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Source:
History of Greene County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
Hon. M. A. Broadstone, Editor-in-Chief
- Volume I -
ILLUSTRATED
Published by B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1918
PLEASE NOTE: Pages have been
created for each chapter however,
they have not been worked on yet as of 1/20/2019
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DEDICATION |
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PUBLISHERS' PREFACE |
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CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I - RELATED STATE HISTORY
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- In this Chapter
There is Set Out Something of the General History of
Ohio From the Days the First White Man Set Foot
Upon the Northwest Territory Down to the Present Day,
All Briefly Summarized With a View to an Introduction to
the Story of the Opening to Settlement of the Region Now
Comprised Within the Bonds of Greene County. |
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CHAPTER II - TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF GREENE COUNTY
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- Location and
Boundaries of Greene County
- Valleys of the Little Miami River and of Beaver Creek
- Presence of Cliff Limestone
- Elevation
- Geological Series
- The Gorge of the Little Miami
- Glacial Drift
- Water Supply
- Source of the Famous Yellow Spring
- A Word Concerning the Scenic Beauties of This Region |
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CHAPTER III - THE MOUND BUILDERS OF
GREENE COUNTY - |
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- Evidences of the
Former Presence Here of a Race That Left Enduring Trace
of Its Existence
- Probable Methods of Mound Builders
- Seventy-six Material Remains of the Operations of This Prehistoric
People in This County
- Review of These Evidences of Prof. Warren K. Moorhead, a Former Greene
County Man and a Pioneer in the Movement to Preserve
From Obliteration the Last Evidences of This Departed
Race. |
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CHAPTER IV - THE INDIANS AND OLD CHILLICOTHE
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- Here is Found the
Story of the Wresting From an Arrested and
Non-progressive Race the Fair Lands Contained Within
Greene County, With Particular Reference to the Various
Campaigns Against the Indians That Centered Around the
Indian Village or Chillicothe, Now Marked by the
Presence of the Hamlet Known as Oldtown, Together With a
Brief History of the Shawnees and Special Reference to
Tecumseh, the Last Great Leader of His Tribe
- Daniel Boone
- Darnell's Leap for Life
- The Story of Jennie Cowan, and Other Incidents of the Days of Indian
Occupancy |
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CHAPTER V - COUNTY ORGANIZATION
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- Act Erecting Greene
County a Civic Unit of the New State of Ohio Was Enacted
on Mar. 24, 1803, But Did Not Become Operative Until May
1 Following, Which Date Therefore May Be Regarded as the
Birthday of Greene County
- Boundaries of the New County When Set Off, the Same Extending to the
State Line on the North
- Further Boundary Limitations
- Organization of County Government
- Location of the County Seat and How the Same Came to Get Its First
Meeting of the Board of Commissioners
- Simple Needs of the Early Settlers and a Contrast of Conditions Then and
Now
- Population Statistics |
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CHAPTER VI - PUBLIC BUILDINGS OF GREENE
COUNTY - |
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- Building In Which
the First Business Connected With the Establishment of
Government In Greene County Was Transacted Was a Little
Log Cabin In the Woods
- Business Later Carried On In Pioneer Tavern In Xenia Until IN Due Time a
Regular "Temple of Justice" Was Erected, This Being
Succeeded After Nearly Forty Years By a Second and That,
in Turn, by the Present Handsome Court House a Half
Century Later
- Jail, Infirmary and Children's Home. |
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CHAPTER VII - ROSTER OF COUNTY AND STATE
OFFICIALS - |
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- In this Chapter
Will Be Found the Names of All Who Have Served Greene
County In an Official Capacity Since the Days of the
Beginning of the County Government, Together With
Personal Reference to Many of Them, This List Including
Also Those Who Have Represented the County in the State
House of Representatives and In the State Senate,
Concluding With the Roster of the Present County
Officials and the Salaries Attaching to Each Office. |
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CHAPTER VIII - OLD SETTLERS AND PIONEER
LIFE - Started 4/18/2021 |
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- Coming of the First
White Men to This Region and the Gradual Settlement of
the Country Hereabout With Permanent Settlers
- Stories of Pioneer Life and of Conditions of Pioneer Living, With
Personal References to Many of the Original Settlers of
the County and a Recountal of Typical Experiences
Undergone By Those Who Made This Region a Fit Habitation
and Abiding Place for Those Who Should Come After. |
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CHAPTER IX - TOWNSHIPS OF GREENE COUNTY
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- Territory That
Composed This County in 1803 Was Divided Into Four
Townships, Which, In Good Time, As the Country Became
More Populous, Became Divided and Subdivided Until Now
There are Twelve Townships, the Last of Which Was Set
Off as A Separate Entity In 1858
- Something Relating to Township Government and the Multiplicity of
Officials Required to Carry on the Affairs of the Same,
Together With a Roster of the Present Officials of the
Various Townships of the County. |
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CHAPTER X - MAD RIVER AND VANCE TOWNSHIPS
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- Two of the
Townships That Many Years Ago Were Lost to Greene
County, the First-Named Having Originally Carried the
Limits of This County Northward to the Lake
- Mad River Became a Part of Champaign County When That County Was
Organized in 1805 and Vance Township Was Lost to Clark
County When the Latter Came Into Being in 1817. |
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CHAPTER XI - BEAVER CREEK TOWNSHIP - |
204 |
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- This Is the
Township That May Be Referred to As the Cradle of Greene
County, For It Was In the Log Cabin of Owen Davis, Then
Occupied by Peter Borders, In This Township, That the
Official Meeting Was Held Which Set Up a Form of
Government for the New County in 1803
- Changes in Boundaries
- Topography and Drainage
- Early Settlement and Tales of the Pioneers
- Agricultural Interests, Towns and Villages and Other Notes. |
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CAESARS CREEK TOWNSHIP
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224 |
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- One of the Original
Four Townships Erected at the Time Greene County Set Up
In Business
- Boundary Changes
- Topography and Drainage
- Early Settlers
- First Election
- Growth and Development
- Agricultural Interests
- the Village of Paintersville |
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CHAPTER XIII - SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP - |
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- Also One of Greene
County's Original Townships, Its Present Boundaries Were
Not Finally Established Until 1856
- Topography and Drainage
- Early Settlers
- First Election
- Sugar-Making In the Old Days
- Agricultural Interests
- Village of Bellbrook and the Famous "Magnetic" Springs. |
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CHAPTER XIV - XENIA TOWNSHIP - |
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- Central Township In
the County and the Seat of the County Seat, This
Township Did Not Come Into Being Until More Than Two
Years After the Four Original Townships Had Been Erected
- Confusion Regarding Original Limits
- Present Boundaries
- Topography and Drainage
- First Election and Early Enumeration of "Freeman Over the Age of
Twenty-one"
- the Village of Oldtown |
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CHAPTER XV - BATH TOWNSHIP - |
282 |
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- Pursuant to an
Order of the Commissioners Under Date of Mar. 3, 1807,
This Township Was Organized at an Election Held on the
Following April 29, and Retained Its Original Boundaries
Until Miami Township Was Cut Off From It In the Summer
of 1808, Also Losing Further Territory When Clark County
Was Created in 1817
- Topographical Features
- Early Settlers
- Some Sidelights On the History of the Township
- the Village of Byron
- Miami Conservancy District and What the Creation of the Huffman
Retarding Basin May Mean for the Apparently Doomed
Village of Osborn.
- Fairfield and the Wright Aviation Field. |
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CHAPTER XVI -
MIAMI TOWNSHIP - |
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- Organized in 1808,
This Township Lost Some Territory When Ross Township Was
Created in 1811, and a Further Stretch of Territory When
Clark County Came Into Being
- Boundaries and Topographical Features
- Early Settlers and Tales of the Pioneers
- A Communist Settlement
- Agricultural Conditions
- The Village of Clifton, the Antioch Bone Cave and Other Notes. |
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CHAPTER XVII - ROSS TOWNSHIP - |
309 |
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- Since the Date of
Its Organization In 1811 This Township Has Undergone
Three Changes of Boundary Line, Its Present Delimitation
Having Been Established In 1853 When New Jasper Township
Became a Separate Organization
- Geographical Features
- Early Settlers
- Agricultural Conditions
- Grape Grove and
Gladstone. |
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CHAPTER XVIII - SILVERCREEK TOWNSHIP - |
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- Since Its
Organization In 1811 This Township Has Twice Suffered a
Loss of Territory, a Slice Having Been Sacrificed to New
Jasper Townshp In 1853, and Another Portion to Jefferson
Township In 1858
- Topographical Features
- Early Settlers
- Pioneer Reminiscences
- Transportation
- Early Industries
- Schools and Churches and Other Notes |
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CHAPTER XIX - CEDARVILLE TOWNSHIP - |
324 |
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- First Effort On the
Part of the People of This Part of the County to Erect a
New Township in 1848 Was Met With Such Determined
Resistance That It Was Not Until Two Years Later, In
1850, That the Continued Effort Was Successful and the
Boundaries Then Established Have Remained Unchanged
- Topographical Features
- Early Settlers
- Agricultural Conditions and Other Notes
- Mt. Ida, a "Paper" Village |
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CHAPTER XX - NEW JASPER TOWNSHIP - |
334 |
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- Formerly a Part of
Five Different Townships, This Township Came Into Being
in 1858 In Response to a Petition of One Hundred and
Twenty-eight Residents, Whose Petition Set Out In a
Curious Roundabout Way the Boundaries They Wished
Established for Their New Township
- Topographical Features
- Early Settlers
- Agricultural Conditions
- the Village of New Jasper and Stringtown. |
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CHAPTER XXI - SPRING VALLEY TOWNSHIP - |
340 |
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- Prior to Its
Creation In 1856, This Township Had Been a Part of three
Other Townships
- Original Boundaries Unchanged
- Topography and Drainage
- Early Settlers
- Agricultural Conditions
- the Village of Spring Valley
- Other Efforts at Town Making That Did Not Prove Quite So Successful. |
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CHAPTER XXII - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP - |
351 |
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- Last Township In
the County to Be Organized Was Set Off In the Summer of
1858 on Petition of Some of the Leading Citizens of
Bowersville and a Majority of the Householders In the
Territory Described In the Petition
- Topography and Agricultural Conditions
- Early Settlers
- the Village of Bowersville |
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CHAPTER XXIII - THE TOWN OF CEDARVILLE - |
362 |
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- As the "Village of
Milford," Cedarville Became an Officially Recognized
Social and Commercial Center in the Summer of 1816 and
Has Thus Had More Than a Century of Development
- Early Commercial Enterprises and Industrial Development
- Business Interests In 1874
- the Town In 1881
- Development of the Lime Industry
- Schools, Lodges, Churches and Banks
- Famous Old Fire Department
- Municipal Development, Public Library and Commercial Directory for 1818 |
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CHAPTER XXIV - THE CITY OF YELLOW SPRINGS
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376 |
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- Seat of Antioch
College and of the Famous Spring Which Gave It the Name
It Bears, This Center Dates From the Establishment of a
Settlement There By a Son of Owen Davis the Pioneer
Miller and the Postoffice at That Point Has an Unbroken
Record From May 10, 1805
- Tavern Licensed to Do Business There In That Year
- the Coming of the Railroad and the Story of the Town During the Days
When the Yellow Spring Attracted Health Seekers From Far
Distant Points
- Commercial Directory of Today. |
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CHAPTER XXV - THE CITY OF JAMESTOWN - |
387 |
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- Second Largest City
In Greene County Received Its First Official Recognition
With the Filing of a Plat of the Town on May 31,
1816
- Additions to Town Since Then
- Jamestown in 1831
- Summary of Business Interests
- Reminiscences of W. A. Paxon
- Cyclone of 1884
- Destructive Fires
- Municipal Development and Commercial Directory |
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CHAPTER XXVI - THE DOOMED TOWN OF OSBORN
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- Beginning of the
End of a Town Which Has Had a Period of Development
Covering a Period of Nearly Seventy Years
- Osborn Platted on May 20, 1851, Enjoyed Normal Development Until the
Creation of the Huffman Retarding Basin as a Part of the
Conservancy of Board's Flood Prevention Plans Made It
Clear That the Town Would Be Doomed to Inundation During
Flood Periods, Since Which Time Property Is Being Taken
Over With a View to the Abandonment of the Village. |
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CHAPTER XXVII - AGRICULTURE - |
404 |
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- In this Chapter
There I Set Out Something of the Conditions That
Confronted the Pioneer Who Settled Here With a View to
Carving a Farm Out of the Forests and How Those
Conditions Were Met and Overcome.
- Changes Time Has Wrought
- Statistics Relating to Crop and Live-Stock Production In Greene County. |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - SCHOOLS OF GREENE COUNTY
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425 |
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- From the Days of
the Little Log School House at the Cross Roads to the
Present Time of the Highly Organized High Schools and
Consolidated Rural Schools There Have Been Many Changes
In Conditions and Methods and These Are Briefly Set Out
Here
- Qualifications of Teachers
- Summary of School Statistics by Towns and Townships
- Miscellaneous Statistics and Some Tales of Pioneer Schools
- Xenia City Schools. |
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CHAPTER XXIX - HIGHER INSTITUTIONS
OF LEARNING IN GREENE COUNTY - |
452 |
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- Almost From the Day
of the Beginning of a Social Order Here Greene County
People Have Been Properly Mindful of Its Institutions of
Higher Learning, a Seminary Having Been Established at
Xenia as Early as 1805
- Bellbrook Academy
- Xenia Female Academy
- Xenia Female Seminary and Collegiate Institute
- Xenia Female College
- Xenia College
- Antioch College
- Cedarville College
- Xenia Theological Seminary
- Wilberforce University |
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CHAPTER XXX - CHURCHES OF GREENE COUNTY -
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484 |
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- Not Long After the
Beginning of Settlement In This Valley of the Little
Miami Pioneer Churches Came to Be Organized and In Many
Instances These Pioneer Organizations Have Been
Maintained to the Present Day
- Of the More Than One Hundred Churches Organized In Greene County at
Least Twenty-five Have Been Abandoned With the Passing
of the Years and the Changing Conditions of Living
- History of Most of the Churches of the County That Still Maintain an
Effective Organization. |
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CHAPTER XXXI - THE PRESS FOR A HUNDRED
YEARS - |
544 |
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- First Newspaper In
Greene County Was The Ohio Vehicle, Established
In January, 1814, Since Which Time There Have Been Many
Papers, Some of Which Have Long Been Forgotten
- History of Greene County Journalism Replete With Interesting Stories of
Which Have Been Preserved by the Historian In This
Chapter. |
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CHAPTER XXXII - THE BENCH AND BAR OF
GREENE COUNTY - |
565 |
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- Fruitless Task to
Attempt to Classify the Lawyers of the County of the
Basis of Their Respective Abilities and Any Discussion
of the Early Lawyers of the County Would Be Incomplete
That Did Not Make Mention of the Conditions Under Which
They Practiced
- Associate Judges of the Day Long Gone
- Leading Lawyers of the Past Generation
- Judicial System Prior to 1851
- First Court of Greene County
- Common Pleas Court
- the Probate Court
- Prosecuting Attorneys
- Roster of Greene County Lawyers
- County Law Library |
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CHAPTER XXXIII - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION - |
588 |
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- Back in 1830
Physicians Were Subjected to a Special Tax and From an
Ancient Document of That Period There is Obtained a
Roster of the Physicians Then Practicing In Greene
county, Including Some Others That Were Listed as "Steam
Doctors"
- Something Regarding the Amazing Prevalence of the "Patent Medicine"
Habit Back In the Old Days
- Some of the Early Physicians of This County, With Brief Biographies of
Many of Them, and a List of the Physicians That Have
Practiced In This County From the Days of the Beginning
- Medical Officers' Reserve Corps
- Greene County Medical Society |
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CHAPTER XXXIV - FRATERNAL AND BENEVOLENT
ORGANIZATIONS - |
608 |
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- Here Are Found the
Names and Something Regarding the Organization of the
Various Fraternal and Benevolent Organizations Carrying
on Their Work in This County, Including the Masons, the
Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order
of Red Men, the Junior Order of United Americans
Mechanics, the Daughters of America, the Loyal Order of
Moose and the Fraternal Order of Eagles. |
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CHAPTER XXXV - LITERARY, SOCIAL,
TEMPERANCE AND PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS - |
631 |
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- Woman's Club,
Organized in Xenia In the Spring of 1867, Claims
Precedence as the First Woman's Club Organized In the
United States
- Something Relating to Other Social and Kindred Organizations In Greene
County, Including the Junior Women's Club, the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Grand Army of the Republic and
the Sons of Veterans. |
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CHAPTER XXXVI - MILITARY HISTORY - |
646 |
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- Going Bank to the
Days of the American Revolution, Greene County Has Had
Participants In Every War Waged by the United States
Since That Period and This Chapter Sets Out at Some
Length Something of the Details of That Service, With
Particular Reference to the War of 1812, the Mexican
War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the
Present World War, With a Roster of Those Who Had
Entered the Latter Service Up to April 1, 1918. |
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CHAPTER XXXVII - BANKS AND BANKING - |
676 |
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- Herein Is Set Out
Something of the History of Banking In This County, With
Reference to the Days of the Old "Wild Cat" Money and a
Brief History of the Several Banking Institutions Now
Doing Business In the County. |
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CHAPTER XXXVIII - TRANSPORTATION -
HIGHWAYS AND RAILWAYS - |
687 |
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- One of the First
Problems That Confronted the Pioneer Was the Building of
Roads Through the Wilderness and the Question of
Transportation Ever Since Has Been an Important One
- Mileage of Roads by Townships
- Toll Roads of Another Day
- Something About Road Laws - the Coming of the Railroads and the Later
Coming of the Electric Railways. |
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CHAPTER XXXIX - THE CITY OF XENIA |
701 |
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- County Seat of
Greene County Was Laid Out as the Seat of Local Justice
In the Fall of 1803 and Has Ever Since Had a steady and
Substantial Growth
- Review of Conditions In 1811 as Recalled by an Old Settler
- Early Commercial Enterprises
- Incorporation of the Village of 1817
- Later Development, With a Review of Industrial and Commercial Conditions
and Municipal Development, Together With a Commercial
Directory for the Year 1918. |
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CHAPTER XL - SOME GREENE COUNTY CITIZENS
OF A PAST GENERATION |
755 |
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- Herein Are Set Out
Brief Biographies of Some of the Men Who Have in Days
Past Helped to Add to the Fame of the Name of Greene
County, Including the Past Helped to Add to the Fame of
the Name of Greene County, Including the names of
Whitelaw Reid, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Coates Kinney, Thomas
Barlow Walker, John Little, Benjamin Whiteman, William
Maxwell and John Paul. |
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CHAPTER XLI - SIDELIGHTS ON THE HISTORY
OF GREENE COUNTY |
763 |
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- Miscellaneous Facts
Relating to the History of the County, Including an
Interesting Letter of 1809, the Ohio Soldiers and
Sailors Orphans Home, the First and Last Hanging In the
County, the Inspiration of "Sheridan's Ride," a
Heretofore Unpublished Poem of T. Buchanan Read, the
Story of the First Piano Manufactured In the County, the
Tale of the Opening of Greene Street, Some Legislative
Acts of Importance to the County, Some Facts Relating to
the Saloons of the County, Old Marriage Permits, Lincoln
in Xenia In 1861, an Old-Time Fiddler, "The Rented
Farm," a Poem, and Lastly, the Study of Biography. |
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HISTORICAL INDEX
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A |
| "A Century of
Service" |
511 |
| Adams, Zena B. |
389 |
| Agriculture |
404-424 |
| Agricultural
Statistics |
215, 234, 256, 304,
315, 337, 344, 355, 404 |
| Alexander, John |
580, 703 |
| Alexander, William |
111, 567, 580 |
| Alpha, Village of |
218 |
| Amusements of the
Pioneers |
187 |
| Antioch College |
459 |
| Armstrong, Robert,
Rev. |
104, 178, 243, 329,
485, 771 |
| Associate Judges |
566 |
| Aviation Field Near
Fairfield |
294 |
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B |
| Ball, Ewlass, Dr. |
594 |
| Banks and Banking |
676-686 |
| Baptist Churches |
529-532 |
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Bath Township - |
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| - Boundaries
of |
282 |
| - Byron,
Village of |
287 |
| - Early
Settlement |
283 |
| - Enumeration
of Voters |
283 |
| - Fairfield,
Village of |
291 |
| -
Flood-Prevention Plans |
288 |
| - Osborn's
Pending Doom |
290 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
429 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
282 |
| -
Transportation |
287 |
| - When
Organized |
282 |
| - Wright
Aviation Field |
294 |
| Battle of
Tippecanoe |
34 |
| Beatty, William A. |
107, 110, 124, 135,
143, 159, 276, 647, 701, 705 |
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Beavercreek Township - |
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| -
Agricultural Interests |
215 |
| - Changes in
Boundaries |
205 |
| - Early
Settlement |
208 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Railroads |
213 |
| - Residents
of in 1803 |
212 |
| - Schools |
429 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
207 |
| - Trebeins |
222 |
| - Village of
Alpha |
218 |
| - When
Organized |
204 |
| -
Zimmermanville |
222 |
| Bell, William, Dr. |
593 |
| Bellbrook Academy |
454 |
| Bellbrook, Village
of |
258 |
| Bench and Bar, The |
565 - 587 |
| Beveridge, Thomas,
Rev., D.D. |
470, 472, 473, 494 |
| Big Four Railroad |
696 |
| "Binding out" of
Paupers |
149 |
| Biography, the
Value of |
788 |
| Bone Cave Near
Clifton |
306 |
| Bonner, Frederick |
179, 511 |
| Boone, Daniel |
85, 87, 169, 177 |
| Boundaries of
County |
96 |
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Bowersville, Village of |
356 |
| Breeders of Note in
Greene County |
416 |
| Bridges of County |
692, 725 |
| Bullitt, Thomas,
Capt. |
85 |
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Byron, Village of |
287 |
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C |
| Cabins of the
Pioneers |
183 |
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Caesarscreek Township - |
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| -
Agricultural Interests |
234 |
| - Boundaries
of |
224 |
| - Enumeration
of 1804 |
230 |
| - First
Settlers |
227 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
431 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
227 |
| - Village of
Paintersville |
232 |
| - Voters of
in 1804 |
229 |
| -
Winchester, Plat of |
234 |
| - When
Organized |
224 |
| Caesarsville |
101 |
| Campaign Incident
of 1840 |
254 |
| Capitals of Ohio |
46 |
| Carson, Rev. James
G., D. D. |
166, 473, 496 |
| Catholic Churches |
541 |
| Cattle |
419 |
| Cedarville College |
466, 505 |
| Cedarville, Town
of |
362-375 |
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Cedarville Township - |
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| -
Agricultural Interests |
332 |
| - Boundaries
of |
325 |
| -
Cedarville, Village of |
332 |
| - Early
Settlers |
328 |
| - First
Election |
327 |
| - Mt. Ida,
a Memory Only |
333 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
431 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
327 |
| -
Transportation |
327 |
| - When
Organized |
324 |
| Champion Fire
Company |
370 |
| Children's Home,
The |
153 |
| Cholera Scourge of
1848 |
712, 727 |
| Christian Churches |
537 |
| Churches of Greene
County |
484-543 |
| Civil War, The |
49, 649 |
| Clark, Gen. George
Rogers |
36, 177 |
| Claysville
(Roxanna) |
346 |
| Clifton, Village
of |
306 |
| Clothing of the
Pioneers |
186 |
| Colleges and
Seminaries |
452-483 |
| Collier, James |
246, 271, 703 |
| Colored Churches in
Green County |
543 |
| Colored Families
Effect Settlement |
339 |
| Commission
Government for Xenia |
742 |
| Commissioned
Officers in Civil War |
657 |
| Common Pleas Court |
572, 578 |
| Communist
Settlement |
302 |
| Congress Lands |
53, 206, 238, 279 |
| Connecticut
Reserve, The |
51 |
| Consolidation of
Schools |
433 |
| Constitutional
History of Ohio |
47 |
| Contrast in Fiscal
Affairs |
113 |
| Corn Statistics |
407 |
| County Auditors |
162 |
| County Board of
Education |
428 |
| County Clerks |
161 |
| County
Commissioners |
159 |
| County Coroners |
161 |
| County Draft Board |
674 |
| County Finances |
112 |
| County Infirmary |
149 |
| County Officials,
Roster of |
157-168 |
| County Organization |
96-121 |
| County Poor Fund |
153 |
| County Recorders |
162 |
| County Seat,
Location of |
101 |
| County
Superintendent of Schools |
425 |
| County Surveyors |
158 |
| County Treasurers |
161 |
| County's
Contribution to War |
672 |
| County's Original
Boundaries |
96 |
| County's Part in
Civil War |
650 |
| County's Public
Buildings |
122-156 |
| Court House History |
122-134 |
| Covenanter Church |
502 |
| Cowan, Jennie,
Story of |
93 |
| Coy, Jacob |
210-533 |
| Crop Statistics |
215, 234, 256, 304,
315, 337, 344, 404 |
| Cyclone of 1884 |
393 |
|
D |
| Dairy Products |
420 |
| Daniels Post No.
500, G. A. R. |
644 |
| Daughters of
America |
627 |
| Daughters of the
American Revolution |
639 |
| Darnell's Leap for
Life |
91 |
| Davidson, Dr.
Andrew W. |
592 |
| Davis, Lewis, Story
of |
299 |
| Davis, Owen |
96, 104, 105, 107,
122, 169, 173, 208, 219, 300, 376, 573 |
| Dean, William and
Daniel |
336 |
| Debt of Greene
County |
116 |
| Degree of
Pocahontas |
624 |
| Detroit, Toledo &
Ironton Railroad |
697 |
| Dillon, Dr. J. S. |
596 |
| Distilleries |
412 |
| Doctors of Greene
County |
588-607 |
| Dohrman's Grant |
53 |
| Draft for World War
in 1917 |
668 |
| Drainage |
59, 207, 227, 274,
282, 298, 311, 319, 327, 336, 353 |
| Dunker Church |
532 |
| Dunlavey, Francis |
580 |
|
E |
| Early Enumeration
Lists |
195, 202, 230, 247,
277, 283, 298, 311, 318 |
| Early Physicians of
Greene County |
603 |
| Early Poll-Book
Lists |
194, 202, 212, 230,
247, 276, 283 |
| Early Tax Levies |
112 |
| Educational |
425-45 |
| Electric Railway
Lines in County |
699 |
| Elevation of Greene
County |
61 |
| Ellsberry, William |
582 |
| English Traders,
Activities of |
34 |
| Erie Railroad |
696 |
|
F |
| Fairfield,
Village of |
291 |
| Fallen Timbers,
Battle of |
34, 43 |
| Farm and Garden
Crops |
409 |
| Farming in the Old
Days |
405 |
| Farm Life in Greene
County |
404-424 |
| Fate of Two
Villages at Stake |
290, 400 |
| Fertilizers |
413 |
| Financial
Contribution to World War |
675 |
| Finances of County |
112 |
| Finley, Dr. R. S. |
598 |
| Fire Company Wins
State Prize |
370 |
| Fires of
Destructive Proportions |
394, 613, 721 |
| First Commissioners
of County |
101, 108 |
| First Court Held at
Xenia |
124 |
| First Court House |
125 |
| First Court in
Greene County |
570 |
| First Doctor at
Xenia |
592 |
| First House in
Xenia |
701 |
| First Miller, The |
173 |
| First Newspaper in
County |
544 |
| First Piano
Manufactured in County |
775 |
| First School House
in County |
429 |
| First Seminary in
County |
452 |
| First Settlers of
Greene County |
170 |
| First Woman's Club
in America |
631 |
| Flood of 1913 |
288 |
| Flood-Prevention
Plans |
288, 400 |
| Folck, Dr. John
George |
597 |
| Food of the
Pioneers |
184 |
| Forage Crops |
412 |
| Fraternal Order of
Eagles |
630 |
| Fraternal
Organizations |
608, 630 |
| French and Indian
War |
35, 43 |
| French Settlements |
34 |
| Friends Church |
539 |
|
G |
| Galloway, Dr. Clark
Madison |
599 |
| Galloway, James |
85, 106, 161, 176,
485, 574 |
| Garrett, Cyrus |
771 |
| Geological
Formations in County |
62 |
| Girty, Simon |
84, 177 |
| Glacial Drift,
Evidences of |
68 |
| Gladstone,
Hamlet of |
316 |
| Governors of Ohio |
55 |
| Gowdy, James |
706 |
| Graduates of Xenia
High School |
450 |
| Grand Army of the
Republic, The |
642 |
| Grape Grove,
Hamlet of |
316 |
| Greene County
Children's Home |
153 |
| Greene County in
War Times |
646-675 |
| Greene County in
World War |
669 |
| Greene County
Library |
731 |
| Greene County
Medical Society |
606 |
| Greene County's
Organization |
96 |
| Greene, Dr.
Randolph R. |
595 |
| Greenville Treaty
Line, The |
52, 97 |
| Greenwood
Springs, Plat of |
345 |
|
H |
| Hagenbuck, Dr. W.
A. |
598, 604 |
| Hanging of a Wife
Murder |
769 |
| Harlan, Aaron |
583 |
| Harmar, Gen. Josiah |
43, 83 |
| Harrison, Gen.
William Henry |
34, 39 |
| Higher Institutions
of Learning |
452, 483 |
| Highways of Greene
County |
687 |
| Hivling, John |
708 |
| Hog Drive in the
Old Days |
421 |
| Hogs |
420 |
| Hoover, Dr. Reuben
C. |
595 |
| Horses |
417 |
| Huffman Retarding
Basin |
289 |
| Hussey, Christopher |
353 |
| Howard, Roswell F. |
582 |
| How Xenia Got its
Name |
104 |
|
I |
| Imprisonment for
Debt |
575 |
| Improved Order of
Red Men |
623 |
| Incorporation of
Xenia |
709 |
| Independent Order
of Odd Fellows |
617-620 |
| Indiana Territory |
40 |
| Indians and Old
Chillicothe |
80-95 |
| Indian Wars |
33, 43 |
| Industries of
Cedarville |
366 |
| Infirmary
Superintendents |
152 |
|
J |
| Jailed for Playing
Cards |
109 |
| Jail History |
139-149 |
| Jamestown, City
of |
387-397 |
| Jefferies, James |
782 |
|
Jefferson Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
355 |
| - Boundaries
of |
351 |
| -
Bowersville, Village of |
356 |
| - Early
Settlers |
353 |
| - Industries
of |
355 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
435 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
353 |
| - When
Organized |
351 |
| Johnson, Dr. Joseph |
593 |
| Journalism, Local |
544-564 |
| Judicial System
Prior to 1851 |
569 |
| Judiciary, The |
565, 578 |
| Junior Order of
United American Mechanics |
625 |
| Junior Woman's Club |
631 |
| Junkin, Launcelot |
432, 500 |
|
K |
| Kenton, Simon |
85, 110, 169, 194,
199, 640 |
| Kinney, Coates |
758 |
| Knights of Pythias |
620-623 |
| Kyle, Rev. Joeph,
D. D. |
474 |
| Kyle, Sauel |
98, 201, 276, 297,
330, 566 |
|
L |
| Lamme, Capt.
William |
244 |
| Land Grants of
Ohio, The |
50 |
| Land Titles
Defective |
337 |
| Land Surveys,
System of |
36 |
| Largest Barn in
State |
305 |
| La Salle,
Expedition of |
33 |
| Laughead, David |
85, 276, 280, 704 |
| Law Library |
585 |
| Lawrence, Dr.
Horace |
594 |
| Lawyers of a Past
Generation |
580 |
| Lawyers of Greene
County |
565-587 |
| Lawyers, Taxing of
in Early Days |
569 |
| Legislative Acts of
Importance |
778 |
| Lewis Post No. 347,
G. A. R. |
642 |
| Library of Greene
County Bar |
585 |
| Lime Industry,
Development of |
367 |
| Lincoln in Xenia in
1861 |
782 |
| Literary and
Kindred Organizations |
631-645 |
| Little, John |
760 |
| Live Stock |
415-424 |
| Loafing Discouraged |
110 |
| Loyal Order of
Moose |
629 |
| Lutheran Church |
541 |
|
M |
| Madden, Dr. William
P. |
599 |
| Mad River and Vance
Townships |
193-203 |
| "Magnetic" Springs
at Bellbrook |
263 |
| Mann, Horace |
569, 463 |
| Marker at Historic
Spot |
640 |
| Market House in Old
Days |
137 |
| "Marriage Permits"
in Old Days |
781 |
| Marshall, John |
701 |
| Martin, Dr. Joshua |
593 |
| Martin, Dr. Samuel |
593 |
| Masonic Order, The |
608-617 |
| Maumee Road Lands,
The |
53 |
| Maxwell, William |
761 |
| Medical Offices
Reserve Corps |
603, 667 |
| Medical Profession,
The |
588-607 |
| Men of Prominence
in Other Days |
755 |
| Methodist Episcopal
Churches |
511-526 |
| Methodist
Protestant Churches |
526 |
| Mexican Border War
in 1916 |
663 |
|
| Mexican War, The |
48, 646 |
| Miami Conservancy
District |
288, 400 |
|
Miami Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
304 |
| - Boundaries
of |
296 |
| - Clifton,
Village of |
306 |
| - Communist
Settlement |
302 |
| - Early
Settlement |
298 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
436 |
| - Tales of
the Pioneers |
299 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
298 |
| -
Transportation |
304 |
| - When
Organized |
296 |
| - "Whitehall" |
305 |
| Milford,
Original Name of Cedarville |
362 |
| Military History of
County |
646-675 |
| Military Lands, The |
52, 206, 226, 239,
278, 297, 301, 317, 326, 336, 341, 352 |
| Military Record of
Ohio |
48 |
| Moorman, Dr.
Micajah |
596 |
| Mound Builders, The |
72-79 |
| Mt. Ida, Plat of |
333 |
| Munger, Judge
Edmund H. |
580 |
| Murders in
Beavercreek Township |
213 |
|
Mc |
| McCune, Dr. |
597 |
| McMillan, Rev. Hugh |
467, 497, 504 |
|
N |
| Neff House, Story
of |
383 |
| Negro Churches |
543 |
| Negro Population of
County |
120 |
| Negro Secret
Societies |
630 |
| Nesbit, Benoni |
583 |
| Nesbit, Wilbur Dick |
362, 507, 559, 757 |
| New Germany,
Village of |
223 |
|
New Jasper Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
337 |
| - Boundaries
of |
334 |
| - Early
Industries |
337 |
| - Early
Settlers |
336 |
| - Land
Troubles |
337 |
| - New
Jasper, Village of |
338 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
437 |
| -
Stringtown |
339 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
336 |
| - When
Organized |
334 |
| New Jasper,
Village of |
338 |
| Newspapers of Green
County |
544-564 |
| Northwest
Territory, The |
33, 34, 38, 39, 41,
43 |
|
O |
| Oats and Minor
Grains |
408 |
| Ohio Company, The |
35, 37 |
| Ohio Land Company
Purchase |
50 |
| Ohio Politics |
55 |
| Ohio State Boundary
Lines |
57 |
| Ohio's Admission to
Union |
44, 96 |
| Ohio's Military
Record |
48 |
| Ohio's Successive
Capitals |
46 |
| Old Chillicothe
(Oldtown) |
82 |
| Old Settlers and
Pioneer Life |
169-188 |
| Oldtown, Village
of |
280, 640 |
| Orchard and Garden
Fruits |
414 |
| Order of the
Eastern Star |
616 |
| Ordinance of 1787,
The |
37, 57 |
| Organization of
County |
96-121 |
| Original Plat of
Jamestown |
387 |
| Osborn, the "Doomed
Town" |
398-403 |
|
P |
| Paintersville,
Village of |
232 |
| Pastor Paid in
Deerskins |
251 |
| Patent Medicines,
Former Demand for |
590 |
| Patriotic Societies |
639-645 |
| Paul, John |
103, 105, 107, 108,
114, 134, 157, 162, 173, 276, 570, 7m1, 761 |
| Paxon, W. A. |
388, 392, 783 |
| Peddler Robbed and
Murdered |
286 |
| Pennsylvania Lines,
The |
693 |
| Physicians of
Greene County |
588-607 |
| Pinkney Pond, The |
214 |
| Pioneer Conditions |
169, 188 |
| Pioneer
Reminiscences |
179, 252, 320, 390,
433, 485, 702, 763, 781 |
| Pioneer Wedding |
252 |
| Political Review of
State |
55 |
| Poll Books of the
Pioneers |
194, 202, 212, 230,
247, 276, 283 |
| Pontiac's
Conspiracy |
35 |
| "Poor House," The |
149 |
| Population
Statistics |
41, 119 |
| Pork-packing in the
'30s |
266 |
| Presbyterian
Churches |
507, 510 |
| Present Court House |
130 |
| Press, The |
544-564 |
| Prices of
Commodities in Old Days |
775 |
| Private Schools in
Xenia |
443 |
| "Prion Bounds" |
575 |
| Prisoner Burned in
Lock-up |
293 |
| Probate Court, The |
576 |
| Prominent in Past
Generations |
755 |
| Prosecuting
Attorneys |
579 |
| Prosperity, Present
Era of |
117 |
| Public Buildings of
County |
122-156 |
| Public Square at
County Seat |
134 |
|
Q |
| Quakers |
539 |
| Quebec Act, The |
36 |
| Quinn, Matthew |
212, 486, 771 |
|
R |
| Railroad Bonds,
County's Investment in |
698 |
| Railways of Greene
County |
687 |
| Read, T. Buchanan,
Heretofore Unpublished Poem of |
773 |
| Reaper, the
Invention of |
268 |
| Reformed Churches |
532-537 |
| Reformed
Presbyterian Church |
502, 509 |
| Refugee Tract, The |
53 |
| Registered Live
Stock |
416 |
| Reid, Dr. Alexander |
595 |
| Reid, Dr. John M. |
595 |
| Reid, Whitelaw |
331, 503, 559, 756 |
| Related State
History |
33-58 |
| Religious Life of
Greene County |
484 |
| Revolutionary
Period, The |
36 |
| Revolutionary
Soldiers, Graves of |
641 |
| Roads and Road
Making |
687 |
| Robbery and Murder
of Peddler |
286 |
| Robinson, George F. |
567, 647, 650 |
| Robinson, Plat of |
345 |
|
Ross Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
315 |
| - Boundaries
of |
309 |
| - Early
Settlers |
311 |
| - Origin of
Name |
309 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
437 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
311 |
| - Villages of |
316 |
| Roster of Company I |
665 |
| Roster of County
Officials |
157-168 |
| Roster of Green
County Bar |
584 |
| Roster of Greene
County Physicians |
600 |
| Roxana
(Claysville |
346 |
| Royal Arch Masons |
612 |
|
S |
| Salaries of County
Officials |
167 |
| Sale of Part of
Public Square |
111 |
| Saloons |
779 |
| School Sections |
54 |
| Schools of Greene
County |
425-451 |
| Scroggy, Thomas E. |
583 |
| Searl, Dr. Edward
F. |
596 |
| Seceders, The |
485 |
| Second Court House |
127 |
| Secret Societies |
608-630 |
| Selective Draft in
Greene County |
668 |
| Shawnees, The |
81 |
| Sheep |
423 |
| Sherer, Judge
Charles C. |
584 |
| "Sheridan's Ride,"
Inspiration of |
770 |
| Sheriffs of Green
County |
163 |
| Shoups Station |
222 |
| Sidelights on
County History |
763-789 |
|
Silvercreek Township - |
|
| - Boundaries
of |
317 |
| - Churches |
323 |
| - Coming of
the Moormans |
321 |
| - Early
Industries |
321 |
| - Early
Settlers |
319 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Residents
of in 1811 |
318 |
| - Schools |
439 |
| - Story of
Sylvester Strong |
319 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
319 |
| -
Transportation |
322 |
| - When
Organized |
317 |
| Simple Needs of
Early Settlers |
115 |
| Singing Schools of
Other days |
182 |
| "Sleepy Tom" |
418 |
| Smith Advertising
Company |
563 |
| Smith, Dr. Raymond
W. |
599 |
| Snoden, James |
248 |
| Society of Friends |
539 |
| Soldiers' and
Sailors' Home |
763 |
| Sorgum and Maple
Products |
410 |
| Spahr, Dr.
Camaralza |
596 |
| Spahr, Philip |
336 |
| Spanish American
War, The |
50, 661 |
| Spencer, Charles L. |
580 |
|
Spring Valley Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
344 |
| - Boundaries
of |
340 |
| - Churches |
344 |
| -
Claysville (Roxanna) |
346 |
| - Early
Industries |
343 |
| - Early
Settlers |
342 |
| - Plats of
Proposed Towns |
345 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
343, 440 |
| - Spring
Valley, Village of |
347 |
| - Roads and
Bridges |
344 |
| -
Transylvania |
346 |
| - When
Organized |
340 |
| Spring Valley,
Village of |
347 |
| State Encampment,
G. A. R., at Xenia |
643 |
| State
Representative |
164 |
| State Senators |
164 |
| Statistics Relating
to Schools |
426 |
| St. Clair, General |
33, 38 |
| "Steam Doctors" |
589 |
| Steele, Thomas |
442 |
| Stewart, Dr. J. M. |
598 |
| Stock-Show Prize
Winers |
415 |
| Stores Built on
Public Square |
137 |
| Streams in Greene
County |
59 |
| Stringtown |
339 |
| Strong, Sylvester,
Story of |
319 |
|
Sugarcreek Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
256 |
| -
Bellbrook, Village of |
258 |
| - Boundaries
of |
238 |
| - Early
Churches |
251 |
| - Early
Settlers |
241 |
| - First
Election |
246 |
| - Magnetic
Springs, The |
263 |
| - Military
History |
250 |
| - Mills |
253 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
440 |
| - Sugar
Making in Other Days |
255 |
| - When
Organized |
238 |
| Sugar-making in
Other Days |
255 |
| Symmes Purchase,
The |
42, 51 |
|
T |
| Taverns, How
Licensed |
106 |
| Taxing Doctors in
Old Days |
588 |
| Teachers,
Qualifications of |
426 |
| Tecumseh |
86 |
| Temperance Crusade
in 1874 |
634 |
| Templeton, Dr.
Joseph |
593 |
| Territorial
Counties |
39, 42 |
| Territorial
Legislature |
39 |
| Territorial
Settlement |
41 |
| "The Covenanters,"
a Poem |
507 |
| "The Rented Farm,"
a Poem |
783 |
| Thorn, Dr. Edwin I. |
598 |
| Tippecanoe, Battle
of |
34 |
| Tobacco |
411 |
| Toll Roads of Other
Days |
689 |
| Topography and
Geology of Greene county |
59-71 |
| Topography of Ohio |
58 |
| Towler, Rev. James |
124, 702, 763 |
| Township Officials |
189 |
| Townships of Greene
County |
189-192 |
| Townsley, Thomas |
328, 486 |
| Tragedy at
Bellbrook in 1858 |
265 |
| Tragedy in Miami
Township |
303 |
| Transportation |
687-700 |
| Transylvania |
346 |
| Travel in Pioneer
Days |
172 |
| Trebeins,
Village of |
222 |
| Trouble With Land
Titles |
337 |
| Turnull, James |
369, 434 |
|
U |
| United Brethren
Church |
541 |
| United Presbyterian
Churches |
485, 502 |
|
V |
| Vance, Joseph C. |
103, 106, 107, 115,
141, 173, 243, 258, 486, 574 |
| Virginia Military
District |
36, 52 |
| Vote on New Court
House |
130 |
| W |
|
| Walker, Thomas
Barlow |
759 |
| Walton, Moses |
348 |
| Ward, William |
197 |
| War of 1812, The |
48, 647 |
| War with Germany |
666 |
| Water Courses of
Greene County |
59 |
| Watering Place at
Yellow Springs |
376 |
| Water Supply of
County |
70 |
| Watt, Dr. George |
597 |
| Wayne, Gen. Anthony |
34, 43 |
| Wheat |
408 |
| Whipped by Order of
Court |
170 |
| Whisky, an Early
"Necessity" |
177 |
| "Whitehall" |
305 |
| Whiteman, Gen.
Benjamin |
85, 100, 104, 122,
140, 173, 208, 296, 301, 566, 570, 647, 761 |
| Wilberforce
University |
475 |
| Williams,
Remembrance |
702 |
| Wilson, John, First
Settler |
171, 241 |
| Winans, Dr. Mathias |
389, 395, 581, 594 |
| Winans, James J. |
581 |
| Winchester, Plat of |
234 |
| Winters, Rev. David |
533 |
| Woman's Christian
Temperance Union |
631 |
| Woman's Club, First
in Country |
631 |
| Woolsey, Dr.
Jeremiah |
594 |
| World War, The |
666 |
| Wright Aviation
Field |
294 |
| Wright, Samuel |
701 |
|
X |
| Xenia College |
454 |
| Xenia Female
Academy |
454 |
| Xenia Female
Seminary |
458 |
|
Xenia, The County Seat - |
|
| - Appearance
of in 1811 |
701 |
| - Cemeteries |
726 |
| - Churches |
484 |
| - Commission
Government |
742 |
| - Commercial
Directory |
751 |
| - Early
Business Interests |
705 |
| - Early
Records Missing |
711 |
| - Fire
Department |
720 |
| - Fires |
721 |
| - First House
in Town |
701 |
| -
Incorporation of |
709 |
| - Industrial
Development |
748 |
| - Library |
731 |
| - Location of
|
104, 701 |
| - Naming of,
the |
104 |
| - Police
Department |
725 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Postoffice |
736 |
| - Public
Building |
729 |
| - Public
Utilities |
715-720 |
| - Schools |
441 |
| - Sewerage
System |
722 |
| - Turning
Point in Development |
711 |
| - When Laid
Out |
701 |
| Xenia Theological
Seminary |
468 |
|
Xenia Township - |
|
| -
Agricultural Interests |
275 |
| - Boundaries |
271 |
| - Early
Settlers |
280 |
| - First
Election |
275 |
| - Population
of |
120 |
| - Schools |
441 |
| - Topography
and Drainage |
274 |
| - Village of
Oldtown |
280 |
| - When
Organized |
271 |
| - Xenia, the
County Seat |
701 |
|
Y |
|
Yellow Springs, Town of |
376-386 |
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