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Liberty Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Guernsey County, Ohio, published in 1911. 388 words, covering 3 settlements.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimbolton | 10 | 17 | - | 268 |
| North Salem | 9 | 4 | - | 272 |
| Tyner | 26 | - | - | 310 |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 3 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
388 wordsReproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1911 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.
Liberty Township
The village of Kimbolton was founded by John Gibson in 1829. The first settlers in Liberty Township were William Gibson, John Philipps and a Mr. Harper, who came to the county in 1806, via an Indian trail. Following is the language of William Gibson: " We began to keep house in a shanty at the upper end of Libert3\ We soon got a cabin; that was bettei'."
Naphthali Luccoek settled in Liberty in 1831, and when the people petitioned for a postoffice they were notified that no more poetoffices named Liberty, as the village w:is then called, would be allowed in the state of Ohio. Mr. Luccoek therefore suggested the name Kimbolton (after his native Kimbolton in England), and by mutual consent it was adopted, and the postoffice was granted. The name of the village remained unchanged, however, until the advent of the Cleveland & Marietta Railroad, but is now known as Kimbolton.
The first merchant in the village was a Mr. Shannon, who was succeeded by N. Luccoek, who continued the business until 1853, when he was succeeded by his son.
Historical
NapLthali Luccock was the first Postmaster, and also the first Justice of tlie Peace. The township of Liberty was organized in 1820. The first teacher in the township was a New England man named Austin Hunt, who believed in the rod as a necessary instrument of persuasion and enlightenment. But to better illustrate the ideas of our pioneer teachers we quote the language of the venerable James Gibson, of Kimbolton: "I went to keeping school, and kept school here in Liberty. Some of the boys from over the creek began to run off and stay around the creek and hunt mussels and crawfish. I found it out and brought them up and gave them a tannin'. They went home and told their folks I had whipped them. The next day their fathers rode up to the schoolhouse, called me to the door and said they had come to give me a tannin'for whipping their boys. I replied: -What color are you going to tan me ? If you have any business j'ou can attend to it, but if you come into this schoolhouse I will do the tannin'." Tliere was no tannin' done. I think a good tannin' never liurt a boy when he needed it."
Provenance
Text from History of Guernsey County, Ohio, by Sarchet, Cyrus P. B. (Cyrus Parkinson Beatty), 1828-1913. Cn, published 1911 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.