History of Strongsville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio ; with illustrations, Part 1

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Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Berea, Ohio : Republican Printing Company
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Distory 10


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Strongsville,


Cupaboga County, Ohio,


With Illustrations.


October Ist, 1901.


BEREA, OHIO. REPUBLICAN PRINTING COMPANY, 1901.


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THE DSCENDANTS OF THOSE WORTHY PIONEERS,


WHO, AMID HARDSHIPS AND PRIVATIONS, FORMED HOMES, AND ORGANIZED THE TOWNSHIP OF STRONGSVILLE, THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.


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INTRODUCTION.


ANY have expressed a desire that an account of the early set- tlement, and of the growth of the Township, should be preserved in a permanent form; to meet such a request, this little volume has been prepared.


We have aimed, above all things, to be concise, accurate and just; and we believe that, to a certain extent, success has crowned our efforts; for the work has been undertaken while there remain a few whose memories serve them well, and the date of whose births extends back not many years after the settlement of the Township.


In compiling this History, we were confronted at the outset with a problem: so much material was contributed, that, had we inserted it as received, it would have made a book altogether too ponderous. In order that all important events might have proper mention, several able arti- cles, which would have been an ornament to the work, have been con- densed.


In the preparation of this work, we wish to acknowledge assistance from various sources: from Johnson's History of Cuyahoga County; from a history of Strongsville prepared in 1876, by Hon. M. E. Gallup; from Rev. H. J. Wilkins, of Fontanelle, Iowa, who, while pastor in this place, wrote a history of the Congregational Church; and from all others who have in any way aided us. We have also had free access to the town records. Especially are we indebted to the Committee appointed for the


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purpose of assisting us, for they have furnished many articles and much valuable information and advice without which this work never would have been undertaken. The names of the committee are as follows.


Mr. Lorenzo Strong, Chairman,


Mr. R. A. Carpenter,


Mrs. Hattie E. Clark,


Hon. M. S. Haynes,


Miss Sarah Fish,


Mr. B. B. Heazlıt,


Mrs. O. C. Graves,


Mr. G. H. Lyman,


Mrs. O. D. Pomeroy,


Dr. J. B. McConnell,


Mrs. Huldah C. Stone,


Mr. C. H. Pope,


Miss Mary C. Stone,


Mr. D. M. Strong,


Mrs. D. M. Strong,


Miss Mabel M. Strong.


And now, dear reader, should you feel disposed to criticize, remem- ber there is none perfect but One, and as this is a first attempt at a de- tailed history of the township, we shall be well pleased with our work, provided it shall be the means of bringing out other histories on the same subject, better than our own.


LUCY GALLUP STONE,


TAMZEN E. HAYNES.


CONTENTS.


Albion


Page 19


Close of Early History


25


Cadets.


30


Churches.


36


Congregational Church


36


Christian Church ...


40


Civil War Veterans


134


Dedication of Town Hall


33


Experiment Station


44


Errata.


152


First Singing School.


17


First Temperance Society


18


Fairs.


27


Hinckley Hunt.


16


Insurrection in Canada.


26


Industries.


45


List of Tp. Officers


138


Manner of Living


21


Maccabees.


45


Methodist Church


39


Military of 1846


133


New Arrivals


11


Organization and Development.


10


Pioneer Picnic in 1876


31


Public Library


34


Physicians.


42


Present History


43


Professional Men


145


Personal Sketches


47


Ashley, R M


47


Avery, Thatcher


48


Baldwin, Dr. Wm


49


Bartlett, James J


49


Bartlett, Benoni


123


Bennett, Moses O


124


Bedford, Wm


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CONTENTS.


Personal Sketches-Continued:


Blood, Rev. D C


50


Bosworth, John Sr


51


Bowen, Rev. Luke


51


Burrell, Mrs. Lovinia


51


Carpenter, Josiah


52


Carpenter, Caleb.


52


Carpenter, Reuben A


54


Clark, Heman.


54 55


Clark, Dr F. M.


124


Clement, Richard


55 55 56


('lement, Hon. E. A


Cole, Wheeler.


56 56


Cross, Jehiel W


Drake, Asa.


57 58


Dunham, J. H.


58 58


Foster, Nathan


59 60


Foster, Miss H. A


61


Fish, Silas.


125


Fuller, E. N


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Gallup, Vilaty


63


Gallup, Milton


63


Gallup, Hon. M. E


64


Gibbons, Thomas


65 .66 67


Graves, Mrs. O. C.


67


Harvey, Mrs. Cordelia.


68


Haynes, Ahijah Sr


68


Haynes, Abial.


69


Haynes, Ahijah Jr


70


Haynes, Reuben


71


Haynes, Hon. M. S.


71


Heazlit, John


72


Howe Family.


73


Clark, Timothy


Clement, Edward


Draper, Daniel


Fenimore, H. R


Foster, G. H.


Gifford, I. I.


Harvey, Governor


CONTENTS.


Personal Sketches-Continued:


Hoyt, Obed.


Hoyt, Oscar.


Hudson, Joshua.


Kelley, stephen and Ruth


Knowlton, Rev. A. W


Leonard, Dr. H. L. W


Lilley, Lucius.


Lvman, Elijah, Sr.


Lyman, Elijah, Jr


Lyon, Rev. H


Lyon, Eliakim


Lyon, H. H


Lyon, Samuel


Lyon, D S.


McConnell, Dr. J. B


Meacham, Stephen


Merrick, E. M


Merriman, N


Moe, Marcus


Ogilvy, Walter


Pierce, Mrs R. H


Pomer y, Ebenezer


Pomeroy, Alanson


Pomerov, A. H.


Pomeroy, O, D


Pomeroy, Dr. H


Pope Family.


Preston, James


Reed, E. H


Reed, John.


Reed. Tamar Lyman


Richards, Wm.


Sabin, H. W.


Sanderson Family


Sartwell, Jared.


Smith, Rev. L ...


Southworth, Apollos, Sr


Spafford, N. N.


Stebbins, H. W


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Stone, Ebenezer


97


Stone, M. E.


74 74 75 75 75


77 78 78 78 79 79 80 80 81 81


82 82 82 83 83 83 84 84 85 85 86 87 89 90 91 92 93 93


94 95 95 96 96


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CONTENTS.


Personal Sketches-Continued:


Stone, Montraville.


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Stone, V. C ..


99


Stone, Judge C. M.


100


Stone, Rev. G. M.


101


Stone, Henry


102


Strong, J. S. Sr


102


Strong, Emory


104


Strong, Lyman.


105


Strong, Retire Grove


105


Strong, D M


106


Strong, Warner


107


Strong, W. H


108


Strong, E B.


108


Strong, Frederick


109


Strong, Sidney ...


109


Strong, Franklin


110


trong, George B


111


Strong, Lorenzo


112


Strong, Clark R.


112


Strong, John Chipman


113


Strong, L. W.


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Strong, J. S Jr.


114


Tompkins, E.


115


Tupper, Charles


115


Turner, Rev. J. W


117


Wells, Joseph.


117


Whitney, Guilford


118


Whitney, Jonas


120


Wilkinson, E.


120


Wing, W. A.


121


Woodruff, Rev. S


121


White, Rev. O, W


122


Portraits.


Avery, Tatcher, and wife


Opposite Page 18 66


78


Brodie, Mrs Jane


66


90


Baldwin, Dr. Wm.


66


54


Bartlett, J. J.


66


138


Cole, Wheeler.


19


Carpenter, Caleb and wife


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27


Blood, Rev. D. C


66


Bartlett, Benoni and wife


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CONTENTS.


Portraits-Continued:


Cadet.


Opposite Page 30


66


122


Carpenter, R. A.


66


66


106


Clement, Wm. and wife.


125


Dunham, J.


66


70


Foster, Nathan, wife and daughter Hannah


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Graves, Mrs O. C ..


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102


Gallup, Milton and wife.


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138


Gifford, I. I.


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Haynes, Ahijah.


66


66


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Haynes, Reuben


22


Haynes, Hon. M. S. and wife


90


Howe, Zara D. Jr


70


Howe, F


66


66


90


Hudson, Joshua


98


Hoyt, O. H


66


125


Lyon, D. S ..


66


34


Lyon, H. H.


66


19


Lyman, Elijah Jr.


66


66


142


Ogilvy, Walter and wife.


86


Preston, James.


130


Pope, A. J. and wife


66


66


38


Pope, Kezia Jenne.


66


46


Pope, Philander and wife.


66


66


50


Pomeroy, Alanson and wife.


66


62


Pomeroy, A. H.


66


134


Pomeroy, O. D.


66


66 134


66


138


Drake, Asa.


66


90


Foster, Hon. Geo. H


66


78


Gallup, Hon. M. E and wife.


102


Gibbons, R


114


Haynes, Abial and wife.


134


Knowlton, Rev. A. W


66


34


Lyon, S. S.


130


Lyon, Rev. Harvey.


66


9


McConnell, Dr. J. B


50


Pope, Dr. Jonathan and wife.


138


Harvey, Gov. and wife.


Clement, Hon. E.


130


Clement, Edward and wife.


CONTENTS.


Portraits-Continued :


Pomeroy, Dr. H


Opposite Page 134 66


Reed, Tamar Lyman


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Reed, John.


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66


118


Richards, Wm


66


7


Strong, Retire Grove.


66


15


Strong, Lyman.


66


42


Strong, Clark R


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66


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Strong, Salo me.


66


66


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Strong, Benj. O


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58


Strong, John Chipman


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66


66


Strong, J. S. Jr


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122


Strong, Lorenzo


66


82


Strong, E. B.


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66


82


Strong, Frederick


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66


86


Strong, Mrs Franklin.


66


66


110


Sanderson, J. B.


66


118


Stone, V. C. and wife


66


125


Stone, Rev. Geo. M.


66


66


125


Stone, Ebenzer.


60


66


90


Stone, M. E. and wife.


90


Smith, Rev. L ..


125


Turner, Rev J. W


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26


Whitney, Jubal.


66


66


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Wellman, Margaret Pope


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66


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Wilkinson, W. and wife


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66


58


Wing. W. A. and wife.


66


66


78


White, Rev. O. W.


66


90


White, Mary Sabin.


66


66


130


Strong, W. H


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86


Strong, Sidney


110


Strong, G. B.


110


Stone, Montraville and wife.


66


125


Stone, Judge C. M


58


Strong, D M. and wife.


66


66


Strong, Lyman W.


66


42


Strong, Warner


15


Reed, E. H. and wife


114


Strong, J. S. and wife.


110


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142


Whitney, Flavel.


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CONTENTS.


Pictures of Buildings, Etc.


Residence of Dr. Baldwin Opposite Page 26


Residence of J. J. Bartlett.


125


Residence of Dr. Pomeroy


66


142


Residence of J. S. Strong


66


26


Residence of Warner Strong


26


Residence of L. Strong


66


142


Residence of J. P. Roof


125


Residence of E. H. Reed


125


The old White Church.


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26


The old Tavern.


26


First Congregational Church.


66


142


Town Hall


" 142


Stable of J. P. Roof.


66


125


Roy's Mil!


66


146


Lant's Mill


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150


Wolf Killed in 1888.


34


Poll Book of 1841 Page 130


Reminiscences.


146


Strongsville School


144


Spanish War Veterans


137


" 142


Residence of Dr. McConnell


66


The Warner Strong Store


26


142


M. E. Church.


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A TYPICAL LOG CABIN


JOHN S. STRONG


MRS. JOHN S. STRONG


SETTLEMENT.


HE Connecticut Land Company purchased of the State of Connecticut a tract of land paying for it the sum of of $1,200- 000. The Company first divided among its members that part of the Reserve to which the Indian title was extinct, the principal draft being made in or about 1800. This land lay east of the Cuyahoga River, but in 1807 a draft was made of most of the land lying west of the Cuyahoga and east of the Fire Lands.


Of the land divided in 1807, there were forty-six drafts, each draft representing $26,087. A deed dated April 26, 1807, made by Jonathan Brace, John Morgan, and John Caldwell of the Con- necticut Land Company appears on the records of the Draft Book in Trumbull County. The deed conveyed to Oliver Ellsworth, 13,673 acres; Gov. Caleb Strong, 12,000 acres; John Frost, 400 acres; Seth Porter, 14 acres, and included, beside this township, Town 5, 14th Range, Tract No. 2 in Gore No. 6 in 12th Range, thus equalizing the drafts with oth- ers of the same date.


John Stoughton Strong, of Marlboro, Vt., having received the agency for the sale of township No. 5, 14th Range, came in Feb. 1816, to at- tend to his new affairs. With him came Elijah Lyman, Sr., Wm. Fuller, Guilford Whitney, John Hilliard and his wife (who was a daughter of Mr. Whitney) with their only child, Eliza Hilliard. The party came from Cleveland out to the mouth of Rocky River, from there to Columbia, then on to their first abiding place in Township No. 5, a little southeast of the center. Here they cleared about an acre and built the first log cab- in, but very soon built another one near the location of the first tavern,


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and moved headquarters there, with Mrs. Hilliard as housekeeper for the party. The services of Surveyor Baldwin were secured, and with Messrs. Whitney, Fuller, Church and Goodell, as chainmen, the township was surveyed into 100 lots of 160 acres each. The lots were numbered be- ginning with No. 1, in the S. W. corner, thence running north to No. 10, in the N. W. corner; thence back in the next tier on the east, to No. 20, and so forth and back, closing with No. 100 in the N. E. corner. The survey was the principal business of the season. During the Spring and early Summer, Mrs. Hilliard, then only 21 years of age, was the only white woman in the township, and with her little daughter, constituted the entire female society of the settlement; yet, she occasionally had callers. One morning, when she had swept the rough floor, dusted care- fully the stone hearth, and covered the fire-for they had no matches in those days, she heard a strange noise, and turning toward the fire-place she saw a huge rattlesnake stretched out at full length upon the warm hearth, and rattling furiously. She ran to the door, and called some of the men who soon dispatched his snakeship, which measured over 5 feet in length. The men returned to their chopping, and she to her work. Soon she heard a similar sound behind the hearthstone; again the men were summoned, and the mate to the first snake was dragged from his hiding place and sent to bear the other company.


Again, during the summer, the men all went to Columbia (then a part of Cuyahoga Co.) to a raising, leaving Mrs. Hilliard and her little daughter, the only inhabi- tants, as they supposed of the Township. A little afterward the door


was pushed open and an Indian, with gun, knife and tomahawk, walked in and asked, "Where is the man?" As soon as she could catch her breath, which her beating heart seemed to have sent after "the men," she told him in trembling tones, where they had gone, expecting, of course, herself and child to be murdered. Mr. Lo walked along and took a seat. The little girl, innocent of any impending danger, went up to him and offered him the piece of bread and butter she had in her hand. He took it, began eating, it and took her on his lap, then began sharpening his knife. The mother looked on with fear and trembling. He then began cutting some venison he produced from his pocket, and


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after eating it and the bread and butter, got up and left, to the great relief of Mrs. Hilliard. Doubtless, she omitted to ask him to call again. It was mutually agreed between her and the men that she should not again be left in sole charge of the township, so long as the Indians were at large.


During the Fall of this year, came Thaddeus Lathrop and family, also Chipman Porter, whose son was the first white child born in the town- ship. In October Mr. Whitney returned to Vermont, and moved his fam- ily, consisting of his wife, Charlotte, and children, Flavel, Jubil, Vina, (afterwards Mrs. Retire G. Strong), and Betsey, (Mrs. W. Wilkinson), and with them came Miss Charlotte Wallace. It seems that Hollis Whitney had not taken up his lot without a purpose, for, during the Winter was celebrated the first wedding in the township, that of Mr. Hollis Whitney and Miss Charlotte Wallace. Later in October, Abial Haynes, a young man, came from the same "land of steady habits," to examine the locali- ty. His report must have been favorable, for a year later his father, Abijah Haynes, Sr., located in the new colony, bringing with him his fam- ily.


Grain was exceedingly scarce in all the locality around, owing to the cold Summer of 1816. In January, 1817, Mr. Abial Haynes was com- pelled to go some thirty miles south to obtain wheat. The journey was a difficult one, especially so as the road could with great difficulty be traveled by a yoke of oxen, and when young Haynes reached his desti- nation he was obliged to thresh his wheat and winnow it with a hand fan, and then was obliged to pay $1.00 per bushel for it. During this year came also Geo. F. Gilbert, James Nichols, David Goodwin, Seth Goodwin, John Dinsmore, Wheeler Cole, Thatcher Avery, James Bennett, Benj. G. Barber, Thaddeus Ball, John Ball, and that inevitable of civiliza- tion, the Smith family, represented by James and John, and Elijah Ly- man with his family. Mr. Lyman lived on lot No. 44.


This season John Bosworth, who came in about 1822, cleared for J. S. Strong 50 acres, 30 of which were sown to wheat. Manv smaller clearings were made and the settlement promised speedily to show pros- perity and independence.


ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT.


EBRUARY 25th, 1818, the township was organized and named Strongsville. The first township meeting was held at J. S. Strong's on Monday, April 6, 1818, Ephraim Vaughn, a Justice of the Peace from Middleburg, presiding. The first judges of elec- tion were: James Nichols, David Goodwin, and Chipman Porter. The officers elected were: Clerk, Seth Goodwin; Trustees, John Dins- more, James Nichols, and Seth Goodwin; Fence Viewers, James Bennett and Benj. G. Barber; Overseers of the Poor, James Smith and Joseph H. Nichols; Appraisors, Chipman Porter and Thaddeus Ball; Supervisors, John Bosworth, John Dinsmore, and Benj. Barber; Constables, James Nichols and G. F. Gilbert; Treasurer, Seth Goodwin.


At a meeting of the trustees, held at the house of Guilford Whit- ney in June, David Goodwin was appointed trustee in the place of Seth Goodwin, who declined, and Guilford Whitney, treasurer, for Seth Good- win also declined to hold this office. Hollis Whitney was appointed fence viewer in place of Benj. G. Barber, and Abial Haynes assumed the duties of supervisor.


At an election held June 16, 1818, James Nichols and Ahijah Haynes, Sr., were elected Justices of the Peace. Soon after the township was divided into highway districts and a tax was voted as the law directed, i. e., ten cents on all horned cattle above three years old, and thirty cents on all horse kind over three years old. A road tax was also voted and Geo. F. Gilbert was to be collector of the same


In the summer of 1818, Mr. Strong's family, consisting of his wife and seven children, Warner, Clark, Lyman, John Chipman, Renda, Stough- ton, and Lovinia, came to occupy the log house prepared for


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ELIJAH LYMAN, JR.


TAMAR LYMAN REED


ABIAL HAYNES


MRS. ABIAL HAYNES


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them north the of center of the township. Following them with an ox team came Emory Strong, Franklin Strong and D. S Lyon The latter two were small boys, but they suc- ceeded in driving a cow from Brattleboro, Vt , to Strongsville, O. These were afterward joined by Caleb and Zachary Carpenter. During the same year came Joseph Olds, his wife and sons, Edson, Gamaliel, Lorenzo, Lyman W., Chancy N., and Dr. B. B. Olds, who af- terwards married Renda Strong; N. D. and Otis Billings, and Zara D. Howe and family. Also, Apollos Southworth, Wm. Carpenter and the rest of his family, David and Rufus, soon moved into the new township. Dr. B. B. Olds began practising medicine soon after his arrival and was the first physician in Strongsville.


At the March meeting in 1819 the expenses of the township gov- ernment footed: James Nichols, $3; J. Dinsmore, $3; David Goodwin, $2; Ahijah Haynes, Sr., $1; Seth Goodwin, $4; G. F. Gilbert, 41 cents; G. Whitney, Treas , 23 cents; paid for township book, $2.50; total $16.16. Amount collected, $8.29; thus we find a deficit of $7.97 for the first corporate year of Strongsville Township. Thereupon the trustees levied a tax.


Stoughton Strong died in March, 1819, aged nineteen, and Polly, wife of Lyman Strong, died in May at the age of twenty-one; these were the first deaths in Strongsville.


NEW ARRIVALS.


In the fall, the pioneer blacksmith, Ansel J. Pope, started his shop and his father, Jonathan Pope, came with his family. Ebenezer Wilkin- son and his family came soon after. Seth


· Bartlett and family, consisting of wife


his and nine children, Wright, Amy, (Mrs. Whiteside), Addie, (Mrs. Z. D Howe), Benoni, Oliver, Hannah, (Mrs. Tupper), Sarah Ann, (Mrs. Trask), Waldo and Lyman, settled in the southwestern part of the township. James Wait, Moses


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Towl, David Hier; Luther, Samuel, Elijah, Benjamin and Isaac Bosworth, who came with their father and two sisters, Rosanah, (Mrs. Harris) and Lovisa (Mrs. Cross), were among the arrivals. John Coltrin and family -Heman, Graham, Elisha, James, Zebedee, Hugh, Cyrus, David and Re- becca selected lots near the western line of the township, where they lived for many years.


Some members of this family joined the Mormons, whose leader, Brigham Young, at one time lived near the Coltrins'. Furniture bought from Brigham Young is still owned by T. H. Pope, son of Dr. Jonathan Pope. Jeduthan Freeman and family: Jesse, Calvin O, Moody, Jeduthan, Edmund, Russel and Lucy (Mrs. Beckwith) came soon after.


Spread on the records of the township are the different earmarks selected by live stock owners to distinguish their own animals, e. g., Seth Goodwin's, crop off of left ear and a half-penny in the fore side of the right; A. Haynes', slit in the left ear.


CHURCH AND SCHOOL HOUSE ERECTED.


This year the log meeting house, which was also school house and town hall, was built. It stood near the east line of the Common and was used until 1825, when a frame structure was built near the center of the Square; this new building was the Academy, whose fame as a place of learning, induced many to come to. Strongsville. The Academy was many years afterwards moved to the south side of the Square, where it stood until removed to permit the building of the present Town Hall on the same site in 1879.


In 1820 the old tavern, the first framed house in Strongsville, was built; this was destroyed by fire in 1896. A frame barn still standing on the original site, had been built before this, a little north of the center by Mr. Strong. The second frame barn is now owned by G. B. Strong on Stone Hill. The raising of these buildings were great events, at- tended by all in Strongsville and many from Middleburg and Columbia. Whisky was furnished on all such occasions.


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Under date of January 1, 1820, Daniel Miles sent a statement of internal duties imposed by Congress on the district, with instructions to place same on file, for inspection by all parties interested. At the March meeting, the trustees reported that nothing had been paid into the treasury except last year's orders, and that there was a deficit of twenty-three cents. "Whereupon, the trustees relinquished their claims for services, and gave the clerk the old law books, as they expected without doubt the revised laws in the spring." Thus was the township relieved of its obsolete statutes and its impending debt of twenty-three cents.


During the year 1820, the deaths were Mrs. Irene Lyman and Hol- lis Lyman.


THE FIRST MILL.


Heretofore, the nearest mills were Vaughn's in Middleburg, or Hoadley's in Columbia, and when there was a scarcity of water, the set- tlers were forced to go to Painesville mills. Cleveland at this time was only a very small place; the largest house was built of logs, sided with clapboards, and deer could be seen in great numbers in the vicinity of what is now Euclid Avenue.


In the fall of 1820, .Mr. J. S. Strong completed the Albion mill, Mr. Hoadley of Columbia and Mr. Elijah Lyman, Sr., doing the mill work, and A. J. Pope the iron work. Thaddeus Lathrop was the first miller. A saw mill was built near the grist mill; later, a distillery was added.


The new arrivals this year were Timothy Clark and daughters, Fan- ny (Mrs. Stone), and Rosaline, (Mrs. Tarry). Mr. Clark traded property in Wethersfield, Conn., for 500 acres in Strongsville; he brought with him a stock of goods, making the fourth person to engage in store- keeping in Strongsville township: the others being Mr. Strong, E. Ly- man, Sr., and John Bosworth.


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Arrivals-Moses O. Bennett, Jesse Root, Benj. Schofield, Cyrus Har- lan, Henry Wait, Nathan Brittan and family; Samuel, Flavel, Lucinda (Mrs A J. Pope) and sister (Mrs. Thayer).


At the April meeting of the trustees of the township in 1821, the treasurer reported that he had received no money and that he had paid out none. At this meeting the township was divided into road districts. The annual election was held, as recorded, in the "Meeting House," and soon after, the first law was passed restricting the running at large of certain animals.


Arrivals-Philo Millard, James Newberry, Manning Shepard, David Babcock, Thomas Clark, Henry Sabin, Lemuel Peabody, Timothy Eggles- ton, Abram Conyne and wife, the latter the mother of Dr. H. Parker and Mrs. Lester Miles; and the Whitneys, Benj., Joseph, Daniel and William.


Deaths-Mary Strong, daughter of Emory Strong, and Renda Strong Olds, were laid to rest in the little cemetery.


At the April meeting in 1822, the trustees laid the township off in- to five school districts, and the treasurer, Guilford Whitney, gave a bond for $400 with Chester Tuttle and James Nichols as sureties, the first record of a bond being given in Strongsville.


Arrivals-Rev. Luke Bowen, the first settled minister and school teacher was among the arrivals: also, Dr. Wm. Baldwin and wife, Oba- diah Church, Russel Harris, Willard Brainard, Joel Wait, Aretus Train, Thomas Kenyon, Ebenezer Pomeroy and family, -- Ebenezer, Alanson, Morris, Calvin T, Lucy (Mrs. P. Pope) and Viletta (Mrs. Gallup). Dr. Olds died during this year; his successor was Dr. Baldwin, who practised at the Center for ten or twelve years. One important event this year was the building of the East Mills by Mr. Strong, who had sold his prop- erty at Albion; he soon after built an ashery at the Center, where he manufactured pot and pearl ashes for many years. Large asheries had also been built by Moses Bennett and Esq. Lyman.


In the year 1823, a pauper was returned from Painesville, Ohio, with a bill of $133.60. To pay this debt a tax of forty cents was levied


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on cattle, and $1.40 on horses, and a warrant was placed in the hands of Moses Bennett, constable, for its collection, with instructions to receive Painesville town orders in payment at seventy-five cents on the dollar. This was the first poor tax in the township and in the years following, any person, liable to become a charge on the town, was warned to leave.


Arrivals-During the year Ezra Tuttle and family, Ezra, Chester, Dexter and Benjamin, settled on the main road, and Ebenezer Stone and sons Harmon and Marvin selected land a mile west of the Center. Cur- tis Stone and wife came from Wayne Co. With them came their little son Walter, who since became one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio.




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