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THE FIRST WEDDING.
In the winter of 1807, Philemon Brockway was married to Sarah, daughter of Nathan Fobes. The marriage was solemnized at the house of her father. and the whole town were invited ; for weeks the event was looked to as one of un- usual interest. Fortunately, the weather was good, and the invited guests were promptly in attendance. The attendance of a clergyman could not easily be obtained. and a justice of the peace was employed to officiate. All passed off merrily. The bride and bridegroom were duly congratulated. and saluted with the friendly kiss. The whisky was passed around in earthen bowls and tin-cups. At a seasonable hour the guests departed for their homes, highly gratified with the first wedding, which was long referred to as one of the interesting incidents of the early settlement.
The first township election was at the house of Nathan Fobcs. This township contains but one of those works called " ancient fortifications," of which so much has been written and so little known. This work was situated on the west side of the Pymatuning creek, on lot 89, near the mill. It had the appearance of having been designed for defense. Its parapet-walls were some three fect in height, and on them were found forest-trees of the ordinary size. It was evidently erected by that peculiar people who, for want of a better name, are denominated " Mound- Builders." Samuel Jones came from Hartland, Connecticut, in 1811. His family consisted of wife and five children. the eldest of whom (L. H. Joues) still occupies the original homestead ou lot No. 28. The first cheese-factory was
established by L. D. Badger, in about the year 1870, at the centre. There are at present five factories in the township.
THE FIRST POST-OFFICE
was located about one-fourth of a mile north of the centre. This was in about the year 1823, at which time Hari Miner was commissioned first postmaster,-a position which he held for many years. Present postmaster is Samuel Jones, Jr. First mails were carried on foot, arriving at Wayne the latter part of the week.
The first grist-mill was erected in about the year 1820; Messrs. Loomis & Brown were the proprietors. The location of this mill was on the Pymatuning creek. in the southeast corner of the township. The first store began business in about 1825, on the Hayes road, some quarter of a mile north of the east and west centre road ; Messrs. Hayes & Stevens proprietors. The present store is at the centre ; Messrs. S. Jones & Co. proprietors. The first resident physician was Luther Spelman, whose location was in the southeast corner of the township; he first began business in perhaps 1823, and continued the practice of his profession until his death, which occurred in September, 1862. J. W. Graham is at present the only physician in the township.
For the record of the patriotic deeds of the citizens of Wayne during the War of the Rebellion, see military history of the county in another part of this volume.
The population of this township in 1870, as shown by the United States census, was eight hundred and seventeen, and the political status is shown by the vote cast for President in 1876, which the secretary of state's report gives as follows : R. B. Hayes, 191 ; S. D. Tilden, 29.
The following table shows that the farmers of Wayne have fully improved the time :
STATISTICS FOR 1877.
186 acres.
2,559 bushels.
Oats.
522
16,271
Corn
141 44
16,304
Potatoes
53
4,45S
Orcharding
189
10,480
Meadow.
2224
2,9$3 tons.
Maple-sugar
35.499 pounds.
Bulter
40,243
Cheese
368,S77
The number of school-houses was 8; valuation, $5500; number of scholars, 260; amount paid to teachers, 81006.63.
In connection with the township of Wayne, we find on the first record that "so much of the township of Green as is contained in the original survey of No. 8, in the first, second, and third ranges, is hereby set off into a separate township, to be kuown by the name of Wayne. The electors of said township of Wayne are directed to meet on the 11th day of April next, at the dwelling of Nathan Fobes, for the purpose of electing township officers. Signed, Richard Hayes, elerk ;" and dated " County Commissioners' Ofice, Trumbull County, Ohio, March 19, 1811." (The township so organized embraced what is now the town- ships of Williamsfield, Andover. Colebrook, Cherry Valley, New Lyme, and Wayne.) Pursuant to above the electors met as directed, and elected the follow- ing officers : George Wakeman, Joshua Giddings, and Ezra Woodworth, trustees ; Nathaniel Coleman, clerk ; Thomas Ford, treasurer ; Anson Jones, lister and ap- praiser ; Elisha Giddings, appraiser ; Titus Hayes and Samuel Tuttle, overseers of the poor ; Zopher Case and Joshua Fobes, fence-viewers ; David Fobes, Anson Jones, and Albigance Woodworth, supervisors. The first justices of the peace were Samuel Tuttle aud Nathaniel Coleman, whose commissions bear date at Zanesville, September 24, 1811. The following are their successors to the present : Ezra Leonard. Anson Jones, Titus Hayes, Jonathan Tuttle, Simon Fobes, Joshua Fobes, Sr., Nathaniel Coleman, Jr., Simon Fobes, Jr., Flavel Jones, Lovel E. Parker, Anson Jones, C. C. Frick, David Smiley, Richard Hayes, Morris Spel- man. Rollin L. Jones, James S. Cowden, Linus H. Jones, Andrew J. Hatch, and F. A. Kinnear. Among the " archives" of Wayne we find a poll-book of an election for State officers held October 13, 1812, at which time twenty-eight votes were cast. The following are the candidates : Governor, Return J. Meigs ; Member of Congress, John S. Edwards; Senator, Peter Hitchcock ; Legisla- ture, Samuel S. Baldwin and James Montgomery ; County Commissioners, O. K. Hawley, Levi Gaylord, Titus Hayes, Moses Wright, and Ezra Leonard. The judges of this election were Samuel Tuttle, Elisha Giddings, and Anson Jones ; Jonathan Tuttle and Samuel Jones, clerks. At the presidential election of 1816, there were fifteen votes cast for presidential electors. Reuben Bates, Jabez Fobes, and Jonathan Tuttle, judges ; Lynds Jones and Joshua R. Giddings, clerks.
CHURCHES.
The following statement in relation to the early Methodist meetings, formation of the society, etc., is given from memory, the records having been destroyed. The first church organization was formed in about the year 1822, subsequent to which time a camp-meeting was held on the farm of Titus Hayes (now owned
Wheat
Father Spelman
NATHANIEL COLEMAN
MRS.NATHANIEL COLEMAN
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by O. H. Miner). The first meetings were held in dwellings and school-houses, and among the first ministers were Charles Thorn, J. W. Davis, Thomas Carr, and others. The first Methodist church edifice was erected in 1840, at Lindenville. It was a frame structure, and is the same which is now occupied at the centre, it having been moved to that point in 1866. Present pastor, T. D. Blinn; mem- bership, forty.
CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS.
Our thanks are due to Linus H. Jones, Esq., for the following interesting sketch connected with the churches in Wayne.
The first church organization in Wayne was Congregational, formed in 1816. Previous to this, for some years, regular religious services were held on the Sab- bath at private houses, prominent among which were those of Joshua and Levi Fobes, at the centre, and at the house of Benjamin Ward, on the Hayes road. These services were conducted by Simon Fobes, a soldier of the Revolutionary army, consisting of two services, of a sermon read at each, with prayer and singing, in accordance with the usual form of those days, which practice continued until 1816. At this time an effort was made to establish more permanently the insti- tutions of the gospel. The citizens of Wayne and Williamsfield united in building a place of worship. Neither township was much settled, except in the contiguous halves of each, and both were under one township organization. A large house was built of logs, piled one above the other, and covered with " shakes"-much like barrel-staves, except being less in thickness-from three and a half to four feet in length. These were laid loose upon poles or " ribs," which ran across the building, for their support, and were held in their places by poles as weights. The crevices between the logs of the sides were " chinked" with wood and mud, mak- iug them quite formidable against the blasts of winter. A floor of boards covered about one-half of the room, while the remaining portion was the bare earth, except logs, hewed upon the upper side, to support a floor, when the finances might justify the outlay. These logs were used as seats, and made a substantial and solid sitting. In winter a fire was built upon the ground near the centre, the smoke very tardily making its exit through the crevices in and around the roof, but often tarrying sufficiently to cause tears, without the aid of eloquence or pathos. After about two years a floor covered the whole area. A gallery was erected at one end of the building, which accommodated a choir as aristocratic, but much less exclusive, than those of more modern times. In this humble building the citizens and their families assembled in mass, holding two services each Sabbath, conducted by deacons, notable among whom were Ezra Leonard, Norman Wilcox, and Calvin Andrews. Occasionally a missionary would spend a Sabbath with them. The first minister employed by the church was Rev. Alvin Coe, for a term of four Sabbaths; afterwards, one by the name of Bowen, as a candidate for settlement ; but he did not prove to be acceptable. Early in the summer of 1819 we were visited by Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff, in the capacity of a missionary of the " Missionary Society of the State of Connecticut," who labored with us several weeks, when arrangements were made with him to settle with us as our minister, and labor as such one-half of his time, at a salary of two hundred dollars per year, which was to be increased ten dollars per year until it reached two hundred and fifty dollars. He was installed as pastor in August, 1819, and returned to Connecticut for his family, which consisted of his wife and six children. He returned with his family in October, and settled in his log house, which had been provided for them in his absence, perfectly surrounded by forest, with no building nearer than half a mile, except our lonely-looking forest church. One-half of Mr. Woodruff's time was spent as a missionary among the destitute churches in this part of the Western Reserve, making, usually, tours of two weeks each, and thus alternating in his home and mission labors. He was a laborious, persevering, and efficient man, both as a pastor and as a citizen. Three services on the Sabbath was the rule, two at the church, and at evening in some quarter of his parish, usually at some school-house. He exhibited much zeal in the interests of education, and made a specialty of visiting each school twice in each session, giving notice of the intended visit on the Sabbath previous. Those who were most benefited by and appreciated his services are on the shady side of life, and look back with grateful recollections of Rev. Ephraim T. Woodruff. To attend church was the general rule of almost the entire population, and the difference in attendance between deacon and preaching meetings was small.
Our religious interests were harmonious and prosperous until the winter of 1831, when our house of sacred memory was destroyed by fire. A recollection of that humble building calls up some of the most enjoyable occasions of our lives. Would that we could transmit such recollections to posterity ! Now without a house of worship, our pastor was equal to the emergency. He had a building of logs, which had been used for "all work," which was immediately appropriated. A part of the upper floor was taken out and the choir perched upon the remainder, with heads in frequent contact with the poles of the roof, while the mass were scated below. But this state of things could not long continue. A house, or
houses, must be built. The people upon this side of the creek thought it time that interest called for a house nearer home, and the main part that that interest centred upon the Hayes road. To this those upon the centre road demurred, uniting their influence with those upon the east side and Williamsfield, awaiting a more favorable opportunity for building at the centre. The IIayes road interest started forward, hewed and drew timber to the spot, when, in a maze of doubt, the work was suspended. Those on the east side, with West Williamsfield, en- couraged by this suspense, united their efforts and built the house now occupied by Mr. Lewis D. Roberts, which stands nearly upon the same spot occupied by the log church. In this state of things, regular religious services were established at the school-house on the Hayes road, north of the centre line, and kept up with regularity from Sabbath to Sabbath, with preaching about one-half of the time. In October, 1832, a Congregational church was organized with twenty-nine members, twenty-two of whom were from the former church, and all were living east of the north and south centre road. This state of things continned for about two years. In the mean time, those on the centre road and west re- mained members of the original church of " Wayne and Williamsfield," but, uniting their efforts with others of the township, commenced the building of a house at the centre, which was undenominational, stimulated by a " Centre" in- terest. In this state of things the project of a house on the Hayes road was abandoned, and an arrangement made to take the house at the centre. A Con- gregational society was organized in the spring of 1835, which was duly incorpo- rated under a special act of the legislature, which has, as such, taken all the financial responsibility in building and supplying preaching, with the incidentals consequent thereto. In November, 1834, those living upon the eentre road with- drew from the mother church and united with the new organization known as " The First Congregational church of Wayne." Our Sabbath services were con- tinued at the school-house near Mr. Hari Miner's until 1838, which was ordinarily sufficient to accommodate all who wished to attend, by providing extra seats, which was done to the full capacity of the room, the house at the centre not being sufficiently completed. In May, 1840, we find this record of the doings of "The First Congregational society of Wayne" :
" Resolved, That the building committee be instructed to proceed forth with to finish the pulpit and slips ; also the stairs leading to the gallery, if the funds hold out."
In the mean time, the house was used as our place of worship, notwithstanding its unfinished state. The house was finally finished, when the plastering proved defective and commenced falling off, which sometimes occurred at their time of service, which occasioned some to speak facetiously of "sitting under the drop- pings of the sanctuary." Again we were fitted up, enjoying our church, until 1865, when it was moved from its former foundation, which put it in a very unsatisfactory condition, involving much expense proportionately to its original cost, which was not fully overcome until 1868, when it was nicely fitted up, frescoed, and made one of the most neat audience-rooms of a country township. In this condition we continued to enjoy it until December 16, 1872, when it was destroyed by fire. Thus were the expectations of many, who supposed they had made their last effort at church-building, buried in ashes. Through the favor of our Methodist friends we were offered the use of their house in the mornings, which we continued to do for one year, uniting the two Sabbath-schools in one, which was continued for one year, when we withdrew and held our meetings in the academy at Lindenville during the year 1874, and until in February, 1875. Owing to differences of opinion as to the location of the new church cdifice, nothing was accomplished until 1874, when a subscription was raised and a con- tract entered into by the building committee, composed of Messrs. Orlando P. Fobes, Stephen W. Bailey, and Winthrop F. Pelton, with Mr. Sherman Kinney as builder, in the season of 1874, which contract was very satisfactorily fulfilled. The house was completed and furnished, and dedicated as a place of worship, in February, 1875, at a cost of something over six thousand four hundred dollars. We are now accredited with having one of the best and most pleasant audience- rooms in a country township. The present church membership is about one hun- dred and ten, including all ages from early youth to old age, the oldest inember being in the last half of his ninety-seventh year, viz., Samuel Jones, and being the oldest man in the township. About thirty years ago the church of " Wayne and Williamsfield" changed their location to West Williamsfield, which includes one of the three north and south streets through this township, and about one- fifth of our populatien, which has given occasion to speak of them as living " with bodies in the town of Wayne, but souls in Williamsfield." This branch includes Mrs. Rebecca Wilcox, now iu her ninety-ninth year, and the oldest woman in the township.
WAYNE INSTITUTE
was incorporated during the year of 1845-46, and was generally known as Wayne academy. The arrangements for building were made in 1845, but were not car-
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ried into effeet and the building completed until the autumn of 1846. The building was erected by an association of stockholders. The stock being divided into sliares of five dollars each, Sylvester Ward being the largest stoekholder, Deacon Calvin Andrews the second largest. The building committee were Sylves- ter Ward. Calvin Andrews, C. C. Wick, and Samuel Jones, Jr. The officers of the association in 1847 were C. C. Wick, president ; Joshua Fobes, Jr., vice-president; Sylvester Ward, T. E. Best, H. F. Giddings, and J. T. Miner, trustees. Joseph B. Barber was president during 1848-49, and took an active interest in the welfare of the school. Of the officers above mentioned at this date (1878) but three are living, C. C. Wick, H. F. Giddings, and Joshua Fobes. The school was in session from four to six months during the year, with from forty to eighty pupils in at- tendance eaeli term, and flourished from its commencement until 1864-65. The following is an imperfect list of its principals and assistant teachers : Miss Cath- erine Coleman has the honor of being the first teacher who taught in the academy, and did much towards developing a love of study in the minds of the young people of that day. Miss Coleman was assisted by Miss T. Arnold, and taught during the winter of 1846-48. Mr. T. N. Haskell-assistants, Miss Sarah C. Austin and Miss S. E. Lattimer-taught from 1848 till 1850. Mr. G. H. Collier- assistant, Miss Lee-taught from 1850 to 1852. After these the school was taught by Miss Abby Barber, who received her early education at this institute, afterwards graduating at Oberlin. Miss Barber died March 28, 1857, loved and respected by all who knew her. Miss Flora A. Krum, another former pupil, taught successfully in the academy. Miss Krum was a graduate of Willoughby Fe- male seminary, and for several years assisted her husband, Mr. Edwin Regal, who was principal of the Normal school at Hopedale, in this State. Among the teachers of whom we have no record of the time when they tanght are Mr. Clark ; Mrs. Branch, assisted by Miss A. Niles, taught during the fall and winter of 1854-55 ; Thomas Roberts, in the fall of 1856. During the interval between 1856-61, Arthur Case, Andrew Braden, and L. D. Kee were the teachers. Mr. Braden enlisted for the late war, and was promoted to captain in the One Hun- dred and Fifth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. L. D. Kee was also a captain iu the same regiment, several of his former pupils enlisting with him. Captain Kee was killed in action at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862. The following is a partial list of the names of professional and business men who were once members of Wayne academy : Professor of Music, Ezra Geer (graduate of Oberlin); Will C. Chamberlain (graduate of Oberlin). Lawyers, George C. Sturgis, member of the West Virginia house of delegates ; Claudius B. Parker (graduate of Oberlin), member of the bar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Doctors, Frank H. Geer, Henry C. Hart, N. C. Brooks, Aurora Giddings, Joseph Simons. Ministers, George W. Andrews, Talladega college, Alabama, Thomas Roberts, Darius Woodworth, Harvey Webb. A majority of the pupils in the academy were the sons and daughters of farmers; the sons, many of them, chose the calling of their fathers, and are numbered among our most intelligent and in- fluential citizens. The above catalogue of names is, of course, very imperfect, and is no just measure of the good work which the institution has accomplished.
CASUALTIES.
July 4, 1856, Lysander Fobes was killed at the eentre by the premature dis- charge of a piece of ordnanec, with which they were celebrating our national independence.
Drayton Jones was fatally injured by falling through a seaffold and against the cylinder of a thrashing-machine ; was so horribly mangled that death soon ensued. Cannot obtain the date.
MANUFACTURERS.
Steam saw-mills, A. J. & D. W. Hatch, west of the centre, William Remieks, northwest corner of the township. C. C. Fitch, heading and stave-works, west of centre. Cheese-factories, C. Oatman, F. B. Miner, T. J. Fobes, and Messrs. Hart & Chapman. Grist-mill, located in southeast part of township, on Pymatuning creek, Messrs. Walworth & McGranahau.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
DR. LUTHER SPELMAN,
whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Granville, Massachusetts, July 27, 1779. His father's name was John Spelman, who married Miss Damaris Rose, of Granville, Massachusetts. Dr. Spelman studied medieine with Dr. Harvey, of Massachusetts. He married, in 1804, Miss Anna Vail, of Morris- town, New Jersey, a lady of Quaker descent. The father was a eook for General Washington while his army encamped at the above-named place during the
War of the Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Spelman emigrated to Deerfield, Portage county, in 1808, where they remained in the wilderness for one year, when they removed to Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio. In 1812, Dr. Spelman was appointed a surgeon in one of the militia regiments of Ohio, but was not able to go to the frontier, and performed duty at home in making examinations for ex- emptions from the service. He was an old schoolinate of Titus Hayes, of Wayne, and, on account of the friendship existing between the families of those named, he was induced to remove to Wayne, Ashtabula County, in 1823, where he eom- menced the practice of medicine. In 1823, Dr. Spelman was elected one of the associate judges of Ashtabula County, being associated with Judges Moffit, Wood, and Burchard. Dr. Spelman practiced medicine in Wayne and in the adjoining townships for the long period of forty years. He died in Wayne, September 3, 1863, aged eighty-four years, and his wife died in the same town, March 12, 1870. The children of Dr. L. and Anna Spelman were Corintha, born in New Jersey, January 12, 1807, who married Benjamin F. Palmer, of Williamsfield ; she died in Williamsfield, February 20, 1846. Sarah, born in New Jersey, April 28, 1808, who married J. Anson Giddings, of Wayne. Charles, born in Deerfield, Portage county, Ohio; died in Williamsfield, Ohio, January 6, 1875. Sidney, died at the age of ten years, at Petersburg, Columbiana county, Ohio, where the family had resided for some time. Mary, boru at Youngstown, Ohio, in Mareh, 1814, married William J. Colby, of Cherry Valley, Ohio. Harvey, born at Petersburg, Ohio, June 19, 1816, who died at Rome, Ohio, in 1877. John and Henry, twin brothers, were born at Petersburg, Ohio, January 30, 1818. John married Miss Fidelia Hart, a daughter of Captain Jerry Hart, of Wayne. John Spelman died in Wayne iu 1842, and his wife Fidelia died in Wayne, June 14, 1842. Henry Speliuan married Miss Abigail Loomis, of Williamsfield. He died in Cherry Valley, Ohio, February 27, 1867. Morris, born in Peters- burg, Ohio, December 31, 1820, has been a school-teacher in Wayne and Cherry Valley, and served for six years as a justice of the peace in Wayne. July 5, 1871, he married Mrs. Rose Coulter, of Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Their only child, Samuel A. Morris, was born in Wayne, May 6, 1875. Franklin, youngest son of Dr. L. aud Anna Spelman, was born in Williamsfield, Ohio, October 22, 1824, died in Wayne, April 2, 1852. Jane, youngest daughter, born in Williamsfield, Ohio, February 18, 1828, married A. T. Woodworth, of Wayne, May 26, 1847.
THE JONES FAMILY.
SAMUEL JONES, SR.
Among the many worthy citizens of Ashtabula County, none stand higher in the estimation of his acquaintances than Samuel Jones, Sr., of Wayne township, at this date (1878) in his niuety-seventh year. Upright in business, cheerful and hopeful in manner, of sound judgment, and of irreproachable morals, he en- joys the respeet and esteem of his fellow-citizens when the frosts of ninety-seven winters have left their impress upon his head, visible in the silver which crowns it honorably and becomingly. He was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, June 29, 1781. May 11, 1803, he married Miss Deborah Hayes, of Hartford, Connectieut. Both of these were school-teachers in their native State of Connee- ticut. Mr. Jones' father's uame was Samuel, and his grandfather's, Israel. His mother's name was Ruth Ackley. He was a member of a family of three sons and four daughters. Elijah Jones, one of the brothers, was a member of the Connecticut legislature, and Lueien C. Jones, a nephew, was a member of the Ohio senate in 1872. Deborah Hayes' family was composed of four sons and three daugliters. Her father, Titus Hayes, was a soldier in the army of the Revolution. Her family suffered from exposures and necessities incident to that struggle. All of her brothers-Richard, Titus, Linus, and Lester-were soldiers during the War of 1812, Richard being colonel of the regiment that marched through Ashtabula County for the frontier during that war. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, with five small children between the ages of one and seven years, left Old Con- neetieut for the New on September 10, 1811, and in ten years from that very day they started on a visit to their native State of Connecticut in company with Hon. Jonathan Tuttle, of Williamsfield. On their arrival at the place now knowu as Kelloggsville, they were met by Mrs. Jones' brother Titus-afterwards known as Hon. Titus Hayes-with a team of oxen. They pursued their way through the forest, a rude road having been eut, part of it being but a little more than a blazed-tree path, over brush, aeross logs, fording streams, and, what was worse, getting through the mud, Mr. Hayes carrying the second son, Flavel, a boy of five years, across a stream by taking hold of his coat-collar with his teeth. They arrived, at the elose of the second day, at the house of Mr. Zadoe Steele, in An- dover. Near the elose of the third day they arrived in sight of Mr. Hayes' cabin, accomplishing the journey from Kelloggsville to Wayne in three days. A few
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