Stark County, Ohio - Yil, 1881 (part 1 of 2)

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THE TOWN OF ALLIANCE - GROWTH AND ADVANCEMENT - HU^^l NESS INDUSTKlIvS - Si'HOOl.S AND C0LLE(;ES_'I'HE press - church is. SCNDAY SCHOOLS. !:T<\ - BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS.

A LLIANCE is buill. at tbc crossing (»f the X~A_ Pittsburgli, Fort Wayne & Cliicago and tlie Cleveland & Pittsburg Eailroads ; the former is a continuation of the great Pennsylvania Central, through Ohio, lutlianaand Illinois, to the city of Chicago ; the latter connecting the "Forest" with the ''Iron" city, and with its branches associating in business relations with those two great inland marts a wide farming and grazing district in the Buckeye State. The etiraology of the term denotes its origin, and though it has resulted that these two routes were not really allied at the time the town was named, yet it was supposed they would be. Alliance was named by Gen. Piobinson, deceased, of Pittsburgh. The lots around the crossing were surveyed c^hiefl}- by the County Surve\'or, Mr. Whitacre, in 1851, and the propi-ietcn's of the adjoining land were Simon Jennings, Joseph J. .Brooks, I. 1\". Webb and Klisha Teeters.

And now that the town was located, it became necessary to improve it. Accordingl}', a house was built by Mr. Hester, the first house ever erected in Alliance, and which is now standing, and occupied by Mr. Olliger. The same year, Mr. Hester started a store, thereb)- being the first to establish mercantile pursuits in the town. Mr. Hester gave the town the name of Freedom, by which it w-as known until ten or twelve years after its oriain. or until the completion of" the C. & P. and P., Ft. W. & C. Railroad, when the railroad companies gave it the name of Alliance. Mr. Hester made a public sale of lots, the same year in which the town was laid out, and disposed of several, upon which buildings were soon erected. In 18-41, or about three years later, Mr. S. Shaffer came here from Pennsylvania and opened another store. Here was the first competition in trade in Alliance. And from these two insignificant establishments have sprung over 100 odd business houses of to-day. Verilj'. their progeny has been prolific. For the first ten or twelve .years, the growth of the town was ver}' slow ; the accessories were few and infrequent'. Another store was added, a small brick schoolhouse, a church and a few dwellings comprised the principal improvements. There was nothing here at this early day to attract immigration'. The country was almost a -wilderness ; there wa^ no milling privilege, there were few comforts of any kind to Ije obtained, and many annoyances and inconveniences were submitted to: The post ofI1<;e was two or three miles distant. There were no markets for surplus products nearer than Massillon, 26 miles awaj', and to that point faimcrs would haul their grain, receiving for it 40 or 50 cents per bushel. Our merchants' supplies were purchased at Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and transported by canal and river to Weilsville, aud from there by v.agons to this pkne. In those days it required from four to six weeks for our merchants to make the trip to Philadelphia, purchase goods and return. Now, with our present railroad facilities, the same trip may be easily accomplished in the space of one week. The ground upon which (he city now stands was. at the time of the location of the town, owned by the following gentlemen : Matthias Hester. William Aultman, Michael and John Miller. Mr. Scott and Mr. Cassidy. These gentlemen made numerous additions to the town, and public enterprises, in the way of land for the purpose of stimulating and encouraging the improvement of the town, but its progress was verj' tardy, and twehe years after its origin, or in the year 1850, the place contained only about 200 inhabitants.

Much the same as Altoona is on the east, Alliance is on the west of Pittsburgh, an offspring of the locomotive, a legitimate child of steam. In the history of the last few years, a great chapter of which is occupied by railway events, an episode injected into the stale memoranda of former centuries which are continued in this - ^.stereotypes of diplomatic strategy, wars, marches, battles and sieges - this word Alliance has repeatedly appeared in the daily and weekly bulletins of news. Sometimes it lias fiiiurcd as the seene of unfortiinsite fatality, at others as the theater of social or politii-al demonstration, and the telegraph announcing to distant cities the arrival here, or the passage of this or tliat distinguished per.sonau'o tlirough the place, has helped to lend celebrity to the town. Tiie following is the additions to and composing the city of .Alliance :

Mathias Hester and John .Miller laid out the town of Ficedoin July 21. ISIiS. composed of sixty lots. William Altnian hiid out an addition to Frei;dom September 17, 1841. composed of eleven lots. IMathias Hester laid out an addition to Freedom Seplemlier 17, 1841. composed of twelve lots. Alliance was laid out by Mathias Hester September 10. ISoO, composed of fifty-eight lots. E. Teeters laid ont an addition to Alliance Septembers. 1851, composed of fifty-one lots. M. Hester laid out an addition to Alliance September 10. 18.")1. composed of forty-four lots. Jennings & Brooks laid out an addition to Alliance May 21, 1852, composed of sixty-five lots. I. X. Webli laid out an addition to Alliance May l(i.

1852. composed of sixteen lots. William Teeters laid out on addition to Alliance August 28. 1852, composed of eight lots. E. Teeters laid ont an addition to Alliance .May 20. 1852, composed of sixty-live lots. Samuel Shaffer laid out an addition to Alliance April 15. 1853. compo.^ed of seventeen lots. Mathias Hester laid ont an addition to Alliance December 18,

1853. composed of thirty-one lots. E. Teeters laid out an addition to Alliance April 4. 1855, composed of thirty-seven lots, -lohn Miller laid out an addition to Freedom July 3, 185(J, composed of seven lots. E. Teeters laid out an addition to Alliance June 14. 1856, composed of one hundred and fourteen lots. T. X. Webb laid ont an addition to Alliance May 27, 1856. composed of thirty lots. F. N. Webb laid out an addition to Alliance June 0. 1856, composed of nine lots. JM. Hester laid ont an addition to Alliance February 27, 1856, composed of five lots, E. A. & C. W. laid out an addition to Alliance July 7, 1860. composed of

Mathias Hester laid out an addition t« Alliance October 14. 1856. compo.sed of fourteen lots. L. L. Lamborn, May 18, 1866, an.l May 18, 1868, composed of one hundred and fifty-two lots. Josiah Kosenbeny laid out an addition to Alliance June 5, 1867, compo.sed of fifteen lots. J. Pi. Haines laid out an addition to Alliance April 27. 1864. composed of twi'Utyeight lots. E. Teeters laid out an addition to Alliance l)eccml)er 10, 1865, composed of one hundred and fif(v-two lots. Ijinus Ely laid out an a<ldition to .Mliance May 11. 1870, composed of six lots. ti. W. Sears laid out an addition to Alliance January 25. 1870. composed of seventeen lots. J. B. Milner laid out an addition to Alliance April 10. ISOO. composed of twenty i(>ts. I. X. \Velib laid out an addition to Alliance !May 1, 1866. compo.sed of twentyfive lots. I. X. Webb laid out an addition to Alliance August 27. 1 866. composed of thirtytwo lots. Philip Ktiene laid out an addition to Alliance July 2f>, 1867. composed of five lots. Elizabeth Grant 1,'iid out an addition to Alliance Xovember 14. 1867, compo.sed of nine lots. M. .\. Uarasey laid out an addition to Alliance June 14. 1861 (outlots). composed of twelve lots. J. H. Haines laid ont an addition to Alliance June 20, 1867. composed of ten lots. Orant & Kice laid out an addition to Alliance July 1.3, 1867, compo.sed of eighteen lots. 31. Hester laid out an addition to Alliance December IS, 1867, composed of twelve lots. Moushey & Davis laid out an addition to Alliance Novemlier 21, 1861. composed of six lots. J. B, Milner laid out an addition to Alliance April 24. 1868. composed of two hundred and five lots. Simon Johnson laiil out an atldition to Alliance Septemlier 18. 18(18. composed of thirteen lots. J. B. Milner laid out an addition to Alliance February 16. 1867. composed of seventy-two lots. Teeters, Lamborn & Co. laid out an addition to Alliance, various dates, composed of nine hundred and ninety lots. 1. N. Webb laid out an addition to Alliance May 6. 1870, composed of twenty-four lots. D. F. Eosenberry laid out an addition to Alliance X'ovember 20. .187((. composed of thirteen lots. Buck's heirs laid out an addition to .Mliance March 13, 1872, composed of ten lots. I. X. Webb laid out an addition to Alliance February 22. 1870, composed of eleven lots. .Vnua Webb laid out an addition to Alliance May 14. 1870. composed of thirty-nine lots.

It will be seen that the city has 2,(>38 re corded lots. In addition to these are very many pieces of land but little larger than a lot, not numbered, upon which residences are built. There are 390 pieces of land upon the tax duplicate of the township outside of tlie incorporate limits of Alliance, Mount Union and Limaville. The average amount of land to each land owner in the township is thirty-seven acres.

The following are the additions and lots composing the town of Limaville : David HoUoway first laid out Limaville June 18, 1830, the same being composed of twenty two lots. David HoUoway laid out an addition to Limaville Decemlier 8, 1830, composed of ten lots. Peter Akey, Isaac Winans and Alva Proutz laid out an addition to Limaville October 3, composed of fifty-nine lots. Peter Akey and A. Proutz laid out an addition to Limaville July 24, 1836, composed of forty-one lots. Thus Limaville has 132 recorded lots.

The following are the additions and lots composing the town of Mount Union, to wit : Richard Fawcett laid out Mount Union August 22, 1833, the same at that date being composed of forty lots. John Hinds, E. N. John-son. N. Holies, J. Watson, Rachel Holies and Daniel Reeves laid out additions to Mount Union composed of thirty lots. Ellis N. Johnson laid out an addition to Mount Union May 22, 1851, composed of four lots. J. B. York laid out an addition to Mount Union September 30, 1863, composed of forty-five lots. Ellis N. John.son laid out an addition to Mount Union November 29, 1858, composed of four lots. Pettit & Park laid out an addition to Mount Union March 29, 1859, composed of twenty-four lots. J. B. Milner laid out an addition to Mount Union July 20, 1867, composed of 142 lots. E. N. Johnson and J. V. Gould laid out an addition to Mount Union November 10, 1871, composed of ten lots. This number added to the 390 pieces of land, makes 3,437 distinct and separate pieces of real estate in Lexington Township. A number of the lots are yet in the hands of the first owners, but probaljly not more than would be equaled b}- the pieces of land in the three incorporations which are not estimated in the above aggregate. At a public sale of lots on Main street in 1851, made by Mr. E, Teeters, the lots barely averaged $40 apiece. The lots known as the Reynolds corner were purchased by Mr, Jacob Oswalt, of Washington Township, at $37. He thought he had paid dear for his whistle, and got Mr. William Teeters to take it otf his hands. During the 3-ear 1873, the same lot, with but little improvements on it, sold for $13,500.

It is to W. C. Wilcox, Esq., the Recorder of Stark County, we are indebted for a transcript, owners and dates of the various additions to the township mentioned in this chapter.

The reputation of '' Coates Lock-Lever Hay & (jrain Rake," is so thoroughly established that it finds a sale in all parts of the United States, and large numljers of it have been shipped to Europe. The factory has a permanent investment in grounds, buildings and machinery-, of about $75,000. Employs about sevent^'-five men, and turns out from $100,000 to $200,000 worth of work annually, while the gross sales of this rake alone have exceeded $1,000,000. At the Paris Exposition, in 1878, the '- Coates " Lock-Lever Rake received the only silver medal awarded to any horserake separate from other farm implements. The business is now conducted under the firm name of A. W. Coates & Co,, and is one of the most substantial manufacturing enterpri-ses of the State, having withstood the terrible pressure of hard times and financial ruin of the past five 3'ears, and stands forth to-da^- with strong reputation and largely increasing patronage.

On Thursday, June 8, 1854, the first newspaper was published in Lexington Township, at Alliance. It was printed at Salem, Columurabiana County, at the office of J. K. Rukenbrod, the present able and popular editor of the Salem RcpuJilirdv. L, L. Lamborn, a practicing physician of Mt, Union, was the editor, A few weeks after this period, a Washington press and a tolerable printing office outfit was purchased of Lyman W, Hall, the present efficient editor and proprietor of the Portage ('ounty Democrat, and brought to Alliance and an office opened in Merchant's Block, After this the paper was printed and published in Alliance, The paper was christened the Alii ance Ledger. By reference to the editorials of the Ledger recently reviewed, the fact was clearly elicited that the paper was strongly opposed to the Democratic partj-. The readers of this article might infer this would be an astonishing disclosure to the author of the history of Lexington Township. Tlie Ledger was also viruleutly anti-slavery and wonderfully

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Maine-lawish. After about one years time A. H. Lewis bought tlie entire interest in the Lnhjfr, and ran the paper for two years. James Estell, Esq., then bought the ofliee and ran a paper in the interest of the Demoeracy, under the name of the Timia. Mr. Estell removed from Alliance to Holmes County, Ohio, and published liie lldhni.i ('ouiiti/ Fanntr, and was elected Probate Judge of Holmes County, and received other evidences of the people's confidence and ability. In ISoC. S. G. McKce removed to Alliance from CarrolUoii, Carroll County, and purchased of Mr. Estell the Tinus ofhce, and owned and uublished the paper under the name of the Tiiiirs up to 1801. Barlow & Morgan, Webb & Co., Elmslie & Co. successively <»wiied tiieoMice after this. Gotchell Bros, bought the oHice and moved it to Canton, and published a paper there for a few months. The Local was a part^- organ, giving its inHnence exclusiveh' to the tenets and policy of tlie Republican organization. The Mfinitiu- was a hybrid ; it tried the circus feat of riding two horses named I'rohibition and Republicanism. The True. Press belonged to the neuter gender hermaphrodite ; some think it faced toward Demoeracj'. The Miiiiilnr was ehielly edited by Mrs. Brown, a clever lady, fine writer and excellent itemizer. The Loeul was done up by Joe Gillespie, Few local items passed unchronicled in his paper : he was brief and decisive in his retorts and criticisms. The I.ncal cut, the Mu/iitoriare and the True Press poulticed ; the Local pilled, the Monitor gnped and the 7'ruc /Vf,«,s- soothed. All of those papers were ambitious ; the Local for party dominancy, the Monitor for money, and the True Press for that (pi let which came to the waves of Gallilee. Out of the Sanctum, the Local was aflTectionate, the Monitor courteous and the True Press placid. The Local was pointed, the Monitor general, and the True Press neither. The ]joc<il shot at the heart, the Monitor at the whole body, and the True Press shuddered. The editor of the Local was obese and childless, the editor of the True Press was gaunt and wifeless, and the editress of the Monitor was lithe and guileless.

The^' were an inimitable trio. Concretelj' they were prismatic, resolving a ray of life's great duties into primordial elements even to the negation principles of light, with all the intermingling rainbow tints. Abstractly they were less ostentatious and gaudy. It is true the Local, Monitor and True Press were not the Tribune, I/mild and Times, or the editors Greeley, Bennett and Raymond, but they were respectable in their spheres, and the city of Alliance w^as proud of them as editors and citizens. In the way of journalism. Alliance was the peer of any interior town in Ohio. These presses were the heralds of the cit\-'s future ; for them to languish was for the city to die at heart ; for merchants and manufacturers to give orders for printing to traveling rats to advertise competing towns is felo-de-se - it was suicide - it was a stone at the goose or geese that lay the golden eggs ; it might not have killed, but it wounded tliem. Mr. Lewis managed the Fnss for a few months, and then disposed of his otlice to W. F. Hart. .Mr. Mossgrove assisted him as Ibreraan and associate editor. The Monitor was started by J. W. Garrison and J. Hudson July KJ, 18G4, In October, 18(J6, Mr, Hudson sold his interest in the ollice to iMr. Garrison. This establishment in 1804, was a new and splendid outfit, with steam presses and all fitting adjuncts. Mr. Garrison sold the ofliee to A. W. Taylor, and moved to Massillon where he inaugurated the Massillon American. Mr. Taylor .soon found a purchaser for the Monitor, in the person of W. K. Brown. While Mr, Garrison owned the Monitor ofHee, he printed for one year the Christian Standard, a religiou.s paper in the interest of the Christian Church, and edited l)y Rev. Isaac Errett. The Led(jir, under the management of A. H. Lewis, published for one year, the Family and School fns/ructor, a monthly of respectable size and appearance, projected by the Faculty and students of 3Iount Union College. Mr. Gillespie, of the Local. has published for one year the Literari/ Advance, a monthly emanating from the same source. Mr. Patterson, the excellent foreman of the Local ofliee. and .McKee's partner in the publication of that paper before Mr. Gillespie purchased his interest, ran for several years a job otlice in the building owned and occupied by J. Murray Wel)b. The Weaver Brothers also ran a joli ollice in this city before the}' purchaseel the .Minerva Comniercial. Mr Stewart McKce, who has been almost constantly connected with the press of this city since 1S.')4, in connection with his son-inlaw, now runs a tidy and excellent job office in Harrold's Block. This includes, so far as mem-

The Democracy of Alliance anil surrounding country purchased an ortice and reshipped it to this city to print a paper under the management of one Robinson, who formerly had some reputation as a writer, having been connected with the Cincinnati Emjuirri-. At one time, Mr. Robinson, though a virulent Democrat, patriotically held that the national debt created by the war, should be promptly paid, and that the most expeditious plan to liquidate the nation's liabilities, was the payment of an internal revenue by an extravagant consumption of whisky. He largely and liberally practiced on his theorj' and his paper died Patterson & McKee purchased the ofiBce and issued the Local. After a time Joseph W. Gillespie purchased the Patterson interest in the office, continuing the paper under the same name. Mr. Gillespie soon became the exclusive owner of the office, but feeling that a Washington hand press and accompanying material, much of it quite old, could not be made to meet the necessities of the increasing patronage of an enterprising town fast merging into a city, sold the press and office, the historj' of which lias been brietiy traced since 1854, to Lacoek&Co., of Salineville, to which place it was shipped a few years back, and where it is probably entei'- ing on the vicissitudes of a twenty years' experience, such as it passed in Ravenna and in Alliance. After S. G. McKee sold his interest in the Load to Gillespie he purchased a splendid C3'linder press and jobber, with corresponding and accompanying outfit, and issued a weekly called the Tdeyntph. The Tchgrdjih apparently was well supported and entering a career of unusual prosperitj-, when one morning the citizens of Alliance were astonished with the report that (xillespie of the Local had bought out the Tclc</irijJi. The latter paper supported the interests of the Democratic party, and the Local was the organ of the Republican party. The purchase gave the Local every facility for successfully competing with the Monitor. There was Tnore material than could be advantageously used obtained by the purchase of the fc/cr/raji/i office, and Dr. Lewis bought a hand press and some of the material of Mr. Gillespie, and in the fall of 1872 started a paper. Since the above occurrences, other papers have been published in Alliance.

The Alliance Tri- County Review, edited and published by Capt. J. W. Gillespie, is one of the newsiest papers in Eastern Ohio, and has obtained considerable celebrity for its independence of thought, its bold and fearless defense of its opinions, and its carefully edited local and news columns. It is Republican in politics, but evidently does not take kindly to the extreme hard-money doctrines of that party, and having opinions of its own on all the issues of the day, to which it gives fearless expression and a bold defense, it occasionally- of necessity, incurs the adverse criticisms of the more hide-bound leaders of the party with which it is identified ; and yet, on all the doctrines which properly and originall}' entered into the creed and confession of political faith of the Republican partj', as well as in spirit, the paper is "radical" and "stalwart." The history of the Review is one of success. In May, 1871, Capt. Gillespie bought a half-interest in the Alliance Local, a small patent outside " sheet, struggling for existence with a nominal subscription list of barely three hundred, and, in company with Capt. S. G. McKee, undertook to conduct it as a neutral pajier. This, of course, was unsatisfactory. A man with positive opinions and convictions, must necessarily chafe and fret under the restraints of neutral journalism, and in November of the same year, Capt. Gillespie bought out his partner, and, abandoning the " patent outside," changed its character to one of the most pronounced and wide-awake Republican papers in the Seventeenth Congressional District. Prom that day may be dated the present popularity of the paper, and its publisher could not help but see, in a short time, that it had outgrown its name and had become something more than a mere " local '' paper. He, therefore, dropped the nnxna Local and substituted the more pretentious and significant title of Review, changing its form, too, to a quarto and enlarging it. The next advance step was taken in 1876, when the Review was made a cash-in-advance paper, and immediately following this and entirely contrar}- to the expectations of man}' of its friends, it obtained a circulation four times larger than any paper ever published in the town of Alliance. But another change seemed to be demanded, and in the same line, indicating growth and progress ; the Review rapidly extended its circulation in the adjoining counties till, on the 1st of January, 1881, its proprietor, as a fitting recognition of this generous patronage, adopted its present title ; and now, as the IVi- Count 1/ Rfri'ew, its subscription is hirger than ever before, and daily increasing. Aggressive, outspoken, saucy and combative as the Rciieir lias always been, it, of course, has made some enemies, and in its treatment of these, it seemed never to be able to appreciate the nursery axiom of -' a kiss for a blow." Titfor-tat was ratiier its motto, and it seems to really enjoy a s<iuare stand-up tigiit, and is not likely to grow rusty in literary pugilism for want of practice, or sulk, or whine, or snitlle at the result of any of its set-tos.

One of the leading Repul)lican newspapers of Stark County is the Alliance sStandai-d, which was established January 1. 1880. by John G. Garrison. At its inception, the Slfnu/unl was a six-column folio, but under Mr. (iarrison's careful editorial and practical mechanical management, it soon became an enterprising local journal, and an enlargement became necessary'. It is now an eight-column folio. The Stciiidanl has steadily grown in favor and influence until it has become one of the most widely read local newspapers ever published in Alliance. Its careful make-up, tine paper, good press work and neat typographical appearance, give it the reputation of being a handsome county paper. Much of the success of the Standard is due to the refined and elevating manner in which it has been conducted, as well as its fair and gentlemanly treatment of the people, whether they were patrons of the paper or not. and its impartial, unselfish and journalistic manner of handling all questions. The otHcc is one of the finest equipped of the kind in the county, and the only one in the city which combines all features of the printing business under one nian<agement. A new six-horse power engine, paper cutter and other conveniences have recently- been added, making the job department most complete. Much of the work turned out by Garrison's Standard Steam Printing House has never been equaled in the city, and would favorablj' compare with that executed by firstclass city offices.

The Monitor was established in 180-4, by Hudson & Garrison. In 1865, Hudson sold his interest to his partner. J. W. Garrison (father of the editor of the Standard, of .VUiance), who conducted the paper until he established the Massillon American in 18611, when he sold the

Monitor to A. W. Taylor, who, a year later, disposed of it to Rev. W. K. Brown and wife. They ran it until 1877, when it suspended. In 18ti!), the Monitor had a circulation of about 1,200 copies. The Christian Standard, with a circulation of 18,000, was published by Mr. Garrison from the Monitor office, at this time. The latter paper is now published in Cincinnati. Among the industries that have appeared in Alliance is the large bagging factory now in operation. It was erected in 1870 at a cost of $82,000. Its annual capacity is 450,00(» yards of bagging, which is used in covering cotton so that the latter can be readily transported to market. The material used in the manufacture is flax, tow and jute butts. The first two are obtained in this country and Canada, and the latter is imported from the West Indies. During the year there are consumed 600 tons of nearly e(iual (pianlities of flax and jute. The number of hands employed is from forty-five to fifty, and tlic average wages per day is 65 cents.

' was a small brick schoolhouse, 18x24, located in the immediate vicinity of the Disciple Church, which house was of sutlleient capacity to meet all the educational wants of this locality. School was held in this small structure three months every year. Since the establishment of the present school system, the township has been divided into ten separate school districts,

; and each district has a neat and commodious s(;hoolhouse, with ample accommodations for the children of the district. In most of these districts a winter and summer school is taught. The I'nion School of Alliance was organized under the act of February 21, 1849, in the month of February, 1857. Mr. J. K. Pickett was elected the first Superintendent, in March, 1858, and continued to act in that capacity until January. 18(i0. George D. Hester was elected in August, IStU), and continued until June, 1861. J. K. Pickett was re-elected April, 1861, and continued until March, 1865. Je.sse Markham was elected in March, 1865, and continued until April. 1865. D. M. Miller was elected in April, 1865, and continued until June. 1866. E. N. Johnson. Jr., was elected July, 1800, and continued until June, 1807. W. H. Dressier was elected August, 1867. The single buildinsnow known as the Central School was all the school room afforded, or needed, as late as 1857. Ill that year there were but 300 ciiildren in the Union School District. The first Superintendent had four assistants. One of tlie finest edifices to be found within the scope of a hundred miles is the Alliance College, a magnificent brick, erected on tlie liill site of our city, within live minutes wall? of the railroad depot. It is just cause of pride in our citizens, being an ornament to the place, and those who conceived the design and carried out the execution can well be proud ol' their conception and labors. It owes its paternity to Prof. A. B. Way, and was built under the patronage of the "Christian Church. It cost $50,000. >rof. Way was continued as Financial Agent, aud to his herculean efl'orts we are indebted for the completion of the College.

Mount Union College was founded for a purpose, with a definite plan. Its humble origin, dating from its provisional organization, October 20, 1846, has"ever since continuous!}' outlined its progressive character; while its existing membership, appointments, provisions, instructed students, permanent improvements and regular workings under its charter, show its attained growth and usefulness. The true history of the College, showing the facts, growth and results of its plan, would be misunderstood, without constantly keeping in mind not onlj' the results of its providential facts, but also as its progressive or final end, the following proposed or fundamental objects :

1. To found a progressive institution for truthfully developing right character, culture and knowledge, and for making a thorougli. liberal, Christian education accessible to all.

2. Besides ancient classical, to provide fresh courses and departments fundamentally essential for educating symmetrically all the fixculties, for promoting character above culture, and culture above knowledge, and for earnestly uniting the utilitarian, disciplinary and aesthetic ; aud thus practically and truthfully making not only laborers and scholars, but citizens and the highest grade of men and women.

3 Rightly to enable any students to choose and master a thorough general course, as the ancient and modern classical, philosophical, scientific, or literary ; or take electives or a post graduate course, or a special or technical course, as preparatory, business, mining, engineering, normal, musical, fine arts ; or such studies ill any course or department, and for sucii time as students desire and need for harmoniously educating the head, hand and heart, and for giving them true personal ability, availability and reliability.

4. To secure a moral, healthy and enterprising location, improved and ample grounds and buildings ; a voluntary and effective association of competent and reliable patrons, trustees, faculty and students, with wise management ; logical systems of thorough, illustrative instruction, with moral, social, lesthetic and phj-sical culture aud self-government ; also, progressively to secure improved libraries, and an abundance of superior, scientific and artistic apparatus, implements, cabinets, museum, picture galleries, observatory, gymnasiums, botanical and zoological gardens, aquaria, parks, models, relics and charts, with natural, classical, archaeological, industrial, paleontological and iBsthetic specimens, as cosmic endowments, with which truthfullv to illustrate and apply all studies.

5. To make the c<jllege a free, patriotic, Christian and aggressive institution ; to hold and use its property perpetually, in trust, for the benefit of its students ; to bring a thorough, liberal. Christian education in easy reach of all, enabling enterprising students of either sex, however humble or self-dependent, to complete a general or elective course, and support themselves ; to adapt the terms, curricula and management to the actual needs of the people, and to our country's public school system ; to regulate the price of student's rooms and board, (their chief expense), and keep their expenses of living within certain low rates, by erecting buildings and providing good rooms and ample boarding fiicilities.

(5. To promote the union of earnest and generous patrons, trustees, professors and students, and thus to perpetuate the plan and growing membership and usefulness of the institution, with God's continued favor, by largely keeping the College, internally, self-supporting, and externally, through permanent improvements as representative free-will offerings, and by progressively adapting the college to the actual needs of our American masses.

ing arranged to suit the large attendance of students, who had in this institution been pursuing a full college course, and who desired to graduate and obtain the degrees legally and honorably from the institution where they had received their chief instruction.

In addition to the foregoing objects, the charter provides that the property of the college shall be held perpetually in trust, by a board of trustees, for the educational benefit of students. It is al.so provided that the trustees and faculty shall carry out progressivel}' the foregoing fundamental objects of the institution ; that they shall acquire and supply the means of a thorough, liberal. Christian education, equally to persons of both sexes, irrespective of their religious or political opinions ; that the facultj' shall possess and exert the requisite authority to establish and administer all necessary and proper regulations for ' the instruction and internal management of the ' college as related to students, and for any general, elective, special and practical courses of study ; that the institution shall be conducted in harmony with the principles of Christianity ; that any department or school that may be established, or any literary society or other organ- , ization composed of students, shall be under the supervision of the college authorities ; that all moneys and property of the college shall be faithfully and safely appropriated by the trustees to the purposes for which they were respectively donated ; that the trustees hold their otflce chiefly during three years, about onethird of the number being elected each year ; tliat in electing the trustees, any candid person, religious denomination or philanthropic association, accredited or donating to the college money or property, shall be respectively entilled to one vote for a trustee, for every $25 donated to the college ; that the institution shall be patriotic and Christian, but not sectarian or partisan, and shall be generously conducted on the voluntarj' philanthropic principle of doing the greatest educational good to the greatest praetic'able number of worthy, selfdependent students.

Thus, through trustees whom they elect as their representatives, the college is equitably' and generously controlled or governed by the people who, with a united interest and just representation for the impartial and equal good of all, voluntarily bear the responsibility of

The degrees or other hor.ors that raa^- be conferred, are similar to those that may be granted by colleges or universities of this or other countries. The charter has undergone no modifications ; contains no limitations or reservations as a condition in grants or otherwise, or as to any scholarships or requirements as to instruction in particular studies, and provides for any changes necessary to adapt the college to the needs of the people.

Immediatelj" after perfecting the charter, January 10, 1858, this institution, whose distinctive features had been nominally developing since its provisional organization in 1846, was now regularly and efficiently organized as a college. A suitable board of trustees was elected, with an eflective executive committee, also a competent faculty of experienced professors. Rev. 0. N. Hartshorn, LL, D., was elected President of the Trustees and Faculty ; Ira 0. Chapman, A. M., was elected Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, and Secretarv ofthe Faculty ; G. W. Clark, A. M., was elected Professor of the Latin and Greek languages, and Treasurer of the Trustees, and E. N. Hartshorn, A. M., was elected Professor of Natural Science, and Auditor of the Trustees. The first class was regularly graduated in the summer of 1858, and, ever since, classes have duly graduated each year in the several authorized degrees.

The attendance and needs of students so increased, as to make it necessary to enlarge the college grounds and erect a new and capacious main building, which was in 1804 completed, the dedicatory address being delivered by Hon. S. P. Chase, who was one of the trustees. Among other things. Chief Justice Chase publicly said : '- Jlouut Union College, as to both means and usefulness, is among the foremost in our country ; it certainly is greatly needed ; has a superior system of instruction, government, support, membership, and of equal and equitable patron relations ; is nationall}- and wisel}' located and conducted ; its simple and impartial, yet complete and distinctive, plan, merits the generous and united patronage of all American people, for it generously makes a thorough, integral. Christian education easily obtainable to every enterprisijiij youno- man or lady."

Tn Feliniary. 1865, Bishop M. Simpson, D. D., liL. I)., delivered in tile large hall of this new Iniilding, to an intelligent audience of 2,500 persons, his address on the Future of our Country," and at tlie close of wliicii he puljjicly stated that -- Mount Union College, manifestly a girt of Providence, is an ouiinently needed, live and progressive institution, where excellent government, high intellectual and moral (uiltu re, cheapness and thoroughness, with a sound plan wisely' adapted to the enlarging wants of the American people, are happily combined.''

Bisliop Vj. Thomson. I). 1)., LL. D., another trustee of this college, spent a week attending the annual examinations of the classes and other commencement exercises, in the summer of 1805, and, upon delivering, on commencement day, the annual address, he publicly stated that "Mount Union is an established collegiate center, eligiblj' and beautifullj' situated, admirably managed, possesses highly valuable apparatus and specimens, with extensive collegiate facilities ; its mission is philanthropic, equitable and providential, its objects impartial, practicable and widelj- demanded. This college has a superior and distinctive plan, embracing wise government, economy, right patronizing relations, thoroughness, elective courses of study, integral illustrative teaching, and adapted to develop sterling character, personal liberty and culture, and to meet the progressive wants of society, recognizing erticientl3', besides the mathematics, literature and ancient languages, the growing importance of the natural sciences and modern classics."

At their annual meeting of the board, in 18(55, on motion of Lewis Miller, the trustees resolved to erect an additional commodious ))oarding hall, to accommodate a large number of students, and thus to enable the college to keep the price of students' rooms and boarding at the lowest practicable rates. A Building Committee of Trustees was elected, consisting of Hon. Lewis Miller, of Akron, Col. K. Ball, of Canton, J. B. Milner, of Alliance, O. N. Hartshorn and William Autrara, of Blount T'nion. In 18(5(). this committee erected an excellent four-story Itrick V)uilding. 132 feet long by 4(! feet wide, on an addition often acres of college grounds.

At a special meeting of the trustees, held Jul}- 6, 1867, in the oflice of C. Aultman & Co., Canton, Ohio, " Dr. O. X. Hartshorn was authorized to visit Europe in the interest of the college, especially b}' investigating educational improvements, courses of study, the importance and methods of procuring apparatus and specimens, for fully illustrating and applying the various branches of study; ' and subse(|uently, after reporting to the trustees, - the results of his investigations in Kurope. respecting apparatus, specimens, courses of study, methods of teaching and other educational improvements. ' Dr. Hartshorn was instructed to lit up rooms and cases, and to purchase proper specimens and apparatus for fully illustrating and applying the courses of studies. "

Through written introductions and the recommendations of such men as Chief Justice Chase, and (len. Cox, then (iovernor of Ohio, Dr. Hartshorn found ready access to all the educational institutions and national nniseums of Europe. He not only made full investigations, but arranged for the jn'ocuring, from every part of the habitable globe, rare antl val uablc specimens of science and art, on the plan and through the agents of the British museum, of London. Thus this Museum chiefly took its origin, and has since been rapidly and grandly acciunnlating, both systematically and economically.

In 18G8, 0. N. Hartshorn, in order to give his whole time to the increasingly responsible internal duties of the college, resigned the Presidency of the Board of Trustees, and Hon. Lewis Miller, of Aknju. was elected, and still holds that otiice. About the same time, C. Aultman, Esq., of Canton, Ohio, was elected Treasurer ; and Hon, Joseph Walton, of Pittsburg, I'enn., was elected .Vuditor. Hon. John A. Bingham. LJj. D., a Trustee of the (College, delivered here, just before starting as United States Minister to Japan, a public address, during which he observed : I find at Moimt Union College both the facilities and instruction (juite as ample and thorough, as I lately saw at Yale and other Eastern colleges."

.\s the purling rivulet, issuing from some perennial spring, gradually carves its channel through flinty rocks, and eidargcs its current by each additional streamlet, forming at length a majestic river, whose lucid waters, in their onward course, widen and deepen by accessions from a thousand noble tributaries; so has Mount Union College providentially taken its humble origin, and thus has regularly progressed ill essential appointments, permanent improvements and eminent usefnlness, by constantly developing, through voluntary agencies, its chartered objects, until it has already, not only gained a distinguisiied position in tlie confidence and affections of the American people, but alsj has nobly developed and largely achieved the following distinctive features :

1. The making of a thorough, liberal education, e(iually and economicall}' attainable to all enterprising youth, without restriction of tlieir true individuality.

3. Electives, or liberty- in the choice of courses, or studies. The student may select any one of the four general courses ; or, from the general course, may choose, in proper order and amount, any studies that he may lie qualified to take.

4. Prominence to practical studies. This practical. Christian age, demands practical studies to develop all the powers thoroughly and symmetrically, and to give wise and full preparation for responsible, active life.

5. General and special courses, with free literary societies. In addition to the eijual four years' general courses of study - classical, scientific, literary and philosophical - extensive provisions are made for systematic and illustrative instruction in thorough special courses, as the three years' preparator}-, normal, commercial, music, designing, laboratory practice, engineering and fine arts, in thoroughlj- systematized departments ; also, free efficient literary societies - the Republican, Liumean and Cosmian.

fl. Christian and patriotic ; not sectarian, sectional or partisan. The college seeks radically, benevolently and eflfectively to advance Christian civilization.

7. Equal privileges to ladies. They, from the first, have been admitted as students on the same terms as gentlemen, to all the departments, to all honors and privileges, and are equally' eligible to the position of trustee, professor or patron.

8. Apparatus and specimens to illustrate and apply each study. Next to good teaching, the apparatus and specimens for illustrating and ai)plyiug the principles of science, are indispensaljle to a student's success in any studj'. enabling him much more easily and quickly to

9. Economy in expense ; there are no matriculation or incidental fees, which, at many colleges, amount to several times the trifle of tuition charged here. Simple dress, and plain, economical habits are encouraged. The cheapening and regulating of student's board - their chief expense - b}- having erected buildings and providing rooms and boarding facilities, save to students each term a large amount.

10. Three regular college terms, and one special winter term, each j-ear ; thus enabling students to earn their entire college expenses by teaching public schools during the winter season, while a special winter term accommodates others not teaching, and thus to complete a four years' college course in three calendar years. The college year is divided into three terms - fall, spring and summer. Students who teach in winter desire three terms - not two only - between the closing of their schools, about the last of Februaiy, and the beginning of their next .schools in November ; so that they can support themselves by teaching without losing a college term, and its consqueut derangement of a college year.

11. The polity of applying all general donations or interests to extending permanent improvements. This has been the practice of this institution from its origin, and it has proved both successful and satisfactory.

12. Students taught and aided to govern, think, and to act properly for themselves. Free, conscientious thought and action are essential to the full aud symmetrical development of true chaiacter and culture.

13. Care for the health, morals and comfort of students. Both tiie trustees and faculty take pleasure in providing every facility, and using every proper effort for promoting, as in home life, the health, morals, self-discipline and comfort of students, as well as their intellectual advancement, social refinement and general culture and ele\ation.

14. A college for the masses. Ignorance, or neglect of culture, is a crime - the radical bane of humanity. Every person should have educational opportunities as extensive and varied as his capacities. Those endowed with the greatest capacities rise usually from the mass of humanity, and belong to the lowly and industrious ranks. From the farmer's dwell- ing. the mechanic's shop, the merchant's cottage and the hiborer's home, come the pioni-ers and advocates of true reform, national weal and human elevation. This college is designed for the masses - even the most lowly and self-dependent.

15. Self-government. Sclf-governnieut, honest, voluntary and prompt, in strict conformity to publisiied provisions, foundctl on Truth and Right, has always been the rule of this institution.

As evidence of the fidelity an;l success with which these characteristic features have lieen honorably achieved, and are now daily causing their distinctive results, the following facts and statements from competent judges will rightly attest :

Rev. C. H. Fowler, D. D., LL. 1).. former President of the Northwestern University, at Evanston. Til., stated, May 27, 18S0, at an educational re-union (at Cincinnati) of the Alumni and the (General Conference Delegates of the , Annual ConferrMicos of the Methodist Episcopal Church, patronizing this college, and as reported in the Cincinnati papers, stated ; " Mount Union College is pre-eminently an institution of the people, by the people, and for the people, and is one of the most useful in the land. It has been in existence as an institution of learning, thirty-three years ; and, as a chartered college, twenty-three j-ears. It has had over 15,000 different persons as students, and has graduated with college honors over 80(1 students, uearl}" TOO students being in attendance the last year." After referring to and concurring in the estimates and statements as made by Bayard Taylor. Rishop Gilbert Haven. Chief Justice Chase and Bishop E. Thomson. Dr. Fowler further said : - I have been there myself and have carefully looked into its plan, appointments and methods, and know whereof I speak. It is no imitation, but a true aggressive college, with live and competent men composing its Faculty- and executive committee of Truste(!S. Its students are as smart, energetic and persevering as are found anywhere. While there is due care for the health, morrds and comfort of students, the}' are rightly taught to think, act and govern themselves. Science and Christianity are here practically united. Its Faculty, Trustees and I'atronizing Conferences are doing a grand work, and the college should, in addition to promptly completing its local improvements, increase the value of its general improvements to a round million dollars, during this centennial quadrenium, and this will be done, for its Trustees and patronizing bodies, like its President, are able and enterprising. The college is healthily and beautifully located on the highest ground in Ohio, at the junction of the Cleveland & Wheeling and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroads. The property of this college is worth over half a million dollars, above any indebtedness. All the Bishops have commended this college to the confidence and benefactions of the people, and Bishops Simpson, Harris, Bowman, Merrill, Hurst and Foster have delivered lectures or sermons in the college. As God is obviously in its plan and work, it will certainly triumph in the interest of the masses. '

Bishop E. (). Haven, LL. D., former President of Michigan University, at the same meeting with Dr. Fowler, said, -I have never seen Mount Union College on its landed estate ; but 1 have seen it often in its reports, in its work, and in its students. If it is to be judged by its results. Mount Union College is outstripping us all, and stands sui giwn-is. In our educational councils and conventions, where the plans and practical workings of all (jur Colleges have been freely and fully discussed, that of .Mount Union has received favorable consideration and commenilation. This college for the people, also its generous capitalists and patronizing conferences, are well known all over the country. Its distinctive object of making a liberal education properly attainable to any poor and worthy young man or woman, certainly merits corrcsjioiidiiKjIij Inri/i- iwniiif hik/ sik-ciss.

Bisho|) C. 1). Foss, D. D.. LL. D., formerly President of the Wesleyan University of Middletown. Conn., says : - 1 heartily in^lorse what others have said of this deserving college, and hope its trustees, patronizing conferences, and all generou.-; men and women of means, friendly to this uni(iue idea of liberally educating the masses, will, during this immediate centennial, permanently place this worthy enterprise, in the interests of the common people, in the front rank of American colleges." Says Bishop I. W. Wiley. D. D., former editor of the Ladies' lieposltori). aX Cincinnati; 'To the remarkable objects and success of .Mount Union College, not only our attention, but that of the people of our country are turned. This has beuome a well established college. Its distinctive plan and characteristic features should he brought to the notice of all, and be studied by all. It ranks among the foremost under the patronage of our church. It is doing a noble work for humanity, and its students are among our most energetic and useful workers. Its President and other members of the Faculty are C(jmpetent and experienced, and arc puttini; tlieir minds and hearts in the great work of reaching the masses with liberal culture. The church and country' owe a lasting del^t of gratitude to Lewis Miller, the enterprising President of its Trustees ; to C. Aultman, its generous and far-seeing Treasurer, and to Jacob 3Iiller, and other liberal men of means, whose noble benefactions to this college will be appreciated during the ages by the self-dependent youth of the land."

Grants and Endowments. - 1. The original grant, under which the college was chartered, was donated by 0. N. Hartshorn, December 12, 1857, embracing, as appraised in the recorded schedule, all the property previously used b_v the institution, including the grounds, buildings, furniture, cabinets, apparatus, implements, specimens, etc., and by him, under the State and National Laws, conveyed in fee simple to the college as a body corporate and politic.

2. A series of grants bj' Professors (). N. Hartshorn, Ira 0. Chapman and George W. Clark, donated by them from 1859 to 1864, chietly in nione^y for purchasing philosophical apparatus and the telescope ; estimated at $8,200.

5. A series of donations, by divers persons, including many generous contributions by citizens in the vicinity of Mount Tnion and Alliance, of the means for erecting on the college grounds in 1862 and 1864 the symmetrical and capacious main building, its value having been estimated by the architect. Col. Porter, of Cleveland, at $100,000.

6. A series of donations, chiefly b}- students, made prior to 1866, for procuring books for the libraries of the Republican and Linmean Literary Societies, and furniture for their halls, estimated at $6,300.

8. A few small grants in 1876, to apply on erecting the boarding hall, and to purchasing ten new pianos, and an addition of ten acres to the college grounds.

1 0. The donation of $25,000, made October 4, 1866, by Lewis Miller, of Akron, Ohio, endowing the Professorship of Philosophy and Astronomy.

1 ] . The donation of $25,000, made October 4, 1866, by C. Aultman, of Canton, Ohio, endowing the Professorship of Mathematics and Civil Engineering.

12. The donation of $25,000, made October 4, 1866, by Jacob Miller, of Canton, Ohio, endowing the Professorship of Moral and Mental Philosophy.

15. An extended and specific series of valuable donations for purchasing mathematical implements, chemical and ph3'sical apparatus, for the laboratories and lecture rooms, physiological apparatus and specimens, geographical and astronomical apparatus (not in(lu<ling the telescope), with various important apparatus for teaching engineering, mining and other applied science.

16. Grants of money and materials prior to 1874, by divers persons, for specific improvements, chiefly libraries, furniture, and improvement of grounds - $500 being sub- .scribed in books by W. A. Ingham, of Cleveland, Ohio.

17. Munificent grants for the museum, repeat(!dly made by various liberal patrons of this college - the value of this museum being estimated at $251,000. This estimated value - $251.000 - of this college's Museum of Science and Art, is considered too low by many experienced travelers and judges of the value of the museums in different countries, among whom are the late Bayard Taylor and Bishop

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(jilbert Haven ; the former, after carefully, in 1876, iuspectintr and estimating the value of the specimens, stated, in the New York Trllnine, that 'The museum of Jlount Iniou College is among the hist 1 ever visited anywhere, and the natural specimens are the most select and valuahlc I have seen in any country." The latter (Bishop Haven), one of its Trustees, after also carefully estimating the value of this museum, wlien attending the annual examinations of classes, and the commencement, in 1874, and subsequently, when lecturing in the college, five ditlerent times, stated. June, 1879, in his published correspondence to the Atlanta ((!a.) Ailcocate : "It is but just to Mount I'nion College, to say that its curriculum is as stiff as its neighbor's ; and its graduates show that thej' have to do something to get out and get on ; among its appointments is a museum superior to any other college in the country : 1 do not think the Smithsonian is richer."

!)r. Daniel Curry, of New York, stated. May 1~ . 188(t. in an address then published: 'One of the things to make a successful college, is money well invested, and enough of it. Moi.nt Union College has an estate of over $,")0(l,t)00. The first time I ever saw its President, Dr. Hartshorn, he had just landed from Kurope with a vast amount of - 1 will not say curiosities, but peculiarities. From what 1 know of the Custom House entries in New Y'ork. I can appreciate what Bayard Taj'lorsaid, that Moinit Union College had the best museum he had seen in any country. Bishop Gilbert Haven had truly said that he did not consider the Smithsonian Institute's better."

19. A valuable grant of a silver mine in Montana Territory, near Bannoc City, donated to the College April l.'i, 1876, bj- James Hammond, a resident of Bannoc City.

20. A series of donations, cliietly by students, since 1866. for additions to the libraries and furniture of the Republican and Linnsean Literary Societies, estimated at §3,300 ; also a se ries of donations, chiefiy by students, since Maj- 1876. for procuring the library, piano and furniture for the Cosmian Literary Society, estimated at i?2,150.

.Ml moneys or property donated to the College, with all interests or proceeds therefrom, instead of any of the above being used to pay the p.'ofessors or other current expenses, have, in all instances, l)een applied to increase the permanent improvements and facilities of the College, thus perpetually bc'uefitting the students.

The Alumni Association has taken st<'ps to endow an .Vlumni chair. The above amounts do not ini'lude the subscriptions of ?'3r),000, lately made by citizens of Mount Union for permanent improvements, including a new museum building.

The educational work which this institution has, in accordance with the aliove principles, already accomplished, and the students instructed in the several departments, may be inferred, when brietiv indicated, as follow-s :

In the department of literature, science and the arts, of last year (1880-81): Seniors. 32 ; juniors, 23 ; sophomores, 48 ; freshman, 118, preparatory, 15."); normal department. 110 ; business department, 224 ; department of music, 183 : department of fine arts, 21 ; making, as a total for the past year, after deducting those counted more than once, 679. The total number of students since the origin of the institution, is 15,911, of whom 8,917 have l)een employed as teachers of public schools. The whole number of graduations in the general courses, in citrsii, with degrees and diplomas : Bachelor of arts, 173; bachelor of philosophy, 114; bachelor of literature. 7; bachelor of science. 100 ; master of arts. 121 ; master of philosophy, 43 ; master of literature. 1 ; master of science, 97 ; total. /» nirfni. Col. (iraduates, pro mfi-ito, with degrees and diplomas: bachelor of arts, 5 ; bachelor of philosoph}', 1 ; master of arts, 6 ; master of philo.sophy, 2 ; doctor of philosophy, 5; total, /<to iinrito. 19. Graduates in the full commercial course, in ciirsu. with degrees and diplomas : Bachelor of commercial science, 405. Graduates in special cour-r.-i, with diplomas and no degrees, normal orlr:i' h ers' course: gentlemen, 2,716; ladies, l.l.')^ ; total, 4,174 ; instrumental music : full classical course, 12 ; Cramer course. 4 ; fine art course, 3. Graduates, /«/- lnuturr. with the following honorary degrees and diplomas : Master of arts. 10; doctor of divinity. 30: doctor of laws, 3. Total graduations, with degrees and diplomas. 1,123;

There have been twenty-one Ma3'ors elected in Alliance since the city government was effected in October, 1854, up to 1873, that being the date of the first Mayor's commission. The following are the names of the various Mayors of Alliance : n,,, c..n,mi.s,io,..

The town house is a substantial and creditable structure. It will endure and subserve its proposed purpose for half a century of time. A coming generation ma}- be interested in knowing the name of its builder and its cost. The following is appeiided. Some additions make the cost exceed $5,000. The following proposals for building town house were received :

J. T. Weybrecht being the lowest bidder, the contract was awarded to him, and the building was completed in six months from date of contract. The following; is the list of Recorders

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In the j-ear 1847 Levi Bortoii and family moved into the village of Mt. Union. A few days afterward M. I). Stallcnp and family moved to the villa>ie. Mr. Borton. his wife and line daiiiihtcr : M. T). Rtallctip and wife were incnilKTs (if the hisciplcs' {'Inircli. Those live constituted the mcmljcrship of tiiis religious persuasion in the township in 1847. During the four years following this date by concert of action between between Borton and Stallcnp, occasionally the services of this dcnominalion were obtained at this point. Among the ministers who preached in the interests of the Disciples at this point during the period of four years, might be mentioned Israel Belton, Jolm Whitacre (deceased). Benjamin Patterson (deceased), J. Warren, Joseph Moss and J. H. Jones. There was a small band of Baptists in .Mount Union, whose house of worship was obtained to hold the meetings called by those transient ministers. In .March, lS,-)2. Mr. A.

B. (ircen, accompanied by Austin Peter, of Warren, came to .^lonnt Union. Mr. Green preached sixteen discourses during this meeting. Mrs. B. W. Johnsf>n and others connected themselves with this persuasion during this meeting. There were at this time eight individuals banded together to investigate the Scriptures and meet on the first day of every week. Whc^n stei)s toward an orgaiuzation ' was taken, the Baptists refused this iittle band ' the use of their house of worship. They met ' thereafter for two years in the old Seminary, or the Peoples' meeting housi-. The mt'iiibers al this time consisted of Levi Borton, wife and daughter ; Asa Silvers, .M. D. Stallcnp and wife, Mrs. B. W. Johnson and W. S. I'ettit. at pre- I sent an esteemed citizen of this citv. Mr. Benjamin Pigeon, of Smith Township, recently deceased, associated himself with this organi- j zation. After the coinpletion of the railroads j through Alliance this band changed their location to the Christian Church, westof .\llian»;e. at present used by Mr. Haines as a carriage house, and regularl\' organized, b}' appoinlhig two Deacons and two Elders. Asa Silvers and Bryan Patterson, Klders : Kdwin Vaughn and Kdward Pettil, Deacons. Additions ran the membership up at this time to twenty members. AI)out Ihis time Mr. Ilarmaii Hcvcs held a protiacled meeting, continuing for two weeks, during which time there were some sixteen additions to the church. During the year of ISfjC). a series of protracted meetings were held in the Baptist Church, in old Freedom, since pulled tlown. One of these meetings was under the management of Mr. Dibble, cantinuing some three weeks. The results of his ettbrls was the emersion of over forty persons. .\t this time father lliister, wife and two daughters connected themselves with this church. They were formerly Baptists. From 1847 to 1857, the church had no regular or continuous preaching. Levi Borton. Asa Silvers and Ben jamin Patterson olliciated as ministers and instructors of the society in the absence of foreign preachers. Those three persons were the bone an<l sinew of this infant organization. Father Silvers and Father Patterson arc both gone to their rewards. They have left with hundreds who.se t\\es may fall upon these lines the full memory of a right legacy of being honest, pious and true men. Mr. Borton is still with us. lirm in his primitive faith, and, during the religious trials of thirty years, has never faltered in the final triumphs of his faith, and in tlie successful esljiblishment of a prosperous church in this neighborhood.

The first elfort inaile to build up a Lutheran congregation in .Mliance was in 18G5, under the pastoral care of Rev. J. II. Brown. lie organized with Dr P. H. Barr, Peter Keplinger,

Martin Tidd, William L. Kunlile, Joiin Miller, Augustus Buckius, George H. Buckius, Emery Miller, and others. Judging from the records, the enterprise began in a hopeful manner. The Ohurch Council (which is the official board of the congregation) were : Re\'. J. 11. Brown, Pastor ; Martin Tidd, Wm. L. Knnkle. Elders ; Geo. H. Buckius. Emery Miller, Deacons ; but, for some unexplained reason, failed. The congregation owned no " house of worship," which, no doubt, was to their disadvantage, as well as a mistake. After the Rev. Mr. Brown resigned andlett the field, the congregation had no regular pastor for over a year, when the Rev. A. Essie visited the congregation and endeavored to revive and continue the work, but it was too far gone for recovery. The members scattered : some by removal, some uniting with other churches, some losing interest in the work, whilst a few still entertained hope for a Lutheran church.

The second undertaking : On the 4th of July, 1872, Rev. J. L. Smith arrived in Alliance under the auspices of the " Board of Home Missions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church,'' to begin the work anew. There was no Lutheran organization in the city at this time, as the previous one had disbanded. The missionary began his work at once by preaching, visiting Lutheran families and earnestly soliciting subscriptions for the erection of a church. He met with many difficulties in the way, and the discouragements, arising from a previous failure, were hard to overcome ; but with earnest resolve and indomitable perseverance, he went forward in the work. On the 1st of September. 1872, he effected the organization of a new Ijuthcran congregation, styled "The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity," of Alliance, Ohio. A constitution and articles of discipline were adopted, and officers regularly elected. On the 8tli of September, one week after the organization was efi'ected, the corner-stone for a church edifice was laid according to the liturg}- sei'vices of the Lutheran Church, in the presence of a very large audience. The Pastor pushed the work forward as rapidly as possible, and the edifice was completed during the winter. The church is a fine Gothic structure, with tower, and beautifully furnished within, and cost $C,000, not including the lot. It was dedicated on the 28d of March, 1873. and has no superior in the city for its beauty of situation and elegance of finish. The enterprise met with much favor with many of the citizens. Too much credit cannot well be given to the little band of earnest men and women for the energy and selfdenial by which they have made their work such a complete success. The whole work was done during the severest financial crisis the country has hereto felt, and yet the Pastor and his church council have with united activity provided for $5,(100, leaving a debt of $1,000 to be met and collected. A Lutheran Church is now established in the city of Alliance, and as such commences its history. The Church Council are : Rev. J. L. Smith, Pastor ; W. U. Beeler, David Weikert, Elders ; Henry Miller, Peter D. Wonders, Deacons. The seats are free in the Trinity Lutheran Church, and the congregation is rejoicing with encouraging success. The congregation has a new church finished, and a membership of over fifty. The Sunday .school, lately organized, is hopefully growing. The foregoing facts were obtained from the Rev. J. L. Smith, who was Pastor of the E. L. Church in Alliance.

In the year 1857, the Disciples were yet without a house of worship in Alliance. They met in the old Baptist Church, owned by Matthias Hester, who was then <»unected with the organization. Mr. Hester was born in Greene Countj', Penn., in 1793 ; he came to Lexington Township in June, 1838, and purchased 60 acres of land, part of which he still retains in the shape of town lots. After the town of Freedom was laid out, he erected his dwelling, and, in August of the same year, removed his family there. He has resided there since that time, and added several additions to the place, also erected a number of buildings. At this time, there was an octagon hall in the vicinity of Mr. Hester's present residence. This building was used for public purposes, and on one occasion of a school exhibition it was densely crowded and broke down, killing one person and injuring several others. This hall was also used by the Disciples after the aolvent of A. B. Way to Alliance. In 1858, steps were taken for the erection of a new meeting house. Mr. Hester furnished a lot, and the building was erected now occupied by this branch of the Christian Church. Mr. J. K. Picket, a number of years Superintendent of the Alliance Union Schools, and Dr. Clover, a physician, succeeded Benjamin Patterson and Asa Silvers (deceased), in the elder- ship in the church. Jlr. Elislia Teeters, a member of the ciiurcii, was aljout tliis time called to the eldership. Mr. Teeters was born in Greene Township, Columbiana Co., Ohio, on the 1 1th of Januarj'. 1814. and removed lo this township in 1835. Mr. Teeters laid out three additions to Alliance, respectively, in 1851, 1852 and 1853. The first addition was survej-ed by Ellis John- .son.and the second and third by Mr. Whitaker. In these surveys, Mr. Teeters carried the chain himself, and frequently joined in the chant of the professional carrier - - stick, stuck " - over the fields and Hats where now stands the city of Alliance. In 1S52, lots were offered at public outcry b}- Mr. Teeters, in his first atldition : the lots upon which now stand the business blocks of Bleakly, Ilaincs, Young, and the private residences for some distance west along the north side of Main street, were bid in tor the proprietor at $40 a lot, that amount being considered too fabulous, in the minds of the adventurous spirits present, ever to be realized again out of their sale. Some of these lots have since changed hands at $13,500 with Init little improvements thereon. Mr. J. B. Mihier, a prominent citizen of Alliance, moved here from Salineville, Columbiana Co., Ohio, was chosen an Elder in the Church about this date. Mr. Milner was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1823. lie is just in the prime of life, and wo hope he may live long and enjoy his home. The operations of Mr. Milner in our midst are somewhat extensive. He came to Alliance on the 15th of October. 18(j3. The east wing of the Commercial Block was erected by him among his first cflbrts here. He laid out three additions to our city. The first addition contained 20 town lots ; the second, which composes the old Nixon farm, wlic^re he now resides, contained ilO ; the third, that of the Garwood farm, contained 190 ; making 300 lots in all which he has added to Alliance. He is a large contributor to the support of the Christian Church. .Mr. Pinkerton,a graduate of Bethany College, was called to the pastoral charge of the church in 18(J(!, and continued in charge for about two and a half years, and under his management the church was characterized by growth and prosperity, the nKunbership amounting at this time to about one hundred and eighty. Dr. R. P. Johnson, Samuel .Milner, Isaac Jolly, I'liny Allen and Iloratius Hubbard were elected Deacons of the church in addition to .Matthias

Hester and others formerly mentioned. Isaac Everett, President of the Alliance College, Profs. Benton, Hin.sdale and other members of the faculty' of the college .served the church as ministers during the years following .Mr. Pinkerton's administration. Mr. J. H. Jones followed, and during one or more years was Pastor of the church. W. S. Pettit, who connected himself with the church during boyhood, in Mount Union, was elected to the eldership about this time, also A, W. Coates. Mr. F. >1. (Jreen followed Mr. Jones in a year of pastoral labors for the Alliance church. Mr. E. L. Fraizer, from Dayton, Ohio, is at present the efficient Pastor of the church, and is in the second 3ear of his labors,

[lev. James O'Leary, of Alliance, writes as follows : " I find, for the first time, mention made of a Catholic priest's holding service at .Mliance in 1848. A Rev. Father Pendergast attended Leetonia, East Liverpool, and as far west as Louisville, until 1853, when he went West. He held divine services occasionally in some of the ' shanties ' at Alliance, then occupied by some poor Catholic families. In 1850, Father Lindsmith, then stationed at Canton, where there was only one small church, rented Lamborn Hall, and changed its name to Catholic Hall. This old hall constitutes the upper story of Mr. McElro^-'s present business store. In ISljl, Rev, Edward llannen, now stationed at Toledo, bought the first church properl:}' owned by the Catholics (two lots) from L. Teeters, for $125. According to the tradition, this amount was paid for one lot, and iMr. Teeters donated the other. Rev. Hannen collected from both Protestants and Catholics, and built the old frame church in 1862. Kev. ' P. H. Brown, of Hudson, attended from 1862 to 1864, when Rev. L. Hoft'er. of Louisville, supplied his place until 1865. Rev. Mantrier was the first resident Pastor. He came in 1865, and left in 1867. After Mantrier came Father Lindsmith, who attended Alliance and Leetonia togidher until 1872, when he resigned Alliance, but retained the other charge. During his pastorate, a brick house, on Market street, was purchased for a parsonage. Between four and five acres were bought, south of town, for a cemetery. Other improvements in church property, amounting in all to about $8,000. Nearly all had been paid for when Kev. Monaghan came, and remained until 1875. This

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Pastor contemplated biiilcliug a new church, and for that purpose bought three more lots for $1,800. On one of these the foundations of a new church were laid, and the walls built almost to grade. About this time the mill shut down, many of the congregation, which then numbered about 150 families, left, and the project was abandoned. When Father Ahone came, in 1875, there was a debt of $700. During his stay nothing was done in the way of improvements, and when he left, in 1877, the debt had been reduced to $400. In 1877, Rev. James O'Leary was appointed, and still continues in charge. During the first two years the old debts were paid, and between $2,000 and $3,000 saved. About April, 1880, the foundation laid by Rev. Monas;han was raised.

and a new church commenced, which was nearly completed in about October of the same year. This church, 97xG0, will cost, when fully finished, about $10,000. It is expected that when the work is complete a debt of only about $600 will rest upon the church. In 1S80, the old church lots were sold, and three, situated south of the new church and joining the lots upon which it is built, were bought of Dr. L. L. Lamborn. The lots where the old church was located are to be used in future for a Catholic school. The parsonage was also sold, and the money used toward building the new church. The congregation at present (1881) numbers about one hundred families. In 1859 there were about 12, and in 1877 there were 00.

THIS township, one of the best in the county in point of material wealth, agricultural resources, and social advantages generally, is known as Township Xo. 1, Range 10. That portion of the township lying on the east side of the Tu.scarawas Branch of the Muskingum River was surveyed in the \ear 1800 by Messrs. Buckingham and Carpenter, and being included in the treaty of Fort Mcintosh, the Indian title was extinguished in 1785. That on the west side was surveyed by the late Hon. Joseph H. Larwill, Judge William Henry, and Judge John Harris. The surveys made by Messrs. Larwill. Henry and Harris were the result of the treaty of Fort Industry, made in 1805. Twenty years elapsed between the two treaties, but at a period when little was done on either side of the river in the way of settlements. Adventurers, even at that early day, penetrated the country by means of the Cuyahoga, from Cleveland, south, reaching the portage, afterward known as the New Portage, between the the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas, and, going down the Tuscarawas, reached the Muskingum, Ohio, Mississippi, and the (iulf of Mexico. On the organization of Stark Count}', in 1809. the territorj" above named formed a part of the county, and, as has been seen, surveys had been made on both sides of the river, lines had been run, entries had been made of lands, and the rude cabin of the settler was found here and there in the wilderness, indicating that the of a mighty world Was rounding into form."

Ordered. Tliiit ;m1\i rti^rmcnts l)e put up at tlie houses of Gooriic \';iii'-iii:iii, .bilin Morehead. and at Leonard Kcrstctt.rs ;Mill, notifying the electors of said township to nuit at llie hou,se of Robert Lytic, on the first Monilay of .VpriL ne.xt, and then and there elect township ofticcrs.

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war of 1811'. and who. witli the ill-fated Chesapeake, foujiht the Uritish fiij,Mte Shannon, on the lirst of June, 1813. alniossl in Boston harbor, and of whom it is said, that when carried below, mortally wounded, his last order was : -' Don't give up the ship. ' Those words are the motto of the township, and in political processions, her banner, with tiiat inscription, alwajs soars aloft.

The township records sliow that on tlie 1st day of April. 1815, the qualilied electors of the township did meet at the house of Robert Lytic, and elected the following otticers for the township ; James F. Leonard, Township Clerk ; William Alban, John Campbell, Jacob Kirk, Trustees; William Whitcraft. Joseph ITobson, Overseers of the I'oor ; Stephen Wilkin, Joseph Tritt, Fence Viewers ; Hugh S. Vaneman, Hol)t. Ijytle, Appraisers of Property' ; George A'aneman, John Meese, George Waggoner, Supervisors of Highways ; Richard Hardgrove, Jacob Klick. Constat)les ;. Treasurer, John Morehead ; Kichard Hardgrove, Lister of Taxables. The Township Clerk certified that " On the !)th of April, 1S16. personally appeared the different officers elected, and took the oath of office, as the law directs, except Joseph Hobson. Signed, J. F. Jjeonard, Township Clerk." On the same page it appears, as follows, in tlie handwriting of James F. Leonard : " I hereby certify that Joseph Hobson personally appeareil before me, Jacob Kirk, a Justice of tlie IVaee, and was qualified as Overseer of the Poor for Lawrence Township, according to law. Given under m\- hand, April 9, 1818. "

It appears, therefore, that all the officers of the township above named were ' qualilied " on the same daj', namely, the 9th of April, 1816, but it nowhere shows on the record that Justices of the Peace had been elected for Lawrence Township at the election on the 1st of April. Was Jacob Kirk a Justice of the I'eacc for Lawrence Township, at the time he certified for the "qualifying" of .Joseph Hobson ? James F. Leonard, the Township (Uerk. certifies to having administered «« oal/i to all except Joseph Hobson. who was well known to the writer as a member of the Society of Friends, a most conscientious and upright man ; he died in 1827, and was buried at the Friends' burying ground at Kendal, in Perry Township., now ill the Fourth Ward of the city of .Njassillon ; his widow married Charles Colliu. referred to in the history of Perry Township, and with him is sleeping -'the sleep that knows not breaking," in Friends' burying ground at Richmond, Jett'erson Co. Joseph Hobson and his wife, Rebecca, were rare specimens of those who felt that they were led by 'that inward voice, uncreated by schools, independent of refinement, and is that which opens to the unlettered kind, not less than to the polished scholar, a sure pathway into the enfranchisements of eternal truth." They believed and regulated their lives by the conviction that a spiritual unity binds together every member of the human family, and every heart contains an incorruptible seed, capable of springing up and producing all that man can know of God and duty and the soul." They were faithful in their belief of the truth of the teachings of William Penn, (ieorgc Fox and Robert Barclay, and the few who yet remember them as members of the Society of Friends will reverence their memories. " Swear not at all," is a cardinal principle of human conduct with Quakers; hence, Joseph Hobson was not sworn ; he affirmed that, as Overseer of the Poor for Lawrence Township, he would discharge his duties according to the best of his skill and understanding, and f(M' any failure, he would be liable, under the pains and penalties of the law punishing perjury.

On the same diiy, the 9th of April, the Trustees ordered that, until otherwise ordered, the township elections should be held at the house of William Whitcraft. William Whitcraft was a sturdy Irish Presbyterian, and made his faith manifest by his works ; his two sons, John and Thomas, were worthy representatives of their ancestor.

On the same day, the township was laid out into three Road Districts; No. 1 was assigned to George Vaneman ; No. 2 to John Meek, and No. 3 to George Waggoner, the Supervisors elect, and it was ordered that John iMorchcail. Township Treasurer, draw from Jackson Township, the sum of $5.7(1. which is the sum due to Lawrence from Jackson.

The founders and framers of the political organization known as Lawrence Township went at once into the business of organizing upon a sound basis ; they made a map of their township, showing its thirty-six sections, with the Tuscarawas Hiver running through it from the northwest at Section (!, to the southeast, near

Section 36, with tiiu .Missilla Creeii entering the river on Section 9 ; Fox Run. riinninu; almost across the township, and entering the river on Section 26, near tlie northeast corner of the northeast iiuarter of the section, anrl Newmans Creek running entirely across the township, leaving it on tiie southwest corner of the ' southeast quarter, and running through the northwest corner of Perry into the Tuscarawas River. Newmans Creek Swamp, in Wayne County, is al.so well drawn on the same map, the drawing of which was done liy James F. , Leonard, a most accomplished surveyor and draftsman, without the name of whom no history of scarcely any part of Stark County could be correctly written. Mr. Leonard was a representative man in everything he undertook to do ; modest and unassuming, he commanded the respect of the pioneer settlers of what is now one of the grandest townships, in the grandest county of the grandest State, carved out of the Northwestern Territory, under the provisions of the Ordinance of Congress of July 13, 1787. The fact has found its way on to the record, that James F. Leonard and Sarah Barber were the first couple married in Stark County, and tiie date of their marriage is fixed as being on the 6th of June, 1806. At that time, there was no Stark County. Columbiana included Stark and wh;it is now Wavne, and when it is assumed that tlie marriage "was very likely without a license.' it is an assumption that is hardly justifiable.

Mr. Leonard was one of those handy men. who was always in the front rank of advancing civilization ; he is shown in these sketches to have been a Surveyor. Tovvnship Clerk, School Examiner and Justice of the Peace, all of which ottices he tilled to the acceptance of his neighbors.

The record kept by Mr. Leonard does not show when the Trustees adjourned, nor to what time they adjourned, but it appears that, on the 10th of August, 181(), they met, and a petition, signed by James Campbell, William Whitcraft. James Patton, James F. Leonard, John Morehead, John Morehead, Jr., Daniel Boiles, Richard Hardgrove, John Meese,William Hills, John Roach, Ebenezer A. Roach, Francis Pumroy, James Barber, Abram Stevens, John .McCadden, Isaac Edgington and Joseph Futton. was filed with the Clerk, praying for a road from Kerstetter's Mill, thence to the county line, at or near where x\.bram Stevens lives, on Section No. 7, in Township No. 7, in Range 10. On that petition " Louis Rogers, William Elliott and Henry Clapper were appointed to view said road, and Alexander Porter was appointed to survey ihe same. " The Viewers and Surveyor were "ordered to meet at Kerstetter's .Mill on the first Monday in September next. " Under the above proceedings a meeting was had. the Viewers were duly qualified, and the roaci was laid out, iu length seven miles and sixty -seven perches. Every report being signed, and an order made for opening the road, and which was the first i-oad opened in the township, by order of the Trustees. On the 1 9tli d;iy of July, 181(i, Mattlicw Rowland and John Morehead, Esqs., were commissioned Justices of the Peace for Lawrence Township.

The alcove named citizens were tiie first Justices of the Peace for the township, so far as any record can be found. They held for three years, when it appears that Matthew Rowland and John Taylor were commissioned Justices of the Peace. They are both remembered as upright, worthy men, of whom, living or dead, nothing but good can truthfuUj- be said. Since their day. Abram Stevens. .Uexauder Porter, Alexander M. Russell. Dugald Campbell and William Alban. and many otliers who have passed awa_y, lield the office of Justice of the Peace, and their acts and example were the foundation of the great moral edifices of which the township is proud. They aided in establishing schools and the means of instruction, and they are the edifices that are enduring monuments of the greatness of the township. James P. Leonard, after a life of great usefulness in Stark County, removed to Independence, in Cu3'ahoga County, where he died, and left the memory of a good name.

The entire population of the township at its organization was made up of men and women of singularly developed character. They were far in ad vance, in view of education, and that sort of social culture, of any township in the northern part of the county, and, as a rural district, their successors maj' be said to have kept their position. The earliest settlers in wnat became Lawrence Township, in the defining of the boundaries of Perry, Jackson, Tuscarawas and Lawrence, were William Crites, Henry Clapper, Jacob Clapper, the brothers Harris, John and Stephen, Massum Metcalf - incor- reotlj- written Matthew Metcalf, in Evart's Atlas of Stark Count}'. He is well remembered by the writer, and was ordinarily known as " Madcap." He is referred to in the history of Tuscaniwas Township, his name appealing in the third United States census, as a resident of that township, the census being taken in ]8]0, six years before the organization of the township of Lawrence, and at the taking of which all residents on the west side of the Tuscarawas Hiver south of the 41st parallel of latitude, which is the base line of the Connecticut Western Reserve, and north of the south line of Stark County, as established by Act of the General Assembly of Ohio, February 13, 1!-(I8 (Chase's Statutes, Chapter 307). were included. As all the territorj' west of the Tuscarawas Eiver was, at the organization of Tuscarawas Township, included in that township, in several instances the s:;me persons appear as the first settlcis of the tcjwnships of Tuscarawas and Lawrence.

The first permanent settler of what is now Lawrence Township, and who remained on the soil after the township was organized, was William Crites. He rtniaincd many years in the township. His name, with that of Stephen Harris, Henry Clapper. Daniel Clapper. John Clapi'cr. Adam Lower. Adiim Guuids. George 15ayst( ne, Massum Metcalf. Jacob Metcalf and Jeremiah Atkinson, appear in the census. neither of whom, except Hon. Stephen Harri.s, ever resided in Tuscarawas Township after it was reduced to its constitutional limits. Some of the persons named resided in l.awrcnce until it was organized, and seme went farther west, before any divisiin of the territory west of the river was made.

During the war of 1812, when it became necessary for the Government to remove troops to the west, Col. Gibson, in ccrrmand of a regiment, cut a road through the south end of the township, running northwesterly from where is now the city of Massillo!), and is known as the road," or the "territorial road." The late Gen. William I'lobinson, Jr., the first President of the Ohio & I'ennsylvania Railroad, being then a Lieutenant in the United States Aimy. was with the regiment and with it encamped where now is the Second Ward of the cit3' of Massillon. between the river and canal, the objective point of the regiment being Fort Miegs. or Defiance. Subsequently a State road

The first efforts by any religious society to organize a subordinate society or obtain a place for religious worship in what is now Lawrence, then Tuscarawas. Township, were made by Rev. James Dixon, who was appointed by the Western Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at a chapel in Shelby Count}-, Ky., in November. 1810. The circuit was known as ' Tuscarawas Circuit," and extended from Coshocton to New Portage, about ninety miles. The district was known as Muskingum District, and Rev James Quinn was Presiding KIclcr. and from the best infoimation that can be had. Mr. Dixon pre:,ched at the house of W'illiam Crites, but whether Mr. Dixon Ibimed a societj' north of wliat is now the so\ith line of liawrence Township, cannot be ascertained. In 1812, John Sonic-rville was appointed to the circuit and relumed 491 members, and from that day to the present it is safe to saj* that the township has not been without Methodist preaching, and from the best inloimation that can be had. Mr. Son;eivillc organized the fir.st Methodist society in the township. Pie was a man of wonderful energy and perseverance, doing his Master's work with all his might. In 1881. a church wjx, organized in Fulton, and the village was put into what was called the Dover Circuit, I ut what district it helc nged to cannot be ascertained. The Presiding Elder was Rev. W^. B. Christ}-. He was a man of great power, but was cut off in middle life and before he had attaineel the height of his pepularity. The cii'- euit was composed of Dalton, Greenville. Brookfield and Fulton. Among the preachers of tho.sc days were Charles Elliott. Harry O. Sheldon and William Swazey. all of whom were men of strong character and untiring energy. Fulton is yet in a circuit of these charges, the Rev. Mr. Bell being the preacher. The absence of records has rendered it diflicult to obtain anything like an authentic history. The conference to which Fulton belongs is ihe North Ohio.

The first Roman Catholics to settle in the townshij) came in 1812, and were Jolin Mc Cadden, Matthew Patton and Daniel O'Bovle. In 1813. Charles :\IcCadclen and John Gallagher settled in Baughman Tc wnship. in Wayne County, but so near the western line of Lawrence as to be scarcely separated, and these

In the year 1817. Rev. Edward Fenvvick, from the diocese of Bardstown, Ky., left his home and traveled through the southern and eastern parts of Ohio in search of persons professing the Catholic faith, and came to Canton, and there found the several Shorb families, George Roofuer and his family, and a few others. By way of parenthesis, it may be remarked thai (Jeorge Roofner was a well-digger by profession, and dug and walled the well on the premises in Kendal (now better known as a part of the city of Massillon) on which Adam Braehm resides. Roofner was killed by falling from the mouth to the bottom of a deep well, the fall being occasioned by the breaking of the rope used for hoisting the earth from the bot torn. Ho was a devoted Catholic. The few families of Catholics at Canton informed Rev. F'ather Fenwick of the Catholic families in Lawrence Township and west of the Tuscarawas River. He immediately came into the township, celebrated mass, and preached and instructed the youth and ministered to the spiritual wants of the six families, and promised to return nextj-ear. True to his promise, the good Father returned the next year and celebrated mass in the log-cabin residence of Daniel O'Bo^'le, and which was the first mass celebrated in Lawrence Township. The celebration of mass the previous year was at the log-cabin residence of Matthew Patton, who had removed just over into Baughman Township. Wayne County.

In the following year, 1818, the Rev. Father Fenwick and several .young priests of the same order located or settled on a farm two miles from Somerset, in Peny County, Ohio, after which the Catholics of the township were attended yearly by some one of the priests of that missiiin. which was known as St. Joseph's, Rev. N. Young and Rev. Thomas Martin being most frequent in their attendance until 1825. After that thej' were visited oecsionally by Rev. Fathers Hill and Ilenni, from Canton. Father Hill died in Canton, iu 1828, and Father Henni is now Archbishop of Milwaukee. Wis. Father Hill was a most brilliant and eloquent priest ; is well remembered by the writer, as is Archbishop Henni. Up to 1831, it would seem that the Catholics of Lawrence and Baughman had no church edifice, as religious services were held at the houses of Matthew Patton and others. A few Irish and German families were added to the congregation, and they resolved to build a church, and the farm of Phillip McCue being considered near the center of the congregation, a chapel was built on the west side of his farm; which farm is now the residence of his widow and her son, Thomas McCue, Esq., and his family, Mrs. McCue being in the eighty-second year of her age, and to whc>m, with Phillip Patton, Esq., of Baughman Township, the writer desires to acknowledge his obligations for many of the most important facts herein narrated. -The chapel was built," says Mr. Patton, ' 30x40 feet on the west line of the farm, and was the first Catholic chapel in the township. " The families worshiping in that little church were fnjui the townships of Baughman, Chippevvay and Sugar Creek, iu Wayne County, as well as from Lawrence, in Stark County. B}" this time the village of Fulton began to improve, and German Catholics began to settle in the village and in the eastern part of the township, among whom should be named the late Gottfried Bernower, the Hammers, Warners, Gills and others. The diflerent religious denominations throughout the township, that had erected temporar}- houses for worship, in the country, began to erect permanent church edifices in the village. The Hon. Hiram Griswold, now of Leavenworth, Kan., representing large interests in real estate in the village, the Catholics purchased of him a block of lots, in 1844, on which to erect a new church edifice, and work in that direction was immediately begun. The corner-stone was laid by Bishop, now Archbishop, Purcell, in 1845. A buildiug was eriM-tcd, :;,'ix.')0 feet, at a cost of $1,500, In 1868, the chapel being found to be too small to accommodate the large congregation, they resolved,"' says Mr. Patton, " to erect a chapel to honor the Supreme Being. Thev drew a plan of a building, to be 50x100 feet, tower lOU feet in height, brick, Gothic architecture, and which was erected at a cost of $30,000. "