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was organized in the county. People from Niles went by 'horseback to Youngstown, Howland, and Warren, to church, often carrying their babies with them, as they did elsewhere.


The first burying place in the township was near Salt Springs. Several interments were made here but later the bodies were removed, and the exact spot where they lay is not known.


The Union cemetery is the principal one of the township. Burials were made there as early as 1804. It is supposed that Hannah, daughter of James Heaton, was the first body buried here.


Niles, Ohltown, and Mineral Ridge are in this township, and most of the history is found under those heads.


Ohltown.


Ohltown is a mile and a half west of Mineral Ridge. It was named for its first settler, Michael Ohl. Some years ago it was a thriving little hamlet, but the coming of the street car, the steam car, the automobile, telegraph and telephone, has done for Ohltown the same thing that has been done to other towns—drawn the inhabitants to nearby cities, and reduced the number of residents.


Michael Ohl was an energetic business man who very soon after settling built a grist mill and a saw mill. Both were exceedingly primitive. The first grist mill was soon replaced by a better one, and as this was burned, a third and more substantial one was erected in 1844. He' also built an oil mill, but this did not prove a financial success, and was abandoned. He kept the first store. He also was instrumental in starting the first school in 1857. Almon McCorkle was the first teacher. It was held in the old Methodist church.


In 1838 a Methodist class as formed of fifteen members, Joseph Turner being the leader. After a time Ohltown was made a station on the Liberty circuit, and very many able preachers served it. Among these was Stephen Hurd. He was a tall, dignified man, and, after he retired, lived in Warren. The circuit riders were all good horsemen; most of them were fond of horses, naturally, and spending so much time with the animals as they were obliged to in their long drives, they became attached to them. To his last day the Rev. Stephen Hurd drove his horse, which was light of foot, about the -streets-


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of Warren. This horse had not as fine a tail as its owner wanted, and he therefore purchased a false tail into which he put the stumpy, real tail, strapping the same to the crupper. Most of Warren's citizens admired this horse, with its luxuriant tail, but the small boy in some mysterious way knew it was false, and one day when the reverend gentleman hitched his horse on Market street, at the time of day when the streets were filled, this boy unhooked the tail strap and when Mr. Hurd cracked his whip to drive away, the false appendage slipped to the ground, leaving only the stumpy tail in view. Oh, if only boys would use this splendid surplus energy for something else besides tricks, it would be well!


Because of the iron works, many of the early settlers of Weathersfield were Welsh, and there were several churches in the township.


The German people were in certain spots in this township, too, and in 1845 there was a German-Reformed church in Ohltown, which was later sold to the Methodists. This congregation was converted into the Cumberland Presbyterian, but after a time ceased to exist.


The Presbyterians also had a meeting house as early as 1845. They later sold this building to the Primitive Methodists, who kept the church for a few years, and disbanded.



Mineral Ridge.


Mineral Ridge, which is south of Niles, is a hamlet which, like Ohltown, has decreased rather than increased in the last few years. It is situated on a picturesque rise of ground, and here was found coal of a superior kind and most of the people in the neighborhood were miners, or connected with that industry in some way. Of course, there were the usual farmers.


Here lived Mr. Abner Webb, who married Margaret .Garghill, and whose brother was a man of financial success. His property reverted to Grant Webb, a son of Abner. Grant married the daughter of Charles E. Henry, who was United States marshal under Garfield's administration. Mr. and Mrs. Webb now live in Cleveland, are influential citizens, and have done much in many ways for Hiram College. The sister of Mrs. Webb, Isabelle Garghill Beecher, spent her childhood here, and began her public life by teaching school. She is probably the best known reader in the United States.


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Niles.


The early history of Weathersfield and Niles, in a certain sense, is identical. Although Niles is but five miles away from the county seat, the two towns are as much unlike as Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine. The differences will not be noted here for want of space, but it might be well to say that there has always been more or less contention and jealousy between the two towns, just as there has always been between individuals or politicians (seldom are there two United States senators of the same political faith from the same state, who do not manifest this spirit) butt strange to say, although the Niles politician has discredited the Warren politician, and the Warren newspaper has passed unnoticed the Niles newspaper, and so on, the women of Warren and Niles, from the earliest time to the present, have been friendly, sympathetic, and sociable.


The first iron made west of the Alleghanies was smelted in a little furnace constructed at the mouth of the Yellow creek, in Poland, about 1802. Theophilus Eaton was a deputy governor of the British East India Company. He possessed both wealth and influence and in 1637 he brought a Puritan colony to Boston. He had had the advantage of travel, and although the rest of the company were thinking about religious liberty, his mind was largely on founding a commercial community. John Davenport was the spiritual leader of this company, and Mr. Eaton convinced the reverend gentleman that it would be as much of a spiritual advantage as a commercial advantage to move on to some fertile spot where there was a good harbor. Both these men felt they would not like to get under the control of the government of Massachusetts, and so they settled on Long Island Sound, and named their town New Haven. Of course, they soon saw they would have to have a civil government, and Mr. Eaton was elected governor for many years. The descendants of Theophilus Eaton were possessed of his spirit and eventually crossed the Alleghanies. There were four brothers who remained in Trumbull County, James, Daniel, Reese, and Isaac. Another brother, Bowen, although he came here, did not. stay.


Kidney ore was found on the surface along Yellow Creek; wood was plenty with which to make charcoal, and the creek was sometimes navigable for rafts, so that astute Eaton brothers, James and Daniel, built a crude furnace, and began


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the manufacture of iron. There is still standing, in Struthers, the lower part of this brick foundation. Since men have piled up riches, millions upon millions, in the Mahoning Valley, through the manufacture of iron, it seems as if this first spot upon which it was made should be marked with an appropriate monument of some kind. However, this sort of sentiment the transplanted Yankee does not seem to have, although his New England cousins have it in a great degree.


James Heaton early sold his interest in this Struthers furnace to his brother Daniel, and with his brother Isaac settled in Howland in 1805. Isaac spent all his life in Howland. He was identified with its interests. He liked its people. He had two children, Maria, and a son, who afterwards practiced in Warren. He was justice of the peace for many years and was known as "Squire Eaton."


It was the intention of the Heatons to establish a commercial town in the wilderness of Trumbull County, and after a time James built a small furnace at the mouth of Mosquito creek. Isaac helped in this enterprise, but continued his residence in Howland. James built a cabin on Robbins avenue, just beyond the bridge, in a spot which is called by the old residents, "Circleville," and it is still standing. After a time, James sold his interest in the first furnace to some men of the neighborhood, and from that time on, although there were several sales made before much financial gain was had, that neighborhood has been the life of the iron manufacture of Ohio.


Daniel. Eaton was in a certain sense the best known of the brothers. People of his time said he was "as odd as Dick's hatband"; his descendants say the same thing of him. He was a liberal in belief, and yet he called his friends "brother" and "sisters" He attended no church, and yet entertained ministers and missionaries. He sympathized with the Mormon leaders and entertained them at his house, not because he believed in Mormonism, but because he disbelieved in oppression. He was a student of political affairs so far as they touched the financial, and in the latter part of his life, espoused an original and peculiar theory of issuing paper money. He despised shams, was a good hater, and a believer in temperance in those intemperate days. Each township seemed to have had a man or a woman who made the stand for temperance early, and Daniel Eaton was that man in Weathersfield. He was about to raise a building, and when the men found out he was not to


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give them whiskey or alcohol of any kind, they left the premises. This happened over and over again in the county, but usually the building was raised by old men of the family and boys of the neighborhood. In this case, Mr. Eaton called to himself the women of his family and neighborhood and with their assistance got up the frame. This is, so far as we know, the first building in Trumbull County to be raised by women.


Josiah Robbins and his wife, Electa, dispensed hospitality to all travelers and visitors of the vicinity. Mr. Robbins was a temperance man, as was Dan Eaton. They were the exceptions of their times. Wine was served ordinarily at all sorts of dinners, and every household had whiskey on the sideboard or mantlepiece where people were allowed to help themselves. Maria Robbins Ingraham says : "My father signed a temperance pledge soon after his first marriage." Dan Eaton drew up a pledge in 1813, which obligated all the signers to entire abstinence from all intoxicating liquors. Laura A. Luce says : "This pledge remained in my grandfather's family until 1842 or '43 when a traveling lecturer begged that it might be given to him as it was much the earliest pledge of the kind that he had ever seen. The pioneer women who signed this pledge were Phebe Blachly, Naomi Eaton, Sarah Drake, Katie Barnes, and Margaret Eaton. I have heard my grandmother say that liquor was served at all huskings and quiltings, and her cheeks would burn and her hand tremble when she passed the social glass without partaking."


At one time Mr. Eaton ran for office. His name was Daniel Heaton. The tickets were printed "Dan Eaton." One of his descendants says that for this reason he was counted out. Later he had the legislature change his name to Dan Eaton, so, although the other brothers retained the name of Heaton, he was known as Eaton. Someone at the time playfully said, that as Mr. Eaton wished to have his name sound like his brothers', he dropped the "h" in order that the English in the Valley might call him by the proper name, that is, put on the "h" when it was not there. He was senator from Trumbull County in 1813, and a member of the lower house in 1820.


Bowen Heaton settled on the Luce farm in Weathersfield and moved to Illinois in 1836.


James Heaton was as strong a man as Daniel, but not so radical. He was powerful physically, and employed all spare moments in reading. People wondered that he should be a


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Whig when he was interested in the iron business. He acquired rights on the Mosquito -creek, built a dam, a grist mill, cabin for his workmen, and a sawmill. In 1807 he had a forge in operation about where the B. and 0. Railroad crosses the creek. For a time he got his pig iron for his blooms at the Yellow Creek furnace, but about 1812 he built a blast furnace, a little east of the present high school building. This was -owned by his children and his grandchildren and went out of blast in the '50s. His son, Warren Heaton, was early associated with him. Before. this, however, McKinley, Dempsey & Campbell rented the furnace, and in 1842 McKinley and Reep rented it again. McKinley moved to Poland in 1842. He was the father of William McKinley, the president. He went to Poland partly to secure educational advantages for his children. Had lie remained in Niles, in the iron business, his son probably would have been one of the rich and prosperous men of the vicinage. However, he would not have been president, but it is better to be alive than to be president.


Among James Heaton's children was Warren, associated with his father in business, as above stated; and who ran the furnace between '33 and '42, with his brother-in-law, Josiah Bobbins. Warren Heaton married Eliza McConnell, a daughter of John and Nancy Travers, and their children, who lived in Warren, were James, Julia, and Maria. James died unmarried. Julia was the wife of John R. Woods, and her son, James Heaton Woods, is a successful business man of Cleveland who began his business life by dealing in the coal of the Mahoning Valley where his great-grandfather and great-uncle first began their work. Mrs. Woods had a large family of children, three of the eight only growing to adult age. Aside from James, there was Sally, who married Harmon Austin Jr., and Maria, commonly called May, who married Rolland Gillmer, the son of Judge T. I. Gillmer. These descendants of James are therefore connected with the McConnells, the Woods, the Austins and the Gillmers, all of whom were pioneer families in the southern part of Trumbull County. The youngest child of Warren Heaton, and the only living Heaton, grandchild of James, now resides in Warren, and bears the name of Maria, which has been in all generations of the family.


The daughter of James Heaton, Maria, was the first white child born in Niles.. When she was a little thing, about 1809, "following an old English custom, her father carried her to


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light the first fire in his new charcoal, blast furnace, and to give it her name. It was known as the 'Maria Furnace' until it went out of blast fifty years later." This Maria was the pet of the family, although pets of those days would not consider themselves pets were they living now. She went to school in Howland township, then in Warren, then in Kinsman, and finally at Little Washington, Pennsylvania. In 1818 her father built the house now standing on the south side of Robbins avenue at the head of the hill, owned by W. B. Mason. It was built after the Colonial style so much in vogue in Virginia and was among the attractive homes of the county. Here many years later, Frank Mason, who has made a reputation in the diplomatic service of the United States, lived, and here his brother an his genial wife reside. Maria Heaton, when she returned from school, gave a Halloween party, which was attended by the young people of the neighborhood, among them Charles and Henry Smith, of Warren, John Crowell of the same place, and Josiah Robbins of Youngstown. Among the things to eat was a turkey, and Mr. Robbins, although quite young, was asked to carve it. This he did in such a way as to meet the approval of James Heaton, and after the refreshments were served, and the dancing begun, people noticed what a beautiful couple Josiah Robbins and Maria Heaton were, and when he was leaving the house Mr. and Mrs. Heaton asked him to call again, which lie did. In the following March, they were married, and this home became their home until it was sold to Ambrose Mason. Maria Heaton, as Mrs. Robbins, lived in this house all her married life. She died in 1835, and her husband later married Electa Mason, the sister of Henry, Hiram, Harriet (Mrs. Reeves). So much affection for and connection with the early families was there, that when Electa Mason's eldest daughter was born, she was named Maria, after her father's first wife, Maria Heaton.


After a time the little manufacturers started near the mouth of the Mosquito creek grew and became a hamlet. It stood east of Mosquito creek and north of the Mahoning river, including the main part of the business portion now. It was laid out in 1834 by James Heaton and his son, Warren. The former gave it the name "Niles" from the Niles Register, published in Baltimore, Maryland. This Register was Mr. Heaton's standby. Warren in 1832 built a house in this town, and a few other dwellings existed. In 1844 the establishment of the


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Ward Rolling Mill brought a number of workmen, so that in 1850 there were about a thousand persons there. It is said that the bar iron manufactured by James Heaton in 1809 was the first of the hammered bar produced in the state of Ohio.


The first store which existed in early Niles was for the supply of the workmen, was kept by Robert Quigley, and stood on the corner of Mill and Main streets. He began business two years after the town was laid out. In 1839 Robbins and Mason had the second general store, and Mr. Mason continued in his store until 1864. The families of the Robbins and Masons were large and intermarried, so that the connections of these two in Niles are large.


The first landlord was Jacob .Robinson. His hotel stood where the Allison Hotel now stands. He built, later, a hotel on the west side of the street and kept it for many years. James Ward lived in the house just south of the present Allison House, and later this became the Commercial Hotel.

The town of Niles became incorporated about 1865, and H. H. Mason was elected mayor in January, 1866.


There were several private schools in Niles in the early '40s. Dr. and Mrs. Blachley founded a school which was at- tended by non-resident pupils. Amy Eaton had a select school which accommodated boarders. She was well equipped for teaching. Under her tuition Josiah Robins, John Heaton, and David McKinley prepared to enter Allegheny College.


We find the following interesting document in connection with the public schools of Niles :


Friday, September 16, 1842.

Pursuant to previous notice the house holders in District No. 8 in Weathersfield township, Trumbull County, Ohio, met for the purpose of electing three school directors, the meeting being called to order by appointing William McKinley, Jacob Robison and James Dempsy to the chairs.


They then proceeded to the election of officers. Afer canceling the votes given it was found that William McKinley was elected school director for the term of three years Jacob Robinson for the term of two years and Dr. Miller Blachly for the term of one year. The said directors then proceeded to select one of their number for district clerk and treasurer which ended in the appointment of William McKinley to that office. This done the oath of


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office was administered by James Dempsey Esq. Meeting adjourned.

WILLIAM MCKINLEY,

District Clerk.


In 1869 the Union school district was formed and the board consisted of six members. They were Josiah Robbins, T. Calvin Stewart, William Campbell, S. D. Young, William Davis, and William C. Mann. Josiah Robbins was elected president. The Central high school building was finished in 1871, and the first graduation was in 1875. There was but one graduate, Frank Robbins, who entered Hiram College.


The superintendents have been Prof. L. L. Campbell, C. E. Hitchcock, T. H. Bulla, W. N. Wight, and Frank J. Roller. Among the early teachers were A. J. Luce, Catherine Hank, Sarah Ann Galbreath and Harriet Hyde.


The following needs no explanation ; "The good-will of the authorities and the community is shown in the reappointment of Miss Hyde at an advance in salary amounting to $.50 per month, and perhaps, also, in that the lady was not paid even a part of her salary in bar iron."


The war had its effect upon the Niles school as it had upon all other institutions, and there are no records of the condition of the school during the war days.


Present board of education of Niles : President, W. H. Pritchard ; secretary, J. W. Eaton, W. G. Duck, J. W. Tipper, W. H. Jenkins, E. A. Gilbert, H. C. Davis.


Present corps of teachers in Niles schools :


Central High School: W. H. C. Newington, principal; C. A. McCaughtry, Elizabeth Lloyd.


Grades: Alice Gilbert, Clara Seagraves, Estella Potter, Lydia Watson, Lulu Clark, Bertha Stephans, Marion Kelly.


Warren Avenue: Mrs. Florence Southard, principal; Cora Strock, Kate Watson, Della Cassidy.

Leslie Avenue: Anna Hughes, principal ; Hazel Butler.


Cedar Street: Rebekah Cook, principal; Mrs. Geo. Craig, Elsie Stallsmith, Lida Logan, Clara Williams, Bertha Thomas, Hazel Gilbert, Matilda Erwin.


Number of pupils enrolled, 1410. There have been 233 students graduated from the Niles high school. Of these 166 were girls and 67 boys.


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Trumbull County is proud of the fact that William McKinley Jr. was born within its limits. Niles is greatly gratified that this martyred president first saw the light there. During the McKinley campaign a New York paper asked the author of this work to write an article on McKinley's boyhood. Knowing the family well, she thought it would be wise to consult the mother and sisters about the pranks of the son and brother upon whom the eyes of the world were then turned. She learned that he was always kind to the family, that he never quarreled as did other children, that he did not dislike church, that he liked to go to Sunday school, that he never fished on Sunday, that he liked to study, felt bad when school was out, did not care for the rough games of boys or the coarse talk of older men, preferred to stay in the house and read or play with his sisters to the more energetic life of boys. Fix it as she could, the author could make nothing out of this gentle life that could not be misconstrued by the opposing political press men. She knew the other side would call him "goo-goo" and she never sent the article. The fact that he liked books and quietude, made him a good student and consequently a favorite with his teachers.


One of the first of these teachers was Albe Sanford. J. G. Butler Jr. says he was locally known as Santa Anna. He came to Niles soon after the Mexican war and had charge of the little white schoolhouse for a number of years. He was called "Santa Anna" from some supposed resemblance to the great Mexican general, possibly because of his peaceful nature. He was a character and his methods of discipline were unique, running entirely to ridicule. It was his delight to make a girl sit between two boys, or a boy between two girls, as punishment. This sometimes happened to young McKinley. He liked it. The more girls, the better. It is related by all McKinley's people that he was genial, bright, got his lessons, recited them well, and behaved himself generally. The only mannish sport he seemed to care for was playing soldier, and then his cap was of paper, and his sword of wood. The family moved to Poland when he was about ten years old and there he spent the rest of his school days. One of his early teachers, Maria Bolin, now Mrs. Kyle, now lives in Niles and remembers with pleasure when William was one of her pupils in the old frame schoolhouse at the corner of Main and Church streets. His sister, Annie, lived in Niles the first twenty years of her life, except


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for a brief period, was well educated, and taught school in Canton for thirty years.


In 1814 a Methodist class was formed at the house of Ebenezer Roller. No list of the first members of this class is in existence. Rev. Samuel Lane was a circuit rider who occasionally preached there. In 1870 a church was erected which served the purpose until 1908, when the present handsome edifice was occupied by the congregation. It is a beautiful church and its members are proud of it.


In 1838 steps were taken for organizing the Weathersfield Presbyterian church. This was accomplished in 1839, and Rev. William 0. Stratton, the father of Mrs. Polly Reid of Warren, organized the church with the following members : Miller Blachly, and wife Phoebe, Eben and Anna Blachly, Robert Quigley, Catherine Wrighter, Andrew Trew, Margaret and Elizabeth Biggart, hiller Blachly Jr. and wife Mary, James and Elizabeth McCombs, Eleanor Bell. Reverends Stratton, Herr, Dickey, and others supplied the pulpit until 1867, when Rev. Calvin Stewart was pastor five years. Revs. S. T. Street and A. T. Mealey are among the late pastors. The present one is the Rev. Emil S. Toensmeier. A new church was constructed in 1892 costing $12,000.


The Christian revival in Trumbull County did not seem to penetrate Niles as it did other townships. It was not until 1840 that Elder John Henry organized a church there of which Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Carl, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Luce, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Heaton, Nancy Carle, Mrs. Battles, Josiah and Polly Dunlap, William Winfield, Seymour Hake, and others were members. The first church was erected between 1843 and 1844, and among the long list of ministers who have led this flock we find the names of John T. Smith, Gideon Applegate, Methias Christy, E. W. Wakefield, N. N. Bartlett.


We are indebted to W. H. V. Newington who has been active in the Church of Christ of Niles for the following facts in regard to the later history:


"The frame building which preceded the present handsome brick church formerly faced the south, with its back or pulpit end turned toward Church street. This was for the purpose of having a spacious lawn fronting the city park. In the middle eighties this building was turned to face Mechanic street


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and the interior was considerably repaired and improved. In the early nineties the church was deemed incommodious and unbefitting the growing congregation. In 1894 the present beautiful church was erected, at a cost, furnishing included, of about $16,000, an expense which would be nearly doubled at the present time. When finished it was the finest and largest Protestant church in the city, and was the first to install a pipe organ, at the cost of more than $1,000. Beside the auditorium it has a large Sunday school room with several class rooms opening from the same and the whole connected with the main room by sliding doors. The basement has dining room and kitchen with lavatories. The building is heated by steam and lighted with electricity. At the present time, 1909, the church has again been considered too small for all its offices and plans are being formulated to enlarge the Sunday school accommodations to double their capacity. In 1900, a handsome parsonage was built at the south end of the church lot, and has proved of great aid for the efficiency of church work. Of the ministers mentioned in the earlier article, Waller Hayden, J. M. Monroe, W. H. Rogers, C. C. Smith, and E. W. Wakefield are still living. To these must be added as pastors since 1882—Revs. Warren Bowel], Dr. J. W. Lowe, Candee, E. E. Curry, O. M. Oliphant, D. M. Moss, D. D. Burt, J. F. Mahoney and the present incumbent Allen T. Gordon. All of the original members of the church have passed to the better life. Hiram Ohl and George Battles, who were deacons in 1882, are now elders, and with them, on the official board, are associated three other elders and twelve deacons. In 1906, Evangelist Herbert Youell conducted a very successful revival meeting at which time two hundred and sixty-five members were added to the church. The present membership is nearly four hundred."


A religious society in Niles known as the Primitive Methodists is the only church of its kind in the county. Rev. M. Harvey organized it and was its first pastor. That was in 1873, and six years later a church building was erected. It was situated in the Russia Field and was attended largely by the iron workers.


The Baptist church was organized in 1868. This congregation too was a small one and made up largely of mill employees.


St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church was formed by Rev. E. N. O'Callan. This has always been a strong organization, since so many residents of Niles have been Rothanists. Paro-


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chial schools are conducted, and all orders connected with the church are prosperous.. The priests of late years, at least, have been men of strong character and deserving of the respect given them.


The Welsh Presbyterians erected a church in 1872 at the cost of $6,000. Before this society had a church of its own it met in the house belonging to the Cumberland Presbyterians. It, like several of the other churches, has a small membership.


The Episcopal church, known as St. Luke's is on Robbins avenue above Vienna street.


CHAPTER LIII.


CIVIL LISTS.—STATE SENATORS.—MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.—STATE

REPRESENTATIVES.—GOVERNORS FROM TRUM-

BULL COUNTY.—MISCELLANEOUS

NOTES.


State Senators.


1803, Samuel Huntington, March Term.

1803, Benjamin Tappan, December Term.

1804-1805, George Tod.

1806-1809, Calvin Cone.

1810-1811, George Tod.

1812, Calvin Pease.

1813, Daniel Eaton.

1814, Turhand Kirtland.

1815, Eli Baldwin.

1816-1817, John W. Seely.

1818-1821, Eli Baldwin.

1822-1823, Samuel Bryson.

1824, Thomas D. Webb. *

1825, Henry Manning.

1826-1827, Eli Baldwin.

1828-1829, Thomas D. Webb.

1830-1831, Wm. Ripley.

1832-1833, Ephraim Brown.

1834-1837 Leicester King.

1838-1839, David Tod.

1840-1841, John Crowell.

1842-1843, Eben Newton..

1844-1845, Samuel Quinby.

1846-1849, John F. Beaver.

1850-1851, Milton Sutliff.

1852-1853, Jonathan I. Tod.


* Seat contested and given to Henry Manning.


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1854-1855, Ira Norris.

1856-1859, Robert W. Taylor.

1860-1861, J. Dolson Cox.

1862-1863, Samuel Quinby.

1864-1865; Eben Newton.

1866-1867, George F. Brown.

1868-1871, L. D. Woodworth.

1872-1875, L. C. Jones.

1876-1879, J. R. Johnson.

1880-1882, H. B. Perkins.

1884-1886, A. D. Fassett.

1888, Jno. M. Stull.

1890, E. A. Reed.

1892-1894, L. C. Ohl.

1896-1898, J. J. Sullivan.

1900-1902, Benj. F. Wirt.

1904-1906, Thos. Kinsman.

1908, David Tod.


Members of Congress.


1813, John S. Edwards, Warren, Trumbull County.

1813-1814, Rezin Beall, Wooster, Wayne County.

1814-1817, David Clendenin, Trumbull County.

1817-1819, Peter Hitchcock, Burton, Geauga County.

1819-1823, John Sloan, Wooster, Wayne County.

1823-1838, Elisha Whittlesey, Canfield, Trumbull County.

1838-1843, Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson, Ashtabula County.

1843-1847, Daniel R. Tilden, Ravenna, Portage County.

1847-1851, John Crowell, Warren, Trumbull County.

1851-1853, Even Newton, Canfield, Trumbull County.

1853-1859, Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson, Ashtabula County.

1859-1863, John Hutchins, Warren, Trumbull County.

1863-1880, James A. Garfield, Hiram, Portage County.

1880-1893, Ezra B. Taylor, Warren, Trumbull County.

1893-1898, Stephen A. Northway, Jefferson, Ashtabula County.

1898-1902, Charles Dick, Akron, Summit County.

1902, W. Aubrey Thomas, Niles, Trumbull County.


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State Representatives.


1803, Ephraim Quinby, Aaron Wheeler, March Term.

1803, David Abbott, Ephraim Quinby, December Term.

1804, Amos Spofford, Homer Hine.

1805, Homer Hine, James Kingsbury.

1806, James Kingsbury, John P. Bissell.

1807, John W. Seely, James Montgomery.

1808-1809, Rich. J. Elliott, Robert Hughes.

1810, Aaron Collar, Thomas G. Jones.

1811, Thomas G. Jones, Samuel Bryson.

1812, Samuel Bryson, Benj. Ross.

1813, Benj. Ross, Samuel Leavitt.

1814, Wilson Elliott, James Hillman.

1815, Samuel Bryson, W. W. Cotgreave.

1816, Homer Hine, Henry Lane.

1817, Eli Baldwin, Edward Scofield.

1818, Henry Lane, Edward Scofield.

1819, Henry Lane, Henry Manning.

1820, Dan Eaton, Elisha Whittlesey.

1821, Thomas Howe, Elisha Whittlesey.

1822-1823, James Mackey, Cyrus Bosworth.

1824, Homer Hine, Ephraim Brown.

1825, Ephraim Brown, Eli Baldwin.

1826, Henry Lane, Roswell Stone.

1827-1828, Titus Brockway, Wm. Ripley.

1829, Jared P. Kirtland, George Swift.

1830, Benj. Allen, Richard Iddings.

1831, Calvin Pease, Jared P. Kirtland.

1832, Jedediah Fitch, Benj. Allen.

1833, Walter Johnson, Thomas Robbins.

1834, Jared P. Kirtland, Wm. A. Otis.

1835, Eli Baldwin, Tensard R. DeWolf.

1836, Seth Hayes, Tracy Bronson.

1837, John C. Woodruff, Tracy Bronson.

1838, Tracy Bronson, Thomas Howe.

1839, Isaac Powers, Thomas Howe.

1840, Peter Allen, Josiah Robbins.

1841, John Briggs.

1842, Jacob H. Baldwin, Nathan Webb.

1843, Henry Manning, Asahel Medbury.

1844, Buell Barnes.


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1845, Buell Barnes, Henry Boyd.

1846, Joseph Truesdale.

1847, Joseph Truesdale, John Harrington.

1848, Isaac Lee, Albert G. Riddle, for Trumbull and Geauga.

1849, John Hutchins, Albert G. Riddle, for Trumbull and Geauga.

1850-1851, More C. Bradley, Gamaliel H. Kent, for Trumbull and Geauga.

1852-1853, Franklin E. Stone.

1854-1855, Mathew Birchard.

1856-1857, Ralph Plum, George T. Townsend.

1858-1859, Geo. T. Townsend, Geo. H. Howe.

1860-1861, Robert H. Walker.

1862-1863, George H. Howe.

1864-1865, Austin D. Kibbee.

1866-1867, Austin D. Kibbee.

1868-1869, Wm. Ritezel.

1870-1871, Wm. Ritezel, J. K. Wing.

1872-1873, J. K. Wing.

1874-1875, Thomas J. M'Lain, Jr.

1876-1877, Thomas J. M'Lain, Jr., D. J. Edwards.

1878-1879, Edmund A. Reed, David J., Edwards.

1880-1881, Edmund Reed.

1882-1883, Stephen Laird.

1884-1885, Stephen Laird.

1886-1887, Mark Ames, Thos. H. Stewart.

1888-1889, Mark Ames, Thos. H. Stewart.

1890-1891, Chas. H. Strock.

1892-1893, Chas. H. Strock.

1894-1895, Allen Jones.

1896-1897, Allen Jones.

1898-1899, Win.. H. Johnson.

1900-1901, Thos. Kinsman.

1902-1903, Thos. Kinsman.

1904-1905, Warren Thomas.

1906-1907, Warren Thomas.

1908, R. A. Cobb.


Governors from Trumbull County.


Samuel Huntington, Jacob D. Cox.


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Notes.


The author has been tempted to add some notes which have been of interest to her and which cannot be classified very well.


In Chronicle of October 11, 1842, we find "The party who took a female cloak from the park will please return it and receive the one left."


In the chapter on the Presbyterian church, we quote from a letter of Mrs. Dickey to her son Samuel, who had gone east to be married. The Dickey homestead stood on the east side of Tod avenue, opposite the place where Fannie Dickey Messer now lives. When this latter property was purchased by the Dickeys there was a house south of Mrs. Messer's home, and here Samuel Dickey brought his wife. We quote the following from a letter which Fannie, the sister of Samuel, wrote him at the same time his mother was sending a letter. She says that as her mother has told him all about the fire, she will tell about the weddings. "The first was Mrs. Porter's and Deacon McFarland. It seemed to be Gretna Green affair. She was watched so narrowly by her friends that she could get no opportunity to have the knot tied. Finally Mr. Gilbert, knowing what a fix they were in, offered them his house where the ceremony might be performed, and took it upon himself to get the bride there, in which he succeeded admirably. There were about a dozen invited in and it passed off quite pleasantly, and it was all carried on secretly until it was over. They then rode down through Market street and Main street, where they received most profound bows. Charlie Smith felt pretty well worked and said he felt very much as he did when he was beat after election, but says she did just as he would have done had he been in her place. About a week after you left Laura Webb was allied to Dr. Iddings. Your honored presence was solicited, not knowing that you had left. Martha and myself were there. I should think there were about a hundred present. * * * * We have got our new carpet home and it meets our expectations. We have fifteen yards standing in a roll waiting further orders. Martha has gone a 'gadding' up to Aunt Mason's. There is where you may imagine her every Saturday. afternoon. You know she must go and see how Aunt Mason feels toward Mr. Purinton, so she can de-


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cide whether it will be proper for her to go to church tomorrow or not. I am to meet her at your house for we are going to strip your rose bushes. You had better come home and see to your things."


In the Western Reserve Chronicle of May 21, 1818: Walter King advertises mustard spoons, sugar tongs, ear rings and finger rings, watch cases, etc., together with cash paid for gold and silver.


April 1, 1819. A marriage notice appears as follows : "Mr. ----- Wright, to Widow Rachel Beckwith, after a serious struggle of two nights' courtship." Married by Rev. Jos. Badger.


Chronicle, Aug. 10, 1821. "Dr. Brooks proposes to administer 10 or 15 doses of the protoxide of azote, or the exhilarating gas, in the Warren Hotel on Tuesday next at 3:00 o'clock P. M. The sensations produced by this gas are highly pleasurable and resemble those in some degree attendant on the pleasant period of intoxication. Great exhilaration, an irresistible propensity to laugh, dance and sing, a rapid flow of vivid ideas, and an unusual fitness for muscular exertion, are the ordinary feelings it produces. These pleasant sensations are not succeeded by any debilitating effects upon the system. A more full account of this gas will be given on the evening of exhibition. Tickets of admission may be had at the printing office."


An advertisement. "Jacob Hake Taylor. Coat $3.00; Pantaloons, $1.25; Vest, $1.25.


Bonnets. Florence, straw and silk bonnets also palm hooks and an extensive stock of bonnet silks, plain, figured, and plaid. Very low at VanGorder & Canfield. (1844.)


From a full geared sawmill to a pair of pocket combs can be had for cash at awfully reduced prices. Truly astonishing at VanGorder's & Canfield's. (1844.)


Any Man, Boy, or stripling that wants to buy stuff for


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trousers cheaper than was ever dreamed of, call VanGorder & Canfield. (1844.)


Mr, Isaac VanGorder of this township has presented us with an apple, of the species called gloria of munda, which. weighs 27 ounces. (1846.)


Any one wishing to buy $1,00 worth of coffee bring along a three bushel bag to put it in, VanGorder & Canfield.


It may be of interest, to the readers to' know what price was paid for furniture in the late '40s by people who were going to housekeeping. The author has seen a memorandum containing some of the things which Minerva Mackett brought into the home of Harmon Austin, her husband, when she was married.



New beds and bedding

Two bedsteads

Beauroe

Table

3 stands

Brass kettle

Brass kettle

5 feather beds, 25 lbs. each

Bedding, sheets, blankets, * * * * and rugs

1 poor bed and bedding

3 bedsteads

2 bedsteads

1 desk

$27.50

10.00

25,00

5,00

10.00

10.00

3,00

31,25

42.25

6.00

19.00

2,00

14.00





" The first regular celebration of the Fourth of July was in Warren, in 1800." * ' It "was participated in by citizens of Youngstown, Painesville, and other points. A section of a hollow pepperidge was extemporized for a drum barrel, and a faun skin furnished the heads, A fife was manufactured from an elder, Music, firing, fun, whiskey and speeches were abundant, and it is questionable whether Warren ever had a more patriotic celebration,"


In searching among the early records, the author has found the dates of the marriages of many people who were later concerned in the social life of Warren. They are as follows :


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August 17, 1821, George Swift and Olive Kinsman.

March 24, 1840, R. W. Taylor and Louise Woodbridge.

March 26, 1840, James Hoyt to Elizabeth Brown.

March 25, 1840, Frederick Kinsman and Cornelia Pease, Rev. Purinton officiating.

April 16, 1840, Louis Iddings and Jane Chesney.

1840, Urial Hutchins and Emily Bennett.

September 23, 1840, Cyrus VanGorder and Jane W. Seeley.

March 17, 1841, Mathew Tayler and Adeline Hapgood.

October 25, 1841, Joseph Perkins and Martha Ellen Steele.

February 14, 1842, Charles Brown and Julia King.

July 7, 1842, David Gilmore and Charlotte Jamison.

July 6, 1843, Charles Hickox and Laura Freeman.

December 14, 1843, Josiah Nelson and Eleanor Byers.

October 13, 1844, Dr. Corydon Palmer and Mary Craig.

December 8, 1846, William Leffingwell and Lucy Adams.

November 23, 1846, Oliver H. Patch and Elizabeth Opyedyke.

June 15, 1853, William Stiles and Elizabeth Quinby.

February 4, 1853, Dr. John R. Woods and Julia Heaton.


John M. Edwards married Phoebe Mary Crail on July 14, 1842. The above notice was accompanied by a "bountiful supply of 'fixins' and most delicious they were, too. May the happy pair enjoy a long life of unalloyed happiness."


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Twenty years from now, when the writer of this history is an old woman, possibly sitting on her porch under the green maple trees, a man, writing a History of Trumbull County, will present himself. "I understand you came to Warren in the '60s. Will you tell me some of the things you remember of that time'?" The writer will reply "Certainly." For she will not have forgotten how gracious and kind the old people of 1909 were to her when she attempted her narrative of Trumbull county. She therefore will tell the young author that the first thing V she remembers was waking up in the night thinking the building in which she was sleeping was falling down. This must have been her first night in Warren, and she was six years old, for she lived at the Gaskil I House, kept by Mrs. Schoenberger, which later_ bekan-P_AbP__Alisti-n_B-DIX9.0 Thj „WS % appr,ft-x2 'Ube the best hotel in the city, but then, as now, it was so near the railroad track that the passing engines seemed to be directly next to the window. The inside of that house is a perfect blank to her, with one exception. There was a long flight of stairs leading from the upper hall to the dining room. This was supposed to be the stairs which ladies would take into the dining room, so as not to have to go through the public hallway. They were steep and long and not at all like the comfortable stairs over which the men were supposed to travel. The writer's mother forbade her going down these stairs because she was such a little thing. The writer obeyed. She did not go down the stairs, she slid the banister the whole way. Several times she lost her balance, or partially so, by catching her feet in some green cloth which was outside of the banister, probably placed there to prevent the people at their meals seeing the skirts and the ankles of the women as they came down stairs.


The writer remembers several things distinctly which happened when she lived at this hotel. Young men who used to frequent the barroom would tell her to go across the street and dig in a sand pile and maybe she would find pennies. She always did. Eagerly she grabbed these and ran across the street to a little grocery which had a funny door with a bell


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attached at the top. After this bell rang it seemed a half a day to her before Mr. Bishop came out of the rear room to give her her "Juge Paste." Mr. Bishop was very fond of children and all who lived in this neighborhood loved him. Many years after, he became blind and the writer used to wish that she could do something for him to repay him for the pleasure he gave her when she was a little child.


A drayman named Mix is also remembered. He drove a white horse, and came to the Erie station for freight. He used to allow her to ride on the end of his dray, and with her legs swinging off of that dray she had ridden miles in the town. Once she cried herself to sleep because her father was a lawyer instead of a drayman.


There was a little store on the east side of Main street, either just on or just below the B. & 0. tracks. This was a millinery establishment kept by Rothchild. He had several children, one, Rosa, was just her age. She liked this store because she could buy bits of yarn and ribbons on Sunday, but she could not buy them on Saturday. Long after this, the Rothchilds moved up town, occupied a store between the Hapgood drug store and the original McConnell restaurant, and George and Nathan Gunlefinger became associated with them in business.


She remembers when the ice went out of the river, or a flood came down, or something unusual happened in the river, that the body of a man was fished out and lay on the platform of the Mahoning station. All that she saw was his water-soaked boots but even that sight made her afraid to go into her room in the dark, for long after.


Because she was lonesome, she was allowed to go to the one-story, wooden schoolhouse which stood on Park avenue, second lot below the corner of Franklin, on the west side of the street. This school was heated by big stoves which were red hot. She thinks the room might have been comfortable, but great areas of plaster were off the sides and the wind used to whistle so that she got the earache on the wind-side. None of the teachers nor the scholars are remembered in that school. Aside from the holey wall, two things remain in memory. One was, one day when she was to "speak a piece," and had reached the second verse, the whole room grew black, and she ran home. She remembers the teachers used to punish the girls by making them lie on the floor and put their feet on the seat. "Impossible," ejaculated the young historian. The writer admits she


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may be mistaken, but suggests that the young historian call on Mrs. Albert Jameson, who was a little older than she, and who went to this school.


This suggestion recalls to the writer's mind that one of the first houses in Warren that she was ever in was that of Mr. E. E. Hoyt, which stood on the southwest corner of Franklin and Main streets. She went with her mother to return Mrs. Hoyt's call, and the two daughters of Mrs. Hoyt, Abbie (Mrs. Briscoe) and Fannie (Mrs. Jameson), had the lower part of a book-case fitted up as a doll house, and in this were dolls, and dolls' furniture, little beds made up, and a most attractive place it was for a child of that day. There were then few toys. These two girls were playing with these dolls in this very doll house when the alarm for a fire of 1860 was given. Their house was not burned, although at different times fire had been around them.


The next bit of Warren history the writer remembers was seeing houses on runners coming down Park avenue. She did not understand then, but she now knows that these were some of the houses that were built at Mecca during the oil excitement and after being abandoned were brought here.


At this time she lived at the American House, which was kept by Mr. Ed. Reeves. Here the engineers who planned the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad had an office. They used to make her paper dolls on Sunday, and buy toy balloons for her. Here she and H. L. Williams, a colored boy, used to harness themselves as horses and get a younger child for a driver while they pranced up and down the streets and through the park, while the mother urged her to be the driver and let some white boy be the horse. The writer remembers that she rebelled at the thought of being a driver. To be a prancing, dancing runaway horse was much more to her liking. She finally gained the point by saying, "But, mother, didn't grandfather keep darkies in the woodshed and don't you always tell me that colored people are just as good as white?" The writer has in her possession the drawing table upon which the drawing of the Atlantic & Great Western Road for this section of the country was done.


The next she remembers was the old north school standing on the corner of Prospect and School streets. This was the most dismal, coldest, "awfulest" schoolhouse that was ever in her town. Although the writer never excelled in scholarship in


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any school, anywhere, except as she occasionally later took good grades in Latin, in this old north school she used to stand at the head of her class in spelling very often. Kenyon Cox, who was her age, went to this school. He was not a very good student either, in those days, although he had such a. brilliant mother and father. The teacher used to punish him by making him sit with the girls.


The writer remembers distinctly the Sunday that word came that John Morgan was corning. She remembers how most of the men, women, and children in town collected in the park. She herself sat on the steps of the present Institute. She thinks, but she is not sure, that a little old cannon which belonged to the town was taken down to the South 'Street bridge as John Morgan was expected to come up the Canfield road. He was apprehended at New Lisbon before he got this far, although he was reported several times to be in Canfield.


She remembers living in the house now occupied by J. P. Gilbert, then owned by Rev. Joseph Marvin. Two things distinctly impressed upon her memory were the terrible mud on the present Mahoning avenue, and the day that Joseph Marvin had a sale of his goods. He had them packed in one of the upper rooms, and when they were brought down on the front porch, among them was a. stuffed loon. She wanted that bird so badly and hinted at the same to Mr. Marvin, which, of course. was very wrong. However, early in the afternoon, the auctioneer lifted this big bird onto the railing of the porch, and called for bids. Nobody seemed to care for it, to the delight of the writer. Several times during the afternoon was this ornament offered for sale, with no results. Finally, when the sun was going down, and neighbors and buyers were departing, with crocks, and pictures, and books, and so on, Mr. Marvin said, "Little girl, do you want this loon?" and so great was the writer's joy that she could not trust herself to speak aloud, but nodded her head quickly, grabbed the precious bird and disappeared with it. This she prized for eleven years, when some one stole it from her. She thinks that this loon was gotten by Mr. Dana Marvin, an officer in the navy, who presented it to the father.


She recalls a few times in her child life when she was out late at night with her parents or older friends, and the gas man would be ahead of them and put out the little flickering gas jets -which were in square glass lanterns on top of posts. A child


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who could narrate at school that he was out at *night after the gas man had been around, was a great hero. The gas was lighted by one man.


Another person of the past was the only milkman the town had. Mr. Peter Gaskill. He used to sit in the wagon and ring the bell until the customer came out. The thrifty housewife always had her pan, her tickets, and in winter, some heavy wrap, lying on the table near the door, so that she might hurry to the cart and not keep the man waiting. She remembers Mr. Gaskill told her that Mrs. Herzog, the mother of LaFayette Herzog, the attorney, took milk from him the first day he ran the cart and was still his customer to the end, probably twenty years.


Another picture is the old writing school which was taught by H. Clay Ewalt of Howland. She remembers a boy, long since dead, who picked his finger and filled his pen with blood and wrote her name; which bit of paper she preserved many long years. This writing school was held over the store of Andrews & Weeks, and although Mr. Ewalt could make beautiful pen birds, and wrote a fine hand himself, the writer did not improve in her. dreadful penmanship.


She remembers how big the trees were in the park, and how the park had a goodly grade on the southwest corner. So much so, that she used to ride flat down on her stomach on her sled in the winter time. She remembers when there was a turnstile at two at least of the park entrances, and she remembers seeing a beautiful young lady, who is now a grandmother, swinging on that stile. She remembers when they filled in the park, and covered up the roots of the trees in the southwest corner so that they died.


When she lived on Market street the mud was so deep that in the spring-time horses sometimes could not pull vehicles. Once or twice conveyances broke down, and then her father, and Mr. L. C. Jones, his partner, took the matter to the "City Fathers" and the question of sewering the town was agitated, which led to results. She has a distinct memory of when the sewer was built on Market street. Sometimes the men who were working there would let the children down into the ditch on dry summer days, where they would play until they were thoroughly coated with blue and yellow clay. Once a flock of sheep, after the sewer was .nearly .finished, got into.. it . nd traveled a goodly distance. She then lived in the house now owned by John Campbell, midway between Vine and Pine streets on the north


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side. It had been the home of. John Weeks, who built several nice houses in this city, one owned now by M. S. Clapp, one by Mrs. W. C. Stiles, on Park avenue. Mr. Weeks was very fond of flowers and fruit. In his little garden spot he had pears of several varieties, five or six apple trees, common currants, and cherry currants, Lawton blackberries, two kinds of grapes, vines growing on the barn, and a beautiful strawberry bed. On the spot of the strawberry bed, John Campbell, a double cousin of President William McKinley, now has a house in which he himself lives.

 

The old Baptist bell had the most horrible tone of any church bell. Her pet dog used to howl every time it rang, and the neighbors threatened to have it killed. She used to sit and hold the dog's jaws together when the bell rang, explaining to the animal that it was a question of life and death with it. It seems as if the sexton rang that bell an hour each Sunday morning.

 

She remembers how big Red Run was in those early days and how sometimes she sailed cucumber boats on it, sometimes waded in it, but she particularly remembers a spot below the Market street crossing where one spring, after a revival in a church here, she acted as chaplain and baptized six or eight of the younger children of the neighborhood, using the Episcopal service. For this wicked, sacrilegious performance, some of her mother's friends tried to persuade that parent to chastise her, but the mother, not believing in corporal punishment, compromised by promising to keep her in the house half a day and to make it right with the child, spent the entire half day playing with her herself.

 

Another relic of memory is the old brick pond on which she skated, and the canal basin which ran at right angles with the Canal proper, up to South street, nearly opposite the Iddings residence. Here she was allowed to skate and two or three times in her life did she go to Adgate's pond. Other children went often. She was not really built for athletics. She remembers watching the young men and women of that day, and remembers some of the skating suits which the high-school girls wore. Mattie Harmon (Mrs. Hawkins), Clara Harmon (Mrs. Bradshaw),had skating suits of black and white woolen, Mattie's trimmed with pale blue stripes, and Clara's with light red. She wondered, as she saw these two young women, each with a young

 

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man, sailing off towards Adgate's pond, whether she would ever have anything so elegant as a skating suit. She never had.

 

Then there were the dancing schools to which she went in the afternoon, while the older people went in the evening. Sometimes she was allowed to stay for the evening party. She remembers full well the dancing master, named Ballou, who wore a peculiar kind of pumps and showed off fancy steps by himself in the middle of the big ball-room. Her life was so exceedingly ordinary that -she congratulates herself that she was a good enough dancer to have this great Cleveland dancing master lead her out to help illustrate these steps. She can shut her eyes and see old Prof. Powers of Mecca, at a later date, with violin in hand, counting, "one-and-two-and-three-and-four" if it was a polka, "one, two, three" if it was a waltz. On occasions when she stayed to these evening dances, she remembers that many of the young men, plenty of whom died early, some of whom have lived to make the lives of their families miserable, and others our best citizens, used to have so much to drink that as the evening wore on they would be quite unsteady partners. She remembers a grand masquerade ball or two, in one of which her partner took the part of Romeo, and sent to Cleveland for a suit. It had green trunks, and flesh-colored tights. Of course the boy wore his clothes over this suit when lie went to the party, but when he started home he forgot to put on his trousers. When they got out into the night air, being mid-winter, it was exceedingly cool, and he and she ran all the way to her house in order that he might not take cold.

 

The beautiful garden of Mrs. Betsey Webb, she used to go and look at through the back fences, her own home being on Market street exactly opposite Mrs. Webb's on South. Mrs. Webb was a very cultured woman, read a great deal and kept closely to herself. Children, as a rule, were more or less afraid of her. Boys would sometimes throw sticks and stones at her garden or into -her fruit trees, and then run. One day, the writer went into this garden, over the back fence, and saw a peculiar flower. As she remembers it, it was a pale green. She stooped to look at it, and saw Mrs. Webb coming towards her. Her first inclination was to fly, but she held her ground. Mrs. Webb came clear up to her without saying a word, and the writer, looking up, said, "I wanted. to see this new flower. The other children are afraid of you, but I believe people who love flowers love children." When the writer looked up again, there

 

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were tears in the woman's eyes, and she walked into the house. Ever after that the child was welcome in the garden, and Mrs. Webb sometimes gave her fruit, plants for her own garden, and was always kind to her, although she does not remember any word she ever spoke to her. At this time the Hon. Thomas D. Webb was dead, but the writer remembers, the first year probably she was in Warren, of walking with her mother on South street and seeing Mr. Webb, sitting near his office door, at the top of the old stone steps, with a crutch across his knee. She remembers when there were but two or three houses on the block between Monroe and Washington, and east of the house now owned by the Perkins estate on Monroe street. There were large oak trees in this opening, and here she has gathered acorns. Just why the children ih those days gathered acorns no one knows. They were not fit to eat and were of no -use, and yet they were largely desired.

 

The writer recalls the feeling there was at the close of the war towards the men who sympathized with the South. They were, of course, very few: She remembers a large concourse of people, in the park, with a man speaking. She also remembers that a group of these men grabbed another man and started with him towards the river. She was later told that the main speaker was Valandingham, and that Mr. John Stull, in his enthusiasm as a Union man, had interrupted the meeting, whereupon some men favoring secession had decided to throw him in the river. This action was prevented by cool-headed members of the Democracy who were not necessarily in favor of slavery. These men were known as "War Democrats." Mr. Stull was never sorry that he raised his voice at this time.

 

The old Perkins homestead impressed itself on her mind. She remembers wandering around the vacant house, and coming upon, here and there, boxes filled with pieces of silk, bobinet, and so on. She remembers particularly the flowers and fruits on this old place, and how, just about where the present house stands, was a tree of wine apples. This tree was so low that the children could sit in the crotch and fill themselves with these delicious apples.

 

The children of her early days used to have sleighing parties. Old Billy Lee, a colored man, who used a box sled for the hauling of barn-yard fertilizer, would clean out this box when the snow came, fill it with straw, and a number of boys would invite an equal number of girls, in the evening, to go to Bacons-

 

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burg (Cortland), where an oyster supper, consisting of stewed oysters, crackers, cold slaw, coffee, with cake, would be served. The sleigh bells which this old colored driver had were large, deep-toned, beautiful bells, and could be heard a long way on a still night. Nothing could have been more uncomfortable than this old sleigh in which the children sat flat on the bottom, without half enough covering, and yet, to have a sleighride to Baconsburg was the event of the winter.

 

The writer remembers the singing schools of the early '70s, which were not conducted at all as the singing schools of sixty years earlier. In the first singing schools people were taught notes and execution, and really were educated they occupied weeks, sometimes a whole winter, but the singing schools of the early '70s were money-making things for some straying musician, who came to town, got all the children excited, had them sing an hour after school every night, and ended with a great spectacular show of home talent. It is easy to know how little merit there was in these entertainments when the writer states that she sang the soprano in a duet which was acted, the alto being taken by Jules Goldstein. Neither of them could sing at all, but there must have been something interesting about it, because this pair were twice encored. At these entertainments there were always angels and dear little girls in tarlatan dresses with gilt stars, and fairies who danced, or tried to.

 

The writer remembers some of the early graduations when the audience threw the bouquets at the graduates, each of whom read an essay, if she were a girl, or gave an oration if he were a boy. They were usually held in Webb's Hall. The scholar with the most bouquets was the happiest.

 

She remembers how once she rose early in the morning to gather huckleberries and peddled them barefooted down Mahoning avenue and out High street, to the utter dismay of her family. Once she saved paper rags, and taking them to the store got in exchange some cotton handkerchiefs, and was punished. She believes she would have been a good business person if these early enterprises had not been nipped in the bud.

 

Yes, of course, she remembers when there was no telephone, and she thinks she remembers when there was no telegraph. She knows of a time when street cars were not thought of—and yet the young man writing the next history of Trumbull County will tell us the location of the place for renting flying-machines.

 

INDEX.

 

Abell, Wirt W., 138.

Ackley, Rose Ralston, 322.

Adams. Asael, 109, 110, 123, 503, 539.

Adams, Whittlesey, 123; 137, 163, 248, 370. 379.

Adamson. Bentley, 265, 267.

Adgate, John H., 77, 493.

Adgate, Mrs. John H., 369.

Agricultural Fairs, 374, 426.

Albertson, Alfred L., 333.

Alderman Family, 456.

Alderman, Mrs. Gertrude, 304.

Allen, Dudley P., 334, 518.

Allen, Peter, 517.

Allison, John, 527.

Alumni, Warren High School, 307.

American House, 109.

Andrews, Andrew J., 596.

Andrews, Austin, 499.

Andrews. Mrs. Kennedy, 295.

Angstadt, Charles H., 307.

Appleseed, Johnny, 62.

Artists. of Trumbull County, 386.

Ashtabula County, First Settlers, 54.

Atlantic & Great Western R. R., 139.

Atwater, Amzi, 44, 45, 46.

Atwater ToWnship, 58.

Austin, Benajah, 83, 268.

Austin, Calvin, 58, 370.

Austin, Eliphalet, 147.

Austin, Harmon, 83, 268.

Austin House, 107, 621.

 

Bacon, Samuel, 410.

Baconsburg, 410.

Badger, Rev. Joseph, 239, 240, 246, 450, 457, 481.

Baehr, John, 399.

Bailey, Isaac, 539.

Bailey, Nathaniel P., 250.

Bailey's Corners, 539.

Baldwin, Ephraim, 454.

Baldwin, Jacob H., 437.

Baldwin, Jesse, 595.

Baldwin, W. G., 187.

Baldwin, William H., 110.

Banks and Banking, 347.

 

Baptist Church, 241 Bazetta, 410; Bristol, 430; Hartford, 492; Howland, 500; Mecca, 549; Newton, 562; Southington, 570; Vernon, 586.

 

Bar of 1831, The, 166.

Barbe, William, 429.

Barney, J. C., 301.

Barnhisel, Henry, 526.

Bartholomew Family, 594.

Bartlett, Isaiah, 511.

Battle of the Snakes, 406.

Baughman, Abraham, 428.

Bazetta and the County Seat, 408.

Bazetta Township, 408.

Beach, Emily, 456.

Bear Story, 469.

Beardsley, C. G., 542.

Beaver, John F., 165.

Beebe, Mrs. William H., 495.

Beeman, Captain, 473.

Belden, H. C., 206.

Bell, John W., 386.

Bell, William, 88.

Bench and Bar, 142; Anecdotes, 188.

Bentley, Adamson, 242.

 

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Betts, Xenophon, 594.

Riverius, 477.

Bierce, Lucius V., 162, 167.

Birchard, Mathew, 121, 160, 364.

Birchard, Mathew, Home, 114.

Bischoff, Daniel, 396, 621.

Bixler, John G., 528.

Blachley, Dr. and Mrs. 607.

Blast Furnace in Brookfield, 425; at Niles, 603.

Bliss, P. P., 588.

Bloomfield Swamps, 413.

Bloomfield Township, 413.

"Blue Laws," 238.

"Bodily Exercises," 578.,

"Bollestown," 565.

Bond, W. S., 333.

Bosworth, Cyrus, 267, 539.

Boundaries of Western Reserve, 11.

Bowyer, Thomas, 554.

Brace, Jonathan, 401.

Braceville Township, 401.

Bradley, Ariel, 509.

Bradley, James, 508.

"Brick Pond," 92, 626.

Bridges, 131.

Bridle, John, 273.

Brinkerhoff, E. E., 327.

Brisbane, James P., 198.

Bristol Township, 428.

Brockway, Aaron, 576.

Brockway, Edward, 484.

Brockway's Hill, 484.

Bronson, Charles F., 288, 292.

Bronson, Elisha, 568.

Bronson Family, 558.

Bronson, Tracy, 558.

Brookfield Township, 424.

Brooks, James G., 137.

Brown, Anne F., 419.

Brown, Ephraim, 61, 418.

Brown, Fayette, 418.

Brown, John Jr., 478.

Brown, J. S., 323.

Buchwalter, Jay, 184.

Bucksteiner, John, 399.

Buehl, J. K., 511.

Burghill, 484.

Burnett, William, 501.

Burnham, Jedediah, 518.

Burr, Bathsheba, 485, 590.

Bushnell, Mary, 486.

Bushnell, William, 485.

Button, W. H., 323.

B. & O. Railroad, 141.

 

Caldwell, Clare, 187.

Canadian Settlers in Greene, 458.

Canals, 131.

Camp, Daniel, 376.

Camp Hutchins, 205.

Campbell, Alexander, 264.

Campbell, Thomas,. 263.

Carey, Charles E., 305.

Carlton, Peter, 527.

Carnegie, Andrew, 386.

Carter, Erastus, 510.

Case, Asa, 478.

Case Family, 80.

Case, Holbert C., 198.

Case, Leonard, 80, 97, 152.

Case, Mary, 285.

Case, Meshack, 79.

"Castle William," 90, 95, 105.

Catholic Church, 278; Hubbard, 506, Liberty, 536; Niles, 611.

Cemeteries, 369.

Cemetery, Greene Township, 463.

Central Christian Church, 263.

Central Grammar School, 303.

Centralized Schools, First, 481.

Chalker, Edmund, 565.

Chalker High School, 570.

Chalker, James Sr., 570.

Chalker, Newton, 570.

Chambers, John, 436.

Champion Township, 433.

Charter Oak, 9.

Cheese Making, 136.

Chesney, James, 114.

Chesney, .Samuel, 114.

Chipman, N. D., 404.

Christ Church, Episcopal, 256.

 

Christian Church, 263; Braceville, 405; Brookfield, 427; Fowler,

457; Newton, 561; Niles, 610.

 

Christian Science Church, 281.

Christianar, Henry, 397.

Chryst, Frank , 183.

Churches, 236; Bazetta, 410;

 

INDEX - 633

 

Bloomfield, 422; Braceville, 405; Bristol, 429; Brookfield, 426; Champion, 438; Farmington, 450; Fowler, 457; Greene, 465; Gustavus,. 481; Hartford, 489; Howland, 500; Hubbard, 505; Johnston, 511; Kinsman, 519; Liberty, 532; Lordstown, 543; Mecca, 548; Mesopotamia, 555; Newton, 561; Niles, 610; Southington, 570; Vernon, 586; Vienna, 597.

 

Church, First at Austinburg, 240.

Church Going Among Pioneers, 65, 467.

Churchill, 523.

Churchill, Winston, 88.

"Circleville," 603.

City Hall, Warren, 394.

Civil Lists, 613.

Civil War, 197.

Clark, A. H., 353.

Clark, George Rogers, 20.

Clark, Isaac 553..

Clark, Joseph, 554.

Clark, Balsa, 465, 582.

Claypole, J. P., 331.

Cleaveland, Moses, 27, 28, 32, 35.

Cleveland & Mahoning R. R., 138.

Cleveland, First Houses in, 38.

Clisby, S. C., 331.

Coal in Brookfield, 425.

Coal in Hubbard Township, 505.

Coalburg, 507.

Coe, Alvin, 581.

Coe, Rev. Harvey, 490, 519.

Columbus, 1, 4.

Commercial National Bank, 350.

Common Pleas Judges, 191, 192.

Concord Baptist Church, 241,. 243.

Cone, Calvin, 476.

Congregational Church, Bloomfield, 422; Farmington, 450; Gustavus, 481.

Congressmen from Trumbull County, 614.

Connecticut, 2.

Connecticut and ,Pennsylvania, Boundary Dispute, 11.

Connecticut Constitution, 8.

 

Connecticut Land Company, 16, 27, 142, 238; Land Company, Directors of, 27; Law and Religion, 236.

 

Constitution, The, 364.

Cooking, Pioneer, 62, 67.

Cornell, Delana, 417.

Cortland, 410; Banks, 354; High School, 511.

Cortland Gazette, The, 367.

Cortland Herald, The, 367..

Corwin Meeting, 470.

Cotgreave, William W., 95, 105.

County Seat War, 92.

Court House, First, 90.

 

Court, First in Trumbull County, 146; of Common Pleas, 146; of Quarter Sessions, 146; of Quarter Sessions, First, 90.

 

Cowdrey, Frank R., 183.

Cowdrey, Julius N., 174.

Cowdrey, N. A., 354.

Co, J. D., 166, 293, 299.

Cox, Kenyon, 295, 386.

Craig, S. B., 174.

Cramer, A. R.., 502.

Crane, Ira B., 446.

Crawford, John, 387.

Crooks, William, 77.

Crosby, Obid, 584, 586.

Cross, Abisha, 421.

Crowell, John, 161.

Crum, Jonathan, 541.

Curtis, David, 441.

 

Dally, Charles, 376.

Dally Family, 267.

Dally, Isaac, 241.

Dana, Anderson, 287.

Dana, Charles A., 448.

Dana, Daniel, 370.

Dana, Junius, 109, 138, 288, 289.

Dana Musical Institute, 109.

Daniels, David, 57.

Davison, Benjamin, 77, 80, 81, 114.

Davis, William, Sr., 409.

Dawson, Joseph, 545.

Day, George, 245.

Deane, Lavinia, 100.

 

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Deemer, Wade R., 187.

Deerfield, First Settler, 58.

Deming, William C., 366.

Derr, Samuel, 398.

DeWolf, Joseph, 576.

Dickey, Martha and Frances, 293.

Dickey, Samuel, 617.

Dietz, Wilhelm, 397.

Dilley, E. O., 183.

 

Disciples Church, 242, 263; Hartford, 491; Liberty, 535; Lordstown, 544; Mecca, 550; Southington, 571.

"Dixie," 548.

Doan, John, 52.

Doctors, 315.

Dollar Savings Bank, 354.

Donaldson, Andrew, 436.

Doughton, Stephen, 502.

Doud, Samuel, 455.

Drown, A. A., 187.

DuBois, Rev., 258.

"Duboisville," 559.

"Duck Creek Corners," 557.

Duncan, James, 532.

Duncan, Thomas, 540.

Dunnavant, W. W., 110.

Dursts Family, 436.

"Dutch Ridge," 484.

 

Eagle House, 108.

Early Funerals, 372.

Eaton, Daniel, 602, 603.

Eaton, James, 602.

Eaton, Theophilus, 602.

Eckman, Ambrose, 526.

Education, 284. (See Schools.)

Edwards, John M., 363.

Edwards, John Stark, 86, 112, 147, 195, 370, 514, 551.

Elizabeth, Queen, 6.

Elm Street Schoolhouse, 303.

Elwell, Alfred, 404.

Ely, Lewis, 58.

Emmons, Mary W., 580.

Empire Block, 114.

England, 4.

Ensign, J. N., 564.

Episcopal Church, 256.

Episcopal Female Seminary, 289.

Epitaphs, Queer, 463.

Erie Railroad, 140.

Estabrook, Simon, 486.

Evangelical Church, 282; Southington, 571.

Ewalt Family, 497.

Ewalt, H. Clay, 625.

Ewalt, Zachariah T., 375, 498.

Fairs, 374.

Farmers Banking Company, 353.

Farmington Township, 441; Normal School, 449.

Farrell, Dr., 320.

Ferries, 131.

Ferry, Lyman, 414.

Fever and Ague, 52.

Fiester, H. A., 324.

Fillius, Charles, 181.

Fire Department, 388.

"Fire Lands," 13, 14.

Fire of 1846, 388; of 1867, 393.

First Baptist Church, 245.

First Burials, 41.

First Court and Court House, 90.

First Independence Day, 33.

First National Bank of Cortland, 354.

First Newspaper, 356.

First Permanent Settler, 48.

First Race Track in Trumbull County, 82.

Fitch, Zalmon, 347, 349.

Flat-Boats, 131.

"Flats," The, 74.

Flower, Lavinia, 591.

Fobes, Simon, 518.

Footstoves in Church, 248.

Ford, Seabury, 130, 381.

Fort Oswego, 30.

Foster, Stephen, 102.

Fourteenth Independent Battery, 205.

Fowler, Abner, 452.

Fowler Township, 452.

Frack, Sarah Gaston, 324.

France, 4.

Franklin & Warren R. R., 139.

Franklin House, 110.

Fraternities, 337.

 

INDEX - 635

 

Free Will Baptist Church, Mecca, 548.

Freeman, Francis, 117, 401.

Freeman Home, 117.

Freeman, Samuel Leavitt, 401.

Fuller, Ira L., 111, 164.

Fuller, Mrs. Ira, 293.

 

Gage, Fanny Dana, 491.

Gairing, George, 396.

Gardner, Ira W., 192, 478.

Garfield, James A., 20, 494.

Gaskill House, 107.

Gaskill, Morgan, 107.

Gaskill, Peter, 297; 624.

German American Families, 396.

German Settlers in Bristol, 428; in Newton, 564.

Giddings, Joshua. R., 167.

Giddings, Thomas, 572.

Gilbert, David R., 187.

Gilder Family, 475.

Gildersleeve, Obediah, 475.

Gillmer, G. P., 184.

Gillmer, Roolin I., 184.

Gillmer, Thomas H., 180, 350, 56

Gillmer, T. I., 180.

Girard, 523; Schools, 532.

Glidden, Charles E., 168.

Goering, John, 398.

Goodhue, Nathaniel, 417.

Goodrich, C. D., 525.

Governors from Trumbull County, 616.

Graeter, Augustus, 102, 399.

Graeter House, 102.

Grand River, 413.

Granger, Ruth, 582.

Grant, Roswell M., 51.

Gray, Elisha, 478.

“Green, The," 424.

Greene, Gardner, 458.

Greene Township, 458.

Greer, James, 449.

Griffis, Mrs. Daniel, 596.

Griswold, Giles O., 376, 378.

Grove, Andrew, 540.

Grove, Maria, 541.

Guild, Otis and Wife, 552.

Gun, Elijah, 28, 40.

Gustavus Academy, 480.

Gustavus Township, 474.

 

Haines, Selden, 166, 293, 405.

Hall, Jesse, 502

Halliday, Jesse, 254, 557, 558.

Hank Family, 493.

Hank, Richard, 493.

Hapgood, George, 102, 362.

Harmon, Charles, 201.

Harmon, Elias, 53, 56.

Harmon, Heman, 103, 206, 599.

Harmon, John B., 287, 318, 335.

Harmon, Julian, 321, 383.

Harmon, Reuben, 599.

Harrington, Charles A., 173, 351, 460, 471.

Harrington, Carrie P., 305.

Harrington, John, 458.

Harrington, William, 458, 462.

Harrison, William Henry, 143.

Harsh, John, 118.

Harshman, Jacob, 541.

Hart Family, 447.

Hartford Academic Institute, 489.

Hartford Township, 484.

Haskell, Eliza K., 417.

Hauser, David, 528.

Hauser, Elizabeth J., 529.

Hauser, Louis, 530.

Hayes, Richard, 195.

Hayes, Titus, 486.

Heaton, James, 497, 603, 604.

Heaton, Warren, 605.

Hecklinger, George T., 185.

Hedges, Martha, 404.

Henry VII, 5.

Renshaw, John C., 330.

Herlinger, David, 398.

Herzog, John L., 186.

Herzog, Lafayette, 301.

Higgins, Dr., 442.

High Street School, 295.

Hill, Jared, 509.

Hillman, James, 38, 50, 80, 152, 374.

Hine, Daniel, Jr., 510.

Hine, D. M., 184.

Hinsdale, B. A., 238.

Historical Notes, 617.

 

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Hoffman, Benjamin F., 167.

Holley, Alexander H., 39.

Homes of Pioneers, 63.

Homes, Old, of Warren, 99.

Honey, Abram S., 53.

Hoover, D. E., 323.

Hope House, 108.

Horse Racing, 375.

Horton, W. F., 332.

Hotels, of Warren, 104.

House Raising, 65.

Hover, Hezekiah, 557, 559.

Howe, Mehitable, 415.

Howe, Thomas, 415.

Howland, Joseph, 458.

Howland Springs, 493.

Howland Township, 77, 493.

Hoyt, Annie and Abbie, 135.

Hoyt, Lewis, 118.

Hubbard Township, 501.

Hucke, George B., 398.

Hudson, David, 55.

Hulse, R. K., 183.

Humason, Jacob, 424.

Humison, Joel, 593, 595.

Hunter, George, 499.

Hunter, Lafayette, 186.

Huntley, G. A., 333.

Huntley, O. A., 333.

Huntington, Elizabeth, 421.

Huntington, Samuel, 153.

Hurd Family, 567.

Hurd, Stephen, 600.

Hutchins, Francis E., 142, 169.

Hutchins, John, 165.

Hutchins, Samuel, 591.

Hyde, Ira, 445.

Hyde, Washington, 186.

 

Iddings, Elizabeth, 163, 356.

Iddings, Elizabeth Lewis, 373.

Iddings Home, 112.

Iddings, Lewis M., 114, 118, 139.

Iddings, Mrs. Morris, 375.

Iddings, Richard, 113.

Iddings, Samuel C., 351.

Independence Day in 1800, 619.

Indian Council at Conneaut, 3,5

Indian Paths, 127.

Indian Salt Manufacture, 452.

Indian Traders in Western Reserve, 19.

Indians, 465, 560, 579.

Indians at Salt Springs, 151.

Indians as Warriors, 194.

Ingersoll, Jonathan, 165.

Intemperance, 72.

Iron Manufacture at Niles, 602.

"Irreducible School Fund," 285.

Isabella, Queen, 1.

Izant, Robert T., 186, 353.

 

Jail, First, 95.

Jameson, David, 382.

Jefferson Square, 531.

Jeffries, William H., 547.

Jewell, John, 502.

Johnston Township, 508.

Jones, Asa W., 173.

Jones, Edward, 78.

Jones, Elam, 486.

Jones, L. C., 175.

Jones, Thomas G., 97, 425.

 

Kennedy Family, 498.

Kennedy, James C., 448.

Kepner, John, 487.

Kilpatrick, William B., 183.

King, "Auntie," 254.

King, Barber, 494.

King, Ebenezer, Jr., 77, 441.

King, John I., 325, 583.

King, Julius, 254.

King, Leicester, 115, 248, 272, 419.

Kingsbury Family, 45.

Kingsbury, James, 38, 40, 48, 147.

Kingsley, Calvin, 588.

Kinsman Centralized Schools, 522.

Kinsman, Frederick, 16, 138, 373;

Memorial, 261.

Kinsman Home, 116.

Kinsman, John, 96, 513, 516.

Kinsman, Mary Van Gorder, 135.

Kinsman Special Schools, 522.

Kinsman Township, 513.

Kirtland, Jared, 514.

Kirtland, Turhand, 48, 127, 147, 514, 545.

Kline, Peter, 524.

Koehler, John, 399.

 

INDEX - 637

 

Knights of Pythias, 346.

Krehl. Frederick, 525,

 

Ladd, Irwin, 113, 137.

Ladd, Isaac, 92, 268.

Laird, James, 554.

Lake, Constant, 425,

Lake Erie and Ohio Canal, 132.

Landon, Joseph, 44,

Lane, C. W., 328.

Lane, David, 485,

Lane, Erastus, 404,

Lane Family, 76, 79.

Lane, Henry, Jr., 110.

Lane, Henry, Sr., 76, 78.

Lane, Henry, 371, 376,

LaSalle, 18.

Latimer, J. O., 324,

Law, David and George, 108.

Lawyer, First in Western Reserve, 25

Lawyers and Attorneys, 142.

Learning, J. H., 328.

Leavitt, Enoch, 83, 318.

Leavitt Family, 82.

Leavitt, John, 77, 81, 104, 285.

Leavitt, John, Jr., 441,

Leavitt, Samuel, 370,

Lee, Abijah, 445.

Leffingwell, Phineas, 83.

Legal Status of Old Trumbull County, 84,

Leggett, M, D., 166, 299.

Leland, L. G., 325.

Leonard, Emerson B., 187.

Leonard, William A., 263.

Leslie, M. B., 187.

Letters, Old, 121.

Liberty Herald, The, 367

Liberty Township, 523,

Lindsay, Jesse, 477.

London Company, 7.

Longmore, Andrew, 538.

Lordstown Township, 538.

Lotteries in Canal Building, 132.

Lotze, Gorge; 525.

Loveland, Amos, 53.

 

Mackey, Andrew, 596.

Mackey, Ira, Sr., 596.

Mackey, Lulie E,, 182, 597.

Mahoning Canal, 133.

Mahoning County, 97.

Mail Routes, First, 121.

Maple Sugar, 464.

"Maria Furnace," 606.

Marriages, Early, 619.

Market Street School, 304.

Marshall, Grover, 526.

Marvin, Rev., 299.

Marvin, Joseph, 624.

Mason, Frank H., 205.

Mason, Frank, 115.

Masonic Lodges, 341.

Masonry, 337.

Masters, John W., 353.

Mayhew, Martin S., 326.

McAdoo, John S., 355.

McAdoo, William, 417.

McCartney, James, 530.

McCartney, John, 326,

McConnell, James, 518.

McCurley, G, B., 331.

McGuffey, W. II,, 288,

McKinley, William, 608,

McLain, Frank D., 365.

McLain, T, J., Jr., 288,

McLain, Thomas J., Sr,, 139, 363.

McMahon, James, 73.

McMahon, Joseph, 80, 150, 197.

McMahon Trial, 153.

McMurray, James, 332,

McQuiston, Mr. 396.

Mecca Township, 545,

Medicine, 315.

Medicines, Pioneer, 65.

Merritt, Lydia W., 460.

Merwin, Fowler, 403.

Mesopotamia. Township, 551.

 

Methodist Church, 272; Bazetta, 411; Braceville, 405; Bloomfield, 422; Bristol. 430; Champion, 439; Farmington, 450; First in Western Reserve, 584; Fowler, 457; Gustavus, 482; Hartford, 490. 492 ; Hubbard, 505; Lords-town, 543; Mecca, 549; Mesopotamia, 555; Newton, 563; Niles, 610; Ohltown, 600; Vienna, 598,

 

Military History, 194.

 

638 - INDEX

 

Militia, 194.

Militia Training, 195.

Millar, A. T. 387.

Millikin, Benjamin, 334,

Mills and Flour-Making, Mills, Early, 375.

Mills Family, 59.

Mineral Ridge, 601.

Minich George E., 329.

Minyoung, William, 135.

Missionaries, First, 236, 238.

Mitchell, Matthew, 502.

Mitcheltree, John, 507,

Montgomery, Louisa M., 86.

Monumental Park. 95.

Moore, C. L., 328.

Moore, L. G., 322.

Moore, L. S., Jr., 330.

Moran, William B., 185,

Moravians, 20.

Morgan Family, 54.

Morgan, Orlando, 261.

Morse, H. K., 42, 70.

Morrow Family, 454.

Moses, Abner, 581.

Myers Family, 397.

Mygatt, Comfort, 156, 192.

Mygatt, George, 248.

Mygatt, Polly, 156.

 

Narrow Gauge Railroad, 140,

National House, 106.

New Connecticut, Nature of, 17.

Newington, W. H. V., 610.

News-Letter, The, 363.

Newspapers, 356.

Newton Falls, 111, 557, 559,

Newton Township, 557.

Niles, 602; Banks, 354,

Niles Independent, The, 367.

Niles News, The, 368.

Nineteenth Regiment, 200.

Noble, Judson R., 503.

North Bloomfield Banking Co., 355.

Northwest Territory, Conquest of, 20.

Norton, Olive Miller, 566,

Norton, Roderick, 565.

 

Oakwood Cemetery Association, 373.

Odd Fellowship, 342.

Officials from Trumbull County, 613.

Ohl, Michael, 600,

Ohltown, 600.

Oil Excitement in Mecca, 547.

Old-Time Preachers, 466.

One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, 202.

One Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Regiment, 204.

One Hundred and Seventy-First Ohio Volunteers, 203.

One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Regiment, 202.

"Ontario," The Packet, 135.

Opdyke, Emerson, 202.

Orangeville, 491.

Orchard, First in Bazetta, 109.

Osborne, Abner, 94, 324.

Oviatt Family, 401.

Oviatt, Samuel, 401,

 

Packard, J. W., 130.

Packard, Thomas, 130, 540.

Packard, William D., 130.

Page, Harlan M., 333.

Palm, Jefferson, 364.

Palmer, Ambrose, 582.

Palmer, Corydon, 582.

Park, S. W., 352.

Parsons, George, 103, 285, 347.

Parsons House, 103.

Parsons, Samuel H., 13, 23, 25, 85, 143.

Pastors of Presbyterian Church, 252.

Pavilion, The, 105.

"Payne's Corners," 592.

Pease, Calvin, 44, 59. 103, 112,14 3. 134, 153, 197, 374, 514.

Pease Home, 112.

Pease, Seth, 27, 29, 44, 154.

"Peewee- Railroad, 140.

Peck, Allen, 446.

Peck, Joel, 446.

Pelton, Josiah, 474, 514.

Pelton, Myra K., 579.

Pelton, Ruhamah DeWolf, 475,

Pennsylvania Dutch, Settlers in

 

INDEX - 639

 

     Western Reserve. 23.

Perkins. Henry B.. 138, 330, 373, 499.

Perkins Homestead, 628.

Perkins. Jacob B.. 130, 138, 381.

Perkins. Joseph, 313.

Perkins. Olive, 116.

Perkins. Seth. 517.

Perkins. Simon. 121. 195. 347. 514.

Perkins. Simon. Home. 11.

Peterson, W. S.. :365.

Phalanx Station. 406.

Phelps. Alcher L., 185.

Physicians. 315.

Piano, First in Warren, 103.

Pierce. Edward, 436.

Pilgrim Fathers, 1.

Pioneer Furniture. 64.

Pioneer Life, 49. 60.

Pioneer Women, Occupations of, 67.

"Plan of Union." 246.

Plymouth Company, 7.

Portage County. .58.

Porter. Augustus, 27, 154.

Porter. Chauncey. 376.

Porter, Sally. 437.

Porter. William F.. 382. 387.

Porter. W. N.. :381.

Portugal. 4.

Postal Facilities in Old Trumbull. 111.

Postmasters of Warren. 126.

 

Presbyterian Church. 246. 17: Bazetta, 411: Brookfield. 116: Hartford, 489: Hubbard. 303 Kinsman. 519: Liberty. 532 : Mecca, 548: Mesopotamia. 555: Newton. 362: 610 Southington. 570: Vernon. 586: Vienna. 597.

 

Press. The. 356.

Price, Cornelius, 501.

"Price's Mills." 557.

Probate Court. 146.

Prospect Street School. 194.

Public Library. 382.

Puritans. 1.

 

Quigley. Robert. 607.

Quinby. Ephraim. 73. 74. 104. 117. 141.

Quinby Family. 75.

Quinby Hill, 7.5, 117.

Quinby. Samuel, 75, 211. 495, 497.

 

Railroads, 137.

Randall, David. 514.

Ranges and Towns. 36.

Ranney, Rufus P., 164.

Rathburn. Andrew J., 330.

Ratliff Family, 495.

Ratliff, R. W., 166, 295, 351.

Ravenna, 55.

Rawdon, Horace, 104.

Ragen. William, 195, 374, 525.

Reeve, Ebenezer, 514.

Reeves, John, Jr.. 496.

Reeves. John, 241.

Reeves, Lewis, 274.

Reeves. Mary, 111.

Reformed Church, 280.

Religious Organizations, 236.

Rheinhold, Franklin P., 252, 255.

Rice, C. M., 332.

Rice, Ephraim, 460. 467.

Rice, Fenelon, 470.

Rice. B. C., 468.

Rice, Rufus, 569.

Richards. William, 524.

Ritezel, Frank M.. 103. 362.

Ritezel, William, 362. 363.

Roads. First. 127.

Robbins, George B.. :354.

Robbins, Josiah, 599, 604.

Roberts. Elias E., 179. 561.

Roberts, Thurzah Andrews, 477.

Roberts. William, 476.

Root. Hubert L., 331.

Rowe, Lavinia Deane. 101, 256.

Rowe. Peter, 546.

Roster of Soldiers in Civil War, 207.

Russell. Jacob. 53.

Rutan Family. 433.

 

Sabin. T. M., 331.

Sackett. Lottie, 298.

Sager. Gabriel, 429.

Sager. William, 428.

Salt, 463.

Salt Springs, 23, 25, 127.

Salt Springs Murder, 150.

 

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Salt Springs Tract, 13.

Sanford, Albe, 609.

Satterfield, James, 426.

Schoenfeld, Charles, 528.

 

Schools, 284; Bazetta, 410; Bloomfield, 421; Braceville, 404; Bristol, 429; Brookfield, 426; Champion, 438; Farmington, 448; Greene, 471, 473; Gustavus, 480: Hartford, 488; Howland, 499; Hubbard, 503, 504; Johnston. 511; Kinsman, 521 ; Liberty, 530 ; Lordstown, 542; Mecca, 547; Mesopotamia, 555; Newton, 560; Niles, 607; Southington, 569: Vernon, 587; Vienna, 597; Warren, 306, 622.

 

School. Lands of Western Reserve. 284. 

School Superintendents, 301.

Schoolhouses, Pioneer, 66; Old, 117.

Scotch Irish, as Settlers, 23.

Scott, James, 99, 109, 377, 539.

Scott, Walter, 265.

Second Christian Church, 283.

Second National Bank, 351.

Second Ohio Artillery, 205.

Second Regiment Cavalry, 204.

Seely Family, 494.

Seely, John W., 135, 318, 320, 334, 394.

Seely, Sylvanus, 320, 494.

Settlers and Indians. 194.

Settlers, How They Came, 49, 60.

Settlers of Warren, 73.

Seventh Ohio Regiment, 198.

Sewell, May Wright. 417.

Shaler, Frederick, 397.

Sheldon, Ebenezer, 57.

Shepard, Theodore, 315.

Shepard, Warham, 44.

Sheriffs of Trumbull County, List of, 95.

Sherwood, Herbert A.. 331.

Shoes, When Worn by Women Pioneers, 69,

Silliman, Wakeman, 453.

Simpson. Daniel G., 324.

Singing Schools, 629.

Sirrine, Isaac, 463.

Skinner, James, 509.

Sloan, M. J.. 186.

Smiley, William H.,.365.

Smith, Asenatha Tracy, 554.

Smith, Charles, 101, 115, 138.

Smith, Charles W., 162.

Smith, Mrs. Charlotte, 256.

Smith, Edward A.. 262.

Smith. Frederick Kinsman. 327.

Smith, George J.. 329.

Smith, Henry W., 101. 115.

Smith, James, 102.

Smith, John, 417.

Smith, Joseph, 183.

Smith, Justus, 101.

Smith, Martin, 580.

Smithfield (Vernon). 576.

Snyder, George W., 185.

Sodom. 523.

Soldiers Aid Society, 206.

Soldiers of Trumbull County, 194.

Southington Township, 565.

Southworth House, 117.

Southworth, Silas, 117.

Spafford, Amos, 44. Spain, 4.

Spaulding, Rufus P.. 164.

Spear, Edward. 102.

Spear. Henry, 240. Spear. William T., 175.

Spear, Mrs. William T., 299.

Sperry, Hezekiah, 551.

Spinning and Weaving, 67.

St. Mary's Catholic Church. 278.

St. Rose Catholic Church. 536.

St. Stephen's Catholic Church. 611.

Stage Coaches. 128.

State Representatives. 615.

State Senators. 613.

Stevens, Horace, 111. 562.

Stewart. Homer E.. 173.

Stewart, Thomas H.. :323.

Stiles, Henry. 111.

Stiles. Job. 28. 40. 51.

Stoddard, Richard M.. 44.

Stone. Roswell. 169. 192, 370.

Storer. Richard. 73.

"Stow Castle," 37, 40.

Stow. Joshua. 27, 30.

Stowe. Aaron. 404.

 

INDEX - 641

 

Stowe, Comfort, 403.

Stowe, Hervey, 405.

Streator, Naphtali, 480.

Stull, James. 444.

Stull, John 31., 172, 277, 444.

Subscription List for First Court House, 90.

Sunday Observance in Old Trumbull, 237.

Superintendents of Warren Schools, 307.

Supreme Judges from Trumbull County, 161.

Sutherland, Alexander, 126, 557.

Survey of Western Reserve, 13, 35.

Surveying Party of 1796, 27; of 1797, 44. 

Sutliff, Calvin G., 169.

Sutliff, Levi, 168.

Sutliff, Milton, 160, 385, 572.

Sutliff, Samuel, 582.

Swaney, Archibald F., 327.

Swaney. Charles T., 327.

Swift, Zephaniah, 162, 369.

Symmes, Anna, 143.

Symmes, John Cleves, 85, 143.

 

Taft, Frederick L., 403.

Taft, Harriet Cleaveland, 403.

Taft, Newton A., 403.

Taft, Orin. 444.

Taftsville, 444.

Tait, John, 541.

Tappan, Benjamin, 55, 149, 194.

Taverns, Old, 128.

Tayler, A. S., 561.

Tayler, George, 350, 524.

Tayler, M. B., 115, 135.

Taylor, B. J., 386.

Taylor, Ezra. B., 46, 130, 139, 142, 176, 190, 381.

Telephone, Inventor of, 480.

Thomas, Charles W., 326.

Thomas, Warren, 184.

Thomas, W. Aubrey, 354.

Thompson, Albert W., 329.

Thompson, Jesse E., 329.

Thompson, Thomas, 591.

Thompson, W. S., 332.

Thorne, Henry, 538.

Thorpe, Joel and Wife, 55.

Tidd, C. C., 325.

Tod Avenue M. E. Church, 281.

Tod Avenue School, 304.

Tod, David, 115.

Tod, George, 97, 150, 195, 339, 374, 514.

Tod, Governor, Home, 102.

Tornado in Braceville, 406.

Towne, Benjamin, 105.

Township Histories, 401.

Tracy, Seth, 553.

Transportation, Pioneer, 60.

Transportation Routes, 127.

Truesdell, James J., 595.

Trumbull. Canal Boat, 136.

Trumbull County, in 1609, 7; Artists of, 386; Y How Settled, 48; New England Influence, 6; Officials, 613; Old, Without Law, 84; Original Settlers, 23; Organized, 85; Soldiers in Civil War, 207.

 

Trumbull County Agricultural Fair, 375.

Trumbull County Democrat, 362.

Trumbull County Medical Association, 315.

Trumbull County Medical Society, 333.

Trumbull County Whig, 361.

Trumbull Democrat, 363.

Trumbull Family, 85.

Trumbull, Jonathan, 85.

Trumbull Savings and Loan Association, 353.

Trump of Fame, The, 76, 356.

Turnpike Roads, 129.

Tuttle, George M., 174.

Tuttle, William E., 185.

Twelfth Cavalry, 205.

Twentieth Regiment, 200.

Twenty-Fourth Regiment, 201.

Twenty-Third Regiment, 201.

Tylee, Samuel, 337, 501.

Tylee's Corners, 501.

Tyler, Joel B., 198.

Tyler, Joel W., 168.

Tyrrell, Elijah, 453.

Tyrrell Hill, 453.

 

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Union National Bank, 350.

United Brethren Church, Hartford, 492; Lordstown, 543.

Universalist Church, Mesopotamia, 556.

Upson, Daniel, 488.

Upton, George W., 181.

Upton, Harriet T., 305, 621.

 

Van Gorder, James L., 105, 376, 377, 378.

Van Gorder Mill, 378.

Van Gorder, Sarah H., 137.

Varnum, James M., 85, 143.

Vernon Township, 572.

Vienna, 589.

Viets, Luke, 570.

Virginia Charter, 4.

Voit, Lewis, 397.

 

Wadsworth, Elijah, 121, 197, 194.

Wakefield, Edwin, 461.

Wakefield, John, 462.

Waldeck Family, 399.

Walker, James, 436.

Wallace, William, 350.

Walters, Sophia, 528.

Walworth, John, 57.

War of 1812, 195.

"War of Counties," 96.

Ward, Clarence S., 325.

Ward, J., 327.

Warren Academy, 286, 294.

 

Warren, City Hall, 394; Early Settlers, 73; Fire Department, 388; First Sermon, 241; First Schoolhouses, 285; Map of Old. Houses, 118; Old Homes, 99; Postoffice, 122; Reminiscences of, 621; Schools, 306; Taxpayers in 1804, 84.

 

Warren Board of Education, 306.

Warren Debating Society, 379.

Warren High School Alumni, 307.

Warren Library Association, 382.

Warren Public Library, 382.

Warren Record, The, 364.

Warren Savings Bank, 350.

Warren School Association, 286.

Warren Tribune, The, 365.

Warren and Youngstown, Rivals for County Seat, 96.

Warren, Moses, 27, 35, 44, 77.

Warwood, Mrs. Angeline, 374.

Waste, Bazaleel, 462.

Waters Family, 477.

Weathersfield Township, 599.

Webb, Abner, 601.

Webb, Thomas D., 16, 88, 112, 155, 162; 356, 370.

Welsh Families, Hubbard, 506. Werner, W. A., 328.

West Farmington Banks, 353. West, Mrs. Betsy, 627.

 

Western Reserve, Civil Organization of, 142; Disposal of Lands, 13; Original Settlers, 23; Purchasers of, 15; Survey of, 35; Topography, 17; Without Law, 142.

 

Western Reserve Bank, 347.

Western Reserve Chronicle, 357.

Western Reserve National Bank, 351.

Western Reserve Seminary, 449.

Western Reserve Transcript, 361.

Wheeler, Albert, 594.

Wheeler, Simeon, 594.

Whiskey, at House-Raisings, 462; Use of Among Pioneers, 32, 72.

White, Charles, 102.

White, Dennis, 569.

Whittlesey, Charles, 18.

Whittlesey, Elisha, 156.

Wick, William C., 239.

Wilcox, Roxy, 299.

Wilkins, Charles M., 182.

Williams, C. C., 324.

Williams, D. R., 329.

Williams, M. L., 326.

Williams, William, 106.

Willderson, Henry, 564.

Wing, Joseph K., 417.

Wilson, William, 526.

Wolcott, E. P., 443.

Wolcott, Erastus, 443.

Wolcott, Florilla, 444.

Wolcott, Josiah, 442.

Wolcott, Lewis, 441.

Wolcott, Theodore, 443.

Wolf, Jeremiah, 502.

 

INDEX - 643

 

Women, and Temperance, 33; as Colonizers, 1; in Colonial History, 2; as Physicians, 316; as Pioneers, 61, 70; at the Early Fairs, 375; on School Board, 304.

 

Wonders, A. E., 185.

Wood, George L., 198.

Woodford, Darius, 593.

Woodford, Isaac, 592.

Woodrow, Arthur, 113.

Woodrow, William S., 372.

Woodrow, William, 434.

Woodruff, Charles, 488.

Woods, Daniel B., 321, 558.

Woodward, Leonard, 540.

Woodworth, Elder, 466.

Works, Asa, 416.

Wright, L. M., 330.

Wyoming Valley, 9; Massacre, 10.

 

Yankees as Settlers, 23.

Yankee Settlers in Southington, 565.

Yeomans, Albert, 169, 203.

Young, John, 49, 74, 147.

Young Ladies Seminary, 285.

Youngstown, 50, 98.

Zion Reformed Church, 280.