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DESCRIPTION

Green is the most regular and symmetrical township in the county. It is a perfect square - an even surveyed township of thirty-six sections, six miles on a side, such as is common in the newer western and northern States, but not in the older settled regions, and of which no other instance is presented in Hamilton County. It lies altogether in fractional range two, township two and is precisely included between the range and township lines, which separate it from Cincinnati and Mill Creek township on the east, Delhi on the south, Miami on the west, and Colerain on the north. Its section lines are run with remarkable correctness, considering that it lies wholly within the Miami Purchase, and might have shared in the troubles caused by the carelessness of the earliest surveyors. Save for some of eccentricity in the second meridian east of the township line, the sections are mostly exact square miles, a fact which can be stated, probably, of no other tract of equal size with the Purchase. Still, its total acreage amounts to but twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fourteen - about an even half-section short of what it should be were all the sections full.

It shares another peculiarity with but three other townships in the county-Springfield, Sycamore and Mill Creek-in that its soil is not washed by any stream that can be dignified with the name of river. Neither the Ohio nor the Little Miami, the Great Miami or the Whitewater touch its borders. Its northwest corner approaches within less than a mile of the Great Miami, at the mouth of Taylor's creek, and the southwest corner is about the same distance from the Ohio, at a point between Riverdale and Fern Bank stations.

The township is however, abundantly watered in the southwest corner by the headwater of Lick Run; along the southern tiers of townships and in the southwest by Cow Run and its main stream, Muddy creek, the upper tributaries of which rise in the central sections of the township; in the west and northwest by Taylor's creek, and the south fork of Taylor's creek, with their numerous tributaries, some of which extend more than half way across the northern part of the township and some distance into Colerain township; and along the eastern slopes by several petty streams which send their waters to Mill creek.

By far the larger part of Green township, being in the interior and somewhat remote from any large stream, is elevated to the general level of the Hamilton county ancient plateau. That part, the northwestern, which approaches the Great Miami, is low and very fertile, and otherwise shares the characteristics of the Miami valley. Toward the opposite corner of the township, on the south, as the Ohio is neared, in the valley of Muddy creek, as at some other points in the township, the hills become abrupt, and command many fine views. The numerous valleys created by the water-courses render the scenery exceedingly picturesque; and many attractive building sites have been occupied in the Lick run and other valleys. Much of the territory of Green is deemed specially suited for suburban residence. Over three and a half sections in the southeastern part of the township, mostly near the line of the narrow-gauge railroad, has been laid off for the suburb of Mount Airy, the remainder of which lies in Mill Creek township. There is an unusual number of villages in the township - as Cheviot, Dent, Bridgetown, Weisenburgh, St. Jacob's, Sheartown, Covedale, Five Corners, Dry Ridge, and others.

Some of the most interesting and attractive drives in the county are through this township, upon the Cleves and Harrison turnpike, the Colerain pike, a mile of whose course lies through the northeastern corner, and other important roads, some of which lie, as in the newer States settled upon Congress lands, on the section lines. The Cincinnati & Westwood narrow-gauge railway lies mostly in Green township, and is at present the only iron road within its limits. Starting at Ernst Station, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, in the city, it comes up the valley of Lick run, from which it soon diverges to reach the higher ground, across which it runs for more than three miles in a general northwesterly direction, stopping for the present at Robb's, near Bridgetown. The projected Cincinnati & Venice railway, if built upon the surveyed line, will enter the township from the north at St. Jacob's, proceed nearly due south four miles, and intersect this road just south of Cheviot.
 

THE EARLY HISTORY

Of this township is somewhat peculiar. It was originally the tract reserved by Judge SYMMES for himself as the nearest entire township to the peninsula between the Great Miami and the Ohio rivers. He withheld it from the sale for a number of years, but seems to have made, March 12, 1788, a contract with Dr. Elias BONDINOT of New Jersey, one of his partners, for the transfer of half of it to him. SYMMES afterwards resisted the performance of the contract, having in view the apportionment of this as the college township in the Purchase; but he was unable to secure the acceptance of it, and specific performance of the contract with BONDINOT was decreed

The contract with BONDINOT may be seen by the curious in a copy engrossed in the records of Hamilton County, Book B., pp. 107-9.

The following is the extract from Judge SYMMES' pamphlet, Terms of Sale and Settlement of Miami Lands, published in Trenton in 1788, in which he makes the reservation of this and other townships in this part of the county:

The subscriber hopes that the respectable public will not think it is unreasonable in him, when he informs them that the only privilege which he reserves for himself, as a small reward for his trouble in this business, is the exclusive right of electing of locating that entire township which will be lowest down in the point of land formed by the Ohio and Great Miami Rivers, and those three fractional parts of townships which may lie north, west and south, between such entire township and the waters of the Ohio and Great Miami. This point of land the subscriber intends paying for himself, and thereon to lay out a handsome town plat, with eligible streets, etc.,etc.
 

THE "COLLEGE TOWNSHIP"

An impression quite general prevails, even among well-informed local historians, that Green was the "College township" in the Miami Purchase; and we have been misled by the common statement in our history of the Purchase, in the first division of this work. But it could not have been at any time the College township. That, as originally set apart by SYMMES, and so marked on this map of the Purchase, to be given in perpetuity for the purposes of an academy or college, was that complete township, in the words of this Terms of Sale and Settlement, " as nearly opposite the mouth of the Licking River as an entire township may be found eligible in point of soil and situation." We have been unable to identify this township. It could hardly have been the old Mill Creek township, since that was not entire, being cut by the Ohio river at the southeastern corner. It was obviously, however, somewhere in this tier of townships, since the original boundaries of Colerain township, defined in 1794, prescribed its eastern limit as the meridian on the western line of the College township, which is the western boundary of Mill Creek, Springfield, and the tier of townships to which they belong.

Green, however, was the College township in the intention of Judge SYMMES, for he made very strenuous efforts to have it accepted as such by the Territorial, State, or Federal authorities. As a matter of fact, there never was a College township in the Purchase. The following extract from Judge BURNET's Notes on the Settlement of the Northwestern Territory will make this clear:

As the facts relating to the College township, mentioned in the original proposition of Judge SYMMES to Congress, are not generally known or understood, it may be proper here to state them concisely.

The ordinance under which the early sales of the public domain were made did not authorize a grant of college lands to purchasers of a less quantity than two millions of acres. The original proposition of Mr. SYMMES, being for that quantity, would have entitled him to the benefit of the gram had it been carried into effect. It was therefore stated in his pamphlet containing the terms of sale and settlement, that a College township had been given, and located as nearly opposite the mouth of Licking river, as an entire township could be found, eligible in point of soil and situation. The selection of that township was made in good faith on one of the best tracts in the Purchase, and was marked on his map as the College township. It was situated opposite the mouth of Licking, and was reserved from sale for the purpose intended until it was ascertained that the agents appointed to close the contract with the Government, under the powers given in the letter of attorney, had relinquished one-half of the quantity proposed to be purchased by Mr. SYMMES: and, as a matter of course, had relinquished also his claim to a College township. After that relinquishment, he erased the entry made on that township on his map, as he had a right to do, and offered it for sale. As it was one of the best in the Purchase, it was soon entirely disposed of. The matter remained in that situation tilt 1792, when the judge applied to Congress, as is stated above, to change the boundaries of his Purchase, and grant him a patent for as much land as he was then able to pay for. When the bill for that purpose was before Congress, General Dayton, the agent of Mr. SYMMES, and then a very influential member of the House, introduced a section authorizing the President to convey to Mr. SYMMES and his associates one entire township, in trust, for the purpose of establishing an academy and other schools of learning, conformably to the ordinance of Congress of second of October, 1787, to be located, with the approbation of the governor for the time being, of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, within the term of five years, as nearly as may be, in the centre of the tract of land granted by the patent.

The fact was that, under that ordinance, the right to the township had been lost, by relinquishing half the quantity of his proposed purchase: yet from some cause, either from a want of correct information or a disposition to be generous, the provision was retained and became a part of the law. At that time there was not an entire township in the Purchase undisposed of; portions of each and all of them had been sold by Mr. SYMMES, after his right to college lands had been lost, and before the laws of 1792 had renewed the claim. It was not, therefore, in his power to make the appropriation required.

The matter remained in that situation till the first territorial legislature was elected in 1799. Mr. SYMMES, then feeling the embarrassment of his situation, and aware that the subject would be taken up by that body, made a written proposition to the governor of the territory, offering the second township of the second fractional range [Green township] for the purpose of a college. The governor, on examination, found that Mr. SYMMES had sold an undivided moiety of that township for a valuable consideration, in 1788, four years before the right to a College township existed; that the purchaser had filed a bill in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, to obtain a specific performance of his contract; and that the judge had also sold small portions of the same township to other persons, who then held written contracts for the same in the form of deeds. As a matter of course, the township was rejected by the governor.

Soon after that occurrence, the subject was brought before the territorial legislature at the instance of Mr. SYMMES. who repeated the offer to them. They also refused to receive it, for the same reasons which had been assigned by the governor, as appeared from the journal of that body. A similar refusal, for the same reasons, was subsequently

It was affirmed in the written communication of Judge SYMMES to Congress, very correctly, the Miami Purchase did not obtain a right to college lands till the law of 1792 was passed; that, prior to that time, he had sold large portions of every township in the Purchase. as he had a right to do; that the township he then offered had not been reserved for a college, but to be sold and disposed of, for his own personal benefit; and that he had sold large portions of it as early as 1788, but that those sales, in his opinion, were void.

Some persons had the charity to believe that, when he first proposed that township for the use of a college, it was his intention to purchase out the claimants, which he probably might have done, at the time the law passed making the grant, on fair and reasonable terms; but he omitted to do so till that arrangement became impracticable, and until his embarrassments rendered it impossible for him to make any remuneration to Congress or the people of the Miami Purchase.

The remainder of Judge BURNET's account of the College township has no relation to the subject of this chapter. It merely outlines the legislation and appointment of commissioners, whereby a selection of thirty-six sections, or the equivalent of a township, was made for the foundation of a university, but necessarily outside of the Miami Purchase, on the Congress lands west of the Great Miami; the establishment of Miami university at first at Lebanon, Warren county, in the Symmes Purchase, as directed by State law; and its final establishment under another law, with the endowment of lands aforesaid, outside the limits of the Purchase, upon such of the college lands as lay where now is Oxford, Butler county, and where a mere shadow of the university is still maintained.
 

THE FORMATION

of Green township is not clearly settled, as to date and circumstances. It is held, however, to have been set off in 1809, with its regular boundaries as now, corresponding with those of the surveyed township.
 

TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

The justices of the peace, during some of the years of the history of Green township, were as follows: William BENSON, William J. CARSON, 1819, Mahlon BROWN, Adam MOORE, John MARTIN, 1829; James EPPLEY, John GAINES, Thomas WILLS, 1865-6; John EPPLEY, Thomas WILLS, E. L. AGIN, 1867-9; James EPPLEY, Thomas WILLS, William M. ROBB, 1870; James EPPLEY, William M. ROBB, John RITT, 1871-2; James EPPLEY, Thomas WILLS, L. D. HEM, 1873-8; James EPPLEY, Thomas WILLS, J. W. DUNN, 1879; Thomas WILLS, J. W. DUNN, O. J. WOOD, 1880.
 

NOTES OF SETTLEMENT

William D. GOFORTH lives about one and a half miles south of Cheviot, in Green township, with an only daughter. The wife, now dead, was Miss Sallie GORDON, whose ancestry is traceable to Lord George GORDON, of Scotland. She died April 4, 1878. Mr. GOFORTH is descended from distinguished stock. His grandfather, Judge William GOFORTH, born April 1, 1731, was appointed a member of the State legislature and was judge of the Northwestern Territory, then comprising the district of Ohio. He came to Ohio in 1788, and died in 1805. His own father, Dr. William GOFORTH, was surgeon of the army in the War of 1812, and was also a member of the legislature of Louisiana, where he went in 1803, and came back to Ohio in 1816. His oldest son served in the capacity of lieutenant, and William D., then a lad of fifteen years, witnessed the engagement between the forces of Generals JACKSON and PACKENHAM at New Orleans. He also served under SCOTT in the Mexican war, as ensign, and planted the colors on the Mexican capitol. During the late war he carried the colors of the Fifth Ohio cavalry when they made the attack on the Louisiana Tigers at Shiloh. He was offered the pay and rank of a major, both of which he refused. He was crippled at Shiloh by his horse throwing him against a tree. His own son was in forty-seven engagements.

Rev. Samuel J. BROWNE was born at Honiton, England, in 1786, and emigrated to this country in 1796 with his father, Rev. John W. BROWNE, who settled first at Chillicothe, Ohio, and afterward, in 1798, at Cincinnati, and a few years later was drowned in the Little Miami river while returning from one of his appointments to preach in that neighborhood. His son, Samuel J. BROWNE, learned the printing business with Nathaniel WILLIS, and in 1804 started the Liberty Hall newspaper, afterwards the Cincinnati Gazette, and in 1824 the Cincinnati Emporium, afterwards the first daily paper of large size printed in Cincinnati. Through his instigation and pecuniary aid his son, J. W. S. BROWNE, and his son-in-law, L. S. CURTISS, originated and placed on a paying basis the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. He early perceived the growing tendencies of his adopted city, and was among the first to show his faith by frequent investments in real estate in the city and its suburbs. In 1830 he purchased the late BROWNE homestead, consisting of twenty-five acres on the north side of the Miami canal, opposite Baymiller street, and erected thereon a fine residence which he occupied until his death.

Mr. BROWNE was twice married. His first wife, a most estimable and handsome English lady, was wooed and won while Mr. BROWNE was on a visit to his brother in England, and by whom he had seven children, three of whom still survive. His second wife was a daughter of the late Dr. E. A. ATLEE, a lady of sweet disposition and most amiable character, by whom he had five children, of whom three are still living. Mr. BROWNE pursued a most active life, retaining both mental and physical vigor to within a short period of his death, which occurred in September, 1872, at the ripe old age of eighty-five years.

Samuel W. CARSON of Cheviot, mail agent of the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, is the oldest member of his father's family, and was born January 1, 1816. In 1850 he went to California, being gone five years, and returning via Panama railroad, coming across the isthmus on the first train over that line. During the war he was provost marshal and afterwards for two years was revenue collector. In 1856 he was assigned a position in the mail service on the Great Eastern railroad from Cincinnati to Chicago, which position he still retains. Mr. CARSON is a descendant from a remarkable

Washington MARKLAND is of Chestnut farm, Green township, on which place he has lived during a life of seventy-one years, excepting four years he resided in Piqua, Ohio, to educate his children. His father, Thomas MARKLAND, and mother, Anna Maria, were born in Maryland; moved to Boone county, Kentucky, in 1801; removed to the Chestnut farm (section thirty-two, Green township), in 1805, having then a family of seven children, viz: Elizabeth, Jonathan, Benjamin, John, William, Leah, and Noah; Martha, Washington, James, and Charles, were born on this farm; all are now dead but Noah, Washington, and Charles.

His mother, Anna Maria SUMMERS, was of Welsh descent; his father was of English origin; he died in the year 1825, May 18th, leaving Washington in charge of the family. His mother died in the year 1830.

Thomas MARKLAND, whose father was a companion of Daniel BOONE, KENT and Cornelius WASHBURNE, the latter the grandfather of Hon. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, lived near the family after they came to Ohio; was intensely bitter towards the Indians and a great friend to WASHINGTON, teaching him old battle songs when he was but four or five years of age.

Washington MARKLAND was married to Miss Mary HAMMOND, of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1829. Her father was a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episcopal church. She lived a Christian life, dying triumphant in the faith, July 20, 1878. She was the mother of eight children, three of whom are now dead. He is now conscious of his end approaching, and is waiting in joy the time when he may have the privilege of crossing over to meet his beloved wife and others, who have gone before. He was born October 25, 1809. The family records were destroyed by a dog, and much valuable history of the foreparents is lost. Of his children two sons were in the late war. Albert was under General BUTLER on the Potomac, and Samuel who was in the cavalry service under General KILPATRICK, was taken prisoner, and for two nights and a day before LEE's surrender was confined in Libby prison.

Mr. MARKLAND has several relics of old times he highly prizes, viz: An Indian tomahawk of 1812; an iron kettle, ninety-nine years old; a grubbing hoe, seventy years old, and several parts of General HARRISON's carriage. He still resides on the farm of his birthplace.

William MURPHY was born in New Jersey in 1800. From this State he was carried to Ohio, and began his life two years later in Springfield township. His death occurred in 1872, in Delhi township. The wife, Mary Ann MURPHY, was born September 7, 1803, and died in 1863. The children, George and Margaret, are now residents of Green township, and Theodore, Christopher and Robert are living in Delhi township.

George HAY is a farmer, residing near Bridgetown, Green township, and is also director and secretary of the Cleves Turnpike company. He was born on the twenty-third of August, 1837, received a good common school education, and has been honored by the people of his township in various positions of trust, having served three terms as township trustee, and been a member of the board of education; he is also a director and vice-president of the Harvest Home association. His father, Washington HAY, came from Baltimore about the year 1806, and purchased a farm near Bridgetown, a part of which George HAY now owns.

Catharine THURSTON was the wife of Joshua THURSTON, deceased, and daughter of Henry APPLEGATE, an old settler of Green township, who died in the year 1877, about eighty-six years of age. Her father, Mr. APPLEGATE, was born in New Jersey, July 1, 1791, came here in 1812, and remained on Dry Ridge the remainder of his days, dying March 12, 1877; was a bricklayer and plasterer on Long Island, but, longing for the west, traveled on foot and by stage coach to Pittsburgh, where he purchased a skiff and from there came on to Cincinnati, in which vicinity he lived for sixty years. He was the father of twelve children, of which Catharine was the second. Her husband, Joshua THURSTON was a minute man during the war; he died in St. Louis, in 1865, since which time Mrs. THURSTON has resided on the old homestead place.

Joseph EPLEY was a native of Pennsylvania, and emigrated froth that State to Ohio, and settled in this township, on sections ten and eleven. He died here in 1835. His wife, Sarah EPLEY, lived till the year 1876. James EPLEY, the oldest son, resides in Green township; the second child, Joseph, is a resident of Kansas; and the youngest, Ann BARRIES, is in Colerain township. James has held the office of justice of peace for twenty-six years, he was also township trustee for two terms.

Emily WOOD, wife of Emerson WOOD, deceased, lives near Dent. Her husband was two years of age when his father settled in Green township, one mile northeast from the village, on one hundred acres of good land. They were married in 1832; in 1875 he died. The fruits of their marriage were four children three sons and one daughter. The daughter and two sons are teachers; one son is now taking a course in the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. One son is married.

William H. MARKLAND is the third son living of the old pioneer Jonathan MARKLAND, who settled on the Cleves road, near Dry Ridge, in the year 1815. Here they began life, a family of thirteen children on a farm of ninety-five acres. Jonathan was born in Virginia in the year 1791, from which State he came. William H. began business in Bridgetown, where he remained two and one-half years - this was in 1850 - then moved to Iowa, but returned again in the year 1853, to Dry Ridge, where he has remained ever since, in charge of a store. He also owns land on Cleves pike; was married in the year 1850.

Isaac W. STATHEM, of the firm of Isaac and David STATHEM, grocers in Cheviot, succeeded their father in this business, opening out on a somewhat more extensive scale, in the year 1865. His father, David E. STATHEM, came

David E. STATHEM first settled in Green township in 1817. He was born in 1792, in Cumberland county, New Jersey, from which State he emigrated to Ohio. His death occurred in 1867, at Cheviot. In 1817 he was a school teacher, when the country was a wilderness. A list of the patrons of his school and the number of pupils sent by each may be of interest in this connection. Providence LUDLAMOR, 1; John BACON, 4; Robert DARE, 1; James SMITH, 2; Samuel ANDERSON, 1; Louis THORNELL, 3; James TURNER, 2; Thomas BROWN, 2; John CRAIG, 3; John MILLER, 3; Roswell FENTON, 2; Ephraim STATHEM, 1; Benjamin BENN, 2; David CONGAR, 2; Achsah CARSON, 2; John CONGAR, 1; Mathias JOHNSON, 4; Mary CAIN, 1; Thomas MARSHAL, 3; Nathaniel RYAN, 2; Noah SMITH, 2; Jonathan R. TUCKER, 1; William GAIN, 2; Elisha FAY, 6; Hugh GOUDY, 1; Abner SCUDDER, 2; John REDISH, 4, John JONES, 1; Francis HOLT, 1; Elijah BROWN 2; George SMITH, 1. For twenty-one years he was township treasurer, when he resigned. Christian name of his wife was Dorcas HILDRETH. Names of surviving members of the family are: Isaac W., Jacob H., and David T., all of Cheviot; and Phoebe, who died in 1871.

James VEAZEY resides on part of section seven, Green township, near Westwood, where he moved in 1870. His father came from Delaware to Ohio, settling in Clermont county in 1812. In 1824 he purchased a farm in Spring Grove; he died in 1876, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. James was born in 1818, bought his present homestead in 1852, and was married to Miss WILLIAMS, daughter of an old settler, in 1870. He is a farmer.

S. S. JACKSON was born in Philadelphia in 1803. He came to Ohio from New York city, and made his first settlement in Green township, in the year 1826. His wife, Elizabeth JACKSON, was born in 1807. Of his seven children, only two are still living: Mary JACKSON and Julia HERRICK, both in Green township. John was wounded at Vicksburgh and died, Isaac and Lewis were drowned. The remaining two that are not alive are Elizabeth and Debby. Mr. JACKSON has in his possession a journal of his grandfather, Mr. William JACKSON, dated August 26, 1768, at Philadelphia; also, a weather record kept by his father, Isaac H. JACKSON, three times each day, for the years between 1813 and 1842.

F. H. OEHLMANN, of the law firm of OEHLMANN & LUNDY, room 24 Temple Bar, northwest corner of Court and Main streets, Cincinnati, Ohio, was born January 13, 1848, on Race street, Cincinnati. His father came to this county when but fourteen years of age (1833), and died October 3, 1875, at the age of fifty-eight years; his mother is still living. F. H. OEHLMANN received a good common school education in the public schools of Cincinnati, perfecting his course in the Woodward high school at the age of seventeen years. Following his course in school, he obtained employment as clerk in the recorder's office, court house, where he remained for a period of eight years, when he went into the practice of law, and is today the senior member of the firm of OEHLMANN & LUNDY. He, with his parents, removed from Cincinnati to Westwood in the spring of 1865, where he still resides. He was elected as assessor of Green township when he was but twenty-one years of age, defeating a worthy and popular citizen in the election. He was elected member of the council of the village of Westwood, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1878, when he was elected mayor of said village, and was reelected in 1880, and is at present the presiding officer of that village. He married Miss Augusta PATZOLD in 1871, from which union he has been blessed with several children.

Joseph SIEFERT was born December 11, 1810, at Baden, Germany. Coming directly from that country to Ohio, he settled in Cincinnati in 1834. For eight years he was a member of the city council, twelve years director of the Longview Lunatic asylum, and two terms, or twelve years, president of the Cincinnati Relief union, of which society he was a member for twenty-one years. lie paid the relief fund to the soldiers' widows during thirteen years, for five years was appointed by the governor, and the remainder of the time held the place through the council. His wife, Elizabeth SIEFERT, was born in Europe November 1, 1813, and died December 7, 1875. Of the seven children, Charles only remains a resident of this township. Elizabeth HUY resides in Richmond, Indiana, and Ellen DRUM, Rosa HEGLE, Mary, Josephine, and Frank Joseph, are in Cincinnati.

D. R. HERRICK was born in 1843, in Summit county, Ohio. He became a resident of Green township in 1876. His family consists of his wife Mrs. Julia HERRICK and his two children, Sidney and Edna.

Dr. G. H. MUSEKAMP was born in Prussia in 1802. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1837, after a protracted journey of forty-two weeks, by sea, land, canal, and river. His death occurred in 1874, at his home in Green township. He was one of the earliest German physicians of Cincinnati, practiced principally minor surgery. At his death he was one of the oldest German physicians in Hamilton county. He left Cincinnati and moved into Green township in 1850. Mrs. MUSEKAMP (Charlotte GUTTEMULLER) was born in 1803, and died in 1845. Their family consists of Louisa, now living in Goshen, Clermont county, and Elizabeth, Sophia, and Dr. George H. W., all three of Green township.

Enoch JACOBS was born at Marlborough, Vermont, in 1809. He emigrated from New York to Ohio in 1843, and settled in Cincinnati. His wife, Electa JACOBS, was born in 1812. Their children are Electa and E. George, both living at Mount Airy. Mr. Jacobs was, at one time, appointed consul to Montevideo, South America, and acted as minister, in the absence of this officer, for one

William TAYLOR was born in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, from which State he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Delhi. In 1875 he died, in Green township. His wife, Nancy J. TAYLOR, is still living, as are also his four children, William E., David J., Robert, and Joshua P.

George FRONDORF was born in Germany, came from that country to Ohio, and made settlement in Green township in the year 1840. Here he died at the age of seventy-three. F. FRONDORF came with his father, and has lived in this township since 1840. He is the owner of the largest single tract of land lying in the township two hundred and forty-three acres. In 1847 he was married to Mary FRONDORF, who is still living. His daughter, Mary, and son, George, both reside here, and Caroline is at St. Mary's convent, Cincinnati.

Charles RIES was born in Germany in 1826, and emigrated to Ohio and settled in Cincinnati in the year 1853. In 1877 he removed to Green township. While in his native land he belonged to the army. His wife, Eva Ries, was born in 1830, and is still alive. His children, Charles RIES, Jr., William, and Lizzie, remain also in the same township.

William MULLER came to Cincinnati in 1844. He was born in Germany, and on emigrating to America came to Ohio at once. In 1874 he died in Green township, where his last home was located. His wife was Catharine MULLER. The children are William, Frank, Louis, Rosina, Mary, and Adam. William is still living in Green township; Frank and Lewis near Taylor's creek; Rosina at the Four Mile house; Mary, near the New Baltimore pike; and Adam, near Lick run.

Isaac TOWNSEND, formerly the well known dairyman near Cheviot, came from Springborough, Warren county, where he was born in the year 1829; lived for a while in Clinton county, Ohio, where he kept a grocery. In 1860 he started his dairy, and at first began the business on a small scale, but afterwards increased it to larger dimensions. In 1880 he sold out his interest in the business to his brother, since which time he has been a farmer. He lives near Cheviot, and is nicely situated on what is known as the Rose Hill farm. Mr. TOWNSEND began life a poor boy, and was bound out until sixteen years of age, but by industry and perseverance has been successful in securing for himself finally a good homestead. He is a Quaker.

Thomas J. BRADFORD, of Dent, Green township, lives on the homestead owned by his father, John BRADFORD, who came from Ireland. M. T. J. BRADFORD, in the year 1876, married Miss Lydia HART.

George W. DAVIS, is of the firm of TOWNSEND & DAVIS, proprietors of an extensive dairy one mile south of Cheviot.

Thomas MORGAN was born in North Wales in 1814; came to the United States in 1839, and since the year 1840 has been proprietor of a large lumber-yard on the corner of Twelfth and Plum streets, Cincinnati. The business has been to him a very profitable one, out of which he has made a fortune. Soon after coming to Cincinnati he was married to Miss Lucinda P. TERRY, a native of Virginia, and is the father of two children - a son and a daughter. The son, John W. MORGAN, was in the service, first as a lieutenant and finally as quartermaster. Mr. MORGAN owns a beautiful property in Westwood.

Joseph M. REARDEN, of Cheviot, formerly county commissioner of Hamilton county, is of Irish descent, his father, Thomas R., having come from Ireland in 1812, leaving Limerick and coming by the way of England, where he stayed a while; landed in Philadelphia, where Joseph was born, in 1837, on the nineteenth of March. In 1852, Thomas removed to Green township, one mile west of Dent. Mr. REARDEN completed his studies about the year 1851, in St. Xavier's college, Cincinnati, and then went south, making application to General WALKER to enter the fillibuster service, but was not received on account of his age. >From 1852 until 1875 he followed the business of farming, since which time his county has called him to various offices of trust. After the war, beginning in 1865, he served three terms as trustee of the township, was also deputy treasurer, member of the board of education, and in October, 1875, was elected county commissioner, serving until 1877, and receiving a county majority of 1,713, and a township majority of 146. He was married to Mary E. MILLER in 1857.

Charley B. LEWIS, proprietor of a bakery and lunch room at 194, West Sixth street, came from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Cincinnati in the year 1861. His father, Thomas C. LEWIS, now living, owned the rolling-mills of that place, the only one west of Pittsburgh, in which mills Charley learned the business of machinest. The property is now owned by his brother-in-law, George Baylis, who is probably one of the wealthiest men in the State. Mr. LEWIS was for three years after coming to Cincinnati a driver of a bakery wagon, for which he received one dollar per day. >From this he was promoted to a clerkship, and in 1866 he bought out the entire business, since which time he has run it himself. He also owns the building at 206.

Rev. Gottleib BRANDSTETTER, pastor of the First German Evangelical. Protestant church of Green township, was born in Rhein Baiern, Bavaria, in 1830. He belongs to a family of ministers. Gottlieb came alone to America and took a course in theology, completing his studies in 1856, after which he engaged in the ministerial work at Peppertown, near Evansville, Indiana, and other places. He came here May 1, 1876, and has since had charge of the congregation and Sabbath-school, acting as its superintendent. He also gives instruction three days in each week to the children of his congregation, who are taking a course

Elizabeth BATES, wife of Joshua BATES, railroad contractor, resides in Mount Airy, Green township. Mr. BATES removed to his present elegant homestead in 1859. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. John BATES (son) was a soldier in the cavalry service under Kilpatrick, during the late war.

Enoch JACOBS was born in the town of Marlborough, State of Vermont, June 30, 1809, and was married to Electa WHITNEY, of said town, June 22, 1831. His father, Nathan JACOBS, was born in Connecticut in 1762, and emigrated to Vermont in 1799. He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution. He married Sarah, the daughter of Captain John CLARK, of revolutionary fame, about the year 1784. She was a native of Old Hadley, Massachusetts. The subject of this sketch emigrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 1827, where he engaged in mechanical pursuits till 1843, when he removed with his family to Cincinnati. Between that time and the breaking out of the civil war in 1861, he was engaged in the manufacture of iron work, being junior partner in the firm of Vallean & Jacobs. The people of the south being their largest customers, financial ruin followed. His oldest son, Enoch George, enlisted in the Second Ohio volunteer infantry, three months' service, and was in the battle of Bull Run. He afterwards enlisted in the Twelfth Kentucky volunteer infantry, Federal regiment, where he was commissioned first lieutenant, and was in the battle at Mill Spring and the siege of Knoxville. He re-enlisted as a veteran and served till the army reached Jonesborough, when his health failed, and he resigned his commission.

His second son, Henry C., enlisted in the Fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served till his death.

His third son, Nathan, enlisted in the Twelfth Kentucky volunteer infantry, and was commissioned first lieutenant in company I Of Third regiment. He was a brave and gallant young officer, While temporarily absent from his regiment he was waylaid and murdered by a bushwhacker, near Somerset, Kentucky, about the twentieth of February, 1863.

The elder JACOBS was for a time with the First and Second Ohio infantry regiments, comprising SCHENCK's brigade, and took part in the battle at Vienna, where occurred the first bloodshed in the war south of the Potomac. He afterwards identified himself with the Twelfth Kentucky, commanded by Colonel W. A. HOSKINS, and recruited men for it, in which two of his sons hold commissions. He took part in the battle of Mill Spring, and wrote the first published account of that battle. It appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial, and was copied by papers all over the country, and in Europe.

A month later he took part in the battle at Fort Donelson, having obtained a position on the staff of Colonel BAUSENWEIN, commanding the brigade on the left of the right wing under General MCCLERNAND, and with a detail of twelve men Mr. JACOBS accepted the surrender of two rebel batteries. About a month later while on his way to join the Twelfth Kentucky en route from Nashville to Pittsburgh Landing, a railroad accident occurred at Green river bridge, Kentucky, in which he permanently lost the use of his right arm. In 1863 he was elected justice of the peace in Mill Creek township, and served till he removed with what was left of his family to Waynesville, Warren county, in 1865. He resided at Walnut Hills from 1847 till 1865, and took a leading part in organizing in that place the first free school in the State under the school law of 1849 and its amendment in 1850. He served nine years as trustee and secretary of the board with the late Dr. ALIEN of Lane seminary as president. In the winter of 1870-71 he accompanied the Government commission, on the United States steamer Tennessee, to Santo Domingo as the special correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. He traveled extensively over the island, and no correspondent went where he did not. The following winter, 1871-72, he returned to Santo Domingo, in the interests of the Cincinnati Commercial and New York Tribune. During that winter he gathered much testimony as to the alleged complicity of high officials in a scheme of speculation in connection with a proposition of our Government to purchase the island. This has been hitherto withheld from the public.

In January, 1873, he was appointed United States Consul to Montevideo, in the republic of Uruguay, South America. The United States Minister, Mr. STEVENS, being absent, the work of the legislation devolved upon him in addition to the duties of the consulate. As the country was cursed with constant revolutions, it required all his energies in extending protection to American citizens; but the work was faithfully done. In 1874 he came home for his family (wife and daughter) by way of Europe, and with them returned by the same route to his post of duty. His health failing he resigned his commission and came home by way of Europe in June, 1876. In October or that year he removed to Mount Airy, and finished his official life with six months' service as mayor of that village.

This is a village a little over a mile west of Cheviot, just half Way across the township from east to west, and two miles and a half from the south line. It is on the Cleves turnpike, half a mile west of the junction of the Harrison pike, and the Cincinnati & Westwood narrow-gauge railroad comes up to the Cleves road about midway between the village and the junction of the turnpikes. St. Aloysius' (Catholic) church is located here, with its parochial school of about fifty pupils, and a confraternity of the same name, all under the pastoral care of the Rev. Father Bernard MUTTING.
 

CEDAR GROVE

is a locality in the extreme southwest part of the township, about the headwaters of Lick run, and extending into the city upon the Warsaw turnpike. The Young Ladies' academy of St. Vincent de Paul, conducted by the Sisters of Charity, is in this grove, but within the city, at a place called "The Cedars," where a sister of Mary HEWITT, the famous English authoress formerly resided and wrote the charming letter, afterwards embodied in a little work entitled, Our Cousins in Ohio.
 

CHEVIOT.

This is an old place, founded by an early settler named John CRAIG in 1818, and was incorporated March 21st, of that year. It is pleasantly situated upon the hills west of the Mill Creek valley, on the Harrison turnpike, a mile and a half west of the township line. It had seventy-one inhabitants in 1830, and three hundred and twenty-five fifty years afterwards.

In his later years the Hon. Samuel LEWIS, the famous philanthropist and educator, long of Cincinnati, resided near Cheviot, upon a farm he owned there. He continued his labors for humanity almost to the end of life, often preaching in the neighboring churches. He died upon his place here, after a long career of usefulness, July 28, 1854.

At Cheviot, on the Fourth of July, 1832, there was a noteworthy celebration. FENTON's Cheviot infantry and PALMERTON's Delhi infantry made a brave parade, escorting the orator of the day, General William Henry HARRISON, to the Presbyterian church, where the exercises took place. Mr. Enoch CARSON was reader of the declaration, and the Rev. Messrs. WILLIAMSON and BIDDLE were the chaplains of the day. Messrs. PRICE and CARPENTER served as committeemen. The dinner was at Rush's hotel, where the popular old time song, "The Death of Warren," was given amid much applause.

At the celebration of 1841, at the same place, Judge MOORE was president, Rev. George COTT, chaplain, W. J. CARSON, reader, and Dr. J. D. TALBOTT, orator. The day seems to have gone off gallantly and pleasantly enough.
 

COVEDALE

is a small place on the township line, one mile west of the southeast corner, half a mile northwest of Warsaw, and on the road connecting that place with the Five Corners
 

DENT

is a village on the south fork of Taylor's creek and the Harrison turnpike, two miles and a half northwest of Cheviot, and two miles from the northern and western township lines, respectively. It has about two hundred inhabitants. Here lives the Hon. Charles Reemelin, formerly member of Congress, who is noticed at considerable length in the chapter on the German element in Cincinnati, in the second division of this work.
 

DRY RIDGE

is a hamlet of probably fifty inhabitants, on the Cleves turnpike, a mile west of Bridgetown, at the junction of that highway with the road down the south fork of Taylor's creek. The Ebenezer church and a school-house are situated at this point.
 

FIVE CORNERS.

This locality, with a little scatter of houses, is at the junction of three country roads, on the dividing line of sections eight and fourteen, a mile and a half south of Cheviot, and the same distance northwest of Covedale.
 

MOUNT AIRY

includes a tract of more than three square miles, lying mostly in Mill Creek township, in the chapter devoted to whose history it will be more particularly noticed. Five hundred and seventy-nine of its acres are in this township.
 

ST. JACOB'S

in the extreme north of the township, a mile and two-thirds west of the northeast comer, and a mile from the Colerain pike, on the projected Cincinnati & Venice railroad, has a population of about one hundred, and a flourishing Catholic church and school.
 

SHEARTOWN

This is a village near the extreme northwest corner of the township, with fifty to seventy-five inhabitants, a church, and a school. It is on the Harrison turnpike and the main stream of Taylor's creek.
 

WEISENBURGH

Weisenburgh is a small place inhabited chiefly by Germans, one mile south of St. Jacob's and two miles and a half north of Cheviot, on the surveyed route of the Cincinnati & Venice railroad.
 

WESTWOOD

This considerable suburb covers, with residences and grounds, more or less thickly, nearly four sections, being the whole of sections two, three and eight, the eastern half of section nine, and part of section fourteen, being in all two thousand three hundred and twenty-five acres. Along the east line of section two, it immediately adjoins the city in its northwest part. The Cincinnati & Westwood narrow gauge railway runs for about two miles through the southern part of the suburb.

The village was incorporated in 1868. Among its earlier mayors were John GAINES, 1869-70; F. H. OEHLMANN, 1871; Thomas WILLS, 1872-4. It had seven hundred and fifty-two inhabitants in 1880.
 

THE HARVEST HOME

A few enterprising residents of Green township started the first Harvest Home organization in the county, which still maintains its annual meetings with great interest and success. On the Fourth of July, 1860, a little group of

Green township has just twice and a half the number of inhabitants it had a half century ago. The census of 1830 developed a population of one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five in the township; that of 1870 showed four thousand three hundred and fifty-six; of 1880, six thousand six hundred and eighty-nine.

At one time, in the early day, nearly the whole tract now covered by Green township was sold at sheriffs sale for seventy-five dollars. After the original proprietorship of BENDINOT & SIMS, it was owned mainly by Generals HARRISON and FINDLEY, and Judge BURNET, of Cincinnati, for whom it was sold out in parcels by the father of Colonel E. T. CARSON, now chief of police in that city.