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occasionally in his work. They were married about 1835, and began their life together, each aged 24 years, in a story-and-a-half cottage on St. Clair street near Bank, West 6th, street. For many years, this cottage was the first residence east of the Kennard House.

Afterward, Mr. Hutchings built a large brick house on the south side of Prospect street below Erie, and some years later the well-remembered public school building was erected on the lot west of it. Friends expostulated with Mr. Hutchings for building so fine a dwelling so far from the Public Square. It was considered as out of town.

Later, he exchanged it for a farm, and built a home on Rockwell street, corner of Bond, where now stands the Rockwell public school. Mrs. Hutchings was a very intelligent, wide-awake woman, and a member of the First Methodist church, to which society and its membership she was greatly attached. She died in 1895, outliving her husband 40 years. They were buried in Erie street cemetery, and the family lot is marked by a monument.

The Hutchings children:

Susan Hutchings, who died at 30 years of age.

Frances Hutchings, m. David Hawley, son of a pioneer.

Berthena Hutchings, m. Daniel Gardner; 2nd, L. J. Howland.

Samuel Hutchings, m. Mary Richardson.

Kate Hutchings, m. Aaron Orwig.

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Willard Crawford was a millwright, and lived, in 1837, on Orange Alley-Johnson street. His wife was a Miss Sarah Hosmer of Newburgh. Her parents lived on a farm, now the site of the Ohio State Hospital.

She was extremely neat and frugal, devoting all her time and attention to household affairs, traits which she transmitted to her daughter Helen in a marked degree.

Children of Willard and Sarah H. Crawford:

Randall Crawford, m. Mary Welch, daughter of John Welch of East Cleveland.

Helen Crawford, m. Joseph Shields, commander of the famous Shields Battery through the civil war. A fine man.

Mary Crawford, m. John Surbury.

Mrs. Randall Crawford, the only surviving member of the above generation, for many years was a prominent worker in the First Methodist church, but later became an ardent disciple of the Christian Science movement. Her son W. J. Crawford is a well-known citizen.*

* Mrs. Crawford and her son have both died since above was written.

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Edmond and Lucinda Caswell Mott came from Vermont, in this year, and settled in East Cleveland.

Their children were:

Rhoda Mott, m. Daniel Dewitt

Sarah Mott, m. Alva Jones.

Lucy Mott, m. Truman Buck; removed to Minnesota

Mary J. Mott, m. Roderick White.

Caroline Mott, m. Stebbins Ely; removed to Iowa.

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PEASE

In 1835 there was living on Lake street between Seneca and Ontario a young couple not long married. The youthful head of the house, Charles Pease, late of Warren, O., was a book-keeper for Robert McNeil, dry-goods merchant on Superior street, who, evidently, went out of business in the panic of 1837.

Directly across from the Pease home lived Mrs. John Erwin, a sister of Charles Pease. They were the children of Judge Calvin and Laura Risley Pease of Warren, O.

The name of Charles Pease does not appear in Cleveland's second directory, that of 1845. He had returned to Warren to aid in the promotion of a local railroad that failed of success, but through this experience he gained an insight into the railroad business that made his services valuable in that line, and he became secretary of the Mahoning Valley R. R., which brought him and his family back to the city where he continued to live until his death in 1895, aged 84 years.

As a son-in-law of Prof. Kirtland, the noted naturalist, he could not but become interested in natural history, even if he had not from youth been an ardent and intelligent lover of the fields and the woods. He purchased a homestead in Lakewood where, surrounded by forest-trees and birds, shrubs and flowers, his family lived an ideal life. The home bore the suggestive name of "Whip-poor-will."

Mr. and Mrs. Pease were very tender-hearted toward anything capable of suffering, and had little sympathy with the hunting mania possessed by so many men.

Especially were they incensed at the useless slaughter practiced by the type of sportsman who kills harmless animals and water-fowl merely to brag of prowess, and without making any use of his victims.

It goes without saying that none of the feminine members of the Pease or Kirtland families wore aigrettes on their hats or in their hair.

Charles Pease never added to his own income through the misfortunes. of others. His integrity was proverbial, and his generosity most unselfish.

Mary Elisabeth Kirtland, wife of Charles Pease and daughter of Prof. Jared P. and Caroline Atwater Kirtland, was born in Waterford, Conn.,

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in 1816. She died in Washington, D. C., at the home of ex-Senator Conger, in 1891. She was a faithful, congenial companion of her husband for nearly 60 years.

The children of Charles and Mary Pease:

Jared K. Pease, died in Cleveland in 1836.

Charles Pease, b. 1835; m. Hester M. Hotchkiss, dau. of Orvis Hotchkiss of Rockport, O.

Caroline A. Pease, b. 1838; m. Will- iam L. Cutter of Cleveland.

Frederick K. Pease, b. 1843; died 11 years of age.

PENNIMAN

Elijah St. John Bemis, owning a printing and book-publishing plant on the south side of Superior street, had a partner in the business as early as 1835, by the name of Francis B. Penniman. He may have come to Cleveland from Utica, N. Y., before 1835.

In May of that year appeared the following marriage notice

"In Utica, N. Y., Francis B. Penniman, one of the publishers of the Cleveland Whig, to Mrs. Jane W. Broadwell of Utica."

The Pennimans resided at 160 St. Clair street. They are not in the directory of 1845, and meantime may have returned to Utica.

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POPULATION, 5080

VILLAGE OFFICERS

President, John W. Allen

Treasurer, Nicholas Dockstader.

Postmaster, Daniel Worley.

Marshal, Elijah Peet.

Recorder, Edward Baldwin.

In this year began a western land boom. There was a great rush from the New England and Middle states of agents and land promoters. Northern Ohio and eastern Michigan were the storm centers of this great movement. Thousands of families came west by way of the lower lakes and the Erie canal, or by the south-western route through Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh and from thence to Cleveland.

A line of steamers was established between Buffalo and Detroit. These boats were crowded with passengers at a fare of eight dollars each. Even small steamers were made to carry from 500 to 600 people.

Long lines of big wagons and ox-teams came in from the south and were encamped on Superior, Water, and Bank streets, so that it became almost impossible for residents on those thoroughfares to cross from one side to the other.

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Hotel and tavern accommodations were inadequate for this constantly increasing emigration, and private families were forced to open their doors to the homeless women and children who otherwise would have lacked shelter.

Mrs. Weddell, Mrs. Moses White, and other women living on Superior street, complained of being annoyed by day and robbed of needed rest at night by the continuous stamping of horses in front of their dwellings, and what was more distressing the cries of young children camping out in the wagons that filled the street from the Public Square to the river.

We may rest assured, however, that these good women whom this history, we trust, will make household names, did everything within their power to ameliorate the condition of the luckless people stranded at their doors.

Married. "Smith B. Clampitt to Miss Joanna Darrow, all of this village." (Herald.) Smith B. Clampitt, at this time was a carpenter. He became a contractor, and very well known as a citizen. The family lived on Bolivar street, and later on Columbus road. The first wife of Samuel Clampitt died in 1834.

"Married. In this village, Oct. 24, by the Rev. S. C. Aiken, Mr. Kellogg G. Sloane to Miss Mary Ann Tomlinson, both of Cleveland." (Herald.) Mr. Sloane was a coach-trimmer and harness-maker, No. 64 Superior street. The family lived on St. Clair street.

Died. "Wm. F. Ludlow, son of Robert and Lydia Ludlow of St. John, N. B., aged 34 years." (Erie st. cemetery.)

Frances C. Fuller opens a young ladies' school on the Public Square (between Marshall's drug store and the court house).

"Married. In Buffalo, Darius King of Cleveland, to Miss Julia Burr of Buffalo, N. Y." (Herald.)

Joel Scranton appointed administrator on estate of Stephen S. Lyon, part of lot, 207 Michigan street, belonging to same.

Porter Bliss of Sodus Point, N. Y., was drowned in 1835 while living in Cleveland. He was 34 years old. His wife and child returned to Sodus.

Married. Hamilton Hough and Mary Peet. (Herald.)

Marshall Carson, well-known painter of the town, was married, this year, by Rev. Elijah Willey, to Miss Jane Eliza Cook. They took up their residence at 37 Bank street near Lake street. Mr. Carson added to his paint business that of wall-paper, and was a successful merchant for many years. His son succeeded him. Mrs. Carson may have been a sister of Samuel Cook, an early merchant whose marriage this year is noted as follows : "In Buffalo on the 16th ult. Mr. Samuel Cook, merchant of Cleveland, to Miss Angeline Carson, of Buffalo."

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"Married. Charles G. Collins, merchant, to Miss Rosina P. Jennings, all of Cleveland, Nov., 1835." (Herald.)

Married. "In this village on Tuesday evening last, Mr. Hiram V. Wilson, counsellor at law, of the firm of Payne and Wilson, to Martha Ten Eick, daughter of Col. Richard Smith of Grosse Isle, Mich., Dec. 24, 1835." (Herald.)

Married. "In this village, by Rev. Willey, Robert McBay, to Miss Sarah, eldest daughter of Luther Hunt, Esq." (He was a carpenter living at 158 St. Clair street, and on Bank street in 1845.)

Died. Catherine, wife of Joseph Rees, 27 years old. (Erie st. cemetery.)

The streets of the town in the early part of this year were generally torn up. They were being graded. Houses and stores on the lower part of Superior street were standing on stilts high in the air.

"July 4th, 1835, was celebrated in great style. People came from all the surrounding country. Mr. Hurd delivered an oration in the Public Square, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the steamboat Commodore Perry took a party of gentlemen and ladies for a ride on the lake. (Aaron Clark's private journal.)

"The Baptist Congregation, having hitherto held services in the Academy, will do so in Court House, until its church is finished." (Herald.)

J. M. Martin has a large advertisement in local newspapers. His drygoods and millinery store is opposite the "Bank."

Harvey Rice, administrator of the estate of John Hayward, Andrew Hull and Ebulous B. Johnson. (Herald.)

1835

From the Cleveland Advertiser

THURSDAY, JULY 30

FIRE ! FIRE !

"A little before 12 o'clock last night, our citizens were aroused by the cry of 'Fire!' which proved in ravages, the most destructive that ever occurred in this or any other town in the western country of any importance.

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The whole range of buildings from the book-store of James Kellogg, to the Mansion House, is laid in ruins.

The fire was first discovered in the rear of the extensive block of brick buildings on Superior street owned by James Kellogg, and occupied by himself as a book-store and dwelling, also by

Stickland & Gaylord, druggist and wholesale grocers.

C. L. Camp, hardware and dry-goods. store. Loss, $7000.

The Bank of Cleveland.

George W. Benjamin, boarding house

After destroying this valuable block the flames proceeded westward, leveling in their course

Mr. Newel Bond's stock manufactory..

Mr. Joseph Ranney's grocery.

James A. Briggs-Law office.

Varnum J. Card's-justice office.

Moses White's building, occupied by William Alden's shoe-store.

Edmund Clark's building, occupied by two families..

Benjamin Hutchins' merchant tailorshop.

Joseph Sargent-looking-glass manufactory

William Wells-bakery.

Daniel A. Shepard-chair-maker heavy loss.

Robert Bailey's tin-shop.

A. Chadwick's dressing-room.

Mr. Irwin's tin-shop.

John Brown-hair-dressing

Mr. Whittimore's-recess.

"The further progress of the flames was stopped by the solid wall of the Mansion House and by the indefatigable exertions of the firemen and citizens. It is feared that it will be necessary to tear down the latter building.

One life was lost, that of a girl 13 years old, named Maria Wright, who lived in the family of Mr. Benjamin as a domestic.

The origin of the fire is unknown to us. It is said, however, to have been first discovered on the outside of the rear building occupied by Mr. Benjamin."

"The damage to the Mansion House has not as yet been estimated. The loss to Mr. Segur the proprietor was very great owing to the careless manner in which the furniture was removed."

Cards of thanks to the business men of the town for kindness shown to the sufferers in their efforts to re-establish their stores and shops appeared in the Advertiser from time to time in the following months.

It is probable that when James Kellogg built this business block he moved the frame-residence that had occupied the lot for many years to the rear of it, and that it was in this dwelling where the fire started.

The site of the Kellogg buildings is now occupied by the American House.

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No clergyman of a strong personality could live an active clerical life of 44 years in a community without becoming an individual to be consulted or taken into consideration in any moral or religious movement in contemplation. It was natural then that the Rev. Samuel C. Aiken who came to Cleveland in 1835, to take charge of the First Presbyterian society, now the Old Stone Church, and who was its active pastor or pastor emeritus for that length of time, should become the central figure in the religious element of the city.

He baptized a small army of children, in some cases three generations of a family, performed innumerable wedding ceremonies, and with words of hope and tenderness officiated at the last rites of many scores of Cleveland's citizens. Small wonder, then, that his name and memory is still cherished by surviving members of his flock who recall his eloquence and his ministrations.

Though simple-mannered in his social life, his bearing in the pulpit was that of great dignity, his speech deliberate and impressive. He was fearless in criticism of what his judgment condemned and was the first Cleveland pastor to openly denounce slavery.

His salary must have been a secondary consideration with him, for, when the distressing panic of 1837 ruined financially many of the members of his church, he voluntarily relinquished $300 of his salary, which, at the highest figures of that day, could furnish but a modest support.

Dr. Aiken was born in Londonderry, N. H., and was 44 years old, not yet in the prime of life, when he came to Cleveland. He was a descendant of one of the Scotch-Irish founders of that town. His first important ministry was in Utica, N. Y., where he remained 18 years.

Many strong ties of friendship in Utica must have been severed, and doubtless many blessings followed Dr. and Mrs. Aiken to this far western home. He found conditions here quite different from those he left in the older town, but he brought to bear upon them his keen judgment and religious experience of many years. He was often shocked by the lack of orthodox belief in the community, "yet never," it is said, "in favor of winning to the church by other than staid old-fashioned methods."

Dr. Aiken was married when he came to Cleveland, and had children. His wife Delia Aiken, maiden name not learned, died in 1837, at the age of 37 years, and was buried in Erie st. cemetery. That same year, 1837, is recorded the deaths of two young children of the family.

Dr. Aiken married 2nd, Miss Henrietta Day, a member of a fine, New England family. She was related to Judge Sherlock Andrews, and the John Aliens. Her health was impaired so that for many years she was an invalid, and therefore led a quiet life. She died in 1867, aged 67. She was a sister of Mrs. Maria Younglove and of Miss Emily Day. Her husband survived her twelve years.

The Aiken family lived at 120 Prospect street soon after their arrival in the city, and later on Erie street, and while residing at the latter place they also had a summer home in Summit county, where Dr. Aiken spent much time in his old age.

In the library of the late Reuben Smith of this city, there hangs a

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fine picture of Dr. Aiken, a valuable possession, and one of great interest to every one connected by tradition or affiliation to the Old Stone Church.

The family of Dr. and Mrs. Aiken consisted of two sons and an only daughter. The latter, Helen Aiken, in personality, both physical and mental, much resembled her father. She was dignified and reticent, except with relatives and intimate friends. She married Edward Day of Albany, N. Y., a distant cousin of her mother. Charles Aiken married Antoinette Cleveland, a beautiful and gifted woman, the daughter of Daniel Cleveland of this city. They both died in San Francisco, Cal. She was a prominent worker in the U. S. Sanitary commission during the civil war.

The youngest son of Dr. Aiken was lost sight of before his father's death, and it was rumored that he died and was buried at sea.

Dr. Aiken died in 1879, aged 83 years, and is buried in Erie st. cemetery.

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ADAMS

Cleveland was honored in 1835 by the arrival of a Revolutionary soldier, who for several years drew his pension in this city. He bore the historic and family name of Samuel Adams, and of course was of Massachusetts stock. But after the close of the War of Independence, he removed to Vermont. He had a large family of children, several of whom were sons. These settled in and about East Aurora, N. Y., and after a sojourn there of a few years, one by one removed to Cleveland.

Mrs. Samuel Adams, Sr., wife of the veteran, was a Miss Anna Stone before her marriage. She died in 1842, and was buried in Erie street cemetery. Her husband the following year went to live with his son Lucas, who had preceded him to Michigan, and there he died shortly afterward.

The second son, Joseph Adams, who was a lawyer, at once opened an office at the corner of Ontario and Prospect streets. He was one of the ablest criminal lawyer in the state, and maintained a large and lucrative practice. His marriage was a romantic one. Upon his arrival in New Haven, Conn., on a business trip, he saw standing on the platform of the depot, either about to take a train or awaiting the arrival of some friend, a very attractive young girl. He was instantly interested in her, and she afterwards confessed that the tall, slender, and distinguished looking young lawyer caught her fancy on the spot. He made inquiry, learned that she was Miss Louise Clark, and before many days had passed received an introduction. They were married and he brought his bride to Cleveland. Afterward, her sister came to visit her, met Truman B. Peck, and became his wife.

When Joseph Adams was 70 years of age, he retired from the practice of law, bought a farm in Minnesota, and went to that state to manage it. He said to his nephew upon leaving, "You wait twenty years, and then come out, and I will show you the finest farm in the state." But he fell far short of reaching his ninetieth birthday.

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His brother, Samuel Adams, Jr., married Lucy Enos of Connecticut. She was a cousin of Nathan Perry, Jr., and therefore had kinsfolk to welcome her when she came to the city. She was then about 40 years old, and her oldest child, Samuel E. Adams, had preceded her here two years, and was studying law with his uncle Joseph.

The family lived, for a time, near Clinton Park, in one of the "Twin Cottages." Their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Paine, occupied the other. Previously, or afterward, the Adams family resided on the east side of Wood street, East 3rd, the second house south of St. Clair street. It is yet in as good condition as it was 70 years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Adams, Jr., had five children.

Samuel E. Adams, m. Ruth Bugbee, daughter of Ebenezer Bugbee of Geneseo, N. Y.

Harriet Sophrona Adams, unmarried

Charlotte Adams, m. Capt. Rowland Johnstone.

Amos Adams, m., ----- ------ and removed to Michigan

For over 60 years Samuel E. Adams practiced law in Cleveland, and was as noted a lawyer as his uncle Joseph. For a time, he was in partnership with Judge James M. Coffinberry, a distinguished member of the bar. Like most lawyers of the day, Samuel E. Adams was eloquent of speech, quick at repartee, and ready to meet in verbal warfare any of his peers.

It is to him we owe the statue of Moses Cleveland, standing in the Public Square, for, in an historical address before the Old Settlers' Association in 1880, he suggested and urged that the debt the city owed its founder should be recognized in that manner. And at the dedication of the monument, eight years later, Mr. Adams made the address of the day at Music Hall, on Vincent street.

Mr. Adams was also a high degree Mason. He died in 1893. Children of Samuel and Ruth Adams

Georgiana Adams, m. Samuel Leonard.

John F. Adams, m. Celia L. Oviatt.

Albertine Adams, unmarried.

After the death of Mr. Adams, his widow and daughters moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Joseph Adams, son of Samuel and Lucy Enos Adams, followed the lakes as a seaman, for a time, and afterwards, for many years, he was in the Standard Oil Co. He had three children.

Ruth Adams.

Lucy Adams, a beautiful girl who died young,

Frank Adams, associated with his father in business. Died in early manhood of consumption.

Mr. Adams and daughter Ruth reside on East 84th street.

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Samuel Sterling Atwell was another Cleveland blacksmith who dignified that useful occupation by his honesty, industry, and other sterling qualities. His parents were Joseph and Ruth Sterling Atwell. He came here from Watertown, N. Y., in the early '30s.

His blacksmith shop stood on Erie street opposite the cemetery, and his residence was No. 77 Ontario street. Mrs. Esther Atwell, also from Watertown, and but the bride of a year, died in 1837, aged 25 years. She left no children.

Mr. Atwell chose another helpmate from Watertown. Miss Eliza Cheeseboro of that place became his wife. She was 23 years of age when she came to Cleveland, and her married life extended over 36 years. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Atwell was an unusually happy one, and its quiet hospitality was shared among many appreciative friends and neighbors.

Their son William was a handsome, manly fellow, and their daughter Mary, three years younger, a pretty, slender girl, was very attractive. Both were children in whom their parents had every reason to take pride.

The Atwells removed to the West Side, and lived- for a time on Washington street, and later bought a residence on East Franklin street.

William lost his life when only 21 years of age, in the civil war. As sergeant of company B, 27th O. V. I., he was killed in action July 4th, 1862.

The bond of affection between brother and sister had been unusually strong, and William's death was a crushing blow from which Mary Atwell never recovered. The parents, likewise, were prostrated with grief, and the whole community sympathized with the family in their bereavement.

Afterward Mary Atwell contracted an unfortunate marriage which led to much pecuniary loss, and both mother and daughter soon succumbed to grief and misfortune, leaving Mr. Atwell bereft of fortune and every earthly tie.

After a year or two of loneliness, Mrs. Laura White, a very estimable woman who had been for many years an intimate friend of the family, married him, and for the rest of her life devoted herself to his comfort. He died in 1890, aged 82, nearly 60 years of which had been spent in Cleveland.

The family burial-lot was in Erie street cemetery until recently, when the occupants of it were reinterred in the new cemetery in Warrensville.

Ensign Benjamin Atwell of New London, Conn., a soldier of the Revolution, was the grandfather of the Cleveland pioneer.

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INGLEHART

Among the prominent physicians of the city previous to 1840, was Dr. Smith Inglehart. His wife was a Buffalo lady, a Miss Maria Johnson. Her sister married the famous Buffalo clergyman Dr. Lord, who had charge of a Presbyterian church in that city through a lifetime of two or three generations.

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Mrs. Inglehart is remembered as a pleasant little lady with very nice manners. She died early, and her husband married 2nd, Miss Sarah Johnson, a cousin of his first wife. The wedding was in Old Trinity Church, corner of Seneca and St. Clair streets. The Ingleharts boarded, for a time, after coming to the city, with the W. V. Craws, and then commenced housekeeping on Broadway between Cross and Ohio streets. Their nearest neighbors were the Stricklands and the Handersons. The house previously had been occupied by the Chamberlains.

Mrs. Maria Inglehart left three children.:

George Inglehart, m. Miss Culberson of Solon, Ohio. They moved to Chicago.

Fred J. Inglehart, m. a Buffalo lady.

Maria Inglehart, m. James Gill. He died, and his widow resides in Glenville. The family burial-lot is in Erie street cemetery.

1835

The wave of immigration that struck Cleveland in 1835 taxed the resources of the village to the uttermost to find adequate accommodations for the countless families that poured into the city by steamboat, canal, and stage-routes. Several new streets were laid out, and large lots near the center of town were divided into many smaller ones, and built upon. The view of the river and the flats was beautiful, and any location that commanded it was eagerly seized upon for dwellings. Little did anyone dream that the edge of the big ravine, then so charming, would one day be the site of poverty and vice.

Ashbel W. Walworth was then living on a farm at the junction of Broadway and Ontario streets, and he allotted the south-west part of it, and sold lots to the new residents. And because of its location, the street they faced was given the name of Hill street. It was a beautiful spot. And very restful was it for the busy housewives who lived thereto pause in their work and look from door or window across the river-valley to the high hills of Newburgh. Several New England families built homes here before and after the '40s, the Cottrells, the Bakers, Gunnings, Judkins, and others. The writer has been unable to learn much of their posterity. Two of the families intermarried with those who came earlier, the Judkins and Bakers.

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CHANDLER

Alstead, New Hampshire, lost and Cleveland, Ohio, gained several well-known families of the former place in 1835.

The Brainards, the Benjamin Rouses, the Binghams, and the Chandlers were some of them.

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In September, 1835, Joel Chandler, his wife Sophia Smith Chandler, and their three children, Joel, Sophia, and Mary, seated themselves in a big farm-wagon. The father whipped up the black horse, and its mate the bay one, and the start for the three weeks' trip to Ohio was made. But first there were many farewells and lingering handclasps from neighbors and friends ; for the undertaking was far from being an easy one or a light one. Would it prove successful? Those left behind hoped for the best. Had not word come from the Nathan Brainards, the Elijah Binghams and other former townsfolk that all was well with them in that western land?

And if nothing serious happened on the way there, Joel Chandler and family might eventually share in the good fortune that seemed awaiting every one who chose Cleveland for a future home. The travelers spent that first night with the Stowells, relatives living in Rockingham, Vt., and all the following day the faithful black and bay team trotted through the beautiful Green Mountain scenery. As the son of the family wrote fifty years later:

"Across the Empire State we passed,

The Keystone State came next and last."

Upon reaching Cleveland, they were sheltered by Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Rouse, living on Superior street.

"Dear old neighbors we had known

In brave New Hampshire's land of stone."

Mr. Joel Chandler settled on a farm outside of town. Think of the corner of Prospect and Bolivar Road as a suburb of Cleveland ! Yet that it was in 1835.

Two years later the financial panic struck the city, and struck it hard. Whether of this, or because the sandy soil of the locality proved unproductive, has not been stated, but in 1838, Mr. Chandler invested in a farm in Richland, Summit county, O., and removed to it.

Hiram Smith, a brother of Mrs. Chandler, also came west and settled on Vermont street, west side.

The children of Joel and Sophia Smith Chandler

Joel A. Chandler, m. Martha M. Buck.

Sophia M. Chandler, m. Judson Culver.

Mary Jane Chandler.

Francis M. Chandler, m. 1st, Effie Barney ; m. 2nd, Mary G. Mahon.

Jennie A. Chandler, m. Clarence Ellsworth.

George L. Chandler, also Irving, Laura, Orson, Park, deceased.

Mr. Francis M. Chandler, whose office is in the Williamson Building, represents the Joel Chandler family in this city. He is the popular treasurer of the Old Settlers' Association. One of his sons, Capt. C. DeForest Chandler, U. S. A., is being mentioned often in scientific circles.

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George B. Judkins and wife came from New York state near Albany. Mrs. Judkins was Mary Sproat, daughter of Robert Sproat. She was born on Broadway, New York City, in 1816. Her father was a building contractor, and business called him to Albany while Mary was yet a little girl, and Albany still a quiet, old-fashioned city.

As a child she went with other children to call upon the last patroon Van Rensselaer and bid him a "Happy New Year." For which greeting she received from him a gift. He sat in a huge kitchen surrounded with baskets filled with children's hats, tippets, mittens, etc., and by a table heaped with books. Every child who called upon him was invited to help itself to some article at hand, anything it preferred. The event was anticipated with much interest by Albany children, rich and poor. And so his little New Year callers were of all sorts and conditions of children. The better bred selected books or candy, while those who stood in need of clothing were made happy by a garment of their own selection.

Mrs. Judkins lived until recently. At the time of her death, she resided with her daughter in a pretty home on E. 111th street. She was an exceedingly interesting old lady with a phenomenal memory concerning early Cleveland days. In her declining years, she was tenderly cared for by her daughter Martha, a former successful public school teacher.

The father of the family died many years ago.

The children were:

William, George, Martha, and Emily Judkins. The latter married Walton Pelty.

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BROOKS

Among the hundreds of families that poured into town, during the boom of 1835, was that of a widow 48 years of age, her two sons 21 and 24 years old, and a little daughter.

The arrival of this family was an asset to the village of that day as it is to the city of the present time. Mrs. Joshua Brooks and her sons William and Oliver became personally known to all business men in town, especially the homesick, unmarried, and lonely ones boarding at hotels and thinking longingly of parental homesteads in the far distant east; for she established a first-class, private boarding-house for men only, which for many years was a home indeed to several well-known citizens.

She kept plenty of help, among which was a porter to handle trunks and furniture, and a hostler to look after the horses of her guests. She made a fine living for herself and daughter, and doubtless assisted her sons to establish themselves in business. In the financial depression that followed within two years of her arrival here, when strong men were

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struggling with disaster, or surrendering to a hopeless situation of their affairs, Mrs. Brooks kept on the even tenor of her way undisturbed and unaffected by the financial storm.

She was born Melinda Keith, daughter of Ruel and Abigail Allen Keith of Hardwick, Mass. Her American ancestor was Rev. James Keith, first minister of Bridgewater, Mass. He was born in Scotland, 1644.

Miss Keith married Joshua Brooks, Jr., of Lincoln, Mass., a town in which six generations of the Brooks family have lived. He removed to Burlington, Vt., and died there in 1829, six years before his widow and children came to Cleveland.

He was the son of Joshua Brooks, Sr., who was one of the farmers at Concord Bridge the sound of whose muskets were "Heard round the world." Joshua, Sr., and his father also served in the Revolutionary army at later dates.

The first American ancestors of the family were Capt. Thomas Brooks and his wife Grace Brooks, 1634, who settled in Watertown, Mass.

Children of Joshua and Melinda Keith Brooks:

Martha Barrett Brooks, b. Pittsford Vt., 1809; m. William Cleveland ; d. Orange, N. J., 1875. Cleveland, 1854.

Oliver Allen Brooks, b. Middlebury, Vt., 1814; m. 1840, Elenor Bradbury Kingsley ; d. Cleveland, 1892.

William Joshua Brooks, b. Salisbury, Vt., 1811; d. unmarried in

Melinda Keith Brooks, b. Burlington, Vt., 1828; d. unmarried in Cleveland

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BAKER

John Baker and his wife Christina McArthur Baker settled on the new Hill street in 1836. They came from Charlottsburg, Ontario, and their home was filled with happy, hearty sons and daughters. The older boys attended a little country school on Pittsburg street.

The children of John and Christina Baker:

Henry Baker, m. Mary Knowlton.

Peter Baker, m. Miss Shannon.

William A. Baker, m. Mary Lampson.

Elisabeth Baker, m. Frederick Kittridge of Norwalk, Ohio.

Charles Brayton Baker, m. Bertha Roberts.

John Baker, Jr., unmarried.

Edward Baker, unmarried.

Christina Baker, m. Hamilton Stickney, and raised a family of very bright children. They lived on the west side.

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Oliver Allen Brooks was 21 years of age when he accompanied his widowed mother from Burlington, Vt., to this town in 1835, and for 57 years was a familiar figure on Superior street, one of that thoroughfare's best known merchants.

He began his business career with very limited capital and at a time when the whole country was in financial distress, and that he succeeded in gaining even a footing in the commercial circles of the city shows that he must have possessed unusual business acumen and tenacity.

He became associated with Henry D. Huntington in the sale of crockery and glass ware at No. 5 Superior street, sign of the big- pitcher, which eventually developed into a large wholesale and importing business both in Cincinnati and this city.

He was one of Cleveland's epoch-makers through the building of the first modern business block on Water street corner of Frankfort.

It was a stone structure of fine proportions.

Mr. O. A. Brooks maintained several active commercial relations, among which was his connection with the Society for Savings as a trustee, and as a director of the Ohio National Bank.

For 28 years he was a vestryman of Trinity Church and for 14 years held the same office in St. Paul's. He was loyally devoted to the Protestant Episcopal faith, and ever prompt, faithful, and wise in the discharge of his duties as an officer in the churches with which he was affiliated. The Trinity Church Home for the invalid and the aged claimed his special interest and service; for 22 years he was its treasurer.

In his family relations he was a devoted husband and brother, unselfish, indulgent, always thinking of others rather than himself. He died in May, 1892.

Elinora Bradbury Kingsley, whom Mr. Brooks married Sept., 1840, was the daughter of Rev. Phineas and Parnel Keith Kingsley of Rutland, Vt. Her father died in Brooklyn, Ohio, her mother in Buffalo, N. Y.

Mrs. Brooks' American ancestor was John Kingsley who settled in Dorchester, Mass., about the year 1638. She was of the eighth generation in line from this progenitor. Her feminine forbears were Abigail Woods, Abigail Palmer, Ruth Adams, Sarah Sabin, and Mehitable Morey.

Mrs. O. A. Brooks was a charming woman greatly beloved by her family and friends, and during all the years of her residence in Cleveland a valuable worker in Old Trinity and its "Home."

A bronze tablet memorial to Oliver Allen Brooks is erected in Trinity Chapel, and his name is inscribed on one of the pillars of Trinity Cathedral.

The children of Oliver and Elenora Kingsley Brooks:

Oliver Kingsley Brooks, b. 1845; m Hattie E. Gill of Meadville, Pa.

William Keith Brooks, b. 1848; m. Amelia Shultz of Baltimore, Md.

Charles Ernest Brooks, b. 1851; resides in Indianapolis, Ind.

Edward Howard Brooks, b. 1854; m. Agnes Endicott Chapin, dau. of H. M. Chapin of Cleveland.

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So many men of early Cleveland became prominent merely through their bank-accounts and accumulation of real estate, men whose names never appeared in connection with public duty or public service, that it is a pleasure and a relief to write of one who was a citizen of Cleveland in a higher sense, one who had civic pride, and was willing to give of himself to the city of his adoption whenever necessity prompted.

For long years no one was better known in this community than George A. Benedict, who became a member of it in 1835.

He was the son of Amos Benedict of Watertown, N. Y., whose father was a lieutenant--in the-revolutionary war. Amos was a cousin of Platt Benedict who founded Norwalk, Ohio, and planted the forest trees that make Main street of that town famous for its beauty.

When Amos Benedict died in 1816, his funeral services were conducted by Rev. Lyman Beecher, the celebrated divine. George A. Benedict was then but three years old.

His widowed mother was Ann Stone, daughter of Capt. Stone of Litchfield, Conn. She lived but ten years after the death of her husband, leaving George an orphan at the age of 13.

Relatives on both sides of the family cared for the children's physical comfort and their education. George attended Union College two years and started to finish at Yale, but the death of an uncle, who was financing his course in the latter, compelled him to leave college. He studied law, and in 1834, was admitted to the New York bar.

After his arrival in this city, he became associated with John Erwin, and he was also of the firm of Benedict & Hitchcock.

His public life began as city attorney in 1840. He was clerk of the first, local, Superior Court, president of the City Council, and, from 1865 to 1869, was postmaster of Cleveland.

But as one of the proprietors of the old Herald and its editor was George A. Benedict best known.. His share in the daily newspaper was acquired in 1853. All through the dark hours of the civil war the policy of that paper and its splendid editorials guided by intense loyalty to the Union, was a power in keeping alive the spirit of patriotism in the city and throughout the

Western Reserve.

Four years after his arrival in the village of Cleveland, Mr. Benedict married Sarah Francis Rathbone, a lovely young woman, of Brownsville, N. Y. Her father was Amos Rathbone and her mother Mary Williams Rathbone. The American progenitor of the family was Richard, 1574.

Mrs. Benedict lost her mother in early life and thereafter made her home with an elder sister, Mrs. Thomas How. Professor How was a fine scholar and he carefully guided the young girl's studies, so that her education was unusually complete.

In addition she was very musical; for years she sang in Old Trinity Church choir. Her daughter Mrs. William Crowell inherits her mother's musical gifts and is an accomplished pianist.

During Mrs. Benedict's 63 years of continuous residence in Cleveland she was closely identified with its social, religious, and charitable life. Probably no other woman of this city had as many friends, acquaintances, and well-wishers as Mrs. George A. Benedict.

She died in 1902 at the advanced age of 87.

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The children of George A. and Sarah Rathbone Benedict:

George Stone Benedict, b. 1840; married Clara Woolson.

Mary Williams Benedict, b. 1845; m. William Crowell, son of John Crowell..

Harriet Amelia Benedict, b. 1848; m. Henry Sherman, son of Judge Charles Sherman and nephew of Gen. Tecumseh, and Senator John Sherman

George S. Benedict, the only son of the family, served as paymaster in the navy during the civil war. He was instantly killed in 1871, in a terrible railroad accident between New York and Albany. At the time of his death he was a brilliant editorial writer for the Cleveland Herald. His wife was a sister of Constance Woolson, the American authoress.

Mrs. Crowell and Mrs. Sherman are both widows, and are residing near each other on East 93rd street.

George A. Benedict died in 1870, aged 57 years. His sister Harriet Benedict who made her home with him after his marriage died in 1840, aged 30 years.

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In 1827, Elijah Bingham, a lawyer living in Alstead, New Hampshire, married Miss Thankful Cadwell Hutchinson, a young lady 22 years of age. Her father was Major Samuel Hutchinson, a prosperous merchant of Alstead, who had come to that town from Sharon, Conn., and later removed to this place and died here.

A few years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bingham removed to Cleveland. They lived for several years in the late residence of Horace Perry on the south side of the Public Square.

Mr. Bingham purchased land on the south side of Prospect street, and extending through to Garden street. This he allotted, laying out a street which he named "Cheshire," and upon which he built a comfortable home. He took absorbing interest in the new street, planting many forest-trees on each side of it which grew to noble size, their branches meeting overhead and presenting a beautiful view from Prospect street looking south. Alas ! they met the fate that in recent years has befallen the foliage that once made the down-town streets of the city so unusually attractive-they died from coal-soot and devastating insects.

Upon Cheshire street long stood the homes of many well-known Cleveland families, who clung to them until forced to leave through the decadence of the neighborhood. John D. Rockefeller was one of these.

Mr. and Mrs. Bingham lived in the home they built, for many years. They there celebrated their golden wedding, and there they died, he in 1881, his wife ten years later. Mrs. Bingham was a gentle, quiet' woman, very retiring but greatly interested in all that was transpiring in the outside world, and warmly sympathetic with sorrowing friends and neigh

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bors. She is said to have possessed the first Chickering piano in the state of Ohio. Her two brothers Samuel R. and Amos Hutchinson were wellknown manufacturers of the city, who in after years returned east to live.

Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Bingham had seven children but two of whom lived to maturity.

Ellen Bingham, m. Roland R. Noble, a fine man greatly respected. They had two sons who died in young manhood.

Charles Edward Bingham, m. Isabelle Taintor, and died shortly afterward. His only child, Miss Edith Bingham, is a young society woman of the city residing with her widowed mother on Euclid Ave

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A notable arrival this year, 1835, was that of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cleveland from Litchfield, Conn.

Mr. Cleveland was a brother of Mrs. Erastus Gaylord who had preceded them to the city by two years, and both were the children of Gen. Erastus Cleveland, a cousin of the founder of the city.

Mrs. Cleveland was a Miss Julia Gold, related to several noted New England families, among whom were the Sedgwicks and the Wadsworths. Gen. Elijah Wadsworth, of Canfield, 0., was a cousin. She was educated in Litchfield and there acquired accomplishments and developed gifts that not only enriched her own life but were reflected on those of her family and friends. She had a taste for drawing and painting, and through her guidance and instruction her youngest daughter, Mary, early gave evidence of unusual talent in that direction. This gift was transferred to her granddaughter, Miss Emma Cleveland, in a marked degree.

Mrs. Cleveland was a thoroughly domestic woman in the wider sense implied in that expression. Devoted to the happiness of her husband and children, she ignored-all outside claims upon her time and attention that would interfere with her duties as mother and housekeeper.

Possessed of much literary taste, she spent her leisure hours in reading to her children and assisting them to memorize the poems in which she delighted.

She died in 1852, and what was mortal on earth rests in Woodland cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cleveland had a family of four children, all of whom left the impress of their personality upon the community in which they lived. Especially was this true of Judge James Douglas Cleveland, whose long life was spent in the city, coming to it a lad, and whose death

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was a personal loss to every one who had ever known him. He was every inch a gentleman, gentle, refined, scholarly, judicial.

He married Miss Charlotte Bingham, daughter of James and Charlotte Kent Bingham of Claremont, N. H., who survived him but a year or two.

The second son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Cleveland was Doctor Thomas G. Cleveland, who served as a surgeon of the 41st O. V. I. in the civil war. He married Miss Harriet Wiley, daughter of Nathaniel and Harriet Hunt Wiley, of Nassau, N. H., and Watertown, N. Y. Mrs. Wiley was a sister of Mercy Hunt Abbey, the first wife of Judge Seth Abbey.

Antoinette Cleveland m. Charles Grant Aiken, son of the Rev. Samuel Aiken.

Mary Cleveland remained unmarried.

Antoinette Cleveland Aiken died in San Francisco, Cal., aged seventy-three years. She was a prominent worker in the sanitary commission during the civil war, and was the author of several volumes of verses. One poem was a widely quoted patriotic appeal, which helped to prevent the breaking up of the Hartford, Farragut's old flag-ship.

She left three children who are residents of San Francisco. Her husband was a son of Rev. Samuel Aiken, the pioneer pastor of the Old Stone church.

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CLARK

Ashabel Clark, son of Cyrus and Annie Trumbull Clark, of Cooperstown, N. Y., was a resident of Cleveland in 1835. He was a man of wide business experience, in Albany, in New York, and of Cleveland.

November 18, 1835, he was returning by stage-coach from Columbus, Ohio, where he had been on some errand. He sat by the driver, chatting with him, apparently in perfect health and in the best of spirits. Suddenly he swayed away from his companion, and would have fallen from the high seat to the ground, had not the driver seized and held him, at the same time calling upon the other passengers for assistance.

Mr. Clark was found to be dead.

His wife was Sabrina Loomis, daughter of Capt. Amos and Lucy Tilden Loomis, twenty-nine years old when thus suddenly widowed. She had three sisters, Mrs. Aurelia Tracy and Mrs. Laura Aiken, both residents of Painesville, and Mrs. Lucy Ely of Cleveland.

Mr. and Mrs. Ashabel Clark had one child,

Mary Clark, who married Dr. Maynard.

Mrs. Sabrina Clark married (2nd) Charles Brayton, and will be found in the Brayton family sketch.

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Any mention of Dr. Cushing brings to the mind of all old residents of the city the kind, genial, faithful physician and friend, Dr. Erastus Cushing. But to subsequent generations it suggests Dr. Henry Kirke Cushing, eldest son of the former who followed, long years, in his father's footsteps.

From 1835 to 1911, a period of 75 years, father, son, and, for a few years, a grandson were leading physicians of the city and with a reputation and with patients in many miles surrounding it.

To be so remembered and beloved as was Dr. Erastus Cushing hints of more than art of physical healing, the ability to cure mental distress and heartache as well. He was an American. Six generations back was his ancestor Mathew Cushing who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1638.

His father was Dr. David Cushing of Stafford's Hill, Cheshire, Mass., where Erastus was born in 1802. His mother, who bore the distinctively New England name of "Freelove" Brown, was the daughter of Joseph Brown of Cheshire, but formerly of Cumberland, R. I. Dr. David Cushing removed in 1812 to Adams, Mass., and died there two years later. Erastus thus lost his father at the age of 12 years.

His medical education, however, was of the best and most thorough. First, with a local physician; then, in New York City and at Williams College. After practicing his profession for ten years in Lanesboro, Mass., he completed his studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Therefore, when he removed to Cleveland in 1835 and at the age of 33, no physician could be more finely equipped for his work than was Dr. Cushing.

Until his seventieth year he remained in the harness, assisted in his later years by Henry Kirke Cushing, his son, who had received his medical degree.

When 24 years of age Dr. Cushing married Miss Mary Ann Platt, daughter of Abial and Charlotte Mead Platt of Lanesboro, Mass. Like her husband, she was descended from a long line of American ancestors both on her father's and mother's side.

It needs scarcely be added that her grandfathers Abial Platt and Stephen Mead of Lanesboro were Minute-Men of the Revolution, and saw active service.

Mrs. Cushing died in 1868, aged 62.

Dr. Erastus Cushing survived her for 25 years. He died in 1893 aged 91 years, and was placed by the side of his wife in Erie st. cemetery.

The Cushing homestead, which long years had been a landmark of the south side of the Square at the beginning of Euclid Ave. after the death of Mrs. Cushing was demolished, and the Cushing Block erected on the site.

The children of Dr. and Mrs. Cushing were all born in Lanesboro, but of tender age when brought to this city. The eldest son was eight years old, the younger one seven years, and the only daughter a babe of five months. They were

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Henry Kirke Cushing, b. 1827; m. Betsey M. Williams; d. 1910.

William David Cushing, b. 1829; m. Caroline J. F. Shaw of Lanesboro; died in Cleveland 1874, and was buried in Erie st. cemetery.

He represented navigation interests in the city. His only children died in infancy.

Cornelia Cushing, b. 1835; married George Patrick Briggs, son of a Massachusetts governor. She died in Cleveland of consumption in 1858, and was buried in Erie st. cemetery. There were no children

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Henry Kirke Cushing, son of Dr. Erastus Cushing and Mary Ann (Platt) Cushing, was born in Lanesboro, Mass., July, 1827, was brought from there to Cleveland when his parents removed hither in October, 1835, and lived here till his death, Feb., 1910. He graduated at Union College, 1848, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the M. D. degree there in 1851, and practiced medicine actively in Cleveland till about 1893, when he withdrew in favor of his son Edward F. Cushing who had come home after medical school and hospital training and begun practice here in association with him.

Henry Kirke Cushing served as Surgeon of the famous 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with the rank of Major, from May to August, 1861; Professor in Western Reserve Medical Department, from 1856-1865, 18781881; afterwards trustee of Western Rserve University for several years.

He married in Cleveland, June, 1852, Betsey Maria Williams (daughter of William Williams and his wife Lucy Fitch). She died in Cleveland, Oct., 1903. Of their ten children (all born in Cleveland) three died in infancy. The others were:

1. William Erastus Cushing, b. Sept., 1853; A. B., Western Reserve, 1875; LL. B., Harvard, 1878; married Carolyn J. Kellogg of Pittsfield, Mass. ; lawyer, Cleveland.

2. Alice Kirke Cushing, b. Feb., 1859; resides in Cleveland

3. Henry Platt Cushing, b. Oct. 1860; B. Ph., Cornell, 1882; M. S., Cornell, 1885; Professor of Geology, Adelbert College and Cleveland College for Women ; resides in Cleveland; married Florence E. Williams of Ithaca, N. Y.; three children living.

4. Edward Fitch Cushing, b. June, 1862; B. Ph., Cornell, 1883; M. D., Harvard, 1888; Professor of Diseases of Children, Western Reserve University, 1894-1911; on Lakeside Hospital Staff ; married Melanie Harvey; died in Cleveland, March, 1911; one child, Edward Harvey Cushing.

5. George Briggs Cushing, b. April, 1864; resides Acampo, Calif.

6. Alleyne Maynard Cushing, b. Aug., 1867; died April, 1903.

7. Harvey Williams Cushing, b. April 1869; A. B., Yale, 1891; M. D. and A. M., Harvard, 1895; Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University; surgeon, Baltimore, Md.; married Katharine S. Crowell of Cleveland ; four children.

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For twenty-five years or more Jonathan Gillette was a successful Cleveland merchant. Part of that time he was associated with Isaac L. Hewitt and Richard T. Lyon in the commission business on the river.

Mr. Gillette was identified with the growth of the city from some year in the early '30s until 1862, the date of his death. He was a generous, public-spirited citizen, interested in every good work, churches, schools, and charitable organizations. He was genial and hospitable, with a circle of warm and admiring friends.

He was born in Windsor, Conn., in 1808, the son of Jonathan and Mary Skinner Gillette.

In 1839 he married, in this city, Susan Sloan, one of the accomplished daughters of Major Douglas W. Sloan, late of Williamstown, Mass. Their beautiful home on Euclid Ave. adjoined that of T. P. Handy, No. 60, and Parker Handy (whose wife was Mrs. Gillette's sister), occupied a dwelling near by.

In this home Mr. Gillette entertained a bountiful hospitality, his charming wife presiding with rare grace and dignity. She also made her home a delightful family circle as well as a social center, and maintained it until Mr. Gillette's sudden and tragic death, an event over which the whole community mourned.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Gillette, Mrs. Parker Handy, and several members of the Sloan family rest in Erie street cemetery, to the left of the main drive.

The children of Jonathan and Susan Sloan Gillette:

Harriette Douglas Gillette, married William Leete Stone, A. B., A. M., LL. B.

Douglas Cogswell Gillette, died in early manhood.

Jonathan Edwards Gillette, died in early manhood.

William Backus Gillette, married Mary Apgar

Three children died in infancy.

Mrs. Harriette Gillette Stone, the only surviving member of her immediate family, resides in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Her husband, the late Col. William Leete Stone, was an historical and biographical writer of prominence, accomplishing much valuable work. He belonged to many historical and literary societies, either as an honorary or corresponding member.

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GOULDER

Christopher Goulder, Sr., and his wife Julia Brooks Goulder, came to Cleveland from England in 1835. They brought with them an interesting family of two sons and three daughters.

Mr. Goulder was a sailor, and both his sons followed the same occupation. The family lived at 23 Bond street where Mrs. Goulder died in 1856, having outlived her husband a year or two. He died while away from home, and was buried in England.

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The children of Christopher and Julia Goulder:

Catherine Goulder, m. Benjamin Horan, who was first assistant or secretary to U. S. Minister to court of St. James. Mrs. Horan died in London in 1859.

Christopher Goulder, Jr., b. 1815; m. in 1846 Mrs. Barbara Freeland, widow of John Brown.

Harwood Goulder, unmarried.

Emily Goulder, m. ------ Crosby.

Julia Goulder, m. Hiram Blunt. They removed to New York City where Mr. Blunt died in 1859.

The children of Christopher and Barbara Goulder, Jr.::

Charles Goulder, b. 1847; m. Marian C. Clements.

Robert Goulder, b. 1849; m. 1st, Rebecca Jacobs ; 2nd, Lizzie Herren.

Harvey D. Goulder, m. Miss Mary Rankin of Washington, D. C.

The youngest son of this family is a prominent lawyer of the city residing at 7023 Euclid Avenue. His wife, recently deceased, was an exregent of the Western Reserve Chapter D. A. R., and a member of the Cleveland Woman's Press Club ; a woman much beloved in the patriotic and literary societies with which she was affiliated.

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Jarvis F. Hanks possessed several talents and many virtues. He also may have had faults, but moral cowardice was not one of them, else he never could have faced the disapproval and, in some cases the serious displeasure, of a minority of the Euclid Ave. Congregational church, that Sabbath morning, so many years ago, by carrying a violin into the choir of which he was chorister, and, first softly tuning it, boldly draw the bow across its strings and lead the singing of the first hymn.

Many of the congregation were interested and pleased at the innovation. Others were shocked beyond measure, especially the oldest members, who looked upon the "fiddle" as the instrument of the Devil himself. The church was stirred to its foundations. But progress, musical progress, at last won out, and soon the strains of a violin soaring above the highest tenor or soprano voices lost all novelty, and as the sustaining power of the instrument became noticeable its value was appreciated, and, in time opposition ceased.

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In those days, the Congregational church stood on the north corner of Euclid ave. and Doan street, E. 105th, back of it was a small cemetery dotted with grave-stones. Here many of the earliest pioneers were laid away in their last sleep. When the church organized a Sabbath School, Jarvis F. Hanks was its first superintendent and in the Sunday School auditorium of the costly church edifice hangs a very life-like picture of him.

He was also an artist as well as musician. His regular occupation at first, was ornamental sign-painting, which developed eventually into a higher class of work. He received many orders for portraits. Some of these, showing considerable merit, still hang on the walls of Cleveland homes. He was especially fortunate in portraits of aged people and of children.

Jarvis F. Hanks was a very public-spirited citizen and took a leading part in anti-slavery and temperance movements. He was the oldest child of Joseph and Anna Frary Hanks of Pawlet, Vt., who, shortly after their marriage, removed to Pittsford, Otsego co., N. Y., where their son was born in 1799. Eighteen years later, with their family of eleven children, the youngest a babe in its mother's arms, they set out in a prairie schooner for Gallipolis, O., near the Ohio river, but after many years of what proved useless hardship in that region, they returned east. Several of the children eventually made their home in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where the parents died and were buried in the cemetery of that town. The American ancestor of Joseph Hanks was from Holland, while the descent of his wife Anna Frary Hanks is traced to the Pilgrims.

In 1823 Jarvis Frary Hanks married in Charlestown, Va., Miss Charlotte Gasbee, daughter of Christian Gasbee of Rockingham, Va. She was born in 1802 and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1890.

Mr. and Mrs. Hanks came to Cleveland in 1835, bringing with them a family of young children, who in after years were scattered from New York to California. But one, at this date, survives, Mrs. Leffingwell of Colchester, Conn.

The first Cleveland home of the family was on Muirson street, but for many years afterward it was on the north-east corner of Euclid Ave. and E. 93rd street, the present site of Charles Wasson's residence. There was no 93rd street, however, at that time. It was laid out through his own grounds by Mr. Wasson's father and named Amesbury Ave. Mr. Hanks died in 1853 and was buried in Erie st. cemetery.

The children of this family were:

Romelea L. Hanks, m. Everett Clapp of New York City. of New York.

Henry G. Hanks, m. Ellen Barker of San Francisco.

Frederick L. Hanks, unmarried.

Edwin J. Hanks, m. Anne Deal of Philadelphia.

Virginia Hanks, died in her 20^th year in Cleveland.

Arthur T. Hanks, m. Mary Buckley

Leslie C. Hanks, unmarried.

Walter S. Hanks, m. Ellen----

Emmeline C. Hanks, m. John E. Leffingwell of New York

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Jarvis F. Hanks had a brother, Oliver Hanks, who came to Cleveland in the early '40s, and lived on Euclid Ave. near Lakeview cemetery. He was a fine man and much beloved by his brother's children.

His daughter, Mrs. Emily H. Prentiss, resides with her daughter in Bloomfield, N. J., while Mrs. Catherine Hanks Whittlesey and Mrs. Josephine Hanks Street still make their home in Cleveland. The three sisters are accomplished women.

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James Madison Hoyt was but 20 years of age when he came to Cleveland fresh from his graduation at Hamilton College, and entered as a student the office of Andrews & Foote, two of the most prominent lawyers of Cleveland, both of whom succeeded to the judicial bench. This is mentioned because not long afterward they took the young man into partnership with them, which indicates that he must have been exceptionally bright and unusually promising for his age.

Mr. Hoyt was the son of David P. Hoyt and Mary Barnum Hoyt, who removed to Utica, N. Y., from Connecticut in 1820: There was a large exodus of New England families into western New York about that time, and a few years later many of these families who had settled in or near Utica, again sold out and removed to Cleveland or its vicinity. Several of the best known pioneers of this city came here from Utica.

After Sherlock J. Andrews became a judge of common pleas, the firm name of Andrews & Foote was changed to Foote & Hoyt and in the same year, 1836, Mr. Hoyt made an eastern trip, returning with a bride, Miss Mary E. Beebe, daughter of Alexander M. Bebee, LL. D.

Their first home was on Chestnut street; afterward they purchased a home on Huron Road south of Prospect Ave. and near the Huron street Hospital where they lived many years; finally they removed to Euclid Ave. where they both died. Although a successful lawyer with a large clientage, Mr. Hoyt was not contented to practice his profession. It may have been too exacting for a mind inclined to metaphysics, and to deep religious revery. Therefore, after 10 years of law he relinquished it for an occupation that gave him more time to enjoy the things he most cared for. He entered the real-estate business, bought several of the original ten-acre lots surrounding the city, allotted, and sold them for residential purposes. With Col. Hiram Wellman he became interested in the growth and development of Ohio City, now the West Side. It is claimed that he opened up over 100 new streets in the city.

He was an ardent member of the Baptist church and a lay preacher of that denomination ; supplying vacant pulpits either in the city or in surrounding towns. For 26 consecutive years he was the superintendent of the First Baptist Church Sunday School, loved and revered by. two generations of its children. He was also an interesting and valued

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contributor to leading reviews. He traveled abroad and published in book form his experiences and impressions of foreign lands.

Mr. Hoyt's eldest son was a Baptist minister who was settled over churches in Pittsfield, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Brooklyn, N. Y.

The second son was named for James M. Colgate of New York City who had married Mr. Hoyt's sister. The eldest daughter of the family, a beautiful young girl, died in 1854.

Lydia Hoyt Farmer was a bright, ambitious woman who gave her later years to the pursuits of literature. She had several books published.

James H. Hoyt a lawyer of the city was perhaps the most gifted member of the family. He is a brilliant public orator, and his after-dinner speeches have become celebrated throughout the state of Ohio and elsewhere.

The children of James and Mary Beebe Hoyt:

Rev. Wayland Hoyt, b. 1838; m. Maud Mansfield.

Mary Ella Hoyt, b. 1840; died 1854.

Lydia Hoyt, b. 1842; m. E. J. Farmer, son of James Farmer, a Cleveland banker.

Colgate Hoyt, b. 1849.

James Humphrey Hoyt, b. 1850; m. Jessie Taintor of Cleveland.

Ellen Hoyt, b. 1856.

The death of Mrs. James Hoyt, Sr., is registered in the family Bible in the handwriting of her husband. "My beloved wife Mary Ella Hoyt of unspeakably precious memory departed this life Feb., 1890, aged 75 years. Thus our married union lasting 53 years, 5 months and 3 days was severed."

Mr. Hoyt died suddenly of pneumonia following an attack of grip.

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Among the men who came to Cleveland in 1835 and made business ventures was L. M. Hubby. Unlike many of his contemporaries who risked their all and failed in the financial depression that followed, he won out and became one of the city's properous business men.

At first he was in the forwarding and commission line with a warehouse on River street. Hubby & Hughes became a familiar landmark in trade along the river.

When the pioneer railroad of Cleveland, the "Three C's," was built, he became its first general freight agent, and from that time on gave all his attention to the railroad's interests. Within five years he had become its president. This was in 1854. His fitness for the position was soon proved. At that time the road was 135 miles long, and its stock was on the market below par. When, 25 years later he resigned the position, it was 500 miles in length, and its stock had sold for 180. Meanwhile it had become the C. C. C. & St. Louis Railroad, or "The Big Four."

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Mr. Hubby recognized his civic duties to the extent of serving the city as an alderman for several terms, and he assisted in establishing Cleveland's waterworks system. Leander Mead Hubby was born in 1812, therefore was but 23 years of age when he came to Cleveland from Columbus, Chenango Co., N. Y. He was the son of David and Phebe Mallet Hubby.

Three years after his arrival here he married Sarah F. French, daughter of Haynes and Sarah Hughes French of Maidstone, Vt. She was born in 1815.

Mrs. Hubby became prominent in the social life of the city, and in its benevolent activities. As a member of the board of managers of the Cleveland Orphan Asylum, and of the Lakeside Hospital she did excellent service, and during the civil war she was an active worker in the Cleveland branch of the Sanitary Commission.

The family lived at 110 Lake Street until Mr. Hubby had erected a fine residence on the south side of Euclid Ave. beyond Willson Ave. and in the neighborhood of the Boltons, Sackets, and other families. A terrific gas explosion in 1878 destroyed the Hubby mansion and seriously injured members of the family.

The children of Leander and Sarah French Hubby:

Sarah Louise Hubby, b. 1840; m. Charles W. Doubleday..

Frank Winfield Hubby, b. 1841; m. Catherine Maria Germain

Ella French Hubby

Miss Ella F. Hubby is the only representative of the family remaining in Cleveland. She spends part of each year in Los Angeles, Cal.

Col. C. W. and S. L. Doubleday have two daughters, Louise and Ella Doubleday. The family reside in Washington, D. C.

Frank W. Hubby is an attorney of 31 Nassau street, New York City. He has three children : Rollin G., Lester M. and Frank W. Hubby, Jr., and a grandson, Frank Winfield Hubby 3rd.

1835

LUKE DEWEY JOHNSON

Luke Dewey Johnson and his wife Hannah King Johnson were living in their native town in Pittsfield, Mass., when in 1855 they decided to come west.

They settled in Newburgh where Mrs. Johnson died. Luke D. Johnson then married Louisa Ely, daughter of Merrick and Louisa Farnum Ely. She lived but a short time, and Mr. Johnson married 3d her sister Lucinda Ely. The latter was but nine years of age when her parents removed from Deerfield, O., to Newburgh. She was educated at a private school on Prospect street, and one in Elyria, after which she taught

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school at Doan's Corners, boarding meanwhile with Mr. and Mrs. Miller Spangler.

After her marriage, Mrs. Johnson's home was on Lake street. Within a few years the family moved to the Ely farm on Kinsman Road, where Mr. Johnson died. He was buried in Erie street cemetery. Mrs. Lucinda Johnson after long years of absence from this farm recently built a pretty home on it for herself and to be near her children who occupy adjoining bungalows. She was a member of the First Methodist Church when its congregation worshiped on St. Clair street. She ' lived to be very aged, but her faculties were preserved to a remarkable degree. Few people had such vivid memories of bygone days, or had witnessed such wonderful changes in the city's growth and population ; fields and meadows where once horses and cattle grazed, or where wheat and corn swayed in the wind, now closely built up streets of houses or business blocks.

The children of Luke D. and Lucinda Ely Johnson:

Merrick E. Johnson, m. Louisa Moreau, granddaughter of the pioneer Thomas Rummage. Mr. Johnson is a well-known business man of the city.

Louisa Johnson, m. Major Charles H. Smith (recently deceased).

Mrs. Smith has long been a useful society and club woman. She is a member of the Western Reserve Chapel D. A. R., state regent of the society, War of 1812, and assistant historian of the Woman's Department Cleveland Centennial Commission. Her three married daughters, cultured and charming women, reside near their mother.

1835

DILLON

(Organization of the Roman Catholic Church)

Although this city was settled mostly by New England people of Protestant proclivities, these were joined from time to time by a limited number of emigrants from Ireland, and occasionally from Germany, who sadly missed the services of the mother church in which they had been baptized and reared. These Catholic pioneers looked longingly forward to the time when they could worship God in the old accustomed way.

To them, in 1835, came a young missionary priest, the Rev. John Dillon, who organized a Catholic church. For a few years the society duplicated the early experiences of their Protestant brethren; holding services in private dwellings, school houses, or any place available. A little one storied frame cottage on the west side of Erie street near Prospect sheltered the society at one time.

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With the true missionary spirit, Father Dillon could not long rest contented under such conditions, and he began the struggle for a church building. He was aided in this by non-Catholics whose respect and good will he had gained. A visit to New York City in further search of funds yielded him about $1000 in gifts of ready money and of pledges.

But, alas ! the devoted young priest did not live to see the consummation of his hopes and plans. He died in October, 1836, soon after his return from New York. It was a sudden and severe blow to his parish.

The Cleveland Advertiser of October 20, 1836, contained the following

"The death of Father Dillon will be deeply felt by his bereaved and afflicted church. He was one of the first of our clergy in point of talent and piety, and though he labored in obscurity, yet he labored faithfully and well."

The Rev. John Dillon rests in Erie street cemetery, but a short distance from the grave of the Rev. Stephen I. Bradstreet, first pastor of the Old Stone church.

The families connected with Father Dillon's parish were: Detmer, Mathews, Alwell, Tuley, Wamelink, Lawler, Smith, Ffitspatrick, Duffy, Golden, Toole, McCarthy, Bryne, and Mulcahy. Only the sir-names of the above could be ascertained.

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TRACY

James Jared Tracy, who died only recently, was, with but one exception, the oldest citizen of Cleveland, had lived longest within the limits of the city. He came here in 1835, and remained a continuous resident of the town and city for 75 years. In all that time he was identified with its banking interests, as his first employment was in the Bank of Cleveland, and he was a banker when he died. He saw the village incorporated into a small city, and watched it expand and absorb all the towns adjoining-Ohio City, Brooklyn, Newburgh, Collamer, Glenville, with the residents of many other suburban ones spending all their business hours in the city as far east as Painesville, and Gates Mills; as far west as Elyria and Lorain; as far south as Bedford and Cuyahoga Falls.

His knowledge and experience in real-estate was greater, perhaps, than any other man in the city, for he had seen down-town property sell for a few dollars a lineal foot, and again for as much a square foot. When he came to Cleveland, there were yet many houses used for residences west of the Square. On Water, Bank, and Seneca streets there were two or three stores near Superior street, but all the rest of their length clear to the lake were homes-homes of the rich and poor alike.

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Ontario street north and south of the Square was a fashionable resident street.

Euclid ave. had less than a dozen houses on its south side, and on the north side a little east of the site of the Williamson building stretched a pasture full of bushes and wild berry vines, and where horses and cows grazed. It ran back and down to the level of Superior street, and the old board fence that enclosed it on that side reached from near the present Superior entrance of the Arcade almost to Erie street.

Across this field, one evening, Mr. Tracy tried to make a short cut in order to head off some companions, and to arrive first at the home of some ladies upon whom the young men intended to call. The others went around by the Square. Mr. Tracy got mixed up with the blackberry bushes and tore his clothes, so that the tables were turned, and the joke was upon himself.

He was the son of Gardner Tracy of Connecticut, who married Catherine Lansing of Lansingburg, N. Y. Her father, Jacob Lansing, was the founder of that town. In 1823 Mr. and Mrs. Tracy removed to Utica, N. Y. Their son James began an active life at the age of 14, working in a store. His uncle and aunt, Alexander and Mrs. Seymour, and T. P. Handy removed to Cleveland, and he soon followed them. Both Mr. Seymour and Mr. Handy were officers of the Bank of Cleveland, and he was given the position of teller, a responsible one for a mere lad, showing that already he had established a reputation for honesty and ability.

He made his home for some years with his relatives, the Seymours, and afterward at fashionable private boarding-houses and hotels, until his marriage at the age of 64 to Miss Jane Foot, daughter of George A. Foot of Detroit, Mich.

Mr. Tracy had two sisters living in Cleveland for some years-Catherine, who married John E. Lyon, a prominent business man of this city, and Susan H., who married Asabel Barney of Otsego, N. Y., who also became identified with the commercial life of Cleveland. (His brother, D. W. Barney, married Azuba Latham, sister of Mrs. T. M. Kelley.)

Both were charming women, well bred, the kindest of neighbors, hospitable, and a great addition to the social life of the town. Long after their removal to New York City their years of residence in Cleveland were recalled by early friends here with expressions of the kindest appreciation and regard.

The home of James Tracy after his marriage was on Euclid ave., east of Erie street. Evidently, he did not share in the present belief that in the near future the avenue will be a distinctively business thoroughfare, as shortly before his death he built an elegant mansion only a few short blocks beyond his former home.

He was one of the members of the "Ark," a celebrated, early club of the city, composed of a few men having congenial tastes, and fond of books and sports. He was a quiet man, not given much to public enterprises of any sort, but always ready to help when any demands were made upon him for charitable purposes, and he had a reputation for kindness and consideration in business matters. By birth and breeding he was a gentleman, and never forgot to be courteous.

His wife is much interested in educational and philanthropic work.

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Her sister, Mrs. George A. Stanley, was a resident of the city many years, and during that time a well-known society lady.

The children of James J. and Jane Foote Tracy:

James Jared Tracy, m. Florence Comey. Catherine Lansing Tracy, m. Lindsey Wallace.

1835

SKED

Alexander Sked, for long years a beloved deacon of the First Baptist church, was born in East Lowden, Scotland. He was the son of John and Jean Gray Sked of that town. He married Ann Roberts, at the age of 30, and they had eight children born to them. In 1831, when a little past 50 years of age, Mr. Sked with his wife and children crossed the ocean and started a new home in New York City. But circumstances were not as favorable there as he had hoped, and in 1835 he came to Cleveland.

He had been a gardener all his life thus far, and he continued the business here with good success. His three older sons were of age to be of considerable assistance to him in the work that he found awaiting him, for, about that time Cleveland was having a horticultural boom. Nathan Perry had started a large garden on Perry street, and the Rev. Elijah Willey, a Baptist clergyman, had laid out several acres of fruit trees, vegetable and flower-beds on Woodland ave., corner of Erie street-East 9th-and Mr. Sked's skillful services must have been in much demand and greatly appreciated. There were many other smaller gardens scattered all over the town, though the flowers and fruit they contained were common varieties that had been divided and exchanged over and over again. Mrs. John Blair and Mrs. Duty had some choice floral treasures, and Gov. Reuben Wood and the Merwins, who had moved out on the Detroit Road, near Rocky River, had wonderful gardens for that day, as Mrs. Wood had spared no expense in collecting rare trees, shrubs and flowers. The Sked family lived west of the Old Stone Church, in a house facing the Square.

After Mr. Sked had started a greenhouse and nursery on Perry street, near Central ave., he removed to that locality, and at his death, in 1868, the business was carried on by his daughters, Jane and Margaret Sked, and continued for many years. Margaret, the last member of the family, died May, 1912, aged 86 years.

The Sked family was much esteemed, especially in the society of the First Baptist church, to which they had given loyalty and fealty when it was poor and struggling. They came to town just two years late to be charter members of it, but their long and complete identification with the

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society made Deacon and Mrs. Sked regarded as its founders. Mrs. Sked passed away in 1861, full in honor and years.

The children of Alexander and Ann Roberts Sked:

Betsey Sked, m. Zebulon Jones, a.

brother of Mrs. Deacon Hamlin.

John Sked, m. Sarah Bartlett of New York. He removed to Michigan

William Sked, Jr., m. Stella Carey.

Alexander Sked, Jr., m. Elisabeth Cullen.

Susan Sked, m. Daniel Austen

Jane Sked, unmarried.

Margaret Sked, b. 1826; unmarried

Samuel Sked; moved to Westerville, O., and married there.

The Sked family are interred in Woodland cemetery.

1835

ST. JOHN

Aruna St. John was nearly 50 years of age when he arrived in town with his family of five children, and later two Cleveland-born children were added to the household.

Mr. St. John was the son of Daniel and Abigail Holmes St. John of the noted Connecticut family of that name, one which members of it usually pronounce "Sinj un." There were several of the Buffalo, N. Y., branch of the family living in the city at that time, distant cousins of Aruna St. John. He was a millwright and followed that occupation while residing here, a period of about 12 years.

He removed in 1850 to Richmond Mills, Ontario Co., N. Y., where he prospered in business. The family residence in this city was 58 Champlain street.

Mr. St. John was married twice. His first wife was a Miss Frost, and she may have been the mother of one or more of the older children. The second wife was Mary Sweet, who was about 42 years old when she came to this city. She died in Richmond Mills at the extreme age of 95 years.

The children of Aruna St. John:

Fanny St. John, m. Sylvester Johnson.

Daniel St. John, m. Elverette Lewis.

Hiram St. John, m. Lois Bacon..

Cornelius St. John, removed to Louisiana.

George St. John, m. Delia Millard

Charles St. John.

Edwin R. St. John, m. Elisabeth Hennshett

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UNDERHILL

The Cleveland Herald of April, 1835, contained the following announcement

"Dr. Samuel Underhill of Massillon, O., has associated with Dr. W. F. Otis for practice of medicine. Office-Union Block, cor. Superior and Union streets."

Dr. Otis was a conservative in theology as well as in medical lore, and to be associated with him inferred that his partner was a safe man both in theory and practice. Imagine then the shock to this Connecticut bred, orthodox community when the newcomer was found to be a liberalist of extreme type.

Dr. Otis dissolved the partnership in haste, evidently, as both men occupy separate offices in 1836, and who could blame him for refusing longer to share friends and patients with a man possessed of such revolutionary ideas concerning religion, and of moral and business ethics?

For Dr. Underhill believed that the fixed order of things which governed our community was faulty, and he openly criticized church-members who in their business transactions kept merely within the letter of the law.

Moreover, lacking an audience, perhaps, he started a weekly sheet in which he promulgated his queer doctrines. We may be sure that it was looked upon with horror, and tabooed in many a household. Its policy, as outlined on the printed page, would fail to startle or astonish the reader of today, whatever may have been the effect created in 1836. Indeed, the first item sounds strangly familiar.

"OPPOSED TO ALL MONOPOLIES.

"In favor of universal and equal opportunities for knowledge in early life for every child."

(This was before the day of public schools.)

"Teaches that virtue alone produces happiness.

That vice always produces misery.

That schoolmasters should be better qualified, and then should have higher wages.

That the producing classes are unjustly fleeced.

That nobles by wealth are as offensive to sound democracy as nobles by birth-both are base coin.

Discourages all pretension to spiritual knowledge.

That priests are a useless order of men."

"Inserts the other side of the question, when furnished in well-written articles."

Which shows that the doctor was as liberal as he professed. It would have been difficult in that day for him to secure a hearing in any other local publication.

Dr. Underhill must have been of middle age when he came to Cleveland, as his son James Underhill was associated with him in the book and job-printing office, soon afterward established in Union Lane. The

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publication of the "Liberist" was more a vehicle for expressing the doctor's advanced thought than a means of profit, while his professional practice must have been limited to patients who were in sympathy with his views.

Dr. Underhill was an ardent temperance worker. He pleaded for the cause through the "Liberist," and all through his life frequently gave temperance lectures. He had the best of company in this work while living in Cleveland, as many leading citizens of the town had started an active crusade against the liquor traffic.

Dr. Samuel Underhill was born on the Hudson river near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was of old Knickerbocker stock, his ancestors having been early Dutch settlers of New York City. His parents were Quakers, and from them he acquired his independent habit of thought.

He married Debora Storey, who was also a Quakeress. Two of their children were born in New York State, and the third one in Massillon, where the family lived a short time before coming to Cleveland.

The sojourn covered a period of about ten years.* Some time in the '40s. Dr. Underhill removed to Tonica, La Salle Co., Illinois, where he engaged in farming, and where he died in 1874.

The children of Dr. Samuel and Debora Storey Underhill:

Eliza Underhill, m. William D. Hill of Portsmouth, N. H.

Mary Ann Underhill, m. 1st, Joseph Ross of Cleveland ; 2nd, W. D. Hill.

James S. Underhill, m. Miss Wiggins of Massillon, O.

Maria Underhill, adopted; m. Gen. James Barnett.

Eliza Underhill Hill died 1858 on a farm in Putnam Co., Ill., and her sister, Mary Underhill, married Mr. Hill, after the death of Joseph Ross. Mary died in Cleveland. Her son, Norman L. Ross, is a civil war veteran, now living in Winnipeg, Canada.

James S. Underhill died early in 1875 at Tonica, Ill. His wife survived him but a year or two.

The name Underhill seems to be connected, locally, at least, with the medical profession. There was a Dr. Underhill in La Grange, Ohio, and one in Huron County, who practiced medicine for 50 years or more. Dr. Samuel had a brother Isaac, and Dr. Abel Underhill was another brother.

* The family lived on Orange Alley, . a popular resident street of that day, which eventually was remained "Johnson street."

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Joseph Ranney was born in Middleton, Conn. He lost his mother when he was a young child, and experienced many hardships in consequence. He early learned the trade of making boots and shoes with the Sages, very prominent shoe-manufacturers of Rochester, N. Y. The apprentices who served their time with Mr. Sage received kind and fair treatment.

Joseph Ranney came to Cleveland with Sylvester Ranney, also a boot and shoe-maker, doing business in 1836 at number 10 Superior Lane. The family lived at that time on Orange Alley-Johnson street.

Mr. Joseph Ranney was a deacon and very prominent in the church to which he belonged.

He married Lucina Fox, a lovely character, to whom a large circle of friends were much attached. She died aged 77 years, having outlived her husband 13 years. They both rest in Lake View cemetery.

There were but two children that lived to maturity in this familyMary Ranney, who died at the age of 30, and Sarah J. Ranney, who resides in E. 89th Place.

1835

RAYMOND

Samuel and Henry Raymond, brothers, born in Bethlehem, Conn., arrived in Cleveland in 1835.

Henry became a book-keeper at D. Russell's dry-goods store in the Kellogg building.

Samuel had been married two years previously to Miss Mary North, daughter of James North of New Britain, Conn. The North family had lived for generations in that town.

Mr. Samuel Raymond engaged in the dry-goods business. His first store, a little wooden building, stood on the site of the present Rouse block. His partners were Henry W. and Marvin Clark, and the firm was known as "Clark, Raymond & Clark." This retail store finally grew into a wholesale business, and under Mr. Raymond's name became known all over northern Ohio.

Upon coming to the city Mr. and Mrs. Raymond identified themselves with the Old Stone Church, and three generations of the family have since that time been earnest workers and supporters of that church society.

The Raymond home was No. 15 Lake street. In the fall of 1866, Mr. Samuel Raymond's health demanded a warmer climate for the ensuing winter months, and with his wife he started for Havanna, Cuba, via New Orleans.

They took passage on the steamer Carter, which exploded when abreast of Vicksburg on the Mississippi, and burned to the water's edge. Mr. Raymond's life was lost in the catastrophe. Mrs. Raymond's leg was broken, and she received minor injuries, but was assisted to a bale of cotton floating in the river, to which she clung until rescued by a passing steamer.

Her long widowhood which followed this sudden and sad bereavement

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was alleviated by the constant and tender ministrations of her only daughter who died middle-aged and unmarried while in one of the Gulf states in search of health.

The Raymond name has ever been an honored one in the city of Cleveland. All the years intervening between 1835 and 1912 the family traditions for honesty, integrity, church activities and works of benevolence have been maintained.

Henry N. Raymond died but recently. His home for many years was on the south side of Superior street, east of and adjoining old Trinity Church. When Bond E. 6^th street was opened from Superior street to Euclid ave. the extension cut through the Raymond lawn on the east of the house, leaving the latter on the southwest corner of the two streets.

It was the only one remaining of the row of stately dwellings that once adorned that side of Superior street from the Public Square to Erie -E. 9th street. One by one they were torn down to make room for towering business blocks. The Cleveland Leader Printing Co. leased the property and has erected a huge building for combined newspaper and office work, and the Raymond home, the last old landmark of that locality, has disappeared.

The children of Samuel and Mary North Raymond:

Henry North Raymond, m. Elisabeth Strong, daughter of John and Helen Strong of Schenectady, N. Y.

Mary Louise Raymond, died unmarried

Samuel A. Raymond, m. Emma Stone.

1835

INGLEHART

Among the prominent physicians of the city previous to 1840, was Dr. Smith Inglehart. His wife was a Buffalo lady, a Miss Maria Johnson. Her sister married the famous Buffalo clergyman, Dr: Lord, who had charge of a Presbyterian church in that city through the life time of two or three generations.

Mrs. Inglehart is remembered as a pleasant little lady with very nice manners. She died early, and her husband married again, Miss Sarah Johnson, a cousin of his first wife. The wedding was in old Trinity Church, corner of Seneca and St. Clair streets. The Ingleharts boarded, for some time after coming to the city, with the W. V. Craws, and then commenced housekeeping on Broadway, between Cross and Ohio streets. Their nearest neighbors were the Stricklands and the Handersons. The house previously had been occupied by the Chamberlains.

Mrs. Maria Inglehart had three children:

George Inglehart, married Miss Culbertson of Solon, O. They moved to Chicago.

Fred J. Inglehart, married a Buffalo, N. Y., lady.

Maria Inglehart, married James Gill. He died and his widow resides in Glenville.

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One of the most interesting men who came to the village of Cleveland was William Milford, a well educated Irishman of striking personal appearance and polished manners. He came from Geneva, N. Y., where he had been living about five years, or from the time he reached this country, and was naturalized in 1830.

He was a merchant here for several years, having a controlling interest in two stores, "Wm. Milford & Co.," dealers in staple and fancy dry-goods, doing business at 61 Superior street, and "Milford Harding & Co.," upholsterers, 12 Water street.

Later on, he was a forwarding and commission merchant.

His residence was 10 Erie street, a few doors north of the May property, and this home was one of the happiest and most attractive in the city. Here was dispensed a hospitality most cordial and almost universal. The Milfords had no children, but Mrs. Milford's widowed sister, Mrs. John McLauren, and her two children, William and Mary McLauren, were members of the Milford household for some years, and the nephew and niece were tenderly loved by the childless couple.

As a citizen, Mr. Milford was always active and enthusiastic in promoting measures for the advancement or betterment of the town, often serving as chairman upon such occasions. He assisted in organizing the first Board of Trade, and was President of the City Council in 1840. Twelve years later, he appeared to have abandoned commercial business, and become landlord of the American House, in which he died in 1854.

Mrs. William Milford's maiden name was Miranda McKay, daughter of Col. Robert and Sophia Clark McKay of Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. She was married in 1830, and was 25 years old when she came to Cleveland.

Mr. Milford died on the eve of a serious commercial depression, and his estate, when settled, fell short of all expectations. The trustee who had it in charge failed, and the Milford property being involved, was mostly swept away.

But Mrs. Milford was a woman of great courage and wonderful fortitude. Although in delicate health, and seemingly unfitted through her previous sheltered life to cope with the world, she bravely declined all pecuniary assistance whatever, and succeeded in supporting herself for 20 years, or until her death in 1874.

She was in the employ of the post-office, and for three years was librarian and custodian of the Historical Library. She made this latter position a labor of love, the compensation being very small, and threw herself with enthusiasm into the task of classifying and caring for the books and antiquities stored there. Her love of children led her to spend much time upon those who frequented the Historical rooms, making their visits there educational. She was a beloved member of Trinity Church, from which her funeral services were held, and attended by a large assemblage of admiring and attached friends.

Her nephew, William E. McLauren, became a member of the Plain Dealer staff; left journalism to study for the ministry; became rector of Trinity P. E. Church, and later Bishop of Illinois.

His sister, Mary McLauren, is remembered as a very pretty young girl, with beautiful hair. She married John S. Conant of Monroe, Mich.,

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and was last living in Princeton, N. J., where a son was attending college.

1835

MENDENHALL

Dr. George Mendenhall, born 1814, in Sharon, Conn., was the son of Aaron and Lydia Richardson Mendenhall. He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and came directly to Cleveland. He had been a diligent pupil, ranking high with the faculty and his fellow-students, therefore it followed that he "made good" in character and in his profession, and won the attention and respect of Cleveland people at once. He came of a fine Quaker family, the American ancestor of which came to this country with William Penn.

Dr. Mendenhall remained in Cleveland nine years, and then removed to Cincinnati, where he became very prominent as a physician and as a patriotic citizen.

During the cholera scourge of 1849 he worked day and night at the bedside of the stricken, and won the admiration and gratitude of the community by his tireless devotion to the path of duty. He also took an active part in the civil war, giving valuable service to the Sanitary Commission. He was most generous and kindly to his poor patients, his sympathy quickly responding to any appeal of the unfortunate.

Dr. Mendenhall married during his residence in Cleveland, and his wife spent six happy years in this city. She was Miss Elisabeth S. Maule of Philadelphia, Pa. Her family, dating back to French extraction, came to this country early. She was a most excellent woman, and most congenial and helpful to her husband. She also was a worker in the Sanitary Commission, and spent much time in the Cincinnati hospitals, visiting or nursing sick soldiers.

"Women of the War" contains a detailed account of her services, rating them highly.

The children of Dr. and Elisabeth Maule Mendenhall:

Charles Mendenhall, m. Fanny Carlisle.

Emma Mendenhall, m. Larz Anderson.

Laurance Mendenhall, m. Margaret C. Neff.

In 1836, Cyrus Mendenhall and Samuel Richardson were in partnership, doing business in Cleveland Center Block. Dr. Mendenhall also had his office at the same place. As his mother was a Richardson, these men were his relatives.

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Dr. Ozias Mather of East Haddam, son of Dr. Augustus Mather, married, in 1808, Harriet Brainard. She was the only daughter of Deacon Jabez Brainard, the revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. She was also the sister of Nathan Brainard, the pioneer.

Dr. Mather died in 1813, in Washington, N. H., and Harriet Brainard Mather was left a widow with two little sons, one of them an infant born the year his father died.

She married, secondly, Edmund Lawrence of Groton, Mass., and in 1853, while on a visit with Cleveland relatives, she died, aged 63 years, and was buried in Erie st. cemetery. Mr. Lawrence survived her but a year, his death occurring in West Danvers, Mass. Her children were:

Henry Brainard Mather, b. 1809; married, 1840, Ellen Everett, daughter of Charles Everett. Henry B. Mather died in Boston, Mass., in 1884.

Samuel Holmes Mather, b. 1813; m. Emily Washington Gregory.

Samuel H. Mather came to Cleveland in 1835, when 22 years of age. He was admitted to the bar the following year, and practiced his profession for 15 years. He was one of the founders of the Society for Savings bank, and for many years was connected with it as its president. He was a most substantial citizen of Cleveland, honest, upright, a leading member of the Second Presbyterian Church, and always to be found on the right side of every worthy movement in its support or encouragement.

The establishment of the Society of Savings alone was a most valuable event to the community, assuring safety for the small savings of the poor, and enabling the business man or others in temporary need of money to borrow it upon real-estate security at reasonable rates. From a small venture housed in a frame building, it occupies a many-storied and imposing structure on the site of the Giddings-Crittenden dwelling on the Public Square.

The marriage of Samuel Holmes Mather to Miss Gregory in 1842 united two famous lines of American ancestry. He was a descendant of the Rev. Richard Mather, and related to the celebrated Increase and Cotton Mather. His bride was the daughter of Dr. W. M. Gregory of Albany, N. Y., and her mother was Lucretia-Ely-Gregory, member of the famous Massachusetts family of that name.

Mr. Mather was a cousin of Silas, Henry and Joseph Brainard, pioneer settlers of the city.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Mather in the latter years of their life was a stone structure on the north side of Prospect street, east of Sterling ave. Here, probably, was planted the first Boston ivy known to this locality. As it grew year after year its tendrils rapidly extending farther and yet farther, covering, at length, the entire facade of the house, the new and beautiful vine was watched and admired by the public, and the Mather residence became an interesting landmark of the city.

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The children of Samuel H. and Emily G. Mather:

Frederic Gregory Mather, b. 1844, m. 1st, Cornelia Alcott; 2nd, Alice Yager.

Ellen Augusta Mather, b. 1847; m. Richard H. Mather of Amherst College.

Mr. S. H. Mather died in 1894, and Mrs. Mather in 1900. They rest in Lake View cemetery.

There are no representatives of the family now living in the city.

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The following wedding notice appeared in the Cleveland Herald, January, 1841:

"Married by Rev. S. C. Aiken, Dr. Benjamin Strickland and Miss Hannah Walworth."

"The editor received a remembrance with above notice. Joy and prosperity attend the couple."

The groom came to this city from Vermont in 1835. He was then 25 years old, and opened a dentist office on Superior street in a frame house standing near the present site of Marshall's drug store, and after his marriage he occupied this house also as a residence.

Mrs. Strickland was the youngest child of John and Juliana Morgan Walworth, the Cleveland pioneers. She was born 22 years after her brother Ashbel Walworth, and the year her sister, Mrs. Dr. Long, was married. Her father died when she was an infant, and her mother, four years later, married William Keyes, and lived on the north side of Euclid ave., not far from the Public Square.

The Stricklands removed their residence to one that was built on the Walworth farm on Broadway near the old market house, the doctor retaining his downtown office. Eventually, they again united the two in a handsome brick dwelling three stories high, set close to the sidewalk. It occupied the site of her mother's last home on Euclid ave.

Dr. Strickland was a tall, reticent man, with singularly austere bearing and cold manners, all of which may have belied his real nature. He was prosperous, and his dentistry practice in Cleveland extended over 50 years.

George Marshal, who was a near neighbor of the Stricklands for many years, and a warm friend as well, once gave a delightful pen picture of the couple. He wrote

"Although they were well mated, they were somewhat dissimilar in disposition. He was staid, retiring, isolated. She was outspoken, companionable, cheerful, and happy, in her daily walk and conversation. Her

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extreme vivacity, overflowing spirits and youthful manner would lead one to fall far short in guessing at her age. It is safe to say that this good woman maintained all the elements of youth during her entire life, and at no time would the term `old' become appropriate to her.

"During the civil war, her only child, a son, enlisted in the navy without the knowledge or consent of his parents. The anxiety as to the whereabouts of the lad and distress over his possible fate was more than the mother could bear. Hosts of friends called upon her to express their sympathy for her in her trouble." One of them, however, was truly a `Job's comforter' of the feminine sex. Said she

`I fear that this trial has been imposed upon you in order that you may be humbled for the worldliness you have exhibited in building, furnishing, and adorning your earthly abode so elegantly.'

Mrs. Strickland replied:

`For mercy's sake ! If this is all the consolation you can bring me in this hour of trouble and sorrow, I wish you would leave my house at once.' "

This only son of the Stricklands was very little comfort to them in their old age through spells of mental unbalance. He died some time before his parents passed away. The latter event transpired for both in the same year-1889.

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Alexander Sacket, for long years one of the most prominent merchants in town, had his first glimpse of Cleveland in 1835-the year he became of age.

He was the son of Augustus Sacket of Sacket's Harbor, N. Y. He had received a liberal education, and, though young, considerable mercantile training as well, therefore, well able to cope with the difficulties and obstacles inevitable in his new business enterprise.

His first employment was with Peter Weddell on the corner of Superior and Bank streets, the site of the Rockefeller building. But it was not long before he branched out for himself and started a dry-goods store just west of his employer on the site of the Johnson House, and now also covered by the big sky-scraper. In this enterprise he was aided and advised by Peter Weddell, who delighted in the kindly help and encouragement of the young in their first start in business life.

Alexander Sacket married Miss Hannah Johnson, born in the city and one year his junior. She was the daughter of the pioneer, Capt. Levi Johnson.

She remained ever a quiet, domestic woman, caring little for events that did not include her husband and household of seven children. The family lived at 37 Ontario street, as early as 1837, and later removed to the south side of Euclid ave., near what is now East 67th street. The

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homestead was roomy, and well adapted for the happiness of a family of young people, and was surrounded by spacious grounds.

Eventually, Mr. Sacket changed his business to the river front, where his warehouse long remained a landmark in that locality. And upon retiring from this, he gave his remaining years to real-estate transactions, in which his son-in-law, Mr. V. C. Taylor, was, and yet remains, a prominent and popular dealer.

The children of Alexander and Harriet Johnson Sacket

Margaret Sacket, married Virgil C.. Tayler, son of Hector and Polly Carter Tayler.,

Harriet Sacket, m. Henry Rumbaugh of North Carolina.

Mary Sacket, m. Charles Brown of Buffalo, N. Y.

Levi Sacket, m. Rose Barcley, dau of Dr. J. T. and Hannah Barcley.

Ellen Sacket, m. Dr. H. H. Baxter a practicing physician of the city.

The only son of the family to reach manhood became an active business man in the community. He died in the prime of life.

Alexander Sacket died in 1884, and Mrs. Sacket in 1897. The cemetery lot of the family is in Lake View.

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Rev. Vernon Dyke Taylor, a Presbyterian clergyman about 36 years old, came to Cleveland from Connecticut in 1835, and took charge of the Bethel-a chapel for seamen. He was an earnest worker wherever stationed. His previous church had been in a constant revival during the seven years he had been its pastor.

He was the son of Amos Taylor, and born in Hinesburg, Vermont. Two or more of his uncles are said to have perished as prisoners in the famous Sugar House near New York City during the revolutionary war.

Rev. Mr. Taylor_ was married in Vermont to Miss Charlotte Hall Curtis, who died in Connecticut in 1830, leaving three children. He married, 2nd, Catherine Maria Woodruff, of a well-known Connecticut family, who accompanied her husband to Cleveland. She died two years after her arrival aged 27 years, leaving two young children.

The family of little ones attended school, and were very much taken with their teacher, a Miss Susan Judd, daughter of William and Sarah Root Judd. Her parents removed from Northampton, Mass., to a town south of and near Cleveland. Miss Judd was a graduate of Williston Ladies' Academy of her native city, and with her family passed through Cleveland on their way to their new home. She remained here

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and taught in a private school. It was before the days of the public school system.

The premature death of Mrs. Catherine Woodruff Taylor, leaving a household of children with no relative in the city to assist the father in caring for them, appealed to Miss Judd's tenderest sympathies, and at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Taylor she married him and became a beloved step-mother to the family, one whose memory was revered by them.

Rev. V. D. Taylor built a home on Erie street the year he came to Cleveland. It was diagonally across from the entrance to Erie street cemetery, and numbered "273." An alley separates it from what was once a Methodist church. Here Mr. Taylor and both his wives died. Here his daughters were married, and it remains in the possession of his youngest and only living child, Mrs. H. P. Welton of Fort Wayne, Ind., who returns to Cleveland nearly every summer on a brief visit.

Mr. Taylor and his wives Catherine and Maria Taylor are buried in Erie street cemetery at the left of the main drive not far from the main entrance.

The children of Rev. V. D. and Charlotte Curtiss Taylor:

Cornelius Hector Taylor, m. Julia Edwards of Southampton, Mass.

Ella Eliza Taylor, m. Rev. J. H. Scott.

Mary Louise Taylor, m. Amasa Strong of Geauga Co.

The children of Rev. V. D. and Catherine Wadsworth Taylor:

Timothy Dwight Taylor, removed and died in Illinois.

Edward Payson Taylor, m. Augusta Eno of St. Louis, Mo.

Children of Rev. V. D. and Susan Judd Taylor:

William Henry Taylor, D. S. P.

Charlotte Elisabeth Taylor, m. Rev. H. P. Welton, a Baptist clergyman, who is a teacher and lecturer in a Bible Institute in Fort Wayne, Ind.

Cornelius H. Taylor graduated from Western Reserve University in the class of 1846 or '47. He was twice offered the presidency of that institution in after years. His first pastorate was Huron, O., where he remained for a long period, and where he was much beloved. At the time of his death in 1875 he was pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. His classmate in college also a Presbyterian minister married Ella Eliza Taylor, his sister. Another classmate, Mr. Bushnell, accepted as his first charge the pastorate of a Presbyterian church in Sandusky so as to be near his friend in Huron.

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Morgan Lewis Schermerhorn was only one of hundreds of other New York children of his generation who were named for a distinguished and favorite son of that state. He was born in 1806, and his parents were Cornelius and Catharine Van Rensselaer Schermerhorn of Albany, both of Knickerbocker lineage. His mother was a sister of Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer of the War of 1812.

M. L. Schermerhorn was considered an unusually attractive man, handsome and debonair. An old lady who as a child visited relatives in Cleveland in the winter of 1835, says that Mr. Schermerhorn and his brother-in-law, Judah Colt, figured prominently in the social life of the town.

Chess was much in vogue, that winter, and as Mr. Schermerhorn and Mr. Colt were experts in the game, they were constantly in demand at evening entertainments. Mr. Colt also had the advantage of being a fine looking, gay young bachelor, fresh from the more stirring social life of the east, and fertile in suggestions for additional fun and frolic.

Mr. Schermerhorn was a lawyer, but appears to have practiced his profession seldom, using his knowledge of law to further the various interests in which he was engaged. After his sojourn in Cleveland, he returned to Albany, about 1840, and for many years was in the government service.

In 1825 he had married Elisabeth Colt, member of a well-known family of New York, a high-bred, accomplished woman. She died at the birth of her youngest child.

The children of M. L. and Elisabeth Schermerhorn:

Matilda Schermerhorn, b. 1826; m. Edward Baker, and resided in England.

Judah Colt Schermerhorn, b. 1834; m. Frances H. Clark.

Charles Schermerhorn, a well-known Baltimore merchant; b. 1848; m. Charlesto Applegarth.

John C. Schermerhorn, b. 1850; m. Caroline Hognic ; removed to Texas.

Judah Colt Schermerhorn, who had lived in Cleveland during his early childhood days, became a civil engineer, and his business eventually called him back to this city where he lived for some years on Ontario street.

He died suddenly while on a trip to Texas. Meanwhile, his wife, Mrs. Frances Schermerhorn, an exceptionally lovely woman, had died, leaving a family of little children bereft of a mother's tenderness and sympathetic care, and Mr. Schermerhorn married again. His second wife was the late Mrs. Dennis.

Two children of Judah Colt Schermerhorn have been residents of Cleveland since childhood-Charles R. Schermerhorn, and Mrs. Mary S. Paddock.

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For 50 years John Shelley was warden or vestryman of Old Trinity Church, and in all those years he was in weekly attendance upon its sacred services, save when ill or out of town. One of the duties of a church vestryman is to seat "the stranger within the gates," and many are they whose earliest recollection of Sabbaths in Trinity is that of John Shelley's figure, straight and sturdy, ushering visitors up the main aisle to comfortable pews, or, as warden, contribution plate in hand, moving slowly down it to the soft sound of clinking coin and to the beautiful strains of an offertory being played or sung. Probably no one is yet living whom he first seated or to whom he passed the plate in the little church on Seneca street.

John Shelley was 20 years when in 1835 he came from England to the village of Cleveland, then numbering but 2000 souls. He had started from home with a business project in view, which local conditions, at that time, made impractical. The next step was to look about and determine what was most in demand in the little town and least supplied. It proved to be gentlemen's clothes. Therefore, Mr. Shelley opened a custom-made tailoring establishment, at number 15 Superior street, advertised the fact at once in the local newspapers, and saw that the same had a conspicuous place in the first city directory of 1837. But he was too shrewd a business man to continue in an occupation of slow return when fortunes were being made in land allotments. So he put his own hand to the real-estate wheel and sent it spinning to profitable ends. He built a fine stone house in the most beautiful part of Prospect, near Perry. Trinity Cathedral now overshadows it. There were more prominent business men probably living within two blocks of that corner of Prospect street than in any other neighborhood of the city. For years before his death Col. William Edwards was the sole survivor of that group of men, and his widow pluckily remains in her attractive home, unmoved by the allurements of what, at present, are more fashionable districts.

Mr. Shelley died in 1889, following an illness of three months. It is said that, next to family and church, he was devoted to his friends. In times of pleasure or pain, sorrow or rejoicing, they were sure of his ready sympathy and aid. Therefore, upon the day of his funeral, scores of gray-haired men and women crowded the ample parlors of his home to pay their last testimony of respect and affection.

Mrs. John Shelley married in 1839, Clarinda Russell, daughter of Alanson and Nancy Caulkins Russell, early residents of Cleveland. We quote from one who knew her well:

"There were few like her. A sweeter, purer woman never livedalways busy on her Master's service, always thoughtful of others, and lovingly doing for them."

She was a devoted member and worker in Trinity Church nearly all her life; one of the original members of Lakeside Hospital, of the Church Home-for aged women-and one of the originators of the Diet Dispensary-now defunct-which, for long years, was the most beautiful and practical charity the city has ever known. In hundreds of cases, weeks or months of suffering among the sick poor were alleviated and made endurable by daily gifts of delicious beef tea, fresh eggs, milk, etc., and,

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above all, by personal sympathy from the members of that organization. That funds could not be secured for its further continuance was a reflection upon those who withheld their dimes, rather than those who declined longer to give their dollars.

Mrs. Shelley did in 1877. There was but one child in the family:

Mary Shelley, m. Edmund Pechin.

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