Licking County, Ohio - Chapter 35: Date of Settlement, Organization, Etc, 1881

Chapter 35: Date of Settlement, Organization, Etc

N. B. - Amsterdan, Toboso, Wagram, New Way, Fallsburgh, Boston, Moscow, Sylvania, Summit Station, Union Station, Jackson, Brownsville, Hanover, Alexandria, Etna, Hartford, Homer, Gratiot, Elizabethtown, Linnville, Appleton, Luray, and perhaps other villages were not separately enumerated, but were included in the total population.

Towns. When Laid Out. And By Whom

early times served in this office fora longer or shorter period, were Major Jeremiah R. Munson, - General Samuel Herrick, Hons. Thomas Ewing, William Stanberry, Hosmer Curtis, Charles B. Goddard, and Corrington W. Searle, whose term ended

Archibald Wilson, "sr., 'Servéd from .::5..:-.: 1808 Kelisha Weils a oe. See eS 1808 Israel Wells se Vg Bark. Ske 1808 Timothy Spellman is Eis ee INT 1810 William Hains z: BP. wee ee 1811 Samuel Stewart i Le SS ee ee helsyaes Bradley Buckingham f Be gah ate ee Min i8ry Apusone Simnsom oa TS eee r8r4 William Stanberry : RUIRISORIRE. Sate 1815 William W. Gault 2 Se paper rte 1816 Alexander Holden i oh iy. te Sele 1817 Wiliam Robertson be I gale fou gcd 1817 Thomas McKean Thompson' ie eirerierrer 4 1822 Jacob Baker a SE ott 2:3 else 182

Alexander Holden se Sanam. asain 1824 Richard Lamson bs therein 2 1825 Chester Wells se se 7 macarars oe 1827 John Crow a ty WanersPene oxo cae 182

Samuel] Parr ge Ss ocee 1828 James Bramble ae i iden one 1831 John Crow ue Lae eee 1832 Samuel Hand oe As Fe yet eth 1833 Benjamin Woodbury ve UE Gxie tSteaeat 1834 Jacob Baker af CEs ks ences 1835 Israel Dille os ie einai seperate 1837 Levi J. Haughey ¢ PS. «S30 Fee 1837 Bryant Thornhill an - _. oc 1837 Archibald Cornell 4 a wicca a 1837 Thomas H. Fidler a pie eet rare 1839 Isaac Green e it Sa 1841 Carey McClelland "a Ene Gir so Se 1841 Henry Burner, jr., ve a aaa 1841 Crandal Rosencrantz 7 ia o 1843 Thomas Blanchard ti Mee, ee es 1843 John Brumback i eee Seas anaes 1844 Leroy Lemert Ms OE at eta tat 1845 Jordan Hall se i ree 1848 Daniel Gardener Yr Ses REP 1850 Benjamin L. Critchet 2 BOS ge pia ge 1851 Lewis Lake Vs Spat he Se 1852 Willis Robbins ag Ra hee 1854 Valentine B. Alsdorf "i i a ies cong 1855 William Barrick ue EDU . ent 1855 James Stone 4 fON palt Sain axeiay 1856 Michael Morath ui La ee ee 1857

From 1808 to 1820 the commissioners appointed their clerks, who discharged the duties now performed by county auditors. The office of clerk of commissioners was abolished in 1820, and that of county auditor created.

From 1808 to 1825, property was assessed by township assessors. In the latter year a law was passed providing for the election of county assessors by the people, which remained in force until 1841 when it was repealed and the old system of township assessors again adopted. The following persons served as county assessors under the law of 1825:

County Treasurers

Elias: Gilman Served trois ssn meter ere John J. Brice ~** ag John Cunningham, ' James Gillespie '' aig Sereno Wright ' es Jesse D. Arven '' i

Marshals Or Census-Takers

Amos H. Caffee enumerated the inhabitants in.......... 1820 Benjamin Briggs and Samuel English took the census in.. 1830 Isaac Smucker, Henry S. Manon, J. A. W. McCaddon

Captain Samuel Elliott was elected coroner at the organization of the county in 1808 and served nearly a score of years, when his son, Alexander Elliott, succeeded and continued in the office by many re-elections. Captain James Coulter, Captain Samuel H. Josephs and John Lunceford were the immediate successors of the Elliots.

Number Of Inhabitants

The following table gives the population of Licking county at each decennial period, according to the federal census tables, since the organization of the county, also of Newark: