Brownstown, Ohio

The old Beliefontaine road, which was cut by the troops under Gren. Harrison in 1812, enters Mifflin Township from Pitt Township, on Section 13, through a corner of which it passes, tbence through Sections 24, 23, 26 and 27, and enters Marseilles Township at Section 33, after traversing in about a southwest direction. Another road enters on the east, on Section 36, leading due west into Jackson Township at J. O. Vanorsdall's farm. Section 31. From this highway a branch strikes off on Section 32, leading north and northwest, and also entering Jackson on Section 30. Other roads traverse the township to and from all the cardinal points of the compass. The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad crosses Mifflin in a west by south direction, penetrating from Salem Township at the extreme northeast corner of Section 4, which it passes through, also Sections 5 and 6, thence through Kirby Village, in the northeast corner of the township, where there is a station.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

Samuel Stansberry, born in 1806, in Massachusetts, came to this township in 1830, and entered eighty acres of land. He died in 1852, having accumulated considerable property. James Halstead, also one of the early pioneers, was born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , in 1797. He married, in Ontario County. N. Y., Anna Irwin, and settled in this township in 1830, remaining a resident of the township till 1850, when he removed to Indiana, and four years later to Piatt County, 111., where he died in 1873. John Clioger moved with his family to this county in 1830 and settled in Mifflin Township, where he purchased eighty acres, which he cleared and occupied till his death, which occurrred November 18, 1880.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

Others that came about this period were: Wilford Whaley (born August 25, 1822), Andrew J. Kail, John Haner (born in New York), John Farmer, Daniel and Israel Straw, Abram Clark, William Bowsher, Hanson Hooker, Henry and Philip Haner, David Young, James, William and John Irvin, Alexander INTcCleary, John Hankins, Wolford Whaley, John Farthing, Andrew and Isaac Farmer, John Henry, Jacob Leonard, John Ackley, Richard Parlet, Thomas Hendrickson, James Gibson, Martin Dickens, Daniels and his son Julius, David Bowen, Sr. (a native of Pennsylvania; moved to this county in 1835, and June 17, same year, settled in Mifflin Township; on the farm on which he located stood an old Indian tavern; his son, David Bowen, still resides in this township). From 1835 to 1839 came Wesley Davenport and Mr. Brown (who laid out Brownstown), Richard Lee, William Lee. James O'Neil, Tunis Ten Eyck. Adam Smith, Moses Ricker, John A. Swartz, Jacob Hollanshead, Daniel Piersou, Walter Simerson, Thomas Snider, Abraham Clark and Cornelius Young.

Passage source: The History of Wyandot County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County: Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc.;, published 1884.

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