The Marietta Register, June 24, 1864
"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register."
To go back to the first newspaper ever published in Marietta, the "Ohio Gazette and Virginia herald," by Wyllys Silliman, an article we have just discovered, written by the late Caleb Emerson in 1839, says that he then had in his possession an imperfect paper of the first number issued - on December 7, 1801. The earliest number in possession of the Register Office bears the date Oct. 24, 1803, and is No. 97.
In the opening address of the first number - according to an extract in Mr. Emerson's article - the editor apologizes for adding "Virginia Herald" to the title previously fixed upon, "Ohio Gazette." "He might rest this apology," he says, "upon the generous and extensive patronage he has received from the inhabitants of the western part of Virginia"; but he wishes to place it upon a broader ground and he goes on as follows:
"He is, indeed, proud in having this opportunity, at this time, and by this measure, to give to his Fellow-Citizens on both sides of the Ohio a pledge of his equal regard and an example of that liberality of sentiment, which is not only so decorous in private character, but which forms so important a pillar in the fabric of social and political happiness.
Breathing the same air - having the same wants - being capable of the same pleasures - talking the same language - living under the same national government, what is there to limit or divide our affections? - A river! - A river whose kindred branches we inhabit - whose current, mild and unbroken, though composed of a thousand tributary streams, affords us an impressive lesson of unity and peace.
Surely this country ought to become one of the happiest under Heaven! Blessed with a friendly climate - a rich and diversified soil - a rapidly increasing population - and separated on all sides from the rest of the world by lakes and mountains, we form a world of our own, which can be ruined only by our own follies - shall we admit, that of all the most fatal, a spirit of discord.
At present we enjoy the protection of a Government recognizing an equality of rights and having liberty for its basis; may it be perpetual! but may we never forget that the best guarantors of our freedom will ultimately be found in the justness of our principles and the harmony of our feelings!"
The only thing that has ever created anything of a "spirit of discord" between those residing upon this or that side of the "river whose kindred branches we inhabit," is Slavery. Our neighbors over the river have now put that out of the way, and hereafter it will be a reign of "unity and peace."
Jan. 9, 1840, "George Benedict, Dealer in Groceries and Provisions at the Upper Landing on Ohio Street" first appears in an advertisement. Mr. Benedict is still "at it," now on Front Street, although he took a vacation from that business for some years, in the way of steamboating and banking.
Jan. 23, 1840, the Intelligencer notices a Durham calf raised by Judge Joseph Barker of Newport, which was eight months old and weighed 630 lbs.; also a potato raised on the farm of William R. Putnam, Jr., which weighed 3-1/3 lbs.
Franks and Hendrie advertise that they had bought the extensive iron foundry - "Washing Foundry" - of Nye & Cram and would carry it on.
Feb. 20, 1840, Edgerton & Woodbridge (Luther Edgerton and George M. Woodbridge) advertise the close of their business; and Woodbridge & Barber (George M. Woodbridge and Levi Barber) continued the store at the same stand.
March 2, 1840, the County Commissioners formed the township of Jolly from the north part of Grandview. On the formation of Noble County in 1850, a portion of the township was attached to Monroe County and subsequently the remainder of the township was again attached to Grandview.
About this date, J. P. Wightman leased the Mansion House from John Lewis.
March 28, 1840, Robert Hurdsman and a Mr. Yates were drowned at Beverly while attempting to cross the Muskingum in a skiff. Mrs. Yates was in the skiff, but retained her hold on it after it passed over the dam, and was rescued.
April 26, 1840, Thomas Fleming was drowned while passing over Chambers' dam on the Little Muskingum.
May 7, 1840, F. B. Loomis first advertised his store in Marietta.
May 19, 1840, John Miner, a son of Henry Miner, was drowned in the Little Muskingum, about a mile Corner's mill.
June 1, 1840, the County Commissioners formed Independence Township.
July 1, 1840, J. Moorehead opened an office as attorney at Law in the Court House.
July 14, 1840, "George H. Wells, recently from the city of New York," announced that he had established himself in the Hardware business on Front Street. Mr. Wells is still here, in the grocery business. This was the foundation of the present house of Bosworth, Wells & Co.
July 28, 1840, Rev. Thomas Wickes, from Troy, N. Y., was installed as Pastor of the Congregational Church in Marietta. Opening prayer by Rev. L. G. Bingham, former pastor; sermon by Rev. Dr. Linsley, then President of Marietta College; installation prayers by Rev. M. DeWitt; charge to the pastor by Rev. Francis Bartlett; right hand of fellowship by Rev. Dr. D. H. Allen, then Professor in Marietta College; charge to the people by Rev. L. G. Bingham; concluding prayer by Rev. B. Roberts; benediction by the pastor. Mr. Wickes is still the pastor of that church.
Aug. 4, 1840, the "Mail Line and "Opposition" stages, while racing, came into collision while ascending March Run Hill, six miles above Marietta, as they were coming down from Zanesville. The opposition stage was thrown off the bank, with nine passengers, several of them injured, a Mr. Peck from New York very seriously.
Aug. 28, 1840, Squire A. Null fell, with a scaffold, sixteen feet to the ground while at work on the house of Vincent Payne in Marietta, and was so severely injured that he died on the next Monday, aged 24.
Sept. 11, 1840, a shocking fight occurred at Beverly between workmen on the Lock and the Creekites, as they were called, between whom ill feeling had existed for some time. Clubs, stones, brickbats, knives, etc., were freely used, and the fight did not terminate until five or six persons were seriously injured, one dangerously. Gov. Shannon, Dem., was speaking there at the time, but the fight did not arise from politics, and was not at the meeting.
Returning from Beverly, a horse and wagon drive by a German named Kneille of Marietta was precipitated from the bank near Coal Run, and Mr. Kneille was instantly killed and his wife very much injured. There had been some racing and the horse was frightened.
Oct. 30, 1840, in carelessly loading a cannon at the foot of Front Street, it burst and so seriously injured a German that he died the next Tuesday.
Marriages in 1840:
Feb. 13, Stephen Smith of Marietta and Sarah J. Marshall of Harmar.
March 8, George W. Lane of Aurora, Indiana, and Sally Maria Buell of Marietta.
March 9th, Matthew Beswick and Lydia Smith, both of Harmar.
March 17th, Conrad Cline of Virginia and Mary Ann Crawford of this county.
March 18th, John Thornily and Jane Temple.
March 19th, William Whittock and Nancy Patton, both of Fleming.
April 19, Ethan Allen of Marietta and Patience Dye of Lawrence.
April 21st, in Newport, Bartlett Jackson and Amanda M. Bell.
April 29th, William Wallace Dodge and Harriet H. Holden.
May 5, William Alcock and Polly White.
May 10th, William Slocomb and Siba H. Buell.
May 20th, Noah L. Wilson and Kezia R. Waters of Columbus.
May 21st, Leonard Scott and Rebecca Briggs of Westchester County, New York.
May 30th, Jacob Moats and Elizabeth Young of Salem.
June 11, David McKibben and Eliza Ann Crea.
June 25th, in Newport, Ira Hill 3d and Desdemona Lackey.
July 1, Nathan Udell and Eliza Payne of Salem.
July 1, in Belpre, Asa D. Newell and Eleanor Shettlesworth.
July 23d, Wyllys Hall Jr. and Emma Sullivan.
Aug.12, Peter Wilkins of Harmar and Anna Otten of Fearing.
Aug. 18th, Joshua Ripley and Cynthia F. Rouse, both of Belpre.
Sept. 1, in Fearing, Thomas Lankford and Hannah Hill.
Sept. 16th, George Putnam and Susan A. Westcott.
Sept. 23d, Milton Ellenwood and Sophronia S. Needham, both of Warren.
Sept. 24th, Solomon Athey and Lucinda N. Hill, both of Fearing.
Sept. 24th, Rufus Payne of Salem and Mrs. Elizabeth Gay of Guernsey County [in Guernsey County].
Sept. 30th, John Floyd of Woodsfield and Nancy Harper of Marietta.
Oct. 1, Francis Vinton and Harriet W. Fox, both of Waterford.
Oct. 18th, Jacob Wood of Marietta and Marinda Longfellow of Aurelius.
Oct. 21st, Z. B. Ballard of Decatur and Mary Ann Cole of Warren.
Oct. 23rd, Hiram Martin of Watertown and Caroline Woodruff of Barlow.
Nov. 8, Joseph Caywood 2d and Elizabeth Reed, both of Lawrence.
Nov. 24th, William P. Cole of Warren and Louisa Shields of Watertown.
Dec. 17, Henry Coomes and Polly A. Vaughn.
Dec. 17th, Joseph Morris and Elizabeth Herrington, both of Harmar.
Deaths in 1840:
Jan. 3, in Warren, Catharine, daughter of Lewis W. and Susan Reppert, aged three years.
March 8, in Cincinnati, Mrs. Sarah S. Bingham, wife of Rev. Luther Bingham, former pastor of the Congregational Church in Marietta.
March 19th, Clarinda, daughter of Nathaniel Bishop, 22.
April 22, in Marietta, Samuel Weston, in his 25th year.
May 9, in Union, Eliza Dickey in her 26th year.
May 10th, in Harmar, Mrs. Susannah Burlingame, wife of Christopher Burlingame and daughter of Gen. Rufus Putnam, 74.
May 11th, Mrs. Eliza, wife of Charles Sullivan, in her 39th year.
May 12th, in Lawrence, Mrs. Hannah Caywood, wife of Joseph Caywood and daughter of Samuel Dye, Esq.
May 21st, Harriet Tharp, wife of Silas Tharp of Harmar, 29.
May 26th, in Michigan, Mrs. Josephine N. Rice, daughter of J. Gabaudan of Marietta.
June 28, Mrs. Sally Booth, wife of James M. Booth, Esq., in her 51st year.
July 5th, in Harmar, Elizabeth Spencer Stone, wife of Augustus I. Stone, 24.
July 5th, in Waterford, Elizabeth McDonald, wife of Thomas McDonald, 56.
July 26th, in Clermont County, Daniel D. Morris, formerly of Marietta.
Aug. 16, in Roxbury, Elias Pewthers, Esq., 37.
Sept 11, in Choctaw Nation, Edward H. Byington, son of Rev. Cyrus Byington, in his 12th year.
Nov. 12, in Waterford, David White, 74.
Nov 27th, Col. Ichabod Nye, in his 78th year, a native of Tolland, Conn.; his family, with that of Gen. Benjamin Tupper, who was his father-in-law, and those of Col. Cushing, Maj. Goodale and Maj. Coburn, landed at Marietta, Aug. 19, 1788, the first families that arrived here.
Dec. 6, Lucius S. Palmer, 22.
Dec. 14th, William Skinner, Esq., 71.
Dec. 17th, Mrs. Sarah H. Andrews, wife of I. W. Andrews.
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