Excerpt from The Pioneer History of Meigs County, Vol. 1 of 1
In 1876 a revival of interest in local history was manifest throughout the United States. The Centennial of the Nation - the Exposition at Philadelphia, exhibiting trophies of the Revolutionary period, while much attention was bestowed upon Colonial relics, and regard for Colonial ancestry. The older class of people had been retired from public observation, especially in the Western States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. The first settlers - the earlier emigrants - had braved the Indians, the wild beasts, the privations of a new country, had toiled to open up the primeval forests for cultivation, and broken in health, dispirited often by adversity, they had grown old before their "three-score-years and ten," and the generation following them had been unwittingly pushing them aside. They were in the way of modern progress, and they had retreated to the back rooms of their children"s mansions. But in 1876 it was seen that the country could not celebrate her Centenary without bringing into honorable recognition the fathers and mothers, the soldiers and statesmen, whose achievements had wrought such evident prosperity for the country - such high rank among the Nations. So it came about that old records, old furniture, old tales of early days, old people tottering on their canes, were subjects of especial attention.
The Revolutionary soldier, old and gray, was escorted to a seat on the platform where jubilant oratory proclaimed his deeds of heroism. It was at this time that Stillman C. Larkin, Aaron Stivers, H. B. Smith and a few others, awakened to the fact that Meigs county had a past worthy of record, and in looking around discovered that the founders, the early emigrants, were gone!
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