Fifty years and over of Akron and Summit County : embellished by nearly six hundred engravings--portraits of pioneer settlers, prominent citizens, business, official and professional--ancient and modern views, etc.; nine-tenth's of a century of solid local history--pioneer incidents, interesting events--industrial, commercial, financial and educational progress, biographies, etc., Part 27

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228

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First Congregational Church, South High Street.

REV. THOMAS E. MONROE.

ized in 1888. June 3, 1859, Mr. Monroe was married to Miss Hannah Mary Bernard, of Philadelphia, who has borne him one child-Pauline, now a teacher in the city of Philadelphia.

The church has now nearly 1,000 sittings, a roll of 903 mem- bers, 746 of whom are residing here at this time, besides having recently transferred 65 members, and a corresponding number from the Sunday School, to the West Congregational Church, spoken of elsewhere. Members of Sun- day School, officers, teachers and scholars in 1887, before division, 600; after division, 510; now, 1891, 572.

FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Perhaps as early as 1830, a small M. E. class was organized in South Akron, and meetings held with such occasional mini- strations as could be secured, Rev. John Janes, of the North

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Ohio Conference, among the number. Just when a church organ- ization was effected is not now ascertainable, though it was some- time previous to the arrival of the writer in the village, in the Summer of 1835, its meetings being then held in the school house, corner of South Broadway and Middlebury streets.

In 1836 the erection of a house of worship, 40x50 feet in size, was commenced immediately east of the present brick structure, corner of Church street and Broadway, which was completed and occupied the latter part of the following year. In the latter part of the Winter of 1840-41 a protracted meeting of several weeks' duration, was held, during which, on the morning of March 17, 1841, the house was destroyed by fire, presumably from a defective flue, or from ignition of some portion of the woodwork, from the superheated stoves, the weather of the night before, while the ser- vices were in progress, having been intensely cold, though it was uncharitably and unchristianly insinuated by each of the two factions who were at loggerheads on questions connected with the building of the church, that the house had been purposely fired by the other faction.

EV. WILLIAM FARNHAM DAY,

D. D.,-son of Rev. David Day, was born in West Springfield, Mass., November 11, 1821, when a boy re- moving with parents to Franklin Mills (now Kent), Ohio; educated ill part at home, in part independently and in part under a tutor, but never attended college though later in life honored by Allegheny College in 1865 with the degree of Master of Arts, and by Baldwin University in 1869, with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was a man of deep learning, a thorough master of Greek, a devoted student of history and a great lover of scientific research, his large library embracing the whole range of literature, with every department of which he was thoroughly familiar. He was licensed to exhort in 1843, and to preach in 1845, receiving elders' orders in 1849. Among the nearly two score appointments filled during a min- istry of nearly forty years, he was twice stationed in Akron as pastor of the First M. E. Church,- 1855, '56 and 1868-'70, in all, five years, his last charge being Titusville, Pa., where he died October 23, 1882, his remains being interred in Akron Rural Cemetery. Dr. Day was for 27 years Secretary of the Erie Con- ference, and was twice honored witli

REV. WILLIAM FARNHAM DAY, D. D.

an election to the General Confer- ence-1863 and 1872, his fidelity to his own Conference, however, leading him to decline many tempting calls to prominent localities in other Con- ferences. Dr. Day was married in 1847 to Miss Ani Delia Grover, of Poland, O .; of their four children two only survive-Wilson M, now Presi- dent of Cleveland Printing and Pnb- lishing Co., and Harriet, now Mrs .. Jolın H. Auble, of Akron.

The house was soon afterwards rebuilt, upon the same founda- tion, facing west, as before, but in 1861, under the pastorate of Rev. J. D. Norton, the house was enlarged and remodeled, and made to front on Broadway, at a cost of $3,500. During the Cen- tennial year of Methodism in America, 1866, the sum of $30,000 was contributed towards the erection of a new house of worship that.

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should be commensurate with the rapidly increasing needs of the society, and a fitting memorial to the beneficent aims and objects of the denomination and a credit to the city.

The new structure was commenced in the Spring of 1867, immediately west of the old, the Sunday School room, lecture room, etc., being dedicated on the 15th day of April, 1875, the old building being at this time sold to Mr. Ferd. Schumacher, who, moving it to the corner of Mill and Summit streets, fitted it up into a hotel called the "Cascade House, " subsequently removing it to the corner of Mill and Broadway, where it is still doing duty as a part of the " Windsor Hotel," though so disguised. by its brick veneering as to be altogether unrecognizable by the former wor- shippers therein.

The auditorium of the new structure was completed in the Autumn of 1871, and dedicated in January, 1872, at which time over $32,000 was subscribed to clear the church from debt, the total cost of the new structure, fur- nishing, etc., being about $128,- 000. It is a fine building, both externally and internally, and its Sunday School rooms, planned by Messrs. Lewis Miller and Jacob Snyder, pronounced at the time to be the best in the world, though many others have since been modeled therefrom, both in the cities of the United States and Europe.

Successive ministers to the church have been as follows: 1836, Thomas Carr and John F. Holmes; 1837, Daniel M. Stearns. First Methodist Episcopal Church, cor- ner South Broadway and Church Streets. and Thomas Graham; 1838, Hor- atio N. Stearns; 1839, John Rob- inson and Caleb Brown; 1840, John Robinson and Benjamin K. Maltby; 1841, Ira Eddy and James O. Wood; 1842, Dr. Timothy Goodwin; 1843, William H. Hunter; 1844-45, Edwin J. Kinney; 1846, Samuel Gregg; 1847, James R. Locke; 1848, Martin C. Briggs: 1849, Reuben J. Edwards; 1850-51, Ezra Jones; 1852-53, John Tribby; 1854, Gaylord B. Hawkins; 1855-56, William F. Day; 1857-58, George W. Clarke; 1859, Thomas Stubbs; 1860-61, John D. Norton; 1862-63, John Peate; 1864, E. A. Johnson; 1865, '66, '67, D. C. Osborne; 1868, '69, '70, and till August, 1871, Dr. William F. Day; 1871 to 1874, W. W. Ramsay; 1874 to 1877, Henry Baker; 1877, I. A. Pierce; 1878 to 1881, W. W. Case; 1881 to 1884, W. H. Pearce; 1884 to 1887, E. K. Young; 1887 to 1889, B. T. Vincent; 1889 to present time, Dr. Gilbert De La Matyr.

Present membership, 1149; scholars in Sunday School, 1069; Lewis Miller, Superintendent. Without disparagement to other faithful workers and liberal givers in this church, it may justly be said, that to the munificence of Mr. Miller is the society very largely indebted for its present handsome church edifice, and, to.

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his wise management, for the unprecedented success and pros- perity of its model Sunday School.

THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF AKRON.

April 19, 1834, at the school house, corner of South Broadway and Middlebury streets, was organized the " Akron and Middlebury Baptist Church," Elder Caleb Green officiating as Moderator and Elder Amasa Clark as Scribe, the members of the new organiza- tion being: Horace Barton, Daniel B. Stewart, Henry H. Smoke, Mrs. Thirza J. Smoke, Miss C. Barton, Mrs. Elizabeth Burton, Mrs. Sally Smith, Miss Amanda Smith, Miss Elizabeth Stewart. March 5, 1836, an act was passed by the Legislature, authorizing the incorporation of religious societies, this church being among the very earliest to avail themselves of its provisions, as will be seen by the following notice published in Akron's first newspaper, the Weekly Post, June 10, 1836: "TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. A meeting of the members of the Akron and Middlebury Baptist Church and Society will be held at the School House in South Akron, on Wednesday, the 16th inst., at 4 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of organizing under their charter."

Arrangements were immedi- ately made for the erection of a house of worship, corner of South Broadway and Center streets, a cut of which is here given. Elder Eber Crane was regularly installed as pastor, and the house was built under his management, as the agent of the trustees; though considerable ill-feeling was engendered, by the trustees facing the building south, instead of west, as the other churches had been, and by alleged mismanagement on the part of Elder Crane and the building committee, resulting in a heated · newspaper controversy, covering six or seven columns in the American Balance, and the holding of a church council, with . Elder Levi Tucker, of Cleveland, as Moderator, on the 6th day of October, 1837. Though the dis- Original Baptist, late German Re- formed Church, corner of South Broadway and Center Streets. Erected in 1836-37. Torn down in 1890 sensions alluded to were not entirely cured by the action of the council, the church was dedi- cated on the 26th day of October, 1837, Elder Tucker preaching the dedicatory sermon.

In 1853 the society sold its original church structure to the German Reformed Society and purchased the original Universalist stone church, on North High street, which was dedicated to the uses of its new owners June 17, 1853, where they continuously worshipped for over a third of a century.

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REV. NATHAN S. BURTON, D. D., -born in Manlius, N. Y., Feb- ruary 5, 1821, in infancy removing with parents to Elbridge, N. Y., and in 1831, to Middlebury, Ohio; attended Village School winters and worked in father's sash factory sum- mers; taught Southwest "Six Cor- ners" school, in Tallmadge, two winters; in 1841 entered Western Reserve College, graduating in 1846, delivering the valedictory oration; taught one year in Norwalk (O.) Insti- tute; in 1847 entered Theological department W. R. College, also acting as assistant editor of "Ohio Observer;" in 1848 attended Newton (Mass.) Theological Institute; in 1849 returned to Hudson to com- plete studies and fill the chair of Latin and Greek in College; 011 graduating, in 1850, becanie pas- tor of Elyria Baptist Church; in 1853 first pastor of the Third Baptist Church in Cleveland; in 1854 pastor of the Granville Baptist Church, dur- ing his eight years pastorate there establishing a Young Ladies' School now Shepardson College, its princi- pal building being named "Burton Hall"; in 1862 became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Akron; dur- ing the rebellion serving for a time on the Christian Commission at Grant's Headquarters, City Point, Va .; in 1866 pastor of Ann Arbor (Mich.) Baptist Church; in 1871 pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Daven- port, Iowa; in 1877 accepted Chair of Philosophy in Kalamazoo (Mich.) College; in 1877 resumed the pastor- ate of the Church in Akron, remain- ing ten years, during that time officiating six months as President

REV. NATHAN S. BURTON, D. D.

of Dennison University at Granville; in 1887 visited Europe, and on his return became pastor of the Need- ham (Mass.) Baptist Church, where he still continues. October 14, 1850, was married to Miss Sarah J. Fair- field, of Spring Arbor, Mich. They have five children-Henry F., Pro- fessor of Latin in the University of Rochester; Charles S., lawyer in Chicago; Nellie, wife of Prof. W. W. Beman, University of Mich .; Ernest D., Prof. of Greek, Newton Theologi- cal Institute, and Edward F., lawyer in Chicago.

Successive Pastors, previous to first removal: Revs. Eber Crane, Henry Carr, Stephen Van Voris, C. A. Clark, J. Hall, David Ber- nard, Lewis Ransted, J. M. Greg- ory, J. C. Courtney, A. Joy. Since removal: Mr. Joy continued until 1855, followed by Rev. J. W. Ham- mond, one year; in 1856, by Samuel Williams, five years; in 1862, by Nathan S. Burton, four years; in 1866, by Frank Adkins, two years; in 1869, by C. T. Chaffee, three years; 1872, by J. P. Agenbroad, one year; 1873, by Charles A. First Baptist Church, South Broad- way. Erected in 1889-90. Hayden, three years; 1877, by Dr. Nathan S. Burton, ten years; in 1887, 'by Rev. A. M. Waxman, whose pastorate terminated by voluntary resignation June 14, 1891.

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At length, feeling the need of a more commodious house of . worship in a more convenient locality, in 1888 the society pur- chased a handsome site on South Broadway, between Market and Mill streets, and in 1889 erected thereon a fine brick edifice witlı auditorium and Sunday School room on the same floor, and a light,. airy basement for social meetings and other church purposes. The building is 76x106 in size and of handsome design, as will be seen by the fine engraving given herewith, the entire cost of lot, building and furnishing being about $40,000.

Present membership of church 290. Present number of scholars in Sunday School, 250.

THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.

Sundry Universalist ministers held religious services in Akron, from time to time, during the years 1835 and 1836, and · during the early Summer of 1837 Rev. Freeman Loring organized a society of believers in that faith, holding his meetings in the third story of a building erected by Mr. Benjamin W. Stephens,. corner of Main and State streets, present site of Merrill's pottery.

Among the members of that congregation were Dr. Eliakim Crosby and family, Major Miner Spicer and family, Henry Chittenden and family, Watrous Mather and family, Jesse and Jacob Allen, and quite a number of other prominent business men of Akron and Middlebury; the choir, composed largely of the sons and daughters of the families above named, being one of the most attractive of any of the church choirs of the town or vicinity.

· Steps were immediately taken for the erection of a suitable church edifice, Dr. Crosby furnishing a lot on North High street, and very largely defraying the cost of the building, the writer doing the glazing and general painting, to the extent of some $200, in part payment for two acres of ground on West . Market street; our venerable fellow citizen, Mr. Curtis C. Wilcox, of 216 South Union street, then living in Middlebury, gilding and varnishing the balusters of the gallery, settees, etc., this being the first church in Akron to have anything but stiff board pews and slips. for the seating of its worshippers.

The church was built of stone, and was then one of the hand- somest structures of the kind in Ohio. The belfry was sur- mounted by a tall spire on the top of which, above 100 feet from the ground, was a gilded ball, two and a half feet in diameter, in the center of which were deposited such articles as are usually- placed in the corner stones of similar edifices-church history,. newspapers, coins, etc.

Some thirty years later the belfry timbers had become so. decayed that, on Sunday, August 5, 1868, the steeple being likely to fall, to prevent possible serious accident, by attaching ropes to. the lightning-rod connected therewith, it was pulled down, and in falling the ball was broken to pieces. Such of the contents as. were found were in a fair state preservation, the copy of tlie Akron BUZZARD encased by the writer in a sealed quinine bottle, being as clean and legible as when first printed, thirty-one years. before.

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final Universalist Church, late Baptist, built in 1837 , Drawn from memory by author.

Surmounting the ball was an immense sheet-iron weather vane in the shape of an angel, with soaring wings, proclaiming to the whole world through a golden trumpet, the Glad Tidings of Uni- versal Salvation; the entire cost of the structure being about $8,000. A fine-toned bell, pro- cured by subscription of citizens, was placed in the tower, and also, a year or two later a clock, man- ufactured, and for many years kept in repair, by the late Henry S. Abbey. The society was also presented with a most excellent organ, by the late Jesse Allen- probably the pioneer church organ of Summit County.

The society was incorporated by Act of the Legislature, Feb- ruary 4, 1839, the incorporators being Eliakim Crosby, Miner Spicer, Watrous Mather, Henry Chittenden and Jesse Allen. The house was dedicated in Novem- ber, 1839, the installation of Mr. Loring, as pastor, being included in the dedicatory services; the membership at this time being about one hundred persons. Though Mr. Loring had taken almost entire charge of the building of the church, laboring incessantly with his own hands, his pastor- ate, after its dedication, was of short duration, a feeling prevail- ing that though sound in doc- trine, and earnest in its promul- gation, he was not sufficiently cultured for so "metropolitan" a position, realizing which he tend- ered his resignation and removed to Suffield, Portage County, where, after serving the church there for a number of years, he finally died.

Mr. Loring was succeeded by Rev. Nelson Doolittle, for several years, followed by Rev. J. G. Foreman, the latter part of 1845, and in 1849 by Rev. Z. Baker. This latter gentleman leaning strongly towards the Spiritual- ist icfaith, which was then a prev- alent belief with many, alienated several members of the society from the true faith, begetting an indifference which, coupled with

First Universalist Church, corner of South Broadway and Mill Streets.

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the serious financial embarrassment of its principal promoter, Dr. Crosby, caused the society to go to pieces, and in 1853 its house of worship was sold to the Baptists, as elsewhere stated.

After an interregnum of nearly thirty years, a new organization was effected in November, 1872, with twenty members, Hon. John R. Buchtel, Moderator; Sanford M. Burnham, Clerk; Avery Spicer and Talmon Beardsley, Deacons. Rev. G. S. Weaver was chosen pastor, in April, 1873, the meetings of the society being held in the chapel of Buchtel College, then just completed. Mr. Weaver was succeeded by Rev. Henry L. Canfield, in 1876, followed by Rev. Everett L. Rexford, president of College, in 1878, and in Sep- tember, 1880, by Rev. Richard Eddy until July, 1881, and again by Rev. Dr. G. S. Weaver, from December, 1881, to December, 1883, followed by Rev. C. Ellwood Nash, from May 1, 1884 to May 1, 1891, succeeded June 7, 1891, by Rev. J. F. Thompson, of Jersey City, N. J.

REV. C. ELLWOOD NASH, D. D.,- son of Rev. C. P. Nash, Univer- salist clergyman at Conneautville, Pa., was born in Warren County, N. J., March 31, 1855 ; removed to Michigan in 1856, and to Iowa in 1870 ; prepared for college at Prof. W. W. Curry's private school, Newton, Iowa; entered Lombard University, Gales- burg, Ill., as a sophomore, in 1872, graduating as A. B. in 1875, in college belonging to the Phi Delta Theta fraternity; in September, 1875, entered Tuft's Divinity School, Tuft's College, Mass., graduating as B. D. in 1878; delivered Master's Oration and received honorary degree of A. M. at Lombard University, in June, 1878; was engaged as pastor at Abington, Mass., during divinity course, from March, 1877, to March, 1878 ; called to and accepted pastor- ate of church at Stamford, Conn., December, 1878, assuming pastorate there in July, 1878; was married to Miss Clara M. Sawtelle, of Auburn, Me., December 31, 1878 ; went to New- ton, Mass. as pastor in June, 1881, and came to Akron as pastor of the First Universalist Church, May 1, 1884, continuing until May 1, 1891, his seven years pastorate here being

REV. C. ELLWOOD NASH, D. D.

highly satisfactory to the members of that society, resigning to accept the pastorate of the Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Nash are parents of four daughters.

During Mr. Rexford's pastorate, the rapidly growing congre- gation rendering such a step absolutely necessary, the fine new house of worship, corner of Mill and Broadway, was erected at a cost of about $40,000, Mr. Ferd. Schumacher generously donating the lot, besides liberally contributing to the building and fur- nishing fund, Hon. John R. Buchtel also subscribing liberally to the various funds of the society. The present membership of the church is about 350; scholars in Sunday School 325; teachers, 24.

ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Though an occasional Episcopal family resided in the neigh- borhood, and though occasional services were earlier held, both

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in Middlebury and Akron, it was not until 1836 that a parish of that denomination was organized in Akron, under the auspices of Rev. William H. Newman, rector of St. John's Church, at Cuyahoga Falls, (originally organized in Stow in 1830), Rev. T. J. Davis assuming charge of the new church in 1838. The meetings of St. Paul's Church and society, like those of the other early churches named, wereat first held in private houses and school houses, or, by courtesy, in the other churches of the village, and afterwards for some three or four years, in the second story of the "Old Stone Block" so often referred to in this work, on the southeast corner of Howard and Market streets.

This building was rather shab- bily constructed, and one Sunday, in the latter part of 1840, when services were in progress, a sud- den storm, accompanied by high wind, toppled over one of the huge stone chimneys, with a por- tion of the heavy battlement, which went crashing through the St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, corner East Market and South Forge Streets. roof and the third, second and first floors to the cellar. The congregation, fortunately, were not within the direct range of the falling mass, but, by the tilting of the floor a number of seats, with their occupants, were precip- itated into the cellar, and Mrs. Stephen Willard Powers and her mother, Mrs. Bush, Mr. George T. Ray, a young man named Morris . Lyon, then working for the writer, and perhaps one or two others, were somewhat bruised, but none of them were seriously injured.

At this time the erection of a house of worship was under- taken, donations for the purpose, to the extent of $900, being made by friends of the church in Philadelphia, the balance of the cost of the structure to be raised by local subscriptions, principally of materials and labor-money being decidedly a cash article in Ohio in those days. The "chuckery" project, elsewhere alluded to, was then on the boom, several of its promoters being zealous Episco- palians, notably Dr. E. W. Crittenden, and with the expectation that a fair proportion of the prospective inhabitants of "Suin- mit City," would be of that faith, it was resolved to locate the new church so as to acommodate both said "city" and the "village" of Akron. Consequently the house was erected on North Maple street, below Hickory street, overlooking the Ohio Canal, facing North.

Before this house was fully completed a contract was made with Mr. Lyman Cobb, then an enterprising business man of Akron, for the erection of a church edifice on South High street, Mr. Cobb taking the first named house and lot in part payment, which was at once converted into a tenement house, ever since, until recently torn down, well, and sometiines notoriously, known as the "Cobb House." Besides the turning in of this property, and quite liberal contributions from citizens, the sum of $1,770 was contributed by outside parties.

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This new house, 40x60 feet in size, was dedicated June 27, 1844, · the parish then numbering sixty communicants. In 1870 the house was greatly enlarged and a new organ provided, and also a hand- some parsonage erected on North Summit street. In 1872, '73, new Sunday School rooms were added, at a cost of $4,000. Finding that this structure was inadequate to the rapidly growing needs of the society, a commodious triangular lot, bounded on East Mar- ket, Forge and Fir streets, was purchased, in 1884, at a cost of $10,000, on which was erected a fine stone parish and Sunday School house, 72x88 feet, at a cost of $35,000, which was dedicated on the "Feast of Epiphany," January 6, 1885, the High street edi- fice being sold to the Hebrews, in 1885, for a synagogue, as else- where stated.

It is the intention of the parish to erect, at an early day, an elegant and commodious church structure, and eventually a handsome rectory upon the same lot. Successive rectors of St. Paul's during the 52 years of its existence, have been as follows: 1836, '37, Rev. Mr. Barrow; 1838-40, Rev. T. J. Davis; 1841-44, Rev. Lyman Freeman; 1844-47, Rev. Robert G. Cox; 1847, Rev. Mr. McElhinney; 1848, Rev. J. K. Stuart; 1850, Rev. E. H. Cum- ming; followed a year or two later, by Rev. R. S. Nash, and in 1854, by Rev. D. C. Maybin; 1855 to 1859, Rev. Edward Meyer; 1860, Rev. Henry Adams; 1863, Rev. Samuel Maxwell; 1866, Rev. W. T. Fitch; 1869, Rev. Henry Gregory; 1870, the present incumbent, Rev. Dr. R. L. Ganter, twenty-one full years, and still popular and efficient.

REV. RICHARD L. GANTER, D. D., - born in Allegheny, Pa., July 23, 1835; primary education in Catholic schools of Pittsburg ; entered Kenyon Grammar School, . Gambier, Ohio, in Spring of 1851 ; graduated from Kenyon College Classical Course, July, 1856, and from Bexley Hall Theological Seminary in 1859 ; ordained deacon of Episco- pal Church the same year ; Presbyter in 1860, then in charge of Grace Church, Mansfield, O .; entered army as private in 1861, and elected Chap- lin of 15th O. V. I .; in 1863 took charge of Trinity Church, Michigan City, Ind .; in 1865 called and accepted pastorate of Trinity Church, Iowa City, Iowa ; 1867 to 1870 superinten- dent of Johnson County (Iowa) public schools; in October, 1870, on call, accepted Rectorship of St. Paul's Church, in Akron, which position he still holds, being now, in point of incumbency, the oldest minister in Akron. During his pastorate the Parish has grown from 80 communi- cants to 370, with four distinct eras of church improvement and building during that time, the last being the fine stone chapel, at intersection of East Market and Forge streets, a handsome engraving of which is herewith given. September 27, 1865, Dr. Ganter was married to Miss Henrietta D. Sanford, at Painesville,

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Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905 Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Lane, Samuel A. (Samuel Alanson), 1815-1905
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : Beacon Job Department
Number of Pages: 1228