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1825

DUTY

Daniel and Andrew Duty were the sons of Ebenezer and Abigail Warren Duty of Ackworth, N. H., Who settled in New York State, and am removed, that time in 1808, to Ashtabula Harbor, 0., and 11 years later went to Painesville. Here soon afterward Mrs. Duty died, leaving family of young children. The hardships and deprivation of pioneer life had proven too severe, for this was as early as 1820. She was a sister of Moses Warren of Warrensville, O.

Daniel Duty learned the cabinet-making trade of Milo Harris of Painesville, and after serving his four years' apprenticeship came to Cleveland at the age of 21 and hired to Ashael Abel as a journeyman. Abel made and sold furniture on Water Street. Soon after he took young Duty into partnership, one that continued several years. Trade was exceedingly slow in those days, sales far apart.

One day a stranger entered the shop and bought a hundred dollars' worth of the best furniture in stock, and paid for it in cash. Messrs. Abel & Duty were amazed at this astonishing piece of good fortune. They feared that the money could not be genuine, and Mr. Abel rushed out to satisfy himself regarding it.

Mr. Abel finally sold out his share in the business and moved out of town. Elisha Gardner became a member of the firm.

Mr. Duty's residence and shop was at 59 and 63 Water Street. The 'dwelling was north of the shop and the wide space between them was used by Mrs. Duty as a flower-garden where flourished and flaunted all the old-fashioned flowers so dear to our grandmothers.

Mrs. Duty's maiden name was Emmeline Mason. She had been early left an orphan and came with relatives to Ohio from New York State. She was never strong and during the latter part of her life was a semi invalid. But she possessed indomitable spirit, and was very ambitious for her children's education. Her daughters attended an eastern school and one of them taught many years.

The children of Daniel and Emmeline Mason Duty:

William Duty, unmarried

John Duty, unmarried.

Andrew Duty, m. Julia Stock of England..

Charlotte Duty.

Frances Jennie Duty, a well-known temperance worker.

Mary E. Duty, the oldest daughter, m. Platt R. Spencer

The family burial lot was in Erie Street Cemetery.

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Andrew Duty, Sr., came to this city five years later than his brother Daniel, and settled in the East End on a farm afterward known as the "Streator" farm. He ran a large brickyard for many years. His wife was Miss Elisabeth Havens of Oneida Co., N. Y.

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This Duty family consisted of three sons:

Edwin Duty, b. 1830. He married Naomi Meeker, daughter of Stephen Meeker. She died in 1860 leaving two young children. He married 2nd, Elisabeth Salter daughter of Richard Salter of Columbus. His widow and daughter reside on Knowles St.

Daniel Duty, m. Sarah Cozad, of the pioneer family of that name

Andrew Duty, Jr., m. Elisabeth Salter, niece of Mr. Edwin Duty.

Data of the Andrew Duty, Sr., family was only partially secured.

1825

ALLEN

John W. Allen came to the village from Litchfield, Conn., in 1825. His father, also John Allen, was a lawyer, poet, and a Connecticut congressman. On account of his height, and perhaps to differentiate him from other Allens of the same family, he was designated as "Long John Allen." He died at 42 years of age, and when his son John was but a lad of ten years. His wife was Ursula McCurdy, and related by blood and connection with many noted New England families. Her death followed closely that of her husband, so that John was an orphan at the age of seventeen.

The fame of Judge Samuel Cowles as a jurist must have reached Connecticut, for John W. Allen chose to come to Cleveland and study law under him than acquire the same knowledge nearer home. Upon finishing the study previous to the examination, he became a member of the Cleveland bar, and within five years was president of the village council, and the last one to hold that position. In turn he was Mayor and postmaster of the city, state senator, congressional representative, banker, railroad director, and filled other positions of civic and commercial trust. With it all, he was ever the city's most unselfish champion and promoter.

A fine portrait of him is in the possession of his only daughter, Mrs. Louise Allen Fuller. The face is a noble one, full of refinement and dignity. Like most men of good family, he was simple-mannered, and no one, even the humblest stranger, left his presence with a sense of unmerited humiliation.

Soon after entering the bar, he rode away, one day, to Warren, Ohio, and returned with a bride, Anna Maria, the young daughter of Gen. Simeon Perkins. His domestic happiness, however, was of short duration, for she died within three months' time.

He married secondly, Harriet E. Mather, the 18-year-old daughter of James Mather of Lyme, Conn. She was his cousin, once removed, a descendant of Rev. Cotton Mather, and a relative of the late Samuel L. Mather of this city.

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The Allen residence faced the north-east section of the Public Square and stood on the site of the present chamber of commerce. The lot took in the alley now opened for a passage-way, and extended through to St. Clair Street. There were but four houses on that part of the Square. Charles M. Giddings' stone residence, afterward occupied by N. E. Crittenden, now the site of the Citizens' Savings Bank, was on one corner, the Allen home on the other, and between them were the residences of James F. Clark and John Irwin.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen were of the earliest members of Trinity Church. Their children were:

James Allen, unmarried.

William Allen, m. Miss Clara Gale. Was in the Civil War, and died, soon after in Washington, D. C. His son Clarence Gale Allen lives in that city.

Louise Allen, m. Dr. George Wood, U. S. A.; 2nd, S. A. Fuller.

Mrs. Fuller is an accomplished musician, and for many years she has been the organist of Euclid Ave. Presbyterian Church.

John W. Allen lived much in Washington, D. C., in the latter years of his life. Mrs. Allen died in 1887, and four weeks after he followed her to the Better Land.

1826

The county commissioners voted to build a new courthouse of brick, two stories high, with a cupola and a bell, costing $8000. George G. Hills, a well-known carpenter and contractor of the village, was the builder. It stood on the south-west corner of the Square.

Upon the front steps of this public edifice stood many an orator of national or local fame, haranguing the crowds that gathered on the Public Square; for this spot became a favorite place for holding political meetings, and many a debate was held here.

Euclid Avenue was too wet and muddy beyond Willson for ordinary travel. It led through a swamp. A corduroy road had to be built in order that teams might drive through there.

PASTORS OF OLD STONE CHURCH

Rev. William McLane, 1822 to 1828.

"Married-March, 1821, Rev. Wm. McLane of Newburgh, O., and Abigail Clark."

Rev. Stephen Ingalls Bradstreet, 1828 to 1830.

Rev. Samuel Hutchings, 1830 to 1833.

Rev. John Keep, 1833 to 1835.

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Rev. Samuel C. Aiken, 1835.

The Rev. William McLane came from Meadville, Pa. He was a friend of the first Judge Samuel Williamson, who secured him as teacher in the old Academy on St. Clair street. Whenever a thunder-storm was raging, he is said to have secured perfect quiet in the school-room by raising his hands, and, in a voice of awful solemnity, exclaiming,

"Silence ! This is the voice of God."

The subsequent history of this first pastor of the Old Stone Church has not been secured. This is regrettable, as the lives of all succeeding ones will be found in this historical work.

1826

CRITTENDEN

The once well-known and prominent Crittenden families of Cleveland were of Dutch ancestry, the first one coming to this country being Abraham Crittenden, born in Holland. The Cleveland posterity, Newton E. and Joseph H., were the sons of Chester and Azuba Abbott Crittenden of Conway, Mass., who were married in that town in 1801. They had six sons and two daughters, namely : Newton E., Joseph H., Charles C., Allen K., Nash A., Adelia A., Feleria A., and Franklin C. Crittenden. The father of this family died in 1825. The mother, who was a daughter of Joshua Abbott of Conway, Mass., died in Pittsfield, Mich., aged ninety years, having outlived her husband about half a century.

There had been no lack of a certain style of jewelry among the early settlers of Cleveland. Indian brooches, for instance, could be bought for a song. They were large, flat ornaments with an outer rim of silver, or what passed for such, which the government furnished its primitive wards along with the blankets distributed annually, and both of these were exchanged with settlers and traders for some more coveted article, usually whiskey; and occasionally the pack of some peddler from Pittsburgh way would contain articles of cheap jewelry more or less in demand.

But in the fall of 1826, a young man appeared quietly upon the scene, secured a little building on the north side of Superior street near Water, and spread before the eyes of the small community such a display of watches, chains, breastpins and finger-rings as to dazzle the eyes of all beholders. In six months the stock, costing $500 and obtained on credit, was all sold out, and the enterprising young man started back east for more goods and a promised bride.

Newton E. Crittenden was born in Conway, Mass., and was twentytwo years old when he made his Cleveland venture. According to the custom of those days, he was bound out to a jeweler in Geneva, N. Y., and when released with a trade, he took a clerkship in Albany. There he met Miss Maria Ogden, a dark-eyed, dark-haired lady, daughter of

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Nathaniel Ogden, who had been an officer on General Washington's staff and was said to have sacrificed much of his private fortune for the patriotic cause. His wife was a member of a well-known Knickerbocker :family of Albany.

N. E. Crittenden's young bride turned her back on all the comforts and social pleasures of the old Dutch city, and bravely set out to travel by canal-boat and stage-coach to share her husband's fortunes in the little western town. Unfortunately, she reached here in one of the most depressing years of its history, the one following the opening of the canal, when nearly every member of the community was ill and there were scarcely enough well people to care for the sick and to bury the dead. Out of a population of five hundred there were seventeen deaths within two months, and it must have tested her courage to the uttermost to begin her newly married life in a strange town under such circumstances.

Mr. Crittenden did not have to depend for business upon the local patronage. There was scarcely a day that Superior street was not filled with big wagons, drawn by two, four, or six horses, that had come from the interior of the state, filled with grain to be shipped at this port, and that brought many strangers to the town who usually had money in their pockets, and with part of it bore away to wife or sweetheart some pretty trifle from the jewelry store.

Seven years after their arrival, Mr. Crittenden was able to build a combined store and dwelling at 29 Superior street. The store part had a big window filling nearly the front, which was much admired. More than that, Mrs. Crittenden had on her front door, not a knocker to call her attention to your presence there, but a knob which you pulled gently out, not too far nor too quickly, lest it break, and, should you listen closely, you might hear the far-away tinkle of a bell. Doubtless, Mrs. Crittenden had an unusual number of callers while CLEVELAND'S FIRST DOOR-BELL continued to be a wonder and a curiosity.

The disastrous panic of 1837 caught Mr. Crittenden with a big stock of goods impossible to dispose of. They had been bought mostly on credit, and for years he staggered under the load of this debt. But at last every dollar of it was paid. This established his commercial standing, enabled him to secure unlimited credit, and to give Cleveland the finest jewelry store west of New York. For nearly sixty years "CRITTENDEN'S" seemed as firmly located as Superior street itself. But in 1872 its founder died, and Mrs. Crittenden ably continued the business until her own death ten years later.

She was one of the best-known women in the city, having spent the most of her life here, and having an intimate friendship and acquaintance with the first settlers, and probably in the first years of her sojourn in Cleveland having known every adult in town and most of the children. The family removed from Superior street to the renowned Giddings house on the corner of Rockwell and Ontario streets. It was a substantial stone residence facing the Public Square, and when built was considered a fine mansion and a great adjunct to the dignity of the Square.

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Children of Newton E. and Maria Crittenden:

Helen Ogden Crittenden, married Allan Richmond.

Ogden Crittenden, married Virginia Morse, and 2nd, Fanny Morse, daughters of T. W. and Sarah Paff Morse of this city.

Alice Crittenden, married Edward Main.

Newton Crittenden, married Kate Webber of Nashville, Tenn. He died in 1878, aged thirty-eight.

Helen Crittenden was a lovely woman, and, possessed : a-- brilliant intellect. She was an invalid for many years and died only recently, the last member of her father's family. Alice Crittenden was left a widow. She had been living east for some years. Soon after her return, and while residing at a fashionable boarding-house on Superior street near Erie she was found, one morning, dead in bed. She left no children.

1826

FITCH

Gurdon Fitch of Lebanon, Conn., son of James Fitch, married Hannah B. Peck of Franklin, Conn., about 1815, and after their first child was born, they removed to Cherry Valley, N. Y.

Gurdon, the Christian name of Mr. Fitch, would indicate a New London, or a Norwich, Conn., ancestry, as Gurdon Saltonstall, a governor of Connecticut, was responsible for the naming of many boys born in that vicinity in the latter part of the 18th century.

The Rev. James Fitch was one of the founders of Norwich, and the first minister of the gospel in that town, and his son, Rev. James Fitch, Jr., was one of the founders of Yale College, and donated to it 637 acres of land.

In 1826, Gurdon Fitch, aged 40, with his wife and five children removed to Cleveland, and lived for many years on the corner of Water and St. Clair streets, where Mr. Fitch kept a village tavern. He was a valuable member of the community, a justice of the peace, and active in the organization of Cleveland as a city in 1836.

Mrs. Fitch was the daughter of Darius and Hannah Warner Peck of Franklin, Conn. She was a typical New England woman of that day, strong, self-reliant, and always a helpmate for her husband in his business, and a wise, conscientious mother to her family of unusually bright children. She probably was responsible for the exceptional advantages of education given to them, and she lived to see her two sons rank high in their chosen profession, and one of her daughters occupy a unique position in the philanthropic work of the city.

The family moved from the Water street tavern before 1836 to the east side of Ontario, corner of Hamilton Street, where Mr. Fitch died of consumption in 1830, aged 54 years. It continued to be the home of his

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widow until her death in 1874 at the advanced age of 87. Silas Belden was appointed administrator of the Gurdon Fitch estate in 1841.

Children of Gurdon and Hannah Peck Fitch:

Abby Mason Fitch, b. 1817; m Francis Babbit.

Sarah Fitch, b. 1819; died 1893.

James Fitch, b. 1821; m. Elisabeth Sanburn.

Jabez Warner Fitch, b. 1823; m. Mary J. Dolman.

Jane Fitch, b. 1827; died 1873.

Abby, a maiden sister of Gurdon Fitch, resided with the family and died here very aged.

Sarah Elisabeth Fitch was a prominent and beloved figure in the religious and philanthropic element of Cleveland for many long years. Perhaps no other woman of the city ever filled just the niche she occupied. Remaining unmarried she had freedom to give her time and services to every cause that demanded them, and her whole life was spent in maturing plans of benevolence, and in seeing them executed.

From 1840 to 1856 she taught in the private school held in the Huron Street Academy. Upon the pupils of which her sincere, loving character made life-long impressions. As womanhood developed she gave more and more of herself to personal ministrations among the poor. She was especially tender to those who had sinned, and it was mainly through her efforts that the "Retreat" for erring women was established. She assisted in the formation of the Woman's Christian Association, and was its first president, continuing in that office until her death. For some years of her later life she was the recognized pastor's assistant of the Old Stone Church.

"Cast in a grand mould her image is set up in many a heart a perpetual type of lofty womanhood."

James Fitch was educated in the Cleveland Public schools, Colchester, Conn., Academy, and in Yale University, from which he graduated in 1847. For two years he studied law in Philadelphia, and then returned to Cleveland and became associated with the prominent firm of Hitchcock, Wilson & Wade ; afterward he was in partnership with Leonard Case. He was a man of upright character, one who could be completely trusted by his clients, and led a quiet, blameless life. He had a family of seven children. His residence during his later years was on East Madison Ave., now East 79th street, where he died in 1903, aged 82 years.

Mrs. James Fitch was the niece of the second Mrs. P. M. Weddell. She was a woman who had made her home dear to her family through personal and loving ministrations. Gentle and lady-like in her deportment, no one could imagine Mrs. James Fitch saying an unkind word or doing an unkind act. She resided before her marriage with her aunt, Mrs. Weddell, and her personality was quite like that dear lady in many respects.

Gen. Jabez Fitch was also a lawyer, but acquired his legal lore as a student with Kelly & Bolton.

The brothers were quite unlike ; James led a quiet, office life, while

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Jabez was always active in military affairs and in politics. The latter was a chief of one of the old, volunteer fire companies, United States marshal in 1848, city solicitor, and a citizen to whom the public turned in any emergency for assistance or advice. He made a patriotic speech at the great mass-meeting held immediately after President Lincoln's first call for troops. He was an honored member of "The Ark," and one of those to whom Mr. Case left it and its contents. He was the first state president of the Humane Society, which indicates his kind heart, and in 1875 he was lieutenant-governor of the State of Ohio, with Governor Bishop.

He accumulated considerable property through transactions in real estate, to which he gave his attention in later life.

Mrs. Jabez Fitch died in 1874, leaving no children, and Mr. Fitch remained a widower until his own death ten years later.

The Fitch family was buried in Erie Street Cemetery.

In 1834 a Miss Emma Maria Fitch was married in Trinity Church to Geo. C. Woods.

1826

DOCKSTADER

About this time, either together or following each other at short intervals, came the Dockstader brothers, Nicholas, Richard, and Butler, and until after the close of that century, the name was familiar in business marts and social circles of the city. They, and their children, married into families of long-established repute, and no one with any knowledge at that time of the people involved, could dream that the day would come, and not a far distant one at that, when the names of Dockstader, Starkweather, May, Norton, Parsons, etc., would be only a remembrance.

The Dockstaders were of Dutch ancestry, and born in Albany, New York. They were the sons of Jacob and Angelica Hanson Dockstader, who had a family of four sons and an equal number of daughters. Two of the latter, Mary and Katharine, lived here or made frequent visits to the city. Angelica Dockstader, the mother, died in Cleveland in 1840, aged 69, and was buried in Erie St. Cemetery.

Nicholas Dockstader was born in 1802, and came to Cleveland when he was but 24 years of age. He started a small hat and cap store, and in 1837 his stand was at number 13 Superior Street. He also dealt in furs, a valuable business in that early day. The Indians were yet numerous in the vicinity, and one could scarcely look out of door or window on Superior street without seeing them passing laden with skins or animals they had trapped, and on their way to some Cleveland merchant to barter for merchandise. And as Nicholas Dockstader made a specialty of buying furs, he probably had a goodly share of the business.

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It is said that he was a man of sterling character, strict business principles, and clean, personal habits. He was mayor of the city in 1840, retired from business in 1858, and died in 1871, 69 years of age. He met Miss Harriet Judd, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. T. P. May of this city, and it resulted in the marriage of the young people. They probably lived at first in the building Mr. Dockstader used as a store. Business and household were usually under one roof in the '20s. But in later years their home was on the north side of St. Clair street, number 97.

Here they raised their family of children, and here for many -years they welcomed relatives and friends.

The children of Nicholas and Harriet Judd Dockstader:

William Dockstader, m. Helen Lee. He lived and died in Washington, D. C. His widow remarried.

Richard Dockstader, m. Eleanor Wooley. He was a soldier of the Civil War.

Charles Dockstader, in late life, m. Emma Paddock. Died in Los Angeles, California.

Julia Dockstader, m. James B. Carruch of Auburn, N. Y.

Elisabeth Dockstader, never married, and outlived all her family. She was much esteemed by a large circle of old family friends, and won the regard of later acquaintances by her sterling qualities. Her untiring energies used for the church of her faith, the Second Presbyterian, did not cease until her death which was somewhat sudden. Her brother Charles also was affiliated with this church many years. He was an early member of its choir. His long life was spent in one of the city banks as cashier or teller

RICHARD DOCKSTADER

Richard Dockstader, brother of Nicholas, was also a hatter and furdealer. He married Miss Mary Comer, an English girl of aristocratic lineage. She was related to Sir Joshua Reynolds the famous artist. With her sisters she had traveled extensively,- and had many unusual opportunities in the way of education and culture. Her life in Cleveland, after her marriage, must have been severe for one so delicately nurtured, and she died early, leaving her three children motherless.

Children of Richard and Mary Dockstader:

Charles Richard Dockstader, who was a wanderer, very musical and. the founder of the "Dockstader Negro Minstrels," which became very popular all over the country. He died, and his partner continued the business for himself under the same name for many years afterward, thereby reaping a rich harvest, which was not shared with the Dockstader or phans

Annie Dockstader lived with her aunt, Leah Comer Mitchell, after her mother's death.

Mary Katharine Dockstader, or "Kittie," as she was called, found a home with Mr. and Mrs. George Burwell, who cared for her as tenderly as if their own child.

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Richard Dockstader's place of business was at 21 Superior street, and he was in partnership with Andrew Tomlinson, an uncle of Mrs. George Burwell. Mr. Dockstader lived, at one time, on St. Clair street near Erie, and again at number 118 Ontario street, which must have been south of the Public Square.

All branches of the Dockstader family were musical.

W. BUTLER DOCKSTADER

W. Butler Dockstader's name may have been Walter Butler, and if so, it would appear that the family had been Tories during the Revolution. The celebrated Tory of that name had many admirers among those who sympathized with the mother country during our struggle for freedom, and numerous children were named for him. Considering his dreadful record for crueltiespractised upon helpless women and children in the Wyoming Valley, and in western New York, it seems passing strange that even an adherent of the other side of the conflict could saddle their child with such a name. Surely, it should bring anything but good luck to its possessor.

Butler Dockstader married Harriet Norton, daughter of Elisha and Margaret Clark Norton, and granddaughter of David and Margaret Clark. Her father had been dead many years, and her mother died in 1843. There were two children born to Butler and Harriet Dockstader that lived, George and Fanny Dockstader. Butler died, and Harriet Norton Dockstader married 2nd, Edward Wetmore.

Mary Dockstader, sister of Nicholas, Richard and Butler Dockstader, married Samuel Potts of Ontario, Canada, and her daughter became the wife of Miller M. Spangler of Cleveland. Another sister, Katherine Dockstader, became a widow three times through successive marriages.

1826

GIDDINGS

The index of any history of a city is usually crowded with references to men in no wise worthy of the prominence given their names ; men who always militated against the best interests of the community for their own selfish purposes. On the other hand, broad-minded, public-spirited citizens of their day, and deserving of the highest encomiums, receive mere mention or none at all. This tendency to dwell upon the services of the former class of men and ignore those of the latter is noticeable in all histories of early Cleveland. But that is natural and inevitable. Men who accumulated property usually became connected with banking, mercantile, and railroad interests which constantly brought their names before the eyes of the public.

An illustration of the above-mentioned injustice, doubtless quite un-

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intentional, is that of C. M. Giddings, a pioneer merchant and long a prominent and very popular citizen of Cleveland, who became identified with it when its population was less than 500. Giddings is derived from Gideon, and in Hebrew signifies "A brave soldier." Charles Mattoon Giddings was of the eighth generation in descent from George and Jane Tuttle Giddings of England, who in 1635 settled in the town of Ipswich, Mass., about 25 miles from Boston. His father was Sereno Giddings of Lenox, Mass., formerly of Lyme, Conn. His mother was Esther Mattoon Giddings. Charles was the first-born of his parents, and the only other child of the family was a daughter who became Mrs. Myra Gleason of Syracuse, N. Y.

Mr. Giddings was in Cleveland at the formal opening of the Ohio Canal, and in the festivities of that occasion was one of the floor managers at the ball given in the Mansion House, which stood at the foot of Superior street. That same year, 1827, he married Eliza Smyth, daughter of Richard and Prudence Smyth of Detroit, Mich. She was a sister of William Smyth of "Smyth and Clary," produce merchants, of Mrs. Noble Merwin, and of Mrs. Wilson, wife of Judge Hiram Wilson. The widowed mother of this brother and three sisters died in this town and was buried in Erie Street Cemetery.

Mr. Giddings was connected in business with Norman C. Baldwin under the firm name of "Giddings and Baldwin," merchants. He served the city in many ways, not as an office-holder on a salary and many perquisites, but as a private citizen, loyal to the home of his adoption. He assisted in laying out many new streets, and his advice or counsel on important municipal affairs was often sought and freely given.

Some time in the '30s, he built a large stone residence on the corner of Ontario street and the Public Square, the first stone house erected in this locality. The Society for Savings now occupies the site. James F. Clark built a home close by to the east of the Giddings residence, and beyond that lived John W. Allen. The charming and accomplished wife of Mr. Giddings presided in the new stone residence with liberal hospitality. She entertained not only the social element of the city, but guests from all over northern Ohio, and often from eastern cities. In front of this house Mr. Giddings presented to the Cleveland Grays its first color standard.

In one of the financial panics that swept the city Mr. Giddings lost heavily. He retired to a farm on Euclid Ave. outside the town limits. There was much sympathy expressed for him in his business troubles, and considerable indignation over the advantage taken of them. His beautiful home was sold at a ruinous sacrifice in order to propitiate an exacting creditor.

Giddings Ave. was the once familiar name of an East End street, but now numbered East 71st. The man for whom it was named died in 1853, at the age of 56, after a residence in the city of 27 years. Mrs. Giddings died in 1886.

Sereno and Esther Giddings, parents of C. M. Giddings, spent the last years of their lives with their son, and are both buried beside him in Erie Street Cemetery. The family name on the stone erected over the grave is spelled with only one "d"-"Gidings."

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Joshua Adams, his wife, and three little sons, the youngest an infant, left their home in West Tilsbury, Martha's Vineyard, in time to reach Cleveland in September, 1826. Mr. Adams was the son of James and Dinah Allen Adams. The latter was descended from George Allen who settled in Sandwich, Mass., in 1635, and the former was in direct line from Gov. Mayhew of Massachusetts, as well as from Henry Adams of Braintree, Mass., 1.632.

Joshua Adams bought a farm on Aetna street, known as the "Baldwin property." It was about four miles from the Public Square, and on it was a good log-house and an abundance of fruit-trees, apple, peach, and quince. Tradition held that its former occupant was a bachelor from the east who built the house and set out the trees previous to the arrival of the Baldwins. Six years after their arrival in Newburgh, in 1832, Mr. Adams died of cholera, and his wife was left with a family of little children, four more having been born in Newburgh.

Mrs. Joshua Adams, Adeline Athearn, was the daughter of George and Hepsibah Hussey Athearn. She was born in 1799, and had she lived but six years more would have been 100 years old at the time of her death. She was an intelligent woman, a constant reader until blindness prevented. She was of a cheerful disposition, and like all pioneer wives and mothers, with few exceptions, she was self-sacrificing to a degree. In 1836, she married Moses Jewett of Cleveland and Newburgh, a prominent citizen whose wife Eunice Andrews Jewett had died leaving him with seven children. These, together with the Adams children of the same number, must have made a family that was no small task to care for. She had two Jewett children of her own, Avis Jewett, born in 1837, and Emily Jewett, in 1839, but both died young.

The children of Joshua and Adeline Adams:

George A. Adams, b. 1821; m. 1^st, Emily Higgins ; 2nd, Miss Dosting.

James Adams, b. 1823; m. Catherine Simmons..

Joshua Adams, b. 1826; unmarried.

Adeline Adams, b. 1827; m. Charles P. Jewett, her step-brother.

Cyrus Adams, b. 1829; m. 1st, Elis- abeth Burgess ; 2nd, Clara Burgess.

Frank Adams, b. 1830; m. Maria Spear

Allen Mayhew Adams, b. 1832; m. Elisabeth B. Jones.

1826

SAYLE

The Rev. John Sayle was a distinguished clergyman who was famous throughout the Isle of Man for his eloquence and scholarship. He translated much of the Bible into the Manx language. When nearing his seventieth year of life he came with his wife, Catherine Kinley Sayle, to Ohio. They were of a party of emigrants from, or near Douglas, Isle of

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Man, who settled in Newburgh on Union street, or in Warrensville, just over the Newburgh line.

The Rev. John Sayle lived but six years after his arrival here. He fell a victim to the cholera epidemic of 1832. His wife survived him 26 years, and died at the advanced age of 98.

Children of John and Catherine Sayle:

Ann Sayle, m. William Watterson.

John Sayle, d. unmarried.

Thomas Sayle, removed to Northfield, O.

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WATTERSON

William Watterson and Ann Sayle, daughter of Rev. John and Catherine Kinley Sayle, were married in Douglas, Isle of Man, and immediately after the ceremony accompanied a party of Manx men who, in 1826, emigrated to Newburgh and Warrensville. With them came Mrs. Watterson's aged parents. The journey was often delayed and very tedious, taking nearly three months to accomplish.

Mr. Watterson settled on a farm of 80 acres. His first son was the second child born in the Manx settlement. The Watterson family numbered ten sons and a daughter. Three of the former served throughout the Civil War, one losing his life in action, the other two badly wounded. Three of the family graduated at Western Reserve College, one of them at the head of his class.

The record of these sons not only indicates the high mentality of the parents, but also heroic self-sacrifice, without which the liberal education of their children could not have been accomplished.

Mrs. Watterson was an ideal mother. M. G. Watterson, the sole survivor of the family, says that without exception she was the tenderesthearted woman he ever knew ; tender, not only to her own children, but to all who needed affection and sympathy.

Both Mr.and Mrs. Watterson died within a few weeks of their eightieth birthdays, and only eight days apart. They rest in Woodland Cemetery.

Children of William and Ann Watterson:

John J. Watterson, m. Margaret Crennell.

William J. Watterson, m. Sarah Ruggles.

Sarah Watterson, m. Perry Payne.

Harrison Dunton Watterson, m. Elisabeth Akers of England.

Moses G. Watterson, m. Helen Farrand. The latter was a graduate of Western Reserve College; was county treasurer for six years, and president of the Board of Education, four years. In the latter part of his business life he was president of a bank.

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Henry Watterson, died of typhoid fever when about 30 years of age, a graduate of Western Reserve College.

Edward Watterson, m. Mary Prentice (dau. of Squire Prentice), a graduate of Western Reserve College.

Julius C. Watterson, killed at New Hope Place in an engagement of the Civil War. His body was never recovered.

Robert Watterson, m. Caroline Norton, sister of David Z. Norton, the Cleveland banker. He was wounded at the Battle of Stone River in the Civil War

Charles Watterson, died in his '20s, a fine fellow whose loss left his family inconsolable.

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Much local interest centers in the Rev. Silas C. Freeman for several reasons. First, he was virtually the first rector of Old Trinity Church, 1826-1830. The Rev. Roger Searl had officiated at long intervals as a missionary clergyman, his charges were scattered over northern Ohio, and seldom could he get back to Cleveland and visit the little church society of less than 20 communicants.

Second.-For nearly five years all the services of the church, mostly conducted by lay-readers, had been held in the private residences of Phineas Shepard and Josiah Barber across the river in Ohio City, West Side. Simultaneously with the arrival of an established rector, the services were henceforth held in the small courthouse on the north-west corner of the Public Square.

Third.-It was through the efforts of the Rev. S. C. Freeman that Old Trinity's first edifice was erected.

Fourth.-During the four years' residence of this Protestant Episcopal clergyman in the village of Cleveland, he officiated at the weddings of many of its pioneer sons and daughters.

The annals of Old Trinity in its early years are very meager. They furnish nothing of the previous history of the Rev. S. C. Freeman nor of his subsequent career. Of the former there has been but one clue-he came to Cleveland from Virginia.

Right Rev. Bishop Gibson of Virginia has graciously supplied partial data, and but for the lingering illness of the Secretary of the Diocese of Pennsylvania at this time, complete records might be secured.

In July, 1823, the Rev. Silas C. Freeman was made rector of Lexington Parish, Amherst County, Virginia. Where and when he was ordained are not on the records of that society. His work in that field seemed to have been effective, especially in reviving the church there. He remained until in the summer of 1826, when he closed his connection with Lexington Parish, and in November of that year began his ministry in Old Trinity at a salary of $500 a year, or rather at that rate, as he was to give part of his time to St. Paul's, Norwalk, 60 miles west of here, and what

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ever he received from his ministrations there was to be deducted from the $500.

It is open to suspicion that his salary was not easily raised nor promptly paid, for we find him teaching a private school in the old Academy on St. Clair Street, and again he is conducting one at Chagrin Falls. In 1827, Mr. Freeman was sent east to solicit funds for the erection of a church edifice. He was successful, and Old Trinity's first church building was the result. It cost $3070. It stood on the corner of St. Clair and Seneca streets, and facing the latter. It had a square, two-story tower, which formed the entrance. It was lighted by four windows on each side and two in front, all screened with green blinds. The lot upon which the church stood was enclosed by low posts connected by a railing.

The wardens and vestry men were Josiah Barber, Phineas Shepard, Charles Taylor, Henry L. Noble, Reuben Champion, James S. Clarke, Sherlock J. Andrews, Levi Sargeant, and John W. Allen. The first three lived on the West Side.

The missionary spirit that probably caused Rev. S. C. Freeman to sever his connection with a flourishing parish in an old settled state and come to Cleveland to a struggling, homeless one, led him, in turn, to leave the latter when well housed and in a growing condition, and to strike out for a point farther west; therefore, in 1830, we find him rector of St. John's in Detroit, where he remained about the same length of time as in Cleveland. From there he returned east as far as Philadelphia, where records of him cease, or are not at present secured.

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John Conger, who settled in Woodbridge, N. J., in 1667, was the ancestor of nearly all the native-born Congers in the country. He had two wives and a large family of children. From that day there has been a steady stream of Davids, Johns, and Josephs in succeeding generations of the family, most bewildering to one member of it, Mr. Charles L. Conger of McIntosh, Minn., who is patiently compiling a Conger Genealogy.

Very little has been preserved of the Cleveland life of James Lockwood Conger, a lawyer residing in the city between 1826 and 1840, save through a package of old letters written by Mrs. Conger to her only sister, Mrs. Erwina Miner of Centerville, Fairfield Co., Ohio. James L. Conger, b. in Trenton, N. J., was the son of David and Hannah Lockwood Conger, who later lived in Phelps, N. Y. He received his general education in that locality and studied la with Judge Ewing of Ohio.

In December, 1824, he married in Lancaster, O., Miss Paulina Belvedere Clark, daughter of Dr. Ezra and Sarah Clark, pioneers of that county and formerly of Middletown, Vt. James Conger was only nineteen years old and the bride but eighteen. The youth of the couple and the fact

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that they remained in Lancaster two years, suggests that he may have pursued his law studies after the marriage. A little boy named Seneca was born to them in Lancaster, who died young.

In April, 1826, they started for New York State to visit Mr. Conger's parents and perhaps with a view of settling near them. An acknowledgment of money received by the couple at that time is here given because of its phraseology

"Received, Lancaster, O., April 25, 1826, of our revered father, Dr. Ezra Clark, three hundred and fifty dollars towards our portion.

J. L. CONGER.

PAULINA B. CONGER."

They drove a span of horses all the way to eastern New York and return, as far as Cleveland, which they reached September 6th of the same year. And in this month begins the series of letters previously mentioned, a half-dozen only, but covering several years of the Congers' residence in Cleveland. These letters are unusual for that day and generation. The penmanship is beautiful, the composition correct in every particular. The writer must have been a woman of charming personality ; a brave woman possessing great fortitude, but shy and sensitive, sweetly grateful for every kindness shown to her.

The depth of her affection is revealed in the messages to her aged father whom she seems to have idolized and whom, so far as the letters reveal, she never met again in this life. On her trip to New York she met Mr. Conger's family for the first time. Of these new relatives she writes

"I frequently think of the remark you made when we were last together, `Do not be too sanguine in your expectations of James' parents,' and I was cautious not to be so. But my own could not do more for me. James' sisters were all equally kind, each striving to be most so. I was almost afraid to mention anything I wanted for fear one of them would get it for me, and they seemed to think they could not give me enough. I really think the whole family would have liked to come on to Cleveland with me, they were so truly attached.

"Father Conger and James went to New York City, returning before July 5th. They purchased about three hundred and fifty dollars' worth of books and other things. Father brought me a beautiful figured silk dress and other smaller presents."

The young couple drove back to Cleveland, but various and sundry household furnishings donated by the elder Congers were shipped by canal and Lake Erie. One barrel when opened was found to contain everything necessary for the laundry, while mop and dish-cloths had been tucked into another one. Nothing necessary or convenient in that line had been omitted or forgotten. And, just as the team was about to start on the long western journey, father Conger had placed a bill in his young daughter-in-law's hand, to be used by her for any personal need on the way.

When they reached Cleveland they found Mrs. Reuben Wood, wife of the future governor of the state, preparing for a visit to her former east

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ern home. Her sister was to accompany her, and they intended to remain until spring. Evidently the Conger and Wood families were previously acquainted. The latter at once turned over the house they occupied, with all the heavier furniture to Mr. Conger, at a rental of $80 for the eight months' use of it. This sum also included the kitchen garden well stocked with a variety of vegetables and five bushels of peaches yet ungathered.

The departure of Mrs. Wood and her sister is told in one of the letters. "They started on Sunday, September 10th. We went out on a lighter about a mile from shore to the steamboat with them. The waves were very high and became seasick on the way. Notwithstanding, on the whole I had a pleasant ride."

The young wife seems to have been very lonely in the new strange town, her only acquaintance in it having been Mrs. Wood whose return she pathetically anticipates. Meanwhile, Mr. Conger had purchased a lot on the south-east side of the Public Square. The east corner of the May Co.'s big department store now covers the site, and upon this he began the erection of a small frame-house, which, four years later, was considerably enlarged.

Mrs. Conger dwells upon the delights of its possession ; speaks with pride of the sodding of her "door yard," and of her planting in it a rose, a lilac, and a snowball bush ; of the high board fence surrounding three sides of the lot, and a little later of the arbor covered with five kinds of grapes, and of the square of English strawberries each side of the arbor, from which she picked sixteen quarts of fruit.

Stand, if you will, in front of the towering Cushing Building and imagine the little home, the lilac, and the snowball bush !

The furnishing of their house progressed slowly.

"I believe all the furniture we have, so far, are fees. James has sent to Pittsburgh, by a man who owes him, for a carpet for the front chamber and hall, and I have just finished a pretty rag-carpet for the back room."

The second summer after the house on the Square was occupied Mr. Conger's sisters, Hannah and Phebe, both mentioned as "beautiful young girls," make the family a long visit. We can imagine how pleasant those months must have been when we are told that "there are numerous young men in town, but very few young women." And in connection with this who can not read romance in the opportunities afforded in the statement, "There are many beautiful walks and rambles on this delightful lake. Every Sunday, after meeting, James and I take a walk by the lake, and often through the week we stroll through the Square and Ontario street to it and spend the twilight hours there." This was written August, 1827.

James Conger must have given evidence of unusual ability in his profession for one so young, or he never would have found himself associated with Thomas Bolton, one of Cleveland's most able jurists. "Bolton & Conger, Attornies and Counsellors, Hancock Block, No. 93 and 95 Superior Street," they announce professionally.

Some time after the panic of 1837, that was the cause of scattering many of the numerous Cleveland lawyers and doctors to all points of the compass, James L. Conger removed to Belvedere, Mich., where in 1847,

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after four years of battling with tuberculosis, Mrs. Conger died, aged forty-one. Mr. Conger married again, but there is no record furnished of this union. He became a prominent man of that community and at one time represented it in the lower house of Congress in Washington. He died in St. Clair, Mich., in 1876, aged seventy-one, and was buried in Columbus, O.

Children of James L. and Paulina Clark Conger:

Seneca Conger, b. 1825; died in infancy.

Helen Edwina Conger, b. Jan., 1827; m. Thomas Lough.

William James Conger, b. 1829; m. Abby Louise Meckler. He died in Columbus, O., 1882.

Three younger children died in infancy.

Helen Edwina Conger was born four months after her parents arrived in Cleveland, and often returned in after years to her native town, even since it became "Greater Cleveland." She was welcomed each time in the homes of our oldest families as a loved and honored guest, for she was an unusually bright, attractive woman. She died but recently, leaving two daughters.

Mrs. W. B. Waggoner, one of them, resides in the city.

When James L. Conger removed to Michigan, he sold his Cleveland residence property to Dr. Erastus Cushing. He may have received less than $1000 for it. Today the lot is worth $8000 a foot front; a traffic tally recently taken showed that in the business hours of the day an average of 5134 persons pass this spot hourly.

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Jewett Prime succeeded Ziba Willes as editor and publisher of the Cleveland Herald in 1826. He was a young married man who died within two years, leaving a widow who soon followed him to the grave.

They are buried in Erie Street Cemetery and Mrs. Prime's headstone is inscribed : "Fanny, relict of Jewett Prime, died 1832, aged 31 years."

The Jewett and Prime families of New England frequently intermarried, and probably Mr. Prime received his Christian name through such a family connection, but the writer has been unable to trace it. He may have been related to Moses Jewett, an early pioneer.

An Aaron Prime, carpenter and joiner, resided on Lake Street in 1836. He is interred in Erie Street Cemetery, but so far from the lot in which lie Mr. and Mrs. Jewett Prime that it would suggest no near relationship.

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Early in the year 1826, two sisters and a brother with their families bid a final farewell to the Isle of Man and set sail for America. In May of this year, these people, thirteen in number, weary from weeks of travel and anxious for some place they could once more call home, settled in Newburgh in a locality now known as Broadway and Stafford Place. Had a roll been called of the little colony, the following would have responded:

William Kelly and wife Ellen Kneen Kelly, and their son John Kelly.

Patrick Teare and wife Ann Kneen Teare, and their daughter Mary Ann Teare.

William Kneen, brother of Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Teare, his wife Mary Kenyon Kneen, and their children William, Mary, John and Jane Kneen.

Patrick Teare died soon after his arrival here, and in time his widow married again, a Mr. Kelly, and removed to Warrensville, Ohio. Nothing has been furnished the writer concerning the above pioneers save a brief sketch of Mrs. Teare-Kelly. She is depicted as a remarkably active and ambitious woman, the life of any gathering with her quick wit and jokes. When past 60 years of age, she visited friends in a neighboring town and upon going to the depot to return to her home, found her train already pulling out. She ran, and with a squirrel's leap, landed upon the platform of the last car, and was borne away amid the loud applause of bystanders.

It is said that she would carry her butter and eggs from Warrensville to Cleveland, a distance of nine miles, walking both ways, and returning the same day. She endured many hardships, but through them all was noted for her gentleness and patience.

Her daughter Mary Ann Teare married John Radcliffe. He died leaving her with three small children. She was a woman of rare excellence, industrious, economical, generous, and kind-hearted. She lived in Cleveland on Cedar Ave., and was a member of the Euclid Ave. Baptist Church. She died in 1890. Her surviving children are William and Eliza Radcliffe.

William Kneen and his wife grew tired of their "huckleberry patch," as they called it, in Newburgh, and removed to Carroll County, O., where Mrs. Kneen died at the age of 91. Their daughter Mary Kneen married Rev. Hugh Gibson, and died in Los Angeles, Cal.

Jane Kneen, youngest daughter of William and Mary Kenyon Kneen, became the only survivor of the party of thirteen from the Isle of Man in 1826. She was proud to relate that her mother frequently entertained John Wesley at her home. She, Mary Kenyon, was one of the first, if not the first woman convert to Methodism on the Isle of Man. She had a remarkable voice and led the singing at all the Wesley religious meetings.

Jane Kneen married Elijah Shepherd, and after his death she left Carroll County, and returned to Cleveland, where she resided on Eglendale Avenue with her daughter Mary Shepherd, and her son Frank Shepherd of the HOLMES, SHEPHERD LUMBER CO.

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In 1826, several families from the Isle of Man came to the north-east part of Newburgh and settled on land on what is now Union street and south of Kinsman Road. It was a small colony of not more than half a dozen families. Some of them settled in Warrensville. Those who formed what was long known as the Manx village were, Mr. and Mrs. William Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quiggin, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Cannell, and three families of Corletts. They were industrious, frugal, moral, and religious people. In 1831, they built a log-cabin school-house on the corner of what is now known as Union and Rice avenues. The Stewarts and Saxtons from Connecticut joined in this educational enterprise.

John N. Cannell was born in 1800. His wife Jane Quiggin was born the same year. Mr. Cannell's father Patrick Cannell accompanied his son to Newburgh. He was then 72 years of age. Patrick Cannell established the first Sunday School opened in Newburgh. His daughters and his sons' wives were teachers in it. His wife, Margaret Quayle Cannell had died ten years previously.

Children of John N. and Jane Quiggin Cannell:

John W. Cannell, b. 1823; drowned in Shaker Lake, 1842..

Thomas Cannell, b. 1825; m.Mariett Farr..

Jane J. Cannell, b. 1828; m. Sayles A. June.

Elisabeth J. Cannell, b. 1831; m. William Kelley.

Emily A. Cannell, b. 1833; m. John Watson.

Charles Cannell, b. 1836; m. Elisabeth Eldridge

Louise Cannell, b. 1838; m. 1st, Andrew Stone, 2nd, James Jenkins

Henry A. Cannell, b. 1841; unmarried.

Eli W. Cannell, b. 1844; m. Margaret E. Corlett

The youngest child of the family, E. W. Cannell, 4129 E. 93rd St., and Mrs. Thomas Cannell, living in Iowa, are the only surviving members of it.

1827

This year marked the town's highest degree of exaltation and its lowest depth of depression.

The opening of the Ohio Canal was celebrated with all the ceremony the limited resources of the village made possible. Distinguished guests, including the governor of the state, were entertained with simple but dignified hospitality. The festivities closed with a dance at Merwin's Tavern, then managed by James Belden, and renamed the "Mansion House." It is said that in order to fill out the quadrilles, then the only dance in vogue, every adult in the community had to be present and assist. Even children were pressed into the service.

But, alas! scarcely had the happy event ceased to be the theme of

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every tongue, ere the village was prostrated by a fatal epidemic of typhoid fever, causing much suffering and seventeen deaths. It lasted over two months and those who escaped the disease were worn out, from constant ministrations to the sick and the dying.

Newburgh and East Cleveland were also grievously afflicted. Whole households were ill at one and the same time, and often, three or four deaths occurred in a family. The home of Amihaaz Sherwin, living on the present site of the Euclid Ave. Congregational Church, was a sad scene of suffering and death. Martha Dickerson, wife of Peter Dickerson of East Cleveland, and her two children were buried within a few days of each other.

1827

The Connecticut Land Company gave the hamlet of Cleveland in 1808, 101/4 acres of land for a cemetery on what is now E. 9th St. In 1827. it was platted and called Erie Street Cemetery. While this was being done, Judge Spaulding rode by in a stage-coach bound for Warren, and he wondered why a site for a burying-ground should be selected so far out of town. In September of this year, an infant daughter of Deacon Moses White was interred-the first grave dug in the cemetery. The children of the bereaved family cried bitterly because they had put little Minerva "way out in the woods." The records of the cemetery for the first 13 years were destroyed by fire, and its books reopen in 1840.

The Cuyahoga River, as it neared Lake Erie, suddenly swerved to the left and entered the lake from what is now the West Side. In this year the Government straightened this bend in the river by cutting an artificial channel out into the lake several rods east of the old original one. Steamers and vessels were now enabled to enter the harbor.

Wolves still troublesome on farms near town. Sheep and hogs attacked by them.

1827

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Previous to this year came the Rev. Joel Sizer of New York, accompanied by his sister Abigail, and set up housekeeping on St. Clair street, corner of what is now "Court Place." The brother and sister were fervent Methodists. Joel had been made a local preacher in his eastern home, and within a year's time of his arrival here, he had gathered together the few Methodists in town, and formed a class, the Rev. John Crawford, a pioneer preacher, assisting.

The members of this class were:

Rev. Joel Sizer; Abigail Sizer; Grace O'Kane Johnson, widow of

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William; Mrs. Lucy Knowlton; Elisabeth Belden, afterward the wife of Eubulus Southworth; Eliza Tomlinson, wife of Andrew Worley; Andrew Tomlinson, Mrs. Worley's brother. Seven in all. Not long after, Elijah Peet of Newburgh and his wife, Martha Williams Peet, joined the class, and four years later took up their residence at 36 Bank Street, where they lived the remainder of their days.

Nothing can be learned of the subsequent lives of Joel* Sizer or his sister, nor that of Lucy Knowlton. She is said to have been a widow with sons.

The society worshiped in the little log school-house standing on the south-east corner of St. Clair and Bank streets ; sometimes, when the weather permitted, in one of the many groves near the heart of town; and one winter the Old Stone Church faternally opened wide its basement doors to the homeless brethren of another denomination.

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John McLane or McLean-it has been spelled both ways-became a Methodist minister, consequently, had no permanent abiding-place, as, by the rules of that denomination, clergy were shifted about every two years. In 1833, he was a preacher on the Cleveland Circuit, and held a very animated series of revival meetings in this town. He was residing in Canfield, 0., in 1884, and nearly 80 years of age.

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"Married-In September, by the Rev. Bradstreet, John McLane and Eliza Baird."

The bride was a daughter of Henry and Ann Baird. It is said to have been a run-away wedding. Mr. Baird was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian of the strictest kind. He was the man who once arose from his pew and marched out of church because a bass viol was brought into the choir to accompany the singing. Mr. and Mrs. Baird were both charter members of the Stone Church. Mrs. Baird was full of old-world ideas of what was her "Christian duty."

Eliza Baird taught in the little red school-house which stood on or near the south-east corner of St. Clair and Bank streets, the site of the Kennard House. Loretta Wood, daughter of Gov. Wood, was one of her

* He is said to have peen a high degree Mason of that fraternity.

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pupils, and she called Miss Baird her first cultured teacher. Caroline Scovil, daughter of Philo, was another of her scholars. The little girls used to play keeping house among the stumps surrounding the little building. Girl pupils were taught to knit and to sew.

Miss Baird graduated into the dignity of an "Academy" teacher when that building was erected, and remained there until her marriage in 1827.

1827

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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Short stood on the sand beach at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River one early summer day in 1827. They had just been landed by small boats from a vessel, for the river was too shallow for large craft to enter. Their young children stood with them, and piled about were the household goods brought all the way from Derby, Conn. The family came the whole journey by water. First, a little schooner took them down the Housatonic River and Long Island Sound to New York City. Another boat conveyed them up the Hudson River to Albany. A canal-boat carried them to Buffalo and finally they were brought on Lake Erie to Cleveland.

With so many changes it would not have been surprising if some of their belongings had spilled out or been lost overboard on the way. So Mrs. Short had good reason to exclaim:

"Thank goodness ! Here we are at last, and everything belonging to us, save the warming-pan!"

But wintry nights and cold sheets were months ahead, and the articles yet at hand were more necessary or comforting just then than the bed-warmer. The family found temporary shelter in a log-house on Lake Street, probably the one built and occupied years previously by the Thorpes. 1827 was a year of great sickness and many deaths in the village, and the Shorts took refuge on Woodland Hills. Four years later, Mr. Short bought a farm on Woodland Ave., corner of Case, and extending back to the ravine.

The log-house on it was occupied for a time, but soon a new frame one took its place and, for 70 years was the family homestead.

Peter Short, born in 1773, was the son of Joseph and Abigail Short, who had ten children. Mrs. Peter Short was Minerva Mallory of Milford, Conn. She was a daughter of Moses Mallory, a Revolutionary soldier, of whom mention will be made later. Mr. and Mrs. Short had 13 children, only seven of whom accompanied or followed their parents to Cleveland. Charles Short, one of the older children, remained in Connecticut, married there and died in 1878. His grandchildren still reside in Bethel, Conn., and in Brooklyn, N. Y.

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Children of Peter and Minerva Mallory Short:

Almira Short, m. Starr B. Riggs..

Minerva Short, m. Thomas Davis.

Lewis Short, b. 1811; m. Helen Woodman..

Lucy Short, b. 1813; m. Zachariah Eddy.

Maryette Short, b. 1815; unmarried

David Short, b. 1818; unmarried.

Maria Short, m. 1st, ---- Ed- wards; 2^nd, ----- Harvey

Almira Short and Mr. Riggs were married in 1824 in Derby, Conn. They came to Cleveland in 1828, and remained in or near this place for about 10 years, then removed to Indiana. Mr. Riggs was a founder of the Congregationalist church in Boonville, Ind. His children, nine in number, settled in Indiana and in Iowa. Mr. Riggs survived his wife 18 years.

Minerva Short married Mr. Davis, the pioneer, in December of the same year she came to Cleveland, and remained here the rest of her life. See Thomas Davis family sketch.

Lewis Short lived on Woodland Ave. near the old homestead. He worked on his farm and later had a shoe-shop. In 1882, he moved to Detroit street in what is now Lakewood and, ten years later, died aged 81 years. He was of a very religious nature and held original interpretations of the Bible, which he much reverenced, and loved to expound. Unlike the type of religious enthusiast, he was liberal-minded, gentle, genial, and loth to take offense. His wife, Helen Woodman Short, was born in Exeter, N. H., and was of the same age as her husband, 23 years, when married.

Children of Lewis and Helen Short:

Caroline Short, m. Mr. Kidney.

Henry L. Short, m. Mrs. Cowles. Lives in Colorado.,

George W. Short, m. Adalaide Munhall.

Frank Short, married and lived in Lakewood

Frederick Short, lived in Syracuse N. Y., and married there

George W. Short was a well-known business and club man of the city. He was a senior partner of the firm of Short & Forman, publishers. His wife and two pretty daughters were prominent in Cleveland society until after the death of Mr. Short. They live or spend most of the year in New York City.

Lucy Short was but 16 years of age when she married Mr. Eddy and, in 1879, they celebrated their golden wedding as a house-warming in the third and last home of the Short family on Woodland Ave. This house was built in front of the old homestead which also had taken the place of the early log-cabin. Mr. Eddy was a builder of row-boats and back of his house had a large shop in which he worked on them.

Mr. Edwards, the first husband of Maria Short, was drowned on the Great Lakes shortly after the birth of their first child, Sarah L. Edwards. Sarah was adopted and reared by Maryette and David Short. She re-

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ceived her education in Cleveland, and was married in the old homestead to Dr. Henry Slosson, son of Dr. Franklin Slosson, for many years a leading dentist. Maria Short Edwards was married a second time to Mr. Harvey, and lived in Toledo, Ohio, where she died.

Maryette Short possessed peculiar strength of mind and character. Through the years of her youth, the pioneer years, when the mother was always an invalid, it was Maryette who bore the burden of the homemaking. She helped in the evenings after the day's work in the house was over (and it was a long day's work of baking and cooking and churning and caring for the needs of farm and family) ; she would go out into the fields and help father and brother build the fires under many stumps to clear the fields for the new crops. In middle life still she was the strong rock of support upon which her immediate household and a very large circle of relatives, in their many vicissitudes and emergencies, leaned heavily.

Although without children of her own, she saw playing about her feet three generations of little children whom she loved most tenderly and cared for with great and unselfish service, she was a woman sometimes to be feared, always to be loved, trusted, and leaned upon. The years of her life were many, and when at last she was alone, the only one of the once large household left in the empty house, she met this also with the same unflinching courage, the same keen intelligence that had ever dominated her.

On her 80th birthday, she sent to all of her family a dainty missive which read

"On Thursday afternoon at four,

Miss Short will meet you at her door.

For on that day and at that hour,

She doth you all invite

To come and stay to tea,

At early candle light."

"756 Woodland Ave."

David Short also remained single, and the brother and sister lived together and carried on the farm. Near the close of his life, he engaged in the oil business under the firm name of Short, Judd & Co. He was a member of the Cleveland Grays. His death occurred in 1894, when 76 years of age.

All descendants of the Cleveland pioneer Peter Short and of his children have reason to be proud of their forebears. Honesty, piety, simplicity, and industry were some of the many virtues of the Peter Short families. No one was ever made poorer in order to increase their gains. Every dollar brought into their households was honestly earned at the shoemaker's bench or in the field. They were just and considerate in their dealings, held out helping hands to their neighbors, and were sympathetic with all who were in sorrow or in financial distress.

When, in research, we chance upon some record of an early Cleveland man that reveals how wealth was sometimes acquired within the limits of a law, but far short of its spirit, the lives of Peter Short and his chil-

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dren shine brightly in contrast, and prove how nearly one may follow in the footsteps of the Master.

Moses Mallory, the Revolutionary soldier and the father of Mrs. Peter Short, was distinctly remembered by the older children of her family. He sat in a corner by the huge fire-place in the old Milford, Conn., home and delighted his grandchildren with stories of the Revolution, and often of events of which he was an eye-witness.

At one period of his service in the army he was ill and was given a furlough. He had to make a way to his home far north and leading through a tract of country occupied by the British. He found it extremely difficult to obtain food and often suffered the pangs of hunger. One day, when almost famished, he approached a modest home near the edge of the woods in which he was hiding, and entered into conversation with the woman of the house. He did not ask for food, but presently inquired if she ever made stone soup. At her amazed negative, he assured her that she missed much in not knowing how to make a very delicious dish. But the stones must be of a particlar kind having peculiar qualities. If he could find some of these rare stones would she like to have him show her how the soup was prepared?

She surely would. He went to the brook, gathered three or four large pebbles, and bringing them back to the house deposited them in a kettle of water, and set it over the fire. After it had boiled a few minutes, he called for salt, and presently for some cornmeal to thicken the soup. The result was a nourishing porridge of which he partook ravenously, and which the woman shared with him without once suspecting the trick.

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Samuel Starkweather was the son of Hon. Oliver Starkweather. His grandfather, Hon. Ephraim Starkweather, was a soldier of the American Revolution, and it naturally followed that a boy of such forebears would not be content to settle down on the small farm where he was born and raised, but filled with ambition, worked hard for all the education he could obtain in his native town of Pawtucket, Mass., and then sought a higher one at Brown University.

He came to Cleveland in 1827, and soon made his presence felt in the small village. He was a born orator, and was called upon to make speeches upon many occasions-patriotic speeches, or speeches of welcome, and his opinions were called for in any public gathering where oratory was in demand. He was collector of customs for the port of Cleveland. He studied law, and became a judge, and for five years was mayor of the city.

His office was 39 Superior street, and his family-residence for many years at the south-east corner of Water and Lake streets. Later years

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the family removed to Euclid Ave. near Erie and just east of the Cleveland Trust Company.

Mrs. Julia Judd Starkweather, sister of Mrs. T. P. May and Mrs. Nicholas Dockstader, was born 1810 in New Britton, Conn. For nearly seventy years she was identified with the religious and social interests of the city. From the time there were but 500 men and women and children all told in the little village of -1825, until it became the great city of 1894, she lived always within half a mile. of the same spot. For some years previous to her death she bore the honor of being the oldest surviving member of the Stone Church, and she was much beloved by all affiliated with that religious society.

As wife of the mayor of the city, she carried herself with tact and dignity through all the public and social functions entailed upon her husband during his terms of office, and won the admiration and respect of visiting celebrities and officials of neighboring cities.

The children of Samuel and Julia Judd Starkweather:

William Starkweather, m. Olivia

Sims, daughter of Capt. Sims.

Samuel Starkweather,Jr

Sarah Starkweather, married at her parents' residence on Water street, Richard Parsons, Huron Co., O., a young lawyer of fine presence and eloquent speech. For a few years he was editor of the Cleveland Herald, keeping that newspaper up to a high standard. With him was associated Col. W P. Fogg. (Both men died some years since.)

One of the editors of the Herald at that time was J. H. A. Bone, a literary and dramatic critic of fine ability.

The book-keeper of the establishment was Elbert H. Baker, then slender and youthful, whose sympathetic manner and kindly dealings made him most popular with the reportorial staff. For many years past he has been business-manager of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and through rare foresight and untiring energy has made a phenomenal success of that newspaper, sending great packages of its daily and Sunday editions into every town and village of northern Ohio.

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John Stoddard of Massachusetts was an early resident of Cleveland, but the year in which he came west with his family cannot be determined. They were very cultured, refined people. Mrs. Stoddard, before her marriage, was Miss Mary W. Billings of Conway, Mass., and a relative of Mrs. Edmund Clark, who was Anna Maria Billings of the same town.

John Stoddard was the son of John, and a graduate of Yale College in 1787. He married Miss Billings in 1800, and removed to Albany,

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N. Y., where they lived for some years before coming to Cleveland. As he was born in 1767, he must have been at an advanced age when he made the last change of residence. Probably about 60 years old.

The family lived first on Euclid Ave. near the Public Square; afterward they removed to No. 9 Ontario street back of the Old Stone Church. At that time, there were but three houses standing on that side of Ontario street between the Square and Lake street.

The children of John and Mary Stoddard:

Esther Williams Stoddard, b. 1803..

Mary Ann Stoddard, m. Thurston.

John D. Stoddard, b. 1810.

William Stoddard, b. 1818

Solomon Stoddard, b. 1823.

Esther Williams Stoddard was an early member of the Old Stone Church.

An Amos Stoddard was living on Prospect street in 1856.

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As the second mayor of Cleveland, the antecedents of Joshua Mills are of special interest. But spite of long and patient research, nothing can be found concerning his parentage, birth-place, or of his movements prior to 1827, the year he came to Cleveland village. The family records, which might throw light upon the subject, are at present stored in the effects of an army officer stationed on the Pacific coast and are unattainable.

Dr. Mills was accompanied to Cleveland by his wife and three children, two of whom were Mrs. Mills' children through a former marriage. He opened a drug-store and took up his residence in one of the Champion houses north side of Superior street just east of Seneca.

He began to make himself useful at once, aside from his practice of medicine. In the cholera season of 1832, he was made a member of the Board of Health, and gave faithful and fearless service during the prevalence of that frightful epidemic, both in that year and two years later when the scourge returned with virulence.

Dr. Mills lived in Cleveland but 15 years, yet each one of them found him holding some public position bestowed upon him by a community that that respected and trusted him. He was an alderman, president of the council, and lastly mayor of the city for three years.

Mrs. Mills was born Phebe Stafford Higby, daughter of Dexter and Rosanna Ellsworth Higby of Castleton, Vt. Her parents removed to Chillicothe, 0., when she was 14 years old. In 1820, she married Sylvester Norton, and went to live in Granville, N. Y. Within a few years Mr. Norton died, and she returned with her two children, Sylvester and

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Minerva Norton, to her parents' home in Chillicothe. Here, about 1826, she married Joshua Mills. Whether he was practising medicine in that locality, or, had previously met her in Granville, is not ascertained.

In 1829, Laura Higby, Mrs. Mills' only sister, five years younger than herself, married John W. Willey, first mayor of the city of Cleveland, whom she had met in her frequent visits to town. The wedding was celebrated in the Mills residence on Superior street. Soon after, the young couple began housekeeping in an adjacent dwelling also owned by Reuben Champion.

There is a discrepancy in the testimony of old settlers regarding the time the two families resided here. Mrs. Juliana Walworth Keyes is said to have owned two small frame-houses on the opposite side of the street just below Seneca, that were occupied by Dr. Mills and John Willey previous to their removal to beyond the Public Square. There is little doubt that they lived at different times on both sides of Superior street, but which was Dr. Mills' first residence is in doubt.

After the death of O. B. Skinner in the summer of 1835, Dr. Mills rented the Skinner cottage on Commercial street, corner of Ontario, where his family lived many years afterward. That same year brought great grief to Dr. and Mrs. Mills, and doubtless to the childless home of the Willeys as well. Their little Harriet, eight years of age, and John Willey Mills, the idolized son, two years old, both died of scarlet fever within a few days' time.

Meanwhile Sylvester Norton and his sister Minerva were growing to manhood and womanhood. The former became a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. He was a fine, handsome lad, beloved by his parents and relatives, and gave promise of a brilliant future. He was lost off the Steamer Atlantic in Long Island Sound in 1846. He was 25 years old at the time of his death.

Minerva Norton was a beautiful girl and famous belle. She had many admirers, but her choice fell upon Lieut. afterwards Colonel Larabee, U. S. A. The match was not favored by Mr. Mills-no reason is givenand when her daughter died in California in 1873 at the age of 50 years, Mrs. Mills erected a stone in Erie street cemetery upon which is inscribed, "Sacred to the memory of Minerva Norton, adopted daughter of the late Dr. Joshua Mills."

Mrs. Larabee left one child, Minnie Larabee, who married Lieut. Thomas A. Pearce, U. S. A.

Before Dr. Mills' last term of mayoralty had expired, he was seized with symptoms of tuberculosis, of which disease John W. Willey had recently died, and he succumbed to its ravages in 1843, aged 46 years. The Cleveland Herald in an eulogy on his life, said:

"His eminence as a physician, his usefulness as a citizen, his character as a man, have secured to him an enviable reputation, while the frankness, the generosity, the nobleness of his heart, have won the lasting love of all who knew him."

After the death of her husband, the tragic loss of her son, and the marriage of her daughter, Mrs. Mills was left alone in the city. She

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spent much of her time thenceforth at the beautiful home of a brother in a suburb of Chillicothe called "Higby Station," but frequently visited her many society friends in Cleveland. She was a charming, high-bred woman whom every one loved to meet. She died at an advanced age, and was buried in Woodland cemetery.

In her will, dated 1882, at Cleveland, she mentions her brother Sylvester Higby, and her great-granddaughter Minerva Norton Burton, daughter of George H. and Minnie Burton of the U. S. Army.

Mrs. Mills joined the Old Stone Church in 1827, her sister Mrs. John Willey in 1829.

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David Hamlin Beardsley was one of the unique characters of Cleveland, and for 23 years perhaps the best known man in the city, for his public position as Collector of the Ohio Canal brought him into daily contact not only with the merchants of the town but with business men the whole length of the state. He was the son of Squire and Hannah Hamlin Beardsley of New Preston, Conn., and was 37 years old when he came here in 1826.

School-teaching, his first occupation, took him to Baltimore, Md., where he assumed charge of a select school and incidentally met Miss Cassandra Hersh, sister of David Hersh, who became a Cleveland pioneer. The following year, 1817, they were married.

His next venture was at Sandusky, Ohio, where he bought 315 acres of land, became an associate judge, and was elected a state senator. To become auditor and recorder of Cuyahoga County would seem like a retrograde of honors, but probably Mr. Beardsley had other things to take into consideration when he accepted the office. He worked in the old log-courthouse on the Public Square, and his beautiful penmanship is preserved in the early records of the city. When the Ohio canal was opened as far as Akron, his integrity and accuracy were recognized, and he was made collector of it, and for 23 years, through all administrations, he held his position, beginning at a salary of $300, and ending with one of $1200. He was a man of simple tastes and sterling qualities, and best known for scrupulous honesty even to the value of a cent. It is claimed that in all the years he served as collector of the canal, during which time he had handled over a million dollars, he could account to a cent of all money passing through his hands. Many amusing stories have been told of his exactness regarding small change. Judge James Cleveland quaintly refers to this trait in an address before the Old Settlers' Association in 1896:

"The canal collector, D. H. Beardsley, regarded the statutes and canal regulations as the laws of the Medes and Persians, and sometimes reminded a canal-boat master that he owed the state of Ohio a half cent on tolls, and should remember it at the next settlement.. Whereupon the

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canal-captain would, with great anger and profanity, chop a copper cent in two with the cook's axe, on the canal-lock scale, and tender it to the old collector. Then the captain would be fined $5 for his violation of the law which forbade the axe on the state's property, and he didn't think the joke was much on the collector when he saw his face darken like the face of Jove, and knew that fine must be paid before he or his canal-boat could leave the port.

"Collector Beardsley was the very type of integrity, honesty, and honor, and under his official mask there dwelt a gentle and scholarly nature that loved his fellow-men and was loved by all who esteem purity, justice, and the gentle ways of wisdom and peace."

Mr. Beardsley died at the age of 82, and was buried in Erie street cemetery.

Mrs. David Beardsley was an invalid for many years. She had three sisters, all charming women who resided near her, on the south side of St. Clair street between Seneca and Ontario, and their mother, a dear old lady, always quaintly and beautifully dressed, lived with them. They were all born house and home-keepers, and though they lived simply and in small houses, as all Cleveland people did in that day, they were very popular, and their society much sought for by the cultured element of the town. Their brother, John Hersh, was then a bachelor. In after years he removed to Chillicothe. Sarah Hersh was the second wife of Thomas Brown. He was the editor of the Ohio Farmer. Julia Hersh married Mr. Bolles. All three sisters were fine-looking, had dark eyes and dark brown hair.

Mrs. Beardsley died when her children were young. They were:

Elisabeth Beardsley, m. William Bingham..

Mary Hamlin Beardsley, m. Aaron Clark. She died aged 24 .

Sarah Beardsley, m. Thomas Brown, widower of her aunt Sarah Hersh

John Beardsley. Remained a bachelor.

Mary Beardsley Clark died, and her husband, Aaron Clark, married Caroline Bingham, sister of Edward and William Bingham, who came to Cleveland from Andover, Conn.

Thomas Brown removed to New York, and died there, leaving three young sons, and his widow Sarah Beardsley returned to Ohio and settled in Gambier, O., in order to educate them.

The Beardsleys, Clarks, and part of the Bingham family lie in Erie street cemetery. -

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Dickson Graves, born 1805, was the son of Erastus Graves. He married Lydia E. Ripley and removed to Newburgh, the year not ascertained. Here he died in 1831 in his 27th year. In 1835 his administrator, Seth Henderson, advertised his land in Newburgh for sale, because

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the personal property was insufficient to pay the debts. He describes the land as "next to Allen Gaylord's and east of Moses Jewett's."

The children of Dickson and Lydia Graves:

Horatio, Rufus, Matilda, Martha, and Edwin Graves.

The family returned east and Mrs. Graves died there in 1848.

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CATHER

Robert Cather's native town was near Philadelphia, Pa. In 1828 he was living in Cleveland, and was married by the Rev. Mr. Bradstreet, the Presbyterian clergyman of the town, to Lucy Norton, daughter of Elisha and Margaret Clark Norton. The wedding was solemnized at the residence of the widow Norton, 42 Bank street, now W. 6th. This site was afterward the one upon which stood the old Academy of Music, the first local theater. The young couple settled in a dwelling north of and adjacent to Mrs. Norton's town-lot.

Robert Cather's business-advertisement reads

"TIN, SHEET IRON, AND COPPER SMITH, 91 SUPERIOR ST."

according to the tax-duplicate of 1841. Mr. Cather also owned 60 feet front on Water street, lot 203. After the sale of his Bank street property, the family lived on the corner of St. Clair and Seneca streets. In later years Mr. Cather bought or built a house on the south side of Euclid Ave. near Dodge street, and Benj. Harrington moved into their St. Clair street house.

Although so early a pioneer, and so long a prominent citizen of Cleveland, nothing can be secured regarding the personality of Robert Cather.

Mrs. Lucy Norton Cather was a bright, capable woman. She died in 1855 of consumption while on a visit to her sister Mrs. Wetmore, who was living in Cincinnati. The family burial lot is in Erie street cemetery.

The children of Robert and Lucy Cather:

Robert H and Margaret E., died young.

Solon Cather, unmarried. Lived in Galveston, Texas..

Martha Clark Cather, m. Bollivar Butts.

Lucy Cather, m. --------Gregory of Galveston, Texas.

Josephine Cather. At the death of her parents, was legally adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Bollivar Butts She is still a resident of the city, and the only surviving member of the family.

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Charles L. Camp was the son of Isaac and Elisabeth Nash Camp of Norwalk, Conn. He was one of the earliest dry-goods merchants in the city. His store was number 115 Superior street, and associated with him in business was a relative, Albert Clark. "Camp & Clark" was a firm long familiar to old residents.

In 1830 Mr. Camp married Clarissa Blakeslee, daughter of Gad and Anna Latin Blakeslee of Hartford, Conn., who were pioneers of Medina, O. In 1818 Gad Blakeslee, who had several young sons, became anxious to get them out of a city and on to a farm. At the same time he caught the western emigration fever and took a trip to Ohio to look about for a suitable place in which to settle.

Upon reaching Cleveland he was so pleased with its beautiful location that he began to negotiate for a small farm on what is now Lake street, below East 9th. But before closing the bargain he visited relatives for a week or two in Ashtabula Co. Upon his return the agent for the property met him with congratulations upon his choice of location.

"You were wise in settling upon this town and this particular spot for a future home," he exclaimed. "A party of eastern men have been here for several days, and they predict that Cleveland will be a city within twenty years, and perhaps a sea-port."

"Then this bargain is all off," replied Mr. Blakeslee. "I have no desire to move from one city into another one. I want to bring up my boys on a farm in the country."

And thus Medina, O., gained a valuable pioneer. Mrs. Blakeslee thought a Connecticut farm good enough for the purpose, but her husband had had some experience on one in that state and declared that he was tired of knocking his shins against stones. After Mrs. Blakeslee was well settled in Medina, she retorted with the remark that evidently he was bound to have his shins knocked, this time on stumps, which covered the ground in every direction.

Susannah Camp, wife of James Kellogg, Jr., was the sister of C. L. Camp, and he had several other relatives and' family connections living in the city.

The home of the latter was on Lake street, and almost in a direct line back of the old Academy, now Engine House No. 1, and here he died, and was buried in Erie street cemetery. Later the family removed to Prospect Ave., now number 2515.

The children of C. L. and Clarissa Camp:

Elisabeth Ann Camp, b. 1834; died unmarried in 1892..

Mary Ella Camp, b. 1836; unmarried..

Emily Catherine Camp, m. John F. Hutchinson of Oswego, N. Y. Resided in this city

Eliza Jane Camp, m. E. N. Thompson

Harriet Loretta Camp, m. David P. Foster.

Two aged daughters of this family, Mary and Harriet, are living on Guthrie Ave., West Side.

Mr. and Mrs. Camp adopted a niece, Mary Palmer Camp of Wayne,

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O. She married Col. William Avery and removed to Woodstock, Ill. This niece was associated indirectly with a terrible lake disaster that occurred in 1841. At the death of her mother in Wayne, O., little Mary Camp was brought to the home of her uncle, C. L. Camp. Meanwhile, another uncle, David Camp of New York state, sent word to the Ohio relatives that he wished to adopt the child and would come for her at once.

He took passage at 'Buffalo on the steamer Erie, which burned a few hours later, and David Camp was one of the one hundred passengers who lost their lives. The city of Cleveland was vitally affected by this disaster, as many of its citizens had relatives or friends on the ill-fated steamer. Occurring as it did, so early in the history of Lake Erie navigation, it seems fitting to give the sad event more than mere mention. Through the courtesy of Captain Alfred Mitchell, well known in the marine circles of the city, it has been possible to do so.

"The most appalling calamity occurring during the season of 1841 was the burning of the steamboat `Erie' on the night of August 9, off Silver Creek, Lake Erie, and in the same waters where the steamer `Washington 2nd' had burned in 1838. The `Erie' had come out in that year, was of 497 tons burden, and was commanded by Captain T. J. Titus up to the time of her loss. She had been in ordinary at Buffalo for a few days to receive fresh painting, and started out about four o'clock in the evening for Chicago; although the wind was blowing fresh, everything promised a pleasant and prosperous voyage. When about 33 miles from Buffalo, off Silver Creek, a slight explosion was heard, and almost immediately the whole vessel was enveloped in flames. Some cans of turpentine, it was conjectured, had ignited.

Captain Titus, who was in command, rushed from the upper deck to the cabin where the life-preservers were kept, but flames hindered his progress, and he quickly gave orders to the engineer to stop the boat. The passengers, driven by the flames, madly plunged into the water, catching at anything which might lend assistance in floating. Many went down immediately and were seen no more.

The steamer `Dewitt Clinton,' 20 miles astern, discovered the fire and came up, reaching the `Erie' at about 10 p. m. She was instrumental in saving many lives, but in spite of all efforts over one hundred persons were drowned.

The steamer `Lady' from Dunkirk, and the steamer `Chautauqua' also came up soon after, and together they towed the burned hull of the `Erie' to within four miles of the shore where she sank in eleven fathoms of water.

The loss of property was heavy. She had on board the first large invoice of merchandise of the season, amounting to 30 tons, worth at least $20,000. Immigrants on board had about $180,000 of specie, and the boat cost over $75,000; making in all a loss of nearly $300,000. The `Erie' was owned by C. M. Reed of Erie, and was one of the finest steamers afloat on the northern lakes."

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Orville Bird Skinner was an early merchant of the village, and auditor of the county for several years. He married Martha St. John of Buffalo, a daughter of Madam St. John and sister of Dr. Orson, and John R. St. John, who became well known residents of this city.

Orville B. Skinner was a man of fine mind. He possessed a large library for those days, and was a close student. But he was frail physically, and suffered from a nervous affliction, and one July day of insufferable heat in 1834, the town was shocked to hear that in a moment of mental stress he had ended his life.

He was universally admired and respected, and his sudden death was widely mourned. He was but 36 years of age, and left a young widow and three children. His estate, at first, was deemed insolvent, probably one cause of his melancholy, but John R. St. John, with characteristic energy, gave it his time and close attention. Everything was settled satisfactorily, so that a fine property was secured for the family.

Previous to his death, the family occupied a roomy brick cottage on the south-west corner of Ontario and Champlain streets. It faced the north. But in her widowhood, Mrs. Skinner removed to another house on Champlain street, and rented the larger one to Dr. Joshua Mills who occupied it until his death. Mrs. Skinner was laid beside her husband in Erie street cemetery in 1850, aged 47 years.

Children of Orville and Martha St. John Skinner:

Frances Skinner, m. Rev. Alexander Rogers. She died after the birth of her first child.

Orville Bird Skinner, m. Helen Campbell of Ravenna, Ohio.

Orson St. John Skinner, born after his father's death ; m. Ellen Allee.

The sons, O. B. and O. S. Skinner, were life-long citizens of Cleveland. They inherited the St. John business ability, their father's love for books, and the brains of both families. They were both connected with railroad interests, and members of Trinity church. Orville B. was a 32nd degree Mason. Orson S. traveled extensively after his retirement from business, and died in Nice, France, in 1905. His widow, a most interesting woman, survived him but four years. Each of the brothers left two sons and a daughter. Those of the elder were 0. C., Helen C., and John D. Skinner. The children of the younger brother were Orville B., Orson S., and Cornelia Skinner.

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Col. Henry H. Coit was the son of Daniel Lathrop Coit of Norwich, Conn., who invested in several thousands of acres of land in the Western Reserve, part of which was located in East Cleveland.

In 1828, when about thirty-six years of age, Col. Henry Coit settled on this land, where he lived many years. He cleared off a large farm

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and by his love of trees and flowers and his taste in growing them made it the admiration of the surrounding country. He also made himself a benefactor of the community by introducing and raising the best fruits and vegetables of all kinds.

His wife was a Miss Mary Breed, and it is said of her that she was a woman of rare intelligence, warm-hearted and devoted to her family and her friends. She was a Christian, and the members of the church to which she belonged cherished her memory, after her death, with grateful affection.

She lived in her charming home on the Coit Road until 1856, when, at the age of sixty, she left her husband and children for "the better land."

Col. Coit died in 1870, aged eighty.

The children of Col. and Mary Coit:

Charles Breed Coit.

William H. Coit, married Harriet Fairfield.

Elisabeth Coit, married Samuel H. Kirby.

Maria Coit, married Samuel H. Kirby.

Mary Coit, married Rufus C. Holmes of Connecticut

Charles and William were educated in Norwich, Conn.

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William B. and Abigail Reed Lucas came in 1828 from New York state. The name was one well known in New England, and this branch of the family probably originated there.

Mr. and Mrs. Lucas settled in East Cleveland. They brought with them four little daughters, and three more girls and a son were added to the family in the course of time.

The children of William and Abigail Lucas:

Sarah Lucas, m. Peter Thorp

Elisabeth Lucas, m. Asa Scoville.

Abigail Lucas, m. Henry Hayes.

Mary Lucas, m. Wells Judson.

Adeline Lucas, b. 1830; m. Gilbert Stone

Beulah Lucas, b. 1832.

Harriet Lucas, b. 1834; m. May------ ,removed to Detroit, Mich

Harrison Lucas, b. 1834; m. Dolly A. Plum.

Jabez Kelley died this year aged 52 and was buried at the west end of the Daniel Kelley lot in Erie street cemetery, and probably was a relative of that family.

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Jabez Kelley has been described as a small man of active temperament, and quite eccentric in manner.

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TINKER

Not every Cleveland pioneer resided continuously in town following his arrival here. Several of its best known citizens, Elisha Taylor, for instance, only remained a few years, sold out their local business and returned east only to remove again to Cleveland to spend the remainder of their days.

John Tinker was identified with the village in its infancy, but lived here intermittently, leaving when business dictated, yet always returning later on.

He had several occupations, each one of which seems to have been lucrative. He was a farmer, first of all, then a hotel-keeper, and sometimes a merchant. The first glimpse of him, and only a glimpse, is in 1828, at which time he was in the salt business. Years later he was landlord of the Burnett House, and afterward of the Prospect House on Ontario street.

Naturally, his town residence was frequently changed through these various flittings. We find the family living on Cheshire, Granger, and lastly on Eagle street.

Mr. Tinker owned a large town-lot in Bedford, O., upon which he resided at intervals, also a farm outside of that village. While located there, he was a justice of the peace. All these various activities made him well known in Cuyahoga County as well as in Cleveland.

Mr. Tinker bore the Christian name of his American ancestor, John Tinker of Boston, Mass., 1635. His parents were Almerin and Leafa Stowell Tinker of Guilford, Vt. His grandfather, Nehemiah Tinker of Windham, Conn., was a Revolutionary soldier who had married into the famous Huntington family of Connecticut.

This branch of the Tinker family acquired the pioneer habit. At the close of the Revolutionary War it removed from Connecticut to Vermont, and the next generation was prompt in joining the exodus from the latter state to the wilds of western New York.

Almerin Tinker and his family settled in Columbus, Chenango County. To this place John Tinker returned in 1828, a Cleveland, O., pioneer, to claim his bride, Marilla Holt, daughter of Elijah, and granddaughter of Jeremiah Holt, both soldiers of the Revolution. Her maternal grandfather, James Dickey, was also a veteran of that war.

The wives of tavern-keepers were closely identified in those early days with their husbands' business, and, doubtless, Marilla Holt Tinker, like Mrs. Spangler, Mrs. Scovil, Mrs. Harrington, and other well-known Cleveland women, was more responsible for the efficiency and popularity of the Tnker hotels and taverns than was John Tinker himself.

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Little else can be secured concerning her save that her "crown of glory" was an abundance of beautiful brown hair, and that she was a skillful and generous cook. She died while the family were living in Bedford.

John Tinker was tall and dark. In the late years of his life he wore always a high silk hat, and, as the two usually went together, he probably carried a cane. He was a money-maker, and a money-spender. While engaged in active business he gave his family of children unusual opportunities for education. The sons attended private schools and academies ; the daughters were sent away to boarding-schools. In his old age, Mr. Tinker lavished affection upon his grandchildren. On one occasion, while on a trip to New York, he shipped an Indian pony and a basket-phaeton to a little granddaughter, now Mrs. May C. Whitaker of this city.

He died on Prospect street at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John D. Sholes, aged 69 years.

Children of John and Marilla Holt Tinker:

Mary H. Tinker, b. 1829; m. Leverett Tarbell of Bedford, O..

Herbert Tinker, m. Mrs. Eliza Topping.

Edson A. Tinker, m. Mercy Hepburn

Adelia J. Tinker, m. John D. Sholes of Cleveland

Wilford H. Tinker, m. Fanny ______

Edgar Coe Tinker, unmarried..

Volney D. Tinker, unmarried.

Fred D. Tinker, m. Morath.

Leverett Tarbell was long a prominent citizen of Cuyahoga County. One of his sons was for many years an East End merchant and yet resides in that locality. His only daughter, formerly a member of the Cleveland Board of Education, is a prominent club woman of this city and a writer.

Children of Leverett and Mary Tinker Tarbell::

Linn Parke Tarbell, m. S. Jenny Roy

May Tarbell, m. 1st, Grove G. Cannon; 2nd, Alfred Whitaker

John Dwight Tarbell.

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RUGGLES

Cyrenus Ruggles and his wife came to Newburgh in 1828. They were well along in years, and brought with them eleven children. There was yet another one married and living in Milford, their former Connecticut home. Mrs. Ruggles, before her marriage, was Anna Stilson, daughter of Philo and Anna Bennet Stilson. When her youngest child was but eight years old, Mr. Ruggles died, and she was left to struggle along on

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a partly cleared farm, and to raise her seven sons and four daughters. That indicates the story of her life in succeeding years. She was a wonderful woman. Only the period in which she lived could produce her type.

One of her children, Dr. Philo Ruggles, became a physician. He was about the only one in Newburgh for many years, and therefore made himself a blessing to the community. His fee for services was a secondary consideration with him. He was far from strong himself, but went about year after year, carrying help and hope to poor patients who had nothing to return save love and blessings.

Children of Cyrenus and Anna Stilson Ruggles:

Danforth Ruggles, m. Elmira Jewett..

Mary Ruggles, m. Hiram Ruggles, her cousin.

Caroline Ruggles, m. Nathan Robinson

Laura Ruggles, m. Amasa Scoville; removed to Michigan

Dr. Philo Ruggles, m. Abigail Andrews.

Cyrenus Ruggles, m. Eunice Ross.

Octavia Ruggles, m. Samuel Pease

Cyrus and Seymour Ruggles, died unmarried

Jarius Ruggles, m. Lydia Alvord Kellogg.

Rufus Ruggles, m. Eliza Ingersoll

Henry Ruggles, m. Minerva Rathbun

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CORLETT

William B. Corlett and his wife, Jane Cannell Corlett, arrived in Newburgh, in 1828, from the Isle of Man.. Accompanying them were their daughters, Margaret and Jane Corlett.

The party traveled by canal-boat from Albany to Buffalo and from thence to Cleveland on a vessel. The captain of the latter would stop at every port, get drunk, and remain long enough to sober up, then start his craft on its way again. Consequently, it was six weeks on the trip.

The Corletts purchased a farm in Newburgh of Mr. Ellsworth, the original land-owner. They built a log-house and lived seven years in it without a door or window. When the ground was covered with snow, the deer would congregate about the cabin at night, huddling against it to keep warm.

Mrs. Corlett was a charitable, industrious woman. She spun and wove every yard of flannel used in her family from the time of her marriage until her death.

William B. Corlett was a blacksmith as well as a farmer.

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Children of William B. and Jane Corlett (not in order of age):

Margaret Corlett, m. John Collister, D. S. P..

Christian Corlett, m. 1st, DeWitt Saxton; 2nd, William Thare.

William Corlett, unmarried.

Mary Corlett, m. John Quayle.

Charlotte Corlett, unmarried

James E. Corlett, m. Mary Day.

Charles C. Corlett, m. Isabelle Corlett.

Of the above only Mrs. Mary Corlett and Mrs. Isabelle Corlett are living in 1913.

1828

KELLEY

Capt. John Kelley of Virginia, born 1760, served in the Revolutionary War. He married in 1780 Mary Manning, who died 1840. One of their family of 13 children was Dr. James Manning Kelley, born 1787. He served as a surgeon in the War of 1812.

He married in 1807, Laura Howe, 19 years of age, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Mabel Dudley Howe. After the death of her husband in 1834, Mrs. Kelley resided with her daughter Mrs. Joseph Crittenden of this city until her death in 1844.

There are several Cleveland women yet living who were personally acquainted with Mrs. Kelly, and she is remembered by them as a lovely, refined woman. She was interred in Erie street cemetery.

The children of James M. and Laura Howe Kelly were prominent in the business and social life of early Cleveland. They were:

Dulcina Kelly, b. 1811; m. Henry L. moved to Racine, Wis. He died Sexton. 1905.

Eliza Ariadne Kelly, b. 1814; m. Joseph H. Crittenden.

James Howe Kelley, b. 1815; m. 1^st, Emily Hussey, daughter of Richard, by whom he had 12 children. He m. 2nd, Mrs. Emily E. Carr, and 4 more children were added to the family. He lived in Cleveland from 1828 to 1856, then re

Madison Kelly, m. 1st, Elisabeth Phelps of Painesville, O. He came to Cleveland from Canandaigua, N. Y., about 1828, and was a prominent citizen, taking part in all municipal proceedings of weight. He died in Cleveland, in 1879.

Daniel Phelps Kelley, d. 1854.

John M. Kelley.

Elisabeth Phelps Kelley, m. John M. Brayton.

Charlotte A. Kelley, m. Jerome T. Perkins . (one child, John Ford Perkins).

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The second wife of Madison Kelley was Julia A. Barlow.

Children of Madison and Julia A. Barlow Kelley:

Grace E. Kelley, m. George E. Jewett.

James M. Kelley, m. Parmeley Gray Barten (?).

Robert John Kelley, m. Mary C. Calvin.

The family was living in 1856 at 186 Kinsman street. The burial lot was in Erie street cemetery, but changed recently for one in Warrensville.

1828

OMMICK

John Ommick was a well-known blacksmith of the East End. He came to Cleveland from New Jersey. His wife, Eliza Rockefeller, was a very superior woman. She was raised in a New Jersey home in easy circumstances, and much refinement. Her marriage to Mr. Ommick gave her family great offense, and from thenceforth she was completely estranged from it. Mr. Ommick was a good, industrious man, whose life and character were above reproach.

Children of John and Eliza Rockefeller Ommick:

Eliza Ommick, m. J. F. Hill..

Marian Ommick, died unmarried..

John Ommick, m. Mrs. Warner.

Mary Ommick, m. Louis Dibble

Charles Ommick, removed west

In one of the city directories the name is spelled Ammock.

1829

SANDFORD

Although a pioneer printer and publisher doing business on Superior street near Water street, and senior member of the firm of Sandford and Lott, old residents associate Alfred S. Sandford with local military affairs rather than with business interests. He was a first-class man in both respects, though had circumstances permitted in his youth, he would have found West Point and a subsequent army life more to his taste than the job-printing and book-binding to which fate had assigned him.

He was born in Milford, Conn., in 1805, the son of a sea-captain who had a large family to support, and Alfred was obliged early to strike out

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for himself. He went to Albany in search of work and from there to Rochester, N. Y., where he learned the shoe-trade. Incidentally, he became a member of the crack military company of the town-the Rochester Grays.

He was 24 years old when he came to Cleveland and five years later, 1834, he founded the firm of Sanford & Lott, succeeded in recent years by Short & Forman.

The first city directory of 1837 was printed by Mr. Sanford. That little book has been invaluable to the writer of this history, enabling her to secure the names of families living in Cleveland -previous to 1840, and where residing at that time. This work could not have been accomplished had Sandford & Lott failed to publish that directory, for the next one was not issued until 1845.

Alfred S. Sandford married Mrs. Maria Hayward in 1833. She was a widow and had one child, W. H. Hayward. In after years at the retirement of Mr. Lott, Mr. Sandford's step-son was taken into the business, and the firm became "Sandford & Hayward."

But the Civil War broke out, and Col. Hayward enlisted in the service, leaving Mr. Sandford to conduct the business as sole proprietor.

He was one of the veterans of the volunteer fire department, and was the second captain of the Cleveland Grays. As the head of the state militia, he acquired the title of "General," by which he was designated for many years of his life.

Mrs. Maria Hayward Sandford was a handsome, vivacious woman, greatly admired in her day. Her son, Col. William H. Hayward, inherited her good looks. He also was connected with local military affairs. Nelson Hayward, one time mayor of the city, was his uncle.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Sandford had one child, Julius R. Sandford, who lived all his life in the city and died past middle age.

Col. Sandford lived to be 83 years old. He died in 1888, Mrs. Sandford in 1890.

Elijah Sandford, brother of Gen. Alfred S. Sandford, was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1812. He came to Cleveland at an early age and clerked for Sandford & Lott at 87 Superior street. He made his home in those years with his brother's family.

Some time subsequent to 1840, Elijah Sandford left Cleveland, remaining away some years. He went into business for himself in Newark, 0., and in New Orleans, returning in 1863 to become the partner of Col. W. H. Hayward by the purchase of his brother Alfred's interest in the business.

Elijah Sandford's patriotism was of rare degree. When the Civil War broke out he was proven exempt from service, but he paid bounty to a substitute and sent him to the front.

Mr. Sandford was a member of the Cleveland Grays, but never took a leading part in military matters as his older brother. He was considered a fine business man of unswerving integrity.

He remained a bachelor until nearly 50 years of age, and then married Miss Elisabeth Hughes, daughter of William Hughes of Cincinnati, an estimable woman who at once won the friendship of all Mr. Sandford's relatives and associates. She is an active worker in Trinity Church.

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George Tiebout was originally from Greenpoint, Long Island, but had been living in Rochester, N. Y., previous to 1829, the year he came to Cleveland. He was then 30 years of age. He engaged in business as a vessel agent and in coal-mining and shipping; afterward he was corresponding secretary for the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Co.

He married 1st, Elisabeth Fitzpatrick who died in Cleveland about 1829, the year they arrived here. He married 2nd, Martha Wilson, daughter of John and Anna Aram Wilson. She was ten years of age when left an orphan by the death of her parents. The Tiebouts lived at. No. 59 Ontario street at the time the first directory of the city was issued in 1837. Later they resided on the West Side. They were a very refined family, and the members of it were much respected and admired.

Children of George and Martha Wilson Tiebout:

Margaret Tiebout, m. Willet Ranney.

Martha Tiebout, m. 1st, George Willis; 2nd, Charles B. Randolph.

Frances Tiebout, m. Charles F. Linscott

1829

JONES

Herefordshire, England, on the banks of the little river Wye, furnished two families to the village of Cleveland, the members of which became useful citizens, several, indeed, honoring the city of their adoption by national reputations. John P. was U. S. senator of Nevada.

Thomas and John Jones had no money to spare when they left their English homes, but they possessed what was of more lasting value, talent, industry, self-respect, and ambition. The older of the brothers had also a wife and several children.

Thomas Jones, Sr., was a mason and marble-cutter, and he found plenty of work when he reached here in 1831. He established marble works on the corner of Prospect and Sheriff streets, which were carried on by his sons long after he had gone to the Better Land.

The family residence was on Erie, now East 9th street, directly back of the Hickox building, north-west corner of Euclid Ave. and East 9th street. That corner was a big vacant lot, where played the large family of Jones children and nearly every other boy in town to keep them company. Between the Jones homestead and Superior street was a grove of trees, and the south side of Euclid Ave. several rods below Erie was covered with oaks, as was also the site of the Cleveland Trust Co.

Children of Thomas and Mary Powell Jones:

Thomas Jones, Jr., m. Mary Ann Freeman.

U. S. Senator John P. Jones, m. a California lady.

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Judge James M. Jones, m. Erminie Burrows, daughter of Harman.and Leonora Burrows of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

William Jones, m. Helen Root

Henry Jones, unmarried.

Mary Jones, died young.

Cornelia Jones, m. Edward Gorham

Frederick Jones, m. Mary Murray

Caroline Jones, m. George Lester.

Frances Jones, m. Alonzo Hamilton.

Samuel and Edward Jones, unmar ried.

John Jones, brother of Thomas Jones, Sr., came to Cleveland in 1829. He was but a lad of 17 years when he arrived nearly penniless, and a total stranger. But pluck and energy won out, and before life ended he had become financially independent. He conducted a livery and transfer business. His home was on Huron street at its junction with Erie, now East 9th. The site is now occupied by the Cafe Bismarck.

Mrs. John Jones-Mary Mason-was a woman of fine physique, and attractive manners. Her children inherited her good looks to even a greater degree. Her only daughter after her marriage to Judge Hamilton, lived beside her parents on Huron street until her own children were well grown, when the family removed to an elegant stone residence on East 89th street.

Children of John and Mary Mason Jones:

William S. Jones, m. Mattie Clark.

Mary Jones, m. Judge Edwin Hamilton

Orville Jones, m. Maria Swain.

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William S. Jones was a civil engineer by profession, but engaged in other lines of work. He was city auditor for seven years, and president of the Citizens and Savings association. Both of John Jones' sons were men of honest, moral lives, and much honored and appreciated.

1830

Population-1075.

Town Trustees- N. C. Crittenden, Thomas May, Edmund Clark.

Postmaster-Daniel Worley.

President of Trustees-Richard Hilliard

Recorder-James L. Conger.

Treasurer-Daniel Worley.

Marshal-Silas Belden.

1830

Euclid Ave., corner of Muirson street, sold for $100 an acre.

Henry Still and wife died and were interred in Erie street cemetery.

Married. "John C. Granger of Painesville, Ohio, to Sarah Maria

Phelps of Cleveland." (Herald.)

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Died. Lucintha, wife of James S. Clarke. (Erie street cemetery.)

Married. Russell Bratt and Olive Chapman. (Herald.)

Died. Zibbe Willes, aged 33 years. (Erie street cemetery.)

Euclid Ave. is yet but a narrow road scarcely more than a wagontrack with trees and bushes crowding its sides beyond Erie street, and the houses on it mostly poor and dilapidated.

1830

TO WHOM DID IT BELONG?

(From The Cleveland Advertiser)

"Found, On the morning of August 12, 1831, a portable trunk, which on examination in the presence of witnesses, was found to contain female wearing apparel, very rich, and of much value.

Said trunk was found between the wagon-tracks, upon the Brooklyn end of the bridge crossing from Cleveland to Brooklyn. The owner may recover same by proving property and paying charges.

JOHN D. HEACOCKS, Brooklyn."

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ST. JOHN

When, in the War of 1812, the British and Indians burned the hamlet of Buffalo, N. Y., one house, on Main street, was left standing unharmed among the ruins. It belonged to Mrs. Margaret Kinsman Marsh, widow of Gamaliel St. John, formerly of Norwalk, Conn., who had been drowned in Niagara river a few years previous. Moreover, a large store-house belonging to her was also left unmolested through her tact and powers of persuasion. She was a woman of remarkably strong character, and that this trait was transmitted in a marked degree was evidenced by the lives of her children and grandchildren who were pioneers of our sister city and also of our own.

The Cleveland Herald in 1820 records the marriage of her daughter Sarah St. John to Samuel Wilkinson "all of Buffalo, N. Y." This daughter and her sisters Aurelia St. John-Mrs. Asaph Bemis-and Caroline St. John-Mrs. Jonathan Sibley-passed their long and prosperous lives in Buffalo universally recognized as the city's society leaders. The two younger sisters removed to this place as brides. They were Maria St. John, who married Asaph Fiske, and Martha St. John, who became Mrs. Orville Bird Skinner.

As girls, the St. John sisters were fine-looking women who always dressed in the height of fashion. Their mother was prosperous in business investments, and liberal and indulgent with her children. Previous

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to their marriages Maria and Martha St. John often visited in Cleveland, and their arrival settled all questions of style either in clothes or manners.

Madame Severance recalls the sensation they created, one fall, by appearing in church and upon the streets in long velvet capes lined with red or blue satin.

"Quite such elegance was overwhelming to our small frontier town," remarked Mrs. Severance.

The eldest son of the St. John family was John R. St. John, born 1805, who made Cleveland his home some years before it was incorporated as a city; when, upon that event, he became councilman from the first ward. In 1839, he was chosen chief of the volunteer fire department. He was at that time a dashing young man, handsome, alert, fiery of speech, irresistible in persuasion, who could sway a crowd at will by his impetuosity and his eloquence. He married late in life Susan Amelia Harley of Rockport, N. Y. He was living in New York City in 1857, one of the firm of Houghtaling & Co. He died in 1868.

Orson St. John, M. D., was the youngest son of Madame St. John of Buffalo. He was living in Cleveland as early as 1832, for he was one of the three physicians appointed by the city council to constitute a board of health to cope with the threatened menace of Asiatic cholera.

Dr. St. John stood high in his profession, which he followed in this locality and in Willoughby through all his life. He married Louise M. Card of the latter place, and afterwards made his home in that town, though keeping in touch with the medical profession in Cleveland. Dr. St. John's residence in the city was on Erie street near Euclid. The Lenox building covers the site of his home. His only daughter Margaret St. John was a beautiful woman in person and in character.

Children of Orson and Louise Card St. John:

Thomas St. John, b. 1842; died 19 years of age..

Margaret St. John, b. 1846; m. Wallace C. Andrews of Cleveland.

Gamaliel St. John, b. 1848; m. Georgia Boyden

Orson St. John, Jr., b. 1852.

Wallace C. Andrews, who married Margaret St. John, was a wealthy Standard Oil man, and removing to New Yo rk, lived there in a beautiful home in a fashionable part of the city. One day, April 7, 1899, while the wife and three children of Mrs. Andrews' brother, Gamaliel St. John, were there on a visit, a terrible gas explosion wrecked the house, killing Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Gamaliel St. John, all three of the St. John children, and two servants.

The homestead in Willoughby and two million dollars were left by will to found an industrial school for girls in Willoughby. No use was made of the bequest for many years, but finally, in 1911, the school was started on a small scale. Gamaliel St. John married again, and died in New York.

Mary Bemis, a daughter of Mrs. Aurelia St. John Bemis of Buffalo, married Frank Thompson, a young lawyer, and came to Cleveland as a

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bride in January, 1835. They lived in a house on Champlain street belonging to the Skinners. The following September, Mrs. Thompson sent for her younger sister Catherine Bemis, who remained with her until spring. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson removed to Flint, Mich., where the latter died in 1836. The recollections of that visit, its happenings, and adventures, the personalities of the people she met, etc., remained with Catherine Bemis through a long life that terminated in this city in the 7th year of the present century. She married John Bartow of Flint, Mich., and was the mother of the late Capt. John Bartow, Jr., of this city, and Mrs. Joseph Card of Brookline, Mass. She made her home with her son during her declining years. In her old age, she belonged to literary societies, often spent more than half the night in reading, and kept herself well posted in Congressional proceedings. She assisted the writer in many instances by her reminiscences.

She told that the winter of 1835 was a lively one in the little village ; parties, dances, sleigh rides, etc., followed closely one upon the other. There was a furore over chess that winter, and every one who could play the game skillfully was in demand. It superseded every other quiet amusement or game. Those who excelled in it, and therefore warmly welcomed at the fireside, were John E. Lyon, Eben Ward, Judah Colt, and George Merwin. (Judah Colt married a sister of Morris and Tower Jackson of Cleveland.)

Madam Bartow spoke enthusiastically of the general culture and refinement that existed in the small town ; its hospitality and good breeding were proverbial. She mentioned many well-known names in this particular, among them that of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hicks, most delightful people who lived on Water street in a fine home, either in the Whitaker house or one next to it, where they entertained often.

Mr. and Mrs. Asaph Fisk lived for a time on Huron street. His health failing, they removed to Kentucky, trusting that the climate of that state might prove beneficial. But it was unavailing; he died, and his widow, Maria St. John Fisk, returned to Cleveland. While in Kentucky, and in the midst of her uneasiness and anxiety regarding her husband's illness, Mrs. Fisk underwent one of the severest tests of womanly courage and strength. Her little Hiram, four years of age, strayed away from home, and was never found. Joining her efforts with others who were unceasing in their search for her child, she walked miles day after day, climbing, wading, suffering all kinds of exposure and fatigue. There were yet wild animals in that region, and at last she concluded that the little fellow perished because of them. Her other son, John St. John Fiske, in after years lived and died in Colorado. Her only daughter, Calista Fiske, married 1st, Orson Phelps, a prominent hotel man of Buffalo; 2nd, Dr. Talbot.

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John Seaman was the son of John and Elisabeth Seaman, whose home was near Saratoga, N. Y. His father died when he was a mere lad, and he was brought up in the family of Orin Sage of Rochester, N. Y., and by him taught the trade of shoemaking. The relation between employer and apprentice was often a pleasant one, followed by life-time friendships.

Mrs. Seaman was Cleora Augusta Stevens, daughter of Levi and Lucy Boynton Stevens of Middlebury, Vt. They removed to Rochester, N. Y., when she was a child. At seventeen years of age she was married and started on a wedding trip to the village- of Cleveland at the period when the wedding-bonnet was a green calash, and the long journey made by canal-boat and stage-coach. Her parents in after years followed her to Cleveland and died here. Mrs. Lucy Boynton Stevens is said to have been a lovely woman.

The population of Cleveland when the Seamans arrived was about 1000. With W. T. Smith, under the firm name of "Seaman and Smith," Mr. Seaman started a boot, shoe, and leather-store at 41 Superior street. The Seaman homestead was at 117 Seneca street, and the family were charter-members of the First Baptist church, which, in those days, met in a little upper room of the St. Clair street school-house corner of Academy Lane, now headquarters of the fire department. So poor and struggling was the village life, that the oil-lamps the society used for evening services were seized for debt. The elegant and costly structure corner of Prospect and Kennard streets is the child of the small society of 1832.

Mrs. Seaman sang in the choir, and was a leader in all its social and religious affairs. Three of her younger children died, and her health became affected. She was sent to Philadelphia to recuperate, and while there to pass away the time, she attended medical lectures in the Women's Medical College of that city. She always had had a taste in that direction, had a large library of books on hygiene, etc., and had studied the subject. Upon her return to Cleveland, she longed to add to the medical knowledge she had gained while away, so Mr. Seaman fitted up a comfortable armchair in the little gallery of the small Homeopathic college in Cleveland that she might continue hearing lectures, as it seemed an excellent way to take her mind off the loss of her children, and keep her well.

She entered the examinations in competition with the men, and stood third or fourth from the top. Her success encouraged other women to follow her example, and the college, taking alarm, closed its doors to women. Backed by sympathetic friends, Mrs. Seaman started a medical college for her sex, which existed until the larger one was again willing to receive students of both sexes.

She began practicing medicine in a quiet way, but never pushed herself, never hung out a sign, or went out of her home, but was very successful in helping women who, from the nature of their illness, could not or would not go to men physicians.

Her husband's income was sufficient for all her needs, and she began by making no charge for her advice or treatment until she found herself imposed upon ; after which she exacted a small fee from those able to pay it, and used that money to assist the poor and unfortunate.

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One room in her house was called the "Lord's room," and sufferers beyond help and given up by the doctors were cared for there. Her daughter remembers a helpless, bed-ridden woman with her limbs drawn up through the agony of pain, being lifted from the alley in which she lived and carried into this room where she remained several years, and so helped was she by the kindness and skill there received that she was able to walk with the aid of a cane, and leaning upon it, she was one of the sincerest mourners at Mrs. Seaman's funeral which occurred in 1869. The latter died while on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge, in Providence, R. I.

Children of John and Cleora Seaman:

Henry Seaman, m. Louise Barr of Buffalo..

Lucy Stevens Seaman, m. William F. Bainbridge of Elmira, N. Y.

Charles Seaman, m. Carrie Athon of Indianapolis

Mr. and Mrs. John Seaman rest in Woodland cemetery.

1830

WALL

Edward Wall, 27 years old, a boot and shoe-maker, left Wales in 1830, and crossed the sea to try new fortunes in the small village on Lake Erie. Mrs. Wall accompanied him, not willing to wait until he had become established here, and then travel alone to join him. They were a happy young couple when Edward had started his shop at 114 Superior street, and the household furnishings had been arranged to advantage at 69 Seneca street.

Mrs. Wall-Eliza Lord-found many congenial neighbors in town, the beginning or resuming of life-long friendships. The Jones families, the Robert Baileys, the McMillens, the Josiah Harris family were all bound by cords of mutual affection and respect. What affected one family was of interest and concern to them all.

The Walls lived, for a time, on the south-west corner of Ontario street and the Square. For many years a frame-building stood on that site, now occupied by a drug-store. It was 'made a landmark by the figures "61" in very large size placed on its front gable.

From this the Walls moved to Huron street south of Erie, where the parents died, Mr. Wall aged 67 years, and Mrs. Wall 59 years.

Children of Edward and Eliza Wall:

Eliza and Edward Wall, died young.

Fanny Wall, m. Milton Rider.

Mary A. Wall, m. Frank Bruce.

Martha Wall, m. Brougham Harrisson of Josiah A. Harris. (See Harris sketch.)

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Mrs. Brougham Harris, a childless widow, resides in Lakewood. Two grandchildren are in her care on whom she lavishes a wealth of affection. Mrs. Harris is an unusual woman in many ways. Advancing age does not prevent her from keeping abreast of great movements, local or national. She is intensely interested in life as she finds it, and most optimistic in her predictions for the world's betterment. Withal she loves to dwell upon the pioneer days :of neighborly kindness and good will, while she continues to exemplify them in herself.

1830

LEWIS

William Goodwin Lewis was a dry-goods merchant of the city as early as 1830, at which time he married and came west from New Britain, Conn. His wife was Eliza L. Southworth, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Shipman Southworth of Paris, N. Y.

Mr. Lewis's store was on the north side of Superior near Water street, and just east of J. H. Crittenden's leather and shoe-store. The family resided on the opposite side of the street between Bank and Seneca, now West 6th and 3rd streets. J. C. Fairchild of the firm of Fairchild and Champion, either shared the house with them or boarded with them, as his address was the same.

Mr. Lewis was hard hit by the panic of 1837, and within a year or two following it he returned east, settling in Philadelphia. There he entered the hardware business in which he was successful. For many years he was a member of the Walnut street Presbyterian church of that city.

Children of William G. and Eliza Southworth Lewis:

Henry Martyn Lewis, b. 1831; m. Frances A. Smith of Litchfield Conn. (He was in partnership with his father, and an elder in the Presbyterian church in Philadelphia.)

Mary Justia Lewis, b. 1833.

William Goodwin Lewis.

1830

HOADLEY

The arrival of the Hoadleys and Woolseys from New Haven, Conn., in 1830, added much to the social element of the town, and in after years to its renown, as one of the party became governor of Ohio. These families were people of considerable note in their eastern home, and were closely related to several scholars of national reputation, and had been

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accustomed to many niceties of living that hitherto our little western town had been too poor or too busy to adopt.

Mr. Hoadley and Mrs. Woolsey were brother and sister. On the other hand, Mrs. Woolsey was a sister of Sherlock J. Andrews who had been established here for nearly five years, and his wife was a sister of John W. Allen. So it will be seen that the new arrivals, combined with relatives who had preceded them, formed a delightful family group which for many years enjoyed mutual intimacy, affection, and respect.

Hon. George Hoadley, or "Squire Hoadley," as he was best known, was the son of. Capt. Timothy Hoadley of Northford, Conn., who, earned his military title through the command of a company of militia in the American Revolution, was with Gen. Schuyler at Burgoyne's surrender, and a man of distinction in his native town.

His son, at the early age of 20, was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1801, and among other well-earned honors previous to his removal to Cleveland, at the age of 50, had been mayor of New Haven, Conn.

Upon his arrival here, he advertised for legal business in the Herald, stating his experience, etc. His office was located at 45 Superior street. His ability was soon recognized by the town, and he was made a justice of the peace, and it is stated that during the 15 years he served as a magistrate, he decided 20,000 legal cases.

The late Judge James D. Cleveland, in a keen but kindly criticism of early men and events, said

"George Hoadley was one of the most remarkable men of the day and the town. He was thoroughly educated, an encyclopedia of legal learning, a fountain of intelligence on equity, history, biography, and horticulture.

"He displayed the kindest heart to every one who came into his court, and was known to every man and boy as one who administered his office with integrity, firmness, and consideration for all, without respect of persons, and his judgments were regarded as irreversible and final."

Squire Hoadley was mayor of the city in 1846, and soon afterward retired to private life, devoting himself to his books and his flowers, for which he possessed intimate knowledge and exquisite taste. He was hale and hearty to within a few days of his death which occurred in 1857, from the effects of a sudden cold. His grave is in Erie street cemetery at the left of the main drive going east.

Mrs. Hoadley was a lady of the old-fashioned school, and one of the finest characters who lived in Cleveland at that day. She was Mary Woolsey, daughter of William Walton and Mary Dwight Woolsey, and was born in New York City in 1793. She was a niece of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale college, granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards, president of Princeton college, sister of Theodore D. Woolsey, also president of Yale, and an aunt of Theodore Winthrop.

She married, 1st, Jared Scarborough, who died, leaving her with a young son, William Scarborough.

In 1819, she married George Hoadley in New Haven. She brought with her to Cleveland her son William and three Hoadley children, the oldest ten years, and the youngest but a year old. To these were added, four years later, another daughter. These children she partly educated

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herself, and besides book-knowledge, inculcated in them her own simple manners, New England conscience, high ideals, and moderate thrift. Her daughters matured into exceptionally fine women, and her son became governor of Ohio.

After the death of her husband, Mrs. Hoadley removed to Cincinnati to make her home with one of her children. She died 14 years later and was laid at rest beside her husband in Erie street cemetery.

Children of George and Mary Woolsey Hoadley:

Mary Ann Hoadley, b. 1820; m. Thomas F. Pomeroy of Utica, N. Y..

Elisabeth Dwight Hoadley, b. 1822;

m. Gen. Joshua H. Bates of Cincinnati.

George Hoadley, b. 1826; m. Mary B. Perry. He became governor of Ohio

Laura Hoadley, b. 1834, in Cleveland. Died unmarried at the age of 19 years.

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Anson Haydn was a young merchant of Hartford, Conn., went to New York City in 1823 to establish an importing business, and seven years later at the age of 44 came to Cleveland and dealt in real-estate.

He was the son of Levi and Margaret Strong Haydn of "Haydn's," near Windsor, Conn. In 1817, when 31 years of age, he married Mary Lloyd, the 18-year-old daughter of Thomas and Mary Bradley Lloyd. Bishop Chase, who performed the ceremony, once said of her

"The sweetest flower that bloomed in the state of Connecticut is Mary Lloyd."

Her family were of considerable local distinction in Hartford, Conn. Her father was a member of the Connecticut Land Co., and owned large tracts of land near Warren, Ohio. The first Cleveland home of the Haydns was on the west side of the Public Square, the present site of the American Trust Co.'s building. The house was painted white, had green blinds, and stood in a garden that ran back to Seneca, now West 3rd, st. Here Mrs. Haydn died six weeks after the birth of her only son. He was the eighth child, seven little daughters having preceded him. Her funeral services were held in Trinity church when it stood on the corner of St. Clair and Seneca streets.

Jane, the eldest daughter, took charge of the family, and for a year was assisted by her aunt Delia Lloyd, who gave up a European trip in order to be with the stricken household. As Mr. Haydn was a real-estate dealer, it naturally followed that the family changed their place of residence two or three times, but when he opened and allotted Summit street, he built a picturesque one-storied brick cottage there on the corner of Ontario street, which soon became embedded in trees, shrubs, and many

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flowers. For nearly half a century it was the center of hospitality and good cheer. The family were ardent Episcopalians, and each member of it a faithful worker and attendant of either Trinity or Grace church. Here the unmarried sisters, Jane, Caroline, Margaret, and Sarah Haydn, lived, some of them long years after the death of their father and of their brother. They were gentle, refined ladies of the old school of manners, and beloved by all who knew them. The march of events swept away the old homestead to make room for some new city buildings, and the two remaining sisters, all that were left of the once large household, removed to the East End to spend the rest of their days.

The children of Anson and Mary Lloyd Haydn:

Jane Haydn, b. at Hartford, Conn.; died in 1876, unmarried.

Mary Haydn, m. Thomas Miller of Lexington, Ky.

Caroline Haydn, d. 1877, unmarried.

Rosella Haydn, b. 1822; m. Dr. Augustus Barlow of Fort Scott, Kas. She died young.

Ann Haydn, b. in New York ; unmarried.

Margaret Haydn, unmarried.

Sarah Haydn, unmarried.

Thomas Lloyd Haydn, b. 1835. This son of the family also never married. He was a graduate of Trinity College, N. Y., and a colonel in the staff of Gen. Wright during the Civil War, and was wounded while carrying dispatches the night of Sheridan's ride. He died when 46 years of age. Anson Haydn, the father, died the same year, aged 85.

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Josiah Albert Harris, for nearly 40 years editor and publisher of the Cleveland Daily Herald, came here from Amherst, Ohio.

He was the son of Judge Josiah Harris, a pioneer of that place who removed to it in 1818 from Becket, Mass. The wife of Judge Harris was Charity Messenger, daughter of Hiram and Ann Shapley Messenger. She was a delicate woman, and died in 1837 leaving four children. Judge Harris was a powerin his community. He was the town's first postmaster and its sheriff. His chief characteristic was a generosity of human sympathy, which made him the confidant of people whose private affairs were tangled and peace of mind jeopardized thereby, and he was the first one to whom a neighbor in financial distress turned for help or comfort. His son Josiah H. Harris was 21 years of age when, in 1830, he married Miss Esther Race and came directly to Cleveland with his young bride, one year his junior. Her mother was Viana Joice Race, a pioneer of Ridgeville, Ohio, who came there from Egermont, Mass.

The first Harris home was a small frame-house on the south-west corner of Ontario street and the Public Square. Later, it was on Bank

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street, No. 72, and finally the family occupied one of a brick block of residences that Mr. Harris erected on Seneca street north of St. Clair.

The Cleveland Herald was founded in 1819 by Eben Howe and Zibba Willes, and for 16 years thereafter led a precarious position as a weekly newspaper. In 1837, Mr. Harris assumed its publication, having bought and consolidated it with The Cleveland Gazette, formerly owned and edited by Charles Whittlesey. At this stage of its growth, the Herald was yet a poor and struggling venture, requiring all of Mr. Harris' energies to keep it afloat. To add to the responsibility, he started a daily issue, turning the older one into a weekly resume of the news. And thus, The Cleveland Herald might be said to have been "born again" as The Cleveland Daily Herald.

Mr. Harris was a man of extraordinary industry. Mr. Edwin Cowles, long years editor of The Cleveland Leader, learned the printer's trade of him, and facetiously claims that Mr. Harris was at one and the same time editor-in-chief, and his own city editor, financial editor, commercial editor, mailing clerk, and book-keeper. Had each of these been a separate personality, Mr. Harris could have divided his stock of sterling qualities, simple goodness, and unbounded generosity, making of them better men than the average. He was mayor of the city in 1847.

He died in 1876 aged 67 years, and was buried in old Erie street cemetery.

Mrs. Harris was a fair sample of the noble pioneer women of the past. If Mr. Harris was a tireless, energetic worker, in no less degree was his wife. It was in the days of apprenticeship, and when boys learning their trade were members of their employer's household all, through their period of service. Mr. Harris always had several of these young students of the printer's trade at his establishment, and many a testimony has been preserved and furnished of the uniform interest and motherly kindness ever shown by Mrs. Harris to "her boys," as she continued to call them long after they had reached manhood.

She had several young children of her own, and these with the apprentices made a large household to care for. The three hearty meals to be cooked each day and served to ever-hungry men and boys was but a fraction of the unceasing labor and planning involved in the management of the household.

It is amazing that Mrs. Harris found a moment's time for anything outside of it. But from the first days of her life in Cleveland to the last, over 70 years, she showed a personal interest in every philanthropic and patriotic work in which women could lend a helping hand, and was one of the founders of several of the city's oldest and loveliest charities. The Protestant Orphan Asylum and the Dorcas Society, organized to care for aged women and crippled children, were among these. When the Civil War broke out she became, at once, a most energetic and efficient member of the Sanitary Commission, and every day found her in its storeroom superintending or helping to pack boxes of clothing and dainties for sick and wounded soldiers at the front. A bas-relief of Mrs. Harris on a bronze panel can be seen in the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument on the Public Square, placed there in honor of her memory.

She was long a valuable member of the Early Settlers' Association, an

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organization that showed her every respect it was possible to bestow. At its annual meetings, she sat at the president's right hand and was often referred to in terms of sincere affection. The death of Mrs. Harris at the age of 93, after but three days' illness, followed immediately after the annual dinner of the Dorcas Society in 1903, at which she was present.

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah A. Harris:

Byron C. Harris, b. 1832; m. Emily Chigee ; 2nd, Catherine Van Ness.

Brougham E. Harris, b. 1838; m. Martha Wall, deceased. His widow resides in Lakewood.

Helen Harris, m. F. X. Byerley, deceased

Zachariah or "Zach" Harris, m. Mary E. Tabor, deceased. He was an unusually handsome child, and in his young manhood retained his grace and good looks.

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Another early member of the First Baptist church and identified with all its struggles and anxieties was Mrs. Jasper Griffith. She was Lettie Morris of Shefterburg, Vt., daughter of Robert and Charity Morris, and married Seth W. Stewart, aide de camp to Gen. Brooks in the battle of Plattsburg. Mr. Stewart died, and in 1829 she married Jasper Griffith, who lived but a short time.

Mrs. Griffith's residence in Cleveland was on the north-east corner of Bank and St. Clair streets, the old Blair place, and she was well known by all the old families living in that neighborhood. Her children were John Stewart who married Celinda Chandles, and Susan Stewart who married, in 1843, Charles L. Fish, a lawyer.

Mrs. Susan Stewart Fish resided in Cleveland for over 70 years, and for half a century was a member of the Baptist church her mother helped to organize. Her life was far from a happy one. Mr. Fish was a peculiar man who required much of his wife, and prosperity brought no cessation of her household affairs. She had other family sorrows, all of which she bore patiently.

They lived on Huron street near the hospital for many years, and both died corner of Prospect and Cheshire streets.

There were sons in the family, but no data concerning them can be found. They are said to have died in young manhood.

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Thomas Dorset and his wife Mary East left Inton, England, in 1830, to seek a new home in America. They were led to invest in a farm in Newburgh, which was sold and another and larger one purchased with the proceeds.

Finally they moved into town and lived on the corner of Ontario and High streets, then a nice neighborhood. The nearest store was on the corner of Ontario street and the Public Square, and once when the family were complaining about the distance, Mr. Dorset remarked, "I shouldn't wonder if some day the city would grow so large that a store will be opened way out here. Who knows that perhaps this lot will be wanted to build a store on?" A surmise that seems odd enough in the present congested condition of Ontario street far beyond High street. And when one glances at the latter in passing, it does not seem possible that once well-known Cleveland people were residents of the forlorn, alley-like street in which two or three old, tumble-down houses occupied by poor negroes are still standing.

Thomas Dorset died in 1858, and his wife in 1866, aged 61 years. They both lie in Erie street cemetery, with a stone marking their graves. They had no sons or none that reached maturity, but their four daughters married and lived in the city many years.

Children of Thomas and Mary East Dorset:

Betsey Dorset, m. Wendall Wackerman.

Anna Dorset, m. Jonathan Williams.

Mary Dorset, m. Samuel Curtis

Harriet Dorset, m. Thomas Davis.

Wendall Wackerman was a well-known pioneer baker. He also had a grocery-store.

Anna Dorset Williams died in 1859, and Jonathan Williams m. 2nd, Elisabeth

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KELLOGG, KELLEY, CLARK, CAMP, BINGHAM

These families, all related through marriages, came to Cleveland from 1830 to 1836.

James and Polly Kellogg were the children of James Kellogg, Sr., and Lydia Nash Kellogg, and were born in Northfield, Conn.

James Kellogg, Jr., left Northfield, and engaged in the paper business in Lewistown, Pa. In 1830 he removed to Cleveland, and continued the manufacture of paper in this city. He also engaged in the business of contracting and building. His office was at 48 Superior street, and his residence at that time was 93 Bank street. He built the American House with its stores below, hotel above, and a third story in which was a large room that served as a hall, the scene of many functions quite opposite in character, but equally important to the citizens who attended them.

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Here the Stone church members worshiped before their own building was ready for them, in 1833, and here was the scene of many a festive gathering, terminating in a ball that lasted till the cock crew for sunrise.

Mr. Kellogg erected other buildings, and was a well known man in town for many years. He was a vestryman of Trinity church, and all the family were members of it.

He married his second cousin, Susannah K. Camp, b. 1791, in Norwalk, Conn. She died in Cleveland aged 83 years.

She was a daughter of Isaac Camp and Elisabeth Nash Camp. She had a brother living in Cleveland, Charles L. Camp, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere.

The children of James and Susannah Camp Kellogg:

Edward Turner Kellogg, b. 1823; m. in New Albany, Ind., Harriet Brainard. He died in California, aged 32.

Charles D. Kellogg, b. 1827; d. seven years of age.

Susannah Catherine Kellogg. A life-long resident of the city and beloved of many friends. (Died recently.)

Wm. Norman Lyster Kellogg, m. Charlotte E. Kelley, daughter of James H. Kelley. He died in Racine, Wis., aged 35 years. While living in Cleveland, W. N. L. Kellogg was a member of the firm of"Freeman & Kellogg," doing a large business

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There are several traces in Cleveland and Newburgh of a James Cleveland who lived at intervals in both places.

His wife was Polly George, born 1802, who died in 1871 at Fond du Lac, Wis.

James Cleveland died, 1867, in Missouri, aged 66 years.

Children of James and Polly George Cleveland:

William Cleveland, b. 1822.

Josiah Cleveland, b. 1824.

Sally Fox Cleveland, m. Porter J. Morgan.

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The following death-notice, copied from The Cleveland Advertiser of January, 1830, serves a double purpose. It indicates that Mrs. Philo Johnson was a resident of the village in 1830. It also is a good specimen of the style of obituary that prevailed for many years preceding and following it.

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"In this village, on the 16th inst., Mrs. Birth Johnson, relict of Mr. Philo Johnson of Derby, Conn., aged 76 years.

"Her sickness though long and distressing made no breech in her faith that she had in Christ, but undoubtedly wrought out for her a far more and exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

"During her sickness she looked forward with great delight to the resurrection morning, saying, `If Christ had not risen, then hope were vain,' but she blessed God that `He was the first fruits of them that slept,' therefore she should be `clothed with immortality and reign with Him in glory.'

"N. B. Printers in New Haven, Conn., are requested to insert this notice."

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Mathew Cozzins and his wife Susan came from England about 1812 and settled in Cazenovia, N. Y., where Alfred and Myron Cozzins, Cleveland pioneers, were born, the former in 1817.

The two brothers settled in Cleveland about 1830. They were stewards on steamboats, kept restaurants, etc. Alfred had charge for a short time of the present Forest City House. He lived in Prospect st.

In the early '30s, Alfred married Lucy Anne Burton, daughter of William and Lucy Webb Burton, pioneers of the city. She was born in 1820 in St. Albans, Vt., and died in Gastonia, N. C., in 1896.

Alfred Cozzins and family removed to Ottawa, Ont., in 1859, and from there went south, where they remained until after the death of Mrs. Cozzins.

Children of Alfred and Lucy Burton Cozzins:

Myron Ellison Cozzins, m. Mary Henderson of West Liberty, O., and lives in Chicago, Ill.

Ida Cozzens, m. J. F. W. Thomas of Chicago

Alfred Cozzens died in 1896, at the home of his son in Chicago, only four months after the death of his wife.

Mary Anne Cozzens, sister of Alfred and Myron Cozzens, m. Benjamin Ross, with whom the former was associated for a few years as "B. Ross & Co., grocery and provision dealers," but the city directory of 1856 indicates that Mathew and his two sons were all engaged in another business on Water street.

In 1837 Myron Cozzens was keeping a livery stable on Champlain st. About 1846 he married Jane Webb, daughter of Joseph Webb, who, with his brother, John Webb, was in the grocery business on the corner of Water and Johnson streets.

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Myron Cozzens was then about 35 years old, and his bride, 18 years.

They had one son:

Myron Alfred Cozzens, b. 1848; d. 1906; m. Louise Ellen Clark of Cleveland. He was a prosperous manufacturer of lard oil.

After the death of Myron Cozzens, Sr., his widow married Alexander S. Cramer, by whom she had two children, Edwin Cramer and Mary Cramer. A. S. Cramer was a Cleveland merchant. He is buried in Erie st. cemetery.

Jane Webb Cozzens Cramer died in her 76th year. The family buriallot was in Erie st. cemetery, but has recently been removed to Lake View.

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On the north-west corner of Ontario and Michigan street stood a picturesque country tavern facing the latter thoroughfare. It set back a little from the street. Its long veranda was reached by a flight of steps its entire width. In front was a watering trough sheltered by an immense, wide-spreading elm. This tavern was renamed two or three times according to the taste or ambition of its changing landlords. "Farmers' and Mechanics' Hotel" was the one by which it was known when Seth A. Abbey and his wife had charge of it.

They came to Cleveland in 1830, and with them was Peter Abbey, 61 years of age, of Enfield, Conn., the father of Seth. Mrs. Peter Abbey had died in Watertown, N. Y., in 1821. She was a Miss Hannah Alden, daughter of Col. Amos Alden of Enfield.

Seth Abbey assisted in the incorporation of the city in 1836, by serving with Edmund Clark and Richard Winslow as first judges of elections. He was also city marshal for a time, and judge of police court. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted and served in a cavalry regiment.

Mrs. Seth Abbey was a fine woman worthy of much more than life gave her through her long years of wifehood and motherhood. She was faithful and true to all the obligations laid upon her, and faced bravely all the vicissitudes of life as they came to her. She was Mercy Hunt, adopted daughter of Marinus W. Gilbert of Oneida County, N. Y., and was 31 years of age when she removed to Cleveland. She brought with her five children, and three more were born here.

Children of Judge and Mercy Hunt Abbey:

Henry Gilbert, Edwin, Charles, Hannah Ward, Harriet, Charles Hunt, and Maria Frances Abbey.

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Henry G. Abbey was the best known of these children, and gained for himself a well-defined position of confidence and respect in the city. He was a personal friend of Leonard Case, Jr., and his confidential secretary. He was a member of the famous social and literary club called "The Ark." He married Miss Amelia Johnstone, the daughter of Dr. Robert Johnstone, and a very bright woman. She is now widowed and living abroad.

Harriet Abbey, born in Watertown, N. Y., in 1830, died in Cleveland at the age of 23 years.

Hannah Ward Abbey married John Ingersoll and is remembered as a beautiful woman. She died in 1892.

Mrs. Mercy Hunt Abbey, in her later years was an invalid. She died in 1854. The daughter of her sister married Dr. Thomas G. Cleveland, a well-known young physician of this city.

Two years after the death of Mrs. Abbey, Seth Abbey married Mary Lyon, widow of William T. Goodwin. The only child of this late marriage was Minnie Lyon Abbey, now Mrs. Charles A. Prentice.

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William T. Goodwin was a saddler, and in 1836 was living in Orange Alley, now Johnson street. His wife was Mary Lyon, a sister of Mrs. Leonard Burgess, and daughter of one of the founders of Strongsville, Ohio. Their brother L. L. Lyon was a well-known citizen of Cleveland, whose residence was on Prospect corner of Sterling.

The Goodwins had three children:

Charles T. Goodwin, m. Miss Leek. After his death she became Mrs. John Huntington.

Wallace William Goodwin, m. Anna Pickands

William Wallace Goodwin, m. Lucy Blair, daughter of Henry Blair.

The above brothers were twins.

William T. Goodwin died, and his widow married secondly, Judge Seth A. Abbey, and had a little daughter named Minnie Lyon Abbey, who married Charles A. Prentice. In her old age, Mrs. Mary Goodwin Abbey met with a tragical death. She was living in a fashionable boardinghouse on Prospect street called the "Granger," when it took fire one day about noon under the main stairway. Mrs. Abbey was on an upper floor of the building, and at the alarm, started to escape, but, returning to secure some valuable papers, she lost her life. Judge Abbey had died several years previous. The Abbey family are buried in Woodland cemetery.

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William Billings, or "Squire" Billings, as he was designated, came to Cleveland in late life from Conway, Mass. His wife, Polly Williams Billings, and three grown children accompanied him.

The family settled on a farm in Newburgh belonging to Edmund Clark, son-in-law to Mr. Billings. One of the daughters, whose name is not recalled, died unmarried.

Henry William Billings, their only son, was a member of the Cleveland bar in 1836. He married and removed to Alton, Ill.

Anna Maria Billings, m. Edmund Clark, the pioneer banker and merchant.

Julia Billings, the youngest child, lived with Mrs. Clark after the death of her parents.

She married George Barlow, and lived on Prospect street many years, where she died 83 years of age. She was very active in the Third Presbyterian church, of which she was long a member.

Mr. and Mrs. William Billings, the pioneers, rest in Harvard Grove cemetery. Their headstones denote that Mr. Billings died in 1864 aged 87 years, and that his wife died aged 69 years.

Beside them is the grave of Lydia McKee, born in Conway, Mass., in 1791, died aged 65 years.

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BARKER

Aaron Barker was the seventh postmaster of Cleveland, succeeding Daniel Worley in the office. He came from Madison, N. Y., to the city about 1830. Mrs. Barker was a Miss Mary Sizer, daughter of Major Asa B. and Elisabeth Starr Sizer. The name was originally French, and spelled De Saisure. Major Sizer was in the same regiment with Gen. Wool in the regular army. Mary Sizer was born in Rome, N. Y., but her parents moved to Madison, where she was married.

Their first home was at Doan's Corners, and afterward Mr. Barker built a house and occupied it on the south-west corner of Ontario and St. Clair street. During his first years in the city he was a man of means, but he invested in too many schemes that required much capital, and too long a time in which to realize on it. At one time he owned very valuable real-estate, which had he held, would have made his children in after years independent. One of these was the lot now occupied by the Society for Savings. When fortune ebbed he moved his family to Mentor, and they all died there and were buried in a Painesville cemetery, except a daughter, Miss Sophia L. Barker, the only living member, who resides on Kennard street. She is a most interesting, intelligent woman. In her younger days she knew all the old Cleveland residents, and recalls many valuable incidents connected with them. She visited in Buffalo often, and had an extensive acquaintance there. She has been kindly, and most useful in furnishing facts to the writer. One of her memories is

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the visit of Martin Van Buren to the city. Her brother Henry Sizer Barker, a Naval officer, died aged 25, and another brother and sister died young.

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There were single men from Scotland and those with families who came to Cleveland early, remained a year or two, and then moved on to other towns within the county or beyond it.

Mark Whitelaw and his bride Marie Nelson, who came here from New York City in 1830, were the first permanent Scotch settlers of this place. Mr. Whitelaw was but 22 years old. He was born in Haddington, Scotland, the son of John and Agnes Robertson Whitelaw. Mrs. Whitelaw was born in 1800 in Arbroath, Scotland. Her parents were William and Jane Nelson.

When they first came to Cleveland, the young couple found a home for themselves in a house on the Public Square near the old courthouse. In after years they permanently settled on Summit street, near Seneca.

Mark Whitelaw was of the firm of Whitelaw, Goodwin & Co., saddlers and harness makers, who were doing business at 62 Superior street until the death of William Goodwin, junior member of the firm. Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw were members of the Old Stone church on the Public Square. At their death they were interred in Erie street cemetery, but later were removed to Lake View by their daughter Miss Mary Whitelaw.

Children of Mark and Maria Whitelaw:

John Whitelaw, b. 1831; m. Mary Arkland of Oshawa, Can.

William Whitelaw, b. 1833; died young.

Agnes Whitelaw, b. 1834; m. James Hole of Milwaukee, Wis.; she died 1886, no issue.

Mary Whitelaw, b. 1837. The only remaining member of her father's family, 1912.

John Whitelaw was city civil engineer for many years, and for more than 39 years was superintendent and engineer of Cleveland Waterworks department. He died in 1892.

James Herbert Whitelaw, m. Alice Alice Whitelaw, m. John E. Boswell Sprecher of Cleveland. At pres- of Toronto, Ontent assistant cashier of National City Bank.

Edith Whitelaw, m. Dr. John F. Stephan of Cleveland.

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John M. Woolsey came to Cleveland from New York City about 1830. He was a member of a distinguished family of scholars and statesmen of New Haven, Conn., and is described as a tall, fine-looking man of courtly bearing. He at once gained the respect of the leading citizens of the place, and during his 20 years or more residence in the city, his advice and judgment in civic affairs had due weight.

Soon after his arrival, Miss Jane Andrews, daughter of Dr. John Andrews of Wallingford, Conn., came west on a visit to her brother Sherlock J. Andrews, and while doing so met Mr. Woolsey.

She was a charming, high-bred young woman, and in after years was noted for her stately bearing. It is said that the Woolseys were the handsomest couple that lived in Cleveland in those early days. They had more ready money than the average citizen and maintained a finer style of living. Mrs. Woolsey possessed the first carriage brought to the city that had steps for convenience in alighting from it.

The Woolseys had a family of interesting children, one of whom became a well-known writer of children's books and stories. Mr. Woolsey was a merchant and had a store on Superior street near Water street, but he began to deal in real-estate, and finally gave his whole attention to it. He allotted all the pasture land that for so many years stood unoccupied between Mrs. Williamson's house and Erie street, and it was not long after he put it on the market before the north side of Euclid street was built up with residences. Mr. Woolsey erected one for himself, and his brother-in-law, George A. Hoadly, built on the next lot. After the city line was moved eastward from Erie street to Willson ave. the two men erected fine homes on the same side of the street just beyond where the Union Club now stands. The families lived side by side until the Woolseys left the city, returning to New Haven, Conn., about 1855. There they remained about 25 years. Mr. Woolsey died, and his widow and children bought a beautiful home in Newport, R. I. At this writing, May, 1910, the last two members of the family have passed away. William Woolsey two weeks ago, and Theodora Woolsey within a few days.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Woolsey:

Sarah Woolsey, a noted American writer, whose nom de plume was "Susan Coolidge."

Jane Woolsey, m. Rev. Dr. Henry Yardley.

Elisabeth Woolsey, m. Dr. Daniel C. Gilman of Johns Hopkins University

Theodora Woolsey, d. in Newport, R. I., May, 1910.

William Woolsey, resided in Aiken, S. C.

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George W. Stanley came to this city from Wallingford, Conn., some time in the early '30s and opened a law office. He was a man who had attained distinction in his native town where for nine years he had been Judge of Probate. He was about 60 years of age when he left New England for the west.

He was the only son of Deacon Oliver and Mary Chauncy Stanley. His father was a captain in a Connecticut regiment in 1777, who at the close of the Revolutionary War, continued conspicuous in public and church life.

In middle age, George W. Stanley married Clarissa Nichols of Newton, Conn., who died in Cleveland in 1873 at an advanced age. The family lived at 86 Ontario street during the first years of their residence in town.

Mr. Stanley was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1793. He died in 1854 aged 79 years.

Children of George W. and Clarissa Nichols Stanley:

George A. Stanley, b. 1818; m Helen E. Foote ; died 1883.

Sarah C. Stanley, b. 1827; died 1904.

George A. Stanley, the only son, was a prominent citizen of Cleveland for many years, and became a man of independent fortune. Following the example of his father, he remained a bachelor until middle age, then married a charming young lady of Detroit, Mich. She was the daughter of George A. Foot of that city, and an older sister of Mrs. James J. Tracy. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley died young.

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WOLVERTON

Stephen Wolverton was a Virginian who lived in Erie, Pa., for some years, serving as its sheriff from 1816 to 1820. He was county commissioner, and in 1823 chosen a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. No record of the year he came to Cleveland has been preserved. He was the light-house keeper in 1836, and lived in a house adjoining it on Water street. He also held the office of wood-inspector when the city was organized. There were two or three wood-markets where farmers' teams loaded with wood stood all day long, awaiting customers. Superior street at its intersection with Water street, now West 9th, was the principal one. An old settler has declared that he had seen ten loads standing there together and stuck in the mud so fast as to be extricated with difficulty.

The duties of an inspector were to see that a load of hickory was all it purported to be, and not partly of inferior grades, and that cords of wood were full measurement. Wood was the only fuel for the first 50

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years of the city's age. By 1856 coal was fast crowding it out of- the market.

The maiden name of Mrs. Wolverton has not been given.

The children of Stephen Wolverton:

Nancy Wolverton, m. E. W. Segur in 1835.

Jane S. Wolverton, m. Capt. Timothy Ingraham, 1835.

Mary Wolverton, m. an U. S. Army officer, and lived in Detroit.

George Wolverton. Nothing found regarding him.

The three young ladies of the family were pretty, stylish, and very popular, especially with the Navy and Army officers who chanced to be in town on business for the Government. The Wolverton girls also were very musical, and sang in church and at private entertainments.

In connection with this, the following card of thanks inserted in an old Cleveland Advertiser will be of interest:

"We, the undersigned, committee of arrangements for celebrating at Cleveland the 59th anniversary of American Independence, wishing not only to express our own feelings but the sentiments of those who participated, take the liberty, in this manner, to express to the Misses Wolverton grateful acknowledgments for their generous aid in assisting the choir in the ceremonies at the Episcopal church, `Old Trinity,' on that occasion.

And the undersigned would further tender them their individual congratulations with assurances of respect and esteem.

Daniel Worley

Nicholas Dockstader.

Samuel Cook.

Jonathan Williams.

John E. Lyon.

Reuben Champion.

Seth A. Abbey.

James A. Briggs.

James S. Clark.

John Barr.

William Lemen.

Alfred S. Sandford.

July 9, 1835."

The above names represented men who were all conspicuous in the professional and business affairs of the city.

Two of the sisters became brides in the fall of that year. E. M. Segur, who married Nancy Wolverton, was landlord of the Mansion House, formerly the Merwin Tavern. But a few days following the Fourth of July celebration above alluded to, a devastating fire swept the south side of Superior street from nearly opposite Bank street to Water. The thick eastern walls of the Mansion House checked the flames, and the building escaped destruction. But over-zealous firemen, or those assisting the fire department, damaged the furnishings of the hotel to an extent equal to a fire. Costly furniture was pitched into the street, beautiful curtains torn down, pictures and china smashed, in short, human nature seems to have conducted itself in the same idiotic fashion in 1835 as is sometimes shown in 1914.

The Wolverton sisters received their musical education in the East, and the Segurs went there finally to live where Mrs. Segur and subsequently her daughters, sang in New York church choirs. All the members of the family died there. Mr. Stephen Wolverton died in Detroit, where he was residing at the time with one of his children.

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John A. Vincent and his bride Mary Graham Vincent who came west in an ox-sled from Woodville, Pa., in the winter of 1830, were one of the many newly married couples whose wedding journey over hills, down dale, and across rivers brought them at length to the little village at the mouth of the Cuyahoga where they were to found a home and a family.

The bride of those days usually was very young, but generally experienced in all household lore. Above all she knew how to prepare a tempting meal out of scanty or limited supplies. Her equipment for culinary effort too often was but an iron kettle and a big bowl. There were no double boilers, fancy roasters, and endless tools for peeling, whipping, basting, steaming, and stirring. Just the kettle and the bowl.

The pioneer bride of 1830 knew how to make her modest furniture appear to best advantage, until that day when time with prosperity had added the long needed, and long wished for chairs, tables, and bureaus, with pretty soft carpets for every room in the house.

John A. Vincent was a skilled cabinet-maker, and his young wife probably gained all these most desirable pieces of furniture much sooner than less fortunate brides. It is said that the ox-sled in which they traveled was a wedding-gift. But, after reaching Cleveland they could have no use for ox or sled, and doubtless sold or traded them to some farmer in need of both.

They found no vacant houses waiting their convenience. Every one was occupied. It seemed an appalling situation to confront them at the end of their long, wearisome journey. But on Mandrake street, just below Water street, some enterprising cooper had erected a large shop which he offered to sell them. It was clean, and odorous with the sweet. smell of freshly-sawed lumber. There was a second story, well lighted, and into this John and Mary Vincent took their belongings and themselves, glad of the shelter it afforded. The lower floor was also rented for John's cabinet-shop. Here they remained for a year or more, the upper floor meanwhile having been neatly divided into three good-sized rooms. In time the household part of the establishment was removed to 34 Water street, close enough, however, to make convenient the call for dinner.

Cabinet-making proved a most profitable business. The boom of 1836 brought hundreds of eastern people to the city and county who had burned their bridges behind them-sold off all their furniture-and tables, chairs, and beds were local necessities loudly demanded. Mr. Vincent prospered, and then kept right on prospering. He took unto himself a business partner, and built or rented a large store on Water street in which to place the quantities of furniture their factory turned out.

Today "Vincent," coupled with Barstow, yet remains a familiar business name to all Clevelanders, though the senior partner of the firm passed into the higher life nearly a quarter century ago. His portrait hangs in the counting-room of the present elegant establishment of "Vincent and Barstow" on Euclid ave. It depicts a fine-looking man with a strong, self-reliant face.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Vincent had two sons and two daughters:

Elisabeth Vincent, died unmarried.

Henry Vincent.

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John Vincent, married and died, leaving a son and daughter.

Mary Vincent, m. 1st, Capt. Theodore Reed; 2nd, Dr. T. N. Himes.

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Benjamin Rouse, son of Joseph Rouse, was left an orphan at the tender age of six years, and thenceforth made his home with his maternal grandmother. When only 17 years old he served in the war of 1812.

In the prime of life, 35 years, he came direct from the city of New York, even then the national metropolis, to the quiet little village of Cleveland numbering but a thousand people, in order to spread the gospel ; not as an ordained minister or as a missionary, but as a colporteur to distribute tracts and as a salesman of good, religious books in a community sadly deficient at that time in such literature.

He came in the interests of the American Sunday School Union, which was endeavoring to establish repositories for their publications in every town in the western pioneer states.

Mr. Rouse did not begin his business life with any such occupation in view. He was a builder and contractor, and in 1824 left Boston, his native place, for New York to seek larger opportunities for his special line of work, but being a man of quick, generous sympathies and religious tendencies, he became interested in the poor districts of the big city, and his success in winning the confidence and affection of the people living in them attracted attention, and the Sunday school union recognizing him as a valuable man for their purposes, eventually persuaded him that the building of houses was as nothing compared with the building of character. Therefore, in October, 1830, accompanied by Mrs. Rouse and their three children, he arrived in Cleveland and opened up a little store on Superior street below the American- House for the sale of the books selected for the occasion. Afterward it was on the north-west corner of Superior street and the Public Square (the site now occupied by Marshall's drug-store). The purchase price was $600.

As early as in 1821, Hershel Foote had kept a small stock of secular books, stationery, etc., in the same spot with what success has never been stated. He removed to the vicinity of Euclid Ave. and Noble road about the time the Rouse family arrived. It is possible that upon learning a big concern like the S. S. Union was about to open another book-store, he relinquished a business that could stand no competition.

Shoulder to shoulder with Benjamin Rouse in this new enterprise, was Rebecca Eliott Rouse his wife, 31 years of age, to whom he was married in 1825. She was born in Salem, Mass., and was the daughter of John Cromwell who died when she was a child.

Little did the idle loiterer and the curious neighbor dream as they watched, perchance, this slight young woman unpack her household effects, or arrange the books in the store with a view to their convenience

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or attraction, that one day thousands of soldiers marching down Superior street and passing this spot on their way to the battle-fields of a great civil war would think of her or address her lovingly as "Mother Rouse," and that as many more thousands of soldier boys would also bless her name ; and yet, before that time arrived, her energies and enthusiasms had long given promise of her greatest of all efforts when a national appeal stirred her soul to its depth.

The cause of temperance in the town early claimed her attention, and in 1842 she organized a Martha Washington society as an auxiliary to the effort of John A. Foote and other earnest citizens to check the drink habit that was fastening upon the community in an alarming degree.

She also was one of the founders of the Protestant Orphan Asylum and an active member of its management many consecutive years.

Mr. and Mrs. Rouse were charter-members of the First Baptist church organized in 1833, and of which Mr. Rouse was long a deacon.

He also drove around the country presiding at religious meetings in little churches in the absence or lack of regular pastors. For a time, just how long has not been ascertained, the family left the city temporarily and resided in Richfield, 0.; doubtless the move had some connection with the S. S. Union work ; meanwhile the Superior street home was early relinquished for a more quiet one on Wood street below St. Clair Ave.

The civil war brought national prominence to Mrs. Rouse through her connection with the Soldiers' Aid Society, the headquarters of which was located in Cleveland, but including in its membership all northern Ohio. She was its very efficient president, and largely responsible for its wonderful success in ameliorating the condition of federal soldiers on the field, in camp, and in the hospital during the four years of the terrific conflict.

In the latter years of his life, which closed in 1871, Mr. Rouse engaged in several lines of business greatly to his financial advantage.

Mr. Rouse lived 16 years afterward, and died at the advanced age of 88 years, having lived in the city over half a century.

The children of Benjamin and Rebecca Rouse:

Benjamin Franklin Rouse, m. Sabrina A. Rockwood of Whitehall,. N. Y.

Edwin Cooleridge Rouse, m. Mary Miller, born in Cleveland.

Ellen Rebecca Rouse, m. Loren Prentiss of Cleveland

George W. Rouse, m. Anna Grant Campbell, daughter of William Campbell.

Mrs. Loren Prentiss, the only daughter of the family, was her mother's worthy successor in church work and all benevolent activities. In turn her daughter, Mrs. Felix Hughes, preserves the family traditions through her tireless energy and enthusiasms in Cleveland's musical world. She has proven that a woman can be a successful impresario, and to her this city owes the opportunity of hearing the most famous musicians of this and other countries.

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Somewhere in the eastern states, from before the war of 1812 until into the '30's, Monroe, Michigan land promoters must have been busy, for during that period families were constantly coming to Cleveland that first settled in Monroe, and had remained but a year or two. Some of them had been lured from Vermont, but they were mostly from New York state.

Stephen Whitaker was one of the early Cleveland men who tried Monroe as a desirable residence. He was born in Somerset County, N. J., but removed to Michigan in 1829 from Geneva, N. Y., then to Cleveland in the fall of 1831 at the age of 47 years.

He was of the fourth generation from Jonathan Whitaker of Huntington, Long Island, and his parents were Stephen and Ruth Concklin Whitaker. His father was a revolutionary patriot, and fought in the Battle of White Plains.

Mrs. Stephen Whitaker (Mary Hall) was the daughter of John and Sarah Austin Hall of Compton, N. J., and was 43 years old when she came to Cleveland. She had two brothers-Lewis H. and Jacob Hall-living in this city.

Stephen Whitaker was a tinsmith by trade, but dealt mostly in stoves. His first hardware store was No. 17 Superior Street, and afterward he occupied one at what is now 1414 West 9th Street. He possessed a considerable degree of inventive genius which eventually brought to him prosperity, and added comfort and convenience to the whole community. There were few stoves in early Cleveland, the manufacture of which was yet in its infancy. Fireplaces for heating and cooking purposes still outnumbered any other methods for the same.

The first stoves were very crude and unsatisfactory. Heating stoves did not keep fire over night, and had to be rekindled and relighted every morning. Therefore, when Stephen Whitaker invented the famous "drum" stove, a round, sheet iron affair, light, easy to handle, would hold big chunks of wood and keep a fire indefinitely, great was the rejoicing. Fireplaces soon were boarded or plastered up and drum stoves were to be found in the parlors and sitting rooms of every household that could afford them. And today they remain popular in rural districts where wood is yet used for fuel. It has a very large tight fitting cover which when removed leaves a space that yawns wide for the knotty chunks of wood dropped into it. The only other opening is a small camper near the base that regulates the draught.

Previous to this added source of income the Whitaker family had occupied a small house on what is now the north-west corner of West 9th and Lakeside Ave. Mr. Whitaker then purchased the Taylor house, a stately, colonial residence with pillared front, standing on the east side of West 9th and the last one on that end of the street. It had been built and occupied by a man named Taylor who seemed to possess unlimited means. He was suspected of counterfeiting, and as it proved, justly, because of subsequent findings, for years, of counterfeit money concealed in partitions, fireplaces, floors, etc., whenever repairs became necessary.

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the traveler entering it by railroad or steamer. Through gradings of the street, approach to it as well as the fine homes south of it had to be made through steps cut into the bank.

Stephen and Mrs. Whitaker were members of the Old Stone Church, and for many years the former was its senior deacon.. It is said of him that his orthodoxy was very strict, and for that reason and other characteristics he was not over-loved by the young and gay who enjoyed the "light fantastic toe." However, good Deacon Whitaker was not alone in those early days, and many following ones, in placing the letter above the spirit of the law, the perversion of Christ's teachings to theology and rigid sectarism, universal until within the last decade.

Deacon Stephen Whitaker died during the intense weeks of excitement that ushered in the Civil War of 1861. His wife survived him 18 years.

Six of their seven children were born before the family came to Cleveland. They were:

John Hall Whitaker, b. 1813, d. 1882. Married 1st, Frances E. Grosvenor, who died 1849; 2nd, Kate McDonald, who died 1866. This son removed to Toledo, O.

Charles Whitaker, b. 1817, d. 1890. Married Susan Littell, b. 1820, d. 1899. Charles lived in the homestead on E. 9th Street.

Stephen C. Whitaker died at the age of 17 years.

Mary C. Whitaker, b. 1820, d. 1902, was the only daughter to reach maturity. It is said of her that she was pretty, graceful, a trifle odd, very fond of jewelry, and possessed considerable that was unique. She remained unmarried and lived with her brother Charles until his death, when she removed to Toledo, where she passed away three years later.

William Henry Whitaker, b. 1830, d. 1892, married Mary Brady King. He also removed to Toledo.

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Married. "In New Haven, Conn., Rev. Samuel Hutchings of this village to Elizabeth Coit Lathrop, daughter of the late Charles Lathrop of Norwich, Conn." (Herald.)

Died. Naomi Bostwick, wife of the late Gershom Bostwick of Newburgh. (Herald.)

Died. Lucy Ann, wife of Levi Beebe.

Died. Stephen B. Clement aged 28. (Erie st. cemetery.)

Died. "Sophia Allen, wife of Perry Allen, aged 37." (Perry Allen was landlord in 1836 of the City Hotel on West 3rd street, where courthouse now stands.)

The Treasurer of Cuyahoga County pays $25.50 for wolf scalps brought in this year.

Married. "In Rochester, N. Y., Alanson Penfield of this village and Lucy Ann Harrol, daughter of George Harrol." (Alanson Penfield was a commission merchant and in 1856 was living on Erie street.)

Married. "In Cambridge, this state, Mr. Henry Boller, one of the proprietors of the Cleveland Advertiser, to Miss Juliana Hersch, all of this village." (The bride was a sister of David Hersch, and Mrs. David H. Beardsley.)

Married. "John B. Norton and Hannah Dickson, all of Cleveland." (He died and was interred in Erie st. cemetery in 1841.)

"The annual meeting of the Union Club of Cuyahoga County, for the detection of horse-thieves will be held on the first Monday in January, next, at one o'clock, P. M., at the tavern of M. Spangler, in the village of Cleveland for the purpose of electing officers for said club, and to transact other business. C. M. GIDDINGS."

December, 1831. (Herald.)

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Christopher Leffingwell Lathrop, or "Deacon Lathrop," as he was known in Cleveland for 60 years, came to the city from Norwich, Conn., in 1831, at the age of 27 years. His sister, Mrs. Hutchings, was living in Cleveland, her husband Rev. Samuel Hutchings being the immediate predecessor of Dr. Aiken in the Stone Church. The latter and his wife afterward became missionaries to Ceylon, India. An older brother, the Rev. Daniel Lathrop, had previously settled in Elyria, 0., as the first pastor of the Presbyterian church there and this probably was one of the inducements that led young Christopher to seek his fortune in the nearby and more prosperous village of Cleveland.

The brothers and sister were the lineal descendants of the Rev. John

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Lathrop, who settled in New England in 1634. Their parents were Charles C. Lathrop of Norwich, Conn., a Yale graduate of the class of 1788, and Joanna Leffingwell, daughter of Col. Christopher and Elisabeth Coit Leffingwell.

The March following his arrival in Cleveland, Mr. Lathrop made a trip to Connecticut, and returned with a bride, Philura Leffingwell Huntington, daughter of Lucretia Leffingwell and Elijah Huntington of Bozrah, Conn. Mrs. Christopher Lathrop's brother, Dr. Winslow Tracey Huntington, came to Cleveland in 1834, and lived for a few years on Detroit street near Pearl, now West 25th.

The first home of the Lathrops was on Water street, but they moved,. not long afterward to 110 St. Clair street, where they lived many years. John A. Foote lived nearby at Number 106.

Mrs. Philura Lathrop's life in Cleveland was comparatively short, for she died in 1843. But it was long enough to make her personality and presence valued and cherished afterward in memory by her associates and friends. She found time from household cares to devote herself to church work, and was one of the founders of the Women's Missionary Society, which in those days was a union organization composed of members of all denominations. It is said of her that she was a woman of sterling good sense. Her unusual and uniform piety may have been an inheritance, as she was a direct descendant of Elder Brewster of the Mayflower.

Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop had three sons who died in infancy, and a daughter:

Elisabeth H. Lathrop, m. Wm. M. Meriam in 1860.

Fannie Meriam m. Henry Noble Yates, grandson of the Cleveland pioneers Henry and Hopey Noble. They reside in Buffalo, N. Y., as does also Mrs. Elisabeth Meriam.

Two years after the death of Mrs. Philura Lathrop, Deacon Lathrop married secondly, Keziah Branch Cushman of Willoughby, Ohio. There were no children of this marriage.

Christopher Lathrop was a grocer and commission merchant.

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Nehemiah Knapp, descendant of early American ancestors, and grandson of a Revolutionary soldier, was born in Amenia, N. Y., near the Connecticut state line, a town that furnished several of Cleveland's earliest pioneers. He came here in 1831 direct from Liberty Corners, N. Y., where he had learned the trade of blacksmith. At the age of 25, he married Mary Harbaugh, daughter of Isaac and Elisabeth Harbaugh, pioneers of the city. She was a fine-appearing young lady with beautiful

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dark eyes and a clear complexion. Her character, it is said, fitted her looks, for she was very sweet-tempered and loveable; a comfort and an inspiration to her husband, children, and friends. She taught her daughters the accomplishment of fine needle-work, and as they sat in their winter evenings around an old-fashioned work-stand lighted by a single tallow-candle, she enlivened the hours with stories well told, or with reminiscences of her girlhood days.

Mr. Knapp bought a home on Miles Park where the family lived many years, and where the parents died. The house is still owned by their aged daughter, Mrs. Edward L. Dean. It stands west of the-Newburgh Methodist church, and not far from the Miles Park branch of the Public Library.

Mr. Knapp gradually abandoned his blacksmith shop in order to assist his son-in-law E. L. Dean in the manufacture of carriages. He died some years before his wife who remained in the old homestead until her own death.

The children of Nehemiah and Mary Knapp:

Henrietta Knapp, m. Andrew J. Spencer, proprietor of the "Spencer House," a famous country tavern in Newburgh

Helen Knapp, m. Heman Hubbard, member of pioneer family.

Amantha Knapp, m. Edward L. Dean

Mahala Knapp, m. William A. Creech

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The name of Rev. James Ashwell appears in the annals of Cleveland and Newburgh as early as 1831.

He was a Baptist minister from Birmingham, England, who must have been a middle-aged man, as previous to coming here he had a married daughter with a large family of children.

He had the reputation of being a man of sterling qualities, very devout, and a great comfort to his parishioners in their hours of trouble or bereavement. The maiden name of Mrs. Ashwell has not been ascertained, nor the names of her children save one

Maria Ashwell, b. 1800; m. George Kimberly.

She came to America with her six children, to join her parents who had been living here 'about 4 years. She took passage on the "Henry Clay," which took fire on the way over but the flames were subdued. On its next trip between the two countries it burned in mid-ocean and all aboard of it perished.

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Mrs. Kimberly was a wonderful woman. Her husband never joined her here and she brought up her children unaided. One of them, David Kimberly, became one of the best known men of the city.

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William F. Mead and his wife, Rhoda Smith Mead, of Hartford, Conn., lived where the Sheriff street market now stands. That locality was covered with forest-trees and bushes, at the time, and many were the game-dinners of turkey and duck that were secured through the good marksmanship of the men in the family. Sometimes they did not have to go a dozen yards from their door-step to aim at a big gobbler sitting on a stump, or at wild geese flying past within gunshot overhead.

When this game was scarce, there were the pigeons, thousands of them, roosting at night in the woods now occupied by the cemetery. They fairly darkened the air as they arrived there in late afternoon, and left early in the morning. At such times, delicious pigeon-pies were the most conspicuous part of the dinner-menu in the Mead household until they palled on the taste. Mrs. Mead was an early member and worker in the First Methodist Church.

Children of William and Rhoda S. Mead:

George Mead, m. Sarah Wilkenson.

John Mead, m. Maria Downing.

Maria Mead, died of cholera, aged. 52..

Sarah Mead, m. Philetus Francis.

Chauncey Mead, m. Patience -------

Elisabeth Mead, m. Joseph McFadden

Mary Mead, m. Horace Jones

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jones lived on Doan street, now E. 105th, for several years, afterward removed to Illinois.

William and Rhoda Mead have grandchildren residing in the city.

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Wendall Wackerman, with his twin-brother Michael Wackerman, immigrated in 1831 from Alsace-Lorraine to New York City.

Michael remained east, but Wendall came on to Cleveland. He was but 14 years of age at the time. He was in the employ of William K. Wells, a well-known baker and confectioner whose place of business was

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on Superior street below the American House. This was burned in the big fire of 1835, and Mr. Wells began another bakery on Merwin street. Meanwhile, Wendall Wackerman had started in business on his own account, for in 1845 he was established at 30 Water street. Some time in the '60s, he built a brick store and residence on Prospect street corner of Erie and carried on a very successful business in the bakery and confectionery line. There was an ice-cream parlor connected with it, and for years "Wackerman's" was a very attractive corner on hot, summer nights.

Mr. Wackerman was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church. He died in 1891. He married Betsey Dorset, dau. of Thomas Dorset, and had a small family, but the latter are dead, and no data can be found concerning the children.

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Mrs. Amelia Fox Johnstone, widow of Robert Johnstone, Sr., came to Cleveland soon after the death of her husband in 1831. She was accompanied by her only son Dr. Robert Johnstone, and her four unmarried daughters. The family was of Scotch descent, but had long been established in the north of Ireland. They were people of education and refinement and were at once recognized as valuable newcomers in the little community. They located on Superior street near the Square, Mrs. Johnstone and her daughters at No. 105, and the son Dr. Robert Johnstone, Jr., with his office at No. 111 Superior street. The latter married daughter of William Taylor, and practised his profession until his death.*

His sister Anna Johnstone married Leander Ransom, and the unmarried sisters were Emily, Margaret, and Eliza Johnstone. They were gentle refined women, greatly respected in the community.

The children of Dr. Robert and Mary Taylor Johnstone, Jr.:

Amelia Johnstone, m. Henry Abbey, son of Seth A. Abbey. She died recently..

Mary Johnstone, unmarried.

Mathew Johnstone, m. Zantha--------

Anna Johnstone, d. 17 years of age

Arthur Johnstone, unmarried

Mary and Arthur Johnstone are still residents of this city. The latter has retired from business life, and is an invalid to whom his sister is devoted.

* In an address before the Early Settlers' Association, Judge James D. Cleveland paid eloquent tribute to the memory of Dr. Johnstone.

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The Rev. Samuel Hutchings who became pastor of the Old Stone Church in April, 1831, was born in New York City at the corner of Chambers and Church streets, in 1806, and died in Orange, N. J., in his 89th year. His parents were Samuel and Lois Whitehead Hutchings.

His father was 15 years old when the Revolutionary War broke out. He enlisted, was taken prisoner, and confined in the Middle Dutch Church from which he attempted to escape by tunneling under Nassau street toward the Quaker meeting-house on Liberty street. He was recaptured.

The Rev. Samuel Hutchings graduated- from Williams College in 1828, and then spent two years in the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was sent to Cleveland by the American Home Missionary Society, and took charge of a small congregation meeting in an upper unfinished hall of the Kellogg Block. The American House now occupies the site. In the fall of 1831, Mr. Hutchings returned to New Haven, Conn., to marry Miss Elizabeth Coit Lathrop, daughter of Charles and Joanna Leffingwell Lathrop, and sister of Christopher Lathrop, pioneer deacon of the Old Stone Church.

The young couple journeyed to Albany on a sloop, thence to Schenectady in one of the two coaches drawn by the engine DeWitt Clinton, the first locomotive in this country, and which had made its initial trip during the previous month. From Schenectady to Buffalo the route was continued in a canal-boat, and Cleveland was reached in a small sailing vessel.

Although Samuel Hutchings spent less than two years in this town, he married many of the parents of old citizens of today, and officiated at the funerals of several pioneers. In 1833, accompanied by his wife, he sailed for India to become a missionary in Ceylon, where he remained over eight years. Then with broken health he returned to America. After resting and recruiting his strength he took charge of a church in Newark, N. J., and also engaged in literary work. He wrote over a thousand articles for the "Library of Universal Knowledge," a well known encyclopedia. In 1888 he received the degree of D. D. from his Alma Mater.

The life of Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchings was an eventful one. She followed the fortunes of her missionary husband, and bravely stood by his side through peril and privation. Meanwhile, she became the mother of ten children, some of whom were born in India. She died in 1901, in her 89th year.

Children of Rev. Samuel and Elisabeth Hutchings:

Mary J. Hutchings, m. Theodore H. Smith of Newark, N. J.

Charlotte L. Hutchings, m. Augustus L. Wilcox.

George Long Hutchings, m. Helen L. Vernidge.

Frances H. Hutchings, m. Frederic A. R. Baldwin

Elisabeth N. Hutchings.

Charles W. Hutchings, m. Anna Green.

Walter W. Hutchings.

Cornelius Hutchings.

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No years of tedious research and of baffled inquiry awaited the writer in order to secure records of the Nathan C. Hills family, for Mrs. Sabrina Loomis Hills the pioneer mother, in her 70th year, gave to her children and grandchildren a published volume filled with personal reminiscences. It included interesting events of her childhood, her marriage, and her removal to Cleveland and of the years that followed. The narrative is written simply, but very effectively. One cannot but be impressed with the sweet womanliness of the writer, with her goodness, her kindliness, her deep spirituality.

She married in December, 1830, Nathan Cushman Hills. At that time she was 19 years old, and living with her parents Isaac and Martha Niles Loomis in Whitehall, N. Y. N. C. Hills was the son of Eliot and Nabby Cushman Hills of Bennington, Vt. His maternal grandfather, Charles Cushman, was a soldier of the American revolution, and Nathan was of the eighth generation from Robert Cushman the pilgrim of Plymouth colony. The year following his marriage, Mr. Hills caught the Ohio fever, and in spite of the warnings and misgivings of relatives and friends, the young couple started for Cleveland by the Erie Canal route, reaching here September 1st. The high rough banks, and unsightly gullies, and the difficulties of landing gave them a poor impression of the town, but after climbing the steep hill the scene changed into broad streets lined with beautiful forest-trees.

"We put up at the tavern of Mr. Spangler. It was a two-story white frame-building, occupying the ground where the Miller block now stands. Here we were thoughtfully entertained. The next morning we went over the old float-bridge to the west side, where we found the families Sargeant, Chapman, and Tisdale, all old acquaintances. They insisted upon our remaining with them a week to rest and enjoy the peach season then at its height.

"My husband found a house owned by Miss Miranda Perry, on St. Clair street opposite Richard Hilliard's. We were soon engaged in settling our new home, and selecting needed furniture of John A. Vincent and of Daniel Duty on Water street, the only cabinet-makers of the village at that time, and when all was arranged, I think truer satisfaction filled my breast than does that of the bride of Euclid ave. today.

"By this time I was all impatience to see the town, and could wait no longer, so we started out to walk first to the Public Square. It did not take long to scan the beauties of the ten acres enclosed by a rail-fence, with footpaths in all directions, and the old log-jail occupying the northwest corner. From here we went to the bank of the lake, which was a quarter of a mile further out than it is now, landslides having since been of frequent occurrence.

"The next day we took another walk over the village, and found but one church, `Old Trinity,' built in 1828 on the corner of St. Clair and Seneca streets." Mr. Hills obtained employment at the grocery and ship-chandlery of Samuel Lemen, where he remained a year, then was appointed canal-inspector. In 1836, he entered the grocery business for himself, on the corner of Superior street and the Public Square. Marshall's drug-store now occupies the site. In an old picture of the Square,

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Mr. Hills' store-sign is partially in view. By that time, the family were living close by his business, and at 17 Champlain street.

In the summer of 1823, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Loomis came on from New York to visit their daughter.

"Their first impression was, `What a delightful spot Cleveland is!' We took a walk over the village, and up to Ontario street and the Square, which was then thought to be a long walk from our home on St. Clair near Water street. My father on looking around saw that there was a tavern on the corner of Michigan street, kept by the late Judge Seth A. Abbey. He proposed our going in and having some refreshments, to which we consented. We had a pleasant interview with Mr. Abbey and his family. My father, who was a great lover of nature, took long rambles as far as Euclid creek, Newburgh, and the west side. One day after such a walk, as we sat at the supper-table, he looked up at me and said,

`Daughter, I want to congratulate you upon your choice of a home. Cleveland is destined to be a great city, and I hope you may live to see it.' "

This was in 1833, when the population was only 1500. Mrs. Hills was living when it had reached 170,000. After the death of his wife in 1886, Mr. Loomis spent part of his time with his daughter. He died at her home and was buried in Erie street cemetery.

Early in 1833, Mrs. Hills united with the First Baptist church then numbering but 16 members who met in the old Academy on St. Clair street, now Engine House No. 1, and thenceforth her life was interwoven with the history of that religious body. A few years later Mr. Hills followed her example, and also became identified with the church. At his death in 1890, he had been a member of it for half a century, and Mrs. Hills' saintly presence at church-services until 1898 rounded out 63 years of continuous attendance.

The golden wedding of the aged couple is the climax of romance. "Fifty years of life spent by two souls in fellowship of mutual love and mutual toil! how can these be measured or represented by any, words? Who can tell the story of the thoughts and emotions, the plans and aspirations, the hopes and the fears that illumined and shadowed those fifty years of wedded life and wedded love ! of growth in knowledge and character, in patience and charity, of service to each other, to children, and for the most part to God?"

And when that notable event in the lives of N. C. and Sabrina Hills was celebrated in 1880, not only were relatives happily interested, but the whole Baptist denomination of the city and scores of old friends outside of that faith. The wedding festivities were held at the residence of their daughter Mrs. Joseph M. Brainard. The home was beautifully decorated with flowers and trailing vines. Suspended from the doors, windows, and chandeliers were festoons of smilax interwoven with roses and honeysuckle. The mantels were banked with moss and many-hued flowers.

A crescent of evergreens contained the names, "Hills-Loomis" and "1830-1880" with letters and figures in gold.

The Rev. Philip Maxon, at that time perhaps the most eloquent divine

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in the city, made an address upon the occasion unexcelled in tender thought and beauty of expression.

It will be interesting to note how many pioneers were yet' living in 1880 who were guests at the Hills' golden wedding:

John A. Foote.

Mrs. Silas Brainard.

John W. Allen.

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Rouse.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bishop.

Mrs. Henry L. Sexton.

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Smith.

Mrs. Benjamin Strickland.

Mrs. Herrick Childs.

Mrs. William Day.

Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham.

Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Brooks.

Mrs. Dr. Joshua Mills.

Mr. and Mrs. George Welch.

Mr. and Mrs. Caleb S. Butts.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Mather.

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Castle.

Judge and Mrs. J. D. Cleveland.

Mrs. Mary Long Severance.

Mrs. Henry Gaylord.

Mrs. Miller Spangler.

Mrs. E. C. Rouse.

Mrs. William Lemen.

Mrs. George L. Chapman.

Mrs. Joseph K. Miller.

Mrs. Herman A. Hurlbut.

Mrs. Philo Scovill.

Mrs. Matilda Burnham.

Children of Nathan Cushman and Sabrina Loomis Hills:

Maria Laura Hills, b. 1831; m. George Brainard, son of Nathan Brainard..

Henry Loomis Hills, b. 1834; m. Delephine Paulhamis.

Helen Cushman Hills, b. 1834; m. Joseph Brainard, son of Nathan Brainard.

William Darwin Hills, b. 1839; m. Laura Kelley, daughter of Irad Kelley

Frances A. Hills, b. 1844; m. Henry Brainard, grandson of Nathan Brainard

George Hills, b. 1846; died 23 years of age.

Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Hills lost three young children. The family burial-lot is in Lake View.

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For sixty consecutive years C. C. Carlton conducted a business on Superior street. Ie -began in 1831, when, as a lad of nineteen years, he came to town to clerk for Thomas and Irad Kelley, merchants, and it ended in 1893, when, past fourscore years, he retired from active life.

Christopher C. Carleton was as much of an American by birth as any one could claim to be, both his father's and mother's ancestors having come from England on vessels that closely followed the Mayflower.

His grandfather, Caleb Carlton, Sr., served in the Connecticut troops in the revolutionary war and was at the battle of White Plains.

His great-grandfather, Richard Carleton, fought at Bunker Hill and was in the Connecticut line at Valley Forge, at Monmouth, and at Stony Point.

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Caleb Carlton, Jr., his father, who was born in Toland county, Conn., removed with his family to Ohio in 1814, passing through Cleveland to settle in Mantua, Portage county. He was highly respected in that community and at times filled several county offices, one of them that of county commissioner. He died in Mantua and his widow, Rhoda Carlton, finally came to Cleveland to live with her son. She was born in Wareham, Mass., in 1715, and was a direct descendant of Edward Bompasse, who with Miles Standish and others founded the town of Duxbury, Mass. The original pronunciation of the name was "Bump," which was revived in later years.

Mrs. Rhoda Bump Carlton, a grand type of New England womanhood enlarged and improved by pioneer life, was universally respected and beloved. The year of her arrival in Ohio, 1814, is sufficient to indicate the hardships, the toil, the self-sacrifices that, we are assured, she endured uncomplainingly.

As the Carltons were among the very first settlers of Portage county, the hospitality of their little log-cabin was often stretched to its limit in order to shelter and feed the later arrivals, who, exhausted, cold and sometimes nearly famished, were welcomed, comforted and heartened, until their own pioneer homes were erected. Many of the comforts of the early settlers and, in some cases, of their prosperity, were due to the sympathy and wise, cheerful counsel of Mrs. Carlton.

She was especially tender with orphan children, and many a forlorn little one found a home with "Aunt Rhoda," as she was affectionately termed by the whole community. Some years previous to her death she became blind. She was laid away in Erie street cemetery, when nearly 94 years of age. Her grave is near the eastern entrance.

Her son and only child, C. C. Carlton, was a refined gentleman in his social life and very successful in all his business undertakings. Within two years following his arrival in town as a clerk for Thomas and Irad Kelley, No. 1 Superior street, that firm became "C. C. Carlton & Co.," with Judge Thomas Kelley as the silent partner, Irad Kelley having retired, and a few years later Judge Kelley also withdrew. In the division of the firm's property, the latter's lot on the north side of Euclid Ave. was balanced by some farming land near Elyria, 0., and cuts were drawn. The Judge drew the lot, upon which he built a fine Colonial residence. His brother Irad lived farther east on the same avenue.

When the Miller Block was erected on Superior between Seneca and Bank streets, now West 3rd and 6th, Mr. Carlton moved his store into it and had an office above where he conducted an immense insurance business. He had begun this in a small way soon after coming to Cleveland, and it grew so rapidly that in the early '50s it demanded all his attention and the store was sold. His last partner in the latter was Charles Moulton, brother-in-law of General and Senator Sherman. Mr. Carlton's son-in-law, James Lee, became connected with him in the insurance business, and thenceforth it was "Carlton & Lee."

In 1834 Mr. Carlton married Jane Louise Stow, daughter of Samuel Stow and his second wife, Lucinda Hart Stow. Samuel Stow was a revolutionary soldier, who, at the close of the war, removed to Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y. Miss Stow was left an orphan at an early age and made

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her home with her eldest sister, Mrs. John Daly, who removed to Cleveland. She was tall and slender, and, at the time of her marriage was twenty-two years old and her husband of the same age. Their home in nearly all the years that followed was at 39 Eagle street.

Previous to 1835, Erie st. cemetery was part of a forest spreading westward to the bank overlooking the river valley. Standing on the site of the old market-house one could see nothing but trees in any direction and the only building in sight was the Walworth farm-house, about where the Friendly Inn now stands. About 1836 a street was cut through these woods from Erie street, now East 9th, nearly opposite the cemetery to Ontario, and named Eagle street. Evidently Mr. Carlton had a hand in this allotment, for he was the first person to build upon the street and his home the only one on it for several years. It was all a part of the Walworth farm. At first Mrs. Carlton had no near neighbors, but within the following year or two Benjamin Strickland, who was married to one of the daughters of John Walworth the pioneer, built a home overlooking the gorge at the junction of Ontario and Broadway. And, in time, there grew to be quite a settlement, beginning at the present Old Market House and continuing out Woodland Ave. and Broadway, then called "Kinsman" and "Pittsburgh" streets, because the mail and the stage-coaches bound for those towns turned into one or the other of them.

The neighborhood that grew up in Woodland avenue near Eagle street was composed of the best social element of the town. Each year more and more residences were built until at last the beautiful tree-bordered thoroughfare was lined with attractive homes surrounded with lawns and flowering shrubs. It was an event when they reached as far as the spacious home of Dr. Long, once considered "'way out in the country." But building activities continued eastward until at length Willson Ave. -55th st.-was reached.

Said an elderly lady recently, "I drove out Woodland Ave. the other day and it gave me a heartache. Whoever would have believed, even after I was a woman grown, that that beautiful avenue could be what it is today? And my childhood home! well, it actually made me feel ill to see the wretchedly forlorn place now tenanted by three families and a Chinese laundry!"

For a block or two east of Ontario street, Broadway was also settled by representative Cleveland families, but it never became a popular resident street. Mrs. Carlton had but two children, and, when one was eighteen years old and the other sixteen years, she lost them out of her daily life for several years, her daughter having married and gone directly to Omaha, Nebraska, and her son as a cadet to West Point. The former returned to Cleveland to live, but the latter thenceforth belonged to his country.

The mother was an invalid for some years previous to her death.

The children of Christopher C. and Jane Stow Carlton:

Rhoda Carlton, b. 1834; m. James Wright Lee, son of Hart Gray and Margaret Evertson Lee, of Ithaca, N. Y.

Brig. General Caleb H. Carlton, b. 1836; m. Sadie Pollock, of Harrisburg, Pa.

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Mrs. Lee has resided in this city all her life save the four years she spent in Omaha. It has been a life of varied experience and of sudden bereavements. Her first three children, two, five, and seven years of age, died of scarlet fever within a few hours of each other; Carlton Lee, a son twenty-four years old, fresh from his college and foreign travel, met with instant death, and later Mr. Lee lost his life through an automobile accident. Two sons of this family are yet living, James and Henry Lee. The only daughter, Georgana Lee, married Otis Southworth, son of William P. Southworth.

Brigadier-General Caleb H. Carlton, at the request of the writer, furnished the family data and newspaper clippings from which this sketch was made possible ; but they contained not a word nor even a hint concerning himself. Through inquiry, however, it has been learned that this only son of C. C. Carlton was but sixteen years of age when he entered West Point and one of the youngest in his class. Some of the most famous generals of the civil war were then identified with the school, either as instructors or pupils. Gen. Joe Wheeler was a classmate, Sheridan a senior, while U. S. Grant and Robert E. Lee were familiar figures on the parade-ground.

When the war broke out young Carlton was a member of the 4th U. S. Infantry, then stationed in California, but ordered back east in the first months of the conflict. He was later transferred to the Cavalry division of the regular army and served throughout the civil war. He is said to be a fine-looking man, every inch a soldier, and extremely modest regarding his long and valuable service to his country.

In his retirement he spends his days either at Washington, D. C., Old Point Comfort, or at Rye, N. Y.

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The Harbaughs originally came from Philadelphia, where Isaac Harbaugh married his step-sister Elisabeth Woodring. A few years later they removed to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where their first children were born. Then, in the early '30s, they removed to Cleveland, and resided on Ontario street near the lake.

They had a large family, all of whom married here. Most of them lived and died in or near the city.

Children of Isaac and Elisabeth Harbaugh:

Lydia Harbaugh, m. William Lewis. They removed to Michigan.

Mary Harbaugh, m. Nehemiah Knapp, a Cleveland pioneer.

Mahala Harbaugh, m. Benton Baker.

Dennis Harbaugh, m. Mary Ann------------.

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Catherine Harbaugh, m. John Troop.

Amos Harbaugh, m. Lucy Hurlbut. of the West side.

Frank Harbaugh, m. Kate Gillette.

Harriet Harbaugh, m. Harvey Rummage, an early settler

Amzi Harbaugh, went to Rockford, Ill., to live with his sister Lydia.

Mr. Harbaugh, Senior, was a builder and constructor. The family lot is in Erie street cemetery.

1832

THE FIRST YEAR OF THE CHOLERA

June 10, the steamer Henry Clay bound for Buffalo having many U. S. soldiers on board who were ill with cholera, landed on the west bank of the river.

The Cleveland Board of Health provided comfortable barracks not far from the steamer, and medical aid was furnished to the sufferers. Several of them died, and were buried on the west side of the river.

The bodies of the soldiers who died on board the steamer before reaching Cleveland were thrown overboard, and probably were washed on shore, and thus helped to spread the disease. Sandusky, Ohio, suffered greatly from the plague.

John W. Allen was president of the village council that year. He was energetic and fearless in his efforts to protect the town from the peril that menaced it, and in caring for the helpless victims of the disease. The citizens who composed the board of health were

Dr. Edwin Cowles.

Charles Dennison.

Dr. Orson St. John.

Silas Belden.

Dr. John Long.

Daniel Worley.

Dr. Joshua Mills.

Dr. S. J. Weldon.

These men proved most heroic in their ministrations to the sick and dying when the terrible disease broke out in town. Every one who could, fled to adjoining villages, and to lonely farm-houses. In many cases carrying the germs of the plague with them. It raged for about a month. Perhaps 25% of those attacked recovered. About 50 people died. Months afterward, in October of the same year, the cholera broke out again, and within three days, 14 more were added to its victims.

Died. "Of cholera, John Tomlinson Ells, aged 24." (Erie st. cemetery) ; stone very black.

"Died, Mary wife of Andrew Cooper, aged 22 years."

Andrew was a gardener living at 61 Rockwell st. in 1845. In 1834 he erected a store on Superior street. The first tenant was James Sloan.

Another Andrew Cooper lived in East Cleveland.

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The Bauder family of Cleveland is distinguished for its military and patriotic record extending over 125 years. From the days when Melgert Bauder and his brother Peter served in the Tyron Co. regiment, Col. Jacob Klock's battalion, and fought in the battle of Oriskany under Gen. Herkimer in the Revolutionary war, to the day when the late Capt. Walter S. Bauder died from disease contracted in the Spanish-American war, the Bauders have responded to the call of their country. Two brothers of Melgert and Peter were captured by Indians and carried to Canada. They lived to escape, but their sister sharing a like captivity was never restored to her family.

Lodwick Bauder, son of Melgert and father. of the three brothers, who became Cleveland pioneers, was a soldier of the war of 1812.

Charles L. and Levi Bauder were the first to come to Cleveland and were followed a few years later by their brother Michael. Subsequently they were joined by their widowed mother Catherine Klock Bauder. The home of the family had been in St. Johnsville, N. Y. Charles and Levi were cabinet-makers and started a factory together at first, but afterward separated their business. Levi's establishment was on the south side of the Public Square, adjacent to the old "Blue Jug" crockery store and opposite the Court House, then on the south-west corner of the Square. He prospered, and probably would have become one of Cleveland's most substantial business men had not fire twice destroyed his plant, and in the panic of 1857 wiped out the savings of a lifetime.

About 1837, he married Miss Eliza Philips, daughter of the Rev. William and Elizabeth Prior Philips. For many years they were members of the Old Stone Church.

The children of Levi and Eliza Philips Bauder:

Levi F. Bauder, b. 1840. A veteran of the civil war. Was 1st Sergt. of Co. B in the famous Seventh Reg. O. V. I. He was county auditor from 1877 to 1883, and ajustice of the peace 15 years. A.valuable man to his country and. to his community.

Andrew J. Bauder, b. 1842. Also a civil war veteran, in 103rd O. V. I. He died unmarried in 1880.

Silas E. Bauder, b. 1850. A patent attorney, and an inventor. Was county clerk of Erie county six years

Martha Bauder, m. W. H. Kennedy Lived in Euclid village.

Michael Bauder, brother of Charles and Levi, was also a wood-cutter and like Charles was an inventor.

After the advent of railroads, Michael was employed in the Lake Shore R. R. shops in finishing the interior of passenger-cars. He died in 1882. His wife was Mary Ann Bell.

Children of Michael and Mary Bauder:

Henry Bauder. He went on a whaling voyage and was never heard from afterward.

Eliza Bauder, m. Silas Langdon Her widowed daughter Mrs. Brower lives in Lakewood.

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Seymour Bauder. A Lieut. in 54th. O. V. I. in the civil war, he was wounded five times in the battle of Shiloh..

Mary Bauder, m. Gould. Her husband was R. R. engineer.

Joseph Bauder. He was an engineer of the 20th Century limited Died in 1909, and all business was suspended in Collinwood during the funeral

Hattie Bauder, m. -----Gill. Mrs. Gill is the only living member of this family.

Catherine Klock Bauder, mother of the three Bauder brothers who were Cleveland pioneers, was born 1773, and died 1853.

Her husband Lodwick, and brother-in-law Rev. Peter Bauder, were soldiers of the war of 1812. Peter was grandfather of Edson B. Bauder, attorney now resident of Cleveland. Mrs. Bauder was born in Tyron Co., now Montgomery Co., N. Y. Her father Joseph Klock was a farmer and a soldier of the revolutionary war. When absent from home with his regiment, an Indian came to the farm-house very ill with a fever. Mrs. Klock took care of him and nursed him back to health. Whereupon he left, stalking out of the house without a word of thanks; but some time afterward, with his face and hands daubed with warpaint and tomahawk in his hands, he burst in upon the terrified woman and seizing her by the arm said, "Come quick!"

The frightened family followed him a long distance and to the top of a hill, where he paused and bade them look back. Their farm-buildings were all on fire, and the Indians and Tories killing the livestock. He then pointed in an opposite direction, saying, "There's the fort"-Fort Plain-"Go!"

While Fort Plain was a refuge for the settlers it was infested by the Indians and Tories, and Catherine often told her Cleveland grandchildren the sights she then witnessed as a little girl; the burning of the church and other buildings, and of hearing the warwhoops of the savages, and the shouts of the soldiers.

She was a real "Daughter of the Revolution" who was actually under fire, and is buried in the old Erie st. cemetery, in section 23.

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Over eighty years ago, two sons and a daughter of Thomas and Ruby Johnson Brayton came to Cleveland accompanied by their mother from Welna, Jefferson Co., N. Y. They were the descendants of Francis Brayton, who was made a freeman of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1643.

The eldest son, Charles David Brayton, was a young physician who studied with the celebrated Dr. Valentine Mott of New York City, and hearing in 1832 of the ravages of the Asiatic cholera in the west, he came on to proffer medical services to the sufferers of the dread malady in this

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locality, and afterward became very prominent in his profession and in society.

Meantime, he had married Miss Antoinette Gilbert, daughter of Mrs. Jane Gilbert of New York. Their first home was at. 121 Seneca street, and later the fashionable part of Lake street.

Dr. Brayton's office was 27 Superior street.

Mrs. Antoinette Gilbert Brayton died, and Dr. Brayton married secondly, Mrs. Sabrina (Loomis) Clark, widow of Asahel Clark, formerly of Cooperstown, N. Y., and a brother of James F. Clark, well-known merchant of Cleveland. Asahel and Sabrina Clark had a little daughter Mary who, in later years, married Dr. Maynard, an Englishman, and died not long afterward. Mary Clark Maynard was greatly beloved by all who knew her. She was very kind and charitable, having inherited a fortune from her father. During the Civil War she was closely identified with the Women's Sanitary Commission of the city, and surrounding towns. She was a noble woman whose death caused universal sorrow. Her short married life was most unhappy, and her many friends could never be reconciled at her untimely fate.

The children of Dr. and Mrs. Sabrina Brayton:

Charles Asahel Brayton, m. Caroline Bingham, daughter of William Bingham, a very prominent business man of the city.

Antoinette Brayton, m. John Van Ness Yates of the well-known Albany family of that name. He was a grandson of John Van Ness of Albany, and Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Yates, a society woman of the city, has spent all her life in Cleveland. She is musical and artistic, and always has been much admired and loved by her family and friends.

Henry F. Brayton, brother of Dr. C. D. Brayton, at the age of twenty-five, was book-keeper for the Bank of Cleveland, and later was a pioneer of the insurance business of the city, in which he was engaged for the rest of his life. He married Charlotte Gilbert who was a sister of Mrs. C. D. Brayton. He boarded for a time with Mrs. Douglas Sloane, and afterward lived on Superior street in the residence formerly occupied by Willard Burnham, now the site of the gas-office. He died in 1888, aged 76.

The children of Henry and Charlotte Brayton:

Henry Gilbert Brayton, m. Alice Clark.

Isabelle Brayton, died unmarried at the age of 45 years.

Justine Brayton, m. William Bryon of Minneapolis, Minn.

Jean Brayton, m. Harry Smith of Milwaukee, Wis.

Mrs. Charlotte Brayton died in 1858, aged 45 years.

Mrs. Thomas Brayton-Ruby Johnson-was born in 1774, two years before the American Revolution. She lived in Cleveland nearly twenty years, dying at the home of her son Henry Brayton in 1853. An unmarried daughter, Mary, also lived and died with her brother H. F. Brayton.

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No history of Cleveland would be complete without mention of that pioneer banker, railroad director, and church deacon Trueman Parmalee Handy. He was the son of William and Eunice Parmalee Handy of Paris Hill, near Utica, N. Y., and he came to town in the spring of 1832 at the age of 25 years.

Seated beside him in the long journey was his bride Harriet Newcombe Hall, born in Albany, 1809, the daughter of Abram B. and Sally Hight Hall, then residing in Geneva, N. Y. The young couple were six days on this, their wedding-trip. The weather was cold and stormy, the roads in a terrible condition. Often the jolting, lumbering stage-coach would become stalled in a mud-hole, and all male passengers forced to alight and assist the driver in prying and lifting the wheels out on terra firma.

Mr. Handy was sent here by George Bancroft the historian, to serve as cashier of the old Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, the first bank in the city, which had been reorganized recently by Bancroft. When the young cashier entered or left the building that it occupied on the north-east corner of Superior and Bank street, he stepped upon the only paved walk in the city, a little strip the width of the bank; and when the sun beat down in sultry weather upon that corner, just as it does today, the bank officials would quench their frequent thirst at the only public well of the city that stood but a few feet away. To be sure, this exclusive style and convenient water privilege lost some of its dignity and value through the matronly swine that roamed the street with their squealing progeny closely following, and the flocks of geese encroaching upon the sacred mart of money-exchange. It certainly was humiliating to stumble over a big porker taking his noontide siesta at the very door of the bank, and to be hissed at for disturbing the feathered fowl of Roman lineage who loved to squat on the warm stones of the sidewalk, or bathe in the water that collected around the well.

For many years before his death, Mr. Handy was the dean of local banking interests, outranking even James J. Tracey who began four years later than Mr. Handy, as assistant teller in the old bank of Cleveland. In 1834 we find T. P. Handy joining in the first railroad venture made by Cleveland men. They were Aaron Barker afterward postmaster of the city, David H. Beardsley, collector of the Ohio canal, John W. Allen the well-known lawyer, Horace Perry, who died the following year, Lyman Kendall the dry-goods merchant, and lastly James S. Clarke the pioneer real-estate boomer, who came to grief in the panic of 1837.

The Cleveland and Newburgh R. R. began on the Public Square back of the present Forest City House and stretched its wooden rails out Euclid ave to a stone quarry near the site of Western Reserve University. The cars, for freight only, were drawn by two horses driven tandem. For some reason the enterprise proved a failure, and its $50,000 stock became worthless. This however, did not deter Mr. Handy in 1845 from becoming a promoter and treasurer of the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati R. R., started under many difficulties, but eventually a success.

He was financially interested in the Cleveland Iron and Mining Co., a valuable enterprise that fairly coined money for all concerned in it.

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T. P. Handy was a deacon in the Old Stone Church as early as 1836 and he was one of the founders of the Second Presbyterian church in the '40s. He gave to it largely of his means and at his death the whole congregation felt personally bereaved.

Mr. and Mrs. Handy were very musical. They both sang in the choir of the Old Stone Church in their younger days, and Mr. Handy was chairman for many years of the musical committee of the Second Presbyterian Church. As early as 1836 he was president of the Cleveland Mozart society, a flourishing musical organization of that day. Mrs. Handy had a beautiful soprano voice and she often sang in oratorical concerts. Her only brother was Rev. Samuel H. Hall, who lived the latter part of his life in Newark, N. J. His daughter Miss Anna G. Hall, is still a resident of that place. Mrs. Handy was an invalid for several years previous to her death which occurred in 1880. Mr. Handy outlived her several years.

The family residence was on Euclid ave. near Dodge street, and the family burial-lot is in Lakeview cemetery. Trueman P. and Harriet Hall Handy had but two children-a little son who died young, and

Helen Handy, who married John S. Newbury. Their residence in winter is Detroit, Mich., and their summer home Lake Terrace, Gross Point Farms.

The memory of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Handy is preserved in the library furnishings of the Young Women's Christian Association, also by a tablet. They were presented by Mrs. Helen Handy Newbury. Mrs. Newbury died within the past year.

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INGRAHAM

Timothy Ingraham was the dashing young militia officer from Taunton, Mass., who, finding no local military organization in Cleveland such as he had affiliated with and commanded in his former eastern home, was shocked as well as grieved that this city should have so long overlooked the necessity for brave defenders in times of future need. With the late Alfred S. Sanford, he canvassed the list of Cleveland's young men possessed of military ambition and who had the physical appearance and social qualifications needful for a crack company of city guards.

This was accomplished in 1838, and after deciding the color of the uniforms, gray, the newly organized company was accordingly named the Cleveland Grays.

That was nearly 75 years ago, and six generations at least of Cleveland's boys and girls have gazed with wonder and awe at the huge bearskin hats and the tall drum-major, while loyal adults have smiled with civic pride as our Cleveland Grays march on Superior street or Euclid ave. upon national holidays. Not merely

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has been this first, much-beloved military organization. Little did Timothy Ingraham, as first captain of the Cleveland Grays, dream that a little over twenty years later a large per cent of this new local company would be found enrolled in a terrible civil war, and that he himself would lead a Massachusetts regiment on the battle-field.

For Mr. Ingraham returned in 1845 to his native state. He was born in Taunton, Mass., but lived in New Bedford until 22 years of age, when, in 1832, he came to Cleveland. He soon became well known in other ways than as captain of the Grays. For several years he was secretary of the Ohio Canal Packet Co. and later was of the firm of Standart, Ingraham and Co., commission and forwarding merchants. The firm was composed of Needham Standart, Timothy Ingraham, and Stephen Clary. Ingraham was city treasurer in 1840.

After his return to New Bedford, he was captain of the New Bedford City Guards, taking that company out in 1861 for the three months' service. He became Colonel of the 38th Massachusetts, and served throughout the civil war, during the latter part of which he was detailed as Provost Marshal General at Washington, D. C. He died in 1876.

Timothy Ingraham married first a Miss Mith, whether in the east or after his arrival here cannot be ascertained. She died in 1834 of cholera. He married secondly in 1835, Jane S. Wolverton, one of the accomplished daughters of Stephen Wolverton of this city, and of whom more will be found in the sketch of that family.

The children of Timothy and Jane Wolverton Ingraham:

Charles W. Ingraham, b. 1836; d. 1867, unmarried

Robert Ingraham, b. 1838; d. 1858, unmarried..

Alma Ingraham, b. 1839; d. 1863, unmarried.

William Milford Ingraham, b. 1841; m. a southern lady, and lived in New Orleans.

Timothy Ingraham, Jr., b. 1844; m. Emily Witter, dau. of the late Dr. William Witter of Windham, Conn

Frank Ingraham, b. 1848.

Henry Ingraham, b. 1850; m. Anna McNiel, daughter of Judge McNiel

Charles, William, and Timothy Ingraham were officers of the army in active service throughout the civil war. Timothy and Henry Ingraham are living in this city, and engaged in business pursuits.

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Joseph Hungerford Crittenden was born in Conway, Mass., in 1804. He was the son of Chester and Azuba Abbott Crittenden of Conway. His wife was Eliza Ariadne Kelley, daughter of James M. and Laura Howe

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Kelley, whom he married in Canandaigua, N. Y., in 1834, and in that year came to Cleveland.

Joseph H. Crittenden began a shoe and leather business at 9 Superior street which he continued until 1857, when he retired and went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in 1874. He always kept his interests in Cleveland, his home for 25 years, and the last of his real-estate holdings was sold recently to the B. of L. Engineers.

The first home of the Joseph Crittenden family was 78 Seneca street, and afterward on the present site of the New England Bld. They were members of the Old Stone Church on the Public Square,. and Mr.. Crittenden was one of the donors to the building fund at its erection. Mrs. Crittenden died in Plainfield, N. J., in 1898, aged 84.

The children of Joseph and Eliza Kelley Crittenden:

Mary Beulah Crittenden, m. David B. Palmer of New York state. They had six children.

George Nash Crittenden, m. Olivia. Headley; had one child.

Minnie Sarah Crittenden, unmarried ; living in Plainfield, N. J.

Ella Azuba Crittenden, died in infancy

James Manning Crittenden, died in infancy

Josephine Abbott Crittenden, m. ohn Henry Carman, M. D. Living in Plainfield, N. J.

The above children were all born in Cleveland. The older ones must have been past 20 years of age when the family removed to Brooklyn, therefore well known by the young people of their day and generation. This meant life-long friendships; for the intimate companions of our youth are seldom forgotten.

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Erie street cemetery is consecrated by the graves of several soldiers of the American Revolution, heroes of the struggle that made this country a nation and a republic. All that was mortal of them was laid away here, hundreds of miles from their places of nativity and the scenes of their patriotic endeavors.

Two of them were first buried in the small Ontario street cemetery and when that resting-place of the dead was condemned, their coffins were hauled up to the surface of the ground and carted over to Erie street cemetery and again buried from sight. At this writing what remains of their dust is threatened with yet another removal as commercial greed is persistently plotting to seize this "God's acre" for pecuniary profit.

There are also several soldiers of the war of 1812 yet resting in Erie street cemetery, and one of these was a Revolutionary hero as well. His name was Gamaliel Fenton.

He was born in Mansfield, Conn., January, 1763. The spring he was

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17 years of age, he enlisted in the militia for nine months under Capt. Smith and Lieut. Read. He marched with his company to New London, Conn., to join the patriotic forces protecting the coast. A detachment to which he was assigned spent most of the time cutting faggots near an Indian village some miles north of New London. These were made into bundles and carried to the coast for use in the barricades of the small forts.

In November of that year, 1780, his time having expired he returned home, but not for long; again he enlisted and took part in the skirmishes at Horse Neck, and was with the army at White Plains.

In his old age Gamaliel Fenton dictated his revolutionary experiences to a grandson, and his descendants yet preserve the precious legacy.

In 1788 Mr. Fenton joined the exodus of the young men of the southern New England states to the northern ones of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. He removed to Walpole, N. H., where he remained until the breaking out of the war of 1812. For 18 months he nursed the sick and wounded in a hospital at Burlington, Vt., during which time he received nothing for his services. He was at the Battle of Plattsburg discharging his gun, in that engagement 37 times.

His wife Elisabeth Webber Fenton was eight years his junior.

The family lived for a short time in Montreal, where their second child was born in 1804. In 1832 Gamaliel Fenton, his wife, and two sons, Orin and Horace came to Cleveland. The latter were both married and probably brought young children with them. Gamaliel was then in his 70th year, and Mrs. Fenton the elder 62 years.

The family lived first on St. Clair street near Erie street. Early in the '40s Horace Fenton, with whom his parents lived, built a home on Kinsman street now Woodland Ave., just east of Erie street, and here the old people died, The revolutionary hero fell a victim to the cholera scourge in 1849 and died aged 86 years. Mrs. Elisabeth Fenton followed him four years later, her death by apoplexy being as sudden as was that of her husband.

Horace Fenton was 28 years of age when he came to Cleveland. He was a carpenter and after a time became a contractor. He was a useful man in the community and much respected. Several fine residences and public buildings were erected by him.

We find his name in the volunteer Fire Department. Milo Hickox is foreman of Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1, W. J. Warner is his first assistant, and Horace Fenton second assistant. All three were carpenters.

Mrs. Horace Fenton was Lois Thorp of Ogdensburg, N. Y. She was born in 1808, therefore was 24 years of age when she made Cleveland her home. She died in the home on Woodland Ave. in 1853, leaving a family of five children. They were:

Priscilla Fenton, b. 1830; m. her cousin Luther Fenton ; d. 1902.

Daniel Fenton, b. 1832; died four years of age.

Maria M. Fenton, b. 1835; m. Dewitt M. Calkins of Cleveland ; d. 1910.

Henry T. Fenton, b. 1838; d. 1895; m. Louise Hagedorn of Port Huron, Michigan.

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Lois Fenton, b. 1842; d. 1867; m. ald McEason, living in Beaver,

Isaac Wright of Kirtland, O. Pa.

Helen E. Fenton, b. 1845; m. Don-

In 1858 Horace Fenton removed to Barton, Mass., and from that place to Kiantone, N. Y. Meanwhile, he had married secondly, Mrs. Katherine Young of the former place by whom he had several more children : Esther, Hortense, Rose, Horace, Nettie, and Francis Fenton.

Horace Fenton, the elder, died 1885 in Cleveland while on a visit to his children in this city. He was dining with his niece Clarissa Fenton - Jaynes on Madison Ave., now East 79th st., when stricken with apoplexy, and was buried by the side of his first wife in Erie street cemetery.

Orin Fenton, eldest son of Gamaliel Fenton, was a farmer and lived on Crawford Road. His wife was Clarissa Thatcher of Ogdensburg, N. Y.

They had eight children, all but one of whom have passed away.

Children of Orin and Clarissa Fenton:

Sarah Fenton, unmarried.

Elisabeth Fenton, unmarried..

Amos Fenton, m. Susan Lee of Mogadore, O..

Luther Fenton, m. his cousin Clarissa Fenton.

William Fenton, m. Isabelle Armstrong of Havanna, Ill.

Evelina Fenton, m. David A. Halsted

Horace Fenton, m. Sarah Watkins of East Cleveland

Clarissa Fenton, m. Henry Jaynes, live in Madison, O.

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Rev. Daniel Ferris of Montton, Vt., came to Newburgh after the death of his wife Amarilla Stetson Ferris, and lived with his son Lyman who had preceded him to Ohio three years earlier. He lived in Newburgh and vicinity about 14 years, dying at the advanced age of 83 years.

Lyman Ferris is the only child mentioned of Rev. David, probably because the other children, if any, were living in New England. Mrs. Lyman Ferris was the Newburgh pioneer Jerusha Benton, and the second wife of Lyman Ferris. The couple were very refined, punctilious, and stately in their bearing. They were devout Methodists and were greatly beloved and esteemed by the members of that denomination, both in Cleveland and Newburgh, and their home was ever open to traveling clergymen.

They had three daughters, all born in this locality. Mr. Ferris may have had children by his first wife who remained in Vermont. He died in 1872, aged 79, and Jerusha Benton Ferris passed away a year later. Their children were

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Polly Ferris, b. 1830; m. Rev. Hen- Lorain Ferris, b. 1836; m. Louis

ry Mendenhall. Dibble Stark.

Esther Ferris, b. 1840; died young.

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James Miller Craw and his wife Sarah Bentley Craw were from Albany, N. Y., and brought their family of five children to Cleveland in 1832. Mr. Craw was a mason and contractor and his two sons followed the same occupation. In 1837 they were living at No. 32 High street, then a very attractive location. All the members of this family were valuable members of society and of Trinity and Grace Churches, and their grandchildren are proud of the fact that they come of revolutionary stock.

Children of James M. and Sarah Bentley Craw:

William Valoir Craw, m. Margaret Wilson..

James Augustus Craw, m. Rhoda Lynde.

Elizabeth Craw, m. - ---Woodruff. No children.

Mary Craw, m. Joseph Van Schuyver. Their only son became a wealthy citizen of Portland, Ore

Leonora Craw, m. Moses Drake. They had two daughters who are Mrs. Hiram Wardwell of Ft. Wayne, Ind., and Mrs. Roger Butterfield of Grand Rapids, Mich.

William V. Craw, a member of Cleveland's first council, was born on Pearl street in Albany, N. Y., in 1810. He was the son of James Miller and Sarah Bentley Craw, and came with them to Cleveland in 1832.

He was a carpenter and building contractor, who erected many business blocks and private dwellings in the '40s and '50s, few of which remain standing, having long since been torn down to make room for more modern and pretentious buildings. The Perry-Payne structure displaced one of them. About the only one yet remaining is the building occupied by Strong and Cobb, retail druggists.

In later years Mr. Craw turned his attention to the rapidly growing fish business of the city and for forty years dealt in the sale of that commodity, becoming in time Fish Inspector of Cleveland. His bonded warehouse stood for forty-eight years at No. 68 and 70 River street.

His value as a citizen, however, was his service in the Council and on the Board of Education. He was responsible for the survey of the city by a scientific surveyor brought from Ontario for that purpose, much trouble having previously been encountered both in city and county through carelessness of incompetent surveyors.

Mr. Craw was an enthusiast on the subject of public schools, and threw his whole weight of influence toward the establishment of Cleveland's first high school, a measure that encountered bitter opposition

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from many of the city's tax-payers. In 1844 he married Margaret A. Wilson, the daughter of John and Ann Aram Wilson. She was born in Watertown, N. Y., in 1821, and was brought to Cleveland by her parents in 1831. The couple boarded for six months at the residence of Dr. Inglehart on Huron Road near Ninth street, and afterward began housekeeping at 20 Bolivar Road, which was their home for many years. They both died on Kennard street near Scovill Ave. ; Mr. Craw in 1895, and his wife in 1903 aged eight-three years.

The family attended Trinity Church at first, but feeling the need of one in their locality, assisted in the organization of Grace Church, of which society Mrs. Craw was a devoted member and enthusiastic worker. She took an active part in the Sanitary Fair held on the Public Square during the civil war, and was ever interested in all measures that needed her co-operation.

Through the kind impulses of Mr. and Mrs. Craw several talented boys and girls of earlier Cleveland were enabled to reach heights of achievement otherwise unattainable. One of these was Hubert Hrekimer, the world-famous artist. His mother was a music teacher and had set her heart upon her son's career as a musician. Mrs. Craw discovered the lad's talent and ambition for art, and persuaded his mother to change her plans for his future. Hubert was at once given drawing lessons and assisted and encouraged in his ambition to be a painter.

Children of William V. and Margaret Wilson Craw:

Kate Bentley Craw, m. Dr. John Corlett Gill..

Wilson John Craw, m. Sarah Lawrence.

Frank Gardner Craw, m. Frances Ransom Whipple

James M. Craw, unmarried.

Mathilde Craw, m. William J. Smith.

Those of the family who have passed away were recently removed from old Erie street cemetery to the new one at Warrensville.

Children of James A. and Rhoda Lynde Craw:

George A. Craw, unmarried.. Died 1905.

Sarah Bentley Craw, unmarried.

Frances Bentley Craw, died 1847

Edward Lnyde Craw, m. Anna Marie Rockhill. Died 1900.

James A. Craw married (2nd) Jane Turner. They had one son: Charles King Craw.

Of this family but two survive, Sarah B. and Edward L. Craw. The latter is a real-estate man of Fort Wayne, Ind., and is proprietor of "The Portland," a fine modern hotel of that city. His son, George Rockhill Craw, resides in Chicago.

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Dr. Edwin Cowles who appeared in Cleveland for the first time in 1832 was not, as has been erroneously stated, a brother of the earlier pioneer of the same name, Judge Samuel Cowles. If any blood relationship existed between them it dated back several generations. But Dr. Cowles was a brother-in-law of the Judge, having married the latter's sister.

Dr. Cowles was the son of the Rev. Giles Hooker Cowles, D. D., of Connecticut, who came to Austinburg in 1810, to become the first pastor of a little congregation that the Rev. Joseph Badger had collected in the wilderness of Ashtabula county. He was installed over his flock in a barn where services were held until funds could. be raised for building a church. And when this was accomplished it became famous in a modest way, for it was ornamented with a steeple, a typical New England church steeple, the first in Ohio.

The Reverend Giles H. Cowles was accompanied by his wife Polly White Cowles and a family of children, the second of whom was Edwin, seventeen years of age. This family was one of the cases where heredity counts. The children were all gifted with unusual intelligence and with deep religious feeling. An ancestor on their father's side was the celebrated New England divine, Rev. Thomas Hooker, and their mother was directly descended from Peregrine White, that first-born child of the Plymouth Colony. John Cowles of Hartford, Conn., 1635, headed the American family of the name.

Mrs. Cowles brought to the wilderness a dainty set of china ornamented with the family monogram. It was made to order and presented to her on her wedding-day in 1792. It is said that previous to her marriage Mrs. Cowles had been so engrossed in study as to neglect the arts of the housewife and had not learned to cook. But she brought to the problems facing her a well-trained mind which soon solved them, and even excelled in what she had once been deficient. She was also a sweet singer and two of her daughters inherited from her their musical talent.

Her father was Alpheus White whom tradition claims was a soldier with Washington, and who lost his wife by drowning the night of the Crossing of the Delaware. Her mother was Abigail Weed White.

Dr. Edwin Weed Cowles, the oldest child of Rev. Giles H. and Sally White Cowles, was born in Bristol, Conn., in 1794. He studied medicine with O. K. Hawley of Austinburg and practiced his profession in that town for about ten years ; then removed to Mantua, Portage Co., O. He remained in the latter place until 1832, when he came to Cleveland, whether to look over the field in view of settling here, or in order to help fight the terrible scourge of cholera that threatened the town, is uncertain. He did heroic service in unhesitatingly risking his own life to combat the unknown disease and unselfishly caring for the sick and dying strangers in town with no home or personal friends to look after them. Cholera broke out on a steamer bound from Buffalo to Detroit. It put into Cleveland for medical help and Dr. Cowles went on with it to Detroit.

Dr. Cowles boarded that summer with Deacon Lathrop, and in the fall brought on his family and established them on Euclid avenue beyond E. 107th street, the site of Adelbert College, W. R. U. Here he remained but two years, and then for some reason removed to Detroit,

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Mich., where he practiced medicine until 1838, when he returned to Cleveland.

Dr. Cowles seems to have been a progressive in his profession and not inclined to accept as infallible the authorities preceding his time. It is said that he was the first Cleveland physician to lend an ear to the shocking Homeopathy heresy (?). Perhaps this may be an explanation of his evident uneasiness or discontent, as he again returned to Michigan, remaining in Adrian and Ann Arbor for five years. The rest of his days were spent in Cleveland where he died in 1861. The first home of the family in town was close to the Public Square on the little street that ran from it through to St. Clair but for many following years the residence was No. 77 Prospect street.

At twenty-one years of age Dr. Cowles married Almira Foote of Norfolk, Conn. She was the daughter of Asa and Sarah Mills Foote. The latter was first married to Joseph Cowles and had at least one child, Samuel Cowles, who became the well-known pioneer judge of Cleveland. Probably it was through this much-beloved half-brother of his wife that Dr. Cowles was led to make the city his home.

Before the writer lies a letter over a hundred years old written by Miss Almira Foote to Samuel Cowles, then living in Farmington, Conn. She had lost both her parents some years previous and was teaching school in Onandaga, N. Y. The epistle is penned in a vigorous, selfreliant, hopeful style, though her orphaned and homeless condition evidently is keenly felt.

As Mrs. Edwin Cowles and the mother of boys away at school, she wrote other and beautiful letters, full of motherly love and anxiety. Not over their clothes nor their health, but their manners and morals. "Be good, serve God," is her principal theme. Evidently she took great comfort in her first-born, who wrote to her often and kept her posted as to his daily life. She died in 1846. Both Dr. Cowles and his wife rest in Lake View cemetery.

The children of Dr. Edwin and Almira Foote Cowles:

Giles Hooker Cowles, b. 1819; died in Cleveland 1842; a young man of great promise and of fine personality.

Helen Cowles, b. 1821; m. 1st, Dr. Franklin L. Markham; m. 2^nd, Buell Goodsel Wheeler of Rockford, Ill.

Samuel Cowles, b. 1823; m. Anna L. Wooster, dau. of Calvin Wooster.

Edwin Cowles, b. 1825; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Morely Hutchinson of Cayuga, N. Y.

Alfred Cowles, b. 1832; m. Sarah F. Hutchinson, sister and dau. of above.

Samuel Cowles, third child of Dr. Edwin Cowles, was a lawyer. He went to California in 1853 and became a very prominent judge of that state.

Alfred Cowles, the youngest child of the family, engaged in the printing business with his brother Edwin and Joseph Medill until 1855, when with Mr. Medill he bought the Chicago Tribune and for twenty-eight years was manager and principal proprietor of that noted metropolitan

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journal. In the later years of his life he traveled much in his own country and abroad. He was a man of strong character and genial hospitality. The family residence was at 1805 Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Edwin Cowles, his father's namesake and fourth child, may readily be conceded a Cleveland pioneer as he came to this town in 1832, a lad of eight years. He developed into a typical member of the Cowles family, with additional characteristics from the maternal side also in evidence. Of these stood out physical and mental courage, and vigorous expression at all times of independent thought.

Edwin Cowles was an ardent champion of the abolition movement when it was unpopular and often unsafe to be identified with it. He founded the Cleveland Leader in 1854 and for long years was its principal proprietor, manager and editor. All through the dark days of the civil war the Cleveland Leader was unswervingly loyal to the Government, and stood staunchly by President Lincoln in all his efforts to bring the war to a close.

Mr. Cowles was absolutely without fear. An infantile disease had left him with two minor physical losses, one of which was defective hearing. In spite of this he walked alone every night of his active life from his office to his home between midnight and four o'clock A. M., regardless of the expostulations of his personal friends and of his family. Other men were assaulted by cowardly enemies or knocked down and robbed by thugs, but the robust, vigorous, thoroughly self-reliant figure of Mr. Cowles seemed too doubtful a proposition for any assailant.

He was a very affectionate and indulgent father. Anything that affected one of his children adversely caused him keen mental distress. During the earlier years of their married life Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cowles lived in a house adjoining that of Dr. Cowles on Prospect street. Afterward they resided on the south-west corner of Superior and Erie street. Not long before his death Mr. Cowles built an unusually large and costly home on Prospect street near Sterling.

He passed from this life in 1890. Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson Cowles outlived him twenty years and died in her childhood home in Cayuga, N. Y., where she spent much of her declining years.

Children of Edwin and Elizabeth Cowles:

Almira F. Cowles, b. 1850; m Charles W. Chase..

Helen H. Cowles; b. 1851; m.George P. Pomeroy; she died in 1884.

Eugene H. Cowles, b. 1855; m. Alice M. Hale; 2nd, Claire Luenschloss

Alfred H. Cowles, b. 1858.

Lewis H. Cowles, b. 1861; m. Sarah F. Hutchinson of Cayuga, N. Y.

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In the first decade of the last century, Mathew Coon, son of Jeremiah and Ruth Mosier Coon, of Dutch ancestry, and living in Half Moon, N. Y., married Albacinda Lyon, daughter of Holmes Lyon. They had a family of eleven children, some of whom were born in Ballston Spa, N. Y.

In 1832 the family came to Cleveland in the usual way, starting from Albany and riding on the Erie canal to Buffalo, then changing to a steamboat or vessel running from that port to this one.

Mathew Coon was then fifty-one and Mrs. Coon forty-four years of age. Evidently they found life rather strenuous at first in their efforts to provide for their large family. But in time everything worked out satisfactorily. Their children were unusually bright, ambitious young people, who meant to make the most of themselves and proceeded to do so irrespective of circumstances.

The eldest son became a hotel-keeper, and was landlord of the New England House for a time. Jeremiah learned the jeweler's trade of N. E. Crittenden, and for many years had a jewelry-store of his own on Superior street. John also learned that trade, but left it for the law. Henry was a civil war veteran, and subsequently was in the service of the government. He died in the Dayton Soldiers' Home.

Mathew Coon and his wife rest in Erie street cemetery. He died in 1847 and Mrs. Coon survived him 20 years.

The children of Mathew and Albacinda Coon:

Holmes Coon, hotel-keeper.

Jane Coon.

Minerva Coon, b. 1811; m. Nathaniel Ranney

Harriet Coon, m. Morris Barnes..

Mary Coon, b. 1816; m. William Scofield.

Jeremiah Coon, b. 1817; m. Olive Stockwell of Rochester, N. Y.

John Coon, b. 1822; m. Martha A E. Howe.

Caroline Coon, b. 1822; d. 1884; unmarried

Henry Coon, civil war veteran

Elisabeth Coon, b. 1829; m. William Culver of Massillon, O

John Coon, third son of Mathew and Albacinda Coon, was born in Ballston Spa, N. Y. When but fourteen years of age he began an apprenticeship with N. E. Crittenden, the Cleveland jeweler. That he made good use of every moment of spare time is evidenced by the fact that within eleven years he had mastered his trade, prepared for college, and graduated from Yale in the class of 1847. A set of Shakespeare in seven volumes attest to his merit in one direction while at college. The books are inscribed

"Presented to John Coon for excellency in composition.

NOAH PORTER."

He returned home to study law with Andrews and Foot, and in time to become a leading member of the bar. He was one of the original "arkites," perhaps the youngest member of that celebrated Cleveland club. While at college he made the acquaintance and won the affection of Miss

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Martha Ann Elisabeth Howe, a sister of Henry Howe his roommate and chum, and after his business affairs admitted of such an important step, he returned east to Worcester, Mass., to claim his bride.

Among other incidents of his career John Coon was the private secretary tary of Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior.

Children of John and Martha A. E. Coon:

George W. Coon, m. Martha A. Osborn of Corning, N. Y.; 2nd, Alice L. Moody of Cincinnati.

John Coon, Jr., m. Milly M. Holt.

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A year or two preceding that of 1832 two brothers, William and Aaron P. Cleveland, from Charlestown, South Carolina, came to town and built a small row of stores, reserving the use of one for themselves as a retail dry-goods store. They were the sons of George and Catey Caldwell Cleveland, of Guilford, Conn.

William had gone to New York, when a youth, to clerk in a mercantile house. In 1826 he joined his brother Aaron, who was engaged in cotton brokerage in Charlestown, and not long after-that the young men came west to seek their fortunes in Cleveland. The sign over their store read "Cleveland Brothers." It will be noticed that the name contained but one A. Although kinsmen of Moses Cleaveland they never had spelled their name the same, and it is claimed by their descendants that it was due to their influence the town changed from Cleaveland to Cleveland. Not long after their arrival here the brothers were joined by a third and younger one, George Cleveland.

William Cleveland married in 1832 Miss Martha Burrett Brooks of Pittsford, Vt., twenty-three years of age. She was the daughter of Joshua and Melinda Kieth Brooks, and sister of O. A. Brooks of Cleveland. The family lived at 78 Water street. Some time in the '40s the three Cleveland men removed to New Orleans, La., where they remained some years, doing business in the cotton exchange of that city. They returned north and William Cleveland died in 1887 at Orange, N. J., aged eighty years.

Children of William and Martha Brooks Cleveland:

Martha Brooks Cleveland, b. 1833; m. Ruel Keith.

Caty Caldwell Cleveland, b. 1835; died 1886; unmarried.

Mary Elisabeth Cleveland, b. 1839.

Sarah Cleveland, b. 1845.

William Joshua Cleveland, b. 1849; the only son of the family became a noted Indian missionary in Dakota. He married Hannah Stiteler of Philadelphia, Pa.

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Aaron P. Cleveland remained unmarried until some years following his removal to New Orleans.

George Cleveland, who joined his brothers here in 1832, married Elisabeth Sandford, daughter of Col. Nathan and Elisabeth Mead Sandford. She died in 1838.

Children of George and Elisabeth Sandford Cleveland:

James Cleveland.

Elisabeth S. Cleveland, m. Charles A. Devill.

Mary Tisdale Cleveland.

George Bowen Cleveland.

Catey Caldwell Cleveland.

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In the thriving little town of Utica, N. Y., one August day in 1804, a middle-aged man on horseback was surrounded by a group of people. One could readily infer by the expression on the faces looking up at him that something unusual was taking place.

The man was Deacon David White of Coventry, Conn. His right hand held the bridle of his horse, the other clasped close to his breast a young babe, the only child of his daughter Fanny White, who with her husband Flavel Bingham had just died of typhoid fever and had been laid away, side by side, in the small Utica cemetery.

The good deacon was starting on his return trip to Coventry from which place he had been summoned by the news of the double bereavement, and was carrying the little orphan with him. It was a pathetic scene, and the many friends of the young couple who so recently had been of their number, stood with sad faces, and one by one with words of sympathy bade Deacon White a Godspeed on his journey.

The little child he held in his arms was Flavel White Bingham, who in future years was to become Judge Bingham and a mayor of the city of Cleveland. He was tenderly reared by his prandparents and given all possible advantages of culture and of education. He graduated at Union College, studied law with Gen. Joseph Kirkland, in his early manhood practised in Utica in an office on a lot inherited from his father, then joined fortune with other pioneers of his profession in the thriving village of Cleveland.

His young father, who died so prematurely, was the brother of Cyrus Bingham, whose sons William and Edward founded the present house of William Bingham and Co. He was a watchmaker in 1802, with a large gilt watch as a sign in front of his business place. He owned a lot on the east side of Genesee street, Utica, upon which he had begun to build a home when stricken down by fever.

It is regrettable that nothing but the merest outlines, even of his public life, seem to be obtainable of Judge Bingham. His sons died during

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the civil war, in which they probably engaged, as flags of the G. A. R. are placed on their graves each Decoration Day. All family records are in the possession of the only daughter who removed from the city years ago, and whose address, though faithfully sought, cannot be learned.

Flavel Bingham was the first judge of probate of Cuyahoga County, established in 1852 and served a term of three years. He was mayor of the city in 1849. His wife was Miss Emmeline Day, formerly of Catskill, N. Y. She was the daughter of Mrs. Lucy Day and sister of William and John Day, all well-known pioneer residents of the city.

Mrs. Bingham was a woman of character and. culture, and a worthy companion of the man honored and esteemed by the community in which she lived so many years. She was "Aunt Emmeline" to her little circle of Cleveland relatives.

The family lived on St. Clair st. near Erie, now East 9th, and afterward on the north side of Euclid ave. The Judge and his wife became members of the Old Stone Church in 1836, and thenceforth were prominent in all its services and its social activities. The Bingham burial-lot is in Erie street cemetery, on the left side of the main drive, and about the center of its length. Mrs. Bingham's grave was once marked by a large, white marble headstone, which has disappeared within the past few years. Those of her mother and her young sons, however, are yet standing. It is said that Judge Bingham, who outlived his wife, died East and was buried there.

The children of Flavel and Emmeline Bingham:

Charles A. Bingham, b. 1838; d. 1861.

Edward Day Bingham, b. 1842; d. 1863.

Fanny Bingham, married---------- and resides in an eastern state.

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CLARK

Peck Clark, son of Hezekiah and Mary Peck Clark, married for his second wife Polly Kellogg, a sister of James Kellogg, Jr. They lived in Conneaut, Ohio, and died there aged eighty and eighty-nine years of age. Peck Clark had a large family of children, three of whom either lived here until death, or spent many years in this city. They were Albert, Aaron, and Julia Clark.

Albert Clark, b. 1809, was the eldest son. He lived in Conneaut a few years and then came to Cleveland. Albert Clark was a very handsome man. He was six feet tall, and carried himself with a most distinguished air. His relatives loved to entertain him, as he was a charming guest, always saying the right things to every one, and ever kind and considerate. He was county auditor from 1848 to 1852, and previous to that was with his cousin C. L. Camp in the dry-goods business.

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Albert Clark married Elizabeth Hower Wright, 18 years of age. She was a pretty little woman, always pleasant in her manner, and full of fun. She possessed a beautiful complexion, and wore her lovely hair in curls each side of her face. She died in 1897, aged 83 years.

Children of Albert and Elisabeth Clark:

Amelia Clark, b. 1834; m. DeWitt Patterson..

Julia Clark, b. 1838; m. Samuel A. Fuller. She died leaving a family of children

S. A. Fuller m. 2nd, Louise Allen, daughter of John W. Allen.

Eunice Clark, a beautiful young girl, died in Detroit, aged 18 years.

The Clark residence in 1837 was on Lake street, between Bank and Seneca. Afterward the home was on the corner of Euclid and Brownell streets. Albert Clark died in 1876.

The family burial-lot was in Erie street cemetery.

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ABBEY

Sarah Goodrich Abbey, a widow, with her little son Perley Abbey, and perhaps other children, left her home at Mt. Holyoke, Mass., early in the last century and settled in Conneaut, 0. Upon reaching manhood, Perley Abbey married Thankful Clark, a daughter of Zelotus and Elisabeth Clark. Mrs. Clark's brother John B. Clark was at that time a wealthy and prominent citizen of Hudson, O.

Thankful Clark Abbey was a direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden of the Mayflower, their daughter having married the Clark who was Mrs. Abbey's first American ancestor. He served in the Pequot Indian War and received a grant of land from the king of England in Saybrook, Conn., upon which the family lived for many generations, Mrs. Abbey having been born on it. About 1820, and when Mrs. Abbey was eighteen years old, Zelotus Clark sold his farm in Saybrook, and became a pioneer of the Western Reserve.

Mrs. Abbey brought with her from Saybrook a piece of embroidery that had belonged to Priscilla Alden, which is now in the possession of her daughter Mrs. L. B. Miles of this city, and when the long-delayed Art Gallery of Cleveland is at last built and ready for such possessions, it is Mrs. Miles' intention to bequeath it this valuable heirloom.

For a few years after their marriage, the Abbeys lived in Twinsburg, where. their first three children were born, and in 1832, removed to Cleveland. Mr. Abbey was a contractor and builder in later life, erecting the Marine Hospital on Lake street, the old Allopathic college, and other

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stone buildings; but in 1837, was a provision dealer at No. 9 Dock street. The family at that time lived on Bolivar street, but later their home for many years was on the corner of Woodland and Perry.

The children of Perley and Thankful Abbey:

Elizabeth Abbey.

Helen Abbey, m. Cameron..

Harriet Abbey, m. Dr. L. B. Miles.

Mary Abbey, m. Holden, and ------ Sweet

Lewis Abbey.

Pettie Abbey.

The family burial-lot is in Woodland cemetery.

1832

DENZER-STACEY

Jacob Denzer, born 1782, came to Cleveland from Germany. He was 50 years of age, and his wife Magdalena 44 years.

Their son, Daniel Denzer, was a lad of seventeen when he accompanied his parents from the old world home to the new. There may have been a son Peter Denzer, as a young man of that name was clerking in this city in 1845.

Jacob Denzer dealt in produce and garden-truck. He died in 1857 on St. Clair street where the family were living at that time. Mr. Denzer lived to a great age.

Daniel Denzer was also in the produce business, and made a financial success of it. He married Sarah Stacey, a handsome, dark-eyed English girl, daughter of John and Frances Stacey, who arrived here in 1837. There were several children in the Stacey family. William and James were in the fruit trade. Josiah was a confectioner and caterer. Garrett's Hall, a popular resort, stood on the north-east corner of Euclid Ave. and the Public Square. Here, for two decades, society devotees held private dances and other gay functions. To reach the hall, one had first to enter Stacey's confectionery store. Its door was level with Euclid ave., but its show-window, north of the door, faced the Square, and the steep walk that led down to Superior street. Who can forget the allurements of that window? How tempting to one with a "sweet tooth" was that display of gorgeous frosted cakes and delicious looking candy! Mr. Josiah Stacey had a pleasant face, and kindly manners for everybody, irrespective of age or circumstance. His wife was a dear little woman, and his helpmate in the many years they passed together.

John Stacey the elder died in 1852, perhaps of cholera, aged 60 years. His wife Frances lived to be 91. They lie in the Denzer lot in Erie street cemetery.

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