117 INITIALS. Christian Deardorf constructed the first grist and saw mill on Sugar Creek, half a mile west of Dover, in 1805. Gabriel Cryder erected the first distillery at a point three miles west of New Philadelphia, in 1807. At Gnadenhutten. in 1808, Conrad West- hoffer, receiving license, began the business of ferrying man and beast across the bridgeless Tuscarawas. The first school house in Tuscarawas county was built of light logs, and Daniel Black is credited with being the first of the many school teachers the people of the county have employed. The house was built and school taught in 1808. Two years later a small frame was built, not far from the site of the present jail. In the absence of settled pastors, the visits of traveling preachers were warmly welcomed, and houses were thrown open with old-time hospitality. Rev. John Stauch, from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, was the pioneer minister of the Lutheran Church, who crossed the Ohio River, and, threading
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