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later owned by Jacob Steinman; Samuel Van- Horn settled the farm later owned by William Donnel. Bortel and Oberdorf settled a little south and west of the Floyd McKee house; Jacob Dull located the farm later owned by Jacob Bamer, Sr .; Janies Donaldson moved ap the river and bought the farm just west of Beaver Creek cemetery; then shortly afteward he bought Emanuel Arnold's farm, later owned by A. C. Judson. This process of extending settlements continued until the original township of Weston was converted into rich, productive farms.
The Huckleberry War was an echo of the desire of the Sacs and the Foxes to push back the whites. In the Mississippi Valley it was more serious than an echo. A council was held at the Rapids, where were present Peter Minard, John E. Hunt, George Knaggs, Indian Agent Jackson, Edward Howard, R. A. Forsythe, Petonquet, Kinjoino, and Nackichewa, to learn the cause of the Indian discontent. The chiefs told the whites what they knew. and so terror-stricken were the settlers that they re- paired to the Edward Howard Stone House at the Rapids, to the log house of Henry Kimber- lin, or to the log house of Joseph Keith, whose brother had killed an Indian and fled -- the leaders of the people requiring the Indians to send to the Stone House the wives and children of the chiefs, who were held as hostages for the good behavior of their warriors. White women, such as the late Mrs. Charlotte Pratt, the Lahartz girl and Lucy Keith guarded the Indian women. The alarm was caused by two foreign Indians appear- ing to a few Ottawa girls, who were picking huckleberries near the Rapids, and the report that they were emissaries of the Sacs sent hither to enlist the Ottawas in a war against the settlers. The Ottawas were, however, more alarmed than the whites, and kept great fires burning every night, to prove to their white neighbors that they were not on the war path.
The War of 1835, or the Toledo war, was another alarm. All the able-bodied men of the settlement were called to arms, and, as told in the general history, went to the front. The desertion of Dan Sickman with a musket and blanket, belonging to Ohio, and the sale of 100 head of cattle to the Michigan troops by Ralph O. Keeler, appear to have been the only wise deeds credited to the Grand Rapids, or other volunteers in that war.
The Cholera .- The death of Alonzo Bower- mian and wife, of Providence, on July 5. 1854. was followed by fourteen others. Dr. Bletter. who attended them, was infected, but recovered:
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hewas stricken later, and died immediately. R. A. Snively's daughter, and Squire Davis, who died at Toledo while fleeing from New York, were among its first victims. Only three died in the village of Grand Rapids, while Cornell and his son and others died in the adjacent territory. Of 22 cases treated by Dr. Gardner, thirteen were cured, the other nine having collapsed before the Doctor's aid was called. Not more than five families remained in the village, namely those of Emanuel Arnold, Dr. A. J. Gardner, Seth McDonald, Alva Gillett, and Wm. Gruber. Of eighteen men employed in Seth McDonald's saw- mill, only one-John Long-remained. The disease is said to have set in after a ball, held at Fancher's, July 4, just as it did at Perrysburg, after the celebration of that day.
Holiday Accident. - In July, 1856, the people of Grand Rapids imported the old Croghan cannon from Perrysburg. Placing it in position, the gunners found it spiked with an old rat-tail file. That was removed by T. J. Sterling, and the cannon loaded. When firing, it exploded, sent the ramrod across the river, and crippled Joseph Shannon.
Common Schools .-- The first school was simply a gathering of eight or ten tow-headed pioneers in home-spun clothes, by Charlotte Howard. This was in 1831. The school was held in the log house of Richard Howard. At the spring election of 1832 the voters discussed the ques- tion of schools and school districts, and the re- sult was a division of the township into five school districts, by the trustees for 1832. The districts were as follows: No. I began at the Henry county line on the river, extended two miles down the river and one mile back, making two square miles, and taking in the village of Gilead. This was the district in which Miss Howard had already taught two seasons. No. 2 was two miles square, just east of No. I. No. 3 inclosed all that portion of Weston township that has since been set off into Washington town- ship, embracing the village of Otsego. No. 4 started one mile back from the river, and took a strip two miles wide on the west side of the town- ship, from that point south to the county line. No. 5 was the "boss" school district, including all the remainder of the township, being fifteen miles long and four miles wide. The first school building in the township was in No. I, on land owned by the Howards. It was a low log hut, with shake roof and puncheon floor, desks and seats, and was located about eighty rods south of the present brick school building. The first large school building of the township, erected in the 1
"forties," is now the "Commercial Hotel, " of the village. An early school was held in 1834 or 1835 at Alexander Peugh's house, near where Albert Heyman lives, and there Thomas Junkins and one or more of his brothers and sisters at- tended as pupils.
CHURCHES.
The United Brethren Society, the first Church body in Weston or Grand Rapids township, was organized at Henry Kimberlin's house in 1832, by Henry Kimberlin, John Crom, Sr., and Jacob Crom, who were local preachers Messrs, Strong. Moore, Michael Long and John Long preached at Beaver Creek at intervals until 1833, when Stephen Lillibridge came as preacher-in-charge.
In 1843, the Conference was held at Beaver Creek. In IS48 George Gilmore was steward and D. Glancy, preacher. At that time a sub- scription was collected for Church purposes, and in 1850 the building on the Westen and Grand Rapids road, west of Beaver Creek, was erected. The names of the members, in 1856, were Sarah Henry, John, Jacob, Sally and Mary Kimberlin. Elizabeth Guyer, Matthias, Noah and Sarah Reames, Eva Oberdorf, Sabina Kimberlin, Susan Bowser, John and Mary Walters, James, Char- lotte, Henry and Mary-Jane Barton, John and Delilah Dull, Eli and Andrew Van Horn, Emily and Hannah Older, Catherine and Eliza Long. James and Sarah Brown, Philip and Mary Hine- man, Martha McLain and Barbara Swarm. Rev. John Davis, "The Hatter," and John Bell were the preachers in 1856; Silas Foster in 18;7: and J. Fink in 1859. Following Mr. Lillibridge was Jonathan Thomas, who preached here several years. Daniel Glancy was here again in 1860: Samuel Essex in 1862; and S. Jacoby in 1864. The Liberal U. B. Society, of which Messrs. Heyman, Thorley, Harris, Russell and Gundy are trustees, own the old building since iss9. when the division took place. Of the eighty members who once formed the society, only ten are left. The East Beaver Creek U. B. Society erected a house of worship near the line of Plain township, just before the war, which, when the Church disbanded, was sold to Mr. Gill, who leased it to the Christian Union.
The Radical United Brethren Society was organized, in I889, out of the old U. B. Church. of Beaver Creek, and its neighbor of East Beaver Creek, or . The Gingery Church." The orig- inal members were D. L. and Alice L. Dull. Lester A. and Sarah E. Pettis, Rev. John and Elizabeth French, William C. and Clara French. John Gingery, Dorothy Wade, Rev. Joseph and
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Sarah Burkett, John Bortel, Jacob and Sabina Kimberlin, John and Mary Conrad, Albert Long and wife, and A. P. Schlappi. The trustees are L. A. Pettis, Jacob Kimberlin, D. L. Dull, John Conrad and G. C. Lashley. They were the builders of the church on the Dull farm, and now represent the forty-five members who wor- ship there.
The United Presbyterian Church, on the southeast corner of Sec. 19, was organized early in the "fifties," by Rev. James Miller, a Scotch- man, who preached at Scotch Ridge as early as I845. Among the members were Jesse and Jane Kerr, James P. Katon and wife, Hugh and Sarah Barton, Samuel and Fanny Barton, McCabe and wife, Samuel Barton, Sr., and wife, James, Will- iam, Joseph and Mrs. Mary Ross, William B. Kerr, and Mrs. Eliza Van Horn. Of all namned, William B. Kerr is the only resident of this county. Rev. Jackson Duff, of the Webster Church, preached here from 1852 to 1868, fol- lowed by others named in Webster (tp.) history. J. C. Bigham was here in 1875; Rev. William Wright and Rev. Wainwright (the last named a teacher in the Grand Rapids school) have been pastors since Centennial year. Jesse Kerr, J. P. Katon and Mr. McCabe were elders for many years. Death created vacancies, and W. B. Kerr, now the senior elder, was elected to fill the first; R. R. McKnight and William Donnell were elders as early as 1869; J. E. Kerr was chosen in the "seventies," and W. L. Ross in 1878. The meeting house was erected in 1859, and is now owned by the forty-two members of the society.
GRAND RAPIDS VILLAGE.
It is said that John A. Graham established the village of Gilead in 1831, and that early in 1832 he employed Lewis Bortle and Gabriel Guyer to clear that portion where the depot building and B. F. Kerr's new residence now stand, for a wheat and potato field. The plat in the recorder's office shows that the town was surveyed in June, 1833. by Ambrose Rice for John N. Graham, on the N. E. } of Sec. 7, T. 5, R. 9. Graham was the owner of the quarter section, and also of Island No. 2. In April, 1836, John C. Spink's addition was surveyed by Hiram Davis. In 1835 J. C. Spink bought the Ed. Howard farm and the "Stone Tavern," as thie . Howard House" was called, because a portion of it was built of stone. In 1837, Spink rented the hotel to Hiram Scovill, who moved in and took possession August 31. Scovill was married to a sister of George Laskey, and Laskey, who was then a little
boy, came along with them to the hotel as general utility boy. Scovill started a ferry from the "Howard House" to the opposite side of the river. for public convenience, and it was in constant use for more than twenty years. Young Laskey attended to the ferry and the hotel barn as long as Scovill kept the hotel, or until 1840, when he moved to the village of Florida, Laskey going with his brother-in-law. In the "fifties," C. W. McDonald rented the house, and made hotel- keeping a department of his extensive business.
Early Traders .- Dr. A. J. Gardner, in his reminiscences of early merchants and druggists, states that " the first merchant to open a store was Nicholas Gee, who came here in 1833 and opened his goods in a log building owned by Tomer Davis, on the corner of First and West streets. A Mr. Culbertson, brother of the late James G. Culbertson, came shortly afterward, and went into partnership with Mr. Gee for a short time, but. sold out to Gee in 1835. Frank Hinsdale, who had been a clerk for John Hollister, at. Perrys- burg, for some time, bought the remnant of Hol- lister's store, and formed a partnership with Gee, and they built the store room now occupied by Dr. A. J. Gardner & Co. In 1840 Gee sold out to Hinsdale, who continued in business until he died in 1851. George Laskey came here, as be- fore stated, in 1836, and afterward was chief clerk to Mr. Hinsdale at the princely salary of $S per month and board. He saved at the end of each of the three first years $50, and bought three forty-acre pieces of land; which he sold a few years ago for $50 an acre. After Hinsdale's death Mrs. Hinsdale and Mr. Laskey formed a partnership, built a store room, and continued in business together until 1857, when Mrs. Hinsdale retired and Delos Pratt and Stephen Laskey be- came members of the firm, under the firm namie of Laskeys, Pratt & Co. George P. Hinsdale took an interest in the business a year or two afterward. In 1861 Pratt and Hinsdale with- drew from the firm, and built the first story of the building now occupied by B. F. Kerr, who has since added a second story.
"In 1835 Philander P. Brown and Enoch Gru- ber, built a small store room on the bank of the river. They were succeeded by Tobias Rudsell. In 1834 Mr. Culbertson built a store room. since burned, west of the Laskey building, into which he moved from Otsego. He was succeeded by Samuel Clymer, who afterward moved the stock to Otsego. Seth C. McDonald, in 1857, bought a bankrupt stock of goods in Toledo, and occupied the building. At the end of a year or two the stock and building were destroyed by fire. In
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1850, Galen B. Able occupied the above mentioned store room. About this time Hughes & Camp built a one-story room and opened a small store. In 1854 they sold to Charles Bucklin and Mr. Gunn. Bucklin soon bought out Gunn's interest, and in turn sold to Atkinson & Ashley. In 1853 Robert Mead built a one-story building, and opened the first grocery. He afterward took in Foster Pratt, and they carried on a livery stable in connection with their other business. In 1860 George P. Crosby built the store room occupied by Evans, and did business with George Hospel- horn; afterward sold to Delos Pratt and Stephen Laskey, who, in turn, sold to John H. Fisher. In 1856 C. W. McDonald opened a drug store in the room now occupied by John Roberts. The next year he built the building now occupied by Richardson's grocery, and added a small stock of books and groceries. Dr. J. H. Watson and C. E. Beardsley succeeded him in the drug business for a short time, and then sold out to J. H. Camp- bell and Robert Pratt, who were followed by A. Sterling, who moved the stock into the building now occupied by Anton Schuster. In the fall of 1860, Dr. Gardner came back from Cleveland, and, in company with Laskey, Pratt & Co., bought out Sterling and opened the first regular drug store. He has conducted the business since '62 with Laskey brothers as the .Co.,' they having bought Pratt and Hinsdale's interests."
Prior to Gee's time two peddlers from Mans- field, named Bartlett and Cooper, came on the suggestion of James Purdy, and opened a stock of goods in a hut which stood near the south end of Main street. If we except the Indian traders, they were the first to engage in mercantile bus- iness here. Francis Hinsdale, who was a clerk in Hollister's store at Perrysburg, came a year or two after, with a small stock of dry goods, notions, groceries and hardware, so that the commercial beginnings were made before Gee established his store at this point.
his influence that Bartlett & Cooper came from Mansfield with the first stock of merchandise. The keen eye of Purdy saw that a proprietorship at the head of such power would be a good in- vestment, but it was just at this time that the Miami and Erie canal was being established from Cincinnati to Toledo, and it is probable that Purdy saw that the slack water at the head of the rapids must furnish the water for the canal from that point to Toledo, and if he became proprietor of the water privilege he could dictate terms to the great corporation, which he did do in after years, to the lasting benefit of Grand Rapids. Great excitement was created through the Bea- ver Creek settlements in 1845 by the action of the board of public works, in attempting to de- stroy Purdy's rights as owner of the dam and water power at Gilead, by building a dam just above Purdy's and deflecting the current to the north of Island No. 2 and through the canal. The citizens of Gilead turned out one night and cut the canal dam, and, so restored the water power to Gilead mills. A compromise was finally effected, by the State constructing what is called the "Gilead canal" from the State dam to Purdy's inill race. The whole works costing the State over $20,000, and by this means making Gilead a canal port. Purdy built a gristmill and in 1848, water was let into the Gilead canal, and business again picked up for there were good gristmills and sawmills, and the merchants could pay high prices for all kinds of produce, for the canal gave them means of putting the produce of the country into market.
Traders of the " Fifties."-Among other res- idents of the " fifties" may be named Cloud Bro's. hardware and tin shop, about 1855. George Gries, an old German who started the first tin shop in the town; Fancher & Abbott, blacksmiths, 1855; Bucklin & Gunn, dry-goods store and ashery, 1854; Fisher & Gruber, grist- mill, 1856: David Failor, blacksmith. 1854; Mc- Donald & Beales, sawmill, and Pratt & Mead, grocery. 1855. Dr. Harvey Burritt, referred to in the chapter on the Medical profession, re- moved to Manmee in 1852; a lawyer referred to in the chapter on the Bench and Bar was also here. Old citizens yet tell of Dr. Burritt's long and dis- mal rides through the swamps and forests from Gilead to the Hutchinson settlement, now Groff's Corners, or to the Collister Haskins settlement on the Portage river.
Water-power and Mills .- John A. Graham, built a mill-race and dam; a sawmill was built. and a set of buhrs for grinding corn added to it. Emanuel Arnold built and operated the only tan- nery ever in the village, or township. Hutchin- son opened a hotel, at which the young people of the settlement were wont to meet in social dances, much to the elation of the boozy descend- ants of the Ottawas, who yet hung about the white settlements. In 1836, James Purdy, then a lawyer in active practice in Mansfield, bought McDonald's Enterprises .- Seth McDonald came to Gilead in 1850, and rented the water- power sawmill referred to. The old mill stood the water privilege at the head of the rapids from John Graham. Purdy had traveled through the Maumee region as early as 1822. It was through | very nearly where the pulp-mill now stands, and
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when at its best, with its two old upright saws at work, it could cut 3,000 feet of hardwood luni- ber in a day. McDonald was a public-spirited man, who built more houses, and did as much to advance the' material interests of the village as any man who ever lived there. After Seth had run the old water-mill about two years, his brother, Clark W. McDonald, who lived at Weston, moved to Gilead and went into partnership with him in the sawmill. In 1854, Seth McDonald built a steam sawmill, very nearly on the ground once occupied by Sturgis' livery barn, across from the "Patterson House," and also bought Samuel Clymer's stock of goods and storeroom. His store burned down in 1856. and Seth Mc- Donald moved. to Toledo. C. W. McDonald rented the mill at the mouth of Beaver creek, and another at Providence; established a line of canal boats; operated a lime kiln; conducted the "Howard House," from 1854 to 1856; hired a little English tailor, and established the first tailor- ing shop in the village; hired a journeyman harness-maker, and established a harness shop; bought John Morrison's interest in a blacksmith shop, hired blacksmiths, and went into the horse- shoeing and repair business; hired Dr. Philo in 1854 for six months, and established a medical department; shipped a lot of drugs from Cincin- nati in 1855, and, with Dr. Philo as partner. established a drug store, which he sold in 1858 to Beardsley & Watson. The harness shop was sold the same year to H. J. Pike, and, by degrees, he ridded himself of his manifold busi- ness, and moved to Weston in 1863, where he died in 1895. The Purdy sawmill was leased by the Wabash Railroad Co. in 1855, and there all the timber used in bridge building along its east- ern line was sawed.
Sundry Items. -- The hotel building, known now as the "Commercial House," was erected in the " forties," for school purposes. The con- tract was awarded to Williamn Flynn, who erected it on the plateau, near the Methodist church. When the present brick school house was com- pleted, in 1878, the old building was used for town meetings, and as a Grand Army hall; but R. Patterson purchased it, mnoved it to the site of Arnold's tannery and refitted it for hotel purposes. The hotel, known in the "eighties" as the "Yost House," was established by Robert Mead, in 1860.
The ferry, referred to above, the owners of which are named in the general history, gave place to a bridge, which may be said to have been in use until February, 1879, when three spans of it were carried away. In July, of that
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year, the present county bridge was construc- ted.
The contracts for building the Toledo & Grand Rapids narrow guage railroad were awarded in April, 1877, by D. W. H. Howard, Thomas Pray, H. B. Shanks and B. F. Kerr, the direct- ors. On June 28, 1877, the road was com- pleted southwest to Waterville, and soon after to the Rapids, where a bridge was constructed, as related in the sketch of the Clover Leaf railroad.
The first shipment of grain from the settle- ments on the Rapids was in 1825, when Ed. How- ard, also Peter Manor, who settled on the opposite side of the river, took a flatboat load of corn, which they sold to the garrison of Fort Wayne. at Detroit, returning with a cargo of goods and groceries purchased at Detroit and Malden, and being over two weeks in making the trip. Peter Manor and Ed. Howard were both traders with the Indians. `There was quite a trade established up the river from the east; goods from Buffalo came to Fort Meigs, thence by land transportation or light boat, to Gilead, where they were loaded into larger boats, and so carried up the river to Forts Defiance and Wayne; and in return brought down vast quantities of peltries and valuable furs. William Pratt, the husband of Charlotte How- ard, had a large warehouse above town, from which had been transmitted vast stores of goods going up and down the river. In 1836, a small steamboat was launched in the deep water above the Rapids, and made regular trips to the mouth of the Auglaize, and in high-water times to Fort Wayne. To-day a small steamer runs up to Napoleon, but the upper river marine of to-day is dedicated to pleasure rather than to trade.
Incorporation, and Official Lists. - The peti- tion from residents of the town of Gilead was presented to the commissioners by Dr. A. J. Gardner and G. E. Guyer, December 5. 1855. asking that it be organized into an incorporated village to be called Grand Rapids. In March, 1856, the petition was amended so as to read "Gilead" vice "Grand Rapids." and the follow- ing described territory, "so much of the N. E. { of Sec. 7, T. 5. R. 9, as was included in the original plat of Gilead, and the several subsequent additions thereto," was recognized as a village. In June, 1858, some contiguous territory was an- nexed. On September 5, 1856, Emanuel Arnold was elected mayor; A. C. Davis, recorder: Thomas J. Sterling, R. B. Mead. William Gruber, and George Hospelhorn, councilmen, were elected to serve until April. 1857. At that time A. J. Gardner, E. Arnold and A. Alcorn were elected councilmen, Sterling and Gnyer
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being re-elected. They were re-elected in 1858, but in April, 1859, new officers were chosen. The following lists show the names of all who have filled the offices of mayor, clerk and coun- cilmen:
The mayors of the town were Emanuel Arnold, 1856; George Laskey, 1857; A. Sterling, 1859; Jeremiah Atkinson, 1860 to 1869; James J. Vorhes, 1869; G. P. Hinsdale, 1870; Dr. A. J. Gardner, 1872; Levi Sterling, 1873, 1875 and 1890; J. H. Metkeff, 1874; B. L. Ashley, 1878 to 1884; S. G. Robinson, 1884; Henry S. Laskey, 1886; John C. Bucklin, 1892; John E. Stevens, appointed in August, 1893; and F. M. Arnold, elected 1894. J. E. Stevens, the present mayor, was elected in 1895 and 1896. The office of clerk has been filled by the following named cit- izens: A. C. Davis, 1856, and 1859 to 1863; George Hospelhorn, 1857; B. L. Ashley, 1864; John Campbell, 1868; James Kerr, 1872; Robert A. Snively, 1874, vice Pike who did not qualify; George A. Bell, 1878; Geo. Hospelhorn, 1879; Alex. Williamson, 1884 to IS88; A. J. Friese, 1888; J. K. Henderson, 1888; E. H. Eckert, 1890; S. T. Laskey, 1892; Roswell R. Sherer, who qualified August 7, 1893; and Chas. O. Brewster, elected in 1896.
The councilmen, other than those named, who have been elected since April, 1859, were as follows:
1859-John Fisher, R. B. Mead, O. C. Carr, J. B. Snively, T. J. Sterling. 1860-61-R. B. Mead, Geo. Hospelhorn. Milo Caton, J. E. McGowan, O. C. Carr. 1862-J. R. Huff, Geo. Hospelhorn, J. B. Snively, T. J. Sterling, O. C. Carr. 1863-J. R. Huff, D. A. Avery, J. J. Vorhes. T. J. Sterling, O. B. Carr.
1864 -- J. R. Huff, D. A. Avery, J. J. Vorhes, T. J. Sterling, R. C. O'Donnell. 1865 -- George Hinsdale, W. A. Pryor, Geo. Hospelhorn, J. J. Vorhes, R. C. O'Donnell. 1866-W. A. Pryor, Delos Pratt, Jacob Heeter, Samuel Vorhes, A. J. Gardner.
1867-George Laskey, Samuel Bossard, Jacob Heeter, T. J. Sterling, J. J. Vorhes.
1868-Win. Gruber, Lewis Bortel, Jacob Heeter, T. J. Ster- ling, J. J. Vorhes.
1869 -- Win. Gruber, Jeremiah Atkinson, D. W. Peugh, T. J. Sterling, S. C. Pike.
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