EARLY SETTLERS.

     John Anderson, who came here from Pennsylvania, in 1797, accompanied by his wife and to children, is conceded to have been the first permanent settler in Washington township. They located on Hargus Creek in section 10, where Mr. Anderson’s son John, who had come out before the rest of the family, had selected a location.  When the land was made subject to entry in 1801, they took up about 640 acres, in sections 10 and 3.  A stepson of John Anderson, David Culberson by name, came out with the Anderson family and settled in this township.  He was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and some at the earliest religious meetings were held at his cabin.
     In 1799, a man by the name of Zeimmer (Seymour, as it is sometimes anglicized), who was a native of Germany, came with his wife and family of seven children from Maryland to this township, and settled in section 27,

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where he later entered a half section of land.  In 1812 the parents, one daughter and the youngest son, Philip, removed to Richland County, Ohio, where a short time afterward, the father, mother and daughter were massacred by the Indians.