Source:
History of Western Ohio & Auglaize County
with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of
Pioneer and Prominent Public Men
by C. W. Williamson
Columbus, Ohio
Press of W. M. Linn & Sons
1905

MOULTON TOWNSHIP
Page 781

     This township was organized December 25th, 1835.  The following record of that date is copied from the journal of the Allen county commissioners:
     "Joseph Haskel then presented a petition from the inhabitants of township five south, range five east, praying to be set off as a separate township and to be designated and known by the name of Moulton.  Petition granted.  Bonds given and advertisements written for an election to be held at the house of Joseph Haskel on the 30th of January, 1836, for the purpose of electing the necessary township officers.
     The township at that time was composed of thirty-six sections.  When Auglaize county was formed in 1848, nine sections were struck off from the north part of Moulton township and became a part of the new township of Logan, thus leaving the present township six miles in length from east to west, and four

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and one-half miles in width from north to south, and containing twenty-seven square miles.
     The township was a dense wilderness at the time of its organization, with the exception of about fifteen acres along the river in sections twenty-five and twenty-six that had been cleared by Peter Cornstalk's tribe of Indians.  The eastern half of the township had formerly been a part of the Shawnee Reservation.   Blue-jacket resided with Cornstalk's tribe until he and the prophet moved to the territory west of the Mississippi.  The site of Blue-jacket's cabin was near the center of section twenty-five, and is occupied at the present time by John Schlenker's brick residence.
     The Auglaize river flows through the eastern portion of the township.  The first and second bottom lands adjacent to it are noted for their great fertility.  Other streams entering the township are Pusheta creek, from the southeast, and Six Mile creek through the western portion.  The soil is largely a strong clay, with considerable black loam along the streams.
     The Lake Erie and Western railroad passes through the northwestern part, and the Western Ohio electric railroad through the southern portion of the township.
     Nearly all the public roads at the present times are gravel pikes.  The population is principally of Irish and German descent, and the community is an agricultural one.  During recent years the discovery of oil has yielded a substantial income to the owners of lands that have been developed.

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PUBLIC LAND ENTRIES.

     The first land entries in Moulton township were made on the day that the land office was opened at Wapakoneta, Dec. 26th, 1832.  The following exhibit from the records of the registrar's office is, also, a record of the advent of the pioneers, as most of them took possession of their lands soon after the entries were made:

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
 

CHURCHES.

     There are five churches in the township:  The Catholic church near Glynwood; Methodist Episcopal and German Lutheran at Moulton; Christian church at Oak Grove; and United Brethren on the Auglaize river.

SCHOOLS

     The township is divided into nine sub-district schools.  Each of the districts is provided with a commodious brick school house.

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furnished with all the necessary modern appliances for the proper conduct of the schools.

GLYNWOOD VILLAGE.

     This village was laid out in March, 1876, and was named in honor of John Glynn, a native of Ireland, who settled near the site of the village in 1857.  It is located at the intersection of Lake Erie and Western railroad and the west line of section twenty, Moulton township.
     The village contains a post office, store, church, shoe shop, blacksmith shop, a sawmill, and one saloon.

MOULTON VILLAGE.

     Moulton is situated on what was formerly the old Plank Road, midway between Wapakoneta and St. Marys.  It has never assumed very large proportions, and its business has been confined to the trade of the immediate neighborhood.  Since the construction of the Toledo and Ohio Central railroad and the Western Ohio Electric railroad, there has been a noticeable increase in the business of the town.
     The village contains one grain elevator, a post-office, two churches, one store, one blacksmith shop, one wagonmaker's shop, and one saloon.

BIOGRAPHICAL:

THOMAS COGAN
JAMES McFARLAND
JEROME McFARLAND
JOHN MUSSER
THOMAS SCHOONOVER
JOHN YOUNG

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