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History of Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio
1920

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  PAGE
FORWARD - FINISHED **  
INTRODUCTION - FINISHED ** 1
CHAPTER I - SETTLEMENT - FINISHED ** 8
   - Character of the Settlers
 - Assassination of Captain Zebulon King
 - Famine
 - Abundance of food
 - Two boys killed at Neal's Station
 - Mill on Little Hocking		  
CHAPTER II - INDIAN WAR 1791 - 1795 - FINISHED ** 18
   - Beginning of the War
 - Farmers Castle built and occupied
 - A list of Families and Persons in Farmers Castle 		 
CHAPTER III - CONTINUED HOSTILITIES - FINISHED ** 26
   - Loss of Pork
 - Young Men Sent to Red Stone for Provisions
 - John Shaw's Escape
 - Attack on Waldo Putnam and Nathaniel Little
 - Murder of Benoni Hulburt
 - Two Letters by Mrs. Mary B. Dana		  
CHAPTER IV. -  - FINISHED ** 35
   - Mutual Insurance
 - Floating Mill
 - Murders at Newbury
 - Scarlet Fever
 - Schools
 - Religious Services
 - Spies and Rangers
 - Small Pox		  
CHAPTER V. - FINISHED ** 43
   - Domestic Manufacturers
 - Experiments with Crops
 - Stone's and Goodale's Forts Built and Occupied
 - Kidnapping of Major Goodale		  
CHAPTER VI. - AMUSEMENTS IN FARMERS CASTLE - FINISHED ** 48
   - Joshua Fleeharts Winter Hunt
 - Discovery of a Salt Spring
 - A Night Alarm
 - A Providential Escape		  
CHAPTER VII -  - FINISHED ** 56
   - Murder of James Armstrongs Family
 - Murder of James Davis
 - Close of the War
 - Return of Families to their Farms.		  
CHAPTER VIII - EXTRACTS FROM LIVES OF EARLY SETTLERS - FINISHED ** 60
   - Captain Jonathan Devol 
 - Griffin Greene 
 - Captain William Dana 
 - Colonel Nathaniel Cushing 
 - Major Jonathan Haskel 
 - Colonel Ebenezer Battelle 
 - Colonel Israel Putnam 
 - Aaron Waldo Putnam 
 - Captain Jonathan Stone 
 - Major Nathan Goodale 
 - Major Robert Bradford 
 - Captain Benjamin Miles 
 - Captain Perly Howe 
 - Guthrie Brothers 
 - James Knowles 
 - Captain Eleazer Curtis 
 - Bull Brothers
 - Aaron Clough 
 - Peregrene Foster		  
CHAPTER IX - AFTER THE INDIAN WAR - FINISHED ** 83
   - Conditions at that time compared with the present
 - Harman Blennerhassett and His Island Home.		  
CHAPTER X - WAR OF 1812 - FINISHED ** 99
CHAPTER XI - AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 - FINISHED ** 104
   - Wolf Hunt
 - Agricultural Fair and Prizes
 - Transportation
 - Stock Raising and Driving
 - Little Hocking Bridge
 - Moving Captain Stones House
 - Mexican War
 - Temperance Reform.		  
CHAPTER XII - UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - FINISHED ** 116
   - Slavery
 - Increasing Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Northern States
 - Origin of the Term "Underground Railroad."
 - Passing Fugitives from Station to Station.  The Kidnapping Case in 1845
 - Case of Moses Davis
 - Escape of Harry and his Wife
 - Company of Fugitives on Farm of Mr. Hovey and Their Escape
 - Speaker Treated to Rotten Eggs.		  
CHAPTER XIII - THE CIVIL WAR - FINISHED ** 135
   - Presidential Election 1850
 - Sucession of States
 - Failure of Efforts for Pease
 - Aid for Soldiers		  
CHAPTER XIV - BELPRE'S ROLL of HONOR - FINISHED ** 144
CHAPTER XV - AFTER THE CIVIL WAR - FINISHED ** 160
   - Railroad Building
 - Village Incorporated
 - Suspension Bridge
 - Improvements		  
CHAPTER XVI - EDUCATION - FINISHED ** 166
   - Early Schools
 - Belpre Academy
 - Belpre Seminary
 - High School
 - First Commencement
 - Libraries		  
CHAPTER XVII - RELIGIOUS HISTORY - FINISHED ** 178
   - Early Services
 - Congrationalists
 - Methodists
 - Universalists
 - Baptists
 - Colored Methodists
 - Roman Catholics
 - Girls Missionary Society
 - Sunday Schools
 - Ladies Aid
 - Burial of the dead		  
CHAPTER XVIII - ORGANIZATIONS. - FINISHED ** 194
   - Womans Reading Club
 - Rockland Reading Club
 - Belpre Historical Society		  
CHAPTER XIX - FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS - FINISHED ** 202
   - Early Masonic Lodge
 - Belpre Lodge 609
 - Odd Fellows
 - Colored Odd Fellows
 - Knights of Pythias
 - Litttle Hocking Grange		  
CHAPTER XX - EUROPEAN WAR - FINISHED ** 210
   - Brief Outline
 - Belprees Roll of Honor		  
CHAPTER XXI - PERSONAL MENTION - CLOSING REFLECTIONS - FINISHED ** 222
   - Oliver Rice Loring
 - Dr. Franklin P. Ames
 - Hon. A. W. Glazier
 - George Augustus Howe
 - George Howe Bower
 - Mrs. Susan D. (Williams) Dickinson
 - Mrs. Nancy Armstrong
 - John Kenneth Christopher
 - Rev. Cyrus Byington
 - Herbert S. Curtis
 - Old Organ
 - Present Duties		  
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.  
 
The Author Frontispiece
Mrs. Mary Bancroft Dana Fronting Page 32
Old Brick Meetinghouse Fronting Page 33
Curtis Home Fronting Page 48
Loring Home Fronting Page 49
Wirt Sheppard Home Fronting Page 64
Putnam Home Fronting Page 65
Porterfield Meetinghouse Fronting Page 80
Universalist Meetinghouse Fronting Page 81
Ames Home Fronting Page 104
C. C. Hale Home Fronting Page 105
Howe Home Fronting Page 112
Dana Home Fronting Page 113
Stone Home Fronting Page 128
John Dana Home Fronting Page 129
Congregational Meetinghouse, Village Fronting Page 144
Methodist Meetinghouse, Village Fronting Page 145
Schoolhouse,Village Fronting Page 160
Judge O. R. Loring Fronting Page 161
Dr. Franklin P. Ames Fronting Page 176
Hon. A. W. Glazier Fronting Page 177
George A. Howe Fronting Page 192
George Howe Bower Fronting Page 193
Mrs. William Armstrong Fronting Page 208
Mrs. Susan W. Dickinson Fronting Page 209
Corporal John Kenneth Christopher Fronting Page 224
Dr. Herbert S. and John A. Curtis Fronting Page 225
Old Church Organ Fronting Page 232
Memorial Stones Fronting Page 233
 
 
INDEX - FINISHED 10/21/2020

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