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Early Settlers' Association
CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
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VOLUME IV. No. I.
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
J. B. SAVAGE PRINT.
1899.
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OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION.
1898
Hon. Edwin T. Hamilton, President.
Mrs. Josiah A. Harris,
Vice-Presidents.
George F. Marshall,
Henry C. Hawkins, Secretary.
Wilson S. Dodge, Treasurer.
Rev. J. D. Jones, Chaplain.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Hon. Andrew J. Williams.
Richard T. Lyon.
John Walworth.
Wilson S. Dodge.
W. S. Kerrujsh.
Bolivar Butts.
William Bowler.
Col- W. H. Hayward.
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
JULY 22, 1898.
The annual meeting of the Early Settlers' Association of
Cuyahoga County was held at Army and Navy Hall July 22nd,
1898. At the opening of the session the commodious and beau-
tifully decorated hall was well filled with the pioneers, and all were
cheerful and extended to each other hearty greetings. The
presence of the venerable and beloved vice-president, Mrs. J. A.
Harris, added cheer to all. But it was sad to note the absence of
the late marshal of the association, H. M. Addison.
The meeting was called to order by Hon. Edwin T. Ham-
ilton.
The chaplain, Rev. J. D. Jones, offered the following prayer:
OPENING PRAYER BY CHAPLAIN JONES.
Our Heavenly Father, we come to thee in the name of thy
dear Son, the blessed Christ. We thank thee for thy many bless-
ings that thou art bestowing upon us as a nation, as a state, as a
city, and as an organization. We thank thee, O God, for thy won-
drous love to us, the children of men, and we pray thee at this
time that thou wilt incline our hearts unto thee so that in spirit
and in truth we may honor thee with our supplications.
We thank thee, O God, for thy blessings upon us in time of
peace and for thy favor shown to us in this the time of war.
We thank thee for the great victories that have come to our
army and our navy, and we pray thee that thou wilt grant us still
thy divine favor. We pray thee, Lord, that thou wilt be with us
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and see by thy presence and power that the right shall prevail,
that the cause of righteousness may be advanced.
We ask thy blessing upon those who are in the front today,
and especially, our God, remember the sick and the wounded and
the dying. Be thou with them. Reveal to them thy love and
thy mercy. Cause thy spirit to rest upon them, opening their
blind eyes that they may see the truth as it is in Jesus Christ.
We thank thee for those that love thee among the leaders of
our nation. We thank thee for the President of the United
States and his cabinet, and we pray thee that they may be led of
thy spirit, and in these trying hours and time of war that they
may rest mightily upon the eternal arm of God.
We thank thee, Lord, when the battle is thine, the victory is
thy people's, and we pray thee that thy people may so trust thee
that victory shall always come to them.
We ask thee that thou wilt remember this organization ; bless
its officers and every member ; and especially, our Father, remem-
ber those who have lately been bereaved of their companions.
Remember those, Father, today, who are so near advanced to the
River of Death. O, be thou with them for many years, though
there is but a step between them and death. Grant, our Father,
that they may take that step in the love and fear of Jesus Christ.
We pray that thou wilt be with us in all the exercises and
services of this day, and we ask thee that we may be made better
because of our association and of our meeting here at this time.
Our Father, we pray thee that thou wilt grant to bless all of
our rulers, and grant that we may have rulers over us that shall
honor and fear and serve thee, the God of peace and the God of
war.
We ask thee in a special manner to comfort the aged here
today by thy spirit ; grant that benedictions of love may be show-
ered down upon them and that they may so walk that their last
walk shall be the walk of the righteous, and their path be the path
of peace. Grant that they may learn to know more and more of
thy love so that their last davs mav be their best.
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We ask thy blessings and thy benediction, thy mercy and
thy pardon, in the name of the crucified and risen Son of God.
Amen.
"Auld Lang Syne" was then beautifully rendered by the
male quartet, selected for the occasion.
President Hamilton then delivered his annual address, as
follows :
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HAMILTON.
My Friends : — Once again we meet to honor the day on
which Moses Cleaveland and his companion voyagers first landed
at the mouth of the Cuyahoga and the incipient foundations of our
city and county were laid ; and I greet you on the auspicious
return of the anniversary of that eventful day and bid you all a
cordial welcome.
I also congratulate you that this Society has reached the 19th
year of its successful life.
During the past year we have again been reminded of the ever
present fact that the young may die, but the old must do so. Those
of us who were present at our last annual meeting will not soon
forget the patriarchal appearance on this platform of our then eld-
est member, the venerable Zenas L. Bennett, of this County, who
was born in New York in 1796, the same year of the first settle-
ment here, and came to the Reserve in 1818.
You will also remember that on that occasion we had with us,
and you were permitted to see upon this stage and look into the
kind and cheerful face of another aged member of the Associa-
tion, Mrs. Jane Cannell, of this city. She was born in the Isle of
Man in the year 1800 and came to the Reserve in 1827, where she
since resided. It was my privilege to have known her well for
many years, and well I know that she merited the universal esteem
in which she was held as wife, mother, friend and neighbor.
Each of these aged members were presented to you last year
by the ever active Father Addison, who never lost an opportunity
to faithfully serve the Old Settlers' Association. But all these
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three have, since our last annual meeting, passed from earth ;
Bennett at the great age of 102 years, Mrs. Cannell at 98, and our
Acting Marshal, H. M. Addison, at the age of 80 years.
The roll of our membership has also been depleted during
the last year by the death of our esteemed members, Truman P.
Handy at the age of 91, and Moses Warren at the age of 95. Our
Executive Committee also reports for the year the deaths of 36
other regular members of this Society, and one honorary member,
making a total of 37 deaths for the year out of a living member-
ship of 740, as reported at our last annual meeting ; and in this
day's report of that committee will be found the names of all our
individual and lamented dead for the year.
During the past year the ever recurring seasons have brought
to this people the appropriate seed-time and an abundant harvest;
pestilence and famine have not been known in the land ; but
while agricultural and a fair degree of commercial prosperity has
been ours, yet in the early spring of the present year peace be-
tween this and a sister nation has taken its flight, and the grim
visaged and awful front of war has arrayed the United States and
Spain in the deadly conflict of arms. In the common cause with
others from the North, South, East and West, many of our imme-
diate neighbors and friends have promptly and patriotically
responded to the call of the government at Washington and are
now upon the battlefields and seas of the Eastern Hemisphere and
in and about the gem of the Antilles doing grand deeds of heroism
and working out, as we trust, a glorious future for humanity and
for Cuban liberty, disenthralled and forever free from that cruel
system of tyranny and barbarity which has outraged justice and
humanity for the last four hundred years.
Many philanthropists for many years have vainly hoped that
the civilization of the age might abolish war as the final arbiter of
disputes, at least among Christian nations, by the arbitration of
an International Court of the Powers of Christendom, through
which perpetual peace should bless all nations. But the trend of
historv and the stubborn facts of current events do not warrant
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the speedy fruition of that philanthropic hope. The millennial
period has not yet arrived for individuals or nations, and the
sword, and not civil law, however it may be dignified, still con-
tinues to be, and must, we fear, for an indefinite period, remain the
ultimate arbiter of the destinies of all peoples.
War is always to be regretted. When accepting an invitation
to review the German army, General Grant said to Chancellor
Bismarck, "The truth is, I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I
take little or no interest in military affairs, and although I entered
the army 35 years ago and have been in two wars, — in Mexico as
a young lieutenant, and later — I never went into the army with-
out regret, and never retired without pleasure.''
Yet war is not an unmixed evil. In the life of nations have
and will come periods When war's arbitrament must and of right
ought to be accepted fearlessly and without hesitation. Fortune,
life, liberty and sacred honor have been and will yet again be justly
placed as a sacrificial offering on the altars of the inalienable rights
of men. Who does not now honor and justify the American
revolutionists for their grand struggle in maintenance of their
declaration of rights, and for the blessings conferred by them
through eight years of war in the creation of the wisest constitu-
tion and the best government the world ever saw?
The war of 1812-15 again crystallized and enforced the rights
of freedom, and the assumed right of search and seizure of alleged
British seamen on the decks of American vessels has been for-
ever abandoned, and again .the world approves and justifies.
By far the greatest and most destructive struggle for many
decades in the world's history, and that too between brethren of a
common country and a common ancestry, finally led through a
baptism of blood for four years, to the annihilation of the great
crime of American slavery, and to the full and complete restoration
of the authority of the national government, and the emblem of its
sovereignty, the Stars and Stripes, with no star lost, proudly
waves over a country one and undivided, and as we fondly hope,
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in a bond of union indissoluble forever ; and again the world ap-
proves and justifies.
By the old French and Indian war, happily closed by the
Treaty of Peace signed in Paris in 1763, the Feudal doctrine of
the French king who declared "I am the state/' was forever anni-
hilated in this country by the triumph of the Anglo Saxon over
the Latin race. The historian Ridpath, in speaking of the bless-
ings of that war, says : "By the sweeping provisions of the treaty
the French king lost his entire possessions in the new world. Thus
closed the French and Indian war, one of the most important in
the history of mankind. By this conflict it was decided that the
decaying institutions of the Middle Ages should not prevail in the
West, and that the powerful language, laws and liberties of the
English race should be planted forever in "the vast domains of the
New World."
Has Spain any higher or better claims to dominion on the
North American continent than had France? Has her colonial
pobVy on this hemisphere commanded the admiration or respect
of tie civilization of the age? Has it not rather been marked
everywhere and at all times by that same avarice, cruelty and
barbarity which has ever characterized her unrelenting repression
of human rights, and every aspiration for liberty and knowledge
among her unfortunate subjects? With base ingratitude and gross
injustice she sent her great Genoese discoverer of a New World,
in chains, to penury and a dungeon, and continued her exactions
and oppressions over her vast territory here, until most of her pos-
sessions in this hemisphere have been forever lost to her. And
now, in the advancing light of the closing years of the 19th century
she still clings to her ancient exactions and oppressions by the
same cruel and barbarous methods. She has evidenced and em-
phasized this fact by the greatest crime of the century against
humanity. She deliberately planned and calmly executed, as a
war measure, the concentration of all non-combatants in the
Island of Cuba — men, women and children — and by hundreds of
thousands tortured and starved them to death, as a means of
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repressing- Cuban patriotism and compelling those in revolt to
the infamous government of Spain to lay clown their arms. The
enormities and horrors attending this so-called war measure far
exceeded in refinement of cruelty and in the number of its helpless
victims, the atrocities inflicted but a short time ago by the relent-
less Turk upon his Armenian subjects, and which called forth ef-
fective threats of immediate armed intervention in the cause of
humanity from the powers of Europe, and which intervention was
earnestly demanded by all Christian nations. On that occasion
the immortal Gladstone came from his retirement, and, with flash-
ing eye and resonant voice, as if addressing the Ottoman Empire,
said : "Never again as the years roll in their course, so far as it is
in our power to determine, never again shall the hand of violence
be raised by you, never again shall the Mood gate of lust be open
to you, never again shall the dire refinements of cruelty be devised
by you for the sake of making mankind miserable."
This great Republic, in obedience to her historic interest in
the cause of universal freedom and suffering humanity, heard the
cry of perishing thousands upon her immediate borders, and
officially said to Spain : "Your barbarities must cease in Cuba
and never again be repeated."
Our demand was practically and treacherously answered by
the blowing up of the Maine, in a time of peace, and the cowardly
destruction of 260 United States seamen.
Then came from an aroused and indignant nation a Declara-
tion of War. Dewey was heard from at Manilla, and Sampson
and Schley and Shatter from Santiago.
It is sometimes somewhat sacrilegiously said that the God of
battles usually fights on the side of the strongest battalions.
However that may be, He has in the present war, in a marvelous
and mysterious way, protected the American army and navy. In
this preservation, in our splendid victories and in the complete uni-
fication of the North and South, we have already realized blessings
which demand the grateful acknowledgement of this people.
Our own historian, Bancroft, writes: "On the discoverv of
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the New Hemisphere, the tradition was widely spread throughout
the Old that it conceals a fountain whose ever flowing waters have
power to reanimate age and restore its prime. The tradition was
true, but the youth to be renewed was the youth of society ; the
life to bloom afresh was the life of the race."
If, from its flowing fountains of freedom and humanity, this
invigorated, renewed and powerful American life shall now drive
from this continent the last vestige of the long period of misrule
and tyranny, of an effete and medieval monarchy ; who shall say
that, under the providence of that God who rules the destinies of
all nations, justice and American duty and destiny have not been
fulfilled? The United States have pledged to Cuba its freedom
and an independent government. And I have no doubt that its
growth and immigration thither from these States will in the near
future make self-government there entirely practical.
I hazard no opinion as to the future of the other possessions
of Spain which have or may come under the domination of these
States ; as to those, the exigencies and events of war will doubt-
less soon determine ; and while I still believe that the farewell
advice of Washington to his countrymen, viz : "that all entangling
alliances with foreign countries and on distant shores, should be
studiously avoided,'' yet no one, as I think, ought to regret it. If
the alleged prophecy of Napoleon be now fulfilled, viz. : "that
Spain would lose all her colonies and finally unite with Portugal
in the government of the Peninsula."
My friends, if in my remarks of today I have somewhat de-
parted from the old, and briefly discussed the living issue of war,
it is because I remember that the distinguished Dr. Channing once
said in his old age, that he was always young for freedom ; and be-
cause I know that you, too, are always young and vigorous in
freedom's cause, and that your hearts will ever beat responsive to
a patriotic love of country and the cause of humanity, and because
I also know that your ever present and paramount thought of the
hour goes out in sympathy and love for our brave boys in blue, on
land and sea, who are so gloriously and triumphantly sustaining
the honor and majesty of our Country's cause.
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REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
To the Early Settlers' Association of Cuyahoga County:
A. J. Williams, Chairman of the Executive Committee, then
read the following- report :
Your Executive Committee respectfully reports as follows : —
Since your meeting in 1897 a severe blow has befallen the
Association in the death of its Marshal, Hiram M. Addison. Mr.
Addison was not only the pioneer who first suggested the organi-
zation of the Association, but was foremost in effecting that
organization. From that !'me to his final departure he was con-
stant and efficient in his labors to carry it on and in making it a
great success. By his death the Association has sustained an
irreparable loss.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee held June 18th the
following preamble and resolutions offered by Mr. Kerruish, were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, ^ince our last annual meeting there has passed from
our midst over to the silent majority one of our oldest and best
known members — the late H. M. Addison — one who was princi-
pally concerned in the organization and establishment of this Asso-
ciation, and for many years served as its Marshal, and until his
death was an active and energetic promoter of its interests, there-
fore
Be it Resolved, That, as expressive of our appreciation of the
worth of our late Marshal, H. M. Addison, we hereby record our
sense of his generous nature, of his unselfish enthusiasm, of his
cheerful and unfailing devotion to the objects and purposes of
this Association, and we do further testify to our respect for his
memory, and our sincere sorrow for his loss.
Resolved Further, That we extend to the relatives of Mr.
Addison our profound condolence and sympathy.
Resolved, That the Secretary cause these resolutions to be
spread upon the records of this Association, and published in the
annals for the vear 1898.
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In consequence of his inability to attend the meetings of the
Executive Committee, Mr. George F. Marshall forwarded in
writing his resignation as member of the committee, which was
read and regretfully accepted at said committee meeting. There-
upon the committee proceeded to fill the vacancy in the office of
Marshall, occasioned by the death of Mr. Addison, and the
vacancy in the Executive Committee occasioned by the resigna-
tion of Mr. Marshall.
For Marshall Mr. L. F. Mellen was unanimously chosen,
who being present, accepted.
For member of Executive Committee Mr. William Bowler
was unanimously elected.
So far as your committee has been able to asceitain, the mem-
bers of the Association who, since our last annual reunion, have
passed from earth to join the host of early settlers who have gone
before, are as follows : —
Mrs. George H. Adams died Dec. 27, 1897.
Hiram M. Addison died Jan. 14, 1898.
Zenas L. Bennett died April 17, 1898,
Mrs. George W. Berry died July 3, 1898.
Robert Blee died Feb. 26, 1898.
Thomas Burnham died April 7, 1898.
Dr. George O. Butler died Nov. 4, 1897.
Mrs. Jane Cannell died Jan. 12, 1898.
Mrs. James Cannon died April 4, 1898.
Mrs. Eliza Carlisle died Feb. 19, 1898.
Lucian Crawford died April 21, 1898.
Thomas D. Crosby died Nov. 28, 1897.
Mrs. Ann Olivia Dille died Sept. 15, 1897.
Ebenezer Foster died July 23, 1897.
Mrs. Lucy Granger died May 29, 1898.
Samuel C. Greene died Nov. 18, 1897.
Truman P. Handy died March 25, 1898.
Arthur Hemenway died Nov. 1897.
Addison Hills died Mav 7. 1898.
Mrs. Louisa Hubbell died Jan. 8, 1898.
Daniel D. Hudson died Aug. 11. 1897.
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William A. Ingham died May 7, 1898.
Mrs. Abagail Janes died April 22, 1898.
William A. Lathrop died June 4, 1898.
Mrs. Charlotte Phillips Lyon. died March 27, 1898.
Mrs. Maria L. Medary died March 10, 1898.
John Morris died Jan. 23, 1898.
Luther R. Prentiss died Nov. 24, 1897.
Mrs. Chauncey S. Ransom.. died Jan. 31, 1898.
Mrs. Alexander Sacket died Oct. 6, 1897.
Robert Sanderson died Jan. 15, 1898.
John J. Shipherd died June 2, 1898.
Mrs. Celinda C. Stewart died Jan. 7, 1898.
Adam M. Wagar died Aug. 1, 1897.
Moses Warren died July 14, 1898.
Mrs. Mary A. Wilson died July 6, 1898.
One honorary member, to wit: Mrs. Almira Willey died Dec 13
1897.
A long list, thirty-seven active members and one honorary
member ; many more than, within the year, have joined the Asso-
ciation. There are hundreds of good and worthy people who are
eligible to membership and who would gladly join our Association
if they knew its real merits. It is required that a person should
have come to the Western Reserve forty years ago and be now a
resident of Cuyahoga County and pay the membership fee of one
dollar.
By a little exe/tion on the part of members our numbers can
be easily and greatly increased.
Respectfully submitted,
A. J. WILLIAMS,
Chairman.
On motion the foregoing report was unanimously approved.
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Mr. W. S. Dodge, Treasurer, then submitted the following
report : —
TREASURER'S REPORT OF THE EARLY SETTLERS'
ASSOCIATION.
Balance July 22d, 1897 $ 85 61
Received annual dues, 228 old members 228 00
Received annual dues, 29 new members 29 00
Received sale extra lunches 21 00
Received sale annuals 50
|364 11
Paid use of hall $ 25 00
Paid P. H. Tutle, services and decorations 10 00
Paid Cawood, typewriting 3 25
Paid programs 1 75
Paid tickets 1 50
Paid choir 20 00
Paid Weisgerber, 236 lunches , 118 00
Paid stenographer 25 00
Paid Cleveland Printing Co., annuals 138 10
#342 60
Balance on hand July 22d, 1898 $ 21 51
W. S. DODGE, Treasurer.
On motion, it was unanimously carried that the report of
Treasurer be received and placed on file.
On motion, the rules were suspended and the following
officers and executive committee were unanimously elected by
acclamation : —
President Hon. Edwin T. Hamilton.
,.. „ . , , f Mrs. Josiah A. Harris,
Vice Presidents ( George F. Marshal.
Secretary Henry C. Hawkins.
Treasurer Wilson S. Dodge.
Chaplain Rev. J. D. Jones.
Hon. Andrew J. Williams,
Richard T. Lyon,
John Walworth,
Wilson S. Dodge,
Kerruish,
I Bolivar Butts,
I Col. W. H. Hayward,
i William Bowler.
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The quartet then sang "My Old Kentucky Home."
Dr. John C. Reeve came 9th on the program, in place of Hon.
Dr. H. W. Curtis, who came first in the afternoon.
Judge Hamilton introduced him at this time by explaining
that on account of the distance he lives from Cleveland, and want-
ing to return soon, he would take the place of Dr. Curtis of
Chagrin Falls, by arrangement between them.
The Judge continued as follows :
Dr. Reeve has not been with us for many years, but he has
been a resident of Dayton, Ohio, and has been for 44 years last
past. He occupied a chair in the Medical College of Ohio for some
years and has been noted as a literary man, distinguished in his
profession for many years, so much so as to be honored with the
degree of LL. D. by our university, and I take great pleasure now
in introducing him to you, and he will read a paper of his early
recollections of this city, for he lived here many, many years ago
and for a long time.
DR. REEVE'S ADDRESS.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am down in the program for an
address. What I have to present to you is by no means worthy of
that designation, was not prepared with the view of being an
address at all, and I trust you will not be disappointed. It is
simply a few recollections of my early life in this city.
EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF CLEVELAND.
It has been my privilege to attend but one of your annual
reunions. At that meeting, now several years ago, you did me the
honor of making me an honorary member of your society. Every
year since that time I have made a fixed resolve to attend again,
but something has always prevented. This year I determined to
write out my early recollections of your city, where my boyhood
and youth were passed, and send them for your perusal, in case I
could not come in person. I have nothing wonderful or startling
to present, nothing, I presume, to relate that will be new to any
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old settler. Yet these reminiscences of early days are, I think,
generally interesting, and one memory often preserves some
things which have faded from others.
By your rules I can only be a member of your society by
courtesy, yet I feel that I have a just right and title to be one of
you in reality. I came to this city in 1832 and resided here until
1849. My parents are at rest in the Erie Street Cemetery. My
paternal grandfather is buried on the shores of your lake, in an
adjoining County, and now, having passed the three score years
and ten, and having lived all my life, except four years, in the State
of Ohio, I may fairly claim eligibility to a full membership in
your "Early Settlers' Association."
The year 1832 was notable for the first visitation of the
cholera to this Continent, and I well remember the terror this dis-
ease occasioned in New York where we landed, all along our
journey on the Erie Canal, and here on our arrival. The family
stopped first at Abbey's Coffee House, corner of Ontario and
Michigan streets. To my memory there were at that time but
few houses beyond that point. The northeast corner
of that street-crossing was an orchard, the southeast
one a grave-yard, then being abandoned for the Erie Street
cemetery, which ^\as at that time far out of town.
We next occupied rooms in the Ross building, corner of
Seneca and Superior streets. The walls of the stone church on the
square were then half way up. The Episcopal Church, corner of
Seneca and St. Clair, and the Bethel, near where the railroads now
cross Vine street, were the only two churches in the city. Both
were frame structures.
How many years afterwards I cannot say, but I remember
distinctly being impelled by boyish curiosity to see some of the
ceremonial services of the Catholic Church, I went to one of their
meetings, held in the upper story of a building on Superior lane,
as that part of Superior street below the hill was then called. At
that time, then, a single hall, and that by no means a large one,
sufficed for all the Catholic worship of the city.
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We passed the first winter in a log-house, where is now Saw-
telle Avenue, and right on the edge of the ravine. It was then
all deep woods about there. I went to school in a new frame
school-house where Kinsman street forked into the Warrensville
road and the "Dolf Edwards" road. You will pardon, I know,
mv ignorance of the names of the streets now. Some wild beast,
Wolf or bear, had been heard growling at night down in the ravine,
so my morning trip to school was always a violent run from the
little clearing in which the log-house stood until I came out on
the open road near the school-house. From that school-house to
the old rope-walk near Bolivar street there was little cleared land
and but few houses. A frame house in which David Short lived,
I remember well. A flock of wild turkeys, about forty in number,
daily crossed Kinsman street during that winter, and my father
with a shot gun, succeeded in getting two of them. In the spring
of 1833, we moved to a farm of fifty acres which my father had
purchased. It was situated on the Dolf Edwards road, just where
the Pittsburg railroad now crosses it. As I picked up, piled and
burned the brush on a part of that farm, and so helped to clear the
original forest from a portion of your city, now so far inside its
limits. I think I have another good claim to full fellowship with
you. We did not live long on the farm, but came into the city to
a house on Michigan street, next door to the residence of John W.
Willey. your first mayor.
I have always read with great pleasure your annual publica-
tions which have been sent to me by kind friends. In the con-
tents of the last one is to be found the direct cause of this com-
munication. There are some things there of great personal inter-
est to me. In the list of departed worthies I do not find, it is true,
so many friends and school mates as in the publications of former
years. Yet there are names familiar to me "as house-hold words."
Miller M. Spangler, Thomas Quayle, John Doane, Loring V.
Ballon, Mrs. Dudley Baldwin. But these were not companions;
of such I find only two names, Solon Burgess and Stoughton
Bliss. With the latter I went to school to John Stair on Academy
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lane, where, among other scholars were Edward A. and Oliver
Scoville, John and William Walworth, Myron and Alfred Coz-
zens, Philander Johnson, Jabez Fitch, Silas Belden, and the Jones
boys, whom you all know well, one of them formerly your post-
master, another one of your judges, and a third U. S. Senator
from Nevada. At that time the space from Academy Lane to
Ontario street, and from St. Clair street to the bank of the lake
was open common. The old academy stood on St. Clair street.
There were a few small houses along the east line of Ontario street
and these were all. On the bank of the lake, the outlines of the
fort built by General Harrison were easily made out, and the base
of some of the stockades still remained.
I afterwards went to school to a Mr. Phillips at a house on a
street running out of Prospect street. Among the scholars there,
I remember W. H. Hayward, Bolivar Butts and the two Fairchild
boys, one of them since a general, governor of Wisconsin, and
consul at Liverpool. I also attended a school in the third story of
a building next west of the American House. It was kept first by
one Pratt, afterwards by Sawyer. I only remember among the
scholars George Whipple, the Kendall boys and John W. Sar-
geant. If the latter is still with you, I know he can give you some
lively reminiscences of school government in those days. I will
never forget the severity of the corporal punishment he received
from Pratt, and for nothing worse than boyish pranks. These
schools I have named were all private schools, and in this con-
nection I may be permitted to repeat a remark made to you when
you admitted me to your society. It is, that of all the great
changes that have taken place under my observation, there is
none greater than those in educational methods, and especially in
the position and character of free schools. It must be almost in-
conceivable to the present generation, that there could be yet
living a man who could remember snowballing or stoning boys
because they went to a free school, I am that man. At the time
of which I write, the only free school of your city was kept in the
basement of the Bethel, down "under the hill." It was attended
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only by the boys of laborers who lived about there, and if one of
those boys was seen up "on the hill," he was "run" after the
manner of boys everywhere.
I remember well when Nathan Perry kept a store at the
corner of Water and Superior streets, P. M. Weddell one at Bank
and Superior, and on the other corner was the only Bank of the
City. Irad Kelly's store was on Superior street opposite Bank
street, and Benjamin Rouse occupied a one story frame building
on the north-west corner of Superior street and the Square. The
only meat market of the town stood in the middle of Bank street
at its junction with Superior. The building was afterwards
moved to Champlain street and served as the "No. 5" engine
house.
What especially interested me in your last year's publication
are the articles upon two institutions, with both of which I was for
a time closely connected, and concerning which I have some clear
recollections. These were the press and the postal service, and it
is with these that I will occupy your time.
I began life in the early part of the year 1839 by entering the
office of the Cleveland Advertiser. It was then edited and pub-
lished by T. P. Spencer. The office was on Superior street oppo-
site where the American house stands, directly over the post
office, and Daniel Worley was then postmaster. I read with sur-
prise in the full and excellent article in the last volume of your
transactions, by the Hon. John C. Covert, that the "Advertiser"
was started as "unalterably hostile to everything democratic." I
cannot gainsay that statement, but at the time when I was in the
office it was intensely democratic and the only paper of that faith.
I have good reason to know, because I carried it to subscribers
all through the "log-cabin" campaign ; as all the other boys were
whigs I had often to run, when out on my "route," to save my
head from stones. T have thought since that I came honestlv by
whatever democracy I may have indulged in later in life, on the
principle that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church."
It would seem strange now to read the head-lines that I used
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often to put in type while in that office : "Arrival of packet-ship
so-and-so" ; "ten days," "twelve days" "later news from Europe!"
After about two years I went into the Herald office, then
under the management of J. A. Harris. The Herald was a daily
paper and the work was very different and the day's occupation
much longer than in the weekly Advertiser office. I entered also
at that time the household of Mr. Harris, and I had opportunity
to become acquainted with, and to learn the many good qualities
of Airs. Harris. You all know her well ; you have done your-
selves honor in honoring her; she is still among you, and, in my
opinion, if length of days depended upon a kind heart and the
exercise of benevolence and virtue, she would be with you yet
many, many years. James A. Briggs, George A. Benedict and
George F. Marshall were frequent contributors to the paper, and
I often put their articles into type. The latter gentleman, still
among you, is an esteemed friend, and his example, as a studious
man and a writer, although not a professional man, had a dis-
tinct influence upon my career. At the next "case" to mine
Edwin A. Cowles set type, and he and I, every evening carried the
daily edition of the Herald — what there was of it — I suppose
might now be said. His "route" was all the city west of Bank
street, mine all east of it. I distributed between sixty and
seventy copies ; not more than half a dozen of them to houses
east of Erie street. One was left at the residence of T. P. May,
which then blocked Superior st. at Erie, two or three on Walnut
and Chestnut streets, and as many on Euclid beyond the corner of
Erie. Thence my course was up Erie to, and through Bolivar
St., back by Ontario St. to the office. These limits then com-
prised the eastern half of your city.
I also worked afterwards, for short periods, in the office of
the "American" of Ohio City, in T. H. Smead's office, and set
type on the "Gatherer," a literary paper, of short life, which is
not mentioned in Hon. J. C. Covert's address.
I entered the post-office under my brother-in-law, T. P.
Spencer as postmaster, on the first day of July, 1845. That was
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the day on which the letter postage changed from the rates of
six and a quarter, twelve and a half, eighteen and three fourths,
and twenty-five cents, according to distance, to uniform rates of
five cents within three hundred miles and ten cents beyond that
distance. The post office was then situated on the west side of
Water St., a short distance from Superior. Not long afterwards
it was moved to Levi Johnson's building on Superior St., just
west of the Weddell House. We had then two mails from the
East daily ; one from Pittsburg, bringing Washington news, and
one from Buffalo with New York papers. I should have said
that we had these two daily mails when they got here? In the
fall and winter as the roads became bad, the stages could not get
through on time, and very often we were as long as three days
without an" Eastern mail. Of course this was the case only in
winter ; when navigation opened, we had a daily mail from the
East by boat. At the time I entered the post office there was but
one other clerk besides myself; the postmaster stood at the single
delivery window a good part of the day, and the three did all the
business of the office. Afterwards there was a third clerk but no
more than four persons were employed there during my connec-
tion with the office. There were no stamps in those days, letters
could be sent unpaid, the postage to be collected on delivery ; to
pre-pay a letter it was necessary to take it to the office during the
hours it was open.
I left the post office when Mr. Haskell succeeded Mr.
Spencer as postmaster, and began the study of my profession,
which I had long had in view. While in the printing office I
studied what few hours I could find, and I went to school a few
terms under another of your citizens, still with you. who did good
work in his day and generation — Andrew Freese. He did much
to influence my future life by directing my reading, stimulating
my efforts, and assisting me in many ways. So I fitted myself
for teaching — at least George W. Willey, who examined me, gave
me a certificate of competence. In the winter 1843-4 I taught
mv first school in the "Rice settlement" in Brecksville. As an
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incident well illustrating the times and the state of affairs then,
both personal and public, I may say that Mr. Breck, postmaster
at the "Center," trusted me for the postage of such letters as I
received during the winter, until "I got my pay in the spring!"
The next winter, that of 1844-5, I taught school in Newburg
township. The school-house was situated just where the War-
rensville road crossed the road from Doan's corners, passing
Dolf Edward's place. My district began on the North at the
house of Kingsbury, the pioneer, whose great grand-
daughter was a pupil of mine, and took in, towards Newburg,
the house of Lorenzo Carter, another of the pioneers. Both
these winters I "boarded round" so many days or fractions of days
to each scholar, in a family. This was then the general custom.
I began the study of medicine in the office of Prof. John
Delamater, then situated on Superior St., opposite Bond St., and I
continued my studies with him until I left Cleveland in the fall
of 1849 to begin practice in the woods of Northern Wisconsin,
where I lived for four years. My entrance upon professional
study brings me down to a later period of time in the history of
your city- Still, some items may be of interest. At the time of
my arrival in the city, or soon after, the personel of the medical
profession consisted of Doctors Long and Mills and Hicks. The
latter was a London man and was our family physician. There
was also a Doctor Mcintosh, and I believe these to have been all.
I remember well the excitement, and many amusing scenes,
connected with the transfer of the medical college from Wil-
loughby. The establishment of that institution in your city was
the influence which directed my course in life as to a profession.
A pioneer institution as that was, there were some men of far
more than ordinary ability connected with it. Three of them
were especially noteworthy, and in my judgment would bear
comparison with the occupants of chairs in the colleges of eastern
cities or of Europe, and it has since been my lot to see and hear
and witness the operations of many of them. These three were
Professors St. John, Ackley and the elder Delamater. The
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former, Professor of Chemistry, was a fine scholar, a cultured
and traveled gentleman, and if any fault could be found with his
lectures, it was that they were sometimes above and beyond the
students to whom they were addressed. Professor Ackley is
doubtless too well imprinted in your memories to need any com-
ment from me. He was pre-eminently a man of action — a man
of powerful will and determination. If any thing was to be done
he did it, and if the measure excited antagonism, woe be to the
antagonists. He had the mental and physical qualifications of
what he was — a good surgeon, and especially a bold and skillful
operator.
Possibly affection and reverence for him who was my precep-
tor, Prof. John Delamater, will lead me to say too much in his
praise. But I think not. The subject would bear a good deal
of laudation. A thorough master of his profession, he had oc-
cupied perhaps more different chairs as a professor in different
medical colleges of the country than any other man, and was a
clear and excellent lecturer. Dignified in bearing, kind in
manner, pleasant in conversation, taking every pains to instruct,
he endeared himself to his students, and he remains, I doubt not,
in the memory of all of them, as he does in mine, as the model
of an upright, honest, conscientious and faithful physician, albeit
of a time which has passed away.
It may interest the members of my profession to say I saw
the first administration of an anaesthetic in Northern Ohio. It
took place in the building on the south-east corner of Ontario
and Prospect Sts., occupied as a medical college before the build-
ing was erected on the corner of St. Clair and Erie Sts. I suppose
it would be unjust to say that this was any more than an attempt
at an administration, as, to my recollection, it was far from suc-
cessful in abolishing the pain of the operation, doubtless on ac-
count of the inferior quality of the ether, which was not then
manufactured for inhalation. This was the beginning of a great
revolution in surgery. I have since lived to see the art pass
through another revolution, quite as great, that brought about
by aseptic and antiseptic procedures.
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I trust you will pardon the draft that I have made upon your
time and patience. The tendency of age to wander on when
relating the occurrences of youth, is well known, but this time I
will restrain it. I feel, too, that I ought to apologize for the per-
sonal form in which I have written, yet this was scarcely to be
avoided. I do not doubt that some things I have said have
awakened slumbering memories and have interested you. May I
not express the hope that some of the facts I have presented may
help the generation now occupying the field to appreciate the
changes which have taken place within a single life time. What
mighty changes ! Changes which have affected every phase of
human life ! We, who are passing away, may well express the
doubt that any other generation will see such changes as we have
seen.
In introducing Mrs. Dr. Henry Gerould, Judge Hamilton
said :
We have with us to-day Mrs. Henry Gerould. She has very
kindly, at the invitation of our Executive Committee, consented
to say something to you upon the important question of the
Country School 40 years ago. I take great pleasure in now in-
troducing her to you.
RECITATION BY MRS. GHROULD.
THE COUNTRY SCHOOL OF FORTY YEARS AGO.
1 We cannot speak of hardships sore
Nor this country's early foe,
Of the tawny red man we but guess,
Of the wild beast's tread know even less.
The courage and zeal the fathers showed,
The mother's toil, the wearisome road
Are to us but tales of the past.
We know their history first and last,
And give to them the honor due
Heroic souls who brought us through
Privation and trial all the way
To these better times and an easier day.
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When forests were leveled and fields were sown,
When farms were fenced and orchards grown,
The goodly farmer turned his gaze
On the old log school house at the four cross ways,
And he decided, this man of deeds,
That a comelier building would meet the needs
Of the boys and the girls who were just coming on
In these country homes, so sturdy and strong.
So the old log house was replaced by the new,
'Twas larger and higher, more windows too,
But can any one tell, could they ever do so,
Why those blessed windows, three in a row,
Were placed by the fathers near the ceiling so high?
Not a thing could be seen, not even the sky,
By the keenest of eyes though outward bent
When wearied of books, and on mischief intent.
Not a shade shut out the glaring sun,
Not one seat had a back, no, not one,
Save the very front row, and those were so high
That the little feet, though they often might try,
Could not reach the floor, so they'd swing to and f'O,
Now backward, now forward, now fast and now slow,
Till the dear little souls with nothing to say
Would find in sweet sleep the work of the day.
The desks, hacked and hewed by the unruly few,
Were a marvel of figures, some old and some new.
But the strangest thing I call to mind
Is the fact that no matter how many the kind
Or shape of these figures, 'twas an unwritten creed
That no one ever should own to the deed.
And no one was found who had courage to say
Whose hand marred the desk in this scandalous way.
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6 For three months in midsummer, in dust and in heat,
The little folks sped with joyous, glad feet,
The sweet-faced young school-ma'am with pleasure to
meet.
She faithfully taught them their P's and their Q's,
Set copies in writing, but let each one choose
How much or how little of this he would use.
But the names of the presidents from Washington down,
All sovereigns of England who e'er wore a crown,
Every word in the speller from a-b to finis,
Must be learned by these children, not one could be minus.
And all in the school, both older and younger,
Paid special attention to work in Numbers.
7 In winter for four months, be it more or less,
A man took position as teacher,
For no woman except of rare talent possessed,
Could manage such troublesome creatures
As the boys from ten to twenty or more.
Who made for the master such continual uproar.
'Twas oftener a question of muscle than brain
Before it was settled and quiet would reign.
8. This teacher had read one precept well
Inscribed in the Holy Book.
In "Spare the rod and spoil the child,"
Great pleasure always took.
No child should be spoiled by his careless hand,
He "would do his duty well."
How he performed this imposed task
I will leave for you to tell.
9. But memory brings up to view
In shadows stern and dark,
The cruel blows, the seasoned whip,
The open knife, whose mark
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Would often be some careless lad
Who, unconcerned, would stand
As stubborn as the far-famed mule
While blows rained on his hand.
10 But a striking feature of the old time school,
And the hour that gave most pleasure,
Was the time when, without precept or rule,
Save the voice of the teacher in measure,
The dear old reading class would rise and soar,
Reading with accent and emphasis strong
The words of the worthies o'er and o'er
Which were given us in song.
11 'Twas the Roman soldier who was chained down,
Or, Cassius accusing Brutus of wrong.
Or, Rienzi pronouncing "the Roman a Slave,"
Or, our own Patrick Henry, earnest and brave,
"Pleading for country, for war or for death,"
Or, Marco Bozzaris, who, with his last breath,
Stands cheering his valiant band.
We struck "till the last armed foe" expired,
We even remembered their "altars and fires,"
The graves of their fathers, their valiant sires,
"God and their native land."
12. You recall all this and very much more,
Friday's weekly declamations,
When the bashful boy would run away,
(He was always sick on this special day,)
When the rest would write essays, and "pieces speak,
And the work of the busy, anxious week
Would end in making a great display
By spelling down in the old fashioned way.
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13 They tell us the teaching of bygone days
Was poorly done, "no system, no plan,"
"Few text books studied," and in many ways
No cramming process to make the man.
Well, this may be so, I will never say
"The old was better than the new,"
Or the haphazard method of earlier days
Made better trained men, and women too.
14 But I would plead that justice be done
To the teacher of forty years ago,
For it sometimes happens that battles are won
By the person who met his earliest foe
In the country school house of long ago.
When the world needs men they are not all
In the temple of science or college hall,
And the cultured person whom you and I know
May have planted his standard long ago.
15 When grim visaged war appears on the scene
A Dewey approaches the Isles Philippine ;
When Spain's boasted fleet sails out of the bay
It finds a Sampson not far away.
A man is sanding the Councils of State
Whose self control is making him great.
Success on our banner is written to-day
Because of the wisdom of men who pray,
And the work of the world has been helped, I know,
By the country schools of long ago.
In introducing the Hon. W. W. Armstrong, who spoke just
before the close of the morning session, Judge Hamilton said :
The Executive Committee informs me that by error and mis-
take one name was omitted from this program. It was intended
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and designed that you should be addressed by the Hon. W. W.
Armstrong. It is getting near dinner-time, something appetiz-
ing should be had, and I now present to you the Hon. W. W.
Armstrong to make some remarks.
ADDRESS OF HON. W. W. ARMSTRONG.
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday or the day
before yesterday I received a communication from a gentleman
whose name 1 made out at the end of the letter, whose name is
Kerruish, but the body of the letter I could not make out ; I didn't
know whether it was from a Spanish General or an Admiral, or
from a Chinese man, or a call for me to appear before some jus-
tice of the Peace of the city, but I find on opening the letter that
he wanted me to come down here and make a few remarks, and
he limited me to fifteen minutes. Now, it took me longer than
that to read his letter ; but I am going to beat the record by simply
putting my speech down to eight minutes, and I will leave him the
other seven to explain what he meant in his letter.
But ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to meet the early settlers
at this their annual meeting. I have not been a resident of the
Western Reserve for 40 years, and therefore under the Constitu-
tion and Laws, as read by your distinguished President here, I
find that 1 am not legally a member, but I was born in a county
adjacent to the Western Reserve, beneath the sheltering hills of
old Columbiana, and I am an Ohioan by birth, and I have never
left my native state ; it being good enough for me to be born in, it
is good enough for me to live in, and I hope it is good enough for
me to die in. I am a loyal subject, and I must say that as an
Ohioan I am proud of all its great educational interests ; I am
proud of its enterprises ; I am proud of the manhood and the
womanhood of its people : I am proud of its schools and its
churches and its public edifices ; and I am proud too that in
every emergency, either in time of war or peace, the men and
women of Ohio can be relied upon to do their full duty under all
circumstances.
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I have lived (and I am not going to tell how old I am ; Ed
Cowles used to say that I danced in 1840) ; but I have lived to see
in my life three wars. I can remember in 1846, when the volun-
teers left my native county at Columbiana to go to the front ; I can
remember how we boys those days all gloried in the victory of
Zachary Taylor at Monterey, and how we used to roll over our
tongues his saying: "Boys, give them a little more grape." And
I can remember, too, when old Gen'l Winfield Scott unfurled the
banner of our country over the halls of the Montezumas and con-
quered great territory from Mexico. And I too remember, in
1861, when I was a young man, when treason in the south, and
the Secessionists determined to dismember this Union, to dis-
honor our flag, and break up and dissolve a Union that cur fathers
had fought for and established during the Revolution ; and I re-
member, too, how gloriously and nobly the people of Ohio and the
people of the North rallied to the support of the Constitution and
the Union of our fathers, and how, after five years of long and
bloody war, we settled the matter on the Virginia fields and
brought back a restored Union.
And now I am glad too that I have lived to see the day when
the Rebel gray and the Federal blue unite together, that they will
march together side by side, confederate and federal ; that Yankee
Doodle and Dixie Land can be played in all the camps ; and now
I am glad that these men are facing a common foe, a common
enemy, rallying around the flag of their country upon the hills of
Cuba, and that they are standing there together, not rivalling
each other and fighting each other, but standing there as brothers,
first at the front and last to retreat. Now, our old flag waves over
there in glory ; it waves at the head of the flags on the mastheads
of our great squadrons headed by Dewey and Sampson and
Schley ; it flies at the head of the regiments of Shatter ; and we are
going to drive those Spaniards from this Western hemisphere ; we
are not any longer going to. allow that barbarism of 400 years to
control any colonies upon this hemisphere.
This is no speech that is written ; you will find that out; I
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have no written speech ; but I am glad again to see my friend
Reeve here ; I used to hear of him when I was a boy. He says
he is turning along toward three score and ten ; but I remember
of hearing of Professor Reeve, and there is one good thing about
him, and that is that he has been persecuted like I have been, for
his democracy ; he has had stones thrown at him by the boys when
he carried his papers years ago, and I have had a good many
stones thrown at me while editing a Democratic paper, but the
Lord only knows I will forgive my enemies and forgive those who
persecuted me.
And then, when I turn around, I see at my right my friend
Mrs. Harris ; although I have not the honor of a personal ac-
quaintance with her, I remember her husband, Mr. Harris, very
well, and he was a gentleman whose acquaintance I made years
ago, and I must say for him, he was a good fellow and one of the
best dancers I ever saw in my life. I know I was at a dance with
him, at an editorial dance, a great many years ago, and the old
gentleman could hop around more lively than I could, and I was
25 years younger than he was.
Now I don't feel I have anything more to say except that this
table is a little large, and it reminds me of a Presbyterian preacher
who was a short fellow and went to church, and he had a great
tall pulpit before him, and he) wanted to make an impression upon
his audience, and he got up on a stool, and he opened his Bible
and he turned to the text and he commenced, "Be not afraid, it is
I," and just as he said that he slipped and he went out of sight.
(The speaker goes out of sight into a chair on the platform).
The immortal old hymn "Coronation" was then most effect-
ively rendered by the quartet.
Immediately after address ©f Hon. W. W. Armstrong, Mr.
Williams spoke, as follows:
I wish to call a matter especially to the members that are here.
We have got to have some effort made to keep up this organiza-
tion, as glorious as it is. Your Executive Committee has had
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printed blanks here upon which members can receive new mem-
bers, enter their names, where born, year of birth, and when they
came to the Reserve. Now we want to place these in the hands of
those members who are willing- to struggle a little for this organi-
zation. These blanks are upon the table of Air. Butts and I trust
that many of you will call there and take one for subscription.
One thing further, Mr. Chairman. I want to nominate a
member for honorary membership. Without taking your time I
will do it at once. I take great pride in nominating for honorary
member of this association the President of the United States,
William McKinley. Mr. Chairman, I move a suspension of the
rule that requires that these motions be referred to the Executive
Committee and that President McKinley be elected by acclama-
tion.
(Seconded). Judge Hamilton puts the vote as follows:
Without comment from me, ladies and gentlemen, those of
you who favor the motion to nominate William McKinley, the
President of the United States, as an honorary member of this
association, will please rise. (All rise in the room who are mem-
bers).*
The motion was unanimously carried.
President Hamilton : A member here wishes to nominate
an old friend of over 50 years.
Mr. Wm. Bowler then nominated Wallace J. Ford, of
* The election of President McKinley to Honorary Membership, resulted in the
following correspondence :
Cleveland, Ohio, July 23d, 1S9S.
William McKinley, President of the United States.
Honored Sir:— I have the pleasure of officially informing you that "The Early
Settlers' Association of Cuyahoga County, Ohio," at its annual meeting held July 22d
instant, did itself the honor of electing you by a unanimous vote an Honorary Mem-
ber of said Association.
Trusting that you will gratify the venerable members by indicating your accept-
ance of such Honorary Membership, I remain, Your obedient servant,
A.J. WILLIAMS,
Chairman Executive Committee.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Washington, August 2, 1898.
My dear Sir : By direction of the President, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt
of your favor of the 23d ultimo, and to convey to you and your associates an expression
of his appreciation of the compliment paid him by your Association.
Very truly youis, J. A. PORTER,
Secretary to the President.
Mr. A. J. Williams, Chairman, etc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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Hiram, Ohio, born in Geauga County, as an honorary member of
this Association. Will not take the time to make any further re-
marks. Moves a suspension of the rules. (Seconded).
Judge Hamilton : It is moved that Wallace J. Ford, of
Hiram, Geauga County, be made an honorary member of this
Society. 1 may say in passing that I received a letter from Judge
Lester Taylor yesterday recommending the appointment of Mr.
Ford to this position. He incidentally remarks that he is Presi-
dent of the ( leauga Old Settlers' Association ; that on the 5th day
of next month he will be 100 years old, and that on the 19th of
next month, the day of their annual re-union, he expects to be
there present and to preside and make an address upon that occa-
sion. (Applause). Those of you who favor the motion will say
"Aye."'
i Unanimously carried).
The meeting then took a recess for dinner, elegantly served
by Edward Weisgerber.
The afternoon session opened with the "Star Spangled
Banner" by the quartette, then followed the deferred address by
Hon. Dr. H. W. Curtis, of Chagrin Falls, who was introduced by
Judge Hamilton, explaining that he had kindly given way in the
morning to Dr. Reeve who wished to leave early, and continuing
as follows : I suppose we call him Honorable because we have
so many times honored him by sending him to our Legislative
1 [alls, and he has in turn doctored us.
ADDRESS OF HON. DR. H. W. CURTIS, CHAGRIN FALLS.
Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen: Not until T reached
this hall this morning did 1 know that my name was upon the pro-
gram for an address upon this occasion. I blame the man sitting at
my right (pointing to Mr. Williams, who acknowledges the part).
He is the gentleman who did it. When I received, Mr. President,
your invitation or your notice of this annual gathering, after read-
ing the letter T passed it over to a friend of mine, who happened
to be in the office, for his opinion. After reading it carefully, he
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inquired of me rather anxiously upon what I desired his opinion.
I inquired of him if he noticed the word "old" in that letter. He
said he did. "Now, then," says I, "the practical and the pertinent
thing that I wish to ask you is, if I shall take part in the exercises
upon the 22nd of July — whether I would be on record as an old
fellow." On that point I was not ready to be registered. He
thought not, therefore here I am to-day.
I have noticed one thing, Mr. President, and it is a very
prevalent thing, that all men hate to grow old, and women also ;
I have thought that they regret it more than the men, they take
more care of themselves to obscure certain things as age grows
upon them. I have noticed that. But of all things, a man hates
to be told that he is growing old rapidly. There is something
about this matter, this question of age, that is rather peculiar.
For instance, here is a lad who was ten years old yesterday. Ask
him to-day, "how old are you, Bub?" He will invariably say, "I
will be 11 years old next birthday." He jumps a year in a mo-
ment. You ask my friend Williams here, who will be 80 to-mor-
row, how old he is, and he will say, 70. He will subtract 10
years from his age. The boy wishes to get older, and Williams
desires to be registered younger than he really is.
A few days ago I met a lady, a former acquaintance, who
moved into an adjacent state and whom I had not seen for some
four or five years. After asking me how my wife was, whether
my eldest son was married, my second son was married, my
daughter married ; "yes, yes." "How many grandchildren have
you got?" "Two." After asking a thousand and one questions
which is common to the curiosity of women (beg your pardon,
ladies, that was a slip), she settled back upon her heel, peered over
her glasses, and ejaculated the following soothing and melodious
sentence, "Doctor, you have grown terribly old." I looked at
her. I supposed her to be a lady and wouldn't be guilty of any
discourtesy intentionally, and I asked her if in this question of age
she supposed that twelve lunar months pushed her along on the
record of time anv faster than it did me. "Oh, no," she said, "but
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somehow you look so old." I saw I was making a bad matter
worse, and I changed the subject immediately and asked her what
the prospects of the potato crop was in Michigan. Now, after-
wards, Mr. Chairman, in thinking that matter over, wanting to be
as charitable as possible to myself as well as her, I concluded that
she was merely joking, and I actually looked younger than I did
fifteen years ago. Whether that was a correct conclusion, gentle-
men, I leave you to judge.
We have, Mr. President, a large number of aesthetic writers
nowadays, people that are delving in abstruse subjects, diving
into what is called the occult forces, secret forces of nature, trying
to understand, to circumvent or contrive some way to understand
the subtile things which you or I or any one else has never been
able to comprehend, and as a result of that we have doled out to
us frequently any amount of fine spun philosophy. I was reading
« me < if these dissertations a few days ago, and it seemed to me that
the author had ransacked Webster's Unabridged from commence-
ment to finale to find all the qualifying words, all the adjectives
that be could possibly collect together to substantiate and em-
phasize this proposition, namely, That it is the duty of every man
and every woman to grow old gracefully. Now that to me was a
puzzler. I thought if ever I got to be old, T would not know how
to apply the doctrine at all. I would like to know how it is pos-
sible for a man shoulder-bent, crooked-shanked, shamble-kneed,
with the rheumatism squeaking in most of his joints and his head
as free of foliage as the new-born child, to play gracefully and to
act gracefully ; but it is the duty of all. This book went on to
relate and to prove from its own standpoint the duty of us all to
grow old gracefully. Now, Mr. President. T presume these re-
marks are not germain to the purpose of this organization in any
respect. It doesn't make any difference to me whether they are
or not. I was invited here to speak on any subject that I might
choose to speak upon, and if anyone can determine what I have
been talking about they will do better than T can myself.
Rut to come down to the principles of this organization, I
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suppose it relates to the settlement of this Western Reserve. Now,
how this Western Reserve has passed into history and has got its
place in the history of this country is somewhat marvelous, but T
suppose that to the solid acre here there is as much intelligence,
as much enterprise, and as much personal integrity and patriotism
as exist in any other territory that could be designated in the
State of Ohio, and perhaps in the United States. I remember 30
years ago of seeing down in New Orleans a placard out, "Western
Reserve Seats for Sale." The Western Reserve has passed its
record and they are known all over the country at this time, and I
suppose there was nothing very peculiar about the organization,
peculiar about the territory, nor about its inhabitants, but it has
passed into history and become one of the most prominent — filling
a prominent point.
Now I was driving down in an adjoining township, my own
township, along earlier in the spring, and I met an Englishman
carrying on his shoulder a double-barrelled shot-gun. I stopped
and asked him, "Been buying a gun?" "Yes." "What did you
pay for it?" "So much." "What do you want with a shot-gun,
a man of your age?" "I was told that blackbirds destroyed
nearly one-half of one of my corn fields last year, and I was de-
termined to have some of the harvest this year. You understand
the crow is a very shy bird, very difficult perhaps for you to reach
him." He asked if I could see a bird on a tree standing out there,
on an ordinary beech tree, ordinary height. I reckoned T could.
"Well, now, I'll explain." Says he, "You see here is a double
barrel and it scatters like chicken feed. Now, if I should put a
half ounce of shot into one barrel and half an ounce into another
and fire them both off at once, it would take a pretty smart crow
to dodge all of those shots." I agreed with him and passed on.
You will observe, ladies and gentlemen, that I have scattered
my speech.
Immediately after Dr. Curtis's address, Mr. Williams said :
I want a word personally here. I can excuse Dr. Curtis for
saving that I am 80 years old after the fact that the Cleveland
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Press, commonly known as the Penny Press, a few days ago, in
announcing the fact that I had given to the Historical Society the
skull of a mound builder, said, "A skull was presented to the His-
torical Society by a mound builder." That makes me about six
or seven hundred vcars old.
In introducing the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thorpe, Judge Hamilton
spoke as follows :
Ladies and gentlemen : The next upon the program is an
address by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Thorpe. It is always gratifying to
our association to meet people from all walks of life, all casts of
opinion, who are in sympathy with the traditions of the early set-
tlers of our country. Personally, I have not had much acquaint-
ance with the orator who is to address you now, but it has been
my pleasure to note from time to time the fearless manner in
which he has at all times sustained law and order, at all times
showed his pure patriotism and love of country.
I have the very great pleasure to announce that the Rt. Rev.
Mgr. Thorpe will now address you.
ADDRESS OF THE RT. REV. MGR. THORPE.
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens : I am
extremely glad and deem it a very high honor to be among so
many of the early settlers of our fair city, and to congratulate with
them, to-day, on our marvelous growth in numbers, in commercial
importance and in brotherly love, during the past forty years. I
say forty years, because of that period I can say with the Roman
poet. Pars fui. and because of an indirect result of the Civil War,
that period has been thus far the golden era of our existence.
With a population of a little more than forty thousand, scattered
over a large territory on the West Side of the Cuyahoga, until
then known as Ohio City, and on the East Side known then and
now as Cleveland, the fitter survived, but no one could dream that
in a decade less than half a century, the United City would reach
its present metropolitan proportions.
The lake was then as deep as now, the river was clearer and
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sweeter, yet few ships of any tonnage sought our port or carried
our products to foreign shores. It is true a few enterprising cit-
izens, among whom was the late Truman P. Handy, sent a fleet
of merchant vessels with a united capacity of five hundred tons, to
England in 1858, and were praised for their wonderful enterprise.
Art and architecture were in their infancy. Manufacturing had
had a feeble beginning, but then barely existed.
A resolution presented to the Common Council by the Hon.
Harvey Rice — the venerable citizen whom Cleveland is about to
honor herself by honoring — to the effect that at a cost of eight
thousand dollars, to be raised by public subscription, a monum mt
should be erected to the memory and deeds of Commodore Perry,
was accepted with general favor but deemed by many a hazardous
undertaking. A few groups of rough wooden sheds, perched
here and there along Walworth Run and dignifiedly called refin-
eries represented our oil industry — the Rockefellers were yet earn-
ing a wage. The great iron interests which have helped make
Cleveland so great and which even now are the life of our future
hope, begun years before by John Ballard, 'were weak and circum-
scribed. But what do we now behold? A great city of well nigh
four hundred thousand people, of almost every nation under the
sun ; an immense manufacturing center ; churches and schools,
business blocks and palatial homes, equal to those of any other
city in the world ; ships of the heaviest tonnage in our harbor and
in our shipyards ; our name and our products known in every land,
and all this in forty years ! Verily we ought to thank God and
praise Him !
But though great is this progress and wonderful this pros-
perity in material things, there is another progress for which we
should be still more grateful. It is this I wish to emphasize — it is
this with which I am especially pleased. The spirit of toleration
and brotherly love has grown and kept pace with the material
growth of Cleveland. Nor is this the result of coldness or in-
difference. It is the direct outcome of the true American spirit — -
good sense and broadness of views. It is the result of that con-
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viction which tells us that every man has a right to his belief in
matters spiritual, and that, so long as that belief does not oppress
the religious conviction of others, no man has a right to hate him
or oppress him because of his belief. It is because we have dis-
covered that while our creeds disagree there is a vast moral plane
on which we stand together fi >r the common good. We should all
endeavor to make others better, though we often fail with our-
selves. In this we thoroughly understand one another.
< >nce in awhile we hear a discordant note. But it is out of
harmony with the strong and growing sentiment of the people.
That fierce, un-Christian, un-American spirit which could awaken
the worst passions of the human heart and that in the name of the
God of peace and charity, is not in accordance with the good judg-
ment of the people of Cleveland. This feeling has grown among
us and year by year has manifested itself more gloriously in this
community, no close observer can deny. That this feeling has
year by year brought us more closely together, and the closer we
come together the better we shall understand and bear with one
another, is a glorious and a growing fact. In the spirit of this
feeling I am glad to be with you and my most earnest hope is that
each successive meeting of the Early Settlers' Society may find
that spirit more strongly developed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have, I fear, trespassed on my time,
but I thank you for your hearing of the good we have observed
in this city of our love, regarding which my best wish is that
which the lips of a seer of old poured out on his country — Esto
Perpetua.
In introducing Mr. Kerruish, Judge Hamilton spoke as
follows :
My friends, many years ago, when I was a small lad, I knew
a young man who used to teach writing. He is here to-day, and
I want to give him an opportunity to tell us whether he is the same
Kerruish that Mr. Armstrong spoke about this morning. I take
great pleasure in presenting to you Mr. Kerruish, who will ad-
dress you now and tell you all about it.
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MR. KERRUISH'S ADDRESS.
What I want to know in the first place is, is Billy-
Armstrong here? If he is, I've half a mind to say a few
words to him, personally ; for so far as I recollect, I can recall no
such public advertisement of a man's infirmity before a large and
respectable audience since St. Paul's epistles to the Ephesians or
Collossians or some others, when with his right hand chained to a
soldier he was compelled to explain and apologize for clumsy
characters and bad chirography.
And now, leaving that, ladies and gentlemen, a poet of the
olden time — and a heathen too, — I'm reminded of it by Monsignor
Thorpe's allusion to another poet- -said once, that he carried
every point, who mingled the sweet — (agreeable, will be just as
correct a translation) — ''who mingled the agreeable with the use-
ful." Some modern fellow, however, who was more addicted to
prose than to poetry, and who was disposed to look at the prac-
tical side of things, by way of modification of the rule just quoted,
said, when the exigency arose requiring you to throw overboard
the one or the other of these commodities — the useful or the
agreeable — as sometimes becomes necessary in a five or ten
minute speech — you should pitch the useful over every time — and
in calling me here this afternoon to make this speech, I think the
chairman and those having to do with my presence on this pro-
gram, have made jettison of both the Agreeable and the Useful.
I am not responsible for this part of the program at all. Those
to blame are Judge Hamilton and Williams — chiefly Williams.
He's the man who got it up. I exonerate mysel| and wash my
hands of it ; and I further say I regard this call upon me to speak
here this afternoon, when put in plain English, to be substantially
this : "We know you haven't got anything to say, and will give
you just five minutes in which to say it."
Now it seems to be thought by some, that because this is an
old Settlers or Early Settlers' Association, we must be limited in
what we have to say to retrospection and reminiscence. Not so
at all. But so firm has this idea become imbedded in the minds
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of a great many people, that in endeavoring to get persons to
make addresses here of a few minutes, the general opinion seems
to be that whoever talks, must tell us something that is old — must
deal with things of away back. It doesn't follow that this is s at
all. The truth of the matter is, that the men and women who are
pioneers, and have been pioneers in modern times, on these
southern shores of Lake Erie, on the shores of Michigan, on the
shores of all the Lakes and of all the Oceans, and in all time, have
been all persons who had their eyes fixed not on the past so con-
spicuously, as on the future. They have been indeed the builders
for the future. And whilst it is a matter of fact that the addresses
which have been made here at these pioneer meetings have dealt
largely with matters in the past — not so very far away either —
still, in the past, — in the past as connected with our local history-
there is a propriety, to say nothing of the necessity, of having our
eyes open to what the present and the future have in store for us.
I was very strongly impressed the other day by the remark
of a man who said to me : "I deem myself happy to have lived in
the nineteenth century. I consider it fortunate that my lines are
cast, and my time is appointed in the latter years of 1800." And,
when asked, "Why?" "Didn't those who lived before there were
so many inventions, get along as well, enjoy themselves as fully,
with health as good, etc.; and didn't they see as much of life""
! le said. "no. not half; for we live more and faster in one year now
than those old adventurers lived in ten." And this idea is em-
phasized by things coming to our knowledge of common every
day occurrence. I had occasion to go to Orange Township the
other day, where I had never been but once or twice, but where, I
remember if you started in the spring, in years gone by, and the
mud was as deep as usual, it was all your life was worth to get
there; and if you got there, it was a query whether you ever g it
back. Besides, it would cost two or three dollars, and that was
no small sum in those days ; but the other day all that was required
was to take a comfortable car at the Public Square, and forthwith
we pass swiftly and easily along magnificent streets, past beautiful
buildings, through a city as large as ancient Rome, until we are
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at our destination — and we are propelled mysteriously by an invis-
ible force which nobodv can understand or explain— the only
visi v1 e agency, a slender wire, endowed with an energy unseen,
inexplicable, resistless. Our errand done, we returned by the
same swift invisible silent steed ; and time, distance and expense
are substantially blotted out. This is a miracle — one of the many
living miracles of the present time. I do not use the word in its
common sense, but it is one of those things which in ancient times
would be called miraculous in a supernatural sense. I was under
the necessity last week of occupying a dentist's chair, when I be-
came for the first time aware that this unseen force was also har-
nessed as a serviceable employee in the delicate business ot den-
tistry. These are mere instances of the new things — new uses of
the present; and so the Early Settlers now nearing the end of the
nineteenth century as they turn their eyes to their surroundings
must necessarily take note of the fact, as some scripture has it,
that in many respects there is "a new heavens and a new earth. - '
Another new thing: A matter to which the President of this
Association made some allusion this morning — The Monroe Doc-
trine — was something very near to the American heart. There
was associated with it the idea of permanency and sacredness.
With difficulty are we getting over the notion that these United
States must forever adhere to it in its entirety ; yet so swift and
sweeping are our changing'conditions, that I'll venture to say the
Monroe doctrine now is. and since March last has been, as dead
as Lazarus. The caution given by Washington in the early days
of the republic to beware of all entangling alliances, etc., was good
enough for that day, but is now worn out and inapplicable. And
here again there's a new heavens and a new earth ; for new condi-
tions and new necessities have come upon us. It matters not that
some of us may not have been very enthusiastic in this last new
order of things referred to ; but we never accomplish things of
great moment without sacrifice and cost. One thing this war, I
believe, has accomplished. It has bound together a North and a
South ; and healed the wounds which have lasted for a generation.
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Another thing: It has worked out for us the complicated color
question. The race which thirty-five years ago was in chains, the
children of the slaves who were liberated at the cost of so many
lives, are now fighting side by side under old Federal and Con-
federate officers. So you see we are making progress. Indeed
we cannot keep the old with us if we would.
Permit me to repeat an illustration. It is said that when
Charlemagne, the great ruler who gathered together the peoples
of Medieval Europe into a mighty empire, who was great in war
and great in peace, a giant in intellect as well as in frame, a patron
of letters, a propagator of the church, an establisher of authority
over a domain as extensive as ancient Rome — when at the end of
a long and victorious reign he came to die, the piety of that age
thought it proper, in view of the magnificence of his achievements,
that he should be entombed in a sarcophagus, sitting in his royal
robes, with his crown upon his head, facing the East, that he
might with befitting dignity meet his Creator, the King Immortal
and Invisible, at the Judgment day. The curiosity of two or three
hundred years later opened that sepulchre and the king sat there
still, with a royal crown upon his head and his kingly robes
around him ; but immediately light and air were admitted, the
giant frame crumbled and collapsed, and in half an hour all that
was visible was a rusty iron crown, some tinselry of cloth, and a
handful of dust.
And so it is with all things we have dealt with and lived for
and set our heart upon ; they wither like the leaf and the fashions
of them change; therefore I reconcile myself to the conditions of
the Present ; and take large hope for what the future may have in
store for us — and referring again to the war, in the midst of which
we find ourselves, and which we cannot forget, though the out-
come of it may not be without its difficulties, yet in addition to the
healing of the wounds of the civil war, the unification of the
republic, and the solution of the race question, there's the new
thing of a united country stepping visibly to the front, with notice
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to all the world that justice and liberty, and stable government
must and shall be maintained.
And now I think my time is exhausted. (Calls of go on).
These are some of the things which seemed to me appropriate
to be alluded to on this occasion — but one more remark — half per-
sonal : My wife said to me this morning: "Don't you commit
the same blunder you have made two or three times at that Asso-
ciation, in scolding at them for not doing what you fail to do
yourself," — referring to something urged at former meetings as to
the importance of making this society the basis or nucleus for
more careful historical work. Yet I'll venture to say again, we
are not making of this organization all that we ought to in that
line. I happened to be in the northwest a short time ago, and by
the kindness of a gentleman who had some connection once with
our Historical Society here, was shown through the rooms of an
association at St. Paul, combining perhaps the functions of an
Early Settlers' Association with a historical society — and I must
say I was astonished at the extent and thoroughness of the work
done. There was a suite of rooms in the State-house devoted to
it— kept in excellent order, with files, it was said, of every paper
published in Minnesota since the beginning, with an extraordin-
arily complete historical and biographical miscellany pertaining to
the beginnings of that State and civilization ; and all so arranged
as to be at instant command.
It occurred to me we might well take a lesson from what
others younger than us are doing elsewhere.
Something was said last year as to the interest which might
center in some account of the earlier church organizations here.
In apparent response thereto I have a letter written by a former
resident of tins place which, with your permission, I'll read.
Reads as follows :
"EARLY CHURCHES IN CLEVELAND "
Dear Sir: — There should be, as you suggested at the last
meeting of the E. S. Association, a permanent record of the ear-
lier churches, their location, membership, etc.
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There was at no time any territorial or parish limits recog-
nized, except perhaps by the Catholics. The first Trinity church
was built and its society organized chiefly by residents of the West
Side. St. Paul's was organized by the Rev. G. B. Perry, in a hall
on Superior St., and its first building was on Euclid Avenue,
within a few blocks of the newer Trinity. The Second Presby-
terian was placed very near the First, on the same block.
In 1835. the original Trinity was on the Southeast corner of
St. Clair and Seneca. In it I saw and heard Bishop Mcllvaine, a
rather youthful man for a bishop, and wearing a fine head of
blonde hair. (Many of you in this audience will recollect it). The
church had an organ, the size of a folding bed ; the first church
organ in Cleveland.
The First Presbyterian, "Old Stone Church," was built 1834,
on the site of the present fine structure, which Mr. I. L. Hewitt,
a friendly neighbor, informs me was built by a committee of which
he was one of three, without instructions or limitations ; and when
finished was out of debt. The "Old" church had no organ, its
large volunteer choir being aided by the usual bass viol, violin,
etc. In it I heard Prof. Finney preach, when on his way to take
his place in the Oberlin faculty.
In 1834 the First Presbyterian Church of the West Side built
the "Session House," on the rear of the lot where the First Con-
gregational stood, on Detroit street. This building was moved to
Harbor St.. and was used for a school, and is, or was at one time,
the oldest church building in the city. St. John's is now the
oldest, built 1837, by Hezekiah Eldridge, for whom the late John
Sanderson was draughtsman at the time.
The first Baptist, on the corner of Seneca and Champlain Sts.,
was a central and conspicuous object, with its tall spire and four-
faced clock. (Headquarters of the Union Telegraph Co. are
there now). It employed a succession of eloquent preachers, first
i if whom was Rev. S. W. Adams, very tall and scholarly. But the
chief glory of the church was the genial and adequate janitor, John
Malvin fan old colored man).
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The next building was St. Mary's Catholic, on Columbus St.
near the bridge. The situation seemed admirably chosen to show
the array of the large congregation, as they came streaming down
the hill grades of Michigan, Champlain, Vineyard Lane, Detroit,
Franklin and across the open "flats." It was a picturesque multi-
tude, composed of emigrants, many in their antiquated and
peasant costumes.
The First Methodist church was, I think, on St. Clair St., east
of Erie. Of its preachers I remember Rev. B. K. Maltby. On the
West or "Ohio City" side, the Methodists used the Vermont St.
school house, station house, blacksmith shop ; and there I heard
their combined voices singing "Loving Kindness" with great
animation, or shouting their devotions in response to the lead of
T. D. Masters, long known as the oldest of original and genuine
Methodists.
The Disciples of Ohio City occupied the hall in Columbus
Block till their house on the corner of the Circle was built. I
cannot name the date of building the first Methodist or the first
Baptist churches on the West Side.
In 1837, a Universalist church was built east of Pearl St.,
near the market ; and about that date another on Prospect St.,
west of Erie.
In 1846, the Wesleyans, of whom R. H. Blackmer was chief,
had a building on Euclid, east of the Winslow residence, near the
angle, and the Associate Presbyterians, with Rev. J. W. Logue as
minister, (that is the father of our Judge of the Common Pleas
Court at the present time. I take it), and D. Pollock, leading
elder, had a very small building near the site of the Streibinger
House.
The Bethel, on the track of the C. C. C. R. R., between Su-
perior and Vineyard lanes, and under care of the unsailorly look-
ing Rev. Day, became the first station used by the road. The
circular "Tabernacle," on Erie, between Rockwell and St. Clair,
was the scene of many notable gatherings besides of Adventists.
Rev. D. J. Robinson, the minister, was a devoted, self-deny-
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ing, laborious worker; and his character as a true shepherd has
had too few parallels.
Of the organization and membership of the original church
societies, there are doubtless records extant that will be preserved
with increased vigilance, as the time advances; but the first
buildings, though remembered by many, have wholly vanished.
If any one with a clearer head and steadier hand than mine, will
volunteer a better reproduction of them, I shall be grateful indeed.
Very sincerely and respectfully yours, C. G. CALKINS."
As the male quartette sang "Massa's in the Cold, Cold
Ground," instead of "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground," as
called for in the program, Judge Hamilton thought they had
better cali them back for ''Tenting on the Old Camp Ground,''
so they came back and sang the latter.
In introducing Gen. J. J. Elwell, Judge Hamilton said :
For eighteen long years Father Addison was with us, I think,
at every pioneer meeting, at every re-union so far as I now know.
We have still with us another old member in the person of Gen-
eral Elwell. He is still with us, still useful, and still ornamental.
I will present him to you for an address.
ADDRESS OF GEN. J. J. ELWELL.
My friends, I will not detain you long. You must be weary.
We have had a glorious day, but we have not the "hold out," the
"hang on," as we had fifty years ago, and you must be weary.
And then, it will soon be milking time. The sun is p-oing down.
I am reminded by the presence of Father Thorpe and his re-
marks, and also by Brother Kerruish, of early Catholicism here in
Cleveland, and I just wish to refer to it in this connection, and I
know of no fact that illustrates more clearly the wonderful pro-
gress of this city than the growth of that religion and its great
churches. I happened to be here in 1845. I came into the city
on Saturday, and on the Sabbath following, having a desire to
see a Catholic church, a Catholic service, which I had heard of.
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living in the country, down here in Trumbull County ; I had
never seen anything of the kind; I visited across the river, down
near Columbus Bridge, to which Brother Kerruish refers, that
first Catholic church of Cleveland. That was 55 years ago. It
has since been occupied and the building is standing there yet for
a lumber yard ; you have all seen it, most of you at least ; I re-
member it, and never pass that old church without raising my hat
to it. At that time it comprised the great Catholic church of
Cleveland, a small congregation of foreigners, and to-day T am
told by Father Thorpe that the Catholic denomination of Cleve-
land amounts to 135,000. That little church represented Cleve-
land at that time, and the great Catholic church represents its
growth to-day. And so with the other denominations.
I feel, my friends, or did while the Secretary was reading the
report of our honored dead friends, to use the words of Colonel
Hay, our present minister to the court of St. James, Cleveland's
poet-statesman :
We meet and greet in closing ranks,
In life's declining sun,
When the bugles of God shall sound recall,
And the battle of life is won.
As such we represent that great army of old settlers which has
passed on. We miss them here to-day, and no one is missed more
than that humble, good man, Marshal Addison. He was a useful
man. I never knew a man to do as much useful business upon so
humble a capital. Mr. Addison was always planning some good
work, and he never planned anything but what he attempted to
execute himself. Modest, honest, earnest, he accomplished much.
We miss also those other grand men : Mr. Dudley Baldwin,
in my opinion, and I was very close to him for forty years, the
most perfect, take him all in all, and accomplished gentleman and
business man that I ever met. I speak from a personal stand-
point, you understand ; others undoubtedly have their special
friends and objects of admiration, but Mr. Dudley Baldwin to me
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was as the apple of my eye. I cherish his memory as I cherish
the memory of my mother and wife. I miss him every day.
And then how we miss Mr. Handy, and Solon Burgess.
Those accomplished gentlemen were with us only a little while
ago and stood upon this platform ; so we may well say, that as the
bugles of God call, they are disappearing. They are going up
higher.
One of the speakers has referred to the reluctance with which
we grow old. Well, that may be a common feeling, but it is a
Eeeling 1 know nothing about. I thank God every day that
1 have had my time during this present century which
is now going out, and I am satisfied. I thank God
for the opportunities 1 have had of living, and the
man who wants my place is welcome to it. I doubt
whether he will have a grander time in which to live than I have
had, see more, enjoy more. I hope he may, but to us, those who
are before me to-day, have lived in one of the most glorious eras
of time. There is no question about it. Our fathers plodded
along. One hour to us is as much, or there can be as much
crowded into it, as a day with them. As an illustration of that
fact, we can speak to New York and Chicago instantly.
My father came up from Warren to Cleveland in 1824 with
an ox team for a load of Burr Mills stones. He was two or three
weeks in coming from Warren to and getting back again. No
v<r,u\^, no bridges. I came up the other night in just sixty min-
utes. So I say, my friends, we ought to be well satisfied with the
chance we have had. We have seen this wonderful, marvelous
growth of this most beautiful, blessed spot on God's round world,
this Western Reserve. And those of our friends who have gone
before are not dead. We will meet them. They have just gone
ahead of us a little. The last talk I had with my friend, Dudley
Baldwin, was on his piazza in front of his beautiful lawn, and as
he looked out on it he said to me: "This is after all a beautiful
W( >rld. I am willing to remain here, but I am perfectly willing to
depart, as I shall now in a very few hours, in a very few days at
most. I have enjoyed this life exceedingly : it has been to me a
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beautiful life" ; and he talked as if his home was second only to
heaven, and it was only a step from this home to heaven with him,
and his ideas were clear, his propositions and his conclusions cor-
rect. Said he: "I shall have larger and wider opportunities."
So, after all, when this life is at an end there will be new fields
opened, new worlds. We should not regret the change. We
should rather anticipate it with joy and satisfaction. How kind it
is in good Mother Nature to let us down so kindly. A little deaf,
a little dull in our senses ; the eye becomes gradually dim, and thus
we are quietly, almost unconsciously eased down to rest in the
arms of Mother Earth, from whence we came.
I believe with regard to these men and women who first
settled this Western Reserve that they were the bravest, the most
persistent, the most honest and earnest class of men and women
that ever blessed this world. They were generally the sons and
daughters of the Revolutionary fathers and mothers. Those be-
fore me to-day are descendants of Revolutionary soldiers. This
Western Reserve and a large part of the State of Ohio was settled
by the children of these pioneer soldiers, and their mettle was in
them. The revolutionary soldiers came of Cromwell's soldiers.
It is this race, my friends, that made these beautiful homes on the
Western Reserve; that made these roads and these churches and
these school houses, towns and cities. These noble, patriotic men
and women, this grand Anglo-Saxon race which is now widening
and extending its domain over the whole earth. I agree with
Brother Kerruish entirely that we have not finished up matters
on this continent; that the Monroe Doctrine is obsolete. There
is no question about that. When that Monroe Doctrine was
enunciated we were a handful, only 3,000,000 people. We are
now 75,000,000. W r e then occupied a little territory along the
Atlantic Coast extending to the mountains, not to the Mississippi
River ; just a little strip there on the Atlantic sea-shore. It was
necessary then to attend to our home matters exclusively. We
had a hard fight for life ; the experiment of Republicanism was
new entirely, and we were looked upon by the nations of Europe
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as but for a day. There was no other course to take for those in
authority led by Washington but to attend alone to home matters.
"No entangling alliances with foreign powers" ; that was abso-
lutely necessary ; we had all we could attend to at home ; we had
an enemy in the front of us, a forest, a wilderness, a continental
wilderness, full of hostile tribes. "Avoid all entangling alliances."
Of course that was necessary. But now we are 75,000,000 people,
and we sa) to the nations of Europe, "It is for you to avoid en-
tangling alliances with the United States of America." We shall
go where our commerce calls us.
At that day Spain was a mighty nation, and only as long ago
as when Shakespeare died — 1616 — she was the greatest nation on
the globe. She had more territory than England or Russia ; she
owned the home peninsula; she owned Naples, the Lower Coun-
tries and .Milan; and she owned everything on this continent
south of the 34th degree of latitude, all South America, all the
Pacific Coast of North America. This Anglo-Saxon race is to-
day taking the last islands she has. To-morrow our troops will be
upon Porto Rico undoubtedly and in possession of the last strong-
hold of Spain upon this continent, and why? P>ecause she has
abused her great privileges, her wonderful opportunity. For the
300 years her rule has been a rule of oppression and barbarism.
I was opposed to tins war, for I have no sympathy with war, I
have seen all I wish to see of war. There is but one synonym or
term in our language which will properly represent war; take it
financially, take it physically, take it morally, war means hell and
damnation. T hoped and prayed that by some means this war
might be avoided, and I believe it might have been had not the
Maine been blown up. After that there was no longer chance for
peace. Thank God, the spirit of Washington still rules in this
country. After that dastardly deed the nation called for war, and
though our President held back as long as lie possibly could, he
at la^t spoke for the people of America. That te rib'e wrong
must be avenged. And it was only one of the many wrongs that
tin- Dnited States of America had suffered. The President was
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insulted by the Spanish minister in that letter which he wrote,
absolutely insulted, and opprobrious epithets were applied to him.
War had to come and war has come, and the nations of Europe
are looking upon us to-day as the greatest war nation upon this
globe.unless it be England. We are equal to any nation. Since
the Rebellion there has been no question about the.fighting ability
of the Americans. That question was settled during the Civil
War. Then they said : "Well, they are good fighters, but they
never can pay that debt." But we went right to work to pay that
debt and have wiped out more than two-thirds of it already, and
our bonds are worth more than the bonds of any other nation on
the globe. The president the other day asked for $200,000,000.00
and $1,400,000,000.00 were offered him at 3 per cent interest.
That is what astonishes the statesmen of Europe more if possible
than our fighting, and that is what stamps us as the greatest war
nation on the globe. We could raise ten million fighting men if
it were necessary ; and we can raise the money to pay them. War
means money and men, and when this nation can raise all the
money it wants at three per cent, and all the men it wants, it
stamps the nation as the greatest upon the globe, for no other
nation can do that, no other nation has ever paid its national debt.
So, my friends, it is our destiny to move right along. The
United States cannot give up the land it has taken until it is
thoroughly satisfied and recompensated for all the expenses of the
war, and has all the harbors it needs. There is a new condition of
things existing on this continent, and perhaps on the other conti-
nents, and it will be met in a new way ; our work has just com-
menced, and we are going to move on and maintain the position
we have taken and advance just as long as it is necessary, and hold
on to what we need for commerce and defence.
At this point the Rev. J. W. Malcolm was to have spoken,
and in explaining his absence and introducing another speaker,
Judge Hamilton spoke as follows :
The next address upon the program is that by Rev. J. W.
Malcolm. Let me inquire if he is in the audience. He told me
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that he had a sudden call to attend a funeral. Hoped to be back
soon and I think he will be probably before we close. In the
meantime we have present with us our first chaplain, chaplain of
this Society for very many, many years. He finally moved from
this County to that of Medina, and hence we were compelled to
select another chaplain. Our old chaplain is present with us, and
I have no doubt you will be very glad to see and hear from him.
Let me introduce to you the Rev. Lathrop Cooley.
ADDRESS OF REV. LATHROP COOLEY.
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen : I am not the first
chaplain of this Association; others occupied the place before I
did, but as your president has said, I was honored at one time
with that honorable position in this Association. By removing
out of the county I was not only disqualified to act as chaplain,
but also as a member of this Association. But I have the honor
of being a member of an association similar to this, comprising
Eastern Medina and Western Summit County, of which also I
have the honor of being chaplain, and I bring from that asso-
ciation greetings. Oh, there is a common membership among
the early settlers of this Western Reserve. The hardships, the
trials and sympathies, though requisite to accomplish what they
did accomplish, was common to them all.
It affords me great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, to be
present on this occasion. I have always loved the old people of
this Western Reserve and the associations connected with the
past half century.
The gentleman who has just taken his seat said he was glad
to have lived at such a time. Some years ago I had the pleasure
of preaching my fiftieth anniversary sermon, and in that sermon
I announced that 1 was thankful for three things : One was that
I had lived when I had lived. No half century was crowded ever
with so many marvelous events as the past half century at that
time had been crowded.
In the second place 1 was thankful to have lived where I had
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lived. For with one year's exception during my ministry then,
I had spent my time in Cuyahoga County and the counties ad-
joining. Here in the midst of the finest specimens of the new
editions of New England I had spent my life.
These were two things for which I was thankful.
And last but not least I was thankful that I had tried to be a
minister of the gospel, a faithful servant, a public servant of the
Lord.
These three things loom up before me to-day. I see no
reason to change my mind, especially looking upon the faces
before me, and yet there is a great solemnity and sadness here
to-day, as well as a great gladness. Glad to see so many faces
that I have seen so many years, but sad to see so many vacant
seats. Gone, yes, one by one. Almost each week of the past
year some pioneer has fallen. A few more years, and where will
be the pioneers of this Western Reserve? Grand men, manly
men, grand women, womanly women ! What great deeds did
they accomplish? They laid the foundations deep and broad for
an enlargement of human society. I have always been proud to
say in other countries: "I am from America." Proud to say in
America that I am from Ohio, and proud to say anywhere that I
am from Northern Ohio. For of all countries, as Bancroft once
said, of all countries of which he ever wrote, (and he was a great
historian) "the Western Reserve presents the finest type of civil-
ization and human progress." I say then I am glad to be here to-
day, although I do not properly belong to this Association on ac-
count of removing to a neighboring county, but I am with you in
heart, with you in spirit, and I am inclined at no time to ignore the
fact that I am old. I am rather glad to think I am old. I once
traveled in the Orient where they had a great many antiques ; I
guess they manufactured them, and the older they got them in
name the better price they bore. So you may call me an antique,
and I will estimate myself higher than I ever did before.
It is something remarkable (I will explain myself) but I am
one of the oldest men in the whole country, I suppose. I once
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had a horseback ride with a lady known as Mother Eve. Now I
must explain myself, because I would not have it go out that I
was not truthful. A long time ago a lady took a school in our
district in Streetsboro, by the name of Snow, a daughter of Squire
Snow of Mantua. That lady went with her father, the whole
family went, to Utah; they joined the Mormon Church. They
used to have in the city, in their great city there, what was called
the Sealing House, and they had the scenery there of the Garden
of Eden, Mother Eve and the Old Fellow himself with his cloven
foot, where the wives were sealed to their husbands. And would
you believe it, this lady who taught school in Streetsboro and
who wanted to go home on Saturday night, rode with me i n
horseback home, and she became Mother Eve in the Sealing
House in the great Mormon City.
(Mr. Williams: On one horse?)
I >ne horse only. Now I don't wish Honorable Mr. Wil-
liams, I don't wish to have you understand that riding was very
offensive to me with a lady on horseback, one horse. There are
pleasant memories connected with horseback riding in those old
times. You know the lady had her position, of course, where
she could hold on in ease of any danger, by throwing her arm
around the man, who was in the saddle, and it was often the case
in riding on horseback that things became monotonous, and a.
little spur in the heel of the gentleman would start old Tom or
Kate and make them jump, and then you know, with a horse
that jumps and a lady on behind, you know, she would hold on
and had a grip on your arm that was very strong, and yet not
offensive ; there was no wrong impression made. This belongs to
the Honorable Mr. Williams. This story never would have been
told if he had not introduced it.
Xow we used to take horseback rides, and you know we
couldn't well look in the face of the lady who sat behind us, as
you can now rifling in a carriage; you say, "How vulgar! how
could you enjoy that? Riding with a lady on behind, you
couldn't look in her face" ; but when the spur struck into Tom
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and he would jump one side, ladies sometimes make a noise, and'
the arm came round, and there was an impression made that you
will never forget. I say then, if it became monotonous at any
time, a little spur of the horse would change the monotony and
make it quite interesting. And so- we had our horseback rides,
and we had a great many pleasant things.
One thing I want to say to the young people, I wish they
were here to-day. They sometimes ask me, "How is it that you
are so old and yet don't show it? How do you keep your
health?'' I haven't kept my bed a day in a half century. How-
does it happen? Well, I will tell you. It is to make the best of
everything and not to get down. Live where the sun shines.
Now I used to make the best of riding on horseback, don't you
see? I made the best of it.
Some sixty years ago my brother and I went to the woods to
chop the clearing and get ready for the family to come on. We
had already been m the country about ten years then. Came in
from the East behind a yoke of ox*en, a long journey; then we
moved forward still, my brother and I, older, into the forest, and
I can say to you, it means something to go into the dark forest,
with those big trees, elms, beech, hickory and oak, and cut them
down and clear off the land. That meant something. How did
we live? We had just three things, potatoes, bacon and flour.
That was the stock. The flour, I was the cook, and I used to
wet it up with water and fry it after we fried the pork or the
bacon, that was oily, fat ; out in the woods that was the kind of
diet that we had ; but the water you understand was not such
water as you have here in Cleveland, that is, sometimes ; I un-
derstand sometimes there are animals in the water here ; but we
had in the water there, we had a little animal called a wiggler, so
that flour, it didn't need any shortening when we wet it up ; the
water was richer because of the presence of those wigglers. You
know the doctors say now sometimes that microbes are neces-
sities. W T ell, my brother George, younger than myself, he said,
"Never mind the wigglers. Twelve wigglers are as good as an
egg." That is the way he put it. Fifty years after that I wrote
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to my brother about those old times, and when I came to the
water that we had I wrote a few lines in poetry. I described the
springs in the deep forests. I will quote one verse :
Our springs were made by turned up trees,
The water thick with falling leaves,
And wigglers bright and gay. Twelve of the best
Equal one egg fresh from the nest,
As George was wont to say.
I say then, 1 don't care to go back there; I can live without
that sort of life ; I don't care to go back into the woods. No, my
friends, I had a good time then, and I have a good time to-day.
I rode on horseback thousands of miles in my early life ; I ride on
the cars to-day. It is a better day to live in. Twenty-five cents
I had to pay for postage on a letter then ; I can pay two cents and
get it now anywheres, from any place, and send it to almost any
place. Twenty-five cents ; my uncle Timothy Cooley, worked a
whole day for Joseph Atwater in Mantua, brother of Judge At-
water, and Judge Atwater was one of Cleveland's parties who
came here 100 years or more ago, I knew them very well ; he
worked for Joseph Atwater in Mantua a whole day to pay postage
on a letter that came from Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts." Now
I don't care to go back there. Xo, my friends, we live in a good
time, a glorious time; don't let us forget the blessings of to-day.
It is only one day at a time with us, anyhow. Here and now let
us make the best of this. "The waters of the river never lave the
same shore twice."' We never live over life again.
But I must close. I thank you, Mr. President, for the invi-
tation to speak to you, I thank the audience for listening to what
1 have to say ; I shall always love this Society, and I hope, whether
I am a member or not, that 1 may look in your faces again before
the shadows close over me and the night comes on that has no
morning here.
The quartette then sang "'America," and then, being joined
by the audience, "Doxology."
The meeting then closed with an appropriate benediction.
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SKETCHES 0E DECEASED MEMBERS.
HIRAM M. ADDISON.
A life that has exerted a powerful and long-continued in-
fluence in Cleveland ended when Mr. H. M. Addison, known
through the length and breadth of the city as "Father" Addison,
peacefully breathed his last at 1 :20 o'clock a. m., January 14,
As one of the founders of the Early Settlers' Association, as
the founder and chief support of the Children's Fresh Air Camp,
which has given health and happiness to hundreds of sickly chil-
dren and worn out mothers, and as the energetic, never-tiring aid
of a long list of benevolent and philanthropic enterprises,
'"Father" Addison had won for himself the respect and affection
of citizens in every walk in life, and Ins death will occasion the
keenest regret.
"father"' addison's life.
Few faces were more familiar in Cleveland than that of Mr.
Addison. He was a citizen of whom it may be truly said that if
all mankind were governed by as pure motives as those which
prompted his actions, this world would be considerably nearer the
millennium than it is. The name of H. M. Addison, widely
known as "Father" Addison, had become almost a synonym in
this part of the State for disinterested efforts in behalf of suffering
humanity. "Father" Addison was born in Cuyahoga county
when Cleveland was a mere hamlet. He first saw the light of
day in Euclid township, about four miles east of Lake View Cem-
etery, on November 21, 1818.
All of his boyhood days were passed in the township of
Warrensville, where he obtained his education in a log school
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house. He worked at fanning until 1835, when lie moved to
that part of Cleveland known as the West Side. From 1836 to
1844 he was engaged in traveling and teaching school. In 1844
he was united in marriage with Miss Ann McCaslin. The wed-
ding took place in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, where
"Father" Addison successfully taught school four winters and
two summers. In 1845 the young couple began life in earne.-t
on their farm in W'arrensville.
In 1849 "Father" Addison forsook the pursuits of agriculture
for those of journalism, establishing the first penny paper in
Northern Ohio, if not in the State. In 1852 he purchased the
Cleveland Commercial, which, under his editorship, became an
excellent weekly newspaper, though not successful financia ly.
Later he was connected with the Plain Dealer as agent and cor-
respondent, and still later he served the Review and the Ohio
Farmer in the same capacities. He was always a staunch anti-
slavery man.
Early in the rebellion "Father" Addison presented himself
for enlistment in the "Bloody Seventh" Regiment, but was re-
jected on account of his tendency to rheumatism. When the
United States Sanitary Commission called for citizen nurses to
go to the front, he was one of the first to respond, serving faith-
fully till the places of such nurses were filled by soldiers unable
to do active service. At the close of the war "Father" Addison
moved his family to Jeffersonville, Ind., where he resided ten
years, but he found that he could not be contented away from
the scenes of his youth and early manhood, and gladly returned
to his old home.
In 1879 he was the prime mover in organizing "The Early
Settlers' Association of Cuyahoga County." In 1889 he began
the establishment of "The Fresh Air Camp" — a summer home
on Woodland Hills for sickly children and their mothers. Under
his management, the camp became a well nigh indispensible in-
stitution. To sustain it and improve its condition, "Father"
Addison worked with a vigor worthy of a man of forty years his
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junior. He said that he hoped before incapacitated by old age,
to make the "Fresh Air Camp" as permanent an institution as
the Industrial Home, on Detroit street.
"Father" Addison, although he had passed the allotted span
of life by nearly ten years, was practically in full possession of his
physical and mental faculties up to within a short time of his
death. People who knew "Father" Addison intimately have
thought within the last few months that he would not live many
more years. Recently his step has not been so firm as it was a
few years ago. and there were other indications of failing
health.
Still it is doubtful if "Father" Addison thought that he had
but a short time to live. He tried to be as aggressive as he was
years ago, and manifested the greatest of interest in the Fresh
Air Camp, which is now an incorporated institution.
"Father" Addison had ideas on every subject. He sug-
gested the old log cabin which was a feature of the Cleveland
centennial celebration.
"Father" Addison's communications to the daily newspapers
on nearly every subject imaginable made him known to every
reader. He wrote slowly and spent a great deal of time in the
newspaper offices. An umbrella and a small valise of uncertain
age were almost always carried by him, and he frequently lost
them. His searches for misplaced and forgotten articles were
frequently long and tenacious.
"Father" Addison did not display as much interest in cur-
rent events as he did in the happenings of fifty and sixty years
ago, and his stories of pioneer life were very interesting.
"Father" Addison had been ill but a few days. He had a
severe attack of la grippe, and last night was the first time he
went to bed on account of his illness.
MRS. WM. BINGHAM.
At the residence of Mr. James King in Glenville, August 28,
1898, at 1 :30 o'clock, Mrs. Elizabeth Beardsley Bingham, wife of
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Mr. William Bingham of this city, passed quietly away. Later
in the afternoon the remains were. removed to the family resi-
dence, at No. 789 Euclid avenue. Mrs. Bingham had been ailing
for two years and the doctors attributed her death to heart
failure.
The deceased left two daughters, Mrs. C. A. Brayton and
Miss Cassandra II. Bingham, and one son, Mr. Charles \V.
Bingham.
Mrs. Bingham was horn near Sandusky Oct. 3, 1822, and
was the daughter of David 11. Beardsley, who for a long time
was a collector on the Ohio State canal. For over sixty years
she resided in this city, being connected with the First Presby-
terian church ever since its first organization. She was a Chris-
tian woman in the truest sense of the word, and was ever will-
ing and eager to lend an ear to charity.
ZENAS BENNETT.
Zenas Bennett, probably the oldest man in the Western
Reserve, died shortly after noon on the 17th of April, 1898, the
cause of death being exhaustion. He was nearly 102 years of
age, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Conkey,
in Warrensville, where he was visiting.
Mr. Bennett was in many respects a remarkable man. Al-
though having lived to such an advanced age, his senses had not
been impaired, and he could read newspapers as readily as a per-
son fifty years younger. In person he was of patriarchal ap-
pearance, having pure white hair and a long, flowing white
beard. As a rule he walked without the use of a cane or other
artificial means, and, barring a decided stoop, appeared to be
much younger than he really was.
Mr. Bennett was born at about the time Moses Cleaveland
was selecting a landing place at the mouth of the Cuyahoga river,
and had he lived a few years longer would have had the distinc-
tion of having seen the lighi of three centuries. He was born
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August 11, 1796. When he was still young his parents moved
from New York, his native state, to Vermont, where he lived
until he attained man's estate. He then came to the Western Re-
serve.
In religion Mr. Bennett was an enthusiastic Baptist. He
was tolerant, however, of the religious views of others. He had
the habit of applying a scriptural quotation to everything he did,
and it was not uncommon to hear him recite several chapters
from the Bible without error.
For over seventy years Mr. Bennett lived in Warrensville,
and was one of the unique characters of that place. About six
years ago he moved to Cleveland and made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Julia Bleakesdale, in the South End. From that
time on he made his headquarters at Eli Cannell's flour and feed
store on ^roadway, where he could be found at all hours of the
day, recalling old times with other old inhabitants who frequented
that store. He frequently told how, when he first came to Cleve-
land, Erie, Rockwell and W.opd streets were a part of the virgin
forest which then covered the greater part of Cleveland. It was
in this strip of forest, somewhere between the old court house
and Erie street, according to Mr. Bennett, that a deer was shot
by a hunting party within his recollection.
Until a few years ago Mr. Bennett performed manual labor
on his property, and did all of his own chores. On a hot sum-
mer's day when he was nearing his hundredth year, he could be
seen weeding his garden or hoeing his corn, when other people
sought the coolest spots.
Mr. Bennett always laid claim to the fact that his ancestors
were descendants of Roger Williams, and that he could trace
his lineage back to 1620, when his forefathers came from Eng-
land.
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HON. ROBERT BLEE
Robert E. Blee, ex-mayor of Cleveland, died February 26 r
1898, at his home, No. 2084 Euclid avenue, the immediate cause
of his death being pneumonia.
Mr. Blee had an interesting career. He was born in the
eastern part of what is now Cleveland, in 1839, and was a son
of Hugh Blee, one of the early settlers of this county. Mr. Blee
was prepared for Shaw Academy, a Collinwood educational insti-
tution, at a district school, which was located near the Lake Shore
railway tracks in Glenville. The Blee family was moderately
large.
While a student at the preparatory school he watched the
construction of the railroad, and his intense interest in railroads
had an important influence in molding his career.
"Some way or other I got my lessons," said the ex-Mayor
to a reporter several weeks previous to his death, "but I was
looking out of the window four-fifths of the time. Very often
the teacher would come down and strike me across the hands
with a heavy ruler. At recess and at noon I would rush down
to where the men were working on the railroad and remain
there until I was forced to leave.
"\\ "hen we were graduated one of the school officials took
the railroad as a subject for his address. One of his statements
made a forcible impression at the time. The speaker referred to
the building of the new means of transporting goods and pas-
sengers, and said that if the boys were smart some of them would
be brakemen ; if they were particularly bright, some of them
would be conductors and engineers; some of them might even
become managers. Continuing, he said that one of us might
some day be elected Mayor of the big city then growing up on
the west of us.
"Well, I became a brakeman, a conductor and a manager,
and served one term as Mayor of Cleveland. But I guess that
the presidency, which it was said that one of us might reach, is
far beyond me."
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When about 17 years of age Mr. Blee came to Cleveland
to look for work, and he succeeded in finding a position. For a
year he served as a brakeman on the Cleveland, Columbus &
Cincinnati railroad. He served under John Miller, now super-
intendent of the Pan Handle road, a part of the western lines of
the Pennsylvania system.
When the civil war broke out he was filling the position
of passenger conductor. He enlisted, and was assigned to look
after the transportation of troops between Cleveland, Camp
Chase and Camp Denison. Following the close of the war, he
was appointed assistant superintendent of the railroad for which
he had formerly worked. Three years later Mr. Blee was ad-
vanced to general superintendent of the road, then known as the
B*ee Line. He continued in that position until 1888, when a
second consolidation produced the Big Four system, as at pres-
ent constituted. Mr. Blee's authority was extended over the
entire system. After thirty-six years of railroading Mr. Blee
resigned in 1891.
Mr. Blee organized the "Bee Line Insurance Company,"
and served as president for twenty-two years. During his in-
cumbency the distributions footed up several hundred thousand
dollars.
In 1875 Mr. Blee, who had always been a democrat, was
made a police commissioner. In 1893 he was a successful can-
didate for the mayoralty, and served one term, being succeeded
by Mayor McKisson.
The former Mayor's business interests were many. "Every
penny I possess I earned honestly," he said in discussing his
success. "I took advantage of opportunities, and was a success-
ful speculator. If any person can show that I ever defrauded
him out of a dollar I will return the money with good interest."
Mr. Blee was president of the Ohio National Building and Loan
Company, a director in the State National Bank, the Grafton
Stone Company and several other companies. In the railroad
world he was known as "Honest Bob Blee."
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Mr. Blee never married. He lived at Xo. 2084 Euclid
avenue with a maiden sister. Mrs. Herman Frasch was a niece
who was entrusted to his care when she was quite young.
Every visitor to the city hall who used to go there when
Robert Blee was mayor, felt a sadness when he thought that
the kindly, genial, affectionate man, who for two years occupied
the executive's chair, would be seen no more. All city flags
were displayed at half mast.
The most sorrowing heart within the municipal building
was that of "Sammy." Samuel Newman was Mayor Blee's espe-
cial protege and companion when the kindly ex-railroader was
the city's chief executive. During Mr. Blee's term the mayor
was invited with his cabinet to attend the graduating exercises
of the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum. Samuel Newman was
one of the graduating class. • The mayor took a fancy to the
bright-eyed youth, and spoke to him in a kindly way, and patted
him (in the head. That was enough for "Sammy." The boy
followed the mayor all the evening and the mayor seemed to
enjoy the unique friendship. At parting, Mayor Blee said:
"Come and see me at the office, Sam, and I'll see if I can do
something for you."
Two or three days afterwards Mayor Blee found "Sammy'
waiting. Pleased that the boy should so quickly take him at his
word, the mayor put him to work at his own expense as errand
1" >y. and in a few 7 days got him on the pay-roll of the mayor's and
city treasurer's offices for small amounts each, the aggregate
making a comfortable income for a lad no older than young
Newman.
About four years have passed. "Sammy" Newman i^ now
stenographer to the present mayor. He has not an enemy on
earth, nor does a man in the city hall wish him ill. though he
is .almost if not quite "the last leaf on the tree" since Mayor
lilee's time. He does not forget his first friend in official life,
though.
When Robert Blee was mayor he started for his office room
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a collection of pictures of ex-mayors, and secured large photo-
graphs or oil paintings of almost all the ex-mayors of Cleveland.
When he was succeeded by Mayor McKisson, the new mayor,
desiring to add to the collection which graced the walls of the
office he occupied, asked Mayor Blee for his picture, and one
was furnished. Mayor Blee himself chose a location for his pic-
ture over the mantelpiece in the mayor's office. This picture, by
the way, an exceptionally fine one, was draped with crepe.
SAMUbL C. BKOOKS.
Mr. Samuel Curtis Brooks, for many years a prominent resi-
dent of this city, died of pneumonia at his home on Bolton
avenue, at an early hour August 17, 1898, in his 79th year. Mr.
Brooks came to this city in 1852,* and took a promient part in
the advancement of the city. He engaged in contracting and
building, and many fine places stand todav monuments to his
skill.
Mr. Brooks was one of the members of the first workhouse
commission, and with him were associated the late Harvey Rice,
William Edwards, J. H. Wade and George H. Burt.
Mr. Brooks and his widow, who survives him, celebrated their
golden wedding last October. He also leaves two children, Mrs.
A. E. Bigelow of No. 172 Bolton avenue, and Arthur S. Brooks
of the Brooks Co.
The deceased was a member of the Old Settlers' Association.
Until taken sick, he was a regular attendant of the Second Pres-
bvterian church.
THOMAS BURNHAM.
Thomas Burnham, prominently identified with the gro\vt"i
of this city for more than half a century, died Thursday night.
April 7, 1898, at his summer home, in Glens Falls, N. Y. He
was in his 90th year, and was vigorous until a few weeks before
his death. He was one of the oldest and most: highly respected
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citizens of Cleveland, and many friends had hoped to have him
with them still other years.
Since attaining the age of 70 years Mr. Burnham visited
Europe three times and California many times. This shows
his remarkable vigor. .He was preparing to spend a quiet sum-
nun at Glens Falls, near his birthplace, when he was taken ill.
There are left of the immediate family a wife and three
children, the latter being Mrs. J. N. Norris of St. Louis, Mrs.
Tin >mas Kilpatrick of < hnaha, Neb., and Mr. T. \V. Burnham of
this city.
Thomas Burnham came to Cleveland more than half a cen-
tury ago, when the city had but 1,700 inhabitants, before a rail-
road had been built in Ohio, and when the young west was only
beginning to give a hint of the greatness of the future.
Mr. Burnham was born in Moreau, Saratoga county, X. Y.,
on June 18, 1808. His ancestors were of English origin, the
founder of the family coming from England in 1635, and settling
in Massachusetts. His grandfather was a soldier in the French
and Indian and Revolutionary wars, and was a captain at Bunker
Hill — land given him for such services being still in the posses-
sion of his descendants near Lake George, N. Y.
Mr. Burnham, on completing his majority, passed his first
year in the service of a neighbor, and for two years following
that he was master of a freight boat on the Champlain canal.
In 1833 he abandoned canal life and on October 29 of that
year he was married. With $150 in his pocket he set out to try
his fortune- in the then far west of Ohio. It took four days and
four nights for Mr and Mrs. I'.urnham to reach Cleveland from
Buffalo by boat. Mr. Burnham, as soon as he arrived, secured
•■ position as school teacher in Brooklyn township. The follow-
ing summer Mr. Burnham was one of the proprietors of the
Burton House, a hotel thai then stood at the corner of Pearl
and Detroit streets. In the spring Mr. Burnham entered the
service of the Troy and Erie line, a company doing a large busi-
ness on the Ohio canal. Mter having acquired an interst in the
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company he went into the grain business and took control of an
elevator on the river, above the present Superior street viaduct.
In 1851 he purchased the Erie elevator, at the corner of West
Main and River streets, one of the largest then in Cleveland.
Mr. Burnham continued in the elevator business until 1871, when
he retired from active control. He was one of the chief founders
of the malleable iron business west of the Allegheny mountains.
For five years he was president of the Cleveland Malleable Iron
Company. He was one of the originators of the Chicago Mal-
leable Iron Company, and had an interest in that concern at the
time of his death.
Mr. Burnham was also a large stock holder in the Cleveland
Burial Case Company, and was at one time its president. He
was also a stockholder in the Whipple Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Burnham was a resident of Ohio City until its annexation to
Cleveland. He served for a number of years in the city coun-
cil, and became mayor of Ohio City in 1849, and was re-elected
to a second term.
At the time of his death Mr. Burnham was a member of the
Second Presbyterian church, corner of Sterling avenue and Pros-
pect street. He was also one of the original members" of the
Second Presbvterian church.
DR. GEORGE O. BUTLER.
Dr. George O. Butler, one of the prominent older members
of the Cleveland medical profession, died November 4, 1897, at
his home, No. 160 Sawtell avenue, of heart trouble. He was
64 years old, and was born in Amelia, Clermont county, O., on
February 23, 1833.
He studied in the district schools and then in the Clermont
Academy, from which he graduated in 1847. After that he
studied medicine with is uncle, Dr. Leavitt Pease, at Williams-
burg, and graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College
in 1854. He practiced with his preceptor for one year and then
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in \\ est Virginia for a somewhat longer period, removing to
Cleveland in 1856.
In 1862 he was appointed surgeon of the One Hundred and
Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war he resumed his
practice in Cleveland, and has long been known to those living
near Rock's Corners. Since 1872 he has been a member of the
Northern Ohio Medical Society, and in 1868 was one of the
organizers of the old Cleveland Academy of Medicine.
He has been a promient member of the Knights of Pythias.
In 1885 he was appointed a member of the United States Pension
Examining Board of Surgeons, and was for three years the sec-
retary of the board. He has also written considerably upon
medical subjects.
In 1855 he was married to Miss Cordelia L. Parker of Cleve-
land, who survives him.
MRS. JAMES CANNON.
Mrs. James Cannon died in our city of Cleveland, April 4,
1898, after an illness of only four days, aged 77 years.
She was one of the noblest women that ever drew breath.
A devoted Christian, an earnest temperance worker, a woman
who loved her own home and worked and prayed for the blighted
homes of our country.
For fifteen years she kept a "Temperance Home" in Rocky
River — a beacon light amid the saloons of that neighborhood.
She and her husband were largely instrumental in planting a
Christian church in that hamlet, and for this church they
wrought and prayed. She was a teacher in the Sunday school for
more than sixty years.
She would practice the utmost self-denial and economy that
she might help her church and the temperance cause.
She was a member of our Central W. C. T. U. and we never
possessed a more faithful worker. No day so stormy as to keep
her at home on the days of the regular meetings.
She was a woman without malice, loving every human be-
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ing and continually seeking to make the world better. God
saw fit to grant her a painless translation. From the first
hour of her illness she became unconscious, and quietly passed
over the river and awoke upon the bright shores of God's eter-
nity. Her example is more precious than silver and gold.
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. She has left a hus-
band and two children. — From True Republic.
MRS. JANE CANNELL.
Mrs. Jane Cannell, one of the best known pioneer residents
of the South End, passed from life January 12, 1898. The imme-
diate cause of her death was old age. She retained conscious-
ness to the last, and was able to recognize her children and other
relatives.
Mrs. Cannell was born May 1, 1800, on the Isle of Man, in
the English Channel. Her husband, John Cannell, died in 1869.
She was well known among the older residents of Cleveland,
and during the early history of this city did much towards fos-
tering the various charitable enterprises which have lived through
the years and are now powerful factors in this regard. She came
to this country from her Manx home in 1827 and located in
Newburg, which at that time was a small hamlet, but a strug-
gling rival of Cleveland. In fact, Cleveland was referred to at
that time as the port of entry for Newburg, six miles distant.
Mrs. Cannell was the mother of eleven children, three of
whom are now living: Mr. Eli Cannell, No. 1957 Woodland
Hills avenue, with whom Mrs. Cannell was living at the time of
her death ; Mrs. L. E. Jenkins, also of this city, and Mr. Charles
Cannell of Titusville, Pa.
MRS. ELIZA CARLISLE.
Mrs. Eliza Carlisle, who had lived in and near Cleveland
almost constantly since 1834, died January 19, 1898, at the home
of Dr. J. M. Lewis, No. 1264 Willson avenue. Mrs. Lewis is a
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daughter of Mrs. Carlisle. The latter had been ill about three
months.
Mrs. Carlisle's maiden name was Quigley, and she was born
in St. Johns, Newfoundland, January 3, 1819. Thus she would
have been 80 years of age had she lived until after another holi-
day season.
Her parents moved with her in about the year 1820 to Bos-
ton. Some eight or ten years later they moved again, going to
New York city. There she was married to William C. Carlisle,
in the year 1834.
That year, with her mother and the late Joseph Turney,
who was her cousin, they came to Ohio and settled on a farm be-
tween Bedford and Newburg. In 1836 the family moved to
Pittsburg, but four years later they returned to the farm in Bed-
ford township. Again they moved, going in 1851 to Southern
Illinois, in 1854 returning to settle in Ridgeville, Lorain county.
There Mrs. Carlisle buried her venerable mother in 1860. Mr.
and Mrs. Carlisle moved to Mt. Gilead in 1868, where, eight
years later, Mr. Carlisle died.
The children of Mrs. Carlisle were the Hon. James Carlisle,
Andrew Carlisle, John L. Carlisle, Mrs. Jennett Bennett, William
M. Carlisle, Mrs. Nellie C. Lewis, R. H. Carlisle, of the firm of
Strong. Carlisle & Turney, and Frank D. Carlisle of Columbus.
The two first mentioned are deceased.
Since the loss of her husband Mrs. Carlisle has spent most
of her time with her children in Cleveland.
THOMAS D. CROSBY.
Nine decades and part of the final lap toward a century of
earthly life was the period of experience among men of Thomas
D. Crosby, whose funeral was held from his late home, No. 4083
Euclid avenue, in the village of East Cleveland. His death came
on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 28, 1897. after a slow decline in
strength through the last few years.
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He had lived to be 93 years of age, being born on Decem-
ber 14, 1804, in the town of Lee, Berkshire county, Mass. The
Crosby family moved in 1811 by ox teams to the Western Re-
serve, settling near Euclid, and acquired a good tract of farm
property, where the village of Collinwood has since arisen. Mr.
Crosby's wife survives him. She was Miss Mary A. Ingersoll,
and they were married in the old East Cleveland Presbyterian
church on April 29, 1832.
The surviving children are Miss Mary L. Crosby, Miss Anna
E. Crosby, living at the East Cleveland home, Mrs. H. K.
Chamberlin of Pittsburg, Mrs. C. A. Fuller of Toledo, and Mr.
Henry M. Crosby, a well-known business man of Cleveland.
LYMAN PERRY FOOTE.
By the death of Lyman Perry Foote, which occurred at an
early hour Wednesday morning, Nov. 23, 1897, after a brief ill-
ness, Cleveland loses one of her oldest and most respected citi-
zens. Mr. Foote passed away at his home on Franklin avenue
after an illness of ten days. He was 81 years of age, and for
one of his long life had been in comparatively good health up to
the moment of his last sickness. The tidings of his death was a
source of surprise and sorrow to a wide circle of acquaintances.
Mr. Foote had been a citzen of Cleveland for fifty-seven
years, during the greater part of which time he was prominent
as a vessel builder, having been connected with some of the
largest ship building concerns on the lakes. He was born in
Dover on March 22, 1817, and came to Cleveland to enter into
the practice of his trade at the age of 24. Previous to this time
his life was spent on a farm in Dover. During his entire resi-
dence of fifty-seven years in the city he lived on the West Side,
and for thirty-one years of that period dwelt at the home where
his death occurred, at No. 341 Franklin avenue.
Mr. Foote was first connected as a ship builder with the
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well known firm of Thomas Quayle & Sons, whose shipyard was
situated on the old river bed on the West Side. Latterly he
became the leading member of the firm of Foote & Keating.
TRUMAN P. HANDY.
At the great age of 91 years and as honored and beloved as
it is possible for any man to be, Truman P. Handy passed
away March 25, 1898, in his home on Euclid avenue. Mr.
Handy was almost the last to pass beyond of the men of affairs
who were pioneers in Cleveland and who acquired fortunes. Ik-
was contemporaneous with J. H. Wade, W. J. Gordon, Joseph
Perkins, Stillman Witt, Amasa Stone, H. B. Payne, Henry Wick
and others of high standing, almost all of whom have passed
away.
To eulogize Truman P. Handy would be superfluous. His
life was its own eulogy, his steadfast Christian purpose and his
career of good deeds its own enduring monument. His purity
was at once an example and a refining influence. His citizen-
ship was of the highest type. His family and social relations were
of the sort that only his relatives and his friends can understand
and appreciate. His loss is a loss to the fireside, the church,
the community and the poor.
Mr. Handy was ill about five weeks. His trouble was a
catarrhal cold, which extended to his stomach, and his condition
finally became such that he could receive no nourishment, and
the end was a question simply of time. His physician employed
the strongest medicinal agencies known to bridge over the dan-
ger, but nothing availed. Mr. Handy's age was against him.
His magnificent constitution would have stood him in stead even
in so severe an attack of disease had he been twenty years
younger, but at 01 it was difficult for medical skill to avail when
disease has a firm grip.
Mr. Handy had virtually been dying since Monday after-
noon, when he was seized with n chill and a sinking spell. His
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death would not have surprised his physician and his relatives
had it taken place during the night Monday, but what with Mr.
Handy 's wonderful constitution, he lasted till Tuesday afternoon
at about 1 o'clock, at which time he peacefully passed away,
there being present his daughter, Mrs. John S. Newberry of
Detroit, and several members of his household.
MR. HANDY'S CAREER.
Mr. Handy was born in Paris, Oneida county. New York,
January 17, 1807. Having received a thorough training in the
English branches, at the age of 18 he accepted a clerkship in the
Bank of Geneva, at Geneva, N. Y. Five years later he removed
to Buffalo to assist in organizing the Bank of Buffalo, in which
he held the position of teller for one year.
In 1832 he came to Cleveland and accepted the position of
cashier of the reorganized Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, whose
charter, obtained in 1816, had recently been purchased by the
historian, George Bancroft. This institution was very prosper-
ous under his careful management. At the expiration of its
charter in 1842, a renewal was refused by the legislature.
In the financial crash of 1837 it had been compelled to ac-
cept in payment of the obligations of its customers a large
amount of real estate, so that it became one of the largest land-
holders in the city. In closing up the affairs of the bank, Mr.
Handy was appointed trustee to divide up this property among
the stockholders. This task was completed to the entire satis-
faction of all in 1845.
In the meantime, in 1843, he organized a private banking
house under the firm name of T. P. Handy & Co., whose busi-
ness was prudently conducted and quite profitable.
Upon the establishment of the State Bank of Ohio, in 1845,
Mr. Handy organized the Commercial Branch bank. He was
by far the largest stockholder, and during the entire period of
his connection with it, was the chief executive officer, being its
cashier at the outset and later its president. Its affairs were
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so ably administered thai during the entire period of twenty
years through which its charter extended it paid upon an aver-
age more than 20 per cent of its capital stock.
The Commercial National Bank succeeded to its business in
the year 1865. The failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Com-
pany, in 1857, precipitated the remarkable financial crisis of that
year, and seriously involved the Merchants' Branch Bank, which
up to that time had never been prosperous.
With diminished resources and impaired credit, it strug-
gled to regain its lost ground until January, 1S'02. when Mr.
Handy accepted its presidency and assumed control.
In a very brief space of time the results of his management
became apparent. A large amount of new and profitable busi-
ness was attracted to it; old losses were soon made good, and in
a little more than a year it was placed upon a solid, dividend-
paying basis, so that, upon the expiration of its charter, in 1865,
it was one of the strongest and most prosperous banks in the
state.
The Merchants' National Bank, now the Mercantile Na-
tional Bank, was organized in February, 1865, with Mr. Handy
as its president, which position he retained for many years. From
the first it occupied a position among the foremost of the national
banks. It has been a United States depository from its organi-
zation and has rendered the government efficient aid in negotiat-
ing all its loans. Its management has been characterized by the
exercise of prudence and caution.
It is agreed that while Mr. Handy had at all times associated
with him able men as directors, the principal credit for this great
success belonged to him alone.
While as a business man Mr. Handy will always be known
as a banker, he was also largely identified with railroad, mining
and manufacturing enterprises. He was among the earliest and
most efficient friends of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati
Railroad Company. He was its treasurer and principal financial
officer from its organization until 1860. when he resigned, and
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since that time he has been a director and member of the execu-
tive committee. He was also a director in the Bellefontaine
railway until its consolidation with the C, C, C. & I. Railway.
He was also for many years a large stockholder and direc-
tor in the Cleveland Iron Mining Company and a large stock-
holder in the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and several other
large manufacturing corporations.
As a citizen Mr. Handy was always warmly interested in the
policy of protecting domestic industries against foreign compe-
tition, and of establishing just relations between labor and capi-
tal, but at the same time he uniformly declined to accept any
political preferment.
In the war for the Union he was a steadfast supporter of the
policy of Abraham Lincoln, and contributed largely, both in time
and means, in caring for wounded and disabled soldiers at the
front and in the hospitals. He was treasurer of the Cleveland
branch of the Sanitary commission from its organization. In
educational and charitable institutions he was always largely in-
terested.
For ten years he was a member of the Board of Education,
where he rendered most efficient service in conjunction with the
late Charles Bradburn, George Willey and others in organizing
the present system of graded schools and establishing upon a sure
foundation the Central High School.
He was for many years a trustee of Western Reserve Col-
lege and one if its most generous patrons. He was also a trus-
tee and a liberal benefactor of Lane Theological Seminary. He
was one of the founders of the Cleveland Industrial School and
Home, and was president of its board of trustees from the first.
He was also president of the Homeopathic Hospital, and very
largely through his efforts was the present commodious build-
ing erected.
Mr. Handy was a devoted member of the Presbyterian
church from his boyhood, and was for nearly fifty years an elder
of the church. He was a member of the Second Presbyterian
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church since its organization. He was an active worker in the
Sunday school, cither as teacher or superintendent, for almost
sixty years.
For many years he was a corporate member of the American
Board. This position he resigned at the reunion of the old and
new school branches of the Presbyterian church. He was an
earnest advocate of that measure, and was a member of the joint
committee which framed the articles of reunion. He often rep-
resented! his presbytery in the General Assembly and was widely
known throughout the denomination.
Mr. Handy was married in March, 1832, to Miss Harriet
N. Hall of Geneva^ N. Y. There were born to them two children,
a son who died in infancy, and a daughter who married Hon.
John S. Newberry of Detroit. Mrs. Handy died July 5, 1880.
He possessed the rare benignity of manner and a generous
sympathy for the young. Positive in his own convictions, he
was charitable toward the opinions of others, and no man in the
state was more widely known or more universally respected as
a broad-minded Christian philanthropist. His successful busi-
ness career attested the soundness of his judgment. With
firmness and decision he combined unvarying courtesy, and was
one of the few who could say no without giving offense.
Mr. Handy's memory was wonderful, and in 1896, when
various writers were engaged in the work of putting into better
form the history of the city, he was a much sought, and seldom
failing, source of data.
Although having passed through the experience of nine
decades, Mr. Handy, up to within a short time of his death, dis-
played vigor equal to that of men a quarter of a century younger.
He almost daily attended to his business at the Mercantile Na-
tional Rank, where he was a director. This bank, at the corner
of Superior and Bank streets, is at the spot on which he first
lived in Cleveland, and he was connected with institutions hav-
ing that spot for a location, with very few breaks, from the first
until the time of his death.
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For a decade it has been customary for Mr, Handy 's many
friends to call upon the veteran banker and express congratula-
tions at his birthday anniversaries. Many others expressed them-
selves by telegraph. He built and occupied as a dwelling what
is now the Union Club building, when it was the only brick
building in the community.
This year he varied his usual custom as to celebrating his
birthday, in that instead of receiving his friends at home, he
went to Detroit and celebrated the occasion in the home of his
daughter, Mrs. John S. Newberry, on Jefferson avenue, in that
city. Mrs. Newberry's children, his grandchildren, are at least
three in number, Truman Handy Newberry, Mrs. Harry B.
Joy and J. S. Newberry, Jr. J. S. Newberry, Sr., the son-in-law,
has been dead nearly, if not quite, twenty years. He was in con-
gress from the Michigan district, including Detroit, and he and
Senator McMillan of Michigan were business partners, and
founded their large fortunes together.
Mr. Handy had four great-grandchildren. Mr. Truman H.
Newberry is the father of three children, and Mrs. Joy has a child
only a few months old.
Recently Mr. Handy was brought prominently before the
public eye in connection with the fifty-year celebration of the
Second Presbyterian church as the veteran of the church organi-
zation and a surviving member of the original founders of the
church society. In his anniversary sermon, at the beginning of
these services, the late Rev. Dr. Charles S. Pomeroy addressed
himself personally to Mr. Handy and spoke of his long life and
of the future life, too. No one dreamed at that time that Dr.
Pomeroy would precede Mr. Handy into the life beyond.
A story told by an old resident illustrates as well as any-
thing could the kind of a man Mr. Handy was. It was Mr.
Handy 's practice to devote annually a given portion of his in-
come to the church and to charity. A business crisis came, and
Mr. Handy, like nundreds of other men of means, felt the ef-
fects of it. Like many another, he was pinched for enough
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money to carry on business, though possessing much property.
In view of this he economized in all directions excepting that
he did not cut down a cent <>u what lie gave to the church and
to charity.
ARTHUR HEMENWAY.
Another old settler and long time resident of Cleveland* has
passed away November, L897, in the person of Arthur Hemen-
way, who was born at < >gdensburg, \. Y., April 7, 1816.
lie was of Puritan ancestry, being a lineal descendant of one
Ralph Hemenway, whose grave is still to he found in Roxbury,
Mass.. marked 1C*!4. and great-grandson of Dr. Ebenezer Hem-
enway. who graduated from Harvard College with John Adams,
whose cousin he married.
Mr. Hemenway came to Cleveland in 1836 and has made
it his home since, lie was an inventor of considerable ability,
and obtained several patents, the most important of which was
on the bending of wood by end pressure, now used in making
all bent wood stuff.
He married Miss Caroline E. Humphrey, a well-known
teacher of Cleveland, who died in 1886. They had three children,
a daughter who died in childhood; Man C. Hemenway, whose
sudden death about three years ago distressed a large circle of
friends, and Mrs. William F. Richardson of Seattle.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER INGHAM.
William Alexander Ingham died at midnight. Saturday.
May 7, 1898, in his home. 203 Franklin avenue, after a week
of remarkable activity. ( )n the day of his death up to 6 P. M.
he was at his place of hn>iness, 138 Superior street, lie relished
his dinner and read until ID I'. ML, retiring in comfort. At 11 :15
he was seized with angina pectoris, dying with the loving min-
istration of his wife to cheer ;i rapid passage into the beyond.
The life of Mr. William A. Ingham is a striking example of
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the results possible to the union of great natural ability and un-
wearied effort. He was of a worthy ancestry, distinguished for
four hundred years in the Mother Country for noble living, and
in this new world for many heroic achievements. His great-
grandfather was one of the slain in Washington's retreat from
Long Island in 1776; his grandfather one of the few survivors
of the defence of Fort Griswold under the traitorous attack of
Benedict Arnold in 1781.
Mr. Ingham inherited a keen intellect, broad judgment, a
sunny and hopeful temperament and an indomitable will. So
endowed, and with natural religiousness of character, it was to
be expected that his rounded life should be one of rare attrac-
tiveness and power.
Mr. Ingham's birthplace was the old town of Groton, Conn.,
where his life began June 23, 1823. When a boy of 8 years he
removed with his parents to the little village of Brooklyn, now a
part of the great city of Cleveland, but then the veritable fron-
tier. Many of the pioneer's hardships he encountered in his
early years, with fascinating anecdotes of which he was in his
late years ready to entertain those interested in that early local
history. From his boyhood his active mind thirsted for knowl-
edge, and he marked out for himself a broad education, disap-
pointingly curtailed by adverse circumstances. But his insatiate
craving made him for all life a most eager student, storing his
retentive memory with so rich a hoard as made him the helper
and delight of an appreciative multitude of friends.
His business career began very early, and from 1846 until
recent years he has been known as a successful publisher and
book seller. He early established a book store on the West
Side, and it is interesting to remember that he was also the first
person to publish a newspaper on the West Side, and the first
to handle the West Side mails and to establish a house-to-house
delivery. After a few years he opened a large and very pros-
perous business on Superior street, to which were later added
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branch establishments in Meadville and Greenville-. Pa., and in
Sandusky, Ohio.
He also became largely concerned in the street railroads of
Cleveland and in other branches of business, and for many
years he administered interests which called into activity his full
powers of intellect and of administrative ability. He made use
of his prosperity in varied enterprises of usefulness, giving largely
to the church, of which he was a most devoted member and sup-
porter, i" Ohio Wesleyan I Diversity, of which he was, from
1867 to the hour of his death, an honored and useful trustee,
of late years its senior trustee, and securing fur himself such
opportunities for travel and for culture as he ardently craved.
That his later years were clouded by misfortunes and financial
reverses was to him most of all a sorrow that his opportunites
For study and for noble giving were so curtailed. Perhaps the
most painful of all these disappointments was the giving up of
a purpose formed in the very beginning of his business life, to
endow generously a professorship in a college. Later this
crystalized into a definite plan to devote $30,000 to this object at
Ohio Wesleyan University, and not until its utter impossibility
was demonstrated did he at last reluctantly abandon this cher-
ished plan.
Mr. [ngham was a man of broad culture; as a traveler in
foreign lands he was familiar with the best in art and literature.
Having the faculty of impartation, he enriched the lives of stu-
dious young people by his clear and comprehensive description of
the treasures of the Old World. None who ever listened to his lec-
tures before Chautauqua circles and other associations, hut were
inspired t<> reach his own lofty ideal of intellectual and religious
endowment and discipline.
Especially dear to him, both for its intellectual and its relig-
ious delight, was his long and close connection with Ohio Wes-
leyan University, where lu- was greatly beloved by professors
and students. His benefactions to the University were admir-
ably judged. He added so large a collection of valuable books
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to the university library that a commodious alcove was stored
with his gifts to the amount of thousands of dollars, and given his
name. A scries of lectures on natural and revealed religion by
distinguished clergymen, was provided by his liberality, and
published in 1872 in a volume entitled "The Ingham Lectures.''
It was a great pleasure to him, too, to help ministers unable to
purchase books. To many such he gave valuable and well se-
lected libraries. When Franklin Avenue Methodist church was
built (and it should be noted that he was chairman of the build-
ing committee and president of the board of trustees at that
time, and designed the plan of the Sunday school rooms with
many unique features) he also furnished a well chosen library
for the use of the pastors of the church.
Mr. Ingham's home evidenced his keen love for intellectual
culture. The heart of the house is the spacious library, lined
with bookcases full of rich literary treasures, gathered, not simply
to satisfy his aesthetic tastes, but to furnish a well equipped
workshop for a never weary student, who knew and loved his
constantly-read books. Here it was always his delight to bring
his most appreciative friends, and especially the eager young peo-
ple he so much loved to help upward to his own ideals of life.
His love for young people was one of the ruling passions o f his
life, and his house was often filled with large gatherings of young
men and women who responded to his affection with loyal devo-
tion.
Especially beautiful was the religions side of Mr. Ingham's
character. At ten years of age he connected himself with the
Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was a faithful adherent
to his latest day. For years he has been a very active member
of the official board of Franklin Avenue church, and almost never
absent from its Sunday school and unwearied in his attendance
upon every public and social service. And his life was the truest
exponent of the faith he held. In the midst of almost overwhelm-
ing misfortunes his faith seemed never to waver. In the darkest
days he ever saw he frequently quoted with strong emphasis the
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Scripture words: "The joy of the Lord is your strength," and
in that strength he was able to endure to the end, and that with
an unvarying cheerfulness thai never complained, that was always
considerate, kindly and sweet. One who loved him well has
many times said that the twenty-third Psalm, in its sweet, trust-
ful serenity, alwa) s reminded her of him. 1 lis character was not-
able for its gentle judgments of motive and conduct. He was
the mosl forgiving of nun. never harboring a thought of resent-
menl or revenge, but seeking an innocent motive for even cruel
wrongs, and looking persistently for the besl in ever) character.
Ti > the vei y day i if his death he kept up his remarkable activ-
ity. \> the vital forces weakened and frequenl suffering came,
he always spoke briefly and lightly of his infirmities, and turned
a pale bul still smiling face to those he so tenderly loved. His
very last da\ was one oi unflinching activity, filled with bu
cares, with interested participation in all the intense news of
national events, in careful preparation for the anticipated service
on the morrow in the church of his love. And then he sought
his resl unconscious of the hovering pinions of the heavenly
messenger, who. in one brief hour had home In- ready spirit
into the presence of his beloved Father in 1 leaven. •"And he
was not ; for < lod took him." A noble soul : as one has well said,
"A man of righteousness, justice and progi
MRS. ABIGAIL JANES.
The death of Mrs. Abigail Janes. April 22, 1898. has removed
another of those who saw Cleveland in its infancy. Her father.
Humphrey X. Nichols, came to this county from Connecticut,
and soon after married Mariah Bunts, and their daughter Abi-
gail was born in I lleveland township April 17, 1828. Mr. Nichols
settled upon a farm, then in the thick forest, but where now
pass Doan Streel and Hough avenue, and other thickly settled
street-, as well as the new boulevard. In IS") Abigail Xichols
became the wife of Lon n/> i bn
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Mrs. Janes was the mother of four children. A daughter,
Alice M., died many years ago, and a son, Andrew, five years ago,
in the prime of young manhood. Her husband and two sons,
Hylas S. Janes and Milton M. Janes, are left to mourn her loss.
She was a loving, tender wife and mother, and such a loss cannot
be made good.
Mrs. Janes ever retained a love and interest in the present
as well as in the past, and manifested in a marked degree her
pride in the city's advancement and beauty. She was cheery
and bright in temperament, and her home attracted alike the
young and old.
MRS. MARIA L. MEDARY.
Mrs. Maria L. Medary, a former resident of Cleveland and
a member of the Early Settlers' Association of Cuyahoga
County, died at Bedford Thursday, March 10, at the age of 76
years. Mrs. Medary was born in Cleveland November 21, 1821.
She was the daughter of Luther Willes, who was a dry goods
merchant, doing business on Superior street as early as the year
1820. Mrs. Medary was the niece of Judge John W. Willey, the
first mayor of Cleveland, and was also a niece of Ziba Willes,
who established the Cleveland Herald in the year 1819. At the
age of 15 years she became a member of Judge Willey's family,
where she lived up to the time of her marriage with General Jacob
Medary, then one of the proprietors and editors of the Ohio
Statesman, of Columbus. The elegant hospitality dispensed in
Judge Willey's family for many years was largely aided by the
high social qualites of Miss Willes, while in the best social circles
both in Cleveland and Columbus she was noted for her genial
disposition and rare ability for making everyone about her happy.
Mrs. Medary was a woman of fine presence and whoever
made her acquaintance remembered her with the most pleasing
satisfaction. After the decease of her husband she took up her
residence with her widowed mother, now long since deceased.
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in the pleasant village of Bedford. After some years she pur-
chased a charming house on Lake street, Cleveland. Later she
became the owner of a delightful cottage on College street, Hud-
son, then the seat of Western Reserve College. She was a
woman of deep and earnest piety, and wherever she lived was
an active worker in the church, a life she enjoyed to the full.
For some years past Mrs. Medary had been declining in
health, and her life closed with the deepest regret of her many
friends.
JOHN MORRIS.
Mr. John Morris, an old and respected citizen of this city,
died Sunday morning, Jan 23, 1898, of apoplexy, at the residence
of his daughter. He was in his 84th year. Mr. Morris was one
of the pioneer shipbuilders of Cleveland, having been in busi-
ness since 1842. He retired several years ago. Since the death
of his wife in 1891 he had made his home with his daughter, Mrs.
F. S. Warner, No. 10 Crawford road, where the funeral services
were held. Mr. Morris leaves one son and five daughters.
LUTHER R. PRENTISS.
Squire Luther R. Prentiss, probably the most interesting
character among Cleveland's early pioneers, died November 24,
1897, at the home of his son, Mr. W. C. Prentiss, in Twinsburg.
His death is attributed to general debility. Having passed his
94th year Mr. Prentiss begun to feel the enervating effects of
old age about two weeks before his death. He sank gradually
and passed peacefully away.
Mr. Prentiss was born in Acworth, N. H., in 1803, and sev-
enteen years later he migrated to Ohio, the trip having been
long and tedious. The squire's antecedents were of the colonial
stock, his father and two uncles having participated in the battle
of Bunker Hill. It is not known outside of a limited circle that
one of these uncles, James Prentiss, was buried at Warrensville.
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Squire Prentiss passed through all the vicissitudes attending
early life in the Western Reserve. One of the stories which he
frequently related was that he worked one season in Cleveland
for a pair of boots and a razor. His employer during the first
year of his residence here was Judge Kingsbury.
"Pshaw !" said Mr. Prentiss sometime previous to his death,
"Father Addison old! Why, I was mowing hay when he was
born !"
Some time subsequent to his arrival in this city Mr. Prentiss
located on a farm in Warrensville, and it was there that he was
elected a justice of the peace, retaining the office for many years.
He was a member of the Early Settlers' Association.
The final years of his vigorous life were spent at the home
of his son, Mr. Prentiss having detested life in the city.
The deceased leaves two sons and three daughters, W. C.
Prentiss, M. L. Prentiss, of Belle Plaine, la. ; Mrs. H. H. Colby,
of Chagrin Falls ; Mrs. Alary Watterson, of Cleveland ; Mrs. T. C.
Reed, of Marengo, la. His wife, a Mrs. McKinney previous to
her marriage, died a long time ago.
HARRIET JOHNSON SACKET.
Since the last meeting of the Old Settlers' Association one
of its members, who for almost 82 years has been a resident of
Cleveland, has passed to her reward.
Harriet Johnson Sacket entered into rest on the 6th of last
October at her home, 1490 Euclid avenue. Mrs. Sacket was
the widow of the late Alexander Sacket, who died in September,
1884. She was born in this city on December 10, 1815, when
Cleveland was a mere village, and the place where her late home
is on Euclid avenue was an unbroken wilderness. Her father,
Levi Johnson, was a prominent contractor and builder in the
early days of Cleveland, coming from New York state in 1809.
The house in which Mrs. Sacket was born was situated on
Superior street, where the Johnson house now stands, and Dr.
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Long, Cleveland's earliest physician, lived in a brick house just
opposite. She attended Mrs. Scranton's school with Dr. Long's
daughter— now Mrs. Mary Severance. The school house was
a small wooden building on the corner of Bank and St. Clair
streets, the seats being little rude wooden benches. When she
was still a small girl her father, Levi Johnson, moved from Su-
perior street, to a large square house on the bank of the lake,
on Water street, later known as the Whittaker house. Here
a part of her girlhood was spent. Later she lived in a frame
house on the northeast corner of Lake and Water streets,
where she was married on the 15th of July, 1836, to the late
Alexander Sacket, who came from Sacket's Harbor, N. Y., to
Cleveland by stage in 1835. She was just past girlhood at the
time of her marriage. The young couple had decided to start
their wedding tour by a trip to Buffalo via the boat line then in
operation. The vessels were none too regular, and planned
journeys were often postponed.
This city seemed then to have been little more than a way
port for the Toledo and Buffalo line. In the case of the wedding
tour, however, a unique decision was made. It was decided to
delay the ceremony until the boat was in sight. Thei
with minister, guests and relatives assembled at the house, a
watch was appointed. After quite a wink- of anxious suspense
tin- little group of young people, who had been detailed to look
out for the boat, rushed in with the good news that the steamer
was coming. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Aiken and
the young couple were escorted aboard, and Buffalo was r<
in safety. Lake Ontario was visited and from there New York
city was reached by boat and stage. Upon their return to I
land Mr. and Mrs. Sacket kepi house in a dwelling on the
southeast corner of Ontario and Champlain streets. Afterward
Mr. Sacket built a cottage on Ontario street, between St. Clair
and Lake streets, where they lived until tiny moved to the
home on Euclid avenue. Mr. Sacket built the homestead in
1852 and it was here that she passed the remaining years of her
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life. Mrs. Sacket always had excellent health up to the last year
before her death, and was only seriously ill three weeks, passing
away in a painless, peaceful sleep, surrounded by her children and
grandchildren, by whom she was ever the honored and beloved
center, not only for her sweet and gentle life, but her true
Christian character. Mrs. Sacket had several children, two of
whom died in infancy, and her son, Mr. Levi Sacket, died only
six months previous to her own death. The remaining children
are Mr t s. V. C. Taylor and Mrs. H. H. Baxter, of this city; Mrs.
H. T. Rumbough, of Hot Springs, N. C, and Mrs. Chas. E.
Brown, of Chicago.
MRS. EMELINE MORSE SAXTON.
Mrs. Emeline Morse Saxton died Sept. 28, 1897, at her
home, No. 1930 Euclid avenue. She was one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Cleveland. She had attained the age of 77 years, the
age of her husband when he passed away four years ago.
Mrs. Saxton had been ill for about a year, and her death
was not a surprise to those who knew her. It is thought her
death was caused by old age.
Mrs. Saxton was Emeline A. Morse before she became the
wife of Jehiel Clinton Saxton, and was born in Oxford county,
Me., in the year 1821. With her parents she moved to Cuyahoga
county in the year 1832. She was married in 1837.
Immediately following her marriage she moved with her hus-
band to Cassopolis, Mich., where Mr. Saxton conducted a tem-
perance hotel. It was at this place that the first women's suf-
frage meeting ever held in Michigan occurred. There were six
women present, including Mrs. Saxton.
Mr. and Mrs. Saxton were strong abolitionists, and their
hotel was one of the stopping places in the famous "under-
ground railway," and many a slave sought protection and re-
ceived it under their hospitable roof.
Mr. and Mrs. Saxton later returned to Cleveland and took
up their residence on Euclid avenue. Mrs. Saxton at the time
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of her death had lived on this famous thoroughfare more than
forty-four years, and had lived in the house in which she died
for almost a generation.
Mr. Saxton, when Cleveland was still a very small place,
became interested in the militia, and from orderly worked his
way up until he became a brigadier general. 1 Ee was a surveyor
by occupation, and always referred with pride to the Kinsman
pike road, which was laid out by him.
Mrs. Saxton shared her husband's strong personality and
intrepid character, as did their daughter, Mrs. Josephine Am-
nion, who died several years ago. Mrs. Saxton, being a spirit-
ualist in religion, braved the scorn of her friends and relatives,
who did not believe in this form of worship. She died in this
faith.
She leaves seven grandchildren and four great-grandchil-
dren. The grandchildren are Mrs. Addie Arnold, of St. Louis;
Frank Dowling, John S. Dowling, Mrs. flattie Amnion Cowl-
ing, J. R. Ammon, Harry Amnion and Mark Amnion.
JOHN J. SHIPHERD.
John J. Shipherd died June 2, 1898, very suddenly, in the
home on Lake avenue, near Cove street, occupied by himself
and his son-in-law, M. H. Solloway, and their wives. Mr. Ship-
herd was about 58 years old. He had lived in Cleveland for a
long time, and was one of the best known men in the city. He
passed away at 9 o'clock, after a few minutes' illness, and before
the arrival of the family physician. At 7 o'clock he had felt as
well as at any time for two or three months past.
John J. Shipherd was of a Cleveland family, although he
spent some time away from here in his early manhood. He
married in this city between thirty and forty years ago, Miss
Dibble, the daughter of the late Lewis Dibble, a pioneer citi-
zen of Cleveland and a man of means, for whom Dibble avenue
was named. Two children survive this marriage, Mrs. Florence
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Shipherd Solloway, wife of M. H. Solloway, Esq., and Louis C.
Shipherd of Kensington street, a merchandise broker. Mrs. Ship-
herd also survives.
Mr. Shipherd, sixteen or eighteen years ago formed a part-
nership with Charles H. Potter, under the firm name of C. H.
Potter & Co., in the banking and investment business. Mr. Pot-
ter's connection with this firm has for some time been purely
nominal. Later, Mr. Shipherd invested in a number of enter-
prises, among them street railway ventures in Fort Wayne, Ind.,
Cincinnati, and elsewhere. He was also connected with the old
Cleveland Cable Railway Company, before its merging into the
Cleveland City Railway Company.
Mr. Shipherd was in prosperous days a Union club member
and a member of several other social organizations. The family
has lived of late years on Prospect street, and on Euclid avenue,
and finally on Lake avenue.
ADAM M. WAGAR.
Adam M. Wagar died at his home in Lakewood, August
1, 1897. Mr. Wagar lived for many years in what came to be
known as the Wagar homestead oh Highland avenue. His
death was clue as much to his advanced age, perhaps, as to any
other cause, though it was hastened by a stroke of paralysis. The
end was painless and peaceful. His family were about his bed-
side when he breathed his last.
Mr. Wagar had been in feeble health for some time and
death, while not immediately expected, when it occurred did not
come with the shock of a surprise to the relatives who were with
him. He leaves four daughters — Miss Anna Wagar, Miss Min-
erva Wagar, Miss Carabel Wagar and Mrs. Arthur R. Bailey.
Mr. Wagar was of commanding presence and of genial tem-
perament. He was six feet four inches in height, and was called
sometimes "the tall svcamore of Rockpoft." When he met a
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friend it was his habit to grasp his hand and ask cordially: "Well,
\vhat"s the good news? What's the good news with you?"
His interest in affairs, both local and of a more general na-
ture, was intense and noteworthy. ( mly last fall he was honored
by serving as an elector in the Palmer and Buckner ticket. He
had been a life-long democrat of the old school, and he did not
countenance the repudiation platform of 1893. In local affairs, the
political campaigns and interests of his village, Mr. Wagar was
enthusiastically engrossed. He was elected for four terms of
three years each a justice of the peace of Lakewood, served five
years as a township trustee, eighl years as school treasurer, and
for several years was postmaster of the village. I Ee also showed a
keen interest in religious affairs, lie was a faithful, consistent
and prominent member of the Mew Jerusalem Swedenborgian
church in Lakewood. llis father, Mars Wagar, gave the land
on winch the church was built.
Adam M. Wagar was horn in Farmington, X. Y.. February
25. 1818. He was the oldest of six children horn to Mars and
Keturah Wagar. When he was a babe, nine months old. his
parents moved to Cleveland, then only a village. They were
rowed across the Cuyahoga river in a scow, and during this ferry
trip lost part of their household belongings. For two years
Adam Wagar's parents lived in various hotels, but they finally
settled on a (arm on the present Detroit street opposite whal is
now Warren street. Mr. Wagar's education was acquired at a
log school house in Rockport township. Tie followed agricul-
tural pursuits all his active life. He'died worth probably $100,000
or more. On March 9. 1848. he married Miss Mar-aret Kyle, of
Steubenville. Tier death occurred about two years ago.
Of course Mr. Wagar did not remember the long wagon
trip of his pioneer lather and mother from New York to tar
away Western < >hio, but he did recall some \ er\ interesting facts
about the early history of Cleveland. For instance, he remem-
bered the time when the county jail had doors of logs and he.
in passing, saw peering through the barred windows the faces of
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men in prison for debt. He remembered when Pearl street was
cleared of timber, and when Detroit street was a wooden section
except for three or four houses. At that time the letter H was cut
into the trees to mark the highway. He knew the pathway of
the old stage coach that went between Buffalo and Detroit, pass-
ing through his farm, and he remembered vividly the Tippe-
canoe Harrison campaign.
MOSES WARREN.
Moses Warren, of No. 942 Doan street, one of the oldest
residents of Cleveland, died at his home late Thursday night,
July 14, 1898. Mr. Warren was one of the founders of War-
rensville. He was 95 years old.
He was born at Acworth, N. H., June 6, 1803. He came to
Ohio with his brother in 1815, and located at the spot that is
now the site of the town of Warrensville. The town was named
after Mr. Warren's brother.
In 1861 Mr. Warren came to Cleveland and settled on Doan
street. He owned much of the property between Doan street
and W r oodland Hills avenue in the vicinity of Cedar avenue.
After selling all of his land with the exception of the property
he occupied, he retired from active life.
He married Miss Sarah N. Hubbell in Warrensville on
March 26, 1826. His six children are all alive. They are : Mrs.
Leora H. Woodward, of Cleveland ; Mr. William M. Warren,
of Warrensville ; Mrs. Lucile C. Hoag, of Michigan ; Dr. Roland
M. Warren, of Wooster ; Mrs. Priscilla C. Caley, of Warrens-
ville. and Mrs. Mary i^. Yeindersluice, of Big Rapids, Mich.
There are six children, eighteen grandchildren and eleven great-
grandchildren living. Mrs. Warren died about twenty years
ago.
Mr. Warren retained all his faculties until a short time be-
fore his death. He was ill onlv about a month.
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MRS. ALMIRA WILLEY.
Mrs. Almira Willey, one of the oldest residents of Ashta-
bula county, died Dec. 14, 1897, at the home of Mr. C. A. Willey,
Main street, Ashtabula. She was over 94 years of age.
She was born in Middletown, Conn., in 1803, and came to
Ashtabula on the Fourth of July, 1808, and has ever since been
a resident of this city. Her maiden name was Almira Jones. She
was married to Mr. Andrew Willey in "J 819. Mr. Willey died in
1865.
Of the twelve children which were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Willey, five are living. They are Mrs. L. Robertson, Mrs. T.
C. Strong, Charles A. Willey, Albert P. Willey and John J. Wil-
ley, all of this city. She also leaves one brother, Mr. J. P. Jones,
of Painesville, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ager of Briggs-
ville, Wis., and Mrs. Lucy Pinney, of Nebraska. The deceased
was an honorary member of the Old Settlers' Society in Cleve-
land. Mrs. J. F. Ryder of Cleveland is her niece.
Mrs. Willey had been ill for about five weeks, death being
caused by paralysis. Mrs. Willey's loss will be deeply mourned
by a large circle of friends.
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A COMPLETE LIST
OF THE
Members of the Association,
SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION, NOVEMBER 19, 1879,
TO DECEMBER 1, 1898.
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Abbey, Seth A.
New York,
1798
1831
1880
Ackley, John M.
Ohio,
1835
1835
Adams, Addie L.
Ohio,
1852
1852
Adams, Comfort A.
Ohio,
1816
1816
Adams, Clark D.
Ohio,
1848
1848
Adams, Charles M.
Ohio,
1843
1843
Adams, Mrs. Charles M.
Ohio,
1845
1845
Adams, Darius
Ohio,
1810
1810
1896
Adams, Edwin E.
Ohio,
1830
1830
Adams, Mrs. Edwin E.
Ohio,
1836
1836
Adams, George H.
England
1821
1840
Adams, Mrs. George H.
New York,
1822
1849
1897
Adams, John F.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Adams, Joseph J.
New York,
1835
1840
Adams, Mrs. Mary A.
Ohio,
1811
1811
1885
Adams, Samuel E.
New York,
1818
1837
1893
Adams, Mrs. Samuel E.
Vermont,
1819
1839
Adams, William K.
New York,
1812
1831
1882
Addison, Hiram M.
Ohio,
1818
1818
1898
Addison, Mrs. Hiram M
Pennsylvania,
1825
1844
Aiken, Mrs. E. E. B.
New York,
1821
1835
gg ANNALS OF THE
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Akers, Mrs. Catherine
Ireland,
1818
1847
1892
Akers, William J.
England,
1845
1847
Akins, Fred. R.
Ohio,
1852
1852
Aldrich, William W.
Ohio,
1817
1817
Alleman, Mrs. Catherine J.Ohio,
1834
1834
Allen, James M.
Ohio,
1831
1831
1893
Allen John W.
Connecticut,
1802
1825
1887
Amy, Adelia
Ohio,
1827
1827
Andrews, Mrs. Jennie V.
Wisconsin,
1844
Andrews, Mrs. Julia A.
Ohio,
1816
1816
1889
Andrews, JudgeSherlock J. Connecticut,
1801
1825
1880
Andrus, Marvin T.
. New York,
1807
1832
1891
Angell, George
Germany,
1830
1838
1885
Anthony, Ambrose
Massachusetts,
1810
1834
1886
Archer, Mrs. Clara F.
Canada,
1822
Atwell, Carlos R.
New York,
1813
1817
1893
Augsted, Minnie
Germany,
1847
1853
Austin, Mrs. Ann D.
England,
1821
1846
Avery, Jane M.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Avery, Rev. John T.
New York,
1810
1839
1896
Avery, William G.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Avery, Hezekiah
Ohio,
1828
1828
Babcock, Charles H.
Connecticut,
1823
1834
1894
Babcock, Perry H.
Ohio,
1816
1816
1897
Babcock, Mrs. Perry H.
Ohio,
1841
1841
Backus, Mrs. Franklin T.
Ohio,
1822
1822
Bailey, John M.
New York,
1820
1835
1886
Bailey, Robert
Ireland,
1810
1834
1890
Bailey, Mrs. Robert
Canada,
1818
1847
Baker, Mrs. S. G.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Baldwin, Judge Charles C.Connecticut,
1834
1835
1895
Baldwin, Dudley
New York,
1809
1819
1896
Baldwin, Mrs. Dudley
Ohio,
1810
1833
1896
Baldwin, Martin H.
Ohio,
1819
1819
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION 99
When Came to
Name. Where Born. Born. Reserve. Died.
Baldwin, Mrs. Martin H. New York, 1816 1832
Baldwin, Norman A. Ohio, 1835 1835
Baldwin, Norman C. Connecticut, 1802 1816 1887
Ballou, Loring V. Massachusetts, 1813 1838 1896
Banton, Thomas England, 1816 1832 1891
Barber, Josiah Ohio, 1825 1825 1884
Barber, Mrs. Jerusha T. New Hampshire 1804 1818 1887
Bardwell, J. N. New York, 1835 1838
Bardwell, Mrs. J. N. Ohio, 1845 1845
Barker, Elizabeth New York. 1807 1848
Barnett James New York, 1821 1825
Barnett, Mrs. Mariah H. Germany, 1822 1835
Barney, Lucius Vermont, 1804 1822 1890
Barr, Mrs. Judge John Connecticut, 1820 1837 1893
Barrance, Mary Ann England, 1827 1853
Barris, William H. Ohio, 1838 1859
Barrow, Richard England, 1823 1832
Bartlett, Nicholas Massachusetts 1822 1833
Bartlett, Mrs. S. A. Connecticut, 1813 1834
Bartram, Wheeler Connecticut, 1808 1829 1887
Bauder, Levi New York 1812 1830 1882
Bander, Levi F. Ohio, 1840 1840
Beach, Henry Ohio, 1817 1817 ....
Beanston, John Scotland, 1810 1837 1890
Beardsley, Irad L. New York, 1819 1838
Beardsley, Mrs. Irad L. New York, 1821 1836 1892
Beardsley, Lester C. New York, 1833 1839
Beardsley, Mrs. Lester C. Ohio, 1836 1836
Beavis, Benjamin R. England, 1826 1834 1884
Beck, Geo. D. England, 1831 1840 ....
Becker, Michael Germany, 1824 1836 1894
Beckwith, Marvin E. New York, 1823 1825 1887
Beckwith, Mrs. Marvin E. Canada. 1819 1838 1895
Beers, Mrs. L. Emma New York, 1824 1831 1890
100 ANNALS OF THE
When
Came tc
►
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve
Died.
Beers, Daniel A.
New Jersey,
1816
1818
1880
Beers, L. F.
Ohio,
1823
1823
1891
Belden, Mrs. Silas
New York,
1808
1840
1890
Benedict, L. D. .
Vermont,
1827
1830
1895
Benham, F. M.
Connecticut,
1801
1811
1890
Bennet, Jane
Shetland Isle,
1803
1837
1894
Bennett, Zenas L.
New York,
1796
1818
1898
Bently, Wilbur
Ohio,
1844
1844
1889
Benton, Mrs. Lucius A.
Ohio,
1827
1827
Benton, Horace
Ohio,
1827
1827
Berghoff, Peter
Germany,
1817
1834
1890
Berry, George W.
England,
1822
1841
Berry, Mrs. George W.
England,
1825
1843
1898
Berg, John
Germany,
1817
1842
1889
Beverlin, John
Pennsylvania,
1813
1834
1891
Beverlin, Mrs. Gracia M
. Ohio,
1817
1842
1893
Bingham, Elijah
New Hampshire,
1800
1835
1881
Bingham, Mrs. Elijah
New Hampshire,
1805
1835
1891
Bingham, William
Connecticut,
1816
1836
Bingham, Mrs. E.Beardsley Ohio,
1822
1826
1898
Bishop, Mrs. Eliza W.
Ohio,
1821
1821
1886
Bishop, Jesse P.
Vermont,
1815
1836
1881
Blackwell Mrs. Abbey
New York,
1850
1854
Blackwell, Benjamin T.
New Jersey,
1808
1832
1893
Blackwell,Mrs. Thankful
J.Connecticut,
1816
1817
Blackwell, Jared S.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Blair, Miss Elizabeth
Ohio,
1820
1820
Blair, H. L.
New York,
1828
1832
Blair, Miss Mary Jane
Ohio,
1818
1818
Blee, Robert
Ohio,
1838
1838
1898
Blish, Mrs. Abigail M.
New York,
1826
1837
1893
Bliss, Stoughton
Ohio,
1823
1823
1896
Blossom, Henry C.
Ohio.
1822
1822
1883
Boggis, Robert H.
New York,
1835
1852
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
101
Name.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve.
Died.
Bolton, Mrs. Thomas
New York,
1822
1833
Borges, John F.
( iermany,
1810
1835
1890
Born, Charles P.
Ohio,
1850
1850
Bosworth, Mrs. L.
New York,
1828
1847
Bosworth, Milo
New York.
1806
1841
1892
Boulton, Marian
England.
1807
1852
Bower, Buckland P.
Connecticut,
1838
1855
Bower, Mrs. Euphemia A
..Ohio,
1840
1840
Bowler, N. P.
New York,
1820
1833
Bowler, Mrs. Arvilla M.R.Ohio,
1823
1823
1895
Bowler, William
New York,
1822
1833
Bowley, Henry
England,
1830
1848
Boynton, Dr. Silas A.
Ohio,
1835
1835
Brack, Mrs. Elizabeth
Scotland,
1823
1835
Brainard, George W.
New Hampshire,
1827
1834
Brainard, Mrs. Geo. W.
Ohio,
1831
1831
Brainard, Jesse K.
Ohio,
1822
1822
Brainard, Joseph K.
New Hampshire,
1830
1834
Brainard, Mrs. Stephen
Massachusetts,
1802
1815
Brainard, Tyler W.
Ohio,
1847
1847
Branch, Dr. Darius G.
Vermont,
1805
1833
1880
Branch, Mrs. Eliza
Vermont,
1814
1819
1887
Brant, Mrs. Elizabeth W.
New York,
1823
1843
Brayton, Henry F.
New York,
1812
1836
1888
Breck, Joseph H.
Ohio,
1831
1831
Brett, Julius W.
England,
1816
1838
Brokenshire, Mrs. James
Pennsylvania,
1817
1854
Brooks, Dr. Martin L.
Connecticut,,
1813
1818
Brooks, Oliver A.
Vermont,
1814
1834
1892
Brooks, Oliver K.
Ohio,
1845
1845
Brooks Samuel C.
Ohio,
1820
1820
1898
Brooks, Mrs. Samuel C.
Connecticut,
1826
1847
Brooks, Caroline
Ohio,
1821
1821
Brooks, Thomas H.
Indiana,
1846
1847
102
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Brown, Ada I.
Brown, Hiram
Brown, Mrs. Hiram
Brush, Col. I. E.
Buckley, Hugh, Jr.
Buell, Mrs. Anna M.
Buhrer, Stephen
Buhrer, Mrs. Stephen
Bull, Mrs. Harriet L.
Bull, Lorenzo S.
Burgess, Mrs. Catherine
Burgess, Leonard F.
Burgess, Mrs. L. F.
Burgess, Oliver
Burgess, Solon
Burke, Rachel C.
Burke, Oscar M.
Burke, Thomas
Burnham, Thomas
Burnham. Mrs. MatildaW,
Burnett, Mrs. F. M.
Burton, Mrs. Abbie P.
Burton, Dr. E. D.
Burton, Rev. Lewis
Burton, Mrs. Jane W.
Burton, Emeline A.
Burwell, George P.
Burwell, Mrs.. Louisa C.
Bury, Theodore
Butler, Mrs. Cordelia L.
Butler, Dr. George O.
Butts, Bolivar
Butts, Caleb S.
Bverlv, Mrs. F. X.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1846
1846
Michigan,
1837
England,
1322
1832
New York,
1803
1846
1893
Ohio,
1845
1845
Ohio,
1837
1837
Ohio,
1825
1844
Germany,
1828
1840
1889
Ohio,
1819
1819
1896
Connecticut,
1813
1820
1894
New Jersey,
1800
1330
1891
Ohio,
1823
1823
Ohio,
1827
1827
Maryland,
1817
1840
Vermont,
1817
1819
1897
New York,
1820
1823
Ohio.
1823
1823
New York,
1832
1839
1896
New York,
1808
1833
1898
.Massachusetts,
1808
1838
1887
Ohio,
1832
1832
1888
Vermont,
1805
1824
1889
Ohio,
1825
1825
Pennsylvania,
1815
1847
1894
Ohio, "
1821
1847
Ohio,
1829
1829
Connecticut,
1817
1830
1891
Pennsylvania,
1820
1824
1892
New York,
1827
1839
Massachusetts,
1836
1840
Ohio,
1833
1852
1897
New York,
1826
1840
New York,
1794
1840
1888
Ohio,
1842
1842
KARLY SETTI.KKS' ASSOCIATION
10.°.
Name.
Cadwell, Judge Darius
Cahoon, Joel B.
Cahoon, Mrs. Joel R.
Cahoon, J- M.
Cahoon, Thomas H.
Callister, John J.
Callister, Mrs. Margaret
Callow, Mrs. Amelia
Calyer, Lydia
Canfield, Ira E.
Cannell, John S.
Cannell. Mrs. Jane
Cannell, Thomas
Cannell, William
Cannon, James
Cannon, Mrs. James
Cannon, James H., Sen.,
Cannon, James C.
Cannon, Mrs. Lydia G.
Cannon, Phillip
Capener, Dr. William H.
Card, Jonathan F.
Carlisle, Mrs. Eliza
Carlton, C. C.
Carran, Robert
Carson, Marshall
Carv. Mrs. Mary S.
Case Zophar
Case, George L.
Cassidy, Mrs. Marion
Castle, Mrs. Mary H.
Cawood, Charles H.
Champney, Mrs. Julia P.
Chandler, George H.
When
Came to
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1821
1821
New York,
1793
1810
1882
Wash'gton.D.C,
1810
1842
1894
Ohio,
1847
1S47
Maryland.
1832
1842
Isle of Man,
1818
1842
Isle of Man,
1824
1828
1895
England,
1828
1835
1894
England,
1820
1830
Ohio,
1821
1821
Isle of Man,
1801
1828
1886
Isle of Man,
1800
1827
1898
Isle of Man,
1805
1834
1884
Isle of Man,
1811
1837
1891
Isle of Man,
1814
1827
New York,
1820
1822
1898
Massachusetts,
1821
1833
Ohio,
1841
1841
Massachusetts,
1827
1838
Isle of Man,
1816
1827
1892
England,
1831
1838
Ohio.
1815
1815
Nova Scotia,
1819
1834
1898
Connecticut,
1812
1814
1896
Isle of Man,
1812
1836
New York,
1810
1834
1882
Canada,
1835
1838
Ohio,
1804
1818
1884
Ohio.
1842
1842
Ireland,
1827
1832
Vermont,
1818
1838
England,
1838
1847
Massachusetts,
1824
1841
1894
England,
1835
1857
104 ANNALS OF THE
When
Dame to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Chandler, Richard H.
England,
1823
1844
1891
Chandler, Mrs. Ann
England,
1839
1845
Chapin, Miss Julia
Pennsylvania,
1842
1852
Chapman, Mrs. C. E.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Chapman, Mrs.ElizaHarrisNew Hampshire,
1805
1827
1885
Chapman, George L.
Connecticut,
1798
1819
1890
Chapman. Henry M.
Ohio,
1830
1830
Charles J. S.
New York,
1818
1832
Chase, Charles W.
Ohio,
1846
1846
Chase, Mrs. Charles W.
Ohio,
1850
1850
Chester, Mrs. Edwin
Ohio,
1839
1839
Childs, Henry B.
Ohio,
1842
1842
1896
Christian, James
Isle of Man,
1810
1838
1886
Christie. Mrs. Charlotte
New York,
1832
Clapp, Henry H.
Ohio,
1812
1812
1897
Clapp, Mrs. Thomas J.
Ohio,
1812
1812
1886
Clark, Charles H.
Massachusetts,
1823
1835
Clark, James F.
New York,
1809
1833
1884
Clark, James H.
England,
1832
1853
Clark, David
England,
1818
1840
Clark, Morris B.
England,
1828
1847
Clark, Mrs. Mary
Germany,
1848
1855
Clark, Mrs. Eliza A.
New York,
1825
1835
Clarke, Aaron
Connecticut,
1811
1832
1881
Clarke, Mrs. Aaron
Connecticut,
1818
1843
1891
Cleveland, Horace G.
Connecticut,
1837
1839
1888
Cleveland, James D.
New York,
1822
1835
Coakley, Mrs. Hariet D.
New Jersey,
1797
1814
1884
Cobb, Lester A.
Ohio,
1850
1850
Coe, Andrew J.
Connecticut,
1823
1823
Coe, Mrs. Andrew J.
Massachusetts,
1820
1828
Coe, Antoinette B.
Ohio,
1835
1835
Coe, Samuel S.
New York,
1819
1837
1883
Cogswell, Benjamin S.
Ohio,
1831
1831
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
105
Name.
Cogswell, Mrs. Helen M.
Cogswell, Solomon J.
Cohen, Elias
Cohen, Mrs. Elias
Colahan, Charles
Colahan, Samuel
Cole, David E.
Condit, Mrs. Phebe
Cooke, Wellington P.
Cooley, Chas E.
Cooley, Rev. Lathrop
Coon, John
Corlett, John
Corlett, Mrs. M. H.
Corlett, Rev. Thomas
( iorlett, William K.
Corning, Warren H.
Cottrell, L. Dow
Cottrell, Mrs. L. Dow
Covert, John C.
Cowles, Edwin
Cowle, Richard
Cowle, Mrs. Richard
Cox, George B.
Cox, Miss Jane M.
Cox, John
Cox, William O.
Cozad, Elias
Cozzens, Mary H.
Crable, John
Cranney, Mrs. Clara A.
Craw, William V.
Crawford, Lucian
Crawford, Mary E.
When i
Came to
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1832
1832
Massachusetts,
1808
1826
1892
Prussia,
1822
1844
New York,
1843
1850
Ohio,
1836
1836
Canada,
1808
1814
1886
Ohio,
1844
1844
New Jersey,
1797
1807
1890
New York,
1825
1838
1884
Massachusetts,
1832
1852
New York,
1821
1828
New York,
1822
1837
Isle of Man,
1816
1836
New York,
1829
1833
Isle of Man,
1817
1827
1889
Isle of Man,
1820
1837
Ohio,
1841
1841
New York,
1811
1835
1889
New York,
1811
1833
1888
New York,
1837
1849
Ohio,
1825
1825
1890
Ohio,
1827
1827
Ohio,
1833
1833
England,
1824
1834
England,
1829
1834
England,
1802
1832
1889
England,
1853
1855
New Jersey,
1790
1808
1880
Ohio,"
1842
1842
Germany,
1828
1833
Ohio,
1821
1821
New York,
1810
1832
1895
Ohio,
1828
1828
1898
Ohio,
1834
1834
106
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Cridland, E. J. H.
Critchley, John •
Critchley, Mrs. John
Crittenden, Mrs. Maria A.
Crocker, Mrs. Deborah
Crosby, Mrs. Mary A.
Crosby, Thomas D.
Cross. David W.
Curtiss, Dr. H. W.
Curtiss Lucius W.
Curtiss, Mary E.
Curtiss, Samuel
Curtiss, Mrs. Samuel
Curtiss. Stiles H.
Cushing, Dr. Erastus
Cushman, Mrs. Herman
Cutter, Orlando P.
Dare, Nathaniel B.
Davidson, Charles A.
Davidson, Mary E.
Davidson, Robert A.
Davies, Mrs. E. L.
Davis, Lewis L.
Davis, Mrs. Cynthia
Davis, Alfred
Davis, Mrs. Betsey
Davis, Julia E.
Davis, Schuyler
Davis, Thomas
Day. Joseph A.
Day, L. A.
Dean, Flavius J.
Dean, Mrs. Henrietta
Dean, Horace
Where Bora.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio.
1825
1825
England,
1824
1851
England,
1828
1851
New York,
1802
1827
1882
New York,
1796
1801
1881
Ohio,
1813
1813
Massachusetts,
1804
18U
1897
New York,
1814
1836
1891
Ohio,
1827
1827
New York,
1817
1834
1891
Ohio,
1821
1840
England,
1822
1835
England,
1824
1830
Ohio,
1846
1846
Massachusetts,
1802
1835
1893
Ohio,
1820
1820
1891
Ohio,
1824
1824
1884
Pennsylvania,
1833
1834
1897
New York,
1836
1837
Ohio,
1839
1839
Scotland,
1830
1832
1894
Ohio,
1819
1839
Connecticut,
1793
1839
1886
Pennsylvania,
1818
1839
1891
Sweden,
1814
1838
1885
New York,
1816
1836
Ohio,
1834
1834
1892
Ohio,
1847
1847
England,
1798
1819
1885
Ohio,
1843
1843
Ohio,
1812
1812
Ohio,
1836
1836
Ohio.
1841
1841
Ohio,
1821
1821
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
Name.
Dean. Lucius
Dean, Mrs. Amantha C.
Dean, John
DeForest, Tracy R.
DeForest, Cyrus IT.
Degnon, Mrs. Mary A.
Denham, Ji »hn L.
Denham, Mrs. Elizabeth
Denison, Edwin
Denzer, Daniel
Denzer, Mrs. Sarah
Detmer. ( reorge H.
Deweese, Mrs. Mary A.
Dibble. Lewis
Diebolt, Frederick
Diemer, Peter
Diemer, Mrs. Erederika
Dietz. Greq-or
Dille. Almon G.
Dille. Eri M.
Dille, Mrs. Lucy A. Ross
Dille. W. W.
Dille. Clark L.
Dille, Ann Olivia
Doan, Mrs. Catherine L.
Doan, Edward B.
Doan, Edwin W.
Doan, George
Doan, Mrs. George
Doan, John W.
Doan, Norton
Doan, Seth C
Doan. William H.
Doan, Mrs. William H.
When
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve
Died.
Ohio,
1820
1820
1895
Ohio,
1838
1838
Ohio,
1823
1823
1894
New York,
1811
1834
1887
Ohio,
1835
1835
New York,
1814
1837
1895
Scotland,
1810
1835
1884
New York,
1816
1835
1886
Ohio,
1836
1836
< .ermany,
1815
1832
1887
England,
1824
1837
Germany,
1801
1835
1883
Ohio,
1836
1836
New York,
1807
1812
1891
Ohio,
1840
1840
1890
Germany,
1827
1840
Germany,
1830
1840
Bavaria,
1823
1837
Ohio,
1847
1847
Ohio,
1812
1812
Ohio,
1835
1835
1896
Ohio,
1838
1838
Ohio,
1816
1816
Ohio.
1826
1826
1897
Connecticut,
1816
1834
1893
Ohio,
1828
1828
Ohio,
1833
1833
Ohio,
1828
1828
New York
1837
1846
Ohio,
1833
1833
1889
Ohio.
1831
1831
Ohio.
1819
1819
1890
( >llio.
1828
1828
189~0
New York
1833
1844
108 ANNALS OF THE
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Doane, John
New York,
1798
1801
1896
Dockstader, Charles J.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Dodge, George C.
Ohio,
1813
1813
1883
Dodge, Mrs. George C.
Vermont,
1817
1820
Dodge, Henry H.
Ohio,
1810
1810
1889
Dodge, Samuel D.
Ohio,
1855
1855
Dodge, Wilson S.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Dorsett, John W.
England,
1822
1832
Douw, Mrs. Melissa
New York,
1809
1831
Downie, William
Scotland,
1841
1850
Downs, Mrs. Elizabeth
England,
1806
1834
1886
Drumm, Mrs. John
Germany,
1813
1835
1893
Dunham, David B.
New York,
1811
1831
1887
Dunham, Elizabeth F.
Ohio,
1836
1851
Dunn, Mrs. E. Ann
New York,
1828'
1834
Dunn, Joseph
England,
1820
1834
Dutton, Dr. Charles F.
New York,
1831
1834
Duty, Daniel W.
New Hampshire,
1804
1808
1887
Eckermann, Mrs. Caroline Germany,
1807
1842
1894
Eckermann, Moritz
Germany,
1808
1842
1890
Eddy, Mrs. J. Selden
Ohio,
1835
1835
Edgerton, Sardis
Massachusetts,
1808
1830
1890
Edgerton, Sardis Jr.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Edwards, John R.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Edwards, Mary M.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Edwards, Rudolphus
Ohio,
1818
1818
1890
Edwards, Mrs. S.
New York,
1819
1830
Edwards, William
Ohio,
1833
1833
Elerick, Mrs. A. E.
1818
1849
Ellston, John
England,
Elwell, John J.
Ohio,
1820
1820
Ely, Mrs. Alfred
Massachusetts,
1837
1838
Emerson, Oliver
Maine,
1804
1821
1890
Emerson, Taylor
Ohio,
1819
1819
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
109
Name.
Emerson, Mrs. Oliver
Erwin, John
Fairbanks, Abel W.
Fairbanks, Mrs. Abel W.
Fanning. Mrs. Mary
Farr, Algernon S.
Farwell, John J.
Felton, E. R.
Felton, Mrs. E. R.
Fenton, Mrs. Myra K.
Farrell, David C.
Ferris, William
Ferris, Amanda
Fay, Frederick
Fish, Electa
Fish, Abel
Fish, Mrs. Abel
Fish, Ozias
Fisher, Miss Ada
Fisher, Waldo A.
Fitch, James
Fitch, Jabez W.
Fitch, Miss Sarah E.
Flint, Edward S.
Flint, Mrs. Edward S.
Foljambc, Samuel
Folsom, Mrs. Romelia L.
Foot, Augustus E.
Foot, Mrs. Augustus E.
Foot, John A.
Foot, Mrs. John A.
Foote, Lyman P.
Foote, Mrs. Lyman P.
Ford. Mrs. PLC.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Dame to
Reserve.
Died.
Vermont,
1816
1845
1896
New York
1808
1835
1887
New Hampshire,
1817
1835
1894
Ohio,
1828
1828
Ireland,
1821
1851
1897
Pennsylvania,
1805
1819
1893
Vermont,
1821
1836
1892
New York,
1828
1838
Ohio,
1844
1844
Ohio,
1840
1840
New York,
1827
1831
Pennsylvania,
1808
1815
1890
Vermont,
1808
1820
1884
Germany,
1810
1832
1883
New York,
1808
1811
1888
Ohio,
1832
1832
Ohio,
1836
1836
Ohio,
1818
1818
Ohio,
1847
1847
Massachusetts,
1822
1853
New York,
1821
1827
New York,
1823
1826
1884
New York,
1819
1826
1893
Ohio,
1819
1838
New York,
1824
1830
England,
1804
1824
1889
Ohio,
1825
1825
1895
Connecticut,
1810
1830
1883
Ohio,
1813
1813
1892
Connecticut,
1803
1833
1891
Pennsylvania,
1816
1832
1892
Ohio,
1817
1817
1898
German)-,
1837
1848
Ohio,
1825
1825
110
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Ford, Lewis W.
Ford, William H.
Foster, Ebenezer
Fox, Mrs. Theo Judson
Freeman, George
Freese, Andrew-
French, Collins
Fuhrman, Charles
Fuller, Charles H.
Fuller, William
Fuller, Samuel A.
Gage, David W.
Gage, Airs. David W.
Gale. Mrs. Susan
Gallagher, File
Gardner, Alonzo S.
Gardner, Mrs. Alonzo S.
Gardner, George W.
Gardner, Orlando S.
Garfield, Mrs. Sophia
Gates, S. C.
Gaylord, Erastus F.
Gaylord, Mrs. Erastus F.
Gaylord, Henry C.
Gaylord, Wilbur H.
Gaylord, William H.
Gayton, Mrs. Mary A
Gerould, Dr. Henry
Gerould, Mrs. Julia Clapp
Gibbons, James
Gibbons, John W.
Gibbons, Myles B.
Gibbons, Mrs. M. B.
Giddings, Mrs. Charles M.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came tc
Reserve
Died.
Massachusetts,
1830
1841
Ohio,
Connecticut,
1810
1827
1897
Ohio,
1849
1849
Vermont,
1817
1835
1889
Maine,
1816
1840
New York,
1808
1828
1889
Germany,
184-
1850
Ohio,
1849
1849
Connecticut,
1814
1836
1885
Ohio,
1837
1837
1891
Ohio.
1825
1825
Ohio,
1836
1836
1895
New York
1815
1834
Ireland,
1844
Vermont,
1809
1818
1892
Ohio,
1814
1814
1892
Massachusetts,
1834
1837
Ohio,
1840
1840
1887
Vermont,
1811
1811
1890
New York,
1813
1824
1885
Connecticut,
1795
1834
1884
New York,
1801
1834
1888
Connecticut,
1825
1834
1893
Ohio.
1838
1838
Ohio.
1842
1842
England,
1808
1832
1884
Pennsylvania,
1829
1855
Ohio, '
1843
1843
Ohio,
1840
1840
1895
Ohio.
1844
1844
Ireland,
1824
1851
1895
Ireland.
1829
1838
Michigan,
1805
1827
1886
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
111
Name.
Giffin, William
Giffin, Mrs. Jane W.
Gilbert, James H.
Gilbert, Mrs. Mary D.
Gill, Mrs. Mary A.
Gillis, Mrs. Mariam A.
Given, William
Given, Mrs. Mary E.
Gleason, Isaac L.
Gleason, Mrs. Isaac L.
Gleason, William J.
Glidden, Joseph
Goodwin, William
Goodwillie, Mrs. Thomas
Gordon, Eliza A.
Gordon, Richard H.
Gordon, William J.
Gorham, John H.
Goulder, Charles
Graham, Robert
Granger, Mrs. Lucy
Greene, Samuel C
Greenhalgh, Robert
Gregory, Thomas
Gribben, Mrs John P.
Griffith, John H.
Griswold. Judge Seneea O
Griswold, Edward R.
Griswold, Mrs. Edward R.
Groff, Henry R.
Guvles, William B.
Guilford, Miss Linda T.
Hadlow, Henry R.
Tfaight, William H.
When
Came to
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
New York,
1815
1835
Vermont,
1816
1833
1893
Ohio,
1830
1830
Ohio,
1830
1830
Isle of Man,
1812
1827
1889
Ohio,
1838
1838
Ireland,
1819
1841
Ohio,
1825
1825
1884
Ohio,
1825
1825
1889
Ohio,
1832
1832
Ireland,
1846
1847
Vermont.
1810
1834
1892
Ohio,
1838
1838
Ohio,
1847
1847
Ohio,
1828
1828
England,
1835
1843
New Jersey,
1818
1835
1892
Connecticut,
1807
1838
1881
Ohio,
1847
1847
Pennsylvania,
1814
1834
1886
England,
1818
1832
1898
Ohio,
1822
1841
1897
England,
1828
1840
England,
1827
1849
Pennsylvania,
1814
1843
Xew York,
1836
1836
. Connecticut,
1823
1841
1895
Connecticut,
1824
1847
Ohio,
1834
1834
1894
Pennsylvania,
1827
1833
New York,
1815
1843
1896
Massachusetts,
1823
1848
England,
1808
1835
1890
Ohio,
1838
1838
U2 ANNALS OF THE
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Haynes, Milo S.
Ohio,
1830
1830
Hall, Reuben
Ohio,
1827
1827
Hall, Mrs. Mariette
New York,
1829
1835
Haltnorth, Mrs. Gertrude
Prussia,
1819
1836
Hamilton, Albert J.
Ohio,
1833
1833
1896
Hamilton, Judge Edwin T. Ohio,
1830
1830
Hamilton, Mrs. Edwin T.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Hamlen C. L.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Hamlen, Mrs. C. A. J.
Connecticut,
1804
1816
1889
Hammich, Mrs. David W
Massachusetts,
1832
1840
Hanchett, Erastus
New York,
1828
1833
Handerson,Miss Harriet F.Ohio,
1834
1834
Handerson, Dr. Henry E.
Ohio,
1837
1837
Handy, Truman P.
New York,
1807
1832
1898
Harbeck, John S.
New York,
1807
1840
1891
Harper, E. R.
Ohio,
1812
1816
Harper, Job W.
England,
1830
1835
Harper, Mrs. Job W.
Ohio,
1836
1836
1893
Harris, Byron C.
Ohio,
1832
1832
Harris, Brougham E.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Harris, Mrs. Josiah A.
Massachusetts,
1810
1829
Hart, Albert G.
Ohio,
1821
1821
Hart, Edwin
Ohio,
1830
1830
1896
Haskell, George H.
New York,
1801
1835
1895
Hastings, Samuel L.
Massachusetts,
1813
1836
1894
Hathaway, Myra Fisher
Ohio,
1836
1836
Haver, Mrs. Julia M.
Vermont,
1825
1832
Hawkins, Henry C.
Ohio,
1822
1822
Hawkins, John W.
Ohio,
1822
1845
1895
Hawley, Mrs. A.
Connecticut,
1826
1840
Hawley, Edwin H.
New York,
1812
1840
1893
Hawley, Mrs. Rachel
New York,
1812
1835
Hayden, Rev. A. S.
Ohio,
1813
1835
1880
Hayden, Mrs. A. S.
Massachusetts,
1816
1819
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION'
113
Name.
Hayden, Mrs. Sarah Hilly
Hays, Kaufman
Hayward, William H.
Heil, Henry
Heisel, Nicholas
Heller, Israel B.
Hemenway, Arthur
Hendershot, George B.
Henry, R. W.
Herman, George P.
Herrick, John F.
Herrick, Rensselaer R.
Hessenmueller, Edward
Heward, Mrs. Thomas A
Hickox, Charles
Hickox, Mrs. Charles
Hickox, Gharles G.
Hickox, Charlotte T.
Hickox, Frank F.
Hight, Thomas M.
Hill, John J.
Hillman, William B.
Hills, Addison
Hills, Charles A.
Hills, Mrs. Mary
Hills, Nathan C.
Hills, Mrs. Sabina Ann
Hine, Henrietta
Hird, Thomas
Hird, Mrs. William
Hitchcock, Peter M.
Hoadley, Mrs. J. R.
Hodge, Orlando J.
Hollister, George
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Roserve
Died.
erNew York,
1829
1830
Germany,
1835
1852
Connecticut,
1822
1825
Germany,
1810
1832
1884
Germany,
1816
1834
1892
Ohio,
1842
1842
New York,
1816
1836
1897
Ohio,
1826
1826
New York,
1811
1818
Ohio,
1850
1850
Ohio,
1836
1836
New York,
1826
1836
Germany,
1811
1836
1883
. England,
1823
1835
Connecticut,
1810
1837
1890
Ohio.
1819
.1843
1893
Ohio,
1846
1846
New Hampshire,
1818
1819
1889
Ohio,
1844
1844
England,
1820
1844
Ohio,
1847
1847
New York,
1819
1831
1892
Connecticut,
1807
1814
1898
England,
1818
1843
1891
Scotland,
1821
1843
1891
Vermont,
1805
1831
1890
New York,
1811
1831
1898
Ohio,
1810
1810
England,
1808
1830
1882
England,
1816
1832
Ohio.
1839
1839
Ohio,
1815
1815
New York,
1828
1837
Ohio,
1828
1828
114
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Honeywell, Ezra
Hord,' Mrs. A. C.
Horton, Dr. William P.
Hosley, Almira
Hough, Airs. Mary Peet
House, Caroline M.
House, Harriet
House, Harriet F.
House, Martin
House, Mrs. Martin
House, Samuel W.
Howard, Asa D.
Howe. William A.
Howe, Mrs. Rachel
Howland, James
Howlett, George
Howlett. Mrs. George
Hoyt, George
Hoyt, James M.
Hubbard, George A.
Hubbard, Israel
Hubbell, Harriet
Hubbell, H. S.
Hubbell, Louise
Hubbell, Oliver C.
Hubby, Leander M.
Hudson, Asa S.
Hudson. Daniel D.
Hudson, Mrs. Daniel D.
Hudson, Mrs. C. Ingersoll Ohio
Hudson, William P.
Hughes, Arthur
Hughes, Mrs. Eliza
Humphrey, Mrs Judge Van R. Ohio,
Where Born.
New York,
When
Born.
' 1802
Came to
Reserve.
1831
Died.
1891
Ohio,
1855
1855
Vermont,
1823
1844
Connecticut,
1826
1840
Ohio,
1815
1816
Ohio,
1838
1838
Connecticut,
1799
1818
1886
Ohio,
1826
1826
Vermont,
1830
1835
Canada,
1841
1851
Ohio,
1823
1823
1891
Connecticut,
1803
1834
1887
Ohio,
1839
1839
Ohio,
1844
1844
England,
England,
Connecticut,
1819
1825
1829
1846
1832
1834
1896
1892
Ohio,
1838
1838
New York,
1815
1836
1895
New York,
1831
1834
New York,
1797
1819
1893
England,
Ohio,
1823
1832
1824
1832
1886
New Hampshire,
1808
1808
1898
Ohio,
1818
1818
1890
New York,
1812
1839
1895
Ohio,
1833
1833
Pennsylvania,
1824
1837
1897
France,
1825
1834
Ohio,
1819
1819
1892
Ohio,
1820
1820
Vermont,
1807
1840
1890
New York,
1814
1844
1891
in R. Ohio,
1807
1807
1893
Name.
Hunt, Mrs. Hiram B.
Hurd, George H.
Hurd, H. C.
Hurlbut, Mrs. H. A.
Hurlbut, Hinman B.
Hurlbut, Mrs. Hinman B.
Hurlbut, William Lyman
Hutchins, John
Hutchins, John C.
Ingersoll, Mrs. Eliz. H.
Ingersoll, John
Ingham, William A.
Ingham, Mrs. Mary B.
Jackson, Charles
Janes, Mrs. Abagail
Janes, Mrs. Julia Williams
Jaynes, Harris
Jayred, William H.
Jewett, Alva A.
Jewett, Mrs. Alva A.
Johnson, A. M.
Johnson, Charlotte A.
Johnson, David
Johnson, Mrs. L. D.
Johnson, Mrs. Mary R.
Johnson, Philander L.
Johnson, Seth W.
Johnson. William C.
Jones, George W.
J( >nes, Mrs. George W.
J< mes, Rev. James D.
Jones, Mrs. Mary \.
Jones, Mary J.
Jones, Mrs. J. P.
TTLERS' ASSOCIATION
115
Where Born.
When
Born.
< Same fcc
Died.
Ohio.
1837
1837
Ohio,
1829
1829
Ohio,
1820
1820
Vermont,
1809
1834
1882
New York,
1818
1836
1884
New York,
1818
1836
Ohio.
1845
1845
( )hio,
1812
1812
1891
Ohio,
1840
1840
New York,
1822
1840
Ohio,
1824
1824
Connecticut,
1823
1832
1898
Ohio,
1832
1846
England,
1829
1835
Ohio,
1828
1828
1898
Ohio,
1851
1851
Ohio,
1835
1835
1885
New Jersey,
1831
1833
Ohio,
1821
1821
Ohio.
1820
1820
1884
Ohio,
1823
1823
Pennsylvania,
1818
1821
1887
Ohio,
1814
1835
Ohio,
1825
1825
New York,
1822
1833
Ohio,
1823
1823
Connecticut,
1811
1833
Connecticut,
1813
1835
1885
Connecticut,
1812
1820
1894
Vermont,
1817
1840
Ohio,
1845
1845
Ohio.
1813
1813
New York,
1821
1835
Ohio,
1820
1820
ll(j ANNALS OF THE
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Jones, Thomas, Jr.
England,
1821
1831
1890
Jones, William S.
Ohio,
1836
1836
1893
Jordan, Hezekiah U.
Ohio,
1828
1828
Jordan, Miss Lucy
Ohio,
1839
1839
Judkins, Mrs. Mary S.
New York,
1816
1840
Judson, Mrs. B. A.
Ohio,
1823
1823
Keith, Myron R.
New York,
1819
1832
1893
Keith, Mrs. Myron R.
New York,
1824
1843
Keller, Elizabeth
Germany,
1817
1836
1889
Keller, Henry
Germany,
1810
1832
1895
Kelley, Horace
Ohio,
1819
1819
1890
Kelley, Frank H.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Kelley, Mrs. Louisa C.
Massachusetts,
1827
1851
Kelley. John
Pennsylvania,
1809
1832
1887
Kelley, Mrs. Moses
Connecticut,
1807
1832
1889
Kelley, Thomas A.
Ohio,
1849
1849
Kellogg, Alfred
Ohio,
1820
1820
Kellogg, Mrs. Louisa
Ohio,
1821
1821
1885
Kellogg Elizabeth A.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Kelsey, Lorenzo A.
New York,
1803
1837
1890
Kelsey, Mrs. Lorenzo A
Connecticut,
1806
1837
1893
Kennedy, Francis H.
Ohio,
1853
1853
Kerr, Levi
Ohio,
1822
1822
1885
Kerruish, William S.
Ohio,
1831
1831
Kerruish, Mrs. Margaret
Isle of Man,
1837
1852
Kidney, George H.
New York,
1827
1847
Kidney, Mrs. Virginia E.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Kimberley, David H.
England,
1842
1847
King, William H.
England,
1847
1851
King, William
England,
1817
1851
1894
Kingsbury, James W.
Ohio,
1813
1813
1881
Kingsett, Mrs. John
England,
1829
1845
Kitchen, Mrs. Grace K.
Ohio,
1851
1853
Kline, Virgil P.
Ohio,
1844
1844
EARLY SETTLE RS' ASSOCIATION
Name.
Knapp, John
Kyser, James
Kyser, Mrs. James
Lamb, Mrs. D. H.
Lander, Marcellus A.
Lang-, Josiah B.
Lankester, Charles J.
Lathrop, Christopher L.
Lathrop, Wm. A.
Lauser, Fred C.
Lawrence, Orrin C.
Laman, J. Jay
Laman, Samuel H.
Leavitt, Charles
Leavitt, Mrs. Charles
Lee, Mrs. Ellen L.
Leggett, Mortimer D.
Leither, Sarah
Leither, Frank
Leland, Jackson M.
Lemen, Mrs. Catherine
Leonard, Jarvis
Lester, Mrs.CorneliaBrow
Letts, E. J.
Lewis, Chittenden
Lewis, Edward
Lewis, Mrs. Edward
Lewis, Mrs. Louisa A.
Lewis, Gleason F.
Lewis. Sanford J.
Lindsev, Tin < >dore S.
Lloyd, Margaret
Locke, Sarah M.
L >ng, John
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve
Died.
New York,
1814
1839
New York,
1818
1832
Ohio,
1821
1821
Massachusetts,
1802
1837
1885
Ohio,
1842
1842
Ohio,
1824
1824
Ohio,
1845
1845
Connecticut,
1804
1831
1892
New Hampshire,
1813
1816
1898
Germany.
1839
1847
Ohio,
1823
1827
Ohio,
1822
1822
1894
Ohio,
1819
1831
New York,
1815
1833
Maryland,
1819
1832
Ohio.
1837
1837
New York,
1821
1836
1896
Ohio,
1845
1845
Ohio,
1848
1848
Massachusetts,
1818
1843
1896
1811
1815
1884
Vermont,
1810
1834
1898
nNew York,
1822
1845
New York,
1833
1854
New York,
1800
1837
1886
England,
1819
1841
England,
1819
1841
1891
( !i mnecticut,
1833
1834
New York,
1822
1837
New York,
1823
1837
1882
Massachusetts,
1822
is.-:;
[sle i if Man,
1815
1822
1890
Ohio.
1836
1836
England,
1810
1842
1892
118
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Loser, Mrs. Kate
Loveland, Jesse A.
Lowe, John K.
Lowe, Robert D.
Lowe, Thomas
Lower, Henry
Lowman, Jacob
Lyon, Mrs. Charlotte P.
Lyon, Henry
Lyon, Richard T.
Lyon, Samuel S.
Lyon, Mrs. Samuel S.
Lyon, William A.
Mackenzie, Colin S.
Madison, William A.
Maher, William K.
Mallory, Daniel
Maloney, Edward
Manix, Cornelius J.
Marble, Henry
Marble, Levi
Marshall, Daniel
Marshall, Mrs. Daniel
Marshall, George F.
Marshall, Mrs. George F.
Marshall, Dr. Isaac H.
Marshall, John
Marshall, William J.
Martin, William B.
Martyn, Eleanor L.
Martyn, Henry L.
Masters, Thomas D.
Mather, Samuel H.
Matthews, Maria Dean
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1846
1846
Ohio,
1851
1851
England,
1826
1836
1895
England.
1828
1852
England,
1830
1836
Pennsylvania
1829
1852
Maryland,
1810
1832
1881
Ohio,
1828
1828
1898
New York,
1827
1837
Illinois,
1819
1824
Connecticut,
1817
1818
Ohio,
1822
1822
1889
New York,
1815
1835
1892
Maryland,
1809
1836
1894
Ohio,
1845
1845
Ohio,
1851
1851
New York,
1801
1833
1891
Ireland,
1837
1848
Indiana,
1851
1852
Vermont,
1811
1832
1886
New York,
1820
1830
1889
New York,
1824
1841
Vermont,
1830
1841
New York,
1817
1836
New York,
1818
1842
Ohio,
1822
1822
1895
England,
1820
1844
1890
England,
1825
1845
Vermont,
1820
1833
England,
1826
1832 1891-2
Vermont,
1823
1843
New York,
1802
1823
1892
New Hampshire,
1813
1835
1894
Ohio,
1838
1838
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION'
llfl
Name.
Where Rorn.
When
Born.
Came tc
Reserve.
Died.
McConoughey. Mrs. S. P
'. Ohio,
1837
1837
1892
McCrosky, Mrs. S. L. B.
Ohio,
1833
1833
McDole, Mrs. Esther M.
Ohio,
1820
1820
McFarland, D.
Ireland,
1818
1837
Mcllrath, Alexander
Ohio,
1816
1816
1887
Mcllrath, Michael S.
New Jersey,
1805
1817
1892
Mcllrath, O. P.
Ohio.
1842
1842
Mcllrath, William B.
Ohio,
1852
1852
Mcintosh, Alexander
Scotland,
1808
1836
1883
Mcintosh, Mrs. Alexander Scotland,
1809
1836
1892
Mcintosh, Henry P.
Ohio,
1846
1846
McKinstry, James P.
Ohio,
1842
1842
McLeod, H. N.
Canada,
1831
1837
McReynolds, Rev. Anthor
ly Ireland,
1805
1842
1885
McReynolds,Mrs.MinervaE. Ohio,
1835
1835
McReynolds, William
Ireland,
1830
1846
Medary, Mrs. Maria L.
Ohio,
1821
1821
1898
Meeker, Stephen C.
Ohio,
1820
1820
1894
Mellen, Lncins F.
Massachusetts,
1831
1852
Meller. Mrs. L. A.
Ohio,
1823
1823
Merchant, Silas
Ohio,
1825
1825
Merriam, Edward
Connecticut,
1819
1820
Merwin, George R.
Connecticut,
1809
1816
1888
Merwin, Mrs. George B.
New York,
1818
1819
1890
Messer, John
Germany,
1822
1840
1896
Messer, Mrs. John ■
Germany,
1820
1836
1888
Meyer. Nicholas
Germany,
1809
1834
1885
Miles, Mrs. Eunice
Ohio,
1816
1816
1893
Miles, Mrs. Sophrona C.
Ohio,
1820
1820
1889
Miller, Mrs. August A.
New York,
1835
1844
Miller. Mrs. Margaret S.
Ohio,
1809
1820
1891
Miller, William L.
Ohio,
1829
1829
Minor, Marion
New York,
1825
1831
Montz, E. Jaster
Germany,
1847
1851
120 ANNALS OF THE
When
Came to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Moore, Mrs. Anna
Canada,
1828
1835
Moreau, Louis
New York,
1829
1846
1889
Morgan, Ashbel W.
Ohio,
1815
1815
Morgan, Mrs. Ashbel W
Ohio,
1821
1821
1890
Morgan, Caleb
Connecticut,
1799
1811
1885
Morgan, Mrs. Caleb
New York,
1816
1832
1895
Morgan, Edmund P.
Connecticut,
1807
1840
1888
Morgan, George F.
New York,
1853
1854
Morgan, Herman L.
Ohio,
1832
1832
Morgan, Mrs. Herman L
Massachusetts,
1820
1833
Morgan, Isham A.
Connecticut,
1809
1811
1891
Morgan, Mrs. Isham A.
Connecticut,
1815
1825
1895
Morgan, William J.
Ohio,
1835
1835
Morgan, Mrs. N. G.
Ohio,
1815
1818
Morgan, Sarah H.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Morgan, William J.
Wales,
1838
1854
Morgan, Youngs L.
Connecticut,
1797
1811
1888
Morgan, Mrs. Youngs L.
Connecticut,
1809
1827
1895
Morison, David
Ohio,
1848
1848
Morley, Jesse H.
New York,
1820
1832
Morley, Mrs. Helen R.
Ohio,
1833
1833
Morrill, Eliza
Vermont,
1811
1834
Morris, Freeman H.
N. Carolina,
1821
1850
Morris, John
Wales,
1814
1842
1898
Moses, Luther
Ohio,
1811
1811
1895
Moses, Mary A.
Ohio,
1818
1818
Moses, Nelson
Ohio,
1833
1833
Mulhern, Mrs. George G.
Ohio,
1851
1851
Murphy, William
Ireland,
1810
1830
Mygatt, George
Connecticut,
1797
1807
1885
Myrick, I. E.
New York,
1832
1832
Neff, Melchor
Germany,
1826
1834
Neil, James
Scotland,
1816
1851
1897
Nelson, Sumner W.
Massachusetts,
1823
1834
1893
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
121
Name.
New, Isaac
Newmark, Simon
Newton, W. H.
Nickerson, David P.
Noble, Roland D.
Noble, Mrs. Ellen H. B.
Norris, Gaal G.
Norton, Mrs. Ann H.
Norton, Charles H.
Norton, Mrs. Caroline H.
Nott, Clifford C.
Xott, Mrs. Mary A.
Xutt, Willard L.
O'Brien, Delia R.
O'Brien, Oscar D.
O'Brien, P.
O'Brien, Sylvia M.
O'Connor, Mrs. Anna S.
( ) 'Connor, Ransom
( Mell, Jay
( >gram, James W.
Ogram, Mrs. James W.
Outhwaite, Mrs. John
Oviatt, Schuyler R' .
Paddock, Thomas S.
Paine, Robert F.
Paine, James H.
Palmer, Edward W.
Palmer. J. Dwight
Palmer, Lucinda
Palmer, Sophia E.
Pankhurst, Mrs. Sarah
Pannell, James
Pannell. Mrs. James
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve
Died.
Bavaria,
1830
1855
Bavaria,
1816
1839
1893
Connecticut,
1810
1837
Massachusetts,
1808
1835
1892
Vermont,
1822
1834
New Hampshire,
1828
1835
Ohio,
1822
1822
New York,
1803
1840
New York,
1805
1838
1881
Ohio,
1820
1820
1891
Connecticut,
1826
1835
1894
New York,
1829
1839
New York,
1831
1832
Vermont,
1813
1817
1882
Ohio,
1819
1819
Ireland,
1835
1850
Vermont,
1815
1817
Ohio,
1845
1845
Ohio,
1824
•1824
1882
New York,
1819
1828
England,
1820
1832
Ohio,
1825
1825
Ohio,
1828
1828
1892
Ohio,
1819
1819
New York,
1814
1836
1891
New York,
1810
1815
1888
New York,
1838
1852
New York,
1820
1841
1896
Connecticut,
1831
1835
1822
1830
Ohio,
1818
1818
1889
England,
1812
1835
1894
New York,
1812
1832
1888
Massachusetts,
1813
1835
1890
122
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Pape, Mrs. Elizabeth
Parker, Henry
Parker, Mrs. Henry
Parker, Mrs. L. E.
Parker, Marcus C.
Parmelee, Edward C.
Parmelee, Mrs. Edward C.
Parsons, Richard C.
Payne, Henry B.
Payne, Mrs. Henry B.
Payne, Nathan, P.
Payne, Perry T. V.
Payne, Mrs. Mary M.
Pearse, Benjamin
Pease, Charles
Pease, Gideon
Pease, Mrs. Mary E.
Pease, Melissa
Pease, Samuel
Pelton, Mrs. A. C. Doan
Pelton, Frederick W.
Penty, Thomas
Perley, Joseph S.
Perry, Lansford W.
Perry, Nancy Wilson
Peterson, A. G.
Pettengill, Mrs. Abby L.
Pettit, Mrs. Rebecca
Phillips, B. F.
Phillips, Mrs. B. F.
Phillips, Mrs. Emily
Pier, Mrs. Loretta J.
Piper, Andrew J.
Pitkin, Lucius M.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve.
Died.
England,
1840
1850
Ohio,
1824
1829
1894
Ohio,
1824
1824
Ohio,
1809
1809
Connecticut,
1820
1839
1887
New Hampshire,
1826
1828
Ohio,
1830
1830
Connecticut,
1826
1846
New York,
1810
1833
1896
Ohio,
1818
1818
1895
Ohio,
1837
1837
1885
New York,
1833
1844
New York,
1835
1844
Rhode Island,
1813
1839
Ohio,
1811
1811
1895
Ohio,
1837
1837
Connecticut,
1816
1823
1891
Ohio,
1816
1816
Massachusetts,
1805
1828
1892
Ohio.
1825
1825
Connecticut,
1827
1835
England,
1820
1829
1890
Hungary,
1828
1854
Ohio,
1828
1828
Ohio,
1831
1831
Ohio,
1843
1843
Ohio,
1843
1843
Maine,
1840
1857
Ohio,
1832
1833
Ohio,
1835
1835
Ohio,
1809
1809
1898
Ohio,
1823
1823
1891
Vermont,
1814
1839
1884
Vermont,
1825
1853
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
123
Name.
Pixlcy, L. C.
Poe, Joseph M.
Pollock, John
Pollock, Mrs. John
Pond, Martin \Y.
Pope, William
Porter, L. G.
Post, Charles A.
Post, Nathan L.
Prall, Mrs. Sarah J.
Pratt, Mrs. Cordelia L.
Prentice, Dr. Noyes B.
Prentice, Mrs. Dr. Noyes
Prentiss, Luther R.
Prescott, James S.
Preston, Mrs. Charles M
Price, William H.
Price, Mrs. William H.
Prosser, Rev. Dillon
Proudfoot, David
Proud foot. John
Quayle, Mrs. Charles A.
Ouayle, George L.
Quayle, Thomas
Ouayle, Thomas E.
Quayle, Willam H.
Quinn, Arthur
Radcliffe, Mary A.
Radcliffe, William H.
Ranney, Mrs. Annie
Ranney, Henry C.
Ranney, Judge Rums P
Ranney, William S.
Ransom, Chauncey S.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came \<
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1834
1834
Ohio,
1828
1830
Ohio,
1840
1840
Ohio,
1840
1840
Connecticut,
1814
1845
Scotland,
1826
1837
1887
Massachusetts,
1806
1826
Ohio,
1848
1848
New York,
1832
1847
1893
Ohio.
1849
1849
New York,
1825
1844
Ohio,
1827
1827
.Kentucky,
1830
1831
New Hampshire,
1803
1820
1897
Massachusetts,
1802
1826
1888
Ohio,
1823
1823
1895
Ohio,
1847
1849
1894
Ohio,
1850
1850
New York,
1813
1832
1897
Scotland,
1809
1832
1884
Scotland,
1802
1842
1888
Ohio,
1839
1839
Ohio,
1842
1842
Tslc of Man,
1811
1827
1895
Ohio,
1836
1836
1896
Ohio,
1838
1838
1893
Ireland,
1810
1832
1883
Isle of Man,
1822
1826
1890
Tsle of Man,
1826
1849
1893
New York,
1811
1834
Ohio,
1829
1829
Massachusetts,
1813
1824
1891
Ohio,
1835
1835
New York,
1810
1846
1888
124
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Ransom, Mrs. Chauncy S.
Rathburne, George S.
Rawson, Elias
Raymond, Henry N.
Raymond, Samuel A.
Redington, Mrs. Chloe
Redington, Joseph A.
Rees, Mrs. Elvira
Reeve, Charles D.
Reeve, John
Remington, Stephen G.
RemingtonMrs.StephenG.
Repp, Philip H.
Rhodes, Charles L.
Rhodes, Mrs. Charles L.
Rice, Mrs. Alpha R.
Rice, Harvey
Rice, Mrs. Harvey
Rice, Percy W.
Richards, Mrs. Frances G.
Robinson, Jere E.
Robinson, Mrs. Martha J.
Robinson, N.
Robison, Dr. John P.
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller, Mrs. John D.
Roeder, Charles J.
Rogers, Charles C.
Root, Ralph R.
Root, Mrs. Ralph R.
Rose, Mrs. MarthaParmelee
Ross,- Mrs. Emeline
Rousch, Julia
Rouse, Benjamin F.
Where Born.
When
Born.
Came to
Reserve
Died.
New York,
1810
1846
1898
Ohio,
1816
1816
New York,
1828
1854
Connecticut,
1835
1836
Ohio,
1845
1845
New York,
1821
1839
New York,
1818
1839
1894
New York,
1834
1835
Ohio,
1846
1846
England,
1821
1830
New York,
1828
1834
New York,
1834
1853
Germany,
1830
1840
Vermont,
1809
1834
1894
Ohio,
1826
1826
Ohio,
1825
1825
Massachusetts,
1800
1824
1891
Vermont,
1812
1833
1889
Ohio.
1829
1829
Massachusetts,
1825
1854
Massachusetts,
1832
1852
Ohio,
1844
1844
Ohio,
1817
1817
New York,
1811
1832
1889
New York,
1839
1852
New York,
1839
1852
Germany,
1819
1839
1892
Ireland,
1813
1839
1888
New York,
1823
1835
1889
New York,
1838
1844
Ohio,
1835
1865
Connecticut,
1810
1814
Ohio,
1837
1837
Massachusetts,
1824
1830
1887
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION ]J.,
Name.
Wnere Born.
When
Born.
Came tc
Reserve,
Died.
Rouse, Mrs. Rebecca E.
Massachusetts,
1799
1830
1887
Rowley, Lucy A.
Connecticut,
1805
1827
1892
Rudd.'c. D.
New York,
1826
1834
Rudd, William C.
Ohio,
1845
1845
Rumage, Mrs. Eliza Jane
New York,
1825
1833
1894
Rumage, Mrs. Harriet
Ohio,
1830
1832
Ruple, Mrs. Anna
Ohio,
1814
1814
Ruple, James R.
Ohio,
1810
1810
1892
Ruple, Mrs. James R.
Ohio,
1814
1814
Ruple, S. D."
Ohio.
1808
1808
1886
Russell, Mrs. Ann F.
Connecticut,
1809
1811
Russell, Cornelius L.
New York,
1810
1835
1896
Russell, Mrs. Cornelius L.
New York,
1822
1835
Russell, George H.
New York,
1817
1834
1888
Russell, L. A.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Ryder, James F.
New York,
1826
1850
Ryder, Mrs. James F.
Ohio,
1837
1837
Sabin, Julia Sophia
New York,
1843
1846
Sabin, William
New York,
1817
1839
1892
Sabin, Mrs. William
New York,
1821
1838
Sacket, Alexander
Pennsylvania,
1814
1835
1884
Sacket, Mrs. Alexander
Ohio,
1815
1815
1897
Sanderson, Robert
Ireland,
1811
1834
1898
Sanford, Alfred S.
Connecticut,
1805
1829
1888
Sanford, Mrs. Alfred S.
Rhode Island,
1802
1825
1890
Sargent, Charles H.
Ohio,
1819
1819
1891
Sargent, John H.
New York,
1814
1818
1893
Sargent, Mrs. Julia A.
Michigan,
1827
1828
Savage, Mrs. E. ( '..
New York,
1833
1859
Saxton, Mrs. Emeline A.
Maine,
1821
1833
1898
Saxton, Jehiel C.
Vermont,
1812
1818
1895
Saxton, Miss Mary
Ohio,
1828
1828
Scheutthelm. John
Germany,
1822
1840
1888
Schiely, Mrs. Anna
Germany,
1815
1832
1894
ANNALS OF THE
Name.
Schmitt, Josephine B.
Schrink, John
Schlatterback George A.
Scofield, Levi T.
Scofield, Wra. C.
Scovill, Edward A.
Scovill, Mrs.JemimaBixbe
Scovill, Oliver C.
Selden, Charles A.
Seidell, Mrs. Elizabeth
Selden, Mrs. Julia A.
Selden, N. D.
Severance, Mrs, Mary H.
Severance, Solon L.
Sexton, Mrs. Dulcinea L.
Shanklin, Mrs. Stella E.
Sharp, Clayton
Sheldon, Ellen
Sheldon, Seth H.
Shelly, John
Shepard, David A.
Shepard, Phineas
Shepard, Mrs. William
Sherwin, Ahimaaz
Sherwin, Mrs. Henry A.
Sherwin, Mrs. Sarah M.
Sherwood, Orasmus
Shipherd, William C.
Shipherd, John J.
Shipherd, Mrs. Frances E.
Shook, George
Short, David
Short, Mrs. Helen
Short, Lewis
When
Came to
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Ohio,
1835
1835
Prussia,
1821
1835
1891
Germany,
1829
1853
Ohio,
1842
1842
England,
1821
1843
Ohio,
1819
1819
1890
Ohio,
1800
1816
1888
Ohio,
1823
1823
1894
Ohio,
1831
1831
Ohio,
1819
1819
New Hampshire,
1808
1819
1890
Connecticut,
1815
1831
1886
Ohio,
1816
1816
Ohio,
1834
1834
New Jersey,
1811
1831
1894
( )hio,
1850
1850
Ohio,
1811
1833
Ohio,
1839
1839
Xew York,
1813
1835
1884
England,
1815
1835
1889
Connecticut,
1810
1833
1889
Pennsylvania,
1800
1815
1891
Vermont,
1828
1835
Vermont,
1792
1818
1881
Ohio.
1843
1843
Xew York,
1809
1827
1886
Xew York,
1815
1817
1897
Xew York,
1829
1833
Ohio,
1839
1839
1898
New York,
1836
1848
Pennsylvania,
1814
1816
Connecticut,
1818
1827
1894
New Hampshire,
1811
1828
1894
Connecticut,
1811
1827
1892
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
Name.
Short, Mary F.
Silberg-, Frederick
Silverthorne, Jacob H.
Silverthorne,Mrs.Jacob H.
Simmonds, William R.
Simmonds, Mrs. Wm. R.
Simmons, Isaac B.
Simmons, Mrs. Isaac B.
Simmons. Margaret H.
Simmons. Thomas
Simmons, Mrs. Thomas
Sindeler, Mrs. Fanny
Sizer, Henrv D.
Sked, William V.
Skinner, Orville B.
Slade, Horatio
Slade, Samantha Doan
Slawson, John L.
Smith, Anson
Smith, Carlos A.
Smith, Mrs. Charles H.
Smith, Elijah
Smith, Erastus
Smith, James
Smith, John B.
Smith, Mrs. John B.
Smith, Dr. J. R.
Smith, Mary L.
Smith, Pard B.
Smith, Patrick-
Smith, Mrs. Patrick
Smith, Rollin C.
Smith, William T.
Smith, Mrs. William T.
Where Born.
When
Born.
lame ti
Reserve.
Died.
Connecticut,
1815
1827
( rermany,
1804
1834
1888
Ohio,
1829
1829
Vermont,
1832
1839
1888
New York,
1816
1830
1892
Ohio,
1820
1820
New York,
1806
1836
1896
Ohio,
1838
1838
England,
1829
1832
1897
Ohio.
1832
1832
1893
New York,
1834
1835
Bohemia,
1839
1853
Connecticut,
1837
1849
England,
1816
1833
1888
Ohio,
1831
1831
England,
1827
1834
1882
Ohio,
1817
1817
1890
Michigan,
1806
1812
1881
Connecticut,
1795
1836
1891
Connecticut,
1836
1837
Ohio,
1848
1848
Connecticut,
1821
1832
1895
Connecticut,
1790
1832
1881
England,
1813
1850
1896
Vermont,
1818
1842
1895
Ohio.
1822
1822
Ohio.
1854
1876
New York,
1817
1841
New York,
1833
1852
Ireland.
1827
1836
New York,
1828
1837
1887
Vermont,
1827
1835
1897
New York,
1811
1836
1888
Connecticut,
1814
1836
128 ANNALS OF THE
When i
2ame to
Name.
Where Born.
Born.
Reserve.
Died.
Smith, Mrs. William B.
Smithnight, Louis
Germany,
1834
1849
Smithnight, Mrs. Louis
Ohio,
1837
1837
Smyth, Mrs. William
Connecticut,
1811
1836
1893
Snow, Mrs. A. M.
Ohio,
1825
1825
1889
Sorter, Chas. N.
New York,
1812
1831
1896
Sorter, Harry-
New York,
1820
18C1
1897
Southern, L. M.
New York,
1836
1839
Southworth, Mrs. Eliz.
Connecticut,
1801
1819
1888
Southworth, William P.
Connecticut, '
1819
1836
1891
Spalding, Judge Rufus P.
Massachusetts,
1798
1820
1886
Spangler, Mrs. Deborah A.Canada,
1820
1835
1896
Spangler, Mrs. Elizabeth
Maryland,
1790
1820
1880
Spangler, George M.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Spangler, Miller M.
Ohio,
1813
1820
1897
Spayth, Abraham
Germany,
1800
1832
Spencer, Timothy P.
Connecticut,
1811
1832
1885
Sprague, Mrs. Harriet I.
Ohio,
1821
1821
1896
Spring, E. V.
Ohio,
1836
1836
Spring, V.
Massachusetts,
1799
1817
1889
Springer, Mrs. Mary A.
Maine,
1838
1857
Staats, Mrs. Elizabeth
Ohio,
1821
1821
1888
Stair, Samuel G.
England,
1831
1832
Standart, Alice L.
Michigan,
1826
1828
Stanley, George A.
Connecticut,
1818
1837
1883
Stark, Lewis Dibble
Ohio,
1837
1837
Stark, Mrs.Lewis Dibble
Ohio,
1836
1836
Starkweather,Mrs. Samuel
Connecticut,
1810
1825
1894
Starkweather, William J,
. Ohio,
1845
1845
Stearns, Charles W.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Stearns, Mrs. Lucy P.
Ohio,
1839
1839
1896
Stearns, Gardner
Ohio,
1827
1827
1898
Stein, Jacob
Ohio,
1849
1849
Stein, Sigmund
Bohemia,
1823
1848
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
129
Stein, Benjamin
Stephenson, William
Sterling, Dr. Elisha
Sterling, James Lord
Stevens, Charles C.
Stewart, Mrs. Celinda C.
Stewart. John X.
Stewart. J. S.
Stickne) . ( 'arver
Stickney,Mrs.Christina B.
Stickney, Hamilton
Stiles, Lawson A.
Stiles, Mrs. Laura A.
Stillman, \\ illiam H.
Stillman, Mrs. Elizabeth
Stockly, George \Y.
Stofer, David G.
Stofer, Mrs. David G.
Stone, Harriet E.
Storer, George
Storer, Hannah D.
Storer, William C.
Stratton, Luciu =
Streator, Dr. Worthy S.
Strickland, Dr. Benjamin
Strickland, Mrs. Hannah W.
Strong, Charles H.
Strong, Homer
Strong, Dr. Jamin
Strong, Samuel M.
Suhr, Charles A.
Swift, Mrs. Lucian
Taplin,Mrs. Frances Smith
Taylor, Charles W.
( >hio,
1851
1851
1 Pennsylvania,
1804
1833
1895
Connecticut,
1825
1827
1890
Ohio,
1838
1838
Maine,
1812
1833
1896
Connecticut,
1817
1836
1898
Ohio.
1846
1846
Ohio,
1818
1818
1891
Xew York,
1820
1830
1892
Canada,
1836
1836
Xew Vork,
1824
1830
1896
Ohio,
1843
1843
( ihio,
1845
1845
Connecticut,
1808
1812
1896
Xew York,
1822
1826
Ohio,
1843
1843
Ohio,
1827
1850
Ohio,
1842
1842
Ohio,
1847
1847
Maine,
1803
1827
1896
Ohio,
1837
1837
Ohio,
1831
1831
Massachusetts,
1824
1839
New York,
1816
1817
Vermont,
1810
1835
1889
Ohio,
1812
1834
1889
Ohio.
1831
1831
Connecticut,
1811
1836
1884
Xew York,
1826
1838
1895
Ohio,
1832
1832.
1895
Germany,
1824
1848
1890
ichnsetts,
1821
1842
Ohio,
1850
1850
Ohio.
1837
1837
13 <) ANNALS OF THE
Taylor, Mrs. Charles W
Ohio,
1841
1841
Taylor, Daniel R.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Taylor, Harvey
Ohio.
1814
1814
1880
Taylor, James
Ohio,
1814
1814
1896
Taylor, Margaret M.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Taylor, Robert
England,
1820
1848
1894
Taylor, Virgil C.
Ohio,
1838
1838
Teachout, Abraham
New York,
1817
1817
Thatcher. Mrs. Peter
Massachusetts,
1820
1850
Thomas, Jefferson
Ohio,
1809
1809
1885
Thomas, John L.
Massachusetts,
1805
1837
Thomas, Charles
Vermont,
1829
1846
Thomas, Mrs. Charles
Vermont,
1832
1846
Thomas, William Case
Ohio.
1854
1854
Thompson, Hartman V.
New York,
1816
1839
1893
Thompson, Mrs. Hartman V. Vermont,
1823
1837
Thompson, Harriet Thorpe Ohio,
1835
1835
Thompson, Thomas
England,
1814
1836
1884
Thorpe,Rt.Rev.Mgr.T.P.
Ireland,
1838
1858
Thorpe, Cornelius
Pennsylvania,
1797
1811
1887
Tilden, Judge Daniel R.
Connecticut,
1806,
1828
1890
Tisdale, George A. '
New York,
1821
1852
1893
Tompkins, William
England,
1816
1842
1895
Topliff. Isaac N.
Connecticut,
1833
1854
Tovey, George
England,
1819
1855
Towner, Mrs. Kate D.
New York,
1820
1837
Towner, William
England,
1820
1837
1897
Townsend, Horace G.
New York,
1812
1834
1885
Truscott, Samuel
Canada,
1830
1839
Turner, Almon P.
Vermont,
1807
1818
1886
Turner, Mrs. Isaac N.
Ohio,
1847
1847
Turner, Samuel W.
Connecticut,
1813
1832
Turney, Joseph
Dublin,
1825
1834
1892
Turney. Mrs. Joseph
New York,
1828
1830
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
131
Tuttle, Mrs. Mary E.
Ohio,
1824
1824
Tuttle, William H.
Connecticut,
1818
1819
1892
Tylee, Felix
Ohio,
1828
1828
Tylee, Mrs. .Maria B.
New York,
1829
1845
Umstaetter, Louis
Germany,
1812
1833
1888
Upson, J. E.
Ohio,
1842
1842
Urban, Jacob P.
Germany,
1839
1846
Van Hyning, Mrs. Hannah
Ohio,
1840
1840
VanTassel, A. T.
New York,
1833
1852
Varian, Miss Sarah
Pennsylvania,
1825
1846
Yickers, James H.
Ohio, '
1836
1836
Vincent, Mrs. Hannah M.
Connecticut,
1817
1818
Vincent, John A.
Pennsylvania,
1807
1839
1888
Vogt, John J.
Germany,
1837
1846
Vosburg, George
Pennsylvania,
1819
1843
Wackerman, Wendell
Germany,
1817
1833
1891
Wade, James
New York,
1824
1843
Wadsworth, Mary York
England,
1793
1836
1886
Wadsworth, William B.
England,
1818
1836
Wagar, Adam M.
New York,
1818
1819
1897
Wagar, Tsrael D.
Ohio,
1820
1820
Wagar, Mrs. Israel D.
Ohio,
1822
1843
Wagner F.
Germany.
1825
1842
Wagner, John C.
( rermany,
1829
1842
Wagner, Mrs. John C.
Ohio,
1839
1839
Wagner, William
( Germany,
1831
1842
1892
Wallace, Frederick T.
Vermont,
1820
1854
1895
Walters. Benjamin C.
New York,
1807
1837
1888
Walters, John R.
New York,
1811
1834
1886
Walton, John W.
( < >nnecticut,
1845
1845
W alworth, A. D.
New York,
1825
1838
Walworth, [da
Ohio.
1835
1835
Walworth, John
( >hio,
1821
1821
Walworth. Warren F.
New York,
1838
1838
132
ANNALS OF THE
Ward, Edwin M.
Ward, Mrs. Edwin M.
Warner, Wareham J.
Warner, Wm. M.
W r arren, Harriet B.
Warren, Mrs. Julia W.
Warren, Moses
Warren, Mrs. William H
Warren, William M.
W'aterman, William
Watkins, George
Watkins, Eliza
Watson, George M.
Watson, Mary S.
Watterson, John T.
Watterson, Mrs. Margaret
Watterson, Moses G.
Watterson, William J.
Waud, Benjamin
Way, Mrs.Hulda P.
Webb, J. W. S.
Webb, Mrs. Nettie A.
Webster, John H.
Weideman, John C.
Weidenkopf, Frederick
Weidenkopf, Jacob
Weidenkopf, Mrs. CeceliaK
Weidenkopf, Mrs. Odelia
Weiner, Margarite
Welch, James S.
Welch, John
Welch, Oscar F.
Wellstead, Joseph
W r elton, Mrs. F. J.
Ohio,
1821
1821
1896
New York,
1832
1840
Vermont,
1808
1831
1883
Massachusetts,
1826
1849
1897
Ohio,
1836
1836
New York,
1816
1817
1884
New Hampshire,
1803
1815
1898
New York,
1819
1833
Ohio,
1832
1832
Ohio,
1818
1818
1897
Connecticut,
1812
1818
New York,
1813
1838
Ohio,
1853
1853
Ohio,
1829
1829
Ohio.
1828
1828
New York,
1828
1829
1892
Ohio,
1835
1835
Ohio,
1830
1830
England,
1819
1852
1896
Ohio,
1823
1823
England,
1852
1854
Ohio,
1852
1852
New Hampshire,
1846
1850
Germany,
1829
1836
Germany,
1819
1837
1884
Germany,
1828
1837
1890
Germany,
1832
1838
Alsace,
1819
1830
1892
German}',
1816
1848
1893
Ohio.
1821
1821
1885
New York,
1800
1825
1887
Ohio,
1817
1817
1892
England,
1817
1837
1893
Vermont,
1817
1836
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION
133
Welton, Isaac T.
Connecticut,
1804
1813
1894
Wemple, Andrew
Ohio,
1825
1825
Wemple, Mrs. Andrew
Ohio,
1827
1827
Wemple, Myndret
Xc\\ York,
1796
1818
1886
W'enliani, Robert G.
England,
1823
1832
Wentworth, Nathaniel
Vermont,
1818
1844
1895
Weston, George
Ohio,
1819
1819
Weston, George B.
Massachusetts,
1805
1826
1894
\\ heller. Benjamin S.
England,
1805
1836
1894
Wheller, Mrs. Jane
England,
1800
1831
1886
Whigan, Mrs. Margaret
New Jersey,
1845
1854
Whipple, R. B.
New York,
1815
1844
Whitaker, Charles
New York,
1817
1831
188G
White, Charles M.
Ohio,
1829
1829
White, Mrs. Charles M.
Rhode Island,
1831
1848
White, Judge Henry C.
Ohio,
1838
1838
White, John S.
New York,
1825
1837
1897
White, Mrs. John S.
New York,
1826
1838
White, Moses
Massachusetts,
1791
1816
1881
Whitehead, David S.
1825
1844
Whitelaw, George
Scotland,
1808
1832
1892
Whitelaw, John
Ohio,
1831
1831
1892
Whittlesey. Henry S.
Ohio,
1836
1836
Wick, i.\\
Ohio,
1813
1835
1882
Wick. Henry
Ohio,
1807
1807
1895
Wick, Mrs. Henry
Ohio,
1809
1809
1896
Wicken, John
England,
1809
1829
1895
Wickham. Mrs. G. V. R
Ohio,
1844
1844
Wightman, David L.
Ohio,
1817
1817
1887
Wightman, Mrs. David L.Ohio,
1822
1822
Wightman, John J.
Ohio,
1840
1840
Wightman, Sherburn H.
Ohio,
1819
1819
Wightman, Mrs. Sarah L.Ohio,
1824
1824
Wilbur, Loretta W.
Ohio,
1826
1826
ANNALS OF THE
Wilcox, Norman
Willard, Archibald M.
Willard, Mrs. A. M.
Williams, Andrew J.
Williams, Mrs. Andrew J.
Williams, Benajah
Williams, Mrs. Benajah
Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth
Williams, George
Williams, John
Williams, Mrs. Jerusha
Williams, William
Williamson, Samuel
Williamson, Mrs. Samuel
W T illard, Mrs. Ruth Day
Willows, Thomas
Wilson, Mrs. Hiram V.
Wilson, Fred
Wilson, Charles Edward
Wilson, George Henry
Wilson, James T.
Wilson, Mrs. Mary A.
Wilson, William
Winch, Thomas
Winch, Sarah
Winslow, Edwin N.
W f inslow, Alonzo P.
Wolcott, Mrs. Clarissa
Wood, Mrs. David L.
Wood, Henry B.
Woodbury. Manley H.
Woodmansee, Seth
Worthington, Mrs. M. C.
Wright, James
Wright, John
Wyman, Mrs. C. E.
Younglove, Moses C.
Connecticut,
1790
1827
1886
Ohio,
1836
1836
Pennsylvania,
1844
1854
New York,
1829
1840
Ohio,
1830
1830
1896
New York,
1820
1840
1890
Massachusetts,
1830
1838
England,
1812
1833
1886
Connecticut,
1799
1811
1890
England,
1817
1832
1888
Ohio,
1849
1849
Connecticut,
1803
1811
1888
Pennsylvania,
1808
1810
1884
New York,
1814
1843
1895
Ohio,
1832
1832
England,
1824
1851
Michigan,
1802
1835
1884
New York,
1807
1832
Ohio,
1854
1854
Ohio.
1852
1852
Ohio,
1825
1828
1885
Scotland,
1812
1836
1898
Ohio,
1819
1819
1891
New York,
1806
1831
1886
New York, .
1824
1842
North Carolina,
1824
1830
New York,
1816
1836
New York,
1807
1814
Michigan,
1821
1840
New York,
1813
1817
1895
Ohio,
1811
1811
1894
New York,
1823
1844
Vermont,
1817
1835
Scotland,
1820
1837
1894
New York,
1817
1834
Ohio,
1843
1843
New York,
1812
1836
1892
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION 135
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Addison, Hhrvey N. — Born in Ohio. 1820; came to the Re-
serve, 1820; home, Leonidas. Michigan.
Addison, Mrs. Hervey N. — Born in Ohio, 1827; came to the
Reserve, 1827 ; home, Leonidas, Michigan.
Beebe, Laurel. — Born in Connecticut, 1809 ; came to the Re-
serve, 1818; home at Ridgeville, Ohio ; died, L894.
Bissell. Rev. Samuel- — Born in Massachusetts, 1797 ; came
to the Reserve, 1806; home at Twinsburg, Ohio; died,
August, 1895.
Bolles, Rev. Dr. James A. — Born in Connecticut, 1810; came
to the Reserve. 1854; home at Cleveland, Ohio; died,
1894
Briggs, James A. — Born in New York, 1811; came to Ohio,
L832; lived in Cleveland from 1834 to 18o7 ; home, at
Brooklyn, New York ; died, 1889.
Bronson, Rev. Sherlock Aaron, D. D., I/L,. D. — Born in
Connecticut. 1807 ; came to the Reserve, 1807. an infant
in the arms of his mother; home at Mansfield, Ohio;
died, 1S90.
Calkins, C G. — Born in New Hampshire. 1818; came to the
Reserve, 1833; home at Los Angeles, California.
Crosby, Charles. — Born in Massachusetts, 1801 ; came to the
Reserve, 1832; home at Chicago, Illinois; died, 1885.
Edwards, Hon. John M. — Born in Connecticut.' L805; came to
the Reserve, 1832; home in Youngstown, Ohio; died,
1887.
Ford, Wallace J. — Home, Hiram. Ohio.
136 ANNALS OP THE
Garfield, Mrs. Eliza B. — Mother of the late President Gar-
field ; born in Connecticut, 1801 ; came to the Reserve,
1830 ; home at Mentor, Ohio ; died. 1887.
Garfield, James A. —Late President of the United S ates;
born at Orange. Ohio, 1831 ; came to the Western Re-
serve, 1831 ; home at Mentor, Ohio ; died, 1881.
Garfield, Mrs. Lucretia R. — Wife of the late President Gar-
field ; born in Ohio, in 1832 ; came to the Reserve,
1832 ; home in Mentor, Ohio.
Gray. Henry C. — Born in Pennsylvania, 1816 ; came to West-
ern Reserve, 1836 ; resides in Painesville, Ohio.
Green, Rev. Almon B. — Born in Connecticut, 1808 ; came to
the Rese ve, 1810 ; home in East Cleveland, Ohio ;
died, 1886.
Hanna, Mrs. Semantha M. — Born in Vermont 1813 ; came
to the Reserve, 1824; home was at Cleveland, Ohio;
died, April 16, 1897.
Hoadley George.— Ex- Governor of Ohio, born in Connecticut,
1826; came to the Reserve, 1830; home, City of New
York.
Jones, Rev. J. Harrison. — Born. Trumbull County, Ohio,
June 15, 1813; home, Alliance, Ohio.
Kelley, Addison. — Born in Ohio, 1811 ; came to the Reserve,
1811; home, Kelley Island, Lake Erie; died, 1895.
Kennedy, James Harrison. — Born, Trumbull County, Ohio,
January 17, 1847 ; home, New York City-
Kent, Marvin. — Born in Ohio, 1816; came to the Reserve,
1.816 ; home at Kent, Ohio.
McKinley, Wm.— President of the United States; born, Niles,
Ohio, 1844 ; home at Canton. Ohio.
O'Brien, Hon. W. L-— Born in Ohio, 1826 ; came to the Re-
serve, 1826 ; home at Cincinnati Ohio ; died, 1894.
EARLY SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION 137
Punderson, Daniel— Born in Ohio, 1814 ; came to the Re-
serve, 1814; home at Newbury. Ohio; died, 1891.
Reeve, Dr. John C — Born in England, 1S26; came to Ohio,
1832 ; home at Dayton, Ohio.
Riddle, Hon. Albert G. — Born in Massachusetts, 1816; came
to the Reserve, 1817 ; home at Washington, D. C.
Taylor, Hon. Lester.— Born in Connecticut, August 5, 1798;
came to the Reserve, 1819 ; home at Claridon, Ohio.
Taylor, Royal- — Born in Massachusetts, 1800; came to the
Reserve, 1807 ; home at Ravenna, Ohio ; died, 1892.
Thurman, Allen G. — Born in Virginia, 1813; came to Ohio,
1819; home at Columbus, Ohio; died, Dec. 12, 1895.
Willey, Mrs. Almira.- Born in Massachusetts, 1803; came
to the Reserve, 1808 ; home at Ashtabula, Ohio ; died,
Dec. 13, 1897.
Wood, Mrs. Mary. — Wife of the late Governor Wood ; born
in Vermont, 1798; came to the Reserve, 1818; home
at Rockport, Ohio; died, 1886.
Youngs, Mrs. Lydia O'Brien. — Born in Vermont, 1800;
came to the Reserve, 1817 ; home at Stillman Valley,
Illinois; died, 1893.
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