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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 570

Today's Topics:
  #1 HURON COUNTY 1815 TAX LIST           [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 HURON COUNTY - PART 4                [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]


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                          1815 HURON COUNTY TAX LIST
                             Records located at:
                           Ohio Historical Society
                                1982 Velma Ave.
                                Columbus, Ohio

H=Huron Township
V=Vermillion Township
W=Wheatsborough Township

ABBOTT, David-h
ADAMS, Bildad-w
ADAMS, E.-w
ALBEE, Joseph-w
ALLEN, Isaac-h
AUSTIN, John-v
AUSTIN, John-v
BAGLEY, Richard-h
BAKER, John-w
BANARD, Mathew-w
BARNEY, John-w
BARNEY, Henry-w
BARNUM, Eli S.-w
BARRITT, David estate-h
BARTON, Daniel-v
BEARDSLEY, John-v
BEEBE, Azariah-h
BENSCOTRE, Jermiah V.-v
BETTS, Charles-v
BLACKIN, Lemuel-v
BLACKMAN, Hiram-w
BLACKMAN, Ira-v
BLACKMAN, William-v
BLACKMORE, Spephen-w
BLANCHARD, Charles-w
BLISS, Harvey-v
BOLE, William-w
BRATON, Elijah-w
BROOKS, George-v
BROOKS, John-v
BROOKS, Jonathan-v
BROOKS, Joseph-v
BROWN, Seth-w
BUCK, Aaron C.-v
BURROUGHS, James-v
BUTLER, Charles-w
BUTLER, Daniel-w
CALVIN, George-h
CAMPBELL, Dougal-w
CAMPBELL, Syrenus-h
CHAPMAN, Levi D-h
CHENA, Samuel-w
CLARK, Town-v
CLUTTER, Gasper-w
COE, Luther-w
COLE, Henry-w
COMPTON, Jacob-v
COMSTOCK, Abijah-h
CONOWAY, James-h
COOLIDGE, Israel-w
COOK, Thomas-w
COOPER, Christopher-w
COWEN, James R.-w
CUMMINS, Nathan-w
CRIPPEN, Stephen-w
CUDDEBACK, James-v
CUDDEBACK, Peter-v
CURTIS, Daniel-h
CURTIS, Josiah-w
CURREN, Thomas-w
DANIELS, Jeremiah-h
DICKSON, John-h
DILLINGHAM, John-w
DIXON, Levi-w
DRAKE, Benjamin-w
DUNHAM, Phineas-w
DUNHAM, Peter-w
EVENS, John-w
EVENS, Francis-w
ENSIGN, Lineus-w
FARWELL, Lyman-h
FAY, John-w
FAY, Lyman-h
FLEMMOND, John B.-h
FRANK, John-w
FERGUSON, George-w
FERGUSON, William-w
FITCH, Burrel-w
FLEMING, John-w
FORD, Eli-w
FORSYTH, James-w
FOX, Anson-h
FRARY, David-v
GILBERT, Truman-w
GILES, George-h
GOODRICH, Jacob-w
GUTHRIE, Anslow-w
HARBISON, John-w
HARRINGTON, Seth-w
HARVEY, Luther-h
HEWET, Abijah-h
HOOK, John-h
HOWARD, William-h
HUBBARD, Anderson-h
HUBBARD, Eli-h
HUGHS, Job-w
HUNT, Eli-w
INSCHO, John-w
INSCHO, J. Moses-w
INSCHO, Joseph-w
JACKSON, John-w
JACKSON, John-w
JAMES, Thomas-w
JAMES, John-w
JEFFERY, Thomas-h
JUDSON, Rufus-v
KELLOGG, Martin M.-w
KELLOGG, Orsemus-h
KEYS, Francis-v
KINNEY, Elijah-h
KINNEY, Manoak-h
KNAP, Samuel-w
LAUGHLIN, John-h
LEE, Ezra-w
LEWIS, Samuel-h
LITTLEFIELD, Sanders-w
MARKHAM, Israel-w
MARSH, Cyrus W.-w
MARTHER, Harlow-w
MASON, Cornelia-h
MAY, Christopher-w
McCORD, James-w
McINTYRE, James-w
McKELVEY, William-w
MEARS, Moody-h
MEEKER, Stephen-v
MEGILL, Samuel-w
MERRY, Ebenezer-h
MERRY, Osmer-h
MINGUR, Jacob-h
MONTGOMERY, John-h
MORECRAFT, James-w
MORRIS, Thomas-w
MYERS, Adam-w
NEWCOMB, Benjamin-h
NOBLE, Aaron-h
OLDS, Timothy-w
OLMSTEAD, Moses-h
PAGE, Daniel-w
PALMER, Caleb-w
PALMER, Stephen-w
PARKER, Andres-w
PARKER, Anres Jr.-w
PARKER, Charles-h
PARKER, Green-w
PARSONS, Joseph-v
PARSONS, Solomon-v
PAXTON, John-w
PERRY, Horatio-v
PERRY, Winslow-h
PETTINGALE, Samuel-w
PIXLEY, Reuben-h
POWERS, David-w
POWERS, Isaac-w
PRATT, Daniel-w
PUTNAM, Uzziel-w
PUTNAM, Dan-w
RAMSDALE, -w
RANSOM, Ebenezer-w
RANSOM, Isaac-v
REED, Hanson-w
RHODES, Richmond-h
RICE, Samuel-w
RICHARDS, Richard-w
RICHEY, William-w
ROBERTS, George-w
ROBERTS, John-w
ROBERTS, John-h
RUGGLES, Almond-v
RUSSELL, Hiram-h
SELVEY, Sanford-w
SHAFER, Lambert-v
SHARETS, George-v
SHARETS, John-v
SHELHOUSE, Loramie-v
SHELHOUSE, Martin G.-v
SHERMAN, Daniel-w
SHIPPY, Nathan Jr-w
SKINNER, Reuben-w
SMITH, Asa-h
SMITH, Chester-h
SMITH, David-h
SMITH, Enoch-v
SMITH, Erastus-w
SMITH, Gasper-w
SMITH, Josiah-h
SMITH, Mathew-w
SMITH, Tinker-w
SNOW, Dorastus P.-w
SOWER, John-w
SPENCER, Samuel-w
SPRAGUE, Ezra-v
SPRAGUE, Jonathan-w
SPRAGUE, Jonathan-h
SPRAGUE, Jonathan Jr.-w
SPRAGUE, Willard-w
SPRY, Samuel-w
STARR, Thomas-h
STRONG, Francis-w
STRONG, Joseph-w
STRONG, Zadok-w
STULL, Andrew-w
STURGES, Barlow-v
SUTTON, Levi-w
SUTTON, Moses-w
SUTTON, Moses Jr.-w
SUTTON, Philip-w
THOMPSON, John-h
THORP, Moses-w
TILLOTSON, Isaac-v
TILLOTSON, Phineas-h
TOWNSEND, Kneeland-h
TULLER,
VANORAM, Joseph-h
VANWORMER, Henry-h
WARD, Jared-h
WEBB, Thomas-w
WESTON,Josiah-v
WIDNER, Leonard-w
WIDNER, Michael-w
WILSON, James-w
WILSON, Moses-w
WOLCOTT,
WOOD, Jasper-w
WOOD, Nathan-w
WRIGHT, Jabez-h
YORK, William-w

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HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898

                        HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 4

                           TRAVELLING NOTES

        Mr. C.E. Newman, the librarian of the Firelands Historical Society,
an old gentleman, showed me in Norwalk, among the society's possessions, a
tin horn which was used, he told me, to summon the people up to church and
court; and as he stated by Mr. Ammi Keeler. He was sexton of the Episcopal
church, the first church organized, and which was in the old white
court-house, and being also deputy-sheriff he brought it into the service
of the law as well as religion. The old white court-house was removed about
1835, and now forms part of the Maple City hotel.
        A few months after Mr. Newman had shown me this horn, which I had
photographed, I was in Mansfield, and called in one evening upon Rev. Dr.
Sherlock A. Bronson, at one time President of Gambier. He was then about
eighty years old, the venerable rector of the Episcopal church, who had
come from Waterbury, Conn., in 1807; age then six months, of course
recollections of the journey not vivid.
        While showing him my various pictures taken for this work, I
brought out this one, saying, "This is a photograph of a tin horn used
sixty years ago, in the town of Norwalk, to blow the people up to church
and to court." "Yes," he rejoined, and to my great surprise added, "I know
it, for I am the man that bought and first blew that horn." He then gave me
its history. "In 1827," he said, "I attended an Episcopal Convention at Mt.
Vernon, and on my way to Norwalk passed through this town, Mansfield, and
here bought this horn. From 1827 to 1829 I was assistant teacher to my
cousin in the famous Norwalk Academy. The Episcopal society met in the
court-house, where I sometimes read service, and it was my wont to go out
upon the court-house steps and blow the horn." I had supposed we were alone
in our interview, but as he concluded I again surprised -surprised to hear
from a dark of the double-room a female voice utter, "I want to see that
horn." Thereupon he left me, taking the photograph, but I never saw or knew
who it was that had wanted to see that horn. And with so much, I close my
story of a horn that was not attached to a dilemma.
        The next day I saw in Mansfield another venerable gentleman, Mr.
Hiram R. Smith, who sixty years ago was a resident of Sandusky, and he gave
me another item to add to this blast. "At the starting of Sandusky," said
he, "the Sanduskyans were called to church by a horn. It was on a Sunday
morning of those times that Bishop Philander Chase, the founder of Kenyon,
landed at Sandusky with two Chinese youths he had brought from the East to
Ohio for education. As the trio stepped ashore the horn rang out on the
clear morning air, whereupon one of the lads inquired its meaning. "That,"
replied the bishop, "is to summon the people to church." "Hoo," rejoined
the lad: "New York, Sunday, ring bell for church -Buffalo, Sunday, ring
bell for church -Sandusky, Sunday, blow horn."
        The people of Norwalk have a natural pride in the fact that General
M'Pherson was once a student at their old academy. Mr. Newman told me he
boarded with him, and he was a very studious, gentlemanly youth, with the
highest reputation for capacity. He narrowly escaped failing to get into
the Military Academy. He had applied for and was expecting the appointment
when Rudolphus Dickerson, the member of Congress through whom it was to
come, suddenly sickened and died. M'Pherson was then in an agony of
suspense. No one could give him any information whether the cadet warrant
for admission into the academy had been granted. He was already twenty-
years of age; if delayed a year he would be twenty-one, and too old for
admission. At the last moment by bare accident the warrant was found among
Dickerson's papers. As it was, he had to hurry and narrowly escaped getting
there in time for examination.
        Norwalk owes its chief attraction to Main street, its principal
avenue. It is built upon for about two miles. The centre being the business
part, with the court-house, school buildings and churches; the ends for
residences, and these lined with maples, planted at the suggestion of
Elisha Whittlesey, one of the original proprietors. But few streets I know
of in the centre of any Ohio town is so dense with foliage as the part of
Main street shown in our view.
        At Edmondson's photograph gallery I saw a picture here copied that
exhibited a singular affection between a horse and a dog. They belonged to
the firm of Eastman & Read, grocers. The horse was used for the delivery
wagon, and it was the habit of the dog, on the return of the horse from a
round of serving customers, to run and give and receive a caress.
        The thoughtful Miss Martineau, wrote that although human beings had
been living for thousands of years in the companionship of animals, there
was between the two an inseparable gulf, preventing the mind of the one
from closely communicating with the mind of the other. Whether it be so
between animals of different kinds or of the same kind is a question.
        BELLEVUE is peculiarly located. It is in Huron and Sandusky
counties, part on and part off the Western Reserve, and has a corner also
of Erie and Seneca counties. The town is in the midst of the fine
agricultural district, which produces large quantities of cereals and
fruits, enriching the people of the surrounding county and making the town
a prosperous and wealthy centre. It is sixty-five miles west of Cleveland,
about ninety-five miles north of Columbus and forty-five miles east of
Toledo, and about midway between Buffalo and Chicago on the "Nickel-plate"
Railroad, being the terminus of two grand divisions of that line, whose
company has here established round-houses and repair shops. It has three
lines of railways, the L.S. & M.S.W. & L.E. and N.Y.C. & St. L. (or
Nickel-plate.) Newspapers: Gazette, neutral, Stoner & Callahan, publishers;
Local News, neutral, Geo. E. Wood, editor and publisher. Churches: 2
Congregational, 1 Methodist Episcopal, 1 Reformed, 1 Catholic, 1
Evangelical, 1 Lutheran and 1 Episcopal. Banks: Bellevue, Bourdett Wood,
president, E.J. Sheffield, cashier. City Officers, 1888: Mayor, John U.
Mayne; Clerk, W.H. Dimick; Marshal, J.P. Kroner; Treasurer, Abishai
Woodward. Population in 1880, 2,169. School census, 1888, 854; E.F. Warner,
school superintendent.
        MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -Joseph Erdrich, cooperage, 25 hands;
Fremont Cultivator Co., agricultural implements, 61; McLaughlin & Co.,
flour, etc., 13; Gross and Weber, planing mill, 6; Ohio State Report, 1888.
Capital invested in industrial establishments, $156,000. Value of annual
product, $538,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887. United States census,
1890, 3,052.
        GREENWICH is eighteen miles southeast of Norwalk, on the C.C.C. &
I.R.R. Newspaper: Enterprise, local, Speek & McKee, publishers. Churches: 1
Congregational, 1 Methodist and 2 Friends. Bank: Greenwich, Banking Co.,
Wm. A. Knapp, president, W.A. Hossler, cashier. Population in 1880, 647.
School census, 1888, 276.
        MONROEVILLE is an incorporated town about ninety-five miles north
from Columbus, fifty-nine miles west of Cleveland and five miles west of
Norwalk. Three railroads have a junction here, viz.: L.S. & M.S., W. & L.E.
and B. & O., and the "Nickel plate" crosses the B. & O. four miles north of
the town. It is surrounded by rich farming lands, cereals and fruits being
the principal products. Its educational facilities are superior, and it has
considerable manufacturing interests. Newspaper: Spectator, neutral,
Simmons Bros., publishers. Churches: 1 Baptist, 1 Episcopal, 1 Lutheran, 1
Methodist Episcopal, 1 Catholic and 1 Presbyterian. Banks: First National,
S.D. Fish, president, H.P. Stentz, cashier.
        MANUFACTURERS AND EMPLOYEES. -Boehm & Yanquell, flour, etc., 3
hands; Heymon & Co., flour, etc., 9; S.E. Smith, agricultural implements,
6; John Hosford, fanning mills, 2. -State Report, 1888. Population in 1880,
1,221. School census, 1888, 476; W.H. Mitchell, school superintendent.
Capital invested in industrial establishments, $30,000. Value of annual
product, $60,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887.
        NEW LONDON is ninety miles north of Columbus and forty-seven miles
southwest of Cleveland via C.C.C. & I.R.R. Its early settlers were from New
York and New England. It has one newspaper: Record, independent, Geo. W.
Runyan, editor and proprietor. City Officers, 1888, D.R. Sackett, mayor;
J.L. Young, clerk; C.Starbird, treasurer; H.K. Day, marshal. Three
churches: 1 Baptist, 1 Methodist Episcopal and 1 Congregational. Principal
industries are dairying, manufacture of flour, tile, churn and butter
boxes, tables, carriages and wagons. Bank: First National, Alfred
S.Johnson, president; John M. Sherman, cashier. Population in 1880, 1,011.
School census, 1886, 295; Jas. L. Young, superintendent.
        CHICAGO is seventy-five miles north of Columbus and fifteen
southwest of Norwalk. The first building was erected in 1874, and occupied
by Samuel L. Boweby as a grocery and hotel. Chicago is an evidence of the
rapid growth of a town through the influence of railroads, three divisions
of the B. & O.R.R. terminating here and causing the establishment of the
town, which has grown to its present proportions notwithstanding serious
drawbacks by fire and epidemic. It has one newspaper: Times, independent,
S.O. Riggs, editor and publisher. Four churches: 1 Unite Brethren, 1
Methodist Episcopal, 1 Free Methodist and 1 Catholic. The B. & O.R.R. has
machine and repair shops located here. Population in 1880, 662.
        WAKEMAN is ten miles east of Norwalk, on the L.S. & M.S.R.R.
Newspaper: Independent Press, Independent, G.H. Mains, editor and publisher.
        MANUFACTURES AND EMPLOYEES. -J.J. McMann, wagon felloes, etc., 5
hands; Geo. Humphrey, wagon felloes, etc., 6; S.T. Gibson, flour, etc., 2;
J.R. Griffin, cooperage, 4; -Ohio State Report, 1887. Capital invested in
industrial establishments, $13,300. Value of annual product, $15,200. -Ohio
Labor Statistics, 1887.

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