Citizens' Tablet

Apollos R. Paine made the settlement of Orwell on April 1, 1817, and Orwell was organized as a township on July 4, 1826. Its first township officers were Trustees Alanson Spalding, Joseph Chandler, Jr., and Salmon Chandler, Township Clerk Lyman Richards, and Township Treasurer John Babcock. The community also honored Orwell citizens who answered the country’s call in times of need, naming local men who served in the Civil War in the U.S.A., the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery, the 21st O.V.I., the 10th Michigan Cavalry, the 14th Ohio Battery, the 7th O.V.I., the 125th O.V.I., the 57th Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry, the 7th Michigan Volunteers Infantry, the 60th O.V.I., the 4th Minnesota Volunteers Infantry, the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry, the 88th O.V.I., the Trumbull Guards, the 6th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, the 19th O.V. Infantry, the 23rd O.V. Infantry, the 29th O.V. Infantry, the 105th O.V. Infantry, the 177th O.V. Infantry, and the 196th O.V. Infantry, and in the Spanish-American War in the 14th Regiment U.S. Regulars and the 1st Brigade U.S. Marines.

Orwell, Ohio · United States