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In 1809 this town erected and organized,
being its present name and at that time
comprised all the territory now embraced in
the townships of Washington, Norwich and
Perry and a part of Brown, and was made up
of portions of the original townships of
Franklin, Darby and Liberty.
In 1801 or 1802 (the date is not precisely fixed), a
settlement was made at the place where the
town of Dublin was subsequently located.
The
Sells Family.
Among the first settlers was the patriarchal
Ludwick Sells, a migrant from
Huntington county, Pennsylvania, and his
family of sons, Samuel, Peter,
Benjamin and William. In
1808 another son, John Sells,
joined his father and brothers, and
subsequently in 1818 he laid out the town of
Dublin, which grew and prospered rapidly,
had a population of some four hundred, half
a century ago and did much business in its
stores, taverns, mills and shops of all
kinds of mechanics, who produced cloth from
the sheep's back, with tailors to make
clothes, hatters to make hats, wagonmakers
to make vehicles, shoemakers and the like,
every growing community of that day
attracting artisans from far and wide.
In 1818-20 Dublin ranked Columbus, and was a
strong rival of Worthington, and a few years
previously came near being the state
capital.
Borough of Dublin.
Dublin was incorporated in .1855 as a
borough and organized by the election of
officers, including Z. Hutchinson, as
mayor, and Wm. Graham, as recorder.
At the end of the first year the citizens
threw off the burdensome machinery of
borough government and declined to hold
further elections thus, as a Hibernian
politican of the day and place
remarked, "putting a sudden end to a number
of promising political careers before they
had begun.'" In 1850 the population of
the township was one thousand two hundred
eighty two of which two hundred fifty were
residents of Dublin. In 1858 the
population of the town and township was
approximately one thousand three hundred.
In 1900 the township and village had a
population of one thousand two hundred
ninety-nine, the village population
numbering two hundred seventy-five, showing
that both held their own during the half
century.
Dublin's
Pioneer Postmasters.
Dublin was made a post-town in 1820, the
first postmaster being David
Wright who served from 1820 to 1826;
Moses Davis, 1826-28; Isaac N.
Walters, 1828-31; John Eberly,
1831-58 and beyond.
Early
and Later Pioneers.
Among the pioneers, whose names have
been handed down, and all of whom were the
heads of families, and generally large ones,
were Daniel
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M. Brown, Daniel Bmck, Robert Justice,
Justice Miller, Simeon Wilcox, George
Robert, Tracy Wilcox, Patrick Connor, David
Smith, Chandler Rodgers, Alexander Bassett,
William Kilbourne, Charles Sells, Brice
Hays, David Bailey, Henry Coffman, Jacob
Poppaw, John Eberly, John Uffner, James
Howard, William Harris, Zenas Hutchinson,
George Churchman, George W. Evans, Eri
Douglass.
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