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Nov. 29, 1833, Aramintha Grist was indentured to Za- dock Street. She was to be instructed " in the art, trade, and mystery of housewifery;" to be trained to habits of obedience, industry, and morality ; to be taught to read, write, and cipher as far as the single rule of three; to be provided for, and be allowed meat, drink, washing, lodging, and apparel for summer and winter. She was to live with him until she was eighteen years of age, and at the expira- tion of such service he should give to her a new Bible and at least two suits of common wearing-apparel.
Mary Sheets was apprenticed to Alexander Burns. She was to have, at the expiration of her service, a new Bible, two suits of common wearing-apparel, a new bureau, one new wool-wheel, and a new umbrella.
VILLAGE OF SALEM.
A plat of Salem, now called " Original Salem," bears date April 30, 1806, was recorded in vol. i., page 75, of the records of Columbiana County, May 6, 1806, and is located on property as follows :
Propriation of section 1, 16, 4, John Straughn. Propria- tion of section 36, 17, 4, Zadock Street.
This plut is bounded from the alley between High and Green Streets on the north to the alley between Dry and Race on the south, and west of Range Street to one hun- dred and eighty feet west of Howard Street.
It was divided east and west by Main Street, which was fifty feet wide. Water Street (now Green) was parallel with it and was forty foet wide. West High or Howard Street was forty feet in width. All the lots were laid out sixty feet wide by one hundred and eighty feet in length.
An addition was afterwards made from the Straughn land on the south of one tier of lots, one hundred and eighty feet in length by sixty in width, reaching to Race Street.
Additions were made to the territory from time to time, and below is given the boundary established before the annexation in 1867, as given in the petition to the Com- missioners in that year :
" Being in the county of Columbiana, and being parts of section 5 and section 6, in township 15, range 3; parts of section 31 and section 32 in township 16, range 8; part of soction 36 in township 17, range 4; and part of section 1 in township 16, range 4; and being all the land contained in the following bounds which is not now within the limits of said village, and beginning on the south line of said section 32, and one and one-fourth miles east of the southwest corner of said section 31, run from thence north three-fourths of a mile, thence west two miles, thence south one and a half miles, thence eust two miles, thence north three-fourths of a mile to the place of begiu- ning.'
The town of Salem was incorporated by act of Assembly passed Jan. 8, 1830.
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The following constitutes the present boundary of the vil- lage, as taken from official records, in the mayor's office, of May 28, 1867 :
" A plat of the incorporated village of Salem, amended by the order. of the commissioners of said county : for the present limits of said village, begin at a stone in the middle of section 6, thence north 15,07, chains; thence east, 32 chains; thence north, 22120% chains ; thence 17-17, chains; thence north, 1810% chains; thence west, 28-6,5% 100 chains ; thence south, 23° 54'; west, 230; chains; thence south, 311% chains ; thence east, 17-10 chains ; thence south, 111% chains; thence east, 38176; chains, to the place of beginning of the present limits. Being parts of sections 5 and 6, township 15, range 3; parts of sections 31 and 32, township 16, range 3; parts of section 36, township 17, range 4; and part of section 1, township 16, range 4, in said county."
SALEM IN 1809.
Recollections of Salem, as it appeared in the early part of the fall of 1809, as given by James W. Leach.
Mr. Leach was brought up in the family of Joshua Wright, who lived about four miles south, on the Lisbon road. In the fall of that year they went through what is now the village of Salem, on a visit to John Spencer, a son- in-law of Mr. Wright, who lived about two and one-half miles west of that town.
As they came from the south the first house was Israel Gaskell's, situated where Zadock Street's house now stands, on Lisbon Street, and at the place where that street inter- sects what is now Main Street, which was then laid out. The log cabin of Samuel Davis could be seen to the north- west, on the spot where stands the Hawley House. Turn- ing into the main street, the first dwelling was a log cabin, occupied by Price Blake as a house of entertainment, and situated on the south side of the street, on a lot now vacant, and nearly opposite Jacob Heaton's present residence. The next building was the brick meeting-house of the Friends, on the same side of the street, near where Whinnery Block now stands. Opposite stood a log school-house, about 18 by 22 feet in size. Still farther west was a hewed-log cabin, on the north side of the street, near what is now Green Street.
On the south side of the street lived Zadock Street, in a log cabin, in which he also kept a store. At this point the street intersected with the township-lines, and a road ran along between the sections. A little farther on was a hewed-log cabin, occupied by Thomas Cohn. Robert French was on the north side of Main Street, and lived where his grandson Robert now lives. Northward, about a mile distant, lived two brothers, James and Barzilla French. John Strawn lived on the south side of the main street, where a Mr. Webb now lives, south of Robert French and Job Cook. Joseph Rhodes lived on a farm east of Job Cook, where Samuel Street now lives, while Isaac Barber lived farther west, on the north side. Jona- than Stanley lived west of Mr. Rhodes' farm, and adjoining Mr. Cook's, where his grandson at present resides. Joel Sharp lived on the farm adjoining what is now the Hope Cemetery, on the Canfield road. Jonathan Evans lived about half a mile east, on the main street, and east of Mr. Gaskell's, where his son Philip now lives.
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SALEM IN 1842.
It will be a matter of interest, perhaps, to present the business interests of the village as they were in 1842, as given in the first number of the Village Register, which appeared on the 12th of April of that year :
" Salem is situated in Columbiana Co., Ohio, about sixty miles west of Pittsburgh, and near the same distance south of Lake Erie. It contains a population of more than one thousand, and is located in the midst of a well-improved farming district. It is pleasantly situated on a slight ele- vation, but the country around is for the most part level. It was laid out some thirty-five years since, but has im- proved more rapidly of late than formerly. Most of the houses are frame, though a considerable number are brick. It contains two woolen-manufactories, one foundry, thirteen stores, mostly extensive, siz or seven drug-shops and gro- ceries, three taverns, one tin-shop, one watchmaker-shop, two hatter-shops, seven tailor-shops, one coverlet-weaver, one stocking-weaver, and other weaving-establishments, four cabinetmakers' shops, nine boot-and-shoe shops, five coachmakers' shops, ten blacksmiths' shops, twenty-five or thirty carpenters, two chairmakers, and numerous other workshops and mechanics of various kinds, also three law- yers and four physicians, six houses for worship, and five schools."
An omission in the first paper was supplied in the second by the addition of an " extensive plow-making establish- ment, then saddler and harness-makers' shops, affording em- ployment to six or seven hands, one whitesmith, one den- tist, one cooper-shop, one machine-mowing establishment. One of the woolen-manufactories furnishes employment for near forty hands."
A WONDER OF YESTERDAY.
The village register of June 14, 1842, contains the fol- lowing :
" There is now at Greiner's tavern, across the way from our office, an opportunity of seeing the remarkable and mys- terious process of taking mysterious likenesses by the re- flection of light. It is called daguerreotype, from its inven- tor, Daguerre.
" Wm. Rakestraw is the name of the young man who has the apparatus, and we have seen several drawings that he has taken, which for accuracy and close resemblance could scarcely be surpassed. The invention is new, and it re- quires but a very few minutes for a person to sit, in clear weather, to have the pleasure (or mortification, as the case might be) of seeing on a plate his head, shoulders, and visage all minutely detailed."
THE PRESENT VILLAGE.
Salem is situated in north latitude 40° 51', west longi- tude 81º, at an elevation of 1185 feet, and has a valuation of $2,108,187. In this year-1879-it has a population of about 4200 inhabitants, and contains ten churches (four Friends' meeting-houses, and three Methodist, one Baptist, one Disciple, one Episcopalian), four banks, one union- school building, post-office, gas-works, three hotels, a town- house, four insurance-offices, three newspaper-offices,-in- cluding one of a monthly journal,-express- and telegraph-
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offices, railroad station, many wholesale manufacturing es- tablishments, and stores devoted to the various branches of trade. There are also twenty-one physicians, five dentists, and eleven lawyers.
Several fine brick structures are on the principal streets, among which are the " Gurney," " Pow," and " Mercan- tile" Blocks. The buildings of the manufacturing estab- lishments are of brick, and extensive. Many of the res- idences are also of brick.
SALEM FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The first official movement of the town council looking towards protection from fire and the establishment of a fire department was at a meeting of that body, May 10, 1831. Jacob Snider and Benj. Stanton were appointed a commit- tee "to appropriate $10 to purchasing ladders and fire- hooks, and to provide places of deposit."
The next action was on the 11th of April, 1836, when a resolution was offered in the town council, " That a com- mittee of three be appointed to make investigation and report to a future session of the council of what measures they may deem it necessary for the council to adopt relative to protection against damages by fire." Saml. C. Trescott, Aaron Hise, and Benj. Stanton were appointed such com- mittee.
At the meeting of the council in June of the same year, it was resolved, " That there be six scaling-ladders provided for the use of the town in cases of fire, and that there be a suitable shed provided for their safekeeping. Saml. C. Trescott, Aaron Hise, and Isaac Boone are appointed a committee to carry the above resolution into effect."
July 24, 1836, the committee on provision against dam- age by fire made their report, and on motion it was resolved, " That there be an ordinance making it obligatory on each freeholder, resident in town, to provide and keep two leather fire-buckets for the house in which such householder resides, and two fire-buckets, either of leather or tin, for each house which he shall hold for rent, said buckets to be kept under such regulations as the council shall direct. J. J. Brooks and Benj. Stanton are appointed a committee to present an ordinance for that purpose to a future sitting of the council."
July 28, 1836, the council went into further considera- tion of the report of the committee on the subject of pre- venting damages by fire, and adopted the following preamble and resolution :
" Whereas, Henry Mall and Amos Hawley have proposed to sink and put in order for use wells, each in front of his respective lots where they now reside, provided the town of Salem will be at one- half the expense. Therefore, it is
" Resolved, That the town council of the said town accept said prop- osition, and authorize an appropriation for that purpose, provided said Mall and Hawley, in constructing of said wells, conform to the direction of the committee which the council shall appoint to super- intend the same, and leave the wells, when completed, to the control of the council. Samuel Reynolds and Aaron Hise are appointed to superintend the said work, and instructed to have said wells six feet wide in the clear after walling, and to have them finished with pumps."
On Oct. 26, 1836, $100 had been subscribed by citizens to procure a fire-engine, which was offered by an agent of the American Hydraulic Company. The council deeming it expedient to purchase it at the price demanded ($250),
the president was authorized to give an order for the amount, and the subscriptions were paid into the treasury.
Feb. 6, 1837, the council ordered a building erected,- 10 by 12 feet in size, and costing about $60,-in which to keep the fire-engine. It was to be placed on the Friends' property, opposite the dwelling of Amos Hawley.
On the 22d of September, 1837, it was resolved " to dig three wells in the street in the following places : one at the corner, at Wm. Chaney's house; one between the engine- house on the corner of the street and Benj. Stanton's house; and one at the cross street, at John Street's."
The wells were to be seven feet clear of wall, provided with good pumps, and completed at a total cost of $178.30}.
Measures were taken in the councils of the town to en- courage the organization of a fire company ; and on March 21 and 29, 1841, an ordinance was perfected authorizing the formation of such a company.
In April of that year a company was organized, in ac- cordance with the ordinance, called the " Salem Fire Com- pany." James Eggman, John Antrim, Wm. Kidd, and E. W. Williams were chosen a committee to examine the fire-engine and give it into the possession of the company. This engine was known by the name of " Soul-grinder." I. C. Marshall was secretary of the company in 1842.
July 17, 1841, for the more efficient security of property, it was deemed advisable to purchase another fire engine. The citizens had subscribed liberally, and the president was instructed to subscribe $166 to make the full sum needed, which was $700.
Samuel Scattergood was appointed agent of the council to make the purchase. The engine was purchased of John Agnew, of Philadelphia, and was taken in charge by the Salem Fire Company, and was known by the name of " Co- lumbiana." It was afterwards remodeled, and, upon the organization of Deluge Fire Company, was given into their charge.
June 13, 1861, a committee was appointed to visit Pitta- burgh to purchase a fire-engine, and upon their favorable report the hand-engine " Vigilant" was purchased for the sum of $1450, and placed under the management of the " Vigilant Fire Insurance Company;" the town-hall being enlarged to accommodate the additional fire-apparatus.
A contract was entered into . between the town conncil and H. C. Silsby, June 25, 1869, for a rotary steam-fire engine, to cost $7500. This engine was received, and passed under the charge of the " Deluge Fire Company."
A cistern was located, March 17, 1874, on the corner of Fourth and Sunday Streets, in front of the school-house.
At a meeting of the town council, March 23, 1875, it was resolved that N. B. Garrigues be authorized to place a " Clapp & Jones" steam-fire engine in the village on trial, and April 20th it was voted to retain it. The total cost was $3700. It was named the " Vigilant," and given into the possession of " Vigilant Fire Company."
Fire Companies .- The first company (organized in April, 1841) was, by the ordinance, to contain twenty men. The minutes do not show that number, and it was not until November, 1847, that by-laws scem to have been drawn up. In section 1 this company was designated the " Salem Fire Company," the name previously adopted.
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The two engines " Soul-grinder" and " Columbiana"- were controlled by this company until 1869. April 6th of that year a constitution was adopted, and the company was to be known and designated as the " Vigilant Fire Com- pany." The officers chosen were Thos. C. Boone, Presi- dent ; J. M. Stratton, Vice-President ; Thos. J. Walton, Secretary ; Chas. Boone, Treasurer ; Peter Ambler, Captain ; Nathan Hunt, First Engineer; John Moore, John Gibbs, Second Engineers.
May 4, 1875, Thos. J. Walton, in behalf of the " Vigi- lant Fire Company," stated to the town council that the company had accepted the offer by the council of the new steamer.
The present officers are Thos. C. Boone, President; J. M. Stratton, Vice-President; Thos. J. Walton, Secretary ; Wm. Cooke, Treasurer; Nathan Hunt, First Engineer. The present membership of the company is 94.
" Deluge Fife Company" was organized in May, 1865, and took charge of the " Columbiana," and, upon the purchase by the town council of the Silsby steamer, the latter also was also given to their charge.
The first officers were T. J. Mendenhall, President ; E. A. Lease, Vice-President ; C. C. Snyder, Secretary ; J. R. Vernon, Treasurer ; and N. B. Garrigues, Foreman. The company enrolled 65 members at its organization.
This company was reorganized, under a new constitution, May 4, 1875. Foreman, D. B. H. Neas ; Assistant Foreman, John Marshall ; First Assistant Foreman, Eugene Lease; Second Assistant Foreman, Thos. Iceman ; Third Assistant Foreman, P. Barnhouse; Fourth Assistant Foreman, Stanton Neas ; First Engineer, A. Tucker ; Second Engineer, A. H. Brewster ; First Assistant Engineer, J. M. Vickers ; Second Assistant Engineer, Isaac Mendenhall ; Secretary and Treas- urer, J. L. Miller. The company has at present 74 members. " Rescue Hook and Ladder Company" was organized March 31, 1875, with Frank Webster as Foreman ; W. E. Dew, First Assistant Foreman ; W. Cassius Webster, Second Assistant Foreman ; C. Bonsell, Secretary ; S. Willson, Treasurer. They have at present 23 members. The officers for 1879 are as follows: Joseph Smith, Foreman ; Philip Royer, First Assistant Foreman ; Chas. Strawn, Secretary ; Geo. D. Smith, Treasurer.
N. B. Garrigues is chief of the fire department.
WATER-WORKS.
A large spring on the Davis or Hawley farm supplies the village with water. In 1860, Abel Phillips built a reser- voir of brick, 24} by 41 feet, and covered it; also a tower with two tanks, one above the other, and each 20 feet in diameter. The top of the upper tank was 26 feet from the ground. Friday, May 30th, of that year, after the pumping of the day, the water rose in the reservoir six inches in two hours, showing the spring's capacity to be about 1750 gallons an hour. A contract was made with the authorities in 1862, under which iron pipes were laid through the village, supplying water for domestic and for fire purposes. The works were sold to Daniel Koll, who sold them in 1868 to L. B. Silver, who in turn sold them in February, 1879, to A. B. Silver, of the Silver and Dem- ing Manufacturing Company. The pumps are worked by
an engine, which carries the furniture manufactory of J. & C. Hinshelwood.
ARTESIAN WELL.
In 1860 a number of persons in Salem, prominent among whom were John Sheets and Benjamin Pennock, put down an artesian well with the hope of finding oil. The boring was made at a point a little east of the Methodist Episcopal church on Broadway. At the depth of one hun- dred and eighty feet a vein of water was struck, which filled a four-inch tube and rose seven feet above the surface. This unsought spring has maintained its copious flow to the present time. The well was purchased by Abel Phil- lips, who leased the property, for a term of fifty years, to the gas and railroad companies, having first laid pipes to the premises of these corporations. The works are now owned by Albert R. Silver.
SALEM CIVIL LIST. PRESIDENTS, 1830 TO 1850.
John Campbell, 1830-31 ; Jacob Snyder, 1832-33; Joseph J. Brooks, 1834-36; Joseph Saxon, 1837; Joseph J. Brooks, 1838; James Eggman, 1839-42; Edward W. Williams, 1843-45; Emmor Weaver, 1846; James Brown, 1847-50.
MAYORS, 1857 TO 1879.
D. Hamilton, 1857 ; A. Heacock, 1858-62; John Hudson, 1863; L. B. Lockhart, 1864-67; C. Curry, 1868; Joseph Fawcett, 1869-73; M. V. Dunlap, 1874-77; J. D. Fountain, 1878-79.
RECORDERS.
Jacob Snyder, 1830-31 ; Benjamin Stanton, 1832-36; John Fawcett, 1837; Benjamin Stanton, 1838-39; Stephen Wisner, 1840; B. B. Davis, 1841 ; Thomas Kennett, 1842; James Eggman, 1843-46 ; James H. Cook, 1847 ; Charles L. Cook, 1848-50; J. Eggman, 1857-59; Charles H. Garrigues, 1860; P. Ambler, 1861 -62; Thomas Y. French, 1863; Samuel Hardman, 1864-66; Joseph F. Snider, 1867 ; Wm. Eastman, 1868-69; T. S. Baird, 1870; S. B. Richards, 1871-72 ; Jos. Reitzell, 1873; N. B. Garrigues, 1874 ; George Holmes, 1875-77; O. C. Sturgeon, 1878-79.
SCHOOLS.
The township was divided into five districts soon after its organization, and, being formed from four townships, re- ceives portion of its school fund from each. District No. 2 receives its proportion from the township of Greene ; Dis- trict No. 3, from Goshen ; District No. 4, from Butler ; and District No. 5, from Salem.
The Salem town district is No. 1, and receives its fund from all the townships. The enumeration of the children of school age in the districts, except No. 1, has been for seven years last past as follows: 1872, 1873, and 1874, 273; 1875, 292; 1876, 280; 1877, 260; 1878, 273. The enumeration of 1878 for the Salem District No. 1 is 1171.
In 1876 a report of the progress of the schools in Salem was prepared. Much time and attention was given to research, and the early history of education in Salem and vicinity was thoroughly reviewed. Subjoined will be found the result of such research, as embodied in the State report, prepared expressly for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 :
" HISTORY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS OF SALEM, OHIO, 1876.
" History of the Salem schools prior to the organization of the graded system .- It is not certainly known who kept
* Names of presidents or mayors from 1850 to 1857 were not found.
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the first school in the borough. Joseph Shreve, who was for many years engaged in a school under the direction of the Society of Friends ( Quakers), wrote and published two poems on the conclusion of his teaching, and gave with them a list of the names of the Salem teachers. In one stanza he thus alludes to himself and one of the carly teachers :
"' Nor to myself let me too much engross, -- The pious FISHER nursed thy early days ; She long bestowed attention strict and close, Beneath whose efforts Science spread her rays.'
" This was Hannah Fisher. Judith Townsend was the first named on the list. A man named James Craig is said to have kept school in the vicinity about that time. These were undoubtedly the first teachers in the place.
" The names of Nathan Ball, Moses Stanley, Caleb Hunt, and Ann Warrington are given as teachers succeed- ing those above named. They kept such schools as could be made up for one quarter at a time, at a certain rate per pupil. The first schools were kept in rooms fitted for the purpose. The old meeting-house (the first built in the town) that stood back of the site of the town-hall was for a while used as a school-room. The first house, exclu- sively for school purposes, was a hewed-log structure, and was built where the Republican office now stands. This was done about the year 1810 or 1811. In the fall of 1809, John Shreve came to Salem (his first arrival), and he was engaged to keep a school during the following win- ter. In the spring he returned to Pennsylvania. After him came two lady teachers.
"Then TOLERTON, with stern commanding brow, Bade Mathematics lift her piercing eye ; Bade freakish youth to rigid order bow, And rising powers neglected grammar try.'
" It was in the fall of 1811 that James Tolerton took charge of the school, and until some time in the year 1816 he was the principal teacher in Salem. He was the father of Robert and Hill Tolerton, so well known to the citizens of Salem. He gained a great reputation for skill in train- ing bad boys, and is said to have used the rod freely. But there is no account of any interference with his discipline by parents whose affection for their wayward sons was stronger than their judgment, which is a failing too com- mon among the parents at this time, and too often causes the demoralization of schools, and helps fast children to the position of head of the family. Several teachers followed Mr. Tolerton, whose terms were short. Among them were (1814) Susannah Hewett, (1815) Martha Townsend (now relict of Dr. Stanton), Benjamin Marshall, Daniel Stratton, Joshua Shinn, and others.
" In April, 1822, Joseph Shreve again came to Salem, and commenced teaching in the log school house on Main Street,-the same mentioned above. For about eleven years his school was the principal one in the town. In 1827 or 1828 a brick school-house was erected on the lot, now vacant, at the corner of Broadway and Dry Streets. The expense of building was defrayed by contributions from the Friends, and the schools held in it were under the direction of their Monthly meeting. This house was built under the direction of the teacher, who was much pleased
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