History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Part 119

Author: Johnson, Crisfield
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Number of Pages: 716

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Financially the township is in a healthful condi- tion. On the 1st of September, 1829, there were in the treasury $2,555, against which there was not one dollar of indebtedness. The township tax for 1879 aggregated ninety-three and one-half cents on each $100.

While Newburg village was a part of the township, all the township business was naturally done there, and a large part of the officers lived there, probably a majority of them. Others lived in the northwestern part of the old township. These are all "ontsiders " so far as the present township is concerned. Yet if we give a bit of Newburg officers at all we cannot discriminate between them, and we can find no place more proper for it than in the history of the town- ship which still bears that time-honored name. The township books from 1814 to the present time are in the possession of the clerk of the present Newburg, and from them we transcribe the following list:

GAIUS BURKE.

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NEWBURG.

PRINCIPAL TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

1814. Clerk, Erastus Miles; trustees, Giles Barnes, Chas. Miles, Daniel Marvin.

1813. Clerk, Erastus Miles: treasurer, Theodore Miles: tru-tees, Jas. Kingsbury, Chas. Miles, Giles Barnes.

1-Fi. Clerk, Erastus Miles: treasurer. Theodore Miles: trustees, Giles Barnes, Daniel Marvin, Y. L. Morgan.

1812. Clerk, Thompson Miles; treasurer, Theodore Miles; trustees, Giles Barnes, Chas. Miles, Y. L. Morgan.

1818. Clerk, Justus Remington: treasurer, Jedediah Hubbell; trus- tees, J. A. Smith, Ephraim Hubbell, S. S. Baldwin.

1819 and 1820. Clerk, Daniel Miles: treasurer, Theodore Miles: trus- tees, Ephraim Hubbell, Jas, Kingsbury, John Wightman. .

1×21. Clerk, Lewis Peet: treasurer, Theodore Miles; Trustees, Jehial Saxton, Jedediah Hubbell, Noble Bates.

1×22. Clerk. Lewis Peet; treasurer, Thompson Miles; trustees, Noble Bates, Jehial Saxton, Aaron Hubbard.

1×23. Clerk, Justus Hamilton; treasurer, Thompson Miles; trustees, Jehial Saxton, Peter Robison, Y. L. Morgan.

1×24. Clerk. Justus Hatnilton ; treasurer, Thompson Miles; trustees, Theodore Whiles, Aaron Huhbard John Brooks.

1-45. Clerk, Justus Hamilton; treasurer, Erastus Miles; trustees, Theodore Miles. John Brooks, Philemon Baldwin.

1-26. Clerk, Justus Hamilton: treasurer, Peter Robison: trustees, Jas Kingsbury, John Brooks, Philemon Baldwin.

1827. Clerk, Jason Hubbell: treasurer, Gaius Burk : trustees, Cyrenus Ruggles, Lewis Peet. Jesse Harris,

1828. Clerk, T. T. Clarke: treasurer, Justus Hamilton; trustees. John Brooks, Jonathan Pearse, Moses Jewett.

1829. Clerk, Philemon Baldwin; treasurer, Gideon Tupper: trustees. Jonathan Pearse. Moses Jewett, Spencer Warner.

1×30. Clerk, Philemon Baldwin; treasurer, Gideon Tupper; trustees, John Brouks, Noble Bates, Stephen Titus.

1831. Clerk, Jason Hubbell: treasurer, Gideon Tupper; trustees, Jehial Saxton, A. S Chapman, ( Hamilton

1832. ('lerk, Jason Hubbell; treasurer, Gideon Tupper: trustees, Chester Hamilton, AA S. Chapman, Jas. Kingsbury.

1833. Clerk, Jason Hubbell; treasurer, Gideon Tupper: trustees, Gaius Burk, Moses Jewett, A. S. Chapman.

1834. Clerk, Jason Huhhell; treasurer, Gideon Tupper; trustees, Moses Jewett. Samuel Brooks, Jehial Snxton.

1835. Clerk. Jason Hubbell; treasurer, A. C. Chapmin: trustees, Moses Jewett, Philo S. Ruggles, A. H Brainard.

1436. Clerk, Anson A Miles: treasurer, Philo S. Ruggles; trustees, A. 1I. Brainard, Aaron Shepard, Asahel Palimiter.

1837. ('lerk. Jason Hubbell: treasurer, Philo S. Ruggles; trustees, Aaron Shepard, Asahel Palmiter, A. S Chapman

1838. Clerk, Jason Hubbell: treasurer, Philo S Ruggles: trustees, A. S. Chapman, A B. Haight, Jabez Gallup.

1439 Clerk, Jason Hubbell: treasurer, P S. Ruggles; trustees, A. B. Haight, Stephen Titas Aaron Shepard.

1840. Clerk, Thos. M. Bayard: treasurer, P. S. Ruggles; trustees, ... Il Brainard, Wileman White, Stephen Titus.

1811. Clerk, Justus Hamilton; treasurer, P. S. Ruggles; trustees, A H. Brainard. Y. L. Morgan, Jr., G Bradford.

1842. Clerk, Justus Hamilton: treasurer, P' S Ruggles; trustees, Y. L. Morgan, George Rathbone, J. Hopkinson.

144: Clerk, John Keys: treasurer, P. S Ruggles; trustees, John Hopkinson, Nehemiah Marks, G. S. Rathbone.

1844. Clerk, Harvey Burke; treasurer, Spencer Warner; trustees, N. Marks, G. S. Rathbone, John Hopkinson.

1845. Clerk, E. G. Sunmons; treasurer, Spencer Warner: trustees, B. L Wiggles, Eben Miles, F. A. Andrews.

1446. Clerk, John Keys: treasurer, Henry Marble; trustees. B L. Wiggins, Thomas Garfield, Alonzo Carter.

1º47. Clerk, John Keys; treasurer, Henry Marble: trustees. Thomas Garfield, E. Rathbone, J. S. Ruggles. 1848. Clerk, John Keys; treasurer, A. W. Gaylord : trustees, Thomas Garfield, J. S. Ruggles, Elias Shepard.

1449. Clerk, Harvey Burke; treasurer, A. W. Gaylord; trustees, I. G. Ruggles, Elias Shepard, I. W. Kingsbury.

1850. Clerk. Harvey Burke: treasurer, C P. Jewett; trustees, E. G. Simmons, Wm. Kelley, James T. Worley.

1×51. Clerk, Harvey Burke: treasurer, C. P. Jewett : trustees, N. T. Meech, J. N. Cannell, Thomas Garfield.

1852. Clerk, Harvey Burke; treasurer, Elias Shepard; trustees, Thos. Garfield, N. T. Meech, C. P. Jewett.

1853. Clerk, Harvey Burke; treasurer, Elias Shepard; trustees, Thos. Garfield, Sam'] Stewart, B. L. Wiggins.

1854. Clerk, H. S. Pratt: treasurer, Wm. Bergen; trustees, A. H. Brainard, Henry Marble, B. L. Wiggins.

1855. Clerk, Alex. Topp ng; treasurer, Wm. Bergen; trustees B. E. Wiggins, I. Brayton, C. P. Jewett.

1856. Clerk, Alex. Topping: treasurer, Wm. Bergen; trustees, B. L. Wiggins, R. Edwards, F. A. Andrews.

1457. Clerk, A. B. Ruggles; treasurer, H. Burghardt; trustees, B. L. Wiggins, F. A. Andrews, Alex. Topping.

1858. Clerk, E. W. Greenwood, treasurer, H. W. Burghardt ; trustees, D. L. Wiggins, Jos. Turney, A. P. Leland.

149. Clerk, A. J. Hamilton; treasurer, Moses Fish: trustees, Jos. Turney, A. A. Jewett, Richard Rodway.

1800. Clerk, A. J. Hamilton; treasurer, Moses Fish: trustees, A. A. Jewett, Clark C'aley, F. \ Andrus.

1801. Clerk, J. H. Shepard: treasurer, C. P. Jewett: trustees, A. W Morgan, Thos. Garfield, Jabez Lovett.

1862. Clerk. J. H. Shepard; treasurer, P. S. Ruggles; trustees, Thos. Garfield, Moses Fish, P. Potts.

1803. Clerk. J. G. Ruggles; treasurer, E. T. Hamilton; trustees, G. R. Bowman, Thos. Caine, John Hopkinson.

1864. Clerk, J. A. Dyer; treasurer, E. G. Hamilton: trustees, J. D. Runnels, Win. Jones, C. P. Jewett.

1865. Clerk, R. M. Choate; treasurer, D. J. Wilder; trustees, C. P. Jewett, J. D. Runnels, Elias Shepard.

1866. Clerk, R. M. Choate; treasurer, N. B. Wiggins; trustees, C. P. Jewett, Moses Fish, Frank Andrews.

1867. Clerk, MI R Hughes: treasurer, H. C. Ruggles: trustees, Moses Fish, C. P. Jewett, H Carter.

1865. Clerk, M. R Hughes: treasurer, H. (. Ruggles: trustees, Elias Shepard, Henry Carter, Thos. Garfiekl.

1869. Clerk. M. R. Hughes: treasurer, M. M. Jones: trustees, Elias Shepard, James Walker, Henry Williams.

1870. Clerk, Will. H. C'ain: treasurer, M. M. Jones; trustees, James Walker, Henry Carter, Moses Fish.

1871. Clerk, Wm. H. Cain; treasurer, A. J. Hamilton; trustees, James Walker, Henry Carter, Joseph Turney.

1872. ('lerk, J. Crays; treasurer, Henry Shanks; trustees, Jos. Tur- ney, Moses Fish, Edmund James.

1878. Clerk, George Ruggles; treasurer, Henry Shanks; trustees, C. P Jewett Win E. Edwards, Cornelius Boyle.

1824. Clerk, Chas. Evarts: treasurer, James Walker: trustees, C. P. Jewett, A. L. Radway, Jacob Flick.

1875. ('lerk, James Walker; treasurer, James Walker; trustees, (. P. Jewett, Jacob Flick, A L. Radway.

1876 and 1-77. Clerk and treasurer, James Walker; trustees, Eli W. Carrell, Jacob Flick, A. L. Radway.

1878. Clerk and treasurer, James Walker; trustees, Jacob Flick, A. L. Radway, Richard Woudly.

1579. Clerk and treasurer, James Walker: trustees, A. L. Radway, Richard Woodly and E. W. Cannell.

SCHOOLS.

Newburg has now live school districts-two having been added during 1879. At the last report, Septem- ber 1, 1829, for three school districts, the value of school property was set down at $10,000. The amount paid teachers for the year was 8235, and the balance of cash in the school fund was 81.400. The number of children of school age was about two hundred, of whom one hundred and ten were enrolled in the schools: the average attendance being sixty-six. The great discrepancy between the enumeration and en- rollment is explained by the statement that many of the children in the township attend a Catholic school in the eighteenth ward of Cleveland. Two fine brick school-houses, expected to cost $1,600 each, are now being erected in the two recently created dis- tricts. The five districts are located as follows: No. 1, in the northeast; No. 2, on Miles avenue: No. 3. on the Bedford road; No. 4, near the California pow- der works, and No. 5, on Union street. The mem- bers of the board of education are Boardman Pearse, O. W. Quiggin, John R. Edwards, JJohn B. Collett and Jacob Cramer.

MANUFACTURES.

The manufacturing industries, although few in number, are of considerable importance.

THE AUSTIN POWDER COMPANY,

(an outgrowth of the firm of Austin & Sons, which was founded in Ohio in 1833), was incorporated in

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1868, with a capital of $300,000, for the purpose of manufacturing all kinds of powder. The works are located near what is called tive-mile-lock. flere the company owns one hundred and thirty acres of land, upon which are the mills, tenement houses, etc. Thirty men are employed, and about four hundred kegs of powder are produced daily; the product in- elnding blasting, mining, shipping. cannon, meal, and several grades of sporting powder. Mr. L. Ans- tin, who was the secretary of the company until 1813, has been its president since that time.

THE CALIFORNIA POWDER COMPANY,

an association incorporated by the State of California, has branch factories in various parts of the country, and among them one in Newburg. This branch was established in 1872, for the purpose of manufacturing dynamite, or Hercules powder, for blasting. The business at these works aggregates $300,000 ammally. Forty men are employed, being under the direction of William Willson, the superintendent.

The mills are located near the line of the Ohio canal, in a deep ravine npon an extensive farm owned by the company, and comprise about a dozen differ- ent structures.

THE NEWBURG FERTILIZER COMPANY,

composed of .I. B. Peck, J. II. Breck, Jr., and E. S. Peck have a large establishment near the river devoted to the manufacture of bone-dust, superphosphate of lime and neatsfoot oil. The company was established abont three years ago, as the successor of Davidson & Palmer.

CHAPTER LAXX.

OLMSTEAD.

The First Improvement James Geer Elijah and D. J. Stearns-A Large Purchase-D. J. Stearns Becomes a Pioneer Celebrating the Fourth-Daniel Bunnel-Olmstead Called Kingston Three Lonesome Years-High Price for Wheat- First Marriage-First Birth-First Death-Amos Briggs Mrs. Scales and the Wild Animals-Major Hoadley-His Girls Raise a House-Remark- able Death of John Hanley-Settlers After 1819-First Gristmill -First Religious Organizations-Indian Sugar Bush- Organiza- tion of Lenox-Division of Lenox -Reorganization First Offleers Afterward A Big "Black Squirrel"-Lenox Changes to Olmstead- The Seven Fitches-Mr. Ba num's House-Kilpatrick's Mill-First Tavern - The Union Meeting-house - A Lyceum on Butternut Ridge-General Improvement The Railroads-Olmstead Falls and Lake View-The War-Stone Quarries-The Universalist Church- Wesleyan Methodist Church Methodist Episcopal Church-Congre. gational Church on the Ridge St. Mary's Church-Congregational Church at the Falls-Union School Lyceum, ete., in District Number One-Olmstead Falls Village-Principal Township Officers.

TowasHIr six and range fifteen. now known as Olmstead, saw the first improvement made while war was still raging along the not distant frontier. In the year 1814 James Geer, then a resident of Colum- bia, which is now in Lorain county, but was at that time in Cuyahoga, cut out the underbrush and girdled the trees on a small piece of land in the southwest corner of the township, on what has sinee been known as the Browning farm. This he planted

to corn the same year, and raised such a crop as he could among the trees.

The next spring, after the declaration of peace, Mr. Geer put up a small log honse at the place first mentioned, and moved thither with his family, be- coming the first permanent resident of the present township of Olmstead. Ilis son, Calvin Geer, was then a boy of seven, and is now the earliest surviving resident _of the township. Wild beasts swarmed all around, and often appeared in the edge of the little clearing. One of young Calvin's oldest recollec- tions is regarding the slaughter by his father of a bear which showed himself one Sunday evening, soon after their arrival, on the bank of Rocky river, not far from their cabin. Mr. Geer's first shot broke the animal's back, but such was his size and vitality that it took three more balls to kill him.

The same year, 1815, Elijah Stearns and his son, David Johnson Stearns, came to Kingston, as Olm- stead was then called, to select land for future settle- ment. The senior Mr. Stearns had a large family of boys, and was desirous to obtain an extensive tract of land for their use. Ile selected and purchased a thousand and two acres on Butternut Ridge, in the northwest part of the township, at two dollars per acre. Of this it was arranged that D. J. Stearns wasto have a hundred and fifty acres. The latter was then an active, enterprising young man of twenty-one, with a constitution remarkably well fitted to bear the hard- ships of frontier life, as is shown by the fact that after passing through the whole pioneer period of Olmstead's existence, and after residing sixty-three years in the township, he still survives, at the age of eighty-five, in a condition of remarkable physical vigor, and of undiminished mental power.

It was expected that the proprietors would send a surveyor to lay out the land, and D. J. Stearns waited awhile for his arrival, in the meantime clear- ing off a small piece of land near the present resi- dence of Buel Stearns. He then returned to Ver- mont.

In 1816, having perfected the purchase of his land, he came back to Kingston to reside upon it. Ile was accompanied by his brother Alva, and by Asa Knapp, but they only remained long enough to help him put up a log house and make a beginning in the woods. Mr. Stearns still preserves a note of three hundred and thirty-four dollars, one of four given by the Stearns' for land, to the trustees of the estate of Aaron Olmstead, who had been in his lifetime the proprietor of the township. Young Stearns had a sub-agency under Judge Kirtland, the agent of the proprietors, to sell their land. He, however, had sold only two lots when the owners stopped the sale. The Fourth of July, 1816, was celebrated by Mr. Stearns. assisted by Mr. Geer, in clearing out the "ridge road" from Rocky river, along Butternut ridge, toward the home of the former. They worked from sunrise till sunset, cutting out the saplings so as to make a pass- able pathway, for a distance of two miles.

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That same spring Daniel Bunnel moved from ('o- Inmbia to the northeast corner of Olmstead, and built a rough plank house, becoming the third resident of the township. As we have said, the township was then called Kingston, but this name had no legal validity; it was merely applied at the fancy of the proprietors to survey-township number six. Many such names were given on the Western Reserve, some of which were retained, while others were changed.

Owing to the stoppage of the sale of land by the proprietors, young Stearns remained almost alone in that part of the township until 1819, keeping bach- elor's hall the whole time. In 1812 he was obliged to pay three dollars a bushel for wheat, which he bought near Black River. laving other business to attend to, he gave half of it to another man to take to mill. The latter went with a yoke of oxen, and. finding the nearer mill closed for want of water, he was obliged to go to Chagrin river to get the wheat ground. It took him a week to go and return. Salt at the same time was twenty dollars a barrel.

The first wedding in the township was that of llarvey Hartson and Eunice Parker, which took place at the residence of James Geer, in the spring of 1811. Hartson located himself near Geer. The same spring. and at the same house, occurred the first birth, that of Mr. Geer's daughter, Julia. The child died when two years old, this being the first death in the township.

In 1812 Amos Briggs settled on the west part of Butternut Ridge, on what has since been known as the Robb farm. In 1818 Isaac Scales built a house and brought his family to live on the east end of the ridge, near Rocky river. He and his wife lived there without neighbors about a year. As he was obliged to go to Columbia to work most of the time, Mrs. Scales had a most lonesome experience. Often she had to get up in the night, with a broom. to drive the wildcats out of the loft of her house. One day she saw a bear hugging the dog to death in the front yard. She took down the old musket from over the fireplace, but finally concluded that it would be more dangerous than the bear. The latter left the dog ap- parently dead, and waddled off into the woods. Poor Tray, however, recovered from the effects of his ex- tremely bad company, but in a very dilapidated con- dition. Add to such events as these the frequent ap- pearance of wandering Indians, and it must be admit- ted that there was enough to try a woman's nerves most severely.

In February, 1819, Mr. Stearns was married to Polly Barnum; this being, we believe, the second wedding in the township.

A little later in the same spring Major Samuel Hoadley settled near Scales's place, at the east end of Butternut ridge. lle and his family at first occupied a log house, but immediately began the ercetion of a framed one. After the frame was completed, ready to raise, one day late in the summer Major Hoadley and his wife went away for the day, leaving at home his daughters, Maria and Eunice, the carpenter,

James Miles, and a man named Eliot Smith. During the day Mrs. Scales also came over to visit them. The two girls, both enterprising, wide-awake young women, determined that they would surprise their parents by raising the new house while they were gone. It was not a very large one, the timbers were light, the carpenter offered to help and to see that the work was done properly, young Smith was very ready to give his best assistance, and Mrs. Seales proffered a pair of arms not at all to be despised.

So at it they went. Under Mr. Miles's direction they all took hold, carried the timbers to their pro- per position, fitted the sills into place, and matched the bents together. Then with hands and pike-poles the three women and two men started a bent upward, and to the cheery "heave-ho !" of the carpenter steadily raised it to its place. The other work quickly followed, and when Major and Mrs. Hoadley returned at nightfall, their eyes were greeted with the sight of a frame completely erected and ready for the clapboards, while, to their astonished inquiries, two demure young ladies answered quietly, "Oh, we did it:" as if raising houses was the commonest thing in the world for them to do.

The next spring Maria Iloadley, one of the heroines of this adventure, was married to John Adams, a newly arrived young pioneer. They settled near by, have ever since resided in the township, and now live at West View. Eunice Hoadley afterward became Mrs. John Barnum.

The second death, and first serions accident in the township, occurred in the autumn of t819, in a very peculiar manner. Mr. D. J. Stearns had a boy of Irish parentage, named John Hanley, about tifteen years old, living with him, whose parents resided in Ridgeville, now Lorain county. One day the boy ob- tained permission to visit his home, promising to re- turn in time to do the chores at night. The night set in dark, and the boy did not appear. His wife being ab- sent Mr. Stearns was in his house alone. Late in the night he heard an agonized voice shrieking "Oh! dear! Oh! dear!" at some distance from the house. For a moment it ceased, and then it was heard again nearer than before. Mr. Stearns stepped out of the door. where he was suddenly grasped by a man who flung his arms around him in a state of frantic excitement, crying out at the same time: "Oh ! my boy is kilt ! my boy is kilt ! my boy is kilt !"

As soon as Mr. Stearns could recover from his astonishment, and get the man to the light, he found that his visitor was Mr. Hanley, the father of John. It was with great difficulty that he could quiet the frantic Irishman so as to obtain even the slightest idea of what was the matter. At length, however, he succeeded in learning from the broken ejaculations of the distracted father, mingled with sobs and groans, and eries of anguish, that Hanley and his son had been coon-hunting, and that a large tree had fallen upon his boy and probably ernshed him to death, a mile or two out in the woods, to the northeast.

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Knowing that he could do nothing without assist- ance, Mr. Stearns made Hanley promise to remain at the house until he could obtain aid. Ilis nearest neighbor, Amos Briggs, was absent, and there were no others nearer than a mile and a half. Ile accord- ingly went to Mr. Briggs's stable, and took his horse to go for help. Ere he could mount. however, Hanley came rushing up, and again flung his arms about the young man, crying out that his " boy was kilt" in all the agony of unreasoning despair. Again Mr. Stearns pacified him, and persuaded him to return to the house. The former then rode a mile and a half, and obtained the help of three new- comers, Bennett Powell, Job Cole and another whose name is not recollected.

The four returned with all speed to Stearns's house, where they found the desolate father with whom they set out to find the scene of the disaster. Hauley, however, had been so frightened and demoralized by the catastrophe that he could give no clear idea of the direction to be taken. Nevertheless he thought it was somewhat east of north, and he knew there was a turning tree where the sad event had occurred. The five men hurried forward through the darkness in the general direction indicated, and at length, saw a light in advance. Shaping their course toward it, they soon arrived at the turning tree. There they soon found that the distracted father's words were but too true: the poor boy was indeed killed. A large ash tree lay where it had fallen. directly across the youth's head, which was crushed out of all semblance of humanity, while his body was raised from the ground by the pressure on his head.

It seems as they gathered from Hanley's broken statements, and his subsequent utterances in a quieter state, that he had persuaded his son to remain and hunt coons with him, instead of returning to Stearns' that night. They had gone east a mile or two along the line between townships six and seven (Olmstead and Dover), and had then borne southward into the former township. At length, the night being cold and damp, they built a fire at the foot of a hollow ash tree, and determined to wait for the moon. The boy lay down upon a grassy knoll a short distance from the tire, while his father sat with his back to a hickory tree in the opposite direction, and both soon went to sleep.

An hour or so later the old man was awakened by a tremendous crash, directly over his head. The hollow ash had burned off and had fallen against the hickory by which Hanley sat. The tough wood of the latter bent before the blow and then recoiled with such force that it threw the ash back in the opposite direction, so as to fall directly across the head of the sleeping boy. Ilis father was so frightened and horrified that he ran screaming into the woods en- tirely at random, and by mere accident came out at Mr. Stearns' clearing.

When the four Americans saw the situation they went to work with the axes which they had of course

brought with them to chop off the tree on each side of the corpse. Mr. Stearns, however, was obliged to devote himself to holding the half-crazy father to keep him from running under the axes of the chop- pers in the fruitless attempt to extricate his child. Beneath the sturdy blows of the pioneers the tree was soon severed on either side, and the body taken out. It was carried back to Stearns's, where it was kept the remainder of the night and then taken to Hanley's place in Ridgeville.

The accident happened in such a remarkable way that it was long the subject of evening talk among the pioneers of Olmstead.

After 1819 emigrants came in more rapidly than before. Among those who came within the next five years, besides those already named, were Isaac Frost, Elias Frost, Zenas Barnum, Harry Barnum, Crosby Baker, Ilorace F. Adams, Amos Wolf, Truman Wolf, Christian Wolf, Charles Usher, Hezekiah Usher, Ransom J. Adams, Hosea Bradford, H. G. Seekins, Natrous Usher, Noble Hotchkiss, Thomas Briggs, Otis Briggs, Alvah Stearns, Elijah Stearns, Jr., Ves- pasian Stearns, Elliott Stearns, Lyman Frost, Hosea Bradford, Lucius Adams and A. G. R. Stearns. Be- sides the six Stearns brothers who have been named, a seventh, Sidney, began improvements in the town- ship. but died in a short time afterward.

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History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Part 119

Author: Johnson, Crisfield Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. Number of Pages: 716

Author: Johnson, Crisfield
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Number of Pages: 716