| CHAPTER I. - TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY |
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Natural Features ~
Drainage ~ Forest Trees ~ Minerals ~ Landscape ~ The streams
of the County ~ Settlement of the County ~ Zane Trace ~ Wills
Creek ~ Origin of Some Geographical Names |
| CHAPTER II. - INDIAN OCCUPANCY |
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Territory Acquired by
White Man ~ LaSalle's Explorations ~ British Acquire Title
from the French ~ Colonial Ohio Land Company ~ George
Washington ~ Boquet's Expedition ~ Indian Disturbances ~
Battle of Point Pleasant ~ Northwest Territory Acquired by
United States ~ George Rogers Clark ~ Indian History ~ Last
Tribes in Ohio ~ Indian Customs and Amusements ~ Anecdote of
Col. John McDonald. |
| CHAPTER III. - ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY |
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Military Land District
~ Land Surveys Completed ~ Guernsey County Formed ~ Civil
Townships Organized ~ County-seat Question ~ Town Plats of the
County ~ incorporated Towns ~ A Lost Town. |
| CHAPTER IV - EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTY |
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The First Settler ~
Pioneer Graham ~ Early Comers ~ Life of the Pioneers ~ First
Schools ~ A Wounded Deer ~ Indian Camps. |
| CHAPTER V. - COUNTY GOVERNMENT |
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Official Record ~
First Officers ~ Commissioners Busy ~ Organization of
Townships ~ The County Seat Question ~ The First Court House ~
The County Jail ~ County Infirmary ~ The Children's Home ~ A
Five Year Record ~ Assessments in 1835 ~ Assessments for 1910
~ Treasury Defalcations ~ Resulting Trials. |
| CHAPTER VI - POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE
COUNTY |
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| CHAPTER VII - MILITARY HISTORY OF THE
COUNTY |
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An Honorable Military Record ~ A
Revolutionary Character ~ Soldiers of 1812 ~ Captain Beymer's
Company ~ Captain Martin's Company ~ Captain Beatty's Company
~ Off to the Wars ~ Soldiers of the War of 1812 ~ The Mexican
War ~ The Civil War ~ The First Company of Cambridge
Volunteers ~ Drafts ~ Murder of Marshal Cook ~ Guernsey County
Enlistments ~ Soldiers' Aid Societies ~ Regimental Printer ~
John Morgan's Raid ~ The Cambridge Scouts ~ The Spanish
American War ~ The Cambridge Soldier's Monument ~ Soldiers'
Graves ~ Grand Army of the Republic. |
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| CHAPTER VIII - EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTY |
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| CHAPTER IX - CHURCH AND DENOMINATIONAL
HISTORY |
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| CHAPTER X - SECRET SOCIETIES OF THE
COUNTY |
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| CHAPTER XI - EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS |
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| CHAPTER XII - RAILWAY WATER NAVIGATION AND
THE OLD PIKE ROAD |
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| CHAPTER XIII - THE BAR OF GUERNSEY COUNTY |
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Early Lawyers ~ First Colored Jury
~ Death Sentences ~ First Grand Jury in Guernsey County -
Present Justices of the Peace ~ Prominent Early Attorneys ~
Published Lists ~ Present Court Officers ~ Present Members of
the Guernsey County Bar. |
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| CHAPTER XIV - THE MEDICAL PROFESSION |
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| CHAPTER XVI - NEWSPAPERS OF GUERNSEY COUNTY |
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| CHAPTER XVI - BANKS AND BANKING |
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| CHAPTER XVII - MINES AND MINING |
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| CHAPTER XVIII - THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE |
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| CHAPTER XIX -
ADAMS TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XX -
CAMBRIDGE TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXI -
CENTRE TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXII -
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXIII - JACKSON TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXIV -
KNOX TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXV - OXFORD TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXVI -
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXVII - RICHLAND TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXVIII -MILLWOOD TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXIX -
MONROE TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXX - MADISON TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXI - SPENCER TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXII - WHEELING TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXIII - WESTLAND TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXIV - LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXV - WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXVI - WILLS TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXVII - VALLEY TOWNSHIP |
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| CHAPTER XXXVIII -
MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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~
Unique Advertisements ~ A Slave Case ~ The "Underground
Railroad" ~ Some peculiar Notices ~ Siamese Twins ~ Cambridge
Markets in 1837 and 1854 ~ Market Prices at Later Dates ~
Present Prices ~ California Gold Fever Here ~ The Pennyroyal
Reunion Society ~ A Curious Old Paper ~ Early Highway Robbery
~ Henry Clay in Cambridge ~ Colonel Sarchet's Birth
Banquet ~ Early Guernsey County Marriages ~ A Human
Team ~ Meteroic Shower of 1833 ~ Cyclones ~
Hall Storm in 1820 ~ Cold Weather Statistics ~
Oldest Man in the County ~ Grave Robbing ~
The First Mails ~ Daring Mail Robbery ~
Postoffices in 1895 ~ Guernsey County's Man-Woman ~ Days
of Mourning ~ Death of President Harrison ~ President
Lincoln's Assassination ~ Death of President Garfield ~
President Grant's Memorial Services ~ Death of President
McKinley ~ Sarchet Brothers and Their Bible ~ On Old Bridge |
| CHAPTER XXXIX - GENERAL REMINISCENCES |
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