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Source:
History of Coshocton County, Ohio
- Vol. I -
Chicago
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
1909

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I - Partially transcribed
 - Recent Archaeological Discoveries Relating to the Antiquity of Human Life in this Region
7
CHAPTER II - Partially transcribed
 - New Discoveries Touching the Mound builders, the Vanished Race View, the Indian Theory, the Inca, Toltec, Asiatic, Egyptian, Irish, Welsh and "Lost Tribe" Speculations 
13
CHAPTER III - Partially transcribed
 - The Indian Live and Character: Scenes Illustrating Tribal Society, Customs, Amusements, Industries, Linguistics, Warfare, and Something of Savage Romance within our Borders
29
CHAPTER IV - Partially transcribed
 - Unimportant Incidents in Coshocton Indian Life Which Have Made This Region Famous in the Country's Indian History
39
CHAPTER V - Partially transcribed
 - Pioneer Coshocton, From "King Charley's" Tavern Where Louis Philippe of France Clashed with American Sovereignty, Down to the Forties
53
PIONEERS OF COSHOCTON COUNTY - FINISHED 8/25/22
 - The Colonists of the Earliest Decades in the County's First Century, Including Those who Cut the Path for Civilization Through
76
CHAPTER VI - FINISHED 8/25/22
 - The Sickle and Cradle Days
 - Barrel and Tin Cup Temperance
 - The Coshocton County Line of the "Underground Railroad" from Slavery to Freedom
 - "All Aboard for Mexico.!"
93
CHAPTER VII.
 - The Faster Pace Set by the Railroad
 - Last of the Stage Coach
 - County Politics Boiling
 - Medill and his "Hunker"' Editorials
 - from Coshocton Publisher to Chicago Millionaire
99
CHAPTER IX.
 - Coshocton County in the Civil War
 - Two Thousand Five Hundred Who Served the Country
 - Honors Won on the Battlefield
 - Woman's Part in the Struggle 
108
CHAPTER X
 - Larger Epochs in the Last Quarter Century
 - Railroad Expansion
 - Development of Coal Riches
 - The Greater Coshocton
 - Organized Labor
 - The New Farm Life
208
CHAPTER XI
 - The Press - Partisan, Commercial and Otherwise
 - The Passing of the Hidebound Party Organ
 - Observations Touching Editorial Policy
221
CHAPTER XII
 - Volunteers in the Spanish War
 - At Fever Stricken Camp Alger
 - Coshocton Soldiers in the Philippines
 - Present Representation in Both Arms of the Service 
227
CHAPTER XIII
 - The Bench and the Bar
 - The Advocate of Yesterday and the Business Lawye3r of Today
 - Advance in Jury Intelligence
 - Disappearance of Emotional Pleading 
232
CHAPTER XIV
 - County Officials
 - Representatives in Congress and State Legislature
 - Coshocton Men in Various Public Offices
 - Postmasters and Mayors of Coshocton 
235
CHAPTER XV
 - A Look at Local Taxes
 - Heavy Toll Taken from the Land Owners While Others Pay Less by Grace of Legislation
 - Conditions that Invite a Public Upheaval
246
CHAPTER XVI
 - Ecclesiastical and Educational
 - Fraternal and Social
 - The Minister in Politics
 - The Temperance Movement from the Crusaders to the Rose Law
255
CHAPTER XVII
 - Our Soil, Clay, Timber and Crops as Viewed by Government Observers
 - Oil and Natural Gas Development
 - Market Conditions
 - Fish and Game 
263
CHAPTER XVIII
 - The Medical Profession
 - Changes in a Century
 - Progress Against Quackery
 - The Local Need for a Hospital
268
CHAPTER XVIII
 - Coshocton Notes
 - Banking
 - County Fair
 - Work of Brush and Pen
 - Our Successes Abroad
 - "And the Witchery Ne'er Leaves You Once You call Coshocton Home."
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