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HAMBDEN.
BY L. G. MAYNARD.
The township of Hambden, with other portions of the Reserve, was purchased by Oliver Phelps, of Suffield, Connecticut, November 8, 1798.
The township of Hambden contains fourteen thousand, three hundred and twenty-three acres, twelve thousand acres of which were sold by said Oliver Phelps, on the twenty-fifth day of February, 1801, to Dr. Solomon Bond, of Connecticut, it being all the township, with the exception of a strip of land on the north side, about a mile wide, which had previously been sold to a man by the name of Parker. Hence we have what are known as the Bond tract and Parker tract.
Hambden was formerly called Bondstown, after Dr. Bond, who was the largest proprietor. It was also known as No. 9, in the seventh range of townships.
Dr. Bond first came to Hambden in the summer of ao1, to look over his farm of twelve thousand acres, and see how it was situated. At that time it was but little known, except by the savage Indian, and the wild beasts of the forest. Dr. Bond made himself a shanty, on the farm now owned by Philo Pease, in the southwest part of the township, about half a mile east of the village of Chardon, on about the spot where the house of Mr. Pease now stands, where he resided alone most of the time during the summer, and did not see a white man once a
week, and, according to the doctor's own statement, he milked his cow in a bottle, and baked his bread on a chip.
In 1802 and 1803, Hambden began to be settled, and in those years some eight or nine families moved into the township. The names of the first settlers were: Shadrack Ruark, James Rawlins, Joseph Bond, Joseph Bond, jr., Thomas Evans, William Evans, Thomas Evans, jr., Stephen Bond, and Andrew Cooey. All these had families except Stephen Bond.
The Bonds settled in the south part of the township, near what is known as Sisson's corners. Ruark settled near the large spring, north of where Hiram Gardner now lives, and on his farm. Ruark chopped down the first tree that was ever felled in Hambden for the purpose of improvement. The Evans family settled by the spring on Mr. A. Calhoun's land, east of his house, and Cooey on the east side of the public square, near Mrs. Grist's.
In the early settlement, a man, in chopping down a tree, fell it on the top of
his house, in which were his wife and child, breaking down the roof, but without doing much other damage, except giving them all a good scare.
Some of the early settlers did not like the township very well, and moved
away—Rawlins and Ruark to Mentor, and Evans to the southern part of the State, which left only five families in the township.
In those days there were no roads, except a girdled road, which run through the southwest corner of the township. The State road was run out in the year 1804, or 1805, and a short time after was chopped out so that people could get along with wagons.
In the spring of 1808, six families moved into the township. Their names were: John Quiggle, Stephen Higby, John Brown, Alexander Brown, Abednego Davis, and Robert Cunning. In July of the same year, John Elliott and Ichabod Pomeroy, with their families, and Chester Elliott, a single man,. came to Hambden.
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Hambden, in 1808, and until 1817, belonged to Painesville, and the people went there to elections, town meetings, and to do other business connected with township affairs.
The township, in 1808, contained thirteen families, and three single men, and
in, all about seventy persons. The following were the names of the men, with a few words in relation to their characters, occupations, etc.: Joseph Bond was an honest farmer in the wane of life. He was formerly from Massachusetts. Joseph Bond, jr., was a farmer, from the State of New York.
Norman Canfield was quite a business man. He was elected justice of the peace while Hambden belonged to Painesville. He was the father of Austin Canfield, of Chardon.
Stephen Higby was a farmer and miller. He built the saw-mill and grist-mill
in Claridon, near the south line of Hambden.
John Quiggle was a good farmer. He first stopped at the Evans place, on Mr.
Calhoun's farm, where he stayed a short time, then moved on to the Ruark place, where he remained a year or two, until he could build himself a house, and make some improvements on his farm, which was situated in the east part of the township, and the same farm that Samuel Hathaway now lives on, and where he lived and died in a good old age of about ninety-one years.
John Elliott was a farmer, from East Hampton, Massachusetts.
Ichabod Pomeroy was a farmer, and a useful man in the township. At that
time, he was the only public praying man in the township. He usually officiated at funerals, when no minister was present. Mr. Pomeroy put up the first frame barn (in 1812), which is a part of the barn now owned by Mr. Calhoun.
Stephen Bond and Andrew Cooey were farmers, and held offices in the militia.
Alexander Brown, John Brown, and Robert Cunning were all farmers, and
were from Ireland.
Alexander Davis was a farmer, and came from Maryland.
Chester Elliott was a farmer, surveyor, and carpenter. He surveyed all the township of Thompson, in the years 1808 and 1809, and also a part of Hambden and Troy. He built the first framed building in the township. This was his own dwelling house; it stood on what is called the Ladd farm, half a mile north of the center, and occupied a part of the ground on which Mr. Haldeman's house now stands. This house was erected in 1811.
Eli Bond and Peter Quiggle were single men.
In the year 1808 there were thirty-six adult persons living in Hambden. They have all been dead several years, except one—Mrs. Sally Bond, of Chicago sister of Noah Pomeroy, of Claridon.
In the year 1808, paths were chopped out to Windsor and Thompson, and there had been paths chopped out to Burton and Leroy some years previous, which had been traveled somewhat.
At that time bears, wolves, elk, deer, and other animals were quite plenty, and rattlesnakes were almost without number; but, notwithstanding, only one person was ever bitten by them in the township. His name was Leonard Pomeroy; he was bitten while mowing, and was quite sick for a month or two, but recovered.
1809. This year there were no additions to the township by immigration; two or three children were born, one couple married, and one child died. But nothing took place of much importance, only the first school was organized and put in operation. The school was taught by Anna Pomeroy—she had thirteen scholars. The school-house stood on the farm now owned by D. C. Gridley, in the south part of the township, about forty rods west of the State road, at the spring. At the present time a few of those thirteen scholars are living, and among the survivors are Austin Canfield, of Chardon; Noah Pomeroy, of Claridon, .and, perhaps, one or two others.
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1810. Early in the spring of this year three men came from Enfield, Connecticut, and bought land. Their names were Moses Parsons, Chandler Pease, and Anson Pease. The two former were married men, but did not move their families till a few years afterwards. In the summer following Daniel Booth, with his family, and his two sons, Daniel and Marvin, settled in the southern part of the township, nearly opposite where Mr. Bailey now lives. About the same time, or soon after, Deacon Benjamin King, with his family, and his son, Hosea King, moved into the township, and bought farms. Deacon King bought, and lived near the large spring on Hiram Gardner's farm; and Hosea King at the center of the township, and built the tavern, and other buildings, which were burned a few years ago, and were then owned by Samuel Hathaway.
In the summer of this year the first co-operative organization was effected— that we have any record of—in Geauga county. It was called " Bondstown Logging Society." The company had a constitution and by-laws, with fines, penalties, etc., which bound the members to do all the logging each member. had to do, for four years. Each member had a right to chop as much as he pleased, or could hire chopping done, and all the loggino. was to be done by
"logging bees," and all fines were paid logging in whiskey. The following were some
of the acts: "First, no man had a right to furnish over a gallon of whiskey for ten men. If a man called for a bee, before clearing off the brush in a proper manner, he was to be fined one gallon of whiskey. If a man failed to appear on the ground at the proper hour, after being notified, unless he or some of his family were sick, he was to be fined one gallon of whiskey. If he did not get to the place in proper time, he was to be fined two quarts of whiskey." This did not last but one year, for the laws, like some of our State laws, wanted tinkering. The most wealthy men got large lots of land cleared off, while the poor men got nothing but their board, with the whiskey, of course, thrown in, and at the end of the year it was voted to burn the constitution, which was done.
In the summer of this year, part of a tribe of Indians, twenty or thirty in number, came to Hambden, and had their camp in the south part of the township, where they lived till late in the fall of the same year. The Indians followed hunting, and the squaws making baskets, which they sold to the people, and which were much wanted at that time. When they wanted to sell a basket they would hold up as many fingers as they wanted shillings, and say "shillings." In that way they made their bargains.
1811. In the spring of this year Isaac Pease and Freegrace Hancock came from the State of Connecticut, and bought farms. Pease also bought the mill built by Higby, near the south line of Hambden, and rebuilt it, and he, and his son Merrick, also built a distillery, and carried on the business of making whiskey for a number of years. This made whiskey plenty, and the regular price for many years was twenty-five cents per gallon. A bushel of corn would generally buy a gallon. When men living from three to five miles, or more, from the distillery could stand it no longer without some of the "creature," they would yoke up their oxen and hang a bushel of corn on the yoke, and return with a gallon jug filled with the good stuff, and it was not uncommon for some of them to get so "tight" that they were obliged to ride the near ox in order to get home. They would pass through the streets so happy that we could hear them sing for a half a mile or more away. Those were interesting times.
In the fall of this year (1811), Nathaniel King and Isaiah King came from the State of New York, and settled in the township, both on the road from the center to Chardon.
This year two marriages took place. Anson Pease was married to Anna Pomeroy, and Peter Quiggle to Margaret Brown.
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In the winter of this year, Alexander Brown, an old man, went to the woods to chop, and, when chopping down a tree, was taken with a fit and fell down. He was found by a man who came along a short time after, and taken to his house, but died a few hours after. He was the first man who died in Hambden.
1812. This year war was proclaimed with England, which put a stop to immigration, and only three families moved into the township during the war. Their names were Edward Kibbee, Levi Hale, and Moses Parsons. They were all from the State of Connecticut, and were all farmers.
MILITIA.
In 1808 all the men living in Hambden subject to military duty, belonged to the Painesville company, and went there to training. Captain Andrew Cooey commanded the company.
In the fall of 1811 a new company was formed, containing all the men subject to military duty in Hambden, Chardon, Claridon, Thompson, and Leroy.. When General Hull surrendered his army, this company was called out on alarm, and went to Cleveland, being a week or nine days from home. The following are the names of the men and the townships they resided in: From Chardon, Captain Norman Canfield ; Claridon, Lieutenant Allen Humphrey, Ensign Horace Taylor, Sergeant Elijah Douglass, Sergeant Aranda Kellogg, Nathanrel Spencer, Benjamin Andrews, and Allen Spencer; Hambden, Sergeant Chester Elliott, Sergeant Merrick Pease, Anson Pease, Joseph Bond, jr., Daniel Booth, Marvin Booth, John Elliott, jr., Ichabod Pomery, jr., Jesse Hale, Stephen Bond, Hosea King, John Quiggle, Nathaniel King, and Isaiah King; Thompson, Joseph Bartlett, jr., Abner Stockwell, Seth Hulbert, Retire Trask, William Gee, and Eleazar Pomeroy; Leroy, Charles Keneep, Paul Clapp, Spencer Phelps, Benjamin Bates, Caleb Bates, jr., and Joshua Bates. This company returned from Cleveland safe and sound.
At another time during the war half the company was called for, but about the time they started news came that they were not wanted. Only three men were drafted or volunteered in that war from Hambden. John Elliott volunteered under Captain Clark Parker. Anson Peas. and Nathaniel King were drafted. Pease served three months and hired a man to take his place. Messrs. King and Elliott were both taken sick with a fever, and came home before their time was out.
When Perry's victory was fought on Lake Erie, the cannon was distinctly heard in Hambden, and the people were very anxious to learn the result of the battle.
1815. This year, the war having ended and peace being proclaimed, Hambden began to settle again. In the spring, Jonathan Allen, Nathaniel H. Parks, Luther Pease, Jacob Pease and Hezekiah Stocking, all came from the State of Connecticut and settled in the township. The two Peases were blacksmiths, and built the first blacksmith shop which was put up this year. The shop stood in the south part of the town, and the people felt rich to think they had a blacksmith shop in town, for before they had to go to Painesville to get their blacksmithing done. In the fall of this year Philip Quiggle and John Fox moved into the town and bought farms. Quiggle came from Brookfield, Trumbull county, and Fox from the State of New York.
1816. This year David Brown, Robert Brown, James Brown, Samuel Pratt, Daniel McCoy, and Obed Hale, all moved into the township. Also, in the month of December, this year, a young man by the name of Joel S. Bartholomew came from the State of Connecticut and brought on a store of goods, and built a store in the south part of the town, where he carried on the mercantile business till the spring of i818, when he died.
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1817. This year, eight men with families and two single men moved into the township and bought farms. Their names were John Bartholomew, Abraham and Joel Daman, Artemas and Park Swift, Lyman Converse, Joseph and Richard Barker, Chester Kentfield, and William Hunter. In October of this year James Brown was elected justice of the peace, he being the first man who held the office after Hambden was organized as a township. Norman Canfield and Hosea King held that office while Hambden belonged to Painesville.
1818. This year, Jonathan Maynard and Hosea Daman moved into the township, but nothing of very much importance took place, unless it was sickness and deaths. Before this time the town had been very healthy. This year, in the month of March, Oliver Ladd, a young man, died. In April, Augustus Bartholomew, and in May, Joel S. Bartholomew, died. The latter was the merchant before mentioned. In June, Mrs. Allen, wife of Jonathan Allen, died, and during the year three children died. One of these children—a child of Alexander McCoy-was the first person buried in the cemetery at the center of the town. This was in the fall of 18i8. From 18o2 to 1818 only two men and two women had died in the township, and four children.
After the death of Joel S. Bartholomew, his father, John Bartholomew, carried on the mercantile business in the south part of the town for two years, but did not meet with good success and gave it up.
MINISTERS, MEETINGS AND CHURCHES.
The first minister who preached in Hambden was Rev. Mr. Robbins, a Presbyterian minister from the State of Connecticut. This was in the year 1804. The second minister was Rev. Joseph Badger, who preached in 1805, and occasionally for several years afterwards. In the year 1808, Rev. Mr. Burt, a minister from Connecticut, preached once. In the winter following, Rev. Mr. Cole preached in the town, and in the summer following, a minister from the southern part of the State preached once. In the fall of 1809, Nathan B. Darrow preached three or four times and formed a Presbyterian church composed of five members: Ichabod Pomeroy and wife, Joseph Bond and wife, and Rebecca Elliott. I find the following record of the organization of this church:
"In consequence of a desire manifested by a number of persons in Bondstown, county of Geauga, and State of Ohio, that a church should be planted there, a meeting was notified and consequently holden on Tuesday, the twenty- eighth day of November, 1809, when Joseph and Hepzibah Bond, Ichabod and Lucy Pomeroy, and Rebecca Elliott, were examined as to their belief and experience in religion, and accepted for church membership.
"A sermon was delivered from Ezekiel, xxxvi : 37, after which the above named persons were pronounced a church of Christ, with all the rights and privileges belonging to his visible body.
"Attest:
NATHAN B. DARROW,
"Missionary from the Missionary Society of Connecticut."
Afterwards the following resolutions were passed, viz:
"First, To adopt the Presbyterian mode of church government and discipline for the present, and apply to the Hartford Presbytery to be under their watch and care.
"Second, To remove their relation from the presbytery to an association of Congregational ministers and churches, whenever such an one should be formed in this vicinity: Provided, a majority of the male communicants are then in favor of it."
Ichabod Pomeroy and Joseph Bond were appointed elders, and Ichabod Pomeroy moderator and clerk of the church.
There were no additions to this church till August, 1821, when eight persons
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united with it by letters from churches in New England. They were David Brown, Abraham Daman, Jonathan Maynard and wife, Hezekiah Stocking and wife, and John Brown and wife. Two, Joseph Bond and wife, had been dismissed to other churches. From 1810 to 1820, some minister would come along and preach once in two or three months. They were: Mr. Leslie, from Ashtabula county; Mr. Field, from Massachusetts; Mr. Humphrey, of Burton, and Messrs. Hanford, Hyde, and Woodruff.
The first hired minister was a Baptist minister by the name of Hanks. He preached half the time in Hambden, and half in Chardon. This was in 1818. The first regular meetings in Hambden were set' up by Deacon Ichabod Pomeroy, who, shortly after settling in the township, set up meetings in his own house, when a sermon would be read, and the ordinary religious services connected with public worship were performed. These meetings have been continued ever since, when no minister was present.
The first Methodist minister that preached in Hambden was a young man by the name of Ruark. His congregation consisted of six women, three men, and four children. The words of his text were, "Seek the Lord and ye shall live."
During the year 1818 two ministers, Revs. Green and Collins, who were circuit Methodist ministers, preached in Hambden once in two weeks. Some time in the summer some man requested Mr. Collins to preach a sermon about "Sampson's foxes," and he agreed to do so, but not on the Lord's day. At the time appointed, everybody turned out to hear a sermon about foxes, for the people at that-time had wild animals on their minds quite as much as ministers and preaching, for the reason, perhaps, that they were much more plenty. Mrsi Collins gave them an excellent sermon. He said that the foxes were caught by Sampson's order, he being judge in Israel at that time. But he said he had no doubt but Sampson was a good trapper of foxes, and also the devil was a good trapper of souls, and had no doubt but what the devil's prospects for catching souls in Hambden were better than Sampson's were for catching foxes in Israel At this time there were no Methodist people in Hambden, and therefore those ministers discontinued preaching. In the year 1822 Augustus Sisson moved into the township, and a Methodist church was soon formed, consisting of four members, viz: Augustus Sisson and wife, Charity Stebbins, and John P. Bosley; and from that small beginning the present Methodist church has arisen.
SCHOOLS.
In the year 1809 the first school was taught in the township by Miss Anna Pomeroy, on the farm of Mr. Gridley, as before mentioned. In 1810 Miss Sally Pomeroy taught in the south part of the township. In 1811 Miss Olive Booth taught school in her father's house, nearly opposite Mr. Baily's. In 1812 Sally Pomeroy again taught. In 1813 the school was taught by Miss Dorothy Booth; in 1814 by Miss Thalia Beard, of Burton. In ars school was taught by Mrs. Lois Stocking, wife of Hezekiah Stocking, near the center of the town.
In the winter of 1817 Captain Elijah P. Allen, late a resident of Chardon, taught the first winter school, and during the same winter, Daniel McCoy taught school at the center of the town. The school-house in which McCoy taught was built of logs, and stood about three rods east of the Congregational church, entirely surrounded by the forest, except the road in front of the house. Some twenty-five of us are still living whose "young ideas were taught to shoot" in this log hut, seated entirely with unplaned slabs, standing on four legs, like a common saw-horse. Here attachments and friendships were formed among the scholars that will be as lasting as life itself. Here would be crowded together from forty to fifty boys and girls, every day, from the ages of four or five to twenty or more years. Here the "birch," or rather the beach sprouts, well
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warmed in the hot ashes, were made to do daily duty, which some of us, at least, have not forgotten.
The large boys could go to school winters if they would chop the wood at the door, and do the threshing, which was always done by hand, wrth flails. They would get up in the morning by three or four o'clock, and go to the barn and thresh till school time, and then run to school, and after school would chop wood at the door till dark. The fathers would be able to haul the wood to the door, and do the chores at the house and barn. How much would boys know at the present day, with such advantages?
I now pass to another interesting, though solemn part of this history. I refer to the deaths that have taken place since the settlement of the township. From the most reliable record I am able to find, and from the recollections of the oldest settlers now living, it appears that Mrs. Betsy Covey was the first person that died in the township. She died in 1806. Mrs. Covey left a young child, which went to live with her uncle, and it happened, one day, that the child crept out at the door, and a sow came along at the same time, and took up the child in her mouth and ran away with it, probably intending it for her supper; but a man being present, ran down the sow and saved the life of the child. This child is still living in Chicago, and can show the marks of the old sow's teeth on her person.
From the time the township was first settled, up to 1824, there had been, in all, thirty-six deaths, about one-half adults. From 1824 to 1836, seventy-four deaths occurred; from 1836 to January 1, 1848, there were one hundred and seven; from January 1, 1848, to January 1, 1875, there had been three hundred and twenty-one, making a total, since the first settlement of the township, of five hundred and thirty-eight. This, however, does not include those of our boys who were killed or died on the battlefield during the late Rebellion, which properly should be added, and which would make the number within a very small fraction of five hundred and fifty. Six men, at least, have died who were over, ninety years of age, and two have lived to the great age of ninety-seven, viz: Peter Quiggle and Simeon Maltbie.
At least twelve soldiers of the Revolutionary war have died in Hambden. Their names are: Reuben Stocking, Isaac Cheesman, Abraham Daman, Ichabod Pomeroy, John Elliott, Peter Quiggle, Isaac Pease, Samuel M. Starr, Nathaniel Hickox, Daniel Morgan, Squire Davenport, and Ebenezer Kentfield. About twenty men have died who were in the war of 1812, and twenty-one who were soldiers of the late Rebellion.
Four persons in Hambden have committed suicide, two men and two women, and all by hanging. Their names were: George W. Dexter, Alvin Taylor, Abigail Barnard, and a Mrs. Radcliffe.
The townships of Hambden, Montville, and Leroy were organized into a voting district, or set off from Painesville, where they had heretofore gone to vote, etc., in the spring of 1817. The first township election was held on the first Monday in April of that year, with the following persons elected to the several township offices: Nathaniel H. Parks, clerk; Hosea King, Jonathan Allen, and Chandler Pease, trustees; Ichabod Pomeroy and John Quiggle, overseers of the poor; Nathaniel King and John Elliot, fence viewers; Daniel Booth, lister and appraiser; Levi Hale, appraiser; Jesse Hale, treasurer; Daniel McCoy, constable; and Merick Pease, surveyor Of lumber; together with three supervisors, and one supervisor for each of the townships of Montville and Leroy.
The first State election was held October 14, 1817. The poll-books, with the number and names of the electors, are copied into the old township records, which show the number of electors, at the first election, to be thirty-two; the second, thirty; and the third, twenty-eight.
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But two of those that voted at the first three State elections are now living— Nathaniel H. Parks and Almon Booth, both now living in Chardon.
To show the care the officers of the township took, in the early days, to save the township from expense in supporting the poor, I have copied an item of record which follows:
THE STATE OF OHIO,
Geauga County.
To any Constable of Hambden township Greeting :
Whereas; information has come to us, the subscribers, overseers of the poor of Hambden township, that Polly Rider, a single woman, now residing in said township, is likely to become an expense to said township. You are, therefore, commanded, forthwith, to warn the said Polly Rider to depart from the township of Hambden, according to the laws of the State, in such cases made and provided. And of this writ make legal service, and, forthwith, return the same to the township clerk.
Given under our hands, and seals, at Hambden, this twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
JOHN ELLIOTT, } Overseers of the poor.
JONATHAN ALLEN,
Executed by reading the within warrant to the within named Polly Rider.
Fees for service - 10 cts.
" " traveling - 20 "
Total - 30 cts.
ROBERT BROWN, Constable.
As has been already stated Hambden was called Bondstown, till about the time that it became necessary that the name of the town should become a matter of record in the county, when, at a town meeting held, perhaps, in 1819, it was agreed that every voter should write, upon a slip of paper, the name he would prefer, and the name that should receive the largest number of votes should be the name of the township. When the ballots were counted, Hambden had a majority. It was then suggested, by some one, that there was already a township in the State spelled Hamden, when it was agreed to spell it Hambden, to distinguish it, and thus it went on the record.
The name of the post-office, however, is spelled Hampden, for this reason : there was no post-office nearer than Chardon and Painesville, till Augustus Sisson moved into the place in 1822. He soon got up a petition for a post- office, and in that spelled the name Hampden, he being familiar with the name in Massachusetts. Thus, on the county record it is " Hambden," and on the post office books, " Hampden."
The following persons have held the office of justice of the peace in Hambden, and first elected in the following order: siNorman Canfield; Hosea King, James Brown, Wareham Parsons, Augustus Sisson, James Hathaway, Zelotes Sisson, Austin Carver, Lewis G. Maynard, Ralza C. Thayer, Samuel Hathaway, John T. Field, Daniel Warner, jr., William H. Lacey, H. d. Skinner, and Oscar P. Quiggle and Addison Stockham,—the two last named are the present incumbents.
The pioneers of Hambden, in common with all new settlements in those days, experienced at times great difficulties in procuring the necessaries of life. At one time Mr. John Quiggle being obliged to get a barrel of salt for family use, took one of his cows, and sold her to Charles Keneep, of Leroy, for twenty-five dollars, and came home, and mended up an old sled, by putting on new shoes, etc., and with a yoke of oxen, started for Painesville, and on the next day, at night, got home with his barrel of salt. The twenty-five dollars he got for his cow, just paid for his barrel of salt to a cent, so that one cow, and three
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or four days' work with a team procured him a barrel of salt, which now can he bought for two dollars.
I have mftelf heard Mr. Quiggle and others of the early settlers say that, at times, when they were obliged to go to Painesville with their grain and pork, to exchange for the necessaries of life, such as shoe leather, salt, money for taxes, and a few groceries, two neighbors would each furnish a yoke of oxen, and with axes aboard, would start in the early morning, and by night get as far as the old Jordon tavern, as it used to be called, a little south of Wilson's corners in Concord, where they would stay the first night. From there to Painesville five miles, the road was so much better, that they could reach Painesville, do their trading, and return to the Jordon place, and stay the second night. By night the third day, their families would hear the welcome sound, " Haw" "Gee up," "Whoa," and their trip for that time would be successfully accomplished.
As late as the fall of 1816, partly on account of one or two unfavorable seasons, and partly by the number of new settlers; there were not provisions enough in all this region, to supply the actual wants of the inhabitants.
Mr. Robert Brown, in 1816, was actually obliged with his ox team to go to Poland, the southeast corner of the Reserve, and get a load of wheat and flour, to live on through the winter. He was gone a whole week, at a great deal of expense, and paid a very high price for his grain.
Now these are only two or three instances out of scores that might be told, simply to illustrate the trials, hardships and dangers, that the early settlers and the real pioneers of this township of Hambden were obliged to suffer and endure, to obtain the absolute necessities of life, that they might be able to subdue the dense forests, build roads and houses, and prepare comfortable homes and pleasant surroundings for those who now fill their places.
It seems but reasonable, that the few early settlers that remain, although they may have been children sixty years ago, are entitled to, and should receive, the respect and reverence of the present generation.
ADDITIONAL FACTS, ETC., IN THE HISTORY OF HAMBDEN.
Hambden contains no waste land, no high hills, nor low flat land; but the whole surface is gently rolling. An abundance of springs of pure water is found in every section of the township. There is scarcely a farm but what is supplied with living water.
The soil is what may be called a clay-loam, mixed slightly with sand. It is a strong soil, but better adapted to grass and small grain, than for corn. Dairying has been a leading industry for many years. For three or four years, however, much more attention has been given to a mixed husbandry with satisfactory results. An immense crop of wheat and oats have been raised this year (1878), probably from fifty to seventy per cent. more than was ever raised before in Hambden.
MANUFACTORIES.
There being no large streams of water running through Hambden, but a small amount of water power could be had for manufacturing purposes.
The first manufacturing establishment in the township was the distillery built by Isaac Pease and his son, in 1811. Its capacity was about fifteen bushels of rye and corn per day.
The grain was largely furnished by the inhabitants of Hambden and adjoining towns. It was customary for farmers, after taking off the first crop of wheat raised on the new land, to harrow in rye, which would produce a heavy crop with very little expense.
Heavy crops of corn were also raised on the new land, as soon as the roots were sufficiently rotted, to permit the surface of the ground being a little
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scratched by the point of a bull plow, or three-cornered drag, and as hogs got much of their living, and some years mostly fattened on beechnuts in the woods, the worm of that old still was pretty well supplied with its necessary food for twenty or more years, when it was permitted to run down, to the satisfaction of the few temperance men then living in its vicinity.
The next establishment was a saw-mill built by Jonathan Allen, on a small branch of the Cuyahoga, near W. M. Sisson's present residence, on lot six. This mill was bought by Augustus Sisson, in the year 1822, who run it a few years, spring and fall, but as the .forests were cut away, the water failed, and in a few years it was left to run down.
A saw-mill was built by Shubal Matiley on the headwaters of Bates' creek, in the northeast part of the town, and rebuilt a few years after, by Lewis H. Bagg, a few rods lower down the stream, which did the sawing for that neighborhood for a few years, but soon failed for the same cause as the other.
Nathaniel H. Parks, late of Chardon, put up a small carding-machine in connection with Allen's saw-mill, which carded the wool for the neighbors for a few years, but was short lived. It was built in 1816 or '17.
In the year 1835 or '36, Hosea King, and sons, built a steam saw-mill about half a mile north of the center, on the State road, and run it a year or two, when Daniel Hager bought it, and built a two-story addition for a grist-mill and carding-machine, which was a great convenience to the inhabitants, as the mill was a good one, and did good work. Some time after James Hathaway became part owner, and built an addition, and put in a distillery for making whiskey; but a whiskey-mill not being particularly needed in Hambden, in 184r it took fire, from some unkown cause, and the whole establishment was consumed; the family, sleeping in the upper story, barely escaped in their night clothes.
Some eight or ten years ago, H. G. Skinner and Austin Adams put up a portable saw-mill about half a mile south of the center, which did a heavy business for two or three years, when they sold it, and it was moved to Chardon. Soon after S. C. Mosher put up another of similar construction, which has done good business in Hambden, East Charidon and Chardom ever since.
The Hambden cheese factory was built in the year 1861 or '62, by James Langston, in the eastern part of the township. This factory has had several owners since, and is now owned by S. E. Carter. The cheese made at this factory has had a good reputation in market, owing in part, probably, to the abundant supply of pure, cold water.
CHURCHES.
The Congregational and Methodist churches worshipped in school-houses and private dwellings, till the year 1847, when the Methodist Episcopal church built a comfortable house of worship, thirty:four by forty-four feet, at a cost of one thousand two hundred dollars, which was overhauled and very much improved, both as to appearance, comfort and convenience (in the year 1866), at a cost of nearly three thousand dollars.
The Congregationalists built their present house of worship, which was dedicated in June, 1851. This house was partly finished with poor materials, particularly the roof, and is now greatly in need of thorough repairs.
In 1845 a small church of Disciples was built, with the aid of several liberal men outside of any church, a small, but pleasant and neat, church edifice, at a cost of about eight hundred dollars. The disciples controlled and used it one half of the time; the other half was open for any denomination that wanted it, but it was seldom used by any but Disciples. This church was so reduced in numbers, by deaths and removals, that after a few years it was offered, and bought,. by the board of education, and used as a district school-house, till 1876, when
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the present fine school-house was built, and the little building now remains the property of the township.
As was mentioned in my previous manuscript, the Congregational church was organized November 28, 1809, with five members. It now numbers sixty-five resident members. The ministers that have been installed as pastors, .are: Rev. Nathaniel Cobb, October 28, 1830, jointly over the churches of Hambden and Kirtland, dismissed February, 1834; Rev. John W. Beecher, installed in 1835, and dismissed in 1839; Rev. H. W. Osborne was installed pastor in the spring of 1852, and died October 29, 1854; Rev. P. A. Beane was installed October 9, 1862, and dismissed in 1870. In addition to the above, the pulpit has been supplyed, once in two or four weeks, and for several years, all the time, by Revs. Luther Humphrey, Dexter Witter, Jason Olds, Eliplalet Austin, Warren Swift, Mr. Stewart, Freeman Coe, Thomas Adams, E. C. Berge, E. H. Gilbert, S. N. Blakeslee, William Potter, C. E. Paige, and A. D. Barber.
The first Sunday-school, in connection with this, was organized in the spring of 1821, by Rev. Joseph Badger. He offering to give a bible to the scholar learning the most verses during the season; provided, he learns one thousand verses or over, and a testament to each of the next two highest. The bible lies in the book-case of the writer of these notes, at a cost of learning and reciting one thousand three hundred and twenty verses.
The Methodist Episcopal church was formed in 1822, with four members. It now contains about seventy-five members, and has been supplied, as is the custom with that church, with circuit preachers, appointed by the annual conferences, who have remained from one to three years.
The first post-office was established in 1822, in the.south part of the township, and Augustus Sisson was appointed first postmaster. After several years the post-office was removed to the center, and George Hale appointed postmaster. He has been succeeded by Thomas Brown, Samuel Hathaway, James McBride, John B. Grist, Royal Dow, John T. Field, and 0. P. Quiggle.
The number of newspapers taken at this office are: one daily, two tri-weeklies, one hundred and eighty-four weeklies, more than forty monthlies, and one quarterly, making, in all, at least two hundred and twenty-eight; besides, the inhabitants living on the Parsons street, and the road leading from the center to Chardon, get their mail at Chardon post-office, which would probably increase the number of papers taken in the township to more than two hundred and fifty copies.
The first township election was held on the first Monday in April, 1817, and the following persons were elected to the several township offices: Nathaniel H. Parks, clerk, Hosea King, Jonathan Allen, and Chandler Pease, trustees; Ichabod Pomeroy and John Quiggle, overseers of the poor; Jesse Hale, treasurer; Nathaniel King and John Elliott, fence viewers; Daniel Booth, lister and appraiser; Levi Hale, appraiser; Daniel McCoy, constable, and Merrick Pease, surveyor of lumber.
The following are the present township officers: J. W. Carver, clerk; C. E. Stafford, Charles Fenton, and B. W. Shattuck, trustees; 0. P. Quiggle treasurer; J. W. Brewer, assessor; W. R. Maltbie and A. Colby, constables, and seventeen supervisors.
PHYSICIANS.
The first physician that ever lived in Hambden was Dr. L. A. Hamilton. He came from the east, about the year 1830, a young man, and soon worked into a good practice. Hamblen being a healthy town, after three or four years, he removed to Chardon, where he remarned till he died; but always had a good deal of practice in Hambden. He was followed by Dr. S. M. Johnson, who settled in this township, and• remained some eight or ten years: He was a man of skill
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and of a high moral and religious character. He was followed by Doctors Chapman, Reid, Scribner, McAlpine, Tanner and wife, and West, our present physician.
MERCHANTS.
The first merchant was Joel S. Bartholomew, as before stated. We had no other merchant till about the year 1831 or 1832, when Jonathan Warner, from the State of New York, brought on a heavy stock of goods and built a store on the corner, on the east side of the public square. He did a heavy and paying business for a year or two, when he sent his clerk—or, perhaps, part owner—to New York to purchase a new stock of goods, who claimed to have been robbed of about seven thousand dollars as he landed from the steamboat in New York. city. This so weakened Warner's capital that, after a few years, he gave up the business here, and removed to Trumbull county.
A few years after, Thomas Brown and Robinson built a store on the west side of the square, and did good business for several years. They have been followed by Daniel Warner, Samuel Hathaway, J. T. Field, and 0. P. Quiggle, together with two or three others, who did business on a small scale for brief periods. Our present merchant, 0. P. Quiggle, has the confidence of the community, as a fair and honorable deale1, and is doing a safe and good business for a country store.
SOCIETIES.
On February 5, 1875, there was an organization formed, afterwards known as Hambden Division, No. 168, Sons of Temperance, by A. M. Collins, with a roll of fifty-five members. The first officers were: J. W. Brewer, IV. P.; Lu. Groves, W. A,; H. F. Stocking, R. S.; Ella Mead, A. R. S.; W. H. Osborne, F. S.; H. F. Mead, Treas.; Rev. William Potter, Chap.; George Salter, Con.; Mary Baker, A. C.; I. C. Wemple, 0. S.; Mary Salter, I. S.; J. N. Shattuck, P. W. P.; H. F. Stocking, Deputy. The division prospered until seventy-eight gentlemen and sixty-seven ladies had signed the roll. The division has met regularly every Friday evening, and up to the present time there have been but two deaths, namely: Allice Harrison and Mattie Treat. Rev. Mr. Potter has been its chaplain from the first. He is now eighty-three years old. So zealously did its members work that when the Murphy movement came up nearly two-thirds of the inhabitants of Hambden signed the pledge. The order is still in a healthy and flourishing condition. The present officers are: J. Halderman, W. P.; Mrs. J. Halderman, W. A.; I. C. Wemple, R. S.; Mrs. I. C. Wemple, A. R.; Frank Worthington, F. S.; Edwin Betts, Treas.; Rev. William Potter, Chap.; I. C. Brewer, Con.; Miss Effie Wemple, A. C.; Eliza Worthington, J. S.; Mrs. Edwin Betts, 0. S.; R. M. Sheldon, P. W. P.; J. W. Brewer, D. G. W. P.
A grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was organized in December, 1876, with forty-four members. The present number of members is fifty-two. They have met regularly every Tuesday evening since their organization. They built a fine hall in 1877, about twenty feet by forty, two stories high. The upper story is finished off for the meetings of the order. The Sons of Temperance also occupy this hall for their meetings. The hall cost about one thousand dollars. The first officers of Hambden Grange were: L K. Locy, master; Edwin Betts, overseer; C. D. Martindale, secretary. The present officers are: L. K. Locy, master; J. H. Valentine, overseer; J. Halderman, secretary.
A "Farmers' Club" was organized early in the year 1877. Its meetings are held monthly, with a good attendance always—often crowded. The club numbers nearly forty male members, and about the same number of females. The meetings are attended with much interest and profit.
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MECHANICS.
Addison Stockham, blacksmith; J. A. King, carriage maker and blacksmith; Silas Thayer, carriage maker and blacksmith; George H. Hammond, wagon maker; E. A. King, wagon maker; Chas. E. Hammond, photograph artist.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths in Hambden to the close of 1874 amounted to five hundred and fifty; in the year 1875 there were nineteen, and in 1876 there were fourteen, making a total to the close of 1876 of five hundred and eighty-three.
ADDITIONAL ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS.
Some time in the early settlement of the township, Deacon Pomeroy started in the morning to find his cattle, that had strayed away. He searched the forest through the east part of Hambden, through Thompson and Montville, but found them not. As he was corning home, darkness overtook him near where the Montville road crosses Bates creek, and, at the same time, a pack of hungry wolves, which had probably been following his track for some time, waiting for the darkness, came upon him, with murderous intent. The nearest house was John Quiggle's, a mile east. The deacon could do nothing but spring into a wild plum tree near him, and wait the result. The wolves surrounded the tree, and stood guard faithfully till daylight, at times gnawing at the foot of the tree, with just such howlings as wolves know how to make. The deacon halloed, and was heard at Mr. Quiggle's, but there happened to be no one at home that night except Mrs. Quiggle, and the little children. She knew the wolves were about him, but could do nothing but go to the door and blow the conch shell, and the deacon would answer, and they kept it up at intervals through the night, until he came to them in the morning after the wolves left him, almost famished with hunger and fatigue. The deacon said he thought that old conch shell made the sweetest music he ever heard.
At one time Mrs. Margaret King (Aunt Peggy, as she was generally called), went from home on horseback, and, returning through the woods, she saw a little black animal lying curled up beside the road. She said, "it was such an innocent, harmless looking little creature, she would just get off her horse and take him up and carry him home with her." The moment she touched him, he gave a characteristic squall, and the next moment the cracking of brush, ten or twelve rods off, revealed the whole situation. Aunt Peggy dropped her cub and sprang upon her horse, clothes-pin fashion, and bent her way homeward as fast as the old mare could carry her, without looking back, and she said: "how I ever got onto my horse Massy knows, I don't." The bear, when she found her cub safe, of course gave up the chase.
When Francis Stocking was a boy of ten or twelve years of age, James Bronson, of Chardon promised to make him a pair of shoes, and have them done on such a day. Frank started for his shoes at the time agreed upon, and went all the way to Chardon--nearly four miles—barefooted, with the snow two inches deep, got his shoes, put them on, and returned home. What would the boy of to-day do in such a case?
HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES IN HAMBDEN.*
Having been one of the young pioneers of Geauga county, particularly of the township of Hambden, and having resided in the county over seventy years, I have been requested by Judge Taylor, president of the Geauga County Pioneer association, and historian for said society and county, to add some items and incidents to what has been presented by the historian, of Hambden township.
*By Noah Pomeroy, esq.
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Mr. Maynard (historian) states that there was a tribe of Indians encamped in the south part of the township, in the early settlement of the township, of which I am cognizant. He does not give much, if any, description of their habits and manner of living. For the benefit of the younger readers of the history of Geauga county, I will give them some of their habits, etc.
They lived in "huts" composed of poles, which they cut from the forest with their tomahawks, set up slanting, in a circle, the upper ends being fastened together with bark peeled from the basswood or elm trees; the circle enclosed a space of some fifteen feet or more in diameter. These poles formed a frame, which they covered with bark peeled from large trees. In the middle of this circle or hut, they built a fire, if needed, the smoke of which goes out of the top, a hole being left for that purpose. In cool weather they sat or lay by the fire on the bare ground. They sustained themselves mostly by hunting and begging from the white people. The Indian spends his time in indolence when he is not hunting. The squaws made baskets and decorated them with the juice of poke berries, and exchanged them with the white people for food of any kind. They made their wants known by motions and signs, in which they were so expert that the people seldom failed to understand them. My father's cabin was not a great distance from their encampment, and they visited our house very frequently. Their wardrobe was very scanty; many of the older ones wore no clothing except a "breechclout" about their loins. Most of them wore blankets, with a belt around the waist.
My mother was a very hospitable woman. The Indians and squaws soon discovered that, and were not slow to make their wants known to her by motions. They were fond of food cooked after the manner of white people, although their (the Indians) manner of cooking was very crude. They cooked their venison and other wild meat without salt or any other seasoning. One morning a large burly fellow came in while the family were at breakfast. After the family were through, the Indian was invited to partake. The substantials of the meal were fried pork and potatoes. After he had satisfied his appetite, he made signs that he would like what was left to take with him. My mother, understanding his motions, readily complied with his request, when, to her • amazement, he took the plate containing the fried pork and grease, and opened his blanket, next to his skin, above his belt, and emptied the contents of the plate into his bosom, then left, seemilgly contented and happy.
On another occasion a pert, young looking squaw came in with a stark-naked pappoose upon her back. My mother, in the kindness of her heart, recognized it as a human being, and generously supplied it with clothing from the wardrobe of some of her younger children. The squaw manifested much pleasure in having her pappoose dressed like a white child. After a few days the same squaw, with the same child, came again, the child as nude as before. The squaw blade signs that she would like to have it dressed the second time. I think my mother did not comply with her request.
Another incident occurred in which the writer was the principal actor, showing the difficulty of traveling from one place to another in those early times. When a lad of thirteen years of age, I was permitted by my parents to visit a sister some ten miles away, in the township of Thompson. Mounted upon a trusty horse, accompanied by a faithful dog, I started on my journey, full of happy anticipations. I followed the State road as far as Hambden center, where a newer road crossed the State road, leading from Chardon to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, called the "Jefferson road." This road had not been cleared out, except some of the underbrush had been removed. There was not a clearing or a dwelling for the first six miles from Hambden center. At the end of the six -miles I came to a log cabin occupied by a man by the flame of Sumner, with
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his family. I enquired the way and distance to Mr. Joseph Bartlette's, my brother-in-law. Mr. Sumner told me it was two miles to Mr. Bartlette's. I must follow the Jefferson road one mile, and then turn to the left and follow a trail one mile, which would take me to Bartlette's. It was now nearly sundown. I continued on my way as directed, in good spirits. I went the first mile all right. When I came to the trail which I was to follow, it was nearly dark. I attempted to follow the trail, but owing to the blindness of the trail, and the darkness of the night, I soon found myself bewildered, and probably some distance from the trail. I took the precaution not to wander too far from it, and halted in the lonely wilderness. I halloed with the full strength of my voice, hoping that some one would hear me and come to my relief, but heard nothing but the echo of my own voice. I sat upon my horse, fearing to dismount, on account of the bears and wolves which inhabited those lonely forests, until I became tired and sleepy, when I hitched my horse to a sapling, and then went a suitable distance from him, so that he would not step on me if I slept. I caused my faithful dog to lie down, and then clasped my arms around his neck, laid my head upon him, and soon fell asleep. Some time in the course of the night the dog sprang furiously from my arms (which awakened me), and barked furiously, as though he was in close contact with some wild animal, probably a wolf or wolves. He continued his barking (though with less fierceness) during the remainder of the night. I scrambled to my horse and mounted him, and sat upon him until daylight. When morning came I knew not where I was, or what way to get out of the woods. I waited until the sun arose (it being clear weather), and rode toward the sun. After riding some time I struck a trail at right angle. Not knowing where either way would lead me, I fortunately took the right, which led me out to Mr. Sumner's, where I was the evening before. Mr. Sumner kindly put me on the right track. I then arrived safely at my destination. This occurred in the month of October, and there was a heavy frost that night. I am of the opinion that the young pioneers suffered in those early times perhaps as much as the older ones.
MILITARY ROSTER.
The following volunteered under the call for seventy-five thousand men, in 1861:
Samuel Hathaway, second lieutenant.
N. B. Manny.
A. T. Brown.
M. V. Eggleston.
L. A. Housworth.
T. C. Parsons.
0. G. Thayer.
Amenzo Brown.
L. W. Housworth.
H. B. Hunt.
H. F. Sheldon.
M. J. Whitney.
W. A. Bagg.
Two, at least, of the above re-enlisted: Parsons in the 42d 0. V. I, and Bagg In the 105th 0. V. I. The following enlisted under subsequent calls for volunteers:
E. R. Aylworth, Co. K, 18th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1865, served three months, and died June 1862, and served three years.
J. W. Brewer, Co. E, 105th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years.
W. A. Bagg, Co. H, 105th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and died at Murfreesboro.
M. V. Brown, Co. G. 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, served four years, and died in October 1865.
Henry T. Brown enlisted in 1864, served one year, and died October 8, 1864.
H. Bosley; no record; died.
Austin Cook; no record at hand; died in service.
A. Corby, Co. G, 41st O. V. I., enlisted in 1861and served four years.
R. Cornish, Co. G, first 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, served two years, and was killed in action, in 1863.
S. Dickens, Co. . 41st 0. V. I,, enlisted in 1861, served six months, and died November 8, 1862.
G. H. Hubbard, Co. K. 8th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1865, and served six months.
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R. W. Hathaway, Co. G, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, and served four years.
Silo P. Warriner, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I.
E. A. King, Co. E, 1osth 0. V. I., enlisted in 862, and served three years.
0. P. Quiggle, Co. E., 105th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years.
0. A. Shattuck, Co. C., 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years.
Philo Searls, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, served two years, and was killed in battle in September, 1863.
C. M. Turner, Co. I), 177th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1864, and served one year.
0. Whitney, Co. G, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, served six months, and died in March, 1862.
D. Worthington, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861; died.
John Quiggle, Co. 0. 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, died since the war.
Sherman Pease, Co. E, 105th 0, V, I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years.
Geo. Stocking, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861.
I. C. Brewer, Co. K, 18th 0. V. 1., enlisted in 1865, and served six months.
Chas. Stocking, Co. E. 105th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served six months.
T. H. Maynard, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861, and served three years; died since the war.
Augustus Treat was in the service; but I have no record.
G. D. Colby, 41st 0. V. I., served four years.
Elias Lannum, 41st 0. V. I., served three years.
E. F. Adams, 41st 0. V. I.; discharged.
Henry S. Young, 41st 0. V. I.
C. Z. Sisson, 2d lieutenant, first 0. V. I.
T. J. Gray, 41st 0. V. I.
S. D. Hale; unknown.
Elias Haines, 41st 0. V, I. ; unknown.
W. H. Hale, Co. E, 105th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and was killed in battle, October 8, 1862. Henry P. Warriner, Co. G, 41st 0. V. I.
Philo Lewis, Co. G, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 1861; died.
Chas. Sheldon, Co. F, rosth 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years.
M. L. Searls, Co. 0, 0. V. I., died in service.
D. Scads, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I., enlisted in 186t, and died in service.
F. Stebbins; died.
J. F. Treat, master commander of gunboat, enlisted in 1862, served ten months, and died October 20, 1863.
Geo. Watts, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. I,, enlisted in 1861; died at home.
C. G. Young, 146th 0, V. 1., enlisted in 1863, served eight months; died.
M. R. Parsons, Co. 0, 24th Artillery, enlisted in t861, and served three years.
B. F. Pease, 2d Heavy Artillery.
J. R. Stocking, Co. E 105th O. V. I., enlisted
Fayette Dickens, Co. 6. 41st O. V. I., enlisted in 1861; enlisted second time in artillery.
L. G. Griste, Co. E, to3th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served one year and seven months.
M. I.. Maynard, Co. E, tosth 0. V. I., enlisted in 1862, and served three years,
W. H. Eaton, Co. E, 177th 0. V. I., enlisted in 1864, and served one year.
J. S. Johnson, Co. 0, 41st 0. V. 1., enlisted in 1861, and served three years; wounded in the head.
Horton Smith, 41st 0. V. I.; died.
H. R. Beach, 41st 0. V. I.; discharged.
D. W. Young, 41st 0. V. I.
J. E. Hathaway, regiment unknown.
James E. Gray, 41st 0. V. I.
S. C. Mosher; unknown.
A. L. Valentine; unknown.
Ebenezer Kent, Revolutionary soldier.