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BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO
History & Genealogy

Source:
A HISTORY
and
BIOGRAPHICAL CYCLOPÆDIA
OF
BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO
WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS AND SKETCHES
OF ITS
REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND PIONEERS
WESTERN BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.
CINCINNATI, O.
1882

OCCUPATION OF BUTLER COUNTY 1
OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 2
THE BUILDING OF FORT HAMILTON - ST. CLAIR'S EXPEDITION 4
CAPTAIN JOHN ARMSTRONG 7
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN WILKINSON AND ARMSTRONG 9
SUCCESSORS TO CAPTAIN ARMSTRONG 18
MURDERS BY THE INDIANS FROM 1790 TO 1795 20
SYMMES'S PURCHASE 22
CHARACTER OF JUDGE SYMMES 29
FORMATION OF BUTLER COUNTY AND ITS TOWNSHIPS - FINISHED 31
THE FIRST COUNTY BUILDINGS 35
PIONEER LIFE AND CUSTOMS 38
MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS 43
THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF THE MIAMI COUNTRY 56
MIAMI UNIVERSITY 58
PROGRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY 64
PIONEERS AND SOLDIERS 77
GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE 77
JOHN REILY 79
GENERAL RICHARD BUTLER 84
GENERAL ST. CLAIR 85
ISRAEL LUDLOW 88
THOMAS IRWIN 89
SAMUEL DICK 92
SHIELDS, JAMES 92
THE WAR OF 1812 - FINISHED 93
TAMMANY SOCIETY - FINISHED 104
COUNTY OFFICERS 105
MIAMI RIVER 108
THE PRESS 111
THE COUNTY IN 1828 119
EDUCATION 121
AGRICULTURE 124
MIAMI CANAL 138
LEADERS OF THE HALF CENTURY 151
 - ROBERT H. BISHOP - 151
 - WILLIAM BEBB - 153
 - DAVID MACDILL - 155
 - JOHN WOODS - 156
 - GEORGE JUNKIN - 158
 - JOHN B. WELLER - 160
 - FRANCIS MONFORT - 160
 - CHARLES K. SMITH - 161
 - WILLIAM DAVIDSON - 164
 - JOSEPH HOUGH - 166
 - FERGUS ANDERSON - 168
 - JAMES MCBRIDE - 169
 - JOHN CLEVES SYMMES - 171		  
THE YEAR 2050 ANTICIPATED 175
PIERSON SAYRE 177
THE MEDICINE PROFESSION.  
REMOVAL 188
DR. JOHN C. DUNLEVY 188
BUTLER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY 197
PRACTICING PHYSICIANS IN BUTLER COUNTY AT PRESENT 199
MEXICAN WAR 199
THE REBELLION - (includes rosters) 207
CITY COUNTY 213
SOLDERS OF THE REVOLUTION AND THE INDIAN WAR 249
SOLDIERS OF 1812 249
SOLDIERS OF THE REBELLION 250
THE COURTS 253
LAW NOTICE - JEHIEL BROOKS AND ARTHUR ST. CLAIR 254
RAILROADS 268
ARCHAEOLOGY 273
TOPOGRAPHY 276
GEOLOGY 278

 
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP  - STARTED 283
  TOPOGRAPHY - 283
THE LAST COMMANDER OF THE PORT - 283
LAYING OUT OF THE TOWN- 284
ADDITIONS TO THE TOWN OF HAMILTON - 285
ROSSVILLE LAID OUT - 287
- JOHN SUTHERLAND - 287
SALES OF LAND - 288
- JOHN WINGATE - 289
POST-OFFICE AND PUBLIC MAILS - 290
OLD ADVERTISEMENTS - 291
THE COUNTY JAIL - 292
SUBSCRIPTON LIST - 292
HAMILTON IN 1803 - 292
EARLY DAYS OF THE TOWN - 292
POPULATION - 294
TAXATION - 294
CORPORATION AND TOWN COUNCIL - 295
GROWTH OF THE TOWN - 295
MRS. KENNEDY'S RECOLLECTION - 296
SUICIDE OF JACOB FOREMAN - 296
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN 1814 - 297
MURRAY'S RECOLLECTIONS. - 297
- EDWARD MURPHY - 297
- THE BIGHAMS - 297
EDUCATION - 298
BANK OF HAMILTON - 301
STORE DEALINGS - 301
- JOSHUA DELAPLANE - 302
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 302
REGISTER OF THE FIRST ADULT MEMBERS - 304
METHODIST CHURCH - 305
THE THEATER - 308
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 309
- HENRY S. EARHART - 311
- MRS. MARGERY McMECHAN - 312
BARBARISM - 314
THREE CENTS REWARD - 314
HAMILTON BASIN - 315
- TAYLOR WEBSTER - 318
- CYRUS FALCONER - 318
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OF 1840 - 320
- LEVI RICHMOND - 321
THE OLD POST OFFICE - 322
- JOHN W. SOHN - 322
THE LIBERTY PARTY - 324
- JOHN L. MARTIN - 326
- LEWIS D. CAMPBELL - 329
- GREENWOOD CEMETERY - 330 - FINISHED
- HENRY L. MOREY - 333
- JAMES ELLWOOD MOREY - 335
- MICAJAH HUGHES - 336
UNIVERSALIST CHURCH - 336
- JAMES E. CAMPBELL - 337
- CAPTAIN ISRAEL GREGG - 338
- JOSEPH BARCALOW HUGHES - 338
- THOMAS V. HOWELL - 339
- JOHN F. NEILAN - 340
- WILLIAM B. VAN HOOK - 340
- HAMILTON AND ROSSVILLE HYDRAULIC COMPANY - 341
- F. D. BLACK - 343
- WILLIAM BECKETT - 344
POLITICAL HANDBILL - 344
- JOHN M. MILLIKIN - 344
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - 345
- WILLIAM MURPHY - 346
- COLONEL A. DUNN - 347
- JAMES BEATTY - 347
THE NATIONAL ARMORY - 347
- DAVID WADDEL MCCLUNG - 348
FIRE COMPANY - 349
MASONIC LODGE - 349
BAPTIST CHURCH - 350
- CHARLES L. WELLER - 350
GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH - 350
- THOMAS MOORE - 351
- ALEXANDER DELORAC - 351
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 351
- WILLIAM ANDERSON - 352
- JOHN CRANE - 353
- GEORGE W. TAPSCOTT - 353
ODD FELLOWS - 353
- BENJAMIN W. HAIR - 354
ST. JOHN - 355
ZION CHURCH - 355
REFORMED CHURCH - 355
- CHRISTIAN HENRY SOHN - 356
JEWISH SYNAGOGUE - 356
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH - 356
- GEORGE ADAM BENTSCHLER - 358
- WILLIAM HUBER - 358
- FREDERICK B. PUTHOFF - 359
- CONSTANTINE MARKT - 360
- EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 361
- DR. S. H. POTTER - 361
- JOHN McKEMY - 362
- SAMUEL DAVIDSON - 363
- GEORGE W. WHITE - 364
- JAMES T. GRAY - 365
- ARTHUR W. ELLIOTT - 365
- EVAN EVANS - 365
- WILLIAM C. MILLER - 366
- ALEXANDER F. HUME - 366
- THOMAS MILLIKIN - 366
- CITY GOVERNMENT - 366
- JOHN W. ERWIN - 366a
- LANE FREE LIBRARY - 366a
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
REILY TOWNSHIP - - PARTIALLLY FINISHED 11/5/2024 409
  - TOPOGRAPHY - 409
- ROADS - 410
- MILLS - 410
- RELIGIOUS MATTERS - 411
- VILLAGES - 413
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
MORGAN -  PARTIALLLY FINISHED 11/5/2024 422
  - SCIPIO - 423
- OKEANA - 425
- CEMETERIES - 427
- MORGANTOWN - 428
- NEW LONDON - 428
- ALERT - 431
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
HANOVER - PARTIALLY FINISHED 439
  - MILLVILLE - 439
- STILLWELL'S CORNERS - 440
- SCHOOLS - 440
- CHURCHES - 441
- MCGONIGLE'S - 443
- MATTHEW HUESTON - 444
- ANDREW LEWIS - 445
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
ROSS TOWNSHIP - PARTIALLY FINISHED 450
  - TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY - 450
- IMPROVEMENTS - 451
- VENICE - 452
- VENICE SCHOOLS - 453
- MILLVILLE - 457
- NEHEMIAH WADE - 459
- JEREMIAH BUTTERFIELD - 459
- ISAAC ANDERSON - 460
- GRIFFIN HALSTEAD - 462
- MURAT HALSTEAD - 463
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
FAIRFIELD - NOT STARTED 470
  - TOPOGRAPHY - 470
- ROADS - 470
- STREAMS - 472
- SCHOOLS - 472
- CHURCHES - 472
- FLENNER'S CORNER - 473
- FAIR PLAY - 473
- JONES'S STATION - 474
- SYMMES'S CORNERS - 475
- JOSEPH EWING MCDONALD - 476
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP - STARTED 11/10/2024 486
  - HUNTSVILLE - 488
- JERICHO - 490
- KYLE'S STATION - 490
- HUGHES'S STATION - 490
- PRINCETON - 490
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
OXFORD TOWNSHIP - NOT STARTED 502
  - COLLEGE CORNER - 505
- OXFORD - 508
- OXFORD FEMALE COLLEGE - 522
- PROF. JOHN W. SCOTT - 524
- WESTERN FEMALE SEMINARY - 525
- JOHN W. HALL - 527
- OXFORD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY - 527
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
ST. CLAIR - NOT STARTED 551
  - TOPOGRAPHY - 551
- ROADS & MILLS - 552
- CHURCHES & SCHOOLS - 553
- OVERPECK'S - 554
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: 		 
MILFORD - FINISHED 6/3/2018 562
  - COLLINSVILLE - 864
- DARRTOWN - 865
- SOMERVILLE - 867
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES: 		 
UNION - FINISHED 574
  - PORT UNION
- TYLERSVILLE
- WESTCHESTER
- UNION TOWNSHIP CEMETERY
- GANO
- MAUDVILLE
- RIALTO
- PISGAH
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:		  
MADISON TOWNSHIP 594
  - TRENTON - 595
- BROWNSTOWN - 596
- MILTONVILLE - 597
- MENNONITES - 597
- MADISON CITY - 598
- WOODSDALE - 598
- POASTTOWN - 598
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES		  
WAYNE TOWNSHIP 611
  - JACKSONBURG - 612
- SEVEN-MILE - 614
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES		  
LEMON TOWNSHIP 623
  - MIDDLETOWN - 627
- MONROE - 639
- BUTLER AND WARREN COUNTY PIONEER ASSOCIATION - 642
- BLUE BALL - 643
- LESOURDSVILLE - 643
- AMANDA - 644
- EXCELLO - 644
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES		  
  ADDITIONAL NAME:

     - GEORGE ADAM RENTSCHLER

  

 

 
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