Historical Collections Of The State Of Ohio
author - Henry Howe, LL.D.
pub. in - 1888
page - 887
In April, 1799, Alexander Henderson and family, from Washington county, Pennsylvania, squatted on the southwest quarter of the section on which Cadiz stands ; at this time Daniel Peterson resided at the forks of Short Creek, with his family, the only one within the limits of Harrison. In 1800, emigrants, principally from Western Pennslyvania, began to cross the Ohio river ; and in the course of five or six years there had settled within the county the following-named persons, with their families, viz. :
John Craig , John Taggart , John Jamison , John McFadden , John Kernahan , John Huff , John Maholm , John Wallace , John Lyons , Rev. John Rea , Daniel Welch , William Moore , Jas. Black , Samuel Dunlap , James Arnold , Joseph and Samuel McFadden , Samuel Gilmore , James Finney , Thomas and Robert Vincent , Robert Braden , Jas. Wilkin , Samuel and George Kernahan , Thomas Dickerson , Joseph Holmes , James Hanna , Joseph, William and Eleazer Huff , Baldwin Parsons , James Haverfield , Robert Cochran , Samuel Maholm , Hugh Teas , Jos. Clark , Morris West , Jacob Sheplar , Martin Snider , Samuel Osborn , Samuel Smith, and perhaps others, besides those in Cadiz and on Short Creek ; Thomas Taylor , John Ross , Thomas Hitchcock , Arthur and Thomas Barrett , Robert and Thomas Maxwell , Absalom Kent , John Pugh , Michael Waxler , William McClary , Joseph, Joel and William Johnson , George Layport , William Ingles , Thomas Wilson, and perhaps others on Stillwater ; John McConnell , George Brown , John Love, William and Robert McCullough, Brokaw and others, on Wheeling creek.
Robert Maxwell , William and Joseph Huff and Michael Maxler were great hunters and the three former had been Indian spies, and had many perilous adventures with the Indians.
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Cadiz -- In April, 1807, it contained the following named persons, with their families : Jacob Arnold, innkeeper ; Andrew McNeeley, hatter and justice of the peace ; Joseph Harris, merchant ; John Jamison, tanner ; John McCrea, wheelwright ; Robert Wilkin, brickmaker ; Connell Abdill, shoemaker ; Jacob Myers, carpenter ; John Prichard, blacksmith ; Nathan Adams, tailor ; James Simpson, reed-maker ; William Tingley, school-teacher , and old granny Young, midwife and baker , who was subsequently elected (by the citizens of the township, in a fit of hilarity) to the office of justice of the peace ; but females not being eligible to office in Ohio, the old lady was obliged to forego the pleasure of serving her constituents.
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Cadiz, county-seat of Harrison, 125 miles northeast of Columbus, is on the Cadiz branch of the P.C.& St.L. Railroad. County Officers in 1888 : Auditor, George A. Crew ; Clerk, Martin J. McCoy ; Commissioners, M.B. Frebaugh , Robert B. Moore , Andrew Smith , Coroner, Charles McKean ; Infirmary Directors, John B. Beadle , John Barclay ; John W. McDevitt ; Probate Judge, Amon Lemmon ; Prosecuting Attorney, Walter G. Shotwell ; Recorder, Albert B. Hines ; Sheriff, Albert B. Quigley ; Surveyor, Jacob Jarvis ; Treasurer, Samuel A. Moore ; City Officers in 1888 : A.W. Scott, Mayor ; W.H. Lucas, Clerk ; William McConnell, Treasurer ; Walter Whitmore, Marshal ; John C. Bayless, Chief of Police.
Newspapers :
FLAMBEAU, Prohibitionist, C. B. Davis, editor and publisher;
REPUBLICAN, Republican, W. B. Hearn, editor and publisher ;
SENTINEL, Democratic, W. H. Arnold, editor and publisher.
Churches : 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist Episcopal
Banks:
Farmers' and Mechanic's National, Melford J. Brown, president ; C. O. F. Brown, cashier ;
First National, D.B. Welch, president ; I.C. Moore, cashier ; Harrison National, D. Cunningham, president : John M. Sharon, cashier ; Robert Lyons , Richard Lyons, cashier.
Population, 1880 , 1817
School census, 1888 , 592 ; O.C.Williams, school superintendant
Capital invested in manufacturing establishments, $20,000.
Value of annual product, $28,000. - Ohio Labor Statistics, 1888.