FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO (PART 3) *************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by LeaAnn Rich leaann1@bellsouth.net January 14, 1999 *************************************************************************** HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO An Encyclopedia of the State By HENRY HOWE LL. D. Published by the State of Ohio C.J. Krehbiel & Co., Printers and Binders Cincinnati, Ohio copyright 1888 by Henry Howe 1904 COLUMBUS IN 1846 COLUMBUS IN 1846--Columbus, the capitol of Ohio, and seat of justice for Franklin County, "is 106 miles southerly from Sandusky City, 139 miles southwest from Cleveland, 148 south- westwardly from Stuebenville, 184 in the same direction from Pittsburgh, Pa., 126 miles west from Wheeling, Va., about 100 northwest from Marietta, 105 northwest from Gallipolis, 45 north from Chillicothe, 90 in the same direction from Portsmouth, at the mouth of the Scioto River, 118 northwardly from Maysville, Ky., 110 northeast from Cincinnati, 68 easterly from Dayton, 104 southwardly from Lower Sandusky, and 175 due south from Detroit, Mich.; N. lat 39 degree 57', W. long. 6 degree from Washington City, or 83 degree from London. It is situated exactly on the same parallel of latitude with Zanesville and Philadelphia, from which latter place it is 450 miles distant; and on the same meridian with Detroit, Mich., and Midgeville, Ga. The National road passed through it east and west, and the Columbus and Sandusky turnpike extends from this point north to Lake Erie. In all other directions roads are laid out, and many of them in good repair. By the Columbus feeder water communication is opened with the Ohio canal, and thence to Lake Erie and the Ohio River." Columbus is beautifully situated on the east bank of the Scioto, about half a mile below it's junction with the Olentangy. The streets are spacious, the site level, and it has many elegant private dwellings. Columbus has a few manufactories only; it does, however, a heavy mercantile business, there being many stores of various kinds. It contains 17 churches, viz., 2 Methodist Episcopal, 1 German Methodist, 2 Presbyterian, 1 Baptist, 1 German Lutheran, 1 German Evangelical Protestant, 1 German Reformed, 2 Episcopal, 1 Catholic, 1 Welsh Presbyterian, 1 United Brethren, 1 Universalist, and 1 Bethel, and 1 Baptist for colored persons. The principal literary institutions in this city are the Columbus Institute, a flourishing classical institution for males, Mr. and Mrs. Schenck's female seminary, and the German Theological Lutheran Seminary, which last has been established about 17 years ago, Rev. William Lehmann, professor of theology. There are in Columbus 6 weekly, 2 tri-weekly, and 1 semi-monthly newspapers and several banks. The great State institutions located at Columbus do honor to Ohio, give great interest to the city, and present strong attractions to strangers. They are the Asylum for Lunatics, the Asylum for the blind, the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Penitentiary, which last is the most imposing edifice in Columbus, and is situated on the east bank of the Scioto, about half a mile north of the statehouse. It's population in 1815 was about 700; in 1820, about 1,400; in 1830, 2,437; in 1840, 6,048, and in 1846, 10,016.--Old Edition Columbus, the capital of Ohio, is a great railroad center, and on the line of thirteen different railroads, viz., B.&O.; C. St. L. & P.; C. A. & C.; C.C.C.&I.; C.&E.; C.&C.M.: C.H.V.&T.; K.&O.; S.V.R.; C.&X.; C.O.; T.&O.C.; P.C.&St. L.. County officers in 1888: Probate Judge, Charles G. Saffin; Clerk, John J. Joyce; Sheriff, B.W. Custer; Auditor, Frank J. Reinhard; Treasurer, A.D. Heffner; Surveyor, Josiah Kinnear; Recorder, M.A. Lilley; Prosecuting Attorney, Cyrus Huling; Commissioners, Richard C. Dawson, William Wall, M. Morehead. Columbus has 30 newspapers and magazines, dailies, weeklies, and monthlies. The dailies and weeklies are: Ohio State Journal, daily and weekly; Daily Times, daily and weekly; Evening Dispatch, daily and weekly; Catholic Columbian, weekly; Record and Market Reporter, weekly; Sunday Herald, weekly; Gospel Expositer, weekly; Irish Times, weekly; Ohio Law Journal, weekly; Sunday Capital, weekly; Sunday Morning News, weekly; The Saturday Toiler, weekly; Der Ohio Sonntagsgast, weekly; Der Westbote, weekly and semi-weekly; Lutherische Kirchenzeitung, semi-monthly. Churches: Baptist, 5; Catholic, 6; Congregational, 6; Disciples, 1; Evangelical Association, 1; Freinds, 1; Jewish, 1; German Independent Protestant, 1; Lutheran, 8; Methodist Episcopal, 11; African Methodist Episcopal, 1; Presbyterian, 6; Welsh Presbyterian, 1; Protestant Episcopal, 3; United Brethren, 1; Universalist, 1; Total, 54. Banks: Capital City, S.s. Rickly, president, Frank R. Shinn, cashier; Clinton National, M.M. Greene, president, F.W. Prentiss, cashier; Columbus Savings, E.L. Hinman, president, C.G. Henderson, cashier; Commercial National, F.C. Sessions, president, W.H. Albery, cashier; Deshler Bank, Geo. W. Sinks, President, John G. Deshler, cashier, cashier; First National, William Monypeny, president, Theo P. Gordon, Cashier; Fourth National, W.S. Ide, president, W. Stewart, cashier; Merchants and Manufacturers, G.M. Peters, president, William D. Park, cashier; National Exchange, W.G. Deshler, president, Charles J. Hardy, cashier; South End, H. Mithoff, president; Brooks, Butler & Co., E.K. Stewart, cashier; P.W. Huntington & Co.; Miller, Donaldson & Co.; Columbus Clearing House Association, T.P. Gordon, president, John Feild, manager. Ohio State University, William H. Scott, president; 154 students. Capital University, M. Loy, president; 43 students. Manufacturers and Employees.----The State Report of Inspectors of Workshops and Factories for 1887 gave a list of 194 establishments, of which the following--in all 58-- employed 40 hands and over: Columbus Sewer Pipe Co, 80 hands; B.B. Anderson, cigars, etc., 45 ; U.S. Carriage Co., 109; Scioto Buggy Company, 103; Hildreth & Martin, doors, sash, etc., 40; Columbus Cabinet Company, furniture, 72; C. Emrich, stoves, 60; Halm, Bellows & Co., furniture, 127; Ohio Furniture Co., 65; Butler Crawford & Co., coffee and spices, 80; Franklin Furnace, pig-iron, 75; R.C. Schmertz & Co., window glass, 60; P. Hayden & Co., iron and hames, 178; F.R. Winget, cigars, 120; Columbus Cigar Manufacturing Co., 95; Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufacturing Company, wheelbarrows, road scrapers, etc., 430; Ohio Tool Company, 70; N. Schlee, beer and malt, 45; Born & Co., beer and malt, 40; L. Hoster Brewing Company, beer and malt, 95; John Immel & Son, carriages etc., 45; Columbus Bolt Works, 125; Red, Jones & Co., shoes, 75; Case Manufacturing Company, mill machinery, 150; J.W. Dann Manufacturing Company, bent wood-work, 50; Columbus Dash and Wagon Company, 78; M.T. Gleason, brass foundry, 40; Scheuweker Bros. Leather, 50; Ohio Pipe Compnay, iron pipes, 175; Steel Skein Works, wagon skeins, 45; Buckeye Buggy Company, 139; Wassall Fire-Clay Company, fire-brick, sewer pipe, etc., 40; C.H.V. & T.R.R. Shops, railroad supplies, 400; Lechner Manufacturing Company, mining machinery, 50; Door Sash and Lumber Company, 133; E.D. & J.C. Howard, brooms, 55; Newark Machine Company, clover, hullers, etc, 312; Columbus Machine Company, engines and castings, 80; Capital City Carriage Company, 75; Westbote Printing Company, 48; William Armbruster, hosiery, etc. 46; S.R. Klotts, stogies, 106; James Ohlen, saws, 75; Slade & Kelton, sash, 60; Inter-state Cigar Company, 44; Columbus Coffin Company, 52; Vulcan Iron Works, founders and machinists, 70; J.J. Wood Starch Company, starch, 150; Columbus Watch Company, 220; William Fish & Son, building stone, 40; E. Wood & Co., malleable iron, 65; W.D. Brickell & Co., newspaper, 60; Snyder, Chaffee & Co., candies, 73; Munson & Hayden, malleable iron, 120; H.C. Godman, shoes, 46; McMorrow & Miller, shoes, 40; P. Hayden & Co., foundry and machine shop, 47; P. Hayden S. H. Company, chains, 90; Senter & Lerch, boxes, 43; The M.C. Lilley & Co., regalia for masons, Odd Fellows, etc., 420 employees as said to be the largest establishment of the kind in the world.--State Report for 1887. Population in 1880, 51,647; in 1888, estimated, 106,000. School Census in 1886, 22,404; Robert W. Stevenson, Superintendent.