Findlay City (part 1 of 28)

Findlay Township

THE history of Findlay Township extends back to the 28th of May, 1828, on which date the commissioners of Wood County, to which Hancock was then attached, ordered, "That so much of the township of Waynesfield as is included in the unorganized county of Hancock, be set off and organized, and the same is hereby organized into a township by the name of Findlay, and that the election for township officers be held on the 1st day of July, A. D. 1823, at the house of Wilson Vance, in the said township." The township derived its name fi-om the fort once standing on the site of Findlay, which was commenced by Col. James Findlay, in June, 1812, and named in honor of that officer. Soon after the organization of the county, in the spring of 1828, Amanda and Welfare (now Delaware) Townships were formed from the southeast portion of Findlay, and then included the present townships of Amanda, Delaware, Jackson and Big Lick, the east half of Madison, and a part of Marion; also the townships of Ridge and Richland taken fi'om Hancock, in 1845, in the erection of Wyandot County. September 17, 1829, Old Town Township was erected from the western portion of Findlay, comprising all of the county west of the section line one mile west of the Bellefontaine & Perrysburg Road. This act of the commissioners engendered considerable ill feeling, the final result of which was a suit to set it aside, and in November, 1830, the court of common pleas declared the erection and organization of Old Town Township null and void. Ou the 6th of the following month all of the county west of the present western boundary of Findlay Township was erected as Liberty, and on the same date the territory embraced in Marion and Cass Townships was cut off from Findlay and Amanda and organized as Marion. -

Findlay Township then comprised the lands lying within the following boundaries: "Commencing at the southeast corner of Section 82, Township 1 north, Range 11; thence north to the northeast corner of Section 5, Township 2 'north'!' Range 11; thence west to the northwest corner of Section 2, Range 10; thence south to the southwest corner of Section 35, Township 2 south; thence east to the southeast corner of Section 30, Range 10; thence north to the southeast corner of Section 36, Township 1 north; thence east to the place of beginning, which shall be a body corporate and politic, retaining the name of Findlay." These bounds embrace the present townships of Findlay and Allen, also a strip two miles wide, west of the Bellefontaine & Perrysburg Road, extending from the south line of Findlay Township to the north line of Hardin County. This strip is now the two eastern tiers of sections of Eagle Township and the two western tiers of Madison Township. March 7, 1831. Townships 1 and 2 south, Range 10, were cut off of Liberty and Findlay and erected as Van Buren, the narrow strip previously spoken of being taken from Findlay Township. What is now Allen Township was taken from Findlay March 4, 1833, in the erection of Cass and Portage, leaving this township with its present area of twenty-four square miles, or 15,360 acres, including the village of Findlay. Though being north of the center, Findlay is generally recognized as the central subdivision of the county, and as it was the nrst one settled and also contains the seat of justice, it is certainly the township around which centers the deepest historic interest. It is bounded on the north by Allen Township, on the east by Marion, on the south by Jackson and Eagle, and on the west by Liberty. ^ The township was originally covered with a heavy gro^vth of fine timber, though a considerable strip of prairie or bottom land extended along the river in the vicinity of Findlay. The Blanchard River passes through the center of the township from east to west, taking a general northwestward course. Its largest tributaries in this township are Eagle and Lye Creeks, which flow in from the south and discharge their waters into the Blanchard within the corporate limits of Findlay. Several small streams feed the river from the north, Strother's and Hedges' Runs, named in honor of Robert L. Strother and Joshua Hedges, two deceased pioneers, being the largest. Whitney's Run, named after Jesse Whitney, a peculiar character who once lived" upon it, was a small tributary located west of town between the two brickyards, and di'ained northward into the river. It was an old-time fishing place for the youngsters of the village, but has since been converted into an open ditch, and the land that was in early days covered with water is now under tillage. Water for stock is abundant in every part of the township, and the several streams and runs furnish ample natural drainage facilities. Very good drinking water is found at a reasonable depth in the limestone formation underlying the upper soils, but many of the wells, especially in Findlay, do not go sufficiently deep to escape the filterings from the surface, and the water in such wells is very apt to breed disease.

The topography of Findlay is little different from the adjoining townships. The Blanchard forms a bed toward which the surface tips from both the north and south, as evidenced by the course of the streams flowing into the river. South of the Blanchard the comparative level is broken by the limestone ridge, locally known as "Chamberlin' s Hill." This elevation lies about a mile south of the city, and stretches westward fi'om Eagle

Creek bottom. North of the river the surface is quite rolling, but not broken, the lands being easily tillable, and well adapted for grazing purposes. Much of the township was originally quite wet, especially along Eagle Creek, but judicious drainage has brought these lands under cultivation. The soil on the bottoms along the water courses is generally a silt or sandy loam. Away fi'om the streams a vegetable soil, with sand or clay mixture, according to locality, predominates in the more level portions, while the higher lands are principally clay. Limestone underlies the whole township, and crops out so close to the surface south of the river that stone for foundations, roads, lime, etc. , is easily quarried, and therefore abundant.

Pioneers. - In the general history of the county is mentioned briefly the coming of the first settlers to Findlay, and are given the names of those pioneers who located here prior to 1830. The first permanent settler, or rather "squatter," in what is now Findlay Township, as well as in the county, was Benjamin J. Cox. He was a native of Virginia, where he grew to manhood and married Mary Hughes. Early in the present century, with his wife and four childi'en - two sons and two daughters - he removed to Ohio, locating near Yellow Springs, in Greene County, where Elizabeth, now the wife of Jacob Eberly, of Portage, Wood County, was born September 20, 1806. From Greene the Cox family removed to the south part of Logan County, where they lived during the war of 1812, four children having been born there, one of whom died. Mr. Cox, who was a oneeyed man, served as a scout in the armies of Hull and Harrison. Upon the close of the war and the evacuation of Fort Findlay, in 1815, Mr. Cox, who had often been to the fort, brought his family to this point and took possession of a story and a half hewed-log house, erected and previously occupied by Thorp, the sutler of the garrison, while the war lasted. Here in 1816 another daughter, Lydia, was born, she being the first white child born in the township, as well as in what is now Hancock County. She is at present a resident of Michigan, herself and Mrs. Eberly being the only survivors of the family. Mr. Cox was a typical backwoodsman - a man who never thought of the morrow, and was only happy when following the chase. He cleared and cultivated some land near the fort, and also kept a sort of a frontier tavern, but most of his time was passed in hunting. He lived in harmony with the Indians, who then dwelt at several points along the Blanchard, and in 1818 when they removed to their reservation around Big Springs, the chief, Kuqua, ofPered Mr. Cox a farm if he would go and live with them, but he refused the offer. The land upon which Mr. Cox lived was entered by Hon. Joseph Vance, William Neill and Elnathan Cory, in July, 1821, and in the fall of 1821 he had to give up his house to Wilson Vance and remove to a smaller cabin, which stood a little southwest of it. In 1823 Mr. Cox left Findlay and went to the Maumee, subsequently locating near Portage, Wood County, whence he and his wife removed to Indiana and there died.

Among the first settlers of Defiance County was the family of Robert Shirley, and his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Austin, widow of Rev. James B. Austin, in her " Recollections of Pioneer Life in the Maumee Valley, " alludes as follows to their previous attempted settlement in Hancock County:

" My father, Robert Shirley, and two other farmers of Ross County, Messrs. Moreland and Beaver, when viewing the country in 1820, had selected Fort Findlay as the place of their settlement, and in the spring of

1821 they each sent out a four-horse wagon, with plows, etc., seed-corn and potatoes, also a stock of provisions and a few hogs. Two men were sent with each wagon, making a party of six. My brothers, James and Elias, took father's team. They cleared and fenced land, and put in corn and potatoes. When the summer' s work was done, one man returned with each wagon to Ross County, leaving a horse apiece for the three men remaining. Brother James remained and Elias returned. To fatten the hogs, slaughter and pack them down, and to gather and store the corn and potatoes for the winter was the work of those remaining; then they left all in the care of Mr. Cox's family - the only residents there - and returned to their homes. The horse left for brother James had previously got away and went back to Ross County. The alarm at home was very great when the horse arrived without its rider; all were sure he had been killed until a letter was received from him explaining the circumstance. Having heard much of the Fort Defiance region, brother James went there before coming home, and was so captivated with it that, on his return, he persuaded father to change the location of his future home fi-om Fort Findlay to Fort Defiance."

In the spring of 1822 the Shirley family removed from Ross County to the vicinity of Fort Defiance, and in her account of the trip Mrs. Austin, then a girl of eleven years of age, says : ' ' After accompanying us to our destination, brother James returned to Fort Findlay for the purpose of conveying the provisions stored there, for the subsistence of the family, to Fort Defiance. He made the journey through the unbroken wilderness alone, on foot, provided with his compass, gun, ammunition, flints, punk and blanket. Our parents had great fears that James would fall a prey to wild animals or Indians, but he got safely through, and purchasing a pirogue at Fort Findlay, took the provisions down Blanchard' s Fork to the Auglaize, and thence down that stream to Fort Defiance. These provisions had been raised the previous year in Hancock County, with the expectation that the future home of the family would be at Fort Findlay."

The Morelands were the next family to settle in Findlay Township, the two sons, William and Jacob, having come out with the Shirleys from Ross County in the spring of 1821. They cleared a small patch of ground, put in a crop, and erected a cabin on the southwest quarter of Section 17. In the fall the whole family, consisting of the parents and two sons and four daughters, removed to this county. The father, William, Sr. , built a cabin on the north bank of the river, a little northeast of the dam which crosses the stream at Findlay. and all of the childi'en lived with him except Jacob, who kept "bachelor's hall" in the cabin up the river, on what is now the Aaron Baker farm. This tract was soon afterward entered by John P. Hamilton, and when the latter came out in the spring of 1822, Morelandwas compelled to remove fi'om the land which he had improved with the intention of entering it when able to do so. William Moreland, Sr., was one of the judges at the elections held in Findlay Township in 1823 and 1824, being elected overseer of the poor in the latter year. In 1824 he was assessed for one horse and three head of cattle, but he never owned any land, and after residing in the county about eight years he removed to Michigan. In October, 1828, Jacob Moreland entered the west half of the soiithwest quarter of Section 7, Township 1 north. Range 11, and settled upon it. He is found assessed in 1824 with four head of cattle. On May 4, 1826, he was married to Sarah Poe (a niece of Jacob Poe) by Robert McKinnis, justice of the peace, this being the second marriage ia Hancock County. He was elected township treasurer in April, 1828, and removed to Michigan about the same time as his father. AVilliam Moreland, Jr., entered the north half of the northwest qviarter of Section 18, Township 1 north, Range 11, December 21, 182(3, and on March 12, 1827, he was married to Julia, daughter of Job Chamberlin, Sr., by Joshaa Hedges, justice of the peace of Findlay Township. He afterward sold his land to William Taylor and removed to a small farm on the west bank of Eagle Creek, in what is now Madison Township. In the spring of 1831, the territory now embraced in Eagle, Van Buren, and the west half of Madison Township was cut off Liberty and Findlay and erected as Van Buren; and at the first election held in the new subdivision in June, 1831, William Moreland, Jr., was chosen as justice of the peace. In May, 1833, he purchased the improvement of John Diller, but soon afterward sold out and settled on Section 36, Findlay Township. His wife died in March, 1836, and he subsequently followed his father and brother to Michigan. Two of his sisters, Susan and Elizabeth, were married, respectively, to John and Joseph Gardner, pioneers of Hancock County, who also moved away at an early day. Another sister married John Simpson, Jr. , and removed to Michigan, while the remaining one married a Mr. Locke, who lived on the Tymochtee.

John Simpson, of Ross County, Ohio, entered the east half of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 25, Township 1 north, Range 10, October 25, 1821, and with his son John settled upon it the same fall. About two years afterward the father was killed by a falling limb. While hoeing corn in a field which they had partly cleared up, a storm came on, and in running to the house for shelter he was struck on the head by the falling limb and killed instantly. A few years after the father's death another son, Thomas, came out fi'om Ross County, and they subsequently sold their land to Job Chamberlin, Sr. , and John Boyd. John Simpson, Jr., married a daughter of William Moreland, Sr. After selling the old homestead the Simpsons purchased of John Gardner, Sr. , the west part of the southeast quarter of Section 13, whereon a portion of Findlay now stands. On the 14th of March, 1828, they sold this tract to Wilson Vance, who subsequently laid it out in town lots. George W. Simpson is also found among the electors of 1828, and it is presumed he was a member of this family. Soon after selling out to Vance they went to Michigan, toward which a considerable immigration was moving about that period. Daring their residence in this county the Simpsons did very little farming, but kept a pack of hounds and followed the chase like true backwoods Nimrods. It is said that one of their principal inducements in going to Michigan was a report brought back by a visiting wag that all sorts of crops produced abundantly in that region without cultivation, and wild game was very plentiful. Such a land of paradise for the hunter was what the Simpsons were looking for, and they went only to find it similar to the country they had deserted.

Job Chamberlin, Sr. , comes next in the order of settlement outside the town of Findlay, having located with his family on the hill which bears his name, February 15, 1822. Mr. Chamberlin and his wife, Deborah, were born, reared and married in Colchester, Connecticut. Soon after marriage they removed to Cayuga County, N. Y. , where eight children were born to them, viz. : Deborah, Sally, Nancy, Lucy, Vesta, Julia, Norman and Job. The eldest there married Benjamin O. AVhitman, who afterward removed to this county. In 1819 the parents, with the seven remaining children, boated down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers to Lawrenceburg, Ind., and settled at Georcretown, a village about six miles fi'om Lawrenceburg. Here Nancy died,''and in the spring of 1821 Mr. Chamberlin removed to Urbana, Ohio. On the 4th of October, 1821, he entered the southwest quarter of Section 80, Township 1 north, Range 11, and the following February arrived with his family at the site of his future home, leaving two daughters, Sally and Lucy, in Urbana, where they were soon afterward married, respectively, to Levi and Thomas Taylor, pioneers of Champaign County. Messrs. Vance, Cox, Moreland, Smith and Simpson, the only families then living in the township, assisted Mr. Chamberlin to build a log cabin, into which he moved with his family the third day after their arrival. He soon made a clearino- which he planted in corn, and from this crop raised sufficient to winteT his stock through the winter of 1822-28. Mr. Chamberlin took an active interest in all the early elections. In those held in 1823 and 1824 he was one of the judges of election, and in the latter year was chosen treasurer, and also one of the trustees of Findlay Township, which then embraced the whole county. He was a candidate for commissioner at the tirst county election in April, 1828, and was defeated, but he was elected township trustee at that election. In the first tax levy, made in 1824, Mr. Chamberlin is assessed for five head of cattle, viz. : three cows and a yoke of oxen. But in a few years he was able to furnish the pioneers, who came into the county, with hogs, cattle, sheep, wheat, corn, wool and other necessaries then very scarce in this part of the State. In 1827 he bought out John Simpson, paying for the eighty acres in hogs, and thus became the owner of 240 acres, covering a large portion of " Chamberlin' s Hill." His wife died January 8, 1829, and the next year he married Miss Sarah Criner. In 1831 he divided the old homestead on the hill equally between his two sons, Norman and Job, and removed to a farm on Section 7, Liberty Township, where he died September 4, 1847, his widow surviving him till December 28, 1854. In early life Mr. Chamberlin was a Baptist, but his second wife being a Presbyterian he united with that church after his marriage to Miss Criner. Of the four childi-en who came with him to this county in 1822, all are dead except Job. Vesta married Joseph C. Shannon, who then lived on the Tymochtee, and died in about a year afterward. Julia became the wife of William Moreland, Jr. , in 1827,' and died in 1836. Norman married Elizabeth Baker in 1832. She died the following year, and in 1834 he was married to Eliza Watsx)n, sister of Richard Watson, Sr., and died at his home on the hill in 1845, while serving as coroner of the county, leaving one son, John, who, in after years, "removed to Illinois. Job, with his wife and family, lived on the hill till 1874, when he moved into the village, where he is now residing - the oldest living pioneer of Hancock County.

John P. Hamilton entered the west part of the southwest quarter of Section 17, Township 1 North, Range 11, October 8, 1821; and the east part of the south vvest quarter of the same section, June 10, 1822. In the spring of the latter year Mr. Hamilton brought out Matthew Reighly and wife, and settled on his land, taking possession of a cabin previously erected by Jacob Moreland, who intended entering the tract, but pvit it off until too late, and thus lost the land and improvements thereon. With the assistance of Mr.

Reighly a crop was put in, and in the fall Mr. Hamilton brought his family to their new home on the Blanchard. He and wife, Martha, were natives of Virginia, who had settled in Gallia County, Ohio, whence with three childi-en, Eliza, Robert and Mary B., they came to Hancock, where Lucinda, Julia, Emily, Parmelia and John were born. Of these Mrs. Job Chamberlin and Mrs. Emily Vandenburg, of Findlay, and John and Parmelia, of Kansas, are the only survivors. Tn 1824 Mr. Hamilton was assessed for two horses and two head of cattle. At the first county election in April, 1828, he was elected one of the three commissioners of Hancock County, and re-elected the following October, serving until December, 1831. Mr. Hamilton was one of the progressive men of that day and took an active interest in all the early public business of the coimty. He died in Findlay, November 8, 1857.

Bieuford Hamilton came out with his brother, John P. , in 1822, and resided with the latter till his marriage with Zibella Beard, about 1829. He was one of the voters at the first county election; but as he died in the spring of 1838, he is not very well remembered.

Thomas Slight settled in Findlay Township early in the summer of 1822. He entered the south part of the southeast quarter of Section 17, Township 1 north. Range 11, October 29, 1821, his land adjoining John P. Hamilton's on the east. Mr. Slight was assessed in 1824 with one horse and four head of cattle. In April, 1828, he was elected coroner of Hancock County, and re-elected in October following, serving till November, 1830. He was again elected to the same office in October, 1832, and once more in 1835. Mr. Slight was a native of Maryland. He reared quite a large family and some of his descendants still reside in the county. He had a brother named Joseph, who came with him to Hancock, whence most of the family removed to Indiana.

John and Elizabeth Gardner and family settled on the site of Maple Grove Cemetery late in the fall of 1822. The parents were Pennsylvania- Irish and had a family of four sons and three daughters when they came to this county. The Gardner boys, Jonathan, John, William and Joseph, are remembered as well-developed specimens of physical manhood, who had few superiors in the backwoods sports of pioneer days. The father entered over 200 acres of land in Findlay and Liberty Townships in 1821 and 1822. John and Joseph Gardner married, respectively, Susan and Elizabeth Moreland. In 1828 John Gardner, Sr. , sold his land near Findlay and soon after removed to Lagrange County, Ind. The whole Gardner family left the county soon after this time, some of them settling in Indiana and others in Michigan. At the second election, held in Findlay Township in April, 1824, John Gardner was elected one of the two fence viewers ; and the same spring was assessed for two horses and four head of cattle. He was also a voter at the first county election in April, 1828, and the family were residents of the county about seven years,

Joshua Hedges came fi-om Fairfield County, Ohio, to this township in September, 1824, and settled north of the river on Section 11, where he had entered about 1(30 acres of land March 28, 1822. Mr. Hedges was born in Virginia May 24, 1793, and removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, with his parents when quite small, where he grew to manhood and, April 13, 1815, was married to Miss Hannah Reese, also a native of Virginia, born in September, 1 796. They had a family of one son and five daughters when they came to Hancock County, and three cliildi'en were born here. Of the nine only one survives, though several of their grandchildren reside in the county. In April, 1826, Mr. Hedges was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected to the same office. He was the lirst treasurer of Hancock County, serving from April to October, 1828. In 1840 he was elected coroner and served one term. Mr. Hedges died on the old homestead northwest of Findlay, in 18-15, his widow surviving him ten years, dying in 1855. He was a tall, muscular, energetic man, very hospitable and strictly honest, a stanch Democrat and for many years a member of the Methodist Church.

David Gitchel, of Logan County, Ohio, settled on the southeast corner of John Simpson' s land, on ' ' Chamberlin' s Hill, ' ' about 1825. He built a cabin and cleared a few acres of ground, but when Simpson sold out to Job Chamberlin, Sr., in 1827, Gitchel moved to a piece of land about a mile south of the Simpson place, and finally went back to Logan County.

In the spring of 1827 Isaac Johnson and wife, and sons, Joseph, Isaac, Miller and Eli, and daughters, Betsy and Lydia (the former of whom subsequently married Matthew Reighly, and the latter Peter Deamer), came to this township. The Johnsons removed from Virginia to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1811, and thence to this county sixteen years afterward. The father leased a piece of land of Joshua Hedges, in Section 11 ; was elected overseer of the poor in April,1828, and after several years' residence in the county he removed to Indiana. His son, Joseph, though bending under the weight of old age, is yet a resident of the county, A sketch of him will be found in the history of Marion Township.

John Boyd purchased the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 25, now the property of Ross Bennett, of Thomas Simpson, in 1827, and at once settled upon it. He built a comfortable cabin, cleared up a good-sized farm for those days, and put out an orchard. We find his name among the voters at the first county election. Boyd was an ardent Methodist, and conducted prayer and class-meetings at his house. He could play the violin fairly well, and some of the lively, ' ' catching ' ' tunes he had learned on that instrument he adapted to a few of the hymns, which he sang at these meetings. It is said that one of his friends, who did not admire such music in worship, asked Boyd why he introdiiced these fast tunes, when the latter replied, " I do not believe the Devil should have all the good music." His wife was a very good woman, and upon her death, about 1831, Boyd fell away from the church, became rather dissipated, soon had to sell his farm to John Bishop, and finally left the county.

John Jones located northwest of Findlay in the fall of 1827, whence he removed to a piece of land on Eagle Creek, south of the town. He was elected constable of Findlay Township in April, 1828. After a few years' residence in this county he went West, and is little remembered even by the oldest settlers.

Jacob Foster was a native of Virginia who settled in Ohio, and in the fall of 1828, with his wife, Mary, and six children, located a short distance north of Findlay, where he resided till his death. His eldest son, Jacob, is a resident of Findlay Township, and one of the oldest living pioneers of the township.

Judge Robert L. Strother was born in Virginia in 1801, and about 1819 removed with his parents to Licking County, Ohio. In the summer of 1828 he visited Hancock County, and, August 18, entered the northeast quarter of Section 21, Township 1 north. Range 10, which he afterward sold to Isaac Comer. In May, 1829, he again came to the county, and, June 1st, entered the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 12, in the same township and range, upon which he at once built a cabin and began an improvement. He soon afterward brought out his mother and sister, Malinda v., the latter subsequently the wife of Joseph C. Shannon. His mother resided in the county till her death in 1851. In October, 1831, Mr. Strother was elected county commissioner; and in March, 1835, the General Assembly elected him an associate judge of Hancock County. He served one term in each office. In 1847 Judge Strother was married to Miss Elizabeth Todd, who bore him one daughter, ere her death, now a resident of Columbus, Ohio. In 1851 he married Mrs. Sarah A. Merriam, nee Baldwin, to whom were born three children by this union, two of whom, with their mother, survive. Early in the fall of 1875 Judge Strother removed from his farm into Findlay, where he died October 8, of that year.

Willif^m Dulin located immediately east of the old cemetery in January, 1830, and died in 1832. He was an Englishman who had immigrated to Maryland, there married, and subsequently removed to Virginia. In 1816 he settled in Pickaway County, Ohio, whence the family came to this township. His widow survived him until 1866, and died at the home of her son, Sanfred F. , in Portage Township. The latter is the only survivor of a family of ten childi'en, and is one of the most intelligent pioneers now living in the county.

Leonard Tritch, of Crawford County, Ohio, entered 160 acres of land east of Findlay, and now partly within the corporate limits, in October, 1829, upon which he settled the following spring. He was born and reared in Maryland, whence he removed to Pickaway County, Ohio, where he married Miss Mary Hofheins, also a native of Maryland, subsequently settling in Crawford County. In the spring of 1830 he came to Hancock, accompanied by his wife and three children. He was a carpenter, and followed that trade after locating here. His wife died in 1838, he surviving her till 1842. They reared a family of six children, live of whom survive, and all residents of the township. The wife of Dr. Charles Osterlen, of Findlay, is one of the daughters, and it was at her home that Mr'. Tritch died.

Abraham and Margaret Schoonover, he a native of Pennsylvania, and she of Virginia, located on the southeast quarter of Section 1, directly north of Findlay, in the spring of 1830. Mr. Schoonover entered the land in November, 1829, and January, 1830, coming here fi-om Franklin County, Ohio, where they had previously been living. They reared a family of four childi-en, three of whom are now living, viz. : John, Alfred and Mrs. Samuel Bergeman, all residents of Liberty Township. Mr. Schoonover died on the old homestead, in Liberty Township, February 11, 1863; his widow surviving him till March 13, 1878.

John Baker, Richard Wade and Henry Folk all came into the township in 1830. Mr. Baker and his wife, Mary, were natives of Virginia, and located in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1812, removing to Franklin County in 1814. Early in 1830 he visited Hancock and entered land in Sections 6 and 7, Findlay Township, settling with his family on the southwest quarter of the former section in June of that year. His sons, Isaac and Jacob, were married before coming to this county, the latter locating in Marion Township, and the former on a part of liis father's land in Section 6, Findlay Township. The parents reared a family of nine children, of whom only two, Aaron and Reuben, sui-vive. Mr. Baker died on the home farm in 1841, and his widow ten years afterward. Their son, Aaron, resides upon the old John P. Hamilton farm, immediately east of Findlay, and is one of the few living pioneers of the township. Richard Wade was a brother of William and Wenman Wade, two pioneers of Liberty and Union Townships, respectively. He came in the spring of 1830. and settled on the southwest quarter of Section 2(3. In a few years Wade removed to a farm east of Eagle Creek, Section 6, Jackson Township, where he struck gas while digo-ino- a well in October, 1836, the first gas discovered in Hancock County^ He subsequently sold out and went to Wood County, Ohio. Henry Folk came here fi'om Pickaw^ay County, Ohio, in the fall of 1830, and settled on the northeast quarter of Section 2(3, not far from W^ade. He had entered eighty acres in that section September 16, 1829. Mr. Folk was a cooper and continued to work at his trade for a few years after settling in this township. He was a large, muscular man, good-natured and affable, and resided in the county until his death, which occurred in East Findlay. Some of his childi-en are yet residents of the county.

Robert Bonham, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania, April 5, 1793, and when two years old his parents removed to Hampshire County, Va. , where Robert spent his early years. In 1817 the family removed to Muskingum County, Ohio, and Mr. Bonham there married a Miss Fleming, who aft'er a few years died, leaving two children, viz. : John, a resident of Findlay Township, and Sophia, who is living in Minnesota. In 1829 Mr. Bonham visited Hancock County, and on the 5th of September entered the northeast quarter of Section 11, Findlay Township, upon which he settled in the Slimmer of 1831. He built a cabin and lived alone about four years, doing his own household work and opening up his farm. He then married a Mrs. Douglas, who bore him three children: Robert, Johnson and Ellen; of whom Johnson, a resident of Kansas, survives. Ellen married Dr. J. A. Kimmell, of Findlay, and died a few years ago. Several years after the death of his second wife Mr. Bonham was married to Miss Anna McCormick (the marriage occm-ring December 1, 1853). who still survives him. Mr. Bonham was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Chui-ch, of Findlay, for over forty years. He was a consistent Christian - a man who attended strictly to his own business - and died on May 11, 1875, in the eighty-third year of his age. ^

Daniel Andreck, John Bishop, John Harritt, Benoni Culp and Jacob Feller all settled in the township in the summer and fall of 1831. Andreck located in the north part of the township, in the summer of that year, and resided here several years, finally removing to Indiana. John Bishop bought John Boyd's farm on Section 25, in the summer of 1831, but did not remain long in the county, selling out to Thomas G. Whitlock the following year. John Harritt settled on the southeast quarter of Section 23 in October, 1831, where he resided till his death, in the spring of 1875. The parents came here from Pickaway County, Ohio, and of their'six children born in this township, John, who lives in Findlay, is the only survivor. The aged mother lives with her son in Findlay. Benoni Culp 'and family came from Fairfield County, Ohio, in September, 1831, and settled in the northwest part of the township. About five years afterward he removed into

Portage Township and died in 18-1:1, leaving a widow and nine children. One of his sons, Samuel, is a resident of Findlay. Jacob Feller and wife are yet residing on the farm where they settled in October, 1831. He was born in Pennsylvania, in 180(), and the next year his parents removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, where Jacob grew to maturity. In November, 1829, he entered the northwest quarter of Section 26, Findlay Township. In 1880 he was married to Miss Mary Powell, of Fairfield County, and the following year settled on his land. Seven sons and five daughters were born of this union, nine of whom are living and three sons residents of the county. Mr. Feller and wife are one of the oldest pioneer couples in the county, where they have resided a continuous period of fifty-five years.

John Byal was perhaps one of the best known pioneers of the county. He was born in Baltimore County, Md. , July 25, 1791, and was the second son of W illiam Byal, a subsequent pioneer of the township. The family removed fi'om Maryland to Pennsylvania, and in 1809 to Stark County, Ohio. Here, in 1816, John was married to Miss Elizabeth Newstutter, and resided in that county till March, 1832, when he located in Section 11, Findlay Township, on the south bank of the Blanchard, about two miles northwest of Findlay, where some of his descendants still reside. Soon after coming he built a saw-mill, close to his home, which he moved a short distance westward in 1833. In 1834 he erected the frame grist-mill yet standing and in operation near the old homestead. This mill was a great convenience to the early settlers, and Mr. Byal's enterprise deserves the highest praise. He was the father of nine childi'en, five of whom are living, viz. : Henry, in Findlay; William, in Iowa; Catherine, in Kalida, Ohio; Nancy and Rachel, in Kansas. Mr. Byal was elected justice of the peace in April, 1833. In October, 1833, he was elected county commissioner, and re-elected in 1836, and filled the office to the entire satisfaction of the people. He died July 13, 1859, and his widow January 22, 1859. Both are still well remembered by a large circle of the younger pioneer generation.

Other settlers of 1832 were Thomas G. Whitlock, Alvin Schoonover, Peter Deamer, and Samuel Spangler. Whitlock bought John Bishop's farm on Section 25, and subsequently opened the " Green Tree ' ' tavern, which became a resort of the ' ' fast " youth of the surrounding country. A Canadian herb doctor named Wolverton lived at Whitlock' s back in the "thirties," and practiced medicine a year or two, when he suddenly disappeared and was never again heard of. Considerable suspicion was aroused against the Whitlocks, who appropriated his horse and buggy and collected some of his back accounts. They claimed he went to Wood County to gather herbs, which was the last they ever saw of him. This story was not credited by the neighbors, to some of whom Wolverton had expressed a suspicious fear of the Whitlocks; but the officers of the law took no cognizance of the doctor's disappearance, and the matter soon blew over. After a few years the Whitlock family sold out and left for parts unknown. Alvin Schoonover was a brother of Abraham, and with his wife and mother came from Franklin County in 1832, and settled north of Findlay on Section 12, whence, in 1851, he removed to Iowa. Peter Deamer and Samuel Spangler settled northeast of Findlay. The latter is now living on the bounty of the people at the Infirmary.

In the spring of 1833 Anthony Strother, of Muskingum County, Ohio, settled northeast of Findlay, where he was joined by his father, Benjamin, the next year. Some eight years afterward the latter removed to Van AVert County. In 1840 Anthony married Mary J. McRill, who reared a family of six children, all of whom are residents of this county. Mr. Strother died in 1868 and his widow in 1884.

Frederick Duduit was born in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1807, and came to Findlay Township in the fall of 1833. His parents were natives of Paris, France, who came to the United States in 1790 with the colony of French Catholic emigrants who located on the ' ' French Grant, " one of the most stupendous swindles ever perpetrated on a confiding people. Mr. Duduit married Miss Helen H. Gilruth, a daughter of Rev. James Gilruth, a pioneer preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of this union were born ten children, four of whom are dead. Mr. Duduit came here after marriage and settled on a tract entered by his father-in-law immediately west of Findlay, his late residence being now within the corporation. Here his wife died January 12, 1886, and he on the 28th of March followino-, both dying on a part of the farm where they had spent more than half "a century.

In September, 1833, William Byal, with his wife and four youngest childi-en, came from Stark County, Ohio, and finally settled within the present limits of Findlay, though at that time outside the village. One son was born after coming here, and two older sons by a former marriage, John and Peter, settled in the township in 1832 and 1833, respectively. ^The latter is still a resident of the village of Findlay where further mentis' n of him will be found. The father died on his farm in April, 1840, and his eldest son by second marriage, Absalom P. , is the present representative in the General Assembly fi-om Hancock County.

Samuel K. Radebaugh, of Fairfield County, settled southwest of town, where he yet resides, in the sj^ring of 1834. Emanuel Phifer, also of Fairfield County, located on his present homestead southwest of Findlay the same year; and about that time Eli Thompson settled in the Radebauo-h neighborhood but did not remain long. Henry Baker and Samuel Snyder, both fi-om Fairfield County, came about 1834, both locating north of the river. The latter settled on Section 8, and several of his children reside in the county. George Hollenbeck, Samuel Switzer, Henry Bear and Aaron Alban came in along about 1835-36, and many others soon afterward settling in difPerent parts of the township. By this time the country around Findlay Avas quite thickly settled, and though later comers also suffered many of the hardships and trials inseparable fi-om pioneer life, yet they had not to undergo that feeling of loneliness and isolation which the earlier pioneers felt and suffered.

First Elections and Township Officers, and List of Justices. - In the erection of Findlay Township the commissioners of Wood County ordered an election of township officers to be held on the 1st of July, 1823. We also find in the journal of the court of common pleas of Wood County, under the date of May 28, 1823, the following minute: "Ordered that there be allowed to the township of Findlay two justices of the peace, and that the election for said justices take place in said township on the 1st day of July, next, at the house of Wilson Vance. ' " This was the first election held in Findlay Township, which then embraced the whole county. The orio-inal poll book reads as follows : " No. 1 , Townshij) of Findlay, Countv of Wood, July 1, 1823, Job Chamberlin, Sr., William Moreland and Benjamin Chan- dler, judges; VN'ilson Vance and Matthew Reighly, clerks. Judges and clerks being duly sworn, entered upon their respective offices. Number of electors, thirteen. It is certified that Robei-t McKinnis has thirteen votes for justice of the peace, and Wilson Vance has twelve votes for justice of the peace." There is nothing on record in Wood County showing who were elected to the other township offices, thoiigh it is certain they were all tilled at that time. The second election took place April 5, 1824, with Job Chamberliu, Sr , William Moi-eland and Jacob Poe, judges; Wilson Vance and Matthew Reighly, clerks. Eighteen votes were cast, and Job Chamberlin, Sr., Wilson Vance and Jacob Poe elected trustees; Job Chamberlin, Sr. , treasurer; Matthew Reighly, clerk; Wilson Vance, lister; Philip McKinnis, constable; John Gardner and John Hunter, fence viewers; and William Moreland and Robert McKinnis, overseers of the poor. At the election held in April, 1820, Joshua Hedges and William Hackney were chosen justices of the peace to succeed Wilson Vance and Robert McKinnis. At the first county election, April 7, 1828, Findlay Township also elected officers, viz. : Job Chamberlin, Sr. , Wilson Vance and Edwin S. Jones, trustees; John C. Wickham, clerk; Jacob Moreland, treasurer; Isaac Johnson and William Wade, overseers of the poor; Robert McKinnis, Asa Lake, Sampson Dildine and Joseph DeWitt, supervisors; John P. Hamilton and Asher Wicldiam, fence viewers; and John Jones and Jesse Hewitt, constables. All of the foregoing are well remembered pioneers who then lived in different parts of the county.

Churches and Schools. - There are only two churches in the township outside of Findlay, viz. : the Methodist Episcopal or ' ' Heck Church, ' ' on Section 11, and Zion Evangelical or "Feller Church," on the Lima road, in Section 26. The history of the former society is given in the chapter on Liberty Township, where it had its inception, the present building having been erected in 1851, twenty years after the society was organized. The first members of the Evangelical society worshij^ed at the Powell Chiu'ch, in Eagle Creek Township, but in 1857, Samuel, Hemy and Peter Powell, Jacob Feller, Jacob Wagner, Rev. C. M. Rinehart and a few other families, organized a separate society and built the present brick church, southwest of Findlay. The building cost about $1,000, and was dedicated in 1858.

It was many years after the organization of the township in 1823, before there were any schoolhouses outside of the town, where the first school was opened in the winter of 1826-27. Most of the pupils attended school in Findlay, though a good many living along the line of Liberty Township patronized the first schools opened in that subdivision. It is therefore impossible to tell at what date the first school was taught outside the village, but it was prior to 1840; and with the steady growth in population schoolhouses made their appearance in every part of the township, which now contains seven buildings with a large attendance.

Roads and Population. - This is the only township in the county that can be said to possess macadamized roads, which were built under a special act of the Legislature, passed on petition of the citizens, allowing a tax to be levied for that purpose. Several of the main roads have been macadamized to the township line and the good work is still going on. The stone was obtained from the quarries south of the river, and the solid roads constructed from this material in this township have been of great advantage to the whole county. It would be an act of wisdom for the people of Hancock County to Iniild similar highways throughout every township. Such roads would enhance the value of real estate and render travel easy, even in the wettest seasons. Bad roads two -thirds of the year are a great drawback to the growing wealth of the county, and if Hardin County could afford to macadamize her roads there is no good excuse for Hancock to remain long behind her neighbor in such necessary internal improvements.

Factories. - In 1861 F. J. Kevis bought a piece of land, on the hill south of Findlay, of Job Chamberlin, and erected a brewery thereon. He carried on the manufacture of beer at this point in connection with his Findlay brewery till 1875, when the building was burned down and never rebuilt.

In the spring of 1870 John B. Karst began the manufacture of tiles a short distance west of town. He has ever since continued the business, which, under his efficient management, has grown to large proportions. Mr. Karst employs from five to six hands throughout the year, and annually turns out about 250,000 tiles. This branch of trade has become one of the most important as well as one of the most valuable industries in the county, and thousands of acres have been brought under cultivation and rendered highly productive by the judicious use of tiles. Without tiling the great majority of the low flat lands in northwestern Ohio would be almost worthless for agricultural purposes, and millions of dollars would thus be lost to the annually increasing wealth of the State.

Chapter Xxviii Village Of Findlay

Its Name, and ("okiiect Orthography of the Word - Brief Sketch of ('(»L. James Findlay - The Plat as Acknowledged and Recorded - Amhiguity in the Acknowledg:ment Regarding thk Public Square Cleared I'p - Lots Donated by the Proprietors to Erect County BuiLDiN(is, and First Public Sale of the Same - Business Men of Findlay in 1829-30, and Appearance of the Village at that Period- Names OF those who have Laid Out Additions to the Original Plat, and Dates of Surveys - The Present Streets of the Toavn - Sketches OF Its Pioneer Business Men - First White Male Child Born on the Site of Findlay - Early Physicians of the Village, and the Difficulties OF Medical Practice During Pioneer Days.

rpHE history of Findlay goes back over a period of sixty-five years, for JL though Benjamin Cox, the first white settler in Hancock County, located on its site in 1815, the town was not contemplated for six years afterward. On the 3d of July, 1821, Joseph Vance, William Neill and Elnathan Cory entered the east part of the southeast quarter of Section 13, Townshij) 1 north, Range 10, and on the following day the same gentlemen entered the south half of Section 18, Township 1 north, Range 1 1. These were the first entries made in the county, and embrace all of the original town plat with which the history of Findlay, as a village, begins, and upon which most of its earliest settlers located. Joseph Vance lived in Urbana, William Neill in Columbus, and Elnathan Cory at New Carlisle, Ohio; but Vance & Cory subsequently purchased Neill's interest in these lands, and were the original proprietors of the town. In November, 1821, Wilson Vance, a younger brother of the Governor, took up his residence in the hewed-log house previously occupied by Benjamin J. Cox, which stood on the south bank of the Blaiichard River," immediately east of the old fort. He came from the Maumee, as the agent of his brother Joseph, and soon afterward laid out a town on a part of the land entered the previous summer, which he named Findlay.

Though the plat was not recorded until nearly eight years afterward there is no doubt that the town was laid out in 1821, as Mr. Vance always asserted that was the year the survey was made. Squire Carlin gives the following testimony in support of this tradition: '* Prior to my settlement at Findlay, in November, 1826, a survey had been made, the lots numbered and the streets designated; but I do not know what year the plat was made, though 1821 has always been claimed as the date. Mr. Vance had a plat of the town at his tavern, where I )>oarded for a time after my coming, from which I and other pioneers of the village selected our lots. 'l built my first log store-room in 1826, on the same corner I have ever since occupied, which I purchased as a corner lot; but I did not pay for the lot or receive a deed was commenced by Col. James FimUay ^^^^^^f ^ .^^^^ ^ ,3 to the Considerable divergence of opinion has ex-tod ince^.^ being thetwo modes correct spelling of ^^^^'eariv se tle7s theLJeof thepostoffice, established in general use among tlie,ea,^\y ^®.^^^^^^ Findlev and in 1870 changed years James became a Whig. John was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania. AVilliam was in Congress from 1808 to 1817; Governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820, and United States senator from 1821 to 1827. James married Miss Jane Irwin, and about 1705 removed to Ohio, traveling on horseback by way of Virginia and Kentucky, and settling in Cincinnati, then a small village. Here for a niamber of years he filled the position of receiver of yjublic moneys in the land office. In 1805-0(5 he served as mayor of Cincinnati, and again in 1810-11. When the war of 1812 broke out he was commissioned as colonel of a regiment, which was the advanced guard of Gon. William Hull's army on its march from the Scioto River to the Maumee. On this march he began the erection of Fort Findlay, named in his honor, and from which the city of Findlay derives its name, For meritorious conduct iii the war of 1812, Col. Findlay was afterward promoted to the rank of brigadier-general of the State militia, in which capacity he served for a considerable period. Col. Findlay was the member of Congress from Hamilton County from 1825 to 1883. In 1834 he was the Whig and anti -Masonic candidate for Governor of Ohio, but was defeated by Robert Lucas, and died the following year. Naturally reserved in his manner, he presented to strangers an air of austerity; but to those who knew him he was the soul of kindness and geniality. Col. Findlay possessed great decision of character, was just in all his dealings, and maintained through life an unsullied reputation.

September 26, 1829, the original plat of Findlay, containing 156 lots, was acknowledged before Robert McKinnis, one of the associate judges, by Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory, and recorded October 12, following. It embraces that portion of the town bounded by Front Street on the north, Sandusky (then called Back Street) .on the south, and by East and West Streets on the east and west, respectively. In the center of the plat a small square was reserved upon which to erect public buildings, and certain lots donated to the county for that purpose. No changes have since occurred in the names of the streets as designated on the original plat except Back Street (now called Sandiisky), West Crawford (then called Putnam), and Broadway, which has been converted into a park, wherein a handsome monument has been erected to perpetuate the memory of the patriots who fell in the great Rebellion. Main Street was laid out 1 00 feet wide, Broadway, 115| feet; Main Cross, 82|^ feet, and Front, Crawford, Sandusky, East and West Streets, each 66 feet wide.

In the acknowledgment of the plat the following language occurs: ' 'And that the lots, j)ublic ground, streets and alleys are to the best of their knowledge correctly designated by the notes attached, and are to be appropriated as public ways for the benefit of said town and to no other use whatever." A certain ambiguity in the wording of the foregoing quotation has led a few persons to assert that the public square was donated for the use of the town. But applying a similar construction to the whole quotation, which is here given verbatim, woidd also give the lots to the town, and appropriate both square and lots as ' ^public ivays for the benefit of said town and to no other iise whatever. ' ' The words ' ' public ways ' ' are italicized to draw the reader's attention to the fact that the construction of the acknowledgement which gives the public square to the town also gives every lot in the original plat to the same corporation, and makes the lots, sqiiare, streets and alleys ' 'public ways, ' ' which every one will readily admit the two first mentioned were not intended for. From tlie fact, too, that the proprietors gave to the county thirty-nine lots "for the purpose of erecting public buildings in said town, ' ' and that the square was designated as ' 'public ground, ' ' together with the fact that the latter has never been used for any other piu-pose than county buildings, and the evidence of Judge D. J. Cory who says his father told him they gave it for a court house site, is unanswerable proof that the proprietors intended the public square for that purpose only, and for which it has been used continuously during a period of fifty six years.

As already stated, thirty-nine lots of the 156 embraced in the original plat were given by Vance & Cory, ' 'in trust to the commissioners of said county of Hancock, for the purpose of erecting public l)uildings in said town." These lots were as follows: 2, 8, 9, 13, 17, 20, 26 29 32 39 43 46, 51, 56, 61, 64, 69, 72, 73, 79, 86, 89, 92, 95, 98, 100, 104, 105 lOs' 111. 116, 123, 127, 135, 137, 142, 146, 148 and 156. On the 10th of October, 1829, the following action was taken in regard to these lots: "The commissioners of Hancock County met for the purpose of taking into their care the proportion of the town lots of Findlay which were deeded to said commissioners by Joseph Vance and Elnathan Cory, and said Charles McKinnis and John P. Hamilton, present, ordered that the aforesaid lots be oifered at public sale on the 9th of November next. It is further ordered that the county auditor advertise said sale. ' ' The sale took place on the date designated, and twenty-seven of the thirty-nine lots were sold to the following purchasers, some of whom, however, did not pay up, and the lots reverted to the county, and were again sold.

covered with forpst. Wilson Vance was county recorder and clerk of the court of common pleas, and kept a tavern in a hewed-log building which stood on the east side of Main Street near the river. This house was built by a man named Thorp, an army sutler in the war of 1812, and afterward occupied by Benjamin J. Cox till the coming of Mr. Vance. The latter also had charge of the grist and saw-mills across the Blanchard, which were completed in 1824. Squire and Parlee Carlin carried on one of the two stores of the village in a story and a half frame building, on the southwest corner of Main and Front Streets. William Taylor was coiinty surveyor, and kept the other store, and also a tavern, in a small log and frame structure still farther south on the west side of Main Street, where Rothchild's liquor store now is. His brother, James, lived with him at that time. John C. Wlckham, the second school teacher in Findlay, was then postmaster and also sheriff of the county. His cabin was on east Main Cross Street, and his son. Minor T. , lived with him. Edwin S. Jones was county treasurer, and operated a tanyard on Front Street, east of Main. The cabin and blacksmith shop of Joseph DeWitt stood on the west side of Broadway (now the Park), north of the site of the old brick jail. Dr. Bass Rawson was the only physician then living here, and his cabin was on the alley near East Street, directly east of where he yet lives. It was built by Joshua Powell, who rented it to the doctor and removed to Marion Township. William Hackney was county auditor, and lived in the southeast part of the village. William L. Henderson was deputy surveyor under William Taylor, and lived in a cabin north of the site of the Patterson Block. Thomas F. Johnston lived on the south bank of the river, west of the old fort, and followed farming. John Bashore M^as keeping tavern in a two-story hewedlog building where the Carnahan Block now stands. His brother-in-law, Philip Strohl, lived with him. Matthew Reighly was the carpenter of the village; James B. Moore, the brick-mason ; Reuben Hale, the miller of Vance & Cory's grist-mill, and John George Flenner the village tailor. All of these were then single and boarded at the taverns. James Peltier worked for the Carlins, and Thomas Chester had been in the employ of Wilson Vance since 1827. Henry and Peter Shaw came in the fall of 1829, and lived for a time in the old log schoolhouse on the northwest corner of Crawforn and East Streets, but soon moved across the river to the farm of Robert L. Strother, whence, in 1830, Henry returned to the village and followed carpentering. The foregoing are believed to have constituted the business interests and population of Findlay during the years 1829 and 1830, though several other families came soon afterward.

The town was not then, nor for years afterward, very inviting as a place of residence, and some families who lived here would have gladly returned to their previous homes but could not raise the means to do so. At a meeting of the Pioneer Association held in May, 1876, Jonathan Parker, in detailing the circumstances of his removal to Findlay in October, 1831, says: "When I came here I found the first swale at Main Cross Street and I think it extended to Chamberlin's Hill without a break. When we landed we wanted to get to the house of W^illiam L. Henderson, who then lived on the lot now occupied by Kunz & Morrison. We could not get along the street, but had to ' coon it ' on logs across the public square. Old logs were plenty then all over the town plat. I think the water was at least one foot deep between Main Cross Street and Crawford Street. ' '

Village Of Findlay

The first addition to the original town was made by William Byal, February 19, 1834, on the southeast corner of Main and Sandusky Streets. Since that time the following additions (together with the dates of survey) have been made: Vance & Cory, June 13, 1837; Gist & Morrison, August

20, 1874; D. J. Cory, November 4, 1874; D. J. Cory (North Findlay), November 4, 1874; Daniel George. November 11, 1874; Louis Adams, November 16. 1874; Parlee Carlin, April 21, 1875; Samuel Howard (North Findlay), July 26. 1877; P. & M. Taylor (North Findlay), in February, 1878; Gage & Carlin, in May, 1878; Parlee Carlin, in May, 1878; Peter Hosier (Barnd's Addition). May 29, 1879; Davis & Bope, in Januaiy, 1881; Gray & Patterson (North Findlay), September 1, 1881; William L. Carlin (Rawson's Addition), April 15, 1882; Gray & Patterson (North Findlay), in June, 1883; extension of corpoi'ation limits in December, 1884; D. J. Cory (North Findlay), June 15, 1885. Findlay is now two miles and a quarter from its northern to its soiithern boundary, and two miles from east to west, and thus covers an area of about 2,880 acres.

Main is the principal business street of Findlay, and the only continuous one fi'om the north to the south limits of the town. Commencing at the bridge spanning the Blanchard and going south, the streets running east and west are named Front, Main Cross, Crawford, Sandusky, Hardin, Lincoln and Lima. South of Lima the east and west streets are not continuous. On the east side of Main are Hancock, First, Second, Third, Foiu'th, Fifth and Sixth; and on the west side are two short streets, Elm and Locust. Washington and Findlay are two short streets in the bend of the river west of Main, and north of and parellel with Front Street; and the continuation of Crawford Street fi-om Liberty westward is called Putnam. Between Main Street and Eagle Creek the parallel streets are Mechanic's Alley and East, with Rawson Street, Washington Avenue and Park Street running south from Lima Street, also a couple of short, unnamed streets parallel with them. West of Main we find Farmer's Alley, West, Liberty, Western and several streets south of Sandtisky in Carlin's addition of out-lots with no names given on the maps. Main Cross, Crawford, Sandusky and Lincoln Streets continue eastward through East Findlay, which lies east of Eagle Creek. In that part of the city the east and west streets beginning at the river are Main Cross, Crawford, Sandusky, South, Lincoln and Walnut; while Blanchard, High and East run north and south. On the Lima road, in the southwest suburbs of the city, are Hurd Avenue and Summit Street. North Findlay lies on each side of Main Street north of the Blanchard. East of Main the parallel streets are Clinton, Taylor and North, and Cory on the west. From the river northward the east and west streets east of Main are Center, Cherry, Walnut and two or three unnamed; and on the west side Fair, High, Donleson, Corwin, Fillmore and Howard, none of which extend across Main.

The pioneers of Findlay deserve more than a passing notice, for to them, in a large measure, the town owes its present prosperity. The first white settler on the site of Findlay was Benjamin J. Cox, but it has been thought more appropriate to give a brief sketch of him in the history of the township. He left the county in 1823, and was never in any way connected with the founding or growth of the town, the history of which properly begins with the coming of Wilson Vance in 1821, whose subsequent life was mainly spent within its limits.

Mr. Vance was born in Mason County, Ky., January 19, 1796, his parents, Joseph C. and Sarah (Wilson) Vance being natives of Loudoun County, Va. , of Irish ancestry. The family removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1788, and thence to Greene County, Ohio, in 1800. Four years later they left Greene County, and took up their abode in Urbana, Champaign County, and here Wilson grew to maturity. In 1816 he went to Fort Meigs, where his brother Joseph was carrying on a store, and he remained there till his removal to Fort Findlay. On the 14th of March, 1820, he was married in Champaign County, to Miss Sarah Wilson, by the Rev. John Thomas. She was a native of Pennyslvania, born June 28, 1801. Mr. Vance returned with his young wife to the Maumee, where a son, Joseph C, was born December 14, 1820. In November, 1821, with his wife and child he started from Fort Meigs for Fort Findlay to look after the large landed interests of his brother Joseph at this point and lay out a town at the fort. He walked the whole distance, his wife riding on an Indian pony and carrying her babe in her arms. Upon reaching Fort Findlay Mr. Vance took possession of a story and a half hewed-log house, then occupied by Benjamin J. Cox, the latter moving into a smaller cabin which stood a little farther southeast. In the spring of 1822 Mr. Vance opened a tavern, his license being issued by the court of common pleas of Wood County May 20 of that year, for which he was charged $5. This old log tavern stood on the site of the present two-story brick (which he erected in after years), on the east side of Main Street, near the bridge. His second child, Mary L., was born in Urbana, September 11, 1822, and the third. Miles W., at Findlay, September 27, 1824, the latter being the first white male child born on the site of Findlay as well as in the county. The first grist and saw-mill was built under the supervision of Mr. Vance, in 1824. It stood on the site of Carlin's mill and was a small log stinicture of primitive construction and the machinery operated by water-power, but it was a great boon to the first settlers. In 1832 he put up a one-story frame south of the log structure, and in the south room of this building, now the residence of G. C. Barnd, on Front Street, Vance & Baldwin opened a general di-y goods store that year. Mr. Baldwin removed to New York in 1837, and Mr. Vance continued in the mercantile trade in Findlay till 1852, when he sold out and retired from business, though still retaining an interest in his son's store at Bluffton, Allen County. Besides merchandising he was engaged quite extensively in farming for many years. Mr. Vance and his wife were the parents of eight sons and four daughters, all of whom were born in Findlay, except the two eldest previously mentioned, and Horace M., of Findlay, is the sole survivor of the family. The official life of Mr. Vance began May 4, 182(), when he was appointed surveyor of Wood County, and he filled that office until his removal to Findlay. He was appointed the first postmaster of Findlay February 8, 1823, and held that position until July, 1829. At the first election held in Findlay Township, July 1, 1823, he was chosen one of the two justices of the peace; and at the second election, April 5, 1824, he was elected township triTstee and lister. In discharging the duties of the latter office he made the first assessment of taxable projjerty in Hancock County, and has himself assessed for one horse and four head of cattle. Mr. Vance was clerk of the court o^ common pleas fi'om March, 1828, to March, 1835; county recorder from the spring of 1828 to June, 1835, and from October, 1835, to October, 1838; and county treasurer fi-om June, 1845, to June, 1847. He was generally recognized as an upright man and a kind, good neighbor, but like all other men of strong individuality, sometimes awoke hostility in the hearts of his fellowmen by his unswerving determination, bluff manner and stubborn adhesion to his own opinions. He was dignified in character, and possessed a fine personal appearance. Both he and his wife were life-long adherents of the Presbyterian faith, and the Findlay Chiu'ch was organized at their house. Mr. Vance died at the home of his son in Orange Township September 30, 1862, and his widow survived him till March 10, 1860, leaving behind them an example in many things highly worthy of imitation.

The same fall in which Mr. Vance located at Fort Findlay a Kentuckian named Smith took possession of an old Indian cabin which stood immediately west of the fort. He cultivated a small patch of ground in the neighborhood, and spent considerable time in hunting, while his wife looked after the household duties. Smith claimed to understand the use of drugs, and kept a small stock of medicines on hand. When Mrs. Matthew Reighly, who lived on the John P. Hamilton farm, was taken sick with malarial fever in 1822, Smith was called on to attend her, but she died so suddenly soon afterward that suspicion fell upon the medicine Smith had administered as the direct cause of her death. In defense Smith claimed that he positively forbade the patient the use of cold water, but she disobeyed his instructions and drank copiously, fi-om the effects of which she died. As he was the only doctor( V) in the settlement his statement had to be accepted, as none could dispute its correctness. After a residence in Findlay of two or three years Smith and his wife left the county, and are supposed to have returned to Kentucky.

Matthew Reighly was the next to cast his fortunes with the embryo village. In the spring of 1822 he and his wife accompanied John P. Hamilton to this county, and occupied a cabin bnilt the previous year by Jacob Moreland on the soutliwest quarter of Section 17, up the river from the fort. Mrs. Reighly died the same year (being the first white person who died in Hancock County) and was buried in the old cemetery east of town. After his wife's death Mr. Reighly, who was a carpenter and possessed a fair education for that day, removed to Findlay and boarded at Wilson Vance's tavern. He assisted in building the first grist and saw mill, also most of the first log and frame houses erected in Findlay. He was one of the clerks at the first two elections held in the township in 1823 and 1824, and was chosen township clerk at the latter. At the first county election in April, 1828, Mr. Reighly was elected county auditor, and served until the following October, when his successor was chosen. He subsequently married Betsy, daughter of Isaac Johnson, and sister of the venerable Joseph Johnson, of Portage Township, and finally removed to the West.

Squire Carlin is the oldest continuous resident now living in either the village or county who had reached the age of manhood before locating within its limits. He was born near Auburn, N. Y. , December 25, 1801, and is a son of James and Susan (Davis) Carlin, the former a native of New Jersey and his wife of New York State. They were married near Aiiburn, and were the parents of four children ere leaving New York, viz. : Nancy, Squire, Zada and Parlee. In the winter of 1806-07 they left New York in a sled, and traveled westward to Erie, Penn. , and there spent the latter part of the winter. In the spring of 1807 the family left Erie in a sail-boat, and came up the lake to the mouth of Huron River, settling on the shore of Lake Erie, a short distance west of that point. The Carlins were the second white family to locate in what is npw Huron County, but they remained there only one year, removing to the River Raisin in the spring of 1808. They settled on the opposite side of that stream from Frenchtown, about two miles and a half east of the site of Monroe, Mich. Here they lived until the summer of 1809, during which time another child, Caroline, was born. They next located on the site of Maumee City, on the north bank of the Maumee, in what is now Lucas County, Ohio, and continued peacefully tilling the soil until after Hull's surrender in August, 1812, when the reported coming of hostile Indians caused the family to flee southward over Hull's Trace. The mother, with her children, mounted on two horses and, carrying provisions for the journey and a few household articles, accompanied a band of refugees to Urbana, her husband remaining behind with the hope of saving his stock, etc. , but his efforts proved futile, as they fell a prey to the Indians and their English allies. The family passed by Fort Findlay on the route, and our subject, who was then in his eleventh year, says the soldiers wei-e still working on the fort, which was commenced the previous June. After stopping in Urbana a couple of months the Carlins located on Buck Creek, east of the village, where a son, James, was soon afterward born. Here they lived till 1814, when the father and son. Squire, returned to the Maumee, built a cabin near Fort Meigs, and raised a crop on the island below the fort. In 1815 the balance of the family joined them, and they reoccupied the old homestead north of the river, though the buildings had been burned by the enemy, and new ones had to be erected. The parents spent the remainder of their lives on the Maumee, and there Squire grew to manhood, receiving no education whatever, what he now possesses having been acquired after locating in Findlay. He mar- ried Miss Sarah Wolcoti, April 17. 1S21. and settled in a cabin on the old homestead. She was born in Toronto, Canada, and her parents settled on the Maiimee after the close of the war of 1812. Mrs. Carlin was the mother of ten childi-en, only three of whom lived to maturity, viz. : William D., Elliott and Sarah, the last mentioned being Mrs. George W. Myers of Findlay. William D. was for many years one of the county's leadino- physicians, and died December 26, 1802, while serving as surgeon of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment. Mr. Carlin had been to Fort Fmdlay several times before and after the settlement of Wilson Vance, and in November, 1826, piu'chased a lot on the southwest corner of Main and Front Streets built a small log house, and opened the first store in the village. He boarded through the winter of 1826-27 at the tavern of Wilson Vance but in the latter year his wife and son, William D., joined him. In 1828 his brother, Parl'ee, came fi'om the Maumee, and the firm became S. & P. Carlin, and' in 1831 their brother James obtained an interest, but remained only about a year. During this period a large part of Mr. Carlin' s time was spent in traveling through the forest buying furs from the Indians, white hunters and small traders, and in this way he laid the foundation of his subsequent fortune. While engaged in the fur trade he suffered many privations and hardships, which he loves to relate. In the winter of 1827- 28, while out on a trip and very hungry, he came to an Indian camp in the forest where several dressed animals were roasting along a log fire, and jumping from his horse cut off a large slice of the roasting meat. One of the Indians present, seeing the avidity with which he ate, said: "You like um f ox ? " " Yes, ' ' said Mr. Carlin, ''' don' t you ? ' ' The Indian shook his head. ' ' Then why do you roast them r ' ' asked his guest. ' ' For my dogs, replied the Indian, who seemed much amused over the incident. The meat, however, tasted good to the hungry trader, who first supposed the animals were coons, a much prized dish among the pioneers. The Carlin Bros, carried on a mercantile business on the old corner until 1852, when they sold their stock, but still continued to operate the grist and saw mills on the river, which they had owned since 1837. They were also largely engaged in the real estate and banking business from 1854 until their failure in 1878. Mr. Carlin was the third postmaster of Findlay. which position he held from June, 1831, to March, 1849, a period of nearly eighteen years. He was also treasurer of the county fi'om June, 1831, to June, 1839. His wife died in October, 1850, and Juno 16, 1853, he was married to Mrs. Delia B. Gardner, nee Briggs, a daughter of James Briggs, Esq., of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Three children have been born to this union, only one, Frederick P. , now living. Few men in this part of the State have led such an active business life as the now venerable Squire Carlin, the brothers being at one time among the wealthiest firms in northwestern Ohio, and the second largest land owners of Hancock County. The building of the Lake Erie & Western Railroad was the direct cause of Mr. Carlin' s financial misfortune, for, though it has proven a blessing to the county, it was an unfortunate enterprise for him; yet he takes his reverses philosophically, and seems as happy as if they had never occurred.

Joseph White located in Findlay, in 1826, and taught the first school in the village in the winter of 1826-27. This school was held in a small logcabin east of the Sherman House site. White first settled in Liberty Township, in 1823, whence he removed to Findlay. He left the county in 1827, and Squire Carliu is doubtless the only man now living in the county who remembers him, as he attended the school taught by White in Findlay.

Joseph DeWitt came to Findlay early in the spring of 1827, with his wife and nine children, and opened a blacksmith shop north of the site of the old brick jail facing the park. This was the first blacksmith shop opened in the village. Mr. DeWitt was a native of New Jersey, thence removed to Pennsylvania, where he married Catherine Hunt, a native of that State. About 1809, with his wife and two children, Elizabeth and William, he removed to Hamilton County, Ohio, settling near Cincinnati, where Sarah, the widow of Parlee Carlin, Esq. , was born. He subsequently lived in Fairfield and Pike Counties, whence he came to Hancock, some of his childi'en being then full grown. Mr. DeWitt carried on blacksmithing in Findlay till his removal to Wood County, in 1832. In the fall of 1830 he was elected coroner of the county, being the second incumbent of that office. From Wood County he went to Indiana, and there died.

John C. Wickham, his wife, Barbara, son Minor T. and daughter, Lucy, came from Ross County, Ohio, in the spring of 1827, his son, William, coming out a few years afterward. Wickham built a cabin on east Main Cross Street, and in the winter of 1827-28, taught school in the old hewed-log schoolhouse, erected the former year on the northwest corner of East and Crawford Streets. In October, 1828, he was elected sheriff, and served two years; and he was also postmaster of Findlay, from July, 1829 to* June, 1831, being the second postmaster of the village. In 1832 his son Wjlliam located in Blanchard Township, and the next year the parents and Minor T. also removed to that subdivision. The daughter, Lucy, married James McKinnis. Mr. Wickham taught school there, and in 1835 was elected justice of the peace, but died soon after, while on a business trip to Wayne County, Ohio.

Reuben Hale was a pioneer of 1827, in which year he was hired by Wilson Vance, to attend to the Vance & Cory grist-mill. He was a brother of Alfred Hale, who settled at Ft. Mc Arthur, on the Scioto River, about 1818, where Reuben also lived till coming to Findlay, nine years afterward. At the first county election in April, 1828, he ran for sheriff, against Don Alonzo Hamlin, but was defeated. He married Emeline, daughter of Asher Wickham, and subsequently removed into Marion Township, thence to Union County, Ohio, where the declining years of his life were passed.

Edwin S. Jones, started the first tanyard in the village on East Front Street. He visited Findlay in May, 1827, and purchased a lot on Front Street, and the following autumn, erected thereon a hewed-log house with shingle roof, the first shingles used in the village, the few other cabins then here being covered with clap boards. He subsequently erected a tannery close to his house. Mr. Jones was clerk of elections in April, 1828, and in October, 1828, was elected county treasurer, which office he filled two years. In 1831 he sold his tannery to Edward Bright, and removed to a farm in Marion Township, whence he afterward went to Chillicothe, 111. , where he died a few years ago.

William Taylor was one of the most prominent pioneers of Findlay, where he settled permanently in June, 1828. He was born in Mifflin County, Penn. , May 12, 1798, and there grew to manhood, receiving a very limited education. He was married, in Bedford County, Penn. , April 25, 1826, to Miss Margaret Patterson, and the following July removed to Richland County, Ohio, where he engaged in farming about eight miles from

Mansfield. In the spring of 1828 Mr. Taylor came to Findlay and engaged Matthew Reighly to build him a log house, 18x32 feet in dimensions, and complete the same for about $350. He then retui-ned for his family, with whom he arrived June 8, 1828. Mr. Taylor" brought along a small stock of dry goods, groceries, etc. , and opened the second store of the village in one end of the house, which stood on the west side of Main Street, where Rothchild's liquor store now is. He soon afterward weather-boarded the building, and put up a fi-ame addition adjoining, and opened a tavern called the " Findlay Inn. " His brother, James, came out soon after and lived with him several years, subsequently residing in Putnam and Allen Counties, and thence removing to Oregon, where he is now living. In 188-l:-35 Mr. Taylor built the fi-ont part of the brick store-room now owned by Frank Karst, Sr. , on the noi-thwest corner of Main and Main Cross Streets, and removed his business and residence to that building. Besides attending to his store and tavern Mr. Taylor carried on a very profitable trade in peltry with the hunters and Indians who frequented the village. By judicious management, good judgment and strict attention to business he accumulated a large estate, and at the time of his decease he was regarded as one of the wealthy citizens of the town. He was the first surveyor of Hancock County, and filled that office fi-om April, 1828, to April, 1832. In 1835 he was elected county commissioner, and again in 1845. He served in the Ohio Legislature in 1838-39, and in 1856 was the presidential elector fi-om this district on the Fremont and Dayton ticket. In December, 1849, he was appointed postmaster of Findlay, and held the office till April, 1853. Mr. Taylor was one of the organizers of the Presbyterian Church of Findlay, and a ruling elder of the society until his death, which occurred September 13, 1867, in the seventieth year of his age. His widow survived him only eleven months, dying August 12, 1868, she being also in her seventieth year when called fi'om the scenes of life. Four children survive the parents, viz. : Patterson, of Missouri ; Milton, of Toledo, and Mrs. Milton Gray and Mrs. J. S. Patterson, of Findlay, all prominent in the material and social interests of their respective homes. Parlee Carlin was a pioneer of the fall of 1828, coming to Findlay fi-om the Maumee River, and forming a partnership with his brother Squire. He was born in New York State October 11, 1806, and followed the fortunes of the family, which have been related in his brother's sketch. July 29, 1830, he married Miss Sarah De AVitt, daughter of Joseph De Witt, the pioneer blacksmith of the village, who still survives him. Mr. Carlin was prominently associated with his brother in all his business enterprises, but at the time of their failiu-e he was more fortunate in saving something from the financial disaster which swept away his brother's fortune. He served as county recorder from June, 1835, to October, 1835, and served three terms in the State Legislature, viz. : 1837-38, 1856-58 and 1864-66, and also one term in the State Senate, to which body he was elected in 1866. IVIi-. Carlin and wife reared a family of nine children, all of whom are living. He died July 7, 1883, in his seventy-seventh year, and is still kindly remembered by a large circle of fi-iends.

James B. Moore and James Peltier came to the village in the summer of 1828, both being single. The former was a brick-mason and a native of Virginia. After several years' residence in town he settled in the southeast corner of Findlay Township, and thence removed to Jackson, where he died in the winter of 1845-46. Mr. Moore was twice married, and four of his children are living, two of whom are residents of Findlay. Peltier was a Frenchman, who entered the employ of Squire Carlin, and traveled over the country buying furs. In 1880 the Carlins set him up in business in Allen County, where he married and spent the balance of his life. Moore and Peltier voted at the October election of 1828.

John George Flenner was the pioneer tailor of Findlay, where he located in the spring of 1829. He was a native of Frederick County, Md., born in April, 1776, and there grew to maturity. In his twenty-fourth year he enlisted in the United States Army and served two years. He then entered the navy and did service under Capt. John Rodgers, crossing the Atlantic four times during his term of one year. Quitting the navy he repaired to his early home, and was soon afterward married to Miss Elizabeth Yantiss. After several years spent in Alleghany and Frederick Counties, Md. , he removed to Ohio, and settled near Cadiz, Harrison County, soon afterward removing to the Pickaway Plains, near the Scioto River. Here his wife died early in 1826, and three years afterward he came to Findlay. Mr. Flenner married again and followed his trade from the time of his settlement up to within a few years of his death, whiph occurred November 17, 1861, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.

Joshua Powell and family came in the spring of 1829, and built a log cabin on the alley north of Crawford Street and near East. He cleared and cultivated a small patch of ground about where the residence of E. P. Jones now stands, but the crop of corn which he put in proved a failure, because of the very dry weather which prevailed that season. In the fall of 1829 he rented his cabin to Dr. Bass Rawson, and removed to a tract of land in Marion Township, in the history of which township further mention of him will be found.

Thomas F. Johnston removed from Crawford County, Ohio, to Findlay in the spring of 1829, and took possession of a small cabin immediately west of the fort. He entered 214 acres of land in Sections 11 and 14 the same year, and during his residence here did some farming. In October, 1830, he was elected auditor of the county, and served from March, 1831, until June 4, 1832, when he resigned the office. He owned the lot on which the Humphrey House stands, and erected a two- story frame upon it, but ere its completion, in 1832, he sold it to James H. Wilson, who finished the building. Soon after selling this property he went back to Crawford County.

John Bashore was the third pioneer tavern-keeper of the village. He came here early in 1829, and erected a two-story hewed-log building on the northeast corner of Main and Crawford Streets, and opened "a place of entertainment for man and beast." His brother-in-law, Philip Strohl, came with him and died a year or two afterward. Rev. Thomas Thompson preached the funeral sermon, and Strohl was interred in the old cemetery on Eagle Creek. In May, 1832, Bashore so Idout to Maj. John Patterson, and removed to Lima.

William L. Henderson was one of the few pioneers of Findlay who possessed what was then a rare accomplishment, viz. : a good education. At the time of his settlement, in 1829, he was doubtless the best informed man in the village. He was a native of the County Donegal, Ireland, born May 12, 1800, and in 1818 immigrated to New Brunswick, soon afterward removing to Mt. Eaton, Wayne Co. , Ohio, where he married Miss Phoebe

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Patterson. In 1829 he came to Findlay and erected a log house on the west side of Main Street immediately north of Patterson's corner. Mr. Henderson was a practical surveyor, and first served as deputy under William Taylor, who then held the office of county surveyor. In April, 1832, he succeeded Mr. Taylor and served until October, 1838. In October, 1831, he was elected justice of the peace of Findlay Township, and reelected in 1834. In October, 1838, Mr. Henderson was elected auditor of Hancock County, and re-elected to the same office, but resigned September 29, 1842, to accept the office of clerk of the court of common pleas, which he filled until July, 1848, when he resigned. Mr. Henderson was also one of the first, if not the first notary public apjDointed in the village. He was an honest, capable official, and recognized as a man of strong convictions and very decided opinions. He possessed that combination of pride and generosity so characteristic of the Irish race, and was ever ready to extend a helping hand in assisting suffering humanity. In the spring of 1855 Mr. Henderson removed to Guthrie County, Iowa, and in 1858 located in Linn County, Kas. , where he died May 15, 1863, his widow surviving him about two years. They reared a family of five childi-en, viz. : Mrs. Sarah A. Whiteley, Mrs. Ellen E. Benedict, Mrs. Clara J. Carson, Mrs. Kate M. Selkirk and Patterson. Only two of these are now living, Mrs. Benedict and Mrs. Selkirk, both residents of Dixon County, Neb. Mrs. Whiteley, the deceased wife of Judge M. C. Whiteley, is, perhaps, the best remembered of any of Mr. Henderson's children, as she spent more than fifty years of her life in Findlay and died here only a few years ago.

Henry and Peter Shaw came to Findlay in September, 1829, the former having a wife and five childi-en, and the latter a wife only. They were natives of Pennsylvania, whence they had removed to Richland County, Ohio, in 1812, and seventeen years afterward to Hancock. They lived for a short time in the old log schoolhouse and then took a contract fi'om Robert L. Strother to clear oil* a piece of land north of the river, where both families spent the winter of 1829-30, and then returned to the village. Peter subsequently located southeast of the town on Lye Creek. Heni-y was something of a carpenter, and in 1830 built the old log jail that once stood upon the public square. In 1832 he erected a horse-mill on Front Street, on the south end of the lot now occupied by the ' ' Church of God, " ' which he operated a few years. This old grist-mill is yet well remembered by many of the inhabitants of Findlay. In 1836 Henry removed to a farm near Van Buren, and in 1842 to Marshall County, Ind. , where he died in 1872.