House of Ill Repute

The Marietta Daily Times, October 3, 1904 

A charge of keeping a house of ill fame was made by Chief Dye against Mrs. Angenora Robinson in the Mayor's court this morning. She is to be heard this afternoon.

Saturday evening Chief Dye and other officers raided Mrs. Robinson's house on Church Street. Three young women, Minnie Matthews, Irene Williams and Helen Hutton, and Frank Mouts, the latter of Parkersburg, were arrested and lodged in jail. A young Marietta man got away by a dash up Church Street at the critical moment.

Arraigned before the Mayor yesterday, the three women were charged with violating a rule of the Board of Health designed for the prevention of disease. They plead guilty, were fined $50 and costs, and sent back.

It is understood that Mouts is being held as a witness against Mrs. Robinson. She had maintained for the past few years that she is a reformed woman and does not tolerate vice.

Old Marietta Papers - Number 13

 The Marietta Register, December 18, 1863

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register."

It is worthy of remark that in the Marietta papers we have closely examined within the past few weeks, from 1813 to 1822, advertisements of fugitive slaves from Virginia, and occasionally from Kentucky, are not uncommon; and advertisements of a wife who, as the advertiser says, "has left my bed and board," &c., occur with very much more frequency than do such advertisements at this day.

A grand Circus Hunt was advertised to take place Feb. 8 "on the headwaters of the big and little west branches of the Little Hocking" to kill Wolves and Panthers. Managers, Walter Curtis, Miller Clark, O. R. Loring, William Pitt Putnam and John Stone of Belpre; William Johnson of Decatur; Amos Dunham of Warren; and T. B. Pond of Barlow. It proved a failure from "want of system and imperfect knowledge of the ground." It was again advertised for April 5th, when the command of the several corners was under William Pitt Putnam, John Stone, Walter Curtis and Benjamin P. Putnam - six miles square surveyed, "the most noted wolf harbor within 60 or 70 miles," and bears and panthers common. What success this time was not published. 

In the Spring Election, 1821, George Dunlevy, D. H. Buell, and John Merrill were elected Town Council; R. Prentis, Clerk; John Mills, Treasurer; B. P. Putnam and S. P. Hildreth, Assessors; Jacob Ulmer, Enoch Hoff and Robert McCabe, Constables.

July 4, 1821, James M. Booth, Esq., read the Declaration at Congregational Church, and Whipple Spooner, Esq., delivered the oration. Dinner at Sampson Cole's. There was another celebration in Harmar, Henry Dana Ward delivering the oration.

At this date Billy Todd had here what he called the "Washington Brewery."

July 24, Nahum Ward advertised that he would leave for Europe in November following, to be gone about a year.

Oct. 14, Casper Smith, "at the sign of the Golden Anchor," advertises that he will keep boarders "in the best manner at $1.50 a week."

Oct. 26, the store of Joseph Holden was robbed of a considerable quantity of goods and about $80 in money.

Election in 1821 - Sardine Stone of Union was elected Senator from this district; Capt. Timothy Buell (re-elected), and W. M. Dawes of Morgan, Representatives; Royal Prentiss, Auditor - the first time and Auditor was elected by the people. Daniel Goodno was re-elected Commissioner without opposition, also Samuel Beach and Amzi Stanley were elected Commissioners in place of Dr. J. B. Regnier, deceased and Titan Kimble, who had removed to Lawrence county. There was a tie vote between S. Beach and Col. Joseph Barker, and they drew lots, when Beach gained it. The opponent of Amzi Stanley was W. Thomas.

For Senator the vote of the county stood Sardine Stone, 487; Ephraim Cutler, 469. The opponents of Timothy Buell and W. M. Dawes for Representatives were James Whitney of Harmar and Alexander McConnell of Morgan county.

Marriages in 1821:

Jan. 1, Otis Wheeler and Dianthe Morse; Samuel A. Westcott and Sarah L. Edgerton.

Feb. 15, William Henry Shipman and Mary Ann Edgerton.

March 6, in Union, Luther D. Barker and Maria Devol.

March 16, James McAllister and Susan Owens.

April 5, Nathan Cole of Warren and Lavinia Bryan of Marietta.

April 9, George Beerley and Sally Mixer.

April 11, in Portsmouth, Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead and Elizabeth Peebles.

Apr. 15, Caius Martius Wood and Sophia Hall of Union; Lucius Cross and Thirza Stanley.

May 17, Henry Chandler and Mrs. Sally Humiston, both of Wooster (Watertown).

May 27, Bertrand Miraben of Marietta and Emily Dunbar of Union.

July 3, Erastus Guthrie of Belpre and Achsah Palmer of Marietta.

Aug. 14, in Waterford, Benjamin P. Putnam of Marietta and Mary Dana.

Sept. 2, in Belpre, Jarvis Burroughs and Susan Stone; in Marietta, David B. Anderson and Eunice Hall.

Oct. 11, Henry Shepard and Huldah Shepard.

Oct. 31, James D. Farnsworth and Eliza Knapp.

Oct. 14, Jesse Loring of Belpre and Deborah Gray of Waterford.

Nov. 6, Jesse Lawton of Barlow and Maria Haskell of Marietta.

Nov. 5, Thomas Porter and Rhoda Sutton.

Dec. 7, John Breckenridge and Agnes Fleming, both of Warren.

Dec. 27, Alfred Regnier and Mary Ann Rowland, both of Aurelius.

Deaths in 1821:

Jan. 20, Jonathan Cram, aged 42.

Apr. 16, John L. Saltonstall.

Apr. 23, Mrs. Catharine, wife of William Plumer, 62.

May 2, in Columbus, Col. Abner Lord, aged 61, a former business man of Marietta, who built the house in which Dr. John Cotton died, just south of the Post Office.

May 30, William H. Buell, in his 29th year.

July 25, Miss Maria, daughter of William Skinner, 25.

August 2, the wife of Joseph Dennis; 5th Elijah Cooper; 6th, John Hilman, 23.

Aug. 16, in Aurelius, Dr. John B. Regnier, a native of Paris and one of the most prominent citizens of the county, aged 54; he removed from Marietta to Aurelius in 1819; his obituary says: "Dr. Regnier spoke evil of no man and showed kindness to all."

Aug. 23, in Vienna, Va., Charles Spencer Wilson (a brother of Noah L. Wilson), 17.

Aug. 31, in Belpre, Dr. William Beebe; in Marietta, Mrs. Sloter.

Sept. 8, in Adams, Mrs. Mindwell, wife of Theophilus Ransom, 60; in Marietta, Amos, son of Joseph Worstell, 16; 17th, Dea. Enoch Shepard; 27th, William Pratt.

Sept. 21, in Union, James R., son of John Dyar, 19.

In Marietta, Oct. 10, Lavina, wife of Robert Williamson, 44.

20th, Jane, wife of John Brought, Esq.

Epidemic in Warren. In Sept. and Oct., 1821, there was an epidemic in Warren. One of the obituaries speaks of "the present raging epidemic." We find in the Friend notice of the following deaths: Sept. 7, Mrs. Mary Cole, 54; 15th, the wife of Oren Newton; 16th, John Wood, 80. The mortality in the Adams family was great. Sept. 11th, James Adams died, aged 48, and on Nov. 27th, Mary Adams, his wife, and within that time, Sabin, a son, aged 20, and another of their children; and three sons of Tiffany Adams died, Oct. 6th, John, aged 25; Oct. 10, another son, aged 14; and Nov. 15, Elisha, aged 22 - making seven of the Adams family within 2-1/2 months. Just a year before James Adams buried a daughter, aged 12; and a year after, Sept. 27, 1822, Tiffany Adams died.

Advocate of Equal Suffrage, Women Smoking and Drinking, Campaigned in Civil War Days

The Marietta Daily Times, April 7, 1938

During the period of the Civil War, campaigners for equal suffrage continued active and pioneer crusaders for "women's rights" appeared frequently before audiences in Marietta.

Among editors here there was a wide divergence of opinion at the time as to the conduct of and the justification for the war between the states. President Lincoln was not without his detractors. But there was harmonious accord on at least one proposition. Only the male of the species was qualified to conduct affairs of business, industry and government. Only the lords of creation should partake of political pie.

Away back in the early fifties there was a "bloomer" epidemic apparently starting, of all places, in Philadelphia. At first a sensation actuating near-violence by hoodlum mobs, the movement spread even to Marietta. A local editor comments at the time:

About Bloomer Costume

"The bloomer costume has become so common as to attract but little attention. But why are not the waists loosened? The dress is not made conducive to health by merely shortening the skirts. Off with the corsets - or the health argument in favor of the costume loses much of its power."

This man, and others, lived to regret their lack of prophetic vision. It appeared a trivial petticoat rebellion, at most. In a decade they were to learn that the phenomenon was not without portentous significance.

Files of many newspapers in Marietta and nearby cities reveal items dealing with the spread of the feminist movement in the early sixties. Invading crusaders invariably were women. Here is the editorial hail and farewell of one Marietta paper to one such who held forth in the court house on the night of December 5, 1864:

Called "Brainless Creature"

"On Monday night, a brainless, senseless creature, clothed in female apparel (doubtless a female, though we could not vouch for that) delivered a ranting, roaring Women's Rights harangue at the Court House in this city. Our reporter having been absent, we are unable to give a synopsis of this piece of femme de nonsense; but we learn that she 'spread it on' pretty muchly! - asserting the right of females to take part in elections, fill public offices, and do all other things which men may of right do, and declaring it to be the height of man's ambition to chew tobacco, smoke cigars and drink whiskey."

Audience Unsympathetic

"We do not know that she announced herself in favor of doffing petticoats and donning breeches, but see no reason why she should not have done so. The audience was an unsympathizing one, and manifested disapprobation in various ways, doubtless thinking such dubious characters better qualified for pinning up three corners of a diaper than instructing them in the rights to which females are entitled.

"Of course the lecturer was affronted and left in high dudgeon, declaring that she 'had always heard Marietta was a selfish place.' May the good old city continue to be selfish!" 

 

Old Marietta Papers - Number 12

The Marietta Register, December 11, 1863

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register."

Advertisers in 1819:

A new firm in dry goods appears, Jan. 14 - Payne & Lawton. George N. Gilbert appears as Secretary of Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 37, Masons, at Waterford.

Feb. 19, Benjamin Corp offers for sale his two-story brick dwelling house on Fourth street, with ten city lots, four adjoining house and six on the opposite side of the street, for $2200, $500 in cash, the rest in yearly payments not to exceed six years, with interest. This is the house now [1863] occupied by Prof. E. B. Andrews. Think of that house and 10 lots in that quarter for $2200!

March 29, Michael Deterly, "anxious to leave Marietta," offered his house for sale, also six orchard lots on Butler street between Fifth and Sixth; his anxiety was not gratified, for he still lives on one of those lots.

May 21, 1819, Dr. John Cotton gave notice that he had removed from Harmar to Marietta, "to the dwelling house on the Plain, formerly occupied by Dr. J. B. Regnier" - the house now occupied by J. L. Stephens.

The Committee of Arrangements of the American Union Lodge No. 1, Masons for celebration of St. John's Day, June 24, 1819, consisted of Weston Thomas, James M. Booth, Samuel H. Gates, Robert Crawford, L. D. Barker.

July 19, Sampson Cole, "New Tavern," upper end of Ohio street, "known by the sign of the Gray Horse."

Items for the Year 1820:

July 4, 1820, celebration, Caleb Emerson, Esq., delivered the oration, which was published in the Friend of July 20.

John P. Mayberry was Receiver of Land Office in Marietta in Aug. 1820, since a well known citizen of Parkersburg.

Aug., 1820, Mr. Prentiss removed the Printing Office from Front street to Fifth street, just east of where the College now stands. The printing office in Marietta from its first establishment, Nov. 1801, to 1808, was on the Stockade; in the latter year it was removed to the Point.

Sunday morning, Oct. 8, 1820, the house of Caleb Emerson, Esq., on Front street, was destroyed by fire, together with most of the furniture, clothing and valuable papers.

Quadranou. In 1820 a bitter controversy sprung up between a writer in the Friend, who signed himself "Fair Play," and Caleb Emerson, who was then in the Town Council, on one part, and Benjamin Willard on the other part, in relation to the elevated square known as the "Quadranou." This square had been in the possession of D. Hartshorn, who sold it to Rev. Joseph Willard, a brother of Benjamin Willard. It was claimed on part of the Willards that they held it by "a regular conveyance, duly executed, acknowledged," &c. Hartshorn had sold the possession, and under this they began plowing down the ancient works therein. The Council leased the square to c. D. G. Bonny, and put him in possession, the plowing was stopped, and citizens went and repaired the ancient works. The Council claimed the square as a reservation granted to the town "for public works, or public buildings, and for the benefit of indigent orphan children," and published a caution against "trespassers." The Willards disputed the "legal and equitable title" of the town. Words ran high. The newspaper war was waged hotly from April 14th to July 28th, 3-1/2 months, when the editor closed it because it had become "so extremely personal." The "Friend" announced that the subject would be brought before the Court for decision. The town still continues in possession of the "Quadranou."

Election in 1820:

For Governor, the vote of Marietta stood Ethan A. Brown 144, Jeremiah Morrow, 108.

The county voted as follows:

For Governor - Ethan A. Brown, 510; Jeremiah Morrow, 442.

For Congress - Levi Barber, 642; Thomas Scott, 272; Henry Brush, 125.

Representative - Timothy Buell, 415; Alexander McConnell, 365; Joseph Barker, 358; William M. Dawes, 352; Ephraim Cutler, 342; Amzi Stanley, 197.

Commissioners - John B. Regnier, 611; John True, 408.

Sheriff - Silas Cook, 393; Harry Hill, 299; Jesse Loring, 170; Enoch Hoff, 156.

Coroner - John Merrill, 505; Samuel Nixon, 2__; Nicholas McDouglas, 106.

Col. Levi Barber of Harmar was elected to Congress in this (3d) district - Barber 3,188; Henry Brush of Chillicothe, 2,778; and Thomas Scott of Chillicothe, 2,473. Col. Barber had been elected in 1816; he was defeated by Henry Brush in 1818; and was now elected to his second and last term in Congress.

For the Legislature, Washington was now classed with Morgan. Capt. Timothy Buell of Washington, and Alexander McConnell of Morgan, were elected Representatives. Capt. Buell was Sheriff at the time of his election, which was successfully contested on that ground; and a special election was held on Dec. 20th to fill the vacancy, at which Capt. Buell was again elected, his term of Sheriff having then expired, beating Col. Joseph Barker 178 in Washington and 91 in Morgan.

Presidential Election:

Remarkable! The Presidential Election in 1820 took place in Ohio Nov. 3d, and no mention whatever is made in the "Friend" that any such thing as a Presidential Election was to take place, except to give a list of the names of the candidates for Electors, and after the electio not a single return was published in the paper, neither of Marietta, Washington County, the State of Ohio, or the Nation! It will be recollected that there was no opposition to the re-election of President Monroe, every electoral vote being given for him, except that William Plummer of New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams.

Marriages in 1820:

Jan. 13, Jacob Johnson and Anna Baker of Wooster (Watertown).

Jan. 26, William Alcock and Sally Posey.

Feb. 12, William Waterman and Abigail Sharp.

Feb. 26, Phinehas Beardsley and Mrs. Mary Ann Gevrez of Aurelius.

March, Cornelius Tinkham and Hetty Plumer.

March 26, Charles Sylvester and Rhoda Bodwell.

In Fearing, March 26, Daniel Viall and Mary Hildebrand.

March 2, Lewis Johnson of Salem, and Lucretia Warren of Union.

April 7, Christopher Warren and Maria Loge, and on the 9th, Joseph Murray and Nancy Nichols, all of Fearing.

April 11, Notley Drown and Polly Hook.

April 16, Caleb R. Harris and Candace Wells of Fearing.

April 20, Weston Thomas and Miss Maria McFarland.

April 19, in Salem, William Wharff and Deborah Clay.

Mary 4, in Fearing, Samuel Porter and Mary Palmer.

May 25, in Lawrence, Nathan Davis, Jr., and Eliza Dye.

May 31, Joseph Thompson and Margaret Reckard.

June 9, Tillinghast Cook of Wood Co., Va., and Betsey Russel of Washington Co., O.

July - James Mullen and Sarah Rowland of Newport.

July 25, Judge Ezekiel Deming and Mrs. Abigail Stanley.

Aug. 5, Junia Jennings and Hannah McCabe.

Aug. 10, in Adams, William McAtee and Mrs. Nancy Mason.

Sept. 23, Capt. Charles Bosworth and Betsey Wilson.

Oct. 26, Jason Humiston and Mrs. Margaret Shaw, both of Wooster (Watertown).

Oct 22, Elisha Davis and Mrs. Susanna Mason of Adams.

Nov. 18, Joseph G. Harris and Irene McAllister.

Nov. 19, Edwin Corner of McConnelsville and Rachel Howe of Marietta.

Nov. 30, in Warren, Levi L. Waterman of Charleston, Va., and Mary Ann Cutler.

Dec. 26, William W. McIntosh of Marietta and Mrs. Hannah Regnier of Aurelius.

Dec. 24, Oliver Rice Loring of Belpre and Miss Fanny Warren.

Deaths in 1820:

In Wesley, Feb. 12, Benjamin Danley, aged 22, son of John and Amy Danley.

In Fearing, Feb. 24, Jonathan Chapman, 72.

April 7, Joseph Irwin, 77.

May 10, Charles McKewen, 75.

June 3, Mary, daughter of Jonathan Cram, 12.

Sept. 6, the wife of Gen. Rufus Putnam, 83.

Sept. 30, in Belpre, Mrs. Rebecca Rouse, 70.

Sept. 25, in Virginia, opposite Marietta, Isaac Williams, in his 84th year; he lived there before Marietta was settled.

In Union, Nov. 23, William Lake, 22.

Advertisers in 1820:

Samuel Brown began a select school, Feb. 28, in "Buell's School House."

June 7, Joseph Morris & Co., Wool Carding, on Stockade.

Aug., John Stewart, Tanner, in Warren.

Mill Stones

Mill Stones, O' ye! the refiners of grain

Roll from my quarry again - and again,

Fashion'd by A. Wolf, of skillful pow'r

And certain to yield the best of flour.

Contrasted with which, Laurel Hill, Raccoon,

Shew vain as to phiz of man a baboon.

Situate 'tween Duck Creek and Muskingum;

From Marietta ten miles on New Year's Run.

Cheap - lasting - tenacious - flinty - whole;

None better t'insure the miller his toll.

Inquiries are answer'd (if free postage)

By me, your obsequious - Edward P. Page.

O what a bother to fumble for rhyme;

Hard, as mill-dam roar with music in chime.

Marietta, Feb. 11, 1820. 

Female Education

American Friend, December 7, 1821.

The Trustees of the Muskingum Academy in Marietta have the satisfaction to announce to the Publick that arrangements have been made for opening a school in one of the apartments of the Academy, in connection with the school of Mr. Slocomb, for the instruction of young Ladies and Misses in the solid and ornamental branches of female education; and that Miss Goldthwait, recently from New England, where she has been engaged a number of years in the education of young ladies, will take charge of the same.

The school was opened on Monday, the 3d inst. The quarterly tuition will be, for reading, writing, English grammer, arithmetick, geography, rhetorick and composition - $3.00.

For drawing, painting, embroidery, &c. (in addition), $5.00.

Arrangements have also been made for the accommodation of 8 or 10 young ladies with boarding near the Academy at $1.50 per week.

It is believed that the qualifications and experience of Miss Goldthwait are such as to ensure satisfaction to those parents who shall intrust their daughters to her care; and that the most scrupulous attention will be given to the manners and morals of her pupils.

Marietta, Dec. 1, 1821.

N.B. Scholars must be furnished with Cummings Geography and Atlas, Walker's Dictionary & Murray's Grammar. Those likewise who have Watts on the mind, Mason on self-knowledge, Young's night thoughts, Thompson's seasons, or Cowper's poems are requested to bring them.

The Printers in Zanesville are requested to give the above an insertion in their respective papers.

 

Old Marietta Papers - Number 11

The Marietta Register, December 4, 1863

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register." 

January 1, 1819, the Report of "The Society in Marietta for the Promotion of good Morals," appears in the Friend, signed by David Putnam, S. P. Hildreth and John Cotton. It relates principally to Sunday Schools. May 11, 1817, three Sunday Schools were opened, one under the Superintendence of William Slocomb at Buell's school room; one under Elisha Huntington at Muskingum Academy: and one under Dr. John Cotton at Point Harmar. In 1818, there were two Sunday Schools, one in Marietta, under charge of William Slocomb, and one at Harmar, under Mr. Judson. The committees reported that "the progress in the schools was such as to afford the highest satisfaction." The number of scholars in the two schools in 1818 was 208.

February 22, 1819, citizens met at house of Moses McFarland to form an Agricultural Society. Capt. Jonathan Devol, Chairman, Anselm T. Nye, Secretary. Adjourned to meet April 7, but we find no account of that meeting. The Society met Nov. 17 - Benjamin Ives Gilman elected President; S. P. Hildreth, Recording Secretary; Nahum Ward, Corresponding Secretary; David Putnam, Treasurer.

Spring election, 1819, Town Council elected, to wit: Caleb Emerson, John Merrill and Amzi Stanley; Town Clerk, Royal Prentiss; Treasurer, Sampson Cole; Assessor, D. H. Buell; Constables, Enoch Hoff, Notley Drown, John J. Preston; Police Officers, Griffin Greene, C. Sylvester, J. R. Curtis.

April 13, 1819, a steer, raised by William R. Browning, Esq., of Belpre, 5 years old, killed, and weighed - beef 1290; hide 114; rough tallow 192; total 1596.

May 6, 1819, Henry P. Wilcox, P. M., removed the Post Office to the corner of Market (Front) and Putnam streets.

July 4 (Monday, 5th), 1819, dinner at Major Hill's. We give two of the toasts: By A. Warner - "The members of the late Congress, who opposed the extension of slavery, may they be the Mordecais whom the sovereign people shall delight to honor." By William Slocomb (then a teacher - "The rising Fair, may they ever let virtue be the subject, propriety of conduct the attributes, and good reputation the object, neatness and modesty connective particles, and benevolence and charity inseparable adjuncts."

September 13, 1819, a public meeting was held at the Court House (old one) for ascertaining public opinion in reference to a new Court House - Hon. John Sharp of Lawrence, Chairman; James M. Booth, Secretary. The committee, R. J. Meigs, D. H. Buell and L. Barber, reported in favor of a Court House with fire-proof offices at corner of Second and Putnam streets. Report adopted and sent to the County Commissioners. The present [1863] Court House is the result of this preliminary movement, not built, however, until 1822.

Extraordinary Pumpkins. In the year 1818, George Dana of Belpre raised 35 pumpkins from one seed, weighing in the aggregate 1759 lbs. and 11 oz. The weight of each is published in the Friend of Jan. 8, 1819. The 11 largest weighted: 154, 140, 130, 110, 108, 96, 94, 93, 90, 88 and 84. The smallest weighted 3 lbs and 14 oz.

Election in 1819. For Senator, in Washington County, Sardine Stone 540; Levi Barber 346; William R. Putnam 27. But Athens gave Barber 513; Stone 222. Majority for Barber, in the district, 88. For Representatives, Ephraim Cutler of Washington, and Elijah Hatch were elected, each receiving a majority in both this and Athens counties. For Commissioner, Titan Kimble was re-elected - Kimble 506; William Skinner 136; John True 103.

Marriages in 1819:

February 16, Lincoln C. Shaw and Miss Royal Protsman.

February 13, John Pierce of Marietta and Polly Locey of Warren.

["At Warren, on the 13th inst. by Ephraim Cutler, Esq, Mr. John Pierce of Marietta, to Miss Polly Locey, of the former place." American Friend, 26 Feb 1819, p. 2, c. 4]

March 1, Pardon Cook, of Wood Co., Va. (now Rev. P. Cook of this city) and Polly Russell of Union.

March 11, Edwin Burlingame and Jane Evans.

March 25, John Taylor and Mary Kepple, both of Salem.

April 1, Uz Foster and Mary Riley.

April 15, Samuel B. Jones of Fearing and Desdemona Slaughter of Marietta.

June 8, Elijah Boyce of Pint Pleasant, Va., and Mary Stacy of Union.

August 8, William Talbot and Jemima Smith.

August 18, Amos Chesebro and Lydia Maxon.

October 10, William Humphreys and Lydia Crane.

October 27, William R. Browning of Belpre and Miss Sophia, daughter of Col. Joseph Barker of Union.

October 21, Willey Fowler of Fearing and Cynthia Perkins of Salem.

December 2, in Lawrence, Robert Pierce and Susan Dye.

December 21, Gen. Nathaniel S. Cushing of Gallipolis and Mrs. Susan Merwin of Marietta.

Deaths in 1819:

January 1, Joseph Lincoln, aged 19, "an amiable young man of fine promise."

February 4, Timothy Stanley, aged 47.

February 16, William Whitehouse, aged 23.

February 24, in Adams, Mrs. Mary Spooner, wife of Dr. Cyrus Spooner.

February 26, Mrs. Jane Taylor, widow of Col. Robert Taylor, in her 79th year.

March 5, 1819, (nearly three months after it occurred), the death of Maj. Haffield White in Wooster (Watertown) is announced; he died Dec. 15, 1818, aged about 80, and was one of the leading men at the first settlement of Marietta.

April 23, in Wooster (Watertown), Mrs. Hannah, wife of Ezekiel Deming, Esq., in her 40th year.

May 13, Silas Parker, a candidate for the Gospel Ministry, aged 25.

May 29, Commodore Abraham Whipple, aged 85; his wife died October before, at the age of 79.

June 28, Isaac Palmer, aged 42.

July 8, in Lawrence, Mrs. Sophia Hoff, aged 70.

August 14, Wade Cross, aged 41.

 

Lincoln Cottage

The Marietta Register, September 21, 1871

This is the name of the finest residence in Decatur Township, this county - the residence of William C. Smith.

It is a stone house, thirty-eight feet square, walls sixteen feet high, has under it a nice cellar; the walls of the house are of dressed and very firm sandstone that will stand the weather; it contains a front and a rear porch, upon which the hall in the center opens; has ten rooms, besides a clothes room; gable to the road; immediately over the front porch, cut in the stone, a large American Eagle, fully spread, holding in its talons two flags of the Union; and higher up, cut plainly in the stone, is the name "Lincoln Cottage, 1870."

The stone work is that of Mr. Smith himself, who never served to learn the trade, except he once worked with Daniel Drain of Dunham Township twenty-one days in laying up cellar walls. He is a mechanic and a workman, as is attested by this house, with its finely engraved eagle and flags - the skill of his own hands - although his business has always been that of a farmer, save the years of gallant service he spent in fighting rebels with his brother Joseph A. Smith in the 39th Ohio under Col. Noyes, now our Republican candidate for governor - when he "marched down to the sea" with Sherman.

Mr. Smith had to assist him in the stone work, four boys who knew nothing about the business, except as they picked it up under his own superintendence. The boys are honored by having their names cut on a stone in the front wall of the house - T. Stephens, S. S. Quinn, D. A. Newell, and S. Brooker. Lincoln Cottage, the American Eagle, and the Old Flag, all prove that Mr. Smith takes no "new departure" from his war record. Creditable all around.

 

Old Marietta Papers - Number 10

The Marietta Register, November 27, 1863

 

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register." 

Notes from "American Friend" for the years 1817 and 1818, as follows:

The taxes on "resident land" in Washington County in 1816 amounted to $4,348; only seven counties in the State exceeded this; the rank was Ross, Hamilton, Columbiana, Fairfield, Trumbull, Clermont, Muskingum, Washington.

Ezekiel Deming, John Sharp and Henry Jolly elected Associate Judges of this county by the Legislature, January 1817.

Feb. 14, 1817, it was stated that the Ohio river had been bridged with ice for 25 days, ice 19 inches thick, and loaded wagons, sleds, &c., crossing daily; "the oldest inhabitant cannot remember a winter as severe."

The name of "Charleston," Brooke County, Virginia (a few miles above Wheeling) was changed to Wellsburg at this date.

Feb. 1817, Valentine Labolt, "an old aggressor," was sentenced to the Penitentiary for seven years by our Court, as the Friend says, for "having a natural propensity to steal cloth," an offense for which "he received a public whipping" a few years before.

March 27, 1817, the Bank of Marietta (two years after the war of 1812 had closed) resumed specie payment.

Spring Election, 1817 - Town Council, James Sharp, Samuel Hoit, Robert Williamson. Treasurer, Joseph Holden. Assessors, Daniel H. Buell, James M. Booth, Constables, Enoch Hoff, Sampson Cole, Isaac Rice. Justices of the Peace, James M. Booth, Anaximander Warner.

Adolphus Wing "hung out his shingle" in Marietta as an Attorney at Law, August 1817. He went from here to Michigan, we believe.

Sept. 9, 1817, John Lane was hung at Gallipolis for the murder of William Dowell.

In the fall of 1817, notice was publicly given that a petition would be presented to the next Legislature, praying for the removal of the County Seat from Marietta to Waterford; and a public meeting was called to meet December 3d at Major Alexander Hill's tavern on Greene Street to remonstrate against it. The movement, we presume, was not very formidable. Washington County then extended further north than at present; Morgan was formed the next winter.

Wednesday, February 4, 1818, it had snowed constantly for 30 hours, and the snow here was two feet deep on a level. On Monday, 9th, the mercury was 20 degrees below zero, and on Tuesday, 10th, 22 degrees below - heavy fog on both mornings.

May 14, 1818, "a number of the citizens of Marietta and townships adjoining, as a mark of their esteem for Col. Levi Barber, also of their approbation of his official conduct in the late session of Congress, gave him a public dinner" - "elegant repast," prepared by Major Alexander Hill. Joseph Wood presided, assisted by Ephraim Cutler. Among the volunteer toasts were those given by Ex-Gov. Meigs, Hon. John Sharp, D. H. Buell, James M. Booth, D. Woodbridge, Jr., Alexander Henderson, Dr. Hildreth, and Col. Barber himself toasted Henry Clay.

June 4, 1818, William C. Amlin was drowned in Duck Creek at the mouth of Reed's Run, while bathing, aged 20 - a son of James Amlin of Fearing.

In Belpre, July 1, 1818, John Rouse, aged 77, was found lying dead in a pool of water where he had been watering a horse, supposed to have fainted and fell in. He came from New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1789.

Nov. 5, 1818, annual meeting of the Medical Society, 3d District of Ohio, was held in Marietta; the following persons were licensed to practice medicine: Giles S. B. Hempstead (long in practice at Portsmouth, now retired at Hanging Rock), Ebenezer Bowen, Charles Ulmer, Alexander McMillan.

Nov. 1818, Henry P. Wilcox (son of Gen. Joseph Wilcox, then lately deceased) was appointed Postmaster of Marietta in place of Samuel Hoit, resigned.

Dec. 11, 1818, William McCracken was drowned in the Ohio near McFarland's landing.

Election in 1817 - Sardine Stone of Union Township was elected to the State Senate from Washington and Athens, receiving 612 votes in this county, without opposition. Nathaniel Hamilton of this county, and Sylvanus Ames of Athens, were elected to the House. The other candidates voted for were Major Alexander Hill and Giles Hempstead. Dr. J. B. Regnier was elected Commissioner, receiving 333 votes to 310 for Daniel Goodno.

Election in 1818 - Washington voted for Governor James Dunlap 627; Ethan A. Brown 262. The vote of Marietta was Dunlap 180; Brown 27. This county did not vote with the State, in which Brown received 30,194; Dunlap, 8,075.

For Representative in Congress, this county gave Col. Levi Barber (for re-election) 621; Gen. E. W. Tupper of Gallipolis, 213; Henry Brush of Chillicothe, 26. The District elected Brush, 2727; Barber, 1808; Tupper, 1954.

Col. Joseph Barker of Washington, and Sylvanus Ames of Athens, were elected to the Legislature. In this county Barker received 512; Ames 320; Amzi Stanley, 453; John Patterson, 99. Daniel Goodno was elected Commissioner; Timothy Buell, Sheriff; and Silas Cook, Coroner.

Marriages in 1817:

Jan. 2, in Adams, Joshua Sprague and Miss Phebe Brown.

Jan. 10, William Brewster of Warren and Lucretia Fuller of Marietta.

Jan. 30, Louis Soyez and Miss Ann Protsman.

March 27, Zephaniah Bosworth and Lucy Burlingame.

March 30, in Union, John Leonard and Elizabeth Hall.

April 12, Richard Thorla and Cammilla McAllister.

April 23, Dr. Cyrus Spooner of Adams and Mary Wing of Marietta.

April 27, Elisha Rose of Lawrence and Rebecca Cook of Fearing.

April 30, Salmon D. Buell of Adams and Miss Eliza Buell, daughter of Capt. Timothy Buell, of Marietta (parents of Maj. Gen. D. C. Buell).

May 11, Joseph Barker, Jr., of Newport and Melissa W. Stone of Belpre.

May 31, James Reed and Mary Noble, both of Salem.

July 2, Isaac Monkton of Wooster (Watertown) and Rebecca Haskell of Marietta.

July 23, Presley Petty and Margaret Nixon, both of Lawrence.

July 30, Joseph Geren and Nancy Hill.

Aug. 2, Aaron Fuller and Mary Irwin.

Aug. 5, Robert Williams and Mrs. Mary Needham.

Aug. 3, in Waterford, Dr. Nathaniel Fuller and Celestina Scott.

Sept. 10, David Gosset and Sarah Riley.

Sept. 16, Henry Hildreth and Abigail Haven.

Monday evening, Oct. 20, Nahum Ward and Miss Sarah C. Skinner.

Oct. 31, John Shepard and Lucy Burch, both of Adams.

Nov. 23, Capt. Joseph Cook of Wood County, Va., and Mrs. Rhoda Cook of Belpre.

Nov. 25, in Adams, Alexander Allison and Nancy Seifert.

Dec. 4, Jedediah Fuller and Nancy Nesmith.

Dec. 9, in Newport, Charles Little and Mary Frazer.

Marriages in 1818:

Jan. 4, William H. Buell and Lavinia Rogers.

Feb. 12, Judah M. Chamberlain and Rhoda McIntosh.

May 23, Thompson Gates and Sarah Gold.

June 4, Dr. Burr Bradley of Salem, Indiana, and Esther W. Plumer of Marietta.

June 28, John Gates, Jr., and Clarissa Crane.

July 2, in Salem, Milton Pixley and Anna Perkins.

Aug. 13, in Salem, James Hill and Phebe Hussey, also Norman Payne and Lydia Hussey.

Aug. 18, William McNeil and Susanna Corwin.

Oct. 6, in Union, Thomas Jenkins and Mary Dyar.

Oct. 25, Dr. Erastus Webb of Circleville and Miss Eliza Cook of Belpre.

Nov. 22, in Salem, William Porter and Mary Sutton.

Deaths in 1817:

Jan. 18, Gen. Joseph Wilcox in his 61st year (the publication of his death last week was erroneous).

April 1, in Harmar, Paul Fearing, Jr., in his 17th year.

April 20, Capt. Nathaniel Smith, aged 25.

June 1, Noah Needham, formerly of the State of Delaware.

July 7, in Waterford, Eli G. Cogswell, buried with Masonic honors.

Aug. 26, Oliver Dodge, aged 53, buried with Masonic honors in Adams.

Aug. 26, in Harmar, James Nichols.

Sept. 6, in Harmar, James Purington.

Oct. 3, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Jonathan Guitteau, aged 31.

Oct. 5, at Louisville, James C. McFarland, Esq., of Marietta.

Oct. 6, in Chillicothe, Mrs. Lucy, wife of Dudley Woodbridge, Sen.

Oct. 21, in Fearing, Simeon Tuttle.

Oct. 29, in Belpre, Dea. Benjamin Miles.

Nov. 16, in Zanesville, Elijah B. Merwin, Atty. at Law.

Dec. 4, Phillip Worthington, aged 67.

Deaths in 1818:

May 20, Mrs. Mary Hartshorn, aged 28.

June 14, Mrs. Sarah Thorniley, at Philadelphia, aged 54 (daughter of Col. Israel Putnam and sister of the late David Putnam).

July 20, Mrs. Lucy Putnam, widow of Maj. Ezra Putnam, aged 89.

July 31, in Harmar, James Sharp, Esq., aged 51.

Aug. 7, in Roxbury, Catharine, wife of Luke Emerson, aged 27.

Oct. 14, Mrs. Sarah, wife of Commodore Abraham Whipple, aged 79.

Advertisers in 1817:

Nathaniel Clark accepts a challenge of Alexander Mitchell of Short Creek, Virginia, published in St. Clairsville papers, to run his horse "Plough Boy" against Mitchell's horse "Defiance," for $500 or $1,000, four miles, provided Mitchell would come to Marietta to run.

May 22d - "Humbert, Miraben & Co, Watchmakers, lately arrived from Paris, respectfully inform the public," &c.

June 11 - "Dry Goods, Fancy and Millinery Store. Mrs. St. Aubin is opening," &c., at "corner of Water and Main streets." This was on the corner of what is now known as Front Street, next to the Ohio, now occupied by store houses built subsequently and owned by W. L. Rolston.

July 17 - "New Store, Dry Goods, upper end of Ohio Street," Wyllys Hall.

July 30 - New Saddlery, Alfred R. Beebe & Co, Marietta.

July 31 - New Store, Nathaniel Dodge, Jr., "on the upper Point, lately occupied by Skinner & Chambers."

Sept. 25 - New Goods, John Mills & Co.

Oct. 16 - William Slocomb (then a teacher, we believe) advertises Cummings' Geographies for sale. Archibald Rollow, blacksmith.

Oct. 23 - Dr. De St. Ledger, Parkersburg, will also practice in Belpre.

Advertisers in 1818:

January - Capt. Daniel Greene and Sidney Dodge formed partnership in trade - Greene & Dodge. 

Oct. 15 - David B. Anderson, Watch Repairer and Jeweller. "Farmers' Duck Creek Bridge" was then in use, Samuel H. Gates, Sec'y. Elisha Huntington was teaching in the "Muskingum Academy," and Secretary of the Marietta "Moral Society," a society kept up for some years for the promotion of good morals. A Mr. Holyoke opened a singing school in the Muskingum Academy. 

John Sharp, Esq., of Lawrence, Nov. 13, 1818, gives notice that he had obtained Pension Certificates for the following Revolutionary soldiers: Jerry Burham, Oliver Rice, Asher Allen, James Knowles, Godfrey Shreve, Joseph F. Trible.

Ancient Bones

The Marietta Intelligencer, November 16, 1859

Workmen in excavating a location for a cistern at Skinner, Rolston & Co.'s Tannery, after passing down through six feet of sandy loam and through three feet of conglomerate rock, so hard as to require blasting, found under the conglomerate, a cavity about a foot in depth, and in the earth below this cavity, a human skeleton and the bones of animals. The bones were very old and crumbling. The skull of the skeleton, the most precious part to the ethnologist, was broken to pieces by a blow of a pick. A part of the upper jaw contained teeth, which were very much worn. They have doubtless seen much service and, consequently, the owner, many years.

It is somewhat difficult to account for the location of the bones. The conglomerate and accompanying sand appear to be a part of the original strata of the stockade terrace and if so are, in the estimation of geologists, older than the human race. It is probable, however, that water once flowed down a small ravine near the spot and excavated a hole under the hardened conglomerate stratum, and the bones were carried there by animals, or drifted under the shelving rock, and afterwards the earth was deposited over the whole. The opening where the bones were found is near the edge of the plain, about six hundred feet from the present bank of the Muskingum River, and about fifteen to twenty feet below the general level of the plain. The bones are in possession of Dr. Hildreth.

If Nott, the author of "Types of Mankind," were to see these bones he would give them as another example of a Pre-Adamic man, and in our opinion, make another great mistake.