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CHAPTER I - RELATED STATE HISTORY |
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- First White Men in Northwest Territory
- English and French Claims
- Three Successive Sovereign Flags Over Present Ohio
- Passing of the Indians
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- Northwest Territory
- Ohio, the First Northwest State
- Early Settlements
- Activities of the Traders
- French and Revolutionary Period
- George Rogers Clark and His Campaign
- First Surveys and Early Settlers
- Ordinance of 1787
- First Stage of Government Under the Ordinance
- Second State
- Organization of the Northwest Territory
- Representative Stage of Government
- First Territorial Legislature
- Division of 1800
- Census of 1800
- Symmes Purchase and Other Early Settlements
- County Organization
- Indian Wars
- Formation of a New State
- Date of Ohio's Admission to the Union
- Capitals of Northwest Territory and Ohio
- Constitutional History of Ohio
- Military Record
- Land Grants
- Military Lands
- Refugee Tract
- Road Lands
- Canal Grants
- Zane Sections
- Ministerial Lands
- Schools Sections
- Ohio Politics
- Boundary Lines
- Organization of Counties and Early Settlers |
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CHAPTER II - GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY |
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- Boundaries of Fayette County
- Geological Formations
- Water Courses
- Drainage
- Land Elevation
- Rock Formations
- The Drift
- Gravel and Sand
- The Soil |
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CHAPTER iii - COUNTY ORGANIZATION |
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- County Organization Leading up to that of Fayette
- Fayette County Created
- Original Townships
- Present Townships |
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CHAPTER IV - EARLY SETTLEMENT |
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- Indian Inhabitants
- First Surveys
- Land Entries
- Early Settlers
- Interesting Incidents
- Pioneer Life
- Narrative of an Old Pioneer
- Early Habits and Customs
- Pioneer Wedding
- Mills and Milling
- Taverns
- Corn Huskings
- Hunting
- Early Mails
- Pigeon Roosts
- Sickness
- Destruction of Milliken Dam
- Incidents
- A Hermit
- Distilleries |
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CHAPTER V - COUNTY GOVERNMENT |
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- Scarcity of Early Records
- County Treasury Robbed
- Early County Bills
- First Court Hosue
- Second Court Hosue
- Present Court House
- County Jails
- Public Drinking Fountain
- First County "Safe"
- County Infirmary
- County Children's Home
- Carder Infirmary
- County Roads and Pike Systems
- County Finances |
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CHAPTER VI - OFFICIAL REPRESENTATION |
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- Presidential Vote in the County
- Political Parties
- State Senators
- State Representatives
- Presiding Judges
- Associate Judges
- Common Pleas Judges
- County Auditors
- County Recorders
- County Treasurers
- Clerks of Court
- Sheriffs
- Probate Judges
- Prosecuting Attorneys
- Coroners
- County Surveyors
- County Superintendents of Schools
- District Assessors
- County Commissioners
- Justices of the Peace |
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CHAPTER VII - TRANSPORTATION |
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- Early Transportation by Freight Wagonsa nd Boats
- The First Railroad
- Bond Issues
- Subsequent and Present Roads |
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CHAPTER VIII - EVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING |
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- Fayette an Agricultural County
- The Soil
- Live Stock
- Agricultural Statistics
- Drainage
- Tiling
- County Agricultural Societies
- Hog Cholera Epidemics
- Corn Shows and Institutes |
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CHAPTER IX - BANKS AND BANKING |
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- The Press a Great Civilizing Influence
- Fayette County's First Newspaper, Freedom's Advocate
- Later Newspapers at Washington C. H.
- The Jeffersonville Citizen
- Newspapers in Ohio
- The First Printing Press in Fayette County |
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CHAPTER XI - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION |
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- Value of the Physician
- Progress in Medical Science
- First and Early Doctors in Fayette County
- Later Doctors
- Physicians of the County in 1914
- Fayette County Medical Society
- City Hospitals |
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CHAPTER XII - THE BENCH AND BAR |
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- The Judiciary
- Legislature Enactments Establishign Judiciary System
- The First Session of Court in Fayette County
- Fayette County Lawyers
- Present Members of the Bar
- Judges af Court of Appeals
- Judges Court of Common Pleas
- Other Court Officers
- H. B. Maynard
- John J. Harper |
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CHAPTER XIII - MILITARY HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY
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- Fayette County's Part in the War of 1812
- Transportation of Provisions
- Mexican War
- Militia Muster Days
- Fayette County in the Civil War
- Lincoln's Proclamation
- Mass Meetings
- Enlistments from Fayette County Townships
- Revolutionary Soldiers in Fayette County
- Memorial Hall
- Names of Fayette County Soldiers
- Spanish American War
- A Hero in Two Wars |
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CHAPTER XIV - EDUCATIONAL HISTORY |
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- Great Progress in the Science of Education
- The Old and the Modern School Hosue
- Schools of Washington C. H.
- Township Schools
- Wayne Centralized School
- The Thoughtful School Superintendent. |
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CHAPTER XV - SECRET AND FRATERNAL ORDERS |
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- Free and Accepted Masons
- Royal Arch Masons
- Knight s Templar
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows
- The Encampment
- Kngiths of Pythias |
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CHAPTER XVI - HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES |
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- Presbyterian Churches
- Methodism in Fayette County
- African M. E. Church
- Methodist Protestant Churches
- The Christian Church
- United Brethren Churches
- Baptist Societies
- Colored Baptist Church
- Friends Society
- Free Church Association
- Universalist Church
- Protestant Episcopal Church
- Church of Christ
- Oldest Church Building in the County
- Catholic Church
- Young Men's Christian Association |
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CHAPTER XVII - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS OF INTEREST |
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- The Temperance Crusade
- The Appeal
- Counterfeiting
- The Funk Fight
- A Cruel Indian
- Early Criminal Cases
- Execution of William G. W. Smith
- Stock Sales
- Horse Trading
- Capture of Andrew Ellison
- A Hot Race
- Big Riot of 1894
- Unique Destruction of a Mill Dam
- Immense Petrified Maple Log
- First Murder Case
- First Execution
- First Marriages
- Centennial Anniversary of County
- Intoxicated Hogs
- Odd Old Record
- Garfield Memorial Services
- McKinley Memorial Services
- Population Statistics
- Great Flood of 1913
- Portrait of McKinley by Local Artist
- automobiles in County
- Blind Pensioners
- Market Quotations. |
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CHAPTER XVIII - REMINISCENCES AND MEMOIRS |
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- "Old Uncle Billy Snider"
- "Kelly" Dixon, the Aged Pedestrian
- Aged Native-born Citizen
- Fayette Pioneer at Fort Meigs
- Hon. Mills Gardner
- Judge Richard A. Harrison
- Hon. Marshall J. Williams |
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CHAPTER XIX - UNION TOWNSHIP |
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- Topography
- Early Settlement
- Drainage
- Pioneers Who First Located Here |
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CHAPTER XX - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Topography
- Natural Features
- Early Settlement
- Official Annals
- First Election
- Counterfeiters
- Mills
- Towns and Hamlets
- Jeffersonville |
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CHAPTER XXI - JASPER TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Boundaries
- First Settlement
- "Uncle Johnny" Coons
- Towns and Villages
- Plymouth
- Jasper Mills
- Allenton (Ocra)
- Milledgeville |
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CHAPTER XXII - CONCORD TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Location
- Pioneer Settlers
- Sundry Incidents of Early Life
- Mills
- Village of Staunton |
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CHAPTER XXIII - GREEN TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Boundaries and Surveys
- Early Settlement
- Jesse Row
- Pioneer Sketches
- Moons
- Mills and Distilleries
- Interesting Incidents |
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CHAPTER XXIV - PERRY TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Locations
- Organizations and First Officers
- Settlement
- An Indian Scare
- Milling Intersts of Long Ago
- New Martinsburg |
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CHAPTER XXV - WAYNE TOWNSHIP
- Finished |
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- Place of Rist White Settlement
- The Pioneers
- Early Taverns
- Indian Horrors
- Village of Good Hope
- Other Villages |
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CHAPTER XXVI - MARION TOWNSHIP - Not Transcribed yet |
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- Boundaries
- First Settlement
- Milling
- Tanneries
- First Election
- Villages |
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CHAPTER XXVII - PAINT TOWNSHIP
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- Location
- Natural Features
- Early Settlement
- Minor Incidents
- Village of Bloomingburg
- Some Early Events
- Milling Industries
- Anti Slavery Days in Bloomingburg
- The Temperance Question |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - MADISON TOWNSHIP
- Not Transcribed yet |
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- Location and Boundaries
- Settlement
- Early Stores and Shops
- Mills
- Waterloo |
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CHAPTER XXIX - CITY OF WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE
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- Location
- Name
- First Busines Events
- The City in 1815
- First and Early Events
- Municipal Government
- City Finances
- Fire Department
- Early day Council Proceedings
- Old Times
- Manufacturing Industries
- Industries of 1901
- Great Sales Stables
- Proposed Car Lines
- Natural Gas Prospects
- Present Business Interests
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Washington Cemetery
- Postoffice History
- Cyclone of 1885
- Great First of 1911
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