| CHAPTER I. - |
- 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. - |
- Fourth of July Celebration on
Put-In-Bay
- Monumental Association Laying of the Corner Stone
- Speeches of El. Cook and Dr. Parsons |
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| CHAPTER III. - |
- Peace
- Treaties
- Reservations
- Cessions
- Emigrants Arriving
- Wars Between the Wyandots and Senecas
- Speech of Logan and His Death |
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| CHAPTER IV. - |
- Harrison in Council With the
Indians
- Croghan's Defense of Harrison
- Blue Jacket and Beaver
- Blue Jacket's Death
- Army Roads
- Thomas Corwin
- James Montgomery
- James T. Worthington |
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| CHAPTER V. - |
- Speech of Isaac I. Dumond
- Samuel Crowell's Contribution
- The Dog-Dance-Sow-Dows-Ky |
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| CHAPBER VI. - |
- Early Settlers
- The Harris Family
- Robbery of Spicer
- The Brush-Dam
- Peter Pork
- Jacob Knisely and Crow
- Going to Mill
- Killing Witches
- The First Horse-Race |
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| CHAPTER VII. - |
- The Seneca Chief Presents the
Governor of Canada with American Scalps
- Tal Chief
- The Tuquanias
- Killing the Squaw of George Washington
- Judge Hulburt
- Caleb Rice
- Benj. Culver
- Rev. James Finlay
- Capt. Joseph
- Mrs. Ingham |
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| CHAPTER VIII. - |
- Death of Comstock
- Seneca Steel
- Execution of Seneca John
- Trial and Birchard's Statement
- Benjamin F. Warner
- Hard Hickory and His Death
- Immigration of the Senecas to the Neosha and Cow-Skin Rivers
- Charlieu
- The Girtys
- The Death of Drake |
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| CHAPTER IX. - |
- 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. - |
- First Meridian
- Base Line
- Townships
- Ranges
- Sections
- General Survey
- Organization of Seneca County
- The Old Court House
- First Court
- First Election
- First Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners
- Appointment of Officers
- Building the First Jail
- Rudolphus Dickinson
- Sale of the Reservations |
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| CHAPTER XI. - |
- 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
- Organizing 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. - |
- 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
- "The Life in the Woods for Me
- Home-Made Cloth
- Young America |
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| CHAPTER XIV. - |
- 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
- Canal Tax of Seneca County |
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| CHAPTER XV. - |
- Sandusky River and the Creeks in
Seneca County
- Topography and Genealogy of the County |
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| CHAPTER XVI. - |
- 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 XIX. - |
- Biographies of
- John Goodin, Mrs. Ann Seney, R. W. Shawhan, C. _ Snyder, Snyder,
Geo. Rummell, David E. Owen, Judges Lugenbeel and Pittenger,
John Pittinger, John and Louisa Fiege,
- C. Mueller
- Wyandot Chiefs
- Mark, 6th Chapt., 2d Verse, in Mohawk |
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| CHAPTER XX. - |
- Surplus Revenue
- Politics
- First Political Jollification
- Tiffin in the Woods
- Tiffin Incorporated
- First Town Election of Tiffin
- Incorporation and only Election of Fort Ball
- Incorporation of the City
- First City Officers
- Plank Roads
- Pikes
- Telegraphs
- The Schools of Tiffin |
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| CHAPTER XXI. - |
- The Banks of Tiffin
- Insurance Companies
- Secret and Benevolent Societies |
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| CHAPTER XXII. - |
- The Bench and Bar |
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| CHAPTER XXIII. - |
- The Bench and Bar Continued |
366 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. - |
- Drs. Driesbach, Kuhn, Fisher, Hovey
and others
- Tiffin Medical Society
- The Agricultural Society
- The Press
- Messrs. Loomis, Naylor, Gross
- The County Infirmary
- Agricultural Works
- The Gas Light Company
- The Pioneer Association
- Der Bruder-bund
- The Philharmonic Society
- Mrs. Harriet Crawford
- Dr. John D. O'Connor |
389 |
| CHAPTER XXV. - |
- The Toledo War. |
424 |
| CHAPTER XXVI - |
- 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 |
438 |
| CHAPTER XXVII. - |
- Seneca County in the War of the
Rebellion |
454 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII - |
- Dr. Robert E. Demeans |
470 |
| CHAPTER XXIX. - |
- ADAMS TOWNSHIP |
474 |
| CHAPTER XXX. - |
- BIG SPRING TOWNSHIP |
486 |
| CHAPTER XXXI. - |
- BLOOM TOWNSHIP |
492 |
| CHAPTER XXXII. - |
- CLINTON TOWNSHIP |
504 |
| CHAPTER XXXIII. - |
- EDEN TOWNSHIP |
525 |
| CHAPTER XXXIV. - |
- HOPEWELL TOWNSHP |
541 |
| CHAPTER XXXV. - |
- JACKSON TOWNSHIP |
547 |
| CHAPTER XXXVI. - |
- LIBERTY TOWNSHIP |
549 |
| CHAPTER XXXVII. - |
- LOUDON TOWNSHIP |
553 |
| CHAPTER XXXVIII. - |
- PLEASANT TOWNSHIP |
570 |
| CHAPTER XXXIX. - |
- REED TOWNSHIP |
578 |
| CHAPTER XL. - |
- SCIPIO TOWNSHIP |
586 |
| CHAPTER XLI. - |
- SENECA TOWNSHIP |
593 |
| CHAPTER XLII. - |
- THOMPSON TOWNSHIP |
607 |
| CHAPTER XLIII. - |
- VENICE TOWNSHIP |
615 |
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CHAPTER XLIV. - |
- COUNTY OFFICERS TO 1880
INCLUSIVE, AND CONCLUSION |
629 |
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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 |
640 |
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