CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, city, county-seat of Ross County, on the Scioto River, Paint Creek, the Ohio and Erie Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Norfolk and West ern and the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day ton railroads, 50 miles south of Columbus the State capital, to which the Scioto Valley third rail traction system gives trolley service. The city is the centre of an agricultural and coal mining region; and it has flour, pulp and paper mills, foundries, the machine and repair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Rail road and numerous other local industries, banks, national and savings,, trust, building and loan companies, and an active chamber of commerce. The United States census of manufactures for 1914 recorded 46 industrial establishments of factory grade, employing 1,758 persons, of whom 1,557 were wage earners, receiving annually $852,000 in wages. The capital invested aggre gated $2,905,000, and the year's output was valued at $4,083,000; of this, $1,512,000 was the value added by manufacture. Public safety and public service, police and fire departments, both with motor equipment, parks, city hospital and Enderlin welfare home, are all adminis tered under a mayor and city council. The pub lic library, school buildings, churches, Masonic Temple, Elks Hall, auditorium, the Agricultural and Industrial Building, the well-kept homes and lawns, the broad and tree-lined paved streets are all characteristic of the 'Old Town Beauti ful? as it is called, and its residents. Chilli
cothe has an interesting history. In its neigh borhood are several ancient mounds of pre historic aborigines, and the sites of villages of the Chillicothe Indians, one of the four Shawnee tribal divisions, the latest of which was destroyed by Kentucky rangers in 1787. Chillicothe was settled in 1796 and here 1800 03 Gen. Arthur St. Clair set up his Territorial government, as governor of the Northwest Ter ritory. It was incorporated in 1802 and follow ing the agitation for statehood led by a quartet of the residents Thomas Worthington, Na thanael Massie, Edward Tiffin and Duncan Mc Arthur, it was here, on 29 Nov. 1802, that a con stitution for the State was adopted, in compliance with the requirements of the Federal constitution, resulting in the young State's crea tion in the spring of the succeeding year, Edward Tiffin being elected first governor. From 1803-10 and 1812-16 Chillicothe was the capital of Ohio. When Ohio celebrated her 100th birthday as a State May 1903, it was peculiarly fitting that Chillicothe should have been chosen as the place for the celebration, for all the historic memories of the early years of the State's existence cluster about this city. Again, 9 May 1912, the fourth Constitutional Convention of the State met here for one ses sion as guests of the Chamber of Commerce. Pop. (1910) 14,508; (1916) 15,500.