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STATE HISTORY |
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French Traders First White Men to Set Foot In the Northwest
Territory - LaSalle's Expedition of 1670 - Subsequent
Explorations and Discoveries - Contentions Regarding Charters of
English Colonies - Indians Make Gallant Fight to Retain Hunting
Grounds - Tecumseh, the Washington of His Race - French and
Indian War - Pontiac's Conspiracy - Revolutionary War Period -
First Surveys and Early Settlers - Ordinance of 1787 -
Organization of Northwest Territory - Representative Stage of
Government - Division of 1800 - County Organization within the
Territory - Indian Wars and the Treaty of Greenville - Formation
of a New State and Location of Capital - Creation and Revisions
of Constitution - Something of Ohio's Military Record - Land
Grants and Various "Purchases" - Connecticut Reserve, Virginia
Military District, United States Military Lands, the Refugee
Tract and Congress Lands - Canal Grants, Turnpike Lands and Salt
and School Sections - Ohio Politics and a List of the Governors
of the State. |
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CHAPTER II - GEOLOGICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES |
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Location and Boundaries of Champaign County - Average Climatic
Conditions - Drainage and the Influence of Mad River - Dredging
of the River and Tributary Streams, With Resultant Effect on
Land Values - Notable Flood of 1913 and the Damage Created
Thereby - Streams of County and General Soil Conditions -
Valuable Forest Tracts - Aboriginal Mounds and Other Evidences
of Former Presence of the Mound Builders- "Ludlow Line" and the
Confusion It Has Created in Local Surveys - Bit of Detail With
Respect to Israel Ludlow. |
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CHAPTER III - COUNTY ORGANIZATION |
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Act Erecting the County of Champaign - Confusion Regarding
Original Bounds - Limits of County Prior to 1818 - Relation to
Neighboring Counties - Townships of Champaign County and First
Steps in Organization of County - Location of the County Seat
and Copy of the Original Agreement Providing Land for the Same -
County Finances and Summary of Report of Transactions of the
Recorder - Indebtedness and Annual Expenditures of the County -
Population Statistics and Some Words in Conclusion. |
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CHAPTER IV - PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY |
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Story of the Development of the Court House from the Days When
Local Justice Was Administered in a Log Cabin - Third Court
House, a Part of the Present Building, and Details Regarding
Changes in Original Plans and Delay in the Occupancy of the
Edifice - Additions to the Old Building and an Enthusiastic
Editorial Comment on the Same - Development of Suitable Jail
Quarters and Details Concerning the Erection of the Present Jail
- County Infirmary and a Definite System of Poor Relief - County
Hospital Children's Home and the Care of the County's Blind. |
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CHAPTER V. - ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS |
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Comparison Made Between the Number of Officials Required to Serve
the Needs of the People of Champaign County Today and the Number
Required in the Days of the Beginning of a Social Order Here -
List of the Various County Officials and of the State
Representatives and State Senators Since the Organization of the
County in 1805 - Roster of Officials Serving the County in 1817
and a Statement of the Salary Attaching to Each of These
Offices. |
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CHAPTER VI -
TOWNSHIPS OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY
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But Eleven Townships in the County Now, Though One Hundred Years
Ago it had Twenty-three - First Three Townships Organized by
Associate Judges, Since Which Time County Commissioners
Have Exercised That Function - The Eleven Lost Townships -
Multiplicity of Township Officials Under the Ohio System and
Some Comment Thereon - List of Township Officials in 1917. |
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CHAPTER VII - MAD RIVER TOWNSHIP |
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Named for the River Which Flows Through it from North to South
Organized in 1805 and Later Subjected to Boundary Changes, its
Original Bounds Comprising Practically Half of the County -
First Settler and Some Traditions Handed Down Regarding William
Owens - Arrival of Other Settlers and First Election - Presence
of Indians in Constant Menace, Leading to the Erection by the
Pioneers of a Stockade - Difficulties Confronting Pioneers -
Predominance of Virginians and Important Factors in the Early
Settlements of the Township - Erection of Mills and Creation of
Various Local Settlements, Including Westville, Lochardsville
and Terre Haute. |
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CHAPTER VIII - SALEM TOWNSHIP |
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One of the Three Townships Established by the Associate Judges in
the Spring of 1805 - Influence of the "Ludlow Line" and the
Transfer of Military Lands - Early Surveyors Face a Prolific
Source of Trouble - Drainage and Topography - First Settler in
the County and the Story of Dugan Run - Early Appearance of
"Squatters" and Details of Township Organization - Incidents of
Pioneer Life and of the Difficulties Faced by the First Settlers
- Farming Conditions and the Advantage of Good Roads - Creation
of Settlements and the Establishment of Kingston, or Kings
Creek, and Kennard. |
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CHAPTER IX - CONCORD TOWNSHIP |
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Part of the Original Bounds of Mad River Township, from Which it
Was Set Off in 1811 - Definition of Limits of Township and a
Story of the First Election - First Settlers and Some Other
Early Arrivals - Prevalence of "Milk-Sickness" - Other Incidents
Relating to the Life of the Pioneers - Disposition of School
Lands and Early Confusion in Boundaries - Atrocious Deed of
Redskins - Organization of Schools and Churches and the
Establishment of Settlements, Including Heathtown, Crayon, or
Pekin, and Eris. |
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CHAPTER X - WAYNE TOWNSHIP
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Part of the Original Township of Salem, Organized in the Spring of
1805, from Which it Was Set Off Prior to 1811, the Township as
Now Constituted Lying Wholly Within the Virginia Military
Survey. With the Exception of Various Small portions in
the Southwestern Part of the Township Area and Topography - "The
Line of Least Resistance" -Old Military Surveys and Original
Proprietors - Original Poll-Book Record and Early Township
Officials - Population Statistics - Early Settlers and Typical
Pioneer Experiences - Organization of Schools and Churches and
Development of Settlements, Including Those of Cable, Mingo and
Middleton. |
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CHAPTER XI - UNION TOWNSHIP |
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One of the Townships Crossed by the Ludlow Line and in Consequence
Part of its Surveys are Very Much Confused - Part of Salem
Township Until Set Off from the Same in 1811 - First Election
and Names of Electors - Early Settlers and the Beginning of a
Social Order - Confusion Regarding Original Surveys - Early
Industries and the Creation of Settlements, Including Pollock
Town, Mutual and Catawba. |
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CHAPTER XII - URBANA TOWNSHIP |
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Definitely Established Some Time Between 1811 and 1814, Though
Date of Original Organization is Not Known - Drainage and
Topography - First Election and Names of Electors - Early
Settlement and the Creation of the County Seat, Which Has
Maintained Its Own Separate Civic Career - Limits of the City of
Urbana, Which is the Dominant Factor in the Township - Village
of Powhattan and Some of the Early Industries that Flourished
There in the Days of Water Power. |
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CHAPTER XIII - GOSHEN TOWNSHIP |
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Lying Entirely Within the Virginia Military Survey, the Apparently
Haphazard Method of Laying Out Farms and Roads is Accounted For
- Drainage and Topography, List of Original Proprietors and
Development of Highways - One of the First Townships in the
County to Attract Settlers and Contains the Second Oldest Town
in the County, Mechanicsburg - First Settler to Leave any
Official Record of His Arrival and Some Other Early Pioneers -
Platting of Mechanicsburg, Early Industries and Other Local
Settlements. |
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CHAPTER XIV - HARRISON TOWNSHIP |
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Smallest Township in the County Was Originally a Part of Mad River
Township and Did Not Acquired its Present Limits Until 1828 -
Drainage and Topography - Early Settlers and Some Interesting
Incidents of Pioneer Days - Aboriginal Occupants of the Land
Still Present in Considerable Numbers When the Township Was
Entered by Whites, But the Redskins Were Uniformly Peaceful and
Never Troubled the Settlers - Early Industries and the
Establishment of the Pleasant Village of Spring Hills,
Originally Known as Middleburg, Which Was Platted in 1832. |
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CHAPTER XV - JACKSON TOWNSHIP |
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Part of the Original Township of Mad River, from Which it Was set
Off in 1817 and Named in Honor of the Hero of the Battle of New
Orleans - Boundaries, Drainage and Topography and Natural
Resources - List of Original Landowners and the Names of Some of
Those Who Early Became Identified With the Life and Development
of the Township - Some of the Township "Firsts," Including a
Story of the First Merchant at Christiansburg and Something
Relating to the Founder of That Town and to the Early Industries
of the Neighborhood - Railroads and Electric Lines, Changes in
Farming Methods and Something About the Prosperous Creamery at
Thackery. |
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CHAPTER XIV - JOHNSON TOWNSHIP |
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Named in Honor of Silas Johnson, its First Permanent Settler, it
Was Set Off from Concord Township When Population Warranted the
Commissioners in Granting a Petition for a Separate Civic
Identity - Middle Township of the Western Tier of Townships in
County and Contains What is Regarded as the Highest Point in the
State of Ohio - Drainage and Topography - Evidences of the
Glacial Period - Largest Buckeye Tree in the State - Some of the
First Settlers and Stories Relating to Pioneer Conditions -
Schools and Churches - First Commercial Center in the Township
and the Establishment of the Village of Millerstown. |
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CHAPTER XVII - RUSH TOWNSHIP
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Originally a Part of Salem Township, Then of Wayne Township, and
Was Set Off as a Separate Civic Unit in 1828 - Prevalence of the
Metes-and-Bounds System of Survey in Consequence of Lying Wholly
Within the Old Virginia Military Survey - Drainage and
Topography - Original Landowners and Something Relating to the
First Settlers - List of Early Voters and a Story of the First
Election Held in the Township - Coming of the Railroads - Early
Mills and the Creation of Two Social Centers, the Villages of
North Lewisburg and Woodstock. |
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CHAPTER XVIII - ADAMS TOWNSHIP |
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Last Township Organized in Champaign County, its Civil
Organization Dating from 1828 - Originally a Part of Mad River
Township, it Later Became a Part of Johnson Township and so
Remained Until it Set Up in Business for Itself - Drainage and
Topography - Coming of the First Settlers and the First Record
of Deed to Land in the Township - Bad Roads Retard Settlement -
Early Mills and Milling - Organization of Schools and Churches
and the Establishment of the Villages of Carysville and
Rosewood. |
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CHAPTER XIX - AGRICULTURE |
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Comparison of the Methods of Farming Prevailing During the Days of
the Pioneers and Those Which Lessen the Labor of the Farmer
Today - Nature Indulgent to Champaign County - A Look Into the
Days That Are Gone - Development of the Crops During the Past
Hundred Years and More and Some Interesting Statistics Relating
to the Leading Crops - Orchard and Garden Fruits- "Johnny
Appleseed" - The Cattle Industry and Points Relating to Live
Stock in General - Interesting Description of a Hog Drive in the
Old Days - Patrons of Husbandry and an Enumeration of the
Granges in the County - County Fairs and a Story Regarding the
Work of the Champaign County Agricultural Society. |
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CHAPTER XX - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION |
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Hardships Endured by the Followers of
Æscupalpius During the Early Days of the County's
Settlement and the Close Place Occupied by the Faithful Family
Physician in the Homes of the Pioneers - Swamps and Lowlands
Fruitful Breeders of Disease and Fever and Ague Proved the
Scourge of the Early Settlements - Every Family Had its Medicine
Chest and Roots and Herbs Were Much Relied On - First Physician
to Locate at Urbana and a List of the Physicians of Early
Record, With Biographies of Many of them - County Medical
Society in 1917 and a List of Physicians Now Practicing in the
County - County Hospital and a Word Regarding Various Efforts to
Establish Sanitariums Here. |
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CHAPTER XXI - BENCH AND BAR |
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Ubiquity of the Lawyer Consequent on Civilization's Demands for
His Services as an Interpreter of the Ten Commandments - First
Follower of the Original Moses to Locate in Champaign County
Also Was Moses, But His Other Name Was Corwin - Since Then Many
Lawyers Have Come and Gone and an Effort Has Been Made to
Compile a List of all Who Have Practiced in the County from the
Very Beginning of its Civic Entity More Than a Hundred Years Ago
- Judicial System Prior to 1851 - First Court in the County -
Associate Judges - Justices of the Peace - Judges of the Common
Pleas Court - Probate Court and the Jurisdiction Thereof -
Prosecuting Attorneys, the First of Whom to Appear in This
County Was Arthur St. Clair, Son of the Former Governor of the
Northwest Territory - Court Library of Champaign County. |
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CHAPTER XXII - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY JOURNALISM |
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Wherein is Found an Account of the Various Newspapers, Past and
Present, Which Have Been Influential in the Advancement and
Development of Champaign County Since the Days of the Beginning
- Many Papers of Many Names by Many Men - Files of Early Papers
Missing, Creating a Confusion of the Record, But it is Believed
That all the Newspapers That Have Struggled for or Established
an Existence Here Have Found Mention in This Chapter. |
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CHAPTER XXIII - CHURCHES OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY |
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Importance of the Church as an Institution in Creating Stable
Conditions in the Community - With Their Very First Bringings
the Pioneers of Champaign County Brought With Them the Seeds of
the Christian Religion and These Seeds Have Sprouted and
Flourished Under the Faithful Cultivation of Those Who Came
After Them - Comparison of the Services Held During the "Good
Old Days" With Thos Held Today - Interesting Pen Picture of a
Pioneer Church Service - Camp Meetings of Other Days - List of
the Active Churches in Champaign County Today, With Brief
Histories of the Establishment and Progress of Most of Them. |
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CHAPTER XXIV - EDUCATION |
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Gradual Growth and Development of the School System of the State
from the Days When an Acquaintance With the Rudiments of the
Three Rs Was Regarded as a Sufficient Qualification for the
Teacher and a Sufficiently Wide Range of Knowledge for the Pupil
- Growth of the Curriculum, Consolidation and Centralization of
Rural Schools and the Creation of the Present Efficient School
System - Normal Schools - List of Present Teachers in County -
Beginning of the Common School and Some Early Statistics
Relating Thereto - Review of Schools by Townships - Graduates of
the Urbana High School - Moore's Business College - Urbana
University - Curry Institute |
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CHAPTER XXV - LITERARY CLUBS AND THINGS THESPIAN |
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Review of the Various Organizations That Have Been Organized in
Champaign County in Response to the Cultural Demands of the
People, Together With a List of Many Who Have Tempted Fame or
the Bubble Reputation Before the Footlights of the State or in
the Tanbark Arena of the Circus. |
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CHAPTER XXVI - MUSIC AND ART IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY |
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Herein is Found a Review of the Numerous Musical Societies That
Have at One Time and Another Striven to Add to the Pleasure and
Entertainment of the People of Champaign County, Together With a
List of Those Who Have Striven in the Difficult Field of Art, in
Which Are Found the Names of Some Who Have Achieved More Than
Local Fame, Including One of the Greatest Sculptors America Have
Ever Produced an Artist Whose Work Was Pronounced by Competent
Authorities to be as Fine as Had Ever Been Produced in This
Country. |
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CHAPTER XXVII - PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS |
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Four Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Several Corps of the
Woman's Relief Corps, an Active Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, Three Camps of the Sons of Veterans, a
Woman's Auxiliary to the Same and a Command of the
Spanish-American War Veterans are Formally Banded for the
Purpose of Keeping Alive the Sacred Flame of Patriotism Within
the Borders of Champaign County. |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS |
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Review of the Various "Lodges" That Have Been Formed in Champaign
County Based on the Noble Instinct of a Common Brotherhood of
Man, These Organizations Including Such Orders as Those of the
Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved
Order of Red Men, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees, the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Knights
of the Golden Eagle, the Knights of Columbus, the Independent
Order of Foresters, the Junior Order of Union Mechanics and the
Junior Order of United American Mechanics. |
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CHAPTER XXIX - MILITARY ANNALS |
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Beginning With the Expedition of General Harmer Against the
Indians in the Mad River Country in 1790, Every Generation of
the Dwellers of This Region Has Been Stirred by War's Alarms and
in This Chapter There is Set Out as Faithfully and Accurately As
May Be an Account of Champaign County's Part in These Successive
Wars, Including the Early Brushes With the Aboriginal
Inhabitants in the Days of the Beginning of Settlement here, the
War of 1812, the Mexican War, the War of the Rebellion, the
Spanish-American War and the Present Great World War, the
Account Carrying the Names of Those from This County Who
Participated in the Civil War and in the Spanish-America War and
a List of Those Who Registered for the Selective Draft Upon This
Country's Declaration of War Against Germany in the Spring of
1917. |
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CHAPTER XXX - BANKS AND BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS |
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Review of the Old Days of the "Shin-Plaster" Currency, "Tokens"
and "Sharp-Shins" and a History of the Various Banking
Institutions That Have Been Founded in This Country, Together
With Current Statements of Those Now Doing Business Here. |
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CHAPTER XXXI - TRANSPORTATION: HIGHWAYS AND RAILROADS |
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One of the First and Most Important Problems Confronting the Early
Settlers of This County Was the Building of Roads and This
Chapter Reviews the Development of the Transportation Facilities
of the County from the Days of the Beginning. |
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CHAPTER XXXII - WOODSTOCK |
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History of the Village of Woodstock Traced Back Nearly One Hundred
Years, Including a Review of the Labors Necessitated by the
Desire of the Early Settlers Thereabout for an Orderly Social
Center. |
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CHAPTER XXXIII - CHRISTIANSBURG |
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Herein is Found a Comprehensive Review of the History of the
Bustling Village Situated in the Southwest Corner of the County
from the Days of Its Beginning When Platted by Joshua Howell
Back in the Fall of 1817 and Named in Honor of His Old Home Town
in Virginia. |
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CHAPTER XXXIV - NORTH LEWISBURG |
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This Village in the Northeastern Corner of the County Was Laid Out
by Gray Gary in the Fall of 1826 and the Historian Has
Endeavored to Present a Faithful Review of its Progress and
Development from That Day to This. |
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CHAPTER XXXV - MECHANICSBURG |
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Bustling Little City in the Southeaster Part of the County, Was
Laid Out by John Kain in 1814 and in This Chapter There is Set
Out a Review of the Progress and Development of the Place During
the More Than One Hundred Years That Have Intervened Since Then. |
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CHAPTER XXXVI - ST. PARIS |
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David Huffman, Who Platted and Founded St. Paris in the Fall of
1831, Designed to Call His Village "New Paris," But Another Town
in the State Had Prior Claim to That Name and He Changed the
"New to Saint" and Under That Name it Has Attained a Place of
Importance Commensurate With its Aspirations, all of Which is
Set Out in This Chapter. |
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CHAPTER XXXVII - URBANA, THE COUNTY SEAT |
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In This Chapter There Are Set Out at Length Details of the
Founding of the City of Urbana, the Creation of the County Seat
of Champaign County, the Names of the Men Who Took a Prominent
Part in the Establishment of the City and of Early Settlers
Therein, Together with a Comprehensive History of the Growth and
Development of the City Along Industrial Social, Cultural and
Civic Lines, With Fitting Details of the Various Stages Which
Have Marked That Growth. |
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XXXVIII - CITIZENS OF A PAST GENERATION - NOT FINISHED |
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Wherein is Set Out a Roster of Some of the Men Known Aforetime in
Champaign County Who by Virtue of Their Talents or Superior
Attainments Rose to Positions Exalting Them Above the Level of
Mediocrity - Included in This List Are Such Names as Those of
Joseph Vance, Former Governor of Ohio; Simon Kenton, Pioneer
Explorer and Indian Fighter, Who Wrote His Name Large in the
History of the Middle West; William Ward, the Founder of Urbana,
and Numerous Others Who in One Way or Another Placed This
Generation Under a Debt of Obligation to Their Memories. |
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CHAPTER XXXIX - SIDELIGHTS; OR LIFE IN OTHER DAYS
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In Which Concluding Chapter the Historian Has Assembled a Number
of Anecdotes, Some Grave and Some Gay, But All Interesting and
Illuminative of Conditions in the Days Now Long Gone, the
Collection Setting Out in Various Ways, for the Instruction,
Edification and Entertainment of Readers of the Present
Generation in General Picture of Life Among the Pioneers of
Champaign County, as Well as Numerous Points of Interest That
Could Not Well be Touched on in the Chapters That Have Preceded
This. |
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BIOGRAPHIES |
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