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MADISON AND ITS CAPITAL CITY.
SURFACE AND DRAINAGE.
THE MINERALS
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES
ASSESSOR'S RETURNS, 1883.
ZALESKI.
THE POSTOFFICE.
BUSINESS INTERESTS
[WILFORD STIERS]
[ELIZABETH STIERS]
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CHURCHES
LODGES.
MANUFACTORIES.
KNOX TOWNSHIP.
ONCE A PART OF ATHENS COUNTY.
SURFACE AND DRAINAGE.
OLD SETTLERS.
JOSEPH VAUGHN was born in what is
now Lee Township, Athens County, in 1808. His parents
were David and Mary Vaugfhn, formerly residents of
one of hte New England States. While a young man
Joseph Vaughn settled in the Raccoon Valley, only a few
miles from the place of his birth, is what is now Knox
Township.
JOHN HALDREN was another old
settler reared in this township who lived to the
extraordinary age of nearly 100 years.
MOSES QUICK was another of the
earliest settlers in the township. He was born in1803,
came to the township when young man, where he spent the
remainder of his life. He raised a family of seventeen
children.
Coal and iron ore
are known to exist in the hills of this township but as yet
they have not been developed to any extent. A number
of coal banks have been opened in the northeastern part of
the township but only for local use.
STOCK AND ASSESSED VALUATION.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
MILLS.
POPULATION.
The
population of Knox Township was first given in the census
report of 1860 at 475; in 1870 it was 559, and in 1880, 947,
and it has now about 1,000.
BROWN TOWNSHIP.
HOW IT ORIGINATED
ITS WATER SUPPLY.
FIRST SETTLERS.
CHURCHES.
POPULATION.
NEW PLYMOUTH.
BIOGRAPHICAL. - MADISON AND KNOX.
G. E. ATKINSON - 1292
MORRIS ALLBAUGH - 1292
I. V. BREWER - 1292
JOHN T. CRAIG - 1293
WILLIAM FARABEE - 1293
E. FISCHER - 1293
JOHN A. PUTZ - 1294
C. S. RANNELLS - 1294
LEVI ROBINETT - 1295
ALLEN ROBINSON - 1295
JOHN F. SANDS - 1296
ROBERT SKELLY - 1296
JOHN E. SPICER - 1296
M. C. WINGET - 1297
J. A. ANKRAM - 1299
SYLVANUS BARTLETT - 1299
WILLIAM L. BARTLETT - 1299
JAMES BRIGGS - 1300
DR. WILLIAM C. CLINE - 1300
S. C. EGGLESTON - 1301
LEMUEL FULLER - 1301
LORENZO D. FULLER - 1301
WILLIAM FULLER - 1301
WASHINGTON KEETON - 1302
HENRY C. KREPPEL - 1302
ISAAC LASH - 1302
THOMAS MAGEE - 1303
GEORGE McDANIEL - 1303
JOSEPH McDANIEL - 1303
CATHERINE REASONER - 1304
P. M. REASONER - 1304
THOMAS M. STEVENSON - 1304
S. T. WEED - 1305
JACOB WHITE - 1305
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