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PART V
VINTON COUNTY
Please note: The other counties in
this volume are each in the county that the chapters are named
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CHAPTER I. - PIONEER EVENTS AND PEOPLE. -
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- Pioneer Industrial Life
- Levi Kelsey and "A Mr. Musselman"
- Nature's Invitations
- Those Who Responded
- Elk Township Formed from Alexander
- Mrs. Bothwell's Reminiscences
- Before the Early '20s
- Wilkesville Founded
- Henry of Wilkesville
- Wilkesville Schools
- Old Mills
- Clinton Township Settled
- McArthur Founded
- Oldest Church in the County
- First Schools and Teachers
- McArthur Postoffice
- George W. Schockey on Early Times
- Early Comers to Vinton Township
- Swan Township
- Jackson Township
- Eagle Township
- Richland Township
- Allensville
- Brown, Madison and Knox
- Zaleski and New Plymouth
- The Foster and Bolen Mills |
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CHAPTER II - OF GENERAL COUNTY INTEREST -
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- Riches of the Soil and
Underground
- The Godfather of Vinton County
- Township Organization
- Dimensions and Irregular Shape
- Population in 1850
- Population in 1860, 1870 and 1880
- Population in 189-, 1900 and 1910
- Real Estate Valuation in 1882
- Valuation of Lands and Improvements, 1914
- Personal Property and total Valuation, 1914
- First Political Movement
- The First County Convention
- The First Will
- Building of the Courthouse
- The Vinton County Safe Not Robber-Proof
- The County Infirmary Schools of the County
- County Officials. |
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CHAPTER III - INDUSTRIES AND RAILROADS -
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- Industrial Changes
- Eagle Furnace, the Pioneer
- Vinton Furnace
- Hamden Furnace
- Zaleski Furnace
- Large Blocks of Furnace Land
- Cincinnati and Hope Furnaces
- Hamden Gets a Railroad
- The Scioto & Hocking Valley Line
- Finally, the Baltimore & Ohio
- The Rise and Fall of Zaleski
- History of Zaleski
- McArthur Railroad Afar
- Reaches McArthur
- First Year's Shipments
- Ratcliff's and Hawk's Stations
- Wilkesville |
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CHAPTER IV - THE CIVIL WAR - FINISHED |
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- 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 |
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CHAPTER V. - HISTORY OF McARTHUR - FINISHED |
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- McArthurstown Becomes
McArthur
- Duncan McArthur
- First Village Election
- Industries
- Vinton County National Bank
- McArthur Savings and Loan Company
- The Town Hall
- Fire of 1883
- Vinton County Republican
- The Vinton Record
- McArthur Republican
- The Democrat Enquirer
- McArthur Republican
- McArthur Herald
- Journal and Register
- New Vinton County Republican
- The Republican Tribune"
- Methodist Church
- The Presbyterian Church
- The Christians
- Trinity Episcopal Church
- The Masons
- The Odd Fellows
- Other Societies |
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CHAPTER VI - HISTORY OF HAMDEN - FINISHED |
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- The Paines and Charles
Robbins
- Platting of Charleston
- First Stores and Industries
- Incorporated as a Village
- Schools
- The Hamden Enterprise
- The Puritan Brick Plant
- Citizens Bank of Hamden
- The Methodist Church
- Secret Societies |
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