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		<title>Good News, Bad News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the bright side: Clintonville Historical Society has erected a new plaque for the Clinton Chapel and for John and Laura Olive (Wilson) Smith near the corner of East North Broadway and North High. It gives us pause to remember slaves and slavery in the Unites States and to give thanks to the people who  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Joseph Wilton Smith &#038; Ancestors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 17:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Joseph Wilton Smith IV recently contacted me. Joe's ancestors owned a house at the southeast corner of East North Broadway and North High Streets, perhaps where the Cochran House was before it was demolished...or--as Mary Rodgers speculated in the May 2020 CHS Newsletter-- possibly that very house. Joe has kindly sent along an image that  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The First Post Office</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you have not yet joined the Clintonville Historical Society, well, you ought to! Mary Rodgers sends out an interesting monthly newsletter that is chock-a-block full of good articles. In the October 2017 issue, she penned an article about Clintonville's first post office. Celebrating 170 years: The first Post Office by Mary Rodgers October 2017  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>E. A. Fuller Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2019 20:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Clintonville Historical Society October 2017 monthly newsletter contained an interesting article about the land at the Clintonville Women's Club by Mary Rodgers. ________ The Clintonville Woman’s Club: The Women Before the Clubhouse by Mary Rodgers I was asked to speak at an evening meeting of the Clintonville Woman’s Club. Specifically, I was asked to  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beginnings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Balser Hess, a cordwainer, tanner and Revolutionary War veteran, was one of the first pioneers to arrive in Clinton Township. Hess came to Ohio with his family and bought 320 acres of land along the west bank of the Olentangy River. His first house, a log structure, was a common stopping place with travelers. Balser  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>David Beers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Beers was another early pioneer with an exciting life story of having been captured and released by the Native Americans. Beers came to Ohio in 1802. Descendents of David Beers still live in the area to the present day. (Photo courtesy of Terry Miller) Beers had a log house near the intersection of Dodridge  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eliza Rathbone Wetmore, 1791-1853</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eliza Rathbone Wetmore's father, John Rathbone, acquired 4000 military land grant acres including all of Beechwold and much of Clintonville. John Rathbone gave Ohio a loan to build the Ohio canal and bequeathed 262 acres of land to his daughter Eliza. Eliza married Charles H. Wetmore, a physician, and the young couple settled in Clinton  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Lot of Bull</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People like to say that the story of Clintonville starts with the story of Thomas Bull Jr., who came to this area in 1812 with his family from Vermont, by way of Worthington. Bull purchased about 680 acres in Clinton Township, and bequeathed land to his children when he died in 1823. Bull and his  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brevoort &#038; Bull Graves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thomas Bull’s daughter Chloe came to the area with her husband Isaac Brevoort and son Henry around 1812. Isaac Brevoort was helping build a barn across the Olentangy River and was crossing the flood-swollen river in February 1814 when his boat was swamped and he drowned. He was 23 years old, and was buried just  [...]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Underground Railroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Alonson Bull and his brother Jason were abolitionists, Jason serving as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad from Clinton Chapel at 3100 North High Street. Jason’s photograph is in the Wilbur H. Siebert Collection at the Ohio Historical Society. Edward L. Sebring (1839?-1905) worked with Jason Bull to aid fugitive slaves escaping to freedom in  [...]]]></description>
		
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