The HC Sesquicentennial book talks about a Dr. Richard Lee Mason, who passed through this area in 1819, going from Maryland to Illinois, and list a passage from the journal he kept on his trip. October 19, 1819: “Left Sears (area near old Kanoski Tractor Sales on Route 22 W) at 6 a.m. Morning fair and cold. Roads extremely rough. Country fertile but hilly. Log cabins, ugly women, and tall timber”. The writer of the 1963 book said: “If the good doctor could return now, we would be happy to show him our wooded green hills, our beautiful lakes, and our lovely women.”
Top row: Laban Blackburn, George Kibble, William Henderson, chairman; Phillip Ross, J. Arthur Mattern, Jack A. Johnson. Second row: Raymond Jones, Harold Barricklow, Ellsworth West, John E. Ford, Robert Kidder, Norman E. Paolucci. Third row: Leo D. Steible, Robert Adams, George M. Kelly, John H. Dickerson, Ed Foster, Leonard T. Dowdle. Fourth row: Ralph D. Dunlap, Marshall Smith, Charles H. Brooks, Newell Trotter, James C. Kenny, C.A. West Jr. Fifth row: Alfred Reppart, Charles Voshall, Earl C. Nelson, Clyde Cope, Elmer Bargar, Ronzel Wease. Sixth row: Nemo Mattern. Not pictured: Robert Coulson, William Harmon, Bruce Jones, Carl Lisle, Richard Jones, Jasper Thompson, and Michael Cope.
Other “Brothers of the Brush” groups: Scio Razor Savers, Bowerston Brothers of the Brush, Hedge-Hogs, Bush Leaguers-Jewett, The Razor-less Brothers-Cadiz, Fairview Fellows-Jewett, Two Pine Bar Stool Cowboys, The Courthouse Riots, Barber Shop Brushes-Cadiz, Henpecked Hairies-Cadiz, Lions of the Brush-Hopedale, Hopedale’s Hairy Hustlers, Moonshiners, Court House Cats, Cardinalians-Cadiz and Marko’s Ranch. Picture and info from “Harrison County Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration 1813-1963”. The “Year of Celebration of 150 Years of Harrison County.”