Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-22

=, this county was one of the first points of
EnoIish settlement in the State. As early as
1753. there was trading house at that point
called by the English Pickawillany, which
was attacked and destroyed BY the French
srd Indians that year; but little is known of
;ts history. We have already alluded to
Ti..oramie,s station, and to Fort Loramie built
..oan the rrIins of his store in 1874. The first
.-R;ta family settled in this county in 1904.
M Ct co1rt was held in 1873. Sidney, the
n.tr Anv =, saat was laid out in 1919 and named
from Sir Philip Sidney-"the great light OF
chivalry." ..I t.o,,, A., old
Indian Territory, April l, leu, ana named
t.on, rol Jobn Hardin, an officer OF dIstlnc-
~. =, the Early history of the West. He was
hor, In Virginia, in 1853; in lII4 ne was
made a., ensign in militia company; joined
tbs sxnadition of Lord Dunmore. In the war
~ Az Pavolutiou he was lieutenant IN
Gar ~ W, Morgan,s celebrated rifle corps, and
ws. HIGH in the esteem of Gen. Morgan. IN
17ss he settled in Washington county. In
Hsrmar's expedition he was un1ortunate,
ha;no defeated by the lnalans near r9Tt
Mn De.ns when on detached command. He
we t;,iod bv the Indians in 1892 in his 18th
'Nea. waS n Shelby county. A town was laid out
YEN, yea,, II tha snot and named Hardin, at the
o,pss.1,a.t;on upa of Col. John Johnston. A son or
se,:, 1ros at one time Secretary of the State
- Kantncky. Fort Macarthur, in Hardin
county. was built in the war OF lolZ, on hui :
road Kenton, the county seat was named
from Gen. Simon Kenton. ,ooo
M,,;or connty was formed April l, lo2O
t-oy,,- Franklin, Madison, Logan and Della
r.sra tngether with part of the old Indian
Torr;.orv The first white men who settled
=, tha county we're James and Joshua EWING,
n i7e9, James Ewing's farm was the site OF
AZ anc;ent Minpo town, which was deserted
sae a. the time the ancient Mingo towns in
Logan county were destroyed, IN lloo, py
Cen. Logan, of Kentucky. Inc county was
erected through the exertlons OF Ool. James
Curry, who resided WITHIN It's limits from
1911 - 1SaI when his death occurred. He
sor1ad as an officer in the Virginia Con-
t;nental Line in the Revolution, and was
taEen prisoner when the American Army sur
ranJared ut Charleston, s. @. During his
rea;dance in Ohio he was well-known and had
many warm friends among the leading men
of the State. He was one of the Presidential
Electors in the election OF Monroe, ana was
afterwards Associate Judge OF the county.
Lorain county was formed from Cuyanoga, @
Huron. and Medina, December 20, 1872. The
first settler of Elyria. the county seat, was
Mr.. Herman Ely, from West Springfield,
Mass who came here in 1877. and the village
Was soon after laid out. Eight miles from
EIvria is fine town of Oberlin. named from
Rev. John f. OberIin, of Waldbach, Switzer-
land, who was born in Strassburg, IN lI40,
and died in Waldbach, 1926, noted for his
benevolent character. This town ls the seat
of the Oberlin College: Ii was founded IN IN
1892 by Rev. John ]. Shipherd and others. It
is now one of the largest and the best attend
ed colleges in the State.
Holmes county was formed January ~,
1890. from Coshocton, Wayne and Tuscrawas,
and organized the following year. 1t was
named from Col Holmes, agallant young
officer who was killed in the unsuccessful at
tack on Mackinac under Col. Croghan.
August a. 1914. This county was settled
abont 1910. There we're, however. $4,000
acres of choice land scattered about the coun-
tv. Western Reserve school land, which was
NOT in the market until 1881, and operated
disadyanteously to the settlement OF the
county. Millersburg, the county seat, was
laid out in 1916, and again in 1924.
INDIAN RESERVATIONS.
Marion county was organized March l.,
1924. and named from Gen. Francis Marion,
of Soutf Carolina, q partisan officer In 4the
Revolution. By the treaty of 1877 there was
Granted to the Delaware Indians reserva-
ton three miles square, near the northern
boundary of this county and adjoining the
Wyandot reservation OF IL miles square. BY
treaty of 1929, the Delawares ceded this land
to the United States for $4,000 and removed
west of the Mississippi. Marion, the county
seat was laid out in 1921. Gen. Harrison
passed through this county in the war OF 1872,
and pncarnped at Jacobs Well, just south
of the town.
Carroll county was formed at the session of
the Legislature for 1928 from Colnmblana,
stark, Tuscarawas, Harrison and Jefferson,
and named from the well,known Chas. Car.
roll. of Carrollton, Md. the last survivor of
the signers of the Declaration of Indepehd-
ence. ,,oo
Erie county was formed in 1888 from HUI
ron and Saudusky counties. 1t was named
from the Erie or Cat tribe of Indians. This
nation originally lived at the east end of Lake
Erie, near Buffalo, and were very powerful.
They were exterminated by the Five Nations
over two centuries since. The French
established small trading post at the mouth
of the Huron river in this county, and an
other on the shore of the bay nearly opposite
the site of Sandusky, but abandoned 1t before
the war of the Revolution. Fort Junandet
was built here in 1754.
In 1894. while Pontiac was beseiging De-
troit. Gen. Bradstreet collected 5000 men,
embarked at Niagara and proceeded up the
lake to the relief of that post. He stopped
at Sandusky and the Maumee bottoms and
burned the indian villages and corn fields
Having dispersed the Indian beselging De-
troit, he passed into the Wyandot country by
way of Sandusky Bay, and formed treaty OF
MAGE with the Indians. Erie, Huron and a
small part of Ottawa county comprise the
'tF1RELANDs."
The first regular settlers on the ''Firelands''
were Col. Jerard Wood, in 1908, and Almon
Rnoples and Jabez Wright in the fall succeed
inr. On the spot where the town OF Milan
now stands there was at the time OF the sur
yev of the Firelands in 1907, an Indian village
under Rev. G. Dencke, Moravian mission
ary The Indian name OF the town was
Petouotting; the mission was established here
in 1904; Mr.. Dencke brought with him several
families of Christian Indians from the
Thames river in Upper Canada. They had a
chanel and a mission house here and were
making good progress, when the whites COM
inc in 1909 induced them to emigrate to
Canada. There was Moravian emission
established here as early as 1857, under
Seisberper. The Morayian Indians from
Gnadenhutten on the Tuscarawas, after the
inhuman butchery, formed settlement
called ''Pilgerruh," on the Cnyahoga, but
were soon driven from there and came to the
Huron river and formed a village which they
called "New Salem" They were soon
compelled to leave through the prosecutions
of the raRan Indians Itseems to have been
a portion Of these who returned in 1904. The
land in this township was brought into the
market in 1908, when David Abbot purchased
1.SO) acres and removed here in 1910. Hewas
anatiye of Brookfeld, Mass, was educated
at Yale College, studied law and located at
Rome, New York, came to Ohio in 1796, and
fiIelIy to Milan in 1910. He was Sheriff of
Trumbull county when it comprised the whole
of the Western Reserve; was member Of
the convention for the formation of the State
- Ill n L. As.1