George HUNTER intermarried with Ruth FITCH, now Mrs. BLANCHARD.
     James ROBINSON intermarried with Miss SWING, sister to Mrs. Alex DOKE.
     Asel SWEET with Miss GARD, daughter of Job GARD.
     Allen M. POFF, afterward an editor of a paper, with Rebecca FITHIAN.
     John GLENN with a Miss COOPER of Kentucky.
     William NEIL with Mis SWING, also a sister of Mrs. DOKE.
     Amos J. YARNALL with a Miss SWING, sister to above.
     Hugh GIBBS with Elizabeth FITCH, daughter of Nathan FITCH, and sister to Mrs. BLANCHARD.
     Peter R. COLWELL with Lavina FITCH, sister to above.
     John GODDARD with Mary HULL, father and mother of Doctor GODDARD.
     David VANCE, Sheriff, &c., with Miss WILSON.
     James PAXTON with Miss LUCE, sister of Col. D. LUCE.
     George MOORE with a Miss LUCE, sister to above.
     Samuel MILLER with Elizabeth DUNLAP, daughter of Rev. James DUNLAP.  Mrs. MILLER survives.
     James HUGHES.  Mrs. WARD survives.
     William Chatfield with Elizabeth HULL, neice of Mrs. GODDARD.
     Doctor William FITHIAN, now of Illinois, with a Miss SPAIN, and after her decease, with Miss BERRY, daughter of Judge BERRY.

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     John A. WARD with Eleanor McBETH, daughter of Judge McBETH, one of our first Representatives in the State Legislature.
     Benjamin HOLDEN with Lucinda PENNINGTON.
     MATTHIAS McComsey with Phebe LOGAN.
     Joseph S. CARTER with Miss FISHER, daughter of MADOX FISHER, of Springfield.
     John DOWNEY with a Miss Parkison.
     John McCORD with Sarah KENTON in 1811, and John G. Parkison with Matilda KENTON, both daughters of General Simon KENTON.
     John HAMILTON came here about 1814, and soon after intermarried with Miss Atchison, sister of Mrs. J. H. Patrick.
     Doctor Evan BANES with Miss WARD, daughter of Col. William WARD, Senior.
     John G. FORD, with ____ ____.
     Thomas FORD with a Miss McGILL, daughter of James McGILL. 
     James SCOTTON with a Miss McGILL, sister to above.
     Jacob LYONS with Miss ROBISON.
     Col. Douglas LUCE with Miss TAYLOR, daughter of Alexander TAYLOR.
     Daniel SWEET with Miss THOMPSON.
     John HELMICK with Miss Rosey-grant.
     William PATRICK with Rachel KIRKPATRICK.

     I will lose this list here; and introduce the name of Calvin FLETCHER, who came here a poor boy in 1817, without any means, worked his way as best he could until by perseverance in study, qualified himself for the bar; married a Miss HILL, sister of Col. Joseph HILL, and soon after, without even money sufficient to take himself and wife comfortably, moved to Indianapolis, where he applied himself assidiously to business, and at his death in 1866, by reason of the intimate relationships and early associations of the writer of this with Mr. Fletcher, his family telegraphed him the sad intelligence, requesting his attendance at the funeral; which invitation he promptly accepted and when at the residence of his early friend, he learned the fact from those who knew, that his estate approximated to near one million of dollars.
     It may also be stated that in addition to the foregoing list of early pioneers a very large number of enterprising young men came to Urbana and located themselves as merchants, mechanics, &c.  I

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will name a few, Hezekiah WELLS, Thomas WELLS, and William McDONALD (who is well known, and came here at an early day, connected himself in a mercantile interest, and became afterwards a public man, he representing this county in the Legislature in after years.)  William NEIL late of Columbus, commenced business here as a merchant, in a small frame near the stove store of John HELMICK.  He was likewise the Cashier of the old Urbana Bank.  J. Birdwhistle, about the beginning of the War of 1812, opened a hotel in the corner building lately torn down by KAUFFMAN and NELSON on corner of fractional lot No. 2, and will here note that Joseph LOW, father of Albert and others, continued the same business after BIRDWHISTLE, in the same house; John and Uriah TABOR manufactured hats on the hill west of the square on West Main Street, near the present residence of E. KIMBER.  _____ PRICE had a shoe shop, location not now recollected.  Henry WEAVER, a previous old settler of Mad River township, came to Urbana with his small family about 1813, built the small room now standing on the east end of Mr. GANMER's present residence on lot No. 160 Scioto Street and occupied it as his family residence, in which he also had a shoe-bench and worked at shoe-making, connecting with it a stall for the sale of apples.  This was the beginning to the vast amount of wealth which he has acquired and is now enjoying in the eighty-fourth year of his life.  George BELL, who came here at an early day erected a small nail cutting establishment on lot No. 160, North Main Street, near the present location of P. R. BENNETT's jewelry shop.  Francis DUBOIS opened a kind of tavern stand in a double log house on the corner of in-lot No. 24 near the First M. E. Church building.  The GWYNNES located here within the years indicated in these sketches, and opened what was then a large dry goods store in a red one-story frame building on lot No. 154, being the lot now occupied and owned by Mr. L. WEAVER; William DOWNS was also one of the early settlers here, and carried on blacksmithing.  John HURD was one of the oldest settlers, and learned the trade of blacksmithing with Alex. Doke, and carried on the business afterward to some considerable extent.  John WALLACE and Elisha C. BERRY came here at a very early day as carpenters, and when REYNOLDS and WARD had determined to establish a factory, they were employed to erect the large building now occupied by Mr. FOX, and in the process of its erection Mr. WALLACE, met with an accident that came near proving fatal; he was employed about

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the hip in the roof on the south side, when the scaffolding gave way and precipitated him to the ground, making a cripple of him ever after.  Mr. WALLACE being a very worthy man with considerable culture, was elected Sheriff, and held other important public trusts up to the time of his emigration west, years afterward.
     About the end, and at the conclusion of the war, many accessions were made to the population from New Jersey, Kentucky and other places, but as there are some other subjects before that time that need attention, I will have to bring this to a point, by remarking that this historical dotting of business men and business places might be greatly extended in locating tailor, shoemaker, cabinet, wheelwright, carpenter, chair, saddler, potter and other mechanical shops; adding to the list other mercantile interests not already noticed.