Logan County, Ohio - Chapter 11, 1880 (part 2 of 2)

It is true that Tenery's Addition, laid out in 1853 by Joseph L. Tenery, exhibits a fair regard to taste and convenience in the location of its streets and alleys; the only inconvenience is that it is so far from the business part of the town for a village of such small dimensions; but, for quiet, pleasant residences, it is seldom surpassed.

It is impossible to give the order in which the first houses were built; but, as near as we can learn, Ebenezer Zane built a cabin where John McCormick lives, as early as 1805. Joseph Dickinson lived in a cabin where Oren Outland lives, as early as the fall of 1811. Lanson Curtis built, near where Dr. Coram lives, previous to 1820. Alexander Long, on the S. B. Smith property, probably two years earlier. Joseph L. Tenery bought lot No. 13 soon after the village was laid out, and built a loghouse on it opposite the rear of Brown's store; and near the same time Horton Brown bought lot No. 15, and built the house occupied by J. G. Hamilton. He afterwards bought lot No. 14, and traded or sold the two to Long, getting in exchange the property occupied by Ira Brown, on which one of the blockhouses stood, the walls of which he pulled down and converted into a dwelling. Benjamin Smith cam? in 1822, and bought lots 1 to 6, with the land lying between them and the Spring Branch, on which he erected a tannery. On lot No. 1 he built a good onestory frame dwelling, but in what year we are unable to say - perhaps as early as 1825. Near the same time. Dr. James Crew built the two-story frame where C. H. Folsom lives. It is uncertain by whom lot No. 24 was improved. Samuel Lipincut lived there in 1820, and Benajah Williams deeded it to Benjamin Smith in 1824. Jacob Meyer built the brick house occupied by S. G. Baldwin, propably in 1828. Jonathan Thomas built the one-story part of Mrs. S. J. Folsom's house in 1829. In 1830, John A. Robinson built on lot No. 20, William Easton on lot No. 8, and Daniel Antrim built on the north side of I^ocust street, opposite to Dr. Outland's kitchen. Daniel Cowgill built about same time on the corner of Sandusky street and the East Liberty road, and David J. Hyatt, shortly after, where J. G. Marquis lives. Between 1832 and 1838, Lanson Curtis built the Dr. Coram house; Benjamin Smith, the house occupied by Oren Outland on lot No. 1; Dr. J. W. Marmon and his brother Robert built the brick house southeast corner of Sandusky and Columbus streets; L. P. Burton, the brick on the opposite side owned by J. M. Reams; and Robert Marmon bought and finished up the frame commenced some years previous on lot No. 18, and built the brick on the north half of lot No. 16, now owned by Mrs. Marquis. Lanson Curtis also built the Methodist Episcopal Church now owned by the Zanesfield Baptist Church.

The first erected in McColloch's Addition was on lot No. 13, by Absalom Brown, the second by D. B.Holland, on lot No. 24. The first erected on Tenery's Addition on lot No. 4, by M. M. Dickinson. Joshua Scott built on No. 7, Jedediah Cleveland on No. 9 and Edward Bishop on 14. Zanesfield has never engaged largely in manufacturing.

E. D. Sawyer built windmills here pretty largely for the times, in 1844^48. But, as a general thing, the only articles produced here have been for home consumption. The mercantile business has always been pretty well represented.

The first merchant in Zanesfield was Lanson Curtis. He came from New Hampshire soon after the close of the war, and bringing with him a load of japanned tinware, set up trade on a small scale. He met with many discouragements and losses, which would have disheartened a less determined spirit. Sandusky was then the most accessible point of trade, and in the winter, when the ground was covered with snow, was a favorable time for transportation. Hiring a man with a sled and two horses, to take a load to Sandusky for him, they were making their way through the wilderness; in the midst of a snow storm, -their sled broke down. With only an ax and auger, which they were fortunate enough to have with them, and with such material as they could cut from the forest, they proceeded to repair the sled; after several hours of tedious delay, they were able to resume their travel. Such were some of the hardships that men had to encounter in the early time, in laying the foundation of a fortune. By strict economy, unflagging energy and close dealing, he was enabled to build up an extensive business. Pie was very prompt, and acquired an extensive influence, being once or twice elected to the Legislature. But owing to his close, hard dealing, was never really popular. He was probably the first Postmaster in the plac&, receiving his appointment about the year 1825. He continued jn business until about the year 18 - and acquired considerable wealth. After closing business here, he removed to Colombus, where he entirely lost his intellectual faculties.

The second individual to engage in the mercantile business in the place was Zane McColloch. It is uncertain when he commenced, but it is probable it was somewhere from 1825 to 1828. He occupied, as a storeroom, a hewed log house, already spoken of as the residence of Isaac Zane. In 1830, and for some years after, he held the office of Postmaster. He was subsequently a partner in the firm of Burton, Heylin & McColloch, who built and occupied the store-room on the northwest corner of Sandusky and Columbus streets. This was about 1837. In 1847 he sold goods in the same room in copartnership with his brother, Samuel. About 1837 or 1838, J. W. and R. M. Marmon commenced selling goods in the room on the southeast corner of Sandusky and Columbus streets. After a year or two they were succeeded by William Foos, who sold goods there in 1840. Succeeded in 1844 by Samuel Taylor, afterwards Taylor & Kenton; then James Kenton. Frequent changes were made after this. Cleveland, McBeth & Co.; Cleveland & Smith; Smith & Means; B. & S. B. Smith; Means & Marmon; Brown Bros.; Brown & Keys, up to 1864. Since then. Brown & Sands, Asa Brown, O. Brown & Co. and Omar Brown have occupied the room.

In 1853, Charles Folsorn built the storeroom north of the drug store now used by Brown Sullivan, which was occupied at first by Marmon & Folsom, then by Baldwin & Potts; since that, S. D. Elliott, Marmon & Elliott, Hays & Smith, S. B. Smith, Ebrete & Brother, S. M. West and .1. A. Antrim have sold dry goods, notions, groceries, clothing and millinery in turn there. James Kenton fitted up the room opposite about the year 185-, and sold goods there, succeeded by Folsom & Kenton.

In 1852, Davis & Crew sold goods in the room on the southwest corner of Sandusky Street and the Bellefontaine road. Numerous other parties have engaged in selling goods in the place at different times, but the above includes the names of the principal merchants of the place, and pretty nearly in the order in which they have been in business.

We cannot speak with certainty of taverns prior to the year 18C0. At that time, and probably for several years prior to that, Job Garwood kept tavern in a one-story wooden building on Lot No. 24. In the year 1832 he sold out to Jacob Gross, and bought Ebenezer Zane's property, where he lived until 1841. Gross remained in the tavern one year, and sold to Conrad Marshall, who, assisted by his son-in-law, Jeremiah Fisher, kept the house until 1840, when he rented to John Sloan and his son-in-law, William S. Vaughn, who ran the house for two years. Previous to this, however, Marshall had built a two-story addition at the south end, and added a second story to the original building - adding materially to the comfort and convenience of its accommodations. It was here, in the summer of 1839, that Mr. Marshall had the honor of entertaining a distinguished guest, in the person of Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, who, while traveling through Ohio in his own private conveyance, Tested over night and partook of his hospitalities.

When Sloan and Vaughn left the house, Marshall and Fisher returned to it, and continued to ke' p it as a tavern for about five years. In April, 1848, Jacob Wonders rented it, and remained there for one year, succeeded by William Keys, and possibly others for a short time, when the use of the house as a hotel was discontinued.

After Zane McCoUoch closed out his store in the old Isaac Zane House, John M. Young bought the property and fitted it up for a tavern, which he kept for a short time. About the same time, probably 1833, Robert M. Marraon bought lot No. 18 and enclosed the two-story frame erected on it a number of years before. After finishing it, it was used for a store room for a short time, when it was converted into a tavern first kept by Abraham McNeil and then by Jonathan Hopkins, who had charge of the house in 1810 and for three or four years after. He was succeeded by Daniel Mason, I. Gr. Williams, John Olingerman, William Keys, Wilson S. Sloan, Thomas Wade, James Cole, Horatio Clingerman and James G. Hamilton, who occupied the house up to the night of the 30th of November, 1872, when it was entirely destroyed by fire. The two-story building on southwest corner of 'Sandusky street and the Bellefontaine road, built by Edward Kenton, and for a number of years owned by Amos Thompson,

The first tannery was established, as already hinted, by Benjamin Smith in 1832. He was a son of Christopher Smith, one of the earliest settlers of Zane Township. He married Cynthanetta, a daughter of Levi Garwood, one of the first settlers near Garwood's Mills, now East Liberty, and immediately settled in Zanesfield, erecting a tannery immediately east of lots No. 4 and 5 in the bend of the Spring Branch, which he continued to carry on for about twenty years. After this he turned his attention more toward farming and the lumber business, and afterwards engaged in the mercantile business, in which he continued until failing health compelled him to retire. He had three sons - Samuel Bradford, John Crawford and Benjamin Franklin, the latter of whom died from wounds received during the wai»of the Rebellion, and six daughters, of whom Licetta, married David Michener, living in Champaign Co., 111.; Eliza Ann; Michener; Mary H., married Robert B. Porter, living in Paulding County, Ohio; Cynthanetta, married P. A. Campbell, living in the State of Texas, and Eudora, married Charles L. Hathaway, of West Mansfield, in this county. His aged widow also resides in West Mansfield, in the enjoyment of good health, and seems to del'ght in conversing about the events of long-gone-by years, in regard to which she is blessed with a retentive memory. After Mr. Smith retired from the tannery business, the yard was carried on by George W. Downs, and by Marmon & Downs for a while, but was soon suffered to go down. John Monroe, who learned the trade with Mr. Smith, was the original proprietor of the establishment now owned and carried on by Mr. John McCormick.

pretty well represented in Zanesfield. Passing by the Eclampus Vitus, whose history was as brief as its initiatory ceremony was unique, the first in order was the Sons of Temperance, organized in the spring of 1848, with Dr. J, W. Johnson first W. P. After a prosperous history of two years, it began to decline, and finally surrendered its charter. Many of the most worthy and influential citizens of the vicinity were enrolled as members. Its meetings were held in the attic of the building now owned by Joseph James. The next in order was Anchor Lodge, No. 28, I. O. Good Templars, organized in the fall of 1854, with S. W. Stafford as first W. C. T. Like the former organization, it had a season of prosperity, in which it seemed to be the means of infusing a very wholesome moral influence through the community, but, like it, soon began to decline, and, like the edifice in which its meetings were held, was numbered with the things that are past. The next in order is Wapatomica Lodge, No. 434, I. O. O. F., instituted June 35, 1869, with the following charter members: George Folsomj Charles Folsom, C. H. Folsom, I. J. Baldwin, M. Long, James S. Robb, J. C. Smith, John Reese, Thomas Piper, M. Taylor, J. E. Marmon, A. G. Heath, John D. Inskeep and J. P. James.

The following-named members have attained to N. G.: George Folsom, I. J. Baldwin, J. Reese, J. S. Robb, Charles Folsom, M. Long, N. S. Crew, C. L. Hathaway, John McCormick, J. C. Smith, C. H. Folsom, Wilhara Long, Omar Brown, A. G. Heath, C. J. Folsom, J. G. Marquis, T. F. Pope, T. S. Brown, James iL Reyner, Ira Brown, Pres. Shaw, William Y. Joslin, Ezra Brown - the present presiding ofiicer. The Lodge is in a flourishing condition. It owns the building in which their hall is located, and an outfit.

others, were members of Harmony Lodge, No. 8, long before there was a Lodge in the county. S. G. Baldwin, Asa Marmon, S. J. Crew and Ephraim Means were among the early members of Bellefontaine Lodge, No. 209, in Zanesfield. The Lodge is now largely represented, as is also Lafayette Chapter, No. 60.

Zanesfield has little to boast of in the way of buildings, either public or private. There is no hotel building in the town. The store room built by Charles Folsom about the year 1866 is the only one constructed with any regard to adaptation to the requisites of a store room. The building is a good, substantial frame, two stories high. On the first floor is a fine, commodious salesroom, well lighted and furnished, with a cellar and two convenient storage rooms. The upper room is finished and furnished for an Odd Fellows' hall, with all the necessary conveniences and appendages.

Of schoolhouses, there have been three built in this place. The first in 1831, on Lot No. IT, a one-story brick, about 18x30 feet in size; the best schoolhouse in the township at the time - perhaps as good as the county afforded. It was very plain and simjale in its structure. In 1854, it was decided to pull it down and replace it with a larger structure, it having become dilapidated and unfit for use. Accordingly, the house now used by Robert Jacobs as a shop was built in its place, and was regarded as a long step in advance, but did not give entire satisfaction. In answer to the demand -for better school accommodations. Lots No. 6, 7 and 8, in McColloch's Addition, and in the year 1875, a substantial two-story brick building was erected, with two good school-rooms on each floor.

Of church buildings, the oldest is that occupied by the Baptists, at the north end of the village. It was built in 1836, by Lanson Curtis, and used as a place of religious worship by the Methodists, though owned and held by him as private property until the 16th day of July, 1842, when, having removed to Columbus, he regularly conveyed it to Isaac S. Gardner and others. Trustees of the Zanesfield Methodist Episcopal Church. It was occupied by the church until October, 1867, when the new church building was completed and taken possession of, it having in the meantime been sold to parties for the use of the Baptist denomination. In 1872 a church of that denomination having organized, the property was conveyed to its trustees. The house was originally 24x36 feet in size. In 1873 it was enlarged by an addition of ten feet to the front end. Other improvements were also made, making it a neat and comfortable, though simple and plain church edifice. The next church edifice in the order of building was the Presbyterian, of which a brief notice will be found in the sketch of that church.

The Methodist Episcopal Church, as just remarked, was built in the year 1867. It has a pleasant location, lot No. 10 of Tenery's Addition, and is in size thirty-six by fifty-six feet. It was erected and furnished at a cost of about $2,800. Its successful completion was largely due to the energetic efforts of George Folsora, S. D. Elliott and Ira Brown, and the liberal contributions of the membership generally, seconded by the indefatigable labor of the preacher in charge. Rev. J. A. Wright.

The block-houses were of historic note, dating back beyond either church or schoolhouse. There were three in number - one near the residence of Ebenezer Zane, one near the present residence of Ira Brown, and one near the alley and nearly in a line between the residence of John Everingham and that of Mrs. A. E. Robb. The latter, still standing in 1830, was used as a stable by Maj. Alexander Long, who owned the premises. The former two had been removed long before that time. They were garrisoned during the war by a company of volunteers, who were at one time relieved, by a company of United States Infantry. As the post never suffered an attack, its history was a peaceful one.

The history of Isaac Zane's house, here alluded to as the residence of the first white man that ever lived in the county, is the starting point from which the boundaries^of the survey were established. Its history as a store-room, postoffice and tavern is brief. It was purchased of the owner of the premises, probably Dr. Marmon, by John Monroe, and removed to the northeast corner of lot No. 33, where it was rebuilt and used as a dwelling for many years, being owned and occupied by various persons until the year 186-, when it was purchased ^by Robert Jacobs, who, after using it as a dwelling for a number of years, converted it into a shop, for which it was used until 187 - , when it was taken down and removed, after having been in its last location over forty years.

There is little doubt that Goshen monthly meetings of the Society of Friends was the first religious society organized in the township. As the early records are not to be found, no particulars of date or names can be given. The Marmons and Reamses, who were the first settlers with the family of Josiah Outland, who settled near by in Zane Township at the same time, probably at first connected themselves with the Darby meeting, organized and located just north of Middleburg. Soon after this, however, a meetinghouse was built on the spot now occupied by the Goshen church, one mile east of Zanesfield on the Middleburg road. Among the original members most probably were Robert Martin, and Samuel Marmon, and Josiah Outland, and their respective families; Daniel Butler and his family; Joseph Dickinson and others whose names are unknown. Aaron Brown and a number of the Reamses were members at an early day. One of the early missionary efforts of the church was a school orsranized for the benefit of the Shawnee Indians, then located at Wapakonnetta. The arduous nature of the undertaking can be better comprehended when it is remembered that the only means of communication was through the interminable swamps intervening between Lewistown and that point, which could only be traveled over by men and women on horseback, and over which all the supplies had to be carried in tliis manner. It is a matt3r of regret that we are not able to report the result of the labor performed by these self-denying men and women.

In the year 1828 the controversy which grew up in the church and caused a division in nearly every society, resulted in a separaration of Goshen church into two parties: Both claimed title to the name and jproperty, but for convenience we shall speak of them as Orthodox and Hioksite. The former, being somewhat more numerous, claimed and retained the property, consisting of a double log meeting-house, in which meetings could be held by men and women separately or altogether as one congregation, and a small brick schoolhouse on the same ground. The prominent members of that division of the society were the Marmons, with the exception of Edmund, Josiah Outland and his family, Daniel Butler and his family, the Eeamses and others, whose names are unknown.

The spirit of bitterness and acrimony which grew out of the division was not promotive of growth or health. Hence, while accessions to the church were rare, many nominally in it drifted out. Some were gathered into other churches, while many found their level in the world, and little progress seemed to be made. The society increased in numbers from immigration from other points, and the old log house being no longer fit for use, the present substantial and commodious frame building, 30x60 feet in size, was built in the summer of 185-. Foi; the last ten years there have been numerous accessions to the church, and it is at present the center of an extended religious influence.

The other division of the society commenced its separate history under not remarkably favorable circumstances. Their numbers were not large, consisting of Aaron Brown and family, Horton Brown and family, Zaocheus Brown and family, Joseph Dickinson and wife, Isaac Rea and family, Jonathan Thomas, William Rox, Edmund Marmon and family, Benjamin Taylor, Nathaniel Thomas, and a few others, whose names are forgotton. A lot was purchased from Benjamin Smith, and the little brick meeting-house near the Zanesfield Cemetery was built in 1839. In a few years Joshua Scott and family, Job Scott and family, Benjamin Michener and family, Elijah Fawcett and family, with a number of others, were added to their number, and a season of prosperity was enjoyed by the church. About the year 1842, a considerable dissension arose in the society on the subject of slavery. While all claimed to be anti-slavery in sentiment, there was a radical and a conservative party in the membership. While those inclined to radical views seemed to predominate at Goshen, the conservatives were largely in the ascendency in the society at large. So great was the diversity of sentiment, finally, that the connection between the society and the denomination at large was severed, some of the members retaining, however, their membership in the society at large. The independent organization effected was, in a few years, dissolved, for want of adherent qualities, and lost its visibility. After this, those retaining membership in the recognized body have been united into a small congregation of worshipers, who continue to occupy the meeting-house. After Goshen Church, the Tharp's Run Baptist Church was probably the next one organized in the township, the date of its organization being the 19th of August, 1819. The constituent members were - George Henry, Par melia Henry, Frances TuUis, Elizabeth Codington, John Reed, Ruth Reed, Andrew Grubb, Martha Grubb, Nathan Norton, Mary Norton, William Tharp, Haines Parker, Thomas Stillwell, Enoch Lundy, Pleary Lundy and William Henry.

Of these, William Henry was chosen Clerk and Andrew Grubb and William Tharp, Deacons. The constituent members had been dismissed from the King's Creek Baptist Church, and John Thomas and John Gutridge were the officiating ministers at the organization.

The organization of the church supplying a spiritual want that was deeply felt in the community, it is not surprising that it was followed by a season of growth and prosperity, as is indicated by the numbers dismissed to constitute churches at surrounding points. On May 24, 1828, twenty-two members were dismissed to constitute a church at New Philadelphia. Twenty members were dismissed October 20, 1854, to constitute a church at West Mansfield. January 27, 1855, thirty-one members were dismissed to constitute a church at Mackachack, and April 27, 1872, thirteen members were dismissed to constitute a church at Zanes&eld.

We cannot pretend to give in detail the different Pastors and their pastorate. Among the number will be found the names of John Thomas, John Gutridge, John Askren, George Line, William Hauker, A. J. Wiant, Aaron Curl, James Rundie, H. H. Dunaway, B. B. Wheaton and Milton Squibb. The church first built a hewed log-house, in which they worshiped for many years. In 1845, a good brick building was erected, 30x40 feet in size, well lighted and conveniently arranged, in which they have held meetings ever since. It is, however, becoming considerably dilapidated. One of the features of Tharp's Run Church is the annual May meeting, which has been observed throughout the greater part of its history. Ministers from abroad are usually invited, and a very large congregation is generally in attendance.

A sketch of the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Zanesfield must necessarily be fragmentary. As early as 1816, possibly earlier, such pioneer champions of the faith as John Strang and Biglow and Finley, were accustomed to take in Zanesfield and Garwood's Mills in their travels, preaching in the former place at the houses of Lanson Curtis and Alexander Long. Whether a society was regularly constituted at that time or not, we have no means of knowing, but as Curtis, Long, John Bishop and Isaac Zane were members of church at a very early time, it is reasonable to suppose that there was at least a class organized as early as 1820. Except the ministers already mentioned, we cannot recall the names of any prior to the year 1840. After the first schoolhouse was b*iilt in 1831, religious services were held in it frequently. But there being a considerable of a spirit of opposition manifested to holding services in the schoolhouse, Curtis built the brick meeting-house on his own private account, thus securing to the denomination free access to a house of worship. Commencing with the Rev. Morrow, in the fall of 1840, the pastorates are very nearly as follows:

Among the pastorates noted for large accessions to the church were those of Linch, Fant, Frisby, Reagh and Bigley. Numerous other pastors have enjoyed considerable ingathering.

Only one meeting-house has been built by the church, the first having been an individual enterprise. As the building of this has already been spoken of, it need only be added that the house is in a good state of repair, having recently been repainted.

Of the members who have contributed their means and labors and influence to build up and sustain the church may be mentioned the names of Lanson Curtis, John S. Knight, Jonathan Bishop, Joshua Scott, Rufus Sprague, Daniel Cowgill, George W. Downs, Dr. J. W. Johnson, Jacob Wonders, George Folsom, S. D. Elliott, G. S. Parkhuiist, J. W. and Joel Easton, B. and J. Plummer, Ira Brown and Oren Outland. A Sabbath school in connection with the church has been sustained for at least thirty-five years, and the greater part of the time it has been in a flourishing' condition, and although under the control of the church, members of other denominations have contributed largely to its numbers and interest.

The fourth church in point of time organized in the township was the Presbyterian, organized on the 11th day of January, 1851. It would be, perhaps, impossible to state authentically who were the first Presbyterian families to settle in the township, or the date of their advent. John Robb, an uncle of Dr. James S. Robb, of Zanesfield, came with his family, consisting of his wife, two sons and two daughters, from Guernsey County, as early as 1832, and settled near the upper end of the McKee's Creek Valley; but being connected by membership and association with the Bellefontaine Church, they were scarcely considered as a part of the religious of the township. Though worthy and respected, they left without ever being identified with any religious organization in the township. This influential denomination may have been represented by individuals, and possibly families, prior to this time; but, if so, we have not been able to cull up the facts. Next, so far as we can recollect, came L. P. Burton, Esq., and his estimable wife, and perhaps one or more of her sisters. They came about 183 - , and remained tintil about 1843, and during the early period of their residence in Zanesfield organized a Sabbath school in the small brick schoolhouse standing where Mr. Jacobs' shop now stands. This was the first school in the township established on the basis of the American Sunday School Union. The school continued for a. considerable length of time, but for some cause unknown to the writer it was discontined; and there is nothing on record to show when the first sermon waS' preached by a Presbyterian minister. It was, however, most probable that it was betv?een the years 1842 and 1845; for it is pretty certain that in the lat'ter year Mr. J. H. Gill and Mr. W. M. Galbreath (the latter at the time a student, or if a. minister, of recent ordination) were in the habit of visiting Zanesfield and holding religious services in the Methodist meeting-house, then the only house of public worship in the place.

In the meantime, Sylvester Robb and wife, and William Cook and wife, settled in the township, the former perhaps as early as 1835, and the latter in 1840, and their number was augmented by the addition of Mrs. James Kenton, in 1845, and Mr. (now Rev.) Luther Smith and wife shortly after, thus forming a nucleus around which a Presbyterian influence continued to gather and increase until, in the latter part of the year 1850, it took shape in a memorial prepared and presented to the Presbytery of Sydney, on the 11th day of December, requesting that the memorialists be organized into a church to be called "The Zanesfield Presbyterian Church." The request was granted, and J. H. Gill, W. M. Galbreath and J. M. Glover appointed a committee to open the church if way opened.

On the 11th dav of January, 1851, the committee convened at Zanesfield and organized a church consisting of Solomon Adams and wife, William Cook and wife, Sylvester Robb and wife, Luther Smith and wife, Mrs. James Kenton, John Nelson and wife, Joseph A. Nelson and wife, Judge Joshua Robb and wife, and two daughters, Jesse Milner and wife, with others, amounting in the aggregate to thirty-three persons. They were not, however, all residents of Jefferson Township. One of those unfortunate dissensions that occasionally mar the harmony and impair the usefulness of a church had broken out in the church at Bellefontaine, and hence a number of influential members of that church withdrew and became constituent members of the church at Zanesfield. At the organization of the church. Judge Robb and Luther Smith, were elected and installed ruling Elders.

It is difiicult, in the absence of any definite record, to give a detailed account of the different pastorates, but they occurred in about the following order: Rev. J. K. Lye, a young minister from Kentucky, continued to preach for the church for a few months after its organization, but left probably in May or June following; and we find no record of any meeting of the session or other act of church until

November 13, 1853, when Justus Rutan, his wife and five others were received into the church. Rev. T. T. Smith then being Pastor. Mr. Smith probably only remained one year, as Rev. E. D. Raffensperger was present and ordained Mr. Rutan a ruling Elder in May, 1855. The pulpit was supplied occasionally - ^perhaps a part of the time regularly - by Revs. Seth Howell, L. H. Long, W. B. Spence and E. D. Raffensperger until September, 1857, when Rev. William G. Hillman assumed the duties of pastor, only remaining, however, one vear, after which the church was supplied by Rev. J. H. Gill and perhaps others, including Rev. L. I. Drake and Mr. James A. Marshall until June, 1860, when !Mr. Marshall was ordained and installed as Pastor of the church, which relationship he held for three years, interrupted only by an interval of failing health, during which the church was supplied by Rev. Mr. Kingsley. At the close of Mr. Marshall's pastorate, we are only able to learn from personal recollections that the Rev. J. Drake, Principal of the West Liberty Union School, supplied the pulpit for a considerable length of time, followed by Mr. Charles Hill, who commenced his labors as a supply in 1866, and was ordained and installed as Pastor of the church in the early part of 1867. He continued Pastor of the church two years, after which Rev. L. L Drake continued to supply the church regularly, in addition to his arduous duties as Pastor of the Church at West Liberty, until the latter part of the year 1874, when Mr. Luther Smith, then in his seventy-fourth year, in accord with the advice and approval of his friends in the church and in the ministry, presented himself before the Presbytery as a candidate for ordination. He was ordained and installed as Pastor of the church, in which capacity he continued to serve until his resignation in October, 1879, since which time the church has been without a Pastor; Mr. D. C. Ghormley, a student of

Princeton University, is serving as temporary supply. From this brief review it will appear that the pastorates have iisually been short; none exceeding three years except that of Mr. Smith, and no one has followed his preceding one without an intervening vacancy. And yet the church seems to , have made a reasonable progress, having received into its communion two hundred members. The ruling Elders ha^e been: Joshua Robb, Luther Smith, Justus Rutan, E. T. Davis, Samuel Marquis, George D. Adams, Charles H. Chapman, J. K. Abraham, Samuel Jameson, Thomas Marquis, William S. Irwin, Charles Rockwell, C. A. Rockwell, R. B. Porter, J. E. Smith and G P. Stevenson.

At an early period in the history of the church - - perhaps in 1853 - a house of worship was erected on lot No. 4, McColloch's Addition to Zanestield. It simply consisted of a good, substantial frame building, 36x50 feet in size, with two doors in front, with an aisle leading from each to the rear, where a plain pulpit was constructed. It was furnished with plain but comfortable seats. The position of the pulpit and seats have several times been reversed, but at present occupy their original position. The house was erected by William Cook and Joshua Scott, but at what cost we are unable to learn, as much of the labor and material was furnished by contributors, of which no record is to be found. Dr. J. S. Robb was a leading member of the building committee. Some five years ago, a proposition was entertained to repair or rebuild the house, which was very much out of repair, but, a large proportion of the membership and congregation residing in the vicinity of East Liberty, the project was overruled, and a very neat edifice erected at that place, where the church holds services alternately.

operation for two or three years, but after the departure of Mr. H. waned in interest, and finally disappeared. Schools have been organized at diiferent times subsequently, but have never become permanent in duration.

The East Liberty Free Will Baptist Church is a body composed of two congregations - one at East Liberty, having a house of worship there, and the o.her in and around the head of Marmon's Valley, having a house of worship three miles east of Zanesfield, on the Middleburgroad. The two congregations grew up simultaneously about the year 1853, under the missionary labors of Elder David Dudley. Of the last mentioned branch or congregation we aim to give a brief sketch. A temporary organization wa,s effected at a prayer-meeting held in the schoolhouse in District No. 1. Among the first members were Edward Outland and daughter, Samuel Reams and wife, A. P. Curl and wife, A. P. Marmon and wife, Samuel Butler and wife, one of Benjamin S. Taylor's sons, and probably several others whose names are not known. The church continued to worship in the schoolhouse a few years. Shortly after its constitution, following a very refreshing revival at East Liberty, Rev. Oscar Baker commenced a protracted meeting at this point, which resulted in a great ingathering. It is probable that through the impetus thus given the neat and comfortable meeting-house was built, now used by the' church. We cannot give the dimensions of the building, nor the expense of erecting, but its size is sufficient to accommodate the very respectable congregations that usually assemble there; and in regard to the cost of building, it was cheerfully contributed by the community interested, without soliciting foreign aid or incurring the blighting influence of a church debt. After the pastorate of Elder Baker, which continued until about the year 1849, the Rev. Mr. Colyer became Pastor of the church, and the year 1875, succeeded by Elder Higgins for one year, since which time Elder A. H. Whitaker has been Pastor of the church. An interesting Sabbath school has been kept up in the church for many years, perhaps throughout most of its history.

The New Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church was constituted about the year 1850, at the schoolhouse in District No. 5, about one mile east of Jerusalem on the road leading to West Mansfield, its constituent members having been previously connected with the Lutheran Church in Bellefontaine, worshiping in the old brick meeting-house on South Main Street. It was constituted under place. The New Salem meeting-house was built about the year 1851. Mr. Shaffer did not continue his relationship as Pastor of the church, and the church was without a Pastor for a number of years, during which the Rev. Peter Detrick, of the German Baptist Church, was accustomed to preach in the church frequently. In the year 1858, Rev. Enoch Smith, of Bellefontaine, commenced to labor for the church, and continued for eio-hteen months, after which the church was again without a Pastor until the year 1868, when the Rev. A. R. Howbert assumed the duties of Pastor, which he has since continued to discharge. There has been a Sabbath school kept up in the church for a considerable length of time, but we have not been able to obtain the statistics of the school or the church.

The Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran was organized in the year 1874, the constituent members being mostly from New Salem Church. The organization of the church was the result of the labors of the Rev. A. R. Howbert at the two schoolhouses situated in the southwestern part of the township. After the organization of the church a beautiful building spot was selected, about one mile south of the Bellefontaine and Zanesfield pike, on the Township road, running south from the old Costin Corner, on which a neat frame structure was erected, of sufficient size to accommodate an ordinarily large congregation. The house was finished and dedicated in 1877, Rev. Dr. Hefwig, of Wittenberg College, preaching the dedicatory sermon. The Rev. A. R. Howbert has been Pastor of the church since its organization. A Sabbath school is held in the church.

The Zanesfield Baptist Church was organized on the llth day of May, 1873, by the following named members, holding letters of dismissal from Tharp's Run Baptist Church: Rev. H. H. Dunaway, Lydia A. Dunaway, Jordan P. Dunaway, Martha S. Dunaway, Phineas Runyan, Ruth Lowe, Elizabeth Elliott, Patience Henry, Sarah F. Draper, Sallie E. Scott, Amelia L. Scott, Eliza A. Scott, and B. S. Scott. A council was called to meet the 8th day of June following, to consider the propriety of recognizing the church. The surrounding churches were invited to send delegates. On the day appointed, the council met in the Baptist meeting-house in Zanesfield, and organized by appointing Rev. James Harvey, Moderator, and Rev. John Wright, Clerk. After due discvTSsion, the council agreed to recognize the church; after which. Rev. H. H. Dunaway was called to act as Pastor, and B. S. Scott as Clerk. Elder H. H. Dunaway continued Pastor of the church until the 1st of September, 1873. In August, 1874, Elder D. Vance was called, and served the church as Pastor for one year. From July, 1876, to September, 1877, Elder Vance supplied the pulpit, but did not sustain the relationship of Pastor. The remainder of the time the church has been without a Pastor until July,

In writing of the early schools and schoolhouses of Jefferson Township, we have to enter at once on the field of conjecture to some extent. As early, probably, as 1818, a large log house was erected in the north part of the township, for the purpose of a Baptist meeting-house. Its location was near the southwest corner of J. C. Kitchen's farm, on the road from Zanesfield to Harper. It was used at a very early period - perhaps as early as 1823 - for a schoolhouse, and here the youth of the neighborhood received instruction - at first from Richard Baldwin, Philip Stout and William Charles, and later from Joseph Robb, and Vincent Reams, and William Bain, after which it eventually gave place to the old schoolhouse in District No.

4. A little after this- - perhaps in 1823 - a brick schoolhouse was built at Goshen meeting-house, preceded, however, by a log-house near by, in which one John Garretson taught. At the approach of Christmas, while he was teaching, the boys insisted that he should treat them to apples, which he persistently refused to do. They persuaded him by placing him intellectual part downward in a pool of waterl Against this he remonstrated as well as he could under the unfavorable circumstances. Physical force, however, triumphed over argument and protest; the minority in strength and number had to submit to the majority; the apples were purchased, and hostilities ceased. We cannot state, certainly, who taught in the brick house first. It is tolerably certain that Benjamin Stanton and B.

5. Brown taught there, and it is reasonable to suppose that Brice Blair and Miss Ann Gunn taught there, as their names were familiar as teachers in the neighborhood. About the same time a brick schoolhouse was built neai; the present location of the New Salem church, but the early teachers are unknown at a later period. Asa Brown was a favorite teacher there. In the southwest quarter of the township the first house, so far as known, stood near the southwest corner of J. C. Mason's farm, on land then owned by his father, Edward Mason. It stood on a gentle elevation between two small branches that unite some rods westward of the building, near a spring from which water was obtained. Originally in the midst of the forest, the timber had been taken from the plat around the building to construct it, and for fuel after it was completed. It was constructed of round logs, and was about 18x20 or 22 feet in size. A hole was cut in the east end, about six or eight |eet wide in which to build the fireplace. This was built of boulders laid in clay mortar and secured and kept in place by a pen of split logs built on the outside. The chimney was built on top of this, of lath or split sticks of suificient length to give it the proper size, and laid up in clay mortar so as to entirely protect the wood from the fire and render' the structure very solid and permanent. The floor was of puncheon, hewed so as to give a good, smooth surface. It had one door in the south side near the sonthwest corner. In the north side a log was removed the entire length, or possibly it was the lower half of one log and the upper half of the log below, was hewed away and sticks secured at intervals of eight or ten inches, so as to form something like a sash, on which paper was pasted and then oiled so as to transmit the light. Across the west end, light was obtained in the same manner. Under these openings, at the proper height, pins were inserted, having the proper inclination, on which wide boards were nailed for writing desks; slabs from the sawmill, or puncheons split from logs, with legs of the proper length supplied the seats. A water bucket and tin, with a shelf to set it on, a poker or handspike to stir the fire with, a hickory broom, a shingle with OUT on one side, and IN on tlie other, hung at the door, completed the outfit of furniture. The above description would apply to schoolhouses frequently met previous to 1830, and occasionally afterwards; but better buildings were soon introduced, and after 1840 a schoolhouse without stoves, and glass windows would have indicated an unprogressive community. We cannot give the name of the first teacher in the house last mentioned; David Kemper, now a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, taught there in the winter of 1831-32, having a very interesting school, confined, however, to the study of orthography, reading, writing and arithmetic, in which very creditable progress was made by many of the pupils. In addition to the school already alluded to, many were taught in private dwellings, of which we only mention one, taught by Mary Brown, daughter of Aaron, in the cabin her father had first lived in, after he had moved into his brickhouse; one taught by Dr. Nathan M. Thomas, now of Schoolcraft, Michigan, in the old Simon Kenton house, standing on the banks of Mad River, on the Middleburg road, probably in 1826, and one taught in the north room of the house occupied by Mr. J. G. Hamilton, in Zanesfield, by Miss Ann Amy, in 1830, in which only reading, writing and spelling were taught. The first school taught in the brick schoolhouse in Zanesfield, in -1831, was by Orson Marsh, of Beekmantown, N. Y. It is impossible to give a correct statement in regard to wages of teachers. In subscriptions, the teacher received, probably, from $1.50 to $2.50 per pupil, for a term of three months. Later, when teachers were employed by the term, $45 to $60 per term of thirteen weeks, was considered good wages, the latter being seldom obtained in the country schools. We append statistics, kindly furnished by W. H. Outland, Township Clerk, of schools exclusive of Zanesfield Union School. Number of schoolhouses built within the last year, 1, cost, $300; number in township, 11; total value of school property, $3,500; number of teachers employed during the year, males, 4, females, 13; average wages of teachers per month, males, $36, females, $23; average number of weeks schools were in session, 30; number of different pupils enrolled during the year, boys - 193, girls, 163, total 356; average monthly enrollment - boys, 152, girls, 118, total, 270; average day attendance - boys, 104, girls 87', total, 191; number of different pupils enrolled between 16 and 21 years of age - boys, 42, girls, 23, total 65; number of pupils in each branch of study, alphabet, 57; reading, 284; spelling, 299; writing, 253; arithmetic, 240; geography, 120; English grammar, 89; oral lessons, 122; composition, 30; drawing, 11; map drawing, 13; United States history, 11.

" While the common schools of America are her pride and boast, it is yet the aim of her best minds how to make them most efficient, and to raise the standard taught therein. It was to further these purposes that petitions were presented to the Township Board of Education, who met in Zanesfield, Ohio, October 17, 1853, praying that the sub-districts, Nos. 2 and 12, might be united, and known hereafter as District No. 2, and that a large and commodious brick building be erected, to be known as the Central or Township Schoolhouse. The district would thus draw double the usual school funds, and so be enabled to employ a higher grade of talent as teachers.

" It was doubtless the intention, too, that such scholars in the township as aspired after a higher standard of education than could be obtained at the smaller sub-districts might be accommodated here at the central district.

spring meeting, April 17, 1854, the Township Board of Education appointed Ephraim Means, Asa Brown and Thomas Pennock as the building committee, to whom was given the discretionary power to decide as to the kind, size, cost, etc., of the House to be built. They decided to build a two-room brick building of large size, and the contract was let to Whitson B. Sands. The house was completed in the fall, and Joseph Robb and Maria J. Inghram taught the first school in the new building. Here the school continued as a central district until a short time after the village was incorporated, when, by a vote of the people, it was changed to an independent village district.

" The first Board of Directors was elected April 13, 1869, consisting of Charles Folsom, for three years; Samuel L. Wonders, for two years, and Dr. J. S. Robb, for one year. The present building was becoming each year less able to accommodate the number of scholars attending the school; so it was decided to build a larger and a more commodious

"In the summer of 1875 the large four- room brick now occupied for school purposes was erected. It was put up under the superintendence of Ira Brown, Charles Folsom and Samuel L. "Wonders, as directors. Though deficient in external beauty, it is pleasantly located; is well lighted and furnished with modern improvements. This, with the generally advanced grade of teachers employed, has left little to be desired in the way of opportunities offered for obtaining a common school education.

" Last year, the board tried the experiment of employing all lady teachers, which proved entirely satisfactory. The Superintendent having declined the position this term, a gentleman was employed in her place. The wages paid last year was $50, $35, and $30 per month; the present year, $45, $37.50, and $33.50 per month."