A Brief History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

84 now rapidly growing and prosperous city. The village was incorporated in 1866. and John Milone was elected first mayor. Uhrichsville is now one of the most active and energetic business towns of Eastern Ohio and has a population of about four thousand, and its church and educational advantages are among the best. Dennison.—The town of Dennison is located on the east side of Little Stillwater Creek opposite Uhrichsville. It was named- in. honor of William Dennison, Ohio’s famous . war Governor. The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway Co. had announced . their intention of making it the principal point on their line between Pittsburgh and Columbus, and the town became familiar to the public from the start. Dennison is sometimes very appropriately called “the Altoona, of the Pan Handle road,” for the reason that it bears the same relation to the Pan Handle that Altoona does to the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Company also selected it as the location of their shops; and thus Dennison became a place of importance, and it is not to be wondered at that it has grown to be quite

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