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CHAPTER I. - THE DAWN
OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION - Pg. 17 |
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- First White Men in the West
- Joliet and Marquette
-
Chevalier LaSalle the First White Man in the Ohio Valley
-
Account of his Journey
- Probable Exploration of the Muskingum
-
Englishmen in the Ohio Valley, 1730-1751
- The Ohio Land Company
of Virginia
- Its Unsuccessful attempt to Found a Settlement
-
Colonel Bouquet's Military Expedition, 1764
- George Washington
on the Ohio, 1770
- The Massacre of Indians at Yellow Creek,
1774
- The County of Illinois
- State Claims Ceded
- Important
Treaties with the Indians. - pg. 17 |
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CHAPTER II. - INDIANS OF THE OHIO
VALLEY. - pg. 33 |
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- Ohio Tribes in Ohio
- The Iroquois and Their Conquest of
the country
- The Delawares of the Tuscarawas and the Muskingum
- Noted Chieftains
- The Shawnees and their History
- Their
Hostility to the Whites
- Other Indian Nations
- The Manner of
Savage life
- Life in the Wilderness
- Hunting the Elk and the
Buffalo
- War Songs and Dances
- Courtship among the Savages |
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CHAPTER III. - TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT
AND PUBLIC LANDS. - pg. 46 |
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- An Act Providing for the Survey of Ohio Lands, 1785
- Names
of the Surveyors Chosen
- List of Squatter Settlers in Eastern
Ohio in 1785
- Frontier Life
- The Beginning of the Survey
-
Particulars of the Experiences of the Surveyors, in 1785-6
- The
Survey of the First Seven Ranges
- The Moravian Reservations
-
The Ohio Company's Purchase
- Symmes' Purchase
- Donations of
Ebenezer Zane
- The Military District
- Land Offices Established
- Later Land Legislation
- The Ordinance of 1787 |
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CHAPTER IV. - THE OHIO
COMPANY |
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- The Company Organized at a Meeting in Boston in 1786
-
Purchase of a Tract of Land on the Muskingum
- The Ordinance of
Freedom
- Dr. Cutter's Part in its Authorship
- Measures
Respecting the Proposed City and Colony
- Provisions to Settlers
- Embarrassment of the Company
- The Purchase as Finally Made
-
Its Boundaries
- The Donation Tract. |
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CHAPTER V. - IMPORTANT EVENTS
IN TERRITORIAL HISTORY - pg. 77 |
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- The plans and purposes of the Ohio Company
- Dr. Cutler's
prediction Concerning the Ohio Country
- The Journey across the
Mountains
- Arrival of the Party at the Site of Marietta, April
7, 1788
- Names of the First Settlers in Ohio
- Progress of the
First Season
- Governor St. Clair
- Washington County
Established
- Territorial Courts
- The First Townships in the
Territory
- First Territorial Legislature, 1779
- The Convention
of 1802
- The State Constitution Formed
- The State Admitted
into the Union
- Progress of the Settlements in Washington
County |
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CHAPTER VI. - WAR WITH THE INDIANS - pg.
88 |
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- 1790 to 1795
- The Rise of the War Cloud
- Arrangements
for a Treaty
- The Treaty of Fort Harmar, January 9, 1879
-
Renewal of Border Warfare
- Surveyors Attacked
- The Settlement
at Big Bottom
- The Massacre
- War Begins
- Settlers Attacked
-
The White Scouts and their Methods
- Events of 1792 - 3 Begins
-
Settlers Attacked
- The White Scouts and their Methods
- Events
of 1792 - 3 - Indian Atrocities
- A Colony Formed at the Mouth
of Olive Green Creek, 1794
- Closing Events of the War
- Wayne's
Victor |
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CHAPTER VII. - PIONEER LIFE
IN NOBLE COUNTY - pg. 108 |
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- The Western Pioneers
- Description of their work
- Pioneer
Gatherings
- Description of the Log Cabin and the Manner of its
Erection
- The Kitchen Utensils of the Pioneer Household
- The
Bill of Fare and How it was Prepared
- Fish and Game
- Pioneer
Agriculture
- Rude Implements
- Hard Work
- Woman's Work
- The
Spinning Wheels and the Looms
- All Clothing of Home Manufacture
- The Kinds of Garments in Fashion Long Ago
- Literary,
Religious and Educational Advantages
- The Pioneer Preachers
-
The Early Schools
- Manner of Travel
- Earliest Settlers of the
County |
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CHAPTER VIII. - THE FORMATION
OF NOBLE COUNTY - pg. 120 |
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- Guernsey County Erected in 1810
- Erection of Monroe
County in 1813
- Its Organization in 1815
- Morgan County
Formed, 1819
- A New County Proposed
- Origin of the Name
- The
Matter Before the Legislature
- Copy of a Petition Presented in
1849
- Noble County Erected, March 11, 1851
- The Act as Finally
Passed
- Sarahsville, the County Seat
- First County Elections
-
Doings of the County Commissioners
- Erection of a Public
Building |
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CHAPTER IX. - CIVIL HISTORY
OF NOBLE COUNTY - pg. 133 |
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- The County Seat Controversy
- Its Beginning
- The
Question of Re-location
- The Rival Sites
- Sarahsville and the
Caldwell Farm
- The Advocates of a Change Successful
- A Legal
Contest
- History of Litigation
- Building of the Court House in
Caldwell
- Removal of the County Officers, 1858
- Civil List
-
County Officers from 1851 - 1887. |
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CHAPTER X. - INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS - pg.
143 |
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- Early Roads
- The First Route of Travel in Noble County
- The Summerfield and Batesville Turnpike
- Postoffices and
Mails
- Railroads
- The Sharon Railroad Projected in 1849
- The
"Calico" Railroad
- The Cincinnati, Wheeling & New York
- The
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad
- Its inception and Progress
-
Completion of the Road in 1871-2
- What Noble County Did toward
Building It
- The Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati Narrow Gauge |
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CHAPTER XI. - PHYSICAL FEATURES
AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF NOBLE COUNTY. - pg. 152 |
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-
Topography
- Surface, Soil and Streams
- The Importance of the
Coal Area
- Possibility of Future Mining Wealth
- Salt
- The
Pioneer Saltmakers
- The Olive Salt Works Established in 1814
-
Description of the Primitive Apparatus
- The Decline of the
Industry
- Gas and Petroleum
- The Oldest Oil Well in Ohio
-
"Seneca Oil"
- Old time Gas and Oil Wells in Noble County
-
History of Petroleum Production in the Duck Creek Valley
- The
Excitement of 1860
- The First Producing Wells |
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CHAPTER XII. - THE LEGAL
PROFESSION - pg. 170 -
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- First Term of Common Pleas Court in Noble County
- Held
at Olive in April, 1851
- Other Early Terms of Court
- Associate
Judges
- Courts at Sarahsville and Caldwell
- Noble County Bar
-
The Lawyers Prior to 1851
- Lawyers of Later Years
- Hon. Isaac
Parrish
- Jabez Belford
- Edward A. Bratton and Other
Sarahsville Lawyers
- William Priestly
- Irwin G. Dudley
- Hon.
William H. Frazier
- William C. Okey
Biographies and Sketches
- Benjamin F. Spriggs
-
D. S. Spriggs
-
James S. Foreman
- Judge
D. S. Gibbs
- Hon. J. M. Dalzell
-
William Chambers
-
John M.
Amos
- McGinnis & Weems
-
C. M. Watson
- Young Lawyers. |
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CHAPTER XIII. - THE MEDICAL
PROFESSION - pg. 187 -
FINISHED - Updated 5/24/2026 |
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- Remarks Upon the Physician's Vocation
- Early Medical
Practitioners in Noble County
-
Dr. Ziba Lindley, of Brookfield,
1815
- Dr. David McGarry, the Pioneer Physician
-
Dr. William
McKee
- Mr. James F. Capell and Other Physicians of Sarahsville
- Medical History of Sharon, Summerfield and Batesville
- The
Physicians of Caldwell, Early and Late
- The Profession in Other
Towns and Villages. |
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CHAPTER XIV. - THE COUNTY
PRESS - pg. 205 -
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- Growth and Influence of Modern Journalism
- History of
the Whig and Republican Papers in Noble County
- "The
Investigator" published at Olive in 1851
- Description of an
Early Copy
- Advertisers and Items
- "The Noble County Patriot"
at Sarahsville
- "The Chrisitan Harbinger"
- "The Republican"
and the "Consolidated Republican"
- " The Noble County
Republican" at Caldwell
- Successive Owners
- The "Caldwell
Journal"
- Democratic Papers of the County
- The Democratic
Courier at Sarahsville in 1851
- Removal to Caldwell
- "The
Spectator"
- "The Citizen's Press"
- "The Caldwell Press"
- "The
Noble County Democrat"
- Brief Notices of Former Editors |
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CHAPTER XV. - NOBLE COUNTY
IN THE WAR - pg. 215 - |
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. -
Introductory - Old Time Musters
- The "Cornstalk" Militia
-
The First Response from Noble County
-
Company I, of the
Twenty-fifth Regiment, Raised at Summerfield
-
The Twenty-sixth
Regiment
- Thirteenth
Thirtieth Regiment
-
Thirty-sixth Regiment
- Twentieth
Regiment (Reorganized)
-
Forth-second Regiment
-
Garfield's Old Command
-
Sixty-second Regiment
- Sixty-third Regiment
- Seventy-eighth
Regiment
-
Ninety-second Regiment
-
One Hundred and
Sixteenth Regiment
-
One Hundred and
Sixty-first Regiment
-
One Hundred and
Seventy-sixth Regiment
-
Miscellaneous List
-
The
Hoskinsville Rebellion
- Both Sides of the Matter
-
Biographies of
Military Men from Noble County
-
Soldier's
Reunions. |
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CHAPTER XVI. - CALDWELL.-
pg. 294 -
In process - 6/28/2020 -
Updated 5/28/2026 |
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-
The Origin of the Town
- The Selection of its Site as
the County Seat in 1854|
- Donation by Samuel Caldwell
- Survey
of the Town Plat
- Additions
- Sale of Lots in 1857
- The
Erection of the Court House
- First Buildings Erected
- The
First Stores
- First Settlers
- Mercantile and Industrial
Interests
- List of Inhabitants in 1862
- The Village in Its
Early Years
- Improvements
- Business
- The Noble County Bank
-
Caldwell Building and Loan Association
- The Caldwell Woolen
Factory
- Flouring Mill
- The Public School Building
- Business
Men of Today
- Incorporation, and Village Officers
- Churches
and Societies
- Caldwell Fair Association
- Personal Sketches.
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CHAPTER XVII. - OLIVE. - pg. 314
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FINISHED |
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Its Organization as a Township of Morgan County, 1819
-
Reorganization in 1851
- Names of Taxpayers in 1826
- New
England Settlers
- The Pioneers
- Their Names, Nativities, and
Characteristics
- Robert Caldwell and Others
- Samuel Alien, the
Pioneer Miller of the Valley
- Judge Clark
- Captain Blake
-
Squire Free
- Early and Prominent Families
- Early Industries
-
Distilleries
- Old time Farming Implements
- Reminiscences of an
Early Settler
- An Early School
- Olive, the Oldest Village
-
Its Origin, Growth and Decline
- Other Villages
- "Socum,"
Moundsville, South Olive and Dudley
- Churches |
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CHAPTER XVIII. - CENTER. - pg. 334
- FINISHED 6/30/2020 - |
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- Organization of the Township, 1851
- First Election -
Pioneer Settlers
- First Entry of Land
- Bates' Mill
- Horse
Mills
- Further Account of the Early Settlers
- Union Township
Organized in 1822
- Taxpayers in 1833
- Old Time Hunters
- Oxen
as Whisky drinkers
- Corn Huskings and Family Sketches
- The
Township War Record
- The Tobacco Industry
- Sarahsville, the
Old County Seat
- Founded in 1829
- Origin of the Name
- The
Growth of the Town
- Mercantile and Industrial
- Schools
-
Churches
- Lodges. |
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CHAPTER XIX. - SHARON. - pg. 359 -
FINISHED - |
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- Organization of the Township
- Samuel Sailor, the
Hunter, an Early Pioneer
- the Archibald Family make a
Settlement in 1815
- Anecdotes of Sailor
- How He Defended His
Neighbor's House
- How He arrived Late at a Raising
- Hunting
-
The Wileys, Longs and Others
- Attempt to Locate the County Seat
of Morgan near Sharon
- Reminiscences of Early Days
- The Horse
Hills
- The post-Boy
- County Officers. |
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CHAPTER XX. - MARION. - pg. 381
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FINISHED 6/24/2020 - |
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- Taxpayers in 1833
- Marion Township Erected in 1851
-
Early Settlers
- The Pioneers from the Delaware
- Old Settlers
Still Living - The Irish Settlement
- Names of the Pioneer Irish
and Scotch Settlers
- Prominent Early Families
- Moses Horton,
the Founder of Summerfield
- Early Schools
- Lexington, an
Extinct Village
- Ginseng Digging
- Deer Hunting
- A Novel
Marriage Ceremony
- Personal Mention
- The "Dutch Indians"
- An
Amusing Trial
- The Village of Freedom
- Summerfield
- Its Early
Settlers
- Industries
- Merchants
- Churches |
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CHAPTER XXI - BROOKFIELD - pg. 419
- FINISHED 5/31/2026 -- |
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- Original Extent
- New England Influence
- A Permanent
Population
- The "Federal Trail"
- First Settlement Made in 1805
by the Dye Family
- Judge William Rannells and Other Pioneers
-
Settlement Progresses Slowly
- Experiences of an Early Family
-
A Peculiar Industry
- The Manufacture of Castor Oil
- Land
Schools
- A Novel Saw Mill
- the Settlers on Bates' Branch
- The
First Postoffice
- Family Sketches
- Brookfield Church |
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CHAPTER XXII - STOCK.
- pg. 439
- FINISHED 6/1/2026 - |
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- Its Boundaries
- Early Settlements on the East Fork
-
The Enochs, Crows, Grandons, Morrises and Archers
- The Crow
Family and the Indians
- Other Early Pioneers
- The Last Indian
Camp on Sailor's Run in 1812
- Religion of the Pioneers
- Large
Families
- Early Mills
- First Brick Houses
- Hunting Adventure
- The Yankee Settlers
- First Orchards in the Township
-
Hardships of the Year 1816
- Taxpayers of 1833
- Asa Barton
-
Early Schools
- German Settlers
- Villages
- Carlisle
- East
Union
- Churches |
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CHAPTER XXIII. - SENECA.
- pg. 465
- FINISHED 6/2/2026 |
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- Seneca as a Township of Guernsey County
- Richland
Township
- Real Estate Owners in 1830
- Pioneer Settlers
-
Timothy Bates
- His Mill and Distillery
- How the Distillery
Served as a Meeting House
- An Early School
- How a Wheat Field
Was Harvested by Moonlight
- Wolf Scalps
- School Section
-
First Store
- Sketches of the Pioneers
- Hunting and Going to
Mill
- Adventures of Abraham Rich/
- Family Sketches
- Mount
Ephraim
- "Moss Tavern"
- Churches of the Township. |
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CHAPTER XXIV. - NOBLE - pg. 483 -
FINISHED 6/1/2026 - |
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- Early Elections and Electors
- Poll Book List for 1820
-
Taxes in 1822
- An Early Indian Trail
- Formerly a Part of
Buffalo Township
- The Memorable Election of 1816
- The Family
of John Noble, Senior
- Mention of Early and Prominent Families
- Joseph Lippitt
- An Irishman's Trick
- A Bear Story
- Early
Schools
- Personal Sketches |
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CHAPTER XXV - WAYNE - pg. 507
- FINISHED 6/1/2026 -' |
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- Election
- Its Boundaries Described
- Taxpayers of 1830
- Joseph Reeves
- John Vorhies
- The First Permanent Resident of
the Township
- The Wards
- Bryans
- Bursons
- Yohos
- Carpenters
- Laws
- Richeys
- Lowreys
- Mendenhalls and other Early
Settlers
- Thompson's Mill
- Early Religious Meetings. |
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CHAPTER XXVI. - ELK - pg. 513 -
Partially done - 6/21/2020 - Added mostly biographies in this
volume |
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- Elk Township in 1822
- Taxes in Early Years
- Original
Extent of Territory
- Alteration of Boundaries in 1851
-
Property Holders in 1833
- Pioneer Settlers
- The Davis Family
-
Frederick Miller
- His Eccentricities
- The Pryors
- The Enochs
- Matthew Gray
- The Crums
- Other Early Settlers
- First German
Settlers, 1836
- Thrift and Enterprise
- Crumtown
-
Harriettsville
- The Village Founded by Moses T. Spence in 1839
- Its Progress and Present Status
- Societies
- Churches. |
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CHAPTER XXVII - JEFFERSON. - pg. 531
- STARTED 6/30/2020 -
Updating 5/30/2026 |
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- Erection of the Township
- Originally Included in Enoch
and Aurelius Townships
- Pioneer Settlers
- David Ales' Tavern
-
The Cholera Epidemic
- Reminiscences of an Old Settler
- Family
Sketches
- Dexter City
- Its Origin and Growth
- A Neat and
Enterprising Town
- Business Men, Societies, Churches, etc.,
Middleburg
- Account of its Early Industries
- Site of the
Village in 1834
- Middleburg Schools. |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - JACKSON - pg. 544
- FINISHED 6/2/2026 - |
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- Olive Green Township
- Organized in 1819
- Change of
Name
- First Justices of the Peace
- Taxpayers in 1826
- Aaron
Hughes the First Settler
- Hunting Adventures, and other Details
of Pioneer Life
- Reasoner's Run
- Slow Progress of Settlement
-
An English Colony Arrives in 1817 and Doubles the Population
-
Their Adventures
- Seventeen Inmates of One Cabin
- The Earliest
Families
- Early Schools
- Politics in Early Years
- Bell making
by the Keiths
- Wilbur Sprague's Narrow Escape
- Shot by an
Indian
- Stores and Business Interests
- Churches. |
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CHAPTER XXIX - ENOCH
- pg. 561 -
FINISHED - |
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- Organized as a Township of Monroe County in 1822
-
Property Holders in 1833
- Reorganization of the Township in
1851
- Change of Boundary
- Derivation of the Name
- The Pioneer
Settlers
- Hunters and Hunting
- Anecdotes
- The German
Settlement
- The Pioneer Germans
- How They Managed to Pay for
Lands
- Later German Settlers
- Newburg
- Its Rise and Decline
-
Fulda
- Mercantile
- Schools
- Churches
- St. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church |
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CHAPTER XXX. - BEAVER -
pg. 576 -
FINISHED - |
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- Pioneer Settlers
- Largely from Maryland
- Their
Condition and Characteristics
- Adventures with Bears and
Panthers
- How "Whisky Run" got its Name
- "Frolics"
- John
House's Mill
- Mention of Early Settlers
- Anecdotes
-
Organization of Beaver Township, 1816
- Tax List is 1830
- The
Boundaries of the Township as Established in 1851
- Change of
Boundary
- Early Merchants
- Family Sketches
- Early Schools
-
Batesville
- Its Origin and Growth
- A Neat and Thrifty Town
-
Churches, Schools, Lodges, etc. |
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CHAPTER XXXI. - BUFFALO -
pg. 592 -
FINISHED - |
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Erection
- Early Settlers
- Owners of Real Estate in 1830
-
Abram Rich
- The Mileys
- Jacob Gregg
- John
Drake
- Other Early Settlers
- Religious |
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BIOGRAPHIES
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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Archer, Stephen M. - 448
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Archer, Mrs. Stephen M. - 449
Ball, James - 358
Barnes, N. B. - 464
Belford, Jabez - 170
Brown,
John, Capt. - 248
Brown, Le Roy D. - 352
Brownrigg,
John - 380
Caldwell, view of
- 296
Caldwell, Joseph, Sr. - 320
Caldwell, Samuel
- 312
Carr, James - 292
Clinedinst, Henry H., Lieut. - 292
Danford,
Morris - 390
Davidson, C. C.
- 356
Enochs, W. H., Gen.
- 280
Finley, L. W.,
Hon. - 418 |
Frazier, W. H.,
Hon. - 176
Geddes, George E. - 496
Gray, John - 424
Hill, John B. - 566
Klauber, D. J., Rev. - 574
Kraps, John W.,
Dr. - 202
Large, Henry - 416
Lemmax,
John - 412
Moseley, W. L., Capt. - 288
McClure, George A. - 506
McKee, Ezra, Hon. - 500
McKee, Robert - 501
McGovern, Thomas - 440
Nickerson, Sparrow, Rev. - 488
Noble, John - 484
Okey, William C., Judge - 178
Penn, B. F. - 456 |
Penn, Martha, Miss - 457
Philpot, S.
B. - 384
Rich, Jacob - 480
Robinson, John
W. - 354
Sargeant, C. S., Gen. - 284
Shaklee, Francis M., Col. - 286
Smithberger, William - 528
Spriggs, David S. - 180
Spriggs, William S., Dr. - 190
Sullivan, E. P. - 543
Trimmer, Stevenson - 438
Taylor, George W. - 344
Way, Edward T. - 558
Wernecke, I. C. - 520
Wiley, Archibald - 216
Young, William
J., Hon. - 348 |
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