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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
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PEET'S DIRECTORY
OF
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1846 - 1847
Photo-offset copy Newberry Library Chicago, Illinois 1971
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PRESENTED BY
Reserve Historical Society
CHAPTER V.
OF THE LIBRARY.
The Library Committee shall divide the books and other articles belonging to the Library into three classes, namely : (a) those which are not to be removed from the building : (b) those which may be taken from the halls only by written permission of three members of the committee, who shall take a receipt for the same and be responsible for their safe return ; (e) Those which may circulate under the following
Members shall be entitled to take from the library one folio, or two quarto voltoues. of four volines of any lesser fold, with the plates belonging to the same, upon having then recorded by the Librarian. or Assistant Libr arian, and promising to laske good any damage they sustai .. , while in their possession, and to replace the same it lost, or pay the sion fixed by the Library Committee.
No person shall lend any book belonging to the Institute, excepting to a member, under a penalty of one dollar for every such offence.
The Library Committee may allow members to take more than the allotted number of books upon a written applica- tion. nod may also permit other persons than members to Use the Library, under such conditions as they may impose.
No person shall detain any book longer than four weeks froui the time of its being taken from the Library. if notified that the same is wanted by another member. under a penalty of five cents per day, and no volume shall be retained longer than three months at one time under the same penalty.
The Librarian shall have power by order of the Library Committee to call in any volume after it has been retained by a member for ten days.
On or before the first Wednesday in May. all books shall be returned to the Library, and a penalty of five cents per day shall be imposed for each volume detained.
Labels desggranting the class to which each book belongs shall be phorei upon its cover.
No book shall be allowed to circulate until one month after its reception.
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Post Office Arrangement.
OFFICE, 37 SUPERIOR-ST.
Time of Arrival and Departure of Mails.
Arrival.
Eastern, 7 o'clock A. M.
Pittsburgh,.
66 A. M.
៛
Columbus, .5
P. M.
Western,
10
P. M.
Parkman,. .7
P. M.
Copley, Saturday,
4
P. M.
Oberlin, Friday,. .6
P. M.
Departure.
Eastern,. 4 o'clock A. M.
Pittsburgh,. 2
A. M.+
Columbus,
9
A. M .*
Western,
10
A. M.
Parkman, .
8
1
.. A. M.
Copley, Friday,.
8
A. M.
Oberlin, Saturday,. .9
..
A. M.
All the mails will in future close, at this office, at 9 o'clock, P. M., except Sundays ; on that evening they will close at 8 o'clock. Persons having Letters or Papers to mail, should see that they are in by that hour, in order to insure their leaving the next morning.
Office hours from 73 o'clock, A. M., to 8 P. M. Sun- days from 8 to 9 o'clock, A. M., and from 5 to G P. M. T. P. SPENCER, P. M.
Military,
Cleveland German City Guards.
Captain -- FREDERICK SILLBURG. First Lieutenant-JOHN G. MACK. Second Lieutenant -- JOHN TROTTER.
٢٨٣٠ CATAL .UVEDL.
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Stage Routes,
There are five lines of Stages running out of Cleveland, four of them Daily and one Tri-Weekly, viz :
Daily. +
1 to Buffalo, via Erie, at 8 A. M.
1 to Pittsburgh,
Beaver, at 8 A. M.
1 to Cincinnati,
· Columbus, at 8 A. M.
1 to Detroit,
Toledo, at 8 A. M.
To Warren on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 5 o'clock A. M., which connects with a Line of Pack- ets to Beaver, and Steamboats to Pittsburgh.
OFFICE-Franklin House; Neal, Moore & Co., Proprietors.
Rail Road.
Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Rail Road Company.
The charter was granted in 1836, and was revived in 1844-15. It contemplated the construction of a Road from Cleveland through Columbus to Cincinnati. No action was over taken on the subject till the summer of 1845, when a sufficient amount of stock was subscribed to au- thorize the organization of the Company. In October, 1845, the stockholders met at Columbus and elected Wil- liam Neil, Samuel Medary, William L. Sullivant, and Robert E. Neil, all of Columbus ; and Peter M. Weddell, John M. Woolsey, Richard Hilliard, Henry B. Payne, and John W. Allen, all of Cleveland, Directors ; and they ap- pointed John W. Allen, President ; William Neil, Treas- urer ; and Albert G. Lawrence, Secretary.
In the interim between 1936 and 1845, other Companies had been organized, covering that part of the line between Columbus and Cincinnati, and the Directors of the original Company therefore proposed making their Road only from
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Cleveland to Columbus. To this end, during the last fall and winter they caused seven different lines to be exam- ined and minutely surveyed, though they were not all entire lines. They vary in distance from 140 to 154 miles, and all are found to be of easy construction. The cost of a heavy "T" iron road with depots, engines, cars, &c., is estimated by the engineer, Cyrus Williams, Esq., at from $13,000 to $14,000 per mile, or about two mil- lions two hundred thousand dollars, varied by the differ- ence in distance, expense of grading, &c.
That the contemplated road would be of great value to Cleveland and the whole country through which it would run, there can be no doubt, nor, as it is believed, as to the stock paying good dividends.
The city of Cleveland is authorized to subscribe $200,- 000, and its citizens have already taken more than half as much more. If the people on the line that may be select- ed will act with similar liberality and good sense, there will be strong ground to hope for the early commencement and speedy completion of the work-a consummation most earnestly to be desired.
Cleveland Harbor --- the Pier.
Prior to 1827, when the United States undertook its mar .- agement, the authorities of Cleveland had attempted to confine the current of Cuyahoga River, and arrest the sand drift near the mouth by a few piles driven in a direction nearly at right angle with the course of the shore.
In 1827, contracts were made for material of a more durable character, and a dam 85 yards in length was built across the mouth of the river in order to give the stream the direction which had been found by experience to be most effectual.
Up to Sept. 30, 1828, 425 yards in length of pier work. and 150 yards of dike, in all 575 yards of crib work, were erected, and the expenditure thus far was $8,577 69.
During 1829, two hundred and sixty-three yards of ad- ditional pier were laid, viz : 91 yards on the west to 12
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feet water ; and 170 yards on the east side, making in all to that date 633 vards of pier and 150 of dike, or a total of crib work of 838 yards.
In 1830, the east pier was completed, all but the pier head ; and the west pier had been planked as far as it had been extended last year. The total cost so far had been 822,463 25, with an estimate of $3,688 35 for the con- tinuation of the west pier.
In 1881, the west pier was finished, and no bar to the navigation existed either in the harbor or beyond the piers in the lake. The whole length of pier on the 30th of Sept. of this year was 1,219 yards, including moles and dikes.
With what expense was increased in 1832 in filling in the piers when they had settled, &c., the outlay up to Oc- tober of that year amounted to $28,802 06.
During the years 1833, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and '40, the improvements steadily progressed. The report of the local agent set forth :
That there had been expended, from the commencement of the work, in 1837, to April 1st, 1839, $95,065 60 The aggregate of the appropriation for the
work, 124,406 56
At this time, the piers had an aggregate length of 2,970 feet, viz: the west pier 1,470, and the east 1,500 feet. They had received all the extension it was at present de- signed to give them, and fulfilled all the purposes for which they were intended, namely, that of maintaining at all seasons of the year a sufficient depth of water to ena- ble the largest class of vessels navigating the lakes to enter the river.
The years 1844 and 1845 showed an active resumption of the work on the improvements of this harbor. The east pier was completed out to its present extent, and great repairs made on the other.
As they are, they yield to the Port of Cleveland a pro- tection equalled by no other harbor on the lakes; and when thoroughly completed, will furnish an almost imper- ishable entrance to the Cuyahoga river, bearing to and from us an enviable commercial and marine facility, that must add largely to the wealth, the resources, and the pros- perity of our city.
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United States Marine Hospital.
The attention of Congress having been directed to the wants of our scamen navigating the lakes and rivers of the interior, and the strong claims they had upon Govern- ment for support and domiciliation when visited with dis- ease, and incapacitated from travelling the watery paths of their fatiguing and exposing duty, agents were selected and sent out to make choice of sites for the erection of Marine Hospitals at different points on the western rivers and lakes. In accordance with their powers, the commit- tee selected Cleveland as one of these sites, and in the fall of 1837 purchased of LEVI JOHNSTON, Esq. the premises upon which the Hospital is now being erected. The tract so purchased is nine acres in extent, and bounds west on Erie street, south on Lake street, east on Murrison street, and north on Lake Erie.
The style of the building is Ionic, of hewn stone, drawn from the quarries of Cuyahoga county. Its height is three stories, with piazzas, (supported by four full and two demi- columns,) on the two faces front and rear; the architec- ture of each face is similar. The extreme height is forty eight feet ; length of building, including wings, 106 feet 10 inches ; depth 86 feet 9 inches; and the dimensions of the main parallelogram 98 feet 10 inches by 43 feet 9 inches. The piazzas are 50 feet 6 inches by 12 feet. The front face commands a broad view of Lake Erie, and the country lining its shores in eastward and westward di- rections.
'The foundation floor, or basement, consists of eight main wards with compartments, and designed, Ist. for furnaces and coal storage; 2d, for common storage; 3d, for hospital bedding; 4th, for rooms of steward and mat- ron; 5th, for the mess room; 6th, for the cooking depart- ment; 7th, for the pantry; and the 8th, for hospital atten- dants.
The second story is divided into some sixteen wards. Ist, the Dispensatory ; 2nd, Store-room for Medicines ; 3d, apartments of Physician and Surgeon ; 4th, consisting of six rooms for beds or bunks, each room having eight bunks; 5th, four smaller wards adapted for 1, 2, or 3 bunks; and
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the remainder consisting of the main hall, smaller passa- ges, water-closets, &c.
The third story is similar to the one just described, ex- cept that bunks will be in all the rooms.
The whole, when completed, will accommodate one hundred and fifty patients.
- The lot cost twelve thousand dollars, and the sum ne- cessary for the completion of the edifice will be about thir- ty thousand dollars. Surrounding the grounds will be a handsome iron railing ; walks are to traverse the enclo- sure, and trees planted at distances requisite for effect and shade.
Taken in connection with its commanding position on the height overlooking the Lake, its wide range of obser- vation on all sides, and the eminently picturesque charac- ter of the adjacent city and country, no more available and advantageous location could have been selected on the waters of our inland seas; and it is a source of pride to our citizens that, after his privations and perils on the watery thoroughfare, the Sailor will have so comfortable and splendid a "Home" wherein to dispel the sickness that may visit him, and be again made fit for future and frequent trips.
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JOHN L. CASSELS, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Botany.
SAMUEL ST. JOHN, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Natural History and Medical Jurisprudence.
JACOB J. DELAMATER, M. D., Professor of General, Special and Surgical Anatomy and Physiology.
The museums, which are already extensive, will, during the present season, receive large additions, and it is said that by the time for the commencement of the next medi- cal session, all the useful means of illustration in the vari. ous departments, including drawings, plates, apparatus, morbid and normal specimens, &c., will be as complete as in any medical school in the country.
An appropriation was made winter before last by Con- gress towards the erection of a large Marine Hospital to be located near the Medical College. The clinical means are already abundant here. The classes of Surgical and Medical cases brought before the class the past winter, were numerous, embracing many of the most important . cases of disease, and such arrangements have been made as will much increase the advantages in this respect here- after.
The expenses of a student are light, in comparison with other schools of cqual standing-lecture fees 850, for the full course of four months, and good board, including fur- nished rooms, it is said, can be obtained and was obtained by the last class of students at prices ranging from $1,25 to $2 per week.
The course of annual lectures commences on the 1st Wednesday in November.
Publi: Schools,
There are 13 public schools which are kept throughout the year, taught by 4 males and 13 female teachers, in which instruction is given to 1500 children. The aver. age daily attendance at each school during the last term was 72.
The male teachers are paid 810 per week, and the fe.
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males from $4 to $5. There were expended during the last year, for schools and school houses, $5,600, of which about 1000 was for the latter.
Arrangements are about being made to establish, in connection with these schools, a High School. The most competent teachers that can be found are employed ; and it is believed that for thoroughness of discipline, and for mental and moral culture, they are not surpassed by any schools in the State, either public or private.
In addition to the above, there are 10 private or Select Schools, at which 500 scholars receive instruction.
C. BRADBURN, T. P. HANDY, SAM'L STARKWEATHER, WILLIAM DAY,
Managers.
C. BRADBURN, Superintendent.
Religious Societies.
There are eighteon congregations of professed religious worshippers in Cleveland, to wit :- Two Episcopalian; two Presbyterian ; one Methodist Episcopal; one Baptist ; one Roman Catholic; one Bethel, or Seamen's Friend ; one Wesleyan Methodist; one German Evangelical Protestant; one German Evangelical Lutheran; one Evangelical As- sociation of North America ; one Associate Presbyterian; one Disciples' Church of Christ ; one Israelitish, or Jews; one Universalist; two Second Advent ; and a small num- ber of receivers of the doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church ; the last not organized in a society.
Grace Church.
This Church (Episcopalian) was organized July 9th, 1845. No church edifice has yet been erected, but it is particularly designed to accommodate those who reside in the eastern part of the city. The Rev. Mr. Varien is ex- pected soon to take charge of the parish as Pastor ; resi. dence, No. 60 Kinsman st.
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Trinity Church (Episcopalian.)
The Trinity Church stands on the southeast corner of Seneca and St. Clair streets; was organized in the year 1816. Present Pastor, Richard Bury ; residence, Clinton street continued.
First Presbyterian.
The First Presbyterian Church stands on the north side of the Public Square, at the intersection of Ontario street. Their house of worship is a stone building. This Church was organized Sept. 19, 1820. Present Pastor, Seth C. Aikin ; residence, No. 120, Prospect street.
Second Presbyterian.
This Church is situated near the northwest corner of the Public Square, and is a frame building. This society was organized Jan. 12, 1844. Present Pastor, S. B. Can- field ; residence, No. 36, Bond street.
Methodist Episcopal.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is situated on the north- east corner of St. Clair and Wood streets. This Society was organized in the year 1827. Present Pastor, B. K. Maltby; residence, No. 40, Wood st.
Baptist.
The Baptist Church is situated on the southest corner of Seneca st., South and Champlain streets. This Society was organized on the third Saturday of February, 1835. Present Pastor, John H. Walden ; residence, No. 84, Pitts- burgh st.
St. Mary's Church.
This Church (Roman Catholic) is situated on the east side of Columbus street, Cleveland Centre. This society was first constituted in the year 1835. Present Pastors, M. A. Bryne, and M. Howard.
Wesleyan Methodist. -
This Church is located on the south side of Euclid st., a few rods east of the Public Square. This Society was organized in the fall of 1839. Present Pastor, James W. Walker ; residence, No. 30, Kinsman st.
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Bethel.
The Bethel, or Seamen's Friend Church, stands upon the southeast corner of Diamond and Vine streets. This Society was organized October 25, 1835. Present Chap- lain, Wm. Day ; boarding at No. 50, Public Square.
During the past winter, the Chaplain has opened a read- ing room over No. 63, Superior st., (3d story,) which is supplied with the papers of the city and many of their exchanges ; the Ohio and New York Observers ; Ameri- can and English Sailors' Magazines; the Light Ship, Sheet Anchor, &c., together with Naval Histories, Temperance Tales, and the like, all of which have been overhauled by the tars, and have caused many an otherwise tedious hour to pass swiftly and pleasantly away.
German Evang. Protestant.
The German Evangelical Protestant Society was organ- ized the 26th of April, 1835. Their house of public wor- ship stands on the northeast corner of Erie and York sts. Present Pastor, Adolph Alardt ; residence, No. 17, Third Alley ..
German Evang. Lutheran.
This Society was organized May, 1843. Place of pub- lic worship at present is a private room (Concert Hall) over 73 Superior st., 3d story. Present Pastor, A. J. Smith, who boards with Mr. Weiss, 41 High st.
German Mission Society.
The German Mission Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church was established by the Ohio Conference in the month of Sept. 1845, and the Society organized the same year. The present place of public worship is in a private room, situated on the west side of Vineyard Lane, 2d sto- ry. Earnest H. Buhre, Missionary ; boarding at No. 57, Wood street.
Evang. Association of N. A.
The Evangelical Association of North America was first organized as a Missionary Station in the year 1840, and is continued as such. The House of public worship stands on the southeast corner of Erie and Eagle sts. Pastor, Nicholas Gehr ; residence, No. 29, Eagle st.
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Disciples.
This Society was organized in Ohio City in 1840, but for the last four or five years it has held its meetings in Cleveland. They have not yet erected a house of worship. The place of worship at present is the Empire Hall, situ- ated at No. 80, Superior st., 3d story.
Jewish Church.
The Israelitish (or Jewish) Society was organized in the year 1839, and in the year 1842 they separated, and for a time were in two separate societies ; but in 1845 they be- came united again. The Synagogue stands on the south side of Eagle st. Priest, or Rabbi, Isaac Hopferman; res- idence, No. 33, Seneca st., south.
Second Advent.
The Society of Second Advent Believers was organized in the spring of 1844. Their house of public worship, called the Tabernacle, is situated on the east side of Bond st. Present Pastor, Daniel I. Robinson ; residence 18S, . Prospect st.
The second Society of Second Advent Believers, who hold to the doctrine that Christ has come, associated to- gether during the past winter. Their place of worship is at private houses. They have no stated preaching.
In the above, we have not given the number of members in each Society for two reasons. 1st, That some of them, esteem all to be members after being baptised, and others not until they have arrived at an adult age, and been six months in society. 2d, We believe it is the internal, and not the external, that makes the quality of the church ; and as no one could know the quality by the number, we forbear to give it.
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Sunday Schools.
There are twelve Sunday Schools among the various denominations, in which about 140 Teachers are employed on each Sunday, and at which from 1.000 to 1,200 chil- dren receive religious instruction. The Schools are mostly supplied with good Sunday School Libraries.
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Societies.
Temperance Societies.
There have been, or are now in existence, the following Temperance Societies within the City of Cleveland :- The Cleveland City-The Marine -- The Washingtonian- The Independent Washingtonian, and the Young People's. They have labored harmoniously in the cause -- sometimes one, at another time a different Society taking the lead against the common enemy. Under the powerful address- es of Theodore D. Weld, the friends of Temperance in this place adopted the pledge of abstinence from wine, as well as distilled liquors, considerably in advance of other parts of the country ; and they were also among the fore- most to adopt the pledge of abstinence from all that could intoxicate. The Washingtonian movement early reached this city, and found an advocate in Capt. Reuben Turner, who devoted himself for two years almost exclusively to the cause ; and it is probably no disparagement of others to say, that there have been few, if any, more efficient la- borers or popular speakers. He was zealously seconded by other Washingtonians; and there are hundreds, and perhaps thousands, in Northern Ohio and Pennsylvania, #Western New York, and Eastern Michigan, who bless him as the means, under God, of their rescue from the drunkard's doom. It is impossible for us to estimate the good done by these societies, or the number of pledged members. But the Marine Society has many a fathom of names to their pledge, and still they seem not weary in - well doing. As in other places, there have been great de- clensions as well as revivals in this cause, and many grievous falls of those of whom better things were ex- pected. These facts, while they have discouraged some. have induced a strenuous effort on the part of others, by petitions to the Legislature, to obtain a law giving the right of expressing the popular will at the ballot box upon the license question, and giving effect to this expression by prohibition of licenses in all those townships where the no license ballots preponderate. They have been thrice un- successful, but in so good a cause they must ultimately triumph.
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Horticultural Society.
The Cleveland Horticultural Society was organized in the spring of 1844 by a few gentlemen of the city. The prosperity of the Society rendered it necessary, before the close of the season of 1814, to put up a small building for the exclusive use of the Society ; and, notwithstanding the failure of the fruit crop of 1845, the advancement of the interests of the Society now demands still greater accom- modations, and this present season (1846) a permanent and spacious building will be provided, and the exhibitions of the Society be rendered of great pleasure and profit. The exhibitions are held weekly after the fruit and flower season commences. The peculiar climate and soil of the south- ern shore of Lake Erie demonstrates to a certainty, that, for the culture of Apples, Peaches, Pears, and other like fruits, no portion of the world is more favorable.
The Annual Fair of the Society occurs on the 3d Wednes- day of September. The election of officers takes place in
June of each year. The Society has a fine Library, con- sisting of about one hundred volumes. The officers are :
Prof. J. P. Kirtland, President.
Geo. B. Merwin,
Geo. C. Dodge,
Vice Presidents.
Geo. A. Benedict, Recording Secretary.
J. F. Hanks, Corresponding ¥
H. F. Brayton, Treasurer.
I. 0. 0. F.
CLEVELAND LODGE, NO. 13.
Meet at their Hall, Commercial Buildings, third story, east end, on Mondays each week.
CUYAHOGA LODGE, NO. 23.
Meet in the Masonic Lodge Room, on Wednesday even- ing of each week.
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WEBB CHAPTER, NO. 14.
Stephen Clary, H. P. Ezra R. Benton, K. C. C. Stannard, S.
The regular meetings are held in Masonic Hall, on the first and third Thursdays in each month.
CLEVELAND CITY LODGE, NO. 15.
Wm. T. Goodwin, W. M. Henry H. Dodge, S. W. Anson Loomis, J. W.
Regular meetings at Masonic Hall, the first and third Tuesdays in each month.
Newspapers.
There are four Newspapers published in our city, two of them Weekly and Daily ; the other two, Weekly only, to wit :
Cleveland Herald.
Daily and Weekly ; Whig in Politics. J. A. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher. Office, Nos. 6 and 7 Merchants' Exchange.
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