From The History of Clark County, Ohio
Chicago: W.H. Beers & Co., 1881 - Page 423

By Oscar T. Martin

"Where peered the hut, the palace towers.
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Joy gaily carols where was silence rude,
And cultured thousands throng the solitude."

We are acquainted with no history which approaches to our notion of what a history ought to be; with no history which does not widely depart either on the right hand or the left from the exact line. — Lord Macauley.

• The City of Springfield
• "La Ohonda"
• The First Settlement
• James Demint, the Founder of Springfield
• Beauty of Location
• First Commercial Enterprise
• The Character of Demint
• Griffith Foos' Arrival
• Picnic to Yellow Springs
• Improvements, Mills, Etc.
• Dayton and Springfield Road
• The City in 1804
• Early Settlers of Springfield
  • Robert Rennick
  • Jonah Baldwin
  • Walter Smallwood
  • Rev. Saul Henkle
  • John Ambler
  • Cooper Ludlow
  • Pearson Spinning
  • Granny Icenbarger
  • Joel Walker
  • Little Daddy Vicory
  • James Wallace
  • Dr. Needham
  • Elijah Beardsley
  • Maddox Fisher
  • James Johnson
  • Maj. Christie
• Steady Growth of the Village
• The First School
• First Church Building
• A Seat of Justice
• Treaty With the Indians
• The First Brick House
• Additional Church Edifices
• Volunteers for Harrison
• Smith's Academy
• Springfield as a County Seat
• "Old Virginia" and "Sleepy Hollow"
• A Relic of the Mound Builders
• A Temperance Organization
• Werden's Tavern
• The First Census
• Bible Societies
• Public Buildings
• Lighting the Streets
• Springfield A Town
• The Paper-Mill
• The First Mayor
• A Daily Mail
• Societies
• The Market House
• A Visit from Henry Clay
• The First Book Store — Nichols
• The Cholera
• Fire
• Political Excitement
• Springfield A City
• Manufacturing Interests
• Celebration of the Laying of the Atlantic Cable
• Springfield in the War
• Assassination of Lincoln
• Reception to Returned Soldiers
• Return of Peace
• Unprecedented Commercial Activity
• The Hard Times
• The Woman's Crusade
• The Centennial Celebration
• Mill Run Improvement
• The Fine Arts
• Frankenstein Family
• S. Jerome Uhl
• Present Prospects

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