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The Christian revival in Trumbull County did not seem to penetrate Niles as it did other townships. It was not until 1840 that Elder John Henry organized a church there of which Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Carl, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Luce, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Heaton, Nancy Carle, Mrs. Battles, Josiah and Polly Dunlap, William Winfield, Seymour Hake, and others were members. The first church was erected between 1843 and 1844, and among the long list of ministers who have led this flock we find the names of John T. Smith, Gideon Applegate, Methias Christy, E. W. Wakefield, N. N. Bartlett.
We are indebted to W. H. V. Newington who has been active in the Church of Christ of Niles for the following facts in regard to the later history :
"The frame building which preceded the present hand- some brick church formerly faced the south, with its back or pulpit end turned toward Church street. This was for the pur- pose of having a spacious lawn fronting the city park. In the middle eighties this building was turned to face Mechanic street
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
CATHOLIC CHURCH
FIRST M.E. CAL RCA
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
CITY HALL
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
(Loaned by the Chronicle.)
SEVEN CHURCHES OF NILES.
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and the interior was considerably repaired and improved. In the early nineties the church was deemed incommodious and unbefitting the growing congregation. In 1894 the present beautiful church was erected, at a cost, furnishing included, of about $16.000, an expense which would be nearly doubled at the present time. When finished it was the finest and largest Protestant church in the city, and was the first to install a pipe organ, at the cost of more than $1,000. Beside the auditorium it has a large Sunday school room with several class rooms opening from the same and the whole connected with the main room by sliding doors. The basement has dining room and kitchen with lavatories. The building is heated by steam and lighted with electricity. At the present time, 1909, the church has again been considered too small for all its offices and plans are being formulated to enlarge the Sunday school accommo- dations to double their capacity. In 1900, a handsome parson- age was built at the south end of the church lot, and has proved of great aid for the efficiency of church work. Of the ministers mentioned in the earlier article, Waller Hayden, J. M. Monroe, W. H. Rogers, C. C. Smith, and E. W. Wakefield are still liv- ing. To these must be added as pastors since 1882-Revs. Warren Bowell, Dr. J. W. Lowe, -- Candee. E. E. Curry, O. M. Oliphant, D. M. Moss, D. D. Burt, J. F. Mahoney and the pres- ent incumbent Allen T. Gordon. All of the original members of the church have passed to the better life. Hiram Ohl and George Battles, who were deacons in 1882, are now elders, and with them, on the official board, are associated three other elders and twelve deacons. In 1906, Evangelist Herbert Youell con- ducted a very successful revival meeting at which time two hundred and sixty-five members were added to the church. The present membership is nearly four hundred."
A religious society in Niles known as the Primitive Metho- dists is the only church of its kind in the county. Rev. M. Har- vey organized it and was its first pastor. That was in 1873, and six years later a church building was erected. It was situ- ated in the Russia Field and was attended largely by the iron workers.
The Baptist church was organized in 1868. This congrega- tion too was a small one and made up largely of mill employees. St. Stephen's Roman Catholic church was formed by Rev. E. N. O'Callan. This has always been a strong organization, since so many residents of Niles have been Romanists. Paro-
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chial schools are conducted, and all orders connected with the church are prosperous. The priests of late years, at least, have been men of strong character and deserving of the respect given them.
The Welsh Presbyterians erected a church in 1872 at the cost of $6,000. Before this society had a church of its own it met in the house belonging to the Cumberland Presbyterians. It, like several of the other churches, has a small membership.
The Episcopal church, known as St. Luke's is on Robbins avenue above Vienna street.
CHAPTER LIII.
CIVIL LISTS .- STATE SENATORS .- MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. - STATE REPRESENTATIVES .- GOVERNORS FROM TRUM- BULL COUNTY .- MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
State Senators.
1803. Samuel Huntington, March Term.
1803, Benjamin Tappan. December Term.
1804-1805. George Tod.
1806-1809, Calvin Cone.
1810-1811, George Tod.
1812, Calvin Pease.
1813, Daniel Eaton.
1814, Turhand Kirtland.
1815, Eli Baldwin.
1816-1817. John W. Seely.
1818-1821. Eli Baldwin.
1822-1823. Samuel Bryson.
1824, Thomas D. Webb."
1825, Henry Manning.
1826-1827. Eli Baldwin.
1828-1829. Thomas D. Webb.
1830-1831. Win. Ripley.
1832-1833. Ephraim Brown.
1834-1837 Leicester King.
1838-1839, David Tod.
1840-1841, John Crowell.
1842-1843, Eben Newton.
1844-1845, Samuel Quinby.
1846-1849. John F. Beaver.
1850-1851, Milton Sntliff.
1852-1853. Jonathan I. Tod.
- Seat contested and given to Henry Manning.
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1854-1855, Ira Norris.
1856-1859, Robert W. Taylor.
1860-1861, J. Dolson Cox.
1862-1863, Samuel Quinby.
1864-1865, Eben Newton.
1866-1867, George F. Brown.
1868-1871, L. D. Woodworth.
1872-1875, L. C. Jones.
1876-1879, J. R. Johnson.
1880-1882, H. B. Perkins.
1884-1886, A. D. Fassett.
1888, Jno. M. Stull.
1890, E. A. Reed.
1892-1894, L. C. Ohl.
1896-1898, J. J. Sullivan.
1900-1902, Benj. F. Wirt.
1904-1906, Thos. Kinsman.
1908, David Tod.
Members of Congress.
1813, John S. Edwards, Warren, Trumbull County.
1813-1814, Rezin Beall, Wooster, Wayne County.
1814-1817, David Clendenin, Trumbull County.
1817-1819, Peter Hitchcock, Burton, Geauga County.
1819-1823, John Sloan, Wooster, Wayne County.
1823-1838, Elisha Whittlesey, Canfield, Trumbull County. 1838-1843. Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson, Ashtabula County.
1843-1847, Daniel R. Tilden, Ravenna. Portage County.
1847-1851, John Crowell, Warren. Trumbull County.
1851-1853, Even Newton, Canfield, Trumbull County. 1853-1859, Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson, Ashtabula County.
1859-1863, John Hutchins, Warren, Trumbull County. 1863-1880, James A. Garfield, Hiram, Portage County.
1880-1893, Ezra B. Taylor, Warren, Trumbull County. 1893-1898. Stephen A. Northway, Jefferson. Ashtabula Connty.
1898-1902, Charles Dick, Akron, Summit County.
1902. W. Aubrey Thomas, Niles, Trumbull County.
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State Representatives.
1803, Ephraim Quinby, Aaron Wheeler, March Term.
1803, David Abbott, Ephraim Qninby, December Term.
1804, Amos Spofford, Homer Hine.
1805, Homer Hine, James Kingsbury.
1806, James Kingsbury, John P. Bissell.
1807, John W. Seely, James Montgomery.
1808-1809, Rich. J. Elliott, Robert Hughes.
1810. Aaron Collar. Thomas G. Jones.
1811, Thomas G. Jones, Samuel Bryson.
1812, Samuel Bryson, Benj. Ross.
1813, Benj. Ross, Samnel Leavitt.
1814, Wilson Elliott, James Hillman.
1815, Samnel Bryson, W. W. Cotgreave.
1816, Homer Hine, Henry Lane.
1817, Eli Baldwin, Edward Scofield.
1818, Henry Lane, Edward Scofield.
1819. Henry Lane, Henry Manning.
1820, Dan Eaton, Elisha Whittlesey.
1821, Thomas Howe, Elisha Whittlesey.
1822-1823, James Mackey, Cyrus Bosworth.
1824, Homer Hine, Ephraim Brown.
1825, Ephraim Brown, Eli Baldwin.
1826, Henry Lane, Roswell Stone.
1827-1828, Titns Brockway, Wm. Ripley.
1829. Jared P. Kirtland, George Swift. 1830, Benj. Allen, Richard Iddings. 1831, Calvin Pease, Jared P. Kirtland.
1832, Jedediah Fitch, Benj. Allen.
1833, Walter Johnson. Thomas Robbins. 1834, Jared P. Kirtland, Wm. A. Otis. 1835. Eli Baldwin, Tensard R. De Wolf. 1836, Seth Hayes, Tracy Bronson. 1837, John C. Woodruff, Tracy Bronson.
1838, Tracy Bronson, Thomas Flowe. 1839, Isaac Powers, Thomas Howe. 1840, Peter Allen, Josiah Robbins. 1841, John Briggs. 1842, Jacob H. Baldwin, Nathan Webb. 1843, Henry Manning, Asahel Medbnry. 1844, Buell Barnes.
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1845, Buell Barnes, Henry Boyd.
1846, Joseph Truesdale.
1847, Joseph Truesdale, John Harrington.
1848, Isaac Lee, Albert G. Riddle, for Trumbull and Geauga.
1849, John Hutchins, Albert G. Riddle, for Trumbull and Geauga.
1850-1851, More C. Bradley, Gamaliel H. Kent, for Trum- bull and Geauga.
1852-1853, Franklin E. Stone.
1854-1855, Mathew Birchard.
1856-1857, Ralph Plum, George T. Townsend.
1858-1859, Geo. T. Townsend, Geo. H. Howe,
1860-1861, Robert H. Walker.
1862-1863, George H. Howe.
1864-1865, Austin D. Kibbee.
1866-1867, Anstin D. Kibbee.
1868-1869, Wmn. Ritezel.
1870-1871, Wm. Riteze], J. K. Wing.
1872-1873, J. K. Wing.
1874-1875, Thomas .I. M'Lain, Jr.
1876-1877, Thomas J. M'Lain, Jr., D. J. Edwards.
1878-1879, Edmund A. Reed, David J. Edwards.
1880-1881, Edmund Reed.
1882-1883, Stephen Laird.
1884-1885, Stephen Laird.
1886-1887, Mark Ames, Thos. H. Stewart.
1888-1889, Mark Ames, Thos. H. Stewart.
1890-1891, Chas. H. Strock.
1892-1893, Chas. H. Strock.
1894-1895, Allen Jones.
1896-1897, Allen Jones.
1898-1899, Wm. H. Johnson.
1900-1901, Thos. Kinsman.
1902-1903, Thos. Kinsman.
1904-1905, Warren Thomas.
1906-1907, Warren Thomas.
1908, R. A. Cobb.
Governors from Trumbull County.
Samuel Huntington, Jacob D. Cox.
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Notes.
The author has been tempted to add some notes which have been of interest to her and which cannot be classified very well.
In Chronicle of October 11, 1842, we find "The party who took a female cloak from the park will please return it and receive the one left."
In the chapter on the Presbyterian church, we quote from a letter of Mrs. Dickey to her son Samnel, who had gone east to be married. The Dickey homestead stood on the east side of Tod avenue, opposite the place where Fannie Dickey Messer now lives. When this latter property was purchased by the Diekeys there was a house south of Mrs. Messer's home, and here Samuel Dickey brought his wife. We quote the follow- ing from a letter which Fannie, the sister of Samuel. wrote him at the same time his mother was sending a letter. She says that as her mother has told him all about the fire, she will tell about the weddings. "The first was Mrs. Porter's and Deacon MeFarland. It seemed to be Gretna Green affair. She was watched so narrowly by her friends that she could get no opportunity to have the knot tied. Finally Mr. Gilbert. knowing what a fix they were in, offered them his house where the ceremony might be performed, and took it npon himself to get the bride there, in which he succeeded admirably. There were abont a dozen invited in and it passed off quite pleas- antly, and it was all carried on secretly until it was over. They then rode down through Market street and Main street, where they received most profound bows. Charlie Smith felt pretty well worked and said he felt very much as he did when he was beat after election, but says she did just as he would have done had he been in her place. About a week after you left Laura Webb was allied to Dr. Iddings. Your honored pres- ence was solicited, not knowing that you had left. Martha and myself were there. I should think there were about a hun- dred present. We have got our new carpet home and it meets our expectations. We have fifteen yards stand- ing in a roll waiting further orders. Martha has gone a 'gad- ding' up to Aunt Mason's. There is where you may imagine her every Saturday afternoon. You know she must go and see how Aunt Mason feels toward Mr. Purinton, so she can do-
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cide whether it will be proper for her to go to ehnreh tomor- row or not. I am to meet her at your house for we are going to strip your rose bushes. You had better come home and see to your things."
In the Western Reserve Chronicle of May 21, 1818: Wal- ter King advertises mustard spoons, sugar tongs, ear rings and finger rings, watch cases, etc., together with cash paid for gold and silver.
April 1, 1819. A marriage notice appears as follows : Wright, to Widow Rachel Beckwith, after a seri- ons struggle of two nights' courtship." Married by Rev. Jos. Badger.
Chronicle, Aug. 10, 1821. "Dr. Brooks proposes to ad- minister 10 or 15 doses of the protoxide of azote, or the ex- hilarating gas, in the Warren Hotel on Tuesday next at 3:00 o'clock P. M. The sensations produced by this gas are highly pleasurable and resemble those in some degree attendant on the pleasant period of intoxication. Great exhilaration, an irre- sistible propensity to laugh, dance and sing, a rapid flow of vivid ideas, and an unusual fitness for museular exertion, are the ordinary feelings it produces. These pleasant sensations are not sneceeded by any debiliating effeets upon the system. A more full account of this gas will be given on the evening of exhibition. Tickets of admission may be had at the printing office."
An advertisement. "Jacob Hake; Taylor. Coat $3.00; Pantaloons, $1.25; Vest, $1.25.
Bonnets. Florence, straw and silk bonnets; also palm hooks and an extensive stock of bonnet silks, plain, figured, and plaid. Very low at VanGorder & Canfield. (1844.)
From a full geared sawmill to a pair of pocket combs ean be had for cash at awfully reduced prices. Truly astonish- ing at VanGorder's & Canfield's. (1844.)
Any Man, Boy, or stripling that wants to buy stuff for
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trousers cheaper than was ever dreamed of, eall VanGorder & C'anfield. (1844.)
Mr. Isaae VanGorder of this township has presented us with an apple, of the species called gloria of munda, which weighs 27 ounces. (1846.)
Any one wishing to buy $1.00 worth of coffee bring along a three bushel bag to put it in. VanGorder & Canfield.
It may be of interest to the readers to know what price was paid for furniture in the late '40s by people who were going to housekeeping. The author has seen a memorandum containing some of the things which Minerva Maekett brought into the home of Harmon Austin, her husband, when she was married.
New beds and bedding $27.50
Two bedsteads 10.00
Beauroe
25.00
3 stands 10.00
Brass kettle
10.00
Brass kettle
3.00
5 feather beds, 25 lbs. each
31.25
Bedding, sheets, blankets,
and rugs. 42.25
1 poor bed and bedding
6.00
3 bedsteads
19.00
2 bedsteads
2.00
1 desk
14.00
"The first regular celebration of the Fourth of July was in Warren, in 1800." *
* It "was participated in by citi- zens of Youngstown, Painesville, and other points. A section of a hollow pepperidge was extemporized for a drum barrel, and a faun skin furnished the heads. A fife was manufactured from an elder. Music, firing, fun, whiskey and speeches were abun- dant, and it is questionable whether Warren ever had a more patriotic celebration."
In searching among the early records, the author has found the dates of the marriages of many people who were later concerned in the social life of Warren. They are as follows:
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Angust 17, 1821, George Swift and Olive Kinsman.
March 24, 1840, R. W. Taylor and Louise Woodbridge.
March 26, 1840, James Hoyt to Elizabeth Brown.
March 25, 1840, Frederick Kinsman and Cornelia Pease, Rev. Purinton officiating.
April 16, 1840, Louis Iddings and Jane Chesney.
1840, Urial Hutchins and Emily Bennett.
September 23, 1840, Cyrus VanGorder and Jane W. Seeley.
March 17, 1841, Mathew Tayler and Adeline Hapgood. October 25, 1841, Joseph Perkins and Martha Ellen Steele.
February 14, 1842, Charles Brown and Julia King.
July 7, 1842, David Gilmore and Charlotte Jamison.
July 6, 1843, Charles Hickox and Lanra Freeman.
December 14, 1843, Josiah Nelson and Eleanor Byers. October 13, 1844, Dr. Corydon Palmer and Mary Craig. December 8. 1846, William Leffingwell and Lncy Adams.
November 23, 1846, Oliver H. Patch and Elizabeth Opyedyke.
June 15, 1853, William Stiles and Elizabeth Quinby.
February 4, 1853, Dr. John R. Woods and Julia Heaton.
John M. Edwards married Phoebe Mary Crail on July 14, 1842. The above notice was accompanied by a "bountiful supply of ' fixins' and most delicious they were, too. May the happy pair enjoy a long life of malloved happiness."
Harriet Taylor Upton
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Twenty years from now, when the writer of this history is an old woman. possibly sitting on her porch under the green maple trees, a man, writing a History of Trumbull County, will present himself. "I understand you came to Warren in the '60s. Will you tell me some of the things you remember of that time?" The writer will reply "Certainly." For she will not have forgotten how gracious and kind the old people of 1909 were to her when she attempted her narrative of Trumbull county. She therefore will tell the young anthor that the first thing she remembers was waking up in the night thinking the building in which she was sleeping was falling down. This must have been her first night in Warren, and she was six years old, for she lived at the Gaskill House, kept by Mrs. Schoenberger, which later became the Austin House. This was supposed to be the best hotel in the city, but then, as now, it was so near the railroad track that the passing engines seemed to be directly next to the window. The inside of that house is a perfect blank to her, with one exception. There was a long flight of stairs leading from the upper hall to the dining room. This was sup- posed to be the stairs which ladies would take into the dining room, so as not to have to go through the public hallway. They were steep and long and not at all like the comfortable stairs over which the men were supposed to travel. The writer's mother forbade her going down these stairs because she was such a little thing. The writer obeyed. She did not go down the stairs, she slid the banister the whole way. Several times she lost her balance, or partially so, by catching her feet in some green cloth which was outside of the banister, probably placed there to prevent the people at their meals seeing the skirts and the ankles of the women as they came down stairs.
The writer remembers several things distinctly which hap- pened when she lived at this hotel. Young men who used to frequent the barroom would tell her to go across the street and dig in a sand pile and maybe she would find pennies. She always did. Eagerly she grabbed these and ran across the street to a little grocery which had a funny door with a bell
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attached at the top. After this bell rang it seemed a half a day to her before Mr. Bishop came out of the rear room to give her her "Juge Paste." Mr. Bishop was very fond of children and all who lived in this neighborhood loved him. Many years after, he became blind and the writer used to wish that she could do something for him to repay him for the pleasure he gave hier when she was a little ehild.
A drayman named Mix is also remembered. He drove a white horse, and came to the Erie station for freight. He nsed to allow her to ride on the end of his dray, and with her legs swinging off of that dray she had ridden miles in the town. Once she cried herself to sleep because her father was a lawyer instead of a drayman.
There was a little store on the east side of Main street, either just on or just below the B. & O. traeks. This was a millinery establishment kept by Rothchild. He had several children, one, Rosa, was just her age. She liked this store be- eanse she eonld bny bits of yarn and ribbons on Sunday, but she could not buy them on Saturday. Long after this, the Roth- childs moved up town, occupied a store between the Hapgood drug store and the original McConnell restaurant, and George and Nathan Gunlefinger became associated with them in business.
She remembers when the ice went out of the river, or a flood eame down, or something unusual happened in the river, that the body of a man was fished ont and lay on the platform of the Mahoning station. All that she saw was his water-soaked boots but even that sight made her afraid to go into her room in the dark, for long after.
Because she was lonesome. she was allowed to go to the one-story, wooden schoolhonse which stood on Park avenue, second lot below the corner of Franklin, on the west side of the street. This school was heated by big stoves which were red hot. She thinks the room might have been comfortable, but great areas of plaster were off the sides and the wind used to whistle so that she got the earache on the wind-side. None of the teachers nor the scholars are remembered in that sehool. Aside from the holey wall, two things remain in memory. One was, one day when she was to "speak a piece," and had reached the second verse, the whole room grew black, and she ran home. She remembers the teachers used to punish the girls by making them lie on the floor and put their feet on the seat. "Impossi- ble," ejaeulated the young historian. The writer admits she
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may be mistaken, but suggests that the young historian call on Mrs. Albert Jameson, who was a little older than she, and who went to this school.
This suggestion recalls to the writer's mind that one of the first houses in Warren that she was ever in was that of Mr. E. E. Hoyt, which stood on the southwest corner of Franklin and Main streets. She went with her mother to return Mrs. Hoyt's call, and the two daughters of Mrs. Hoyt, Abbie (Mrs. Briscoe) and Fannie (Mrs. Jameson), had the lower part of a book-case fitted up as a doll house, and in this were dolls, and dolls' furniture, little beds made up, and a most attractive place it was for a child of that day. There were then few toys. These two girls were playing with these dolls in this very doll house when the alarm for a fire of 1860 was given. Their house was not burned, although at different times fire had been around them.
The next bit of Warren history the writer remembers was seeing houses on runners coming down Park avenue. She did not understand then, but she now knows that these were some of the houses that were built at Mecca during the oil excitement and after being abandoned were brought here.
At this time she lived at the American House, which was kept by Mr. Ed. Reeves. Here the engineers who planned the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad had an office. They used to make her paper dolls on Sunday, and buy toy balloons for her. Here she and H. L. Williams, a colored boy, used to harness themselves as horses and get a younger child for a driver while they pranced up and down the streets and through the park, while the mother urged her to be the driver and let some white boy be the horse. The writer remembers that she rebelled at the thought of being a driver. To be a prancing, dancing run- away horse was much more to her liking. She finally gained the point by saying, "But, mother, didn't grandfather keep darkies in the woodshed and don't you always tell me that colored people are just as good as white?" The writer has in her possession the drawing table upon which the drawing of the Atlantic & Great Western Road for this section of the country was done.
The next she remembers was the old north school standing on the corner of Prospect and School streets. This was the most dismal, coldest, "awfulest" schoolhouse that was ever in her town. Although the writer never excelled in scholarship in
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any school, anywhere, except as she occasionally later took good grades in Latin, in this old north school she used to stand at the head of her class in spelling very often. Kenyon Cox, who was her age, went to this school. He was not a very good student either, in those days, although he had such a brilliant mother and father. The teacher used to punish him by making him sit with the girls.
The writer remembers distinctly the Sunday that word came that Jolm Morgan was coming. She remembers how most of the men, women, and children in town collected in the park. She herself sat on the steps of the present Institute. She thinks, but she is not sure, that a little old cannon which belonged to the town was taken down to the South Street bridge as John Morgan was expected to come up the Canfield road. He was apprehended at New Lisbon before he got this far, although he was reported several times to be in Canfield.
She remembers living in the house now occupied by J. P. Gilbert, then owned by Rev. Joseph Marvin. Two things dis- tinetly impressed upon her memory were the terrible mud on the present Mahoning avenne, and the day that Joseph Marvin had a sale of his goods. He had them packed in one of the upper rooms, and when they were brought down on the front porch, among them was a stuffed loon. She wanted that bird so badly and hinted at the same to Mr. Marvin, which, of course, was very wrong. However, early in the afternoon, the auc- tioneer lifted this big bird onto the railing of the porch, and called for bids. Nobody seemed to care for it, to the delight of the writer. Several times during the afternoon was this orna- ment offered for sale, with no results. Finally, when the sun was going down, and neighbors and buyers were departing, with crocks, and pictures, and books, and so on, Mr. Marvin said. "Little girl, do you want this loon?" and so great was the writ- er's joy that she could not trust herself to speak alond, but nodded her head quickly, grabbed the precious bird and dis- appeared with it. This she prized for eleven years, when some- one stole it from her. She thinks that this loon was gotten by Mr. Dana Marvin, an officer in the navy, who presented it to the father.
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