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History
of
Fayette County,
Ohio
Historic Notes on the Northwest,
And
The State of Ohio
By R.S. Dills
ILLUSTRATED
Odell & Mayer, Publishers
Dayton, Ohio
1881
1040 pages on 1 CD
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
CHAPTER I. - Topography—The Great Lakes
CHAPTER II. - Joliet and Marquette's Voyage
CHAPTER III. - La Salle's voyage
CHAPTER IV. - La Salle's voyage continued
CHAPTER V. - The several rivers called the Miamis
CHAPTER VI. - The Miamis
CHAPTER VII. - The Shawnees and Delawares
CHAPTER VIII. - The Indians
CHAPTER IX. - The war for the fur trade
CHAPTER X. - The war for the empire
CHAPTEK XI. - General Clark's conquest of the Illinois
CHAPTER XII. - The title of Virginia, and her deed of cession
CHAPTER XIII. - Admission of Ohio into the Union
HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY.
INTRODUCTION.
POLITICAL AND MITITARY HISTORY.
INDIAN WARS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
HABITS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PIONEERS.
ORIGINAL TOWNSHIPS.
PRESENT TOWNSHIPS.
MILLS AND MILLING
MISCELLANEOUS.
Taverns
Race of John Edgington
War of 1812
Batteal Harrison at Fort Meigs
Josiah Hunt
The Old Muster
Sharp Shins or CutMoney
Pioneer Girls
Corn Husking
Game and Hunters
The Old School House
Early Mails
Pigeon Roosts
Judiciary New Court House
Jails
County Infirmary
Peter Carder
Counterfeiting
The Funk Fight
The first man sent to the penitentiary
Execution of William G. W. Smith
Sanitary—Milk Sickness—Symptoms—Treatment
Drainage
Stock Sales—Horsetrading
The first Railroad
Geology of Fayette County
Fayette County in the Rebellion
Fayette County in the Legislature
Fayette County officials
UNION TOWNSHIP
Early Settlers—Washington—Early Business—Tanneries—Blacksmiths—General features—Old times—The pioneer house—Council proceedings—Fire Engine—Township reminiscences—Churches—Schools—Secret organizations
The crusade—The press—Woolen machines Biographical
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
Early settlement—Official—Churches—Secret societies—Industrial and Commercial--Railroads—Roads—Miscellaneous—Schools—Jeffersonville Biographical
JASPER TOWNSHIP.
Early settlers—Schools—Churches—Towns—Post offices, etc., Biographical
CONCORD TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement— Churches—Schools—Incidents—Mills—Staunton Biographical
GREEN TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement—Schools—Churches—Buena Vista—Officers—Distilleries—Thievis—Incidents, etc
Biographical
PEREY TOWNSHIP.
Early—settlements—Churches—Blacksmiths—Mills— Stores— Sunday-schools Martinsburg—Secret Societies—Nursery— Officers Biographical
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement—Taverns—Indian reminiscences—Good Hope—Churches Rock Mills Biographical
MARION TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement—Churches—Sabbath-schools—Schools;—Mills—Official, etc Biographical
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement—Churches— Schools—Secret organizations—Stores—Mills, etc Biographical
PAINT TOWNSHIP.
Early settlement—Incidents Educational—Churches—Secret organizations In —the war with Garfield—Bloomingbury—Slavery—The liquor question
Towns
Biographical
Summary
ADDENDA.
Union Township
Jefferson Township
Jasper Township
Concord Township
Errata
