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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
ROSS TOWNSHIP THIS
township originally embraced all of what is now Morgan as well as its
present territory. It was organized in 1803, forming one of the
original subdivisions of the county. Morgan Township was struck
off of the west end of 1811. There are in its limits 19,496 acres.
The population of the township in 1820 was sixteen hundred and
sixty-five; 1830, seventeen hundred and forty-five; 1840, fifteen
hundred and twenty-six. Since its organization up to 1844, the
following persons have been justices of the peace; their names will also
show to a very great extent who the prominent early settlers were:
In 1803, William Mitchell; 1807, Emanuel
Vantrees and William Smith; 1808, George Isaminger and
Maxwell Parkinson; 1801, Robert Smith; 1811, John Dunn;
1812, William D. Jones; 1814, John Dunn; 1815, William
D. Jones; 1816, John McCloskey; 1817, Robert Adnerson;
1818, John Knox; 1818, Nehemiah Wade and John McCloskey;
1821, John Knox; 1822, same; 1824, James Comstock; 1825,
Isaac Morris, John McCloskey; 1827, James Comstock; 1828,
James Hill and John McCloskey; 1830, James Comstock;
1831, Griffin Halstead and James Hill; 1832, Allen
Fuller; 1834, Samuel B. Demoret and Abraham Bercaw;
1835, Fergus Anderson, 1836, Isaac Anderson; 1837,
James Hill and William Ray; 1838, William J. Elliott;
1840, James Hill, William Ray, and Enoch Larison;
1841, William J. Elliott; 1843, James Hill and Jonathan
Kilbourn. After 1844 they were Griffin Halstead, Elijah
Butterfield, William C. Woodruff, Alex. J. Lutes, Michael Hawk,
A. G. McKeon, Robert Joyce, Reily Gordon, Daniel Brown, Jr., B. F.
Bedinger, John R. Brown, Robert Goshorn, Andrew Joyce, Samuel Gillespie,
John F. Beal, C. F. Thormin, A. H. Cone, John Landerman.
TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY - 450
IMPROVEMENTS - 451
VENICE - 452
VENICE SCHOOLS - 452
MILLVILLE - 457
NEHEMIAH WADE - 459
JEREMIAH BUTTERFIELD - 459
ISAAC ANDERSON - 459
GRIFFIN HALSTEAD - 462
[ PORTRAIT OF M. HALSTEAD ]
MURAT HALSTEAD. - 463
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
ISAAC ANDERS - 463
JAMES CAMPBELL ANDRESS - 464
JAMES BROWN - 464
BENNETT BRANCH - 464
FREDERICK BOHLENDER - 464
CHARLES BORGER - 464
DANIEL BROSIUS - 464
CHRISTOPHER W. COOK - 465
JOHN A. CRAWFORD - 465
DAVID DESCOMBES - 465
CAPTAIN SAMUEL DICK - 465
BARTHOLOMEW DEMORET - 466
CHARLES EMRICK - 466
HENRY GAILEY - 466
JOSEPH GARVER - 466
ALFRED HANCOCK - 467
DOCTOR HANCOCK - 467
JOHN HÖLLE - 467
DR. CHARLES C. HOOVER - 467
BENJAMIN HAWK - 467
ANDREW J. LEWIS - 468
DR. ROBERT PENNEL LAMB - 468
T. B. MORRIS - 468
JACOB NIEDERMAN - 468
X. LOCKER - 469
JAMES RILEY - 469
MELANCTHON S. WADE - 469
REV. GEORGE P. WARVEL - 469
SAMUEL ZEGLER - 470
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