SOUTH END TOWNSHIP

DELHI TOWNSHIP

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TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

THE FIRST SETTLEMENT

within the limits of what is now Delhi township, was made in 1789, very soon after Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend were colonized.  Judge Symmes took his party to the place last named, now in Miami township, in February of that year; and early seems to have mediated the founding of another colony on the river within his Purchase, which should take the name of South Bend.  The new town, or city to be, was laid off some time in the spring succeeding Symmes' arrival, as appears by the following letter of his to his associate Dayton, bearing date that month, and giving a good account of the genesis of South Bend.

ADDITIONAL SETTLEMENTS.

     RICHARD PAUL

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     W. L. WILLIAMS of Delhi township, lives on section ten; owns a nice residence and a good farm; was born here June 1, 1810, his father being the old pioneer mail route agent for the Government from 1807 until 1820, and purchasing large tracts of lands here a few years after his coming to the county.  Mr. Williams carried on the dairy business for a number of years quite extensively and very successfully.  He was married to Miss Applegate, of Colorado.  Of his family two children are dead.  He is known as a prominent citizen in his township.

     SEBASTIAN RENTZ, jr., of Delhi township, born in Cincinnati (1840), but from 1841 up to the present time has been a farmer.  His father came from Germany in 1825; kept a bakery in Cincinnati until the family removed to the farm near Warsaw in Delhi township.  He married Miss Zoller, of Cincinnati, in 1828.  She was from Baden, coming here in 1817.
     Mr. Rentz obtained a common school education in the city of Cincinnati; married in 1867, to Miss Louisa Barmann, of Anderson Ferry.  He is nicely situated on a good farm of over one hundred acres.

     MRS. L. WITTENSTATTER nee KUPERFERLE, came with her husband, now dead, from Germany about the year 1832.  Her husband was for a period of thirty years a printer, being employed mostly during that time on one of the German papers of Cincinnati.  He died about the year 1874.  Mrs. L. Wittenstatter owns the Green House in Delhi township, near the Warsaw pike.  She has eight children, five of whom are married.

     GEORGE McINTYRE, deceased, was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1815.   When thirteen years of age his father died, and in the year 1828 he sailed for America, and after remaining five years in New York came to Cincinnati, where he travelled for the house of Robert McGregor.  In 1834 he purchased one hundred and forty acres, comprising what is now the greater part of Home City.  He was married twice, his first wife being Emily C. Moore, by whom he had nine children; his second wife was Miss Elizabeth Mclntyre, and the fruits of this marriage were six children, all of whom are now dead.  Three children by his first wife are dead, and of the six remaining four are living on the homestead place in Home City, i. e., three sons - George M., Peter E., and Edwin D. Mclntyre, and one daughter, Mrs. Martha A. Cook.  The maternal grandmother of these children was Adelia Moore, who had seven children: Sarah Ann Silvers, Louisie Hicks, Ophelia Shannon, John Moore, Emily C. McIntyre, Henrietta O'Neil, and Finley Moore.  Of these three only are living: Sarah Ann Silvers, Louisie Hicks, and Ophelia Shannon.  George T. McIntyre was married Feb. 26, 1845, and died June 9, 1880.  His wife, Emily C. Moore, died Apr. 22, 1865.  Of t heir children, Mrs. Martha A. Cook, the eldest child, was born Apr. 28, 1848, and married in January, 1866, to Milton H. Cook, who was born Oct. 14, 1845.   They have two children: Jesse E. and George T. McIntyre Cook.  Mr. Cook the father, has been train dispatcher on the Cincinnati & Indianapolis, and St. Louis & Chicago railroads, for seventeen years.
     George M. McIntyre was married Apr. 6, 1874, and is the father of three children, all girls.  He is a farmer.  Mrs. Anna B. Hicks was married Aug. 19, 1873, she has had two children, now dead.  Her husband is a carpenter, living at the present time in Cincinnati, but purposes moving to Home City shortly.

     JACOB STORY

     THOMAS WYATT

     JOHN KAHNY

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     GEORGE THOMPSON

     HENRY TRAUTMAN

     CLAUS DRUCKER

     JAMES MACKINZIE, M. D.

     PETER CROSS

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     VALENTINE GIND

     PETERSHIFFEL

     CHARLES GERTH

     SHIPLEY W. DAVIS

     PETER MacFARLAN

     ADAM TULLOCK

     WILLIAM J. APPLEGATE

     ANNIE B. CALLOWAY

     R. B. PRICE of Home City, son of Rees Price (see biographical sketch), is the well known bee-keeper of

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that place.  Mr. Price was reared in the city of Cincinnati, but soon after his marriage (January 15, 1857) to Louise Seiter, of that place, he moved on his farm where he has since resided.  In 1877 he built his new house, which he now occupies.  Mr. Price has devoted much time and attention to the culture of bees.  He has now over one hundred colonies under his care.  Mrs. Price was born in Cincinnati, corner of Elm and Eighth streets, where her mother, Mrs. Seiter, still resides.  Her brothers, William, George, Joseph, and Lewis Seiter, are prominent and well known business men in the city.

     W. H. SMITH

     JAMES H. SILVERS

 RIVERSIDE AND OTHER VILLAGES

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POPULATION

MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMY - CEDAR GROVE

PHOTO of MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMY

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