This name originated, doubtless, under a mistaken view of things, as the furnace didn’t stand on a ridge. When your correspondent read on the stone in the arch of the old furnace stack, “Oak Ridge Furnace built by W. H. Allison, 1856.” I could not help saying to myself that the year of ’56 must have been a year of mistakes.
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Early Days of Symmes
My father, George Irwin, moved to the log house that stands on the farm of R. M. Wickline, in Symmes Township in December 1827. At that time, there were twelve or thirteen families in the township.
Aid Township
In 1800, the first cabin in Aid Township was built on John’s Creek by Captain John, an Indian, and Andy Friend, a white man, and squatters who made their living hunting and trapping. The first settlement was Marion, [now known as Aid] in 1815. The name was changed due to the conflict with a larger and previously established Marion in northern Ohio. William (Uncle Billy) Stumbo laid out Marion (Aid) in 1840. The village of Arabia also lies partially in Aid Township. Aid Township was organized by Adam Haymaker in 1823.
Jacob Yates and Charles Richendollar Duel
Jacob Yates, age 48, one of the principals in the revolver duel that occurred Saturday evening on the Waterloo Pike, in which Charles Richendollar, 29, was killed by Yates,
Murder of Mary Young
On Sunday evening 12th inst., Mary Jane Young, a young unmarried woman died under such suspicious circumstances at Greasy Ridge in Lawrence County, Ohio that mention was made of the circumstances in the Gazette’s dispatches from Ironton, Ohio.
Confession of Counterfeit Company
About ten days or two weeks since a young man stopped at our village, (Columbus, or Iron Banks,) in Hickman County, on the Mississippi river, who called his name Jason Hanly.
R.W. Higgins Counterfeiter
On Friday night, Mr. Henry Livingston informed Deputy Marshal Maxon of the operations of a counterfeiter. Maxon followed his man during the night, and finally bagged his game on Saturday morning.
Mary Gordon Counterfeiter
It will be remembered that one Mary Gordon was arrested some eighteen months ago, charged with manufacturing counterfeit nickels. After she had been indicted her attorney, T. C. Campbell obtained
More Counterfeit Cases
In the United States Court, yesterday, Robert Cheeseman and William Dunn plead guilty to a charge of counterfeiting and were sentenced to the penitentiary, the former for nine years and the later for six years. William Shope,
Counterfeit Cases 1859
Is now in the third week of its session in Ironton. The proceedings have generally not been of special interest to the public.
The Grand Jury had a short session, and found six indictments,
Frank Millirons Counterfeiter
Frank Millirons was arrested near Arabia, Lawrence County, Ohio, this afternoon by Officer Roy Hill and brought here and placed in jail. It is alleged that Millirons is the leader of a notorious gang that has made and circulated thousands of dollars worth of spurious gold coins in the cities of the Middle West.
Counterfeiter Gertrude Russell 1890
Mrs. Gertrude Russell, a member of a prominent Lawrence County, Ohio family, was arrested by Deputy US Marshal Daniel White of Huntington on a warrant charging her with attempting to pass counterfeit money.
Band of Counterfeiters
After completion of the Hatcher (of Belmont County Ohio), the case of Abraham Culver, of Ironton, Ohio, was taken up on the indictment against him for having in possession counterfeit nickels. In this case, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bill
French Chamblin, alias John Kell, an old fellow, was in arrest on the charge of attempting to pass a ten-dollar bill on the Iron Bank at Ironton, Ohio. The bill looks like a good one, probably as good as the bank itself, but as the witnesses were not ready the case was continued.
Counterfeiter Arrested in1855
Some two weeks ago, a colored woman named Clara Jones made information before Mayor Volz against a black man named William Erbie, charging him with passing on her two counterfeit $10 notes on the “Iron Bank,” of Ironton, Ohio.