Newcomerstown News: August 16, 1964
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One of the first types of manufacturing that early settlers
started wherever they went was a distillery. The area of
Newcomerstown was no exception.
Even before the town was founded, a distillery had been
started. David Johnson was the owner of the first distillery
which was started about 1805.
All this land was known only as Oxford township, which in those
days contained what is now Salem, Rust, Washington, and Adams
townships, as well as some other land.
The
earliest settlers known to come to Oxford township were John
Mulvane, who came in 1804, and Joseph and William Mulvane, who
settled a year later.
