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Source:
A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia
of
Butler County, Ohio
With Illustrations and Sketches
of its Representative Men and Pioneers
Publ. by Western Biographical Publishing Co.
Cincinnati, O
1882
Pg. 283
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP.
TOPOGRAPHY - 283
- THE LAST COMMANDER OF THE PORT -
283
- LAYING OUT OF THE TOWN - 284
- ADDITIONS TO THE TOWN OF HAMILTON
- 285
- ROSSVILLE LAID OUT - 287
- JOHN SUTHERLAND - 287
- SALES OF LAND - 288
- JOHN WINGATE - 289
- POST-OFFICE AND PUBLIC MAILS - 290
- OLD ADVERTISEMENTS - 291
- THE COUNTY JAIL - 292
- HAMILTON IN 1803 - 292
- POPULATION - 294
- TAXATION - 294
- CORPORATION AND TOWN COUNCIL - 295
- GROWTH OF THE TOWN - 295
- MRS. KENNEDY'S RECOLLECTION - 296
- SUICIDE OF JACOB FOREMAN - 296
- INDEPENDENCE DAY IN 1814 - 297
- MURRAY'S RECOLLECTIONS. - 297
- EDWARD MURPHY - 297
- THE BIGHAMS - 297
- EDUCATION - 298
- BANK OF HAMILTON - 301
- STORE DEALINGS - 301
- JOSHUA DELAPLANE - 302
- THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 302
- REGISTER OF THE FIRST ADULT MEMBERS - 304
- METHODIST CHURCH - 305
- THE THEATER - 308
- UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 309
- HENRY S. EARHART - 311
- MRS. MARGERY McMECHAN - 312
- BARBARISM - 314
- THREE CENTS REWARD - 314
- HAMILTON BASIN - 315
- TAYLOR WEBSTER - 318
- CYRUS FALCONER - 318
- POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1840 - 320
- LEVI RICHMOND - 321
- THE OLD POST OFFICE - 322
- JOHN W. SOHN - 322
- THE LIBERTY PARTY - 324
- JOHN L. MARTIN - 326
- LEWIS D. CAMPBELL - 329
GLENWOOD
CEMETERY.
pg. 331
For some years previous to
1847, the citizens of the villages of Hamilton and of Rossville became
impressed with the necessity of abandoning the use of the burial grounds
provided for each town, and the urgent duty of obtaining new places for
the purpose of sepulture. No steps had been taken to effect the
desired object until the Fall of that year, when John W. Erwin,
in connection with other gentlemen, determined to ascertain the views of
the citizens, and to raise, if possible, a sufficient amount of money
for the purchase of suitable grounds for cemetery purposes.
Thereupon, in the Fall of 1847, the following paper was prepared and
presented to the citizens of Hamilton and vicinity for their
subscriptions:
"The undersigned citizens of Hamilton and vicinity,
believing it to be of the utmost importance that a rural cemetery should
be established in the neighborhood of said town, do hereby associate
ourselves as a joint stock company for that purpose, each share of stock
to be twenty-five dollars, and when a sufficient amount shall have been
subscribed, the same to be applied for the purchase and improvement of
grounds suitable for that purpose, to be laid off in walks,
carriage-ways, alleys, and subdivisions, and sold in lots under the
direction of the association. Stock subscribed to go in payment of
lots purchased, and the balance of the proceeds, if any, to be expended
from time to time in defraying expenses and improvements on the
grounds," etc.
Mr. Erwin, and others diligently sought to
obtain subscribers to the paper. They encountered many
difficulties in their efforts. Some thought there was no pressing
necessity for new cemetery grounds. Some thought the enterprise
chimerical, and that a sufficient amount of money could not be raised to
accomplish the object. Others, who sometimes and to some extent
found themselves in antagonism with movements made by Hamilton, were
impressed with the idea that Hamilton was too unhealthy for a
burying-ground. Notwithstanding the many objections urged to the
undertaking and the difficulties encountered, persistent efforts were
made to secure subscriptions. Finally, an amount deemed sufficient
to justify a more complete organization and the purchase of grounds was
subscribed.
Very opportunely, just when most needed, the
Legislature of Ohio, on the twenty-fourth day of February, 1848, passed
a general law for the organization of cemetery associations. By
the passage of this act the friends of the enterprise were greatly
assisted in their undertaking. At a meeting held at the
court-house in Hamilton on the 25th of February, 1848, John M.
Millikin, John W. Erwin, and William Bebb were
appointed a committee to personally examine several sites suggested, and
on the subsequent third day of March, 1848, the committee submitted a
report, in which they discussed the character of the subsoil best suited
for a cemetery and other essential qualities, such as an undulating
surface, the amount and quality of the natural growth of timber,
location, etc. The committee reported fully on the merits and
demerits of the several tracts offered, and concluded by recommending
the purchase of the grounds offered for sale by the executors of
Daniel Bigham, deceased, supposed to contain twenty-four acres, at
one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre. The subject was
fully considered by the stockholders present, who voted by a large
majority for its purchase. William Bebb, John M. Millikin,
and L. D. Campbell were appointed a committee to conclude a
contract with the executors for its purchase.
On the sixteenth day of March following Governor
William Bebb presented to the meeting then held a certified copy of
the act passed upon the subject of organizing cemetery associations, and
the following resolutions were adopted:
"Resolved, That we accept the act passed Feb.
24, 1848, entitled, 'An Act Making Provisions for the Incorporation of
Cemetery Associations,' and hereby organize ourselves into a cemetery
association.
"Resolved, That we will meet on the fifteenth
day of April next, at two o'clock P. M., at the court-house in Hamilton,
for the purpose of electing seven trustees and one clerk for the
association.
In obedience to the second resolution, due notice of an
election was given. The result was the choice of the following
persons as trustees: William Hunter, Henry S. Earhart, William
Wilson, William Bebb, Lewis D. Campbell, John W. Erwin, and John
M. Millikin. At the same time John H. Shuey was elected
clerk. The committee appointed for that purpose reported that they
had concluded a contract with the executors of David Bigham for
the purchase of the tract of land officered, which was found to contain
21-29/100 acres. At a meeting held by the stock-holders on the
18th of May, for the purpose of choosing a name, several were suggested.
Twenty-four votes were cast for the adoption of "Greenwood" as the name
of the cemetery association, and seventeen votes for "Hamilton."
The result was the choice of the former name. On the 20th of May,
1848, the trustees held their first meeting, John H. Shuey, the
elected clerk, being present. John M. Millikin was chosen
president, and William Wilson, treasurer. Upon due
consideration heretofore made of 21-29/100 acres was altogether
insufficient, and an additional strip of ground adjoining the former
purchase, containing 5-57/100 acres, was purchased. This strip of
ground, lying on the east, was very desirable, - indeed, it was deemed
indispensable, and the board of trustees did not hesitate in making the
purchase from Mr. James Bigham, at one hundred and twenty-five
dollars per acre. The addition enlarged the cemetery to 26-76/100
acres.
The trustees found that they had
MORE TO COME
HENRY L. MOREY.
JAMES
E. MOREY
MICAJAH
HUGHES
UNVERSALIST CHURCH.
JAMES E. CAMPBELL
(with portrait)
CAPTAIN
ISRAEL GREGG
JOSEPH E. HUGHES
(with portrait)
THOMAS
V. HOWELL
WILLIAM B. VAN HOOK
JOHN
F. NEILAN
(with portrait)
F. D.
BLACK
(with portrait)
WILLIAM
BECKETT
POLITICAL HANDBILL
JOHN M. MILLIKIN
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
WILLIAM MURPHY
COLONEL
A. DUNN
JAMES BEATTY
THE NATIONAL ARMORY
D. W. McCLUNG
FIRE COMPANY
MASONIC LODGE
THE BAPTIST CHURCH
CHARLES L. WELLER
GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH
THOMAS MOORE
ALEXANDER DELORAC
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
WILLIAM ANDERSON
JOHN
CRANE
GEORGE W. TAPSCOTT
ODD FELLOWS
B. W. HAIR
(with portrait)
ST. JOHN
ZION CHAPEL
REFORMED CHURCH
CHRISTIAN HENRY SOHN
(with portrait)
JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH
GEORGE ADAM RENTSCHLER
(with portrait)
WILLIAM HUBER
F. B.
PUTHOFF
CONSTANTINE MARKT
(with portrait)
In the year 1834 a few persons, numbering about
twenty-four, belonging to the Episcopal Church, living in Hamilton
and the vicinity, united and formed themselves into a congregation,
and on the 13th of August, 1834, an election was held, which
resulted in the choice of William A. Krugg and Isaac Howe
wardens;
James Reily, George Keck, and Frederick P. Narden,
vestrymen; and William Gr. Fields register. At the same meeting
James Reily was appointed a committee to solicit the
Legislature to grant a charter incorporating the society ; and in
March, 1835, the Legislature passed a law, by which William A.
Krugg, Isaac Howe, Frederick P. Narden, George and James
Reily
were incorporated under the name of "The Wardens and Vestrymen of the
parish of St. Matthew's Church, in the town of Hamilton and
Rossville."
The society purchased the north part of lot No. 82, at
the intersection of Front and Basin Streets, in the town of
Hamilton, and made arrangements for the erection of a house of
public worship.
Lewis D. Campbell, William A. Krugg, George Keck,
Frederick P. Narden, and Isaac Howe were appointed
a committee to superintend the building. The building of the church
was commenced in 1835. George Brown was the carpenter, and Isaac
Howe the bricklayer.
The church was situated on. the angling corner from the
south-west corner of the public square, and was a brick building,
sixty feet long on Basin Street, by forty feet wide on Front Street.
There was a basement story under the whole building, divided into
different apartments for vestry rooms and Sunday-schools.
The entrance to the church was from Front Street, by two doors on the
east, entering into a vestibule. The pulpit was on the west end of
the church. Two aisles ran the whole length of the church from east
to west, and the remainder of the floor was divided into fifty-four
pews, capable of seating five hundred persons. There was also a
gallery and seats for the choir on the east, and a cupola on the
east end of the church. It was a handsome and neat building. The
cost of erecting the church was $2,350, the amount being raised by
subscription. The members belonging to the society being few in
number, they were aided by those of other denominations, and the
citizens generally.
The first rector of the Church was the Rev. Seth
Davis, who settled in Hamilton and commenced his duties in 1837.
The church was consecrated to the service of Almighty God by the
Right Reverend Charles P. Mclivaine, bishop
of the diocese of Ohio, on the 5th of October, 1837.
The Rev. Mr. Davis remained rector of the Church
until some time in the year 1839, when he was succeeded by the
Rev. Henry Paine, who remained until May, 1843, when he
relinquished his charge' and removed from Hamilton. The number of
members belonging to the Church at that time was about twenty-four.
The Church, however, was heavily in debt, and finally the building was
sold to the Catholics, who tore it down and erected a new church in
its stead, some of the walls of the old building, however, being
still preserved. The number of members was at all times small, and
periods of several months often passed without preaching. Latterly
they bought the Baptist Church on Third Street, near Dayton; but
that, too, was encumbered with a mortgage and was sold. The edifice
has now been altered for commercial uses. No meetings have lately
been held.
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DR. STEPHEN H. POTTER - 361
-
JOHN C. MCKEMY - 362
-
SAMUEL DAVIDSON - 363
- GEORGE W. WHITE - 364
-
JAMES T. GRAY - 365
-
ARTHUR W. ELLIOTT - 365
-
EVAN EVANS - 365
-
WILLIAM C. MILLER - 366
-
ALEXANDER F. HUME -366
-
THOMAS MILLIKIN - 366
- CITY GOVERNMENT - 366
-
LANE FREE LIBRARY - 366a
-
JOHN W. ERWIN - 366a
BIOGRAPHICAL
NOTES:
-
ROBERT NEWELL ANDREWS - 366a
- ALFRED ANDERSON - 366a
-
ALLEN ANDREWS - 366b
-
ROBERT JACKSON BELL - 366b
- MARGARET RODEBAUCH - 366b
-
JOSEPH BURKHART - 366c
-
HENRY BEARDSLEY - 366c
- DR.
JOHN R. BROWN - 366c
-
JOSEPH M. THOMPSON - 366c
-
FRANK X. BLACK - 366c
-
JAMES M. EARP - 366d
-
WILLIAM BRUCK - 366d
-
OWEN C. BREWER - 366d
-
CHARLES BECK, JR. - 366d
-
JOHN FREDERICK BENDER - 366d
-
JACOB BENDER - 366d
-
JACOB BOLI - 366e
- WILLIAM E. BROWN - 366e
- JACOB C. BARCALOW - 366e
-
JOHN BENDER - 366e
-
MRS. JANE BETZ - 366e
-
STEPHEN D. BOWERS - 366e
- L. A.
BOLI - 366e
-
PETER P. BLACK - 366e
-
EDGAR A. BELDEN - 366e
-
CHARLES BECK - 366e
-
CHRISTIAN BRADY - 366g
- LEROY D. BROWN - 366g
- PHILIP ROTHEN BUSH - 395
- CHARLES M. CAMPBELL - 373
- J. H. CARLE - 367
- WILLIAM BARTON CARR - 366g
- DR. JOHN CASS - 367
- AUGUSTINE H. CISLE - 366h
- VINCENT D. COHEE - 372
- JOHN B. CORNELL - 366h
- MRS. JANE HUDSON CORWIN - 366g
- ALFRED COMPTON - 373
- DAVID D. CONOVER - 373
- REV. TRUMAN S. COWDEN - 372
- JONATHAN CROWLEY - 374
- TORRENCE EDGAR CRIDER - 366g
- JAMES DAUGHERTY - 372
- MRS. EVE DAVIS - 371
- MRS. HANNAH DAVIS - 371
- S. B. DEAM - 370
- JOHN DECHER - 372
- LOUIS B. DELACOURT - 370
- JOHN DILLON - 371
- GODFREY DOELLER - 372
- DANIEL DUNWOODY - 371
- IRA RENSSELAER EDWARDS - 375
- WILLIAM R. EIBER - 375
- MICHAEL F. EISLE - 376
- STEPHEN H. ELKINS - 370
- DR. ANDERSON NELSON ELLIS - 376
- JOSHUA B. EMERSON - 370
- EZEKIEL B. FISHER - 378
- GRANVILLE M. FLENNER - 376
- HENRY FRECHTLING, JR. - 378
- WILLIAM CHRISTIAN FRECHTLING - 376
- JOSEPH A. FROM - 376
- JACOB GALLOWAY - 375
- ALEXANDER GETZ - 374
- WILLIAM S. GIFFIN - 375
- ARTHUR T. GOOD - 387
- B. HAFERTEPEN - 386
- ISAAC HAGERMAN - 383
- FRANK HAMMERLE - 375
- JAMES E. HANCOCK - 384
- PHILIP HARTMAN - 385
- PETER HECK - 387
- CAPTAIN JONATHAN HENNINGER - 385
- DANIEL HART HENSLEY - 385
- JERVIS HARGITT - 384
- ROBERT HARGITT - 384
- AUGUST F. HINE - 386
- GEORGE HOFFMAN - 374
- JOHN C. HOOVEN - 386
- REV. NICHOLAS FR. HOTEL - 384
- ANDREW HUBER - 385
- GABRIEL HUBER - 383
- DANIEL HUGHES - 385
- ABRAHAM HUSTON - 374
- MRS. A. J. HUTCHISON - 383
- JAMES T. IMLAY - 382
- FREDERICK JACOBS -383
- PETER JACOBS - 383
- WILLIAM G. JELLISON - 384
-
HENRY KESSLING - 381
- JAMES L. KIRKPATRICK - 381
- GEORGE KRAMER - 381
- JOHN KREBS - 382
- JOHN H. LASHHORN - 390
- JAMES S. LEWIS - 391
- JOHN J. LONGFELLOW - 370
- JACOB LORENZ - 391
- WILLIAM H. LOUTHAN - 390
- LINUS RUSSELL MARSHALL - 390
- JACOB MATTHIAS - 387
- JOSEPH MAYER - 387
- M. N. MAGINNIS - 387
- CHARLES E. McBETH - 387
- THOMAS MCGREEVY - 389
- MRS. CHARLOTTE MCGUIRE - 397
- JOSEPH J. MCJAKEN - 397
- JOHN MCKEE - 398
- ROBERT C. MCKINNEY - 397
- DAVID MERING - 398
- ABRAM MILLER - 387
- ROBERT BARBOUR MILLIKIN - 398
- WILLIAM H. MILLIKIN - 379
- JOHN MOEBUS - 389
- HENRY MOUDY - 381
- JOSEPH W. MYERS - 397
- JAMES E. NEAL - 367
- HENRY NEIDERAUER - 389
- DR. SILAS J. NICOLAY - 396
- WILLIAM ARTHUR NICHOLS - 397
- LOT D. NORTHRUP - 398
- LUCIEN C. OVERPECK - 399
- JOHN PASCAL PAOLI PECK - 399
- OAKEY V. PARRISH - 399
- EZRA POTTER - 368
- LUCIUS B. POTTER - 400
- ALEXANDER PUGH - 390
- MRS. CORDELIA S. QUIRE - 395
- CHARLES A. LEE REED - 394
- R. C. STOCKTON REED - 378
- JACOB REISTER - 395
- HERMAN REUTTI - 395
- CHARLES RICHTER - 400
- WILLIAM RITCHIE - 396
- JAMES ROSSMAN - 394
- JONATHAN ROWLAND - 394
- BALTIS B. RUSK - 394
- MICHAEL C. RYAN - 367
- JOHN G. SALLEE - 403
- MICHAEL SCHELLENBACH - 404
- JOHN SCHELLEY - 402
- HENRY SCHLOSSER - 401
- CASPER SCHORR - 402
- EDWARD SCHEURER - 404
- JOHN BARTON SCOTT - 403
- MRS. A. M. SCUDDER - 405
- VALENTINE SEIFERT - 406
- JOHN SEWARD - 404
- FRANK HOLMES SHAFFER - 404
- W. C. SHEPHERD - 401
- ASA SHULER - 401
- JAMES REED SITES - 401
- JOHN C. SKINNER - 402
- JOHN E. SLAYBACK - 368
- DANIEL SORTMAN - 394
- JOHN SORTMAN - 400
- JAMES STEAD - 405
- GEORGE C. SMITH - 405
- JOHN L. SMITH - 404
- JACOB STAHL - 404
- C. H. STAHLER - 392
-
JOHN H. STEPHANS - 403
- CHARLES STEWART - 380
- JOSEPH STIMPSON - 401
- JOSEPH STRAUB - 402
- MEYER STRAUSS - 405
- DR. J. J. STRECKER - 400
- AMERICUS SYMMES - 392
- CALADON SYMMES - 394
- JOSEPH C. SYMMES - 405
- HENRY TABLER - 407
- HENRY TABLER, JR. - 407
- MARCELLUS THOMAS - 406
- BENJAMIN F. THOMAS - 393
- JOHN THOMAS - 393
- PERRY D. K. TRAVIS - 393
- WILLIAM TWEEDALE - 407
- MOORE P. VINNEDGE - 370
- HENRY A. WALKE - 391
- NATHAN EGBERT WARWICK - 391
- JOHN C. WEAVER - 407
- FRANKLIN W. WHITAKER - 380
- GEORGE G. WHITE - 392
- WILLIAM R. WHITEHEAD - 392
- ISRAEL WILLIAMS - 407
- NELSON WILLIAMS - 408
- WILLIAM YEAKLE - 408
- CHARLES H. ZWICK - 408
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