| PREFACE |
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vii |
| ILLUSTRATIONS |
| Source of the Sandusky River
(Summit of the Ohio Divide) |
3 |
| Old Fort Seneca |
21 |
| Execution of Seneca John in
1828 |
29 |
| Stockade, War of 1812 |
38 |
| The Lines in Dispute |
41 |
| Pioneer Engine and Passenger
Car |
55 |
| Jr. O. U. A. M. National
Orphans' Home, Tiffin |
59 |
| The Present Court House |
61 |
| Seneca County Infirmary |
64 |
| Freight Wagon on Old-Time
Road |
86 |
| Scene of General Gibson's
Great Speech, Melmore |
102 |
| Johnny Appleseed |
161 |
| Rev. D. D. Bigger, D. D. |
265 |
| William Harvey Gibson
Monument, Tiffin, Ohio |
268 |
| Columbian High School,
Tiffin |
351 |
| Washington Street, Looking
North, Tiffin, Ohio |
352 |
| Third Ward School, Tiffin |
356 |
| German Inn, Tiffin |
360 |
| New Opera House, Tiffin |
362 |
| Riverview Park ,Tiffin |
366 |
| Seneca Driving Park, Tiffin |
374 |
| Fourth Ward School, Tiffin |
383 |
| Main Building, Heidelberg
College, Tiffin |
390 |
| St. Joseph's Catholic
Church, Tiffin |
407 |
| Father Martin Puetz |
409 |
| Oldest House in Fostoria |
423 |
| Fostoria High School
Building |
429 |
| Bloomville High School |
434 |
| Greenspring Public School |
434 |
| Main Street, Bloomville |
439 |
| Greensprings Grist Mill |
441 |
|
CONTENTS |
| CHAPTER I - NATURAL FEATURES |
1-14 |
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- General Geology of
the County
- The Soil
- Natural Drainage
- Geology in Detail
- The Drift
- Building Stone
- Lime
- Clay
- Bog Ore
- Oil and Gas
- Climate and Early Times |
| CHAPTER II - THE ABORIGINES |
15-35 |
| |
- Mound Builders of
Seneca County
- Sacred to the Dead
- Honey Creek and Pleasant Township
- Aboriginal Relics Elsewhere
- Indian Reservations and Treaties
- Prominent Seneca Chiefs
- Seneca John
- Squaws Executed as Witches
- Blue Jacket
- Blackfoot
- Roundhead
- Logan
- Execution of Seneca John
- White Captives
- British Bought Scalfs |
| CHAPTER III - GENERAL
RELATED HISTORY |
36-46 |
| |
- Ordinance of 1787
- Grand Waterways to be Free
- County of Hamilton
- First Northwestern Congressman
- Principal Theaters of 1812 War
- The Ohio Michigan Controversy
- Northern Ohio Boundary
- Ohio Extends Her Boundary
- Michigan Gets Into Action
- Ohio Holds Her Courts
- Harris Line, the State Boundary
- Cox on the Wolverine War. |
| CHAPTER IV - COUNTY
ORGANIZATION AND SURVEY |
47-71 |
| |
- Survey of "New
Purchase"
- Details of the Survey
- Indian Reservation Not Surveyed
- Sandusky River Not Included
- The Two Land Districts
- County Organized
- Condition of The County
- Streams and Water Powers
- Status of the People
- Seneca County Seat
- Public Buildings
- Court Houses and Jails
- County Infirmary
- County Officials
- Property Valuations and Tax Rate
- Tax Limit Law
- Population Under Twenty-One
- Telephone Valuation
- Seneca County's Fertility |
| CHAPTER V - SWEEPING PIONEER
PICTURES |
72-100 |
| |
- "In Pioneer Times,"
By the Author
- The Improved Log Cabin
- The Farmer's Boy
- Amusements of The Pioneer Boy
- Pioneer Gatherings
- The Industries
- Religious Services
- Johnny Cake and Hominy
- Pioneers and Their Troubles
- The Scarcity of Money
- Malarial Diseases
- 'Troubles Made Them Neighborly
- Welcome to Emigrants
- "Seneca County Nearing Her Centennial," by Sade E. Baughman
- "Tales of Pioneer Davis," by Jesse E. Bogart
- "Reminiscences of Pioneer Life" by a Seneca County Pioneer |
| CHAPTER VI - GENERAL GIBSON
AND HIS ADDRESSES |
101-123 |
| |
- Great Speech at
Melmore
- Notable Pioneer Address
- How He Started in Life
- The Heroes of Earth
- Not All Grave-yard Business
- Eighteen-Knit Belle
- Pioneer Cooking
- Trial of Christian Spirit
- Whiskey or Water?
- First Buggy Brought to the County
- They Cleared the Land
- Old and New Land Hunters
- Religious "Quarrels"
- Domestic Life and Religion
- Education and Music
- One Change for the Worse
- Increase in Population
- Farm Labor Never More Agreeable
- God's True Nobility
- Gibson and the Sisters of Mercy
- The Black Horse Tavern |
| CHAPTER VII - PIONEER
DETAILS |
124-155 |
| |
- First Bridges and
Roads
- First Mills
- First Ohio Brewery
- Pioneer Ohio Carriage Builder
- First Tavern
- First White American Settlers
- Mere Mentions
- Mrs. Tabitha Stanley's Recollections
- Harris Reminiscences
- The Black Swamp
- Hunting in The Early Settlement of The County
- Wolves in Seneca County
- Sugar Making
- A Rain of Fire
- Cholera in Seneca County
- Oliver Cowdery and the Mormons
- Tri-County Pioneer Association |
| CHAPTER VIII - FARM AND
ORCHARD |
156-188 |
| |
- Rise of Western
Agriculture
- Live Stock Introduced to Ohio
- The Sheep Industry
- First Imported Hogs
- Planting of First Orchards
- Israel Putnam, The Horticulturist
- Johnny Appleseed
- The Kirtlands
- Longworth, Father of Western Vineyards
- Cereal Cultivation
- Coming o the Potato
- Farming Implements
- First Ohio Threshers
- Pioneer Agricultural Societies
- Pomology and Horticulture
- County Agricultural Society
- Origin o the Grange
- Seneca County Granges
- Johnny Appleseed Again
- The Johnny Appleseed Monument |
| CHAPTER IX - PATRIOTISM OF
SENECA COUNTY |
189-203 |
| |
- "Remember the Alamo"
- Fremont's Famous Charge
- "Seneca County in the Wars," by Captain Frank R. Stewart
- The Mexican War
- The Conflict Over Slavery
- The Civil War's First Call for Troops
- The County's First Soldier and Company
- General Gibson's Appeal
- Officers of the Fifty-ninth Infantry
- Great Record of the Forty-Ninth
- The Fifty-Seventh Regiment
- The Seventy-Second and the Twenty-Fifth
- The Fifty-Fifth Infantry
- The One Hundred and First (1862)
- The One Hundred and Twenty-third
- Ninety-Day Volunteers
- Spanish American War |
| CHAPTER X - ANTI-BRITISH AND
INDIAN CAMPAIGNS |
204-222 |
| |
- The Colonel Crawford
Expedition
- Causes of the War of 1812
- Battle of the River Raisin
- Massacre of the River Raisin
- Has the "Lost Grave-Yard" Been Found?
- Old Fort Seneca
- Late Visit to Site of Fort
- Harrison at Fort Seneca
- Details of Croghan's Heroism
- Old Fort Ball and Settlers |
| CHAPTER XI - CIVIL WAR
SOLDIERS |
223-277 |
| |
- Seneca Soldiers In
the War of 1861-65
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument Dedicated
- "History of the Gibson Monument," by A. J. Baughman
- "Our Unknown Heroes" by Rev. E. J. Craft
- Seneca County Soldier's in the "Sultana" Disaster
- Truman Smith's Experiences
- Pursued by Cavalry
- Captured
- Driven to Cahaba (Miss.) Prison
- Would Not Betray the Boys
- Swam to the Old Flag
- News of Lincoln's Assassination
- The Sultana Horror, by Participant. |
| CHAPTER XII - SCHOOLS AND
CHURCHES |
278-289 |
| |
- Early Preachers of
Seneca County
- Pioneer Methodist Societies
- First Presbyterian Churches
- United Brethren Church
- Reformed Churches
- Attica Baptist Church
- Attica SS. Peter and Paul Church
- Other Religious Organizations
- Early School Laws
- Present School Law and System
- First School in Ohio
- Early Schools in Seneca
- Population of School Age. |
| CHAPTER XIII - POLITICAL
RECORD |
290-299 |
| |
- First Elections
- County Officers, 1821-31
- Dawn of Political Enthusiasm
- Elections 1832-40
- Politics and Elections 1860-80
- Vote on Pike Roads
- County Officers, 1881-6
- Common Pleas Judges 1888-1910
- Probate Judges 1886-1910
- County Officers 1891-1910
- State Senators and Representatives 1902-101 |
| CHAPTER XIV - LEGAL AND
MEDICAL PROFESSIONS |
300-320 |
| |
- Objects of Law and
Lawyers
- County's Early Bench and Bar
- First Law Case
- Pioneer Cases, Lawyers and Judges
- Associate Judges of Seneca County
- Hon. James Purdy's Reminiscences
- The Tiffin Bar in Poetry
- Lawyers Who Traveled the Circuit
- Early Physicians of the County
- Fostoria Medical Society
- Seneca County Medical Society |
| CHAPTER XV - PROMINENT
PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY |
321-349 |
| |
- Hon William H.
Gibson
- C. W. Butterfield, The Historian
- Dr. D. D. Bigger, Famous Divine
- Judge William Long
- Hon. J. A. Norton, Versatile and Solid
- An American Goldsmith
- Half-Brother of Nasby
- Tom Corwin in Seneca County
- General Sidney 'Sea
- Good Advertiser
- Name Changed from Smith to Sea
- The "Osceolas,"A Firebrand
- Eating Gingerbread in the Ranks
- A Loss to Good Society
- John Goodin
- David Evan Owen
- Andrew Lugenbeel
- The Pittenger Brothers
- Last and First Indian Agent
- Colonel Ball
- Judge Hugh Welch
- George E. Seney
- Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath
- Mrs. Sneath on Conservation
- Other Prominent Women
- Coroner Lepper as an Artist
- Andrew Coffinberry Poet
- "Forest Rangers," by Judge Coffinberry
- Pioneer Poet and Preacher |
| CHAPTER XVI - THE CITY OF
TIFFIN |
350-380 |
| |
- General Description
- City Officers
- Ward Boundaries
- Other General Facts
- Original Surveys And Additions
- Governor Tiffin, for Whom the City Was Named
- Pioneer Hotels of Tiffin
- "German Inn" and the New Theater
- Early Bridges of Tiffin
- Street Railways
- Public Library
- Fire Department
- Big Fire of 1872
- Water Works
- Banks of Tiffin
- Suicide of a Tiffin Banker
- Industries of Tiffin
- First Saw Mills and Grist Mills
- National Machinery Company
- Sterling Emery Wheel Company
- Tiffin Manufacturing Company
- Sterling Lumber and Supply Company
- Tiffin Lime and Stone Company
- The Seneca Company
- Tiffin Boiler Works
- Hopple's Handle Factory
- Tiffin Electric Company
- Sneath & Cunningham Company
- Lease & Collier
- Tiffin Malleable Iron & Chain Company
- Ohio Lantern Company
- Webster Electric Company
- Flour Mills, Etc. |
| CHAPTER XVII - TIFFIN'S
EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES |
381-400 |
| |
- Public Schools
- First School Board and Teachers
- Status of Educational Institutions
- Heidelberg University
- Williard Hall
- "Founding of Heidelberg," by Dr. J. B. Rust
- The Columbus College
- Tarlton Location But Temporary
- Located Permanently at Tiffin
- Cause of the Removal
- First Teachers at Tiffin
- Erection of College Buildings
- Old College Hill
- Early Department of German
- Historic Houses
- Becomes a University
- Central Theological Seminary
- Ursuline College
- The Press
- John P. Locke
- Seneca County's Great Editor (W. W. Armstrong)
- Seneca County Poetry |
| CHAPTER XVIII - RELIGIOUS
AND BENEVOLENT |
401-416 |
| |
- Methodist Episcopal
and Methodist Protestant Churches
- Presbyterian Church
- Ebenezer Evangelical and Grace Reformed
- German Evangelical
- St. John's Church
- First and Second Reformed
- United Brethren Church
- Baptist Church
- Disciples of Christ
- English Lutheran
- Protestant Episcopal
- First Church of Christ Scientist
- United Brethren Church
- Seventy-fifth Anniversary of St. John's Church
- First Catholic Churches
- St. Mary's German
- German Catholics Organize
- St. Joseph's Parochial School
- Ursuline Academy and Citizens' Orphan Asylum
- St. Francis Orphan Asylum and Home for the Aged
- National Orphan's Home
- Secret Orders
- Military and Miscellaneous Bodies
- Early Lodges and Societies
- Daughters of the American Revolution |
| CHAPTER XIX - FOSTORIA |
417-432 |
| |
- Village of Rome
- Risdon Annexed to Rome
- Early Business and Industries
- Rome's Road Kept Open
- Houses of 1836-7
- Post Offices and Postmasters
- Physicians of Fostoria
- Early Manufacturing Industries
- Risdon Village
- Beginning of the Brick Building Era
- Fostoria's Two Post Offices
- The Old Fostoria Academy
- The Fostoria of the Present
- Water and Sewage Systems
- The Fire Department
- As A Railroad Center
- Its Newspapers
- Public Schools
- Churches of Fostoria
- G. A. R. Post |
| CHAPTER XX - VILLAGES OF THE
COUNTY |
433-445 |
| |
- Attica
- How It Was Named
- Original Plat and Additions
- Attica Station
- Theodore Baughman, the Scout
- Adrian
- Bascom
- Bettsville
- Bloomville
- Plats and Incorporation
- Green Springs
- Old Green Springs Academy
- Melmore
- New Riegel
- Republic
- Churches of Republic and Scipio Township
- G. A. R. Post, Republic |
| CHAPTER XXI - TOWNSHIP
HISTORIES |
446-467 |
| |
- Adams Township
- Big Spring and Villages of New Reigel, Springville, Etc.
- Bloom Township, St. Stephens and Elizabethtown
- Lewis Leitz's Reminiscences
- ClintonTownship
- Rev. John Souder's Pioneer Incidents
- Swander and Viona
- Eden Township
- Story of John Van Meter
- Rev. Joseph Bever's Recollections
- Hopewell Township
- Joseph Ogle and His Works
- Vanished Villages
- Jackson Township
- Indian Scare at Nestlerode's |
| CHAPTER XXII - TOWNSHIP
ANNALS |
468-488 |
| |
- Liberty Township
- Kansas Village and Other Towns
- Loudon and Pleasant Townships
- Reed Township
- T. M. Kelley's Recollections
- Lodi, Omer and Reedtown
- Scipio Township
- Seneca Township
- The Jacob Straib Sketch
- McCutchenville and Berwick
- Thompson Township
- Villages, Past and Present
- Venice Township
- Ford's Historical Address
- Attica Village Incorporated
- Carrothers and Caroline |
