Source:
A History & Biographical Cyclopaedia
 of
Butler County, Ohio
With Illustrations and Sketches
of its Representative Men and Pioneers
Publ. by Western Biographical Publishing Co.
Cincinnati, O
1882

ROSS TOWNSHIP

THIS township originally embraced all of what is now Morgan as well as its present territory.  It was organized in 1803, forming one of the original subdivisions of the county.  Morgan Township was struck off of the west end of 1811.  There are in its limits 19,496 acres.  The population of the township in 1820 was sixteen hundred and sixty-five; 1830, seventeen hundred and forty-five; 1840, fifteen hundred and twenty-six.  Since its organization up to 1844, the following persons have been justices of the peace; their names will also show to a very great extent who the prominent early settlers were:
     In 1803, William Mitchell; 1807, Emanuel Vantrees and William Smith; 1808, George Isaminger and Maxwell Parkinson; 1801, Robert Smith; 1811, John Dunn; 1812, William D. Jones; 1814, John Dunn; 1815, William D. Jones; 1816, John McCloskey; 1817, Robert Adnerson; 1818, John Knox; 1818, Nehemiah Wade and John McCloskey; 1821, John Knox; 1822, same; 1824, James Comstock; 1825, Isaac Morris, John McCloskey; 1827, James Comstock; 1828, James Hill and John McCloskey; 1830, James Comstock; 1831, Griffin Halstead and James Hill; 1832, Allen Fuller; 1834, Samuel B. Demoret and Abraham Bercaw; 1835, Fergus Anderson, 1836, Isaac Anderson; 1837, James Hill and William Ray; 1838, William J. Elliott; 1840, James Hill, William Ray, and Enoch Larison; 1841, William J. Elliott; 1843, James Hill and Jonathan Kilbourn.  After 1844 they were Griffin Halstead, Elijah Butterfield, William C. Woodruff, Alex. J. Lutes, Michael Hawk, A. G. McKeon, Robert Joyce, Reily Gordon, Daniel Brown, Jr., B. F. Bedinger, John R. Brown, Robert Goshorn, Andrew Joyce, Samuel Gillespie, John F. Beal, C. F. Thormin, A. H. Cone, John Landerman.

TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY - 450

IMPROVEMENTS - 451

VENICE - 452

VENICE SCHOOLS - 452

    

MILLVILLE - 457

NEHEMIAH WADE - 459

JEREMIAH BUTTERFIELD  - 459

ISAAC ANDERSON - 460

GRIFFIN HALSTEAD - 462

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MURAT HALSTEAD. - 463

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