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Seneca County, Ohio
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Source:
 History of Seneca County:
from the close of the Revolutionary War to July, 1880:
embracing many personal sketches of pioneers, anecdotes,
and faithful descriptions of events pertaining to the organization of the county and its progress
Published: Springfield, Ohio: Transcript Print. Co., 
 1880

CONTENTS

NOTE:   More pages numbers will be added soon.

  INTRODUCTORY 12
CHAPTER I. - Started 11/4/2020 43
   - Battle of Fort Stephenson
 - Harrison and Croghan
 - Fort Seneca
 - Wipingstock
 - Perry's Victory of Lake Erie
 - Battle of the Thames
 - Death of Tecumseth		  
CHAPTER II. - 50
   - 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.		  
CHAPTER III. - 69
   - Peace
 - Treaties
 - Reservations
 - Cessions
 - Emigrants Arriving
 - Wars Between the Wyandots and Senecas
 - Speech of Logan
 - His Death		  
CHAPTER IV. - 82
   - 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.		  
  94
CHAPTER V. -  - Speech of Isaac I. Dumond Before Seneca Pioneer Association
 - Samuel Crowell's Contribution
 - The Dog-Dance-Sow-Dows-Ky		  
CHAPTER VI. -  - Started 1/12/2025 107
   - 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
 - Hard Hickory - 118
 - Good Hunter - 118
 - Seneca John - 118
 - Seneca Steel - 118
 - Mound Builders - 120
 - The First Horse-Race - 120		  
CHAPTER VII. - Started 11/4/2020 121
   - The Seneca Chief Presents the Governor of Canada With 954 American Scalps - 121
 - 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. Sherman
 - Sketch of Mrs. Ingham - 128
 - Early Marriages		  
CHAPTER VIII. - 131
   - 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		  
CHAPTER IX. - 142
   - 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		  
CHAPTER X. - 155
   - 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.		  
CHAPTER XI. - 170
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XII. - 182
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XIII. - 196
   - Governor Edwin Tiffin
 - A Biography		  
CHAPTER XIV. - 208
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XV. - 222
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XV. - (This chapter actually appears to have been Chapter XVI) 237
   - Josiah Hedges
 - 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
 - Seewald, Philip - 255		  
CHAPTER XVI. -  (Sharon Wick's note:   This should be the chapter above here's space)  This Chapter number isn't in the book.  
CHAPTER XVII. - 258
   - 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. 		 
CHAPTER XVIII. - 275
   - The Churches  
CHAPTER XIX. - PARTIALLY FINISHED 1/10/2025 295
   - John Goodin  - 295
 - Mrs. Ann Seney  - 296
 - Mercantile Life - 297
 - Rezin W. Shawhan - 297
 - Christopher Snyder - 299
 - Geo. Rummell, - 301
 - David E. Owen - 302
 - Wyandot Chiefs and Families
 - Mark, Chapter VI., II Verse in Mohawk  - 306
 - Andrew Lugenbeel  - 306
 - John Pittinger - 307
 - Benjamin Pittenger - 309 
- Judge and Louise Fiege - 310
 - Christian Mueller & Valentine Schmidt - 310
 - The Great Fire of April, 1872 - 311		  
CHAPTER XX. - FINISHED 1/12/2025 316
   - Surplus Revenue - 316
 - Politics - 317
 - First Political Jollification - 318
 - Tiffin in the Woods - 319
 - Corporation Election - 320
 - Officers of the City - 322
 - Portrait of Harrison Noble -
 - Councilmen - 323
 - Harrison Noble - 323
 - Plank Roads - 326
 - The Telegraph - 327
 - The Schools of Tiffin - 328
 - Portraits of W. Lang, Warren P. Noble, C. O. Knepper, Henry Brohl, J. F. Bunn, E B. Hubbard
 - Dr. E. B. Hubbard - 333
 - C. O. Knepper - 334
 - Henry Brohl - 334		  
CHAPTER XXI. - 336
   - The Banks of Tiffin
 - Insurance Companies
 - Secret and Benevolent Societies		  
CHAPTER XXII. - The Bench and Bar- Started 1/12/2025 351
   - A. Rawson - Portrait - 354
 - Introductory Note - 355
 - Life of Abel Rawson - 356
 - Joshua Seney - 360
 - Luther A. Hall - 362
 - Oliver Cowdery - 364		  
CHAPTER XXIII. - The Bench and Bar Continued- Started 11/3/2020 366*
   - Sidney Sea - 366
 - Sidney Smith - 366
 - Cooper Watson - 372
 - Joseph Howard - 373
 - Robert G. Pennington - 374
 - George E. Seney - 375
 - Warren Perry Noble - 380
 - William H. Gibson - 382
 - G. B. Keppel - 383
 - Nelson L. Brewer - 383
 - Jacob K. Huddle (Hottal) - 383
 - John M'Cauley - 383
 - Jacob Bunn - 383
 - Frank Dildine - 383
 - Harrison Noble - 384
 - Nelson B. Lutes - 384
 - John H. Ridgely - 384
 - H. C. Keppel - 384
 - J. H. Pittenger - 384
 - Rush Abbott - 384
 - Nettie Cronise and Florence Cronise - 384
 - Perry M. Adams - 384
 - Upton F. Cramer - 385
 - Charles H. Cramer - 385
 - La Fayette L. Lang - 385
 - John B. Schwartz - 385
 - W. L. Kershaw - 385
 - H. J. Weller - 385
 - Gerald E. Sullivan - 385
 - James F. Leahy - 385
 - William Lang - 386 		 
CHAPTER XXIV. - STARTED 389*
   - Dresbach, Ely
 - Kuhn, Henry, Dr.
 - Carey, Robert C. J., Dr.
 - Fisher, James, Dr.
 - Seneca Medical Society (includes names of Heckerman, Martin, Schwan, Sullivan, M'Collum, Gibbon, Bland, Robinson, Stover, Paul, Hovey, Leahy
 - John D. O'Connor, M. D.
 - The Tiffin Gas Light Company
 - The Ohio Stove Works
 - The Tiffin Agricultural Works
 - The Tiffin Woolen Mills
 - The Tiffin Churn Factory
 - Loomis and Nyman's Foundry
 - The Tiffin Manufacturing Company
 - The Tiffin Water Works
 - The Public Library
 - Seneca County Agricultural Society - PARTIALLY FINISHED
 - Loomis, John D., Mr.
 - Naylor, John M., Mr.
 - Gross, Henry
 - The Press - PARTIALLY FINISHED
 - Armstrong, William W.
 - The Seneca County Pioneer Association - PARTIALLY FINISHED
 - Der Bruderbund
 - The Philharmonic Society
 - The Seneca County Infirmary
 - Mrs. Harriet Crawford.		  
CHAPTER XXV. - 424
   - The Toledo War.  
CHAPTER XXVI - 438
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XXVII. - 454
   - Seneca County in the War of the Rebellion  
CHAPTER XXVIII - FINISHED 1/12/2025 470
   - Dr. Robert E. Demeens  
CHAPTER XXIX. - ADAMS TOWNSHIP - Started 11/1/2020 474*
   - John Noel - pg. 483
 - Daniel Rule - pg. 484 w/ portrait		  
CHAPTER XXX. - BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP - Started 10/26/2020 486*
   - John Young - 488
 - Theodore M. Frink, Esq. - 490		  
CHAPTER XXXI. - BLOOM TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 11/2/2020 492*
   - Bloomville - 495
 - 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		  
CHAPTER XXXII. -  CLINTON TOWNSHIP - STARTED 1/12/2025 504*
   - 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
 - Jacob Holts - pg. 522
 - Peter Marsh - pg. 523
 - Colonel Ball - pg. 523
 - John Ditto - pg. 524		  
CHAPTER XXXIII. - EDEN TOWNSHIP - Started 11/2/2020 525*
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XXXIV. - HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 1/10/2025 541*
   - Samuel Smith - pg. 541
 - John Maule - pg. 541
 - George Slosser - pg. 542
 - Peter Slosser - pg. 542
 - John Dawalt - pg. 543
 - Joseph Ogle - pg. 543		  
CHAPTER XXXV. - JACKSON TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 11/2/2020 547*
   -  
CHAPTER XXXVI. - LIBERTY TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 10/26/2020 549*
   - Mrs. Rachael K. Turner - pg. 550  
CHAPTER XXXVII. - LOUDON TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 1/10/2025 552*
   - 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.
 - 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
 - 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		  
CHAPTER XXXVIII. - PLEASANT TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 11/4/2020 570*
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XXXIX. - REED TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 1/10/2025 578*
   - Dr. B. D. Williams - pg. 579  
CHAPTER XL. - SCIPIO TOWNSHIP - Started 11/1/2020 586*
   - Timothy P. Roberts - pg. 588
 - Archibald Stewart - pg. 589
 - N. P. Colwell - pg. 590
 - Lance Todd - pg. 591		  
CHAPTER XLI. - SENECA TOWNSHIP - Started 11/1/2020 593*
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XLII. - THOMPSON TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 11/4/2020 607*
   - Jasper Whitney - pg. 613  
CHAPTER XLIII. - VENICE TOWNSHIP - FINISHED 615*
   - 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		  
CHAPTER XLIV. - COUNTY OFFICERS TO 1880 INCLUSIVE, AND CONCLUSION 629*
   - Portraits of Jeremiah Rex, G. B. Keppel, V. J. Zahm, John W. Barrack, Lloyd N. Lease
 - 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 		 
APPENDIX 1 - 640
   - 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		  
APPENDIX 2 -   662
   - 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		  
APPENDIX 3 -  PARTIALLY FINISHED 679
   - The End
 - Centennial Oration and Celebration of Fourth of July 1876 in Tiffin.		  
ERRATA   692

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