HARRISON COUNTY, OHIO
BOOKLET / PRINTS
Early days in Harrison County, OH, and its various communities,
including Cadiz, New Rumley, Freeport, Scio, Bowerston, Jewett, New Athens,
Deersville, Hopedale and Harrisville, are recalled through a mixture of
colorful tales and factual data in this NEW
22 Page Booklet of excerpts reproduced directly from
the 1892 Centennial edition of Henry Howe's Historical Collections of
Ohio, The Ohio Guide (1940) and other hard-to-find sources. The
spiral-bound booklet, is printed one-sided on 60# paper with the fine
print enlarged for easier reading.
IN ADDITION TO THE BOOKLET
the buyer will receive THREE Computer-Enhanced
8 1/2 x 11 Prints of engravings from the original Howe
book, suitable for framing. They include the one below of the county buildings
in Cadiz, drawn in 1846, the birthplace of General Custer, and a delightful
sketch of a pioneer passenger train.
Among the many and diverse topics covered in
the booklet are: names of many early settlers, death of a boastful Indian,
the Presbyterian Church at Beach Spring, the "Standing Stone", sheep production,
Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton's early days, observations of a farmer
and Gen. George Custer's birthplace and childhood.
GENEALOGY BUFFS will find
a list of 1888
county officers and businesses, and biographical material on Bishop Matthew
Simpson, John Giles, John Bingham, Prof. David Christie and William Arnold,
newspaper editor. A 1933 look at the history of newspapers in the county,
information on the area from a 1940 WPA project, a map showing the 88 Ohio
counties and a map of 1805 Ohio are also included.
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