Westchester, Ohio

Joseph Cox came from Maryland. He was employed by Judge Symmes on the early surveys, settling a little south-east of Westchester on a quartersection of land, and afterwards accumulated considerable property, and was considered as wealthy for a man of that day. He raised a family of three sons and three daughters. Julia Cox married Robert McMaken, a brother of Joseph. Elizabeth married Dr. Williamson. The names of his sons were Benjamin, John, and Joseph. John became a wealthy farmer of the township. Joseph went South. Benjamin moved to Monroe County, Ohio. John Cox was born about 1800. Elizabeth Cox was born April 10, 1798, and died April 27, 1880. David Williamson died December 2, 1873, aged 7S years and 2 months.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Charles Legg, a very early pioneer, was born January 1, 1763, and died September 4, 1864. His wife Rachel was born May 25, 1762, and died November 21, 1847. Nancy McMaken died in the twenty-seventh year of her age, in 1820. Charles Legg lived about a mile north of Westchester, and raised a family of ten children, all dead but two sons and one daughter. The latter is now ninety-three years old. He came in 1805. Whittlesey, Connover, andJeffras all came during that year.

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

Sun, Indiana, Connover was the son-in-law of Slayha Westchester was settled apparently by mechan At the lower end of town was a flax-seed oil-mill, a f ingmill, a cardinganill, a swwanill, and grist-mill, mills, the saw-mill, grist-mill, and oil-mill were all w one roof. They were built by Samuel Burnes, ae primitive in construction, being a tread-mill run by oa A Mr, Samuel Poster carried on the mill some few year but they all went down before the year 1820. The ru of these foundations are still to be seen. Mr. Jam Cummins started the first tan-yard of the place, whi was as early as 1810. It was on the west side of # read, on a lot owned by Jared Parrish. This one y run until within the past eight years. Mr. MeLean hi it last. Mr. Parrish owned it some forty years. - was an early and prominent settler of the town, w died September 7, 1870, at sixty-five years of age. Th Rev. William Parrish was born in 1800, and died Oct ber 17, 1847. The first tavern of Westchester was kept by Exzeki Gard. He was one of the oldest settlers of the p nce and kept the hotel for forty years, and died May 1868, aged sixty years. His wife, Elizabeth Gand, until 1868. She was seventy-six years old at the tim She died of the cholera in Indiana. This tavern Wi kept prior to the time of the stage routes. James Ellit was the first man who kept hotel where Mrs. Sim st now is. Daniel Avey sold out his hotel to Simpsoi year or so before the war. John Caldwell had a farm at Westchester and a ta yard. Gard had a part of the ground. Hezekiah Sm had an ox aw-mill. When Colonel Dick Johnson's reg iment came through in 1812, they were handsomely @ tertained by the inhabitants. Smith acted as quarter master till the end of the war. Johnson's regiment wa of fine, handsome men. They were taken to the woo¢ near by where they camped, and the inhabitants vie with each other in taking them good things to eat. The first store in Westchester was kept by 4 Anderso a few years. This was a small affair, and was 3 rd | purehased and run by James Freeman, prior to » 1820 Tt was near Mr. Jackson's shoe shop, but Freeman kep where the hotel is now. Jeremiah Day was proba bh the first blacksmith in the place. His shop was i below the town. ' - Formerly the village was in a most thriving conti There were manufactures of every ordinary kind almos' and the travel through was large - shoemakers, - e makers, potteries, coopering, etc., in addition to wha has been already named - induced considerable patré age to the place that would otherwise have gone else where. It now has a hotel, kept by Mrs. Marg Simpson, a harness shop, blacksmith's shop, carpenters shop, wagon-maker's shop, post-office, and one or - na

Passage source: A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County, Ohio : with Illustrations and Sketches of Its Representative Men and Pioneers, published 1882.

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