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CABLE
Eliezar and Minerva Cable came to Newburgh from Milford, Conn., about 1832, and started the first nursery in town.
Mrs. Cable was extremely neat and a great worker. She lived to be ninety years old, loved and respected by all who knew her.
She had one daughter, Elvira Cable, who married Joseph Cady. After her mother's death Mrs. Cady removed to Topeka, Kansas.
1832
PANKHURST
A young man 20 years of age was the Cleveland pioneer of this family. He was born in Rye, England, and in 1822 came to Utica, N. Y., presumably with his parents. His mother was a Forster, a name of note in England. About 1832, John Pankhurst and his brother William came to Cleveland, as so many other Utica residents were doing in and after that year. The brothers were skilled carpenters and iron-workers. They expected to find the small village flourishing, but it failed to meet their expectations, and William returned to his eastern home.
But John Pankhurst remained here, whereby our city gained much, in the family he gave to it mostly of the manly, industrious type, capable of earning an honest living, and one of them, at least, of acquiring great wealth.
John Pankhurst's wife, whom he married here, was Sarah Wellsted, a young English girl of his own age, and also a former resident of Utica. The records of her ancestry have been preserved for several generations. Her parents were William and Mary Wellsted. In 1852 the young couple were living on Bolivar street, happy, prosperous, surrounded by a group of bright children, the oldest 18 years, the youngest a little lad of seven. One evening, in the summer of that year, Mr. Pankhurst remarked at the supper-table that he was not feeling very well. The next morning dawned upon his lifeless form, one more victim of the cholera scourge that swept over the city that year, the fourth and last visitation beginning in 1832.
Mrs. Pankhurst was thus suddenly bereft of the strong arm and active brain that hitherto had shielded her from all financial cares, and the children were deprived of a father whose advice and protection were yet sorely needed. But the mother seems to have been a woman of character, and equal to the emergency.
In 1860, she was living at No. 90 Muirson street. Her second son John, evidently married, resided in a house adjoining. He was an ironworker. Thomas, the eldest son, was a boiler-maker and living in that year in a home of his own on St. Clair street.
John Pankhurst's trade proved to be a fortunate one. Eventually he became the head and chief owner of the Globe Iron Works of this city, and died in 1898 a very wealthy man, one universally admired and re-
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spected. His only daughter married a nobleman of high title, and resides in Athens, Greece.
Mrs. Sarah Pankhurst died in a pretty home on Arlington street in 1894. Her youngest daughter, a fine-looking woman of about 70 years, is the only remaining member of the family yet living. The parents were interred in Erie street cemetery, but may have been removed to Lake View.
The children of John and Sarah Wellsted Pankhurst:
William J. Pankhurst, b. 1833; m. Mary Brady.
John Forster Pankhurst, b. 1838; m. Maria Coates.
Mary A. Pankhurst, b. 1840; m. Ferdinand Ruple.
Sarah E. Pankhurst, b. 1842; m Ferdinand Ruple ; 2nd, James Ritchie
Thomas J. Pankhurst, b. 1845; m. Elisabeth Welhoff
Mrs. Elisabeth Pankhurst is a widow living with her son H. F. Pankhurst on 109th street, a sweet-faced woman of refined, cordial manners.
1832
HECKER-BECKER
Henry Hecker and his wife Christina Wilhelm Hecker were middle aged, and with a family of four, grown children when they immigrated from near the river Rhine, Germany, to this country.
Their eldest daughter was married and did not accompany them. The eldest son of the family was a cripple, the younger one was 20 years of age; and fear that he might be forced into the German army made his mother's working hours miserable, and her nights sleepless. So the parents severed the ties of almost a life-time, sold their possessions, and came across the sea.
The Heckers settled on a farm belonging to Philip B. and Edward Andrews, an hundred-acre tract lying out Superior street near E. 79th street. (Those thoroughfares were not then laid out.)
The family lived in a log-house that had been occupied by the parents of the Andrews brothers. The site is on the south side of Superior street near its junction with E. 79th.
Mrs. Hecker died there and was buried in Doan street cemetery, corner of Euclid. Long afterward, when that burial-site was demolished to make way for commerce, she was reinterred in Lake View.
The children of Henry and Christina Hecker:
Barbara Hecker, m. Jacob Becker.
Elisabeth Hecker, m. Peter Miller.
John Hecker, m. Julia _____
Peter Hecker, m. Caroline Cross.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Becker followed their parents to this country after the latter were well established in their new home. They had a large family of children, the older ones of whom were born in Germany.
The Beckers lived in the same locality in Cleveland that their parents had chosen, near the junction of Superior and E. 79th. It was then covered with big forest-trees. Fifty years later these families gave names to two East End streets, Hecker and Becker avenues.
Children of Jacob and Barbara Becker:
Elisabeth Becker, m. Jacob Hecker, a cousin..
Michael Becker, m. Caroline Smith..
Ellen Becker, m. Wm. Beckenback..
Barbara Becker, m. David Wehlmuth.
Catherine Becker, m. Catherine Bau-bilt
Mary Becker, m. George Abel
Julia Becker, m. Coonrad Rolph
The fourth and fifth surnames of above marriages may not be correct, or the writer had to spell them by sound, not being familiar with their nomenclature.
Many of the descendants of the above families reside in the vicinity of the pioneer home. Among them is William Abel, whose large furniture store and undertaking establishment is located at 7017 Superior street.
1833
Died. Luther Willes, aged 41 years.
Josiah Pomeroy, aged 33 years. (Erie st. cemetery.)
Fugitives. Edward and Jonathan Jackson of Virginia advertise in Herald for runaway slaves Martin and Sam. $500 reward. Martin is described as a very handsome light mulatto.
Cardy Parker "wishes to sell 100 acres of land within three miles of court-house on the great road down the lake (Euclid ave.) 30 acres improved, frame-house and barn."
Black Hawk, the Indian Chief who had "been defeated in an Indian war, carried on in the West, while a prisoner and being taken through Cleveland, requested the officers in charge to allow him to visit the grave of his mother. He went in a skiff to the present site of River st. cemetery and remained an hour in silent meditation.
Ague still causing much suffering in town and around and about it. New England people fumigating and disinfecting all letters received from Ohio before reading them.
At this date, and many succeeding ones, people who reached the age of 45 or 50 were considered old folks.
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BALDWIN
Authorities differ regarding the birthplace of Norman C. Baldwin, pioneer produce merchant of Cleveland. One biographer states that it was Goshen, Conn., and another that it was Litchfield, but all agree that, wherever it was, he was born in 1802. He was the son of Stephen and Susannah Adams Baldwin. His father died of tuberculosis, leaving a widow and a large family, the younger members of which were of very tender age. About 1816 Mrs. Baldwin came to Ohio with her family and settled in Summit county.
Within a short time following that event, Norman but yet a lad in age and appearance, opened a small country store in Hudson, Ohio. Within two years he had made such a success of the venture. as to need the services and savings of two of his brothers, whom he took into partnership. His good judgment and executive ability were unprecedented, considering his youth and lack of experience. He early manifested a love of spirited horses, and was a skillful driver. A feat he performed in that line caused quite a local sensation, and made him the hero of the hour. He drove from Hudson to Cleveland in 24 hours, something that had never previously been accomplished.
In 1830 he removed to Cleveland, and became a member of the firm, Giddings, Baldwin and Co. It did a large produce business, connected mostly with the lake and the Ohio canal. It also owned and operated a line of passenger and lake steamers. Mr. Baldwin became the first president of the Bank of Cleveland, organized in 1834 and was at the head of the Canal Bank in the financial crash of 1837. The panic swept him off his feet, and when affairs were finally readjusted, he retired from mercantile life and for some years following was in the real-estate business.
A short time previous to Mr. Baldwin's removal to the city, he married Miss Mary H. Palmer, daughter of Robert Palmer of Goshen, Conn. She died in 1867. The family residence was on Euclid ave., between Perry and Sterling, now E. 22nd and E. 30th. It was one of the finest homes on the avenue.
Children of Norman C. and Mary Baldwin:
Eliza G. Baldwin, b. 1830; m. Henry. B. Perkins, son of Gen. Simeon Perkins of Warren, Ohio.
Mary V. Baldwin, b. 1832; m. John T. Newton, a Toledo lawyer.
Capt. Norman A. Baldwin, b. 1835; m. Miss Ann Webster. He was a.soldier in the Civil war.
Charlotte G. Baldwin, b. 1839; died 1866.
Elisabeth Baldwin, b. 1844
Henry Parmalee Baldwin, b. 1845; died 1865.
N. C. Baldwin, Jr., b. 1848; died 1878; member of the firm of Baldwin and Collins, merchant millers of Cleveland
Ellen Douglas Baldwin, b. 1851.
Norman C. Baldwin, Sr., died in 1887, aged 85 years. 405
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BRIGGS
James Alfred Briggs was a young lawyer aged 22 from Claremont, N. Y., who tried his fortune in the village of Cleveland and-won out. He was the son of Rufus and Nancy Hayes Briggs of Cheshire, Mass., who removed to New York State before his birth.
In 1834, Van Rensselaer Humphrey of Hudson, O., entered into a law partnership with Mr. Briggs. Humphrey was much the older, and more experienced. He is described as broad-shouldered, ruffle-shirted, and as "Judge" Humphrey "ponderous and imposing." The office of the firm was over C. L. Camp's store on Superior street.
Mr. Briggs lived in the city 24 years. He was a valuable citizen, and was usually found on the right side of any public movement. He was an enthusiastic temperance worker. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Charles Bradburn in his successful efforts to establish the Cleveland high school system. He was the first attorney of the C. C. & I. railroad.
Mr. Briggs married Margaret Bayard, dau. of George A. Bayard. The ceremony took place in Pittsburgh in 1842. She died and he married 2nd Catherine Van Vechten. Both wives were of old, New York State families.
James A. Briggs died in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he had removed in 1857.
1833
BARNES
William Barnes and his wife Elizabeth Giles Barnes came to Cleveland from England about 1833.
Mr. Barnes was a carpenter and worked in and about the city many years. He died of cholera in 1849 at the early age of 37 years.
The home of the Barnes family was a log-house on Lake street between Bond and Erie, now East 6th and 9th. There were four children, but only one has been secured.
William M. Barnes, m. Henrietta Fell.
1833
BRECK
In the early summer of 1837 a young man from Rochester, N. Y., bound for Huron, O., with a stock of dry-goods, and accompanied by his sister, landed from a steamer near the mouth of the Cuyahoga river.
Before reaching Cleveland, the weather became very stormy, and as he intended resuming the journey by water, and his sister had been seasick on the trip from Buffalo, he concluded to leave her here in care of
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some good women for a couple of weeks, or until convenient to come back for her.
Just how he came in touch with the right person has not been handed down, but she was found, and that woman's loving kindness and tender sympathy with the homesick girl who had never before spent a night away from her mother was gratefully appreciated and never forgotten.
Many years afterward, the maiden now a middle-aged woman and with grown children of her own, asked her daughter to accompany her to the Erie street cemetery, and to help her to find the grave of the dear woman who had once befriended her.
It was located near the Erie street entrance and on the right side of the main drive. An old-fashioned marble headstone marked the spot. It read
"ANGELINE
wife of Rev. Joseph H. Breck. Died May 24, 1838."
Alice Angeline Breck was the daughter of Ralph Snow, a merchant and druggist of Northampton, Mass. She married the Rev. Joseph Hunt Breck in 1830, and accompanied him back to the Western Reserve where he had been living the past seven years in Brecksville as a missionary. He did not return there after his marriage, but took his bride to a home on Superior street, No. 103, and just east of Webb C. Ball's former jewelry store. J. F. Ryder occupied the spot many years with his photograph gallery and store.
Mrs. Breck, at the time, had two brothers living in Brooklyn, N. Y., Lorenzo and George Snow, and the son of one of these men became a well known civil engineer of New York City. Mrs. Breck was cordially welcomed by the best element of the little village, not only through respect for her husband's calling, but because of her own fine personality, and she soon won the intimate friendship of Mrs. Dr. Long and other women most admired and respected in the community. Unfortunately, her life in Cleveland was brief. She died at the birth of her third child.
Rev. Joseph Hunt Breck was the son of Joseph Hunt Breck, Sr., and Abigail-Kingsley-Breck, and it was through his grandmother Rachel Hunt that father and son acquired their middle name.
The first New England ancestor of the family, Edward Breck, emigrated to this country with Richard Mather, and became a freeman of Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, but for some generations that branch of the family had been living in Northampton, where Rev. Joseph H. Breck was born. He was educated at Yale, and afterward graduated from a theological seminary. Perhaps this long course of study was responsible for his delicate health which compelled him to partially relinquish the ministry, and while living in Cleveland, he made use of his thorough classical education in fitting young men for college.
The fathers of several business men of the city were thus prepared by him for a collegiate life.
Mrs. Harriet Brooks Breck, the widow of his son, possesses a large photograph of him taken in his old age, and it is most striking in its expression of gentleness and goodness, and one can easily create from
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it an image of an old-fashioned gentleman and scholar. He lived with his only son, Hon. Joseph Breck, or occupied the same house for twenty-two years, and all that time he was unfailing in his kindness and consideration towards his son's wife. She speaks of him in terms of tenderest gratitude and respect.
Rev. Joseph and Angeline Breck had two children that reached maturity:
Hon. Joseph Breck, born 1831; married Harriet Brooks.
Angeline Snow Breck, born May 21, 1838; married C. B. Denio, who removed to Galen, Ill., and later to Vallejo, Cal.
Five years after the death of his wife, the Rev. Joseph H. Breck moved to a farm on the Brecksville road, and while his motherless children were yet young he met Miss Diantha Chamberlain, a maiden lady who was a school-teacher in Twinsburg, and they were married. She outlived Mr. Breck nine years, and died at an advanced age at the residence of his son with whom she had made her home for thirty-one years. She left no children.
Hon. Joseph Breck lived a long life in or near Cleveland, and died in 1907, honored and respected. He married the daughter of Hezkiah Brooks, a pioneer of Carlisle, Lorain Co. She was a pupil of Miss Linda Guilford, and taught school in Cleveland before her marriage. Her grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier and on the staff of Gen. Washington.
The children of Hon. Joseph and Harriet Breck:
George Dwight Breck, m. Minnie Schultz..
Theodore Brooks Breck, m. Martha Spencer.
William Merriman Breck, unmarried
Mary Louise Breck, m. George Begg. Resident of Detroit.
After the death of Mrs. Angeline Snow Breck, the aged and widowed mother of Rev. Joseph Breck came on to Cleveland from Northampton to look after his home and children. Besides this son she had a daughter Rachel married to Rev. George Hooker, an eminent divine of Massachusetts, and another daughter Fanny married to a Mr. Eastman.
In many ways this mother was a remarkable woman. She possessed much musical talent, and as Abigail Kingsley, and as a very young girl she led the choir of a Northampton church.
She died in 1847, aged 79 years.
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NOTT
Sergeant John Nott, of Weathersfield, Conn., 1681, was the American ancestor of the pioneer family of that name who came to this city in 1833. The Notts intermarried with the Dimmock family of Connecticut, and one son in every following generation had "D" for a middle initial. The Notts possess a family Bible over two hundred years old. It is bound in calfskin as thick as sole-leather.
William D. Nott was twenty-three years old when, in 1811, he married Laura Belden of Chatham, Conn. ; and he was about forty-five years old and had a family of children when he removed to Cleveland. The Notts were very desirable citizens. Their useful occupation of manufacturing pumps, vessel-spars, etc., was. a. lucrative one for themselves and most valuable to the community in which they had come to live. Their shop was on Merwin street and their residence at 35 Water street.
William Nott died in 1858 and, with his wife Laura Belden Nott, and several of his children, is buried in Erie street cemetery. Mrs. Nott died several years before her husband. She was a sister of Capt. Clifford Belden and an aunt of William Hart, the pioneer furniture-dealer.
Children of William D. Nott and Laura Belden Nott::
Mary E. Nott, b. 1812; m. Nathaniel Taylor, of Willoughby, O.
William Dimmock Nott, b. 1814; m. Emily Hurd; 2nd, Emily Doane. He was a merchant and lived on Euclid Ave. on the site of Halle Brothers' store. He was instantly killed in 1859 by falling down the cellar-stairs of his home..
Henry Nott, b. 1817; m. Mary Farr of Euclid, O. In 1856 he was living at 46 Perry street.
Horace Nott, b. 1817; twin-brother of above ; was in business with him continuously. He lived at 50 Wood street; m. Harriet L. Smith of Rockhill, Conn.
Laura Nott, b. 1819; m. Mr. Earl of Covington, Ky. They conducted a seminary there
Abram Luther Nott, b. 1822; m. Elisabeth Slater.
Chauncy Clifford Nott, b. 1824; m Mary Ann Ross, daughter of Joshua Ross, Jr. They had one child, George C. Nott, a resident of the city.
The wife of Horace Nott was one of three sisters, Sherrill, Harriet, and Ada Smith, noted for their intelligence and beauty. They were the daughters of John and Melinda Farr Smith, of Jefferson County, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Nott had three children:
Belle Hastings Nott, b. 1848; m.
Benjamin L. Wareing; 2nd, James Warham Whitney. Lives in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Franklin D. Nott, m. Elisabeth Cur-tis
Jennie Sherrill Nott, m. John Knox Brown, of Buffalo, N. Y.
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KENDALL
An interesting and charming family were the Kendalls, three generations of whom lived in Cleveland, covering a period of half a century.
The Kendall men, father, son, and grandson, were unusually finelooking, and of cultured, dignified bearing. They were in the dry-goods business, and their store was first on the north side of Superior street below Seneca, now West 3rd, then removed above Seneca on the same side, and finally into the new Case Block, the site of the present postoffice.
The pioneer of any new movement risks much, seldom benefits by it, and often comes to grief. The experiment of the Kendalls in locating their business above the Public Square proved a- :failure. It was- many years later before local trade established a footing on Euclid ave. and East Superior street, and by that time the once popular store of Kendall & Son was unknown to the many, and recalled only to the few.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., came to Cleveland in September, 1833, in middle life, 49 years of age. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah Smith Kendall, and was born in Ashford, Conn. In 1810 he married, and in the same year opened a general merchandise store in Greenfield, Mass., which proved very successful. After a 20 years' residence in that town, he sold out and conducted a banking business for three years in Homer, N. Y. Attracted by the glowing accounts of Cleveland's beautiful location and rapid growth, Mr. Kendall removed with his family to this town, and, returning to the occupation with which he was most familiar, opened a dry-goods store. The family residence was 44 Euclid ave., the site of which is now covered by the Kendall Building.
Lyman Kendall, Sr., died in 1847, and was buried in old Erie street cemetery. His wife's maiden name was Martha Clay Goodhue, of Putney, Vt. At the time of her marriage to Mr. Kendall she was 20 years of age, and 43 years old when she removed to Cleveland.
Her parents were Dr. Joseph and Martha Clay Goodhue, and her American ancestor was living in Ipswich, Mass., in 1639. Dr. Joseph Goodhue was a surgeon in the U. S. Army for 21 years. He died in Deerfield, Mass. Mrs. Lyman Kendall, Sr., was a woman of unusually strong character, and of fine intellect. She was a valuable member of Old Trinity, and zealous in all good and charitable work. After her husband's death in 1847, she went to live with her son George Kendall in Grand Rapids, Mich. She was greatly beloved by the people of that town, and always addressed or spoken of as "Madam Kendall." Her death occurred in 1874, and her remains were brought to Cleveland and placed beside those of her husband.
The year following the arrival of the family in Cleveland, an epidemic of cholera broke out in the town, and among the victims was the 15-year old son, James Kendall. The Cleveland Herald of August, 1834, contained the following tribute
"Seldom has the visitation of this dreadful scourge been more mournful an affliction than in its sudden destruction of this most interesting youth, known and admired in this community for wisdom and virtues far surpassing his years."
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Children of Lyman and Martha Goodhue Kendall:
Lyman Kendall, Jr., b. 1811; d. aged 30.
George Kendall, b. 1813; m. Esther. Tallman.
Henry Dwight Kendall, b. 1815; m. Marcia D. Havens of Hamilton,. N. Y.
James Kendall, d. aged 15 years.
Charles Kendall, b. 1825; m. Sarah K. Butts
John Kendall, b. 1825; m. Aurena Whipple
The latter were twins
After the death of Lyman Kendall, Sr., his son Dr. Henry Dwight Kendall, who, meanwhile, had studied medicine, and was a well-established physician, felt obliged to relinquish his practice and assume charge of his father's store and business.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall later took into partnership his son Lyman H. Kendall, and the firm was afterward known as "H. D. Kendall & Son." Finally, Dr. H. D. Kendall sold out his interests and removed to Grand Rapids, Mich. He died at Guaymas, Mexico, in 1891. Crumb, Baslington, & Kendall continued the business for a time, then established a bank.
George Kendall, the second son of Lyman Kendall, Sr., lived in Cleveland but a year or two, and then embarked in the dry-goods trade in Kalamazoo, and later in Grand Rapids, Mich., where he lived until his death in 1890. Eventually, his four younger brothers followed him to the latter place. All of them at first were dry-goods merchants, later, became interested in real-estate, and in banking and brokering.
The children of George and Esther Tallman Kendall were:
Martha Goodhue Kendall, b. 1844..
George Tallman Kendall, b. 1846; d. 1877.
Mary Kendall, b. 1848
Esther Kendall, b. 1856; d. 1897.
Lyman H. Kendall, b. 1840 m. Miss
Clara Mix ; she died 1864.
Henry Kendall, b. 1842.
George Kendall, b. 1844; d. 1866.
Joseph G. Kendall, b. 1849.
Charles J. Kendall, b. 1848.
Sarah, Harriet, and Josephine Kendall.
John, Julia, and Anna Kendall.
Dr. Henry D. Kendall, his wife Marcia Havens Kendall, and Clara Mix Kendall are buried in Erie street cemetery.
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KELLOGG
Pliny Kellogg, born in Hanover, N. H., in 1876, was the son of Enos Kellogg. In 1809 he married Wealthy Smith, daughter of Benjamin and Maria Smith.
Pliny Kellogg was a shoemaker. He came with his wife and children to Cleveland in 1833, but remained in the city but a few years, removing to Chagrin Falls some time before 1845. While living here, the family resided at 81 Bank street where Mr. Kellogg kept a large boardinghouse.
The children of Pliny and Wealthy Smith Kellogg:
Leonora Kellogg, b. 1810; m. Harmon Burrows..
Lydia Kellogg, b. 1812; m. Jarius Ruggles..
Walter Kellogg, 1814, he left Cleveland very young for New Orleans. and never heard from afterward
Stephen Kellogg, b. 1816; m. Abigail Pierce
Lucy Kellogg, b. 1820; m. Anson Welcon Gaylord.
Mrs. Wealthy Kellogg died in 1858, and her husband ten years later.
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KEEP
Rev. John Keep had charge of the old stone church through the year of 1833. He was born in Longmeadow 1781, and was the son of Samuel Keep. He was a Yale graduate of the class of 1802.
While studying for the ministry in Goshen, Conn., he boarded at the residence of Judge Nathan Hale, and there met Lydia Hale, the oldest daughter and domestic mainstay of the family, her mother being an invalid. John Keep was attracted by her lovely spirit, pretty ways, and practical accomplishments. He frequently offered her a helping hand when she was occupied in duties that would allow it, and soon a romance developed. They were married in 1808.
Rev. Keep's first charge was in Blanford, Mass., where his only child was born. After the close of his work in the Old Stone Church, which belonged to the Presbyterian society, he organized the First Congregational church on the West Side. It stood on the corner of Detroit and State street for long years. A police-station now occupies the site. He was pastor of that church for two years, and then became interested in Oberlin College and spent his time in soliciting and raising money for that institution. He visited England, making eloquent pleas for the education and elevation of the black man. He made Oberlin his permanent home, and died there in 1870.
He was a man of lofty ideals and high vision. His services for Oberlin College when it was poor and struggling can never be fully realized.
Mrs. Lydia Keep was a helpmate in all her husband's efforts.
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Their only child:
Rev. Theodore J. Keep, b. 1809 in Blandford, Mass. ; m. Mary Ann Thompson, dau. of Kisuyck and Eunice Gaylord Thompson, in 1841.
William J. Keep, b. 1842; m. Frances S. Henderson..
Mary E. Keep, b. 1849; m. George M. Clark.
Fanny M. Keep, b. 1856; m. Normand Pelton
These children died young.
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CLARKE
One of the leading physicians of the town in the '30s was Dr. W. A. Clarke, who was a partner of Dr. Erastus Cushing. In 1836 he was residing at 25 High street, with his office designated as "Cushing and Clarke," 48 Superior street. He also had a drug-store at 11 Superior street, and over this was the first location of The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
High street was a short, pretty thoroughfare in those days, and several well-known families, at different times, resided there. Years ago, however, it retrograded into a mere passage-way, occupied by negroes of the lowest type. Dr. Welcome Arnold Clarke was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1791, and was the son of the Rev. Henry Clarke of Hopkinton, R. I. His mother was Catherine Pendleton Clarke of Westerly, R. I. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Clarke died in Brookfield, N. Y.
The Clarkes were welcomed as acquisitions to Cleveland's best society, and their four pretty, accomplished daughters were much admired and their company sought by the young men in town, but the house of Winslow won three times in the race. It is not unusual for two brothers to marry sisters, but the number rarely exceeds that.
Dr. Clarke died in 1848, aged eighty-two, and was buried in Erie street cemetery, probably in the Winslow vault.
Mrs. Clarke was a Miss Mary Brown, daughter of Nathan Brown, of Brookfield, N. Y. She was a graceful, slender lady, with alert carriage and very pleasant, friendly manners. She died a very old lady, outliving her husband nearly forty-two years. In all that period of widowhood she retained her own home, and after the death of her daughter, Mrs. Tracy, cared for and educated the latter's two motherless sons.
She lived for some time on Prospect street near Bolivar Road, but died on Euclid Ave. in a residence opposite that of her daughter, Mrs. R. K. Winslow.
The children of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Clarke:
Mary Anne Clarke, b. 1816; m. Nathan C. Winslow..
Harriet Clarke, b. 1818; m.______ Tracy.
Lucy Clarke, b. 1821; m. Rufus K. Winslow
Helen Clarke, b. 1826; m. Hezekiah Winslow.
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JOHNSON
Before the locks of the Sault Ste. Marie were built, the Cleveland firm of Johnson and Tisdale had their two new schooners, the "Swallow" and the "Julia Palmer," taken by land above the rapids and launched in the waters of Lake Superior. It was accomplished by means of greased skids, and its success created much comment all over the country.
The senior member of the firm, Seth W. Johnson, was a familiar figure on the streets of Cleveland for nearly 75 years. He was a pioneer ship-builder who was 95 years old at his death, 1907, and but for an accident in which he was injured, he might have lived to the 100 years, which event he assured his friends, he intended to celebrate. In his extreme old age he was still a fine-looking, alert man, whose snow-white hair and beard only served to make his keen eyes still brighter.
Mr. Johnson was a genuine Yankee, possessing Connecticut enterprise and industry, and the seven years of his youth in which he served an apprenticeship to the ship-building trade developed an instinct for vessel construction that eventually won him a competence.
Seth W. Johnson was born in Middle Haddam, Conn., in 1811. He came to Cleveland about 1833, and soon after started a drydock for vesselrepairing which developed into the building of new ones. The steamers Constellation and Robert Fulton were the first of these. It was in 1844 that he took into partnership Mr. Erastus Tisdale, and for 19 years thereafter turned out some of the finest craft ever constructed for fresh water, besides furnishing many steamers for the English coast-trade.
In 1840 Mr. Johnson married Miss Sophia Norton.
The family lived for some years in a fine brick residence on Washington street, corner of Pearl, now West 25th, West side, and afterward lived on Prospect Ave. Mr. and. Mrs. Johnson had many close friends and attached neighbors during that time, who rejoiced with them in their prosperity, and grieved when sorrow touched them.
There were two sons in the family. They were Calvert Henry, and Malcolm S. Johnson, handsome, interesting boys in their childhood and young manhood. They were in partnership in the tea-trade for a time. Calvert Johnson met with a sudden and tragic death in Chicago in 1871. He was 28 years old and unmarried.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had a little daughter, Belinda Norton Johnson, who died young and the family mourned the rest of their lives.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson, b. 1846, m. Amanda Root Ruffner. Mrs.Amanda Johnson died in 1886, aged 35 years.
Capt. Malcom S. Johnson passed away in 1909, and his mother, the last remaining member of the family, soon followed him.
The Johnson burial-lot is on Garfield drive in Lake View cemetery.
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In 1833 two brothers started a small dry-goods store on Superior street just below Bank. Soon after Samuel Raymond was taken into partnership, and later the firm became Clark & Morgan. The young merchants were Henry White Clark, aged twenty-six, and Mervin Clark, twenty-one years old. They were from New Britain, Conn., and the sons of Ornan and Lucy White Clark.
Six years later Marvin married Caroline Guptil who was born in Cleveland, 1822, and was the daughter of those very early pioneers John H. and Lucy White Guptil. Her mother was one of the party of fourteen who came all the way from Vermont in an open flat-boat. Caroline Guptil Clark lived but eight years after her marriage.
Evidently Mervin Clark was not satisfied with the financial outlook for his line of business, perhaps the panic of 1837 may have influenced his decision, for he left Cleveland for Milwaukee in the early '40s. His wife died there and then he removed to Rensselaer, Ind. He died while on a visit to his sister in New Britain, Conn., at the age of forty-two years. His four children, born in Cleveland, were
Almira Clark, m. George S. Britain.
M. Julius Gay, a noted genealogist, b. in 1834, son of Fisher and Lucy (Thomson) Gay.
Mervin Clark, a young soldier of the civil war, who lost his life at the battle of Franklin, and was buried on the field. He had served in the famous 7th Ohio Reg. and in the 183rd, lieutenant-colonel of the latter, and was but twenty- one years of age at the time of his death
Oliver Stanley Clark, lives in Wa tertown, Wis.
Mervin Clark, Sr., married (2) Miss Mary J. Thorp, and had two more children, Lucy and Henry Clark.
Henry White Clark, brother of Mervin Clark, Sr., remained in the city the rest of his life and became very prosperous. He married Emily Rowena Stanley, b. 1810, the dau. of Cyrus and Abigail Lee Stanley.
The family lived for a time on the Public Square, west of the Old Stone church, and later at 23 Euclid Ave., the site of the Stanley Block. They had no children of their own, but informally adopted several of their nephews and nieces, caring for and educating them. "Their roof was never too narrow to shelter those dear to them, and they never wearied in giving to others." One who was of that beautiful household says, "Henry W. Clark was one of the kindest-hearted men I have ever known, and his wife and he were of one mind and one impulse when it was a question of giving and doing."
Mr. Clark became interested in mining and lost heavily and was unable to provide for his numerous proteges as he had hoped and expected. His business had taken him often to Dubuque, Iowa, and in 1869 Mrs. Cark died there. She was the granddaughter of Col. Gad Stanley, a Revolutionary officer of 1776, whose wife, Mary Judd, was of the bluest blood of the colony. Mr. Clark outlived his wife only three years.
Mrs. Clark's widowed mother, Abigail Lee Stanley, lived in Cleveland a number of years, residing with Mrs. Clark. She died in 1867 aged 80.
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Mrs. Clark's sister, Harriet A. Stanley, was a lovely character. She never married but gave her long life to the care of nephews and nieces. While very aged she and a brother lived on Vienna street, and both died there.
Mr. Cyrus T. Stanley of East Cleveland is the only representative of this family remaining in the city.
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When Miss Sarah B. Hitchcock, daughter of Judge Silas and Polly Bradley Hitchcock, started from Cheshire, Conn., to visit her sister Mrs. John A. Foote in Cleveland, no one could foresee that then and there Cheshire had lost one of its dearest young girl residents ; one who had been born and spent her 21 years of life in that old New England town.
For, during her stay in Cleveland, she met Morgan Lewis Hewitt, a physician and surgeon 26 years of age, who had arrived here from Plattsburg, N. Y., some time previous, and they were married in 1836.
Dr. Hewitt combined a strong personality with charming manners, and as a physician was far in advance of his day, advocating and practising methods since adopted by the medical profession.
The couple began housekeeping at 74 Bank street. Subsequently, Isaac L. Hewitt, a brother, came on from Plattsburg, and began a business career in the city. He invested in vessel property, and later became interested in the iron ore trade. This led to the removal of Dr. Hewitt in 1857 to Marquette, Mich., of which he became a founder and promoter.
During the 21 years of their residence in Cleveland, Dr. and Mrs. Hewitt were respected and loved by many people, especially by those affiliated with the Old Stone Church, of which Mr. Hewitt became an officer and deacon.
Their removal to Marquette was attended by some sacrifice, as that place was then a wilderness, and at that time deemed as far away and inaccessible as Dakota is in this day of railroad communication. Dr. ment of Marquette. Both he and his wife died there many years ago.
Children of Morgan and Sarah Hewitt:
Ellen S. Hewitt, m. Hon. Peter White.
Mary L. Hewitt, m. Henry Mather of Middleton, Conn.
Both sisters spent their married lives in Marquette. The former died some years later, leaving an only daughter, Mrs. Shirer, who divides her time between Washington, D. C., and Marquette. Mrs. Mary L. Mather still resides here.
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Isaac L. Hewitt, the brother of Dr. Hewitt, married a Miss Lake of Cleveland, whose father, Alanson Lake, was in the confectionery business at that time. Mr. Isaac L. Hewitt removed to Lugonia, California.
Morgan Lewis, the Christian name of Dr. Hewitt, was a favorite one in early days of the past century. It was bourn by a famous resident of New York state who was an American general and a jurist.
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Hinman B. Hulburt was 18 years of age when he came to Cleveland in 1833 and began the study of law in his brother's office. It took him three years to prepare for his examination and admission to the bar. Meanwhile he was a member of his brother's household.
For some reason he hit upon Massillon, O., as a promising field for a newly-fledged lawyer, or, perhaps there was something else than the law in view when he packed his small hairtrunk with his limited wardrobe and his law library, two volumes, and spent part of his whole capital, $3.25, for a ticket to that town.
Massillon was having a boom in those days, and several Cleveland men were interested in her future.
H. B. Hurlburt entered a bank there and soon developed a talent for money-making. Everything he touched commercially proved a success, and in 1852 he returned to Cleveland a rich man, for that day. From that time on he was connected largely with banking interests and with railroads, and became one of the leading capitalists of the city. He died in 1889 worth a half-million dollars.
As soon as established in Massillon sufficiently to warrant such an undertaking, which was only a matter of a few months, he returned to Cleveland for his promised bride, and a quiet wedding took place on Pearl street, West Side, that was fraught with the happiness of a lifetime.
Mrs. Jane Elisabeth Hurlburt was the daughter of Samuel and Fanny Eells Johnson who had formerly resided near Utica, N. Y., and had been in Ohio City, West Side, about three years. Mr. Johnson was a carpenter and joiner. His wife was a member of an old New England family.
Upon Mr. Hurlburt's return from Massillon, he purchased a home on Superior street beyond the Public Square where the family remained for two years. Then a mansion was built on Euclid Ave. which was occupied for 56 years.
For over half a century Mrs. Hurlburt was identified with the social life of the city. She was interested, also, in charitable work and long a trustee of the Lakeside Hospital. She possessed a forcible personality, and a strong will-power.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt were connoisseurs in art, and their
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home was filled with rare pictures and valuable bri-a-brac collected from many parts of the world.
These with half of their great fortune was left to the city to found a gallery of art. At the time of Mr. Hurlburt's death in 1889, twentythree years ago, and so far, no steps have been taken that insure the building of such a gallery for years yet to come.
Mrs. Hurlburt survived her husband until 1910 when she died at the advanced age of 91 years.
A monument in Lake View cemetery marks their resting-place.
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"Handerson & Punderson" was a well-known firm of druggists doing business at 75 Superior street. The members of it were Lewis Handerson and Ebenezer Punderson, brothers-in-law. The latter never married.
Lewis Handerson was the son of Ira and Elisabeth Happ Handerson of Claverack, N. Y., who came west in the early '30s and settled in Orange township. Lewis married Prudence Punderson, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Capron Punderson of Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N. Y. He had no children, but the tragic death of his brother Thomas Handerson while bathing in the Chagrin river, leaving a family of six children, gave into his care a nephew and niece whom he adopted and fathered the rest of his life. The children were Dr. Henry E. Handerson, still a practitioner of this city, and Harriet Frances Handerson. The latter is the only surviving charter member of Grace Episcopal church, and in many ways is a remarkable woman.
Although born in 1834, she would easily pass for fifty years of age. Her personality is unusual, her days full of her home, her beloved church, her friends of a lifetime. Always the last person to look out for has been herself, and she is "Aunt Harriet" to many young people not of kin.
The Lewis Handersons lived for some years at 68 Seneca street next to the City Hotel, and then moved to Broadway near the site now occupied by the Friendly Inn. That property was originally the Walworth farm, and along in the '30s was allotted, and soon the Broadway frontage was sold to prominent citizens who- built homes along the street. It was considered a desirable neighborhood, the only drawback, it was so far from town ! By standing at the east end of the old Market house and looking south-east one can see close at hand the sites of these homes, and realize the change years have made in a Clevelander's idea of a convenient location.
These Broadway homes usually stood in the center of large lawns and gardens. Dr. Strickland lived in the nearest one, his wife having been a Walworth and one of the heirs of the property. The Handerson
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and Inglehart homes were east of the Stricklands, and adjoined each other.
Mrs. Handerson was a large, fleshy woman, who good-naturedly parried any allusions to her size. She was however, very light-footed and a graceful dancer. Once when invited by a gentleman to be his partner in a quadrille, she astonished him greatly by promptly accepting, and had asked her in a spirit of fun, expecting his request to be declined.
Besides Ebenezer Punderson, her husband's partner, she had another brother, the Rev. Epriam Punderson, an Episcopalian clergyman. He married Esther Moody, an accomplished lady who was his helpmeet in every sense of that word. Her sister Caroline Moody married Charles Preston, a well-known banker and business man of Norwalk, Ohio.
The Rev. Punderson had charge of churches in Sandusky, Bellevue, Norwalk, Lyme, and other towns. He kept a classical school for boys on Champlain street in this city, which was popular and successful. But it burned down, and other misfortunes following saddened his declining years.
The Handersons and Pundersons rest in Woodland cemetery.
Dr. Seth Smith Handerson, an uncle of Lewis, also lived in Cleveland. He practised medicine, and was at one time the city's sheriff. He was married twice. His first wife, an eastern lady, left him a son, Zebina. His second wife was Miss Sarah Hart, from near Albany, N. Y., and they had three children:
Dr. Charles Handerson, d. in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mary Handerson, m. Philetus Bosworth, and died in Tennessee.
Nancy Handerson, who married Huron Beebe, one of Cleveland's early sheriffs. They died in Racine, Wis.
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George Cabot Huntington was one of the earliest crockery merchants of the town. He carried on a wholesale and retail business at No. 5 Superior street. In his advertisements, he called attention to his sign of a big pitcher, as a guide to customers.
He was the son of Erastus Huntington of Norwich, Conn., and about the year 1833 when 26 years of age, came to Cleveland. At the same time he was married to Miss Angeline Porter, daughter of Asahel Porter of Waterbury, Conn. She had two children, and died at the birth of the second one, and was laid away in Erie street cemetery. Both children died in infancy, some time in the '60s all were removed to a Kelley Island cemetery.
In 1837 Mr. Huntington married secondly, Emmeline Kelley, daughter of Datus Kelley of Kelley's Island. She lived to be 80 years of age, dying on Christmas day, 1909, in Denver, Colorado. Two years after his
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second marriage, and following the disastrous panic of 1837, Mr. Huntington removed to Kelley's Island where he remained until 1870, when he took up his residence in New York City, and died 6 years later in Wallace, Kan., and was buried on Kelley's Island.
The children:
Erastus Huntington, a merchant of Kelley's Island until 1895, when he removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1907.
Simon Huntington, died in 1863 from wounds received in the battle of Stony River.
Daniel K. Huntington, now living in North Olmstead, Ohio, and engaged in fruit-growing
Joseph A. Huntington, lives in Denver, and engaged in the real-estate business
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Two years previous to the Ohio boom of 1835, four brothers living on a farm in Madrid, St. Lawrence county, New York, had a heart to heart discussion over ways and means. They were Ransom, Admiral Nelson, Ami Nicholas, and Joseph W. Gray.
The paternal farm was unproductive. Its stony, worn-out soil gave meagre returns for all the labor expended upon it. Had scientific farming been known at that time, the land could have been reclaimed, and perhaps Cleveland would never have made the acquaintance of a family that became such a factor in the political life of the city.
Said Admiral N. Gray to his younger brother : "I am sick of all this ! Let us get out from under it. Suppose we break away and start anew in that town in Ohio folks are talking so much about."
"What could we do there?" asked his brother.
"We'll find something. You can teach school, and I, at least, can chop wood."
And A. N. Gray did that very thing for the first weeks of his life in Ohio. He brought his young wife, Roxanna Whitney Gray, and their two children to Cleveland, and from here to Parma, selected a spot that suited him, cut down some trees, hewed them into logs, and built a small log-cabin as a temporary home. While this was being done, the nearest neighbor, several miles distant, sheltered the family.
When the cabin was completed, and everything made comfortable within, Mr. Gray returned to Cleveland to seek employment. He was something of a carpenter as well as a farmer, and succeeded in securing work at this trade.
Every Saturday night he walked ten miles to Parma, and returned Monday morning in order to be with his family over the Sabbath. Meanwhile, his brave wife was piling and burning brush, doing everything her strength would admit in clearing up the farm.
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For two years a building boom was on in Cleveland, and Mr. Gray secured contracts to erect houses and stores. This soon enabled him to bring his family into town, and thereafter when he visited his farm, it was no longer reached on "Shank's mare."
In 1838, his youngest brother, Joseph W. Gray, came on from Madrid, taught in the old Academy on St. Clair street for a year or two, and in 1842 the brothers bought the Cleveland Commercial Advertiser. To A. N. Gray was due the change of name that soon occurred.
"I do not like the name of this paper," remarked Joseph. "Neither do I," replied his brother. They agreed to each have in mind one that would be more satisfactory. A. N. Gray hit upon
"PLAIN DEALER."
"The very thing!" exclaimed Joseph Gray, and from that day, 72 years ago, to this one, "Plain Dealer" it has been.
Admiral N. Gray had other business interests than that of publisher. He became a receiver, cutter, and shipper of railroad iron. His identification with this commodity gave him among his associates the name "Iron Gray."
Mr. Gray bought a large lot on Garden street, now Central Ave., between Perry and Sterling avenues. The land ran back to Cedar Avenue. Mrs. Roxanna Gray was fond of flowers, and as there was plenty of room, she cultivated many varieties and in great profusion.
Admiral N. Gray died in 1852, aged 59 years. His wife survived him 36 years, being 88 years old at the time of her death. Mrs. Whitney, the mother of Mrs. Gray, made her home with her daughter for many years, dying at an advanced age. The family burial-lot was in Erie street cemetery.
The children of Admiral and Roxanna Gray:
Charlotte Gray, died unmarried aged 58.
Roman H. Gray, unmarried, major of a regiment in the civil war
Helen Gray, m. John S. Stevenson; removed to Iowa.
Persia Gray, m. Joseph Bartlett, for many years city treasurer
Arthur P. Gray, m. Ella Howe. He resides on La Grange street, city.
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An interesting story written by an American author has for its title, "The Revolt of Mother." It is a modern tale, but the pith of it is ancient lore. It can be found at intervals in all pioneer history. Cleveland hamlet and village possessed several intrepid wives and mothers whose firm stand in domestic crises saved the day for their families.
One such woman was Mrs. Herrick Childs, who in 1833, with her
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three little ones, the youngest a babe of six months, accompanied her husband from Deerfield, Mass., to Cleveland. The family was en route for Chicago, but worn out with the long journey by canal-boat and stagecoach, and harassed by the continuous discomforts, and sometimes privation suffered by her babes, Mrs. Childs concluded to end it all at once, by refusing to proceed another step. The ultimatum to Cleveland was far-reaching in its results. It gave to it a family name that for 80 years has been as familiar locally as that of the city itself. Mrs. Childs was Selina Buckingham, daughter of Nathan and Selina Lewis Buckingham, and a direct descendant of Thomas Buckingham of Milford, Conn., 1627.
Herrick Childs was 30 years of age when he came to Cleveland, and had been married four years. He was the son of David Wright Childs of Conway, Mass. His name appears in the first little directory of the city, and his residence was 44 Huron street, a beautiful street in early days, and lined with big maple trees. Later the Childs family moved to Euclid avenue. The homestead there was recently torn down and the site is now occupied by the western addition to Halle Brothers Company store.
The sons of the family were all active, enterprising business men of the city, whose names when connected with any measure of finance or of public affairs ensured its value and stability. Oscar A. Childs, the oldest of the brothers, had many business interests other than that of the big wholesale house that bore his name. He was one of the promoters of the Northern Ohio Fair, a director of the Mercantile Bank, and a founder of the Union Club of which he was the president at the time of his death, Sept., 1881.
Always interested in the growth of the city which had been his home from infancy, he was prompt to co-operate in every movement toward its advancement, and liberally donated to all its leading charities. The beautiful home in which he lived and died stood in the center of a spacious lot on the south-east corner of Prospect and Perry streets. The Y. M. C. A. building, recently erected, now completely covers the lot. Mr. Childs' widow and daughters reside on East 63rd street near Euclid avenue.
Edwin D. Childs was treasurer of the Kilby Manufacturing Company. He died at the age of 74, respected and loved by all who knew him. His home was on Euclid avenue, near 76th st., where his widow still resides.
Henry Buckingham Childs, head of the wholesale shoe firm of Childs, Groff & Co., died in 1898 in middle age. He was a prominent member of Trinity church for many years. His family reside at 3206 Prospect street.
Charles Childs, the only surviving brother, resides in New York City, where he is connected with the Standard Oil Co.
The children of Herrick and Selina B. Childs:
Euphema Childs, born in Deerfield, Mass., 1830; m. William Standand of Cleveland.
William Childs, born in Deerfield, Mass. ; died in early manhood.
Oscar A. Childs, born 1833; married
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1st, Martha Searle ; 2nd, Mary
Edwards, daughter of Elisha and. Eunice Lombard Edwards, and sister of the late Col. William R. Edwards.
Charles Childs, born in Cleveland; m. Laura Glessner, of Mansfield, Ohio.
George Childs, died in youth.
Edwin D. Childs, b. 1839; m. Lucy Chamberlain, dau. of Philo and Emily Pelton Chamberlain
Henry B. Childs, b. 1842; m. Carrie M. Iddings.
Martha Buckingham Childs, m. John H. Johnston, of Lima, Peru, S. A., a civil engineer and mining expert. Mrs. Johnston is yet living
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In the Cleveland Herald of 1834 appeared the following marriage notice : "At Colchester, Conn., October 11, by Dr. Lyman Strong, D. D., James F. Clark, of the house of Potter, Clark & Murphey, to Miss Eliza A. Murphey, daughter of Capt. John Murphey of the latter place."
James Freeman Clark came the previous year from Albany, where he had been working for Rawdon, Wright & Co., engravers. Out of this firm grew eventually the American Bank Note Company.
Mr. Clark was twenty-four years old when he reached the city. His parents were Cyrus and Annie Trumbull Clark, of Cooperstown, N. Y. His mother was a niece of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, the "Brother Jonathan" of American history.
Mr. Clark was a singularly refined, dignified man. His face was more that of a scholar than a merchant, and his later years were spent in his library and in the companionship of his books.
After selling his hardware interests he became closely identified with the railroads that made Cleveland a terminus, and also was associated with local banks and dealt in real-estate, all of which made him a very wealthy man. He is said to have been upright, straightforward, with his word always as good as his bond.
When but 27 years of age he became an elder in the Old Stone Church, an office he filled for many long years.
The family lived at first on the Public Square. The house adjoined that of C. M. Giddings and faced the south. Afterward a home was built on Euclid Ave. Here Mr. and Mrs. Clark died.
They had no children of their own, but took into their hearts two little sisters, one of whom in turn made the last years of the aged couple fragrant with filial love and tenderness.
The following is all the writer can find of Mr. Clark's partner in the hardware business
"At Basking Ridge, N. J., on the 29th ult., -August, 1855-Mr. Samuel H. Potter of the firm of Potter & Clark of this village, to Miss Emily Van Deren of the former place." (Cleveland Herald.)
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In 1833 the little community received a notable addition through the arrival of a distinguished couple from Cheshire, Conn. The husband was the son of a governor of Connecticut, the wife a daughter of an old Cheshire family, and they had been married six years. It may be certain that the first Sabbath Mr. and Mrs. John Alfred Foote walked into the Old Stone Church every member of the congregation assembled "took notice." Each and all had heard of the new arrivals and what an acquisition to the town and the church they would be; so there was much interest and innocent curiosity.
What they saw was a fine-looking man about 30 years of age, and a pretty, attractive young woman six years his junior, who met the attention they received with quiet ease, and, after the services were over, gracefully responded to the formal welcome of Rev. John Keep and to the introductions that followed.
Henceforth, for 22 years, Mrs. Frances Amelia Foote was not only a church member but a church worker. The first impression she made upon every one was that of a womanly woman, unusually well bred. She was kind and considerate in all her dealings with others whatever their station in life. Her father was Judge Silas Hitchcock of Cheshire, Conn. One of her sisters and a brother afterward located in Cleveland, and another sister died in Elyria, Ohio.
John A. Foote was the son of Gov. Samuel Foote. His mother was Eudosia Hull, daughter of Gen. Andrew Hull of Cheshire. Another son of Gov. Foote became an admiral of the navy, and still another one, Augustus, resided in Cleveland later, and both he and his wife died here. Their home was on Ontario street north of St. Clair.
The career of John A. Foote before he came to Cleveland, and his 68 years of life in our midst have been the theme of many a legal and historical sketch, so that nothing can be said concerning him that has not already been told, and in a more interesting and convincing way than is possible to the present writer. Cleveland was proud of his citizenship from the time he arrived until his death in 1891. And there was no municipal or state honor that could not have been his for the asking. A graduate of Yale, he practiced law for six years in New Haven, Conn., and his first Cleveland partner was significant of his future-Judge Sherlock Andrews-who never would have associated himself with a man other than of the finest legal talent.
Mr. Foote stood for everything that was highest and best, irrespective of public opinion. His life-long efforts for temperance legislation at a time when the cause was not popular shows the temper and conscience of the man. The suffering attending unrestricted sale of liquor was a constant appeal to his sympathies and sense of justice. He died, however, before the day when a saloon could not be started in the heart of a fine residence district despite all protest, or under the shadow of college walls. At the organization of the Second Presbyterian Church, he became one of its elders.
The Foote family lived on St. Clair street below Bank for a number of years, and then followed many of their nearest neighbors to Woodland ave., that attractive thoroughfare of the '60s, whose pretty homes
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and cultured residents have become almost legendary since the last of the old families fled before trade and other adverse conditions.
Mrs. Frances Foote died aged 46 years, and three years later Mr. Foote married Mary Shepler Hemperly, widow of A. D. Cutter, a prominent business man, and early merchant of the city.
The children of John A. and Frances Foote:
Samuel A. Foote, b. 1829; unmarried.
Laura C. Foote, b. 1831; m. Charles A. Ely of Elyria.
Mary Eudocia Foote, m. Morgan E Maynard of Marquette, Mich.
Cornelia Foote, m. Gardiner Maynard, a cousin of above.
John A. Foote, Jr., m. Miss Belle Palmer, adopted daughter of Augustus Foote.
Andrew and Frances Foote, died in infancy.
There are no descendants of this family bearing the name now living in Cleveland. John A. Foote, Jr., and his family have been living abroad for many years. While in the city he had a large wholesale and retail crockery store.
Mrs. W. D. Rees, 3625 Euclid ave., is a daughter of Mrs. M. E. Maynard, and granddaughter of Hon. John A. Foote, Sr.
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The name of Gaylord was a familiar one in Cleveland from the very early days when Capt. Allen Gaylord, his parents, and sisters came here from Connecticut.
In 1833, two brothers of the same name and distantly related, also came from Connecticut to become citizens of this town. They were Erastus F. and Henry L. Gaylord, sons of Nehemiah and Esther Stevens Gaylord of Torringford, Conn. Erastus had previously been a merchant of Cornwall, Conn., and was 38 years old when he came west. In 1832 he married Lucetta Cleveland, daughter of Gen. Erastus and Rebecca Berry Cleveland. She was born in Madison, N. Y., in 1801, and, therefore, was 32 the year she reached Cleveland.
Her father held a commission as Brigadier-General in the war of 1812, and was in command of Sackett's Harbor and Oswego at different times. In civil life he was a judge of common pleas court. Her grandfather, Lieut. Moses Cleveland, of Norwich, Conn., served in the Revolutionary army all through the eight years of that conflict. He was a cousin of Moses Cleveland, founder of this city.
Erastus F. Gaylord opened a grocery and drug-store at 30 Superior street with A. F. Strickland as partner, and afterward with his brother, Henry Gaylord.
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In time the grocery department was eliminated, and "Gaylord's Drug Store," as years passed, became a familiar landmark of the city. His son continued the business until his death in 1893, a period of 60 years.
The family lived on Seneca street the first three years of their residence. Mr. Gaylord then built a fine brick house on the north side of Prospect Ave., now replaced by the westerly 60 feet of the Colonial Hotel. In 1845 he purchased the Dr. David Long residence on Kinsman street, now Woodland Ave., a large stone house and 171/2 acres of land running through to Garden street, now Central Ave.
Mrs. Gaylord was a woman who inherited in a marked degree the strong characteristics of her father, and the gentle Christian traits of her mother. She was a lover of reading and remarkably well informed in literary matters. Her hospitality was of the broadest type, and her house was never without one or more visitors. The products of the land were never sold, but were given with a lavish hand to the needy among the new immigrants settling in that part of the city. No one was ever sent away empty-handed or hungry, and if any one was known to be ill or suffering she was on hand to help and comfort. Her charming manner made her a most gracious hostess. The social gatherings in her beautiful home were frequent, and the callers on New Year's day according to the old custom, were many. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary in 1873, and their 60th anniversary in 1883.
Mrs. Gaylord was a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church until the first year of the organization of the 2nd Presbyterian Church, when she transferred to it. When a branch of the Sunday School was founded in the Mayflower street school building, she had charge of the infant class, and many of the business men of today (1914) sat under her teaching.
Children of Erastus and Lucetta Cleveland Gaylord:
Sarah Berry Gaylord, m. Dr. John S. Newberry..
Henry Cleveland Gaylord, m. Catherine Hilliard.
Charles D. Gaylord, m. Josephine Scowden
Harriet R. Gaylord, m. 1st, George C. Hammond; 2nd, Dr. C. G. Smith.
Henry C. Gaylord was a college graduate, a close student, and a skillful pharmacist. He was a member of the famous "Ark" and an intimate associate of many of the older business men of his age. He was 67 at the time of his death. His wife, Catherine Hilliard Gaylord, was a daughter of the pioneer merchant Richard Hilliard, and at her wedding in Trinity Church its chimes of bells were first rung for any occasion.
Mrs. Charles D. Gaylord was the daughter of Theodore and Rosetta Stuart Scowden. Her parents built a home on Willson Ave., now East 55th street, in an early day. It set back from the road and was surrounded by forest and fruit-trees. Lexington Ave. was begun through the garden on the south side of the house. The latter is now reached from Lexington Ave. and for many years was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord. The latter died in 1912.
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Alonzo Sherwin Gardner was born in Cleveland, the grandson of Amihaaz Sherwin, of the East End. In 1833 at the age of 24 years, he married Adeline Doan, 19 years of age. She was the only daughter of Seth and Lucy Clark Doan. She lost her mother at four years of age, and was raised by Joanna Wickham Doan, her father's second wife.
Alonzo S. Gardner had an enviable reputation. All his life he was considered a perfectly honest man, who could be trusted in all business affairs. He had a grocery store at 66 Superior street, but in the panic of 1837 closed it, and afterward opened again in the crockery business which he carried on for many years. Both he and his wife died in 1892.
Children of Alonzo and Adaline Doan Gardner:
Darwin Gardner, b. 1835; m. Lizzie Berry..
Virginia Gardner, b. 1839; m. 1st, Lorenzo Jackson; 2nd, George H. Kidney.
Orlando S. Gardner, b. 1840; m. Maria Bowers
Hampton F. Gardner, b. 1841; died from wound in Civil War.
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GALLUP
Jabesh Gallup of Groton, Conn., came to Cleveland when he was about 36 years of age. It was in the early '30s. He was the son of Isaac and Anna Smith Gallup, and his wife was Lucy Meech, daughter of Gurdon and Lucy Swan Meech, also pioneers of the city, who came here about the same time.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallup were married in 1816, and brought a family of four or five young children with them to their new home, which, for a short time, was on Water street. Mrs. Gallup was a sister of Mrs. 0. M. Burke, Mrs. Isham Morgan, Mrs. Calvin Baker, and Mrs. Henry Blair, and, like all the daughters of the Meech family, she was an excellent wife, mother, friend and neighbor, kind-hearted, and most pitiful when sorrow or distress appealed to her sympathy.
The children of Josiah and Lucy Gallup:
Lester Meech Gallup, b. 1824. Mary,
Lucy A. Gallup, m. Morris Pomeroy. of Cleveland.
Elihu, and Henry Gallup, died in infancy
Henrietta Gallup, b. 1838; m. Daniel G. Thompson.
In 1843, when the youngest child was five years of age, Mr. Gallup married 2nd, Louisa Avery. They had two children, Avery and George Gallup. The latter died at the age of 15.
Within a year or two of his arrival in the city, Mr. Gallup bought a farm on Broadway, west of Willson ave., now East 55th st., and established a flourishing nursery business for that period. He also planted a
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large vineyard. The Gallup homestead on Broadway is still a landmark of that residence district, and the family name yet recalled with respect. Mrs. Louisa Avery Gallup died in 1873, and Mr. Gallup in 1879. The family were buried in Erie street cemetery.
1833
CHIDGEY
Early one morning in the year 1819, a small, slight woman and a lad about 12 years of age trudged together along an English road. The child carried a stick on his shoulder. On the end of it was a small, compact bundle. It contained the little fellow's change of linen, his clean smocks, his Sunday shoes, and, doubtless, a prayer-book of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
He was on his way to live among strangers, bound out as an apprentice to a mason for a term of years. His father, a typical Englishman of a certain class, had made a custom of turning his many children out of their home soon as any tradesman would accept of their services. No choice was given them regarding the work, or where they would have to live. All that was settled by the father, when signing away his rights in them to any one who needed an apprentice.
The boy, John Chidgey, had started very early in the morning of that day, as he had to walk many miles in order to take a river-boat that would carry him the rest of the journey.
His mother, dear soul! accompanied him as far as the boat, for he surely needed her tenderness and her sympathy that morning. She understood it all, and cheered and encouraged him with motherly wisdom and tact.
To her son, in all the years that followed, a long life-time of years, she was ever to him his "Little Mother," her memory one almost too precious for words.
John Chidgey served his apprenticeship, mastered his trade, and, incidentally, helped to build the massive pier of Dover, Eng., the stones of which stand as staunchly today as when placed there over a hundred years ago.
About this time, at the age of 25, there came to him a wonderful piece of fortune which shaped the rest of his life along happy, peaceful, prosperous lines, and ultimately took him far afield from his native Devonshire. He met, wooed and won Eliza Chalker. She was the daughter of Rev. John Chalker, rector of a parish in Bath. A portrait of this clergyman hangs today in the library of a Cleveland home where it is referred to as "Grandfather." The nobility of the face, its mentality and its spirituality are very striking.
At the time of his daughter's marriage, he was 50 years of age, and his wife Elisabeth Pidgeon Chalker was about the same age. Both are
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buried in the churchyard adjoining the rectory in which they lived and died.
Anna Chalker, another daughter of this couple, had married a Mr. Paul, and in 1833, the latter with John Chidgey fell a victim to the emigration fever. Both wished to try the American life then locally the favorite theme of every conversation. Their father-in-law sympathized with their ambition and advised them to go ahead, and if affairs did not at first turn out favorably and they fell short of funds, call upon him and he would help out to the extent of his means.
The two young couples started May ninth, and were seven weeks crossing the ocean. They arrived in New York harbor while the city was enjoying an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration, cannon booming, guns firing. Thus was little Mary Chidgey ushered into the new country. Then she was less than a year old. Today she is Mrs. Mathivet, 81 years of age.
The Chidgeys and Pauls did not find Cleveland a very active village in 1833. They arrived here two years too early, two years before the boom of 1835, which raised its population from 2000 to 5000. There was little business transacted at the former date, and less building. John Chidgey had relied on mason work for his own start here, and that failed him, almost wholly. Father Chalker, back in England, was as good as his word had been. He stood by his children, sending them money steadily for two years or more.
Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Paul became discouraged and returned to England. Some years later they made another voyage of hope, this time to Australia, where they prospered mightily in family and fortune.
John Chidgey's first Cleveland home was on Bolivar street, then sparsely settled. His last one was at 132 St. Clair street, where he had lived many years. Mr. Chidgey was a forceful man and competent in business affairs. His family was his first thought, and it enjoyed through him many comforts of life. The household was an unusually peaceful one, its members bound closely by cords of mutual affection.
Mrs. Eliza Chidgey was a tall, erect woman, who carried herself with much dignity. She carried a gentle but firm hand with her children who loved, but implicitly obeyed her. Mr. Chidgey always spoke of her as his "Queen." She died in 1892, and Mr. Chidgey in 1889.
They were laid away in a stone vault which the latter had built in the western side of Erie street cemetery.
During the controversy over street railroads, Thomas L. Johnson ran a track through an alley adjoining the cemetery, and wishing a wider passage took in several feet of the burial-ground through its whole length from Brownell to Erie streets. In this strip was located the Chidgey vault. Consequently it was destroyed, and its contents removed to Lake View cemetery.
The children of John and Eliza Chalker Chidgey:
Mary Chidgey, b. in Bath, Eng.; m. J. Victor Mathivet, son of Dr. Piere Mathivet.
Emily Chidgey, m. Byron C. Harris, son of Josiah Harris.
Alfred Chidgey, died in Alabama,
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while serving his country in the civil war. His body was not recovered..
Elisabeth Anna Chidgey, m. Morris R. Braggins.
Eliza Chidgey, m. Charles C. Gale.
Henrietta Chidgey, m. Joseph M. Odell
Jeanette Chidgey, m. Dr. Daniel B. Smith.
1833
HURLBURT
Heman A. and Hinman B. Hurlburt were the sons of Abram and Polly Barrett Hurlburt of Charlotte, Vt. Their parents were Connecticut people who joined the exodus from the state of Vermont at the close of the Revolutionary War.
Heman A. Hurlburt was a lawyer. In 1831, at the age of 25, he married Amarett Sheldon, 19 years old, daughter of Medad and Lucy Bass Sheldon of New York State.
She belonged to the Deerfield, Mass., Seldons, whose ancestral home, showing marks of the Indian attack upon Deerfield in 1699, still stands in that town, a Mecca alike for posterity and for strangers interested in Colonial history.
Two years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt came to Cleveland. They boarded for a time at the Franklin House on Superior street, and there made the acquaintance of several men and women who became life-long friends.
The first Cleveland home of the Hurlburts was the "Kingsbury Cottage." It was built of stone and stood in the center of a tract of land now confined by the limits of Perry and Huntington streets, and occupied subsequently by the Stair family. They lived afterward on the near the court house, and finally Mr. Hurlburt built the attractive cottage, now 2819 Prospect street, afterward for many years occupied by W. J. Hayes. This cottage faced Euclid ave., but the extension of Prospect street made new conditions, which were met by turning the house around.
Here Mr. Hurlburt died in 1882.
Mr. Heman A. Hurlburt practised his profession in Cleveland and maintained his family in comfort. But he was not a money-maker, and therefore never acquired the wealth of his younger brother. He was identified with the various early movements tending to elevate the moral tone of the city, and was a charter member of the Young Men's Library Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had an interesting family of children. They were:
Frances Hurlburt.
Mary Hurlburt. .
Harriet Hurlburt.
William Hurlburt.
Clara Hurlburt, m. Theodore Simmons
Jennie Hurlburt, m. Erastus C. Lockwood of Painesville, Ohio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Ranney reached Cleveland from Rochester, N. Y., about 1833. He was a boot and shoemaker when all footwear was made by hand. He opened a shop at 10 Superior Lane, and his family lived in the new, and popular street called "Orange Alley," after renamed Johnson street. Many of the best-known people of the city lived there because it was close to the heart of town, and though narrow, was pleasant and very convenient. Joseph Ranney also lived there.
Horace Ranney, a brother, lived not far away on Bank street.
Mr. Sylvester Ranney's shoe-shop grew to be a big shoe-store on Superior street, doing an extensive business, and not until recently has the name ceased to be a familiar one.
Mrs. Sylvester Ranney was a Miss Anna Stilwell, a quiet, domestic woman, conscientious as to detail, a lovely house-keeper. She could do beautiful needle-work, and never lost her eyesight nor hearing, although living to be 91 years old.
She was considered beautiful in her youth, and no less so in her death, scarcely a wrinkle on her face.
For many years previous the family had been living on Lake street. Their children were:
William Ranney. Helen Ranney.
1833
CRITTENDEN
Joseph Hungerford Crittenden was born in Conway, Mass., in 1804. He was the son of Chester and Azuba Abbott Crittenden, of Conway. His wife was Eliza Ariadne Kelley, daughter of James M. and Laura Howe Kelley, whom he married in Canadaigua, N. Y., in 1834.
Joseph H. Crittenden began a shoe and leather business on Superior street in 1832, which he continued until 1857, when he retired and went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in 1874.
He always kept his interests in Cleveland, and the last of his realestate holdings was sold recently to the B. of U. Engineers.
The first home of the Joseph Crittenden family was 78 Seneca street, and afterward on the present site of the New England Bldg. They were members of the Old Stone church on the Public Square, and Mr. Crittenden was one of the donors of the building fund at its erection. Mrs. Crittenden died in Plainfield, N. J., in 1898, aged 84.
The children of Joseph and Eliza Kelley Crittenden:
Mary Beulah Crittenden, m. David B. Palmer, of New York state.Had six children
George Nash Crittenden, married Olivia Headley. Had one child.
Minnie Sarah Crittenden, unmarried. Living in Plainfield, N. J.
Ella Azuba Crittenden. Died in infancy.
James Manning Crittenden. Died in infancy
Josephine Abbott Crittenden, m. John Henry Carman, M. D. Living in Plainfield.
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Valentine Swaine was a son of Captain John Swaine, an old Nantucket seaman, who had rounded the world on many a voyage. His wife was Sarah Turner Swaine, and when their son Valentine was born in 1811, the family was living on the Hudson river near New York city.
Valentine served an apprenticeship at sail-making, and in 1833, when his time was up, he had just reached his 21st year.
He then came to Cleveland and started a sail-loft, and afterward a ship-chandlery, a business that proved very successful and profitable. Upon his retirement from this he was succeeded by the Waltons, who occupied the stand and carried on the ship-chandlery trade in it for many years.
Mr. Swaine was a very quiet man socially. He went through life blowing no personal trumpets. But he was a most useful man who was mourned in death ; for he had a tender heart, and had been in the habit of helping poor families by sending baskets of groceries to them out of his store. His many kind impulses were never mentioned, even to his family, and only learned through accident.
He was fond of expressing his opinion on public affairs through communications to the daily papers under a nom de plume which was not made public until after his death.
In 1841 he married Lucina Drake, daughter of Reuben and Ruth Jackson Drake. She inherited attributes of character that made her mentally strong and very capable.
The Swaines lived first on Wood street, later on Woodland Ave. After Mr. Swaine's death in 1871, his widow built a home on Prospect street which she occupied until her own death.
The children of Valentine and Lucina Drake Swaine:
Isabelle Swaine, unmarried.
Reuben Swaine, m. Rose Bates. Resides in Kansas.
Harriet Swaine, unmarried.
Valentine G. Swaine, m. Susan Reed
Franklin, Edward and Alfred Swaine, unmarried.
1833
HUNTINGTON
George Cabot Huntington was one of the earliest crockery merchants of the town. He carried on a wholesale and retail business at No. 5 Superior St. In his advertisements, he called attention to his sign of a big pitcher, as a guide to customers.
He was the son of Erastus Huntington of Norwich, Conn., and about the year 1833, when 26 years of age, came to Cleveland. At the same time he was married to Miss Angeline Porter, daughter of Asahel Porter of Waterbury, Conn.
She had two children, and died at the birth of the second one, and was laid away in Erie St. cemetery. Both children died in infancy.
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Some time in the '60s all three were removed to a Kelley Island cemetery.
In 1837, Mr. Huntington married secondly, Emmeline Kelley, daughter of Datus Kelley of Kelley's Island. She lived to be 80 years of age, dying on Christmas day, 1909, in Denver, Colorado. Five years after his second marriage, and following the disastrous panic of 1837, Mr. Huntington removed to Kelley's Island, where he remained until 1870, when he took up his residence in New York City, and died 6 years later in Wallace, Kan., and was buried on Kelley's Island.
The children were:
Erastus; a merchant in Kelley's Island until 1895, when he removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1907.
Simon; died in 1863 from wounds received at the Battle of Stony River.
Daniel K.; now living in North Olmsted, O., and engaged in fruit- growing
Joseph A.; lives in Denver and engaged in real-estate brokerage.
1833
J. F. WARNER
John Fletcher Warner was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry Warner. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1817, and, when 16 years of age, joined his brother, W. J. Warner, who had preceded him to Cleveland two years previous.
John F. Warner's first employment was in H. B. Wellman's red warehouse on the river, where, because of his youth and inexperience, he worked at anything he was called upon to do. Mr. Wellman removed to Massillon, O., and in 1837 we find young Warner advanced to the position of book-keeper for Ransom, Baldwin & Co., forwarding and commission merchants on River street. John G. Ransom and Stephen A. Baldwin, members of the firm, were non-residents, living east. In 1837, John F. Warner was boarding at the Franklin Home, Benjamin Harrington, landlord.
Mr. Warner, like his brother, was a warm-hearted, genial man, with hosts of friends, and, probably, not an enemy.
He married Abby Kingsley, who was born 1821. She was a daughter of Rev. Phineas and Parnel Keith Kingsley of Rutland, Vt., and a sister of Mrs. 0. A. Brooks of Cleveland.
The family lived and died on Euclid Ave.
In the fall of 1867, Mr. Warner and his wife went to Florida for the benefit of Mrs. Warner's health. She died there the following March. Mr. Warner survived her but eight months, and passed away December, 1868, aged 51 years.
The couple were laid to rest in Erie street cemetery.
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Jonathan Hickox of Washington, Litchfield Co., Conn., married Elisabeth Taylor of Salisbury, Conn., who was born at the close of the revolutionary war. They came to Canfield, 0., in 1815, therefore were pioneers of that town. Some time in the '30s they removed to Cleveland, and lived on Superior street, now number 421, long occupied by the gas office.
Jonathan Hickox died in 1845. Elisabeth, his wife, lived with her son Milo until her death twelve years later, aged 84 years. They had four sons, two of whom became prominent citizens of the city.
Milo Henry Hickox, the eldest one, was a carpenter and contractor. He married Miss Harriet Craw, who was born in 1808, in Troy, N. Y. The young couple lived in Rochester, N. Y., until after the birth of their first child, George Craw Hickox.
The summer of that year, 1831, they came to Cleveland, and, according to a letter written by Mr. Hickox soon after their arrival, their prospects were far from alluring.
"About four weeks since, we awoke one morning and found ourselves shaking with the ague. My wife had it every day for a week, and my infant son every day for three weeks; and what made it worse, my wife and child shook at the same time. I spent a week in search of a girl, gave up the chase, and engaged passage for my wife to return to Rochester the next morning, when I met an acquaintance to whom I told my troubles. He found a maid for me, and we remained."
But the young wife must have gone back to Rochester the following year, for she died there in childbed in 1832.
Her son, George C. Hickox, was for many years a well-known citizen of San Francisco, Cal. As a member of the firm of Hickox & Spears, he carried on a successful banking business in that city.
He died in 1902. Although through a second marriage his father subsequently had a large family of children, this first one only left posterity. He married, and a son, Arthur Milo Hickox, of the Bank of California, is living in San Francisco, and assisted with data for this sketch of his family.
Milo Hickox, Sr., married (2) Harriet Pelton, daughter of Deacon Jonathan and Elisabeth Pelton, of Pelton's Corners, East Cleveland. She had seven sisters, and four brothers, all of whom married and had families.
The Hickox residence was on St. Clair street, and for some years their nearest neighbor was Silas Belden, whose wife was Mary Pelton, sister of Mrs. Hickox.
Mr. Hickox prospered in his business, and soon, from the wages of a dollar a day, which he received upon his arrival in Cleveland, he was earning many times that as a building contractor.
He was a tall, fine-looking man, dignified and stately. Mrs. Hickox was of medium height, with dark hair and eyes.
According to the story mutely told in the long row of graves in Woodland cemetery, the close of her life was most pathetic. She had eight children, three of whom died young. The remaining five lived to maturity, only to die, one after the other, of consumption, that relentless scourge of early Cleveland.
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Julia, died 1856, aged 16.
Elisabeth, died 1858, aged 23.
Henry A., died 1864, aged 26.
Martha, died 1864, aged 20.
Mary, died 1867, aged 24.
The family, meanwhile, had removed from St. Clair street to Euclid Ave., just east of Dr. Streator, and at the head of 97th street.
Mr. Hickox died, and his wife was left alone. Three young relatives shared her solitude from time to time, and a devoted house-keeper remained with her to the last. They were Viola- Blake, Helen Briggs, and Althea
Charles Hickox, younger brother of Milo H., and born in Connecticut, 1810, came here from Canfield in 1837, and with his parents lived on Superior street opposite the Arcade. He also was a carpenter, and worked for Jacob Lowman, the pioneer wagon-maker. Afterward he began a commission business on a small scale with Jonathan Gillette.
He married in 1843, Miss Laura A. Freeman, daughter of Francis Freeman of Warren, 0. It is said of her that she was a woman "of rare excellence, highly educated, and possessed of a strong character, who brought to her husband's home all the noblest qualities of womanhood, and made it for- 47 years the spot about which clustered everything he regarded most dear."
Mr. Hickox developed great business ability, became interested in vessel property at a propitious time, and eventually invested in milling property, which brought large returns. He was a charter member of the board of trade. His sons built the Hickox building, which displaced the First Baptist church that stood, so many years, on the north-west corner of Euclid and Erie streets.
Children of Charles and Laura Hickox:
Elisabeth, m. Harvey Brown.
Charles G.
Ralph W.
Frank F.
1831
WARHAM JUSTUS WARNER
Warham Justus Warner received his unusual Christian name from his grandfather. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1808, and was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry Warner. The parents had quite a family of children, four of whom came to Cleveland, W. J., John F., Jane R., and Mary A. Warner.
Jane R. Warner married William Giffin of Huron Co. in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Giffin lived on East 82nd street, and were prominent members of the Euclid Ave. Congregational church.
Mary A. Warner died in Painesville, O. She was possessed of considerable property at the time of her death, and in her will left $5000 and some valuable pictures to the city of Cleveland toward the establishment of an art gallery, an institution the city had never possessed.
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The paintings were stored for long years in the basement of the City Hall. Some were ruined, meantime, and others stolen.
Warham J. Warner was a carpenter, mason and contractor. He came west from Burlington to Black Rock, near Buffalo, in 1830, intending to make that his home. But Elisha Sterling of Cleveland met him, and took a fancy that he should build Mr. Sterling's home, then in contemplation, on Euclid Ave. He persuaded Mr. Warner to remove to this city. The latter was then but 23 years old, but no young man of his age ever was better equipped for life in a young, growing town. He was proficient in two trades in constant demand. He was mentally strong, very ambitious, and possessed a powerful physique. Withal, he was a man whom people instinctively trusted. His integrity was never doubted. He was whole-souled, generous-hearted, and sympathetic to a degree.
A pretty story, and, doubtless, one typical of the man, was told to the writer concerning him by an aged lady, one of a family whom he assisted in dire need. "We came to Cleveland about 1840 from England, and settled on Sheriff street. The expenses of the long journey had exhausted father's means, and here he was in a strange land, practically penniless, with wife and several children looking to him as their only support.
He was a carpenter by trade, and in making inquiries for work received little encouragement. When almost in despair over his dilemma, some one suggested that he apply to Mr. Warner, who lived just around the corner in a log-house on Prospect street.
Mr. Warner's big heart warmed at once to father's appeal for work. He called, and in his hearty way put new life and courage in us all, and promising plenty of work with which to repay it."
Mr. Warner erected many public buildings, among them the American House in 1836. He was associated in business for a time with Milo Hickox, and they built some of the beautiful homes which made Euclid Ave. famous from 1850 to 1900.
Mr. Warner was one of the founders of St. Paul's P. E. church, and a charter member of the Old Settlers' Association. He was street commissioner in 1837.
In 1832, Mr. Warner married Miss Jane A. Morse, 22 years of age. She was the daughter of Benoni Morse of Burlington, Vt. Her mother's maiden name was Smith.
Mrs. Warner was the mother of six sons and two daughters, to whom she was devoted, but not to the extent of ignoring duties outside of her family. She stood shoulder to shoulder with her husband in much of his philanthropic work. She was active in her church society, whenever her presence and services were required.
Three of her sons and her son-in-law, John H. Rees, served their country in the civil war, consequently Mrs. Warner and her daughter, Lydia Warner Rees, were greatly interested in the work of the Sanitary Commission and in the hospitals here and in the field of action, giving to them much of their time, strength, and means.
For several years previous to her death, in 1882, Mrs. Warner was an invalid. Mr. Warner outlived his wife but a year, dying in 1883. They rest in Lake View cemetery. The family lived for a time at 192 St. Clair street, and afterward No. 80 Prospect street, near Erie street.
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The children of Warham and Jane Morse Warner:
Lydia E. Warner, b. 1834, at Black Rock, N. Y.; m. John Hopkins Rees.
Andrew Warner, b. 1836, in Cleveland.
Charles H. Warner, b. 1838; m. Catherine Moore, dau. of Capt. Robert Moore
Ann Eliza Warner, b. 1840.
Edward Seth Warner, M. D., b. 1842.
Theodore Morse Warner, b. 1844; m. Alice Kennedy.
Frederick Sperry Warner, b. 1846; m. Agnes Morris, dau. of John Morris
James Warham Warner, b. 1848.
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WILSON
John Wilson came to Cleveland from Sacket's Harbor or Oswego, N. Y., in 1831, expecting to fit out and run a hotel on the corner of Superior and Merwin streets, but he died of cholera either before his plans were matured or soon afterward, leaving six orphan children. The mother, Ann Aram Wilson, died in Oswego, N. Y., the year the family removed to Cleveland. She was born 1786, in England. Her parents were Joseph and Margaret Aram of Green Hammerton, Eng. Her father died in 1803, and in 1806, her mother with her children left Hull on the "Indian Chief," which was 62 days in making the passage to New York. The mother died in 1821, aged 83 years, and was interred in Ontario Co., N. Y.
The six children of John and Ann Wilson, left thus alone in a strange city, must have received sympathy from some source, as they all lived to maturity.
Two of them removed to a western state, while it was yet in its infancy, and grew up with it.
The children of John and Ann Aram Wilson:
Martha Wilson, married George Tiebout.
Joseph Wilson, removed to Minnesota.
Frank Wilson, removed to Minnesota.
Mary Wilson, died unmarried, in 1863.
Margaret Wilson, born 1821; married W. V. Craw.
Thomas Wilson, m. Laura Root, daughter of Herod and Laura Hurlbut Root. Thomas Wilson was agent of the "Three C.'s & I. R. R." for 37 years. He left two children, Clinton and Jean Wilson, now residing in Kansas City and Chicago.
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Aaron Stickland of Ashford, Conn., came to Cleveland, and opened a drug-store at 30 Superior street, in 1831. Two years later he took in partnership Erastus F. Gaylord, who had just arrived from the east, and the following year his younger brother Henry L. Gaylord.
This business connection lasted about two years, when Mr. Stickland withdrew.
The Sticklands were boarding at the Franklin House in 1837. Five years later he died, aged 51.
His wife, Polly Stickland, who was born the same year as her husband, outlived him 35 years, dying at an advanced age.
Mr. Stickland, at his death, left his property in charge of Mr. Erastus Gaylord for the benefit of Mrs. Polly Stickland for the remainder of her life, thus safe-guarding it, and ensuring to her a comfortable support. There were no children in the family.
The Sticklands rest in Erie street cemetery to the right of the main drive, and a monument marks the spot.
1832
MEECH
Gurdon Meech of Bozrah, Conn., came to Cleveland in 1832. His wife, Lucy Swan, daughter of Deacon Adam and Lucy Spicer Swan, was born in Stonington, Conn., and after her marriage lived in Bozrah many years.
Her daughter Lucy was married to Jabez Gallup two years before, and had preceded them to Cleveland, and the youngest one, Martha Meech, was 9 years old.
Mr. Gallup was living on Water street, where Childs, Groff & Co.'s store now stands, and with him the family remained for six weeks, meanwhile making preparation for a home of their own as soon as possible. But they were all taken very ill with fever and ague, and Mr. Meech abandoned his plans of living in Cleveland, and gladly accepted-Mr. Gallup's proposition to take possession of a small log-house that stood on a farm he owned in Newburgh. In this they lived until the purchase of one from Theodore Miles, standing on the old Newburgh road at its junction with Woodland Hills Ave. Afterward a railroad passed close to the house.
Mrs. Meech, small, slender, slim, had been the oldest of her family, and unused to hardship of any kind, and, arriving much later than many of her neighbors, never experienced their earlier hardships. But even so, things were quite different in Ohio, and much required of her that she would not have encountered in the old home. Her first new experience was in handling a gun, never having shot one in her life. But an owl was after her chickens, and with much trepidation she took down her husband's weapon and fired at it. It fell, but she was afraid to go near it until Mr. Meech returned.
Mr. Meech had a farm well stocked for those days, and it suffered greatly in the grasshopper scourge that, one summer, swept over Ohio.
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The insects came after currants and cherries had ripened, but there was no fruit or grain of any kind after that. There were no apples, the main stay of housewives, consequently little sauce for a year, and no mince-pies, that much-prized dessert of early days. The women, ever resourceful, stewed up the dried pumpkin left over from the year previous, and sparingly flavored it with boiled cider, also a left-over.
Following the example of his neighbors, Mr. Meech killed off all his cattle except a cow. One morning, he came into the house from the barn, and sitting down by the fire began to weep. Mrs. Meech saw the tears tricking silently down his cheeks, begged him to tell her what troubled him so.
"My poor horses have asked me for something to eat, and I haven't a thing to give them," he exclaimed.
But that day, a friend in the city sent word by his hired man that a vessel had arrived in the river with a load of wet rye which could be used for feed. His hungry horses were soon hitched up, and in no time he was on his way for some of that rye. This was early in the spring, but soon after the grass began to get high enough for stock to nibble, and the worst of the famine was over.
Mr. and Mrs. Gurdon Meech had 9 children of their own, and adopted 7 children who were either orphans or with parents too poor to support them. Several were taken by the request of dying mothers, and tenderly cared for until able to face life unaided. One of these, a girl, married in Connecticut, and removed to Liverpool, O. Hearing that her benefactors were in Cleveland, she came to visit them, and although 40 years had passed since their last meeting, they recognized each other at once.
Another, a boy, followed them from Bozrah. He afterward worked for Seaman & Smith, for years, making shoes by hand.
Yet another boy was given a profession, became a celebrated physician, and today his grandchildren are living on the old Meech place in Bozrah.
The Meech children were:
Lucy Meech, m. Jabez Gallup.
Angeline Meech, m. Calvin Parker.
Abigail Meech, m. Dr. Smith..
Eliza Meech, m. Henry Blair.
Juliette Meech, m. Isham Morgan.
Nelson Meech, m. Eliza Quiggan.
Martha Meech, m. O. M. Burke
Olive Meech, died unmarried.
1832
SPENCER
The year 1832 added a large element of strong, conscientious, gifted men, and refined, spiritual women, who greatly reinforced the religious and intellectual life of the village. One of the former was Thomas Phelps Spencer, who came from Hartford, Conn., and with Horace Canfield started a printing establishment.
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He was the son of John and Mary Adams Spencer, and born 1809 in Hartford. His mother was a remarkable woman, one of great strength of mind, and fervent piety. Mr. John Spencer died, leaving her with eleven children. The youngest of these, Barzilla and Rosilla Spencer, were twin daughters but three years of age, and the one next to them was a little blind brother.
When we reflect that the accumulated cares of such a household rested upon her widowed head, and that she raised all those 11 children to become good and useful men and women, it behooves her descendants to look upon her as an ancestress fully as heroic as any revolutionary forbear, and equally as deserving of respect and reverence. She was a: sweet, dignified, lady-like woman, with a keen, but soft dark eye, an erect figure, and a graceful carriage. We dwell upon this mother because she died in our midst, stricken down with cholera in 1852, while on a visit here with her son and his family. She lies in Erie street cemetery.
T. P. Spencer was an ardent Democrat in his political faith, and in 1834 he and his partners bought the Cleveland Advertiser, which had been a Whig paper, and at once made of it a Democrat organ. Within four years their success with it justified them into turning it from a weekly to a daily paper. It was the small parent of the present Plain Dealer giant, with its great circulation. In 1841, Canfield and Spencer sold the Advertiser to the Gray brothers, who changed its name, but not its politics.
After the sale of the Advertiser, Mr. Spencer continued in the book and job-printing business. Mr. Horace Canfield returned east. At that time Mr. Spencer was postmaster of the city. He went into the manufacturing business, and previous to his death in 1885, was connected with the Waterworks department.
The inauguration of President Grover Cleveland gave him great happiness. He was as enthusiastic as a boy, declaring that the account of it in the evening paper hal almost made him weep. He walked briskly home from the office that day, erect and vigorous, as usual, and dropped dead early the next morning. He was a genial man, of sunny temperament, who had scores of friends who felt deeply his loss.
Timothy Phelps Spencer married Elisabeth Reeve, dau. of the pioneer John Reeve. She passed away from earth just 10 years previous to her husband's death.
The children of T. P. and Elisabeth Reeve Spencer:
T. Reeve Spencer, b. 1838; died 1867.
Rosella Stewart Spencer, b. 1842; married William H. Kelley, youngest son of Irad Kelley
Annie Elisabeth Spencer, b. 1845; m. Charles Long Cutter, son of A. D. Cutter.
Mary Adams Spencer, b. 1855; died in Cleveland, 1896.
Fannie Spencer, b. 1859; died in Cleveland, 1880.
The sudden death of their only son, Capt. T. Reeve Spencer, was a severe blow to his parents and sisters. His life promised much to all his
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friends. He had served his country throughout the civil war, and at the time of his death by yellow fever was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. His district was on Lake Ponchartrain, 60 miles north of New Orleans. Reeve Spencer was an amiable young man, of sterling integrity, and fine business capacity.
1832
WHITELAW
For 60 years, George Whitelaw walked, to and fro, on Superior street between the Public Square and Water street. In 1832, as a young man of 24 years, he stepped, with due caution, upon short boards nailed across two parallel lines of scantling. Sometimes a board would loosen and one end fly up to trip the unwary. Ten years later he trod upon long, heavy planks running lengthwise. These were more serviceable, and lasted a long time. Finally, when his locks had begun to whiten, he marched proudly along on Cleveland's first stone pavement, and, doubtless, felt that, at last, all his predictions of the city's future greatness were being fulfilled.
He was nearing the end of his life time of fourscore years and four when, in 1892, he walked slowly along the familiar path for the last time.
Did he pause to recall the days when his first modest home was one of several frame houses, behind low picket fences, that lined the south side of the street below the American? Or the similar ones above it, interspersed by small stores and a blacksmith-shop, all of the way to the Public Square?
There were many dwellings of varying sizes and shapes on the north side of the street also. But that locality boasted two village taverns, and a bank, in addition to the little stores that grew in number and size, year by year, crowding out the pioneer homes. In these latter lived the Scovils, the Crittendens, the Levi Johnsons, the Weddells, the Ross families, the Rev. Breck, and the Rouses.
Below the Whitelaws were Moses White, the Stockwells, and the Merwins. Above them were the Walworths, the Irad Kelleys, the two Bliss families, the first homes of John Willey and Joshua Mills, and the stone edifice of Dr. Long.
George Whitelaw and his twin-brothers were born in Haddington, Scotland, in 1808. They were of a family of 11 children, the parents of whom were John and Agnes Robertson Whitelaw, who lived and died in Haddington.
In May, 1832, George Whitelaw started for America, and in seven weeks the vessel upon which he sailed reached our Atlantic coast, and before stretched the long land journey which brought him to Cleveland. The same month, six years later, he married Anna Fayerweather of Boston. She was the daughter of John and Anna Wayland Fayerweather, and was born near Bridgeport, Conn.
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For 20 years Mr. Whitelaw was a partner of George F. Marshall in the saddlery and leather business, and from 1858 to 1890, with E. S. Root in the wholesale leather trade. "Root & Whitelaw" was a firm known all over the state.
George Whitelaw founded the Scotch Presbyterian church of Cleveland, and laid the corner-stone of its edifice on Carnegie Ave., corner of E. 72nd street. He also founded the St. Andrew society, the first charitable society in the city, and was its president many years.
Although so well known, he seldom entered public life. Twice only he served in the city council when his services were especially needed.
Mrs. Whitelaw was connected with Old Trinity church-when it stood on St. Clair street, corner of Seneca. She sang for its services there, and continued a member of the choir long after the removal of the church to its location on Superior street. She was an active worker in all Trinity church activities, and a charter member of the board of management that founded the Church Home on Prospect st. She was an invalid for some years previous to her death, which occurred in 1893. The George Whitelaw family lived on Willson Ave., corner of Sibley, for 30 years.
The children:
John Fayerweather Whitelaw, b. 1839; died at his residence, 2536 Euclid ave., June, 1912; married. 1st, Alice Hill, dau. of T. O. Hill. She died 1864. Married 2nd, Alma Paige of Painesville, O. She died 1873. Married 3rd, Mary Eliza Cooper, dau. of George Cooper
Anna Wayland Whitelaw, died 1845.
Mary Augusta Whitelaw.
1832
STAIR
John Stair of Redding, England, was a schoolmaster. He married a Miss Adams, and had three sons, John, William, and James Stair. Two of these sons emigrated to Australia and prospered. To this day their posterity have corresponded with their Cleveland cousins.
Mrs. Stair died, and Mr. John Stair married 2nd, Miss Martha Green, a well-bred and well-educated lady. She was one of a large family of children. Her brother, Nathaniel Green, was an artist, and instructed the children of the royal household at Balmoral in drawing and painting. In late life, when visited by Mr. and Mrs. John Stair of Cleveland, he was found living in fine style in London, surrounded by the residences of famous artists and scholars.
Mr. John Stair and his wife, Martha Green Stair, had six children born in England. When the youngest was six months old the family came to America in company with two other families who were their neighbors and friends. One was that of John Reeve, father of Dr. John Reeve, and grandfather of Mrs. Charles L. Cutter. Martha Green Stair, the eldest
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daughter, was left behind that she might finish her education. When Mr. Stair and his family arrived in Cleveland, the ravages of cholera in town caused them to seek safety in Newburgh, where they lived on a farm for some time.
Returning to Cleveland, Mr. Stair opened a private and classical school for boys on Pittsburgh street, now Broadway. In 1845 he had given up teaching as a profession, and entered the grain and seed business, one that had been started by J. G. Stockley at 93 Superior street. The firm name was "Stair & Son," the "son" being the oldest child of the family.
The new undertaking proved a fortunate one, and "Stairs' seed-store" became famous all over the state. It was located on Ontario street. A. C. Kendal succeeded Mr. Stair in the business.
Mr. and Mrs. Stair were greatly respected and warmly welcomed by the social element of the town. Mr. Stair was very optimistic and of a happy, cheerful temperament. At first Mrs. Stair was very homesick for her native land. While living in Newburgh she had some guinea hens whose peculiar cry sounded like, "Go back, go back !"
"It is easy to tell me that!" she exclaimed, one day, "but how am I to do it?"
She was very kind-hearted and a natural nurse. Dr. Cushing, Sr., soon discovered this talent,
and often begged her services when there was serious illness in some poor household. It was
not unusual for Mrs. Stair to be away from her home all night, attending to the needs of some young
mother in her hour of peril, or nursing a very sick child, all without any remuneration, save
the love and gratitude of those she ministered to.
Alas ! the generation of dear, unselfish women who lost sleep and rest in personal services to their neighbors has long passed by. The trained nurse with prohibitive wages or a charity one is now the only choice of a household poor in purse, but rich in dignity and self-respect.
The children of John and Martha Stair:
Benjamin Stair, died unmarried. He was his father's partner in the seed business..
Martha Stair, became an invalid, and after 14 years of patient suffering died unmarried.
Edwin Stair, m. Marcia Lucia Cobb. She lost her own life in her devotion to her husband in his last illness, and survived him but a few days.
Thomas Stair, died aged 15 years.
Mary Stair, lived to old age unmarried
Samuel Stair, b. 1831; m. Alice Healy Caffee of Newark, O.
Fisher Stair.
Emily Stair, born in Cleveland; m. Benjamin Franklin, a Newark, O., banker
Edwin and Marcia Stair had two sons and a daughter, Mrs. Lucia Curtis. Frank Stair was connected with the Brainard musicstore for many years. Harry Stair married Miss Belle Beirce, and died leaving two young sons, and a little daughter.
Samuel and Alice Stair have two talented children. A son, Leslie Dalrymple Stair, who lives in Chicago, and a daughter, Miss Patty Stair, a well-known Cleveland musician.
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John Reeve of England came to Cleveland in 1832. He was 44 years of age, and his wife, Sarah Reeve, also a native of England, was 34 years old.
They brought with them to this city six children, and another one was born here four years later. Mrs. Reeve's life in Cleveland was very short. She died in 1838, and was buried in Erie street cemetery.
The father married secondly, Catherine Jones, and a daughter was born to them in 1845, who died-no date-in Columbus, O.
The family lived on Michigan street, and were near neighbors of John W. Willey, the attorney and first mayor of Cleveland.
John Reeve died in 1852, and was buried by the mother of his children. They were
William Reeve, b. 1819; died 1836.
Elisabeth Reeve, b. 1821; m. T. P. Spencer of Cleveland.
Dr. John Charles Reeve, b. 1826; m. Emma G. Barlow. Dr. Reeve resides in Dayton, O.
Margaret Reeve, b. 1828; m. Homer Moffett. She died in Cleveland, 1865.
Charlotte Reeve, b. 1829; died 1852.
Edwin Reeve, b. 1830; died 1873; m. Alice Oliver of Euclid, O. His name is inscribed on the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in the Public Square as a veteran of the civil war.
Henry Reeve, born in Cleveland, 1836; died at Dayton, O., in 1860.
1834
POPULATION ABOUT 2000
Very dull year for business. 43 canal boats laid up. Steamers coming from Buffalo without a barrel of freight. The Cleveland Herald asks, "What has become of the immense number of boxes, bales, etc., which we have been accustomed to see crowding our wharfs in such confusion as wholly to preclude the practicability of a passage from warehouse to warehouse? Why should our wharves which once were the scene of so much bustle and life and activity now exhibit so dull and lifeless an aspect?"
Cholera broke out again in the late fall of this year, and there were many deaths from it in this town and in the surrounding country. A very pitiful incident connected with the scourge took place on a canal passenger boat bound for Akron, O. Mrs. Joanna Brown, wife of a New York merchant, was aboard with her infant child when she was stricken with the cholera in the night. Her sufferings were intense, and the terrified passengers were obliged to hear her moans and cries of distress without being able to give her any relief. She died as the canal-boat neared Akron.
The winter of 1834 was marked by unusually heavy snow-storms. Snow covered the roads throughout the season. All sorts of conveyances
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were put upon runners and the sound of sleigh-bells, and even cow and sheep-bells, were heard continuously.
Although not a Cleveland record, the following item is of national interest:
The State of Ohio
Geauga County. ss.
Personally appeared Brigham Young and made application for a marriage-license for himself and Mary Ann Angel of the township of Kirtland in said county, and made solemn oath that he, the said Brigham Young, is of age of twenty-one years, and the said Mary Ann Angel is of the age of eighteen years, that they are both single, and not nearer of kin than first cousins; that he knows of no legal impediment against their being joined in marriage. Brigham Young.
Sworn and subscribed, this tenth day of February, 1834, before me, RALPH COWLES, Dep. Clerk.
Elizabeth Gaylord, through her guardian Leonard Case, offers lot 10 rods square for sale on Lake street.
L. W. Dickson, merchant on Superior street, advertises his drygoods. His wife, Matilda Isabell Dickson, died the following year, and lies in Erie street cemetery. His name is not in the city directory of 1845.
Died, "Emulous B. Johnson of Saybrook, Conn., of cholera, 27 years old." (Erie st. cemetery.)
Died, Esther, wife of Samuel Clampitt, formerly of New Jersey, lately of Philadelphia. (Erie street cemetery.)
Theron and Esther Strong Freeman die, perhaps of cholera, leaving minor children. Samuel S. mentioned as one of them. Thomas Strong and Charity Fuller are appointed administrators of the estate.
Previous to this year there were but 15 German families residing in town. They were mostly of the Protestant faith, and in 1834 they organized a society which received the name of "GERMAN Evangelical Protestant Church."
It was a small band of Christians whose mother-tongue was still more familiar than that of their adopted home, and doubtless very little of the services which they previously had attended in other churches had been fully understood. This first little German society must, therefore, have been very dear to its members.
They met, at first, in the old Bethel building near the corner of Water and Superior street hill, and afterward in a little school-house on St. Clair street.
Two-thirds of Euclid Avenue below Erie street was yet adorned on either side with rail-fences.
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From Cleveland Advertiser
ELOPEMENT
"Whereas, my wife Jane Ann has this day left my bed, and board, without any just cause or provocation, this is, therefore, to forbid all persons harboring or trusting her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contracting after this date. Justin Meeker,
Cleveland, Dec. 24-1834."
"Whereas, my kind and loving better half has seen fit to post me from his bed, and board, I would take the liberty to inform the public that he never had any board to my knowledge, and as for harboring and trusting me he need have no fear, for no one would do it on his account.
If he will not trouble me, no one will trouble him.
Jane Ann Meeker, Jan. 15-1835."
1834
SARGEANT
There were four men by the name of Sargeant who lived in Cleveland, off and on, after 1834.
They were William, doing business at one time as a merchant on Superior street, Jacob, Samuel, and Joseph Sargeant.
The last two came from Middlebury, Vermont, their native place, and were children of Joseph and Lucreti