History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Part 124

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

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Benjamin Robinson, above referred to, was a famous hunter, and much addicted to a roving life; priding himself, indeed, upon his Indian habits. He became eventually an industrious member of the Alger settlement, but in his old age fell into evil ways, paid the penalty, and died in poverty at the age of ninety.

Rufus Wright, a soldier of the war of 1812, re- moved in 1816 from Stillwater, N. Y., to Rock port, and bought of Gideon Granger three-quarters of an acre of land, now occupied in part by the Pateben' Hlouse, on the west side of Rocky river, near its mouth. Ile paid $300 for it, evidently sharing Granger's belief that there was destined to be a great city near the natural harbor at the mouth of Rocky river. Wright put up a framed tavern of consid- erable size, and from 1816 to 1853 the house remained in the possession of the Wright family, passing in the latter year to Mr. Silverthorn. As the Patchen Hlouse, it is a remodeled and improved structure. still containing, however, a portion of the old build- ing. A part of the old tavern is now used by the widow of John Williams as a residence, a little south of the Patchen House. Mr. Wright built half of the first bridge at that point, kept a ferry there for some years, and assisted in cutting out the first road west of the river.

About the time of Wright's settlement, Henry Clark, John James, Charles Miles, and Josoph Sizer came into the township, and between the years 1816 and 1820 Clark and James were also tavern keepers on the west side. The first tavern kept in the town- ship was, as already recorded, the one opened by

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Daniel Miner, to whom the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county issned a license in March, 1811, re- newing it in 1812, and also granting a license to keep a ferry. This tavern was only a log cabin, eighteen feet by twenty-four, and stood on the east side of the river, near the end of the present bridge. For some years after Miner's death his widow carried on the tavern. previous to which, for a brief period, Moses Eldred, who located in the township in the spring of 1813, kept the stand.

Joseph, a son of Samuel Dean, who settled in Roek- port in 1814, built and carried on the first tannery in the township, on the north ridge, where Eneius Dean now resides. In 1815 Joseph Larwill-afterwards the founder of Granger City-built a mill near the mouth of Rocky river, but before he put it in opera- tion it was burned to the ground. A similar fate befell a mill which was built on the same spot in 1818 by Erastus and Charles Johnson. In 1812 Datus Kelly built a sawmill in section sixteen, on the creek that crosses the north ridge.

James Nicholson, at the age of twenty, traveled in 1803, afoot, from Barnstable county. Connecticut, to Trumbull county, Ohio, whence, after a residence of fifteen years, he moved, in 1818. to Rockport, where he had purchased two hundred and seventy acres of land. Upon a portion of that land his son, Ezra Nicholson, now lives. Of James Nicholson's two children, who came with him, a daughter-Mrs. Elias Paddock, of Olmstead-is still living. Upon his ar- rival he put up a log cabin, and at that time was the only settler between the Cuyahoga and Rocky rivers, In 1826 he erected a framed house a little west of where Ezra Nicholson now lives, and shortly afterward opened it as a tavern, Mr. Nicholson resided in Rockport until his death, which occurred in Roek- port, when he had reached the age of seventy-six.

Mars Wagar, with his wife, Keturah, moved from Ontario county, New York, to Cleveland in 1818. and in 1820 proceeded to Roekport, where he had pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres of land, in sec- tion twenty-two, from Francis, son of Gideon Granger. He died in Rockport in 1841, leaving a widow and several children, the former of whom still lives on the old homestead, at the age of eighty-five. Her sons, Adam M. and Israel D., are prominent citizens of Roekport.

In April, 1819, Eliel Farr, a farmer and surveyor, with his sons, Aurelius, Eliel, Jr. and Algernon, came into Rockport from Pennsylvania, and settled upon section sixteen. Price French left Ontario county, New York, in 1818, and settled in Indiana. He moved from there to Rockport in 1828, with his wife and six children, and located upon the place now occupied by Ezra Nicholson. Hle disposed of that portion of the farm to James Nicholson, and afterwards occupied the place where his son, A. G. French, now resides.

David Herrington, who went to Middleburg, Ohio, from Otsego county, New York, in 18?1, settled two years later in Rockport, upon the place now oceu-

pied by his widow. William and Mary Jordan located in 182% upon the " Jordan place, " on the Dover plank road. Mrs. Jordan still resides upon the old home- stead, surrounded by her children.

Jonathan Parshall moved from New York to Rock- port in 1821, purchased an acre of ground of Mars Wagar, and put up a log cabin near the house of the latter. Parshall was a house-carpenter, and also taught school a few weeks in Rockport, but he was not very industrious, and in the course of time, being unable to pay even for his acre of land, he was dis- possessed of it.

EARLY INCIDENTS.

Mention has already been made of the fact that Nathan Alger, Sr., was the first person to die in the township. The first white child born in the town- ship was Egbert, son of Philo Taylor, who was born in November, 1809, Addison, son of Datus Kelley, was the second, born in June, 1812, and the third was Philana D., daughter of Henry Alger, born in De- eember, 1812. The first couple resident in the town- ship, who were married, were Benjamin Robinson and Amelia Alger, who were wedded in Cleveland No- vember 5, 1812, by George Wallace, Esq. There was no wedding in the township until January, 1814. Chester Dean, of Rockport, and Lucy, daughter of Aber Smith, of Dover, were united by George Wal- lace, Esq., at the house of Datus Kelley. Visitors to this wedding came from miles around upon ox-sleds. and the occasion, so says tradition, " was one of great merriment."

The first justice of the peace was Charles Miles, who was elected June 24, 1819. In that year, at a State election, but thirteen votes were polled in the township.

Previons to 1812, Indians used to rendezvous in numbers at the mouth of Rocky river, and on an is- land in that stream they buried several of their dead. Upon that island, too, they left their canoes during the winter, while they went into the interior for game. Upon returning in the spring, they were in the habit of building a fire at the head of each grave on the is- land. The Indians were friendly to the whites before the war of 1812, but on the outbreak of that conflict, many of them joined Tecumseh, and none of them ever returned.

A great "bear hunt" was organized in 1820, and the command entrusted to Joseph Dean, a famous Nimrod of the time. The line of the hunt reached from Rocky river to Black river, and included a small army of hunters. Of bears they got few, but the catch of deer was abundant. The hunt wound up with a grand jollfication whereat whisky played an important part, as in truth it invariably did in all publie, and many private events of the time.

Whisky drinking was exceedingly popular and doubtless pernicious. At all events so thought Datus Kelley, who at a township meeting in 1824 astonished the company by presenting a temperance pledge for

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signatures. There was a storm of opposition, and a loud outery against what was called Kelley's onslaught upon liberty, but despite such a beginning, Mr. Kel- ley persevered in his purpose and eventually succeed- ed in gaining many adherents to the canse.

At the first township election but nineteen voters lived in Rockport and as there were eighteen offices to fill it was remarked after the election that every man in the township either held an office, kept a tar- ern or owned a sawmill.

The first bridge across Rocky river near its mouth was built in 1821, by subscriptions, Rufus Wright paying about one-half the expense. There was a great gathering at the raising of the bridge, which con- sumed a week. When it was accomplished, Captain Wright invited all hands to his tavern, where the whisky jug passed merrily around and where the event was celebrated in so hilarious a manner that even the " "Squire " himself danced a jig on a table among tumblers and bottles, while the rest of the company cheered his efforts by singing Yankee Doodle.

A sketch of the early experiences of the Algers, written by Ilenry Alger, narrates that when he reached Rockport, June 2, 1812, his personal prop- erty consisted of an axe, an old French watch, part of a kit of shoemaker's tools, a bed and seven cents in cash. As he had borrowed ten dollars to pay his way to Rockport, he was in no mood to idle away his time, but began at once to put up his log cabin, and furnished it with a "eatamount " bedstead, a shoe- maker's bench and two stools. With that outfit he and his wife set up housekeeping. The only kitchen ware they had at first was an old broken iron tea ket- tle which young Alger happened to find on the lake shore. In the fall of 1812 Mr. Alger went thirty-six miles west of Painesville and threshed wheat for Ebenezer Merry, receiving every tenth bushel for his labor. This shows plainly enough that breadstuffs were very scarce and high at that time.

In 1813 Mr. Alger went to Cleveland to get salt, and for tifty-six pounds of that commodity he worked nine days for S. S. Baldwin, and then carried it home afoot on his back. In a similar way he obtained flour -by chopping timber for Capt. Hoadley of Columbia. lle chopped an acre of timber for one hundred pounds of flour, and carried the latter home on his back-a distance of ten miles.

When Philo Taylor tirst settled in Rockport, in 1808, he went to mill in an open boat to the river Raisin, in the State of Michigan. The corn mills in Rockport at that early day were hollowed stumps for mortars, in which the grain was ground with what was called the spring-pole pestle. In 1810 a mail route between Cleveland and Detroit was established through Rockport. The mail, which weighed six or seven pounds, was carried on foot in a valise, by three men, stationed along the line.

GRANGER CITY.

In 1815, Joseph Larwill, of Wooster, Ohio, came to Rockport and purchased the "mill lot" on the east

side of the river, and also a tract on the west side near the mouth, where, with Gideon Granger, John Bever and Calvin Pease, he laid out a city, which was called Granger, in honor of Gideon Granger, a large land owner in Roekport and other parts of the Re- serve. A sale af the lots was widely advertised, and on the appointed day a great number of people were assembled from a considerable distance. Lots were sold at high rates: some bringing $60 each; the ex- citement ran high, and Larwill & Co. felt assured of a fortune.

The first cabin built upon the site of the new city was put up by Charles Miles near where the Patchen House now stands, and in 1816 John Dowling, George Reynolds and Capt. Foster also erected cabins. In the same year, John James, of Boston, bought out Miles, who then located on the farm afterwards owned by Gov. Wood. James, who had brought out a small stock of goods, opened a store, and also a tavern, both of which he carried on until his death in 1820.

In 1816, too, as already stated, Rufus Wright built a tavern there, and there were also several other set- tlers in the new city at that time, including Asahel Porter, Eleazer Waterman, Josephus B. Lizer and Henry Canfield, the last of whom built what was long known as " Canfield's old store." Mr. Caufield came from Trumbull county, Ohio, the home of his father, who had bought considerable land in Rockport. One day he met at his store a lady who had journeyed alone, on horseback, from Connecticut to Royalton, to visit her sister. lle fell in love with her at first sight, married her shortly afterward, and moved with her to a farm east of the river, now owned by Collins French. Ile lived there but a short time, however, before returning to Trumbull county.

One Fluke, a German, and a potter by trade, came from Wooster and settled in Granger City in 1817, and began to make brown earthenware. Shortly after that Henry Clark came along and opened a tavern. and one Seott moved from Painesville to join Larwill in the erection of a mill. They had got up the frame of a dam when winter set in, but in the spring the floods washed it entirely away. This deeply discour- aged Mr. Larwill regarding the future of Granger City, and he abandoned the undertaking in disgust.

The city struggled on a short time after this, but all kinds of business were soon abandoned there, and even the few scattered cabins were speedily deserted by their inmates.

ORGANIZATION.

Rockport was formed as a civil township in Feb- ruary, 1819, and on the first Monday in the follow- ing April it held its first election at Rufus Wright's tavern. Those who voted at that election were Rufus Wright, Asahel Porter, Henry Canfield. Samuel Dean, Chester Dean, Joseph Dean, Dyer Nichols, Daniel Bardin, John Kidney, John Pitts, John James, Chas. Miles, Erastus Johnson, Charles Johnson, Josephus B. Sizer, Datus Kelley, Jas. Nicholson, Benjamin Robinson and Henry Alger.

JOHN P. SPENCER.

Jonathan Spencer, the father of our subject, was born at East Greenwich, R. I., Dec. 6, 1778. He married Miss Mollie Jones, a native of the same town, who was born Nov. 27, 1781. In 1803 he emigrated to Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., where he purchased a farm. He was a tanner and currier by trade, and in later years a shoemaker. He resided in that State until 1834, when he came to Olmsted Falls, Cuyahoga Co., where he died Feb. 7, 1837. His wife's death occurred Feb. 10, 1835.

John P. Spencer was the second son and child of a family of eight children of this worthy couple. He was born at Brookfield, Madison Co., N. Y., May 24, 1805. His education was limited to what could be procured at the district school. In early life he assisted his father. At the age of twenty-one he left home and was employed on the farm for four seasons, in the winter teaching school. In 1830 he left Brookfield and came to Ohio to seek his fortune. He selected one hundred and twenty-five acres of fertile land (which was at that time an unbroken for- est) in the southwestern part of Rockport, with the intention of making it his home. On the 13th of March, 1832, he married Miss Electa M., daughter of Junia and Hannah (Ingraham) Beach. To this worthy woman should be attributed an equal share of the success which has attended them. They now have the means to obtain the comforts and enjoy- ments that a life of industry and prudent forethought will secure. Their home is known for its hospitality, and the unfortunate are never turned away unaided.

Mr. Spencer added to his landed possessions, so that at one time he owned two hundred and twenty- five acres, but he has made such liberal distributions of property to his children, that he has now remain- ing only his original homestead.

Mrs. Spencer was born in Norfolk, Litchfield Co., Conn., May 21, 1811. They have six children, all of whom are living : Henry B., born June 24, 1833; is unmarried, and lives with his father. Mary R., born March 25, 1835; was married Nov. 27, 1853, to James A. Potter. Hannah L., born Jan. 17, 1837; was married Feb. 2, 1860, to Francis W. Mastick. Amos B., born Jan. 21, 1839; was married March 21, 1861, to Miss Nellie Mastick. John W., born June 30, 1841. During the war of the Rebellion he served as a volunteer for three and a half years in the 15th Ohio Battery. He was married Dec. 24, 1866, to Miss Deborah Goldwood. Frank J., born Sept. 16, 1849 ; was married Nov. 25, 1872, to Miss Lou Palmer.

Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are now nearing their fifty years of married life. Their children are living on farms, all within a mile of them. Their grandchil- dren are growing up around them, and their deelin- ing years are made happy and pleasant by the satis- faction of knowing that their posterity are worthy citizens of the town of their birth.

Upon arriving at the age required in his native State to perform military duty, Mr. Spencer was elected to fill an office in the company to which he belonged, and afterwards received a commission as ensign from Martin Van Buren, then Governor of New York, which he held until he removed to Ohio. Politically, Mr. Spencer originally belonged to the Democratic party, but upon the breaking out of the war he became a Republican. Though never seeking the emoluments of office, yet he has, in years past, filled positions of trust in the township with honor and integrity, and is frequently consulted by his neighbors and friends, by whom his advice is thought worthy of respect and consideration.

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The chairman of the meeting was Chark -- Miles: the judges of election were Asahel Porter and Datus Kelley. The officers chosen were Henry Alger, Rufus Wright and Erastus JJohnson, trustees; Henry Can- field, clerk : James Nicholson and Samuel Dean, over- seers of the poor: Benjamin Robinson and Joseph Dean, fence-viewers: Joseph Dean, lister.

The first book of township records has been lost, and the list of those who have served the township as trustees, clerks and treasurers, can be given only from 1832 to 1829. For that period it is as follows:

1×32. Trustees, Dyer Nichols, Jared Hichcox, Chas. Warner; clerk, Dyer Eaton : treasurer, Calvin Giddings

1×33. Trustees, Alanson Swan, Dyer Nichols, Joha B. Robertson; clerk. Geo T. Barnum: treasurer, Ira Cunningham.

1834, Trustees, Alanson Swan, l'aul G. Burch, James S. Anthony ; clerk, Geo. T. Barnum: treasurer, Ira Cunningham.

1835. Trustees, Alansoa Swan, Jas. S. Anthony, Jas. Stranahan; clerk, Isaac P. Lathrop: treasurer, Solomon Pease.

1-36. Trustees, Jas. S. Anthony, Collins French, Henry Alger: clerk, Isaac P. Lathrop: treasurer, Solomon Pease;

1-37. Trustees, Epaphroditus Wells, Joseph Deaa, Benjamin Mastic; clerk, Isaac P. Lathrop: treasurer, Solomon Prase.

1838. Trustees, Joel Deming, Jas. S. Anthony, Guilson Morgan ; clerk, Geo. T. Barnum; treasurer, Solomon Pease

1839 Trustees, Obadiah Munn, Israel Kidney, Elial Farr: clerk, Geo. T. Barnum: treasurer, Solomon Prase.

1×40. Trustees, Eliel Farr, Obadiah Munn, Jonathan Plimpton ; clerk, Timothy S. Brewster: treasurer, Solomon Pease.

1841. Trustees, Asia Pease, Dyer Nichols, Israel Kidney ; clerk, A. S. Lewis: treasurer, Solomon Prase.

1842. Trustees, Asia Pease, J. D. Gleason, l'. G Burch: clerk, G. T. Barnum: treasurer, R. Millard.

1×43. Trustees, Eliel Farr, W D Bell, John P. Spencer; clerk, Timo- thy S. Brewster: treasurer, Royal Millard.

1841. Trustees, Chauncey Deming, Aurelius Farr, Benjamin Stetson ; clerk, Aaron Merchant ; treasurer, Royal Millard.

1815. Trustees, Chauncey Deming, Joseph Leese, Dyer Nichols ; clerk, Theophilus Crosby ; treasurer, John D. Taylor;

1×16 Trustees, Chauncey Deming, John P. Spencer, O. W Hotchkiss; clerk, Theophilus Crosby ; treasurer, John D. Taylor.

1×17. Trustees, Hanford Conger, Aurelius Farr, Jas. Stranahaa ; clerk, Royal Millard; treasurer, Benjamin Lowell.

1×18. Trustees, Hanford Conger, Chauncey Deming, Benjamin Mas- tick: elerk, G. T. Barnum; treasurer, F. G. Lewis.

1×49. Trustee-, Aurelius Farr. Osborne Case, Benjamin Mastick, clerk, G. T. Barnum; treasurer F. G. Lewis.

1650 Trustees, Royal Millard, Aurelius Farr, Wm. B. Smith; clerk, G. T. Barnum: treasurer, Truman S. Wood.

1851. Trustees, Aurelius Farr, Thomas Hurd, Jas. Stranahan; clerk, (. T. Barnum: treasurer, Isaac Highy.

1852. Trustees, Aurelius Farr, Thos, Hurd, J ha West; clerk, John Barnum: treasurer, Lewis Rockwell.

IN53. Trustees, John P. Spencer, Jobn Freeborn, Chauncey Deming: clerk, John Barnum: treasurer, Horace Dean.

1854. Trustees, Frederick Wright, Ezra Bassett, John Blank; clerk, John Barnum; treasurer, Horace Dean.

1855. Trustees, Edward Hayward, Ezra Bassett, A. Cleveland ; clerk, John Barmun; treasurer, Horace Pran

1856, Trustees, J. T. Storey, Thos. Hurd, Benj. Mastiek: clerk, Lu- cius Dran; treasurer, Horace Dean.

1857. Trustees, John F. Storey, Benjamin Mastiek, Ohadiah Munn; clerk, Lucius Dean; treasurer, O. W. Hotchkiss.

1858, Trustees, John F. Storey, Richard Mccrary, Lucius Dean : clerk, John Barnuar: treasurer, O. W. Hotchkiss.

1859. Trustees, John F. Storey. Obadialı!Munn, JJohn Farr; clerk, A. M. Wagar, treasurer, O. W. Hotchkiss.

1×1;0. Trustees, Thos. Hurd. Benjamin Mastick, James Potter; clerk, Edwin Giddings; treasurer, O. W. Hotchkiss.

1861. Trustees, Thos. Ilurd, Geo, Reitz, A. Kyle; clerk, Robert Fleury, treasurer, William Sixt.

1862. Trustees, Thos. Hurd, Geo. Reitz, Wm. Jordon; clerk, A. M. Wagar: treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1863. Trustees, Thos. ITurd, Geo. Reitz, Thos. Morton; clerk, A. M. Wagar; treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1864. Trustees, Thos. Hurd, Wm. Tentler, Calvin Pease; elerk, An- drew Kyle; treasurer, Win. Sixt.

1865. Trustees, Wm. Tentler, Wmn. L. Jordon, F. G. Bronson; clerk, Andrew Kyle: treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1866. Trustees, John F. Storey, F. Colbrunn, A. M. Wagar; clerk, John Barnum: treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1867. Trustees. Allen Armstrong, F. Colbrunn, Alfred French: clerk John Barnum: treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

INGS. Trustees, Anthony Cline, Lewis Nicholson, John Gahan; clerk, Andrew Kyle: treasurer, Wm Sixt.

1569 aad 1870. Trustees, John Gaban, Anthony Cline, Geo. W. An- drews; elerk, Andrew Kyle; treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1-71 and 1572. Trustees, John Gahan, Geo. W. Andrews, Henry Southworth: clerk, Andrew Kyle; treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1973. Trustees, G. T. Pease, Geo. W. Andrews, John Gahan; clerk, Andrew Kyle; treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1>64. Trustees. G T. Pease, Anthony Cline, John Gahan; clerk, Andrew Kyle; treasurer, Wm. Sixt.

1875. Trustees, Anthony Cline, J. W. West, Fred Baker; elerk, O. P. Stafford; treasurer, Win. Sixt

1876. Trustees, A. M. Wagar, John W. West, Anthony Cline; elerk, H. A. Mastick: treasurer, B. F. Phinney.

1MT. Trustees, L. A. Palmer, J. W. West, A. M. Wagar; elerk, Edwin Giddings: treasurer, B. F. Phinney.

1878 and 1-79. Trustees, A. M. Wagar, George Fauchter, Geo. W. Andrews; clerk, E. P. Thompson; treasurer, B. F. Phinney.

POST OFFICES.

The first postmaster in Rockport was probably a Mr. Goodwin, who, about 1822, kept an office at Rocky river, on the old stage route. In 1829 the stage route was changed so that it passed over " Ilog Back Hill," and crossed the river about a mile and a half above the mouth. Then Calvin Giddings, living on Ilog Back hill. was appointed postmaster. After a while Giddings moved across the river and took the post office with him. About 1834 the office was re- turned to the month of the river, and Rufns Wright, who then kept tavern there, was appointed postmas- ter. The office remained at Wright's until abont 1852. Abraham, Philip and Frederick, sons of Ru- fus Wright, being successively postmasters there. In 1852 the office was removed a mile sonth, where Her- man Barnum kept it a year, being succeeded, in 1853, by Benjamin Phinney, who kept a store there. He retained the office until his death in 1864. The office was then again returned to the month of the river. where John Williams was the postmaster until 1865. Another change then took the office up the river about two miles, to the house of Andrew Kyle, who continued to be the postmaster there until 1875. This year the office was removed northward to the store of B. F. Phinney, who has been the ineumbent since that time. A post office was again established at Rocky river in 1822, at the Cliff House, with Wil- liam Ilall as postmaster. He was followed by A. T. Van Tassel, and he by James Starkweather; the latter being the present incumbent.

Horace Dean, who kept store there, was the first postmaster at East Rockport. After his time the incumbents have been O. W. Hotchkiss, Wilham B. Smith, Jacob Tagardine, Adam Wagar and Joseph Ilowe, the latter being the postmaster during the present year, 1879.

ROCKPORT METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The Methodists residing in Rockport, on the west, side of the river, enjoyed irregular worship in school- houses and private residences until 1847, when a house of worship was erected about a mile and a half west of the mouth of Rocky river. The first class was organized in 1828. William Jordan was the

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leader: the other members being Dyer Eaton, Mrs. Mary Jordan, - Whiting, -- Bennett, Philena Alger, Sarah Doty. Polly Jordan and Sallie Usher, The organization took place in William Jordan's log cabin, and there worship was held for some time after- ward.

The first preacher was Rev. Henry O. Sheldon, a mest industrions laborer in the moral vineyard. Upon the erection of the church building, in 1842. the trustees were John D. Taylor, John Barnes, Henry Rauch, Benjamin Lowell and Sidney Lowell. The church membership is now tifty. The leader is C. S. Giddings, who is also the secretary of the society. The present trustees are S. II. Brown, Mark Able. C. S. Giddings, F. McMahon, Ira Burlingame, C. N. Wise and Charles Cuddeback. The present pastor is Rev. John McKean.

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History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Part 124

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