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PREFACE |
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CHAPTER I. - PHYSICAL BASIS OF
DEVELOPMENT |
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A Great Water-Shed and Glacial Border
- Drainage Basins of the County
- Great Prehistoric River
- Ancient Lines of Drainage
- Present-Day Topography
- Diversified Soil
- Artificial Fertilization and Drainage
- Woodland Farms First Opened
- Carboniferous Strata of Stark County
- The Massillon Coal Seam
- Massillon Sandstone
- The Limestones
- The Fire Clays
- Soil Industries, The Greatest |
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CHAPTER II. - INDUSTRIES BASED ON THE
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The Culture of Wheat
- Rotation of Crops
- The Grass Crop
- Corn, a Hardy Gran
- Good Potato Country
- Sorghum and Tobacco, Failures
- Best Fruit Districts
- As an Apple Country
- Peaches and Pears
- Smaller Fruits and Berries
- The Raising of Live Stock
- War Against Wolves and Sheep-Killing Dogs
- Introduction of Merino Sheep
- Trials of Early Cattle Raising
- Importation of Blooded Stock
- Horses, Farm and Fancy
- Wild, and Cultivated Hogs
- Poultry
- The Stark County Agricultural Society
- First Exclusive Grounds and Buildings
- The New Grounds and Improvements
- The Exhibits as an Index of Rural Life. |
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CHAPTER III. - PRIMITIVE MAN |
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Fathers of the Red Man
- Sepulchral Mounds
- Templar, Sacrificial and Observation Mounds
- The Effigies
- Military Inclosures
- Prehistoric Mounds in Stark County
- In the Neutral Belt
- Unclassified Relics
- Ohio Indians of the Eighteenth Century
- The County's First Historic Settles
- War and Peace Delawares
- Indian Massacre at Gnadenhutten
- The Post Mission of 1761-62
- The Bouquet Military Expedition
- Indian Warrior vs. Government Scout
- Scouts Outshoot Wayne's Sharpshooters
- Indian Panic of 1812
- the Last of the Indians. |
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CHAPTER IV. - THE HISTORIC BACKGROUND |
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Great Historic Waterways
- French Scheme of Colonization
- English Serve Notice of Possession
- First Ohio Company and Agent Gist
- George Croghan
- In the Land of the Delawares
- French and English Clash
- The Delawares Move Westwardly
- Bouquet's Expedition
- Shawnees Last to Surrender
- A Northwest Territory Assured
- Lifting of Indian and State Titles
- Lord Dunmore's Squatters
- American System of Land Surveys
- Ordinance of 1787
- First Surveys of Western Lands
- Ohio Company's Purchase
- Military and Civil Friction
- Washington County Organized
- First Judiciary
- Indians at Last Subdued
- Part of Jefferson County
- Under Columbiana County
- Old Lake and Canton Townships Created
- First Justices of the Peace
- First Permanent Town and Highway |
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CHAPTER V. - PIONEER SETTLERS AND
SETTLEMENTS |
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Frederick C. Post, First Ohio White Settler
- Heckewelder's Narrative
- The Mission Abandoned
- Tuscaroratown in 1761 and 1764
- Remains of Mission and Indian Village
- All Indian Titles Cleared
- Pioneer White Settlers
- Wooded Tracts First Settled
- Philip Slusser's Solid Works
- Numerous and Prominent Descendants
- Digger Indian of Plain Township
- On The Site of New Berlin
- Captain Downing and Relatives
- Villages of Sandy Township
- First Land Holders in Osnaburg Township
- Silence Did Not Give Consent
- Messrs. Sluss and Kitt Locate
- Villages of Osnaburg Township
- Rudolph Bate
- A Justice's Broad Territory
- Villages in Paris Township
- First to Settle in Nimishillen Township
- Nimisheellentown
- Louisville and Harrisburg
- Lexington Township and Village
- Freedom and Alliance
- Mount Union and the College
- Limaville
- Perry Township and Kendal Village
- Captain Duncan, Founder of Massillon
- Most Ancient Section of the County
- Bethlehem Village
- Bethlehem, Rochester and Navarre Consolidated
- Jackson Township and McDonaldsville
- Lawrence Township
- Milan and Canal Fulton
- Tuscarawas Township
- Village of Brookfield
- Greenville
- Sugar Creek Township
- Beach City
- Brewster
- Wilmot
- Smaller Village
- Pike Township and Sparta
- Two Woodland Townships
- Washington Township
- Marlboro Township
- Marlboro Village, an Educational Center
- New Baltimore
- Varied Lake Township
- Its Villages
- Greentown
- Uniontown
- Postoffices of an Early Date |
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CHAPTER VI. - AS A BODY POLITIC |
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Gen. John Stark
- The Creative Act
- Location of Old Stark County
- Fixing the County Seat
- Nimishillentown
- Osnaburg and Canton, Real Rivals
- Finally Unanimous for Canton
- The Five Original Townships
- First Term of Common Pleas Court
- First Taxes Levied
- Pioneer County Officers
- Wayne County Breaking Off
- Roads First Opened
- Tuscarawas Township Organized
- Early Finances
- Better Accommodations
- Green Township Formed
- Perry Township
- More Taxes
- Building of the First Courthouse
- Busy Period of Township-Making
- Second Jail Completed
- The Old Courthouse
- The First County Building
- Passing of the Log Jail
- Courthouse Remodeled
- Larger County Building
- The Invasion of Carroll County
- Absorptions by Summit County
- Voting Railroad Aid
- The Second Courthouse
- The Present Courthouse and Jail
- Institutions for the Unfortunate
- The County Infirmary
- The Stark County Workhouse
- The Massilon State Hospital
- The Fairmount Children's Home
- Popular Education in the County
- Pioneer Schools
- Development of Free Graded Public Schools
- First Free Graded Public School in Stark County
- School Statistics of the Late '70s
- The Figures for 1915
- Population for a Century
- Property Valuation and Taxation. |
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CHAPTER VII. - WATERWAYS, ROADS AND
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The Old Wooster Road
- Canal Gets the Right-of-Way
- The Lake Erie & Ohio Canal
- Canal Contractors in Stark County
- Enter, The Liquor Question
- The Stimulation of Massillon
- Canton Attempts to Get Into the Swim
- Fall of the Nimishillen & Sandy Slackwater Project
- Railroad Impetus for Alliance
- The Pennsylvania Railroad System
- The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
- A Depot of Which to be Proud
- Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling Line
- Forerunner of the Baltimore & Ohio
- Troubles for the Old Valley Road
- Work Resumed, Suspended and Resumed
- First Train From Clevland to Canton
- The Electric Lines |
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CHAPTER VIII. - LEGAL AND JUDICIAL |
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The Judiciary Under the 1802 Constitution
- First Court in Stark County
- First Case Clouded by Doubt
- First Criminal Not So Bad
- Calvin Pease, President Judge
- Warren, Chief Judicial Center
- First Resident Lawyer
- Treatment of a Haunted House
- William Raynolds
- The First Grand Jury
- Judge John Harris
- Judicial Changes
- Judge George Tod
- William Henry
- Judge Tappan and Associates
- Judge Hallock and Associates
- Judge George W. Belden
- Prominent Early Lawyers
- Loomis & Metcalf
- Hiram Griswold
- David A. Starkweather
- General Dwight Jarvis
- James D. Brown and General Samuel Lahm
- Judge and Col. Seraphim Meyer
- H. B. Hurlbut and D. K. Cartter
- Louis Schaefer and Robert H. Folger
- James W. Underhill and Benjamin F. Leiter
- Last Judge Under Old Constitution
- Home and Circuit Lawyers
- Celebrated Slander Suit
- Changes Made by 1851 Constitution
- George W. Raff, First Probate Judge
- Common Pleas Judges, 1851-82
- Judge Jacob A. Ambler
- Judge Joseph Frease
- The Bar Thirty Years Ago
- Other Common Pleas Judges
- Other Probate Judges
- Judge Henry A. Wise
- Judge Robert S. Shields
- Stark County Bar Association
- The Law Library
- The Late William A. Lynch |
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CHAPTER IX. - PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS |
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Treatment of Prevalent Diseases
- Physical Labor of Getting There
- Pioneer Death and Burial
- Medical Attendance Off-Color
- The Coming of the Children
- Dr. Andrew Rappe
- Dr. William Gardner
- Dr. John and Thomas S. Bonfield
- Justin Scott, Pioneer Surgeon
- The Benevolent Dr. Thomas Hartford
- A Napoleonic Surgeon
- Drs. James Jerow and Joseph Simmons
- Dr. Robert Estep and Dr. Joseph E. Estep
- Massillon Physicians
- Dr. Joseph Watson
- Dr. Barak Michener
- Dr. John Schertzer
- Two German Physicians of Canton
- Dr. Levi Haldeman, Minerva
- Dr. John Schilling, Louisville
- Dr. L. M. Whiting, Veteran Canton Physician
- Dr. A. W. Whiting
- Dr. Lewis Slusser
- Other Practitioners of the '40s
- Dr. J. P. Barrick
- Dr. Abraham Metz, Ophthalmologist
- Dr. Perkins Wallace
- Dr. Kersey Thomas
- Dr. A. S. Sheets and Dr. W. O. Baker
- Physicians and Surgeons of a Later Period
- Dr. T. H. Phillips
- Medical Societies |
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CHAPTER X. - MEN OF BROAD FAME |
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William McKinley
- A Chronological Outline
- Digest of Life and Public Services
- Personal Traits and Incidents
- McKinley's Presidential Home-Comings
- Justice Day's History of the Grand Memorial
- Memorial Poem by James Whitcomb Riley
- Oration by Theodore Roosevelt
- Description by Architect Magonigle
- The Building of the Memorial
- Dedication of the Memorial
- Governor Harris Speaks
- Justice William R. Day
- George H. Wallace
- Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall
- Phiander C. Knox
- Charles F. Manderson and Lyman U. Humphrey
- Joseph Medill, Founder of the Greater Tribune
- Isaac R. Sherwood
- John H. Klippart
- Early Congressmen from Stark County
- Mathias Shepler
- David A. Starkweather as a Public Man
- Gen. Samuel Lahm
- Justice D. K. Cartter
- Benjamin F. Letter
- United States Senator Atlee Pomerene
- Robert P. Skinner |
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CHAPTER XI. - MILITARY RECORD
- STARTED 8/1/2025 |
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Canton Independent of Block Houses
- Gen. George Stidger, Captain
- Names of First Volunteers
- Ready, But Not Under Fire
- DeWalt's Horse Trade
- British Reported on the Way
- Real Danger, the Indians
- General Jarvis Calls for Mexican War Volunteers
- General Lahm Orders Muster of County Militia
- Company of Capt. James Allen First Afield
- Stark County Leads
- Captain Allen's Company Sails
- Members of the Company
- Movements of the Stark Rangers
- "Rough and Ready" Winks at Forager
- The Last of Captain Allen's Company
- First of the Civil War Meetings
- Militia Companies Join Volunteer Service
- The First Draft
- Enlisted for Three Years
- Ladies' Aid Societies
- Service of Stark County Soldiers
- The Fourth Ohio Infantry
- William F. Raynolds and Jonathan G. Lester
- The Thirteenth Regiment
- The Nineteenth
- Promotions of Beatty and Manderson
- The Seventy-sixth Regiment
- Seraphim Meyer's Regiment
- Aboard the Ill-Fated Sultana
- Commands of a Later Period
- Williams' Famous Battery
- Under Fire at Pittsburgh Landing
- Captain Williams Promoted
- At Vicksburg
- During the Atlanta Campaign
- Mustered Out
- Looking Backward Fifty Years
- National Guard the Connecting Link
- Legislation After the War
- Organized Under the 1870 National Guard Law
- Substantial Measures of 1876-77
- The Eighth Regiment
- In the Spanish-American War
- Captain Weidman's Account
- Active Home Service of the Eighth
- Gleaned from Official Sources
- During and Since the War with Spain
- Ohio National Guard of Today
- Col. George R. Gyger
- Lieut. Col. Harry Frease
- Lieut. Col. Charles C. Weybrecht |
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CHAPTER XII. - CANTON TOWNSHIP |
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Its Striking Features
- The Old Forest Sections
- Different Soils
- Drainage
- Pioneer Settlers of Township and County
- First Farm Settled
- First Death
- The Meyer's Lake Settlement
- First Marriage in Stark County
- Last of Canton's Surveyor
- Wolves Not Money Sharks
- First Mills Established
- Corn Meal Mill a Failure
- The Slusser Family
- Horse Racing vs. Horse Selling
- First Settler in Canton
- Land Office and Post-office at Canton
- A Lost Lake
- First Bank of the County
- "The Farmers Bank" of Canton
- Meyer's Lake History
- Andrew Meyer
- First Schoolhouse and Teacher
- Bitter "Barring Out" Fight
- The Head of the Farmers Bank
- Shorb Rescues Runaways
- Another Fine Pioneer, Philip Dewalt
- Unrivalled as a Horse Trader
- Mrs. Harriet K. Whiting
- John Danner, Oldest Living Native
- Martin Wikadal and His Store |
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CHAPTER XIII. - THE CORPORATION OF
CANTON |
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The Town in 1822
- From Town to City
- A Boom and a Fizzle
- Railroad and Factory Town at Lat
- Pioneer Fire Engines
- The Old Jail Burns
- First Suction Engine
- How Oberly's Pride Fell
- First Steam Fire Engine
- Becomes Paid Department
- Chief Mesner's Recollections
- Department of the Present
- Canton's Waterworks
- Superintendent Ohliger's Story
- Official Figures
- The Waterworks Park
- Sanitary Sewage System
- The Disposal Plant
- Shriver Run Blotted Out
- The City's Finances
- Property Valuation, 1905, 1910 and 1914
- Tax Levy (1914) and Estimated Receipts (1915)
- Expenditures
- The Police Department
- The City Parks
- Meyer's Lake of the Present
- Congress Lake and the Club
- West Lawn Cemetery
- The Public Library
- First Circulating Library
- The City Hall
- The Auditorium
- The Postoffice
- The Public School System
- The City Schools
- Schools, Planned and Building
- History of the High School
- Doctor Slusser's Historical Address
- Mary Lynch and Anna McKinley
- Important Decade, 1905-15
- Teachers' Pension Fund. |
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CHAPTER XIV. - INDUSTRIAL AND
FINANCIAL |
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General Stidger and His Enterprises
- Tanneries as Primitive Industries
- Pioneer Brick Yards
- First Paving Brick Manufactured
- First Big Companies Formed
- Building Brick now Secondary
- Metropolitan Paving Brick Company
- Scarcity of Brick Houses
- Early Architects
- Lines Which "Petered Out"
- Cornelius Altman and His Great Industry
- Works Established at Canton
- Wonderful Growth of Business
- Expansion of Canton and Akron Plants
- Death of the Founder
- Novelty Iron Works
- The Berger Manufacturing Company
- The Carnahan Tin Plate Mill
- United Steel Company's Plants
- Canton Stamping and Enameling Company
- The Fabrication of Watches
- Diebold Safe and Lock Company
- Other Metal Manufactories
- Artificial Ice and Refrigerating Apparatus
- The Industry of Supplying Electricity
- Canton Banks Usually Solid
- A Family of Bankers
- Isaac Harter and sons
- The First National Bank
- The George D. Harter Bank
- The City National Bank
- The Central Savings Bank
- The Dime Savings Bank
- The Commercial and Savings Bank |
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CHAPTER XV. - CANTON CHURCHES |
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First Lutheran and Reformed Preachers
- Rev. Peter Herbruck
- Rev. Emil P. Herbruck
- The Lutheran Church
- Trinity Second Reformed Church
- The Trinity Lutheran Church
- History of Canton Methodism
- The First Presbyterian Church
- Rise of Local Catholicism
- Present St. John's Church Property
- St. Peter's Catholic Church
- First Baptist Church
- The First United Brethren Church
- The First Christian Church
- St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
- The First Congregational Church
- First United Presbyterian Church.
- Minor Catholic Churches
- College of the Immaculate Conception. |
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CHAPTER XVI. - INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL
AND BENEVOLENT |
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The Local Press
- The Canton Repository
- Invaluable Historical Record
- Synopsis of the First Number
- Houses of Publication
- The Saxtons, Brothers and Son
- The Very Man for the Place
- Joseph Medill, a Repository Contributor
- Progress of the Repository
- "President McKinley's Paper"
- John and Archibald McGregor
- The Stark County Democrat
- The Ohio Volks-Zeitung
- Secret and Benevolent Societies
- Canton Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M.
- William McKinley Lodge No. 421, F. & A. M.
- Canton Chapter No. 84, R. A. M.
- Canton Council No. 35, R. & S. M.
- Canton Commandery No. 38, K. T.
- Scottish Rite Masons
- Other Masonic Bodies
- Nimisilla Lodge No. 39, I. O. O. F.
- Stark Lodge No. 513, I. O. O. F.
- The Encampment and Canton
- Knights of Columbus
- Canton's G. A. R. Posts
- The Young Men's Christian Association
- The Young Women's Christian Association
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Aultman Home for Aged Women
- Canton's Hospitals
- Country Clubs
- The Lakeside Counry Club
- The Congress Lake Club. |
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CHAPTER XVII. - CORPORATION OF
ALLIANCE |
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Matthias Hester, Founder of Freedom
- Railroad Stimulus
- Elisha Teeters
- Levi L. Lamborn
- Incorporated as a Village
- First Village Officers and Legislation
- Pioneer in Electrical Transportation
- Pioneer Public Schools
- Union School Built
- The High School Building
- Erection of Other Houses
- Buildings Now Occupied
- Superintendents of Schools
- Growth of the System
- The Alliance Carnegie Library
- Movement for a Carnegie Library
- The Waterworks
- The City Hospital
- A Bloodless Opera House Disaster
- Past and Present Corporation
- Mount Union College
- Seminary and Normal School
- Faculty and Trustees
- President Hartshorn
- Buildings
- Departments
- Standards
- Endowments
- Presidents Marsh, Riker and McMaster
- Trustee Presidents
- What Mount Union College Stands for. |
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CHAPTER XVIII. - CHURCHES, SOCIETIES
AND NEWSPAPERS |
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Beginning of Local Methodism
- Mount Union Churches
- Union Avenue M. E. Church
- First M. E. Church of Alliance
- The First Baptist Church
- The Alliance Christian Church
- St. Joseph's Catholic Church
- First Presbyterian Church
- St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- United Brethren Landmark
- Welsh Churches
- the Reformed Church
- Other Religious Organizations.
- Early Alliance Newspapers
- The Local Becomes the Review |
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CHAPTER XIX. - INDUSTRIES AND BANKS |
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Thomas R. Morgan, Sr.
- Alliance Works Established
- The Great Plant Today
- The American Steel Foundries Plant
- The Reeves Brothers
- The Transue-Williams Company
- The Alliance Machine Company
- The McCaskey Register Company
- The Alliance Brewery
- The Brick Industries
- Organizations of Business Men
- Financial Institutions of Alliance |
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CHAPTER XX. - CORPORATION OF
MASSILLON |
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Capt. James Duncan and Wife
- The Two Pioneer Hotels
- Early Schools
- First Village Bank
- The Merchants Bank
- First Massillon Corporation
- First Village Government
- Advanced to Cityhood
- The Public Schools System
- Gen. W. B. Hazen, a High School Graduate
- Superintendent and Colonel Andrews
- High School Buildings
- Founders of the System
- Present Status of the System
- Ruin of the First Waterworks
- Third and Present System
- The Fire Department
- Present Municipality
- City Finances
- Comparison of Tax Rates for 1914
- Tax Receipts
- Liquor Tax Receipts
- The McClymonds Public Library
- The Massillon City Hospital
- Capt. James Allen, Journalist
- The Independent founded. |
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CHAPTER XXI. - INDUSTRIAL AND
FINANCIAL MASSILLON |
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Hills Useful, as Well as Beautiful
- The Massillon Coal Fields
- First Threshing Machines Manufactured
- The Russell and Company
- General Industrial Pictures
- Pioneer Furnaces
- Coal Operators
- Financial Institutions |
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CHAPTER XXII. - CHURCHES AND
SOCIETIES |
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The United Brethren
- Early Methodist Activities
- Methodists and Masons Unite
- Presbyterians Organize in 1830
- Second Presbyterian Church
- First Baptist Church
- St. John's Evangelical Church
- St. Mary's Catholic Church
- English-Speaking Catholics Organize St. Joseph's
- Church Buildings Erected
- St. Joseph's Church History
- St. Timothy's Protestant Episcopal Church
- Secret and Benevolent Societies
- Hart Post No. 134 (No. 2), G. A. R. |
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CHAPTER XXIII. - VILLAGE OF
LOUISVILLE |
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The Father of the Village
- The Spread Eagle Tavern
- Louisville Platted
- Corporation Matters
- Founding of St. Louis Catholic Church
- The United Brethren Church
- the First Brethren Church
- Societies
- The Juilliards
- Early Industries
- the Banks
- The Louisville Herald
- Corporate Matters |
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CHAPTER XXIV. - VILLAGE OF NAVARRE |
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The Canal and Captain Duncan Come
- Navarre Coming to the Fore
- Three Villages Rolled Together
- First Village Officers
- Present Corporation
- Business and Finances
- Churches and Societies
- A Patriotic Village
- Miller Post No. 270, G. A. R.
- Captain Bennett and the Memorial Monument
- Major McKinley's First Law Suit |
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CHAPTER XXV. - VILLAGE AND TOWNSHIP
MATTERS |
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Village of New Berlin
- Special School District
- Churches and Societies
- Canal Fulton
- Public Institutions and Improvements
- Industrial, Business and Financial
- Churches
- Sparta
- Capt. B. T. Steiner
- Hartville
- Minerva
- Ellis N. Johnson and Descendants
- George Austin, Another Centenarian |
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PERSONAL
HISTORY |
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