Harmony Township (part 2 of 4)

June 24, 1820. - Ira Paige was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, to succeed the expired term of Samuel Smith. On the 25th of September following, Paige resigned his commission and was succeeded by Joseph Perrin, whose commission dates October 20, 1820.

April 5, 1821. - -Officers were elected this day as follows: Thomas Patton, Peter Sintz and George W. Jewett, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Robert Rennick and Abner West, Constables; Saul Henkle, Clerk; Jacob Lingle and Jeremiah A. Minter, Overseers of the Poor; Robert Rennick and Sampson Hubbell, Appraisers; Robert Rennick, Lister; James Hall and John Reid, Fence Viewers.

On the first Monday in April, 1821, and in accordance with! an act of the General Assembly, the electors of the township voted to divide the township into districts, for school purposes, and on the 21st day of the same month, the Trustees districted: the territory as follows:

(2.) All that part of Springfield lying west of the street which runs north and south between the houses of William Werden and Sampson Hubbell, including a strip of Mill Run between the first and second plats of the village, constituted the Second District.

(4.) All that territory embraced by the following description constituted the Fourth District: Beginning at the northeast corner of Section 4 and Range 9 (original surveyed township), and running west to Mad River; thence down Mad River to Section 16; thence south with the township line to Section 7 in said township; thence east on line between Sections 1 and 2 and 7 and.8, to the east boundary of Township 4; thence to the beginning.

(5.) The south half of Sections 26, 20 and 14, and the whole of Sections 25, 19 and 18, Township 5, Range 5, constituted the Fifth District.

1822, April 2. - Elected township officers as follows: Thomas Patton, Maddox Fisher and Peter Sintz, Trustees; Abner West, Lewis Bancroft, Constables; John Ambler, Treasurer; Jacob Lingle and Richard W. Hunt, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Perrin, Township Clerk.

For the year 1823, the Trustees selected Grand and Petit Jurors as folws: s Grand Jurors - John Humphreys, Ira Paige, Nicholas Prickett, Peter Sintz, David Cowan, Jacob Lingle, Jonathan Milhollin and John Reid. Petit Jurors - Maddox Fisher, Jonah Baldwin, William Patton, Thomas Patton and Andrew Benson.

1823, March 10. - Elected township officers as follows: John Humphreys, Thomas Patton and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Ambler and Sampson Hubbell, Appraisers; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Ambler, Treasurer; David Dunkin and William Werden, Fence Viewers.

On the 23d day of August, 1823, the Trustees contracted with A. D. Merriness to build a bridge on the road from Springfield to Peter Sintz's, over the branch of Buck Creek and between the bridges on Buck Creek and Mad River. The job was taken at $71.50. Of this amount, $58.083 was paid in subscription, and the remainder, $12.414, was paid in cash by the township.

1824, March 1. - John Humphreys, William Kirkpatrick, Benjamin Moore, John Perrin, Peter Sintz, Nicholas Prickett, Pierson Spinning, were selected as Grand Jurors for the ensuing year; and George Benson, George Reid, William Miner, Sampson Hubbell, John Dougherty and John Kirkpatrick, were chosen Petit Jurors.

1824, April 5. - Elected, John Snodgrass, Justice of the Peace; John Humphreys, Thomas Patton and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Vicory and Samuel Brakney, Constables; John Heiskill and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; Sampson Hubbell and Lewis Bancroft, Appraisers; Reuben Donald and David Duncan, Fence Viewers.

1825, April 4. - Elected, John Humphreys, Oliver Armstrong and Thomas Patton, Trustees; John Ambler, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; John Vicory and Joseph Cowan, Constables; John Ambler, Appraiser and Lister; Charles Cavalier and Pierson Spinning, Overseers of the Poor; John Berry and David Dunkin, Fence Viewers.

1825, June 4. - John Smith and Jacob Shaffer, for refusing to be qualified as Supervisors of Roads, were each fined $2 for said refusal. Joseph Cowan was fined $2 for refusing to qualify as Constable, and Charles Cavalier was fined a like amount for failing to qualify as Overseer of the Poor.

1826, April 3. - Elected John Humphreys, John Ambler and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; John Bacon, Treasurer; Joseph Perrin, Clerk; A. D. Merriness and Joseph Cowan, Constables; John Perrin and Jacob Lingle, Overseers of the Poor; James Wallace and Jacob Clark, Fence Viewers.

1826, June 7. - James Reddish was elected Justice of the Peace, vice John Snodgrass, deceased. This election was contested and set aside, and on the 15th day of June, 1826, Joseph Cowan was elected. His commission bears date July 22, 1826.

1826, October. - A special election was held to fill a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace, occasioned by the death of William Wilson.

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1827, April 2. - Township officers elected as follows: John Humphreys, John Ambler and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; Joseph' Perrin, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; William Berry and John Dugan, Constables; Sampson Hubbell and Maddox Fisher, Overseers of the Poor.

1828, April 7. - Elected Oliver Armstrong, Sampson Hubbell and Joseph Perrin, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; John Cook and

1828, October 14, - The Trustees selected Jurors for the ensuing year as follows: John Ambler, John Dougherty, John Perrin, Grffith Foos and James Taylor as Grand Jurors; and David Cowan, John Humphreys, Peter Sintz, Charies Cavalier and Andrew Edgar, Petit Jurors, to serve at the November term of the Court of Common Pleas.

1829, April 6. - Elected Joseph Perrin, Sampson Hubbell and David Cowan, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; A. D. Merriness and John Berry, Constables; John Ambler and Griffith Foos, Sr., Overseers of the Poor; D. Whitridge and Jacob Icenberger, Fence Viewers.

1829, April 18. - John Heiskell and John Cook were appointed Overseers of the Poor, in place of Griffith Foos and John Ambler, who were elected and refused to serve. Trustees rented of Jacob S. Woodward a brick office, for which they agree to pay $9 per year.

1830, April 6. - Elected Sampson Hubbell, David Cowan and Oliver Armstrong, Trustees; A. D. Merriness and John Fluke, Constables; John Bacon, Treasurer; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; Griffith Foos and John Heiskell, Overseers of the Poor; John Williamson and Jacob R. Crane, Fence Viewers.

1830, July 17. - At a special election held for the election of a Justice of the Peace, vice Isaac Woods, deceased, Joseph Cowan was duly elected.

1831, April 4. - Elected David Cowan, John Perrin and David Pettigrew, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; John Bacon, Treasurer; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke 'and Jacob L. Harrison, Constables; John C. Fletcher and Jacob R. Crain, Overseers of the Poor; John Tonkinson and G. Claiborn, Fence Viewers.

Jonathan Lehman, John Reid, Joseph Snodgrass, Obediah Harkney, John Tuttle, Andrew Gowdy, William Patton, Isaac Richardson, Anthony Leffel, David Berry and Charles Stewart were chosen to serve as Jurors in the Court of Common Pleas. It was ordered that the Township Trustees be paid 75 cents per day for their official services. l ` 1832, April 2. - Elected John Humphreys, David Cowan and David Pettigrew, Trustees; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke and John L. Berry, (Constables; A. Blount and Richard

1833, March 4. - An allowance of 75 cents per day was ordered in favor of Trustees for thirteen days' services during the year, and a like per diem compensation to Clerk Torbert for twelve days' services.

1833, April 1. - David Cowan, David Pettigrew and Oliver Armstrong were elected Trustees; J: L. Torbert, Clerk; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; Griffith Foos and Jeremiah Warder, Overseers of the Poor; A. D. Merriness, John Fluke and Anthony Bird, Constables. |

1834, April 7. - David Cowan, David Pettigrew and Armstrong were elected Trustees; John Fluke, Baker W. Peck and William Hedges, Constables; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; J. L. Torbert, Clerk; E. C. Ross and John Williamson, Overseers of the Poor.

1834, April 19. - Sampson Hubbell and Reuben Miller were appointed Overseers of the Poor, in place of E. C. Ross and John Williamson, who neglected to qualify.

1834, October 14. - Charles Cavalier, Jeremiah Warder, Griffith Foos, Solomon Scott, James Reid, Sr. George Benson, Anthony Bird, Andrew Edgar, Maxwell Patton, Robert Gowdy, Henry Bechtle William Enoch, Andrew Gowdy, Peter Sintz, John Keifer, Obadiah Harkney, John Householder, Isaac Ward, John Spence and A. D. Merriness, were selected as Jurors for the year.

1835, April 6. - David Cowan, Ira Paige and Sampson Hubbell were elected Trustees; John Fluke, Samuel McCracken, James Reid, Constables; Cyrus Armstrong, Treasurer; Jacob Lingle, Clerk; Griffith Foos and Isaac Hendershott, Overseers of the Poor.

1835, April 18. - John Tate was appointed Trustee of Springfield Township in place of David Cowan, excused. Adam Stewart and Pierson Spinning were appointed Overseers of the Poor in place of Isaac Hendershott and Griffith Foos, who failed to qualify according to law. John Householder was appointed Fence Viewer in place of Peter A. Sprigman, who failed to qualify according to law. Griffith Foos was fined $2 for refusing to serve as Overseer of the Poor, and Peter A. Sprigman was fined $2 for refusing to serve as Fence Viewer.

The ear-mark of James Stout, recorded June 20, 1835, "a crop off each ear and an underbit in the left." J. R. Tonge was appointed Clerk of Springfield Township November 14, 1835, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the absence of J ay Lingle. Reuben Miller was re-elected Justice of the Peace November 9, 1835.

James Rea was a Pennsylvanian, who settled, about the year 1802, where Harvey Tuttle now lives. His sons were James, John and Andrew. John succeeded John Buckles as owner of a flouring-mill on Beaver Creek, on the site of "Junction Mills." Mr. Rea improved the race, and in 1835 was succeeded by Robert Rodgers.

Peter Sintz, Sr., was born in Pennsylvania in April, 1776, and was th :on of Nicholas and Margaret (Metzger) Sintz, he a native of Germany ands. of Pennsylvania. In boyhood, Peter moved to Virginia with his parents, anu in 1802 he came to Springfield. In 1804, he married Elizabeth Critz, a native of Maryland, to whom was born seven children, viz., Margaret, Nicholas, Mary, George, Susan, Peter and Elizabeth. He built his cabin in Section 23, on the farm where his daughter Susan now lives, accumulated a large estate, and died,

In the spring of 1802, James and John Reid came from Virginia and selected land in Section 10, then went back to their native State, and the same fall returned to Springfield with the whole family, viz., John, Joseph, Nancy, Thomas, Betsey, James, William, Robert and George. They first built a cabin in the village on the present site of Meyers' livery stable, and began to clear the land in Section 10, where in a year or two they erected a cabin and removed to it, and there Margaret, the widow of James, now resides with her family, in a fine brick residence, which has displaced the rude log structure of the pioneer days.

Cooper Ludlow was born in New Jersey in 1788; was married, in 1803, to Elizabeth Reeder, and in 1804 settled three miles west of Springfield, where he opered a tannery. To Elizabeth Ludlow were born Ellen, Mary, Stephen, John and Jacob; and, she dying in 1818, her husband was married in 1815 to Elizabeth Layton, who had born to her Joseph, Jason, Silas, Abram, George, Cornelius, James, Catherine and William. Cooper Ludlow died in 1832.

John Perrin was born in Washington County, Maryland, in 1778, and there married to Amelia Ingram, a native of that county, born in 1778. In 1806, he and family came to Springfield, and he purchased the whole of Section 3. His family consisted of five children, viz., Edward, Joseph, John, William, Minerva E. and Emery, the two former of whom were born before coming to this county. He died in 1848, and his wife in 1847, and his sons John and William are among the leading citizens of the township, and his daughter resides in Springfield.

About the year 1806, Edward Armstrong settled on Section 5, now owned by Dr. Hazzard. He built and operated a distillery for a time, and his wife was an excellent woman, and a Baptist.

In 1806, John Dugan settled in the eastern part of the township. He was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1787; was married to Polly Hall, a native of Kentucky, born in 1792, of which union the following children were the issue: Sarah, William, Margaret, James and John. Mr. Dugan died July 2, 1868, and his wife July 21, 1867.

Francis and Isabel Best, natives of Virginia, settled on the site of P. P. Mast's residence in 1806, where they died. They had ten children - six sons and four daughters.

John and Jane Snodgrass came from Kentucky in 1806, settling in Section 11. He died in May, 1826, aged sixty-three, and his wife in May, 1859, aged eighty-seven.

John Hatfield was born in Virginia in 1798, and in 1799 his father, Nathaniel, came with the family to Kentucky, thence to Greene County, Ohio, in 1805, and in 1806 to Section 7, in the south part of this township, where he died in 1812. In 1821, John married Eva Garlough, daughter of John Garlough, twelve children being born of this union, five living. In 1853, he removed to his present farm in Green Township, where he is yet living, in his eighty-fourth year. ME m.

Andrew Benson was born in Bath County, Virginia, in 1781; came to this township in 1806; was married to Sarah Rennick, also a Virginian, born 1796, daughter of Robert and Mary Rennick, March 26, 1812. They had six children; four lived to be grown, and two yet survive - R. H. and J. M. Benson. Andrew died November 28, 1826, and his wife February 28, 1848. à

George H. Benson, a brother of Andrew's, was born in the same county and State in 1787; came to this township in 1807, and married, in 1818, Isabel Rennick, also a daughter of Robert and Mary Rennick. She was born in this

Nathan Reddish .was born in Maryland in 1783; came to Greene County, Ohio, previous to 1808; was maried to Matilda Miller, and in 1810 settled on Section 14, Springfield Township, where he engaged in a tannery, which he carried on until 1834. He was married three times; had five children by first, none by his second wife, and three by his last wife, who was Harriet Oxtoby, the sister of Henry Oxtoby. She was born in England in 1792, and died in 1874. Dr. John Reddish is now the only surviving child of Nathan Reddish.

Lewis Skillings came to this county in 1810, settling in the northeast part of Green Township, and in a few years moving across the line into this township, where he died in 1869. His wife, Anna (Craig) Skillings, came to this county in 1808, and died in 1866. Both were members of the " Fletcher Chapel," and have left worthy descendants, who honor their name.

Isaac Wood was born in New York in 1771; was married to Jane Corey, of New Jersey, in 1797, who was born in 1779, coming to this county in March, 1812, settling in Section 15, Springfield Township, removing the following year to Section 9, where his son, Thomas S. Wood, now resides. They had thirteen children. Five sons yet reside in this county, and a daughter in Allen County, who are the survivors of the family. Isaac Wood died in 1825, and his widow in 1871.

John Foster was an early settler on Beaver Creek, and built the original mill on that stream, at the site of * Junction Mills," about 1808, and, during and after the war of 1812, operated this rude mill successfully.

Peter Printz was born in Maryland in 1811, and came with his parents, in 1815, to this township, settling in Section 1, in the southwestern part of the township. He there grew up, and married Catherine Kelly in 1841, who had born to her eleven children. She was a native of this county, and yet resides on her husband's estate. Both Peter and his parents died on this farm.

Herbert Huffman settled in the northeastern part of the township as early as 1815, and possibly earlier. He died in 1820, and his wife, Sarah, in 1842.

Luke Byrd was a Baptist preacher of excellent repute, who settled in the eastern part of the township in 1816. He died August 31, 1823, aged fifty-five, and his wife, Catherine, in September, 1835, aged seventy-two. They reared a numerous family, who, with their descendants, occupy prominent places in business and social circles of the township.

Moses Bishop was born in Pennsylvania in 1804; came to Ohio with his parents in 1806, and, in 1816, from Warren County to the eastern part of this township, where he is yet living. His parents were from New Jersey, and had five children, only two now surviving, viz., Moses and Margaret. The deceased are David, Delila and Edward.

One of the most eccentric pioneers of the township was Andrew Pinneo, who was born in Vermont in 1770; came to Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, in 1816; thence to Section 8, Springfield Township, settling on the farm now owned by George Zimmerman.. He married Esther Waters, of Vermont, who had seven children; two now survive, viz., Mrs. Jane Hawkins, of Harmony

John Stickney, an Englishman, born in 1780, came to the township in 1819, where he carried on the blacksmith's trade, which; he had learned in his native land, where he was also married to Sarah Cook. He and wife were earnest Methodists, he dying in 1850, and she in 1867. His son Henry now resides on the old homestead in the southeastern part of the township, on Section 3, and is one of the leading farmers of the county.

In 1820, Henry Wolf and his wife, Elizabeth (Haller) Wolf, with their family, settled in Section 6, in the northeastern corner of the township. They were from Virginia, and he built and conducted a distillery for a number of years. They had nine children, and Samuel, the seventh child, now resides upon the old homestead.

Caleb Tuttle was the fourth son of Silvanus and Mary (Brown) Tuttle, who settled in Moorefield Township in 1808. He was born in Virginia May 14, 1799, and, March 21, 1822, married Mary Prickett, daughter of Nicholas Prickett, one of the pioneers of the country. By this union, he became the father of Silvanus, Isaiah, David, William H., Thomas, Catherine, Eliza, Margaret, Mary E., Rachel and Laura. Mr. Tuttle, now in his eighty-third year, is residing on Section 6, in the northeastern part of the township, and is one of the best-known pioneers of the county.

John Buckles came to the township from the southern part of the State, and operated a flouring-mill and stillhouse on Beaver Creek, near the present site of * Junction Mills" He was the father of a large family. James, David, Robert, Thomas, William, John and Abraham were his sons. The father was a Baptist, and his sons James and Abraham were ministers of that denomination.

This thrifty village is situated on the Springfield Brauch of the C., C., C. & I. R. R., on the southwest corner of Section 24 and the northwest corner of Section 23. It is separated from Edwardsville by the west line of Section 23. The name is of Indian origin.

Lagonda was founded by Simon Kenton in the year A. D. 1799 or 1800. Kenton, John Humphreys and six other white families came from Kentucky and made a settlement north of Springfield. Soon the necessity of a grit-mill presented itself, and the intrepid Kenton at once prepared to build one. In this he was actuated more by a desire to meet the wants of the little colony than to engage in the enterprise through pecuniary motives, for, be it remembered, the wilderness had not yet begun its rosenate blooming. The mill was built, and it was the first building of Lagonda. It was located about forty rods east of the place where the Lagonda bridge now is, and on the north side = of the creek, It was constructed of logs, and was 18x18 feet in dimensions, puncheon floor, clapboard roof, and this held on by weight-poles instead of nails.

The machinery, which, except the bolting apparatus, was propelled by water-power, was of the simplest kind, and home-made. Customers, when their wheat had been ground to flour, were required to carry it up a ladder to the bolting room, and there bolt it for themselves, turning the bolting-cloth by a winch. One of the early citizens (Caleb Tuttle) who, when a boy, had overtaxed his youthful muscle at this bolting process, averred that his recollections of Simon Kenton were in no way pleasant, reminding him of hard work at the winch. There were only a few pounds of iron in all the machinery of this mill, and probably not one pound of nails. Kenton built a rude dwelling near

In those days, the Government offered, and sometimes paid, a bonus to parties who erected mills in the settlements, but the records at hand fail to show that the old pioneer ever received anything on this account.

Tiring of the milling business, Kenton, on the 29th of July, 1814, sold the property to William Ward, and, on the 5th day of December of the same year, it was purchased of Ward by William Beesly and Nicholas Prickett. The purchasers, being energetic, and possessing some money, set about to improve the property. A saw-mill was built, and a long-felt publie want supplied.

This saw-mill was in most respects similar to those of later years. It had, however, connected with it a churn, which was operated by a rod attached to the upper part of the saw-frame. When the saw was in operation, the churning process worked nicely. Mr. Beesly erected a carding and fulling mill, and became somewhat noted for enterprise. He built a dwelling for himself and family, and several houses for the use of the employes about him.

Up to this time, Lagonda and Springfield were "neck and neck" in the race of progress, and the existing rivalry between the two points was spirited. Settlers began to take up claims on the higher lands, and evidences of settlement and civilization increased year after year.

On the 5th of January, 1830, the widows of William Beesly and Nicholas Prickett sold their respective dowers in the real estate of their husbands, and on the 20th of June following, Oliver Armstrong purchased, at Sheriff's sale, the unsold interests of the other heirs. On the 1st day of August, 1830, Jeremiah Warder purchased the realty of the entire village, the appurtenances, consisting of eight or ten dwellings, saw-mills, woolen-factory and grist-mill. The price paid was 33,000.

Mr. Warder's business tact gave new impetus to affairs. He erected a large mill on the south side of the creek, built a dam across the stream, thus increasing the water-power required for the several mills. The old mill was transformed into a distillery, and business flourished. The mill built by Mr. Warder served long and well, and was patronized from all points of the compass for many miles distant. It was finally taken down, about the year 1867, by Mr. J. T. Warder.

About the year 1828, John Hunt opened up and conducted a store, in a little log house which stood near where the office now stands; afterward, Mulholland kept a jewelry store in the same room. Years later, Mrs. George Warder and Cyrus McLaughlin conducted an extensive business in general merchandise in a storeroom erected for the purpose. The building was destroyed by fire in the year 1854.

The first English school of the neighborhood of Lagonda was held one and a fourth miles northeast of the village, in a rude log house which stood east of the Clark Union Pike, on the Crabill farm, and near its south line. The house, the teacher, the pupils and the forest which covered the land have passed away, and no written record remains from which reliable data can be gathered.

Some years later, the old Baptist Church, situated half a mile nearly north of the village, was oceupied as a schoolhouse, and, although it was fitted up with slab seats, and slanting boards ranged against the wall for writing-desks, it was much more complete in its appointments than was its predecessor. At this time, the school district extended from a mile north of Lagonda on the north, to some distance beyond and south of the Springfield & South Charleston

Pike of the present day; and from the Urbana Pike on the west to the road on the east side of the farm of Edward Merritt. That part of Springfield east of the "Fountain House" was also included in its limits. Necessity created a second school for this territory. This was held in a small house on the Charleston road, south of William Warder's residence. One Board of Directers usually had charge of both schools, and this board was Daniel Berger, Sr., N. Thresher and - - Lawrence. Of the teachers who held sway in those days, mention may be made of Charles Cadwallader, who taught in the north end of the district, and Michael Haufman, on the south. This was about 1840 and previous. In the year 1845, the old log church before mentioned was abandoned as a schoolhouse, and a room in the village was fitted up for temporary use, in which Rev. William J. Shuey was employed as teacher. The room was small, and so dilapidated as to be unfit for the purpose, and was accordingly abandoned after a year's use. In 1846, a tax of $300 was levied on the taxable property of the district, and expended in the erection of a brick house 20x25 feet in size, which, though too small from the first, served the purpose for twelve years.

In the year 1858, a levy was made on all the taxable property of Springfield Township and a part of Moorefield Township for the purpose of building a schoolhouse to meet the demands of the district, and $1,200 was expended in the erection of a brick house 30x45 feet. This building has since been made higher, and a room added on the east side.

The population of the district continued to increase so rapidly that this building, in time, lacked capacity, for a hundred scholars were often in attendance at one time.

Lagonda United Brethren Church

On the 14th day of February, 1845, this society organized by electing Adam Shuey, William T. Hough and Daniel Berger Trustees; George Arbogast was elected Clerk. Previous to this date, and for several years, the ministers of this denomination had held fruitful meetings at the old Baptist Church near the village of Lagonda. Of these preachers, Benjamin P. Wheat was most efficient.

Adam Shuey, George Arbogast, William Moore, William T. Hough, Daniel Berger and William C. Miller were of the original membership. In the latter part of the year above mentioned, Newcomer's Chapel was built by this society. The house was built on the site of Newcomer's Cemetery. It was of brick, 32x40 feet, and cost $450. Those who contributed most liberally to the expense were Adam Shuey, William T. Hough, Daniel Berger, William Moore, William C. Miller, George Arbogast, John Haws, Adam Baker and W. J. Shuey. The house was dedicated by Rev. William Rhinehart. The membership was at this time about forty. Newcomer's Chapel served the society twenty-five years, and became a thing of the past, and now, in the bivouae of the dead near where stood this temple,

The society in 1870 built their present commodious church on a lot near the center of the village, donated by Mrs. Ann A. Warder. Tt is a brick building, 37x58 feet in size, and cost $3,500. The principal contributors to the building fund were Warder, Mitchell & Co., Daniel Berger, J. W. Reed, William H. Berger, Washington Graham, G. Eberle, H. H. Culp, Isaac Zimmerman, G. Zimmerman, R. Mitchell, W. W. Neal, A. Pettigrew, William Karr, P. P. Mast,

J. Lehman, J. Seitz, J. Finney, J. Erter, S. Rhoades, Ad Shuey and M. Heindel. The house was dedicated in October, 1870, by Bishop Glossbrenner.

The society maintains an active Sabbath school, having twenty classes, taught by efficient teachers. The Uniform Lessons are in use in the school.

Lagonda Free Will Baptist Church

Of the extinct churches of the township, mention should be made of a society which worshiped in a rude log church on Section 24, on the south side of the Clark Union Pike, leading from Springfield to Mechanicsburg, and on the Zimmerman farm. This was a preaching point of the Free-Will Baptists as early as 1825, and up to about the year 1850. The date of this organization can be stated with no certainty; it may have been only a place of occasional preaching, as no records remain from which its history can be perpetuated. The house was once used as a schoolhouse. The people who worshiped here have gone the way of all the earth, and the aged men of the neighborhood remember the church-goers of this old sanctuary as among the incidents of long ago.

Iu the year 1831, a number of Free-Will Baptists, who had organized some time previous at the house of James Donnels, in Harmony Township, feeling the need of a house of worship, were joined by a number of citizens of various religious beliefs in the enterprise of building an undenominational church, free to all religious denominations. The site selected was in the northeastern part of Springfield Township, on Section 6, and on the óld Columbus road, six miles northeast of Springfield. The deed for the building site bears date of February 25, 1831, but the subscription to the building fund was taken in February, 1827. The deed was executed by Joseph Hannah and David Hannah to Thomas Thompson, James Donnels and John Bishop, Trustees, and their official successors. The principal original members of the society were James Donnels and wife, John Bishop and wife, two daughters of James Bishop, Col. James McQuiddy and wife, Nathaniel Beasley and wife, John Prickett and wife. The contributors to the building fund have nearly all passed away, but their names and their donations to this fund are matters of no little interest:

George H. Benson subscribed $10, one-half in cash; John Rea, $10, onehalf in cash; John B. McDonald, $10; James Taylor, in carding and fulling, $6; William Mitchell, $3, one-half in cash; Nathan Reddish, $5; Sampson, Hubbell, in hats, $5; Alfred Thompson, in lime, $1.50; Pierson Spinning, in goods, $5; John Heiskell, in hats, $2; Saul Henkle, $1; Oliver Armstrong, five bushels of corn; John Bishop, twenty bushels of corn; James Bishop, ten bushels of corn; James Foley, twenty-five bushels of corn; Sylvanus Tutile, $10; Caleb Tuttle, twelve bushels of corn; William Bishop, $15; George F akin, fifteen lights of sash; Isaac Lumbeck, fifteen lights of sash; William D 2- ham, twelve lights of sash; James Christie, fifteen lights of sash; Elijah Lott, fifteen lights of sash; Joseph Snodgrass, trade, $3; Amos Huff, $4; John Kingore, two barrels of flour; Absalom Foley, fifteen bushels of wheat; George Wolfe, twelve gallons of whisky; Henry Wolfe, four days' hauling; Matthew Inman, $2; James Halsey, $1; Susan Longbrake, half a month's work by one of the boys: David Hannah, twenty vallons of whisky; George Buckland, $2.

Mother

The house was built of brick, and was about 32x40 feet in size. The brick work was done by John Thornton. David Dudley, Elias Hutchins, - - Golden, Cyrus Dudley, Abram Alden, and other ministers of the Free- Will Baptist denomination, preached here between the years 1833 and 1856. The noted Mormons, Joe Smith and Rigdon, have filled the sacred desk of this meeting-house. Between the years 1840 and 1860, the Presbyterians maintained stated services here, and at one time had a society of some strength. The preachers of this persuasion were McLain, Gray, Edwards, Dunlap, Roe and others. The Presbyterians organized the Sabbath-school work here, and from that date (say 1844) it has been maintained with more or less permanence. In this good work, the names of H. H. Tuttle, John Bird and William Bird stand prominent. The various societies which have in all these years been instituted 8t the Union Meeting-House, have been fated to be short-lived; but withal, the neighorhood has been favored with the preaching of the Word with something like regularity. No restrictions are placed on the use of the house for religious worship, and the following plan as to the division of time has existed for years: The Regular Baptists have undisputed possession on the first Sabbath and the Saturday before in each month; the Presbyterians have the second Sabbath and the Saturday before; and the Free-Will Baptists have the third Sabbath and the Saturday before.

Connected with this account properly belongs an outline sketch of an organization of the Regular Baptists in the township antedating those above mentioned:

On the 15th of June, 1816, a number of persons met at the house of James Buckles and organized into a society. Subsequently, they adopted tenets of doctrine, and became a society of some strength in after years. The original members were Nathaniel Reeves, Mary A. Reeves, John Buckles, Mary Buckles, Nicholas Prickett, William Hall, Swain Ogden, William Beasley and James Buckles. This organization built a log church a few rods from the site of the Union Meeting-House, and on the opposite of the old Columbus road. Here they continued to worship for a number of years previous to 1840. On the 5th of September of that year, a remnant of the society which remained sold and conveyed to Caleb Tuttle the house and church lot on which the house stood for $100. The grantors in this conveyance were Sylvanus Tuttle, Mary Tuttle, Eunice Yeazel, Margaret Tuttle, Rachel Kitt and Ann Collins. This money was paid over to the benefit of the Union Meeting-House, and thereafter Caleb Tuttle has served as a Trustee on the part of the Regular Baptist society in the Union Meeting-House. Notwithstanding the sale of their property, the society continued in existence several years later. In the year 1848, the society disbanded, as appears from the following entry, copied from the book of records: * July 1, 1848. - Whereas, in the providence of God, it appears necessary that we should dissolve, with the expectation of uniting with the church at Little Beaver Creek, in Clark County, Ohio. Abner Whiteley, Clerk."

Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church

BETHEL METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The society of Bethel was organized about the year 1851. Previous to this date, the ministers of this denomination preached at the house of W. C. Kelley, and the class afterward was led by him. The original members were: W. C. Kelley and Miranda Kelley, his wife; Daniel Crown and his wife; Sophia Knob, Elizabeth Steelman, Ann Markley, Mary Miller and W. Graham. j Steps were taken early in the year 1851 to build a house of worship, and Levi Rinehart, of Springfield, having donated a suitable site on Section 25, the house was soon under way. It was built by a general subscription fund; was a frame, 24x36 feet, and was erected at a cost of nearly $300, and, though a cheap

Richard Kelley served in the position of Leader and Sabbath-school Superintendent for ten years. The society was for a number of years a part of the Springfield District, Cincinnati Conference. An evil day at length overtook Bethel; many of the membership grew careless and neglected the social and publie meaus of grace: others hung their harps upon the willows, and finally the trumpeter of glad tidings was left to preach to less than half a dozen faithful souls. Bethel was abandoned in 1880, at a time when, for miles in every direction, no church-going bell called the people to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. A few members attached themselves to other societies, and some drifted out on the tide of the world. Bethel was, and is not.

In the year 1835, a house of worship was built in the neighborhood of the present Emery Chapel, and was on a lot donated by Adam Mayne, on the east side of the Yellow Springs road. This was the first church built by the Methodists in this part of the country. Previous to this, the people of this denomination held their worship in part at the residences of the principal members, and in part at a log church called Ebenezer, and which stood in the same neighborhood.

This first chapel was christened " Emery Chapel," but it was as frequently called Mayne's Meeting-House. It was a frame, 24x36 feet in its dimensions, and was enlarged some years later by an addition of twenty feet to the north end, making it 24x06 feet. The principal membership of the society in those days were William Albin, Richard Martin, Adam Mayne, Daniel Martin, John Adams, David Marquart and Joel Elwell, together with other members of the family of each. Mayne's Meeting-House was succeeded by the present Emery Chapel in the year 1853. It is built on a lot donated by James P. Leffel, and is nearly three-fourths of a mile north of the original one, and on the east side of the Yellow Springs road, on Section 7, three miles south of Springfield. It is a brick structure, and was built at a cost of $1,400.

The names of Adam Mayne, Anthony Leffel, Orlando Harris, Daniel Leffel, Peter F. Lehman, Henry Leffel, William Runyon, William Kershner and B. F. Mayne are associated with the building and history of the present church of Emery society, and their liberality. coupled with that of others, has left for them a lasting monument in this edifice.

In the half-century that measures the life of this society, many men and women deserving mention have come and gone: a few remain, who delight to retrospect the departed years. and, from the storehouse of memory, recite the record of the good old times. Of the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church who have preached to thi: people. mention can be made of Clark, Gonzales, French. Eddy, White, Barrett, McDowel, Ingalls, Spahr, Seaman, Thurber, Conrey, Boucher, Smith. Davidson, Beall, Selman, Hypes, Clark, Grover, McDonald, Wones, Botkin, Baker, Owen, Ellsworth, Gowdy, Fitzgerald, Griffith,

Orlando Harris, Richard Martin, Daniel Pennell, William Printz; B. F: Mayne, Henry Albert, Jacob Drake, William Kelley and John B. Sparrow have held the position of Leader. The society maintains a well-organized Sabbath

Buried in the cemetery adjoining Emery Chapel are the bodies of Adam Mayne, died in April, 185%, aged seventy-five: Catherine Mayne, died July, 1869, aged eighty-five; Thomas Leffel, died October, 1856, aged sixty; David Martin died September 1874, aged seventy-seven.

District No 1 is located in the southeastern part of the township. The house is of brick, and stands near the corners of Sections 1, 2, | and 8. The district enumerates, white males, 21; females, 11; total, 32. No colored pupils. Lizzie Crossley, teacher; wages per month, $50.

District No. 2 is on the Charleston Pike, near the east line of Section 16, and about three miles east of Springfield. The district enumerates, white males, 22; females, 25; colored males, 1; total, 48. R. D. Evans, teacher; wages per month, $50.

District No. 3 occupies the northeastern part of the township. The house is on Section 6, and joining the "Union Meeting-House." This district enumerates, white males, 15; females, 14; colored males, 2; females, 1; total, 42. A. T. Allen, teacher; wages per month, $45.

District No. 4 is in the southern part of the township. The schoolhouse is sometimes called "Congress Hall." It is of brick and on Section 19, one mile north of the line of Green Township, three miles southeast of Springfield. This district enumerates, white males, 43; females, 34; colored males, 6; females, 2; total, 85. James T. Tuttle, teacher; wages per month, $60.

District No. 5 is located nearly two miles southeast of the city of Springfield. The schoolhouse is of brick, and is on the west side of Selma Pike, on Section 27. The district enumerates, white males, 44; females, 45; colored males, 5; females, 12; total, 106. Miss Anna Sergeant, teacher; wages per

Distriet No. 6 is located north of the National road, and near Benson's Mill The house is on the left of the pike leading to Benson's Mill, and Section 17. It is a brick structure and handsomely and substantially built. The district enumerates, white males, 9; females, 15: colored males, 3: females, 6; total, 33. J. M. Finney, teacher: wages per month, $45.

District No. 7 is in the southwestern part of the township near Emery Chapel. The house is on Section 2, and has two departments. Is known as "Possum." The district enumerates, white males, 64: females, 49; colored males, 1; females, 1; total, 115. Teachers. H. C. Gibbs and Miss Emily Stuart; wages per month, $60 and $45 respectively.

Distriet No. 9 is known as *Rockway." The house is situated on the National road west of Sugar Grove, northeast quarter of Section 22, Town 5,

District No. 13 is situated at Lagonda. The house has three departments, is substantially built of brick and occupies an elevated position north of the village on Section 24. The district enumerates. white males, 131: females, 118;

District No. 14 is situated at East Springfield near the city limits of Springfield. The building is north of the Charleston Pike and south of the National road, on Section 22. It isa brick house, having two departments and maintains two schools. The district enumerates, white males, 51; females, 60; colored males, 12; females, 21; total, 144. Teachers, Joseph A. James, wages $60 per month; C. E. Kendricks, wages $60 per month.

District No. 15 is situated north of Fern Cliff Cemetery, and is bounded north by Moorefield Township line, and west by Mad River. The house stands on Section 6, Town 4. Enumerates, white males, 33; females, 29; colored males, 6; females, 16; total, 84. Wesley Cook, teacher; wages, $50 per month.

District No. 16, called also Gray's District, is near the city limits, south of the National road. The school has two departments and employs two teachers. The district enumerates as follows: White males, 70; females, 50; colored males, 3; females, 7; total, 130. B. D. Long and Mary E. Christ, teachers; wages $55 and $30 respectively.

Elsewhere is found a statement showing the boundary and limit of each school district, when the township was first divided into districts for school purses. A The following statement exhibits the condition of schools of Springfield Township for the year ending August 31, 1880:

Total amount of school moneys received within the year, $14,427.30; amount paid teachers within the year, $7,445.50; paid for sites and buildings, $1,380.45; fuel and contingent expenses, $2,068.17; grand total of expenditures, $10,894.12. Balance on hand September 1, 1880, $3,533.18.

Number of subdistricts, 12; schoolhouses erected within the year, 1; value, $1,180; whole number of schoolhouses, 12; number of school rooms, 16; total value of school property, $15,000; teachers employed, 16; average wages paid teachers, $50; ladies, $45; rate of school tax in mills, 3.8; pupils enrolled during the year - girls, 455; boys, 540; total, 095; average daily attendance - boys, 298; girls, 214; total, 507; number enrolled between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years - boys, 78; girls, 84; total, 162. Number of pupils in each branch of study: Alphabet, 116; reading, 670; spelling, 319; writing, 648; arithmetic, 456; geography, 174: English grammar, 120; drawing, 54; map drawing, 68; natural philosophy, 8; algebra, 51.

Sugar Grove

The village of Sugar Grove is situated 'two miles west of Springfield on the National road. It was laid out March 25, 1874, by the Springfield Brick Manufacturing Company - Peter A. Schindler, President. It is on the northeast quarter of Section 16, Town 4, Range 9.

Sugar Grove comprises sixty lots, twenty-three of which front south on the National road or Main street. The village extends from the National road on the south, to the track of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad on the north. This railroad has a station, office and passenger depot, and is generally termed Springfield Station. The Western Union Telegraph Company has an office here, J. Mc- Greevy, operator. This station was established in the year 1875, and the agents from the first to the present have been John F. Mumford, Thomas H. Lee, J. N. Moses and J. McGreevy.

The old brick building which stands on the opposite side of the National road from Sugar Grove, was built about the year 1840 by Daniel Leffel, and was used for several years as a hotel - was called Sugar Grove Hotel. It was

1870. Its position is on both sides of the Clark Union Pike (Lagonda avenue) southwest of and adjoining the village cf Lagonda, being a part of the which are improved by neat, cosy residences erected thereon, and occupied by the families of mechanics, employed in the shops and manufactories of Lagonda and Springfield. The village is barely beyond the city limits. It contains no publie business interest.

East Springfield

This suburban hamlet was laid out and platted July, 1869, by A. Raffensberger. It is situated on Section 22, on the south side of High street (Charleston Pike) It comprises 120 lots, sixteen of which front north on High street. About thirty lots have improvements begun or completed, and the village gives promise of future prosperity.

This village was laid out on the east side of Clifton Pike by Henry C. Rice March, 1871. It is situated immediately south of the city limits, and is on the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 33, Town 5, and contains twentyfive acres. The streets are named Henry, Clay and Rice; thus perpetuating the name of its founder. The plat contains ninety-five lots, which are nearly all unimproved.

At the junction of the Fairfield and Yellow Springs Pikes, three miles south of the city of Springfield, is a cluster of houses deserving to be classed with the villages of Clark County. A fine brick schoolhouse on the north, and Emery Chapel on the south, a well improved and fertile country surrounding, and an industrious, sober community, make this little hamlet a desirable rural retreat.

Suburban Business

Beyond the corporate limits of Springfield, on the numerous thoroughfares that center in that city, are located a number of business enterprises, among which we mention the following:

St. John Sewing Machine Company

The St. John Sewing Machine Company occupy a building on the left bank of Buck Creek, north of the National road, and near the bridge spanning that Stream. This building was used previous to 1876 by Foos & Mulligan as a furniture factory. The "Old Hydraulic Race" which furnishes the water supply for this business, was built by the Snyders about 1855.

The present company have occupied the factory since 1876, employ forty hands, and use annually about four hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber in the manufacture of the St. John Sewing Machine.

of Mad River, a few rods above Rock Point Mill, two miles west of the city of Springfield. Mr. Dugan began the lime business here in 1878, and has exten- sive sale for his lime in Cincinnati. He employs a large force of hands and produces 980 car loads of lime per year. Matthew Dugan, proprietor, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Holcomb'S Lime Works

The lime business was established on Mad River, below Rock Point Mill, in the year 1864. These works furnish lime for the markets of Springfield, Dayton, Urbana and other cities. They produce nearly three hundred car loads per year, run three kilns, and employ a strong force of workmen. A. Holcomb, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio; John Lowrie, foreman.

Junction Mills

Judson Redmond, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio. This flouring mill is situated on Beaver Creek, about four miles east of Springfield, on Section 5, and a half mile north of the National road. The first mill built on this site was erected about the year 1808, by John Foster, who operated it for a number of years before, during and after the war of 1812.

John Buckles was the next owner. He attached a distillery to it and operated both the mill and still for several years, but the date of his purchase and the number of years he owned it cannot be accurately stated. Buckles sold to John Rea, and Rea, in 1835, sold to Robert Rodgers, who, in 1837, built a sawmill in connection.

In 1839, the whole premises were destroyed by fire. Mr. Rodgers rebuilt | the grist-mill in 1840. In 1847, Thomas M. McCormick bought a half interest, | and Rodgers and McCormick conducted the business together. After the death of Rodgers, McCormick ran the business for a time, but becoming embarrassed, assigned. About the year 1858, Lewis C. Huffman bought the mill of Hugh Wilson, assignee of McCormick, and, in 1866, Mr. Huffman sold it to the present owner, Judson Redmond, for $8,000. Mr. Redmond expended several hundred dollars in improvements in 1870, since which time it has been in successful working order, running night and day much of the time. It has three runs of buhrs, eighteen-feet overshot wheel, has a daily capacity of forty barrels of flour. The name "Junction Mills" is given on account of its location at the confluence of Beaver Creek and Sinking Creek.

This mill is situated on Beaver Creek, Section 12, three and a half miles northeast of Springfield. It was built by Oliver Armstrong and Pierson Spinning in the year 1832. These parties operated the mill until the death of Armstrong, following which Cyrus Armstrong and Henry Shugh carried on for the greater part of the time till the year 1852, when it was bought by J. M. Benson, the present proprietor. Mr. Benson made some improvements in the machinery and remodeled the building at a total expense of about $8,000. The mill is in active operation and is regarded as one of the best on these waters. It is a frame, four stories high, thirty-nine by sixty-five feet in dimensions, four run of buhrs, uses the Leffel turbine wheel and does general milling business. J. M. Benson, proprietor, P. O. Springfield.

Leffel'S Saw-Mill

This mill is on the left bank of Mill Creek, on the Fairfield and Mud Run Pike, three and a half miles from Springfield, and nearly a mile east of Mad River Township line. It was built by William Harris before the year 1840, and was afterward owned and run by Reed Wright. It was bought by James.

. P. Leffel, since which time it has been called * Leffel's Saw-Mill." The waterpower of Mill Creek proving insufficient, steam has been added of late, but the mill is now in a state of idleness, and has, in all probability, seen its quota of usefulness and its best days. It is the property of James P. Leffel.

Snyder'S Mills

The flouring-mill and distillery of J. & D. L. Snyder are on Mad River, a short distance north of Sugar Grove. The mill was first erected by Elijah Harnett, and by him sold to Henry Snyder, the father of the present proprietors. The Snyders built a distillery and operated that up to 1862, since which time the distillery business has not been carried on, and the building, much of the time has been used for storage and other legitimate purposes. The mills were destroyed by fire in 1854, and promptly rebuilt. It uses three Leffel wheels, three run of buhrs, and is four-story frame.

Taylor'S Mill

is situated on Section 1l, northwest quarter, and on Beaver Creek, five miles east of Springfield. It was first erected by James Taylor in 1830, and had in connection with it à carding and fulling mill The carding and fulling attachments were operated up to the year 1845, when it was abandoned. Mr. Taylor died in 1849, and the mill was remodeled by Charles Morgan, who purchased it of Taylor's administrator. Mr. Morgan owned and run the mill until his death in 1869. It was then purchased by Samuel Taylor, the present owner of Taylor's Mill. It was a frame, three stories high, thirty-six by ninety feet in dimensions. This mill, with its contents, was destroyed by lightning on the 9th of May, 1875, at a loss of $12,000. The next year, 1876, Samuel Taylor rebuilt on the same site the present mill. It is of brick, Mansard or curb roof, the *Iron overshot wheel" made by Stout, Mills & Temple, of Dayton, Ohio. The mill has a basement and three stories and is valued at $12,000. The flour of this mill has a large and increasing trade in the city of Springfield, besides shipping some flour and other products to New York City. Samuel Taylor, proprietor; P. O. Springfield.

This mill is situated on the right bank of Mad River, and below the mouth of Buck Creek. It is on Section 10, two miles west of Springfield, and onefourth of a mile south of the National road. This mill was originally built by Danie! Hertzler in the year 1865; it was completed and ready to run at the time of the murder of Hertzler. Samuel Huffman, Hertzler's son-in-law, became the owner following Hertzler's death, and operated the mill till 1869, when he traded it to John W. Rubsam, the present owner. Rubsam leased it to Crain, Hotsenpiller & Wilson, who operated it for three and a half years. Following the expiration of this time, Mr. Rubsam ran the mill himself till early in 1880. It has been standing idle since then. The mill is a four-story frame, forty by sixty:feet in size, uses two Leffel wheels and one Burns' wheel; it has a good water power and does a general milling busniess.

One of the extinct mills of Mad River was the one built by Andrew Leffel in 1833, and which stood a few rods above Rubsam's Mill, and between that and the railroad bridge. It was a three-story frame, and was operated by Mr. Leffel about ten years. He then sold it to James Robinson, who attached a dis- tillery to it and continued milling and distilling until both establishments were destroyed by fire about the year 1850. They were never rebuilt.

This excellent flouring-mill is on the line of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad, three and a half miles west of Springfield, and on the right bank of Mad River. It was erected in 1831-32, by Peter Sintz, Sr., and was improved in 1880 by J. & S. Arthur, the present owners. Mr. Sintz managed the milling business here nearly twenty years, and then leased it to George Grisso for five years. The Atlantic & Great Western Railway Company (N. Y., P. & O.) then purchased it of Sintz about the year 1804. It was subsequently sold at Sheriff's sale, and was purchased by George Grisso for $6,500. Grisso ran the business till 1879, when Joseph Arthur became the owner, and in a short time was succeeded by his two sons, J. & S. Arthur. The building is six stories high, forty by sixty feet in size, uses two American turbine wheels, and is valued at $8,000. Does all kinds of custom work. J. & S. Arthur, proprietors, Springfield, Ohio.

Reberts' Mill

Reberts' Mill was erected in 1838 by Samuel Todd. It is situated on Mill Creek, two miles southwest of Springfield, on Section 9. Todd carried on a general milling business for three years after the erection of the mill, and was then succeeded by Ed Swope for about two years; then John Rench, and afterward Henry Baker carried on the business.

In the year 1852, Andrew Rebert bought the mill of John Rench, and for the next twenty years thereafter did a general milling business. At the end of this time, he rented it to Aaron Reasor for three years, then to Frederick Cramer for two years, and lastly to Samuel Louk. The building is forty feet square, three stories high, uses Leffel's wheel, has two runs cf buhrs and is valued at $5,000. Capacity, thirty barrels of flour per day. Andrew Rebert, proprietor, Springfield, Ohio.

The original mill on this site was one of the oldest in the country. We do not know its history, but it was patronized long before the county was organized by the pioneers who came a long distance, from all directions, for flour, and to get their grinding done.

Paden'S Woolen Factory

In the year 1844, James Paden built a factory on Mill Creek for the manufacture of rolls, yarns and woolen fabrics generally. He carried on carding, spinning, weaving and fulling up to the year of his death, in 1868. After Mr. Paden's death, the business was conducted by his son David until the year 1880. It has not done much business of late. The factory is a two-story frame, uses the Leffel wheel, and is located on Section 9, two and a half miles southwest of Springfield.

The Byrd Cemetery

This burial-place was laid out by John Snodgrass about 1820, and is located on Section 11, nearly four miles east of Springfield, and 200 yards north of the National road, on a bluff near the left of Beaver Creek. It is well inclosed but somewhat neglected in other respects, and the following list tells of pioneers who have found here their "six feet of earth."

South Charleston

Herbert W. Huffman, died October, 1820, aged thirty-three; Sarah Huff- . man, died March, 1842, aged fifty-two; Silvanus Tuttle, died January, 1843, aged eighty-two; Mary Tuttle, died May, 1848, aged eighty-five; Luke Byrd, died August 31, 1828, aged fifty-five; Catharine Byrd, September, 1835; John D. Jenkins, died March, 1848, aged eighty-two; William Beesley, died January, 1825, aged fifty-one; Mary Tuttle, died May, 1856, aged seventy-two. Quite a number of graves of those buried in the early years of the history of this ceme- . tery are unmarked by any memorial.

Sinking Creek Cemetery

This place of public interment was laid out by the Sinking Creek Baptist society in 1817, and is located on Section 5, near the right bank of Sinking Creek, one-half mile north of Junction Mills, is twelve rods wide and twenty rods long, and is inclosed by a substantial board fence. The marble slabs erected to perpetuate the memory of the dead tell of the names, ages and date of death of a number who were pioneers of the neighborhood as follows:

George Reid, died January, 1860, aged sixty-six; James Reid, died May, 1857, aged seventy-two; Reuben Kesler, died April, 1878, aged eighty-nine; John Dugan, died July, 1868, aged eighty-one; Mary Dugan, died 1867, aged seventy-five; James Rea, died May, 1824, aged fifty-seven; John Snodgrass, died May, 1826, aged sixty-three; Jane Snodgrass, died May, 1859, aged eightyseven; Jonathan H Wallace, died April, 1850, aged sixty-nine; Rev. William Jones, died December, 1847, aged eighty-two; James Price, died July, 1846, aged sixty-six; Mary Price, died December, 1856, aged eighty-two.

The Perrin Cemetery

At an early day a few persons were interred upon the farm of John Perrin, Sr., in Section 3, and Mr. Perrin buried his wife and children in this ground, and there he himself was buried in 1848. This graveyard was regularly platted and laid off in lots, but little now remains to mark the graves of those outside the Perrin family. . Their plat is inclosed by a neat iron fence, and headstones tellof the silent sleeper beneath the grassy mound. This ground is now used as a private family cemetery.

i The Roller Cemetery, in Section 23, west of Springfield, was begun about 1820, and is yet used as a burial-place; a number of the early settlers are buried in this ground, and nice monuments mark the graves.

Other cemeteries in this township is the Newcomer Cemetery, in Section 24, north of Lagonda, where there is quite a large burial ground, and on which lot the United Brethren Society built their chapel in 1845; and the Huffman Cemetery, in Section 21, on the Valley Pike, close to the line of Bethel Township, on the hill overlooking the Mad River Valley. This is a small lot, thirty by fifty feet, and has been used mostly by Jacob Huffman and his descendants.

Justices Of The Peace

The following is a list of names of Justices of the Peace of Springfield Township, with the date of their several commissions, from 1834 to 1880: 3 of the election held in Springfield Township May 30, 1818, for the election of two Justices of the Peace, to succeed the official terms of John Dougherty and John Snodgrass:

Names Of Electors. Names Of Electors. Names Of Electors Names Cf Candidates. Names Of Candidates

HARMONY TOWNSHIP. 635 NAMES CF CANDIDATES. NAMES OF CANDIDATES. d 7 "v pair P 4 D : 3 John Dougherty nécerwedos Ao ms 100 vates. David Hannah received... 3 votes, - John Snodgrass.. x m TE S SANE VOLES. DOIN BUCKETS oa e iea la 4 votes, 2 MUS det oet o t e Sr 30 votes, iim RE NICOI SERE Doles NUS Buckels 7.77... FRL A 1 vote. THOMAS West, JR., Tuomas PATTON. : PHOMAS ARMSTRONG, SOLOMON NCO'TT, : Clerks. GRIFFITH Foos, E Judges of Election. £ | VOTES.

Harmony Township is situated in the center of the eastern tier of town- "ships, and is bounded north by Moorefield and Pleasant, east by the county of Madison, south by Madison Township, and west by Springfield Township. It was erected by the Commissioners of Clark County on the 2d day of June, 1818, and described as follows: "Beginning 2t the north boundary of the 9th Range, at the northwest corner of Section 30, of Township 6; thence east on said range line, and same course continued to the east boundary of Clark County: thence southwardly on 'the line dividing Madison and Clark Counties to the north boundary of the Sth Range: thence west on said range line to the east boundary of Township 0; thence north on the line between Townships 5 and 6, to the beginning. And the same to be called Harmony Township." Previous to this date. Harmony Township existed in name, and as early as 1811 cast forty-one votes at a general election held in Champaign County for

" April 25, 1818. - Ordered that that part of the county of Madison now comprised in the county of Clark, shall be and the same is hereby attached to and made a part of the township of Harmony, and shall be called and known by the name of Harmony."

There are no records to be found showing who were the early township officials, and their deeds are therefore more of tradition than of record.

The Ludlow line, crossing this township, divides the lands into two classes - Congress and military lands. This line runs twenty degrees west of north, and its directicn mars the shape of the military lands on the east, and makes fractions of Sections 31, 32, 33, 9, 4, 5, 6 and 12 on the west. The Congress lands comprise more than two-thirds of the whole extent.

Beaver Creek, the principal stream of Harmony Township, has its origin near the northeastern part of the township, and runs easterly, and is crossed by the National Road half a mile east of Harmony Village; it is a tributary of Buck Creek, and furnishes valuable water-power to a number of mills above its entrance into that stream.

Lisbon, Plattsburg, Brighton, Vienna and Harmony are the only villages of the township. The three last named are on the National Road, which runs from east to west through the northern half of the township. Plattsburg and Vienna have each a post office; the other villages depend upon other points for their mail.

Sundry Items

Harmony is divided intó.two nearly equal parts by the C., S. & C. Railroad, which runs almost easterly and westerly on section lines of the Congress lands.

The center of the township, as shown by diagonal lines drawn from northwest to southeast, and from southwest to northeast, is on the north half of the northwest quarter of Section 9, about ten rods south of the railroad.

. The men and women who succeeded the native red man, and planted cjvilization in the footprints of the untutored savage, were of a peculiar type. If the present generation acknowledge a debt of gratitude to the fathers who broke the yoke of tyranny and freed our beloved country from the oppressive chains of despotism, is it not a duty also to revere and honor thé memory of the hardy pioneers, who, taking this now rich and happy country from the state of nature, have, by their enterprise and muscle, made it what it is?

considerable property by farming. He was the father of three sons and three daughters. He died, on the farm where he had spent a long and useful life,

George Weaver settled near Lisbon in 1808, and erected a distillery some years later He operated as a distiller for a number of years, and removed to Madison County about the year 1831.

John Merideth was a soldier of the Revolution. He came to Ohio from Hampshire County, Virginia, in company with Hamilton Busbey, in the fall of 1815, descending the Chio in a flat-boat to Cincinnati, and traversing the wilderness by wagon to their destination. He settled at Lisbon in the fall of that year, and if not the first, he was one.of the first, merchants of that place. During his business career, as a matter of convenience, he issued a proprietary scrip as currency. This home-made medium was easily imitated and the result was that he was compelled to redeem more than he issued. After a number of years, he removed to Urbana and became Cashier of a bank. Later, he removed to Miami County, and died in 1839, at the age of ninety-one. His youngest son attained distinction as & General during the late civil war.

Hamilton Busbey was a Virginian, and was born in Hampshire County in 1792. He emigrated to Ohio in company with John Merideth in 1815, settling at Lisbon, where he remained for ten years. He then bought and occupied a farm near the present village of Plattsburg. He served the township in various official capacities. He was the father of a large family. His oldest son, Thomas C., is still a resident of Harmony Township. Mr. Busbey died in Coles County, Illinois, December 16, 1847, aged fifty-five.

Joseph Morris was an early settler near Lisbon; was one of the early schoolteachers of the vlilage, and was a minister of the Baptist Church, reaching over a period of half a century. He raised a large family of children, who inherited the noble traits of their father, and who filled well their stations in life.

John Craig, a Revolutionary soldier, was born February 15, 1758; entered the army in 1775, and was discharged in 1780. He came to the township in 1808, and died in Springfleld Township, at the home of Lewis Skillings, Sr. He was a man of moral worth and sterling integrity.

John Heaton settled east of Lisbon as early as 1815; was a farmer, and served as a Justice of the Peace for twenty-one years. His sons, Henry, James, Abraham and Abner, were residents of the township, and worthy citizens.

John Judy, Sr, was born in Basle, Switzerland, about 1760. He came to America at the age of ten, with his father's family, who settled on the south branch of the Potomac. He came to Kentucky at the age of twenty-two, and married Phoebe Lamaster. About 1794, he came to what is now Greene County, Ohio, and about the year 1800 he came into the territory of what is now Harmony Township, and settled two miles east of the present site of Plattsburg, now the farm of Matthew Bonner. Here he reared a family of children. About 1831, he removed to Union County, Ohio, where he died at an advanced age. j The Turner brothers, Thomas, James, Robert, William, David and Samuel, were settlers near the Madison County line. coming into the township in about the year 1808. They were natives of Maryland. They took an active interest in the organization of the township. Robert served as a Justice of the Peace and as County Commissioner. Their descendants are among the prominent cit. izens of Union County. 'There was not a black sheep in the flock."

" Col." Thomas Rathburn was born in Rhode Island in 1782, and came to Ohio in 1811, settling at Brighton the same year. Served some years as Justice of the Peace, and also as Colonel of militia. Died in 1869, in his eighty-eighth ear. i Samuel MeMillan settled on Beaver Creek. near the present site of Brighton, in 1811. He was a blacksmith by trade, and also served the township as a magistrate.

Enoch King was from Pennsylvania, and, in the year 1812 or 1813, settled a mile east of where Plattsburg now stands. He was a farmer of good repute, and was the Appraiser of real estate of the township in 1840. He was twice married; had a large family, thirteen of whom grew to maturity. Enoch, John and David, sons of the second wife, are residents of the township to this day. Mr. King died in 1865, aged seventy-one. His widow and daughter Mattie reside on a portion of the home farm.

John Osborn was a native of Greenbrier County, Virginia; he moved to Kentucky in 1790, and thence to Ohio in 1812, occupying the lands on which Plattsburg was afterward located. His sons, William, Levi, Jesse and Elijah were in after years worthy and prominent citizens of Harmony Township. He died August, 1847, aged eighty-seven.

William Osborn, oldest son of John Osborn, came to the township with his father in 1812, having been born in 1787. His first wife was Jane McDonald; his second, the widow of James McArthur. Mr. Osborn was one of the original founders of Plattsburg, and built the brick hotel on the principal corner. He was a man of great energy and extraordinary business capacity, and dealt largely in stock and real state. He died October 17, 1870, aged eighty-three. A suitable sketch .of his life and character is found in Turf, Field and Farm of October 25, 1870, written by Hamilton Busbey, editor of that journal, and a native of Harmony Township.

Benjamin Hathaway was from Massachusetts, and served in the war of 1812, and was a Captain in the navy. He became a citizen of the township in 1815. His life was a mass of mystery, fact and romance, but he was withal a man of great integrity and intelligence. His son Benjamin was Colonel of a regiment of militia, and a school teacher of repute. The senior died January, 1861, aged eighty-two.

James Haney settled on Beaver Creek in 1810, and built the first saw-mill in the township. The remains of the mill and race can yet be seen.

A man named Burke erected a mill on the Little Miami about 1815. It was a small affair, and could only be operated to advantage during the rainy seasons, but it was considered valuable in those days.

Col. William Foreman, born in Kentucky in 1791, came to Ohio and settled in Harmony Township in 1812. He was the father of eleven children, a Colonel of militia, Township Treasurer for several years, and the owner of a large estate. He carried on a tannery on the old London road, three miles west of Plattsburg, for many years. He resided in Harmony Township fifty-eight years, and died February 19, 1871, aged eighty-one.

William Henry was from Kentucky. He settled on the Little Miami, one and one-half miles north of Lisbon, in 1814. He was a mau whom manv remember kindly. . , James MeDaniels settled two miles north of Lisbon in 1815. His nativity is in doubt. He took an active part in the campaign of 1840. and, at a mass meeting at Springfield on the 19th of June of that year, he was selected as one of the corner-men in the erection of a log cabin on the occasion.

Robert Reid settled on the Little Miami, oa the farm uow owned by B. Sprague, in 1815. He took an active part in the affairs of Harmony Township, serving the township as Clerk and Trustee.

James Sprague was a Canadian; he settled west of Lisbon, on the Little Miami, about the year 1815. He was the father of L. B. Sprague and Darius ume, residents of Harmony Township, and Dr. James Sprague, of London,

Edward Rice was one of the early settlers of Harmony Township. He came to Ohio with his wife in 1809 from Massachusetts, which was also his wife's birthplace, and settled on the farm sonth of the present village of Harmony, known as the Patten farm in 1812. He was a man well informed, took an active interest in the public affairs of the township, and was a Township Trustee for several years. Four of his sons were residents of Springfield Township and city. His son Asa, now deceased, built a steam saw and grist mill in Vienna about 1854. Mr. Rice died January 10, 1842, and his wife Lucy October 22, 1877.

Gabriel Cox settled on a farm adjoining Harmony Village about the year . 1818. He farmed some and kept hotel south of the village. He was a Free- . mason, and when he died was buried by that order.

James Donnels settled on the farm now owned by his son-in-law, Jesse Boyd, in 1808. Was a farmer and amassed considerable wealth. His only son James lives immediately east of Harmony in the house built by his father about the time the pike was finished.

David Hannah was a Virginian. He settled on Sinking Creek, in the northwestern part of the township, in the year 1815, and carried on a distillery for several years. In his day he was regarded as the largest and most powerful man of the township.

John Nichelson settled on Beaver Creek in 1806. Samuel Goodfellow owns the farm now. He had five sons - four of whom passed away years ago. Isabel, the oldest daughter, married Moore Goodfellow, and this is regarded as the earliest marriage in Harmony Township. Daniel Jones married one of the daughters, and the third died unmarried.

Andrew Nichelson came to the township with his father, John Nichelson, in 1806, being then three years old. Before he was of age, he purchased and paid for a tract of eighty acres of land, thus laying the foundation for the vast wealth which he afterward possessed. He was twice married, and was the father of a large family - -eleven of whom became men and women. His first wife was Rachel Hammond; she died in 1852. His second wife was Mrs. Angeline Yeazle, nee Spencer, whom he married in 1854. He was a man much esteemed for his many charitable acts, a life-long and consistent member of the Christian Church, and was widely known as a man whom nothing could divert from the path of rectitude. He died July 23, 1880, in his seventy-eighth year.

Moore Goodfellow was a native of Ireland. He settled on Beaver Creek on lands now occupied by his fourth son, Samuel Goodfellow, in 1810. His wife was Isabel Nichelson; they were married in 1808 Their children were William, John, Thomas, Mary Ann, Isabel, Samuel, Elliott, Rachel, Rhoda and Moore. His offspring, with their descendants, have held prominence in the township in business, political and social circles for nearly three-quarters of a century. He died September 16, 1860.

Henry Oxtoby, Sr., was a native of Yorkshire, England, as was also his wife Elizabeth Cook. They were married and had four children in their native land. They emigrated to America in 1803, locating first in the State of New York. In 1814, they came to Ohio and purchased 160 acres of land near Oxtoby Sta- tion, now owned by John Pierson. For this land Mr. Oxtoby paid $2.20 per acre; it has since sold for $100 per acre. His only son, Henry, still lives near the old homestead and the ripeness of his declnimg years is rendered glorious by the recollection of a well-spent life. the senior Oxtoby died in 1838, his wife in 1436; the three daughters have followed.

William Baird was a native of Hagerstown, Md., born March 16, 1762. He moved to Kentucky in 1794, and thence to Ohio in 1805, settling on Beaver Creek lands now owned by his son William D. Baird. He served in the Revolutionary war. He left three sons and four daughters at his death. One son still lives at the age of seventy-eight, and one daughter aged ninety-three - both residents of Harmony Township. Mr. Baird attended a treaty with the Indians in 1809 at Springfield, and saw the celebrated warrior and chief Tecumseh; was personally acquainted with Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton of historie fame.

Benjamin Foreman,'James Parks, Warham Stasy, Lewis Fee, Nicholas Storms, John and George Jones, Allen Gilbert, Matthew Spencer, John H. and George Dynes, were all settlers of Beaver Creek section, in the vicinity of the National road.

James Burns and Daniel Jones and family were early settlers near Lisbon. Thomas Stites was an early settler one and a half miles northwest of Lisbon, and managed a distillery for some years.

Jacob Girard, Thomas Whittredge and Isaae Dillon were early settlers near Lisbon. Robert Thorp, Sr., and family settled in the southwestern part of the township in 1819, they came from England. James Price came in 1820, died in 1846.

Isaac Chamberlin settled near Lisbon about the year 1815, and kept a publie house for several years. His children were Stephen H., George, Walter, Mary, Caroline and Sarah.

John Whiteley settled in the neighborhood of Fletcher Chapel, near the western line of the township. He served as Justice of the Peace of Harmony Township for several successive years. He was also a Commissioner of the county. His sons William, Joseph, Andrew and Abner have become noted throughout Christendom as inventore and manufacturers. Mr. Whiteley died June, 1845, aged sixty-four.

Christopher Laybourn was born in England in 1745; there married, in 1777, to Margaret Newlove, born in 1758. In 1794, he with his wife and six children emigrated to New York where they lived eighteen years, during which time he was Mayor of New York City two years. In 1812, he and family came to Clark County, settling in the southwestern part of this township, now known as the Thorp farm. He afterward moved to the farm where Joseph Laybourn now lives, in Section 25, where he died in 1842, his wife having died in 1825. He was a school teacher and a man of good education.

John Judy, Jr., was the second son of John Judy, Sr., and was born in a block-house near Flemingsburg, Ky., in 1791. He came to Ohio with his father's family and settled on the *Judy farm" on the head waters of the Little Miami near the Madison County line. His wife was Lydia Hull He served in the war of 1812 as a private; served Harmony Township as a magistrate, and was a Captain of a company of militia. He built one of the first brick houses in the country, and kept the " Black Horse Tavern," the first hotel in the township. He was a man of integrity and lived and died a consistent member of the Free-Will Baptist Church. He removed to Illinois about 1860, and died December 1, 1874, aged eighty-three.

Dr. William Amphlet located in the western portion of the township in an early day. He was an Englishman by birth, well educated, skillful in his profession, and owned a library of great value.

a physician in 1836. He was a successful practitioner, and served the township officially as Justice of the Peace, Treasurer and Clerk. He died in 1878. . His widow, whose family name was Laird, still survives.

Washington and Josiah Wilson came to this township with their mother Temperance (Judy) Wilson, about 1813, where Michael Wilson, Jr., was born shortly afterward. This family became one of the wealthy and influential ones . of the township, and wielded an influence for good.

Mention is made of other physicians who have practiced their profession at Vienna. Harry H. Young, James Sprague, Norris, Hunter, William U. Banwell, E. H. Smith.

_ The merchants of Vienna have been Caleb Barrett, Daniel Brown, Emanuel _ Wayne, D. B. Farrington, W. S. Funston, George W. Ryan, D. O. Heiskill, J. M. Bennett, W. T. Harris, J. A. Widdicombe, Samuel Frock.

Caleb Barrett had a store at Windsor, on the old Columbus road, as early as 1825, from where he removed to Vienna upon the completion of the National road.

William Pool and wife came with their son-in-law, Edward Rice, to this township in 1812, where both died; they were natives of Massachusetts.

At Lisbon, the dead rest in a neatly kept cemetery, and the memorials of affection erected to perpetuate the memories of the departed are tasteful and

- appropriate. At Plattsburg, the site of the cemetery is one rarely equaled for position. It is well kept and contains the graves of a number of pioneers of the. early days. d At Brighton, a small and tolerably well kept cemetery is used as a place of interment by the general public.

Fletcher Chapel is one of the oldest burial-places of the township, and the dead here perhaps number two hundred, among whom are the names of many whose descendants have figured prominently in publie life throughout the land. -Laybourn's is a small and somewhat private lot on Section 29, and on the road leading from Harmony to Plattsburg.

'Perhaps in this neglected spot islaid, . Some heart, once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to estacy the living lyre."

Lisbon

This village is situated near the southeast part of the township, on the road leading from South Charleston to Springfield, and is the southern terminus of the Lisbon & Catawba Free Pike. It was laid out on the 25th day of October, 1815, by Ebenezer Pattocks and Thomas Chenoweth, and on their lands. The surveyor was John James. Main street is sixty feet wide; Main cross-street is sixty feet wide, and Chillicothe and South streets are eath forty-nine and a half feet in width. The three last named run parallel to each other, and at right angles with Main street. The original plat shows fifty-six lots, or fourteen squares of four lots each. Lots numbered from 1 to 28 lie west of Main street; lots numbered from 29 to 56 lie on the east side.

_ ise of future growth and prosperity, rivaling, it is said, the nei B zi of ering dud South C hariei 5 MAU dici da : But fate ruled that Lisbon should blossom but to decay, and, in the years _ that have intervened, one by one of its families have gone elsewhere, until the _ once promising village is but a remnant of its former self. About the year 1820, a rude log schoolhouse, like the pattern of its day, _ was built on Lot No. 14, and here the youth of Lisbon were taught the common - branches of education by such reputable teachers as Joseph Morris, John Whit- - tredge, Peleg Whittredge, Lucy Munson, Catherine Bennett, Kiser Brooks and . Simon Steers. In 1829, a brick schoolhouse was built on Lot 29, and for thirtyfive years it served as a starting-point in the lives of many who have become worthy men and women, and who have run well in the race of life. In 1860, this house was destroyed by fire, and was succeeded by the present tasty and commodious one, also of brick. This one was partially destroyed by fire in 1872, but was rebuilt the next year. i à 1

Isaac Chamberlin kept a hotel here in an early day, for a succession of years. This was in a frame which stood on Lot No. 9. "This was before 1840. Jonathan Merideth occupied a frame two-story house on Lot No. 8, and carried on merchandising as early as 1825. John Buckland was also one of the early merchants. The McArthur Free Pike, from Lisbon via Plattsburg and Vienna to Catawba, was built in 1868 by John McKinney.

This village was laid out by David Ripley and Marvin Gager in 1835. It is located in the northeastern part of Harmony Township, about twelve and a half miles east of Springfield, and on the National road. The first house was built on the northeast corner, by John Buckland, and was by him occupied as a hotel for some years. In the same year, Joseph Robinson built a steam sawmill just east of the village. This was the first steam mill built in the township. Gager and Aplin built a frame house on the southeast corner, and opened a store of general merchandise.

A frame schoolhouse was erected in 1835 or 1836, in which Thomas H. Rathburn taught school. David Ripley in 1826 built the two-story brick build-

| ing on the northwest corner, and for several years thereafter carried on a hotel. Thomas Rathburn also occupied it in later years for the same purpose. A post office called * Brighton Center" was established, and Joseph Robinson was appointed Postmaster, in 1836. The office was discontinued about two years later. A carding-mill was built by George Snodgrass in 1537; the power for this machinery was a tread-wheel and a blind horse. The mill went down about 1842. Simeon Eaton built a frame house on the present schoolhouse lot and conducted a grocery business for years. Marvin Gager was a blacksmith. He built a shop and worked at his trade: in 1842, Gager and Aplin attached a dis tillery to the steam mill before mentioned, and it was operated with some success.

The first residents of Brighton were of stardy New England stock. and were intelligent and enterprising. Besides those above named. Marcus L. Durke, Washington Wilson, the Rathburns and Harvey Clark were prominent in social and business circles.

During the years from 1536 to 1545, the village enjoyed a fair share of prosperity. Her hotels were crowded with wagon men, trundling the products of the West to the markets of the seaboard, or hauling the supplies of Western merchants from the marts of the Atlantic coast. Her merchants bartered. measured, weighed, counted and caleulated from morning till night. nor dreamed that the evil day approached. It came at length in the building of railroads. and Brighton succmubed, and from then till now has barely held its own.

Brighton is without a house of worship. The Christian denomination have an organization. and worship in the village schoolhouse, Rev. Williams preaching once a month. A small society of the Methodist Episcopal denomination worship statedly at the same place. Rev. Andrew Runyon labors for and with these people.

Vienna

John H. Dynes founded and laid out this village in the year 1833. It is situated ten miles from Springfield, on the National Road, and nearly half a mile west of the point where this great national thoroughfare crosses the historic Ludlow line. At the time of the laying-out of Vienna, the National road was surveyed, but was not completed till 1537.

The first house erected was a log cabin, by one Taylor, situated in the west part of the village; the second was hewed log, and was built by Richard Watkins, of Champaign County, on the lot now owned by Jacob Smith. Emanuel Mayne built a two-story frame on the southeast corner. This was afterward removed, and the present hotel built in its place. This frame house afterward, and the hewed log mentioned, were destroyed by fire November 24, 1878. The dwellings of W. T. Harris, James McCafferty and James E. Johnson were destroyed at the same time.. Caleb Barrett was the first merchant. He began business in 1834, and continued in business about twenty-three years. Emanuel Mayne erected the hotel building on the southeast corner, and kept it as a publie house for a time. Mayne sold this property to Daniel Brown in 1836. Brown occupied it with a hotel and store. Mayne then built a frame house on the lot of M. H. Dynes, and carried on merchandising. He was succeeded by D. B. Farrington, who carried on both a hotel and store. He was followed by David Davis, who was an occupant of the premises December, 1839, when it was burned. In 1839 or 1840, Mayne built the present building on the northwest corner, and managed it for some time as a hotel. In after years, David Davis, Andrew Ryan, William Johnson and others kept public entertainment in this corner.

The Odd Fellows' buildiug, on the north side of West Main street, was erected about 1550, and remodeled by that order about the year 1870, and the upper story has been occupied by them for many years. The brick storeroom on Lot No. 7 was built by W. S. Funston in 1849. It was demolished by an accidental explosion of powder on the 8th day of August, 1871, it being then occupied by James Bennett. It was rebuilt the same year. In this accident, George Hinkle, David Johnson, Henry Campbell, A. H. Clark, Armsted Tavenner, Henry Baldwin, Nancy Ann Smith, Valentine Nicely and Absalom Gordon were seriously injured.

D. W. Hinkle built a tannery in the northwestern part of the village in 1837, and carried on the tannery business till 1852. About the year 1848, William Golden and Garner McIntire built a brick shop on the north side of East Main street for a tannery. The business was not permanent, and for many years the property has been used for a dwelling.

The post office of Vienna Cross Roads was established in the fall of 1838. Caleb Barrett was appointed Postmaster, and continued in office til? the spring of 1858, when he resigned. and Garner McIntire was appointed to succeed him. In the spring of 1561, McIntire was succeeded by Richard W. Ruse. In the fall of 1862, Ruse resigned. and William S. Fuxston, the present incumbent, was commissioned.

Great Western mail was carried on the National road daily, by four-horse stage-coaches. Afterward, the mail between Jefferson and Springfield was supplied by a one-horse coach. It is now supplied from Plattsburg by a mail messenger three times each week.

In the month of August, 1850, the village of Vienna was scourged with the cholera, and the following-named persons fell victims to its ravages:

Mary Ann Barret, John Pemberton, Dr. Cyrus Dulan, John Coverdell, William Barnes, two children of James Kelley, Charles Warren, John Chilson, Mary A. Tottan, a child of David Stansbury, and a son of Jacob Williams.

Harmony Village

Harmony Village is situated on the National road, near the west line of Harmony Township, and six miles east of Springfield. It was laid out in the year 1832, by Laybourn Newlove. Henry Martin, an Irishman, built a store, and was the first merchant. Joseph Newlove and Robert Black were early hotel-keepers of the village. Harvey Ryan built a tannery about the year 1835; he was succeeded, some years later, in the tannery business, by B. & F. Schoenberger, and these were succeeded by John H. Larimer, who carries on business at this time. William Herbert in 1839, and A. McCartney afterward, carried on blacksmithing. In 1851, John Walker made an addition to the village on the north side of the National road. This is still known as Walker's Addition. The first schoolhouse was built in 1835, and the first school was taught by John Newlove. Drs. Joseph Orr and J. S. R. Hazzard were early physicians of Harmony. During the time when the National road was the great thoroughfare between the East and the West, the village of Harmony enjoyed its brightest and best days, and seemed to promise for the future. Railroads came, the teamster and drover found their occupations gone, and the tide of travel and traffic took a new channel. Of the old settlers in and about the village when it was first laid out, mention is made of Jàmes Donnel, Peter Baird, William Baird, Jeremiah Yeazle, Amos Laybourn, Edward Newlove, Laybourn Newlove, Abel Laybourn, Joel Laybourn, Wales Aldridge, Abram Aldridge, Robert Rogers, George Benson, Joseph Snodgrass, Anthony Byrd, Henry Oxtoby, Sr., Isaac Jacobs, John Rea, Thomas Price.

The cholera scourged the village in June, 1852, and Baltzer Schoenberger, Charlotte, his wife, and Henry Cushman, fell victims. Others were attacked, but recovered. The village contains two schools - one for whites and one for colored children. The first, taught by Henry Kauffman, has a daily attendance of thirty-five; the last, taught by Sarah Miller, has a daily attendance of eighteen.

Nore 1. - The original plat of Harmony Village contains twenty-four lots ; numbers 1to 129 front north on the National Road, and count from east to west, Lots 13 to 24 are numbered from west to east, and lie immediately south of the first-named tier. The two tiers are separated by High street which runs parallel with the National road, and which is three poles wide. South alley is twenty feet wide, running parallel with High street and on the south front of Lots 13 to 24. Center street runs at right angles with the National road and High street, between Lots 6 and 7, and 18 and 19, and is three poles wide. East alley rans nearly north and south, and bounds the plat on the east. East alley is two poles wide. West alley runs parallel with Center street, bounding the plat on the west, and is twenty feet broad. Lots are ten PP north and south, and four poles wide, east and west. Fractional Lots 1 and 2 lying on the cast of Lots 1 and 24 contain 28.4 and 10.75 perches respectively.

Nore 2. - Walker's Addition to the village of Harmony was platted by John Walker January 22, 1851, and consists of ten lots on the north side of the National road, nearly opposite the original plat. They front south on the National road, and except Nos. 1 and 2, are of uniform size, 66x165 fect.

Plattsburg is on the Columbus & Springfield Railroad, and near the center of Harmony Township. Itis nine miles west of London, and eleven miles east of Springfield. The village was laid out on the 30th day of September, 1852, by William Osborn and Amaziah Judy; John B. Fish, surveyor. It comprises thirty lots; lots numbered from 1 to 16 were laid out by Mr. Osborn, and Lots 17 to 30 by Mr. Judy.

Bolivar Judy built the first house on Lot No. 17. Amaziah Judy, Bolivar Judy and Andrew Nichelson built the station house at the railroad in 1853. The brick hotel on Lot No. 1 was erected by William Osborn, who carried on the hotel business several years in the same.

"The People's House" was erected as a house of worship in 1846. The Universalists and the Christians joined their efforts in this enterprise, and for many years worshiped harmoniously and at will therein. The present brick schoolhouse, east of Lots 23 and 24, was built prior to the laying-out of the village, and about the year 1848, the site being donated by William Osborn. Before this, the site had been occupied by a smaller brick schoolhouse, erected as early as 1825, and which was also used as a place of worship by the Christians, Free- Will Baptists, and others. Here Elders Dunlap, Harvey, Mead, Wallingford, and many more of precious memory, preached the Word and pointed out the better way. Of the old-time teachers who wielded the birch in this house, and who have passed to man's common' destiny, mention is made of Dr. Cummins, Simon Steers, Lemuel Brooks and Ruth Housholder.