A STANDARD HISTORY


OF


LORAIN COUNTY


OHIO

An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular

Attention to the Modern Era in the Com-

mercial, Industrial, Civic and Social De-

velopment. A Chronicle of the

People, with Family Lineage

and Memoirs.


G. FREDERICK WRIGHT

SUPERVISING EDITOR


Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors


ILLUSTRATED


VOLUME I


THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK

1916


LORAIN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ELYRIA, OHIO





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INTRODUCTION


These volumes might well be called " The Centennial History of Lorain County" for it is scarcely more than a hundred years since the first white settlers came within its borders. It is difficult for the present generation to imagine the conditions which surrounded the first settlers. Then a dense, almost impenetrable forest of trees of immense size, covered every acre of the territory. The heroism of the families who plodded their way thither from New England, some on foot, some on horseback, and others in slowly moving carts, occupying more days in the journey than it takes hours now, is worthy of all praise. The rapid clearing of homesteads, and establishment of educational and religious institutions, scarcely find a parallel anywhere else in history.


Industrially, Lorain County was slow in coming to its own. Cleveland should by good rights have been at the magnificent harbor furnished by the preglacial channel of Black River. Much would have been saved if the Ohio Canal had crossed the watershed at the head of Black River at Lodi, which is much lower than that at Akron. But she has now found her own.


In these days of the supremacy of railroads, the shortest line connecting the iron mines of the Lake Superior Region and the coal of the Pittsburgh district, runs through the center of the county, and the growth of her manufacturing industries is already phenomenal, and its continuance insured, thus affording to the farmers an unrivalled market for all their products. In these respects, as well as in her educational institutions, headed by Oberlin College, she is already leading the state. The history of this growth will command the attention of all future generations. Its writing has been an inspiration as well as a labor of love, and it is with regret that we lay our pen down, and turn to less inspiring tasks.


G. FREDERICK WRIGHT.


CONTENTS


CHAPTER I


GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY


THE OHIO SHALE IN LORAIN COUNTY-THE WAVERLY SANDSTONE-MARKS OF THE GLACIAL PERIOD IN THE COUNTY-THE LAKE RIDGES-SOILS-ELEVATIONS IN THE COUNTY-NATURAL GAS AND OIL - 1


CHAPTER II


BOTANY OF THE COUNTY


By Mary E. Day


THE TREES-THE SHRUBS-THE WILD FLOWERS—THE FERNS-THE GRASSES-FLORA OF THE COUNTY-A UNIQUE BOG-COLLECTORS OF PLANT LIFE - 13


CHAPTER III


ANIMAL LIFE OF THE COUNTY


By Prof. Lynds Jones


NATIVE AND MIGRATORY BIRDS-CHANGES IN VARIETIES-WATER BIRDS-- SONGSTERS-MAMMALS OF LORAIN COUNTY-PREHISTORIC REMAINS-. FISHES OF THE COUNTY-AMPHIBIANS-REPTILES-INSECTS - 20


CHAPTER IV


LEADING TO CIVIL GOVERNMENT


GREAT HISTORIC WATERWAYS-FRENCH SCHEME OF COLONIZATION-- FRENCH NORTHWEST TERRITORY-FORMALLY CLAIM LOUSIANA-ENG-


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LISH SERVE NOTICE OF POSSESSION-FIRST OHIO COMPANY AND AGENT

GIST-GEORGE CROGHAN-IN THE LAND OF THE DELAWARES-FRENCH AND ENGLISH CLASH-THE DELAWARES MOVE WESTWARDLY-THE OTTAWAS AND THE WYANDOTS OF THE LAKE ERIE REGION-BOUQUET 'S EXPEDITION-SHAWNEES LAST TO SURRENDER-A NORTHWEST TERRITORY ASSURED-LIFTING OF THE INDIAN AND STATE TITLES-LORD DUNMORE 'S SQUATTERS-AMERICAN SYSTEM OF LAND SURVEYS -PUBLIC LANDS-CONGRESS LANDS-CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE-FIRE LANDS-UNITED STATES MILITARY LANDS-VIRGINIA MILITARY LANDS-OHIO COMPANY'S PURCHASE-THE GERM OF OHIO -DONATION TRACT-SYMMES PURCHASE-REFUGEE TRACT-FRENCH TRACT-CANAL LANDS-SCHOOL LANDS-OTHER PUBLIC TRACTS - 27


CHAPTER V


DAWN OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT


THE ORDINANCE OF 1787-OHIO-MICHIGAN BOUNDARY FINALLY FLXED -FIRST SURVEYS OF WESTERN LANDS-HOW THE RESERVE BECAME NATIONAL TERRITORY-MILITARY AND CIVIL FRICTION-FIRST JUDICIARY-INDIANS AT LAST SUBDUED - 49


CHAPTER VI


SECURE UNDER THE LAWS


HOW THE RESERVE WAS SOLD-ACREAGE OF THE RESERVE-JUDGE PARSONS, PIONEER LAND BUYER-WASHINGTON COUNTY (1796) CLAIMED JURISDICTION-IN THE COUNTRY OF CANAHOGUE-WAYNE COUNTY (1796) -JEFFERSON COUNTY (1797) -LAWLESS BUT IN NAMETRUMBULL COUNTY (1800) RECOGNIZED-PERIOD OF CIVIL COMPLICATION - 55


CHAPTER VII


COUNTY SURVEYED AND ORGANIZED


THE TREATY OF FORT INDUSTRY (1805) -WESTERN LANDS SURVEYED-SURPLUS LANDS OF LORAIN COUNTY-EQUALIZING LAND VALUES--FOUR TOWNSHIPS CONSIDERED MOST VALUABLE-THE LAND DRAW-


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INGS-DRAWING THE TOWNSHIPS-TRUSTEES OF THE RESERVE-CIVIL JURISDICTION FROM 1807 TO 1811—ADJUSTMENT OF COUNTY BOUNDARIES- FIXING THE NORTHERN INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY-ELY'S INDUCEMENTS FOR COUNTY-SEAT LOCATION-LOCATED AT ELYRIA-FIRST COURTHOUSE AND JAIL-CIVIL ORGANIZATION-FIRST COMMISSIONERS' MEETING - FIRST OFFICIAL DOCUMENT - JUDICIAL MACHINERY IN MOTION-ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWNSHIPS - 62


CHAPTER VIII


PIONEER SETTLEMENT


INDIANS ADOPT FIRST WHITE SETTLER-DISGRACED BY GETTING LOST IN THE WOODS-STARTS FOR THE BLACK RIVER-REACHES THE LAKE-JOIN WYANDOTS ON THE SITE OF LORAIN-THE CAMP AT ELYRIA-REPLENISHING THE COMMON LARDER-FUR-HUNTING EXPEDITIONS-RETURN TO CIVILIZATION-MORAVIAN COLONY ATTEMPTS TO SETTLE-WOULD RETURN TO RUINED MUSKINGUM VILLAGES-FOUND PILGERUH (PILGRIM'S REST ) -ABANDON PLAN OF RETURN TO THE MUSKINGUM -ORDERED TO MOVE ON-THREE DAYS IN LORAIN COUNTY- FINAL RETURN TO THE MUSKING.UM-DAVID ZEISBERGER, WOULD-BE SETTLER -SETTLEMENTS FROM 1807 To 1812—A WAR SCARE OF 1812—EASTERN SHIPBUILDERS DRIVEN WEST-LORAIN 'S EARLY SHIP-BUILDING INDUSTRY- BLACK- RIVER SETTLEMENT BECOMES CHARLESTON VILLAGE- HEARSE, FIRST PUBLIC UTILITY-PLOWING OUT A RIVER CHANNEL- EARLY HOTELS-CHARLESTON 'S LEAN YEARS-SCENT OF THE COMING IRON HORSE-FIRST COLONY OF PERMANENT SETTLERS-COLUMBIA TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED-PIONEER SETTLERS OF RIDGEVILLE -RIDGEVILLE TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED-EATON TOWNSHIP SETTLED-CIVIL ORGANIZATION-THE BEEBES AND PERRYS OF BLACK RIVER- OTHER PIONEERS-BLACK RIVER TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED—FOUNDING OF LORAIN CITY-EARLY SETTLERS OF AMHERST TOWNSHIP-JOSIAH HARRIS-AS A POLITICAL BODY—AMHERST AS A VILLAGE— TOWNSHIPS SETTLED DURING THE WAR-PIERREPONT EDWARDS DRAWS AVON TOWNSHIP-THE CAHOON FAMILY- AVON TOWNSHIP CREATED- PIONEER FAMILIES CROWD INTO SHEFFIELD- SHEFFIELD, FIRST TOWNSHIP AFTER COUNTY ORGANIZED—PITTSFIELD TOWNSHIP DRAWN—FIRST PERMANENT SETTLERS-TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED -VILLAGE OF ELYRIA FOUNDED-THE ELY HOME-THE FAMOUS BEEBE TAVERN-THE FIRST BEEBE HOME-THE BRIDAL TRIP-THE OLD-TIME FIRE-


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PLACE-LAST BEEBE HOUSE, PRIDE OF THE TOWN-ELYRIA TOWNSHIP PARTITIONED IN 1816—" RAISINGS '-TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE SURVEYED- POSTOFFICE ESTABLISHED-TOWNSHIP ERECTED-ELYRIA CITY OF TODAY-FATHER AND PIONEERS OF BROWNHELM-TOWNSHIP CREATED AND ORGANIZED- SETTLEMENT OF RUSSIA TOWNSHIP-FOUNDING OF OBERLIN-RUSSIA TOWNSHIP ORGANIZED-FIRST YEAR OF PIONEERING IN GRAFTON-TOWNSHIP INCORPORATED- VILLAGE OF GRAFTON-WELLINGTON 'S ORIGINAL OWNERS AND SETTLERS-ARRIVAL OF FIRST FAMILY-TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION-WELLINGTON VILLAGE -TOWNSHIP OF HUNTINGTON-THE LABORIES AND OTHER FAMILIES -WOODEN BOWL FACTORY-ORGANIZATION OF THE TOWNSHIP-PENFIELD TOWNSHIP RIGHTLY NAMED-COMING OF THE PENFIELDS-I FAMILIES OF CALVIN SPENCER AND OTHERS-CARLISLE TOWNSHIP-PIONEER FAMILIES SETTLE- BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP-HENRIETTA TOWNSHIP-CAMDEN TOWNSHIP. 74


CHAPTER IX


CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS


A CENTENNIAL HERALD-EARLIEST RECORD OF LAKE SHORE REGION-THE SMITH TRAVELS-RELICS OF FRENCH ADVENTURERS-RISING OF THE LAKE LEVEL- AVON'S MYSTERIOUS FIRST SETTLER-AVON THROUGH A HUNDRED YEARS- PHYSICAL FEATURES-PIERREPONT EDWARDS, ORIGINAL PROPRIETOR- PERMANENT COLONY ARRIVES (1814) - WILBUR CAHOON FOUNDS FIRST PERMANENT. FAMILY-ORIGINAL CAHOON TRACT—DEATH OF WILBUR CAHOON-NICHOLAS YOUNGLEWIS AUSTIN-OTHER FAMILIES JOIN COLONY-ELAH PARK-THE SWEET FAMILY-FIRST SETTLER IN FRENCH LICK VILLAGE-THE STICKNEY AND WILLIAMS FAMILIES-FIRST EVENTS-INDUSTRIESRELIGIOUS MATTERS-PIONEER SCHOOLHOUSE-HOLY TRINITY CHURCH -CHEESE-MAKING ABANDONED-CURIOUS MOUNDS RAZED-AVON'S PATRIOTISM-THE SHEFFIELD CENTENNIAL-NORMAN DAY DESCRIBES FIRST COLONISTS-THE BURRELLS EXPLORE-WALLACE, FIRST ,TEMPORARY SETTLER-FOUR SETTLERS IN WINTER OF 1815-16—FIRST WOMAN AND PIONEER FAMILY-ARRIVAL OF THE DAY AND BURRELL FAMILIES-CAPTAIN SMITH AND FAMILY-OTHER BURRELLS COME-CHURCHES ORGANIZE—FIRST EVENTS—TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION- DEATH OF CAPTAIN SMITH-OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY-DECEASE OF PIONEERS-HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MISS MAY DAY-BUILDING THE SAW-MILL ON FRENCH CREEK-GRIST AND SAW-MILL


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-OTHER MILLS-BRICK HOUSES-SETTLING IN A DUCK POND-THE BURRELLS AND HECOCKS-THE ROOT FAMILY-THE DAYS-ITEMS ABOUT PIONEERS GENERALLY-TWO UNSUCCESSFUL INSTITUTIONS-SHIP BUILDERS AND LAKE CAPTAINS-GOLD HUNTERS OF 1849-50-JUDGE WILLIAM DAY, ACTIVE LAND AGENT-THE PARKS FAMILIES -SHEFFIELD IN THE CIVIL WAR-MILTON GARFIELD-SHEFFIELD 'S HISTORY, 1865-1915-FIRST RAILROAD-DEATH OF BOBBINS BURRELL -SECOND RAILROAD - FATALITY TO EDWARD BURRELL - WOODS LEVELED FOR STEEL PLANT-FIRST SHORT LINE STREET CAR-LAST OF THE DAY PIONEERS-FIRST CAR OVER THE ELECTRIC-EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-CLAIMED AS FOUNDER OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY-INDUSTRIAL MATTERS-DEATHS OF 1815-16 PIONEERS - GOLDEN WEDDINGS-OLD FAMILY RELICS - FAMOUS NATIVES-THE GERMAN RESIDENTS- ST. THERESA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH-DETAILS OF THE SHEFFIELD CELEBRATION- THE ABSENT ONES - HISTORIC PROGRAM ME - HUNTINGTON 'S HOME-COMING- MYRON T. HERRICK, NATIVE SON-PROFESSOR F. D. WARD-THE HIS- TORIC KELSEY BAND-PLANS FOR A CENTENNIAL-THE PERRY CENTENNIAL- LOCAL PARTICIPATION-THE NIAGARA RAISED FROM THE LAKE BOTTOM-GRAND WELCOME TO THE RESTORED FLAGSHIP-PERRY RELICS EXHIBITED - 127


CHAPTER X


GENERAL COUNTY MATTERS


AT FIRST, NO EDUCATIONAL FUND-LEGAL COMPENSATION IN 1803- ACTUAL LAND GRANT IN 1834-THE WESTERN RESERVE SCHOOL FUND -PROGRESS OF SCHOOL LAWS TO 1834-FOUNDATION OF PRESENT SYSTEM-THE AKRON LAW AND FREE GRADED SCHOOLS-TEACHERS' INSTITUTES-PIONEER SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS-MRS. AND MR. BRONSON-SCHOOLS FOUNDED IN 1810-20-THE STRUT STREET SCHOOL, BRO WNHEL M -PIONEER SCHOOLS IN ELYRIA AND WELLINGTON- RUSSIA TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS-HUNTINGTON AND AMHERST-FIRST SCHOOL IN PENFIELD TOWNSHIP-PRESENT STATUS OF COUNTY EDUCATION-THE COUNTY INFIRMARY-THE COUNTY HOME FOR CHILDREN-SUPERINTENDENTS AND MATRONS-AIM : TO PROVIDE PERMANENT HOMES-BUILDINGS- INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL TRAINING-PAST AND PRESENT MANAGEMENT-THE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-FIRST AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY-TOWN FAIR AT OBERLINORIGIN OF GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT COUNTY SOCIETY FOUNDED IN


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1846-FIRST FAIR—LECTURERS APPOINTED—LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP INTRODUCED—PURE-BRED CATTLE—STAR FARMERS—FIRST ELECTION —IMPROVEMENTS OF GROUNDS—EARLY PREMIUMS DROPPED—LATER HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY—POPULATION OF THE COUNTY, 1830-1910-TOWNSHIPS AND CORPORATIONS, 1910, 1900, 1890-ELECTRIC UNIFICATION IN LORAIN COUNTY - 170


CHAPTER XI


THE BENCH AND BAR


GRAND OPENING OF FIRST TERRITORIAL COURT--HARRISON, LATER-DAY BIG BUCKEYE— FIRST COURT IN LORAIN COUNTY—GRAND JURY PURELY HONORARY—EARLY JUDGES AND ASSOCIATES—ASSOCIATES ABOLISHED—OLD BENCH MORE DEMOCRATIC—PHILEMON BLISS—FIRST PROBATE JUDGE—JOSIAH HARRIS—TWO NOTED PRESIDENT JUDGESWOOLSEY WELLES—DELEGATES TO THE 1851 CONVENTION—PRESENTDAY COURTS—COMMON PLEAS JUDGES, 1852-80-STEVENSON BURKE —WASHINGTON W. BOYNTON—JOHN C. HALE— EARLY PROBATE JUDGES—WILLIAM F. LOCKWOOD-LIONEL A. SHELDON- CHARLES H. DOOLITTLE—JOHN W. STEELE—LAERTES B. SMITH- PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS PREVIOUS TO 1880—JOEL TIFFANY—JOHN M. VINCENT—JOSEPH H. DICKSON—OTHER EARLY PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS— PIONEER LAWYERS, PURE AND SIMPLE—HORACE D. CLARK—OTHER FELLOW PRACTITIONERS—A. A. BLISS—JUDSON D. BENEDICT—MYRON R. KEITH— JOSHUA MYERS—JOHN V. COON—" FOREIGN " PRACTITIONERS —ACCESSIONS FROM 1845 TO 1860-SYLVESTER BAGG— ATTAINED PROMINENCE ABROAD— OBERLIN LAWYERS—JOHN M. LANGSTON—THE OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE CASE—CAME IN THE '60S AND "70S—J. C. HILL—ROSWELL G. HORR— RETROSPECT OF THE EARLIER BAR—BENCH AND BAR SINCE 1880-COMMON PLEAS AND PROBATE JUDGES —HON. DAVID J. NYE, VETERAN ACTIVE PRACTITIONER—HON. CLARENCE G. WASHBURN—LEADING MEMBERS OF THE BAR—THE BAR ASSOCIATION— NOTABLE CASES WITHIN FORTY YEARS - 197


CHAPTER XII


DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS


DR. NORTON S. TOWNSHEND—JOHN HENRY BARROWS—DR. BARROWS' MOTHER—HIS ANTE-OBERLIN CAREER—THROUGH THE EYES OF


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DAUGHTER AND FATHER-COLONEL CHARLES WHITTLESEY-JUDGE CHARLES CANDEE BALDWIN-LUCY STONE AND ANTOINETTE BROWN -GENERAL QUINCY ADAMS GILLMORE-A MORAL AS WELL AS PATRIOTIC HERO-HON. MYRON T. HERRICK-FRANK H. HITCHCOCK - 228


CHAPTER XIII


MILITARY MATTERS


CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OBERLIN COLLEGE-COMPANY C, SEVENTH OHIO INFANTRY-FATALITIES-THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS-COMPANY D, TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT-FATALITIES-COMPANY K, TWENTY-THIRD REGIMENT- FATALITIES-REGIMENTAL HISTORY-COMPANY H, FORTY-FIRST REGIMENT- REGIMENTAL HISTORY-FORTY-SECOND OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY--COMPANY E-REGIMENTAL HISTORY-THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRD INFANTRY-COMPANY F-COMPANY H-REGIMENTAL HISTORY-THE FORTY-THIRD INFANTRY-THE FIFTY-FOURTH REGIMENT-THE GERMAN ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH-OTHER INFANTRY BODIES-BATTERY B, LIGHT ARTILLERY-FIFTEENTH OHIO INDEPENDENT BATTERY-SECOND REGIMENT, OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY-THE TWELFTH OHIO CAVALRY-OTHER CIVIL WAR ORGANIZATIONS- FIFTH REGIMENT, OHIO NATIONAL GUARD 247


CHAPTER XIV


LAND ROUTES


GREAT INDIAN SHORE TRAIL-THE GIRDLED AND STATE ROADS-EARLY POST ROUTES-CANALS GIVE LORAIN THE GO-BY-THE OLD TURNPIKES-THE STAGE ERA-ELYRIA, FIRST RAILROAD CENTER-RAILROADS CRUSH SIDE-WHEEL STEAMERS-THE AWAKENING OF LORAIN"WHEN THE RAILROAD CAME "-THE GREAT RAILROAD DOCKS-THE NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM-THE ELECTRIC LINES-MACADAM ROADS - 280


CHAPTER XV


CORPORATE LORAIN


BLACK RIVER " BOOM " OF THE '30s-RISE AND FALL OF CHARLESTON-THE SAVIORS OF THE TOWN-VILLAGE CHARTERED AS LORAIN-FIRST


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SCHOOL AND POLICE DEPARTMENT-INCREASE OF POPULATION-INCORPORATION AS A CITY-CONSERVING PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL HEALTH-THE FILTRATION PLANT-THE FIRE DEPARTMENT-EARLY EDUCATIONAL ITEMS-LORAIN 'S FIRST UNION SCHOOL-SPECIAL SCHOOL ELECTIONS- SUPERINTENDENTS AND CLERKS-STATISTICS -SCHOOL POPULATION—PRESENT SCHOOL BUILDINGS-THE LORAIN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY-THE POSTOFFICE - 288


CHAPTER XVI


COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LORAIN


THE BLACK RIVER STEAM BOAT ASSOCIATION-ERA OF WOODEN SHIP BUILDING- THE FISHING INDUSTRY-PIONEER AND VETERAN FISHERMEN-STATUS OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRY-LORAIN 'S FIRST IRON FURNACE--PLANING MILL AND STOVE WORKS-THE JOHNSON STEEL MILLS-FIRST GREAT PLANT LOCATED AT LORAIN-FOUNDING OF SOUTH LORAIN-SOUTH LORAIN AS IT IS-FIRST WORK ON THE JOHNSON HOLDINGS-OPENING OF THE LORAIN PLANT-OPERATIONS AS THE LORAIN STEEL COMPANY-THE NATIONAL TUBE COMPANY-OTHER LEADING INDUSTRIES-ERA OF STEEL SHIPBUILDING- EARLY IMPROVEMENTS OF RIVER AND HARBOR-DEVELOPMENT OF B. & O. TERMINALTHE HARBOR OF THE PRESENT-THE LORAIN BOARD OF COMMERCE-SOURCE OF ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AND POWER-TELEPHONE SERVICE-THE LORAIN BANKS-THE CITY BANK-NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE-THE OLD BANK OF LORAIN-THE CITIZENS SAVINGS BANK REORGANIZED-CLEVELAND TRUST COMPANY, LORAIN BRANCH-THE LORAIN SAVINGS & BANKING COMPANY-THE CENTRAL BANKING COMPANY-THE LORAIN BANKING COMPANY-THE GEORGE OROSZY BANKS - 304


CHAPTER XVII


CHURCHES OF LORAIN


OLDEST EXISTING CHURCH-THE METHODISTS AND LOT No. 205—"FATHER" BETTS AND THE PRESBYTERIANS-THE BAPTISTS HOLD EARLY SERVICES-THE PRESBYTERIANS " AT HOME "-METHODISTS ORGANIZE FIRST CHURCH-FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-FIRST M. E. CHURCH-CHURCH OF CHRIST-ST. MARY'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH-TWENTIETH STREET METHODIST CHURCH-ST. JOHN 'S


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EVANGELICAL, FIRST BAPTIST, UNITED BRETHREN AND SECOND

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES-EPISCOPAL CHURCHES-DELAWARE AVENUE AND GRACE M. E. CHURCHES-ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY - HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES-OTHER SOUTH LORAIN CHURCHES-CHURCHES FORMED BY COLORED PEOPLE-THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST-JEWISH SYNAGOGUE-FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN - HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH - TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH - 335


CHAPTER XVIII


UPLIFTING FORCES


THE PRESS-THE BLACK RIVER COMMERCIAL-THE LORAIN MONITOR-THE LORAIN TIMES-HERALD-THE LORAIN DAILY NEWS-THE POST -UPLIFTING SOCIETIES- -LORAIN 'S YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-WOMAN 'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION-THE SISTERHOOD OF LORAIN-SOCIAL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION-LITERARY CLUBS-THE MAKING OF AMERICAN CITIZENS-MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS-FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S SOCIETIES-THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES-ST. JOSEPH 'S HOSPITAL-LODGES AND FRATERNITIES - 349


CHAPTER XIX


PUBLIC AFFAIRS OF ELYRIA


THE VILLAGE IN 1833-THE ELYRIA HIGH SCHOOL-FIRST. DISTRICT SCHOOLS-BOARD OF EDUCATION FORMED-JASON CANFIELD, FIRST SUPERINTENDENT-PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING ERECTED-COMPLETE CURRICULUM ADOPTED-FIRST HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES-OTHER SCHOOL EVENTS OF THE '60S-BOARD OF EDUCATION SPEAKS ITS MIND-CONSTRUCTION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS-MANUAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL-THE SOCIAL SETTLEMENT SCHOOL-ENROLLMENT OF PUPILS AND TEACHERS-THE PUBLIC LIBRARY-PROTECTION AGAINST. FIRE-INCREASE IN ELYRIA 'S POPULATION-PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS-THE ELYRIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE- CIVIC IMPROVEMENT - LEGISLATION - MUNICIPAL SANITATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH - 360


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CHAPTER XX


CHURCHES, CHARITIES AND FRATERNITIES


PIONEER RELIGIOUS BODIES-METHODISM IN ELYRIA-THE HEAD OF THE CIRCUIT-BECOMES A STATION-PERMANENT CHURCH BUILDING-NEW PARSONAGE-PASTORS WHO HAVE SERVED-BUILDING OF THE PRESENT HOUSE OF WORSHIP-PRESENT STATUS OF THE CHURCH-THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-ST. ANDREW 'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH-ST. MARY 'S CHURCH AND PARISH-FIRST RESIDENT CATHOLIC PASTOR-DEATH OF REV. F. A. SULLIVAN-LONG PASTORATE OF REV. LOUIS MOLON-LESSON GIVEN TO A FUTURE PASTOR-DEATH OF FATHER SCHAFFIELD-ST. AGNES PARISH FORMED-ST. JOHN 'S GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH-OTHER CHURCHES-ELYRIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS-THE W. N. GATES HOSPITAL-PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE HOSPITAL-ITS FOUNDING DESCRIBED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-THE YOUNG MEN 'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-THE MASONS AND THEIR TEMPLE-THE MASONIC TEMPLE COMPANY-OTHER FRATERNITIES - 374


CHAPTER XXI


NEWSPAPERS, INDUSTRIES AND BANKS


NEWSPAPER AND RAILROAD PARALLEL-THE LORAIN GAZETTE-OHIO ATLAS AND ELYRIA ADVERTISER-THE ELYRIA COURIER-THE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT- GEORGE G. WASHBURN-THE ELYRIA REPUBLICAN-THE DAILY TELEGRAM-THE ELYRIA DEMOCRAT-THE LORAIN CONSTITUTIONALIST- FREDERICK S. REEFY-THE ELYRIA CHRONICLE-ELYRIA 'S MANUFACTORIES-THE SOUTHWESTERN TRACTION SHOPS-PRIMITIVE INDUSTRIES-THE TOPLIFF & ELY PLANT-WESTERN AUTOMATIC MACHINE SCREW COMPANY-ELYRIA CANNING COMPANY-THE GARFORD MANUFACTURING COMPANY-THE WILLYS-OVERLAND-COLUMBIA STEEL COMPANY-ELYRIA IRON & STEEL COMPANY- TROXEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY-THE AMERICAN LACE MANUFACTURING COMPANY - ELYRIA FOUNDRY COMPANY - THE PERRY-FAY COMPANY- WORTHINGTON COMPANY AND MA CHINE PARTS COMPANY-OTHER INDUSTRIES-ELYRIA GAS & ELECTRIC LIGHT


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COMPANY-THE NATIONAL BANK OF ELYRIA-THE SAVINGS DEPOSIT BANK-THE ELYRIA SAVINGS & BANKING COMPANY-THE LORAIN COUNTY BANKING COMPANY - 404


CHAPTER XXII


OBERLIN AS AN INSPIRATION


THE COLLEGE A MODERN UNIVERSITY-COLLEGE AND TOWN FOUNDED TOGETHER-REV. JOHN J. SHIPHERD AND PHILO P. STEWART-THE HISTORIC ELM-PETER P. PEASE, FIRST OF THE COLONISTS-ERECTION OF OBERLIN AND LADIES' HALLS-FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH FOUNDED-THE BIG TENT AND CINCINNATI HALL-REV. ASA MAHAN, FIRST PRESIDENT-THE COLLEGE IN 1845-PRESIDENT FINNEY AND THE MEMORIAL CHAPEL-CONSOLIDATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS-OBERLIN STUDENTS' MONTHLY-PRESIDENTS FAIRCHILD, BALLANTINE AND BARROWS-THE MEMORIAL ARCH-PRESIDENT HENRY C. KING -THE GREAT ENDOWMENT FUNDS-OTHER BUILDINGS OF THE COLLEGE PLANT-CARNEGIE LIBRARY-THE OLNEY ART COLLECTION-WARNER, STURGES AND PETERS HALLS-RICE MEMORIAL HALL-NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING-THE MEN 'S BUILDING-THE ACADEMY BUILDINGS-WARNER AND WOMEN'S GYMNASIUMS-OUTDOOR SPORTS AND EXERCISE - LABORATORIES AND MUSEUMS - DORMITORIES FOR WOMEN-THE FACULTY-COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION-MUSICAL AND LITERARY ADVANTAGES-THE STUDENT BODY-GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS-THE COLLEGE ENROLMENT-CHURCHES OF OBERLIN-THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-CHRIST PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH-FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-FIRST M. E. CHURCH-THE RUST M. E. CHURCH-CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART-MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH-THE OBERLIN MISSIONARY HOME ASSOCIATION-THE OBERLIN HOSPITAL-WESTWOOD CEMETERY-SOCIAL, LITERARY AND BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS-VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT AND SOCIAL BETTERMENT-THE OBERLIN GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC - 420


CHAPTER XXIII


THE VILLAGE AND ITS INSTITUTIONS


INCORPORATED IN 1846-ITS SCHOOLS-OBERLIN BUSINESS COLLEGE-WATER WORKS AND FIRE PROTECTION-GAS AND ELECTRICITY-FIRST


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NEWSPAPERS, COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS—THE BIBLIOT HE CA SACRA—THE LORAIN COUNTY NEWS—THE TRIBUNE—CURRENT COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS—OBERLIN BOARD OF COMMERCE—THE OBERLIN BANKING COMPANY—THE SAVINGS BANK COMPANY—THE PEOPLES BANKING COMPANY—THE CHADWICK FRAUDS IN OBERLIN—CARNEGIE TO THE RESCUE—VILLAGE ITEMS OF THE EARLY DAYS - 494


CHAPTER XXIV


VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON


HOW WELLINGTON WAS NAMED—UNEVENTFUL TWENTY YEARS—THE ACADEMY-PROGRESS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS-INCORPORATION OF WELLINGTON VILLAGE—PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS—WELLINGTON WATERWORKS— THE HERRICK LIBRARY—WELLINGTON CHURCHES—THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH—THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH —THE WELLINGTON CHURCH OF CHRIST—THE BAPTIST CHURCH—THE CATHOLIC MISSION—THE WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE—THE FIRST WELLINGTON BANK—BIG ROBBERY—OLD—TIME DAIRY INTERESTS—HOME OF THE HORRS—WELLINGTON AS IT IS - 510


CHAPTER XXV


VILLAGE OF AMHERST


VILLAGE FOUNDED—FIRST QUARRIES OPENED—GROWTH AND CONSOLIDATION —THE CLEVELAND STONE COMPANY—THE OHIO QUARRIES COMPANY—THE UNION SCHOOL-SUPERINTENDENTS-THE TOWN HALL —PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS—THE PUBLIC LIBRARY—THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE—WATER AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS—GOOD STREETS AND SIDEWALKS—OTHER SIGNS OF PROGRESS—THE C HUR CHES—METHODISM — SOUTH AMHERST CHURCHES— AMHERST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH—ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL CHURCH— ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH —ST. JOSEPH'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH —SALEM CHURCH ( EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION) — EPISCOPAL MISSION — LODGES — INDUSTRIES AND BANKS—NEWSPAPERS - 531


INDEX


Academy Buildings, Oberlin College, 448

Academy, The, 511

Adair, V., 674

Adams, Charles F., 728

Adams, R. C., 901

Adams, William M., 692

Administration Building, Oberlin College, 446

Akron law and free graded schools, 173

Albright, Charles, 1051

Aldrich, W. Scott, 888

Allen, E. F., 652

Allen, P. C., 51

Allen, Pearl (Smith), (portrait), 586

Allison, Thomas B., 721

American Lace Manufacturing Company, 414

American Shipbuilding Plant at Lorain (view), 322

American Stove Company, 318

American system of land surveys, 35

Amherst as a village, 99; founded, 531; industries, 533; growth and consolidation, 534; public institutions, 537; water systems, 540; churches, 542; banks, 553; industries and banks, 553; fraternities, 553; newspapers, 554


Amherst Congregational Church, 547

"Amherst Free Press," 554

Amherst Hospital, 963

Amherst Public Library, 538

Amherst Town Hall, 537

Amherst Town Hall (view), 538

Amherst Union School, 536

"Amherst Weekly News," 554

Amherst township organized, 73; early settlers, 97; incorporated, 99; first officers, 99; schools, 175


Anderson, Robert G., 678

Andress, George H., 956

Andress, Henry M., 844

Andrews, F. E., 906

Andrews, S. J., 217

A Preglacial Gorge (view), 5

Arnold, Herbert E., 1012

Artemas Beebe Tavern, 1820 (view), 657

Artificial light and power, 331

Artress, Thomas H., 601

Aschenbach, C. G., 995

Associated Charities, 357

Ault, Stanley A., 711

Austin, Lewis, 101, 134

Avery, Floyd G., 877

Avery, William E., 876

Avon township organized, 73; settled, 100; created, 101; celebration, 131; physical features, 131; mysterious first settler, 131; first settlers, 131; first events, 136; industries, 137; first religious service, 137; pioneer schoolhouse, 138


Awakening of Lorain, 284


Babcock, Allison H., 587

Bacon, Aaron L., 899

Bacon, Lida M., 900

Bagg, Sylvester, 220

Baldwin, Charles C., 238

Baldwin Cottage (view), 451

Ballantine, William G., 435

Bank of Lorain, 332

Banks, 332, 416, 503, 527, 553

Banning, L. V., 919

Baptist Church, Wellington, 526

Baptists, 337, 382, 526

Barnes, Lewis, 994

Barrows, John H., 230; 437

Bartholomew, J. W., 961

Bassett, Henry, 635

Bassett, Miles S., 1039

Battery B, Light Artillery, 272

Battle of Lake Erie, 165

Beck, Henry A., 770

Beckley, Harley O., 1003

Bedortha, Luther, 151

Beebe, Artemas, I, 656

Beebe, Artemas, II, 658

Beebe, Artemas, III, 659

Beebe, David, Sr., 92

Beebe, Pamelia, 658

Beebes and Perrys of Black River, 94

Beebe home, first, 106

Beebe tavern, 105, 657

Behnke, C. J., 959

Belden, Homer B., 887

Bench and bar, 197; since 1880, 226

Benedict, Judson D., 218

Bennington Atalanta, 941

Bennington, Thomas B., 940

Betts "Father," 336


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Bibliotheca Sacra Company, 501

"Big Buckeye," 198

Big robbery, 527

Big Tent, 426

Billings, Frank C., 826

Binehower, Joseph, 779

Birds, 20

Bivin, Claude B., 719

Black River "boom" of the 30's, 288

Black River Commercial, 349

Black River settlement, 88

Black River Steamboat Association, 87, 304

Black River township organized, 73, 95

Blakeslee's Old Mill, Carlisle township (view), 120

Bliss, A. A., 218

Bliss, Philemon, 201

Board of education, Elyria, 362

Boise, L. S., 966

Born, John D., 941

Botany of Lorain County, 13

Boundaries, 67

Bouquet, Colonel, 33; expedition, 33

Box, George H., 865

Boynton, A. J., 578

Boynton, Patrick H., 577

Boynton, Washington W., 207, 572

Bradley, F. E., 640

Braman, Charles M., 644

Braman, William A., 643

Brandt, Fred C., 994

Branson, Alan R., 781

Braun, Ed H., 1043

Brighton township organized, 73, 120

Brooks, Walter E., 1017

Brown, Antoinette, 240

Brown, M. G., 1034

Brownhelm quarry, 533

Brownhelm township organized, 73; created, 111; pioneers, 110

Brunk Machine and Forging Company, 318

Brunk, Philip, 714

Brush, Marie H., 649

Brush, Lafayette, 648

Buchs, Peter, 935

Buell, George L., 692

Building of the first steamboats, 304

Burgett, Lawrence A., 886

Burgett, LeRoy P., 1021

Burke, Stevenson, 206

Burrell, Edward, 155

Burrell, Elbert J., 589

Burrell, Isaac, 140, 149

Burrell, Mahala, 590

Burrell, Jabez, 140, 149

Burrell, James, 149

Burrell, Robbins, 154

Burrell, Solen, 152

Bursley, George F., 1005

Busy Day on West Main Street (view), 530

Butler, Richard, 35

Buttenbender, Charles H., 910


Cahoon family, 101, 131

Cahoon, Horace J., 131, 707

Cahoon, Wilbur, 101, 132

Cahoon, William E., 710

Caley, Daniel, 151

Calkins, J. H., 1020

Camden Lake, 18

Camden township organized, 73, 123; pioneers, 124

Cameron, E., 703

Campbell, H. A., 998

Canals give Lorain the go-by, 282

Canfield, Jason, 363

Carlisle township organized, 73, 119; pioneers, 119

Carnegie Library (view), 440

Carnegie Library, Oberlin College, 441

Carpenter, Ephraim K., 705

Carpenter, Lavina C., 706

Carter, John, 151

Cassell, George C., 972

Catholic Mission, Wellington, 526

Catholics, 340, 383, 526

Celoron, 29

Centennial celebrations, 126

"Centennial Herald," 127

Centennial Log Cabin, Elyria (view), 128

Central Baking Company, 333

Chadwick Frauds, 504

Chamberlain, George H., 637

Chamberlain, Wells A., 1035

Chamber of Commerce, Amherst, 539

Chapin, Roswell, 933

Chapman, Erie D., 623

Chapman Family, 618

Chapman, Harlan P., 622

Charleston village, 88; rise and fall of, 290

Chillicothe Land District, 37

Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, 465

Chronicle Printing Co., The, 781

Church of Christ, 340

Church of Christ, Wellington, 525

Church of the Nativity, 345

Church of the Sacred Heart, Oberlin, 471

Churches, 156, 159, 335, 374, 462, 516, 542, 545

Churches formed by colored people, 346

Cincinnati Hall, 426

Cincinnati Land District, 38

Cinniger, Albert W., 588

Citizens Gas and Electric Light Company, 331

Citizens Savings Bank, 333

City Bank Company, 332

Civil government, 27, 49

Civil jurisdiction from 1807 to 1811, 66

Civil organization, 72

Civil war, 247

Civil war soldiers, 153


INDEX - xix


Clark, Horace D., 216

Clark, Leonard, 124

Clark, Perkins K., 819

Clement, Ernest F., 768

Cleveland, Gen. Moses, 58

Cleveland Stone Company, 535

Cleveland, Southwestern & Columbus Traction Company, 411

Cleveland Trust Company, 333

Clifford, L. F., 1028

Cole, Stephen M., 848

College townships, 48

Collegiate Institute, 184

Colson, Frederick W., 782

Columbia Steel Company, The, 413, 817

Columbia township organized, 73, 91

Comings, William R., 722

Common pleas judges, 206

Company C, Seventh Ohio Infantry, 249; fatalities, 250

Company D, Twenty-third regiment, 252; fatalities, 252

Company K, Twenty-third regiment, 253; fatalities, 253

Company H, Forty-first regiment, 255

Congregationalists, 380

Congress Lands, 36

Connecticut Land Company, 57

Connecticut Western Reserve, 36, 40

Consolidation of Library Associations, Oberlin College, 431

Constitutional convention of 1851, 204

Conway, Thomas A., 806

Cook, Lester C., 957

Cook, Minnie M., 957

Coon, John V., 219

Corts, John L., 900

Country of Canahogue, 58

County Board of Education, 176

County boundaries, adjustment of, 67

County Infirmary, 177

County-seat location, 69

Courts, 198

Cowley, John, 868

Crehore, Charles J., 889

Crehore, George, Sr., 151

Crisp, Ernest J., 605

Crisp, George E., 603

Crisp, Mary L., 604

Crisp, William, 764

Crittenden, William, 113

Croghan, George, 30

Crooks, Sumner G., 631

Crosse, Franklin P., 734

Cuddeback, Mrs. G. L., 154

Curious mounds razed, 139

Current College publications, 503

Cushing, Charles F., 871

Cushing, Charles H. 873

Cutler, Dr. Manasseh, 49


"Daily Telegram," 408

Daugherty, Fred A., 1011

Daugherty, Henry R., 903

Davidson, Andrew, 931

Davidson, Andrew W., 674

Davidson, John E., 898

Davidson, Samuel, 576

Davies, D. W., 606

Davies, Walter A., .902

Davis, L. T., 857

Davis, Noah, 132

Day, Cornelia, 150

Day, Hubert, 769

Day, John, 140, 150

Day, Mary E., 13

Day, Maud A., 564

Day, May, 146

Day, Norman, 140

Day, Sumner B., 562

Day, William, 152

Decker, David, 952

de la Galissoniere, Marquis, 29

Delaware Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 344

Delawares move westwardly, 32

Delia & Galli, 749

Delia, Angelo, 748

Dellifield, George, 939

Denn, Fred E. 815

D'Iberville, M., 28

Dickson, Joseph H., 215

Dimick, C. J., 992

Dinichthys Terelli, 2

Disbrow, M. L. gr., 1000

Distinguished L., 228

Donation Tract, 36

Douglas, Edward A., 592

Dudley, Carl H., 829

Dudley, John B., 920

Duff, Captain, 151

Dunmore, Lord, 33; squatters, 35

Dunn, Oscar G., 736

Durand, Bert 0., 667


Eady, Henry J., 575

Earliest record of Lake Shore Region, 127

Early hotels, 89

Early judges, 200

Early mills, 92

Early post routes, 281

Eaton township organized, 73; early settlers, 93; settled, 93

Edwards, Charles P., 661

Edwards, James L., 1021

Edwards, Pierrepont, 100

Eightieth anniversary of Sheffield Congregational Church, 156

Eldred, Dewitt, 816

Electric lines, 287

Electric unification in Lorain County, 191

Ely, Heman, 69, 104, 625

Ely, Heman, Jr., 628

Ely, Heman (portrait) 96


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Ely Home, 105

Elyria, county seat at, 71; founded, 104; laid out, 105; pioneer villagers, 108; surveyed, 109; first lot sold, 109; post-office established, 109; city of today, 110; first school, 175; first railroad center, 283; incorporated, 360; in 1833, 360; schools, 361; school events of the '60s, 364; fire department, 368; population, 368; public improvements, 369; churches, 374; hospitals, 391; newspapers, 404; industries, 410, banks, 416


Elyria Business College, The, 599

Elyria Canning Company, 412

Elyria Chamber of Commerce, 369

"Elyria Chronicle," 410, 781

"Elyria Courier," 406

"Elyria Democrat," 409

Elyria Foundry Company, 415

Elyria Gas & Electric Light Company, 416

Elyria High School, 361

Elyria Iron & Steel Company, 414

Elyria Memorial Hospital, 391, 650; (view) 392

Elyria Public Library, 367, 738

"Elyria Republican," 407

Elyria Savings 8! Banking Company, 419

Elyria township organized, 73; settled, 104; partitioned, 107; surveyed, 109; erected, 110

Emanuel Evangelical Church, 335

English Lutheran Church, 347

English serve notice of possession, 29

Episcopal Mission, Amherst, 553

Episcopalians, 343, 363, 553

Equalizing land values, 64

Era of wooden ship-building, 305

Evans, Alfred B., 999

Everson, Isaac, 759

Everson, Mary, 760

Fairchild, James H., 432

Fair grounds, 188

Famous Beebe tavern, 105, 657

Famous law cases, 222

"Father" Betts, 336

Fauver, Frank R., 828

Federation of Women's Societies, 357

Ferris, Woodbridge N., 51

Fifield, Henry O., 1022

Fifteenth Ohio Independent Battery, 274

Fifth regiment, Ohio National Guard, 278

Fifty-fourth regiment, 269

Filtration plant, Lorain, 292

Finkel, C. C., 976

Finney, Charles G.. 431

Finney Memorial Chapel, 432

Fire lands, 36, 41, 63

First Agricultural Society, 184

First Baptist Church, 342, 382

First Baptist Church, Oberlin, 470

First Beebe home, 106

First Church of Christ, Scientist, 347

First colony of permanent settlers, 90

First commissioners' meeting, 72

First Congregational Church, Elyria, 380

First Congregational Church of Lorain, 336

First Congregational Church, Oberlin, 426; (view) 463

First Congregational Church, Wellington, 516

First county fair, 185

First courthouse and jail, 71

First court in Lorain county, 199

First English Evangelical Lutheran Church, 347

First federal census of Lorain County, 189

First Frame House in Elyria (view), 361

First Growth Forest Tree (view), 14

First judiciary, 54

First mail in the Western Reserve, 281

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Lorain, 339

First Methodist Episcopal Church, Oberlin, 470

First Methodist parsonage on the Western Reserve, 375

First National Bank of Wellington, 527

First Ohio Company, 30

First Presbyterian Church, 346

First probate judge, 202

First settler in French Creek Village, 135

First territorial court, 198

Fisher, Lewis, 984

Fisher, Orsemus L., 985

Fishermen, 310

Fishes of Lorain County, 23

Fishing industry, Lorain, 308

Flora of Lorain County, 18

Folger, Thomas, 646

Ford, Jesse E., 1031

Forty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 260

Forty-third infantry, 267

Founder of Rural Free Delivery, 156

Fraternities, 400, 489, 528, 553

French Creek Village, 135

French Grant, 36, 45

French Northwest Territory, 28

French scheme of colonization, 28

French took formal possession of Louisiana, 29

Friday & Thomas, 697

Friday, Carl G., 697

Fulton, .John, 50

Fur-hunting expeditions, 78


INDEX - xxi


Galli, Caesar A., 749 Gannet, S. S., 51

Garfield, Milton, 153 Garford, Arthur L., 579

Garford Manufacturing Company, 412

Gas springs, 11

General View of South Lorain Steel Mills (view) 319

Geologic Map of Ohio, 1

Geology of Lorain County, 1

George, S. Jesse, 730 George Oroszy Banks, 334

German residents, 159 Geukes, Henry W., 921

Gibbs, Earl N., 923 Gibson, L. D., 893

Gillmore, Edmund, 726

Gillmore, Maj.-Gen., Quincy A., 241, 725

Gillmore, Quincy A., 728

Girdled and state roads, 281

Gist, Christopher, 30

Glacial period, 5

Glattstein, Adolph, 856

Glew, Arthur T., 781

Gnadenhutten, 79

Gold hunters of 1849-50, 152

Golden weddings, 158

Good Roads Movement, 184

Goss, Clair O., 653 row, Theodore C., 700

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, 344

Grafton, 114

Grafton township organized, 73; pioneers, 113

Grand Army of the Republic at Oberlin, 491

Grand welcome to the restored flagship, 166

Great historic waterways, 28

Great Indian Shore Trail, 280

Great railroad docks, 286

Greer, Hugh D., 756

Green, William, 1007

Gregg, Frank B., 915

Grills. Albert T., 949

Grills, Wesley L.. 676

Gunn, H. D. A., 855


Haag, Anna M.. 919

Haag, John J., 918

Hacker, Henry, 948

Hada way Brothers. 811

Hadaway, George H., 811

Hadaway, Louis. 786

Hagman. Albert V., 671

Hahn, George A., 950

Haist, Frederick, 922

Hale, Alfred E., 855

Hale, John C., 209

Hall, Fred L., 845

Hall, Hugh L., 954

Hamilton, William H., 591

Hamlin, Lorenzo D., 757

Haning, E. C., 1051

Hannaford, Florence H., 569

Harris, Josiah, 98, 202

Harris, Judge Josiah (portrait), 98

Harris, William, 54

Harrison, Melvin F., 765

Hart, G. A., 975

Hasenflue, Charles J., 945

Haserodt, John F., 715

Haserodt, Oscar P., 717

Haserodt, Otto E., 716

Hathaway, R., 933

Hawley, Cyrus W., 1039

Heckewelder, John, 81, 280

Hecock, Davis, 149

Hecock, Erastus, 149

Hecock, Harry J., 843

Heldmyer, William, 568

Henderson, John T., 802

Hendricks, Maurice E., 850

Henrietta Township organized, 73, 122;

first settlement, 123; pioneers, 123

Herrick Public Library, 514

Herrick, Myron T., 163, 245

Hewitt, James A., 787

Hill, J. C., 224, 732

Hinkson, Harry, 754

Hiscox, William A., 679

Historic contributions on Sheffield township, 146

Historic Elm, Oberlin, 423; (view) 424

Historic Sheffield program, 161

Hitchcock, Frank H., 246

Hitchcock, Henry H., 951

Hollingsworth, George W., 1003

Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 138

Horn, Conrad A., 803

Horr, Roland A., 529

Horr, Roswell G., 225

Horr, Roswell P., 529

Horsley, James T., 636

Hospitals, 358, 391

Houff, Joseph M., 696

Houghton, John W., 519, 1012

How the Reserve became national territory, 52

How the Reserve was sold, 55

Howk, L. E., 898

Hubbard, F. I., 892

Hughes, William L., 878

Hume, Thomas J., 682

Hungarian Catholic Churches, 345

Hungarian Reformed Church, 347

Huntington, W. R., 946

Huntington township organized, 73; incorporated, 116; first settlers, 116; early industries, 117; organized, 117; schools, 175


Huntington's Centennial, 164

Huntington's home-coming, 162

Hurd, Judson N., 929

Hurst, J. Harry, 792

Husted, D. S., 852


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Hutchins, Thomas, 33

Hyland, Daniel W., 688


Improvements of river and harbor, 323

"Independent Democrat," 406

Indian wars, 33

Indians, 31, 33; subdued, 54; adopt first white settler, 75

Ingersoll, C. B., 927

Ingersoll, George W., 837

Ingersoll, Henry W., 738

Ingersoll, William, 113

Irish, Charles M., 1024

Iron industries, 311


Jackson, Alexander L., 867

Jackson, Andrew J., 974

Jackson, Calvin, 861

Jaeger, William, 1050

Jameson, Joseph B., 136

Jamieson, Charles T., 912

Jefferson County in 1797, 59

Jelley, John T., 702

Jenkins, Earl G., 800

Jenne, A. K., 996

Jewett, Frank F., 1030

Jewish Synagogue, 347 Joliet, 28

Johnson, John B., 846

Johnson, Ray D., 916

Johnson Steel Mills, 312

Johnston, Charles W., 216

Johnston, Elcie M., 596

Johnston, Paul M., Sr., 746

Johnston, Paul M., Jr., 747

Johnston, Thomas, 744

Jones, Augustus, 151

Jones, Charles A., 820

Jones, Charles S., 990

Jones, Prof. Lynds, 20

Judges, 73, 198


Kaiser, John, 774

Kaiser, Louis P.:775

Keith, Myron R., 219

Kelly, Charles R., 944

Kelly, George B., 639

Kelly, James M., 851

Kelsey Band, 163

Kendeigh, Milo C., 1046

Killip, Edward T., 891

King, Frank J., 942

King, Henry C., 438

Kingsbury, Joseph, 121

Kinnison, R. H., 914

Klinect, William H., 805

Knapp, H. Lynn, 752

Kothe, Louis W., 909

Krebs, W. J., 1001


Laboratories and museums, Oberlin College, 450

Laborie, John, 116 Ladies' Hall (view), 425

Lagrange, 122

Lagrange township organized, 73, 121; pioneers, 121

Lagron, Arthur P., 718

Lake captains, 151

Lake ridges, 6

Lake Shore Electric Railroad, 156

Land drawings, 65

Land grant in 1834, 171

Land of the Delawares, 30

Land routes, 280

Langston, John M., 221

Last Beebe house, pride of the town, 107

LaSalle, 28

Lathrop, Alice W., 571

Latteman, John A., 938

Lawrence, Amos E., 879

Lawyers, 198

Lee, Arthur, 35

Lee, Norman, 926

Leonard, Samuel S., 853

Lersch, Carl T., 742

Lersch, John, 740

Lersch, Robert B., 743

Life Saving Station at Lorain (view), 310

Lifting of Indian and State titles, 34

Light and power, 331

Lindsley, W. B., 999

Literary Clubs, 355

Little, Sarah C., 467

Lockwood, William F., 210

Lodges and fraternities, 359

Lorain, early shipbuilding industry, 87; founding of, 97; incorporated, 288; first school, 291; police department, 291; population, 292; incorporation as a city, 292; water system, 292; fire department, 294; schools, 295; first union school, 295; free public library, 300; commercial and industrial, 304; first iron furnace, 311; industries, 318; banks, 332; harbor, 326; newspapers, 349; hospitals, 358; lodges and fraternities, 359


Lorain Banking Company, 334

Lorain Board of Commerce, 329

Lorain Casting Company, 318

"Lorain Constitutionalist," 409

Lorain County surveyed, 62; organized, 62; in the Civil war, 248

Lorain County Agricultural Society, 183

Lorain County Courthouse, Elyria, (view) 70

Lorain County Children's Home, 179

Lorain County Children's Home (view), 180

Lorain County Infirmary, 177

Lorain County Infirmary (view), 178

"Lorain County News," 502

Lorain County Savings & Trust Company, 419


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Lorain County Teachers' Institute, 177

Lorain Crystal Ice Company, 318

"Lorain Daily News," 351

"Lorain Gazette," 405

Lorain High School (view), 299

Lorain Milling Company, 318

"Lorain Monitor," 350

Lorain Perry Home Week, 165

Lorain Postoffice (view), 302

Lorain Savings & Banking Company, 333

Lorain Social Settlement Association, 355

Lorain Steel Company, 317

"Lorain Times-Herald," 350

Lord, Addison E., 694

Lord, Charles C., 777

Lord Cottage, 452

Lord Dunmore's Squatters, 35

Lord, William F., 784

Loveland, Abner, 121

Loveland, William, 982

Lozier, C. E., 817

Lucas, Stuart H., 824


Macadam roads, 287

Mahan, Asa, 427

Manley, Henry W., 1009

Mammals of Lorain County, 22

Manual Training and Technical High School, 366

Map of Lorain County, 67

Mapes, George, 660

Marietta Land District, 38

Marquette, 28

Masonic Temple Company, 401

Masonic Temple, Elyria (view), 402

Masons, 489, 528, 553; their temple, 400

Massacre at Gnadenhutten, 79

Maynard. Orlando T., 665

McConnell, Stewart, 1008

McFadden, James A., 771

McQueen, A. F., 890

McQueen, Fred B., 894

Meek, J. A., 829

Memorial Arch (view), 436

Memorial Arch, Oberlin College, 437

Mendelson, Solomon, 864

Mennell, Allen E., 885

Mennen Family, 884

Mennell, Jay D., 885

Mennell, Perry, 1028

Men's Building (view), 449

Men's Building, Oberlin College, 446

Metcalf, Eliab W., 1053

Metcalf, George P., 216

Metcalf, Maynard M., 1056

Methodist Episcopal Church, Wellington, 519

Methodists, 336, 375, 519, 542

Military matters, 247

Miller, Henry, 778

Miller, Nathan, 1025

Mills, Edgar D., 1041

Mills, Isaac, 111

Ministerial Lands, 48

Mitchell, A. W., 1027

Monroe, Albert, 849

Montour, Andrew, 30

Mooney, James B., 804

Moore, Leonard M., 571

Moore, Smith W., 783

Moravian colony, 79

Moravian colony return to the Muskingum, 84

Moravian Lands, 46

Moravian missionaries, 75

Morgan, Thomas W., 894

Moriarty, Alma R., 630

Morse, Charles L., 634

Morse, Levi, 631

Mosher, George A., 594

Mosher, William E., 595

Mounds, 139

Mount Zion Baptist Church, 472

Murray, Charles D., 988

Murray, James A., 990

Musical Organizations, 356

Mussey, Henry E., 217

Mussey, Reuben, 217

Myers, Joshua, 219


National Bank of Commerce, 332

National Bank of Elyria, 416

National Stove Company, 318

National Tube Company, 317

Nash, Simeon, 1042

National Vapor Stove & Manufacturing Company, 694

Native and migratory birds, 20

Natural gas, 11

Naylor, Samuel, 964

Naylor, Sarah, 965

Nelson, Thomas L., 739

New Connecticut, 40

New York Central System, 286

Newspapers, 349, 404, 500, 526, 554

"Niagara," the raised, 166

Nichols, Allen M., 869

Nichols, Byron G., 655

Nichols, Charles A., 629

Nichols, John J., 629

Nichols, W. G., 818

Nieding, Anthony. 798

Nielsen, Hans P., 566

Noakes, Benjamin T., 574

Northern international boundary, 69

Northwest Territory, 34

Nye, David J., 226, 557


Oberlin College, 420; the modern university, 421; and city founded together, 422; first college building, 425; University incorporated, 427; in 1845, 428; objects of, 430; great endowment fund, 439; buildings, 441; laboratories and museums, 450; fac-


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ulty, 452; administration, 456; musical and literary advantages, 457; student body, 458; graduate fellowship, 461; enrollment, 461


Oberlin, founding of, 112; town fair, 184; lawyers, 221; first colonist, 424; churches, 462; fraternities, 489; incorporated, 494; schools, 494; water works system, 498; fire department, 498; newspapers, 500; village items of the early days, 506


Oberlin Agricultural Society, 184

Oberlin Banking Company, 503

Oberlin Board of Commerce, 503

Oberlin Business College, 496

Oberlin Federation for Village Improvement and Social Betterment, 490

Oberlin G. A. R., 491

Oberlin Hospital Association, 486

Oberlin Hospital (view), 486

Oberlin Missionary Home Association, 472, 474

"Oberlin College Review," 435

"Oberlin Students' Monthly," 431

Oberlin-Wellington Rescue case, 222

"Ohio Atlas and Elyria Advertiser," 405

Ohio Canal Lands, 46

Ohio Company, 30

Ohio Company's Purchase, 36, 43

Ohio-Michigan boundary, 50

Ohio National Guard, 278

Ohio Quarries Company, 536

Ohio shale, 1

Ohio Valley, 27

Oil, 11

Old American House (view), 526

Old family relics, 158

Old Hill and Baptist Church, The, (view), 543

Old-time fireplace, 106

Old turnpikes, 282

Old Union School of 1857 (view), 363

Oldest Existing Church, 335

Olds, Emma S., 585

Olmsted, George, 215

Olney Art Collection, 442

One Hundred and Third Infantry, 263

One of the First Frame Houses Built in Amherst Township (view), 586

One of the Great Amherst Quarries (view), 534

Opening of the Lorain steel plant, 317

Ordinance of 1787, 49

Original Cahoon tract, 133

Original organization of the townships, 73

Ormsby, Caleb (portrait). 532

Ormsby, "Aunt Kate" (portrait). 532

Oroszy, George, 334

Oroszy, George, Banks, 334

Other Civil war organizations. 277

Other infantry bodies. 272

Otterbacher, H. C., 662


Park, Charles F., 931

Park, Elah, 135

Park, William C., 932

Parsch, Christian, 582

Parsch, John C., 583

Parsons, Charles C., 242

Parsons, John G., 989

Parsons, Judge, 57

Parsons, Zavalah R., 813

Part of Plant of National Tube Company (view), 319

Paterson, John, 1023

Payton, Archie C., 896

Peabody, Otis E., 1026

Pease, Seth, 62

Pelton, Floyd M., 968

Penfield, Peter, 118

Penfield, Truman, 118

Penfield township organized, 73, 119; first settlers, 118; named, 118; first school, 176

Penney, Fred J., 688

Peoples Banking Company, 504

Permanent settlers, 90

Perry Centennial, 165

Perry-Fay Company, 415

Perry relics exhibited, 168

Peters Hall, 446

Peters Hall (view), 445

Phipps, Emma, 925

Phipps, Wesley B., 924

Pierce, Clarence E., 905

Pierce, Elisha M., 680

Pierce, Ernest L., 962

Pilgeruh, 80

Pilgrim's Rest, 80

Pioneers, 56, 91, 95, 108, 110, 119, 132, 135, 140, 149, 151, 157

Pioneer and veteran fishermen, 310

Pioneer frame house in Lagrange Township (view), 122

Pioneer land buyer, 57

Pioneer lawyers, 216

Pioneer schools and teachers, 173

Pioneer settlement, 74

Piqua Land District, 38

Pittsfield township settled, 100; drawn, 103; first permanent settlers, 103; organized, 73, 104

Plato, Albert A., 649

Planing mill and stove works, 312

Plant life, collectors of, 19

Plocher, Alvin J., 701

Pollock. John J.. 608

Pond, Chauncey N., 601

Pond, Norman M., 917

Population of the county, 1830-1910, 189

Portion of Elyria High School (view). 365

Pounds, Harry A., 753

Prehistoric remains, 22

Preparedness, 86

Presbyterians, 336


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Present County Jail (view), 71

Present-day courts, 205

Present school buildings, Lorain, 298

Present status of county education, 176

Prince, George C., 836

Progress of school laws to 1834, 172

Prosecuting attorneys previous to 1880, 212

Pryce, Samuel V., 827

Public education in the Western Reserve, 170

Public High School (view), 511

Public Lands, 36

Public Library Decorated for Home-Coming Week (view), 539


Quarries, 533


Railroads, 155, 283

Raisings, 109

Randall, Winthrop, 152

Ranshaw, George B., 796

Rath, Thomas, 694

Rathwell, Frank S., 892

Rawson, Charles B., 822

Rawson Faustina B., 685

Rawson, Samuel B., 684

Reamer, Chambers D., 1052

Redington, Eliphalet, 96

Redington, Harry M., 743

Redington, Horace G., 762

Reefy, Eva L., 841

Reefy, Frederick S., 839

Reefy, Karl P., 836

Reefy, Philip D., 834

Refugee Tract, 36, 45

Regimental history, 253, 255, 261, 264

Relics of French adventures, 130

Republican Printing Company, The 1033

Resek, O. Adolphus, 880 "Reporter," 554

Retrospect of the earlier bar, 225

Rice Memorial Hall, 446

Rice Memorial Hall (view), 447

Rice, Robert H., 764 Richey, Francis O., 751

Richmond, Elmer A., 958 Ridgeville, 8

Ridgeville, pioneer settlers of, 91

Ridgeville township organized, 73, 93

River and harbor Improvements, 323

Rochester township organized, 73, 124

first settlement, 124

Rochester, 124

Roe, William E., 799

Rogers, E. B., 895

Rogers, George, 35

Rogers, Pliny H., 833

Ross, James, 115

Root, Aaron, 150

Root, Ephraim, 115

Root, Lyman, 92

Root, Orville, 567

Root, William H., 150

Rosecrans, Edgar F., 1056

Ruggles, Almon, 64

Russia township organized, 73, 113;

first school , 114; incorporated, 114;

settlement of, 111; schools, 175

Rust, Albert F., 831

Rust, Bonnie E., 832

Rust Methodist Episcopal Church, 471


St. Agnes Catholic Church, 390

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 383

St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, 53

Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, 346

St. David's Episcopal Church, 343

St. John's Evangelical Church, 341

St. John's German Lutheran Church, 390

St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Amherst, 550

St. Joseph's Catholic church, Lorain, 550

St. Joseph's Hospital, 358

St. Ladislaus Catholic Magyar Church, 345

St. Mary's Catholic Church, ,Elyria, 383

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lorain, 340

St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Amherst, 550

St. Paul's United Evangelical Church, 391

St. Peter's Evangelical Church, Amherst, 549

St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Sheffield, 159

Salem Church (Evangelical Association), Amherst, 551

Sampsell, Joel V. 767

Sampsell, Paul W., 795

Sanford, Frank A., 690

Savage, Charles H., 731

Savings Bank Company, 504

Savings Deposit Bank, 418

Scene in Cascade Park, Elyria (view), 9

Schaffeld, John T., 593

Schaible, Charles, 874

Schaible, John 874

Schibley, Jacob H., 997

Schibley, W. H., 965

School Lands, 46

School elections, 296

School statistics, 297

School population, Lorain, 297

Schools, 173, 494, 511, 536

Schools founded in 1810-20, 174

Schwartz, Frank E., 862

Schwarz, Charles C., 882

Second Baptist Church, 346

Second Congregational Church, Lorain, 342

Second Congregational Church, Elyria, 382


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Second Congregational Church, Oberlin, 465

Second Methodist Episcopal churches, 346

Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, 274

Seher, William, 704

Settlements from 1807 to 1812, 85

Seward, Dennis W., 607

Seward, James B., 682

Shaking Hands Over the Interstate Boundary (view), 51

Sharp, William G., 807

Shaw, Stanley G., 616

Sheffield Centennial, 139, 160

Sheffield, Joseph G., 1034

Sheffield Land Company, 314

Sheffield township organized, 73; settled, 100; pioneers, 102; first township after county organization, 102; celebration, 139; first colonists, 140; pioneer families, 141; churches, 143, 156, 159; first events, 144; organization, 144; decease of pioneers, 145; historic contributions, 146; industries, 147; in the Civil war, 152; first railroad, 154; history, 1865-1915, 154; deaths of 1815-16 pioneers, 157; industrial matters, 157; famous natives, 158


Sheldon, Lionel A., 211

Shelley, James H., 1044

Sherman, C. E., 51

Shipbuilders, 151

Ship-building, 305, 320

Shrubs, 16

Shupe, Jacob, 97

Silic, William C., 823

Simonson, George, 970

Sisterhood of Lorain, 355

Six Nations, 27

Slab Hall (view), 427

Smalley, Charles W., 785

Smith, Burdette S., 876

Smith, C. D. 817

Smith, Charles W., 863

Smith, Frank A., 789

Smith, F. A. & Brother, Company, 790

Smith, Henry F., 647

Smith, James, 75, 128

Smith, James C., 860

Smith, Laertes B., 212, 675

Smith travels, 128

Smith, Will M., 790

Smythe, F. A., 1050

Smythe, John J., 691

Snow, Clemon H., 686

Snyder, George N., 971

Social Settlement School, Elyria, 366

Soils, 8

Soldiers, 153, 247

Sorosis Club, 355

South Amherst Churches, 545

South Lorain, founding of, 314; of today, 316

Spafford, Amos, 64

Spear Zoological Laboratory, 444

Spencer Band, 163

Spencer, Calvin, 118

Sperry, E. E., 686

Spiegelberg, William H., 955

Sponseller, F. M., 1038

Squatters, 35

Squirrel hunters, 252

Stage era, 282

Stankard, Edward J., 612

Starr, Justus M., 913

State Line Monument, 50

Status of Lorain County Highways (map), 287

Steel plant, 155

Steel shipbuilding, 320

Steele, Elizabeth K., 300

Steele, John, 135

Steele, John W., 212

Stetson, Frank A., 774

Stetson, Rinaldo R., 772

Steubenville Land District, 39

Stevens, Frank M., 751

Stewart, Samuel L., 677

Stickney, Albin, 136

Stiwald, A. E., 980

Stone Carvings by Water (view), 9

Stone, Lucy, 240

Stolzenburg, Henry, 810

Stolzenburg, William, 794

Storrs, Lemuel, 121

Straus, August, 809

Street, Titus, 111

Streeter, S. M., 957

Strenick, James F., 883

Strickland, Earl J., 761

Strut Street School, Brownhelm, 174

Sturges Hall, 444

Summers, Charles R., 595

Surplus Lands, 64

Surveys of western lands, 52

Sutliff, Blanche, 897

Sutliff, George M., 897

Sweet, Waterman, 135

Symmes, John Cleves, 53

Symmes Purchase, 36, 45


Talcott Hall, 453

Tank family, 482

Tank Home for Missionary Children, 476

Tank Home for Missionary Children (view), 473

Tappan Hall (view), 429

Taylor, A. Eugene, 591

Teachers' Institutes, 173

Telephone service, 331

Terrell, Ichabod, 92

The Herrick Public Library (view), 514


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The Historic Elm (view), 424

The "Niagara" raised, 166

The Old Hill and Baptist Church (view), 543

"The Post," 351

Thew Automatic Shovel Company, The, 318, 1048

Thew, Richard, 1057

Thomas, David, 706

Thomas, Glade B., 698

Thompson, William B., 723

Tiffany, Joel, 213

Tiffin Land District, 39

Tillotson, Albert Z., 670

Tod, George, 203

Topliff, John A., 615

Town Fair at Oberlin, 184

Townsend, Norton S., 228

Townships settled during the war, 100

Townships, organization of, 73

Transportation, 156

Trees, 13

"Tribune." Oberlin, 503

Trinity Baptist Church, 348

Troxel, David S., 560

Troxel Manufacturing Company, 414

Trumbull County (1800) recognized, 60

Tucker, Charles E., 700

Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, 276

Twentieth Street Methodist Church, 341

Twining, W. T., 986

Two noted president judges, 203


Unique bog, A, 18

United Brethren Church, 342

United Military Lands, 36

United States Military Lands, 42


Vandemark, Roy F., 763

View on Broad Street, Elyria (view), 370

Village of Elyria founded, 104

Vincent, John M., 215

Virginia Military Lands, 36, 42


W. N. Gates Hospital, 394

Wadsworth, Leon H., 1045

Walker, Russell, 156

Wallace, Timothy, 141

Walton, Elizabeth, 673

Walton, George. P., 672

Walton Ice Company, 672

War scare of 1812, 86

Ward, C. W., 683

Ward, F. D., 163

Ward, Robert C., 830

Warner and Sturges Halls, 444

Warner Gymnasium, 448

Warner Hall (view). 443

Warren, Frank D., 981

Warren, W. D., 905

Washburn, Clarence G., 227, 653

Washburn, George G., 407, 569

Washington County (1796) claimed jurisdiction in

Western Reserve, 58

Watters, E. E., 904

Watts, Walter H., 927

Wayne County in 1796, 59

Webber, Amos R., 641

Webber, Lawrence H., 642

Webster, Edward F., 977

"Weekly News," 554

Weidmann, Jacob, 936

Weller, George L., 670

Welles, Woolsey, 204

Wellington, 116; first school, 175; how named, 510; schools, 511; incorporated, 512; public improvements, 512; waterworks, 512; churches, 516; newspapers, 526; banks, 527; fraternities, 528; old-time dairy interests, 528; as it is, 530


"Wellington Enterprise," 526

Wellington Public Library, 980

Wellington township organized, 73; original owners and settlers, 114; first family, 115; organized, 116


Wells, Addison, 842

Wesbecher, Joseph, 882

West, Anson O., 875

West, Edward H., 967

Western Automatic Machine Screw Company, 412

Western lands, 52

Western lands surveyed, 63

Western Reserve in 1829, 40; how sold, 55; acreage of, 57; civil complication, 60; trustees of, 66; school fund, 172


Western Reserve Historical Society, 58

Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, 487

When the railroad came, 284

Whitney, Frank S., 1006

Whitney, Mark A., 678

Whitney, Otis J., 991

Whitney, Terry C., 983

Whitney, William, 712

Whiton, Ebenezer, 73

Whittlesey, Charles, 238

Wilcox, Calvin, 609

Wilcox, Harvey C., 611

Wilcox, Hubbard A., 610

Wild flowers, 17

Williams, David A., 1018

Williams, Larkin, 136

Williams, Perry S., 1033

Williams, Salonas A., 1010

Williams, Seward H., 1043

Williams, William T., 960

Willis, Frank B., 51

Willys-Overland Company, 413

Wilson, Charles E., 668

Wilson, George H., 866

Winckles, Carey T., 814

Winckles, Harvey T., 791

Winckles, Thomas T., 663

Wiseman, George R., 963

Wolf, Frederick C., 907


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Wolf, Ida, 908

Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 354

Women's Dormitories, Oberlin College, 451

Women's Gymnasium, Oberlin College, 448

Wood, H. B., 858

Wood, H. B., farm, 858

Wood, Marshall A., 859

Wood, Reuben, 204

Woodruff, Lewis, 152

Wooster Land District, 39

Worcester, Erwin, 624

Worcester, Perry G., 664

Worthington Company and Machine Parts Company, 415

Wright, G. Frederick, 1058

Wurmser, Henry 0., 666

Wurst, Henry W., 847

Wurst, Samuel E., 937


Young Men's Christian Association, 352, 397

Young Men's Christian Association Building (view), 397

Young, Nicholas, 101, 134


Zanesville Land District, 39

Zeisberger, David, 79, 84

Ziegler, Frank, 987

Zilch, Conrad, 977

Zimmerman, Lois A., 943

Zimmerman, Louis, 943