THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLEVELAND

THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLEVELAND.

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When, early in the month of June, 1796, a party sent out by the Connecticut Land Company to survey the Western Reserve, met with disaster in their open boats on Lake Ontario and were cast ashore at Sodus Bay, there were two women sharing in all the stress and danger of the expedition.

One was a bride of but a few months, the other carried a young child. The former, bearing the fantastic Biblical name of "Talitha Cumi," was a Miss Elderkin of Hartford, Conn., when in the previous November she had married Job P. Stiles.

The latter was Mrs. Elijah Gun.

Neither the name of Job P. Stiles nor that of Elijah Gun appears in the official list of surveyors and helpers composing the party. How or why they were included in it can only be conjectured. A good-natured assent to the appeal of the two men to be allowed in the party with their families as possible settlers may explain their presence there, or, possibly a recognition of the valuable service the women might render in the commissary department of the expedition may have influenced its leader in the matter.

Job Phelps Stiles-born in Granville, Mass., 1769-was the son of Job and Lydia Phelps Stiles, of two well-known New England families. The first American ancestor of the Stiles was Robert, who came to Rowley, Mass., from Yorkshire, Eng., with Rev. Ezekiel Rogers. The tombstone of Mrs. Lydia Stiles still stands in the Granville Cemetery. She died in 1779, aged 40 years.

Mrs. Talitha Stiles was equally well born. The Elderkin family has furnished to the American commonwealth many of the name who were noted for their statesmanship, scholarship, and patriotism. Mrs. Stiles was 17 years of age when she came to Cleveland.

The young couple were well educated for the times. Both had been school teachers. They were married in Vermont or removed to that state soon after the wedding, and lived for a time in a locality from which came, a year or two later, several of the earliest Cleveland settlers.

They were present at that first and memorable celebration of the Fourth of July on the Western Reserve soon after the surveyors had reached its north-eastern limit-now known as Conneaut, O.

Here the company divided its forces, part remaining to define the eastern line of the promised land, while the others pushed on in boats to lay out its north-western one, which, at that time, began at the mouth of the Cuyahoga-the Indian claims beyond that point not having been settled. This part of the expedition was considered of more importance, and it included Moses Cleaveland, its leader and the most skillful of its surveyors.

With them came Mr. and Mrs. Stiles-the Guns remaining in Conneaut. A cabin was erected for the former on lot 53, north-east corner of

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Superior and Bank streets. This lot contained two acres of land and extended from Superior to what is now St. Clair Street. The cabin, if yet standing, would be on Bank Street, near Frankfort. It must be borne in mind, however, that there were no streets then, except on paper, and their limits only defined by an occasional stake left by the surveyors. Here, in the following February, was born a little son to Mr. and Mrs. Stiles. Squaws belonging to a tribe of Seneca Indians encamped on the river south of the present central viaduct attended to the needs of the young mother and child.

The Stiles family, in common with every other transient or permanent settler in Cleveland, suffered from the malaria that existed in all the lower portions of the hamlet. Marsh lands and stagnant water bred swarms of mosquitoes that, through lack of proper precautions, inoculated the inhabitants with their deadly poison. Fever and ague, typhoid and typhus fever, and many other like ailments yearly decimated the ranks of the young and old exposed to the attacks of the insects. Children especially suffered from disease and, in many cases, a whole family of little ones would be swept away by some form of malaria then prevalent.

The Stiles family moved their few household effects to the heights south-east of the city and settled upon the 100-acre tract of land situated on what is now known as the south-west corner of Woodhill Road and Union Street. Here they remained for a time, but for how long a period cannot be determined. Authorities conflict in statements regarding it. Probably not long before the war of 1812, Mr. and Mrs. Stiles returned to Vermont by way of Canada. What conduced to this seemingly backward movement of their fortunes has never been explained. They may not have succeeded in attempts to farm the land, or Mrs. Stiles may have succumbed to homesickness and a longing for her parents and friends.

The long, weary journey back to Vermont must have been filled with regret and discouragement. The return to the eastern state did not prove fortunate in a material way, for the family never acquired much means.

It frequently has been stated as an historical fact that the Connecticut Land Company made a valuable gift of land to Mrs. Stiles as the first woman settler of Cleveland. That such a promise was made there can be little doubt. The land-as itemized-consisted of the two-acre town lot on Superior Street, upon which the family first settled, a ten-acre lot, No. 133, on St. Clair Street, extending back to the lake-a line drawn northward from E. 18th Street would pass through this property-and a 100 acre lot, No. 448-situated on Woodhill Road corner of Union Street. The depth of the latter extended south half-way to Harvard Street, and its width now includes wholly, or partially, the great Newburgh Rolling Mills.

But the promise of this property was never fulfilled. The Connecticut Land Company furnished no deed of it to Mrs. Stiles. In 1841, John Ives and John Wilde -residence unknown-called upon her where she was living in Brandon, Vt., and secured a quit deed of the three parcels of Cleveland land. It has been stated that the equivalent for them was sheep and cattle. However, Messrs. Ives and Wilde were unable to take possession. The Connecticut Land Company had previously conveyed the property to other persons than the Stiles.

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Job Stiles died in Branford, Vt., in 1849, aged 80 years. His wife, Talitha Elderkin Stiles, outlived him 10 years. Their Cleveland-born son - Charles Pheles Stiles-married Laura Irish, widow of Mr. Wetmore, raised a family of children and removed to Beaver, Iroquois Co., Illinois, where he died in 1882, aged 85 years.

His youngest son, the only male descendant of Job Stiles-born 1839 is a widower with two daughters. With his death the name of this branch of the Stiles family will cease.

(Map of Superior Street - not shown)

FIRST CHILD BORN IN CLEVELAND

The snow was falling lightly upon Cuyahoga's ice-locked river. The small trees and undergrowth covering its eastern bank were bending under the weight of that already fallen. Stretching away on the western side the white level of expanse was broken, here and there, by shriveled stalks or cattail plumes indicating the swamp beneath.

It was early in the afternoon, and a gray light yet outlined the river, but far out on the frozen shores of the lake Erie, the ragged hummocks of ice were growing dim, while the narrow zigzag trail that led up the steep bank was lost in a dense forest into which premature night had fallen.

A few minutes' walk in it from the river stood a small cabin built of rough-hewn logs, so overshadowed by the great trees pressing in upon it that they seemed a menace-as if Nature would gladly crush out this intrusion upon its primeval solitude. The narrow, crude door of the hut swung on leathern hinges, and the one other opening on a line with it and intended for a window was covered with greased paper, thus made transparent and rainproof, but through which daylight entered only when the sun hung high and skies were unclouded.

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But the one-roomed interior needed no other light than that from the fireplace of mud and stone, which filled one end of its entire width, and in which big chunks of wood, backed by a flaming log, were brightly burning.

A bedstead of saplings, nailed crosswise and close together, supported by four posts, still covered with bark, stood in a corner near the window. A wide, smooth-hewed slab of wood resting upon rough logs served as a table, upon which stood the few pieces of crockery the household contained. A log stretching the length of one side of the room was used as a settle, while a low slab, fashioned like the table and capable of seating three people, stood before the fire. A rude ladder of sticks fastened to the wall led to a small opening overhead leading to a loft, in which no adult evidently could stand upright.

Down this ladder, with much stooping and wriggling, backed a young man, who then walked to the fire with a pretence of poking and replenishing it, meanwhile stealing embarrassed glances at a very young woman, who was either lying upon the bed or getting up and moving restlessly about the room.

Frequently she sighed, occasionally moaned softly, and every few minutes opened the door and peered anxiously out into the gloom beyond. Once she gave a quick gasp, as if stricken with mortal pain, and, sinking down upon the settle, turned frightened, beseeching eyes upon the other occupant of the cabin.

"I don't see why Job stays so long-seems as if I couldn't wait another minute for him. You better go to meet him, Joe, (1) and hurry him up."

"Yes, I will so, Talitha. But you know Indians are slow as molasses. It's hard to get one started. They seem to need so much time to turn things over in their minds. I wouldn't worry if I were you. The Senecas are still down under the hill by the river, for I was there only yesterday, and Au Gee's squaw signed to ask me how you were, real kind. But I'll go and see if there's anything hindering."

And taking a coonskin cap and a tippet from a peg in the wall, he hastened out. The young woman, as if unwilling to remain alone in the cabin, put a shawl about her shoulders, and following him to the door, stood leaning against the casing and looking up into the tall trees, where daylight faintly lingered, outlining their topmost branches, where glistened bunches of dead leaves encrusted in snow.

"Oh, Mother, Mother!" she exclaimed aloud, voicing the longing that had possessed her for hours, "I want you, I need you, I am so alone."

As she gazed upward, her tremulous speech breaking in upon the utter stillness of the forest, the tree trunks receded. Suddenly a band of closeset lights brilliant beyond imagination and higher than the tallest trees hung suspended in the darkness. Soon similar ones sprang out beneath them, rows above rows of lights dazzling, innumerable, rose from the ground to the dizzy heights that crowned the whole . (2)

With their appearance came strange sounds, unlike anything she had ever heard, rending the air, a continuous roar mingled with noises like clashings of steel upon steel. (3) Looking down at her feet, behold, a wide

1 Joseph Langdon.

2 The Rockefeller Building.

3. A trolley car.

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stone walk covered the leaves of the forest before her door, and beyond it a paved street, along which swiftly moved a horseless vehicle ablaze with light. (1) A little way to the left, it turned at right angles and eastward, and joined a procession of like vehicles passing and repassing in endless procession.

The other street (2) upon which it turned, and of which the cabin furnished but a glimpse, was also bordered with tall buildings that would have seemed of wonderful proportions, but for the tremendous structure -a veritable tower of Babel-across the way;

And as Talitha Stiles gazed spellbound, forgetting time, space, and even her dire forebodings, a voice whispered in her ear,

"The little child you are soon to enclose in your arms will lead the list of thousands of the Cleveland born who will make reality what is to you now but a dream."

And then, above the roar of traffic and commerce, sounded the faraway bay of a wolf, and nearer the guttural voices of an aboriginal tongue. Suddenly all other sounds ceased. The lights went out, the great building opposite broke up into innumerable tree trunks, and through the dusk appeared Job Stiles, her husband, followed by two squaws ; one with white locks and wise old eyes, bearing in her arms bunches of herbs, the other younger and spryer, carrying a warm blanket made of furs.

Talitha turned slowly back into the cabin. Had she fallen asleep, while leaning against the doorjamb? Or was it a heavenly vision that had come to comfort her? For surely in no earthly land could such things be!

Early in the morning of the following day, January 23, 1797, the stork that had been hovering for hours over the little log cabin, spread its wings for flight, leaving within a boy babe, the first child born in Cleveland, Ohio.

Charles Phelps Stiles.

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One of the employees of both the first and second surveying parties that laid out the streets of Cleveland was a young man named Joseph Landon. He was given the choice of a town lot to purchase, and selected No. 77 on the south side of Superior Street, directly opposite that occupied by the Stiles. He remained in Cleveland some time after the surveyors had left, which was October 18, 1796. When he also returned East is doubtful. One authority states that it was in the month of February; another that it was at an earlier date. While remaining here, he lived with the Stiles in their log cabin. In the spring of 1797, he returned to Cleveland with the surveyors and with the help of Stephen Gilbert-who became a permanent settler-he cleared his lot and planted it to wheat. This is the last mention made in any Cleveland records of Joseph Landon.

(1) Bank Street.

(2) Superior.

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THE SECOND FAMILY TO ARRIVE IN CLEVELAND

The most careful research has failed to throw authentic light upon the answer to this question.

(1) It is claimed that Lorenzo Carter and his family were the earliest on the ground in the spring of 1797, but no proof of this has been furnished.

(2) The Hawley descendants say that the Carters were accompanied by Ezekial Hawley, his wife, and child.

(3) Furthermore, the second surveying party of the Connecticut Land Company, on their way to Cleveland, reached Conneaut, Ohio, May 26, 1797. Elijah Gun and his wife had been left there the previous fall in charge of the company's stores.

"We found that Gun and his wife had gone on to Cleveland," is the testimony of one of the surveyors who kept a journal of the expedition.

It is very probable that the Carters and Hawleys took the journey from Vermont together. Mrs. Carter had three small children when she started, and, while wintering in Canada, another child was born, December 13, 1796; namely, Henry Carter, who was drowned in the Cuyahoga River ten years later. Because of the domestic situation in the Carter family, it is not likely that Mrs. Carter started on such a long and eventful trip into the wilderness unaccompanied by some one of her own sex. Mrs. Ezekial Hawley was her sister-in-law, and it is reasonable, therefore, to rest upon the word of the Hawley family-that they all came on together.

No record has been left of the journey from Buffalo to Cleveland, whether it was made by water or land. If by the former route, they naturally would hug the shore all the way, beaching their boat at night-fall, and camping out until morning. As Conneaut was a station of the Connecticut Land Company and occupied by a family, the pioneer party would scarcely go by the spot without stopping.

On the other hand, if the trip was by land, the party would pass through Conneaut. In either event, unless the Guns already had started for Cleveland, the three families would meet there in April or early May.

It is the opinion of the writer that the Carters, Hawleys, and Guns all came on together from Conneaut, and were established here by the time the second surveying party reached Cleveland.

It is much to be regretted that accurate data concerning the earliest events in the history of Cleveland has not been preserved. No authoritative statements can be made regarding many things that would be of great interest and value in any history of the city. There remains, therefore, no recourse but to compare traditions handed down in pioneer families with the meager historical facts available, and accept that which seems most probable.

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As stated previously, Elijah Gun and his wife, accompanied the surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company from some point in the East to Conneaut, Ohio. He was in the employ of the surveyors, and Mrs. Gun cooked for the party.

When the surveyors left Conneaut late in October, 1796, on their return to the East, the Guns were left in charge of the storehouse-dubbed "Castle Stow"-a large, low structure of unhewn logs, and thatched with wild grasses and sod.

This spot was on the north-easterly boundary of the Western Reserve. The following May the Guns left - a -month before the surveyors' return and proceeded to Cleveland, whether by boat or on foot, no record can be found. They occupied the company's cabin on the river bank north of Superior Street, then built one of their own on River Street. The prevalence of malaria and mosquitoes drove them finally to a farm out on Broadway, afterward called the "Rhodes Farm."

The family consisted of Mr. Elijah Gun, his wife, Anna Sartwell Gun, and at least four children, perhaps six. No mention of these children in connection with their sojourn in Conneaut or arrival here is made in any history of the city, but, nevertheless, one of the daughters was sixteen years of age at the time, and she was not the oldest child.

Elijah Gun seems to have been a valuable citizen while in Cleveland, for we find his name among those serving the community by holding small and unremunerative offices.

He was born in Deerfield, Mass., 1759, and died in Defiance, 0., at the age of 96. One or more of his sons were living there, at the time, and he had been making his home with him for several years. Whether Mrs. Gun also died there cannot be learned, nor the date of her death.

Mrs. Anna Sartwell Gun, wife of Christopher Gun, was given 100 acres of land by the Connecticut Land Company as a recognition of her services rendered it. It was valued at $150. The deed was recorded in 1803, as

"100 acre lot number 457."

In 1804, she sold 50 acres of it to George Kilbourne, and in 1805, the other half to Samuel Huntington. See map on page . .

During her residence in Cleveland and Newburgh, she was best known as a competent nurse, who went in and out of fever-stricken homes, ministering to the needs of the sick and dying, attending to the dire necessity of young mothers and their little ones, or relieving the bereaved of the last sad offices of their dead. And all of this freely bestowed without money and without price.

Mrs. Gun had a large family of her own, and many household duties while thus holding herself in readiness, by day or night, to respond to the call of duty or mercy.

It is to be hoped that this good woman had a far easier life in her declining years than was accorded her in her younger days. She was 38 years old when she came to Cleveland.

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The children of Elijah and Anna Sartwell Gun:

Christopher Gun, m. Ruth Hickox, daughter of Abram Hickox.

Charles Gun, m. Betsey Mattocks
Philena Gun, m. Capt. Allen Gaylord

Horace Gun, m. Anna Pritchard.

Elijah Gun, Jr., m. Elenor Grant.

Minerva Gun, m. Mr. Hull, and died of consumption at the age of 21 years.

Christopher Gun lived near the foot of Superior Street, and ran the ferry between the east and west side of the river. Residents of the hamlet facetiously dubbed him Christopher Pistol, then docked the name to "Pistol"-one that clung to him the rest- of his life. He-lived on a farm in Nottingham for some years, and afterward removed to Toledo, Ohio.

At least three children were born to Christopher and Ruth Hickox Gun. They were Orsena, Hannah, and Solon Gun. Probably there were others.

Charles Gun, who married Betsey Mattox, removed to Maumee, O. His death occurred only three weeks after that of his wife.

Their children, so far as can be learned, were Lucien, Elliott, Edward, and Minerva Gun.

Christopher and Charles Gun were twins. After Charles died at his home in Maumee, Christopher visited his late brother's children in that town, and so closely did he resembel his twin brother that the Indians in that locality fled at his approach, thinking it was the ghost of Charles Gun.

Horace Gun, who married Anna Pritchard, daughter of Jared and Anna Baird Pritchard, lived in Cleveland the most of his life. He moved to a farm in Brunswick, 0., for a time, but returned and died here. His children were

Mary Gun, m. Samuel Snover Armstrong..

Sarah Anna Gun, b. 1820; m. Stephen Francis ; 2nd, Samuel Armstrong, widower of her sister, Mary.

Minerva Gun, d. of consumption, unmarried

Sophia Gun, m. John Allen. They moved to Kansas

Elijah Gun, m. Laura Wiesner. She d. in 1886.

Lucinda Gun, m. Andrew Stubbs.Moved to Illinois

Almon Gun, m. Catherine Cummins. He d. as a soldier in the Civil War.

Mrs. Gun was never a strong woman ; at last she succumbed to her large family and many cares, dying in 1843.

Horace Gun married, secondly, Mrs. Jane Germain Draper.

Elijah Gun, Jr., and Elenor Grant Gun lived in Maumee, Ohio.

They had at least four children-Catherine, Lucretia, Henry, and Julia Gun.

It is claimed by some of the Gun descendants that after the death of Elenor Grant Gun, Elijah Gun, Jr., married Mrs. Dorcas Hickox Watterman, widow of Eleazur Watterman ; but members of the Hickox family think this to be a mistake.

The Gun family records remaining in Cleveland are very incomplete, and it was with much difficulty that the above data-a partial one-was secured.

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Major Lorenzo Carter has justly been called

THE PIONEER OF THE PIONEERS,

for it is doubtful if many of the earliest settlers would have survived the periods of great deprivation they experienced but for Major Carter.

He was their leader and protector. His courage sustained and fortified them in days of trial and danger. The skillful use of his rifle often saved them from starvation or from the terrors of wild beasts. His sturdy presence held in check any hostile demonstration of the Indians. Moreover, his continued residence in the hamlet--seventeen years in all encouraged later settlers in remaining and living down the malaria that had driven the Stiles, Guns, Hawleys, Kingsburys and Edwards to the heights now outlined by Woodhill Road.

He must have been a striking figure even in those days of picturesque, half-Indian attire ; six feet in height, erect, with black hair that hung in length to his shoulders ; and with an alert, resolute bearing that betokened the born leader.

We learn that he was honest and generous, as well as brave and capable. It was a common saying that "Major Carter was all the law Cleveland had. He was kind to the poor and unfortunate, hospitable to the stranger, would put himself to great inconvenience to oblige a neighbor, and was always at the service of an individual or the public when a wrong had been perpetrated."

It is not the purpose of this history of the Cleveland pioneers to dwell upon their American ancestry. But, as Lorenzo Carter was so unique a personage and filled for so many years so prominent a place in the hamlet, it seems proper to touch lightly upon his forebears, in order to explain him -to account for his intelligence and unusual traits of character.

(1) Rev. Thomas Carter was educated at Cambridge, England, and there took his degree of M. A. He came to America in 1635, and seven years later was ordained at Woburn, Mass. He became minister of the Congregational church in that town, and continued so for forty-two years.

(2) Thomas Carter, Jr., cultivated a large farm near Woburn, but resided in the old homestead, built in 1642, a part of which is still standing. He married Margery, daughter of Francis Whittemore.

(3) Thomas Carter 3rd, born in Woburn, removed to Litchfield, Conn. His wife was Sarah Gilbert, a descendant of Jonathan Gilbert, Hugh Welles, James Rodgers, and other early lights of Colonial days. Evidently he was a man of considerable property, as he deeded a generous amount of land to each of his six sons. These sons all served their country in the struggle for American independence.

(4) Lieut. Eleazer Carter enlisted in the Continental Army. His company was disbanded temporarily, and he returned home, to die of small-pox, in his thirty-seventh year, leaving a widow and six children, the oldest of whom-Lorenzo Carter-was but eleven years of age.

Elizabeth Buell Carter, wife of Eleazer, was the granddaughter of Ensign William Buell, of Windham County, Conn., and a descendant of the Griswolds, of Winsor, and the Collins, of Hartford. An educated woman, well-fitted for the years of trial and struggle that lay before her, she was

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capable of instructing her children when other opportunities of education failed them.

Warren-the small village of Litchfield County, in which they livedpossessed an unusual library for that day, and her children were taught to use it freely. The list of books drawn by Lorenzo from that library, and later from one in Cleveland, witness to his good taste in literature and frequent indulgence in it.

About 1783-the close of the Revolutionary War-Mrs. Carter married, secondly, Major Benjamin Ackley, who took her and her children, together with some of his own,. by a former marriage, to Castleton, Vt., where her brother, Major Ephraim Buell, had recently settled.

At least three more children were born to her, all of whom lived to be very aged. They were John A., Eleazer, and Orange Ackley. The former was once well known in Cleveland, as was his son, John M. Ackley, late of Brewton, Ala., to whose courtesy the writer is greatly indebted for valuable data concerning the family.

In 1789 Lorenzo Carter married Rebecca Fuller, and settled down on a small farm in Castleton. But not for long. He soon became dissatisfied with the old circumscribed life of a poor farmer, his imagination became fired by glowing descriptions of "New Connecticut," and in company with another man he came West, either in the fall of 1795, or very early the following year, to investigate for himself the future site of Cleveland.

He returned to Vermont, and in the late fall of 1796, in company with Ezekiel Hawley, Lucy Carter Hawley, his wife-who was Lorenzo's sister and their young child, the Carters started for their new home in the wilderness.

They had three children at that time, Alonzo, Laura, and Rebecca, aged respectively six, four and two years. When the party reached the little hamlet of Buffalo, N. Y.. it seemed expedient not to proceed any farther on the journey that season. There were no accommodations for the two families there. Buffalo was simply a store-house and a log-hut or two, so the party crossed over to the Canadian side of the Niagara River, where, at the close of the American Revolution, thirteen years previous, a settlement had been made by Tory refugees, chief of whom was John Clement, formerly of Schenectady, N. Y.--one of Butler's rangers in the dreadful warfare carried on by Tories against the patriots of the Mohawk Valley during the struggle of the American Revolution.

December 13, another child was born to the Carters-little Henry, who ten years later was drowned in Cuyahoga River. Mrs. Carter engaged a young Canadian girl to assist her in the care of the babe, by the name of Chloe Inches, who had an admirer in William Clement, a son of John Clement, the ranger.

She accompanied the family to Cleveland, but two months afterward was followed and claimed by her lover, and they were married the following July. A full account of this wedding will be found in the pages of this volume.

At what date the Carters and Hawleys resumed their journey is not ascertained, but they reached here in May, 1797. As there were young children in the party, including a babe five months old, and as the weather in this latitude is often at freezing point in the early part of April, it is

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probable they delayed starting until later in the month, which would bring them to their destination after the middle of May.

Mr. Carter bought lot 199, which was on the river bank west of Water Street, and nearly at the foot of St. Clair Street. It contained nearly two acres, and cost $47.50. The contract with and description of it from the Connecticut Land Company is still preserved.

Upon this lot he built a large log-house, containing two rooms, with rough puncheon floors. They must have been furnished in the most primitive fashion, as the only household effects that could be transported from the East at that early day were bedding and the simplest cooking utensils. One iron kettle and a skillet often served for half a dozen purposes in preparing a meal, and frequently only part of a family could eat at a time for want of sufficient dishes.

This first log-house, on the side of the hill and close to the river, was the center of many pioneer activities. It was a dwelling, Indian trading-post, store, and headquarters for all the settlement. Here, in 1801, was celebrated the Fourth of July, ending in a dance, participated in by about a dozen women and fifteen men. The only refreshment served, it is said, was whiskey and water, sweetened with maple sugar. But as the report of this social affair was written by a man, it may have been biased by his own taste in the matter of refreshments-the hot drink probably remembered, the food that appealed to the women forgotten.

Timothy Doan's eldest daughter, Nancy, aged fifteen, was one of the party. She had arrived the previous April with her parents, and was visiting her uncle Nathaniel at Doan's Corners. She was escorted by a young man living transiently in Newburgh, named Bryant. He wore a gingham suit, and his hair-queued-was tied with a yard and a half of black ribbon. It had previously been greased and sprinkled with flour as thick as it would stick. He wore a wool hat and heavy shoes. By means of the latter he hoped to make a fine clatter in his "pigeon wings" while dancing the Fisher's Hornpipe or "Hie Betty Martin."

Doan's Corners was four miles east from the Carter home, and two miles or more north of Newburgh, and Bryant went for Nancy on an old horse along the road now known as Woodhill Road. "He alighted by a stump near the Doan cabin, and Nancy mounted the stump, spread her under-petticoat over old Tib's back, secured her calico dress from the mudsplashes sure to assail it, and mounted behind him." It is reported that they had a good time.

In 1801 Mr. Carter added to his possessions by acquiring more city property. The deed and description of it is still retained in the family. It began at the north-west corner of Water (W. 9th) and Superior streets, and embraced all the lots between that point and lot 199-the one he was occupying.

Upon the corner he built a large frame-house-the first one in the settlement-which, when nearly finished, was set on fire by children playing with the dry shavings left on the floors. It must have been a serious loss to the family, as well as a great disappointment. However, another one was soon erected, but this time of hewn logs.

There is some dispute regarding the exact year in which this last house was finished, but the oldest son of the family was thirteen years of

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age at the time, and his testimony should have due weight. He says it was in 1803. The house consisted of a large living room, kitchen and two bedrooms on the ground floor, and several small rooms in the half-story above.

A large chimney stood in the center of this primitive structure, in which were two fire-places. The one in the kitchen had an iron crane, upon which Mrs. Carter hung venison, wild turkey or other meats to roast, while the few vegetables obtainable were cooked either in the hot ashes or in iron pots and skillets set close to the fire and requiring continual turning to secure an even heat within. The baking-oven was built in the chimney.

The oldest daughter of the family-Mrs. Laura Miles Strong-stated that the furniture in this log-cabin was all made by a Cleveland carpenter out of lumber brought from Detroit.

Mrs. Carter was fully in sympathy with her husband in all his plans for the future. There were many strangers constantly arriving to inspect the new settlement, with a view of joining it, and these were freely and generously invited to partake of the hospitality of the Carter home. Finally it became apparent that a public inn was necessary, and Mr. Carter made his new log-house a tavern.

Although the cares of this house, of strangers, and of her children required an immense amount of labor, Mrs. Carter was ever ready to comfort or aid any suffering neighbor by sympathy, tender nursing, or by supplying daintily prepared food for the helpless. Her intense religious nature, combined with her early training, led her to be among the first to assist in the organization of a religious society, which held its early services in Carter's tavern before a "meeting-house" was built.

It is a great satisfaction to the writer, and will be to the reader, that so much of this representative pioneer woman has been preserved. It is due to the loyalty and zeal of her great-granddaughter-Miss L. Belle Hamlin, of Milford, Conn.-a genealogist of our day, whose researches secured knowledge of her ancestress that otherwise would have been unattainable.

Rebecca Fuller Carter was the daughter of Amos and Mercy Taylor Fuller, who, with several neighbors, removed from Lebanon, Conn., to Carmel, a beautiful little village of Eastern New York. But during the War of the American Revolution, fifteen years later, that locality became so unsafe that after innumerable hardships the family were compelled to return to Connecticut, and Mr. Fuller, then nearing sixty years of age, was obliged to found a new home. This he did in Warren, a little village in the mountains of Litchfield County. It possessed, for that period, an unusually good library and an excellent school.

Here also lived the widow Carter and her children, and the Ackleys. Abel Fuller, Rebecca's brother, was in love with Roxanna Ackley, afterward the step-sister of Lorenzo Carter. Two years after the marriage of Mrs. Carter to Roxanna's father, and the removal of the families to Castleton, Vt., Abel followed them, and Roxanna Ackley became his wife.

In time Rebecca Fuller visited her brother in Castleton, and a friendship that had existed between Lorenzo Carter and herself was renewed.

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It matured into strong affection, and they were married in January, 1789. She was twenty-two years of age.

No pioneer woman of Cleveland was more illy fitted to endure the dangers, deprivations and toil which existed for all those first settlers than was Mrs. Carter, whose shy, timid, imaginative temperament created unnecessary terrors, and whose physical frailty made the struggle for existence difficult.

The surrounding Indians were a source of continual anxiety, for she possessed none of that fearlessness so characteristic of her husband, and she suffered greatly from an unconquerable dread of their approach. The common occurrence of one peering into the house with face pressed close against the window-pane would cause her to run away screaming with terror. Or, did they appear in the house when her husband was away, she would lock herself and children in another room, or would hide in the woodpile until they disappeared.

This fear of them was apparent to the Indians, and, perhaps in resentment of it, they seemed to enjoy tormenting her.

Once, knowing that Mr. Carter was away hunting, an Indian came into the house, and ordered her to cook a meal for him, and, growing ugly at some delay, he raised his arm threateningly and started towards her. She ran through the open door and circled round and round the woodpile, closely followed by her pursuer.

The aspect of this scene was suddenly changed by the appearance of her husband standing with gun leveled at her tormentor, and, while she fell breathless to the ground, almost paralyzed with fright, the Indian skulked limping away, carrying with him a stinging and personal knowledge of Lorenzo Carter's skill as a marksman.

Mrs. Carter had five more children born to her after she came to Cleveland, making nine in all. Her little Rebecca, who came with them from Vermont, died the fall after their arrival, and in 1808 she lost two more children-Cleveland born-in less than two months. Three years later her ten-year-old son Henry, the one born in Canada, was drowned in the river.

But she had yet to face a greater sorrow, one that demanded her uttermost fortitude. Lorenzo Carter, in the very prime of life, was smitten with that dreadful and fatal disease-cancer. It appeared upon his face, and he went East to consult the most eminent physicians, but returned, knowing that for him life was short. Brave and daring as he had shown himself hitherto, he could not resign himself to his fate. As the disease gradually disfigured his countenance, he grew morbidly sensitive, refused all visitors, and retired to an upper room to avoid friends and strangers alike.

There were days when, tortured by pain and his own thoughts, he would pace his room, furiously raging at his hard fate.

His gentle wife would then endeavor to pacify him in every way that love prompted, but often-so impatient and desperate was his mood-he would drive her away. Then she would sit down on the stairs near his door and pray to be taught how to comfort him.

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dent in his will, in which careful directions are given for her future welfare.

Lorenzo Carter died in February, 1814, and was buried in Erie Street Cemetery, to the left of the main drive, and close to the front entrance. Beside him lies his wife, Rebecca Fuller Carter, who survived him thirteen years and died at the age of sixty-one.

The births, deaths and marriages of the Carter children were copied from the family Bible and kindly furnished as data for this work.

Alonzo Carter, b. in Castleton, Vt., 1790; m. Julia Akins. .

Laura Carter, b. in Castleton, Vt., 1792; m. Erastus Miles, and (2d) 1800; d. Aug., 1803. James Strong

Rebecca Carter, b. in Castleton, Vt., 1794; d. Sept., 1897.

Henry Carter, b. in Niagara, Ont.,.Dec., 1796; d. Sept., 1806.

Polly Carter, b. in Cleveland, 1798; m. William Peets, and (2d)

Rebecca Carter, b. in Cleveland, 1800; d. Aug., 1803

Lorenzo Carter, b. in Cleveland, 1802; d. Sept., 1803.

Mercy Carter, b. in Cleveland, 1804 m. Asahel Abels

Betsey Carter, b. in Cleveland, 1806; m. Orison Cathan.

Soon after his arrival in Cleveland, Lorenzo Carter bought a large farm on the west side of the river, most of it lying directly opposite his homestead. This he either gave or sold to his eldest born and only son Alonzo, who lived on it and cultivated it for many years. His house, painted red and always mentioned as "the red house," stood where it was conspicuous from Superior Street, being directly opposite the foot of it.

Alonzo Carter married, in 1815, Julia Akins, who was the daughter of George and Tamison Higgins Akins, who had come from Haddam, Conn., in 1811, and settled in Brooklyn on the farm where the City Infirmary has stood for so many years.

In the red house Alonzo and his wife entertained the traveling public, and their tavern was as well-known a stopping-place as, for fifteen years, his father's had been. The Buffalo Land Company bought the farm some time in the '30s, and erected one of the finest hotels in the West, either on it or close at hand. But the grand hotel proved less profitable than the small pioneer tavern, and eventually fell into ruin, after many years of base usage as factory and slum tenement.

Alonzo Carter had the distinction of being

THE FIRST TREASURER OF CLEVELAND.

He was unanimously elected to that office in June, 1815, when the village of Cleveland was incorporated, and probably it was a tribute to the well known Carter honesty.

The marshal chosen in that election of 1815 was John A. Ackley, the half-brother of Lorenzo Carter.

Alonzo seems always to have been held in much respect. He was associated with leading citizens of the town in various enterprises. He inherited the kind, generous qualities of his parents. This was exemplified in an incident which will be found in Johnson's History of Cuyahoga County, p. 417.

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After the sale of the farm he removed to the vicinity of Broadway and Miles Ave., where his sons also lived and died.

Children of Alonzo and Julia Akins Carter

Rebecca Sarter, m. 1835, Joseph Few, of New York State..

Laura Carter, m. 1844, Stewart Rathbun..

Julia Carter, m. 1845, Dr. Charles Northrup, of Olmstead Falls, O..

Amelia Carter, m. Corydon Rathbun.

Lorenzo Carter, m. Eunice Brockway

Edward Carter, m. Margaret Stewart, widow of Augustus Stewart

Charles Carter, m. Anna Rock

Henry Carter, m. Julia McNamara

Alonzo Carter died in 1872, and his wife ten years later.

Laura Carter, the oldest daughter of Lorenzo and Rebecca Carter, was a tall, straight, black-eyed girl, and, like her father, courageous and fearless. Her remembrance of the long journey from Vermont to Cleveland was but slight, but some of her recollections of events that transpired after the family reached their destination remained vivid through life, especially that of the Indians crowding into their cabin and sometimes filling the living room with their numbers.

At first they peered curiously around, handled all articles that amused or puzzled them, watched closely the movements of the family, and showed particular interest in Mrs. Carter's method of cooking. The bread baking was a wonderful mystery, and when she placed the bread dough near the fire to hasten its rising they would watch its gradual rising upward, shaking their heads with solemnity, mutter "bad spirit," and edge to a distant corner.

Very early Laura learned that she could protect her timid mother from these invasions. She knew they both respected and feared her father, and that they would immediately disperse upon his arrival home. So she would glance out of the window, and, turning, call, "Father is coming!" or, going to the door, would pretend to be talking with him at a distance away. Whereupon the Indians would take to the woods.

One night, Alonzo and Laura planned to have some fun with several of their prostrate forms, the children placed handfuls of horse-chestnuts in the hot ashes, and then hid to watch results.

Soon a sputtering and cracking began, then a shot, followed by a resounding explosion, issuing from that fire-place. The Indians sprang to their feet and fled out into the night. The following day they told of how "an evil spirit came down the Carters' chimney, and they could not rest there."

One night, during Mr. Carter's absence, about fifteen Indians came in and took possession of the cabin. Their carousing and smoking greatly frightened Mrs. Carter, who was lying ill in an adjoining room. Laura was then but thirteen years old, but she walked in boldly, swinging a broom right and left, hitting heads, legs and arms indiscriminately, and crying, "Get out ! my mother is sick!" The Indians, taken by surprise, almost unconsciously obeyed the command of the daring little girl.

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had located in Cleveland in 1801, and the following year had been made town clerk. He held this office many years, and in 1810 was appointed a justice of the peace. His stirring energy appealed strongly to Laura's father, and soon after the marriage they were associated together in various enterprises, one of which was the building of the "Zephyr," the first vessel built in Cleveland.

As it seemed impossible to leave her frail mother to the labor and care the tavern entailed, the young couple decided to remain there until Mercy and Polly, the younger sisters, were older.

During the War of 1812 the tavern was overrun with soldiers coming by the boat-load into Cleveland-especially after Perry's victory. Laura and her sisters cooked night as well as day for those hungry men, and years afterward they used to refer to the barrels of bread they had then baked-often in the hours of the night.

Laura Carter Miles was her father's chief nurse during his fatal illness. Her strong, self-reliant, cheerful nature sustained and comforted the stricken man in a way impossible to his delicate, grief-stricken wife. She was with him to the end, and two weeks later gave birth to her second child.

Soon after, Mr. Miles built a residence in Newburgh, and removed his family there. This building, though changed beyond all recognition, still stands on the corner of Broadway and Miles Ave. At the same time he opened a store, and started for New York to purchase goods to stock it. Mrs. Miles accompanied him, riding all the way on horseback.

On this trip, while visiting relatives, she learned to make salt-rising bread, much to the convenience of her neighbors, whom she instructed in the art, as fresh yeast was not always easy to obtain.

In 1826, after a few days only of illness, Erastus Miles died. Two years later Laura married Mr. James Strong of Cleveland-son of the pioneer and thenceforth lived in his home on Euclid Avenue, at the corner of E. 89th Street. The Severance mansion now occupies the site.

Here she spent twelve happy years. Mr. Strong was very kind to her children, and she was equally so to his by a former marriage, and in the course of time three more came to bless the household.

Mr. Strong died in 1840, and his widow moved to Olmstead Falls, and subsequently to Elkhart, Ind., where she died in 1863.

Children of Erastus and Laura Carter Miles

Emily Miles, b. 1810; m. Timothy T. Clark ; 2nd, Joseph K. Curtis.

Lorenzo Miles, b. 1815; m. Margaret Lawrence, of Mt. Morris, N. Y.

Edwin Miles, b. 1817; d. 18 years of age.

Lucretia Miles, b. 1818; m. Hon. Edward S. Hamlin, of Elyria, O.

Charles Miles, b. 1820; m. Electa A. Lawrence-sister of Margaret

Children of James and Laura Carter Strong

Mary Strong, m. Hon. Edward Hamlin.

Frances Strong, m. Lewis W. Pickering, of Elkhart, Ind.

Louise Strong, m. Samuel S. Strong, of Elkhart, Ind.

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Ezekiel Hawley of Carthage, Vermont, married Lucy Carter in Castleton, Vt.

The Hawley genealogy, recently published, contains no one by the name of Ezekial, and as this pioneer family wrote their name or allowed it to be written Holly quite as often as Hawley, the former spelling may have been the correct one. Mrs. Juliette Jackson Hawley, who married into the family, asserted this to be the case. In 1803, Elisabeth Buell Ackley, mother of Mrs. Hawley, wrote a letter to her daughter, which was directed to Mrs. Lucy Holly, care of Ezekial Holly; but the descendants of the pioneer evidently prefer the name of Hawley.

The young couple, with their little daughter, accompanied the Carters in the long journey from Vermont, with them spent the winter of 1796 on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, and together they reached Cleveland in May, 1797.

Mr. Hawley was the original purchaser of lots 49, 50, and 51, on Superior Street. Each lot was 132 feet front, and contained two acres. Had he bought lot 52 also, his homestead would have included the whole square between Superior and St. Clair, Water and Bank streets. Lot 52, upon which now stands the Rockefeller building, was bought by David Clark, another Vermont pioneer.

Mr. Hawley built a log-cabin upon lot 49. Careful research leads one to believe that it did not stand directly on the corner of Superior and Water streets, but a little north and east of it, facing on Water Street. This log-cabin later was used by Elisha Norton as a trading post and dwelling, and in 1806 the first post-office was located in it, with Elisha Norton as postmaster.

That same year, or the following one, Nathan Perry, Sr., purchased Mr. Hawley's three lots, also lot 52, and established himself directly on the corner of the two streets, Superior and Water.

Ezekial Hawley remained in the hamlet but two years, at the end of that time removing to the heights between Woodland Avenue and Broadway, which was then in the township of Newburgh, and which, in after years, was annexed to the city of Cleveland. He was, by occupation, a farmer, and the six acres of sand on Superior Street may have-been too constricted for one used to more land and richer soil. Besides this, the prevalence of malaria, making life miserable for every resident of the hamlet, undoubtedly hastened a decision to remove to higher ground. Ezekial Hawley thenceforth led a very quiet life. The only public record of him to be found is that he was one of three who held the office of "Fence Viewer."

Mrs. Hawley was the daughter of Eleazer and Elisabeth Buell Carter, and the sister of Alonzo Carter, the pioneer. Her family of living children was small, but she may have lost some on the frequent local epidemics, where the mortality among children was great. Little can be gleaned of her life in Cleveland, save that she was every inch a Carter, or a Buell, -whichever family it was that handed down to her and her brother the characteristics of courage, self-reliance, fortitude, and the instinct for wisely directing and guiding others.

Mr. and Mrs. Hawley were victims of the epidemic of fever that swept the village in 1827. He was 63 years, she was 57 years of age.

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The children of Ezekial and Lucy Carter Hawley:

Fanny Hawley, m. Theodore Miles.

Lauren Hawley, unmarried.

Alphonso Hawley, m. Juliette Jackson, daughter of Morris Jackson, Sr.

Children of Alphonso and Juliette Hawley

Lucy Hawley, m. Alexander Hunter.-

David Hawley, m. Frances Hutchins..

Harriet Hawley, m. Edward Rose.

Morris J. Hawley, m: Isabelle Carver

Henry Hawley, m. Ada Hickox

Juliette Hawley, m. George Morgan

Mrs. Juliette Hawley lived to be a very old lady, dying at the residence of her son on Doan Street. She had possessed the characteristics of the Jackson family in a marked degree,-self-reliance, firmness of purpose, direct speech, industry, and fearlessness. She retained her memory to the last. As a reason for her inability to tell more of Ezekial Hawley's antecedents, she exclaimed, "We were all too busy in getting his descendants enough to eat to give any attention to his ancestors."

The Holly homestead adjoined that of Samuel Dille, on Broadway, about a mile and a half from the Public Square. The Grasselli Chemical work occupy the western part of the farm.

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When Col. James Kingsbury concluded to make a "hazard of new fortunes" by leaving Alsted, N. H., for the wilds of Ohio, he little dreamed that it would take a whole year to reach his final destination. Furthermore, could he have foreseen even a part of the tragedy awaiting him, it is more than probable Cleveland would have lacked one of its pioneers of 1797. In his haste to make the change, he did not wait for surveyors to lay out the land and_ report conditions, but left New Hampshire, June, 1796, about the time that Moses Cleaveland and his party arrived in Buffalo on their way to the Western Reserve.

It is difficult, from the stand-point of to-day, when the average man is over-careful, perhaps, regarding the health and comfort of his family, why or how a husband and father could be induced to burn all his ships behind him and, in absolute ignorance of what awaited his wife and little ones, start with them on a journey of hundreds of miles, in order to settle down in a trackless wilderness, out of reach of medical aid, and all else that pertains to the safety of civilization. That another babe was added to the number and perished, and that the whole family nearly lost

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their lives through starvation and exposure, seems a natural consequence of a rash undertaking.

But Judge Kingsbury was not the only Cleveland pioneer to take such risks, and the only reason that his experiences were not identically those of many others, was simply through great good luck rather than wise precaution. He was the son of Absolm Kingsbury, of Norwich, Conn. As that part of Connecticut was aflame with patriotism through the Revolutionary period, it is not remarkable that all his older brothers saw active service in the cause of freedom. He himself born in 1767, was too young to engage in the strife. After the close of the war, members of the family removed to New Hampshire, and at the age of 21 Mr. Kingsbury married Miss Eunice Waldo. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Carleton Waldo. Her grandfather, Lieut. John Carleton, her father, and two brothers reinforced the garrison of Ticonderoga when it was besieged. When they started for Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury had three children. The oldest, a daughter, was three years old, the next, a boy, was two years old, and the youngest, also a boy, was an infant. They took with them a cow, horse, yoke of oxen, and a few household necessities.

Accompanying them was a young lad by the name of Carleton, the nephew of Mr. Kingsbury, who assisted by driving the animals in advance of the family, or following with them close in the rear.

When Oswego was reached, the party continued the journey in an open, flat-bottomed boat, which conveyed them through Lake Ontario, and, perhaps, Lake Erie, while the nephew on foot or horseback drove the animals along the shores. They arrived in Conneaut, Ohio, in October, four months from the time they started on their journey.

Moses Cleaveland and his surveyors left Cleveland on their way back to civilization, October 18, and Conneaut, Oct. 21. Whether the Kingsburys reached the latter place in time to meet the surveyors has not been stated, and just where the family spent the following winter months is a matter of conjecture. They could not have been with the Guns at Castle Stow, for no mention whatever is made of the Guns in the narration of all that befell the Kingsburys in their desperate struggle for existence.

Conneaut is on the site of an Indian village, about a mile and a half from the mouth of the river and Castle Stow. It consisted of a number of rude but comfortable cabins, occupied in the summer months by a remnant of the Massasaugas, who, at the approach of the winter, vacated until spring, spending intervening time farther south.

Mr. Kingsley may have taken advantage of this to obtain the use of one of these cabins, which would explain why the family seem to have been living separate from the Guns.

Why it seemed expedient for him to leave his family under such circumstances and return at once to Alsted, N. H., has never been clearly explained. He intended to make the journey there and return on horseback within six weeks.

Meanwhile, he had been storing up malaria in his system, and by the time he reached his former home, it began its work. For weeks he lay on his bed, too ill to start back for Ohio, and before he was able to do so, Mrs. Kingsbury passed through the supreme peril of motherhood alone

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in the wilderness. Before she could attend once more to household affairs, the nephew, through ignorance of the consequences, poisoned the cow by feeding it oak twigs. Those of the elm or beech would have been harmless, and twigs of trees and bushes were the only provender available, but the boy did not know that any difference existed.

Then Mrs. Kingsbury became ill, and while burning with the fever, natural sustenance for the babe ceased, and she had to endure its moans of starvation, unable to relieve it.

It died as Mr. Kingsbury came staggering back from the East, his poor horse having dropped exhausted by the way.

With the help of his nephew he fashioned a rude coffin, and dug a grave in the frozen ground. As they bore the little body out of the cabin, Mrs. Kingsbury sank back unconscious. There was no food in store, and Mr. Kingsbury started back for Erie to obtain corn, dragging a handsleigh there and back.

This corn, partially crushed, was all the family had to eat until March, when pigeons and other wild game began to return from the South. When, in 1797, the second surveyor party, on its way to finish the work of the previous summer, arrived at Conneaut, they found the Kingsburys in a feeble condition of health through lack of proper food and medicine. Their immediate wants were relieved, and they accompanied the surveyors to Cleveland.

Whether from the start this place had been Mr. Kingsbury's objective point, or that he concluded to accept the offer of 100 acres of land from the Connecticut Land Company, should he become a settler of the frontier hamlet, has not been ascertained.

The family took refuge in an old trading hut on the west side of the river, nearly opposite the foot of St. Clair Street, in which they remained until their own cabin was built. Mr. Kingsbury had selected original lots 59 and 60-the site of the Old Stone Church and old court-house, but as Cleveland was all woods, with lots only partially defined, he may have made a mistake when he built on lot 64. The post-office and E. 3rd Street now occupy lot 63, so that the site of Kingsbury's cabin is now covered with the city hall building. Within two years they removed to the northwest corner of Kinsman and Woodhill Roads, on a farm, a portion of which was underlaid with fine building-stone, and proved of great value. Mr. Kingsbury also owned several city lots, which ultimately netted a fortune. The light-house on Water Street stands on one of these. The large frame-house that remained the homestead for 45 years was, in its day, considered. quite pretentious, and was the center of hospitality and good cheer.

Mrs. Eunice Kingsbury was a good, kind-hearted woman. It was but natural that she could never endure the thought of allowing any one to go hungry, and was prompt to relieve necessity in any form. The homestead stood far enough from town for young and old to make it the terminus of merry sleighing parties, who were welcomed, warmed and feasted with typical, old-fashioned hospitality. Memories of it lingered with the early settlers so long as life lasted, and traditions of it handed down to posterity. The kindly spirit that pervaded it, the big elm trees that shaded it, the apple and cherry trees surrounding it-whose deli

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cious fruit was freely shared with many who had none, and the children who overflowed it, leading happy, natural lives.

Col. Kingsbury became "Squire Kingsbury," and then "Judge Kingsbury," and filled many places of trust in the city and county. He died in 1847, aged 80 years. His three older brothers, Dr. Asa Kingsbury, Lieut. Ephraim Kingsbury, and Obadiah Kingsbury, were soldiers of the American Revolution. His sister Margaret married John Carleton, whose children settled in Western Reserve.

Mrs. Eunice Waldo Kingsbury died in 1843, aged 73 years.

Judge and Mrs. Eunice Waldo Kingsbury were both laid to rest in Erie Street Cemetery.

Their children were:

Amos Kingsbury, b. 1793; m. Clarrissa Ingersoll; 2nd, Mary Sherman.

Almon Kingsbury, b. 1795; m. Lucy Cone.

Abigail Kingsbury, b. 1792; m. Dyer Sherman, of Vermont..

Elmira Kingsbury, b. 1794; m. Perley Hosmer..

Nancy Kingsbury, b. 1798; m. Caleb Baldwin Cleveland

Calista Kingsbury, b. 1800; m. Runa Baldwin

Diana Kingsbury, b. 1804; m. Buckley Steadman

Albert Kingsbury, b. 1806; m.Malinda Robinson ; 2nd, Mrs. Sophia Bates Laughton

James Kingsbury, b. 1813; m Lucinda Williams

Of Amos Kingsbury, the oldest son of Judge Kingsbury, little can be learned. He married his first wife, Clarissa Ingersoll, in January, 1815.

She died, leaving a little son, Dyer (?) Kingsbury, who lived in his later years in Wisconsin.

Amos Kingsbury married, secondly, Mary Sherman-sister of Dyer Sherman, his brother-in-law, in January, 1820. Only one son was born of this union, the Rev. C. T. Kingsbury, of Alliance, Ohio.

Both children were brought up in their grandfather's home. Amos Kingsbury was somewhat of a religious enthusiast. He suffered from ill-health many years, and was obliged to seek a warmer climate. Receiving a government position in Arkansas, he removed to that state. But his heart was in missionary work, and while there he labored and preached among the poor and illiterate, either black or white. He was a good man, respected and loved.

Almon Kingsbury was a quiet, dreamy sort of a man, very impractical in business affairs. He kept a store in early days on Superior Street, just west of Uncle Abram Hickox' blacksmith shop. A story illustrating his business stand-point is told, which may or may not be true.

A man wishing a saw picked one out at Almon's store, and inquired the price of it. There were in stock several other saws of assorted sizes. Almon looked at the saw, hesitated, and then remarked, "I guess I don't want to part with that. I have a complete assortment of sizes now, and if I let you have it the set will be broken."

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married in August, 1820-was a fine woman, and her children were a credit to the Kingsbury name. Louisa Kingsbury, for some years, was a Cleveland public school teacher. She married Mr. Crooker, of Buffalo, N. Y.

Lucy Kingsbury married Cornelius Lansing Seymour, son of Alexander Seymour. Dianna Kingsbury married Samuel Hastings, of Boston, Mass. James Kingsbury married Philanda Phelps, of Milwaukee. George Kingsbury m. Fanny--- , and lives in Buffalo.

Abigail Kingsbury, or "Nabby," oldest daughter of Judge Kingsbury, led an eventful life. While yet in her teens, a brother and sister arrived from Vermont, named Sherman. The former Dyer Sherman laid siege to Miss Kingsbury's heart and won it. They were married February, 1808. They were a popular couple, and while keeping a tavern on Broadway, near E. 55th Street, became widely known. It stood on a 50-acre lot, the gift of Judge Kingsbury. He also afterward gave them 160 acres of land on the road to Warrensville, upon which they lived in late life. Previous to this Mrs. Sherman had received a city lot from her father, which she sold to the government for a large sum in gold. But in their old age, the greater part of this fortune had melted away. It is said that the chief reason of this was the sudden appearance of a woman and a middle-aged son from Vermont, who claimed Dyer Sherman for husband and father, and that he gave up everything he possessed to appease them and evade court process and penalty.

Dyer and Abigail Kingsbury Sherman had two daughters-Susan and Margaret, neither of whom married fortunately nor wisely in the two ventures they each made in matrimony. The latter lived and died in a Western state. Early in December, 1814, there was a double wedding in the old Kingsbury homestead, and great merry-making. Two daughters of the household-Nancy and Calista, married the Baldwin brothers -Caleb and Runa-and in less than a month afterward Amos Kingsbury married his first wife, Clarissa Ingersoll.

Runa and Clarista Baldwin began housekeeping in a home belonging to them on the north-west corner of Woodland and Wilson-E. 55th Street. Here they lived in health and prosperity for 20 years, when, in the summer of 1834, Runa Baldwin was stricken with cholera, an epidemic that year, and died, of course, suddenly. Clarrissa survived him many years.

They had an interesting family of children.

Sherman and Albert Baldwin became celebrated physicians of San Francisco. Almon Baldwin lived in Toledo. Alfred Baldwin died in Cleveland. Sophrona Baldwin married a Mr. Burrows, of Schalersville, 0. Martha Baldwin married a Mr. Lougee, of Oakland, Cal.

Nancy Kingsbury was the second wife of Caleb Baldwin. His first marriage was with Phoebe Gaylord, of Newburgh.

When the Mormon excitement was at its height, and its teachings were being discussed pro and con at every fireside, Caleb and Nancey became converts of the new faith. There was an element of mysticism in it sufficient to be an attraction to people of intense religious emotion, and it is possible that the former Baptist minister, who lived in the county, and whom they often met, may have been the influence that

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decided them to leave their comfortable home and its environment of kinship and life-long neighbors, to face what proved to be danger and many hardships.

Elmira Kingsbury Hosmer had four children. She lived and died in Chicago, Ill.

Diantha Kingsbury became the second wife of the once well-known Buckley Stedman. He kept a large market, for years, in Cleveland. Diantha made a model step-mother to his children by the first wife.

The family became wealthy, and subsequently removed to Washington, D. C.

James Waldo Kingsbury, the youngest child of Judge and Eunice Kingsbury, was born in the old homestead in 1813, and remained in it until his death in 1881-68 years.

He inherited this property with other and valuable land. Like his brothers, he possessed less business qualifications than other and more desirable gifts. He was a good, kind man, an indulgent father, and the most enviable of neighbors.

But little by little his inheritance slipped through his hands, until little remains in the possession of his children. He was long an invalid before his death.

His wife was Lucinda Williams, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth DeWolfe Williams, who died in 1870, aged 54.

They had ten children. The first five died in infancy.

Those remaining were Egbert, Norman, Fanny, Caroline and Ellen Kingsbury -Mrs. William Parton-now a widow with these sons.

Mr. Kingsbury left the homestead to his youngest son, who died soon after his marriage, leaving it to his wife.

She married again for her second husband a man bearing a German name, who remodeled the house following a fire that nearly destroyed it, so that the old landmark has passed out of the family, and is greatly changed from its former appearance.

Mrs. Eunice Waldo Kingsbury, wife of Judge Kingsbury, had a brother - Roswell Waldo-who was a pioneer of Schalersville in 1815.

As was also their sister, Hannah Waldo Thompson.

Another brother, Dr. Carleton Waldo, was a pioneer of Butler County.

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(An Address Delivered by Mrs. Wickham before the Old Settlers' Association in 1903.)

In the fall of 1797, when Lorenzo Carter and Ezekiel Hawley, his brother-in-law, with their families, arrived in Buffalo, on their way from Rutland, Vermont, to Cleveland, 0., they concluded to tarry in that vicinity and rest from their long and tedious journey. Buffalo was then

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but a trading post, and contained no houses in which to shelter them, so they crossed the Niagara River, where they found accommodation for the winter.

When they resumed their travels and reached their destination the following May, the Carters were accompanied by a maid-servant by the name of Chloe Inches.

The surname is an unusual one, and though English nomenclature embraces many that are equally so, the writer is inclined to think that Inches is not an English name, but a misspelled French one, and corrupted from something quite different.

Take, for instance, the name familiar to us, as "Sizer." A century ago, Sizer was D'Zascieur, and we can all recall similar instances where the English tongue, unfamiliar with the eccentricities of French vowels, has twisted French names out of all semblance to their original form, the owners of them helplessly answering to their new cognomens.

No research enables us to decide whether Chloe Inches started with the party from Vermont, or attached herself to the Carters while they were in Niagara. The only mention of her is in connection with her marriage in Cleveland the following July.

Chloe Inches appears upon the annals of early Cleveland in one sentence, and disappears suddenly in the next. Her previous history and parentage are, and probably ever will be, unknown. Notwithstanding, this slip of a girl acquired distinction that July day when the simply and naturally took her place at the head of the great army of Cuyahoga County brides, estimated at 200,000.

And did she also lead the divorced women of this county down the path of regret and repudiation? No. Some other bride is responsible for the beginning of this sad procession of the unhappy, one that increases in shameful ratios with each succeeding year.

Chloe Inches also made an impress upon the economic life of Cleveland households in that she was its first domestic, and, as such, established precedents that have caused unending annoyances to mistresses from that day to this.

For, alas ! Chloe had a follower !

He followed 180 miles or more, from Niagara, Ontario, to Cleveland, in order to woo Mrs. Carter's little maid-servant.

How he came, by row-boat or sail-boat, hugging the shore and camping by night in creeks or coves, or whether he walked all the way, or rode horseback, no evidence is adduced. As I have stated, accounts of the affair are most meager, and imagination must supply the details that early Cleveland annals fail to furnish. His name was William Clement, and we easily can fancy that Miss Chloe sometimes spoke of him tenderly as "my Will."

We do not know what objections, if any, Mrs. Carter raised to the young man's unexpected appearance and strenuous wooing. She certainly had more reasonable cause for remonstrance than any Cleveland mistress that followed her, for her helplessness to successfully cope with the situation is apparent when we realize that she had no intelligence office to fall back upon, no columns of "Situations Wanted-Female," to scan, no hope of coaxing away the services of some other woman's serv-

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ant. Her only resource would be an Indian maid, not available because of her own desperate fear and aversion to the redskins. So, for several years afterward, Mrs. Carter was obliged to perform all her household duties, and care for her children unaided.

The wedding of William Clement and Chloe Inches took place July 4th, 1797.

The Declaration of Independence was just twenty-one years old. Only nineteen years lay between Valley Forge and that Cleveland day of double celebration, only fourteen since the close of the Revolutionary War. Therefore, the Fourth of July meant more to those early residents of Cleveland than it does to us of today. They had lived, suffered, and, perhaps, lost dear ones in the recent struggle. They had not had time to become weary of Fourth of July celebrations, nor indifferent to the patriotic memories for which that day stands.

I assume that the first Cleveland wedding was the only one in which the guests included its whole population, therefore no imp of mischance mislaid, misdirected, or missent wedding invitations, thus paving the way for fancied slights and future misunderstandings.

Doubtless every one in town was informally bidden to the first patriotic and social event. There were present Mr. and Mrs. Job Phelps Stiles, Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Hawley, Mr. and Mrs. James Kingsbury, the two young men of the town-Edward Paine and Pierre Maloch, the minister, Rev. Seth Hart-superintendent of the Connecticut Land Co., and Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Carter, the host and hostess of the occasion, fourteen adults. Added to this, being seen and not heard, as befitted the youth of that day, may have been the ten children of the settlement.

As there were none but married people in the town, and very young children, Chloe must have lacked the support of bridesmaids upon this momentous occasion, and if either of the young men served as the groom's best man, history fails to record it.

The dearth of material for a fashionable wedding, however, had its recompense. The expenses did not include a bill for the bride's favors or masculine stick-pins.

THE WEDDING SUPPER?

Imagination fails us here. The Rev. Seth Hart may have donated from the supplies of the Connecticut Land Co., otherwise they could have had no wedding cake, since neither the Carters nor the other settlers possessed sugar or wheat flour. However, we may be sure that the hostess drew upon all her resources, and that all the other housewives added to the menu such offerings as their scanty larders permitted.

The wedding journey!

The second sentence in the annals of early Cleveland concerning this event reads, "He bore her away to Canada."

Now, in those days this term had a wide meaning; anywhere to the north of us, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the shores of Lake Superior. And within this land of wide domain the young couple vanish for 106 years.

The little hamlet of Cleveland becomes a vast metropolis, and its infancy sinks nearly out of sight and interest. Then comes its hundredth

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anniversary, when everything connected with its earliest history takes on new value.

As historian of the woman's department of the Centennial Commission, your speaker became interested in the pioneer women of the Western Reserve, and for some years has been trying to trace Mr. and Mrs. William Clement and learn something of their subsequent history. Finally, when all other efforts failed, a communication was sent to the Toronto Globe, begging for assistance in the matter. The Globe kindly gave it publicity, and the result justified her faith in the power and value of the press. Out of the many-letters- received but one was definite and satisfactory. Mr. Alexander Servos, of Niagara, Ontario, is the gentleman through whose efforts we are enabled to trace the Clements into their home in Canada.

William Clement was the son of an American Tory, John Clement, one of Col. Butler's rangers, who devastated the Mohawk and Wyoming valleys during the Revolutionary War. He was a resident of Schenectady, N. Y. At the close of hostilities, with many others, proclaiming themselves as "United Empire Loyalists," he settled in Niagara, Ontario. He became a prominent man in the community, and died wealthy. Over his grave in St. Mark's Cemetery, of that township, a stone records that "Ranger John Clement died 1845, aged 87 years."

William Clement, his son, took his bride, Chloe Inches Clement, to a farm of 400 acres in St. Davids, a small hamlet within Niagara Township. St. Davids is about two miles from the Niagara River, and six miles from the falls. It is under the brow of a very high hill or mountain, with a never-failing spring stream running through it, and is now surrounded with thrifty orchards and vineyards. Here they raised a family of five children, three sons-Robert, James, Joseph, and twin daughters-Ann and Margaret.

William and Chloe Clement are buried in the cemetery of St. Davids, one stone marking their graves., The date of their deaths is 1835.

It is a pleasure to find that their descendants always were, and still are, honorable and respected citizens of the communities in which they live. I shall not dwell on this to the extent of wearying your patience, but will touch lightly upon the principal features that characterized them as a family.

Richard Clement settled in Norfolk County, Ontario; Joseph Clement in Brantford County, while James Clement remained in St. Davids and owned a large farm.

The twin daughters, Ann and Margaret Clement, married Richard and William Woodruff, of Connecticut, who settled in Niagara about 1802.

The only living grandchild of William and Chloe Clement, bearing the name, is a resident of St. Davids, and 76 years of age. He is an honest, wealthy farmer.

The Woodruffs have distinguished themselves in many ways as professional men, large mill-owners, prominent merchants, or extensive landowners. Margaret Clement's son, Samuel D. Woodruff, is still living at the age of eighty-five. He is a civil engineer, and for many years was superintendent of the Welland Canal.

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As the Canadian stock of the Clements had its origin in New England and New York State, it is but natural that members of the younger generation should drift back to this country of their ancestors, and where their grandparents were married on its national anniversary. Therefore, we are not surprised that many have done so, and that this city at any time may possess an honored citizen, who is the direct descendant of the young couple who furnished the first wedding in Cleveland.

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The name of Dodge in this county is as old as that of the city itself, as it has been on its records 113 years.

It began to be locally historical when a 21-year-old young man arrived here in 1798. He had trudged all the way from Westmoreland, N. H., to see for himself if the much talked-of New Connecticut was all that had been claimed for it, and to find out whether his chances for material advancement would be greater here than in his native town down East. The question must have been answered in the affirmative, for Samuel Dodge remained to become one of Cleveland's most valued citizens, as were his sons, and in after years grandsons of today. He was a carpenter and builder by trade, and at once found work in the erection of cabins for the families yearly arriving and needing transient or permanent shelter. He built a barn on Superior Street for Samuel Huntington, 30x40 feet in dimensions, for which, it is said, he received in lieu of $300 in cash, a strip of land on Euclid Avenue. It contained 110 acres, and extended from the avenue to the lake. Dodge Street, now E. 17th, runs straight through this property.

Here, in 1803, he built a log-cabin for his bride, Nancy Doane, who had arrived here nearly two years previous with her parents, Timothy and Mary Carey Doan, and had settled in East Cleveland. And here was built the first well in town. The stones that walled it in had first been used by the Indians to back the fire-places they occasionally built in their wigwams. Nancy Doan had taught school in East Cleveland and Newburgh, and while working at his trade in that direction Mr. Dodge met the pretty young schoolma'am.

The young couple lived a year or two in their Cleveland home, then moved out in the neighborhood of the Doans, now Windermere. Here Mr. Dodge had a large farm lying each side of Euclid Road, just west of the present car-barns. For 35 years past, part of it has been "Forest Hill," the property of J. D. Rockefeller.

In an advertisement of 1819, it appears that, in addition to farming, Samuel Dodge was engaged in making wagon wheels "of all sizes, large and small." In course of time, he returned to his city property, building a small frame-house upon it. His sons, after their marriages, built im

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posing structures for their own use on either side of the paternal home. That of Gen. H. H. Dodge, west of it, was Colonial in style, its facade adorned with stately pillars. It was one of the show-places of early Cleveland, and long greatly admired. It still stands on the avenue, though no longer used as a residence.

George C. Dodge built to the east of his father's house, and when Dodge Street was cut through, his house became a corner one.

Mr. Samuel Dodge took high rank as an intelligent man, and it was found to be a difficult matter to get the best of him in an argument. What his knowledge lacked, his fund- of good sense supplied. A former school-teacher, once working with him, was inclined to make too much of his own educational advantages, and to assume that they were superior to those of his associates. Mr. Dodge, annoyed at his partner's pretensions, found an opportunity to retaliate. The man left the saw-mill, one day, to go to his dinner, leaving directions to a workman upon a piece of paper fastened to a log. It read, "This log wants to be cut 2x4."

Mr. Dodge came along, read the note, and added, "This log is inanimate and can have no wants. Write correctly, Mr. Schoolmaster!"

Samuel Dodge died in 1854, aged 78. He had lived through the first 57 years of the city's life, long enough to foresee its future greatness.

Nancy Doan Dodge, his wife, outlived him nearly a decade, dying at the age of 81.

Their children were:

Mary Dodge, b. 1804; m. Ezra B. Smith

Henry H. Dodge, b. 1810; m. Mary Anne Willey

George C. Dodge, b. 1813; m. Lucy A. Burton

Mary Dodge Smith, the only daughter of the pioneers, received from her father as a share of his city property the north end of it. Clinton Park, now a public playground for children, is a part of the original estate belonging to her. She died in her young womanhood of consumption, and her two children lived but a short time. She was buried in Erie Street Cemetery, beside her parents.

Henry H. Dodge, or "General Dodge," as he was known, was a lawyer by profession, being admitted to the bar at the age of 24. He became United States Commissioner, State Engineer, and filled other offices of trust. He is said to have been a man of strict honor and integrity, kindhearted, and very patriotic. He died at his Euclid Avenue home in 1889, nearly 80 years old.

Mary Anne Willey, his wife, was the daughter of Newton and Lucretia Willes Willey, of New Hampshire. She had two little sons who died young, and seven daughters. The latter all lived to womanhood and married. Mrs. Dodge was a refined lady of charming manners, and gracious hospitality. She was the niece of Hon. John W. Willey, the city's first mayor, and of Mrs. Luther Willes, of Bedford. She had two brothers, also residing in the city, and a sister living East.

Mrs. Mary A. Dodge died in 1867, aged 47 years.

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The children of Gen. H. H. and Mary Ann Willey Dodge:

Mary Lucretia Dodge, m. William Heisley..

Samuel Henry Dodge, d. at three years of age..

Caroline Willey Dodge, m. John J. Herr

Henry Newton Dodge, d. young.

Jeannie C. Dodge, m. Ambrose J. Benson

Nancy A. Dodge, m. Edward K. Chamberlain

Ella C. Dodge, m. Everton Lattimer

Georgia L. Dodge, m. Ernest Klussmann

Kate W. Dodge, m. Albert Lawrence.

George C. Dodge was an auctioneer and commission merchant. He also owned a dry-goods and grocery store. The rapid growth of the city made his real estate and that of his brother so valuable that they gave up all other business in order to attend to it.

George C. Dodge was quite active in politics at one time, and served as the city's postmaster under President Tyler.

Mrs. Lucy Dodge was born in Manchester, Vt., 1817, and as a child came to East Cleveland with her parents, Dr. Elisha and Mary Hollister Burton. She was a beautiful woman, with a clear complexion, lovely dark eyes, and an abundance of dark brown hair.

Dr. E. D. Burton," her brother, is still living in the house in Windermere, in which he was born. The first home of George C. Dodge and his wife was at 48 Ontario Street, afterward occupied by Mr. Castle. They removed to their fine residence on Euclid Avenue, where they died. Mr. Dodge in 1883, aged 70, and Mrs. Dodge in 1900, aged 83.

Their children were:

Anna Dodge, m. Jeptha Buell

Wilson Dodge, m. Ella Dudley..

Fanny Dodge, m. Horace Hutchins, a brother of Judge John Hutchins.

George Dodge, m. Laura Gedge.

Mortimer H. Dodge, m. Flora Britton

Samuel Douglas Dodge, m. Janet Groff.

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Rudolphus Edwards, son of Adonijah and Polly Edwards, came to Cleveland in the fall of 1798 from Chenango, N. Y. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters, one an infant of two months old.

The eldest of the children was the only one of Mr. Edwards' first wife, Rhoda Barnett Edwards, whom he married in Tolland, Conn., in 1790, and who died three years later.

He married, secondly, Miss Anna Merrill. It is claimed of the Edwards family that they came with a party of twelve people who met in

(1) Died 1814.

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New York State while on their way to Cleveland. They were Nathaniel Doan and family, Samuel Dodge, Stephen Gilbert, Nathan Chapman, and, lastly, Joseph Landon, who had spent part of the previous winter in Cleveland.

Mr. Edwards had been engaged in surveying wild lands for six years before his arrival, and the compass used by him during that period is preserved in the Historical Society.

He built a log-cabin at the foot of Superior Street and a few feet south of it. This the family occupied for two years. Meanwhile, he purchased 500 acres of land on Butternut Ridge, afterwards called Woodland Hills Avenue, and lately renamed Woodhill Road. It was at the eastern terminus of a highway now called Woodland Avenue. The farm extended north and east of Woodland to Fairmount Street. To this farm the family were driven by the virulence of the malaria that attacked them all while they lived by the riverside, and here another log-cabin was erected for their use. After ten years' occupation of it, Rudolphus Edwards engaged Levi Johnson to replace it with a frame tavern, which became an old landmark of future years. It was called the "Buckeye House," and its roof sheltered many a pioneer family bound for townships south and east of Newburg, and its hospitality cheered and comforted in hours of weariness and discouragement.

The occupation of tavern-keeping and the care of his large farm were two of the many activities engaged in by Mr. Edwards. In the winter season he often drove his slow-moving ox-team as far south as Pittsburg with a load of wild honey, receiving in payment household supplies. He also made trips to Detroit, carrying hay and other commodities to the garrison established there by the government before 1812.

In later years, when his age began to tell upon him, he gave his whole attention to his farm and tavern. It is said of him that, "Rain or snow, hot or cold, as regularly as Saturday came around, Uncle Dolph, as he was affectionately called, with his old horse, Dobbin, old-time carryall, and big brindle dog seated bolt upright on the seat by the side of his master, would make his appearance in town for the purchase of supplies for the following week."

Anna Merrill Edwards was a woman of uncommon good sense and judgment-qualities much needed in those pioneer days. If Uncle Dolph kept too many irons in the fire, Aunt Dolph had as many more in constant use. Six children were added to the two brought from Tolland, all born in the old tavern. Besides a family of ten to care for, and the uncertain traveling public to entertain, there were spinning, weaving, soap-making, candle-dipping, and numberless other things on her hands, and she performed these tasks faithfully and as a matter of course.

But she died in middle age-53-when her youngest child was 15.

Mr. Edwards lost his father, mother, wife, and a daughter 25 years old within a period of three years. He died in 1840. All the members of the Edwards family who died in Cleveland were buried in a small cemetery in the rear of the old Congregational church, north-west corner of Euclid Avenue and Doan Street. It was then called the East Cleveland burying-ground. The entrance was from Doan Street. The largest and the finest monument in it, and, eventually, the last one, was that of the

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Edwards family, and, finally, when all the bodies had been removed from the cemetery, this, with other Edwards grave-stones, remained standing until the old church was razed. A big bank building stands on the site of the little church, and part of the cemetery is covered by another towering edifice.

Adonijah Edwards, the father of Rudolphus Edwards, was a soldier of the American Revolution. At an advanced age he came to Cleveland to live with his son. His wife Polly accompanied him, and they lived the remainder of their days in this Western pioneer town. He died in 1831, aged 90, and Polly Edwards only a year later, aged. 88. They were buried in the small cemetery, and their children, one by one, rested beside them.

The child of Rudolphus and Rhoda Barnett Edwards was

Sally Edwards, m. Patrick Thomas.

The children of Rudolphus and Anna Marrill Edwards

Rhoda Edwards, b. 1798; m. Lyman Rhodes ; 2nd, John Fay..

Cherry Edwards, b. 1800; m. Samuel Stewart..

Clara Edwards, b. 1802; m. David.Burroughs.

Anna Edwards, b. 1805; m. Noble Olmstead

Stark Edwards, b. 1808; m. Hannah Saxton

Lydia Edwards, m. Lyman Little

Rudolphus Edwards, m. Sophia Mussen.

Cherry Edwards Stewart, daughter of Rudolphus Edwards, Sr., was a merry-hearted woman who loved social pleasure. She was always on hand when sleigh-rides were proposed, and a beautiful dancer, who never lacked for partners at a party, even in middle age, and was leader in any fun going on. She was extremely neat, and, it is said, although refusing to use washboards after they were invented, her clothes hung on the line were snowy white.

She had no daughters, but loved her many young nieces, and nothing gave her more pleasure than to initiate them in the various household mysteries she had herself mastered.

Children of Samuel and Cherry Edwards Stewart

Calvin Stewart, unmarried ; d. aged, 20..

Rudolphus Stewart, m. Margaret Sayles. She married 3rd, Edward.Carter.

Jehiel Stewart, m. Sophia Thomas sister of Dr. Thomas

Noble Stewart, removed to the West, married and had children

Children of Noble and Anna Edwards Olmstead

Margaret Olmstead,,

Maria Olmstead,.

Stark Olmstead, Levi Olmstead twins

Both parents died young, and the children were raised by their uncles and aunts. Rudolphus Edwards, Jr., took Margaret Olmstead, and Cherry Stewart took Maria Olmstead.

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Children of Rudolphus, Jr., and Sophia Mussen Edwards:

John R. Edwards, m. Mary Grower.

Lydia Edwards, m. Newton Bate..

Mary J. Edwards, m. Daniel Grower.

Sophia R. Edwards, m. Edwin Roberts

Sarah Ann, and Julia Stark Ed-wards, unmarried.

Mrs. Sophia Roberts is a well-known member of the Western Reserve Chapter, D. A. R.

In Harvard Grove Cemetery can be found the following inscriptions. No knowledge of the couple obtainable.

"Henry Edwards died 1804, aged 52 years.

Mary Edwards, his wife, died 1814, aged 54 years."

Also

"Thomas Edwards, died 1829, aged 27 years."

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How Amos Spafford, of Orwell, Rutland Co., Vermont, came to be in the employ of the Connecticut Land Co., is a matter of conjecture only. The story, doubtless, would be interesting to his posterity wherever it may be, but it is one as yet untold.

We first find him in May, 1796, with a company of 45 officers and men assembled in Schenectady, N. Y., preparing to explore and survey the Western Reserve. He is one of seven surveyors, the rest are helpers and laborers. He accompanies the party all through its journey in the Ohio wilderness, and takes a prominent part in allotting the future city of Cleveland. And upon his return East, he prepares a map of the city, -the first one made. He is a member of the second surveying expedition, as its leading surveyor. At this time, a cabin for shelter, to hold supplies, etc., was built near the foot of Superior Street on its south side, and the following year, 1798, a traveler reports finding him in possession of this cabin. He was then assisting the Connecticut Land Co. in locating lots for arriving settlers, collecting land sales, etc.

It was not until the year 1800, four years from the time he first set foot in Cleveland, that he sent to Vermont for his wife and children. They were accompanied in the long journey by David Clark and family.

The Spaffords began housekeeping in the surveyors' cabin, which, though small, must have seemed a haven of rest to Mrs. Spafford after months of travel and camping. About this time, and before he began to build a home, Amos Spafford wrote a sharp letter of complaint to the land company, protesting against the high price of lots. He thought its demands unreasonable. Twenty-five dollars cash each for the sixteen

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lots he wishes to purchase is more than they are worth, considering their isolation, and the great scarcity of money, and he threatens to locate elsewhere in the Reserve unless he is offered better terms.

The company, most unfortunately for himself, must have acceded to his demands, for he settled down to remain in Cleveland, building a two story frame-house just south of the cabin, and the following year erecting another one at the foot of Superior Street, perhaps for his daughter, Mrs. Anna Craw, who was married in 1801.

Major Spafford must have been either visionary or impractical, for he burdened himself hopelessly by the purchase of more real estate than he could pay for or resell, and it was the means of a financial embarrassment from which he was never able to extricate himself. He was descended from John and Elisabeth Spafford, who came to Rowley, Mass., with Rev. Rogers in 1636, from Yorkshire, England. Amos Spafford was tall, very straight, had a high, broad forehead, and a quiet, sedate manner. All records speak highly of him, the last one as a "sound headed, pure-hearted man."

Mrs. Spafford was a Miss Olive Barlow. She was born in Granville, Mass., and married Amos Spafford when only 17 years of age. The young couple continued to live in Granville until after the Revolution, when they joined the popular emigration to Vermont, living in Orwell, that state, until their removal to Cleveland. Mrs. Olive Spafford was then about 44 years old, and four of her living children were well grown. The oldest, Samuel, had been with his father a member of the second surveying party, and Anna Spafford, the oldest daughter, married within six months after her arrival in Ohio.

In histories of early Cleveland, it is stated that in 1802 Anna Spafford taught the first Cleveland school in the front room of Major Carter's cabin, locating said cabin at the corner of Superior and Water streets. There are many contradictions and discrepancies concerning this event, and after careful research the writer is led to believe that the first school was either started in her own, or her parents' home. She was no longer "Anna Spafford" after May, 1801, having married John Craw at that date, and her first child was born in the spring of 1802. The Carter home until 1803 was under the river bank, north of St. Clair Street, and Mrs. Craw would not be likely to go there when a room could have been obtained nearer. That the second Carter home was used as a school afterward, there can be little doubt, but with Chloe Spafford, Anna's younger sister, as its teacher. Chloe also taught in Newburgh a year or two later. There were only four families in town in 1802. The Carters, Clarks, Huntingtons, and Spaffords.

The Huntingtons brought with them a governess, Miss Margaret Cobb. That would eliminate their children from a school as long as she remained with them, which was a year or two at least. The youngest Spafford, Adolphus, was about eleven years of age. Of the Carters ola enough for instruction, Alonzo was 12, Laura 10, and Henry 6 years old. The first school, therefore, could not have numbered over six pupils, with every child of proper age present.

After paying the usual license fee of four dollars, Major Spafford opened his house for the traveling public, and ever after, as long as the

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building stood, it was a tavern, and when it was pulled down another and more pretentious one, called the "Mansion House," stood on the same site. The building was painted red, and stood on the last lot on the south side of Superior Street. In the grading of the street, years later, this lot, and another east of it, were left high above the sidewalk, and eventually many feet of its surface were scraped off to the rear, which originally extended back to the river.

The arrival of Mrs. Huntington must have been a great pleasure to Mrs. Spafford. The two women lived side by side for several years, and doubtless, in the sorrows and calamities that befell Mrs. Spafford, her friend and neighbor extended much sympathy and aid.

In 1807, Anna Spafford Craw died, leaving two little sons, John, aged 5 years, and Richard, aged 3. She was buried in the cemetery on Ontario Street, and as her husband and parents eventually left the city and there was no one to attend to the matter, her ashes probably were thrown out when the foundation was dug for the building erected on the site, or were part of the barrels of human bones that stood day after day on the curb-stone awaiting the cart that at last bore them away.

The following year, Mrs. Spafford endured still greater sorrow. Her youngest daughter, Chloe, in March, 1804, had married Stephen Gilbert, a young man 29 years of age, who was associated with her father in the second surveying expedition. He had bought a lot and sowed it with wheat the following year-1798-and had been a permanent settler since then. He had filled small offices of trust, and seemed to be a valuable member of the community. Augustus Gilbert, of Newburgh, was an older brother. They were the sons of Joseph and Elisabeth Breck Gilbert, of Hartford, Conn., and descendants of Capt. John Gilbert, one of the founders of Hartford.

In April, 1808, Stephen Gilbert, accompanied by his young brother-in-law, Adolphus Spafford, went on a fishing expedition. They were in a large boat containing six other people, and were bound for a point ten miles west of town where black fish had been reported seen in great number. The boat was overturned, and all within it but one perished. Stephen Gilbert could easily have saved himself, but he clung to his young companion in a vain effort to bring him to shore. Their bodies were recovered, and after being placed in the cemetery on Ontario Street, afterward were removed to Erie Street Cemetery, near the entrance to the right. They are marked by small stones lying flat on the graves. By one stroke Mrs. Spafford thus lost her son and son-in-law, and added to her own grief was that of her daughter left a widow with two little children.

Major Spafford's Cleveland ventures did not prosper, and in 1810, having received the appointment of collector in the district of Miami, in which is now Toledo-probably through the influence of his old neighbor and friend, Gov. Huntington-he sold out to George Wallace, moved to Fort Meigs, and built a log-house at the foot of the rapids there.

Chloe Gilbert evidently did not accompany her parents, for in November, 1810, her father writes to John Walworth, "I find myself under great obligations to you and your family for the friendly aid you have given our unfortunate daughter and children. As you observe, she will find a

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home with you until she obtains a better one. This is saying a great deal, as, in my opinion, a better home could not be found. Chloe well knows that she will always find one with me, but at present I hardly know where my house or home is."

Just a year later he writes Mr. Walworth that he is unable to come to Cleveland or to sell his land there. That Mrs. Spafford, himself, and son Aurora are recovering from severe illness, and that his home and all his business seem to be out of joint. He wished his Cleveland lots sold, as his creditors as well as himself are in need of money. Abram Hickox at this time was raising wheat on the Spafford lots on shares.

By 1812, Major Spafford had picked up a little, and had a log-house, a farm partly cleared, and some stock, when the Indians in the employ of the British swooped down on the Miami settlers, and looted their homes of everything that could be carried off. Major Spafford gave them all the money he had except $20, to exempt his household, but receiving word that another party was on the way, this time massacring as well as pillaging, he hurried his family and neighbors into a crazy old boat, leaving everything behind, and started down the river, out into the lake, for Huron, many miles east. Had not a friendly Indian misled the enemy in regard to the time they started, they could easily have been overtaken and put to death.

The Spaffords rowed up the Huron River, eight miles, to a little town called Milan, where they remained until the war closed. Upon their return to Maumee-or Perrysburg-as the place was afterward named by Major Spafford, he found his house burned, his horses and cattle gone, and had to begin all over again. Out of the old wreck of a transport he built a house to shelter them. The property in that section afterward became valuable, but not until after Mr. and Mrs. Spafford had passed away. Their lives had been that of long struggle, exposure, peril, sorrow, and disappointment.

Their children were all the parents could desire, respected and honored in the communities in which they lived. They were:

Samuel Spafford, m. Catherine Mabee, and d. in 1831, in Perrysburg.

Anna Spafford, b. 1780; m. John Craw, May, 1801, and d. 1807. Left two sons- John, aged 5, and Richard, aged 3.

Chloe Spafford, m. March, 1804, Stephen Gilbert, who was drowned 1808.

Aurora Spafford, m. Mrs. Mary Ralph Jones, and d. in Perrysburg, O.

Adolphus Spafford, drowned, when 18 years of age, in Lake Erie.

A Richard Craw was living in Cleveland or Newburgh about 1802, who may have been the father or the brother of the above John Craw.

Chloe Spafford' Gilbert had two sons, Lester, and Stephen L. Gilbert. She joined her father when his family took refuge in Milan, Ohio, during the War of 1812, and taught the first school in Avery, near by, riding to it on a horse and a man's saddle in company with the mail-carrier. Her sons were living in Maumee as late as 1836, as letters from them to their cousins, the younger daughters of Augustus Gilbert, would indicate. Stephen L. Gilbert was a mail-carrier in the '30s, and removed later to a Western state.

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Were the writer to choose an ancestor from the earliest Cleveland pioneers, the choice, without hesitation, would fall upon a blacksmith. They were the most useful members of society in those first years of toil and struggle. A community could then dispense with lawyers and land agents, but to be without a blacksmith was a calamity. The shoeing of horses was small part of the service required of them, for they were called upon to mend everything from a candlestick to a plough, and usually were skilled wagon-makers as well.

The first three Cleveland blacksmiths-Doan, Sargeant, Hickoxwere typical of their class, fine specimens of American manhood:- Honest, industrious, unselfish, kind, and behind each five or six generations of the best New England blood. Who, then, of today would not be proud of lineal descent from those noble pioneer blacksmiths? Nathaniel Doan heads the list, and his posterity is numbered among our best citizenship.

The history of Nathaniel Doan begins with John, his American ancestor of 1633, who was a chosen assistant of Gov. Winslow in directing the affairs of Plymouth Colony, and down through Daniel to Seth and his wife, Mercy Parker, who lived in Haddam, Conn. Seth was a shipbuilder and a hero of the American Revolution. With his son Seth, he was captured by the British and held in prison for a year. Seth, Jr., died from the effects of that captivity. Besides the martyred son, there was a large family of children, many of whom came to Ohio and settled in and around Cleveland.

Nathaniel Doan was the fourth child. He was a member of the Connecticut Land Company in 1796 and 1797. He had charge of the horses used in the expeditions-seeing that they were kept well shod and otherwise cared for. He was offered a village lot in Cleveland by the above company if he would settle in the hamlet and start a blacksmith shop. He accepted the offer, and in 1798 left Haddam with his wife, four children, and his nephew, Seth Doan, son of his brother, Timothy, and started for Ohio.

It is said that the latter was sent West in order to keep him from following the seas, for which he had a strong inclination, much against the wishes of his parents.

The route, whenever possible, was by water. Down the Connecticut River, along the coast of Long Island Sound, down the East River to New York City, up the Hudson River to Troy, then on the Mohawk River, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Mr. Doan built his blacksmith shop of rough, unhewn logs on Superior Street, near Bank Street, and probably lived in the Stiles house, which had been abandoned by that family for one on Newburgh Heights.

Mrs. Nathaniel Doan-Sarah Adams-was 27 years of age when she arrived in Cleveland. She had, at that time, but one son, Job Doan, nine years of age, and three young daughters, Sarah, Delia, and Mercy Doan. Another little daughter, Rebecca, was afterward added to the family circle.

The presence of Seth Doan, the nephew, that first year of their arrival in Cleveland, proved most providential for the whole family. For it was scarcely settled in the little log-cabin before every member of it was taken ill with fever and ague. Although Seth himself was also afflicted with

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the distressing complaint, he kept about, waiting upon his aunt and the children, and doing all that he could to alleviate their sufferings.

To add to the family's distress, there was little food to be obtained in the settlement, and it suffered hunger for weeks at a time ; corn-meal was the only diet. Mr. Doan remained in the hamlet less than a year, then moved out on Euclid Avenue, and settled on a farm. It was on the corner of Fairmount Street, E. 107th, west of and adjoining Wade Park. Here he built a small log-tavern and eventually a store, and a little saleratus factory. The latter was a blessing to housewives, who hitherto had been compelled to use lye in place of that article in their cooking.

Mr. Doan was evidently a Christian gentleman, as he attended as delegate the first church convention held on the Reserve. He also, as justice of the peace, married many couples who came before him for that purpose, and he served as County Commissioner.

He died in 1815, aged 53 years.

His widow, Sarah Adams Doan, survived him nearly 40 years, dying at the age of 82, and outliving most of her children. Her life had been one of great change and vicissitude, also of great sorrows. But, like most women of that day, she accepted everything that came to her, whether of good or ill, with thankfulness or patient resignation.

Children of Nathaniel and Sarah Adams Doan

Sarah Doan, m. Richard H. Blinn, in 1802, by Amos Spafford, J. P..

Job Doan, b. 1789; m. Harriet Woodruff.

Delia Doan, m. Mr. Eddy; 2nd, David Little

Mercy Doan, m. Edward Baldwin

Rebecca Doan, m. Harvey Halliday in 1827.

Richard Blinn had a farm on what is now Woodhill Road. Sarah Doan, his wife, had a little son born, whom she named in honor of her father. She died in early womanhood, and Richard Blinn married 2nd, Electra Hamilton, of Newburgh.

Delia Doan taught the first school, it is said, in Euclid.

Mercy Doan died young. Her husband, Edward Baldwin, was 21 years old when they were married. He came from Ballston Spa, New York, and was County Treasurer. He died in 1843.

Harvey Halliday lived in East Cleveland. He had three brothers, Albert, Nathan, and Frank Halliday.

The Doan Tavern, kept by Nathaniel Doan, and rebuilt by his son, Job, was a famous landmark for nearly half a century. It stood by the roadside, where all travel east and west between Cleveland and Buffalo passed it. The little creek flowing through the picturesque woods just east of it, now Wade Park, attracted the large parties of pioneers who traveled in company from their New England homes in huge wagons, and driving horses, cattle, and other domestic animals in advance of them. Here, or on the level stretch of ground now occupied by Western Reserve University, they would make a halt of a day or two, resting and washing

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up. It is said that as many as 15 wagons at once would be encamped there. It followed that the Doan Tavern was patronized, more or less, by these travelers. One feature of this, however, was not at all lucrative -"the borrower was abroad in the land." Everything conceivable was asked for and usually obtained, from silver spoons to camp-kettles. For the Doans were kind-hearted and very accommodating. Once, some one carried off one of Mrs. Doan's teaspoons. She felt very badly over her loss, but, to ! a whole year afterward the spoon came back, it being the first chance the party had of restoring it.

Two years after his father's death, Job, his only son, replaced the log tavern with a large frame one. Eventually, this was moved to Cedar Avenue, just east of Streator, E. 100th Street, and three tenement houses constructed out of it. Job Doan was an energetic, ambitious, hardworking man. He died of cholera in 1834. He must have possessed lovable qualities that secured and kept for him many friends. When the news that he was stricken with the disease reached town, Capt. Lewis Dibble and Tom Calahan-well-known Cleveland men-at once set about procuring medical aid for him. Every doctor was busy or away, and the friends had to wait for some time before they succeeded. Finally, they intercepted two physicians who had just returned from other calls, and prevailed upon them both to start out again at once, although there was a four miles' drive between town and Doan's Corners. The physicians rode in one buggy, and Dibble and Calahan in another. It was far in the night before they reached their destination. Capt. Dibble found his brother-in-law, Capt. Ebenezer Stark, already there, also Job Doan's brother-in-law, David Little. They were bending over the sufferer, rubbing him and trying to alleviate his agony. Poor Job looked up as the men entered his room, and stretched out his hands to the friends who had hastened to his bedside. The doctors, evidently, were unable to add any thing to the treatment already given, for they merely looked at him, shook their heads, and departed. Within an hour death came to Mr. Doan and relieved his sufferings.

Job Doan met his future wife for the first time on the highway near Hudson, Ohio. The road was in a frightful condition-nearly knee-deep with mud. She was on horseback, and he on foot. He thought her the sweetest girl he had ever seen, and took measures to meet her again and under more favorable. conditions, and not long afterward they were married. The honeymoon, however, was postponed six weeks, for, immediately after the ceremony, he took a drove of cattle to the southern part of the state, which kept him away for that length of time.

Mrs. Harriet Doan was the daughter of Nathaniel and Harriet Isabelle Woodruff, of Morristown, New Jersey, who came to the East End in 1814. She was 19 years of age when married. A descendant describes her as tall and fine-looking; a woman of remarkable Christian character, faithful, cheerful, generous, kind. She never allowed ill-natured gossip in her presence, without rebuke. She was an original member of the Euclid Congregational Church. Her sister, Sarah Woodruff, married William Adams, of Collamer. As the wife of Job Doan, Harriet Woodruff was the mother of eight children

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Nathaniel Doan, d. in California, unmarried.

Caroline Doan, m. John R. Walters in 1835..

Harriet Doan, m. Frederick Wilbur ; 2nd, Capt. Sprague..

Lucy Ann Doan, m. Isaac Miller, of Braceville, Ohio.

William Halsey Doan, m. Elisabeth Hennell, of Portland, Maine.

Martha Doan, m. Anthony McReynolds

Edward Doan, m. Carrie P. Bradley

William Halsey Doan became a wealthy philanthropist. He built a large tabernacle on Vincent Street, near East 9th, where popular concerts and lectures were held, which people of moderate incomes were enabled to attend. There was no other large auditorium at the time, and for many years it proved a blessing and convenience to the public. It finally burned and was not rebuilt.

Six years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Harriet Doan married Cornelius Conkley, and in 1854 was again a widow. She died in 1884. Meantime, S. C. Baldwin had either purchased or rented the Doan Tavern and kept it open to the traveling public.

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One of the earliest settlers in Cleveland and Newburgh was Richard Blinn. As all of his descendants are living elsewhere, and fail to answer inquiry, it has been impossible to learn anything of his antecedents. He may have come from New Jersey with the Cozads, or from Connecticut with the Doan family.

He married Sarah Doan, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah Adams Doan, April, 1802. The original record of their marriage is in Warren, as Cleveland was in Trumbull County in that year, and Warren the county-seat.

Sarah Doan Blinn had a little son named Nathaniel Doan Blinn, in honor of her father, and, possibly, she may have had a daughter. She died in early womanhood, and Richard Blinn married secondly, Electa Hamilton, daughter of Samuel and Susannah Hamilton, of Newburgh, now a part of Cleveland, the town then being in Geauga County. This record is in Chardon. They lived for some years north of the Edwards Tavern, on what is now Woodhill Road, and then moved to Perrysburg, Ohio, near Toledo. They had at least three sons-James, Chester, and Julius Blinn, and three daughters. It is said that the family suffered terribly from malaria during their first years in Perrysburg, and that one of their daughters was disfigured for life through the strong medicines administered by one of the ignorant and reckless country doctors of that day.

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James Blinn lived and died in Perrysburg, leaving six adult children. Julius Blinn also moved to Perrysburg, and the name of Blinn has become a familiar one in that locality, while it has disappeared off the records of Cleveland.

The wives of Richard H. Blinn were undoubtedly fine women, as both were daughters of the best pioneer families of the city. Richard himself is said to have been a very jovial man, full of jokes and mad pranks. He left behind him a reputation for kindliness and good humor.

His oldest son-Nathaniel Doan Blinn-was married in Cleveland in 1825 to Miss Anne M. Parker.

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In the spring of 1799, two men appeared in Newburgh and began building a grist-mill-the third one built on the Western Reserve. They were Major Wyatt and William Wheeler Williams. It was a great event to the women of Cleveland and Newburgh, for it meant corn-meal of a far better quality than the rude hand-mills hitherto had provided, and above all it meant white flour, something that had been a great luxury, many families having scarcely seen any since leaving Connecticut. Of the many New England families who came to Cleveland in that early day, there were none that could claim better birth and breeding than that of William Wheeler Williams. His parents were Joseph and Eunice Wheeler Williams, both descended from Puritan ancestors who settled in Massachusetts about 1.630.

Joseph Williams had four sons in the Revolutionary War. They were Frederick, an officer in the Continental Army, and buried in St. Paul's Churchyard in New York City.

Gen. Joseph Williams, a friend and correspondent of Washington, Putnam, and Gov. Trumbull. He was a Brigadier-General of the Third Brigade, Connecticut Militia, and a member of the original purchasers of the site where Cleveland stands.

Benjamin Williams died on board the terrible Jersey prison ship, and Isaac Williams, who lost a leg while in the Revolutionary Army. A fifth son, William Wheeler Williams, b. 1760, married Ruth Granger, daughter of Zodac and Martha Granger, of Suffield, Conn.

Ruth Granger was born in 1764, and, therefore, was 35 years old when she came to Newburgh in the spring of 1800.

It has been difficult to learn anything concerning the personality of Ruth Granger Williams, although her descendants in and about Cleveland are numerous. It has been told the writer that she had two brothers, Reuben and Franklin Granger, who lived with her or near by. Also, that before her death she became blind, but developed such acute hearing that no one could enter her room, ever so cautiously, but she would

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hear, and be able to tell who it was. She was small, alert, and very intelligent.

The family settled on what is now Woodhill Road, but called Newburgh Street in early days. It ran from Doan's Corners to Mr. Williams' mills. Mr. and Mrs. Williams brought five little children with them from Norwich, Conn. The eldest was only twelve years of age, the youngest but two. They were:

Frederic Granger Williams, unmarried while living here, joined the Mormons in Utah.

William Wheeler Williams, Jr., m. 1st, Lavina Dibble ; 2nd, Nancy Sherman, daughter of Ephraim and Remember Cook Sherman.

Joseph Williams, unmarried. In Capt. Murray's Company, War of 1812.

Martha Williams, m. Elijah Peet.

Mary Williams, m. Amos Cahoon, pioneer of Rockport, Ohio

W. W. Williams, Jr., was always designated as Capt. Williams. All the Williams family bearing the name and descended from W. W. Williams, Sr., are grandchildren of Capt. Williams.

Mary Williams Cahoon had three children : Martha, Joseph, and Hiram Cahoon. The Misses Cahoon of "Rose Hill" are grandchildren of Mary Williams, and reside in the pioneer homestead.

There is in possession of some of the descendants of W. W. Williams, Sr., valuable souvenirs of his brother, Gen. Joseph Williams, of Revolutionary fame. They are gold buttons bearing his initials, which were cut from a military coat he wore, and an elegant snuff-box that had been presented to him from admiring friends. The Williams family Bible, brought from Norwich, Conn., is also preserved and held by a great-granddaughter.

The grindstones lying in the Public Square in front of the Old Stone Church were the first ones used in the grist-mill of William Wheeler Williams, erected in 1799.

Children of W. W. Williams, Jr., and Nancy Sherman Williams:

Mary Williams, m. Josiah Hale

Eunice Williams, m. Spencer Warren.

James Williams, m. Lydia Owen..

Ephraim Williams, m. Mary Andrus.

Joseph Williams, m. Eunice Bennett.

George Williams, m. Eunice B., widow of Joseph Williams

Frederick and Frances, unmarried.

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CLARK

If the testimony of one Gilman Bryant has been properly quoted, David Clark was here in 1798 in company with Major Spafford. They were living in the surveyors' cabin on Superior Street. Spafford was driving stakes and finishing the laying out of streets, while Clark was building a log-house on Water Street-No. 9. It was on the west side of the street, about four rods from Superior, and here he died eight years later. The two men had once lived in the same place-Dorset, Rutland Co., Vermont-therefore, old neighbors and friends. Although they then made all preparations for the shelter of their families, two years elapsed before their wives - and children arrived here.

The family of David Clark included his wife, two daughters, and four sons. There had been another child when they started from Dorset, but at some stage of the journey it met its death by drowning. The fate of this child indicates that the family came part of the way, at least, by water. Perhaps the Clarks and Spaffords made the whole journey by boat, as did the White family four years later.

Mr. Clark evidently was not in very easy circumstances, as correspondence concerning the sale of city lots at that time shows that he was able to pay but little down on those he wished to purchase.

The children of David and Margaret Branch Clark:

Margaret Clark, m. Elisha Norton..

Lucy Clark, m. Seth Doan.

Rufus Clark, m. Dimarus Billings.

Mason Clark, m.

Martin Clark, m. Laura Lee

David Jarvis Clark, b. 1797; m. Ruth Smith

Mrs. Clark was thirty-nine years of age, Margaret, the eldest daughter, fourteen, Lucy twelve, and Jarvis, the youngest child, three years, when they came to Cleveland. The ages of the others-Rufus, Mason and Martin-can not be ascertained, but indications are that the boys were all younger than their sisters.

The first recorded event of the family was the marriage of Margaret, April, 1803, to Elisha Norton. Amos Spafford performed the ceremony.

In 1806 David Clark died and was buried in the cemetery on Ontario Street. His body was removed in 1831, to Erie Street Cemetery, and his grave is marked by a tiny stone, the first stone beyond the lodge. It is very black, but his name is still legible on it, and it seems to be the oldest . marked grave in Cleveland.

Mrs. David Clark lies in an isolated cemetery in the farming district of Mesopotamia, Trumbull Co. She died in 1837. How she came to be in that township is a mystery the writer has been unable to solve, as no trace of any other member of her family there can be found.

January, 1807, Lucy Clark married Seth Doan, son of Timothy Doan, of East Cleveland. She named her first child David Clark Doan. Her children and their marriages will be found in the Doan records in this work. She lived all of her married life in East Cleveland. The surviving nephews and nieces of her husband's family, when questioned, spoke in affectionate and admiring terms of "Aunt Lucy" to the writer, but no one of the family, not even her grandchildren, were able to give any in

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formation concerning her brothers, or of her sister, Mrs. Norton, although one of her grandsons was named "Norton" Doan.

The widow Clark removed-sometime between the death of her husband and the year 1812-either on Broadway, or to Woodland Hills Avenue, not far from Broadway, for at the latter date she and her four sons are included in a list of residents of that locality.

The marriages of three of these sons and the subsequent history of two of them have been secured, but what became of Mason and Martin, whether they died in this city or removed to some Western state, cannot be learned. But probably one of them lived for a time in Mesopotamia, Trumbull Co.

David Jarvis Clark, b. 1797, or "Jarvis," as he was called, married Ruth Smith, of East Cleveland, in 1817. In 1834 they moved to a new township, organized in Indiana, and called "Cleveland." A number of other families from this vicinity accompanied them. But in 1851 several of these families moved again, this time to Elkhart, Ind.

Ruth Smith Clark was born in Chatham, Conn., in 1801. She had three children : Lucy, who died in Cleveland, Asa Branch, and James Clark.

Jarvis Clark died in Elkhart in 1889, at the age of 92. He often spoke of Gau Chee, a little Indian playmate of his in the earliest years of his Cleveland life. Gau Chee was the son of a Mohawk chief, whose tribe lived part of each year under the hill between the present viaduct and the Columbus Street bridge. Jarvis Clark is remembered as full of fun, and fond of society.

Martin Clark married Laura Lee, of East Cleveland, in 1820. As has been stated, no further trace of him can be found.

Rufus Clark married Dimarus Billings, of a Newburgh family, in 1827, Job Doan, as justice of the peace, officiating at the ceremony. He was inclined to wander about, and after removing to two or three Western towns, which included Elkhart, Ind., he finally reached California, where he died about 1870.

Dimarus Billings Clark died, leaving one son, Mason, who went to Washington, to some place on Puget Sound. Rufus Clark married again, and had other children born to him. It is said that as a young man he was very gay and loved to dance. No dancing party was thought to be a success unless Rufus Clark was there to start the fun and keep it going. But during a religious revival he joined an East Cleveland church, which barred him out from further enjoyment of that amusement.

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The name of Hamilton became familiar to the residents of Newburgh through two men, Samuel and James, erroneously supposed to be brothers. The relationship, if any existed, was no nearer than cousins. Samuel Hamilton was descended from an old New England family of Pelham,

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Mass. His father, Robert Hamilton, was born in 1759, married Elizabeth Kidd, and moved to Chesterfield. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth Hamilton, married a Mr. Cochran, moved to, and died in Independence, this county, at the age of 90.

Samuel Hamilton, born in Chesterfield, 1761, married Susannah Hamilton of another family, of Chester, Mass. Together with their six children they started in the fall of 1800 for Newburgh. On arriving in Buffalo, they found nothing but an Indian trail between that place and Cleveland. As it was too late in the season to go by way of the lake, the family remained in Buffalo for the winter, while the father and second son Justus, then a lad of nine years of age, started on horseback for Newburgh.

One night, in Ashtabula County, they arrived cold and very hungry at the cabin of a former resident of Chesterfield, who welcomed them joyously, eager for news of the old home in the East, and to see familiar faces once more. A haunch of venison was cut in slices and cooked before the fire, and the hungry travelers ate it with keen relish. Justus Hamilton used to declare that nothing afterwards tasted so good to him as that late supper in the wilderness.

In the spring of 1.801, the rest of the family came on in an open boat, beaching it every night, cooking their meals and sleeping on shore. There was scarcely any one in Newburg when they reached there but Indians. On returning from a business trip to Massachusetts, in 1804, Samuel Hamilton was drowned in Buffalo Creek, leaving his wife a widow with six children, in a wilderness far from parents, brothers, sisters, or other kin to whom she could turn in emergencies for help and comfort. Her oldest son, Chester Hamilton, was then about 14 years old, Justus 12, and Samuel, the babe of the family, 4 years. She raised all her children to honorable and useful maturity, giving each a good education for the times. She was an expert at weaving, and earned many a dollar, or its equivalent, in that way. Once when her house and nearly everything in it belonging to herself was burned, she saved a neighbor's cloth she had woven by hastily cutting it from her loom. Their home was on Woodland Hills Avenue, near the Carter homestead, where she died in 1820, having sustained the relation of both parents to her children for 16 years.

It seems then, that one-of the very first women to live in Newburgh was one of the noblest type of wife and mother, living, and working, and sacrificing for her children, and keeping their family name honored and respected.

Her oldest child, Electa Hamilton, married Richard Blinn, lived many years in Newburgh, then removed to Perrysburg, and died there.

Chester Hamilton married Lydia Warner, of a pioneer family, resided here for a while, and went West.

Lyma Hamilton became Mrs. Samuel Miles, and lived in Strongsville, this county.

Julia Hamilton married Edmond Rathbun in 1819, with whom she lived 63 years, both dying in 1881, just six months apart. Their three daughters who married three Brooks brothers are still living in Newburgh.
Justus Hamilton married Selinda Cochran, daughter of Amos and

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Rachel Brainard, pioneers of an early day. Selinda Brainard was born in Middletown, Conn. When very young, she was married to Richard Bailey. Every thread of her wedding outfit was spun, woven, and made by her own hands. She was early left a widow with two sons, Sherman and Richard Bailey, (1) and eventually married Amos Cochran, who lived but a short time, and by whom she had an infant daughter, Rachel Cochran. Their residence at that time was in Avon, New York. Meanwhile, her parents had settled in Newburgh, whither she came with her three children, shortly after the sad death of her father, who was killed by a falling tree. In 1826, Mrs. Cochran married Justus Hamilton, and her family in time increased by three sons and a daughter, Augustus, Albert, Edwin T., the eminent jurist, and Delia Cleveland Hamilton.

Justus Hamilton was a dignified, brusk, magisterial sort of man, but kind-hearted and just. His neighbors were wont to seek his advice, and he was frequently chosen arbiter in the smoothing out of difficulties and quarrels. He had a contract for the building of a part of the Ohio Canal, and while it was in the process of construction he hired Mrs. Garfield the mother of James A. Garfield-to board the men he had employed on the canal. It is said that every article of household goods the Garfields possessed was brought to the scene in a small conveyance, drawn by one horse, and that the money thus earned made the first payment on the little farm in Orange Township.

Mrs. Justus Hamilton was sweet-tempered and a valuable woman to the community in which she lived. Gifted as a nurse, constant demands were made upon her in this direction, which she never refused, thus laying the foundation for many life-long and intimate friendships with families scattered all over the township. Her knowledge of medicinal herbs also proved invaluable to her neighbors, as her stores of wormwood, tansy, camomile, and rue, ever kept replenished, were freely offered when elsewhere needed. A Christian woman in all that the name should imply.

Children of Justus and Selinda Cochran Hamilton:

Augustus Harvey Hamilton, b. 1827, in Newburgh; m. Eliza Coffin. He removed to Iowa in 1854-a lawyer and newspaper man.

Delia Hamilton, b. 1828; d. unmarried.

Judge Edwin T. Hamilton, b. 1830; m. Mary Jones (served four years in the Civil War).

Albert Justus Hamilton, b. 1833; m. Imogene Brooke. He served three years in the Civil War, afterward removed to Parkville, Mo.

The most prom inent member of this family was its second son, Edwin Timothy Hamilton, judge of Common Pleas Court from 1875 to 1894. He was a man of fine mental attainments, and no jurist in Cuyahoga County was more respected and admired for his legal ability, honesty, sense of justice, scholarly address, and gentle dignity. His refined,

(1) Sherman H. Bailey, son of Richard and Selinda Bailey, b. 1810, m. Susan Shattuck. He died in 1890.

John Richard Bailey, brother of above, m. Mary Philip. He died in Chillicothe, O.

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intellectual face was one that would ever win a second glance from a stranger.

He died, some years ago, at his last residence on East 89th Street, leaving a widow and two children-Walter Hamilton, a Cleveland attorney, and Florence Hamilton.

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Captain Allen Gaylord was born in Goshen, Conn., 1778. He came to Ohio in 1800, going first to Hudson, where he remained two years. He then returned to Goshen, and some months later again set out for Cleveland, bringing with him his parents, Timothy and Phebe Gaylord, his brother Timothy, and his sisters, Roxana and Phebe Gaylord. They came all the way in an ox-team, and were six weeks on the road. The girls had never seen black walnut trees, and when they reached the Western Reserve and saw the green nuts hanging in abundance, they imagined they had struck an orange grove, and eagerly gathered aprons full of those found lying on the ground. They were much chagrined at their brother's hearty laughter at their mistake.

Timothy Gaylord and Phebe, the parents, settled in Zanesville, Ohio.

Roxana Gaylord married Joseph Ryder, and settled in Painesville. Ryder is said to have built the first house in that place in 1803. Phebe Gaylord married a Lowry. Allen Gaylord bought a farm on what is now Woodland Hills Road and Miles Ave., where his parents died. It contained 50 acres and cost $200.

Capt. Gaylord was a prominent man of Cleveland and Newburgh, taking an active part in all public affairs. He organized and commanded a company of militia during the War of 1812, and announced to the terrorstricken residents, after Hull's surrender, that the boats coming down the lake and sighted off Huron, were not filled with Indians, but with our own troops.

Philena Gun, daughter of Elijah and Anna Sartwell Gun, married Capt. Allen Gaylord, May 7, 1809, a hundred and four years ago. The ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace, either Nathaniel Doan or Amos Spafford. Anna was about sixteen years old when she came to Cleveland with her parents in 1796, and therefore married at the age of twenty-eight. A not unusual thing at the present time, but at that day she must have been considered quite an old maid. Mrs. Gaylord was energetic and persevering, well fitted for pioneer life. Her over-taxed feet seldom rested, and her hands were never idle. She bore privations and hardships with patience, and was a faithful wife, mother, and friend.

Her wedding gown was a calico dress made in very primitive style, scant, with big sleeves. Mr. Gaylord's wedding vest was of buff and white gingham.

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The music of the spinning-wheel filled their cabin all hours of the day. She made the thread with which she did all her sewing, from flax grown on the farm, and spun and colored the wool that went into the garments worn in the family, and the blankets that covered them at night. Mrs. Gaylord was obliged to go some distance for all the water she used-at a neighbor's well. One morning, while absent on this errand, the Indians came into the house begging, as they often did. She had left her little son and daughter alone there, and whether through evil design or only in a spirit of mischief-to give her a scare-one of the Indians took her boy on his back and made for the dense forest behind the. house. Mrs. Gaylord was returning, and within sight of her home, when she caught a glimpse what was going on, and dropping her pail, she ran, screaming at the Indian to bring back her child. He returned, laughing, and, handing over the little fellow, said,

"White squaw 'fraid Injun going to carry off papoose!"

Capt. Allen Gaylord lived to be 90 years old, outliving his wife twentytwo years. Mrs. Gaylord died in 1845, aged 64. They remained on their farm all their married lives.

The children of Capt. Allen and Philena Gaylord:

Anson Welcon Gaylord, b. 1816; m..

Lucy Kellogg.

Henry Chrystopher Gaylord, m. Harriet Parshall, daughter of John..
James Sartwell Gaylord, d. young
Ann Gaylord, m. Willard Leach, of Lockport, N. Y.

Minerva Gaylord, m. Noah Graves, formerly from Springfield, Mass Settled in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 1832.

Caroline Gaylord, m. Erastus G. Thompson, of Conneaut, Ohio

Desdemona Gaylord. The youngest child of the family and the only surviving one

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HAMILTON

James Hamilton, the head of the other Newburgh family of that name, came in the spring of 1801. Soon after his arrival, he married Phenie Miner, a widow with one son. He brought them and their belongings from the East on horseback, and commenced housekeeping not far from the Carters, on Woodhill Road. Mrs. Hamilton was always called "Aunt Phenie," a term of endearment given because of her great sympathy and fondness for young people who enjoyed her company and frequently visited her. She had at least two sons and three daughters.

Elmira Hamilton..

Emily Hamilton..

Eli Hamilton.

Julia Hamilton.

Frank Hamilton

Jane Hamilton

Oliver Hamilton.

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GILBERT

Julia Hamilton, the youngest daughter, took excellent care of her parents in their old age. She also administered to a brother whose mind was long mentally unbalanced. Another, and older, brother died, leaving an invalid wife and six children. Julia cared for them all until the widow's death, and looked after the children until enabled to provide for themselves. Her beautiful record of unselfishness has scarcely been equaled. One of her brother's children, Lydia Hamilton, long a valuable nurse, died about six years ago, the last member of the family.

It is a source of regret that so little of the James Hamilton family could be secured. Mr. Hamilton appears on accessible records as late as 1812. He seems to have been a good citizen, who was often entrusted with local public matters in Newburgh. Only one of the sons married.

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GILBERT

Augustus Gilbert, Sr., was another Newburgh pioneer, who came west, expecting to settle in Cleveland, but changed his plans when he found its malarious condition.

The exact year in which he reached this locality cannot be learned, but family tradition places it within a year or two following that of 1800.

At that date the family was living in New York State, whither it had removed from some place in Vermont. The only son, Augustus Gilbert, Jr., was born in New York in 1800.

According to old family letters, two brothers and a sister of Augustus, Sr., Daniel-Elias and Olive were residing in or near Gaines, N. Y., as late as 1838. Another brother, Stephen Gilbert, who came to Cleveland in 1798, was drowned in Lake Erie, off Rocky River, April 19, 1808.

Augustus Gilbert, Sr., born 1763, was the oldest child of Joseph Gilbert III, and Elizabeth Breck Gilbert, of Hartford, Conn., and was the great-grandson of Capt. John Gilbert, one of the earliest settlers of Hartford. The Newburgh pioneer married Olive Parmely, of Weybridge, Vt., '.n 1790. He was then 27 years of age.

Augustus Gilbert lived in Newburgh about 10 years, dying in 1813, aged 50.

During his short residence here he became well known in the Western Reserve as an associate judge of this district. Evidently he was a man of note, both in the Vermont town from which he removed and in this, his later residence, and highly respected for his superior education and natural talent. He left an unusual library for that early day and crude environment, for when he died Newburgh was yet a hamlet of log-houses standing in a wilderness.

At the death of his wife, Olive, April, 1807, he was left in sad domestic straits, a large family of motherless children on his hands, the eldest one

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being too young to assume the responsibility and the burden attending its charge.

He was obliged, therefore, to again take upon himself marital relations within a year of his wife's death.

He married Irene Burke, daughter of Sylvanus Burke, of Newburgh, a noble woman, who, in the seven years of the life remaining to Mr. Gilbert, gave to his motherless children the measure of care and affection they so sorely needed, and which, alone, he was unable to bestow.

Two more little ones were added to the family-Louise and Irene-the latter a posthumous child, born several months after her father's death.

Augustus and Olive Gilbert were buried in the old Newburgh Cemetery, eventually destroyed at the behest of Commerce, the few bodies permissible of removal being reinterred in Harvard Grove Cemetery.

The children of Augustus and Olive Gilbert:

Dotia Gilbert, b. 1791; d. 1846; m Erastus Goodwin..

Harriet Gilbert, b. 1792; d. 1839, unmarried..

Maria Gilbert, b. 1796; d. 1817; m. Elias Osborn, 1813..

Emily Gilbert, b. 1805; d. 1822, unmarried

Lovice Gilbert, b. 1798; d. 1841; m. Jacob Van Duser

Augustus Gilbert, Jr., b. 1800; d.1853; m. Mercy A. Jackson, 1829

Althea Gilbert, b. 1802; d. 1836; m. Oliver J. Brooke, of Warren

These children must have lacked vigorous constitutions, as it will be noticed that the one who survived the longest was only 55 years of age.

The daughters born to Augustus and Irene Gilbert:

Louise Gilbert, b. 1810; d. in Cincinnati, 1849; m. James S. Bangs, of Akron, O., and later of Newburgh.

Irene Gilbert, b. 1813; m. Rev. A. P. Jones. He was associate editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the 30's.

Mr. Jones' parents were Richard and Hester Van Bibber Jones, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. His father was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who removed to Euclid, O., and died there in 1820.

His mother had a half-brother named Marselliot-French-Canadian voyageurs.

Augustus Gilbert, Jr., the only son of the family, lived many years in Geauga County, near Chardon, O. His children were:

James H. Gilbert, m. Harriet Barnes. Eliza Gilbert, unmarried.

Maria Gilbert, m. W. G. Welsh.

Lawson A. Gilbert, m. Althea.Brooke.

Harrison W. Gilbert, unmarried.. Killed at Chickamauga, in the. Civil War.

Julia Gilbert, m. M. B. Crofts.

Arthur Gilbert, m. Lavina Glendenning

Newton G. Gilbert, m. Emma Robinson

Wallace B. Gilbert, m. Anna Oura

1801
WARNER

Darius Warner, Sr., of some Eastern state, unknown, had a son and two daughters living in Newburgh as early as 1801.

The son, Darius Warner, Jr., married Delilah J. Wells of Virginia.

Lydia Warner m. Chester Hamilton.

Esther Warner m. Lyman Hammond.

The daughters of Darius Warner, Jr., were:

Lydia S. Warner, m. James Skinner, of Foxborough, Mass

Sarah L. Warner, m. Sherburn H. Wightman.

The marriages are given in court records of

Spencer Warner and Sarah Culver, of Newburgh

Marian Warner and James Wolker

Norman Warner and Mary Chase.

Any or all of whom may have been members of the Darius Warner family.

1801

HUNTINGTON

In 1801, Samuel Huntington, Cleveland's first distinguished citizen, appeared upon the scene. He was the one man who, for many a day, came with money in his pocket. Back of him, in Norwich, Conn., where he was born, were wealth, position, and influence, and we suspect this plunge into the wilderness with wife and family was but part of a plan of future public life mapped out for himself and successfully followed. For, before fairly settled in Cleveland, honors began to flow in upon him, and within seven years he was governeor of the state. Meanwhile he had left the hamlet, and Painesville possesses all the glory of this part of his career.

However, we can still claim what Samuel Huntington left to us, a few years' residence here, and the fact that in that time he was made chief justice of the state, which office he held until assuming a higher one. The story of his life and public services have been so often printed and repeated that all detail at this time would be superfluous.

The Huntington family first went to Youngstown, Ohio, from Norwich, and but a few months later-May, 1801-arrived in Cleveland. Perhaps they were but tarrying awhile until Amos Spafford had finished the double log-house he was building under orders from Mr. Huntington. It stood back of the American House, once numbered 42, but today 802 Superior Street. It was on the edge of a bluff that commanded a view of the Cuyahoga Valley, the river, and the distant hills of Newburgh. A charming spot, but, alas ! one where life was made miserable by mosquitoes and malaria.

Mrs. Huntington's experiences while living here, her efforts to forget the luxuries of her Eastern home, even its commonest comforts or necessities, and conform to the privation, dreariness, and constant ill-health of her present one, must have been an interesting story to those so fortunate

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as to hear it in after years. She had but two neighbors, Mrs. Spafford and Mrs. Carter, both of whom were almost as unfitted-save in loyalty, courage, and patience-as herself for such a life.

Mrs. Spafford, who was 14 years her senior, lived just west of her, and Mrs. Carter, about her own age, was far away, on the river at the foot of St. Clair, or rather what was to be St. Clair Street. There were yet no defined highways, even Superior Street was but partly cleared, trees yet standing, and stumps everywhere, Water Street but an irregular path.

Mrs. Huntington did not change her name in marriage. She was a Miss Hannah Huntington, daughter of Judge Andrew Huntington and Lucy Coit, the latter a daughter of Dr. Joseph Lahrop Coit, of New London, Conn. Mr. Huntington was married in Norwich, and all her children were born there. She was 31 years old when she came to Cleveland, and she brought with her six children, the oldest but eight years, and the youngest less than a year old. With her came a young friend and companion, Miss Margaret Cobb, who remained here for a time, and then returned East.

Samuel Dodge built a frame-barn for Mr. Huntington, which stood on the same lot as the house, and years afterward it was used for a schoolhouse, and pronounced by a pupil to be quite unsuitable for the purpose, the wind and snow coming in through the cracks between the boards.

Mr. Huntington's Cleveland property included much of what, until recent years, has been extremely valuable real estate. He owned the original lots on Lake Street near Water Street, four lots on the latter street, the lots on the Public Square where the Society for Savings Bank building stands, many lots on the south side of Superior Street, and all land adjoining and including what is now Michigan and Champlain Streets, and probably many outstanding ten-acre lots. It is claimed that there were, in all, 300 acres.

In 1805, he exchanged this for property at the mouth of Grand River, now Fairport, belonging to John Walworth, removed to Newburgh, and lived there a few months, then went to Grand River, where he died eleven years afterward, June, 1817, and a year later Mrs. Huntington followed him. They were laid away in a beautiful spot near the house and overlooking Grand River, one chosen by them for the purpose. Fifty years afterward, the river had so encroached upon the spot that their two sons, Julian and Colbert, had the remains of their parents removed to Evergreen Cemetery in Painesville, and a monument marks their resting-place.

The children of Governor and Mrs. Huntinton:

Francis Huntington, b. 1793; m. Sally White, 1821; d. 1822.

Martha D. Huntington, b. 1795; m. John H. Matthews, M. D., of; Painesville.

Julian C. Huntington, b. 1796; m. Adaline Parkman, of Parkman, Ohio

Colbert Huntington, b. 1797; m. Eleanor Paine, of Chardon, O.

Samuel Huntington, b. 1799.

Dr. Robert G. Huntington, b. 1800 m. Mary L. Fitch. He d. in Ellsworth, Ohio

1801
THORP

The fifth child of the Huntingtons, little Samuel, who, had he lived to manhood, would have been Samuel Huntington 4th, died in Cleveland at five years of age, and was buried here in 1804.

The Governor Huntington homestead was 1 1/2 miles north of Painesville. The property was considered one of the most naturally beautiful estates in northern Ohio. It was purchased recently by a Chardon woman, and includes a large house, two barns, and 17 acres of rich farm land.

1801

THORP

The case of Joel Thorp, quite common a hundred or more years ago, was that of a man well born and living in the heart of New England civilization, taking not only himself, but wife and little children out of safety and comfort, to plunge with them into a wilderness of which he had no previous knowledge.

Joel Thorp was a son of Yale Thorp, of New Haven, Conn. He married Miss Sarah Dayton about 1792, and in May, 1799, he put his wife and three young children into an ox-cart, and started for Ohio. Their long, slow travel ended in Ashtabula County, 20 miles from any other white 'family.

He was a millwright by trade, and this occupation took him away long distances from home, so that in the four years they spent in that locality, Mrs. Thorp was left much alone. What inevitably happened to her is so similar to the terrible experience of Mrs. James Kingsbury, two years previous in Conneaut, but a few miles east of the Thorps, that it reads like the same story.

In the absence of the husband a child was born with not a physician or white neighbor within call. A friendly squaw came to her aid, else mother and child would have perished.

Again when Mr. Thorp was called away from home, this time on a trip to Pittsburgh, for household supplies, the family, but for a lucky find, would have starved. Successive rains had swollen the many streams he encountered, and there were no bridges to cross them, thus making his homeward progress slow and difficult. Again and again he was detained on the way. Meanwhile the cupboard in the log-hut in the wilderness became absolutely bare. In her extremity, Mrs. Thorp emptied the straw tick of her bed in search of the few grains of wheat that clung to the filling. These she boiled and fed to the children.

Still the father did not appear, and one can imagine the anxiety and agony of suspense, and her feelings when her little ones pleaded vainly for food. At this crisis, almost a miracle happened. A wild turkey lighted on a stump near the cabin. Mrs. Thorp loaded her husband's musket with the only charge at hand, and creeping out cautiously, and under cover of brush and logs, she gained a position near enough to fire.

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Her shot brought down the turkey, and it is to be hoped that it was young and tender so that the starving family had not long to wait for their dinner.

In 1801, Joel Thorp removed to Cleveland, and lived in a log-house on Lake Street, near Water-West 9th. He probably found but little work at his trade, for here he built houses mostly. The tavern for Lorenzo Carter, corner of Superior and Water streets-burned- before occupied, was erected by Joel Thorp, and he built Judge Kingsbury's house on Woodhill Road, at its junction with Kinsman.

He lived in the log-house on Lake Street until 1804, and then removed to Newburgh. We find his name with others that year, signed to a protest against the election of Lorenzo Carter to head the little company of Cleveland and Newburgh militia, organized at that time.

In 1809, he built the schooner "Sally" of from six to eight tons, and he may have used her to take his family and household goods to Buffalo, to which place he removed a year or two later.

In the War of 1812 that broke out soon after, he commanded a company of sharpshooters and was killed at Lundy's Lane.

When the British and Indians burned Buffalo, the widow and her seven children lost everything but the clothes they were wearing and a set of silver teaspoons that Mrs. Thorp had concealed in the bosom of her dress.

The family managed to get back to Newburgh. How this was accomplished without money for the journey, and stripped of the necessities of bedding and cooking utensils, cannot be imagined. The Newburgh people were very kind to the Thorps. Judge Kingsbury and Israel Hubbard gave the boys employment and shelter. Mrs. Thorp in time married again.

Her second husband was Peter Gardinor, who, it is said, met with sudden death. Mrs. Thorp lost her own mother in childhood and an only brother, Bezaleel Dayton, and herself, were raised by a step-mother.

Mrs. Thorp died at the residence of her youngest son in Orangethis county. Two sons and a daughter removed to Michigan.

Children of Joel Y. and Sarah Dayton Thorp:

Julia Thorp, m. Jason Ticknor; lived Warren Thorp, m. Hannah Burn-

in Buffalo, N. Y. side.

Bezaleel Thorp, m., 1823, Polly Dayton Thorp, m., 1825, Catherine

(Mary) Brown, dau. of Nathan Countryside.

and Mary Clark Brown. Diantha Thorp, m. Isaac Lafler;

Lewis Thorp, b. 1798; d. 1859; m. lived in Detroit, Mich.

Anna Preston in 1822; 2nd, Elva- Ferris Thorp, m. Mary Bell.

ritta Sadler, 1847.

Children of Bezaleel and Polly Thorp:

Caroline Thorp, m. Orvill T. Palmer.

Mary Adaline Thorp, m. Thomas C. Bleasdale. (Mrs. M. A. Thorp- a widow-is living in Collinwood, at the age of 83, a wonderfully preserved and intelligent woman

Milon Thorp, m. Cornelia La Rue.

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Children of Warren and Hannah Thorp:

Jane B. Thorp, m. Henry Clark.

Harriet Thorp, m. Lewis Harrington.

James Thorp, m. Catherine Weeks; 2^nd,---------

Alpheus Thorp, m. 1st,------; 2^nd, Cynthia Barber

Joseph Thorp, m. Melissa Norris.

Maria Thorp, m. Daniel Gardner.

Wesley Thorp, m. Malinda

THORP

A family of Thorps came to East Cleveland from Pennsylvania in 1811.

The head of it was Benjamin, aged 42 years, and his wife, Auronche Poison Thorp, a year younger than himself. They brought with them at least four children. To these may have been added others who were Ohio born.

Cornelius Thorp, b. 1769; d. 90 years of age. His wife, Phebe Norris, d. in 1874, aged 69 years.

Elisabeth Thorp, b. 1802; d. 25 years old.

Jane Thorp, b. 1906; d. 27 years old.

John P. Thorp, b. 1809; d. 23 years of age.

Eleanor Thorp-who may have been of the same family-was married, in 1819, by Rev. Thomas Barr to Abraham Norris.

This family is buried in the cemetery adjoining the Congregational Church on Euclid Ave. in East Cleveland.

In 1825 Ezekiel Thorp married Esther Bemis.

1800

In winter of 1800-1801, Lorenzo Carter's family was the only one remaining in Cleveland Hamlet. All other pioneers had removed to Newburgh or "Doan's Corners."

The mail came always by way of Pittsburgh, reaching this locality once in two weeks; continued west on an Indian trail to Huron, O.

1800
AXTELL STREET CEMETERY

In this spot was laid away the dead of Newburgh, beginning with the year 1801 and ending in 1880. Over 3,000 bodies are said to have been buried there. The cemetery was located north of Broadway, on what is now East 78th Street, and comprised about eight acres. After the de-

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struction of Cleveland's first. burial place on Ontario Street, the Axtell Cemetery was claimed to be the oldest one in the county.

It was sold by the city in 1880 to the Conotton Railroad, and within a few months following the sale the grewsome task of removing the bodies began. "Ashes to ashes," through 50 to 80 years of burial, and beloved forms-the falling clod upon their coffins yet haunting the bereaved, so recent was the interment-all carted away.

All? Not so. Only ' a short time since an excavating machine was at work on the site of the cemetery, and the big crane swinging to dump the earth, emptied on the frightened, foreign workmen the skeleton of a man. It had been scooped up entire-not a bone displaced. To whom did it once belong? No one could answer.

Many descendants of Newburgh pioneers refused to reinter their dead in Harvard Grove Cemetery-recently laid out-but brought the bodies to Erie Street Cemetery-then a beautiful "God's Acre" yet reverenced by the community-or, to Woodland Cemetery, two miles nearer. Both of these belong to the city. The first one is marked for destruction, and the last one awaits the certain greed of real estate dealers and an easily coerced city council.

Inscriptions in Harvard Grove Cemetery, indicating a few of the graves that had been removed from Axtell Cemetery:

"Polly, wife of Israel Lacey, died in 1812, aged 15 years 7 mo. 2 da."

"Suckey, daughter of Parker and Betsey Shattuck, in 1811."

"Dortha Thomas, wife of George Thomas, died 1812, aged 39 years."

"Oliver Seely died March, 1817, aged 50 years."

"James Payne, died 1819, aged 73 years."

"Mary Anne, wife of Samuel Dille, died 1818" (almost obliterated).

"Sarah Camp Baldwin, died 1818, aged 36 years."

"Samuel Smith Baldwin, d. 1822, aged 46 years."

"John M. Gould, d. 1826, aged 66."

(Several other Gould family graves.)

1802
CAPT. TIMOTHY DOAN

Timothy Doan, of Middle Haddam, Conn., and, later, of East Cleveland, was an elder brother of Nathaniel Doan, of Doan's Corners. Like his father, Seth Doan, he was a sailor, and by the time he was 30 years of age owned his vessel, and carried his own cargoes between this country and the West Indies.

His last voyage of this kind was a disastrous one, for he suffered shipwreck and lost his boat and the load of sugar and molasses with which it was freighted.

Meanwhile, he had married Mary Carey, aged 20 years, who was born on Long Island in 1763.

When he returned to his wife and home with the news that he had lost nearly all his worldly possessions, she received it calmly, and assured him that she would much rather have him home penniless and in safety than to endure the life of loneliness and anxiety she had led while he was away and prosperous.

They then left Haddam for Herkimer Co., N. Y., that Mecca toward which, at that time, many faces were set. But a few years' sojourn there showed that little was to be gained by the move, and in 1802 they set out to join Capt. Doan's brother Nathaniel and their son Seth, who had gone to Cleveland four years previously.

The family consisted of Capt. Timothy Doan, aged 43, Mrs. Doan, 39 years old, and five children, the oldest being a daughter aged 18, and the youngest aged 3 years.

They traveled in a two-horse sleigh, accompanied by a large sled drawn by oxen, and took with them a cow, some sheep, etc., which members of the party took turns in driving.

When they reached Buffalo, a disappointment awaited them. It was in the middle of winter, and they had expected to find Lake Erie frozen over so that the journey from Buffalo to Cleveland could be made on the ice close to the shore. But the weather was unusually mild for the season, and nothing but open water stretched as far as the eye could reach.

It was then concluded that the wisest course would be to have Capt. Doan and son Timothy go on with the horses, oxen, and cattle, leaving the rest of the family to follow when it seemed expedient. The experience of the father and son in driving their animals through the wilderness, often swimming ice-cold streams backward and forward-once thirteen times-before persuading all the animals to cross over, was one of almost incredible hardship, while the women fared alike, though not in degree, when they undertook the journey a month later. The latter started in an open boat, accompanied by two white men and an Indian, and kept close to shore so as to camp on it at night. When off Fairport, a storm swept suddenly down upon them, and before they could land the boat was swamped, and everything in it received a soaking-bedding, clothing, tent, and provisions.

There were several occupants of the boat who openly rejoiced at the accident-a crate of tame geese destined to be the first progenitors of their kind in the county. They were carried far out into the lake, made their escape from the crate, and swam gleefully back to shore, only to find themselves again in captivity.

Judge Walworth, who had not as yet traded his farm with Samuel

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Huntington for Cleveland property, was watching the approaching storm, chanced to espy the boat, and hastened to the beach to be of assistance. Nathaniel and Timothy Doan were also there, having come on to meet the party. Mrs. Doan concluded not to risk the safety of herself and younger children any longer upon the lake, but to finish the journey, accompanied by Nathaniel, on horseback. It proved like jumping from the frying-pan into the fire, for not many miles farther on she had to cross a dangerously swollen river in a frail canoe that persisted in landing its occupant a quarter of a mile from the landing.

The family arrived in Cleveland in April, 1801, and remained with Nathaniel Doan at Doan's Corners until their own log-house was ready for occupancy. It was located in a hickory grove on Euclid Avenue, six miles from the Public Square, and on a farm of 320 acres, which Mr. Doan purchased for about a dollar an acre. Food was very scarce and difficult to obtain that first winter, and the hickory nuts lying thickly on the ground about their cabin proved valuable adjuncts to their bill of fare. Their nearest neighbors were a tribe of Indians encamped close by, and soon the children of the white man and the red were playmates and close friends.

Timothy Doan was soon made a justice of the peace, and associate judge when Cuyahoga County was organized in 1810. He assisted in the organization of Trinity Church, and was chosen for one of its first vestrymen.

He died in 1828, aged 69 years.

Mrs. Doan died in 1848, aged 85 years.

It will be observed that Sarah Adams Doan and Mary Carey Doan, in spite of their frequent motherhood and great hardship, lived to be very aged women, and outlived their husbands, one for 20, and the other 40 years. They were exceptionally fine, New England women, who bore more upon their shoulders than their share of life's vicissitudes. Both had to see their children, at times, go hungry, or ill, with no physician to turn to for help or encouragement. And both trod alone the long years of widowhood. Miss Mary A. C. Clark gives a beautiful pen-picture of Mrs. Timothy Doan in her sketch of East Cleveland women in the second volume of "The Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve," of which this work is but a continuance.

The children of Timothy and Mary Carey Doan:

Nancy Doan, b. 1783; m. Samuel Dodge.

Seth Doan, b. 1785; m. Lucy Clark ;2nd, Joanna Wickham.

Timothy Doan, Jr., b. 1787; m. Polly Pritchard ; 2nd, Mrs. Nancy Russell..

Mary Doan, b. 1789; m. Daniel Brownson, of Columbia, Lorain Co.

Deborah Doan, b. 1796; m. Jeddiah Davis Crocker

John Doan, b. 1798; m. Ann Olivia Baldwin ; 2nd, Sophia Taylor

Seth and Timothy, on account of the persistent mispronunciation of their surname, making it two syllables-Do-ane-dropped the final "e," and thenceforth wrote their name Doan.

1802

CAPT. TIMOTHY DOAN

Major Seth Doan came to Cleveland with his uncle Nathaniel three years in advance of his parents. He was the 13-year-old boy who played the part of hero in the first months of his residence in the hamlet when his uncle's entire family were ill with malaria, and their only food unground corn. He seems to have remained with and near his uncle after his parents' arrival, and, in 1812, was living at Doan's Corners. He was evidently a man of affairs, although no mention of his business is given. He was a director in the first bank in Cleveland-the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie-organized in 1816. In 1836 he was living at 35 Prospect Street. His wife, Lucy Clark, whom he married in 1808, was the daughter of David Clark, the pioneer. She died in 1828, leaving three children. Joanna Wickham, whom he married four years later, may have been the daughter of the Wickham whose worn headstone is to be found near the main entrance of Erie Street Cemetery. None of the Seth Doan posterity seem to have saved any record of her. She was 33 years of age at her marriage. She died in 1859, twelve years after the death of Seth Doan. The latter and both wives rest in Erie Street Cemetery at the left of the main drive.

The children of Seth and Lucy Clark Doan:

David Clark Doan, m. Catherine. Lucy Roberts.

Margaret Adeline Doan, m. Alonzo Sherwin Gardner

Seth Carey Doan, m. Rebecca Bell McKnight

David Clark Doan was a business man. He died in 1861. His wife was the daughter of Hon. Clark H. Roberts, of Connecticut, a prominent man of that state. She was born at the old homestead near Robertsville, in 1816, and was married at 18 years of age. She was an active member of the Cleveland Dorcas Society, and exceedingly kind-hearted and generous. She died in 1893.

Alonzo S. Gardner, as A. S. Gardner and Co., was in the grocery business at 66 Superior Street in 1836. He changed his business and was best known as a crockery merchant. He bequeathed to his children the reputation of being a scrupulously honest man. He died in 1891.

Mrs. Rebecca Doan, born in 1822, left a personal record to be envied by her sex. She was one of those women that people instinctively turned to when in mental trouble or in physical suffering, certain of sympathy, wise advice, or immediate help. She was a blessing to all the newly-made mothers of her acquaintance, and when death came to a household, she was there to comfort and assist.

Timothy Doan, Jr., married, in 1809, Polly Pritchard, daughter of Jared Pritchard, of East Cleveland, who was a pioneer from Connecticut. Her sisters Anna and Sally married Horace Gunn and Samuel Potter. They had an only brother, Baird Pritchard, who married Julia Pardee. Polly was very pretty, and considered quite a belle. She had six children, and died of consumption while comparatively young.

Timothy Doan, Jr., married 2nd, Nancy Calkins, widow of Alanson Russell. She had two daughters, who were very fine women, and a son, George Russell. After Mr. Doan's death she married William Custead,

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living on Euclid Avenue, on the corner of a street bearing his name, which was changed to Genesee Avenue, and now is known as East 82nd Street.

The children of Timothy and Polly Doan:

Jared Pritchard Doan, m. Mary R.. Lewis..

Mary Ann Doan, m. Darius Adams..

Samantha Doan, m. Edward W Slade

Seth Doan, m. Jane E. Waring

Norton Doan, m. Lucy Ann Sawtell.

It is said that J. P. Doan lived part of his life, at least, in Columbia, Lorain Co.

Darius Adams was a well-known East Cleveland citizen. He and his wife lived to celebrate their golden wedding.

Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Slade, in 1837, were living in the city at 16 Bank Street. He was a painter and glazier. Their children had fine minds. One was a brilliant young lawyer.

George and Norton Doan lived and died on sections of the original Doan farm. The latter was named for Elisha Norton, first postmaster of Cleveland, and a connection of the family.

John Doane, the youngest child of the pioneer, did not drop the final "e" of his name, but retained it through life. He always lived within the limits of the old farm on Euclid Avenue. While still very young, he was sent to school at Newburgh, his teacher being a Spafford, either Mrs. Craw or Mrs. Stephen Gilbert. As it was miles from home, he boarded there through the week. He became lonesome and frightened because the wolves howled so at night.

There is a fine picture of John Doane in Kennedy's History of Cleveland. The face is gentle and refined-looking. He was born in 1789, and lived to see Cleveland's centennial year. He was a genial man, much loved by his kin, and respected by his neighbors. He was called "Uncle John" by all the community, irrespective of relationship. He always attended the annual meetings of the Old Settlers' Association. If his face was an index of the man, he must have been a lovable character. He was a constant reader of newspapers in his old age, and was so blessed as to have received the gift of second sight. He was thus enabled to discard his spectacles forever and read without them. He died in 1896. His first wife was a daughter of Seth C. Baldwin, who lived in the Doan tavern for a time. She died young, leaving no children. Her half-brother, Dudley Baldwin, was a well-known citizen.

Children of John and Sophia Taylor Doane:

Mary Doane, b. 1823; m. late in life, George P. Smith

Abigail Doane, b. 1825; m. Lafayette Pelton..

Edward B. Doane, b. 1828; m. Augusta Chapman.

Ann Olivia Doane, b. 1829.

Hannah Sophia Doane, b. 1831.

John Willis Doane, m. 1833; m Margaret Marshall

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Samuel Bronson married Mary Doan, of Connecticut, daughter of Timothy Doan. She was born in 1789, and lived in East Cleveland. Samuel Bronson was one of the early settlers of Columbia Township, now Lorain. Mrs. Bronson died in Elkhart, Ind., probably at the residence of a daughter.

Children of Samuel and Mary Bronson:

Maria Bronson, b. 1806; m. George Whitney..

Amanda Bronson, b. 1809; m. Alanson Whitney..

Nancy Bronson, b. 1811; m.______ Lay.

Lucy Bronson, b. 1813; m. Amzi Morgan

Mercy Bronson, b. 1817; m. S. M. Comstock

Martha Bronson, b. 1819.

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ELISHA NORTON

FIRST POSTMASTER OF CLEVELAND

Elisha Norton, who, in 1803, married Margaret Clark, daughter of David Clark, was born in Goshen, Conn., and was the son of Aaron and Martha Foote Norton, who removed with their family of twelve children to East Bloomfield, N. Y. Elisha came to Cleveland, and his brother Aaron and sister Betsey settled somewhere in the Western Reserve. Betsey married Roswell Humphrey. Elisha was 22 years old when he married Margaret Clark.

David Clark carried on a trade with the Indians, and probably kept a limited stock of merchandise in his dwelling, and this was transferred across the street to larger quarters after Elisha Norton married his daughter and began to assist him in his business. For, early the following winter, Elisha bought lots 40, 50 and 51 on the corner of Superior and Water streets for the sum of $$0. There had been a house on this property built and occupied by Ezekiel Hawley, who had gone out on Broadway to live. Whether the purchase price included this dwelling or it had been removed by Hawley is not known.

On this site was established our first post-office, April, 1805, as young Elisha Norton was honored by receiving from Washington, D. C., his appointment, of that date, as Cleveland's first postmaster. This fact makes him and his subsequent life of historical interest and value to the city. In May, 1807, the Nortons are found living in Painesville, as is evidenced in a deed given by them for property they sold on the west side of the Cuyahoga River. It has been erroneously stated that they removed to Portage County when they left Cleveland. No trace of them can be found in the probate courts of that county, while several transactions show that for several years Elisha was living in Geauga County, of which at that time Painesville was a part.

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It is possible that the removal of Gov. Samuel Huntington to that town in 1806 may have had some bearing on Norton's own change of residence and business ventures.

In 1814, in conjunction with Jacob French, he bought two hundred acres of land in what is now Farmington, Trumbull County, which was sold by sheriff's sale on an execution to Jacob French, nearly three years later. Elisha Norton may have died about that time, as this is the last record of him obtainable.

In 1825, his widow, Margaret Clark Norton, united with the Stone Church on the Square. She possessed property in the city, and her home was No. 42 Bank Street, afterward the site of the old Academy of Music. Here she died of consumption in 1843, aged fifty-eight, and her funeral services were held in the Stone Church.

Her will directed that a lot be purchased for her interment in Erie Street Cemetery, and that her grave and that of her mother in Mesopotamia be marked with headstones. The bills for all this are deposited with the deed, showing that her wishes had been respected. Her mother's headstone is still in excellent preservation, but that of Mrs. Norton disappeared many years ago, the grave is leveled, and there is nothing to show one had once been there.

She evidently left valuable property, of which her daughter, Mrs. Wetmore, seems to have been chief beneficiary.

Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Norton had no sons. Their two daughters lived most of their lives in Cleveland. They were

Lucy Norton, who married Robert Cather, son of Mathew Thompson Cather. He was a tinsmith and conducted his business at No. 91 Superior Street. They lived the first house north of Mrs. Norton. Mrs. Cather was a very capable woman. She died of consumption in 1850, aged forty-eight.

Harriet Norton, who married Butler Dockstader. He died, and she married (2nd) Edward Wetmore. She died in Cincinnati, O.

1803
DILLE

Ninety years ago, there was no family name in this locality more familiar than that of Dille, and no other family so numerically numerous. There were three separate branches of the Dille in the county, headed by two brothers and their nephew. David Dille, Jr., came in 1797 from Washington County, Pa., to spy out the land. He was a farmer and was looking for fertile soil upon which to locate. He did not find what he wanted in or near the hamlet at the mouth of the Cuyahoga, and finally decided upon a 100-acre lot in Euclid. This decision would seem to have barred him and his family from this local history, were it not that they sojourned six weeks in town while their log-cabin in Euclid was being

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built, and that the children and grandchildren intermarried into Cleveland families, so that David's descendants today-many of them of much local importance-are distributed over the length and breadth of the city. His brother, Asa Dille, settled in East Cleveland, on Mayfield Road, and the nephew, Samuel Dille, Sr., on Broadway.

The Dille were of Huguenot descent. One of them emigrated 250 years ago from Scotland to Jamaica, and from thence to South Carolina. One of his sons-who went north into New Jersey-spelled his name Dille. Those remaining spelled it Dilley, and it-is claimed that people who write their names either way will be found, usually, to have descended from the same ancestor.

David Dille, Jr., was the son of David and Mary Wade Dille, of Morris, N. J. He was a soldier of the Revolution, having served a year as Sergeant, another year as Lieutenant in the infantry, and two months with the cavalry. Under his last enlistment he was with Col. William Crawford in the ill-fated expedition to North-western Ohio, terminating in the burning of Col. Crawford at the stake by Indians in the presence of the renegade Simon Girty. At the age of 78, David Dille, Jr., received a pension for his Revolutionary services.

It was not until in the early spring of 1803 that he came West to remain permanently. He was then 50 years old, had been twice married, and was the father of eight children, the oldest of whom was 22 years old, the youngest a babe. The family of Asa Dille, his brother, accompanied him on the journey. The wives of the two men were sisters. They rode all the way from the Ohio River, near Wheeling, on horseback, each carrying an infant in her arms, with another child seated behind her, and holding on to its mother for dear life when the road was rough. It took 25 days for the wagons that contained their household effects to traverse the last 25 miles of the journey, because there was no road nothing but a bridle-path-and trees had to be chopped down occasionally to make this wide enough for the teams to get through.

The first wife of David Dille was Nancy Viers. They had five sons and a daughter. The second wife was Mary Saylor, whom David married in 1797. The log-cabin of the Dille family is said to have been one of generous hospitality and good cheer. In it 14 more children were added to the family, making in all 22, of whom 18 reached maturity. Meanwhile, the older members of it had been married, and some of their children were born before all of David's second brood had reached its limit. The army record of the David Dille family was most unusual. Besides that of the father in the War of the Revolution, was that of his three sons, Lewis, Luther, and Asa Dille, who belonged to Capt. Murray's company, recruited in Cleveland in the War of 1812. In the Civil War, David had six grandsons and thirteen great-grandsons.

The five sons of David Dille remained in this locality the remainder of their lives, but many of the grandchildren removed to Western states, as did also several of David's children by his second marriage.

The records of this branch of the Dille family have been collected and preserved by W. W. Dille, of Garfield Ave., city.

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Children of David and Nancy Viers Dille:

Nehemiah Dille, b. 1781; m. Elizabeth Mcllrath in 1809. He died 79 years of age.

Lewis B. Dille, b. 1783; m. Seba Leverage. He was killed by a locomotive when about 50 years of age

Calvin Dille, b. 1785; m. Naomi Hendershot, 1811; 2nd, Sally Avery. He died, aged 90.

Luther Dille, b. 1785, twin of Calvin; m. Esther Hickox, of Lorain Co., a niece of Uncle Abram Hickox, of Cleveland. D. 78 years.

Asa Dille, b. 1788; m. Mary Johnson, 1819. He died, aged 74 years.

Cassina E. Dille, m. Thomas Gray in 1809.

Children of David and Mary Sailor Dille:

Samuel Dille, m. Mary D. Barr, dau. of Rev. Thomas Barr. Removed Francisco, is his son. to Kankakee, Ind..

Israel Dille (Judge Dille, of Newark, Ohio), a lawyer, student, geologist, and poet, died 1874

David Buell Dille, m. Miss Welch. He died in Montana.

John Dille, lived in Spokane, Wash..

Hiram Dille, went West.

Selina Dille, m. Mr. Wells.

Junius Dille, a noted divine of San

Susan Dille, m. Samuel Copper They are grandparents of Atty. S. C. Blake

Sarah Dille, m. Rastin Welch, removed to Oregon.

Cynthia Dille, m. Havilah Farnsworth

Marinda Dille, m. Sardius Welch grandmother of Judge Alexander Hadden

Children of Calvin and Amy Dille

Lovisa Dille, m. George Arnold, of, Mayfield, O.; moved to Indiana.

David Dille, died unmarried.

Elisabeth Dille, m. Washington Both died in Michigan. O'Conner; removed to Indiana.

Dr. Nehemiah Dille, m. Frances Varnon; located in Kentucky. (Mrs. Dille d. 1810, aged 84.)

Lewis B. Dille, Jr., m. Ruhama, (they were married Sept., 1811): White. Both died in Iowa City Ia.

Luther Dille, m. Dencie Holiday.

Calvin Dille, m. ____Holiday, sister of Dencie Holiday Dille. (Removed to Michigan.)

Cassy Dille, m. George Farr, of Euclid, O. Removed to Bronson Mich

Children of Calvin, Sr., and Sally Avery Dille, his second wife:

Avery Dille, m. Mary Wilcox; resides in Mississippi.

Anna B. Dille, m. Henry Bliss, of Euclid, O.

Children of Nehemiah and Betsey Dille:

Harriet Dille, b. 1810; m. William Chapman in 1827..

Sidney H. Dille, b. 1812; m. Candace; Tolburt in 1834. m

Minerva Dille, b. 1814; m. William H. Otis in 1831.

Leander Clark Dille, b. 1816; m. Margaret H. Anderson in 1840.

Levantia Dille, b. 1819; m. Moses Bartlett in 1837

Martha Pennington Dille, b. 1824 . Lewis Sawtell in 1841.

William Sandford Dille, b. 1826; m.Ann Olivia Camp in 1850.

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Children of Lewis B. and Seba Dille:

Milton Dille, m. Lucy Wright; 2^nd, Loretta Tilley.

Dr. Madison Dille, located in Venango Co., Pa.

Jefferson Dille, m. Olive Kniffin..

Dr. Abijah Dille, m. Jane Booth, of Mentor. He practised his profession in Mayfield, O..

Ann Eliza Dille, m. ________ Shaw. Removed to California.

Aurora Dille. Lived and died in Mentor, O.

Monroe Dille, m. Miss Smart, of Willoughby. Removed to California, and later to Colorado

Mary Dille, m. James Prouty.

Eveline Dille, m. Col. Albert Barnitz, of Cleveland

Lewis and Seba Dille sold their farm in Euclid, and spent the last year of their lives in Mentor, O.

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ASA DILLE

Asa Dille, Sr., brother of David Dille, married Frances Saylor. His log-cabin was on Euclid Avenue, just south of Mayfield Road. When Cuyahoga County was organized in 1810, he was elected its first treasurer. His name appears in connection with societies organized in Cleveland for philanthropic efforts, but nothing else is found concerning him. He had ten children, of whom nine attained majority. The records of this family are not attainable through any of his descendants, especially the marriage records.

Children of Asa and Frances Dille:

Leonard,.

Asa,

Libbous,.

Ebins, and

Jacob Dille-the latter a cooper by trade, who lived and died at Doan's Corners, East End. He m. Elinor Collier.

David Dille, removed to Pawpaw, Mich. When last heard from, three years since, he was living at the age of 82..

Emily Dille, m. Ambrose Morrison He was uncle of the late Ambrose M. McGregor

Clarissa Dille, m. Richard Curtis, lived on the Chagrin River. She was grandmother of the late Dr. Richard Bell, and his brother, Frank W. Bell, the Cleveland lumber dealer

Elisabeth Dille, m. Daniel S. Tyler, and located near her father on a farm

Mrs. Frances Dille died in 1842 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Tyler.

Dille Road, which crosses Euclid Ave. in East Cleveland, is named for this family.

1803

McILRATH

There are many family reunions held every year in Cleveland, but none of them were organized so early or have so large a membership as that of Mcllrath. Furthermore, this big clan has another point of superiority over others which is justly a matter of great local pride. Adult Mcllraths in some of its branches, that of Alexander, for instance, can visit the Mcllrath cemetery in East Cleveland and stand by the graves of their great-great-grandmother, their great-grandparents, and their grandparents, all of whom lived and died in that locality.

Can any Cleveland family beat that record?

Samuel McIlrath, chief of the clan, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in December, 1718, came to America when he was 24 years old; and settled in Mendham, Morris County, New Jersey.

In 1755, when nearing middle age, he married Isabel Aikman. Nine children were born to them, and after these children had reached maturity, and most, if not all of them, married, they all came West and settled in East Cleveland.

One of the sons, Alexander, and his brother-in-law, John Shaw, came on in 1803, and each purchased 640 acres of land, much of it fronting Euclid Ave. and extending north to the lake.

Samuel and Isabella McIlrath, the parents, started for East Cleveland in 1808. With other members of the family, they came in ox-teams, drawing household furniture, farming utensils, and the younger and frailer members of the party. They were six months making the journey, therefore must have traveled at their leisure. They settled in a log house about opposite Lake View Cemetery.

Samuel McIlrath, the elder, returned to New Jersey on a business errand, and died and was buried there. His widow, who was 77 years old when she made the trip to Ohio, remained here, and at her death, in 1814, was buried in the McIlrath cemetery, where she lies surrounded by children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Children of Samuel and Isabel McIlrath:

(1) Mary McIlrath, b. 1756; died Samuel Cozad. (See Cozad unmarried, aged 69 years. sketch.)

(2) Andrew McIlrath, b. 1758; m. Abby Cozad. m. Rhoda Condit ; 2nd, Caroline

(3) Agnes McIlrath, b. 1761; m. Meeker. 1st, James Jones; 2nd, Caleb Eddy; 3rd, Hosea Blinn. M. J. Burton.

(4) Thomas McIlrath, b. 1764; m. 1st, Eliza Cozad; 2nd, Eunice Slawson.

(5) Jane McIlrath, b. 1766; m.

(6) Alexander McIlrath, b. 1769;

(7)Elisabeth McIlrath, b. 1771; m.

(8) Isabel McIlrath, b. 1774; m. Nathaniel Woodruff

(9) Sarah McIlrath, b. 1777; m. John Shaw.

The children of Andrew and Abigail Cozad McIlrath:

Anne McIlrath, m. David Bonnell.

Lydia McIlrath, m. Abraham Mattox

Abigail McIlrath, m. Abram L. Norris. Phebe Mclrath, m. Paul P. Condit.

Polly Mcllrath, m. Jesse Adams.

Samuel McIlrath, m. Betsey Carlton

Elisabeth Mcllrath, m. Nehemiah Dille

Andrew Mcllrath, m. Angeline O'Connor.

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Children of Thomas and Elisabeth Cozad McIlrath:

Thomas McIrath, m. Jerusha Brainard.

Samuel Mcllrath, m. Lucy Brainard.

Phebe Mcilrath, m. Mr. Frost.

Mary McIlrath, m. 1st, Mr. Thomas ; 2nd, Mr. Baldwin

Children of Alexander and Rhoda Condit McIlrath:

Finnetta McIlrath, b. 1802; m. Damon O'Connor..
Sarah Mcllrath, b. 1803; m. Andrew Stewart..

Michael Mcllrath, m. 1st, Sophia Watkins; 2nd, Sarah Hollister

Isabel Mcllrath, m. Benjamin Sawtell

Abner C. Mcllrath, m. Eliza Pier.

Abner C. and Eliza McIlrath kept a tavern on Euclid Avenue, in East Cleveland, where they lived all their married lives, and raised 13 children. Their four sons served in the Civil War, and their names can be read on the list in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the Public Square. They are : James P., Philip C., Oliver P., and Abner McIlrath, Jr. Oliver P. McIlrath, No. 10728 Churchill Ave., is the only survivor of these patriotic brothers.

Abner C. McIlrath, their father, was a striking-looking man. He was over six feet in height, and broad in proportion.

When Abraham Lincoln passed through Cleveland, in 1861, on the way to his inauguration in Washington, he made a speech from the balcony of the Weddell House. He observed Abner Mcllrath standing near, and, laughing, invited him to measure up and see which was the taller. They stood back to back. McIlrath won. "There," said Abner, "you see I am a bigger Republican than you are!"

It will be noted that the elder McIlraths, children of Samuel and Isabel, were middle-aged when they came to Cleveland. Andrew, the oldest son, was 50 years old ; Samuel, his son, and fifth child, married in 1810, Betsey Carlton. Her maiden name was Davis, and she had Carlton children, Davis and Sherman Carlton-both fine men who removed to Elkhart, Ind.

Samuel McIlrath was addressed as "Squire" by the neighbors, and probably was a justice of the peace. Both Samuel and Betsey were warm-hearted and open-handed. There never was a time when their own household of children was not supplemented by two or three children bearing other surnames, waifs who had lost one or both parents in one of the fatal epidemics that occasionally prevailed.

Children of Samuel and Betsey McIlrath:

Hiram McIlrath, m. Katherine Day, dau. of Hiram Day..

Mary McLlrath, m. Philo Moses.

Andrew Mcllrath, m. Miss McIlrath.

Richard McIlrath, m. Louise Ruple..

Samuel McIlrath, m.____________ Moser, an adopted daughter

Rufus Clark McIlrath, m. Rinda Lyon, of Strongsville. She m.2nd, Leonard Burgess, of Cleveland

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John and Sarah McIlrath Shaw had no children. They left all their property to what is now known as the Shaw High School of East Cleveland.

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Levi White, his wife, Sabrina Kinney, and their eleven children seven sons and four daughters-came to Cleveland all the way from Bennington, Vt., in an open scow. They hugged the shore closely in order to reach it quickly when storm threatened, and each night they landed, cooked supplies of food for the day, and camped out until morning.

Nothing has been learned of their experiences between Bennington and Buffalo, N. Y., but the passage from the latter place was one of great suffering. It was made in late July, and the fierce rays of the sun blistered their flesh so that by the time they reached here, they were in a pitiable condition.

There were too many in the party, even though distributed, to be comfortably entertained by the two or three families they found living in the hamlet, and they took shelter in Gov. Huntington's barn until a log house could be built for them.

Levi White and his family remained in town a year or two, and then removed to Newburgh. He had brought with him quite a sum of money, and with it purchased a farm for $1.50 an acre. It is claimed that the site is now occupied by the State Hospital, that it was sold by the heirs before Lyman White, the youngest child, who was born on it, became of age, and, therefore, no clear title to the property was ever given. Levi White was a school-teacher as well as farmer, and during the War of 1812, as no opportunity was offered nearer home, he accepted a position for a few months in Canada-probably a winter school. He was takes= ill and died either on his way home or immediately after reaching it. His widow was left alone to raise her twelve children. Nobly she performed the task. The Whites, as a family, were good men and women, straight in their dealings, kind, and charitable. They all lived to be married, acquire considerable property, and each at death left posterity.

Mrs. White had interesting experiences with the Indians, who were numerous about Newburgh, and frequently they were her uninvited guests. They early discovered that she was a good cook and a generous woman. So they often asked for food, which was never denied, although sometimes quite inconvenient to spare. Once, an Indian demanded an entire batch of doughnuts she had just fried. He was so persistent that she dare not refuse, and he bore them away with him. But the following week he returned with fresh venison and skins worth many times more than the cakes. In fact, the Indians always paid her well for the contents of her larder. They called her "the good squaw," and were ever friendly. Doubtless they took in the situation of her widowhood and

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brave struggle to be both father and mother to her children. She died when Lyman-the one child born here was 13 years old. Many years after her burial, her remains were disinterred and removed to another cemetery. It is claimed that the coffin was intact, and upon opening it she was found as well preserved as when placed there, and looked to be sleeping quietly. The body was in a petrified condition. She was a blonde, with blue eyes, and pretty, light hair, and in the latter years of her life grew quite stout. Some of her granddaughters resemble her closely.

The children of Levi and Sabrina Kinney White:

John White, m. Mary Risley; b. in Connecticut. He died 1837. She. died 1848.,

William White, m. Phebe Johnson, 1817..

Charles White

Harry White, m. Sophrona Jones, in 1818.

Solomon White, m. Hannah Bronson, daughter of Hiram V. Bronson.

Samuel White, m. Damelia O'Conner.

David White, m. Eliza Asston, of Ireland. Widow of_________ McWha

Lyman White, m. Livonia French dau. of Price and Rachel Collins French

Polly White, m. Richard Bailey, in 1817.

Betsey White, m. John Wood. He was killed by the Indians out West

Sabrina White, m. Charles Warner; 2nd, John Ammock

Lucy White, m. John H. Guptil.

Samuel White owned a farm of 50 acres on Detroit Street, between Gordon Avenue and the tracks of the N. Y. C. R. R. He kept a roadside inn, which yet stands, on the north side of the street. It has small wings on each side of the main part, and small painted windows. He had three children-Roderick, Clinton, and Mary Jane White. The latter married a Hubble.

David White also lived in what is now Lakewood. He had two daughters, Elisabeth White-Mrs. Abijah Churchill-who was early left a widow with three children, and Martha White, who married Oran Gould, and lived in Bedford.

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Two brothers and their families from near Northampton, Mass., came to Ohio about 1804. Joseph Burk took up a farm in Euclid, and Sylvanus Burk settled in Newburgh. Joseph had several sons, two or three of whom were privates in the Cleveland company raised during the War of 1812. Joseph was a mail-carrier, and Sylvanus also had charge of the mail-route between Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

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The earlier Burke spelled the name Burk, but later generations added an "e" to it.

Sylvanus Burk was a soldier of the American Revolution. He enlisted March 18, 1781, for three years, and was sworn in at West Point. Served as a private and drummer in Capt. John Pray's company, First Mass. Reg., commanded by Col. Joseph Vose. (Joseph Burk, of Euclid, was also a Revolutionary soldier.)

His wife was Achsa Burk. They are buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery. Their home was on Broadway, and the Rolling Mills now stand on their farm.

The children of Sylvanus and Achsa Burk:

Gaius Burk, m. Sophia Taylor

Brazilla Burk, m. Prudency Taylor

Eli Burk, m. Betsey Parmeter, a Akron. good man.

Polly Burk, m. Laban Ingersoll. She died 1821, aged 27 years

David Burk, died 1830.

Margary Burk, m. Asa Draper, of

Irene Burk, second wife of Augustus Gilbert

Louisa Burk, m. Morris Hartwell.

Both families of Burk-the one that settled in Euclid more particularly-suffered much privation in the first year of their pioneer life. They were typical New England people, pious, frugal, industrious, making the best of conditions, and finally overcoming them, the kindest of neighbors, and each one of them thoroughly reliable. Whatever good fortune befell their children or grandchildren was deserved. Their home was known as the Burk Tavern.

Gaius Burk was but a lad when he accompanied his father on a mail route, of which he had the contract, and later, and but little older, he assumed the responsibility of carrying the mail between Cleveland and Columbus. At first, the travel through the wilderness was done on foot. and afterward on horseback.

At 19 years of age, he was handicapped for life through a serious accident. A falling tree pinned him to the ground, where he lay for hours, until discovered by his brother, who had to ride four miles to seek surgical assistance of Dr. Long. One leg was too badly crushed to save, and it had to be amputated. He never allowed this misfortune to affect his life so far as he could prevent it, and farmed, filled public positions, etc., all his life. He died in 1865, aged 74 years. Gaius Burk and Sophia Taylor, daughter of Philo Taylor, were married in 1820. He was 29 years old, and she was 25.

It is said of them that they "took in all creation," which meant that their home was a refuge. There were many deaths in Cleveland every year of fathers and mothers, leaving orphans behind them to struggle without care and sympathy. The big hearts of Gaius and Sophia Burk went out to these forlorn ones in pity and protection. Pictures of this couple, preserved by their descendants, evidence their characters plainly. They look honest, straightforward, kind.

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Children of Gaius and Sophia Burk:

Justina Burk, m. Dr. Philip Worley (son of Daniel).

Lucy Burk, m. Irwin Webster. She died, and lived in Kansas.

Helen Burk, m. Irwin Webster

Harvey Burk, m. Rachel Cochran. (daughter of Mrs. Justus Hamilton).

Oscar M. Burke, m. Martha Meech, in 1847; born 1824.

Augustus Burk, m. Sophelia Vaughn of Kent, Ohio

The stories of the American Revolution that, doubtless, often fell from his father's lips, may have influenced Brazilla Burk, and made him ready to respond to the call for volunteers in the War of 1812, or, as it has sometimes been called, "the second war for freedom." Be that as it may, we find him serving his country as a drummer boy at Lundy's Lane.

The story is told that there were three of the boys all drumming while the battle was raging, and two were hit by bullets and wounded or killed, but he kept on drumming.

When an old man, forgetful, and sometimes seemingly oblivious to what was going on about him, a drum put into his hands would arouse him at once, and he would begin drumming Yankee Doodle with the greatest enthusiasm. He was "Uncle Zeal" not only to relatives, but to every one for miles around. A good and kind man.

Prudency Taylor, wife of Brazilla B. Burk, and daughter of Philo and Zerviah Devenport Taylor, was born in Lowville, N. Y., in 1802. Her parents came to Cleveland in 1806, and left her with grandparents till 1815, when she came on West with Irad Kelley and family. Although Mrs. Kelly was kindness itself, the bashful child entrusted to the care of strangers on such a long journey, full of difficulties and inconveniences, was too. timid to ask for all she wanted to eat, and so shy and self effacing was she, that sometimes she was overlooked, and went hungry.

In 1816, she was married, and in the old homestead where she at once went to housekeeping-on Jones Avenue-was the scene of her golden wedding. The house is still standing. She spun, wove, and made all the clothing and bedding of her large family, doing all the housework, and sending the children to school.

Her daughter, Mrs. Emery, still has the old red chest which her mother used to fill with mince pies, sixty being the number required. And many of these in course of time went into the children's lunch baskets.

As her husband was "Uncle Zeal" to man, woman, and child, so was she "Aunt Dency." A typical pioneer, always hospitable, always helpful to all who tarried beneath her roof. Many yet live who carry pleasant memories of happy days passed under the roof and in the good care of Aunt Dency.

The children of B. B. and Prudency Burk:

Mary Burk, m. Jacob Baum..

Zerviah Burk, m. Ashbel W. Morgan.

John Burk, m. Mary Jewett, daughter of Moses Jewett.

Ann Burk, m. William H. Hanson

Antoinette Burk, m. C. F. Emery

Edwin Burk.

Esther Burk, unmarried

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Although Mrs. O. M. Burke-Martha Meech-was married in 1847, and only the daughter of a pioneer, she was a character that should be personally mentioned in this history, for upon her seemed to fall the mantle of her exceedingly generous-hearted parents.

The writer, at one time, by a curious chain of events, became greatly interested in two little girls living in Echo, Minn. The home in which they lived burned to the ground, destroying all household furniture. The parents were poor, struggling people, with nothing to fall back on.

The writer sent a communication to a Cleveland daily paper, which resulted in a public donation to the family, unique in the annals of any charitable event in the city. One of the boxes forwarded to Echo was said to be the largest ever sent, by an express company, out of Cleveland.

Mrs. Burke, after reading the article, hastened to the spot where donations were to be received, eager and enthusiastic to do her share. A white tablecloth, a pretty colored tablespread, a dozen large towels, and a fine wringer, all purchased that morning, was her offering, with a request that if anything seemed lacking that would be desirable for the family, she should be notified in time to get it into some box or barrel being packed.

Children of O. M. and Martha Meech:

Clarence Burke, m. Maria Hayward, daughter of W. H. Hayward..

Elisabeth Burke, m. William G. Alcott.

Frank G. Burke, in. Joanna Armington

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Broadway, about a mile and a half from the Public Square, is intersected or paralleled by four short streets, all close together. They are Dille, Martin, Douse and Gibbs streets, all named for the members of one family whose farm of 90 acres covered not only both sides of Broadway at this point, but extended westward over the valley and across the Cuyahoga River, which winds through it on its way to the lake.

Samuel Dille, of New Jersey, said to have-been a nephew of David Dille, of Euclid, and Asa Dille, of Doan's Corners, bought this tract of land in 1804 of Turhand Kirtland, agent for the Connecticut Land Co. He built for his home a log-cabin, unusually large for the times, in the upper story of which was a room extending the length and breadth of the house. In this were held public gatherings. In the Stephen Peet sketch in this work will be found an interesting account of one of these gatherings that occurred in 1814.

No one can be found who remembers or was told just where this loghouse stood or when torn down. It may have been replaced on the same

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spot by the large frame structure which was the Dille homestead fully 75 years ago, perhaps even earlier. This pioneer dwelling yet stands on the south-east corner of Broadway and Dille streets, and save the addition of a front porch and a change in the size of window-frames, remains as it was built. The view from the second story must have been exceedingly beautiful in the years when the river valley was clothed in verdure, the banks between and beyond covered with forest-trees, wild-flowering shrubs and vines, while, in their season, innumerable wild fowl flew by, or floated upon the river. Today clouds of smoke obstruct the view, the banks are dreary with ash-heaps and refuse, unattractive tenements swarming with old-world emigrants surround and close in upon the old pioneer home.

Capt. Samuel Dille must have been public-spirited and patriotic. He was a member of Capt. Murray's company, recruited in Cleveland in the War of 1812. Two of his Dille cousins were in the same company.

The maiden name of his wife, Mary Anne Dille, has not been learned. She died in 1815, and lies in Harvard Grove Cemetery. The headstone that marks her grave also contained the name Samuel Dille, who died in 1850, but the inscriptions are completely effaced.

Mrs. Dille left a family of young children-three sons and two daughters. They were:

George Dille, b. 1804; married three times. The third wife was Lydia Martin, by whom he had three children. He died in 1846, in Michigan, where he had removed,

Lydia Dille, m. in 1823, Robert Lovewell. She died before 1850, leaving six children ; removed to Ottowa Lake, Mich.

Samuel Martin Dille, b. 1807; m. Maryette Packard, dau. of Isaac and Polly Smith Packard, of Deerfield, Mass., and Brecksville, Ohio. S. M. Dille died aged 61.

Luther Gibbs Dille, b. 1809; died in Centerville, Mich., in 1847, aged 38; married Minerva Wilson.

Keziah Dille, b.; ____; m____..Her daughter Helen married Thomas Douse, in the employ of her mother. He died young, leaving two children, Thomas and Mary Louise Douse. She m. 2nd, Joseph Gilson, and had a Gilson son. Helen Douse Gilson removed to California, and died about 35 years ago. Her remains were brought back to Cleveland and interred in Woodland Cemetery

Luther Gibbs Dille left two sons, George and Benton Dille. Both were in the Civil War. George was taken prisoner in Columbia, Mo., and, with others, stood against a wall and was shot down. Benton died on his way home either from wounds received or from illness.

Their mother, Minerva Wilson Dille, married 2nd, John Criter. A daughter by this marriage was drowned, so that all three of her children died suddenly, and away from home. She lived to be a very old lady.

As will be noted, three of Samuel Dille's children removed to Michigan and died there previous to his own death in 1850. In that year he made his will, leaving his daughter Keziah the homestead, and 30 acres adjoining it, and to her daughter Helen Douse, 15 acres. This comprised half of the farm. The other half was divided between the other heirs.

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The only remaining son, Samuel Martin Dille, bought out the interests of his Michigan nephews and nieces, and thus came into possession of the 45 acres of river bottom. He died, leaving no children. He left his property to his widow. She married 2nd, John Gusendorfer, of Newburgh. He had a farm in Independence, and they lived upon it. When Maryette Dille Gusendorfer died, in 1901, she left the Dille property to her two step-children. This led to litigation, and the property, now valuable, has been in court until recently. Corrigan & McKinney's big new blast-furnace stands upon the lower half of the Dille farm.

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David Burroughs, Sr., with his wife and seven children, arrived in Newburgh, in 1805, from New Hampshire. He came from an old New England family of English descent. He was married and lived in Vermont, but had removed to New Hampshire, where he spent a few years.

The family lived in a small red house on the west side of Woodhill Road, nearly opposite the Edwards tavern. Mr. Burroughs was a blacksmith, and his smithy adjoined his dwelling.

The maiden name of his wife has not been obtained.

He had nine children, most of whom, before or after their marriage, removed to other towns of this county, or to Western states. They were:

Sarah Burroughs, m. Alonzo Pangburn..

David Burroughs, b. 1791; m. Clara Edwards, daughter of Rudolphus Edwards.

Allen Burroughs, m. Betsey Honey.

Asa Burroughs, m. Rebecca Shepard, in 1819.

Miranda Burroughs, b. 1800; m Jesse Tuttle

Levi Burroughs, married and lived in Findlay, O.

Newcomb Burroughs, m. Laura Therford, of Geauga Co.

Eunice Burroughs, m. Ira Pratt.

Betsey Burroughs, m. William White, of Bedford, O.

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David Burroughs, Jr., was about 14 years old when his parents removed to Newburgh. He learned the blacksmith trade of his father, married Clara Edwards, the daughter of a neighbor, removed to town, and set up a blacksmith shop of his own on Superior Street-north-west corner of Seneca. His advertisement of the fact appeared in the Cleveland Herald. It read : "David Burrough's shop will be known by

THE SIGN OF THE ANCHOR AND THE SOUND OF THE HAMMER."

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Nearly across the street was located his rival, Uncle Abram Hickox, whose sign was a man on horseback, and under it

"CAN I GET MY HORSE SHOD HERE? YES, SIR."

The Burroughs family were best remembered while living in town by their big flock of geese that disported in the puddles on Superior Street after a shower, or, roaming at will, sometimes intimidated women and children by their hissing remonstrances when any one blocked their way. The family also possessed other creatures pertaining usually to farm life-such as -pigs who ran the streets under protest of the immediate neighbors. However, Uncle David may have felt that the little village was not far removed from country life, and that some people were putting on city airs not sustained by local conditions.

Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs were a very estimable couple, kind and friendly to every one. Mrs. Burroughs was a stout woman, with the good nature that usually accompanies embonpoint-a faithful mother and a kind friend in need. The family finally returned to the heights of Newburgh, leaving their town neighbors minus geese, plus malaria.

The children of David and Clara Edwards Burroughs:

Cyrus Burroughs, married and removed to Kenosha, Wis.

Alfred Burroughs, married in Casenovia, N. Y. Removed to Kenoosha, and became a bridge-builder and contractor..

Mary Burroughs, m. Lyman Fay, her aunt Rhoda's step-son. They, removed to Kenosha, Wis..

Stephen Burroughs, b. 1828; m. Susan Newbury, of Wheatland, Wis.. He became a noted bridge-builder - had charge of all bridge-construction of the North Western R. R

Lorenzo Burroughs, went to Kensha, in the 40's, and married there

Phebe Burroughs, m. Orin Houghton, a banker, living in Hampt on, Neb

Gideon Burroughs. No record of him

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The following document, nearly 108 years old, is in the possession of Whittlesey Adams, of Warren, O., a son of the original owner

"Articles of agreement made and entered into between Asael Adams on the one part and the undersigned on the other, witnesseth, that we, the undersigned, do agree to hire the said Adams for the sum of Ten Dollars ($10.00) a month, to be paid in money or wheat at the market price, whenever such time may be that the school doth end, and to make such house comfortable for the school to be taught in, and to furnish

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benches and fire-wood sufficient. The said Adams to keep six hours in each day, and to keep order in said school."

Samuel Huntington,

William Wheelock Williams,

James Kingsbury,

George Kilbourne,

Susannah Hamilton,

Elijah Gun,

David Kellogg,

James Hamilton.

October, 1806.

It has been erroneously stated, several times in print, that this school was kept in a log-house near the foot of Superior Street. A glance at the names of its directors or patrons-would show that this could not be true. Every one of them belonged to Newburgh. Not one resident of Cleveland hamlet is represented on that document. Judge Kingsbury and Elijah Gun had first settled here, but removed to Newburgh six years previously. Samuel Huntington had sold or exchanged his Cleveland property some months before this time October, 1806--and was living in Newburgh that winter, preparatory to taking possession of his newly-acquired possessions in Painesville, O. The other patrons of the school had never lived a day in Cleveland-so far as we can learn. For the youth of Newburgh to be conveyed every day six to eight miles and return over an almost impassable road, could not have been considered for a moment. Therefore, that first school must have been located in Newburgh.

Asael Adams-its 20-year-old teacher-tackled a much more serious job six years later. He carried the mail on horseback between Cleveland and Pittsburgh during the war years of 1812 and 1813. Ordinarily the journey was fraught with danger and innumerable hardships, but the peril and uncertainty were enhanced by the unsettled conditions of our Government at this time-its inability to repress any Indian hostility toward the pioneer settlers.

It took Mr. Adams 28 hours to journey from Pittsburgh to Cleveland -from six o'clock in the morning on Friday, to ten o'clock in the morning of the following Monday. In his return to Pittsburgh, he would leave here at two o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, and arrive in Pittsburgh in time for his supper on Thursday.

He ceased traveling this mail-route at the end of his second contract. As his marriage occurred soon after, it probably was an incentive to engage in employment less perilous and more permanent, as he opened a store for general merchandise in Warren, near where he had wooed and won his bride. She was Lucy Mygatt, daughter of Comfort S. Mygatt a notable merchant of Canfield, O. Asael Adams had a long mercantile career, and died in 1852, at the age of 66.

He was the son of Asael Adams, Sr., of Canterbury, Conn., who served four years in the War of the Revolution, and suffered all the privation of Washington's army that awful winter at Valley Forge. He knew what it was to be constantly and hopelessly hungry, and to stand sentry duty bare-headed-his cap under his feet to save them from freezing. His wife was Olive Avery, and their oldest child-Betsey Adams-married Judge Camden Cleaveland-brother of Gen Moses Cleaveland. The family settled in Liberty Township, Trumbull County, in 1802.

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As Asael Adams, Jr., was so closely identified with Cleveland in its earliest years, and, from the fact that several of his sons became residents of the city, his family should have space in this historical work.

Children of Asael and Lucy Mygatt Adams:

Comfort Avery Adams, m. Katherine E. Denis..

Asael Edgar Adams, m. Mary L. Burroughs.

George Adams, m. Elisabeth B. Dana.

Lucy Mygatt Adams, m. William Leffingwell

Fitch Adams, m. Helen Ranney.

Whittlesey Adams, m. Margaret Scott Smith

Alfred Adams, m. Elisabeth Baker.

Henry Adams, m. Jennie S. Gilbert.

AGUE, OR CHILLS AND FEVER

This disease, which made life in the little hamlet unendurable for a few years following its settlement, drove to higher ground all the families who came here before 1806, save the Carters, Spaffords, and David Clarke. After the deaths of Lorenzo Carter and David Clark, their families also removed to the heights of Newburgh.

The malady was supposed to arise from the vapor that hung over the marshes which began at the mouth of the river, and extended for miles inland. The symptoms of an attack were extreme lassitude, a morbid appetite, and frequent desire to yawn and stretch. Within a few days following, a distressing paroxysm would attack the sufferer-either the whole body would quiver and shake violently, or every bone in it would ache excruciatingly. One attack was called "Shaking Ague," the other "Dumb Ague." It was ever a question of the day which of them was the more distressing. The paroxysm lasted from 20 minutes to several hours, and was followed by a high fever, which sometimes spent itself in a short time, and again continued as long as had been the hardest chill.

The attack recurred at the same hour of the following day or every other day. A sturdy physique enabled one to endure this malady for months, working, meanwhile, between the attacks. Physical fatigue, however, aggravated the severity of them, and, occasionally, by remaining in bed, or avoiding all exercise, they would gradually grow lighter, and finally cease-for a time, at least.

But every one had to work in pioneer days, and work hard, so that the above remedy was out of the question for most people. Chills and fever was especially hard upon the wife and mother, with all the household cares pressing heavily upon her, besides the rearing and frequent bearing of children.

Sometimes, when her own chill was upon her, she would drag her shaking limbs from one bedside to another, ministering to those alike stricken, or sit, burning with fever, one child at her breast, another on

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her knees, with a third shaking and wailing on the floor beside her. The pioneer physicians seemed unable to cope with the disease. Quinine was then unknown. Meanwhile, mosquitoes swarmed, and there was no netting to windows, nor screen-doors to bar them out of the home. The only recourse was smudges-out-door fires, dampened, to make much smoke.

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The name of Perry is as old, locally, as the city itself, for Nathan Perry, Sr., the pioneer, was with the first party of surveyors who laid out and named Cleveland. He had charge of the commissary part of the outfit, and supplied the horses and cattle in the expedition. The party of surveyors and helpers was composed of strong, hearty men ; the journey was laborious, and large supplies must have been necessary.

It was not until 1806, however, that Nathan Perry, Sr., or "Major" Perry, as he was called, removed with his family to Cleveland. He was born in Waterbury, Conn., in 1760, and christened by the Rev. Anthony Stoddard. The antecedents of his father, Daniel Perry, have not yet been ascertained, nor his relationship to the Rhode Island Perrys established. He removed to Rutland, Vt., where, previous to the Revolutionary Wars, he had purchased a tract of land. In 1780, he deeded a part of this to Nathan-then 20 years of age, "in consideration of the love and good will of my son Nathan."

Twelve years later, Daniel deeded another parcel of land in Vermont to his son and namesake, Daniel Perry, Jr. The deed of property to Nathan Perry may have been executed in 1780, because of his approaching marriage.

His bride-to-be was Miss Sophia Leonora Root, daughter of Rev. Benijoh and Elizabeth (Guernsey) Root, of Rutland, Vt. Nathan must have been about 21 years of age, as his fourth child was born in 1786.

Nathan Perry may have been a private in a Connecticut regiment during the latter part of the Revolutionary War, as a soldier of that name about his age and unknown residence appears on an old pay-roll of that state. While his children were very young, Major Perry evidently decided to leave Rutland, for between 1785 and 1789, he had made eight conveyances of land, aggregating $1,155. He is said to have purchased a farm and a mill in western New York, and removed his family to that state. But it must have been accomplished after 1790, as his son Horatio was born in that year in Rutland.

The name of the New York town to which he removed has not been learned, but as the family was in Canada for a time, and in 1796 Major Perry was engaged in trading with the Indians near Buffalo, he probably settled near the latter place.

At that period, Buffalo was a small frontier post, at which a few sol-

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diers were stationed. Clustered about the barracks were, two or three log-houses. The place, however, was a center for the fur trade of the Hudson Bay Company. Across the Niagara River, opposite Buffalo, on the Canadian side, conditions were very different. The country was thickly settled, mostly by Tories, who had fled at the close of the American Revolution, and the Perry family may have lived on the Canadian side of the river while Major Perry was engaged in the fur trade.

The latter invested in 1,000 acres of land in Lake County, Ohio, for which he paid five dollars per acre. He also purchased the property in Cleveland, bounded by Superior, Water, St. Clair and Bank streets, lots 4, 9, 50, and 51, six acres in all. Out Woodland way, near Perry Street, he bought a tract of farming land, which in the division of the estate in after years came into the possession of his son Horace, and was known as the "Horace Perry Farm." In addition to all this he invested in property at Black River.

It was not until 1806 that he brought his family to Cleveland. The Perrys lived on the north-east corner of Superior and Water streets. A frame-building, built by Elisha Norton, first postmaster of the town, stood on this lot, and whether the Perry family occupied this or built another for their use, has not been learned.

When Cuyahoga County was organized, in 1809, Major Perry was thenceforth known as "Judge" Perry, having been appointed one of the court judges. He was highly esteemed in the communities in which he lived. Although active in business and, as it has proven, possessing a keen insight into future land values, he was known as a genial, kindhearted man. He died in 1813, aged 53 years, and, with his wife, lies close to the main entrance of Erie Street Cemetery. His body was removed to this spot from the pioneer cemetery, corner of Prospect and Ontario streets.

Mrs. Perry is said to have been a very dignified woman, somewhat austere in manner, and whose acquaintance was not easily made. Her son, Nathan Perry, Jr., resembled his mother in character and disposition.

Mrs. Perry's sister, Mrs. Robert Gilmore, was a pioneer resident of Newark, Ohio, and the families often visited one another, riding back and forth on horseback. Mrs. Perry was a fine equestrienne, as was her daughter, Mrs. Weddell. A brother of Mrs. Perry possessed the unusual name of "Philanthropes" Root, and it will be noted that he had a namesake in the Perry household, who died young.

Mrs. Perry was born the same year as her husband, but outlived him 23 years. The children of Judge Nathan and Sophia L. Root Perry

Horace Perry, b. 1781; d. 1835; m.Abigail Smith in 1814..

Larry Perry, b. 1783; died young.

Philanthropes Perry, died young..

Nathan Perry, b. 1786; d. 1865; m. Pauline Skinner.

Horatio Perry, b. 1790; m. 1st, Sally Prentiss ; 2nd, Harriet Smith

Sophia Perry, b. 1800; d. 1823; m. Peter M. Weddell

Horace Perry, eldest son of Judge Nathan and Sophia Root Perry, in the thirty years of his residence in this place, was even better known

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personally than his younger brother Nathan, because of his public position. He was the first recorder of Cleveland, having been elected to that office when the village was organized in 1815, and continued to serve either as recorder or town clerk until his death in 1835. All the public records of early marriages are in his hand-writing, and cannot be excelled in the present days of professional penmanship. It is like script in its beautiful regularity and legibility. As justice of the peace, he also performed many marriage ceremonies.

He was 25 years of age when he arrived in Cleveland with his parents ; in 1814 he married Abigail Smith,-18 years his junior. The couple lived in a small house adjoining that of Nathan Perry, Jr., until 1818, when Ahimaaz Sherwin built a large frame-house for Mr. Perry on the south side of the Public Square. It was a substantial building, its timbers of the best, and its builder a master of his trade. It was considered very imposing, and always was the largest house on that side of the square. It remained standing long years after every other dwelling in the vicinity had been torn down to make way for business. The alley that now separates May's department store from the Park Building marks the carriage drive that led in on the east side of the house.

After the death of Horace Perry, it became the early residence of Elijah Bingham. In more recent years the lower story of the building was occupied by the Humphreys, who made and sold candy there, and later by the Fulton Market.

Horace Perry was one of the incorporators of the Cleveland and Newburgh Railroad, and also joined his associates in the attempt to build adequate piers at the foot of the river. With his wife, he was of the party that took the first ride on this end of the Ohio Canal at its formal opening in July, 1827. An incident related of the trip was the loss of Mrs. Perry's new bonnet, which blew overboard.

Mrs. Perry died within the following month, a victim of the terrible scourge of typhoid fever that swept the village in the late summer and autumn months of that year.

Three young children were left motherless at her death. Other circumstances combined to make it a most unfortunate and irreparable loss to them, one that probably changed the whole tenor of their lives.

Horace Perry inherited much real estate. Original lots 85 and 86, on the Public Square-extending from Ontario Street to Euclid Avenue, and lots 97 and 98, directly back of them, which bordered Ontario Street all the way to Huron Street. In 1831, Prospect Street was cut through lot 97, to form a street. Mr. Perry also owned a large farm lying between Woodland Avenue and Broadway, in the vicinity of Perry Street. Some of this property had been sold previous to his death in 1835. Subsequently, the estate dwindled rapidly, and in time his three children were reduced to poverty.

There is no record of any business that Horace Perry engaged in, save that of county clerk and recorder, and the salary for the former in 1831 is said to have been but $60 a year. The parentage of Mrs. Abigail Smith Perry cannot be learned. She was 28 years old at the time of her death.

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Horace Perry's headstone in Erie Street Cemetery stands close to the right of the main driveway. The lettering on it has been completely obliterated by time and weather. The children of Horace and Abigail Smith Perry

Peter Perry, b. 1817; m. Louise Selover, dau. of Ascher Selover..

John S. Perry, m. Phebe Wireman.

Paulina Perry, m. Charles N. Willey

Peter Perry died of consumption in 1844, aged 27 years. He left at least two children, of whom Mary Perry married a Mr. Bigelow, of Buffalo, and Horace Perry, who died unmarried at the home of a relative on his mother's side of the family. Peter Perry evidently inherited the homestead on the Square, as it is advertised in the delinquent tax-list of 1841 under his name, also part of the Broadway farm.

Capt. John S. Perry served in the Mexican War, and upon his return was given a public reception by the city. He died in 1860-the result of hardships endured and of wounds received while in Mexico. His wife Phebe was but a child when they married. Her first long dress is said to have been her wedding dress. The only child mentioned of this couple was Major Frank W. Perry, who died in Washington, D. C., in 1876, aged 38 years. He was a soldier of the Civil War. If he left no sons there are no living descendants of Judge and Sophia L. Perry, who bear the family name.

Paulina Perry Willey inherited that part of lot 85 bordering upon Ontario Street. It was advertised for several successive years in the delinquent tax-lists of the 40's.

Charles N. Willey, her husband, was a nephew of John Willey, first mayor of Cleveland. He was a lawyer, and associated with his uncle in his law business. Children of C. N. and Paulina Willey are buried in Erie Street Cemetery.

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The Van Resselaers, Livingstons, and other Dutch families of New York, having great estates, always sent one of their sons, usually the oldest one, to live six months or a year with the Iroquois that he might learn their language and customs. These young men were usually adopted into one of the tribes, and thus a bond was created of like value to the Dutch settlers and Indians.

Judge Nathan Perry may have become familiar with this custom, for soon after his removal to western New York he sent his third son and namesake, Nathan, Jr., to live for a few months at the camp of the great chief Red Jacket, where he learned the Indian language, and acquired

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a knowledge of furs and their value that proved to be of great financial service to him. He came to Cleveland two years before his parents arrived, but spent most of his time at Black River, looking after his father's interests there, and trading with the Indians. It was not until 1808 that he made Cleveland his home. In April of that year a fatal accident befell a large row-boat on its way from Cleveland to Black River. Q. T. Aikins, in the 1887 annals of the Old Settlers' Association, furnished a personal reminiscence connected with the accident and Nathan Perry, Jr., which gives an insight into the latter's business methods at the age of 23 years. He was a man of iron will, who never saved himself, and, naturally, expected others who served him to give of their uttermost. Like John Jacob Astor, whom he much resembled in character and business dealings, he was very successful in his fur trade, buying cheaply and selling at the best advantage. It is related of him that he loaded $12,000 worth of furs on wagons one year, and followed them all the way to New York. Mr. Astor, whose agents kept him notified of all such movements, waylaid the little caravan and tried to purchase the furs. But Mr. Perry flatly refused even to show them. Mr. Astor importuned and insisted. Probably he had never before met any fur-dealer who could withstand him. But it was a case of Greek meeting Greek. Mr. Perry had made up his mind that he was going to sell his furs in New York for all they would bring, and that no middleman should deduct from the profits accruing.

Nathan Perry, Jr., came to Cleveland in 1808. He probably lived with his parents at first. His father died in 1813. Soon after that event his son replaced the frame-house, corner of Superior and Water streets, with a brick store and dwelling under one roof. Here the Indians of this vicinity resorted with their furs, and often with the blankets furnished them by the Government, trading the latter for the various articles they coveted. Large silver brooches, and beads of many sizes and colors were in great demand by them, and always kept on hand by frontier merchants.

In 1816, when he was 31 years old, Nathan Perry married Pauline Skinner, daughter of Abram Skinner, well-known pioneer of Painesville, Ohio. She was born in Hartford, Conn., and 23 years of age. The marriage was another link between Cleveland and its sister village east of it, Mrs. Perry being one of several Painesville brides who chose a Cleveland man for a life-mate. Consequently there was much interchange of social courtesies between the two places in early days. Mrs. Perry was of pleasing personality, and has been remembered most kindly by those who recall her in later years. She died some years before her husband, and was laid to rest in Erie Street Cemetery, near the main entrance.

In 1824, Nathan Perry, Jr., bought a hundred acres on the north side of Euclid Avenue. It was purchased of Samuel Hinckley for five dollars an acre. Upon this tract a homestead was erected, which, with additions, yet stands far back from the road, upon a natural rise of ground, a picturesque reminder of pioneer days. North Perry Street was cut through this property. Mr. Perry also purchased several acres of land east of and near Erie Street for $10 an acre. As years passed this property increased greatly in value. He refused to part with any of his

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real estate, and years after the city had grown around it, and Payne Avenue had been cut through to Willson Avenue-East 55th Street-there were long stretches of pasture each side of the street, upon which horses and cattle grazed. This was made possible by a law which taxed unimproved property on the basis of farming land. For years and years clerks with their lunch-baskets, and laborers with their dinner-pails walked the long stretch of "Perry-Payne Pastures" on their way to and from work.

Nathan Perry died in 1865, nearly 80 years of age.

The children of Nathan and Pauline Skinner Perry

Oliver Hazard Perry, b. April, 1816; unmarried. Killed in a railroad. accident, 1864.

Mary Perry, b. Sept., 1818; m. Henry B. Payne

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HORATIO PERRY

Horatio Perry, the youngest son of Judge and Sophia Root Perry, was 16 years old when he came with his parents from Buffalo to Cleveland. Nothing concerning his residence in the village has been recorded save that in 1812 he was on the jury that tried O'Mic the Indian for murder. That same year he married Sally Prentiss, of Warrensville. She was a sister of Cyrus Prentiss, of Ravenna, and aunt of Loren and Perry Prentiss, of this city.

Horatio Perry removed to Wellington, Lorain Co., Ohio, where he led a long and useful life. He was deeply religious, having had in his early years a remarkable experience which was similar to that of St. Paul. Upon his reaching the great age of 100 years, not only Wellington, but all Lorain County celebrated the event. He was overwhelmed with gifts and kind wishes, and honored in an unusual degree. He lived nearly a year longer, and at his death the Wellington Enterprise published the following notice of the event

"Horatio Perry, better known as `Grandpa Perry,' departed this life on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1891, at the extraordinary age of 100 years, 11 months and 1 day. Though weighed down by the infirmities of age the deceased was remarkably strong in mind and body for one so old until within a few weeks of his death. About two weeks ago he was stricken with apoplexy and gradually sank into a coma in which his life sank away, and he who had lived so many years among us sank to rest like a tired child.

The bell of the Congregational Church, which has long been unused for such purposes, tolled slowly out the one hundred strokes that announced to the town the death of this venerable man."

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Horatio and Sally Prentiss had but one child who survived infancy, viz., Sophia Perry, m. Nathan Hamlin.

Mrs. Sally Prentiss Perry died and Mr. Perry married secondly, Harriet Smith. Rev. Thomas Barr performed the ceremony.

The children of Horatio and Harriet Smith Perry

Jane Perry, m. Homer Hamlin.

Frances Perry, m. William L. Smith.

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Fisher's Island, south of Connecticut, belonged to Governor Winthrop of that state. It was partially cleared and under cultivation, but a large part of it was still heavily wooded and the haunts of deer and other wild game, and in season, its inlets and swamps swarmed with wild fowl of every description.

Governor Winthrop usually rented it, reserving all rights of hunting and fishing, and frequently either himself or his family connections would make up a large party to spend a week on Fisher's Island and return to New London loaded with game. While on this island they were the guests of the lessee or of the families who sublet the farms on it.

William Walworth from London, England, became one of its tenants in the latter part of the seventeenth century, but soon removed to the mainland, settling in Stonington. About 70 years later, one of his direct descendants, John Walworth, was born in Stonington, and at the age of 35 purchased 1,000 acres of land at the mouth of the Grand River-now known as Fairport, and four miles north of Painesville. The family had previously moved to Aurora, N. Y.

Meanwhile, he had married Miss Juliana Morgan, of New London; a sister town whose social and commercial interests were closely interwoven with those of Stonington. She was a granddaughter of Col. Christopher Ledyard, of Revolutionary fame. The Walworths had several children when Mr. Walworth concluded to come West and settle on his newlyacquired property.

In April, 1800, after the usual weary weeks of travel, the family arrived at Fairport, where a log-cabin was built for them on a high elevation, containing a beautiful view of the lake and river, and here Mr. Walworth began the task of clearing the 300 acres surrounding it. But he early found himself unfitted for such a strenuous undertaking. Nature had given him an active temperament, a fine, vigorous mind full of hope and ambition, but denied him the physical strength and endurance that should have accompanied those mental gifts. He was slight in appearance, and of a delicate constitution. His superior education and talents were soon recognized by the widely scattered community of that pioneer

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day, and such honors as were possible then were bestowed upon him. He was made justice of the peace, an associate judge of common pleas, and the postmaster of Painesville. Finally, when the national government in 1805 decided to establish a rate of customs on Lake Erie, Thomas Jefferson appointed him inspector of revenue for the port of Cuyahoga, which necessitated his removal to it.

This led to an interchange of property with Samuel Huntington, who had been living in a log-house on Superior Street back of the present site of the American House. It is probable that the constant illness of Gov. Huntington's family through the prevalence of malaria was a strong inducement in closing the bargain-he had already moved it to Newburgh Heights-and the beautiful location at Fairport presented attractions to lure one from the hamlet so infested with fever and ague. But the exchange displayed a lack of appreciation of values that afterward must have caused him sore regret, and that it was effected must have been an unfailing source of self-congratulation to Mr. Walworth's descendants, as part of the property thus acquired includes every foot of the city of Cleveland's first ward.

We often hear of men carrying their whole ward precinct in their vest-pocket, but Mr. Walworth was the only one literally able to do so, though we naturally surmise that the deed was kept in a much safer place.

It was in April, 1806, that the Walworth family started for Cleveland in an open boat on Lake Erie; its occupants suffered great fright and exposure, for the boat was wrecked, while Judge Walworth's life was saved by the closest margin. When his feet at length touched bottom, he was almost exhausted from a prolonged struggle in the water, and with great difficulty reached the beach where he sank unable to rise. But his intrepid wife was equal to the occasion, and the family succeeded in reaching Cleveland in safety.

Judge Walworth built a home on the farm of 399 acres, now in the heart of the city, and lying between Erie, Huron, Miami streets and the river. The house stood about where the W. C. T. U. Friendly Inn is located. He lived there six years, taking such part in public affairs as his health permitted. He was the second postmaster of Cleveland, succeeding Elisha Norton in that office. He died in 1812, only 47 years of age.

Juliana Morgan Walworth was a type of the finest women of her day and generation. Her household always numbered other than her own household-orphan-waifs and strays, now a friendless young girl, again a widow with children waiting for an opening for self-support. She was a sister of Youngs Ledyard Morgan and Deborah Morgan Weightman, both Cleveland pioneers, and in the remembrance of friends she is pictured as erect, active, vigorous, with a forceful face out of which looked kindly gray eyes, wearing her hair as was the fashion of the time-in side-puffs and curls, surmounted by a snowy cap. She was seven years old at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, and well remembered the sorrowful days of the Groton massacre, how at the approach of the British she was sent to a place of safety; how in the Sabbaths following nearly every woman in the church she attended was in mourning attire

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for fathers, brothers, and husbands who perished on that fatal day, of a beautiful girl made insane by the death of her betrothed, and other incidents connected with that historical event.

In 1812, when the news of an advancing foe struck terror to the hearts of the little settlement, and every one fled for safety, Mrs. Walworth with two other brave women remained to face all danger because her husband was too ill to move, and there were sick soldiers in town dependent upon their ministrations.

She was an adept at riding a horse, and after the death of Judge Walworth rode through the wilderness all the way to New York City and back.

Four years later she married William Keyes, recalled to the memory of aged people as a very handsome man. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Barr, of Euclid.

Mrs. Juliana Walworth Keyes died in her home on Euclid Avenue, in 1853, aged 84, having lived in Cleveland for nearly half a century.

The children of Judge John and Juliana Morgan Walworth:

Ashbel Walworth, b. 1790; m. Mary Ann Dunlap.

Juliana Walworth, m. Dr. David Long..

John Periander Walworth, m. Sarah Wrenn.

Horace Walworth, b. 1796; died in Louisiana, aged 67.

Hannah Walworth, b. 1812; m. Benj. Strickland

The Walworth burial lot is in Woodland Cemetery.

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COZAD

To be a Cleveland McIlrath is not always to be also a Cozad, but if one is a Cozad, in this part of the country, he surely is a McIlrath as well. For the grandmother or great-grandmother of them all was Jane McIlrath.

The Cozad family are descended from Jacques Cossart, a FrenchHuguenot, who came to New York City from Holland in 1662. He was accompanied by his wife, Lydia Williams Cossart, and two children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, married a Goelet. There were two more children born to the couple in this country. The youngest of these was Anthony Cossart, and his son Jacob removed from Brooklyn, where he had been living some years, to Mendham, New Jersey, where he died. The family name, by this time, began to be pronounced and later written "Cozad."

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Samuel, fourth in descent from the American ancestor, married Anna Clark, and had a family of five daughters and two sons. Three of these children came west in 1806 and were Cleveland pioneers. They were

Samuel Cozad, Jr., b. 1756; m. Jane McIlrath in 1785..

Abigail Cozad, b. 1761; m. Andrew McIlrath.

Elisabeth Cozad, b. 1763; m. Thomas McIlrath

Jane, Andrew, and Thomas McIlrath were the children of Samuel and Jane Aikman McIlrath, who also came to Cleveland about the same time.

Samuel Cozad, Jr., and wife settled on the south side of Euclid Ave. Their log-cabin stood on the grounds of the present Adelbert College. They bought land on that side of the street from Doan's Corners out to Lake View Cemetery. And their sons purchased considerable property on the north side of the street, including what is now Wade Park.

The children of Samuel and Jane Cozad

Elias Cozad, b. 1790; m., in 1813 Hannah Palmer.

Anne Cozad, b. 1792; m., in 1809, John Carlton

Samuel Cozad, b. 1794; m., in 1816, Mary Condit

Sarah Cozad, b. 1799; m., in 1817, William Dudley Mather ; 2^nd, Jonathan Hale.

Andrew Cozad, b. 1801; m. Sally Simmons, who was born 1805, and died 1884.

Nathaniel Cozad, b. 1803; m. Ann Collier

Jacob Cozad, b. 1786; m. Rosanna Brownlee

Elias Cozad's farm was what is Lake View Cemetery, and his log-house stood near the entrance to the cemetery. An old well once marked the spot, but probably has long since been filled in. In late life he lived on the southwest corner of Euclid and E. 107th Street, in a comfortable brick residence, where he died the last of his generation.

Mrs. Elias Cozad was Hannah Palmer, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Sarah Fardyce Palmer of Annapolis, Maryland. She had a large family of children, most of whom were born into pioneer life, and the mother experienced all the hardship, deprivation and loneliness entailed upon the women of that very early day in Ohio.

The children of Elias and Hannah Palmer Cozad:

Dr. Amos Cozad, moved to Indiana.

James Cozad, m. Isabell Bonnall..

Jesse Cozad, m. Sophie Strong.

Solomon Cozad, died a bachelor.

Hannah Cozad, m. Elias Cozad.

Jerusha Cozad, m. James Johnson. of Collamer.

Lydia Cozad, m. Leonard Marcelot of Euclid

Julia Cozad, m. Augustus Andrews. Aurelia Cozad, m. Wells Beckwith. Ethan Allen, Cynthia, and Amelia Cozad, unmarried

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The family lived later at the north-west corner of Euclid Avenue and Fairmount Street.

Anne Cozad married in 1809 John Carlton of Northfield, Summit Co. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, was wounded, and died September, 1813. They had one child

Harriet Carlton, b. March 18, 1811; m. William Hale of Bath, Summit Co.

Mr. Hale was the son of Jonathan Hale, who married for his second wife Harriet Carlton's aunt, Mrs. Sarah Cozad Mather. William Hale had also been married before. William and Harriet Carlton Hale had five children.

Sarah Cozad married in 1817 William Dudley Mather of Northfield, O. If a name signifies aught, Mr. Mather must have been of the finest New England stock. He died leaving two children:

Jane Mather, b. 1821; m. Andrew Hale, brother of William Hale of Bath, O.

Betsey Mather, b. 1823; m. Sandford Rogers of Bath, O.

Andrew Cozad married Sally Simmons of Fredonia, N. Y. She was born in 1805, and died in 1884.

They had a large family of children. The first three died young. Those who reached maturity were

Justus L. Cozad, m. Ortensia Whitman..

Andrew Dudley Cozad, m. Lucy Crosby.

Henry Irving Cozad, m. Emma Hine.

Sarah L. Cozad, m. Daniel Duty

Marcus E. Cozad, m. Margaret Waggoner

Nathaniel Cozad, b. 1803, married Anne Collier, and settled on the old homestead of his father, the site of which is part of Adelbert College grounds. His children

Martha Cozad, b. 1825; m. Horatio Ford.

Minerva Cozad, b. 1831.

Samuel Cozad 3rd, who married Mary Condit of the pioneer Condit family, settled on Euclid Avenue opposite his father, at Doan's Corners. His log-cabin was situated on a spot now the center of the pond in Wade Park. Afterward, he built a frame-house directly opposite Hatch Library. His farm consisted of 100 acres of woods, undergrowth and marsh. The nearest neighbors were Job Doan, keeping the Doan Tavern, north-west corner of Euclid Avenue and E. 107th Street, and the Hendershotts, living back of the college grounds. E. 107th Street was then Newburgh Road.

Mr. Newell S. Cozad, son of Samuel Cozad 3rd, is yet living and relates many exceedingly interesting stories of his boyhood. He inherited, or succeeded his father as owner of the Wade Park property. From the first he recognized and appreciated the unusual natural beauty of the

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spot, its towering trees, the loveliness of the brook flowing through the place, and the charm of the ever-changing ravine, its steep banks covered with flowering bushes and wild flowers. He gave much time and a great deal of money in improving the property. He met with serious business reverses, which compelled him to part with it at a great financial loss, and the late J. H. Wade became the owner of it. Mr. Cozad states that along Doan Creek for miles in both directions were bear-dens.

"Farmers slept each night with muskets by their bedsides, ready for nocturnal attacks upon their pig-pens. These were not infrequent, and many a night the terrified squeals of a young porker sounded the alarm to all the farmers of the neighborhood, bringing them to its rescue.

"We were awakened one night by a commotion in the pig-pen," he relates, "and hastened out with loaded muskets to determine the cause. The pen was constructed of Iogs placed one above another, with a space of six inches between them. Upon the convenient ladder thus afforded, we discovered a large bear with a squealing pig held in his strong embrace, ascending step by step to the top of the high enclosure. It took but one shot to settle him for all, and bear-meat was a drug on the market around Doan's Corners next day."

Samuel Cozad 3rd was a pioneer in the temperance movement, and actively interested in the slavery question. With Cyrus Ford, a pioneer neighbor, he assisted slaves into Canada.

The children of Samuel and Mary Condit Cozad:

Hetty Ann Cozad, b. 1817; m. Joseph Bennett of Staten Island, N. Y.

Silas H. Cozad, b. 1819; unmarried..

Mary Cozad, b. 1821; m. Joel B. Hawkins ; d. 1872.

William Mather Cozad, b. 1823; m.Sarah Bennett. He died 1872.

Newell Samuel Cozad, b. 1831; m.Sarah J. Goe

Martha Jane Cozad, b. 1834; unmarried.

Newell S. Cozad, who as a lad experienced much of pioneer life, is still a prominent resident of the East End.

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By the death of John Walworth in .1812, his widow and children were left in a frontier town in the midst of a national war that threatened danger to all the settlements of northern Ohio.

The oldest child of the family was Ashbel, 22 years of age, the youngest a babe. Upon the former fell all the cares and responsibilities of his father's business and of the bereaved household. His young shoulders were worthy of the mantle. He was steady, discreet, wise for his years,

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honest, kind-hearted, and therefore popular with his neighbors of the little hamlet. He safely tided over the family crisis, and in 1820 started a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Mary Ann Dunlap of Schenectady, N. Y. Her sister became Mrs. Elisha Taylor and another one Mrs. William Beattie. They were of a fine Schenectady family.

Mr. Walworth filled the highest offices of trust, except those of the bar, that the government could bestow upon a citizen of Cleveland in those days. He was collector of port 17 successive years, and postmaster when for a time the mail was yet so far from heavy that he is said to have carried it around in his pocket and handed it over to the rightful owners as he casually met them. In later years the mail was yet so far from heavy that occasionally he closed the office while he went fishing.

His first married home was on Superior Street, where the American House now stands. Adjoining it was his office. He removed his family to the Walworth farm of 350 acres, having erected upon it a substantial house. This stood upon the site of the present Friendly Inn, headquarters of the W. C. T. U. organization, and in the immediate neighborhood of the old market house and the hay market. The Walworth homestead had a beautiful location, overlooking the river valley. Here for long years was dispensed a generous hospitality to rich and poor alike : for both Mr. and Mrs. Walworth held old-fashioned ideas regarding their duties toward kinsmen and neighbors, and their home was often a scene of social entertainment, or, for weeks at a time, a shelter for the unfortunate. The parents joined the Old Stone Church in their early married life, and their children in their maturity followed their example. Indeed, the whole Walworth family and all its connections from Mrs. John Walworth, Sr., followed by the Longs, Taylors, and Severances, have been the stronghold of Presbyterianism.

Ashbel Walworth removed to Euclid Avenue, west of Erie Street, and the Walworth farm was cut into building lots. There was a time when that locality was considered a most desirable residence district. But the foreign immigration into the city, and the increase of factories rapidly changed conditions, and the neighborhood once devoted to pretty residences occupied by the best element of the city, degenerated into saloons, brothels, and abodes of the wretched poor.

Ashbel Walworth died suddenly in 1844, aged 54. Mrs. Walworth survived him many years, dying at an advanced age.

The children of Ashbel and Mary Dunlap Walworth:

John Walworth, b. 1821; m. Mary Race, sister of Mrs. Josiah Harris

Anne Walworth, unmarried, died on Euclid Avenue, the last of her family.

Sarah Walworth, unmarried.

William Walworth.

Mary Walworth, m. Samuel Bradbury

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Abram L. Norris married Abigail McIlrath in New Jersey, and with his wife and three children came to East Cleveland in this year.

Keziah Norris, m. Myndret Wemple.

Phebe Norris, m. Cornelius Thorp..

Amanda Norris, b. 1808; m. Gavin Smellie..

Susan Norris, b. 1813.

Annie Norris, b. 1816; m. Albert Bennet Townsend

Caroline Norris, b. 1826; m. John Worley

Abraham Norris died in 1838, aged 60. Abigail Norris died in 1844, aged 58. The Norris lot is in East Cleveland Cemetery.

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MILES

In the various histories of Cleveland and its vicinity no mention is made of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miles, Sr., although the county records show that they were residents in 1806, owned many acres of land in Newburgh, and as the parents of the "Miles Brothers" were important people.

The father of Charles Miles, Sr., died young, leaving a widow and several children ; consequently Charles began a struggle for his own existence and that of others when but a lad. He seems to have possessed sagacity, energy and judgment in business affairs as he accumulated property in Vermont, where he lived for some years before coming to Ohio.

Mrs. Charles Miles, Sr., was the daughter of Deacon Stephen Thompson and wife Mary Walters Thompson of Goshen, Conn. Mrs. Sanger, a granddaughter, who, in 1901, was 89 years of age, remembers Mrs. Miles as a tall, graceful woman, with a frank, kindly face, and recalls hearing older members of the family frequently speak of her quick bravery and endless courage. Hardship, danger, and great sorrow were endured silently and uncomplainingly. These characteristics may have been inherited from her remarkable ancestress, Mary Honeywood, whose fortitude and loyalty to her friend, John Bradford, enabled her to stand by his side when he was burned at the stake, a martyr to his religious opinions.

During the first year of his marriage Mr. Mills enlisted in the militia and marched off for service in the Revolutionary War; but he became very ill and was ordered home, a soldier being detailed to accompany him, as he was unable to travel alone. In the summer of 1781 he removed with his young wife and child to Tinmouth, Vt., where he contracted for extensive tracts of land upon which, within a few years, he made his last payment.

A portion of this land was deeded by him to his sons and all of it eventually sold when the family left Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Miles had a large family of children, six sons and two daughters, all of whom, except the oldest one, were born in Tinmouth, Vt. The parents were

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resolute in a determination to secure proper education for them, and several of their sons were sent to Middleburg College.

In 1801 a number of families removed from Goshen, Conn., to settle Hudson, 0. Among them were Mrs. Miles' parents and several of her brothers and sisters. They wrote glowing accounts of the new country, urging Mr. Miles and his family to join them. The longing to see her own people grew so strong that finally Mrs. Miles urged her son Erastus to go and see for himself just what was the outlook and the feasibility of the removal of the family to the much vaunted Western hamlet.

It resulted in the purchase of 160 acres of land in Hudson in 1805 by Mr. Miles, Sr., and the following year he and his oldest son Theodore purchased a tract in Newburgh, now a part of Cleveland, adjoining the home of Ebenezer Pease, and not far from property belonging to Erastus Miles, the second son of the family.

Mr. Charles Miles, Sr., was 54 years old when he came to Cleveland. He lived but seven years in his new home, dying at the age of 61. He bequeathed to his widow one-third of his estate and the home with 28 acres of land ; to his sons large tracts of land in Newburgh, Cleveland and Hudson, and to his daughters a fair share of the estate.

During their residence here, Mrs. Miles made frequent visits among her relatives in Hudson, O., more especially her parents, who lived to a good old age. These journeys were made on horseback, and she was often accompanied by her sister Esther Thompson, Mrs. George Pease, mother of Mrs. Irad Kelly.

For many years Mrs. Miles lived, a widow in her own home, but after the marriage of Susannah, her youngest child, who then left Cleveland, Mrs. Miles lived with her son Samuel, whose home was close by. Subsequently she removed to the residence of Theodore, where she remained until her death in 1833, aged 73 years.

The sons in this family were prominent in the early history of Cleveland and Newburgh, especially the older ones. They owned the frame structure built before the War of 1812 by Murray brothers on Superior Street, adjoining the Mowrey Tavern, and which stood for many years. Theodore was a justice and frequently officiated at early marriages in this county.

Miles Avenue, one of the longest and most important streets of Southeast Cleveland, was named for this family.

Erastus and Daniel Miles died in 1827, a year of great mortality in this locality, the former 44 years of age, and the latter about 36 years. They are buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery, having been removed from an earlier one. The graves of many of the Miles family, marked by weather-worn head-stones, are near the main entrance of the cemetery.

The children of Charles and Ruth Thompson Miles:

Theodore Miles, b. 1781; m. 1^st, Lydia Clark; Hawley or Holly..

Erastus Miles, b. 1783; m. Laura Carter.

Charles Miles, m. Elisabeth Train; 2nd, Fanny Buel 2nd, Aurelia Train; died 1818.

Samuel Miles, m. Salina Hamilton

Thompson Miles, m. Myra Reddington ; 2nd, Mary Green ; died 1823, aged 25 years.

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Daniel Miles, died unmarried in 1827.

Polly (Mary) Miles, m. Isaac J.

Lacy. She died when not quite 16 years old.

Susannah Miles, m. Dr. Nathan H. Manter.

Theodore Miles, like his brother Erastus, led a prominent life in the community. His home was in Newburgh, but he was as well known in the village of Cleveland as at the former place. He held public and commercial offices of trust, and was a successful.. business man. Miles Park was given to the city before 1850 by Theodore Miles, but not until 1877 was it given his name. It is 165 feet wide. A branch of the Public Library stands upon it.

When Theodore Miles married secondly, Fanny B. Holly, he was given the first marriage license issued in Cuyahoga County. They were married on Monday, May 7, 1810, by Amos Spafford, the pioneer justice of the peace.

The children of Theodore and Lydia Clark Miles:

Eben Miles, m. Eunice Bates, daugh- Adeliza Miles, died at middle age;

ter of Noble Bates. unmarried..

The children of Theodore and Fanny Holly Miles:

Anson Miles, m. Abby Phipps.

Mary Ann Miles, m. Alonzo Rathbun.

Ann Eliza Miles, m. Spafford Miles, a cousin..

Lucy Miles, m. Morris Jackson. She died young.

Holly Miles, m. Sophrona Simmons.

Livana Miles, unmarried. She lived all her days in the old homestead on Miles Avenue, and died there at an advanced age

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Irene Burke, a daughter of Sylvanus and Ascha Burke, lived a life of many vicissitudes.

In 1807, when but a mere girl, she became the second wife of Augustus Gilbert of Newburgh. The death of his first wife bereaved a household of eight children, the oldest but 16 years of age, the youngest a new-born babe.

Judge Gilbert died six years later, leaving very little property. Two of his daughters married soon after this, and probably assumed the charge of the 13-year-old brother and the youngest sisters.

Irene Burk Gilbert had to face the future with no income and with a little daughter, Louise, three years old. Three months after her hus-

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band's death, another child was born, upon whom she bestowed her own name.

She struggled bravely to keep a roof over herself and babes, but often was obliged to leave the little ones in the care of her relatives while she worked; for in those early pioneer days there was little a woman could do for remuneration, and remain, meanwhile, in the shelter of her own home.

Finally, she gave up the futile attempt, and in December, 1816, married again. Her husband was Peter Robinson, a widower with seven children, most of them well-grown up, but as yet unmarried and living at home with their father.

To this Gilbert-Robinson household was added within the next 12 years seven more children, only one of whom lived beyond infancy, and that one, a dear little boy named Augustus, much beloved by his half-sisters, Louise and Irene Gilbert, died when he was three years old.

The sorrow of a mother seven times bereaved cannot be imagined save by one who has undergone a measure, at least, of such an experience.

Mr. Robinson died, and after another interval of loneliness and physical effort, in 1832, she again married, Ephraim Hubbell, who had six children all of age and living in their own homes. Mr. Hubbell lived but a year or two afterward, and, within four years of her third marriage, Irene passed away from this checkered life, at the age of 56.

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David Bunnell and Anna McIlrath, daughter of Thomas and Abigail Cozad McIlrath, were married in Morriss County, New Jersey, and came to East Cleveland with their children in 1807. A certified list of the latter is not at hand, but the following list of family names and marriages has been furnished

Isabell Bunnell, m. James Palmer. Removed to Michigan.

Electa Bunnell, m. Mathias Rush.

Angelina Bunnell.. Johann Bunnell, m. Joseph Pimlot. Removed to Medina, O.

Mary Bunnell, m. ------- Gillette.Removed to Oberlin, O.

Aaron Bunnell, m. Jane Johnston

Nelson Bunnell, m. Elvira Johnston

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BALDWIN

Samuel Smith Baldwin, son of Samuel and Hannah Northrup Baldwin of Ridgefield, Conn., came to Newburgh about 1808 and settled on a farm on Aetna Street.

In 1810 he was elected sheriff of Cuyahoga Co., the first citizen to fill that office. He officiated in this capacity when the Indian was executed on the Public Square for murder in 1812. He was also elected county surveyor, and for several years following was engaged in defining boundaries of townships, farms, and homestead lots, a busy, valuable man in this community. He died comparatively young, in 1822, and had he lived longer- undoubtedly would have- had much to do with the history of Cleveland in the years closely following his death.

Mrs. Samuel Smith Baldwin was Sarah Camp, only child of the Rev. Samuel Camp of Ridgefield, Conn. She brought into the wilderness of Newburgh a beautiful and unusual wardrobe for that day, indicating in all its appointments the possession of money and good taste. It also most pathetically showed that the delicately nurtured wife and daughter had no idea when she left her New England home to come west what conditions she was facing.

The oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Baldwin was born in 1798, and they had been married probably about 11 years when they removed to Newburgh. They had eight children born to them. The youngest were twins, and Mrs. Baldwin died shortly after their birth, aged 36 years.

On the day that the Battle of Lake Erie was fought, a man on horseback came tearing up to the Baldwin home, crying, "Flee for your lives ! The British and Indians are upon us!"

Mr. Baldwin was away from home, and his wife hastily hitched up a horse to a wagon, piled a feather-bed, wearing-apparel and the children into it, and whipped the horse at headlong speed towards Aurora, where Mr. Baldwin's parents and brothers lived. The trembling household of mother and young children had not gone far, however, before they were overtaken by a messenger who informed them that the alarm was false, and the supposed enemy approaching Cleveland in boats were United States soldiers, and there was no danger to be feared.

Mrs. Sarah Camp Baldwin gave her mother-in-law the first rosebush grown in Aurora, O. Mrs. Baldwin, Sr., when on a visit to her son in Newburgh, was given a slip from one brought shortly before from Connecticut. The slip grew and became the finest of double roses and very fragrant. Mrs. Sarah Baldwin died in 1818, aged 36 years.

In July, 1819, Mr. Baldwin married 2nd, Miss Rhoda Boughton of Grafton, Lorain Co., whom he met while on one of his surveying expeditions.

She was the daughter of Nathan Boughton of West Stockbridge, Mass. She and her twin-brother were born while their father, Nathan Boughton, was fighting at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and therefore was about 43 years of age when she married Mr. Baldwin. She had two sisters, and probably two brothers. Gaius Boughton, pioneer of Cleveland, may have been one of the latter. Her father died at the Baldwin homestead in 1820.

Rhoda Boughton proved to be all that Mr. Baldwin had hoped for or believed when he entrusted his motherless children to her care. He died

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