350 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. in charge. The boat was a 'dug-out,' sixty-eight feet long by almost four feet in width, carved out of one solid log. It was constructed several miles up Cross creek, in Ohio, where it was launched and passed down the river to within three miles of Wellsville. Here the cargo was placed on board, consisting of four wagon loads full of goods, and on March 20, 1812, they embarked on the trip for the then far-distant Wayne county. They moved down the Ohio to the Muskingum, and up that stream and its branches to the mouth of Killbuck creek ; thence up that stream to the mouth of Salt Creek, near Holmesville ; thence to a point above Holmesville, where the goods were unloaded at Morgan's residence, at the Big Spring. "About one month was occupied in making this passage. This was the first craft that had navigated the Killbuck, which passage was accomplished with great difficulty, as they frequently had to cut their way through driftwood." A REMINISCENCE. The following was written in 1872, by Frederick Leyda, a pioneer of Wayne county, then residing in Minnesota, and was published in the Wooster Republican: "Great things transpired during 1816. Killbuck, the beautiful, that flows so fapidly west of Wooster and winds its way so majestically south until it mingles its waters with the great Father of Waters, was this year declared navigable, and it was not thought improbable that the day would come when the 'Mohicans' would be conveyed to thy Killbuck bridge, and Wooster become the head of navigation. Owing to the great navigation to this part, grain. became scarce and the demand increased. A benevolent spirit entered the heart of John Wilson to seek food for man and beast, and it was on this wise : He laid the matter before one William Totten, who had been a man of renown among the watermen of the Ohio in clays of yore. William thought it good to go and choose some of the more valiant men to accompany him. It occurred to him that in the White Woman's country there was much corn and to spare, and the captain of this boat led the way to that land where the corn grew, and he procured a craft called a 'keel-boat.' The size of this boat was fifteen feet in length, the width ten feet and its depth six feet, with a cabin thereon. All things now ready, the captain went forth among the inhabitants of this land of corn, and laid bare the wants of his brethren that dwelt north, even toward the lakes, and after they hearkened untb his voice their hearts softened toward their kinsmen and they said WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 351 unto him : 'Thou hast come unto thy brethren of the south to get provender for man and beast, and thou shalt not surely go away empty, for we have here an abundance and to spare.' The captain answered and said : 'We have not come here, my brethren, to ask alms, for we have the coin to satisfy thee. -What wilt thou tax us for the provender? How much per bushel?' Then the brethren to the .south answered and said : 'Truly, we are in need of the coin, for we have not seen the like before in this land. Ye shall surely have it at fifteen cents per bushel.' So it was agreed that the boat should be filled, and it was even so. The captain called forth his men and said unto them : 'Up, we will haste to our brethren with the corn, that they faint not.' The craft was pushed up the stream in this way : On the other side of the cabin there was a footway with slats nailed on from bow to stern cross-wise. Men on each side, with poles, commenced at the bow, placed one end of the pole to their shoulder and the other end in the stream, then pushed, and as the boat ran ahead they kept stepping until they reached the stern; then wheeled, walked back and did the same over again, one man remaining at the helm to steer. They succeeded, but with much difficulty, having to cut drift-wood and trees that fell across the stream ; often only two miles a day were made. They finally landed the boat above the Killbuck bridge, south. It was then noised abroad that the effort was a success, and great 'was the rejoicing. The occasion was celebrated in the partaking of the `ardent.' The writer of this was considered competent to take charge of said boat and contents during the night, and as the shades of evening drew near there came forth from their hiding places a numerous quantity of mosquitoes—the number no mortal man could tell—and if anybody ever did suffer from these little Killbuck imps it was me. Having nothing to make a smoke with, I was completely at their mercy. The corn was hauled to the town and disposed of at one dollar and fifty cents per bushel. "Joseph McGugan bought the boat, ran it down and 'was about to load it when the rains descended, the floods came and that boat, with the men on board, broke its moorings and was carried off. The men got hold of limbs, climbed up the trees and were there thirty-six hours before they were released. Thus ended the corn speculation. "During the next season a load of salt arrived from the Ohio river, which was disposed of at twelve dollars a barrel, and Killbuck was declared navigable. "I was somewhat acquainted with the old chief Killbuck, and he occasionally visited Wooster, always accompanied by his daughter, quite an 352 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. interesting girl. The stream was named for this chief. He was a beautiful specimen of the red man as taught and trained by the white men—a perfect bloat—and as homely as the devil, lacking the cloven foot. Killbuck, you are not responsible for being named after the old chief ! Nor yet for your sluggishness, nor for your slopping over occasionally to afford a good 'skating park' for young Wooster ! Thou vast here, winding thy unrippled way, carrying off the noxious effluvia and draining the low, rich lands along thy borders for the husbandmen that are to cultivate that 'Nile,' as yet untouched by man. Proud mortals may stand on thy banks and cast a reproachful eye or an epithet on thy appearance, and say, Why was it not thus and so? Ah ! has man filled the great object of his existence ? Nay, verily, but thou hast." CHAPTER XIX. TOWNSHIP HISTORY. Wayne county is subdivided into sixteen townships, and the following is a historical sketch of each : CHIPPEWA TOWNSHIP. This township was organized September 4, 1815, and is situated in the extreme northeastern portion of the county, with Medina county on its north, Summit county on the east, Baughman township, Wayne county, on the south, and Milton township on its western border. It contains thirty-six full sections of land, much of which is underlaid with coal, of which further mention will be made. The first to effect a settlement in Chippewa township were Nicholas and Adam Helmick, Henry Franks, Sr., Uriah, Henry and John Franks, Thomas Fredericks, Henry Houts, Michael Brouse, Paul Baughman, Jacob Hatfield, William Hatfield, John Reichildifer, Stephen Fisher, Joseph Springer, Mr. McConkey, John Adams, William Doyle, Frederick Gale-house, Isaac Montgomery, Michael Huffman, James and Adam Shatto, Rev. George Weygandt, George Christian, the Whitmans, Michael Feister, Samuel Pierpont, M. D., John Rouston, James Boak, "Major" South, James Hutchinson, Peter Bradenbaugh, Jacob Heffleman and some others whose names are now unknown in the records of this part of Wayne county. Michael Basinger came to the township in 1815. Pioneer Hatfield is the authority for the statement that Rogue's Hollow was named by a Doctor Crosby, who owned the ground and had it laid out. Daniel Slanker built the first mill, a grist mill of the early-day type, and to it was also attached a saw mill ; it was west of Doylestown. Mike Greenoe had the first, Fred Galehouse the second and after them George Wellhouse and Michael Brouse had distilleries. The first graveyard was at Easton, and Lucindia Heckerton was the first person to be buried there. Jonathan Coleman of Canton, a married man, was drowned in Donor's lake in 1830. (23) 354 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Henry Franks, a settler of 1816, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and settled south of Doylestown. Henry Franks, known as "Old Henry," with some others, was taken prisoner on the Ohio river by the Indians when he was a young man, and held in captivity by them. He was tall, straight and powerfully built. His captors immediately fancied him and by ceremonies introduced him to Indian citizenship. Its first condition was to run the gauntlet, and at the end of the race he was, to save his life, forced to strike an Indian with his hatchet, whom he nearly killed. This successful and daring act on his part ingratiated him with his captors, who exclaimed, "He make good Indian." Mr. Franks receiving a wound in the test of his manhood, the Indians instantly took charge of him, nursing and treating him. kindly until he thoroughly recovered. After the capture of Crawford in Ohio, and during the excitement of his horrible death, all of which Mr. Franks witnessed, he made an effort to escape, in which he was successful. He fled to the lake shore, boarded a British vessel, went by water as far as Montreal, crossed to the American side, and thence on foot to Philadelphia. From the last city he wended his way to Pittsburg, and thence on to his home in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, after a captivity of five years. Frederick Galehouse, one of the pioneers of the township, a German by birth, emigrated to America in 1786, going first to Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, settling in Chippewa township, this county, in 1823. He resided in Wayne county thirty years, removing to Doylestown, where he died in 1865. His oldest son, Frederick Galehouse, born in New Lisbon, came to Wayne county with his father and was brutally murdered by a Canadian named Amos Clark, who struck him down with a poker, in January, 1840. The father, Frederick, had a contract with the government to superintend the construction of a public road from New Lisbon to Lake Erie for the use of artillery, and when the news of Hull's surrender came, he told all to scatter, which they did. The village of Chippewa was surveyed for Stephen Ford by Daniel McClure in the month of May, 1816.. Capt. John Rouston erected the first house in the place. The village of Slangerville was laid out by Jacob Slanker, Reuben Dressler and John Gartner in February, 1843. This place, since the completion of the railroad, is known as Easton. Doylestown, the chief place of the township for many years, was platted by William Doyle, December 9, 1827. August 6, 1867; the place was in- WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 355 corporated. The first house in the village was a log structure built by William Doyle, and in it Doyle conducted a tavern, sold whisky and permitted many dances to be held there. The first physician of the place was Doctor Pierrepont. who, while on a visit East, stole a horse and for the crime was sent to the penitentiary. The first election for the Doylestown incorporation was held in December, 1866. The first officers elected were : Mayor, A. H. Pursell ; recorder, William Reed ; treasurer, Samuel H. Miller; councilmen, Elias Galehouse, James H. Seiberling, Henry A. Soliday, Jacob Shaffer and R. B. Wasson. Doylestown was supplied with a newspaper by George W. Everts ith874, when, on July 11ith, he issued the first number of the Doylestown Journal. William G. Foster served as postmaster at this village from 1828 to 1847. Among the enterprising spirits of Doylestown was Elias Galehouse, who in his young manhood established a hotel at Doylestown, continued .proprietor for eight years, then engaged in the general merchandise business ; built a foundry, in company with John Gates, and made sarms, plows and other ffarm implements also run a carriage manufactory at the same time. Subsequently, he went into the coal mining industry and built a grist- and sawmill in Doylestown. Doylestown has been the seat of several useful and successful factories, including that of reaping and mowing machinery. In the early days of such machinery, 1861, Peter Cline, John F. Seiberling and John H. Hower formed a partnership to manufacture what was known as the "Excelsior" dropping reaper and mower, of which John F. Seiberling was the inventor. The works were enlarged from time to time until 1865 and others were associated with the works. A part of the plant was moved to Akron and a part was still conducted at Doylestown. From 1865 to 1875 the annual output of these machines was about nine hundred. After 1875 they built a new design of machine known as the "Empire" reaper and mower, invented by the same Mr. Seiberling. One factory was maintained at Doylestown and another at Akron. Of this plant the local writer of 1878 had this to say : "This firm at Doylestown is the most solid and reliable manufacturing institution in Wayne county, or. in northern Ohio. It has thus far weathered financial cyclones, monetary upheavals, and panic simoons, its reputation unquestioned and its credit above challenge .or. suspicion. It employs about seventy-five workmen in its works." 356 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. The population of Chippewa township in 1900 was two thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven. The coal mining interests of this township have been very extensive and valuable. This coal measure is located in the northern, eastern and central parts of the county, north of Chippewa creek, but this mineral wealth is found here and there throughout the township. It is of the bituminous, best quality type, such as the Mahoning and Briar Hill grade. More concerning these mines will be found elsewhere in this work in the Geological chapter. MILTON TOWNSHIP. Milton township is the second from the eastern line of Wayne county and in the north tier of townships. It is six mil square. It dates its organization by the commissioners in session October 5, 1818. One of the early pioneers, Jacob Kiefer, went to Wooster to see about having it named, and suggested to the board of county commissioners that it be styled "Center Swamp township," from the fact that there was a large swamp in the center of its territory. Commissioner George Bair objected to this name, saying it would induce odium upon the township, whereupon, at the suggestion of Mr. Bair, it was called Milton township. In 1870 the population of this township had reached one thousand five hundred and twenty-four; in the federal census of 1900 it was given as one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight. The first to settle in the township, with a view of making a permanent home, was Isaac DeCourcey, perceptibly of Indian blood, who, with his wife and two children, was living on the Knupp farm as early as 1813. After about eight years' residence in the townshp he moved to Allen county. While he was styled a farmer, he devoted most of his time to hunting, fishing and trapping. Among the first events of importance, may here be narrated the following: The first deaths were those of Sarah Fritz and her young son. Adam Fritz, who died and were buried in the Knupp graveyard in 1817. The third person to die in the township was David Trump. The first school was taught by William Doyle, who taught in a log cabin in 1817 ; the building stood where later the Knupp church was erected. This school building was twenty by twenty-four feet, built of round logs scutched inside. It was so cold that in the winter time ink would freeze in the bottles while a pupil was in the act of writing. It was a subscription school; this being ahead of the free, common school system. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 357 The first church building in the township was the Lancetown Baptist church, the pioneer ministers being Elder Freeman and James Newton. Freeman was a Revolutionary soldier, and a missionary, conducting services at private houses usually. Newton, however, was the first regular ordained preacher in the township. The first saw and grist-mills were built by Thomas Huffstetter on the Little Chippewa. The next mill was built by Philip Fritz on the river Styx. The pioneer doctor was a Mr. Donahue, who was also a tailor by trade, and practiced medicine as well as tailoring. William Doyle, founder of Doylestown, was the first justice of the peace in Milton township, and the second was John Dawson, the commissions of both bearing date of April 27, 1819. The first distilleries were the property of Messrs. Hartshorn, Gilmore and John Lance. The first postoffice was at Christian Krupp's place, and was called New Prospect. The earliest election was held at William Doyle's. At the first election, old Mr. Trump had to be carried to the polls to make a necessary number to hold the election. Among the early settlers may be named Martin Fritz, Christian Lance, John, William, James and Henry Lance, Andrew Waggoner, Thomas Dawson, Abner Johnson, Samuel Slemmons and others who came into the township about the same time. More than a passing mention should be made of Martin Fritz, who was born in Alsace in 1757, and emigrated from France in 1771. Not having the necessary funds to pay his passage, he was sold, according to the old custom, to a Mr. Ray, for whom he worked three years for the payment of the debt. Soon after he had served his time the Revolutionary war broke out and he enlisted under Washington for five years, being engaged in several battles, including Brandywine. After the war he married in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and moved to Venango county, and from there removed to Milton township, this county, in June, 1814, when there was but one other settler within the township, the quarter-breed DeCourcey. He died, aged ninety-four years, in 1851. His son Philip, born in 1804, had lived longer in Milton township, in 1878, than any other man within its borders. The towns of Milton township are : Johnson's Corners, called Amwell, named for Abner Johnson, who made the first improvements in it. John Scoby, of Truxton, New York, was the pioneer doctor, and Goodsill Foster was the first postmaster. Adney Bessey named the town Amwell. 358 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Russell was named after the Russells of Massillon, who purchased the property there and gave it the name. A postoffice was established there at an early day, but its name was Amwell. Milton Station began as a town in 1869 when the first house was erected by David Shook. In July, 1870, C. M. Murdock started the first business, and in the same year the postoffice was removed here from Shinersburg (New Prospect). Shinersburg was named after this manner : Michael Hatfield bought the first lot there from Philip Fritz, and built a house on it, and started a grocery store, selling drugs, beer, whisky, etc. One day Michael got drunk and in one of his ecstatic moods was heard saying, "When I get to heaven I will shine as bright as anybody" ; hence the name Shinersburg. Lancetown, called after the large family of Lances, has long since been defunct. The present towns of the township are Sterling and Ritman, in the northern part. Ritman has a savings bank, with S. M. Brenneman president, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars. Sterling is a good town, with the Farmers Banking Company, with D. I. Simmons as president and S. A. Simmons as cashier. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. A fatal boiler explosion occurred March II, 1870, in Milton township. It was a steam boiler in the saw-mill near Shinersburg and it resulted in the death of seven men. On the day of the explosion the mill was being operated by Jacob Knupp, John Fritz, Lewis Hoover and David, his brother. Robert McConnell and son, Frank, and David Shook were at work on a house as carpenters a few rods west of the mill and, a rain coming on, they sought shelter in the mill. In ten minutes after they reached the mill the boiler exploded and all were instantly killed, except David Hoover, who lingered a few hours. A REMINISCENCE BY PHILIP FRITZ. "When my father removed to Milton township, in 1814, he had to cut out the road where I now live [written in 1878]. Bears. wolves, wildcats, porcupines, Wild hogs, deer and turkey were plenty. We often shot the wild hogs, as they made good meat. Porcupines were numerous ; the dogs would WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 359 attack them and we would pull out the quills with bullet-moulds. We made sugar by the barrel in our camp, took it to Canton and sold it. The wolves on one occasion chased us all out of the sugar camp. Times looked pretty glue when we came here to Milton township. We had to go fourteen miles to Rex's mill to get grinding done. I helped to grub out the land on which Knupp's cemetery is located. In the early days I hunted a good deal, and often with the Indians. They would come to our house and get corn, and bring venison to exchange for it. They weighed it themselves, the corn in one hand and the venison in the other. "Samuel and John Fritz, Isaac DeCourcey, John Huffman and myself went up the country to Chippewa lake to hunt, and took our provisions with us. I was left in charge of the eatables, and the balance went to the woods to hunt. While I was watching the provisions eight Indians approached me, and I was terribly frightened. They at once commenced laying off their knives, guns and tomahawks, and advancing to where I had a large fire built, one of them would speak in English, saying, 'White man foolish ; makes big fire and sits away off; Indian makes little fire and sits up close.' They then went to the edge of the lake and began jumping on the muskrat houses, and just as fast as the inmates popped out they popped him over, and so they kept on until out of one of the largest mud-houses sprang a beaver, which was instantly killed, and then they whooped and danced and drank. Its hide was worth sixteen dollars. When our hunting party came in the Indians wanted to buy their dogs. An Indian squaw went into a marsh to pick cranberries. She had her papoose with her and, tying it to a board, set it down. While she was in the marsh a dog came along and killed it. She lamented and yelled fearfully. When we came here there were a good many Indians about here—they called themselves the Delawares, Shawnees and Wyandots. They had quite a town on the south side of Chippewa lake, probably thirty families. I used to go the settlement often, saw the little Indian boys roasting gammons of meat and gnaw at them ; saw them shoot pieces of silver out of split sticks, with bows and arrows, and never miss. They captured a good deal of wild honey and carried it in deer skins turned inside out. They would cut down a tree, carve out the stump, crush their corn in it, and then put it in pots and boil it, and then put in the meat. An Indian never uses salt. Within about ten rods of where river Styx—north branch of the Chippewa—empties into Big Chippewa, an Indian was found dead in the drift, shot through the waist, and it seems about that time the Indians got scared and very suddenly disappeared."—From Douglas' history, published in 1878. 360 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. CANAAN TOWNSHIP. In the northern tier of townships, and the second from the western line of the county, is Canaan, the territory of which is six miles square. It was organized May 5, 1819, and was named by Dr. Isaac Barnes. In 1870 it had a population of almost two thousand people. According to the United States census in 1900 it had two thousand four hundred and one people. About thirty years ago, the following reminiscence was written by Isaac Notestine, and as it brings out so many early-day points connected with the history of this township, it is here reproduced : "By whom or when the first entries of land were made in this township is not known; but perhaps in 1808. The first settlement was made and a cabin built in 1812 by William Ewing, Sr., on the farm later owned by his son Simon. About the same time James Rose, a Scotchman, and Thomas. Armstrong settled in the township. Joseph Stratton settled in 1817 on the farm owned by his son Daniel and about this period the Weed brothers, Joshua and William, and Thomas Thrapp came in. Then Daniel Blocher and Swartz and Nathan Hall. Quite a number of families were now located. "In the fall of 1819, the first election was held in an ashery that stood nearly a mile south of the present village of Windsor. The electors as given by George Sommers, a citizen, but not a voter then, were William Ewing, Sr., William Ewing, Jr., Thomas Armstrong, Joseph and Daniel Stratton. Elizier Perago, Nathan Hall, David Plumer, Doctor Barnes, Chapman, Daniel Blocher, Swartz, John Templeton, James Rose, Jones, B. F. Miller, James Buchanan, Joshua and William Reed, Thomas Thrapp, and one Adams, all of whom are dead. The officers elected were : Justices, Doctor Barnes and Joseph Stratton ; trustees, Doctor Barnes, Joseph Stratton, Thomas Thrapp: clerk, Nathan Hall, who held the office afterwards some twelve years ; other officers not remembered. "Immigration now became more rapid, so then in ten years from the organization of the township at least one-half of the quarter sections that could be farmed had on them one or more cabins. In the year of the organization George Sommers settled in the township, the only resident of that time. About the same time John Mclllvaine and James Smith moved in, settling near each other, a mile west of Jackson.. Soon after Daniel Oller, Henry Kopp, Simon Kenney-, James and William Haskins and Enoch Gilbert and a number of others from the New England states and New York came in WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 361 "Charles, son of James Rose, was the first white child born in the township. Simon, son of William Ewing, Sr., was the second and still lived on the old homestead in 1878. The oldest native Canaanite is the last named. Susan, daughter of William Ewing, Sr., is supposed to have been the first person married in the township to her first husband, Ramsey, who was killed at a mill raising, near Wooster. The first school house was on James Rose's land, in which James Buchanan, a Scotchman, taught the first school. "Almost every family, men and women, wore homespun, at home and abroad. The only difference between the dress to 'go to meetin and that of the field or the clearing, was in being fresh washed for the former. The diet, too, was of the plainest kind, quite limited in variety, and frequently also in quantity. Corn, in its various forms, whole or ground, with buckwheat, potatoes, beans, pork, venison and other wild meats, were the chief articles of food. Game abounded, and many families depended upon getting their meats from the forest. Though the pioneers could get but little for the wheat they sold, the articles they bought cost much more than at present. As late as 1825 salt sold for eleven dollars per barrel. and before cost still more. "If the times of settlements were recorded by decades, from the first coming of William Ewing, in 1812, the first up to 1822, would find from twenty-five to thirty families in the township. And this may be called the true pioneer decade; whilst the next to 1832, would be of immigration, which during this time poured in in streams, so that by 1832, of land suitable for occupation, not more than twenty-five quarters were unoccupied. During this second decade came many of the most useful and substantial citizens, among them mechanics and men of capital. Some of those who came during this period were, as remembered, John and Justin Miles, Smith and David Hoisington, Simon Kenney, and the Shanklings, Joseph Notestine, Henry Shuffling, John D. Hockert, David Wiles, John and Henry and Daniel Frank, Jason and Sylvanus Jones, Zenas Z. Crane, Joseph Henry and Jacob Zarer, the Wells and many others equally prominent, whose names do not now come to mind. At the close of the second decade, the last entry of the public land was made in this township. Among the men last named was John Kearns, a man of sterling worth, industrious, skillful and of much business ability. He settled a mile north of the Center, on the present Henry Smith farm. He was an ardent supporter of the church in general. and of his own, the Methodist Episcopal, in particular.. At his death, in 1839, he was one of the wealthiest men in his township.  "Wooster was the nearest point of trade, but it was a poor place to sell 362 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. products of any kind. Wheat and flour were often hauled to Cleveland, and hogs were driven there, as the nearest market. "There are five villages in the township, Burbank, Golden Corners, Windsor (or Canaan Center), Jackson and Pike." Of the educational features of this township, it may be stated that one of the first institutions of learning in Wayne county was Canaan Academy, located at Windsor, this township. The original building was a structure of frame, thirty-six by forty-eight feet, erected in 1842 by a stock company. This academy was controlled by a board of directors, the first board of which consisted of John Paul, M. D., Jonas Notestine, Justine Mills, Harvey Rice and Alfred Hotchkiss. The school was first opened December 3, 1843, with forty-seven pupils, under the instruction of Prof. C. C. Bomberger, A. B., who taught three years. Reverends Barr and Barker had charge during the summer of 1847; succeeded in the winters of 1847 and 1848 by Prof. Isaac Notestine, who, with short intervals, remained in charge until 1863. After that year the school was taught by a number of professors until 1875, when it was permanently closed, Prof. J. W. Cummings being then in charge. While Professor Notestine was teaching, in the winter of 1851, the house was burned, and the next building was constructed of brick. It is conceded that Canaan Academy has been an important factor in the educational work of Wayne and adjoining counties. The churches of this locality are treated in the Religious chapter of this work. Burbank, within this township, was incorporated in 1868, when the name was changed from Bridgeport. Burbank Academy was organized in 1873. The Methodist Episcopal church was the first to be organized in the place. The business factors in the hamlet in 1909 were : M. W. Hower & Son Will Frary, who is postmaster, George Brothers, R. L. Malcomb, J. E. Addleman, H. A. Overs and A. Overs & Company. CONGRESS TOWNSHIP. Congress is the extreme northwestern sub-division in Wayne county ; is south of the line of Wayne and Medina county, west of Canaan township, north of Chester township and borders on the Ashland county line. Wayne township was organized October 5, 1818. Hon. Michael Totten and James Carlin gave the following concerning the settlement of this part of the county : WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 363 In 1815, the first families moved into what is now Congress township. Sometime during the first week of February, Michael and Henry Totten, accompanied by. George and Isaac Poe, cut a trail from Wooster to where the village of Congress stands, which at that time, was all forest, the lands not yet having been entered. These gentlemen camped until they finished their cabin on section 27. Mrs. Catherine Totten was the first white woman in the township. The first furniture within the township was drawn on a sled from Wooster by the Totten boys, in February, 1815. The first week in the following April, George and Isaac Poe and a few other families came in and settled upon the same section. Peter Warner and family moved into the southwest part of the township that spring. In 1816 Matthew Brower and James Carlin, with their families, moved onto the same farm, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The next to invade this fair domain was George Aukerman and John Nead, with their families. After this period emigrants came from different sections of the country and settled the township in various sections. The first white person who died in Congress township was Mrs. Amasa Warner, and the second was Mrs. Totten. The first school was taught by John Totten in the first cabin built. George Poe was the first justice of the peace. The first school house was erected in 1819, on the southwest quarter of section 27. The first clearing was made by the Tottens and consisted of five acres, which was planted to corn and cut in the autumn for fodder purposes, and the same fall winter wheat was sowed on the land, these crops being the first corn and wheat grown within Congress township. Game was very plentiful, and for some time after the arrival of the first families was the chief article of diet. Hogs and sheep could not at first be raised, on account of the wolves that would devour such animals at sight. One early-day winter the first settlers—the Tottens—had twelve sheep enclosed in the same lot with the cabin, and they were believed to be safe there, but one night a pack of wolves assailed the pen and killed all of them but two and one of these escaped and ran into the house, awoke the family, but the hungry wolves had finished their work and fled for the woods. The next day one of the Tottens pursued them as far as the Harrisville swamp, in Medina county, but got no opportunity of shooting at them. Near the swamp was a camp of Indians, numbering about thirty or possibly forty. Among the earliest settlers in Congress township may be recalled : John Jeffrey, Walter Elgin, David Gardner, Jacob Holmes, Jacob Shellebarger, Peter and Samuel Chasey, G. W. Howey, David Nelson, James Grimes' father, James Boyd, Hector Burns, Samuel Sheets, N. N. Perrine, A. Yocum, John 364 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Vanasdoll, Rev. John Hazzard and family, Isaac Matthews and others whose names have slipped from memory. James Carlin is the authority for the statement that the first marriage in Congress township was that of Jesse Matteson and Eleanor Carlin. The first sermon was preached by a Presbyterian minister, named Matthews, who spoke with a sword girded to his body. The first grist-mill was built by Naftzger, where a man named Buchanan was killed, waiting for his grist. The earliest doctor in the township was Mr. Mills, while the first carpenter was Jacob Matthews. Royce Summerton, away back in the seventies, gave the following reminiscence on Congress township in early times when his father was numbered among the pioneer settlers : "When father and his family moved into the county there were but five neighbors within a radius of several miles. Isaac Matthews came as early as 1814, and the Poes were here and Peter Chasey and his son, Samuel. On one occasion, when father and I were coming home from Naftzger's mill with the wagon drawn by two oxen and a horse hitched on in front, I mounted on the horse, the wolves gathered in large numbers at our side, and I got greatly alarmed, but father just laughed and said there was no danger. After butchering day the wolves were very troublesome, and on one occasion a large hog was missing for three days, when it returned mangled and flyblown, having been, as was supposed, attacked by a bear. "In the early days the woods were infested with pea-vines, which crept over the ground and would climb small shrubs and trees to the height of two or three feet, and in the fall of the year the cattle would eat it and fatten on it, and many of them died, and it came to be believed that it was from the overeating of this pea-vine. "In the first log (Methodist Episcopal) church in Congress, Harry 0. Sheldon was preaching at a quarterly meeting, and there being a large crowd present, it was difficult for all to be seated. Joseph Ewing stood up defiantly in the center of the room. Mr. Sheldon came back to him and asked him to be seated, which he refused, when Sheldon caught him violently on his hip, carried him out and forced him to kneel down while he prayed for him." The Poe family was one of much historic note, and the encounter with Bigfoot, the noted Indian, is narrated in the Miscellaneous chapter of this volume. The towns and villages of Congress township are West Salem, Aukerman, Congress and Pleasant Home. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 365 Congress was originally called Waynesburg. It was platted March 6, 1827, by Philip Gates and David Newcomer, Peter Emory doing the surveying. The first house in this village was built by Michael Funk and Elmer Yocum and was situated upon the site of the present Methodist church. The first postmaster was Jacob Hare. The pioneer physician was Doctor Mills. George Wicks kept the first hotel and David W. Poe established the first tannery in the village. Among the early deaths after the village was platted was an old Indian. He and his wife were on a tramp and stopped at Griffith's tavern, where they got tight and abusive, and the landlord's wife threw a pot of boiling water on him, and he died. Congress village was incorporated in 1837. The first officers were : -Mayor, John Tarr; recorder, William Rogers ; councilmen, Joe Fish, John Zuber. P. Pancost, R. Summerton and John Potts. West Salem was platted by Peter and John Rickel, June 14, 1834. It became an incorporated place in 1868, the first officers being : Mayor, D. H. Ambrose; trustees, D. Eshleman, D. Gable, J. Georget, J. J. Shank, W. R. Huber; recorder, E. Fritzinger ; treasurer, John Zehner. This town is located in the extreme northwestern part of the township and county. In 1878 Mrs. Peter wrote the following reminiscence that now, after a third of a century almost, is appropriate in the history of Congress township : "It was fifty-five years ago yesterday (October 10, 1877) when Peter and I landed here with our two children, coming from Bedford county, Pennsylvania, where he was a farmer. We settled in the woods near where I now live, built a cabin with a puncheon floor and stick chimney. My first neighbors were Rev. John Hazzard, Mr. Ford and Charles Crile. Peter, however, had been out here two years before we moved and entered a quarter of land on which West Salem is now largely built. There were no roads then around here, and we had a hard time getting the two-horse wagon through. Peter was born in Virginia, January 30, 1794, and died October 7, 1865. My maiden name was Nancy Rickel and I was born in old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1803. We had seven boys and two girls. I used to work in the field and fainted in the field once while husking corn. Folks had to work then indeed, and I used to help haul logs and such things, and now would like to live again in the woods, instead of in town, for then I could hear the wild birds sing as in the old days. John Rickel, who, with Peter, laid out West Salem, was a brother of mine. He was a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and came to Wayne county three years before we did, 366 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. and some of the town is built on land he settled on at that time. John was an Albright preacher. "Joseph Harbaugh put up the first house in West Salem after it was laid out. It was an old-fashioned frame and he paid about twelve dollars for the lot. Jacob Hyatt rented the house and died in it three months after he moved in. James Hyatt kept tavern there afterwards and it was the first public house in Salem. Cass and Emerson were among the first doctors. William Cass started the first store, without any counter save a bench. He bought eggs, butter, etc. Reverend Beer was an early preacher." An agricultural society was formed in West Salem in 1867, when bylaws were adopted and first officers elected as follows : William Buchanan, president ; John Wicks, secretary ; D. Eshleman, treasurer ; and John Zehner, Peter Stair and Captain Mitchell, directors. In the village of Congress, in 1909, the following were the business factors : George W. Michael, general merchandise ; C. A. Wiler, general dealer; A. W. Mowrey, hardware and paints ; Ebert & Eby, furniture and undertaking; Bert W. Mowrey, furniture and undertaking; C. C. Fresh, hotel and feed barn; Clemen C. Holmes, harness and shoemaking; Arthur J. Garver, wagonmaking and blacksmithing; Clifton Martin, hay, grain and potatoes; Simson & Ginter, hay, grain and potatoes ; David Moser, furs, skins and pelts. CHESTER TOWNSHIP. Chester township is the second from the north line of Wayne county and on the western line of the county, Ashland county, Ohio, being on its western border. It is seven miles from east to west and six north and south. With several other sub-divisions of the county, it was organized into a civil township March 5, 1816. Even before its real organization, it was styled Chestnut township, or the chestnut region, on account of its great growth of that kind of timber. In 1870 the township had a population of one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one. By the time the 1900 United States census was compiled it had decreased to one thousand six hundred and forty-eight. The earliest settlers in the township were Judge James Robinson, Samuel Funk. Phineas Summerton, John Moyers, the Hillis boys and their mothers, John Emory, John Lowery, the Cunninghams, Joseph Aikens, James Fulton, Jacob Worst, Adam Rumbaugh, John, Abram and Isaac Myers, Samuel Vanosdol, Phineas Davis, Anthony Camp, Michael Mowrey, Philip Hoff-linger, Daniel and John Pittinger, Nathaniel Paxton, William and Hugh Adams, Benjamin Emmons, John Campbell, Thomas Johnston, John A. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 367 Kelley, Abraham Ecker, Isaac White, Henry Sapp, John Hern and John Heiman. As the county is now bounded, some of these would be located in what is now Ashland county. Chester township has within its borders the following platted towns and villages : Cedar Valley postoffice, Overton, New Pittsburg, West Union, or Lattsburg. New Pittsburg was laid out March 6, 1829, by George H. Hovey. At this point John Hall built the first house and kept a hotel. Lattsburg (West Union) was platted by J. W. Hoegner for Jacob Grose, February 27, 1851. The name of the village was changed in 1855 from West Union to Lattasburg, after Ephraim Latta. Here John Fesig built the first house, a log structure on the northeast corner of the public square. He used it for both a shop and residence. Latta bought out Fesig and began the manufacture of hand sickles. The postoffice was established here May 14, 1867, when W. C. Baker received his first appointment, and who continued many years as postmaster. Samuel Bridenstein started the first store in which dry goods were carried. Henry Allspaugh was the first to practice medicine in the town. It is claimed by old residents that the first person to die was a woman who was buried in the middle of the road (as later surveyed out), between Lattasburg and the German Baptist church. Concerning the first settler in Chester township, it may be here recorded that James Robison, brother of Thomas and David, so well known in the city of Wooster, was born February 17, 1787, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and in 1813 immigrated to Wayne county, Ohio, temporarily stopping in Wooster, the same year building the saw-mill on Little Killbuck creek, in the southwest corner of Chester township. He then became a citizen of Chester township, three years prior to its organization. A saw-mill, in those early days, was next in importance to a grist-mill, and hence the name of Robison's Mills became universally and popularly known throughout the entire western part of Wayne county, and was for many years after its builder had been laid away with other pioneers of the county. While the mill itself has for more than forty years been in ruins and decay, yet the locality is often spoken of as "Robison's Mill." Mr. Robison, aided by a single individual, spent three months in digging the race for the old saw-mill. The woolen factory, though not so ancient an institution as the mill, ranked among the best of its kind in the county, and was built at a very early period. During his presence in Columbiana county, in the discharge of his duties as a member of the Ohio Legislature, it was burned, as a result of defective flues. The 368 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. saw-mill was also swept away by the flames. On his return, without indulgence in any surmises or complaint, he quietly set about rebuilding the factory and the mill. He placed in new and better machinery in both factory and saw-mill. Before the disastrous fire, he simply carded, spun and pulled, but after the rebuilding he made other additions and introduced the manufacture of yarns, blankets, cloths, etc. Here was the waterpower, and Mr. Robison had the enterprise and intelligence to utilize it, and it became not only a benefit, but a benefaction to the whole community. He was not a visionary man, but practical, and devoted himself to material enterprises. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812-14 and supplied the army of Gen. W. H. Harrison with provisions, at Fort Meigs, his wagon on one instance standing in the woods loaded with flour, on what is now known as the Robison hill, to the south of Little Killbuck. WAYNE TOWNSHIP. Wayne township derives its name from the county, which was named for Gen. Anthony Wayne—"Mad Anthony." This township is centrally located in the county and touches the incorporate line of the city of Wooster, the seat of justice. It is a full congressional township, six miles square. It dates its organization from October 12, 1816, and in 1870 had reached a population numbering one thousand seven hundred and fourteen. Its population according to the federal census of 1900 was one thousand seven hundred and eleven. The first white man to settle within the limits of this township was among the following, but it is not certain who did actually effect the first clearing. The first pioneer band was as follows : James Glass, the Roses, the Feazles, the Clarks, Meeks, Turners, Thomas Armstrong, Moses Thompson, Thomas Pomeroy, Henry Perrine, George Gibson, Ralph Cherry, John and Peter Vanostran, Fred Garver, Armstrong Davison, John Richey, John and Peter Bacher, Thomas Beall, Peter Anspaugh, Peter Eiker, George Bair, Henry Snyder, Peter and Jacob Ihrig, William Elgin, Mordecai Boon, Peter Everly, Jacob Sei ford, Benjamin Miller, Abraham Vanmeter, William Burgan, Alexander Hanna. George Blair and Thomas Armstrong were the first justices of the peace. Fred Garver erected the first saw-mill in the township, in 1814. A year later he built the first grist-mill, deriving his water power from the Little Apple creek. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 369 Being so near the city of Wooster, there have never grown up any towns of much importance in Wayne township. The only one now in existence is Madisonburg, in the center of the township. The churches and schools of this township are treated in the two chapters on these respective subjects, and to which the reader is referred. While it is not the object of this volume to treat much on the personal histories of many of the pioneers, as many are fully treated in the biographical volume of this work, yet it may be of historic interest to mention, in this township history, something concerning the life and deeds of the Wasson family. Joseph Wasson, Sr., was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, March 29. 1775. His grandson, Joseph Wasson, was born June 30, 1839, two miles east of Congress village, Wayne county, Ohio, and until the age of eighteen years, remained upon the farm, when he first began his ventures upon the untried seas of life's journeys. He spent much of his life on the Pacific coast, where he achieved a reputation as a writer. He was for many years a newspaper man, acting as editor, proprietor and correspondent. He attended the Vienna Exposition as a special correspondent. for Forney's Press, writing a series of brilliant letters, signed "Josef." On his return, he was despatched to New Orleans by the Press and New York Times as a correspondent. He was one of the early contributors to the Overland Monthly. He was in the campaign and within twelve miles of General Custer when he was destroyed by the Indians, a correspondent of Eastern papers and furnishing the news of that region to the Associated Press. He finally settled down in such work and profession in San Francisco, California. GREENE TOWNSHIP. Greene township is second from the north as well as from the east line of Wayne county—in it the thriving city of Orrville is situated—and it was organized February 5, 1817, taking its name from Major-Gen. Nathaniel Greene, a Revolutionary soldier and a native of Warwick, Rhode Island. The population has grown from two thousand seven hundred and fifteen in 1870 to three thousand three hundred and eighteen in 1900, as shown by the federal census. The first township officers were : Trustees, Peter Flickinger, George Bodyston, Thomas Hayes ; treasurer, Thomas Dawson ; clerk, David Boydston. Of the first settlers and the first events in this township let it be recorded (24) 370 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. in this connection that the inhabitants of this part of Wayne county observed one peculiarity in the first occupancy of it. It was a wilderness, overgrown with timber, with the exception of about twelve acres on the southwest quarter of section 3, which was clear of trees, stumps, and even roots, and was called by the first corners "the Indian field." Tradition is not always reliable to pin history to, but in the absence of the recorded facts we always must place some credence to traditionary features of early settlements. In this case a tradition runs thus : As early as 1802, a party of four young men, who had passed from Pennsylvania to Cleveland, and leaving the latter place for Tuscarawa, now Coshocton, were attacked by the Indians and one of their number killed, when the remaining three retrated by the line of trees they had blazed. The bullet that killed the young man entered a small oak tree, which the Indians notched high above the ground. A few years later two of the three young men, accompanied by others, returned to the spot of the murder, discovered the notched tree, but saw no remains of their dead comrade. This was evidently the first white person to meet death within what is now Greene township. The first settlement was made in 1811 by Michael Thomas with his wife and seven children. He emigrated from Washington -county, Pennsylvania, and located on the southwest quarter of section 33. Following him came in Thomas Boydston and wife, who settled on the same section. For three years these were the only settlers in the township. In 1814 Lorenzo Winkler and family came in from Virginia, settling on section 22. Until 1815 emigration to this part of the county was very limited. Among those who soon found their way to this township, and became permanent settlers may be mentioned George Boydston, Thomas Hayes, David McConahay, David Boydston, David Antles, Thomas Dawson, John Wade, George Smith, Thomas Smith, Jacob Breakfield, John Harris, Douglas Wilford, Barter Harris, James Sparks, John Hobbs, Francis Shackler, Isaac Robins, Phineas Burrwell, Thomas Johnston, John Bigham, Robert Calvins, Jacob Cook, Charles Kelley, Will Ruffcorn, George Carson, Jacob Breakbail and Thomas Alison. By 1817 the township had a population of one hundred and forty-seven souls, of which twenty-six were legal voters. In April, 1817, the first election was held at the residence of William Barnett, on section 21. The first birth in the township was a daughter of Michael Thomas, born September 25, 1812 ; the second was that of Richard Antles, February 3, 1813. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 371 The first marriage in the township was that of Liverton Thomas and Anna Wade, by "Priest" Jones, in 1815.   The first saw-mill erected was by Thomas Smith, on a site where Smithy& now stands. The first frame building was constructed in 1822, on the farm later owned by Cyrus Hoover. In the autumn of 1815 John Wade built a hand-mill to crush corn for family use ; this was situated upon the farm later owned by D. L. Kieffer. As late as 1819 there were visible indications of the old Indian village situated on section 21. The first warrant was issued for the arrest of John Treasurer, for assault and battery, upon complaint of Cephas Clark. Treasurer was a "fortune teller," and Clark had his fortune told "on tick" ; the teller proved to be a liar, and Clark "bucked" and wouldn't .pay, whereupon Treasurer got him "in chancery" and drafted "sirloins on his frontispiece." Both were citizens of East Union township. The first sermon preached in Greene township was undoubtedly in 1812, by Reverend Gray at the house of Mr. Thomas. The first school was taught by Peter Kane, a student of Oxford, England. The pioneer school house was a log cabin eighteen by twenty-two feet, on the northwest quarter of section 23. The first death in the township after its settlement by the white race was on December 27, 1817, and occurred at a raising on the old Ruble farm, the victim being Christian Partshie, who was killed by the falling of a stick of timber. This township has been the site of several towns and villages, including Smithville, Orrville and Weilerville. The schools and churches of this township will he treated under their respective headings in another chapter. The present business interests of Smithville is represented as follows : Postoffice, S. B. Norris, postmaster, W. H. Hutchison, assistant ; hardware, Hartzler & Gerig and E. S. Brenneman ; grocery, John Swanger and Houston; grocery and drygoods, J. J. Schrock ; exclusive grocery, Blough & Company; shoe store, Isaac Deahuff ; grocery and produce, Kohler & Hilty ; drugs, T. A. C. Pontius. The trades are as follows : Blacksmith, Clyde Mertz, Charles Everett, Nicholas Curie ; grist-mill, John B. McCollough ; warehouses, H. S. Rutt, handling all kinds of produce and coal ; lumbermen, E. E. Gilber, C. G. Miller. (with a planing mill) ; butchers; A. E. Bechtol, J. B. Sheller, 372 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. wholesale and retail ; hotel, W. G. Coulter ; bank, Farmers and Merchants. The professional men were, at the same date, Drs. W. G. Zimmerman, H. M. Yoder, H. A. Schollenberger ; attorney, Joseph Gallagher. The banking business is carried on at this point by the Farmers and Merchants Bank, with W. H. Zaugg as its president and E. U. Burkholder as its cashier. BAUGHMAN TOWNSHIP. This is on the east line of Wayne county and the second from the north line of the county. It derived its name from John Baughman, who was the grandfather of John W. Baughman, of Wooster, who was the first settler within the township, which civil sub-division of the county was organized. March 5, 1816. In 1870 it had a population of two thousand and sixty-seven, but according to the federal census of 1900 it contained a population of two thousand four hundred and ninety-seven. Among the earliest settlers in this township may be named the Foreman family, the Harkins family, Robert Taggart, Samuel Taggart, Lewis McKean, Sr., John Campbell, Valentine W. Ault, John Sickman, John Wilson, Benjamin Weygandt, John Douglas and others, whose sons and daughters reside in the county at this time. This is a rich and well-developed agricultural district and the towns of the township are Marshallville and Burton, while a part of the town plat of Orrville is within the borders of this township. MARSHALLVILLE. This town is located in the extreme northwestern portion of Baughman township, on section 5. It was laid out by James Marshall, February 7, 1817, the same being the next village platted after that of Wooster was laid out. Mr. Marshall was an excellent man, a sturdy member of the old Seceder church of Dalton. Marshallville was named by and for Mr. Marshall and in 1834, when Martin Weimer came to the place, there were but ten houses, and there were occupied by Elijah Dancer, Calvin Brewster, James and Joseph Hogan, Enoch Mofitt, James Marshall, John Roch and Dr. Comstock and two shoemakers named Ellingham and Scotton. The town was legally incorporated as a municipality February 10, 1866. Its first officers were Charles Schlutt, mayor; C. L. Gehres, recorder; Martin Weimer, George Reinoehl, Benjamin Carrel, John Pfunder, William Pinkley, councilmen. The population of Marshallville in 1900 was three hundred and fifty-seven. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 373 The banking business here is carried on by the Marshallville Banking Company, with I. W. Beery as its cashier. FAIRVIEW, OR BURTON CITY. The village of Fairview was surveyed by John Brinkerhoff, December 14, 185o. A postoffice was, however, established there, known as Burton City, first being called Baughman. Flouring mills were erected here in 1858 by Benjamin Coe, the same having a capacity of forty barrels a day. Besides supplying a large home trade, the product of these mills was shipped to Philadelphia. The Burton City Woolen Mills were established in 1860 by Isaac Vanguilder. There were produced cloths, cassimeres, blankets, jeans, satinets, stocking yarns and a large variety of flannels. On June 9, 1874, the steam grist-mill of C. G. Binkley was blown up, suddenly killing George W. Henshaw, of Wooster, and causing the death of Mr. Binkley within a few hours. SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP. On the east line of Wayne county and the second from the south line is found the civil township of Sugarcreek.. It was organized April 11, 1812, and contains thirty-six sections of land, being six miles square. Its population increased from two thousand six in 1870 to two thousand two hundred and seventy-four in 1900. John Kinney and John Goudy were the first settlers in Sugar Creek township, and John and James Goudy were the next, and after them came Peter Cox and Samuel Cook, William Homan, and Rev. James Adams, who was the first preacher in the locality. William Homan was the first justice of the peace, elected about 1826. At an early day an election was held where Sugarcreek, East Union, Baughman and Greene corner, and every man who attended it went home with two offices. The first school house in the township was built on the farm owned later by Jacob Cox, and Samuel Cook was the first to teach in the township. It was a subscription school and the rates were fifty cents a pupil for each month's schooling, and in the absence of money almost anything else was received for pay. The first school house erected in Dalton was where later the cemetery was laid out; the first teacher was Peter Vorrhes. The first church (Presbyterian) was built near the southwest corner of the quarter later owned by S. 374 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Snavely ; Rev. James Adams being the first minister. This was the earliest church building in the township or town. William Goudy built the first grist-mill, three miles southwest of Dalton. It was constructed of logs, had one run of buhrs made of "nigger-heads," the neighbors helping to dig the race. This mill was built in 1823-24. James Goudy came to what is now Sugarcreek township as early as 1809, settling near Dalton. His brother John had effected a settlement in the neighborhood even prior to his settlement. The father, John Goudy, was in St. Clair's defeat, November 4, 1791, where he was wounded in the right groin, which, but for the thickness of his clothing, would have caused death. After being shot he traveled eighteen miles, when he paused by the wayside and ate the flesh of a dead horse, which later he declared was the best meat he had, ever eaten. He carried the bullet in his flesh many years and finally died from its effects. TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Of the town of Dalton it may be recorded that Rev. James Adams had the town of Dover surveyed October 16, 1817, by A. Porter, and it embraced forty-six lots. Sharon was surveyed March 29, 1828, by C. W. Christmas, and that consisted of thirty lots. The entirety of these towns, together with that of Middletown, laid out by Jacob Switzer, in 1828, ceasing to exist as plats, the village of Dalton sprung up on the same ground. In 1821 Dalton contained but one house, and a man named Freeman kept the first tavern, where afterwards the Eagle House stood. The first physician of the place was Doctor Watson, and the first store was kept by Mr. Johnson. The first church of the village was the Presbyterian. Dalton of today consists of a place having a population of six hundred and sixty-six, and has several good business houses, carrying the goods usually kept in towns of its size, and the farmers find here an accommodating class of dealers and ready sale for the products of their farms and gardens. For church and other interests see special chapters elsewhere in this volume. The balking business of this place is well cared for by the First National Bank, with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars. Its present officers are W. H. H. Wertz, president ; T. C. Hunsicker, cashier. Their deposits are (September, 1909) $162,000. Moscow was laid out by Joseph H. Larwill, Josiah Crawford and John