WYANDOT COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY: Wyandot County (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Pages, 460, 451, 452

                       WYANDOT COUNTY
        Wyandot County was taken from parts of Marion, Crawford, Hardin and
Hancock counties, February 3, 1845. The general surface is level and the
soil is fertile throughout. Originally, one-third was prairie land and was
covered by the so-called Sandusky plains. Its area is 406 square miles. Its
civil townships are: Antrim, Crane, Crawford, Eden, Jackson, Marseilles,
Mifflin, Pitt, Richland, Ridge, Salem, sycamore and Tymochtee.
        Of its population it is seen by the United States census reports
that in 1850 it had 11,194 inhabitants; 1860, 15,596; 1870, 18,553; 1880;
22,395; 1890, 21,722; 1900, 21,125; 1910, 20,760; 1920, 19,481; population
per square mile is now 48.
        The Delawares ceded their reservation in this county to the United
States, in 1829. The Wyandots ceded theirs in 1842, they being the only
Indians left in the state. The Wyandots left for the far west in July,
1843-about 700 souls in all. Hence it will be seen that every foot of soil
in Ohio has been fairly bought by treaties from the original possessors.
        The recent bulletin issued by the agricultural department at
Columbus, gives these statistics concerning agriculture and the products
known as "staples" in 1923-24; In 1923 there were grown 47,000 acres of
corn, producing 1,927,000 bushels; wheat, 31,000 acres, bushels, 527,000;
oats, 22,000 acres, bushels, 682,000; barley, 2,530 acres, bushels, 78,430;
rye, 380 acres, 6,840 bushels; buckwheat, 16 acres, produced 320 bushels;
tons of hay, 35,000; potatoes, 94,050 bushels; horses in county, in 1924,
7,980; cattle, 19,200; dairy cows, 9,050; swine, 42,200; sheep, 60,200;
land in farms in 1920, 245,297 acres; average size farm, 93.6 acres. In
1923 Wyandot County produced 386,646 tons of limestone.
        Its present (1923-24) officials are as follows: Probate
Judge-Charles F. Clase; Clerk of the Courts-H.C. Staggs; Sheriff-W.W.
Scheidegger; Auditor_Anthony J. Kraus; County Commissioners-D.D. Young,
A.J. Frederick and George A. Weininher; Treasurer-Foster L. Finke;
Recorder-Raynard C. Boucher; Surveyor-Charles F. Ellis; Coroner-L.W. Naus;
County Superintendent of Schools-J.H. Grove; Agricultural Agent-H.R. Brinker.
        Upper Sandusky, the county seat of Wyandot County, is on the west
bank of the Sandusky river, sixty-three miles north of Columbus. It was
platted in 1843. The first Methodist Indian mission formed in the
Mississippi Valley was the one established here under Rev. James B. Finley;
prior to that date the Catholics had a mission among the Indians in this
section. John Stewart was first to preach to the Indians and formed the
Wyandot Mission Church at Upper Sandusky. Stewart was a mulatto and used an
interpreter, Jonathan Pointer, a negro. Indians were converted and two
noted Indian ministers lie buried near the old mission church:
Between-the-logs, died December, 1826, aged 50 years; Rev. John Stewart,
first missionary to the Wyandots died December, 1833, aged 37 years;
Sum-mum-de-wat, murdered December, 1845, aged 46 years, buried in Wood County.
        Upper Sandusky has manufacturing establishments producing
carriages, wagons, coffins, steel burial vaults, steam pumps, cigars,
gloves and flour. The value of its personal property and real estate for
purposes of taxation in 1923 was $5,719,160. Population (1920), 3,708.
        Charles Dickens in 1842 visited Upper Sandusky, remaining all night
at a log cabin inn. He arrived by stage coach from Columbus en route to
Buffalo. In his American Notes are found his observations concerning the
roads and tavern of the then pioneer county of Wyandot.
        The big Sycamore trees at Upper Sandusky were supposed to be the
largest trees east of the Rocky Mountains, in America.
        It was but a few miles west of Upper Sandusky, on the trail leading
to the Big Spring, Wyandot town, where Colonel Crawford was burned. History
says "the Delawares burnt Crawford in satisfaction for the massacre of
their people at the Moravian towns on the Muskingum."
        Other villages in this county are: Nevada, Carey, Kirby,
marseilles, Harpster, Wharton and Sycamore.


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