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A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County Author:Horace S. Knapp Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: aside a boot or shoe until it had become so thoroughly worn out as to be unable to adhere to a human foot. His Swedenborgian books were, as before stated, eve... more »r-present companions. Mr. Josiah Thomas inquired of Johnny whether, in traveling on bare feet through forests abounding in venomous snakes, he did not entertain fears of being bitten. " This book," replied the old man, "is an infallible protection against all danger, here and hereafter." We have thus given such incidents as are deemed from authentic sources, designed to impress upon the mind of the reader the characteristics of this eccentric and remarkable man, whose simple habits, unostentatious charities, and life of self-denial, consecrated to the relief of suffering humanity and the amelioration of all God's creatures, are embalmed in the memory of all the early settlers. CHAPTER V. Ashland County—Commencing- with its Organization. The law to erect the county of Ashland passed the General Assembly of Ohio on the 24th of February, 1846. Its present territory originally formed the Townships of Vermillion, Montgomery, Orange, Green, and Hanover, with parts of Clearcreek, Milton, Mifflin, and Monroe, in Richland County; also, the Townships of Sullivan and Troy, in Lorain County; all Monroe was subsequently retroceded to Bichland County. except the eastern tier of sections of the Townships of Jackson, Perry, Mohican, and the fractional Township of Lake, in Wayne County, and the whole 01 Ruggles, in Huron County. The counties from which Ashland was made contained originally an aggregate of 2940 square miles and ninety-three townships. The several dates of their organization and number of civil townships were as follows:— Oonntlw.When organized.Square mllM.No. of townshipe.Richland181890025Wayne18126602...« less