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ALLEN COUNTY, OHIO
 HISTORY & GENEALOGY


 


Source: 
Historical Atlas
of
Allen County, Ohio
Compiled and Edited
by
Charles H. Jones
Assisted by
Theodore F. Hamilton
H. H. Hardesty & Co. Publishers
Lakeside Building
CHICAGO.
1875

CONTENTS

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Allen County Maps 5½ & 5¾
Allen County History 14½ to 20¾
Genealogies 28¾ to 38½
Allen County 'References, giving Nativity, Business, Post Office Address, and Residence of Prominent Citizens of the County 39½ to 43½
Lima Village 10½ to 10¾
Cairo Village 10¾
Allentown Village 10¾
Landeck Village 10¾
Bluffton Village 10¾
Delphos Village 8¾
Elida Village 8¾
Amhurst Village 13½
Rockport Village 13½
La Fayette Village 13½
West Minster Village 13½
Beaver Dam Village 13½
Spencerville Village 13½
Gosner Village 13½
West Newton Village 13½
VIEWS  
Jackson & Davidson 22½
Steiner House 9
T. W. Dobbins 9
Diller & Lugibill 9
Phillip Keil 9½
S. S. Yoder 9½
J. F. Tune's Mill 9½
J. F. Tone 9¾
Daniel Rowland 11¾
W. B. Gortons 11¾
Charles Crites 11¾
HISTORY OF ALLEN COUNTY
  By H. S. Knapp, Author of "History of Maumee Valley"
 - Extracts from the First Court Journal 15
 - Auglaize Township Erected 15
 - Lima and the "Director" 15
 - Firt Allen County Jail 15
 - Duchouquet Township organized - More about the Court House 16
 - Board of Equalization - Levy for Public Building purposes 16
 - At the Session of June 3, 1833 16
 - The County Jail again 16
 - A Printer's bill settled 16
 - Location and Dimensions of the Jail 16
 - A Public Road 16
 - Vaughansville - Its origin 16
 - Alexander Beatty Reports 16
 - Three per centum  Fund 16
 - About Hamilton Davidson and Daniel D. Tompkins - No "Credit Mobilier" - Other matters pertaining to Lima Town Lots 16
 - Heavy claim of Absalom Brown paid 17
 - Marion Township Organized 17
 - Union Township (now Auglaize County) Organized 17
 - Organization of Perry Township 17
 - Lima Town Lots again 17
 - Extra session April 10,1834 - Appraiser of real estate appointed - Court House rented to Anderson & Baker for storeroom, etc. 17
 - Fractions in the Town Plat of Lima ordered to be surveyed 17
 - Repairs for Jail and Court House 17
 - Organization of Shawnee Township 17
 - German and Amanda Township 17
 - Washington Township 17
 - Jackson Township 17
 - Clay Township 17
 - A Chimney and Stove-pipe for Court House 17
 - Jackson and Bath Townships 17
 - Laast of the old Jail trouble 17
 - Remarkable waste of the Public moneys 17
 - Improvement in the Court House 17
 - School Section Sixteen in Union Township - Inhabitants exceed 20 in number 17
 - School Section Sixteen in Shawnee Township 17
 - Some Trouble with the Lima Town Director 17
 - Goshen Township Struck off from Wayne Township, and organized 17
 - Changing the Boundaries of German and Marion Townships 17
 - Gen. Wm. Blackburn before the Commissioners 17
 - More Trouble with the Lime Director 17
 - Appointment of Fund Commissioners 17
 - County Assessor Appointed 17
 - H. D. N. Williams County Auditor and Justice of the Peace 17
 - A new Commissioner 18
 - Part of Lot No. 88 leased 18
 - Allen County Military Lands 18
 - First Bridge authorized by the Commissioners 18
 - Hon. Benjamin Stanton 18
 - New Court House and Jail for Allen County 18
 - Court House and Jail Repairs 18
 - A New Court House. 18
 - Letting of the new Court House and Jail 18
 - New Fund Commissioner 18
 - How Allen /county's proportion of the Surplus Revenue became Permanently Invested 18
 - Official Record of 1840-41 18

TOWNS OF ALLEN COUNTY
19
 - "Lima in 1842 - Some of It's Assets. 19
SOME NOTES  
 - Of Old and Rough Times in Northwestern Ohio, Rendered in a Rough Manner.
  By H. S. Knapp.		  
 - Preface 20
 - Dedication 20
CHAPTER I - 20
 - First Democratic Newspaper at Defiance 20
CHAPTER II - 20
 - Business 20
CHAPTER III - 20
 - Rev. John Tussing 20
CHAPTER IV. - 21
 - Reminiscences of Old Modes of Travel, Trip Down The Auglaize 21
CHAPTER V - 21
 - Continuation of the voyage 21
CHAPTER VI - 21
CHAPTER VII. - 21
 - The Voyage Continued 21
CHAPTER VIII - 21
 - About My Wife and My Child 21
CONCLUSION 22

 


 
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