
Fike, George A. - 1180
Fike, William A. - 1181
Fisher, George A. - 1256
Fisher, James Howard - 1016
Flack, Robert C. - 784
Fluhart, Edmond Z. - 688
Fogel, Adam - 732
Folsom, Charles E. - 1460
Forrer, George F. - 1283
Forrer, Henry H. - 1203
France, John B. - 569
Franks, Louis K. - 1419
Frary, Orange W. - 884
Frary, William - 760
Frick, Jacob - 1376
Fritz, Joseph Owen - 658
Fulton, Luther H. - 1133
Funck, Ross W. - 1440
Funk, Laban - 1005
Funk, Willis D. - 1310
G
Garver, William Wallace - 936
Gaut, Mathew - 768
Gearhart, Jacob - 926
Geiselman, Cyrenius - 1173
Geiselman, John Franklin - 1065
George, Franklin Warren - 680
Gerig, Benjamin - 1143
Gerlach, Albert - 590
Gilbert, E. E. - 1227
Gill, Samuel George - 1280
Gill, William M. - 1250
Gindlesperger, James B. - 746
Gish, Jacob - 945
Gish, Michael S. - 944
Good, Clayton - 747
Graber, Charles A. - 1331
Graber, Daniel - 1045
Graber, Rudolph - 1258
Grady, Oliver George - 869
Grant, Edward M. - 810
Graven, Marion - 614
Graven, Thomas Arthur - 613
Gray, Charles Milton - 567
Gray, James Lloyd - 607
Gregory, Joseph B. - 1319
Grosjean, Louis Eugene - 1086
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
H
Hackenberg, Adam - 1453
Haller, Henry A. - 674
Halteman, Ammon S. - 966
Hamilton, James A. - 676
Hamlin, Simon - 1254
Hammer, Jacob J. - 1348
Hard, Curtis Volosco - 800
Harrison, John F. - 625
Harrison, Ohio J. - 786
Harrison, Richard - 759
Harrison, Stephen - 626
Harrold, Christopher John - 638
Hartel, John V. - 1332
Hartzler, Albert I. - 1139
Hartzler, Gideon - 957
Hartzler, John - 1053
Haskins, Benjamin Edward - 943
Haupert, Charles - 913
Hay, Benton Givler - 1384
Heckman, Frank - 791
Heckman, Jacob - 1255
Heller, A. J. - 690
Heller, William E. - 675
Henry, Stephen M. - 824
Herman, Adam George - 1336
Hills, Oscar Armstrong - 1334
Hoegner, William F. - 1446
Hofacre, Alonzo Lawrence - 1097
Hoff, Daniel - 1341
Hohenshil, David - 1295
Holmes, Franklin - 864
Hooke, Joseph William - 725
Horn, Alonzo D. - 1375
Horn, C. Willis - 1014
Hostetler, David - 814
Hostetler, John B. - 812
Hostetler, Jonathan K. - 1174
Hostetler, Levi F. - 806
Hostetter, Joseph Warren - 740
Hostettler, William - 1358
Hough, Isaac N. - 604
Housel, Peter - 770
Houser, John H. - 1211
Hubbell, Will Herman - 1437
Huffman, Daniel V. - 948
Hunsicker, T. C. - 1451
Hunter, Wellrose - 1355
I
Irvin, George H. - 682
J
Jackson, George - 1236
Jacot, William - 1021
James, David - 752
Jeffries, Lemuel P. - 1136
Jennings, Henry - 996
Jones, Lake F. - 1408
Jontz, Joseph - 1048
Jordan, Willard Brown - 1050
K
Karch, Frederick - 964
Kaufman, Oscar David - 1140
Kaufman, Thomas Johnson - 1096
Kean, Olin Lee - 1040
Kean, William F. - 1240
Keck, D. B. - 1218
Kepler, Benjamin F. - 1431
Kersteter, Samuel - 1109
Kister, John A. - 1378
Knepp, Henry Milton - 629
Knight, Lyman C. - 1395
Koehler, john P. - 1030
Kollert, Charles J. - 1220
Kosier, William D. - 1360
Kountz, Harry - 798
Krick, Charles - 578
Krick, Jacob - 1076
Krick, Philip - 1252
L
Lance, Andrew J. - 1400
Lance, Edwin - 1339
Lance, James - 1443
Lance, Milward - 1047
Landes, Elmer S. - 593
Landis, George - 1036
LaViers, William N. - 952
Lawrence, Abbott - 1069
Lawrence, Mrs. David - 1172
Lawrence, Martin - 1224
Lehr, Joseph Wellington - 620
Leickheim, Max J. - 710
Leiner, Daniel - 1019
Lewis, William A. - 1248
Lindsey, Harvey - 1146
Litsinger, Thomas H. - 1077
Long, William L. - 588
Longenecker, H. F. - 1382
Longenecker, Samuel B. - 1119
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Lowe, John Jacob - 756
Lupold, Robert L. - 724
Mc
McCance, Hiram - 1061
McClara; John C. 1264
McConahay, Hugh - 1448
McConnell, David W. - 1346
McFadden, Howard Roy - 1039
McGuff, John - 950
Mcllvaine, Daniel W. - 922
Mcllvaine, David E. - 672
Mcllvaine, George A. - 871
McIntire, Ezra D. - 656
McIntyre, Gilbert D. - 663
McMillen, DeWitt Howard - 719
McSweeney, John, Jr. - 720
M
Marsh, L. Cody - 1028
Marthey, Joseph Peter - 1102
Martin, John - 1164
Mateer, Horace Nelson - 642
Matty, Samuel - 1060
Meech, James B. - 632
Meese, Ira F. - 1444
Meier, Hugh M. - 797
Meier, James - 616
Meier, John - 608
Mellinger, Benedict - 876
Mellinger Family - 876
Mellinger, Melchor - 876
Mellinger, William M. - 863
Messner, John - 858
Metsker, Eli - 925
Mettetal, Charles Elmer - 1082
Miller, Jacob A. - 992
Miller, John H. - 1127
Miller, Joseph - 1188
Miller, Joseph - 941
Miller, M. M. - 931
Miller, Samuel Harrison - 648
Minier, James B. - 1416
Moine, Charles R. - 1347
Moine, Julius - 1315
Moomaw, R. M. - 1025
Morgan, Joshua H. - 918
Morganroth, William - 1407
Morgan, Micajah Milo - 727
Moser, David P. - 1104
Moser, Jacob A. - 1015
Mougey, Forest - 1430
Mougey, Peter - 1434
Munson, Charles - 762
Munson, Isaac - 763
Musser, William - 1012
Mussleman, David W. - 1463
Myers, David - 610
Myers, Elmer F. - 887
Myers, Isaac A. - 1363
Myers, John A - 560 20
Myers, William C. - 650
N
Neumeyer, Frederick W. - 1189
Neuroth, Charles - 970
Nirode, William Franklin - 1072
Nolin, John Bunyan - 627
Nolt, Samuel A. - 1213
O
Odenkirk, Homer B. - 1413
Oldman, Willey Sylvester - 831
Oldroyd, Asbury B. - 771
Orr, Abner G. - 1204
Orr, Clinton M. - 890
Orr, Dudley S. - 1356
Orr, Smith - 560 23
Orr, Thomas W. - 1238
Otto, Michael D. - 1267
P
Peake, Henry A. - 1393
Perilstein, Joseph - 847
Peterman, Andrew Jackson - 664
Pfeiffer, George - 1299
Pinkley, Orlando George - 1124
Piper, H. Lincoln - 1263
Piper, William - 1293
Plasterer, George W. - 928
Pontius, Isaac - 684
Porter, Harvey - 1433
Power, James B. - 1106
Putnam, James Bedell - 1279
Q
Quinby, Edward M. - 808
R
Ramseyer, Daniel - 985
Raudebaugh, John A. - 1317
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Rehm, Andrew J. - 1183
Rehm, George W. - 1457
Rehm, Jacob - 1197
Rehm, Jacob F. - 1230
Rehm, John W. - 692
Reinhardt, John F. - 1349
Rice, T. E. - 686
Rickabaugh, Francis Lee - 1044
Rickabaugh, George - 1381
Rickel, Michael - 1131
Rieder, Cyrus A. - 836
Ries, William Nicholas - 560 31
Rittenhouse, Joseph H. - 1245
Ross, William F. - 562
Ross, William Howard - 562
Rouch, Mahlon - 1401
Royer, Josiah F. - 1290
Rudy, Albert M. - 1371
Rudy, Clyde E. - 1396
Rudy, Daniel L. - 998
Rudy, David - 1361
Rudy, Guy M. - 1367
Rudy, Levi S. - 1357
Rumbaugh, Miller I. - 1308
Ryland, Ai - 1314
S
Sanborn, Joseph G. - 988
Sanderson, Amos - 698
Sanderson, John C. - 1073
Saurer, Albert S. - 630
Saurer, Arty C. - 826
Schauff, Frank E. - 1434
Schmid, Rudolph - 1027
Schmuck, Samuel - 1112
Schollenberger, H. A. - 1219
Schorger, John - 1343
Schorle, Jacob - 956
Schultz, John C. - 1233
Scott, James Cutter - 1008
Seas, J. F. - 702
Seelye, William James - 560 29
Seiberling, H. - 744
Seigley, John M. - 971
Sell, Charles R. - 560 46
Sell, Jacob - 883
Sell, W. Frank - 882
Serfass, Andrew - 1344
Shamp, James A. - 571
Shank, Charles M. - 1034
Shank, William W. - 1455
Shelly, Jacob - 1261
Shelly, James Garfield - 1249
Sheppard, John Wesley - 1312
Sherck, Joseph - 754
Sherrick, Joseph S. - 667
Shibler, Jacob S. - 821
Shie, David P. - 867
Shilling, Jesse R. - 1166
Shisler, John W. - 823
Sidle, Lucurtis P. - 670
Sigler, Henry P. - 1449
Slemmons, David I. - 935
Smedley, Lehman J. - 1020
Smith, Benjamin H. - 1148
Smith, Cyrus D. - 574
Smith, Robert J. - 580
Smucker, Jonas - 982
Smyser, Harmon - 1330
Smyser, Martin L. - 560 24
Snavely, Chris R. - 1335
Snure, Jacob C. - 980
Snyder, John Robert - 1068
Soliday, L. Lyman - 1303
Soliday, Sidney Grant - 1064
Solliday, William A. - 991
Sommer, Daniel A. - 1372
Souers, Solomon - 1084
Spangler, Wesley - 1024
Spear, Wesley Wells - 568
Spencer, Ezra R. - 1286
Stahl, John V. - 1414
Stair, Frederick 1091
Stair, Irvin 0. - 1011
Stam, Jacob - 1054
Steel, Ephraim J. - 820
Steele, Enoch - 977
Steele, William - 1340
Steele, Wilson - 976
Steiner, Daniel - 973
Steiner, John S. - 1458
Steiner, Ulrich - 1178
Stepfield, Alexander E. - 920
Stewart, Frank E. - 700
Stitt, James T. - 1144
Stout, Daniel S. - 592
Strauss, Henry H. - 560 39
Studer, Benjamin - 1056
Studer, L. S. - 790
Studer, Rudolph - 1326
Swanson, Swen A. - 1142
Swart, Adrian C. - 1111
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Swartz Family - 716
Swartz, Hiram B. - 712
Swartz, Samuel - 716
Swinehart, Benjamin F. - 1323
Swinehart, John I. - 1307
T
Taggart, Frank - 560 19
Taggart, James - 1200
Taggart, Samuel M. - 706
Taggert, John William - 1158
Tate, Michael - 1160
Tate, William - 1168
Tawney, Philip G. - 1368
Taylor, Charles E. - 1324
Taylor, James B. - 560 19
Taylor, Kaiser W. - 1122
Thompson, Ervin W. - 696
Thorne, Charles Embree - 1316
Todd, J. H. - 840
Tschantz, John H. - 1092
Tuttle, Augustus S. - 933
V
Van Nest, M. M. - 560 37
Vanover, Francis Marion - 1296
Villard, John Heinrich - 968
W
Wagner, Henry - 1452
Wagner, Orrin - 1454
Walter, Albert P. - 984
Ward, James M. - 848
Warfel, David H. - 1353
Wasson, Rezin B. - 1274
Wayne County Democrat Co. - 1399
Weaver, David J. - 1191
Weaver, Thomas A. - 1259
Weidman, Jesse H. - 959
Weiker, Peter - 872
Weiser, Charles A. - 564
Wells, Uriah F. - 765
Weltmer, James A. - 1270
Welty, Andrew J. - 1327
Welty, Peter - 838
Wenger, David - 1206
Wenger, Emanuel H. - 1241
Wenger, Frederick - 1195
Wertenberger, Orlow H. - 1304
Wertz, Edwin S. - 1088
Wertz, William H. H. = 888
Weygandt, William Edwin - 560 32
Wheeler, Warden - 776
White, William F. - 947
Whitmore, Charles Wesley - 1192
Whorton, Robert - 1246
Wiley, William Henry - 1159
Wiley, Aquila - 736
Wiley, John H. - 1300
Williams, O. C. - 585
Winkler, Wesley J. - 1288
Wintersteen, Henry C. - 1311
Wintersteen, William F. - 1199
Wood, Samuel - 1216
Woodward, Davis Dempsey - 1291
Wooster Nursery Company - 860
Wooster Public Library - 1117
Worst, William Henry - 640
Wright, Elmer Francis - 940
Wright, William Henry - 1037
Wyer, Christian A. - 1392
Y
Yarger, James A. - 1006
Yocum, Lincoln A. - 816
Yocum, Ohio M. - 633
Yoder, Christian Z. - 1228
Yoder, John A. - 1278
Yoder, Menno Peter - 1057
Young, George M. - 1459
Z
Zaring, James Lee 560 34
Zaugg, Wesley Henry 560 48
Zimmerman, Ezekiel B. - 1410
Zimmerman, John W. - 1422
Zimmerman, Nathan R. - 1421
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