12/16/2023 0 Comments Perry township ohio franklin countyOver twenty years ago, while on terms of intimacy and daily intercourse with some of the very first settlers, he compiled a small pamphlet entitled "Franklin County Register," a few copies of which were printed and which may be considered as the basis of this work. It is but a little over sixty years since the first settlement was commenced - more than two-thirds of that time the writer has been a resident of the county. For this purpose, he has relied upon public records and documents, where they could be obtained and in all other cases, upon the best information that could be derived from early and intelligent settlers of the city and county, aided by his own personal knowledge. It has been the writer's object in this compilation, to give a correct statement of all events worthy of remembrance, with their proper dates, so as to form a book of ready reference, such as will be convenient and interesting to all residents of the county. How else are the names and memory of our early settlers and friends to be preserved? And who is there that would not be pleased to look back, or to have his children look back, upon some record of his early days, and of departed friends? And how else should strangers, settling among us, so readily obtain a knowledge of our institutions and public characters, as by some such local publication? To write the history of a single county, may to some appear like a very small business while to others it is considered very desirable that some one should do so in every county. ![]() ![]() It is the design of this Work to preserve for the people of Franklin County an imperishable record of its early history - now existing only in the memory of the more aged settlers, and in scattering and detached papers and records, which are every year wasting away.
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