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LITH. BY L. H. EVERIS, PHILA, PA.
GEAUGA COUNTY COURT HOUSE.
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HISTORY OF
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GEAUGA AND LAKE COUNTIES,
OHIO,
WITH
illustrations and Biographical hetches
OF ITS
PIONEERS AND MOST PROMINENT MEN.
V PHILADELPHIA: WILLIAMS BROTHERS.
1878.
INDIANA
PRESS OF J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA.
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PREFATORY NOTE.
THAT it were desirable to gather up the events forming the un- written history of Geauga and Lake and transmute them into the printed pages of a bound volume, thus rescuing the counties' annals from the fatal touch of oblivion, no one will attempt to deny. Some eight or nine months since we began an undertaking having such an end in view. The result is now reached. The printed and bound volume is placed in the hands of those to whom it seemed well to assist in this undertaking. We trust it will meet their expectations.
The wisdom of presenting the histories of the several townships of the two counties in one volume will not, we think, be questioned by many, if by any one. Until the year 1840 these townships were all the members of but the one county. As the events which are of chief in- terest and importance in the production of a county's history are those of early occurrence, the histories of those townships which now form Lake County have their chief interest in those of their incidents which took place when the whole territory was embraced under the dominion of Geauga County. But few counties of the State were of later organi- zation than Lake, and no other embraces so small an extent of territory. While therefore, on the one hand, a complete history of Lake could not have been written as wholly disconnected from Geauga, on the other hand, to have furnished a history of Geauga embracing the narration of those events only whose place of occurrence was confined to the present territorial limits of that county would have been to have imitated him who should attempt to render a play by introducing only a part of its leading characters. In addition to this, to have attempted a separate history of either county would have been, in a pecuniary sense, a haz- ardons undertaking.
There existed many obstacles to successful effort in obtaining the needed facts for this history. In Lake County no historical society had at any time a being, and no steps had been taken to place in manuscript- form any portion of the county's history. In Geauga a Historical Society exists, one that has accomplished a useful and highly important work, that of securing a full and, we are assured, a well-written history of each township of the county. To these manuscript histories, by an act of the society, the wisdom of which was at least sufficient to itself, the publishers of this volume were denied an access. The difficulty of obtaining needed material which this obstruction caused was, we are pleased to say, in no small degree lessened by the exertion afterwards put forth to aid us by those very persons whose influence had been in- strumental in establishing the edict to withhold from our use the soci- ety's historical data. In this connection the Hon. Peter Hitchcock and W. J. Ford are entitled to special mention. The society's presiding officer had ever a friendly disposition towards us, and, untrammeled by
his official obligation, would, we feel sure, have been pleased to see placed in our hands, for the benefit of this history, the historical matter of which he was, in fact, nothing more than the society's custodian. In fact, but a small majority of the members of that body favored the refusal to us of the manuscripts. Towards that small majority, as towards the others, and towards all, we cherish no other feeling than that of the utmost kindliness.
Our historian and statisticians have been generously dealt with by the people of Geauga County. So broad, indeed, has this generosity been that we can cheerfully overlook one single exception to it. For this single exception an extremely small number of individuals are responsible, who, in this one instance, allowed themselves, we think, to be governed by that which has too strong a resemblance to narrow- ness to justify the thought that they could be capable of repeated and sustained efforts in this direction. We do not think it. To all the people of Geauga County we can, therefore, express a hearty and heart- felt gratitude.
We were so fortunate as to have secured as historian for Geauga County the Hon. A. G. Riddle, of Washington City. A ripe scholar, an author widely known, of acknowledged worth, great of mind, but still greater of soul, strong in thought, fluent and original in expressing it, and burning with a love for his undertaking, he came among you equipped for the work before him as none other could have come. Familiar with your history, known to all of you, and knowing all of you, feeling in his heart the same filial affection for Geauga and her people as that which fills the breast of each of you, the production of the history has been with him truly a labor of love.
Much of the general history of this volume is the same as that which
. appeared in the Ashtabula history. This was unavoidable. That part of the narrative that relates to the Western Reserve, the doings of the Connecticut Land Company, the Indians, and a portion of the military history, is as applicable to the one county as to the other.
We have given but little attention in this work to archaeological subjects, because what can be said of the mound-builders and prehis- toric races is wholly a matter of speculation. To have entered in extenso upon this question would have been to have penetrated the hidden recesses of a deep cavern wherein reigns darkness only, whence to emerge again is happiness.
Beyond their works of defense and their burying grounds, in dying "they made no sign," and these ancient tumuli furnish us only the inclination to speculate as to who they were; hende they came, and whither they went. To the archaeologist only is the subject vitalized with any deep interest.
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We have striven to make the township histories as complete as possible, and if any of them seem meagre we at least have the pleasure of reflecting that we sought for all the information attainable.
As history is said to be "the essence of innumerable biographies," the biographical department we know will be an interesting feature of this work. Seneca exclaims, " Is it not a more glorious and profitable employment to write the history of a well-ordered life than to record the usurpations of ambitious princes?" The object of biography is to crystallize in enduring form the heroic doings of the pioneer; to transmit to the printed page the example which a worthy and honor- able life furnishes. Who would not see rescued from obscurity an honorable career, however humble? Very near unto us all is forget- fulness ; the life-bustle of to-day is merged into the death-tableau of to-morrow.
The greatest number of the biographical sketches are from the pen
of A. G. Riddle. He has vitalized many of these with an interest truly absorbing. Both he and ourselves regret that Hon. Peter Hitch- cock did not furnish material for a biographical sketch. He was fre- quently urged so to do, and Mr. Riddle would have taken great pleasure in preparing it as would we in publishing it.
Mrs. B. C. Lyman wrote for us the township history of Parkman, and the sketches of John Phelps Converse, Robert Breck, and Samuel Parkman. J. O. Converse, of the Chardon Republican, prepared " The Press of Geauga County." Mr. A. F. Mathews wrote the main portions of Chapters XIII. and XIV.
In placing the " History of Geauga and Lake Counties" in the hands of its patrons, we do not expect that it will escape criticism. Nor do we expect that the judgment of all will be alike as to its merits. But we trust all will recognize an endeavor upon our part to make the book all we promised for it.
THE PUBLISHERS.
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CONTENTS.
HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
CHAPTER
PAGE
PAGE
Huntsburg Township
190
Auburn
Munson "
199
Montville «
Russell
207
HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIPS AND VIL- LAGES OF LAKE COUNTY, OHIO.
Painesville Township 211
Le Roy
"
229
Madison
231
Concord
"
238
Perry
240
Kirtland =
246
174 Mentor
249
Willoughby
255
ILLUSTRATIONS.
BAINBRIDGE TOWNSHIP.
PAGE
Portrait of Dr. David Shipherd
facing 164
" J. W. McFarland . 164
Benjamin Blish.
164 = Mrs. Harriet Beard
224
Residence of Joseph Sedgebeer
between 224, 225
Portrait of Joseph Sedgebeer (steel) 224, 225
" Robert Blair .
225
=
Asa Childs
226
= William Rice (steel)
facing 226 227
= E. W. Clarke .
227
228 Portraits of Corydon Harrington and Wife Residence of Corydon Harrington . facing 228
MADISON TOWNSHIP.
Residence of D. L. Bailey, with portraits facing 231
=
W. H. Ford . 232
D. A. Warner
232
¥
F. Winchester
234
L. D. Brockway
234
Property of W. W. Branch, Jr.
234
= 181 Portrait of Elisha Wood .
236
=
Chester Stocking
236
Elias Strong .
236
Asa S. Turney
" 236
PERRY TOWNSHIP.
Residence of C. M. Thompson, with portrait . facing 240
E. S. Colgrove,
between 240, 241
Jahial Hurlburt .
240, 241
Western Reserve Nursery, L. Green, prop'r
242, 243
4 190 Residence and Nursery of B. F. Merriman 242, 243
190 of S. W. Call, with portraits
= 242, 243
M. and J. D. Thompson, with por- traits
242, 243
Portrait of Otis M. Wood
244
" Jahial Parmly 245
CONCORD TOWNSHIP.
Residence of A. T. Brown
between 240, 241
MENTOR TOWNSHIP.
Residence of Isaac Sawyer, with portraits facing 249
W. S. Kerr . between 250, 251
Property of W. M. Delong 4 250, 251
" Avenue House," C. H. Mallory, proprietor
250, 251
4 250, 251
Residence of D. B. Hart (with portraits) . facing 252
Portraits of Nathan Corning and Wife 252
Portrait of Warren Corning
=
252
Residence of Eleazar Burridge. 253
Portrait of James Lapham
254
WILLOUGHBY TOWNSHIP.
" Home Farm," Residence of George A. Baker Portrait of Isaac Moore . 257 4
Elizabeth Moore
257
Jeremiah Evans
257
Jacob V. Viall
4 257
Portraits of A. E. Fenton and Wife . = 218, 219
Portrait of Verna Fenton
218, 219
« Hon. Simeon Fuller
258
..
Seabury Ford (steel)
Reuben Hitchcock (steel)
61
=
C. L. Tainter, with portraits « 168, 169
=
J. C. Wells .
= 170, 171
Ashbel Spencer = 170, 171
Col. Erastus Spencer, with portraits. facing 139
Portraits of H. H. Wells and Wife . 172
Samuel Douglass and Wife 172
Ashbel Spencer and Wife = 172
16 86 Portrait of Timothy Wells 172
J. C. Wells
172
NEWBURY TOWNSHIP.
" The Riddle Homestead"-Residence of Roswell Riddle
Portrait of Mrs. Minerva Riddle (steel) .
Residence of Mrs. F. M. Munn, with portraits 182
TROY TOWNSHIP.
99 Residence of D. L. Pope
facing 186
HUNTSBURG TOWNSHIP.
Portrait of Homer Mills facing 190
= Sarah Mills
190
=
Aaron Scott 190
104 = Dr. O. W. Ludlow 190
= John French .
=
190
= Lyman Millard
Stephen Pomeroy
192
Portrait of Smith Wright. 193
AUBURN TOWNSHIP.
Residence of Homer Mills facing 194
George Squire
196
Property of George W. Stafford
196
Portrait of William Crafts
.
198
MUNSON TOWNSHIP.
Residence of O. M. Calkins (with portraits) . facing 200
MONTVILLE TOWNSHIP.
Nursery of J. V. Whitney & Son facing 204
Portraits of John V. Whitney and Wife . 204 Residence of L. H. Carpenter .
Residence and Store of George W. Garrett 206 Portrait of Benjamin Carpenter 250, 251
PAINESVILLE TOWNSHIP.
Residence of Homer H. Hine . facing 211
W. L. Perkins
" 212
Reuben Hitchcock
214
Portrait of Jerome Palmer
= Vene Stone
facing 140 " Mrs. Ann King
= 216
" Eli B. Haskell
" 216
Mrs. Elvira Haskell
" 216
PARKMAN TOWNSHIP.
Residence of Darius Lyman, former residence Jno. P. Converse
facing 156
XIV .- County Societies and Associations 41
XV .- Military History . 44
BIOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT . HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIPS AND VIL- LAGES OF GEAUGA COUNTY
111
Chardon Township . .
112
Burton
128
Hambden
Middlefield =
21 Chester =
143
VIII .- Mormonism, Fugitive Slave Incidents, etc.
IX .- Early Social Life . X .- The Press
XI .- The Legal Profession
XII .- The Medical Profession
31
Newbury =
35
Troy
186
XIII .- Educational Matters
PAGE
Geauga County Court-House (Frontispiece) facing title- page.
Outline Map of Lake and Geauga Counties
facing 7
Lake County Infirmary
between 22, 23
Geauga County Infirmary
22, 23
Portrait of Flavius Josephus Huntington
.
.
CLARIDON TOWNSHIP.
Residence of Hiel Armstrong, with portraits . facing 167
T. C. Wells, with portrait . between 168, 169
William L. Perkins (steel)
General James A. Garfield (steel) =
64
Seth L. Phelps (steel)
¥ General Hulbert E. Paine (steel) =
77
=
General Joseph Adams Potter
Hon. Lester Taylor 85 =
=
Hon. Robert Breck Parkman.
Hon. John P. Converse .
88
Thomas W. Harvey
91 92
.6
H. K. Smith
facing 96
I. N. Hathaway
"
96
L. E. Durfee .
=
96
James E. Stephenson
A. H. Thrasher
=
96
Hon. B. B. Woodbury O. S. Farr
100
D. W. Canfield
facing 104
8. E. Bodman
=
104
William Howard
William N. Keeny. "
104
H. A. Dimmick
104
Albert Gallatin Riddle (steel)
105
CHARDON TOWNSHIP.
Residence of E. N. Osborn, with portraits facing 112
Thomas Metcalf .
Mrs. E. Rexford (former residence L. J.
Randall)
facing 114
J. O. Converse
between 116, 117
" Old Homestead"-Converse Family, with portraits and
Descriptive Sketch
between 116, 117
Portrait of L. J. Randall .
Edward Paine, Jr. (steel)
4
121
Portraits of Austin Canfield and Wife
122
Portrait of James Hathaway .
HAMBDEN TOWNSHIP.
Residence of A. M. Black
Edwin Betts
138
Philo Pease .
139
MIDDLEFIELD TOWNSHIP.
Residence of H. Robb
"
A. J. and J. H. Gray
142
Residence of A. E. Fenton between 218, 219
57
CHAPTER
PAGE
I .- The Progress of Discovery .
7
II .- The Connecticut Western Reserve
8
III .- The Connecticut Land Company .
10
IV .- Geography, Geology, and Topography
14
V .- The Indians
16
VI .- Pioneer Events
20
VII .- Civil Organization
24 Thompson
149
26 Parkman
152
28
Bainbridge
161
30
Claridon
167
PAGE
Portrait of Colbert Huntington
221
Hon. Zenas Blish .
222
₡4 A. E. Kent
=
"
164
36
« Peter Hitchcock (steel) .
facing 57
59
62
73
81
A. L. Tinker .
facing 174
Mrs. Polly Wood
236
= R. M. Murray (steel)
.
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194
203
137
140
222
G. H. Kent
96
103
Silo P. Warriner
114
facing 118
facing 137
216
216
" Grove Farm," Residence of Sylvester Clapp.
127
HISTORY OF GEAUGA AND LARE COUN- TIES, OHIO.
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CONTENTS.
BIOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT.
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PAGE
PAGE
Peter Hitchcock
57
The Converses of Chardon
124
William Crafts .
198
Governor Samuel Huntington.
58
Samuel Squire .
126
W. H. Mills
199
Governor Seabury Ford .
59
Charles H. Foote
126
Stephen Calkins
202
Reuben Hitchcock .
61
John French
127
O. M. Calkins
203
William Lee Perkins
62
James Hathaway
127
Captain James B. Peroey
203
General James A. Garfield
64
George Boughton
135
John Walworth
220
Captain Seth L. Phelps .
73
Almon B. Carlton
136
Abraham Skinner Uri Seeley
220
General Halbert E. Paine .
77
John A. Ford
80
Elias A. Ford
General Joseph Adams Potter
81
Merrick and Philo Pease Harvey Robb
Benjamin Blish, Sr. .
221
Hon. Lester Taylor
The Gray Family
142
Hon. Zenas Blish
222
Hon. Robert Breck Parkman
Libbeus Norton .
148
Benjamin Blish
222
Hon. John Phelps Converse
87
S. B. Philbrick .
Mrs. Ann King
222
Oliver W. Ludlow, M.D. .
89
Samuel Parkman
Aaron Wilcox .
223
Thomas W. Harvey .
91
Alonzo Hosmer .
Eber D. Howe .
223
A. L. Tinker
92
Sherburn H. Williams
Mrs. Harriet Beard .
224
Hon. Joel F. Asper .
92
Russell Williams
David R. Paige
224
The Phelpses of Geauga
93
Alexander E. Kent
94
95
Gamaliel H. Kent
166
Asa Childs
226
Hon. Isaac N. Hathaway.
96
Samuel C. Douglass
172
William Rice
226
Hon. Henry K. Smith
96
Ashbel Spencer .
172
R. M. Murray
226
James E. Stephenson
97
Timothy Tainter
172
Jerome Palmer .
227
Arthur Henry Thrasher
97
99
The Wells Family
173
Arthur E. Fenton
228
Orrin Smith Farr
100
Corydon Harrington
228
Dr. Evert Denton
101
Lemuel Punderson
179
Asa S. Turney .
236
Erastus Spencer
102
Joshua M. Burnett
179
Chester Stocking
237
Marsh Smith
102
The Johnsons
180
David Bailey
237
D. W. Canfield .
103
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Elisha Wood
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William Howard
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Silo P. Warriner
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Otis M. Wood
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Henry Lawrence Hitchcock, D.D.
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Abel Fisher
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Albert Gallatin Riddle
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Amplias Green
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Thomas Metcalf
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Austin Canfield
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Aaron Scott
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Nathan Corning
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David T. Bruce and the Bruces
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Hon. Samuel Bodman
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Eleazar Burridge
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Elijah Pomeroy
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Jeremiah Evans
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Samuel Magonigle
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Stephen Bridges Pomeroy
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Isaac Moore
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Lyman Millard .
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Hon. Simeon Fuller
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Barton F. Avery
David Shipherd
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Robert Blair
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Henry H. Wells
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E. W. Clarke
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Hon. Vene Stone
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D. B. Hart
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CHAPTER I.
THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY.
THE year 1492 signalizes the achievement of Columbus,-the greatest maritime enterprise in the history of the world. Born of a holy faith, an inflexible pur- pose, and an unfailing greatness of soul, it was the triumph of reason over super- stition ; of knowledge over the ignorance of cosmography; and, in less than fifteen years, Copernicus had made known to the world the true theory of our solar system. England, France, and Spain are aroused, and eagerly set on foot plans for exploration and discovery. In 1497, John Cabot and his son, Sebastian, discovered the western continent among the dismal cliffs of Labrador. In 1498, a year famous in the annals of the sea, Columbus set foot upon the mainland of South America, and Sebastian Cabot explored the North American coast from Newfoundland to Albermarle Sound. In 1501, Gaspar Cortereal, with two cara- vels, furnished by his sovereign, Manuel, king of Portugal, ranges the coast of North America from the Delaware bay to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. As early as 1504 the fisheries of Newfoundland are known to the hardy mariners of Brittany and Normandy, who came thus early to our shores from the northwest of France, and, in remembrance of home, gave to the island of Cape Breton the name it still retains.
Thus early did England, Portugal, and France become competitors with Spain and with one another for the unknown world. The Spanish nation had given this impetus to efforts of discovery, and for some years maintained the first position among the contestants. Extraordinary success had kindled in her breast extraor- dinary enthusiasm. In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon, a fellow-voyager of Colum- bus in his second expedition, a gallant soldier in the wars of Hispaniola, re- warded by Ovando with the government of the eastern province of that island, embarked at Porto Rico with a squadron of three ships, and on Easter Sunday, which the Spaniards call Pascua Florida, discovered the southeastern peninsula of what now are the United States. He went on shore near St. Augustine, explored the coast from this point south to Cape Florida, and sailed among the group of islands, and named them Tortugas. In 1519, Francisco de Garay, likewise a com- panion of Columbus on his second voyage, and at the date mentioned the opulent governor of Jamaica, equipped four ships, and, placing them under the command of Alvarez Alonso de Pineda, explored the coast to the west of Florida for a distance of nine hundred miles, examining attentively the ports, rivers, inhabitants, and everything else that seemed worthy of remark, noticing particularly the volume of water poured into the gulf by one very large river. Thus early was the Father of Waters made known to the white man. In 1525, Stephen Gomez, under instructions from the emperor king to seek out the northern passage to India, sailed into Long Island sound, and discovered the 'Hudson river. In 1528, Pamphilio de Narvaez, under a contract from Charles V. to explore and reduce all the territory from the Atlantic to the river Palmas, with an expedition of more than three hundred men, whereof Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca held the second place as treasurer, anchored in Tampa bay, and landing, took possession of Florida in the name of Spain. Allured by the prospect of gold, he struck into the interior, crossed the Withlochooche, visited Appalachee, and, coming into the harbor of St. Mark's, where he constructed five boats of the rudest sort, embarked upon the gulf in search of the river Palmas. The shallop, commanded by Cabeza, and another under the captaincy of Alonso de Castillo, were thrown upon the surf, on the sands of an island which Cabeza named the Isle of Mis-
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