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Source:
A Standard History of
THE HANGING ROCK IRON REGION OF OHIO
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with the Extended
Survey of the Industrial and Commercial Development
Vol. I
ILLUSTRATED
Publishers - The Lewis Publishing Company
1916
 

PREFACE  

PART I
HANGING ROCK IRON REGION
CHAPTER I - LIMITATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS 3
   - High-Water Mark of Iron Industries
 - Lack of Superior Fuel Coal.
 - Varied and More Substantial Prosperity
 - Commercial Advantages
 - Distinct Coal Basin
 - The Gifts of Nature
 - Topography of Lower Scioto Valley
 - The Scioto River
 - Its Drainage System
 - Ohio River Drainage
 - Mineral Products
 - Prehistoric Readings
 - Early Forest Growths
 - Tree Colonization
 - Flower Garden of the Scioto
 - The Beasts
 - Scioto Valley Birds
 - Fish
 - Snakes
 - All a Background for Man
CHAPTER II - PREVIOUS TO THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 16
   - Greatest Historic Waterways West of Ohio
 - French Scheme of Colonization in Force
 - French Northwest Territory
 - French Formally Claim Louisiana
 - English Serve Notice of Possession
 - First Ohio Company and Agent Gist
 - George Croghan
 - Party Starts for the Scioto Valley
 - In the Land of the Delawares
 - Great Shawnee Town on Both Sides of the Ohio
 - Savage Exhibition of Woman's Rights (?)
 - The Indians of the Scioto Valley
 - Shawnees Migrate Northwardly
 - Shawnees Last to Surrender
 - A Northwest Territory Assured
 - Lifting of Indian and State Titles
 - Lord Dunmore's Squatters
CHAPTER III - THE ORDINANCE OF 1787 26
   - American System of Land Surveys
 - Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784
 - Cutler's Ordinance of 1787
 - The South Its Warmest Supporter
 - Three or Five States Authorized
 - First Surveys of Western Lands
 - First Land Sales
 - Futile Home-Making Attempt of 1785
 - Military and Civil Friction
 - Washington County Organized First Judiciary
 - Indians At Last Subdued
CHAPTER IV - THE SCIOTO LAND COMPANY AND FRENCH GRANT 32
   - The Scioto Land Company and the Ohio Company
 - The Two Entirely Distinct
 - Seemed Purely Speculative
 - Why the Bubble Burst
 - Contract to Purchase Shares in the Ohio Company
 - Failure of the Scioto Company
 - Putnam the Principal Loser
 - Courteous Treatment by the Ohio Company
 - Another Account of Company and Immigrants
 - Gallipolis Founded by General Putnam
 - Gervais, a Friend in Need
 - Allotment of the French Grant
 - The Ninety-two Original Owners
 - French Replaced Largely by Yankees
 - Story by Thayer D. White
 - Burrsburg A Failure
 - Making Peach and Apple Brandy Profitable
 - Well Known Settlers
 - Hunt Improves the Gervais Purchase
 - Asa Boynton and His Work
 - Pioneer Mills
 - All the other Boyntons
 - The Whites
 - The Other Purchaser of the Gervais Tract
 - First Settlers Other Than the French
 - The Salladays
 - Vermonters
CHAPTER V - PIONEER SETTLEMENTS AND SETTLERS 45
     
CHAPTER VI - PIONEER PICTURES 61
   - Actual Settlers on the French Grant
 - The Five Pioneers
 - Mons. Gervais Agmn?
 - Dudutt, Successful French Farmer
 - Brisk, Bright, Warm Little Frenchman
 - Nervous About His Hospitality
 - A Tragic Misfortune
 - A. C. Vincent Spurns A King-to-Be
 - A Varied Life
 - A Mind to Coolly Meet Adversity
 - The Cadots and Dutiels
 - Simple Cutting of Bad Domestic Knot
 - Story of a Stow-away
 - Laziest Man on the Grant
 - Mos. Ginat, Pettifogger
 - A Doctor of Sharp angles
 - Force Hospitality
 - MORE TO COME

 

 

 

  
CHAPTER VII - TRTANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION 91
 

PART II

SCIOTO COUNTY
CHAPTER I - COUNTY FOUNDATIONS 103
     
CHAPTER II - PURELY PERSONAL PROFESSIONS 126
   - First Practicing Lawyers
 - Nathan Clough, pioneer Resident Attorney
 - Ezra Osborn, Champion Officeholder
 - How Tracy Was Drawn to Portsmouth
 - _rosecuting Attorney from 1821 to 1849
 - Edward Hamilton
 - Quietly Strong and Always Urbane
 - What Peck Taught the County
 - Jordan, Who Supplanted His Teacher
 - Supreme Control, of Temper
 - James M. Ashley
 - Why He left Portsmouth
 - The Bar of Today
 - Early Healers of Body and Soul
 - Doctor Dufligne as a Real Estate Owner
 - Dr. Thomas Waller, Perhaps First
 - Portsmouth's First Citizen
 - Dr. Giles S. B. Hempstead
 - Founder of Academy of Medicine
 - Medical Societies
 - Joseph Corson, M. D.
 - Dr. William J. McDowell
 - Dr. William J. McDowell
 - Dr. Cyrus M. Finch, Celebrated Surgeon
 - Dr. David B. Cotton
 - Dr. James P. Bing
 - Other Early Physicians
 - Female Practitioners
CHAPTER III - THE COUNTY IN FOUR WARS 138
   - Two Scioto Companies of 1812
 - Captain Roop's Company
 - Brig. Gen. Robert Lucas
 - Gen. William Kendall
 - The Mexican War
 - A Waste of Fine Material
 - Gen. Edward Hamilton, The Central Figure
 - The Civil War, Not a Ssurprise
 - The Kinney Light Guards
 - The Portsmouth Rifles
 - First Scioto Soldiers to Fall
 - Captain McDowell's Company
 - Troops Raised in the First Three Months
 - Companies Under W. W. Riley and S. A. Currie
 - Death of the Gallant Captain Bailey
 - Military Strength in 1862
 - Proposed National Armory
 - Volunteers, 2,520, by January 1, 1864
 - Aid at Home
 - Fifty-sixth, Broadly Representative
 - Gen. Peter Kinney
 - Gen. William H. Raynor
 - Other Officers of the Fifty-sixth
 - Capt. John Cook
 - The Organization
 - The Thirty-Third Infantry
 - Gen. J. W. Sill
 - Lieut.-Col. O. F. Moore
 - Maj. J. V. Robinson
 - The Ninety-first Regiment
 - Col. J. A. Turley
 - The Fifty-third Regiment
 - Gen. Wells S. Jones
 - The Thirteenth Missouri Becomes the Twenty-second Ohio
 - The Grosbeck Regiment
 - The Second Kentucky Infantry
 - Eifort?, of the Second Kentucky Cavalry
 - Scioto County Captains
 - Battery I,
 - The Heavy Artillery
 - Company of Sharp-shooters
 - The Spanish-American War
 - Victims of the War		  
CHAPTER IV - PORTSMOUTH TOWN AND CITY 163
   - Incorporated as a Town
 - First Council Meeting and Officers
 - Regulating the Town Market
 - Street Supervisor or Commissioner
 - Original Act Amended
 - Streets Renamed
 - Curbing Sports and Young Sports
 - Nucleus of Police Force
 - Twice A City
 - First City Government
 - Expansion of Corporate Area
 - Offices
 - John R. Turner, Star Official
 - Portsmouth and Wayne Townships Equalized
 - Early Efforts Toward Public Hygiene
 - Early Sewers Constructed
 - Founding of the First Waterworks
 - Building of the Present Water System
 - The Mayors of the City
 - Fire and Police Departments
 - Great Fires of the '90s
 - Portsmouth's Public Libraries
 - The Postoffice
 - City Transportation and Lighting.		  
CHAPTER V - SCHOOLS AND NEWSPAPERS 179
     
CHAPTER VI - CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES 190
     
CHAPTER VII - BANKS AND BUSINESS 211
     
CHAPTER VIII - MINOR CENTERS OF POPULATION 225
     


PART III

LAWRENCE COUNTY
CHAPTER I - NATURAL AND IMPROVED RICHES 235
     
CHAPTER II - OF GENERAL COUNTY INTEREST 249
     
CHAPTER III - THE IRON INDUSTRIES 265
     
CHAPTER IV - THE CIVIL WAR 290
     
CHAPTER V - IRONTON AND THE VILLAGES 300
     
CHAPTER VI - IRONTON CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES 328
     


PART IV

JACKSON COUNTY
CHAPTER I - THE WORKS OF NATURE 345
   - General Physical Description
 - Salt Creek Valley
 - The Black Fork of Symmes
 - Flora and Fauna of the Valleys		  
CHAPTER II - THE SCIOTO SALT LICKS 352
     
CHAPTER III - GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF THE LICKS 371
   - Wasteful, Salt Boilers
 - The State in Control
 - Experiment Not a Success
 - Pioneer Roads and Postoffices
 - Township of Lick
 - David Mitchell
 - Major John James
 - Soldiers of the War of 1812 		 
CHAPTER IV - FOUNDING OF THE COUNTY 379
     
CHAPTER V - MISCELLANEOUS COUNTY MATTERS 397
     
CHAPTER VI - PIONEERS AND PIONEER MATTERS 413
     
CHAPTER VII - POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL (1816-54) 430
     
CHAPTER VIII - RAILROAD ERA COMMENCES 444
     
CHAPTER IX - THE CIVIL WAR 462
     
CHAPTER XI - LITERARY AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS 512
     
CHAPTER XII - TOWNSHIP HISTORY 526
   - Early Records of Jefferson Township
 - Justices of the Peace
 - Changes in School System
 - The Original Townships
 - Divisions After 1850
 - BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP
 - Its Hamlets
 - Methodist Churches in Township
 - KEYSTONE FURNACE
 - COAL TOWNSHIP
 - VILLAGE OF COALTON
 - Founders of Coalton
 - FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
 - The Churches and Their Founders
 - Prominent Citizens
 - HAMILTON TOWNSHIP
 - Religious Organizations
 - Mabee's Stand
 - JACKSON TOWNSHIP
 - First Settlers
 - Revolutionary Soldiers
 - SWIIFTSVILLE and RAY
 - JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
 - LIBERTY TOWNSHIP
 - Schools and Churches
 - LICK TOWNSHIPS
 - MADISON TOWNSHIP
 - The Earliest Churches
 - MADISON FURNACE
 - MILTON TOWNSHIP
 - SCIOTO TOWNSHIP
 - WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP		  
CHAPTER XIII - MOSTLY PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL 546


PART V

VINTON COUNTY
CHAPTER I - PIONEER EVENTS AND PEOPLE 567
     
CHAPTER II - OF GENERAL COUNTY INTEREST 585
     
CHAPTER III - INDUSTRIES AND RAILROADS 600
     
CHAPTER IV - THE CIVIL WAR 609
   - Commissioned Officers from Two Regiments
 - Scattered in Many Commands
 - Surgeons and Chaplains
 - Eighteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry
 - Second West Virginia Cavalry
 - "One Hundred Days" Men
 - Lieutenant Colonel Phillips
 - "One Year" Men		  
CHAPTER V - HISTORY OF McARTHUR 624
     
CHAPTER VI - HISTORY OF HAMDEN 636
     

 

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Abele, Joseph J., 672
Actual settlers on the French Grant, 61
Addis, John P., 993
Aetna Fire Brick Company, 498
African Methodist Episcopal Churck Ironton, 338
Albin, Thomas W., 1051
Aldrich, Clara E., 137
Aldridges, 560
Alexandria, 50, 108
Allensville, 582
Alley, Frank S., 1338
Allotment of the French Grant, 37
All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, 195;
     Rectors, 1831-1915, 196
Altons, 560
American system of land surveys, 26
Ancient Order of Hibernians, 341
Anderson, Thomas C., 1298
Anderson, William B., 807
Andre, George B. M., 1186
Andrews, Nathaniel W., 547
Andrews, raiders, 469
Appel, George M., 217
Apples, 243
Appleseed, Johnny, 246
Argilite Furnace, 268
Armstrong, John, 30
Armstrong, Joseph, 387
Armstrongs, 560
Arnold, Linnie A., 1182
Arthur, Azariah, 507
Arthurs, 560
Ashley, James M., 131
Athalia, 327
Attempt at settlement, 29
Aurora Lodge No. 48, F. & A. M., 206

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Immanuel Methodist Episcopal Church, Ironton, Pastors, 335
Improved Order of Red Men, 310, 461, 635, 611
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 208
Indian captives, 358
Indian commissioners, 25
Indian method of salt making, 356
Indians, 16, 32, 40;
     migration, 21;
     subdued, 30;
     attack Ohio Company agents, 363
Industrial conditions in the year 1857, 280
Industrial Section of Portsmouth (view), 220
Industrial Village of New Boston (view), 226
Introduction of the hot blast furnace, 270
I. O. O. F. Temple, Ironton, 340
Iron and Steel Furnace (view), 453
Iron Bank, 305
Iron Bank, Jackson, 493
Iron City Lodge No. 452, I. O. O. F., 339
Iron City Savings Bank, Ironton, 311
Iron Furnace at Ironton (view), 267
Iron furnaces, 52, 435, 440
Iron in Civil war times, 53
Iron industry, 3, 52, 265, 308
Iron ore deposits, 121
Iron ores, 238
Iron Railroad, 96, 278
Iron Railroad of Lawrence County, 441
Ironton and its furnace men, 52, 96;
     father of, 54;
     founded, 253
     incorporated, 300;
     railroads, 301, 306;
     location, 301;
     how named, 302;
     platted, 303;
     as a city, 305;
     additions, 307;
     in 1881, 307;
     industries, 308;
     banks, 310;
     first village code, 312;
     postoffice, 313;
     fire department, 313;
     waterworks, 313;
     public schools, 315;
     present enrollment and school houses, 318;
     press, 322;
     transportation, 323;
     floods, 324;
     churches, 328;
     societies, 338;
     lodges, 338;
     hospitals, 338
Ironton rolling mill, 279
Ironton Board of Education in 1851, 316
Ironton Commandery No. 45, K. T., 339
Ironton Lodge No. 198,
     I. O. O. F. 339
Ironton Portland Cement Company, 240, 309;
Ironton News, 323
Ironton Register, 322
Irontonian, 323
Irving Drew Company, 222
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Yankee settlers of the Ohio Company, 367
Young America Furnace, 456
Young Men's Christian Association, 201
Young Women's Christian Association, 204

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Zaleski, 60, 583;
     Rise and fall of, 603;
     history of, 603
Zaleski Furnace, 601
Zaleski Mining Company, 601
Zaleski, Peter F., 603

 

 

 

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