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Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley
Chicago: Inter-State
Publishing Co.
1884
CHAPTER XXI.
NILE, WASHINGTON AND UNION TOWNSHIPS
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NILE TOWNSHIP
Nile Township is the largest in the county.
The township is the extreme southwest of the county, and has an Ohio
River front of nearly fifteen miles. There are some nice
bottom lands to be found all the way down, but when you leave the
river bottoms you strike a rough and broken country, better adapted
to stock and for stock ranges than for anything else. Still
after you get over the bluff and on the banks of Turkey Creek the
upper part of Pond's Run and along Twin Creek there are a good many
acres of rich and productive lands. The tops of a good many of
the ranges of hills are level pleateaus, which prove easy of
cultivation, with a strong and productive soil. There is
plenty of timber, and getting out ties and tan-bark is one of the
main industries. The freestone quarries give it an immense
wealth which has been utilized for nearly half a century. In
wealth Nile Township ranks the eighth in the county, according to
the assessed valuation.
VALUATION, BOUNDS, POPULATION.
OLD SETTLERS.
The pioneers of Nile Township were a sturdy
set of men. They settled along the Ohio River, taking up the
rich lands found in the valley of this beautiful stream. By
and by they began to extend inland, and the valley of Turkey Creek
also soon found settlers. The names of all cannot here be
given but many others who made Nile Township their home will be
found in the old settlers' list in the county history. Among
those who left the impress of their lives upon the progress of the
township were David Mitchell, Geo. Hutton, Geo. McKinney, Jno.
Tucker, Abraham Tucker, Sr., Jesse Williams, Thos. Cooper, Solomon
McCail, John Calloway and Middleton Harmon.
SCHOOLS
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS AND VOTING PRECINCTS.
BUENA VISTA.
SSS
OTHER BUSINESS INTERESTS.
CHURCHES.
FRIENDSHIP.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
ERI ALLEMAUG
H. N. BRIDWELL
W. C. BROOKS
W. C. BROUSE
DANIEL W. COLE
J. W. DEVOSS
JOHN EVANS
MITCHELL EVANS
W. A. FRIZZEL, M. D.
ALLEN F. GIVENS
JAMES H. GIVENS
WILLIAM GIVENS
JAMES C. HAMILTON
J. L. HIBBS (PORTRAIT ONLY)
BENJAMIN L. JEFFERSON
G. A. KLEIN
HENRY KRESS
REV. J. S. T. LAVINDER
HENRY LOCKHART
DAVID B. McCALL
SOLOMON B. McCALL
G. S. McCORMICK
J. M. MILLER
BURRIS MOORE
COLONEL JOSEPH MOORE
EZRA H. NOEL
JOHN NOLDER
NELSON ODEL
LEONIDAS PILES
JOHN SWEARINGEN
J. B. VALODIN
JOHN VAUGHTERS
ALLEN WIKOFF
DANIEL WORLEY
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
originally Union Township, or a part thereof, is
about as old settled as any portion of the county. There is
only a few months difference between the settlement of what is now
Washington Township and those settlements on or near the Little
Scioto and the French Grant. It is a
............................MORE TO COME
THE OLD PIONEERS.
Among the pioneers
who first settled in Washington the names of many will be found in
the list of settlers in Union Township history, and some are here
given who were known to have settled in this township. All
their immediate locations could not be given, though some in the
Union list were known to have lived in this. Among those not
mentioned except in the pioneer county list, were - Lemuel Moss,
James Andrews, Joseph and Thomas Williamson, Levi Moore, Francis
Cleveland, David Roup, Sylvester Veach, Stephen Carey, Isaac
Williams, Anthony Clifford, Mrs. Milly Moore, John Worley, James
Edison, William Carey, Hiram Devers, John F. Smith, Miss Rebecca
Smith, Roswell Crane, Abel Bradford, Isaac Worley, Joshua Nurse,
Samuel B. Nurse and a few others whose names were forgotten.
TEACHERS.
Among the early teachers
besides Willia Jones, of Alexandria, in 1800, are found the
names of Andrew McClaven, Samuel Williamson, Traverse Redd,
Joshua Nurse, Abraham Baines. Mr. Nurse's brothers, were
Josiah Lewis, Uriah and Reuben. They were
descendants of John Rogers, who was burned at the stake
in England, and all men of energy who made their mark upon the
township's progress.
SCHOOLS - 1883.
A CHANGE AND MORE TERRITORY.
AREA, VALUATION AND POPULATION.
TEMPERVALE
is the name of the new hamlet laid out on Carey's
Run only a short time since. If it lives it can have its
history recorded in the next work of this kind, and take the year of
its birth, 1883, from this volume.
CHURCHES.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS
BIOGRAPHICAL:
DAVID ALLISON
DANIEL BODMER
JACOB BODMER
SAMUEL BROUS
T. CALVER
GEORGE W. COFFRIN
GEORGE W. COLE
OLIVER DOLE
WILLIAM EARLEY
J. R. FOSTER
GEORGE FREEMAN
CHARLES HACQUARD
LUTHER R. JONES
E. J. KIRBY
D. V. LARKIN
CORNELIUS McCOY
EMANUEL MOORE
ANDREW NOEL
CORYDON PILES
JOHN C. ROBEY
C. C. SCHLICHTER
ISAIAH W. K. SMITH
NATHANIEL F. SMITH
PETER J. SMITH
WILLIAM F. SMITH
GEORGE J. SOMMER
WILLIAM TURNE740
JOHN M. VAUGHTERS
R. M. VAUGHTERS
THOMAS G. VAUGHTERS
WILLIAM C. VAUGHTERS
CALEB WILCOXSON
GEORGE WILLIAMSON
UNION TOWNSHIP.
Union Township was one of
the original townships and took in a part of Washington, which was
made from Nile and Union, all of Rush and Morgan, and probably all
of Brush Creek except what belonged to Nile. It has now been
curtailed of its dimensions to a considerable extent, and from being
one of the largest in the county at its organization in 1803, it is
now one of the middle size, eight townships being larger and six
smaller, not counting Portsmouth.
Union Township is now bounded on the north by Brush
Creek and a corner of Morgan townships, east by Rush, south by
Washington and Nile, and west by Brush Creek Township. It has
an area of 19,118 acres, the land being very broken and hilly, with
a far better surface for stock-raising than for that of grain.
Upper Pond Creek, the word "upper" being used to designate it from
the Pond Creek or Run of Nile Township, rises in the southwest part
of the township, runs northeast, and passing through Rush flows into
the Scioto. Brush Creek winds through its northern central
part, from east to west, with a large bend called the Horseshoe
Bend.
Its assessed valuation for 1882 was: real estate,
$81,620; personal property, $40,577; total valuation, $122,197.
The population........ MORE TO COME
VILLAGES.
Lombardsville
is the ancient point of settlement, but it is hard, at this day, to
make even a hamlet of it. There is one store at this place.
It has been a postoffice for quite a number of years, and there is a
large stave factory. It is also the voting precinct of the
township. Perhaps Henly, with its great transportation
facilities, and on the trunk line of railway leading to the Queen
City, may wife out the whole of the business interests of
Lombardsville, including its position of a voting precinct.
Henly is now the
terminus of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad. It has two
small stores, a saw-mill, and a postoffice.
OFFICERS.
1809 - Trustees, Peter Noel, Perry Liston and
James Norris; Clerk, S. G. James; 1810 - Trustees,
Peter Noel, Benjamin Rankin and James Norris;
Treasurer, Benjamin Feurt; Clerk, S. G. James;
Overseers of the Poor, John White a
3nd Philip Moore;
Fence Viewers, Warren Johnston and John R. Turner;
Constable, William Howell.
The early records were not all found, but the above
is given, for they represent many of the first settlers in the
township.
1883 - Trustees, Moses Wickline, Austin Crow and
Theopolis Varnier; Clerk, Thomas H. Garvin; Treasurer,
Charles Lovernier; Justices of the Peace, Joseph Kelley
and N. R. Wilson; Constables, G. B. Mershon and Wm.
Holdenness; Assessor, James Kelley. < BACK
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