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| 1. |
FULTON COUNTY ANTIQUITIES
- The Mound Builders
- Their Work in Fulton County
- General description of mounds
- Implements made by the extinct race
- Conflicting theories |
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| 2. |
EARLY JURISDICTION
- Title to lands
- Treaty of 1783
- Virginia's claim of Sovereignty
- The Greenville treaty
- The county of Wayne
- Representatives in first legislative assembly
- Under the jurisdiction of Montgomery, Miami, Shelby, Williams, Lucas,
and HEnry counties
- Claims of the Indians
- Cessions of territory by the Red Men
- Formation of Fulton county |
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| 3 |
THE BOUNDARY DISPUTE
- Importance of the question
- The origin of the difficulty
- Mitchell & Bradley's map
- Exception clause in first State constitution
- The Harris line
- The Fulton line
- The Wabash and Lake Erie canal
- Attack upon official surveying party
- Major Stickney and his connections with the boundary dispute
- Removal of the obstreperous Acting-Governor Stevens of Michigan
- Dispute finally settled by Congress
- Legal phases of the question |
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| 4. |
SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
- Pioneer settlements and mention of early settlers
- The "Vistula Road"
- Organization of the county
- Nathaniel Leggett
- First county officeals
- The locating of the seat of Justice
- The building of the Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana railroad
- History of efforts to establish newspapers
- Census of 1860
- Character of the population |
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| 5. |
THE COUNTY'S WAR RECORD
- Period of peace
- The sectional strife
- Opposition to the government's policy
- First organization of troops
- The Fourteenth regiment
- The Thirty-eighth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth
- Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, One Hundredth, One Hundred and Eleventh and
other regiments of infantry
- The Third regiment of cavalry
- Field and Staff officers furnished by Fulton county |
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| 6. |
THE LAST FORTY YEARS
- Chronological record of events from the close of the war to 1905
- Removal of the seat of Justice to Wauseon
- Census of 1900 |
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| 7. |
POLITICS AND OFFICIAL HONORS
- Political history of the county beginning with 1850, and including a
roster of National, State and county officers,
brought dow to date, with biographical mention of
many of the favored individuals |
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| 8. |
RESOURCES AND EARLY ENTERPRISES
- Industry and agriculture
- Topography and geology of the county
- The drift deposit
- Agricultural products
- Agricultural societies and fairs
- Patrons of husbandry
- Primitive manufactures
- Statistics of 1904 |
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| 9. |
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Early schools and schoolmasters
- Description of the primitive schoolhouses
- Old fashioned spelling-schools
- School books
- Statistics concerning the present day schools in the county |
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| 10. |
BENCH AND BAR
- List of associate judges under the old Constitution
- Early court of common pleas
- First session of court in Fulton county
- Common pleas judges with sketches
- The district court
- Prosecuting attorneys
- Probate court and judges
- Clerks of the courts
- Sheriffs
- Members of the bar |
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| 11. |
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
- Afflictions of the pioneers
- The ravages of malarial fever
- Sketches of early physicians
- County medical society |
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| 12. |
CLIMATOLOGY
- From the recorded observations made and kept by Thomas Mikesell
- Interesting tables |
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| 13. |
A CHECK-LIST OF WOODY PLANTS
- Comments by the editor |
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| 14. |
YORK TOWNSHIP
- Natural features
- The pioneers and their work
- First birth and marriage
- Church sketches
- Village of Delta |
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| 15. |
SWAN CREEK TOWNSHIP
- Organization
- Natural features
- Sketches of early settlers
- Centerville and Swanton
- Church organizations. |
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| 16. |
AMBOY TOWNSHIP
- Natural features
- Sketches of pioneers
- Their homes and schools
- Metamora
- Churches |
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| 17. |
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP
- Organization and boundaries
- The early settlers and their records |
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| 18. |
ROYALTON TOWNSHIP
- Natural advantages
- Eli Phillips, Butler Richardson and other pioneers
- Church mention
- Lyons or Morey's Corners |
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| 19. |
CLINTON TOWNSHIP
- Boundaries
- Topographical features
- First settlement
- Progress of the township
- City government of Wauseon
- Public library
- Churches
- Cemetery
- Social organizations |
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| 20. |
GORHAM TOWNSHIP
- Hiram Farwell and other early settlers
- The first election
- Town of Fayette
- Schools |
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| 21. |
GERMAN TOWNSHIP
- Organization
- Varied population
- Natural feathers
- Nicholas King and other pioneers
- Archbold
- Churches |
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| 22. |
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
- Erection of township
- Creeks
- Notable pioneers |
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| 23. |
FULTON TOWNSHIP
- Character of country
- Pioneer sketches
- Early schools
- Industries
- Swanton
- First religious organization |
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| 24. |
PIKE TOWNSHIP
- Antiquities and natural features
- Aetna
- First settlement
- Sketches of pioneers
- Mills, schools and churches |
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| 25. |
DOVER TOWNSHIP
- Organization
- The first settlers
- Schools and churches |
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BIOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT |
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