CHAPTER VI.

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TOLEDO'S START AND PROGRESS.

UNDER the treaty of Greenville, concluded August 3, 1795, 16 reservations of lands were made to the United States from the vast domain up to that time held by the Indians, and then confirmed to them. Of these reservations, was one of 12 miles square "at the British Fort on the Miami of the Lake at the Foot of the Rapids." The tract included the mouth of Swan Creek, and a portion of the present site of Toledo. Under an act of Congress, these lands were surveyed and sold at public auction in February, 1817, the sale taking place at Wooster, Ohio. Two companies of capitalists were organized for the purpose of buying lands at that sale. One of them known as the "Baum Company "-was composed of Martin Baum, Jesse Hunt, Jacob Burnet, Wm. C. Schenck, Wm. Barr, Wm. Oliver and Andrew Mack ; and the other, the "Piatt Company," consisted of John H. Piatt, Robert Piatt, Wm. M. Worthington and Gorham A. North. Both of these associations were represented at the Wooster sale-the former by Wm. Oliver and Wm. C. Schenck, and the latter by Robert Piatt. It was there found that both Companies were seeking to purchase the lands about the month of Swan Creek. In order to avoid competition in bidding, the two interests agreed to purchase in common tracts 1, 2, 3 and 4, in the United States Reserve at the foot of the Rapids of the Miami; and also Nos. 86 and 87, on the opposite side of the River, opposite the mouth of Swan Creek ; each Company to have one-half interest in the same, paying equally therefor. Nos. 86 and 87 were bid off by Oliver, and the certificate was issued in his name; the other tracts going to Piatt and his associates. The purchase amounted to 974 acres-200 at $75.50 per acre ; 201 at $20.75; 154 at $5.25; 181 at $2,75; 143 at $2.35 ; and 93, at $2.13; the average being $48.12 per acre. By the terms of the sale, a credit of 40 days was given on the first payment of 25 per cent.; the balance being payable in three equal annual amounts. Piatt also, for his Company, purchased the Northwest and Southwest Sections of Township 3 ; and the Northwest, Southwest and Southeast quarters of Section 3, same Township. Returning to Cincinnati, the Companies were united under the name of the Port Lawrence Company, which at once took steps for laying out a Town, to be called Port Lawrence, and appointed Baum as agent for that purpose, for the sale of lots, and for the general management of the property. August 14,1817, Baum appointed Oliver as his Attorney, to attend to the sale of lots, who, with Schenck, was authorized to lay out the Town. In Baum's letter of instruction to Oliver (August 14, 1817), he said, among other things

In running the Streets and the division of lots, it is not the wish of the proprietors that interest or convenience should be sacrificed to form ; that the growth of the place should be retarded by a useless adherence to any particular figure, or to any fanciful uniformity of squares.

The number of lots was to be from 300 to 500; and with the exception of water lots and fractionals, about 60x120 feet in size. " The principal or central Street should be at least 160 feet wide; others from 80 to 100; and Alleys 12 to 15 feet. Let there be three lots, each 120 feet square, set off for public uses, Churches, Schools, &c ; and one, 240 feet square, for Court-House and Jail. There should be one or two suitable lots out of the Town for burying grounds."

The plat laid out, a public sale of the lots was to be provided for, " which, if practicable, should correspond with the time of holding the treaty with the Indians," to be held at Fort Meigs, the month following. The agents proceeded to lay out the Town, when a sale was advertised, to take place September 20, 1817, on these terms

One-fourth down; the balance in three equal annual installments, with interest from date of purchase, if not promptly paid ; and if the whole amount of purchase money be not paid when the last installment becomes due, the lots purchased to revert to the proprietors of Port Lawrence. The undersigned reserve the right to one bid on each lot offered. Signed, W. C. Schenck, Wm. Oliver, Agents, and dated Miami Rapids, September 20, 1817.

At that sale 79 lots were sold, of which two (Nos. 223 and 224) were purchased by Oliver, on which, in connection with Baum, he subsequently erected a warehouse and made other improvements. The house was of logs, and was located near the mouth and on the North side of Swan Creek. The cash proceeds of the sales then made amounted to $855.33. Among the purchasers were Samuel H. Ewing, Aurora

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Spafford, Seneca Allen, John E. Hunt, Robert A. Forsyth, Almon Reed and Truman Reed, of "Maumee Rapids;" B. F. Stickney, of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Henry I. Hunt and Mary L. Hunt, of Detroit ; Moses Wilson, of Huron County, Ohio; and Austin E. Wing, of Monroe, Mich.

In a letter written in 1870 to David E. Merrill, Toledo, Benjamin Rathbun, then proprietor of the Broadway Hotel, New York, but formerly the most prominent business man of Buffalo, made reference to his knowledge of Toledo real estate. He said:

I was once where Toledo now is. It was in the Spring of 1817, while a portion of it was being surveyed for Village lots. I then took up the first lot ever sold in Toledo as a Village lot. The title of the Company failing for non-payment of their purchase, of course, I lost my lot. I have never been at Toledo since I left in August, 1818. At that time there was not a dwelling house there. A man by the name of Henderson built a log and stone house on the bank and partly over the water, just below the mouth of what was then known as Swan Creek ; and there was a French cabin on the "flats," near Swan Creek, for the Indians to get rum in. These were all the buildings Toledo could boast of in 1818. My own family (consisting of Mrs. Rathbun and one son), and Major Feeler's family, occupied Henderson's log and stone warehouse while we were there.

From this it would appear that Mr. Rathbun made Port Lawrence his home from the Spring of 1817, until August, 1818. Most of the purchasers of lots afterwards compromised their claims against the proprietors. Mr. Wing, as elsewhere shown, took a lot in the second Port Lawrence (1833).

When the second payment became due to the Government in 1818, the Port Lawrence Company defaulted, and thus practically surrendered the entire property, with improvements made. In 1821, the Government meantime having reduced the price of its lands from $2.00 on time payments, to $1.25 cash down, the Port Lawrence Company, unable or indisposed to pay a balance of some $20,000 for tracts 1 and 2, asked Congress to take the same back, and apply the payments already made to the full payment of the other tracts purchased by them and the Baum and Piatt Companies, respectively. With this view, the several interests in all the lands then purchased were assigned to Baum, who appointed Williams as his agent. September 27,1821, authority therefor having been granted by Congress, Williams relinquished tracts 1 and 2, on which $4,817.55 had been paid. Of this sum $1,372.34 was applied as full payment for tracts 3, 4, 86 and 87, leaving $3,445.21. Of this, one-half belonged to the Piatt Company, and $1,248 having been applied to relieve its five quarter sections, the Piatt Company still bad a balance of $474.60 as its due, but which was applied to the payment of lands of the Baum Company. In August, 1823, Oliver made out a claim against the Port Lawrence Company, amounting to $1,835.47, for money paid to former purchasers ($213.02), and services as Agent, which Baum approved, and as security, gave Oliver a mortgage on tracts 3, 4, 86 and 87, payable January 1, 1824. In October, 1825, Oliver proceeded in a Michigan Court to sell the property under this mortgage, and the same was sold, by order of Court, September 1, 1828, to Oliver, for $618.56. Meantime, three of the five quarter-sections belonging to the Piatt Company had been sold by order of Court, at Oliver's instance, Charles Noble being the purchaser, at $241.60, who soon thereafter conveyed the property to Oliver. Thus Oliver came into possession of tracts 3, 4, 86 and 87, and three quarter- sections of the lands. In December, 1828, Baum, without consultation with his associates, transferred to Oliver the Government certificates of tracts 3, 4, 86 and 87. May 20, 1826, Congress authorized the selection of a certain amount of lands for the benefit; of the University of Michigan, when Sections 1 and 2, relinquished by the Port Lawrence Company, were selected. Whereupon, Oliver, acting as the Agent of that Company, proposed that said tracts be exchanged by the University for a portion of the lands to which he had obtained title through Baum and the Michigan Court. Such arrangement having been made, Congress authorized the exchange, when Oliver took the title to tracts 1 and 2 in his own name. This done, Baum and Williams each obtained one third interest in tracts 1, 2, 86 and 87 ; and upon Baum's death (1832), Oliver purchased his interest of the heirs; and subsequently sold portions of other tracts to Prentice and Tromley. Afterwards, Oliver purchased of the University the tracts conveyed in exchange for 1 and 2.

PORT LAWRENCE RESURRECTED.

These arrangements consummated, steps were taken toward the resurrection of the Town of Port Lawrence. A new plat was prepared, of which record was made in Monroe County, Michigan, as follows:

THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN,

COUNTY OF MONROE.

Before me, the subscriber, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe, aforesaid, personally appeared Stephen B. Comstock, authorized agent of Win. Oliver, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who in behalf of the said Oliver, acknowledged the within to be a correct plat and description of all lots numbered in numerical order, which are intended for sale in the Town plat of Port Lawrence, in the County of Monroe, aforesaid, and of the public grounds intended to be given for the uses and purposes therein expressed, in said Town, in conformity to the act entitled, " An act to provide for the recording of Town plats and for other purposes," approved April 12, 1827.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Port Lawrence, on the 20th day of December, A. D. 1832.

JOHN BALDWIN, Justice of the Peace.

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As seen, the initial of Toledo was made about the mouth of Swan Creek, and in extent covered the territory, East and West, from Jefferson to Washington Street ; and North and South, from what is now Superior Street to the River-Erie then occupying the place of what is Summit, Ontario that of St. Clair, and Huron that of Superior; Water Street having been subsequently made by filling along the River.

The first sale was made July 13, 1833, being lot No. 11 (Gower's map), 40 feet, North side Summit street, near Monroe, and next to corner. The price was $25, and the purchaser John Baldwin, afterwards a leading merchant and one of the first Associate Judges of the County. The sale was for cash down, and was among very few sales made on such terms. In several instances, sales were conditioned that improvements, by the erection of buildings, should be made by the purchasers. Thus, one was to erect " a good building, 18x24 feet, to be painted;" another " a good two-story house;" and another " two good houses, and paint white." S. B. Comstock acted as Agent of the proprietors from July, 1833, to July, 1834; and Andrew Palmer from July, 1834, to July, 1836, when the property was divided among the several owners. The following list of the first sales, with dates, prices and names of purchasers, will show who first indicated their confidence in the then future of that portion of Toledo :

John Baldwin, July, 1833, lot 11; $25.

Philo Bennett, February, 1834, lots 17, 18, 23, 24; $250.

Coleman I. Keeler, February, 1834, lots 33, 34, 40; $50.

John Baldwin, same date, lot 8 : $200.

Abram Ritter, same date, lot 46; $125.

George Bennett, same date, lots 22, 51; $75.

Henry W. Goettell, April, 1834, 1/2 of lot 12; $100.

Augustus Burdenois, same date, lots 67, 68, 272; $250.

W. J. Daniels, May, 1834, 6 feet of lot 10; $25.

C. I. Keeler, June, 1834, lot 40 and 20 feet of 42; $200.

Wm. Fossey, June, 1834, lots 278, 279; $200.

W. J. Daniels & Co., June, 1834, lots 88, 89 and 406, 407; $70.

W. J. Daniels, June, 1834, lot 19; $50.

Platt Card, June, 1834, lots 127, 129, 140, 16, 27, 28, 210, 242, 267, 146, 147, 77, 164, 233, 290, 274, 292, 21; $8,100.

G. W. Rhodes, June, 1834, lot 43; $100.

William Ritter, June, 1834, lot 222; $25.

Calvin Comstock, June, 1834. lots 83,84; $200.

Richard Foster, June, 1834, lot 273 ; $30.

George Simpson, June, 1834, lots 81, 82; $50.

Job Brandet, July, 1834, lots 412, 413, 414 (120 feet above and adjoining Madison Street); $2,400.

T. & S. Darlington, July, 1834, lots 219, 226, 329; $3,000.

Platt Card, July, 1834, lot 334; $100.

Michael Conner, July, 1834, lot 230; $150.

Austin Wing,* July, 1834, lot 45; $-.

Platt & Miller, July, 1834, lot 4 ; $100.

Levi S. Humphrey, July, 1834, lot 3 ; $50.

Ed. Bissell, July, 1834, lot 117; $200.

David B. Mooney, June, 1835, lots 35, 36; $600.

C. I. Keeler, June, 1835, lots 37, 38, 39; $600.

James Rawles, June, 1835, lots 139, 130, 126, 124,

* Entry to this record : " Disposed of to Mr. Will by William Oliver, previous to any sale of undivided interest in the plat, as a compromise for an old claim to a lot which Wing purchased in 1817, the certificate being lost by Wing."

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122, Summit Street ; and 244, 266, 265, Monroe; $5,400. Stephen Thorne, June, 1835; lots 127, 129; $400.

Baxter Bowman, June, 1835, 50x120 feet. corner Washington and Swan Streets ; $300.

Jacob Clark and Philo Bennett, June, 1835; lots 151, 153, 141 ; $1,300.

Oliver Hartwell, June, 1835, lots 28, 140; $1,500.

Abijah Noyes, June, 1835, lots 53, 71 ; $600.

Philander Raymond, June, 1835, lots 135, 136; $1,000.

Daniel McBain, June, 1834, lot 7 ; $1,800.

For about two years the Port Lawrence property was managed as a whole for the proprietors, by an agent, S. B. Comstock and Andrew Palmer, successively, acting in that capacity. All sales prior to July 1, 1835, were made in that way. At that time the proprietors became satisfied that it would be better for them and for the Town if the property should be divided among them, that each might have his distinct interest to look after. To this end, a meeting of the owners was held at "the Village of Toledo," July 1-4, 1835, at which were present-Wm. Oliver, for himself' and for Micajah T. Williams, Philander Raymond and Chas. W. Lynde; Isaac S. Smith for himself and for John B. Macy, Hiram Pratt and Wm. F. Porter Taylor; and Edward Bissell, Andrew Palmer and Stephen B. Comstock for themselves, respectively. It was voted that Wm. Oliver, who then held the legal title to the land, be authorized, as soon as the Village of Toledo should be incorporated, to convey to the same Village lots 319 and 198, for Public School purposes. Lots 366 and 175 were set apart for the two Religious Societies, which should first complete houses of worship thereon. Land to the amount of 5 acres was voted for Cemetery purposes, not to be nearer than three-fourths of a mile to the mouth of Swan Creek. Lot 335 was voted to Mrs. Harriet Daniels, Wife of Munson H. Daniels, " as a complimentary present, on the occasion of hers being the first marriage at Toledo." Lot 215 was voted as a present to Mrs. Vance. Lots 163, 162, 119, 120, 121, 109, 110, and 111 were set apart for a Hotel, to be built by the joint proportionate contribution of the proprietors; the grading for the Hotel to be done by the proprietors of the same, who were to have a deed of the lots when they had expended $10,000, and to own the dock in front of the lots deeded. These lots are on the East side of Adams street, including the site of the Ketcham and Nearing Block (189-199 Summit), and extending same width to the River, Water street having since been made. The property was never used for the purpose named.

Lots equivalent to 2-16ths of the whole were assigned to S. B. Comstock, when the entire remaining property was divided into 16 parts of about equal value, and 16 tickets, corresponding to such numbers were placed in a hat, and Two Stickney, the second son of B. F. Stickney, took them out, one at a time, and delivered them to the parties in the following order : To Wm. Oliver, the first five tickets, he owning 5-16ths of the plat; M. T. Williams, four tickets; I. S. Smith, J. B. Macy, Hiram Pratt and W. F. P. Taylor, each one ticket; then Edward Bissell, Andrew Palmer, and the firm of Raymond & Lynde, each one ticket. The total appraised value of the allotments was then $42,265.50, averaging about $2,880 for each share. The division thus made, the first action then taken toward the improvement of their common property, consisted of a vote, that if Win. Oliver and Andrew Palmer will put into meadow, in a farming-like manner, the present, season, about 40 acres of the Company's land, now cleared near Darlington's Saw-mill [on Swan Creek near Huron street], they shall have possession and use of the same for farming purposes until March, 1840." Edward Bissell and Andrew Palmer were appointed a committee to prepare a plan for a Hotel, and Andrew Palmer was constituted the agent of the proprietors. At this same session (July 4th), it was resolved, " that, to promote the general prosperity of the Town, it is deemed expedient to subscribe to the stock of the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company ; and it is hereby agreed, that every proprietor shall take and pay for $1,000 of said stock for each 16th of the interest which he holds in the original plat of Port Lawrence, and that the stock so taken shall be received at par from S. B. Comstock, being part of the stock which he has already subscribed."

During the years 1833-36 many changes had taken place in the ownership of the Port Lawrence property, old proprietors going out and others coining in, until none of the original parties were left. Early in the latter year it was deemed best to close out the affairs of the Company by a division of its property then held in common. For this purpose a meeting was held May 17, 1836 -present, Edward Bissell and Isaac S. Smith, representing 30-64th of the property ; James Myers and W. P. Daniels, each representing 2-64ths ; S. B. Comstock, 6-64ths; Daniel Greenvault, 4-64ths ; Joshua R. Giddings and Richard Mott, 3-64ths ; and Ashbel Dart, 1-64th. Ed. Bissell and I. S. Smith, Committee, reported a plan for a Hotel on lots 119, 120 and 121, which was approved, and were authorized to proceed to the erection of the building (Northeast corner of Adams and Summit). They were also authorized to grade the Eastern half of Adams street, from the River to St. Clair street, in front of the Hotel lots, so that the surface of Summit street at the intersection of Adams shall be 23 feet above the level of the River; and that they construct a pier in front of the East half of' Adams and of the Hotel lots." W. P. Daniels, Richard Mott and S. B. Comstock were appointed a Committee to grade Summit street from the level of the Hay Scales in front of W. J. Dan-

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iels & Co.'s store, so that at its intersection with Jefferson street it shall be 22 feet above the level of the River, the street "from the Hay Scales to Jefferson to be horizontal," for which purpose subscriptions were to be obtained from individuals, the Port Lawrence proprietors to make good any deficiency in the cost. The same Committee were authorized to ¹¹ open and grade Monroe street at both ends, and to construct culverts or sewers in the same." ' It was understood, in fixing elevations, that "the Hay Scales were 10 feet above the River." The Hay Scales and Store referred to were located on the North side of Summit street, between Perry and Monroe, adjoining the Indiana House, which cornered with Perry. The contract for the grading was let to a man named Hall, an Irishman, who, with his employes, constituted the vanguard of the large number of the same nationality afterwards so intimately identified with like improvements in Toledo.

A meeting of the proprietors of Port Lawrence was held September 8-16, 1837; present, William Oliver. M. T. Williams, S. B. Comstock, Ashbel Dart, Richard Mott, Henry W. Hicks, I. S. Smith, W. F. P. Taylor, John Fitch, Ed. Bissell. Cemetery grounds were set apart on the North side of Wisconsin Street, commencing 410 feet West from 23d Street, along Wisconsin to the West line of Port Lawrence tract No. 1 ; thence North to the Northwest corner of said tract; thence East on said tract line to a point 410 feet West from the middle of 23d Street ; and thence South to the place of beginning. A Burying Ground was started on these premises and a few corpses interred there; but it was soon abandoned. Lots 484 and 4841 were given to the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company, for " the purposes of a Car House, &c., &c., conditioned that the same be not used for any other than the legitimate business of said Company ; and that said Company shall have the necessary fixtures and a track from the main track to said lots, through Depot Street, completed within 18 months." On these lots were constructed the Machine Shops and Engine House used by the Railroad for several years and until the removal of the headquarters of the Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad to Adrian. At this meeting appraisement was made of lots as designated on the map prepared by Robert Gower, in 1837. Some of the values, as thus fixed, were as follows Lot 465, corner of Madison and Huron, $600; lot 489, corner Cherry and Superior, $800; lot 713, Washington and 14th Street, $410; lot 744, Southeast corner Cherry and Erie, $180; lot 450, Madison and Erie, $600; lots 114,115, 116, Vine, between Water and Summit, $3,000 each.

The total amount of appraisement of 440 lots in the plat, in September, 1837, was $257,590, being an average of $585 per lot. At this time a second division was made by lot, of the property of the Company. It was then resolved "that it is expedient to complete the Hotel building," and that the plan be so modified as to bring the cost, in addition to materials on hand, within $10,000, work on the same to be commenced in the Spring of 1838. Provision was then for the first time made for improving the channel of the River opposite the Town, and also for dredging the bar at the mouth of Swan Creek, to secure a channel of the depth often feet. Benjamin S. Brown was appointed as agent of the proprietors

A complete list of owners of lots in Port Lawrence Division, prepared in 1836, contained the names of the following persons, the same being classified, to distinguish those purchasing lots, from the original owners: PurchasersJohn Baldwin, S. S. Humphrey, Daniel McBain, Wm. P. Daniels, W. J. Daniels & Co., Charles Noble, Platt Card, Philo Bennett, W. J. Daniels, George Bennett, Platt & Miller, Coleman I. Keeler, D. B. Mooney, G. W. Rhodes, A. E. Wing, A. Ritter, A. Noyes, J. Brandet, A. Bourdenois, G. Simpson, Calvin Comstock, J. Rawles, P. Raymond, J. Clark, Mrs. General Vance (donation), Mrs. Harriet Daniels (donation), T. & S. Darlington, W. Ritter and R. Foster. Proprietors-Wm. Oliver, M. T. Williams, S. B. Comstock, I. S. Smith, J. B. Macy, Ed. Bissell, Raymond & Lynde, Andrew Palmer, H. D. Mason, Hicks & Co., Dart & Mott, James Myers, Charles Butler, J. R. Giddings, Lot Clark, and C. W. Lynde.

In 1836, Robert Piatt filed his bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, against Oliver and his associates, praying for an injunction, a receiver, &c., in order that his legal rights to the property in question might be investigated and relief granted. In December, 1840, the District Court rendered a decision, which sustained Piatt's claim in behalf of the Piatt Company to an equal interest in the lands in question, and A. F. Perry, as Special Master Commissioner, was directed to examine and report what were the several interests. Subsequently, E. D. Mansfield was appointed for a like purpose. The final decision of the Court was, that Oliver and Williams held the legal title of. tracts 1 and 2, 86, 87 and 10 acres of tract 3, jointly for themselves and the other members of the Port Lawrence Company, as tenants in common, in the following proportions-dividing the whole into 2,832 parts-to wit: Alex. H. Ewing, 989.6 parts ; John Rowan, 496.6 parts; Robert Piatt, 219.5 parts; John G. Worthington, 219.5 parts; William Oliver 165.10 parts; M. T. Williams, 82.8 parts ; the heirs of William M. Worthington, 219.5 parts ; and the heirs of John H. Piatt, 439 parts. In addition to this, Oliver and Williams were required to make over to the parties named the same relative interests in lots 109, 110, 111, 119, 120, 121, 162 and 163, in Toledo, and other property interests, including

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debts due, &c., belonging to the Port Lawrence Company under the decree. Divers other details of the decree, not essential to an understanding of the general purport and effect of the same, are here omitted. Appeal was taken by Oliver and Williams to the United States Supreme Court, where, at the January term, 1845, the decision of the District Court was affirmed, with costs. This litigation in no wise affected any rights by purchase of property from the Port Lawrence Company ; but only the claims of the parties concerned in that Company. The suit was an important one, involving as it did the title to a large portion of the present City of Toledo.

VISTULA.

In 1832, becoming satisfied that the Port Lawrence enterprise would not soon be prosecuted with energy, Major Stickney withdrew from that interest and turned his attention toward a new movement, on the River below the Port Lawrence plat, and on lands owned by him. In October, of that year, he made a contract with Samuel Allen, of Lockport, New York, under which improvements were to be made, Allen to have one-half the land in consideration of specified expenditures to be made by him. Allen failing in his agreements, in January, 1833, Stickney made an arrangement with Otis Hathaway, also from Lockport, when a Town plat was laid out and named Vistula. About that time, Lewis Godard, of Detroit (father of Alonzo Godard), and formerly of Lockport, made a contract with Major Stickney for certain lots, he (Godard) to establish a store at the place. This he did, occupying for such purpose an old block-house built about 1817, by Wm. Wilson (afterward Judge), which had become unfit for use without material repairs, which were made by Philo Bennett, also from Lockport, who settled here, purchasing the tract on the East side of the River, adjoining what became the Yondota plat and now within the Sixth Ward, Toledo. The store was in charge of Sanford L. Collins, who bad been in Godard's employ at Detroit. These with other demonstrations of progress on the part of Vistula, were recognized by the few residents as calling for suitable expression of their appreciation. Accordingly, a grand ball was given in the old log Warehouse of the original Port Lawrence Company at the mouth of Swan Creek, that building furnishing the best accommodations for the purpose in the vicinity. It was occupied as a residence by John Baldwin and family, the upper portion being the ball-room of the neighborhood, attracting, by its accommodations, participants from Maumee, Perrysburg, the Bay Settlement and Monroe.

The contract of Stickney with Hathaway and Allen, did not secure much in the way of improvement, and Allen returned to Lockport, and not long thereafter came back with Edward Bissell, of that place, who entered into an arrangement with Major Stickney, similar to the one with Allen. Mr. Bissell went energetically at work-clearing off the plat of timber and brush, putting in clocking along the River, from Lagrange to Elm street, which was constructed on the ice of the stream, and awaited the weakening of the ice to settle to its place, which was done, but not as successfully as the projectors of the experiment had hoped.

Mr. Bissell at once gave life to Vistula, by the expenditure of large sums of money for new buildings, for roads, and other improvements necessary to the proper start of an ambitious Town. Settlers and purchasers of lots began to arrive, and the general prospect to brighten. The sale of lots began December 19, 1833, when lot 958 was sold to Erie Long, for $75. But few sales were made in Vistula until April, 1834, when these became more active, and continued so until the Fall of 1835, at which time the proprietors deemed it bast to close up the affairs of the Vistula Company and divide the remaining lots between them. For such purpose they met at Buffalo, October 2, 1835. There were present, B. F. Stickney, Edward Bissell, Isaac S. Smith, Hiram Pratt, W. F. P. Taylor, Robert Hicks and Henry W. Hicks. Full and satisfactory allotments were made to the several parties, according to interest. It was then agreed, that as soon as the Town of Toledo should be incorporated, lot 509, South side Huron, between Cherry and Walnut, and 789, South side Ontario between Lagrange and Elm, should be donated to the same for School purposes. They never were used for such purpose. Lot 580, North side Huron, between Chestnut and Elm, and 605, North side Huron between Locust and Walnut, to be presented to the first two religious Societies which should agree within a reasonable time to build houses of worship thereon, such houses to be of respectable dimensions and in such state of architecture as should meet the approbation of either two of the proprietors, B. F. Stickney, Edward Bissell and I. S. Smith; it being at the same time understood, that B. F. Stickney, from his personal property, would give to the Town lot 435, North side Superior, between Magnolia and Mulberry, for a Public School ; and lot 563, North side Huron, between Magnolia and Mulberry, for a Church.

A meeting of proprietors of undivided interests in Vistula, was held in July and September, 1837, when was presented a recapitulation of appraisement of such property, amounting to $388,880, which was divided by lot-B. F. Stickney taking 3-24ths; Hicks, Taylor and Pratt, 7-24ths ; and Ed. Bissell, 14-24ths. It was then decided to offer to the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company " a strip of land under water, on the South side of Water street, 50 feet wide, extending on a line

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parallel with Water Street, from Lynn to Cherry Street, for the purpose of erecting thereon a Passenger Car-House," the same to be erected by January 1, 1839.

The following list comprises all lots sold by the Vistula Company, previous to the allotment of the property among the original owners:

The larger part of the above sales were with the condition, that purchasers should make improvements on the property Within specified periods, being chiefly dwelling-houses, of various sizes, from 16x20 feet upwards. Some contracts were to " build in the course of the Summer," some "to build within a year;" some for" buildings;" some for" dwelling-houses;" some for " comfortable dwelling-houses;" some to " build within three months-brick." In some instances the amounts to be expended for buildings was stated, and these ranged from $100 to $3,000.

It appears that in the management of each of the rival Towns of Port Lawrence and Vistula, the proprietors had been compelled to expend considerable sums of money for incidental objects for common benefits. In the case of Port Lawrence the two leading objects seem to have been the provision of stage- and mail connections with the outside world, and the opening of roads to the surrounding country. The former of these was made specially important, from the fact that the mail-stage route then lay direct from Maumee City to Tremainesville, passing something like a mile and a half to the North and West of Port Law-

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rence, the route lying along what is now Detroit Avenue, and making that Town dependent for stage and mail accommodations on its more fortunate rival on Ten. Mile Creek-a humiliation as well as a business subordination, not easy to bear. In order to relieve such embarrassment, it was found to be necessary to subsidize the stage line, by compensation for the extra travel involved in the desired divergence to Toledo from the line between Maumee and Tremainesville. Such arrangement existed in 1835, 1836 and 1837, and resulted in an indebtedness by the proprietors of the Town to Willard J. Daniels & Co., through whom the plan was managed, in the sum of $1,943.38the entire expenditure for such purpose having been $4,122.35. Among other items in the Port Lawrence expenditure were the following

In 1832. Expended on Indiana Road, $170.

1833. On survey of Indiana Road, $30; labor on same, $24.

1834. Account of Toledo Gazette (published in Vistula), $85.

The Vistula account contained the following

1833. Surveying Indiana Road, $60; engraved maps, $87.

1834. Staking channel in River, $33.75; Adrian Road, $500.

1835. Press and materials for Toledo Gazette (purchased in 1834),$954.96; rent of Gazette office, 6 months, $37.50; advances to sustain the Gazette, $509.25; for " taking statistical account of commerce and inhabitants," $52.13; "for clearing Town plat," $741.60 ; Ann Allen, for Locust trees, $10; for 548k rods turnpiking, $1,097.

1836. For paper for Gazette, $109.50.

1837. Reese & Converse, oil purchase of stages, &c., $678.17; Hopkins, Engineer of Sandusky and Toledo Railroad, for expenses of survey, $1,190.33.

The joint expenditure of the two Towns for stages was $4,123.35. The total Sandusky and Toledo Railroad account was $1,333.33, which was to be divided equally between -the Port Lawrence and Vistula proprietors "when the Road should be commenced "-a condition which never was reached. Beyond preliminary surveys, nothing was done toward the construction of such Railroad.

TOLEDO APPEARS.

The rivalry of the two adjacent Towns, soon convinced the proprietors of each that their interests and fortunes were too closely identified, as against the competition of neighboring enterprises, for their continued separate and antagonistic management ; when an arrangement for corporate connection was made under the common name of Toledo.*

*Mr. Andrew Palmer states, that at a conference held at the time of the consolidation of Port Lawrence and Vistula, the matter of the name for the united Towns was discussed, when James Irvine Browne suggested Toledo, and it was adopted. Many other names had been proposed.

LOCAL JEALOUSIES.

Human nature, as developed in local jealousies, was not wanting among the pioneers of the Maumee Valley, any more than elsewhere. The spirit of rivalry attends the settlement and improvement of neighboring Towns, no less than the progress of trade in the more advanced conditions of the same. The record of Port Lawrence, for the first 10 years of its questionable existence (1817 to 1827), would hardly be considered one to provoke the special jealousy of anybody. In fact, during the most of that period, the attempt to establish a Town where Toledo now stands, was so uncertain of results, that the few persons interested in the venture, were more concerned in the question of life or death, than in any rivalry with competing localities. And yet, there seems to have been, ill the eyes of at least one neighboring Town, enough in Port Lawrence to justify some degree of watchfulness as to its competition. This fact was shown during the Winter of 1821-22, when the matters of the Post Route and the location of the road between the Maumee River and Lower Sandusky (Fremont), as provided for by the Brownstown treaty, were under discussion. The points in the two cases are shown in the following letter of Dr. Horatio Conant, to United States Senator Brown

FORT MEIGS, 9th February, 1822.

DEAR Six : Feeling considerably interested in the measures proposed in Congress relative to this section of country, and not doubting your willingness to attend to any representations that might be communicated, I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you on those subjects.

I understand it is in contemplation to so alter the route of the great Eastern mail to Detroit, that it shall not pass this place, but go by Port Lawrence, nine miles below, on the Maumee River. Also, to establish a land office at the River Raisin, in Michigan, for the sale of lands in this vicinity. Also, to remove the port of entry to Port Lawrence. And, also, I presume, from a motion of Mr. Sibley, to open a road under the provisions of the Brownstown treaty, not from Sandusky [now Fremont] to Fort Meigs, according to the terms of said treaty, but from Sandusky to Port Lawrence.

I have been astonished at the fact *that one delegate from Michigan should be able to have the brain not only of a majority of Congress, but even of a considerable part of the Ohio Representatives ; but from the success attending his motions, I am obliged to admit the fact as true.

Port Lawrence has no claims to notice by Congress, much less to be honored by the proposed sacrifices. The River Raisin has no claim, in any shape, superior to Fort Meigs ; and in point of situation for a Md Office, or any other business, far inferior. It is within little more than thirty miles of the land office at Detroit. Fort Meigs is not within one hundred miles of any office, except that at Detroit, and is seventy-five miles from that.

Respecting Port Lawrence, there is not, nor has there been for years, nor is there likely to be, more than three English families, including all within three miles of the place; and whatever public business is done there, must be done by one man, who is already Indian Agent and Justice of the Peace for Michigan.*

* Reference is here made to Major B. F. Stickney.

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The distance proposed to be saved by altering the route of the mail, ought not to come in competition with the increased risk in crossing the Maumee River, which in that place is very wide, and open to the unbroken surges of Lake Erie. The same objection will lie with increased weight, against opening a military road to cross the River there. It might as well cross the mouth of the bay, or any other part of Lake Erie.

If there was any business done at the place, or was likely to be, I should not so much object to the Customs Collector's office being removed there; ; but at present I should esteem it ridiculous to entertain the idea.

I did not suppose it entirely necessary to make all the above statements to you, sir ; but it was difficult to say less, and say anything. You must pardon the apparent haste and carelessness with which this is written, as I have just returned from a week's absence and the mail is on the point of being closed.

Yours, very respectfully,

HORATIO CONANT.

HON. ETHAN A. BROWN, Senator in Congress.

The conditions indicated by the foregoing letter, so far from becoming less in antagonism, only became more intensified in bitterness, as time advanced. Appreciating the natural advantages of Toledo, when that point finally assumed definite position as a rival, its neighbors-Manhattan on the one side, and Maumee and Perrysburg on the other-seemed to make common cause against it, though to do so required an abeyance of mutual jealousies by no means moderate in degree. Thus it was, that Manhattan largely sympathized with the "Foot of the Rapids," as the two Towns up the River were called; while the latter made Manhattan the object of their special attention. Perrysburg and Maumee Steamboat Captains never saw Toledo, in passing, except under the optical pressure of traffic. Evidently, the experience of Port Lawrence and Vistula in fighting a common battle with the outside world, while inwardly consumed with the jealousy of bitter rivalry, had much to do with enforcing the corporate union of 1833. That step did not come too soon, since without it, both must have suffered indefinitely, if not disastrously, from obstacles presented by common rivals on the River.

An enthusiastic writer of the time, in May, 1836, set forth the unequaled natural advantages of the Maumee Valley, in terms like the following : "From Maine to Georgia, and from the Atlantic to Lake Erie, the eyes of the whole community have been turned towards the Maumee country." Describing the approach to this wonderful region by the River, the writer says

The first Town which meets the eye is Manhattan, now a thriving Village, with a population of several hundred, where, about six months ago, there was scarcely a house, if, indeed, there was one. Advancing up the River, the next place is Toledo, of which, as it is an old place, it is unnecessary to speak. Still further on, and about 10 miles from the mouth of the River, lies the Military Reserve. This is a plat of ground extending up and down the River about a mile and a quarter, and lying on both sides. This was selected many years ago by the Engineers of the War Department and reserved for military purposes. It is a beautiful situation, with a broad, deep channel in its front, a bold shore and banks of moderate elevation, and does credit to the sagacity of the officer who selected it. On the North side, the banks form a beautiful crescent, almost as if made by hands of art. When the eye is beholding the beautiful scenery which surrounds this site, and the mind is informed of the advantages of its location, the depth of water in its harbor (12 to 15 feet), almost to the shore, and sufficient to contain all the shipping which will probably sail on Lake Erie for 50 years to come ; and to all this is super added the fact, that immediately at the upper margin of this plat of ground, there is a rock-bar of solid limestone extending across the entire bed of the River ; we almost involuntarily exclaim, "Here, indeed, are the elements of a large Town." The United States Government would never consent to part with this portion of the public domain until this Spring. It was advertised and sold at auction at Bucyrus on the 4th of April last, and immense sums of money were on the spot for the purchase. An arrangement was effected between 19 gentlemen from different parts of the country, and the whole was bid off for their benefit and placed in the hands of Trustees. The proprietors selected five Directors, and resolved forthwith to lay out a Town, which they have named Marengo ; and it is expected early in June the sales will be opened by public auction, and from 300 to 500 lots disposed of in that way. It can scarcely admit of a doubt, that Marengo will in a few years become a large and densely populated City. There, it is believed, the Wabash Canal will terminate, as no good reason can be discovered for its extension further down the River ; and all the rich commerce of Western Ohio, the Wabash country, a large portion of Illinois, besides much on the Ohio River, must be poured out here, with all the surplus products of this proverbially luxuriant soil, seeking a Northern market. Good building stone can easily be procured, as the Rock Bar extends into the country on each side of the River. And in conclusion, permit me to say, that I hesitate not to predict. that at no distant day Marengo will be the largest Town in Western Ohio.

In this connection the following presentation of the superior claims of East Marengo, as the " future great City " of the Maumee Valley, will be pertinent, as another specimen of the rivalry then so rife between the many contending points. It was published in July, 1836. The writer sat out with the assumption that the Miami and Erie Canal (then not located at its Northern outlet) would not extend below Steamboat navigation, nor stop short of it, then saying:

Now, where is that point? By recent surveys it would seem that Delaware Flats is the first obstacle to ascending navigation. Opposite the Flats, and on the North side of the River, is Delaware Island, between which and the North shore is a channel 20 rods wide and not less than 10 feet deep, as marked on the charts, until you reach nearly the upper end of the Island, where a bar is formed of sand, over which there is not more than five feet of water. Opposite this point-that is, opposite Delaware Island, on the North shore-is the head of uninterrupted navigation ; and at this point precisely, is the City of East Marengo laid out. If this bar be removed, boats may ascend one and a half miles to Rocky Bar, opposite and below which is the old Fort Reservation, on which the City of Marengo is laid out. To ascend above the bar with the largest class of boats is, we

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believe, impossible, without cutting a channel through the rock. Will this be done? We think not. Below, except one small sand-bar (as above stated), all is clear to the Bay. As good, if not better ground, is here presented-for building, and everything is favorable to a termination here, or, at farthest, at the upper end of Delaware Island, where the last obstruction is passed. Should it terminate at either point the two Towns will be united in one City, as they are only separated by the lands of Marshall Key, Esq. (160 rods wide), who proposes to lay out the same into lots, and donate one-half of the same to the County of Lucas, on the condition that the County-seat be located thereon. This being considered worth $100,000, it will no doubt have the desired effect. Our opinion, then, is, that East Marengo is the precise spot where investments may be made with the surest prospect, for it is entirely at the head of uninterrupted Steamboat navigation. But if the channel be cleared, it will still be within the limits of the Great City of the West; for the entire distance from Rocky Bar to the Northern or lower side of East Marengo, is less than one and three-fourths miles on the River. If the Canal be unwisely taken below, immense water power will be created at or about Delaware Run ; and then, let it go where it may, it cannot be taken more than four or five miles from this point. There is, therefore, as we conceive, less risk and better prospect in making investments at this point than at any other on the River.

It will be sufficient here to add that Marengo and East Marengo, with Austerlitz, and other " Paper Towns " at the several " heads of navigation on the Maumee River," long since passed almost beyond memory, while others, and at the time named more advanced competitors, have met even greater disappointment because of greater expectations. Particulars of the " closing-out sale " of Marengo City are given elsewhere in this volume.

At Defiance, then in Williams County, a great sale of Village lots was advertised in 1837. In setting forth the peculiar advantages of the place, the advertisement said : " Unscathed by the ravages of the speculator, surrounded by the most fertile lands, Rivers, Roads and Canals concentrating here from every direction-Tiffin River from the North, the Auglaize from the East and West, the Maumee River and the Wabash and Erie Canal - Defiance is destined to become a great and flourishing Town." The proprietors of the Town were Curtis Holgate, H. G. Phillips and John Evans; and Wm. Seamans, Agent.

Providence was laid out in 1835, by Peter Manor. It lies at the head of the Rapids, and was the point from which General Wayne started for Fort Wayne.

Brunersburg was located on the Tiffin River, about a mile from its junction with the Maumee, opposite where the Wabash Canal locks into the latter. The Town was laid out in 1835, and in 1837 had 600 inhabitants, with six stores, three hotels, two mills and water power. It had obtained a charter for a Railroad to connect the Town with Hicksville, for which the stock was taken in August, 1837. The waters of the Tiffin River were supposed to be navigable, or readily to be made so, for a distance of 60 miles from that point. Brunersburg was then a candidate for the County-seat of Defiance County, and promised to become the principal commercial and manufacturing point between Fort Wayne and the Foot of the Rapids. In 1839 David Bruner and Henry Zeller, proprietors, had that portion of Brunersburg lying on the East side of the River vacated by the Court.

Waterville was laid out in 1832 by John Pray, proprietor, and several lots sold to actual settlers. In 1833 it contained half a dozen inferior houses, one store, one grist-mill, one saw-mill and one or two mechanics' shops. From that tine it grew more or less rapidly, and in 1837 had three or four stores, with good stocks of goods and large trade. The Town had the advantage of water power from the Maumee.

ADDITIONS TO TOLEDO.

As already shown, Toledo originally consisted of the united plats of Port Lawrence and Vistula. The geographical growth of the City, after the union of these, is shown by the following list of subsequent Additions, made at the dates given, to wit

Name of Addition. Date of Record.

Palmer's January, 1837.

Scott's September, 1837.

Mott's October, 1837.

Vistula November, 1837.

Oliver's November, 1837.

Sherman Page's July, 1844.

Ewing's October, 1845.

Stickney's June, 1848.

Johnson's March, 1851.

Stickney's (second) September, 1851.

Woodruff's April, 1852.

Collins's October, 1852.

Church's May, 1853.

Yondota November, 1853.

Ketcham's June, 1853.

Oakwood June, 1853.

Whittlesey's December, 1853.

Hall & Morris's June, 1854.

Williams's October, 1854.

Prentice's November, 1854.

Oliver's (second) December, 1854.

Segur's December, 1854.

Stickney's (third) January, 1855.

Hill's July, 1855.

Phillips's September, 1855.

Hunt's May, 1856.

Fitch's July. 1856.

Raymond's September, 1856.

Shaw's October, 1856.

Segur's (second) March and April, 1857.

Segur's (third) June, 1857.

H. B. Wellman's March, 1857.

Mason & Baker's August, 1857.

W. S. Williams's March, 1858.

Berry's June, 1859.

Scott's (second) June, 1859.

Shaw's (second) June, 1860.

Receiver's March, 1862.

Daniels's June, 1862.

Car Factory November, 1862.

Sprague's December, 1862.

Germania April, 1863.

Peck & Morris September, 1863.

380 - HISTORY OF TOLEDO AND LUCAS COUNTY.

Name of Addition. Date of Record.

Baker's September, 1863.

Myer's January, 1864.

Boody's July, 1864.

Wheeler's July, 1864.

Campbell's August, 1864.

Orchard November, 1864.

Railroad November, 1864.

Cornwall's May, 1865.

Grove May, 1865.

Monroe Street June, 1865.

Stocking's July, 1865.

Knower's August, 1865.

Raymer & Skidmore's September, 1865.

Weller's October, 1865.

Car Factory (second) November, 1865.

Gardner's December, 1865.

Dunlap's January, 1866..

Yondota (second) February, 1866.

Fassett's February, 1866.

Mott's (second) February, 1866.

Machen's February, 1866.

Braun's March, 1866.

Finch's November, 1866.

Cornwall's (second) December, 1866.

Allen's April, 1867.

Shaw & Wells's April, 1867.

Boody's (second) March, 1867.

Knower's (second) May, 1867.

Rowsey's May, 1867.

Lenk's May, 1867.

Danzev's June, 1867.

Yates's July, 1867.

Raffensperger & Miller's August, 1867.

Shaw & Frazer's September, 1867.

Raymer's October, 181J.

Kraus's December, 1867.

Hiett & Skidmore's January, 1868.

Bissell's March, 1868.

Texas May, 1868.

Hill's (second) May, 1868.

Shaw's Monroe Street May, 1868.

Barnet T. Scott's June, 1868.

Baker's July, 1868.

T. P. Brown's October, 1868.

Poe's November, 1868.

Hall's January, 1869.

Barker's February, 1869.

Daniels's April, 1869.

Spaulding's May, 1869.

Island June, 1869.

W. C. Daniels's August, 1869.

Raffensperger's August, 1869.

Huberich's September, 1869.

Thayer's January, 1870.

Swayne Place September, 1870.

Woodward's November, 1870.

Walbridge's April, 1871.

Lagrange Street April, 1871.

Nichols's May, 1871.

Backus's May, 1871.

Woodland June, 1871.

St. John's June, 1871.

Broadway June, 1871.

Monroe Street Suburban June, 1871.

North Toledo September, 1871.

Hannon's October, 1871.

Gleason's November, 1871.

Parkland November and December, 1871.

Foulkes's December, 1871.

Barker's December, 1871.

Central February, 1872.

Summit Level March, 1872.

Lee & Brown's July, 1872.

Gardner's (second) July, 1872.

Coghlin's October, 1872.

Scott's Air-Line Junction November, 1872.

Name of Addition. Date of Record.

Ellenboro November, 1872.

Spring Grove January, 1873.

Millard's March, 1873.

Howland's March, 1873.

Humboldt March, 1873.

Shepler's March, 1873.

Creek Side April, 1873.

Crim & Monett's Air-Line Junction April, 1873.

East and South April, 1873.

Miller's April, 1873.

Welles & Winter's East Broadway April, 1873.

Hiett's Air-Line Junction April, 1873.

Dorr Street May, 1873.

Swan Park June, 1873.

Weber's June, 1873.

Oakland June, 1873.

Potter's June, 1873.

D. S. Davis's June, 1873.

Osborn Place July, 1873.

Sinclair's July, 1873.

Howland's (second) July, 1873.

A. J. Brown's August, 1873.

Case's August, 1873.

Markscheffel's August, 1873.

Bell's Dorr Street September, 1873.

Monroe Street Triangle September, 1873.

Lane's September, 1873.

Power & Isherwood's September, 1873.

Auburndale October, 1873.

Brand's October, 1873.

Whiting's October, 1873.

Granger's November, 1873.

Owens's December, 1873.

Plymouth December, 1873.

Starr Avenue December, 1873.

East Side February, 1874.

Heston's March, 1874.

Parker & Rundell's March, 1874.

Vandercook's April, 1874.

Morris & Phillip's April, 1874.

Fifth Avenue April, 1874.

May Flower May, 1874.

Cottage Park May, 1874.

North Place May, 1874.

Franklin Avenue May, 1874.

King's May, 1874.

Lloyd's May, 1874.

Douglass's May, 1874.

Englewood June, 1874.

Brown's Hoag Street June, 1874.

Stickney Avenue June, 1874.

Seaman & Reed's June, 1874.

Toledo Heights June, 1874.

Baker, McDonald & Dana August, 1874.

Yeston's September, 1874.

Kelley's November, 1874.

Raffensperger, Kelley & Crim's November, 1874.

Raffensperger & Thayer's November, 1874.

Robinwood December, 1874.

Sylvan Park September, 1874.

Central Grove October, 1874.

Lane's October, 1874.

Tredwell Dale December, 1874.

Auburndale Extension December, 1874.

Cottage Grove Extension December, 1874.

West Toledo December, 1874.

Machen Place December, 1874.

Cherry Street Addition January, 1875.

Scottwood January, 1875.

Earl's January, 1875.

Page & Klemm's February, 1875.

Pettee's Subdivision February, 1875.

Fairview April, 1875.

Elmwood April, 1875.

Creek Side (second) May, 1875.

River Side May, 1875.

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Name of Addition. Date of Record.

Glendale May, 1875.

Sunnyside June, 1875.

Central Avenue Subdivision June, 1875.

Haves's June, 1875.

Clifton Park June, 1875.

Fassett's (third) June, 1875.

Detroit Avenue June, 1875.

Sloane, Ashley & Bassett's July, 1875.

Jordan & Hayes's July, 1875.

Ketcham's (second) August, 1875.

Ashland August, 1875.

B. T. Scott's (second) August, 1875.

Foulkes's (second) August, 1875.

Raymond's Subdivision September, 1875.

Bare's Subdivision September, 1875.

Home October, 1875.

Nessle & Pratt's October, 1875.

Wells & Bassett's (second) Yondota October, 1875.

Bean's Subdivision October, 1875.

Central Grove (second) October, 1875.

Morfoot's November, 1875.

Wright & Stebbins's December, 1875.

Gradolph,'s Subdivision Humboldt's Division, Fred. Gradolph et al., February 26, 1876. Subdivision Robinwood Addition, F. J. Scott et al.,

February 28, 1876.Extension of Rowsey's Addition, C. A. Rowsey, April 14, 1876.

Darst's Addition, Henry H. Darst, July 11, 1876.

Longview Addition, George W. Benedict et al., April 29, 1876.

Collingwood Cemetery, Phillips Farm, Washington Township, August 9,1876.

Everett Town plat, Brayton O. Everett, Aug. 22, 1876.

Extension of Robinwood Addition, W. H. Buckman,

A. E. Hood et al., September 28, 1876.

E. R. Collins's Addition, December 12, 1876.

Subdivision Lots 473, 609, 1007, Port Lawrence, February, 1877.

Bissell Farm Addition, W. A. Collins, June, 1876.

Norwood, Toledo, J. Edwin Conant et al., Aug. 1877.

Raror's Addition, Anthony Raror, August, 1877.

Prahl's Subdivision Berry's Addition, Charles Prahl, April, 1878.

Hausman and Mohr's Addition, John Hausman, W. H. Mohr, January, 1878.

Subdivision Central Grove Addition, W. T. Bickner et al., October, 1878.

Mallett's Subdivision, Benj. Mallett et al., Aug. 1879.

Church's Addition. R. W. Church, replatted 1879.

Johnson's Addition, C. M. Giddings, 1853.

Central Addition, East Toledo, James Raymer et al., December, 1880.

Swayne Place, N. H. Swayne, March, 1881.

Pilliod's Subdivision, Vistula, Francis Pilliod, August, 1881.

Whitney's Extension of Clifton Park, H. P. Whitney et al., May, 1882.

Knowles's Fourth Addition, John Knower, July,1882.

Robison and Larwell's Subdivision Bissell's Addition,

D. Robison, Jr. and J. C. Larwell. July, 1882.

Douglass and Stahl's Subdivision, George Douglass,

G. C. Stahl, W. H. Boyd, August, 1882.

Alsace Addition, V. H. Ketcham, August, 1882.

Hicks Street Addition, Maria Calkins, Sept., 1882.

E. D. Moore's Addition, Sarah H. Hicks, Zorah C. Moore, Ed. D. Moore, November, 1882.

Nicholas's Addition, Cora H. Nicholas, March, 1883.

Maddocks's Subdivision Woodruff's Subdivision, A. W. Maddocks, February, 1883.

Whipple's Subdivision, Julius D. Whipple, Mar.1883.

Calkins's Addition and Acklin's Addition, Thomas Calkins, John Cavanaugh et al., April, 1883. Warren Place, Charles Kent, March, 1883. Household Addition, V. H. Ketcham, March, 1883.

Indiana Avenue Addition, Wm. B. Taylor, Apr. 1883.

Corbusier's First Addition, Abner B. Cole, July, 1883.

Mertz's Addition, Catharine Mertz, August, 1883.

Peck's Addition, C. F. Peck et al., September, 1883.

Felt's Subdivision Williams's Subdivision, Sumner D. Felt, September, 1883.

Stebbins, Hall, Ford and Baldy's Replat of Clifton Park, October, 1883.

First Addition to Cottage Park, B. F. Griffin, Oct.'83.

E. D. Moore's 2d Addition, November, 1883.

Mill Addition, by Maumee Rolling Mill Company, East Toledo, December 12,1883.

Subdivision of lots 179 and 180, Daniels's Addition, March, 1884.

Extension of Railroad Addition, F. J. Scott, Feb. 29, 1884.

Extension of Germania Addition, W. W. Griffith and D. B. St. John, March 5, 1884.

Curtis's Addition, C. F. Curtis, March 19, 1884.

Virginia Street Addition, Mary Gibson, Mar. 25, 1884.

Indiana Avenue Addition, Wm. B. Taylor, Mar. 27, '84.

Subdivision of lot No. 867, Port Lawrence, Terrence J. McDonnell and Edward A. Moore, Mar. 24, 1884.

Block A, Mott's Third Addition, Richard Mott and Edward A. Moore, March 28, 1884.

Bancroft Street Addition, Wm. B. Taylor, June 5, '84.

Subdivision Lots 45 and 47, Humboldt's Addition Washington Township, Lenk Wine Co., May 28,'84.

Extension of Hall's Division, Harriet 0. Holmes and John J. Stone, June 14, 1884.

Poland's Addition, Patrick Poland, June 14, 1884.

Griffith's Addition, W. W. Griffith, July 7, 1884.

Boos's Addition, Matthias Boos, September 6, 1884.

Williams's Addition, H. N. Williams et al., Oct. 11, '84.

Vance Street Subdivision of Lot 829, N. H. Swayne, Jr. et al., October 21, 1884.

Subdivision of part of West half Northeast quarter Section 5 S., R. 8 East, Matthias Boos et al., November 17, 1884.

Wayne Street Addition John W. Hiett, Jan. 6, 1885.

Gibbs's Place, Stickney;s Third Addition. D.W. Gibbs and Sidney C. Gibbs, February 11, 1885. Auburndale Extension amended, F. J. Scott et al., February 21, 1885.

Subdivision Lots 315 and 316, Stickney's Addition, Calvin Barker, March 2, 1885.

W. W. Whitney's Addition, Willard W. Whitney, March 26, 1885.

Betts's Addition, Flavel S. White, May 22, 1885.

Campbell's Second Addition, James H. Campbell and J. W. Gloyd, .June 30, 1885.

Wasson's Subdivision, R. B. Wasson, June 25, 1885.

Buckland's Subdivision, Ralph P. Buckland, June 23, 1885.

Irving Place, John Fitch et al., July 28, 1885.

Subdivision Lots 89 and 10 Monroe Street Suburban Division, J. C. Lee et al., August 5, 1885.

Cherry Place, V. H. Ketcham, August 24, 1885.

McGrath's Subdivision, Thos. McGrath, Sept. 7, 1885.

John Henry's portion of Poland and Henry's Addition, September 11, 1885.

Stillman Brown's Addition, September 21, 1885.

Osborn Place, J. R. Osborn, September 25, 1885.

Boody's Third Addition, J. R. Osborn, Sept. 30, 1885.

Genevieve Addition, Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company, New York, September 30, 1885.

Potter's Addition, Nathaniel F. Potter et al., Oct. 26, '85.

North Scottwood Addition, Wm. B. Taylor, C. 0. Brigham, Lizzie Lewis, December 26, 1885. Warner and Sanderson's Subdivision, H. W. Warner, J. H. Sanderson, January 14, 1886.

Extension of Robinwood and Woodruff Avenues, Matthias Boos, Maria L. Wheeler et al., Feb. 9, '86.

Highland Park, David Robison, Jr., and J. W. Hiett, February 24, 1886.

Western Avenue Addition, E. D. Potter, Sr., April 15, 1886.

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Taylor's Subdivision, Stickney's Addition, William B. Taylor, Mary Ann Brown, May 28, 1886. Robison's Subdivision Extension Hall's Division, David Robison, Jr., July 27, 1886.

Subdivision Block 121, North Toledo, I. H. Detwiler, Cary D. Lindsay, May 28, 1886.

Washington Place, John J. Barker, April, 1886.

Subdivision Block No. 82, North Toledo, J. R. B. Ransom, September, 1886.

McCaskey's Addition, Robert McCaskey, May, 1886.

Elm Street Addition, Wm. Baker, September, 1886.

Subdivision Fractional Section 13, M. I. Lacey et al., December, 1886.

Earl's Addition, B. C. and J. F. Earl, January, 1887.

Eden Place, Robert Raitz et al., March, 1887.

Subdivision Block 7, Orchard's Addition, Justice H. Bowman, March, 1887.

East Broadway Addition, R. W. and G. S. Daniels, April, 1887.

Extension to McCaskey's Addition, Robert McCaskey, May, 1887.

Nebraska Avenue Addition, J. C. Clarke et al.,June, '87.

Franklin Place, Adam Burgert et al., July, 1887.

S. and D. A. Brown's Addition, July, 1887.

Auburndale Extension, F. J. Scott et al., Aug. 1887.

As will be seen. these Additions in number reach the extraordinary aggregate of 319, and range in dates from January, 1837, to August, 1887, a period of over 50 years. Divided into decennial periods, the numbers are as follows From 1837 to 1847, 7 Additions, of which 5 were in 1837 ; 1847 to 1857, 26 ; 1857 to 1867, 33 ; 1867 to 1877,153; 1877 to 1887, 100. It will be seen, that of the total 319 Additions to the City, which enterprising proprietors thus made, 153, one-half of the whole, were made during the ten years of 1867 and 1876, inclusive. That may justly be regarded as the a speculative era " of the City's history. The falling off in like extensions during the following decade (1877-87), may be accounted for by the fact, that the great business embarrassment, having its chief source in the financial panic of 1873, did not reach real estate until two or three years thereafter, and was not felt in its full force before 1877. Hence, the Additions to Toledo were in active increase until that year, when they largely ceased, and were not revived to any considerable extent until 1883, when they soon nearly regained their former activity.

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE.

The following list of early real estate sales in Port Lawrence Township and Toledo, will be of interest in this connection :

Martin Baum, of Cincinnati, to Bazil Tromley, of Port Lawrence, June, 1824, 30 acres for $100, in Tract 86, East side Maumee River.

Thos. Bishop to Budd Martin, July, 1825, 41 acres for $55.

Thos. Bishop to Eli Hubbard, of Detroit, 10 acres on Ten-Mile Creek, 1825, for $50.

Joseph Martin to Eben Burgess, 80 acres, May, 1825, for $300.

United States to John T. Baldwin, July 1, 1831, Lower Island, alias Grassy Point or Middle Ground, 79.11 acres, at $1.25 per acre; same was sold to Marquis Baldwin, October 21, 1832, for $150. This is now the site of the old Union Railroad depot and yards, between the River and the Bayou.

In May, 1831, Edward Bissell, then of Lockport, New York, sold to the United States Turtle Island, in Maumee Bay, then containing 6.68 acres; the price $300. The same was bought of the Government at public sale at Monroe, in July, 1827.

In August, 1834, Wm. Oliver leased for 5 years to John Baldwin the privilege of fishing in the Maumee River in front of tracts 86 and 87, Baldwin to pay all highway taxes of all lands of Oliver at and in the neighborhood of Port Lawrence.

Wm. McNabb to John Knaggs, 1835.

David Newcomer to John W. Tanner and Win. Laughlin, May, 1836, River lot 6.

Alex. Navarre to Willard Smith, April, 1836.

Joel C. Thurstin to Walter H. Lathrop, January, 1836, lot 314, Toledo, $660.

John A. Wells to Robert Hicks, April, 1836.

Cornelius G. Shaw to Lyman Wheeler, lot 45, Port Lawrence, February, 1836.

Andrew Palmer to February, Myers, of Schenectady, N. Y., November, 1836, undivided one-fourth part of 84.72 acres, lying on the Territorial Road and adjoining the plat of Port Lawrence, reserving a small strip from the Northeast corner, sold to J. V. D. Sutphen by Dexter Fisher ; and also reserving the burying-ground as cut off by the Territorial Road ; price, $10,000.

Christian Roop to John Knaggs, April, 1836, 80 acres in Section 9, and 80 acres in Section 10, Port Lawrence Township, for $5,000.

James Navarre to Platt Card, June, 1836.

John Bte. Roetel to John Vogelsangand Adolphus Kramer, July, 1836, 140.60 acres on Maumee Bay, Section 9, $330.

Lavina Stevens to Oliver Stevens, July, 1836, lot 84, St. Clair street, Port Lawrence, $2,000.

Wm. Oliver to Mrs. Harriet Daniels, nee Wright, August 8, 1835, lot 335 Port Lawrence Division, deeded " as a compliment by the proprietors, on the occasion of hers being the first marriage at Toledo." This lot is situated on the South side of Ontario street, half-way between Washington and Lafayette. Mrs. Daniels was the wife of Munson H. Daniels, and was the first School Teacher in Toledo. She was a niece of Governor Silas Wright, of New York.

Pierre M. Irving to Washington and Ebenezer Irving, in April, 1837, certain lots in Vistula Division, including 526, 527, 528, 653, 737, 738, 716, 783 and 784 ; price $15.000.

Henry W. Goettell to Munson H. Daniels, March, 1836.

Benjamin F. Wade, of Ashtabula, Ohio, to American Land Company, July, 1836, 8 acres in original lot 6 Port Lawrence, on Maumee River, with water privileges, for $1,836.

Joshua R. Giddings, of Ashtabula, to American Land Company, July, 1836,'8 acres, tract 5, 129 acres North side River, with water privileges, for $1,836.

Marquis Baldwin to E. D. Potter, March, 1836, a portion of Lower Island, Grassy Point or Middle Ground ; price $4,000.

E. D. Potter to Joel McCullum, June, 1836, same as above, for $5,000.

George M. Mills to John Berdan, September, 1836.

Ira C. Smith to J. G. Littlefield, September, 1836.

J. Baron Davis to C. I. Keeler, Jr., April, 1837.

B. F. Stickney to Lewis Godard and Elkanah Briggs, June, 1832.

Andrew Palmer to Isaac S. Smith and Henry W. Hicks, lots in Toledo, for $15,000; August, 1836.

Decius Wadsworth, Laura Wadsworth, Hiram N. and Daniel Wadsworth, to Marc. Anty. Vicat, Tract 83 Miami Reservation, November, 1836.

John Baldwin to John T., Tibbals and Marquis Baldwin, July, 1836.

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Columbus S. Marshal to C. E. Brintnall and John Jay Newcomb, April, 1837.

Wm. Bancroft to Samuel B. Scott and Warden N. Richardson, October, 1835.

Geo. Hall to Joseph Coghlin, August, 1837.

Daniel Murray to Dexter Fisher, June, 1836.

Platt Card to Russell C. Daniels, May, 1836.

Geo. W. Card to Nehemiah Allen, September, 1837.

B. F. Stickney to John Fassett, August, 1834.

In June, 1837, Coleman I. Keeler, of Toledo, leased to Geo. E. Pomeroy, Walter G. Green, Josiah Hulbert and Jeremiah C. Green, a farm at Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan.

Thomas Carr to John Jay Newcomb, December, 1837.

Richard Mott to Wm. R. Hoyt, April, 1838.

Henry W. Hicks, of New York, granted Power of Attorney to Richard Mott, Jr., November, 1837.

Richard Lambert, deed to W. H. Lewis, July, 1838.

J. R. Giddings to Matthew Burchard and J. L. Van Gordon, May, 1838.

Coleman I. Keeler to Josiah Chambers, June, 1838.

Edward Bissell to Benj. S. Brown, May, 1838.

In November, 1837, Elisha Whittlesey, as agent for the proprietors, deeded to the County of Lucas, Court-House Square, in Oliver's Addition to Toledo, consisting of a block 400 by 200 feet in size, bounded by Whittlesey, Court, Oliver and State Streets. The grant was made in consideration that County buildings should be erected and maintained thereon. The deed was assented to by Edson Newton, Edward Wade and John M. Clayton, co-owners of the property.

Joseph Comstock to Ansel Comstock, May, 1838.

Isaac W. and Roderick Comstock to Ansel Comstock, October, 1838.

Ira C. Smith to Ellis Parker, October, 1838.

John Van Blarcum to Samuel Bentley, May, 1838.

Elijah Porter to Austin A. Hill, September, 1837.

Austin A. Hill to Leander Hill, November, 1838.

Ann Leybourne to Anthony Leybourne, August, 1838.

Edward Bissell to Peter H. Shaw, November, 1838.

Lewis Benore to Win. Wilkison and Wm. Tavernor, Directors of School District No. 3, Port Lawrence, January, 1839; lease of site for School-House, then being erected, at $20 per year " so long as they might please to use it for a School-House."

Edward Bissell to Gabriel Manning, January, 1836.

Peter Cranker to Joseph Cranker, October, 1838.

Stickney & Bissell to Newton C. Wolcott, July, 1838.

Jonah Bush to Geo. B. Bush, August, 1838.

Treasurer Monroe County, Mich., to Alex. and D. Anderson and John W. Miller, lot 311, Port Lawrence, as delinquent for taxes in the amount of $1.05 for the year 1832; also to same parties, same date, 80 acres in Port Lawrence, for $1.50 delinquent taxes, for 1833.

Ansel Comstock to Barnard McMillan, May, 1839.

John Fitch to Julius Velnagel July, 1839.

Same to Aldrich A. Belknap, July, 1839.

Richard Mott to Philander Raymond, September, 1837.

Geo. Redding to Ira L. Clark, September, 1839.

John Halpin to Timothy Tarsney, September, 1839.

Clement H. Thompson to Benj. Mallett, Jr., November, 1839.

Daniel Webster, of Boston, Mass., to Richard M. Blatchford and Samuel B. Ruggles, of New York, May, 1839, 5 acres in Section 25, City of Toledo; $12,560. Mr. Webster bought the same property in February, 1837, of Cornelius Jones and Matthewson Eddy.

Edward Bissell to Junius Flagg, lots 405, 406 and 407, Vistula, July, 1840.

Julius Velnagel to Charles Mertz and G. Leisaer, lease of Brewery on lot 981, Vistula, on Michigan Street, between Walnut and Cherry, at the rental of $600. Now (1887) it is occupied by the Eagle Brewery of Lang & Son. On the same ground, are Philip Schmidt's Bottling Works.

Wm. Oliver to Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company, grant of right of way and timber and other materials on any lands of grantor " within the County of Monroe, Port Lawrence Township, Territory of Michigan."

Noah A. Whitney to Wm. Owen, April, 1840.

Edward Cadwell to Noah A. Whitney, August, 1840.

B. F. Stickney to City of Toledo, November, 1840, 8 acres, $1,600, for Cemetery purposes (now Forest Cemetery).

Richard Mott to Daniel Cushing, January, 1841.

Barnard McMillen to Daniel McBain, August, 1840.

Delavan D. Hawes to Abel W. Fairbanks, February, 1841.

Eli Bancroft to Simeon Parker, August, 1834.

City of Toledo to Wm. Hoskins, March, 1841.

Hamilton A. Carpenter to Geo. B. Way, May, 1840.

Jonah Huntley to Christopher Gunn, May, 1845.

Elijah Porter to Worden N. Richardson, December, 1837.

Charles Lynde to Samuel Stocking and Stephen Halsey, September, 1842.

David Shaw to Walter Titus, Jr., June, 1842.

John Fitch to Cynthia Eddy, September, 1842.

H. D. Mason to Fred. Prentice, June, 1842.

A. J. Comstock to V. H. Ketcham, October, 1842.

D. O. Morton to Valentine Wall, January, 1843.

John Goettell to Matthias Boos, March, 1843.

Francis W. Jennison to Charles V. Jennison, May, 1843.

Christopher Flynn to Patrick McCarty, May, 1843.

John Viers to Cyrus H. Coy, April, 1843,

Patrick McCarthy to Joseph K. Secor, July, 1843.

County Auditor to Samuel S. Ketcham, September, 1843.

Wm. Oliver to V. H. Ketcham, September, 1843.

City of Toledo to Chas. B. Phillips, March, 1843.

Wm. Oliver to Chas. M. Dorr, September, 1843.

Gideon Draper to Matthias Boos, July, 1843.

John Fassett to Elias Fassett, March, 1843.

C. W. Hill and H. G. Cozzens to School District No. 2, Toledo, November, 1843, School House site, 509 Vistula. On South side Huron street, midway between Cherry and Walnut.

James M. Comstock to Erastus Wilkinson, July, 1843.

County Auditor to Chas. A. Crane, January, 1843.

Myron H. Tilden to Daniel Corlett, January, 1844.

D. O. Morton to Joseph H. Wood, August, 1843.

Samuel A. Lawrence to Peter H. Shaw, April, 1844.

Myron H. Tilden to Benj. D. Tilden, October, 1844.

Joel Crane to Abram Scott, November, 1844.

John P. Lewis to Peter Lewis, April, 1833.

Coleman I. Keeler, Jr., to Timothy Tredwell, December, 1834.

Wm. Hoag to Russell Olds, February, 1835.

S. M. Young to Benj. Mallett, Jr., March, 1845.

Edward H. Jeffords to Sibbil E. Jeffords, June, 1845.

Wm. Sheldon to Anson Backus, September, 1845.

Wm. Consaul to Wm. H. Consaul, November, 1845.

John Fitch to Wm. Kraus, January, 1846.

Wm. Oliver to Thos. Ewing and Henry Stanbery, Lancaster, Ohio, lot 482 1/2 Port Lawrence.

Aaron D. Patchen, of Buffalo, N. Y., to John T.

Maher and Patrick Brogan, December, 1845.

Thos. C. Allen to Joseph K. Secor, June, 1846.

V. H. Ketcham to John Poag, December, 1845.

In November, 1845, Oliver's Division was re-surveyed and re-platted by Daniel S. Westcott, County Surveyor, for Elisha Whittlesey,

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in trust for the proprietors, Wm. Oliver, C. H. Williams (Administrator of estate of M. T. Williams), Ora H. Knapp, Wm. R. Morris and Erastus Cushing. The changes in lots and streets, in some instances, were material. The Public Square for County buildings in the former plat was again reserved for the same purpose, if wanted, Market Square in Oliver Street, 126 feet wide, extended from Williams to Clayton street. Lots 226 and 413 were reserved for School Houses. The plat extended from the Point (now Bridge Street) to the Wabash and Erie Canal, and from Swan Creek to the Bayou, and contained 521 lots.

Orlando Bushnell to Henry Wilcox, August, 1846.

John B. Vallee to Rev. Amedeus Rappe, September, 1847, for $300, lot 272, Port Lawrence Division of Toledo, on West side Huron street, near Washington.

Henry C. Blodgett to Wm. C. Blodgett, October, 1846.

Willard Trull to Salter Cleveland, April, 1847.

Amedeus Bappe to Maxime Fauteaux, lot 272,

Port Lawrence, September, 1847.

Thos. Card to H. G. Cozzens and Wm. H. Raymond, February, 1848.

Warren Corning to Daniel Swift, June, 1847.

Lot Clark to Lyman Wheeler, May, 1847.

Daniel McBain to Matthias Boos, August, 1847.

American Land Company to Ann Corlett, October, 1845.

Abigail Cheney to Thos. Southard, September, 1847.

Chas. Butler to Morgan L. Collins, Frank J. King and Matthew Brown, Jr., lease of lot 991, Vistula Division (Southeast corner Cherry and Water), with the warehouse then in process of construction thereon, for 5 years from October, 1847, at $1,000 per year rental.

C. B. Phillips to Joseph W. Brown, March, 1846.

Joseph K. Secor to Thomas C. Allen, March, 1846.

Peter Kinnan to John Poag, January, 1847.

Isaac Sears to James B. Sears, March, 1846.

Jessup W. Scott to Geo. W. and Wm. H. Scott, September, 1846.

R. C. Daniels to Matthew Johnson, lot 205, Port Lawrence Division, October, 1846.

James Myers to James Mott, Philadelphia, 359 acres in River Tract 6, United States Reserve,

November, 1845; price, $2,250.

John Fitch to Chauncey C. Keyser, March, 1846.

James Myers to John C. H. Montgomery, November, 1846.

J. W. Knaggs to Augustine U. J. Machen and Henry L. P. Machen (then of Cleveland), 100 acres in Section 6, now on Bancroft and Adams Streets, for $5,500, January, 1848.

Lot C. Clark to Ann C. Mott, January, 1848.

Sally C. Davidson to Stephen and John H. Whitaker, April, 1848.

A. E. Wing, S. S. Godfrey, H. Smith, and N. R. Haskell, Directors. of the Bank of River Raisin, at Monroe, Mich., assigned certain property of the Bank in Toledo, to Chas. Noble, Isaac R. Christiancy and other depositors and creditors of that Bank, in June, 1847.

Edward Haskell and Dudley G. Saltonstall to Henry Bennett, November, 1846.

Warren Corning to Austin B. Waite, February, 1846.

Samuel I. Keeler to Salmon H. Keeler, February, 1847.

Ezra B. Dodd to Roger W. Church, December, 1848.

Lucien B. Gunn to Gabriel Crane, December, 1848.

Fred. Prentice to Asa W. Maddocks, October, 1848.

John Fitch to Jacob Van Orden, February, 1849.

Richard Mott to Thomas Dunlap, Horace Saxton, and M. H. Tilden, Directors of School District No. -, Toledo, lot 581, Vistula Division (North side Huron, between Elm and Chestnut), for $250, April, 1849.

The Sheriff to Edward Bissell, Jr., May, 1849, lots in Vistula Division, as follows: No. 1,125, for $10; No. 1,133, for $20; 585, for $137; 586, for $227; 711, for $60; 712, for $75; 299, for $169; and 300, for $170; these prices being two-thirds of the appraised value of the property.

Charles Butler to Edward Bissell, Jr., lots 709, 710 and 1,135, Vistula, for $100 each, June, 1849.

In January, 1845, John Knaggs, in consideration of $250, deeded to John Baptiste Purcell, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ohio, 11.78 acres of land in Washington Township, and on Ten-Mile or Ottawa Creek, for the use of the Catholic Church of Toledo.

May, 1845, Henry W. Hicks deeded to Rev. Amedeus Rappe, for $2,000, lots 633 and 634, Vistula Division (corner of Cherry and Erie Streets), the grantee at that time being the Priest in charge of the Catholic Church in Toledo.

December, 1845, James W. Knaggs sold to Rev.. Amedeus Rappe, for $800, 42 acres of land in Washington Township, on the road leading to Toledo via Cherry street, the same having been purchased for the use of the Catholic Church in Toledo.

June, 1846, B. F. Stickney and Edward Bissell, for $200, deeded to Philip Hagenburg, Chas. H. Schaal, and Fred. H. Clausing, Trustees of the German Lutheran Reformed Church of Toledo, lot 580, Vistula Division, Toledo (North side Huron Street, between Elm and Chestnut).

December, 1847, J. W. Scott deeded to Rev. Amedeus Rappe, lot 1,431, Vistula Division (Southwest corner of Ontario and Beech Streets), for $100, the same being purchased for the use of the Catholic Church.

August 23, 1847, James Knaggs, for $1,290, deeded to Louise De Gonzaga (Superior), and Mary Pauline, 211 acres of land on Adams Street, which was designed for the use of a Catholic institution under the supervision of the authorities of that Church at Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, but was never used for such purpose.

OFFICERS OF TOLEDO CITY GOVERNMENT.

As already stated, the City of Toledo was incorporated by the State Legislature at the session of 1836-37. The first election of officers took place in the Spring following. Below will be found as full a list of officers of the City, as could be prepared for use here

1837.

Mayor-John Berdan.

City Clerk-George H. Rich.

Members of the City Council: Northeast Ward -Junius Flag, James S. Way, Elijah Porter. Southeast Ward-Geo. B. Way, S. B. Comstock, Samuel R. Bradley.

City Officers-J. Baron Davis, Treasurer; D. O. Morton, Attorney; Chas. McLean, Fire Engineer; A. G. Hibbard, Street Commissioner; Calvin Comstock, Marshal; Munson H. Daniels and Samuel Eddy, Assessors.

1838.

Mayor-John Berdan.

Clerk-Austin A. Hill (resigned), Chas. W. Hill (to fill vacancy).

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Councilmen-Ward 1. .Junius Flagg, Daniel Segur, Leander Hill; 2. Elijah Porter, Emery D. Potter, Chas. E. Brintnall; 3. S. B. Comstock, Chas. F. Abbott, Munson H. Daniels.

City Officers-S. B. Scott, Treasurer ; D. O. Morton, Attorney ; Naaman Goodsell, Civil Engineer ; Chas. McLean, Fire Engineer ; Ezra S. Dodd, Street Commissioner ; Calvin Comstock (resigned). and Daniel Segur, Wharfage Collector; Calvin Comstock, Marshal.

1839.

Mayor-Hezekiah D. Mason. Clerk-Charles W. Hill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. J. Hoisington (resigned), Ezra S. Dodd, Myron H. Tilden, Elisha H. Fassett ; 2. Ezra S. Dodo (resigned), S. B. Scott, Chas. E. Brintnall, L. S. Lownsbury; 3. Lyman Wheeler, C. F. Abbott, Richard Cooke.

City Officers-Horatio G. Cozzens, Treasurer ; D. O. Morton, Attorney ; Robert Jeffrey, Civil Engineer; C. E. Brintnall, Chief Engineer; Oliver W. Whitmore, Street Commissioner ; Daniel Segur, Wharfage Collector ; O. W. Whitmore, Marshal.

1840.

Mayor-Myron H. Tilden.

Clerk-Harvey S. Bradford (resigned), Edson Allen (to fill vacancy).

Councilmen-Ward 1. M. Bostwick, Samuel Eddy, J. A. Titus ; 2. S. Porter, C. G. Shaw, Chas. McLean ; 3. C. F. Abbott, C. I. Keeler, Lyman Wheeler.

City Officers-H. G. Cozzens, Treasurer; C. M. Dorr, Attorney; Samuel Eddy, Civil Engineer; Samuel Allen, Fire Engineer and Street Commissioner; Daniel Segur, Wharfage Collector; O. W. Whitmore, Marshal.

1841.

Mayor-Myron H. Tilden.

Clerk-Edson Allen.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. H. Raymond, Junius Flag, John N. Mount; 2. Edward Bissell, Worden N. Richardson, H. S. Bradford ; 3. Andrew Palmer, Joseph W. Turner, S. B. Comstock.

City Officers-H. G. Cozzens, Treasurer ; C. M. Dorr, Attorney; Samuel Eddy, Civil Engineer; Edward Bissell, Fire Engineer; Samuel Allen, Street Commissioner ; John Goettell, Wharfage Collector and Marshal.

1842.

Mayor-Myron H. Tilden.

Clerk-Edson Allen.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Junius Flagg, Leverett Bissell, John N. Mount ; 2. John Fitch, L. S. Lownsbury, Edward Bissell ; 3. David Crane, David Hall, Peter Palmer.

City Officers-John R. Bond, Treasurer ; C. M. Dorr, Attorney ; Lewis McL. Lambert, Civil Engineer ; David Crane, Fire Engineer ; Daniel Segur, Street Commissioner; Chas. L. Mattison, Wharfage Collector and Marshal.

1843.

Mayor-Myron H. Tilden (resigned upon election as President Judge of Common Pleas District); James Myers (for vacancy).

Clerk-Edson Allen.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Junius Flagg (resigned), H. D. Munson (for vacancy); B. P. Peekham, Owen Olmstead (resigned), Hiram Walbridge (for vacancy); 2. David Johnston, John P. Freeman, Ira L. Clark ; 3. Peter Palmer, Chas. G. Keeler, Henry W. Goettell.

City Officers-Robert W. Titus, treasurer ; C. W. Hill. Attorney ; Robert Jeffrey, Civil Engineer; Peter H. Shaw, Fire Engineer and street Commissioner ; Thomas D. Thomas, Wharfage Collector and Marshal.

1844.

Mayor-George B. Way.

Clerk - Samuel B. Scott.

Councilmen-Ward 1. B. P. Peckham (resigned), Mayor Brigham (for vacancy); H. D. Mason, C. W. Hill (resigned), Richard Mott (for vacancy); 2. Ira L. Clark. Manly Bostwick, Daniel McBain: 3. C. I. Keeler, James Myers, Levi G. Loomis.

City Officers-.John Kaufman, Treasurer ; Jedediah Hibbard. Attorney ; Robert Jeffrey, Civil Engineer ; Edward Avery, Fire Engineer; Daniel Segur, Street Commissioner ; Thos. D. Thomas, Wharfage Collector and Marshal.

1845.

Mayor -Richard Mott.

Clerk -Samuel B. Scott.

Councilmen-Ward 1. H. D. Mason, Win. H. Raymond (resigned), Mayor Brigham (for vacancy), C. I. Mattison; 2. Ira L. Clark, J. P. Freeman (resigned), C. W. Hill (for vacancy), Silas P. Halsey; 3. James Myers, Lyman Wheeler, Austin Willey.

City Officers-Chas. A. Crane, Treasurer ; U. O. Morton, Attorney; Robert Jeffrey, Civil Engineer; Gideon W. Weed, Fire Engineer; Jacob Clark, Street Commissioner; O. W. Whitmore, Wharfage Collector and Marshal.

1846.

Mayor-Richard Mott.

Clerk-Egbert B. Brown (resigned), Chas. I. Scott (for vacancy).

Councilmen-Ward 1. H. D. Mason, W. H. Raymond, C. I. Mattison; 2. Ira L. Clark (resigned), C. W. Hill (for vacancy); J. P. Freeman, S. P. Halsey; 3. James Myers, Lyman Wheeler, Austin Willey.

The City having been divided into four Wards, a special election was held November 24th, with the following result;

Mayor-Emery D. Potter.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Henry Bennett, B. P. Peckham, Daniel Segur ; 2. Truman C. Evarts, Matthew Johnson, Daniel Swift; 3. S. B. Scott, C. W. Hill, J. P. Freeman; 4. Ira L. Clark, Austin Willey, 0. W. Whitmore.

City Officers-C. A. Crane, Treasurer ; E. D. Potter, Attorney (resigned), C. W. Hill (for vacancy); Robert Jeffrey, Civil Engineer ; Israel Titus, Fire Engineer; J. R. Bond, Street Commissioner; B. P. Peckham, Harbor Master ; Henry U. Kingsbury, Marshal.

1847.

Mayor-Emery D. Potter.

Clerk-Geo. S. Gibbs (resigned), C. I. Scott (for vacancy).

Councilmen-Ward 1. Henry Bennett, Daniel Segur, M. H. Tilden (resigned), W. H. Raymond (for vacancy) ; 2. Win. Babcock, Manly Bostwick, C. M. Dorr; 3. James Myers, Daniel Swift, Lyman Wheeler; 4. Walter Woodward, Ira L. Clark, Austin B. Waite.

City Officers-Chas. R. Whiting. Treasurer; John Fitch, Attorney; W. H. Newton, Civil Engineer; C. W. Hill, Fire Engineer; Mayor Brigham, Street Commissioner; Dennison Steele, Harbor Master; H. D. Kingsbury, Marshal.

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1848.

Mayor-Emery D. Potter.

Clerk-Jerome Myers (resigned), B. W. Rouse (for vacancy).

Councilmen-Ward J. C. W. Hill, Thos. Dunlap, Jr., John Kaufman ; 2. D. O. Morton, P. H. Shaw, E. B. Brown ; 3. James Myers, Daniel Swift, Lyman Wheeler ; 4. Walter Woodward, Thos. D. Thomas (resigned), A. E. Willey (for vacancy), David B. Mooney.

City Officers-A. W. Fairbanks, Treasurer; D. O. Morton, Attorney ; Daniel L. Westcott, Civil Engineer; C. W. Hill, Fire Engineer; David Crane, Street Commissioner ; E. B. Brown, Harbor Master ; H. D. Kingsbury, Marshal.

1849.

Mayor -Daniel O. Morton.

Clerk-Levi S. Lownsbury.

Councilmen-Ward 1. H. D. Mason, Thos. Dunlap, Jr., Jacob Clark; 2. Chas. McLean, Wm. Baker (resigned), Henry Bennett (for vacancy), C. B. Phillips ; 3. Daniel Swift, Dennison Steele, Edward Haskell; 4. Andrew J. Field C. F. Abbott, A. B. Waite (resigned), 1. L. Clark (for vacancy).

City Officers - H. D. Kingsbury, Treasurer; Thos. Dunlap, Jr., Attorney; H. J. Vaughn, Civil Engineer ; C. W. Hill, Fire Engineer ; David Crane, Street Commissioner; Morgan L. Collins, Harbor Master ; Charles L. Mattison, Marshal.

1850.

Mayor-Caleb F. Abbott.

Clerk-Levi S. Lownsbury.

Councilmen-Ward 1. W. H. Raymond, Horace Saxton, D. 0. Morton ; 2. C. M. Dorr, Joel W. Kelsey, C. B. Phillips; 3. Willard J. Daniels, V. H. Ketcham, Lyman Wheeler; 4. Alex. Henderson, Cyrus Williams, W. H. Peabody (resigned) William Flynn (for vacancy).

City Officers-J. R Bond, Treasurer ; Edward Bissell, Attorney; Thos. Clark, Civil Engineer; T. W. Bradley, Fire Engineer ; T. D. Thomas, Street Commissioner; C. G. Keeler, Harbor Master; W. F. Pregizer, Marshal.

1851.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-Levi S. Lownsbury.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Jacob Clark, Edward Bissell, Jr., Timothy Tredwell ; 2. C. B. Phillips, Geo. Pendleton, A. J. Field; 3. John Fitch, John H. Whitaker, Lyman Wheeler (resigned), John Mulhany (for vacancy); 4. R. F. L. W Whittlesey, Willard W. Howe, Daniel Segur.

City Officers-J. R. Bond, Treasurer ; Edward Bissell, Attorney ; Thos. Clark, Civil Engineer ; V. H. Ketcham, Fire Engineer ; Joseph W. Brown. Street Commissioner ; A. Gilmore, Harbor Master ; Gid. W. Weed, Marshal.

1852.

Mayor-Daniel McBain, Egbert B. Brown, Ira L. Clark and M. Brigham.

Clerk Mavor Brigham.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Edward Bissell, Jacob Clark, E. S. Dodd ; 2. A. J. Field, C. W. Hill, Matt. Johnson; 3. John Mulhany, James Myers, John B. Murphy ; 4. Geo. Pendleton, Morrison R. Waite, R. F. L. Whittlesoy.

City Officers-J. R. Bond, Treasurer; John Fitch, Attorney ; C. C. Schenck, Civil Engineer ; E. B. Brown, Fire Engineer ; S. P. Halsey, Street Commissioner; Gid. W. Weed, Marshal.

1853.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-Henry A. Glidden.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Edward Bissell, Thomas Dunlap ; 2. Samuel R. Reed, S. B. Scott ; 3. James Myers, Lyman Wheeler; 4. Daniel Segur, Alex. Henderson.

City Officers-C. F. Abbott, Treasurer; John Fitch, Attorney (resigned), C.W. Hill (for vacancy) ; Chas. C. Schenck, Civil Engineer ; E. B. Brown, Fire Engineer; S. P. Halsey, Street Commissioner; Gid. W. Weed, Harbor Master and Marshal; Stephen J. Springer, Marshal (for vacancy).

1854.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-Henry A. Glidden.

Councilmen -Ward 1. Ed. Bissell, Henry Breed; 2 Thos. Dunlap, S. R. Reed ; 3. James Myers, John T. Maher ; 4. Daniel Segur, S. B. Scott.

City Officers-C. F. Abbott, Treasurer ; C. W. Hill, Attorney ; C. C. Schenck, Civil Engineer ; E. B. Brown, Fire Engineer ; Horace Thacher, Street Commissioner ; Barney Mahon, Harbor Master ; S. J. Springer, Marshal.

1855.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-Henry A. Glidden.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Thos. Dunlap, Two Stickney ; 2. S. R. Reed, S. B. Scott ; 3. John T. Maher, Lyman Wheeler; 4. Daniel Segur, Henry Breed.

City Officers-C. F. Abbott (died), Treasurer, R. W. Titus (for vacancy) ; Ira E. Lee, Attorney ; Francis M. Case, Civil Engineer (resigned), Charles D. Bishop (for vacancy) ; J. R. Bond, Fire Engineer ; John B. Marston, Street Commissioner; Calvin Herrick, Harbor Master ; S. J. Springer, Marshal.

1856.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk- Charles C. Schenck.

Councilmen-Ward 1. E. D. Potter, William H. Raymond ; 2. 1. N. Hathaway, S. B. Scott ; 3. James Myers, Truman H. Hoag; 4. John B. Murphy, Daniel Segur.

City Officers-J. R. Bond, Treasurer ; Ira E. Lee, Attorney ; C. D. Bishop, Civil Engineer ; E. B. Brown, Fire Engineer ; H. D. Hitchcock, Street Commissioner ; Calvin Herrick and Geo. S. Howe, Harbor Master; Barney Mahon, Marshal.

1857.

Mayor-Alexander B. Brownlee.

Clerk-Henry McHenry.

Councilmen-Ward 1. W. H. Raymond, C. W. Hill ; 2. S. B. Scott, I. N. Hathaway ; 3. Wm. W. Jones, James Myers ; 4. Daniel Segur, J. B. Murphy.

City Officers-J. R. Bond, Treasurer ; Henry I. Hitchcock, Civil Engineer (resigned), E. D. Mason (for vacancy) ; E. B. Brown, Fire Engineer ; Edward McLeary, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master; Stephen S. Kingsley, Marshal.

1858.

Mayor-Alexander B. Brownlee.

Clerk-Patrick J. Monahan.

Councilmen-Ward 1. C. W. Bill, W. H. Raymond ; 2. F. J. Klauser, Daniel Y. Howell ; 3. W.

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W. Jones, Elijah Dodd ; 4. J. B. Murphy, Daniel Segur.

City Officers-Chris. Woehler, Treasurer ; E. D. Potter, Attorney; E. D. Mason, Civil Engineer; Win. H. Ketcham, Fire Engineer (resigned), Chauney D. Woodruff (for vacancy); Ed. McLeary, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master; Michael Carney, Marshal.

1859.

Mayor-Alexander B. Brownlee.

Clerk-Patrick J. Monahan.

Councilmen-Ward 1. W. H. Raymond, C. W. Hill ; 2. F. J. Klauser, John Sinclair ; 3. Elijah Dodd, Dennis Coghlin; 4. Roger Murphy, H. A. Breed.

City Officers-Chris. Woehler, Treasurer ; Geo. R. Haynes, Solicitor ; E. D. Mason, Civil Engineer; C. D. Woodruff, Fire Engineer; Ed. McLeary, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master; Michael Carney, Marshal.

1860.

Mayor-Alexander B. Brownlee.

Clerk-Henry Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. C. W. Hill. David Smith; 2. John Sinclair. J. P. Freeman ; 3. Dennis Coghlin, James Myers ; 4. H. A. Breed, Daniel Segur.

City Officers-Chris. Woehler, Treasurer ; George R. Haynes, Solicitor ; E. D. Mason, Civil Engineer ; Robert H. Bell, Fire Engineer; Ed. McLeary, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master ; John W. Beecher, Marshal.

1861.

Mayor-A. B. Brownlee (resigned), Alex. H. Newcomb (for vacancy).

Clerk-Henry Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. C. W. Hill, David Smith ; 2. John Sinclair, J. P. Freeman ; 3. Dennis Coghlin, James Myers ; 4. H. A. Breed, Daniel Segur.

City Officers-Chris. Woehler, Treasurer; George R. Haynes, Solicitor ; E. D. Mason, Civil Engineer ; R. H. Bell Fire Engineer; Ed. McLeary, Street Commissioner ; B. B. Orcott, Harbor Master; J. W. Beecher, Marshal.

1862.

Mayor-Alexander H. Newcomb. Clerk-Henry Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. David Smith, Sanford W. Freeman ; 2. S. B. Scott, John Sinclair ; 3. J. H. Whitaker, Augustus Thomas ; 4. Frank J. Scott, J. B. Trembley ; 5. Fred. Witker, Michael Hayden; 6. L. C. Thatcher, George R. Crane.

City Officers-Henry Brand. Treasurer ; Thomas Dunlap, Solicitor ; F. N. Finney, Civil Engineer ; Andrew Schurtz, Fire Engineer ; Ed. McLeary, Street Commissioner; Calvin Herrick, Harbor Master; Elijah S. Hanks, Marshal.

1863.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr. Clerk-Henry Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. David Smith, S. W. Freeman; 2. Charles Pratt, S. B. Scott; 3. Aug. Thomas, J. H. Whitaker ; 4. John C. Klotz, M. Dooley ; 5. M. Hayden, Fred. Witker; 6. G. It. Crane, L. C. Thatcher.

City Officers-Thomas Dunlap, Solicitor ; F. N. Finney, Civil Engineer; Patrick Murray, Street Commissioner ; J. G. Nolen, Fire Engineer ; James Dority, Harbor Master ; Elijah S. Hanks, Marshal.

1864.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-S. B. Scott (resigned), Geo. W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. David Smith, S. W. Freeman ; 2. A. G. Clark, Charles Pratt ; 3. H. S. Walbridge, B. H. Hitchcock ; 4. J. T. Maher, J. C. Klotz; 5. Fred. Witker, AT. Hayden ; 6. L. C. Thatcher, Joseph Garner.

City Officers-Birdseye W. Rouse, Solicitor ; Jerome L. Stratton, Civil Engineer; Patrick H. Galloway, Fire Engineer ; Pat. Murray, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master ; John R. Bond, Marshal.

1865.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. David Smith, S. W. Freeman ; 2. A. G. Clark, Andrew Schurtz ; 3. H. S. Walbridge, B. H. Hitchcock ; 4..1. T. Maher. Valentine Braun; 5. Fred. Witker, Henry Brand ; 6. Ira K. Seaman, Alonzo Rogers.

City Officers-B. W. Rouse, Solicitor ; J. L. Stratton, Civil Engineer ; P. H. Galloway, Fire Engineer; Pat. Murray, Street Commissioner and Harbor :Vaster; J. R. Bond, Marshal.

1866.

Mayor-Charles M. Dorr.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. S.W. Freeman, A. L. White; 2. A. Schurtz. Ernst Kibbe ; 3. H. S. Walbridge, J. H. Whitaker; 4. V. Braun, M. M. Goulden ; 5. H. Brand, .1. E. Hunt; 6. 1). A. Brown, I. K. Seaman.

City Officers-Thomas Dunlap, Solicitor ; J. L. Stratton, Civil Engineer; P. H. Galloway, Fire Engineer; Pat. Murray, Street Commissioner and Harbor Master.

1867.

Mayor-Charles A. King.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Jesse S. Norton, Andrew Stephan ; 2. E. Kibbe, John Sinclair; 3. J. H. Whitaker, J. M. Comstock; 4. J. G. Nolen, Wm. C. Huffman; 5. H. Brand, Win. Hall; 6. Win. Sexton, Arnold McMahan.

City O ficers-Charles Kent, Solicitor ; J. L. Stratton, Civil Engineer; Elias Avery, Fire Engineer; John Naumann, Street Commissioner ; Pat. Murray, Harbor Master ; S. F. Forbes. Health Officer ; James M. Ritchie, Police Judge ; J. K. Hamilton, Police Court Prosecutor ; Henry Breed, Captain of Police.

1868.

Mayor-Charles A. King.

Solicitor-Charles Kent.

City Council-Ward 1. Andrew Stephan, Jesse S. Norton ; 2. John Sinclair, Luther Whitney ; 3. James M. Comstock, Elijah B. Hall; 4. James G. Nolen, Michael M. Goulden ; 5. Henry Brand, Frank P. Isherwood ; 6. Arnold McMahan, Joab Squire; 7. John J. Penfield, Edward R. Finch ; 8. Orrin Morrison, Tim. W. Owens.

City Clerk-George W. Merrill.

City Civil Engineer-Calvin Crane.

Street Commissioner-John Naumann.

Superintendent Infirmary-Sewell Whittlesey.

Harbor Master-Calvin Herrick.

Fire Engineer-Elias Avery.

Board of Improvements-C. A. King (Mayor), President; Andrew Shurtz, Warren Colburn, Stillman Brown, Calvin Crane, H. K. Stevens.

Board of Health-The Mayor, President ; Dr. W. W. Jones, Dr. Valentine Braun, David Smith, J. E. Norcross, Matthew Shoemaker, James Raymer, John W. Bond.

Board of Education-C. W. Hill (President), Matthew Shoemaker, Alonzo Rogers, Reuben C. Lemmon, J. R. Osborn, Valentine Braun.

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School Examiners-Guido Marx, Thomas Dunlap, Stephen H. Camp.

Trustees of House of Refuge-John P. Freeman, V. Braun, George W. Davis, C. A. King, J. R. Osborn, Joseph E. Marx, J. G. Nolen, John F. Witker, S. M. Young, John T. Maher.

Police Court-James M. Ritchie, Judge ; Frank Collins. Prosecutor

Board of Police-The Mayor (President), Wm. H. Smith, H. S. Walbridge, George Meissner, Pat. Murray, Horace D. Olds, Bailey H. Hitchcock, Edward Malone. H. K. Stevens, Secretary ; W. P. Scott, Captain ; Patrick Horan, 1st Sergeant; Henry Streicher, 2d Sergeant.

Board of Equalization-Lyman T. Thayer, John T. Maher, Fred. Witker, Theo. B. Casey, L. M. Skidmore, Augustus Brown.

Supervisors of Highway-Richard Bamford, Jacob Tanner, Ralph Tarbox, Felix Connelly. Samuel F. Hersey, David Howe, Conrad Schilling, John Mattimore.

1869.

Mayor-William Kraus.

Clerk-Geo. W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. A. Stephan, J. S. Norton; 2. John Sinclair, L. Whitney ; "Edmund Wells, E. B. Hall; 4. John W. Toullerton, M. M. Goulden ; 5. Oliver G. Miller, F. P. Isherwood ; 6. Alfred Wilkin, Joab Squire ; 7. Daniel A. Collins, E. R. French ; 8. Michael Geelan, Tim. W. Owens.

City Officers-B. W. Rouse, Solicitor ; Calvin Crane, Civil Engineer ; Chris. Woehler, Fire Engineer; John Naumann, Street Commissioner; J. W. Bond, Health Officer ; Calvin Herrick, Harbor Master ; Joseph W. Cummings, Police Judge; Frank Collins. Prosecutor Police Court ; W. P. Scott. Captain Police.

1870.

Mayor-William Kraus.

Clerk -George W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. St. John, Andrew Stephan ; 2. L. Whitney, John Sinclair ; 3. T. M. Cook, Ed. Wells; 4. J. G. Nolen, J. W. Toullerton ; 5. Daniel Segur, O. G. Miller ; 6. D. A. Brown, A. Wilkin ; 7. Henry Philipps, D. A. Collins ; 8. T. W. Owens, M. Geelan.

City Officers-Otho Klemm, Auditor; B.W. Rouse, Solicitor ; Calvin Crane, Civil Engineer ; Chris. Woehler. Fire Engineer; John Naumann, Street Commissioner ; David Kelly, Harbor Master ; J. W. Bond, Health Officer; J. W. Cummings, Police Judge; J. P. Bronson, Clerk Police Court ; Frank Collins, Prosecutor Police Court; W. P. Scott, Chief of Police.

1871.

Mayor--William W. Jones.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Councilmen -Ward 1. Joseph K. Secor, Wm. St. John; 2. L. Whitney, John Sinclair; 3. Samuel M. Young, T. M. Cook ; 4. J. G. Nolen, Guido Marx ; 5. August Pilliod, Daniel Segur ; 6. D. A. Brown, Geo. Scheets ; 7. D. A. Collins, Henry Philipps; 8. T. W. Owens, Pat. Rice.

City Officers--Otho Klemm, Auditor ; Frank H. Hurd, Solicitor; Calvin Crane, Civil Engineer; Chris. Woehler, Fire' Engineer; John Naumann, Street Commissioner; D. Kelly, Harbor Master; J. W. Cummings, Police Judge ; J. P. Bronson, Police Clerk ; Clayton W. Everett, Prosecutor Police Court; J. A. Parker, Captain Police.

1872.

Mayor--William W. Jones. Clerk--George W. Merrill.

Councilmen--Ward 1. Wm. St. John, J. K. Secor; 2. John Sinclair, L. Whitney ; 3. T. M. Cook, S. M. Young; 4. J. W. Toullerton, Guido Marx; 5. Daniel Segur, A. Pilliod ; 6. J. McDermot Roe, Geo. Scheets ; 7. Jerome L. Stratton, D. A. Collins; 8. M. Geelan, Pat. Rice (resigned). W. H. Dyer (for vacancy).

City Officers--Otto Klemm, Auditor; F. H. Hurd, Solicitor; Calvin Crane, Civil Engineer (resigned), Horace C. Thatcher (for vacancy); Chris. Woehler, Fire Engineer ; E. B. Hall, Street Commissioner ; Calvin Herrick, Harbor Master; J. W. Bond, Health Officer; J. W. Cummings, Police Judge; .J. P. Bronson, Police Clerk; C. W. Everett. Prosecutor Police Court; Josiah C. Purdy, Captain of Police.

1873.

Mayor- William W. Jones.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Councilmen-Ward 1. John E. Bailey, Wm. St. John ; 2. George Stetter, Luther Whitney ; 3. R. H. Bell, T. M. Cook; 4. Geo. Meissner, J. W. Toullerton ; 5. R. J. Gibbons, Daniel Segur; 6. I. K. Seaman, Geo. Scheets ; 7. Joseph Kininger, D. A. Collins ; 8. W. H. Dyer, Michael Geelan.

1874.

Mayor-William W. Jones.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

By act of the Legislature, passed in March, 1874, the City Council was constituted of two branches a Board of Aldermen and a Board of Councilmen-the former consisting of one, and the latter of two members from each Ward. The first election under this arrangement took place in April, with the following results

Aldermen-Ward 1. Fred. B. Dodge; 2. James H. Maples; 3. Francis J. King; 4. R. .J. Wallace ; 5.

Daniel Segur; 6. Erle Hamilton ; 7. Jacob Romeis; 8. Patrick Owens.

Councilmen-Ward 1. B. B. Barney, J. E. Bailey; 2. George Stetter, J. F. Kumler ; 3. Charles B. Roff, R. H. Bell; 4. Jerome B. Thomas, Geo. Meissner; 5. Pat. Garry, .Jerome Anton ; 6. Fred. Jaeger, I. K. Seaman ; 7. Joseph Kininger, J. L. Stratton ; 8. H. T. Wells, Wm. H. Dyer.

City Solicitor-Frank H. Hurd.

Street Commissioner-Michael Geelan.

City Auditor-Otho Klemm.

City Civil Engineer-H. C. Thatcher.

Sidewalk Inspector-John R. Bond.

Superintendent Infirmary-Harry Chase.

Harbor Master-Calvin Herrick.

Chief Fire Engineer-Chris. Woehler.

First Asst. Engineer-John G. Paine.

Second Asst. Engineer-Chas. P. Barnum.

1875.

Mayor-Guido Marx.

Clerk-Geo. W. Merrill.

Aldermen - Ward 1. F. B. Dodge; 2. Horatio E. Bangs ; 3. F. J. King; 4. R. J. Wallace ; 5. Daniel Segur ; 6. Erle Hamilton ; 7. Jacob Romeis ; 8. Pat. Owens.

Councilmen-Ward 1. J. E. Bailey, B. B. Barney; 2. Geo. Stetter, J. F. Kumler; 3. W. T. Ridenour, C. B. Roff ; 4. James Russell, J. B. Thomas ; 5. A. Pilliod, Pat. Garry; 6. James W. Howe. Fred. Jaeger ; 7. Joseph Kininger, J. L. Stratton ; 8. M. M. Goulden, H. T. Wells.

City Auditor-Otho Klemm.

City Solicitor-J. Kent Hamilton.

City Civil Engineer-H. C. Thatcher.

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Fire Engineer-Chris. Woehler.

Street Commissioner-E. B. Hall.

Harbor Master-Calvin Herrick.

Health Officer-A. W. Fisher. Police Judge-Henry E. Howe.

Police Court Clerk--John P. Bronson.

Police Court Prosecutor-Nat. Harrington.

Captain of Police-Josiah C. Purdy.

Board of Education-Charles W. Bill (President), Calvin Cone, Daniel Y. Howell, Alfred Wilkin,

James McGreavy, Wager Swayne, Ezra S. Dodd, Augustine Pilliod.

Police Board-The Mayor, O. J. Hopkins, Theo. Klemm, John Paul Jones, Roger Sheehy, 0. W. Judkins, Henry Hulce, W. J. Myers, Michael McGrath. Secretary, N. Fisher; Captain, J. C. Purdy ; 1st Sergt., Henry Streicher; 2d Sergt., John Sullivan ; 3d Sergt., Dennis Shehan ; City Physician, Cyrus A. Kirkley.

Trustees of Water Works-John P. Freeman (President), Charles Schon, Edward Malone.

Chief Engineer, Josiah D. Cook ; Clerk, E. W. Perrin.

Park Commissioners-T. M. Cook, C. L. Young, 0. Schroeter.

Trustees of Public Library-The. Mayor, John Sinclair, E. H. Norton, C. A. King, F. B. Shoemaker, Robert A. Wason, Wm. H. Scott, Calvin Cone, E. S. Dodd.

Work House Directors-Peter H. Birckhead, B. G. Sweet, J. W. Toullerton, A. E. Macomber, Conrad Huberich.

Trustees of Cemetery-D. B. Smith, Charles B. Phillips, Frank J. Scott.

Board of Equalization-George Tanner, J. McDermot Roe, Chas. L. Luce, John Sullivan, J. T. Maher, Fred. J. Cole.

House of Refuge and Correction Trustees - J. T. Maher, James M. Waddick, A. G. Clark, M. D. Carrington, Jacob Landman. Superintendent, A. T. Stebbins; Matron, Mrs. A. T. Stebbins.

Board of Health-The Mayor, S. H. Bergen, Valentine Braun, John W. Bond, Max Jungblut, J. T. Lawless, James Raymer. Health Officer, Dr. A. W. Fisher; Sanitary Policemen, Wm. T. Hall, John Oberle, L. Doty.

Trustees Toledo and Woodville Railroad--Horace S. Walbridge (President), Chas. A. King, Chas. F. Curtis, J. D. Cook, William Kraus.

Constables-John Vangunten, Paul Kennedy, Jacob Ballieux, J. A. Parker.

1876.

Mayor-Guido Marx.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

City Solicitor-J. Kent Hamilton. Street Commissioner-Joseph Kininger. City Auditor-Otho Klemm. City Civil Engineer-H. C. Thatcher. Aldermen-Ward 1. Geo. Baker; 2. H. E. Bangs;

3. E. W. Lenderson ; 4. R. J. Wallace ; 5. C. D. Woodruff; 6. Erle Hamilton ; 7. Jacob Romeis ; 8. Pat. Owens.

Councilmen-Ward 1. J. E. Bailey, James L. Chase; 2. George Stetter, J. F. Kumler; 3. W. T. Ridenour, Clayton R. Heath; 4. J. B. Thomas, James Russell; 5. August Pilliod. S. W. Freeman; 6. Michael McMahan, Robert McCulloch ; 7. Alanson A. Andrews, Jr., Wm. T. Walker; 8. M. M. Goulden, Geo. L. Johnson.

1877.

Mayor-Wm. W. Jones.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Aldermen-Ward 1. John C. Davis; 2. N. A. Eggleston ; 3. R. H. Warriner; 4. R. J. Wallace; 5. A. Eversman ; 6. W. A. Collins ; 7. D. A. Collins ; 8. Andrew Nesbitt.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. Beatty, Jacob Clark ; 2. Henry Spielbusch, H. A. Chamberlin ; 3. Albert Kirk, W. T. Ridenour ; 4. E. S. Dodd, H. C. Tinkham ; 5. George Fey, E. E. Stewart ; 6. Orange H. Howland, Henry Tracy ; 7. Charles J. Kirschner, W. T. Walker; 8. Humphrey Jones, George L. Johnson. City Solicitor-J. K. Hamilton. Street Commissioner-Michael McGrath. City Auditor-Elijah W. Lenderson. Civil Engineer-H. C. Thatcher. Superintendent Infirmary -Harry Chase. Harbor Master-Calvin Herrick. Fire Engineer-Chris. Woehler.

1878.

Mayor-Wm. W. Jones.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Aldermen-Ward I. J. C. Davis; 2. N. A. Eggleston ; 3. R. H. Warriner ; 4. R. J. Wallace ; 5. E. A. Eversman ; 6. W. A. Collins ; 7. D. A. Collins ; 8. Andrew Nesbitt.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Jacob Clark, Wm. Beatty ; 2. H. A. Chamberlin, Henry Spielbusch ; 3. W. T. Ridenour, Albert Kirk ; 4. E. S. Dodd, H. C. Tinkham ; 5. E. E. Stewart (resigned), George Fey, G. Canniff (vacancy); 6. Henry Tracy, 0. H. Howland ; 7. W. T. Walker, C. J. Kirschner; 8. Michael McGrath, Humphrey Jones.

1879.

Mayor -Jacob Romeis.

Clerk-George W. Merrill.

Aldermen-Ward 1. J. C. Davis ; 2. Fred. Raitz ; 3. R. H. Warriner ; 4. Jeremiah Reilly ; 5. E. A. Eversman ; 6. Joel Potter; 7. D. A. Collins; 8. Andrew Nesbitt.

City Auditor-E. W. Lenderson. City Solicitor-H. A. Chamberlin. Civil Engineer-H. C. Thatcher. Fire Engineer-John G. Avery.

Street Commissioner-Michael McGrath. Health Officer-G. A. Collamore. Police Judge-Henry L. Lorenz.

Prosecutor Police Court-James M. Bloomer. Captain of Police-William P. Scott.

1880.

General Officers-Same as in 1879.

Aldermen-Ward 1. J. C. Davis; .2.. Fred. Raitz; 3. John A. Waite; 4. Jeremiah Reilly; 5. Daniel O'Hara; 6. Joel Potter; 7. W. T. Walker; 8. Andrew Nesbitt.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. Beatty, W. W. Cooke; 2. H. Spielbusch, Milton Taylor; 3. Alvin Peter, W. T. Ridenour; 4. Jacob Englehardt, George Grogan; 5. Gilbert Canniff, E. M. Beaumont ; 6. George W. Clay, John Danzey; 7. James Dority, J. J. Volmeyer; 8. M. M. Goulden, Thomas H. Wright.

Clerk-Henry D. Standart.

1881.

Mayor-Jacob Romeis.

Clerk-H. D. Standart.

Aldermen-Ward 1. J. C. Davis ; 2. Geo. Tanner ; 3. John A. Waite ; 4. Carl Wenzel ; 5. Daniel O'Hara; 6. Robert Barber; 7. W. T. Walker ; 8. Geo. Worts.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. Beatty, W. W. Cooke; 2. Henry Spielbusch, S. C. Schenck ; 3. Alvin Peter, W. T. Ridenour; 4. Jacob Englehardt, George E. Toullerton ; 5. E. M. Beaumont, Charles H. Sawyer ; 6. George W. Clay, John Danzey ; 7. James Dority, Wm. H. Meyer ; 8. M. M. Goulden, Chris. Zerk.

City Solicitor-Clarence Brown.

Street Commissioner-Michael McGrath.

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City Auditor-E. W. Lenderson. Civil Engineer-George H. Bodette.

By an act of the Ohio Legislature, passed during the session of 1880-81, a system of Metropolitan Police was provided for Toledo. The Commissioners constituting the Police Board, selected by the Governor, were Abner L. Backus, Guido Marx, John Cummings and George Milmine. This Board was given full powers for the management of the Police Department, and its administration wits successful in giving the City a more efficient service. The plan, however, was not permitted to continue long, and was soon succeeded by the present system, consisting of one Commissioner elected from each Ward of the City, who, with the Mayor, constitute the Police Board.

1882.

Mayor-Jacob Romeis.

Clerk-H. D. Standart.

City Solicitor-Clarence Brown.

Street Commissioner-Daniel J. O'Hara. City Auditor-E. W. Lenderson. Civil Engineer-George H. Bodette. Aldermen-Ward 1. H. P. Platt; 2. George Tanner ; 3. George W. Boos ; 4. Carl Wenzel ; 5. Joseph D. Ford; 6. Robert Barber; 7. Win. H. McLyman; 8. George Worts.

Councilmen-Ward 1. Wm. Beatty, W. W. Cooke ; 2. Henry Spielbusch, S. C. Schenck ; 3. Vincent Hamilton. Frank B. Losee ; 4. Emory L. Graves, Geo. E. Toullerton; 5. Otto A. Duden, Charles H. Sawyer; 6. Sanford W. Cooke, George W. Clay ; 7. Wm. H. Minneker, Wm. J. Meyer; Thomas H. Wright, Chris. Zerk.

1883.

Mayor-Jacob Romeis.

City Solicitor-Erwin P. Raymond.

Assistant Solicitor-Samuel Kohn.

Street Commissioner --Daniel J. O'Hara.

City Clerk-Patrick A. MacGahan.

City Auditor-Albert G. Clark.

Civil Engineer-John R. Miller.

Superintendent Infirmary-Ezra Harnitt.

Harbor Master-B. G. Sweet.

Aldermen-Ward 1. Harvey P. Platt; 2. Michael J. Cooney ; 3. George W. Boos ; 4. Wm. H. Keyser; 5. Joseph 1). Ford; 6. Willis E. Clark; 7. W. H. McLyman ; 8. Peter H. Degnan.

Councilmen -Ward 1. Wm. Beatty, Benjamin F. Wade ; 2. A. Spielbusch, S. C. Schenck ; 3. Vincent Hamilton, F. B. Losee ; 4. E. L. Graves, Jacob Folger; 5. Otto A. Duden, Ernst A. Eversman; 6. S. W. Cooke, Frank P. Wilson; 7. Wm. P. Minneker, John Henry; 8. Thos. H. Wright, John Tollman.

1884.

Mayor-Jacob Romeis.

City Auditor-P. A. MacGahan.

City Solicitor-Erwin P. Raymond.

Civil Engineer-John R. Miller.

Superintendent Infirmary-Ezra Harnitt.

Aldermen--Ward 1. E. H. Kuhlman ; 2. M. J. Cooney ; 3. George W. Boos ; 4. W. H. Keyser ; 5. A. Broer ; 6. W. E. Clark ; 7. George E. Lorenz ; 8. P. H. Degnan.

Councilmen--Ward 1. B. F. Wade, W. W. Cooke ; 2. S. C. Schenck, H. Spielbusch ; 3. F. B. Losee, V. Hamilton ; 4. Jacob Folger, E. L. Graves; 5. E. A. Eversman, M. Walsh ; 6. F. P. Wilson, H. J. Potter ; 7. John Henry, George H. Ketcham ; 8. John Tollman, T omar H. Wright.

1885.

Mayor-Samuel F. Forbes.

City Auditor--Albert G. Clark. City Clerk-P. A. McGahan. City Solicitor-Guy W. Kinney. Assistant City Solicitor-W. H. A. Reed. Civil Engineer-John R. Miller. Superintendent Infirmary-Ezra Harnitt. Street Commissioner -John Bayer. Harbor Master--Thomas Higgins. Fire Engineer-John G. Avery. Mayor's Clerk-Charles F. Lewis. Aldermen-Ward 1. E. H. Kuhlman ; 2. M. J.

Cooney ; 3. George W. Boos ; 4. John E. Schultz; 5. August Broer; 6. Thomas R. Cook; 7. George E. Lorenz ; 8. P. H. Degnan.

Councilmen--Ward 1. B. F. Wade, W. W. Cooke; 2. Thomas S. Merrell, Henry Spielbusch ; 3. Frank I. King, Vincent Hamilton; 4. John-J. Hackett, E. L. Graves; 5. Thomas VanAarle, Michael Walsh; 6. Jas. B. Spain, H. .J Potter; 7. Robert Raitz, George H. Ketcham; 8. James W. Gould, Thos. H. Wright.

1886.

Mayor-Samuel F. Forbes.

City Auditor-William T. Walker. City Clerk-H. D. Standart (died). City Solicitor-Guy W. Kinney. Assistant City Solicitor-W. H. A. Reed. City Civil Engineer -Thomas R. Wickenden. Superintendent Infirmary-William Kirkby. Street Commissioner-John Bayer. Harbor Master-James McNelly . Acting Chief Fire Engineer-John Nagely. Mayor's Clerk-Charles T. Lewis. Aldermen-Ward 1. L. J. Seek ; 2. M. J. Cooney ; 3. David R. Locke ; 4. J. E. Schultz; 5. J. A. Waring; 6. T. R. Cook ; 7. Geo. E. Lorenz ; 8. P. H. Degnan. Councilmen-Ward 1. B. F. Wade, W. W. Cooke ; 2. Thomas S. Merrell, Henry Spielbusch ; 3. Frank I. King, Frank E. Cole; 4. John J. Hackett, Charles Hanner; 5. Thos. Van Aarle, G. F. Hoffman ; 6. Jas. H. Spain, Henry Birkenhauer; 7. Robert Raitz, G. H. Ketcham ; 8. Jas. W. Gould, Henry Peiter.

1887.

Mayor-J. K. Hamilton.

City Auditor-W. T. Walker.

City Clerk - G. H. Cole.

City Solicitor-Guy W. Kinney

City Civil Engineer-Thomas R. Wickenden.

Superintendent Infirmary-William Kirkby.

Street Commissioner-John Bayer.

Harbor Master-James McNelly.

Aldermen-Ward 1. L. J. Seek; 2. J. F. Carr ; 3. D. H. Locke ; 4. J. E. Schultz ; 5. J. A. Waring; 6. Thomas McGrath ; 7. James Melvin; 8. P. H. Degnan.

Councilmen-Ward 1. J. C. Gribben, W. W. Cooke ; 2. J. M. Eley, Henry_, Spielbusch ; 3. Frank I. King, Frank E. Cole ; 4. John J. Hackett, Charles Hanner; 5. Thos. Van Aarle, G. F. Hoffman; 6. Joel Potter, Henry Birkenhauer ; 8. Robert Raitz, G. H. Ketcham ; 8. John Cavanaugh, Henry Peiter.

Officers Elected by the Common Council-W. T. Walker, City Auditor ; G. H. Cole, City Clerk ; Thos. R. Wickenden, City Civil Engineer; Wm. Kirkby, Superintendent of Infirmary ; James McNelly, Harbor Master.

Officers Nominated by the Mayor--John Nagely, Acting Chief Fire Engineer; Edward R. Edwards,

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Acting Assistant Chief Fire Engineer ; Geo. P. Kirby, Mayor's Clerk ; W. H. A. Read, Assistant City Solicitor ; Chas. A. Durian, Assistant City Clerk ; Robt. E. Walker, Assistant Auditor.

Board of Education--Rynehold Opitz, Joab Squire, H. D. Pierce, Charles Zirwas, Franklin Hubbard, Barton Smith, Thos. Temple, 13. H. Broer.

Police Court-P. A. McGahan, Judge ; George W. Humphrey, Prosecuting Attorney ; John P. Bronson, Clerk.

Members of Police Board-J. K. Hamilton, Mayor and ex-officio member; Thomas Coyle, Walter Pickens, Vincent J. Emmick, George Scheets. John J. Berney, Clerk.

Officers of Police Force-Edward O'Dwyer, Captain of Police ; Thomas Marker, Lieutenant of Police ; Charles Robinson, First Sergeant ; William P. Scott, Second Sergeant; John M. O'Sullivan, Third Sergeant ; Louis Trotter, Fourth Sergeant ; P. Conmay, Fifth Sergeant ; H. P. Blake, Sixth Sergeant ; Chas. L. Van Pelt, Health Officer.

Trustees of the Water Works--Edward A. Wells, George W. Davis, Jacob Mandler, Daniel Segur, Secretary.

Trustees of Public Library-Wm. H. Scott, Franklin Hubbard, Charles A. King, Emery D. Potter. Jr., Reuben C. Lemmon. Harvey Scribner, Erwin P. Raymond, Frank J. Hoag ; J. K. Hamilton, Mayor, member ex-officio. Win. H. Scott, President; C. A. King, Vice President ; C. A. Dresser, Secretary ; Mrs. Frances D. Jermain, Librarian.

Workhouse Directors-C. P. Griffin, F. T. Lane, Clark Auchard, O. W. Irish, John Jacobi.

Board of Park Commissioners -James Winans, O. Schroeter, C. L. Young.

Board of Equalization-Ignatius C. Wernert, L. S. Baumgardner, George Fey, Joel W. Kelsey, W. L. Ahrendt, W. H. Whitaker.

Trustees of Cemetery-F. J. Scott, Jacob Folger, William S. Daly.

Board of Directors of the Toledo University-S. F. Forbes, Maurice A. Scott, Daniel C. Shaw, Daniel J. O'Hara, Wm. G. Hagenburg, Guido Marx, T. J. Brown, Henry Kahlo, F. J. Scott, W. H. Scott, M. J. Cooney, A. E. Macomber.

Trustees Soldiers' Memorial Building-J. Kent Hamilton, Mayor and (ex officio) President; L. F. Lyttle, Secretary ; W. W. Jones, George Scheets, Robert Cummings, W. T. Walker, J. S. Kountz.

Tax Commissioners-J. K. Hamilton, Mayor, (ex officio) President; W. T. Walker, City Auditor, (ex-officio); W. H. Scott, B. Meilink, L. Burdick. G. H. e, Clerk.

Trustees of Sinking Fund-Geo. W. Davis, President ; Geo. Emerson, James Blass, True W. Childs, Chas. H. Scribner. Geo. H. Beckwith, Clerk.

The following shows the compensation allowed to the several City officers and employes named, during the year 1886, to wit:

Per Annum.

Mayor $1,200

Police Judge 1,000

Prosecuting Attorney of Police Court 700

Clerk of Police Court 800

Street Commissioner 1,200

City Clerk. 2,000

Assistant City Clerk 600

City Auditor 2,000

Assistant City Auditor 900

City Civil Engineer 1,800

Fire Engineer 1,200

Assistant Fire Engineer 500

City Solicitor 2,000

Assistant City Solicitor 600

Assistant Clerk of Police Court 600

Engineer at Police Station $600

Two Turnkeys at Police Station (each) 600

Janitor at Police Station 540

Janitor at City Offices 480

Per Month.

Assistant City Civil Engineer (when employed) $ 100

Harbor Master 50

Director of Infirmary 80

Same for horse keeping 20

Assistant Engineer at Police Station 35

One Battery man 50

Captains of Fire Companies 25

Engineers of Steam Fire Engines 65

Drivers of Hose Carts 55

Drivers of Steam Fire Engines 55

Drivers Hook and Ladder Trucks 55

Full-pay Pipemen and Firemen 55

Hosemen, first year 15

Hosemen. after first year 20

Hook and Ladder men, first year 15

Hook and Ladder men, after first year 20

Superintendent Fire Alarm Telegraph 55

Per Day.

Rod men, when employed $ 2 25

PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL.

Something of the start of the Municipal Government of Toledo will be shown by the following abstract of the proceedings of the City Council from its organization in 1837, until the year 1846.

The first ordinance of special interest passed by the Council, was that of April 24, 1837, for the levy of taxes on personal property, in which, among other things, it was provided, that any person failing to make full return of such property should be taxed three times the regular rates.

May 22, 1837, a Committee was appointed "to enquire if there were any burying-grounds within the City."

May 29, 1837, a Committee was selected to ascertain the expense of procuring two fire engines for the use of the City ; and that the Committee on Health "examine the various pools of standing water in different sections of the City, and take measures for drying up or draining the same."

July 17, 1837, provision was made for the first bay-scales in Toledo-one for the "Southwest Ward" (Port Lawrence), near the Toledo House (corner Summit and Perry streets) ; and another for "the Northeast Ward (Vistula), near the Mansion House, of Ezra B. Dodd" (now 385 Summit street). The fee for weighing hay was fixed at 25 cents per load. Roswell C. Cheney was appointed weigher for the former, and E. B. Dodd for the latter scales.

The first ordinance for regulating Ferries across the Maumee at Toledo, was passed July 17, 1837. It required a license for such purpose, the hours for ferrying being fixed from sunrise to sundown. The charges established were as follows : From April 1st to November 1st, 12 1/2 cents for each person ; for man and horse, 25 cents ; for single vehicle, 37 1/2 cents ; for two-horse or two-ox wagon, 50 cents; for

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each additional horse or ox, 6 1/4 cents ; for each bead of horned cattle, 6 1/4 cents, and for each sheep or hog, 3 cents.

The first expenditure by the new City was for furniture, paid for in September, 1837. It was furnished by Wm. R. Hoyt, then Cabinetmaker in Toledo, and now (1887) a resident of the City. It consisted of a table and chairs sufficient for the members, and amounted to $33.00. The first record books were bought of Sanford & Lott, of Cleveland, the bill being $28.00. At that time there were no blank book manufacturers nearer to Toledo than Cleveland, and but one such there.

October 9, 1837, an ordinance was passed prohibiting, under penalties, " ball, nine or ten-pin alleys ;" also " billiards, roulette, or any other table or instrument or device used or to be used for the purpose of gaming or gambling."

The first School Districts in the City were established September 25, 1837, and were as follows: The first District, that portion of the City East of Locust Street; the second District, that portion between Locust and Adams; and the Third District, the portion West of Adams Street.

The first bill for rent paid by the City of Toledo, was that of Richard Mott, for the room which the Council occupied from May 1st to November 1st, 1837, the amount being $25.00, At a subsequent period during the occupancy of the room, an agreement was made with Mr. Mott, that the Council should have the same for one year without charge, provided, that during the year no City taxes should be levied. This agreement was carried out, the City paying no rent, and the Council levying no taxes for that year-a plan which could hardly be adopted successfully at this time.

January 29, 1838, the City was divided into three Wards, viz.: First Ward, all that portion lying East of Locust Street; the Second Ward, that portion between Locust and Madison Streets; and the Third Ward, that part South and West of Madison Street.

February 14, 1838, the pay for the several City officials was fixed, as follows : The Treasurer, two per cent. upon all moneys received and paid out by him ; the Clerk, $100 for 10 months; Marshal, $40; Deputy Marshal, $20; Attorney, $40; Collector, five per cent. on collections.

The first statement of the receipts and expenses of the City of Toledo will be of interest here. It was made February 24,1838, covered 10 1/2 months of time, and is as follows:

1838. Feb. 19. By cash paid the Mayor for

licenses by exhibitors $ 25 00

By cash from City Collector 1,861 93

1837. Sept. 25. To paid W R. Hoyt, bill for

furniture for council-room $ 33 00

Sanford & Lott, for stationery 28 00

" " Hoisington & Manning, for

Engine House No. 1 68 00

1838. Feb. 13. Toledo Blade, printing charter 30 00

" Peckham & Co , freight on engines 86 00

1838. Feb. 13. R Mott, Jr., rent of Council room 25 00

" 24. Hoisington & Manning, building

Engine-house No. 2... 13 00

" C. Comstock, services as Collector 93 00

" Treasurer's fees 37 80

" Balance in Treasury 1,475 20

$1,889 93

An examination made in March, 1838, showed the contents of the City treasury to consist of the following:

Michigan Bank Notes-Merchants Bank of Jackson County, $100; Lenawee County Bank, $54; Cold Water Bank, $14; Farmers Bank of Genesee County. $20; Jackson County Bank, $39; Saginaw City Bank, $3; Farmers' Bank of Sandstone, $103; Lapeer Bank, $10; Bank of Manchester, $49. Edward Bissell's notes, $100; Edward Bissell's check on Lenawee Bank, $600. Total, $993.

A resolution then offered that the Treasurer receive no more Michigan Bank notes, except those of the old Banks of that State, was lost in the Council, on a vote of 3 to 4. How much the character of the City's assets bad to do with the liberal balance (apparently) on hand, is a matter of opinion only. The view suggested, however, has some support in the fact that at that time John Fitch, Esq., as agent of creditors of the City to the amount of' $800, made the offer to take, at a discount of 20 per cent., such of the funds then in the treasury as he should deem current; whereupon, the Council offered a discount of 15 per cent. At the same time a second resolution not to take any more "Michigan Wild Cat" money, was voted down-4 to 5. July 5, 1838, it was resolved to send all Michigan Bank notes then in the City treasury home for redemption, and those of Banks suspended to the receivers of the same.

February 15, 1838, Judges of Election were appointed as follows: Ward 1, Ezra B. Dodd, Luke Draper, Leander Hill ; 2, Emery D. Potter, Elisha H. Fassett, Joseph B. Gardner ; 3, J. M. Whitney, Austin A. Hill, Oliver Stevens.

May 28, 1838, Ahira G. Hibbard was authorized to expend $300 "on Lagrange street across Mud Creek Valley."

March 26, 1838, steps were taken for providing the pioneer hearse of the City.

April 2, 1838, Mayor Berdan, by special message, called attention of the Council to the propriety of preventing "the selling of spiritous liquors in small measure by stores and grog-shops in the City," when Alderman E. D. Potter moved the appointment of a Committee on that subject, which consisted of Messrs. Potter, Comstock and Segur. April 9th a petition from 68 citizens, asking for such legislation, was presented. April 23d, an ordinance for such purpose was passed on the following vote : Yeas-Messrs. Chas. E. Brintnall, Stephen B. Comstock, Munson H. Daniels, Leander Hill, and Emery D. Potter. Nays Messrs. Caleb F. Abbott, 'Elijah Porter and Daniel Segur.

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As the first definite action by the Toledo City Council on a matter which bas ever since, is Dow, and promises long to be, a source of division and controversy, it is deemed proper hereto record the law on that subject thus adopted at the outset of Toledo's municipal history. It is as follows

AN ORDINANCE to prohibit the selling or giving away of any Ardent Spirits, to be drank at any of the places therein named, and to prohibit disorderly assemblages and riots.

SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the City of Toledo, that from and after due publication of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any storekeeper, trader or grocer within the limits of the City of Toledo, to sell or give away any ardent spirits, to be drank in any shop, store, grocery, outhouse, yard or garden, owned or occupied by the person selling or giving away the same; except by innkeepers duly licensed by the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Lucas.

SECTION 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of said city to sell or give away any ardent spirits or other intoxicating liquors, to any child, apprentice or servant, without the consent of his or her parent, guardian, master or mistress, or to any Indian.

SECTION 3. Any and every person offending against the provisions of either of the above sections, shall forfeit and pay to and for the use of said City, any sum not exceeding $50, not less than $25, in the discretion of the Court having jurisdiction thereof, together with the cost of suit.

May 22, 1838, the Council provided for a ferry across Swan Creek, at the pace near Superior Street where Harmon Crane formerly had a ferry; for which purpose a "scow boat, with rope and other necessary appointments," wore to be supplied by the Street Commissioner, the whole not to exceed $100. Mr. Crane was elected as ferryman, and the charges were fixed as follows

For each person, 3 cents ; man and horse, 6 cents ; single horse and vehicle, 9 cents ; two horses or two oxen and vehicle, 12 1/2 cents; each additional horse 3 Cents ; each head of cattle, hogs, &c., 1 cent. The ferryman was to have one-half of the receipts and pay all expenses, including repairs.

May 26, 1838, it was resolved " that all applications for the privilege to exhibit natural or artificial curiosities, caravans, circuses, or theatrical performances within the City," be referred to the Mayor, who was to charge such license as he might see fit.

The first step taken for protection against infectious disease was the appointment, August 9, 1838, of a Council Committee to "take charge of all persons infected or subject to be infected with the small-pox."

Provision was first made for a corporate seal for the City, October 26, 1838, viz.: "A scrollseal, with the letters' L. S.' inserted therein."

A bill for "cleaning out ditch from the River to the Canal in rear of the Post Office" ($40.25), was allowed November 26, 1838.

The petition of citizens asking that the Council '° regulate the weight and quality of bread and the selling and measuring of wood," was denied, November 26, 1838.

January 21, 1839, provision was made for employing a Surveyor "to survey and lot out the grounds given the City for burial purposes by the Port Lawrence Company," and that the same be fenced.

The first regular survey of the City and a map of the same were provided for March 21, 1839.

On the retirement of Mayor Berdan, March 6, 1839, the Council tendered him its thanks "for the impartial and dignified manner in which he had presided over that body."

In June, 1839, the matter of blank books and stationery was considered by the City Council, and a resolution adopted authorizing the Clerk to procure of Sanford & Lott, of Cleveland, " upon the credit of the City," one substantial full-bound record, containing eight quires, ruled, and lettered " Tax Records, City of Toledo;" one half-bound book of three quires, lettered "Tax Duplicate, City of Toledo;" one half-bound three-quire blotter ; one ream best ruled cap paper; one-half ream second quality ruled cap-paper ; one-half ream best ruled letter paper; 100 good quills; three bottles of ink; and one-half pound of wafers. Such stock of stationery-aside from wafers-would not now last very long.

In December, 1839, the City Council allowed the following pay to Assessors of property for taxation : To M. H. Daniels, $25.50; P. H. Shaw, $18; E. H. Fassett, $18; Luke Draper, $6. At the same time L. S. Lownsbury was paid $5 for prosecuting cases for the City ; Dr. Jacob Clark, $3, for services at three elections; and C. W. Hill, $33.15, for services as City Clerk.

The first recognition of, and aid granted by the City to, a military Company, consisted in an appropriation of $150, for the " Toledo Citizens' Corps," for the purchase of equipments, July 29, 1839. The Company probably was the predecessor of the Toledo Guards, organized in 1840.

The natter of the removal of the County seat from Toledo to Maumee being then actively canvassed, the Toledo City Council in 1839 provided " a contingent fund of $80, to defray the expenses in preventing such removal," and appointed Andrew Palmer, Daniel Segur, Jacob Clark and H. D. Mason, to expend the same.

The building of a sidewalk on Monroe Street, was in March, 1840, declared to be inexpedient, until °' the condition of the treasury " should become better known to the Council, and the Summit Street work, then in progress, should be completed.

April 20, 1840, license was granted to Wm. Consaul to keep a ferry across the Maumee River, from the foot of Adams Street, for which be was to pay the City Clerk 50 cents.

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The first instance in Toledo in which a deficient fund was relieved by borrowing from another fund, took place April 21, 1840, when a Sidewalk fund was created, in order that money might be borrowed from the general fund for the relief of the Summit Street sidewalk.

July 6, 1840, the Council resolved to suppress horse-racing and " inordinate driving " within the City.

A resolution was adopted November 16,1840, for " cutting, clearing and burning the brush on Mud Creek, as soon as the Creek may be frozen sufficient to do the same to advantage." This stream, as elsewhere stated, traversed the low grounds between Cherry and Monroe Streets, in a measure parallel with and near to Summit Street.

April 20, 1840, the Council passed an ordinance defining the duties of the City Attorney and fixing his compensation and that of the City Marshal. The former was to be " in the broadest sense of the term, the Attorney and Counselor and Legal Agent on all occasions, and under all circumstances." For every suit which he managed in the Mayor's Court, he was to receive the sum of $3.00, and such other pay as the Council should deem reasonable. The Marshal was allowed 50 cents for each attendance on the sessions of the Council, and other compensation as that body might deem just.

April 21, 1841, a Committee was appointed to report plan and estimate for a suitable build= ing for a City Hall.

The invitation of the Toledo Guards for the Mayor and Council to partake of "a cold collation " with that Company, July 5, 1841, was accepted, with thanks and "assurances of the high consideration in which the Company was held."

October 12, 1841, the Council adopted resolutions of high appreciation of the public services and private worth of John Berdan, the first Mayor of the City.

In May, 1843, Joseph Jones was paid by the City the sum of $1.00, for taking an enumeration of the population of the Second Ward of Toledo.

May 15, 1843, the City Marshal was allowed 25 cents for serving notice for special meeting on two members of the Council-mileage, five cents ; two readings, 20 cents.

February 3, 1846, the Council appropriated the sum of $200, for sending an agent to Washington to secure the location at Toledo of a proposed Naval Depot for the Lakes, and also to secure the removal of the Port of Entry of Miami from Maumee City to Toledo.

The brief abstract thus given, is designed only to indicate something of the circumstances under which Municipal Government was commenced in Toledo, and the resources at hand for such beginning. The ways and means named are in striking contrast with those which attend present operations; but whether in all respects they are now better, is matter for consideration.

JACOB ROMEIS, Representative in the Congress of the United States from the Tenth District, Ohio, was born in Weisenbach, Bavaria, December 1,1835. His parents, both of German nativity, were John and Elizabeth Romeis. The family came to the United States in 1847, and settled at Buffalo, New York. The father had been a farmer and a linen weaver, but on coming to this country he was more or less employed in the quarry interest of the State of New York. He died in 1869. The son was then 13 years of age. He had attended the Village. School in Weisenbach, as required by law, from his sixth year until the family left for America. At Buffalo he attended a City School for one year and a German Protestant School for a time after his first communion. The circumstances of the family were such as to throw him on his own resources for support when he was about 14 years of age, at which time he secured a position as Cabin-Boy on board the Propeller Oregon, Captain Thomas Watts, running between Buffalo and Toledo and Detroit, his first visit to Toledo being in August, 1849. From 1850 to 1856, be was employed on passenger Steamers commanded by Captains Watts, Hazard, Perkins, Pheatt, Willoughby and Goldsmith, the last named having aided him to a position as Train Baggageman on the Toledo and Wabash Railway, in 1856. After two years' service in that capacity, he was promoted to that of Conductor on "Mixed" (freight and passenger) trains, and in 1863 to the charge of a passenger train. In 1871 sickness compelled him to leave the Road for a time, when he was appointed General Baggage Agent, a position of special responsibility, the entire force of Baggagemen and all baggage being under his direction and care. Such was the success in this position that he was appointed Depot Master at Toledo, and given charge of all passenger train-men on the Eastern Division of that Road, extending from Toledo to Danville, Illinois. This position be continued to hold to the full satisfaction of the management of the Road, until he was elected to Congress in 1884. In every place assigned him he had fully met the expectations of his employers, and every step in his promotion came unsought by him. Mr. Romeis, so far from being a politician in the professional sense of the term, had, from youth, been averse to political activity, and deemed himself as exercising the elective franchise in the true sense of that right, by selecting for support the names of candidates on all tickets whose election he deemed most assuring of the public good. He was first a candidate for public office in April, 1874, when, largely through the efforts of Railway associates, he was nominated for Alderman

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from the Seventh Ward, Toledo, and was elected by a handsome majority. So successful was he in the discharge of the duties of the office, that in 1876 he was re-elected, and in 1877 chosen President of the Board of Aldermen In 1878 he was nominated for a third term, but positively declined. The next year he was nominated for Mayor of the City, under circumstances which led him to accept, when he was elected. During the term, he devoted himself so efficiently to the duties of the office, and especially in connection with the finances of the City, including a substantial reduction in expenditures, that he was re-elected in 1881, and again in 1883. During this term, so strong had become his hold on the confidence of the people, both in Toledo and elsewhere, that he was nominated for Congress as the candidate of the Republicans, against Frank H. Hurd, then in the zenith of his personal strength. The District was strongly Democratic, that party having therein a majority of about 2,500. The campaign was one of the most active and earnest known in the District, in which the personal qualities of candidates were made specially prominent. No attempt, whatever, was made to disparage the character of Mr. Romeis, efforts in that direction having been confined to attempts at belittling his literary attainments in connection with the English language and his knowledge of American methods. As a self-supporting and self-respecting citizen a trusty, industrious agent-and faithful, efficient public officer-he was beyond even attempt at disparagement. The result was the election of Mr. Romeis, by a majority of 239 votes, against the 2,500 Democratic majority in the District. Mr. Hurd made a bitter and persistent contest for the seat, evidently relying for success upon partisan support from the large Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. In this he was disappointed, since, after full investigation, the Democratic Committee on Elections reported Mr. Romeis to have been legally elected, which decision was approved by the House, by an overwhelming majority. In 1886 the two candidates were again pitted against each other, when the former decision of the electors was re-affirmed in the decisive majority for Mr. Romeis of 1,588 over Mr. Hurd. The vote in Lucas County then stood as follows: Romeis, 8,887; Hurd, 6,653; giving the former a majority of 2,234; while the Republican majority in the County on Secretary of State, at the same election, was only 368. Mr. Romeis recognizes, in the issue of Protection or Free Trade, the most important question of National policy, and his attachment to the Republican party rests chiefly on the position of that organization on that issue. His view of the matter was succinctly given in a speech, while the Free Shipping Bill was under discussion in the House of Representatives. He then said:

Mr. Chairman, I have been a wage-worker for 35 years or more as a Sailor and Railroad man. I laid aside the lantern to take a seat in the Halls of Congress, and when I leave I expect to take up one of these vocations again. But while I have a voice and a vote in this House, I shall not give it for a proposition that will in my opinion destroy the capital invested in American industries, thereby throwing out of employment thousands of workingmen who are directly dependent upon that capital. For that reason I shall vote against this bill. [Applause.]

It cannot be said that Mr. Romeis is an orator. He never has practiced or studied that art; while in neither his native nor his acquired tongue has his acquisition been such as to justify attempt in that direction. But he early learned, and always has practiced the straightforward, frank manner of expression, which, more than the highest attainment in art, reaches the judgment and favor- of men. But more than that, has his like simple and direct manner of action, in private and public affairs, commended him to the confidence and favor of his fellow-citizens. Habitually considerate of the opinions and feelings of others, he has never left them in doubt as to his final judgment and purpose. Strictly honest and frank in his own action, he has sought to be just in his estimate of the action of others. To these qualities, and to their uniform manifestation in his active life, is chiefly due the remarkable degree of favor which he has received at the hands of those who have known him longest and best.

ALEXANDER HUNTINGTON NEWCOMB, is a son of Eleazer and Sarah (Taylor) Newcomb, and was born at Waterloo, Seneca County, New York, August 6, 1824, being the eighth of a family of nine children. His father was a Carpenter and Joiner by trade. When the son was about a year old, his parents removed to Rochester, New York, where they remained eight years. After a short residence in Buffalo and at Detroit, the family, in the Fall of 1835, came to Toledo, then a young City just struggling for life and recognition. The father died at Sylvania in 1840, the mother living until a few years since, and dying at the age of 88 years. The limited School privilege of Alexander's childhood greatly circumscribed his educational acquirements, he attending for but three months after he was 12 years old, when he sat out upon life's activity. His first work was that of carrier for the Blade in its earliest days. When 12 years old, he became a clerk in a store, where he remained for two years-subsequently occupying like position in a Drug and Hardware Store. When 18 years old, he began an apprenticeship at the Painter's trade, which being completed, he opened a shop on the Southwest corner of Summit and Adams Streets, and for more than a quarter of a century was successfully and extensively engaged in house, sign and ornamental painting, graining, &c. During a por-

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tion of the year 1856, he was engaged in the Hardware trade on the corner of Monroe and St. Clair Streets. Mr. Newcomb was among the earliest members of the Independent Fire Department of the City, being connected with old "No. One," and remained actively in that relation until the organization of the paid Department. He was one of the organizers of the first Hook and Ladder Company of Toledo, in 1847, and now is one of three surviving members of the same. With a love for the military, he joined the Toledo Guards in 1844. Two years later, he was one of six of that Company, to tender their services to the Governor for the Mexican War, but the required number had been supplied when their offer was received. The Toledo Guards did much toward awakening and maintaining a military spirit among the young men of Toledo. Many successful officers during the War' of the Rebellion received their first military training in that Company. While a member of the Gun-Squad of the Guards, Mr. Newcomb lost his left arm in firing a salute at a Democratic meeting, September 24, 1856. He remained with the Company until it was disbanded in 1861. Prior to the formation of the Republican party, Mr. Newcomb was a Whig in politics, but has since been connected with the former, and has always been an active supporter of its policy and action. In 1857 he was elected as Justice of the Peace, serving with credit for three years. In 1860, he was chosen Mayor of Toledo, in which office he was earnest and efficient in the maintenance of law and order and sound morals as the Chief Magistrate of the City, in which he was supported by the better element of the City, although frequently brought in collision with the vicious and the lawless, whose combined action, irrespective of political affiliations, was sufficient to defeat him when a candidate for re-election in 1862. In 1865 he was appointed as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, serving until 1869. It is probably in connection with the Masonic Order, that Mr. Newcomb has become most widely known. He received the first three degrees of Masonry in Toledo Lodge, No. 144, in 1851, and soon thereafter filled the Senior Warden's chair; and in 1854 was elected Worshipful Master of the Lodge, continuing as such to and including the year 1860. From 1863 to 1869, and several times since, he has served in the same capacity, making a total of 14 years in that position, and longer than has any other member of the Order in Toledo. In 1857, with five others, he was appointed by Benj. F. Smith, Grand Master, to revise the ritual, which service, after 12 days of labor, produced a "work" which, with few changes, remains the standard in Ohio. At the same time, he was appointed as District Lecturer, for the Third District, including 15 Counties in Northwestern Ohio, which position he held until 1869. In 1867 he was chosen Senior Grand Warden, and re-elected in 1868. At the session of 1869, he was elected Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ohio; and in 1870 and '71 was re-elected. At the reception tendered the Grand Master of England at Washington, in 1871, given by the Grand Masters of the several States, Mr. Newcomb represented the Order in Ohio. He was among the projectors of the Masonic Temple Association, and has been, throughout, a member of the Board of Directors. He was Superintendent of Construction of the Temple throughout that work. He was also one of the originators of the Masonic Relief' Association, of which he has been a Director from the first. Since April 20, 1886, he has been the Secretary of the Association. In 1866 he was presented by the members of Toledo Lodge, No. 144, with a beautiful gold watch, as a testimonial of appreciation of his services to the Lodge. For many years Mr. Newcomb was connected with the Congregational, and afterwards with the Methodist Church; but investigation and careful reflection have drawn him to the Spiritualistic faith. His influence has always been on the side of the right, in whatever cause. He was married May 14, 1848, with Susannah Horner, of Toledo. Five children have been born to them, of whom but two are livingRosanna, born in 1849, widow of the late Dr. Wm. Douglass, and George H., born in 1851, now Cashier for the Michigan Central Town House at Toledo.