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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 57 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Ch. 14, pt 1 - Hamilton [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030329033120.01616f6c@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Ch. 14, pt 1 - Hamilton County Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Trancribed by Dorothy Wiland 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. CHAPTER XIV. THE COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS. Notwithstanding the populous character of Hamilton county, the enterprising spirit of its people and their diversity of material interests, there has not been, in the county at large, a very great amount of associated effort—hardly so much, indeed, as might have been expected. But the inclusion of Cincinnati within the limits of the county, and the absorption of so much of the latter by the former, have naturally thrown nearly everything in the way of general organization into the city. Hence we shall find the county associations, though, one or two of them, strong and useful, yet quite few and far between. THE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY The original agricultural society in this county was, nominally at least, a Cincinnati institution. It was organized in that city in the early part of 1819, under the name and title of " Cincinnati Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy." Its officers were simply a president, four five-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer and an executive committee. The first officers were: General W. H. HARRISON, president; Andrew MACK, first vice-president; Jesse EMBREE, secretary; James FINDLAY, treasurer; James TAYLOR, Ephraim BROWN, Daniel DRAKE, Jacob BURNET, William CORREY, Gorham A. WORTH, Isaac H. JACKSON, James C. MORRIS, Jacob BROADWELL, executive committee. The membership fee was two dollars, and a like sum was payable annually for dues, with forfeiture of membership if not paid within one year after it became due. The annual meeting was to be held on the last Tuesday of September, and other stated meetings on the last Tuesdays, respectively, of December, March and June. ~pg 205~ The following declaration of principles and policy was also adopted by the society at the period of its organization: Being convinced that a retrenchment in the expense of living will be an important means in alleviating the difficulties and pecuniary embarrassments First. which exist in every section of the country, we concur in adopting the following declaration, viz.: First. We will not purchase, nor suffer to be used in our families, any imported liquors, fruits, nuts, or preserves of any kind, unless they should be required, in cases of sickness. Second. Being convinced that the practice which generally prevails of wearing suits of black as testimonials of respect for the memory of deceased friends is altogether useless, if not improper, while it is attended with a heavy expense, we will not sanction it hereafter in our families or encourage it in others. Third. We will not purchase for ourselves or our families, such articles of dress as are expensive and are generally considered as ornamental rather than useful. Fourth. We will abstain from the use of imported goods of every description as far as may be practicable, and we will give a preference to articles that are of the growth and manufacture of our own country, when the latter can be procured. Fifth. We will not purchase any articles, either of food or dress, at prices that are considered extravagant, or that the citizens generally cannot afford to pay; but will rather abstain from the use of such articles until they can be obtained at reasonable prices. Sixth. We will observe a rigid economy in every branch of our expenditures, and will, in all our purchases, be influenced by necessity rather than convenience, and by utility rather than ornament. Seventh. We believe that the prosperity of the country depends on a great degree on a general and faithful observance of the foregoing declaration; we therefore promise that we will adhere to it ourselves, and that we will recommend it to others. The formation of a library was contemplated by the constitution of this society, also the publication of memoirs, and other measures of public utility. The society, as may be seen from its list of officers, included some of the most prominent and valued residents of the city and vicinity, and appears to have been strongly and well organized. It was deemed advisable after a time, however, to give the agricultural organization more distinctively a county character, and the Hamilton county agricultural society was formed. Of this General HARRISON was president; Major Daniel GANO and the Hon. John MATSON, vice presidents; Colonel H. S. BARNUM, librarian; D. C. WALLACE, secretary; J. P. FOOTE, corresponding secretary. In place of an executive committee there was a considerable number of curators forming a board of agriculture: Messrs. William CARREY, James C. LUDLOW, Israel BROWN, S. J. BROWN, Charles C. CLARKSON, Charles SELLMAN, Joseph J. HASKINS, J. D. GARRARD, H. B. FUNK, N. CROOKSHANK, John FERRIS, James HEY, Oliver JONES, Samuel READY, Duncan CAMERON, Ethan STONE, James SEWARD, James WHALLON, Thomas SMITH, Peter VOORHEES, Isaac BECONNET, Willard A. PLACE, Henry WILDE, Adam MOORE, Alfred SANDFORD, William BURNET, Clayton WELCH, Hugh MOORE. A very interesting and curious old premium list of the society, bearing these names and giving much other information, still exists among the collections of the Ohio Historical and Philosophical society in Cincinnati. It is printed on one side of a single small sheet, which was an extra issue of the Farmer' Reporter; but in what year there is no means of ascertaining from the document itself. It is evidently, however, very old, probably dating back some time in the '' >From it may be learned that there were then three hundred and fifty-six regular members of the society, some of them residing in the other counties of southern Ohio, and some in the neighboring counties of Kentucky. There were also seventeen honorary members, whose residences were scattered all the way from Kentucky to England, but were largely in the eastern states. The marshals of the fair of that year were Colonels S. SCOTT and H. S. BARNUM; orator, F. A. THOMAS, esq.; auctioneer, A. B. ROFF. The premium list proper does not occupy one-tenth of the space of a modern list of the kind for a Hamilton county fair. No cash premium greater than five dollars was offered. The Farmer' Reporter and Western Agriculturist figures conspicuously and numerously among the premiums. For exhibitions of stock the inducements were mostly in the shape of certificates and diplomas. No racing "" or other premiums for speed were offered, but there were moderate cash inducements for the presentation of the ordinary useful animals. Committees of judgment were appointed only for manufactured goods, silk, implements of husbandry, agricultural products in tolerable variety, fermented liquors, butter and cheese, horticulture, horses, asses and mules, neat cattle, swine, sheep and wool, plowing, domestic clothing, cooperage, hats, edged tools, manufactured tobacco, and mechanical implements. In 1853 there was a new organization of the society " the improvement of agriculture within the county of Hamilton." Its president was now John K. GREEN; vice-president, General George SNEIDER; secretary, F. W. STOKES; treasurer, Peter MELENDY; managers, Joseph COOPER, Elmore CUMMINGHAM, Clinton EWING, Henry DEBOLT, Isaac B. BRUCE. Competitors for premiums must be members, and members must be residents of Hamilton county, and pay one dollar annually into the treasury of the society. The list of articles for which premiums were to be awarded were ordered to be published in a newspaper or by handbills at least one month before the day of exhibition. The annual fairs must be held some time between the first day of September and the first day of November, at such place as the directors should appoint. A resolution was passed by the new society " earnestly inviting the farmers of the county, and all others friendly to the cause of agriculture, the arts, and the sciences, to unite with us in our efforts in the great cause of agricultural improvement." The first fair under these auspices was held at Carthage, on the twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth days of September, 1853. Besides the premiums usually offered at that day at such exhibitions, others were offered, as a diploma and ten dollars for the best essay on the character, composition, and improvement of the soil in Hamilton county, and a similar premium (second best, five dollars), for the best arranged and best managed farm in the county. The remainder of the premium list embraced inducements for the exhibition of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, dogs (shepherd, Newfoundland, and rat-terrier), poultry, plows, farm implements, manufactured wares (a very short list by comparison with the lists of the present day), a plowing match, farm, dairy, and other products, ~pg 206~ silk and domestic manufactures, needle, shell, and waxwork, paintings and drawings, designs, stoves, articles manufactured chiefly or wholly of metal, also of wood, iron and wood, and of stone, fire engines, chemicals and miscellaneous articles, field crops, and various displays in the horticultural department. There were no offers as yet for " of speed." The constitution of the society has received many modifications since its original passage, including the opening of competition in the various departments to all the world. At the third annual fair held from the fourth to the seventh of September, 1855, all premiums were to be paid, as per announcement in the premium list, in silver plate. There were now eighteen managers of the society, and the address to members and visitors, on one day of the fair, had become a regular feature of the yearly meeting. The fair grounds were permanently established on the site near Carthage, where they have since remained. The opening of the great Exposition attractions in Cincinnati, of late years, however, and the occurrence of its displays at the same time with the fair of the county society, drew the crowds away from the latter, and they began to be financially and otherwise failures. A site nearer Cincinnati was consequently sought, and a special act of the legislature was obtained at the session of 1871, authorizing the society to purchase the property occupied by the Buckeye race-course, about two miles from the then city limits. A vigorous and faithful attempt was made to take the benefit of this measure, but the negotiations ultimately failed, through the inability or unwillingness of the county commissioners to comply with the requisite conditions of the purchase. The fair grounds, therefore, remain at the old place, and within the past year extensive and valuable improvements in the facilities for accommodating exhibits, costing about fifteen thousand dollars, have been made upon them. It is gratifying to add that the fair of last year (1880) was, kin its benefits to the treasury of the society, and in every other way, a grand success. The fair of the year designated a few lines above (1871) was but the seventeenth held by the present society, two fairs having been omitted during the bloody years, the tremendous excitement and dangers of the was period. At this exhibition special and very liberal premiums, amounting to five hundred dollars, were offered by the pork-packers and slaughterers of Cincinnati for the exhibition of hogs. Sad to say the total of the premiums was never collected from those pledging it, although most of the amount was finally in hand; and what was raised was distributed pro rata among those entitled to the awards. In 1849, also, there was a failure to hold the fair by the older society, in consequence of the prevalence of cholera that year and the occurrence of the State fair during the same week. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 12:56:15 -0500 (EST) From: cathy361@webtv.net To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <22441-3E85DE3F-871@storefull-2277.public.lawson.webtv.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Stock News: 1875 Pickaway county Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Democrat and Watchman Friday, Feb. 19, 1875 Circleville, Ohio LOCAL STOCK NEWS Elias WEAVER, on the Josiah RENICK farm, two miles north of Darbyville, will sell on Thursday next, Feb. 25th, 10 head of mules, 700 head of fat sheep , 65 head last spring calves, 50 head stock hogs. Anderson DEWITT, of Fayette county, recently sold to Harrison YONSLEY, Troy, Ohio, the young Short-horn bull Prince, by Prince of Belleville 10744, dam by Burnside 4618, for $100; to Robert SCOTT, Washington county, Penn., a Short-horn bull calf by Red Oak 10744, out of Bell of Burnside 4618, for $100' and the young Short-horn bull by Northumberland, by Thorndale 13030, out of Josephine by Pathfinder 805, to Seymour YAZEL, Troy, O., for $100. Messrs. E. & J.M. KLEVER, Bloomingburg, sold during the year 1874, fifty Poland-China pigs, at prices ranging from $15 to $45. John and Solomon SALMON, noted breeders of fine hogs, will offer at public sale, on their farm, in Fayette county, three miles south of Midway, on 25th inst., one hundred Poland-China brood sows and other stock. The London Enterprise, of 10th inst., has the following: John WILDMAN, residing near Selma, has lost about one hundred head of hogs of cholera recently. The hogs were purchased of a party in Highland county. Mechanicsburg inaugurated stock sales on Wednesday last, and although the day was rough they were a success. Our Jack BRIDGMAN was there and sold horses to the amount of $1,00, besides a number of cattle. The next sale will be held on Saturday, 27th, inst. Thomas ROBINSON shipped some fine cattle and hogs from Jefferson on Monday last, purchased by Geo. W. PRICE. The cattle, twenty head of three-year olds, averaged 1,380 pounds, at 6 cents, while the 70 head of hogs averaged 180 at 6 1/2 cents. This stock was contracted several weeks ago. Mr. ROBINSON also shipped 62 head of cattle purchased of Alex. WILSON which averaged 1,350 lbs. BALES & REA are feeding 620 head of sheep on the John DUN farm, near Georgesville. They are large fine sheep. G.W. NEFF has a buck that weighs 210 lbs. He is of the South Down stock. Cathy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:45:55 -0500 (EST) From: cathy361@webtv.net To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2733-3E85CDC3-1204@storefull-2272.public.lawson.webtv.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Court News: 1875 Pickawy county Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Democrat and Watchman Friday, Feb. 19, 1875 Circleville, Ohio PICKAWAY COUNTY PLEAS - January Term The following cases were disposed of at the adjournment session, Thursday and Friday of last week. Henry SHAFF, Ad'mir John SHAFF, vs. Adam MILLER. Report of John A. LUTZ, Master, confirmed. Defendant filed bill of exceptions, and will take the case to District Court. B. H. BOSTWICK vs. Charity MORRIS, et al. Order for partition. Report of Commissioners firmed and sale ordered. Samuel SHELLABARGER vs. Samuel KNOTT, et al. Judgement for plaintiff. Lemuel ROSS vs. Mary ROSS, et al. Order for partition. Report of Commissioners confirmed. Martha ROBERTS vs. Pery DAWSON, et al. Caleb HALL appointed Receiver and ordered to take immediate possession of property. JONES & ABBOTT vs. Henry CRIST, et al. Sale of real estate by Sheriff set aside. David FISHER vs. HENRY F. LONG. Referred to J. P. WINSTEAD, to take testimony. Court adjourned sine die on Friday. _____PROBATE COURT_____ William INGHAM appointed Administrator of Sylvester HALL, Bond, $1,200. O. E. NILES appointed Guardian of Edwin, Horace T., Linnie and Lyman NILES, minor heirs of Horace NILES, deceased. James M. REEVES, Administrator of James COLWELL, deceased, filed petition to sell land. David DEYO, Assignee of Robert H. DEYO, filed petition to sell land. Rebecca ENGLE vs. Joseph REED, et al. This was an appeal from the decision of Commissioners establishing county road in Scioto township. The case was taken up Monday and closed Tuesday evening, many witnesses having been examined. The jury awarded the plaintiff $321.62, damages and appropriation for land. Marriage Licenses issued: Jacob MONGOLD and Lydia A. MITCHELL, Charles KETCHAM and Jennie TALBERT, Lindley BROOKS and Rebecca E. MEYERS, Simon REICHELDERFER and Mary J. BOWMAN. Cathy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:16:43 -0500 (EST) From: cathy361@webtv.net To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <2730-3E85C6EB-2239@storefull-2272.public.lawson.webtv.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Neighborhood News: 1875 (continued) Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Democrat and Watchman Friday, Feb. 19, 1875 Circleville, Ohio (Part 4 of 4) ______EBENEZER______ One of our scholars received his "walking papers" several weeks ago, on account of bad conduct. At the spelling match in Mutton Jerk, last week, Miss Eva LONG, of the Palestine School proved herself the champion speller. Isaac E. DRESBACH has a large quantity of wood piled along Main street. Miss Lillie PONTIOUS, daughter of Reuben PONTIOUS, met with a serious accident, last Saturday evening. She was descending the stairs, when she stumbled and fell to the bottom, seriously injuring her spine. A four page eight-column paper has been started by the Knights of the Quill. It has no regular day for publication, but will be issued as regularly as possible. It will be a spicy paper, as we know from the fact that ST. ELMO is editor. It is five cents a year, and the editor expects to get rich in a few centuries. Several persons from our neighborhood started for Kingston to attend a Grange Social, on Wednesday evening last, when the ground was covered with sleet and ice, and did not know until they got there that the appointment had been withdrawn. Miss Carrie REEDY has returned from her Cincinnati trip. A merry time was had at the Social at Wm. RICE's, last Friday evening. There were quite a number present, and they seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly. Our young men took advantage of the snow to take their girls sleigh riding. ______PALESTINE______ Frederick WINFOUGH died at the residence of his father, Samuel WINFOUGH last Saturday. Through some misunderstanding, the grave-diggers failed to get ready, and the remains were not buried for several hours after their arrival at the cemetery. The mumps are going through E. M. MARSHALL's family this week. Protracted meeting at the Greenland Church, in Monrow township, and also in Christian Church, Mt. Sterling. Sleighing is very good here. The bell may be heard at any hour of the day or night. W. F. MURPHY has been appointed Administrator of the estate of James T. NEFF, deceased. The sale of the effects take place February 27th. It is feared the wheat crop in this community is injured by the hard freezing. Mrs. Henry SAYERS is very sick at present. _______ST. PAUL________ Thermometer eight degrees below zero at this place on last Monday morning. Lewis FRIDLEY and Miss Jennie COON exchanged the state of single blessedness for that of matrimonial bliss on Thursday last. Henry SNELLING has been seriously ill for several weeks. At this writing he is some better, but is still completely paralyzed from a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. J. H. THOMAS and George REID are also on the sick list. The merry jingle of sleigh bells has been heard on our roads for several days past. W. A. FRIDLEY, who has been attending school at Lebanon, Ohio, the past four or five months, returned home a few days since. Wm. FOSTER and lady, of Galena, O, were here on a visit to their relatives, week before last. _______STOUTSVILLE_______ Eli NEFF, a well known citizen, stock dealer and merchant of this place, died last Wednesday night, after a long illness of disease of throat and lungs. He was about forty years of age, and leaves three children. His funeral will take place tomorrow (Saturday), 20th, at 11 o'clock A.M., from German Reformed Church, with Odd Fellows ceremonies, conducted by Tarlton Lodge, of which deceased was a member. Rev. W. A. HALE, of Lancaster is expected to preach the funeral sermon. _______DARBYVILLE______ Dr. F. M. BLACK has been sick for a few days. David DORNSIFE was so unfortunate as to cut his foot with an ax, last week, making a painful would. Jos. H. PRITCHARD, our apiarist, has lost several stands of his bees by the severe winter weather. The colored school at this place closed last Friday. A spelling match in the evening wound up the affair. Darby township has a colored school in charge of Miss ANDERSON, of Circleville. The school is located near residence of James ALLEN. A meeting was held last Saturday evening by our citizens to see what could be done by them to aid the Kansas sufferers. A committee of five was appointed to solicit contributions. Elias WEAVER has purchased property in Columbus, and expects to move to that city in a few weeks. By this arrangement our community suffers a loss not easily met, as Mr. WEAVER is a true gentleman. A little five year old daughter of John SHAEFFER's who resides about a mile from town, was sent to school on Thursday morning, and came near freezing to death. Fred WINFOUGH, an estimable young man of Monroe township, died last Friday morning, of typhoid pneumonia, after about a month's sickness. His remains were interred on Saturday, in the Alkire Cemetery, near Mt. Sterling. Two interments in the Florence Cemetery, Monday, 8th, Roderick CRABILL and a son of Mrs. CROWNOVER's, of Perry township. ___WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP____ The protracted meeting in progress at Railroad Church about three weeks, closed Thursday evening of last week, with good success. Mrs. Susannah SHOEMAKER, residing with Samuel ROW, completed her ninety-first year last Sunday, 14th. A large number of friends and neighbors assembled to offer their congratulations, and religious services were held conducted by Rev. A. H. SCHULZE. Aunty SHOEMAKER is in unusual health, with every prospect of abiding with us for many years to come. A little son of Edward SHAFER, at the Infirmary, fell from a lounge and fractured his arm. Old Mr. MCDAVID died at the Infirmary, last Saturday night. His remains were taken to Walnut township for interment. Protracted meeting commenced at the Morris Church, last Monday evening. Fourteen tramps at the Infirmary, last Sunday night. The Debating Society at School House in District No. 2, closed last Tuesday evening. Our township has five churches, and the people generally are church goers. We have no place where intoxicating liquors are sold. The township is pretty thickly settled with Democrats, and there is a thin sprinkling of Republicans, but they are all good fellows. 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