The Pioneer History of Meigs County

Reprinting of the original book by Stillman C. Larkin first published in 1908. Stillman and a few others created the Meigs County Pioneer Association in 1876 to gather and preserve the stories of the pioneer settlers. It was no easy matter to collect and place in order the history of the first ten years of the settlements included later in the boundaries of Meigs County. For from 1798 to 1808, was an almost forgotten age, but the men who worked for the good of coming generations-worked wisely, intelligently, with broad views, and persistent effort to establish homes, roads, schools and churches, to assist in framing wholesome laws, and enforcing them for the protection and well-being of a growing community, men like George W. Putnam, Fuller Elliott, Levi Stedman, Brewster Higley, Peter Grow, Hamilton Kerr, John Miles, William Parker, Abel Larkin and others, whose deeds and names belong to the annals of those years from 1792 to 1808. That makes true pioneer history.