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As already stated, there was a Methodist society formed at Berea, soon after the war of 1812, which was supplied by cirenit preachers. The congregation was small, however, and no record remains of its oft- changing pastors. Rev. Henry O. Sheldon, as has also been mentioned, was the first resident minister: com- ing in 1836, and officiating more or less for several years. The first authentic record is that of 1846, when Rev. William (. Pierce was the pastor. The Berea station had previously been a part of Brooklyn circuit, but was now united with Olmstead and Hoad- ley's Mills: the whole becoming Berea cireut. A substantial stone church was begun as early as 1856, but was not dedicated until the last of 1858. It is on the east side of Rocky river near the university. The following is a list of the pastors sinee 1846, with their years of service:
Thomas Thompson, 1847-48; J. M. Morrow and U. Nichols, 1849: J. M. Morrow, 1850; Hiram Hum- phrey and A. Rumfield, 1851; Liberty Prentiss, 1852; C. B. Brandeberry, 1853: Charles Hartley, 1854: William B. Disbro and John Wheeler, 1855; William B. Disbro, 1856; George W. Breckenridge, 1852-58; T. J. Pope, 1859-60; D. D. T. Mattison and T. J. Gard, 1861; D. D. T. Mattison, 1862; Ingh L. Parish, 1863-64; E. H. Bush, 1865-66; S. Mower, tirst charge-W. C. Pierce, college charge, 1861: S. Mower, first charge-A. Schuyler, college charge. 1868; S. Mower, first charge -- W. C. Pierce, college charge, 1869: 1. Graham, first charge-W. D. Godman, college charge, 1820; T. K. Dissette, first charge-W. D. Godman, college charge, 1821; T. K. Dissette (for the whole), 1822-43: John S. Broad well, 1874-45-16; J. W. Buxton, 1872-78-79.
THE GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH.
Nearly twenty-five years ago it was observed that there were a number of Germans at Berea, who could not well understand English, and who seemed to be as sheep without a shepherd. Presiding Elder Roth- weiler, of the German Methodist Church, was asked to send them a preacher, which he accordingly did. A little over twenty years ago a society was formed, and services were regularly held, though in temporary quarters. Since the erection of German Wallace College the services have always been held in the col- lege-chapel; the church owning no real estate.
Only in rare instances has it had a pastor who was not in some way connected with the college. Gener- ally one of the professors has officiated as the pastor. At present Rev. P. F. Schneider is the preacher in charge. The total number of full members is now
In 1835, William Knowlton, a physician and a native of Massachusetts, removed with his wife and children from New York to Ohio, loeating first at Olmsted Falls, and subsequently in Brecksville, where he died in 1855. Of one of his sons, A. P., who was born in Mina, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., thissketch treats.
Somewhat favored by circumstances beyond the common lot of the youth of his time, young Knowl- ton received the valuable benefits of a thorough edu- cational course at an academy of high repute, and following the bent of his inclination entered the Cleveland Medical College, where he was graduated in 1857. Earnest in his chosen calling, and zealous in urging his skill forward to a state of high de- velopment, he became widely known as a capable physician and surgeon, and pursuing his practice in various parts of the State, located eventually and permanently in Berea, where he now resides.
To his duties as family physician he has frequently added his services in broader capacities, incidental to which it may be observed that he was at one period assistant physician at the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, and has for some time been an active and honored member of the Cuyahoga Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Association.
His politieal faith has always attached him to the Democraey, and on two occasions he has been put forward as the nominee of that party for the State Senate from his distriet, which being, however, over- whelmingly Republican, in both instances declared for his opponents.
He was married Nov. 10, 1863, to Miss Augusta Snow, whom he lost by death Dee. 14, 1864. His second wife was Hannah HI., daughter of Capt. C. P. Dryden, of Olmsted, whom he married Jan. 16, 1868. Two children blessed his second union,-Con- stance A., born Aug. 30, 1872, and Lonis G., born Jan. 30, 1876.
During the war of the Rebellion Dr. Knowlton was connected with an army medical corps, and was attached to the Sixth Ohio Cavalry, but becoming seriously disabled by a sunstroke at the battle of Gettysburg, he was compelled to resign his place in the service.
As a skillful member of his profession he enjoys deserved high repute not only at his own home, but in the county at large ; and especially in the science of surgery, to which he has devoted his particular care, he stands confessedly one of its best exponents in Cuyahoga.
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one hundred and fifty-seven: a portofc of them being individuals belonging to the college aud orphan asy- lum. Services are held twice every Sunday, all in fierman.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BEREA.
This church was organized on the 9th day of June. 1855, the first members being Caleb and Myra Proe- tor, David and Isabella Wylin. John and Nancy Wat- son and Mary J. Crane. Ten more members were added in the following September. The first pastor was Rev. Stephen Cook. The first deacons were James S. Smedley and Caleb Proctor: the first trus- tees, James S. Smedley, James L. Crane. B. F. Cogs- well, Isaac Kneeland and Caleb Proctor. The same year a small brick house of worship was built on the lot occupied by the present church edifice, it being dedicated on the 6th of March. 1856. This was the first meeting-house completed in the township.
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The church grew but slowly, and when the troubles and depression incident to the great war for the Union came, it was obliged in November, 1802, to suspend its services.
In September, 1868, the church was reorganized. It soon entered on a flourishing career, and increased rapidly in numbers and vigor. The present large and commodious edifice was dedicated in 18;2. In the spring of 1823 there was a most fruitful revival, and no less than thirty-seven were added on the 24th day of April alone, under the ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Westervelt. The church still continues in a most flourishing condition. The following is a list of the pastors with their terms of service:
Stephen Cook, 1855 and 56: E. P. Chisbee, 1856 and '5%: Z. P. Disbro, 1860; E. P. Clisbre began April, 1861, closed November, 1862; La Santh, from September, 1868, part of the time till January, 1820; 11. C. Johnson, 1820, 71 and 22; G. F. Waters, 1x ?? and '43; Rev. Mr. Westervelt began early in 1823. served a few months: C. N. Gored, June, 18;3. to August, 18:5; J. S. Whitman, 1826: I. H. Votaw, 1877, 78 and '19.
ST. MARY'S CHURCH ( ROMAN CATHOLIC ).
This church was formed in 1855. The first resi- dent priest was Father Louis . Fibere. Although he officiated at Berea he resided at Ohinstead Falls until 1866. A small framed house of worship was erected soon after the formation of the society on the same site as the present one. It 1866 it was removed and the present edifice was begun. It is a hundred feet long by forty-eight wide, built of dressed Berca stone, and costing about twenty thousand dollars. Father Filiere was succeeded in February, 1876, by Father John Hannan, and he in 1829 by Father T. J. Carroll, the present incumbent. The conneilmen are Thomas Donovan, Joseph Buling and James Bar- rett. The congregation now numbers about one hundred and twenty families.
ST. THOMAS' CHURCH (EPISCOPAL).
St. Thomas' Church was originally organized at Berea on the 9th of October, 1864. P. Harley was the senior warden and T. MeCroden the junior war- den. Rev. George B. Sturgis preached two years, but the number of Episcopalians at Berea was so small that in 1866 they were obliged to abandon the organ- ization.
In the autumn of 1843 St. Thomas' was reorgan- ized and consolidated with St. Philip's, formerly of Albion, and St. Luke's, of Columbia. The first offi- eers under the new organization were George John- son, senior warden; Joseph Nichols, junior warden; William James, W. W. Goodwin, E. F. Benediet, M. McDermott. C. W. Stearns, Thomas Churchward and I. S. Ashley, vestrymen. A framed building was moved from the west to the east side of the river and fitted up as a church in 1823, and is still occu- pied as such: the congregation numbering about fifty members.
The rectors have been as follows: R. R. Nash, a short time in 1813: A. V. Gorrell, 1843 to 18;5; J. M. Hillver, 1825 to 18;9. The present officers are Joseph Nicholas, senior warden; E. F. Benedict, junior warden: M. MeDermott, Wm. A. James, S. Goette, Win. MeCroden, B. Crawford.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH (GERMAN LUTHERAN).
Religious meetings begau to be held among the Germans in the north part of the township as early as 1866. On the 28th of July, 1867, a church was organized by Rev. G. H. Fuehr, called the Evangeli- cal Lutheran congregation of St. Paul. A framed church edilice had been built the same spring. There were then but fourteen members. Rev. Mr. Fuehr remained in charge of the church until 1825, when he was succeeded by Rev. F. Schmeltz, the present incumbent.
There are now about seventy-five families belonging to the church, with nearly two hundred members over fourteen years of age. The trustees are M. Holtz- worth, F. Steller and L. Schultz. A school is con- nected with the church, which is taught by the pastor and numbers fifty scholars. There is also a Sabbath school of sixty or seventy scholars.
ST. ADELBERTIS' CHURCH (POLISH CATHOLIC).
This church was organized early in 18:4 by Rev. Vietor Zarecznyi, its present and only pastor. A large church building was erected the same year about half way between the main part of Berea vil- lage and the depot. It is eighty feet by forty-two and cost six thousand dollars. " The Sisters of Humility of Mary " teach a school in the church edifice, having from ninety to a hundred scholars. There are now about eighty families connected with the church.
BEREA LODGE, NO. 382, F. AND A. M.
This society was organized on the 20th day of Feb- ruary, 1862; the charter members being F. R Van
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Tyne, G. M. Barber, S. Y. Wadsworth, C. Vansise, G. B. Sturgess, D. S. Fracker, N. D. Meacham, W. P. Gardner. F. R. Van Tyne was the first master; 4. M. Barber the first senior warden, and S. Y. Wads- worth the first junior warden. The list of masters, with their terms of service is as follows: F. R. Van Tyne, 186; and '68: G. M. Barber, 1869: S. Y. Wads- worth, 1820 and $1: D. R. Watson, 1822: F. R. Van Tyne, 1813; W. W. Goodwin, 18:4: W. 1. Reed. 18:5 and 46; Joseph Nichols, 1877 and 78: C. W. L. Miller, 1829. The present number of members 18 sixty-three.
BEREA CHAPTER, NO. 134. R. A. M.
The charter of this chapter was granted October 2, 1872; the charter members being F. R. Van Tyne, D. R. Watson, W. W. Noble, Edward Christian, W. L. Stearns, G. M. Barber. Robert W. Henry. Theo- dore M. Fowl, S. E. Meacham, HI. D. Chapin, Aaron Schuyler, Samuel Hittel. F. R. Van Tyne was the first high priest: R. W. Henry, the first king; and W. 1 .. Stearns the first scribe.
The chapter now numbers thirty members, and meets in the room on the third floor of the " Brick Hall."
OTHER SOCIETIES.
The following are other societies situated at Berea: Rocky River Lodge, No. 236, I. O. O. F .; C. B. Loomis, N. G., Fred Beebe, R. S.
Berea Encampment. No. 152. I. O. O. F .; B. W. Sabin. C. P .; D. E. Stearns, scribe. Sweet Home Division, Sons of Temperance: C. II. Knapp, W. P., George N. Watson, R. S.
A. O. IL., Division No. 2; T. S. Morissey, president: Martin Galvin, secretary.
Grindstone Lodge, No. 324. A. O. U. W .: C. W. D. Miller. W. M .: O. HI. Perry, recorder.
BEREA VILLAGE CORPORATION.
Berea was incorporated as a village. March 23, 1850. The first mayor was Hon. John Baldwin. We have not been able to find the earliest records, The num- ber of votes in 1858 was one hundred and forty: the number in 1848 was three hundred and twenty-seven -showing a probable population of abont two thou- sand. Since 1852 the mayors of the village have been as follows:
G. M. Barber, 185; and '58; J. V. Baker, 1859: W. N. Watson, 1860 and '61: Joseph Jones, 1862: Silas Clapp. 1863: Jacob Rothweiler, 1864; JJames S. Smedley, 1865: Jolm Baldwin, Jr., 1866: Alex. Mc Bride, 186 ;: S. S. Brown, 1868; Lyman Baker, 1869, 20 and 21; D. R. Watson, 1812 and 43: S. S. Brown. 1814 and '45; George Nokes. 1876 and ***: Joseph Nichols, 1848 and *79.
BEREA TOWN HALL.
Few villages of the size of Berea can boast of a more ereditable building belonging to the public than this. It was erected in 1874, Jacob Smith being the
superintendent. It is sixty feet long by forty wide, and is built of briek; the two sides on the streets, however, being faced with stone in "ashlar" or rough form. It contains on the first floor a council- room. mayor's room, engine room, and three cells for prisoners; the second floor is occupied entirely by a very fine public hall.
BUSINESS PLACES, SIIOPS, ETC.
The list of these in Berea now includes the follow- ing: Ilotel, one: dry goods stores, five; hardware stores, two: grocery and provision stores, seven: drug- stores, three: harness shops, two; shoe shops, four; blacksmith shops, three; wagon shops, two; jeweler's shops, three; millinery shops, four; tin shop, one; merchant tailors, four: undertaker's shops, two: bar- ber's shops, two; saloons, six.
PHYSICIANS.
Henry Parker, A. P. Knowlton, A. S. Allen, F. M. Coates. N. E. Wright, William Clark and Lafay- ette Kirkpatrick.
BEREA STREET RAILWAY.
This work was begun in May, 1826, and completed in 1818. It runs from the depot to the central part of the village, is a mile and twenty rods long, and cost six thousand dollars. It is owned by a joint stock company, of which Joseph Nichols is the presi- dent, and C. A. Moley, the secretary and treasurer.
BEREA UNION SCHOOL.
Great attention has always been paid to education in this village. The old " Lyceum," the Baldwin Institute, the Baldwin University and German Wal- lace College are spoken of elsewhere. As early as 1851 or 1852, when graded schools and boards of education were extremely rare, ontside of the large cities, a board of education and a Union school was established at Berea. James S. Smedley was the first teacher (that is, in the Union school), remaining three years, Subsequent principals in the old build- ing were Messrs, Goddard, Milton Baldwin, Israel Snyder. Bassett, Eastman, Goodrich, Kendall, Huck- ins, Pope and Hoadley.
The present large and commodious brick school- building was erected in 1869. Subsequently Mr. B. B. Hall aeted as principal for a year, and Mr. Millets for another year. In 1822 Mr. M. A. Sprague became principal and superintendent, and the school has ever since remained under his able management. There are now four hundred pupils enrolled, arranged in three grades-high-school, grammar and primary. There were about twenty scholars in the high-school grade, a little over a hundred in the grammar grade, and the remainder in the primary. The high-school teaches the higher English branches, the grammar grade the ordinary English studies, and the primary grade the elementary ones.
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NEWBURG.
BOARD OF EDU . ATION.
President, E. Christian: clerk, C. W. Sanburn: treasurer. A. II. Pomeroy: directors. T. C. Mattison, M. MeDermott, E. G. Worcester: superintendent of publie schools, M. A. Sprague.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BERE.A.
This institution was organized July 1, 1822. with a capital of $50,000. The first board of directors was composed of T. Churchward (president ). Jacob Kuntz (vice president), Alanson Pomeroy, W. L. Stearns, and A. P. Hinman. II. C. Johnson was chosen cashier at the organization, and was succeeded in 18;4 by A. Pomeroy, the present incumbent.
The bank has now a deposit account of $30,000; a loan account of $45,000, and a circulation of $45,000. The directors are T. Churchward (president), W. C. Peiree (vice president ), O. D. Pomeroy, Anson Good- win and .A. J. Campbell.
BEREA SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
Although organized on the 21th of November, 1814, this association did not begin business till the 12th of April, 18:5. It has a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand is paid. There is now between sixty and seventy thousand dollars of deposits, and abont eight hundred depositors. The trustees are Henry Parker, presi- dent; Sydney Lawrence, vice-president: Wm. Lunn, V. C. Stone, C. C. Bennett, Jacob Bailey, F. M. Stearns. C. W. Parker is the secretary and treas- urer.
CHAPTER LAXIX. NEWBURG.
The Present Township- Early Settlement Philip Brower Marks, Ben- nett. Treat and Ross A New Way of Breaking up a School Rathbun Civil Organization Principal Township Officers - Schools - Manu- fartures-The Austin Powder Company The California Powder Com- pany -The Newburg Fertilizer Company.
NEWBURG township, one of the first to be settled in Northern Ohio, long included nearly the whole of survey township number seven, in range twelve, of the Western Reserve, but the encroachments of the city of Cleveland have redneed it to very narrow limits. It is now exceedingly irregular in shape, somewhat resembling a carpenter's square in general form, and is bounded as follows: North by the city of Cleveland and the township of East Cleveland; south by the township of Independence; cast by Warrensville, and west by Brooklyn. The Cuya- ahoga river flows along the western border, and Mill creek across the southern section-the latter stream occasionally providing good water power. The Ohio canal passes through the southern edge of the town- ship, following the course of the river, and the At- lantic and Great Western and the Cleveland and Pitts- burg railways run for a short distance across the south- eastern portion.
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The present Newburg is a strictly agricultural region. The soil is fertile, and farming is profitable. especially near the city, where gardening ocenpies the labors of the people to a large degree. Pasturage is plentiful and excellent, and dairies are numerous, The largest, average from thirty to forty eows each, and Newburg does a flourishing business in supplying the city with milk. Building stone is quarried to some extent, but receives no marked attention as an article of shipment.
Newburg, as now constituted, is simply a rural set- tlement, with convenient access, however, to more populous regions, There are within its limits neither villages nor churches; but on the other hand, the citizens pride themselves on the fact that there is no place in the township where liquor is sold. The only publie buildings are the town-hall and the school- houses.
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The earliest settlements of old Newburg were made in that portion now known as the Eighteenth ward of Cleveland. But the pioneers of that tract having been mentioned in the history of Cleveland, this chap- ter will deal merely with the first settlements in what is now known as Newburg township.
Philip Brower, who was among the early comers, journeyed in 1816 with his wife and seven children from New York State to Independence township. Ile lived there until his wife died-in 1820-and then settled in Newburg, near the Independence line, where David L., his son, had purchased two hundred and seventy aeres. David lived on the old place fifty-four years, and died in 1876, aged eighty-five. His widow still survives, residing with her son Perry in Cleveland.
When Mr. Brower moved into Newburg he be- came a neighbor of Darins Warner, who came from New York in 1816 with tive children, and took up the farm now occupied by James Walker, who mar- ried his granddaughter. Darius Warner's son, Spen- cer, carried on the farm after his father's death, and on his own death, in 1861, left four children. Two of them. Mrs. James Walker and Lydia Warner, live in Newburg: Norman resides in Iowa, and John in California.
In the spring of 1820, Nehemiah Marks, Wilson Bennett, Richard Treat and a Mr. Clark, all young men of Milford, Connecticut, set out in a one-horse wagon for Ohio, and, after a journey of thirty-three days, brought up in the township which is the sub- jeet of this chapter. Treat and Clark went farther west, but Marks and Bennett tarried in Newburg, where they had bought farms of Barr & Bardsley, the Connectient proprietors, Mr. Marks bought one hundred aeres on the present Bedford road, where he still lives, an aged but hale and hearty pioneer, now entering upon his eighty-third year. Mr. Bennett located on the farm next adjoining that of Mr. Marks on the northwest. Soon afterward Thomas Ross, an
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emigrant from the State of New York, came from Summit county and joined Marks and Bennett, his farm being the one now owned by Asa Dunham, one mile west of the Marks place. While engaged in clearing their farms, Marks, Bennett and Ross kept bachelor's hall in Ross' log shanty until late in the fall, when the family of the latter came ont from the East, and then Marks and Bennett boarded with the Ross household. Meanwhile Marks had put up a log house and cleared six acres of land, whereupon, in 1821, he traveled on foot back to Conneetieut for his sister, who accompanied him to Ohio, and kept honse for him until 1822. when Mr. Marks married. The next year she married Cyrus Parmeter, a Vermonter, who had assisted Marks in clearing his farm, and re- moved to Strongsville.
As an instance of the difficulty of traveling with vehicles in those days, it may be observed that young Marks walked back to Connectient in thirteen days on the return trip; when he had a team, he consumed upwards of a month. When Mr. Marks first came out to Newburg he had to cut his way to his farm, although in the following summer a road from Cleve- land to Hudson was opened, which was followed somewhat later by the present Bedford road.
Ross died in 1832, of the cholera. Bennett fell eventually into evil ways, took to drinking, and died a wreck, in 1836, None of the descendants of either Ross or Bennett are living in the township. Mr. Marks married, in 1822, a Mrs. Parmeter, a sister of the man who married Miss Marks, She came to Newburg in 1821, in company with a family of West- ern pioneers, and drove a team all the way from New England as compensation for her transportation. Atter reaching Newburg she taught school on the Brainard farm, but unfortunately for the school it was broken up by the speedy marriage of its teacher.
When Mr. Marks settled in Newburg there were on the Bedford road in Newburg the Jewetts, John and Samuel Brooks, and Nehemiah Wallace, with his three sons, Ira, Chester and Jefferson, the former two being married. Chester is still living in Morrow county, in this State. Lewis Harper's farm adjoined Wilson Bennett's, but he subsequently moved to that part of the township now included in the city.
Edmund Rathbun, now an old gentleman of eighty-five, living in Cleveland with his son-in-law, Freeman Brooks, made the journey in a sleigh from New York to Newburg, in the winter of 1817, in company with Isaac Clark and family. Young Rath- bin took np forty-four acres of land near where the " five-mile-lock " was afterwards constructed, which tract he increased to one hundred and twenty-five acres in 1818. In that year his brother George joined him, and located on a neighboring farm. IIe removed to Euclid in 1844, and died there in 1877, aged eighty-one. Edmund Rathbun sold out his Newburg place in 1854, and went to Solon, afterwards becoming a resident of Cleveland, as before stated.
Ilis wife, who is still living, was the daughter of Samuel Hamilton, who settled in Newburg village as early as 1801.
Mr. Rathbun's neighbors besides his brother George, were Milton, Erastus and Joseph Rathbun; a Mr. Burgess, who was killed by the fall of a tree; Jonathan Pearse, who located in Newburg about 1818; John Gould and his son, Myrick; Benjamin Parsons, Wildman White, Samuel Andrus and George Beakle.
In the northeast, one of the pioneers was Jedediah Hubbell. Ilis house was burned to the ground on Sunday, in 1822, while he was at church. The next morning his townsmen gathered in force, put up a new house for him, and moved his family into it be- fore nightfall. That is an example of how people used to help each other in the " good old days." Solomon White was located in the north near the present city line. On the old State road, now called the Fisher road, were Parker, Shattuck, Amos Brain- ard, Silas Owens, Lewis Pect and Isaac Clark; the latter having come out with Edmund Rathbun in 1811. A Mr. Remington, Lyman Hammond and Mr. Rightor were settlers perhaps, as early as 1814, near where James Walker lives, but they moved away after a very brief stay.
CIVIL ORGANIZATION.
Newburg township was formed by an order of the county commissioners on the 15th day of October, 1814. Until 1843 it embraced the thriving village of' Newburg. In Sepember of that year the village and the tract lying between it and the north line of the township were annexed to the city of Cleveland. The remaining citizens of Newburg determined to preserve the residue of their territory intact, and so, on the ed of March, 1844, the township was incorporated for "special purposes." The only change in the form of election, however, is that each year one trus- tee is chosen to serve three years.
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