PAINESVILLE TELEGRAPH 1878 © Judy J. Stebbins 8/1/2016

PAINESVILLE TELEGRPAH Sumner, Royal F. Painesville, Ohio Perry J. H. Scofield, Editor and Proprietor Baker, Mary A. Kemp, Samuel P. Office in Marshall’s Block, Main St. Concord Kirk, John Jan. 3, 1878 Thursday Morse, Collins p. 2 Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as Painesville of Jan. 2, 1878 Brewer, Thomas Ladies Cram, Harvey Bettes, Clara E. Glenn, A. B. Brennan, Miss Maggie Goldsmith, Francis J. Foster, Miss Ann Hale, Mary Ann Hubbard, Miss Sadie Kelley, William Many, Mrs. J. J. Mathews, Samuel Myers, Susan A. Norris, Eliza. B. Shove, Miss C. E. Payne, Henry W. Brewer, Mrs. Liddle Painesville & Youngstown R.R. Co. Curtiss, Miss Lydia Painesville Real Estate Assoc. Horne, Miss Katie Amidon, Adaline Johnson, Mrs. M. S. Blee, John Merrill, Mrs. M. A. Brennick, Thomas Owens, Mrs. M. V. Cram, Harvey Snell, Mrs. Elzene Carniger, Peter Gentlemen Curphy, William Bentley, Geo. W. Conner, Bridget Carver, J. W. Conner, Barney Flaugh, Andrew J. Drake, Abigail M. Bomgardna, Joseph Gray James E. Connors, John Gray, Ellery L. Hurlburt, John B. Gray, C. L. Snell, Capt. Alvah Houghtaling, William Hall, J. E. Lake County Delinquent Tax List for 1877 Kenner, Lewis Madison Lamport, M. G. Blair, John F. Moseley, Cynthia A. Ball, J. W McGuire, Martha Dascomb, Evaline C. Mathews, Samuel Hotchkiss, Leverett Morrell, Chauncey W. Hopkins, A. C. Noonan Jr., Daniel Hatch, George E. O’Brian, F. J. Miller, Calista J. Riker, Ervilla D. Morse, Collins Skelley, Lawrence Seckerville, Marion E. Kirtland Weed, Mary Nichols, Eldred Blair, J. F. & Ed. King Bigelow, L. C. LeRoy Long, Isaac W.

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Jan. 3, 1878 Mathews, Samuel, “ Mentor Patterson, Lovilla F., Painesville Graham, George V. Sinclair, Lucius C., Painesville Hughes, Mary B. McCarty, Patrick p. 3 Miss Nettie Harding, of Racine, Wis., is Winch, Samuel visiting friends in Painesville, her former home. Denend, Clarissa She is at present the guest of Mrs. Gen. Hill, B. C. Casement. Harrington, A. Mrs. Marvin H. Brown was called to Burton Willoughby Wednesday morning on account of the illness of Buffington, David her mother, having learned last night that her life Baldwin, W. H. was despaired of and that she could live but a Dunbar, Clarence S. few hours. Edick, Cynthia Governor-elect R. M. Bishop has tendered to Feisler, Lewis Mr. Ralph K. Paige of this place the appointment Feisler, Catharine of Aid-de-Camp on his staff, with the rank of Garretson, Ellen M. Colonel. Jennison, Albert D. M. Bridges, who for some months past has Lloyd, William been engaged in the lumber business in Erie Co., Lilley, Jacob N.Y., came to spend the holidays with his family Myers, James B. in LeRoy. Yesterday, he purchased fifty acres of Miller, Cordelia V. land from S. L. Titus in LeRoy, known as the Nash, Homer B. Decker lot, on which he intends to build the Presley, Jane Alice coming spring. Roberts, Joel Roberts, Ransom R. The President has decided to tender the Roberts, William B. appointment of Judge Advocate of the Court of Remick, M. J. Claims to Gen. Halbert E. Paine, ex- Stewart, Rosetta Representative from Wisconsin; vice Judge Peck West, William resigned. Waite, Helen J. Bates, Margaret M. Weather: During the past two weeks up to Clark Eli G. Sunday, the weather has been most remarkably Galusha, Adaline dark and foggy both day and night, there being Hollister, George scarcely rain or even mist, but an atmosphere as Harmon, J. J. & S. Hand the saying is “wringing wet.” Inman, Benj. S. Pike, John Death of Mrs. Canfield Stewart, Rosetta Mrs. L. D. C. Canfield, widow of the late Judge M. White, Milton C. Canfield, died at her residence on Main St. th Town Lots about mid-day last Sunday, Dec. 30 , age 55 yrs. Davis, Sarah A., Grandon Her former residence was Chardon. Andrews, Stephen, Painesville Chambers, Ann B., “ Real Estate Transfers Duke, Edward, “ Painesville Gillett, Julia, “ John Wells to Anne Arthur, part of an acre on Mathews, J. H. heirs of, “ Depot St.

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Jan. 3, 1878 12. Zalmon Sherwood, Madison Stephen Andrews to Climena C. Clark and 13. M. V. Hopkins, Kirtland Frances M. Casement, store lot on State St. 14. A. Cowles, Leroy Anne Arthur to Catharine M. Wells, ¼ of an acre 15. J. S. Churchward, Painesville on Depot St. Petit Jury Marcus Holcomb to John W. Sanborn, lot on Sate 1. D. A. Boyd, Painesville St. 2. Geo. W. Ferguson, Painesville Samuel Mathews by Sheriff to C. M. Heminway, 3. P. V. Sperry, Kirtland three lots in Fairport 4. T. C. Walding, Madison Mentor 5. M. H. Frisby, Madison Frederick Andrews to Ambrose C. Cole, 30 acres 6. Wilton Dunlap, Mentor Henry M. Brooks to Charles H. Brooks, 6 acres 7. C. J. Richardson, Willoughby Madison 8. John B. Garrett, Leroy Elbridge O. Warner to Lucius Gale, part of an acre 9. L. L. Parmly, Painesville at Unionville 10. H. H. Bates, Painesville N. Stratton, Jr. to H. P. Walding, 97 acres 11. Frank Cole, Mentor Painesville 12. C. S. Leonard, Painesville Marcus C. Taylor to George W. Steele, lot on Sate 13. Chas. A. Losey, Mentor St. 14., Zenas Bliss, Madison William R. Rogers to Sarah E. Higginbotham, lot 15. J. J Harrison, Painesville 14 Marshall and Mathews’ addition 16. David Preston, Madison Sarah E. Higginbotham to Wm. R. Rogers, lots on 17. John Curtiss, Kirtland Bank St. 18. John Coyle, Painesville Madison 19. Geo. W. Nye, Painesville Frances Hendry to L. B. McDonald, 2 acres 20. A. Anderson, Concord Emeline L. & A. T. Matteson to A. N. and Hattie Matteson. 16 acres Perry Perry Richard Shepherd Jr. returns to his home in Iowa Andrew J. Whiting to Adaline P. Fairchild, 1 acre this week. Luther O. Lockwood to G. R. Lockwood, 14 acres Chilon Clark to Sarah Moore, 1 acre Ashtabula Telegraph Mentor On Saturday, three boys, each about 12 years Daniel B. Hart to Augustus Harrington, 190 acres old, while playing at sliding down a board on a slight incline, got carried over the bank and Common Pleas Court dropped 25 – 30 feet. Two boys were unhurt. Grand Jurors One was seriously injured about the head; his 1. J. B. Collacott, Painesville name was Bennie VanCampman, and he died on 2. D. D. Hamlin, Perry Sunday. 3. Luman Stockwell, Painesville 4. Charles Wicks, Madison Youngstown Register 5. Wm. A. Corlett, Madison C. K. Ross, father of Charlie Ross, was traveling 6. M. E. Gray, Willoughby and stopped in the city last week. He conversed 7. L. H. Kimball, Madison quite freely about his lost boy, whom he still 8. M. S. Colgrove, Painesville hopes to see again. He has received a large 9. Noah C. Stewart, Willoughby number of letters from the scoundrels who are 10. S. B. Baker, Leroy keeping the lad, and at one time they offered to 11. Wm. Atkinson, Willoughby give him up for $20,000. This he refused to give them but now wishes, he had done it. He has

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Jan. 3, 1878 of 20, being in Boston, he shipped on board a learned there is an organization in this country, privateer fitted out for a cruise along the coast similar to the Italian Brigands, for the purpose of as Surgeon. However, the craft was steered right stealing rich men’s children and securing heavy for the English Channel. The ship was a bad one ransoms for their return. Charley was stolen, not constantly leaking and kept two men at the for the reward, but to advertise the fact that a pumps for forty days. One dark night they child that once falls into their grasp cannot be encountered a British 74 on the coast of Ireland. recovered until such time as they may decide The privateer fired one gun and surrendered. themselves. Mr. Ross says that no less than They were moved to the 74, and the old ship three hundred boys by the name of Charley Ross sank. They were taken to the city of Cork and in the country have been submitted to him for kept 2 ½ years as prisoners of war. My father, identification. Mr. Ross is about 35 yrs. old. He however, was permitted to go into the country says he has already spent $60,000 in this fruitless where he was treated kindly by Irish peasantry. search. He has engaged in his present business After his discharge, he went to Harve, France, because it takes him in different parts of the and signed on as a hand before the mast for country, and by this means he hopes to Boston. He then completed his medical studies sometime find his boy. and followed the profession for 40 yrs., and died in 1838 at the age of 78 yrs. My mother died in Married 1852, age 87 yrs. I was the fifth of a family of 6, In Painesville, Dec. 15, Jerry W. McGwinn and three boys and three girls. the two youngest of Julia A. Slitor whom only survive. I grew up in Ovid in Central In Painesville, Jan. 1, Albert P. Boyd, and New York. The schoolhouse was one and a half Martha C. Elias. miles away. The children traveled there through Died the woods and across lots, and in cow paths, Dec. 30, Grace G. Nellis, only child of Mr. and barefooted with toes “stubbed” and maimed, in Mrs. Hosmer C. Nellis, age 4 yrs., 4 mos. warm weather to reach a dilapidated log school In Painesville, Dec. 24, Mary Ann Hubbard, age house. The fireplaces would consume a full cord 87 yrs. of wood each day; the benches made of slabs. Writing tables were made of a single board George C. Curtiss is the executor of Mary Ann fasted to the logs of the house. Intemperance Hubbard, deceased, late of Painesville, Lake Co., was not considered an insurmountable Ohio. qualification for a good teacher. I well remember one old fellow that would frequently Jan. 10, 1878 Thursday get “half seas over,” vomit on the floor and take a quiet snooze in the schoolroom. In June, 1806, p. 1 Autobiography and Recollections of a we emerged from this school house to see the Pioneer Printer with Sketches of the War of great eclipse of the sun. In my school days, I 1812 and on the Niagara Frontier – by Eber D. never saw a map of any kind and probably a Howe (Number 1) black board was never in a school room until 30 I was born June 9, 1798 in Clifton Park, Saratoga yrs. later. Webster’s First Spelling book was the Co., New York, near the old battle ground where first and the last. It must be spelled through and Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered a large British read every three months, year after year. Every force to Gen. Gates in 1777. My father was a house had a fireplace which would burn wood native of Long Meadow and my mother of two to ten feel long. If your fire went out, a child Middleton, Conn. My father received a common was sent to a neighbor, perhaps half or three school education and entered Dartmouth quarters of a mile away, often the ”borrowed” College at age 19 for one year and made some fire went out on the way home, and the trip had proficiency in the study of medicine. At the age to be repeated. Tallow candles were almost

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Jan. 10, 1878 The new cemetery vault at Evergreen Cemetery universally used for lighting the houses. The first just completed, was used for the first-time Friday newspapers were delivered on horseback by a to receive the remains of Mrs. L. D. C. Canfield. “post” rider once a week. He would blow a horn at the house where they “took the papers” and More Grave Robbings all the children were on the run to get the paper The people of Hambden, Geauga Co., are greatly first. There were no shoe stores. The farmer and justly excited by the discovery made last reared cattle, carried the hides to a tan yard from week of the wholesale desecration and grave one to ten miles away, waited about a year for robbing of their cemetery. The facts as we learn them to be made into leather. A shoemaker then them are as follows: came to the house with his “kit” of tools and It was discovered last week that all four of these made up a supply for the year. Very few in those graves were opened and remains removed: Miss days could afford to wear boots (all boys now Alice Harrison, daughter of Robert Harrison, was from two years upward wear boots). I was 16 buried Nov. 6; a Miss Shelden on Dec. 10, Mrs. when I got my first pair. The sheep were raised, Morris Searls, Dec. 11, and a Mr. Whitney, the th the wool carded, spun and wove by mother and 12 . Mrs. Searl was cousin of Mr. Ed Searls of sisters and carried many long miles to be fulled, this place. It is, of course, too late to take any colored, and pressed. Then a tailor was found to steps towards recovering the bodies. come to the house, cut out the cloth into garments that would fit several male members Mr. S. A. Wheeler, and son, Walter, were among of the family and assist the females in stitching those killed in a nitroglycerin explosion at them together. On foot or horseback was the Negaunee, Mich., Jan. 2. Mr. Wheeler, was a way to travel. If a young man wished to take his brother of Mr. C. M. Wheeler, formerly of this gal to a dance, they both mounted one horse and place. away they would go from three to ten miles off. Boys were sent to the grist mill miles away with Madison, Middle Ridge, Jan. 7, 1888 two or three bushels of grain on the back of a Weather: Winter is upon us and seems to be horse. This going to the mill frequently was a making up for lost time. Yesterday was an vexing undertaking in a boy’s life. The bags especially rough day, the wind and snow holding sometimes fell off the horse and were too heavy high carnival. We have about 15” of snow. to put back up; so had to go and find help a mile Mr. Thomas Bates, age 88 yrs., died yesterday or more away. At the age of 13, my father morning at the residence of his son, Mr. J. D. moved the family to Canada by Falls of Niagara. Bates, in S. Madison. A man named Paul Drinkwater, a Scotchman, walked a post route of 60 miles and delivered us Ashtabula Sentinel – Mrs. Dr. Hawley died quite the newspaper from Buffalo. He subsisted on suddenly on Tuesday. She had a stroke of hard tack and cider. (To be continued) paralysis on Monday evening and died at 5 a.m., Tuesday. p. 3 Real Estate Transfers Painesville Geneva Times – Chas. S. Pancost, son of Dea. Holoman W. Paine to John O’Malia, part of an William Pancost, of Geneva, accompanied by his acre, Phelps and Perkins’ survey wife, reached town early this week from LeRoy Colorado. Samuel L. Titus to Dennis M. Bridges, 50 acres Concord Conneaut Reporter - Lon Moon, the blacksmith Thomas W. and Moses C. Harvey to Joseph at Gifford’s Corner, was called to reduce a back- Harvey, 40 acres. leg fracture on a horse belonging to Mr. A.

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Jan. 10, 1878 Colbert Huntington to Ellen L. Huntington and Huntley, of Monroe. The animal has a fair Mary D. Morse, Lots 98 and 99, Fairport chance to recover. John W. Averill to Daniel M. Averill, part of an acre, lot 52, Richmond Died Jennie M. Jewell to A. H. Garfield, Cowles House In Mentor, Jan. 5, Mr. H. C. King, age 59 yrs. property Aaron Wilcox as Trustee of Seminary to L. A. Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of Porter, 1 acre, Jackson St. Jan. 9: Same to Reuben Hitchcock, lot 92, Kerr, Cole & Ladies Co. survey, High St. Baker, Miss Mary Madison Brine, Mrs. D. Heirs of John Quirk to Chas. A. Quirk, 35 acres Lett, Miss Henriette Mentor Porter, Mrs. S. W. B. C. Hill to Orator L. Pinney, part of an acre Gentlemen Willoughby Ackerman, Chas. A. B. Peters, by adm. to Frances Peters, 75 rods Bacon, Geo. of land on Vine St. Bales, Thomas Bangle, Joseph Married Flaugh, Andrew J. In Concord, Jan. 10, Mr. John H. French, of Tiller, H. Harry Mentor, and Miss Demsie R. Rust, of Concord. Wheeler, Geo. Died In Hampden, Jan. 12, after a long and severe Jan. 17, 1878 Thursday illness, Mr. Elnathan Gray, age 82 yrs., 2 mos., 21 days. p. 1 Continued Autobiography of Eber D. Howe

(Number 2) High School Students – Article has their names The Niagara River emerges from the foot of Lake and test scores, days absent, and tardy Erie running due north about 34 miles and Class A empties into Lake Ontario. At the head of this Adams, Maggie river is Buffalo on one side and Fort Erie on the Adams, Nellie other. At the mouth of Lake Ontario is old Fort Andrews, Eddie Niagara built by the French about 200 years ago. Babcock, Minnie Opposite this and a mile above is the British Fort Carroll, Ida George. (He relates the events leading up to the Durand, Chas. War of 1812. After the battle of Queenstown, Huntington, Julian Eber out of curiosity rode to the scene of this first Mead, Willard conflict. He said there were about 20 men dead, Morley, Frank stark naked and scalped. After the battle, the Porter, Fred Indians had come.) To be Continued. Pratt, Bella

Steele, Lillie p. 3 Chas. J. Ellis and wife, of Fredonia, N.Y., Welch, Eliza have been spending a week in town visiting Wilkes, Louis relatives. B Class

Beardslee, James Real Estate Transfers Breed, Nathan Painesville Buys, Frank Child, Wiliie

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Jan. 17, 1878 Moseley, Kittie Crofoot, Frank Pierson, Frank Davis, Hattie Searl, Alice Turner, Maynard Swezey, Field C Class Tisdel, Minnie Avery, Fanny Wells, Edith Barto, John Seymour, Lola Bateham, Sadie Greer, Mary Bosworth, Harry Citerly, Mary Britton Fremont Dayton, Effie Burrows, Romie Carson, Kittie Madison, Middle Ridge, Jan. 14, 1878 Gilchrist, Rose The great event of the week is the failure and Harrison, Alice assignment of P. T. Safford, for many years a Hine, Nellie leading merchant in Madison. It is the old story House, Eddie of interest eating up the principal. Johnson, Chas. Kilbourne, Kittie Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Lathrop, Nellie Jan. 16: Mathews, Mary Ladies Mehaffey, George Charter, Mrs. Jennie Nye, George Gallery, Miss Kittie Paine, Nellie Harmon, Miss Mary Pomeroy, Rose Hotchkiss, Mrs. Sarah Pratt, Waiter Lours, Mrs. Ann Young, Chas. Remington, Miss C. D Class Colgrove, Mrs. Wm. Bell, Alice Harvey, Mrs. Mary A. Benjamin, Netty Hull, Mrs. H. L. Buys, Luna Halcomb, Mrs. S. L Carroll, Lucy Loomis, Miss Laura Casement, Frank Smith, Mrs. James Crofoot, Eugene Wilson, Miss Rosa Gray, Mary Gentlemen Gray, Mary Canfield, Chas. Gray, Gardie Corlett, John J. Griswold, Louis Dockray, Bartholomew Harrison, Arthur Johnson, William Holcomb, Una Lemair, Nurseryman Huntoon, Lennie Morrison, A. J. Jefferson, Anna Putnam, H. C. Kurtz, Lilly Clark, Rev. W. A. Little, Heber Fuller, C. M. Malin, Clara Haywood, W. H. Malin, Louis Lapham, Haskell Malin, Geo. Lyon, Warren H. Mathews, Lucy O’Connell, M. J. Thompson, Geo.

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Jan. 17, 1878 they entered Buffalo and began the work of Woodruff, Clinton devastation. There was only one house left standing when they were done; it was the one David Barnes and Arthur B. Childs, executors of on Main St. owned by widow St. John, the J. P. Sherer vs. Luman Wheeler. Land in Madison mother of Dr. St. John of Willoughby. She and her will be sold. daughters made such a resistance that a guard was placed over it by the British officers. Jan. 24, 1878 Thursday In the month of May, I enlisted in a regiment of New York Volunteers commanded by Col. Swift p. 1 Recollections of a Pioneer Printer by Eber D. which organized at the village of Batavia, forty Howe, Continued. (Number 3) miles east of Buffalo. July 5th, we marched Dec. 18 the Indians marched up the river and toward Buffalo and joined Gen Brown’s army arrived a Lewiston about sunrise, when most of near the battle ground. The fight only lasted the people were in their beds. The first warning about half an hour but with decisive results. The of danger was the Indian war whoop as they British army under General Riall retreated across emerged from the woods. Everyone thought to the Chippewa Creek. After two days, repairing take flight. The Indians stopped to plunder and damage and getting the wounded out, we the delay at the first few houses managed to let crossed the creek. The British had left so quick many flee. I well remember the breakfast that the camp kettles were still boiling and the tables was on the table that morning as the frightened set. The next day they were all safely inside Fort rider passed our door. The frying pan went one George, sixteen miles below. way and the tea kettle the other. The horses and (To be continued) sled were soon at the door, feather beds, blankets, and whatever was nearest at hand Real Estate Transfer were hurled in, the women and children on top. Painesville The frightened procession advanced, its Elizabeth B. Norris to Dencey Loomis, 5 acres on numbers increased, until it was supposed the Elm St. line on the road was five miles long. There was Madison no halt for the distance of fifteen miles, but the Noah Hobart to Lawrence B. Rodd, 130 acres Indians only followed about three miles, Lawrence B. Rood to Betsey Hobart, same securing the plunder and setting fire to the now premises deserted dwellings. At a point where Lockport is Willoughby now at the fork in the roads, some of the most A. R. Hurd to R. Y. Carroll, part of lot 55, 13 feet courageous, bivouacked for the night finding on Erie St. shelter for the women and children; the men William Downing to Nathan P. Downing, 54 acres standing guard. I took the road leading to C. R. Chapman to Edward Merrick part of an acre Rochester and soon entered what was then on Prospect St. called the “eleven mile woods.” Soon a snow storm started; but on went the cavalcade, over a p. 3 We regret to learn of the death of Mr. H. C. corduroy bridge laid down in the mud and water Tombes, of Ashtabula, which took place after a for the distance of about four miles. The next few days’ severe illness, Monday afternoon. He morning, I found myself enjoying a quiet snooze was formerly a resident of Painesville. at the eastern end of the “woods” under blanket, with nearly a foot of snow thereon. Mr. H.G. Dean owns an ancient silver coin, a Gen. Drummond crossed the river at Black Rock, French crown, bearing date of 1756. On one side two miles below Buffalo on Dec. 31. Some is a profile of the reigning monarch with letter Indians (Mohawk) joined the British and fought LUD.XV.D.G.FR.FT.NAV.REX, on the other side is with the militiamen; many were scalped. Jan. 1,

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Jan. 24, 1878 consciousness. He has been for many years an Inscription-Sit Nomen Domini T. Benedictum, esteemed resident of Madison and has a family. 1756. This old coin was formerly owned by Mrs. Intelligence has just arrived of the sudden John Secor, of Harland, Niagara Co., N.Y. Mr. death of Mrs. Nellie Ransom, of Rochester, N.Y., Dean has had it 20 or 30 years. daughter of Rev. L. Child, former Pastor of the Madison Baptist Church. Nellie was a favorite At the annual meeting of the Ladies Society of St. among the young people here. James’ Church, the following officers were elected: Madison Grange Officers installed Jan. 5: Pres., Mrs. T. B. Well Overseer, John Brown Vice Pres., Miss Eliza Wilcox Lecturer, H. Dodge Sec., Mrs. H. L. Griswold Steward, E. Chaffee Treas., Mrs. Maria Ross Assist. Steward, J. P. Merritt Directresses: Chaplain, M. B. Isham Mrs. E. Gould Secretary, J. S. Wilcox Mrs. D. T. Casement Treasurer, Eli Olds Mrs. L. B. Gibbs Gate Keeper, John Adams Mrs. F. Stebbins Ceres, Mrs. John Blair Mrs. Mary Mitchell, Pomona, Mrs. E. Chaffee Mrs. H. Cram Flora, Mrs. Joseph Stoker Mrs. H. P. Sanford Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. J. P. Merrill Miss Anna Brayton Miss Fannie Barstow Pioneer Matters – Talmadge Miss Lucy Dingley C. C. Bronson Miss Jennie Donaldson When in Morgan, I called on Col. David Wright Miss Laura Huntington and had a very pleasant interview. He was born in Winsted, July 27, 1786, which makes him 91 Kirtland yrs. old last July. His father moved from Conn. to Old Relics Morgan in 1802 they arrived July 22, 1802 and I see that Mr. Bosworth is the owner of a piece on this farm, Col. Wright has lived until this time, of old English coin. J. M. Beall, of East Kirtland, a pioneer indeed. His father and three brothers has in his possession a piece with the same were among the early settlers of Talmadge in description it being brought from England in the 1808 and 1809. One of his sisters married year 1828. He has three other pieces of very old Quintus F. Atkins, a prominent man in Ashtabula coin: A Spanish silver piece, dated 1711; a half- Co. 60 yrs. ago. He remembers the pioneers of penny dated 1700; and a mite, very worn, with the Northern district of Trumbull Co. going to figures we cannot distinguish. Perkins’ Camp to vote in Oct., 1802; his father and eldest brother, John Wright Jr. were among Madison the number. Every man was assumed to be a Last Saturday, Mr. Silas Kellogg of North qualified elector if he had lived a month of the Madison, had a fatal accident. While removing Reserve. In 1800, according to the census, the sawdust from Mr. Talcott’s mill, he in some Western Reserve had only 1, 800 inhabitants. manner came in contact with the pitman, which crushed his skull and rendered him insensible. Lake County Agricultural Society officers Doctors were called but surgical skill was of no elected: avail and he died on Sunday without a return to E.T.C. Aldrich, Mentor, President J. L. Wood, Madison, Vice President Treasurer, S. T. Ladd

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Jan. 24, 1878 Jull, Lewis M. Secretary, C. R. Stone Taylor, Job Directors: Held for postage: Pliny Mather, Painesville H. A. Crain, Whitesbro, N.Y. David Bailey, Madison Cornelius Hoose, Willoughby Sheriff’s Sale: G. B. Lichtenburg & Co. vs. Lewis M. V. Hopkins, Kirtland Kenner. Land in Painesville will be sold.

Obituary Partition Died Jan. 10, Mrs. Huldah Stewart, age 90. Nicholas Dowen, Richard Dowen, Celestia Washington, the first President, died when she Ellsworth and John Ellsworth, Irene Chambers was 12 years old. Of old New England stock, she and John Chambers, Anna Vial and John Vial, moved to Ohio a quarter century ago, she Sarah C. Hulbert and William H. Hulbert, Augusta resided in the house at which she died. Dowen and Harriet Dowen will take notice that a petition was filed by John Dowen asking for Married partition of 52 acres of real estate Willoughby, In LeRoy, Jan 17, Mr. Ezra Rawdon and Mrs. Lake Co., Ohio, owned by Nicholas Dowen, Sarah Higley, both of Windsor, Ashtabula, Co., O. deceased.

John S. Lockwood, Boots and Shoes. Ladies’ Sheriff’s Sale: Caroline A. Harmon vs. Reuben shoes side lace and button. Harmon, goods and chattels will be sold: One Bay Stallion, six-years-old, imported. James Shelfer is selling Spring Bed, Mattress and Bolster with 30 new springs for only $8.00. Old Sheriff’s Sale: Hulbert & Paige vs. Isaac M. Clark; lounges made new, everything new, with ne real estate in Painesville will be sold. Brussels Carpet for $8. He, also, cleans and makes over Hair Mattresses, and re-bottoms p. 4 The Mentor Grange has purchased the neat Cane Seat Chairs. One door north of Court school building recently vacated at Burridge’s House, Painesville grove and will shortly have it fitted up as a grange hall. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Jan. 23: Jan. 31, 1878 Thursday Ladies (no issue for this date) Ames, Mrs. Sarah Callahan, Jane Feb. 7 1878 Thursday Seeley, Miss Eva Autobiography of Eber D. Howe continued Buck, Mrs. M. Number V Eddy, E. A. A hospital for prisoners had been established in Sims, Mrs. Martha Buffalo, and after our retreat from Lundy’ Lane Gentlemen my father had been detailed and assigned to its Belden, Wm. E. charge, which may explain my being there as an Brooks. J. E. assistant. This brought about 50 of the poor, Clemons, L. G. miserable, mangled specimens into our care the Jordan, Orlow following day. Many were insensible but the Bishop, David worst cases were those who had bene burnt by Clarx, Cornelius the explosion of the powder magazine. History Hopkins, H. N or tradition has but little to say about the cause

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Feb. 7 1878 of Congress passed, Feb. 14, 1871, granting eight of the blowing up of Fort Erie, whether by design dollars per month, to all who served for the term or accident. It was generally considered a just of sixty days. After the war I had arrived at an age retaliation for the affair at Little York the year when all those just germing into manhood must before, I have seen it stated that our loss was 84 begin to cast around to light upon some and the of the assailants 900, but I think the occupation which seems most suitable to their latter too high by one-half. The situation of our physical and mental abilities. I had read the life little army which lay cooped up in Fort Erie was of Benjamin Franklin and learned how and by becoming more critical. Gov. Tompkins ordered what means he wrought his way from candle a draft in Western New York and about 3000 maker to the greatest philosopher of his age. were soon in Buffalo. They were lined up and Well one day I found myself in the small town of volunteers were solicited. Gen. Peter B. Porter Buffalo. The Buffalo Gazette was published here, rode along in front making the most urgent the same old newspaper that I had been reading appeals to their manhood and love of country to before the war and brought to our door the cross the river and rescue those in peril. At the famous Mr. Drinkwater. I went in and inquired if end of the day, only about 100 did not volunteer. they wanted an apprentice and, after some These volunteers crossed the river or lake the hesitation, they replied that they did. This was same night, armed and equipped. By this time, rather flattering to my pride as I had formed an Gen. Brown had so far recovered from his idea that it required something far above the wounds that he appeared again and took common race of mortal to become a printer— command of the army in Fort Erie. Sept. 17 plans more especially as old Faust, the fist inventor of were made to make a sortie with determination type, had been charged by the Pope with being to raise the siege. They made a direct march for in league with the Devil. I soon entered into an the batteries, which were scaled and silenced. agreement to give my time and attention to their They commenced a desperate running fight; in interests for the term of four years with an this kind of skirmishing our backwoods militia annual stipend. The proprietors of this paper men had a very decided advantage over the were two brothers, Smith H. and Hezekiah A. British forces who at this point seemed to be Salisbury, both practical printers. Smith H. composed in great measure of Germans, who Salisbury died in Rochester at the age of 50. Guy had been sold or hired out as fighting machines H. was the only son of the elder Salisbury and by some of the petty sovereigns in Europe. The was a fine writer. Our press was after the old fight was of short duration, The British soon pattern used in the days of Franklin with a short gathered their scattered force and again made screw and lever, and printed one page at each their way back to Chippewa, leaving all their pull. The paper had then a circulation of 1,000. siege guns in our hands. The following Another boy and I were assigned to this branch December a treaty of peace was signed at the of the business. To ink the type is those days we city of Ghent, in Flanders, by five Commissioners made two balls of wood covered with green who had been sent out a few months previous to sheep skin, about the size of a man’s head. To wit: John Quincy Adams, Henry Clary, Richard these were attached handles, and after applying Rush, Wm. H. Crawford, J. A. Bayard, and two on the ink to the outer surface, each page of type the part of England. But due to the tardy manner was briskly struck eight or ten times. The of communicating intelligence in those days, the present mode of applying the ink by means of treaty was not known till sometime after the rollers, made of glue and molasses, came into great battle of New Orleans had been fought on vogue about the year 1830. In March, 1817, I Jan. 8, and the British army defeated with great was sent on to assist in the printing of a paper at slaughter. After sixty years, I have been placed Fredonia. In the spring of 1818, by a change of upon the pension roll of survivors under an act proprietors of the paper, I was released from my

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Feb. 7 1878 Edward B. and Felix Doran to Marcus C. Taylor, engagement as an apprentice, but continued in lot 82 Steele’s addition the office during the summer. (To be continued.) John Rich to Maria Rich, store and lot on Main St. Mentor p. 3 W. B. Hall, of Manistee, Michigan, is in town Buel Butler to Lizzie M. Gilbert, 1 acre, lot 62, visiting friends. Smith and hart’s survey S. H. and T. G. Hart to Lizzie M. Gilbert, 4 acres, A shooting affray occurred in Mantua Station, lots 56 – 60 same survey Portage Co. on the 30th, between a saloon Willoughby keeper, Daniel Coon, an old man, and a man James W. Penfield to Julius E. French 2 acres, Mill named Matthew Powers. A dispute about lot undivided half settling for oysters which Powers had, ended in Madison a fight, during which Coon drew a small revolver Heirs of Robert S. Hickok to Luther Winchell, 12 and shot Powers twice in the chest. acres

A fatal accident took place at Warren last We have received a photograph picture of our Saturday. Mr. Ira Hart, of Lordstown, with his old friend and former resident to this county, two daughters in a sleigh undertook to cross the Col. H. E. Paine. He will be 90 yrs. old, next Feb. Mahoning Railroad on the west side of the river 14. In the photograph, he is shown sitting in his near the freight depot. A freight train that was “old arm chair” that was made in Painesville in standing so absorbed Mr. Hart’s attention that 1800 by Irel Paine. In one hand, he holds a copy he failed to see the incoming express train from of the Telegraph to which he has been a the east. The train hit the sleigh at full speed subscriber since the first number, over 55 yrs. killed Mr. Hart and the horses instantly. The two ago. daughters escaped with but slight injuries. Madison, Middle Ridge, Feb. 4 Mr. James Lamb, of Concord, hands us another Mr. Henry Roe, of the firm of the Roe Brothers, old silver coin, a French crown similar to the one died quite suddenly last Saturday night, of owned Mr. H. G. Dean except for the date of typhoid pneumonia. 1735. It came into the possession of the late Thomas Lamb, of Concord, in 1812. Golden Wedding Another Accident at Ashtabula The golden wedding of Daniel and Rebecca A freight train and a snow plow collided at the Shepard was celebrated at their residence in Ashtabula freight yard, west of the station, killing Perry on January 24. Seven of their children two men, Joseph Bryant and George Clemens, were present, two being far from home, and two and badly injuring several other. in Heaven. They have a score or more of grand- children and one or two great-grandchildren. A A letter from Mr. J. Root, of Tecumseh, dated letter is printed from Luman and Lucy Shepard. Tuesday, the 5th, informs us of the death of Mrs. Luman is Daniel’s brother. In Luman’s letter he Thos. Tear, which occurred last week at mentions that their parents were married 53 yrs. Newport, Mich. Mrs. Tear was the oldest and 7 mos. They were married Jan. 17, 1802 and daughter of Asa Fifield, of Fairport. Mr. J. Root is father died July 14, 1855. One of Daniel with the Globe Flouring Mills at Tecumseh, Shepard’s children who died was named Ralph Michigan. he died serving his country. The other died at the age of two years. Real Estate Transfers Painesville John Gates, of Kingsville won a bet last Wednesday that he could not walk to Ashtabula

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Feb. 7 1878 Potts, Chas. and back inside of four hours, being a heavy man Tuttle, Harry E. and no great shakes on his pins. Wheeler, C. H.

A child of Widow Kennedy, of the Third ward, Sheriff’s sale: Ellen C. Watrous vs. Isaac M. died Sunday of scarlet fever. She has four other Tuttle et al. Land in Mentor will be sold. children sick with the same disease. Alfred J. Elias, of Painesville has be judged a Willoughby Gazette bankrupt on his own petition. We have kindly been furnished by the mail carrier with the number of teams that have Henry M. Mosher is the assignee of Watson D. passed over the railroad tract at the Erie St. Sweezey. Creditors should present their claims crossing, during the past week. There were 1,713 to him. teams during the day time and 251 during the night time. J. C. Canfield and M. Arabella Canfield are the administrators of Lois D. C. Canfield, deceased, Conneaut Reporter late of Painesville, Lake Co. It is our sad duty to record the death of Charles Hall, which took place last Thursday of typhoid Feb. 14, 1878 Thursday pneumonia, after an illness of but five days; he Autobiography of Eber D. Howe, Number 6 was 72 yrs. old. I saw the first steamboat launched in Lake Erie. It was called Walk-in-the Water. There was no Died harbor at Buffalo of sufficient depth of water for At the Headlands, Feb. 1, Sarah E, only daughter a craft of this size, and she had very great of William L. and Sarah A. Averill, age 3 weeks, 3 difficulty in getting up the river to the lake, days. consequently was obliged to wait for a “horn breeze” as the sailors term it. That is a hitch of Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of eight or ten pair of oxen by means of a long rope Feb. 6: or cable, together with all the steam that could Ladies be raised, she was able to make the ascent. Brewer, Miss Lydia Sometimes the cable would break and the craft Gee, Miss Frank’ float back to the place from whence she started. Irvin, Mrs. Anna E. In September of this year (1818), I was engaged Ellis, Miss M in Erie, Penn., to assist in putting in operation the Higley, Mrs. Margaret first newspaper in that town entitled the Erie Mason, Nancy Gazette by Mr. Ziba Willes. I set up most of the Gentlemen type for the first number of his newspaper, Casey, William which I believe is still flourishing. The following Ferres, Alex winter I stayed in Fredonia till April 1, when I Hayward, W. H. went west. On that day, my earthly possessions Laputry, Napoleon were consolidated and amounted to a horse, Murphy, Thomas B. saddle, bridle, valise and $25 in cash. The first Rockafellow, C. M. day was over a rough road through a snow Deighton, Thos. storm. My destination was Cleveland, where I Foster, William arrived in four days. In those days, this was Keleher, Wm. considered pretty near the west if not the Maloney, Michael “jumping off place.” The night before I arrived in

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Feb. 14, 1878 horse, with a valise filled with copies of the Cleveland, I tarried at an inn 4 miles east of Herald and distributed them at the doors or the Painesville kept by Daniel Olds. I traveled the subscribers between Cleveland and Painesville, a next day until I arrive at the “inn” of Capt. Clark distance of 30 miles. In those days, cash Parker, in Mentor. Mrs. Parker, died in the latter payments for anything was very seldom thought part of 1875, being some 90 years old. I rode 34 of. Corn was the most staple article of exchange, miles that day and arrived in Cleveland which which was made into whisky and sold. (To be had about 200 inhabitants. There were three continued.) hotels run by: Noble H. Merwin, Doct. Don (The foregoing sketches will be printed in McIntosh, Capt. Philo Taylor. The merchants pamphlet form as soon as finished in these were Orlando Cutter, Nathan Perry, Irad Kelley, columns.) and S. S. Dudley. I found the printing office which had been constructed for weighing hay. p. 3 Mr. John F. Wells has been appointed The front end had a projecting roof, with four log Postmaster at Kirtland to succeed Miss Nettie chains, which, when anything was to be Markell, resigned. weighed, were hitched to the four wheels of a wagon and raised from the ground by means of Mr. E. Cowles, of the Leader, has been appointed a long wood beam or lever, one end or which Honorary Commissioner to represent Ohio at the occupied a good portion of the printing office— Paris Exposition. so that the editor or printer could conveniently th attend to the scales when not otherwise From Keokuk, Iowa, gate City of the 5 employed. The paper was called the Cleveland Edward Kilbourne, one of the early settlers of Register and had been put into operation the Keokuk, died at his residence in this city Sunday year before by Andrew Logan, who brought his of Bright’s disseated, age 64 years. press and type for Beaver, Penn. which were so badly work the impressions were nearly illegible. We learn by the Herald, that Henry W. Payne, Mr. Logan was of a very dark complexion and youngest son of Hon. H. B. Payne, of Cleveland, some said to be a lineal descendant of the died last Friday in Mentone, in the South of famous Mingo Chief. The Register was France where he had gone in quest of health. He discontinued a few months after the was a graduate of Yale and of Columbia Law establishment of the Herald. In the following School of New York City. June, I became 21 years of age and began to look around for the most favorable location for a Real Estate Transfers newspaper. There was one other newspaper in Painesville “New Connecticut.” This was at Warren, Caroline H. Ellsworth to Clarisa C. Ellsworth, lot Trumbull Co., and called the Trump of Fame, in 87, Grandon 1812 by Thomas D. Webb, a lawyer with one leg. Han Trulson to Lavinia L. Parmly, lot 118, cor. Of This paper later was called the Western Reserve Liberty and South Streets Chronicle. The Western Reserve was then George W. Steele to William R. Rogers, part of an composed of the counties of Huron, Median, acre, lot on State St. Portage, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Ashtabula, and Mentor Trumbull, all which in the year following had a Harriet L. and Edward Rose to Ann L. Rose, 49 population of 56,747. I went to Erie and acres conferred with my old friend Willes who agreed Perry to remove his press and type to Clevland. So on Benjamin Wright to Eliza Wright, 20 acres Oct. 1, 1819, the first number of the Cleveland Lewis C. Wood to Lewis B. Wood, 135 acres Herald was issued. Every week I mounted a

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Feb. 14, 1878 law directed, for drill and inspection as a Willoughby regiment—the year he did not recollect, Nettie R. Clark to Zenas J. Wheeler, ½ acre, lot probably 1806 or 1807. The Northern District of 54, village the Western Reserve was the territory on which Madison the regiment was raised; the south line of the J. J. and Marcus T. Hewit to Nelson Haywood, 20 district was the south line of Cuyahoga and acres Geauga counties. There was a whole week consumed in getting ready, going on foot to and Madison from Painesville and training two days. John Two more names have been added to the death Stark Edwards was Colonel. Col. Edwards was an roll since my last. Mrs. Nancy Rand, wife of H. C. early settler in Mesopotamia and the first Rand, of the village, died last Tuesday. Mr. Willis Recorder of Trumbull Co. He died in Warren in Bliss, also of the village died last Friday, after an 1813. illness of only four or five days; age 25 yrs. Ashtabula Telegraph West Farmington The death of Mrs. Gillett, wife of Rev. J. M. Mr. Wm. A. Davidson, who resided about one Gillett, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian mile north of the center, died a sudden death. Church of this place, took place last Monday. He was walking to the station to take the cars for The body was brought to this village and buried. Warren to visit his daughter. While walking to A young man by the name of John Terrill, of the depot and within a few rods of that place, he Sheffield, age 21 years, was killed when a tree fell. He showed some signs of life, gasped a few fell on him which he was assisting in cutting times, and died within five minutes from the down. time he fell. He was about 70 yrs. old. Mr. D’s wife died some six years ago. He leaves eight Married st children to mourn his loss. Dr. Palmer At the residence of the bride’s father Jan. 31 , pronounces the cause of his sudden death heart Mr. Frank W. Bartholomew and Miss Abbie F. disease. Green, both of Perry, Lake Co., O.

The Military Spirit in Early Days by C. C. Bronson Died When the United States government went into In Thompson, Geauga Co., Feb. 2, William R. operation the idea of a standing army was Craine, age 48 yrs., 10 months. unpopular. The plan was devised to enroll every Oh, the days wear so slowly away, William, able-bodied man from the age of 18 to 45 as The hours seem like weeks unto me; militia in the several states; and this force was The house is so lonely, and hushed is each considered a sufficient protection for the sound; government in time of war. Each State could My spirit is sighing for thee. enact her own laws to regulate her militia. The hardy pioneer in moving to his western home did George F. Callander, is administrator of the not leave his military spirt behind. Colonel estate of George F. Callander, deceased, late of Wright informed me that in early days the Lake Co. inhabitants of three or four towns would form a company. Austinburg, Morgan, and Harpersfield Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of organized a company. Colonel Wright said that Feb. 13: orders came from headquarters for every man Ladies liable to military duty to appear at Painesville on Barnes, Mrs. M. a day designated, armed and equipped as the Durand, Eliza Ingraham, Permilla

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Feb. 14, 1878 who cast their votes for James Monroe as Booth, Louisa President of the United States. Griswold, Mrs. E. At the end of two years, my connection with the Merse, Mrs. Jennie Herald ceased by mutual consent and Gentlemen limitation—my partner Ziba Willes continuing its Cambridge, Z. H. publication. I feel like paying a passing tribute to Eator, Rev. Mr. my late partner. He was never married; was of a Herrick, Ralph kind, sociable disposition, friendly to all, and was Tarbell, Eli one of the noblest works of God—an honest Chapman, Michael man. He was considerably deaf. He retired from Hamilton, C. P. H. the Herald in 1826 (having premonitions of Lockhard, Chas. approaching consumption), and sought the Tillotson, T. F. peace and solitude of at brother’s friendly home in Bedford—the late Luther Willes, Esq. Ziba Probate Court died Feb. 13, 1830, age 35 yrs. His brother, 1. Lord Sterling as guardian of Henry Harris and Luther, followed him with the same disease in Alma Harris; first account 1833, age 44 yrs. His wife still survives, at the age 2. Sarah J. Sperry as Executrix of last will of of 85 yrs. She was the sister of the late Hon. John Wheeler Sperry, deceased; final account W. Willey. After the retirement of Mr. Willes, his 3. Henry A. Loveland as guardian of Blanch M. successor was a Mr. Prime for a brief period until Loveland; second partial account the died of consumption. He was succeeded by 4. George E. Paine as administrator of the estate John R. St. John, who was one of the children of of Anna M. Tracy, deceased that resolute mother who saved her dwelling 5. Mary Covell as Executrix of A. J. Covell, from the torch of the savages in Buffalo in 1813, deceased; first account heretofore referred to. He continued its 6. Martin H. Adams as administrator of Anna publication for years, and died in Lockport a few Balch, deceased; second account years ago. 7. George C. Curtiss as executor of Mary Ann In 1822, I came to Painesville with a view of Hubbard, deceased; final account starting a paper to be called “The Painesville 8. Mary A. Loveridge as guardian of Lina L. Telegraph.” Business men had, also, been Loveridge; fourth account greatly relieved by amendments and repeals of 9. W. H. Stocking as executor of J. S. Stocking, some of our most odious laws for the collection deceased; fifth account of debts. These were called the stop, or stay laws, which gave to debtors the privilege of Feb. 21, 1878 Thursday satisfying an execution for debt by turning out to the creditor all such property as he chose, such p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe, continued, as cracked bottles, jugs minus handles, sap Number 7 buckets, broken kettles, fence rails, cordwood, & In reviewing some of the subsequent numbers of c. all of which were appraised by his neighbors, the Herald, I find we were woefully led astray by and must be sold for one-half that amount. the prevailing sentiments of nearly all the In 1822, the county of Lake was not then set off civilized portion of our country that there was a from Geauga, which then contained a small duty to lend our aid in returning fugitive slaves frame Court House, and a jail constructed of log. to their pretended owners. (Two old wanted Capt. Edward Paine Jr., was the Country Clerk posters offering rewards for runaway slaves are and Recorder of Deeds; Charles C. Paine, printed here.) This year I gave my first vote: for Treasurer, and Eleazar Paine, County Auditor. Governor of Ohio, Ethan Allen Brown. A month Hon. George Tod, of Brier Hill, and father of the later my vote as given for eight electors for Ohio, late Gov. Tod, was Presiding Judge of all the

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Feb. 21, 1878 B. P. Cahoon Courts on the Western Reserve. The Associate Carlos Granger Judges of Geauga Co. were Vene Stone, of Milo Phelps Newbury; John W. Scott, Parkman; and Solomon Milton Armstrong Kingsbury, of Painesville. Hezekiah King, Sheriff. Harcey Abels In Painesville, the lawyers, were Samuel W. Warren French Phelps, Stephen Mathews, Noah D. Mattoon, E. Champney and James H. Paine, and Ralph Granger at F. Billette Fairport. The doctors were John H. Mathews, Thomas Brooks Storm Rosa, Dr. Holiday. Jedediah Hills, was On Washington St. Postmaster, Justice of the Peace, and Druggist. David Hull Wm. Lattimore and Benj. F. Tracy were the only James H. Paine merchants. Dr. Storm Rosa The following were the only families, or nearly Capt. James Beard so, on the town plat, viz: On High Street On State Street Hardin Cleveland William Kerr On St. Clair Street Robert Moodey Rev. Amasa Loomis Benj. Knight Simon Russell Henry Babcock S. W. Phelps The exports from the country were then most Gideon Crofoot, destined to Detroit or Mackinaw, and the greater George Warner portion was in whiskey. Large quantities of Clark Blodgett maple sugar were received in exchange from the Solomon Kingsbury Western Indians. This was transported in birch Eli Bond bark boxes which were called mococks, and Abijah Merrill contained from twenty to fifty pounds. The Mrs. Wheeler sugar was of the most disgusting character; Ira Seeley being so saturated with hair, it was supposed Jedediah Hills that they cooked most of their game in the sugar Wm. Lattimore kettles while boiling, without ever being skinned. J. H. Mathews There were several distilleries in the Joseph Huntington neighborhood, which transformed most of the Milo Harris rye and corn into blue ruin. One was on the west On Main Street bank of the river, a little above the site of the old Joel Scott arch bridge, and run by William Kerr and Robert Wm. Holbrook Moodey; and one nearly opposite run by Jacob Hezekiah King French. The most extensive one was located Calvin Cole under the hill where the brewery now stands, C. Croft and owned by Holbrook & Streeter. These Dr. Holiday appendages to pioneer life receded on the G. A. D. Streeter advance of civilization. Sebastian Adams Of all the names mentioned above, the only Squire Spring survivors are Mrs. J. F. Huntington and Mr. and Ebenezer Williams Mrs. Milo Harris; but several of the second and Marvin Huntington third generations are yet here. Edward Partridge

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Feb. 21, 1878 huge wild cat, as large as a middle-sized dog. He The first number of the Painesville Telegraph entered the building and fought the wild cat with was sent out July 16, 1822; with five a wooden shovel which was the only weapon to advertisements and about 150 subscribers. be found. This not working he grabbed the cat by Our congressional district at this time was the jugular and fought with it until he could composed of the counties of Portage, Trumbull, thump its head against the meal tubs and Ashtabula, and Geauga. The candidates were barrels, with such violence that death was the Elisha Whittlesey and Eli Baldwin, of Trumbull, immediate consequence. He received but little, Samuel W. Phelps, of Geauga, and Nehemiah if any injury. The above story was printed in the King of Ashtabula. Mr. Whittlesey was elected Telegraph, but soon after received a different and kept the same position for fourteen years. version, as detailed by a young chap—to the Jeremiah Morrow was elected Governor; Samuel effect he had shot a wild cat and in the absence Wheeler, of Unionville, Representative to the of Corning, placed the animal in a very State Legislature; and James R. Ford, Sheriff. conspicuous place and in the most war like In January following, a mail coach commenced attitude possible. The only variation was that running from Buffalo to Erie, and in the summer the cat was dead instead of alive. of the ensuing year, was extended to Cleveland. On Feb. 1, 1823, the first murder in the county p. 3 From Common Pleas was perpetrated in LeRoy, in the person of Mary J. Armstrong vs. John H. Armstrong, Zopher Warner, by Benjamin Wright, by divorce granted; plaintiff restored to her maiden stabbing. He was tried, convicted, and hung in name of Mary J. Harvey. Chardon May 15 following. On the trial, the Francis G. Clapp vs. George B. Clapp, divorce; public prosecutor, Mr. Alfred Phelps, was dismissed without prejudice assisted by Mr. Whittlesey, and the defense was conducted by J. H. Paine and N. D. Mattoon. This Thompson was the first and last conviction for murder in One of the stirring events of the winter was the Geauga or Lake Counties. Reunion of the Class of 1837-38 from sub-district th Feb. 10, 1823, the first Agricultural Society of No. 5, taught by F. M. Leonard, held Feb. 12 ; at Geauga Co. was organized with a membership of which were present the teacher and some 100. Hon. Peter Hitchcock was the first eighteen of the scholars of that class—all President; Eleazer Hickok and Samuel W. Phelps, upwards of 48 years of age. Of those living in Vice Presidents. Ralph Granger, L. G. Storrs, and Thompson, present were: S. Bostwick, R. C. Lewis Hugh, Corresponding Secretaries; Eleazar Smith, Wm. Atkin, Nelson Garls, Joseph Atkin ,Dr. Paine, Recording Secretary, and Edward Paine D. G. Proctor, John Proctor. From Trumbull: Paul Jr., Treasurer. Bower. From Madison: Charles S. Day. From The bears and wolves had nearly vacated this Fayette Co., Ohio: Col. C. Garis, Treasurer of section of the country before my arrival, but Co.—crippled for life in the Morgan raid at there were a few wild cats lurking around. From Cynthiana, Ky. from the discharge of five rifles at my files, I have an incident that transpired that once only a short distance, all entering the left same year. shoulder and one piercing the upper left lung, which proved a harsh doctor as it cured his Battle Royal – Desperate Conflict with a Wild consumption. Ex Sheriff S.W. Long, some ten Cat years till last fall Sheriff of Waseca Co., Minn.; A few days since, Mr. Rial Corning, of Mentor, Mrs. Ellen E. Mathews, Mrs. Charlotte C. Hulburt, about six miles from this place, had a distillery. Mrs. Lydia Pitkin, Mrs. Ann B. Mead, Mrs. Emily Having occasion to be absent for a short time, he E. Hulbert, Mrs. Louisa Bostwick, Mrs. Lucretia found the premises taken possession of by a Bostwick, Mrs. Lucretia Williams.

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Feb. 21, 1878 John W. Sanborn to Marcus Holcomb, lot on Sate Mrs. D. W. Canfield received a telegram last St. Saturday announcing the death of her father, Maria Rich to Mary Elizabeth Rich, store and lot Mr. Ira Allen, of Homer, Mich. Mr. Allen formerly on Main St. resided in Munson, where he was for some years Willoughby engaged in the mercantile business. Charles W. Wright to Julius L. Armstrong, Lot no. 12, Wright’s survey, part of an acre. Geneva Times Mentor The death of Wm. R. Stewart of Kingsville Jacob Hollis to Marie R. Babcock, 1 acre occurred Tuesday evening. Madison D. A. Prentice of this place has been appointed Frank A. and Celestia A. Foster to Leonard A. Deputy United States Marshal for the Northern Foster, 27 acres District of Ohio. LeRoy Mrs. Almeda Smith, daughter of William Edson J. Hill to Lillis J. Hill, 108 acres Burrows, of this village, died at her home in Erie Co., N.Y. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Youngstown Register Feb. 20: Jones Craven, a citizen of Austintown and a Ladies blacksmith by trade, fell dead from heart disease Callahan, Mary on the road at Mineral Ridge, Thursday night, Owens, Mrs. L. D while running after his team, which took fright at Hough, Miss Winford the coal bank and ran away. He was about 50 Stearns, Miss Clara M. yrs. old and was apparently a strong and healthy Gentlemen man. Baker, Willie Conner, J. E. Warren Chronicle Dykeman, J. L. On March 1st, five families will leave the Liberty McCartney, John Township, this country, for Bates County, Mo. Reed, Newman The names of the head of families are: C. S. Stockham, Alonzo Miller, Ross Stull, John Frazier, Isaiah Smith, Fred Tuttle, Hiram Blank—representing twenty-five persons. Carpenter, Joel T. Davis, James Died Haywood, W. H. In Mentor, Lake Co., Feb. 2, of typhoid fever, McMullen, Wm. John Georgie Wood, age 15 yrs., 1 mo. Shelby, James In Painesville, Feb. 7, of heart disease, Harvey Suydam, Harry L. Benedict, age 17 yrs. Tuttle, C. M. In Painesville, Feb.7, of consumption, Mrs. Lola Whiting, James R. Brakeman, age 22 yrs. Held for postage: Hart, M. C., Warren, Ohio Real Estate Transfers Painesville Feb. 28, 1878 Thursday Abigail M. Drake et al by sheriff, to Robert Pratt, p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe, continued. ½ acre on Bank St. Number 8 Field D. Warner to Alva T. Brown, part of an acre A bear story is told of the late Esquire Tomlinson, on State St., north of R. R. of Kirtland. He was one day traveling an unfrequented road while there was snow on the

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Feb. 28, 1878 He was selected as the one of whom some joke ground and saw tracks with the appearance of might be played off. Whereupon, the being a bear with several cubs. He rallied the Prosecuting Attorney was ordered to draw up a force in the neighborhood, and they followed bill of indictment against the old gentlemen, the trail. They found a log house which they then upstairs in a solid snooze. Which he did, supposed to be the den and rushed it. To their and charged him with breaking into a smoke surprise the found a family of eight or ten house and carrying off a ham. The Sheriff was children, nearly all barefooted. Sixty years ago, then commanded to bring forth the culprit who the Western Reserve was composed of seven was shaken, coaxed and threatened out of his counties, to wit: Huron, Medina, Cuyahoga, bed and appeared before the august tribunal Trumbull, Portage, Ashtabula, and Geauga; and with nothing on but his shirt and drawers. The these constituted one judicial circuit. Hon. Geo prosecutor read over the indictment and asked Tod presided over these, and about three what he had to plead. After a little hesitation, he sessions were held in each county every ever. In pleaded, “Amazement!! This was followed by a each county, three associate judges were shout and he was fined one quart of whiskey, appointed by the Legislature for the term of and a discharge for further attendance at that seven years, who sat upon the bench with the Court. Presiding Judge. Lawyers in those days were In June, 1823, another period of my life occurs, I scarce. To supply this deficiency, the lawyers, on was married to the one of my choice after a horses with saddle bags, would follow the courtship of six years. Her name was Sophia Hull, Presiding Judge from one county to the other. of Clarence, N.Y. He father was from Berkshire Sometimes their ranks would be augmented by Co., Mass., a soldier in the Revolutionary war, land holders, who would embrace that who settled on the Holland purchase (so called) opportunity of picking up their dues for lands in 1806. She was of a family of twelve sold in the several counties. Perhaps these children—nine daughters and three sons—all of travelers were as temperate as a majority of the whom lived to have children, and all but the two community in those days, but I have heard of youngest to advanced ages, and only one of many big “busts” at the taverns (no hotels yet whom now remains. I lived with my wife for 43 invented) where they put up for the night. One years. She died of a cancerous tumor in the of these I will endeavor to relate. At the stomach. In 1825-26 she was chiefly Commercial House in Cleveland, kept by Noble instrumental in collecting and sending to Greece H. Merwin, almost a “giant in those day,” said to several boxes of clothing to help in their have been 6’6” high when a few years younger, suffering in the struggle against the Turks. She but had now settled half an inch due to a broken was one of the first to join the anti-slavery leg. A number of the characters above described movement and was always ready to help assist has assembled for the night and after partaking some fugitives from bondage. At one time, some of a few “cocktails” or “nips”, one of the of these had taken refuge in our house, and a company proposed to organize a sham court and kettle of water was kept boiling all day in order get up some fun. Accordingly, Judge Tod was to give their pursuers a warm reception should placed in an elevated chair, a Sheriff, Clerk, and they make their appearance. In fact, she kept a Prosecutor duly appointed. It so happened that station on what the fugitives called the Judge Turhand Kirtland, of Poland, and father of “underground railroad.” Of these, I will tell one the late Dr. Jared P. Kirtland, was in the crowd, or two cases. In 1848, two slaves, a man and a and considerably fatigued by his travel through woman, escaped by secreting themselves on a the day and had retired to bed early in the boat what was passing up the Ohio River and evening. landed on the Ohio side near Steubenville. They continued on, guided by the North star and traveling nights until they reached the town of

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Feb. 28, 1878 congress in 1852, when they concluded their Randolph, 50 miles directly south of here and on only safety would be a flight to Canada. the south line of the Reserve. Here the found The first fire in Painesville was Nov. 25, 1823. It some friends, and the friends found a place two was on the N.E. corner at the intersection of miles from the little village at the center of town Main and State Streets, destroying two stores where they thought they would be safe from and a dwelling house. The present brick building pursuit. Not so, however, as in about two weeks now on that corner was soon after erected by two strangers appeared in the village and after Messrs. Hamot & Tracy and has stood 54 years. making inquiries drove directly to the place That was in 1851. When Andrew Johnson where the slaves were at work. It is supposed succeeded Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Wade was President they got information about the exact locality of the Senate pro tem, and had the from a person who had recently left the place. A impeachment of Johnson proved successful young man rode ahead to give the alarm and the would have become the acting President of the slaves were quickly secreted in an upper room. United States. Personally, he was among the The strangers stopped at the house and bravest of men. conversed but were not stating their business or making their intentions knows. Very soon people p. 2 Ashtabula Sentinel from the county started dropping by to see the Sudden Death – On Sunday Mr. E. L. Mullen and strangers, whom they already began to suspect wife who live about a mile south of the village belonged to a class of bipeds called man- line on the Lenox Center Rd., returned home stealers. In the course of about an hour, about having been absent since Saturday noon, and on 100 of the farmers of the neighborhood had entering the house found W. T. Terry, a hired assembled. The strangers finally stated their man, dead on the floor. He evidently had come business and wanted permission to an interview in and went into the pantry for a drink, when he with the missing chattels, who were occasionally fell and immediately expired; the glass from peering through the windows to catch a glimpse which he had been drinking still in his hand. of their old masters; but this was objected to unless in the presence of two or more of their p. 3 A. A. Amidon of Painesville, was admitted to friends. As night was approaching they practice in the United States courts at Cleveland commenced a movement back for the hotel from last Saturday. whence they started, followed by the citizens thus hastily assembled. A strong guard remained J. M. Dille, formerly of this county, but for years about the house all night. The strangers early in past a western citizen, is still going towards, the the morning called for their horses and started setting sun. He has just moved from Loda, Ill., to back for old Virginia. A crowd of citizens, Crete, Nebraska. amounting to near two hundred, then formed a procession in their rear and most gently escorted W. P. Broughton, of Genesco, Illinois, son of John them out of town. It was decided that the two Broughton of this place, made his Painesville slaves should be moved to a safer place should friends a short visit last week. He was en route the strangers come back with a strong force. The to the eastern markets with a fine lot of Illinois next night, the two slaves were legally married, cattle. and a dear friend and relative brought them in his carriage 50 miles, and landed them at my C. N. Jaberg, with his bakery, is to occupy the house in Concord. That friend was the late Jared room just vacated by Mr. Seeley, in the Wilcox F. Smalley, and father of one of the now editors Block adjoining the Stockwell House. of the Cleveland Herald. They stayed in the neighborhood until the infamous enactment of Mr. C. Harrington, who some time since purchased the Creaser property on Mentor

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Feb. 28, 1878 formed a circle around the house and Avenue, last week moved his family from commenced singing their wild songs. After the Colebrook, Ashtabula Co. ceremony, the bridal party went out on the porch and the Indians sang with great A letter from Capt. Graves, of North Madison, to enthusiasm, the entire circle surging to and fro the Geneva Times, says the first lake craft built at as they sang. It was a lovely moonlight night and Madison was a little steamer, by a man named the scene was grand beyond description. After Fuller, in 1826, on land now owned by L. C. the singing, the India scouts, 28 in all, came up Woodworth. Fuller himself constructed the and in their language offered their engine in Madison. Afterwards in 1839, the Schr. congratulations and every gave a present either Helen was built by Joel Norton, at the end of the to the bride or the groom, or both. The presents Hubbard Road. The Ralph Granger was built by were a pony, moccasins, whip, skins, pipes, & c. James Lockwood near the west Madison line in A pony is always represented by a stick, which, 1836. when presented is equivalent to a pony. An important suit, known as the “Harmon Will Case,” has been in progress in the Common Pleas Lake Common Pleas of Ashtabula Co. during the past ten days. The John Dowan vs. Nicholas Dowan, et al. Trial result is looked forward to with much interest. had; Court found Harriet Dowan is entitled to dower and subject thereto the estate be divided From the Austinburg correspondent of between the eight children of Nicholas Down Ashtabula Telegraph: L. M. Cowles took the named in petition, reserving $500 from John biggest log of the season, or of several seasons, Dowan’s share to be divided equally between to Shepard’s saw mill in this village. It was the other sons and daughters. The said, John necessary to reduce its size to get it through the Dowan, is not entitled to any share in the door. Its diameter at the butt was 4 ½ feet and premises unless their values exceeds $1,000. 13 feet long, and was of white oak. It weighed Jacob Hadden vs. Mary Jane Hadden, divorce was 65, 800 lbs. The second log, same length, granted for willful absence of defendant for from the same tree, weighed, 2 ½ tons. more than 3 yrs. past. Henry C. Rogers vs. Mary Rogers divorce; Real Estate Transfers plaintiff has leave to amend petition and Madison continued. Erastus Crocker to Walter E. Crocker, 92 acres Daniel Losey vs. Sylvia Losey; divorce decree for Walter E. Crocker to Erastus Crocker, 1 acre plaintiff. LeRoy Hiram Mason to Fred Mason, 46 acres Perry Same to John Butler, 18acres Mr. E. Nye, some years a resident here, has Same to Clara Butler, 5 acres bought a farm in Talbot Co., Md., and started his Willoughby goods by rail. Others think of locating in the Joseph H. Boyce to James W. Penfield, 5 acres same section of the country.

From the Upper Missouri Married The following is an extract of a letter from Mrs. In Painesville, O., Mr. Harmon Zielie and Miss Capt. Jackson, dated Cheyenne Agency, Dakota, Susan Hayward, both of Painesville, O. Feb. 10th, concerning the wedding of Lieut. Hoyt: The most wonderful and novel part of the Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of wedding was the attendance of one hundred Feb. 27: Indians. Before the ceremony was over they Ladies

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Feb. 28, 1878 The next episode to disturb the quiet of our town Bryant, Mrs. Harry was the subject of gambling. A number of King, Eva citizens thought they perceived a growing Mills, Mrs. Aaron tendency among several persons of high Hauver, Mrs. M. standing to indulge in this nocturnal amusement Loomis, Miss Laura to the great detriment of the morals of the Winchell, Mrs. Sophia place. Several suspected persons were arrested Gentlemen and brought before the Magistrate. Upon this, Cannon, W. C. the persons so implicated made a rally of all their Gibbs, Edward friends, and a town meeting was called. As might Lapham, Geo. E. be expected, quite a large crowd was assembled. Otis, F. D. I refer to this meeting to show how great a fire a Cooper, J. S. spark may kindle. Several citizens’ names had Gray, James been placed on the committee to resist the Madill, Alex.S. enforcement of the gambling law without their Roppeneker, Louis knowledge or consent, to wit: David D. Aiken, Woodard, Wm. Joseph Rider, Carter Foote, Colbert Huntington, Oliver Jennings, Jona. Stebbins, Ambrose Drake, Sheriff’s Sale: Hulbert & Paige vs. Isaac M. Clark. Warren French, Seba French, E. Champney, Land in Painesville will be sold. Marvin Huntington. After a few days, the Sheriff was assaulted on the sidewalk by Mr. Wm. S. Mar. 7, 1878 Thursday Tracey, the chief spokesman of the committee. Mr. Tracey was arrested and put in jail and a sort p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe, Number 9 of neighborhood war soon started. Money was At the beginning of 1827, our village had raised to purchase press and type to start received quite an accession of inhabitants and an another newspaper, and I took no sides in the increase of business, so that a number of our matter. In Sept, 1828 a new paper started called citizens concluded to start a mint for the purpose the Geauga Gazette. It had several owners of coining money from lead, zinc, copper and including Wm. L. Perkins who had recently come nickel. The members of the company were among us as a lawyer; he was succeeded by closely watched and on the last week of April Henry Sexton. After a couple of years, the paper arrangements had been completed for the arrest was sold and taken to Chardon and printed by of the whole gang, as far as was known. Early on Alfred Phelps for a year or two longer, and finally morning, the constable was seen in the person disappeared from the county. (To be continued.) of Judge Harris, with a heavy cudgel in hand and a posse, marching up main street and through p. 2 Death of Hon. B. F. Wade diverse parts of town picking up here and there Ex-Senator Ben. F. Wade died at his home in the persons whose names had been entered as Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., last Saturday. He had stockholders of the concern. The names of those been ill for some time with a lingering disease arrested that day were: Wm. Ashley, John that baffled the physicians. Mr. Wade was born Arbuckle, Sol. Morton, Abraham Holmes, Guy Oct. 27, 1800 at West Springfield, Mass. In 1821 Tinker, Samuel Bellows, Charles Crofts, William the family moved to Andover, Ashtabula Co. Singer, S. Bradford, Elisha Gookins, Ira Seeley, G. When the subject of this article was not working A. D. Streeter, and James Pink. After on the farm, he was teaching the district school examination, out of the thirteen arrested, only during the winter. In 1823, he assisted in driving two were sent to Columbus for the term of one a herd of cattle to Philadelphia, and while east year on a plea of guilty. walked all the way to Massachusetts to visit his friends there. On the way back, he stopped at

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Mar. 7, 1878 p. 3 The funeral of W. H. Philes, of Madison, will Albany, near which place he had a brother in the be attended at Madison under the auspices of practice of medicine. He took up the study in his Eagle Commandry of Knights Templar, of which brother’s office but became dissatisfied with it, he was a member. and after working awhile on the Erie Canal, then I. W. Hall, senior editor of the Portage County in progress, returned to Andover in 1825; and Republican-Democrat, retired last week from the there decided on the practice of law as a position he has so long and ably filled. The paper th profession, entered the office of the late Elisha enters upon its 25 volume the present week. Whittlesey. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and in 1831, formed a partnership with the late The stone quarries of Windsor Township are said Joshua R. Giddings—in the firm of Giddings & to be more valuable than coal mines. The stone Wage. Mr. Giddings entered Congress as cuts and finishes beautifully; has a rich bluish Representative from Ashtabula. Mr. Wade had tinge, and in all respects is regarded as superior then filled one term as Prosecuting Attorney for to that of Berea. the country and afterwards was elected to the State Senate. In 1847, he was elected Presiding Noah Hobart, one of the old pioneers of this Judge of the District. It was while on the circuit county, died in Madison last Friday; age 85 yrs. and holding Court in Akron that the news was He came to Madison about 60 yrs. ago. conveyed to Mr. Wade that he had been elected to the United States Senate by the Legislature of Emma Stockton, of Capeville, Va., formerly of Ohio. this place writes that they have had a most delightful winter. Ashtabula Standard S. B. Baker, of Pierpont, who was recently taken Mr. W. C. Tisdel, a life-long resident, left for to the Newburgh Insane asylum, died at the Washington yesterday morning to take a positon hospital on the 16th instant. with the New York & Rio Janeiro Steam Packet Co., of which Colonel W. P. Tisdel is General Ashtabula Sentinel Superintendent. Mrs. Jeremiah Congdon who was recently sent from Cherry Valley to Newburgh, is in a fair way Charles McGill, who has been on trial in to recovering. Cleveland for the murder of his mistress, Mary Kelley, last fall, was convicted of murder in the Madison Gazette – Mrs. W. W. Branch Jr., first degree. received a telegraph last Friday to the effect that her father living in New York was very ill and not Meteorology Feb., 1878 expected to recover. She started to New York by Thermometer in open air: nd the first train and reached there in time to see Maximum, 22 , 53 degrees th him once more before his death, which occurred Minimum, 11 , 13 degrees on Sunday. Amount of rain, 1.25 inches W. H. Stocking of south Madison, reached his Amount of snow, 1. 5 inches 64th birthday yesterday, and it was also the 32nd birthday of his oldest son—he being just half the For Dec., Jan. and Feb. st age of his father. Maximum, Dec. 21 , 1877, 57 degrees Nancy Rand died, who was an esteemed Minimum, Jan. 8tgh, 1878, 8 degrees Matron and fellow-worker in our Grange. Amount of rain. 3.25 inches Amount of snow, 8. 75 inches

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Mar. 7, 1878 Married Real Estate Transfers At the residence of C. L. Keener, of Madison, Feb. st Painesville 21 , Mr. Edwin D. Kenner to Miss Carrie C. Laura King to Ann Rich, part of an acre, St. Clair Ellsworth. and Washington Streets Died th Collins Morse to Charles Benson, 5 acres In Concord, Feb. 25 , of brain fever, infant son Lottie S. Rogers to Robert Pratt, part of an acre, of Wm. M. and Louisa M. Taylor, age 11 weeks. on Back St. At Cleveland, Ohio, on Feb. 27, of diphtheria, Brutus Stockwell et al by sheriff, to Norris P. Bernice Agatha, only daughter of Edward and Stockwell, 100 acres Elizabeth J. Hobday, age 6 yrs., 8 mos. Edward P. Branch to David Perry, lot No. 11 Branch & Alvord’s survey Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Horace Alvord to Louisa M. Taylor, part of an March 6: acre, on Jennings Road Ladies Perry Duncan, Miss Nellie Charles C. St. John to Francis E. Carrsher, 2 acres Hibbard, Mrs. Sarah Madison Harvey, Mrs. Mary A. Eli H. Brotzman to William Graves, 12 acres Loomis, A. A. Mohawk, Miss Carrie From Adrian, Michigan Daily, of last Thursday Gentlemen Married at the residence of Mr. John L. Knapp, Chapman, Michael on Dennis St., last evening, Miss Libbie Worth to Hamilton, N. Mr. Will R. Hall. Mr. Hall was prominent as a Durban, Wm. business man of Manistee, his home, and the Haywood, W. H. happy couple will reside there. Summerville, Wilson

From the Ashtabula Sentinel George P. Valentine, adm. of Anson Valentine Last Sunday, Mrs. Miller, mother of General deceased, will be selling land in LeRoy. Miller, of Austinburg, died at the residence of her son. Mrs. Miller would have been 98 years old if Mar. 14, 1878 Thursday she had lived until Feb. 29th, but as there are but p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe, 28 days this month, she would have had no Number 10 birthday to celebrate. No event of equal magnitude I will venture to affirm has been more studiously passed over in Some weeks ago, Mr. John M. Pike, living on the ignored in history than this, and consequently so North Ridge about two miles east of Painesville, little understood. I refer to the war against, and attempted to wrap a chain around his neck opposition to, all secret affiliated associations in which was suspended overhead at the sawmill. this country, especially that of the Masonic. His daughter passing the mill saw him and with What the institution is now I know not, neither great effort prevented the tragedy until care; but what it was 50 years ago, I feel certain assistance arrived. His neighbors for several that I know. From the ordeal through which it years have noticed, as they thought, a partial then passed, I have no doubt that it has derangement, but until recently no very undergone many important and radical alarming symptoms were manifest. He was modifications. William Morgan, was born in brought to Painesville and placed in the Sheriff’s Culpepper Co., Virginia, about the year 1776, and care. A son of Mr. Pike is at this time very ill of was a mason by trade. After earning sufficient diphtheria. funds, he commenced business in Richmond as a

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Mar. 14, 1878 was still engaged in writing out the higher merchant. There in 1819, he married Miss degrees. On Sept. 8, forty or fifty men assemble Lucinda Pendleton, eldest daughter of Rev. da the hotel six miles east of Batavia, kept by Jas. Joseph Pendleton, a respectable planter residing Ganson, a high Mason, headed and commanded in Washington Co. In 1821, he moved from by one Col. Edward Sawyer, residing at Virginia to Little York (Toronto), in Canada and Canandaigua, who was afterwards sentenced to commenced business as a brewer. The one month’s imprisonment of the part he took in destruction of his property by fire reduced him the kidnapping of Morgan, on his own to poverty and made it necessary for him to confession. That night they proceeded to resume his trade as a mason, and he removed to Batavia for the avowed purpose of procuring the Rochester, N.Y. After a time, he moved to manuscript and printed sheets, and suppressing Batavia some 40 miles farther southwest where the publication of Morgan’s book by breaking he worked at his trade a short time before he into the printing office, and if necessary, to carry was kidnapped and carried away from his home off Morgan and Miller. What deterred them and family. Sometime in the year 1826, it was from their plan is not definitely known; but on rumored that Morgan, in connection with some arriving at the village it is supposed they got other persons was preparing for publication a information that Miller had prepared to defend book that would reveal the secrets of himself with firearms. At dawn, they separated Freemasonry, and that David C. Miller, a printer and some of them assembled again at Ganson’s in the village of Batavia, was putting the work to where Sawyer was branded as a coward for not press. Morgan was a Mason, well versed in effecting the object for which he started. On July nearly all the degrees, and Miller had taken but 25, Morgan was arrested for a small debt owning one. There was some excitement among certain to Mason, and committed to the custody of the persons of the town and at length it was openly Sheriff of the county, also a Mason; but he was avowed by a number of them who were liberated in a few days due to the interference of understood to belong to the Masonic fraternity his friends. On Aug. 19, he was in the upper that suppression of the work had been room of his boarding house when three Masons determined on at all hazards. A crusade against of the village suddenly rushed in and arrested Miller’s paper and other petty prosecutions was him on an execution, and again thrust him in jail. made to embarrass him was made. Morgan was They then returned to the house and informed advertised in newspapers in various parts of the Mrs. Morgan that they would keep him in jail country as a swindler and dishonest man, and until they found his papers. They searched the the fraternity warned to be on the lookout for house and carried off that they could find. He him. Slanderous reports were put in circulation was, however, again released on bail. On Sunday against Morgan and Miller for fifty miles around, morning, Sept. 10, 1826, Nicholas C. Chesbro, of charging them with all manner of misdeeds. In the village of Canandaigua, a hatter by trade, August, a stranger appeared in Batavia by the Master of the Lodge in that place, and one of the name of Daniel Johns pretending to be a printer Coroners of said county, applied and obtained a and proposing a partnership with Miller in warrant from a justice of the peace for the printing the secrets of masonry. It was apprehension of Wm. Morgan, on a charge of afterwards discovered he was a Knight Templar stealing a shirt and a cravat, in May previous, from below Kingston in Canada, who had been from an innkeeper, who declared afterwards he procured by the fraternity to come on and had no intention of entering a complaint against attend to the suppression of the book on Morgan until he was prompted to do it by Masonry. Through this man, it was learned that Chesbro and his associates. Having the warrant, three degrees had been printed and were they he and four other Masons of respectability lying in sheets in Millers’ office and that Morgan started for Batavia by stage, taking on board two

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Mar. 14, 1878 under his orders. While thus secluded, his other Masons along on the road. They stopped counsel with four or five friends arrived and after in the village of Stafford, six miles from Batavia much parleying were permitted to see him. The and had supper at the house of James Ganson constable was asked to exhibit his authority by and then went on to Batavia. The next morning which he detained Miller, but steadily refused to early Morgan was arrested and taken to the give any satisfaction on that point. Miller finally public house where they stopped; an extra stage was taken before the magistrate who issued the was procured and they left the village with writ. Morgan. Just as they were about to start Miller Here the constable and guards soon disappeared came up and insisted that Morgan should not be and Miller was discharged. On the night of the th taken away, as he was in the custody of the 16 Miller’s printing office was set fire in two Sheriff of the county, and he was in his bail. places but the flames were extinguished. This Miller was pushed aside and they hurried on. is but a meagre outline of the doings then and They arrived at Canaudaigua 50 miles east of there to destroy the work that was going to Batavia and Morgan was examined by the reveal the secret of the Order. Our last account magistrate. Loton Lawson, one of the of Morgan left him lodged in the jail at conspirators appeared as a witness and made Canaudaigua. The next evening after he was such statements as to induce the discharge of imprisoned of the debt of two dollars, Lawson Morgan. To have procured his imprisonment called at the jail to see Morgan, and was would have defeated the object of the permitted to do so. He proposed paying the debt conspirators because his person would have and taking Morgan with his to his house, ad short been out of their control. After that, Chesbro distance from the village. Morgan was unwilling, produced a claim against him for a debt of two preferring to remain where he was until the next dollars which Morgan admitted to the debt. He morning. After a short absence, Lawson took his coat off and desired the constable to returned again, and having procured a carriage levy on it and take it as security. But being a and the assistance of a number of men, he Mason he refused to take it and Morgan was procured the assent of the jailer’s wife, in the taken to jail and left until about 10 o’clock in the absence of her husband, to the discharge of evening. Morgan. He was taken outside, and On Sept. 16, about noon, a crowd of about 60 or notwithstanding his struggles and cries of 70 men, nearly all were strangers, appeared in murder, he was gagged and led away from the Batavia with clubs or stick –newly cut, all of jail. This was the last that was seen of Morgan which resembled each other, as if prepared by any person who Is not a Mason. He was especially for the occasion. Their names were driven away in a carriage with two or three men never obtained and the reason of the in the direction of Rochester. (To be continued.) appearance at the time was never known. Immediately after this assemblage, Jesse French, p. 2 Jefferson Gazette one of the constables went to Miller’s printing H. M. Phelps, of Rock Creek, falls heir to a office an in a rude and violent manner arrested valuable estate in Connecticut, by the death of him—alleging that he had a process in behalf of an only sister. the people. After keeping him in a room at the hotel for two hours, he was put in a wagon with Geauga Republican seven men and taken to Stafford. French the Horace Hosford died last Sunday, age 96 yrs. He constable, having mounted his horse, rode was the oldest person in this township, and ahead. He was taken to a stone building used as probably the oldest in the county. a Masonic Lodge and guarded by five men who said they were acting as assistants to French and Ashtabula Sentinel

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Mar. 14, 1878 Kirtland New Lyme claims a cheese maker of fifty-eight Rhoda Thurston to Keziah Turk, ½ acre years standing, in the person of Mrs. Louis Peck, who began to make cheese in that place in the Death of M. Haven Stevens year 1820. Mr. M. Haven Stevens died of pulmonary Col. Matthew Hubbard was the first permanent complaint at the family residence on State St, settler in Ashtabula. March 11.; age 44 yrs. He was a native of The first postmaster in this town was Gideon Painesville, and eldest son of the late Desalinus Leet, an innkeeper. and Mary A. Stevens. He was for a time Sheriff of Norfolk, Va.; his entire residence in Norfolk p. 3 Lilac and other shrubs commenced leafing being about 16 yrs. When ill health compelled last week, while soft maples, in sunny locations, him to return to his native home, he held the were in full bloom. position of Most Eminent Commander of the Knights Templar Grice Commandery, of Norfolk, Stanley B. Lockwood, for some time past with which position he still held at the time of his Superintendent Howe at the Lancaster State death. Reform Farm, has again become a citizen of Painesville. Death of Mr. Pike We published lst week a notice of the insanity of Charley Loughridge, who has been for some time Mr. John M. Pike residing on the North Ridge; of sojourning in the west, has returned to his attempt to commit suicide in his saw mill, an Painesville for the purpose of preparing for Yale being brought to town and placed in charge of College, under the care of Rev. A. Murdoch, Sheriff Morley. Afterward, he had an Pastor of the Baptist Church of this place. examination before the Probate Court and was adjudged insane, and application made for his The funeral of Wm. H. Philes, of Madison, took admission to the hospital at Newburgh. Pending place last Wednesday. He died of quick his removal there he remained under the care of consumption, age 26 yrs. He had been a the Sheriff, and by Thursday had become so calm business man of that town a number of years and seemingly sane that the strict watch and and much esteemed. He was a member of the guard at first kept upon him, was not only Eagle Commandery of Knights Templar, and the deemed unnecessary but some thought his mind first one called away by death since its and reason full regained. On Thursday morning, organization. he was found dead, suspended by the neck by a sheet taken from his bed, the upper end secured Real Estate Transfers to a small stick projecting from a ventilator, Painesville which had been used by the occupants of the Lorett R. Elias to Lottie S. Rogers, lot on Nebraska room to hang their clothes on at night. He was St. 46 years old and leaves a wife and four children. Harmon Carroll to Charles S. Cram, 98 acres The deceased was a former resident of Leroy; Czarina J. W. Parker to Henrietta Smith, lot on some years ago, he moved to his late home on east side of State St. the North Ridge. His life had been marked by Madison integrity and industry, and he was much E. B. Griswold to John F. Dodge, part of an acre resected and esteemed by his neighbors and David B. Palmer to Cullen G. Palmer, 79 acres acquaintances in general. Mentor Isaac H. Tuttle et al by Sheriff, to E. E. Hodge, 1 The first daily paper issued in Northern Ohio was acre, lot 6 Smith and Hart’s survey the Cleveland Herald, dated May 30, 1835— forty-three years ago. It was started as an

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Mar. 14, 1878 Belts, Wm. experiment by James Hull and Ben. Andrews. Curtis, William Mr. Hull was a great uncle to its present able Duange, W. C. editor. Hale, Marcus Mason, Robt. N. Madison, Middle Ridge, March 11 Smith, Chas. H. Mr. Glazier has moved from the Ridge to Stennson, G. E. Mentor. Cooney, William Messrs., David and M. B. Palmer have obeyed Donavin, L. K. Mr. Greeley’s injunction and gone west. Fields, Capr. A flock of about 100 swans passed over us to Maloney, Michael B. the north on Saturday. Shelfer, James Smith, W. H. Kirtland Wheeler, Geo. Mr. E. Tryon, son of Harvey Tryon, met with a severe accident while playing ball; his leg was C. Quinn is administrator of John M. Pike, broken just above the knee. But such accidents deceased, late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. will happen as they use balls as hard as cannon shot. p. 4 A fine new house has been erected on the beautiful high grounds a mile south of Kirtland Perry village by a wealthy business man of Cleveland Mrs. Olive Owen is to move to West Richfield, named Myers, who has purchased the farm as a Summit Co., Ohio. Geo. O. Perry who has lived place for summer recreation, and as a residence near the station for a few months, goes on his for his brother-in-law, Mr. Wellman. The farm is farm in Geneva. part of the old Russell estate. The neat and substantial Town Hall erected by Kirtlanders the Abner Hungerford, Loda, Ill., writes a letter to past year is another valuable improvement. the editor dated March 7, 1878. He has been in Illinois for fourteen years. He shares his Mar. 21, 1878 Thursday knowledge on when is the best time to cut p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe meadows. His view is that grass will be better for Number 11 cattle as it comes to maturity and the nutriment The carriage proceeded westward and when and saccharine matter in it as the seed starts to near Lockport, the Sheriff of Niagara Co., Eli form. Bruce, boarded the carriage and rode to Lewiston, where it arrived about 8 o’clock in the Died evening on the 13th, having gone 70 miles since In South Mentor, Feb. 18, Mrs. Sally Brown, wife daylight of that morning. Again, the carriage was of Alva Brown, age 85 yrs. pulled to a back street, another carriage pulled alongside and exchanged the load. In their Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of hurry, they had inadvertently put on a driver March 13: who was not a Mason, by the name of Fox, who Ladies drove down the river, stopping within twenty Donalds, Mrs. L. rods of Fort Niagara in an open field. Here four Smith, Mrs. Sarah or five men got out and the carriage sent back to Morse, Miss Electa Lewiston. Fox, the driver, referred to his strange White, Mrs. Flora experience the next day and was told by his Gentlemen employer if he said anything about it he would

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Mar. 21, 1878 In the course of two years, several conventions be discharged. He was a few days later initiated of Masons were held and it was decided to into the Lodge. The group of men after leaving publish all the higher order of the craft, which the last carriage went across the river to the amounted to over thirty. This was soon done town of Newark in Canada. He was taken to the bearing the signatures of many of the most Lodge where the Masons were in session, eminent men and Masons of the State. The leaving Morgan in custody of three others. After controversy was narrowed down to two or three two hours, they returned to the boat and said propositions, to wit: the Mason contending that the Canadian Masons refused to receive him and the murder of Morgan was the unauthorized would have nothing to do with the offending work of a few misguided members of the Order, brother. They re-crossed the river, and locked for which the institution was in no way Morgan in the magazine of the fortress. The next responsible. The other side contended that it day Morgan commenced some violent efforts to was the legitimate result and flowed directly for free himself from his prison. This produced the nature of the proper meaning of every oath some alarm in the vicinity and a man and horse taken by each member accompanied by the were dispatched to Lewiston for assistance to most horrid imprecations which they invoked put a stop to the noise in the magazine. There upon their own heads. Numerous side issues was a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in were involved in the debates that ensued—such Lewiston and from this conclave five Sir Knights as the political, moral and religious bearings of were to go immediately to the fort. They went the institution and its claims to antiquity. down in a small steamer, and returned on foot in The fruits of the war were the renunciation of the darkness. They reported there would be no about one thousand Masons, and the closing of more trouble. Morgan was kept in the fort some all the Lodges except in some of the cities, for four or five days before the right sort of persons about fifteen years. It was during this period of could be found to do an execution. He was suspension that Odd Fellowship was organized finally taken one dark night by three persons into and appeared on the surface as a sort of a boat, and after rowing about in the mouth of substitute for the “lost cause.” the river and lake, his throat was cut and his Mormonism body sunk, which was sometime afterward The next disturbing element in the affairs of found and buried. The names of the three who Geauga Co, was the sudden advent of what was did the murder were never known—but five then called the Golden Bible. In the year 1830, persons known to have been engaged in the in New York State, a family by name of Smith, work disappeared from the country and were consisting of a father, mother and several grown never after heard of. up sons, conceived the idea of bringing before Many of the facts above were brought out during the world a new Bible and a new religion, which the trials. As might naturally be supposed, the should be the great wonderment of the age and whole community became aroused at so great make themselves rich and powerful. The second an outrage being perpetrated in their midst. oldest son, Joseph Jr. was put forward as the Political warfare was soon entered into against leading spirit. The Mormon Bible or the Book of the masons and all secret societies, which has Mormon as it was called was said to have been had few parallels in our country. It spread translated from a large number of plates which rapidly over nearly all the Northern States, and were secured and held together by two rings, was prosecuted with great vigor for the term of somewhat in the shape of a book and had the five years, all Masons being voted out of office. appearance of gold. They had been found in The three degrees of the Order written by cave where they had been for 1500 years. There Morgan were printed and scattered broadcast. was no evidence that anyone but Joseph Jr. ever saw the plates. After much tribulation, the contents of the plates were deciphered by the

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Mar. 21, 1878 Mr. W. H. Gaines, of Howell, Michigan, stopped use of a “peep-stone” that was placed in a hat. in Painesville Monday and Tuesday. The plates were never present for the translation; the Lord having communicated their Mrs. E. L. Parker, who has spent the winter in contents as the work progressed—Joseph saying Spring Valley, Minn. returned to Painesville that they were buried up again in the mountain about ten days since. She has sold her house by the direction of the Lord; but he nor any other and lot on State St. and this fall or next spring will knew the exact place. The book was put in type return to Spring Valley to make her future home. in 1830 and contains nearly 600 pages. They formed a church of eight or ten members and Death in California forthwith sent three Apostles to Geauga County, Richard H. Foss, formerly of this place and son- who commenced preaching in Kirtland, where a in-law of Mr. D. O. Carter, died of consumption nucleus was soon formed and a church at his residence in Visalia, California on March established—Sidney Rigdon being one of the 2nd, about 37 yrs. old. It will be remembered first converts. The following February, the whole that Mrs. Foss died at the same place a year ago, of the Smith family made their appearance here. the 14th of the present month; leaving two boys Converts began to assemble from all parts of the the oldest being at that time 8 yrs. old, who have country and many from Europe. All the wealth since resided here with her parents, Mr. and of the members was placed at the disposal of the Mrs. D. O. Carter. head of the church. In Kirtland, they commenced buying and making bargains for all Pioneer Matters the lands in the vicinity. They erected a large Moses Park appears to have been one of the first stone temple, opened several stores of goods, settlers at the Marsh in 1798. He married the established a bank, and issued bills to a large second couple that were married on the amount, which they never intended to redeem. Western Reserve, he being formerly a Baptist All their doings and performances were held out Minister, and had bene authorized to marry as having been dictated and commanded by where he formerly lived. Jesus Christ, in writing through the hand of their Jared Ward. I do not know anything about his prophet Joseph. (To be continued.) early life and we first find him among the early settlers of the Marsh in 1798. He had a wife and p. 3 Mrs. R. King and son of South Bend, Indiana, children. In 1809, Jared Ward moved his family are spending a few days in town with their on to the Huron River. The town was soon friends on Washington St. named Avery, but is today the flourishing village of Milan. He lived in an Indian hut on the west Messrs. H. C. VanCor and D. F. Boyd have formed side of the Huron River. His children appear to a partnership in the meat business at 45 Main St. have been named Rhoda, Sally, Betsy, and Elam. It is claimed this family in 1809 were the first Chas. G. Stockton, of Capeville, Va., but formerly white settlers on the Fire Lands. of this place, was on the list of candidates for the C. C. Bronson degree of M. D. at the Annual meeting of the Alumni of the Medical College at Buffalo last Madison week. Mr. Edwin King has been appointed by the Trustees to fill the unexpired term of Mr. W. H. Mrs. Phebe Cady, of Madison, age 77 yrs., has Philes, deceased, of Township clerk; also, his written some verses for a column this week. It is unexpired term of Corporation Treasurer. a poem for her friends Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Bliss on the death of their son, Willie.

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Mar. 21, 1878 Fowler, Mrs. Frank Horace Hunt, an old and esteemed citizen of Hedigan, Miss Ann Amboy, died last Saturday of pneumonia. The Holcomb, Mrs. J. L deceased was the father of H. H. Hunt, the well- Scribner, Mrs. Polly known mail and express messenger on the A. J. Bales, Sarah E. &F. Road. He came to this state from Vermont Curtiss, Miss Emma and was one of the pioneers of the county. Corlett, Mrs. Robt. Harvey, Miss Mary Ashtabula Sentinel Higley, Mrs. Margaret Jonathan Bishop and Simeon Forsythe of New Lynch, Mrs. M. H. Lyme, shipped 16 very fine horses from this place Tuttle, Miss Ella on Tuesday for Hartford, Conn. On the same day Gentlemen J.W. Hall shipped two car loads from New Lyme. Brown, James Cudney, James W. Orwell Welcome Horton, Miles R. E. Stone has a Bible penny nearly 1800 years Loveland, Wm. old, presented to him by Dr. Morris who brought Coonly, John it from Jerusalem; it is silver and worth 15 cts. Harvey, Harrison Jewell, Chas. S. Ravenna Democrat Pease, Curtis G Mr. Joseph G. Chapman, a well know and Sturtevant, A. R. prominent citizen of Brimfield, died at his Held for postage: residence, March 4. Boyd, A. P. Collinwood, O. Tear, John, Englewood, Ill Died Tucker, F. C., Montville, O. In Visalia, Tulare Co. California, March 2, of Herald, R. B., Billville, N.Y. consumption, Richard H. Foss, age 34 yrs. Spaulding, M. M. Warren, Pa. Mawby, Frankie E., Cleveland, O Personal property will be sold at auction on the Mills, Rev. J. R., Cleveland, O. premises of Wm. M. Downing, on Willoughby Plains, April 3 (horses, cattle, hay, straw corn, Mar. 28, 1878 Thursday wagons, &c). p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe Number 12 Oliver Andrews is the executor of Frederick In 1834, I wrote and compiled a book of 290 Andrews, deceased, late of Mentor Township, pages, which was entitled “Mormonism Lake Co., Ohio. Unveiled,” which contained a succinct and true history of the rise and progress of the sect up to Mrs. Henrietta Philes is the Administratrix of that time, as I verily believed. In 1836 suits were William H. Philes, deceased, late of Madison, instituted in our courts against several of the Lake Co., Ohio. Mormon leaders for diverse offenses against the laws of the state. One was for a violation of the Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of statute against private Banking; another against March 20: Sidney Rigdon for solemnizing marriages without Ladies a license. Executions were issued and their Adams, Miss Mary E. printing establishment and other fixings in Butler, Mrs. S. S. Kirtland were levied upon by the Sheriff. The Clegg, Mrs. I.

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Mar. 28, 1878 Mountains. It was about at this juncture that the night before the removal of the property, it was revelations began to appear, authorizing and all burned to the ground, and the prophet and establishing the doctrine of polygamy. On their many of his apostles fled to parts unknown. long dreary march to Salt Lake many of them Following this was a pretty general breaking up perished through cold, hunger, and fatigue. at that place. They soon after attempted to make In January, 1835, my connection with the a stand and build up a community near the Telegraph ceased, and the paper went into the western border of Missouri, ten miles east of hands of a younger brother Asahel Howe, and where Kansas City now stands. Soon after the was for the next year very ably edited by Doctor settled in Missouri, the inhabitants there took M. G. Lewis, an uncle of E. V. Smalley, now of the the alarm, from causes similar to those which Cleveland Herald. Some of the editors and occurred here. They were driven from their proprietors since then: Messrs., Jaques Hanna, possessions into an adjoining county across the Winchester, Rice, Smythe, Gray, Doolittle, Missouri River by an armed force. Three they French, Bachelor, Abbott, Bailey, Merrill, had a revelation from the Lord (as they said) to Scofield. make a stand and arm themselves in self- Slavery defense, which they did, and Gen. Joseph placed The next subject that seems to claim our himself at their head as commander-in-chief. attention is the anti-slavery movement, in which This brought out a proclamation by the Governor I was more or less an active participant from its of the State and a regiment of militia. An incipient stages to the closing scenes of the great armistice followed a few shots, and the army of rebellion. The first agitation against slavery the Lord (as they called it) agreed to leave the began in England with William Wilberforce, in State. They then wended their way back some the British Parliament, who was followed up by three hundred miles to the place they afterwards Thomas Clarkson, another noble spirit of his day. called Nauvoo, on the east bank of the Several enactments were procured looking to Mississippi. During all these adversities, their the gradual emancipation of slavery in their numbers increased, chiefly by means of colonies. An act of parliament was finally passed missionaries which they kept constantly on the liberating all the slaves in the British Islands in a move in foreign countries. At Nauvoo, they took single day—Aug. 1, 1834. up large quantities of public lands, and soon laid The first anti-slavery paper published in the out quite an extensive city. The first business United States was in Baltimore in 1831 by Benj. was to commence the erection of a splendid Lundy called the Genius of Universal tabernacle, and a hotel to be kept by the Smith Emancipation, which existed only for a short family. But they no sooner began to flourish, time. Early in 1833, the Anti-Slavery Society was then they commenced their old game of formed in Philadelphia. In the year 1835, with intimidating the people of the surrounding increased numbers of members, the Anti-Slavery country, and warlike demonstration soon began Society became more aggressive toward the to appear on both sides, and finally culminated upholders of the institution. The watchword was in the imprisonment of Joseph and Hiram Smith passed around to break up every peaceable in the jail of an adjoining county with an assemble of men or women at all hazards. Under assurance of personal protection. But during the this arrangement, Philadelphia Hall, one of the night, the jail was broken into by an armed mob largest in Philadelphia, was burned to the ground and the prisoners both feel pierced with bullets. while authorities and firemen looked on with Soon after this, the noted Brigham Young was composure. Soon hundreds of other cities took chosen prophet and head of the church, and their turns at mobs. At Boston, William Lloyd preparations were made once more for the Garrison (editor) was dragged through the movement of the Saints towards the Rocky streets with a rope around his neck, while his life was only saved by being locked up by

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Mar. 28, 1878 Mentor order of the Mayor. All over the country acts of George W. Steele to William R. Spindler, 41 acres violence were aimed at the Abolitionists. Many Edwin E. Hodge to John F. and Margaret Hodge, newspaper offices were burned and people shot 1 acre, lot 6, Smith & Hart’s survey dead while defending their property from the Madison mobs. Cassius M. Clay had the press and of an Gershorn Pope to Henry Vreeland, 1 acres anti-slavery paper burnt in the street of LeRoy Lexington, Kentucky. In Charleston, S. C., the William H. Wright to Charles Mathews, 1 acre United State mails were seized and rifled of Concord newspapers supposed to contain anything of Lake County Woolen Mills Co. et al by Sheriff, to slavery and burned in the streets. This lawless Geo W. Steele, 3 acres act of violence was justified by the Postmaster General (Amos Kendall) and the President (Gen. Monday, Mar. 25 Jackson); and afterward, authority was virtually Painesville given to all the Postmasters in the Southern Ara B. Drake to B. F. Pratt, part of an acre on Bank States to suppress the circulation of everything St. bearing upon the subject of slavery. Mentor Cotton became King! The price of negroes rose David Cocks to Maryette Whitney, 20 acres from two hundred to fifteen hundred dollars, or Oliver Andrews to Frederic Andrews, 90 acres more. The more Northern Slave States were George W. Steele to Eleazer Burridge, 26 acres, mostly engaged in raising stock (negroes) for the old deed Southern plantations—driving them to market in Madison chain gangs, men, women and children and Matteson Glasier et al by Sheriff to Julia E. selling them to the highest bidder like cattle. (To Shepard and Adah Morehouse, 30 acres be continued.) Anson A. Hall to Mary Ann King, 49 acres Elinor Marsh to H. J. and S. P. Saxton, ½ acre Ashtabula Telegraph Perry Mayor Hepburn left town last Tuesday for the Philena Baker to Florence S. Benedict, 1 acre South, where he intends to make his future Willoughby home. He has a good offer from a railroad in Truman Richardson to Calvin J. Richardson, 26 Texas to take the position of chief engineer, also, acres a like offer from a railroad in one of the States east of Texas. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of March 27: Real Estate Transfers – Mon., March 18 Ladies Painesville Gill, Flora A. John G. Stewart to Franklin Paine Jr., lot on South Ingersoll, Miss Gertie St. Rice, Mrs. H. E. Peter J. Hawver to Horace Steele, lot cor. Of Stanley, Mrs. Ella E. Wood and High Streets Johnson, Mrs. Samuel Horace Steele to Margaret L. Hawver, same Owens, Mrs. M V. premises Sivette, Sarah Willoughby Woodworth, Mrs. L.N. Ellen Silver and Eliza J. S. Carman to J. E. Ingersoll, Gentlemen 106 acres Kinney, E. C. William H. Johnson to Charles H. Hopkins, 16 Jull, L. M. acres McMullen, Wm. Johnson, Wm. A.

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Mar. 28, 1878 Married King, Adams At the residence of the bride’s parent, March th Tuttle, Hiram 20 , Mr. George Roddick and Miss Louise Held for postage: Kenner, both of Painesville H. Hughes, Pleasanton, Mo. In Painesville, March 20, Mr. Alva R. Burgett W. Millett, Jasper, Mich. and Miss Emma Denton. Mrs. Frank Foote, Chardon, O. Miss Jessie Shuaet, Chardon, O. Died Mrs. Wm. G. Heagle, Warren, O. At his residence of Mentor Plains, March 9, Mr. Frederick Andrews, age 54 years. Mr. Andrews p. 3 Dr. Stebbins is adding to and improving his died seized of a large property, accumulated by residence on Mentor Street. one of the simplest rules—attending to his own business. H. A. Sutherland has bought out a bakery establishment in Geneva, where he removes this Apr. 4, 1878 Thursday week. p. 1 Autobiography of Eber W. Howe Number 13 The Yankee candy man, alias Brockway (of The two great political parties at that time were Jefferson) we understand is soon to open a room the Whigs and Democrats. Each party vying with in this place. the other to secure the Southern votes brought them to a state of non-resistance to slavery. In Returned – Mr. Lyman Beach, who for some time 1840, the anti-slavery party entered a candidate past has been a resident of Mercer, Pa., has for President, James G. Birney, who received recently removed to Madison and occupies the about 7,000 votes. He was a candidate again in farm formerly owned by D. & M. Palmer, sons of 1844 and received less than 100,00 votes. It Mr. Cullen Palmer. ought to be mentioned that in 1840, the Abolitionists divided themselves into two Golden Wedding parties, one by the name of the “Liberty Party” Mr. and Mrs. William Durand celebrated their and the other “Garrisonians,” who did not golden wedding with seventy-five friends on believe in any political action, on account of the March 20th. Below is the wedding notice from pro-slavery character of the constitution. the newspaper: In 1848 a new anti-slavery party was formed ”Married called the “Free Soil Party” with Martin Van On the 20th of March, 1828, by Squire Clark at Buren and Charles Frances Adams at the head of the residence of the bride’s mother, in Concord, the ticket; but this time the Whigs succeeded by Ohio, Miss Lucinda Lyman to William Durand, all the election of General Taylor, a large of Concord.” slaveholder who died the next year, substantially leaving the power of the government still in the The Plains Grange prints a resolution of respect hands of the south, under the guidance of Mr. due to the death of a member, Sheldon Allen, on Fillmore, the Vice President., who was a March 9, 1878, after a long illness. Northern pro-slavery Whig. Soon after the Whig party went into oblivion, and a new Republican Madison party was formed by the whole anti-slavery S. S. Marsh has sold his house and lot on River element of the country. They lost at the election street to Saxton Bros. Mr. Marsh intends soon to in 1856 with the head of the ticket Gen. John C. start for Kansas. Fremont, who was defeated by James Buchanan.

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Apr. 4, 1878 motion to reject all such documents. To this Mr. But I must go back and bring up a few scraps of Wade asked, “What clause in the constitution history of a more domestic nature. In 1835 when denied any inhabitant of this State the right to mobs and riots were occurring against the anti- petition?” He had early believed the doctrine slavery sentiments, Mr. Theodore D. Weld, an that the end of all good government was to agent of the American (Anti-Slavery) Society protect the weak against the strong, the virtuous proposed to deliver a series of lectures in against the vicious. He was doomed to political Painesville. There being at that time only one martyrdom. He lost the next election to a church or meeting house in Painesville, the old Democrat and a member of the Methodist Congregational was applied for; and after a vote Church, B. Bissel. Judge Bissel, however, proved of members, leave was granted by a small a very useful Senator. He was chiefly majority. He was a most effective speaker and instrumental in organizing the county of Lake after one or two discourse, opposition and from part of Geauga, and the township of uneasiness began to manifest itself in certain Willoughby from Cuyahoga Co. He was soon quarters and several persons considered it their after elected Judge of the Court of Common duty to put a stop to further progress. The Town Pleas in his district. Council met and passed a resolution of advice, (Here is a long story about a fugitive slave that not mandatory, that Mr. Weld discontinue his escaped to Oberlin with a brother and sister. lectures in town, and Mr. Perkins was authorized They were from Kentucky and their owner to furnish him a copy. The next evening, Mr. advertised in the newspapers for the runaway Weld proceeded with his lecture as usual; but in slaves. A man in Oberlin contacted the slave a short time, Gen. Charles C. Paine, in company owner who sent his son and a slave catcher to with a chosen few taking positions in the gallery Oberlin. At the time, escaped slaves, Lewis made some noisy demonstrations; not Clarke, Milton (his brother) and sister in appearing to be noticed by the speaker, the Madison, Lake Co., visiting the family of Dr. General arose and demanded that such talk must Merriman. The slave hunters immediately went then and there be stopped, as it would be no there and happened upon Milton Clarke on the further be permitted in the town. They then road with some of the family of the doctor. They retired to meet somewhat of a noisy crowd in arrested him and took him before Hon. D. R. front of the building. Judge Storm Rosa, Sheriff Paige of Madison, who soon opened Court in the J. A. Tracy and a few others appear who advised tavern of Mr. J. H. Bliss. People started pouring the crowed to keep quiet or suffer the into town in wagons, young and old men, consequences. The next night the same scene determined that no slave should be taken from was enacted again under the leadership of my Lake County. A trial was held and the Judge gave old and deceased friend, Robert Blair with a his decision against Clarke and gave him to the reinforcement from the furnace. From here Mr. slavecatchers. No sooner was the trial closed Weld went to Chardon where he met the same that Sheriff Jabez A. Tracey appeared with a writ opposition. from Justice Cunningham, and arrested the slave In pursuing this subject, I must mention the life catchers. He proceeded with them to the and character of the late Benjamin Franklin residence of Esq. Cunningham who lived on the Wade, one of the earliest and staunchest friends road forming the line between Lake and of the oppressed. He was in the Ohio Senate in Ashtabula Counties. Everyone followed the the years 1837-1838 from Ashtabula and Geauga sheriff and his prisoners: The Judge, the fugitive Counties. It seems some of the colored people Clark, a long line of wagons, buggies and foot of Ohio, praying for the repeal of a portion of the passengers—all in a high state of excitement infamous laws which had been enacted against toward Unionville, a village partly in Lake and them. Some liberty loving Democrat made a partly in Ashtabula Counties; Esquire Cunningham living a half mile north. As the

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Apr. 4, 1878 Geo. H. Wilson returned a few days ago from his group tried to ride down the road they could not studies in the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, get by on the Lake County side because it was where having finished his course, he graduated blocked by a crowd that had gathered. After as Dental Surgeon. shouts, threats, the slave holders flourishing pistols, they were forced finally to use the An Old Paper – The Leader on Sunday published Ashtabula County side of the road where they a notice of an old copy of the Ashtabula were arrested by Sheriff John A. Prentiss with a Recorder, of the date Dec. 13, 1823. It was writ issued that morning by Judge Jonathan published by Messrs. Hickox &Bowen, who were Warner of Jefferson, who proceeded with the also its editors. Mr. Bowen afterward went to crowd to the residence of Mr. Cunningham. The Bucyrus where he became a prominent citizen, prisoners gave bonds to be on hand in the next and for several years held the office of Judge in morning for Court. In the meantime, Sheriff the Judicial District (Crawford, Huron, Marion, Prentiss had Clarke in custody for his safety. At 9 and perhaps other counties.) He died several or 10 o’clock at night he started back to Jefferson years ago. His partner, Mr. Hickox, lived to a with Clarke. Some thought he should have some good old age, keeping within the printing office assistance in making a safe return so Mr. circle of Ashtabula Co. Before the establishment Augustus Pepoon, of Painesville; Mr. L. L. Rice, of cross mail routes, he delivered the Sentinel on Editor; Mr. Philander Winchester, publisher of foot, leaving it at each subscriber’s door. We the Painesville Telegraph and Mr. Seth Marshall, think he died in Conneaut some three years all earnest abolitionists volunteered to go to since. Jefferson in the wake of the Sheriff. George Fisher, of Madison, a prominent Democrat, was A Sudden Death sent out to see that Clarke did not escape. He Last Wednesday, Ellen Kane, daughter of rode on horseback by the side of the teams Coleman Kane, residing east of the river, came almost to Jefferson, when it being a dark night, home from town and soon after returning home he took the wrong road and became separated as taken with violent spasms and died in a short from the rest. Sheriff Prentiss rode up the tavern time. Her friends were sorely afflicted about her and left Clarke there—he going to find the Judge death and an inquest was held. She had and make return of his doings. The assistant poisoned herself with strychnine which has had volunteers thought Clarke might be lonesome purchased in town and taken on the way home. and asked him to take a ride with them. Death of Silas Sawyer p. 2 Ashtabula Sentinel - Deacon Joseph Mills, In Mentor, April 1, at the residence of his one of the oldest residents—that is—one who brother, Martin Sawyer, Silas Sawyer, in the lived more years than any white person in the sixty-second year of his age, of consumption. county (with perhaps one exception), died at his Silas Sawyer, son of Joseph Sawyer, one of the residence in Eagleville, last Friday. early settlers of Mentor, was born Sept. 11, 1816. He acquired the rudiments of an English p. 3 Mr. Addison Drake and Miss Lottie Slocum education in the school of Mentor, going thence will be married today at the residence of the to Burton, Geauga Co., then famous over the bride. Reserve for its academy, to finish preparatory studies under the teaching of Lawrence The Yankee Candy man, Brockway, has arrived Hitchcock. He went to college in Hudson where and opened a store next south of the Engine he graduated in 1839. After teaching a year in House on St. Clair St. Port Gibson, Miss., he began the study of law in Painesville; ad soon after the admission to the bar went to Oskaloosa, Maheski Co., Iowa. He

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Apr. 4, 1878 Assessor, H. L. Barstow owned a large farm at Earlville, Iowa, on which Constables, A. W. Stocking, J. M. Benjamin, H. M. he resided a few years and two years before his Mosher decease he moved to Yankton, Dakota and built a block for business. Willoughby Trustees, G. B. Durban, O. H. Sharpe, Geo. Town and Township Elections in Lake County Wellner Concord Assessor, A.L. Brown Trustee – H. S. Fay, W. T. Cowles, Warren Clerk, C. C. Jenkins Winchell Treasurer, J. S. Ellen Clerk, F. H. Murray Constables, A. L. Brown, E. C. Fowles, A. H. Treasurer, Ira J. Morse Tarbell, S. M. Downing Assessor, C. B. Winchell Justices of the Peace, J. V. Viall, Wm. A. Littlie, S. Constables, Jas. Holloway, G. W. Millis M. Downing Justice Peace, D. C. Foster. Corporation Mentor Mayor, J. S. Ellen Mayor, Wm. Delong Council, Hiram Kennedy, George Pelton, Charles Clerk, L. H. Luse Brown Council, W. Gilbert, H. Ball, B. Butler, G. Rose, H. Cemetery Trustee, S. W. Smart Shepard, M. Dickey School Board, George Skiff Marshal, E. Curtis Treasurer, O. S. Haskell Madison School Board, T. M. Morley, T. P. Barber, T. G. Trustees, E. B. Griswold, H. C. Rand, Wm. A. Hari, E. T. C. Aldrich, Wm. DeLong, J. B. Barns. Corlett Clerk, S. N. Allen Township Treasurer, Henry Saxton Trustees, A. R. Daniels, S. Youmans, Geo. Bell Assessor, E. C. Miller Treasurer, H. M. Babcock Constables, H. P. Allen, G. A. Miller Clerk, W.D. Mather Justices of the Peace, H. P. Dodge, W. W. Branch Assessor, F. J. Rexford Jr. Constables, H. W. Munson, Joshua Long Corporation Painesville Mayor, L. H. Kimball Mayor, R. M. Murray Clerk, A. B. Childs Clerk, C. Quinn Treasurer, S. N. Allen Treasurer, S. K. Gary Marshal, Daniel Potter Marshal, H. M. Mosher Council, J. F. Blair, Henry Patrick, W. W. Branch Council, H. Carroll, N. Brink, S. Marshall Jr. Trustee of Cemeteries, M. M. Seymour Street Commissioner, Joseph Heartwell School Board, T. B. Wells, P. Pratt Cemetery Trustee, E. D. Keener Members School Board, S. A Rand, C. L. Keener, Township H. C. Gill Trustees, G. N. Wilder, George Blish, H. C. Beardslee LeRoy Treasurer, S. A. Tisdel Trustees, Angus Cowle, B. P. Scribner, Ezra Bates Clerk, E. Huntington Clerk, S. J. Potts Treasurer, E. W. Wedge

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Apr. 4, 1878 Golden Wedding, Thompson, March 28 Constables, Edwin Callow, Wm. Northard Mr. and Mrs. Lyman R. Miller celebrated their th th Justice Peace, S. B. Baker 50 anniversary on March 26 at their home near the Ledge, where they have lived since their Kirtland marriage in 1828. Sarah Sterns was married at Trustees, John Thompson, E. D. Billings, E. B. the old homestead of her father, Abijah Sterns, Metcalf of South Madison, a pioneer of 1816, where a Treasurer, E. D. Rich large party had gathered, enjoying themselves in Assessor, G. H. Morse the open air. The peach trees were in full bloom Constable, B. M. Curtis and the atmosphere like summer. In a few days afterward, however, they came home for a visit th Perry in a sleigh. Mr. Miller was in his 78 year, and th Trustees, Thos. Thompson, J. E. Perry, D. C. his wife in her 68 year. Friends present who Hamblin were at the wedding in 1818 were: Mr. and Mrs. Treasurer, C. M. Thompson Luman Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Strong, of Clerk, E. S. Belknap Madison, and Esq. Goodrich of Thompson th Assessor, A. B. Call Center, now in his 87 years who performed the Constables, D. L. Wyman, C. W. Stanhope marriage service. Mr. Harvey Miller, Mr. Miller’s youngest brother was present. Albert Morley Esq. has resided in Painesville, forty years. He was once a resident of Auburn, Cleveland New York, where his ancestors were among the Bravo! Short dresses are the rule now, and long first settlers. dresses for the street are passed. The kilt suits are light, jaunty, and stylish, and a more Boston Daily Journal healthful costume than the trailing heavy skirts. Noah Hobart, born at Hebron, N.H., September Still if Dame Fashion introduced one sensible 25, 1793, died at Madison, Lake Co., Ohio, March idea she goes to some other extreme, for behold 1, 1878. Mr. Hobart’s father was the first white our young ladies are adopting the very high male child born in Plymouth, N.H. The deceased French heels, and try to walk gracefully tilted was a descendant in the fifth generation from forward on their toes. the noted Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, England, who was the first minister of Hingham, Died Mass, and the pastor of the ancient church there In Painesville at the Lake Co., Infirmary, March for forty-three years. In 1815, he moved from 20, Mrs. Dealia M. Bradley. New Hampshire to Ohio. He leaves a second wife but no children. Real Estate Transfers Painesville Mrs. Eliza B. Livingston Anthony P. Sanford to Timothy McNamara, lots Widow of Dr. C. P. Livingston, of Painesville, Ohio 11 and 25, H. P. Sanford’s survey. died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. James L. Parmly to Ella M. Pike, part of an acre, Lester S. Hubbard, in Sandusky, on Tuesday lot on Railroad St. morning, April 2, 1878, age 79 years, 8 months, Sarah E. Higginbotham to Fidelia Florence, lots 23 days. For many years, Dr. Charles P. on Bank St. Livingston and family lived in our village. Mrs. Fidelia Florence to Sarah E. Higginbotham, part Lester Hubbard and all the surviving members of of an acre on Bank St. Mrs. Livingston’s family have the sympathy of Madison their friends. Luman Wheeler by sheriff to Maria Sherer, 35 acres

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Apr. 4, 1878 thorough-going abolitionist, pledged himself for Mary O. Hickok et al to Rollin R. and Marcia A. Clarke’s safekeeping. No more was heard of Brakeman, 26 acres Clarke until he turned up in Canada. These Levi R. Silverthorne to Eunice M. Mack 70 acres Clarke’s were nearly white. Lewis, who was in Concord the house of a friend nearby when his brother Abigail Day et al to Ruel Loomis, 2 acres Milton was captured, a few years afterward Eliza E. and Hiram Ewell to John Castle, 52 acres became a noted lecturer. Willoughby In 1848, the Ohio Legislature at Columbus found William Downing to Sanford M. Downing, 25 itself in the House with 34 Democrats and 34 acres Whigs by counting the in 8 Free Soilers. This left the balance of power in the hands of two Free Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Soilers who could not join in either of the parties April 3: in the election of a speaker. These were our Ladies Representative Col. John F. Morse, and Dr. N. S. Brown, Alice Townsend of Medina. Thus, there was a dead Gee, Miss Frank lock in the election of a Speaker which continued Hughson, Mrs. James for about 30 days, during which 122 ballots were Snell, Mrs. Elzene had. This produced great commotion all through White, Miss Flora the country. Morse and Townsend were Bruce, Miss Elia subjected to the greatest vituperation from the Holmes, Mrs. Elmira leaders of the Whig party; but they stood their Story, Miss Mattie ground for their anti-slavery principals. Their Smith, Miss L. A. propositions were finally acquiesced in by the Williams, Mrs. Annie Democrats and their candidate for speaker was Gentlemen elected, John G. Breslin (who later became State Adams, A. C. H. Treasurer and swindled the sate out of some Beard, Amzey $700,00). Dennis, Wm. K. This compromise secured the election in Johnson, J. F. February following of Salmon P. Chase to the U. Tyle, Geo. S. Senate and the repeal of the odious black laws, Andrews, Capt. Geo. which had for many years been a disgrace to the Bradley, A. A. good name of Ohio. Doolittle, Samuel In 1849, Col. Morse was choses Speaker of the Mahoney, Daniel House. Turner, W. M. In 1861, he took the position of Captain in the th Woodin, Henry 19 regiment of Ohio Volunteers, where he Hold for postage: continued about 8 months and then he resigned. Miss Mary A. Bailey, Chardon, O. He was afterwards employed on government Capt. J. J. F. Brown, Cleveland, O. buildings, from which he retired about a year ago th H. E. Mussey, Elyria, O. due to advancing age, being in his 76 year. (Eber Howe explains next that he believes in Apr. 11, 1878 Thursday spiritualism and why.) He has lived in Painesville and immediate vicinity for 56 yrs; and is the p. 1 Autobiography of Eber D. Howe father of six children, two only of which survive, Number 14 the eldest 50 and the younger 46 years; have Taking him in the wagon, they took the back seven grandchildren, and seven great- track and proceeded immediately to Austinburg grandchildren. to the residence of Strong Austin, who being a

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Apr. 11, 1878 the supposed intention of taking up land in that p. 2 H. H. Pratt and Russell Watkins left Geneva State. Monday evening, for California. Mr. Pratt is troubled with asthma and hopes to find relief in Ashtabula News the Golden State, if so, he will probably locate Frank Fairbanks, son of one of the former there. proprietors of the Cleveland Herald, is here making arrangements preparatory to bringing Portage County Democrat his family from Cleveland this week for a sojourn Mrs. Sarah Chapman now of Willoughby but, of at least a year at the farm of his wife’s father, formerly of Ravenna, has been the guest of the Mr. Smith Walker. They will try country life and family of Nelson Converse during the past week farming for a while. Saybrook Correspondent She is to return soon. Ashtabula Sentinel Willoughby Gazette Died in Austinburg, March 22, Deacon Joseph Gen. R. Hastings is in town visiting with his Mills, age 79. Deacon was emphatically one of mother, sisters, and friends. He spent the winter the first settlers. He was brought here as an at Washington and returned on Tuesday. infant in the spring of 1800, by his father Deacon Nine years ago, Vesta Greer, a daughter of Mrs. Stirling Mills, from Tollingford, Connecticut. Greer, on Spaulding Street, accidentally got a kernel of corn in her ear. It lodged against the Niles Independent tympanum and for some time past, made her a A boy named James Gallon was fatally injured at little deaf. Dr. Davis extracted it with some the Pennell Coal Bank, at Austintown, difficulty. The kernel had deceased in size and Wednesday. He was riding into the bank on an looked like burnt corn. empty coal car, when the car broke loose from that the chain that held it and ran into the bank, Medina County boasts a couple that have been a distance of 480 feet, striking a loaded car, and married 61 years. Rootstown can beat that a was smashed in a thousand pieces. He was long way. Mr. Nathan Chapman and Miss Polly injured internally and cannot live. He was 14 yrs. Whitney were married in 1805, and are both old. living at this time. Robert W. Sanford and wife married in 1805, and are both living. Both these p. 3 In the list of Constables elected last week in gentlemen are able to walk to the post office Concord the name of Holloway was given instead after their mail although they are aged of Oliver. respectively 95 and 98 yrs. of age. Akron Times The Justice of the Peace in LeRoy is Geo. Abbey The friends of Loren Brown, who was buried in instead of S. B. Baker, the name sent us. the cemetery at Hambden Center in Dec., 1876 being suspicious that his body had been Ebenezer Nye, formerly of Perry in this county, is removed, recently caused the grave to be now located at Cordova, Talbot Co., Maryland. opened and found that such was the fact. This is the fifth case of body snatching reported form Mr. Henry Hall, a merchant of Three Rivers, Hambden. Mich., has been making his relatives in Painesville a brief visit. Geo. Wixon and John Granger, of this place and a Mr. Lancaster, of Hambden, all ex-Union Nathan Brakeman, a resident of Harpersfield, soldiers, started on Monday for Arkansas, with Ashtabula Co., died suddenly at the Stockwell House in this place last Saturday. He was taken with spasms while in the office about noon, and

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Apr. 11, 1878 Homer Carroll to Chas F. and John J. Sayles, 49 being conveyed to his room immediately acres expired. He was about 40 yrs. old. An inquest Heirs of Thomas Sayles to Arthur Hodges, 3 acres was held and Drs. House and Beardslee LeRoy demonstrated that his death was caused by James A. Patch to William and Hannah Northard, strychnine. The verdict was that the poison was 54 acres administered by himself. The body was taken to Julia M. and P. Gaffney to George Kraus, 245 Harpersfield. acres Kirtland Death of Mrs. Kerr Mary Jane Traver to Chas. E. Van Deusen, 1 acre Died in Painesville, April 3, Mrs. Catherine Case Madison Kerr, widow of the late Judge D. Kerr; age 88 yrs. F. D. Vrooman to George and Anna O. Sparrow, 16 acres Another Death Mrs. Mary A. Stevens, widow of the late Middle Ridge, April 8 Desalinus Stevens, died at her residence on State Mr. Vendal Mack and Miss Armstrong, of St., April 8, of congestion of the lungs, after only Geneva, have married a week’s illness, age about 70 yrs. The death of Mr. Stevens happened last June, while that of M. M. Oliver Branch and sister, Ella, from New York H. Stevens, the eldest son, took place but four are visiting their friends in North Madison. weeks previous to that of his mother. There are now but two members of the family remaining, Thompson a son and daughter—G. W. F. Stevens, of Election results: Norfolk, Va., and Miss Ellen A. Stevens. The Trustees, S. D. Daniels, Wm. Tilley, R. W. Silver deceased had been a resident of Painesville for Treasurer, J. P. Pinney more than forty years. Assessor, Alonzo Blakeslee Clerk, A. M. Stocking Real Estate Transfer Constables, A. O. Ford, Alb. Burroughs Painesville Justice of the Peace, H. B. Palmer Daniel Warner Jr. to Con Haley, lot 33 in D. Warner Jr. Headlands and Richmond John S. Casement to Rodney F. Carter, part of an Mr. Henry Brooks, one of the first inhabitants of acre, on Jackson St. these parts, reports the greatest wash of Lyman Paine to Clark D. Ferguson, lot 23 and 24, embankment this season that has ever taken Bell’s survey place in any one year before—in some places it Willoughby will exceed fifteen feet. Louisa C. and W. S. Pangburn to Hattie E. Ferris, part of an acre, on Prospect St. Mr. F. Andrews, Mentor Plains, has died. Keziah Hastings et al to Susan W. Flickinger, 8 acres Susan W. and D. K. Flickinger to Zopher Warner, Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of same premises April 10: Chas. M. O. Neveu to Thos. S. Harbach, 2 rods of Ladies land Huston, Miss Minnie John A. Dodd by assignee to Eli B. McGurer, 43 Kanane, Mrs. Patrick acres Palmer, Mrs. Marietta Concord Johnson, Mrs. Anter Morrison, Miss Maggie

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Apr. 11, 1878 Chauncey French, who is still living, were the last Tuttle, Miss Ella of the original French families which settled in Gentlemen Lenox and Austinburg. Their names were Levi, Barrett, Henry Joseph, Ira, and Chauncey French, all but Joseph Carpenter, L. W. settled in Lenox. Harvey, Harrison Katharine, S. S. Akron Beacon Bower, Arthur C. John C. Delamater, an old and respected citizen, Casey, William J. one of the few surviving heroes in our midst of Johnson, J. F. the war of 1812, died at his home, South Main McNamary, John St., Saturday, at the advanced ago of 83 yrs. He Reynolds, G. A was born at Albany, N.Y., May 3, 1795; served in Held for postage: the war of 1812, and came to Akron in 1842. He W. P. Cook, Genesco, Ill. was a member of Cascade Division, No. 306, Sons A. J. Drake, Cleveland, Ohio of Temperance.

Married Willoughby Gazette In Madison, April 3, at the residence of the G. W. Brindle has leased the Willoughby Hotel bride’s father, Mr. William C. Vangorder, and and will immediately take possession of the Miss Ella E. Craine, both of Madison. same. th In Madison, April 4, at the residence of the On March 4 , G. W. Glines died at Akron, age bride’s parents by Rev. W. H. Seely, Mr. Arthur E. 49 yrs. He was a Willoughby man, but for a Cleveland, and Miss Cora B. Freeman. number of years past a resident of Akron and held the office of Superintendent of Summit Died County Infirmary. He will be buried in the In Mentor, on the morning of April. 5, of Willoughby Ridge Cemetery. consumption, Marian E., wife of Charles O. Hugh McFee, for many years a laborer and at Ames, age 21 yrs. one time a helper in the Willoughby Flouring In Buffalo, April 8, Mrs. L. J. Wells, of Mills, was found dead last Thursday on the east Painesville, age 40 yrs. The remains were side of the L.S. & M.S. Railway track about a half brought to Mentor for burial. mile above Vine St., lying in a ditch beside the track. It is supposed that a passing train so Apr. 18, 1878 Thursday frightened him that he rolled into the water and was drowned. His satchel was found near him. p. 2 Youngstown News

Saturday, a 16 yr. old by, named George Lamb, From the Geneva Times son of Wm. Lamb, of this city, fell in some way The Scow “Delilah” from a locomotive near Struthers and the tender In the summer of 1845, the brothers Parley and passed over his body nearly severing it in twain. Perry Gee, and Stephen Bates, gathered material The body was brought to this city and interred in for a scow of large size, at the mouth of Cowles Oak Hill Cemetery. Creek, in Geneva. These men were the builders

and owners of the craft. All the blocks used in Ashtabula Sentinel the rigging and all the iron work used was made In the obituary notices will be found that of Mrs. in the shops of H. P. Castle, North Center. Levi French, who died at the residence of her The Sloop “Black Bird” son, Mortimer, last week. Mrs. F. came to this About the year 1833-34 a sloop was built either country in 1814, and has been here with at the mouth of Wheler Creek in Geneva, or near occasional visits abroad ever since. She and Mrs.

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Apr. 18, 1878 Built at Madison dock in the year 1846-47 by Joel Madison Dock in the edge of Madison, by Davis Norton for W. Hill. Afterwards owned by H. Montgomery. At the time, he built this sloop, Williams, and sailed by Capt. Culver in the Montgomery lived on the farm owned by Ezra lumber trade. Subsequently was owned and Brakeman and sold his interest in the farm to get sailed by Capt. Godfrey Green. means wherewith to engage in the venture. The Schooner “Ontonagon” craft was painted jet black and was christened Built at Madison Dock in 1847-48 by Erastus the “Black-Bird.” Lockwood for Lysander Converse and James The “Drogher” Mills, of Unionville, our townsman, Col. Geo. Harr Waters about the year 1835 built a craft. In Turner, also, having some interest in her. his perambulations through the big woods, Schooner “Andromeda” discovered a monster whitewood tree, standing Built at Madison Dock in 1848-49 by Edmund just north of the home of Chauncey Williams, in Lockwood for Converse and Mills, of Unionville, the north-eastern section of Geneva, and and sailed in charge of Capt. A. Rooney. conceived the idea of transforming it into a Schooner “Speed” vessel from a model of his own. He cut the tree Built a Madison Dock in 1848-49 by Erastus down and cut a length 25 feet long. This he split Lockwood for Converse and Mills, of Unionville in half and hollowed out each half, so their and sailed in command of Capt. Robert Brown. concavities corresponded, and then they were This craft is yet afloat and owned in Chicago. set up to form the sides of a proposed craft; far Schooner “Sacramento” enough apart to vie a beam, proportioned to the Built at Madison Dock for Mills and Converse, of length. The bottom, stern and bow were made Unionville in 1849-1850 and launched in May, of plank. When the hull was complete, this was 1850, Erastus Lockwood was master builder and an oddity in the shape of a water fowl. All the took her out as captain, with H. Morey as mate neighbors made jokes about it saying it should be and pilot, making the first trip to Milwaukee with set on end and used as a smoke house. But a load of oak road plank. Waters kept at work and at last it was ready. It Schooner “Post Boy” was mounted on runners and drawn by oxen to Built at Madison dock in 1847-48, by Edmund the lake—a distance of one mile. Two masts Lockwood, for a joint stock company consisting were put in her and in lieu of paint, it was of Willard Allen, J. I Post, and other, and sailed in smeared all over with tar. It would carry perhaps charge of Capt. Pratt. About the year 1862, the 15 tons. No suitable name could be thought of Post boy was capsized and lost off Van Buren, for the craft, but P. R. Spencer, who was assisting near Dunkirk, Lake Erie. with his oxen suggested it be known as a About 1825 a little steamboat as built near “Drogher.” The first time the craft sailed into Madison Dock by a man name H. Fuller. He lived Fairport the inhabitants fled in dismay thinking on the Dock Road at the time. We gather from the such a floating thing could be nothing less old residents that Fuller was a rare mechanical than a pirate. Her builder is still living, in genius. He built the hull, doing the carpenter Harpersfield, at an advanced age. work, forged all the iron required and his own Schooner “Helen” spikes used in putting in the planks, which were This craft was built in Madison, near the Hubbard 1 1/4 inches in thickness only. Fuller made an Road about 40 years ago by Capt. Joe Norton, engine for it. They cylinder was made of hard still living in Madison. It was built for E. A. Judson, wood, heavily banded with iron. He procured Rice Harper, and a man by the name of Moseley. the boiler somewhere. When put afloat, this was These parties failed to take the craft and Norton the third boat propelled by steam on the lakes. sold her to T. Richmond and Mr. Shepard Other crafts built in Geneva and Madison of Scow “Flying Dutchman” which we can get meager information: Scow Granville built 1850-51

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Apr. 18, 1878 credit an ability, left home today for Western Scow Swallow, built by Joel Norton and Mr. New York to fill an engagement as a teacher. Platts, for Winchester and James Mills of the Hubbard Road, in Madison Real Estate Transfers Scow Red Bird, but for the same by T. Wiard Painesville Scow Hope which Joel Norton built for himself, Elijah S. Jewell, by adm. to George W. Steele, lot and sold to Sandusky parties on St. Clair St. Tug George Mitchell built in 1844-45 at Madison Alvin L. Tinker to Edward Brown, 16 acres Dock for Messrs. Bandle & Jacques, Conneaut Christopher F. Bishop to J. D. Traver, lot on east All the vessels enumerated in this article were side of Wood St., 50 feet front built at or near Madison Dock, and the oak J. D. Traver to Mary J. Traver, same premises timber sued in their construction took hundreds Madison of stately oaks from the forest of Geneva. Emily St. John to Sulton St. John, 4 aces Sidney Platts to Sulton St. John, 20 acres Sheriff’s sale: Orrin S. Sharp, Administrator vs. R. S. Ensign to E. L. Knapp, 78 acres George Baldwin. Land in Willoughby will be sold. Electa Balch to William J. Scott, 22 acres William J. Scott to J. W. Scott, same 22 acres Sheriff’s Sale: Jacob V. Vial vs. William E. Pedrick H. C. Gill to Huntoon & Otter, lot 27, Harvey’s et al. Land in Willoughby will be sold. survey Huntoon & Potter to H. C. gill, part of an acre, p. 3 C. A. Moodey, from the plains of Colorado, part of mill lot is spending a few days at home. Perry Heirs of Amherst Call to Addison D. Call, 43 acres General J. S. Casement has leased his residence Same to Corlista A. Thompson, 10 acres and farm for the current year to H. Nottingham, Esq., of Cleveland, who is already in possession Lake Common Pleas of the premises. The General and family will Grand Jurors spend the season in the West, and intend to 1. Matthew Dickey, Mentor leave in some four weeks. 1. H. Norton, Perry 3. H. C. Camp, Concord The Kingsbury dwelling corner of St. Clair and 4. A. A. Hall, Madison Washington Streets and one of the old-time 5. W. C. Barnes, Madison landmarks, that has withstood the winds and 6. A. Bowen, Perry storms for scarcely less than three score years is 7. James A. Ward, Willoughby being torn down and a more modern home built. 8. B. A. Russell, Kirtland The property is owned by Miss M. C. Rich. 9. Lyman Hall, Madison 10. R. Corlett, Concord Mr. G. W. F. Stevens, who was called from 11. D. R. Holcomb, Perry Norfolk, by the death of his mother, returned 12. Henry Patrick, Madison several days since, taking with him his sister, 13. Wm. H. Johnson, Willoughby Miss Ellen A. Stevens, who is quite out of health. 14. A. B. Northrop, Willoughby Mrs. Mary G. Everett, who had been an inmate 14. G. C. Newton, Willoughby of the family for some time, accompanied them. Petit Jury 1. W. C. Hathaway, Painesville Miss Stella A. Avery, who graduated from the 1. P. S. Allen, Willoughby Painesville High School last season with marked 3. John Broughton, Painesville 4. J. H. King, Painesville 5. H. F. Kennedy, Willoughby

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Apr. 18, 1878 Information Wanted 6. M. Daniels, Kirtland S. S. Wheler left his home in Painesville April 14h 7. Carlos, Baker, Concord and has not since been heard from. Any 8. C. E. Crow, LeRoy information in regard to him left a C. O. Child’s 9. C. E. Armstrong, Painesville Hardware Store, Painesville, will be thankfully 10. O. B. Gridley, Willoughby received by his family and friends. Mr. Wheeler 11. Geo. W. Payne, Painesville is 46 yrs. old, about 5’ 10”in height, weight about 12. Wm. D. Mather, Mentor 190 lbs., side whiskers and mustache, color of 13, Wm. H. Saxton, Madison hair dark brown, very quick rapid speech. 14. F. E. Gill, Madison 15. D. T. Casement, Painesville Died 16. F. W. Hull, Perry In Perry, April 6, at her residence, Mrs. Celestia 17. Jacob Morse, Concord Stone, wife of Daniel D. Stone, deceased; age 73 18. W. B. Wells, Willoughby yrs. 19. A. B. Call, Perry In Perry, March 27, at the residence of her son- 20. L. M Severance, Painesville in-law, F. M. Morehouse, Mrs. Esther L. Crosby, widow of Morgan L. Crosby, deceased, of Perry, S. S. Wheeler has been missing from home since age 67 years. She was born in Stow, Vermont, Sunday morning. Tuesday a general search was came to Perry in 1835, was married Jan. 1, 1837. initiated by member of the Odd Fellows, of She was the mother of five daughters, four of which he was an active member, and the woods whom are still living. south of town explored, but without avail. Messengers were, also, dispatched to Chardon, Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of Cleveland and elsewhere. A very general belief April 17: prevails that he has committed violence upon Ladies himself, as for more than a week past, symptoms Brown, Miss Eliza of insanity have been manifested by him. Carter, Mrs. Lillian Green, Miss Ella M. Kirtland Sprague, Mrs. J. Mrs. Chester Clapp received a telegram from Tucker, Miss Ellen friends in Topeka, Kansas, nearly two weeks ago, Beers, Miss Bessie stating that her brother, Cyrus Martindale, had Gibbs, Mrs. E. H. been stricken with paralysis. Saturday a letter Richards, Miss Nellie arrived stating he was still living, but no hopes Tanswell, Hannah L. were entertained for his recovery. Mr. Underwood, Miss A. Martindale was for some years a resident of Young, Mrs. Wm. Kirtland. Gentlemen Mr. Ed Cleveland is building a new house in Brooks, Henry D. Mentor where he intends to reside. Johnson, J. F. Hungerford, Isaiah Middle Ridge, April 15 Smith, Dwight Mr. L. R. Silverthorn and family have moved to Pennsylvania. The firm of H. & E. E. Gould is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Perry F. W. and Robert Blair have gone to Kansas Legal Notice: Jane Ruttenbur vs. Moses W. where Fred has a good farm. Ruttenbur, Divorce petition. She is charging him

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Apr. 18, 1878 employ of her mother, who is a widow of with willful absence of more than three years considerable means. Up to this writing no clue and to be restored to her separate property and has been obtained to the missing parties. have custody of the minor children. Mr. Wm. Fisher, a former resident who moved Apr. 25, 1878 Thursday away 20 years ago, lives in Pella, Iowa, and is cashier of the First National Bank there. p. 1 Real Estate

Painesville Ashtabula News of last week. Daniel K. Post to Charles Post Mr. Jas. Lynch’s little daughter, Mary, drowned Sarah E. Davis to James R. Hall at the Harbor last Friday. The little girl fell into a R. W. Tibbals to Lucretia Pereira sunken barrel of a neighbor which had been left Lucretia Pereira to H. W. Tibbals, part of an acre, uncovered and drowned before her folks could lot 31 find where she was. Edward P. Branch to Geo. A. Brakeman, part of an acre, lot 3, Branch and Alvord’s survey Hon. John Fertig, for several years a resident of Madison this place, and now a member of the Larkin Harris to Perry Harrington, 1 acre Pennsylvania Legislature, is popular among his D. Y. Roberts to W. J. Cornelius, 30 acres constituents. On his return home from the Rachel Smead to D. Y. Roberts, part of an acre capital last week, the people of Titusville turned LeRoy out en masse, to give him a “welcome home.” Barton F. Wright to Reese Davis, 45 acres

William and Lamar L. Kewish to Samuel Taylor, Found 14 acres A dispatch was received from Springfield, Ohio, Perry last Friday, announcing that Mr. S. S. Wheeler, of Heirs of Amherst Call to Solon W. Call, 53 acres this place, who had been missing since the Mentor previous Sunday, was at the Infirmary there, and Philander Richmond to Byron Richmond 1 acre insane. He arrived at Springfield from Sandusky Willoughby on a Tuesday evening train, and put up at one of Sarah E. Albert to Caroline Barnes, lot on the city hotels. In the morning, it was apparent Spaulding Street he was not of sane mine, and the proper

authorities being notified he was removed to the Geneva Times Infirmary where he could be properly cared for, While at work ditching, in a swamp on the farm and safely kept until his friends could be notified of Boudinot Seely, of Austinburg, Tuesday, Mr. A. of his whereabouts and condition. Marshal H. M. M. Owen discovered the remains of a mastodon. Mosher was dispatched to bring him home, Men worked there during the whole of Tuesday leaving here on the early train Saturday and to unearth the monster. This is, we believe the returning Sunday. He was taken to his residence first instance of such a discovery in this section. on High St. and put under the care of Dr. Young.

Arrangements are to be made for his admission Youngstown Register to the Insane Hospital where he can have the full Vienna is excited over an elopement that took benefit of mental treatment. place last Thursday of Miss Mary Strain, a beautiful belle bordering on twenty, and Charles A Bloody Murder and Suicide Pearson, well known clerk in Quilty’s store. Up A terrible tragedy was enacted in the township to the time of the elopement, it was generally of Troy, Geauga County, last Thursday afternoon, believed that she looked to be the bride of a man by a man named Leonard B. Stroud, notorious of who has been, for a number of years in the an ungovernable temper and stained also with

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Apr. 25, 1878 thrown from a horse. Her mother, afterward, the crimes of arson, cattle poisoning, etc. He married one who accumulated wealth, both came from the east several years ago, bringing before and after marriage, none of which was with him a second wife, and settled on a farm in inherited by Mrs. B. She aided her husband in the above-named township, where he led his editing The Christian Browser, while yet quite wife such a life of terror that a separation took young. Her husband applied himself to the study place and the property divided. of medicine, and received a letter at the hands of On the day of the tragedy, he drove to her John Watkins, M.D., recommending him to the residence and demanded of her a key to a trunk, patronage of the public. They came west and when she refused, her sprang from the wagon their first home in Ohio was at Windsor, and stabbed her several times in the abdomen afterwards, at Concord, and lastly at Mentor. with a butcher knife, and then cut his own Those who knew her best date her insanity from throat. Several persons witnessed the tragedy the time she left her native State. None of her but were not near enough to interfere or prevent writing before this date were preserved but after it. The woman was cared for but the murderer that they show a constant struggle between and suicide was left to roll about on the ground hope and despair. She was first sent to the for three hours or more before he died asylum for the insane at Columbus. This in time surrounded by a crowd of unpitying boys and became crowded, when the harmless incurable men and even women. The woman died the next inmates were sent to their respective counties. day. In the meantime, her husband and one daughter died, and the rest of her family scattered. Of her A Sudden Death five children, she outlived all save one. Edward S. Munson died at his residence in Mentor, April 22, after a week’s illness with Many citizens pledge their support and congestion of the lungs, age 70 yrs old. The cooperation to Williams Brothers of deceased was born in Middlebury, New Haven Philadelphia, Pa., who plan to write an Illustrated Co., Ct., August 2, 1808 removing from there history of our county. when 13 years of age, and was a resident of Mentor 57 years. Settling there at an early day, Died placed him at once in the ranks of the early In Painesville, April 20, Arthur, son of J. J. and R. th pioneers. The remains will be place in the vault A. Harrison, in the 14 year of his age, after a at Evergreen Cemetery and later interred in the short sickness of about two weeks’ so diphtheria. Mentor Cemetery. Sheriff’s sale: Celestia Tucker vs. Samuel Kirtland Mathews et al. Land in Painesville will be sold. Cyrus Martindale, formerly of this place, died April 12, at his home in Topeka, Kansas. Wm. J. Cornelius, Assignee, will sell the goods Mrs. Holbrook, the mother of Mrs. Harvey and chattels of Austin J. Bliss on May 25, at the Morse, is now very sick, and her recovery is residence. doubtful. She is one of the early settlers of this township, and is nearly 92 yrs. old. Attachment: Daniel M. Young vs. W. H. Rundle.

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May 2, 1878 Thursday Hon. Abner Kellogg died very suddenly last p. 3 Real Estate Transfers Saturday at his residence in Jefferson, of Painesville apoplexy, age 66 yrs. He was an old and Ellen Moore to Patrick Moore, lot 50, Barnes prominent citizen of Ashtabula Co. He was a survey, Courtland St. Republican and served three terms in the W. H. Barnes to Carlos S. Baker, lot on Wood St. Legislature—two in the House and one in the Carlos S. Baker to Horace Alvord, lot on Wood St. Senate. Alvira A. Minard to Alonzo N. Wood, ½ acre on Jennings Road Mr. S. S. Wheeler, of Painesville, whose insanity Nancy E. Salmon to Henry B. French, lot 38 Bell’s has been mentioned, is a brother-in-law of Mr. survey, on Chardon Road O. G. Thayer, of this place, having married his Sarah A. Graham to Lucius E. Judson, lot on State only sister. Chardon Republican St. Sanford & Blair to Margaret J. Lawless, part of an Death of Another Old Resident acre Mrs. Sarah Rider, wife of Rev. Isaiah Rider, died Willoughby at their residence on Mentor St., last Saturday, W. E. Pedrick to Sarah B. Cozad, trustee, lots 4-8, age 73 yrs. The deceased was a native of Dover, 11, 12, Sorter’s survey Vt., moving at the age of 15 with her sister of Runnells Brott, heir to William Lentz, 40 acres Ohio. She was married in 1823, and was a Lucy A. Goodrich to Emily J. Hurd, 25 acres resident of Chardon some 30 yrs, and since of LeRoy Painesville 29 yrs. The remains were taken to William H. Wheeler, by sheriff to William B. Chardon for burial, where all the dead of the Chadwick, LeRoy and Madison, 58 acres family are interred. Madison Jonadab Winchester to Horace Winchester, 57 In Memoriam acres Died in Keeseville, New York, Easter morning 1878, Mary E. Brewer, age 22 yrs., daughter of p. 3 Mrs. C. H. Ewalt, of Warren, is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George E. Brewer and grand- her friends in Painesville. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Macomber.

The Willoughby Gazette has changed proprietors From Austinburg as also its name. It is now the Willoughby Regarding the Mastodon found April 16, 1878 Reporter and edited by J. W. Harrington. It was slow progress getting the bones out as they were imbedded in blue clay, which was T. F. Moseley (of the firm of T. F. Moseley & Co.) covered with about four feet of muck. The of Grand Rapids and son of H. E. Moseley is measurements are: Head, three feet, nine visiting in town for a few days. inches in length; two feet and six inches in width—measuring above the eyes. The shoulder The Warren Chronicle announces the sudden blade is fan shaped and measures 39 inches in death of Hon. Milton Sutliff of that city from two ways, and twenty- eight another; the socket heart disease about noon on the 24th. He died of the same is eight and one-half inches in almost instantly while sitting in his office diameter by five and one-half deep. Eight conversing with a gentleman. Judge Sutliff was vertebras were found, the largest being thirteen born in Vernon, Trumbull Co., 1806, and was and one-half inches by eight inches, and a spinal therefore in his 72nd year. process twenty-two inches in length. Three ribs, twenty-six in number vary from thirty-six to fifty- four inches; some were

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May 2, 1878 morning and his cap was found on the bank of so badly decayed that is was impossible to save the river, below the bridge. The river was then them. Some scientific men from Columbus have dragged and his body found. He leaves a wife been here to see the remains. C. H. Wright and four children. He was in comfortable circumstances and is spoken of as a very Ashtabula Sentinel industrious and inoffensive man. The house of Sanford Merriam, of North Kingsville, was burned to the ground last Died th Wednesday. In Mentor on the 26 ultimo, Robbie, only son of Charlie O. and Marion E. Ames; age 9 months. Niles Independent Mr. Sextus Sloan left Saturday for Painesville Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of where he goes to study law in the office of E. J. April 30: Sweeney, Esq. Ladies Curtis, Miss Anna Ashtabula News Let, Miss Anny Julius M. Brown, a native and long a resident of Foster, Mrs. Fannie Ashtabula, came to his death in Chicago, his Suller, Mary M place of residence, last Thursday, from and Gentlemen overdose of chloral which he had taken. His Durphy, H. N. mother, Mrs. Brown, and his sister, Mrs. Ed. Hyde, E. N Willard, of this place having received a dispatch Sherlock, Peter went on Friday to Chicago. Hopkins, Jonathan Let, Andy Geauga Republican Metcalf, Chas. W. A young man name Haley, who was employed in Newbury, died in an accident when his clothes May 9, 1878 Thursday got tangled in some machinery and his brains p. 3 Mr. W. H. Britton, from south-west were dashed out instantly and his body horribly Missouri, is spending a few days in town with his mutilated. brother, J. H. Britton.

Geauga Times Mr. C. H. Allen, wife and daughter were at the Traces of man have been found near the Stockwell House over Sunday returning to mastodon in Austinburg. The workman found a Chicago, Monday. flint arrow head near the bottom of the ditch. Mr. Peet found within a few feet of the bones, a Death of Mr. L. T. Hulbert quantity of charcoal at about the depth and just The death of L. T. Hulbert took place on last overlying the clay in which he animal way lying. Friday at his residence on Jackson St., in his 60th year. The deceased had been a sufferer from Ashtabula Telegraph dyspepsia, in an aggravated form, for 15 years or An Irish man named Michael Riley committed more, terminating in inflammation of the suicide by drowning last Tuesday night. For a bowels. His last sickness confining him to the week past his conduct was such to lead his house for nearly 4 months. Mr. H. had been a friends to believe he was not in his right mind. resident of Painesville for 19 yrs. He made About 1 o’clock a.m., he was seen by members discoveries and improvements as a machinist. of his family to leave his house. As he did not He will be interred at Evergreen Cemetery. He return, a search was made for him in the

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May 9, 1878 people, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. leaves a widow, two sons and two daughters; the Harvey Morse. Mrs. Holbrook came to Kirtland children grown up and settled in life. in 1816, and at the time of her death was aged 91 years, 8 months. Real Estate Transfers Mr. Baxter Whiting and lady from Iowa are Painesville visiting in Kirtland. William Houghtailling to Thomas Smith, part of an acre on Jennings Road Thompson George W. Barton to Margaret Inglehart, lot 10, The enclosed was suggested by a very touching B. Bissels addition incident at the funeral of Mr. Wm. Crane, who Willoughby died last February. After the funeral, his eldest John A. Dodd, by assignee, to A. J. Webster, daughter, Mary, age 20, lingered, they turning Willoughby and Kirtland, 55 acres she uttered, “Goodbye, Pa” with such affection, Wm. Downing by adm. to Samuel W. Brown, 78 that I melted every heart in that vast audience. acres The poem written below is by Mrs. Austin, of Cornelia V. Miller to A. R. Hurt, 16 acres Thompson. LeRoy The Last Good Bye F. E. Kellogg to Clinton R. Hill, 17 acres “Goodbye, Pa.! Pa!” came soft and low Samuel Taylor to William Kewish, 7 acres From the lips of a maiden fair, Mentor As she turned from the corpse, her pale face Orin H. Brown to Samuel W. Brown, 7 acres aglow Madison With tears, like pearls on a wreath of snow, Hattie E. Kellogg got George H. Kellogg, 17 acres And that simple-worded, prayer, So eloquent, and yet so brief, Madison Expressive of her love and grief. Miss Laura Palmer, eldest daughter of C. G. Palmer, was buried on Saturday. Good-bye! What language could better express Her holy faith and trust? Middle Ridge, May 4, 1878 When a glad reunion beyond the tomb, Mr. Willis Green, for the last two years almost a Where the flowers of affection forever bloom, helpless invalid, was recently stricken with And this frail and perishing dust, paralysis, has since lain insensible, and expired Upon the fair and healthful shore, this evening. Mr. Green was of that class who, Put on life and beauty forevermore. before the rebellion, belonged to another man. He was raised among the mountains of Virginia, Pioneer Matters near the Shenandoah Valley, and when our army If it were possible for a more definite biography entered the Valley, he made a break for of the first settlers of Mentor, or as it is known in freedom. He served a short time in the army, but the early history of the Reserve, the “Marsh his health failed and he was discharged and Settlement,” would be desirable. One of the first came to Ohio. After the war, he returned for his Marsh settlers was Charles Parker. We have with family and settled in Madison, where he won the him as with Ward and Park, the want of definite friendship and esteem of all who he came in information. In an interview with Frank Parker, contact. of Mentor, he says his father, Capt. Clark Parker, long a resident of Mentor and his uncle Charles Kirtland Parker were natives of Vermont; but he could The funeral of Mrs. Mary Holbrook was give no further information. Charles Parker was attended yesterday by a large concourse of one of the surveying party in the employ of the Connecticut Land Company to run the township

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Geneva Times May 9, 1878 Our young friend and typo, M. M. Blinn, left lines east of the Cuyahoga River and the Portage Tuesday for Rockford, Illinois, for a visit among Path in 1796. They did not run all the town lines, relatives. as the Land Company expected they would, and W. C. Haskell, of Ashtabula, has been elected another party was sent out in 1797 to finish the Major of the battalion composed of the two survey of the township lines, and Charles Parker Ashtabula companies and the Light Guards, of was employed again. He assisted John Milton Madison, with head-quarters at the former Holly in running the south line of Mentor. In place. 1798 Charles Parker was one that was associated with E. Merry, J. Ward, and M. Park in the first Youngstown Register settling of Mentor. Mr. Parker appears to have In East Liverpool while sinking a well to procure been somewhat prominent among his fellow nature gas, the Boggott Bros. stuck oil. The well men. In October, 1801, the qualified electors of not yet tubed and is yielding 5 barrels per day. Painesville met at the house of Ebenezer Merry Oil men from Smith’s Perry, Pa. think it will throw at the Marsh settlement to vote in reference to twenty barrels per day when it is properly tubed. calling a convention to form a State government. The well is situated on the river bank between At that day, Painesville was the whole of Lake Market and Washington Streets. County, except Madison, and included Chardon and Hambden. A militia was created and officers Niles Independent chosen were Edward Paine Jr., Captain; Charles John M. Irvine, a prominent citizen of Sharon, Parker, Lieutenant; and Ebenezer Merry as died at his residence in that place Monday, after ensign. When Geauga Co. was organized in a brief illness, of heart disease. 1805, Charles Parker was elected by the people Samuel Krahl, an aged citizen of Gustavus, was the first Sheriff of Geauga Co. In 1809, John kicked by a cow a few days since, resulting in a Walworth, of Cleveland, purchased a large tract double fracture of his leg, and is in critical of land, which he sold to Charles Parker and condition. known as section four on the Parker tract. This was in Avery Township, now Milan. He moved Mr. and Mrs. O. Palmer print a card to thank from Mentor to Milan with his family in 1810. their friends and neighbors for their deeds of By C. C. Bronson kindness during their late bereavement.

Geauga Republican Married st We learn by a private note from Mr. Leonard At Arcadia, Wayne Co., N.Y., May 1 , Mr. Wesley Blakely, of Bridgeport Center, Mich., to his Trowbridge of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio and Miss daughter, Mrs. Lyman Somers, of Munson, dated F. Galusha, of the former place. April 27th, that his son, O. L. Blakely, died that Died nd morning. In Madison, May 2 , of heart disease, Laura E. Mr. W. S. Metcalf, of this place, recently Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cullen G. th admitted to the bar, has been taken into co- Palmer, in the 36 year of age. partnership with the well-known firm of Tinker & Farr, the new firm will be Tinker, Farr, and J. V. Viall, adm. of Julius S. Dee, deceased, will be Metcalf. selling land in Willoughby. Anson Shaw Esq., of Montville, has lost his wife who died on the 27th untimed, after a brief Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of illness; age 58 yrs. May 8: Ladies Burdick, Miss H. N.

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May 9, 1878 At the Stockwell House, May 1, Spencer L. Chandler, Miss E. L. Winchester, and Miss Mary S. Richmond. Scribner, Miss Alice At the Cowles House, April 16, Edgar J. Sumner, Mrs. M. A. Williams, and Miss Lell S. Miller. Allen, Mrs. P. H. Corlett, Mrs. Mary A. Died Searl, Mrs. Grandison In Antwerp, Van Buren, Co., Michigan, Feb. 16, Williams, Mrs. Anna Mrs. Lucy A. Newell, of dropsy of the heart, age Gentlemen 53 years and ten months. Mrs. Newell was the Adams, C. B. wife of Orlin Newell, deceased and the daughter Desmoyer, Jerome B. of Isaac and Sally Baxter of Mentor, and was born Newman, Aleck, M. in Mentor, Lake Co., Ohio, April 17, 1822. She Brown, Henry was married April 13, 1841. Forty-four years of McFarlnad, G. G. her life were spent in Lake Co., the remaining West, Geo. & Co. twelve in Michigan. Held for postage: Loshiser, Mr. L., Port Clinton, Ohio p. 3 Mr. John Darrow, an old and respected Philes Mr., Ithaca, N.Y. citizen of Painesville, died at his residence on the park last Friday evening. Sheriff’s Sale: First National Bank vs. Samuel Mathews et al. Land in Painesville will be sold. Mr. Ira T. Paine and family, of Grand Island, Nebraska, are making a home visit of several May 16, 1878 Thursday weeks. p. 2 Ashtabula Sentinel Mr. C. H. Frank left last week for Connecticut to A petition numerously signed has been join Mr. G. E. Howe, who has taken charge as forwarded, asking that the name of the Morgan Superintendent of the State Reform School for Post Office be changed to Rock Creek, and it will Boys at Meriden. not doubt be done.

A New Life Saving Car Niles Independent A new lifesaving car arrived Monday for the We were in error in stating that Mr. Sextus Sloan lifesaving station at Fairport. In appearance, it had gone to Painesville for the purpose of resembles a large tin boat, about ten feet long reading law. On the contrary, he has been and is entirely covered over except an opening admitted to the bar and enters the law office of large enough to admit one person and when E. J. Sweeney, Esq. as a practitioner. freighted the door is closed and fastened leaving

its passengers in an almost water tight Mr. W. S. and Mrs. L. A. Hayden print a card compartment. It is rigged with ropes passing thanking all the people of Perry and vicinity who through a ring on each end of the car, one end on the evening of May 9th, so kindly remembered fastened on shore and the other connected with their 15th wedding anniversary. the wreck. It will be very valuable in saving

women and children, and is in charge of the Married efficient keeper of the life station, Mr. Frank At Arcadia, Wayne Co., N.Y., May 1, Mr. Wesley Babcock. Trowbridge, of Concord, Lake Co., Oho, and Miss

Susan F. Galusha, of the former place. Mr. E. G. Hardy, of Murray, Iowa, but formerly of At the parsonage, Painesville, May 2, Edward C. this place, spent last week with friends here—his Corlett and Miss Hattie A. Wisnell.

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May 16, 1878 Charlotte Seeley vs R. M. Murray, executor of will coming at this time mainly to see his mother, of Uri Seeley, deceased who has been an invalid for some time. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O as of Real Estate Transfers May 15: Painesville Ladies Chauncey M. Morrell to Elizabeth Morrell, lot 55 Behen, Miss Maggie and part of lot 51, D. Warner’s addition Colgrove, Miss G. Ellen A. Stevens to Elizabeth Crandall, part of an Brooks, Miss Maggie acre on State St. McClellan, Mrs. Eva Horace Alvord to Edward P. Branch, lots 1, 4, 6, Vaulone, Miss Amelia 8, 10, 12 14 and ½ of 15, Branch & Alvord’s Gentlemen survey Boyle, Philip Mentor Hodges, W. S. Daniel H. Baker to Lovina Baker, 8 ½ Pherrill, Edward acres, mill lot Trushel, Frank G. Lovina Baker to Daniel H. Baker, 4 acres Brown, Alvy T. Lovina Baker to Schuyler J. Baker, 8 ½ acres, mill McMurphy, Edward T. lot Swayne, Harry Willoughby Waldron, F. K. Lake Erie Stove Co. by sheriff to Jas. W. Penfield, Held for postage: 2 ½ acres saw mill lot Miss Eliza McGlen, Chagrin Falls, Ohio Madison Wm. Haywood by executor to Juliett Haywood, May 23, 1878 Thursday 40 acres p. 2 Real Estate Transfers Painesville From Probate Court S. P. Hathaway to Jesse Rooker Jr. lot on River Samuel P. Hathaway vs. Frank Brainard, adm. of Bank A. Brainard, deceased Madison Isaac N. Hathaway, adm. of Elbridge Hayden, vs. S. P. and J. H. Sexton to Emily Page part of an acre James Allen on River St. Elizabeth Fox vs. Samuel Crobaugh, adm. of John Emily Page to Seth P. Saxton, 1 acre on River St. Crobaugh, deceased Harriet Smead to Francis Hendry, part of an acre John W. Tyler, executor of M. B. Johnson vs. LeRoy Wesley Thompson Eliakim Stockwell, by adm. to Jane Arnold, 50 James L. Frisbie, adm. of Lu Jewell, deceased vs. acres Janson W. Jewell Jane and David Arnold to Harriet Stockwell one Horace Webster guardian of C. J. and L. J. Chase half of above 50 acres vs Harriet Stockwell et al Kirtland S. M. Sumner, adm. of C. Kingsbury, vs Franklin William Tiffany to Nelson Wells, 40 acres Paine Jr. Heirs of Eliza Western to Harvey H. Morse, 2 Wm. W. Irwin, executor of Thomas Irwin, vs. acres Thomas Irwin 2nd Perry Anna M. Craine, executor of John Craine, John A. Harper to George N. Sweet, part of an deceased vs Lucia C. Sessions acre L. G. Tuttle, adm. of P. Bartlett vs. Ansel Bartlett

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May 23, 1878 perhaps with a faint hope that in time it might be Mentor saved and restored. After all this time, as by a Wm. Heisley to H. H. Dodge and J. W. Heisley, in miracle, last Thursday, the piece worked itself trust, 117 acres out, and he can dimly discern objects with the injured eye. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of May 22: The residence of Mr. A. J. Thompson, of Concord, Ladies was destroyed by fire last Thursday night. Most Brown, Nellie of the furniture and contents were saved. Butler, Mrs. Mary J. Huston, Miss Minnie Wm. H. Wheeler, sometime since committed to Sidley, Miss Mary the Asylum for the Insane, at Newburg, and since Burr, Mrs. Harmon E. allowed to go at large, as he had showed Daley, Mrs. Charlotte S. symptoms of improvement, made a savage Loomis, Miss Laura assault on his father-in-law, Wm. Chadwick of th Thompson, Miss J. B. Northeast Leroy on the 17 . Chadwick who was Gentlemen wounded in the arm by a pistol shot, and torn Carve, Fred about the face by the lunatic, finally Cross, Richard overpowered him and with the assistance of his Lenon, William wife secured possession of the revolver. Much Smith, J. F. doubt has been expressed as to the lunacy of Call, James Wheeler. This narrow escape of a valued citizen Harvey, Harrison from death at his hand must effectually settle McCool, W. H. that question. He has been conveyed back to Teachout, C. Newburg. Wade, Charles D. Historical p. 3 Dr. A. R. Hammond after a year’s practice in At a meeting at the office of Judge Perkins, May South Bend, Ind., has returned to Painesville. 15, with W. W. Williams of the firm of Williams Brothers, the following at the request of the Edison’s Phonograph or talking machine will be publishers of the forthcoming History of Geauga exhibited at Child’s Hall May 24 and 25, at 8 and Lake Counties, consented to serve as o’clock and the principles on which it Historical Managing Board, or Executive accomplishes it astonishing feats fully explained Committee for Lake County: with all the necessary experiments. Judge Perkins, Chairman Prof. Harvey, Mr. H. S. Cole celebrated his 95th birthday at the Judge Hitchcock residence of his son, on St. Clair St., Tuesday of George E. Paine last week. George Steele Eber D. Howe Some fourteen months ago, Mr. Roddick Their duties will be the revision of the general received a portion of an exploded gun cap in one history of Lake Co. before publication and the of his eyes, entirely depriving him of its sight. supervision of such matters as will ensure a Every effort to remove or extract the piece was complete and reliable history. unsuccessful, and for a long time he was such a The following gentlemen were appointed great sufferer that he was advised to have the township committees, and are requested to entire eye removed. This he refused to do, assist the publishers in gathering historical data for their respective township histories, and to

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May 23, 1878 Mrs. J. N. Dyer revise the histories when written and before Mrs. C. W. Tinan publication: Mrs. E. G. Wetherbee Painesville – George E. Paine and Eber D. Howe Mrs. W. F. Smith Madison – Lemuel Kimball and Asa S. Turney Mrs. A. L. Gardner LeRoy – S. B. Baker and James Wright Mrs. W. D. Swezey Concord – Joseph Tuttle and A. T. Brown Mrs. M. R. Doolittle Perry – Wm. A. Blair and Olmstead Baker Mrs. J. H. King Willoughby – L. P. Bates and Dr. O. S. St. John Mrs. E. W. Clarke Kirtland – R. P. Harmon and Christopher G. Crary Mrs. Arthur Baldwin Mentor – T. G. Hart and H. N Munson Mrs. Geo. Baker Mrs. E. P. Branch Decoration Day Committee on Wreaths and Mrs. Albert Malin Flowers Mrs. E. Huntington Jesse Storrs Mrs. Josie Young O. N. Brainard Mrs. A. A. Lee D.T. Casement Mrs. J. B. Burrows J.S. Lockwood Mrs. A. W. Morley Homer Nellis Mrs. J. S. Casement John M. Benjamin Mrs. Eli Young Jas. A. Babcock Mrs. S. F. Pierson S. L Titus Mrs. W. C. Hathaway J. H. King Mrs. T. C. Radcliffe J. S. Casements Mrs. G. H. Shepherd Chas. Hardway Mrs. B. O. Wilcox Geo. W. Steele Miss Eliza Wilcox E. P. Branch Miss Sarah Palmer S. Whitmore Miss F. Lockwood Warren Duncan Miss Hettie Sanford H. L. Barstow Miss Lemmie Rosa Frank Goldsmith Miss Stell Smith Frank Stebbins Miss Mary Gray E. G. Wetherbee Miss Annie Merrill Henry H. Coe Miss Hattie Fisher Neil Gallaher Miss Anna Lynch Geo. E. Paine Miss Ada Taylor W. F. Smith Miss Sarah Short W. D. Swezey Miss Belle Pratt Marvin Brown Miss Mary Slocum Mrs. B. D. Chesney Miss Lydia Ricker Mrs. J. Jerome Miss Lizzie O’Brien Mrs. S. R. House Miss Lola Riker Mrs. J. L. Pierson Miss Mary Harvey Mrs. D. T. Casement Miss Nellie Paine Mrs. Geo. E. Kile Miss Mary Morley Mrs. G. W. Barton Miss Frank Morley Mrs. F. D. Janvier Miss Jennie Elias Miss Kittie Kilbourne

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May 23, 1878 M. Brockway Miss Maggie Adams M. Harvey Miss M. Finneran C. Philbrook Miss C. Burns J. E. Hall Miss L. Manning E. Hall Miss Kittie Carson Jeff. Babb Miss Minnie Wood Corwin Tuttle Miss Lillie Steele F. M. Barker Miss Lizzie Greene E. P. Branch Miss Jennie Donaldson E. Baker Detail for Decoration Thos. Colghan E. T. Donaldson Geo. Shepherd Geo. L. Riker L. A. Thorp Geo. E. Paine John Thomas H. B. Treat Thos. Palmer D. A. Roe Chas. Higgins A. W. Morley Wm. Pettingill Solon Hall Jos. McGire J. H. Taylor John Keep L. F. Blair D. G. Morrison Marvin Huntington John Churchward Geo. W. Payne John Warner E. E. Gould Will Warner O. Wakelee Dan Thompson B. Wakelee A. Wheeler Frank Paine Jr. Committee on Wild Flowers & Evergreens Jos. Jerome A. W. Morley George Blish F. M. Baker Frank Goldsmith W. F. Kerr, O. N. Brainard C. P. Chesney T. C. Radcliffe Frank Curtiss J. S. Lockwood Frank Jerome H. H. Coe Frank McFarland Isaac Houghkirk Robert Moodey A. Grover President of the Day – Hon. R. M. Murray Alfred Grover Marshal – Capt. W. A. Coleman J. B. Kilbourne Chaplain – Rev. W. H. Seely J. L. Pierson Orator – Hon J. B. Burrows Neil Gallaher Committee on Vocal Music – W. G. McCall, A. G. James Flood Smith Nin. Flood Committee on Band and Martial Music – Frank Douglas Pomeroy Paine Jr., C. N. Jaberg, Michael Ryan Jas. L. Parmly Committee on Flags – H. M. Mosher, Fayette A. Crofoot Blair, M. B. Huntington Cal. Barnes Committee on Grounds – Jerome Palmer, Peter Dowling Thomas Smith, George Blish John Callender Committee on Invitations – S. K. Gray, L. B. Gibbs, E. T. Donaldson

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May 23, 1878 DeWitt, Miss Nan Committee on Finance – Arthur Baldwin, Charles Halstead, Mrs. A. Higgins, Silas Thompson Corlett, Mary A. Gibson, Miss Elizabeth T. W. Creaser, who recently moved from this Loveland, Miss Abbie place to Burton, and had been in poor health for Spencer, Mrs. H. N. a year or two, died on Monday. Gentlemen Dey, Samuel. L. Death of an Old Resident Parmly, Morrison A. Mr. Almon Church died at his residence in Spickerman, C. W. Concord on the morning of last Saturday, May Parks, H. M. 18, age 63 years. He was among the old Sparkam, Fred residents of the township and for many years an Stafford, Henry active business man much esteemed. p. 3 A tidal wave came rolling onto this shore of Edmund M. Johnson, bankruptcy, of Mentor, Lake Erie, early Friday morning, with a great Lake Co., Ohio rush. At, and in the vicinity of Fairport, it was estimated to be from three to six feet high. In the harbor, a fourth of mile from the end of the May 30, 1878 Thursday piers, the water in the river rose at least three feet. p. 2 Geneva Times

Mrs. Rebecca Wilcox, one of the oldest citizen of E. Merry, of Sandusky, Auditor of Erie County, Ashtabula Co., recently died in Wayne from the spent Tuesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey effects of a fall. She had nearly reached her 100th Woolworth, Mrs. W. being his cousin. His father, birthday and had been a resident of Wayne for Ebenezer Merry was one of the old pioneers of 62 years. Mentor.

Real Estate Transfers Murder in Jefferson - After a game of “Ball and Painesville Bat” was played in Jefferson, which drew Wilber F. Smith to Libbie G. Nellis, lot on Mentor together a large crowd of rowdies, they Ave. proceeded to a house of ill fame a short distance Daniel Warner Jr. to First National Bank of out of town where after drinking, dancing and Painesville, store and lot on Main St. carousing for some hours with the inmates and Same to same, store and lot on State St. the old man and his wife and step daughters, Mentor they proceeded to demolish the house inside Daniel B. Hart to Nelson D. Corning, 2 acres and out. While on the road on their way to Kirtland depart, the old man or his son fired upon them, Mary Ann and W. A. Matson to Carroll and and one of the roughs, William Brown, was Storm, 2 acres killed. Willoughby

Wm. Downing, by adm. to Oscar F. White, lot on Mrs. N. Brink has recently returned for a pleasant Erie St. seven months’ sojourn with her son in California.

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May 30, 1878 their friends; the path to the carriage was strewn Hon. Marvin Warren, of Fairbury, Nebraska, is a with flowers by the children, and the lucky native of this county and we believe was reared slipper tossed after the departing lovers. in the family of the late N. Hobart of Madison. After completing his education at Meadville Died College, he studied law with Judge Chaffee of April 23, Vinson Stockwell, died at his residence Jefferson, was admitted to the bar in Geauga Co., in Thompson. The deceased was born March 12, and soon after removed to Bellefontaine. He is 1812, he being the third white child born in the author of the Ohio Criminal Code, as well as Thompson. He was married to Miss Mary that of Nebraska to which State he emigrated Blakeslee, Dec. 13, 1838, and settled at that time some seven years since. He is a brother of Mr. V. on the farm where he has since lived. He leaves Warren, of LeRoy of this county. a wife and three daughters. Died in Ashtabula, May 23, Florence, daughter Council Proceedings of John W. and Alche E. Collins, age 5 yrs., 3 mos. A resolution was adopted requiring the owners She was a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. of lots on the west side of Liberty St., Carter, of Perry. commencing at the northeast corner of Lord Sterling’s lot and ending on the north side of Celestia Stone South St. to pave the sidewalks with stone or This Christian woman, who died April 6, was born brick. in Connecticut, April 5, 1805; hence was 73 yrs. of age the day before she died. She was married Kirtland in 1829, and two years later moved with her Mr. Eber Bond, a former resident of Kirtland, husband to New Woodstock, Madison Co., N.Y. who is now engaged in the lumber trade in In 1864, they moved to Perry, Lake Co., O. There Waxford Co., Michigan met with quite an years later, in 1867, her husband died suddenly accident last Monday. While at work in at well at leaving her a widow in her new home. the depth of 150 feet, as the workmen were passing down staves, one of them fell and struck Sheriff’s Sale: Frederick Williams vs. Gilbert him with such force that he remained insensible Curtis et al. Land in Mentor will be sold. for several hours. He is now recovering from his Perry Bosworth is the assignee for Philo T. injuries. Safford. The store building and premises known as the Safford store, in Madison, will be sold. Madison Some of the citizens of Madison have been in June 6, 1878 Thursday attendance as witnesses at Cleveland for the last p. 2 Madison few days in the case of William Thomas, a former Mrs. Lee Norton, died on Sunday. citizen of this town who has been arrested for some crookedness in speculation in that city. Real Estate Transfers Willoughby Married Clarence S. Dunbar to Daniel A. Arnold and At the M. E. Parsonage, Perry, Ohio, Levi D. other, part of an acre, lot of 85 and 86 Gaylord and Elizabeth J. Shepherd, both of Perry. Wm. Downing by adm. to Wm S. Ferguson, 2 On May 15th, at the residence of the bride’s acres father, Mr. R. C. Bates, Mr. Judson Rogers, of Wm. S. Ferguson to James W. Penfield, same Painesville, and Miss Flora Bates, of Willoughby. premises After the wedding supper, the traveling Kirtland garments donned, the bridal party took leave of Samuel Evill to Thomas B. Evill Jr., part of an acre

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June 6, 1878 Hawkins, Albert Thomas B. Evill Jr. to Harrison Martin, 15 acres Smith, Chas. H. LeRoy Chase, Lewis A. Wesley L. Thompson to Gurdon Thompson, 90 Harrington, J. W. acres Isennagen, Fritz George F. Baker to David Pickett, 5 acres Young, Millard Madison Heirs of Arba Benjamin to Amandus H. Dewey, Melvina Hulbert is the executrix of Lester T. 137 acres Hulbert, deceased, late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. Death of an Old Citizen Mr. Thomas Wilder died at the residence of his June 13, 1878 Thursday son-in-law and daughter—Mr. and Mrs. Norman p. 3 Mr. J. McClelland, formerly of Mentor in this Loomis, May 29, age 93 yrs. Mr. and Mrs. Wilder county, but lately of Greenwich, Washington Co., had their 70th wedding anniversary, on January N.Y., is on a visit of a week or more to his friends 25. His wife three years his junior, survives him. in this section. He, also, leaves six children to wit: Mr. G. N. Wilder, Mrs. N. M. Fisher, and Mrs. Loomis, of Bad Accident – On May 30, W. H. Kehres, Painesville, all residing in the immediate formerly of this place, while engaged in coupling neighborhood on Main St.; also, Mrs. A. P. Axtell, cars at Wapakoneta Station, was caught of Perry; Mrs. E. B. Adams, of South Bend, between two cars, badly crushed his back and Indiana; and Mrs. Shepherd, of Connecticut. The breast. Although the injury was quite serious, he deceased has been a resident of Painesville since is now able to be out and may soon fully recover. 1848, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. O. N. Thompson, who has been connected with the L. & N. and S. & N. Railroad for the past Died seven years, arrived in town last Saturday. His In North Madison, June 2, Mrs. Charlotte Norton, friends will be sorry to learn that he was involved wife of Lee Norton, age 72 years. as train dispatcher in a collision that occurred on In Cleveland, May 29, of brain fever, Hiram L. that road June 1st. The official investigation Mentor, age 28 years, 1 month, 29, days. The proved beyond all doubt that Mr. Thompson deceased was a son of Hiram J. and Miranda B. sent the order correctly and that the order was Mentor, formerly of Willoughby, Lake Co. The changed by the operator who received it. His remains will be buried in Evergreen Cemetery. mistake was in not detecting the error the operator had made—simply a mistake of human Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of nature—one of the missteps to which the best June 5: and most correct men are at all times liable. We Ladies have read the letters in his possession from Mr. Adams, Mrs. Adelia D. W. C. Rowland, Gen. Superintendent, and Mr. Corlett, Mrs. Christian G. C. Breed, Pres. Sec. and Purchasing Agent. Jewell, Miss Laura They speak of him as being entirely above Brooks, Mrs. M. reproach both morally and in business, and also Griffin, Mrs. Charity recommending him highly as a Train Dispatcher. Richardson, Miss Ella The Louisville papers also speak of him in very Gentlemen complimentary terms and as having the Baner, G. F. sympathy of the city. He will probably remain in Graft, Chauncey Painesville during the summer.

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Ladies Real Estate Transfers Baker, Miss Mary J. Painesville Hill, Mrs. Sadie E. William L. Bacon to Maria L. Tuttle, part of an Brown, Mrs. Phan acre on Liberty St. Ingraham, Minnie Chas. W. Harris et al, by sheriff, to James H. Gentleman Wheeler, part of an acre Brown, J. T. James H. Wheeler to Clarina W. Harris, part of an Carver, Fred acre Norwood, George Jacob Kensig et al, by sheriff to Edward J. Brown, Henry Sweeney, part of an acre Harver, Harrison Willoughby Donnell, Micahel D. Nicholas Dowen et al by sheriff, to John Robertson, Geo. Chambers, part of an acre LeRoy June 20, 1878 Thursday Ansel Bartlett to Monroe Arnold, 25 acres p. 3 Geo. Phillips was killed at Austintown on Mentor the 13th while blasting coal. He had set a fuse and Alanson Loveland to Lamar Loveland, 34 acres supposing it had gone out went back to relight it,

when it exploded killing him instantly. Death of Miss Stevens

Miss Ellen A. Stevens died at Norfolk, Va. on June Mr. W. S. Branch, for several years past a 6; age 49 years. A singular fatality has attended resident of Rochester, Minnesota, arrived last the family of the late Desalinus Stevens, of this week for a visit to old Painesville friends. place—there being four deaths within less than Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton Carroll died at her a year. The death of Mr. Stevens himself took residence in Concord, Thursday morning, age 64 place June 24, 1877. His eldest son, M. H. years. She was an old resident and daughter of Stevens, after a long illness died March 11, 1878, Robert Eaton, and universally esteemed. and the death of Mrs. Stevens took place less than a month later, April 8. The deceased, Miss A dispatch was received by Mr. L. Stratton, of Ellen A. Stevens was at this time quite ill. It was Madison, on Monday, announcing the death of hoped that a change of climate and air might his son-in-law, Charles F. Morse, who died at help her. And with this hope, in company with Maniton, Colorado where he was visiting for her brother, G. W. F. Stevens and other friends, benefit of his health. He was formerly a resident she left for the South on April 14. She died at of LeRoy, in this county, and nephew of Mr. Norfolk, as above stated, June 6. Her remains Collins Morse of this place. His home was in were brought home for burial. Only a single Breckenridge, Mo. His disease was member of this family remains, Mr. G. W. F. consumption; he was 33 years old. Stevens, of Norfolk, Va., who came north, accompanied by his wife with the remains of the Real Estate Transfers deceased. Painesville

George E. Paine to Hezekiah Cole, part of an acre Married on Rail Road St. June 6, at the residence of the bride’s father, Sarah M. Ames by adm. to D. T. Casement, part Charles A. Higgins and Clara B. Ladd, daughter of of an acre cor. Washington and Wood Street S. T. Ladd, both of Painesville. Madison

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June 20, 1878 Blake, alias Mrs. Woodruff, discovered Miss Albert G. & Theodore D. Crandall to David Durban waked home from town to dinner. He Crandall, 33 acres jumped from the buggy in front of her and said, Willoughby “Mary, you’ve got to come with me.” Surprised Thomas Lloyd to James Lloyd, 31 acres and bewildered she called for aid. Several Mentor hearing the call and supposing the trouble to be Mary E. Munson to Orson W. Scott, 61 acres between two women, passed upon the other side and refused to interfere. Disappointed and Reception chagrined by the call for help, Blake drew a razor, Mrs. Z. S. Wilson gave a large party last evening which produced greater alarm in her and she in honor of Mrs. Hudson Wilson of Faribault, pulled away and ran across the street, and Blake Minn. Among the numerous guests from abroad discharged a pistol at her, which missed her head was Mrs. Geo. B. Pratt, of Syracuse, N.Y. Mrs. but by a few inches. At that moment, Sheriff Pratt is a niece of Mrs. Hudson Wilson, and we Morley appeared on the scene and forcibly congratulate both ladies on the mutual pleasure threw Blake to the ground. Shortly he was of this meeting in their former home. lodged in jail, and male attire assumed. When told that Miss Durban was unhurt, Blake seem The Shooting pleased, for he says he did not intend to shoot, There was a murderous assault in Painesville last and hardly knew what possessed him to do it. He Friday. A man by the name of Johnny Blake, claims he has been led on to this by the letters formerly an employee of the Carriage Factory, received last winter. became particularly enamored of Miss Mary Durban of this place, some four years ago. Mr. Died Durban strongly objected to the attention show In Gary, Duel Co., Dakota Territory, of to his daughter and it finally resulted in his being consumption, Ezra L. Herrick, formerly of refused her company. Blake left town with Painesville, Lake Co., age 51 yrs. threats on his lips, and returned a year ago, again seeking the company of Miss Durban; but the Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of same cold shoulder was shown him by the family June 19: as before. Dressed in female apparel he Ladies followed her to a picnic and in that disguise Brown, Miss Ella attempted to dance with her; still he failed. “I’ll Loomis, Miss Laura hie me to a nunnery,” says Blake; but instead, he Lewis, Mrs. G. H. went South and joined the Catholic Whiston, Miss Eva brotherhood, where likely he hatched up the Gentlemen plot which so miserably failed last week. In the Abel, Willis preliminary examination last Saturday, it was Clapp, Major W. H. found that somewhat of a correspondence had Merrett, Henry existed during this sojourn abroad. These letters Bishop, A. N. passed between them all winter up to March, Hammond, Henry when they suddenly stopped. Wednesday, he Smith, Wm. H. appeared in town, arrayed in an old woman’s Held for postage: outfit. “Mrs. Wooduff, St. Louis,” (the name he Miss Eugenie O. Adams, Minneapolis, Minn. used) covered his multitude of sins and deceptions on the Stockwelll House books, and June 27, 1878 Thursday threw all off the scent. He never removed the p. 2 The eighteenth birthdays of Miss Harriet black veil from his face even at meals. On Friday, Corbitt, of this place, and Miss Lida Norton, of

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June 27, 1878 Green, Mrs. Mary North Madison, were celebrated at the Reynolds, Miss J. residence of Mrs. Wm. Norton, on the lake shore Tuner, Miss Lizzie in Madison, last Saturday. Brooks, Miss Lizzie Humphrey, Mrs. E. W. C. Tisdel, sends a letter written at Sea, May Stevens, Miss Mary 12, 1878, to the editor, describing his travels and Tuttle, Miss Sarah the island of St. Thomas. Gentlemen Brewer, David W. Married McDonald, Wm June 13, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Sloan, W. H. Alphonso S. Arter, and Frances E. Payne, both of Williams, John W. Painesville, Ohio. Dodge, Amos At the rectory, June 25, George W. Zinck, and Melton, W. E. Hellen M. Sinclair, of Buffalo, N.Y. Warner, Borner Died Wright, W. H. In LeRoy, June 18, Elijah Nye, age 66 yrs. He was Held for postage: a beloved and esteemed citizen. Wait Clinton, Milan Erie Co., O. George Stockham, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. Obituary At her residence in Concord, June 13, Mrs. p. 3 Mr. C. S. Wilcox is home from Yale College Elizabeth Eaton Carroll, youngest daughter of for the summer. the late Capt. Robert Eaton, of Painesville. Elizabeth Eaton was born in Ravenna, Portage Mrs. E. P. Williams, of Marquette, Mich., Co., Ohio, May 12, 1814, her father removing to daughter of Mr. J R. Hall, is visiting her friends in Painesville the year following where she resided town. with her parents until Oct. 16, 1834, when she was married to Martin Carroll and went with her Mr. and Mrs. C. Harrington, of Mentor Ave., are husband to his home in Concord. She was the enjoying a trip to the falls and down the St. youngest of five daughters, her four sisters Lawrence. surviving her. Of her two brothers, Sheppard, the eldest of the family, died some years ago. Misses Helen A. Pepoon and Elsie J. Reynolds, Robert, a few years her junior is now in Iowa. the former of Painesville and the latter of Little Mrs. C. had a stroke of paralysis May 6th from Mountain, were among the recent graduates at which she never rallied, the immediate cause of Oberlin. her death, however, is thought to be dropsy of the heart. She was a woman of rare loveliness of Mr. F. D. Brown, of Omaha, is spending a few character. She buried four children; a son and days with his friends in town. two little daughters in childhood, and a son who died for his country in the battle of Gettysburg. Ice cream is now sold on several of the Lake She leaves three children, sons, all situated in life Shore passenger trains. with families of their own. On the First Floor – W. Babbit, of the City Bakery, Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of is fitting up the large store formerly occupied by June 26: Messrs. Field & Swezey, in the center of Ladies Milwaukee Block, as a Refreshment Room, which Bandall, Miss A. J. he will open on the Fourth, well stocked with the choicest refreshments of the season.

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June 27, 1878 High School Commencement, class standing Names of the scholars of the C. and D. Primary Maggie M. Adams, 86 Department, Washington Street, who were Nellie G. Adams, 89 neither absent or tardy during the term: George E. Andrews, 86 Lola Ayer Minnie F. Babcock, 86 Charlie Barker Mattie A. Bishop, 96 Ettie Chapin Ida M. Carroll, 91 (corrected to be this in the Buy Churchward next issue of the newspaper) Harry Grauel Chas. W. Durand, 78 Albert Green Julia J. Huntington, valedictorian, 87 Harry King William J. Mead, 83 Nina Mosher Frank E. Morley, 96 Bertha Rickett Fred C. Porter, 98 Harry Sterling Bella J. Pratt, 91 Bertie Steele Lillie C. Steele, 86 Ralph Tuttle Eliza Welch, 94 Bertie Tabor Louise Wilkes, 89 Willie Wood July 4, 1878 Thursday Something New p. 2 Letter from W. C. Tisdel who is now at Rio Mr. C. O. Barrett, with the Cleveland Paper de Janeiro. Company, hands us samples of something new in the line of paper goods—the Japanese paper Pioneer Matters napkins. They are beautiful and strong. Large Another of the early pioneers of Mentor was orders are pouring in upon them for all sections. Jesse Phelps. I hope the history of Lake and These goods are so light and beautiful that Geauga Counties will tell us his birth place, the cannot fail to become popular and meet with birth, marriage, death, & c. Jesse Phelps was in immense sales. Mentor in 1801. He settled on the farm which Capt. Burridge now owns. Phelps was chosen Real Estate Transfers Justice of the Peace, and performed several of Painesville the early marriages of what is now Lake County. Benjamin B. Park, heirs of, to Mary Bradley, 1 ½ He was elected Associate Judge of the Court of acres Common Pleas when Geauga Co., was formed in Willoughby the year 1805. He died quite suddenly and was John Short to Anson Hunt, 36 acres buried on the southeast corner of the four Louisa M. St. John, by executor to Horace C. corners near the house of Capt. Burridge. When Granger, 22 rods the cemetery was purchased and the old one Wm. E. Pedrick, et al, by sheriff to S. V. abandoned in removing the remains his stone Harkness 70 acres was, also, removed. His stone was a mill stone. Madison It is made from the Berea grit found in the Merrett H. Pancost to Anna H. Shaw, 21 acres vicinity. On it is an inscription “Jesse Phelps died Jonadab Winchester to Eliza Ann Fuller, 44 acres in a fit, 1809, AE. 47.” From this we can infer he Mentor was born about 1762. He is now in the beautiful David B. Hart to Mary Ann Cleveland, 3 acres cemetery in Mentor. Kirtland The following marriages were solemnized and Herman Schroeder to Margaretha Hafele, 39 recorded in the marriage records of Trumbull Co. acres by John Stark Edwards:

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July 4, 1878 E. S. Pratt, of Painesville, Ohio, formerly teller of Daniel Chandler and Hannah Babcock, Feb. 20, the Citizen’s National Bank, of this city, married 1803 Miss Emma Skinner, daughter of Hon. G. E. Clark Parker and Peggy Jordan, May 5, 1803 Skinner. Present were Mr. and Mrs. P. Pratt, Benjamin Nye and Sarah Smith, March 12, 1804 parents of the bridegroom, from Painesville. Anson Sessions and Asenath Fobes, Dec. 13, 1804 Died Avery Hill and Lois Isham, March 27, 1805 In Painesville, July1, Robbie E., only son of H. L. Elijah Button and Martha Cahoon, Aug. 20, 1806 and Almedia Foster, age 6 ½ years. th By C. C. Bronson In Painesville, June 25 , of diphtheria, Johnnie P., youngest son of Alex and Elizabeth Mchaffey In Painesville, June 29th, of diphtheria, age 8 yrs, 4 mos. Elizabeth A., wife of Alex Mchaffey, age 50 yrs., 10 mos. Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of July 3: p. 3 The funeral of Mrs. Rebekah Cook will be Ladies held tomorrow (Thursday) at 9 a.m. at her late Brocket, Mrs. A. E. residence. Campbell, Miss C. A. Stevens, Mrs. Celina Howard W. Jeffers, telegraph operator at Gentlemen Fairport, is to take charge of the Storm Signal Brown, Rev. J. F. Flag Station about to be established there. Killvandusenbery, H. Mavay, Robert W. C. Tisdel reached home from Brazil last Tillotson, T. F Saturday. Earle, Chas. W. Lyman, C. C. Fearful Accident Washington, Wm. H. The son of Mr. P. Harrington, age 13 or 14 years of age, residing on the Eaton Rd. a short distance Graduates of Lake Erie Seminary south of Pearl St., fell from a cherry tree, breaking his right arm and leg just above the A. Viola Bangs, Chillicothe ankle. Such was the force of his fall, that the Helen E. Barnard, Bellevue bone in the leg was driven through the flesh and Sarah I. Bell, Medina skin and several inches into the ground also Fannie M. Cole, Elyria slitting up the flesh from the point where the Emma E. Hawkes, Buffalo bone was broken five inches above. The lower Mary E. Hosford, Hudson end of the leg bone having to be sawed off Emma B. Patton, Kent before it could be got into place. Dr. Beardslee Eva Quier, Kent who, assisted by several other physicians, set the Olivia K. Slover, Toledo broken limbs, has the case in charge. Jennie Spafford, Strongsville Banie Wheeler, Coshocton The Marriage of E. S. Pratt and Miss Emma Minnie R. White, Kent Skinner Lizzie L. Wilson, Faribault, Minn. Faribault (Minn.) Democrat June, 28th Ella B. Wise, Canton One of the most brilliant weddings that has ever occurred in Faribault, took place Wednesday From Common Pleas Court evening, at the residence of the bride’s parents.

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July 4, 1878 The funeral of Mrs. Stephen Baker, of N. Lodeskia Dixon vs. Martha A. Fountain et al. C. Madison was attended on last Thursday. D. Clark Esq. appointed guardian for Isabel Fountain. July 11, 1878 Thursday Jane Rutenbur vs. Moses W. Rutenbur. Divorce p. 2 The War for the Union, Number 1 decree for plaintiff with custody of children. April 15, 1861 Abraham Lincoln calls forth the Militia of the Real Estate Transfers several states of the Union to the aggregate Painesville number of 75,00 to suppress to cause the laws B. S. Morrison to Samuel L. Titus 7 acres to be duly executed. Willoughby On Tuesday, April 16, large bills were posted in William H. Wyckoff to May E. Gunn, 7 acres Painesville as follows: May E. Gunn to Julia Maria Wycoff, 7 acres “To Arms! To Arms! Fort Sumter Surrendered! Madison The Rebel Flag to float over the national Capital Josephine Whipple to George Flint, 10 acres at Washington before the first of May! 75,0000 M. B. Hubbard to J. S. Wilcox, 26 acres Volunteers called for! Ohio to furnish 13,000!” Perry Elisa Wright to Cynthia M. Harvey, 29 aces A meeting was held in Painesville and Concord resolutions adopted to answer the President’s Joseph Harvey to Eliza Wright, 46 acres call. Chairman, Hon. Reuben Hitchcock,; Rev. Kirtland Wm. Young and Chas. D. Adams, Vice President; Reuben Fuller to Lydia B. Rice, ½ acre and Geo. E. Paine, Secretary. A committee of four would be appointed to obtain names of Diphtheria on the North Ridge, in the vicinity of volunteers from Painesville. Those four the Mud Mill appointed were: John N. Dyer, John H. Miller, By request we give you some of the facts about George L. Riker, and George E. Paine. After he the prevalence of diphtheria in this section in its resolutions were adopted and the committee malignant form. The first case was the son of J. gone, the meeting continued on to a late hour. J. Harrison, age 14 yrs.—sick about two weeks Patriotic appeals resulted in thirty names and died April 20th. He was a healthy lad and had enrolled on the spot from the township of not been exposed to take the disease from any Painesville. Many of the older citizens came other person. There was no other case in the forward and pledged themselves to provide (by neighborhood until June 9, then Johnnie a proper organization for that special purpose) Mahaffey was attacked and died the 25th. Eva L, for the comfortable support of the families of all Pike, age about six years was taken sick the 20th the volunteers who pecuniary circumstances and died the 26th. Mrs. E. Mehaffy took the might entitle them to such assistance. disease the 22nd and died the 29th. Robbie E. Foster, about 7 years was taken sick on the 23rd, Real Estate Transfers and died July 1. These cases have all occurred on Painesville the North Ridge, the road not over a half a mile. Samuel L. Titus to B. S. Morrison, 7 acres The subjects when attacked were all in good Madison health and no local cause can be assigned as a Albert Chaffee to Lafayette G. and Emily E. reason why this disease should for the first time Williams, 4 acres make its appearance among us as an epidemic. Perry Madison Quite an accident happened here on the 4th. H. A. Minick, merchant here, having had his store

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July 11, 1878 Wm. L. Foster, bachelor, who has for about ten broken into several times, arranged a revolver in years past kept house and farm all alone by such a way that if the money drawer was himself, has sold his fine farm fronting both on tampered with, the pistol would be discharged. Mentor Ave. and Jackson Streets to Lieut. J. Forgetting the arrangement himself, he received Jerome. Mrs. Jerome is sister to Mr. Foster, and the contents of the revolver and a large ball the old homestead is still to be his home. passed through a portion of his body near the hip joint. He is doing as well as can be expected and Death of Mrs. Maynard will doubtless recover so as to be about in a few Mrs. Maggie Brayton Maynard died suddenly days. Tuesday. For some years, Mrs. Maynard has suffered from brain disease which at times Madison quite unsettled her mind. It was while under this The only child of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Branch Jr. influence and temporarily left alone, that she died on Sunday night under very sorrowful ended her life by saturating her clothing with circumstances. On the Fourth of July, he kerosene and then setting it on fire. The flames swallowed some substance which passed down were soon extinguished but death occurred to the lungs causing its death on night of the within an hour. The deceased as Miss Brayton, seventh. He was two years old. during the rebellion, and during the existence of James Dayton and sons have bought out the the Sanitary Commission, was one of the most meat market of Huntoon and Potter. active in the good work.

Sheriff’s Sale: First National Bank vs. Thomas From Common Pleas Irwin 2nd, et al. Land in Painesville will be sold. Louise Peck vs. John B. Peck; divorce petition filed; cross petition dismissed at defendant’s Sheriff’s Sale: Catherine Doty vs. Samuel cost Mathews et al. Died Lodoskia Dixon vs Martha Fountain, executrix et At her home in Concord, July 1, of typhoid al. Land in Mentor will be sold. fever, Lethie J. Wilson, daughter of Abbie L. and Troubadore A. Wilson and granddaughter of p. 3 Mr. J. B. Mosher returned last week from a Mrs. T. H. Rust; age 11 years, 5 mos. visit of two weeks at his old home, Waterloo, At his residence, Stoney Point, Sonoma Co., N.Y. His daughter, Mrs. Boardman Lane, came Cal., June 25, Mr. Parmenas N. Woodworth, with him and will spend the season in Painesville. brother of Harvey Woodworth, age 72. He was formerly a resident of Madison of this county, Last Monday, a four-year-old child of Mr. and and in 1847 moved his family to Holt Co., Mrs. Thomas Brown, of Chester, Geauga Co., was Missouri, and in the summer of 1853, he moved drowned in a cistern. The child had been missing to California. He leaves a wife and nine children but a few moments when search was made and that live near his late residence. the body found. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Geo. B. Kennedy, late auditor of Trumbull Co., July 10: who as arrested sometime since for criminal Ladies transactions in his official business, was put on Brown, Mrs. M. trial last week and plead guilty to obtaining Hill, Miss Rena money under false pretenses. He was sentenced Minard, Miss Electa to the Penitentiary for 5 years. Dean, Miss Ida E. Longcoy, Mrs. D. A.

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July 11, 1878 and petitioned the State Legislature to pass such Wait, Mrs. Helen an act as may be necessary to authorize this. Gentlemen Damonte, Jas. A. p. 2 Daniel B. Hart vs Samuel R. Pullman et al. Gibson, John Land in Concord will be sold. Jull, L. M. Gardner, Myron L. p. 3 Mrs. Henry Nottingham, of Jennings’ Place, Ingersoll, J. E. left for Palmyra, N.Y., on Saturday morning to Kearnes, Barney spend the Sabbath with her mother, it being her th Nied, John 94 birthday. Held for postage: Mrs. F. A. Mack, E. Williamsfield, O. Our thanks are to Mrs. Wm. Kirk, of Jackson St., for a rustic basket containing ninety varieties of July 18, 1878 Thursday beautiful flowers. Mrs. Kirk is very successful in the cultivation of flowers. p. 1 In the War for the Union, Number 2

On April 17, 1861, a hand bill was circulated in Mr. George W. Garrett, an old resident and well- every township of Lake County: known business man of Montville, died last To Arms! To Arms! The citizens of Sunday night of typhoid fever. He was a member _____Township will hold a mass meeting at the of the Odd Fellows. usual place of holding elections on Thursday, evening, April 18, to respond to the call of the C. E. Lovett, Esq., of Erie, Pa., brother of I. D. President for thirteen regiments of militia from Lovett, of this place has received the Republican Ohio, for three months’ service, and to appoint nomination for District Attorney. committees to cooperate in the military organization of Lake Co., to report at a mass Business Change - Dr. L. C. Stebbins has meeting of the County to be held in Painesville, disposed of his interest, as one of the proprietors on Saturday, April 10th at 10 o’clock a.m. of the City Mills, to his son, Mr. Frank E. Stebbins. Small books were supplied to the township The name of the firm, Hall & Stebbins will remain committees on Volunteers at the township the same, and the business continued and all meeting, having printed on the cover the names contracts fulfilled as though no change had been of the respective townships, with the word made. The new partner is familiar with all the “Volunteer Report” and inside the cover the details of the business of the mills, and possesses Instructions (call upon every man between the in addition, that enterprise and prompt business ages of 18 and 60). integrity which secures confidence and success. Many young men with families dependent upon their daily labor desired to volunteer. To enable Mr. C. B. Chamberlain married Miss Nellie F. them to do so, the older citizens in the several Mathers, in Ashtabula Wednesday morning. A townships organized and signed written reception was given in the evening at the agreements to support their families during their Stockwell House for them by his friends, the three months’ absence. Williams Brothers and party. Music and dancing Supplies were needed in camp and which the in the ball room and refreshments in the parlor Government could not be expected to furnish in made the reception most enjoyable. time for the three months’ service. The local expenses for the families of volunteers to be Madison provided for by taxation. The County Frank King and Fred Cook are at home on a visit Commissioner pledged the funds of the County from Kansas, where they have been in the

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July 18, 1878 Johnson, J. F. employ of Frank Howard, an extensive dealer in Manton, John H. dry goods and notions. Moore, C. E. Way, A. F. Mrs. D. Sloan, of Ironton, O., is visiting her Held for postage: relatives in town. P. Barry, Rochester, N.Y.

Kirtland July 25, 1878 Thursday Mr. Henry Crobaugh, of Willoughby, and a Miss p. 1 The War for the Union, Number 3 Ball of the same place were married last Sunday Mass Meeting at Painesville April 20, 1861 right after the church service. Appropriate badges will be distributed to volunteers of each township. Mr. Schwab and family of Cleveland, formerly of The ladies of Painesville volunteer their services Painesville, have moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. for any amount of sewing that may be required by the Lake County Volunteers. Conneaut Reporter The “Badges” distributed were of narrow ribbon- On Wednesday, the barns of Henry Hines and red, white, blue, about 8 inches long, fastened John Horton, of Ashtabula were destroyed by together at one end in a bow knot, with the fire. The fires are supposed to be the work on names of the respective townships of the county an incendiary. printed on the white. These badges were the first work of the ladies of Painesville in the Union Died cause, called together by the late Miss Anna M. At Russian River, California, June 24, Oscar F. Tracy at the house of Geo. E. Paine. The next Weeks, son of L. K. Weeks, of Madison, Lake Co., work done by them was the making of flannel Ohio, age 22 yrs., 10 mos., 20 days. shirts for the Volunteers. The organization of the At South Framingham, Mass, June 27, of “Painesville Soldiers’ Aid Society” soon followed. meningitis, Florence, only child of Charles A. and After the great riot in Baltimore, the same night Gertrude Sedgebeer Wheelock age 6 yrs., 8 mos. the Governors of all the Northern States took military possession of all the telegraph lines, and Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of all communications regarding the war had to July 17: pass by the Governor or their officials first, Ladies before communicated to the people. Adams, Mrs. C. W. Rolls for enlisting three companies were Howe, Miss Clara immediately opened—one for Painesville and Scoville, Mrs. Chas. vicinity, a second for Mentor, Willoughby and Baker, Mrs. Jennie Kirtland, the third for Madison and Perry. Johnson, Miss M. Smith, Mrs. Margaret p. 3 Mr. Collins Morse has gone to Woodruff, Mrs. Laura Lanesborough, Mass., for the season. Gentlemen Benschoter, C. C. Allen J. Way sends us from Hampstead, Texas, a Corlet, William copy of the Galveston Daily News. Holland, H. H. Johnson, Murray W. H. Brindle, of Kirtland, was last week Mitchell, Petr B. adjudged insane in the Probate Court and order Brewster, Freddie made to send him to the Asylum. Edwin, Charlie

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July 25, 1878 Joseph Jerome – Senior Vice Commander Quite a number of ice water coolers have been B. H. Woodman, - Jr. Vice Commander placed at different points on the business streets Geo. W. Payne – Adjutant for the benefit of the thirst. It is an excellent Samuel Moodey – Treasurer arrangement and is fully appreciated by the Appointed: st public. C. G. Ritter – 1 Aid nd Geo. H. Eddy, 2 Aid Mrs. Harley, of Austinburgh, being for a few days C. D. Adams – Chaplain under the care of Dr. W. Eames at his residence Frank Gee – Standard Bearer in Ashtabula, attempted suicide both last Friday Guards: C. Buell, S. Andres and Saturday by taking morphine. In both instances by timely discovery the attempt failed. Painesville – Glimpses about Town Mr. Fenton has a fine new dwelling on Mentor An Ashtabula dispatch of the 17th says a Miss Ave. which he expects to occupy as early as Mary Markham, of Austinburg, died suddenly at September. F. B. Abrams the contractor and Ashtabula today from sunstroke. She had come builder. to Ashtabula for medical treatment, having driven eight miles, and dropped dead at the door Mr. G. R. Cowles has just finished a neat brick of the physician’s office. house for himself on State St. He has a Portland cement walk in the front. Mrs. Geo. Wilson and daughter, of Genesco, Mr. C. A. Avery’s house and grounds have been Illinois, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Frisbie on undergoing thorough repairs. the Ridge. Mr. Hiram Wilson and daughter of the Dr. Young built a Bath house this spring which is same place are also visiting in the vicinity. a fine structure; at the corner of St. Clair and Jackson Streets. Jas. Oliver suffered a case of sunstroke at Mr. A. Malin’s new home on St. Clair St. is almost Concord on Monday. He had entered the house finished without and within. and was seated at the table when attacked, On the corner of Washington and St. Clair Streets becoming at once unconscious. Dr. Young was another new house is being erected by the sent for, and the patient was better by Tuesday Misses Rich. morning. Mr. H. Alvord is building a new house on Wood St.; so far the foundation is finished. Real Estate Transfers Mr. F. Paine Jr. is erecting a pretty dwelling Painesville house on South St. which is nearly completed. Ann Eliza and Charlotte M. Gage to Susan J. L. G. Tuttle is at work on the foundation of a new Baker, lot on St. Clair St. house on Liberty St., just above South. Loren C. Stebbins to Francis E. Stebbins, ½ interest in the City Mill Property Mr. C. Harrington has beautified his house and Nannie M. McCalin to William Rice, 2 acres ground a short distance out on Mentor Ave. Mentor Dr. Stebbins has not been behind the times in Margaret Malone to Neil Gallagher, 14 acres repairing, for his premises close by the Narrow- Kirtland Gauge Bridge have been decidedly improved. Joseph Kitts to Elizabeth and Selena Kitts, 176 Mr. W. F. Smith has recently completed a fine acres dwelling on South St., just west of Mrs. Pease. Col. J. F. Morse, Mentor Ave., stands alone in I.O.O.F. Annual Election of officers, July 17: town in the plan of architecture and though odd, J. B. Kilbourne - Commander is extremely pretty and new.

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July 25, 1878 county. John Chubb was both loved and In Camp respected by all who knew him. A score of Painesville lads are in camp at Indian *Judge Alonzo Chubb was formerly for several Point located on Grand River in LeRoy Township; years a resident of Painesville. the point being formed by the junction of the stream known as Paine’s Creek with the river. It Willoughby is a high bluff or point of land rising from 50 to Alva Hanscom Esq. has built a large new dwelling 60 feet above the level of the river. There are house on Euclid St. in this village, nearly opposite three rows of earthwork defenses starting across of Sarah M. Wilson’s residence. It has two the point; the second and third back from the stories above the basement and will contain all end of the point are very heavy and when first modern improvements. It is now being painted erected measuring perhaps twenty feet from the on the inside and will be ready for occupation in bottom of the trench or ditch to the top of the a very short time. works. The one on the end of the point is not more than the size or height of the other two, Married and all are covered with full grown or large trees. At Concord, July 14, Frank B. Rogers and Delina The work is supposed to be that of the mound A. Gordon, both of Concord. builders, whoever, they were. The boys who went into camp last week were James Beardslee, Sheriff’s Sale: Shelborn Bostwick vs. John B. Harry Beardslee, Harry Green, Tracy Paine, Frank Peck et al. Land in Madison will be sold. Pierson, Wiliie Pratt, Charley Boalt and Wiliie Child. Capt. Geo. E. Paine has since followed the City Mills boys and put up a tent with all the necessary S. Hall F. E. Stebbins rations for a week or more, with Master Fowler, Manufacturers of the Choicest Brands of Family son of Dr. Fowler, as guest. Those there have Four. Dealers in Feed, & c., Painesville, Ohio been having a splendid time. Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of From the Wexford, Michigan, Pioneer July 21: We received intelligence yesterday that John Ladies Chubb, son of Alonza Chubb*, of Cleon, was in a Adams, Mrs. Adelia dying condition cause by congestion of the brain, Corlett, Mrs. M. A. and in all probability by the time the Pioneer Kennedy, Miss Lill reaches our readers, John Chubb will be no Corlett, Mrs. Abi more. On Sunday, John did not feel well, and on Curtiss, Miss Eliza Monday, he declined to get up for breakfast as Tuttle, Mrs. Sophia he did not feel right. Soon after he fell on the Gentlemen floor unconscious where he was found by his Carter, C. H. brother, George. Medical assistance was sent for Haldenian, A. R. from Sherman, and Dr. H. D. Griswold did all a Kunkle, Jos. B. mortal could do for the stricken man, but no Taylor, David C. change for the better was experienced. Since Cook, John F. the above was in type, we learn that John Chubb Higgins, James died yesterday afternoon, June 25th. He was Seeley, S. W. born at Painesville, Ohio, June 30, 1854, and Wright, L. M. when quite young moved with his father to Ionia Held for postage: Co., and from there to Wexford Co, where his Bourrs, Miss Mattie, Farmington, O. father became identified with the history of our

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Aug. 1, 1878 Thursday surrounded with dark blue. The roof is p. 1 The War for the Union; Number 4 surmounted by a handsome octagon ventilator p. 3 Miss Kate Dewoody, for several years of covered with tin, with weather vane and letters Painesville, but now of Franklin, Pa. has been a designating the points of the compass, and a guest at the Stockwell House during the week. perfect model in copper, covered with gilt, of Rumor has it that Dr. Hammond, who recently “Goldsmith Maid.” The main building has a 54- returned to this place after an absence of a year foot front. Gas and water is throughout the or more in Indiana, and reopened an office in building. The carriage room is 30 x 34 feet; Milwaukee block, left town last Monday night on height 14 ½ feet. The stable attached, and an eastern train with a married woman of an opening out of the carriage house is 20 by 30 adjacent township. feet; height 12 feet. This has four open stalls, 10’ Willie Dean, an orphan boy, age 11 years, was deep, 4’10” wide; one box stall 10’ x 10’6”. The drowned last Thursday while bathing in the bend wagon house, also, opening out of the carriage of the Grand River in the rear of the premises of house is 10 x 24 feet. In this is the hydrant to Mr. Seth Marshall. He got into a deep hole and supply water for the horses and washing the immediately sank; he did not know how to swim. carriages. From the carriage house, you descend Willie was an orphan boy who some 18 months to a fine cellar, extending under the carriage ago came from the Cleveland Industrial School room and stable. This is, also, lighted with gas. and found a home with Mr. and Mrs. J. This is to be used for vegetables. Ascending the Sedgebeer, where he lived until a few days of his stairs from the carriage room you find a store death—apparently very happy and much room 11 feet high. At the back of the upright part thought of by the family—when he suddenly are fixtures for hoisting sleighs, grain, & c. Too disappeared and was not again seen by them. much praise cannot be awarded Mr. J. F. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Scranton, the able architect and builder—also, the builder of the Jennings mansion. Back of the Real Estate Transfers carriage barn is a large stock barn, built of wood, Painesville for young stock and farm horses, 65 feet by 25 Collins Morse to R. M. Johnson, 3 acres feet wide. The whole loft will be used for hay and Perry Bosworth, assignee, to Maria German, lot grain, the cellar under part of the building is on Watson St. designed for the use of fowls in the winter. This Henry B. French to Rufus Briggs, lot 38, Bell’s building has gas and water. Builder of this barn survey, on Liberty St. are Messrs. Stanhope and Williamson. It was a Madison happy thought to celebrate the completion. Eliza Long to Samuel W. Parmly, 28 acres Gen. and Mrs. C. received their numerous guests Asa Lamb et al by Sheriff, to Eunice L. Williams, in the large drawing room of the house. Very 30 acres soon the young people found their way to the John Hogaboan to Benjamin M. Luce, 90 acres open barn which was brilliant with light and Lawn Fete and Barn Opening supplied with innumerable camp stools for the Gen. J. S. Casement has built this season on comfort of the guests. The walls were draped Jennings’ Place a large red brick barn, the brick with stars and stripes, chandeliers and gas of very superior quality, with three sets of large fixtures wreathed with garlands of flowers; Prof. double doors and windows; mansard roof of Bendix and his band on an elevated platform for slate, in three colors; sexagon in form, very music to which flying feet danced till the small beautiful in appearance. In the room are four hours of the morning. The grounds were dormer windows; between the windows and on illuminated with colored lights. In the stalls of either side are perfect rosettes, formed of the the stables, which were decorated with a six-sided slate, with light center pieces, profusion of flowers,

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Aug. 1, 1878 Geneva Times tables and seats were arranged and ice cream Last Thursday, a Scotchman name Alexander and cake were served by attentive waiters during McGregor Dollar, age 30 years, died at the home the evening, and no one seemed to think of the of William Carter, in Harpersfield, of sunstroke. rain which had spoiled the anticipated pleasure He was not feeling well but went out and pitched of the outdoor promenade. There were 200 – on one load of hay, and started a second when 300 guests. he had to stop from Illness. A physician was sent for at once but the man was dead in two hours Madison before assistance arrived. The man came to Mr. Miss Jessie Church is home from Toledo where Carter’s from Youngstown, some months ago. she has been attending school since last September. She made her home with her Aunt, Died Mrs. Emory Bailey, formerly of Madison. A few At the home of her mother in Concord, June 15, days before Jessie left Toledo, the house of Mr. Mrs. Martha J. Sawyer, wife of Dr. A. D. Sawyer, E. Bailey was entered by thieves, who and youngest daughter of Mrs. C. A. Fitch, age 28 chloroformed nearly the whole family and made years. She leaves two little daughters. off with a watch, forty dollars in money, belonging to Mr. Bailey’s father, of Madison, Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of who was visiting at the time; an also Mr. Emory July 31: Bailey’s pocket book relieved of its contents. Ladies Mr. Adam Burdicott met with quite a serious Arone, Mrs. Mercy accident last week when returning home from Kellogg, Mrs. E. R. his sister’s, Mrs. Frank, who lives near the lake. Story, Miss Mattie A. He was thrown from his horse, badly hurting his Smith, Mrs. Sophia M. left side and shoulder and breaking his collar Carpenter, Mrs. Idalia bone. The accident happened about midnight Searles, Mrs. Chas. and he was not found until morning and taken to Stuart, Miss Mattie E. his sister’s. The is doubt of his recovery. Tuttle, Miss Ida E. Gentlemen Ashtabula Standard Bishop, A. N. Isaac Sweet died in the East Village of Ashtabula Ellinger, Joseph J. last Friday morning. We believe he was the Lazell, Jud oldest man in town. It is known that he was a Simpson, Robt. F. least 95 yrs. old and some think that he had Belding, Louis reach 107 years. He was born in Connecticut and Rice, Reuben came to Ashtabula in 1807. He settled 71 yrs. Wright, Alex ago upon the very farm where he died. Held for postage: Miss Biddy Casey, Mentor, Ohio Ravenna Democrat During the heavy rain on Thursday on the farm Eunice L. Williams and Asa Lamb are executors of of Sterling Smith in the northwestern part of John Williams. Ravenna, the hay makers were busy in the field, and were not visited by the rain, while on the Bankrupt Notice. August Bull is a bankrupt of farms each side of them the water came down in Mentor, Lake Co. torrents. The hay makers on the Smith farm put in a full day. p. 4 Jack Casement’s farm is 300 acres. There is a tower back of the mansion in which an iron tank of 1,000 barrels’ capacity, at an elevation of

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Aug. 1, 1878 Tillotson and J. B. Barnes were in the first three forty feet from the ground, and from which months’ service, in response to the President’s water is supplied by pipes and hydrants to all call. parts of the dwelling and to the various barns The Painesville company, which was nearly full at and stables and lawn and garden. The tank is the mass meeting, April 20, was filled up at an supplied by water from a spring which is forced early hour Monday, April 22. up to the tower by a drive wheel and force pump. April 22, the Geneva Artillery, Capt. Kinney, J. B. Burrows, Orderly Sergeant, which had attended Aug. 8, 1878 Thursday the mass meeting on Saturday, passed through Painesville en route for West Virginia. p. 1 The War for the Union – Lake Co. Madison and Perry volunteers elected their Number 5 - The first volunteers from Lake Co. officers April 23rd or 24th; and the Willoughby, Following are the names of the thirty volunteers Mentor, and Kirtland company was organized enrolled at Wilcox Hall, Painesville, April 16, about the same time. (Following are the names 1861: of the volunteers composing the first three G. E. Paine companies from Lake Co., as published in the Benj. F. Gill paper at the time.) The first company of H. C. Gray volunteers was called the “Union Guards” which D. F. Pomeroy went into camp April 24, 1861. The list is in order V. E. Smalley of their enlistment. L. B. Seeley C. E. Griffith Isaac Travis V. E. Smalley B. K. Cranston C. A. Shepherd W. A. French I. B. Seeley C. E. Griffith D. F. Pomeroy Edgar M. Johnson Benj. F. Gill W. H. Barnes W. A French Wm. Grassler W. H. Barnes G. J. Buys C. H. Johnson Wm. Cain Edgar M. Johnson Frank Paine Jr. Steven V. Russell G. A. Biggs John E. Callender John N. Dyer Henry F. Robins L. A. Anson Geo. D. Lockwood L. L. Ricker Lewis C. Gill A. G. Griffith Wm. L. Wurts E. Huntington Chas. B. Spring A. J. Williams John Allen W. P. Tisdel O. B. Wakelee James B. Barnes Frank Paine Jr. J. H. Tillotson H. H. Rhode Frank Stanley Wm. D. Shepherd Seymour T. Gill John N. Dyer James Bottin A. G. Griffith G. E. Clark G. J. Buys Nearly all these men went into Co. D., 7th Regt., * John Rose Capt. John N. Dyer. And all except H. C. Gray, B. G. A. Gibbs K. Cranston, Geo. L. Riker, Geo. E. Clark, J. H. Wm. Cain

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Aug. 8, 1878 F. Johnson Isaac Travis * David E. Taylor C. C. Armstrong N. K. Hubbard John Mulligan A. J. Williams Eurotus Sumner Frank Stanley Sir Matthew Hale Thomas Colgan * Richard Uden * John Rynd J. R. Breese * H. Nash * G. E. Clark Seymour Gill L. C. Beebe E. Huntington * L. A. Anson * John Sullivan H. Duncan Clinton J. Paine Henry Huntington Wm. Croft Michael Brick Griffith Hunter V. A. Hummel * James Fineran Willard P. Tisdel Stephen A. Hopkins *Wm. O. Weaver M. C. Taylor Wm. Grassler *Wm Robinson A “correct list” is reprinted which appeared in *Richard N. Meigs the May 9, 1861I Telegraph issue of officers and Calvin Barnes privates—in this new list those above marked *J. C. McDonald with * are omitted and twelve new names S. S. Brinkerhoff appear: A. Hungerford Thos. S. Atkins Ed. Hobday Alex. Dodge Chas. A. Weed James Erwin Frank Cone John Foster W. A. Coulter James Hartman John Harmer Chas. Jones John A. Norton Russell M. Jones * Frank Paine Sr. Samuel Oliver * S. T. Loomis Wesley L. Thompson *Alonzo Cole Wm. White P. H. Robinson John Weaver Geo. F. Clark E. G. Huntoon H. Taylor Clark * O. E. Wilson The “Wright Guards” from Perry and Madison * Geo. Waldo went into camp at Cleveland, April 25, 1861. The * B. A. Broughton officers were: A. Sperry E. A. Wright, Captain st A. Weber J. H. Stratton, 1 Lieut. nd J. A. Ferron A. J. Rosa, 2 Lieut. st * R. Genon J. C. Haskell, 1 Sergeant * Seth Barber The following names were published in the A. H. Harrison Telegraph April 25, 1861: * F. R. Johnson PERRY VOLUNTEERS Harry Dingman J. Coolidge E. Mellon

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Aug. 8, 1878 H. O. Brown H. Blanchard R. Churchill J. B. Estell Rufus Foster E. Brown Clark Barber E. L. Gray Chas. Smith J. W. Denton O. Foster E. F. Parker Isaac Maxfield Geo. Herrick W. J. Whiting Chas. Sinclair Geo. Corbitt J. W. Ingersoll E. Barber W. H. Taylor Jas. Joiner Wilbur Malone H. S. Damon S. A. Shaw H. D. Sanford Benj. Powers H. J. Whiting Lewis Price Lewis Smith R. K. Young Geo. Thomas Geo. W. St. John W. J. Baldwin S. T. Malone Emoroy Hewitt J. C. Haskell Carlos Burroughs Thos. Mathews Cyrus Williams Jehial Johnson D. Vrooman Harvey Woolsey Thos. E. Hill W. O. Butler E. D. Frink H. W. Perry A. D. Barrett C. M. Pleasants W. H. Fox J. H. Stratton R. M. Vreeland E. B. Carter Isaac Black Howard Coolidge S. S Marsh Lawrence Wilson Theodore Goodrich H. H. St. John Dwight Seamens E. D. Park Hiram Woodin D. Carnahan M. M. Sherwood K. J. Dangler Elihu Stevens Johnson Crofoot Henry Merritt W. H. H. Mallory Jerome Wellman Chas E. Arnold The “Wright Guards” became famous in Lake and MADISON VOLUNTEERS Geauga Counties very early in the war. After E. A. Wright arriving at camp Taylor, Cleveland, they Frank Dickinson mysteriously disappeared. Mr. V. E. Smalley L. S. Childs gave this explanation. After the Company came O. H. Hanks into camp on April 25 (nearly 100 men in their B. W. Hanks ranks), a paper was sent from Madison A. Crandall requesting that several be sent back, as they J. W. Dewey could not be spared from home. On April 29, the A. J. Rosa Company was brought to be mustered into Amos Austin service, and the United States officer, after rejecting all whom he deemed unfit for service

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Aug. 8, 1878 W. P. Gray and wife, of Piqua, Ohio, are visiting then threw out, also, those named in the paper relatives and friends here. above spoken of. This reduced the company to two less than the number required by law. At Mrs. J. S. Mathews, of New York, will visit her this point the men became dissatisfied and so relatives in this place during the present month. many deserted during the night that but 48 men remained the next morning. Of course, the Mr. Reese Johnson was last week, in company was broken up, and the remaining men consequence of ill health and mental left for home. excitement, by advice of physicians, sent to the Telegraph of May 9, 1861 – There are six of the Insane Hospital at Newburgh for treatment. Perry and Madison Company of good grit, who have enlisted and joined Captain McIlrath’s Gales Pearce, of Farmington, a man about 50 Cleveland Company “B” – “The Zouave Light years old, was struck by lightning and instantly Guards.” Their names are: Emoroy Hewitt, of killed, on Monday. He was working in the oat Madison; and Jacob Harvey, E. F. Parker, E. D. field alone. His body was badly mutilated. He Park, and J. H. Stratton, of Perry. Geo. W. St. leaves a wife and children in a very destitute John of Perry was, also, intending to enlist in the condition. same company. A. D. Barrett, of Madison (or Thompson) enlisted The hay and grain barn, of Mrs. R. H. Fountain, in the “Geauga Rifles.” Capt. Geo. E. Paine’s on the Headlands, was struck by lightning and set Company “F”, 19th Regt. O.V.I. on fire during the Monday thunder storm. The loss is very heavy to Mrs. Fountain, and her son- p. 3 Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as in-law, Mr. Henry Lapham, who was working the of Aug. 7: farm on shares. Ladies Brown, Mrs. Elly A Terrible Misfortune Bryant, Theressa The many friends of Mr. Charles Cole, formerly Curtiss, Miss Nellie of this place, and brother of Mr. H. Cole, will Harrison, Miss B. regret to learn that a very great misfortune Murphy, Emily recently befell his family at Humboldt, Kansas, to Smith, Miss Anna L. which place he some time ago moved from Crady, Margaret Illinois. Under date of July 31, Mr. Cole, writes to Carlton, Mrs. Diantha his brother here as follows: Gallagher, Miss Kate “We were visited by a terrible cyclone storm Magley, Mrs. Betsy yesterday morning. It stuck us about six o’clock, Remington, Miss C. and in ten minutes we were houseless, and took Stetson, Miss L. refuge under the lee of a hedge. The family was Stuart, Miss Mattie E. out of the house when the storm struck and Gentlemen crushed it, but two of the children, Alice and Allen, W. Seeley, who as by a miracle, escaped with only a Duel, M. H. few bruises. Yesterday was spent in gathering up Harvey, Harrison the fragments from the ruined house, furniture, Farndsworth, W. H. dishes, bedding & c., all broken up and Magley, Wm. H. destroyed, or nearly so—scarcely a thing is left Sebrings, Horace whole.” Held for postage: Jno. D. Wattie, Philadelphia, Pa.

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Aug. 8, 1878 Lawrence Fogerty, age 10 yrs., son of Thomas Summit County Fogerty, accidentally fell between the cars on the Dennis A. Hine, an old resident and respected A. & W. W. Road near Walnut St. Saturday citizen died last Saturday, age 71 years. morning. His leg was caught in the break-rod and cut to the bone from the knee to the ankle. Madison Fortunately, the train was going slow and We have to chronicle another case of death from stopped which saved his life. suffocation. A little daughter of Jay Burden, of North Madison, attempted to swallow a bean Died and died almost instantly. In Painesville, Aug. 7, Hattie E. Bryant, daughter of B. F. and Eva M. Bryant, age 4 weeks, 4 days. th North Madison In Thompson, July 18 , Mrs. S. Goodsell, age 81 Horace and George Corbet and their families, yrs. from Geneva, are visiting their friends in Abraham Citerly, born in New York state, died Madison; North Madison being their former in Perry, Lake Co., July 18, age 75 yrs., 9 mos., 1 home. day. Mrs. Luther Weeks has gone to Aurora to visit her sick daughter, Miss Ida Barrett, who has Obituary been sick for several weeks with a difficulty Abraham Citerely, was born in Princeton, which is feared will terminate in consumption. Schenectady Co., N.Y. in 1802. He went to Russia. Herkimer Co., N.Y. in 1815. In 1827, he Kirtland was married to Julina Clark, who survives him. In The funeral services of Mrs. Thomas Evill were 1852, they moved to Painesville. In 1864, they held at the Congregational Church, on Wed. of moved to Perry, where the widow and one son last week. sill reside. He died July 18, 1878. Up to within three weeks of his death, he was an active able- Ashtabula Standard bodied man for one of his years. While Wm. Bates, of Saybrook, one-day last week tied endeavoring to climb up on a load of hay, he fell, up fifty bundles of oats grown on three acres of breaking his collar bone and receiving some ground, in half a day. This is hard to beat. It internal injuries. Three weeks later he died. seems Wm. Inherits part of the muscle of the grandsire “Uncle Sol.” Uncle Sol, now fast Aug. 15, 1878 Thursday approaching 88 yrs., retains the vigor of years p. 1 The War for the Union, number 6 ago in a remarkable degree. The “Union Savers” from Mentor, Willoughby, and Kirtland, went into camp, at Cleveland with Warren Chronicle the Wright Guards, April 25, 1861. R. B. More, Henninger, the auctioneer, tells a fish story. It Captain; S. B. Warren, 1st Lieut., and Russell was an incident of Friday’s rain storm. He was Hastings, 2nd Lieut. List of Volunteers which was passing along Vine St., when suddenly a fish fell published in the Press & Advertiser, May 1, and from the clouds and dropped upon the sidewalk. in the Telegraph, May 2 1861: He picked it up and found it to be a sucker, about Mentor Volunteers four inches long, and alive. He brought it down S. B. Warren town where the fish was seen by quite a number Wm. McLelland of people. Andrew Sheppard Alexander Hill Youngstown Register W. C. Dickey S. Hendrickson

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Aug. 15, 1878 R. G. Varner Daniel French C. G. Hutchenson Joseph M. Potter A. Peters ____ Prouty Russell Hastings Albert Randall W. S. Ferguson W. H. Smith C. W. Atkinson H. Martindale R. B. More Jesse Hill J. Harvey Spencer Munson Ed Cortell John Miller Geo. B. Huston Cyrus Story O. C. Church George E. Tyler E. B. Chamberlain Martin Hopkins Andrew J. Holmes Arthur B. Ingersoll Sylvester Romsell George Kuval Daniel Bennett John Harvey Jeremiah Colby Chauncey Wheeler J. O. Humphrey Thos. Casey Abner Bennett A. H. Doy C. H. M. Hill Charles Hayes Henry Newill J. M. Blish T. C. Lilly James Botton T. C. St. John R. M. Murray A. J. LeRoy M. D. Story Thos. M. Harvey W. H. Radcliff Calvin R. Snow Alfred Phillips H. McDowell William Gray W. L Seldon W. M. Severance J. B. Ferguson S. J. Baker C. J. Stanislaus M. G. Clapp Edwin McNally Kirtland Volunteers Thos. J. Smith D. W. Bryant Willoughby Volunteers M. F. Rockaway J. A. Wilkeson A. G. Jones Marvin Strong S. S. Morley Samuel Ames Henry Wait George Walker Luther Martindale Robert Bartoss Ansel Safford Milton Davis Hiram Stratton George H. Morley R. C. Whitney David Curtis Solomon Moore Francis Allen William Wait Geo. B. Squires James Cassidy A. H. Loomis T. G. Hunt Within ten days of the President’s all for 75,00 Benj. W. Jackson volunteers, Lake Co., with only eight rural E. C. Huston townships, had three companies in camp at Cleveland. Painesville Telegraph, of May 2, 1861.

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Aug. 15, 1878 other treatment than occasional dosing with Our quota is 86. We have already 310 in Camp nauseous compounds miscalled medicine. Did I Taylor. It will be seen that no volunteers are suppose any good would arise from it, I might credited to Concord and Leroy of the names relate facts with regard to the treatment of the heretofore given. As a matter of fact, several of sick here, that would make one’s blood boil with the volunteers credited to other townships were indignation. But perhaps the less said on such from Concord and Leroy. In the Union Guards subject the better. A day of reckoning will come were Seth Barber, Harry Dingman, Samuel sooner or later.” Oliver, and E. G. Huntoon from Concord, and The First Volunteer Killed Wesley L. Thompson, from LeRoy, and probably Capt. John N. Dyer was killed at the battle of others unknown to the writer. In the Geauga Cross Lanes, West, Va., on August 26, 1861. Rifles, were Henry M. Babcock, Concord; Truman Capt. Dyer had seen active service in the H. Hurlbert and John H. Valentine, LeRoy; Mexican War and had been Captain of the Leander N. Batchelder, Perry, and Wm. H. Painesville Grays in 1856-57. Certain citizens of Plaisted, Kirtland. Others probably went into Painesville purchased and presented to the other organizations. At Camp Taylor, on May 2, family the residence on the corner of Liberty and 1861, J. S. Casement, of Painesville, was elected South State Streets in Painesville in gratitude for Major of the 7th Regt. O.V.I. It is due to Geauga the gallant services of Capt. Dyer. He left a wife Co. to state that several of the men in the Lake and five children. Capt. Dyer’s body had been Co. companies were from that county. In the buried and grave marked in Gauley Bridge, West Union Guards were John Allen and Geo. A. Va. Patchin, from Chardon. p. 2 Real Estate Transfers The First Volunteer Wounded Painesville In the three months’ volunteers from Lake Co. B. S. Morrison to Lavinia L. Parmly, 7 acres first wounded during the war was probably Mr. Heirs of Benj. Stuart to Elmira Stuart, part of an J. Storm, of Kirtland. He was kicked by and horse acre, lot next north of the Court House on April 21, 1861 and had both jaws broken. This Madison accident prevented his name from appearing in Daniel and Theo. D. Crandall to Albert G. the Kirtland list of Union Savers. Crandall, 44 acres The First Death in Hospital Philo T. Safford, by assignee, to Norman Stratton Sir Mathew Hale, a private it the Union Guards, Jr., store and lot company D, 7th Regt., O.V.I., died in the Hospital Ann Avery to Harvey Cram, 40 acres at Camp Dennison, May 25, 1861. We copy from Willoughby Mr. Smalley’s letter of May 19, 1861 in the Press Louisa and David Huron to Sarah M. Tillinghast, & Advertiser of June 5, 1861: “His disease was 20 acres occasioned by the exposure and hardships to Paul Jenkins, by executors, to Horatio H. Wells, which he, in common with others, was subjected 13 acres for the first week after arriving here. His Thomas Baldwin, by Administrator to S. W. comrades did everything for him that it was Smart and S. V. Wilson, 20 acres possible to do with the poor accommodations George Baldwin et al by sheriff, to S. W. Smart that were afforded. It cannot be expected that a and S. V. Wilson, 50 acres man afflicted with lung complaint, would have Ashtabula Sentinel much chance to recover when laid in his dirty Lost in the Woods – In 1823 Deacon Josiah Creesy clothes in a box of straw, in a filthy old barn, the moved onto the State Road in Andover with his air poisoned by the breath of fifty invalids and family consisting of his wife, four sons and two the cigar smoke of pompous officials, with no daughters. The country was new, only three families were living on the Creek Road then,

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Aug. 15, 1878 insane man in such manner as to cause his death. between the center road and the Wayne line, He had an accomplice, E. Brown, who was, also, one of which was John Fenn’s. In 1826, one arrested. afternoon late in the summer, Mrs. Wright, the Mr. James Wilson, of Toronto, Canada, son-in- mother of Mrs. Creesy, who lived with Deacon law of Mr. M. H. Colby, has been spending Benjamin Carpenter, on the State road, went to several days among his old friends in Painesville. visit Mrs. Fenn. After spending the afternoon Mrs. Wilson, who came home several weeks and taking tea, she decided to go to her since, will remain through the season. daughter, Mrs. Creesy. In order to shorten the trip, she took a near cut through the woods. Mrs. Geo. H. Cramer, of Hubbard, Trumbull Co., After getting well into the woods she got committed suicide one-day last week by drinking confused and got lost. On the second day, a lye. She had been considerably deranged for daughter of Mr. Creesy (now Mrs. Horatio some time and several days previously had Lindsley, of Jefferson) went on an errand to Mrs. attempted to cut her throat. She was a lady Fenn’s. In the course of conversation, Mrs. F. highly respected and esteemed. asked about her grandmother, when it appeared as she had not reached Mr. Creesy’s, she must Mrs. Cain has just returned from a trip to England be lost. The granddaughter hurried home to after an absence of two years spent in visiting old spread the alarm and start a search. In a short acquaintances and the scenes of her early days. time, Capt. Joshua Lyman, Sidney and Burt The return voyage from Liverpool to Montreal— Carpenter, Zadoc Steele, Selah Merrill, Alba a very pleasant one—was made in eight and a Coleman, and several others, in fact all the half days. Mrs. Cain will make her home with her neighborhood, soon gathered for the search. In brother, Mr. Robert Corlett, of Concord. a little while they found Mrs. Wright where she was lying down in a state of exhaustion. A litter Death of Charles A. Dean was extemporized and she was carried home. In Charles A. Dean, formerly a citizen of Cleveland a little while she recovered, although at that time but for more than two years a resident of this she was 75 years old. place, died at the residence of Dr. S. Mathews Sunday morning. The deceased was born in Warren Tribune Massachusetts, came to Cleveland om 1837 and The one hundredth birthday of Mrs. Lovina went into business, which he followed Stewart, of Wethersfield Township will be successfully until about ten years ago when he celebrated Aug. 12. Mrs. Stewart is probably the left Cleveland and engaged in various oldest person in Trumbull Co. enterprises in several western towns. He was the pioneer in the oil refining industry, which of Geauga Republican late years have become such a gigantic interest James F. Elder has been appointed Postmaster in the Forest City and has contributed very at Fowler’s Mills, vice D. J. Warner, resigned. largely to its prosperity. He was 67 years old. His Mr. E. V. Canfield, formerly of the late firm of remains were taken to Cleveland and consigned Canfield, Murray & Canfield, of this place, left on to his last resting place, Woodland Cemetery. Monday last for Zumbrota, Minn., where we understand he has the position of cashier in a Gunpowder and Game banking house. His family remains here for the Pioneer Life in Concord present. Hezekiah Woodruff emigrated from Connecticut October 10, 1822, and with the aid of a stout p. 3 Henry Austin, of Eagleville, Ashtabula Co., cart, an ox team, a brave heart and a faithful was arrested last week charged with beating an family, he arrived at the Winchell farm in Concord Nov. 15th. This was making good time

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Aug. 15, 1878 A little daughter, Edna, of Mr. and Mrs. J. M th considering the state of the country through Burden, of Madison, died on the 4 instant. She which he traveled. Diligent search was strangled almost instantly on a bean which got immediately instituted for his tract of land that into her windpipe. At the time of the accident, he had bought “unsight and unseen;” and with she was at her grandfather’s in Perry, Mr. S. the aid of Judge Kerr, then a surveyor of Lockwood. Painesville, the location was ascertained to be in that delightful spot, known now a Woodruff’s Mrs. M. H. Colby, of Painesville and her daughter Corners. Willis Woodruff, at present one of the of Toronto, Canada, have been visiting friends in seniors of Lake Co., worked long and faithfully to North Madison the past week. earn money for a good rifle. One bright morning, the gun swung upon his shoulder. He wandered Died th abroad in search of fat game. One idle morning In Perry, Aug. 4 , Edna, only daughter of Jay and searching for something to shoot at was Mary Burden of Madison, age 4 yrs., 6 mos. sufficient for him. He sold his gun, though not till he had proven his skill by driving a marked pin at Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of eighteen rods. Another son of Hezekiah, Mr. D. Aug. 14: E. Woodruff, spied a deer through the window in Corlett, Mrs. Ann the log cabin. Very quickly he got his rifle and Ervart, Miss Ada through an opening in the blanket door, he Minton, Miss Minnie brought it down. Reynolds, Miss Lizzie Dutro, Mrs. T. Corwin C. C. Bronson, of Talmage, had made a recent Ervart, Miss Belle inquiry for information concerning Charles Mowror, Mrs. Susan Parker a very early settler of this part of the Wilson, Mrs. F. H. Western Reserve. I learn from Franklin Paine, Gentlemen who came to Painesville in 1803, that Charles Aiken, S. J. Parker was then keeping a store in Painesville. In Munger, W. B. the year 1804 or 05, Mr. Parker surveyed a road Teachout, Jacob from the Marsh Settlement easterly to Held for postage: Harpersfield, running through what is now Mrs. Eliza Tillotson, Ashtabula, O. Richmond which he named New Jerusalem, where were two transient settlers, brothers of Probate Court the name Ellenwood, near a rude grist mill which 1. William M. Irwin, as executor of Thomas Irwin, had been built by a Mr. Thompson on a small deceased; fist account stream where it emptied into Grand River. The 2. W. A. Lillie, executor of Joseph White, stream, though a small one, was called the Tiber. deceased; first account Mr. Parker, I think, must have continued to live 3. John Multer, guardian of John A. Austin; fifth in Painesville several years up to 1807. In this account year, Aug., 1807, my father contracted with him 4. Samuel Wire, adm. of Joseph W. Sinclair; final for a piece of land, which is part of my farm in account Painesville; and which land he had bought of 5. M. M Seymour, executor, of Enoch Malin, John Walworth a short time previous. deceased; second account By C. Huntington 6. Frederick E. Fowler, guardian of Oscar R. Kingsland; final account Sudden Death 7. Isaac S. Sawdey, guardian of Henry Sawdey; final account

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Aug. 15, 1878 8. William T. Atkinson, guardian of Lewis W. In his letter of May 19, 1861, Mr. Smalley says: Penfield; final account The new enlistment is rapidly progressing. A much larger number might be obtained had the Perry Bosworth, assignee of Philo T. Safford, will men been treated properly since the first sell land in Madison, at public auction. enlistment. They are conscious that they have been shamefully abused, and argue that as the Aug. 22, 1878 Thursday Government has failed to redeem its promises to the three months’ volunteers, they cannot p. 1 The War for the Union, Number 7 depend upon its doing any better by those who On May 3rd, 1851, the President issued a second go for the war. The chief lack of complaint is the Proclamation calling for 42,000 additional lack of clothing. When they left home they were Volunteers for three years unless sooner told not to take but little clothing with them, and discharged. that the poorest they had, for they would be Letter of 4th Sergeant, Wm. D. Shepherd, War uniformed in a very few days. We have now correspondent of the Telegraph, from the been five weeks in service and the only clothing Telegraph of May 30. 1861: that has been furnished us is a few pair of shoes, Friend Merrill: with some underclothes—not half enough to go In my last I expressed a doubt as to whether we around—that we obtained last week. Many of would be asked to enlist for three years. That the men cannot appear on parade from the fact doubt was removed yesterday morning by they have scarcely rags enough to cover their General Cox announcing to the 7th Regiment that nakedness. Every day we are promised of he wanted to know how many, and who would uniforms ‘in a few days.’ enlist of the war and see it through. Accordingly, in the afternoon, Capt. Dyer marched the In the Telegraph of Jun 13, 1861, W. D. S. writes: Company back of the Camp ground to a shady, The names of the 41 original “Three months’ pleasant spot, and the matter was discussed. men in the Painesville “Union Guards” who re- Eloquent and patriotic speeches were made by enlisted for three years will be given at a later the Captain, Lieut. Williams, Sergt. Paine, time. Corporal Smalley and others—each expressing Albert G. Griffith was sick and discharged at his determination to stand by the stars and Camp Taylor, Cleveland, May 3rd, 1861, by stripes to the end. An informal expression of the Surgeon’s certificate. feeling of the men was taken, resulting in Sir Mathew Hale died of lung fever at Camp nothing final. Most of us, however, will go in for Dennison, May 25, 1861. the war. This, perhaps, will add to the anxious The three months’ men, who would not or could feeling already existing in the breasts of those not go in “for the war,” returned home and were dear ones we have left behind. But, friend afterwards paid off and mustered out at Merrill, let us look calmly at the matter. The Painesville, Aug. 26, 1861. Wm. M. Taylor, of same necessity exists now that existed six weeks Perry; Seth Barber, of Leroy; and Mortimer Ford, ago. The same powerful motive that caused us of Madison, all members of the “Wright Guards” to take the path of duty then, still urges on. were in the three months’ service with the Union We understand that this is the only Lake Co. Guards, but through some neglect of the company mustered into service. A short officers, their names were not placed on the furlough will be granted to Volunteers for the muster roll and they were not paid off with the War to visit their homes. A bounty of $100 and company. 160 acres of Government land will be given to each and every man when discharged from p. 2 Conneaut Reporter service.

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Aug. 22, 1878 passengers. The P. & Y. carried the excursionists Mr. Harvey N. Clarke, of Sheffield, recently had a from the harbor to a neighboring grove, where narrow escape from death. He and his hired man dancing was in order during the entire were at work in the grist mill, the man standing afternoon. The steamer returned to Cleveland at the desk and Mr. Clarke down in the flume that evening in time to make her regular trip to removing flood wood which had accumulated Detroit. She was chartered for the day by the there. Somehow, Mr. Clark’s beard, which was Ellsworth Masonic Lodge of Cleveland. quite long, got caught in the shaft, was wound around it, and pulled out by the roots. Also, a Death at the Camp Meeting portion of his clothing was caught. His screams Taken from the Geauga Republican furnished us for help, alerted the hired man who succeeded by Mr. G. A. Mosley, of Thompson, a relative of in closing the gates in time to save his life. the deceased. Last Sunday, Mr. Elno Charter and his wife’s Geneva Times cousin, Arthur Parsons, joined the crowd that On Tuesday, Mr. Almon H. Thompson, son of H. attended the Methodist camp meeting at H. Thompson, of Trumbull, was driving to Thompson, leaving their horse at the barn of the Geneva with a load of cheese and stopped near Ledge House. About 8 ½ p.m. as they were Mr. Massingham’s to water his team. He returning from the camp ground to the barn, a became suddenly ill, near fainting, which distance of about a half mile, it being very dark happened several times, when he was taken in and missing the road, Mr. Charter accidentally to Mr. Massingham’s house and a physician sent stepped off the brink of the Ledge, falling over 51 for. The condition of the man may be critical. He feet and struck on the ground and a log below. is about 37 years old. His right leg was broken but only two or three bruises were visible. He was taken up in an Jefferson Gazette insensible condition, and his wife and relatives A. B. Sperry, of Rock Creek, died very suddenly here, among them Dr. Sweeney, were last Monday. He was about to take a pail and go immediately sent for; the two physicians of the for water, when he suddenly fell, and expired place, with Dr. Sherwood, of Madison, were also almost immediately. summoned and no effort was spared to save his One man in this place says that the phonograph life, but all to no purpose, he had received exhibited here was nothing more nor less than internal injuries, from which he died about ventriloquism, and that it was very poorly done midnight. His wife arrived about half an hour at that. after his death. Mr. Charter, was a son of Mrs. J. B. Mathews, and brother of Mrs. C. H. Kelley, of p. 3 Miss Sadie S. Bigler sailed from New York in this place. He was about 25 yrs. old; was married the Cunard Line steamer Scythia for Europe last nearly three years to Miss Jennie Parsons, week, on a trip for the benefit of her health, daughter of Mr. Ransom P. Parsons, of this place. which her many friends in Painesville hope will Besides his wife, he leaves a little daughter, over be largely realized. two years old. The 100th birthday of Mrs. Levenia McConnell, of Mineral Ridge, Trumbull Co., was recently Death of a Former Resident observed by a large number of friends and Mr. Delos H. Green, formerly of Painesville, and neighbors. son of Capt. D. H. Green, died at his residence at Clear Lake, Iowa, on Aug. 8; age 29 yrs., 22 mos. The Excursion Last Thursday at Fairport, the large steamer, City Madison of Detroit docked at the pier and discharged her

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Aug. 22, 1878 Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Mr. John Winchester, who has been studying Aug. 21: music in Germany the last three years, has Ladies returned home. Bennett, Mrs. Anna Mrs. J. L. Wood has gone to Nebraska to visit her Coughlan, Miss Mary daughter, Mrs. C. W. Lyman. Gage, Miss J. E. Marsh, Mrs. Millia North Madison Christy, Margaret A. Mrs. Aurelia Munn, of Juliet, Illinois, is visiting Davis, Miss Ruth her parents, Col. Erastus Crocker, of North Loomis, Miss Laura Madison. Ryan, Mrs. M. D. Mr. O. E. Branch has returned to New York Stuart, Miss Mattie E. sooner than was expected, on account of the Gentlemen illness of his brother, John Branch. The friends Allen, M. C. were sorry that the latter was not able to be Johnson, Prof. H. W. present at the wedding of his sister, which took Rye, Dan place on the 14th, at the residence of the bride’s St. Sedges, Michael father, Judge W. W. Branch; the marriage of Prof. Gracey, Frank W. S. Mills, of Joliet, Ill, to Miss Ida Branch. Pitcher, H. L Samson, A. H. Middle Ridge, Madison, Aug. 18, 1878 Tester, Jacob. L Mr. Dyer, of the Dock Road, died last Saturday Timmons, Alfred night, at the house of Mr. L. Brockway. Held for postage: Mrs. Milo D. Pettibone, Cleveland, O. Real Estate Transfers Charles Cook, West Richfield, O Mentor P. P. Laughlin, New Sharon, Iowa John Corkens to Benjamin Shattuck, 36 acres Mrs. T. S. Thompson, New Sharon, Iowa James C. Campbell to Charles N. Hayes, 16 acres Mrs. Wm. Bennett, Brunswick, O. Jane H. Neill to William M. Neill, 1 acres Ambrose C. Cole to Charles N. Hayes, 8 acres Aug. 29, 1878 Thursday Charles N. Hayes to A. J. Taylor, same premises p. 2 Conneaut Reporter Mr. D. Cummins commenced canning tomatoes Married on Friday, putting up some three hundred cans. At the Stockwell House parlor, Aug. 15, Mr. From this time on until the close of the season, John W. Chase to Miss Mattie Andrews, both of his establishment will be the liveliest in the Mentor, Ohio. County, giving employment to fifty persons. In North Madison, O., Aug. 14, at the residence Geneva Times of the bride’s father, Hon. W. W. Branch, by Rev. Solomon Wright, of Harpersfield, died Tuesday James A. Bolles, rector of St. Peter’s Church, of last week at his home it that township; he was Cleveland, Ohio, and cousin of the bride, Miss Ida 90 yrs. old. He was a pensioner of the War of A. Branch to W. S. Mills, of Joliet, Ill. 1812 and one of the earliest settlers in that section of the country. Died In Cleveland, Aug. 2, Albert Parmly Teachout, Sophia Munson is administratrix of Edward S. only son of Albert and Sarah Teachout, age 1 yrs., Munson. 5 mos.

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Aug. 29, 1878 There was a pleasant gathering at the old Sheriff’s sale: James Kidward vs. Charles Kneal. homestead on St. Clair St., all the children, Goods and chattels will be sold at the Kneal farm, except Mr. H. C. Tisdel, in the Government on Mentor Plains. Printing House at Washington, being present, as well as a goodly number of grandchildren. Sheriff’s sale: William Delong vs. Z. P. Sorter. Goods and chattels will be sold on the Sorter Many of our Painesville boys are preparing to farm in Mentor Township. leave town to pursue their studies in different Colleges; among them are Geo. M. Marshall, ( A Supplement is included before page 3.) who is already at Hudson, and will be joined this p. 3 Isaac N. Dawson, Mayor of Warren, week by Elwin Little, Geo. E. Andrews, and Trumbull Co., died at his residence in that city, of Romeo Burrows. While Fred C. Porter goes to consumption, last Tuesday. Oberlin and Harry P. Bosworth to Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. Julian J. Huntington has Mrs. S. Stocking, of Mansfield, formerly of left for West Point, for examination, necessary to Painesville, was in town last week, returning enter the U. S. Military Academy. Chas. A. Wilcox home from a visit of a few days to friends in will return to Yale early in September where he Madison. finishes the course this year.

Messrs. Mosher and Crofoot have improved The Encampment their market by a set of wire screen doors, both The Tenth Regiment Ohio Infantry goes into front and rear. They bar out both flies and dust camp at Painesville, September 5th. The and add to the coolness and pleasantness of the following are the officers of the Regiment: room generally. Col. Josiah Robbins, Niles A. Capt. Patrick Joice, Youngstown Mr. John A. Winchester, son of Mr. Horace B. Capt. R. Shurtiff, Youngstown Winchester, of Madison, recently returned from C. Capt. Lawrence Rowley, Niles Europe, and we regret to learn in poor health. D. Capt. W. P. Burson, Mineral Ridge He recently graduated with honors from the E. Capt. Wm. T. Hamilton, East Palestine celebrated German Musical Institution at F. Capt. C. W. Talbitzer, Niles Leipsig. G. Capt. Seth Barber, Windsor H. Capt. Geo. W. Waite, Ashtabula Real Estate Transfers I. Capt. D. Potter, Madison Painesville Henry Carter to James Vrooman, lot on Pearl St. Married James Vrooman to J. C. Prentice, same premises Aug. 17, in Painesville, at the residence of the Elizabeth and James Vrooman to J. C. Prentice, Churchwards, sisters and brother, on Mentor lots 18 and 19, Bell’s survey, Pearl St. Ave., Mr. Horace W. Allen and Miss Tamma Samuel Mathews et al by sheriff, to Hezekiah Churchward. Cole, lots 73 and 74, west side of St. Clair St. Died Willoguhby In Madison, Aug. 18th, Bela Dyer, age 76 yrs. Elbridge Leonard to Florence A. Page, 8 acres William Pike to Harvey H. Hall, 11 acres Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of LeRoy Aug. 28: J. C. Prentice to Elizabeth Vrooman, 62 acres Ladies: Barret, Miss Susie Last Friday on the 23rd instant was the 41st Harny, Miss Kate wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Tisdel.

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Aug. 29, 1878 flour as they did with the grain. In those days, Gentlemen wheat was worth one dollar a bushel and scarce Burgess, H. at that. Johnson, Murray Sexton, John Died Carter, Henry H, From the Clear Lake, Iowa Observer Perry, John L. At his residence in Clear Lake, Aug. 8, Mr. Delos Waldo, George H. Green, age 29 yrs., 11 mos. The deceased was Held for postage: as son of Capt. D. H. Green, of Painesville, Lake J. K. Tillotson, Elmira, N.Y. Co., Ohio, and was born at that place Sept. 10, 1848. Like his father before him, he followed the Sept. 5, 1878 Thursday varied life of a sailor the great lakes until he came to this State some six years ago. He was indeed p. 2 Geauga County -Chardon, Sep. 2 ,1878 one of nature’s noblemen, the like of which is Dr. E. Morse has located at Ashtabula. Seven seldom found. He made his first trip on the lakes physicians are still left in Chardon. when only thirteen years old, with his brother,

Mr. A. H. Green of this place, continuing in the The way things had to be done in the good old business some eleven years until he moved to times would see rather tough to the boys of Buchanan Co., Ohio. There he was a farmer for today. In 1814, Rufus Houghton Sr., moved into two years, when together with his brother, they Andover and began to build a mill on the south came to this place four years ago, placed a fleet side of the stream and a little farther west of the of boats on the lake and endeavored to still gain present Woolen Mill of Mr. Fitts in Andover. an honest livelihood. He leaves a wife, aged Rufus Houghton, of this place, his son, now 82 mother, two brothers, sisters. Last summer, he years old, was then a stout boy of 18, and built was accidentally shot, but he wound soon most of the dam, with a wheel barrow, it being healed. However, he was ailing all summer. A in the woods and no chance to use oxen. Before short time ago, he was taken violently ill and Dr. the mill was completed, it was found necessary Charlton and Dr. Dakin, of Mason City, to get some flour. The nearest mill was that of pronounced it perforation of the bowels; and Squire Espy, at what is now Espyville. Mr. Lyman examination after the death proved this to be had cut a road from just about opposite the farm true. of Mr. Patterson on the State Rd. to Espy’s. In

August, Mr. Houghton, of this place, and Joe p. 3 Mrs. McCall, of Troy, New York, is visiting at Lyman, uncle of Frank S. Lyman, of West her father’s, Mr. J. W. Tilden. Andover, took about ten bushels of wheat on a sled drawn by two yoke of oxen. They went over T. A. Harvey, of Saginaw, Michigan, is making his the slashed road very well until they reached the Painesville friends a short visit. Pymatuming, which was then as now, a rather deep sluggish stream. To cross this stream, the W. P. Cook and family are in town for a day or young men cut down trees and felled them so two being on their way home to Genesco, Ill., they formed a passage way. The bags of wheat from a visit to New York. were then carried over, the oxen made to swim and the sled floated over, pulled by long trips of Kirtland bark peeled from trees. Then the line of march A young man by the name of Traver, a resident for the mill was taken up. In due course, it was of Fuller town, Newbury, Geauga Co., was found reached, the grists ground, which took most of dead in his bed on the morning of Aug. 18. The the night, and the next day the boys returned night previous to his death he was out to what is crossing the steam in the same way with the styled a “horning bee.” Another of the number

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Sept. 5, 1878 Real Estate Transfers was very sick and a physician was called. Upon Mentor investigation, it was ascertained that the Samuel W. Brown to Herschel Talbot, 28 acres company had partaken freely of cider brandy, William Delong to Alice Ryan, 6 acres and the general opinion is the manufacturer got Perry in a little more poison than he intended. Young Ellen M. Patchin and others to Adda L. Traver, was the son of Phillip Traver, who moved Morehouse, 9 acres from Kirtland about two years ago. Mr. Traver Adda L. Morehouse to Ellen Patchin and others, gave four of his sons to save the Union. It was 27 acres said of his son that he was not in the habit of Kirtland using intoxicating liquors, but was a steady, A. A. Thorne to Eliza Merrill, 58 acres industrious, young man. Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of North Madison, Sept. 3, 1878 Sept. 8, 1878: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hyde, of Pennsylvania, have Ladies been visiting at Mr. L. B. McDonald’s, living east Magley, Mrs. Betsy of Madison village. Mrs. and Mrs. Hyde made a Gentlemen short visit at the Chapel Corners, North Madison, Lapham, John being the former home of Mrs. Hyde. Laraway, O. H. Mrs. Henry B. W. Dow, of Sand Beach, Parker, Henry Michigan, is visiting her former home in North Held for postage: Madison. Mrs. J. B. Arnold, Binghampton, N.Y. Mr. John J. Dow starts today for Sand Beach, Michigan. Sept. 12, 1878 Thursday p. 2 Geneva Times Geneva W. S. Leslie and family left for Topeka, Kansas, There will be a Lock Factory in Geneva. It will recently, intending to make the West their home be an immense structure for these parts; when of the future. completed. Mrs. Prof. Woods has a young son. Mrs. Miss Sarah Cole, of Harbor Creek, Pa. is visiting Sneider, of Pious Hill, ditto. relatives in this vicinity. Mr. Crandall, a former dental assistant of Dr. Col. George Turner, of this town, a few days Fowler, of Painesville, is the proud papa of an before his 84th birthday, August 12 ultimo, rode heir weighing 11 pounds, said eleven pounds to Madison on the cars, and from there walked being two days old. to Thompson, six miles. On his return a day or Obituary two after, he walked to Madison, and not liking At Mentor, Aug. 27, Phebe E., wife of Nathan waiting for the train, walked to his home in this Corning, age 68 yrs. Phebe E., was born at town, a distance of over thirteen miles! The next Pittstown, N.Y, Dec. 25, 1800. She moved to morning, he was up early and about his work, as Mentor with her parents in 1814 where she has usual. since lived. She and Nathan Corning were married Sept. 18, 1828. Their golden anniversary Ashtabula Telegraph was to have been celebrated. For many years, James W. Rogers, residing at what is known as she suffered from rheumatism, which finally the Rogers neighborhood, died on the 30th developed into a disease of the heart. Her ultimo of a disease contracted from the care of a husband and six children remain to mourn her horse affected with equinia, or in more common loss. language, glanders. The disease began to show

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st Sept. 12, 1878 E. B. Root, horse colt, 1 yr., 1 nd itself in swollen or inflamed state of the lower G. P. Scribner, horse colt, 1 yrs. 2 st limbs and he called at the office of Dr. King on W. R. Crary, mare colt, 1 yr., 1 st Friday, the 23rd. The disease spread rapidly with O. Sawyer, mare colt, 1 yrs., 1 nd red spots and dark color or blackish spots and H. M. Abel, mare colt, 1 yr. 2 pustules. He died Friday, the 10th, his flesh had Colts General Utility st undergone a general decay. J. D. Thompson, horse colt, 3 yrs. 1 nd George Mallory, horse colt, 3 yrs., 2 st Lake Co. Agricultural Society F. C. Daniels, horse colt, 2 yrs., 1 st Official List of Awards (all received monetary J. D. Thompson, mare colt, 2 yrs., 1 st awards of different amounts 50 cents to $5) H. N. Munson, mare cot, 2 yrs., 1 nd Stallions-Roadsters W. A. Blair, mare colt, 2 yrs., 2 st H. P. Allen, 6 yrs. old, 1st George Blish, mare colt, 1 yr., 1 nd Ira H. Durfee, 4 yrs. old, 2nd Same, same, 2 st H. W. Littlefield, 3 yrs. old, 1st James McCue, horse colt, 1 yr., 1 nd Wm. Covert, 3 yrs. old, 2nd F. C. Daniels, horse colt, 1 yr., 2 J. Ferguson, 2 yrs. old, 1st Colts sired by Whitby Champion st E. B. Root, with 2 colts, 1st Horace Norton, mare colt, 2 mo., 1 nd Stallions for General Utility J. D. Thompson, 3 mos., 2 M. S. Colgrove, 5 yrs., 1st Durham Bulls Thoroughbred st A. E. Sanborn, 20 yrs. 2nd Correll Merrill, bull 3 yrs., 1 nd A. E. Sanborn 3 yrs. 1st George Blish, bull, 3 yrs., 2 st J. Hurlbert, 3 yrs. 2nd W. F. Vrooman, bull, 2 yrs., 1 J. Hurlbert 3 yrs., 3 mos. 1st A. A. Austin, bull, 2 yrs., 2nd nd A. Nicholas 2 yrs. 2nd B. W. Potts, bull 1 yr., 2 nd M. S. Colgrove, tithe 3 colts, 1st W. C. Dickey, bull, 1 yr., 2 st Single Horses – to be shown in harness H. Cole, bull calf, 9 mos., 1 nd Carroll & Gates, gelding, 7 yrs., 1st F. Nichols, bull calf, 7 mos., 2 Thomas Thompson gelding, 4 yrs., 2nd Bull Thoroughbred – Devon, Ayrshires, H. Nottingham, mare, Mattie, 1st Herefords, and Alderneys st Joel Crofoot, mare, 6 yrs., 2nd H. Whipple, Alderney, 2 yrs., 1 st Matched Horses J. A. Brayton, Alderney, 1 yr., 1 J. A. Garfield, pr., all work, 1st W. F. Seeley, Alderney, 5 mos., 2st Thomas Thompson, same, 2nd Homer Carroll, Hereford bull, 4 yrs., 2nd George Wheeler, pair matched, 1st Same, Hereford calf, 2 mos., 2st nd Perry Twnsp., 5 prs. Horses, 1st J. D. Thompson, Ayrshire, 2 yrs., 2 st Brood Mares and Colts J. S. Hastings, Aryshire, 2 yrs., 1 Alva Lapham, mare, yrs., 1st Durham Cows and Heifers st J. D. Thompson, mare, 11 yrs., 2nd George Blish, cow, 4 yrs., 1 nd Michael Sullivan, horse colt, 3 mos. 1st N. Brink, cow, 6 yrs., 2 st A. D. Orcutt, horse colt, 3 mos., 2nd Horace Steele, heifer 2 yrs., 1 st S. G. Mack, mare colt, 3 mos., 1st Same, same, 1 yr. 1 nd Ira Gary, mare colt, 4 mo., 2nd George Blish, heifer, 1 yr., 2 nd Colts – Roadsters Same, heifer calf, 6 mos., 2 st E. Ford, horse colt, 3 yrs., 1st Horace Steele, heifer calf, 5 mos., 1 O. Sawyer, horse, colt, 1 yrs., 1st Cows and Heifers Full Blood – Devon, Ayrshires, L. A. Axtell, horse colt, 1 yrs., 2nd Herefords, and Alderneys H. Nottingham, Alderney cow, 1st

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st Sept. 12, 1878 S. H. Sanders, Pen ewes, 2 yrs., 1 nd J. A. Brayton, same, 2nd E. D. Billings, pen ewes, 2 yrs. 2 st F. & P. F. Mather Alderney heifer, 2 yrs., 1st S. H. Sanders, pen ewes, 1 yr., 1 nd George Callendar, same, 1 yr. 1st E. D. Billings, pen of ewes, 1 yr. 2 st J. A. Brayton, same, 6 mos., 1st S. H. Sanders, pen ewe lambs, 4 mos., 1 nd Milch Cows A. C. Harlow, pen eve lambs, 3 mos. 2 J. S. Casement, 1st Long Wool Sheep st Gave 558 lbs. milk 2nd week in May Homer Carroll, buck, 4 yrs., 1 nd Grade Bulls S. H. Sanders, buck, 2 yrs. 2 st E. S. Gregory, bull 2 yrs., 1st W. F. Seeley, shrop, buck, 2 yr., 1 nd W. A. Wheeler, bull, 1 yrs. 2nd Warren Winchell, buck, 1 yrs., 2 st G. W. Nye, bull calf, 4 mos., 2nd W. F. Seeley, buck lamb, 5 mos., 1 nd Grade Cows and Heifers Warren Winchell, buck lamb, 4 mos., 2 st Correll Merrill, cow, 8 yrs. 1st M. S. Colgrove, buck, 1 yr., 1 nd Same, same, 7 yrs. 2nd E. S. Gregory, buck 1 yr., 2 st Same, cow heifer, 2 yrs. 1st W. A. Davis, pen eves, 1 yr., 1 nd A. R. Daniels, heifer, 2 yrs., 2nd N. Norton, pen ewes, 1 yr., 2 Correll Merrill, heifer, 1 yrs., 1st James West, pen ewe lambs, 5 mos., 1st nd Same, Same, 2nd W. F. Seeley, pen ewe lambs, 5 mos. 2 st Sweepstakes Warren Winchell, pen eve lambs, 4 mos., 1 nd Correll Merrill, bull 3 yrs., H. N. Munson, buck lamb, 5 mos., 2 st Same, cow, 8 yrs. James West, buck lamb, 5 mos., 1 Oxen and Steers in Yoke Fat Sheep st Ira Gray, pr. Steers, 1st James McCue, 3 fat sheep, 2 yrs., 1 Same, pr. Calves, 1st Swine Correll Merrill, pr. Calves, 1nd Berkshire st Steers Not in Yoke Martin Carroll, boar 1 yr., 1 nd J. E. Murray, 3, yrs., 1st Correll Merrill, boar pig, 5 mos., 2 st Same, Same, 2nd Martin Carroll, sow, 1 yrs., 1 nd Same , 2 yrs., 1st Correll Merrill, sow, 3 yrs., 2 st W. W. West, 2 yrs., 2nd W. A. Davis, litter pigs, 1 Same, 1 yr., 2nd Chester White st George Blish, 1 yr., 1st Marin Adams, boar, 2 yrs., 1 nd Same, steer calves, 5 & 6 mos., 1st Moses Thompson, boar 1 yr., 2 st Same, sow, 2 yrs., 1 nd Fat Cattle G. B. Turney, sow, 2 st Mosher & Crofoot, cow, 4 yrs., 1st Same, litter pigs, 3 weeks, 1 nd Same, cow, 8 yrs., 2nd Moses Thompson, litter pigs, 3 weeks, 2 S. Merriman, Steer, 2 yrs., 1st Poland China st Same, same, 2nd Martin Adams, boar, 1 yr., 1 Fine Wool Sheep C. W. Tuttle, boar, 2 yrs., 1st st S. H. Saunders, buck, 5 yrs., 1st Martin Adams, sow, 2 yrs, 1 nd E. D. Billings, buck, 110 yrs., 2nd C. W. Tuttle, sow, 1 yrs., 2 st S. H. Sanders, Buck, 1 yrs., 1st Martin Adams, litter pigs, 1 nd W. L. Bacon, buck, 1 yrs. 2nd H. N. Munson, litter pigs, 2 S. H. Saunders, buck lamb, 4 mos. 1st Yorkshire st A. C. Harlow, buck lamb, 3 mos. 2nd Martin Adams, boar, 1 yrs. 1 Same, sow, 2 yrs., 1st

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st Sept. 12, 1878 Orrin Perry, display vegetables, 1 nd Same, litter pigs, 3 weeks, 1st A. Anderson, same, 2 Swine Sweepstakes Orrin Perry, carrots, display carrots, parsnips, Martin Adams, boar, 2 yrs. sweet corn, muskmelons (green flesh), Boston Moses Thompson, sow, 2 yrs. marrow squash, peppers, display variety Poultry peppers W. H. Gardner, buff, cochins, S. S. Hamburgs, J. J. Thompson, display tomatoes light Brahman, Dark, Brahmas, Houdans, White A. Anderson, Bassano beets, blood turnip beets, Leghorn, Aylesburg ducks, display poultry, 1st display variety beets, salsify, Winningstadt H. Whipple, display poultry, 2nd cabbage, flat Dutch cabbage, cauliflower H. C. Durand, coop dominiques Lyman Ferry, muskmelons J.B. Hopkins, trio Plymouth rock O. B. Gridley, tomatoes Willie Horton, pr. Bronze turkey C. P. Sherman, celery J. B. Hopkins, trio Poland china chicks Seth Anderson, Russia Turnip’s Dairy Products Vegetables H. N. Carter, factory cheese, 1st E. S. Gregory, marrow beans J. H. Hodges, dairy cheese, 1st H. C. Lapham, Early Rose, 2st Mrs. E. Gregory, butter, 1st H. C. Lapham, potato onions Mrs. Miner Hill, butter, 2nd A. T. Brown, Sykes’ seedling nd Fruit C. P. Sherman, Early Rose, 2 D. W. Mead, Pecks Pleasant S. P. Sher, Snow Flake H. C. Beardslee, Grimes Golden F. Beall, top onion see J. J. Thomson, Rome beauty E. T. C. Aldrich, Early Favorite S. Justus, King Tompkins Co. E. T. C. Aldrich, Victor A. C. Pepoon, Baltimore J. J. Thomson, display bean O. B. Gridley- Baldwin, Rox Russett, Red Canada Orrin Perry, lima beans O. Andrews – Maiden Blush, Greening, Sweet J. B. Hopkins, white beans Greening, Tulpehocken F. W. Hull, Keystone seedlings Henry Martin, Belmont A. Anderson, display variety onions Chas. Mackin, Greasy Pippin S. Anderson, top seed onions st E. T. C. Aldrich, Northern Spy E. S. Gregory, Peach Blow, 1 J. J. Thompson, display apples, 1st Seeds O. B. Gridley, display apples, 2nd Orrin Perry, Timothy seed, seed corn, display J. A. Brayton, display pears, 2nd variety of seed corn st M. E. Sweet, display pears, 1st David Grave, white wheat, 1 Colbert Huntington, pears James McCue, barley st M. B. Bateham, display peaches, 1st Martin Adams, red wheat, 1 nd H. G. Tryon, display peaches, 2ns C. Hose, white wheat 2 nd M. E. Sweet, quinces, 1st E. S. Belknap, red wheat, 2 J. B. Hopkins, quinces, 2nd Orrin Perry, common oats Grapes Domestic Manufactures – Carpeting, Quilts, C. Hoose, Concord Cloths & c. st S. Justin, Iona and Rogers No. 15 Mrs. A. A. Lee, worsted quilt, 1 st J. H. Tryon, Delaware, Diana, Isabella Melissa Wright, piece work quilt, 1 ; and patch st J. H. Tryon, display grapes, 1st work quilt, 1 nd S. Justus, display grapes, 2nd Florence Hodges, white bed spread, 2 nd Garden Vegetables Mrs. A. J. Thomson, log cabin quilt, 2 Mrs. T. C. Radcliff, piece work quilt, 2nd

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Sept. 12, 1878 Effie Dayton set toilet mats nd L. M. Severance piece work quilt girl, 5 yrs. Mrs. J. E. Amidon, ottoman, 2 Miss Carrie Murphy, silk quilt, 1st Mrs. D. E. Gore, knit scarf Mrs. Doctor Palmer, knit bed quilt, dis Pictures, Flowers & c. st Mrs. A. R. Daniels, log cabin quilt, 1st Mrs. J. E. Amidon, greenhouse plants, 1 , and st Julia Alvord, 10 yards rag carpet, 1st flowers, 1 ; hair wreath, wreath immortelles st Ms. C. A. Sylvester, same, 2nd F. Thorp, display oil paintings, 1 Household Fabrics, Hose, Sheets, Yarn, & c. Mrs. E. Gregory, greenhouse plants and flowers; nd Minnie Johnson, pr. wool stockings, girl under 2 12 J. M. Willey, exhibition penmanship nd Miss Addie Amidon, wool stockings, 1st;; and Mrs. H. J. Williams, display oil paintings, 2 st hearth rug Mrs. A. Anderson, wax flowers, 1 st Mrs. E. Gregory, pr. Linen socks; woolen Mrs. Wm. Kirk, display flowers, 1 ; verbenas; st st blankets, 1st; woolen sheets, 2nd; woolen socks, phlox; hand bouquet, 1 ; pressed flowers, 1 2nd Miss C. Durand, fruit pitcher Melissa Wright, pr. Woolen socks, 1st Mrs. Aurie A. Greer, moss and lichen work; sea Mrs. M. V. Hopkins, pair woolen mittens, 2nd moss work Mrs. C. A. Sylvester, woolen mittens, 1st; wool Agricultural Implements stockings, 2nd; cotton stockings, 1st; 1 lb. Parmly & Baker; mower/reaper combined; grain stocking yarn, 2nd drill, horse rake, corn sheller, board cast seed Mrs. H. N. Paine, cotton stockings, 2nd sower, cultivator Mrs. F. D. Warner, hearth rug, 2nd P. F. Mather, hay tedder Mrs. D. O. Carter, fringed mittens, 1st L. E. Nye, double, plow, 1st nd Mrs. R. P. Harmon, woolen sheets, 1st D. B. Hart, double plow, 2 Mrs. A. Anderson, 1 lb. stocking yarn, 1st C. Ingersoll, horse hay fork st Ida M. Turney, plain sewing girl, 8 yrs., 1st L. E. Nye, single sward plow, 1 Minnie Johnson, same, 10 yrs., 2nd Domestic Manufacturers st Lorena Hill, same, 10 yrs.; pr. woolen stockings Parmly, Treat & Co., parlor stove, 1 nd Embroidery and Needlework E. E. Gould, same, 2 Miss Kittie Amidon, specimens crochet work; Parmly & Baker, manure forks, hand rakes, pitch toilet set display forks, clothes wringer, wood pump Mrs. E. Gregory, cambric embroidery; D. Donaldson & Son, washing machine embroidered handkerchief Geauga Stove Co., cook stove Melissa Wright, fine shirt hand made T. M. Blood, sewing machine display Mary B. Harvey, German worsted embroidery; Harness, Leather, Boots and Shoes pincushion O. J. Robinson, farm harness, carriage harness, Olivia Norton, lamp mat; infant’s sacque single harness, saddle and bridle, 3 sides harness Mrs. P. F. Mather, perfumery bottles leather Mrs. C. A. Sylvester, suit homemade cloth Mrs. E. A. VanEtten, display boots and shoes clothing Flour and Meal Mrs. E. Carter, had work pillow shams H. S. Fay, flour in sacks, sack corn meal, sack Mrs. S. Bigler, tidy; display ornamental work graham flour Mrs. C. M. Paine, needle book S. Bigler, pearl barley, oat meal, cracked wheat Mrs. J. B. Hungerford, crochet tidy; variety Bread embroidered flowers Mrs. J. E. Amidon, brown bread, variety of pies Mrs. A. A. Amidon, tatting collar Mrs. E. Gregory, white bread Mrs. W. H. Corkens, photo frames

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Sept. 12, 1878 Adjutant – A. Smets Mrs. A. J. Thomson, sweet and sour pickles, Quartermaster - Wm. Ward Jr. canned raspberries, canned blackberries, display Surgeon - L. A. Bard dried fruits, display preserves Chaplain - Wm. Hall Mrs. E. J. Norton, variety of cakes Mrs. C. A. Sylvester, rye and Indian bread, dried Company G – Windsor peaches Captain – Seth Barber Mrs. N. Norton, corn bread First. Lieut. – John Harrell H. N. Munson, box honey, 1st Second. Lieut. – S. Rawdon L. H. Nye, box honey 2nd Sergeants Louis Rynd, dried strawberries, dried cherries First, N. C. Morgan; Second, E. Sloat; Third, A. F. E. Sherman, canned fruit in variety Disbrow; Fourth, B. F. Rawdon; Fifth, E. Rawdon. Kittie Sherman, canned peaches, canned Corporals cherries, display jellies First, O. D. Bell; Second, B. E. Hill; Third, H. Higley; Plowing Match Fourth, Fred Bell; Fifth, W. L. Whitney; Sixth, O. J James Caruthers, plowing with single plow, 1st Martin; Seventh, D. Brooks. C. Hoose, plowing with single plow, 2nd Privates Wilson Hobart, plowing with double plow, 1st Adams, Bell, Thompson, Bingham, Bower, A. J. McCue, plowing with double plow, 2nd Brigham, G. O. Cook, R. F. Cook, Freeman, Discretionary Harper, Frank Hill, Harrison, R. Harrell, Loomis, D. Donaldson & Son, blinds Mealey, McIntosh, Noble, Olin, Payne, Pratt, G. H. Eddy, display glassware Preston, Pomroy, C. V. Rawdon, Rollin Rawdon, Sikes & Laing, portable cider mill G. F. Rawdon, Fred Rawdon, Smith, Strickland, Frank M. Thompson, rustic flower stand, boy 14 Williams, Wiswell, Will Falkenburg yrs. old. Maggie Paine, toilet set Company H – Ashtabula Frank Zeno, farm gate Captain – Geo. W. Waite Mrs. D. E. Gere, cage birds First Lieut. – H. H. Perry S. Bigler, sack dairy salt Second Lieut. – S. H. Squires

Whole number of entries 912. Amount of Sergeants premiums awarded $613.75. First, T. D. Faulkner; Second, V. T. Webb, Third, C. R. Stone, Secretary Chas. Savage; Fifth, W. B. Minnley Quartermaster General Garfield has been nominated for this E. H. Fraser ninth term in Congress. Elisha Whittlesey Bugler represented this district for 16 years and Joshua E. A. Silliman R. Giddings for 20 yrs. Drummers A. Luce, C. Frasier, D. Wheeler, B. Vaughn, H. Muster Roll of the Tenth Regiment O. N. G. Redhead Youngstown, Niles, East Palestine, and Mineral Corporals Ridge men are all listed. W. O. Nettleton, Jas. Fassett, C. C. Booth, R. H. Listed below are Windsor, Ashtabula and Paff, Thos. Hubbard Madison. Privates Colonel – Josiah Robbins J. Afeel, A.C. Bootes, C. I. Brown, C. M. Crosby, J. Lieut. Col. - Eli J. Ohl Carbon, W. R. Hammond, F. Fassett, Chas. Field, Major -Henderson G. Reed A. Gary, W. Hubbard, Seth Leonard, W. B. Lucas, A. C. McGiffert, John Rickseker, W. L. Rickert, W.

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Sept. 12, 1878 Crosby, S. W. J. Richmond, Chas. Sanborn, E. Smith, W. A. Conlan, E. Strong, R. Willis, Geo. Eastman, Geo. Woodruff, Degroot, O. W. C. J. Brown, F. W. Haws, C. S. Andrews, W. E. Edwards, H. A. Bowerd, C. W. Scoville, F. Williams Goodwin, R. Z. Hunt, M. A. Company I – Madison Harvey, W. Captain – Dan Potter Talcott, Frank First Lieut. – Wm. H. Genung Tryon, E. Second Lieut. – N. L. Waterman Tyler, S. Sergeants Walton, J. E First, Ezra Nicholas; Second, W. C. Walding; Third Weidnear, H. H. D. Tobey; fourth, H. E. Cook; Fifth, Ora Patch Williams, J. W. Quartermaster Sergeant - G. E. Owens Holt, L P. Corporals Johnson, J. H. First, A. Hettinger; Second, Wm. Salmon; third, Clumph, L. D. S. Albert Hardy; fourth, F. E. Dodge; Fifth, C. H. Luce, A. H. Vandusen; Sixth, E. Holbrook; Seventh, F. Scoot Lagrange, J. P. (Scott?); Eighth, Wm. Cook Metcalf, B. S. Privates Metcalf, D. D. H. Baker, Chas. Bates, H. Baily, J. Clark, Lew McBride, A. Crandall, Lloyd, Collister, John DeForest, Don. Munsell, A. E. Duseler, John Koons, Arl. Fellows, E. Foster, Geo. Olin, A. H. Gaylord, Geo. Herrick, Fred Hoddigeney, Orrin Pratt, F. E. Kenner, W. C. Ludick, E. A. Ladd, F. E. Munn, Parker, A. B. Avery Madison, John Page, T. Pancost, H. Terril, Prentice E. H. L. R. Fish, H. Rapalee, Spenc, Winchester, Jim Reed Jr., Jas. Williams, Duane Westcott, A. Hettinger, Ed Reed., Chas. Warner, S. R. Tate, Chas. Booth, F. Lee Roscoe, A. W. Rowland, J. W. BATTERIES – Third Ohio – Ashtabula Russell, F. C. Captain – H. H. Bartlett Robinson, Joel T. First Lieut. – A. Henry Robinson, A. N. Second Lieut. – O. Gillette Redikar, H. Sergeant Reeves, J. H. First, Lewis Z. Crosby Sexton, E. H F. R. Norris, Thomas H. Seivers, F. C. More, F. W. Sweet, F. E. Blakeslee, T. C. Smith Sweet, B. F. Bugler Smith, F. A. S. W. Allen Stevenson, L. W. Privates Stewart, W. N. Allen, Peter Starkey, C. Amsden, A. G. Stone, D. E. Brooks, L. A. Taylor, E. E. Brooks, A. A. Traylor, F. A. Benham, W. A. Taylor, W. H. Burnett, S. F. Metcalf, J. D.

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Sept. 12, 1878 Dr. L. L. Bennett, of Chardon, has been at North Attachment: D. W. Mead and G. W. Payne Madison, visiting his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. partners as Mead & Payne vs. A. R Hammond Lionel Bennett, who are each over 80 years old.

Field D. Warner, is a bankrupt. Painesville, Lake Madison Co., Ohio. Mrs. L. E. Saxton, of Millford, N.Y., is visiting friends and relatives in Madison, her former Sheriff’s sale: Robert Maynard Murray vs. Julius home, arriving here last Tuesday. Weed. Land in Painesville will be sold. Miss Hattie Burgett returned to Madison last week from Conneautville, Pa., where she has p. 3 Miss Frankie E. Morley, daughter of Sheriff been for some time. Morley, of this place, has gone to Newton Falls Middle Ridge, Madison, Sept. 2, 18788 to take a position as a teacher in the Union Mrs. Marion Mackin, of Chicago, is visiting her School of that town. mother and friends in this town.

Charley Loughridge, nephew of Mr. A. Hine, in Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of whose family he has resided for several years, Sept. 11, 1878 left for Hartford, Conn. Last week for a course at Ladies the Hopkins School, preparatory to entering Yale Barklow, Miss Linda College. He is a graduate of the Painesville High Hockins, Miss Ida School and an excellent scholar. Loomis, Miss Laura Seymour, Miss Clara For Europe Blodget, Mrs. M. E. Mrs. N. P. Stockwell and children leave Landers, Mrs. Ruth Painesville tomorrow for New York and will sail Milliman, Miss Katy in the Scythia for London, England, Wed. of next White, Miss Florence week. The large circle of relatives and friends of Gentlemen Mrs. Stockwell, who have enjoyed her visit home Dawson, John this summer, wish her a safe and pleasant Humphrey, L. B. voyage across the ocean. Hoffman, W. V. B. Laughlin, C. C. Kirtland Loftus, James The house of Mr. William Plaisted with all its Held for postage: contents was destroyed by fire last Wednesday. C. O. Landon, Plainview, Minn.

North Madison Married Mr. John Branch and family, of New York, are At the residence of C. Harrington, Painesville, stopping for a while at his father’s, Judge W. W. O., Sept. 8, Mr. Everett Finney, of LaPlatte, Branch, of North Madison. Nebraska, to Miss Lorinda A. Chaffee, of Bristol, Miss Cornelia Branch has returned to her Trumbull Co., Ohio. school in Chicago. Mrs. I. Pope, of Chagrin Falls, is visiting her Bankrupt Sale sister-in-law, Mrs. Underdonk, of the Middle M. E. Fenton having purchased the bankrupt Ridge, and Mrs. Hervey, of North Madison. hardware stock of Crane & Granger, is selling it Mr. George Kellogg has returned to to the public cheap for Cash. Jamestown, N.Y., to engage in his former business as an accountant.

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Sept. 12, 1878 At the residence of Judge N. B. Cartmell, in Oscar P. Quiggle is the administrator of Joshua Howard, Kansas, on July 5th, Rev. John A. Arnold, deceased, late of Perry Township, Lake Nowlen, age 22 yrs. Mr. Nowlan came to Co., Ohio. Howard in the spring of 1876 at the age of 20 yrs and took charge as Pastor of the M. E. circuit, of Sept. 19, 1878 Thursday the Howard District. He was compelled by ill health to retire from his duties. He had been p. 2 A Birthday Party in Perry married only a year. September 9, 1878, was the birthday of Mrs.

Jerusha Gibbs, of Perry. She was born in Hartford North Madison Co., Connecticut, September 9th, 1800. When Mrs. Frank Veits, of Dakota, is visiting her she was 13 years old, her parents left that state mother, Mrs. John Dow, and her many friends in and came to Ohio and settled on the Western this vicinity. Reserve. After she married, she returned to New

England, thinking to settle for life in her native Reunion at Chardon State. But she stayed only three years, because Reunion of Company F., 19th O. V.I. and Company her heart was in the west. Therefore, she E, 171st O.N.G. August 30, 1878 prevailed upon her husband to move back to Roll Call Ohio. Here they lived until “death them did The present P.O. address of each man is given. part,” about nineteen years ago. She lives with Capt. Geo. E. Paine, Painesville, Lake Co., O her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Thompson, of Perry. 1st Lieut. Harmon J. Clark, Cleveland, O. Mrs. Gibbs is a mother to 11, grandmother to 18, 2nd Sergt. James Crane, W. Farmington and great grandmother to 16. Below are the 3rd Sergt. Horatio P. Kile, Huntsburg names and ages of the guests of the party (all are 4th, Sergt., Edward Patchin, Chardon “Mrs.”): 2nd Corp. Chas. H. Gurney, Hillards, Mich. Martha R. Butterfield, age 87 Fifer, Wm Witter, Chardon Mary Mosher, 86 Drummer, Perrin H. Calkins, Painesville Mary Crandall, 81 Privates Jerusha Gibbs, 78 Ansel Bartlett, Hill House Phebe Cady, 78 Pembroke M. Cowles, Chardon Susan Sinclair, 78 Parley N. Dimock, East Claridon Eunice Pleasants, 77 Martin V. B. Eggleston, Chardon Sarah Glines, 76 Truman B. Garrett, Wayland, Mich. Olive Call, 74 Truman H. Hurlbert, Perry E. B. Haskell, 69 Frank Keeny, Chagrin Falls Mary Haskell, 69 Chas. A. Parks, Chardon Emeline Rice, 67 W. H. Plaisted, Chardon Evangeline Hopkins, 65 Hyman H. Pulsipher, Braceville Jane Stephen, 63 John R. Redd, Chester X. Road

Frank F. Shaw, Cleveland, Willoughby Allen C. Spencer, Chardon Hiram P. Harmon Esq., formerly of Kirtland, but Henry Thwing, Chardon now a resident of this township, has just finished Dean D. Tucker, Burton an elegant residence, on the road to Kirtland Simeon D. Tucker, Huntsburg Flats. Orrin G. Thayer, Chardon

John H. Valentine, Painesville Died Edward J. West, Chardon Wm. H. Wright, Akron

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Sept. 19, 1878 Dwight Grimes, P. O. unknown Elisha Morton Jr., Mulberry Corners Joe C. Hackney, Cuba, Mo. The following planned to be present but were L. W. Housworth, _____, Mo. prevented from various causes: Wm. H. Kelly, P.O. unknown, 2nd Lieut. Samuel Hathaway, Edgerton Chas. King, P. O. unknown 1st Corp, Jeremiah Barton, Farmington Jerome Ladow, Mowesqua, Ill. Privates J. C. Kinderman, E. Oakland, Cal Henry M. Babcock, Mentor Delos Morton, ____, Cal. Ancil D. Barrett, Mentor Lerton Prince, Leesburgh, Idaho L. N. Bartchelder, Palo, Iowa John Roe, Lockeford, Cal. A. E. Billington, Madison Francis D. Story, P.O. unknown N. Bonaparte Manny, Dennison L. Clay, Vining, Beatrice, Neb. Samuel F. Cocley, Harpersfield Jno. C. Granger, Russellville, Ark The following were killed after August, 1861: Theodore f. Hawley, Girard Corp. Wm. Hansard at Nashville Harvey B. Hunt, Ithaca, Mich. Wilford A. Bagg Edward H. Munsil, Mesopotamia Aaron I. Brown, at Stone River Lowell M. Palmer, New York City Horace Granger, in Virginia Amos M. Parker, Caro Mich. W. H. Hale, at Perrysville Thos. C. Parsons, Cleveland, John G. Hansard, at Shiloh Edward Proctor, Trumbull Chas. L. Lillie, In Tenn. Clarence L. Riddle, Toledo John McKee Oscar F. Stetson, Montville Daniel G. Reed at Bentonville A. H. Wheelock, Russell The following have died since August, 1861: The following reported by letter unable to Corp. Orris N. McGonigal attend: Daniel W. Merrill 3rd. Sergt. Alfred Gould, Urbana, Mo. Salmon Beckwith Dan J. Baur, Bowers, Neb Chas. N. Dewey Amenzo Brown, Double Springs, Ark. Wm. Garrett Erastus C. Chilson, Insane Asylum, Kansas Geo. E. Harriman Lucius Fowler, Harvard, Neb. H. W. Osmond L. S. Housworth, Allegan, Mich. Thos. C. Rea J. Walter Mead, Battle Creek, Mich. R. W. Sanford B. D. Millard, Davenport, Iowa Dwight J. Sheldon R. P. Packard, Lowell, Mich. st Henry R. Roath, Bayfield, Wis. Perry National Guard, Company E, 171 O.N. G., Chas. Shattuck, Brady, Mich. Capt. Jas. L. Parmly H. F. Sheldon, Washington, Kansas Names and P.O. Address of those present at the J. A. Stebbins, Ypsilanti, Mich. Reunion Austin B. Turner, Corning Iowa From Painesville Miles J. Whitney, Portland, Mich. Capt. Jas. L. Parmly st 1 Lieut. S. N. Ford rd The following were not heard from: 3 Corp. J. B. Vrooman 5th Sergt. Frank Paris, Mexico, Mo. Carl Coolidge Lewis Barrett, Minnesota Falls, Minn. Geo. A. Fitz Anson Green, P.O. unknown H. C. Nellis Geo. E. Paine

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Sept. 19, 1878 C. O. Wright W. Palmer Perry P. Williamson Jesse Perry J. H. Whiting M. Blood From Perry Geo. Barkalow 1st Sergt. N. I. Watts, H. F. Haskell 2nd Sergt. A. L. Shepard Monroe Hall 1st Corp. W. A. Davis E. Manchester 5th Corp. W. A. Wheeler D. Perry 6th Corp. L. Green H. Sinclair 7th Corp. A. J. Whiting W. Shepard 8th Corp. C. M. Thompson H. R Van Ness Patrick Burns A. Wheeler Ad. Call Madison th Wm. Lapham 4 Sergt. Thos. Perry G. B. Turney Jas. Nolan Thos. Thompson Wad. Sinclair H. Whiting H. C. Sager From Newbury Willoughby H. Ferris W. Butler J. H. McNish F. F. Stockwell C. Hunt, Newbury Unknown From Ford P.O. J. Button W. C. Blair H. Mansfield O. V. Chapman R. Knox S. Chapman A. Russell W. W. Chapman W. Russell A. A. Perkins S. Sanborn A. L. Savage W. Smith F. Zethmayer G. W. Torrey H. H. Woods 3rd Sergt. P. S. Race, Geneva J.A. White Thos. Parsons, Madison A. Crosby John H. Reynolds, Cleveland L. E. Andrews O. Barker, Chardon B. A. Gordon Ira Bidlake, Montville E. H. Gardner O. K. Lockwood The following were not present: F. S. Torrey nd Capt. Wm. D. Shepherd, Galveston, Texas 2 Corp. Phil Lockwood th 4 Corp. H. Owen Painesville H. E. Paine, Petrolia, Pa. 2nd Lieut.D. N. Holcomb Cleveland H. Morse S. R. Bartlett H. W. Mosher H. W. Mather A. W. Malin L. L. Parmly J. H. Champion, Creston, Iowa D. Upson M. B. Cook Troy Adam Decker, Ionia, Mich.

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Sept. 19, 1878 p. 3 Mr. F. E. Warren, of Cincinnati, formerly of C. C. Griffin, Vinton, Iowa this place, is spending a few days in town. W. C. Haskell, Tallmadge E. R Hurlburt, Valley Forge, Pa. Mr. W. W. Ford, late of Hathaway & King of this N.D. Woodworth, Woonsocket, R. I. place, has gone to Geneva to establish a Grocery H. Ward, Geneva and Provisions House. L. C. Wood, Emporia, Kansas H. D. Watts, Independence Iowa President Hayes and party, after the reunion T. S. Wire, Austinburg services at Willoughby, yesterday afternoon, returned to Fremont and Wednesday to Dayton Deceased to attend the annual meeting of the Trustees of 5th Sergt. T. C. Hickok the Soldiers’ Home. Thursday, the President Thomas Armstrong visits the Tri-State Fair at Toledo. John Naughton Baxter Sinclair Death in Switzerland Mr. F. F. Bernard, of the Fairport Nurseries, Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of recently received the sad intelligence of the Sept. 18: death of his father, Francois Ferdinand Bernard, Ladies who died at his home in the village of Bex, Boyd, Miss Anna Switzerland, age 80 yrs. Mr. F. F. Bernard will Collins, Miss Annie shortly leave to visit his mother in the old home, Herrick, Miss Florence after an absence of twenty years, and will Keleher, Miss Annie probably be gone two months. In his absence, Meyers, Miss Anney the business of the nurseries will be attended by Branday, Mrs. Mary A. his son. Crawford, Miss Emma Isball, Miss Jane Real Estate Transfers Mason, Mrs. Anna Painesville Rose, Miss Nettie Francis Mulligan to John McCarthy, 1 acre Sore, Mrs. Ada Marvin H. Brown to E. A Brown, 5 acres, Mentor Gentlemen Ave. Brake, George Sarah E. Higginbotham to Charles Pratt, lot on Cook, John Bank St. Davis, Wm. W. Willoughby Dickson, Andrew Frank B. Gunn to Charles Pelton, 35 acres Pierson, Wm. M Clarissa Jones et al to Board of Education, 1 acre Udfley, Geo. U. John E. Moses to Lewis R. Roe, 4 acres Cook, Harrie E. Madison Curtis, G. Franklin A. Cone to Angeline H. Skinner, 50 acres Desnoyers, Jerome B. Owen Bliss to Josephine Whipple, 25 acres Flood, Arthur P.T. Safford, by assignee, to Ichabod Adams, 41 Rice, Reuben acres Webster, R. S. Mentor Held for postage: Alexander Snell to Frank Snell, 2 acres Mrs. J. Grafton, Girard, Pa. Destroyed by Fire Mrs. Justus Stearnes, Ludington, Mich. Mon. afternoon there was a fire at August Mrs. M. E. Durand, Boston, Mass. Shaller’s on Mentor St. which started in a stack of

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Sept. 19, 1878 in the reunion of the 23rd Regiment brought to straw which spread to the barn. Nothing was Willoughby the largest crowd of people it has rescued but the horses. He lost the hay, oats, ever contained. By noon all the roads leading wheat, rye, beans, onions and a set of double into town were thronged with vehicles and the harness, and a large stock of chickens. It is weather could not have been better. As the believed a spark from a steam thresher started President’s train rolled into the station yard a the fire. welcoming salute of artillery was fired. The station was decorated with evergreen, and all Suicide and Death in Concord along the march to the college, business The wife of Charles Morse, residing in Concord, buildings and residences were made bright with killed her little girl, about age 5, but cutting her hundreds of fluttering flags and banners, while throat with a butcher knife. And then committed over the roadway were suspended pennants and suicide by cutting her own throat. Mr. Morse streamers bearing mottoes appropriate to the was at a neighbor’s, Mr. Alva Brown, and was not day and the regiment of veterans who absent from home more than 15 minutes. The celebrated the anniversary of Antietam. On child died just as he returned, the mother lived Euclid Ave. was a huge triumphal arch of an hour longer. No cause is assigned for the evergreens bearing the words “welcome, rd terrible deed, but there is no question of the veterans of the 23 , O.V.I.” the procession, temporary insanity of the unfortunate woman. which was a long one marched up Erie St. to Euclid, up Euclid to Wilson Ave., through Wilson Grave Robbers Ave. to River St., down River St. to Seminary On Monday night, the grave of the late Mr. Square. The sidewalks and broad piazzas were Edwin French, of Willoughby, who died and was thronged with people. The President rode in an buried in the village cemetery last week, was open carriage, and most of the time standing, desecrated by body snatchers connected with hat in hand, bowing to the throng. He looked the Cleveland Homoeopathic College and the precisely as when many of our citizens saw him remains taken and hidden in a secret vault under in Painesville four or five years ago. In the the floor of the dissecting room. It seems the Presidential party were Mrs. Hayes, rd grave was being watched and visited every hour and little son, Scot Hayes, who wore the 23 during the night, when at 1 o’clock the grave was Regiment cap, General Hastings and wife, Hon. found despoiled. Everything pointed to Amos Townsend, Hon. S. S. Warner, Hon N. B. Cleveland as the rendezvous and the Police there Sherwin, W. P. Fogg, Dr. Smead and lady, Mr. and were notified immediately. Dr. Erwin C. Carlisle, Mrs. S. S. Coe, Mrs. and Mrs. H. C. Blossom, Mr. Glenville, was charged with bodysnatching. and Mrs. S. C. Louis, Mrs. and Mrs. L. Austin, Carlisle was for several years a resident and had Lieut. Gov. Fitch, General Barnett and others. an M.D. office in Painesville. T. C. Miner, saloon The procession was headed by the Willoughby keeper, H. L. Sumner, janitor, and the Dean of Cornet Bank, and after the President and party rd the College and other members of the faculty came the members of the 23 regiment had warrants issued against them. marching two by two, about 150 strong, bearing The President at Willoughby their battle-scarred flags. The procession was A gala Day for Hayes’ Old Regiment, the Twenty- marshaled by Major Carey, C. R. Brown, T. F. Third, O.V.I.—“Ten Thousand People Turn out Shipherd, D. C. Pomeroy, A. L. Brown, Geo. and Give the President a Hearty Welcome.“ Pelton, Murray Higgins, Thad. Hunt, Frank Tuesday, the 17th instant, will for many years be Rockefeller and Sheriff Morley. Arriving at the remembered by the people of Willoughby as a stand, the President was introduced by Mayor red-letter day in the history of the village. The John S. Ellen. The President gave a speech, and visit of the President and his party to participate all marched to College Hall for a luxurious dinner served to the President and soldiers with their

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Sept. 19, 1878 from bluff to bluff rushing toward the lake with wives and lady friends. In the afternoon, the great velocity and covering the flats. Every little Regiment with the President and Mrs. Hayes stream or creek had swollen to rivers with were photographed by a Toledo firm. The orator overflowing banks. The road bed at the foot of of the day was John C. Cowan, Esq. of Omaha, Main St. was several feet under water, and all Nebraska who spoke on the history of the the houses on the flats, known as East Regiment. Rutherford B. Hayes was one of the Painesville, were in a sea of rushing water. The original field officers as Major of the Regiment, lower floors of the Painesville Mills were afterward, Lieut. Col., Colonel, and Brigadier flooded. During the night, some sheep and cattle General. The President spoke and said that he were swept away. Much damage was done wanted to introduce a gentleman who was a around the county; many bridges were washed total stranger to all present but whose away. In Paine’s Hollow, the saw mill dam of Mr. acquaintance he had for some time enjoyed. He D. D. Williams with the flume was washed away. would now call for General James A. Garfield. A list of some damages in each township is given. There were cheers as soon as the name was announced, mingled with a little laughter at the Geneva President’s pleasantry. After all the ceremonies, Mr. Daniel Cannon died of cancer on the 11th the President and his wife were escorted to the ultimo. His former home was Allegheny, residence of General Hastings, where they Pennsylvania, where he resided many years. He remained with a few friends until the departure had been a citizen of Geneva some ten or twelve of the train for Cleveland. years. Mr. C. was 75 yrs. old, and had been afflicted 25 years with this face difficulty which One of the ladies of Willoughby provides a originated at a barber shop from a cut by a razor, detailed description of all the table decorations the slight wound inflamed into an angry sore, and the food served that day inside the College. and gradually assumed the form of a cancer. The The most beautiful table decoration was done by lower lip had been completely eaten away at the Miss Hasting, the Misses Storm and others. It time of his death. had a centerpiece of golden peaches, purple grapes, with a base of flowers and ferns. Also, a Geauga County high vase of many colored foliage, intermingled C.W. Osborn, one of our young and flourishing with beautiful white flowers. There were baskets lawyers, has been admitted to the bar. of feathery ferns and delicate grasses. Five long Alonzo A. Snow, of Auburn, has been granted a tables extended across the hall from east to final discharge in bankruptcy by the United west, covered in snowy damask; on each plate a States District Court. bouquet of natural flowers in the national colors. The table on the south side of the hall was called Madison, Middle Ridge, Sept. 17, 1878 the President’s Table. On this was an abundance Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Fairbanks, of Troy, Geauga Co., of superb fruit from Mr. H. G. Tryon’s place on are in town visiting friends, and will soon Waite Hill, and at this table Mrs. Tryon and the proceed eastward, on their wedding tour. Misses Tryon assisted in serving the guests. Died The Great Flood In Painesville, Sept. 12, of membranous croup, The rain storm of last Tuesday night continued George Shipley, youngest child of George H. and uninterrupted for three days and nights and Sarah G. Eddy, age 2 yrs., 1 mo., 21 days. culminated in the greatest and most disastrous floors that had ever occurred in this section of Attachment: Polly Wood vs. J. S. Fisher. the country. The Grand River was spread out Madison Township, Lake Co. Ohio.

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Sept. 19, 1878 breeching, traces, and neck straps, leaving a Waterman M. Citerley is the executor of horse free and easy to travel, harness lighter and Abraham Citerley, late of Perry Township, Lake more comfortable in warm weather, costs one Co., Ohio. half the usual price for a harness. Mr. Clark Lewis and his son, Willie, were Oscar P. Quiggle is the administrator of Joshua gumming a saw at Mr. Kile’s saw mill, in this Arnold, late of Perry Township, Lake Co., Ohio. place, last Saturday, when the emery wheel burst and a piece struck Willie on the front and Sept. 26, 1878 Thursday top part of his head, fracturing his skull in such a terrible manner that he died Monday evening. p. 2 Death of an Old Resident

Mrs. Polly Root, wife of Mr. Christopher Bartlett, p. 3 Warren Cowdery, of Geneva, and Miss died at their residence on Main St., Sept. 15, age Hattie Kelley, of Saybrook, were married on 78 years. Polly Root Bartlett was born in Thursday. Southwick, Mass., during the first year of the present century. Left an orphan at the age of 12, Mr. S. R. King and family, of South Bend, Ind., but the eldest of a small family. At the age of 18 yrs., formerly of this place, have returned to she left her native state to make her home in the Painesville with the intention of making it their new settlements of the west, and lived for a brief future home. time in Palmyra, New York. In 1819, she was married in Sodus, N.Y., to the husband who now Very soon after the return of Mr. and Mrs. survives her. In 1832, she and her family settled Marshall from their western trip, Mrs. M. was in Kirtland, Ohio where relatives had immigrated again called west by the sudden illness of their many years before. A few months after her daughter, Mrs. Lincoln, residing in Illinois. arrival, the foundation of the Mormon Temple was laid. In 1836, the family moved to Mr. D. G. Morrison, an old employee and for Painesville. There was only one church, many years the skillful foreman of the Telegraph Presbyterian, and the few Methodists were Job Rooms, is taking a short vacation and visiting allowed to assemble in the Town Hall. She was his old home and friends in Columbiana County. the highest example of the kind of women who bear with fortitude the hardships of pioneer life. Mr. George Boyle, of Sand Beach, Michigan, but She has passed away, respected and lamented, 20 years ago a resident of Mentor, has been and this completes the chapter of a well spent making a short business visit to his old home the life. present week.

Cleveland A cider mill, on wheels, has for several days been The sensation of the week just past was the traversing this vicinity, and passing from house robbing of the grave of Mr. Edwin French, of to house, making cider “under your own apple Willoughby, and the discovery of his remains at trees.” Mr. S. S. Chapin has been running the the Homeopathic College in this city. Following machine. this came the intelligence that the bodies of Mrs.

Higby, of Garrettsville, and Mrs. Pease, of Lake County Common Pleas Ravenna, had also be disinterred and brought to Grand Jury the same place. 1. S. K. Gray, Painesville

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Sept. 26, 1878 Kirtland 5. I. S. Hodges, Madison Mrs. W. A. Matson is visiting friends in Kirtland 6. I. A. Baxter, Mentor and vicinity, preparatory to joining her husband 7. G. W. Clement, Willoughby in Kansas (Lincoln City, I believe) where he has 8. Daniel Scribner, LeRoy been located for several months. 9. H. G. Tryon, Kirtland Mr. Kenny, of Oberlin, many years ago a resident 10. E. T. Alvord, Mentor of Kirtland is visiting old acquaintances in this 11. Stephen Wilson, Painesville section, the guest of Mr. Alfred Morley. 12. Stephen Lapham, Mentor 13. E. Chaffee, Madison Geneva 14. E. E. Johnson, Painesville DuAne Westcott, proprietor of a boot and shoe 15. R. M. French, Painesville store here, made an assignment to his father, Petit Jury D.W. Westcott, lately. 1. Thomas Dodd, Willoughby W. E. Morgan has sold out to L. E. Morgan, his 2. C. Hoose, Willoughby brother, who will continue the business. 3. A. P. Baldwin, Painesville The hardware firm of Talcott, Doel & Hubbard, 4. L. P. Bates, Willoughby has sold out to J. K. Marsh. 5. J. E. Stockwell, Willoughby 6. John Brown, Madison Died 7. Frank Daniels, Mentor In Painesville, Sept. 15, of consumption, Z. 8. Eleazor Newton, Painesville Adalaide, wife of Dr. H. W. Grauel, age 28 yrs. 9. W. H. H. Dunham, Mentor 10. S. B. Baker, LeRoy Gabriel K. Lockwood is the administrator of 11. J. S. Casement, Painesville Luther O. Lockwood, deceased, late of Perry 12, David Burridge, Painesville Township, Lake Co., Ohio. 13. R. E. Allison, Perry 14. Andrew Gray, Willoughby Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of 15. Miner Andrews, Madison Sept. 25: 16. A. A. Hall, Madison Ladies 17. William Fuller, Madison Davis, Miss Lulie 18. M. H. Frisbie, Madison Sorter, Mrs. Sarah 19. A. D. Schram, Painesville Healy, Mrs. Sophia 20. C. A. Turney, Madison Taylor, Mrs. Johnathan Thompson, Miss Hattie Madison Gentlemen Miss Stella Saxton leaves today for Worcester, Barrow, C. L N.Y., as bridesmaid to her cousin, Miss Carrie Bridge, D. P. Thomas, whose wedding is announced for next Call, Charles Wednesday. Miss Thomas was formerly a Green, George M. resident of Madison. Miner, Capt. George Sadler & Morton On Saturday evening, about one hundred friends Bolton, Abraham surprised Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Kenner with a party Burke, John for their 25th wedding anniversary. Dempsey, Michael Madill, Alexander S. Dr. Powers and family left on Monday to visit Ritter, Alonzo relatives in Savannah, Mo. Taylor, John

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Oct. 3, 1878 Thursday which the old man expressed himself when he p. 2 Pioneer Picnic at Kirtland called to make his report. Father said to him: Last Wednesday was the annual picnic of the “Mr. Rewark, did you hire the school marm?” Lake County Pioneers held on the ground of Mr. “Yes, I hired her, “said he. “’ I went up there and Alfred Morley, Kirtland, who was President of ‘quired and ‘quired all ‘round, and after a while I the Association. The Vice Presidents were: found her, and I axed her if she would go to H. H. Morse, Kirtland Mentor and teach school for six shillings per W. B. Tuttle, Concord week and board ‘round; and she ‘fused. The I J. B. Brown, Willoughby ‘suaded, and ‘suaded, and she ‘fused, and ‘fused; Rev. William Jones, Chester but by and by she ‘sented, and ‘gaged her.’” Moses Merrell, Painesville Rev. Mr. Ely, of Mentor, told how his father and Eli B. Haskell, Perry family came to this country 61 years ago. R. Woodruff, LeRoy Mr. A. Pepoon told how his grandfather built William Witter, Chardon the first saw mill in Painesville, on the site of the H. P. Squares, Mayfield old mud mill today; and how while living Mr. John Doane, was the oldest settler, age 80 opposite the old Geauga furnace, a band of yrs., coming here in 1801. He stated that he Indians encamped by his house, and set up their came from Buffalo in an open boat and sailed up wigwams. the lake meeting with all sorts of bad weather, and was finally wrecked off Fairport. From there The names of those present, over 60 years of he walked, and when an opportunity offered age, are as follows: itself he rode, through an unopened country H. H. Morse until he reached what is now called East J. Whipple Cleveland. Samuel Bandle Mr. David Gray, the oldest man in the county, Mrs. Samuel Bandle age 99 yrs., was presented. He said his life John Wells seemed very short when he looked back on it. Mrs. John Wells Stella Skean, had an ivory-headed cane, which E. Root was used by Gen. George Washington which was Mr. & Mrs. C. Ingersoll held up for the people to see. J. E. Pierson Nathan Corning told a story about hiring a J. Hobart “school marm.” In 1811 or 1812, the settlers of Lucy Hobart Mentor thought best to have a school. They Laura Sanborn called a meeting and chose my father, Warren Thomas Page Corning, Clark Parker, and Jonathan Russell for Julia A. Page Directors. At this time, I was 6 or 7 years old. My Geo. Tiffany father was to hire a teacher, but was limited to M. Thompson the offer of six shillings a week for her services. M. M. Fisk They had heard of a young woman who lived in Martin Gray Euclid named Katy Smith, whom they thought G. S. Pitcher might take the school. It was quite a task in Wm. Witters those days to make a journey to Euclid over the E. B. Haskell bad roads, so my father engaged an old Elisha Benton gentleman by the name of Rewark, who had Roswell Hart business there, to go and see Miss Smith, and, if Luvina Hart he could get her for six shillings a week, to Edgar West engage her. His father laughed at the odd way in Margaret West Albert Hale

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Oct. 3, 1878 Lucius Bixby C. Millard Naomi Gilbert Milo Haris A. B. Green A. Tanner Hosea Stebbins Wm. T. Rexford Sarah Jacks C. A. Rexford Rhoda Holmes Milton Russell Edward Lapham Geo. Hanscomb Samuel Metcalf Mrs. M. Morley Hannah Jewell Jane P. Benton Bella Shaw Ariel Benton Mrs. H. Rockafeller Curtis Brown N. Wells C. Huntington R.T. Hitt James Thompson Jane Converse Joseph Warner Mary Frith Chester Clapp Lucy Campbell John Warner Peter Sperry Lydia Warner Everett Patchin J. A. Aldrich L. Barnes Geo. B. Vial V. Wesner J. B. Brown Clarissa Markell Melissa Wright A. D. Schram Electa Campbell Urial Call E. Gray Jas. Prouty J. A. Skinner Mrs. James Prouty Mrs. W. Wilder Austin Damon R. Griswold Daniel Whelpley Rhoda Frizelle Ralza Spencer Jason Andrews Alonzo Randall J. A. Skinner Mary Philbrick Henry Clapp Martha Spencer D. N. Bacon Mary R. Cotterell Irwin Perry Orrin Perry Phebe Barber Mary N. Taylor Mrs. Joel Tomlinson Mrs. S. Doane Charlotte Gibbs Z. Phillips Mrs. Martindale J. S. Charles S. B. Reggs E. Stratton J. V. Vial F. Haskell Mrs. B. Pepoon Mary Ellsworth Nancy A. Harris Lydia Brown Mrs. H. Beldon O. Benton Mrs. C. Griswold David Buffington Mrs. L. Ramsey H. Buffington Mrs. C. G. Crary Mary Lee Mrs. L. Gleason I. M. Clark Dexter Damon L. C. Kidder Clarissa Bixby

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Oct. 3, 1878 John Howe S. A. Ringland H. Woodworth R. S. Anderson Mrs. H. Woodworth Daniel M. Alvord M. W. Cotterell Fanny E. Foster Mrs. Susan Hodges Willis Woodruff J. F. Morse Mrs. N. A. Harris Justin Fowler Mrs. Hannah Lacy Caroline Tuttle Frederick Fichols A. W. Martin Mrs. E. Stratton Julia Alvord L. S. Fairchild Welcome Ackley Mary A. Pitcher Nancy N. Taylor Gerard Randall Mrs. J. Vial Matilda Randall Mrs. S. Doaneslade J. E. Bunnell A. G. Bartow Mrs. J. E. Bunnell Lydia Philips Thomas Morley Walter Stannard Alfred Morley Mrs. Walter Stanard Mrs. A. Gilmore Jas. Clarke Ara Sprague Moses Morrell D. E. Sprague Isaac Sherman Isaac Sawyer James P. Smith Mary Billings E. M. Ingersoll Benjamin Carpenter Hanna Losey John Russell A. T. Allen W. S. Smith Rev. W. E. Ely John L. Grant A. E. Sanborn Capt. O. Andrews Abijah Randall T. Richardson John Randall Joseph White Mrs. S. Miller M. H. Winslow Erastus Larned Emily Vial R. K. Storm Joseph Kittz Mrs. John Storm W. A. Blair John P. Markell Elisha Rexford Mrs. J. P. Markel J. D. Griswold A. L. Ferguson E. M. Ingersoll Robert Waterbury Curtis Brown R. Spooner W. A. Lillie Timothy Tailor G. W. King Mrs. Abner Allen Sarah King D. B. Hart Stephen Hart Elsie Garfield Wm. Durand Jesse Daniels Mrs. Wm. Durand Henry Hayden E. D. Howe Lucretia Van Dusen Erastus Hodges Juriah Call Eli Farnsworth B. S. Foster James Campbell

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Oct. 3, 1878 Mrs. Moses Thompson Norton Gilbert Mrs. D. Shepherd Lucy N. Campbell Isaac Converse Thomas Collister Erastus Spencer Warren Chronicle Mary Cotterell Mrs. Kinnaman, died of small pox in Cortland, Caroline Greer last Sunday. No other case reported. Thomas Greer R. Dewey p. 3 Mrs. Jeff Carson (formerly Miss Blanche Martha Scott Robert) is making her Painesville friends and A. Gilbert relatives a short visit. Elisha Martin Mrs. I. F. Hodge Mrs. Mary Dean, of Michigan is visiting her Ira Bond brother, Mr. J. S. Fowler, and the “scene of her A. B. Green childhood,” in North Madison. N. P. Gildersleeve A. Pepoon Mrs. A. A. Clapp, of Red Oak, Iowa, better known R. M. Pepoon as Miss Tinnie Bissel, is visiting her old home Nathan Corning after an absence of several years. Mrs. P. Armstrong Mrs. S. A. Hovey Mr. H. K. Reynolds, of New York, moved his A. Armstrong family to Orangeville, N.J., some twelves miles C. H. Cleveland out of the city. L. M. Reynolds Norman Gilbert Dr. S. H. Todd, of Mentor, left for the East the J. M. Pratt first of the week, to attend the fall and winter G. L. Furguson course of lectures at the popular Bellevue Nelson Wells Hospital College of New York City. He will be Mrs. A. Bartlett absent at least six months. Mrs. Herick Joseph Warner Gen. Halbert E. Paine, of Washington, has been A. Brown tendered the office of Commissioner of Patents. Mrs. H. Hopkins He will soon enter upon the discharge of his new John Doane duties. Harriet Dickey John Parks The sudden death of Mrs. Josie J. Young, which John Randall we publish today, has cast a gloom over this L. P. Hurd community. She leaves her little Eva, her C. Huntington widowed mother, an only sister and brother. Mrs. E. Brindle H. Brainard Dr. Kibbee died of yellow fever at New Orleans, Anna Hopkins he was the brother Mr. Amos W. Kibbee, of N. Radcliff Concord, with whom a sister at present resides. E. B. Haskell Dr. George Kibbee, inventor of the fever cot Mrs. R. R. Storm died at Hotel Dieu, in New Orleans last Monday- th Abigail Randall - from a New Orleans dispatch of the 24 . His Mrs. E. Winslow sister, Hattie Kibbee, lives in Concord, Ohio. (this last paragraph was on p. 2)

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Oct. 3, 1878 Ridge north of the Baptist Church. After living at Hon. E. T. Wilder, of Red Wing, Minnesota, was the Middle Ridge several years, Mr. W. and in town last week called from the West by the family came to North Madison. death of his sister, Mrs. Dr. Goodwin, of East Mr. George Morse and family have returned to Claridon, who was a member of Judge Wilder’s Geneva from Collinwood. family when he resided in Painesville. The many Miss Mattie Ashley, of Battle Creek, Michigan, friends of his brother, Judge Horace Wilder, also has been visiting relatives here. of Red Wing, who for a long time has been in ill Married health will be glad to learn of his convalescence In Madison, Sept. 18, Mr. Arandus F. Billington to and restoration. Miss Phebe J. White, of Madison, Ohio. Died Golden Wedding Sept. 30, Josie J. Young, age 35 yrs. youngest The 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. daughter of Mrs. M. L. and the late M. J. Warner. Rockwell was celebrated by an assembly of friends at their residence on State St, September Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of 26th. Mr. Rockwell passed his 80th birthday, Oct. 2: August 31st. Ladies Brown, Mrs. Nellie North Madison Hubbard, Mrs. Addie Mr. and Mrs. John Kellogg, of Charles City, Wright, Miss Ina A. Iowa, are visiting their many friends and relatives Giffling, Mrs. Henrietta at North Madison. Gibson, Miss Hettie Mr. Merriman Williams, of Grand Haven, Pierce, Miss Hattie Mich., arrive at Madison, last week, on his way Wilson, Mrs. Jane home from Connecticut. Mr. Williams Is a Gentlemen brother-in-law of Messrs. Wm. and Lewis Carter, W. H. Norton. Coran, Capt. Hugh Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Austin, of Montville, are Hammond A. R. visiting Mrs. Austin’s friends of North Madison. Knight, Chas. W. Mrs. A. will be remembered formerly as Mrs. Lapham, Charles H. Fedelia Richmond. McKendree, M. A. Mrs. Mary Dean, of Cold Water, Mich., is Regan, William visiting her brother, Mr. John Fowler, of Thayer, J. W. Madison; also, Dr. Fowler, of Painesville. Mr. Daggett, Everett Oliver Fowler has been spending the past Goodridge, J. summer in Madison. Harris, R. C. Mrs. Wellman, of Conneaut, is stopping a few Lamb, Jordan days with her sister, Mrs. Henry Pancost, of Masteller, H. D. Madison Village, and friends at Madison. Pratt, C. D. Mrs. L. K. Weeks is still absent at Aurora, Ohio, Skelly, Patrick caring for her sick, daughter, Miss Ida Barrett, Wheeler, Geo. who, at last account, was not expected to live. Held for postage: Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas T. Ware, of Elmwood, J. H. Reynolds, Corry, Penn. Tuscola Co., Mich., arrived at Madison last week Hyram Hyde, Spring, Penn. after an absence of nine years. Mr. W. is a son of Mr. Emerson Ware who was one of the early settlers of Madison, first settled on the Middle

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Oct. 10, 1878 Thursday Real Estate Transfers p. 2 Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as Painesville of Oct. 9: James L. Parmly to Willard D. Hardy, part of an Ladies acre in lot on Railroad St. Caveny, Miss Annie Lavinia L. Parmly to Louisa Brigham, lot corner Eddy, Miss Clara Liberty and South Street Gordon, Miss B. Mary Gage to Alexander J. Weston, part of an Metier, Mrs. P. A. acre, South St. Clair St. Condon, Miss Nellie Albyron Webster to Hattie L. Wheeler, lots on Fuller, Miss Mary State St. Huckaford, Miss Bell Royal F. Dow to Alma J. Gray, lot 12, Bissel’s Pierce, Miss Hattie addition Reynolds, Miss Mary L. Julia Chilson to Homer H. Hine, lot no. 76, Gentlemen Grandon Bishop, George Kirtland Ervine, Jimmy M. Charles and Henrietta Bethke to Henry and Mary McGuire, Joseph Ann Bishop, 50 acres Sumner, D. C. Laura S. and Charles R. Mitchell to Phebe Brown, James Harmon, 53 acres Coulter, W. L. John Harmon to Laura S. and Charles R. Mitchell, Geise, Ed F. 67 acres Seeman, Chas. Perry Williams, Hamilton Lewis B. Wood to Ellen J. Wood, 135 acres Held for postage: Marcus Decker to Ellen B. Gamble, 50 acres Mrs. Mary P. Ament, Canton, China Madison Avery M. and Hattie Matteson to Emeline p. 3 Miss Jennie C. Root, daughter of Mr. and Matteson, 16 acres Mrs. Jerry Root, of Tecumseh, Mich., is visiting Mentor relatives and friends in Painesville. Samuel Winch, by administrator, to Mary A. Winch, 12 acres By a note from Dr. L. H. Todd, of Mentor, now in New York for the purpose of attending lectures, Now and Then we learn that he has chosen the College of In 1839, says one of our old settlers, Mr. D. H. Physicians and Surgeons for the course instead Gray hauled cord wood the distance of a mile to of the Bellevue as at first intended. a point on the bank of the lake about five miles west of Fairport. The pay was one shilling per Rev. F. H. Moore, with family, removes to cord, and by diligence, starting early and working Cleveland the present week, in order to be more late, he could haul eight cords, himself, horse centrally located in his business as Agent of the and wagon, thus, earning one dollar per day. He Citizens’ Mutual Life Insurance Co. had left relatives and friends in central New York from whence he removed, who were anxious to News was received here last week by friends of hear from him in the “new country,” so at first the death at Alturas, California, of Mr. Almon A. his correspondence was large and a day’s work Offer, formerly of this place and son of the late just paid the postage on four letters. Robert Offer. He served in the army from Kansas during the rebellion, leaving the service with Pioneer Sketch impaired health. He was about 49 years. The first settler in the township known in the early settlement of the Reserve as Chagrin, now

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Oct. 10, 1878 French stopped and waited for the return of called Willoughby, was David Abbot. He was Abbot. Merry went to his father’s in Avon, on born in Brookfield, Worcester Co., Mass. He the Genesee River, and Abbott pursued his worked on a farm until he was 18 or 20 yrs old, journey, arriving safely at his home in Rome, N.Y. and then learned the shoemaking trade, working Next year Abbott started again for the west and in his native town and in Lynn, Mass. While thus was joined by French at Genesee. They reached engaged, he studied preparatory for College, and Buffalo about March 1, and arrived at his cabin entered Yale a sophomore. He left in his senior on the Chagrin, March 22, 1799. During this year before graduation and commenced the year, he put in some crops, built a dam across the study of law. He was admitted to the bar and river, built a saw and grist mill, and put them in practiced in Rome, Oneida Co., N.Y. Here he operation in 1800. When Trumbull Co. was married Mary, daughter of Matthew Brown, of formed, David Abbot was appointed Sheriff. In Rome. She was, also, a native of Brookfield, the spring of 1801, Mrs. Abbot, and her son Mass. He soon gave up the practice of law and Benjamin W. Abbot, about 4 years old, arrived in became a merchant. Not meeting with success, Chagrin. Mrs. Abbot was the first white female he decided to try fur trade in the west. He built a settler of Chagrin (now Willoughby). He husband boat, and about the middle of May, 1797, sailed was often absent, sometimes for weeks. She for Detroit. He carried his boat and his cargo would visit the squaws at the Indian camps to around Niagara Falls and set sail on Lake Erie, pass the time. He son would play with the Indian arriving at the mouth of the Chagrin River in children. Wambamong, a chief, gave him a bow June. After some trading with the Indians, he and arrows and taught him how to use them. sailed for Detroit, where he exchanged his goods While associating with the Indians, Mrs. Abbot’s for money and furs, and returned to the Chagrin eldest River. Here he became sick. Joseph Tinker, the Daughter, Mary O. Abbot, received an Indian principal boatman, of the surveyors was on his name—the ceremony which was somewhat like way to return to the eastern states. Abbot Christian baptism, being performed with decided to put his boat and cargo under Tinker’s becoming gravity by an old Indian. care to take east, and if he recovered to return (to be continued) by C. C. Bronson himself by land. The second night after the boat left, it capsized in a squall off Chautauqua Co., Madison N.Y. The crew, boat, and his cargo worth $3,000 A very quiet wedding took place on the River - $,4,000, were lost. Only one man reached the Road, in Madison. Mr. Warren Beach, of Orange, shore. Abbot regained his health and returned and Miss Julia Clark being the happy couple. home. Returning to the mouth of the Chagrin Middle Ridge, Oct. 3, 1878 the next year, he found his cabin had been burnt Miss Dollie Fowler has gone to Matson, and the property left in it stolen. He rebuilt his Michigan in company with her aunt, Mrs. Mary cabin, and being now employed as a Surveyor, he Dean, with whom she expects to spend the made it his headquarters. Not liking a winter. rendezvous so near the lake, he subsequently Mrs. Frank Viets, of Dakota, has accompanied located on a farm, upon a part of which the her mother, Mrs. John Dow, on a visit to Sand present village of Willoughby now stands. Beach, Mich. By C. C. Bronson Mrs. Eliza Barney, of Lorain Co., has been visiting her brother, Mr. Jno. Crocker. About the same time (1798), Ebenezer Merry Mrs. H. C. Wade received the sad news of the settled at the Marsh in Mentor, and as the winter death of her sister, Mrs. H. Beadle, of St. Louis. approached, Abbot, Merry, and Peter French Mr. Merriman Williams, who has been started for the east. At the Genesee River, stopping a few days in Madison, has returned to his home in Grand Haven, Mich.

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Oct. 10, 1878 Cook, John Mr. C. R. Williams and son, Jay, of Cleveland, McLalin, A. A. are visiting the former home at Chapel Corners. Pindleton, Wm. Mr. Joseph Davit has returned from Kelley’s Seeley, Lewis W. Island, where he married Miss Katie McGettigan, Colby, Joe of Kelley’s Island. They have returned to North Fenske, A. Madison to live. Meritt, Henry F. Mr. Wm. Toop, of Madison Village has sold his Ritter, Alonzo place to Mr. O. A. Haskins. He expects to leave Vickus, R. M. Madison and go to Kansas. The daughter of Mr. John Blair was married Zenas S. Wilson is the executor of Josie J. Young, October 2. Mr. D. A. Strong to Miss Nettie Blair, deceased, late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. all of Madison Village. Probate Court Madison Plains 1. John Dowen as trustee of Richard Dowen; first Mr. Albert McEwen and wife, formerly of this account place but now of Michigan are visiting old 2. Edwin King as executor of the Joseph Stoker, friends and acquaintances. deceased; final account 3. H. H. Morse guardian of Alice and Emma Married Dilley; final account In Willoughby, Ohio, at the residence of the 4. Timothy H. Lamson as trustee of Horace bride’s parents, October 7th, Mr. Will G. Spence, Lamson, deceased; first account of East Cleveland, and Miss Kate McMalkin. 5. J. S. Casement as administrator of Charles C. At the residence of the bride’s mother, Mrs. W. Jennings, deceased; first account T. Eaton, in Grand Rapids, Mich., October 2, Mr. 6. Samuel R. House executor of Eunice E. Ladd, Timothy F. Moseley and Miss Nettie L. Belnap, all deceased of Grand Rapids. p. 3 Gurdon Thompson, an old resident of Oct. 17, 1878 Thursday LeRoy, died at his residence in that township, Oct. 15, after an illness of five weeks. He was 74 p. 2 Warren Tribune yrs. old. News has been received of the death of Chas.

Potter, of Memphis, Tenn., from yellow fever. Mr. Levi Long, last a resident of Northeast LeRoy, Mr. Potter spent his boyhood days here, and was in this county, and who with his family moved well known by many of our citizens. He was a west some two months ago, has located in brother of Mrs. Junius Dana. Ohiowa, Fillmore Co., Nebraska, where he has

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Oct. 16: Died Ladies Gilbert Curtiss, for several years a resident of this Conley, Miss Theresa place and vicinity, died at the residence of his Humphrey, Miss Bell brother-in-law, Mr. E. E. Hodge, in Mentor, Moffet, Miss Ellen October 12. His disease was slow consumption. Davis, Miss Lula He was about 52 yrs. old. The remains were Johnston, Mrs. C. H. place in the vault of Evergreen Cemetery. Stanhope, Miss Jose.

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Oct. 17, 1878 Perry Minneapolis, Minn., where he has opened a Emeline Roe (?) to Frank E. Bartholomew, part of grocery and provision house. an acre Jacob Traver to Samuel W. Parmly, 5 acres Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Young have sold their farm of about 100 acres—the old Eaton farm, so called, Willoughby from early days, bordering on the south line of Mrs. Emma Parker, of Lincoln, Nebraska, has the Painesville Incorporation. They have been been spending some weeks with her mother, on the farm for 19 years since commencing their Mrs. Powell wedded life. They have not yet decided on their future. Perry th There was a birthday party, Oct. 4 , at Mr. A Singular Fatality Enoch Stockham’s. It was Mrs. Stockham’s Dr. J C. Lamb, of Watervleit, Mich., while birthday. spending a few days in Minnesota, received by There was a surprise birthday party, Tuesday, st telegraph the news of the death of an adopted Oct. 1 , at Mr. A. A. Wheeler’s. The party was son, who while visiting some kind of a gotten up by Misses Kate and Clara. The next manufacturing establishment was struck by a Tuesday, Oct. 8, Mrs. W. concluded to return the flying piece from the machinery, and so seriously compliment to her daughters and surprise them. injured that he lived but four days. The morning Accordingly, the friends of the young ladies from following Mr. Lamb’s return home, he went into far and near were notified and the Lane Cornet a field to catch his horse, and was attacked and Band requested to attend, and in order to make killed by a vicious bull of which he was the the surprise more complete, some near owner. The animal had to be shot before the neighbors invited the girls to call in the early part body could be recovered. The deceased was a of the evening. The band assembled on a rear native of this county, and brother of James porch, and the guests assembled in the parlor. Lamb, of Concord. When the young ladies returned home and entered the yard, the house was suddenly Death of Judge Bissel illuminated, the band began to play, and they Intelligence of the death of Judge Benj. Bissel, a were welcomed by thirty-five guests. former and prominent citizen of Painesville, but for the past five years a resident of Red Oak, Madison, Middle Ridge, Oct. 10, 1878 Iowa, reached here yesterday. The remains One of the happiest events that has transpired of accompanied by Mrs. Bissel and daughter, Mary, late here on the Ridge, was the Old Folks’ arrived here this morning for interment in reunion, at the Baptist parsonage, yesterday. Evergreen Cemetery. He leaves a wife and four About 68 old people assembled; all but two or daughters. three of whom were residents of Madison. They came together in the morning. Real Estate Transfers Of those present, seventeen were 80 years of Painesville age or upwards. Margaret L. Hawver to Albyron Webster lost Harlow Bailey, 86 corner Wood and High Street Mrs. Harlow Bailey, 85 Stephen Wilson to Albert S. Wilson, 7 acres Edward Bissell, 85 Mentor William Balch, 85 Charles M. Craine to Amanda Munson, 2 acres Horace Barton, 82 Amanda Munson to Adaline H. Craine, same Jewett Burdick, 80 premises Mrs. Ann Brakeman, 83 C. W. Ensign, 88

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Oct. 17, 1878 In Concord, Oct. 9th, Sarah Murray, wife of the M. B. Hubbard, 85 late Harvey Kellogg, age 65 yrs. Mrs. M. B. Hubbard, 81 Lucy Lee, 83 Oct. 24, 1878 Thursday Phineas Pixley, 88 p. 3 Several cases of diphtheria are reported in Mrs. Charry Pope, 85 town, and we learn there has been one death, a Nancy Potter, 80 little boy of Mrs. M. A. Johnson. James Raplee, 82 S. Sawyer, 84 Mr. G. B. Eaton, son-in-law of P. Kleeberger and Mrs. Salisbury, 81 employed with Messrs. Kleeberger & Morley, met with quite a severe accident last Friday. Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of Rev. W. F. Potter, of When working with a pick cutting stone for the Yates, Orleans Co., N.Y., but a native of Madison, work on the bridge embankment, he struck a wet died on Wednesday, Oct. 9th, of paralysis. stone with the pick, which glanced off, the sharp Mr. Gilbert Burns, of N. Madison, and Miss end entered his leg just below the knee joint, Fanny Foster, of the Madison House, were quite badly bruising the bone. He is able to walk married last evening. with a cane. Mrs. Emily Knowles, of Connecticut, is vising her many relatives of North Madison. Mr. S. Youmans, of Mentor Plains, hands us an Mrs. Marietta Crocker, of Lorain Co., is visiting old Spanish milled dollar, recently found in his her friends, of North Madison, also her sister, field, where it may have lain probably for half a Mrs. Harriet Gager of Madison Village. century.

Geneva Died Mr. Samuel Rogers, of Painesville, and Miss E. D. Tillotson, son of the late Dr. Loyal Tillotson, Amelia Morgan, of Geneva, were married on the of Thompson, died at the old homestead in that 30th ultimo. town October 14, in the 52nd year of his age. The Robert Drought Jr. was arrested Saturday on deceased was twelve years a resident of LeRoy complaint of E. A. Parks, who charged him with Township, removing to Michigan in the spring of improper conduct toward his, Mr. Parks’ 1876. After about a year’s residence in that daughter. Drought was arraigned and bound state, his health began to fail, and he returned to over in bonds of $400. Mr. Brakeman, a brother- Ohio last fall, settling in Cleveland. Some three in-law of Draught’s went his bail. The matter will weeks ago, he arranged to move to Painesville. probably be amicably settled as Mr. D. is While this was taking place, he visited his mother perfectly willing to marry the girl, who is only in Thompson, where his health rapidly declined fourteen, if Mr. Parks desires, or will send her and he died. He leaves a wife, one daughter, and away to school for a term of years. three sons.

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Oct. 24, 1878 about 58 years of age. He was at work in the age. He had been a resident of Painesville for 16 Cemetery, setting the base for a monument, years. when complaining of not feeling well, he sat down and died in a few minutes. Mr. Geo. W. Allen, a former citizen of Painesville, has been nominated as candidate to represent Married Grand Rapids, Michigan, in our State Legislature. In North Weare, N. H., Oct. 17, at the residence of the bride’s mother, Sarah M. Chase, only House Burned daughter of the late John W. Chase, Esq. to Oliver On Monday night, the dwelling of Mr. J. J. E. Branch, of New York City, N.Y. McCaslin, the old Goldsmith homestead, between one and two miles from town, was Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of found to be on fire, and in a short time was Oct. 23: entirely consumed. Mr. and Mrs. McCaslin Ladies were away in Cleveland; the children were at a Baker, Mrs. Emma friend’s in Mentor. Barrett, Miss Susie Manley, Mrs. Deborah South Madison Brown, Mrs. P. N. There was a fire in the north part of Thompson. Fitzgerald, Miss Mary About one year ago, Chauncey Wert, then living Tuttle, Mrs. I. J. in a large stone house, on a corner of the Gentlemen Edgerton farm, so called, a stone cutter by trade, Bench, A. B. moved to Michigan to take care of his father-in- Doherty, Daniel law, Ira Phelps. No one has been living in the Hoam, B. A. house since the beginning of July. The front door Mathews, Chas. W. had been broken open. Supposed to be the work Rice, Reuben of an incendiary. Day, Orrin Hammond, A. R. North Madison Kellie, Jack Mr. and Mrs. Levi Barnard, of Michigan are Martineau, Leland stopping a few days among their friends of White, A. H. Madison. Mrs. Barnard will be remembered at Held for postage: Miss Amy Bliss, formerly of Madison. B. D. Upham, Mentor, O. Mrs. F. C. Fadner and children have come to Wm. Ramsey, Perry Madison to stay awhile at her father’s—Mr. Andrew Fietch. Oct. 31, 1878 Thursday Mr. and Mrs. John Kellogg left here on the 21st, p. 2 Pioneer Sketch on their homeward journey to Charles City, Iowa. David Abbot (continued) Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Ware, now visiting in Detroit was an old settlement, and the only place Geneva, expect to return soon to Elmwood, where many things the settlers needed could be Mich. They were residents of Madison nearly 50 obtained. In the fall of 1801, Mr. Abbot, with a years ago. small cedar open boat and one man, David Barrett by name, started to go there for fruit Geauga County trees, fruit, & c. On the return trip, a squall came A. L. Rogers, the well-known marble dealer of up, and they were blown far away by morning. this place, died very suddenly yesterday They arrived at Long Point and had to choose afternoon, Monday, of heart disease. He was between a long journey around by Buffalo, then

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Oct. 24, 1878 Sudden Death to Erie and Chagrin or a direct run across the The friends of John Weaver Jr. several days ago lake. They chose the latter. The fruit trees received the announcement of his sudden death, brought from this perilous voyage were the first of pneumonia, at Georgetown, Colorado, Oct. rd fruit trees in Lake and Geauga Counties. Mr. 23 . He was 35 yrs. old. Abbot started building his mills in 1799 and began to grind in 1800. William Mills was Died building in Newburg at the same time, but grain Flora Coburn, wife of G. T. Coburn, of Concord, was ground at the mill in Newburg first. A heavy died Oct. 15, of congestion of the lungs after only freshet carried away his dam, and would have an illness of three or four days, age 65 years. carried away his mill if he had not chained it to a The deceased was an old resident of Concord. stump. By C. C. Bronson Mr. L. Smith recently paid a visit to his old and Ashtabula Telegraph native home at Hamilton, N.Y., where he spent a Maj. John A. Prentice died last Sat at the few days in visiting relatives and friends. During th Newburgh Asylum in his 70th year. The remains his visit, his 70 birthday occurred. were brought to this place and placed in the Chestnut Grove Cemetery. An accident befell Real Estate Transfers him while leaving the cars at this place, which so O. N. Brainard to N. H. Ambler, 15 acres disturbed his reason, that the last two years of Isaac M, Clark to Abbie S. Branch, ½ acre his life have seen spent in the Newburg Asylum. Madison William H. Toop to Ruby A. Hoskin, 1 acre Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of David A. Strong, to D. H. Roe, part of lot 6, Oct. 30 Harvey’s survey Ladies Ichabod Adams to Wm. J. Vanderveer, 42 acres Gordon, Miss Bridget Martha J. Hill to Evangeline Thomas, 1 acre Hotzling, Miss Myra Willoguhby Harvey, Mrs. Mary A. A. R. Hurd to Thomas S. Harbach, part of lot 77 Failes, Mrs. Susan Kirtland Gentlemen Joseph Sebek to Sigmund Stein, 70 acres Clark, Armstead Sigmund Stein to Maxmiliana Sebek, same Kerr, J. W. premises Moses & Ryan Mentor Sikes, Ledore Harriet Prouty and others to John Encell, 25 acres Hughes, E. M. Mackmulan, Wm. J. Enlargement of the City Mills Roman, Frank The mill of Messrs. Hall & Stebbins, known as the Sparks, Wm. H. City Mills, has proved altogether too small to Titus, C. W. accommodate the requirements of its many Held for postage: customers; the proprietors have found it Basil Hobday, Cleveland, Ohio necessary to build an addition which is to be 16.5 feet by 33 feet, and four stories high. All the p. 3 Friends of Mr. C. A. Camp, son of H. C. Camp, upper floors will be used for storage; the lower of Concord, who went west some time since in floor for an office and other purposes. search of health, will be glad to learn that he is rapidly gaining strength. He is now at Murray, The Fairport Pioneer – Captain Robert Eaton Iowa. By his daughter, Rachel Eaton Ferriss

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Oct. 31, 1878 he was obliged to drive to Painesville before Robert Eaton, of Scotch descent, was born in finding a physician to set it. They reached their Farmington, Kennebeck Co., Maine, Feb. 26, former home and rested a year. The they 1778. His father having been shipwrecked and returned to their western home, bringing with drowned in the Bay of Fundy, the care of a large them another daughter born during their stay. family and the settlement of the estate devolved Being a good mechanic, Mr. Eaton, soon erected upon Robert, the eldest son, then only 17 yrs. a saw mill, then a grist mill. A county seat was old. He was married April 1, 1801, to Rachel established at Ravenna several years after. Starling, of the same place, and the following When the news came of Hull’s surrender, that summer explored the country as far as Ohio. the British and Indians were marching toward Returning pretty well pleased, resolved to Cleveland, Mr. Eaton entered his house, emptied emigrate the next year. His wife was not so his straw beds and making wagon covers of he enthusiastic. At length, preparations were ticks started for Cleveland to meet the enemy. made; six large horse wagons were provided, He stayed a fortnight, his service not being fitted and prepared for a long journey. The needed he returned home. Mr. Eaton went to summer of 1802, they started. Six pairs of horses Sandusky and paid $300 to have a small were affixed to the wagons, and farewells were schooner built. He named it Rachel after his wife. made. Their company consisted of eight (Next is a story how Mr. Eaton went after and persons, Robert Eaton, his wife and infant son; with help caught a murderer.) In 1815, Mr. his two younger brothers, Isaac and Jacob Eaton; Eaton sold his property and moved to Fairport, a sister by the name of Perley, and her husband; intending to sail the Rachel himself. His family and a young man by the name of Abbot. Their consisted of himself, his wife and six children, journey was without accident. At the end of six domestics and workmen to the number of weeks, they rested in Deerfield, Portage Co., fourteen. In Fairport one framed building stood Ohio. They spent the winter there; finding the on the hill, occupied by Mr. Hall, and several log next summer that water was scarce, Robert buildings were scattered around. Mr. Eaton Eaton moved to Ravenna, and settled upon land occupied two of them. His first work was to dig now known as the Thomson place, about a mile a well. At the depth of 60’, his workmen found and a quarter from the present village of pure cold water. All fourteen in the household Ravenna. Flour and other necessitates had to be were stricken with lake fever. Capt. Eaton, the brought on pack horses from Pittsburg—more only one who was able to ride, mounted his than 100 miles distant. Mrs. Perley sickened and horse, rode up to Painesville and purchased a died. Robert Eaton and Abbot alone went to the piece of land. A good-sized frame house and a funeral. The weather was rainy and the roads well of good water were on the premises. The impassable—only for horses. A panther citizens kindly came and moved the sick family to followed them on the return trip. The family was their new home. Some were sick for a long time stricken down with smallpox. The doors and but finally recovered. A young man named windows were barred. The Indians came day Briggs taught the winter school and was after day beating upon the doors and clamoring succeeded by Flavius Josephus Huntington. Mr. for bread. The two brothers and Perley, Dodge, blacksmith, lived in a sun-dried brick becoming discontented, returned home. Worn house on Mentor St. Mr. Shaver, a tailor by out with sickness and hardships, at the end of trade, made the first improvement on the seven years they resolved to return to Maine and Horton place. He and his wife both died on spend some time in visiting their early homes consumption. Mr. Duty came in about his time. and friends. On the long road home, the horse His daughter Persis married Platt R. Spencer. Dr. crowded Mr. Eaton between two trees and Wm. Harmon, died and was buried in the first broke his collar bone. This was near Burton, and burying ground. Later their bodies were moved to the ground near the High School building.

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Oct. 31, 1878 while there was taken ill, from which she never Christopher Crofts came in later and established recovered but gradually declined until her death, th the first chair shop. After a number of years Oct. 10 , age 41 years. She leaves a husband and Capt. Eaton kept the American House, returned an adopted daughter. Also, three sisters and one to his farm, and kept an inn in addition to brother: Mr. H. Kibby, Lima, Ohio; Mrs. C. W. farming. He died at his home in Painesville of Jackson, Huntersville; Mrs. Geo. Preston, Mo., congestion of the lungs, April 7th, 1842, age 64 and Mrs. L. M. Manley, Concord. The remains years. Mrs. Eaton died at Harpersfield, were taken to Huntersville, Hardin Co., Ohio, for Ashtabula Co., Ohio, at the residence of her burial. daughter, Mrs. Mary Barrett, April 27, 1855, age 74 yrs. Two sons and five daughters survived Geneva her. Shepard, the eldest son, died in September, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor on Grant St. have a new baby 1860. The other son Robert is engaged in the boy. surveying business in Kansas. The eldest Mr. C. A. Harvey, of North Swickley, Pa., is daughter Mary (Orlando Barrett’s widow) visiting relatives here. resides in Harpersfield, Ashtabula Co. The second, Amanda (relict of Arnold Mason) is living Married in Painesville. The third, writer of the above, In Painesville, Oct. 13, by Isaac Rider at his resides with her husband, E. J. Ferriss, at Little house, Mr. Franklin N. Rider and Miss Selinda L. Mountain. The fourth, Sophia (widow of Jacob Clark, both of Chardon. D. Truax), is living in Unionville, Lake Co. The At St. James’ Church, Tuesday, Mr. S. L. youngest, Elizabeth (wife of Martin Carroll), died Thompson and Miss Fannie S. Barstow, both of at her residence in Concord, Lake Co., June 13, Painesville. 1878. Died In Painesville, Oct. 25, Eddie Halstead Rosa, Madison, Middle Ridge, Oct. 26, 1878 eldest son of Frank O. and Olive Rosa, in his There is almost universal dissatisfaction in the seventh year. new history of Lake and Geauga Counties by the In North Madison, Ohio, Oct. 26, Elisabet, William Bros. The historian was in such a hurry consort of Mr. Wm. Beckley of that place, age 38 that some of the oldest families were not even yrs. called upon to gather items for the work. Some are not mentioned at all. Nov. 7, 1878 Thursday p. 3 Mrs. Malinda Ryder, formerly of this vicinity, Mr. and Mrs. James Williams celebrated their tin and mother of Louise Pomeroy, the famous wedding this evening. actress, died in New York City on Friday night, of last week. Her remains arrived at her home in Concord Cleveland, for interment on Sunday. Mrs. L. M. Manley and daughter, Lida, have just returned from Toledo, where they have been in Messrs. Frank Gee and J. A. Rogers of this place attendance at the death and burial of their sister are now opening a new drug and grocery house and aunt, Mrs. Edward Gould, youngest in Ashtabula. daughter of the late Moses Kibby, who died Dec. 1, 1877, age 84 yrs. Mr. Kibby was one of the Died in Florida early settlers of Lake Co. coming from We are in receipt of a postal card from a friend, Connecticut to Ohio in 1819, and remaining in announcing the death of Emma Evill, at Palatka, Concord nearly 20 years. Mrs. Gould was called Florida, of malaria fever, after an illness of only a to Lima, Ohio, at the death of her father, and few hours. The deceased was formerly a

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Nov. 7, 1878 the Kirtland, in Poland: Gen. Martin Smith of resident of Kirtland, in this county, from whence Vernon; Judge Eliphalet Austin of Austinburg, she removed with her family to Florida a year Aaron Wheeler of Harpersfield, Judge Solomon ago last September. Griswold of Windsor, and John Stack Edward of Mesopotamia. By C. C. Bronson Real Estate Transfers Painesville Geauga County – Chardon, Nov. 5, 1878 nd Eli S. Young to J. G. Corey, 96 acres Hiram Austin of this place died on the 22 Henry A. Lamar to Henry A. Lamar Jr. lot 49, ultimo, age 78 years. He was well known in Fairport Trumbull Co., where he was elected Auditor in Mentor 1844, holding the office two terms. He resided in Edward V. Prouty to Theron Woodruff, 45 acres Cleveland several years and came to Chardon in Concord 1873. Albert Button to Shirley Holcomb, 1 acre North Madison Pioneer Sketch – David Abbot (continued Mr. Charlie Andrews, son of Mr. Minor Andrews Mr. Abbot made his settlement with the after an absence of two years, is again at home. Treasurer of the territory and on his return, he wanted to strike across the county to the Personal Sandusky River, and going from there he was lost C. H. Moore Esq., of Clinton, Illinois, but formerly and wandering in the wilderness two or three of Mentor, this county, is visiting his aged father, days, suffering intensely from hunger and thirst. who now resides in Willoughby. Mr. Moore At last he found an Indian camp and they gave went to the then far west in 1839. him some food. After eating the Indian directed him to the Huron River which he followed to the Died lake and finally reached his home on the Chagrin. On Nov. 1, of membranous croup, Florence A., On this journey, he first saw the land on which daughter of Leander B. and Eveline E. Riker, age Milan now stands, and afterward purchased on 2 yr., 11 mos. 1,800 acres on the bank of the river, in the township of Avery, now Milan. The first mail Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of route on the Western Reserve was established in Nov. 6 1803. Mr. Abbot had the contract for carrying Ladies the mail from Warren to Austinburg, Beckwith, Mrs. Almira Harpersfield, Painesville, Chagrin, Cleveland, Fitchet, Miss Harriet Hudson, Ravenna, and Warren, thus forming a Keyes, Miss Almira circuit. He held this contract three or four years. Kirk, Mrs. Julia Sometimes the mail was carried on foot, but Comstock, Mrs. Agnes generally on horseback. Besides being Sheriff of Griswold, Mrs. M. L. Trumbull county and collector of taxes, in 1803, Kies, Laura he and Samuel Huntington were chosen Randall, Miss Jessie members of the convention to form a Stevenson, Mrs. Libbie constitution for the Territory of Ohio. At that Gentlemen time, there were Judge James Kingsbury, of Brown, S. R. Newburg; David Hudson, of Hudson; Benjamin Clark, Horace Tappan, at that time living in Ravenna; Gen. Howard, J. Simon Perkins and Judge Calvin Pease, Ephraim Moses and Ryan Quinby in Warren, Gen. Wadsworth in Canfield, Smith, S. Carpenter, L. V.

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Nov. 7, 1878 Walter Barey, Ireland Eddy, Friend H. McEwen, Capt. Samuel p. 3 R. S. Guerney, formerly a resident of Mentor, th Sumner, Warren died Nov. 9 , at his home, Kidder, Mo. Stempel, Christie Held for postage: Further On – Mr. J. M. Dille, General Broker and Henry T. Woodruff, Harvard, Ill. Loan Agent, formerly of this county has made another move towards the setting sun, changing Nov. 14, 1878 Thursday his residence from Crete, Nebraska, to Greeley, Colorado. p. 2 Geneva

An old gentleman by the name of O’Conner, Mr. and Mrs. R. Thompson, of Westfield, N.Y., died a day or two since. but formerly of this place have been spending a Mrs. Harry Wood died yesterday and will be week with their Painesville friends. They left for buried tomorrow. She had been a very great Dayton yesterday to visit their daughter residing sufferer for many months. in that city.

Willoughby The Grand Jury of this county, on Thursday of last Died – In Willoughby, Nov. 2, Lila Davis, age 10 week, found bills against J. S. Carlisle, Eugene yrs., youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Joiner, and F. G. Miner for robbing the grave in Davis. Willoughby Cemetery of the body of the late

Edwin French. Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of

Nov. 13: Real Estate Transfers Ladies Painesville Murphy, Mrs. Ellen Homer C. Nellis to W. F. Smith, lot south side Rockafellow, Mrs. M. Mentor St., 61 feet Stafford, Ellie D. Executors of Eleazar Parmly to Levi S. and Russell, Mrs. Hulda Hannah Burridge, lot 44, west side of State St. Safford, Miss Kate L. Mary H. Reynolds to Levi W. Ensign, 10 acres Stephenson, Mrs. L. Julius Weed et al by sheriff to Mary A. Clayton, Stone, Mrs. Lizzie lot north side of Main St., 96’ front Gentlemen Samuel Mathews et al by sheriff to Richard Bolls, F. H. Goodman, lot west side of State St., 198 feet Hammond, M. D. Willoughby Hill, Irvin A. C. and Welthey M. Williams, to W. C. Andres, Joslin, Wm. 89 acres Pinney, Mr. Nelson M. Parker to Perry Saxton, 40 aces Smith, J. W. A. R. Hurd to Thomas Boyce, 32 feet front on 2nd Burnes, J.R. St. Hammond, A. R. Madison Hoover, James John B. and Lois Peck, by sheriff, to A. C. Myres, Payne, L. C 39 acres Scott, Wm. George H. Hulett to Harriet A. Hopper, 100 acres Yergin, John S. Kirtland Held for Postage George H. and Harriet Hopper to George H. Miss Alice Putnam, Milan, Indiana Hulett, 200 acres Miss Kate O’Daniel, Meadville, Pa.

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Nov. 14, 1878 J. R. Burrows Mentor Horace Steele Jonathan Whipple et al to Mary Jane Gulliford, R. M. Murray 15 acres Geo. W. Steele Concord Samuel R. Pullman to Albert Button, 100 acres Perry Mrs. A. P. Axtell expects to leave for the Golden th Warren, Nov. 6 – Miss Winiford Bailey, elder State about the 15 instant to spend the winter daughter of Rev. Dr. N. P. Bailey of the First with her son at Oakland. Mrs. J. B. Burrows is to Presbyterian church, married at the residence of accompany her. her parents on Washington Ave., Mr. Hugh Bell Mr. and Mrs. James Boyce, of Willoughby, Jr., of Chillicothe, Ohio. The bride was attired in came to Madison last Friday on a visit for a few a handsome steel-blue silk dress, trimmed with days. Mrs. Boyce will be remembered as Miss peach-pink colored silk and flowers. Probably Lucy Cummings, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles the most valuable as well as substantial gift was Cummings. a fine blooded horse from the groom’s father, who is a wealthy stock raiser, living near Died Chillicothe, to the bride. At Painesville, Nov. 11, at the residence of her son-in-law, Reuben Hitchcock, Mrs. Susan Obituary Marshall, age 96 yrs. Died in North Madison, Oct. 26, Elizabeth, wife of William Beckley of this place, age 58 yrs. She Died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. leaves a husband and four children. Mrs. Beckley Maria Hill, No. 7, Nebraska St., Nov. 12, Mrs. was born in New Jersey, and when about 10 Samantha Crofoot, age 83. years of age with her friend she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she remained until about Married year after her marriage with Mr. Beckley; they In Cleveland, on Nov. 7, Edward M. Hulett, of then moved to Connecticut. From there in 1818, Fort Scott, Kansas, and Cornelia Beckwith, they came to Madison, Ohio, where they still daughter of J. H. Morley, Esq., of Cleveland. lived at the time of her death; hers being the first In Newport, Ky., Oct. 28, at the Church of death in the family having been married nearly Immaculate Conception, Kittie Gibbons, of New forty years. All the family were present except port, Ky., to James Powers, of Painesville, Ohio. her oldest son, whose health would not admit of his coming; being in the far away west. Assignee’s Sale: John A. Dodd &Son, in Bankruptcy. The factory at Pleasant Valley, in Several citizens endorse criticism of the Willoughby, machinery, fixtures and land will be Williams Brothers’ History of Lake and Geauga sold. Counties: Homer H. Hine Nov. 21, 1878 Thursday Perry Bosworth normal p. 2 (page 1 was microfilmed and H. R. Dickinson counted twice) H. C. Gray The County History J. M Benjamin Perry Baptist Church is dissatisfied with its G. N. Tuttle history published in the Lake and Geauga Co. F. Paine Jr. History. The information on its history was taken Geo. H. Shepherd from minutes of the Ashtabula Baptist Assoc. of A. P. Axtell 1877. The compilers of the County History found

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Nov. 21, 1878 spent some time in Painesville last summer, in the minutes and copied the sketch without connection with the Williams Bros. History of the changing the phraseology. The Perry Baptist county. Church and is pastor disclaim any responsibility of what has been done without their knowledge. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Kerr arrived from New York J. A. Davies, Pastor at the Perry Church, Nov. 18, last week. Among other places visited during the 1878 summer, they enjoyed a pleasant trip to South America. Madison Mr. V. A. Graves and wife, of N. Madison, have Our Willoughby correspondent announces the moved to Geneva. death of Arthur, third son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Clark, age three yrs., 1 mo., 15 days. His disease Willoughby was diphtheria. Last Wednesday, Arthur, the third son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Clark, died of diphtheria. He was a Kleeberger & Morley have recently moved their bright, little boy of 3 years. marble and granite works to the Parmly Block, State St. Cleveland Mrs. Laura Smith Dorsey died in this city the 15th Gone West – Mr. David Vesey, of Perry, left for instant. The remains were taken to Perry and the west a few days since, to accompany his interred. She was for many years a resident of daughter, going to join her husband, Mr. F. W. Geneva, Ashtabula, Co., but had resided lately in Blair, at Belle Plain, Kansas. Tennessee. She came to Cleveland a few weeks ago in search of medical aid. Mrs. Helen Moore, wife of Mr. Perry Moore, and infant child died Nov. 7, of diphtheria. Mrs. North Madison Moore was 32 yrs. old. Also, died on Nov. 13, Mrs. Luther Weeks, who has been several Eddie Smith, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. months in Aurora, taking care of her sick Smith, of Waite Hill, of croup, age 15 yrs. daughter, returned a few weeks ago, bringing her daughter, Miss Ida Barrett, to her home in Real Estate Transfers Madison. Painesville Mrs. Fannie Cowles, formerly known as Miss Patrick McNally to William Dickey, half an acre Fannie Wheeler, starts today for Walnut, Madison Crawford Co., Kansas, expecting to make that A. D. Myers to Louis Chapman, 30 aces place her future home. Willoughby Jonathan C. Sharp by adm. to Sallie Sharp, part of normal p. 3 (page 1 was microfilmed and an acre on River St. counted twice) Charles Gooding et al by Sheriff to Geo. W. Mosher, 25 acres Dr. C. F. Stockton, in early years of Painesville, and son of the late Dr. L. C. Stockton, spent a In Memoriam couple of days in town last week. He is at Nov. 11, 1878, Mrs. Seth Marshall Sr., died at age present located in the practice of his profession 96 yrs. Her maiden name was Susan Frisbie, her in Buffalo. birth place Burlington, Conn., March 19, 1783. She was married to Seth Marshall or Torrington, Capt. R. L. Jones, of Wayne, Ashtabula Co., was Conn., Jun 3, 1802, and soon after settled in taken to the Newburgh Asylum last Friday. He Colebrook, where they lived until the spring of 1835; they then moved to Painesville, Ohio. Mr.

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Nov. 21, 1878 Williams, Will Marshall died six years later, in Oct., 1841. Since Held for postage that time, Mrs. Marshall has resided in Edward Brooks, Detroit, Mich. Painesville, most of the time with her daughter, Major D. W. Whittle, Mansfield, O. Sarah, wife of Reuben Hitchcock, at whose residence she was living at the time of her Nov. 28, 1878 Thursday decease. She was the mother of nine children, six p. 2 LeRoy of whom survive her. She has 28 grandchildren Mary Kewish writes a letter, Nov. 18, 1878, to and 56 great grandchildren. But a few weeks the editor to correct some history in the Williams since she was present at the golden wedding of Bros. Lake and Geauga Co. History. Her her eldest child, Mrs. T. Rockwell. During her grandfather was Col. Hendrick E. Paine, of entire life, she enjoyed almost uninterrupted Monmouth, Illinois. At the time of Gen. Hull’s good health. She once saw Gens. Washington surrender, he was as Sergt. Major, and it was he and Lafayette. who took the night ride from Painesville to Burton bearing dispatches ordering out the Married regiment; and due to his exertions alone are due In Painesville, Nov. 6, M. J. Warner to Carrie G., the fact that this Regiment was the first in daughter of J. M. Benjamin, both of this city. Cleveland. In the history, the incorrect Nov. 13, Lemuella Kate Rosa to Benjamin E. information is given that Gen. Edward Paine Chesney, both of Painesville started at once for Col. Jedediah Beard’s in In Perry, Oct. 17, Mr. Wm. Edwin and Miss Burton, to order out his Regiment. At the Sarah A. Arnold, both of Perry, Ohio. request of the historians, a biographical sketch In LeRoy, Nov. 19, Mr. Clinton R. Hill and Miss was written of Col. Paine but it was never called Alma C. Crellin, both of Leroy Lake Co., Ohio. for. In Thompson, O., Nov. 18, Mr. P. D. Lynch, of Painesville and Miss Mary McCormick, of Geauga Co. – Chardon, Nov. 25, 1878 Footeville, Ashtabula Co., O. The so-called history of the Williams Bros. In LeRoy, Nov. 14, Mr. John J. Money, of receives much unfavorable comment. It is full of Collinwood, Cuyahoga Co., O., and Miss DeEtte errors, for which there is no reasonable excuse. M. Gordon, of Painesville, Ohio. It contains portraits of those who paid the required amount. There is no biography of the Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of late Judge M C. Canfield, who was a native of this Nov. 20: county and was one of the ablest attorneys in Ladies northeastern Ohio, and filled the office of Mallory, Mrs. Mary Prosecuting Attorney, Probate Judge, and Post, Miss Hattie Common Pleas Judge. Potter, Miss Sarah O. Wright, Miss Mattie North Madison Gentlemen A shadow of sadness has been thrown over our Bishop, A. N. community by the death of Dr. N. B. Holbrook, of Curtiss, Addison G. Madison Village, who died the 23rd, age 55. The Hill, G. S. burial services were conducted by the McKenzie, Geo. S. Oddfellows. McLaughlin, James Mr. Ralph Montgomery and family, of Andover, Scott, William were in Madison on Monday. Mrs. M. is a Tyler, S. M. daughter of the late Dr. Holbrook. Williams, Wm. H.

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Nov. 28, 1878 Hathaway & Co. Mr. O. S. King having disposed Miss Aggie Holbrook, of North Madison, has of his interest to Harry A. Seybrook. O. S. King is returned from Jamestown, Pa., where she has retiring. been spending a few weeks with her cousin, Mrs. Marla Calkins. p. 3 Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Chesney have returned from their wedding tour and are established in Mentor Plains their new home on Washington St. That terrible diphtheria has visited our section and taken one of A. Cole’s little ones, while his Mr. James Durban, of Shelbyville, Ill., brother of other little boy has been and still is very low with Mr. S. C. Durban, of this place, is in town, and will the same disease. spend a week or ten days with his friends in Mrs. Capt. Cole, mother of Mr. A. Cole, has Painesville and Willoughby. been so sad over the loss of the little one, and in poor health, that she has seemingly lost her Tracy H. Paine, son of Captain Geo. E. Paine, reason. takes the place in First National Bank, made vacant by the withdrawal of Mr. Hodge. Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of Nov. 27: The work of widening Main St. by cutting down Ladies some ten or twelve feet of the bluff opposite the Babb, Mrs. Jefferson Painesville Mills has been completed. It was Kirby, Mrs. Julia A. necessary to do considerable rock blasting. Melton, Mrs. Matilda Reynolds, Miss Lizzie Going West – Another Lake County farmer, Mr. Twigg, Miss Jessie W. L. Thompson, is setting his home in order, Eddy, Mrs. E. S. preparatory to moving to the west. Lynch, Maria Elizabeth Perry, Mrs. Matie E. Mr. Seth Marshall Jr. after an absence of four Smith, Miss Addie years arrived in town last Saturday from San White, Miss Florence Francisco, California. He was accompanied from Gentlemen Colorado Springs, by his sister, Mrs. W. J. Kelley. Baker, A. C. W. Mr. Marshall has married a wife in the land of Beardslee, S. gold, and intends to make California his Damont, Jose. A. permanent home. Harvey, Rev. D. B. Mallory, F. E. Married Barber, C. L At the residence of the groom’s parents in Coulter, W. J. Willoughby, Nov. 17, Mr. Jerome Hennesey and Ellison, Ed. Miss Mariette Wilkison. Lewis, Will H. Searles, Grandison Probate Notice Held for postage: The last will of Amy Roberts, deceased, late of Jim Chamberlin, Cleveland, O. Madison, Lake Co., Ohio was produced for Jay Bronson, Detroit, Mich. probate, Nov. 26, 1878.

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Dec. 5, 1878 Mr. C. R. Brown, of Willoughby, has recently It is not often a man receives a pension after he effected a contract to build one hundred houses is dead; but a case of that kind happened here. in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Isaac Sweet, of East Ashtabula, was a soldier of 1812. For two years or more Messrs. Hoyt & Hon A. Goodell, of Loda, Ill., has been several Pettibone had been trying to obtain a pension days in Mentor, en route to Albany to visit his for him, but all efforts failed to find his name on sister and a son and daughter. any Government rolls as a soldier. Last summer, Mr. Sweet died; aged some 95 years and was A. J. Williams, of Missouri, but formerly a citizen buried with military honors. One-day last week of Painesville, has been in town most of the time a letter came from the Pension Bureau at during the past week. Mr. Williams thinks of Washington addressed to him, and announcing returning eastward and locating in Cleveland. that his name had been found on the rolls, as a sergeant and that a pension of $8 per month had Col. John Wells, formerly of Ashtabula, died at th been granted to him starting last March. This his residence in Painesville on the 30 instant. would have been welcome news to the old He was 80 yrs. old, and highly honored and veteran if it had come in time. respected in Ashtabula. During his four years’ residence here, he suffered a painful disease, Real Estate Transfers and was ready and willing to die. Painesville William Barnes to John F. Morse, part of an acre, Mary Holbrook prints a card thanking all the south side of Mentor Ave. friends for the sympathy and kindness to them Willoughby during the death of their dear father and O. S. St. John, to John E. Granger, lot 60 St. John’s husband. survey Same to Annie M. Saxton, lot 69, St. Johns Survey Personal Ernest S. Root to Torrey C. Brown, 4 acres Mr. F. H. Griswold, a native of Painesville, but Samantha Burnet to Joseph L. Hill, lot 86 in St. now a resident of Springfield, Ohio, arrived the th John’s survey 18 instant. He and his parents entertained A. C. and Welthy M. Williams to Chauncey Ball; 1 friends in their house on Liberty St. acre on Vine St. Concord Geneva Emeline Rust et al to Edward Ryan, 10 acres Horace Blakeslee, of Huddle, is sinking rapidly. George Lord to Daniel C. and Chas. W. Foster, 69 He has a cancer of the lip and is literally starving acres to death. Lewis Reynolds to George Mitchel, 48 acres Perry Perry Jahial Hurlburt to Thomas Marrow, 10 acres Rev. Mr. Challis a returned missionary spoke at Board of Education of Perry Township to Jahial the M.E. Church last Sunday giving an interesting Hurlburt, ¾ acre account of the Bulgarian Mission to which he is Mentor about returning. On Monday, he was married to Louisa Marshall to Sarah E. Denver, ½ acre Miss Irene L. Shepard, daughter of Daniel Same to Betsey E. Lamb, ½ acre Shepard of this place. They will sail for New York th about the 15 instant as missionaries. (Normal p. 3 is number p. 7 in this issue due to 4 supplemental pages with the President’s message, etc.)

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Dec. 5, 1878 Makepeace, Miss Inez Perry Coman, Mrs. Lowell Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wyman celebrated their Fitzgerald, Miss M. A. tenth wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving McCormick, Miss A. evening with about thirty guests who dropped Sweet, Mrs. Lucelia A. by. Tuttle, Miss Mary Gentlemen Married Burnes, Mr. L. In Perry, Nov. 26, Mr. Truman H. Rust, of Cockshell, Mr. Concord, and Miss Kate L. Weed, of LeRoy, Ohio. Harvey, Frank At the residence of Mr. Searles, Concord, Nov. Hoard, Mr. E. E. 28, Mr. Alfred L. Brown and Miss Eva King, both Case, Mr. Samuel of Concord. Curtis, Mr. Levi At the residence of the bride’s father, Nov. 21, Hodgeson, Mr. Robert Mr. Charlie W. Searles and Miss Alta Abbey, of Williams, Mr. Geo. LeRoy. At the residence of the minister Elder J. Encell, Dec. 12, 1878 Thursday in Painesville, Nov. 17, Arthur E. Brooks, of p. 2 Geauga Republican Blackbrook, to Jenny R. Story, of Mentor Plains. It is our painful duty to announce the death of The Story of the Plains is ended, and by the Miss Nettie Canfield, daughter of A. B. Canfield, Brook’s side Jenny finds her home. of this place, which occurred last Monday. She Died died on consumption. She was 23 yrs. old. In Mooresville, Livingston Co., Mo., Nov. 22, Lizzie Dale, wife of Richard C. Robinson. The old “Barber Tavern” in Andover, was burned At the residence of his son, William, on State late Saturday night. It was rented and occupied St., Painesville, O., Nov. 29, of dropsical by a Mr. Moore, formerly a merchant of consumption, Solomon Christner, age 69 yrs. The Ashtabula. Geneva Times deceased with his wife came from Collinwood, Canada, in the spring of 1878, following several Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of members of their family who had settled in this Dec. 11: section a short time previous. Mrs. Christener Ladies shortly after her arrival contracted a severe cold Babcock, Mrs. E. from the effects of which she never recovered, Chase, Miss Laura and died in May following. His remains were Elmer, Miss Lucy deposited in the vault in Evergreen Cemetery. Green, Mr. T. C. Eight children all of mature age are left to mourn Nichols, Miss Minnie his departure, six of whom were present at his Bell, Mrs. E. funeral—Mrs. Lulan, of Canada, one of his Chase, Mrs. Abby daughters, arriving here a few days before his Fafferty, Mrs. Mary death. Melton, W. H. Palmer, Miss Harriet Letters uncalled for in the Painesville P.O. as of Rainey, Miss Ida Dec. 4: Gentlemen Ladies Cambridge, A. H. Anderson, Miss I. Green, T. C. Crofford, Mrs. Elvira Johnson, J. F. Hubbard, Miss Sarah O’Connell, M. J.

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Dec. 12, 1878 Through all the snow, rain, and sleet, Mr. Trout, john Penfield’s house has been assuming proportions Curnie, Franklin fair to look upon, and rather tall for Willoughby, Goddard, B. F. but we are growing and must have breadth and Kies, M. S. height in which to expand. Sweitzer, Joseph Warren, Chas. D. North Madison Mr. and Mrs. Ensore Bailey, of Toledo, made p. 3 An old resident of Geneva, Mr. Horace their parents and friends of Madison a short visit. Blakeslee, died on Friday morning after a long Mrs. and Mrs. Bailey were former residents of illness from cancer. Madison. Mr. Henry Vrooman, of Wisconsin, has been Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Keener, of Madison, have been visiting friends in North Madison and Geneva. in town the past few days, called here by the Mr. Vrooman was a resident of North Madison severe illness of their son, Mr. E. D. Kenner, many years ago. furniture dealer on State St. Kirtland Mr. W. W. Smith, of Spring Lake, Mich., son -in- Mr. Eber Bond and family of Bond’s Mills, law of Mr. O. Baker of Perry has removed with Michigan, are expected to return this week, to his family to the old Baker homestead in that spend the winter in Kirtland. township. Mr. C. H. Baker, whose place he has taken, has gone with his family on a visit to friend Perry in Tennessee, and returning will settle and make Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Allison and wife celebrated th themselves a new home in Kentucky. their 25 wedding anniversary on Nov. 30. Their friends gave them a surprise party, with the Mr. E. L. Doran, who went from here to Rome, surprise left out. Eighty people were present. Italy, to pursue his studies in sculpture recently, sent us details of the attempted assassination of Married the King there. On Dec. 5, Mr. Dell Winchester and Miss Ida Fisk, of North Madison. Change of Proprietors Died Lieut. W. M. Irwin and M. H. Phillips became the Gertie, third child of Mr. and Mrs. James Miller proprietors of the large and fine Hotel, the died Dec. 3, after a short illness with congestion Stockwell House, located on Main St. and the of the lungs; age 3 ½ years. park, and known as one of the best conducted hotels in Northern Ohio. Mr. Field, the former John S. Lockwood is the executor of Louisa proprietor retired. Lockwood, deceased, late of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. Real Estate Transfers Kirtland Dec. 19, 1878 Thursday Sarah F. Videon to Enos B. Metcalf, 3/4 of an acre p. 2 Mrs. Eli Graves, of Saybrook, will be Madison remembered by very many of the Madison Josephine A. Halstead to Fordyce A. Cady, 1 acre people as one of the early settlers of North Austin J. Bliss, by assignee, to David L Bailey, 90 Madison, is visiting her sons, Capts. Charles and acres Carlton Graves, who have recently returned from the blue waters of Lake Erie to their home Willoughby in North Madison.

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Dec. 19, 1878 Washington St., formerly owned by the late Dr. Mr. John Pettis, of Wisconsin is visiting his Rosa. sister, Mrs. George Haywood, and his brother, Capt. Dan Pettis. Mr. John Pettis is accompanied The Ashtabula Telegraph published that Mrs. by his sister, Mrs. Cordelia Wildman, of Henry Mendell died suddenly last Tuesday Wisconsin. afternoon on Spring St. She was busy about her duties in the house, and twenty minutes later Platt, only son of Mr. Sidney Platt, of North was dead on the floor. Madison, died on Friday, the 13th, age 11 yrs. after intense suffering of many days. Officers elected to the Temple Masonic Lodge for the new year: Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of Perry Bosworth, W.M. Dec. 18: A. Anderson, S. W. Ladies Solon Hall, J. W. Curtis, Miss Mary J. L. Parmly, Treasurer Lynch, Miss Maggie L. H. H. Coe, Secretary Meyer, Miss Anna T. C. Radcliffe, S. D. Sabit, Miss Lellie J. Cramblett, J. D. Todd, Mrs. Mary E. H. N. Buys, Tyler. Gentlemen Adams, H. M. Painesville Council, No. 23, R. S. M., chose the Alvord, Wm. H. following officers for the new year: Cook, Field O. Peter Kleeberger, T.I.G.M. Ford, Harry John Dickinson, D. G. M. Hamilton, A. F. W. H. Turner, P. C. of W. Jones, Oliver H. H. Coe, Treasurer King, Walter Louis Freitag, Recorder Prince, F. M. Walter Lanphier, C. of G. Smith Sam. M. Thos. C. Radcliffe, C. of g. Trask, Frank L. Wm. Hadeler, Steward H. N. Buys, Sentinel p. 3 Capt. Joel Bartholomew, an old resident and lake navigator, died at his residence on Pearl St., Real Estate Transfers Monday night. He had been in ill health for many Madison years; he was about 68 yrs. old. The funeral Austin J. Bliss, by assignee, to Janet Bliss, 99 acres services take place Wednesday under the Painesville auspices of the Masonic Fraternity. Samuel Mathews by Sheriff to Catherine Doty, 4 42 ½ feet front on State St. Dr. S. W. Parmly, of New York has been in town John Encell to Orcelia W. Densmore; lot south the past few days for the purpose of disposing of side Pearl St. the property belonging to the estate of his Perry brother, the late Dr. E. Parmly. Being unable to Heirs of Abraham Citerly to Clark W. Citerly, 25 affect a satisfactory sale, he has taken the acres property himself, by which arrangement the Willoughby entire estate is now settled. The property C. C. Colson to Celia M. Pomeroy, part of an acre consists of the two Parmly blocks on State St., on First St. cottages directly east, and the premises on Louis S. St. John by executor to Charles F. Haver, lot 74 St. John’s survey

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Dec. 19, 1878 good morals, had announced their desire to have Mentor all things in common, opened their houses for all Stephen H. Hart to Elizabeth Humphrey, 1 acre sincere believers. And many were the poor widow and orphan they received under their From the Salt Lake Herald (recent issue) hospitable roofs and fed at their tables, until Hon. Orson Hyde, who had been ill for some time what they had in common was consumed. At this past, died Thursday evening. When a young juncture, Smith’s emissaries came to Kirtland, man, he became a member of the Mormon and promptly took a hand in every discussion. Church when it was in its infancy. In 1837, he went to England as a missionary for the Church. Married The next year he went to Jerusalem. After At the residence of W. F. Sinsel, Oct. 27, Mr. T. L. spending some time in Bavaria and learning the Lovejoy, late of Boston, Mass. to Miss P. Yates, of German language, he went to Constantinople, Webster, West Virginia. Cairo, and Alexandria, and then to Jerusalem. Died About four years after joining the church, he In Perry, Nov. 28, of cancer in the stomach, became one of the twelve apostles and Phebe, wife of Thomas Edwin, age 56 years. remained so until his death. For years, he was a In Green, Trumbull Co., Dec. 9, Charles R. member of the territorial legislature. On the Cowden, only brother of Mrs. G. H. Huntington, frontier, he was known by both Gentile and age 55 yrs. Mormon as “The Elder.” At his residence in Painesville, Dec. 8, Rev. A few of our readers will remember him as a Lake Lucius Carter, age 82 yrs. County (then Geauga County) boy. Our first recollection of him was when he was a clerk for A fine line of Pocket Books. N. K. Whitney, who had a small store on one of L. C. Stebbins & Son the corners of Kirtland Flats about 1826 or 27. We remember seeing him dance with Miss Trimmed Hats at cost – the Hall Sisters. Aurelia Morse at a social gathering of the Morses, the Crarys, the Waites, and others, Holiday Sale some years before Mormonism made its advent Until after the Holiday, we will sell at greatly into the world. He was a member of the reduced prices Boots, Shoes, Slippers and Methodist Church and never joined the Disciples everything in our line. 47 Main St., Painesville. under Sidney Rigdon, or wavered in his Call and See. W. H. Seely allegiance to the church that promoted him until after Smith made his advent into Kirtland. At Dec. 26, 1878 Thursday that time, there was much more antagonism p. 2 Rev. E. D. Taylor died at Troy last week of between the denomination than now, and the typhoid fever. He had preached in Claridon for Disciples came in for a full share of that dislike. sixteen years. He had been located in Troy for They were great readers and sticklers of the New several years. Chardon, Dec. 23, 1878 Testament. The new doctrine that Rigdon taught, the reading and discussion that were Weather: For two days, the storm has raged. going on in every school house and hamlet, in From present appearances, we are going to have that limited circle made everybody read. a real old fashioned winter, like our fathers tell “Searching the Scriptures” it was called in that about, snow everywhere. day. Some read for the purpose of attack; some for defense; but most had a sincere desire to Mentor Plains, Dec. 23, 1878 learn the truth. Two leading Disciples, Isaac The sad intelligence reaches us of the sudden Morley and a Mr. Billings, men of means and of death of Mrs. Reuben Simmons, formerly of the

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Dec. 26, 1878 and born May 3, 1803. When he was 12 years Plains, while on a visit to her sister, Mrs. C. B. old, his father and family moved to Centerville, Allen, of Tiffin. Crawford Co., Penn. In after years he was Mrs. Frank Cole, who has exhibited engaged in the milling business at Titusville, Pa., unmistakable symptoms of insanity, probably and then moved to Painesville in 1865 where he brought on by family bereavement, was has since lived. He leaves a wife and one removed to Newburgh a few days ago. daughter, Mrs. C. C. Dobbs, of Meadville, Pa. p. 3 Mrs. Lucy Stockham, age 87 years died at the Another Death in Church County Infirmary last Thursday. She was At the same hour and almost at the same formerly of Kirtland. moment of the above recorded death of Mr. Chase, in Cleveland, at the Euclid Ave. Mr. Ed. Jenkins after a ten days’ visit among his Congregational Church, Mr. Thomas Knight, an friends in this vicinity, left for his home in old gentleman 78 years old, living on the corner Springfield, Mass., last Saturday. of Cedar and Bolton Avenue, threw his head back and died without a struggle. Mr. John Valentine, one of the oldest settlers of LeRoy, is now 92 years of age. Painesville Chapter No. 46, R. A. M., the following officers were elected for the new year: Another Death Peter Kleeberger, M.E.H.P. Mr. William Reed, a farmer, well known and J. T. Martin, M.E.K. esteemed in this vicinity died at his residence on A. T. Tuttle, M.E.S. the South Ridge last Monday, Dec. 23rd. He has O. N. Brainard, C. of H. been ill with consumption for several years. He T. C. Radcliffe, P.S. leaves a wife and three sons. W. Lanphier, R. A. C. W. Coleman, G. M. eV. A Sad Affliction S. Hall, G. M. 2 V. Mr. and Mrs. Raphael Marshall have lately E. King, G. M. 1 V. received very sad news from the home of their J. L. Parmly, Treasurer son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. H. H. Coe, Secretary Lincoln, of Illinois, who are in deep affliction H. N. Buys, Guard from the recent loss of their three daughters, all dying within the space of three weeks. Union Encampment, No. 46, I.O.O.F. Officers chosen for the new year: Death of Mrs. D. R. Paige, of Akron John Quirk, C. P. From an Akron dispatch of Friday, the 20th: E. C. Tuttle, S. W. Mrs. D. R. Paige, wife of the late candidate for G. H. Wilson, J. W. Secretary of State, died this evening after a long C. G. Ritter, H. P. and painful illness. She will be buried Monday C.O. Child, Scribe from the family residence, Akron, Ohio. S. Hickson, Treasurer G. W. Payne, B. H. Woodman, and J. Quirk, Death in Church Trustees Mr. Charles Chase, had just come in and taken his seat, and expired almost instantly last Real Estate Transfers Sunday; without any indication of illness. He was Painesville nd removed to his residence on Richmond St. He Robert Murray 2 to L. P. Gage, 1 acre, east of was age 76 yrs. and was a native of Connecticut Erie St.

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Dec. 26, 1878 Leffingwell, Chas. O. Sarah J. Carpenter to C. D. Furgeson, lot 27, Bell’s Post, Milo Survey on Liberty St. Smith, Perry Madison Von Doehren, Otto Reuben H. Pooler to David E. Hall, part of an acre, Wright, Henry in Unionville Held for postage: Julia A. Kent to Robert Burns, 27 acres Alvan Bartlett, E. Paw Paw, Ill. Robert Burns to A. J. Wetmore, same premises Martin Rand to Elmer H. Rand, 48 acres Mentor End of Year 1878 Edward M. Ingersoll to Amelia R. Ingersoll, 23 acres Concord George Anderson to Edgar S. Gregory and Edgar Jenkins, 106 acres

Notice is hereby given to the next of kin of Esther P. Pratt, deceased, late of Perry, Lake Co., Ohio, that James L. Parmly the executor named has presented the will of Esther P. Pratt, deceased to the Court for probate.

A choice assortment of Cologne Bottles, Fancy Cups and Saucers, and the celebrated baccaral Vases, at L. C. Stebbins & Son.

Letters uncalled for at the Painesville P.O. as of Dec. 25: Ladies Bromley, Florence Divine, Miss Alice Joyce, Miss Annie B. Chadwick, Eva Gardiner, Mrs. S. H. C. Teitg, Miss Jane Wright, Mrs. S. T. Gentlemen Bell, Jasper DeWolf, Capt. Ford, Harry King, H. C. McKendree, M. A. Sheidler, Rev. J. Upson, David Carroll, _____ Dauer, F. A. Judd, L. R.

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