Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-02-23

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located the present Wheeling and
GAINESVILLE. In lT74 he was one Of Dun
mOre's guides at Wakatomica, acted as
spy for Washington, piloted Col.
Brodhead's expedition up the Alleghe-
ny in 1776 and was wounded on that
expedition. In 1882 he was one of
Crawford's guides in the fa;al Sandusky
campaign, and was one Of the promi-
nent men ut that time in the expedi-
tiOn. 1t is said II Crawford had acted
on the advice of Zane he could have
escaped defeat. Zane succeeded in
escaping capture and returned to
Wheeling. He was the best shot on
the border, and on one occasion killed
five Indians in succession, whom he
caught swimming the river.
Ebenezer and Silas Zane participated
in the border warfare and exploits of
Jonathan and were as daring and al
most as good marksmen.
Muskingum county was formed
March l, 1904, from Washington and
Fairfield counties, The word Musk
ingum is said to signify in the old In
dian lanuages, ian elk's eye" or "the
glare of an elk's eye" according to Kill
bOurn's Gazetteer. In May, 1896, Con-
gress passed a law authorizing Ebene-
ger Zane to open road from Wheeling
to Limestone (now Maysville,) Ken
lucky. In the following year, Ebene-
ger and Jonathan Zane and John Nc
Intire proceeded to mark out the new
road. AS a compensation, Congress
granted Ebenezer Zane the privilege of
locating warrants OH three sections of
land To NxYnnnl tN1fIn
each; the first of these was to be at the
crossing of the Muskingum, the second
at the Hockhocking and the third at
the Scioto crossing. He first proposed
to cross the Muskingum at Duncan's
Falls, but owing to the falls at Zanes-
vile, he crossed the river at that point,
and located his land around the falls.
The second land location was at Lancas-
ter, and the third opposite Chillicothe.
The tract at the Muskingum being the
least valuable of the three, Ebenezer
gave it to his brother-in-law, John Nc
Intyre, and to his brother, Jonathan
Zane, for opening the road.
One of the conditions of Congress was
that Mr.. Zane should keep up ferry
across each river during the pleasure of
Congress. The first mail ever Brought
into Ohio was brought from Marietta to
GAINESVILLE in 1706, where by arrange
ment of the Postmaster-G General it met
mail from wheeling, and one from
Limestone, Kentucky. This occurred
weekly. In 1899, Zane and McIntire
laid out the town and called it West
bourne, which name it carried until a
postOffice was established and the Post
master General changed the name to
GAINESVILLE. The village soon took the
same name. 1t then contained several
families, one store and no tavern. Mr..
Mclntire soon opened house of enter
tainment. A picture of this tavern is
given in Howe's History of Ohio. 1t is
said that Louis Philippe was once a
guest of McIntire. Hon. Louis Phil
lippe," alludes to the circumstance.
Mr. Mitchener in his History of the
Tuscarawas and Muskingum Valleys"
gives a pleasing legend of Louis Phil
lippe on the Muskingum, which reads
like a romance: "In the year 1870, four
hundred French emigrants landed at
Marietta from France-principally la
borers, artisans, broken gentleman, and
several of royal blood-a marquis,
CDuuIY ctC. IIltIC Is u
tradition that the French marquis who
came to Marietta with the 400 and who
returned to France in 1901, was blood
relation of Philippe, and held valuable
papers pertaining to the family inter-
ests, which he lost at Marietta, and that
Louis visit to the Muskingum was to
find some clue thereto. In the search
he was fascinated by one of his country
women. among the Gallipois emigrants
where, is not known-and contracted
with her "left-haneed marriage" the
issue of which, under the mothers
name grew to manhood on the Ohio and
Muskingum, went to Paris, and in the
Revolution of 1880, took part in elevat-
ing his father to the throne; and after
Louis fall he returned to the United
States and died at New Orleans where
he disclosed these facts"
In 1890, Louis Philippe joined the
French Revolution as a JacObin, but
having assisted two of his sisters to
escape he was denounced and fed! came
to Philadelphia in 1876, and with his
two brothers-the Duke of Montpen-
sier and Count Beaujo!ais-traveled
over the United States, returned to
Europe in 1900, became king in 1880,
was deposed in 1S43, and died an exile
in England in 1850.
while in the United States he visited
the West, stopped, as is said, at Coshoc-
ton, GAINESVILLE, Marietta, and Gallipo-
lis. The statement that Louis
Philippe was once at CoshOcton rests
upon the fact that when Geo. S. Will
liman, attcrney-at-law, Coshocton, and
grandson of Major Cass, was bearer
of dispatches to the French Govern
ment, the king told him that he once
went to a point in the Northwest Ter
ritory, where two rivers came together,
and gave such description of the place
and the landlord of the tavern as to
make it pretty certain that this was the
place. Col. Williams, the landlord, be-
ing afterwards spoken to on the subject
said that Louis Philippe had been at
his house ''and had been roughly |
treated" Tradition says that the rough |
treatment was this: He had an alterca-
tion with the tavern-keeper, ending In |
his telling Williams that he was the
heir to the French throne, and would |
not, as the coming sovereign, conde-
scend to handy words with a backwoods
plebian. Williams said in reply, that |
here in this backwOods of America |
there were no plebians; tive are all SOW
ereigns," ;" said he, land I'll show you onr
and suiting the action to the
word, he kicked Louis Philippe out of
the house; at which the ''sovereigns,"
lettering around the tavern gave three |