tation (Sandusky).]

Toledo was built on the site of Ft. Industry, erected in 1800. It lies
within an immense tract of land, constituting several reservations
bought by the U.S. government from several Indian tribes in 1795. Upon
that part of the tract farthest upstream the town of Port Lawrence was
laid out in 1807. In 1832 a rival company laid out the town of Vistula
immediately below and a year later the two united and were named Toledo.

This district was the storm-centre for the more or less ridiculous
episodes of the "Toledo War" in 1835, a dispute over the boundary line
between Ohio and Michigan. This boundary, named the "Harris Line" (1817)
after its surveyor, left in dispute a strip of land from 5 to 8 M. wide,
a rich agricultural region within which lay Toledo. Gov. Lucas of Ohio,
by authority of the State Legislature (1835), sent three commissioners
out to re-mark the Harris line so as to include the bone of contention.
When Gov. Mason, appointed by President Jackson as administrator of the
territory of Michigan heard about this, he dispatched a division of
militia to occupy Toledo.

Gov. Mason over-ran all the watermelon patches, stole the
chickens, burst in the front door of a certain Maj. Stickney's
house, and proudly carried him off as a prisoner of war, after
demolishing his ice house.

Lucas responded by sending out the Ohio militia who occupied a post at
Perrysburg, 10 M. to the south. No fighting took place in this most
genteel of wars, although there were several arrests and much confusion.

A Dr. Russ, who was with Mason's forces on their march to Toledo
gives a description of the soldiers' jumpy nerves. Various jokers
had circulated dark stories of the number of sharp-shooting
Buckeyes waiting for them at Toledo, which so alarmed this
amateur legion that nearly one half of those who had marched
boldly from Monroe availed themselves of the road-side bushes to
withdraw from such a dangerous enterprise.

President Jackson put an end to the dispute by requesting Michigan to
stop interfering with the re-marking of the boundary line, but slight
outbreaks continued until he presently removed Gov. Mason from
office, and until Congress in 1836 decided in favor of Ohio.

The city administration became famous for its efficient honesty after
1897, when Samuel Milton Jones (1846-1904) a manufacturer of oil
machinery, was elected mayor by the Republican party. T