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INTRODUCTORY |
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CHAPTER I. -
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- Battle of Fort Stephenson
- Harrison and Croghan
- Fort Seneca
- Wipingstock
- Perry's Victory of Lake Erie
- Battle of the Thames
- Death of Tecumseth |
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CHAPTER II. - |
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- Fourth of July Celebration on
Put-In-Bay
- Organization of a Monumental Association
- Celebration of Perry's Victory
- Laying of the Corner-Stone
- Speech of Elutherus Cook
- Speech of Dr. Parsons and the Other Three Survivors of Perry's Fleet. |
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CHAPTER III. - |
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- Peace
- Treaties
- Reservations
- Cessions
- Emigrants Arriving
- Wars Between the Wyandots and Senecas
- Speech of Logan
- His Death |
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CHAPTER IV. - |
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- Council With the
Indians
- Harrison's Speech
- Harrison at Fort Seneca
- Croghan's Defense of Harrison
- Blue Jacket's Plan to Assassinate Harrison
- Blue Jacket's Death
- Army Roads
- Thomas Corwin
- Anecdote of Corwin
- Sketches of James Montgomery and James T. Worthington. |
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CHAPTER V. - |
- Speech of Isaac I. Dumond Before
Seneca Pioneer Association
- Samuel Crowell's Contribution
- The Dog-Dance-Sow-Dows-Ky |
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CHAPBER VI. - |
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- Early Settlers
- Statement of Mrs. Stanley
- The Harris Family
- Robbery of Spicer
- The Brush-Dam
- Peter Pork
- Jacob Knisely and Crow
- Going to Mill
- Killing Witches
- Wolves
- The First Horse-Race |
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CHAPTER VII. -
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- The Seneca Chief Presents the
Governor of Canada with 954American Scalps
- Tall Chief
- The Tuquanias
- Killing the Squaw of George Washington
- Judge Hulburt
- Caleb Rice
- Benj. Culver
- Rev. James B. Finlay
- Capt. Joseph
- Mrs. Ingham
- Capt. Joseph
- Capt. Sherwood
- Sketch of Mrs. Ingham
- Early Marriages |
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CHAPTER VIII. - |
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- Death of Comstock
- Seneca Steel
- Execution of Seneca John
- Coonstick
- Trial and Discharge of Coonstick
- Judge Higgins' Decision
- Judge Birchard's Statement
- Benjamin F. Warner
- Hard Hickory and his Death
- Immigration of the Senecas to the Neosho and Cowskin Rivers
- Charliue
- The Girtys
- The Death of Drake |
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CHAPTER IX. - |
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- Rocky Creek
- Fort Ball
- Col. Ball Attacked by Indians
- Erastus Bowe
- Oakley
- New Fort Ball
- First Post Office
- Mills
- Armstrong and McCulloch Sections
- Early Settlers in Fort Ball
- Location of the County Seat
- Hunter's Mill
- Early Settlers in Thompson, on Honey Creek and Rocky
Creek
- Melmore
- Col. Kilbourne
- Harry Blackman's Corners
- Ancient Fortifications
- Col. Richard Jacqua |
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CHAPTER X. - |
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- First Meridian
- Base Line
- Townships
- Ranges
- Sections
- General Survey
- Organization of Seneca County
- The Old Court House
- Holding the First Court
- First Election
- First Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners
- Appointment of First Treasurer
- Collector of Taxes
- Surveyor
- Prosecuting Attorney
- Organization of Bloom, Scipio, Clinton, Hopewell, Seneca and Adams
Townships
- Building the First Jail
- Rudolphus Dickinson
- Reed Township
- Sale of the Reservations. |
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CHAPTER XI. - |
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- Jesse Spencer
- County Road from Fort Ball to Tiffin
- Wolf Scalps
- Organizing Townships in Crawford County
- Building the First Bridge
- First Kiln of Bricks
- David Bishop
- Final Organization of all the Townships
- History of the Building, The Burning and the Re-Building of the Court
House
- Building the Stone Jail
- The New Jail |
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CHAPTER XII. - |
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- The Wood-Chopper
- How to Build a Cabin
- The Difference Between the Settlers
- Their Benevolence and Hospitality
- Pioneer Girls
- Rustic Furniture
- The Hominy Block
- The Handmill
- Going to Meeting
- Indian Visitors
- Natural Fanning Mill
- "The Life in the Woods for Me"
- Home Made Cloth
- Young America |
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CHAPTER XIII. - |
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- Governor Edwin Tiffin
- A Biography |
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CHAPTER XIV. - |
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- Spencer vs. Hedges
- The Brush-Dam Case
- The First Jury Trial
- Brouse
- The Sugar Camp
- Indian Way of Cooking Coon
- Forest Culture
- Scarcity of Money
- Work on the Canal
- Jiggers and Chicha
- The Miami, Dayton and Michigan Canal, and Wabash and Erie Canals
- Canal Tax of Seneca County |
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CHAPTER XV. - |
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- Sandusky River
- The Wolf Creeks
- Silver Creek
- Honey Creek
- Rocky Creek
- Spicer Creek
- Morrison Creek
- Sugar Creek
- General Drainage
- Topography and Geology of the County |
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CHAPTER XV. - |
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- Josiah Hudges
- Change
- First Plat of Tiffin
- The Saw-Mill
- Miasma
- First Frame Houses
- First Stores
- First Brick Houses
- The Dug-out
- First Hotels
- Black-Strap
- Henry Gross, Sr.
- Bredoon's Death
- Creeger Family
- The Families of Henry Cronise, Henry Lang and Dr. Boyer |
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CHAPTER XVI. - |
(Sharon Wick's note: This
should be the chapter above here's space) This Chapter
number isn't in the book. |
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CHAPTER XVII. - |
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- Additions to Tiffin
- The Ferry
- The Bridges
- The Toll Bridge
- The Free Bridge
- The Burning of the Free Bridge
- The Cholera
- Frederick Hoffman
- Little Charlotte
- Johnny Dalrymple
- The Railroads
- First Train to Tiffin
- Heidelberg College
- Rev. E. V. Gerhart, D. D.
- Rev. J. H. Good, D. D.
- Rev. Geo. W. Willard, D. D. |
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CHAPTER XVIII. - |
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- The Churches |
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CHAPTER XIX. - |
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- John Goodin,
- Mrs. Ann Seney,
- Rezin W. Shawhan,
- Christopher Snyder,
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Geo. Rummell,
- David E. Owen,
- Wyandot Chiefs and Families
- Mark, Chapter VI., II Verse in Mohawk
- Andrew Lugenbeel
- Judge Pittinger
- Judge and Louise Fiege
- Christian Mueller
- The Great Fire of April, 1872 |
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CHAPTER XX. - |
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- Surplus Revenue
- Politics
- First Political Jollification
- Tiffin in the Woods
- Tiffin Incorporated
- First Election
- Incorporation of Fort Ball
- Its First Election
- Incorporation of the City
- First Corps of City Officers
- Harrison Noble
- Plank Roads
- Pikes
- Telegraphs
- The Schools of Tiffin |
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CHAPTER XXI. - |
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- The Banks of Tiffin
- Insurance Companies
- Secret and Benevolent Societies |
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CHAPTER XXII. - |
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- The Bench and Bar |
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CHAPTER XXIII. -
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- The Bench and Bar Continued |
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CHAPTER XXIV. - |
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- Drs. Dresbach, Kuhn, Fisher,
O'Connor
- Tiffin Medical Society
- Industries in Tiffin
- Seneca County Agricultural Society
- The Press: Messrs. Loomis, Naylor, Gross
- The Seneca County Infirmary
- The Tiffin Gas Light Company
- Agricultural Works, Etc.
- The Seneca County Pioneer Association
- Der Bruderbund
- The Philharmonic Society
- Mrs. Harriet Crawford. |
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CHAPTER XXV. - |
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- The Toledo War. |
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CHAPTER XXVI - |
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- Seneca County in the General
Assembly
- Seneca County on the Tax Duplicate
- Soldiers of the Revolutionary War
- Soldiers of the War of 1812
- Soldiers in the War with Mexico
- Independent Companies
- Ohio Militia |
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CHAPTER XXVII. - |
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- Seneca County in the War of the
Rebellion |
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CHAPTER XXVIII - |
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- Dr. Robert E. Demeans |
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CHAPTER XXIX. - ADAMS TOWNSHIP
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-
John Noel - pg.
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- Daniel Rule - pg. 484 w/ portrait |
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CHAPTER XXX.
- BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP -
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John Young - 488
- Theodore M. Frink, Esq. - 490 |
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CHAPTER XXXI.
- BLOOM TOWNSHIP -
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- Bloomville - 495
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Recollections of Pioneer Days in Bloom Township.
by Elder Lewis Seitz. - pg. 496
- William Davis - pg. 499
- Jacob Hossler, Esq. - pg. 500
- John T. Reid - pg. 500
- James R. Wilson, Esq. - pg. 502 |
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CHAPTER XXXII. - CLINTON TOWNSHIP
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John Keller -
pg. 505
- Henry C. Brish - pg. 505
- John Beard - pg. 507
- Daniel Lamberson - pg. 508
- John Crum - pg. 508
- Rev. John Souder - pg. 509
- David Rickenbaugh - pg. 513
- Daniel Dildine, Sr. - pg. 513
- Nicholas Goetschius - pg. 514
- James Goetschius - pg. 514
- James Myers- pg. 515
- The Swander Family - pg. 517
- Mr. Charles Kelley- pg. 521
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Jacob Holts - pg. 522
- Peter Marsh - pg. 523
- Colonel Ball - pg. 523
- John Ditto - pg. 524 |
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CHAPTER XXXIII. - EDEN TOWNSHIP
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- Melmore and Republic
Railroad - pg. 526
- Van Matre- pg. 529
- Heaton, Micagah - 532
- Samuel S. Martin - pg. 533
- Death of an Old Citizen of Seneca County - Samuel S. Martin - pg.
533
- Robert M'Candish Martin - pg. 534
- John Searles - pg. 535
- Hugh Welch - pg. 537 |
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CHAPTER XXXIV. - HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP
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- Samuel Smith -
pg. 541
- John Maule - pg. 541
- George Slosser - pg. 542
- Peter Slosser - pg. 542
- John Dawalt - pg. 543
-
Joseph Ogle - pg. 543 |
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CHAPTER XXXV. - JACKSON TOWNSHIP
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CHAPTER XXXVI. - LIBERTY TOWNSHIP -
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Mrs. Rachael K.
Turner - pg. 550 |
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CHAPTER XXXVII. - LOUDON TOWNSHIP
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-
Charles W. Foster
- pg. 555
- Charles Foster - pg. 557 w/ portrait
- Martin Kingseed - pg. 558
- Resident Lawyers in Fostoria, Being Members of the Tiffin Bar.
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Junius V. Jones - pg 559
- William J. Schaufelberger - pg. 561
- Alexander Brown - pg. 561
- William J. Rigby - pg. 561
- Charles Guernsey - pg. 561
- J. M. Bever - pg. 561
- John B. Barnes - pg. 561
- John A. Bradner - pg. 561
- David Hays - pg. 562
- Fostoria Academy - pg. 562
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The Union School Building - 563
- The Opera House - pg. 563
- Other Industries of Fostoria - pg. 564
- Jacob Fruth - pg. 568
- Christian Schlemmer - pg. 568
- Abraham Peter - pg. 569
- Jacob Peter - pg. 569
- John George Fruth - pg. 569
- Jacob Mergenthaler - pg. 569
- Melchior Heisserman - pg. 569 |
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CHAPTER XXXVIII. - PLEASANT TOWNSHIP
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-
Uriah Egbert -
pg. 570
- Philip Staub - pg. 571
- Mrs. Caleb Rice - pg. 571
- Cornelius Flummerfelt - pg. 572 - w/ Portrait
- Bridges in Pleasant Township - Death of Stackhouse and Figgins
- pg. 573
- Rasselas R. Titus - pg. 575 |
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CHAPTER XXXIX. - REED TOWNSHIP
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- Dr. B. D. Williams
- pg. 579 |
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CHAPTER XL. - SCIPIO TOWNSHIP
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- Timothy P. Roberts
- pg. 588
- Archibald Stewart - pg. 589
- N. P. Colwell - pg. 590
- Lance Todd - pg. 591 |
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CHAPTER XLI. - SENECA TOWNSHIP
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- Francis Joseph Hart
- pg. 594
- Gustavus G. Reiniger - pg. 596
- The Staib Family - pg. 597
- Elijah Musgrave - pg. 599
- John Dockweiler - pg. 599
- William Arnold - pg. 600
- George Heck - pg. 601
- Anton Koenigsamen - pg. 604 |
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CHAPTER XLII. - THOMPSON TOWNSHIP
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Jasper Whitney -
pg. 613 |
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CHAPTER XLIII. - VENICE TOWNSHIP
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- A Centennial History
of Venice Township and the Village of Attica - pg. 617
- Johnson Ford - pg. 622
- Maurice Moore - pg. 624
- William M'Pherson - pg. 625
- Venice Township in the War - pg. 627
- 7th Regiment O. V. I. - pg. 627
- Company H, 14th Regiment O. V. I.
- pg. 627
- Company B, 49th Regiment O. V. I. - pg.
627
- 55th Regiment O. V. I. - pg. 627
- 66th Regiment O. V. I. - pg. 627
- Company I, 123d Regiment O. V. I. - pg.
628
- First Ohio Heavy Artillery - pg. 628 |
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CHAPTER XLIV. - COUNTY OFFICERS TO 1880
INCLUSIVE, AND CONCLUSION |
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- Portraits of
Jeremiah Rex, G. B. Keppel, V. J. Zahm, John W. Barrack,
Lloyd N. Lease
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John W. Barrack - pg. 629
- Jeremiah Rex - pg. 629
- Lloyd N. Lease - pg. 630
- Victor J. Zahm - pg. 630
- Population of Seneca County in 1880 - pg. 631
- Census Returns - pg. 631 |
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APPENDIX
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- The Earthquake
- The Great Hurricane
- The Jerks
- The Mormons
- Salutatory of the Van Burenite
- The Old State House and Dirge of the State House Bell
- The Tiffin Papers
Centennial Oration July 4, 1876, and Celebration in Tiffin |
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APPENDIX 2 - |
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- The Tiffin Papers
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention
- First of Ohio
- Message of 1803
- Message Concerning the Arrest of the Burr
- Blannerhasset Expedition
- Tiffin in the United States Senate
- Election of Speaker of House of Representatives of Ohio |
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APPENDIX 3 - |
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- The End
- Centennial Oration and Celebration of Fourth of July 1876 in Tiffin. |
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ERRATA |
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