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��building erected on East Walnut street at a cost of $3,000. Present membership about one hundred.

The Albrights have erected a fine brick church on Third Street, at a cost of $6,000. Present membership about one hundred.

St. Edward's Catholic Church on Cottage street was organized about 1872. The build- ing is brick, and not yet finished.

The Tunkards, or Brethren, as they prefer to be called, organized in 1879, and at present, hold services in the chapel of the college. The membership is about one hundred. S. Z. Sharp, J. A. Worst and S. H. Bashar are the leaders.

Ashland has grown into a town of nearly, or quite, four thousand people, the Atlantic & Great Western Railway contributing not a little to its development.

There are two large flouring-mills ; four large dry-goods stores ; four clothing, three hard- ware, four agi'icultural implement, three stove and tin, ten grocery and three drug stores ; three restaurants, two hotels, two banks, one insurance company, three tanneries, two plan- ing-mills and the usual number of people in other business in the same proportion.

The Ashland Mutual Insurance Company was organized in 1851. It is permanent and re- liable, its assets aggregating about $600,000. William Osborn is President ; L. Jeflf Sprengle, Secretary, and J. D. Stubbs, General Agent.

The First National (and only national) Bank was organized first in January, 1852, and re- organized and made a national bank in Jan- uary, 1864.

The Farmers" Bank was organized July 1, 187-1. It is a private institution.

The Ashland Herald was started in 1836, by John C. Gilkison, of Mansfield, who continued its publication about one year, when he sold the press and material to Joshua H. Ruth, now of the Loudonville Democrat. The Herald was Whig in politics, but Ruth changed both

��its politics and name, calling it the Ohio Globe. It supported Van Buren for the Pres- idency. In less than a year, Ruth was suc- seeded by Judge Samuel McCluer, now a leading lawyer of Akron, who changed the name to the Western Phoenix. The politics were again changed to Whig, but the paper only lived about a year.

From 1838 to 1846, Ashland was without a paper ; but in the latter year two were started — one the Ashland Democrat, edited and published by Jonathan Maffett (now of Upper Sandusky, Ohio) and William Hunter. The other was the Ashland Standard. The first represented the hard money Democrats, and the last the soft. The Standard was published the last two years by W. T. Jackson. These papers continued about four years, when both concerns sold out to Horace S. Knapp, and in their place ap- peared the Ohio Union. In 1850, a Whig paper was established called the Ashlander, by W. B. McCarty, now an attorney at Bowling Green. Ohio. It was continued two years. July 14, 1853, the Ashland riwies was started by L. Jeff Sprengle (who is authority for this account of the papers) and Judge William Osborn. It was Whig in politics, and continued four years, when Judge Osborn, who had been editor-in-chief, sold his interest to Mr. Sprengle, and was suc- ceeded as editor by Josiah Loche. of the In- dianapolis Journal, who continued as editor two years, when he returned to Indianapolis and resumed his place upon the Jonrnnl. Mr. Sprengle continued the pubhcation of the Times in the interest of the Republican party until June 1, 1876, when he disposed of his interest to his son-in-law, J. E. Stubbs, who afterward sold a half-interest to his brother, John C. Stubbs. These gentlemen have conducted it until the present time, it being under the editorial and business management of G. W. Stubbs and B. G. Grosscup.

At the Times office, is also published a re- ligious paper called the Gospel Preacher, in the

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