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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 23 May 2003 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part IV Township Histories Turtle Creek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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COMPILED BY JOSIAH MORROW[The writer of the following township and town history
desires to be regarded as its compiler rather than its author. Several
papers by other hands have been consulted and freely used. Records have
been examined wherever it was possible to find them. On the subject of
the early settlement of the township, the chief authority is A.
H. Dunlevy. During the last twenty-five years of his life, Mr.
Dunlevy wrote and published in various newspapers a number of articles
on the early settlement of Lebanon and vicinity. These articles, which
give much of the pioneer history of the township, were collected and preserved
by the writer, and it has been his purpose in the following pages to give
all the important facts contained in them. Mr.
Dunlevy wrote from memory, and scarcely ever took the trouble to verify
his dates by an examination of records. The dates given by him are sometimes
changed in the following pages, and the facts derived from his papers
are united with those obtained from other sources. The writer desires
to express his obligations to Anthony
Howard Dunlevy, who wrote more than any other person concerning the
early history of the Turtle Creek Valley, in which he lived for eighty-four
years, and who died at the venerable age of eighty-eight years, while
these pages were being prepared for the press. At the time of his death,
he believed, after investigation, that he was the oldest living man born
north of the Ohio River. The valuable journals of the Shaker
Society at Union Village, extending over a period of more than seventy-five
years, have been freely opened to the examination of the writer. Much
assistance has been derived from the files of the Western Star. The officers
of various societies and churches have freely given the aid which could
be derived from the records under their charge. Acknowledgments are due
to many intelligent persons in different parts of the township, and in
other places, for generous assistance. Fully sensible of its imperfections,
the compiler trusts that the history will be found trustworthy in all
important matters.]
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