PLACE, Willard

PLACE, YOUNG, BLOSS, MARCY, DAVID

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/27/2006 at 09:26:11

"Fairfield Ledger", June 15, 1904, Pg. 6, Col. 5

AN OLD FAIRFIELDIAN. Willard PLACE, a pioneer merchant of Fairfield, died at Logansport, Ind., May 31st. Native of Preble Co., Ohio, born 1825; came to Fairfield in the early '50s and engaged in the sale of merchandise with the late Daniel YOUNG. Married here Eliza J. BLOSS, who survives, Dec. 2, 1856.

Mr. PLACE was the street commissioner who put in the "stump" street and alley crossings for the town of Fairfield, remains of which are occasionally discovered now when excavations are made. He built the house owned by L. J. MARCY just east of the Methodist Church in 1856, and that owned by Mrs. C. DAVID about two years later. He was city marshal of Fairfield in the early '60s during a mad dog scare, when there was an indiscriminate slaughter of worthless curs under his direction.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.