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Lawyers of Mansfield — The Visiting Lawyers — The Presi- dent Judges — General McLaughlin — General Eobert Bent- ley — Thomas A. Ford — Mordecai Bartley — Judge Brinker- hoff— L. B. Matson — Milton W. Worden — General Brinker-

hoff's Review of the Mansfield Bar 377

CHAPTER XXXIX. — The Public Buildings of Richland County. — The Old Block-Houses as Court Houses — The First Brick Ojurt House — The Present Court House — The

Jails, Infirmary, etc 384

CHAPTER XL — A List of the County Officers FRom 1813

TO 1880.. 391

CHAPTER XLI. — Blooming Grove Township — Organization — Physical Features — Settlers and Settlements — Pioneer Incidents and Adventures — The Stoner and Foulks Fami- lies — Mills — Schools and Churches — Trucksville— Rome —

Shenandoah 393

CHAPTER XLII. — Butler Township. — Organization — Topog- raphy — Early Settlers — Churches — Schools — The Village of

Lafayette— Mills— The Grange— A Wolf Hunt 401

CHAPTER XLIII.— Cass Township— Its Erection— Bounda- ries and Pliysical Features — Settlements — Indians — First Methodist Church — Schools and School Teachers — Towns — Old Salem — London — Plauktown— Shiloh — Its Early Set- tlers — Buildings — Schools and Churches — The Shiloh Re- view 404

CHAPTER XLIV.— Franklin Township— Organization and Topography — Agriculture, etc. — Indian Occupation — Roads —First Settlers and Settlement— First Hotels — Distillery — The Lead Mine — Bear Hunting — "Shining" for Deer — A Snake Story — First Elections — Mills — Schools and

Churches 413

CHAPTER XLV. — Jackson Township. — Organization — Name — Topographical Features — Hunting Grounds — ArcliMolog- ical — First Settlements— Judge McClure— First Road- Uriah Watson — First Cabin — White Hunters— Early Set- tlers — Public Meetings — Town Hall — Schools— Churches... 419 CHAPTER XLVI. — Jefferson Township. — Description — Streams — Timber — Organization —Early Olfioers — Reduc- tion to its Present Limits — List of Voters — First Settle- ment — Indians' Final Farewell — Pioneer List of 1869 — Bellvillo — Newspapers — Bangor — Early Schools — Religion — Churches— Societies — First Orchards — Distillery — Birtli — Marriage — Mills — Tornado — Stories — Bushong Murder —

The Hermitess— Soldiers of 1812 426

CHAPTER XLVII.— Early History of Madison Township AND Mansfield. — Madison Township— Its Formation, Physical Features and Population — Survey — Early Settlers. Mansfield — Its Location and Survey— Established on the Rocky Fork— Name— First Settlers— First Cabin— First White Child— Pioneer Matters— A Number of First Things —General Crooks— The Block-Houses— John M. May— The Sturges Firm— Indians— What Rev. .James Rowland and

other Pioneers Say — Early Hotels, etc 443

CHAPTER XLVIII.— The City CHURCiiES.—TheFirst Presby- terian — The Congregational — The Associate, Associate Re- formed and the United Presbyterian— The Methodist Episco- pal Church— The First Baptist and Central Baptist Churches —English Lutheran— Church of Christ— St. John's— Reformed Presbyterian— St. Paul German Lutheran— St. Peter's Catholic-^Grace Episcopal— African Methodist Epis- copal— Church of God— Believers in Christ 464

��CHAPTER XLIX.— Schools, Press, Post Office— The Pioneer Schools and Teachers of the City — The First Sclioolhouses — Division into Districts — The Present System of Teaching — The Female College — The Superintendents of the Schools — The Board of Education — The Erection of Schoolhouses — Progress and Statistics. The City Press— The Olive— Mansfield Gazette— Western Herald —Ohio Spectator— Richland Whig— Ohio Shield— Shield and Banner — Richland Jeffersonian — Mansfield H<Tald — Morning Pennant — Richland Biigle and Independent Press — Mansfield Courier — Ohio Liberal— Richland Democrat —

Sunday Morning Call

The First Post Oftice— The Early Mail Routes— Stages— Post- masters — Location of Post Offices— The Business of the

Office 480

CHAPTER L— Banks, Insurance Companies, Mills and Manufactures. — First Bank — Application for a Charter — Patterson & Co. — Mr. PurJy's Bank — The Sturges Bank- Richland National — First National— Mansfield Banking Company — Mansfield Savings Bank. The Richland Mutual Insurance Company- The Mansfield Mutual Fire Insurance Company — The American Mutual Accident Association.' Early Mills of Madison Township— Gilbert Waugh & Co.—

Hicks, Brown & Co. The Aultman and Taylor Company— The Mansfield Machine Works— Cracker Bakery— Box Factory— The Western and- Buckeye Suspender Companies— Trunk Factory — Mans- field Woolen Mills— Mansfield Lumber and Building Com- pany-Paper Manufactory — Patterson, Creigh & Co.— 6. W.

Forney & Co.— Other Industries 492

CHAPTER LI.— History of Mansfield Concluded.— Fire De- partment and Water Works— The Mayors ot the City — First Council— First Railroad— Population and Business in 1857_Gas Works— Railroads— Market House— Mansfield made a City— Erection of Buildings— The "Flush Times" Following the War— The Wholesale Trade— The Business of the Manufacturing Establishments— Incomes— Business of the City, According to the Directory of 1869- Library Association — Young Men's Christian Association — The Cemetery Association — Building and Loan Association — The Coldwater Railroad— The "Collapse" of 1873— Pros- perity in 1S79— General Review of Business 516

CHAPTER LII.— Mifflin Township.— Location, Organization and B:)undary— Physical Features— Crawford's March — Home of the Red Men— Indian Relics— Settlers and Settle- ments — Daniel Hoover and his Bear Stories — James McDermott — Robert Bentley — Surveyed — Schools and Churches— Bridges on the Black Fork— Mills— Villages- Population 528

CHAPTER LIII.— Monroe Towns ;!ip.— Boundaries and Phys- ical Features— Pipe's Cliff— Captain Pipe— Early Settlers and Settlements— Schools and School-Teachers— Pioneers and their Reminiscences- Bears, Wildcats, and Wild Tur- keys—Names of Settlers in 1819— Election— Churches- Mills — Pinhook — Lucas— Population 537

CHAPTER LIV.— Perry Township.— Description— Streams- Organization — Early Officers Subsequent Territorial

Changes— Early Settlers— Mills— Villages— Churches— Lost

Run 547

CHAPTER LV.— Plymouth Township.— Organization, Survey and Physical Features— The Wyandot Trail— First Settlers

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