History of Athens County, Ohio

History of Athens County, Ohio Synopsis

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is in recognition of this feeling that these pages have been written. To preserve somesaccount of the lives and labors of the early settlers, who bore so honorable a part in converting a wilderness into a great commonwealth, and to rescue from total oblivion some matters that seem worthy of being narrated, is the modest object of this sketch concerning the history of Athens county. In endeavoring to accomplish faithfully what was undertaken.