Adams Township (part 3 of 3)

The streams of the township furnished the power for the early mills. In 1805 Mordecui Mendenhnll built a grist-mill on Todd's fork, about a mile above the mouth of Dutch creek. He sold It. with one hundred and forty acres of land, on March 15, J .so«. to Jonathan Wright, who owned it until 1S14, when he sold it to Richard Fallls. Fallis refitted and enlarged it and rnn it until 1820. when he sold It. with a tract of two hundred and fifty-six acres of land, to his nephew, Jonathnn Fallls. In 1S30 the mill, with forty-seven acres of land, was sold by Jonathan Fallls to Josiah Townsend, but Townseud died soon after and the administrator of his estate deeded it back to Fallls by the order of court, in payment of an unpaid balance due on the original purchase price. Fallls at once sold It to John Hadley. who owned It until 1841, when he sold it to Stacey Haines, who ran it until 1S54. It was nfterwards owned by Thomas Kimbrough, Jeremiah Kimbrough. his son. William L. Hadley, Thomas Hazard, A. U. Hadley, and again by William L. Hadley. Its use having been discontinued and the building fnllen Into decay, he removed it about 1807.

Ell Hnrvey and John Hadley. brothers-ln-lnw. butlt. In 1808. a grist-mill on Todd's fork, about a mile below Springfield meeting house. It afterwards came Into the sole possession of John Hadley and gained a wide reputation and patronage as Hadley's mill. His sons. Isaac and John, afterwards ran It for a long period and sold it In the early fifties to Jesse Thatcher. Soon after its purchase by Thatcher, it caught Are and burned down. He rebuilt it in a nuignt Ik-en t manner and ran it for about twenty years, when he took it down and moved it to Wilmington.

A saw-mill was built on Lytle's creek, near where Ogden now stands, by John Holladay in 1S1S, and about three years later a grist-mill was added. The saw-mill was rebuilt about 1S40 and a short time afterward the grist-mill was refitted and steam power installed.

In the year lf*ll. Caleb Harvey built a carding and fulling-mill on his farm on Little creek and kept II running for several years. It stood a few rods up the stream from where the I>ebanon road crosses the creek. This mill did n flourishing business In It* time and was one of the most widely known mills In the county. The early settlers often came from miles distant to this mill to get their wool carded and formed into rolls, and their blankets and Jeans fulled. It was often forced to run at nights. A man by the name of Alexander Montgomery was for many years Its proprietor. It has long since disappeared.

Another mill In the township that has long since followed its predecessors wns built nboiit the year 1S42 by William R. Andrew on I.ytle's creek, about a mile and n half above its month. It wns n snw-uilll nnd was kept running for many yenrs.

All of the above mentioned mills had decayed and disappeared by 1SS2 except the mill nt Ogden. which was still standing, hut In dlsnse. At that time even, it was considered a relic of the past and pointed ont to all the visitors of that village. But the younger generations of today do not have even the decaying and fallen ruins of these old mills to remind them of the times when their grandfather*, as lads, carried a bag of grain on the back of "old Dobbin" to the mill, for the family's flour.

The first school house in the township was erected In l^os. on the land of Isaac Harvey, about one-fourth of a mile north of Todd's fork. In 1M2 or 1*13 there was a school building built on the Nicholas Carter farm and In 1M4 another wns erected on the farm of Isaac Stout, about a quarter of a mile east of I.ytle's Crwk meeting house. In 1S13 or 1M4 (Jeorge Carter, with the help of Jeremiah Kimhrough, Thomas Kersey and Nathan Mendenhall. built n log school on his farm. Several other school buildings were erected from time to time and several were controlled by the society of Friends.

In 1SH there was a school house built on what was then the Holaday farm (afterwards known as the Qulnby farm*, and. ul«>ut 1S4.\ there was a neat frame building erected by the society of Friends nt I.ytle's Creek meeting house. After several years these all l>ecainc district schools and j«assed under the control of the board of education of the township. All these old buildings have long slm-e disappeared and not n vestige of them remains today to even Identify the sjiots where they stiMMl. In is."i3 a new school law. with a new system of maintaining schools, went Into force, and the township was subdivided and rcdistricted tlirougliottt. The old school houses were abandoned, new sites procured and new buildings erected. Tile old log school house, with the large fireplace, the grcascd-pa|»cr windows, the stools and seats without a support for the back, with no blackboards or maps, have become a thing of the past forever. Among the early teachers were William Holaday. Oeorge farter. Warren Sabin. Joseph Douti. John Harvey. James Pakln. Henry Harvey. Kli Harvey. Thomas Kersey. Hiram .Ma den and James Osltorn: of the second generation, were William Cooper. James Crawford. Thomas Oreen and Henry Zimmerman.

The first resident of the township was Samuel I^ee. who. by IsiM, had built a cabin In the neighborhood of the Springfield meeting house, on what was afterward known as the Isaac Harvey land. Archibald Kdwards. l'eier Picks. Ids hroiher-in-law. Isaac Harvey. Jacob Hale and John Hartley came from Ohio in the following year and settled in the same vicinity. Soon afterward Isaac Harvey journeyed to North Carolina, where he purchased, wilh his brother. Kli, the great Pollard trad of two thousand acres of land, of a Pollard who resided at Itichmoud. Virginia. He relumed to Ohio, bringing his brothers. Kli. Joshua ami Caleb, and their families, with him in the fall of 1*m;. They all settled on the Pollard tract ami were the foundation of the great Harvey settlement of Adams township. Another brother, William, followed lUem from North Carolina a few years later. These brothers had two sisters. Martha ami I.ydla ; Martha married Jacob Hale. Sr., and I.ydia married John Iladley.

Isaac Harvey, who lived near Springlield in a brick house built In 1*11. married a sister of I'eter Kicks by the name of I.ydla. To them were horn three sous. William. Harlan and Simon ami six .laughters. Nam-y. Kll/.abcth. HcUe.-.a. Martha. I.ydla and Huth. William, (lie eldest son. married a young lady by the name of Crew: Nancy, the eldest daughter, married Archibald Kdwards: Klizabeth married Knock Harlan: Kebecca became the wife of Jonathan Hadley: Martha, the wife of Aaron Antrum : Wnlh.

tli<* wife of a hum by the nnme of Towel. Mnry Stnnflelf was the maiden name of tbe wife of KM Harvey, who settled between Lytle's creek nnd Todd's* fork, near their Junction. He died on April 12, 1K22, at the age of sixty years, leaving one son, William, nnd three daughter*. Ann. Mary and Cynthia. Joshun Harvey, a brother of Isaac and Ell. who nettled on the !*outh of Todd's fork, was married three times. He first married a woman by the name of Morrison, by whom he had five children, Caleb, Ilaunnh. Simon. Levi and Robert. Mary Moon, his second wife and the sister of James Moon, was the mother of twins. Jehu and Nancy. Samuel and Abigail were the children of the third wife, a sister of Reuben, Isaac and John Chew. Caleb Harvey, n fourth brother, settled about one-half a mile southwest of Springfield. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Jesse and Hannah Towel, of North Carolina. The fruits of this marriage were six children. Jesse, Joshua. Hannah. Kli. Ketiecen and Elizabeth, the eldest being bom In North Carolina. His wife died on June 27. 1N2">. at the age of forty-eight : he died at the age of fifty-four on December V2, ls3<». They were both burled at Springfield. Their son Joshua died in 1S31. leaving a small daughter, Nancy, who was raised In her paternal grandfather's household. William Harvey, the fifth brother, married Mary, the daughter of David and Sarah Vestal. To them were born In North Carolina three sons, John. Ell and David, and on Ohio soli, two daughters. Sarah and Elizabeth. He died on December ."«. 1>'nS. at tbe age of eighty-eight, and his wife followed htm five years later. In isca. iu her ninety-sixth year. Both found their final resting place at Springfield.

Eli Harvey, sou of William, was born In North Carolina, In 1*13. died In April. 1*712. at the age of sixty-nine, and was burled at Springfield. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Mnry Kallis. and tbe mother of six children. I .yd la. Mary. William I'enn. Esther. Ann and Sarah. She died In .Inly. is:i.". at the age of thirty. His second wife was Uutl». daughter of Joseph nnd Hannah Fisher, and the mother of Joseph, Isaac. Hannah. John. James and Sinai. The first two died in infancy.

Isaac Harvey, son of Caleb, married a daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Edwards, of Warren county. Ohio, ami was the father of nine childreu. Caleb, Elisabeth. Mary Jane. Itebeeca. William. Nathaniel. Abigail. Jesse II. and Enos F.

Mordecn! MendeuhiiH settled on Todd's fork in IN»*». building a mill there which he afterwards sold to Jonathan Wright and which later became known as the Fallls mill. A brother of his. Nathan Mendenhall. who was a brother-in-law of Jeremiah Kimhrongh. settled on a farm in the same vicinity.

Joshua Nickerson settled In 1S04. on Todd's fork about a mile above the Harvey settlement. He came from the state of New York. He had three sons and one daughter by the name of Clark. David. Artemns and Susannah. Susannah married William Morrow and afterward lived in Warren county. Ohio. Clark, the eldest son, married Martha Asliby and was the father of five children, three sons. James, Joshua and David, and two daughters. One of the daughters married a McKay, and the other beenme the wlf -- of Evan Hadley. Artemus Nickerson married Elfzalteth Heed and had six children. Susannah, Amanda. Mary. Elizabeth. Abigail and Samuel IC. David married a young woman by the name of Spencer and moved to Indiana.

David Ferris sciiled in Adams township as early as l^io or isnfl. Jeremiah l'oe settled on Todd's fork, in the (Sales survey, prior to 1S*«>. but soon afterward sold his farm and sought a home elsewhere. A man by the name of Wright, one of the first settlers of the township, and the donor of the land for the graveyard at I.ytle's creek, sold his farm in IMC. to Mahlon Stratlon. and moved away.

John Hadley and his wife. I.ydla, daughter of William and Elizabeth Harvey, sister of Ell, Isaac. William. Caleb and Joshua Harvey, came to Ohio from North Carolina In

1800 with the party of Harvey*. Hadleys. Dicks. Hales aud Edwards mentioned above. John Hudley was born the son of Joshua and Kuth Hndley, ou September 23, 1770, In Chatham county, North Carolina. He was married to Lydia Harvey, of Orange county. North Carolina, in Crane Creek monthly meeting, as early as 1704. They were the parents of twelve children: William. Simon, Elizabeth, Joshua, Jacob, Isaac, Ell. John. Thomas, Jonathan I>.. Ruth aud Jane, all hut four of whom were horn before they moved to Ohio. Of these, Joshua died in Infancy and Thomas, at the age of nineteen. With his brother-in-law. Ell Harvey, John Hadley built and afterwards became the owner of what was for years known as the Hadley mill. It stood on Todd's fork, about a mii> below the Springfield meeting house. Both he and his wife were lifelong members of the society of Friends and members of the Springfield monthly meeting. He died in 1N32. when sixty-two years of age. His widow survived him twenty years. They were both laid to rest In the Sprlugtleld cemetery.

William Hadley. their eldest son. was born ou July IS. 17'.»5. in North Carolina, and came to Ohio with his father In In Hi. His first wife was Sarah Llndley. who died on April 2*. lvjp. and who was the mother of seven children, Jonathan. Deborah, Thomas (who died in Infancy >. Eleanor. Ell I... Mary and Milton. Ho afterwards married Susannah Thatcher, the widow of Thomas Thatcher and the daughter of Joseph Ktratton. She was the mother of two children. Sarah and William. William Hadley died on tvtoher 23, IMS. His wife died »n August IS ]sni. at the rl|ie old age of sixty six years, and was buried at Springfield.

Simon Hadley. the second son of John and Lydia ( Harvey i Hadley, was born, November 1. 17110. In North Carolina and came to Ohio with his parents. His wife was Ann, the daughter of Thomas Kersey. Sr. He and his wife were residents of Adams township until their deaths, on May 13, 1*70. and September 2*, 1*13, resi>ectlvely. Their seven children were .Tabez. Rebecca, Lydia. John, Julia, Ann K. and Mary M. Several years after the death of his first wife, Simon Hadley married a widow. Mary I. O'Neall, whose maiden uame had been Ingham. Elizabeth, the third child and eldest daughter of John Hadley, married Ezeklel Hornaday. She died. May 0. lsV). at fiftytwo years of age.

Jacob Hadley was born In North Carolina, on the 3rd of March, isoi. His wife was Mary, daughter of Beale and Mary Butler, of Wayne county. Indiana. He wns a resident of Adams township until 1808, when he moved to Wilmington. He was always a strl< t member of the society of Friends and wns considered by all who knew him to be a minister of ability. He always held to the original teachings and doctrines of the Friends in all their purity and simplicity, and was strenuously opposed to the innovations In their manner of worship which came to prevail. His wife died on July 20. 1WS, at the age of fifty-seven, and he himself was gathered to his fathers, at the age of seventy-eight, on February 11. is"!*. Springfield Is the final resting place of both of these venerable pioneers. Their seven children were: Samuel 11.. Eliza Aim. William Beale. Elwood. Mary B.. Susannah Jane and Naomi.

Isaac Hadley. the sixth child of John Hadley, married Lydia, daughter of John Hazard, by whom he had seven children. Calvin, Elizabeth. l'hoelw. Elmira. Henry, Rel»ecca and Harriet. He died, at the age of thirty-six. on July 22. 1*30. His widow later became the wife of James Smith, and. on his death, the wife of William I'yle. son of Jehu I'yle, Sr.

Ell Hadley. the next son of John Hadley, was born on September 27, 1*04; he married Abigail, the daughter of Beuben ami Bhodn Ctreen. mid died on November 20, 1S54. at the age of fifty. His wife died on April 30, \sn~, at the age of twenty-eight. Their five children were .Ma ha la <J.. Culielma. Thomas. Mfcajab and Khodn.

John Hadley. also n son of John and Lydia * Harvey I Hadley, was born on April 15. lsio. iiud married Ann. daughter of John and Elizabeth Wildman. or Clark county, Ohio. To them was born seven children: Hiram, Elizabeth. Margaret. Deborah. Henry,

Ruth aud Setb. Deborah nnd Hutli died in infancy. His wife died uu April 21, 1S48, and was burled nt Springfield. He afterwards married Ruoda Stanton, a widow, and lived at Spriugboro, In Warren county. He died In March, 18S2. aud la burled ot Springfield.

Jouatban D. Hudley, the youngest sou of John and Lydia Hadley. was bom August 10. 1812. He married Susnuunh Clawson, daughter of William Clawson, and tbelr uniou was blessed witb four children, I<ottisa. Mablou. Jobn William and Evan. He died nlmut 1872. at Clarksville. His widow died at Wilmington, In 1874, and both are buried ut Springfield. Ruth Hadley became the wife of W. B. Andrew. She died on October 19, 1852. Jane, the youngest child of John and Lydia Hadley, married Seneca Wildman and, with her husband, moved to Iowa in the early sixties.

William Hadley. son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley, and n brother of John Hadley. emi united from North Carolina to Ohio in 1816, and settled In Vernon township. Jonathan T. Hadley. son of Simon and Elizabeth Hadley. emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio In 1*10, and settled In Adams township near the Warren county line. He married Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Harvey, by whom he had nine children, Elizabeth, Lydia, Samuel L.r Ruth, Isaac. Simon. Deborah. Milton and Harlan H.

The Harvey and Hadley families were by far the most numerous of the early settlers of the western part of Clinton county. With but few exceptions, they were all members of the society of Friends. Many still live in their ancestral homes, while others have moved to other counties in Ohio, and others to other states. esi»ecially Indiana and Iowa.

William and Nathan Harlan were brothers and sons of Enoch Harlan, of Guilford county. North Carolina. They came to Ohio In 1S05 and settled about a mile from Springfield. Nathan, the eldest son, married. In North Carollno, Sarah Hunt, the daughter of a minister. They had nine children, as follow: Lydia, Enoch. Martha. Nathan. Edith. Prudence. Jobez. John and Hannah. William married, also In North Carolina, Charity Kimbrough. a daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrougb. and their union was blessed with nine children also; David. Margaret, Jonathan. Ruth, Nancy. Enoch. William, Nathaniel and Edith. John and Enoch Harlan, brothers of William and Nathan, came with their mother from North Carollno, and. ofter a short residence In Highland county, settled In the same vicinity in the spring of 1807. John Harlan married Lydia Hale, the daughter of Jacob Hale, and was the father of the following children : Jacob. Elizabeth. Rebecca, James and Warren. There were others who died In Infancy.

John had the following brothers: William, David. Enoch, Nathan. Jonathan, Nathaniel nnd Solomon, and three sisters, Nancy Mendenhnll. Hannah Maden and Rebecca Hampton. All this family, except Nathaniel, settled In the vicinity of Springfield. David nnd Solomon, arriving in 1811. were the last to come. Their mother's name was Kdlth, and she was a sister of Ellubeth Harvey, who come with her sons, ns mentioned above, to Ohio in 180G. They were both widows.

Ezekiel Hornada, who was born on February 2fi, 1700. in Randolph connty. North Carolina, came with the Harvey brothers to Ohio In 1806. His mother's name was Dicks, and he was a nephew of Isaac Harvey's by marriage. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John nadley. on November 11, IMS. and was the father of twelve children: John. Jehu, Isniah. Jane, Simon. Mary. William, Eleanor, Lydia, Ell. Isaac nnd Louisa. His wife died In ISoO and was burled at Springfield. He later married again, and. at the age of eighty-six. moved to Indiana.

Reuben Green was born on July 28. 1770, In Grayson connty. North Carolina. He married Rhoda. daughter of David and Mary Ballard, on January ,r>, 17P7. and In the fall of 1*11 moved to Ohio and settled near Center meeting house. In Adams township. He bought one hundred and seventy-five acres of land. In 1813. of William Lytle, on Ly tie's creek, to which he moved, and lived the remainder of his life. His wife died, at the age of sixty-eight, on February 10. 1813. He died on Christmas day. is.*i2. They were both burled ut Lytle's creek. They were the parents of twelve children, lswac. Mary. David. I.ydla. Hobert. Am. Anna. Abigail, John. Susannah. Kowlnnd and Hhoda.

Asa Green, a son of the nbove. wan Imrn in Grayson county. North Carolina, on January o. 1H1. an<l came to Ohio wllh his father lu the fall of 1M1. His wife was a daughter of Nathaniel Carter. They were the imreutH of eight children: Jane. Iteubeu. Mary Ann. Cyrun. liulienin. John ('.. Samnel G. ami Nancy F.mily.

John Holaday came from Virginia in 1M4 and settled on what was afterwards known as the Asa Green farm. He lived here fifteen or sixteen yean*, when he sold the farm to Asa <!reen and moved to Jefferson township, this county.

Samuel Andrew came from Oriin.ee county. North Carolina, to Ohio, lu isio. and settled in Orcein' county for two years, when he moved to I.ytle's creek, on the farm where he lived until his death. July IS, ]H71. He was born In Orange county. North Carolina, the son of William and Hannah Andrew, and married, on October 17. 1805. Delilah, daughter of John ami Susannah Baker, of Clint ham county. North Carolina. His wife died In 1***1. They were both hurled «t Springfield. Their children were William K.. John. Hannah and Susannah.

His eldest son. William H. Andrew, was bom on July 21. ism;, ami married Huth. the daughter of John Hadley. They were the parents of ten children, F.llza Jane. Hannah. Samuel. Delilah. Isaac H., John T., William 11.. Jacob. I.ydla and Wilson His wife died on October lit. lSrt2. In ls*;.v be removed to Hendy county. Iowa, where he died.

Susannah, the youngest daughter of Samuel and Delilah Andrew. married John McFadden. In 1*47. They remained on the home farm, rarinjr for her parents in their declining years. Her husband died on July -!. 1X71. She was the toother of seven children. Samuel, Martha. Jane. Fsther Ann. Mary K., James I... Ijiura D. and John W.

Henry Andrew, a brother of Samuel Andrew, was born. February 12. 1777. In Orange county. North Carolina. He married Jatne Mills and to them were born seven children. Hubert. John. Hannah. Joseph. William. Jonathan and Sarah. They moved to Ohio at an early day and scltled on a farm adjoining his brothers. He removed to Jefferson township some years later.

Henry Andrew, a second brother of Samuel Andrew, came to Adams township about the same time. He was the father of nine children. Ira, Kden. Minerva. Calvin. Cyrus. Miles. Mary Ann, John Wesley and Emily.

Samuel ("hew married Abigail Green, sister of Heuhen Green, and was the first settler on what was afterwards known as the John Anson farm. He had four sons, Isaac. Kphraim. John and Heulteti. and three daughters. Alice. Mary and Huth.

Joshua Moore came to Ohio In 1 S1 1 . He was born the son of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Center county. Pennsylvania, on the 17th of Oct niter. 1701. He married Nancy, a daughter of Joseph and Theodosla Stratton. They first lived in Wilmington two years before they settled lu what is now Adams township. His death occurred on February 7. 1x74. His widow died in December. 1*M. They bad a family of twelve children. David S.. John Haines, Sarah Ann. Micajah. William. Joseph. Harriet. Nancy, Joshua. Itetijamln. Jehu C. and Seth.

Hiram Mi tore, brother of Joshua, came to Ohio about two years after his brother. Joshua, did. He married Kli/.a. a daughter of John Antram.

Caleb Moore, another brother of Joshua Moore, was I torn about 1MN> mid came to Ohio from lViuisy Iv.-mla. about IS'tL.'. and settled on the Joseph Stratton farm on I.ytle's creek. He married Nancy, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier by the name of Andrew Jack. They were the parents of a family of six children. William. John. Harris «'.. Hannah. Kmlly and Nancy F.lleii. His lirst wife died about 1M.", and Mr. Moore afterwards married Martha Miller. They had two children. Kthelbert J. and Martha Adallne.

Two other brothers of this family. John and Isaac Moore, came to Ohio, about 1S32. Isaac married Susannah, a daughter of Henben Green. He died on October G,

1840. at the age of twenty-right. John Moore was born on August 31. 179«. He married Ann Moore, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Center county. Pennsylvania, and who was born on July 15. 1WI5. They moved to Newcastle, Indiunn. where he died. She later married Jasiier Evans.

Elixal»eth, widow of Samuel Moore, who died In Pennsylvania, came to Ohio about 1832. She died In her eighty-sixth year, on August 13, 18.74. She was a sister of Nancy, wife of Caleb Moore. She was the mother of seven children. Meliuda. Nancy, Sarah Ann. Melissa. Eliza, Kvallne and Samuel.

One of the foremost of the pioneers of Adams township was George Maden. Sr. He settled on what was later known us the Jabex Hadley farm. By his first wife, who was the widow Reynolds, and whose maiden name was Harvey, he had four children, Eli, George, Elizabeth and Edith, nis second wife was Elizabeth, sister of George Carter. This union was blessed with the following children : Hiram, Solomon, John. Nancy. Rebecca. Mary. Ruth and Deborah. He lived to an advanced age and is hurled, as is also his wife. Elizabeth, at Lytle's creek. His son. George, married Mnry Chew, daughter of Samuel Chew, and a sister of Isaac. Ephralm. John and Reuben Chew. He moved to Indiana, where he later died. Ellzatteth married a person by tbe name of Reeves: Edith married Joseph Stuhhs: Solomon married a Robblns; John died n bachelor; Nancy became the wife of Henry Harvey; Rebecca became the wife of Reuben Chew, sim of Samuel Chew; Mary married Amos Harvey, brother of Henry Harvey; Ruth became the wife of Robert Hunt, son of Jacob and Lydla Hunt, and Deborah married a man who lived In Indiana.

Ell Maden married Hannah Harlan, daughter of Enoch Harlan, by whom he was tbe father of six children. Harlan. John. George. Hiram. Rowena and Rebecca. Harlan was the oldest sou and married Marguerite, a daughter of William Osboru, Sr., and Hiram married William Harvey's daughter, Hannah.

Hiram Maden, son of George Maden, Sr.. was born on January 28, 17!»2. in Orange county. North Carolina, and emigrated to Ohio with his father. About tbe year 1«2C he married Susannah, daughter of Jehu and Sarah Stuart. There were three children by tbe union. Sarah. George and Jehu. Susannah lived only a few years after their marriage and was burled at Lytle's creek. About the year 1*34 Hiram Maden married Elizabeth, daughter of William iiikI Susannah Osborn. She was tbe mother of seven children. William. John. Elizabeth. Hiram. Susannah and Thomas El wood. He died in April. 1871. and his wife, Elizabeth, died on January K». 1*»M5. at tbe age of sixty-two.

In November. 1N00. Jeremiah Kinihrough. with bis wife, and family of six children, moved to Ohio, and in the spring of 1M0 settled upon one hundred acres of laud In the Murray survey. This was afterwards known as the George farter and Micajah Strut ton farm and was on Todd's fork, near the northeastern part of the township. Klmbrough was a native of Rowan county, North Carolina, and was born on September 1ft. 177*. His wife was Sarah Mendenhall. a sister of Nathan Mendenhall. They were married In Rowan county in 17JW, and at the time of their moving to Ohio the following children were born: Thomas, September 18. 1800; Elizabeth. January 3, IStrj; Susannab. March 13. IStiS; Hannah. October, 1M04; Charity. July 3. 1S07. nud Sarah, January. 1800. In 1812 he sold his farm to George Curter and moved to Tennessee, but not liking the country he returned, it Is said, without unpacking his wagon, and. again took up bis residence on Todd's fork, near Springfield. Adams township. He died In his carriage on August 1ft. ISftO. His daughter died in IKftu at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth Howell. The following children were born after the nrrlvul of the family In Ohio: Mnry, 1*10; John. 1812; Ira, 1815; Edith. 1*20. and Ell. 1S21.

Elizabeth, who was the first to marry, became the wife of Benjamin Howell; Susannah married Robert Hollcraft; Hannah married William Ballard, son of John Ballard, and. on his death, a man by the name of Kerwln. In Grant county. Indiana ;

Charity married Lewis Hlatt. son of Jesse Hlatt. and she died In 1863; Mary married Caleb Townsend. wn of John Townaend; John married Demlce Beach, daughter of Benjamin Beach: Ira married Clnrn Howlnnd, daughter of Barnabas Howland; Edith married Hirnm Dougherty ; Eli married Margaret, daughter of John Townaend. All the children but Thomas and Elisabeth moved out of the township, most of them to the state of Indiana.

Thomas Klmhrough. the eldest child of Jeremiah and Sarah (Mendenhall) Kimbrough, was married on April 4, 1822. to Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse Hlatt, a brother of Lewis Hlutt. The loving couple lived to see their sixtieth wedding anniversary, and for many years held the distinction of being the oldest married couple residing in Adams township. They bad a family of nine children, as follow : Martha, who married James Spray; Sarah, who married John Brazil: Jeremiah: Mary, who married John W. Richardson: Edith, who married William Edwards; Jesse; Susannah, wife of Harlan II. Hadley : Demetrius, who married Esther Bangham ; Charity, wife of Aaron Harvey, son of William Harvey and grandson of Isaac Harvey. Jeremiah, the eldest sou. who was born on October 14. 1X27. was married, in 1849. to Esther, daughter of Ell and Sarah Harvey. She was the mother of one child, Louisa, and died on December IS. 1K.T0. His second wife was Rhoda. daughter of Eli Hadley and sister of Micajah and Thomas Hadley.

One of the early settlers of Grant's survey was Robert Howell. Prior to 1810 he settled on what Is known as Indian branch, building bis cabin by a large spring. H« plumed a nursery and set out quite an extensive orchard of peach and apple trees, ne had a larue family of children. All the family moved farther west prior to 1882 except one son. Benjamin, who was married, about the year 1X20. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Klmbrougb. He was born on July 14. 1792. and emigrated to Ohio with his father. He was the first settler upon what is known as the Howell farm. He bad a family of ten children as follow: Jeremiah, Jedldab, Riley. Aaron. Patsy. Henry, Adeline. William. John and Benjamin. He died on July 2. 18SR. His widow survived him over thirty years.

Among the foremost and best known of the pioneers of Adams township stands George Carter. Carter was born on March 8. 17S2. the son of John and Anna Carter, of Orange county, North Carolina. His wife, Miriam, was born on February 2. 1787, the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Wilson, of Randolph. Virginia. They came to Ohio in 1*12, settling about one mile west of the Lytle's Creek meeting house, on what was always afterwards known as the Micajah Stmtton farm. For over forty years he was a school teacher. He was also a minister In the society of Friends, being considered one of the ablest of the church. especially on doetrlnnl points. Seven children hlessed the union of this happy couple, Jesse, John. Samuel. Wilson, Cyrus. Ixmlsa and George. Both parents lived to n ri|ic old age and were buried at Grassy Run.

.Nathaniel Carter, who was a son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange county. North Carolina, and a brother of George Carter, was bom on June 21. 1770. His wife was Nancy, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham county, North Carolina. They came to Ohio In 1S12 and settled In Dudley's survey, between where the villages of Ogden and Sligo now are. They were the parents of six children. Jane, born on February 17. 1802, who married Samuel Gaskill ; John B. ; Enoch; Susannah, who married Asa Green; Ann. who married William Holladay. Nathaniel Carter died on March 3. 1M3. In his sixty-fourth year: Nancy, his widow, died on November 5. 1*»33. at the ace of eighty-two. surviving him more than twenty years.

Conrad Smith was another pioneer who settled in the Gates survey about IHlfl. He married Elizabeth MeDanlel and was the father of five children, Johu. George, Daniel, Abigail and Susannah. Both Smith aud his wife are burled at Lytle's creek.

Nathan Stalker settled on Lytle's creek as early as 1800 and was one of the first blacksmiths of the township. His wife was Mary Ballard, daughter of David Ballard. Isaac Stout settled on Lytle's creek, on the Isniah Stout farm, about 1807. His wife's name was Susannah and they were the parents of the following children : Jesse. Sarah, Phoebe. Lydla. Rebecca, Matilda, Isaac and Isaiah. Charles Stout was a first cousin of Isaac Stout, and also one of the first settlers.

Another pioneer family that furnished many early settlers was that of Pyle. John and Jehu I*yle came to Clinton county about 1832 and played a great part in the development of Adnms township.

Benjamin Farqubar came from Maryland to Ohio In 1805. His wife was Rachel, a daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Wright, who came from Maryland about the same time. Farquhar bought land and settled In what Is now the extreme northeastern part of Adams township. He was the father of the following children: Uriah. Cyrus, Allen, Jonathan, Joslah, Susannah, Edwin, Rebecca and Rachel.

David Stearn was an early settler of the southwest part of the county, who came with his three sons, Melzar. Luther and Harvey, and two daughters, from Massachusetts In 181ft. His wife's name was Acbsah Cranson. He was burled at Sou tli wick cemetery. For several years he kept a dairy and made cheese und butter.

Joseph and Malilon Stratton were cousins who settled on Lytle's creek In 1S09. Thomas Kersey cnme to Ohio and settled on Todd's fork In 1812, on land adjoining John Carter, his brother-in-law. William Osborn came to Ohio In the fall of 1S15. and. after living for a year or so on the Samuel Harvey place, on Lytle's creek, bought oue hundred acres of land and settled on It in J. Roberts' survey, in the extreme southeastern part of the township. Jacob Hale was one of the first settlers on Todd's fork, ne came to this country, first. In 1805. In company with Isaac Harvey and John Hadley. They returned to North Carolina, and, as explained above, moved to Adams township with their families. These three men were all brothers-in-law.

The following are the officers of Adams township In 1013 : Trustees, Albert Earley, H. A. Coate and Harry Smith: clerk. Evert Hadley; treasurer, T. J. Wlnfleld. Population, seven hundred and one.

Adams township has two towns within Its limits, neither of which Is incorjiorated. The first of these Is Sllgo. This little village had no existence prior to the building of the Goshen and Wilmington turnpike. A man by the mime of George Taylor, a hatter by trade, had a shop there on a lot In the forks of the road loin; before the town was laid out. This lot was afterwards owned by John Kiiuhrough, on which he built a house in 1K41 or 1842. the first two-story house erected In the town. In this building he kept a tavern for several years. The first toll gate was built by John Shields In 1840. The second toll-gate house was built by Rebecca Kersey, sister of Thomas Kersey, but the gate was kept by Mrs. Reach. The toll gate has been long since torn down, but the house remained for a number of years afterwards.

John Swindler was the first blacksmith In Sllgo. and John Hawthorn, the second. Hawthorn left in the spring of \KW and went to Eaton. John Kimbrough commenced smithing in the same shop, a log one, in 1830. This shop stood north of the pike, but on the south side of the old road. This was torn down and a brick one erected In 1S41. by Kimbrough. Soon afterward. Oeorge Slack built a two-story brick residence on the sotitb side of the pike and occupied it until be moved west.

The town received Its name from the brand of Iron that was used at the blacksmith shop at' the time. It having been made at the Sllgo mills. In Pittsburgh. The mill probably had. taken the mtue from a town of a similar cognomen In the western part of Ireland. Matthias O'Neall. who owned a farm south of the pike, sold to John Kimbrough an acre and a half of land. July 12. 1841. and a year later sold him three-fourths of an acre more.

This wan afterwards divided Into smaller lot* by Klmhrough und sold to vnrlous i>ernons. Of tbe early residents of Sligo, there were John Kimbrough, John H. Ixmgshore, Delos Ferris. (Jeorge Sbick, .1. W. Slack, Allen Hazard, Jobn H. Moore, Dr. W. \V. Shepherd, Simon Hndley. Simon Harvey, Calvin Andrew. William S. Itiley, Jessie Thatcher, Ira Kinibrough. Johu M. Brazil, Isaac Sehooley. Edward S. Davis, David Thatcher, Cyrus E. Carter. Henry Harvey. John P. Black. Ellhu Hambleton, Harry Hazard. Alfred Hollcraft. Jabez H. Hndley. Egbert K. Howlaiid. William Henttoii and Ira Ferris. Allen Hazard. Jacob Hadley. William I- Hadley. John H. Moore and James Hauey were some of tbe early storekeeiwrs. Joseph W. Slack was for many years engaged In the manufacture of carriages, buggies and wagons, sometimes giving employment to as many as fifteen men.

The itostofflee was established at Sligo on March 13. 1H44. It remained here until September 8. 1865. The list of tbe postmasters who served this office during its existence are as follow: (Jeorge Slack, March 13. 1*14. to March 11. 1K50; William Shepherd, to January 15. 1852: Allen Hazard, to October 31. 1857: Joseph W. Slack, to December 8, 1802. and WUHhui W. Shepherd, to September 8. 1865.

There has been a steady falling ofT in tbe population of all of the rural towns and Sligo has not been an exception. At present there are about twenty-five families In tbe village. W. E. Davis keeps a general store and also has a huckster wagon. Marlon Wilson runs the village blacksmith shop.

Ogden bad no existence until some years after the building of the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley railroad. It was first called Linden, but there was a station on the Marietta & Cincinnati road by the name of Lyndon and, in consequence, many mistakes occurred In shipping freight out of Cincinnati, causing delay and confusion in receiving goods. This name was then abandoned and Ogden substituted. Mug named for Ogrlen on the Pacific railroad. It was made a passenger and freight station In 1855, by the railroad authorities; seven hundred dollars was raised by the citizens of this vicinity and donated to the railroad company for the purpose of getting the station established at that |>olnt. the stopping place for passengers theretofore having been about half a mile farther west, at Andrew's Mill. Afterward there was some land donated to the company for stock |>ens. switches, etc. Asa (Jreen deserves the praise for getting the station established here. Mr. (Jreen erected the first building in Ogden. This was used as a slat Ion-house and store room, and has been occupied ever since as such, some additions having been added since. He also, with the assistance of some other parties of the neighborhood, put up the freight depot. A small bouse, built by Peyton Burton, was moved across the creek to a lot and used as a residence by John Marsh, the first station agent. John Wiseman built the second residence in Ogden. Mr. Wiseman was a miller by trade. Asa < Jreen laid off live lots In 1857. on the south side of the railroad, on land Itotight by John B. Carter. In 1S51>. Jacob Beard built a residence. In December. IMiO, Carter laid off four lots on the north side of the railroad, and Asa (Jreen, five. In June, lsrrfj. there was a church lot and five others laid off by Asa (Jreen. making twenty in all.

In the spring of 1864, David F. Carter built a residence, and in March, of that year. I. W. Quinby purchased the corner lot of Asa (Jreen. and moved a two-story frame building from Sllgo to It. He used the lower story for a store room and the second story be fitted tip for a residence. In October, of that year, be and Amos Huffman, under tbe firm name of Quinby & Huffman, opened a store. In 18(14 Abraham Haney built a residence and various residences were erected from time to time. Adam Osltorn built the first blacksmith shop in isr,4. Among the early station and railroad agents were tbe following: John Marsh. Jacob Beard, Isaac Holvcrtson. Huffman & Osborn. Jeremiah Kimbrough. .Oeorge W. Owens and Clare & Colter. Among the early postmasters were Isaiah W. Quinby. David S. Osborn. Isaac Rolierts. Lsaiah H. Osborn. Samuel (J. (Jreen. (Jeorge W. Owens. James E. Smith and Samuel O. C.reen.

Source changes here: from History of Clinton County Ohio, by Albert J. Brown, published 1915; 8,587 words in this source stream.

Adams Township

Adams township is bounded on the west by Warren county, on the north by Chester township, on the east by Union township and on the south by Vernon township. Adams township is the smallest township in the county, having an area of fourteen thousand and two hundred acres, or a fraction over twenty-two square miles. It was the twelfth township formed, in the county and was named after John Quincy Adams.

The water courses of the township are bordered by great stretches of rich and fertile bottom lands, which are, in turn, flanked by a line of low hills that lead to the higher table lands above. From Todd's fork, which divides the township in almost half, to the north and west there is a rolling tableland of prolific soil, that is black and loamy. To the east and south of this stream the uplands are best adapted to the growth of wheat and grasses.

Adams township contains only two streams of any size, Todd's fork, which, as has been said, practically divides the township in half, a tributary of the Little Miami, and Lytle's creek, which empties into the first about one mile southwest of the town of Sligo. It is thought that Todd's fork was named after Col. John Todd, a noted pioneer and Indian fighter, who was killed in the bloody battle of Blue Licks, August 19, 1782. This creek enters the township a short distance to the west of the northeast corner and flows to the southwest. '

Lytle's creek enters the township at about the center of the eastern boundary and flows to the west until it empties into Todd's fork. This stream was named after Gen. William Lytle, of Cincinnati, a pioneer surveyor of Hamilton county. To the east of Ogden, about a half mile, there is a small tributary of Lytle's creek, flowing from the south, known as Indian branch. It received its name from a band of Indians who made their home on its banks before the white man came. About a third of a mile from the mouth of Indian branch there is another stream, known as Jess's run, that puts into it from an easterly direction.

From the northeast, the township line crossing it not far from its mouth, Dutch creek empties into Todd's fork. From a southerly direction, through the northeastern portion of the township, comes Little creek, which empties into Todd's fork about a mile above the mouth of Lytle's creek. There is still another small stream which finds its source near the southern line of the township and flows to the northwest, emptying into Lytle's creek, perhaps a mile below Ogden.

Timber

At the time of the first settlements, the whole of Adams township was covered with unbroken, virgin forest. Sprinkled among the stately white poplars on the hillsides and the black walnuts of the rich alluvial bottoms, were found the white oaks and the widespreading elms. These monarchs of the forest were often five or six feet in diameter and devoid of limb or branch to the height of sixty feet. But they were forced to bow before the axe of the ever-advancing pioneer, and their places were taken by homes and farms. In making the clearings the trees were usually girdled with the axe and left to "deaden,"' as it was called. When their trunks had decayed to a slight degree, they were felled, rolled into great heaps and burned, the best being preserved to be split into rails, with which to fence in the rudely cultivated plats.

The following is a list of the indigenous trees of the locality, both the common and the scientific name being given: Red, or slippery, elm (Ulmus fulva), white elm (Ulmus| Americana), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), dogwood (Cornus florida), black gum (Nyssa multiflora), mulberry (Morus Rubra), sassafras (S. officinale), linden or basswood (Tilia Americanus), burr oak (Quercus macrocarpa), white oak (Quercus alba), horn-beam or iron wood (Carpinus), red oak (Quercus rubra), sugar maple (Acer saccharinum), swamp maple (Acer rubrum), sycamore or buttom wood (Plantarus occidentalis), locust (Robina pseudacacia), honey locust (S. officinale), white walnut or butternut (Juglans cinerea), black walnut (Juglans nigra), shellbark hickory (Carya suleata), brown or pignut hickory (Carya parcina), buckeye or horse-chestnut (Aesculus), common willow (Salix cordata), black willow (Salix nigra), yellow poplar (Populus grandidenta), American aspen (P. tremuloides), beech (Fagus ferruginea), white ash (Fraxinus Americana), blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata), wild cherry (Prunus serotina).

Chester and Vernon townships originally included the territory now embraced by Adams township. The first official act of the first board of county commissioners was the division of the county of Clinton into the three townships of Chester, Vernon and Richland. The line between Chester and Vernon townships was Lytle's creek, beginning where the creek crossed the former line between Highland and Warren counties, and continuing to the point where it joined Todd's fork and from thence due west to the new Warren county line. This order was made on April 6, 1810, by George McManis, Hames Birdsell and Henry Babb. This line remained until August 21, 1818, when, at a special session of the commissioners' court, it was moved farther north, to the state road running from Wilmington to Lebanon. Union township was formed at this time, including within its limits parts of both townships. This order was reiterated in the following entry:

"At the present session of the commissioners of Clinton county, towit; the stated session of June, 1830, held by Joseph Roberds, John Lewis and James Sherman, commissioners, a petition signed by divers citizens of the county, praying for a restoration to Vernon township of that part of Chester which formerly belonged to Vernon, that is, that the Lebanon state road be the line between said townships; whereupon the commissioners aforesaid, being of opinion that said alteration is necessary, adjudge and order that the said alteration be made, and that the road aforesaid be hereafter taken and esteemed to be the line between said townships."

This line ran through the village of Sligo, which, by 1849, although still unincorporated, had grown to be quite a good-sized town. A movement was started by its citizens and those of the immediate vicinity to form a new township, of which its would be the business center. On March 5, 1849, a petition was presented to the commissioners praying that a new township be formed out of the territory therein described, which included parts of Chester, Vernon and Union townships. The commissioners appointed Hiram Madden to make a survey of the territory named, to ascertain the number of square miles it contained. It was found that this territory did not contain a sufficient area, as required by law, for the formation of a township and the petition was withdrawn. The following petition was drawn up at once, circulated and presented to the commissioners on May 1, 1849. asking for the formation of a new township, the survey this time containing more territory than before: of holding elections, and from the place where other township business is transacted, in consequence of which we respectfully, but most earnestly, ask you to establish a township to be taken out of Union, Chester and Vernon townships. (Here follows a description of the territory the same as in the survey.)

"We, your petitioners, now claim it is an act of justice, as there is left in each of the townships from which the proposed new township is to be taken, ample amount of territory to still constitute a constitutional township, that, our petition be granted as now asked for, and which is signed by citizens and yoters in the districts included in the boundary of the new township.

The following is the survey of the township as accompanying the petition and adopted as the boundaries of the township. It has remained unchanged to date:

"Beginning at a point opposite Jonathan Hadley's, at a stake in Warren county line, in A. Branstrator's field; thence east 118 poles to Jonathan Hadley's, excluding him; thence to Isaac Hawkins' farm south 68° 20' east, crossing Todd's Fork at one mile and 194 poles, to the turnpike road at one mile and 290 poles, whole distance, two miles and 40 poles, to a stake including the said Hawkins; thence to the land line of John Osborne, south 58° east two miles and 102 poles, to a beech and two small mulberries; thence east 116 poles to the west line of Union Township, to a stake and three beeches; thence south 1° west 44 poles, to the southwest corner of Union Township, to a dead beech and white oak; thence south 1° east 320 poles to a stake in said line in Peter Osborn's field; thence north 7° west, crossing Cincinnati State Road at one mile and 60 poles, the county road at Joshua Moore's at one mile, 812 poles, the county road at Haines Moore's at two miles and 140 poles, Lytle's Creek at two miles and 170 poles, the turnpike road at three miles and 102 poles, Todd's Fork at four miles and 280 poles, Waynesville road at five miles and 60 poles (whole distance five miles and 71 poles), to a stake; thence west 81 poles, crossing the Waynesville road at 11 poles to a stake, where Union Township line crosses the county road leading from Clarksville to Centre Meeting House; thence to Daniel Collett's, Esq., south 86° 48' west, three miles and 165 poles, crossing Miller's Creek at 205 poles, excluding said Collett; thence west to the Warren County line, south 1° west two miles and 571 poles to the beginning, crossing the Lebanon road and line of Vernon and Chester Townships at two miles and 46 poles, containing twenty-two and uonequarter square miles." This survey was made by Hiram Maden, a pioneer surveyor of the new township.

The commissioners considered the matter on May 1, 1849. and ordered that the township be established and that an election should be held in the new township on May 12, to elect the following officers: Three trustees, one clerk, one treasurer, one assessor and one constable. The county commissioners at this time were Azel Walker, Joseph Hoskins and Jesse Doan. The election was held on the date set, in the shop of John H. Moore, in Sligo, with Henry Harvey, David Jenks and W. B. Andrews as the judges. The following men were elected to fill the offices: Jeremiah Harvey. David Jenks and Peter Osborn, trustees; Jonathan D. Hadley, clerk; Dr. W. W. Shappard. assessor: Simon Harvey, treasurer, and James H. Elkins, constable. Henry Hazard was elected justice of the peace on October 10, of the same year.

The streams of the township furnished the power for the early mills. In 1805 Mordecai Mendenhall built a grist-mill on Todd's fork. about a mile above the mouth of Dutch creek. He sold it, with one hundred and forty acres. of land, on March 15. 1806, to Jonathan Wright, who owned it until 1814. when he sold it to Richard Fallis. Fallis refitted and enlarged it and ran it until 1826, when he sold it. with a tract of two hundred and fifty-six acres of land, to his nephew, Jonathan Fallis. In 1830 the mill, with forty-seven acres of land, was sold by Jonathan Fallis to Josiah Townsend, but Townsend died soon after and the administrator of his estate deeded it back to Fallis by the order of court, in payment of an unpaid balance due on the original purchase price. Fallis at once sold it to John Hadley, who owned it until 1841, when he sold it to Stacey Haines, who ran it until 1854. It was afterwards owned by Thomas Kimbrough, Jeremiah Kimbrough. his son. William L. Hadley, Thomas Hazard, A. U. Hadley, and again by William L. Hadley. Its use having been discontinued and the building fallen into decay, he removed it about 1867.

Eli Harvey and John Hadley, brothers-in-law, built, in 1808. a grist-mill on Todd's fork, about a mile below Springfield meeting house. It afterwards came into the sole possession of John Hadley and gained a wide reputation and patronage as Hadley's mill. His sons, Isaac and John, afterwards ran it for a long period and sold it in the early fifties to Jesse Thatcher. Soon after its purchase by Thatcher, it caught fire and burned down. He rebuilt it in a magnificent manner and ran it for about twenty years, when he took it down and moved it to Wilmington.

A saw-mill was built on Lytle's creek, near where Ogden now stands, by John Holladay in 1818, and about three years later a grist-mill was added. The saw-mill was rebuilt about 1846 and a short time afterward the grist-mill was refitted and steam power installed.

In the year 1811, Caleb Harvey built a carding and fulling-mill on his farm on Little creek and kept it running for several years. It stood a few rods up the stream from where the Lebanon road crosses the creek. This mill did a flourishing business in its time and was one of the most widely known mills in the county. The early settlers often came from miles distant to this mill to get their wool carded and formed into rolls, and their blankets and jeans fulled. It was often forced to run at nights. A man by the name of Alexander Montgomery was for many years its proprietor. It has long since disappeared.

Another mill in the township that has long since followed its predecessors was built about the year 1842 by William B. Andrew on Lytle's creek, about a mile and a half above its mouth. It was a gaw-mill and was kept running for many years.

All of the above mentioned mills bad decayed and disappeared by 1882 except the mill at Ogden, which was still standing, but in disuse. At that time even, it was considered a relic of the past and pointed out to all the visitors of that village. But the younger generations of today do not have even the decaying and fallen ruins of these old mills to remind them of the times when their grandfathers, as lads, carried a bag of grain on the back of "old Dobbin" to the mill, for the family's flour.

School Houses

The first school house in the township was erected in 1808, on the land of Isaac Harvey, about one-fourth of a mile north of Todd's fork. In 1812 or 1813 there was a school building built on the Nicholas Carter farm and in 1814 another was erected on the farm of Isaac Stout, about a quarter of a mile east of Lytle's Creek meeting house. In 1813 or 1814 George Carter, with the help of Jeremiah Kimbrough, Thomas Kersey and Nathan Mendenhall, built a log. school on his farm. Several other school buildings were erected from time to time and several were controlled by the society of Friends.

In 1834 there was a school house built on what was then the Holaday farm (afterwards known as the Quinby farm), and, about 1845, there was a neat frame building erected by the society of Friends at Lytle's Creek meeting house. After several years. these all became district schools and passed under the control of the board of education of the township. All these old buildings have long since disappeared and not a vestige of them remains today to even identify the spots where they stood. In 18538 a new school law, with a new system of maintaining schools, went into force, and the township was subdivided and redistricted throughout. The old school houses were abandoned, new sites procured and new buildings erected. The old log school house, with the large fireplace, the greased-paper windows, the stools and seats without a support for the back, with no blackboards or maps, have become a thing of the past forever. Among the early teachers were William Holaday, George Carter, Warren Sabin, Joseph Doan, John Harvey, James Dakin, Henry Harvey, Eli Harvey, Thomas Kersey, Hiram Maden and James Osborn; of the second generation, were William Cooper, James Crawford. Thomas Green and Henry Zimmerman.

The Pioneers

The first resident of the township was Samuel Lee, who, by 1804, had built a cabin in the neighborhood of the Springfield meeting house, on what was afterward known as the Isaac Harvey land. Archibald Edwards, Peter Dicks, his brother-in-law, Isaac Harvey, Jacob Hale and John Hadley came from Ohio in the following year and settled in the same vicinity. Soon afterward Isaac Harvey journeyed to North Carolina, where he purchased, with his brother, Eli, the great Pollard tract of two thousand acres of land, of a Pollard who resided at Richmond, Virginia. He returned to Ohio, bringing his brothers, Eli, Joshua and Caleb, and their families, with him in the fall of 1806. They all settled on the Pollard tract and were the foundation of the great Harvey settlement of Adams township. Another brother, William, followed them from North Carolina a few years later. These brothers had two sisters, Martha and Lydia ; Martha married Jacob Hale, Sr., and Lydia married John Hadley.

Isaac Harvey, who lived near Springfield in a brick house built in 1814, married a sister of Peter Dicks by the name of Lydia. To them were born three sons, William, Harlan and Simon D., and six daughters, Naney, Plizabeth, Rebecca, Martha, Lydia and Ruth. William, the eldest son, married a young lady by the name of Crew; Nancy, the eldest daughter, married Archibald Edwards; Elizabeth married Enock Harlan; Rebecca became the wife of Jonathan Hadley ; Martha, the wife of Aaron Antram; Ruth, the wife of,a man by the name of Towel. Mary Stanfielf was the maiden name of the wife of Eli Harvey, who settled between Lytle's creek and Todd's fork, near their junction. He died on April 12, 1822, at the age of sixty years, leaving one son, William, and three daughters, Ann, Mary and Cynthia. Joshua Harvey, a brother of Isaac and Eli, who settled on the south of Todd's fork, was married three times. He first married a woman by the name of Morrison, by whom he had five children, Caleb, Hannah, Simon, Levi and Robert. Mary Moon, his second wife and the sister of James Moon, was the mother of twins, Jehu and Nancy. Samuel and Abigail were the children of the third wife, a sister of Reuben, Isaac and John Chew. Caleb Harvey, a fourth brother, settled about one-half a mile southwest of Springfield. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Jesse and Hannah Towel, of North Carolina. The fruits of this marriage were six children, Jesse, Joshua, Hannah, Eli, Rebecca and Elizabeth, the eldest being born in North Carolina. His wife died on June 27, 1825, at the age of forty-eight; he died at the age of fifty-four on December 12, 1830. They were both buried at Springfield. Their son Joshua died in 1831, leaving a small daughter. Nancy, who was raised in her paternal grandfather's household. William Harvey, the fifth brother, married Mary, the daughter of David and Sarah Vestal. To them were born in North Carolina three sons, John, Fli and David, and on Ohio soil, two daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth. He died on December 5, 1858, at tke age of eighty-eight. and his wife followed him five years later, in 1863, in her ninety-sixth year. Both found their final resting place at Springfield.

Eli Harvey, son of William, was born in North Carolina. in 1808, died in April, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine, and was buried at Springfield. His first wife was Sarah, daughter of John and Mary Fallis, and the mother of six children, Lydia, Mary. William Penn, Esther, Ann and Sarah. She died in July, 1885, at the age of thirty. His second wife was Ruth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Fisher, and the mother of Joseph, Isaac, Hannah, John, James and Sinai. The first two died in infancy.

Isaac Harvey, son of Czleb,. married a daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Edwards, of Warren county. Ohio, and was the father of nine children, Caleb, Elizabeth. Mary Jane, Rebecca, William, Nathaniel. Abigail, Jesse H. and Enos F.

Preserved Dakin came from New York state in 1806, and settled on what was afterwards the Lebanon road, near Lytle's Creek meeting house. He soon afterwards removed to Chester township. :

Mordecai Mendenhall settled on Todd's fork in 1806, building a mill there which he 'afterwards sold to Jonathan Wright and which later became known as the Fallis mill. A brother of his, Nathan Mendenhall, who was a brother-in-law of Jeremiah Kimbrough, settled on a farm in the same vicinity.

Joshua Nickerson settled in 1804, on Todd's fork about a mile above the Harvey settlement. He came from the state of New York. He had three sons and one daughter by the name of Clark, David, Artemus and Susannah. Susannah married William Morrow and afterward lived in Warren county. Ohio. Clark. the eldest son, married Martha Ashby and was the father of five children, three sons, James, Joshua and David, and two daughters. One of the daughters married a. McKay, and the other became the wife of Evan Hadley. Artemus Nickerson married Elizabeth Reed and had six children, Susannah, Amanda, Mary, Elizabeth, Abigail and Samuel R. David married a young woman by the name of Spencer and moved to Indiana.

David Ferris settled in Adams township as early as 1805 or 1806. Jeremiah Poe settled on Todd's fork, in the Gates survey, prior to 1809, but soon afterward sold his farm and sought a home elsewhere. A man by the name of Wright, one of the first settlers of the township, and the donor of the land for the graveyard at Lytle's creek, sold his farm in 1816, to Mahlon Stratton, and moved away.

John Hadley and his wife, Lydia, daughter of William and Elizabeth Harvey, sister of Eli, Isaac, William, Caleb and Joshua Harvey, came to Ohio from North Carolina in

1806 with the party of Harveys, Hadleys, Dicks, Hales and Edwards mentioned above. John Hadley was born the son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley, on September 23, 1770, in Chatham county, North Carolina. He was married to Lydia Harvey, of Orange county, North Carolina, in Crane Creek monthly meeting, as early as 1794. They were the parents of twelve children: William, Simon, Elizabeth, Joshua, Jacob, Isaac, Eli, John, Thomas, Jonathan D., Ruth and Jane, all but four of whom were born before they moved to Ohio. Of these, Joshua died in infancy and Thomas, at the age of nineteen. With his brother-in-law, Eli Harvey, John Hadley built and afterwards became the owner of what was for years known as the Hadley mill. It stood on Todd's fork, about « mils below the Springfield meeting house. Both he and his wife were lifelong members of the society of Friends and members of the Springfield monthly meeting. He died in 1832, when sixty-two years of age. His widow survived him twenty years. They were both laid to rest in the Springfield cemetery.

William Hadley, their eldest son, was born on July 18, 1795, in North Carolina, and eame to Ohio with his father in 1806. His first wife was Sarah Lindley. who died on April 28, 1829, and who was the mother of seven children, Jonathan, Deborah, Thomas (who died in infancy), Eleanor, Eli L., Mary and Milton. He afterwards murried Susannah Thatcher, the widow of Thomas Thatcher and the daughter of Joseph Stratton. She was the mother of two children, Sarah and William. William Iadley died on October 23, 1845... His wife died on August 18, 1880, at the ripe old age of sixty-six years, and was buried at Springfield.

Simon Hadley, the second son of John and Lydia (Harvey) Hadley, was born. November 1, 1796, in North Carolina and came to Ohio with his parents. His wife was Ann, the daughter of Thomas Kersey, Sr. He and his wife were residents of Adams township until their deaths, on May 15, 1870. and September 28, 1845. respectively. Their seven children were Jabez, Rebecca, Lydia, John, Julia, Ann K. and Mary M. Several years after the death of his first wife, Simon Hadley married x widow, Mary I. O'Neall, whose maiden name had been Ingham. TFElizabeth, the third child and eldest daughter of John Hadley, married Ezekiel Hornaday. She died, May 9%, 1850, at fiftytwo years of age. ;

Jacob Hadley was born in North Carolina, on the 5rd of March. 1801. Ilis wife was Mary. daughter of Beale and Mary Butler, of Wayne county, Indiana. Ie was a resident of Adams township until 1868, when he moved to Wilmington. He was always a strict member of the society of Friends and was considered by all who knew him to be a minister of ability. He always held to the original teachings and doctrines of the Friends in all their purity and simplicity, and was strenuously opposed to the innovations in their manner of worship which came to prevail. His wife died on July 20 1858, at the age of fifty-seven, and he himself was gathered to his fathers. at the ee up seventy-eight. on February 11, 1879. Springfield is the final resting place of both of these venerable pioneers. Their seven children were: Samuel Hf. Eliza Ann, William Beale, Elwood, Mary B.. Susannah Jane and Naomi.

Isane Hadley, the sixth child of John Hadley, married Lydia, daughter of John Hazard, by whom he had seven children, Calvin, Elizabeth. Phoebe, Elnira, Ienry, Rebecca and Harriet. He died, at the age of thirty-six. on July 22. 1889. Tis widow later became the wife of James Smith. and, on his death. the wife of William Pyle. son of Jehu Pyle, Sr.

Fli Hadley, the next son of John Hadley, was born on September 27. 1804; he muarried Abigail, the daughter of Reuben and Rhoda Green, and died on November 29, 1854. at the nge of fifty. His wife died on April 30, 1887. at the age of twenty-eight. Their five children were Mahala G.. Gulielma. Thomas. Micajah and Rhoda.

: John Hadley. also a son of Jobn und Lydia (Harvey) Hadley. was born on April 15, S10, and married Ann. daughter of John and Elizabeth Wildman. of Clark county Ohio. To them was born seven children: Hiram, Elizabeth, Margaret. Deborah, Te

Ruth and Seth. Deborah and Ruth died in infancy. His wife died on April 21, 1848, and was buried at Springfield. He afterwards married Rhoda Stanton, a widow, and - lived at Springboro, in Warren county. He died in March, 1882, and is buried at Springfield.

Jonathan D. Hadley, the youngest son of John and Lydia Hadley, was born August 10, 1812. He married Susannah Clawson, daughter of William Clawson, and their union was blessed with four children, Louisa, Mahlon, John William and Evan. He died about 1872, at Clarksville. His widow died at Wilmington, in '1874, and both are buried at Springfield. Ruth Hadley became the wife of W. B. Andrew. She died on October 19, 1852. Jane, the youngest child of John and Lydia Hadley, married Seneca Wildman and, with her husband, moved to Iowa in the early sixties.

William Hadley, son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley, and a brother of John Hadley, emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Vernon township. Jonathan T. Hadley, son of Simon and Elizabeth Hadley, emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio in 1810, and settled in Adams township near the Warren county line. He married Rebecca, daughter of Isaac Harvey, by whom he had.nine children, Elizabeth, Lydia, Samuel L., Ruth, Isaac, Simon, Deborah, Milton and Harlan H.

The Harvey and Hadley families were by far the most numerous of the early settlers of the western part of Clinton county. With but few exceptions, they were all members of the society of Friends. Many still live in their ancestral homes, while others have moved to other counties in Ohio, and others to other states, especially Indiana and Iowa.

William and Nathan Harlan were brothers and sons of Enoch: Harlan, of Guilford county, North Carolina. They came to Ohio in 1805 and settled about a mile from Springfield. Nathan, the eldest son, married, in Morth Carolina, Sarah Hunt, the daughter of a minister. 'They had nine children, as follow: Lydia, Enoch, Martha, Nathan, Edith, Prudence, Jabez, John and Hannah. William married, also in North Carolina, Charity Kimbrough, a daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough, and their union was blessed with nine children also; David, Margaret, Jonathan, Ruth, Nancy, Enoch, William, Nathaniel and Edith. John and Enoch Harlan, brothers of William and Nathan, came with their mother from North Carolina, and, after a short residence in Highland county, settled in the same vicinity in the spring of 1807. John Harlan married Lydia Hale, the daughter of Jacob Hale, and was the father of the following children: Jacob, Elizabeth, Rebecca, James and Warren. There were others who died in infancy.

John had the following brothers: William, David, Enoch, Nathan, Jonathan, Nathaniel and Solomon, and three sisters, Nancy Mendenhall, Hannah Maden and Rebecca Hampton. All this family, except Nathaniel, settled in the vicinity of Springfield. David and Solomon, arriving in 1811, were the last to come. Their mother's name was Edith, and she was a sister of Hliabeth Harvey, who came with her sons, as mentioned above, to Ohio in 1806. They were both widows.

Ezekiel Hornada, who was born on February 26, 1796, in Randolph county, North Carolina, came with the Harvey brothers to Ohio in 1806. His mother's name was Dicks, and he was a nephew of Isaac Harvey's by marriage. He married Blizabeth, eldest daughter of John Hadley, on November 11, 1818, and was the father of twelve children: John, Jehu, Isaiah, Jane, Simon, Mary, William, Eleanor, Lydia, Bli, Isaac and Louisa. His wife died in 1850 and was buried at Springfield. He later married again, and, at the age of eighty-six, moved to Indiana.

Reuben Green was born on July 28, 1770, in Grayson county, North Carolina. He married Rhoda, daughter of David and Mary Ballard, on January 5, 1797, and in the fall of 1811 moved to Ohio and settled near Center meeting house, in Adams township. He bought one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, in 1813, of William Lytle, on Lytle's creek, to which he moved, and lived the remainder of his life. His wife died, at the age of sixty-eight, on February 10, 1843. He died on Christmas day, 1852. They were both buried at Lytle's creek. They were the parents of twelve children, Isaac, Mary, David, Lydia, Robert, Asa, Anna, Abigail, John, Susannah, Rowland and Rhoda.

Asa Green, a son of the above, was born in Grayson county, North Carolina, on January 5, 1811, and came to Ohio with his father in the fall of 1811. His wife was a daughter of Nathaniel Carter. They were the parents of eight children: Jane, Reuben, Mary Ann, Cyrus, Guliema, John C., Samuel G. and Nancy Emily.

John Holaday came from Virginia in 1814 and settled on what was afterwards known as the Asa Green farm. He lived here fifteen or sixteen years, when he sold the farm to Asa Green and moved to Jefferson township, this county.

Samuel Andrew came from Orange county, North Carolina, to Ohio, in 1810, and settled in Greene county for two years, when he moved to Lytle's creek, on the farm where he lived until his death, July 18, 1871. He was born in Orange county, North Carolina. the son of William and Hannah Andrew, and married, on October 17, 1805, Delilah, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham county, North Carolina. His wife died in 1856. They were both buried at Springfield. Their children were William B., John, Hannah and Susannah.

His eldest son. William B. Andrew, was born on July 21, 1806, and married Ruth, the daughter of John Hadley. They were the parents of ten children, Eliza Jane, Hannah, Samuel, Delilah, Isanc H., John T., William H., Jacob, Lydia and Wilson His wife died on October 19, 1852. In 1868 he removed to Hendy county, Iowa, where he died.

Susannah, the youngest daughter of Samuel and Delilah Andrew, married John McFadden, in 1847. They remained on the home farm, caring for her parents in their declining years. Her husband died on July 6, 1871. She was the mother of seven children. Samuel, Martha, Jane, Esther Ann, Mary E., James L., Laura D. and John W.

Henry Andrew, a brother of Samuel Andrew, was born, February 12. 1777. in Orange county. North Carolina. He married Jame Mills and to them were born seven children, Robert, Jobn. Hannah, Joseph, William, Jonathan and Sarah. They moved to Ohio at an early day and settled on a farm adjoining his brothers. He removed to Jefferson township some yenrs later.

Henry Andrew. 2 second brother of Samuel Andrew, éame to Adams township about the same time. He was the father of nine children, Ira. Eden, Minerva, Calvin, Cyrus, Miles. Mary Ann, John Wesley and Emily.

Samuel Chew married Abigail Green, sister of Reuben Green, and was the first settler on what was afterwards known as the John Anson farm. He had four sons, Isaae, Ephraim, John and Reuben, and three daughters, Alice. Mary and Ruth.

Joshua Moore came to Ohio in 1811. He was born the son of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Center county. Pennsylvania. on the 17th of October. 1791. He married Nancy, a daughter of Joseph and Theodosia Stratton. They first lived in Wilmington two yeurs before they settled in what is now Adams township. His death occurred on February 7, 1874. His widow died in December, 1881. They had a family of twelve children, David S.. John Haines, Sarah nn, Mieajah, William, Joseph. Harriet. Naney, Joshua, Benjamin, Jehu C. and Seth.

Caleb Moore, another brother of Joshua Moore, was born about 1800 and came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, about 18382. and settled on the Joseph Stratton farm on Lytle's creek. He married Nancy, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier by the name of Andrew Jack. They were the parents of a family of six children, William. John. Harris C.. Hannah, Wmily and Naney Ellen. His first wife died about 1845 and Mr. Moore afterwards married Martha Miller, They had two children. Ethelbert J. and Martha Adaline. ees other pee eteee ue this family. John and Isaae Moore, came to Ohio. about $32, Isaae married Susannah, a daughter of Reuben Green. He died on October 6,

1840, at the age of twenty-eight. John Moore was born on August 31, 1798. He married Ann Moore, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Moore, of Center county, Pennsylvania, and who was born on July 6, 1805. They moved to Newcastle, Indiana. where he died. She later married Jasper Evans. '

Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Moore, who died in Pennsylvania, eame to Ohio about 1832. She died in her eighty-sixth year, on August 13, 1874. She was a sister of Nancy, wife of Caleb Moore. She was the mother of seven children, Melinda, Nancy, Sarah Ann, Melissa, Eliza, Evaline and Samuel.

One of the foremost of the pioneers of Adams township was George Maden. Sr. He settled on what was later known as the Jabez Hadley farm. By his first wife, who was the widow Reynolds, and whose maiden name was Harvey, he had four children, Eli, George, Elizabeth and Edith. His second wife was Elizabeth, sister of George Carter. This union was blessed with the following children: Hiram, Solomon, John, Nancy. Rebecca, Mary, Ruth and Deborah. He lived to an advanced age and is buried. as is also his wife, Elizabeth, at Lytle's creek. His son, George, married Mary Chew, daughter of Samuel Chew, and a sister of Isaac, Ephraim, John and Reuben Chew. He moved to Indiana, where he later died? Elizabeth married a person by the name of Reeves; Edith married Joseph Stubbs; Solomon married a Robbins; Jobn died a bachelor; Nancy became the wife of Henry Harvey; Rebecca became the wife of Reuben Chew, son of Samuel Chew; Mary married Amos Harvey, brother of Henry Harvey; Ruth became the wife of Robert Hunt, son of Jacob and Lydia Hunt, and Deborah married a man who lived in Indiana.

Eli Maden married Hannah Harlan, daughter of Enoch Harlan, by whom he was the father of six children, Harlan, John, George, Hiram, Rowena and Rebecca. Harlan wis the oldest son and married Marguerite, a daughter of William Osborn, Sr., and Hiram married William Harvey's daughter, Hannah.

Hiram Maden, son of George Maden. Sr., was born on January 28, 1792. in Orange county, North Carolina, and emigrated to Ohio with his father. About the year 1826 he married Susannah, daughter of Jehu and Sarah Stuart. There were three children by the union, Sarah, George and Jehu. Susannah lived only a few years after their marriage and was buried at Lytle's creek. About the year 1884 Hiram Maden married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Susannah Osborn. She was the mother of seven children, William, John, Elizabeth, Hiram, Susannah and Thomas Elwood. He died in April, 1871, and his wife, Elizabeth, died on January 10, 1866, at the age of sixty-two.

In November, 1809, Jeremiah Kimbrough, with his wife, and family of six children, moved to Ohio, and in the spring of 1810 settled upon one hundred acres of land in the Murray survey. This was afterwards known as the George Carter and Micajah Stratton farm and was on Todd's fork, near the northeastern part of the township. Kimbrough was a native of Rowan county, North Carolina, and was born on September 15; 1778. His wife was Sarah Mendenhall, a sister of Nathan Mendenhall. They were married in Rowan county in 1799, and at the time of their moving to Ohio the following children were born: 'Thomas, September 18, 1800; Elizabeth, January 3, 1802; Susannah, March 138, 1803; Hannah, October, 1804; Charity, July 38, 1807, and Sarah, January, 1809. In 1812 he sold his farm to George Carter and moved to Tennessee. but not liking the country he returned, it is said, without unpacking his wagon, and, again took up his residence on Todd's fork, near Springfield, Adams township. He died in his carriage on August 15, 1850. His daughter died in 1859 at the home of her daughter, Elizabeth Howell. The following children were born after the arrival of the family in Ohio: Mary, 1810; John, 1812; Ira, 1815; Edith, 1820, and Hli, 1821.

Elizabeth, who was the first to marry, became the wife of Benjamin Howell; Susannah married Robert Holleraft; Hannah married William Ballard, son of John Ballard, and, on his death, a man by the name of Kerwin, in Grant county, Indiana;

Charity married Lewis Hiatt, son of Jesse Hiatt, and she died in 1863; Mary married Caleb Townsend, son of John Townsend; John married Demice Beach, daughter of Benjamin Beach; Ira married Clara Howland, daughter of Barnabas Howland; Hdith married Hiram Daugherty; Eli married Margaret, daughter of John Townsend. All the children but Thomas and Elizabeth moved out of the township, most of them to the state of Indiana.

Thomas Kimbrough, the eldest child of Jeremiah and Sarah (Mendenhall) Kimbrough, was married on April 4, 1822, to Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse Hiatt, a brother of Lewis Hiatt. The loving couple lived to see their sixtieth wedding anniyersary. and for many years held the distinction of being the oldest married couple residing in Adams township. They had a family of nine children, as follow: Martha, who married James Spray; Sarah, who married John Brazil; Jeremiah; Mary, who married John W. Richardson; Edith, who married William Edwards; Jesse; Susannah, wife of Harlan H. Hadley; Demetrius, who married Esther Bangham; Charity. wife of Aaron Harvey, son of William Harvey and grandson of Isaac Harvey. Jeremiah, the eldest son, who was born on October 14, 1827, was married, in 1849. to Esther, daughter of Eli and Sarah Harvey. She was the mother of one child, Louisa, and died on December 18, 1859. His second wife was Rhoda, daughter of Eli Hadley and sister of Micajah and Thomas Hadley.

One of the early settlers of Grant's survey was Robert Howell. Prior to 1810 he settled on what is known as Indian branch, building his cabin by a large spring. H: planted a nursery and set out quite an extensive orchard of peach and apple trees. He had a large family of children. All the family moved farther west prior to 1832 except one son, Benjamin, who was married, about the year 1820, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Kimbrough. He was born on July 14, 1792, and emigrated to Ohio with his father. He was the first settler upon what is known as the Howell farm. He had a family of ten children as follow: Jeremiah, Jedidah, Riley, Aaron, Patsy, Henry, Adeline, William, John and Benjamin. He died on July 2, 1855. His widow survived him over thirty years.

Among the foremost and best known of the pioneers of Adams township stands George Carter. Carter was born on March 8, 1782, the son of John and Anna Carter, of Orange county, North Carolina. lis wife, Miriam, was born on February 2, 1787, the daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Wilson. of Randolph, Virginia. They came to Ohio in 1812, settling about one mile west of the Lytle's Creek meeting house, on what was always afterwards known as the Micajah Stratton farm. For over forty years he was a school teacher. He was also a minister in the society of Friends, being considered one of the ablest of the church, especially on doctrinal points. Seven children blessed the union of this happy couple, Jesse, John, Samuel, Wilson, Cyrus, Louisa and reorge. Both parents lived to a ripe old age and were buried at Grassy Run.

Nathaniel Carter, who was a son of John and Ann Carter, of Orange county, North Carolina, and a brother of George Carter, was born on June 21, 1779. His wife was Nancy, daughter of John and Susannah Baker, of Chatham county, North Carolina. They came to Ohio in 1812 and settled in Dudley's survey, between where the villages of Ogden and Sligo now are. They were the parents of six children, Jane, born on February 17, 1802, who married Samuel Gaskill; John B.; Enoch; Susannah, who married Asa Green; Ann, who married William Holladay. Nathaniel Carter died on March 8, 1848, in his sixty-fourth year; Nancy, his ~vidow, died on November 5, 1863, at the age of eighty-two, surviving him more than twenty years.

Conrad Smith was another pioneer who settled in the Gates survey about 1815. He married Elizabeth McDaniel and was the father of five children, John, George, Daniel, Abigail and Susannah. Both Smith and his wife are buried at Lytle's creek.

Nathan Stalker settled on Lytle's creek as early as 1809 and was one of the first' blacksmiths of the township. His wife was Mary Ballard, daughter of David Ballard. Isaac Stout settled on Lytle's creek, on the Isaiah Stout farm, about 1807. His wife's name was Susannah and they were the parents of the following children: Jesse, Sarah, Phoebe, Lydia, Rebecca, Matilda, Isaac and Isaiah. Charles Stout was a first cousin of Isaac Stout, and also one of the first settlers.

Another pioneer family that furnished many early settlers was that of Pyle. John and Jehu Pyle came to Clinton county about 1832 and played a great part in the development of Adams township.

Benjamin Farquhar came from Maryland to Ohio in 1805. His wife was Rachel, a daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Wright. who came from Maryland about the same time. Farquhar bought land and settled in what is now the extreme northeastern part of Adams township. He was the father of the following children: Uriah. Cyrus. Allen, Jonathan, Josiah, Susannah, Edwin, Rebecca and Rachel.

David Stearn was an early settler of the southwest part of the county. who came with his three sons, Melzar, Luther and Harvey, and two daughters. from Massachusetts in 1818. His wife's name was Achsah Cranson. He was buried at Southwick cemetery. For several years he kept a dairy and made cheese and butter.

Joseph and Mahlon Stratton were cousins who settled on Lytle's creek in 1809. Thomas Kersey came to Ohio and settled on Todd's fork in 1812. on land adjoining John Carter, his brother-in-law. William Osborn came to Ohio in the fall of 1815, and. after living for a year or so on the Samuel Harvey place. on Lytle's creek. bought one hundred acres of land and settled on it in J. Roberts' survey. in the extreme southeastern part of the township. Jacob Hale was one of the first settlers on Todd's fork. He came to this country, first. in 1805. in company with Isaac Harvey and John Hadley. They returned to North Carolina, and, as explained above, moved to Adams township with their families. 'These three men were all brothers-in-law.

The following are the officers of Adams township in 1915: 'Trustees, Albert Earley, H. A. Coate and Harry Smith; clerk, Evert Hadley: treasurer, T. J. Winfield. Population, seven hundred and one.

Adams township has two towns within its limits, neither of which is incorporated. The first of these is Sligo. This iittle village had no existence prior to the building of the Goshen and Wilmington turnpike. A man by the name of George Taylor. a hatter by trade, had a shop there on a lot in the forks of the road long before the town was laid out. This lot was afterwards owned by John Kimbrough, on which he built a house in 1841 or 1842, the first two-story house erected in the town. In this building he kept a tavern for several years. The first toll gate was built by John Shields in 1840. The second toll-gate house was built by Rebecca Kersey, sister of Thomas Kersey, but the gate was kept by Mrs. Beach. The toll gate has been long since torn down. but the house remained for a number of years afterwards.

John Swindler was the first blacksmith in Sligo, and John Hawthorn. the second. Hawthorn left in the spring of 1839 and went to Eaton. John Kimbrough commenced smithing in the same shop, a log one, in 1889. This shop stood north of the pike. but on the south side of the old road. This was torn down and a brick one erected in 1841. by Kimbrough. Soon afterward, George Slack built a two-story brick residence on the south side of the pike and occupied it until he moved west.

The town received its name from the brand of iron that was used at the blacksmith shop at the time, it having been made at the Sligo mills, in Pittsburgh. The mill probably had taken the name from a town of a similar cognomen in the western part of Ireland. Matthias O'Neall, who owned a farm south of the pike. sold to John Kimbrough an acre and a half of land, July 12, 1841, and a year later sold him three-fourths of an acre more.

This was afterwards diyided into smaller lots by Kimbrough and sold to various persons. Of the early residents of Sligo, there were John Kimbrough, John H. Longshore, Delos Ferris, George Slack, J. W. Slack, Allen Hazard, John H. Moore, Dr. W. W. Shepherd, Simon Hadley, Simon Harvey, Calvin Andrew, William S. Riley, Jesse Thatcher, Ira Kimbrough, John M. Brazil, Isaac Schooley, Edward S. Davis, David Thatcher, Cyrus E. Carter, Henry Harvey, Jobn P. Black, Elihu Hambleton, Harry Hazard, Alfred Hollcraft, Jabez H. Hadley, Egbert K. Howland, William Henson and Ira Ferris. Allen Hazard, Jacob Hadley, William L. Hadley, John H. Moore and James Haney were some of the early storekeepers. Joseph W. Slack was for many years engaged in the manufacture of carriages, buggies and wagons, sometimes giving employment to as many as fifteen men.

The postoftice was established at Sligo on March 13, 1844. It remained here until September 8, 1865. The list of the postmasters who served this office during its existence are as follow: George Slack, March 13, 1844, to March 11, 1850; William Shepherd, to January 15, 1852; Allen Hazard, to October 31, 1857; Joseph W. Slack, to December 8, 1862, and William W. Shepherd, to September 8, 1865.

There has been a steady falling off in the population of all of the rural towns, and Sligo has not been an exception. At present there are about twenty-five families in the village. W. BE. Davis keeps a general store and also has a huckster wagon. Marion Wilson runs the village blacksmith shop.

Ogden had no existence until some years after the building of the Cincinnati «& Muskingum Valley railroad. It was first called Linden, but there was a station on the Marietta & Cincinnati road by the name of Lyndon and, in consequence, many mistakes occurred in shipping freight out of Cincinnati, causing delay and confusion in receiving goods. This name was then abandoned and Ogden substituted. being named for Ogden on the Pacific railroad. It was made a passenger and freight station in 1855, by the railroad authorities; seven hundred dollars was raised by the citizens of this vicinity and donated to the railroad company for the purpose of getting the station established at that point. the stopping place for passengers theretofore having been about half a mile farther west. at Andrew's Mill. Afterward there was some land donated to the company for stock pens, switches, ete. Asa Green deserves the praise for getting the station established here. Mr. Green erected the first building in Ogden. This was used as a station-house and store room, and has been occupied ever since as such, some additions having been added since. He also, with the assistance of some other parties of the neighborhood, put up the freight depot. A small house, built by Peyton Burton, was moved across the creek to a lot and used as a residence by John Marsh, the first station agent. John Wiseman built the second residence in Ogden. Mr. Wiseman was a miller by trade. Asa Green laid off five lots in 1857, on the south side of the railroad, on land bought by John B. Carter. In 1859, Jacob Beard built a residence. In December, 1860, Carter laid off four lots on the north side of the railroad, and Asa Green, five. In June, 1866, there was a church lot and five others laid off by Asa Green, making twenty in all.

In the spring of 1864, David F. Carter built a residence, and in March, of that year, I. W. Quinby purchased the corner lot of Asa Green, and moved a two-story frame building from Sligo to it. He used the lower story for a store room and the second story he fitted up for a residence. In October, of that year, he and Amos Huffman, under the firm name of Quinby & Huffman, opened a store. In 1864 Abraham Haney built a residence and various residences were erected from time to time. Adam Osborn built the first blacksmith shop in 1864. Among the early station and railroad agents were the following: John Marsh, Jacob Beard, Isaac Robertson, Huffman & Osborn, Jeremiah Kimbrough, George W. Owens and Clare & Colter. Among the early postmasters were Isaiah W. Quinby, David S. Osborn, Isaac Roberts, Isaiah H. Osborn, Samuel G. Green, George W. Owens, James HF. Smith and Samuel G. Green.