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CARY, Adaline M. 1834 age 1 daughter of B & M Cary Amanda 1839 age 9 daughter of Benajah & Mary Andrew J. 1839 age 11 mo. son of Benajah & Mary Benajah 11-30-1788-1858 b. N.H., d. Cincinnati Mary Nichols 7-27-1797-1841 wife of Benajah Cary. Born in Vt. Missouri 1834 age 5 daughter of Christopher & Margaret Cary Venus 1841 age 4 mo. son of Benajah & Mary Cary COWAN, Mrs. Lucinda 1841 age 19 DEATS, Alice d. 1849 in 70th year wife of Henry Deats Henry d. 1843 in 90th year, A Rev. War soldier from NJ HARTHORN, Peter d. 1837 age ? Tamison 1840 age 67? "Relic of Peter Harthorn" HOPPER, Francis 1846 age 1 mo. son of Wm & Martha HOWARD, George d. 1838 in 48th year Phebe 1826 age 2 daughter of George & Sally Rhoda 1828 age 1 daughter of George & Sally Sally 1833 age 34 wife of George Howard KENISTON, James 8-19-1756-1837 b. Rye, NH, A Rev. War soldier LABERTEW, Hannah 1807 age 23 consort of Joseph "Erected by her son Wm. Labertew." Murray 1829 age 1 son of Peter J & Phebe Abigail 1827 age 17 wife of Wm. S. Labertew LABOYTEAUX, Alice d. 1836 in 25th year, wife of Wm. S. Laboyteaux John P 1842 age 67 native of NJ Keziah 1814 age 70 consort of Peter Peter 1812 age 76 (the pioneer) Phebe d. 1845 in 77th year "Relict of John" Sarah 1842 age 51 wife of John P. LEWIS, John 1-1-1790-1836 "A native of Denmark McGINNIS, John 1835 age 30 Lucy 1840 age 54 McLEAN, Mary G. 8-11-1815-1841 daughter of John & Margaret MILLER, Freeman 1838 age 8 mo. son of Matthias & Elizabeth NICHOLAS, Mary See Mary Cary RUNYUN, Huldah 1855 age? Consort of George Runyun Jemima 5-10-1777-1858 b. Somerset Co., NJ wife of John Runyun. John 10-1-1775-1841 b. Somerset Co., NJ SKILLMAN, Alva 1833 age 1 son of Isaac N. & Amelia John S. 1830 age 10 mo. son of Isaac & Amelia Martin 1831 age 29 days son of Isaac N. & Amelia STRYKER, Mr. John d. 1840 in 66th year TUNISON, Mary 1851 age 77 wife of Henry Henry c. 1840 in 66th year WRIGHT, John M. 1816 age 1 son of Francis C. & Julia Ann Peter Laboyteaux was born in 1737 at Raritan Landing, N.J. He married Keziah Sebring in 1756 and they had John Peter, William, Joseph and Catherine. In 1800 they came to Ohio. Peter is descended from Gabriel Le Boyteaux a Huguenot family of Rochelle, France. Benajah Cary was the brother of Robert Cary, the father of Alice and Phoebe Cary, famous poets. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:31:04, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 1 HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON HAMILTON was the second county established in the Northwestern Territory. It was formed January 2, 1790, by proclamation of Governor St. Clair, and named from Gen. Alexander Hamilton. Its original boundaries were thus defined: "Beginning on the Ohio river, at the confluence of the Little Miami, and down the said Ohio to the mouth of the Big Miami; and up said Miami to the standing stone forks or branch of said river, and thence with a line to be drawn due east to the Little Miami, and down said Little Miami river to the place of beginning." The surface is generally rolling; soil on the uplands clay, and in the valleys deep alluvion, with a substratum of sand. Its agriculture includes a great variety of fruits and vegetables for the Cincinnati market. Area about 400 square miles. In 1887 the acres cultivated were 68, 458; in pasture, 19,468; woodland, 10,774; lying waste, 5,619; produced in wheat, 163,251 bushels; rye, 34,390; buckwheat, 110; oats, 116,500; barley, 34,390; corn, 468,501; broom corn, 2,345 pounds brush; meadow hay, 16,573 tons; clover hay, 3,915; potatoes, 190,398 bushels; tobacco, 25,460 pounds; butter,648,910; cheese, 9,950; sorghum, 15 gallons; maple syrup, 454; honey, 7,413 pounds; eggs, 327,650 dozen; grapes, 235,235 pounds; wine, 3,091 gallons; sweet potatoes, 11,314 bushels; apples, 1,910; peaches, 2,327; pears, 1,195; wool, 9,405 pounds; milch cows owned, 9,714; milk, 3,779,048 gallons. School census, 1888, 99,049; teachers, 1,031; miles of railroad track, 545. TOWNSHIPS AND CENSUS 1840 1880 Anderson 2,311 4,154 Colerain 2,272 3,722 Columbia 3,022 5,306 Crosby 1,875 1,043 Cincinnati (city) 46,382 255,139 Delhi 1,466 4,738 Fulton 1,505 Green 2,939 4,851 Harrison 2,277 Miami 2,189 2,317 Mill Creek 6,249 11,286 Spencer 996 Springfield 3,207 7,975 Storrs 740 Sycamore 3,207 6,369 Symmes 1,033 1,626 Whitewater 1,883 1,575 Population of Hamilton in 1820, was 31,764; 1830, 52,380; 1840, 80,165; 1860, 216,410; 1880, 313,374; of whom 191,509 were born in Ohio; 10,586, Kentucky; 6,468, Indiana; 4,362, New York; 4,185, Pennsylvania; 2,361, Virginia; 53,252, German Empire; 16,991, Ireland; 4,099, England and Wales; 1,787, France; 1,308, British America; 796, Scotland. Census, 1890, 374,573. Before the war much attention was given to the cultivation of vineyards upon the hillsides of the Ohio for the manufacture of wine, and it promised to be a great business when the change in climate resulted disastrously. ANTIQUITIES The Great Dam At Cincinnati In The Ice Age. The country in the vicinity of Cincinnati owes its unsurpassed beauty to the operations of Nature during the glacial era. It was the ice movement that gave it those fine terraces along the valleys and graceful contours of formation on the summits of the hills that were so attractive to the pioneers. Here it was that the great ice movement from the north ended. As has been remarked, "those were the days of the beautiful lake rather than the beautiful river." No single cause has done more to diversify the surface of the country, to add to the attractiveness of the scenery and to furnish the key by which the condition of the Ice Age can be reproduced to the mind's eye than glacial dams. To them we owe the present existence of nearly all the waterfalls in North America, as well as nearly all the lakes. A glacial dam across the Ohio river is supposed to have existed at the site of Cincinnati during the Ice Age, and the evidence supporting the theory is so full and conclusive that its existence can almost be assumed as an absolute certainty. The evidence of the former existence of this dam and the lake caused thereby were first discovered and the attention of the scientific world attracted thereto, in the summer of 1882, by Prof. G. Frederick Wright, of Oberlin, whose valuable researches on glacial phenomena have given him a world-wide reputation. The facts here given are extracted from Prof. Wright's recently published volume, "The Ice Age in North America," a work scientific, but plain to the commonest understanding, intensely interesting and an inestimably valuable contribution to the sum of human knowledge. "The ice came down through the trough of the Ohio, and meeting with an obstruction, crossed it so as to completely choke the channel, and form a glacial dam high enough to raise the level of the water five hundred and fifty feet - this being the height of the water shed to the south. The consequences following are interesting to trace. The bottom of the Ohio river at Cincinnati is 447 feet above the sea-level. A dam of 553 feet would raise the water in its rear to a height of 1,000 feet above the tide. This would produce a long narrow lake, of the width of the eroded through of the Ohio, submerge the site of Pittsburg to a depth of 300 feet, and make slack-water up the Monongahela nearly to Grafton, W.Va., and up the Allegheny as far as Oil City. All the tributaries of the Ohio would likewise be filled to this level with the back water. The length of this slack-water lake in the main valley, to its termination up either the Allegheny or the Monongahela, was not far from one thousand miles. The conditions were also peculiar in this, that all the northern tributaries head within the southern margin of the ice-front, which lay at varying distances to the north. Down these northern tributaries there must have poured during the summer months immense torrents of water to strand bowlder-laden icebergs on the summi ts of such high hills as were lower than the level of the dam." Prof. E.W. Claypole, in an article read before the Geological Society of Edinburgh, and published in their "Transactions," has given a very vivid description of the scenes connected with the final breaking away of the ice-barrier at Cincinnati. He estimates that the body of water held in check by this dam occupied 20,000 square miles, and that during the summer months, when the ice was most rapidly melting away, it was supplied with water at a rate that would be equivalent to a rainfall of 160 feet in a year. This conclusion he arrives at by estimating that ten feet of ice would annually melt from the portion of the State which was glaciated, and which is about twice the extent of the unglaciated portion. Ten feet over the glaciated portion is equal to twenty feet of water over the unglaciated. To this must be added an equal amount from the area farther back whose drainage was then into the upper Ohio. This makes forty feet per year of water so contributed to this lake-basin. Furthermore, this supply would all be furnished in the six months of warm weather, and to a large degree in the daytime, which gives the rate above mentioned. The breaking away of the barrier to such a body of water is no simple affair. At this writer remarks: "The Ohio of to-day in flood is a terrible danger to the valley, but the Ohio then must have been a much more formidable river to the dwellers on its banks. The muddy waters rolled along, fed by innumerable rills of glacier-milk, and often charged with ice and stones. The first warm days of spring were the harbinger of the coming flood, which grew swifter and deeper as the summer came, and only subsided as the falling temperature of autumn locked up with frost the glacier fountains. The ancient Ohio river system was in its higher part of multitude of glacial torrents rushing off the ice-sheet, carrying all before them, waxing strong beneath the rising sun, till in the afternoon the roar of the waters and their stony burden reached its maximum as the sun slowly sank again diminished and gradually died away during the night, reaching its minimum at sunrise. But with the steady amelioration of the climate, more violent and sudden floods ensued. The increasing heat of summer compelled the retreat of the ice from the Kentucky shore, where Covington and Newport now lie, and so lowered its surface that it fell below the previous out-flow point. The waters then took their course over the dam, instead of passing, as formerly up the Licking and down the Kentucky river valleys. The spectacle of a great ice-cascade, or of long ice-rapids, was then exhibited at Cincinnati. This cataract or these rapids must have been several hundred feet high. Down these cliffs or this slope the water dashed, melting its own channel, and breaking up the foundations of its own dam. With the depression of the dam the level of the lake also fell. Possibly the change was gradual, and the dam and the lake went gently down together. Possibly, but not probably, this was the case. Far more likely is it that the melting was rapid, and that it sapped the strength of the dam faster than it lowered the water. This will be more probable if we consider the immense area to be drained. The catastrophe was then inevitable -the dam broke, and all the accumulated water of lake Ohio was poured through the gap. Days or even weeks must have passed before it was all gone; but at last its bed was dry. The upper Ohio valley was free from water, and lake Ohio had passed away. -continued in part 2 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #352 *******************************************