This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Maxwell,Henderson,Shuss,Worstell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1YB.2ACI/782 Message Board Post: "Yesterday In Jewett", compiled & printed by The Jewett Bicentennial Committee, Jewett, OH, July 1977 (compiled abt 1976). At pgs. 3& 4: Fairview to Jewett The first house in Fairview was built on the north side of Main Street on lot no. 37. John Stahl sold and conveyed lot no. 37 to Samuel Courtright on February 28, 1852 and Courtright erected the first house. This house, built of logs, burned and was replaced by the present home on that lot, now the Austin Gross residence. Fairview as such disappeared in 1881. Early in that year a suit was filed asking that the name be changed to Jewett. Samuel Arbaugh, Joshua Kimmel, J.R. Roberts, R.A. Mack, Robert T. Custer, T.W. Fouts, Samuel Mikesell, J.H. McQuire, Hiram Lucas, D.W. Hess, George Lucas, Daniel Maish, T.T. Chalfant, J.W. Denny, John Patton, M.L. Hauch, Fred R. Maish, John A. Roberts, Uriah Simmons, A. Mendendhall, C.D. Beabout, James Aiken and George Wirt, in that order, filed by their attorney, John M. Garvin, a suit in the court of Common Pleas of Harrison County asking for a change in the name of the then Village of Fairview to Jewett. This action was taken on the seventh of January. They submitted to the court the following reasons: 1. The Post Office name is Jewett, sonamed for an official of the railroad. 2. There is another village of Fairview in Guernsey County, Ohio. 3. There is still a third Fairview in Ohio. 4. Great inconvenience to the citizens in mixture of names and mails. 5. There is no other city or village named Jewett in Ohio. 6. Practically all the residents and citizens of the village want the name changed. Notice of the request, as required by law, was published in the Cadiz Republican. The court heard the case on January 29, 1881. It was ordered and adjudged that the name of Fairview be changed to Jewett. This proceeding cost $6.30 in addition to the attorney fee. Ever since January 29, 1881, this town has been called Jewett. The change of name is recorded in appearance Docket "I" at page 418, Journal "L" at page 252, Execution Docket "R" at page 275, and recorded "T" at page 204 in the said court.