NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Thomas N. Muzzy (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Thomas N. Muzzy, of Massachusetts, arrived June 28, 1814, and on the 4th of
July entered land adjoining the Bays in this township. He not only began
improving his land at once, but speedily erected and put in operation a
grist-mill and a saw-mill, which was the first in the neighborhood. He taught
the first school, organized the first Sunday school and laid the foundation
for the first church and the first temperance society in the valley. He was an
1812 soldier. He named Spencer Township, Guernsey County, after Spencer,
Mass., where he was born. He died at the age of ninety-four.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
Brookfield