HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 75 country and connected with all of the early history of Warren. That this founder and philanthropist should have been forgotten by the descendants of his companions is almost inexcusable. He gave land upon which the court house stands, upon which the first jail and the first city building were built, the whole tract that skirts the river from the west side of the Market Street bridge to the Quinby homestead land, and yet not one monument, park, bronze tablet, or street, except a small, unimportant one, bears his name. The present Tod avenue ran through his farm and should have been called Quinby street. Some time ago an effort was made to change Parkman street to Quinby. People residing on that street objected. They were new people and had not been taught by the press and the older citizens who Mr. Quinby was or how much their town was indebted to him. For many years the land west of the river, in the neighborhood of West Market street, was known as Quinby Hill, but even that term has been obliterated by "the West Side." It would seem exceedingly appropriate to call the land between the river and Main street, upon which the city hall and the monument stand. Quinby Park. After Mr. Quinby took up his residence in Warren he had eight children, Elizabeth, William, Mary G., James, Warren, Ephraim, Charles A. and George. Ammi Quinby died in 1833. Nancy, the oldest daughter, married Joseph Larwell, of Wooster, and lived to be more than a hundred years old. Mary married Mr. Spellman and lived at Wooster. She was the second child born in Warren township. Elizabeth, who married Dr. Heaton, lived and died in Warren. William was recorder of Trumbull County and a merchant lived all his life in Warren. James was a merchant, and lived in New Lisbon. George lived in Wooster and acquired a great fortune. Warren and Samuel lived in Warren, as did also Charles. Ephraim Quinby was not only a real estate dealer and a farmer, but an associate judge. He was one of the original stockholders in the Western Reserve Bank. He and his family were members of the early Baptist church, and but for his influence and that of his family connections this church might have gone out of existence. Ephraim Quinby's children and his grandchildren married into some of the oldest families in the county, and he has today a large number of collateral descendants. His son Samuel was a very prosperous man and occupied the same place in the community as his father had before 76 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY him. He was a member of several of the early business houses, was publisher of the Trump of Fame, was the receiver of monies derived from the sale of public lands, and when the land office for this district was at Wooster, Ohio, he lived there. He returned to Warren in 1840. He was secretary and treasurer of the Ohio and Pennsylvania Canal and was director of the Western Reserve Bank in 1817. He was always interested in politics, was state senator in '44 and '45 and again in '62 and '63. In 1819 he married Lucy Potter of Steubenville, Ohio. He had two daughters, Elizabeth (who married William Stiles, Lucy Stiles Cobb being her daughter, and Elizabeth Cobb, her granddaughter) and Abagail Haymaker, who is still living in Wooster. Mrs. Lucy Quinby died and Mr. Quinby in 1847 married Emma Bennett Brown, a widow, and a sister of Mrs. C. W. Tyler, who was the widow of Calvin Sutliff, and Mrs. Emily Bennett Hutchins. George H. Quinby was a son by the second marriage and has lived all his life in Warren, and until within a few years in the old Quinby home. The mother of Ephraim Quinby was Miss Rittenhouse. Her people built and operated the first printing press west of the Alleghany mountains. They made telescopes, light-houses, etc. She was interred in the Oakwood cemetery among the first who were laid away there. The second party to come to Warren was also from Washington county. It consisted of Henry Lane Sr., two of his grandchildren,, the children of Benjamin (Benjamin Lane and Lina Lane Greiner live in Warren now), John Lane, Edward Jones, stepson of John Lane, and Meshack Case (the Misses Mary and Harriet Stevens, the grandaughters of Mr. Case, have resided in Warren all their lives). Of these two parties, Mr. Quinby, Mr. Lane and Mr. Case, afterwards, by themselves and their descendants, figured prominently in the development of Warren. Henry Lane Sr., who died in 1844 at the age of 78, bought land in the lower part of town, a portion of which has been in the family ever since. The son, John Lane, and Edward Jones, planted corn and lived in the Young cabin. Mr. Case made no selection of land at this time. His decisions and those of his son and grandson were usually judicious and were not arrived at without careful thought. He returned to Washington county but came back again in August, when he bought 198 acres of Richard Storer. He cleared two acres of land and put up a HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 77 cabin, went back to Washington county in September for his family. Mr. Ebenezer King Jr., Mr. John Leavitt, and William Crooks and wife, all of Connecticut, the two former owning land in this new country, came during the summer of 1799. King and Leavitt made only a short stay. These were the first settlers from Connecticut. Crooks raised a cabin, made a clearing, in the western part of the present Warren township, and sowed wheat. This is supposed to have been the first wheat raised in the township, probably within the present limits of Trumbull County. In the fall, Mr. Henry Lane Sr. brought with him his son, Benjamin, a boy of fourteen. On the horse which the lad rode were one hundred little apple trees, which were immediately set out. These bore apples for many years, and some are still standing, one in the yard of Mr. Charles Wanamaker on South Main street. Mr. Lane and both his sons went home for the winter. The Young cabin, which was now occupied more or less most of the time, was taken possession of in the fall by Edward Jones, whose wife had joined him. Up to this time all the settlers had been from Washington county, Pennsylvania. In September, Benjamin Davison (the great-grandfather of Mr. S. C. Iddings) of Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, bought land below the Fusselman farm next to Mr. Case. He put up a cabin and went home when the weather became cold. Sometime during this year,. range number 4 began to be called Warren in honor of Moses Warren, the surveyor who ran the third range line. Quinby and Storer in the autumn went to Washington county for their families and as soon as the ground was thoroughly frozen, returned with them. During the last days of the year of 1799 people hying in Warren were, Ephraim Quinby, his wife Ammi, children Nancy, Samuel and William (William six months old, rode with mother) ; Richard Storer, his wife and three children ; Francis Carolton, John, William, Margaret and Peter, his children ; William Fenton, wife and two children; Edward Jones and wife; William Crooks and wife; Jonathan and Josiah Church. There were two or three workmen who are mentioned as "hands," but when counting all, there were not more than thirty people. Warren is situated so far east in the township that people on the west edge of Howland have been associated from the beginning with Warren people. In 1799 John H. Adgate settled in the southwest corner of Howland 78 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY township, and from that day to this some of his descendants have lived in that neighborhood. His grandson John is associated with his son Frank in the greenhouse business. The early Adgates had large families and these descendants married into old families, so that there have been at times over fifty people living in Trumbull County who were connected with the early Adgate family. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones bought land on the west side of the river where some of the Dallys lived for many years. Here was born the first child in the township, possibly in the county. Her name was Hannah, and her grandmother was Mrs. Henry Lane, who was a widow when Mr. Lane married her. Some writers say that a. son of 111 r. Jones was the first white child born in this territory, but this is an error. Hannah married William Dutchin and died early, 1820. In the springtime of 1800 came Henry Lane Sr., his wife, and their children, John, Benjamin, Asa, Catharine, Annie, and Henry Jr., who was one of the older of the children and who was married. At this time came also Charles Daily, Jennie, his wife, and several children; Isaac Dally, Effie, his wife, and several children; John Daily, wife and child; Meshack Case, Magdalen, his wife, Elizabeth; Leonard, Catherine, Mary, Sarah. Henry Lane was a remarkable man for his time. He had the respect of his associates, was elected to the legislature, and materially aided in the deyelopment of Warren. He was a man of remarkable physical strength. It was said he could whip any man in the county, and that whenever anybody got a little too full of whiskey and offered to "clean out" the crowd, he always excluded Henry Lane. He was present at the Salt Springs tragedy but took no part in it. On several occasions when the Indians were disturbing, he was in the party resenting the attack. At one time he had been after the Indians and learning that they were in a very bad mood, he returned to his house (which was nearer to the Salt Spring trail than those of some other settlers) to look after his family. Gathering them together the wife remembered that one of the children had been in the garden. She therefore ran, found her asleep, picked her up, and they all proceeded. A little way from the house was a cornfield, and here the family hid, and when they came to realize it one of the little girls was missing. The mother felt sure that she too was in the garden, so the father left the family in the field and went back HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 79 for the little girl. Sure enough she had been sleeping in the garden, but the Indians, as soon as Mr. and Mrs. Lane were out of reach, had scalped her. It does not seem possible to us of today, as we drive on the old state road over the shallow Mahoning, that the time ever was when a gentle little girl, in her father's garden on the bank of that river, could have lost her life at the hands of a red man with his tomahawk. Mr. Lane had to leave the body lying there in order to protect his family and, huddling them together, he bid them march to the fort (just where this was the writer' does not know nor do the members of the family who tell this tale) between two and three miles distant while he, with his gun in hand, walked backwards in order to keep his eye on the enemy which was following. However, no harm came to the rest of the party. Of Henry Lane's children, Henry was connected with the early business life of Warren. Facts in regard to him will be found in the chapter on old homes. Asa returned to Pennsylvania in 1820 and died there. Catharine married John Tait of Lordstown ; Annie married Samuel Phillips of Austintown. John married Mary Caldwell of Mansfield, living there a short time and coming back to Weathersfield where he engaged in farming. He spent the last days in Warren. Benjamin, who came on horseback bearing the apple trees, was not married until he was fifty-six, that is, in 1841. His wife was Hannah Cook, an English woman. They had three children, Henry J., who lived on the old farm, was always interested in family traditions and now lives in Kansas; Benjamin F., who married Mary Ackley of Bloomfield and has three daughters and a son ; and Lina, who married Samuel Greiner and resides on Thorn street, this city. She has no children. Mrs. Lane died when Lina was a baby and Miss Tait, of Lordstown, gave her a mother's attention and a mother's love. Mr. Lane built an addition to the Young cabin. This was standing within the remembrance of people born as late as 1850. As the family of Meshack Case preserve their records, writers of the history of Trumbull County, from the beginning, have been able to quote from the manuscript of Leonard Case as follows : "The usual incidents attended the trip until crossing the south line of the Reserve, at 41st north latitude. From 80 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY there to Yellow Creek, in Poland, was a very muddy road, called the swamp. At Poland the settlement had been begun. Judge Turhand Kirtland and family were living on the east side, and Jonathan Fowler and his wife, who was a sister of the judge, kept tavern on the west side. Thence our way was through the woods to the dwelling of a family named Stevens, who had been there three years or more. At their house we stayed over night. The wife's name was Hannah, and with her our family had been previously acquainted. She said that during those two years she had not seen the face of a white woman. Two children had been born in this family at the crossing of the river near Youngstown, before April, 1800. Next morning we passed up the west side of the river (for want of means to cross it) to the place where James Hillman, who lived on the high ground over against Youngstown; thence through the woods over the road made by the Connecticut Land Company, to the Salt Springs. At that place some settlers, Joseph McMahon among the rest, were engaged in making salt. From there we passed (through woods) to the cabin and clearing which Benjamin Davison had made on the north one-half of Lot 42; then on, one quarter of a mile, to a path that turned east to the Fusselman place, on the south one-half of Lot 35, and thence to the residence of Richard Storer, arriving there at 4:00 p. m. on the 14th of April. After our passage through the woods and mud, the leeks on the Indian field made a most beautiful appearance." The Case family was of Holland extraction, mixed with Irish blood. Of the family, Elizabeth married James Ellis, removed to Kentucky and when a widow returned here, where she passed the rest of her days. Catherine married Daniel Kerr of Painesville, where they were identified with the early history of that town. Mary married Benjamin Stevens, spent her whole life in Warren, was a teacher, a musician, an excellent mother and citizen. Sarah married Cyrus Bosworth and spent all her life in Warren near the spot which her father chose for the family home. Jane died in childhood ; Zophar resided in Cleveland ; Leonard was the best known of the family, probably because of a misfortune which overtook him shortly after he came to Trumbull County. It was indeed a misfortune, because at that time it was a great thing for men to be able to perform HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 81 hard physical labor. Leonard Case was lame and soon made up his mind that if he was going to take a place in the world he would have to make unusual effort. He became a clerk in the land office, was associated with General Simon Perkins as clerk, read and studied constantly, prepared himself for surveying. The work which he did was so exact that John S. Edwards, the first county recorder, induced him to study law. This he did in addition to his regular work. He soon acquired a great deal of knowledge concerning the Connecticut Land Company, the Western Reserve, and when he became collector of taxes of non-residents he added to his knowledge. In 1816 when the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie was formed, Mr. Case was elected cashier. James Kingsbury, of whom we read in the first chapters of this history, recommended Mr. Case to this position because he wrote a good hand and was a good accountant. Cleveland was then a small town and this did not occupy all his attention. He never was a trial lawyer, but he used his knowledge in adjusting business differences, particularly as to land, was frugal, and bought land so that at his death he was one of the rich men of Cleveland. He was at one time mayor of Cleveland, and later an alderman. In 1820 the bank failed, but was afterwards reorganized and Leonard Case was its president. Among the first frame warehouses that were put up on the river front was one erected by Mr. Case. He had two sons, William, who was a student and somewhat of a recluse, and who died without marrying, and Leonard Jr., who inherited the property of his father and displayed such business qualities as to add largely to it. He was a genial man, popular with a few friends and left a large amount of money to his relatives, besides endowing the Case School of Applied Sciences, Case Library, and contributing generously to philanthropic work in Cleveland. He never lived in Warren and is therefore not identified with Trumbull County history except through family connections. In the spring of 1800 Benjamin Davison, with his wife Annie, and a large family, settled in Warren. The names of these children were George Liberty, Mary, Prudence, Ann, Samuel, William, Walter, James, Betsey, Benjamin. Mary, the eldest daughter, married Samuel Chesney and they have three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren now living in Warren. About the same time John Leavitt, with his family settled in .Warren, building a house on the west side of Main street, Vol. I-6 82 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY which afterwards was a tavern. One of his daughters became Mrs. Robert Irwin, an early Warren merchant, and another married Wheeler Lewis. Humphrey, afterwards a lawyer, located in Steubenville, and later became United States district judge. Albert, the youngest, lived in Warren, while John, the second son, in 1805, bought a farm about the center of Warren township. He was known as "squire John," and was one of the early county treasurers. He died in 1815. Samuel Leavitt, who was the second of his generation to settle in Warren, came here to investigate in 1800, and purchased land near the farm of his nephew, John, Jr. Two years later Samuel brought his wife, who had been a widow, Abigail. Kent Austin. The Leavitt family, the Austin family, the Parsons family and the Freeman family were connected through this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Leavitt had one child, Lynda, who married Judge Francis Freeman. Their son, Samuel, who was long a banker and business man in Warren, took his second name, Leavitt, from his mother. The wife of Samuel Leavitt died in 1817, and he married Margaret Kibbee Parsons, the widowed mother of George Parsons Sr. Samuel Leavitt died in 1830, his first wife in 1816, and his second wife in 1861. On the Leavitt farm was the first race track in Trumbull County. It was on the south side of the road opposite the present home of Nelhe Austin Pendleton. The grandstand stood at the head of the Lovers Lane road and the judges could see down that lane for a long way. A great deal of rare sport was had on this course, Messrs. Harmon, Leavitt and Collins being the most interested. The building of the canal spoiled this course. The judge's stand was left standing, and decaying dropped to pieces little by little. Many of the residents of Warren remember the lower part of this building in its last stages, not knowing what it was. Later, race tracks were located in other parts of the county, but the races were for trotting horses, and not for running. These tracks were a good way from town, and after a while the racing was done on Mahoning avenue. The horses started at a point in the neighborhood of the old toll gate and stopped about where the city hall now stands. This was a mile accurately measured. Because of the bend in Mahoning Avenue in front of the present Fitch property it was necessary to station a man there so that the time keeper at the lower end could know when the start was made. When, therefore, the flag was dropped at the start, the man at the bend HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 83 dropped a flag also, and the timer at the city hall thus knew the race was on. The first horse making a mile in three minutes was one owned by Mr. Collins, and the race took place on this track. The enlistment of the young men in the army of 1860 put an end to these sports. After a time the Agricultural Society had a track in connection with the fairs. Enoch Leavitt was the third of the Leavitts who brought his family to Ohio, and he settled in Leavittsburg. 1 le was buried there in 1815, and Enoch Leavitt Jr. was a substantial citizen of Trumbull County. He accumulated about a thousand acres of land in Warren township. he had six children and died when only fifty-two years old. In order to keep the information in regard to these early families clear, we mention here Benajah Austin, who was the son of Abigail Kent Austin before her marriage to Samuel Leavitt, and a. half-brother to Mrs. Judge Francis Freeman. He married Olive Harmon, and after living in the neighborhood of Leavittsburg he moved into the house now occupied by rs. Nellie Austin Pendleton. Benajah Austin was identified with much of the early history of Trumbull County. Twelve years Ile was commissioner. He was deputy sheriff one year. and sheriff two years. He had six children, Hiram, who died at Chardon, Julius, who lived in Braceville, Enos, who lived at Youngstown, Amelia, who married S. A. Potter. Benajah, and Harmon. Benajah was one of the early doctors, but practiced only a little time because of ill health. Harmon was the most widely known of all the family. He was born at the old homestead in 1817, lived there•until 1570, moved to Warren, where he died a few years ago. Ile married Minerva Sackett (January 11, 1842). He was interested in politics, in the welfare of the community, a leader in the Disciple church, a prosperous business man, and probably at his home have been entertained more public visitors than at any house in town save the Kinsman homestead. Mrs. Austin was a beautiful character. She had the love and respect of everyone who knew her. Her children and intimate friends adored her. She was courageous, conscientious, and capable. She had three children, Nellie, Harmon, and Mary. The two younger live in Cleveland, and Nellie, with her husband, W. C. Pendleton, her son Austin with his wife and children, now occupy the house built by Benajah and lately remodeled. Phineas Leffingwell and his family, who came to Warren 84 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY in 1800, were identified with the early history. There are, however, none of his descendants here at this writing. The taxpayers of Warren for the year 1804 were : John Adgate_______ Meunaga, Calvin Austin, Samuel Burnett, Cornelius Barker, Jesse Powell, Joshua Brown, Steven Baldwin, Noah Brockway, William Crooks, Robert Caldwell, Jonathan Crurch, Meshack Case, William Haniday, Topher Carnes, Charles Dailey, James Deimscumb, Isaac Dailey, Samuel Donalds, Nathan Dunn, Benjamin Davis, Jacob Earle, John Ewalt, Jessie Ellis, John Earle, William Fenton, Robert Freeman, James Grimes, William Galbreath, William Hand, Henry Harsh, Reuben Harmon, Ezekial Hover, James Eaton, Jesse Holiday, Thomas Jefferson, John Kinney, George Loveless, Asa Lane, Henry Lane Sr., Henry Lane, Samuel Leavitt, Enoch Leavitt Sr., John Leavitt, Esq., Phencia Leffingwell, Asehel Mills, Delaun Mills, Isaac Mills, William Morman, William McWilliams, George McGat, Netterfield, Joshua Ott, George Phelphs, Samuel Pew, Thomas Pricer, Ephraim and Samuel Quinby, Joshua Quigley, John Reeves, James Stanford, B. Stowe, Nathaniel Stanley, William Vance, James Ward, Mr. Wetherby, Benjamin Williams, Urial Williams, James Wilson, Francis Windall, Simon Perkins, John S. Edwards, David Robertson, Robert Irwin, Thomas Ross, Henry Wright, Samuel Chesney, James Scott, Francis Carlton, Walter Brewster, Ebenezer Sheldon. Ephraim Quinby's tax was the heaviest, $7.40; Walter Brewster's the lightest, 7 cents. From the time the first tract of land was bought by Parsons to 1800, a most unusual condition had existed in Old Trumbull County. In the beginning it belonged to Connecticut and Connecticut had jurisdiction over it. After a time Connecticut sold it to a company, but naturally as that company was not a government, it could not transfer its legal jurisdiction. The United States was asked to assume this jurisdiction, but it refused for obvious reasons. So, for nearly five years the people of Old Trumbull County were without law, or law-makers. This fact was not so strange as was the fact that the settlers proceeded in exactly the same way they would have done had they had law. They bought land, made contracts, got married, and col- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 85 lected monies due them, without any sort of officer to authorize the proceedings. Once a tax collector came into this region, but he was laughed at and advised to leave, which he gladly did. The governor of the state had erected several counties including portions of the Western Reserve, but he was not considered to have authority in the matter. So much irregularity and uncertainty had there been that finally, in April, 1800, the United States released all its claim to the land of the Western Reserve, provided Connecticut would release all her claim of jurisdiction. The matter was finally settled on the 30th of May, 1800. The niceties of the law question contained in this early history are apparent, and all lovers of law would do well to examine them. It is a temptation to note them here. On July 10, 1800, the whole tract of the Western Reserve was erected into a county, named Trumbull for the governor of Connecticut. The Trumbull family was a noted one. Jonathan Trumbull was governor of Connecticut for fourteen years, beginning 1769. It was from him that the term "brother Jonathan" was received. Benjamin Trumbull was a minister of reputation and published a History of Connecticut which was not only valuable as to facts, but to style as well John Trumbull was a poet, while another John Trumbull was a painter of good repute, his most important works being those in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington. It was the brother of this painter, Gov. Jonathan Trumbull Jr., for whom the citizens of New Connecticut named the county. At the time of the erection of Trumbull County, Judge Samuel H. Parsons, Judge James M. Varnum, and Judge John Cleves Symmes were the judges, and these men, together with the governor, St. Clair, and the secretary, Winthrop Sargent, decided upon Warren as the county seat, and the governor appointed the necessary officials. The selection of Warren was not made for any other reason than those which prevail in like selections today, namely, that more men of influence lived in Warren than in Youngstown. Judge Young, to be sure, was a strong character, but in things so large as great politics he stood alone. John Leavitt, Ebenezer King, Judge Calvin Pease, and some others, who had land interests in the vicinity of Warren, were not only men of strength, but they came from Suffield, Connecticut, the home of Hon. Gideon Granger, then postmaster general of the United States. The same sort of strings were pulled in those days as now, and because of the help of Gideon Granger 86 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY at this time and because of his family relation (he was a brother-in-law of Calvin Pease), the people of Trumbull county, in the vicinity of Warren, have always thankfully remembered him. There were no telegraphs, no regular mails, and Trumbull County had been established some days before the people knew the fact, or Warren people knew that they were living at the county seat. John Stark Edwards, the first recorder of Trumbull, was one of the most brilliant men of that day. A sketch of his life is given in Bench and Bar, since he was among the most successful if not the most successful of the early attorneys. The following refers to his domestic life and is given here. since the facts narrated occurred at this time. There has come into the possession of the writer a little book printed for private distribution only—" A Sketch of the Life of Louisa Maria Montgomery," by her granddaughter, Louisa Maria Edwards. It contains letters from the family of John S. Edwards, some of his own letters, letters of his wife and her family, and is one of the most entertaining and interest. ing volumes we have ever read. Mrs. Edwards spent a lifetime and a long one at that in the Mahoning Valley, was a woman of very strong character, and her association with Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Tod, Mrs. Kinsman and other valiant pioneers showed how well she was thought of in .the community. It seems after John Stark Edwards bad spent the summer in Mesopotamia, cutting down a few trees "to let the sun in," he returned to Connecticut for the winter. In 1800, as we have seen, he was commissioned recorder of Trumbull County, holding the office until 1830. On June 1, 1801, "while writing this I am seated in a log house on an old bench and beside of a white oak table. all, fortunately, clean. * * * * * I found my settlement in a prosperous condition. Another year it will be able to support itself." August, 1801, "My settlement is doing finely. We have this day had a lecture, delivered by a clergyman. There were about forty present." This is the first record we have of a lecture on the Western Reserve. July 7, 1802, "I have a large cross-leg table and chairs enough for all the family to sit on and one for a stranger who chances to visit me. We cook, eat, and drink in the same HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 87 apartment. Food tastes as well, and sleep is as sweet, in a log as in a frame house." July 14, 1803. "I was in Warren on the 4th of July where I attended a ball. You may judge of my surprise at meeting a very considerable company, all of whom were well dressed with neatness and in fashion, some of them elegantly. The ladies generally dressed well; some of them would have been admired for their ease and grace in a New Haven ball room. It was held on the same spot of ground where four years since there was scarcely a trace of human hand. or anything within fifteen miles of it. We improved well the occasion; began at two o'clock in the afternoon on Monday and left the room a little before sunrise on Tuesday morning. We dance but seldom, which is our apology." "I am heartily tired of living alone. I must and am determined I will be married. Things are likely to take such a course as will give us a tolerable society in this place, where I must eventually settle down." “I am heartily tired of living alone and am determined to marry as soon as I can find a woman who will have me that will answer." Editor's Note.—Mr. Edwards seemed to be an exception to the men of his time, and in fact to some men of this time, since they are more apt to say, "I am heartily tired of living alone and am determined to marry as soon as I can find a woman that suits me." His brother in writing to him in 1802 says, "The resolution which you have entered into to take a wife I highly approve, but I fear you will find it difficult to suit yourself. I cannot say that I know a girl whom I should seriously wish von to connect. yourself with. There are hundreds and thousands of pretty. smirk-faced girls to be found, but they are far from being calculated to make you happy. Men of less refined notions who would not be shocked at trifling variations from the extreme delicacy and high sense of dignity which appertain to a fine woman of character might render themselves happy by such connection. But your ideas of women are such that would lead you to wish for a wife who would not only amuse or please you but who would make a dignified and highly enchanting companion." This portion of the letter is quoted here to show how stilted was the style of letter-writing more than a hundred years ago, 88 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY as well as how useless is the advice of brother or family in love affairs. It seems this same brother was looking for someone suitable for a wife in this wilderness, and his descriptions of the different women he analyzes are very amusing. From the letters we judge that the family at home were really wishing to find just the proper person for their brother, and there are long descriptions of the young women. of that vicinity, most of them spoken of in the highest terms; but John Stark seems to stay in his Mesopotamia home. Finally, in desperation, his sister Henrietta writes, "I advise you, my dear brother, to get you a wife where you are, for there is hardly anybody left here worth having." Again the family advice was not good. Mr. Edwards and Miss Morris were married on the 28th of February, 1807. They went by stage to Philadelphia, then most of the way on horseback. Their married life was happily spent, and people who saw them as they stopped at the "tavern".of Jared Kirtland said they never saw a handsomer couple. When they came to Warren they went to live with General and Mrs. Perkins until their own house was finished. This house is now standing, is in good condition, and answers the description which Mr. Edwards wrote of it at the time. Upon Mr. Edwards' death it was purchased by Mr. Thomas D. Webb. (See chapter on old houses.) In this house Mr. Edwards' three children were born, one only growing to manhood, Mr. William Edwards, the father of Louisa Maria Edwards; a student of the early history of this country, lives in Youngstown. "Reading matter was scarce, and for want of lighter food, Mrs. Edwards perused her husband's law library, not a book here and there, but all it contained. She also assisted • her husband in the Recorder's Office, and it is said the best written records of Trumbull County are by her pen." Miss Dwight visited Mrs. Edwards, probably in 1810, and married William Bell, then a Warren merchant. Winston Churchill, the author, is a great-grandson of this couple. In October, 1812, Mr. Edwards was elected to represent this district in Congress. The following January he started with Mr. George Parsons and Mr. William Bell for Put-in-Bay, where he had business interests. They got as far as Sandusky when a thaw came on and they had to return home. In fording the streams Mr. Edwards got wet, and became very sick. They took refuge in a cabin, but the water was so high in all direc- HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 89 tions that it was hardly safe for them to proceed. Mr. Bell left Mr. Edwards with Mr. Parsons and came into Warren, and it was thought best to have Dr. Seely go to him. Mrs. Edwards was greatly distressed at the news brought her, but "commending her little sleeping ones to their Maker, she set forth, hoping to nurse, comfort and restore her husband." They left Warren about eight o'clock. The night was dark, the floods had been excessive, the traveling bad, and many places dangerous. They, however, proceeded about nine miles. Setting out again before daybreak, they had got about forty-five miles from Warren when they met the sleigh bearing the body of Mr. Edwards. Mr. Parsons alone was with him. Mrs. Edwards wrote her 'sister, "We were then fourteen miles from a house, just before sundown, in a snow storm, and we were obliged to return that distance to get even the shelter of a cabin. For hours after dark I followed that coffin. My dear sister, do you not wonder that I live to write you this ?" Does not the reader wonder? In fact, the hardest trials which the early pioneers had were those of sickness and death. Mr. Edwards was buried in the old cemetery, still existing, on Mahoning avenue. Almost broken-hearted, Mrs. Edwards found consolation in her religion and in the kindness demonstrated by her friends. She attempted to fill the place of both father and mother to her children, and expected to return to New England, as her family .wished her to do. The unsettled condition of the country made the settling of estates tedious, and before she really could get away, a year and a half, she married Mr. Montgomery, and spent the rest of her life in the neighborhood of Youngstown. Miss Edwards, the granddaughter, is authority for the following, and no man or woman was ever more truthful than is she. In writing of her grandfather's death, she says: "He died January 29, 1813. His sisters, Mrs. Johnson, whose home was at Stratford, Connecticut, and Henrietta Edwards, who was either at New Haven' or Bridgeport, both dreamed that their brother was dead, one of them that his death was caused by drowning. Mrs. Johnson was so frightened by her dream that she waked her husband to tell him. Then fell asleep and -had the same dream again. The next word received from Ohio was of his death. The dream of each sister, it was found, occurred at the time of his death, though whether the night before or the night after cannot now be remembered with certainty." CHAPTER XII. FIRST COURT HOUSE.-ORIGINAL SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR SAME.- BRICK POND.-SECOND COURT HOUSE.-SALE OF FIRST COURT HOUSE.-COURT CRIER.-FIRST JAIL TN WARREN.-SECOND JAIL-DEBTORS ROOM. -THIRD JAIL.-FOURTH J AI L.- COUNTY SEAT WAR. The facts in regard to the first court and county officers are given in the chapter on Bench and Bar. The first court of quarter sessions was held between two corn cribs near the Quinby place (site of Erie depot). James Scott built a log house which stood on the corner of Malioning avenue and High street, and when finished, in 1805, it was used as a court house. Later, court was held in the third floor of a house built by William W. Cotgreave, and familiarly known at that time as "Castle William." We are fortunate in being able to publish for the first time the subscription list to the first court house built in Trumbull County. The original paper is yellow and in some places not quite legible. The owner prizes it highly and has it between two pieces of glass bound with cloth so that both sides can be seen. It is as follows: We, the subscribers, do each one severally for himself promise to pay to Richard Hayes, Eli Baldwin and William McCombs, commissioners of the. County of Trumbull, and their successors in said office, or to their order, the sums respectively annexed to our names to be appropriated to the erection of a court house in Warren for the use of the County of Trumbull; to be paid one-third when the foundation of the building is laid, one-third when the walls are up, and the remaining third when the building is completed. provided the walls of said court house shall be of brick. Warren, August 25, 1809. - 90 - HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY - 91