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Madison Township
The complete chapter on this township from A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877; Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1901. 302 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 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.
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
302 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877; Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1901. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Madison Township
Madison Township was honored with the name of one of the illustrious Presidents of the United States, James Madison. It lies immediately east of Clear Creek, on the southern border of the county. It was established with pretty near its present boundaries, in the year 1812. Previous to that time it formed, I believe, a part of Clear Creek Township. The. first election for the township after its independent organization was held at the house of Mr. Valentine Wolf.
Still-houses were numerous there at an early day, and their influences were manifested at public gatherings, such as logrollings, corn-huskings, house-raisings and sales. There is no village of any consequence in Madison.
We mention a few of the first men, who, with their families, settled on her soil : Ewel Shseffer, Mathew Young, Robert Young, Adam Deffenbaugh. Names of other first settlers have not transpired to me.
The first saw-mill in the township was built by Isaac Shjeffer. A man by the name of Aker is referred to as having been the first to carry on the blacksmith business, and the first and only tavern for the time was kept by John Sweyer. In the j'ear 1835, there were five mills in the township, owned respectively by Shaeffer, Deffenbaugh, Welsheimer, Griffith and Guy. The Methodists and Lutherans have churches in Madison. There are two hamlets in the township, known as Clearport and Mechanicsburg. Rev. Mr. Steck, Lutheran, preached there as early as 1816. John Wiley, an extensive stock dealer, settled in Madison in 1828. In 1854, a post-office was established at Clearport, commonly called Abbot's store. The Abbot family have kept the office from its beginning till now.
Source changes here: from Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County, Ohio, by Wiseman, C. M. L. (Charles Milton Lewis), published 1901; 25 words in this source stream.
Madison Township
The early settlers of this township were Martin Landis, Sr., Samuel Spangler, Adam Defenbaugh and Matthew and Robert Young, and the Shaffers, a large family.
Provenance
Text from A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1877; Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County, Ohio, published 1901, in the public domain in the United States and 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.