Excerpt from History of Fayette County: Together With Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio; Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, Private and Official Correspondence, and All Other Authentic Sources It has been the aim of the author of this work to compress the records and oral traditions of those events into a reasonable compass, to narrate them in a connected and lucid order, and to furnish a memorial, instructive, interesting, and useful to co temporaries, and to future generations. To every class of readers a work of this na ture commends itself to those especially who have witnessed and participated in the rise, progress, and consummation of the incidents and scenes herein reviewed, will it be a souvenir of inestimable value. In the prosecution of its compilation, he desires to acknowledge his obligations to Mrs. M. V. Ustick, the gifted secretary of the Crusade, for her excellent article on the same. Also, Mr. M. Herbert, for his exhaustive history of the Press and Banks of Fayette. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.