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Source:
The Firelands Pioneer Quarterly
Published by
The Firelands Historical Society
Headquarters in
The Firelands Memorial Building
Norwalk, Ohio
Published at Norwalk, Ohio
The American Publ82ishers Company.
1882

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New Series

Volume I

June 1882

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  PREFACE  
  INCORPORATION  
  SOCIETY MEETINGS - Twenty Second Annual Meeting 7
  THE MYSTERY of ATLANTIS
 - An Address Delivered at a Quarterly Meeting of the Fire Lands Historical Society, Held at Peru, O., Oct. 30, 1878
     By S. A. Wildman, Esq., of Norwalk, O.
17
  SECOND HISTORICAL PERIOD OF THE FIRE LANDS
 - An Address Delivered at the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Fire Lands Historical Society, held on the Fair Grounds at Norwalk, Ohio, July 4, 1879
     By Clark Waggoner, Esq., of Toledo, O.
     - The Work of the Pioneers
     - Two Stages of Progress
     - The Pioneer Press
     - A Contrast
     - Facilities in Transportation
     - The Railway Movement
     - Local Railway Schemes
     - The First Shipment of Produce
     - The Second Primary Grain Market
     - Suggestive Contrasts
     - Cost of Transportation to New York
 
36
  THE INFLUENCE of the JURISPRUDENCE and JUDICIAL COURTS of the FIRE LANDS in the EDUCATION of its POPULATION.
 - An Address Delivered at a Quarterly Meeting of the Firelands Historical Society, held ata the Town Hall, in Milan, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1879
     By Hon. J. R. Osborn, of Toledo, O.
 
  THE FOUR PIONEERS
 - The Hon. Walter F. Stone, Wm. G. Lane, Joseph M. Root and Cooper K. Watson.
 -
An Addres Delivered at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Fire Lands Historical Society, held in Whittlesey Hall, Norwalk, Ohio, June 8, 1881
     by I. F. Mack, Esq., of Sandusky, O.
     - Prelude
     - WALTER F. STONE, WM. G. LANE, JOSEPH M. ROOT, and COOPER K. WATSON - 63
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Biography of MR. STONE  - 64
     - Biography of WM. G. LANE - 64
     - Mr. ROOT's Biography - 64
     - MR. WATSON'S Biography - 65
     - MR. STONE'S Character - 65
     - MR. LANE'S Character - 66
     - MR. ROOT'S Character - 66
     - MR. WATSON'S Character - 67
     - Conclusion  - 69
62
  METHODISM in the FIRE LANDS, From 1811 to 1881
     By M. M. Hester, of Bronson, O.
71
  A ROMANCE of the GREAT REBELLION
  - A WAIF of HISTORY
     [From the Philadelphia Press.]
78
  RHYME of the HAPPY FARMER (Poem)
  (By J. T. Trowbridge, in N. Y. Independent)
92
  A LOST CHAPTER in the EARLY HISTORY of HURON COUNTY
  [From the Norwalk Reflector]
96
  REMINISCENCES.
  - EARLY PIONEER MOVEMENTS
    [From the Norwalk Reflector]
98
  The Battle of Winchester
 - The Part Taken by the 8th O. V. I.
   [From the Toledo Telegraph]
100
  REMINISCENCES of the WAR of 1812.
  Indian Troubles - Difficulties of Recruiting in the Early Days of Ohio
    
By Colonel Charles Whittlesey.
101
  THE ALERT CLUB
 - Fifth Reuion, June 14th, 1881 - Historical Address &c.
    
By Mrs. H. S. Mitchell of Norwalk.
     [Taken from the Norwalk Chronicle]
109
  LEGEND of FORT AVERY.
  Written for The Norwalk Chronicle
    
By I. M. Gillett, of Norwalk, O.
115
  BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS
 - Rev. Alfred Newton, D. D. -
122
 - John Seymour -
127
 - Mrs. Sarah T. Seymour -
129
 - Joseph M. Root -
129
 - Dr. John Tifft -
131
 - Dr. William F. Kittredge -
131
 - Dr. George Griswold Baker -
132
 - Mrs. Mary A. Baker -
133
 - Mrs. Charlotte Merry
of Milan Ohio - 134
 - The Rev. Samuel Marks - 137
 - Miss Carharine Gallup - 141 (s/b Catherine)
 - Shepherd Patrick -
141
 - Mrs. Phebe Williamson -
143
 - Oran Rowland -
143
 - Henry Adams -
144
 - Agur and Agur Beach Hoyt -
144
 - James White -
145
 - James Arnold -
146
 - Mrs. Rachel Andrews -
146
 - Samuel Doud -
146
 - Daniel Mallory -
148
 - Mrs. W. R. Hoyt -
149
 - Leonard B. Gurley, D. D. -
149
 - Edward Thompson, D. D. -
150
 - Julia Ann McCurdy -
150
 - James D. Knapp -
151
 - Mary Ann Vredenburgh -
152
 - Alfred Minuse -
153
 - Elizabeth Otis - Sherman -
153
 - Judge F. Sears - 154
 - Captain Daniel Dibble -
154
 - Mrs. Hester Smith -
154
 - David Conger - 155
 - Woodward Todd -
155
 - Samuel Birdsaul -
155
 - Mrs. Hannah Reed -
156
 - Mrs. Betsey Brownel Fay -
156
 - Edward Evelyn Husted -
157
 - Mrs. Harriet Burt -
157
 - Mary A. Chapin -
157
 - Sally Hine -
157
 - Volney Beverstock -
157
 - Mrs. Sabra Jane Wilcox -
157
 - Mrs. Esther Wilcoxson -
157
 - Carlos Colton -
157
 - Alvin T. Bartow -
158
 - Mrs. Abia J. Harris -
158
 - Harry Chase -
158
 - Gilbert Wood -
158
 - Jacob Stevens -
158
 - Lewis Keeler -
158
 - Henry Buckingham -
159
 - Rev. Ephraim Punderson -
161
 - Parson Wilson -
162
 - Mrs. Esther Wilbur -
162
 - Sally Marvin Keeler -
163
 - Mrs. Fanny Foster -
164
 - Calvin O. Chaffee -
164
 - Daniel Albert Baker -
165
 - Calvin C. Parsons -
165
 
  Constitution of the Fire Lands Historical Society 166
  Deaths Since Last Publication 167

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