This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Guthrie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IBh.2ACIB/1307 Message Board Post: The following comes from the Ross County chapter, page 492, Vol. II of "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~henryhowesbook/index.html "In 1800 the old state-house was commenced and finished the next year, for the accommodation of the legislature and courts. It is believed that it was the first public stone edifice erected in the Territory. The mason work was done by Major William RUTLEDGE, a soldier of the revolution, and the carpentering by William GUTHRIE."