Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-29

poses. The Shawnee Indian reservation
embraced large mart nf tie county and the
Indians did not depart uDtil 1892. although
they ceded their lands n the general govern
ment some time before. A family named
Russell were the first white settlers in the
county, (1sl7.l settling on the Auglaize,
where daughter was born to them. after
wards familiarly called
"nIE DAUGHTER OF ALLEN COUNTY,
The State of Ohio conveyed to the people
Of Allen county quarter section Of land on
which to build n county town in 1929. and in
the summer of 1881 Lima was laid ont. The
county was permanently organized in June.
1881. In the winter of 1S34-35. the u. S.
Land Office was removed from Wapakonetta
70 lima, and with il came Gen. VIM. Black
burn ms receiver. He was considerably over
six feet in height and weighed over 400
hounds. He was military enthusiast and
the military musters Of those days gave his
enthusiasm full vent. After the Shnwnees
were driven from Piqua by Gen. George
Rogers Clarke they established town here
called Wapakonetta in Allen county.
THEIR CHIEF WAS SOMEWHAT oLUB-FoorED,
And Johnston thinks that the name of their
town. WapaVh-ko- Meta. has some reference
to this circumstances. The chief. Catahecassa,
or "Black Hoof," died at Wanakonetta,
the far west: he was no years old.
Auglaize county was organized in 1848-
Wapakonetta was the residence of the noted
Shawnee chief. Capt. James Logan. nenhew
Of Tecumseh; he WAS killed during hostilities
in 1912. Among the early and resrected citi-
zens of Wapakonetta was Robert J. Skinner.
who established the first Democratic news
uaper at Dayton in 1915: he continued il until
1890. when he removed il to Piqua: in 1882 he
received from PresidentJa Jackson the annoint-
ment of Receiver of the U. s. Land Office at
Wnnakonetta, and continued in that town un-
til 1919. In June of that year, while on visit
to Dayton, he died Of cholera. He was
man of positive character, great enterprise,
and most useful citizen. He was member
of the General Assembly of 1889 from
Montgomery county.
ments were first made by white people within
the limits now occupied by Auglaize county,
in A. D., 1923. in st. Mary's township The
Shawanee tribe of Indians were then the ac-
cupants, in their wav, and the claimants of
the country. Soon after followed few set
Elements by the Qnakers, establishing
mission among the Indians at Wapakonetta,
in Duchouquet township: and then n white
settler here and there on the streams,n
Among the early settlers of st. Mary's was
Bennett W. Langley, a soldier in the war of
1872, under Whistler, who aided in the erec-
tion of Fort Dearborn. (Chicago.) The first
term of the Court of Common Pleas was held
in Auglaize county, May, 1S48, Patrick G..
Gonde, Presiding Judge.
Crawford county was formed April l. 1920, :
from old Indian territory, and named from T;
the unfortunate Col. Crawford. He was born |
in Virginia in 1892 the same year with Wash |
inGton. His ancestors we're of Scotch Irish |
origin and came to America in the early part
of the eighteenth century. settling in Vir-
ginia. William was an intimate friend and
PLAYMATE OF WASHINGTON,
And at an early age learned from him the art
of surveying. William Crawford followed |
the double occupation of surveyor and farmer |
until his twenty-third year, and was frequent
ly visited by Washin gton, az Weems tells us
in his life of Washington" Crawford, |
held important judicial trusts |
in Pennsylvania. was actively engaged in the /
French war and the Revolutionary struggle, |
and was energetic in urging Congress to an |
effectual defence of the Western frontiers.-
His sad fate is already recounted in foregoing |
pages.
The first arrival of white settlers in Craw-
ford county occurred in 1919. Among these
was Resolved White, n descendant of the |
child born in the Mavhower. Bucyrus was
laid out February II, 1899, by Samuel Norton
and James Kilbourne, the original proprie-
tors of the soil. Norton was the first settler,
and wintered in a cabin of poles, on the
banks of the Sandusky, during this winter of
1919. The lots we're offered for sale and
brought 80 to As dollars each. Crawford
county. though formed in 1920 was attached
10 Delaware county and afterwards to Marion
county, until the session of the Assembly of
iS25-26, when an act was passed organizing
he county. The first court ever held in the
county was presided over by Judge Ebenezar
Lane of Norwalk. Josiah Scott, late Chief
Justice to the Ohio Supreme Court. establish
I'd himself in Bucyrus, in 1880. Hon. Geo.
Sweeney. formerly member of Congress,
came here about the same time as Judge
Scott.
Wyandot county was formed from Craw.
ford, Marion, Hardin and Hancock, January
;, 1845. The county was favorlte residenc
)f the Wyandot Indians, and the scene of
Crawford's defeat in June, 1882. when he was
cruelty tortured to death. By the treaty of
20. 1917, at the foot of the Mau-
nee rapids. (Hon. Lewis Cass and Hon. D.
Macarthur, U. S. Commissioners there was
granted to the Wyandot Indians a reserva-
lion twelve miles square in this county. To
the Delawares tract three miles square was
yiven, directly to the south of the Wyandots.
The Delawares ceded their reservation to the
United States in 1929, the Wyandots ceded
theirs in 1S42, being then
THE ONLY INDIANS REMAINING IN THE STATE.
The Commissioner on this occasion was Col.
John johnson, who had the honor of making
The last Indian treaty in Ohio-a State, every
foot of whose soil has been fairly purchased |
by treaties from its original possessors. The
Wyandots were the bravest of the Indian
tribes, says Howe; and had among their
chiefs some men of high moral character.
Flight in battle was not to be thought of by |
Them; neither would they be taken alive.
The Methodists sustained mission among
the Wyandots for many years. The follow
ing inscriptions are copied from monuments |
in the grave yard attached to the mission |
church:
"Between-the-logs, died December, 1926,
aged 30 years."
"Rev. John Stewart, first missionary to the |
died December 18th, 1888, aged 81 |
years"
"Sum-mun-d -de-wat, murdered December |
4th, 1645, aged 46 years. Buried in Wood
Ohio" His remains were subse- |
quently reinterred here. Howe gives several
anecdotes of him.
1t was to this country that the celebrated
Simon Kenton was brought when taken
prisoner by the Indians. He visited the place
half mile the identical wood in which he
had been
MADE TO RUN THE GAUNTLET.
40 years before, during his captivity, in the
struggle.
Seneca county was formed April l, 1920 and
named from the Indian tribe within its
limits. f. Seneca was military post built
in the war of 1912, nine miles north of
TifHin; it was stockade with ditch, and oc-
cupied several acres; here, in the fall of 1924,
the first general muster of militia took place,