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CABLE
Eliezar and Minerva Cable came to Newburgh from Milford, Conn., about 1832, and started the first nursery in town.
Mrs. Cable was extremely neat and a great worker. She lived to be ninety years old, loved and respected by all who knew her.
She had one daughter, Elvira Cable, who married Joseph Cady. After her mother's death Mrs. Cady removed to Topeka, Kansas.
1832
PANKHURST
A young man 20 years of age was the Cleveland pioneer of this family. He was born in Rye, England, and in 1822 came to Utica, N. Y., presumably with his parents. His mother was a Forster, a name of note in England. About 1832, John Pankhurst and his brother William came to Cleveland, as so many other Utica residents were doing in and after that year. The brothers were skilled carpenters and iron-workers. They expected to find the small village flourishing, but it failed to meet their expectations, and William returned to his eastern home.
But John Pankhurst remained here, whereby our city gained much, in the family he gave to it mostly of the manly, industrious type, capable of earning an honest living, and one of them, at least, of acquiring great wealth.
John Pankhurst's wife, whom he married here, was Sarah Wellsted, a young English girl of his own age, and also a former resident of Utica. The records of her ancestry have been preserved for several generations. Her parents were William and Mary Wellsted. In 1852 the young couple were living on Bolivar street, happy, prosperous, surrounded by a group of bright children, the oldest 18 years, the youngest a little lad of seven. One evening, in the summer of that year, Mr. Pankhurst remarked at the supper-table that he was not feeling very well. The next morning dawned upon his lifeless form, one more victim of the cholera scourge that swept over the city that year, the fourth and last visitation beginning in 1832.
Mrs. Pankhurst was thus suddenly bereft of the strong arm and active brain that hitherto had shielded her from all financial cares, and the children were deprived of a father whose advice and protection were yet sorely needed. But the mother seems to have been a woman of character, and equal to the emergency.
In 1860, she was living at No. 90 Muirson street. Her second son John, evidently married, resided in a house adjoining. He was an ironworker. Thomas, the eldest son, was a boiler-maker and living in that year in a home of his own on St. Clair street.
John Pankhurst's trade proved to be a fortunate one. Eventually he became the head and chief owner of the Globe Iron Works of this city, and died in 1898 a very wealthy man, one universally admired and re-
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spected. His only daughter married a nobleman of high title, and resides in Athens, Greece.
Mrs. Sarah Pankhurst died in a pretty home on Arlington street in 1894. Her youngest daughter, a fine-looking woman of about 70 years, is the only remaining member of the family yet living. The parents were interred in Erie street cemetery, but may have been removed to Lake View.
The children of John and Sarah Wellsted Pankhurst:
William J. Pankhurst, b. 1833; m. Mary Brady.
John Forster Pankhurst, b. 1838; m. Maria Coates.
Mary A. Pankhurst, b. 1840; m. Ferdinand Ruple.
Sarah E. Pankhurst, b. 1842; m Ferdinand Ruple ; 2nd, James Ritchie
Thomas J. Pankhurst, b. 1845; m. Elisabeth Welhoff
Mrs. Elisabeth Pankhurst is a widow living with her son H. F. Pankhurst on 109th street, a sweet-faced woman of refined, cordial manners.
1832
HECKER-BECKER
Henry Hecker and his wife Christina Wilhelm Hecker were middle aged, and with a family of four, grown children when they immigrated from near the river Rhine, Germany, to this country.
Their eldest daughter was married and did not accompany them. The eldest son of the family was a cripple, the younger one was 20 years of age; and fear that he might be forced into the German army made his mother's working hours miserable, and her nights sleepless. So the parents severed the ties of almost a life-time, sold their possessions, and came across the sea.
The Heckers settled on a farm belonging to Philip B. and Edward Andrews, an hundred-acre tract lying out Superior street near E. 79th street. (Those thoroughfares were not then laid out.)
The family lived in a log-house that had been occupied by the parents of the Andrews brothers. The site is on the south side of Superior street near its junction with E. 79th.
Mrs. Hecker died there and was buried in Doan street cemetery, corner of Euclid. Long afterward, when that burial-site was demolished to make way for commerce, she was reinterred in Lake View.
The children of Henry and Christina Hecker:
Barbara Hecker, m. Jacob Becker.
Elisabeth Hecker, m. Peter Miller.
John Hecker, m. Julia _____
Peter Hecker, m. Caroline Cross.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Becker followed their parents to this country after the latter were well established in their new home. They had a large family of children, the older ones of whom were born in Germany.
The Beckers lived in the same locality in Cleveland that their parents had chosen, near the junction of Superior and E. 79th. It was then covered with big forest-trees. Fifty years later these families gave names to two East End streets, Hecker and Becker avenues.
Children of Jacob and Barbara Becker:
Elisabeth Becker, m. Jacob Hecker, a cousin..
Michael Becker, m. Caroline Smith..
Ellen Becker, m. Wm. Beckenback..
Barbara Becker, m. David Wehlmuth.
Catherine Becker, m. Catherine Bau-bilt
Mary Becker, m. George Abel
Julia Becker, m. Coonrad Rolph
The fourth and fifth surnames of above marriages may not be correct, or the writer had to spell them by sound, not being familiar with their nomenclature.
Many of the descendants of the above families reside in the vicinity of the pioneer home. Among them is William Abel, whose large furniture store and undertaking establishment is located at 7017 Superior street.
1833
Died. Luther Willes, aged 41 years.
Josiah Pomeroy, aged 33 years. (Erie st. cemetery.)
Fugitives. Edward and Jonathan Jackson of Virginia advertise in Herald for runaway slaves Martin and Sam. $500 reward. Martin is described as a very handsome light mulatto.
Cardy Parker "wishes to sell 100 acres of land within three miles of court-house on the great road down the lake (Euclid ave.) 30 acres improved, frame-house and barn."
Black Hawk, the Indian Chief who had "been defeated in an Indian war, carried on in the West, while a prisoner and being taken through Cleveland, requested the officers in charge to allow him to visit the grave of his mother. He went in a skiff to the present site of River st. cemetery and remained an hour in silent meditation.
Ague still causing much suffering in town and around and about it. New England people fumigating and disinfecting all letters received from Ohio before reading them.
At this date, and many succeeding ones, people who reached the age of 45 or 50 were considered old folks.
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BALDWIN
Authorities differ regarding the birthplace of Norman C. Baldwin, pioneer produce merchant of Cleveland. One biographer states that it was Goshen, Conn., and another that it was Litchfield, but all agree that, wherever it was, he was born in 1802. He was the son of Stephen and Susannah Adams Baldwin. His father died of tuberculosis, leaving a widow and a large family, the younger members of which were of very tender age. About 1816 Mrs. Baldwin came to Ohio with her family and settled in Summit county.
Within a short time following that event, Norman but yet a lad in age and appearance, opened a small country store in Hudson, Ohio. Within two years he had made such a success of the venture. as to need the services and savings of two of his brothers, whom he took into partnership. His good judgment and executive ability were unprecedented, considering his youth and lack of experience. He early manifested a love of spirited horses, and was a skillful driver. A feat he performed in that line caused quite a local sensation, and made him the hero of the hour. He drove from Hudson to Cleveland in 24 hours, something that had never previously been accomplished.
In 1830 he removed to Cleveland, and became a member of the firm, Giddings, Baldwin and Co. It did a large produce business, connected mostly with the lake and the Ohio canal. It also owned and operated a line of passenger and lake steamers. Mr. Baldwin became the first president of the Bank of Cleveland, organized in 1834 and was at the head of the Canal Bank in the financial crash of 1837. The panic swept him off his feet, and when affairs were finally readjusted, he retired from mercantile life and for some years following was in the real-estate business.
A short time previous to Mr. Baldwin's removal to the city, he married Miss Mary H. Palmer, daughter of Robert Palmer of Goshen, Conn. She died in 1867. The family residence was on Euclid ave., between Perry and Sterling, now E. 22nd and E. 30th. It was one of the finest homes on the avenue.
Children of Norman C. and Mary Baldwin:
Eliza G. Baldwin, b. 1830; m. Henry. B. Perkins, son of Gen. Simeon Perkins of Warren, Ohio.
Mary V. Baldwin, b. 1832; m. John T. Newton, a Toledo lawyer.
Capt. Norman A. Baldwin, b. 1835; m. Miss Ann Webster. He was a.soldier in the Civil war.
Charlotte G. Baldwin, b. 1839; died 1866.
Elisabeth Baldwin, b. 1844
Henry Parmalee Baldwin, b. 1845; died 1865.
N. C. Baldwin, Jr., b. 1848; died 1878; member of the firm of Baldwin and Collins, merchant millers of Cleveland
Ellen Douglas Baldwin, b. 1851.
Norman C. Baldwin, Sr., died in 1887, aged 85 years. 405
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BRIGGS
James Alfred Briggs was a young lawyer aged 22 from Claremont, N. Y., who tried his fortune in the village of Cleveland and-won out. He was the son of Rufus and Nancy Hayes Briggs of Cheshire, Mass., who removed to New York State before his birth.
In 1834, Van Rensselaer Humphrey of Hudson, O., entered into a law partnership with Mr. Briggs. Humphrey was much the older, and more experienced. He is described as broad-shouldered, ruffle-shirted, and as "Judge" Humphrey "ponderous and imposing." The office of the firm was over C. L. Camp's store on Superior street.
Mr. Briggs lived in the city 24 years. He was a valuable citizen, and was usually found on the right side of any public movement. He was an enthusiastic temperance worker. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Charles Bradburn in his successful efforts to establish the Cleveland high school system. He was the first attorney of the C. C. & I. railroad.
Mr. Briggs married Margaret Bayard, dau. of George A. Bayard. The ceremony took place in Pittsburgh in 1842. She died and he married 2nd Catherine Van Vechten. Both wives were of old, New York State families.
James A. Briggs died in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had removed in 1857.
1833
BARNES
William Barnes and his wife Elizabeth Giles Barnes came to Cleveland from England about 1833.
Mr. Barnes was a carpenter and worked in and about the city many years. He died of cholera in 1849 at the early age of 37 years.
The home of the Barnes family was a log-house on Lake street between Bond and Erie, now East 6th and 9th. There were four children, but only one has been secured.
William M. Barnes, m. Henrietta Fell.
1833
BRECK
In the early summer of 1837 a young man from Rochester, N. Y., bound for Huron, O., with a stock of dry-goods, and accompanied by his sister, landed from a steamer near the mouth of the Cuyahoga river.
Before reaching Cleveland, the weather became very stormy, and as he intended resuming the journey by water, and his sister had been seasick on the trip from Buffalo, he concluded to leave her here in care of
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some good women for a couple of weeks, or until convenient to come back for her.
Just how he came in touch with the right person has not been handed down, but she was found, and that woman's loving kindness and tender sympathy with the homesick girl who had never before spent a night away from her mother was gratefully appreciated and never forgotten.
Many years afterward, the maiden now a middle-aged woman and with grown children of her own, asked her daughter to accompany her to the Erie street cemetery, and to help her to find the grave of the dear woman who had once befriended her.
It was located near the Erie street entrance and on the right side of the main drive. An old-fashioned marble headstone marked the spot. It read
"ANGELINE
wife of Rev. Joseph H. Breck. Died May 24, 1838."
Alice Angeline Breck was the daughter of Ralph Snow, a merchant and druggist of Northampton, Mass. She married the Rev. Joseph Hunt Breck in 1830, and accompanied him back to the Western Reserve where he had been living the past seven years in Brecksville as a missionary. He did not return there after his marriage, but took his bride to a home on Superior street, No. 103, and just east of Webb C. Ball's former jewelry store. J. F. Ryder occupied the spot many years with his photograph gallery and store.
Mrs. Breck, at the time, had two brothers living in Brooklyn, N. Y., Lorenzo and George Snow, and the son of one of these men became a well known civil engineer of New York City. Mrs. Breck was cordially welcomed by the best element of the little village, not only through respect for her husband's calling, but because of her own fine personality, and she soon won the intimate friendship of Mrs. Dr. Long and other women most admired and respected in the community. Unfortunately, her life in Cleveland was brief. She died at the birth of her third child.
Rev. Joseph Hunt Breck was the son of Joseph Hunt Breck, Sr., and Abigail-Kingsley-Breck, and it was through his grandmother Rachel Hunt that father and son acquired their middle name.
The first New England ancestor of the family, Edward Breck, emigrated to this country with Richard Mather, and became a freeman of Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, but for some generations that branch of the family had been living in Northampton, where Rev. Joseph H. Breck was born. He was educated at Yale, and afterward graduated from a theological seminary. Perhaps this long course of study was responsible for his delicate health which compelled him to partially relinquish the ministry, and while living in Cleveland, he made use of his thorough classical education in fitting young men for college.
The fathers of several business men of the city were thus prepared by him for a collegiate life.
Mrs. Harriet Brooks Breck, the widow of his son, possesses a large photograph of him taken in his old age, and it is most striking in its expression of gentleness and goodness, and one can easily create from
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it an image of an old-fashioned gentleman and scholar. He lived with his only son, Hon. Joseph Breck, or occupied the same house for twenty-two years, and all that time he was unfailing in his kindness and consideration towards his son's wife. She speaks of him in terms of tenderest gratitude and respect.
Rev. Joseph and Angeline Breck had two children that reached maturity:
Hon. Joseph Breck, born 1831; married Harriet Brooks.
Angeline Snow Breck, born May 21, 1838; married C. B. Denio, who removed to Galen, Ill., and later to Vallejo, Cal.
Five years after the death of his wife, the Rev. Joseph H. Breck moved to a farm on the Brecksville road, and while his motherless children were yet young he met Miss Diantha Chamberlain, a maiden lady who was a school-teacher in Twinsburg, and they were married. She outlived Mr. Breck nine years, and died at an advanced age at the residence of his son with whom she had made her home for thirty-one years. She left no children.
Hon. Joseph Breck lived a long life in or near Cleveland, and died in 1907, honored and respected. He married the daughter of Hezkiah Brooks, a pioneer of Carlisle, Lorain Co. She was a pupil of Miss Linda Guilford, and taught school in Cleveland before her marriage. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier and on the staff of Gen. Washington.
The children of Hon. Joseph and Harriet Breck:
George Dwight Breck, m. Minnie Schultz..
Theodore Brooks Breck, m. Martha Spencer.
William Merriman Breck, unmarried
Mary Louise Breck, m. George Begg. Resident of Detroit.
After the death of Mrs. Angeline Snow Breck, the aged and widowed mother of Rev. Joseph Breck came on to Cleveland from Northampton to look after his home and children. Besides this son she had a daughter Rachel married to Rev. George Hooker, an eminent divine of Massachusetts, and another daughter Fanny married to a Mr. Eastman.
In many ways this mother was a remarkable woman. She possessed much musical talent, and as Abigail Kingsley, and as a very young girl she led the choir of a Northampton church.
She died in 1847, aged 79 years.
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NOTT
Sergeant John Nott, of Weathersfield, Conn., 1681, was the American ancestor of the pioneer family of that name who came to this city in 1833. The Notts intermarried with the Dimmock family of Connecticut, and one son in every following generation had "D" for a middle initial. The Notts possess a family Bible over two hundred years old. It is bound in calfskin as thick as sole-leather.
William D. Nott was twenty-three years old when, in 1811, he married Laura Belden of Chatham, Conn. ; and he was about forty-five years old and had a family of children when he removed to Cleveland. The Notts were very desirable citizens. Their useful occupation of manufacturing pumps, vessel-spars, etc., was. a. lucrative one for themselves and most valuable to the community in which they had come to live. Their shop was on Merwin street and their residence at 35 Water street.
William Nott died in 1858 and, with his wife Laura Belden Nott, and several of his children, is buried in Erie street cemetery. Mrs. Nott died several years before her husband. She was a sister of Capt. Clifford Belden and an aunt of William Hart, the pioneer furniture-dealer.
Children of William D. Nott and Laura Belden Nott::
Mary E. Nott, b. 1812; m. Nathaniel Taylor, of Willoughby, O.
William Dimmock Nott, b. 1814; m. Emily Hurd; 2nd, Emily Doane. He was a merchant and lived on Euclid Ave. on the site of Halle Brothers' store. He was instantly killed in 1859 by falling down the cellar-stairs of his home..
Henry Nott, b. 1817; m. Mary Farr of Euclid, O. In 1856 he was living at 46 Perry street.
Horace Nott, b. 1817; twin-brother of above ; was in business with him continuously. He lived at 50 Wood street; m. Harriet L. Smith of Rockhill, Conn.
Laura Nott, b. 1819; m. Mr. Earl of Covington, Ky. They conducted a seminary there
Abram Luther Nott, b. 1822; m. Elisabeth Slater.
Chauncy Clifford Nott, b. 1824; m Mary Ann Ross, daughter of Joshua Ross, Jr. They had one child, George C. Nott, a resident of the city.
The wife of Horace Nott was one of three sisters, Sherrill, Harriet, and Ada Smith, noted for their intelligence and beauty. They were the daughters of John and Melinda Farr Smith, of Jefferson County, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Nott had three children:
Belle Hastings Nott, b. 1848; m.
Benjamin L. Wareing; 2nd, James Warham Whitney. Lives in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Franklin D. Nott, m. Elisabeth Cur-tis
Jennie Sherrill Nott, m. John Knox Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y.
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KENDALL
An interesting and charming family were the Kendalls, three generations of whom lived in Cleveland, covering a period of half a century.
The Kendall men, father, son, and grandson, were unusually finelooking, and of cultured, dignified bearing. They were in the dry-goods business, and their store was first on the north side of Superior street below Seneca, now West 3rd, then removed above Seneca on the same side, and finally into the new Case Block, the site of the present postoffice.
The pioneer of any new movement risks much, seldom benefits by it, and often comes to grief. The experiment of the Kendalls in locating their business above the Public Square proved a- :failure. It was- many years later before local trade established a footing on Euclid ave. and East Superior street, and by that time the once popular store of Kendall & Son was unknown to the many, and recalled only to the few.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., came to Cleveland in September, 1833, in middle life, 49 years of age. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah Smith Kendall, and was born in Ashford, Conn. In 1810 he married, and in the same year opened a general merchandise store in Greenfield, Mass., which proved very successful. After a 20 years' residence in that town, he sold out and conducted a banking business for three years in Homer, N. Y. Attracted by the glowing accounts of Cleveland's beautiful location and rapid growth, Mr. Kendall removed with his family to this town, and, returning to the occupation with which he was most familiar, opened a dry-goods store. The family residence was 44 Euclid ave., the site of which is now covered by the Kendall Building.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., died in 1847, and was buried in old Erie street cemetery. His wife's maiden name was Martha Clay Goodhue, of Putney, Vt. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Kendall she was 20 years of age, and 43 years old when she removed to Cleveland.
Her parents were Dr. Joseph and Martha Clay Goodhue, and her American ancestor was living in Ipswich, Mass., in 1639. Dr. Joseph Goodhue was a surgeon in the U. S. Army for 21 years. He died in Deerfield, Mass. Mrs. Lyman Kendall, Sr., was a woman of unusually strong character, and of fine intellect. She was a valuable member of Old Trinity, and zealous in all good and charitable work. After her husband's death in 1847, she went to live with her son George Kendall in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was greatly beloved by the people of that town, and always addressed or spoken of as "Madam Kendall." Her death occurred in 1874, and her remains were brought to Cleveland and placed beside those of her husband.
The year following the arrival of the family in Cleveland, an epidemic of cholera broke out in the town, and among the victims was the 15-year old son, James Kendall. The Cleveland Herald of August, 1834, contained the following tribute
"Seldom has the visitation of this dreadful scourge been more mournful an affliction than in its sudden destruction of this most interesting youth, known and admired in this community for wisdom and virtues far surpassing his years."
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Children of Lyman and Martha Goodhue Kendall:
Lyman Kendall, Jr., b. 1811; d. aged 30.
George Kendall, b. 1813; m. Esther. Tallman.
Henry Dwight Kendall, b. 1815; m. Marcia D. Havens of Hamilton,. N. Y.
James Kendall, d. aged 15 years.
Charles Kendall, b. 1825; m. Sarah K. Butts
John Kendall, b. 1825; m. Aurena Whipple
The latter were twins
After the death of Lyman Kendall, Sr., his son Dr. Henry Dwight Kendall, who, meanwhile, had studied medicine, and was a well-established physician, felt obliged to relinquish his practice and assume charge of his father's store and business.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall later took into partnership his son Lyman H. Kendall, and the firm was afterward known as "H. D. Kendall & Son." Finally, Dr. H. D. Kendall sold out his interests and removed to Grand Rapids, Mich. He died at Guaymas, Mexico, in 1891. Crumb, Baslington, & Kendall continued the business for a time, then established a bank.
George Kendall, the second son of Lyman Kendall, Sr., lived in Cleveland but a year or two, and then embarked in the dry-goods trade in Kalamazoo, and later in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he lived until his death in 1890. Eventually, his four younger brothers followed him to the latter place. All of them at first were dry-goods merchants, later, became interested in real-estate, and in banking and brokering.
The children of George and Esther Tallman Kendall were:
Martha Goodhue Kendall, b. 1844..
George Tallman Kendall, b. 1846; d. 1877.
Mary Kendall, b. 1848
Esther Kendall, b. 1856; d. 1897.
Lyman H. Kendall, b. 1840 m. Miss
Clara Mix ; she died 1864.
Henry Kendall, b. 1842.
George Kendall, b. 1844; d. 1866.
Joseph G. Kendall, b. 1849.
Charles J. Kendall, b. 1848.
Sarah, Harriet, and Josephine Kendall.
John, Julia, and Anna Kendall.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall, his wife Marcia Havens Kendall, and Clara Mix Kendall are buried in Erie street cemetery.
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KELLOGG
Pliny Kellogg, born in Hanover, N. H., in 1876, was the son of Enos Kellogg. In 1809 he married Wealthy Smith, daughter of Benjamin and Maria Smith.
Pliny Kellogg was a shoemaker. He came with his wife and children to Cleveland in 1833, but remained in the city but a few years, removing to Chagrin Falls some time before 1845. While living here, the family resided at 81 Bank street where Mr. Kellogg kept a large boardinghouse.
The children of Pliny and Wealthy Smith Kellogg:
Leonora Kellogg, b. 1810; m. Harmon Burrows..
Lydia Kellogg, b. 1812; m. Jarius Ruggles..
Walter Kellogg, 1814, he left Cleveland very young for New Orleans. and never heard from afterward
Stephen Kellogg, b. 1816; m. Abigail Pierce
Lucy Kellogg, b. 1820; m. Anson Welcon Gaylord.
Mrs. Wealthy Kellogg died in 1858, and her husband ten years later.
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KEEP
Rev. John Keep had charge of the old stone church through the year of 1833. He was born in Longmeadow 1781, and was the son of Samuel Keep. He was a Yale graduate of the class of 1802.
While studying for the ministry in Goshen, Conn., he boarded at the residence of Judge Nathan Hale, and there met Lydia Hale, the oldest daughter and domestic mainstay of the family, her mother being an invalid. John Keep was attracted by her lovely spirit, pretty ways, and practical accomplishments. He frequently offered her a helping hand when she was occupied in duties that would allow it, and soon a romance developed. They were married in 1808.
Rev. Keep's first charge was in Blanford, Mass., where his only child was born. After the close of his work in the Old Stone Church, which belonged to the Presbyterian society, he organized the First Congregational church on the West Side. It stood on the corner of Detroit and State street for long years. A police-station now occupies the site. He was pastor of that church for two years, and then became interested in Oberlin College and spent his time in soliciting and raising money for that institution. He visited England, making eloquent pleas for the education and elevation of the black man. He made Oberlin his permanent home, and died there in 1870.
He was a man of lofty ideals and high vision. His services for Oberlin College when it was poor and struggling can never be fully realized.
Mrs. Lydia Keep was a helpmate in all her husband's efforts.
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Their only child:
Rev. Theodore J. Keep, b. 1809 in Blandford, Mass. ; m. Mary Ann Thompson, dau. of Kisuyck and Eunice Gaylord Thompson, in 1841.
William J. Keep, b. 1842; m. Frances S. Henderson..
Mary E. Keep, b. 1849; m. George M. Clark.
Fanny M. Keep, b. 1856; m. Normand Pelton
These children died young.
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CLARKE
One of the leading physicians of the town in the '30s was Dr. W. A. Clarke, who was a partner of Dr. Erastus Cushing. In 1836 he was residing at 25 High street, with his office designated as "Cushing and Clarke," 48 Superior street. He also had a drug-store at 11 Superior street, and over this was the first location of The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
High street was a short, pretty thoroughfare in those days, and several well-known families, at different times, resided there. Years ago, however, it retrograded into a mere passage-way, occupied by negroes of the lowest type. Dr. Welcome Arnold Clarke was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1791, and was the son of the Rev. Henry Clarke of Hopkinton, R. I. His mother was Catherine Pendleton Clarke of Westerly, R. I. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Clarke died in Brookfield, N. Y.
The Clarkes were welcomed as acquisitions to Cleveland's best society, and their four pretty, accomplished daughters were much admired and their company sought by the young men in town, but the house of Winslow won three times in the race. It is not unusual for two brothers to marry sisters, but the number rarely exceeds that.
Dr. Clarke died in 1848, aged eighty-two, and was buried in Erie street cemetery, probably in the Winslow vault.
Mrs. Clarke was a Miss Mary Brown, daughter of Nathan Brown, of Brookfield, N. Y. She was a graceful, slender lady, with alert carriage and very pleasant, friendly manners. She died a very old lady, outliving her husband nearly forty-two years. In all that period of widowhood she retained her own home, and after the death of her daughter, Mrs. Tracy, cared for and educated the latter's two motherless sons.
She lived for some time on Prospect street near Bolivar Road, but died on Euclid Ave. in a residence opposite that of her daughter, Mrs. R. K. Winslow.
The children of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarke:
Mary Anne Clarke, b. 1816; m. Nathan C. Winslow..
Harriet Clarke, b. 1818; m.______ Tracy.
Lucy Clarke, b. 1821; m. Rufus K. Winslow
Helen Clarke, b. 1826; m. Hezekiah Winslow.
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JOHNSON
Before the locks of the Sault Ste. Marie were built, the Cleveland firm of Johnson and Tisdale had their two new schooners, the "Swallow" and the "Julia Palmer," taken by land above the rapids and launched in the waters of Lake Superior. It was accomplished by means of greased skids, and its success created much comment all over the country.
The senior member of the firm, Seth W. Johnson, was a familiar figure on the streets of Cleveland for nearly 75 years. He was a pioneer ship-builder who was 95 years old at his death, 1907, and but for an accident in which he was injured, he might have lived to the 100 years, which event he assured his friends, he intended to celebrate. In his extreme old age he was still a fine-looking, alert man, whose snow-white hair and beard only served to make his keen eyes still brighter.
Mr. Johnson was a genuine Yankee, possessing Connecticut enterprise and industry, and the seven years of his youth in which he served an apprenticeship to the ship-building trade developed an instinct for vessel construction that eventually won him a competence.
Seth W. Johnson was born in Middle Haddam, Conn., in 1811. He came to Cleveland about 1833, and soon after started a drydock for vesselrepairing which developed into the building of new ones. The steamers Constellation and Robert Fulton were the first of these. It was in 1844 that he took into partnership Mr. Erastus Tisdale, and for 19 years thereafter turned out some of the finest craft ever constructed for fresh water, besides furnishing many steamers for the English coast-trade.
In 1840 Mr. Johnson married Miss Sophia Norton.
The family lived for some years in a fine brick residence on Washington street, corner of Pearl, now West 25th, West side, and afterward lived on Prospect Ave. Mr. and. Mrs. Johnson had many close friends and attached neighbors during that time, who rejoiced with them in their prosperity, and grieved when sorrow touched them.
There were two sons in the family. They were Calvert Henry, and Malcolm S. Johnson, handsome, interesting boys in their childhood and young manhood. They were in partnership in the tea-trade for a time. Calvert Johnson met with a sudden and tragic death in Chicago in 1871. He was 28 years old and unmarried.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had a little daughter, Belinda Norton Johnson, who died young and the family mourned the rest of their lives.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson, b. 1846, m. Amanda Root Ruffner. Mrs.Amanda Johnson died in 1886, aged 35 years.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson passed away in 1909, and his mother, the last remaining member of the family, soon followed him.
The Johnson burial-lot is on Garfield drive in Lake View cemetery.
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In 1833 two brothers started a small dry-goods store on Superior street just below Bank. Soon after Samuel Raymond was taken into partnership, and later the firm became Clark & Morgan. The young merchants were Henry White Clark, aged twenty-six, and Mervin Clark, twenty-one years old. They were from New Britain, Conn., and the sons of Ornan and Lucy White Clark.
Six years later Marvin married Caroline Guptil who was born in Cleveland, 1822, and was the daughter of those very early pioneers John H. and Lucy White Guptil. Her mother was one of the party of fourteen who came all the way from Vermont in an open flat-boat. Caroline Guptil Clark lived but eight years after her marriage.
Evidently Mervin Clark was not satisfied with the financial outlook for his line of business, perhaps the panic of 1837 may have influenced his decision, for he left Cleveland for Milwaukee in the early '40s. His wife died there and then he removed to Rensselaer, Ind. He died while on a visit to his sister in New Britain, Conn., at the age of forty-two years. His four children, born in Cleveland, were
Almira Clark, m. George S. Britain.
M. Julius Gay, a noted genealogist, b. in 1834, son of Fisher and Lucy (Thomson) Gay.
Mervin Clark, a young soldier of the civil war, who lost his life at the battle of Franklin, and was buried on the field. He had served in the famous 7th Ohio Reg. and in the 183rd, lieutenant-colonel of the latter, and was but twenty- one years of age at the time of his death
Oliver Stanley Clark, lives in Wa tertown, Wis.
Mervin Clark, Sr., married (2) Miss Mary J. Thorp, and had two more children, Lucy and Henry Clark.
Henry White Clark, brother of Mervin Clark, Sr., remained in the city the rest of his life and became very prosperous. He married Emily Rowena Stanley, b. 1810, the dau. of Cyrus and Abigail Lee Stanley.
The family lived for a time on the Public Square, west of the Old Stone church, and later at 23 Euclid Ave., the site of the Stanley Block. They had no children of their own, but informally adopted several of their nephews and nieces, caring for and educating them. "Their roof was never too narrow to shelter those dear to them, and they never wearied in giving to others." One who was of that beautiful household says, "Henry W. Clark was one of the kindest-hearted men I have ever known, and his wife and he were of one mind and one impulse when it was a question of giving and doing."
Mr. Clark became interested in mining and lost heavily and was unable to provide for his numerous proteges as he had hoped and expected. His business had taken him often to Dubuque, Iowa, and in 1869 Mrs. Cark died there. She was the granddaughter of Col. Gad Stanley, a Revolutionary officer of 1776, whose wife, Mary Judd, was of the bluest blood of the colony. Mr. Clark outlived his wife only three years.
Mrs. Clark's widowed mother, Abigail Lee Stanley, lived in Cleveland a number of years, residing with Mrs. Clark. She died in 1867 aged 80.
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Mrs. Clark's sister, Harriet A. Stanley, was a lovely character. She never married but gave her long life to the care of nephews and nieces. While very aged she and a brother lived on Vienna street, and both died there.
Mr. Cyrus T. Stanley of East Cleveland is the only representative of this family remaining in the city.
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When Miss Sarah B. Hitchcock, daughter of Judge Silas and Polly Bradley Hitchcock, started from Cheshire, Conn., to visit her sister Mrs. John A. Foote in Cleveland, no one could foresee that then and there Cheshire had lost one of its dearest young girl residents ; one who had been born and spent her 21 years of life in that old New England town.
For, during her stay in Cleveland, she met Morgan Lewis Hewitt, a physician and surgeon 26 years of age, who had arrived here from Plattsburg, N. Y., some time previous, and they were married in 1836.
Dr. Hewitt combined a strong personality with charming manners, and as a physician was far in advance of his day, advocating and practising methods since adopted by the medical profession.
The couple began housekeeping at 74 Bank street. Subsequently, Isaac L. Hewitt, a brother, came on from Plattsburg, and began a business career in the city. He invested in vessel property, and later became interested in the iron ore trade. This led to the removal of Dr. Hewitt in 1857 to Marquette, Mich., of which he became a founder and promoter.
During the 21 years of their residence in Cleveland, Dr. and Mrs. Hewitt were respected and loved by many people, especially by those affiliated with the Old Stone Church, of which Mr. Hewitt became an officer and deacon.
Their removal to Marquette was attended by some sacrifice, as that place was then a wilderness, and at that time deemed as far away and inaccessible as Dakota is in this day of railroad communication. Dr. ment of Marquette. Both he and his wife died there many years ago.
Children of Morgan and Sarah Hewitt:
Ellen S. Hewitt, m. Hon. Peter White.
Mary L. Hewitt, m. Henry Mather of Middleton, Conn.
Both sisters spent their married lives in Marquette. The former died some years later, leaving an only daughter, Mrs. Shirer, who divides her time between Washington, D. C., and Marquette. Mrs. Mary L. Mather still resides here.
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Isaac L. Hewitt, the brother of Dr. Hewitt, married a Miss Lake of Cleveland, whose father, Alanson Lake, was in the confectionery business at that time. Mr. Isaac L. Hewitt removed to Lugonia, California.
Morgan Lewis, the Christian name of Dr. Hewitt, was a favorite one in early days of the past century. It was bourn by a famous resident of New York state who was an American general and a jurist.
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Hinman B. Hulburt was 18 years of age when he came to Cleveland in 1833 and began the study of law in his brother's office. It took him three years to prepare for his examination and admission to the bar. Meanwhile he was a member of his brother's household.
For some reason he hit upon Massillon, O., as a promising field for a newly-fledged lawyer, or, perhaps there was something else than the law in view when he packed his small hairtrunk with his limited wardrobe and his law library, two volumes, and spent part of his whole capital, $3.25, for a ticket to that town.
Massillon was having a boom in those days, and several Cleveland men were interested in her future.
H. B. Hurlburt entered a bank there and soon developed a talent for money-making. Everything he touched commercially proved a success, and in 1852 he returned to Cleveland a rich man, for that day. From that time on he was connected largely with banking interests and with railroads, and became one of the leading capitalists of the city. He died in 1889 worth a half-million dollars.
As soon as established in Massillon sufficiently to warrant such an undertaking, which was only a matter of a few months, he returned to Cleveland for his promised bride, and a quiet wedding took place on Pearl street, West Side, that was fraught with the happiness of a lifetime.
Mrs. Jane Elisabeth Hurlburt was the daughter of Samuel and Fanny Eells Johnson who had formerly resided near Utica, N. Y., and had been in Ohio City, West Side, about three years. Mr. Johnson was a carpenter and joiner. His wife was a member of an old New England family.
Upon Mr. Hurlburt's return from Massillon, he purchased a home on Superior street beyond the Public Square where the family remained for two years. Then a mansion was built on Euclid Ave. which was occupied for 56 years.
For over half a century Mrs. Hurlburt was identified with the social life of the city. She was interested, also, in charitable work and long a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital. She possessed a forcible personality, and a strong will-power.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt were connoisseurs in art, and their
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home was filled with rare pictures and valuable bri-a-brac collected from many parts of the world.
These with half of their great fortune was left to the city to found a gallery of art. At the time of Mr. Hurlburt's death in 1889, twentythree years ago, and so far, no steps have been taken that insure the building of such a gallery for years yet to come.
Mrs. Hurlburt survived her husband until 1910 when she died at the advanced age of 91 years.
A monument in Lake View cemetery marks their resting-place.
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"Handerson & Punderson" was a well-known firm of druggists doing business at 75 Superior street. The members of it were Lewis Handerson and Ebenezer Punderson, brothers-in-law. The latter never married.
Lewis Handerson was the son of Ira and Elisabeth Happ Handerson of Claverack, N. Y., who came west in the early '30s and settled in Orange township. Lewis married Prudence Punderson, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Capron Punderson of Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N. Y. He had no children, but the tragic death of his brother Thomas Handerson while bathing in the Chagrin river, leaving a family of six children, gave into his care a nephew and niece whom he adopted and fathered the rest of his life. The children were Dr. Henry E. Handerson, still a practitioner of this city, and Harriet Frances Handerson. The latter is the only surviving charter member of Grace Episcopal church, and in many ways is a remarkable woman.
Although born in 1834, she would easily pass for fifty years of age. Her personality is unusual, her days full of her home, her beloved church, her friends of a lifetime. Always the last person to look out for has been herself, and she is "Aunt Harriet" to many young people not of kin.
The Lewis Handersons lived for some years at 68 Seneca street next to the City Hotel, and then moved to Broadway near the site now occupied by the Friendly Inn. That property was originally the Walworth farm, and along in the '30s was allotted, and soon the Broadway frontage was sold to prominent citizens who- built homes along the street. It was considered a desirable neighborhood, the only drawback, it was so far from town ! By standing at the east end of the old Market house and looking south-east one can see close at hand the sites of these homes, and realize the change years have made in a Clevelander's idea of a convenient location.
These Broadway homes usually stood in the center of large lawns and gardens. Dr. Strickland lived in the nearest one, his wife having been a Walworth and one of the heirs of the property. The Handerson
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and Inglehart homes were east of the Stricklands, and adjoined each other.
Mrs. Handerson was a large, fleshy woman, who good-naturedly parried any allusions to her size. She was however, very light-footed and a graceful dancer. Once when invited by a gentleman to be his partner in a quadrille, she astonished him greatly by promptly accepting, and had asked her in a spirit of fun, expecting his request to be declined.
Besides Ebenezer Punderson, her husband's partner, she had another brother, the Rev. Epriam Punderson, an Episcopalian clergyman. He married Esther Moody, an accomplished lady who was his helpmeet in every sense of that word. Her sister Caroline Moody married Charles Preston, a well-known banker and business man of Norwalk, Ohio.
The Rev. Punderson had charge of churches in Sandusky, Bellevue, Norwalk, Lyme, and other towns. He kept a classical school for boys on Champlain street in this city, which was popular and successful. But it burned down, and other misfortunes following saddened his declining years.
The Handersons and Pundersons rest in Woodland cemetery.
Dr. Seth Smith Handerson, an uncle of Lewis, also lived in Cleveland. He practised medicine, and was at one time the city's sheriff. He was married twice. His first wife, an eastern lady, left him a son, Zebina. His second wife was Miss Sarah Hart, from near Albany, N. Y., and they had three children:
Dr. Charles Handerson, d. in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mary Handerson, m. Philetus Bosworth, and died in Tennessee.
Nancy Handerson, who married Huron Beebe, one of Cleveland's early sheriffs. They died in Racine, Wis.
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George Cabot Huntington was one of the earliest crockery merchants of the town. He carried on a wholesale and retail business at No. 5 Superior street. In his advertisements, he called attention to his sign of a big pitcher, as a guide to customers.
He was the son of Erastus Huntington of Norwich, Conn., and about the year 1833 when 26 years of age, came to Cleveland. At the same time he was married to Miss Angeline Porter, daughter of Asahel Porter of Waterbury, Conn. She had two children, and died at the birth of the second one, and was laid away in Erie street cemetery. Both children died in infancy, some time in the '60s all were removed to a Kelley Island cemetery.
In 1837 Mr. Huntington married secondly, Emmeline Kelley, daughter of Datus Kelley of Kelley's Island. She lived to be 80 years of age, dying on Christmas day, 1909, in Denver, Colorado. Two years after his
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second marriage, and following the disastrous panic of 1837, Mr. Huntington removed to Kelley's Island where he remained until 1870, when he took up his residence in New York City, and died 6 years later in Wallace, Kan., and was buried on Kelley's Island.
The children:
Erastus Huntington, a merchant of Kelley's Island until 1895, when he removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1907.
Simon Huntington, died in 1863 from wounds received in the battle of Stony River.
Daniel K. Huntington, now living in North Olmstead, Ohio, and engaged in fruit-growing
Joseph A. Huntington, lives in Denver, and engaged in the real-estate business
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Two years previous to the Ohio boom of 1835, four brothers living on a farm in Madrid, St. Lawrence county, New York, had a heart to heart discussion over ways and means. They were Ransom, Admiral Nelson, Ami Nicholas, and Joseph W. Gray.
The paternal farm was unproductive. Its stony, worn-out soil gave meagre returns for all the labor expended upon it. Had scientific farming been known at that time, the land could have been reclaimed, and perhaps Cleveland would never have made the acquaintance of a family that became such a factor in the political life of the city.
Said Admiral N. Gray to his younger brother : "I am sick of all this ! Let us get out from under it. Suppose we break away and start anew in that town in Ohio folks are talking so much about."
"What could we do there?" asked his brother.
"We'll find something. You can teach school, and I, at least, can chop wood."
And A. N. Gray did that very thing for the first weeks of his life in Ohio. He brought his young wife, Roxanna Whitney Gray, and their two children to Cleveland, and from here to Parma, selected a spot that suited him, cut down some trees, hewed them into logs, and built a small log-cabin as a temporary home. While this was being done, the nearest neighbor, several miles distant, sheltered the family.
When the cabin was completed, and everything made comfortable within, Mr. Gray returned to Cleveland to seek employment. He was something of a carpenter as well as a farmer, and succeeded in securing work at this trade.
Every Saturday night he walked ten miles to Parma, and returned Monday morning in order to be with his family over the Sabbath. Meanwhile, his brave wife was piling and burning brush, doing everything her strength would admit in clearing up the farm.
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For two years a building boom was on in Cleveland, and Mr. Gray secured contracts to erect houses and stores. This soon enabled him to bring his family into town, and thereafter when he visited his farm, it was no longer reached on "Shank's mare."
In 1838, his youngest brother, Joseph W. Gray, came on from Madrid, taught in the old Academy on St. Clair street for a year or two, and in 1842 the brothers bought the Cleveland Commercial Advertiser. To A. N. Gray was due the change of name that soon occurred.
"I do not like the name of this paper," remarked Joseph. "Neither do I," replied his brother. They agreed to each have in mind one that would be more satisfactory. A. N. Gray hit upon
"PLAIN DEALER."
"The very thing!" exclaimed Joseph Gray, and from that day, 72 years ago, to this one, "Plain Dealer" it has been.
Admiral N. Gray had other business interests than that of publisher. He became a receiver, cutter, and shipper of railroad iron. His identification with this commodity gave him among his associates the name "Iron Gray."
Mr. Gray bought a large lot on Garden street, now Central Ave., between Perry and Sterling avenues. The land ran back to Cedar Avenue. Mrs. Roxanna Gray was fond of flowers, and as there was plenty of room, she cultivated many varieties and in great profusion.
Admiral N. Gray died in 1852, aged 59 years. His wife survived him 36 years, being 88 years old at the time of her death. Mrs. Whitney, the mother of Mrs. Gray, made her home with her daughter for many years, dying at an advanced age. The family burial-lot was in Erie street cemetery.
The children of Admiral and Roxanna Gray:
Charlotte Gray, died unmarried aged 58.
Roman H. Gray, unmarried, major of a regiment in the civil war
Helen Gray, m. John S. Stevenson; removed to Iowa.
Persia Gray, m. Joseph Bartlett, for many years city treasurer
Arthur P. Gray, m. Ella Howe. He resides on La Grange street, city.
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An interesting story written by an American author has for its title, "The Revolt of Mother." It is a modern tale, but the pith of it is ancient lore. It can be found at intervals in all pioneer history. Cleveland hamlet and village possessed several intrepid wives and mothers whose firm stand in domestic crises saved the day for their families.
One such woman was Mrs. Herrick Childs, who in 1833, with her
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three little ones, the youngest a babe of six months, accompanied her husband from Deerfield, Mass., to Cleveland. The family was en route for Chicago, but worn out with the long journey by canal-boat and stagecoach, and harassed by the continuous discomforts, and sometimes privation suffered by her babes, Mrs. Childs concluded to end it all at once, by refusing to proceed another step. The ultimatum to Cleveland was far-reaching in its results. It gave to it a family name that for 80 years has been as familiar locally as that of the city itself. Mrs. Childs was Selina Buckingham, daughter of Nathan and Selina Lewis Buckingham, and a direct descendant of Thomas Buckingham of Milford, Conn., 1627.
Herrick Childs was 30 years of age when he came to Cleveland, and had been married four years. He was the son of David Wright Childs of Conway, Mass. His name appears in the first little directory of the city, and his residence was 44 Huron street, a beautiful street in early days, and lined with big maple trees. Later the Childs family moved to Euclid avenue. The homestead there was recently torn down and the site is now occupied by the western addition to Halle Brothers Company store.
The sons of the family were all active, enterprising business men of the city, whose names when connected with any measure of finance or of public affairs ensured its value and stability. Oscar A. Childs, the oldest of the brothers, had many business interests other than that of the big wholesale house that bore his name. He was one of the promoters of the Northern Ohio Fair, a director of the Mercantile Bank, and a founder of the Union Club of which he was the president at the time of his death, Sept., 1881.
Always interested in the growth of the city which had been his home from infancy, he was prompt to co-operate in every movement toward its advancement, and liberally donated to all its leading charities. The beautiful home in which he lived and died stood in the center of a spacious lot on the south-east corner of Prospect and Perry streets. The Y. M. C. A. building, recently erected, now completely covers the lot. Mr. Childs' widow and daughters reside on East 63rd street near Euclid avenue.
Edwin D. Childs was treasurer of the Kilby Manufacturing Company. He died at the age of 74, respected and loved by all who knew him. His home was on Euclid avenue, near 76th st., where his widow still resides.
Henry Buckingham Childs, head of the wholesale shoe firm of Childs, Groff & Co., died in 1898 in middle age. He was a prominent member of Trinity church for many years. His family reside at 3206 Prospect street.
Charles Childs, the only surviving brother, resides in New York City, where he is connected with the Standard Oil Co.
The children of Herrick and Selina B. Childs:
Euphema Childs, born in Deerfield, Mass., 1830; m. William Standand of Cleveland.
William Childs, born in Deerfield, Mass. ; died in early manhood.
Oscar A. Childs, born 1833; married
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1st, Martha Searle ; 2nd, Mary
Edwards, daughter of Elisha and. Eunice Lombard Edwards, and sister of the late Col. William R. Edwards.
Charles Childs, born in Cleveland; m. Laura Glessner, of Mansfield, Ohio.
George Childs, died in youth.
Edwin D. Childs, b. 1839; m. Lucy Chamberlain, dau. of Philo and Emily Pelton Chamberlain
Henry B. Childs, b. 1842; m. Carrie M. Iddings.
Martha Buckingham Childs, m. John H. Johnston, of Lima, Peru, S. A., a civil engineer and mining expert. Mrs. Johnston is yet living
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In the Cleveland Herald of 1834 appeared the following marriage notice : "At Colchester, Conn., October 11, by Dr. Lyman Strong, D. D., James F. Clark, of the house of Potter, Clark & Murphey, to Miss Eliza A. Murphey, daughter of Capt. John Murphey of the latter place."
James Freeman Clark came the previous year from Albany, where he had been working for Rawdon, Wright & Co., engravers. Out of this firm grew eventually the American Bank Note Company.
Mr. Clark was twenty-four years old when he reached the city. His parents were Cyrus and Annie Trumbull Clark, of Cooperstown, N. Y. His mother was a niece of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, the "Brother Jonathan" of American history.
Mr. Clark was a singularly refined, dignified man. His face was more that of a scholar than a merchant, and his later years were spent in his library and in the companionship of his books.
After selling his hardware interests he became closely identified with the railroads that made Cleveland a terminus, and also was associated with local banks and dealt in real-estate, all of which made him a very wealthy man. He is said to have been upright, straightforward, with his word always as good as his bond.
When but 27 years of age he became an elder in the Old Stone Church, an office he filled for many long years.
The family lived at first on the Public Square. The house adjoined that of C. M. Giddings and faced the south. Afterward a home was built on Euclid Ave. Here Mr. and Mrs. Clark died.
They had no children of their own, but took into their hearts two little sisters, one of whom in turn made the last years of the aged couple fragrant with filial love and tenderness.
The following is all the writer can find of Mr. Clark's partner in the hardware business
"At Basking Ridge, N. J., on the 29th ult., -August, 1855-Mr. Samuel H. Potter of the firm of Potter & Clark of this village, to Miss Emily Van Deren of the former place." (Cleveland Herald.)
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In 1833 the little community received a notable addition through the arrival of a distinguished couple from Cheshire, Conn. The husband was the son of a governor of Connecticut, the wife a daughter of an old Cheshire family, and they had been married six years. It may be certain that the first Sabbath Mr. and Mrs. John Alfred Foote walked into the Old Stone Church every member of the congregation assembled "took notice." Each and all had heard of the new arrivals and what an acquisition to the town and the church they would be; so there was much interest and innocent curiosity.
What they saw was a fine-looking man about 30 years of age, and a pretty, attractive young woman six years his junior, who met the attention they received with quiet ease, and, after the services were over, gracefully responded to the formal welcome of Rev. John Keep and to the introductions that followed.
Henceforth, for 22 years, Mrs. Frances Amelia Foote was not only a church member but a church worker. The first impression she made upon every one was that of a womanly woman, unusually well bred. She was kind and considerate in all her dealings with others whatever their station in life. Her father was Judge Silas Hitchcock of Cheshire, Conn. One of her sisters and a brother afterward located in Cleveland, and another sister died in Elyria, Ohio.
John A. Foote was the son of Gov. Samuel Foote. His mother was Eudosia Hull, daughter of Gen. Andrew Hull of Cheshire. Another son of Gov. Foote became an admiral of the navy, and still another one, Augustus, resided in Cleveland later, and both he and his wife died here. Their home was on Ontario street north of St. Clair.
The career of John A. Foote before he came to Cleveland, and his 68 years of life in our midst have been the theme of many a legal and historical sketch, so that nothing can be said concerning him that has not already been told, and in a more interesting and convincing way than is possible to the present writer. Cleveland was proud of his citizenship from the time he arrived until his death in 1891. And there was no municipal or state honor that could not have been his for the asking. A graduate of Yale, he practiced law for six years in New Haven, Conn., and his first Cleveland partner was significant of his future-Judge Sherlock Andrews-who never would have associated himself with a man other than of the finest legal talent.
Mr. Foote stood for everything that was highest and best, irrespective of public opinion. His life-long efforts for temperance legislation at a time when the cause was not popular shows the temper and conscience of the man. The suffering attending unrestricted sale of liquor was a constant appeal to his sympathies and sense of justice. He died, however, before the day when a saloon could not be started in the heart of a fine residence district despite all protest, or under the shadow of college walls. At the organization of the Second Presbyterian Church, he became one of its elders.
The Foote family lived on St. Clair street below Bank for a number of years, and then followed many of their nearest neighbors to Woodland ave., that attractive thoroughfare of the '60s, whose pretty homes
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and cultured residents have become almost legendary since the last of the old families fled before trade and other adverse conditions.
Mrs. Frances Foote died aged 46 years, and three years later Mr. Foote married Mary Shepler Hemperly, widow of A. D. Cutter, a prominent business man, and early merchant of the city.
The children of John A. and Frances Foote:
Samuel A. Foote, b. 1829; unmarried.
Laura C. Foote, b. 1831; m. Charles A. Ely of Elyria.
Mary Eudocia Foote, m. Morgan E Maynard of Marquette, Mich.
Cornelia Foote, m. Gardiner Maynard, a cousin of above.
John A. Foote, Jr., m. Miss Belle Palmer, adopted daughter of Augustus Foote.
Andrew and Frances Foote, died in infancy.
There are no descendants of this family bearing the name now living in Cleveland. John A. Foote, Jr., and his family have been living abroad for many years. While in the city he had a large wholesale and retail crockery store.
Mrs. W. D. Rees, 3625 Euclid ave., is a daughter of Mrs. M. E. Maynard, and granddaughter of Hon. John A. Foote, Sr.
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The name of Gaylord was a familiar one in Cleveland from the very early days when Capt. Allen Gaylord, his parents, and sisters came here from Connecticut.
In 1833, two brothers of the same name and distantly related, also came from Connecticut to become citizens of this town. They were Erastus F. and Henry L. Gaylord, sons of Nehemiah and Esther Stevens Gaylord of Torringford, Conn. Erastus had previously been a merchant of Cornwall, Conn., and was 38 years old when he came west. In 1832 he married Lucetta Cleveland, daughter of Gen. Erastus and Rebecca Berry Cleveland. She was born in Madison, N. Y., in 1801, and, therefore, was 32 the year she reached Cleveland.
Her father held a commission as Brigadier-General in the war of 1812, and was in command of Sackett's Harbor and Oswego at different times. In civil life he was a judge of common pleas court. Her grandfather, Lieut. Moses Cleveland, of Norwich, Conn., served in the Revolutionary army all through the eight years of that conflict. He was a cousin of Moses Cleveland, founder of this city.
Erastus F. Gaylord opened a grocery and drug-store at 30 Superior street with A. F. Strickland as partner, and afterward with his brother, Henry Gaylord.
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In time the grocery department was eliminated, and "Gaylord's Drug Store," as years passed, became a familiar landmark of the city. His son continued the business until his death in 1893, a period of 60 years.
The family lived on Seneca street the first three years of their residence. Mr. Gaylord then built a fine brick house on the north side of Prospect Ave., now replaced by the westerly 60 feet of the Colonial Hotel. In 1845 he purchased the Dr. David Long residence on Kinsman street, now Woodland Ave., a large stone house and 171/2 acres of land running through to Garden street, now Central Ave.
Mrs. Gaylord was a woman who inherited in a marked degree the strong characteristics of her father, and the gentle Christian traits of her mother. She was a lover of reading and remarkably well informed in literary matters. Her hospitality was of the broadest type, and her house was never without one or more visitors. The products of the land were never sold, but were given with a lavish hand to the needy among the new immigrants settling in that part of the city. No one was ever sent away empty-handed or hungry, and if any one was known to be ill or suffering she was on hand to help and comfort. Her charming manner made her a most gracious hostess. The social gatherings in her beautiful home were frequent, and the callers on New Year's day according to the old custom, were many. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1873, and their 60th anniversary in 1883.
Mrs. Gaylord was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church until the first year of the organization of the 2nd Presbyterian Church, when she transferred to it. When a branch of the Sunday School was founded in the Mayflower street school building, she had charge of the infant class, and many of the business men of today (1914) sat under her teaching.
Children of Erastus and Lucetta Cleveland Gaylord:
Sarah Berry Gaylord, m. Dr. John S. Newberry..
Henry Cleveland Gaylord, m. Catherine Hilliard.
Charles D. Gaylord, m. Josephine Scowden
Harriet R. Gaylord, m. 1st, George C. Hammond; 2nd, Dr. C. G. Smith.
Henry C. Gaylord was a college graduate, a close student, and a skillful pharmacist. He was a member of the famous "Ark" and an intimate associate of many of the older business men of his age. He was 67 at the time of his death. His wife, Catherine Hilliard Gaylord, was a daughter of the pioneer merchant Richard Hilliard, and at her wedding in Trinity Church its chimes of bells were first rung for any occasion.
Mrs. Charles D. Gaylord was the daughter of Theodore and Rosetta Stuart Scowden. Her parents built a home on Willson Ave., now East 55th street, in an early day. It set back from the road and was surrounded by forest and fruit-trees. Lexington Ave. was begun through the garden on the south side of the house. The latter is now reached from Lexington Ave. and for many years was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord. The latter died in 1912.
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Alonzo Sherwin Gardner was born in Cleveland, the grandson of Amihaaz Sherwin, of the East End. In 1833 at the age of 24 years, he married Adeline Doan, 19 years of age. She was the only daughter of Seth and Lucy Clark Doan. She lost her mother at four years of age, and was raised by Joanna Wickham Doan, her father's second wife.
Alonzo S. Gardner had an enviable reputation. All his life he was considered a perfectly honest man, who could be trusted in all business affairs. He had a grocery store at 66 Superior street, but in the panic of 1837 closed it, and afterward opened again in the crockery business which he carried on for many years. Both he and his wife died in 1892.
Children of Alonzo and Adaline Doan Gardner:
Darwin Gardner, b. 1835; m. Lizzie Berry..
Virginia Gardner, b. 1839; m. 1st, Lorenzo Jackson; 2nd, George H. Kidney.
Orlando S. Gardner, b. 1840; m. Maria Bowers
Hampton F. Gardner, b. 1841; died from wound in Civil War.
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GALLUP
Jabesh Gallup of Groton, Conn., came to Cleveland when he was about 36 years of age. It was in the early '30s. He was the son of Isaac and Anna Smith Gallup, and his wife was Lucy Meech, daughter of Gurdon and Lucy Swan Meech, also pioneers of the city, who came here about the same time.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallup were married in 1816, and brought a family of four or five young children with them to their new home, which, for a short time, was on Water street. Mrs. Gallup was a sister of Mrs. 0. M. Burke, Mrs. Isham Morgan, Mrs. Calvin Baker, and Mrs. Henry Blair, and, like all the daughters of the Meech family, she was an excellent wife, mother, friend and neighbor, kind-hearted, and most pitiful when sorrow or distress appealed to her sympathy.
The children of Josiah and Lucy Gallup:
Lester Meech Gallup, b. 1824. Mary,
Lucy A. Gallup, m. Morris Pomeroy. of Cleveland.
Elihu, and Henry Gallup, died in infancy
Henrietta Gallup, b. 1838; m. Daniel G. Thompson.
In 1843, when the youngest child was five years of age, Mr. Gallup married 2nd, Louisa Avery. They had two children, Avery and George Gallup. The latter died at the age of 15.
Within a year or two of his arrival in the city, Mr. Gallup bought a farm on Broadway, west of Willson ave., now East 55th st., and established a flourishing nursery business for that period. He also planted a
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large vineyard. The Gallup homestead on Broadway is still a landmark of that residence district, and the family name yet recalled with respect. Mrs. Louisa Avery Gallup died in 1873, and Mr. Gallup in 1879. The family were buried in Erie street cemetery.
1833
CHIDGEY
Early one morning in the year 1819, a small, slight woman and a lad about 12 years of age trudged together along an English road. The child carried a stick on his shoulder. On the end of it was a small, compact bundle. It contained the little fellow's change of linen, his clean smocks, his Sunday shoes, and, doubtless, a prayer-book of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He was on his way to live among strangers, bound out as an apprentice to a mason for a term of years. His father, a typical Englishman of a certain class, had made a custom of turning his many children out of their home soon as any tradesman would accept of their services. No choice was given them regarding the work, or where they would have to live. All that was settled by the father, when signing away his rights in them to any one who needed an apprentice.
The boy, John Chidgey, had started very early in the morning of that day, as he had to walk many miles in order to take a river-boat that would carry him the rest of the journey.
His mother, dear soul! accompanied him as far as the boat, for he surely needed her tenderness and her sympathy that morning. She understood it all, and cheered and encouraged him with motherly wisdom and tact.
To her son, in all the years that followed, a long life-time of years, she was ever to him his "Little Mother," her memory one almost too precious for words.
John Chidgey served his apprenticeship, mastered his trade, and, incidentally, helped to build the massive pier of Dover, Eng., the stones of which stand as staunchly today as when placed there over a hundred years ago.
About this time, at the age of 25, there came to him a wonderful piece of fortune which shaped the rest of his life along happy, peaceful, prosperous lines, and ultimately took him far afield from his native Devonshire. He met, wooed and won Eliza Chalker. She was the daughter of Rev. John Chalker, rector of a parish in Bath. A portrait of this clergyman hangs today in the library of a Cleveland home where it is referred to as "Grandfather." The nobility of the face, its mentality and its spirituality are very striking.
At the time of his daughter's marriage, he was 50 years of age, and his wife Elisabeth Pidgeon Chalker was about the same age. Both are
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buried in the churchyard adjoining the rectory in which they lived and died.
Anna Chalker, another daughter of this couple, had married a Mr. Paul, and in 1833, the latter with John Chidgey fell a victim to the emigration fever. Both wished to try the American life then locally the favorite theme of every conversation. Their father-in-law sympathized with their ambition and advised them to go ahead, and if affairs did not at first turn out favorably and they fell short of funds, call upon him and he would help out to the extent of his means.
The two young couples started May ninth, and were seven weeks crossing the ocean. They arrived in New York harbor while the city was enjoying an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration, cannon booming, guns firing. Thus was little Mary Chidgey ushered into the new country. Then she was less than a year old. Today she is Mrs. Mathivet, 81 years of age.
The Chidgeys and Pauls did not find Cleveland a very active village in 1833. They arrived here two years too early, two years before the boom of 1835, which raised its population from 2000 to 5000. There was little business transacted at the former date, and less building. John Chidgey had relied on mason work for his own start here, and that failed him, almost wholly. Father Chalker, back in England, was as good as his word had been. He stood by his children, sending them money steadily for two years or more.
Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Paul became discouraged and returned to England. Some years later they made another voyage of hope, this time to Australia, where they prospered mightily in family and fortune.
John Chidgey's first Cleveland home was on Bolivar street, then sparsely settled. His last one was at 132 St. Clair street, where he had lived many years. Mr. Chidgey was a forceful man and competent in business affairs. His family was his first thought, and it enjoyed through him many comforts of life. The household was an unusually peaceful one, its members bound closely by cords of mutual affection.
Mrs. Eliza Chidgey was a tall, erect woman, who carried herself with much dignity. She carried a gentle but firm hand with her children who loved, but implicitly obeyed her. Mr. Chidgey always spoke of her as his "Queen." She died in 1892, and Mr. Chidgey in 1889.
They were laid away in a stone vault which the latter had built in the western side of Erie street cemetery.
During the controversy over street railroads, Thomas L. Johnson ran a track through an alley adjoining the cemetery, and wishing a wider passage took in several feet of the burial-ground through its whole length from Brownell to Erie streets. In this strip was located the Chidgey vault. Consequently it was destroyed, and its contents removed to Lake View cemetery.
The children of John and Eliza Chalker Chidgey:
Mary Chidgey, b. in Bath, Eng.; m. J. Victor Mathivet, son of Dr. Piere Mathivet.
Emily Chidgey, m. Byron C. Harris, son of Josiah Harris.
Alfred Chidgey, died in Alabama,
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while serving his country in the civil war. His body was not recovered..
Elisabeth Anna Chidgey, m. Morris R. Braggins.
Eliza Chidgey, m. Charles C. Gale.
Henrietta Chidgey, m. Joseph M. Odell
Jeanette Chidgey, m. Dr. Daniel B. Smith.
1833
HURLBURT
Heman A. and Hinman B. Hurlburt were the sons of Abram and Polly Barrett Hurlburt of Charlotte, Vt. Their parents were Connecticut people who joined the exodus from the state of Vermont at the close of the Revolutionary War.
Heman A. Hurlburt was a lawyer. In 1831, at the age of 25, he married Amarett Sheldon, 19 years old, daughter of Medad and Lucy Bass Sheldon of New York State.
She belonged to the Deerfield, Mass., Seldons, whose ancestral home, showing marks of the Indian attack upon Deerfield in 1699, still stands in that town, a Mecca alike for posterity and for strangers interested in Colonial history.
Two years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt came to Cleveland. They boarded for a time at the Franklin House on Superior street, and there made the acquaintance of several men and women who became life-long friends.
The first Cleveland home of the Hurlburts was the "Kingsbury Cottage." It was built of stone and stood in the center of a tract of land now confined by the limits of Perry and Huntington streets, and occupied subsequently by the Stair family. They lived afterward on the near the court house, and finally Mr. Hurlburt built the attractive cottage, now 2819 Prospect street, afterward for many years occupied by W. J. Hayes. This cottage faced Euclid ave., but the extension of Prospect street made new conditions, which were met by turning the house around.
Here Mr. Hurlburt died in 1882.
Mr. Heman A. Hurlburt practised his profession in Cleveland and maintained his family in comfort. But he was not a money-maker, and therefore never acquired the wealth of his younger brother. He was identified with the various early movements tending to elevate the moral tone of the city, and was a charter member of the Young Men's Library Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had an interesting family of children. They were:
Frances Hurlburt.
Mary Hurlburt. .
Harriet Hurlburt.
William Hurlburt.
Clara Hurlburt, m. Theodore Simmons
Jennie Hurlburt, m. Erastus C. Lockwood of Painesville, Ohio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Ranney reached Cleveland from Rochester, N. Y., about 1833. He was a boot and shoemaker when all footwear was made by hand. He opened a shop at 10 Superior Lane, and his family lived in the new, and popular street called "Orange Alley," after renamed Johnson street. Many of the best-known people of the city lived there because it was close to the heart of town, and though narrow, was pleasant and very convenient. Joseph Ranney also lived there.
Horace Ranney, a brother, lived not far away on Bank street.
Mr. Sylvester Ranney's shoe-shop grew to be a big shoe-store on Superior street, doing an extensive business, and not until recently has the name ceased to be a familiar one.
Mrs. Sylvester Ranney was a Miss Anna Stilwell, a quiet, domestic woman, conscientious as to detail, a lovely house-keeper. She could do beautiful needle-work, and never lost her eyesight nor hearing, although living to be 91 years old.
She was considered beautiful in her youth, and no less so in her death, scarcely a wrinkle on her face.
For many years previous the family had been living on Lake street. Their children were:
William Ranney. Helen Ranney.
1833
CRITTENDEN
Joseph Hungerford Crittenden was born in Conway, Mass., in 1804. He was the son of Chester and Azuba Abbott Crittenden, of Conway. His wife was Eliza Ariadne Kelley, daughter of James M. and Laura Howe Kelley, whom he married in Canadaigua, N. Y., in 1834.
Joseph H. Crittenden began a shoe and leather business on Superior street in 1832, which he continued until 1857, when he retired and went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in 1874.
He always kept his interests in Cleveland, and the last of his realestate holdings was sold recently to the B. of U. Engineers.
The first home of the Joseph Crittenden family was 78 Seneca street, and afterward on the present site of the New England Bldg. They were members of the Old Stone church on the Public Square, and Mr. Crittenden was one of the donors of the building fund at its erection. Mrs. Crittenden died in Plainfield, N. J., in 1898, aged 84.
The children of Joseph and Eliza Kelley Crittenden:
Mary Beulah Crittenden, m. David B. Palmer, of New York state.Had six children
George Nash Crittenden, married Olivia Headley. Had one child.
Minnie Sarah Crittenden, unmarried. Living in Plainfield, N. J.
Ella Azuba Crittenden. Died in infancy.
James Manning Crittenden. Died in infancy
Josephine Abbott Crittenden, m. John Henry Carman, M. D. Living in Plainfield.
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Valentine Swaine was a son of Captain John Swaine, an old Nantucket seaman, who had rounded the world on many a voyage. His wife was Sarah Turner Swaine, and when their son Valentine was born in 1811, the family was living on the Hudson river near New York city.
Valentine served an apprenticeship at sail-making, and in 1833, when his time was up, he had just reached his 21st year.
He then came to Cleveland and started a sail-loft, and afterward a ship-chandlery, a business that proved very successful and profitable. Upon his retirement from this he was succeeded by the Waltons, who occupied the stand and carried on the ship-chandlery trade in it for many years.
Mr. Swaine was a very quiet man socially. He went through life blowing no personal trumpets. But he was a most useful man who was mourned in death ; for he had a tender heart, and had been in the habit of helping poor families by sending baskets of groceries to them out of his store. His many kind impulses were never mentioned, even to his family, and only learned through accident.
He was fond of expressing his opinion on public affairs through communications to the daily papers under a nom de plume which was not made public until after his death.
In 1841 he married Lucina Drake, daughter of Reuben and Ruth Jackson Drake. She inherited attributes of character that made her mentally strong and very capable.
The Swaines lived first on Wood street, later on Woodland Ave. After Mr. Swaine's death in 1871, his widow built a home on Prospect street which she occupied until her own death.
The children of Valentine and Lucina Drake Swaine:
Isabelle Swaine, unmarried.
Reuben Swaine, m. Rose Bates. Resides in Kansas.
Harriet Swaine, unmarried.
Valentine G. Swaine, m. Susan Reed
Franklin, Edward and Alfred Swaine, unmarried.
1833
HUNTINGTON
George Cabot Huntington was one of the earliest crockery merchants of the town. He carried on a wholesale and retail business at No. 5 Superior St. In his advertisements, he called attention to his sign of a big pitcher, as a guide to customers.
He was the son of Erastus Huntington of Norwich, Conn., and about the year 1833, when 26 years of age, came to Cleveland. At the same time he was married to Miss Angeline Porter, daughter of Asahel Porter of Waterbury, Conn.
She had two children, and died at the birth of the second one, and was laid away in Erie St. cemetery. Both children died in infancy.
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Some time in the '60s all three were removed to a Kelley Island cemetery.
In 1837, Mr. Huntington married secondly, Emmeline Kelley, daughter of Datus Kelley of Kelley's Island. She lived to be 80 years of age, dying on Christmas day, 1909, in Denver, Colorado. Five years after his second marriage, and following the disastrous panic of 1837, Mr. Huntington removed to Kelley's Island, where he remained until 1870, when he took up his residence in New York City, and died 6 years later in Wallace, Kan., and was buried on Kelley's Island.
The children were:
Erastus; a merchant in Kelley's Island until 1895, when he removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1907.
Simon; died in 1863 from wounds received at the Battle of Stony River.
Daniel K.; now living in North Olmsted, O., and engaged in fruit- growing
Joseph A.; lives in Denver and engaged in real-estate brokerage.
1833
J. F. WARNER
John Fletcher Warner was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry Warner. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1817, and, when 16 years of age, joined his brother, W. J. Warner, who had preceded him to Cleveland two years previous.
John F. Warner's first employment was in H. B. Wellman's red warehouse on the river, where, because of his youth and inexperience, he worked at anything he was called upon to do. Mr. Wellman removed to Massillon, O., and in 1837 we find young Warner advanced to the position of book-keeper for Ransom, Baldwin & Co., forwarding and commission merchants on River street. John G. Ransom and Stephen A. Baldwin, members of the firm, were non-residents, living east. In 1837, John F. Warner was boarding at the Franklin Home, Benjamin Harrington, landlord.
Mr. Warner, like his brother, was a warm-hearted, genial man, with hosts of friends, and, probably, not an enemy.
He married Abby Kingsley, who was born 1821. She was a daughter of Rev. Phineas and Parnel Keith Kingsley of Rutland, Vt., and a sister of Mrs. 0. A. Brooks of Cleveland.
The family lived and died on Euclid Ave.
In the fall of 1867, Mr. Warner and his wife went to Florida for the benefit of Mrs. Warner's health. She died there the following March. Mr. Warner survived her but eight months, and passed away December, 1868, aged 51 years.
The couple were laid to rest in Erie street cemetery.
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Jonathan Hickox of Washington, Litchfield Co., Conn., married Elisabeth Taylor of Salisbury, Conn., who was born at the close of the revolutionary war. They came to Canfield, 0., in 1815, therefore were pioneers of that town. Some time in the '30s they removed to Cleveland, and lived on Superior street, now number 421, long occupied by the gas office.
Jonathan Hickox died in 1845. Elisabeth, his wife, lived with her son Milo until her death twelve years later, aged 84 years. They had four sons, two of whom became prominent citizens of the city.
Milo Henry Hickox, the eldest one, was a carpenter and contractor. He married Miss Harriet Craw, who was born in 1808, in Troy, N. Y. The young couple lived in Rochester, N. Y., until after the birth of their first child, George Craw Hickox.
The summer of that year, 1831, they came to Cleveland, and, according to a letter written by Mr. Hickox soon after their arrival, their prospects were far from alluring.
"About four weeks since, we awoke one morning and found ourselves shaking with the ague. My wife had it every day for a week, and my infant son every day for three weeks; and what made it worse, my wife and child shook at the same time. I spent a week in search of a girl, gave up the chase, and engaged passage for my wife to return to Rochester the next morning, when I met an acquaintance to whom I told my troubles. He found a maid for me, and we remained."
But the young wife must have gone back to Rochester the following year, for she died there in childbed in 1832.
Her son, George C. Hickox, was for many years a well-known citizen of San Francisco, Cal. As a member of the firm of Hickox & Spears, he carried on a successful banking business in that city.
He died in 1902. Although through a second marriage his father subsequently had a large family of children, this first one only left posterity. He married, and a son, Arthur Milo Hickox, of the Bank of California, is living in San Francisco, and assisted with data for this sketch of his family.
Milo Hickox, Sr., married (2) Harriet Pelton, daughter of Deacon Jonathan and Elisabeth Pelton, of Pelton's Corners, East Cleveland. She had seven sisters, and four brothers, all of whom married and had families.
The Hickox residence was on St. Clair street, and for some years their nearest neighbor was Silas Belden, whose wife was Mary Pelton, sister of Mrs. Hickox.
Mr. Hickox prospered in his business, and soon, from the wages of a dollar a day, which he received upon his arrival in Cleveland, he was earning many times that as a building contractor.
He was a tall, fine-looking man, dignified and stately. Mrs. Hickox was of medium height, with dark hair and eyes.
According to the story mutely told in the long row of graves in Woodland cemetery, the close of her life was most pathetic. She had eight children, three of whom died young. The remaining five lived to maturity, only to die, one after the other, of consumption, that relentless scourge of early Cleveland.
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Julia, died 1856, aged 16.
Elisabeth, died 1858, aged 23.
Henry A., died 1864, aged 26.
Martha, died 1864, aged 20.
Mary, died 1867, aged 24.
The family, meanwhile, had removed from St. Clair street to Euclid Ave., just east of Dr. Streator, and at the head of 97th street.
Mr. Hickox died, and his wife was left alone. Three young relatives shared her solitude from time to time, and a devoted house-keeper remained with her to the last. They were Viola- Blake, Helen Briggs, and Althea
Charles Hickox, younger brother of Milo H., and born in Connecticut, 1810, came here from Canfield in 1837, and with his parents lived on Superior street opposite the Arcade. He also was a carpenter, and worked for Jacob Lowman, the pioneer wagon-maker. Afterward he began a commission business on a small scale with Jonathan Gillette.
He married in 1843, Miss Laura A. Freeman, daughter of Francis Freeman of Warren, 0. It is said of her that she was a woman "of rare excellence, highly educated, and possessed of a strong character, who brought to her husband's home all the noblest qualities of womanhood, and made it for- 47 years the spot about which clustered everything he regarded most dear."
Mr. Hickox developed great business ability, became interested in vessel property at a propitious time, and eventually invested in milling property, which brought large returns. He was a charter member of the board of trade. His sons built the Hickox building, which displaced the First Baptist church that stood, so many years, on the north-west corner of Euclid and Erie streets.
Children of Charles and Laura Hickox:
Elisabeth, m. Harvey Brown.
Charles G.
Ralph W.
Frank F.
1831
WARHAM JUSTUS WARNER
Warham Justus Warner received his unusual Christian name from his grandfather. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1808, and was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry Warner. The parents had quite a family of children, four of whom came to Cleveland, W. J., John F., Jane R., and Mary A. Warner.
Jane R. Warner married William Giffin of Huron Co. in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Giffin lived on East 82nd street, and were prominent members of the Euclid Ave. Congregational church.
Mary A. Warner died in Painesville, O. She was possessed of considerable property at the time of her death, and in her will left $5000 and some valuable pictures to the city of Cleveland toward the establishment of an art gallery, an institution the city had never possessed.
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The paintings were stored for long years in the basement of the City Hall. Some were ruined, meantime, and others stolen.
Warham J. Warner was a carpenter, mason and contractor. He came west from Burlington to Black Rock, near Buffalo, in 1830, intending to make that his home. But Elisha Sterling of Cleveland met him, and took a fancy that he should build Mr. Sterling's home, then in contemplation, on Euclid Ave. He persuaded Mr. Warner to remove to this city. The latter was then but 23 years old, but no young man of his age ever was better equipped for life in a young, growing town. He was proficient in two trades in constant demand. He was mentally strong, very ambitious, and possessed a powerful physique. Withal, he was a man whom people instinctively trusted. His integrity was never doubted. He was whole-souled, generous-hearted, and sympathetic to a degree.
A pretty story, and, doubtless, one typical of the man, was told to the writer concerning him by an aged lady, one of a family whom he assisted in dire need. "We came to Cleveland about 1840 from England, and settled on Sheriff street. The expenses of the long journey had exhausted father's means, and here he was in a strange land, practically penniless, with wife and several children looking to him as their only support.
He was a carpenter by trade, and in making inquiries for work received little encouragement. When almost in despair over his dilemma, some one suggested that he apply to Mr. Warner, who lived just around the corner in a log-house on Prospect street.
Mr. Warner's big heart warmed at once to father's appeal for work. He called, and in his hearty way put new life and courage in us all, and promising plenty of work with which to repay it."
Mr. Warner erected many public buildings, among them the American House in 1836. He was associated in business for a time with Milo Hickox, and they built some of the beautiful homes which made Euclid Ave. famous from 1850 to 1900.
Mr. Warner was one of the founders of St. Paul's P. E. church, and a charter member of the Old Settlers' Association. He was street commissioner in 1837.
In 1832, Mr. Warner married Miss Jane A. Morse, 22 years of age. She was the daughter of Benoni Morse of Burlington, Vt. Her mother's maiden name was Smith.
Mrs. Warner was the mother of six sons and two daughters, to whom she was devoted, but not to the extent of ignoring duties outside of her family. She stood shoulder to shoulder with her husband in much of his philanthropic work. She was active in her church society, whenever her presence and services were required.
Three of her sons and her son-in-law, John H. Rees, served their country in the civil war, consequently Mrs. Warner and her daughter, Lydia Warner Rees, were greatly interested in the work of the Sanitary Commission and in the hospitals here and in the field of action, giving to them much of their time, strength, and means.
For several years previous to her death, in 1882, Mrs. Warner was an invalid. Mr. Warner outlived his wife but a year, dying in 1883. They rest in Lake View cemetery. The family lived for a time at 192 St. Clair street, and afterward No. 80 Prospect street, near Erie street.
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The children of Warham and Jane Morse Warner:
Lydia E. Warner, b. 1834, at Black Rock, N. Y.; m. John Hopkins Rees.
Andrew Warner, b. 1836, in Cleveland.
Charles H. Warner, b. 1838; m. Catherine Moore, dau. of Capt. Robert Moore
Ann Eliza Warner, b. 1840.
Edward Seth Warner, M. D., b. 1842.
Theodore Morse Warner, b. 1844; m. Alice Kennedy.
Frederick Sperry Warner, b. 1846; m. Agnes Morris, dau. of John Morris
James Warham Warner, b. 1848.
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WILSON
John Wilson came to Cleveland from Sacket's Harbor or Oswego, N. Y., in 1831, expecting to fit out and run a hotel on the corner of Superior and Merwin streets, but he died of cholera either before his plans were matured or soon afterward, leaving six orphan children. The mother, Ann Aram Wilson, died in Oswego, N. Y., the year the family removed to Cleveland. She was born 1786, in England. Her parents were Joseph and Margaret Aram of Green Hammerton, Eng. Her father died in 1803, and in 1806, her mother with her children left Hull on the "Indian Chief," which was 62 days in making the passage to New York. The mother died in 1821, aged 83 years, and was interred in Ontario Co., N. Y.
The six children of John and Ann Wilson, left thus alone in a strange city, must have received sympathy from some source, as they all lived to maturity.
Two of them removed to a western state, while it was yet in its infancy, and grew up with it.
The children of John and Ann Aram Wilson:
Martha Wilson, married George Tiebout.
Joseph Wilson, removed to Minnesota.
Frank Wilson, removed to Minnesota.
Mary Wilson, died unmarried, in 1863.
Margaret Wilson, born 1821; married W. V. Craw.
Thomas Wilson, m. Laura Root, daughter of Herod and Laura Hurlbut Root. Thomas Wilson was agent of the "Three C.'s & I. R. R." for 37 years. He left two children, Clinton and Jean Wilson, now residing in Kansas City and Chicago.
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Aaron Stickland of Ashford, Conn., came to Cleveland, and opened a drug-store at 30 Superior street, in 1831. Two years later he took in partnership Erastus F. Gaylord, who had just arrived from the east, and the following year his younger brother Henry L. Gaylord.
This business connection lasted about two years, when Mr. Stickland withdrew.
The Sticklands were boarding at the Franklin House in 1837. Five years later he died, aged 51.
His wife, Polly Stickland, who was born the same year as her husband, outlived him 35 years, dying at an advanced age.
Mr. Stickland, at his death, left his property in charge of Mr. Erastus Gaylord for the benefit of Mrs. Polly Stickland for the remainder of her life, thus safe-guarding it, and ensuring to her a comfortable support. There were no children in the family.
The Sticklands rest in Erie street cemetery to the right of the main drive, and a monument marks the spot.
1832
MEECH
Gurdon Meech of Bozrah, Conn., came to Cleveland in 1832. His wife, Lucy Swan, daughter of Deacon Adam and Lucy Spicer Swan, was born in Stonington, Conn., and after her marriage lived in Bozrah many years.
Her daughter Lucy was married to Jabez Gallup two years before, and had preceded them to Cleveland, and the youngest one, Martha Meech, was 9 years old.
Mr. Gallup was living on Water street, where Childs, Groff & Co.'s store now stands, and with him the family remained for six weeks, meanwhile making preparation for a home of their own as soon as possible. But they were all taken very ill with fever and ague, and Mr. Meech abandoned his plans of living in Cleveland, and gladly accepted-Mr. Gallup's proposition to take possession of a small log-house that stood on a farm he owned in Newburgh. In this they lived until the purchase of one from Theodore Miles, standing on the old Newburgh road at its junction with Woodland Hills Ave. Afterward a railroad passed close to the house.
Mrs. Meech, small, slender, slim, had been the oldest of her family, and unused to hardship of any kind, and, arriving much later than many of her neighbors, never experienced their earlier hardships. But even so, things were quite different in Ohio, and much required of her that she would not have encountered in the old home. Her first new experience was in handling a gun, never having shot one in her life. But an owl was after her chickens, and with much trepidation she took down her husband's weapon and fired at it. It fell, but she was afraid to go near it until Mr. Meech returned.
Mr. Meech had a farm well stocked for those days, and it suffered greatly in the grasshopper scourge that, one summer, swept over Ohio.
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The insects came after currants and cherries had ripened, but there was no fruit or grain of any kind after that. There were no apples, the main stay of housewives, consequently little sauce for a year, and no mince-pies, that much-prized dessert of early days. The women, ever resourceful, stewed up the dried pumpkin left over from the year previous, and sparingly flavored it with boiled cider, also a left-over.
Following the example of his neighbors, Mr. Meech killed off all his cattle except a cow. One morning, he came into the house from the barn, and sitting down by the fire began to weep. Mrs. Meech saw the tears tricking silently down his cheeks, begged him to tell her what troubled him so.
"My poor horses have asked me for something to eat, and I haven't a thing to give them," he exclaimed.
But that day, a friend in the city sent word by his hired man that a vessel had arrived in the river with a load of wet rye which could be used for feed. His hungry horses were soon hitched up, and in no time he was on his way for some of that rye. This was early in the spring, but soon after the grass began to get high enough for stock to nibble, and the worst of the famine was over.
Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Meech had 9 children of their own, and adopted 7 children who were either orphans or with parents too poor to support them. Several were taken by the request of dying mothers, and tenderly cared for until able to face life unaided. One of these, a girl, married in Connecticut, and removed to Liverpool, O. Hearing that her benefactors were in Cleveland, she came to visit them, and although 40 years had passed since their last meeting, they recognized each other at once.
Another, a boy, followed them from Bozrah. He afterward worked for Seaman & Smith, for years, making shoes by hand.
Yet another boy was given a profession, became a celebrated physician, and today his grandchildren are living on the old Meech place in Bozrah.
The Meech children were:
Lucy Meech, m. Jabez Gallup.
Angeline Meech, m. Calvin Parker.
Abigail Meech, m. Dr. Smith..
Eliza Meech, m. Henry Blair.
Juliette Meech, m. Isham Morgan.
Nelson Meech, m. Eliza Quiggan.
Martha Meech, m. O. M. Burke
Olive Meech, died unmarried.
1832
SPENCER
The year 1832 added a large element of strong, conscientious, gifted men, and refined, spiritual women, who greatly reinforced the religious and intellectual life of the village. One of the former was Thomas Phelps Spencer, who came from Hartford, Conn., and with Horace Canfield started a printing establishment.
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He was the son of John and Mary Adams Spencer, and born 1809 in Hartford. His mother was a remarkable woman, one of great strength of mind, and fervent piety. Mr. John Spencer died, leaving her with eleven children. The youngest of these, Barzilla and Rosilla Spencer, were twin daughters but three years of age, and the one next to them was a little blind brother.
When we reflect that the accumulated cares of such a household rested upon her widowed head, and that she raised all those 11 children to become good and useful men and women, it behooves her descendants to look upon her as an ancestress fully as heroic as any revolutionary forbear, and equally as deserving of respect and reverence. She was a: sweet, dignified, lady-like woman, with a keen, but soft dark eye, an erect figure, and a graceful carriage. We dwell upon this mother because she died in our midst, stricken down with cholera in 1852, while on a visit here with her son and his family. She lies in Erie street cemetery.
T. P. Spencer was an ardent Democrat in his political faith, and in 1834 he and his partners bought the Cleveland Advertiser, which had been a Whig paper, and at once made of it a Democrat organ. Within four years their success with it justified them into turning it from a weekly to a daily paper. It was the small parent of the present Plain Dealer giant, with its great circulation. In 1841, Canfield and Spencer sold the Advertiser to the Gray brothers, who changed its name, but not its politics.
After the sale of the Advertiser, Mr. Spencer continued in the book and job-printing business. Mr. Horace Canfield returned east. At that time Mr. Spencer was postmaster of the city. He went into the manufacturing business, and previous to his death in 1885, was connected with the Waterworks department.
The inauguration of President Grover Cleveland gave him great happiness. He was as enthusiastic as a boy, declaring that the account of it in the evening paper hal almost made him weep. He walked briskly home from the office that day, erect and vigorous, as usual, and dropped dead early the next morning. He was a genial man, of sunny temperament, who had scores of friends who felt deeply his loss.
Timothy Phelps Spencer married Elisabeth Reeve, dau. of the pioneer John Reeve. She passed away from earth just 10 years previous to her husband's death.
The children of T. P. and Elisabeth Reeve Spencer:
T. Reeve Spencer, b. 1838; died 1867.
Rosella Stewart Spencer, b. 1842; married William H. Kelley, youngest son of Irad Kelley
Annie Elisabeth Spencer, b. 1845; m. Charles Long Cutter, son of A. D. Cutter.
Mary Adams Spencer, b. 1855; died in Cleveland, 1896.
Fannie Spencer, b. 1859; died in Cleveland, 1880.
The sudden death of their only son, Capt. T. Reeve Spencer, was a severe blow to his parents and sisters. His life promised much to all his
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friends. He had served his country throughout the civil war, and at the time of his death by yellow fever was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His district was on Lake Ponchartrain, 60 miles north of New Orleans. Reeve Spencer was an amiable young man, of sterling integrity, and fine business capacity.
1832
WHITELAW
For 60 years, George Whitelaw walked, to and fro, on Superior street between the Public Square and Water street. In 1832, as a young man of 24 years, he stepped, with due caution, upon short boards nailed across two parallel lines of scantling. Sometimes a board would loosen and one end fly up to trip the unwary. Ten years later he trod upon long, heavy planks running lengthwise. These were more serviceable, and lasted a long time. Finally, when his locks had begun to whiten, he marched proudly along on Cleveland's first stone pavement, and, doubtless, felt that, at last, all his predictions of the city's future greatness were being fulfilled.
He was nearing the end of his life time of fourscore years and four when, in 1892, he walked slowly along the familiar path for the last time.
Did he pause to recall the days when his first modest home was one of several frame houses, behind low picket fences, that lined the south side of the street below the American? Or the similar ones above it, interspersed by small stores and a blacksmith-shop, all of the way to the Public Square?
There were many dwellings of varying sizes and shapes on the north side of the street also. But that locality boasted two village taverns, and a bank, in addition to the little stores that grew in number and size, year by year, crowding out the pioneer homes. In these latter lived the Scovils, the Crittendens, the Levi Johnsons, the Weddells, the Ross families, the Rev. Breck, and the Rouses.
Below the Whitelaws were Moses White, the Stockwells, and the Merwins. Above them were the Walworths, the Irad Kelleys, the two Bliss families, the first homes of John Willey and Joshua Mills, and the stone edifice of Dr. Long.
George Whitelaw and his twin-brothers were born in Haddington, Scotland, in 1808. They were of a family of 11 children, the parents of whom were John and Agnes Robertson Whitelaw, who lived and died in Haddington.
In May, 1832, George Whitelaw started for America, and in seven weeks the vessel upon which he sailed reached our Atlantic coast, and before stretched the long land journey which brought him to Cleveland. The same month, six years later, he married Anna Fayerweather of Boston. She was the daughter of John and Anna Wayland Fayerweather, and was born near Bridgeport, Conn.
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For 20 years Mr. Whitelaw was a partner of George F. Marshall in the saddlery and leather business, and from 1858 to 1890, with E. S. Root in the wholesale leather trade. "Root & Whitelaw" was a firm known all over the state.
George Whitelaw founded the Scotch Presbyterian church of Cleveland, and laid the corner-stone of its edifice on Carnegie Ave., corner of E. 72nd street. He also founded the St. Andrew society, the first charitable society in the city, and was its president many years.
Although so well known, he seldom entered public life. Twice only he served in the city council when his services were especially needed.
Mrs. Whitelaw was connected with Old Trinity church-when it stood on St. Clair street, corner of Seneca. She sang for its services there, and continued a member of the choir long after the removal of the church to its location on Superior street. She was an active worker in all Trinity church activities, and a charter member of the board of management that founded the Church Home on Prospect st. She was an invalid for some years previous to her death, which occurred in 1893. The George Whitelaw family lived on Willson Ave., corner of Sibley, for 30 years.
The children:
John Fayerweather Whitelaw, b. 1839; died at his residence, 2536 Euclid ave., June, 1912; married. 1st, Alice Hill, dau. of T. O. Hill. She died 1864. Married 2nd, Alma Paige of Painesville, O. She died 1873. Married 3rd, Mary Eliza Cooper, dau. of George Cooper
Anna Wayland Whitelaw, died 1845.
Mary Augusta Whitelaw.
1832
STAIR
John Stair of Redding, England, was a schoolmaster. He married a Miss Adams, and had three sons, John, William, and James Stair. Two of these sons emigrated to Australia and prospered. To this day their posterity have corresponded with their Cleveland cousins.
Mrs. Stair died, and Mr. John Stair married 2nd, Miss Martha Green, a well-bred and well-educated lady. She was one of a large family of children. Her brother, Nathaniel Green, was an artist, and instructed the children of the royal household at Balmoral in drawing and painting. In late life, when visited by Mr. and Mrs. John Stair of Cleveland, he was found living in fine style in London, surrounded by the residences of famous artists and scholars.
Mr. John Stair and his wife, Martha Green Stair, had six children born in England. When the youngest was six months old the family came to America in company with two other families who were their neighbors and friends. One was that of John Reeve, father of Dr. John Reeve, and grandfather of Mrs. Charles L. Cutter. Martha Green Stair, the eldest
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daughter, was left behind that she might finish her education. When Mr. Stair and his family arrived in Cleveland, the ravages of cholera in town caused them to seek safety in Newburgh, where they lived on a farm for some time.
Returning to Cleveland, Mr. Stair opened a private and classical school for boys on Pittsburgh street, now Broadway. In 1845 he had given up teaching as a profession, and entered the grain and seed business, one that had been started by J. G. Stockley at 93 Superior street. The firm name was "Stair & Son," the "son" being the oldest child of the family.
The new undertaking proved a fortunate one, and "Stairs' seed-store" became famous all over the state. It was located on Ontario street. A. C. Kendal succeeded Mr. Stair in the business.
Mr. and Mrs. Stair were greatly respected and warmly welcomed by the social element of the town. Mr. Stair was very optimistic and of a happy, cheerful temperament. At first Mrs. Stair was very homesick for her native land. While living in Newburgh she had some guinea hens whose peculiar cry sounded like, "Go back, go back !"
"It is easy to tell me that!" she exclaimed, one day, "but how am I to do it?"
She was very kind-hearted and a natural nurse. Dr. Cushing, Sr., soon discovered this talent,
and often begged her services when there was serious illness in some poor household. It was
not unusual for Mrs. Stair to be away from her home all night, attending to the needs of some young
mother in her hour of peril, or nursing a very sick child, all without any remuneration, save
the love and gratitude of those she ministered to.
Alas ! the generation of dear, unselfish women who lost sleep and rest in personal services to their neighbors has long passed by. The trained nurse with prohibitive wages or a charity one is now the only choice of a household poor in purse, but rich in dignity and self-respect.
The children of John and Martha Stair:
Benjamin Stair, died unmarried. He was his father's partner in the seed business..
Martha Stair, became an invalid, and after 14 years of patient suffering died unmarried.
Edwin Stair, m. Marcia Lucia Cobb. She lost her own life in her devotion to her husband in his last illness, and survived him but a few days.
Thomas Stair, died aged 15 years.
Mary Stair, lived to old age unmarried
Samuel Stair, b. 1831; m. Alice Healy Caffee of Newark, O.
Fisher Stair.
Emily Stair, born in Cleveland; m. Benjamin Franklin, a Newark, O., banker
Edwin and Marcia Stair had two sons and a daughter, Mrs. Lucia Curtis. Frank Stair was connected with the Brainard musicstore for many years. Harry Stair married Miss Belle Beirce, and died leaving two young sons, and a little daughter.
Samuel and Alice Stair have two talented children. A son, Leslie Dalrymple Stair, who lives in Chicago, and a daughter, Miss Patty Stair, a well-known Cleveland musician.
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John Reeve of England came to Cleveland in 1832. He was 44 years of age, and his wife, Sarah Reeve, also a native of England, was 34 years old.
They brought with them to this city six children, and another one was born here four years later. Mrs. Reeve's life in Cleveland was very short. She died in 1838, and was buried in Erie street cemetery.
The father married secondly, Catherine Jones, and a daughter was born to them in 1845, who died-no date-in Columbus, O.
The family lived on Michigan street, and were near neighbors of John W. Willey, the attorney and first mayor of Cleveland.
John Reeve died in 1852, and was buried by the mother of his children. They were
William Reeve, b. 1819; died 1836.
Elisabeth Reeve, b. 1821; m. T. P. Spencer of Cleveland.
Dr. John Charles Reeve, b. 1826; m. Emma G. Barlow. Dr. Reeve resides in Dayton, O.
Margaret Reeve, b. 1828; m. Homer Moffett. She died in Cleveland, 1865.
Charlotte Reeve, b. 1829; died 1852.
Edwin Reeve, b. 1830; died 1873; m. Alice Oliver of Euclid, O. His name is inscribed on the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in the Public Square as a veteran of the civil war.
Henry Reeve, born in Cleveland, 1836; died at Dayton, O., in 1860.
1834
POPULATION ABOUT 2000
Very dull year for business. 43 canal boats laid up. Steamers coming from Buffalo without a barrel of freight. The Cleveland Herald asks, "What has become of the immense number of boxes, bales, etc., which we have been accustomed to see crowding our wharfs in such confusion as wholly to preclude the practicability of a passage from warehouse to warehouse? Why should our wharves which once were the scene of so much bustle and life and activity now exhibit so dull and lifeless an aspect?"
Cholera broke out again in the late fall of this year, and there were many deaths from it in this town and in the surrounding country. A very pitiful incident connected with the scourge took place on a canal passenger boat bound for Akron, O. Mrs. Joanna Brown, wife of a New York merchant, was aboard with her infant child when she was stricken with the cholera in the night. Her sufferings were intense, and the terrified passengers were obliged to hear her moans and cries of distress without being able to give her any relief. She died as the canal-boat neared Akron.
The winter of 1834 was marked by unusually heavy snow-storms. Snow covered the roads throughout the season. All sorts of conveyances
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were put upon runners and the sound of sleigh-bells, and even cow and sheep-bells, were heard continuously.
Although not a Cleveland record, the following item is of national interest:
The State of Ohio
Geauga County. ss.
Personally appeared Brigham Young and made application for a marriage-license for himself and Mary Ann Angel of the township of Kirtland in said county, and made solemn oath that he, the said Brigham Young, is of age of twenty-one years, and the said Mary Ann Angel is of the age of eighteen years, that they are both single, and not nearer of kin than first cousins; that he knows of no legal impediment against their being joined in marriage. Brigham Young.
Sworn and subscribed, this tenth day of February, 1834, before me, RALPH COWLES, Dep. Clerk.
Elizabeth Gaylord, through her guardian Leonard Case, offers lot 10 rods square for sale on Lake street.
L. W. Dickson, merchant on Superior street, advertises his drygoods. His wife, Matilda Isabell Dickson, died the following year, and lies in Erie street cemetery. His name is not in the city directory of 1845.
Died, "Emulous B. Johnson of Saybrook, Conn., of cholera, 27 years old." (Erie st. cemetery.)
Died, Esther, wife of Samuel Clampitt, formerly of New Jersey, lately of Philadelphia. (Erie street cemetery.)
Theron and Esther Strong Freeman die, perhaps of cholera, leaving minor children. Samuel S. mentioned as one of them. Thomas Strong and Charity Fuller are appointed administrators of the estate.
Previous to this year there were but 15 German families residing in town. They were mostly of the Protestant faith, and in 1834 they organized a society which received the name of "GERMAN Evangelical Protestant Church."
It was a small band of Christians whose mother-tongue was still more familiar than that of their adopted home, and doubtless very little of the services which they previously had attended in other churches had been fully understood. This first little German society must, therefore, have been very dear to its members.
They met, at first, in the old Bethel building near the corner of Water and Superior street hill, and afterward in a little school-house on St. Clair street.
Two-thirds of Euclid Avenue below Erie street was yet adorned on either side with rail-fences.
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From Cleveland Advertiser
ELOPEMENT
"Whereas, my wife Jane Ann has this day left my bed, and board, without any just cause or provocation, this is, therefore, to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date. Justin Meeker,
Cleveland, Dec. 24-1834."
"Whereas, my kind and loving better half has seen fit to post me from his bed, and board, I would take the liberty to inform the public that he never had any board to my knowledge, and as for harboring and trusting me he need have no fear, for no one would do it on his account.
If he will not trouble me, no one will trouble him.
Jane Ann Meeker, Jan. 15-1835."
1834
SARGEANT
There were four men by the name of Sargeant who lived in Cleveland, off and on, after 1834.
They were William, doing business at one time as a merchant on Superior street, Jacob, Samuel, and Joseph Sargeant.
The last two came from Middlebury, Vermont, their native place, and were children of Joseph and Lucretia Williams Sargeant.
Jacob Sargeant had a daughter Nancy who married W. S. Pierson of Hartford, Conn., and her daughter married Judge Rufus Spaulding, the well-known jurist of the city and state. She was a very striking looking woman, and to the day of her death clung to the fashion of wearing her hair in three puffs each side of her face. She was much loved and admired by a large circle of friends.
Joseph Sargeant, born 1798, kept the only store of its kind in Cleveland. He manufactured and sold looking-glasses, picture-frames, etc., and he, and his son John, who succeeded him for over half a century, furnished to thousands of people their only glimpse of art in the beautiful engravings kept in stock or exhibited in their store-windows.
"Sargeants" on Superior street was so associated with that thoroughfare that it seemed to be as established as the street itself, and many an old resident of the city today finds it hard to realize that the old landmark and business-sign have passed out of existence.
Joseph Sargeant married Sophrona Chapman, daughter of Erastus Chapman. She died in 1826, leaving young children.
He married secondly, Laura Brooks (daughter of Zerah Brooks of Hartford, Vt.)
Laura Brooks Sargeant was a remarkable woman in many respects, an ideal step-mother, loving and cherishing the first wife's children as her very own. They never knew she was not their own mother until after they began to attend school when they were officiously enlightened upon the subject. She died in 1873 at her residence on Ontario street, aged 67 years.
Joseph Sargeant lived first on Erie street next to the present Cleveland Trust Co., and for many years was the only resident on that side of
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the street between Euclid and Prospect. In 1837 he was living on Prospect near Ontario street, and finally built and occupied a brick residence on Ontario street below St. Clair st.
Joseph Sargeant and his wife were life-long members of the Old Stone church, and their son John and his family followed closely in their footsteps, and today are still identified with that church society.
The children of Joseph and Sophrona Sargeant:
Catherine Maria Sargeant, m. W. T. Richmond, son of Thomas Richmond.
Harriet S. Sargeant, m. C. A. Orvis of Racine, Wisconsin.
Charles Edward Sargeant, m. Mary Bowen, dau. of Graham Bowen.
John Williams Sargeant, m. Emma Louise Todd, a very pretty, intelligent woman, devoted to her husband and children. Her recent death made many friends sorrowful.
The family burial-lot is in Erie street cemetery.
1834
SLAGHT
Abraham Slaght and his wife, Talphena Dickerson Slaght, settled first on the Euclid ridge. They removed to the corner of St. Clair and East Madison avenues, where they lived many years and where they died. Their home was then a farmhouse, surrounded by many acres.
There were two sons in this family, and six daughters. The latter all married into prominent families of the East End.
The children of Abraham and Talphena Slaght:
Adaline Slaght, m. Timothy Watkins.
Louise Slaght, m. George Watkins.
Sarah Slaght, m Francis Branch.
Elisabeth Slaght, m. Abram Nott.
Martha Slaght, m. Henry Ford.
Julia Slaght, m. Nathan Post.
1834
SMITH
Archibald M. C. Smith, of the firm of Ward & Smith, forwarding and commission merchants at No. 1 and 2 Dock st., lived at 62 Bank street, just north of the Blairs.
Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Seth and Sarah (Barnum) Granger of Danbury, Conn., who removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and died in that city. she in 1833, and he in 1848.
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There were three Granger sisters living in Cleveland in 1834.
Beulah-Mrs. Smith, Harriet Maria-Mrs. William Smyth, and Sarah Elisabeth Granger. They were very attractive, cultured women ; they were also quite musical, and two of them were members of Trinity Church choir.
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald M. C. Smith had a family of seven children.
Maria Granger Smith, m. Edward M. Atwater. Lives in Buffalo.
Edward Smith, a resident of St. Paul, Minn.
Granger Smith, living in Chicago.
Amelia Smith-Mrs. D. D. Tracey of Erie, Pa.
The Smiths removed from Bank street to St. Clair st., near Perry, and for some years were the near neighbors of the Perrys and Paynes. They then removed to Buffalo, where, in 1852, Mr. Smith was killed while rescuing lives at a big fire in that city. No man was more respected in the communities in which he lived than was Mr. Archibald Smith. His widow survived him for twenty-five years.
1834
SCOFIELD
William Scofield of Strongsville, O., married Mary Coon, daughter of Mathew and Albacinda Coon, and moved from a farm into the village of Cleveland.
The first home of the young couple was on Bank street, now the site of the big Root & McBride building. In 1844 Mr. Scofield built a home on Erie street between Euclid and Prospect streets, where the family lived for 18 years. About the time of the civil war, they took charge of Prospect Place, a family hotel on the corner of Euclid and Erie streets. Mr. Scofield died not long afterward, but his wife continued in charge of it for many years. This site with that of their former home is now occupied by the Scofield Building.
Mrs. Mary Coon Scofield joined the First Baptist church in 1834, only a year after its organization. She counted scores of friends in that pioneer religious society, friends who remained staunch and true until her death in 1892.
Mr. and Mrs. Scofield rest in Lake View cemetery. They had five children, the first three of whom died young.
Levi Scofield, m. Elisabeth Wright, a very charming young woman, daughter of Marshall Wright of Kingsville, O. (Died recently.) Mary E. Scofield, m. Alfred S. Field of Columbus, 0., son of John Field.
Levi Scofield has always been an active man of affairs in the city, and his wife was a member of musical circles and a patron of undeveloped musical ability.
Mrs. Mary Scofield Fields belongs to the Western Reserve Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Elijah White, Jr., father of Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Amos S. Hutchinson, was a prominent merchant of Granville, Mass., who removed to Plattsburgh, N. Y., and engaged in manufacturing. He was married twice. His first wife was Olive Cone, and one of their children was:
Pamelia White, born 1799. She married, in 1819, Robert Sackrider of Plattsburgh, N. Y., who died in 1826. Mrs. Pamelia White-Sackrider came to Cleveland with her children, and after the death of her half-sister, Harriet E. Hutchinson, kept house for Mr. Hutchinson and his two motherless children until after his second marriage.
Mrs. Sackrider had three children:
Mary Sackrider, b. 1820; died 1842.
Cornelia Sackrider, b. 1822; married Mr. Pease of Detroit.
Elijah White Sackrider, b. 1825. He was long years a Cleveland druggist.
Edward Griffin White, a brother of Mrs. Samuel and Mrs. Amos E. Hutchinson, lived in Cleveland in the '30s, and died here in 1849, aged 34 years.
1834
WHITING
William B. Whiting, 34 years of age, removed with his family from Laurens, Otsego Co., New York, to Grafton, Lorain Co., Ohio, some time in the early '30s.
He was the son of Gamaliel B. Whiting of Lenox, Mass. His mother, before her marriage, was a Miss Mary Dismore. She died, aged 74 years, while her son was living in Grafton, and was buried there. Some years afterward it was thought best to remove her remains to the Judge Samuel Cowles lot in Erie street cemetery, and while doing this it was discovered that her body had petrified solidly, and it was with great difficulty lifted from the grave. As in similar cases, no decomposition had taken place, and she had the appearance of one sleeping.
William B. Whiting was educated for the law, but had little inclination to practice his profession. While in Grafton he lived on a farm, but in the course of a few "years removed to Cleveland, and finally returned east where, in Corning, N. Y., he spent the rest of his days, a prominent citizen of that town. He was for some years its postmaster, and later became the auditor of an eastern railroad.
Mr. Whiting married, in 1833, Miss Emily Bostwick of Laurens. The couple had seven children live to maturity, only three of whom married.
Mr. Whiting's sister Cornelia had become the wife of Judge Samuel Cowles in 1832, and came at once to Cleveland. She lived here the remaining years of her life, and some of her brother's children also resided in the city long years after their parents had returned east to live.
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Either in boyhood or in his college days, Mr. Whiting became intimately. associated with Sherlock J. Andrews, who afterward became a distinguished lawyer and judge of this city. The latter seems to have been greatly attached to Mr. Whiting, as he named his only son, William Whiting Andrews, in honor of his friend.
The children of William B. and Emily Bostwick Whiting::
Dr. Samuel C. Whiting, married Emily Caddington (daughter of a well-known western editor.) Dr. Whiting became a distinguished Homeopathic physician of La Porte, Indiana.
Edmund R. Whiting. Lives in Kirtland, O., unmarried.
Cornelia Whiting. Died at the residence of her brother in Kirtland, unmarried.
Hiram B. Whiting. Died in young manhood.
William Whiting. Died in young manhood
John Whiting. Enlisted during the civil war, and served his country. Died unmarried
Helen M. Whiting, married Thompson H. Johnson, youngest son of Chilton and Margaret Ohaber Johnson of Vincennes, Ind., and long a well-known member of the Cleveland bar.
Helen Whiting Johnson died in 1909, and rests in Lake View cemetery. She left a daughter who, with her father, spends part of each year in California. Mrs. Johnson and her sister, Cornelia Whiting, were both fine women, exceedingly kind-hearted and benevolent, and greatly loved by their family and friends.
Two children of Dr. Samuel C. Whiting reside in this city. William B. Whiting, a lawyer, and with the firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.
His sister, Sarah Whiting, married George Hart of Vincennes, Ind., and removed to Cleveland. Mr. Hart is treasurer of the Guardian Savings and Trust Company.
1834
WILLIAMS
George Williams, an older brother of William Williams, a well-known pioneer of a little later day, settled in Cleveland as early as 1834, and carried on the business of private banking and brokerage. He was associated with Grant Fitch of Cleveland, under the firm name of Williams and Fitch, until the latter's death in 1840, and later on, for a time, with Zalmon Fitch, father of above, under the firm name of "George Williams & Co."
George and William Williams were the sons of Ebenezer and Martha Porter Williams, of East Windsor, Conn., and grandsons of Samuel and Margaret Huntington Williams, of Groton, Conn.
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Their maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Porter, who was of the fifth generation, from John of Windsor, marched to Boston as a Minute man on the Lexington Alarm.
George Williams was but 12 years of age when his parents left Connecticut in 1811, and settled in the wilds of Lake county, consequently his educational advantages were few. But his subsequent career indicates that in common with all other members of his father's family, he did not allow circumstances to mar his life in the least, nor hinder it from being all that through a heritage of brains and courage was his.
He remained a bachelor until 45 years of age, and then, in 1844, married Mary Baldwin, widow of his late partner, Grant Fitch.
Mrs. Williams had a little daughter, Mary Grant Fitch, who grew to womanhood in the Williams household, which, for many years, was sheltered in the quaint pioneer dwelling, formerly known as the Dunham Tavern. It still stands on the north side of Euclid Ave., between East 66th and 69th streets, and is occupied by Dr. J. A. Stephens. Later the family lived on the north-east corner of Euclid and E. 46th street.
George Williams was a resident of Cleveland for 55 years, dying in 1889, aged 90.
The only child of George and Martha Baldwin Williams was a daughter, Martha Candace Williams, who married Edward Hooker Harvey. Their only child, Melanie Harvey, married Edward Kirke Cushing of Cleveland.
1834
MACKENSIE
"Mackensie's Drug Store," Number 100 Superior street, has been a landmark of the city for 75 years or more, its location still a drug-store, owned by Strong & Cobb.
"Mackensie's Liver Pills," once known all over the country as a remedy for malaria, are yet to be found on druggists' shelves.
The originator of the store and the pills was Dr. Colin Swayne Mackensie, physician and chemist, who, in 1834, came to this town from Baltimore, Md. He was then 24 years of age, the son of Dr. John Mackensie, a celebrated physician and a founder of the St. Andrew's Society.
His mother was Sarah Pinkerton, of Chester, Pa.
The Baltimore Mackensies were direct descendants of Kenneth, High Chief of Kentare, Scotland. Their first American ancestor was Thomas Mackensie, who came to this country in 1746, married the daughter of Governor Johnson of Maryland, and settled in that state as a planter.
The memory of Dr. Colin S. Mackensie, the Cleveland pioneer, is still treasured by several of our present citizens, who in their youth were associated with him either as pupils or as clerks in his drug-store. To these, and to others, who seem to know nothing of the good doctor's antecedents, it may be of interest to learn that he was one of five brothers,
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all university graduates and all physicians, who acquired distinction in their several lines of work and practice.
Dr. John P. Mackensie was superintendent of the Maryland Hospital..
Dr. Thomas G. Mackensie was a founder of the Maryland School of Pharmacy.
Dr. George B. Mackensie was one of the staff of the State Children's Hospital
Dr. James S. Mackensie was a successful practitioner
There were also two sisters, one of whom married Richard Freebourne, and the other Joseph Cushing, well-known citizens of Baltimore.
Dr. Colin S. Mackensie was a prominent member of the Old Stone church, and, like all Scotch Presbyterians, he was a theologian. In questions of doctrine that occasionally arose in the congregation, he was ever a member to be reckoned with and considered. Upon rare occasions he showed his disapproval of a pulpit utterance by leaving the church in the middle of a sermon.
But withal he was a very kindly man ; always prompt in personal service or with gifts of money when either was required. He maintained the old school of manners, polite, punctilious, dignified, considerate, a person upon whom none would dare to presume, and yet turn to for protection or pity.
The death of his wife, in 1846, was a blow from which he never recovered. Her headstone, with its pathetic inscription, "She died, and yet I live," can be found in Erie street cemetery, to the right of the main drive.
She was Emily J. Vallette, a widow, and the daughter of John and Rosalind McMahan Quin. She was born in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, and at her second marriage, in 1836, was but 18 years of age, and only 28 at the time of her death.
The home of Dr. Mackensie was Number 32 Water street, in those days a most attractive location, commanding a beautiful view of the lake. Their nearest neighbors were the Alexander Seymour and J. G. Stockley families.
After Mrs. Mackensie's death, the doctor, with his two young children, boarded at the residence of an intimate friend, Mrs. Benjamin Andrews.
His only son, Colin Mackensie, Jr., born 1839, was true to family tradition, and entered the medical profession. He was a surgeon at Camp Chase during the civil war, and afterward in the U. S. Army. He died in New York City at the age of 53. His wife, to whom he was married in 1863, was Miss Ellen Tolford, of Troy, N. Y., daughter of Rev. David Tolford, of Vermont, and Priscilla Waring, of Maryland. Colin, Jr., had one son, Colin 3rd, born 1871, who lives in New York.
Dr. Colin Mackensie's only daughter, Emily Louise Mackensie, b. 1844, married William Furgeson, of Glasgow, Scotland, who died in that city, 1895. They had one child, Colin Mackensie Furgeson, who resides in New York.
Dr. Colin Mackensie died in New York City at the home of his son in 1894, aged 84 years.
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Asaph Whittlesey, aged 32 years, and his wife, Vesta Hart Whittlesey, aged 24, started with their two little sons, Charles and Samuel, from Southington, Conn., in 1813, to make their home in Tallmadge, O. The seriousness of such an undertaking was recognized by the whole village turning out to bid them "Godspeed."
Their equipment was of the best, two horses and a big, roomy farmwagon. They took the southern route by way of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, mountains and steep hills nearly every mile of the journey. Between Beaver Dam and Pittsburgh an accident to their team nearly cost them their lives, and so injured Mrs. Whittlesey, that she never wholly recovered from it. The wagon ran off a steep incline in the road, and, turning completely over, imprisoned her and the children under it. The situation was made more serious by the baggage that nearly filled the wagon. With a superhuman effort Mr. Whittlesey managed to raise one side, and drag his family out from under it, and a box that held Mrs. Whittlesey down.
The last days of the journey were made in a drizzling rain-storm, and when, wet, tired, and bruised, they entered their dreary cabin, standing on the edge of a swamp, the disheartened young mother gave way to her tears.
But she was a brave little woman, who soon rallied and "made the best of it." How little we realize today just what this term meant then, and many years to follow!
For instance, once in entertaining some neighbors to a little tea party, the table was found too small to seat all the guests. Mrs. Whittlesey quietly withdrew to an upper room and pried up a wide board in its floor, with which she enlarged the table.
Mr. Whittlesey was a man of unusual courage and resource. He had many drawbacks from prosperity. In assisting a neighbor to raise a house, he was hit by a falling beam, and crippled for life, yet, in spite of all, this couple raised a family, four charming daughters, besides the sons, who were an honor to the name of Whittlesey.
Especially was this true of Col. Charles Whittlesey, soldier, lawyer, editor, geologist, author and scientist, whom the city of Cleveland proudly claims, and justly honors.
By some good fortune his father secured for him a cadetship at West Point, which meant a liberal education. After his graduation he was stationed as second lieutenant at Mackinac and Green Bay. Meantime, he studied law, for we find him in 1836, as "an attorney and counsellor," at No. 16 Superior st. At the same time he is co-editor and publisher, with his second cousin, Frederick Whittlesey, of the Cleveland Herald and Gazette. Then he sold out to become a government geologist, explored Lake Superior and the Mississippi basin.
Cleveland became indebted to him through the first history of the city published, on which he probably lost money, and he assisted the municipality by enlisting the aid of the national government in necessary harbor improvements.
His literary work was prolific. It is said to have comprised 191 historical, archxological, geological, scientific, and religious treatises.
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Mr. Whittlesey remained a bachelor until 50 years of age. He then married Mrs. Mary E. Morgan, daughter of James and Ann Forman Lyon.
Mr. Whittlesey suffered much with rheumatism during the last years of his life, but his energy and enthusiasm would not allow it to shelve him and his many activities. Among these was the Western Reserve Historical Society, of which he was a founder and its first president. He died in 1886.
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REMINGTON
There are headstones in Erie street cemetery that indicate the early residence in this city of a family of New England ancestry named Remington.
Two members of it were still living here in 1856, and a third one, Stephen G. Remington.
The inscriptions on the stones are very unusual, as, in each one, the wife's maiden name is inscribed.
"Benjamin Remington, b. 1770-died 1835.
Mary East Remington, his wife, 1770-1867.
Their son Joseph Remington, 1803- 1834.
John G. Remington, their son, 1797 -1863.
Nancy Adams Remington, wife of above, 1803-1829.
Marilla Penfield Remington, wife of above, 1800-1840.
Eliza Ann Remington, dau. of John G. and Nancy, 1823-1834."
The two members of the family who died in 1834 may have been cholera victims.
Stephen G. Remington was a member of the Old Settlers' Association. He gave his record of birth 1828, and came here in 1834.
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On September 1st, 1813, occurred a typical New England wedding, that of Alanson Russell and Miss Nancy Caulkins. Both represented long lines of American ancestry. He was the son of John Russell, a revolutionary soldier, and the great-grandson of William and Elisabeth
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Russell, who were living in this country 100 years before its declaration of independence. His mother was Martha Thrall.
Nancy Caulkins was born in Sharon, and a member of a Connecticut family that bore upon its lineage tree doctors and divines, lawyers and patriots galore.
The couple were very young, for the bride was still in her teens, the groom but recently able to answer "20 years" as his age.
There was nothing unusual in this. The founding of a home and of a family held no terrors for the young people of that period. They did not dream of beginning their married life under the conditions in which they had been reared, the rambling, many-roomed homestead with its solid Colonial furnishings and its assured comfort.
The newly married expected to live modestly, labor industriously, and to acquire slowly the degree of living that their parents in equal manner had attained. Their first home was the center one of the three cottages on Superior street where the Arcade now stands : on one side the Camps, on the other the Sackriders. Nancy Caulkins Russell must have been a beautiful bride, for, in middle age, she was an unusually attractive woman, and was still fair to look upon when her head was crowned with silver.
Alanson Russell was born in Rodman, Jefferson Co. At that time, 1834, he had several children, the oldest of whom was 17 years old. The family lived at 35 Water street, where Mr. Russell kept a small private hotel where young couples tarried until ready for housekeeping on their own account, and where unattached business and professional men found a home not obtainable elsewhere. Among the latter, in 1837, were David Hersh uncle of Mrs. William Bingham, Henry Raymond, A. B. Hitchcock, and S. A. Fairchild, merchants, and two or three bank clerks.
Mr. Russell lived but four years after his arrival in Cleveland. It may have been declining health and the hope of regaining it that led him to seek a new home in the west. Were that the case, it proved fallacious, for he died in the prime of life, 45 years, and was laid away in old Erie street cemetery, and in 1865, Nancy Caulkins Russell, who outlived him 27 years, was placed beside him.
The children of Alanson and Nancy Russell:
George H. Russell, b. 1817; died 1888; m. Octavia Bolton. Russell Ave., now changed to East 70th street, received its name from him.
Chester C. Russell, d. Princeton, Ill.
Clarinda Russell, m. John Shelley See Shelley family sketch.
Emmeline Russell, m. S. A. Fairchild ; 2nd, Thomas Bolton.
Mr. and Mrs. Alanson Russell left little property to their family. But they passed on to grandchildren their own inheritance, one more highly prized by many people than a bank-account, and which opened wide to them the doors of the Society of Huguenots, Colonial Dames, and Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Frederick and Charles Whittlesey, whose fathers were cousins, became joint owners and editors of the Cleveland Herald in 1836. They were the lineal descendants of John and Ruth Dudley Whittlesey of Saybrook, Conn., 1664, and were both born in Southington, Conn., Frederick in 1801, and Charles in 1808.
The former was the son of Roger Whittlesey, a Yale College graduate in the class of 1787. His mother was Mary Smalley, daughter of Rev. John Smalley, D. D.
With such a mental heritage, it is not surprising that Frederick Whittlesey also graduated from Yale at 21 years of age. He then came west and studied law with Elisha Whittlesey, a relative living in Canfield, O., and long a congressman of the Western Reserve.
In 1827 he began the practice of his profession in Elyria, O., and at once rapidly rose to prominence and distinction. He was early chosen to represent his district in the Ohio legislature both as congressman and senator. At one time, he was Speaker of the House, and it is said that his dignity and decision while in the chair, and his familiarity with parliamentary rules won the admiration of the legislature.
In his 34th year he removed to Cleveland and established a newspaper which he discontinued in order to become part owner and editor of the Cleveland Herald. He was a man of unusual ability, one whom his neighbors and friends respected and esteemed, an upright, honorable, Christian gentleman.
In 1840, while in the very prime of life, he was stricken with a form of paralysis, that for 14 years crippled him in all endeavor, and sometimes made him helpless. This terrible affliction was borne patiently and cheerfully. He died in 1854.
Mrs. Frederick Whittlesey was Eliza Burrall, daughter of John and Mary Robbins Burrall of Suffield, O.
She was 22 years old at the time of her marriage.
The children of Frederick and Eliza Whittlesey:
Mary Whittlesey, b. 1831.
Julia Whittlesey, b. 1835; m. Elias B. Hillard.
Henry Smalley Whittlesey, b. 1836; m. Mary E. Taylor..
Eliza Whittlesey, b. 1839; m. Henry M. Cowles.
Frederick Whittlesey, b. 1841; m. Ellen Kennedy. Resides in Denver, Colo.
Albert Whittlesey, b. 1843; m. Lucy Wright
Emily Whittlesey, b. 1846; m. Alfred W. Newton.
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WORTHINGTON
George and Ralph H. Worthington, once prominent in the city, were born in Cooperstown, N. Y., of old American stock.
Their parents were Ralph and Clarissa Clark Worthington. Clarissa Clark was the eldest daughter of Jerome and Anna Pinneo Clark of Colchester, Ct.
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The earliest Worthington, and for a time the only one in New England, was Nicholas, who came from England and settled in Saybrook in 1649, but afterward removed to Hatfield, Ct. His wife was Sarah Bunce, the daughter of Thomas Bunce of Hartford.
The Worthington brothers who reached Cleveland in 1834 were of the sixth generation from these ancestors. We find them established in business, and both boarding at the Franklin House, kept by Benj. Harrington, who later was one of the city's postmasters.
"George Worthington, hardware merchant, 3 Superior street, corner of Union lane ;
"R. H. Worthington, cap and hat manufacturer, 31 Superior street, three doors west of the post-office,"
reads the little Cleveland directory for 1837. This record contains no hint of the hard work, anxiety and worry of running a business on limited capital, with money exceedingly scarce, a financial condition prevalent in every pioneer town in the '20s and '30s.
George Worthington was but 21 years old when he came west, yet the enterprise and far-reaching sagacity he at once displayed was most unusual, and far outclassed the older merchants of the little community. The manner in which he built up his trade outside of the town is an interesting story, and should be of value to the young business man of today, alike situated.
It was done through personal effort. He did not stand behind the counter of his small hardware store and wait for customers to drop in for purchase, but started out and traveled for miles the country round, solicitating orders, and offering to exchange with farmers or store-keepers anything he could dispose of, pork, grain, etc.
Soon wagons loaded with produce and drawn by horses or oxen were coming into town from a hundred miles away, and receiving from him in return hardware and other merchandise. Before 1840, he had moved to larger quarters, a store-room on the north-east corner of Superior and Water streets, once the old Nathan Perry stand, and here he transacted business for 30 years. Thenceforth it became an extensive wholesale establishment on the corner of Water and St. Clair streets, where it yet remains and is partly managed by the second generation of the Cleveland branch of the family.
In November, 1840, Mr. Worthington married Maria Cushman Blackmer, 23 years of age. She was the daughter of Reuben Harmon and Amanda Cushman Blackmer, Cleveland pioneers, who came here from Dorset, Vt. In 1836 Mr. Blackmer had a general provision-store on Ontario street, the present site of W. P. Southworth Co.
Just in the rear of this store was a little white chapel in the midst of a cluster of small dwellings. Here Miss Maria Blackmer opened a private school which afterward became absorbed in the newly established free, or public school system.
As a bride Maria Blackmer was slender and petite, with dark hair, and large dark eyes, and, judging from the personality of after years, must have been a very pretty young woman.
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The four sons and four daughters that came into her household were typical American children, of the seventh generation on their father's side, and on their mother's directly descended from Thomas Cushman and his wife, Mary Allerton, of the Mayflower.
Mrs. Worthington's domestic cares absorbed all her time and effort for many years. Then, when it required a less measure of attention, her mind and heart went out in sympathy to struggling humanity, especially to poor or orphaned children, bereft of mother love or the comforts she had deemed so essential for her own little ones, and to the aged whom life had left stranded by the wayside.
She gave herself freely and of her wealth generously to the various charities with which she was affiliated, and thus became very dear to a host of people to whom her own family were strangers, and who mourned her death in 1902 as a personal loss.
In 1848 Mr. Worthington purchased nine acres of land on the north side of Euclid avenue between Sterling and Case, East 30th and 40th, for which he paid $3500. Upon this he erected one of the beautiful homes that helped to make that throroughfare famous. The previous residence of the family had been Number 85 St. Clair street.
Children of George and Maria Worthington:
Ralph Worthington, b. 1841.
Abigail Maria Worthington, m. George Hoyt, son of Sylvester and Eleanor Converse Hoyt of Chardon, O.
Mary Beadle Worthington, m. Clark I. Butts, son of Freeman and Mary Ballard Butts.
Clarissa Clark Worthington, m. Willis B. Hale, son of Edwin B. and Susannah Hoyt Hale.
George Worthington, m. Lily M. Smith, dau. of John W. and Altia Downer Smith of Albany, N. Y.
Alice Worthington, m. Martin J. Pendleton, son of Charles and Charity Sears Pendleton
Two children died in infancy.
Ralph H. Worthington, who started a business in Cleveland a year later than George Worthington, evidently had more obstacles to encounter, or was less plucky than his brother, for he tired of the struggles of a pioneer merchant, and returned east, settling in New York City, where commercial life was less strenuous.
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Buckley Stedman, a provision dealer, doing business on Merwin street, and his brother, W. G. Stedman, were sons of Timothy and Mehetabel Root Stedman.
Buckley married 1st, Lydia Reed, a daughter of George and Abigail Van de Water Read of Watertown, N. Y.
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Mrs. Stedman was born in 1801, and married in 1822. It is said that she was a beautiful woman, and a fine old portrait of her in possession of a granddaughter testifies to the fact.
She died in Cleveland, 1844.
The children were George, Norton, Charlotte, Julia, Harriet, Emma, and Derrick Buckley Stedman.
The family lived on the east side of Ontario street, south of the Public Square.
Julia Stedman, a handsome, brilliant girl, married William Miller of Buffalo, N. Y.
Charlotte Stedman, m. Basil Spangler, son of the pioneer
Harriet and Emma Stedman, married Chapman brothers.
Buckley Stedman married 2nd, Diana Kingsbury, daughter of Judge James Kingsbury, the pioneer. They had no children.
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LEONARD
Jarvis Leonard was a resident of Cleveland for 64 years. He came here in 1834 while it was yet a village, and died in 1898, when it was a great metropolis. Previous to 1834 he had been living in Pomfret, Vt., where he was born in 1809, and where he had been clerking in his father's dry-goods store. His parents were Orphis and Mary Pratt Leonard of that town.
Jarvis Leonard started a store of his own in Cleveland at 56 Superior street under the firm name of Leonard & White.
Two years afterward, he returned to Vermont to marry Miss Frances Emoretta Tuttle Vail, daughter of Allen and Elisabeth Tuttle Vail.
Their first home was on Superior street. Afterward they lived on Prospect street, and finally Mr. Leonard built on East Madison ave., East 79th street, where he died. His wife had passed to the beyond five years before his demise, aged 84.
Jarvis Leonard seems to have led a quiet business life. His name does not appear in connection with public affairs of any kind either in the early or later years of his life. After 1850 he was connected with the Society for Savings.
The children of Jarvis and Frances Leonard:
Caroline Maria Leonard, b. 1837, in Cleveland.
Matilda Charlotte Leonard, b. 1840.
Mary J. Leonard.
Miss Charlotte Leonard is the only surviving member of this family. She resides on East 79th street, and spends her winters in the south.
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For two days in the late summer of 1849, a crowd stood near the foot of Water street in front of "Sunset Cottage," built and once occupied by Alfred Kelley, but then the residence of Alexander Seymour, a well known and popular resident of the city. Every one coming out of the house was waylaid and eagerly questioned. All were watching and waiting for tidings from within where lay the master of the house, stricken down with Asiatic cholera. It was the third time that the scourge had visited the city, and each time its victims had been largely of the best and most valuable of its citizens.
Sorrow and dismay were on the faces of all gathered there. At length, some one came out, and announced that Mr. Seymour had passed away, and was free from further suffering.
He left a family of orphan children, as his wife had died some years previous, 1839.
Alexander Seymour was the son of Norman and Kate Seymour of Northampton, Mass. His branch of the Seymour family has been recognized by the descendants of Jane Seymour, wife of Henry VIII, yet living in an English castle, as related to them in line of descent. His parents were cousins.
An early resident of the city who lived on Water street, as a child, says that he was a very handsome man, with a fine, stately carriage, and polished manners.
While in Troy, N. Y., on business, he met Hester Lansing, daughter of Jacob Lansing, who gave Lansingburg, N. Y., its name, who had an ideal home on the Hudson river, and a family of children, all of whom married into well-known New York families.
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour went to live in Utica, N. Y., where Mr. Seymour built a most attractive residence on the crest of a hill and between two streets, so that both sides of the house had beautiful frontages.
The young couple had a number of relatives living in Utica. Among them were Horatio Seymour, a cousin, and one-time governor of New York, and Mrs. Gardner Tracy, a sister of Mrs. Seymour. Three children of the latter afterward came to Cleveland, James J. Tracy, Mrs. A. N. Barney, and Mrs. John E. Lyon.
About 1834, Mr. Seymour concluded to engage in the banking business in Cleveland, and with his wife and three children came here all the way from Utica in a carriage. The youngest child, a little girl, took her naps on a pillow on the floor of the vehicle.
Their first home was on Huron street, west of Erie, near where the Homeopathic Hospital stands. They then moved to the eastern side of the double brick residence standing on Rockwell street, back of the new post-office. Their front windows looked out on the Case homestead, then occupying the whole square, and surrounded by trees, shrubs and flowers.
Mr. Seymour became interested in Rocky River real-estate, and owned a large farm there where the family spent vacations and the hot, summer days. A brother of Mr. Seymour lived on it afterward, many years.
In the Rockwell street home Mrs. Seymour died of consumption. She was an exceptionally lovable character, and had made hosts of loving,
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grateful friends in the three towns in which she had spent her life, Lansingburgh, Utica, and Cleveland.
She had a heart tenderly touched by the sufferings of the needy, and always listened sympathetically to every tale of sin or suffering. She lived for her home and family, and trusted God. She left five children, two of them born in Cleveland. After her death, Mr. Seymour removed to Sunset Cottage, Water street.
They were both laid to rest in Erie street cemetery. Their two youngest children were delicate and died young. The others were:
Mary Ann Seymour, m. William Warren of England, Manager of the Liverpool, London, and Globe Insurance Co.
Cornelius Lansing, m. Lucy Kingsbury, daughter of Judge James Kingsbury, the pioneer.
Helen Lansing, m. Seth Coggswell Baldwin, son of Edward and Mercy Doan Baldwin.
While residing in Utica, N. Y., Alexander Seymour became much attached to the Rev. Samuel Aiken, and after removing here was instrumental in securing that clergyman for the Old Stone church. So loving was the friendship of the two men, that they bought adjoining buriallots in Erie street cemetery that they might together open their eyes on the resurrection morn.
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Nelson Monroe was one of the best known men of Cleveland. For a period of nearly thirty years he carried on a mercantile business that extended outside of the city and even the state. He died in 1860, aged 52 years.
Mrs. Nelson Monroe-Mary E. Luther-of Balston Spa, N. Y., came to Cleveland in the early '30s to visit her uncles, John and Henry Seaman, well-known merchants doing business on Superior street. The former lived on Seneca street, and the latter at 80 Bank street. She soon was welcomed into the circle of young people of that day, for she was pretty and agreeable, and before returning home became engaged to Nelson Monroe. He brought her back to Cleveland, and here they lived prosperously, but not altogether happily, for they suffered the loss of several little children, none living very long. At last, a little daughter survived, to be the idol of their hearts. They gave her the name of "Keokee," and everything that wealth and affection could suggest or accomplish was showered upon her.
But at the age of seventeen she died. A beautiful piece of statuary marks her grave in Woodland cemetery, and upon it is inscribed, "She blooms in the field of night."
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This statue, made in Italy, and erected at the grave of Keokee Monroe, is worthy of mention as the first work of art placed in a local cemetery. It was enclosed in glass for protection, and for some years it attracted much attention. Woodland cemetery was often visited for the purpose only of seeing the marble figure that was said to be a likeness of the beautiful young girl sleeping beneath it.
Mrs. Monroe survived her husband for thirty-three years. After his death she continued to call Cleveland her home, although spending many years in the east and in foreign travel. The Monroes lived in their early married life at 104 St. Clair street, opposite the old academy, public school, and fire-engine house. Between the front windows of the parlor in this house was married Mr. Monroe's niece, Louise Dabney Monroe, to Charles White, the son of Deacon Moses White. And a few years later, 1864, in the same spot, was married the writer of this history of the Pioneer Families of Cleveland.
Nelson Monroe built a fine brick house on Euclid Avenue, just east of Bond street, and Mrs. Monroe continued to occupy it for some years. It served as a landmark because of two stone grayhounds which ornamented the door-steps.
At her death, Mrs. Monroe left a large estate, the greater part of which was willed to benevolent and charitable institutions. She died in Paradise Valley, N. Y., in 1893.
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William Otis, son of Stephen and Elisabeth Wade Otis, was born in Scituate, Mass., in 1768.
He married Philena Shaw of Wrentham, and removed to Cummington, Mass.
After their family of eight children had been added to the household, and the youngest, a daughter, was nine years old, the couple, now middleaged, came to Ohio. They died in Cleveland, and were buried in Woodland cemetery.
Philma Shaw Otis, pioneer mother and great-great-grandmother of the present generation, was born in 1772, and was 68 years old at the time of her death.
The name of Otis is most honored in Massachusetts. It stands for brains, and culture, patriotism, and statesmanship. The family is typically American. The first ancestor on this side of the Atlantic was John of Hingham in 1635, just 200 years before the name appeared in the financial and social circles of Cleveland.
Mr. William Otis was preceded to Ohio by his oldest child, William A. Otis, and, probably, it was through this son's advice or persuasion that the whole family followed him a few years later.
William Otis must have been a man of singular independence, and moreover, something of a wag. He expressed both tendencies in a pecul-
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iar manner, probably originating and ending with himself. He named his first son after himself, William, adding to it "Augustus."
When his second son was born, he also was named William, with "Cushing" following it, and so on, until they numbered six Williams. These sons were usually known by their initials, W. A., W. C., etc. They were all men of strong character and forceful personality. Two of them died comparatively young.
The children of William and Philena Shaw Otis:
William Augustus Otis, b. 1794; m Elisa Procter.
Philena Otis, b. 1796; m. Silas Andrews, of Hartford, Conn.
William Cushing Otis, b. 1801; m.Mary Craft of Painesville, O., in 1829.
William Harrison Otis, b. 1803; m Minerva Dille of Euclid, in 1831.
William-Shaw Otis, b. 1807; m. Hannah Mygatt; 2nd, Miss Lyman, dau. of Darius Lyman of Ravenna, O.
Dr. William Francis Otis, b. 1810; m. Isabella Murrell of Bowling Green, Ky., his brother's widow.
William Lucius Otis, b. 1813; m. Isabella Murrell. He died in Portage Co.
Caroline Otis, b. 1816; m.--------- Bates.
In 1818, William Augustus Otis, then 24 years of age, started on foot from Cummington, Mass., to seek fortune in the west.
He first tried Pittsburg, but financial luck avoided him there, and he passed on and up to Bloomfield, Trumbull Co., O. Here he opened a tavern, and started a store, buying and selling every kind of produce in demand.
He was too tirelessly active and ambitious to remain contentedly in a country village, and, in the late '30s, he came to Cleveland, and for years was one of its leading commission merchants. He also became a pioneer iron manufacturer, and later a banker.
Mr. Otis assisted in reorganizing the Second Presbyterian church, in 1844, at which time he became one of its deacons. In connection with this, he is said to have been a man who used his religion in his business life and not merely as a Sunday garment. He died in 1868, aged 74.
He had married, at the age of 30, Miss Eliza Procter of Manchester, Mass., a lady very near his own age. She died in 1856.
The children of W A. and Eliza Procter Otis:
Charles A. Otis.
Eliza Procter Otis, m. Hon. T. D. Crocker.
William H. Otis. Lived in Indianapolis
Charles A. Otis was the mayor of Cleveland in 1875 and 1876. He succeeded his father in the iron business, and afterward started a rolling mill.
He and his sister, Mrs. Crocker, lived side by side on Euclid Ave.. near East 30th street, for many years.
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Charles A. Otis m. 1st, Miss Mary Shepard, who died, leaving two daughters
Anna Otis, m. Judge William B. San- Nelly Otis, m. Dr. J. Kent Sanders.
ders.
Mr. Otis married secondly, Miss Anna Eliza Shepard, his sister-in-law.. .
They had three sons:
William A. Otis..
Charles A. Otis, Jr.
Harrison G. Otis
Charles A. Otis, Jr., is the best-known Cleveland representative of this old pioneer family in the present financial and social life of the city. He is the senior member of the firm Otis & Hough, private bankers and stock-brokers. He is also the proprietor of the Cleveland Evening News.*
* Since sold to Daniel R. Hanna.
Mr. Otis is exceedingly popular with all classes of men through his democratic bearing, his ready sympathy, and generosity. He married Miss Lucia Edwards, daughter of the late Col. William Edwards.
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PEASE
Sheldon Pease was the son of Isaac Pease of Derby, Conn.
He was 25 years old when he came to Cleveland. He was married in 1835 at the residence of Horace Canfield to Miss Marianne Humphrey, younger sister of Mrs. Canfield.
Old residents recall Mrs. Pease in terms of great admiration. She had a beautiful face, a fine carriage, and lovely manners.
The family lived, part of the time, in Dr. Long's former residence, s. w. corner of Superior and Seneca street, West 3rd. Meanwhile Dr. Long was occupying his spacious home out Woodland Ave.
Later the Pease family removed farther easton Superior st., about opposite the Arcade.
Sheldon Pease was associated with others in the forwarding and commission business, and had vessel interests. The firm name was "Griffith, Pease & Co.," and their place of business was on the corner of Superior and Merwin streets, on the river.
Mr. Pease was a member of the first Board of Trade, organized in 1847, with Wm. Milford as the president, and during the years of his residence in the city was an active, progressive citizen, prominent in every public measure.
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He was general manager of the Western Transportation Co., and, its headquarters having been established in Buffalo, made his removal to that city imperative. His home there was on Franklin Ave. He retired from business in 1870.
Mr. and Mrs. Pease had two sons who, in youth, were unusually handsome lads, and in their brief manhood gave great promise for the future. They were both born in Cleveland.
Alfred Humphrey Pease possessed a degree of musical talent that justified his parents in sending him to Germany for a musical education. He became a pianist of national note and a composer of orchestral composition. He died in St. Louis, Mo., 44 years of age.
Arthur W. Pease, born 1844, was a tall, graceful young man, full of noble inmpulses and talented in many ways.
In 1866, he married Julia Watson, daughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer Watson.
Five years after their wedding, they both lost their lives in a railroad accident on the Hudson River Railroad.
This same casualty caused the death of George Benedict, a wellknown Cleveland citizen.
It will be noticed that the declining years of Sheldon and Mrs. Pease were saddened by the loss of both their children. They often visited Cleveland friends, and also entertained them generously in their Buffalo home.
1834
LYMAN
Benjamin Sheldon Lyman was a Cleveland druggist, whose store for some years was on Superior street, and his residence No. 6 Water street.
He came to this town from Utica, N. Y. His father was Dr. Micah Lyman of Northampton, Mass., a Yale graduate, who practiced medicine in Troy, N. Y., and his mother was Elisabeth Sheldon Lyman. The Lymans were residents of Northampton for many generations. They intermarried frequently with the Strong and Sheldon families.
Benjamin Sheldon Lyman was about 33 years of age when he came to Cleveland. He had recently married Miss Mary H. Wait of Clinton, N. Y., 27 years old. Their eldest daughter,
Elisabeth Sheldon Lyman, and two sons, who died in infancy, were born in this city. Some time between the panic of 1837 and 1840, the family returned east and settled in Troy, N. Y., where Mr. Lyman's father, Dr. Micah Lyman, was established as a physician.
Here was born their second daughter, Mary Sophia Lyman. Several years later, the Lymans removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. Their only son, Benjamin Fisher Lyman, was born in that city in 1849.
Mr. Lyman eventually became connected with the consulate of China, and, in 1871, was stationed at Too Choo.
It has not been learned when he returned to this country, or the subsequent residence of his children.
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Although Nelson Monroe, through his longer residence in Cleveland, was better known than his brother, Henry Monroe, the latter was the founder of the large wholesale grocery, established in 1834, and continuing in business for about forty years.
The brothers Nelson and Henry were the sons of Abraham and Priscilla Utley Monroe of Bridgewater, N. Y.
Henry Monroe traveled for the firm, and in 1836, while on one of these business trips, died in Chicago of typhoid fever. He left a wife and two children, Henry, and Emma Monroe.
Mrs. Henry Monroe was a Miss Lucinda Dabney of Providence, Rhode Island. She was of Huguenot descent, and is said to have possessed a strikingly beautiful face.
At the time of her husband's death she had been called east by the serious illness of her mother. She started with her little children for Providence, but reached there too late. Her mother was dead, and before she could recover from the shock, word was received that her husband had died suddenly in Chicago. She had to take the long journey to that city at once, and after her husband's burial returned to her father's house.
Little Henry died, and the daughter, Emma Monroe, while on a visit to her uncle, Nelson Monroe, met and married Charles White, the son of Deacon Moses White.
Mrs. Emma Nelson White was a very pleasant, intelligent lady. To her the writer was indebted for valuable data contained in this history. Charles White, her husband, was born on Superior street, and died in 1908.
1834
MOULD
It is seldom that a woman 70 years of age is willing to give up her home and native country in order to be with her children. This was what Catherine Mould did in 1832. To cross the ocean was a far more serious undertaking at that time than in these days, and her action was that of a brave woman and a devoted mother.
The children were all adults. Her son, Henry Mould, Sr., had married Miss Anne Scribener, and had a family of children, and Catherine's two grown daughters were of the party. Their home had been in Chetsey, Surrey Co., England, and when they reached America they continued their journey by tedious stages to Zanesville, O.
Here they all remained for four years when Catherine's grandson, Henry Mould, Jr., who was quite musical, came to Cleveland, and in company with Nathan Brainard opened a music-store, the first one in which music and all kinds of musical instruments were sold exclusively.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mould, Sr., had a fine family of boys and girls whose intermarriages with well-known Cleveland families began, soon after their arival, which was two or three years after the eldest son located here, and which their posterity has continued to do.
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Children of Henry and Anne Mould:
Henry Mould, m. Louisa Hicks. He died in Boston, Mass.
Brooks Mould, m. Jane Everett of Boston.
Edmund Mould, m. Jane Parsons. He died in Cleveland.
Wilberforce Mould, m. Elisabeth Parsons, sister of above. He lives in California.
Anne Mould, m. Horatio N. Bostwick. (His second wife.)
Caroline Mould, m. Peter Numsen.
Emily Mould, m. Silas Brainard.
Laura Mould, m. Henry Brainard.
Fanny Mould, m., died in Zanesville.
Wilberforce and Emily Munson Brainard are the only surviving members of the family in 1910.
Henry Mould, Sr., associated himself with his son-in-law, Peter Numsun, in the confectionery business, which also included fancy bakery and catering, and this firm was a household word with two or three generations of our citizens. Part of the time "Mould & Numsen" was located on Superior street, and for some years it occupied a store in a small brick block which was built on the northern end of the Williamson's resident property. There was a fine hall connected with it, and for years it was the scene of fashionable parties and balls.
E. R. Numsen, a son of Peter and Caroline Mould Numsen, married a daughter of Judge Tilden, and continues a resident of the city.
Henry Mould, Sr., and his family resided in the eastern half of Leonard Case's double brick house on Rockwell street, standing back of the new post-office, and in after years they removed to Prospect street, just east of the Osborn Building.
Catherine Mould, the beloved grandmother, died in 1842, aged 80. Henry Mould, Sr., died in 1861, aged 69, and the following year his wife, Anne Scribener Mould, joined him on the other side. There are none of the name now living in the city, though many of the descendants in the female lines.
Mrs. Emily Mould Brainard is the last of her generation still with us. She is spending this winter, 1909, with her son in his beautiful home, "Clovercrest," on Euclid Ridge, and spends 'her summers with her two unmarried daughters in a summer cottage four miles farther east.
Mrs. Brainard is a fine type of the lady of a long past generation, stately, refined, courteous, hospitable, and altogether womanly. She is tenderly loved by her children and grandchildren, and ten times has proudly borne the title of great-grandmother. (Since deceased.)
The Mould family rest in Erie street cemetery.
1834
EDWARD LYON
One of the saddest events of the cholera season of 1834 was the death of a bride.
A September issue of the Cleveland Herald contained this announcement:
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"Married-By Rev. John Keep, Edward Lyon of the Franklin House t) Mrs. Myrette Price of Hudson, O."
In December following:
"Died-Mrs. Myrette Lyon, at Franklin House, consort of Edward Lyon, and daughter of Dr. Hitchcock of Sandy Hill, N. Y., aged 34 years."
"Her funeral took place on Sunday, attended by a larger concourse of people than is often witnessed in this place. The marriage of the above couple was announced in our paper as having taken place just three months previous to the day of her burial."
Mrs. Lyon was the daughter of Dr. Zina and Mabel Lockwood Hitchcock. She was an aunt of the Cleveland pioneer, James Kent Hitchcock. Her first husband, to whom she was married when 20 years of age, was Capt. William Price. They had three children : Barton Price, William Price, and
Charles Price, and her death in 1834 left the three little boys orphans.
The writer infers that Edward Lyon was landlord of the Franklin Home, previously built and kept by Philo Scoville. His antecedents have not been ascertained, nor his subsequent history. His name does not appear in the city directory, two years later, at which time Benjamin Harrington had charge of the hotel.
Evidently, Mrs. Myrette Price was a second wife, for, on the headstone in Erie st. cemetery, is the following
"Amoret, daughter of Ebenezer (?) and Clarissa Lyman, and wife of Edward Lyon, died 1831, aged 21 years."
E.O. Lyman is in the directory of 1836. Occupation, book-keeper.
In the late summer of 1835, Edward Lyon married 3rd, at Kentucky Springs, Mrs. M. M. Langton of Cincinnati.
1834
JOHN E. LYON
John E. Lyon & Co., forwarding and commission merchants, were located at 30 Merwin street, in 1836, and James Lyon was book-keeper for the firm.
John Edward Lyon and his brother James were the sons of James and Ann Forman Lyon of Oswego, N. Y. The brothers were both young, John E. being but 23 years, and James Lyon 19 years of age.
But the former seemed to have much business ability and continued to be a successful Cleveland merchant for many years.
He married Catherine M. Tracey, sister of James Jared Tracey the banker, who died recently at an advanced age.
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Mrs. Lyon was a lovely woman physically and mentally. Her neighbors on St. Clair street, where the Lyon family lived for some years, speak of her as whole-souled, kind and considerate, a finely bred woman, accustomed to a gentle environment and the best things of life, yet able to adapt herself gracefully to conditions less favorable. Her sister, Susan Tracey, wife of Ashabel Barney, was also a sweet-mannered, gracious lady, whom every one, who knew her, recalled with pleasure.
John E. Lyon removed to New York City.
James Lyon also left the city, married,- and made his home in Chicago.
1834
SMYTH
William Smyth, of the firm of Smyth & Clary, dealers in produce, ship chandlery, etc., No. 10 Merwin st., lived first at 30 Seneca st., but later on Ontario street, south of the Square, when that locality was a fashionable resident district. His wife, Mrs. Harriet Granger Smyth, was renowned as a beauty in Buffalo, her childhood home, and in Cleveland, where she spent her short married life. For she died young, leaving no children, and all that was mortal of her sister, Sarah Granger, and herself rest in old Erie street cemetery.
William Smyth married 2nd, Betsey E., who was born in 1811, and survived Mr. Smyth 32 years.
In the last years of her life, Mrs. Betsey Smyth resided in a pleasant home on Hamilton street, corner of Wood, East 3rd. "She had held a conspicuous place in social life, and had been a member of Old Trinity church many years. Her only son, Charles G. Smith, lost his health and subsequently his life through his services to his country during the civil war.
William Smyth died in 1861, aged 51 years. The whole family lie in Erie st. cemetery.
William Smyth had three sisters living in Cleveland at an early day. Eliza, Martha, and Jane. They were the children of Richard and Prudence Smyth of Detroit, Mich.
Eliza married Charles M. Giddings. They lived for a time in a large stone house which he erected for that purpose on the north-east corner of the Public Square and Ontario street. N. E. Crittenden lived there afterward, and the Society for Savings building now stands upon the spot.
Mr. and Mrs. Giddings removed to the corner of Euclid Ave. and the street which bears, or did bear, their name, where they died many years ago. They had no children.
Mrs. Prudence Smyth, widow of Richard and mother of Mrs. Giddings, Mrs. Hiram Wilson, and William Smyth, rests in Erie street cemetery.
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MURFEY
Capt. John Murfey of Colchester, Conn., was the father of four Cleveland pioneers.
The mother of these children, Ardelissa Southworth, and her sister, Parnissa, were the twin daughters of William A. Southworth.
The Colchester Murfeys were of Scotch-Irish descent, their ancestor being one of a company of North Ireland Presbyterians who settled in Colchester in the 17th century. Among them were the Murfeys, Langfords, Clarks, and McCarteys, all educated, refined people, whose descendants have been noted for their high Christian character and good breeding.
The Murfey family that came to Cleveland in 1834 were:
William Aspinwall Murfey, b. 1812..
Eliza Murfey Clark, b. 1814.
Gardner Bowen Murfey, b. 1820
Fanny C. Murfey, b. 1822.
W. A. and G. B. Murfey were hardware merchants, doing business at 33 Superior street. They had a partner, S. H. Potter, who lived on Erie street, between Euclid and Superior. The firm sold out to William Bingham & Co.
W. A. Murfey removed to Chicago, where he married and had one son, James Clark Murfey. Gardner B. Murfey, his younger brother, remained in the city and in business the remainder of his life.
Fanny Murfey never married, but lived here with her brothers and sisters, and when she died was buried in one of the family lots.
Gardner B. Murfey married Julia Ann Latham, who was born in Thetford, Vt., in 1821. She came to Cleveland on a visit to her sister, Lucy Latham Kelly, wife of T. M. Kelly, a pioneer merchant of this city.
Another sister of Mrs. G. B. Murfey, Azuba Latham, married D. N. Barney, also a Cleveland merchant of an early day.
These sisters, Mrs. Kelley, Mrs. Murfey, and Mrs. Barney, were the daughters of William H. Latham of Lyme, N. H., who removed to Thetford, Vt., and died there. His American ancestor, Robert Latham, came as a lad of 15 years with John Carver in the Mayflower and married Susannah Winslow, daughter of Governor Winslow.
The mother of the three sisters was Azuba Jenks, daughter of Zachariah and Sarah Tyler Jenks, and their father, William H. Latham, was a captain of infantry in the war of 1812.
The children of Gardner B. and Julia Latham Murfey:
William Latham Murfey, m. Florence Gale..
Charles Latham Murfey, m. Florence Spenser, daughter of A. K. Spenser
Gardner Bowen Murfey, unmarried.
Lauer Aspinwall Murfey, m. Nina Armstrong.
Julia Murfey, m. Charles Harper of Pittsburg
James Clark Murfey, unmarried.
Edward Lyon Murfey, m. Rose Richardson
Lucy E. Murfey, m. Edward Morrison of N. Y
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Mrs. Julia Latham Murfey is the only surviving member of the Murfey and Latham families. She is a beautiful old lady, possessing all the charm that clings to the well-born woman of years long gone. She celebrated her 90th birthday recently in the home of her son, Charles L. Murfey on Cleveland Heights.
1834
W. WOODWARD
The editor of the Cleveland Advertiser in 1834 was W. Woodward, who had taken charge of that newspaper but a few months when he lost his wife suddenly in the cholera epidemic that proved fatal to many others in town.
"Dec. 19-Died Mrs. Eliza Ann Woodward, wife of the editor of this paper. During her brief residence here she had secured many friends, by whom her last moments of suffering were soothed and who, although they could not avert the pangs of death, by their sympathy and kind attention in some measure alleviated its distress." Cleveland Advertiser.
1834
SLOANE
Olive Douglas of Canaan, Conn., born 1748, daughter of Asa Douglas, a revolutionary soldier, and sister of Major Asa Douglas, also a patriot of 1776, married Gen. Samuel Sloane of Williamstown, Mass.
General and Mrs. Samuel Sloane had a small family of children, one daughter of whom married Dr. Caswell ; another daughter married, and her daughter in turn became the wife of Governor John T. Hoffman of New York.
The son of Samuel and Olive Sloane, Major Douglas Wheeler Sloane, was born in 1785. He was a graduate of Williams College in the class of 1803. He served in the war of 1812, on the staff of Gen. Whiting.
He seems to have been quite a man of affairs in Williamstown, and interested in many things. It is claimed, for instance, that he imported the first merino sheep into this country.
Business reverses evidently overtook him, for, in 1834, when about 50 years of age, he left the east and with his family took up a residence in Cleveland. He was very dignified and courteouse in his manners, the model of a gentleman of the old school. He held office under the U. S. government, as Receiver of Moneys, and died in 1839, while absent from home in New Albany, Ind. He was buried in old Erie street cemetery.
The Williamstown residence of the family was a very fine Colonial mansion, now occupied by President Garfield of Williams College.
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Major Douglas W. Sloane married in 1810 Maria Cogswell, daughter of Lieut, Samuel and Mary Backus Cogswell, of Lansingburg, N. Y. In her infancy her father lost his life through an accident, and her mother married 2nd, Rev. Ebenezer Fitch, first president of Williams College.
Mrs. Maria Sloane was considered a most beautiful and attractive woman.
From the first year of her residence here she took a high position in the social and religious life of the village, soon to be incorporated as a city, and entered with zeal and enthusiasm into every good work and benevolent enterprise. She is said to have originated -the Maternal Association, and was active in the Magdalen Association in its effort to rescue or raise the fallen. Her sympathy and her time were ever cheerfully given to every organized effort to instruct the ignorant, help the poor and depressed, and to elevate the standard of social and religious life.
Soon after the arrival of the family in Cleveland, the older daughters opened a select school for young ladies, and their advertisement in the Cleveland Herald of that year states that they were recently pupils of a celebrated eastern school.
The family resided at 52 Bank street for some years ; afterward removed to Euclid Ave., west of Erie, East 9th.
The children of Major Douglas W. and Maria Cogswell Sloane:
Elisabeth Sloane, b. 1811.
Maria Sloane, b. 1813; married 1835 Parker Handy. Children :. Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Wm. H. Van Dorn.
Douglas Cogswell Sloane, b. 1815. Died in Cleveland.
Harriet Douglas Sloane, b. 1817.
Susan Sloane, b. 1819; m. 1st, Jonathan Gillette, a Cleveland merchant; 2nd, Hon. William T. Bacon of Utica, N. Y. She died 1899.
Catherine Sloane, b. 1821; m. Jo- seph F. Kirlkland, a Cleveland merchant
Cornelia Kirkland Sloane, b. 1827; m. Parker Handy, widower of her sister Maria. Children : Parker Douglas Handy, Cornelia Sloane Handy. Parker Handy, Sr., died 1890. Cornelia K. Handy died 1904.
The loss of property, which had been such a blow to the family, entailing, as it did, corresponding loss of ease and many comforts, was slight compared to the sorrow that clouded every year of its sojourn in Cleveland. Mrs. Sloane was destined to part, one after another, with four of her lovely, accomplished daughters, her only son, and her husband.
Maria, aged 22, and Harriet, aged 18 years, died in 1835.
Douglas was 21 years old at his death in 1836.
Elisabeth, the first born, died in 1838, aged 27.
Major Douglas Sloane died suddenly in 1839, and Catharine, 22 years of age, and but two years a bride, followed him in 1843. All in the space of eight years.
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Through all this bereavement, enough to appall the strongest heart, Mrs. Sloane bore herself with a fortitude that only a high-bred woman sustained by the traditions of family and her own noble characteristics of mind and heart-could attain. She passed from earth in 1870 at the New York City residence of Mrs. Parker Handy.
Her grandson, Parker Handy, Jr., possesses several fine portraits of the Sloane family, among which are those of his great-grandparents, Samuel and Olive Douglas Sloane; also in the library of his beautiful home in West 87th street, New York, hang the portraits of his parents, Parker and Cornelia Sloane Handy, Sr.
1834
CLARK
Aaron Clark, son of Peck and Polly Kellogg Clark, came to Cleveland from Conneaut, Ohio, in 1834. He was then 23 years old, of the highest moral character, and full of life and energy. He made his home for the first five months with his mother's brother, James Kellogg. At that time, A. S. Chapman was filling the unexpired term of the late county auditor, Orville B. Skinner, who had recently died. Mr. Skinner had been out of health for months, and the work of the office had fallen behind. Mr. Chapman engaged young Clark as his assistant. The former was not familiar with the routine of the office, and, having much private business of his own, he entrusted Clark with his public duties, coming in occasionally to see how affairs were progressing.
The auditor's office was on the first floor of the courthouse, and west of the hall that ran through the building. Every Saturday the village was thronged with people from the country, and the auditor's office was a meeting-place for many, and soon Mr. Clark became well acquainted throughout the county.
His daily routine was to arise at five o'clock, and after a bath and physical exercise, he would go to the office, read a chapter in his Bible, and then study until breakfast-time. His office-work covered nine hours a day, but he found time for much reading and for study. His small library was remarkable for his youth and the times. It included Greek books, philosophy, works on chemistry and botany, the law, and religion. A beautifully kept journal, covering all those early years, is preserved by his daughter Mrs. James King. It is of inestimable value to any writer of local history, as it contains facts and data not otherwise to be secured. Extracts from this journal will be found in this work, under the years to which they refer. Mr. Clark was naturally spiritual, and
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in the long years in which he was a member of Trinity Episcopal church, seldom missed a service.
In June, 1835, he boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Rice, whose home was then on Euclid ave. A mutual friendship was then established that lasted through life. In 1836, Samuel Williamson, the newly appointed auditor, re-engaged him for his deputy.
The romance of Mr. Clark's life began when he met Mary Hamlin Beardsley, daughter of David H. Beardsley. She was 18 years old, very pretty, and quite artistic. The Beardsleys lived in a story and a half frame-house on the south-west corner of St. Clair and Ontario streets. The following year Mary went to Cambridge, Ohio, on a visit to her uncle David Hersch. Aaron Clark followed her there, and they were married in October, 1837, at the residence of Mr. Hersch. Their life together was comparatively brief. Mrs. Clark was never physically strong, and she died in 1843, of the scourge of those days-tuberculosis.
Aaron Clark married 2nd, Caroline E. Bingham, the beloved and only sister of William and Edward Bingham. She was born in Andover, Conn., in 1818, and was a gentle, winsome lady, with delicate features and charming manners. She made her home an ideal one for her husband and children, and her hospitality was proverbial. She died in 1891. The family lived for years on Eagle street, near Erie.
The children of Aaron and Caroline Clark:
Mary Ella Clark, b. 1846; m. Edgar E. Strong of Cleveland.
William B. Clark, m. Kate E. Rockwell.
Nellie Clark, m. James A. King, son of Zenas King of Cleveland.
Abby Clark.
Kenneth Clark.
1834
BRAINARD
For four generations the name of Brainard to Cleveland residents has been associated with music-sheet music, instrumental music, and, to those of a past generation, Melodian Hall. One of the finest organists of the city was a Brainard, and one of the best known music teachers.
And, for that reason, the little street connecting Euclid Ave. with Prospect street, now known as East 4th, might appropriately have been called "Music street," so given over was it to the different households of the Brainard family who dominated the eastern side of it.
The first man, and for some years the only one to live in the street, was a sheriff, and, probably through seeking him in his home or in directing others to it, people gave it the name of Sheriff street.
In the days of the Brainards, covering nearly half a century, it bore a quiet, aristocratic air, and though the houses on its western side were simple, frame-dwellings, many well-known families from time to time lived in them. It was a very pretty, attractive street: forest-trees lined it on either side, and their branches formed an arch of green overhead.
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A brick cottage with a close-cut lawn stood on the corner now occupied by the Opera House, and the other corner, in earlier years, was a vacant lot upon which eventually was erected St. Paul's P. E. Church.
Back of the brick cottage a peach-orchard flourished for many years, and then came the Brainard homes, Nathan, and his sons, Silas, Henry, George, and Joseph, though not in the order named.
In time the families built a fine brick block of four residences in which two or more of them lived. It was considered a fine structure in that. day. The two upper stories of this building are yet visible above the shops now covering the lower part of it.
Nathan Brainard, the founder of the Cleveland branch of the family, was nearly 50 years old when he came west with his wife and seven children, the eldest a daughter 22 years of age, and the youngest yet an infant.
He was the son of Jabez and Lucy Bingham Brainard and was born in Lemster, N. H., where he resided until 1823, when he removed to Washington, a town in the same state, of which he was a pioneer and subsequently its postmaster. Eleven years later he once more sold out his business interests and homestead in order to begin life again in this western town. But the Brainard family suffered none of the privations here that earlier settlers experienced. Already Cleveland was ambitious to assume the role of a city and only two years later the wish was gratified.
Nathan Brainard engaged in mercantile pursuits, and, in addition started with Henry Mould, the sale of music and musical instruments. It was begun in a very modest way, and probably he never dreamed that it would prove to be the small nucleus of a business that would become celebrated all over the country.
Mrs. Nathan Brainard, the mother of 10 children, and who twice had sacrificed cherished household and personal effects through the family flittings, was 44 years old when she left her native state.
She was Fanny Bingham, her husband's cousin and the daughter of James and Mary Willey Bingham. Her life must have been rich in experience, but unfortunately, little has been preserved for her grandchildren.
The name Bingham is significant of gentle birth and tradition, and, undoubtedly, she was kind and wise in her family, and a valuable neighbor. She experienced sorrow, as six of her ten children preceded her to the Other Shore.
She died in 1855 aged 65 years, and was laid away in Erie street cemetery near the main drive.
Mr. Brainard's small music store was No. 34 Superior street, and the firm name was Brainard & Mould.
His first Cleveland home was 21 Prospect street, south-east corner of Sheriff.
He survived his wife 14 years, and at his death was laid beside her in Erie street cemetery.
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The children of Nathan and Fanny Bingham Brainard:
Fanny Brainard, b. 1812; died 1835.
Silas Brainard, b. 1814; m. Emily Maria Louise Hills. C. Mould.
Harriet Brainard, b. 1818; died. 1838.
Henry Mather Brainard, b. 1823; m. Laura V. Mould.
George W. Brainard, b. 1827; m.
Joseph Mather Brainard, b. 1830; m. Helen Cushman Hills
Mary Brainard, b. 1833; died 1837.
Silas Brainard, the oldest son of the family, began his business career in Cleveland with his father, and was chiefly responsible for the great success that crowned their efforts.
A fine store-building was erected on Superior street between West 3rd and 6th streets, the upper part of which was furnished and fitted up as an auditorium. It was called the " Melodian," afterward " Brainard's Music Hall," and was used many years for concerts, popular lectures courses, and sometimes utilized for large social events.
The building of this hall met a long-felt want. The old Academy of Music on Bank street, West 6th, was the only theater in the city, and there was no public hall adequate to the needs of the community until the Melodian was built. The firm published and sold music extensively, and were agents for several piano manufacturers.
It seems very strange and equally pathetic that the name of so widely known a firm should disappear entirely from Cleveland's business circles.
Mrs. Silas Brainard was one of the finest women of her day and generation. No one having once met her would ever forget it. She had a gracious personality which was both dignified and winning. For long years she was identified with Old Trinity church and she ever maintained a high position in the social circles of the city.
It was her lot to outlive all her brothers and sisters, and to lose some of her children. Her last days were spent with her son H. M. Brainard in his beautiful home on the heights of East Cleveland, where she died in 1912 at an advanced age.
The children of Silas and Emily Brainard:
Charles S. Brainard, d. 1897; m. Minnie L. Wetmore.
Henry M. Brainard, m. Francis A. Hills..
Fanny M. Brainard, m. Eugene L. Graves, son of Luther Graves of Bennington, Vt.
Emma Louise Brainard, d. 1883; m. Louis M. Brussant
Annie M. Brainard.
Laura C. Brainard.
Silas Brainard died in 1871, aged 57 years.
Henry Mather Brainard, second son of Nathan, married Laura V. Mould, sister of Mrs. Silas Brainard. They were the daughters of Henry and Anne Schrivener Mould of Cleveland, formerly of Chertsey, Eng.
H. M. Brainard died at 31 years of age. His widow outlived him 46 years. Their children were
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Alice Brainard, m. Edwin C. Whittemore.
Alfred H. Brainard, m. Mary Helen Judd.
Walter M. Brainard, m. Florence Chamberlain. He died 24 years of age.
Prof. George W. Brainard, third son of Nathan, married Louise Hills, daughter of Nathan C. Hills of Cleveland. He established a music business with his brother J. M. as a partner, in Louisville, Ky. He was a fine musician, and after his return to Cleveland became an organist and music teacher. He spent his declining years in the city, and survived his brother, thus being the last of his generation.
His children were:
Florence Brainard, m. Paul Condit of the pioneer family of that name.
Mary Brainard, died in young womanhood
Joseph Mather Brainard, fourth son of Nathan, married Helen Cushman Hills, a sister of Mrs. George W. Brainard. He was in business with his brother Silas for a few years, then removed to Louisville, Ky., and in company with his brother George W. started a music store in that city. He returned to Cleveland and became connected with the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company with which his son-in-law was identified. He is said to have been genial and very generous, and his personality won for him many friends and admirers. His only child Nelly Brainard married Wilson Chisholm.
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KELLOGG
Burr Kellogg was born in a New York town, bearing the distinctively Indian name of "Oswegatche," and when he was nearing 30 years of age, three events occurred in his life that made for change and circumstance, the gift of a physician's diploma, his marriage, and his removal to Ohio.
He was a son of Wells and Mary Sage Kellogg, and his wife was Juliette Andrews, daughter of Noah Andrews. Her mother, Ruth Griswold, was a niece of Bishop Griswold, and therefore kin to some of the bluest blood of New England.
Dr. and Mrs. Kellogg were married in 1834, and came immediately to Cleveland. He may have become established here previous to that time, but no records are at hand either to prove or disprove it.
1834 was a year that brought many young professional men to town, its reputation for rapid growth seeming to justify them in cutting loose from eastern homes and native traditions to a western one that held out glittering hopes for the future.
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But only a few years later they saw the flourishing little city still flaunting with pride its new municipal finery, but stricken with a financial panic, impoverished of money and population, the latter rate cut in two by the streams of people who left it, many on foot and penniless to hunt for luck and a living elsewhere.
Had Dr. Burr Kellogg been more optimistic regarding Cleveland's future and possessed his soul in patience, he might have spent the remainder of his days here and shared in the great prosperity that overtook the city a little' later on, but he removed with his family, about the year 1844 to Ashland, O., thus making his residence in Cleveland a period of only ten years.
He became a very successful physician and surgeon of Ashland, and his practice there extended over 30 years. He died in 1863, aged 59, and his wife outlived him ten years, dying at the age of 63.
Dr. Burr Kellogg was a brother of Mrs. William Shepard and Mrs. Geo. Tibbitts, pioneer residents of the city.
Children of Dr. Burr and Juliette Kellogg:
Wells Kellogg, b. 1835, in Cleveland ; m. Matilda Sutton.
Jane Kellogg, b. 1842, in Cleveland m. Thomas Lacy.
Hiram Kellogg, b. 1844; m. Elsie Willard.
Augustus Kellogg, b. 1846; m. Jen- nie Hershey ; 2nd, Anna Grove.
Frank Kellogg, m. Julia Dill; 2nd, Mrs. Jane Miller.
1834
ELY
George Beckwith Ely was one of the foremost citizens of Cleveland for many years. His brother Alfred Ely, 15 years his junior, came at a much later day, but was equally well known as a business man of the city. They were the sons of Alfred and Patience Beckwith Ely of Great Barrington, Mass., and Ellsburg, N. Y. George B. Ely came to Cleveland in 1834, at the age of 17 years. He was book-keeper for Pease and Allen, pioneer forwarding merchants on River street, until 1843. About that time, Milan, Ohio, was having a business boom, and Mr. Ely left Cleveland and for a few years was associated in business with John B. Wilbur, then of Milan, but later of Huron, Ohio.
Some time in the early '50s, he returned to this city and engaged actively in the coal trade and in railroading. In 1856, he was the treasurer of the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, and his brother Alfred was paymaster of the Pittsburgh Railroad. Mr. George B. Ely married Gertrude S. Harman, born in Oswego, N. Y. Their children were
George Frederick Ely, m. Mattie Keller
Helen Ely, m. Ralph Worthington..
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MATHIVET
Any day before the centennial year of 1876 one might meet on Superior street or on the Public Square the noticeable figure of an elderly gentleman with quantities of snow-white hair inclined to curl, and brushed straight back from the forehead in pompadour style; his neck swathed in a high, white-stock, such as our grandfathers used to wear ; in his hand a heavy gold-headed cane.
You would have known at first glance that he was no ordinary man ; not one who had spent a long life in pursuit of pleasure or gain. The expressive face, moulded into scholarly lines, the stately, leisurely bearing hinted of long-continued thought and research. Were you interested in people you would be sure to ask at the first opportunity, "Who is that man?" and not be surprised at the answer,
"DR. PIERRE MATHIVET,
one of Cleveland's pioneer physicians and surgeons."
The name at once suggests sunny skies and a foreign tongue. But though born in France, Dr. Mathivet had left his native village of Belnec so early in life that his English had but slight accent.
From the first, Cleveland has had few French settlers ; not a halfdozen families, probably, before 1860. But that half-dozen were a high type of their nationality, educated, refined, industrious, sufficient unto themselves, but most valuable members of our community.
To them Dr. Mathivet was bound by close ties of national kinship and of personal friendship. He was a leader in everything pertaining to their happiness as well as the welfare of the city of their adoption.
Dr. Mathivet was 28 years old when he came to Cleveland. He had received his medical education in Philadelphia. In 1830 he married Miss Mary Wentworth, who was born in Utica, N. Y., but had spent most of her life in Oswego. The young couple lived in Philadelphia, also in Watertown, N. Y., then came to Cleveland. Their home was on Seneca street, their nearest neighbors Josiah Harris and his sons.
During the first year of his practice in this locality Dr. Mathivet was of the old school of medicine. He was thoroughly versed in the science of botany, and all things growing were familiar, and classified objects to him at a glance. He often took his sons with him to the country side into its fields, woods, and fence-corners, and taught them the names and often the uses of the herbs he gathered for medicinal purposes.
Afterward, he became a convert to the new school of medicine. It required bravery those days for a physician to make so radical a change in his profession. The difference between the old and the new school was much greater than at the present day, and prejudice was deep, and some times bitter.
Mrs. Mary Wentworth Mathivet was an American of the seventh generation. The first one was Samuel Wentworth, who came to Boston in 1636. He was a cousin, but once removed, of the historic Anne Hutchinson, who suffered religious persecution at the hands of the Puritan fathers. When driven out of Boston and the state by Governor Winthrop, she took refuge in New Hampshire. Samuel Wentworth and his wife Elisabeth Kenney followed their unfortunate kinswoman into exile, and because of this, three of their name became governors of that state, two grandsons and a great-grandson.
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The New Hampshire Wentworths were loyalists, as office-holders under the crown were wont to be. There was one exception, however, Josiah Winslow Wentworth was living in Connecticut at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. He sympathized with the patriotic side, and enlisted in its militia.
The soldiers of the Revolution sacrificed and suffered much, none more so than Josiah Wentworth, who by his adherence to principle forever lost his wife and child.
Mary Hanford Wentworth was an aristocratic, proud-spirited young woman belonging to a wealthy and prominent Tory family. She bitterly resented her husband's enlistment; therefore, when the Went worths and Handfords shook off Yankee dust from their feet and hied themselves to St. Johns, New Brunswick, Mary joined her relatives, taking with her little Thomas Handford Wentworth, her only child. This child was the father of Mrs. Pierre Mathivet.
He was raised and educated in St. Johns. In young manhood, he returned to the "States," perhaps in loyalty to the memory of his patriotic young father. He married Hannah Smith and settled in Oswego, N. Y. His first child, however, Mrs. Mathivet, was born in Utica. She was gifted as a child, and as a woman, and this found expression in verse and in prose. Years after her death, a printed poem was found in a scrapbook, which had been one of her cherished possessions, and accompanying the verse was a note from the editor : "The following beautiful poem was received at this office from an unknown writer, and signed simply M. W. M.'
Previous to her marriage, Mrs. Mathivet had no knowledge of the French language; but her ambition and wifely devotion led her to the mastery of it, and she became not only fluent in speech, but in French translation as well. Her last years of life were spent as an invalid. She was 27 years of age the year she came to Cleveland, and 54 at the time of her death.
The children of Pierre and Mary Wentworth Mathivet:
Jean Victor Maths' t, b. 1831, in Philadelphiave, Pa.; m. Mary Chidgey. (See Chidgey sketch.)
Eugene Mathivet, b. 1833, in Watertown, N. Y.; m. Laurie Curie, b. in France. J. V. Mathivet was in the gas-fixture business, corner of Superior and Bond streets. Mrs. Mary Mathivet, his widow, resides in Lakewood. Eugene Mathivet was a lawyer. He died in New York City.
1834
HUTCHINSON
Samuel Richards Hutchinson and Amos Shepard Hutchinson were brothers. Their father was Major Samuel Hutchinson of Alstead, N. H., a prominent man of his day, and their mother before her marriage was Hannah Hathaway Pratt of Pomfert, Conn. She died in Cleveland in 1867, aged 84.
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S. R. Hutchinson was in partnership with Josiah M. Goodman in the forwarding and commission business on Merwin street previous to 1836. Just when he came to this place has not been determined.
He married Catherine White of Granville, N. Y., and his brother, A. S., married her sister. Their parents were Elijah and Mary Scott White, who removed to Plattsburg while the sisters were young.
The first home of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Hutchinson was on Superior street nearly where Bank street was extended through to Champlain. In time they were living on Euclid ave., just west of where Bond street now cuts through from Superior to Euclid ave. His brother purchased the adjoining residence, and they lived side by side for years.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Hutchinson were well known in the earlier days of Cleveland. They were prominent in the Old Stone Church society. They were buried in Erie street cemetery, but in late years were removed to a safer spot.
Their children, none of whom married, were:
Samuel Marritt Hutchinson.
Edward White Hutchinson
Jane White Hutchinson, yet living 1913.
Mr. Samuel Hutchinson died 1869, aged 57.
Mrs. Samuel Hutchinson died 1.855, aged 35.
Amos Shepard Hutchinson, familiarly known as "Shepard," was in the milling business, and in the later years of his life in Cleveland he was associated with his brother Samuel Hutchinson.
He married Harriet Elisabeth White, a sister of Mrs. S. R. Hutchinson. They resided on Prospect ave. at the head of Cheshire street, at first, in what was then called the "Kingsbury Cottage."
It was convenient to the home of Mr. Hutchinson's sister, Thankful Hutchinson, wife of Elijah Bingham. The latter laid out Cheshire street, named it, and after long years of residence there, he and his wife died in the old home, the first one erected on the street.
Mr. A. S. Hutchinson built or bought a house adjoining that of his brother on Euclid ave., and removed to it, where his wife died in 1847, aged 36 years, leaving two young children.
Mary Frances Hutchinson, m. Charles Taylor Kissam of New York City.
Henry Hutchinson, unmarried.
After his wife's death, her half-sister, Mrs. Sackrider, cared for the household and children.
In time, Mr. Hutchinson removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and engaged in business there.
He married 2nd, Miss Ann Channing DeWitt of Norwich, Conn., and born in that place 1819. Her father was John DeWitt, and her mother was Harriet Smith Huntington DeWitt, whose four brothers were famous in the Revolutionary War. The children of Amos S. and Ann DeWitt Hutchinson
Samuel Huntington Hutchinson, m..
Addie L. Richardson, lived in England.
James Wilde Hutchinson
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Capt. Isaac Brayton and his wife Lois Mitchell Brayton were early settlers of Newburgh.
He was formerly a sea-captain living in Nantucket, Mass.
Mrs. Brayton was a Quakeress of Rhode Island, a sister of William Mitchell, the astronomer ; consequently, was an aunt of Maria Mitchell.
Capt. Brayton lived in Newburgh for a few years, then removed to Ravenna where he became an associate judge with Benjamin Wade.
The children of Isaac and Lois Mitchell Brayton:
Mary Anne Brayton, m. F. W. Woodbridge. She is a well-known. temperance worker.
George Brayton.
Lydia Brayton.
John Brayton
Henry Swift Brayton, m. Marion Shepherd, dau. of Elias Shepherd.
1834
BOLTON
Judge Thomas Bolton, a talented member of the bench and bar, and a popular citizen of early Cleveland, came to the city in September, 1834. He was the son of Thomas and Hannah Henry Bolton, and had graduated the previous year from Harvard College, bearing away with him high honors in mathematics. He entered, as a student, the office of James L. Conger, a well-known Cleveland lawyer, who had settled in this village ten years previous, and who took young Bolton into partnership as soon as qualified to practice law.
This lasted but a short time, however, for, while in college, a Damon and Pythias friendship had been established between Mr. Bolton and Moses Kelly, one that lasted until death parted them. So, after a year's practice with Mr. Conger, he opened a law-office of his own, and sent for his beloved classmate, also a newly-fledged lawyer, to join him.
Thenceforth, "Bolton and Kelly" was known all over Northern Ohio as a firm that clients trusted and opposing litigants feared.
Mr. Bolton was considered a handsome man. The portrait of him establishes this. His strong intellectual face gives one an impression of great dignity, but the expression of his fine eyes hints of much sense of humor.
The year following Mr. Bolton's arrival in Cleveland, he returned east for his promised bride, Miss Elisabeth Cone of Moscow, N. Y. He was 29 and she 20 years of age at the time of their marriage. She belonged to an old New England family. Her parents were Festus and Elisabeth Lewis Cone. Mr. Cone was a captain in the 25th U. S. Regulars during the War of 1812, and at the close of hostilities he settled in Moscow.
Mr. Bolton's first Cleveland home was on Lake street. From there he removed to 121 Euclid Ave. where he was living in 1846. Mrs. Bolton lived but nine years after her marriage. She died at the birth of her youngest child in 1846, leaving four little children, the eldest but six years of age. They were
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Thomas Bolton, b. 1840, d. 1879; m.
Theodosia Ranney ; 2nd, Miss Eleanore C. Hale.
Elisabeth Bolton, b. 1841; m. Judge Fritz Bach of Brunswick, Ger-
Festus Cone Bolton, b. 1844; m. Elisabeth Cowdry
James Bolton, b. 1846; m. Minnie A. Cornish. He removed to Sioux City, Iowa. many.
Judge Thomas Bolton married 2d, Mrs. Emmeline Fairchild, daughter of Alanson Russell. Child
Charles C. Bolton, m. Julia Castle, daughter of William and Mary Newell Castle.
Thomas Bolton purchased many acres of real estate on Euclid Ave. upon which he built a picturesque and comfortable cottage in 1850. This is now 7030 Euclid Ave. and on the south-west corner of Giddings Ave.
It has been a conspicuous landmark for over 60 years. In it, Mr. Bolton died, and but recently his widow passed away, having occupied the old home until the last.
Her son resides just west of the homestead.
1834
BAILEY
There were two men by the name of Robert Bailey, in the early years of the city. One was a dry-goods merchant, the other a copper, tin, and sheet-iron manufacturer. The latter's place of business was 14 Superior street.
Though coming to Cleveland from Prescott, Canada, Mr. Bailey was of old American stock.
Mrs. Bailey, Fidelia Kingsley Whittemore, was born in 1818, married to Robert Bailey in Utica, N. Y., in 1832, and two years later removed to Cleveland. The family resided for many years on Huron street near Euclid avenue, and later on Brownell street north of Prospect. Mr. Robert Bailey was a good citizen, always to be depended upon in any effort for the moral uplift of the town. He had an interesting family of bright boys and girls which enabled him to give practical and valuable service as a member of the Board of Education.
The children of Robert and Fidelia Bailey:
John Bailey, b. in Utica, N. Y.
James Bailey.
Helen Bailey, died in St. Louis.
Elizabeth Bailey, m. John A. Benjamin.
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Mrs. Bailey died when thirty years of age, and Robert Bailey married secondly, Lucy Case, daughter of Joseph Gaylord and Mary Whitney Case of Utica, N. Y.
The children of Robert and Lucy Bailey:
Dr. Robert Bailey.
Lucy Bailey, m. Ernest Barnum, of Chicago.
Gaylord Bailey, died by accident, as a lad
While her first child was yet an infant, Mrs. Lucy Case returned to Utica to visit her parents. The first stage of the journey was by steamboat to Buffalo, and her whole after-life was saddened by the remembrance of an incident of her passage. It was in 1849, the year of the terrible cholera epidemic. The stateroom adjoining that of Mrs. Bailey was occupied by a mother and a very young child. In the night the poor woman was stricken with the dread disease. Her pitiful moans and struggles could be as distinctly heard by Mrs. Bailey as if she were in the same room. Death relieved the sufferer before daylight, and the little one was left absolutely alone.
Doctor Robert Bailey, the only living son of the second marriage, has been a life-long resident of the city, and naturally is an authority on many of its past events. Long an active member of the Old Settlers' Association, he has been most kind in furnishing suggestions and data for this work. He resides on E. 55th street, and is unmarried.
John M. Bailey, brother of Robert, married Mary Caldwell, daughter of Lucinda Hickox Caldwell, and granddaughter of Abram Hickox, the pioneer. Mrs. Mary Caldwell died in Utica, N. Y., and was buried there. The family had been living in Sandusky, Ohio. She left two young sons, and a daughter, Mary Bailey, three years of age.
John M. Bailey married secondly, Miss Sarah Harris, daughter of Eliphalet and Harriet Taylor Harris. Mr. Harris was born in Flushing, R. I., and married Miss Taylor in Glastonbury, Conn. They removed to Perkins, Erie Co., Ohio, at the same time and in company with the celebrated Cook family of Sandusky, who were relatives. Mrs. W. A. Price of Euclid Ave. is a daughter of John M. and Sarah Harris Bailey, and her half-sister Mary Bailey resides with her.
1834
BOND
Jonas Bond was born in Lincoln, Mass., in 1761. At the age of 14 years, he enlisted in the Revolutionary army. With him as companion and chum was a lad named "Dearborn," who became a general, and commanded the center forces in the War of 1812.
Young Bond was with Arnold and at the siege of Quebec, one of the few who scaled the walls in safety. He was also in the seizure of Ticon-
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deroga, at the battle of Crown Point, and lastly, as a lieutenant he was present at Yorktown when the British forces surrendered. In 1789, he married-----.
Their first children were born in Guilford, Vt., the others in Maine. There were four boys in the family, three of whom came to Cleveland. Samuel, the eldest, died in early manhood, William, the youngest, removed to Wisconsin. Henry Bond soon followed his brother Newell to this city, and became his partner in the grocery business in the old City Building on Superior street near Seneca. E. I. Baldwin's dry-goods store afterward occupied the site.
Henry Bond married Marian Merrill of Portland, Maine, in 1826. Their only child was a daughter. Mrs. Marian Bond died of consumption in 1843.
Newell Bond, third son of Jonas, was born in Calais, Maine.
In 1831 he was living in Oswego, N. Y., where his first child was born, and as his second one was born in Cleveland in 1835, he removed to this city sometime between those dates.
He was a tailor, and in the directory of 1837, his employment is given as stockmaker.
He was a very positive man in his opinions, and fond of argument.
With all a good man and very pious. He belonged to a religious society called "The Church of God," which is represented today in an edifice on Lee Road. He was devoted to its peculiar views and to its literature.
His wife was Mary Blinn Bond of New Britain, Conn. She was the daughter of a sea-captain. One of her sisters, an elegant woman in appearance and finely educated, was the wife of Judge Judd of New Britain. She often visited Mrs. Bond, and her children frequently spent their summers here. They were greatly admired by Cleveland people.
The highest tribute a woman can receive comes from the lips of a daughter-in-law who praises and extols her, and in this case the testimony is____
"Mrs. Bond was the best and the dearest woman I ever knew. She was a mother to her sons' wives, and could not do enough for them."
The Bonds lived first at 25 Bank street. Afterward they bought two houses on Euclid Ave. near Brownell street, and adjoining the Third Presbyterian church. Mr. Bond prospered in his business, and invested to some extent in city real-estate.
The daughters of the family were very artistic, and in after-years spent much time in Washington, D. C.
Newell Bond bought a large farm in Hendersonville, North Carolina, to which he retired in his old age, but died, while on a visit to his daughters, aged 91 years. Mrs. Bond also died in Washington, and both parents were buried there.
The children of Newell and Mary Blinn Bond:
Frederick H. Bond, b. 1835; m. Melitia Chase, dau. of Donald and Nancy Gregory Chase of Atkinson, Maine.
Eugene Bond,. b. 1831; m. Jennie Mills.
Frances D. Bond, unmarried, an artist ; present address, Via Cas, Capri, Italy.
Josephine Bond, died unmarried in Washington, D. C.
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Dr. Asa B. Brown, physician and surgeon, with an office in the Central Building near the foot of Superior street, was practicing his profession in this town in 1834, perhaps earlier.
He married in that year Hannah Bliss, 19 years of age. She was the daughter of Asahel and Lydia Griswold Bliss. Her father was a farmer and teacher who lived in Canton, Conn., until about 1821, and then removed to Whitestown, N. Y. His wife died there in 1830, and he came west to Elyria, O., where he lived until his own demise in 1846.
Mrs. Brown had several brothers who became prominent men in the several localities to which they removed. One was an eminent lawyer ; another, also a member of the bar, was Chief Justice of Dakota, and Supreme Court Judge of Missouri; a third brother was an Ohio state treasurer.
Dr. Asa Brown's Cleveland residence was at 56 Bank street.
His wife died a year after their marriage, and was interred in Erie street cemetery.
1834
BENJAMIN
One of the sufferers by the fire which swept the south side of Superior street in 1835 from Bank to Water streets, was George W. Benjamin, who, at the time, was conducting a boarding-house in the rear of Kellogg's block, now occupied by the American House. The writer thinks it was a frame residence that once stood close to the street, and at an earlier day was the Walworth house, which had been moved to the rear of the lot. The fire started in this house, and a young maid living with the Benjamins was burned to death. Evidently there was much practical sympathy expressed for the family, as, subsequently, appeared in the Cleveland Advertiser, the following:
"I would return my sincere gratitude to the ladies of Cleveland for their kind endeavor to ameliorate my late misfortune in the cordial and hospitable reception of myself and husband to their dwellings, and in the voluntary and liberal donations to supply me with wearing-apparel of which, by the recent fire, I was left nearly destitute.
"May you ever be under the kind protection of that Being who neither slumbers nor sleeps, and who though He acts as a Sovereign is yet a Father .
Adaline P. Benjamin."
Mr. Benjamin went into the grocery business. His store in 1837 was on Bank street, and his residence No. 62 St. Clair street. The name drops out in the directory of 1845, and the heads of the family either died between these dates or left the city.
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Amaziah Dutton Howe was 23 years old when he came to this city from New York state and started the manufacture of sashes and window blinds. These were all hand made in those days. The process was slow and demanded the skill and accuracy of a first-class carpenter.
Mr. Howe was the son of Amaziah Howe, a native of Vermont, who belonged to the old New England family of that name. He removed to Skeneateles, N. Y., where his son A. D. Howe was born. Mrs. Howe the elder was a Miss Betsey McKay before her marriage.
Soon after his arrival in Cleveland, Amaziah D. Howe met Miss Elisabeth Shaw, a young English girl who, with two older sisters, had crossed the Atlantic a short time previous to seek their fortunes in this country. They were:
Elisabeth Shaw, married A. D. Howe.
Jane Shaw, married William Fudge, a burr-mill manufacturer.
Sarah Shaw, married John F. Taylor.
During the first years of their married life, Mr. and Mrs. Howe lived on Center street, and afterward on Howe street, named for the family. They had three children, and in 1852, when the oldest of these was about 12 years old, Mrs. Elisabeth Howe died, and was laid away in Erie street cemetery. The following year, Mr. Howe died at the home of his parents in Skeneateles, in the prime of his life. His body was not brought back to Cleveland.
The children thus left orphaned at a tender age, were cared for by their mother's sisters until able to look out for themselves, which they proceeded to do when all three were yet quite young. They were:
Capt. William Addison Howe, m. Rachel Sage, daughter of John and Rachel Coleman Sage.
Minerva Howe, m. Samuel Patton ; 2nd, Plez James.
Rachel Howe, m. Morris Jackson Holley, grandson of Ezekiel. Hawley or Holley the pioneer of 1797.
Capt. Howe is still a resident of Cleveland and living in a beautiful home on Abdington Road. He was a member of the famous Seventh Regiment, O. V. I., in the Civil War, and possesses a military record that his posterity may well cherish with pride.
Mrs. Rachel Howe is aunt of the late William Sage, the well-known literary and dramatic critic of the Cleveland Leader.
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HASKELL
Roger and Sarah Hinsdale Haskell, formerly of Burlington, N. Y., but later of Geneva in the same state, removed to Cleveland in 1834. They were a middle-aged couple, and brought with them grown sons and daughters, one or more of them married.
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The father and sons engaged in the saddlery business on Water street, and the family lived near by. George F. Marshall, himself a pioneer, and one of the founders of the Old Settlers' Association, learned the trade of harness and saddle-making of the Haskells, and in an address before that society in 1889 spoke warmly and affectionately of one of the sons "My old friend and preceptor George H. Haskell, to whom I was bound in apprenticeship over 57 years ago."
After living here a few years, the Haskells left town for a time and engaged in farming and lumbering in Summit county, returning in 1850. Meanwhile the parents died, the father in Summit county, and the mother at the home of her daughter in Elyria.
The children of Roger and Sarah Hinsdale Haskell::
James R. Haskell, m. Julia White.
Daniel M. Haskell, m. Mary Wood of New York State.
George H. Haskell, b. 1801; m. Emily Sandford ; d. 1895.
Mr. and Mrs. George Haskell were married 1833 in Geneva, N. Y., and came to Cleveland in the following year. He was then 33 years old, and his wife Emily Haskell 12 years his junior.
She was the daughter of Dr. Jared Sandford of Lodi, N. Y., an intelligent, capable woman, always reaching out for the best in everything. She was greatly interested in missionary work both at home and abroad, and in connection with her friend Mrs. Charles Wheeler a very active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She died in 1881. The Haskell homestead for many years was on the east side of Brownell street between Euclid and Prospect streets.
Children of George and Emily Haskell:
Edward Haskell, d. 1871.
Charles Haskell, d. 1853.
Cornelia Haskell, m. C. H. Randall.
Julia Haskell.
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DENISON
Daniel Denison was a ship-builder of Norwich, Conn., who came west in 1834. He was born 1802, the son of Thomas and Meribah Cowdry Denison, was married, and had three young children.
His wife was Nancy Williams, daughter of Jedediah Williams, of the Norwich branch of that old Connecticut family.
Mr. Denison bought property on Ontario street where the family lived for 16 years. It was number 50, at that time.
In 1850, Mr. Denison removed with his family to Peoria, Ill., and engaged there in ship-building, but he lived only two years after making the change. He was buried in Peoria, and his widow and children returned to Cleveland.
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Daniel Denison came from old Puritan stock, having descended from Capt. George Denison, and, also, by double line of descent from Rev. William Brewster of the Mayflower.
It naturally followed that Daniel and his wife were church-goers, and Sabbath-keepers. They were faithful adherents of Methodism, and belonged to the first church of that faith, holding services on the corner of St. Clair and Wood street.
Their children were in after-years also closely connected with the First Methodist Church.
Nancy Williams Denison outlived her husband 32 years. She spent her last days with her daughter Mrs. Hester on Willson Ave., and died aged 77. She was laid away in Erie street cemetery.
The children of Daniel and Nancy Denison:
Nancy Williams Denison, born in Norwich, Conn.; married 1st, Russell Beach ; 2nd, George Howlett; 3rd, John Bramley. She resides in Saginaw, Mich.
Merribah Seymour Denison, b. in Norwich, Conn.; m. Dr. A. J. Gardner. She died at Grand Rapids, Mich., and was buried in Lake View cemetery. No children..
Louise Adelaide Denison, b. in Norwich, Conn.; m. 1st, Wellington P. Cooke of Cleveland ; 2nd, Edward Lewis.
Edwin Denison, b. 1836, in Cleveland ; died 1908; m. Julia A. Burwell.
Thomas Denison, b. 1839; m. Isabel M. Myrill. Mrs. Isabel Denison died in 1912 and was buried in Lake View cemetery
Jed W. Denison, b. 1841; m. M. E. Fairchild of Middleburg. He resides at 2196 East 101st street
Marietta Denison, b. 1845; m. Geo. Hester, an attorney.
Mrs. Grace Frinton Denison, a daughter of Nancy Beach, lives in Saginaw, Mich.
Mrs. Louise Denison Cooke was but a year and a half old when her parents brought her to Cleveland. Mr. Cooke was an early leather merchant. They were very prominent in the First Methodist Church, and had hosts of warm friends in this community. Only one of their three children lived to maturity, Adelaide Cooke who married Dr. John C. Davis, and lives in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Cooke's second marriage to Mr. Lewis a widower, took place when both were in late middle age. He had a lovely daughter who married Charles H. Weed of Cleveland. Both families of Cooke and Lewis lived on Prospect st.
Edwin Denison was many years of the firm of Denison Brothers, leather and hide merchants. He had four sons and five daughters:
Charles E. Denison, of Boston, Mass.
May Denison-Mrs. C. B. Miller.
Hattie Denison-Mrs. Fred William.
Grace Denison-Mrs. Charles Arter.
George B. Denison, lives on Taylor Road, E. Cleveland.
Jesse Denison.
Emeline Denison.
Daniel Denison.
Ernest Denison.
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Seven of these children reside in Cleveland.
Thomas and Isabel Myrell Denison's two daughters are:
Adelaide Denison, teacher in Lincoln High School.
Ruth Denison, is a teacher in Warren School.
Nelly Denison-Mrs. William Flood.
Harry Denison, living in North Dakota.
Le Roy Denison, m. Florence Murray
Lou E. Denison.
Frank Hester, m. Gertrude Miller.
Flora B. Hester.
Edwin Hester, lives in Alliance, O.
1834
CANFIELD
In 1833 several of Cleveland's largest land-owners began to lay out streets through their ten-acre lots within the village limits. These had hitherto been used as small farms or as pastures. Now they were divided into building lots, and the encouraging sale of these inaugurated Cleveland's first land boom.
The news of it spread rapidly and for four years or more there was a steady movement toward this town of opportunity, most of it from the eastern states.
Among the arrivals in 1834 were two men of Connecticut birth who had had previous experience in the handling of real-estate and who were lured hither by reports of the beauty of the city, its commercial advantages and its wonderful possibilities. They were Horace Canfield and Sheldon Pease, brothers-in-law, having married sisters of the well-known Humphrey family of New Haven Co., Conn.
Horace Canfield was the son of Joseph and Abigail Canfield of Salisbury, Conn. He married, in 1825, Janette Humphrey, of Humphreyville, Conn., and the young couple resided in New York City preceding their removal to Cleveland, and three of their children were born there.
Mr. and Mrs. Canfield were exceedingly refined in their manners and tastes, and at once became very popular in the village, both in financial and social circles.
Mr. Canfield was a man of far-reaching thought and possessed of almost prophetic vision. He was deeply interested in the growth of Cleveland, especially along esthetic lines. He planted trees freely upon his own property holdings, urged his associates to do likewise, and never ceased to use his influence with public officials toward the beautifying of the Public Square and streets.
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It is claimed that he was the first man to suggest that a railroad could connect the Atlantic with the Pacific. He wrote an article to that effect and sent it to the Cleveland Herald. The editor published the communication, but remarked upon it in a manner that plainly evidenced his personal opinion of such a wild and visionary statement.
Mrs. Canfield was a fine-looking woman. She was twenty-seven years of age when she came to Cleveland, and her residence here extended over many years. The family residence, part of that period, was on Water street, West 9th, below Lake street, and afterward on Ontario street, not far from the Square.
Mr. Canfield died in 1866 at Canadaigua, N. Y., and his widow spent her declining years with her son, Horace J. Canfield, in his home at Stockbridge, Mass.
The children of Horace and Janette Humphrey Canfield were:
Janette Canfield, b. in New York City, 1827; m. John M. Huntington, son of Thomas Huntington of Norwich, Conn. She d. near Cincinnati, O., in 1847.
Josephine Canfield, b. 1829, N. Y. City; m. Benjamin Franklin Smith of Cleveland.
Horace Jared Canfield, b. N. Y. City, 1834.
Ellen Curtis Canfield, b. Cleveland, 1838; m. Delos Cole, in 1862.
Charles Edward Canfield, b. Cleveland 1840; d. seven years of age, near Cincinnati.
John M. Huntington served as Quarter Master during the Civil War. He died in 1865 aged forty-seven years.
Josephine Canfield Smith was a cultured lady with strong literary tastes. Her husband for many years was connected with railroads terminating in Buffalo. They removed from that city to Chicago, Ill.
Horace J. Canfield was an editorial writer on the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. He was a man of scholarly attainments. In 1878 he removed to Stockbridge, Mass.
Ella Canfield Cole was a charming and attractive woman, fond of society and in every way adorned it. Her sudden death in 1866, the same year as that of her father, was a shock to a large circle of Cleveland friends.
Lee Canfield, who was a real-estate dealer and promoter of the town in 1833, may have been a brother of Horace Canfield. He was an active business man in the early '30s, but died or removed elsewhere before the city was organized in 1836.
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HUMPHREY
Sarah Curtis Humphrey, the widowed mother of Mrs. Horace Canfield and Mrs. Sheldon Pease, is entitled to mention through her long years of residence in this city.
She was born in Derby, Conn., and was the daughter of Sheldon and Lois Nichols Curtis, and at the age of 20 married Hon. John Humphrey, a distinguished man in after-years, and a judge of the New Haven Court.
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They lived in an elegant home situated on a hill overlooking a valley, and in a Connecticut town named for the family. They were for many miles around regarded as the aristocrats of the community.
Their wealth and social standing enabled them to give to their two daughters and only son David Humphrey superior advantages. The latter was but eight years of age at the death of his father in 1826. He lived with his mother and sisters during their residence in Cleveland, married Miss Angeline Canda in Chicago, and died in San Francisco, Cal., aged 35, leaving one son.
Mrs. Sarah Curtis Humphrey died in this city and rests in Woodland cemetery.
1834
DEAN
David Dean and Olive White were married in Utica, N. Y., in 1828. Six years later, after a short residence in Columbus, they came to Cleveland. Their first home was 39 Champlain street, where they were still living in 1838.
Mr. Dean was a coach-maker and within the twenty years he lived in town had become one of its leading carriage-manufacturers.
With Mark Whitelaw he built a double brick residence on the south side of Prospect street, in the north side of which the family lived until 1852. Mr. Dean then bought eight acres of land in the heart of the then village of Newburgh. It was situated on the west side of Broadway near Harvard street. The property had been owned by a family named Radway. The grading of Broadway, a few years since, left the family residence at an awkward elevation from the street, and it was moved back and turned to face Dean Place, now East 82nd street.
David Dean died at the age of 61 years. He was a large man and rather heavy-featured.
Mrs. Dean was a fair type of the New England woman, frugal, ambitious, undemonstrative, but warm-hearted. Her married life, for various reasons, had been a strenuous one, and it had been saddened by the death of her children. Only one of the six she had mothered lived to reach maturity. A dear son, fourteen years of age, was drowned, and her only remaining daughter Harriet died when eight years old.
Mrs. Dean outlived her husband many years, living in the homestead with her son Edward Leroy Dean, who followed the business of his father, and died at the same age, 61 years.
He married Miss Amantha Knapp, daughter of a Newburgh pioneer; she is living alone in the old home. Her son Allen Dean having removed to Chicago, and her daughter Jeanne married to William J. Townsend and living on Drexel Ave.
Mrs. Amantha Dean is 72 years young, and her mind so busy with the various social and philanthropic questions of the day that she does not find time to be lonely.
Three generations of the Dean family lie in Erie street cemetery.
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Merrick Ely of Deerfield, O., was a member of the distinguished family of that name, many generations of which have lived in Springfield, Mass.
His father Lewis Ely was a soldier of the Revolution and came to Deerfield in 1799 from Granville, Mass. His mother was Anna Granger Ely.
Merrick Ely married Lovisa Farnum, daughter of Elisha Farnum, a soldier and pensioner of the American Revolution. Her mother was Thankful Day Farnum. Lovisa Farnum was born in Blanford, Mass., and while yet a young girl her parents moved to Deerfield, 0. The Elys continued to reside in Deerfield, until their family consisted of a son and four daughters, when, having purchased a farm on what is now Kinsman Road, Mr. Ely concluded in 1834 to occupy it.
The family left Deerfield on July Fourth in a stage coach drawn by four horses, and their household goods in two wagons; but such was the terrible condition of the roads at this time that it required four horses to draw each wagon and three days to make the journey of 50 miles.
Previous to his marriage Merrick Ely and his brother Lewis Ely kept a store of general merchandise in Deerfield, O. An account-book kept by Mr. Ely, one year, contains the name of Jesse Grant, father of Gen. U. S. Grant, and shows that he was a frequent customer.
This old account-book is now in the possession of Mrs. Louise Johnson Smith, the only granddaughter of Merrick Ely.
With William H. Otis of Cleveland, Mr. Ely took a contract for carrying the U. S. Mail from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, which called him to Washington, D. C., two or three times each year.
He was a major in the state militia, and in much demand on Training Day, a popular event in early times.
The Ely farm was five miles south-east of the Public Square. Mr. Ely did not confine himself exclusively to tilling it, but carried on a business in Cleveland. The road between the two places was a wretched country-road, one of continuous mud-holes ; on each side of it were woods. Between Erie street cemetery and the Square was a long stretch of scruboaks.
In 1838 Merrick Ely died suddenly, leaving a wife and four children. He lies in Erie street cemetery.
Mrs. Ely was a patient, forbearing woman, and self-sacrificing to a fault. She was ever _considerate of the comfort and happiness of others, and a mother who gave good advice to her children, and impressed upon them the duties and responsibilities of life. In short, she was a noble, Christian woman.
She was a notable cook, and a generous provider. The many neighborhood and church-gatherings which were the only social functions of that day, often met at her house, and it is said that the children were always pleased when she entertained because she invariably passed two kinds of pie with the doughnuts, whereas all other hostesses seemed to think one kind sufficient.
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The daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Merrick Ely received good educational advantages and all in their youth were school-teachers.
Louisa Ely, m. Luke D. Johnson.
Lucinda Ely, m. Luke D. Johnson.
Sarah Ely, m. Isaac Bears
A string of gold beads belonging to Mrs. Lovisa Ely and worn by her for many years is still worn occasionally by her granddaughter Mrs. Charles H. Smith.
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GAYLORD
Henry L. Gaylord, son of Nehemiah and Esther Stevens Gaylord, followed his older brother Erastus to Cleveland, and in partnership with him led a quiet mercantile life. No mention of him in connection with public affairs can be found ; nevertheless, he was a valuable citizen during the 19 years he lived in Cleveland. He died in 1853 when his youngest son was 11 years of age.
Mrs. Gaylord was Maria Tousley, daughter of Judge Tousley of Manilus, N. Y. She was born in 1805, and died many years after her husband had passed away.
The family lived on the south-east corner of Ontario and St. Clair streets until 1850, and then removed to a home on Prospect ave.
The children of Henry L. and Maria Tousley Gaylord:
Sylvanus Tousley, b. 1836; d. about 20 years of age, unmarried.
William Henry Tousley, b. 1842; m. Alice H. Fairbanks, dau. of A. W. Fairbanks.
William H. Gaylord graduated at Western Reserve University in the class of '64, and afterward studied and practiced law. He was born in the city and spent his life of 63 years in the heart of it ; consequently was long prominently known among business men.
But chiefly was he distinguished by his connection with the Rowfant Club, of which he was re-elected president year after year. This society located on Prospect Avenue is devoted to the study and collection of rare works and beautiful book-bindings. It annually issues a small but exquisite volume of master poetry and prose, the edition of which is limited to the regular and honorary membership. The club is known to book lovers all over the country as well as in England.
Mr. Gaylord was fully recognized by his friends as a wit and raconteur. No one tried to measure the former with him without coming to verbal grief. He had traveled extensively, and numbered friends and acquaintances in almost every clime, either through contact or correspondence.
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He loved to entertain the Rowfant Club at his unique home in East Cleveland, the "Owl's Nest," which contained one of the finest libraries in the city, and many antiquities.
His only child, Pauline Gaylord Brussewit, at the time of his death, resided in London, England.
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GALE
Martin Gale, son of John and Betsey Herrick Gale, married Susan Walters, and they removed to Cleveland in 1834. Their journey ended as they drove up to Job Doan's tavern, corner of Euclid and Fairmount streets. The next day Mr. Gale looked about unsuccessfully in search of a house in which to live. There was a little store-house occupying the south-east corner, about where the Historical Building stands. It belonged to the Doans, and at that time was used to store corn.
Good Mrs. Doan felt interested in the young couple who had come such a long journey to seek their fortunes. "If that corn were only out, you might use the store," she remarked.
"If that is all that hinders, I can make short work of it," replied Mr. Gale, and was as good as his word. Soon the little store was empty, swept and cleaned, and he was off to the steamboat dock for the limited but precious household goods they had brought with them from New York state.
Mrs. Gale was a woman of much force of character, a good reader, and possessed a fine memory. She could talk for hours in her old age of the people she had known in her long life in Cleveland.
One story she loved to tell of early days in the city was that of the discomfort women endured previous to the reign of hoops. It was the fashion to wear many petticoats and have dress skirts set out as far as possible. One Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Gale started to call upon friends and relatives near the Shaker settlement. When they reached the long, steep hill leading to the heights, her skirts were too cumbersome to make the climb, so she slipped off two or three, and Mr. Gale carried them up on his arm.
She died within two weeks of her ninetieth birthday.
The children of Martin and Susan Gale:
Henry Gale, m. Maria Comstock.
Elisabeth Gale, m. L. M. Southern..
Benjamin Gale, m. Catherine Rice.
Susan Gale, m. Charles Hagen.
Merrit S. Gale and Aaron W. Gale, m. in San Francisco.
Martin Gale, m. Emily Talbot
John W. Gale, m. Genevive Turrell.
Alida Gale, m. DeWitt C. Stebbins.
Edward T. Gale, unmarried.
Mrs. Gale had two brothers and a sister who also settled in Cleveland,
John Walters, who married Caroline Doan ; Benjamin Walters, and Elisabeth Walters, who married Edwin Ingersoll.
The former home of this family was Plattsburg, N. Y. After the death of their father Aaron Walters, their mother Susan Roberts Walters came to Cleveland and spent the rest of her life with children residing here.
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Richard Hussey came to Cleveland some time in the '30s; the exact year not learned. He was living on Seneca street in 1837. Eight years later he was keeping the light-house on Water street and evidently living there. Nothing further can be secured concerning him, save that he had an interesting family of children who married and were well known. But they removed to Racine, Wisconsin, and all efforts to communicate with any of Richard Hussey's grandchildren have failed. Therefore, nothing in regard to his wife has been learned.
So far as can be recalled by early citizens the children of Richard Hussey were three daughters and a son.
Emily Hussey, m. James H. Kelley.
She had 12 children, at her death. Mr. Kelley married a second time. He died in Racine, Wis.
Charlotte Hussey, m. Robert Bailey, a Cleveland dry-goods merchant. He died leaving three very young children.
Maria Hussey, m. Mr. Mount and lived in Cincinnati.
Alexander Hussey, m. Miss Silverthorne.
1834
BEEBE
Huron Beebe of the pioneer firm of Allen, Beebe & Co., was born in 1808, and died in Vermont at an advanced age.
He came to Cleveland in the '30s, and was sheriff for a term or two, and lived in the jail residence.
He married Nancy Henderson, and they had a family of children born in Cleveland, all of whom left the city, in time, and settled in Racine, Wis., where they became prominent citizens of that western town. They were:
Charles Seth Beebe, born 1848, in Cleveland; married Selina Eastman of Holly, N. Y.
Henry Beebe.
Caldwell C. Beebe.
Eleanor Beebe.
Lucy Beebe.
1834
DEFOREST
A perusal of New York City annals from the year 1634 to the end of the next century would convince one that whatever the name of DeForest stands for today locally, it was one to conjure by in the early settlement of New York. A few years after his arrival in this country Isaac DeForest married Sarah, daughter of Philip DeTrieux. Both were descended from Huguenots who had fled from France in times of religious persecution and sought refuge in Holland. Sarah's sister Susannah
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DeTrieux married Evart Wendall, the American ancestor of that wellknown New York family, and in time the DeForests were closely related to nearly all the prominent Dutch families of New York.
Two hundred years after Isaac DeForest landed in New York City, his descendant, Cyrus R. DeForest, became a pioneer of Cleveland, O. There was not much difference in the relative size of the two towns, nor in the size of their pocketbooks, spite of the great prosperity and social circumstance that had intervened.
Cyrus was neither a lawyer, doctor, or merchant, just plain mechanic. But he was more valuable, because more useful, to the community in which he had come to live. The professional and mercantile men were so numerous in that day that in order to make half a living they were treading upon each other's heels. On the other hand, a man with a useful trade could command good wages.
Cyrus R. DeForest was born in Edmeston, N. Y., and at the age of 21, married Julia Ann Sutherland in Black Rock, now an outlying ward of Buffalo, N. Y., and the following year the young couple boarded a lake-steamer for this town. They lived for many years on York street, now an extension of Hamilton. The house stood close to Wood street. It was then in a pretty, quiet neighborhood, an ideal spot in which to raise the family of seven children that, in course of time, filled the home with young, exuberant life. Their eldest son, and namesake of the father, was born in this city, and died here in 1906. He was long connected with the Society for Savings. The family have neglected to furnish data ; so that details concerning the other children have not been secured.
Children of Cyrus R. and Julia Sutherland DeForest:
Cyrus DeForest, b. 1835; d. 1906.
Louis Germain DeForest, a soldier of the Civil War.
Julia Ann DeForest, m. Rev. Dr. Edward Ingersoll ; d. 1865.
Charles Lee, Maria Louise, Albert Wright, and Mary Frances DeForest were other children of Cyrus DeForest, Sr.
1834
ANDREWS
Benjamin Andrews was one of the few Cleveland pioneers who came from southern states. He was a Kentucky man, the son of a Presbyterian minister and the editor of a thriving church paper. His mother was a Calhoun, member of the noted Southern family of that name.
Benjamin was one of a large family of sons who were raised in a refined, literary and religious atmosphere. His brother, L. F. W. Andrews, was editor of the Muscagee Democrat, Macon, Georgia, and previous to the civil war, owned a large plantation in that locality and lived upon it in luxury. The relatives of the second generation lost all track of his family years ago.
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Benjamin Andrews came to Cleveland some time in the early '30s, and was associate editor of a local newspaper. During President Tyler's administration he was appointed postmaster of this city.
He married at the residence of Hon. John W. Willey, Lydia Willey Adams, niece of the mayor, who had accompanied her uncle to Cleveland on his return journey from a visit to his native home, Goshen, N. H. She was the daughter of his sister, Mrs. James Adams.
There are no relatives nor descendants of hers remaining in Cleveland to sing her praises. But an old church friend and neighbor, Judge James Cleveland, whose estimate of character was a valuable asset, remarked to the writer
"No record of early Cleveland women would be complete without mention of Mrs. Benjamin Andrews. She was a beautiful woman, one fitted to adorn any society, and her soul was as lovely as her face."
Mr. Andrews, though intellectually the peer of any of his associates, was far from being a successful man. He possessed the easy Southern temperament that lacked the courage and energy to overcome and govern circumstance. Therefore, Fate denied to Mrs. Andrews the freedom from care and anxiety that was hers by right.
The family lived on Middle street, then a residence district, and afterward in a pretty cottage on Erie, East 9th, street, facing Superior street. Their home was next to that of T. P. May.
Like her uncle, Rev. Elijah Willey, Mrs. Andrews was passionately fond of flowers and cultivated them assiduously. A well-known citizen of Canadaigua, N. Y., while on a visit to this locality, declared that he had not seen such a wealth of floral display since leaving his own city.
After the death of John W. Willey, his widow persuaded Mrs. Andrews to take up her residence in the Willey cottage, where she lived until Mrs. Willey's second marriage.
The long and distressing illness of her mother called Mrs. Andrews to Leamster, N. H., where she remained until her own death. It is said that she took charge of her mother's farm there with much more success than usually attends the efforts of her sex in that direction.
Benjamin and Lydia Andrews had two little daughters. One of them died in infancy. The other, named in honor of her aunt Laura Willey, married and returned west. She was born in 1836, and as Mrs. Laura Goodwin now resides in Berea, Ohio, a charming representative of the Willey family.
1834
ATWATER
George M. Atwater who in 1841 married Minerva Merwin, daughter of Noble H. and Minerva Buckingham Merwin, was the son of Charles and Mary Merwin Atwater of New York. Mrs. Minerva Atwater lived but two years following her marriage. She left a little son, Merwin Atwater, b. 1842, who died at 8 years of age.
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The Atwater building at the foot of Superior street, a part of the Merwin family real-estate, received its name through the Atwater connection.*
* The Atwater building was recently destroyed by fire.
George M. Atwater married 2nd, Harriet Brodhead, dau. of Jacob and Eliza Bleeker Brodhead of Brooklyn, N. Y. By this marriage he had two daughters, Harriet and Mabel, who became Mrs. George W. Green and Mrs. Albert Weaver of New York City.
Dr. David Atwater, brother of George M. Atwater, also lived in Cleveland in the '40s. He was a fine man and a most desirable citizen in the few years of his residence here.
He was an elder of the Old Stone Church, and during the cholera season of 1849 was a health physician of the city.
1834
CAMP
Seth and Sophia Brainard Camp, of Durham, lived for many years in Whitestown, N. Y. Three of their family of children came to Cleveland some time in the '30s, but the exact year is unknown.
They were Willard, Hezekiah, and David Camp.
Willard Camp, b. 1797, m. in 1822, Eliza Higgins, twenty-one years of age. They had nine children, six of whom were twins. Several of their children died young. No record of the family in Cleveland can be found save that they lived here in early years.
The children of Willard and Eliza Camp:
Martha and Mary Camp, twins, b. 1822.
Elisabeth Camp, b. 1824.
William and Willard Camp, twins, b. 1826.
Franklin and Frances Camp, twins, b.1828.
Theodore Camp, b. 1830.
Eliza Camp, b. 1833.
Hezekiah Camp, brother of Willard . Camp, married Abigail Fosdick. They had a child born in Cleveland in 1838. No other record.
David Camp, b. 1802, brother of Willard and Hezekiah Camp, married Rhoda Allen in 1825. She was born in 1807, and died in 1839, the mother of seven children.
David Camp married 2nd, Emily Knapp and had three more children, who died in infancy. He is said to have been a builder and contractor and among other structures erected by him was a row of white cottages, three in number, on Superior street west and adjoining Trinity Church. They had high basements and wide front porches. Though only one story
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high they contained six large rooms besides the basement, dining-room and kitchen, and were considered so attractive that they were duplicated on St. Clair street near Bank street, and a similar row was erected on Water street near the foot of St. Clair. All were familiar landmarks of the city.
David Camp resided in one of his Superior street houses. He died in 1854, and with other members of his family is buried in Erie st. cemetery. His eldest son was an officer in the civil war, and evidently lost his life in it.
The children of David and Rhoda Allen Camp:
Sarah Henderson Camp, b. 1826; d. 1849 in Cleveland..
Lieut, Henry Seth Camp, b. 1828; d. 1862 in Cleveland.
Jane E. Camp, b. 1832
Rhoda Ann Camp, b. 1836.
David Wilkenson and William Dennison Camp, died young.
Mrs. Emily Knapp Camp died in 1861.
1834
HEARD
A carpenter, Charles W. Heard, lived in 1836 on Euclid ave. the second door from Sheriff street, and adjoining the Rummage lot. He had a large family of children, and at the death of his wife, he took them to live on a farm in Painesville, where, it is told, he had resided previous to his life in Cleveland.
While several old residents readily recalled this family, and could name the children belonging to it, no one seemed able to furnish the address of any member of it from whom additional data could be secured.
Mr. Heard was an architect as well as a builder. He designed many public buildings erected in the '60s. One of these was the large block corner of Superior and E. 3rd, occupied for many years by the city as its city hall.
Walter Blythe, an architect, and Mr. Heard's son-in-law, was his partner in business for a time.
The children of Charles W. Heard:
Regina Heard..
Imogene Heard..
Wallace Heard..
Allen Heard.
Dallace Heard
Virginia Heard
Lenora Heard
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A family that gave to the city of Cleveland one of its safest and sanest mayors, a mayor whose nickname was "Honest John," should fill generous space in this historical work. "Honest John" himself could explain why it does not, why only a few lines must suffice. A negative silence to all importunities for data, leaves the writer with but scanty material for a sketch of Patrick Farley, the pioneer, who came here in 1834 from the north of Ireland. Five years later, he married Miss Anna Schwartz, who arrived in the city from Bavaria in 1833.*
* The wedding ceremony was performed by the Rev. Stephen Bodden, a French priest, who was an Indian missionary.
The young couple began housekeeping at 24 Bank street, and in 1856 were living on a court dignified by the family name. In this year, also, Mr. Farley was in charge of the U. S. mail, seeing that it was safely delivered from depots and stage-coaches to the post-office, then on the south-west corner of Water and St. Clair streets. Joseph W. Gray was the postmaster.
Patrick Farley was an industrious, frugal man, living within his income, a combination which secured for his old age a comfortable competence. In this he was seconded by his good wife. Both lived long in years, and passed away from life respected and beloved.
Mr. Farley was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a knight templar. With no one either to affirm or to gainsay it, the writer conjectures that he was also a staunch Democrat who wielded the balance of power in his home ward. He may have had brothers also living in the city, as the directory of 1845 contains two John Farleys, one a grocer, the other a painter, also N. Farley; and his own family may have contained several children. The only one on record is John H. Farley, mayor of the city in 1883 and 1884, again in 1899 and 1900. Meantime, he served as director of public works with Robert Blee. John H. Farley is living retired from business and politics. He maintains an ideal summer home in Georgian Bay, where he can indulge fully in his love of nature, and of animals.
Mrs. Farley was Miss Margaret Kenney, dau. of William Kenney of this city.
1834
HUTCHINGS
Benjamin R. Hutchings was a leading tailor and draper of Cleveland, doing business at No. 35 Superior street. He came to the city before 1835, but the exact date is unknown. His wife's maiden name was Susan Swift, who was born in Vermont, but accompanied her parents to Potsdam, N. Y., while yet in her teens. She came to visit relatives in Cleveland and concluded to remain here.
She was an exceptionally fine seamstress, and through this accomplishment became acquainted with Mr. Hutchings, whom she assisted
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