nary address commemorative of the history of Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, and during his address suggested that the church and congregation organize an academy, and "raise an Ebenezer to the Lord for His goodness to them in the past." His suggestion was warmly seconded by Revs. M. A. Sackett and C. P. Taylor, who were present at the time. Mr. Stearns asked permission to devote two weeks to the work of raising the necessary funds to make the academy a success, and if not able to secure the means required within that time, he would abandon the project. A board of trustees was appointed and work immediately commenced on a twostory brick building, 34 by 40 feet in dimensions. The building was not completed as soon as was expected, and the school was first opened in the church, which was thus used for about a month, at which time the academy building was completed and the school was transferred to its permanent home. Soon after its inception the subscribers unanimously offered the control of the academy to the Columbus Presbytery, who accepted of the offering and made. the institution their presbyterial academy.

The first teacher was Rev. James Stirrett, who was assisted in the female department by Miss Rose Ann Porter. The school remained in charge of Mr. Stirrett most of the time until 1858 to 1859, when he died. He was absent several years previous to 1853, and during his absence Rev. Timothy Stearns was in charge of the school a portion of the time, and a portion of the time Rev. Mr. Sackett was the instructor. Mr. Stirrett returned some time about 1857, and bought the academy from the Presbytery, designing to make it a private school, but his death occurred before his plans were perfected.

After the death of Mr. Stirrett, the school was for a time under the control of Mr. Colemary and Mr. Killen, and again under Mr. Thorn and his wife, and Mr. Haywood. Rev. George Carpenter, pastor of the church at Kingston, was also its principal for a time. The property was owned by Daniel Entrekin after the death of Mr. Stirrett, and by him the use of the building was given to the school for several years. He sold it to James and John May, who owned it for several years, and then sold it to the school district, in 1867, for use as a village school.

In its palmiest days the academy numbered some eighty scholars, and was in a prosperous condition. From the death of Mr. Stirrett dates its decline as a school.

SECOND GENERATION OF TOWNSHIP PIONEERS

George, William, and Matthew Ritchie, brothers of James, located in Green Township in 1805. William settled some two miles

south of Kingston, and kept tavern many years. His sign was a white swan.

George Ritchie also kept tavern on the old Chillicothe road, some three miles below Kingston. For a sign he had a large painting of a bear. The other brother, Matthew, lived on section 8. He sold to George, who owned 900 acres of land in the township.

The family of Famulinger settled east of Kingston in 1804 or 1805. There was a large family of them, and a part settled over the line in Pickaway County, where some of their descendants now live. Still others reside in the West.

Major Lingrell arrived in 1805 and settled two and one-half miles west of Kingston, near the south line of Pickaway County. He afterward moved to Marion County, where he died. His son, Thomas, then a young man, served fifteen months in the War of 1812, and participated in the battles of Fort Erie and at Black Rock, near Buffalo. During his life he made six trips to New Orleans as a flatboatman. He was married in 1834 and settled in Green Township.

Harmon DeHaven came from Columbia County, Pennsylvania, to Green Township, in 1805, with his family, consisting of wife and two children. He settled a mile east of Kingston, making a purchase of eighty acres of land, a part of which he cleared. He was by trade a cabinet-maker, and was the first to exercise his calling in the township, working at his trade until 1820. In that year he died, leaving a wife and six children, the two eldest, twin girls, sixteen years of age. After the death of Mr. DeHaven the work of improving the farm devolved upon Charles and Jacob, the eldest boys, both of whom remained upon the place until about 1840, when they sold it. Jacob moved to Illinois, where he died in 1846. Charles became a resident of Kingston. Harmon DeHaven, the father, was a very ingenious man, and, at the time of his death, had perfected a model for a fanning-mill, which he purposed carrying to Washington in order to obtain a patent upon his invention. His wife died in 1863, aged 81 years.

Daniel Walters and his family, consisting of his wife and four children, came from Pennsylvania in the same wagon with the family of Harmon DeHaven, and settled on the adjoining lot of 100 acres, which he improved and sold, after which he moved with his family to the north part of the state, where he died. He was by trade a shoemaker, and worked at the business in his house as long as he resided in Ross County.

John and Joseph Stroup came to the township in 1807, and made homes a mile and a half south of Kingston. Joseph was a bricklayer, and the first one of that trade to locate in the neighborhood.

Samuel Wallace settled in Chillicothe in 1807, and remained there until 1818, when he married Sarah, daughter of Dr. Edward

Ostrander, and settled on the school land in the south part of Green Township where, in company with John Wilson, he opened a tan-yard which they kept in operation seven years. He then bought the McCarthy farm, where he remained several years. He died in Kingston, and his widow married Capt. George Wolf, of Pickaway County.

Frederick Pontius and family came from Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, and settled on section 11, Green Township, about 1806, where he made a home and died in 1823. He had a family of twelve children, several of whom died in the township, leaving children. Two sons and several daughters married and settled in Franklin County, where their descendants now reside.

Isaac Green, from Pennsylvania, settled in Green Township in 1808 with no family besides his wife. He first located on land belonging to Gov. Thomas Worthington on Kinnikinnick Creek, where he remained several years. He then purchased 160 acres of land in section 5, on the Scioto River, where he made a home and passed the remainder of his life. His children were eight in number.

Michael Seniff came from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1808, remaining in Pickaway County for a time, and thence moved to Chillicothe, where he worked at blacksmithing a number of years. He then bought a farm in the south part of Green Township, which he afterwards sold to Robert Oliver. He then bought one-half of section 23, from which he sold 100 acres to Mr. Hickle soon after purchasing it. The remainder of the land he retained, and there he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1845. He had a family of fourteen children, ten of whom grew to maturity.

John Holman, Sr., settled in Ross County in 1808. After locating, he spent several years in a tannery at Adelphi, where he learned the business, after which he returned to his old home in Pennsylvania for a visit. Returning to Green Township, he married Christine Eyestone in 1814, and located on land given her by her father, Abraham Eyestone, who established Mr. Holman in a tannery the same year. This business he continued until the marriage of his son Abraham, who then succeeded him in the business.

In 1810 David Umsted, Sr., from Frederick County, Maryland, came to Ross County with his family, consisting of wife and three children, and settled in the southwest part of Green Township, on property later owned by Addison Umsted, where he died in 1839 or 1840. His widow survived him and died in October, 1875, aged nearly ninety-one years.

In 1812 Jacob Foy settled on the northwest corner of section 33. His brother Samuel owned land adjoining him. Both sold to Peter VanGundy, and went to Wabash, Indiana. VanGundy mar

ried a young wife and died soon afterward, leaving his property to his widow.

Timothy Brown came from Virginia to Ohio in 1813, and settled on a lot of 106 acres, in section 23. He bought the land from Mr. Bunn, and passed his life there, dying in 1845 and leaving a family of eight children. His descendants still live in the neighborhood.

David Moor came from Pennsylvania and located on a farm northwest of David Umsted, Sr., in 1812. He moved to Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1829, from injuries received in a mill.

Dr. Edward Ostrander, from Troy, New York, settled on the McCoy farm near Mount Pleasant Church, in 1813. He was the first physician who settled in the township, and continued in active practice until his death in May, 1835. He did not remain in Green Township during the entire period of his practice, but spent some years in Waverly, returning to Kingston, where he died. He raised a family of eight children.

Jacob Long was a native of Pennsylvania and when a young man went to Canada, where he remained until after the War of 1812. In 1816 he moved to Green Township, purchasing a small farm east of Kingston, on the southeast corner of section 2, where he made a home. He afterward bought over 100 acres, situated on the pike a half mile south of Kingston, where, with his son, John, he built a still-house which they kept in operation several years. He returned to his first purchase, and died in 1835, leaving a family of six children.

George Cullum came from near Baltimore, Maryland, to Green Township, in 1816, and rented land of John Evans, who lived in Colerain. Mr. Cullum died seven years after he settled in the country, and left six children, double orphans.

Previous to 1816 Jacob Halverstot, from Pennsylvania, rented land owned by Philip Reedy, who lived in Pennsylvania. He disposed of the property to George R. Smith."

George R. Smith came into the township from Pennsylvania about 1812. He settled near the southeastern corner of the township, on the east branch of the Kinnickinnick, where he owned 130 acres of land. His family consisted of eight daughters.

FLOUR AND GRIST MILLS

The first flour mill in Green Township was a log structure built by William McCoy, on the Kinnickinnick Creek, in 1797. This mill he kept in operation about one year when he sold to John Crouse, it not proving profitable to him. Mr. Crouse operated the mill many years, and greatly improved its efficiency. He added to it a

still-house, which proved a good investment, but was long since discontinued.

Christopher VanGundy built a grist mill on Kinnikinnick Creek, on the northwest corner of section twenty-one, about 1805. He sold to John Wolf about 1815. Wolf conducted it until about 1820, when he sold to Jeremiah Crouse, who discontinued it. Wolf was a very large man, who cared more for hunting and other sports than for hard work, and in 1823 located in a less "thickly" settled district near Marion. He finally became reduced in circumstances and passed the last years of his life in the poor-house.

Gov. Thomas Worthington built a grist mill near the Columbus pike on Kinnickinnick Creek, in 1805. He continued to operate it until 1828, when he sold to Daniel McCollister, under whose control it remained until about 1837, when Mr. McCollister sold it to David Crouse. Since that time it has at two different periods been conducted as a paper mill, but is not now in operation.

EARLY DISTILLERIES

In the days of its early settlement, Green Township, and indeed all the surrounding country, were well supplied with distilleries. At this date it cannot be definitely settled who established the first distillery, though John Crouse conducted one in connection with his mill several years before the commencement of hostilities in the War of 1812. James Torbert, over the line in Pickaway County, also had a still in operation during that period. He afterward became one of the strongest temperance advocates in the state.

Abraham Reedy operated a still as early as 1820, when he made peach brandy and other liquors. Jacob Long had a large peach orchard, the fruit from which he had made into brandy. Many of the first settlers were from Pennsylvania, and after building a cabin they cleared a space for an orchard and planted fruit trees.

James Stanley had a distillery a mile southwest of Kingston, where is now the railroad crossing. This was in operation as early as 1820. The property was afterwards purchased by Jacob Long and his son, John, who, after managing it for a time, closed the still. Jacob Charles also had a distillery on Blackwater Creek. Wolf had one in the eastern part of the township, and Thomas Worthington had one near his mill.

COTTON, WOOLEN AND PAPER MILLS

A cotton mill was built on the bank of Kinnickinnick Creek, two miles south of Kingston, about 1811. Raw cotton was brought