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OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest                    Volume 99 : Issue 411

Today's Topics:
  #1 HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 23            [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]
  #2 PA. PIONEERS BURIED IN MONTGOMERY    [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE]

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X-Message: #1
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:13:32, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY - PART 23


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

                        HAMILTON COUNTY - part 23

        Cincinnati, by the accident of her geographical position, became
the focus of Abolitionism, and also of the opposite sentiment. In this city
Birney was mobbed; Phillips was egged; colored men persecuted. In this city
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was planned, and here the Republican party was born.
When the war came on Cincinnati did not waver. All sects and all parties,
foreign and native, followed the Union flag. As soon as the war was over
the citizens resumed their discussions. The Queen City is the arena of
wrestling thoughts. Therefore it has become a city of practical toleration.
Extreme radicalism lives side by side with extreme conservatism. Jew and
Gentile are at peace. Orthodoxy fights heterodoxy, but each concedes to the
other the right to exist. The people like read Ingersoll and Gladstone. The
Prohibitionists have a strong party here, and the drinkers of beer have a
hundred gardens on the hills. In politics, Republicans and Democrats are
pretty equally divided, and there is a lively class of "scratchers," in
each party. All things considered, there seems to be good ground for the
opinion often expressed by enthusiastic Cincinnatians that their city is
the freest city on the globe. This is a bold claim, but it would be
difficult to name a city in which the rights of the private individual are
less interfered with than they are in the Queen City. This status of its
people is the best for an ultimate true result. It is only by agitation and
experience that the race anywhere can advance; and nothing is a final
settlement until it is settled right.
        The tract known as the Miami Purchase, on the north shore of the
Ohio, was first settled at Cincinnati and Columbia (this last now in the
city limits) in 1788. Surrounded by a region of unsurpassed fertility, and
located on a stream which floated the principal commerce of the West,
Cincinnati in a few decades naturally took the leading rank. The farm
products of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, whether in the form of grain or
live-stock, poured into her markets. The steamboat interest was vast and
far-reaching, and until after the middle of the century Cincinnati profited
greatly not only by river commerce but by boat-building. The river landing
was then a scene of bustle and business, with the loading and unloading of
goods and the movement of steamers; its varying stages and phases were in
everybody's thoughts and talks. "How's the river to-day? Good stage of
water, eh?"
        In the period of its early life it was largely visited by foreign
travellers, for it was regarded as the brightest, most interesting place in
the West -as Volney, Ashe, Basil Hall, the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Capt.
Marryat, Harriet Martineau, Chas. Dickens and Mrs. Trollope. The latter,
with her four children, resided here two years, from 1828 to 1830, and lost
thousands in what she named "The Bazaar," which came to be known as
"Trollope's Folly." It stood on Third street, just east of Broadway. Among
its attractions was a splendid ball-room, long the pride of the city.
        The civil war wrought miracles in the development of Cincinnati.
Its manufacturing enterprises have developed prodigiously, property values
multiplied and large individual fortunes accumulated. A population of full
half a million dwells within a radius of ten miles, and the city proper has
a third of a million. A wide and rich field of traffic and investment has
of late years opened in the South by means of the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, and also by that through the Virginias by the Chesapeake and Ohio.
        The Cincinnati Southern Railway was built at a total cost of
$20.000,000, and runs to Chattanooga, a distance of 336 miles, into the
heart of the South. It was leased in 1880 until the close of the century to
the Erlanger Syndicate. It was built by the city by an issue of its bonds
nearly to the entire amount, which being regarded as an abuse, of its
corporate rights, the construction being even outside of the State, met
with strong opposition in the courts. The act was sustained, its
prospective immense importance to the well-being of the city overcoming all
adverse arguments of illegality.
        Freight by it consists largely of live-stock, coal, iron, stone,
lumber, bark, flour, whisky, turpentine, grain, cotton, hemp, fruit,
tobacco, salt provisions and beer. In 1883 it carried six hundred thousand
passengers and earned nearly two and a half millions in freight.
        The river trade is still very great, especially in coal; its weekly
consumption in the city is about a million of bushels. Freight is largely
conveyed up and down the river by powerful steamboats with fleets of
barges. About one-quarter of the imports and exports of Cincinnati are
moved by water.
        Cincinnati is a composite city, an aggregation of towns once
separate, which, however, retain their old names, as Walnut Hills,
Columbia, Pendleton, etc., and just outside lie some charming villages
which practically enjoy the benefits of the city, yet control their own
local affairs by a mayor and alderman, as Clifton and Avondale. Then, in
the Kentucky side of the Ohio, are Covington and Newport, with the Licking
dividing them, and Bellevue, Dayton and Ludlow. Several bridges connect
Cincinnati with the Ohio, among them the beautiful suspension bridge to
Covington, completed in 1866 by the engineer, Roebling, at a cost of
$1,800,000. It is 103 feet above low water, and is the largest single span
of its class in the world. The towers over which the gigantic cables pass
are 1,057 feet apart, are 230 feet in height, and thus are higher, and each
contain more stone than the Bunker Hill Monument. The others are pier
bridges, and built to accommodate railroads, viz.: the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad, the Louisville Short Line Railroad, and the Chesapeake and Ohio.
This last cost nearly $5,000,000, and was opened January 1, 1889.
        Cincinnati now extends along the Ohio ten or twelve miles, with an
average width of about three miles. Forty years ago its corporate limits
were only about four square miles, and with scarce an exception was the
most densely populated area of its size in the Union. Above the flood plain
it is built on a terrace, and then rise the hills about 400 feet higher.
The canal roughly bounds a quarter long known as "Over the Rhine," because
of its great German population. In the Exposition of 1888 the canal was
utilized to represent a Venetian street, and was supplied  with gondolas.
The great Music Hall, Arbeiter Hall and Turner Hall are in that quarter.
        Access to the hill-tops is by steeply graded roads, cable-car and
horse-car roads, and by four inclined planes up which cars are drawn by
powerful engines. The principal lines converge at Fountain Square.
        The pavements are excellent, consisting of granite, asphalt and
Ohio river boulders. The sewerage and underdrainage is perfect, and few
cities are so healthy. Within the city limits is EDEN PARK, which is on the
hills above the city plain, a pleasure-ground of 240 acres, on which is the
reservoir which supplies the city with water. BURNET WOODS, a tract of
beautiful forest of 170 acres, is also on the hills not far from the
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, which last front on the Carthage pike. They are the
largest and finest in America, and the buildings are as costly and
substantial as those of the Zoological Gardens in Europe. The grounds,
sixty, acres in extent, are beautifully improved. There are about 1,000
specimens of animals and birds from all parts of the world. Frequently
there are balls, picnics and special attractions, and on Thursday evening
there is a fete. The gardens were opened in 1875, and since then over
$300,000 has been expended.
        Each of the four inclined planes leads to a famous resort. On the
east is the Highland House, on the north Lookout and Bellevue, and on the
west Price Hill. Thousands flock to these, especially summer evenings and
on Sundays.
        SPRING GROVE CEMETERY is six miles from the river, in the valley of
Mill Creek, on Spring Grove avenue. It comprises 600 acres, and has had
therein about 35,000 interments. Its numerous springs and groves suggested
the name. It is probably the most picturesque, as it is the largest
cemetery in the world. It is on the plan of a park, to relieve the ground
of the heavy, incumbered air of a churchyard, and to present the appearance
of a natural park. It is exquisitely laid out, with far-stretching lawns,
miniature lakes and shrubbery, and ornamented with stately monuments,
chapels, vaults and statues. There are about 7,000 lot-holders. The more
prominent objects are the Mortuary Chapel and Dexter Mausoleum, and the
Soldiers' Monument. Many eminent historical characters are interred here.
The spot is so enchanting that it seems as an earthly Paradise rather than
a home of the dead.
        The great beauty of the cemetery is largely due to the late Prof.
Adolph Strauch, landscape gardener and arborculturist, who died in 1882,
and who was for many years it superintendent. "To him belongs the credit of
giving to Cincinnati her renown for beautiful suburbs, with landscapes
lovely as a dream." He estimated, exclusive of funerals, that in a single
year (1880) it had a quarter of a million of visitors.
        THE TYLER DAVIDSON FOUNTAIN is the grandest fountain on the
continent. It stands on the Esplanade in the centre of Fountain square,
which is a raised stone structure twenty-eight inches in height. This
square is near the centre of the city and from which distances are
calculated and the car lines mostly start. The fountain is a work in bronze
consisting of fifteen large figures, of which the most prominent represents
a woman from whose outstretched prone hands water is falling in fine spray.
She is the Spirit of Rain. The head of this figure rises forty-five feet
above the street level. The fountain was designed and cast in Munich, at a
cost of $200,000. The work was presented to Cincinnati in 1871 by one of
her public-spirited citizens, Henry Probasco, a patron of arts and
literature, whose magnificent residence is one of the palaces of the suburbs.

        -continued in part 24


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X-Message: #2
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:13:37, -0500
From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER)
Subject: PA. PIONEERS BURIED IN MONTGOMERY CO.


OHIO The cross road of our nation
Records & Pioneer Families
January-March 1964
Vol. V  No. I
Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT

        PENNSYLVANIA PIONEERS BURIED IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO
        Contributed by Martha Helwagen, 7309 Reading Rd., Cinci. 37, O.

AUGLINBAUGH, Isaac, died July 29, 1842, age 28 years, nativity,
Chambersburg, Pa.

AUGLINBAUGH, Peter died July 2, 1845, age 68, born Adams Co., Pa.

ARNOLD, Benjamin, died Sept. 15, 1844, age 29, born York Co., Pa.

ANTRIM, Jacob died 1860; born Berks Co., Pa., in 1797.

BOHR, William died Mar. 31, 1858, born Jan. 27, 1792, Cumberland Co., Pa.

BEARD, Jacob died 1862; born Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1777.

COOPER, David Z. died Dec. 4, 1836, age 24, born Pittsburg, Pa.

COMPTON, Rebecca, died July 24, 1832, age 62, born Montgomery Co., Pa.

CORNCROSS, Elizabeth, died Sept. 12, 1838, age 27, born Chester Co., Pa.

COLEMAN, George, died Aug. 29, 1845, age 62-2-5, born Bedford Co., Pa.

DICKS, Mary died Nov. 4, 1846, age 75y 8m, nativity Columbia, Pa.

EAKER, William Died Jan. 7, 1848, age 64, born Franklin Co., Pa.

EBERT, Henry W. died April 21, 1847, age 1 year, born Pittsburg, Pa.

ELEY, Simon born June 7, 1796, Cumberland Co., Pa., died Apr. 22, 1847.

EMERICH, Christopher, born Jan. 23, 1771, Berks Co., Pa.; d. Jan. 26, 1837.

FOWLER, Catherine died Nov. 7, 1840, age 66; born Lehigh Co., Pa.

GEBHART, Charles A. died mar. 26, 1842, age 44; born Somerset Co., Pa.

GILLMAN, Nicholas born Nov. 26, 1805, lancaster Co., Pa. died July 23, 1873.

GUNCKEL, Philip born apr. 7, 1766, Berks Co., Pa.; died May 24, 1848.

GUNCKEL, Catherine (SCHAEFFER) born July 12, 1766, Berks co., Pa. died Aug.
2, 1836.

HANNA, Elizabeth died Sept. 3, 1816, age 73; born ? Pa.

HOFFMAN, John M. born Dec. 1, 1789, Lebanaon Co., Pa., died July 12, 1858.

HOLLIS, Phoebe M. died June 1826, age 73; born ? Pa.

HARKER, Samuel T. died Jan. 2, 1847, age 44; born Somerset, Pa.

JOHNSON, David died Feb. 1, 1834, age 74; nativity Dauphin Co., Pa.

JORDAN, Jacob died Dec. 9, 1846, age 44; born Northampton Co., Pa.

KERN, John George born Feb. 8, 1775, Berks Co., Pa.; died Jan. 1857.

KNISLEY, Abraham died May 29, 1848, age 42; born York Co., Pa.

KNIESLEY, John died Jan. 16, 1839, age 60y 1m; born York Co., Pa.

LAMAN, Calvin died Aug. 4, 1844, age 1 year; born Lancaster Co., Pa.

McKEE, Adam died May 2, 1861, age 4y 1m; nativity Dauphin Co., Pa.

McHOSE, George died Apr. 22, 1845, age 44, born Northampton Co., Pa.

MAY, Dinah died Feb. 1844, age 65; born Hanover, Pa.

McCAULEY, Jacob died July 15, 1849, age 23; born Lancaster, Pa.

NEGLEY, John C. died Mar. 21, 1868; born July 21, 1783, Cumberland Co., Pa.

NEWCOM, Mary died April 3, 1834, age 69; born ? Pa.

NEWELL, Margaret J. died Aug. 9, 1843, age 30; born Cumberland Co., Pa.

REED, Samuel died June 7, 1874; born June 7, 1791, Schuylkill Co., Pa.

ROHRER, Christian, died ?; born Dec. 2, 1804, Lancaster Co., Pa.

STUMP, Leonard died July 9, 1811; born July 11, 1767, Berks Co., Pa.

STOEVER, John Casper born Dauphin Co. (now Lebanon Co.,) Pa., to Montgomery
Co., O 1806; died at at an advanced age.

SCHAEFFER (see Gunckel)

ZEARING, Peter b. Lebanon Co., Pa. in 1790; died Aug. 8, 1858.
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                NOTES FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO BY BEERS

KNEISLY, John W. b. June 16, 1826, Cumberland Co., Pa., son of John & Susan
(Whitmore) Kneisly, married 1856 to Harriet Kemp of Mad River Twp.,
Montgomery Co., O.

GUNCKEL, Philip married as 2nd wife, Catherine Schaeffer and by her had 8
children. Philip had a brother Daniel come here in 1811. Catherine was the
daughter of Peter and Catherine Schaeffer.

ANTRIM, J.J. son of Jacob Antrim born Berks Co., Pa. 1791 and Mary Zeiler
b. 1800, Berks Co., Pa. who came here in 1819, had 6 children.

REED, Samuel married 1828 Sarah Leinbach, had 4 children. Came here in 1825.

ROHRER, Christian born 1804, son of Christian and Anna Maria (Forrer)
Rohrer, had 9 children; came here in 1831. Christian Jr. Married margaret
Emerick.

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