MARRIAGE RECORD OF PIONEER DAYS.
(Source:  History of Allen County, Ohio - Publ. 1885)

     Such a record as this claims a double value.  It places before the reader a great number of names connected with the first years of the
county's progress.   It points out the time when the young men and women of those years assumed the duties and responsibilities of married
life, and in a measure chronicles the beginning of their true citizenship.  The record from 1831 to 1845 is selected to supplement the history
of pioneer times.  The extent of the several matrimonial stories related in the original books since 1845, and the fact that such stories are
comparatively modern and accessible to the public, are a few of the reasons why the records should not be continued here.  The editor
of the Democratic Times, Mr. Selfridge, gave to his readers in 1883-84 a very full review of marriages, so far as registered, which took
place in this county.  Charles F. Price, city editor of the Daily Times, continued the marriage chronology down to 1884, thus securing and
making easy of access the record which is destined to take a most important place, if not the most important, among the records of the county.