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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 49 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Colerain twp pt. 3 [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030326200650.01667d08@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Colerain twp pt. 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Trancribed by Karen Klaene *********************************************************************** Colerain Township - pgs 255-262 *********************************************************************** History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford, L.A. William & Co., Publishers; 1881. SETTLEMENTS. Among the early settlers in Colerain township, besides DUNLAP, CAMPBELL and others already named, were the BROWN, HALSTEAD, HUSTON, and other old families, some of which will be found noticed in the brief narratives below. In 1796 the HUGHES family, the head of which was then Ezekiel HUGHES, and which was afterwards prominent among the pioneers of Whitewater township, settled upon a tract in the valley of the Blue Rock creek, nearly opposite New Baltimore, awaiting the time when the Congress lands west of the river should be open to settlement With them was Edward BEBB, father of Governor William BEBB. Some interesting notes of their residence here will be found in the history of Whitewater township. Hon. Nehemiah WADE was born in Cincinnati, August 18, 1793, and died near Venice, Butler county, July 24, 1879. He was the son of David E. WADE, an old pioneer of Hamilton county, and was married to Miss WALLACE of Cincinnati. Four sons and a daughter were the fruit of this union. His second wife was Mrs.: Jane DICK, daughter of Isaac ANDERSON, and widow of George DICK. To them was born one daughter, Sarah,-.who was the wife of Rev. MCMILLAN. Mr. WADE was a teller in one of the Cincinnati banks when only seventeen years of age. In 1818 he was elected justice of the peace of ROSS township, and continued in office for six years; in 1841 was elected by the State legislature an associate judge of the court of common pleas for Butler county, and was reelected in 1847, serving in that office for twelve years. The Oxford Female college received a donation from him of ten thousand dollars. He united with the Presbyterian church of Bethel in 1818, and in 1828, with a few others. joined in organizing the Presbyterian church of Venice, and was a ruling elder of this church until his death. John HUSTON was born in Ulster, Ireland, and is the great-great-grandfather of the HUSTONS whose sketches are annexed below. He came to America in an early day, and served in the battle of Brandywine, under Washington, as a captain of a company. He was long lived, and possessed a sturdy character, which traits seem to have been transmitted to his numerous descendants, as an inheritance. He was buried in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Three of his sons, Paul, Samuel and David, emigrated to Colerain township in 1795, David settling finally in Greene county, where he was for twenty-one years an associate judge and sent twice to the State legislature. His numerous descendants are in Butler county and around Dayton, Ohio. Paul HUSTON was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1767; Jean (CHARTERS) HUSTON, his wife, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, December 14, 1771. Her parents emigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania in 1774. Their offspring were William, Mary, John, Paul, John, Jennet, Samuel, Martha, Nancy, James and Elizabeth, the last named being the mother of Paul H. WILLIAMSON. Paul was the grandfather of Paul S. and his cousin Paul A. J. HUSTON. Samuel was the grandfather of Andrew and James HUSTON. James HUSTON, son of Paul and father of Paul A. J. HUSTON, was born in 1811 and died in 1878; was a farmer in Colerain township, and, like the HUSTONS in general, was remarkable for his thrift and good worth. Paul's mother was Martha CONE, daughter of an old pioneer of Crosby township. His father was married twice; the second time to Miss Mary MORRIS, and was the father of six children in all, of which Paul A. J. was the oldest. P. A. J. HUSTON owns part of the extensive tract of land possessed originally by his father, being in the vicinity of Pleasant run. He is a farmer and a prominent man in his county, having filled many township offices and been a member of the State legislature. He was married to Miss Mary BEVIS in 1859, and is the father of six children. He is public spirited, and lives an honored citizen of his community. Andrew and James HUSTON are the grandsons of Samuel HUSTON. Their father, James STEWARD, was a distiller, and owned an extensive tract of about fifteen hundred acres of land besides; a part of which Andrew and James received as patrimony. They also possess large interests in the Hamilton and Cincinnati turnpike, and are also large shareholders in the Springdale pike. The Hamilton and Cincinnati turnpike is probably one of the best managed pikes in the State. In addition to all this these brothers have considerable property in the city of Cincinnati. Paul S. HUSTON, also of Colerain township, grandson of Paul HUSTON and son of William, was born in 1823. William died in 1848, since which time, until her death, Paul's mother lived with him on the old place near Pleasant run; his sister Ann Elizabeth also lived with him several years. Paul S. HUSTON was never married. Thomas HUNTER, of Pleasant run, Colerain township, is the only son, and Mrs. ARNOLD, of Louisville, Kentucky, is the only daughter of Paul HUNTER, who is still living. William HUNTER, his grandfather, came from Pennsylvania to Colerain township in 1800. Thomas HUNTER was married in 1858 to Miss GASTON, of Mount Pleasant, from which union they had two children. He is a farmer. Charles STOUT was born in Hopewell township, New Jersey, in 1783. From this State he came directly to Ohio, and settled in Colerain township in 180l. His ~pg 259~ death occurred in the same region January 14, 1866. His business was that of a farmer, and he was a member of the Baptist church for about twenty-five years. His wife, Mary DUVALL, was born March 3, 1790, and died January 10, 1859. Of their twelve children, Ann Elizabeth STRUBLE died in 1834, Stephen in 1821, and Mary R. in 1828. Jane STOUT resides in Groesbeck, Joseph R. in Illinois, Oliver in Indiana, Charlotte HILL in Hamilton county; and Eleanor BEVIS , Axsher BEVIS, Benajah, Andrew J., and William remain in Colerain. Thomas HUBBARD, Sr., was born in North Carolina in 1780. He came from that State to Ohio, and settled in Colerain in 1807. His death took place May 25, 1852, at the same place. His wife, Elizabeth HUBBARD died also at their home in Colerain, June 27, 1868. She was born in 1790 The twenty-one children are: William and Charles, now in Missouri; Laura BOLTON, Aurelia CARNAHAN, Maria KELLOGG and Margaret WILKINSON of Indiana, Susan TATERSALL, Sarah HAT and Matilda KELLY of Illinois, and Ann HUBBARD and Thomas HUBBARD, Jr., of Colerain. Those who have died, are Thomas dying August, 1815; Samuel, July, 1822; Cynthia, July, 1834; Wesley, June, 1837; Hannah, April, 1847; Mary, August, 1852; Elizabeth, 1869; Eleanor, 1865, and Dalson, July, 1868. The children are scattered, but ten only are living. Thomas HUBBARD owns part of section seven of his township; was married in 1828, but has no children. His sister Ann lives with him. David K. JOHNSON, the only son of twelve children of Abner JOHNSON, of New Jersey, came here in 1809. Abner JOHNSON was born in the year 1759, hauled government supplies for Washington's army during the war, and with the script made in that way purchased part of Judge SYMMES' tract, near Ross, in Butler county, on which farm David K. JOHNSTON still lives. Mr. JOHNSON is now in the eightieth year of his age; has been blind eleven years, but otherwise is hale and hearty. He has been successful in shipping much produce in his line to New Orleans, out of which he has made money. He was married in 1831 to Miss Elizabeth HEDGES. The JOHNSON family, with but few exceptions, lived to the good old age of eighty, and upwards. Elias JOHNSON, nephew of David K. JOHNSON, and grandson of ABNER, lives on part of the same purchase (Judge SYMMES), in the vicinity of Ross, Butler county. Squire JOHNSON is known among his neighbors as a man of good judgment, of possessing more than ordinary abilities, and withal is noted for general thrift and good worth. He is a Republican, was a delegate to the general assembly in 1873 for revising the constitution; has always taken an active part in the public questions of the day. Has been a director of the Colerain turnpike, and secretary for the company since 1857. He was born December 30, 1816, and was married in August, 1871. George POUDER made his first settlement in Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1817. He came to this State from Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born October, 17, 1804. In 1870, December 23, he died, at Colerain township. The wife, Hannah G., was born in this township in 1805, and died in 1871. The surviving members of the family are George and Harriet WEST, both residing in Colerain township, and Mary J. COLLIER of Baltimore, Maryland. Five have died: Samuel died in August, 1834; Elizabeth COLLIER, September, 1859; John, May, 1864; Margaret, May, 1848, and Mary, March, 1844. George POUDER, of Barnesburgh, Colerain township, is a native of the county, but has only lived in the village during the past three years, in which he owns eighteen acres of good land and twenty-seven and a half acres of the old homestead near. He had a brother killed in the late war, near Dallas, Georgia, and was himself a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Ohio national guard. One company of this regiment was composed solely of teachers, of which John HANCOCK, superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, was a private. John POUDER was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1764, and came to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati in 1817. He died in Colerain in 1836. His wife, Elizabeth POUDER, born in 1784, died four years before her husband. The surviving children are Joseph and Harriet, now residents of Indianapolis, Indiana; Mary, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, and Lemuel, of Colerain. Leonard POUDER owns forty acres two miles west of Taylor's, Colerain township, and came here in 1840. Andrew, his son, enlisted in the Fiftieth Ohio regiment, and was taken prisoner at Franklin, Tennessee, and sent to prison at Chahaba, Georgia, where he was closely guarded for three months. After being exchanged, in company with two thousand one hundred others, he was put on the ill-fated Sultana, and when above Memphis, about two o'clock in the morning, the boiler burst and the boat was blown up. He secured a life-buoy, and after remaining on deck as long as possible, cast himself into the water, and swam to a sycamore log. He was picked up about four hours afterwards and taken to the hospital in Memphis, at which place he remained three weeks before going home. Only about three hundred of his comrades were saved. A. H. Cone, of Ross township, Butler county, was born in Hamilton county, but now lives on a part of the Yankee purchase of two and a half sections near Venice, owned by his father and grandfather. Charles CONE was major of militia during the Hull engagement. His grandson, A. H. CONE, is at present justice of the peace of Ross township. Giles RICHARDS, the father of George RICHARDS, was one of the old pioneers of Colerain township, a man of considerable ability, foresight, and sagacity, and one who did much towards public improvements, for both State and county. He was the projector of the Colerain turnpike, of the river bridge on that road, and also of other undertakings. During the war he contributed about sixteen thousand dollars of his own funds in various ways for the furtherance of its cause. He was born January 6, 1792, in Boston, Massachusetts, was a mechanic, merchant and farmer, and made his money during the War of 1812. He then had a button factory and made buttons for the army, and saddlery ornaments of various kinds. He came to Cincin- ~pg 260~ nati in 1820, where he soon had a saw-mill, grist-mill and woollen factory. In 1830 he purchased a large tract of land, of several hundred acres, surrounding what was then the thriving town of Colerain. Mr. RICHARDS was successful in accumulating a large amount of property, and also in securing an enviable reputation among his fellows. He died in 1876, having lived during the last two years with his son George, who was born in 1843, and in 1869 married to Miss Josie JOHNSON. In 1818 Isaac ERVEN made his first settlement in Ohio in Cincinnati. He was born in 1807, March 15th, in the State of Pennsylvania, and came from that State to Ohio. For fifteen years he was school director, and also served as ministerial director. His wife, Elizabeth GOSSAGE, was born in Maryland in 1816, and died in Colerain township in the year 1879. The children are: Isaac ERVEN, of Illinois; Henry and Giles, of this township; Ezra, and Ellen WOLVERTON, of Oregon; Francis M., also of Colerain; and Charlotte WILSON, living near Dayton, Ohio. William MARTIN is a descendant of Virginia stock, who were early settlers in Colerain township. William's grandfather, Samuel S., was a farmer and an undertaker. Samuel MARTIN, his father, lived on the farm William now owns. Mr. MARTIN, although born in 1822, has always preferred single blessedness to a married state. Williamson PAUL, (sic) of Colerain township, was born May 25, 1837. His paternal grandfather was William WILLIAMSON, whose wife was Anna VORHEES; they were of Teutonic and English origin. His great-grandfather, on his father's side, was John WILLIAMSON, whose wife was Lucretia TICE. John was born fourth of May, 1749; Lucretia TICE the twenty-sixth of April, 1749. They raised a family of ten children: John, William, Jacob, Garret, Mary, Henry, Ann, Sarah, David, and Luretia. John was married to Hannah SMITH, August 29, 1771. They raised a family of ten children, Jacob, Cornelius, John, Lucretia, Simeon, Amos, Catharine, David, Ann, and Henry. David WILLIAMSON, Paul's father, was born June 6, 1808; his mother Elizabeth HUSTON, was born April 24, 1814. They were married May 22, 1833. Their children were Hannah, Jean, Paul H, Mary E., and Albert. David WILLIAMSON came of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, John, having served under Generals GREENE and WASHINGTON, and fought and was taken prisoner during the war. David was an edge tool maker and an early pioneer and settler of Colerain township, having emigrated to this place in 1811, and when twenty-five years of age married Elizabeth HUSTON. Paul WILLIAMSON, their eldest son, was liberally educated and perfected his studies at Farmer's college; for nine months following he was a successful teacher, for which he seems to have been adapted in manner and method. In May, 1857, he went to Iowa and found employment in agricultural pursuits, and in the fall of that year, with three friends, travelled by wagon through the greater portion of this State, Missouri; and Kansas, and during the following winter taught a flourishing school at Aviston, Illinois. In April, 1858, in company with a friend, he started overland to California, meeting at Leavenworth an emigrant train, which he accompanied to the same destination. Their route was via Santa Fe and the thirty-fifth parallel, Lieutenant BEALE' route across New Mexico. While on this wearisome journey the party was attacked on the Colorado river by Indians, and eight of their number slain. They lost their wagons and stock, and, passing through a gauntlet of hostile Indians, suffered the most terrible privations, and were compelled to return east a distance of seven hundred miles to Albuquerque, at which place Mr. WILLIAMSON left the party, taking his way to El Paso, Mexico, remaining there two weeks, then joining a Mexican wagon train went to San Antonio, Texas. In a short time he left this place for Seguin, Texas, where, for nine months, he again taught school. In the fall of 1859 he made a journey to Columbia, Arkansas, on horseback, where he again became teacher, and filled this position with great success, until the breaking out of the civil war; thence he proceeded to New Orleans, again north to St. Louis and to Cincinnati, in which vicinity he has since resided. From February, 1870, until 1874 he acted as deputy clerk of the probate court of Hamilton county. In October, 1873, he was elected county auditor, which position he filled with credit to himself and to his county for one term; was renominated, but deflated by a very small majority. He was married November 1, 1870, to Miss Ada JAYNE, daughter of a pioneer of Clermont county, and of Adeline LEONARD, whose ancestry were of Scotch Irish descent, and who came over in the Mayflower. Paul H. is a Democrat. His life is one of startling incidents and romantic adventure. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:11:21 -0600 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030326201121.01646fec@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Ch 13, pt 1 - hamilton co Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford, L.A. William & Co., Publishers; 1881. pages 200-203 ~pg 200~ CHAPTER XIII THE COUNTY INSTITUTIONS " faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind' concerned in charity; All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind of men." Alexander POPE, " Essay on Man." THE LONGVIEW ASYLUM For many years an embarrassing and increasing number of incurable lunatics had been confined in the old Commercial hospital in Cincinnati. By midsummer of 1853, one hundred and forty-seven inmates were confined in the lunatic department of that institution, and ~pg 201~ it was considered injudicious and even dangerous to receive any more. A communication setting forth these facts was made by the board of directors of the city infirmary to the board of commissioners for Hamilton county, and on the twenty-fourth of August, of the same year, the commissioners appointed Messrs. J.J. QUINN, David JUDKINS, and A.S. DANDRIDGE, all M. D.' as a committee of examination and report upon the condition and demands of the unfortunates. These gentlemen did prompt, faithful and intelligent duly, and soon reported ably and at length, setting forth the absolute necessity of further provision for the insane of Cincinnati and Hamilton county. They were then authorized to ascertain where a temporary asylum could be located; and their next report recommended the lease of the mansion and grounds of Mr. AMES, on Lick run, near the city, at eight hundred dollars per year. The report was accepted by the commissions, and on September 1, 1853, only three weeks and two days after the original complaint of the infirmary directors was made, the arrangement with Mr. AMES was effected and a commencement made of preparations for the reception of lunatic patients in his building. On the third of the following October, Dr. QUINN, of the committee, was appointed superintendent of the new asylum. The better conditions of situation, living, attendance, etc., greatly ameliorated the physical and mental state of the afflicted ones, and the reputation of the new asylum soon brought large additions to its numbers, two hundred and ninety-six patients, or more than double the number before mentioned as confined in the old Commercial hospital at the time of the change, being inmates at the period of their removal to the institution at Carthage in the spring of 1860. During the time (nearly seven years) the Lick Run asylum was maintained, its cost to the county was but one hundred and eighty thousand, four hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents, or an average of about twenty-six thousand dollars a year. This includes the expense of refitting and furnishing it at the beginning of its occupation, and at the close putting it again in order for its owners, as a residence. Preparations were not long delayed for the construction of a more permanent retreat for the insane of the county. The Lick Run asylum had scarcely been secured, and the lunatic patients transferred from the Commercial hospital, when the board of commissioners moved for the erection of a more spacious and permanent institution. On the twenty-fifth day of October, 1853, they ordered advertisement to be made " the proprietors of lands in Hamilton county," that they desired to " an entire tract of land of fifty or sixty acres within twelve miles of the city of Cincinnati, for the purpose of a county poor house and lunatic asylum. Sealed proposals of the terms of sale, with a correct surveyed description of said tracts of land, with its natural and artificial advantages, will be received from proprietors until the eighth day of November, 1853, at the auditor' office." Many land owners in various parts of the county sent in offers of sale by way of response, and on the eighteenth day of January ensuing, after full and impartial examination of the several properties and sites offered, the board of county commissioners determined upon the purchase, from several land owners in Mill Creek township, near Carthage, of one hundred and nine-tenths acres, at rates varying from two hundred dollars to five hundred dollars per acre. The next year, March 19, 1855, the largest and most eligible of these lots, one of thirty-eight acres, bought of R. W. LEE and James WILSON, for five hundred dollars per acre, was formally set aside for the purposes of the asylum, leaving the remainder to the county infirmary. This was done, in the words of the order, "the purchase of the grounds and the erection of a lunatic asylum sufficiently large to accommodate the wants of said county, may be separate and distinct from the county infirmary, and for that purpose we make the above order." Meanwhile plans and specifications had been procured for an asylum building; Mr. Joseph TALBERT had been appointed superintendent of the work, on behalf of the commissioners; the excavation of a cellar and basement had been commenced, and a considerable amount of work done. Thus far materials were purchased and labor paid, at the order of the commissioners, as the work went on, but presently, on the twenty-first of March, 1855, contracts were made for the erection of the asylum as follows: For the stone work, with Jesse TIMANUS; for the brick work, with John HAWKINS; for the plumbing, with Mssrs. Hugh MCCOLLUM & Company; and for the tin roofing and copper cutters, with William DUNN. The board was not unanimous in the award of these contracts, and the third member of it, Commissioner RUFNER, protested in writing against all the contracts, mainly on the ground that advertisement of their letting had not been made, and that none except the successful bidders had had the opportunity to make offers for the work. The matter was taken into the courts; and, a month or two afterwards, Judge Bellamy STORER, of the superior court of Cincinnati, rendered a decision holding that Jesse TIMANUS and others, contractors aforesaid, were not acting in compliance with law. The board of commissioners was therefore enjoined from proceeding with the work under these contracts. They were vacated, the work stopped, and the commissioners, under direction of the court pending future operations, placed it in a condition of safety against damage from weather and depredations. The sum of one hundred and two thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents had already been expended upon the building and grounds. Before proceeding to incur further expense, it was deemed advisable to submit the whole matter of the erection of a lunatic asylum at Carthage to the voters of the county for their decision. The vote was taken at the October election, 1856, and resulted in a majority for the asylum. The commissioners accordingly, on the twenty-third day of the next March, ordered the work to be recommenced and the foundation walls carried up to a level with the first floor. The construction of the remainder of the building was to be done under contract; and in July the board directed the county auditor to ad- ~pg 202~ vertise for proposals, and again, in September the bids under the former advertisement having exceeded the appropriations made, he was directed to call for further proposals, but not for the construction of one wing of the asylum. Numerous bids were submitted accordingly, and on the fifth of October the board concluded a contract with Mr. Wesley M. CAMERON for the completion of the asylum entire, with the exception of the north wing, according to plans and specifications, for the total sum of one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-three cents; also for the delivery of three million brick, at six dollars and twenty-five cents per thousand, or an aggregate of eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. An act had been passed by the legislature, at the session of 1856, to " the commissioners of Hamilton county to sell certain real estate in said county, and to provide for the erection of a county infirmary and lunatic asylum therein." This act was amended March 8, 1858, enlarging the powers of the commissioners; and an issue of bonds was made in pursuance thereof, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. The securities were placed without difficulty—twenty-five thousand dollars at eight per cent interest, and a like amount at nine per cent in Cincinnati, at par; and fifty thousand dollars at eight per cent and a premium of one-fourth of one per cent, in Philadelphia. The whole thus realized to the county one hundred thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The county auditor was now authorized to advertise for proposals for the erection of the north wing and gas-house, and Mr. CAMERON, in the face of many favorable bids, received the contract on his entire bid, as the lowest in the aggregate, for the sum of seventy-nine thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-one cents. The work proceeded rapidly and satisfactorily under his contracts, and in a little more than two years after the signing of the first obligation the whole was completed. November 25, 1859, Mr. Isaiah ROGERS, architect of the asylum, gave the board commissioners formal notice that Mr. CAMERON had fulfilled his obligations. There was, however, still a great deal to be done upon out-buildings, water-works, and the grading and preparation of the grounds—much of which, indeed, was not effected until the building had been occupied and was under the control of the directors of the asylum. To add to the delays and cost, the asylum building, on the twenty-first of May, 1860, shared in the destruction wrought by the tornado which swept through this region on that day, losing six roofs and sustaining serious damage to two others. Again an arrangement was made with Mr. Cameron, who speedily replaced the roofs. The entire expense of grounds and buildings as provided for by the county commissioners, from 1854 to 1861, was five hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-five cents, of which two hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents were raised in the years 1855, 1858, 1859 and 1860, and the balance was received from the sale of bonds and other sources, including one hundred and forty thousand one hundred and fifty dollars in transfers from the county fund at various times. The house-furnishing complete, stock, and farm implements, in July, 1874, according to an inventory then taken, were valued at fifty-six thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-eight cents. The entire cost of the asylum to November, 1877, was seven hundred and ninety-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-three cents, including all out-buildings and the grounds belonging to the institution, which amount to about one hundred and twenty-five acres. An act was passed by the legislature May 13, 1868, which authorized the commissioners to procure additional lands for the use of the asylum, in accordance with which the board, at the request of the directors of Longview, retained the county infirmary farm of sixty-three acres, and passed twenty-five thousand dollars from the asylum fund to the credit of the infirmary fund, in compensation therefore. There were also purchased the lands and lots south of Centre street and west of the canal, for twenty-four thousand and eighty dollars and fifty-five cents. The directors, in the course of their management, from the date of the organization of their board, July 13, 1859, to the end of their fiscal year, November 1, 1877, also made many improvements on the grounds and buildings, putting in machinery and otherwise adding to its facilities and conveniences, to the amount of one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-five cents. These, with the value of the house-furnishing, etc. as before state, and the cost of maintenance and care of inmates during that period (one million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty-one dollars and fifty-six cents), made their total expenditures, during a little more than eighteen years, one million eight hundred and eighty-two thousand and sixty-five dollars and fifty-four cents. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #49 ******************************************