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PREFACE |
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CHAPTER I. - GEOLOGIC |
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- The Purpose of
this Work
- The Teaching of the Rocks
- A Local Application of the Nebular Hypothesis
- Chaotic Confusion
- The Laurentian Land
- World Making
- The First Oceanic Floor
- The Silurian Sea
- The First Prominade of Life and March of Death
- Geologic Upheavals
- Heat, the Compelling Agent of Change
- The Silurian Island
- The Kingdom of Siluria
- The Devonian System
- The Creation a Process of Purification
- When Coal was Made
- The age of Monsters
- The Glacial Age in Old Clermont
- The Land Finished for Man
- The destruction of a Hundred Years |
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CHAPTER II. - ARCHAIC. |
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- The Land of
the Blue Limestone and the Home of the
Blue Grass
- The Antiquity of Man in America
- The Mound Builders in the Ohio Valley
- Recently Gained Knowledge of Their Habits
- Their Stupendous Sacrifice of Human Energy
- The Motives
- Post Holes
- The Palisade
- The Teepees
- Grain Pits
- The Rubbish in the Pits
- The Home of the Mound Builder Tokens that Make all Time Akin
- The Philosophy of Their Works
- The Totecan and Appalachian Indians
- The Corn Plant
- War between the Flesh Eaters and Grain Raisers
- The Ancient Passes of Niagara and Detroit
- The Prevalence of the Mounds
- The Lowland Enclosures
- The Hilltop Forts
- The Masterpieces Arching Northward Around Old Clermont
- Fort Ancient the Key of the Cordon
- The Mound Builders' Main Line of Defense
- The Strife between Roving Hunters and Plodding Grainmen Centered in
Southwestern Ohio
- The Northern War for Southern Plunder
- The Trails Through the Straits from the Fur Lands to the Corn Lands
- The Milford Works
- The Stonelick Works
- Ancient Works Surveyed by General William Lytle
- Indian Graves
- Marathon Mounds
- The Perry Township Mound
- The Ripley Mounds
- The Regrettable Effacement of Mounds in Brown and Clermont
- "The Valley Which Was Full of Bones"
- The Grave Does Not Cover All
- The Author's Conclusion about the Mound Builders' Mission
- The Sad Fated Planters and Fort Makers Served a Fine Purpose
- The Kingly Corn, their Noble Gift to Humanity
- The Grave Pleasure in a Study of a Perished Race of People. |
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CHAPTER III. - DISCOVERY
AND EXPLORATION |
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- A Tale of Trail
and Triumph
- The Wrongs of the Indians
- They Did Not Inhabit Ohio
- The Right of Discovery
- Our Right to the Land Founded on War
- The Missionaries
- English Enterprise
- Algonquin and Iroquois Rivalry
- The Sparse Indian Population
- The Ohio Valley the Most Vacant of All
- The French Incur Iroquois Hatred
- The Strategic Importance of the Iroquois
- The Shawnees
- Virginians Find Waters Flowing to the South Sea
- LaSalle Claims the Mississippi Valley for the French
- The Shawnees Migrate to Ohio
- The Peaceful Delaware Grow Brave in Eastern Ohio
- The Miamis and Wyandots Enter Northwestern Ohio
- The French Build Forts Along the Lakes and down the Mississippi
- The Fur Trade
- The French and English prepare to Fight for No Man's Land Along the Ohio
- The First Ohio Land Company
- Enter, George Washington
- Celoron's Expedition Passes Old Clermont, August 29, 1749
- Pickawillany
- Christopher Gist Searches for Good Land
- Nothing Finer Found than the Miami Region
- The French Destroy Pickawillany and War Begins
- The End of Peaceful Exploration |
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CHAPTER IV. - UNDER TWO
FLAGS |
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- The Destruction
of Pickawillany an Example of Extensive
Indian Strategy
- The Strategy of the Indian Defense of Ohio
- The Loneliness of the Land
- A Blundering War with Dazzling Results
- The Showy French
- The Miserly King George II
- The Iroquois Consent to a Fort at the Fork of the Ohio
- The French Begin to Fortify the Ohio
- Major George Washington Sent to Protest
- Jumonville's Party Killed or Captured
- The Seven Years' War Begun
- The French Seize the Ohio
- The Big Trail
- Braddock's Defeat
- Washington Commander-in-Chief for Virginia
- New England Resolves to Capture Canada
- Virginia Resolves to Hold All to the Lakes and Mississippi
- Forbes' Expedition
- Major Grant's Deefat
- The Fork of the Ohio Retaken
- The French Flag Goes West, by and Beyond Old Clermont
- The Naming of Pittsburgh
- Rogers' Mounted Rangers
- A Continental Empire Changes Masters
- The Indian Is Promised Protection Against Greed for Game Land
- Washington's Leadership in Gaining Ohio |
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CHAPTER V - UNDER
BRITISH COLORS |
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- Political
Results of the French and Indian War
- The Spectre of Independence Haunts the British Mind
- Repressive Policy
- The English Crown Takes the Place of the French
- Settlers Forbidden to Go West of the Mountain Crest
- Pontiac's Conspiracy
- The Battle of Bushy Run
- Bouquet's Expedition
- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix Made the Ohio a Boundary Between the Races
- The Odious Act of Quebec
- The Ohio Valley a Hunting Ground for Savage Pleasure
- Rebellion Rampant along the Mountains before it was Whispered on the
Coast
- Washington again Goes West on the Big Trail
- Dummore's War
- The Battle of Point Pleasant, the First Battle of the Revolution
- The Shawnees
- Cornstalk
- Daniel Boone
- First Surveying on the Ohio
- Colonel Bowman's Expedition
- George Rogers Clark
- Clark's Conquest
- The American Revolution as Todd Is Mainly at Eastern Tale
- The Western Side of the Revolution
- Clark's Expedition in 1780
- The Strife Along the Eastern Ohio
- Fort Laurens
- Official Report of British Governor De Peyster
- The Avowed British Policy Was War on the Inhabitants of the West and
South
- Teh Massacre of Wyoming
- The Massacre of Colonel Lochry's Command
- The Massacre of Gnadenhutten
- Crawford's Defeat
- The Siege of Bryant's Station and the Battle of Blue Licks
- The Last British Battle Flag Seen from Clermont
- The Last Siege of Fort Henry, the Last Battle of the American Revolution
- General Clark's Retaliating Expedition in 1782
- What Might Have Been With Modern Inventions
- The Motives of France and Spain in Making Peace
- Franklin's Success in Treaty Making
- Thirty-two Years Between Gist's Exploration and Independence. |
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CHAPTER VI. - THE INDIAN
COUNTRY |
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- British Hope
for the Failure of Independence
- Indians Not Consulted in the Treaty for Peace
- The Malign Influence of the British Fur Traders
- Old Clermont a Midway Hiding Place for Plundering Bands
- War Debts and Public Lands
- State Claims
- Indian Titles
- Treaty Councils at Fort Stanwix, Fort McIntosh and Fort Finney
- Brant and Red Jacket Form an Indian Confederacy at Detroit
- Moluntha Pleads for Peace
- Congress Forbids Infasion of Indian Border
- Clark's Expedition in 1786
- Logan's Expedition against Mac-o-chee
- The Murder of Moluntha
- Civil Government Instituted
- The Fertility
- Spanish Hostility
- Squatter Claims Rejected
- The First Government Survey in Ohio, August, 1786
- Surveying in the Virginia Military District begun in 1787
- The Ordinance of 1787
- The Second Ohio Land Company
- Marietta
- John Cleves Symmes
- The Danger in 1787
- Enter Arthur St. Clair, President of Congress
- The Territory Northwest
- Columbia
- Losantiville
- North Bend
- Colonel Robert Todd's Expedition Against Paint Creek
- Grant's Defeat near Vevay
- "The Banditti Must be Intercepted"
- Spanish Intrigue to Dissolve the Union
- Cincinnati
- Governor St. Clair Reports a Series of Disasters
- Colonel Charles Scott's Expedition
- War Resumed
- Harmar's Expedition Against Omee
- The Massacre at Big Bottom
- Scott and Wilkinson's Expedition
- Wilkinson's Second Expedition
- St. Clair Planned a Chain of Forts
- St. Clair's Defeat
- Anthony Wayne
- Two Years of Preparation and Two Hours of Victory
- The Indian Country Passed into History After Forty Years of Conflict for
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- Gallipolis, Massie's Station, or Manchester |
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CHAPTER VII. - WILLIAM
LYTLE |
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- Homes as a
Reward for Dangerous Duty
- The Noble Idea and the Difficult Practice
- The Difficulty Undertaken by Authorized Surveyors
- General Massie and His Pupils
- General Lytle
- Lytle's Personal Narrative
- Moving West
- Life in a Palisade
- The Boy of Fourteen Kills a Buffalo and a Bear
- Watching for Indians
- A Volunteer When Sixteen
- Fighting at Mac-o-chee
- The Capture and Murder of Moluntha
- Chasing Indians
- Grant's Defeat |
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CHAPTER VIII. - MAPPING
THE WILDERNESS |
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- The Interrupted
Surveying Resumed
- Massie and Lytle Make a Narrow Escape
- Belteshazzar Dragoo
- A Battle with Tecumseh on the East Fork
- Massie's Work in 1792
- Linton's Survey, No. 681
- Lytle's Work in 1793
- The Profit on the Work
- Lytle's Surveyor's Camp
- James Taylor, Sr.
- The Land Market in 1795
- The Indian Peril of that Time
- Two Traces from Lexington
- Covalt's Station
- Major Riggs Killed at Milford
- The Winter of 1791-92
- Adam Snider
- The Tiller and the Man Who Would Not Work
- The Shawnees Had Only Nominal Possession |
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CHAPTER IX. - COMING OF
THE PIONEERS |
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- The Effacement
of a Hundred Years
- The Settlements After Wayne's Treaty
- Massie's Repulse from Paint Creek in 1795
- The Origin of Williamsburg
- James Kain
- Massie and Lytle in the East in the Winter of 1795-96
- Platting of Williamsburg Stopped by a Blizzard
- Thomas Paxton
- The Buchanan, Wood and Manning Settlement
- The Ferguson Family
- John Logston
- Hamilton and Clark
- Beltashazzar Dragoo
- The Pioneers in a Forest Land
- Adam Bricker
- The People of 1796
- The Pietists
- The Five Ellis Brothers
- The Dunlap-Kinkead Connection
- James Edwards
- Mills Stephenson
- The Beaseleys
- The Longs
- Amos Ellis
- Ezekiel Dimmitt and the Gest Brothers
- The Light Family
- The Christmas Fires of 1797
- The Origin of Bethel
- Obed Denham
- The Baptist Church
- The First Emancipation Society
- Taylor and Lytle Build a Grain and Saw Mill
- The Earliest Breadstuff
- The First Mill East of the Little Miami and West of Chillicothe
- Lytle in Philadelphia in 1797-98
- Early Births
- Rumors of a New County
- Earliest Roads
- First Marriage
- Kain's Dug Wan and Morgan's Raid |
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CHAPTER X - COMING OF
THE PIONEERS - continued |
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- Settlement
Eastward from the Miami
- A Methodist class Formed at McCormick's
- The Immigration of 1798 More Than Doubled the Homes
- Another Methodist Class Formed
- An Official List of Settlers on Eagle and Straight Creeks
- Jacob Ulrey and Captain W. H. Ulrey
- Philip Gatch
- The First Methodist Church North of the Ohio
- Francis McCormick
- Daniel Feagins
- Round Bottom
- More Roads
- Warren Malott
- John Metcalf
- James Poage
- John Boude
- Benjamin Gardner
- Joseph Dugan
- Major Shaylor
- Robert Christie
- Leonard Raper
- John Naylor
- Joshua Lambert
- The Lost Child |
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CHAPTER XI. - THE
EARLIEST HOMES |
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- The Traits and
Trials of the First to Come
- The Pioneer's House
- The Roof
- The Frow
- The Floor
- The Beds
- The Fireplace
- Their Cooking
- Their Farming Tools
- The Age of Wood
- The Forest Seclusion
- The Galmour of Tradition
- The Positive Proof of Journals and Ledgers
- Scarcity of Money
- Fur Currency
- What They Bought
- The Drug and Book Trade
- Bartering
- Whiskey
- A Complete Pioneer Outfit
- The Awful Stress of Life
- Maple Sugar Making
- Woman's Work
- The Philosophy of the Desire for Remembrance |
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CHAPTER XII - THE
FORMATION OF THE ANCIENT COUNTY OF
CLERMONT |
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- Governor St.
Clair's Proclamations of Counties
- Speculation in Land
- Major General Arthur St. Clair
- The Conditions of 1798
- The First Territorial Legislature
- Origin of Massie's Opposition
- St Clair's Ideal of Duty
- Bills for New Counties Vetoed and Consequent Censure
- The Second Session of the Legislature
- Clermont County Proclaimed with 680 Males Above 16
- The Political Tumult of the Time
- The Name, Clermont - The County Officers
- Thomas Morris
- William Lytle
- Harmony Hill
- John Charles
- The Old Stone Land Office
- The Lost Child Found
- The Settlement of the New County
- The First Wagon Through by Chillicothe
- St. Clairsville or Decatur
- General Beaseley
- Oscar Snell
- Governor John M. Pattison |
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CHAPTER XIII. - EARLY
DAYS OF THE COUNTY |
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- Nearest
Settlement to the North Line
- Bugler William Sloane
- The King of the Hay Haulers
- The Price Paid for the Union by the Sloanes
- Other Settlers in Territorial Times
- Report on Population
- Elections
- Exit St. Clair
- Early Courts
- Log Court House
- Thomas Morris' Taverns
- Formation of Townships
- Roads
- Thomas Morris
- Log Jail
- The End of Territorial and the Beginning of Statehood |
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CHAPTER XIV. - THE
COUNTY UNDER STATE LAW |
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- State Courts
Organized
- Judge Francis Dunlavy
- The First State Court in Old Clermont
- The First Grand Jury for the State
- Early County Officials
- The Presiding Judges of Clermont and Brown
- The Associate Judges
- The County Commissioners
- The Extirpation of Wild Animals
- Adventures of Phoebe Dimmit and Mary Robinson
- Benjamin Morris Rescued by Jesse Glancy
- Jesse Glancy's Fight with a Bear
- Adam Bricker and a Panther
- The Last Bear
- Buffalo
- Game
- The Turkey Trap
- The Squirrel Scalp Currency
- The Need of Roads and Bridges
- Amos Ellis, Amos Smith and Other Early Commissioners
- Roads with Names Now Strange
- Public Buildings
- John Charles
- The Old Stone Court House
- Stone Jail
- Stone Clerk's Office
- Bishop R. S. Foster
- The Whipping Post
- Traditions of the Second Log Jail
- First of Many Bridges
- The Second Bridge Where the Glancys Met Wolves
- State Roads
- The Anderson State Road
- The Xenia State Road
- The Formation of New Townships
- Population in 1818 |
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CHAPTER XV - THE TOWN OF
THE TIME |
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- The Jersey
Settlement
- John Collins
- Charles H. Collins
- Collins Chapel
- Old Bethel
- The Congregation Replete with Notable Names
- White
- Swing
- Jenkins
- Johnson
- Simpson
- Ulrey
- A Student Group of Four
- Influence of the Pulpit on Settlement
- The Baptists at Bethel
- At Ten Mile
- At Twelve Mile
- The Robbs
- Charles Robb, the Teacher Poet
- The Poets' Union
- Dr. T. W. Gordon
- "Eulalie"
- Eliza Archard Conner
- Robert Todd Lytle
- William Haines Lytle, the Soldier Poet
- Charles J. Harrison
- Churchly Affairs
- Hopewell Church
- The Congregation of Gilboa
- John Dunlavy
- Muscular Christianity
- Camp Meetings
- Effects on Presbyterianism
- James Gilliland
- Robert B. Dobbins
- The First Schools
- The Best School House from 1804 to 1819
- Dr. Alexander Campbell
- Dr. Levi Rogers and His Son John G.
- Surgeon General Richard Allison
- The Early Healers
- Peddlers First, Then Merchants
- James Burleigh
- Isaac Lines
- William Waters and Benjamin Ellis
- Postal Affairs
- Newspapers |
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CHAPTER XVI - THE ERA OF
THE WAR OF 1812 |
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- The Conditions
of That Era
- Roads
- Population
- Cities
- Effect of Napoleonic Wars
- No Leisure Class Then
- Renewal of the Long Conflict for Ohio
- The Declaration Before the Preparation for War
- Clermont's Answer to the First Call
- Jacob Huber
- Hull's Surrender
- Colonel Mills Stephenson
- Fort Stephenson
- Perry's Victory and Captain Stephen Smith
- Officers from Old Clermont
- Deplorable Loss of the Muster Rolls
- List of Revolutionary Soldiers in Clermont and Brown
- Captain Jacob Boerstler's Company
- Captain Robert Haines Company
- General William Lytle in the War of '12
- His Service in Promoting Old Clermont Reviewed and Censure Refuted
- Ohio in the War of '12
- The Migration from the Sea Board to Old Clermont after the War of '12
- Captain Matthew Pease at the Execution of Louis XVI |
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CHAPTER XVII - AFTER THE
DIVISION OF OLD CLERMONT |
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- The Agitation
for New Counties
- Comparative Population of New Counties
- Relative Importance of Old Clermont
- Township Histories
- New Enterprise
- Bridges
- New County Seat for Clermont
- New Richmond
- Batavia
- County Seat for Brown
- Ripley
- Bridgewater
- Georgetown
- The Woods Family
- The Court House for Brown County
- Coincidence in the Growth of Brown and Clermont
- Better Roads
- The Coming of Pikes from the Markets
- A Tram Way
- The Plank Road Delusion
- The Canal Era
- Thomas Morris
- The Ohio Canal System a Victory for the Union
- The Effect of the Canals
- Brown and Clermont Classed as Anti-Canal Counties
- The Use of Steam for Transportation
- 'The First Railroads
- The Prosperity of the Flat Boat Times
- Flour, Pork and Whisky
- The Temperance Movement
- The River Trade and Slavery
- The Underground Railroad |
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CHAPTER XVIII - OTHER
FORMS OF SOCIAL EXPANSION |
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- The Early Days
of Masonry in Old Clermont
- Clermont Social Lodge No. 29, Free and Accepted Masons
- Fraternal Organization between the Little Miami and the Scioto
- The Lodge now Ranks as No. 9 in all Fraternity North and West of the
Ohio -
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- The First Two-Story Hall and the First Brick School House Between
Cincinnati and Chillicothe
- Other Lodges
- Early Schools Depended Upon Individual Effort
- Subscription Schools
- Select Schools
- Academies
- Seminaries
- Presbyterian Schools
- The Quail Trap Academy
- Union Schools
- Teachers' Institutes
- Clermont's Share in the Institution of Graduation from the Common
Schools
- General Lytle's Donation of the Origin of St. Martin's
- The Catholic Church
- Organization of New Townships
- The Founding of Towns
- Steam Boats
- Stage Lines
- Wagon Trains on the Pikes
- Droves
- Practical Emancipation now Popular
- The Early Case |
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CHAPTER XIX - THE
MEXICAN WAR AND THE GOLD FEVER. |
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- The Mexican War
a Preliminary Campaign in a Greater
Struggle
- The Volunteers from Brown
- 'The Company from Clermont and Brown
- General Thomas L. Hamer, His Youth, Political Success, Oratory and Death
in Mexico
- Discovery of Gold in California
- The Light Family
- Dr. William Wayland Light, One of the Argonauts
- A Deadly Fight |
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CHAPTER XX. - IN THE
CIVIL WAR |
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- Change in
Fashion and Custom
- The Note of Preparation
- The Roster of Ohio in the War
- Those Who Heard the Call
- The Terror of the First Tidings
- The Fall of Sumter
- A General Statement of the Organizations from Brown and Clermont
- The Nearest Battle
- The Morgan Raid
- The Course of the Longest Single March on Record
- The Conduct of the Raiders
- 'A Fight for a Horse
- The Story of Captain George Harris of Morgan's Artillery
- The Reception of the Union Army in Pursuit of Morgan
- The Difference Between the Armies
- The General Service of the Troops from Brown and Clermont
- When the Boys Came Marching Home. |
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CHAPTER XXI. - THE
WONDERFUL STORY OF GRANT |
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- The John Simpson
Home
- The House at Point Pleasant
- Jesse Grant Clears Eleven Hundred Dollars in Twenty-two Months
- The Home in Georgetown
- Jesse Grant
- The First Brick School House in Georgetown
- Boyhood
- Fondness for Horses
- A Daring Rider
- A Fine Example of a Well Raised American Boy
- Attracts the Attention of Teacher John D. White, General Hamer and
Senator Morris
- At West Point
- Excels all in Horsemanship
- Hazed at Home
- His Remarkable Reserve
- The Teaching of Solitude
- His Vision of War
- His Patient Courtesy
- The Simplicity of His Sincerity
- The Gentle Quality of the Man
- His Kindness in Victory
- His World-wide Triumph
- How He Rendered Good for Evil
- His Tomb in the Center of the World
- Lieut. Gen. Henry C. Corbin. |
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CHAPTER XXII - AFTER THE
GREAT WAR. |
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- The Care of the
Unfortunate
- The World is Growing Kinder
- The Progress of Charity
- The Old Poor Houses
- The Modern Infirmaries
- The Children's Home
- Free Pikes
- The Toll Gates a fading Memory
- Agitation for a Central Railroad
- The Gore Route
- The Stimulating Effect of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
- The Narrow Gauge Era
- Samuel Woodward
- Two roads or none
- The Cincinnati and Eastern
- The Cincinnati, Georgetown - and Portsmouth |
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