George Hanick
Incidental to the centennial celebration we give a few reminiscences of an old landmark. Mr. George Hanick came to Plymouth (then Paris) in 1836, at the age of one year. His step-father, John Weh, was engaged in the wagon making business and his shop and house stood on the site of Peter Lofland's residence. In the neighborhood of Mr. Hanick's folks lived the Trux families, first settlers of Plymouth. He remembers of being taken to the home of Nick Trux (nephew of Abraham Trux), located where John Weck now lives, who had been killed by the felling of a tree. He was so small he had to be lifted up to view the remains. At the age of ten years he took a complimentary ride, given by the railroad company on the first passenger train to go over the B.&O. railroad, then known as the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark RR Co. His earliest recollection of people who lived here and still have descendants here, are, McClinchey, Powers, Topping, Morfoot, Tyson, Wilcox, Hoffman, McDonough and Drennan. The chief industries in those early days were cooperage, ashery, wagon making, carding mills, tanneries, pottery and shoe making. The people who have been engaged in active business in Plymouth for 40 years and more are, F.W. Kirtland, Jeff Webb, Ross Cuykendall, Henry Bachrach, Wells Rogers, A.M. Briggs, Mrs. D. Hanick, Sam Parker, James Tubbs, Chas. Waite, Geo. Lofland, Peter Lofland.
From The Plymouth Advertiser, December 12, 1914, Vol. 62, No. 4