EARLY SETTLERS

 

Soon after these first settlers came William Carr and his wife Eliza J., Thomas L. Drumm and his wife, Martha.

Then there were the Mielman, Dalton and Hill families. Members of the latter family finally settled Hillsdale in the northeastern part of the county.

Benjamin Goble and John A, Boyer and wife were among the pioneers as were William Dickson, who afterwards removed to Milan

Marck C. Wilson, who was one of the early Baptist ministers.

Other early settlers were: Adolph Dunlap, George M. Luken, both of whom married into the Carr family, Thomas Dougherty, John Gallagher, Thomas Campbell, who now (1913) represents this district in the State Legislature, came in the early forties.

James Fitzpatrick, Joseph Ballinger. Jacob Bruchmann. Roswell Richmond David B. Sears J. C. Young, J.W. Graham, Phillip Dingledein, the Scherers. William Sanderson, Charles Dibbern, Patrick Gannon and Michael McCarty.

 

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