(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) CHAGRIN FALLS - 425 tieut. They were married on the 12th of December, 1799, and had a family of seven children, of whom the subject of this notice is the second. He came with his father to Brooklyn, and, although but eleven years of age, assisted his parents in making a comfortable home in the wilderness. There was then but one house in what is now known as the South Side of Cleveland, and the surrounding country was an unbroken forest. Young Hinckley remained at home until twenty-four years old, working industriously in clearing and cultivating the farm, and receiving in the meantime a limited education. On the 18th of January, 1827, he: married Sarah Dennison, daughter of Daniel Dennison, of Brooklyn. He then engaged in farming upon his own account, and continued in that business until 1873, when he sold his farm and removed to the village of Brooklyn, where he has since resided. He is a Republican in politics, but has never sought public notice nor office. As a citizen and a neighbor he is highly respected, being a valued member of the Congregational church, in which he holds the office of deacon. To Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley were born five children, viz., Lucy, (deceased); Aurelia W., at home; Sarah L., wife of Henry J. Brainard, of Hazelhurst, Mississippi; William H., who died in infancy, and Louisa M., also deceased. Mrs. Hinckley died in February, 1862. Mr. Hinckley married his second wife, Miss Sarah Foote, daughter of Edom Foote, of Brooklyn, on the 21st day of May, 1863. CHAPTER LXXII. CHAGRIN FALLS.* Serenus Burnet—Two Dollars and a Half per Acre for Land—Other Early Settlers—A Log Gristmill—An Unfinished Bridge—Adamson Bentley—Bentleyville —Beginning at Chagrin Falls Village —Noah Graves and Dr. Handerson—Newcomers in 1837—A Tavern in a Barn —The Old Deer Lick—Griffithsburg—Bentleyville's Prosperous Days— Dr. Vincent—A Primitive Bank—A College Chartered—Lively Times— Sidney Rigdon—The Financial Crisis—Early Mail Facilities—Asbury Seminary—The Tippecanoe Campaign— Whig Riflemen and Democratic 1ndians—First Paper Mill—Annexation of Nine Hundred Acres to Orange—Deacon White's Ax Factory—More about Bentleyville - Formation of Chagrin Falls Township—First Officers—Enterprise of the People — Championls Scheme — A Pleasant Village—The excitement at the Outbreak of the Rebellion—The Soldiers' Ard Society— Since the War-- Business Interests—Chagrin Falls Paper Company— Adams & Co.ls Paper Mill—Williams' Foundry—Gauntt's Machine Shop—Ober's Planing Machine—Other Manufactures—Congregational Church—Methodist Church — Disciple Church—Free Will Baptist Church—Bible Christian Church—Golden Gate Lodge— Chagrin Falls Lodge—Township Officers—Sketch of H. W. Curtiss. IN the month of May, 1815, immediately after the war of 1812, Serenus Burnet brought his wife and little son, Stephen, and located himself on the west, side of Chagrin river, about two miles north of the present village of Chagrin Falls. There he built, a rude log-house, and became the first resident of the present township of Chagrin Falls. The nearest, neighbors were in the Covert neighborhood, near Winson's Mills, in the present township of Mayfield. For six months after their arrival Mrs. Burnet did not see the face of a white woman. Mr. Burnet paid two dollars and a half per acre for the best river-bottom land, and the proprietors were willing enough to sell even at this rate, for Burnet's was for a bang time about the end of settlement in the Chagrin valley. During the next ten years the lower part of the valley slowly settled up, and between 1820 and 1825 Jacob Gillett, Caleb Al- son and James Fisher became residents of what is now the township of Chagrin Falls, in the immediate vicinity of Serenus Burnet. But it was not until the year 1826 or 1827 that and settlement was made in the vicinity of the present village of Chagrin Falls. At that time John Woodward and Benjamin Carpenter built a dam across the Chagrin river, below Williams' foundry at Chagrin Falls, and at the north end of it erected a small log gristmill. The stones were drawn by eight yoke of cattle from a still older mill, situated near where Edmund Burnet now lives, in Orange. About the • same time Gen. Edward Paine, who owned the land west of the present Franklin street, undertook to build a bridge across the river at the falls, and put four stringers across as a beginning. The work was not completed at that time, however, and the stringers remained, affording a precarious passage to the few footmen who occasionally appeared in the vicinity. Mr. W. T. Upham men- * Many fanciful stories have been told about the origin of the name "Chagrin," applied first to the river, and then to the falls, the township and the village; it being often supposed that it comes from the " chagrin" felt by somebody, about something, on its banks. It is. however, undoubtedly derived from the old Indian word " Shaguin," which is to be found applied to it on maps issued before the Revolution. " Shaguin" is supposed to mean " clear," but this is not so certain. 426 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. tions seeing them, in 1827 or '28, when hunting in company with his brother, E. B. Upham, Alfred Utley and Joel Burnet. The falls were then marked by shelving rocks, which have since been blasted away, and the youngsters cut down a tree, growing on the bank, for the fun of seeing it topple over the precipice. In the month of February, 1831, Rev. Adamson Bentley, a noted Disciple minister, then forty-six years old, having purchased a large tract of land at the junction of the two branches of the Chagrin river, moved to that point, and immediately began important improvements there. That same year he built a sawmill, and that year, or the next, he erected a gristmill; both being situated near the present residence of his son, Martin Bentley, about a quarter of a mile below the forks of the river. He built a carding machine and cloth-dressing establishment at the same point a little later, and thus made the beginning of a thriving hamlet, which flourished under the name of Bentleyville for over twenty years, and at first seemed likely to be the principal village in that part of the county. But in 1833 a new village was begun, which soon threw Bentleyville entirely in the shade, and has long maintained an unquestioned supremacy over the various little burgs in the southeastern part of Cuyahoga county. It will be remembered that at this time that part of the present township of Chagrin Falls lying east of the line of Franklin street, in the village of that name, was in the town of Russell, in Geauga county, while the portion west of that line was in Orange, Cuyahoga county, except a small tract in the southwest corner of the village, which was in Solon, in the same county. The land in Geauga county was owned by Aristarchus Champion, of Rochester, New York,* while that of Orange was the property of Gen. Edward Paine, the founder of Painesville, but then residing at Chardon, Geauga county. In the year 1833, Noah Graves, a Massachusetts Yankee, on the lookout for a good investment, after examining the water power at the Falls, went to Gen. Paine and purchased two hundred and ten acres of land there, for what was then considered the large sum of two thousand dollars. Dr. S. S. Handerson was either connected with Graves at the time of the trade or became so immediately afterward, and together they at once made the preliminary movements to start a city. Lots were laid out and offered for sale, and preparations were made for building mills. We cannot learn, however, that any houses were built on the site of the village until 1834. In that year Noah Graves, S. S. Handerson, Chester Bushnell, Napoleon Covill, A. A. Hart and Ebenezer Wilcox, all took their families and settled in the new city. In October of that year, Mr. Henry Church, the oldest survivor of the original pioneers of the village, * Aristarchus Champion died at Rochester only a few years since at the age of over ninety years. moved thither with his family. He found the families already mentioned, but only three framed houses those of Graves, Handerson and Hart. Mr. Wilcox lived in the house of his brother-in-law. Mr. Graves and Mr. Covill lived in a log house north of the river, while Julius Higgins dwelt in a shanty near by. Chester Bushnell built a barn that season on the site of the Union House, in the upper part of which he lived with his family and kept tavern, the horses of the travelers being stabled below. Mr. Graves also built a dam that year, but did not erect his sawmill until the next year, 1835. Mr. Church, as soon as he arrived, went to blacksmithing, his being the first shop in the new village. His partner was Luther Graves, (a nephew of Noah) who had come with Mr. Church. I. A. Foote, a resident almost as early, came on the 19th of October, 1834. He remembers but two framed houses, those of Graves and Hart. There was still no bridge, and Paine's old stringers afforded the only means of passage. Ira Sherman lived near by. There was an old deer-lick near the location of the upper paper mill, and when the first settlers came there were still bark hammocks to be seen hanging in the tops of the large, low beech trees, where the Indians had been accustomed to lie in wait for the deer as they came to drink the brackish waters of the "lick." There was a tincture of mineral in the water, besides salt, and the neighboring stones were glazed by a shining substance, deposited on the evaporation of the water. The Indians had then ceased to visit this part of the county and the deer abandoned the lick as soon as the white people began to settle in the vicinity. They were still abundant in the neighboring hills, and many a fine carcass was brought in by. the early settlers. A. H. Hart was especially noted as a hunter, and Mr. Church was almost equally devoted to the chase, and was a frequent companion of Mr. Hart on his hunting excursions. In 1835 there was a marked improvement in the new village. Several new houses were put up, the projected sawmill was built, and the woods cleared away for several rods around the buildings. Still there were no roads of any value in the country around, and all kinds of business were of course extremely difficult of transaction. Mr, Church mentions having frequently gone up into the settlement of Solon, got a bag of wheat and carried it on his back to Bentley's little gristmill; carrying it thence, in the same manner, home to Chagrin Falls. The next year, 1836, the erection of a gristmill at the falls made it unnecessary. to go elsewhere for grinding, but the wheat had still to be brought over most execrable roads. But those were the celebrated "flush times," when everybody was bent on speculation, when paper money was as free as water, and when unbounded riches were consequently expected by the whole community. CHRGRIN FALLS - 427 Scarcely an enterprise could be suggested in which men were not ready to engage. About this same time, 1836, Gen. James Griffith found a water power on the Aurora branch of the Chagrin river, and bought the upper part of it. Ten men, mostly from Aurora, in Portage county, bought the lower part. Griffith a sawmill and he and the others planned a village to be called Griffithsburg, which, like Bentleyville, was within the present township of Chagrin Falls. Captain Archibald Robbins, the celebrated sailor, who with Captain Riley was taken prisoner on the coast of Africa, and who is mentioned in the history of Solon, bought an interest at Griffithsburg, built a store there and remained three or four years. Meanwhile, for several years, Bentleyville kept ahead, not only of Griffrthsburg, but of its more promising rival, Chagrin Falls. John Oviatt came thither in 1834 or '35, built a trip-hammer shop, and made scythes, axes and similar instruments in large quantities-that is, large for that time and place. This establishment was kept up for five or six years. Another, erected about the same time, was the tannery of William Brooks. In 1835 or '36 Mr. Bentley erected and opened a small store at the same point, being the first store in the present township of Chagrin Falls. In 1835 Dr. Justus H. Vincent located in the north west corner of Bainbridge, Geauga county, being the first physician who practiced to any extent in Chagrin Falls. In 1836 and '37 he was a member of the legislature. All the property holders of the vicinity, with Dr. Vincent at their head, applied for a charter for a bank at Chagrin Falls. This institution, however, did not get fairly under way. The nearest approach to it was a shanty in which one of the residents lived, which was set into the bank of a hill. This, in consideration of its position, was dubbed the " bank," and the resident was breveted the cashier. In March, 1836, the first religious society in the township was formed, being called the " First Congregational Society of Morense." There seems to have been a disposition to call the new village " Moreuse," but it was soon given up. The year before this (1835) a college had been chartered, which was to stand on College Hill. There was to be no lack of great institutions, and it is a somewhat amusing illustration of the spirit of the time that the first district school was taught the same season the college was chartered. The teacher was Miss Almeda Vincent, afterwards Mrs. Aaron Bliss, of Chicago. Her husband opened the first store in the village in 1836, in the bar room of the hotel, but soon after built a store on the corner of Main and Orange streets. These were perhaps the liveliest times the village has ever known, except during a short time at the outbreak of the rebellion. Soon after Bliss opened his store, B. H. and H. S. Bosworth also embarked in the mercantile business. Joshua Overton and — Bennett bought and occupied the tavern. William Fay set up a shingle machine. Charles Waldron and William Pratt were in business as shoemakers, William McGlashan and Dudley Thorp as tailors, and Henry Smith as a mason. George Fenkel was building his gristmill, which was in running order by winter. Caleb Earl built a clothiers shop. Among other residents already there, or fast coming in, were James Bosworth, with his sons, Freeman, Sherman, Milo and Philetus, and his sons-in-law, Jason Matthews, Robert Barrows, Justus Taylor, Justus Benedict, T. N. West, Samuel Graham and Timothy Osborn, all with families; also, Huron Beebe, Roderick Beebe, William Church and Zopher Holcomb. To add to the excitement, the celebrated Sidney Rigdon, who was then second only to Joseph Smith as a Mormon preacher, was displaying the glories of the religion of the Latter Day Saints in numerous sermons and speeches. That religion had not then assumed its offensive polygamous features, and Rigdon, who was known to be an eloquent speaker, was invited to deliver the oration at Chagrin Falls on the 4th of July, 1836. He did so, and among other glowing predictions, prophesied that there would soon be one great city, extending from Chagrin Falls to Kirtland, fifteen miles north, all inhabited by the saints of the Lord. The next spring, 1837, the excitement was still intense, and the expectation of universal wealth through the medium of unlimited paper money and the immense rise in the price of land was yet unabated. A Congregational church edifice was planned, and the timber was drawn to the public square, which at this time was dedicated to the public, and included all that block on which the town hall now stands. Two-thirds of it was afterwards given to the Methodist and Congregational churches. Another grand celebration was gotten up on the Fourth of July, and was graced by a peculiar accompaniment. The first marriage in the village, and probably in the township, took place on that day, the officiating minister being Rev. Sherman B. Canfield, the orator of the day, and the parties being Aaron Bliss, the young merchant, and Miss Almeda, the daughter of Dr. J. H. Vincent. But while all was thus going " merry as a marriage bell" in the financial and social world; the sound of approaching disaster came swiftly upon the ear. During the summer of 1837 the whole fabric of apparent prosperity which had been built up on a basis of worthless paper money, went down even more suddenly than it had been raised, and business all over the country came to a standstill. Chagrin Falls, like other ambitious, young villages, for several years, made very little progress. Notwithstanding all the energy previously displayed, there was yet no post office in the village. There was a mail route, however, ran by Seremus Burnet's place, where he had begun keeping tavern. From there the mail was brought once a week by 428 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. Marcus Earl to the house of his father in the village, where the people gathered to obtain their letters and papers, making it a post office by common consent. The first fatal accident in the township occurred in 1839, when the young daughter of Mr. Overton was burned to death by her clothes catching fire. Mr. C. T. Blakeslee, to whose sketches in the Chagrin Falls Expositor we are indebted for a large number of the facts here set forth, mentions that there were no less than seventeen fatal accidents at Chagrin Falls between 1839 and 1874. The same year Asbury Seminary was incorporated as a Methodist institution, Mr. Williams being the first principal. Meanwhile Samuel Nettleton built a furnace, which in 1840 he sold to Benajah Williams, by whom and his son it has ever since been carried on. Mr. Williams had moved to the village in 1837, with his sons Lorenzo D., John W., William M., Francis S., Adam C.' and Andrew J. In 1840, the year of the great "Tippecanoe" campaign, two-thirds of the people of Chagrin Falls were Whigs, and nowhere was there more zeal in supporting the Whig cause than there—in fact, Chagrin Falls has always been a very zealous place in regard to any question in which the people took an interest. When the Whigs of the Northwest held a grand meeting at Fort Meigs, the male portion of Chagrin Falls turned out almost en masse. Dr. Vincent was in command of a company of Whig riflemen. The rest of the Whigs were going in their private capacity, most of them assuming a sort of Indian disguise to add to the hilarity of the occasion. - So great was the excitement that most of the Democrats actually proposed to join the Indians and accompany them to the great powwow. The offer was promptly accepted, and there was hardly a man left at the Falls. Four-horse, six-horse, and even eight-horse teams were provided to draw the crowd to Cleveland, where two-thirds of the voters of the county were assembled, whence they went by boat to the Maumee. The Democratic "Indians" of Chagrin Falls acted faithfully in accordance with the part they had assumed, entering fully into the spirit of the occasion, and making no objection to the fierce assaults upon Democracy which resounded from the lips of eloquent orators. But when the procession returned to the Falls it halted on the top of the hill overlooking the village, and there these temporary Whigs drew off, gave one parting whoop for Old Tippecanoe, and then, with a rousing cheer for Van Buren and Johnson, resumed their character as Democrats and returned to their homes. By 1841 business began to revive. Aaron Bliss and John Mayhew built a large stone flouring-mill on the site of the upper paper-mill, with a semicircular stone dam. The latter, however, was carried out by the high water that same season, flooding the village and carrying off two bridges. The same year Noah Graves built a paper-mill on the north side of the river, being the beginning of an industry which has ever since flourished at Chagrin Falls. In January of this year, also, Dr. Vincent obtained the passage of an act taking nine hundred acres from the northwest corner of the township of Russell, Geauga county, and annexing it to the southeast corner of Orange, Cuyahoga county; making recompense by taking the same amount from the northeast corner of Orange and annexing it to Russell. The latter tract, however, was afterwards re-annexed to Orange. In 1842 the census showed that there were a hundred and nine families in the village, with five hundred and forty members. There were twenty carpenters, five cabinet makers, four wagon makers, ten shoemakers, five merchants, three doctors and two lawyers. This was considered a pretty good showing for a village eight years old, and such as would justify making a beginning in journalism. Accordingly C. T. Blakeslee, one of the lawyers just mentioned, and John Brainard, afterwards a professor of chemistry at Cleveland, and later holding the official position of examiner of patents at Washington, combined their forces to start a newspaper. The "forces" consisted of a little credit by means of which they bought a hundred dollars' worth of type on time, and of two pairs of hands with which they made the press and everything else necessary to print their paper, which they called the Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal. Somewhat more has been said of it in the chapter of the general history devoted to the press, on page one hundred and ninety. In the spring of 1843, there was a good deal of excitement over the prophecy of "Father Miller" that the world was to be destroyed by fire on the 23d of April. About that time Earl's woolen mills caught fire at three o'clock in the morning. As the roof was saturated with oil, it burned off with extraordinary rapidity, casting its lurid glare over the whole village, and far up and down the valley, over the darksome rocks and flashing waters of the Chagrin. For a short time some of the people thought there was something in the Millerite talk, and that the destruction of the world had possibly begun at Chagrin Falls. Soon afterward, Deacon Harry White bought the pond belonging to the woolen mill, and established a manufactory of axes. As large numbers of people were then at work clearing up the country, axes had a ready sale near at hand, and Mr. White did a large business. When the land was cleared up, however, the factory was abandoned. In 1844, both the Methodists and the Congregationalists built churches at the Falls, these being the first houses of worship erected there. At this time there was a daily line of stages runing through the village, between Cleveland and Warren, and the coaches were generally loaded with passengers. The country had pretty well recovered from the financial crisis of 1837, and Chagrin Falls began to feel its dignity again. It was not satisfied with its position in the corner of Orange, and began to moot the question of having a township all to itself. Be- CHAGRIN FALLS - 429 fore recording its organization, however, we must revert to another part of the territory which it was made to include. Although Bentleyville had not kept pace with its rival at the Falls, yet it boasted of no inconsiderable business. In 1841 a chair factory was begun there by C. P. Brooks, which did a good business and was maintained for five or six years. About 1843 the old grist mill was leased by Lyman Hatfield and turned into a rake factory. This, however, was only kept up about two years. There was also a factory of wooden bowls at the same place. Besides these there were shops of various kinds and fifteen or twenty residences; so that a traveler, who descended into the narrow dell where all this industry was exercised, would certainly have thought that he had discovered one of the most prosperous and promising villages in the country. But from this time onward its prosperity declined, its various industries went down one after the other under the adverse power of floods, and time, and competition, until now there is little indeed to remind the spectator of its former flourishing condition. At this time (1844), also, the tract now included in Chagrin Falls had been pretty well cleared up, considering the roughness of its surface, and thirty or forty thriving farmers had established themselves in its valleys and on its hillsides. And so the people of the village and the neighboring farmers agreed that it would be a good plan to have a new township, though it is difficult to see what for. On application to the county commissioners a township was formed in the forepart of 1845, to which the name of Chagrin Falls was given, and which included lots six, seven, eight, mine, ten, eleven, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four, in the northeast corner of Solon; lots four, five, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty-one in the southeast part of Orange; and lots seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, also in Orange at that time, but which had formerly been a part of Russell, in Geauga county. The first town meeting was held at the tavern of A. Griswold on the 7th day of April, 1845. James Griffith, Samuel Pool and Pliny Kellogg acted as judges of election, and Jedediah Hubbell and Alanson Knox as clerks; all being sworn in by Henry Church, justice of the peace. The following officers were elected: Trustees, Stoughton Bentley, Ralph E. Russell, Boardman H. Bosworth; township clerk, Alan- son Knox; treasurer, Thomas Shaw; assessor, Rev. John K. Hallock (removed from township and George Stocking appointed in his place); overseers of the poor, George Rathbun and Jedediah Hubbell, Jr.; constable, Thomas M. Bayard; supervisors of highways, Sherman S. Handerson, Obadiah Bliss, John Mayhew, Phineas Upham, Duane Brown, John Goodell, Ralph E. Russell, Noah Graves. Thus the township of Chagrin Falls was fairly launched upon its separate existence. There was at this time much talk of the construction of a railroad through it from Cleveland to Pittsburg. In fact, a line had been surveyed through the village the previous year, and the people, with their usual enterprise, subscribed twenty-four thousand dollars to its stock. The scheme, however, fell through. Whatever other faults may have been laid to the account of the people of Chagrin Falls, a lack of enterprise or intelligence could never be justly charged against them. They sought diligently to inform themselves on every subject which came before the public, (taking more newspapers during the first twenty years of the existence of the village than were take•. in any other place of its size in the country), and liberally supported every enterprise which -gave reasonable promise of promoting the public welfare. The only drawback was that in their abounding zeal they were sometimes inclined to support enterprises and encourage creeds which did not give reasonable promise of promoting the public welfare. In 1847 the village of Chagrin Falls is described in Howe's Historioal Collections as containing one Congregational, one Methodist Episcopal, one Wesleyan Methodist, and one Free Will Baptist church, nine stores, one axe and edge-tool factory, one sash factory, one wheel and wheel-head factory, one wooden-bowl factory, three woolen factories, one paper factory, two flouring-mills, three sawmills, one furnace, one carriage shop, two tin shops, three harness shops, three cabinet shops, and twelve hundred inhabitants. Probably the number of the inhabitants was somewhat exaggerated. At this period, too, a good deal of attention was given to the grindstone quarries on the banks of the Chagrin, which were pronounced inexhaustible, and were worked to a considerable extent. These have been abandoned in later days, but it is by no means improbable that they may again be opened in response to the constantly increasing demand for that kind of material for building purpose s. In 1848 the Cleveland and Mahoning railroad was organized, and another large subscription was obtained at Chagrin Falls, with the understanding that it should run through that place. It was, however, located through Solon. The same year the .Chagrin Falls and Cleveland Plank Road Company was chartered, and in this the people of .the Falls invested fifteen thousand dollars. It was partly built in 1849, and finished in 1850. It was not found to be remunerative, and was ere long abandoned, with the exception of the portion between Clevel nod and Newburg. There was always an earnest feeling manifested in regard to education and all cognate subjects. As early as 1842 a literary association was formed, and it few books were from time to time gathered. In 1847 Aristarchus Champion, who, as before stated, was the original owner of the land in Russell, began to build a large hall, which he gave out was intended for the use of the village. In 1848, having completed it, he put in it some eight hundred volumes, which the citi- 430 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. zens were allowed to use. The literary association also deposited their books there, and the building was known as Library Hall. Mr. Champion, however, kept the title in himself, and after a few years he removed the books and sold the hall. A board of education was formed in 1849, after which educational interests were supported with as much vigor as before, and under a more thorough and comprehensive system. In 1852 the Painesville and Hudson railroad was incorporated, with a capital of a million dollars, and a line was surveyed through the Falls. So determined were the people to have a communication with the outside world, at any expense, that they subscribed no less than two hundred thousand dollars, on condition, however, that five hundred thousand should be raised in all. This enterprise, too, could not be carried out, and Chagrin Falls was left to depend on lumber wagons as the principal means of communication with Cleveland, Painesville and the other shipping places on the lake and canal. Nevertheless, its extraordinary water-power, and the energy of its citizens, kept the village in a prosperous condition. It was noted, tpo, for the good taste displayed by the people in their dwellings and the surroundings, and he who looked upon its white cottages and well-kept yards might have thought himself in a New England village, enriched by the labors of two centuries, rather than in one the site of which had only twenty years before been a perfect wilderness. In 1858 the Asbury Seminary building was sold to the township for a union school, for which purpose it has since been used. Thus gently, but prosperously, passed the time, until, in April, 1861, the guns of Sumter called the nation to arms. The people of Chagrin Fails had watched the course of events with even more than the ordinary solicitude of the loyal North. Their proclivity for reading and discussion had kept them wide awake on the subject, and when the tocsin sounded there was probably not a village nor a township of the size in the United States which was more ready to respond than were the village and township of Chagrin Falls. On Saturday evening after the fall of Sumter, a large meeting was held in the village to provide for answering the President's call. It was found impossible to conclude that night, and another meeting was called for the next day. At that meeting nearly every man and woman in the township was present, and a large portion of the children. All the churches were closed, for all the people felt that when the nation was to be pulled out of the pit into which traitor .hands had flung it, all days could lawfully be employed. The most fiery, and yet the sternest, enthusiasm was manifested, and as the result of the meeting the little township furnished a full company under the President's call for three months' men. Before they could be mustered in, however, the call was changed, and their serviced viers not accepted.. A large number of them at once transferred their services to other organizations, and during the war no less than a hundred and nine residents of Chagrin Falls township enlisted in defense of the Union. Their deeds are recorded in the histories of the regiments to which they belonged, in the first part of this work, and there, also, their names are enrolled. Those who remained at home were equally anxious to help to the best of their ability. , On the third of September, 1861, the Chagrin Falls Soldiers' Aid Society was organized, and from that time until June, 1865, under the efficient leadership of its president, Miss Jane E. Church, it was active in supplying the needs of the gallant defenders of the Union. During that time eight hundred and thirty-two dollars were raised in cash for that purpose, and four hundred and six dollars in supplies. At the close it was found that there was a considerable amount in the treasury. It was resolved by the members of the society to add somewhat to it, and to use the whole in building a monument to the men of the township who had been slain or had died in the service. This resolution was carried out, and the monument was erected during the summer in the beautiful cemetery which overlooks the village from the southeast. In September of the same year (1865), it was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies Sin the presence of an immense number of people from that and the surrounding townships. In connection with the war we may note that Gen. Benjamin F. Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, the captors of Jefferson Davis, had previously for many years been a resident of Chagrin Falls. - Since the war no remarkable excitement has prevailed at Chagrin Falls, but there has been a steady increase in business, and the village has lost none of its old, firm reputation for enterprise and intelligence. Bentleyville has entirely ceased to exist as a place of manufactures or business. An attempt was made about 1868 to revive the city of Griffiths- burg, and a large new grist-mill was erected, but the enterprise failed even before the requisite machinery was placed in the mill. Several destructive fires have occurred in Chagrin Falls village. A valuable row of stores at the north end was burned in 1868, and in 1873 what was known as the Philadelphia Block was also destroyed by fire. But these losses were repaired, numerous handsome residences were erected, and now, what with its picturesque scenery, its abundant foliage, and the air of neatness and thrift which everywhere, prevails, Chagrin Falls is one of the very finest villages in northern Ohio. The number of its respective business establishments, professional men, mechanics, etc., is as as follows: Paper mills, two; foundries, three; woolen mills, one; machine shops, three; planing mills, two; wooden- ware factory, one; lumber yard, one; grist mills, two; banks, two; lawyers, two; physicians, three; dentists, two; dry goods stores, three; groceries, .three; hardware stores, three; drug stores, three; CHRGRIN FALLS - 431 book and wall-paper store, one; jewelry, two; photographer, one; furniture stores, two; shoe stores, three; bakeries, two; millinery stores, four; fancy goods stores, two; tin shops, two; wagon shops, two; shoe shops, two; blacksmith shops, five; harness shops, two; marble shop, one. We subjoin brief sketches of some of the principal manufacturing establishments. THE CHAGRIN FALLS PAPER COMPANY. This establishment had its origin in 1840, when Noah Graves put the necessary machinery into an old sawmill, and began the manufacture of straw-paper and wrapping-paper. In 1842 Charles Sears purchased an interest, the firm becoming Graves & Sears. They then began to make writing paper. In 1843 the firm became Sears & Brinsmade, and the manufacture of .printing paper was commenced. In the winter of 1843-4 Heaton & Daniels leased the mill, but in less than a year Mr. Daniels sold his interest to Thomas White. The firm of Heaton & White carried on the establishment until 1847, when Mr. Sears bought Heaton's interest. The business was continued by Sears & White until 1850. Younglove & Hoyt then carried it on one year. At the end of that time they were joined by D. A. Davis and Lewis Sykes, and those four, under the firm name of D. A. Davis & Co., carried on the business successfully until 1858. In the latter year Mr. Davis and W. T. Upham bought the mill of Noah Graves and increased its Capacity. In 1860 Mr. Davis bought Mr. Underwood's interest, and took his son, James Davis, as a partner. This. firm carried on the business until 1866, when the mill was closed. It was soon re-opened, however, and was owned in rapid succession by P. Warren, J. G. Coleman, Pratt & Pope and Parker, Pope & Co. In 1870 the latter firm began the manufacture of flour sacks on an extensive scale. In 1871 Mr. Parker sold out and the firm became Pope & Bleasdale. They bought an old peg factory mind put in four large machines, and turned the old "Union House " into a sack factory. In March, 1875, Mr. Pope sold his interest to Mr. Bleasdale. The mill closed the same year. By January, 1876, the Chagrin Falls Paper Company had been organized, and had acquired the property, the following gentlemen being the directors : D. S. Pope, I. W. Pope, S. L. Pope, S. I. Pope and David Smith. This company has carried on the establishment to the present time, doing a very large business and employing about fifty hands. The sack factory alone has a capacity of twenty-five thousand sacks per day. ADAMS & CO.'S PAPER MILL. The site of this mill was originally occupied by Bliss & Mayhew's flouring mill. It was changed into a woolen factory by Bliss & Pool. It was then transmuted into a paper mill, under the proprietorship of the Lake Erie Paper Mill Company. While it belonged to this company it was destroyed by fire. It was afterwards rebuilt and passed into the hands of Adams, Upham & Co. In 1872 Mr. Upham retired and the firm became Adams & Co., who have since been the proprietors. It is situated in the northeastern part of the village, at the extreme upper end of the rapids. The works occupy several large buildings and do a very extensive business, being principally devoted to the manufaoture of manilla paper. Both steam and water are used, and from fifty to sixty hands are constantly given employment. BULLARD & MARCH'S WOODEN WARE FACTORY. This was established in 1842 by Curtiss Bullard and Cornelius Northrop, spinning wheels, reels, etc., being then the principal article of manufacture. In 1848 Mr. Northrop sold his interest, and Mr. John Bullard was taken into the firm, which took the name of C. Bullard & Son. In 1857 it became C. Bullard & Sons, on the admission of Orson C. Bullard. New machinery was added about this time, and what is called "kitchen wooden ware" became the principal article of manufacture. In 1867 the junior owner died, and the firm again became C. Bullard & Son. The business continued to increase, and was carried on by that firm until 1873, when Curtiss Bullard died. In 1875 J. S. Bullard became the sole proprietor and remained so until January, 1877, when Mr. George March purchased an interest and the firm became Bullard & March. In 1866 the firm obtained a patent for a new kind of butter mould, and this has since become the prinoipal article of manufacture. Over a quarter of a million of these moulds are now made in a single year and the demand is steadily increasing. Immense numbers of butter prints, rolling pins, etc., etc., are also made, all being sold exclusively at wholesale, and being shipped to all parts of the continent. WILLIAMS' FOUNDRY AND THIMBLE SKEIN FACTORY. This establishment originated in the furnace erected by Benajah Williams in 1844, and has ever since been in the hands either of Mr. Williams or of his -son, J. W. Williams, or as now, J. W. Williams & Son. From the manufacture of the simplest and rudest iron articles used in the immediate neighborhood, the establishment has progressed until. its products are now shipped by wholesale to all parts of Ohio and into several of the adjacent States. For many years the principal article produced has been the "seamless thimble skein," known as the " Williams skein," and celebrated for its convenience and durability. Numerous other iron articles, however, are also manufactured, including sad-irons, bolster plates, pruning tools, pump reels, etc., besides a large number of wooden articles, such as axe handles, whiffletrees, etc.; all being renowned for their good quality, and the whole establishment, by its employment of twenty artisans, contributing largely to the prosperity of the village in which it is situated. 432 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, GAUNTT'S MACHINE SHOP. Adin Gauntt started the first machine slop in the place in 1844, in a part of Rowe's carriage shop. After nine years of steadily increasing business, he bought the Maple Grange woolen factory in 1853, where for two years he made machinery for working wool and flax. After four years' absence he returned in 1859, and has since been constantly engaged in the manufacture of various kinds of machinery. He now has a large shop in the lower part of the village, where he manufactures planers, matchers, small steam engines, horse powers, etc., as well as all kinds of especially intricate machinery. OBER BROTHERS' PLANING MACHINE, ETC. This establishment was built by the present proprietors in 1873, being a sawmill, together with machines for planing and matching lumber, making mouldings, sash and blinds, and similar articles. A valuable lathe for irregular work has been patented by George Ober, and the whole establishment is in a highly flourishing condition. OTHER MANUFACTURES. Other manufactures besides the above are the Chagrin Falls woolen mills, Rose Brothers' foundry, with Ira Smith's machine shop, D. Christian's foundry, W. A. Burnet's machine shop, J. O., Malin's planing mill, and the Chagrin Falls marble works, begun in 1877 by H. A. Sheffield. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. This was organized as an independent Congregational church on the 26th day of July, 1835; the following being the first members: Thomas N. West, Rebecca R. West, Alexander H. Hart, Polly Hart, Timothy W. Osborn, Sarah Osborn, Salome Crosby, Andrew Dickinson and Thomas West. On the 10th of June, 1836, the church was received into the Independent Congregational Union of Northern Ohio. On the 2d of January, 1837, it withdrew from that connection, and entered the General Association of the Western Reserve. For eight years after the organization the pulpit was occupied by various temporary supplies, of whom no record has been kept. Rev. John S. Barris preached from 1843 to 1845. Rev. Abram Nast began to serve the church as pastor on the 15th of October, 1845. On the 5th of January, 1847, a constitution was formed,- and the church once more became independent. In 1850 Rev. Mr. Hopkins officiated as pastor. In September, 1851, Rev. E. D. Taylor began to serve the church in that capacity, and continued unti: 1855. He was succeeded by Rev. Josiah Cannon, who closed his services in July, 1857. In June of that year the church united with the Cleveland presbytery of the New School Presbyterian Church. For many years after this no records show the proceedings of the church, and in fact, owing to the war and various circumstances, during much of the time there were no regular services. In 1869 a decided effort was made to revive and strengthen the church. On the 14th of April, in that year, it was legally incorporated under the name of the First Congregational Church of Chagrin Falls. In October following, the Rev. G. W. Walker was called to the pastorate, and since that time the church has been steadily growing in numbers and usefulness. Mr. Walker officiated until 1872, when the retired to take part in the government of Atlanta University, Georgia. He was succeeded in January, 1873, by Rev. T. D. Childs, who remained until May, 1874. At that time Rev. A. D. Barber was called to the pulpit, which he occupied for two years. Rev. William Woodmansee also served for two years, and was succeeded in October, 1878, by Rev. Edmund Gail. The church is now in a flourishing condition, having about a hundred and ten members. The Sabbath school attached to it has seventy-five members. The deacons are (in 1878) Lewis Gilbert, John Ober and R. W. Walters; the trustees, D. C. Eggleston, John S. Bullard and R. W. Walters; the clerk, George March. THE METHODIST CHURCH. As soon as any considerable number of persons were settled in the township, the indefatigable Methodist ministers began to go "on circuit" among them, preaching to those of their faith and to whomsoever else might be willing to listen to their words. Down to 1844 the services were held in school-houses and private houses, there being no other means of accommodation. In the summer of that year, however, a Methodist church was erected at the village of Chagrin Falls, which has ever since been occupied by the by the members of that denomination. Chagrin Falls was a part of a very extensive circuit. The visits of the ministers were necessarily infrequent, and the records kept were of the most meager description. We find, however, that in 1854 the circuit contained Chagrin Falls, Mayfield, Gates' Mills, Bainbridge, Orange Hill, Orange Center, Solon, Russell and Chester. The circuit ministers were Rev. Messrs. Patterson and Fonts. These two, together with Rev. D. C. Wright, also served on the circuit in 1855. 1857 Chagrin Falls and Solon were made a circuit by themselves, on which Rev. E. J. Kenney served in 1857 and '58, and Rev. T. Guy in 1859, '60 and '61. Since that time Chagrin Falls has been a separate station, with the following ministers: Thomas Stubbs, 1862, '63 and '64; John Graham, part of 1864; H. N. Stearns, 1865 and '66; John O'Neal, 1867; Geo. J. Bliss, 1868; C. T. Kingsbury, 1869 and '70; G. W. Chessebro, 1871; N. H. Holmes, 1872 and '73; W. T. Wilson, 1874; B. Excell, 1875 and '76; A. H. Dormer, 1877 and '78. THE DISCIPLE CHURCH. Rev. Adamson Bentley was unquestionably the principal person engaged in founding the Disciple CHRGRIN FALLS - 433 Church in Chagrin Falls. In February, 1831, he moved to the point now known as Bentleyville, and at once began preaching in the nearest log school house. Before long there were about thirty believers gathered, and a church was constituted under the general superintendence of Mr. Bentley, with Gamaliel Kent as assistant overseer. The first deacons were R. E. Russell and Zadoc Bowen. For several years the congregation usually met at the Griffitb school-house; afterwards at the village of Chagrin Falls. In 1846 a large tent-meeting of the Disciples of Cuyahoga and Geauga counties was held at Chagrin Falls, which was attended by the venerable Alexander Campbell, the most prominent minister of the denomination. 'Shortly afterward a church building was erected by the Disciples at Chagrin Falls, which has since been occupied by them. In 1S49 lectures on the evidences of Christianity were delivered at the Falls by Rev. Isaac Errett, one of the ablest and most logical of the Disciple ministers. Nine years later, James A. Garfield, then a young Disciple minister, since distinguished as a soldier and a statesman, defended the cause of Christianity in a vigorous discussion with Dutton, a celebrated infidel lecturer, in which the youthful champion displayed much of that thoroughness of information and closeness of reasoning for which he has in later years become celebrated on a wider field. Since the war the church has steadily increased in numbers and vigor, and now contains about a hundred and forty members, _with the following officers: J. G. Coleman and C. H. Welton, overseers; George M. King, Ransom Bliss and Martin Bentley, deacons; Mrs. Jennie Burns, Mrs. Louisa M. Tucker, Mrs. Calista MoClintock, deaconesses. Ministers have not been regularly employed during the whole of the time since the organization of the church, but have been during a large part of it; the following being the principal persons who have occupied the pulpit: Adamson Bentley, Wm. Hayden, W. S. Hamlin, W. T. Horner, James A. Garfield, J. H. Rhodes, B. A. Hinsdale, Sterling McBride, R. G. White, W. S. Hayden, J. G. Coleman, Andrew Burns (1872 to 1878), and James Vernon, the present incumbent. THE FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH. This church was originally organized on the 25th day of August, 1839, at the Isham school house in the township of Russell, Geauga county, by Rev. A. K. Moulton, with nine members, viz.: Henry E. Whipple, John Walters; Reuben R. Walters, Jehiel Goodwill, Emily Walters, Saudr S. Morse, Hannah Mason, Faustina L. McConoughy, Lucy Goodwill. The first pastor was A. K. Moulton; the first deacon, appointed in January, 1840, was John Walters, who still holds that position; the second deacon was Wm. S. Phillips. In February, 1841, the church was legally incorporated by the name of the Russell Free Will Baptist Church, and in August following, John Walters, Otis B. Bliss and R. R. Walters were elected trustees. Mr. Moulton's pastorate closed in September, 1841. A year or two later the congregation, having increased in members, began the erection of the framed house of worship at Chagrin Falls still oocupied by them. It was dedicated in 1844, but was not finished until 1545. In February of time latter year the church took the name of the Chagrin Falls First Free Will Baptist Church. We are able to give a full list of the pastors with their terms of service, the church record being of exceptional excellence. A. K. Moulton, August, 1839 to September, 1841; A. R. Crafts, January, 1842 to April, 1843; Walter D. Stallard, June, 1843 to August, 1844; P. W. Belknap, six months; A. R. Crafts one year; E. II. Higbee, June, 1846 to February, 1848; G. H. Ball, May, 1849 to November, 1849; Norman Star, January, 1850 to January, 1851. From this time until 1858 there was no regular pastor, the pulpit being supplied by the Rev. Messrs. Daniel H. Miller, D. W. Edwards, J. C. Miller, and others. Rev. E. N. Wright was pastor from February, 1858, nearly three years. The pulpit was then supplied by Rev. Messrs. Darius Woodworth, R. Clark, E. II. Higbee, R. Coley and others. Wm. L. Hosier served from April, 1862 to July, 1863. George Thomas and others supplied the place of a pastor until October, 1864. Rev. B. E. Baker served from that time until October, 1867; W. Whitacre, from October, 186'4' to February, 1872; C. Steele from then till the present time. During these years there have been two hundred and seventy-seven members of the church, the present number being sixty-four. The present officers (1878) are as follows: Deacon, John Walters; trustees, Wm. E. Walters, Augustus R. Vincent, Irwin N. Warner; clerk, R. R. Walters. THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. The Bible Christian Church at Chagrin Falls was organized in 1846 with seventeen members. The denomination, which resembles the Methodists in many respects, is of English origin, and this church was established on account of the migration of a number of English families hither shortly before the year just mentioned. In 1851 the church had increased so that it was able to build a small, framed house of worship, which was occupied by them until 1874, when the present commodious brick edifice was erected. The society was legally incorporated in 1869. The ministers have been Rev. Messrs. George Rippin, John Chapel, Joseph Hodge, William Roach, William Hooper, George Haycraft, John Pinch, L. W. Nicket, J. Harris, J. Chapel, R. Mallet and L. W. Nicket again. The church is now in a flourish- 434 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ing condition, with sixty-two members, and with a Sunday school of about ninety members. GOLDEN GATE LODGE NO. 245, F. AND A. M. This lodge was chartered on the 19th day of October, 1854, the following being the charter members: Caleb Earl, Orison Cathan, Jonathan Cole, Apollo Hewitt, Roderick White, Nathan Hobart, S. B. Kellogg, Samuel Sunderland, Thomas White, L. D. Mix, Henry Burnet. The Worthy Masters in succession have been as follows: Caleb Earl, L. D. Mix, D. A. Davis, S. L. Wilkinson, M. A. Lander, C. M. Foote, R. W. Walters, H. M. Doty. The following officers were in authority in 1878: H. M. Doty, W. M.; C. M. Foote, S. W.; James Lowrie, J. W.; F. E. Adams, treasurer; E. W. Force, secretary; Philip Heintz, S. D.; J. W. Smith, J. D.; S. A. Bayard, tyler. CHAGRIN FALLS LODGE NO. 290, 1. O. O. F. This lodge was organized on the 29th day of June, 1855, the charter members being Thomas M. Bayard, join' W. Williams, H. A, Robinson, Uriah Ackley and Bennett Robbins. The following gentlemen have served in succession as Noble Grands of the lodge for one term of six mouths each, unless otherwise specified: J. M. Bayard, J. W. Williams, H. A. Robinson, S. N. Pelton (two terms), J. A. Foote (two terms), W. W. Ainger, G. S. Rathbun, H. W. Curtis, E. Sheffield, J. H. Vincent, L. A. Sunderland, L. B. McFarland, D. White, H. H. Caley (two terms), A. H. Burnett (two terms), H. Washburn, G. F. Stanhope, W. T. Armour, W. E. Walters, W. A. Braund, George Thomas, L. O. Harris, R. W. Walters, I. J. Davis, W. W. Phillips, C. R. Bliss, John Brooks, W. D. Stannard, D. Goddard, O. F. Frazer, E. F. Douglas, H. A. Pardee, M. H. Isham, W. W. Wilber, O. A. Crane, John Armour, A. B. Gardner (two terms), H. U. Bigelow, Wilson Wyckoff, John Haggett, M. F, Brewster. PRINCIPAL TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. 1845. Trustees, Ralph E. Russell, Stoughton Bentley, B. H. Bosworth; clerk, A. Knox; treasurer. Thomas Shaw; assessor, George Stocking. 1846. Trustees, B. H. Bosworth, R. E. Russell, Charles E. Morton; clerk, A. Knox; treasurer, O. Bliss; assessor, Geo. Stccking. 1847. Trustees, B. H. Bosworth, R. E. Russell, Harmon Barrows; clerk, David Birchard: treasurer, John Mayhew; assessor, Noah Graves. 1848. Trustees, R. E. Russell, Leonard Sampson, E. P. Wolcott; clerk, David Birchard; treasurer, J. A. Brown; assessor, Noah Graves. 1849. Trustees, R. E. Russell, E. P. Wolcott, Samuel Pool; clerk, Thomas Shaw; treasurer, Abel Fisher; assessor, N. Graves. 1850. Trustees, R. E. Russell, L. Lampson, Hannibal Goodell; clerkl L. D. Mix: treasurer, Chas. Force; assessor, N. Graves. 1851. Trustees, E. 1'. Wolcott, S. Pool, R. E. Russell; clerk, A. J. Williams; treasurer, A. Fisher: assessor, N. Graves. 1852. Trustees, Horace Waite, S. Pool, R. E. Russell: clerk, John V. Smith; treasurer, A. Fisher; assessor, Geo. Faukell. 1853. Trustees, S. Pool, Geo. Gladden, H. Goodell; clerk, S. K. Collins; treasurer. J. II. Burnet; assessor, Geo. Faukell. 1854. Trustees, Alonzo Harlow, H. Goodell, Ephraim Sheffield; clerk, S. K. Collins; treasurer, J. H. Burnett; assessor, J. W. Williams. 1855. Trustees, H. Goodell, A. ,Harlow, E. Sheffield; clerk, E. P. Wolcott; treasurer, A. Upham; assessor, Jonathan Cole. 1856. Trustees, H. Goodell, E. Sheffield, E. R. Sage: clerk, A. Harlow: treasurer, A. Upham; assessor, J. Cole. 1857. Trustees, H. Goodell, E. Sheffield, A. Upham; clerk, Thomas Shaw; treasurer, G. B. Rogers; assessor, G. G. Morris. 1858. Trustees, H. Goodell, E. Sheffield, A. Upham; clerk, Thomas Shaw; treasurer, G. B. Rogers; assessor, S. L. Wilkinson. 1859. Trustees, H. Goodell, E. Sheffield, A. Upham; clerk, L. D. Mix; treasurer, Chas. Force; assessor, L. B. McFarland. 1860. Trustees, S. Pool, Orrin Nash, H. Goodell; clerk, T. Shaw; treasurer, A. Upham; assessor, E. B. Upham. 1861. L. E. Goodwin, E. Sheffield, Julius Kent; clerk, Thomas Shaw; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, E. M. Eggleston. 1862. Trustees, E. Sheffield, L. D. Mix, Charles Force; clerk, T. Shaw; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, E. M. Eggleston. 1863. Trustees, E. Sheffield, L. D. Mix, Charles Force; clerk, Lucius E. Goodwin; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, E. M. Eggleston. 1864. Trustees, E. Sheffield, L. D. Mix, Charles Force; clerk, W. J. Armour; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, E. M. Eggleston. 1865. Trustees, Charles Force, E. Sheffield, E. M. Eggleston; clerk, W. J. Armour; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, E. B. Upham. 1866. Trustees, E. Sheffield, C. Force, W. W. Collins; clerk, W. J. Armour; treasurer, L. B. McFarland; assessor, L. A. Sunderland. 1867. Trustees, E. Sheffield, W. W. Collins, H. Goodell; clerk, George King; treasurer, Th. Shaw; assessor, A. H. Rogers. 1868. Trustees, C. Force, S. W. Brewster, Silas Christian; clerk, Eleazer Goodwin; treasurer, Thomas Shaw; assessor, E. B. Upham. 1869. Trustees, C. Force, S. W. Brewster, Silas Christian; clerk, C, R. Bliss; treasurer, T. Shaw; assessor, E. B. Upham. 1870. Trustees, C. Force, S Christian, J. G. Coleman; clerk, W. H. Caley; treasurer, T. Shaw; assessor. E. B. Upham. 1871. Trustees, J. G. Coleman, S. Christian, Washington Gates; clerk, W. H. Caley; treasurer, T. Shaw; assessor, George Gladden. 1872. Trustees, C. Force, Wrn. Hutchings, Alex. Frazer; clerk, Austin Church; treasurer, T. Shaw; assessor, George Gladden. 1873. Trustees, C. Force, W. Hutchings, A. Frazer; clerk, A. Church; treasurer, T. Shaw; assessor. Geo. Gladden. 1874. Trustees, C. Force, Wrn. Hutchings, A. Frazer; clerk, A. Church; treasurer, Alfred Williams; assessor, George Gladden. 1875. Trustees, C. Force, Wm. Hutchings A. Frazer; clerk, A. Church; treasurer, A. Williams; assessor, George Gladden. 1876. Trustees, C. Force, Wm. Hutchings, A. Frazer; clerk, A. Church; treasurer, A. Williams; assessor, George Gladden. 1877. Trustees, Z. K. Eggleston, Wrn. Hutchings, A. Church; clerk, D. O. Davis; treasurer, Joseph J. Davis; assessor, George Gladden. 1878. Trustees, Chas. Force, Alfred Church, Wm. Hutchings; clerk D. O. Davis; treasurer, J. J. Davis; assessor, Geo. Gladden. 1879. Trustees, Austin Church, Z. K. Eggleston, Silas Christian; clerk, D. O. Davis; treasurero J. J. Davis; assessor, L. O. Harris. HARVEY W. CURTISS. Harvey Willard Curtiss, M. D., was born at Charlestown, Portage county, Ohio, on the 22nd day of February; 1824. He is the son of Chauncey B. Curtiss, a leading farmer and a man of large social and political influence in Portage county, who takes an active interest in public affairs, and has filled at different times numerous local offices of trust. The subject of this notice studied at and was graduated from the Grand River Institute, in Ashtabula county. In 1849 he commenced the study of medicine and in 1851 was. graduated from Cleveland Medical College. He entered upon the practice of his profession in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but was obliged, on account of ill health, to leave the city. He then, in 1852, removed to Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where he has since resided. Like his father, he early became interested in political affairs, and when but nineteen years of age "stumped" his native county in the interests of the Liberty party of that day. Upon the organization of the Republican party he united with that body, and became active in local politics. In the fall of 1869 he was elected a representative from Cuyahoga county in the Ohio legislature, taking DOVER - 435 his seat in January, 1870. The question whether Ohio should ratify the fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution was before the legislature during that year and Mr. Curtiss took an active part in securing the ratification. He served as a member of the committees on railroads and benevolent institutions. In 1871 he was re-elected to the legislature, and on taking his seat in 1872 was appointed chairman of the committee on railroads, besides holding places on several other committees. During this term a number of bills of more or less importance were advocated by him with marked success. He also introduced a bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals, the first legislation on this subject in the State. This bill met with great opposition, but by persistent efforts of Dr. Curtiss and some others, a majority of the legislature was convinced of its propriety and it was duly passed. In October, 1873, he was elected to the State senate. The political party to which he belonged was in the minority at that time, and hence he was assigned to inferior places on committees. Instead of forwarding desirable measures he was engaged in combating those he considered deleterious, among the most noted of which was the "Geghan bill," which it was claimed was introduced and pressed in the interest of the Roman Catholic church. In 1875 he was again elected to the senate, and served as president pro tem. Upon the resignation of Gov. Hayes and the installation of the lieutenant governor as acting governor in the spring of 1877, Mr. Curtiss was made president of the senate and acting lieutenant governor. He took an active part in the debates during this term. In the fall of 1877 Dr. Curtiss peremptorily refused to become a candidate for renomination, and instructed the delegates from his township under no circumstances to allow his name to go before the convention. There was, however, such a strong desire to see him again in the field, that one hour before the convention organized parties were dispatched to the Herald office and a few ballots were hurriedly printed. Upon the second ballot Dr. Curtiss was renominated over four Competitors. He accepted with great reluctance, but was elected and served the full term of two years. In addition to his legislative duties he has taken an active and a prominent part in the administration of local affairs. He served for fifteen years as a member of the village school board, and 'then resigned. Three years after he was again induced to become a candidate, and in the spring of 1879 his name was placed on both tickets. He was re-elected by an almost unanimous vote. As a politician he ever preserved the strictest honor arid integrity. Possessing great ability, tact and skill as a legislator, he always exerted his influence in the cause of right and justice. During the rebellion he was an ardent supporter of the Union, and contributed in different ways to the assistance of the National cause. He is an active and valued member of the Masonic order, and also of the order of Odd Fellows. Dr. Curtiss is a man of strong and unflinching will. He is willing to receive the advice of others, but when he has once decided on his course, adheres to it with extraordinary firmness. As a physician he has been pre-eminently successful, and has attained a wide celebrity. Of dignified presence, courteous address and high character, he is in every way fitted for his profession of physician, as well as for the position of a representative of the people. In Chagrin Falls he is to a considerable extent the adviser of both poor and rich, quite a number of the citizens making a consultation with Dr. Curtiss the first step in any important transaction. He was married in 1846 to Miss Olive B. Rood of Charlestown. They have had four children: Dwight C., engaged in the manufacture of paper in Akron; Dan P., a promising lad who died at the age of thirteen; Paul, and Virginia. CHAPTER LXXIII. DOVER. Boundaries, Surface, etc.—Attractions as a Place of Residence—Early Settlement—Joseph Cahoon—The Old Tea Kettle—Cahoon Pioneer Association—A Large Riding whip—Asahel Porter—First StoreLeverett Johnson—Philo Taylor—Dr. Turner—The Flat-Iron Cure— Other Pioneers—Blood's Tavern—J. & N. Crocker—Moses Hall and Family—Amos Sperry— Sylvanus Smith and Others—First Births and Marriages—Drowning of Mrs. Porter—Captured by Indians—Civil Organization—First Election and Officers—List of Principal Officers— Dover Center and North Dover—Post Offices—Second Congregational Church—Methodist Church at Dover Center—Lake Shore Methodist Church—First Baptist Church—St. John's Church— Lutheran Church —Schools—Dover Academy—Agricultural Society—Dover Lodge, I. 'D. 0. F.—Northwest Encampment—Daughters of Rebekah—Other Organizations—Burial Places—Dover Furnace—The Grist Mill, Etc.— Wischmeyer's Vineyards—Dover Lay Grape Company—Stone Quarries. THE township of Dow- r, which occupies the extreme northwestern corner of Cuyahoga county, is bounded by Lake Erie on the north; by the township of Olmsted on the south; by Rockport on the east, and by Avon, in Lorain county, on the west. It is township number seven in range fifteen, and covers an area of about twenty-live square miles. The surface is generally level or gently undulating, the soil is fruitful, and the people are chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits. The farmers as a rule are men of education and good understanding, and they have not only transformed the forest of sixty years ago into fine-looking farms, but they have also embellished it with many handsome residences—evidences at once of refinement and wealth. The lake shore region is largely devoted to the culture of the grape, the business being extensive and profitable. Fruit-growing has latterly received liberal attention in all parts of the township, and in time this branch of agriculture is likely to become very important. The public roads are numerous and well constructed, but as yet the limits of Dover have been untouched by a railway, although there is convenient railway communication at stations 436 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. near at hand in other townships. Although there are numerous small streams their water power is feeble, and is used to only a very limited extent. As a place of residence, especially in the summer time and near the lake shore, Dover has attracted much attention, and in the season mentioned many come within its borders to seek the healthful atmosphere and cooling zephyrs found upon the bluffs which overlook Lake Erie. EARLY SETTLEMENT. The first white person to settle in what is now the township of Dover was Joseph Cahoon, who migrated with his family from Vergennes, Vermont, and on the morning of October 10, 1810, located upon land purchased of Datus Kelley, the agent for Hubbard Stowe, the Connecticut owners of this portion of the Western Reserve. Mr. Cahoon's family consisted of himself, wife and seven children, of which latter the only one now living is Joel B. Cahoon, who, at the age of eighty-six, still resides on the old homestead. They traveled from Vermont to Dover in a wagon „drawn by four horses, and a fifth horse was ridden by the girls in turn, in order to give some relief to a terribly tedious journey. They finallyl stopped on lot eighty-five, on the east side of Cahoon creek, at its mouth. In four days Mr. Cahoon had completed a log house, the big wagon-box having meanwhile served as a place of nightly repose for the females of the family. The tea-kettle which did duty on the occasion of the first meal taken by the Cahoon family in Dover is still in the possession of Joel B. Cahoon, and at the first- celebration by the Cahoon Pioneer Association (held October 10, 1860, on the spot where Joseph Cahoon built his log house in 1810), a fire was built on the old hearth-stone, tea was steeped in the old tea kettle, and pies were eaten and made from apples borne by the first fruit-tree set out in the township. The Cahoon Pioneer Association, it may he noted, has for its purpose the annual celebration in a pleasant and social way of Joseph Cahoon's settlement in Dover. Meetings are held upon the Cahoon place, and are participated in only by members of the Cahoon family and their immediate friends. At the meeting in 1878, about one hundred and twenty persons were present. These assemblages were held for a few years upon each 10th of October the anniversary of Joseph Cahoon's settlement--but, in deference to the wishes of some aged people, the date was changed to August 28, the anniversary of that gentleman's birth. Joseph Cahoon built upon Cahoon's creek the first grist-mill west of the Cuyahoga river, the frame being raised September 10, 1813,* the day of Perry's vic- * There seems to have been a good deal of building and raising on the lake shore that day. One lot of men were finishing lhe court-house at Cleveland; another was raising a barn in Euclid; Mr. Cahoon and his friends were raising a grist-mill in Dover, and there were perhaps other instances, of which we have not heard. tory. Joseph and his son, Joel B., quarried two millstones in the creek at North Dover, and these stones are now preserved on Mr. Cahoon's place as relics of the olden time. They also erected a saw-mill near by, and likewise a distillery, where they made peach brandy—Mr. Cahoon engaging to some extent in peach culture. In 1814 Joel was sent by his father to Brownhelm for a man to assist in the distillery, and before he set out on his return he pulled a small locust plant for a riding whip. When he reached home he planted it upon his father's place, and now the riding whip, grown to a handsome, tree of massive proportions, shades the lawn in front of the Cahoon homestead, a graceful reminder of the historic past. In 1818 Joseph Cahoon built the house now occupied by his son Joel B., and there he died in 1829, at the age of seventy-five. On the evening of the day on which Joseph Cahoon and his family entered Dover (October 10, 1810), Asahel Porter and his family, together with Leverett Johnson (his nephew), then in his seventeenth year, came into the same township. Leverett Johnson had been living with the family in Connecticut, whence they came to Dover. Mr. Porter, with the assistance of George Peake, of Rockport, put up a log house upon lot ninety-four, now occupied by Charles Hassler. The spot upon which the house stood was long ago washed into the lake. Of the two children who came with Mr. Porter, one, Mrs. Catharine Foot, still resides in Dover, aged seventy-three. Mrs. Porter was drowned in Rocky river in 1814, and not long after that event Mr. Porter removed to Rockport, after renting his Dover farm to Silas and Elisha Taylor. Before that, however, he kept a store on the lake shore, in Dover, and was postmaster there in 1815. The book in which he kept his store accounts is now in the possession of L. H. Johnson, Esq., of Dover. Almost immediately after his arrival in Dover, Leverett Johnson, although scarcely more than a boy, began alone to clear land on lot fifty-eight, continuing to live, however, with Mr. Porter. Two years later young Johnson located upon lot thirteen, where his son, L. H. Johnson, now resides. Usually he spent his Sundays at Mr. Porter's, but during the week lived alone in the wilderness: During the first. season his house consisted of a bark roof set against an old log. He was the only settler in that section, and no doubt found life somewhat lonesome; but he worked sturdily away, and, although Indians and wild beasts were plentiful, he suffered no molestation. The Indians were friendly, and sometimes assisted him in his farm labors; the wild beasts he scared away at night by keeping up a fire. Young Johnson married Abigail Cahoon in 1814, and conducted his bride to a new log-house, which he had that year erected upon his farm. Mr. Johnson was early a prominent member of the settlement, and during his life was frequently called DOVER - 437 to fill positions of considerable importance. He was justice of the peace from 1827 to 1833, and served five terms in the State legislature. After a useful life of unwonted activity, he died upon the old homestead in 1856, in his sixty-second year. Philo Taylor, an early settler in Rockport, located on the lake shore in Dover, in 1811, and there built the first sawmill in the township. He also opened the first tavern in Dover, but remained in the township only a few years. Dr. John Turner, also a Rockport settler, moved thence to Dover in 1813, locating on the place now occupied by C. C. Reed. He was the first physician in the township, and had a peculiar theory about consumption. He contended that if the patient would exercise daily by swinging a flatiron in each hand, a cure would be effected. His wife, being consumptive, tried the remedy, but died in spite of it. Dr. Turner afterwards moved to Carlisle, Ohio, and thence to Wisconsin, where he died. Joseph Stocking came out from Ashfield, Massachusetts, with his uncle, Jonathan Smith, in 1811, and purchased land from the latter, in Dover. He returned to Massachusetts for his family, but postponed their removal on account of the war of 1812. In 1815, howpver, he migrated to Dover with his wife and five children, accompanied by Nehemiah Porter, John Smith, Asa Blood, Wells Porter, Jesse Lilly and Ryal Holden—all being related to him by blood or marriage. He migrated to over, and located upon the place now occupied by his son Joseph. There he lived until his death in 187", at the age of ninety-five years and three months. Jesse Lilly settled first upon the North Ridge, but moved subsequently to the southern part of the township. John Smith located on lot fifty-five, and Ryal Holden about a mile and a half west of the present village of Dover Center. Soon after his arrival, Asa Blood built a log tavern at the place where he afterwards erected the brick hotel now kept by Philip Phillips. In 1825, when Blood was postmaster, one Woolverton drove a mail stage between Cleveland and Elyria, and delivered the mail at Dover Center three times a week. Nehemiah Porter, with his wife and two children, and Wells Porter, a bachelor, located on lot forty-five. After residing with Nehemiah two years, Wells made a settlement upon lot fifteen. In 1816 Ebenezer Porter also came to Dover. Nehemiah and Ebenezer resided in that township until they died; Wells moved to Cleveland, and ended his days there. Jedediah Crocker moved in June, 1811, from Lee, Massachusetts, with his wife and seven children, to Euclid, Ohio, whence Noah, his son, went to Dover, where the elder owned land. Noah, with his wife and three children, settled upon a portion of his father's land, and besides giving it some of his attention, used to go occasionally to Elyria to work in a furnace. He resided in Dover until his death; his children all removed farther west. In 1816 Jedediah Crocker left Euclid, and with his family settled in Dover, upon the place cleared by his son Noah. The old gentleman had purchased considerable land in Dover from Hubbard & Stowe in Connecticut, but after his arrival in the West sold all of it except two lots, at $1.25 per acre—just what it had cost him. At the time of his settlement his nearest neighbors were Barnabas Hall, Thomas Foot, Sylvanus Phinney, Bernard Case, Jesse Lilly, Jonathan Smith, and Henry and Jasber Taylor. Moses Hall, of Lee, Massachusetts, bought twenty-one hundred acres of land in Dover in 1810, and in the same year removed with his twelve children to Ashtabula, Ohio. Of the Dover tract, he gave to each of his seven sons one hundred acres, and to each of his five daughters fifty acres. Two of his sons Barnabas and James, and one of his daughters, with her husband, Nathan Bassett, settled in Dover in 1811. Barnabas Hall located on lot sixty-two, now occupied by his son Charles, and remained there till his death. James settled upon lot fifty-one, but in 1821 returned to Ashtabula, where he has since resided, having in July, 1879, reached his eighty- eighth year. Nathan Bassett occupied lot eighty-two. He had a turning-lathe, and manufactured chairs, and was also known far and near as a great hunter and manager of bees. He was killed by lightning while at work in his barn in 1842. Nancy, another daughter of Moses Hall, married David Ingersoll, and in 1820 they settled in Dover upon lot thirty- seven. They had seven children, but survived them all; he dying in January, 1873, aged eighty-three, and she in April of the same year, aged eighty. Charles, a son of Moses Hall, settled in Dover in 1821, upon lot forty-eight. He died in April, 1878. His surviving sons in Dover are Reuben and Z. S. Hall. In 1817 Jesse Atwell, with his wife and five children, came from Steuben county, New York, and on the 4th of July landed at Cleveland. From there they pushed on to Dover, traveling so slowly that they were a day and a half in going to Rocky river, and seeing but one framed house on the way. Mr. Atwell had bought lot sixty-eight of Moses Hall, but at the end of five years he bought lot seventy-nine from Hubbard & Stowe for four dollars and twenty cents an acre. There he resided until his death in 1875, aged eighty-nine. Amos Sperry came west from Oneida county, New York, in 1815, and purchased lot sixty of Lyman sooty an early settler upon it, who then moved to "Ridgeville. "Mr. Sperry opened a blacksmith shop and a tavern on his place as soon as 1818, although he put up no tavern-sign until 1824. That sign was recently in the possession of the Sperry family. Mr. Sperry kept tavern there only a few years, but followed farming upon his place until his death in 1848, at the ripe age of eighty-seven. His son, Amos Ransom Sperry, who had preceded him into Dover a year, resided upon the homestead until he died. Junia Sperry, of Dover Center, is the only direct descend- 438 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. ant of Amos Sperry now living. In 1818 Amos R. Sperry married the widow of Junia Beach, one of Elyria's early settlers. She survived her last husband many years, dying in Rockport in 1877, aged one hundred years. Among other early settlers in Dover were Jason Bradley, John Wolf, Jethro Butler, Aaron Aldrich, Lyman Root, Eber Loomis and Joseph Root. Sylvanus Smith was the first settler at the place now known as Dover Center, and built a house upon the site of the store now there. Asa Blood, who kept the first tavern at the center, married a sister of Sylvanus Smith, and two other sisters of Smith married Ansel Rice and Asher Cooley, both Dover pioneers. Mr. Smith was a wide-awake, stir-. ring citizen, a 'strong advocate of the temperance cause, and the builder of several houses at the center. In 1826 Joseph Porter, of Ashfield, Massachusetts, migrated to Dover with four children—Jemima, John, Leonard and Rebecca, going by way of the Erie canal to Buffalo, thence by lake to Cleveland, and the rest of the way by stage. Mr. Porter located on lot fourteen, where he died in 1844, at the age of eighty-four. James Case, with a family of nine children, moved in 1816 from Ashfield, Massachusetts, to Dover, and located on the North Ridge, west of Cahoon's creek, where he soon after put up a sawmill. He died in less than two years, leaving his eldest son, Bernard, to care for the family. He moved about 1826 to New York. Another son, Osborn Case, is now a resident of Rockport, whither he went in 1832. James Case had served as a privateer in the war of 1776, and during his residence in Dover had followed the pursuits of a cooper, a miller, and a farmer. Sumner Adams accompanied Case from Massachusetts to Dover, where he engaged in business as a blacksmith, returning, however, to New England at the expiration of four years. EARLY INCIDENTS. The first white child born in the township was Angelina, daughter of Asahel Porter. The date of her birth was April 1, 1812. It is claimed that Vesta, daughter of Nathan Bassett, was the first born, but the best available evidence shows the date of her birth to have been June 14, 1812. The first male child born in Dover was Franklin, son of Joseph Cahoon. The first marriage in the township was that of Leverett Johnson and Abigail, daughter of Joseph Cahoon. John S. Reed, of Black River,—the first justice of the peace chosen in Dover,—performed the marriage service in Cahoon's log house. The second couple married were Jethro Butler and Betsey Smith. On the 1st day of April, 1814, Asahel Porter's wife and infant ohild, Noah Crocker, and George, son of Jonathan Smith, made a journey to Cleveland in an open boat. Upon their return, being overtaken by a storm, they sought to put in at the mouth of Rocky river, when the boat was capsized and Mrs. Porter,' her babe, and George Smith were drowned, Crocker alone escaping. The daughter of Daniel Page—who settled at an early date on lot ninety-seven and put up the first framed house in Dover—while temporarily sojourning in an adjoining township, was carried away by Indians, from whom, however, after a brief captivity, she was recaptured by United States soldiers. ORGANIZATION. The surveyed township now constituting Dover (No. seven in range fifteen) was, at the time of its earliest settlement, owned by Nehemiah Hubbard and Josiah Stowe, to whom it had fallen on the division of the western Reserve among the joint proprietors, as narrated in the general history. The civil township of Dover was formed November 4, 1811, and embraced a large tract, extending nearly twenty-five miles along the lake shore as appears by the following extracts from the records: November 4, 1811, it was by the county commissioners ordered "that the following townships be and are hereby incorporated into a separate township by the name of Dover, viz: Townships No. seven in fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth ranges and all that part of No. seven which lies east of the Black river in the eighteenth range, and to be in effect on the next annual meeting." * * * March 6, 1812, it was further ordered "that all that tract of land lying west of the town of Dover and west of township No. six in range sixteen, and east of the east line of the Fire-lands, so called, and north of township five in ranges seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, be and is hereby annexed to said township of Dover." The first township election was held April 6, 1812, at the house of Philo Taylor, at which eighteen votes were cast by the following electors: Philo Taylor, George Kelso, John Jordan, John Brittle, Noah Davis, Andrew Kelso, Timothy Wallace, David Smith, Joseph Cahoon, Joseph Quigley, Ralph Lyon, Joseph Root, Jonathan Seeley, Moses Eldred, Azariah Beebe, Lyman Root, Asahel Porter and Daniel Perry. Some of these jived as far west as Black river, and some lost all identity with Dover, on account of its contraction to its present limits. The officers chosen at that election were Asahel Porter, township clerk; Daniel Perry, Joseph Quigley and Asahel Porter, trustees; Asahel Porter, Joseph Cahoon and Azariah Beebe, overseers of the poor; Andrew Kelso and Moses Eldred, fence viewers; Jonathan Seeley, lister and appraiser; Noah Davis, Ralph Lyon, Moses Eldred, Sylvanus Fleming, Daniel Brittle and Lyman Root; supervisors of highways; Philo Taylor, treasurer; Jonathan Seeley and Philo Taylor, constables. On the 16th of May, 1812, John S. Reed was chosen justice of the peace. At the second eleotion. which was for State officers, only ten votes were cast. In 1819 but thirty-two votes were , cast at the township election. The names of the persons who have served the township as trustees, clerks and treasurers from 1812 to 1879, are given in the following list: DOVER - 439 1812. Trustees, Daniel Perry, Joseph Quigley, Asahel Porter; clerk, Asahel Porter; treasurer, Philo Taylor. 1813. Trustees, Nathan Bassett, Noah Crocker, Daniel Perry; clerk, Asahel Porter; treasurer, Philo Taylor. 1814. Trustees. Daniel Perry, Jonathan Taylor, John Turner;. clerk, Asahel Porter; treasurer, Philo Taylor. 1815. Trustees, Amos R. Sperry, Daniel Perry, Nathan Bassett; clerk, John Turner; treasurer, Leverett Johnson. 1816. Trustees, Wilbur Cahoon, Nathan Bassett, Datus Kelley; clerk, Noah Crocker; treasurer, Leverett Johnson. 1817. Trustees, Nathan Bassett, Joseph Stocking, Asa Blood; clerk, Noah Crocker; treasurer, Leverett Johnson. 1818. Trustees, Henry Taylor. Leverett Johnson, Samuel Crocker; clerk, Noah Crocker; treasurer, Thomas Foot. 1819. Trustees, John Smith, Samuel Crocker, Amos Cahoon; clerk, Thomas Foot; treasurer, Samuel Crocker. 1824. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Amos Cahoon, Thomas Foot; clerk, Samuel Crocker; treasurer, Jedediah Crocker. 1821. Trustees, Nathan Bassett, Amos R. Sperry, Leverett Johnson; clerk, John F. Smith; treasurer, Amos R. Sperry. 1822. Trustees, Amos R. Sperry, Noah Crocker, Amos Cahoon; clerk, John F. Smith; treasurer, Henry Taylor. 1823. Trustees, Noah Crocker, Amos Cahoon, David Ingersoll; clerk, Asa Blood; treasurer, Henry Taylor. 1821. Trustees, Nathan Bassett. David Ingersoll, Thomas Foot; clerk, Asa Blood; treasurer, Henry Taylor. 1825. Trustees, Nathan Bassett, Joseph Stocking, Asher M. Coe; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, Noah Crocker. 1826 Trustees, Joseph Stocking, Thomas Foot; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, Noah Crocker. 1827. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Nathan Bassett, John Smith; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer. Joseph Stocking. 1828. Truslees, Leverett Johnson, John Smith, Thos. Foot; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, Joseph Stocking. 1829. Trustees, Thos. Foot, Joseph Stocking, Leverett Johnson; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, Hiram Smith. 1830. Trustees, Nathan Bassett, Asa Blood, Amos R. Sperry; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, Hiram Smith. 1831. Trustees, A. M. Coe, Asa Blood, Thos. Foot; clerk, Jason Bradley ; treasurer, Hiram Smith. 1832. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, Nathan Bassett, A. ill. Coe; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Hiram Smith. 1833. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, Biel Holden, Asa Blood; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1834. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, Chas. Hall, Leverett Johnson; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1835. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, Leverett Johnson, Amos R. Sperry ; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1836 and 1837. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, Leverett Johnson; Thomas Foot; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1838. Trustees, A. R. Sperry, Nathan Bassett, Austin Lilly ; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1839. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Nathan Bassett, Austin Lilly; clerk Eli Clemens; treasurer, Asher Cooley. 1840. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Arza Dickinson, Aaron Aldrich; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, L. G. Porter. 1841. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Thomas Foot, Charles Hall; clerk, Eli Clemens: treasurer, L G. Porter. 1842. Trustees, Amos Cahoon, A. S. Farr, A. R. Sperry; clerk, E. T. Smith; treasurer, Marius Moore. 1843. Trustees, A. S. Farr, Austin Lilly, A. M. Coe; clerk, E. T. Smith; treasurer, Marius Moore. 1844. Trustees, Joseph Brown, Leverett Johnson, Benjamin Reed; clerk, E. T. Smith; treasurer, L. G. Porter. 1845. Trustees, A. S. Farr, Aaron Aldrich, Benj. Reed; clerk, W. Porter; treasurer, L. G. Porter. . 1846. Trustees, Aaron Aldrich, Leverett ,Johnson, Marius Moore; clerk, W. Porter; treasurer, L. G. Porter. 1847. Trustees, Leverett Johnson, Arza Dickinson, Thomas H. Hall; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, L. G. Porter. 1848. Trustees, Arza Dickinson, Chas. H. Hall, Alfred Willard; clerk, Wells Porter; treasurer, L. G. Porter. 1849. Trustees, A. M. Coe, Wm. Saddler, N. Coburn; clerk, J. M. Bradley ; treasurer, Edwin Cue. 1850. Trustees, A. M. Coe, S. U. Towner, Henry Winsor; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, D. W. Porter. 1851. Trustees, S. U. Towner, Henry Winsor, N. H. Austin; clerk, Eh Clemens; treasurer, Marius Moore. 1852 and 1853. Trustees, Marius Moore, C. H. Tobey, Chas. H. Hall; clerk, L. H. Johnson; treasurer, Edwin Farr. 1854. Trustees, Marius Moore, C. H. Tobey, Chas. H. Hall; clerk, L. H. Johnson; treasurer, Lester Simons. 1855. Trustees, Chas. H. Hall, D. W. Porter, R. G. McCarty; clerk, A. A. Lilly; treasurer, 1856. Trustees, C. E. Barnum, R, H. Knight, Edwin Farr; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, Jonathan Spencer. 1857. Trustees, R. H. Knight, N. H. Austin, G. W. Laughlin; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, J. Spencer. 1858. Trustees. A. S. Farr, Josiah Hurst, Reuben Hall; clerk, Eli Clemens; treasurer, J. Spencer. 1859. Trustees, Josiah Hurst, Dennis Dow, Clark Smith; clerk, John Wilson. 1860. Trustees, Dennis Dow, S. L. Beebe, A. P. Johnson; clerk, John Wilson. 1861. Trustees, Josiah Hurst, Reuben Hall, A. P. Johnson; clerk, John Wilson. 1862. Trustees, Jonathan Spencer, Adolphus Gridley, Dennis Dow; clerk, Eli Clemens. 1863. Trustees, A. J. Coe, Jonathan Spencer, Edwin Farr; clerk, Thos. Foote. 1864. Trustees, Dennis Dow, Tunis. Sperry, H. W. Aldrich; clerk, A. A. Lilly. 1865. Trustees, Dennis Dow, Thos. Foot, A. P. Johnson; clerk, A. A. Lilly. 1866. Trustees, H. D. Lanphair, S. W. Simons, E. F. Walker; clerk, E. Meriam. 1867. Trustees, L. H. Johnson, J. Rose, E. S. Lewis; clerk, A. S. Porter. 1868. Trustees, J. Rose, A. S. Ward, S. W. Simons; clerk, A. S. Porter. 1869. Trustees, J. Rose, A. A. Lilly, A. S. Ward; clerk, A. S. Porter. 1870. Trustees, A. A. Lilly, A. P. Smith, H. P. Johnson; clerk, A. S. Porter. 1871. Trustees, R. Hall, G. Reublin, N. G. Porter; clerk, C. Pease. 1872. Trustees, A. G. Porter, Leon Coe, J. N. Hurst; clerk, C. Pease. 1873. Trustees, L. H. Johnson, Leon Coe, A. J. Coe; clerk, C. Pease. 1874. Trustees, A. J. Coe, Perry Powell, J. N. Hurst; clerk, H. B. Smith. 1875. Perry Powell, S. W. Simons, J. N. Hurst; clerk, H. B. Smith. 1876. Trustees, S. W. Simons, A. J. Coe, Reuben Hall; clerk, John Wilson. 1877. Trustees, S. W. Simons, L. M. Coe, Henry Wischmeyer; clerk, John Wilson. 1878 Trustees, Jas. L. Hadd, S. W. Simons, H. Wischmeyer; clerk, Jas. Pease; treasurer, Calvin Pease. 1879. Trustees, A. J. Coe, David Sites, Benj. Chappel; clerk, Herbert Lilly; treasurer, Calvin Pease. VILLAGES. Although possessing no incorporated village, Dover has within its limits two hamlets-Dover Center and North Dover-of which the former is the larger and thriving. The town hall is located there-a fine two-story brick structure, built in 1873-and it also has a graded school, a Masonic and Odd Fellows' lodge, a large steam gristmill, a store, several shops, a church and a good number of handsome residences. North Dover, a mile north of the Centers is near a German settlement and has a German church, an excellent German school, a township school, a store and perhaps a dozen dwellings. POST OFFICES. Dover's first postmaster was Asahel Porter, who kept a store and post office on the lake shore near the Avon line in 1815. Reuben Osborn was his successor, and afterwards Eli Clemens received the office. He removed it to North Dover, where it now is. Calvin Phinney was the next incumbent, and after him Daniel Brown, the present postmaster. The first postmaster at Dover Center was Asa Blood, who kept the tavern at that place. Marius Moore, who succeeded. Blood as the landlord, was also the next postmaster, and for many years the 'post- office was located in the tavern. The present incumbent is Hon. J. M, Cooley. A. M. Coe, a settler 1823, was appointed postmaster at Coe Ridge, in the southern part of Dover, in 1843, and remained so until 1864. The office was removed into Olmstead in 440 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 1864, but in 1866 it was brought back to Dover, when Mr. Coe was reappointed, continuing in the office until his death in 1867. In 1874 a change to Olmstead was again made, and there the office still remains. SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF DOVER. This religions organization is the outgrowth of a Congregational Church organized in Lee, Massachusetts, June 5, 1811, with eight members, as follows: Jedediah Crocker and Sarah, his wife, Lydia, wife of Moses Hall, Katy, wife of Abijah Crosby, Jonathan and Abner Smith and their wives. Of these eight, Jedediah and Sarah Crocker and the two Smith families removed shortly afterwards to Dover, and on their arrival. continued the Lee church organization, changing, however, the name to the Congregational Church of Dover. The little band having at first no minister, used to meet every Sabbath to worsbip with prayer and song. Alvin Coe, a missionary to the Indians, coming that way, preached to them three months, after which they reverted to their former simple service. The church increased slowly, and in 1822 a log meeting-house was built near where the present church edifice stands. Some years afterward the meeting-house was destroyed by fire, and the services were held in Joseph Stocking's barn and in the town-house, until the completion of the church building now in use. About 1840 the church was divided on the slavery question, and until 1847 one congregation worshiped in the church building and the other in the town house. In that year the two bodies were reunited and reorganized as the Second Congregational church of Dover, with fifty-one members, and the following trustees: John Porter, Leverett Johnson, David Ingersoll. The first deacons of the reorganized church were Alfred Millard, Jonathan Oakes, Selden Osborn, Josiah Hurst. Since 1847 about two hundred and seventy-five persons have been received into the church. Among the early preachers, Rev. John McCrea was the most prominent. He preached in 1826 and afterward, and was very highly esteemed. The pastor in charge at present is Rev. Henry Walker. The present trustees are L. G. Porter, George Whitsey and John Rose. An old record testifies. that the " Dover Congregational Society " was organized December 28, 1818, for the support of the gospel," and that the members were Noah Crocker, Nehemiah Porter, Davie Ingersoll, John Smith, Jesse Lily, Asher Cooley. Wells Porter, Jonathan Smith, Stephen Smith, Sylva nuts Phinney, Jedediah Crocker, Dennis Taylor, Borne bas Hall, James Hall, Samuel Crocker and Solomon Ketchum. Another old record sets forth that th First Congregational Society of Dover was incorpo rated February 9, 1831, and that the incorporator were Calvin Phinney, Sylvanus Crocker, Josiah Hurst and Reuben Osborn. THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT DOVER CENTER. This body was organized about 1825, but in the absence of records very little can be gleaned concerning its early history. The first meetings were held in residences and barns; later, the town-house and the Episcopal church were used for that purpose. The house of worship now occupied by the society was erected in 1853. The church is attached to the Rockport circuit, and is supplied by Rev. John McKean. The membership numbers about one hundred, and that of the Sunday school about fifty. The present trustees are William Dempsey, James Elliott and Jerome Beardsley. THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON THE LAKE SHORE. This was organized as early as 1827 in the township school-house, by Rev. Eliphalet, brother of Leverett Johnson. The class contained at first but six members, but increased quite rapidly. In 1840 the present church building was erected. Mr. Johnson preached to the congregation until he removed from the township in 1842, since which time the church has been supplied by ministers attached to the Rockport circuit, Rev. J. McKean being now in charge. The membership is at present exceedingly small, numbering but seven persons; of whom the three male members, Sherman Osborn, Marshal Cahoon and Henry P. Foot, are the trustees. THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DOVER. This church was organized February 24, 1836, with the following members: Aaron Aldrich and wife, Wm. W. Aldrich, Julia Ann Aldrich, Jesse Atwell and wife, Phineas Alexander and wife, Wm. Nesbitt and wife. Meetings were held at first in the Lake Shore school-house and in the town-house. In 1845 a house of worship was built on Justus Stocking's land near North Dover, and there the congregation continued to worship until 1856, at which time, the church having by removals and deaths lost nearly all its members, services were discontinued, nor have they to this day been revived. Elders Dimmoek of Olmstead, Wire of Rockport, Lockwood of Perry, and Jas. Goodrich, were among those who preached to the church directly after its organization. The last settled pastor was Rev. Mr. Newton, who was engaged in 1845. The church building stood until 1878, when it was destroyed by fire. ST. JOHN'S (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH. This organization, founded in 1837, is now extinct, and only a part of its history can be obtained. The members in 1842 were Chas. Hall, Weller Dean, Jesse Lilly, Austin Lilly, Albinus Lilly and a few others, although the average attendance was quite large. A church building was erected in 1837, just north of Dover Center. It is now used by Calvin Pease as a barn. Services were at first conducted by L. G. PORTER. About two hundred and fifty years ago the first pioneer of the Porter family found his way to our shores from England. To-day persons of the name are scattered far and wide through the vast domains of our great republic, and many bearing it have occupied places of trust and honor in the nation's councils of peace and war. Two years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock, Samuel Porter arrived from England, and was hospitably received by his fellow-countrymen who had preceded him. Of the early history of the pioneers of the Porter family there are no authentic accounts. They removed from Plymouth to Beverly, Mass., where Samuel, a son of the original settler, was married to Miss Lydia Dodge, of that place. His son John also married a Beverly maiden, a Miss Lydia Herrick. The fascinations of the belles of Beverly must have been irresistible to the heads of this noble family, for we find that Nehemiah (the representative of the fourth generation in this country of the family of which our subject is a descendant) was married to Miss Hannah Smith, of that town. His son Nehemiah was born at Ipswich, Mass., March 22, 1720 ; graduated from Cambridge in 1745; married Miss Rebecca Chipman, of Beverly, and was ordained a minister of the gospel in the Congregational church at Ipswich, Jan. 3, 1750, where he remained for sixteen years. He was afterwards installed at Ashfield, Franklin Co., Mass., Dec. 21, 1774, where he preached until his death, Feb. 29, 1820, having filled the position of pastor for the same congregation over forty-five years. He was a man of great firmness and decision of character, a strict observer of the Sabbath, and was, it is worthy of note, a chaplain in the American army at the surrender of Burgoyne. This esteemed patriarch had all the virtues and religions tendencies of his Puritanic ancestry, and on the day of his death lacked only twenty- one days of completing a century. His son Joseph was also a native of Ipswich ; was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was married to a daughter of Leonard Graves, of Whately, Mass. He emigrated from Franklin Co., Mass., to Dover, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, in 1826, and lies buried in that town. He had a family of eleven children, of whom our subject was the eighth son and tenth child, having been born at Ashfield, Franklin Co., Mass., March 6, 1806. His education was limited to a common school, with a few terms spent at an academy. He accompanied his father to the wilds of the West, and was engaged in clearing the new country and tilling the soil, which has been his occupation throughout life. He was married, Aug 26, 1838, to Catherine H., daughter of Rev. Solomon Stevens, a Congregational preacher, of Dover, Ohio. They had but one child, who died in infancy. Mrs. Porter died Oct. 11, 1841. Mr. Porter, who has devoted much of his time to the religious education of the young, has been a member of the Second Congregational Church of Dover for about forty years. At the present time he is one of the deacons of that organization, and superintendent of the Sabbath school. Though originally a Whig in politics, upon the organization of the Republican party he became one of the staunchest supporters of its principles and doctrines. He has been elected by his fellow-citizens to numerous town offices, and was a justice of the peace for six years. Mr. Porter, being left in the prime of life alone' in the world, has devoted his time to his fellow-creatures, succoring the poor and afflicted, lending a helping hand to those in distress and want, and in striving to do his part in the great work of serving the cause of humanity. DOVER - 441 Weller Dean as lay-reader, until the engagement of Rev. Mr. Granville as a settled minister, who remained but a few years. The church began to decline previous to 1850, and in that year was dissolved. GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH. About 1858 quite a settlement of Germans located near North Dover, who, being desirous of establishing a church, sent for Rev. E. Z. Lindeman of Cincinnati, who went to Dover and organized, in 1858, a German Lutheran Church. The original members were J. H. Lindemyer, F. H. Hencke, F. Matthews, Luocke, J. H. Trust, Wm. Schmidt, J. H. Weihrmann, August Warnecke. Rev. E. Rupprecht, of Lafayette, Indiana, was called to the charge in 1858, and is still the pastor. Until 1872 worship was held in the Baptist Church at North Dover, and from that time until 1877, in time German Lutheran school-house, which was built in 1872. In 1877 the present fine church edifice was erected at an expense of four thousand dollars. The membership is now forty-seven, and the attendance comprises about sixty families. The present trustees are H. 11. Reinkal, G. Meyer and Christian Koch. SCHOOLS. The first school teacher in Dover, of whom there is any recollection, was Betsey Crocker, who taught in 1816 in a log school-house on the lake shore, near where the present school-house stands. Philena Crocker, her sister, taught there (at the age of fourteen)) as did also Wells Porter. In 1826 the township was divided into five school-districts, which then contained seventy householders. Dover contains at present eight schools and seven school-buildings, which latter are all brick structures, excellently appointed, and considerably better in every way than the average of township school-buildings. There is a graded school at Dover Center, and- the school at North Dover will soon be similarly arranged. In 1879, when the enumeration of children was made, there was six hundred and twenty-two in the township, the levy for the support of schools being two thousand ore hundred dollars. Attached to the German Lutheran church at North Dover is an excellent secular school. It was organized in 1858 by Rev. E. Rupprecht, the pastor of the church, and began its career with thirty-three pupils. The. Baptist church building was used until 1872, when the present school-house was erected. Rev. Mr. Rupprecht taught the school, in connection with his pastorate duties, until 1872, when he relinquished the charge to Mr. H.. L. Brokelstuhler, the present teacher. The school is in a flourishing condition, and had, in July, 1879, the large number of one hundred and fifteen pupils. DOVER ACADEMY. In 1845 John Wilson, a graduate of Oberlin College—who located in Dover in 1844-founded Dover Academy, and in that year erected a building for its use about a mile and a half south-west of Dover Center. Mr. Wilson's school grew to be a popular institution, and had at one time as many as sixty pupils. In 1852 several public-spirited citizens of Dover proposed to Mr. Wilson to have the school removed to near the Center, and to organize a corporation to control it, to which he assented. A school building was accordingly erected on what is now the Dover fair ground, and an act was obtained incorporating the Dover Academical Association The building was completed in 1854, and Mr. Wilson continued to act as principal until 1860, when he retired. Although the academy had been fairly prosperous, the increased usefulness and liberal scope of the public schools impared its strength, and led to its being given up in 1862. The building is still standing on the fair ground, and is used by the fair association. The first directors of the academy association were Leverett Johnson, L. G. Porter and Benjamin Reed. DOVER AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY. This association was organized in 1850, for the purpose of holding annual fairs in Dover. Money to purchase land was advanced by Messrs. Josiah Hurst, S. L. Beebe and J. Coles, aid the ground was at once fitted up by individual subscriptions. The association owns seven acres of land, with the requisite buildings, about half a mile north of Dover Center, and has held a successful exhibition there, every fall since 1850. Julius Farr was the president in 1879, and William Aldrich the secretary. DOVER LODGE NO. 393 I. O. O. F. This society was organized in 1867, the charter members being John Kirk, Wm. B. Delford, C. D. Knapp, A. P. Smith, E. Bradford, C. L. Underhill, A. Wolf, P. W. Barton, W. W. Mead, A. S. Porter, Junia Sperry, J. Beardslee, D. B. Wright, D. II. Perry. The present officers are: Perry Powell, N. G.; James L. Hand, V. G.; James Beardslee, R. S.; Benj. Chappell, P. S.; Frank Baker,.T. The membership numbers about one hundred. The lodge has fine quarters in the town hall, at Dover Center. This hall, a handsome and commodious brick edifice, was built in 1873 by the town and by the lodge just mentioned, at a cost of $6,000. NORTHWEST ENCAMPMENT NO. 188, I. O. O. F. Northwest Encampment was organized July 1, 1875, with Alfred Wolf, Alfred Bates, L. J. Cahoon, Van Ness Moore, Philip Phillips, Perry Powell and Frank Baker as charter members. The membership now numbers twenty-two, the officers being Philip Phillips, C. P.; Perry Powell, H. P.; Jerome Beards- lee, S. W.; John Morrissey, J. W.; F. W. Guild, treasurer. 442 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. STAR LODGE, NO. 67, DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH, (I. O. O. F.) The lodge just named was organized in August, 1871, with sixteen charter members. The present officers are John Griffin, N. G.; Mrs. Murray Farr, V. G.; Mrs. John Griffin, secretary; Benjamin Chappel, F. S.; Mrs. Maitland Beebe, treasurer. DOVER LODGE, NO 489, F. AND A. M. Dover Lodge was formed in 1874. The charter members were D. R. Watson, L. M. Coe, G. Reublin, .John Kirk, John Jordan, E. S. Lewis, J. L. Hand, S. Barry, Wm. Lewis, G. Pease, Wm. Sprague. There are now thirty members, the officers being Benj. Chappel, W. M.; Wm. Lewis, S. W.; George Tarbox, J. W.; W. V. Gage, secretary; J. M. Cooley, treasurer; Thos. J. Bates, S. D.; W. Grant, J. D.; J. Jordan and A. A. Lilly, stewards; G. Winslow, tyler. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. The Dover Silver Cornet Band, a musical organization of considerable local note, was organized in 1874. The present leader is George Esberger. A temperance union league was formed in Dover in 1873, and since that time the temperance cause has, at various limes, received strong support in the township. A temperance Sabbath school now contributes its efforts toward the same object. BURIAL PLACES. The first death in the township is supposed to have been that of Mrs. Abner Smith, who was buried upon the Smith farm and afterward removed to the cemetery on the lake shore, that being the first public burial-ground laid out in the township. A graveyard was laid out in 1820 west of Dover Center upon land donated by Leverett Johnson and others. The first person buried there was the wife of Rev. Mr. McCrea, the Congregational minister. Both cemeteries contain many fine tombstones, and the care expended upon the neatly kept grounds testifies to the affection felt by the living for those who there rest in their narrow beds. MANUFACTURES. The manufacturing interests of Dover are at present limited to a few sawmills, a bending factory and a gristmill. Tilden & Morley founded an important iron-ware manufactory at Dover Center in 1832, near which place were several rich beds of iron ore. The works, known as the Dover Furnace, stood upon the lot now occupied by the residence of Junia Sperry. The firm conducted a store in connection with the furnace, and employed twelve men. In 1840 Tilden & Morley sold the establishment to the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, soon after whioh (in 1843) it was destroyed by fire. Benjamin Reed, a former employee of the company, bought the land, rebuilt the furnace the same year, carried on the business until 1848, when the supply of ore was exhausted, and he abandoned the undertaking. Junia Sperry, Robert Crooks, and Millard & Smith built a steam gristmill at Dover Center in 1856, and in 1863 sold it to Kirk & Reublin, from whom it passed into the possession of Lilly & Carpenter, the present owners. It contains two run of burrs, and is the only gristmill in the township. Fauver & Hurst Brothers have a "bending factory" and sawmill, (the latter built by Philo Beach, in 1850), about a mile southwest of Dover Center. They employ six men, and manufacture felloes, sleigh runners, shafts, etc. GRAPE CULTURE. Grape growing is largely followed on the lake shore in Dover, and some wine is also made there. Henry Wischmeyer came out from Cleveland in 1874, and began to raise grapes upon a tract of fifty acres, now occupied by him. He set out but two acres the first year, but gradually extended his vineyard until now he has twenty-three acres planted in grapes. In 1874 he built upon his land a wine cellar with a capacity of ten thousand gallons, and manufactures considerable wine every year Numerous varieties of grapes are cultivated, of which the chief are the Catawba, Delaware and Concord. The pioneer enterprise, however, in the direction of extensive grape culture in Dover, was set on foot in 1865, by the Dover Bay Grape and Wine Company, organized in that year for the purpose of growing the grape in Dover township. Dr. J. P. Dake was the president; R. R. Herrick the vice president, and Dr. D. H. Beckwith, the secretary and treasurer. The original purchase of land included two hundred and ten acres, situated in. Dover, on the lake shore. The capital of the company, fixed at the outset at thirty thousand dollars, was three years later increased to sixty thousand dollars. Fifteen acres were set out with grapes the first year, and since then the area has been gradually extended until now upwards of ninety acres-are under cultivation and the annual yield of grapes amounts to one hundred tons. The yield includes all the varieties raised in the northern climate. The company has a capacious wine cellar in. Dover and much excellent wine is manufactured yearly. The financial headquarters are in Cleveland; the present officers being R. R. Herrick, president; A. K. Spencer, vice president; and Geo. P. Smith, secretary and treasurer. Grape-growing is also carried on all along the Dover lake shore, but the business—save in the instances above alluded to, is confined to limited individual efforts. STONE QUARRIES. An excellent quality of building stone, much used in the township and elsewhere, is found in the southwest part of Dover where the quarries of E. C. Harris and Wm. Geiger have long yielded large supplies, although the former quarry is at present not worked to any great extent. EAST CLEVELAND - 443 CHAPTER LXXIV. EAST CLEVELAND. A Broken History—Irregular Boundaries—Timothy Doan—Shaw, Ruple, Mcllrath and Thorp—Asa Dille—Samuel Ruple—A. L. Norris— A Live Griddle-Cake—Deadly Battles—Scaring a Bear—Going to Pennsylvania for Flour- A Banquet of Baked Pumpkins—The First Church—Sleeping with the Cows—First Tavern—Abijah Crosby—A Barn-Raising interrupted by Cannon—Settlers in Various Localities —The Big Elk—The Householders of 1828—School Districts—Collamer in 1840—Formation of the Township of East Cleveland—Annexation of part of Euclid and Warrensville—Name of Euclid Village changed to Collamer—The Railroad—The War—Sandstone Quarries—Present Condition of Collamer—Collinwood—Grape Culture—Glenville—Shaw Academy—First Presbyterian Church of Collamer—St. Paul's Church —Free Congregational Church of Collamer—Disciple Church of Collamer—Drsciple Chum ch at Collinwood—First Congregational Church of Collinwood—Principal Township Officers. EAST CLEVELAND has had more varied municipal relations, and has-more irregular boundaries than any other township in the county. The territory of which it is now composed, originally belonged to the township of Cleveland; then to Cleveland and Euclid; then to Cleveland, Euclid, Newburg and Warrensville. Having remained in these townships for many years, the several fragments were in 1845 formed into the township of East Cleveland which then contained not only the present district of that name, but all that part of Cleveland city cast of Willson avenue,. and north of the old Newburg line. In 1867 an irregular tract about two miles east and ‘vest by three miles north and south, on which had been built the large and flourishing village of East Cleveland, was annexed to the city, leaving a district nearly six miles in extreme length, north and south, and a little over five miles in extreme width, but so irregular that it contains an area of only a trifle over fifteen square miles. This remains the township of East Cleveland, yet the name had beoome so firmly attached to the portion which was annexed to Cleveland that a resident of the city, on hearing- "East Cleveland" spoken of, would more probably understand the expression to refer to the eastern part of the city than to the township to which the name legitimately belongs. This sketch is intended to be confined to the territory now comprising the township, the name of which heads the chapter; yet that township has been so closely united with other territory on both the east and the west, that the annals are liable to become somewhat intermingled, especially in the case of the official records. Nearly all the township officers who resided in the present East Cleveland before 1847, are to be found in the records of Euclid, while many of those who appear in the records of East Cleveland since that date, were residents of what is now the eastern part of the city. The first white resident of the territory now comprising the township of East Cleveland, was Timothy Doan, a Connecticut sea-captain, already forty-three years old, who brought his family to Cleveland in the spring of 1801, left them there while he built a log house and made a small clearing, and in the. fall of that year removed them to his place on the west line of the old township of Euclid, a part of which is still occupied by his youngest son, John Doan. Mr. Timothy Doan steadily worked on his new farm, having for two or three years no neighbors nearer than his brother, Nathaniel, at "Down's Corners," in the present city of Cleveland. Timothy Doan was a man of good ability and of the highest character; he became the first justice of the peace ill the territory now constituting East Cleveland, and was afterward a judge of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county. He died in 1S28, on the farm on which he had moved in 1801, at the age of seventy, respected by all. In August, 1803, John Shaw, John Ruple, Thomas Mcllrath, Garrett Thorp and William Coleman, all from Washington county, Pennsylvania, visited this part of Ohio tog-ether, and two of them selected land in the present township of East Cleveland. Shaw chose the lot where Shaw Academy now stands, and McIlrath selected the one now occupied by the main part of Collamer village. Mr. Ruple located a little farther to the northeast, in what is now Euclid. All these locations, like that of Timothy Doan, before mentioned, and that of William Coleman on Euclid • creek, were on the main road which had been laid out from Cleveland to the Pennsylvania line, parallel with the lake shore, but which was then hardly passable even for ox-teams; an axe to clear away fallen timber -being the necessary accompaniment of every vehicle. The parties named returned to Pennsylvania and did not begin work on their land till the next spring. The second actual settler in the present township of East Cleveland, was Asa Dille, a brother of David Dille, of Euclid, who moved from Pennsylvania in March, 1804; putting up his cabin in the unbroken forest near the southwestern corner of the old township of Euclid.. There he lived and died, raising a large family of children. In April, 1804, Messrs. Shaw and Mcllrath began work on the locations before mentioned, and Benjamin Jones, a nephew of Mcllrath settled farther southeast in the neighborhood of Asa Dille's residence. Shaw brought his family that spring and became the third settler in the township. He was a native of England, and, having been brought up in a woolen factory, he was entirely unaccustomed to the use of the axe; yet by indomitable industry he succeeded in subduing the dense forest where he had chosen his home, and made him an excellent farm. He was a man of good intelligence and fair education, was the teacher of the first school in the county, held various civil offices and was the founder of the Shaw Academy, of which more will be said farther on. Mcllrath and Jones both brought on their families in the autumn of 1804, and as there were then five families in the territory of East Cleveland, the work of settlement might be considered as having fairly commenced. Even of these five families only one, that of Timothy Doan, had breadstuffs enough to last them through 444 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. the winter. The others depended principally on hunting, both to obtain meat for their families and to procure skins and furs, which could be traded in the rude markets of the day for articles of absolute necessity. Coon skins came pretty near being legal tender at that time, and several hundred of them were harvested that winter by the residents of East Cleveland, who were thus enabled to eke out a subsistence. Mr. McIlrath was especially noted as a hunter, and as he had several sons, who had nearly or quite attained to man's estate, they made great havoc among the denizens of the forest. In 1805 John Ruple settled on the line between Euclid and East Cleveland. He, too, was a noted hunter, and. is credited by William Coleman with killing the first panther slain in the old township of Euclid by a white man; the beast measuring nine feet from tip to tip. He raised a large family and lived to an advanced age, on the place where he first located, amid. the respect of all who knew him. Samuel Ruple settled at Nine Mile creek, in the eastern part of the present village of Collamer, in 1806, and during the same year Caleb Eddy located himself in the southern part of the township on a stream known as Dogway brook. Abraham L. Norris came the same year and settled on the ridge back of Collamer.His daughter, Mrs. Myndert Wemple, narrates many incidents connected with early life in the forest. Mr. Norris' family were two miles from their nearest neighbor, David Hendershot. Like most of the pioneers, they had only a " puncheon " (or split-log) floor for their cabin, and during the first summer a coverlid did duty instead of a door. The next year Mr.. Norris had a good sized clearing chopped over, and, according to pioneer custom, invited his neighbors (some of whom lived five or six miles away) to a " logging-bee." After a while they got several log-heaps ready for firing, and Mrs. Norris, who was out watching the operations, ran to the house to get a shovelful of coals. The fire was nearly out, and on the warm hearth lay a griddle which had been used for baking cakes. The first thing Mrs. Norris saw, on entering the house, was an enormous yellow rattlesnake comfortably curled up on the griddle. She screamed and fainted. Her husband ran in, and, having no weapon with which to dispatch the enemy, called for his father-in-law, Mr. Mcllrath, who came with his ox-goad, and soon slew it. The reptile had no less than twenty-four rattles. These pests were extremely common in both East Cleveland and Euclid; finding ample shelter among the rocks which abounded in the numerous ravines that intersected the ridge. Every man when he went out took a stick, as a matter of course, to kill rattlesnakes. John Ruple is credited with killing thirty- eight rattlesnakes (piled and counted) near Collamer, and Luther Dille with slaying forty-three in the same locality. In both cases the air was so heavily impregnated with poison by the reptiles that the men went home sick from the field of battle. Mr. Norris was obliged to go to Newburg to work, leaving his wife alone in the cabin. There was a half- grown shote in a rail pen covered with bark, near the house. One night Mrs. Norris was awakened by the crackling of bark and the squealing of the pig. Running to the door she saw a bear trying to get out of the pen with tbe shote clutched by the neck, somewhat as a cat carrries a kitten. There was a large bed of coals, and filling the big fire-shovel full of these she ran out and threw them on the dry bark, which in a moment was in a brilliant blaze. The bear meantime, had got his prey out of the pen, but being frightened at the sudden light, dropped the pig (badly scared but not seriously hurt) and made his way into the forest. At this period there was no church in the township. People went to "Doan's Corners" on Sunday, where 'Squire Nathaniel Doan read a sermon. Mrs. Wemple remembers. going to meeting at the corners; her mother riding a horse, she riding behind and another child in front, while her father walked by the side of the patient animal. It is needless to say that luxuries were exceedingly scarce. Once Mrs. Norris sent clear to Pennsylvania, by a couple of young men who were going thither, for a pound of tea and two yards of calico. to make the baby a dress. There were two or three gristmills within ten miles, but they were very poor concerns, and were frequently out of repair. On one occasion when, through defective machinery or lack of water, no grinding could be done in this part of the country, John Shaw took an ox-cart loaded with a grist for every man in the township and went eighty miles, to Erie, Pennsylvania, to get it ground. He was to be back in two weeks, and on the day fixed for his return Mrs. Shaw invited all the people in the township to her house, to cook and eat of the expected supply. The people came, but Mr. Shaw had been detained by the badness of the roads and did not arrive, and his hospitable wife could only furnish her guests with a feast of venison and baked pumpkins. Indians, squaws and papooses were frequently seen passing to and fro. They had a camping-place just back of where the academy now stands. The fierce appearance of the warriors frequently frightened the children, but there is no account of their doing the slightest harm. The first church (Congregational) in the township, which was likewise the first in the county, was formed in August, 1807. The first meetings were in the houses of the settlers, but in 1810 a house of worship was built of logs at the point then commonly designated as Nine Mile creek, but afterwards known as Euclid village and now as Collamer. This was also the first house of worship in the county; there being none in Cleveland until more than ten years later. EAST CLEVELAND - 445 In 1809 Caleb Eddy built the first gristmill in the township, on Dry Way brook, above the site of Lake Viem Cemetery. Amid the hardships of these times, women, as well as men, developed the courage necessary to meet the emergencies by which they were often confronted. Late one afternoon in autumn Mrs. Timothy Eddy went to look for her husband's cows. They had strayed a long distance, but at length she heard a bell, and, guided by that, made her way to where they were. But when she undertook to drive them home, she found she did not know the way. After various efforts night came on, and she was still as much at a loss as ever. . The quadrupeds discovered none of the intelligence in path-finding which is sometimes attributed to them, but when their mistress stopped driving them, quietly lay down for a night's rest. Satisfied that she could not find her way home, Mrs. Eddy lay down in a warm place, between two of the animals, and in this living boudoir she remained until morning. Meanwhile, her husband had rementurned from his labors at night fall, and, finding his wife absent, had roused the neighbors to search for her. All night long the few settlers in that part of the township went shouting to and fro through the woods, their lighted torches of bark flinging fantastic shadows among the trees, but they did not approach her sleeping place. In the morning she made her way home to her frightened friends. The first tavern-keeper in the township, of whom we can hear, was David Bunnel, who kept on the main road, a short distance southwest of the site of Collamer, before the war of 1812. Among other settlers in the township was Abijah Crosby, father of Deacon Thomas D. Crosby, who came in 1811. He was one of the earliest settlers in the vicinity f the lake shore. Benjamin Thorp, who had first settled at the mouth of Euclid creek, came in 1813, and settled on the " Coit tract," near the lake shore. When the war of 1812 broke out there was great excitement for a time, especially just after Hull's surrender when rumors of murdering Indians came on every breeze, and the people once or twice abandoned their homes in their alarm. These rumors, however, were soon found to be false, and during the war the work of planting and clearing went on much as usual, though emigration nearly ceased. On the day of Perry's victory, September 10, 1813, the people were busy raising William Hate's log barn, below Collinwood. Mr. Cornelius Thorp, who still resides in the township,- was one of the number. The neighbors were still few in number, and men had come from Warrensville on horseback to help in the work. The raisers were divided into two squads, who were engaged in a hot strife to see which should get up logs the fastest. At each corner was an expert axeman making notches and "saddles" to fit the logs together. Of course neither squad could really get ahead of the other, because all four sides of the house must go up together; but they could crowd each other, which was a great satisfaction. Suddenly from the far northwest a dull sound was heard rolling slowly over lake and land-then another-and another-and another. Every axe and every log was dropped. "That's Perry!" "A fight!" " A battle!" "A battle!" cried a dozen voices, and, in another minute, twenty or thirty men were racing away toward the lake shore, eager to hear even the faintest echoes from the great contest which was to decide the supremacy of Lake Erie. Perhaps they imagined, from the distinctness of the sound, that they could see the conflict, or, at least, could discover on the far horizon the smoke which must mark the scene of battle. But, on their arrival, nothing could be seen, as was not strange considering that the battle was seventy-five miles away. Yet the constant successions of subdued shocks, now alone, now in broadsides, hour after hour, gave notice that the conflict was still going on. At length the sounds died away; only a few scattered shots were heard, and finally all was still, and the last listeners returned slowly to their homes, querying anxiously whether Columbia or Albion should henceforth be the mistress of Lake Erie. The next day a swift-riding express, on the way to Washington, brought the news that Perry was victorious, and that British or Indian invasion need no longer be feared. Of all who were present at that " raising," Mr. Cornelius Thorp is the sole survivor. Benjamin Thorp, father of Cornelius, had at this time moved to the " Coit tract " of a thousand acres, situated on the lake shore. Immediately after the close of the war in 1815, emigration set in with more force than ever, on account of the temporary cessation. At this time began to be seen a slight appearance of a village where Collamer now sands; though it was then called Euclid. Enoch Murray started a store there shortly after the war. Davis Crocker also established a tannery there, on Nine Mile creek, about 1815 or '16, which he carried on for nearly twenty years. In 1817 a framed church was erected in place of the old log one before mentioned, and then the residents of "Euclid," or "Nine Mile Creek," as the hamlet was variously called, could indeed boast of their progress; for there was still not another church edifice of any kind in the county. In 1818 Benjamin P. Beers and Myndert Wemple settled in the township. Mr. Wemple, who still survives, says that Enoch Murray was then keeping store at Euclid (now Collamer). He sold to Thomas Mcllrath about 1820, and he in a short time to John Gardner. Taverns, too, began to be opened all along the main road soon after the war. Ben. S. Welch kept one at Nine Mile creek. A little later, Enoch Meeker had one a short distance farther west. Seth Doan kept one where George Doan now lives. But notwithstanding these indications of advancing settlement, the rattlesnakes still hissed viciously in 446 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY their dens among the rocks; the deer often bounded past the clearings of the pioneers, especially in the southern part of the township, and occasionally more noble game fell before the hunter's bullet. Old settlers still mention that it was about 1820 that the " big elk was killed;" an event long remembered and often discussed by the residents of the vicinity. The unlucky wanderer was chased down from the Chagrin river into East Cleveland, and was there killed. He weighed five hundred pounds, and his horns were seven feet long. By about 1825 or '30 the face of the country began to take on more decidedly than before the appearance of civilization. More than half of the log houses built by the pioneers had been exchanged for framed ones, and in all the north part of the township nearly every lot had a settler upon it, and about half the land had been cleared from timber. In the southern section the settlements were much fewer and the country still retained that pioneer look resultant from log houses, scattered clearings and far-spreading forests. In the township book of Euclid is a list of the voters in 1828, arranged by school districts. Euclid, as before mentioned, then embraced something over half of East Cleveland. We give a list of the names recorded in those districts either wholly or partly in what is now East Cleveland. A few of them may have been in the present Euclid; but if so, they were close to the line: District No. 2 (Collamer)—William Camp, John H. Camp, John West, John Ruple, John Hoagland, Samuel Ruple, Benj. Hoagland, John Stoner, Benj. S. Welch, Enoch Meeker, John Gardner, William Adams, John K. Hall, Nathaniel Woodruff, Myndert Wemple, Andrew McFarland, Elijah Burton, George R. Whitney, Sargent Currier, Alvin Hollister, Jesse Palmer, James F. Palmer, Dr. Hotchkiss, Joseph King, Mathias Rush, Moses Bond, Cyrus Ruple, Abram Histon, John Shaw, Elisha Rockwell. District No. 3 (west of Collamer)—Michael McIlrath, Horace Blinn, James Corbus; Amos Stebbins, Joel Jones, Benjamin Jones, John Doan, Samuel Dodge, Daniel Brown, Joseph Marshall, Andrew Mcllrath, Andrew Mcllrath, Jr., Merritt Lindley, John Burt, Samuel E. Smith, Eli Williams, Seth Doan, Thomas Mcllrath, Stephen Peet, Jedediah Crocker, Lewis Stanislaus, Thomas Phillips. District No. 4 (south part of township).—Guy Lee, Thomas Curtis, John Welch, John Handee, Adoniram Peck, Jesse Cross, Jacob S. Dille, Richard Curtis, Clark Currier, Stephen B. Meeker, Abram Mattox, Jacob Compton, Elias Lee, Reynolds Cahoon, Asa Dille, Lewis R. Dille, Abel Handee. District No. 6 (north of Collinwood, now in both towns).-William Hale, Thomas Mcllrath, Jr., Samuel Mcllrath, Samuel Mcllrath 2d, Thaddeus Wright, Aaron Bunnel, James Johnston, Benjamin Day, Abijah Crosby, John Ruple 2d, Ezekiel Adams, John Adams. District No. 10 (west of Collinwood).—Lawrence O'Connor, Alanson O'Connor, Joseph House, Jeremiah Shumway, Timothy Eddy, Ahaz Merchant, Benjamin Thorp, Andrew Stewart, John Moore, David Bunnel, Luther Woodworth, Ezra Fairfield, Cornelius Thorp, Isaac Page. A full list of all the voters in the old township of Euclid in 1828, including the above, is to be found in the history of that township. Of course, the foregoing list does not include any residents of that part of East Cleveland, except what was formerly in Euclid. There were, however, very few in that part of East Cleveland, which was then Euclid, except on the main road. The Elijah Burton, who is mentioned as a resident of District number two (Collamer), was a young physician who had very lately arrived there, being the first physician in that village. His widow still resides there, and his son is a practicing physician there. During the decade from 1830 to 1840 there was a large emigration checked during the last three years by what was known pre-eminently as the "hard times." Sargent Currier had become the storekeeper at Nine Mile creek, acting in that capacity some fifteen years. He had a sawmill near there, and afterwards built a steam gristmill. Abner Mcllrath opened a tavern in 1837. Samuel Lester started a new tannery in 1838, which is still operated by his son. When Mr. R. H. Strowbridge (now of Euclid) came to Collamer in 1840, Sargent Currier was still carrying On a store there, and Alvin Hollister was keeping a tavern. The township was well settled up, and framed houses were generally in use; yet there was still a rough appearance on the face of the country. The deer and wolves had all disappeared, and even the rattlesnakes were becoming scarce. Originally emigration had come from the East, and the western part of the present township was the last to be settled. By 1840, however, people began to overflow from the then growing city of Cleveland, and the western section was rapidly cleared up. At the June session of the county commissioners in 1847, the township of East Cleveland was formed from Cleveland and Newburg; no other townships at first contributing anything to its area. Of Cleveland it embraced lots three hundred and thirty-eight to four hundred and six inclusive; of Newburg, so much of lots four hundred and nine to four hundred and twenty-two inclusive as lay north of the road, (now Ingersoll street.) The first town meeting in East Cleveland was held on the 26th of June, 1847, when the following officers were elected: Trustees, Theron Woodworth, Ahimaaz Sherwin, Samuel Erwin; clerk, Ansel Young; treasurer, Joel Jones; declined, and Isaac N. Pillsbury appointed; assessor, Freeman Whitman. At the June session of the commissioners in 1848, the west part of Euclid was annexed to East Cleveland; embracing lots eight, forty-nine, sixteen, fifty-seven, EAST CLEVELAND - 447 twenty-four, fifty-six, fifteen, forty-eight, seven, six, forty-seven, fourteen, fifty-five, twenty-two, twenty- one, fifty-four, thirteen, forty-six, five, four, forty- five, twelve, fifty-three, twenty, fifty-two, forty-four, eleven, three, two; all of lot forty-three west of the road. runing through it, and all of tract sixteen north of lot one and west of the road runing to the lake. By the same act lots one, two, three and font lying in the north part of Warrensville, were also annexed. This included the East Cleveland of to-day, and also the tract afterwards annexed to the city. After the new arrangement was consummated, it was found very inconvenient to call the village situated in East Cleveland by the name of Euclid, when there was a township of Euclid close beside it. The people therefore began to cast about for another appellation. They adopted that of Collamer, and in time the growing village was generally known by that name; though it was long before all the old settlers could get rid of the habit of calling it Euclid. For many years after the formation of the township, the interest regarding it principally centered in the village of East Cleveland, which. grew rapidly into very extensive proportions, becoming an important suburb of the city. In 1852 the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula railroad (since becoming a part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern), was opened from Cleveland to Erie, running through the northern part of East Cleveland, only a short distance from the lake shore. The beauty of the locations along the main road at the foot of the ridge, between the city and Collamer, began to be observed by the denizens of Cleveland, and occasional purchases were made, especially around Collamer. All was progressing pleasantly and prosperously when, in 1861, the tocsin of war called the sons of America to the defense of their country. East Cleveland promptly responded to the call, and the record: given in the general history, tell their names and the deeds of the regiments to which they belonged. In 1862, James Haycox opened a valuable sandstone quarry in the southern part of the township, on the farm settled by John Welch. The character of the stone is similar to that which crops out in various parts of the county, and is described in the chapter on geology. Sincc the war, few townships in northern Ohio have progressed more rapidly than East Cleveland, although, as before stated, the village of East Cleveland was annexed to the city of Cleveland in 1867. Collamer has become a large and thriving village, an especial favorite with Clevelanders desirous of a more retired life than that of the city. The main road from there to the city line is thickly stud ded with pleasant farm houses, and with handsome residences situated on small but most desirable tracts. In fact the whole road which is an extension of Euclid avenue, seems like a delightful suburb of the city. Collamer now contains churches, one academy, four general stores, one post office, one physician, two carriage shops, two blacksmiths shops, two meat markets, one cider mill, one shoe shop, one tannery, and about a thousand inhabitants. On the railroad, a mile north of Collamer is to be seen the flourishing village of Collinwood, the seat of the great repair shops and round-house of the Lake Shore railroad. It is laid out on the most liberal scale, with streets enough for a small city, which indeed it promises to become. It has churches, three public schools, six general stores, four physicians, two drug stores; one hardware store, two boot stores, one clothing store, two millinery stores, one hotel (the Warren House), two livery stables, two news depots, one wagon and blacksmith shop, one harness shop, three meat markets, and about fifteen hundred inhabitants. The repair shops and round-house were begun in 1873 and finished in 1875, and the village has mostly grown up since the former year. The post office was established in 1875. There is also a post office at Lake View, near Lake View cemetery, where there is the prospect of another fine suburban village. The Lake View and Collamer railroad, (called for short " the Dummy road") furnishes ready access to the city for all the residents along the main road. On the ridge, grape-growing has flourished greatly of late years, the soil being of the same general quality as that in Euclid, and likethat, admirably suited for grape-culture. The grapes are generally sold in bulk, but a few gentlemen are engaged in wine manufacture; Mr. J. J. Preyer's Lake View wine farm, east of Lake View cemetery is one of the most celebrated wine-producing places in the county. The village of Glenville on the lake shore, adjoining Cleveland, was laid out in . The corporate limits inclose an area of about three square miles, but only a small portion of it is built on in village form. The Lake Shore railroad passes through its entire width and has a depot in it, while the Lake View and Collamer road skirts its southern border. The Northern Ohio fair grounds are situated a little west of the center of the village. The association owning them is described in the general history. Glenville was incorporated in the autumn of 1872, for special purposes. In April, 1874, William Brasie, R. M. N. Taylor were elected trustees. In September, 1874 it was incorporated as a village. In April, 1874, Wm. J. Gordon was elected mayor for two years. He was succeeded in 1876 by Benjamin Lamson, and he in 1878 by W. H. Gaylord, the present incumbent. The village now contains three stores, three hotels, One blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, one carriage shop and about five hundred inhabitants. The whole of East Cleveland, except Glenville and a few farms in the southern portion is incorporated for special purposes; the authorities being empowered to build roads and bridges, maintain a police, build police stations, etc. 448 - THE TOWNSHIPS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY. SHAW ACADEMY. In 1835 the old pioneer, John Shaw, died, and having no children he left his property to found an academy in the locality where he had so long lived and prospered. The property consisted mostly of a farm situated a short distance southwestward from CoIlamer. This was sold for five thousand dollars. The people of the vicinity subscribed a suffrcient amount to erect the necessary building, and the fund left by Mr. Shaw was used only for the support of the school. A board of trustees was appointed and the school was maintained in the usual manner of country academies until about 1868. At that time, as the institution did not prosper as well as was desirable, the building was leased to individuals. Public school money was applied to its support, and it became partly a district school and partly an academy. In 1877 the trustees of the academy leased the building to the directors of the Collamer sub-district by whom it has since been used for a district school, though of a higher grade than usual. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF COLLAMER. This church was organized by Rev. Wm. Wick, on the 27th day of August, 1807; being by at least ten years the first church in Cuyahoga county. It was formed on what was known as the "Plan of Union," adopted by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, and the general association of the Congregational church, of Connecticut. The individual church was at first Congregational, but it was connected with the Presbytery for purposes of discipline and mutual encouragement. It took the name of ," The Church of Christ in Euclid;" that being the township in which it was then situated. The first members were Nathaniel and Sarah Doan, John Ruple, Thomas and Elizabeth McIlrath, Sarah Shaw, Eunice Eddy, Abram L. and Abigail Norris, George and Almira Kilbourn, Andrew and Abigail McIlrath, Anna Bunnel and Isabella McIlrath. The strictness of the discipline and the existence of pleasant amusements among the pioneers are both shown by the next entry after the organization, made on the 29th of the same month, according to which A. L. and Abigail Norris confessed to dancing "not long before" (evidently before joining the church) and professed contrition. Sarah Shaw admitted the fact of dancing, but would not make a public acknowledgment and was suspended. This was petty strict in regard to acts committed before joining the church. At the first meeting of the church Nathaniel Doan, John Ruple and George Kilbourn were appointed the standing committee. The next record, dated in August, 1808, shows a meeting of the church to have been then held at the house of Nathaniel Doan. Caleb and Nancy Eddy admitted joining the "Halcyon Church," supposing them to be christians. They expressed their sorrow for having done so. This " Halcyon" church was a heterodox institution which started up suddenly in Euclid, flourished for a brief period and disappeared. The members claimed to be christians, but their right to the name seems to have been seriously disputed. At this time Mrs. Shaw publicly professed repentance for her dancing of long ago, and was duly reinstated in the church. On the 15th of March, 1810, the church unanimously adopted the Presbyterian model and put themselves under the charge of the presbytery of Hartford. The next month the Rev. Thomas Barr was called to the pastorate and accepted. He was ordained on the 23d of August following, and on the 27th of the same month Andrew McIlrath and John Ruple were appointed ruling elders. It was during this season that the log house already mentioned was built, which was, during its whole -existence, the only ohurch edifice in the county. Numerous cases of discipline occurred during all the early years of the church; mostly on account of the members attending balls or allowing their children to do so. In the summer of 1811 nearly all the members publicly acknowledged their wrong-doing in permitting their children to attend the Fourth of July ball. Nevertheless the church continued to flourish, and in 1817 a framed house of worship replaced the log one; the new house, like the old one, being the only church building in the county. Rev. Mr. Barr closed his services in 1820. After this the records unfortunately do not give the employment of pastors with any regularity, but it appears that Rev. Randolph Stoner, pastor of the Cleveland church, acted as moderator in the various meetings from 1820 to 1823, and doubtless supplied the pulpit. Rev. Stephen J. Bradstreet acted as moderator from 1823 to 1825. On the 26th of February, 1825, Rev. Stephen Peet was ordained as pastor; holding that position until January, 1833. Rev. E. S. Scott and Rev. E. Adams were in charge of the church, the former in 1833 and '34; the latter in 1835 and '36. Rev. H. Blodgett served as pastor from May, 1837, to February, 1843. Rev. E. N. Nichols was in charge a few months, and was followed by Rev. J. Burchard, the celebrated revivalist, who conducted a powerful revival during the winter of 1843-44. Rev. Benj. Page was the acting pastor in 1844, '45 and '46. Rev. William H. Beecher (eldest brother of Henry Ward Beecher) began service as stated supply in May, 1847, and continued until December, 1849. He was succeeded the next month by Rev. Jonas Bigelow, who died in service January 26, 1854. During his pastorate, in December, 1851, fourteen members withdrew to form the Free Congregational Church. Rev. Andrew Sharp was installed as pastor in April, 1854, and closed in April, 1856. Rev. Hiram Bingham began service as stated supply in October, 1856. Rev. F. Maginnis was installed as pastor in January, EAST CLEVELAND - 449 1858, and served nearly ten years, closing in September, 1867. Until this time the church had been known as the First Presbyterian Church of Euclid, although for nineteen years the house of worship had been in the township of East Cleveland, and the village where it was located had been known as Collamer for nearly an equal time. In September, 1867, it appears for the first time on the record as the Presbyterian Church of Collamer. At that time Rev. R. H. Leonard began service as stated supply, remaining until July, 1872. Rev. H. P. Barnes was installed as pastor in August, 1875, closing in May, 1877. He was succeeded at that time by the Rev: T, S. Scott, the present pastor. The following month (June, 1877,) a' union was effected with the Free Congregational Church of Collamer, by which each society was to keep its own organization, but they were to unite in all work, in religious service and the employment of a pastor. People are admitted by the joint action of the two churches, but are dismissed by the separate action of one. They meet in the Presbyterian church. The present membership of the Presbyterian congregation is now about seventy-five. The elders are John Aldrich, J. M. Page, T. D. Crosby, Joseph Day, Joseph Parks, Frederick King and Isaac Brush. The two churches maintain a union Sabbath school of two hundred members, of which William H. Coit is the superintendent. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL). The church edifice of this body is on Euclid avenue in the center of Collamer. It is of stone, rural in style, fifty-three feet in length and thirty in width. It was commenced in 1846, but was not finished and consecrated until 1856. The services were sustained at first by the aid of clergymen in Cleveland. The Rev. Eli Adams officiated in 1853-4. In 1856 Rev. Thomas Corlett was called as the first settled rector, who filled the rectorship for ten years. The Rev. N. P. Chariot was called in 1866, and resigned in 1869. The Rev. Thomas Lyle has been the rector of the parish since June 1, 1869. The sittings are free; the revenue being obtained from the weekly offertory and from subscriptions. The number of persons registered as communicants has been one hundred and ten; one hundred and seven have been baptized, and sixty- five have been confirmed. A rectory, adjoining the church edifice, was built in 1867. A small cemetery lies beyond the chancel. The officers of the church are as follows: Wardens, John Doan, J. W. Ogram; vestrymen, R. Gerrard, G. Doan, W. Oliver, J. W. Doan, B. Gray, and L. B. Beers. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF COLLAMER. For several years before 1851 there had been a strong feeling among some of the members of the Presbyterian church at Euclid, or Collamer, that the Presbyterian denomination should bear stronger testimony against slavery than it had previously done. On the 27th of December, 1851, fourteen members presented a memorial declaring that they could not continue in connection with the church while it maintained fellowship with slaveholders. This memorial was signed by John Ruple, Asa Weston, R.. Dutton, Asa Cady, Teresa Cady, Alma Ruple, H. A. C. Adams, Ezekiel Adams, Orpha Adams, L. C. Ruple, Mina Ruple, Ruple, Hannah Ruple, John Perkins. The Presbyterian congregation voted to dismiss them with letters to any church they might desire to join. They then proceeded to organize themselves into the Free Congregational Church of Collamer. For three or four years they worshiped in the schoolhouse; at the end of which time, their numbers having materially increased, they proceeded to build the brick church at Collamer, still owned by them. They maintained a separate existence with varying fortunes until June, 1877, when they formed a union for working purposes with the Presbyterian church, as narrated in the sketch of that body. DISCIPLE CHURCH OF COLLAMER. This church was constituted in the fall of 1829. The first members were Luther Dille, Clarissa Dille, Eri M. Dille, Lurilla Jones, Leonard Marsilliot, Edittea Cranney, Desire Perry, Mary Anne Perry and Fanny Cranney; soon joined by Nancy Hale. The church was organized at the log school-house west of E. M. Dille's residence. Luther Dille was set apart as the first ruling elder. Much was trusted to the efforts of the elders, or overseers, and pastors did not succeed each other with the regularity that marks ministerial changes in some churches. Nor are there any available records regarding the early history of this church. The Disciple society, however, continued to flourish, and about 1840 a framed house of worship 'was erected at Collamer. Rev. A. S. Hayden was one of the principal ministers who, at different periods, carried on the work of the church. In 1861 it had thriven so greatly that the members were able to begin the erection of a brick house of worship, which was completed in 1862. Mr. Hayden was pastor from 1863 to 1866, and Rev. A. B. Green from 1866 to 1868. In the latter year Rev. W. B. Hendrix held two protracted meetings, at which nearly a hundred members united themselves with the church. From 1868 to 1878 Revs. A. S. Hayden and A. B. Green were the pastors. Rev. W. B. Hendrix became the minister in charge in 1878. This church has been particularly distinguished as a nursery for others; not less than twenty Disciple churches, in various parts of the West, having been founded by emigrants from Euclid and East Cleveland, who had belonged to the Collamer church. Notwithstanding the recent organization of a Disciple church at Collinwood, the one at Collamer is in a very flourishing condition and has over a hundred