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and prior to the location of Ottokee, and was about two miles west.
Another, by Burdick Burtch, on the farm now owned by I. L.
Hagerman, was established and run by Burtch at a very early day. It
was discontinued in 1858. James M. Gillett erected a large building
at Spring Hill, 1853, for a wagon shop, but changed his plans and
opened the same as a temperance hotel and run it for a few years.
He sold out to Daniel Ronk, and he to Chauncy Stevens, and the last
named to Garrett Rittenhouse, who was the last proprietor at Spring
Hill. Brick, tile and pottery were first made by Eben French (familiarly
known as old man French), who put up an oven on the property now
owned by
 472 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. Charles B. Carter,
near what was known as " Chatfield's Corners," where was made all
kinds of pottery, which was peddled through the county at a very
early date, about 1846. He also made brick in small quantities, and
made the first tile that was ever manufactured in the county. Mr.
French, at about this time, put up and burned brick on lands now
owned by Levi McConkey. Brick were made soon after by Joseph
Shadle, and continued for a number of years upon his farm, south of
Ottokee, but stopped in 1865, after burning brick enough for the
county infirmary and other buildings. " Long Bill " Jones, in 1839,
made brick on the farm now owned by De Witt Williams, and this
was as early as any were made. The last brick made in this township
were by Amasa B. Verity, upon the premises now owned by Oliver B.
Verity. Tile was manufactured for one or two years, at the saw-mill
of James Kahle. Ottokee Cemetery. — This place, for burial of the
deod, was commenced at a very early day, but was not organized as
" Ottokee Cemetery " until 1853. Betsy Knapp, wife of Archie W.
Knapp, who came here in May, 1846, and died June 26, 1846, was
the first person laid to rest in the cemetery. Ayres Cemetery was laid
off for burial purposes the earliest of any in this territory, at the very
beginning of its settlement, or as soon as 1838. It was used before
any other place was selected, but who was the first person buried
cannot be ascertained. Spring Hill Cemetery was the last regularly
laid out burialplace in the township, about i860. Oscar A. Hibbard,
son of Mortimer D. Hibbard, was the first person buried therein.
Physicians. — Doctor Blaker was the first resident physician, followed
in succession by Drs. Wm. Hyde, McCann, V. Gurley, S. T. Worden, B.
M. De Lano, Henry Herreman and Welcome C. Robinson, each of
whom engaged in general practice before Ottokee and Spring Hill
had an existence as villages. After Spring Hill started, the first
physician was Doctor Wm. Hyde, who educated for the profession
Noah W. Jewell, now of Wauseon. Dr. Jewell succeeded Dr. Hyde.
Next in order was Dr. Robert C. Ely, followed by Drs. Buchanan,
Leach, Webb, Estelle H. Rorick and George P. Campbell, the last
named being now in practice there. Spring Hill. — M. D. Hibbard
opened the first store of goods, upon a small scale, at a very early
day. He was followed by Thomas Walters, and afterwards by William
Jewell, Robert Shepherd, Francis Laudersdale & Son. The latter were
burned out about i860. Feis Guggenheim, Tarring Osmun, G. W.
Wallace, Wesley Huffman and George Walters have also been in
trade at the place. In the year 1852 Louis Stumm brought to Ottokee
from Delta, a press, and published for a time the Fulton County
Advertiser. It was, in a few months, changed into the hands of J. W.
Rosenburg, and the name changed to the Fulton County Union. In
the winter of 1854 the paper was sold to J. W. Carter, who run it
until his death, August 18, 1855, after which Ben. Frank
 Fulton County. 473 and Benjamin Montgomery took the
office and issued regularly, till sold to Henry McElheney, in 1857. In
1855 Hosea Day brought in a competitive press, and issued the
Ottokce Observer, superintended by Harry Bayes. and who issued
the same to about 1857, when it was sold to S. A. Scofield and taken
to Morenci, Mich. In 1857, Henry McElheney, a young lawyer, got'
possession of, and run for a few months only, at Ottokee, a
Democrat paper called Fulton County Democrat. In the summer of
1863 Harry B. Bayes brought from Bryan. O., a press and established
The Monitor, as a competitive paper against the Northwestern
Republican, then in the hands of Joseph Cable, at Wauseon, and
issued his weekly editions for about eight months, when he sold out
to Wauseon parties. Several residents of Ottokee learned the
printer's trade at that place, to- wit : Charles B. Carter, Julius D.
Carter, Miss Maggie Carter, now the wife of Judge Fallis, of Cadillac,
Mich. ; James K. Newcomer and John S. Young, now in the
Republican office, at Wauseon. Mills. — The only saw-mill in this
township was built about one mile west of Spring Hill, in the year
1853, by Burdick Burtch, and was run by him for a few years, and
then sold to Daniel Kahle, and now owned and run by his son, James
Kahle. He has added to it a cane-crusher and evaporator, operated
by steam. It is the best in the township and gives encouragement to
a profitable branch of agricultural industry — cane growing. About
1857 or '8, a gristmill was put up at Spring Hill, and did a good
business until it was burned down, in i860. It was rebuilt, but
afterwards moved away. School Sub -divisions. — Soon after the
organization of this township, in 1843, it was divided into two school
districts, one at Spring Hill and the other at Ottokee. Soon after was
organized district number two, called the Waid district, and next in
order was district number three, in the northwestern part ;. and still
later district number five, where all elections are now held. The last
district, number six, in the northeast part of the township, was
organized about 1864. Since the Spring Hill district, number four, by
an act of the Legislature of Ohio, in 1876, was set apart as a special
school district, a fine brick school house has been built, suitable for
all present needs. Township Elections. — The first was held at the
house of Mortimer D. Hibbard, August 7, 1843, by order of the
commissioners of (then) Lucas county. The officers chosen were
Moses Ayers, Alonzo H. Butler and Willard Church, trustees; Joseph
Jewell, clerk; William Jewell, treasurer; Elijah Bennett and John G.
Tiffany, constables; overseers of the poor, Elijah Bennett and Newell
Newton. On April i, 1844, the assessor found forty-one persons liable
to do military duty. The township levy that year was one mill; road,
one mill, which brought into the treasury $43.35 for road purposes.
The fees of the township offices that year, 1844, was $2.25 each for
trustees; clerk, $4; treasurer, $2; supervisors had no charge. The
first male teacher who taught in Dover had his scholars spell United
 474 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. States
commencing with Yoii. Dover was soon after fortunate in securing a
better grade of teachers. A. J. Canfield, Rev. J. R. Hibbard, Mortimer
D. Hibbard, Michael Handy, and Miss AmeHa Hibbard (now Mrs.
Darwin Butler) and many others taught as good common schools as
was generally found at that day. Wages for males, from ^lo to $13
per month and board around, and for feniales,$6 to $8 and board
around This was paid by rate bills. An item in the early history of the
pioneers of Dover worthy of mention is, that they always refused the
use of whisky at their raisings. Western Dover claims they have
never been cursed with a saloon in that locality yet ; an effort was
made some years ago to establish one by Abel Hall, who came into
Spring Hill with some molasses, tea, coffee and tobacco, but
foremost of all a full barrel of whisky. Some women of the town, not
being able to locate the whisky as well as they should have done,
got an auger and bored through the side of the building and into the
molasses barrel, which by morning had emptied itself on the ground,
the women supposing all the time that they had struck the whisky
barrel. The next day, however, the proprietor had to " pull up stakes"
and leave to save the balance of his stock. No effort has since been
made to open another saloon at Spring Hill. Pi^blic Buildings. — In
185 1 the county seat of Fulton county was located in this township,
and buildings erected, viz., the court-house and jail. This -continued
to be the seat of justice until the beginning of the year 1872, when
all business was removed to Wauseon, Ottokee having been the
county seat about twenty-one years. In March, 1874, the
commissioners of this county -agreed to transform the old county
buildings into an infirmary, and for that purpose, bought additional
lands, built a large farm barn and changed and fitted the old court-
house into quarters for the care of the poor, and about the first of
May, 1874, had all things ready for the admission of inmates. The
farm and buildings were placed under the superintendency of Oliver
B. Verity and his wife. They commenced May 2, 1874, to receive
inmates, and in a few weeks the poor and infirm of the townships of
the count}' were all transferred to the ^' Fulton County Infirmary."
Officers for County. — This township has furnished a goodly number
of officers for the county. Mortimer D. Hibbard was from here, the
first auditor, and held that office nearly three years ; Jason R.
Hibbard, eight years, or four terms; O. A. Cobb, sheriff, four years;
Jacob C. Hoffmire, sheriff four years; L. L. Carpenter, treasurer, four
years; David Ayers, four years; Joseph Jewell, recorder (died in
office); Richard Taylor, four years recorder; Allen Carmichael,
prosecuting attorney; John J. Schnall, surveyor twenty-one years ;
Joseph Shadle, six years as commissioner; representative to the
Legislature, Amos Hill. She has furnished four infirmary directors:
First O. A. Cobb, seven years; Stephen Eldredge, three years; E. H.
Patterson, six years, and Lucien H. Guilford, present incumbent. The
first superintendent and matron of the infirmary, O. B. Verity and his
wife, held their offices for a period of six years.
 Fulton County. 475 Post-Offices. — John J. Schnall was the
first postmaster when the office was named "Tedrow." In the eastern
part Henry Herriman was the first postmaster, and the office was
named "Kssex," and afterwards changed to " Ottokee." " Emery"
post-office was established at a very early date with Lucius N.
Chatfield postmaster. These three exist at this date. Hosea Day was
the first postmaster at Ottokee. This township has an area of
thirteen thousand one hundred and nineteen acres of land, or about
twenty-one sections of land. In i
 476 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. ton line." The
Ohio survey numbering east by range from the State line of Indiana,
north to the " Fulton line," giving to the center of Franklin two
important starting points, two east ranges and one west, and parts
of six congressional surveys, and the Michigan survey numbering
south of base line, ten township surveys, and terminating on the "
Fulton line" east and west of merridian, ending with town ten south.
In the spring of 1820 the Legislature of Ohio, April i, organized from
Indian territory fourteen new counties, among which were Wood,
Henry, and Williams, south of the "Fulton Hne," and which
afterwards became in part component parts of Fulton county. All of
this township in the Ohio survey, south of the Fulton line, lying west
of the west boundary line of W^ood county, which afterward, on
September 7, 1835, became the west boundary of Lucas county, was
in the county of Williams, and not organized for county purposes
until April i, 1824. Prior to this time Williams county had been
attached to Wood county for judicial purposes, the county seat being
located at Defiance, then a part of Williams county. The
commissioners of Williams county, December 6, 1 83 1, at a regular
session held at Defiance, the county seat, organized the township of
Tiffin, composed of towns five, six, seven, and eight north, range
four east, south of " Fulton line," and, March 30, 1835, subdivided
Tiffin township, and from towns six, seven, and eight created the
new township of Springfield, and, at the same time extended its
jurisdiction to the " Harris line," over the disputed strip contiguous
on the north, and also included in this extension a strip one mile
wide off" of the west end of towns nine and ten south, range one
east, then being held under the jurisdiction of the Territory of
Michigan, and in the county of Lenawee, and township of Medina
About this date, 1835, the legislative council of the Territory of
Michigan organized from the western part of Lenawee county, the
county of Hillsdale, and formed the township of Mill Creek from town
nine and fractional town ten south, range one west, and a strip one
mile wide off" of the west side of town nine and fractional town ten
south, range one east, overlapping the claim of Springfield to the ^'
Fulton line." Thus this tract was claimed by two townships and one
State and one territory. Michigan, having the supremacy, by the
sympathy of what settlers were then living thereon, exercised full
and complete civil jurisdiction until December 16, 1836, when the
whole strip in dispute became a portion of Ohio, and,
notwithstanding the claim of Springfield to said land north, she could
not get in edgewise for her civil control. On March 7, 1836,
•commissioners met, and all of Springfield township north of town
six north was organized into Brady township, first called Brady after
Captain Brady. This new township included all of towns seven and
eight north, range four east, and the strip, one mile wide, off" of the
west end of towns nine and ten south, range one east, and all of
towns nine and fractional ten south, range one west, south of the "
Harris line," and wiping out the name of Spring 
 Fulton County. 477 field over said territory newly erected
into Brady township, and, on June i6, that part north of the " Fulton
line," legally became a part of Brady township, destroying entirely
the name and civil authority of Mill Creek township, erected at the
time of the organization of Hillsdale county, in 1835. Afterwards,
March 4, 1839, at a session of the county commissioners of Williams
county, all of Brady township north of the " Fulton line," was set off
to Mill Creek, or organized into a new township of Mill Creek. In
1843 all of Mill Creek township included in towns nine and ten south,
range two west, and one mile, or the west tier of sections of towns
nine and ten south, range one west, was set off to a new township
called Madison, and on April i, 1850, the strip one mile wide off of
the west end of towns nine and ten south, range one east, and two
tiers of sections of towns nine and ten south, range one west, were
set off to p-ulton county, north of "Fulton line," and attached to
Franklin and Gorham townships, respectively, adjoining their western
border. Sections one and two of town seven north, range four east,
and thirty-five and thirty- six of township eight north, range four
east, south of the Fulton line, was taken from Brady township and
attached to Fulton county and became a part of Franklin on the
west. Organizatioi. — This township at a commissioners' meeting
held at Maumee City, March i, 1841, was organized and called
Franklin township, made by taking all of town ten south, range one
east, excepting one mile off of the v est end of town ten south,
range one east, which was cut off from the township of Gorham, and
all of towns eight north, range five east, and one tier of sections off
of the north side of town seven north, range five east, from German
township, and immediately entered upon its civil jurisdiction as a
part of the organization of Fulton county. On the 28th day of
February, 1850, the Legislature of Ohio, in creating the new county
of Fulton, ran the west boundary line west of the line of old Wood
county, and afterwards Lucas county, and adding to the further area
of Franklin, from the township of Brady, sections i and 2 of town
seven north, range four east ; and sections 35 and 36, town eight
north, range four east, and the west tier of fractional sections one
mile wide oft" of town ten south, range one east, and two tiers of
section, to wit: One and two and fractional sections ii and 12, off of
the west side of town ten south, range one west, of Mill Creek,
which thereafter became a part and parcel of I'Vanklin township,
which embraces in its area six parts of congressional surveys.
Boundaries. — Franklin township as her boundaries mark at this time
contains about twenty- eight and one-third full sections of land, or
an area of 18,213 acres. Its real and personal value in 1887 was
$443,540, as shown upon the present duplicate of the county. This
township is in the center tier, upon the extreme western border of
F'ulton county ; bounded on the north by the township of Gorham ;
on the east b\- the township of Dover ; on the south by the
township of German, and for nearly one mile at the west end on the
 478 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. south by the
Fulton Hue, and on the west by the townships of Brady south, and
Mill Creek north of the old Fulton line of Williams county, O. A trifle
over one-half of its present area is upon the disputed strip, as
settled by the Congress of the United States, December i6, 1836. It
was the tenth township in its organization in the present limits of
Fulton county. Topography. — The general slope of the surface is
southwest. The lowest lands are adjacent to and along the TifiBn
River (Bean Creek), which marks a southwesterly course across the
township, east of the first beach some four or five miles west. Gravel
and sand spurs from the sandy plateau of Dover, put out on the
extreme eastern border and southeast corner of the township, and
are densely covered with timber. This gravel in the east part is
available for good roads, and may be used at numerous points in the
township. The spurs, however, are soon lost in the lacustrine
deposits of the Bean Creek valley. The only water course rising
beyond the limits of this county is Bean Creek, from Devil's Lake in
the State of Michigan, and flows in a southerly direction through the
center of this township and empties its waters and streamlets in the
Maumee at Defiance. The streams are of gentle inclination south,
and Mill Creek southeast, and empty upon its right bank. The waters
of this township pass into Bean Creek, and, with its waters, to the
Maumee, thence to Lake Erie. Water Supply. — Nearly everywhere in
this township water can be cheaply obtained by boring from eighty
to one hundred feet. This township is famous for its artesian wells,
wherein the water of many of them rises and flows to the surface.
They, at this day, are eminently numerous in a line of special locality.
Geology says " they are found in a belt of country which, in common
with the other geological features of the vicinity, has a northeast and
southwest trend," which appears true here. Soil. — Along the valley
of Bean Creek is a rich lacustrine deposit, with abundance of gravel
closely connected with the Bean Valley, and the whole township
presents a very level appearance and rich in fruit raising, for the
valley does not often fail in that, and less frequent in the production
of corn, wheat, oats and potatoes, and all the varieties of
agriculture, or to the raising fine cattle, sheep and hogs. The
prosperity of agriculture to-day within its boundaries shows its
wealth in all that makes the farm enjoyable. Timber. — This
township, in its early days, was covered with an almost impenetrable
forest of giant growth of the various kinds usually found in the
west,, with a soil too wet at times. A great part of the timber was
black walnut, butternut, white, black and blue ash ; in many parts
was very fine poplar or whitewood, trees often from two to five feet
across, and from fifty to eighty feet without a limb. A great amount
of this timber was cut and burned in log heaps by the early settlers,
as there was no demand for it. There was also a great amount of
oak of different kinds, which secured for the settlers
 Fulton County. 479 good fencing material, for wliicli it was
and is now used largely for that purpose. There was beech and
maple (both hard and .soft), a good supply of basswood, sycamore,
red and white elm, black cherry, iron-wood, hickory, dog-wood,
cotton-wood and the bean-tree along the creek, with its beautiful
flowers, from which Bean Creek derives its name. Population. —
Franklin in 1880, at the last Federal cencus enumerated i ,201, and
is fast rising into prominence, and without any village or trading
post, is more than keeping equal in the race for prosperity, but was
among the first to begin its settlement by the white man, as early as
1833, and in rapid succession thereafter did immigration flow into
the valley of the "Bean," and by reason of the vast improvements in
clearing out Bean Creek, and straightening its zig-zag water-
courses, it visibly marks the beginning of a prosperity. Under good
management it will be rich in agricultural possibilities, and at no
distant day, be equal, if not superior, to any other agricultural district
of Fulton county. Early Pioneers. — It has been said that Joseph
Bates came into this territory, then Williams county, on section two,
town seven north, range four east, in February, 1833, while others
claim not until 1834, and on the farm known to-day as the Shilling
farm. In the absence of better proof we will accept of the record as
given by A. W. Fisher, in his historical reminiscences of early settlers,
wherein he writes to Joseph Bates's daughter, Mrs. Alvord, of
Camden, Michigan, replying to which she declares that her father
came in 1832; from the testimony given by others it will be doing
justice to the memory of Joseph Bates to give him the benefit of a
medium date, Feb., 1833, which would seem to correspond with the
memory of many living witnesses. He became engrafted to the soil
of Fulton county by reason of changes made in the political divisions
and subdivisions of township. He, when coming to the valley of the
Bean Creek, in k^ebruary, 1833, was within the limits of Brady
township, Williams county, and was then not a resident of Fulton
county, nor either of Wood, which held control of all east of Williams
until 1835, when Lucas was organized from the western part of
Wood, and so controlled the territory until Feb. 28, 1850, when the
county of Fulton was organized, taking in territory from Williams
upon which Joseph Bates resided, but he loses the honor of being
one of the early pioneers of Williams, and lays claim to the credit of
being the first white resident of Fulton county, and also Franklin as
she exists to-day. During all this term of years, from 1833 to 1850, a
period of seventeen years, Joseph Bates is by all acknowledged to
be the first settler in the present area of Franklin township. For quite
a period of time he alone endured the hardship of early pioneer life,
which never will be sufficiently elucidated to the succeeding
generations ; the severe labor and toil to make for a growing family
a home — always the aspiration of the early men and women of the
wilderness — living on hominy made from corn pounded in wooden
mortars, and such wild meats as might be obtained by the rifle from
the woods, caught
 48o History of Henry and Fulton Counties. in the intervals
of labor, and often without milk or butter, or any of the articles of
luxury. Joseph Bates, in a very early day, ran a hotel called "J.
Bates's Inn." In 1 86 1 he sold his possession to William Ayers and
moved to Iowa, where he died, August i, 1866, at the advanced age
of seventy- nine years. In the summer and winter of 1830 and 1831,
Joseph Bates with his gun, dogs, bear and wolf traps, came from the
East to Hardin county, O., where he hunted and trapped until the
coming spring, and during this time lived on muskrats and other
game caught in traps or shot. He sold his furs and skins, the product
of his fall and winter labor, and came to then Williams county, and
purchased the southeast quarter of section two, town seven north,
range four east, now Franklin township, and had of that winter's
labor $130 left. He went back to his home and in the winter of 1833,
started with his family for his new purchase in Williams county,
cutting his own road through an unbroken forest from Ottawa to
Defiance. When arriving at his new home he lived three days in a
wagon, until he could erect a cabin with simply his own and family's
help. There was no neighbor nearer than twelve miles. He then
cleared some land and raised that year the first grain in Franklin
township, or the western part of Fulton county. A large part of his
life here was spent in hunting and trapping, of which he was ever
fond. On the 20th of March, 1845, ^i^ ^^i^'^ died, and the
following year he married the widow of Joseph Borton, sister to
Benjamin, Nathan, John and Job Borton, all well known through the
county. Joseph Bates was born in Vermont in the year 1787, but at
the age of manhood he went to Canada, where he married Harriet
Dodge, by whom he had eight children, four sons and four
daughters, who came with him to Williams county (that part now
Fulton). Truman, who moved with the Packards in 1840 to Missouri;
Thomas, who died on the isthmus on his way to California, in 1849;
Joseph, who died in 1867, in Iowa, and James who now resides in
Boon county, Iowa. The daughters, Harriet, who married Theron
Landon ; Belinda, who married Warren Hancock ; Mary, who married
Cyrus Barrett, and Elizabeth, who married Hiram Alvord, now of
Reading, Mich. Mr. Bates moved from Canada to New York and from
there to Richland county, O., where he settled in his early life. No
ordinary set of men and women could do what the pioneers of this
county have done. It was the bravest and best who dared to push
out from home and friends and all the enjoyments of civil life, to
seek a home in this great Northwest, long believed by the eastern
world unfit for the homes of civilized men and women. In those days
heroes slept in every primitive cabin, whose deeds were worthy of
fame, but unrecorded ; the memory rests only with the living, and
sleeps with the dead. After a space of nearly'two years John Shaffer
and Adam Poorman entered the Bean Creek valley, near where
Samuel B. Darby lived and kept a store, March, 1835. They got to
Bean Creek just at dark, John Shaff"er4settling on
 Fulton County. 48 i section thirty-two, town eight north,
range five cast, and Adam roorman on section five, town seven
north, range fi\'e east; wlien arri\'iiii; on the banks of the Bean they
encamped over night, there being a hea\ y, cold snow upon tlie
ground, about four inches deep. Each spent the niglit as best he
could, and as only pioneers knew how. At daylight next morning
they felled two trees across the creek, cut poles and split what they
could and made a bridge across the turbid Bean, then swollen, and
moved over with their goods and families, as their land lay upon the
north side of the creek. They encamped on a piece of rising ground
for the night, after crossing, and the next morning were surrounded
with water from one to fi\'e feet in depth, the melting snow and rain
making quite a flood. W'hen the water went down they put up a
cabin for each family. John Shaffer had quite a family of boys ;
Samuel, the oldest, thirteen or fourteen years of age, Amos, David,
Joshua and Riley. His house was ever the traveler's home, and he
the newcomer's friend. In 185 I.John Shaffer sold out his farm to
Lyman Morrison and moved into Fulton township, this county, and
from there in 1858 or 1859, moved into Montcalm county, Mich.,
where he died many years ago. There is but one of the Shaffer
famil)^ in this county now, Joshua Shaffer, who is a resident of Pike
township, having a fine farm. Adam Poorman was also a very hard-
working and industrious man, and did his full share in improving the
country. He was also a friend to the stranger and the new settler. His
farm was often overflowed by water of the creek. In 1846 he sold
the same to Daniel Thomas, and bought land and moved into Dover
township on section 6, town 10 south, range 2 east, and
commenced again his pioneer's life upon soil equally liable to
overflow with water as where he first settled, in Franklin. Here he
died, many years ago, respected and lamented by his neighbors. He
had three sons and three daughters: Cornelius was killed by a falling
tree, in 1849; Michael and Marion are still living in Dover township,
well advanced in years, men of family, having good farms. His
daughter Anna, now the wife of Royal C. Stevens, is, by some,
claimed to be the first white child born in P'ranklin township. Soon
after John Shaffer and Adam Poorman had got their cabins up, John
McLaughlin and Samuel Ayers came to the township from Richland
county, O., to hunt themselves homes. They got to Bean Creek just
at dark and found the bridge, built by Shaffer and Poorman. They
thought to cross with the team, but Samuel Ayers said he would try
it first, and accordingly walked nearly over, carefully examining the
same; but as the north end was the lowest, resting on driftwood,
then abundant in the creek, the poles of the bridge floated and he
fell through into the water up to his waist. They then returned their
horses to the wagon, and hearing the sound of the cow-bell some
eighty or ninety rods north, concluded to try and cross the bridge on
foot, leaving the team, and make for the cow-bell. They found it at
the cabin of 61
 482 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. John Shafifer, at
about eight o'clock that night, and where they stayed over night.
The next morning, with the assistance of Mr. Shaffer, they fixed up
the bridge and got the team over the creek, and McLaughlin and
Ayers went on their way farther west, soon found themselves
homes, and returned to Richland county, where they resided. They
soon prepared themselves and families to come to Williams county,
now Fulton. Another sister, Elizabeth, came in the winter of 1837,
with the family of Samuel Ayers, to their new homes in this
wilderness. They were originally from Perry county. Pa. They settled
each as follows: John McLaughlin on section i, town 7 north, range 4
east; Samuel Ayers on section 2, town 7 north, range 4 east; Joseph
McLaughlin on section i, town 7 north, range 4 east, Ohio survey.
John McLaughlin's sister, Elizabeth, married Adna Reynolds. On that
eventful day she did a washing in the morning, for the family,
shelled, that morning also, one-half bushel of corn, and that
afternoon carried it on her shoulder, through the woods, to Bird's
mill, located on Mill Creek, north, got it ground, again re-shouldered
and carried it home, baked the wedding cake, and was married the
same evening. The distance to Bird's mill was at least two and
onehalf miles, making five miles to and from, for the lady to travel.
This was in the fall of 1838. Rachel McLaughlin married one Porter,
and now lives in Steuben county, State of Indiana. David married
Libbie Rogers ; he died many years ago. Joseph is living, and has
raised a very fine family, and is highly respected. Asher Bird settled
here on section 8, town 10 south, range I east, in 1837, and that
year built the first water-mill on Mill Creek, which gave it the name it
bears at the present time. This was the first grist-mill built and run in
the township. In 1837 Joseph Ely, Martin Pike, William Young, James
Baxter, Jabez Jones and Albert Chatfield all settled on the west side
of the creek, excepting Albert Chatfield, who settled upon the east
bank, farther north. They, with the other settlers at this time, began
to make roads and build bridges, which were crude, barely cut out,
and old logs removed sufficient for a team and wagon. This
answered the purpose of the early settlers until the stumps began to
decay. In 1838 Jacob Shaffer, sr., settled on section 12, town 10
south, range I east; Michael Shaffer on section 35, town 8 north,
range 5 east; David Ely on section 2, town 7 north, range 5 east,
and Thomas Walters on section 36, town 8 north, range 5 east. John
Bowser, sr., came from Fairfield county, 0.,'^in the spring of 1838,
and settled on section 34, town 8 north, range 5 east. He had six
sons, a part of whom were full grown, that came with him. The
father bought each one of his boys one hundred and twenty acres of
land, and with the aid of the whole combined, being very
industrious, soon cleared up the homestead, and the rest as fast as
needed. John Bowser was a preacher of the society of the United
Brethren in Christ. His house long served as the traveler's home, and
a meeting-house. His settlement here soon drew many
 Fulton County. 483 of his old neighbors from Fairfield
county, to wit : Dorsey Barnes, his son-inlaw ; Ozias Barnes, John J.
Clark, Jacob Hanshy, Moses Kirtz, Noah Specht, all followers of
Father Bowser, who was soon surrounded with a religious element of
his own faith. In an early day camp meetings were held upon his
lands. He died in 1844. Aaron, his youngest son, became a very able
and successful preacher among the brethren, and served several
terms as presiding elder in the district. He died a few years ago at
Columbus Grove, Putnam county, O. Jacob, the oldest son, who lived
near the old homestead, was drowned October 4, 1884. In 1837
Samuel B. Darby and family came from Elniira, Chemung county, N.
Y., and encamped upon the bank of Bean Creek, and put him up a
cabin in a short time thereafter. He and family were nearly three
months upon the road, and endured many hardships in getting here.
He was a very prominent settler in Franklin, and many years the
foremost leader in affairs of the county. He died at his old
homestead July 15, 1881, aged seventy-seven years, his widow yet
living with her son, Dr. Francisco L, S. Darby, at Wauseon. Peter
Minick and Peter Andre settled on sections one and two, town seven,
range five east, in 1839. Peter Andre, in 1845, sold out and moved
to Wisconsin, and soon thereafter died. Peter Minick lived many
years, cleared up a good farm and made good buildings. His children
have grown up and become well settled in life. Peter died in
December, 1881, at the advanced age of seventy-five years; his
widow still lives on the farm. Thomas \\^alters settled on section
thirty-six, town eight north, range five east, in 1838; Joseph Ely,
Leonard Whitmore, David Meriolett and George Miller also came
during the same year. In 1839 came Benjamin Borton, Geo.
McFarlan, Asher Ely and his sons, William and O. S. Ely, and John
Sparks. In 1840 came John Wooster and Chauncey Loveland from
Richland county. W'ooster was a carpenter by trade, and became to
the early settlers, a very useful man. In 1841 came Nathan Borton, a
preacher of the Quakers, also John Borton, and settled on section
thirty-five, town eight north, range four east, also Isaac Borton, John
Jones, P. S. Vanortrick, and his two sons, Abram and John, and Peter
Vandervier. In 1842 came John Kendall, who in an early day settled
in Gorham, Christian Swartzentruver, Dorsey Barnes, and possibly
others that have been overlooked. P"roni 1842 to 1850, the time of
the organization of Fulton county, improvements had been made
rapidly, and the township began to present a homelike appearance;
large immigrations commenced to move to Franklin township, as
well as other townships of the county. In 1843 came John Dennis,
Orrin G. Greely ; in 1844 John Jacoby, John Fisher, Bethuel Borton
and Peter Hagerman ; in 1845, James S. Riddle, Adam Andre,
Nathan Oliver, Nathan Borton, Phillip R. Fisher, John Mason, Josiah
Mason, Reuben Mason, J. C. Mason, John Arch, Ezekiel Masters,
Jacob Cox and his son, John Cox,
 484 History of Henry and Fulton Counties. Benjamin Persing
and Lucius N. Chatfield ; in 1846, Benjamin Parsing, John McGowen,
George Kibler, David Carr and families, Daniel Thomas; in 1847, John
Gype and large family, and William Ely ; in 1848, John Hardin,
Gideon Long, Joshua Conoway, Obadiah Borton and Chockley Harlan
; in 1 849, Richard Rider, Harvey Miller. Of these that came prior to
1850, but few are now living, and by their deaths the old
homesteads have passed into the hands of their descendants, while
many have gone into strangers' possession, and to-day the farms
and homes of the old pioneers are occupied by another generation
of men and women, with scarcely a mark to show to the world the
labors of their fathers and mothers, obliterated by the improvement
of time ; the log cabin has been removed, the old log school-house
has passed away, and their places are occupied by the brick or
painted wooden ones, which now dot the land all over the county;
and where once was the Indian trail is now found well graded
highways and the iron rail to direct the course of the iron horse.
Now, of those who came to Franklin township since 1850, and at
present upon the territory, will be found the names of Lafayette G.
Ely, Michael Martzolf, Fred Crumrine, Garret H. Baum, S. W. Baum,
John Shilling, James Randall, Levi Kump, J. Garrison, W. Burns,
Hamilton Persing, Asa Borton, Arthur Borton, Charles L. Stevens,
Royal C. Stevens, Ozias Barnes, grandson of the old pioneer, Ozias
Barnes, Anthony Snyder, Lewis Shipman, Jacob Koon, Jacob Shadle,
Jacob Doriot, Eugene Doriot, John Winzler, William Dunabarger,
Campbell Ely, Harrison Ely, Levi Kump, J. Sloan, William Russell,
Harrison Hittle, Levi G. Hittle, Ely Shipman, Josiah Shank, Daniel
Prickett, Jacob Roth, Jacob ShofTner, Michael Lea, John Merelotte,
Peter Merelotte, James B. Dickson, Reuben Wentz, Samuel Borton,
John Gype, Adam Gype, Henry Brame, Thomas Andre, John Dennis,
Christ B. Roop, Levi Buxton, J. J. Seller, John Minich, sr., John Minich,
jr., John Shilling, F. Gegax. Schools. — Samantha Crandall taught the
first school in the bounds of Franklin township, in the old cabin of
Joseph Bates. She had to cross Bean Creek on a felled tree across
the creek, evening and morning, and wade through swales and
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