A Standard History of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development. A Chron- icle of the People, with Family Lineage and Memoirs BY HEWSON L. PEEKE Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors VOLUME I ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1916 ERIE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Sandusky, OHIO SEARCH ENGINE When you reach the page you have been referred to by the search engine, search this page by going to the top of your browser, click Edit and then click find on this page. Type in the desired search word and click. This will take you to the places on the page where this word is found. It will take you through all of the places that this word is found on this page (RETURN TO THE HOME PAGE) DEDICATION TO THE PEOPLE OF ERIE COUNTY Whose History It Is and Who, for More Thal?, a Generation, Have Treated the Author with Kindness and Consideration—This Book Is Dedicated "Let us now praise famous men and the fathers that begat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Leaders of the people by their counsels and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people; wise and glorious in their instructions; all these were honored in their generations and were the glory of their times. There be of them, that have left a name behind them that their praises might be reported. And some there be which have no memorial, who are perished as though they had never been and are become as though they had never been born;- and their children after them. But these were merciful men whose righteousness hath not been forgotten. With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance and their children are within the covenant. Their seed standeth fast and their children for their sake. Their seed shall remain forever and their glory shall not be blotted out. Their bodies are buried in peace, but their names live forever more. The people will tell of their wisdom and the congregation will show forth their praise." TO THE READER PLEASE READ THIS PREFACE I know no one ordinarily reads the preface, but I hope those who read this book will. In 1846 Henry Howe visited Ohio and published his one volume of Ohio historical collections. Forty years later he again visited Ohio and published the two-volume edition of his collection. In 1889 a man named Aldrich published the only history of Erie County separately published to this date. In his preface he acknowledges his indebtedness to my mother for her part of the work. When I made fun of her as a historian I little thought that a quarter of a century later I would try to write a history of 'Erie County myself. At that time there were many old residents still alive who could have been of great aid, but have since passed away. In preparing this history I have gone to original sources as far as possible. I have followed the principle of old Plautus that one eye witness is better than ten who have heard. I have turned over page by page all the files of old papers accessible to me in Sandusky and Norwalk to January 1, 1915, and have consulted all the books I could find. I have tried to liven up statistics with a touch of humor and human interest wherever possible and to produce a book that in addition to containing information that may be valuable might be interesting and amusing for an idle hour. I acknowledge my indebtedness to the various persons contributing to this book named therein, and also to Mrs. Kate Thomas for the use of the Clarion files owned by her. To Mr. C. H. Gallup of Norwalk, the custodian of the Firelands Historical Society. Also to the Library Association and Mrs. John T. Mack, Miss Jessie Wilcox, Miss Harriet West and Mrs. Emma Marshall. And to Miss Edna Holzaepfel, librarian of Carnegie Library, and her assistants, Misses Sarah McE wen, Leonora Schoepfle and Dora Glaser. Also to Joshua B. Davis for loan of material, and to Miss Katherine Schaefer for her interest and assistance in copying and to Miss Maye Wonnell and Miss Tillie Schumacher for their assistance in preparing the manuscript. Also to W. H. Watts for his assistance. The book carries no guarantee of perfection if any mistakes are found therein. All that is claimed is that it is a human record of very human beings. H. L. PEEKE.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
THE FIRE-LANDS-A LIST OF THE SUFFERERS AND THEIR LOSSES	001
CHAPTER II
GEOLOGY OF ERIE COUNTY	21
CHAPTER III
ERIE COUNTY-ITS ERECTION AND ORGANIZATION	33
CHAPTER IV
FLORENCE TOWNSHIP	48
CHAPTER V
VERMILLION TOWNSHIP	61
CHAPTER VI
BERLIN TOWNSHIP	64
CHAPTER VII
MILAN TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE	78
CHAPTER VIII
HURON TOWNSHIP	98
CHAPTER IX
OXFORD TOWNSHIP	113
CHAPTER X
PERKINS TOWNSHIP	121

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CHAPTER XI
GROTON TOWNSHIP	128
CHAPTER XII
MARGARETTA TOWNSHIP	134
CHAPTER XIII
EARLY SANDUSKY	150
CHAPTER XIV
THE THREE CHOLERA YEARS	181
CHAPTER XV
SANDUSKY ( CONTINUED )	196
CHAPTER XVI
SANDUSKY ( CONTINUED)	208
CHAPTER XVII
COMMERCE OF SANDUSKY	225
CHAPTER XVIII
SANDUSKY CITY SCHOOLS	234
CHAPTER XIX
ERIE COUNTY CHURCHES	249
CHAPTER XX
THE BANKS AND BANKERS OF SANDUSKY	277
CHAPTER XXI
HOSPITALS	281
CHAPTER XXII
THE OHIO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME	288
CHAPTER XXIII
WOMAN 'S WORK THROUGH ORGANIZATIONS	294
CHAPTER XXIV
SANDUSKY FRATERNALISM	301

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CHAPTER XXV
DOCTORS AND DENTISTS	309
CHAPTER XXVI
TEMPERANCE ACTIVITIES IN ERIE COUNTY	314
CHAPTER XXVII
NOTABLE ORGANIZATIONS	317
CHAPTER XXVIII
JOHNSON'S ISLAND	327
CHAPTER XXIX
KELLEY'S ISLAND	334
CHAPTER XXX
THE MILITARY HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY	343
CHAPTER XXXI
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD	377
CHAPTER XXXII
RAILROADS IN ERIE COUNTY	389
CHAPTER XXXIII
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES	399
CHAPTER XXXIV
ERIE COUNTY NEWSPAPERS	409
CHAPTER XXXV
THE BENCH AND BAR	416
CHAPTER XXXVI
GOSSIP	443
CHAPTER XXXVII
ERIE COUNTY CELEBRITIES	454
A Standard History of ERIE COUNTY, OHIO An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development. A Chron- icle of the People, with Family Lineage and Memoirs BY HEWSON L. PEEKE Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1916
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Berlin Heights Grange, 405 Berlin military record, 76 Berlin township originally named Eldridge, 64; timber, 64; salt licks, 65; salt springs, 65; first settlement, 65; game, 66; first settlers, 67; first mill, 68; early schools, 68; first religious organization, 69; early churches, 69; industries, 70 Berlinville, 77 Bethel Church, 256 Beutel, William H., 1016 Biehl, Jacob A., 508 Big grave of 1849, 181 Bigelow, Russell, 253 Bill, Earl, 242, 410 Bing, Ferdinand J., 1160. Bird's-eye View, Sandusky (view), 202 Bird's-eye View, Sandusky (view), 222 Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, Milan (view), 82 Bishop, Willard A., 284 Bissonette, Catherine, 318 Bitner, C. C., 416 Bittner, W. P., 1158 Bixby, Jerome, 731 Blackman, Hiram, 131 Blaine, James G., 450 Blair, Charles A., 936 Blakeslee, Dr. Emily, 284  Blanchard, Dennis, 944 Blanden, Alice H., 911 Blanden, George, 909 Bliss, George H., 204 Bloomingville, 117 Boalt, Eben, 399 Boalt, John M., 450 Board of health 1832, 443 Board of Public Works of Ohio, 389 Beckling, George A., 814 Boehm, John K., 736 Bogart, 125 Boos, Ameol, 1027 Boss, John W., 857 Boulders from Canadian sources, 31 Bouton, Emily, 209 Bowen, W. W., 433 Bradley, Cyrus P., 168 Bradstreet, S. J., 258 Bradway, Warren, 955 Bragg, John E. 787 Catherman, Georgia, 525 Catherman, Samuel J., 523 Brarnard, A., 310 Breck, A. A., 244 Breen, Felix, 414  Breweries 231  Brightman, F. E., 1210	Building stone, 28 Bull's Island, 327 Burdue, Lafayette, 611 Burdue, Nathaniel, 67 Burge, L. K., 921 Burger, William F., 1215 Burkle, Philip, 320 Burnett, W. R., 292 Burnham, Joseph T., 570 Burrows, Willard, 1103 Burt, Squire, 95 Butler, Charles, 144 Butler, Erastus, 59 Butler, John B., 869 Buyer, Mary E., 317 Byington, Nathaniel, 422 Cable, Fielding, 415 Cable, Joseph, 415 "Cable Park," 403 Caldwell, Chas. P., 1200 Caldwell, Joseph, 310 Caldwell, S. B., 235 Cameron, J. L., 288 Camp Avery, 86 Camp, Mrs. John G., 266 Campbell, David, 409; 411. Campbell, Dougal, 139 Campbell, D. K., 410 Campbell, John F., 235, 416 Canfield, Charles, 726 Canfield, Jude C., 1047 Capitular Masonry, 304 Carnegie Library, 321 Carnegie Library, Sandusky (view), 197 Carpenter, Charles, 406 Carpenter, George, 310 Carpenter, Samuel, 310 Carroll, Mathew B., 598 Carter, Harry G., 898 Carter, Julia A., 900 Case, Harlow, 61 Castalia, 136 Castalia Portland Cement Company, 148 Castalia Sporting Club, 145 Castalia Springs, 21, 22, 145 Castalia Trout Club Company, 146 Caswell, Thomas, 139 Catholic Burying Ground Showing Part of the old Mad River Roadbed (view), 395 Catholic Churches, 269 Catholic Woman's Study Club, 295 Cedar Point, 208 Cedar Point as a resort, 211 Celebrities, 454
Brimson, W. H., 204 Bristol, Charles S., 1111 Bristol, Orrin H., 628 Britton, John C. 822 Brooks, George M., 851 Brown, A. H., 309 Brown, Henry E., 703 Brown, Henry M., 747 Brown, John, 1116 Brown, R. B., 292 Brundage, Hiram E., 1086 Brundage, James C., 580 Bruns, Diedrick E. 770 Bruns, Henry G., 796 Bruns, William, 804 Buerkle, Philip, 539	Cemeteries, 319 Census by townships, 37 Census of 1910, 37 Central Ohio Railroad Company, 390 Ceylon, 77 Champlin, Adonijah, 411 Chandler, Daniel, Jr., 873 Chandler, Frank F., 875 Chapelle Creek, 48 Chapin, Harry L., 1151 Chapin, Helen H., 1084 Chapin, Leonard B., 1083 Chapin, Lorenzo S., 1150
Chapin, Nancy S., 1151 Chapman, Gertrude M., 140 Chapman, James F., 522 Chase, Harvey, 402 Chase, Lester T., 607 Chase, Salmon P., 445 Cherry, C. Henry, 1098 Choate, Rufus, 425 Cholera epidemic, 109 Cholera of 1849, 183 Cholera of 1852, 185 Cholera of 1854, 186 Cholera victims, list of 187 Christians, 264 Christian Science, 268 Christopher, Doctor, 125 Christopher, Richard, 310 Churches, 249 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, 270 Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland R. R. 395 Circle of Mercy, 295 Circuit Court, 420, 423 Citizens National Bank, 280 Civic Club, 295 Clarion Building, 444 Clark, Clementinea, 52 Clark, Jesse C., 891 Clark, Lewis L., 576 Clark, Peltiah, 490 Clark, William, 604 Clary, Charles K., 951 Clary, George W., 888 Clary, Mark E., 887 Clausius, Johan, 262 Clemons, E. E., 235 Cleveland, James, 422 Cleveland & Toledo Railroad, 200	Comstock, Philo, 1047 Cone, Lester, 399 Congregational Church, 452 Congregational Reading Circle, 294 Congregationalists, 257 Conklin, Charles H., 657 Constitution of 1851, 423 Converse, Waldo F., 416 Cook; Elmer, 600 Cooke, A., 235 Cooke, Charles E., 520 Cooke, Eleutheros, 162, 416, 426, 455 Cooke, Henry D., 412 Cooke, Jay, 455 Cooke, Mary A., 521 Cooke, Pitt, 416, 445 Cooper, T. C., 181 Corbitt, Aaron, 399 Corniferous limestone, 21, 26 Costigan, Timothy, 741 Coterie, 295 Cotton, S. S., 29, 241, 244. 423 Coughenour, Levi M., 744 Coulter, Captain, 95 Coultrip, Charles, 871 County Infirmary, 319 Court of Appeals, 420 Court House, Sandusky (view), 36 Cowdry, M. F., 29 Cowell, Alvin T., 711 Cowles, Henry, 258 Craig, Charles A., 547 Cramer, Charles H., 419, 432 Crane, W. H., 455 Crecelius, Jacob J., 562 Crippen, Esquire, 162 Croll John A., 1113
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, 227 Clock, Tallien M., 415, 831 Cobb, Eddie M., 714 Cobb. Jeduthan, 68 Cochran, Charles, 309 Cochran, Jeremiah S., 309 Coen, Edward L., 1163 Coen, F. W., 1152 Cold Creek, 134, 141 Cold Creek Sporting Club, 145 Cold Creek Trout Club, 145 Cold Creek Trout Club Company, 146 Coles, William, 502 Collingwoocl, Claude H., 865 Colton, Carlos, 95 Colton House, 165 Colt's Exchange, 180 Columbus Avenue, Looking South, with Old Courthouse on the Left, (view), 172 Columbus & Lake Erie Company, 390 Columbus Short Line, 398 Colver, Elisha M., 418 Colver, Frank B., 414 Commerce of Sandusky, 225 Commercial Advertiser, 415 Commercial National Bank, 280 Commercial Register, 412 Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (portrait), 354	Crysinger, John A., 693 Cuddebach, Peter, 61 Cunningham's Island, 334 Curran, Charles C., 322 Curran, Ulysses, 418 Curfew ordinance, 445 Curtis, George R., 999 Curtis, L. L., 1189 "Cut money," 52 Daily Register, 409, 410 Daily Sanduskian, 409, 411 Dairying, 71 Daleys, The, 95 Danbury fire sufferers, 11 Danbury Township, 337 Daniel, George, 341 Daniels, Jeremiah, 102 Daniels. William, 95 Darby, E. J., 859 Darling, Isaac, 258 Darling, Wilder M., 323 Datson, Mary J., 662 Datson, William, 660 Dauch, Jacob J., 475 Dauch, John J., 439 Daughters of the American Revolution,295, 296 Daugherty, William D., 1058 Davidson, James, 258 Davis, Carrie Chase, 283, 284 Davis, Caroline, 526 Davis, I. Lee, 929 Davis, Ira T., 525

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Davis, Jeff, 330 Davis, Joshua B., 200 Davis, T., 309 Davlin, Walter, 498 Dean, Captain, 95 Deck, Alexander, 561 Decker, Charles F., 1131 DeLamatre, Belding, 816 Delany, Jasper N., 815 Delawares, 121 Democratic Mirror, 415 Denman, George, 966 Dentistry, 312 Depot for prisoners, 327 Description of pioneer life, 85 Devoe, Fred, 234 Dewey, Mary, 234 Dewey, Mary C., 505  DeWitt, Claude B., 418, 433, 884  DeWitt, George H., 11.99 DeWitt, James L., 417 DeWitt, J. Lloyd, 421 DeWitt, Lloyd, 426 Dickel, Charles. B., 659 Dickel, George H., 1082 Dickel, John, 864 Dickens, Charles, 179 Dickens visit to Sandusky, 179, 449 Diehl, Henry, 974 Diels, William, 1169 Dietz, Jacob, 558 Diggins, Joy, 779 Diggins, Mary M. 780 Dildine, Charles M. 826 Dilgart, William H., 1145 Dimmock, Asa, 415 Dimon, D., 95 Dimon, William, 95 District Court, 423 Division of Huron and Erie Counties Agricultural Society, 401 Doctors and Dentists, 309 Doerzbach, George J., 506 Doerzbach, G. William, 1209 Doll's Hall, 324 Dorsey, Stephen W., 455 Douglas, J. K., 1007 Douglass, James, 667 Douglass, Cornelia A., 668 Downing, Cyrus, 102 Drake, Emma, 602 Duennisch, Louis , 548

Edison, Samuel, 455 Edison, Thomas A., 95, 455 Eighth Infantry, 357 Eldis, Martha, 160 Eldredge, Frederick A., 875 Eldridge, Charles, 95 Elks, 452 Ellis, Elisha, 336 Ellithorpe, Henry, 336 Elwell, George S., 323 Emmons, Squire, 95 Empire House, 200 Emrich, James H., 516 Emrich, Minnie, 284 Emrich, Minnie L., 517 Engelbry, F. E., 414 Engels, Mrs. Carl E., 284 Englert, Andrew, 730 Ensign, Lewis, 140 Episcopal Church, Storm Scene (view), 265 Episcopalians, 266 Erie Canal, 410 Erie Commandery No. 23 Knights Templar, 304 Erie County Agricultural Society, 399 Erie County Agricultural Society, premium list, 402 Erie County Agricultural Society reorganized, 403 Erie County Humane Society, 450 Erie County Infirmary Farm, 127 Erie County Officials—treasurers,/span>38 prosecuting     attorneys, 38; county clerks, 38; auditors, 38; sheriffs, 39; recorders, 39; surveyors, 39; county commissioners, 39 Erie County, only murderer ever legally executed in, 44, 422 Erie County Medical Society, 311 Erie County Pomona Grange, 405 Erie County Reporter, 415 Eschenroeder, George F., 419, 433 Euterpean Hall, 324 Evangelical Immanuels Church, 262 Evans, Edward, 422 Evans, James, only murderer executed within the bounds of Erie county, 44 Fairfield fire sufferers, 9 Falley, Frederick, 135, 139 Fanny Gordon Home, 96  Farwell, Moors, 258, 260, 422 Farwell, M., 157 Fenton, Joseph, 1097 Fettel, August, 1214 Fichtel, William F., 1100 Fays, The, 95 Feick, George, 987 Feick, John A., 512 Feick, Minnie A., 988

Drake, C. F., 252 Drake, Jay 0., 601 Duff, John. 417 Dunbar, John, 67 Dunham, Phineas, 131 Dwelle, B. F., 208 Earl, Amos, 235 Early Methodists, 249 Early newspapers of the Reserve, 107 Early Sandusky, 150 Early transportation, 155 East Haven fire sufferers, 13 Eaton, Arunah, 399 Ebert, Charles, 834 Ebert, Gust, 972 Ebert, John, 688 Ebert, Louis, Jr., 623 Eckler, Conrad D., 507

Felton, Elias R., 1046 Felton, Julia C., 1047 Fiesinger, William L., 434 Fiesinger. W. L., 418 Fifty-Fifth Infantry, 361 Finley, J. B., 250 Finzel, Theodore J., 988 Fire grants, Oxford, 1113, Berlin Township, 80; Perkins, 122; Groton, 129 Margaretta, 137 Firelands Society, 61

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Firelands, List of the sufferers in, 1; compensation for losses, 1 First annual fair, 399 First Children’s Home, 317 First Christian Church, Sandusky, 264 First Congregational Church, 257 First Congregational church denounced slavery, 260 First custom house, 37 First court of Erie County Common Pleas, 36 First courthouse, 42 First death from cholera, 181 First families of Milan, 95 First National Bank of Sandusky, 278 First Presbyterian Church, 267 First runaway slave, 378 First Steam Railroad Passenger Train in America (view), 391 First temperance meeting, 410 Fischer, T. A., 262 Fish, Albert E., 58 Fish, Albert M., 1012 Fish, Elias H., 53 Fish, H. N., 339 Fish, Job. 53 Fish, Job, Jr., 58 Fish, John C. L., 58 Fish, Williston, 57 Fisher, N. W., 181, 261 Fisher, Roscoe B., 418 , 433 Fishing Industry, 231 Fitch, William G., 672 Fitz, Frank ,T., 917 Flemond, B. F., 100 Florence Grange, 405 Florence township, first bear killed in, 48; game in, 48; original proprietorship, 49: organized, 51; first specie currency in, 51; first birth in, 52; first marriage, 52; first schools, 53; first churches, 58; first postmaster, 59; industries, 59 Flynn, James, Jr., 418, 434 Flynn, James, Sr., 1159 Follett, Foster M., 318 Follett, F. M., 183, 245 Follett, Oran, 266. 277, 456, 411 Foraker, Joseph B., 288, 436 Ford, Alfred, 676 Ford, Andrew, 677 Ford, Martha E., 676 Fort Mockabee, 253 Fossil fishes, 26 Fossils, 24, 26 Fourth of July Celebration in 1876, 447 Fowler, Harvey, 139 , 422 Fox, Emery D., 917

Fulton, John, 399 Furguson, George, 131 Gallup, Mozart, 284 Game, 48, 66 Garrett, George W., 165 Garrison, William L., 255 Gas Works, 200 Gastier, Frederick P., 624 Gay, James P., 458 Gegenheimer, Catherine M., 1122 Gegenheimer, Philip E., 1122 Geology of Erie County, 21 German Ladies' Sewing Society, 295 German Methodists, 257 German newspaper, 415 German, Silas, 752 Germans in Sandusky, 160 Gibbs, Harley B., 1170 Gibbs, The, 95 Gibson, Carrie B., 1169 Gibson, Edward D., 1168 Giddings, Joshua R., 327 Giedeman, John A., 500 Gilcher Church, 263 Gilcher, Peter, 262, 281 Gilcher, William H., 1180 Gilhuore, T. Roy, 819 Glacial Groves on Kelley's Island (view), 336 Glacial markings, 21 Clime, George G., 1130 Good Samaritan Hospital, 266 Good Samaritan Hospital, Sandusky (view), 282 Goodwin, Erastus, 431, 458 Goodwin, Homer, 417, 420, 458 Goodwin , Lewis H., 418, 458 Gorman, Albert P., 736 Gorman, Michael, 734 Gorsuch, Smith, 729 Grace Episcopal Church, 266 Graded School System, adoption and organization of, 240 Graefe, Charles, 534 Graefe, Claire, 284 Graefe, Elizabeth, 284 Graefe, Mrs. Charles, 284 Graefe, Philip, 538 Graefe, William, 538 Graham, John R., 922 Grand Army of the Republic, 288, 305 Grange, 295 Grape Culture, 406 Grape growing, 340 Grape industries, 37 Grape planting began at Kelley's Island, 407

Fox, John R., 879 Fox, Thurman, 917 Fox, William N., 916 Fraternities, 301 Free Congregational Church, 261 Free Love Community, 72 Free soil party, 445 Frey, Conrad, 540 Frey, Fred, Jr., 444, 1182 Frey, Johanna, 540 Fries, Valentine, 94 Frohman, Charles, 456 Frohman, Sidney, 1199

Grassman, J. J., 309 Graves, William C., 725 Gray; Joseph W., 53 Gregg, Ockoback & Company, 226 Greenwich fire sufferers, 3 Grey, H. C., 415 Groton fire sufferers, 20 Groton Township, physical, 128; fire land grants,129; organized, 131; early settlers, 131; schoolsystem,132; churches, 133; industries, 133 Guerin, W. E, Jr:, 418, 1195 Gunzenhauser, John G., 760

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Gurley, L. B., 249, 254 Gurley, William, 125 Gurley, W. D., 114 Gurley, W. M., 249 Gustavus, Antone J., 806 Gustin, Ann, 236 Guthrie, Anslem, 310 Guthrie, Dr. A., 108 Gypsum, 28 . Gypsum quarries, 27 Haddock, Ray, 415 Haddy, William, 61 Hahn, Adam H., 799 Hahn, Theodore, 1030 Haise, George I., 867 Haise, Oscar B., 952 Haley, Frank A., 681  Halladay, Henry C., 889  Halladay, John S., 891 Hand, Chester C., 1166 Hanson, James S., 1169 Harbor improvements, 103 Hardy, Charles A., 662 Harrington, Jonathan F., 722 Harris, Cora J., 814 Harrison, General, 443 Harrison, Lorenzo W., 918 Harrison, Lucius S,, 1115 Harsh, Willard M., 541 Hart, Frank P., 789 Hart, Henry, 418, 434 Hart, Mary E., 619 Hart, William, 618 Hartley, Thomas, 817 Hartmann, F. Erick, 1086 Hartshorne, Doctor, 310 Hartung, George F., 573 Hartwell, Ebenezer, 139  Haskins, George S., 310 Hast, Adam W., 665 Hastings, Elizabeth E., 1022 Hastings, Ephraim J., 1134 Hastings, George, 310 Hastings, Hugh, 1021 Hastings, Waitsell, 310 Hauff, Christian, 1140 Hauff, Gottlieb F., 1201 Hauser, J. C. 450 Hawleys, The, 95 Haynes, George R., 425 Haynes, John T., 1193 Haynes, J. T., 288 Healy, John J., 1186 Heckelmann, Fred W., 1031

Hicks, Captain, 95 Higgins, Burr, 141 High cost of living in 1819, 152 High School, Vermilion (view), 60 Hildebrandt, Frederick, 757 Hill, Benjamin I., 964 Hill, Charles W., 332 Hill, Leonard C., 629 Hills, Frank N., 684 Hills, Henry E., 686 Hilton, Edward R., 866 Hinde, Ann, 570 Hinde, George, 570 Hinde, George F., 793 Hine, Daniel N., 626 Hine, Elizabeth E., 746 Hine, George W., 584 Hine, Jerome P., 625 Hine, William H., 745 Historic elm of Sandusky removed, 452 Hitchcock, Samuel E., 258 Hoak, Nathan, 491 Hoffman, Charles C., 619 Hoffman, John, 648 Hofrichter, Albert C., 1062 Holland, John W., 193, 1175 Hollister, Edwin Jr., 981 Hollister, Josiah W., 266 Holy Angels' Church, 269 Homegardner, George, 810 Homegardner, John H., 560 Hoover, Isaac W., 1037 Hopkins, Philip R., 416 Hornung, Johanna, 262 Hospitals, 281 Hough, Joseph, 95 House, Julius, 621 House, Lewis W., 622 Howe, Anna, 414 Hoxsey, Thomas B., 419, 434 Hubbard, Lester S., 279 Hubbard, R. B., 244 Huber, John, 995 Huff, John, 608 Huffman, Jennie E., 642 Huffman, Philip A., 641 Hull, Lynn W., 239, 417, 420, 421 Humm, Edward J., 845 Humm, Robert J., 594 Humm, William, 961 Hunt, James, 733 Hunt, N. J., 1194 Hunter, William H., 416 Huntington, Erastus, 341

Heimburger, William, 782 Heimburger, William C., 769 Heminger, August, 702 Hendrickson, Joseph M., 739 Hendry, E., 236 Henry, Basil N., 414 Hepburn, J. J., 1194 Herbel, Louis W., 532 Hermes, Peter J., 893 Hertel, Jacob, 262 Hertlein, Alice K., 295 Hertlein, John F., 418, 436, 559 Heymann, Charles F., 670 Heymann, John P., :671 Heymann, William C., 669 Hickox, B. F., 235

Huron about 1870 (view), 104 Huron County, 33 Huron religious organizations, 106; newspapers, 107; early physicians, 108; cholera epidemic, 108; sale of town lots, 110; pioneer pleasures, 110; officials, 112; population, 112; bank, 112 Huron boat landing, 105 Huron County Agricultural Society, 399 Huron County Medical Society, 410 Huron Grange, 405 Huron harbor improvements, 103 Huron Institute, 84, 90 Huron River, 98 Huron and Erie Counties Agricultural Society, 400

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Huron township physical features, 98; fireland grants, 99; first settlement, 100; early settlers, 100; original survey of, 102; schools, 106; fraternal organizations, 108. Hurons, 121 Huttenlocher, Charles A., 653 Huttenlocker, Fred, 1087 Hyde, Garry B., 460 Hyde, Merriett, 460 Hydraulic lime, 28 Indiana, Burlington & Western Railway, 395 Indian massacre, 136 Indian relics, 334 Indian village, 136 Indians, 79, 117, 121, 128, 193 Indians and Pioneers (view), 41 Industrial Sandusky, 229 Inscription Rock, 334 Inscription Rock  on Kelley's Island (view), 339 Intelligente Blatt, 415 Ireland, William M., 404 Irvine, Samuel, 551 Isaac, Henry J., 803 "Island Queen," 350 Jackson, Alexis, 131 Jail, 448 James, William, 131 Janes, John, 252 Jarrett, Henry, 811 Jarrett, Jane, 896 Jarrett, John, 635 Jarrett, Richard, 895 Jefferson, Mary L., 700 Jefferson, William H., 696 Jeffery, Henry, 652 Jeffery, Charlotte H., 653 Jenkins, George M., 656 Jenkins, Helen, 657 Jennings, R. J., 255 Jessup, 48 Jessup, Ebenezer, 48 Job Fish's Schools, 54 Johnson, Christopher, 123 Johnson, Curtis T., 437 Johnson's Island, 327, 345; graves of the Confederate prisoners on, 333; attempt to rescue prisoners on, 349; opened as a pleasure resort, 452 Johnson's Island Prison, 328 Jordan, Edward, 1085 Jordan, Sheridan P., 897

Kelley's Island, 37, 334; first school house, 338; earliest settlers, 338; primitive condition of in 1863, 340 Kelley's Island and Sandusky Cable, 341 Kelly, Malcolm, 417, 421, 436, 556 Kelly, 0. H., 404 Kelly, William, 157 Kerber, Edward, 1152 Kerber, John, 1177 Keyes, Francis, 61 Keyes, J. B. 426 King, Clifford M., 1157 King, Edmund B., 418, 420, 436, 504 King, Frank 0., 846 King, Joseph S., 1226 King, Mary A., 1227 King, Zenas, 95 Kinney, Addison, 414 Kinney, John C., 414 Kirby, Austin A., 480 Kishman, Henry J., 1024 Kishman, Jacob E., 1138 Klaar, J. A., 414 Klein, August C., 797 Klenk, Mrs. Martin, 284 Klotz, August H., 1179 Knapp, Cyrus C., 743 Kneisel, Philip, 646 Knerr, Jacob, 262 Knight, Richard W., 655 Knights of Pythias, 305 Knights Templar, 302 Knittle, Carl, 1073 Knott, Gottleib H., 1104 Kob, Anton, 679 Koegle, Robert A. 496 Krock, Franklin L., 847 Krock, Henry J., 848 Kromer, Albert G., 920 Kropf, Christian, 1203 Krueger, Earl C., 419, 437 Krueger, Herman, 725 Krueger, Max C., 591 Krupp, Chas. J., 1206 Krupp, John, 1206 Kubach, Charles, 545 Kuehlmann, Charles L., 1222 Kuemmel, Henry, 1076 Kuhl, Charles, 1224 Kuhl, Charles F., 877 Kuhl, Lewis, 835 Kurtz, John B., 1008 Kurtz, Philip, 1009 Labor Day first celebrated, 452

Journal and Local, 413 Judson, C. P., 62 Judson, James C., 56, 1064 Judson Rufus 61 Jump, Orra G., 1128 Justi, Philip J., 766 Keech, C. C., 181, 196 Kelley, Addison, 334 Kelley, Datus, 337 Kelley, George, 338 Kelley, Henry J., 1014 Kelley, Irad, 337 Kelley, Norman, 3424

Lake Erie, 37 Lake Erie & Western Railroad, 227 Lake Erie & Western Railway Company, 398 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, 227, 398 Lake Shore Electric Railway, 228 Lake vessels, 170 Lander, Charles, 610 Lander, Miles, 830 Lane, Ebenezer R., 420 Lane, E. S. 09, 311 Lane, Hon. E., 239, 392 Lane, William G., 420 Latteman, Barbara G., 957 Latteman, Henry J., 956

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Laughlin, William M., 1186 Lawrence Hotel, 165 Lawton, Henry, 459 Lawyers in 1875, 416 Layman, Charles A., 414 Layman, Frank, 414 Lea, James D., 461 Leadrach, August W., 1143 Lee, Almon J., 1126 Leggett, Charles H., 310 Lehman, Franklin F., 517 Lehrer, Mrs. G. T., 284 Leibknecht, Karl, 321 Leonard, Cuyler, 242, 416 Lewis, John, 332 Life and Work of Hudson Tuttle and His Wife Emma Rood Tuttle, 1048 Liles, Frank, 623 Lindsay, W. D., 454 Lindsley, Frank E., 689 Lindsley, William D., 422 Link, A. W., 1158 Little Miami Railroad, 196, 389 Locating the county seat, 40 Lock, Royal P., 422 Lockwood, Charles B., 528 Lockwood, J. C., 95 Lockwood, Lane, 530 Lockwood, Ralph M., 1223 Lockwood, Sarah, reminiscences of, 82 Logan of the Cayugas, 128 Losey, Charles, 1053 Lossing, Benson J., 146 Loucks, Carrie E., 709 Loucks, John J., 708 Lower Sandusky Times, 409 Lowrys, The, 95 Luce, R. C., 310 Lundy, Thomas J., 792 Lundy,. William H., 1142 Lurton, H. H., 328 Lutherans, 262 Lyon, Rev. Harvey, 62 Mack, Daniel, 141 Mack, Egbert, 413 Mack, Isaac F., 288, 412, 450 Mack, John T., 412 Mack, Mrs. John T., 298 Mackey, John, 415, 417, 421  Mackey, William, 95 Mad River, 196  Mad River Road, 444  Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad, 142, 200, 227, 389 "Made in Sandusky," 229

Margaretta Township physical features, 134; aming of, 135; first called Patterson, 135; organized, 137; fireland grants, 137; early settlers, 139; industries, 140; religious organizations, 143 Marks, Samuel, 717 Marquart, John J., 1148 Marsh, Edward H., 1230 Marsh, Edward L., 284, 1161 Marsh, George, 450 Marsh, Mrs. E. Lea, 284 Marshall, William C., 637 Martin, Fred A., 568 Martha Pitkin Chapter, Daughters of Liberty party, 428 the American Revolution, 298 Mason, Wm. P., 399 Masonic Temple, 452 Masonry, 301 Matt, Albert H., 932 McAleer, John H., 1216 McCartney, William, 140 McConnelly, F. C., 310 Mc Crystal, John F., 418, 437 McDonald, J. Stewart, 485 McDowell; F., 404 McGookey, Michael, 927 McIntyre, James, 252 McKelvey, M. F., 414 McKesson, James C., 1045 McKim, J. D., 310 McLaughlin, Ranson F., 958 McLaughlin, Sarah D., 960 McLouth, Amos, 132 McLouth, 0. C., 416 McMeens, Mrs. A. C., 204 McMeens, R. R., 182 McMillen, H., 95 McReynolds, Jessie M., 983 McReynolds, William, 982 McSweeney, John, 450 Medical Societies, 310 Meeker, Stephen, 61 Melville, A. B., 419 Melville, Charles R., 284 Merrill, Albert E., 310, 414, 418, 450 Merry, Caroline, 52 Merry, Charles 0., 1051 Merry, Ebenezer, 86 Merry, H. F., 242 Merthe, Henry J., 821 Methodists, 249 Meyer, George, 1110 Meyers, J. Nina, 591 Meyers, Louis C., 589 Michel, George A., 1144

Maerder, Joseph E., 1208  ; Main street, Looking North, Huron (view), 101 Main Street, Looking South, Vermilion (view), 60  Mansfield & New Haven Railroad Company, 390  Mansfield & Sandusky City Railroad Company, 390  Mansion House, 174, 200  Mantey, Edward, 808 Map of Erie County, 32 Mapes, Edmund G., 284  Margaretta Grange, 405

Michel, John, 1065 Milan, 40, 456; first school, 89 public school system, 89; industries, 90; first families, 90; newspapers, 90; formerly Beatty, 91; incorporated, 96; fraternities, 96 Milan Advertiser, 414 Milan bank robbery, 452 Milan Canal, 91 Milan Canal Company, 93 Milan Carding mill, 95 Milan Ledger, 414 Milan, Patrick J., 1027 Milan township physical features, 78; early missionaries, 79; original own-

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ers of fireland grant, 80; survey, 81; early settlers, 81; first settlers, 86; early religious meetings, 87; churches, 88; schools, 89 Military history of Erie county, 343 Milk sickness, 115 Millen, John, 399 Miller, Angeline, 193 Miller, Lawrence T., 710 Miller, Paul, 1176 Minimar' Ernest, 1219 Milliman, Prescott, 990 Millott, Henry C., 1190 Mills, Fanny, 462 Mills, Grayson, 417, 421 Mills, Isaac A., 196 Mills, Isaac (portrait), 151 Mills, Mrs. Isaac (portrait), 151 Mills, Joshua', 449 Mills, Ross & Mackey, 415 Mills, Miss S. M., 462 Mills, William S., 415 Minards, The, 95 Miner, Bernard, 416 Mineral resources, 29 Minor, Claude J., 419, 437 Minuse, Lucy, 721 Mirror of 1854, 413 Mischler, Charles F., 1217 Mission Indians, 80 Mitchell, Roy D., 549 Mixter, Madison, 984 Mixter, Nellie E., 985 Moats, John L., 686 Moats, William H., 737 Modern Priscilla Club, 295 Modern transportation facilities, 227 Molt, William, 1019 Monday Literary Club, 295 Monroeville & Sandusky City Railroad Company, 390 Montague, Charles Z., 968 Montgomery, Frank R., 1178 Moore sisters, 452 Moravian missionaries, 79, 87 Morgan, T. T., 1185 Morrow, Joseph L., 568 Morse, Lemuel, 399 Morsman, Moses I., 422 Mosebach, John, 262 Moss, Augustus H., 278 Moss, Augustus L., 694 Moss, Horace 0., 278 Moss, Jay 0., 281, 695 Moss, Mrs. Jay 0., 298 Moss National Bank, 278, 446

Neill, John J., 704 Nes Silicon Steel Company sold, 449 Neuscheler, John H., 751 New Connecticut, 84 New courthouse-1874, 45 New Haven, 33 New Haven fire sufferers, 13 New Jail-1882, 46 New London fire sufferers, 17 New High School building, 244 New Salem, 79 Newman, Samuel F., 442 Newspapers, 409 Newspapers of Erie County, 95 Newton, Daniel, 157 Newton, Isaac, 404 Nickel, Adolph, 768 Nickols, Arthur J., 911 Nickols, Curtis, 911 Nieding, August W., 1202 Nieding, Nicholas, 1057 Nims, David B., 887 Nims, Worthington, 132 Nineteenth Century Club, 295 Nolan, James, 709 Norfolk & Western Railroad, 228 Northern Ohio Grape Growers Association, 403 Norton, Mrs. C. 0., 405 Norton, Henry C., 689 Norton, Jerome H., 688 Norwalk fire sufferers, 6 Nourse, Elizabeth, 323 Nuhn, Conrad H., 1096 Odd Fellows Temple, 452 Odell, Anna C., 1006 Odell, Ansel G., 1004 Oetzel, Ann B.; 950 Oetzel, Justus P., 949 Offenhauer, Roy E., 1148 Officers' Quarters on Johnson's Island (view), 328 Ogontz Engine Fire Company, 219 Ogontz Indians, 140 Ogontz Lodge No. 66, I. 0. 0. F., 306 Ogontz Seminary, 173 Ohio, Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park, 455 Ohio Illuminator, 411 Ohio Railroad Co., 389 Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, 127, 288 Ohio State University, 31 Ohlemacher, Frederick,1166 Ohlemacher, Mrs. F. W., 284 Olemacher, Frederick J., 1039 Oil shales, 28

Moss, Samuel, 262 Mound-builders, 79, 99 Mounds and fortifications, 61 Mowry, John P., 882 Muehlhauser, George M., 1173 Mueller, August, 463 Murschel, William Y., 544 Nash, Alvin, 258 National Guards, 372 National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 298 Natural gas spring, 78 Neiding, George L., 647 Neill, Foster F., 706

Old Beatty House, the First Stone House Built in Perkins (view), 124 Old Mad River Railroad, 392 Old Powder House on Johnson's Island (view), 330 Old town pump, 446 One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, 356 One Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry, 372 One Hundred and First Infantry, 369 One Hundred and Seventh Infantry, 370 One Hundred and Twenty-third Infantry, 371

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Opplinger, Godfred, 1198 Organization of county, 33 Original fire sufferers, list of, 3 Original Plat of Sandusky in 1818 (map), 166 Orton, Charles, 415 Oswald, George, 901 Ottawas, 121 Otto, Elmer B. 880 Otto, Herman W., 631 Otto, Jacob, 645. Oxford Township physical features, 113; fire grants,   113; early settlers, 114; early schools, 118 Owl Creek Bank, 52 Page, Mrs. Homer, 456 Painesville & Fairport Railroad Co., 389  Palmer, Charles D., 1112 Parish, Frank D., 43, 162, 236, 402, 416, 427 Park, Emmet, 1006 Parker, Charles, 948 Parker, George A., 943 Parker, George F., 930 Parker, George W., 814 Parker, James D., Sr., 535 Parker, James D., 536 Parker, Jay C., 948 Parker, John H., 713 Parker, Leroy J., 630 Parker, Oren A., 918 Parker, Sarah G., 536 Parker, William, 946 Part of the Old Ship Canal between Milan and Huron (view), 107 Patrons of Husbandry in Erie County, 404 Pattee, True, 252 Patterson, Hugh, 135 Patterson, Samuel, 586 Pearl, Addison H., 476 Peck, Clarence D., 533 Peck, George R., 463 Peck, George S., 905 Peeke, George H., 464, 466 Peeke, Grace A., 464 Peeke, Hewson L., 419, 437, 1231 Penfield, Henry, 95 Peninsula Point, 208 Pennewell, Samuel, 252 Pennsylvania railroad, 228 Penny, Edwin A., 588 Penny, Jane, 589 Pequotting, 79 Perkins, Elias, 122 Perkins Grange, 405

Phillips, Xenophon, 310 Phillips, Zalmuna, 422 Philomathean Hall, 324 Phylloxera, 407 Pickett, William T., 1129 Picture Rock, 30 Pierce, F. Gilbert, 907 Pietschman, Arthur L., 1153 Pike Creek, 134 Pioneer Home (view), 44 Pioneer pleasures, 110 Poe, Adam, 252 Point Hope Community, 72 Police and fire station, 452 Pontiac, 145 Population and taxes, 46 Population in 1840, 37 Porter, A. M., 180, 209 Portland, 151, 161 Portland House, 444 Portland Library Association, 321 Post, James E., 638 Post, Lewis H. C., 467 Postoffice, 445 Potter, Thomas B., 884 Powers,, D. C., 1183 Poyer, John H., 596 Poyer, Lodema M., 597 Presbyterian church, 267, 446 Prentiss, James, 61 Prisoners' Quarters on Johnson's Island (view), 331 Probate judges, 40 Providence Hospital, 286 Providence Hospital (view), 285 Prout, Andrew, 422 Prout, A. W., Sr., 402 Pryor, Jennie M. 873 Pryor, Richard H., 872 Puckrin, Matthew 0., 691 Put-In-Bay Cable Telegraph Line, 204 Putnam, Daniel, 450 Pyle, Joseph G., 419, 438 Quarries, Marblehead, 28; Kelley's Island, 28 Quarrying, 70 Quigley, John, 254 Quinn, John, 403 Railroads, early plans for, 389 Ramsdell, Alma L., 679 Ramsdell, Horace V., 677 Ramsey, Russell K., 419, 439, 1120 Randall, I. P., 309 Ransom, Caroline, 532 Ransom, DeLos C., 530

Perkins Township physical features, named, 122; fireland grants, 122; first settlers, 123; religious organizations, 125; agricultural interests, 127 Perrin, Judson, 95, 996 Perseverance Lodge No. 329, F. & A. M., 302 Perry celebration, 453 Perry Centennial, 299 Perry, Oliver H., 354 Petroleum, 25 Pettingill, Joshua, 140 Phelps, Elisha J., 764 Phillips, Joshua, 77

Orlando, Ransom, 121; 236 Ransom, Ross D. L., 685 Rash, Charles, 132 Rates of postage, 1848, 444 Rawell's Directory of Ohio Newspapers, 414 Rawle, Richard, 986 Ray, Christian M., 418, 438 Ray, John, 418, 439 Raynor, William, 95 Read, William S., 404 Reber, George, 422 Red Jacket, of the Senecas, 128 Reed, Charles S., 417, 421, 432

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Reiber, John H., 1074 Reid, Whitelaw, 346 Reifert, Mary, 1102 Reifert, Nicholas, 1102 Reighley, Alice M., 754 Reighley, Benjamin F., 754 Reighley, Locisco, 857 Reighley, Orlando P., 755 Reighley, Peter, 855 Reinheimer, Fred, 262 Reis, Simon, 632 Reiter, George E., 419, 439 Removal of the county seat agitation, 42 Renner, Doctor, 95 Reuter, G. A., 257 Revolutionary soldiers buried in Erie County, 343 Reynolds, I. T., 402 Rhinemiller, Fred J., 861 Rhinemiller, George E., 673 Riccelli, aro S., 1184 Rice, John S,, 194 Richards, The, 95 Richardson, S. 0. III, 1227 Richey, Squire, 131 Ridgefield fire sufferers, 19 Riedy, David, 896 Risden, Almor G., 1095 Risdon, Frank C., 1090 Ritter, John, 422 Ritz, Emma, 634 Ritz, John Sr., 633 Ritz, John, 650 Ritz, J. Wilhelmina, 634 Rivalry between Sandusky and Norwalk, 33 River View, Sandusky (view), 175 Robbins, Lorin, 258 Roberts, Bennet, 238 Roberts, The, 95 Robertson, Peter, 941 Rockwell, Charles H., 700 Rockwell, Ellen R., 701 Rockwell, John S., 337 Rockwell, Raymond W., 1134 Rogers, B. H., 402 Rogers, Isaac, 310 Rogers, Robert, 145 Rogers, Stephen H., 514    221; Romell, John, 616 Romell, Ora F., 765 Root, Burton P., 1137 Root, James M., 416 Root, Joseph M., 399, 431 Roots, The, 95 Roscoe, Pearl, 414

Ruse, John H., 257 Russell, J. Charles, 1002 Russell, John W., 309 Russell, Maj. H., 102 Ryan, C. N., 402 Sadler, C. W., 416 Sadler, Ebenezer, 468 Sadler, Ebenezer B., 417, 420 Sage, George J., 774 St. Anthony's Aid Society, 295 St. Anthony's Church of Milan, 274 St. John, Alva A., 617 St. Mary's Church, 273 St. Mary's Church of Vermillion, 274 St. Peter's Mission Church of Huron, 275 St, Stephen's German Evangelical Protestant Church, 264 St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, 286 Salvation Army, 268 Salt springs, 65 Sand industry, 233 Sands, George M., 978 Sands, James S., 1041 Sands, Mary T., 979 Sandusky, 40; origin of name, 150; first settlers of, 150; high cost of living in 1819, 152; buildings in 1822, 152; incorporated, 155; early transportation, 155; early industry, 158; description of in 1826, 159; early settlers, 161; early industries, 162; in the years 1831 and 1832, 165; description of in 1835, 168; alias Portland, 169; early voters of, 171; courthouse and jails, 172; threatened with famine, 174; population of, 176; statistics, 176; Dickens' description of, 179;population in various years, 181; in 1846, 196; churches, 196; parks in 1847, 196; early industries, 197; population in 1851, 198; in 1860, 201;churches, 203; schools, 203; parks in 1866, 203; in the panic of 1873, 204;hotels, 211; market places, 213; police department, 215; fire department,216; first volunteer fire company, 219;municipal improvements. 220; mayors, public officials and organizations in 1915, 221; hospitals, 223; societies,223; commerce of, 225; harbor, 225;transportation facilities, 227; industries, 229; schools, 234; early teachers, 236; erection of school buildings, 237; high schools, 243; members of board of education, 245; principals of high school, 247; assistant teachers in the high school, 248; churches, 253;first church in, 253; hospitals, 281; earliest mention of, 443; first Fourth of July celebration, 446; first street paved, 451; greatest storm, 453; first dry Sunday, 453. Sandusky about 1847 (view), 157

Roscoes, The, 95 Rosekelly, William, 975 Rosino, John F., 1156 Ross, Sylvester, 415 Rude, Charles, 179 Ruemmele, August, 415 Ruemmele, William, 415 Ruess, Herman, 415, 447 Ruggles, Almon, 61, 101 Ruggles, Charlotte H., 1108 Ruggles, Comfort H., 1106 Ruggles, John, 62 Ruggles, 0., 95 Runnells, William, 252

Sandusky about 1855 (view), 178 Sandusky City Bank, 2; 7 Sandusky Clarion, 194, 409, 411 Sandusky Commercial Federation, 439 Sandusky Demokrat, 415 Sandusky Fortnightly Club, 295

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Sandusky Fraternalism, 301 Sandusky Gas Light Company, 445 Sandusky Jockey Club, 443 Sandusky Journal, 413 Sandusky Light Guards, 446 Sandusky & Indiana Railroad Company, 395 Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad, 200 Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad Company, 390 Sandusky, Norwalk & Southern Railway, 452 Sandusky Mirror, 172 Sandusky Organizations, 306 Sandusky (Perry Celebration), (view), 199 Sandusky Platter (view), 149 Sandusky Register, 411 Sandusky Savings Bank Company, 280 Sandusky Street Railway Company, 451 Sandusky Whig, 409 Santa Clara Auxiliary No. 9, United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Ohio, 295 Sargeant, Joseph G., 567 Sargeant, William G., 562 Saunders, Frank, 337 Savord, Edmond H., 419, 509 Sawyer, Mrs. James, 284 Sayler, Milton J., 878 Scene Showing Cemetery (view), 154 Schaeffers, The, 95 Schafer, Werner, 942 Schaffer, Henry P., 824 Scharer, John, 1012 Schatz, Christian, 1105 Scheid, August H., 837 Scheid, Catherine E. H., 1089 Scheid, Henry L., 636 Scheid, Louis W., 772 Scheid, Peter, 1088 Scheid, W. P., 403 Scheme to connect Milan with Columbus, 94 Scherkle, Philip C., 419 Scheuiller, Ernst C. A., 992 Schiller, Henry J., 419, 497 Schisler, Andrew, 850 Schisler, Conrad, 997 Schnaitter, Cornelius, 542 Schnee, William Jr., 567 Schnell, August H., 784 Schnell, Jacob, 426 Schnurr, Alfred, 1228 Schoepfle, Henry, 418 Schoewe, Andrew A., 1101 Schonhardt, John, 706 Schools, 234 Schroeder, Gustavus H., 1081

Second Congregational Church, 262 Second Methodist Church of Sandusky, 256 Second National Bank, 279 Senecas, 121 Senn, William, 415 Settlement of the Firelands, 117 Seventh Infantry, 352 Seventy-Second Infantry, 367 Shenandoah, of the Oneidas, 128 Sherman, George, 603 Sherod, John L., 1164 Ship building, 94 Shirley, Henry, 777 Shook, Peter, 336 Shoop, Alvin, 1215 Shoop, Sherman E., 1124 Sickinger, Robert, 972 Siggens, Fred A., 902 Siggens, Lillie E., 903 Signal service, 451 Simmons, Charles B., 399 Sipp, Charles, 605 Sister Ursula, 318 Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, 286 Sixty-Fifth Infantry, 364 Sixty-Fourth Infantry, 363 Skillman, George W., 575 Slavery, 255, 260 Sloan, John N., 314, 345 Sloane, John W., 416 Sloane, Rush R., 416 Sloane, Thomas M., 173, 180, 418 Smith, Bert D., 1192 Smith, Court C., 1139 Smith, Fred D., 1078 Smith, Henry W., 671 Smith, Jay C., 926 Smith, Samuel H., 422 Smith, Ulysses G., 828 Smith, William, 422 Smith, William J., 1022 Snow, Dorcatus, 146 Snow, Docartus P., 139, 140 Snowden, James G., 748 Snyder, M. H., & Company, 415 Scheuttenhelm, William F., 426 Socialist Movement, 320 Soldiers Home (view), 289 Soldiers Monument (view), 291 Soldiers' Monument, Milan (view), 92 Sons of the Emerald Isle, 314 Sons of Temperance, 314 Souter, David, 242 Spanish American War, 376 Spaulding, B. F. 235 Spore, Isaac, 1063

Schuck, Jacob, 262 Schwer, George A., 1191 Schwinn, Harry J., 721 Science Lodge No. 50, F. & A. M., 301 Scott, C., 639 Scott, Voltaire, 179 Scott, Winfield, 445 Scribner, Charles H., 425 Sebolt, Charles P., 885 Second Children's Home, 318

Spore, Nellie A. 1065 Sprague, Jonathan, 114, 131 Sprankel, Christian, 853 Sprankel, George L., 612 Sprankel, John, 989 Sprow, W. J., 1141 Squire, Ruth, 53 Squires, C. B.; 239 Stage line, 410 Stahl, Ellen, 593 Stahl, Job M., 592 Stahl, Scott, 417

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Staley, Richard, 620 Stang, John E., 1174 Stanley, Elwood, 310 Stansbery. Joseph, 422 Starbird, W. B., 414, 418 Star, The, 414 Star Journal, 414 Starr, John W., 800 Starr, Mary M., 803 Starr, Thomas, 52 Starr, William, 781 Starr, William E., 67 Steamboat “Islander,” 339 Steamer “Mississippi,” 395 Steamer “Riverside,” 204 Steamer “St. Lawrence,” 395 Steinemann, George C., 418, 437, 1179 Steinen, John C., 683 Stellhorn, Theo. J. C., 284 Stephens, David J., 755 Stephens, Edward S., 418, 1041 Steuk, Edward L., 527 Stevens, D. H., 414 Stevenson, Eva., 664 Stevenson, Frank M., 663 Stible, Frank, 414 Stickreth, Charles, 841 Stieger, Jacob, 1060 Stoddard, Eliza J., 1080 Stoddard, H., 95 Stoddard, Lucius, 95 Stoddard, Lucius L., 1079 Stone, Walter F., 420, 416 Storm Scene, Sandusky (view), 205 Storm of 1883, 449 Storrs, Arden A., 925 Strap, Railroad, 179, 200 Street Scene, Sandusky (view), 214 Street railways, 451 Strobel, Gottleib, 426 Strong, Henry C., 1167 Strong, John A., 690 Strong, Josiah, 469 Strong, Nathan, 422 Study Club of the Presbyterian Church, 295 Sturtevant, Guy C., 587 Sullivan, J. J., 288 Sulphite of Iron, 78 Sunyendeand Club, 439 Supreme Court, 423 Sutton, Hugh, 1060 Sutton, Philip, 139 Swain, F. E., 1188 Swayze, William, 251

Temple, Jay J., 904 The Blue Hole (view), 141 The Cholera Cemetery of 1849 (view), 186 The First Stone Building in Sandusky,the House of Eleutheros Cook (view),169 "The Modern Girl," 464 The Old Congregational Church with the High School behind it, which was used as a hospital in 1849, and stood where the present Court House stands (view),    163 The Old State Bank Building at Bloomingville            (view), 116 Third Cavalry, 373 Third National Bank of Sandusky, 279 Third National Exchange Bank of Sandusky, 280 Thomas, Kate, 413 Thompson, Harry J., 962 Thompson, J. W., 402 Thomson, Edward, 254 Three Cholera Years, 181 Tilden, Daniel, 311 Tillinghast, Charles, 563 Tillinghast, Oliver C., 563 Tornado, 448 Town Hall, Milan (view), 87 Townsend House, The Crack Hotel of the City in the Fifties (view), 160 Townsend, Kneeland, 95 Townsend, William, 157 , 277 Traders, 117 Traub, Louis, 415 Trieschmann, Henry, 1230 Trimble, John, 404 Trinter, Edna M., 1137 Trinter, Martin J., 1136 Trinity Methodist Church, 256 Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 256 True, 0. J., 398 Truman, Augustus H., 278 Truscott, William H., 1210 Tucker, Harden A,, 1029 Tucker, Roswell S., 1178 Tugs in Winter Quarters, (view), Huron, 1915 109 Turner, C. Victor, 1017 Tuthill, Hudson, 65 Tuttle, Durin H., 252 Tuttle, Emma R., 1048 Tuttle, Hudson, 72, 77, 469, 1048 Twentieth Century Club, 295

Table of Fees (view), 435 Taylor, J. W., 415 Taylor, Sebastian F., 417, 420 Taylor, Truman B., 494 Taylor, Walter H., 1066 Taylor, William, the lynching of, 422 Taylor, William D., 680 Taylor, William S., 903 Taylor, Zachary, 196 Taxes, 46 Teachers Institute, First in Ohio, 239 Telephone project, 448 Temperance activities in Erie County, 314 Temperance movement, leader of, 428

Twenty-Fourth Infantry, 359 Umber, Albert, 632 Underground Railroad, 377 Union Bank, 277 Union State Ticket, 365 Upper, John, 1011 Upper, Rena, 1012 Van Benschoter, Jeremiah, 61, 102 Verandah Hotel, 179, 444 Vermillion Township named, 61; mounds and fortifications in, 61; early officials, 61; taxes, 62; early churches, 62; first log house, 62

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Vermillion, 63; population in 1910, 63; industries, 63; banks, 63; schools, 63 Vermillion tax list of 1818, 62 Vermillion News, 414 Vermillion River, 48, 61  Vermillion & Ashland Railroad, 389 Victor, Florence A., 527 Victor, Harry, 174 Victor, Henry C., 526 Vietmeier, Edward M., 1162  Vindicator, 415  Vollmer, William, 1076 Vredenburg, John V. 399 Waggoner, Clark, 409 Wagner, Albert E., 578 Wagner, Carrie J., 284 Wagner, C. L., 1196 Wagner, John, 414 Wakefield, Frederick W., 1221 Waldock, George W., 572 Waldock, John P., 635 Waldock, William A., 552 Walk-in-the-Water, 105, 336 Walker, J. B., 261 Walker, Samuel, 258 Wallrabenstein, William, 566 Walsh, Edward G., 1196 Walter, Eugene, 469 War of 1812, 52, 85  War of 1812, Veterans of, 344 Ward, Artemas, 74 Ward, Edward, 1172 Ward, Elam, 402 Ward, H. P., 181 Ward, Jared, 101 Wasem, Edward C., 1146 Washburn, Emma, 779 Washburn, Fred H., 778 Washburn, Loren, 1117 Washingtonian Total Abstinence Society, 314 Waterworks, 421, 451 Watson, Cooper K., 417, 421 Watts, W. H., 320 Wayne Hotel, 179 Weaver, Emma M., 323 Webber, Louis, 954 Weed, Lee S., 753 Weekly Clarion, 410 Weigand, Edward G., 762 Weilnau, John W., 1004 Weitzman, Charles, 1070 Welch, Elbert B., 1228 Welch, Theodore E., 892 Welper, N. B., 309 Welz, Herman, 914 Wesleyan Methodist Church, 257

Wheeler, John, 416 Wheelock, Lucy A., 1026 Wheelock, William, 1025 White, A. G. 409 White, Daniel D., 724 White, Lewis F., 913 White, Stephen H., 747 Whitmore, Robt. M., 414 Whitworth, Carrie C., 1206 Whitworth, John, 1205 Widmann, Joseph S., 557 Wikel, Adam E., 643 Wikel, John C., 993 Wikel, Mary H., 994 Wilcox, Clinton B., 1218 Wilcox, Mrs. Merritt S., 284 Wild turkeys, 128 Wildman, Zalmon, 151, 443 Will, Henry, 1093 Will, John, 1092 Williams, Delbert E., 939 Williams, H. R., 419 Williams, Mrs. Roy, 284 Williams, Roy H 418, 421, 442, 1149 Williams The, 95 Williams, Verna, 82 Willson, John M., 486 Willson, Roseanna M., 488 Wilner, John L., 140 Wilson, James F., 310 Windom, William C., 450 Wine making, 406 Winslow, Anna R., 1036 Winslow, J. N., 309  Winslow, William, 1035 Winters, Cyrus B., 418, 442, 553 Winthrop, William, 101 Winton, Samuel M., 1043 Witter, Elijah C.  732 Woman's Relief   295 Women's Building and Rest Room Association, 295  Women's Christian Temperance Union, 295  "Women's Endeavor," 295 Women's organizations, 294 Wood, Harvey, 422 Woodward, Amos, 399 Worden, Robert W., 1109 Wright, Jabez, 48, 101, 378 Wyandots, 121, 136 Yates, Peter, 409 Young, Jacob, 443 Young Men's Christian Association, 321 Youngs, Mary A., 614 Youngs, Tuttle, 613

West Lake Street, Linwood (view), 63 West Hotel, Sandusky (view), 218 West, William T., 179, 469 West, W. T., 398 Western Law Journal, 428 Western Reserve Normal School, 90 Wetherell, W. W., & Company, 226 Wheatsborough, 128

Zerbe, Fred H., 318, 403 Zion Baptist Church, 256 Zion Baptist Church (colored), 267  Zion Lutheran Church, 263 Zollinger, Frederick P., 519 Zollinger, John C., 450, 513 Zorbach, Lorenz, 1197 Zurhorst, Edmund H., 1132