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Title: A standard history of the Hanging Rock iron region of Ohio; an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of the industrial and commercial development
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Willard, Eugene B., 1842- ed Williams, Daniel Webster, 1862- joint ed Newman, George Ott, 1836- joint ed Taylor, Charles Boardman 1846- joint ed
Subjects: Iron industry and trade
Publisher: (Chicago?) The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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hewar to resist the draft, but almost the memory of such an organizationhas been forgotten. Two or three divisions of boy scouts were organizedabout 1910, but they have been disbanded, with one exception. Thegrowing order in the county now is the Grange, and in a few years itwill be undoubtedly the strpngps! in the county, although there was atime when it was frowned upon by the political leaders. There are nowsome thirteen granges in the county. V..I. I 3D I ■ 562 HANGING HOCK IRON REGIONMaterial Development Since the 80s The rapid development of the Jackson County coal field during the80s brought flush limes which culminated about 1892. There was ahealthy growth in Jackson. The Commercial Bank, the third institu-tion of the kind, was established, an index of the towns prosperity. Thelarge new church of the Methodist Episcopal denomination was startedthe same year, and in that period there were many business houseserected, and many fine resiliences built. But the growth in the coal
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Ohio Street Looking South, Wellston field from Jackson to Wellston was on a much larger scale, until Wellstonpassed the county seat in the matter of population. Then Came thehard times of l<S!):i to 1896, but Harvey Wells was untiring, and even inthat period lie secured the extension of the I locking Valley throughWellston to Jackson. Although not so intended this resulted in theend in giving the advantage of position to Jackson, for it was theterminus of the extension. Thus Wells last act helped to arrest thegrowth of the town which he bad founded, lie diet! not long after-ward. About the same time there was a man in Jackson, Hon. EdwinJones, who became its Wells, and gathering together a band of businessmen, wonders were accomplished for the county seat. A foundry wasbrought from Marietta and the foundations laid for the Crown Pipe &Foundry Co. Smaller industries, including a woolen mill, a glass fac-tory, a shoe finishing branch, and, greatest of all, the shops of the 1). T.

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