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     David Ales

     Samuel S. Neptune

     Henry and Hiram Hupp lived on farms below Middleburg in 1833 and had small improvements.  Henry Hupp sold out to Amos Spencer.

     Baxton Wells

     Next below Wells' farm lived a German named Christian Huffman.  On the west side of the creek was John Miller, who was a blacksmith by trade.  These were Mr. Neptune's neighbors in 1836.  To get enough men to assist him in raising a cabin he had to go five miles.  There were no early settlers among the hills in the northeastern part of the township where several thrifty Germans now have good farms.
     The old settlers on the creek were good-natured, but improvident and unprogressive.  They did not want the country to become thickly settled and predicted that it never would be.  The wish was father to the thought, as they desired to have the hills for a range for the little stock which they kept; and by allowing the cattle to run at large, they were spared

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the trouble of building fences and keeping them in repair.  All the early settles did more or less hunting.  Deer and wild turkeys were abundant, and wolves were occasionally seen.  The land along the creek was timbered with a heavy, dense growth of large trees.

     Henry Enochs,

     John Hall,

     George Hupp,

     William Heiddleston

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     Hezekiah Cousins

     Thomas Morris and family came from England in 1830, and settled on the farm which John F. Morris, Esq., now owns.  Here he had one of the early grist-mills run by horse-power.  Andrew Morris, a brothers of Thomas, came a little later.

     Humphrey Pedicord was quite an early settler on the farm now occupied by W. Warren.

     James Mitchel is one of the old residents.  He has been living in the vicinity of his present home since 1837.

     John Hesson, who now lives in Lawrence County, settled in this township quite early, Benjamin Hinton lived north of George Hupp, in 1843.  Peter Gray was an early resident upon the present Shafer place.  James Whitmore and Thomas Turner settled about 1840 on the farms where they died.

     George Hupp, Sr., was one of the early hunters.  He killed several elk, many deer, and once shot a panther.  He also tanned and made powder, which he sold to the early settlers.

     Philip Craig, an easy going, honest man, somewhat peculiar in his ways, and among the early settlers.  He was something of a hunter, and left the county after it became too thickly settled to suit him.  In the same neighborhood lived two early settlers, each by the name of Samuel Dugan.  David Ward lived and

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died south of the Heiddleston farm.  George Gillespie lived near.

     Philip Kitts

     Henry Woods,

     Church Tuttle,

     Wesley Neptune came to Middleburg in 1845.  For over forty years Mr. Neptune has been a resident of this section, and has been one of its prominent and progressive citizens.

     Samuel S. Neptune

     Thomas Morris

     Andrew Morris

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     About 1833 Christian Huffman, a native of Germany, settled on Middle Creek, where he died.  His children were Henry, Charles, John, William, Louisa and Lovina.  Charles, William and Louisa (Pryor) are still living in the county.  Mr. Huffman was the first of the native German settlers in Jefferson and Enoch Townships.  The immigration to the latter township did not begin until 1836.

     T. B. Tarleton

     A. A. Clymer

     One of the conspicuous and familiar names in this section of the county is that of Samuel Hussey, who for many years was known as one of the most successful farmers and stock growers in the valley.  He was born in Maine, in 1803, and came to Washington County with his parents when a lad.  The elder Hussey was a small farmer and Samuel remained with him, as was the custom in those days, until he had attained his majority, when he commenced life for himself as a farm hand.  For a time he was engaged in boating on the Ohio between Marietta and New Orleans.  After he abandoned the river he came to Jefferson Township, and bought the farm on which he died.  He was a worthy citizen and a successful farmer.  He was twice married; his first wife, Miss Elmira Warren, died in 1843.  In 1844 he married Miss Marrilla, a sister of his first wife.  By the first marriage there were two children, Joseph and Elmira, by the second a son and daughter, Oscar and Jane, both of whom are deceased.

     John J. Corp

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     Dexter W. Sullivan

     The life of Richard S. Deal

     The Morgareidge family

     Parley C. Morgareidge

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     S. S. Morgareidge,

     Frederick N. Morgareidge

     Henry S. Williams,

     Halsee Williams,

     In 1827 I. F. Wilson

     Josiah A. Bower

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     S. J. Donaldson,

     Minor M. Dye

     Daniel N.. Brown,

DEXTER CITY.

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is built lies in Jackson Township, but the greater portion is in Jefferson.
     The town was named after one of its well known residents, Dexter W. Sullivan.  Prior to the location of the town there were two houses here - the residences of R. S. Deal and Dr. T. M. McVay, and a steam grist-mill owned by R. S. Deal.  The mill was built by James Rowland, Sr., about 1853.

     The first building was a dwelling erected by Dexter W. Sullivan, in 1871.  Mr. Sullivan afterward built another house and in it kept hotel for several years..  He was the first hotel-keeper in the place.

SOCIETIES

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CHURCHES

MIDDLEBURG

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Middleburg schools, both select and public.  The select schools were well attended.

BIOGRAPHICAL

EDWARD P. SULLIVAN.

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