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THE Western Reserve of Ohio . . and ..
Some of Its Pioneers
Places and Women's Clubs
Mrs. William H. Race
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1914 Press of Euclid Printing Company Cleveland
COLLEGE WOMEN'S CLUE WASHINGTON, D. C.
HIS book is affectionately dedicated to T my husband. He gave to me a house and lot when he gave one to our daugh- ter, the week of her marriage. In the improving of this property and getting good tenents, it prepared me for such work when left a widow; it also made life bright by giving me a separate bank account to draw upon for books, pic- tures, to go to conventions, or on short tours of travel ; it brought fresh life and vigor to the family ; the children had magazines and papers suited to their age. We were all comrades in this partnership.
Mrs. William G. Rose
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RESIDENCE OF WM. G. ROSE, CLEVELAND
INTRODUCTION
In the writing of this book we would like to have given honor to many women in the city. First, Mrs. Lucius Webster, who took charge of the Cleveland Peace Society until it had grown to the size of being held in Adelbert Chapel.
To Mrs. C. T. Doan, who established the principle of buying and selling pianos without a salesroom or stenographer, and who opens her hospitable home to the young people of her church, and gives liberally to her son, once a missionary in Norway, now in Atlanta, Ga.
To Mrs. Stephen Buhrer, who, as president of the Mothers' Congress, has influenced the legislature to give pensions to mothers, and is active in other clubs.
To Miss Anna Edwards, who opened a Coffee House in the neighborhood of a large manufactory for their employes, and they, seeing its good results, took it under their own manage- ment.
To Mrs. W. J. Rainey, who erected the Rainey Industrial Institute, and provided houses to pay the rent and so meet its legitimate expenses.
To the leaders in the Temperance Crusade, Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Duncanson, Mrs. Excell, Mrs. Ingham and the women who prayed before saloons and, if invited to enter, saw the bottles on the shelves, and the barrels behind the counter that held the fiery stuff that robs men of their souls and makes them mere beasts, and for which our Congress will take a revenue.
To Mrs. M. C. Holmden, who has trained her class of Loyal Temperance Legion (L. T. L.) so that they have won numerous prizes.
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To Miss Georgiana Norton, principal of the Cleveland Art School, who has labored for years for its benefit and has it now in a beautiful building free from debt and with an endowment of two hundred thousand dollars.
To Jane Elliott Snow, who wrote "The Women of Tenny- son," "The Life of President McKinley," and gives parlor lec- tures.
To Mrs. Charles R. Miller, who invited Anna Heydekooper from Meadville to establish the Kitchen Garden and who is now a visitor in the Home Workers-two wagon loads of them rode in the Perry Centennial parade-also Historian in the Daugh- ters of the Revolution, a member of the Society of 1812, and the College Club.
To Mrs. McCrosky, who gave time and money to all of the women societies and died on her return voyage from Egypt.
To Mrs. S. C. Chase, who made "Home for Children" on Marvin Avenue.
To Mrs. S. C. Bierce, who founded the Press Club and wrote short stories for the Plain Dealer.
To Mrs. H. G. Boon, who daily visited the lot cultivated by the children of the H. P. A. and made it a success.
To Mrs. W. E. Bowman, who, for twenty-nine years, has had a meeting of mothers, who cannot entertain in their home, but who gladly come on Thursdays to tack comforts, sew, and have a luncheon; after which there is a prayer and testimony meeting, which for zeal and sincerity astonishes visitors, and has a far-reaching effect in the home; also a Children's Class, on Saturday, where they sew on garments for themselves, giving them a training that will be useful in their future lives.
To Mrs. M. B. Schwab, who, with her husband, was with the Health Protective Association in its national meeting at the
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Pan-American in 1901, and who founded the Jewish Council of Women, and was always a worker for children's playground.
To Mrs. James H. Payne, who founded the Novelist Club, limited to thirty-five members, and which took up other sub- jects of the art and literature of nations.
To the College Club, limited to alumni only, who invite pro- fessionals to address them, and by a large membership have recently bought and furnished a club house.
To the Equal Franchise Club, the Suffrage Party, and the Woman's Club, which are awakening women to a sense of their responsibility for the white slave traffic, for the low wages given to unskilled labor, the child's welfare, and the large dividends of stockholders, robbing the workers of the necessities of life.
To these and many others we would gladly mention if space would permit.
PARMELEE RECORD
Martha Parmelee Rose, b. March 5, 1834; m. William G. Rose March 28, 1858.
Theodore Hudson Parmelee, b. January 21, 1795; m. Harriet Holcomb, October 13, 1813; d. January 24, 1843.
Theodore Parmelee (Captain), m. Keziah Hudson, March 8, 1871; d. 1795, aged 78. Mrs Parmelee d. 1815, aged 93 years.
Abraham Parmelee, Jr., m. Mary Stanley.
Abraham Parmelee, Sr., m. Mary Bishop.
Isaac Parmelee mn. Elizabeth Howland.
Stephen Parmelee nı. Elizabeth Baldwin.
John Parmelee, Jr., m. Rebecca, "Widow" Plane and Hannah.
John Parmelee, Sr., came from England in 1639, settled in New Haven, then in Guilford, Conn. All children recorded in Guilford.
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GENEALOGY OF THE PARMELEES
In the Lenox Library in New York no book gave so many details as that of our fellow townsman, C. C. Baldwin, one of the trustees of Cleveland Historical Society. We also have some data gathered by Charles Parmelee, once teacher at Gambier, Ohio. Madam Rose Parmlin (pronounced Parmly) of Lausanne, Switzerland, widow of Alexander Parmlin, says: The Parmlins came from Barseus of Gilly Borsol Canton, Switzerland. They exist there now. They are in the Tyrol and Holland. A Bel- gium prince named Maurice Van Parmlin in 1557 fled to Hol- land to escape the persecutions of the Duke of Alba. Afterward came to Batavia, New York, and purchased large grants of land and founded a family who are there now.
The Parmelees married the Baldwins three or four different times and therefore the Baldwin record is of great interest. The late C. C. Baldwin's book has the following:
The Baldwins were in England as early as 679 A. D. The Earl of Flanders, cotemporary with Alfred the Great, whose son Baldwin 2d married Elizabeth of Alfred, to Baldwin 5th, who married the daughter of Robert of France.
Baldwin, Emperor of the East in 1239, son of Baldwin, Earl of Devonshire, was the first to rebel against Steven. Baldwin means bold winner or speedy winner of a domain, where the name stands for border or garden. Surnames were not used in England until after the Conquest, but were superadded to the Christian names.
John Baldwin was rector of London from 1441 to 1445. Sir John Baldwin was Chief Justice of Common Pleas Court of England from 1536 to 1546, the year of his death. His mother was Dorner, whose family came to earldom. His sister, Eliz- abeth, married Lord Herbert, Marquis of Worcester
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King Henry the Eighth made estates to John Baldwin, rector of Lincoln, Commissioner of Peace, who was Lord Manor of Anglesea. Richard, his brother, and John were the ancestors of the Baldwins in America.
The Parmelees were descendants of John Parmlin, senior, of Guilford, Ct., 1639. He had four sons and three daughters. His son, John, was probably born in England. His daughter, Elizabeth, married John Everett; Mary married Dennis Comp- ton and Hannah, John Johnson, of New Haven, Ct. John Parmlin, junior, had three wives, Rebecca, "Widow" Plane and Hannah. Nathaniel was the son of the first wife; the widow died within a year. Hannah had seven boys and two girls. Stephen, the fifth son, married Elizabeth Baldwin, of Millford, Ct. Isaac (my forefather) married Elizabeth Howland in 1689. Of their nine children, Elizabeth married Nathaniel Baldwin, 1718, afterward Deacon Nathaniel Baldwin, of Litchfield, Ct. He was one of four sons who removed to New Haven. Abram Parmelee, son of Isaac, born in Guilford, married Mary Bishop, and his son, Abram, junior, married Mary Stanley, the mother of Captain Theodore Parmelee, of Goshen, Ct. Captain Parmelee married Kezia Hudson, daughter of David Hudson, senior, and mother of David Hudson, junior, who settled on the Western Reserve in 1811 in the town of Hudson.
Guilford is sixteen miles from New Haven. In 1750 mem- bers went to Stockbridge, Mass., and others to Goshen, Ct. Nathaniel gave land to his daughter, Elizabeth, who had mar- ried Stephen Parmelee, June 7, 1773.
Nathaniel Baldwin, born in Guilford, November 28, 1693, married Elizabeth Parmlee, daughter of Isaac Parmlee, of Guil- ford. He was a deacon; he bid three shares of land in Goshen, July 14, 1736.
He was made treasurer and in laying out a town was asso-
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ciated with his son-in-law, Ebenezer Norton. He was State Representative from 1753 to 1760, the year he died. Ebenezer Norton was sent to the State Legislature twenty-six times. He had nine children, all married. He went to Goshen to prevent also "the lapsing of a grant" which did most to promote emigra- tion in early times in Connecticut.
Michael Baldwin removed to New Haven to educate his children. He was a blacksmith. One son became a United States Senator, one a Governor, and one a Judge of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Guilford was the third colony of New England. Milford was the second. Guilford was along Long Island Sound for ten miles. It was conveyed to the colony by the Rev. Henry Whitfield for $100. He came with forty-eight others November 8, 1639. His house was the oldest. Its wall was three feet thick, built of stone. Samuel Disbrow also had a house built of stone. He was a relative of Oliver Cromwell. Rev. John Higginson was his son-in-law. Oliver Cromwell seriously contemplated coming to America, but was detained by stress of circumstances. Thomas Hastings descended from Captain Thomas Parmelee, of Revolu- tionary times. Fitz Green Halleck's grandmother, Beulah, was daughter of Joseph Parmelee, son of Isaac. Abram Parmlee, senior, married Mary Bishop, and his son, Abram, junior, mar- ried Mary Stanley, the mother of Captain Theodore Parmelee, of Goshen, Ct. She was the one who sent her son to New York to see what could be done for the colonies. Her husband and her son, Abram, were the first to go to the Alarm at Fair Haven. She said to Theodore: "You are twenty-five years old. Elisha and Erastus will help me on the farm. I will keep a kettle of hot soap to throw at the Indians if they come near."
Four different times did she fit out her son, Theodore, for the battlefield and gave him her parting blessing. With her own
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hands she made five woolen blankets and sent them as presents to the soldiers who, after the battle of the day, had neither bed nor covering for the night.
This Theodore Parmelee was captain of the Fifth Regiment of Connecticut Light-Horse Dragoons, and was present at the capture of New York by the British. He was never wounded. At one time he was sent with a scouting party, near the enemy's lines, when he was suddenly surrounded. He did not feel dis- posed to surrender, but drove through them, warding off several blows aimed at his head and escaped unhurt. He had four or five terms of service. The force was organized and reorganized many times. He was at the capture of Burgoyne, having re- ported to Colonel Samuel Seldon. of the Seventeenth Regiment. It was recruited in Litchfield, Ct. They extinguished the flames of the vessels that had been set on fire by the enemy and rescued all of the stores and ordnance from destruction and received the thanks of their general.
Washington reviewed the army June 16, 1782, and said: "The First Connecticut Brigade is as fine a body of men as is in the army; some of their maneuvers are of great precision, but they do not take as good aim as expected. Frequent practice will remedy this evil. Their clothing could be made to fit them better."
After the war Captain Parmelee retired to private life and married, March 8, 1871, Keziah Hudson, daughter of David Hudson, senior. They had ten children, six boys and four girls. They lived and died in Goshen, Ct. The Captain died in 1795, aged 78, and his wife in 1815 at 93 years.
Theodore Hudson Parmelee, their son, born January 21, 1792, was educated for the ministry at Litchfield, Ct., with Ly- man Beecher as teacher. The principles of Calvinism he could not adopt and in the last term secretly left school and came to the Western Reserve of Ohio with David Hudson's colony.
THE EARLY COLONIES
Report of F. B. McNaughton to D. A. R.
In March, 1789, the Constitution of the United States went into force; no restriction was to be laid on the suffrage by · the Constitution, but each State would make the qualifications of electors. To have limited the suffrage would have raised a barrier difficult to remove, because they would have to amend the Constitution.
All manual labor was performed by servants; the negro slave could not make a contract or give testimony against a white man; anything he earned reverted to his master. He could read but was not to be taught to write.
Political offenders were sent over from the old country (as many as four thousand) murderers, robbers, forgers, house- burners, petty thieves, felons of all sorts.
Virginia received more than any other State because to- bacco raising was very profitable. Between 1715 and 1775 ten thousand were exported from Old Bailey prison in London. The industrial servants would be bound to the owner of the ship, to serve him or his assignee for a number of years for their passage; they then were sold to the highest bidder. They could remain on shipboard for a month and were then sold to spec- ulators for what they would give, and were often chained and driven from town to town. They were classed with negroes or criminal classes. They were dressed in old clothes and worked hard; if they ran away, two days were added to their service for every day gone; they worked from sunrise to sunset for no pay at all. If they should go in debt, even for a sixpence or a
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penny, they could be thrown into jail to remain until they died of hunger or disease. These were the penal codes of Europe. The common crimes were punished by branding "T" on the left hand, meaning thief; "B" was burglar, and if on the forehead it was done on the Sabbath day; every pauper had to wear the letter "P" on his sleeve; these rules were enforced as late as 1817 in Philadelphia.
When Jefferson was elected President the old rules of Europe were not enforced; his was an age for the poor people; wages were highest in New England; lowest in the South. The negroes were hired out for $50.00 a year; the white man re- ceived $1.00 a day in harvest time in the North. In 1817 the states abolished imprisonment for debt. In Philadelphia a man was put in prison for a debt of two cents. Many of the debts were rum debts at grog-shops and groceries. In 1822 two thousand were in prison for less than twenty-five cents each. No provision was made for either sex; a bed was seldom seen in a prison; robbers were confined with debtors and witnesses; bedding was provided for criminals, but not for debtors. Im- prisonment for debt was abolished in Ohio in 1828; in New York in 1832; in Missouri in 1845; in Connecticut in 1839; in Alabama in 1848.
The disfranchised landholders were those who bought of the Holland Land Co. Instead of selling in fee simple and a mortgage, they bought on long credit and could not vote until this land was paid for, and hundreds of thousands of farmers were in this condition.
In 1821 a convention was called in Albany to amend the Constitution, and then it was decided that senators must be free-holders-the argument was, that the business of the Leg- islature would have much to do with property; it was the source of all employment, and a man without property should have no
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concern in its appropriation; it also increased the number of votes of those of a character most likely to be improperly in- fluenced, it enlarged the field of action of a candidate and en- abled him to combine greater numbers.
Daniel Webster said: "No rights are safe, when property is not safe," and he carried the case. In England fifty working men represented the labor party. Five years ago Justice Fare- well decided: "The funds of trade unions were liable to seizure for wrongs committed by those representing them." The House of Lords confirmed the finding and this instantly destroyed the security of trade unions in England. The unions had 400,000 members and 15,000,000 funds; they were helping the unem- ployed; caring for the sick; burying the dead, and thus saving the public purse. Now one member might imperil that fund; they appealed to Parliament, which turned a deaf ear-then they rose in revolt; with their millions of members they elected their own Union Secretary to Parliament and secured fifty members almost at a jump; they had more members at the next election and eventually may secure a majority; in that event, a workingman would be a Prime Minister as in British Australia. There is no reason why a workingman should not be in the United States Senate; they prepare their men for action. Mr. J. F. MacPherson, thirty-four years old, went to Ruskin College, Oxford, and learned to smelt steel in the furnace of Middleburgh; he is organizing secretary of British Steel Smelters and Tin- plate Workers; can talk well.
The Senate Committee decided there should be no liquor selling in Indian Territory and Osage Reservation for twenty years after the passage of the statehood measure, then the states may decide for themselves upon it. The most determined evil which affects the clerical force and the offices of the govern-
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ment is the habit of using intoxicating liquors. H. L. Merrill, of Hagerstown, Md., in the United States Senate introduced a bill "that all license be addressed to the Judge," who should grant or reject them. Lyle P. G. Emery, of Warren, Ohio, was appointed by the Controller of Currency in Washington to standardize the currency of the Chinese Government. In three years, there, he established the coinage system on a firm basis. He expects to return to China and engage in mercantile business.
Almshouses are to be for agricultural experiment and to give demonstration work in the field, and allow the farmers to visit them and explain to them what is in progress.
BOSTON TEA PARTY
As we read the proceedings of Parliament after the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor we are not surprised that our fore- fathers struck for independence and civil liberty.
Four bills had passed Parliament, one, for appointment of all officers by the Governor, military, executive and judicial. All town meetings were prohibited. All murders committed should be tried in England and the Quebec act should be tried in England, wherein the boundaries of that province were ex- tended to the Mississippi river and south to the Ohio and guar- anteed to the Catholic Church the possession of this ample property and full freedom of worship.
Hildreth History of the U. S., volume 3, page 33.
Gage succeeded Hutchinson as Governor. Boston had re- belled and now suggested the idea of a Continental Congress. Connecticut also advocated a Continental Congress. Pennsyl- vania proposed paying for the tea, to the East India Company, that had taken the sale of all the tea. Maryland favored non- consumption and non-importation. Virginia appointed a day of fasting and prayer. Dinsmore declared an attack on one colony was an attack on all.
On the first of August a convention was called at Williams- burgh, afterward at Philadelphia in September. Non-impor- tation and non-consumption was agreed upon by the colonies.
John Adams wrote his wife: "Every man in this assembly is a great orator, a critic and a statesman, therefore must show his criticism, his oratory and his political abilities." They had paid duty to the mother country for assistance and for protec- tion, but when she assumed the right she did they rebelled.
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On account of the Quebec act the line of the St. Lawrence river was the field for military operations.
The French and Indian war was about Ticonderoga and Crown Point. These fortresses were in possession of the British, and well supplied with cannon and military stores. Immediately after the Lexington alarm Connecticut and Massachusetts set about securing these old fortresses. Connecticut sent Benedict Arnold, Massachusetts, Colonel Hinman, and Vermont, Colonel Ethan Allen; (whose first wife was a sister of Mrs. David Hud- son, junior). He was the first to take possession of the garrison. Taken by surprise they surrendered without loss of life. Ben- edict Arnold and Colonel Hinman entered the fort together, side by side, and took Ticonderoga without the loss of a man. After the surrender they took possession of the smaller towns along the Hudson river. Benedict Arnold's leadership not being acknowledged he was angry. When next heard from he was before Quebec. He married a sister of a British officer and afterward went to England to reside.
On September 28, General David Wooster, Colonel of Con- necticut's First Regiment, 64 years of age, went to Ticonderoga. He was mortally wounded in the Danbury raid and died May 2, 1777. He was succeeded by Major Huntington of Norwich. Colonel Rufus Putnam, so successful in building block houses for refuge to which the settlers could flee in case of attack, wrote Washington that education should be fostered by liberal grants of land for schools, so that intelligent men should per- form the duties of citizenship. This letter Washington for- warded to Congress with a similar request himself. It was granted. Along the Ohio river the settlers did not use the conciliatory measures of the French and a war called the "Dins- more war," followed.
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At a meeting called in Boston by Colonel Putnam and Ben- jamin Tappan they appointed Rev. Manassah Cutler a commit- tee to wait upon Congress. He was a member of various socie- ties and a graduate of Yale and a man of many gifts. He was supported by men in Congress who were officers in the late war.
He was made delegate, to present to Congress, convened in New York City, to ask that slavery be prohibited from the territory. It was at first rejected but afterward inserted. Daniel Webster said: "I do not know of a single law, ancient or mod- ern, that has produced effects more distinct and lasting than this ordinance of 1787." This was the first United States Ter- ritory organized and was called the Northwest Territory.
The Ohio Company purchased one million and a half acres on the north side of the Ohio River at one dollar an acre. In three years they appealed to Congress to be relieved, for their treasurer, Richard Platt, was a defaulter. Some had failed to pay, in full, for their shares. Congress was lenient for it was pleased with the progress of the company and gave deeds for the land as far as money received, also gave six months to pay one-seventh and the balance in six years at twenty-five cents an acre.
It also offered inducements to settle by giving to every male over 18 years of age, who would be a permanent settler, one hundred acres; to a private in the army, one hundred acres; to a captain, three hundred and fifty acres; to a general, eight hundred acres; to a major-general, eleven hundred; to a briga- dier-general, thirty-five hundred acres. The land was laid out in one hundred acre lots; each settler was to release what land was needed for public highways; to build a substantial house in five years; to plant not less than fifty apple trees and thirty peach trees; to provide himself with musket and ammunition and to
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perform military duty when called upon, and to settle not less than twenty in a company. Section 16 was reserved to pay for schools; section 29 for the support of the gospel; two town- ships were reserved for a university, and the Nos. 8, 11 and 20 for Congress to dispose of as government land. This was signed by George Washington, President, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary.
The first party of emigrants were from Danvers, Mass., and went to Marietta, Ohio, December 1, 1776. One from Hartford, Ct., followed one month later. In 1662, Charles II of England, bestowed on the Hartford settlers all the land within 41 and 42 degrees north latitude as far as the Pacific Ocean. Similar partitions of land were granted to Massachusetts in 1690, while the states that had no such charters maintained that these lands ought in equity to be assigned in common with all the states. The justice of this was acknowledged by Virginia, which was the first to cede to the general government all the lands north and east of the Ohio River
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