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The original organization, including the territory now covered by Delhi township, was the now long extinct South Bend township, planted by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace between Cincinnati and Miami townships. It was erected in 1795, among the earliest in the county, and was named from the settlement already made under the auspices of Judge Symmes, at the southernmost point on the river in the Miami Purchase, which in turn took its name from the great bend in the Ohio; within which it had been settled. The boundaries of the new township were defined about as follows:

Beginning at the second meridian west of Mill creek; thence down the Ohio six miles and over; thence north on a meridian to the Big Miami; thence up that stream to the southwest corner of Colerain township; thence east to the meridian first named; thence south to the place of beginning.

These boundaries included nearly or quite the whole of the present territory of Delhi, and so much of the tract covered by Green township as did not belong to Colerain, as defined in a previous chapter;

The first township officers for South Bend were nominated by the court as follows:

Clerk William POWELL,
Constable, James THATCHER
Overseers of the Poor - William POWELL, Robert GOWDY.
Supervisor of Highways - Usual Bates.
Viewers of Enclosures and Appraisers of Damages - David EDGAR, James GOWDY, Edward COWAN.

The letter C was assigned to the cattle brand for South Bend township.
 

DELHI TOWNSHIP.

This township, as now constituted (erected between 1810 and 1815), is the smallest in the county, except Spencer on the opposite side, of Cincinnati. It has but eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-six acres, or less than fourteen square miles, is bounded on the east by the city; on the south and west by the Ohio river, which divides it from Kentucky; and on the north by the entire breadth of Green township, nearly one mile of Miami, and about as much of the city on the other side. Its lines begin at the mouth of Bold Face creek, on the Ohio, almost a mile above the "second meridian line" mentioned among the boundaries of South Bend township; and run thence down the river to a point about a mile below the mouth of Muddy creek, where the old south line of Mill Creek and north line of Cincinnati townships (in part now Liberty street, Cincinnati) and present south line of Green township, extended westward, intersects the Ohio, thence eastward to the second meridian line aforesaid; thence south to the second parallel, the south line of sections five and thirty-five; and eastward again to the place of beginning. The breadth of the township on its north line is seven miles, very nearly; on its first section line next south, six miles; upon the next, which extends east of the general line of the township, four miles and two-thirds; with a very short southernmost parallel deeper in the bend. The greatest breadth of the township is a little more than three miles; whence it dwindles, by the flow of the river to both sides of the township to a point at each end. The average width is only about two miles. It has eleven full sections and eight fractional sections, lying in fractional range one, township two; and the duplicate section six, at the northwest corner of the township, in fractional range one, of township one.

The surface of Delhi presents as great a variety of topography as any other part of the county, of equal extent. A comparatively level strip, of uniform width for but short distances, but nowhere extending far inland, except up the valleys, borders the river, and in places, as near Sedamsville, being quite narrow, with lofty, steep hills almost abutting upon the river. West from the city the general character of the country is highland, until the river is approached some miles further to the west; but intersected, cut down and variegated by an uncommon number of small streams for so small a tract. Among the valleys thus created are those of Bold Face creek, the Rapid run, Muddy creek, and at least a dozen minor brooks, all of which find their way to the Ohio, either directly or through creeks to which they are tributary.

The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago railway follows the river through the entire south and west parts of this township; and, on lines generally parallel with it the whole way, are the tracks of the' older Ohio & Mississippi railroad. Along these are scattered

The following named gentlemen are among those who have served Delhi as justices of the peace: 1819, Peter WILLIAMS; 1825-9, Ichabod PALMERTON 1829, George D. CULLUM; 1865, H. E. HOPKINS William L. WILIAMS; 1866, William L. WILLIAMS, Cornelius MYERS; I867-74, Cornelius MYERS, Richard PAUL 1875-80, Richard PAUL, Henry RAUCK, jr.
 

THE FIRST SETTLEMENT

within the limits of what is now Delhi township, was made in 1789, very soon after Columbia, Losantiville, and North Bend were colonized. Judge SYMMES took his party to the place last named, now in Miami township, in February of that year; and early seems to have meditated the founding of another colony on the river within his Purchase, which should take the name of South Bend, as a companion to his own home place, North Bend. The new town, or city to be, was laid off some time in the spring succeeding SYMMES' arrival, as appears by the following letter of his to his associate DAYTON, bearing date that month, and giving a good account of the genesis of South Bend:

North Bend being so well improved by the buildings already erected and making, and fresh applications every few days being made to me for house lots, I was induced to lay off another village, about seven miles up the Ohio from North Bend, being one mile in front on the river. The ground was very eligible for the purpose, and I would have continued farther up and down the river, but was confined between the two reserved sections. This village I call South Bend, from its being contiguous to the most southerly point of land in the Purchase.

The place had already, when SYMMES wrote, several cabins almost finished, and others begun; "and I make no doubt," adds the judge, "that the whole of the donation lots will soon be occupied, if we remain in safety."

The pioneer settler at the site of South Bend was Timothy SYMMES, the only full brother of Judge SYMMES. He was also a prominent citizen in New Jersey, a judge in one of the courts of Sussex county, and followed his brother to the western country soon after the Purchase was settled. He did not live, however, to see more than the beginnings of the mighty development of the Miami tract, but died February 20, 1797, aged fifty-three. He was the father of Captain John Cleves SYMMES, the famous author of the theory of a hollow and inhabitable earth, open for several degrees about the poles, who was residing at South Bend when his uncle, the judge, obtained his first appointment in the army; also of Daniel SYMMES, who became a distinguished citzen of Cincinnati, serving in many public capacities, as is elsewhere detailed in this work; of Celadon SYMMES, who spent nearly all his adult life on a farm three miles south of Hamilton, where he gave the name to SYMMES' Corners, a hamlet and post office on the Cincinnati turnpike; and of Peyton Short SYMMES, the youngest of his Sons, save one, and in some respects the most distinguished of all. He is noticed at some length in our chapter on the Bar of Cincinnati. Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr. SYMMES, became wife of Hugh MOORE, a prominent Cincinnatian, and died in 1834, the same year her only sister, Julianna, wife of Jeremiah REEDER, departed this life.

It was an extensive town which Judge SYMMES had laid out, for a beginning; and the judge appears to have entertained extensive expectations for it. He thought it might become the metropolis of the Miami Purchase, or at least the seat of justice for the county about to be organized. In another letter to DAYTON, written June 14, 1789, he says:

It is expected that on the arrival of Governor ST. CLAIR, this purchase will be organized into a county; it is therefore of some moment which town shall be made the county town. Losantiville, at present, bids the fairest; it is a most excellent site for a large town, and is at present the most central of any of the inhabited towns; but if South Bend might be finished and occupied, that would be exactly in the centre, and probably would take the lead of the present villages until the city can be made somewhat considerable. This is really a matter of importance to the proprietors, but can only be achieved by their exertions and encouragement. The lands back of South Bend are not very much broken after you ascend the first hill, and will afford rich supplies for a county town. A few troops stationed at South Bend will effect the settlement of the new village in a very short time.

According to a paragraph in a letter of Judge William GOFORTH, of Columbia, this place had eighteen or twenty families in September, 1791. A garrison of twenty soldiers was then stationed there. Among the settlers here was a brother of the Miami purchaser, Judge Timothy SYMMES, who spent his latter years and died here. lie is best known as the father of Captain John Cleves SYMMES, author of the famous theory of concentric spheres and a hollow globe opening near the poles. Young SYMMES was residing here when an appointment was obtained for him in the army through the influence of "a friend at court," his distinguished uncle at North Bend.

South Bend, as is well known, did not hold its own in the contest for supremacy, or even rise to the dignity of an incorporated village. Its population fell off, its cluster of dwellings was gradually abandoned, and they destroyed or floated away in times of high water; and its very site has become almost traditional. The traveller, however, going to the boats of ANDERSON'S Ferry, which has been established at nearly the southernmost point of the bend for many years, passes directly over a part of the site of South Bend. The last stroke was given but very recently to the ancient town, for which such high hopes were cherished, in the final changing of the name of the' post office kept at the adjacent railway station from South Bend to "TRAUTMAN'S." But for a sign or two in the neighborhood still bearing the old designation, it would speedily pass into utter oblivion. Thus passes away the glory of human hopes, plans, and purposes.
 

ADDITIONAL SETTLEMENTS.

Richard PAUL, justice of the peace of Delhi township, is of English descent; his grandfather, Henry PAUL, being from London, England, an architect and an early settler in this county; he died in 1820. His father, Richard D. PAUL, born in London, 1807, was married to Ann

Richard PAUL was a machinist for two years - at Holbord's, Cincinnati. In 1854 came to his farm; in 1858 was married to Sarah TIMBENERMAN formerly of New Jersey. He built the new house in 1865, and at that time was elected justice of the peace, which office he has held ever since (1881). He was also township trustee during the war, and probably did as much as any man in his precinct to clear it from drafts. He is an active, but peaceable, citizen of society. In his official position he dockets but few cases, and generally succeeds in effecting a compromise with the parties concerned.

W. L. WILLIAMS, of Delhi township, lives on section ten; owns a nice residence and a good farm; was born here June 1, 1810, his father being the old pioneer mail route agent for the Government from 1807 until 1820, and purchasing large tracts of lands here a few years after his coming to the county. Mr. Williams carried on the dairy business for a number of years quite extensively and very successfully. He was married to Miss Apple-gate, of Colorado. Of his family two children are dead. He is known as a prominent citizen in his township.

Sebastian RENTZ, jr., of Delhi township, born in Cincinnati (1840), but from 1841 up to the present time has been a farmer. His father came from Germany in 1825; kept a bakery in Cincinnati until the family removed to the farm near Warsaw in Delhi township. He married Miss ZOLLER, of Cincinnati, in 1828. She was from Baden, coming here in 1817.

Mr. RENTZ obtained a common school education in the city of Cincinnati; married in 1867, to Miss Louisa BARMANN of ANDERSON Ferry. He is nicely situated on a good farm of over one hundred acres.

Mrs. L. WITTENSTATTER nee KUPERFERLE, came with her husband, now dead, from Germany about the year 1832. Her husband was for a period of thirty years a printer, being employed mostly during that time on one of the German papers of Cincinnati. He died about the year 1874. Mrs. L. WITTENSTATTER owns the Green House in Delhi township, 'near the Warsaw pike. She has eight children, five of whom are married.

George McINTYRE, deceased, was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1815. When thirteen years of age his father died, and in the year 1828 he sailed for America, and after remaining five years in New York came to Cincinnati, where he travelled for the house of Robert McGREGOR. In 1834 he purchased one hundred and forty acres, comprising what is now the greater part of Home City. He was married twice, his first wife being Emily C. MOORE, by whom he had nine children; his second wife was Miss Elizabeth McINTYRE and the fruits of this marriage were six children, all of whom are now dead. Three children by his first wife are dead, and of the six remaining four are living on the homestead place in Home City, i.e., three sons - George M., Peter E., and Edwin D. McINTYRE, and one daughter, Mrs. Martha A. COOK. The maternal grandmother of these children was Adelia MOORE who had seven children: Sarah Ann SILVERS, Louisie HICKS, Ophelia SHANNON, John MOORE, Emily C. McINTYRE, Henrietta O'NEIL, and Finley MOORE. Of these three only are living: Sarah Ann SILVERS, Louisie HICKS, and Ophelia SHANNON. George T. McINTYRE was married February 26, 1845, and died June 9, 1880. His wife, Emily C. MOORE, died April 22, 1865. Of their children, Mrs. Martha A. COOK, the eldest child, was born April 28, 1848, and married in January, 1866, to Milton H. COOK, who was born October 14, 1845. They have two children: Jesse E. and George T. McINTYRE COOK. Mr. COOK, the father, has been train despatcher on the Cincinnati & Indianapolis, and St. Louis & Chicago railroads, for seventeen years.

George M. McINTYRE was married April 6, 1874, and is the father of three children, all girls. He is a farmer. Mrs. Anna B. HICKS was married August 19, 1873; she has had two children now dead. Her husband is a carpenter, living at the present time in Cincinnati, but purposes moving to Home City shortly.

Jacob STORY of Riverside, was born in Germany, October 21, 1818. His father, with a family of seven children, came over, arriving in Cincinnati December, 1831, and in 1838 moved to Delhi, where he died in the seventy-seventh year of his age, tenth of August, 1869. The mother died in Fatherland. Jacob STORY was married in 1841 to Miss Saloma HATMAKER, whose parents came from Baden and settled in Indiana in 1817, but removed to Cincinnati in 1826, where they followed the business of vegetable gardening (twenty-first ward.) The father died in the year 1846, and the mother in 1857. Mr. STORY bought the land he now owns in Cullom Station, the bottom in 1854 and the hillside in 1859, on which he has his vegetable garden, and out of which he has made a good living. He is the father of eight children and ten grandchildren. The oldest son is dead. The family are members of the Presbyterian church.

Thomas WYATT, of Fern Bank, moved to this place in 1843, then owned by Judge MATTESON, now by Mr. SHORT. His father, William WYATT came from England in 1832, but died in 1833. The family came west, settling in Indiana in 1839, where they lived until their removal to Fern Bank. In 1855, Mr. WYATT married Miss Jane VANBLARIEUM of Delhi. His mother, Hannah DREW, the year died in 1860. She was then living with her son Thomas.

John KAHNY, vegetable gardener of TRAUTMAN Station, came here in 1845. His father, Anthony KAHNY, born in 1785, came to Cincinnati in 1817, where he lived for twenty-eight years, working for a season at Harkhess' foundry, but gardening most of that time. His first garden extended from Sycamore to Broadway, and from Seventh to Ninth streets. In 1833 he moved to the corner of Wood and Fifth streets, and put up buildings on lots owned. He not only had a garden there, but also at Sixth and Seventh streets, west of Stone street. In 1844 he moved to Delhi, where he continued his former business until 1866, when he died. The mother died in 1875. John KAHNY was married in one year after coming here, his wife, Anna DAHNER, being a Prussian. He

George THOMPSON, of West Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born in England in the year 1827, and when eleven years of age, of his own accord, came to America, where, with only half a crown, he began perambulating among the cities of Boston, Providence, New York, Albany, and other places, hunting work, enduring hardships, privations, and in all leading a life full of romantic incidents and adventures. When nineteen years of age he came to Cincinnati (1846); in 1862 went to Europe, and soon after his visit to that country went to the army, remaining until 1866, where he supplied the troops with meats. From 1846 until 1862 he was a butcher in Cincinnati. In 1866 he went into the fertilizing manufacturing business, and took the first contract let by the city for removing the animal and vegetable decays from its precincts. The office of the Cincinnati Fertilizing Manufacturing company, is now located at 847 and 849 West Sixth street. His son, E. A. THOMPSON, is one of this firm, and W. R., another son, is of the firm of George E. CURRIE & Co., Delhi. The Cincinnati company are properly scavengers of the dead refuse of the city, which is taken to the company in Delhi, who manufacture from the hog product, from bone and meat super. phosphate of lime, from the hard bone, bone meal, and from the soft bone, bone flour. The factory grounds are extensive, covering fifteen acres. The father was married in 1849 to Miss Jane FOSTER. William R. was born in 1850; in 1874 began business, and in 1875 was married to Miss Florence L. MEHNER. E. A. THOMPSON was born in 1854. He was married to Miss McRANE, of Cincinnati. E. A.. THOMPSON and his brother live in Riverside.

Henry TRAUTMAN, of TRAUTMAN, Delhi township, came from Germany with his father, George Henry TRAUTMAN, when only ten years of age. His father left the Fatherland in 1845, came to Cincinnati in 1846, and died the fourteenth of July, 1878. The mother died in 1874. They lived near TRAUTMAN station and were vegetable gardeners.

Henry TRAUTMAN was married May 7, 1861. His parents lived with him during their latter days, leaving the garden and vineyard in his charge. He now owns a valuable piece of ground, twenty-two acres in all, which is under a high state of cultivation and yields an abundance of produce, which he markets off in Cincinnati.

Claus DRUCKER, of Home City, deceased, came from Hanover, Germany, in the year 1842; married Elizabeth LAUDENBACH, of Oldenberg, in 1845; came to Cincinnati in 1846; was a sugar refiner, at first having his office where the Miami depot is now, but afterwards kept a shoe store on Fulton street and employed a number of young men to work for him. In 1851 he purchased from the Cincinnati Building association some lots in Delhi, and came here in 1852, where he carried on a store until he died, May 13, 1878. The mother died in 1873. Mr. DRUCKER was a prominent man of his township, took an active part in all public improvements, and during the war contributed much in many ways towards furthering the Union cause. The store is now owned by his son, John Drucker, and his son-in-law, Mr. BARMANN. Of the children, Kate DRUCKER was born October 13, 1837. She is the eldest of those living, and was married to Joseph BARMANN son of Lawrence BARMANN, an old settler of ANDERSON Ferry, in 1879. Anna Drucker married Herman HEGEBUSCH fresco painter of Home City, July 29, 1876; she died January 29, 1877. Frederick DRUCKER was born December, 1852; was married October 30, 1877, to Miss Sophia MAUER, of North Bend Her parents were old settlers of Miami township. John DRUCKER was married May 18, 1880, to Miss Clara BARMANN, of ANDERSON Ferry. Messrs DRUCKER and BARMANN are doing a lively business in Home City.

James MAC'KINZIE, M. D., of Delhi, was born March 14, 1816, in Columbiana county, Ohio. His father, James MAC'KINZIE, a draughtsman was born September 21, 1771, in Edinburgh, Scotland; came to America in 1810; served in the War of 1812; came to Ohio in 1813, where he died at the advanced age of one hundred years, February 21, 1871. He was a temperance advocate, being the first farmer in the country to establish evening meals and harvest a crop without whiskey. His wife, Ellen BURROWS, was from the county Down, and of Scotch parentage; she died September 18, 1868, at her son's residence in Delhi. When James MAC'KINZIE was sixteen years of age he learned a trade, at nineteen years of age he became a partner in a dry goods store, and obtained his education by attending night-school, spending one year at Du Qusne college, Pittsburgh, also read medicine while in business, and afterwards completed his course in the Cincinnati Medical college, and practiced his profession before the war in Columbiana county. In 1849 went to California and built the fourth house that was erected in San Francisco. After Fort Sumter was fired on, he reported to President LINCOLN and General SCOTT entering the service as a private soldier, was afterwards in the commissary department, was promoted to the rank of major and served in the medical department before the war closed, since which time he has lived and practiced his profession in Delhi. In 1854, the eleventh of May, the doctor married Marion W. WASHINGTON, whose father was Samuel W., great nephew of General WASHINGTON'S brother, Lawrence WASHINGTON. Her father was legatee of General WASHINGTON'S estate. Mrs. MAC'KINZIE has in her possession a buckle of General WASHINGTON that has been handed down from one family to another till the present time. The family history of the WASHINGTON need not here be sketched, as it is familiar to our readers. Daniel WASHINGTON her father, was born February 14, 1787, near Charlestown, Virginia. He married Catharine WASHINGTON, a relative, and died March, 1867. His wife died at the age of seventy-four years.

Peter CROSS, of Delhi, is a native of Prussia. His father, John CROSS, was a wagonmaker. Peter CROSS was born in 1827, left Prussia in 1851, landing in New Orleans, at which place he remained one year, but in 1852 removed to Delhi. In 1853 he was married; is a bricklayer and lives in easy circumstances.

Valentine GIND, of Delhi, came from Germany when ten years of age - January, 1854. His father landed in New Orleans, coming from there to Delhi, where he has lived since, being a stonemason by trade. His father, Sebastian GIND, was a wagonmaker. His mother, Theresa YOUNKER, was from Baden; she died before the father and his children sailed for the New World. Valentine GIND owns a small farm adjoining Delhi.

Peter SHIFFEL, basket-maker, came to Delhi town in 1862; .formerly lived in Cincinnati, where he was married in 1857. His father, Phillip SHIFFEL, was a basket-maker and carpet-weaver on Long Island; he died in 1849. In 1855 Peter SHIFFEL came to Cincinnati. He does not own any property.

Charles GERTH, proprietor of the Eleven Mile house (saloon), is of Teutonic origin; came to the United States, and settled in Delhi in 1863, where he has been ever since. He was formerly a shoemaker, but left this trade and was section foreman on the Ohio & Mississippi road for ten years previous to his present proprietorship. Mr. GERTH has been married twice, and has two children dead.

Shipley W. DAVIS, son of Zadock and Elizabeth DAVIS, --nee BASSETT- of Massachusetts, was born at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in the year 1816. His parents had thirteen children, of which he was the seventh. His mother, at the age of ninety-three, June 13, 1873, departed this life; his father died in June, 1819. In 1841 he married Harriet CULLOUR, of North Bend. One son, W. L. Davis, M. D., was hospital stewart in SHERMAN'S raid to the sea, and is now a practicing physician (Old School). Henry W. DAVIS, another son, has been teaching in MYERS' school district fourteen years. Edward DAVIS, a third son, is a physician at Dent, Ohio. Mr. DAVIS' farm is in Delhi township, and over a mile from the city limits.

Peter MAC'FARLAN of Delhi, came from Dumbarkenshire, Scotland, to America, in 1840. After coming to this country he purchased a farm in Green township which he sold in 1872, and removed to Home City where he still lives. In 1850 he married Miss Jean BRODE, daughter of Peter BRODE and Katharine McKinley Spouses of Kirkhouse ROW. She was born January 2, 1805, and-baptized the same month, fifth day. Peter McFARLAN, son of Peter McFARLAN and Katharine BAIN Spouses of Estertown - name of farm - was born December 29, 1800, and baptized January 1, 1801. The aged couple have had but one daughter, who is now the wife of Adam TULLOCK. The parents were married in Scotland in May, 1830.

Adam TULLOCK of Home City, was born in Scotland in the year 1815, in Dumferline, where Robert BRUCE was burried. His parents, John TULLOCK and Mary ROBERTSON, came to America in 1840, and both died soon after. They were married in 1799, had seven children, of which Adam TULLOCK was the youngest. He was married to Hellen MILLER, of Scotland, in 1837. She died in 1847. One son by this marriage lives in Home City. He has one daughter living in Colorado and one in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1851 he was married to his second wife. Catharine MAC'FARLAN, and came to Home City in 1872, where he still lives.

William J. APPLEGATE, grocer and postmaster of Delhi, came here in 1872 from Green township, where he was born and reared. His father, Israel APPLEGATE, came to this township when quite young from Pennsylvania; lived fifty-five years on the farm he bought, and died in 1870 in the eighty-first year of his age. His mother, Mary Jane COLSHER also of Pennsylvania, died October, 1880, in the eighty-third year of her age. William J. APPLEGATE, born August 17, 1839, was reared a farther, but began business on a small scale in a grocery in 1872, and at the same time kept the post office of the village which helped to increase his patronage. In the year 1878 he built a large three-story brick house, the first results of his successful business. He was married October 15, 1864, to Miss Katie MYERS of Delhi, daughter of an old settler of the county. Mr. APPLEGATE is one of the trustees of the township at this time.

Annie B. CALLOWAY, of Delhi, is of English parentage, and is the wife of Thomas B. CALLOWAY, of that place. Her great-grandfather, Thomas BOWLES of Cranbrook, Kent, England, married Sarah BOORMAN. Their daughter, Sarah, married the well known Robert COLGATE, father of the noted soap manufacturers of New York. They came to that city in 1800. Thomas BOWLES, her grandfather, married Anna SHIRLEY. They had eight children, and he died June 3, 1800. His youngest son, Robert BOWLES father of Annie B. CALLOWAY, was born at Eldorado, Kent, England, June 1, 1792; married Mercy BOOTS of the same place, November 30, 1816; came to America in 1822, and located on a farm near Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, and was the first English settler in Crosby township. January 24, 1837, his wife died, and he married Mrs. Anna CLOUGH of London, England, daughter of Samuel PEGG. By the first wife he had one son, Robert, now living in Indiana; and by the second Wife two sons: Samuel and John, and one daughter, Annie. Thomas B. CALLOWAY married Annie A. BOWLES, January 31, 1866. His grandfather, Jesse CALOWAY, and wife came from Delaware in 1818, and located in Dearborn county, Indiana. They had four sons and one daughter. William, the father, was born January 26, 1812; married his second wife, Mary Charlotte BONHAM, October 18, 1841. He is still living. The Bond family are traceable to the emigration of William PENN. One Samuel BOND was born November 19, 1722; his son, Joseph, born April 11, 1750, married Eleanor WILLIAMS; and their son, Samuel, born November 19, 1777, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, moved west May 10, 1810, landed at the mouth of Farmers' creek, near Lawrenceburgh, Indiana. In 1812 he moved to Whitewater, near Elizabethtown; died June 12, 1837. They had seven children, all dead except Eleanor, who was born in Virginia in 1808. The third child, Jane, was the only one of the family who married. She was born April 8, 1818; married William CALLOWAY September 7, 1837; died February 12, 1844, leaving one child, Thomas B. CALLOWAY.

R. B. PRICE, of Home City, son of Rees PRICE (see biographical sketch), is the well known bee-keeper of

W. H. SMITH, of Delhi township, was born in Petersburgh, New York, March 22, 1814. When fifteen years of age he left home, and for ten years following drove a stage coach over the mountains, afterwards coming west, where he continued the business up to 1863. He was agent for some time for the Western Stage company, that had lines running from Cincinnati to various points. The line running from Cincinnati to Hamilton and Dayton, and afterwards to Indianapolis, was owned by SMITH, out of which he was successful in making money. In 1863 he removed to his farm, where he has since lived. He was elected president of the Delhi and Industry Turnpike company in 1868, and has held the office ever since. In 1854 he was married to Harriet ALTER. She died March 25, 1881. Her parents came to Cincinnati in 1812. Her father was one of the wealthy men of the city in his day.

James H. SILVERS, of Delhi, wholesale leaf tobacco dealer, 49 and 51 Front street, Cincinnati, was born at North Bend, 1833. His paternal grandfather, Judge James SILVERS, of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of the county, having come here with Judge SYMMES, and was an associate judge of the court three consecutive terms of seven years each. He died near the expiration of the third term. Thomas J. SILVERS, his son, and father of James H., in 1831, married Miss Sarah A. MOORE, the daughter of Samuel and Adelia MOORE, nee West, of Pennsylvania, and old pioneers of ANDERSON Ferry. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch on his mother's side was in the War of 1812. He lived to be sixty-six years of age. The mother of James H. SILVERS still lives. She was born in 1814. Her mother was born in Paris, Kentucky, and lived to be sixty years of age.

Mr. James H. SILVERS came to Delhi in 1873; February 13, 1878 was married in Nashville, Tennessee, to Miss Jennie HILLIS, formerly of Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the well known tobacco dealer on Front street, Cincinnati. His residence is in a beautiful situation, near Delhi, commanding a most delightful view of the Ohio river and the surrounding scenery.

The family of Thomas J. and Sarah A. SILVERS consisted of James H. SILVERS, Mrs. Anna A. DODD, and Mrs. Ophelia MASSY.
 

RIVERSIDE AND OTHER VILLAGES.

Riverside is the first suburb encountered upon entering the township from the direction of the city, and immediately adjoins Sedamsvile, the outermost district of Cincinnati on the southwest. Five hundred and nine of its acres lie in Delhi township, and one hundred and twenty-four were taken from the old township of Storrs - eight hundred and thirty-three acres in all. For the following account of it, with interesting historical notes, the readers of this work are indebted to Mr. A. L. REEDER, postmaster at the Riverside office, who has kindly made a contribution of it to this chapter:

The village of Riverside, made up of parts of Delhi and Storrs townships, lies immediately adjoining the western limit of the city of Cincinnati, and extends westwardly along the bank of the Ohio river to ANDERSON'S Ferry, a distance of about three miles, and had a population of twelve hundred and sixty-eight by the last census, with two hundred and forty-seven voters at the November election of 1880.

The pioneers of early times were Colonel Cornelius R. SEDAM, on the east then Jeremiah REEDER William S. HATCH, Enoch ANDERSON, Squire CULLOM and Mr. SANDS, on the ministerial section at ANDERSON'S Ferry. All these old settlers passed away years ago. Their lands and homesteads have gone into other hands, and but few of their descendants are left in the village to note the wonderful changes that have been wrought by modern civilization and scientific research. Not one of those old settlers could have had the remotest conception of the thundering noise and lightning speed of the passing locomotive and attendant train of cars or of the multiplied lines of telegraph wires now in front of their doors, silently conveying with the speed of thought, to and fro, from the uttermost parts of the earth, knowledge and intelligence of all current events, or of the brilliant electric light, illuminating, with a dazzling intensity, only excelled by the midday beams of the summer sun, the mysterious telephone, by which we talk with friends miles away, or say to our grocer in the city "Hello! Send me down a box of matches, and be quick about it."

The writer of this, one of those descendants, and not a very old man either, remembers well that when a lad. he had to go early in the morning to a neighbor's house, half a mile off, to borrow a shovel of live coals to start the fire on the ancestral hearth, that had died out during the night for want of careful covering up; and this was not a rare occurrence either, for nobody had a match to lend in those days.

The village of Riverside is appropriately named, lying as it does in the valley of the Ohio river, and extending up the romantic slopes of the beautiful hillside, dotted here and there with handsome residences, peering out from glossy bowers of coolest shade, musical with birds, with enchanting views of the far-reaching river and the picturesque and undulating hills of Kentucky. The geographical position of the village, and the facilities it affords for travel to and from the adjacent city, make it peculiarly adapted for the suburban residence of persons engaged in business there. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago, and the Ohio & Mississippi railroads run frequent accommodation trains: and in addition there is a street ear line from the city post office to about the center of the village, running every fifteen minutes, and at very low fare.

The public buildings and manufacturing establishments are quite creditable. Two large and handsome school-houses, recently erected, give evidence that the cause of education is prominent in the minds of the citizens. The one church is Episcopal, a blue limestone structure of quaint, old English style. It has quite a fair attendance, considering that many citizens of other denominations attend churches in the city, which they can so readily do on what is called the church train. A large, plain, two-story brick building, called READER's Hall, stands nearly opposite the church. It has in the second story a fair sized public hall, capable of seating two hundred and fifty people, and is occasionally used for concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic entertainments, balls, etc. The lower story is divided up into different apartments, used as council-chamber, store and post office. The new rolling mill at "Cullom's Ripple," recently gone into successful operation, is a very extensive and complete establishment of the kind, and will, no doubt, add to and accelerate the prosperity of the village in a marked degree. The large distillery of GOFF, FLEISHMAN & Company has been in operation for several years, and is a model in all its appointments and manner of conducting its business. A leading feature of this establishment is the manufacture of "compressed yeast," in a building separate and specially adapted for the purpose, and gives employment to a large number of girls and boys in cutting up into cakes, wrapping in tinfoil and packing into boxes for shipment to the Northern, Southeastern and Western cities.

Immediately west of the distillery is a very large and imposing edifice,

The certificate of incorporation of Riverside village was filed with the Secretary of State, August 20, 1867. The mayor for the first year was Peter ZINN, an old resident here and in Cincinnati, prominently connected with the rolling mill at CULLOM's station, who died in the village in the early winter of 1880-1. In 1869, 1870 and 1871 the mayor was George A. PETER; 1872-4, Allen A. REEDER.

Within the limits of this corporation the railroads have a number of stations as Riverside, the first beyond Sedamsville; Mineola, a plat laid out in 1873 by the Riverside Land association; Southside, a station on the Indianapolis railroad between the two; West Riverside, or CULLOM's, where the rolling-mill is situated; and just beyond Riverside, on the west, is the ANDERSON'S Ferry station. Further west and northwest are Gilead; South Bend or TRAUTMAN'S station, where THOMPSON & Company's extensive fertilizing establishment is located; Rapid Run; Industry, a village laid out in 1847 by Messrs. James and Samuel GOUDIN; Delhi, Home City, Riverdale, and other small stations, which are much used by surburban residents transacting business in the city.

At Industry is located a Catholic church, in charge of Rev. Father H. KESSING.

Nearly opposite this place is the village of Taylorsville, on the Kentucky side of the Ohio.

At Home City, almost immediately adjoining Delhi, is a remarkably large mound, undoubtedly a genuine relic of the Mound Builders. Its regularity has been somewhat impaired by the blowing over of a tree that formerly stood upon it, making a large hole upon one side. Its base is oval - about two hundred by one hundred feet in its principal diameters and its height nearly forty feet. It is now in the field of Mr. R. B. PRICE, a little way northeast of the railroad, but was once the property of Major Daniel GANO, the veteran clerk of Hamilton county, whose farm covered most of what is now Home City. It is said that the major had a mile-track laid out around this ancient work, upon which he was wont to exercise, train; and speed his numerous and famous hoses. He once entertained the old hero of LUNDY's Lane, General Winfield SCOTT at dinner, and afterwards mounted the general on one of his finest horses, the well-remembered "Wyandot," which moved as if it knew and took pride in his rider, and invited his guest to take his station upon or near the mound, and view the evolutions of the horses about the tracks, which the general did to much satisfaction. The farm here was one of three country estates then owned by Major GANO, the others being at Carthage (this one now occupied as the county infirmary premises) and on Brush creek, in Champaign county. He was noted while here for his fine horses, among which were Wyandot, Arab, Conqueror, Comet, and others;

Home City was laid out in 1849 by Stephen MAXON and David REDDINGTON, and was incorporated on the twenty-fifth of July, 1879.

Delphi was platted by Peter ZINN in 1866. It has a large population, numbering over two thousand. Here are a number of notable Catholic institutions; as the church of Our Lady of Victories, in charge of the Rev. Father F. SCHUMACHER; the parochial school attached to the same, with about seventy pupils; the principal novitiate of the Sisters of Charity; and the Boys' Protectory (formerly the residence of the Hon. George W. SKAATS, of Cincinnati), in charge of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, with about two hundred boys for inmates. The last is described as "a home for the education and maintenance of orphan and other destitute boys between the ages of five and seventeen years, who are taught the rudiments of an education and a useful trade.

A little over two miles north of the Southside station, and about half a mile west of the city limits, near the north line of the township, is the little village of Warsaw, on the turnpike which bears its name. A mile west of it, also upon the turnpike, and intersected by the headwaters of Rapid run, is an extensive cemetery, used by the inhabitants of the township.

Two miles from Warsaw, on the same much-travelled road, is the German village of Petersborough, with a population of perhaps a hundred.

Moscow is an old village of Delhi, now extinct. The glass-works of Messrs. PUGH & TEATER of Cincinnati, the first in this part of the Ohio valley, were located here before 1826.
 

POPULATION.

Delhi township shows a satisfactory increase in the number of its inhabitants, as the comparative figures in the census-table, in a previous part of this book exhibit. In 1830, for example, the township had 1,527 people; in 1870, 2,620; in 1880, 4,738.
 

MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMY CEDAR GROVE.

Mr. St. Vincent academy, Cedar Grove, situated to the northwest of Cincinnati, and distant nearly two miles directly west from Price's Inclined Plane, is an old established boarding-school for girls and young ladies. The school is under the charge of the Sisters of Charity, who are a branch of the original order founded in the beginning of this century at Emmettsburgh, Maryland, and who still follow the rules and retain the costume and venerable traditions of their foundress. The buildings are delightfully situated on an elevation remarkable for beauty and variety of scenery, and commanding a charming view of the surrounding country. The grounds, which are greatly undulating and tastefully laid out, include some fifty-four acres, in the center of which, on a rising plateau, stands the main building of the academy, a brick structure, four stories high, erected in the year 1858. To the west, is the chapel, built in 1875, and adjoining this, the Sisters' convent, an old building, which, previous to the year 1857, had been the residence of Mr. ALDERSON. This venerable mansion has acquired a degree of literary celebrity, owing to its having been the

The sisters having charge of the academy aim at giving young ladies a thorough education in all branches of useful and polite learning, with which they endeavor to combine the sympathetic care, the assiduous watchfulness, the comforts and the genial influences of home-life, so essential to the proper training of girls, and so greatly valued by parents and guardians.

While all branches necessary to the complete education of a young lady are taught (including vocal and instrumental music, Latin and the modern language, mathematics and the physical sciences), special attention is given to the study of English, and written compositions on subjects adapted to the capacities and acquirements of each pupil, are required throughout the entire course of studies. A long experience in the class-room has convinced the Sisters that ease and accuracy in the use of a language, can be gained in no way so rapidly and so satisfactorily as by assiduous practice in composition, under the guidance of efficient teachers. The drill is supplemented by the study of the most approved textbooks on grammar, rhetoric, and the history of English literature, and by the analysis of selections from English classics. To still further facilitate this study and render it attractive, the Sisters have collected a library of above four thousand volumes, selected with great care by competent persons, and embracing all the more valuable works of the language, to which the pupils have free access, and in the use of which they are encouraged and directed by their teachers.

There is also in the academy a philosophical and chemical apparatus of the most approved pattern and workmanship, sufficiently complete to illustrate all the important principles of these sciences, in the study of both of which theoretical teaching is accompanied by experiment. A rich collection of globes, maps, and charts, and a cabinet containing the most important minerals and geological formations, carefully classified and labelled for reference together with Indian relics and specimens illustrating the religion, arts, and domestic economy of foreign countries and ancient peoples, are a possession highly valued by the Sisters and of great advantage to the pupils in the prosecution of their studies.

Screened from the public gaze by groves of cedar, locust, and maple trees, the school enjoys a seclusion and privacy eminently favorable to study, while the picturesque lawns and extensive play-grounds offer every facility for healthy recreation and pleasant exercise. At convenient intervals on the play-ground, and shaded by the clustering vines, are summer-houses, cozy arbors, and secluded nooks, where the pupils gather of summer evenings to enjoy the fresh breezes of the western hills and the glories of the setting sun, or whither the more studious retire form noise and distraction, to be alone with their books.

To the east of the academy, and entirely hidden from it by the dense foliage, stands a small frame building now called "SETON cottage" but formerly the homestead of Mr. HOTCHKISS. Seton cottage, together with ten acres of ground, now laid out in orchards of pear, apple, and cherry trees, a garden and a deer park, was purchased by the Sisters in the year 1868. To the west of the convent are the barn, poultry yard, pastures, laundry, bakery, etc.

Previous to 1869 the Mother house and Novitiate of the community were at Cedar Grove; but in the autumn of that year both were transferred to the BIGGS' homestead, in Delhi township, now known as St. Joseph's Mother house, Novitiate and Training school. Here novices enjoy every facility for the acquisition of knowledge and receive full and thorough instruction in all the branches necessary to fit them to become efficient and competent teachers in parochial schools, above thirty of which the Sisters have at present under their direction in different States of the Union.