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From The Heritage Collection Biography and History from Unigraphic -
The Household Guide and Instructor with Biographies
History of Guernsey County, Ohio
with Illustrations
VOLUME II
Cleveland: T. F. Williams.
1882
CHAPTER VIII.
COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
Pg. 432
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THE INFIRMARY.
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Prior to 1841 each township took care of its own poor,
but in that year the county commissioners purchased the firm of
Josiah Robe, which consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, to
which thirty-seven acres have since been added. The sum paid
as first cost was three thousand five hundred dollars. The
infirmary is located two and one-fourth miles south east of
Washington, and two and three fourth miles northeast of Campbell's
Station. Representative William Lawrence, of
Washington, was the
RESIDENCE OF H. P.
MORRISON, CAMBRIDGE TWP., GUERNSEY COUNTY, O
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member of the Legislature who secured its incorporation. At
first only a small farm house was occupied, but not long after two
wings were added. In 1859 the main building was erected.
It is eighty feet long, and thirty-five feet wide, with an ell in
the center forty-five feet in depth and twenty-five feet wide.
It is three stories in height, and has eleven windows in each
of the upper story fronts. The roof is very plain. In
addition to the main structure and farm house, which contain
thirty-two rooms, there is a stable, barn, and grain house.
This institution has accommodations for seventy-five paupers, and
now contains sixty-five, which is the largest number ever within its
walls. There are thirty-two males and thirty-three females.
Seventeen are under fifteen, and seventeen are over seventy years of
age. The insane department contains five inmates, one of whom,
John Orr, was at one time the owner of the infirmary farm.
Eighteen inmates were discharged last year, and four children were
born on the premises. The younger ones are bound out to
farmers, and the dead are buried on the farm.
Mr. Wilkin is superintendent, and
his wife, Mary L. Wilkin, is the matron. They entered
upon their duties Mar. 1, 1880. Robert P. Tidrick is
assistant, overseer of the farm, and Hannah Cunningham
is assistant matron. The appraised inmates value of the
buildings in 1880 was $5,500. The inmates do the work both in
the buildings and on the farm. Corn, wheat, potatoes, sorghum,
oats, and garden truck are raised, reducing the expense of
maintaining the farm. The infirmary directors are Jonathan
S. Gardner, John Kester, and James McClenahan. Dr. R.
H. Henry is the physician.
THE NATIONAL ROAD.
The coach stands rusting in the road,
The horse has sought the plow;
We have spanned the world with iron rails.
The stem king rules us now.
The pike which runs through
the entire length of Guernsey county from east to west enters at
Fairview, in the center of the eastern part of the county, and runs
with a slightly southerly incline through to Muskingum county.
It is a splendid roadway, self-draining, and easily kept in repair.
This road is the only one worthy the name in the county, and is part
of the great National road, sometimes called "Clay's Pike," because
Henry Clay was mainly instrumental in having the Government
undertake that great National work. It begins at Cumberland,
Maryland, and traverses the country between there and Dayton, Ohio.
The Guernsey county section was built in 1827, and at once became a
great thoroughfare for traveling, driving and teaming, which caused
lands to advance in value and made a ready market for all kinds of
produce.
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