OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 589 Today's Topics: #1 GEORGE CLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 LEONARD W. JOHNSON - TUSCARAWAS CO [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 JAMES G. BURK - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 WILLIAM NIXON CROW-TUSCARAWAS/HOLM [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY - PART 1 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:16:46, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908051416.KAA07066@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: GEORGE CLINE - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 GEORGE CLINE, farmer, section 36, Root Township, is the owner of 135 acres of land. He came to Adams County in the fall of 1840, with his old neighbors, the Kings. He engaged in farm work, taking contracts, and one summer he worked in Fort Wayne in a boat yard to run on the canal. While in Ohio he worked at the carpenters trade, and followed the same trade to some extent in this county. The second year he was here he bought forty acres of land, having earned enough to make the first payment. After working along a while longer he was able to buy twenty-five acres more. He sold this farm and bought eighty-three acres where he now lives, and soon afterward bought twenty acres more. He has continued to add to this land until he now has 137 acres. He came here with a three-year old colt, a rifle and an ax. Money was very scarce. He sold his colt for $60, bought him some clothes, and the following fall made a visit to his parents in Ohio. The latter, Jonas and Elizabeth Cline, were natives of Pennsylvania, and were probably born in Somerset County. The mother died when George was between two and three years old. She died in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in the winter of 1820. The father died before the war, probably in 1859 or 1860, and was eighty-two years of age. He died in st. Joseph County, Indiana. George was married in June, 1844, to Miss Margaret Crosier, who was born in Northern Ohio, and who was a little younger than her husband. She died in July, 1845, leaving no children. She was a daughter of Samuel Crosier. August 9, 1846, Mr. Cline was married to Elizabeth McConnehey, who was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 7, 1825, and died May 7, 1871. She is buried at Alpha cemetery. Her parents were William and Catherine (Clever) McConnehey, natives of Pennsylvania, the father of Irish ancestry and the mother of German origin. The father died in 1851, and the mother in 1876. Both died in this county and are buried in Alpha cemetery. Mrs. Cline left four children, three of whom are living -Sarah C., born July 17, 1850, wife of A.R. Wolf; Mary A., born November 30, 1852, wife of William Spuler; Barbara A., born November 23, 1854, died February 5, 1887, and is buried in Alpha cemetery; George B., born August 13, 1858, died June 5, 1877. August 12, 1877, Mr. Cline was married to Rebecca Van Buskirk, widow of James Van Buskirk, who came to this county from Ohio. She was first married to Greenbury Baxter, who died leaving seven children, only four of whom are living. By her second marriage there were two children; one living. Mr. and Mrs. Cline are members of the United Brethren church, and Mr. Cline is a Republican. His grandfather Cline was American born. His grandmother Cline died at the age of over one hundred years. Mrs. Cline was born in Carroll County, Ohio, March 22, 1825. She came to this county with her parents when she was about ten years of age. They settled near Monmouth, Root Township, being among the early settlers of Adams County. Her parents were William and Mary (Baxter) Pillers. Her father died in Root Township in 1863, and the mother died before the war. Both are buried in Alpha cemetery. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:16:50, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908051416.KAA11954@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: LEONARD W. JOHNSON - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 LEONARD W. JOHNSON, of Washington Township, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, August 5, 1836, and came to Adams county with his parents, James and Eliza Johnson, in 1837. He was reared and educated in this county, and endured all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, Eighty-ninth Indiana Infantry, which was attached to the Sixteenth Army Corps in the army of the West. He participated in the battles of Fort Derusa, Yellow Bayou, Bayou de Glaze, Bunker Hill, Tupelo, Lafayette, Nashville, Fort Blakely and others of minor importance. He was honorably discharged in the fall of 1865 and returned to Adams County, where he has since been a resident. He was married October 23, 1866, to Miss Priscilla Wisner, a native of this county, born September 23, 1846, and daughter of David and Lydia Wisner, who were among the first settlers of Adams County. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have had seven children, five of whom are living -James M., Martha J., Lena L., Florence A. and Verna M. Mr. Johnson owns a good farm of seventy acres, and is a successful farmer. Politically he is a Democrat, and religiously a member of the Christian Union church. His mother is living, and is in her eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Johnson's father, David Wisner, was twice married. His first wife, Mary Brooks, at her death left four children, two sons and two daughters. In 1838 he left his native State, Pennsylvania, and came to Indiana, and in 1839 married Lydia Allen, a native of Ohio. To them were born six children, four sons and two daughters. The father died in 1868, aged seventy-three years. When he came to Adams County he bought eighty acres of land two and a half miles south of Decatur. The nearest mill at that time was at Fort Wayne, and the mother was often obliged to grind buckwheat in the coffee-mill with which to make bread for the family. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:16:47, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908051416.KAA12194@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JAMES G. BURK - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 JAMES G. BURK, proprietor of livery stable at Geneva, is a native of Ohio, born in Tuscarawas County, June 4, 1850, a son of William and Mary J. (Gordon) Burk, with whom he came to Jay County, Indiana, when about three years of age, living there until 1861 or 1862, and then moved to Adams County, Indiana, where he grew to manhood, in Wabash Township, where he received a common-school education. His father being a farmer he was reared to the same avocation, which he followed until he engaged in his present business. His stable is well fitted up with vehicles of various kinds, and his horses are kept in good condition, and by his genial and accommodating manners he has established a good business. Mr. Burk was united in marriage May 31, 1877, to Mary Josephine Vining, who was born in Portland, Jay County, Indiana, December 11, 1855. To this union have been born three children -William Waid, born May 2, 1878; Byron Blaine, born June 19, 1883, and Nora Netha, born March 5, 1886, and died April 16, 1886. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burk are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and respected members of society. Mr. Burk is thirty-six years old and has his first glass of whiskey to drink; he does not use any intoxicating drink, nor coffee, or tobacco in any form. He thinks it pays to be temperate in all things. "Come all young men take warning, Reflect while you have time; 'Tis folly to be jolly, In drinking too much wine." ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:16:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908051416.KAA07098@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WILLIAM NIXON CROW-TUSCARAWAS/HOLMES CO Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 439-440 WILLIAM NIXON CROW. In the life and affairs of Holmes County William Nixon Crow has been a prominent factor more than thirty-five years. His first public office was that of postmaster of the Village of Mount Hope. He has been an attorney, merchant and a leader in affairs. He is the present judge of the Common Pleas Court of Holmes County. Judge Crow was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, February 18, 1866. His parents, John N. and Malinda (Sprankle) Crow, were born in Ohio, their respective parents having come to this state from Pennsylvania. The grandfather, William Crow, was a native of Pennsylvania, and on coming to Ohio settled in Holmes County. He was of Scotch ancestry, an and he married a Miss Nixon, of Irish stock. They had seven children. Jacob Sprankle, father of Malinda Sprankle, was born in Pennsylvania, married a Miss Weaver, and they represented the Pennsylvania Dutch. Jacob Sprankle lived in Dover, Ohio, where he followed the trade of shoemaker. John N. Crow, father of Judge Crow, was for many years a school teacher and farmer. After his marriage he lived for a time in Tuscarawas County, but when Judge Crow was three years old the family returned to Holmes County. There were seven children in the family. William Nixon Crow was reared on a farm near Mount Hope, attended country schools and also the village schools at Mount Hope and Millersburg. His experience as a teacher in district schools covered two years. When he was about twenty-one years of age he had the distinction of being appointed postmaster of Mount Hope. He was the youngest postmaster appointed by Postmaster General Wanamaker. He was postmaster there four years. Subsequently he took the law course at the Ohio Normal University at Ada, graduating in 1898, and soon afterward engaged in practice at Millersburg. He was the only republican elected justice of the peace at Millersburg, and for fourteen consecutive years he held the office of superintendent of the Millersburg Water Works. He performed these duties in addition to his general law practice, and for a number of years was also proprietor of a jewelry store at Millersburg, and has had other business interests. Judge Crow in 1918 was elected judge of the Common Please Court of Holmes County. He was chosen on the republican ticket over a normal democratic majority of 1,800, this being a distinctive compliment to him personally and to his well-known qualifications for the bench. Judge Crow took his seat in the office of judge February 9, 1919, for a term of six years, and he was reelected by about 800 majority. He is a Royal Arch Masons, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Judge Crow married in 1901 Miss Lucy Parkinson of Millersburg. She was born and reared in that town. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:17:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908051417.KAA11984@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: TUSCARAWAS COUNTY - PART 1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1888 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY - PART 1 TUSCARAWAS COUNTY was formed from Muskingum, February 15, 1808. The name is that of an Indian tribe, and in one of their dialects signifies "open mouth." This is a fertile, well-cultivated county, partly level and partly rolling and hilly. Iron ore, fire clay and coal abound. It was first permanently settled about the year 1803, by emigrants from Western Virginia and Pennsylvania, many of whom were of German origin. Area about 520 square miles. In 1887 the acres cultivated were 131,347; in pasture, 114,83; woodland, 58,165; lying waste, 5,638; produced in wheat, 480,585 bushels; rye, 2,585; buckwheat, 663; oats, 552,788; barley, 1,995; corn, 652,929; broom corn, 1,000 lbs. brush; meadow hay, 43,758 tons; clover hay, 7,627; flaxseed, 15 bushels; potatoes, 109,672; butter, 635,400 lbs.; cheese, 812,114; sorghum, 1,946 gallons; maple syrup, 1,683; honey, 5,645 lbs; eggs,550,117 dozen; grapes, 8,730 lbs.; wine, 370 gallons; sweet potatoes, 191 bushels; apples, 24,787; peaches, 15,998; pears, 1,307; wool, 381,026 lbs; milch cows owned, 10,781. Ohio Mining Statistics, 1888: Coal, 546,117 tons, employing 870 miners and 134 outside employees; iron ore, 33,287 tons; fire clay, 21,950 tons. School census, 1888, 15,370; teachers, 304. Miles of railroad track, 163. CENSUS CENSUS TOWNSHIPS 1840 1880 Auburn 1,400 Bucks 1,547 1,129 Clay 864 1,293 Dover 2,247 4,107 Fairfield 866 814 Franklin 1,166 Goshen 1,885 5,226 Jefferson 992 1,258 Lawrence 1,523 1,723 Mill 1,225 5,514 Oxford 826 1,968 Perry 1,381 1,208 Rush 1,293 1,037 Salem 1,121 2,457 Sandy 1,415 1,864 Sugar Creek 1,450 1,462 Union 945 714 Warren 1,173 869 Warwick 864 1,525 Washington 978 1,089 Wayne 2,142 1,295 York 865 1,080 Population of Tuscarawas in 1820 was 8,328; 1830, 14,298; 1840, 25,632; 1860, 32,463; 1880, 40,198; of whom 32,753 were born in Ohio; 1,716 Pennsylvania; 262 Virginia; 198 New York; 136 Indiana; 32 Kentucky; 2,073 German Empire; 442 England and Wales; 356 Ireland; 153 Scotland; 49 British America; 41 France, and 5 Sweden and Norway. Census, 1890, 466,618. PALAEOLITHIC MAN IN OHIO. In the beginning of our first volume is an article by Prof. G. Frederick Wright, entitled "Glacial Man in Ohio," and in Hamilton County more upon the same general subject. In October, 1889, a discovery, by Mr. W.C. Mills, was made in Tuscarawas county, which helps to confirm the conclusions of Mr. Wright as to the existence of man in Ohio in the glacial era, say 8 to 10,000 years ago. Mr. Wright, in The Nation, for April 24, 1890, gave the following paper upon this discovery, dated at Oberlin ten days previously: Two or three weeks ago Mr. W.C. Mills, Secretary of the Archaeological Society of New Comerstown, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, sent to me a flint implement which, according to his description, seemed to have been found in the undisturbed gravel of the glacial terrace which everywhere lines the valley of the Tuscarawas river. In order the more fully to judge of the significance of the discovery, I visited the locality last week, together with a small party of Cleveland gentlemen. The result of the investigation cannot fail to be of considerable public interest. The flint implement referred to is a perfect representative of the palaeolithic type found in Northern France and Southern England. It is four inches long, two inches wide, and an inch and a half through at its larger end, tapering gradually to a point and carefully chipped to an edge all round. Fig. 472 in Evans's "Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain" would pass for a very good representation of it. The material is black flint, or chert, such as occurs in the "Lower Mercer" limestone strata not many miles away, and has upon all the surface that peculiar glazed appearance which indicates considerable age. New Comerstown is situated upon the right bank of the Tuscarawas river, about one hundred miles directly south of Cleveland and forty miles south of the glacial boundary in Ohio. The latter part of the journey from the north to reach the place is such a complete demonstration of the now accepted theory concerning the origin of the terraces along this river, and others similarly situated, that a brief description of it will be profitable. The headwaters both of the Tuscarawas itself and of the several branches which unite with it before reaching Canal Dover are all within the glaciated area, thus affording access to an unlimited quantity of debris brought by the continental ice-sheet from the Laurentian region in Canada. Immediately below the glacial boundary, all these streams are bordered with extensive terraces, the material of which consists of assorted matter from the glacial drift such as would naturally have been carried down during the closing floods of the glacial period. From Canal Dover to New Comerstown the Tuscarawas river makes a long bend to the east, but the railroad cuts across the elbow, and for twenty miles or more finds its way through two small valleys tributary to the main line of drainage. The course of the railroad first strikes up the valley of Stone creek, following it for several miles. But no sooner does it enter this tributary valley than it leaves behind the terraces and other gravel deposits which mark the main valley and every tributary farther north. At length the road, after passing through a tunnel, strikes into the headwaters of Buckhorn creek, which runs southward to join the Tuscarawas at New Comerstown. Here, too, for several miles, there is a total absence of terraces or of any deposits of gravel. On approaching the mouth of the creek, however, a vast gravel deposit derived from the northern drift is encountered, in which the railroad company is making extensive excavations to get material for ballasting their track. Thus, in this short journey, there was demonstrated before our eyes the limitation of these peculiar gravel deposits to the main valley of the river, and so, by consequence, their glacial age and origin. It was in this last-named gravel-bank on the 27th of October, 1889, that Mr. Mills found the palaeolith above described. The surface of the terrace is at this point thirty-five feet above the flood-plain of the Tuscarawas. The valley of the river is about a mile wide. This gravel had been deposited in a recess at the mouth of Buckhorn creek, where it was protected from subsequent erosion, and extended up the creek about a quarter of a mile, but, according to the law of such deposits, with gradually diminishing height as one recedes from the main line of deposition. The implement was found by Mr. Mills himself, in undisturbed strata, fifteen feet below the surface of the terrace; thus connecting it, beyond question, with the period when the terrace itself was in process of deposition, and adding another witness to the fact, the man was in the valley of the Mississippi while the ice of the glacial period still lingered over a large part of its northern area. The importance of this discovery is enhanced by the fact that this is only the fifth locality in which similar discoveries have been made in this country, the other places being Trenton, N.J., Madisonville, Ohio, Medora, Ind., and Little Falls, Minn. But in many respects this is the most interesting of them all, especially as connected with previous predictions of my own in the matter, though it is proper to say that Mr. Mills was not, at the time he made the discovery, aware of what had been written on the subject. When in 1882, after having surveyed the glacial boundary across Pennsylvania, I continued a similar work in Ohio, I was at once struck with the similarity of the conditions in the various streams in Ohio flowing out the glaciated region (and especially in the Tuscarawas river), to those in the Delaware river, where Dr. C.C. Abbott had reported the discovery of palaeolithic implements at Trenton, N.J. Attention was called to this similarity in various periodicals at the time, as well as in my Report upon the Glacial Boundary made to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1883 (pp. 26, 27), where it was said that the Ohio abounds in streams situated similarly to the Delaware with reference to glacial terraces, and that "the probability is that if he (man) was in New Jersey at that time (during the deposition of the glacial terraces), he was upon the banks of the Ohio, and the extensive terrace and gravel deposits in the southern part of the State should be closely scanned by archaeologists. When observers become familiar with the rude form of these palaeolithic implements, they will doubtless find them in abundance." Whereupon a dozen streams, among them the Tuscarawas, were mentioned in which the conditions were favorable for such investigations. The present discovery, therefore, coming as it does in addition to those of Dr. Metz int the Little Miami valley and of Mr. Cresson in the valley of White river, Ind., has great cumulative weight, and forces, even on the most unwilling, the conviction that glacial man on this continent is not a myth, but a reality. A glance at the physical features of the region in Ohio and Indiana where these palaeoliths have been found, shows their eminent adaptation to the primitive conditions of life indicated by the implements themselves. The Tuscarawas valley has been formed by erosion through the parallel strata of sandstone and limestone here composing the coal formation. The summits of the hills on either side rise to heights of from 300 to 500 feet, and their perpendicular faces abound even now with commodious shelters for primitive man. But in pre-glacial times the trough of the Tuscarawas was 175 feet deeper than at present, that amount of glacial gravel having been deposited along the bottom, thus raising it to its present level. Hence in pre-glacial times the opportunities for shelter must have been much superior even to those which are now in existence. The present forests of the region consist of beech, oak, tulip, maple and other deciduous trees. Evergreens are now totally absent, but the advancing ice of the glacial period found here vast forests of evergreen trees. Not many miles distant, terraces of the same age, with this at New Comerstown have, within recent years yielded great quantities of red-cedar logs, still so fresh as to be manufactured into utensils for household use. The relation of glacial man to the mound-builders is so often made a subject of inquiry that a brief answer will here be in place. The above relic of man's occupancy of Ohio was found in the glacial terrace, and belongs to a race living in that distant period when the ice-front was not far north of them, and when the terraces were in process of deposition. Thus this race is unquestionably linked with the great ice age. The mound-builders came into the region at a much later date, and reared their imposing structures upon the surface, of these terraces, when the settled conditions of the present time had been attained, and there is nothing to show that their occupancy began more than one or two thousand years since, while their implements and other works of art are of an entirely different type from the rude relics of the palaeolithic age. If, therefore, interest in a work of art is in proportion to its antiquity, this single implement from New Comerstown, together with the few others found in similar conditions, must be ranked among the most interesting in the world, and will do much to render North America a field of archaeological research second to no other in importance. -conintued in part 2 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #589 *******************************************