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Painesville Chapter, No. 46, was constituted October 20, 1851, E. of M. 2381. Charter members, Timothy Goodwin, John Page, G. W. Card, R. R.
Bourne, G. W. Slocum, S. J. Rider, J. A. Potter, S. H. Judd, Simeon Wright, William Foster, Amasa Cobb, and John Bingham. The first principal officers were Timothy Goodwin, H. P .; John Page, K. ; and George W. Card, Scribe. Stated convocations, first and third Wednesday in each month. Officers for 1878 : Henry H. Coe, H. P .; John Dickinson, K .; John T. Martin, Scribe; Peter Kleberger, C. of H .; T. C. Radcliff, P. S .; Walter Lanphier, R. A. C .; O. N. Brainard, M. 3d V .; W. C. Hathaway, M. 2d V .; W. H. Fowler, M. 1st V .; J. L. Parmly, Treas. ; L. Frietag, Rec. ; and H. N. Buys, Guard.
Temple Lodge, No. 28 .- June 1, 1815, occurred the first meeting of this lodge, U. D. They convened in Harpersfield, Ashtabula county, on this date, and elected and installed the following officers : Aaron Wheeler, W. M .; David Brainard, S. W .; Uriah Bartram, J. W .; Samuel Wheeler, Treas .; Robert Harper, Sec. ; Calvin S. Parker, S. D .; Jacob Bartholomew, J. D .; Isaac Bar- tholomew and Benjamin Curtis, Stewards; Benjamin Hartwell, Tyler. Meridian Orb Lodge, No. 10, was working under charter in Painesville at the meeting of the Grand Lodge on January 1, 1815. The present charter of Temple Lodge was granted October 17, 1842, with Joseph Cook, W. M .; Cyrus Martin, S. W .; and Ellis Kilby, J. W. It appears that Temple, Meridian Orb, Hiram, and Hebron Lodges were consolidated at Painesville in the fall of the year 1843, the first meeting having occurred on the 30th day of November of that year. The officers at this time we are unable to give. Those for 1878 are W. H. Turner, W. M .; Walter Lanphier, S. W. ; A. Anderson, J. W .; J. L. Parmly, Treas. ; H. H. Coe, Sec. ; T. C. Radcliff, S. D. ; Carlton Bohall, J. D .; and H. N. Buys, Tyler. Stated communications, second and fourth Wednesday in each month.
Painesville Lodge, No. 412, was organized in 1868, the charter being dated October 21 of that year. Charter members, W. H. Gaines, John Fertag, Alan- son Phelps, Edward Kelley, M. W. Carter, W. W. Nevison, Walter C. Tisdale, and R. M. Murray. First officers, John Fertag, W. M. ; Edward Kelley, S. W .; and Alanson Phelps, J. W. Stated communications, the second Saturday in each month. The officers for 1878 are : A. D. Malin, W. M .; R. K. Paige, S. W .; O. W. Kile, J. W .; Jerome Palmer, Treas .; L. Frietag, Sec .; Thomas F. Palmer, E. D .; C. C. Tuttle, J. D. ; and H. N. Buys, Tyler.
Union Encampment, No. 46 .- This society was instituted March 18, 1851, by Alexander E. Glenn, R. W. G. P. Charter members, J. A. Potter, D. R. Paige, S. Shears, M. S. Root, E. B. Bronson, G. D. Adams, and R. McCormick. The first officers were M. S. Root, C. P .; C. D. Adams, H. P .; R. McCormick, S. W .; S. Shears, J. W .; J. A. Potter, Scribe; and D. R. Paige, Treas. On January 1, 1863, by reason of a large number of the members having enlisted in the army, the charter was surrendered. March 14, 1870, the charter was restored, and the encampment reinstituted by Beldin Seymour, special Deputy Grand Patri- arch, the following patriarchs being petitioners, viz. : C. D. Adams, D. M. Eddy, Horace Steele, J. T. Martin, Milo Harris, H. Gregory, and L. Smith. The first officers were L. Smith, C. P .; C. D. Adams, H. P .; D. M. Eddy, S. W .; H. Gregory, J. W .; J. T. Martin, Scribe ; M. Harris, Treas. The oficers for the term commencing July 1, 1878, are J. B. Kilbourne, C. P .; C. D. Adams, H. P .; John Quirk, S. W .; Frank Gee, J. W .; C. O. Child, Scribe ; S. Hick- son, Treas. Meetings first and third Wednesday of each month.
Golden Cross Battalion consists of thirty-six uniformed members of said encamp- ment. J. B. Kilbourne, Commander ; J. Jerome, Vice-Commander; C. G. Rit- ter, Jr., Vice-Commander ; C. D. Adams, Chaplain ; Geo. W. Paine, Adjutant.
Cornucopia Lodge, No. 212, I. O. O. F., was instituted March 4, 1853, by John Hamilton, M. W. G. Master. Charter members, C. D. Adams, E. T. Wilder, E. B. Adams, M. H. Colby, C. B. Smythe, Landon Smith, Samuel Moodey, and Horace Steele, Jr. First officers were as follows : E. T. Wilder, N. G. ; C. B. Smythe, V. G. ; Samuel Moodey, Recording Secretary ; E. B. Adams, Permanent Secretary ; Landon Smith, Treas. The officers for the present term, July 1, 1878, are as follows, viz. : W. R. Rogers, N. G .; F. C. Tuttle, V. G .; H. Morse, Re- cording Secretary; C. D. Adams, Permanent Secretary ; W. W. Dingley, Treas .; L. Smith, Chaplain ; number of members, one hundred and sixteen.
Northern Light Lodge, No. 64, I. O. O. F .- Instituted by A. E. Glenn, March 24, 1846. Charter members, J. A. Potter, C. D. Adams, William Hig- ley, S. F. Comstock, B. Stockwell, J. W. King. J. A. Potter, N. G. ; William Higley, V. G. ; C. D. Adams, Sec. ; S. T. Comstock, Treas. By reason of the large number of members who enlisted in the army during the war, and other reasons, the charter was surrendered to the Grand Lodge in 1862.
Grand River Lodge, No. 57, 1. O. O. F., Madison, was the first lodge insti- tuted east of Cleveland. Instituted December 25, 1845. Charter members, Clark Newcomb, H. F. Newcomb, E. S. Foss, Edward Montgomery, and Mar- sena Hitchcock. D. D. G. M. William Bailey, of Cleveland, instituted the lodge and installed the officers, viz. : Clark Newcomb, N. G .; H. F. Newcomb, V. G .; Marsena Hitchcock, Sec. ; E. S. Foss, Treas.
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HISTORY OF GEAUGA AND LAKE COUNTIES, OHIO.
FAIRPORT.
The history of the rise and fall of Fairport-for, like larger places, it had a rise and fall-is a curious one, and well illustrates the uncertainty of success in land speculation, even where the prospects are most rosy-hued. Fairport was settled at an early day by a go-ahead class of men ; the conditions were all favor- able, and it bade fair to be the queen of the lake. It was ahead of Cleveland in prosperity, and advanced rapidly, but a combination of causes began to work against its prosperity, and its business and commercial life passed away with a suddenness that was startling to those who were pecuniarily interested in its welfare.
In 1798 the Connecticut Land Company deeded to Samuel Fowler tract four, in township eleven, range eight, comprising three thousand two hundred and forty-six acres, and including the present localities of Fairport, Richmond, and the plank-road bridge, and running as far north as Mentor avenue.
January 9, 1801, Samuel Fowler deeded to Abraham Skinner and Eleazar Paine one undivided fourth of the above land, less three hundred acres, and on May 3, 1803, he deeded to the same men the residue of the tract, being the remaining three-fourths and the three hundred acres reserved in the former sale. Abraham Skinner, as appears from a deed bearing date of June 8, 1812, deeded the same land to Samuel Huntington and the trustees and proprietors of Grandon, Simon Perkins, Calvin Austin, and Seymour Austin, of Warren, Trumbull county. Samuel Butler and Daniel Isham were subsequently given an interest. The property was divided, and one hundred and twenty-five lots assigned to the sev- eral trustees and to Abraham Skinner. Simon Perkins deeded his property to Samuel Huntington, and in 1816 the latter owned two-fifths, Seymour Austin two-fifths, and Abraham Skinner one-fifth of the village of Grandon. Calvin Austin gave his brother a government claim, and, the latter dying in 1820, his share of the village lots was sold at auction some years later, probably in 1834. Just here it may be noted, as throwing light upon the importance that was at- tached to Fairport in those days, that several lots brought one thousand and fif- teen hundred dollars apiece, and that one was sold at two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Most of these lots were bought by Lemuel G. Storrs.
Settlers came in fast, lots were taken, warehouses erected, and the village as- sumed the appearance of a lively commercial point. A lot was deeded to the United States in 1824, and the government erected upon it a brick lighthouse, which remained standing until a few years since, when it was demolished to make room for a better one. The first lighthouse-keeper was Samuel Butler. Elijah Dickson followed him, and then came, in the order given, Samuel Butler again, Isaac Speers, Thomas Greer, Hendrick Paine, Olmsted Baker, Halsey Baker, James McAdams, - Rogers, and the present holder of the place, Joseph Babcock.
The collectors of the port, in the order of their succession, were Samuel But- ler, Captain Henry Phelps, Timothy P. Weaver, Abraham Rich, Captain John K. Whaley, Harry Stroud, Captain Oliver Andrews, Phineas Root, Harvey Abel, Captain Oliver Andrews, Samuel Butler.
Among the prominent early residents of Fairport were Henry Phelps, Alvah Cable, and Samuel Butler,-each of whom had a large warehouse,-Ralph Granger, an attorney, a man of a great deal of ability, widely known, and Charles C. Paine. The village had three inns and a large number of fine dwellings. As nearly as can be ascertained the first house was built by Joseph Rider, who bought land in Fairport in 1803.
The first lighthouse at Fairport was completed in the year 1825, and was built by the government. The appropriation was obtained through the influence of Hon. Charles Whittlesey in 1823, then the member of Congress from the district composed in part of Genuga County. This lighthouse was of brick, fifty-six feet in height from the ground, and rose about ninety feet above the surface of the lake.
FAIRPORT'S FAIREST DAYS.
The failure of the canal project seems to have taken from Mr. Richmond's mind the last thought of building up a commercial town upon the bank of Grand river, and he soon after abandoned his business there. Fairport regained its old prosperity at a bound, and increased constantly in activity up to 1848, when it began to decline somewhat, because of the proposed Cleveland, Paines- ville and Ashtabula railroad. When the railroad was built, Fairfort fell flat as a business point. Its palmiest period was between the years 1842 and 1852, and the zenith of its prosperity was probably reached in 1847. We have from Captain Oliver Andrews, who was then collector, the record of the business transacted at the port during that year. Fairport was at this time the outlet for a section of country including Lake and Geauga Counties, a portion of Ash- tabula, and the territory as far south as Warren :
COMMERCE OF FAIRPORT, 1847.
EXPORTS.
Articles.
Quantity.
Value.
Ashes.
918 casks
$25,261
Beans
307 barrels
1,232
Beef ..
111
666
Brooms
843 dozen
1,264
Butter
308,870 pounds
33,976
Cheese
1,131,107
67,867
Cider ....
1.229 barrels
2,458
Flour
5,755 barrels
34,410
Furniture.
1,044 pieces
10,440
Fruit, green
2,262 barrels
3,394
" dried.
2,736
32,832
Flax-seed.
851
2,979
Grass-seed.
30
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Hams.
99,507 pounds
5,971
Honey
19,400
1,940
389,898
13,649
Leather
7,362 pounds
3,883
Lard
41,200
2,884
Lumber, sawed
staves
647 m.
9,872
Oats .
19,282 bushels
4,821
Oil peppermint ..
15,339 pounds
30,678
Pork
1,159 barrels
13,908
Potatoes.
2,950 bushels
1,107
Plows
149
1,043
Tallow
134,963 pounds
38,790
Wheat
5,026 bushels
5,026
Wool
134,963 pounds
38,790
Wood ..
9,350 cords
16,363
Wagons
130
7,800
Miscellaneous articles ..
22,190
$462,028
Whole amount Exports, 1846
309,477
Increase
$152,551
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IMPORTS.
Quantity.
Value.
Merchandise ..
1,974,932 pounds
$493.733
Salt
4,220 barrels
5,802
White fish.
500
3,250
Marble slab.
8 tons
80€
Coal, Lehigh
334 «
3,006
Plaster.
209 barrels
313
Limestone
1,280 tons
1,600
Lime-water
171 barrels
297
Whisky
550
4,950
Furniture,
210 pieces
1.043
Lumber, pine
21,000 feet
250
Miscellaneous articles
14,375
Whole amount.
$529,421
MARINE LIST.
2,150
Vessels
¥
836
Total
2,986
VESSELS OWNED AT PORT, WITH THEIR TONNAGE.
Schooner " Philena Mills"
227
"Ontonagon".
217
" Wyandot"
142
" Atalanta" ..
125
"Sarah A. Green"
119
"Stanley L. Noble"
103
" Emerry Fletcher"
8
" Cadet" ..
72
"Flying Dutchman"
78
" Cerro Gordo"
56
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VESSELS BUILT AND REBUILT AT PORT, 1847.
"Sarah A. Green"
.built.
"Ontonagon"
"Henry Crevolin" .rebuilt.
built.
Propeller " Monticello".
.built, 400 tons.
Vessels now Building .- One steamboat, two hundred tons; one schooner, eighty tons. At Madison Dock, to be owned and to hail from this port, one of one hundred and forty-six tons; two of two hundred tons each.
FAIRPORT, January 19, 1848.
RAILROAD ENTERPRISES.
There was at one time a railroad between Fairport and Painesville. An act passed in 1835 incorporated the Painesville and Fairport railroad company, upon the petition of Ralph Granger, James H. Paine, Lemuel G. Storrs, Henry Phelps, Homer Higley, David Hull, Reuben Hitchcock, Peleg P. Sanford, John H. Mathews, and Hezekiah King as directors. Lemuel G. Storrs, Ralph Granger, Solon Corning, Henry Phelps, Addison Hills, John H. Mathews, Reuben Hitch- cock, Peleg P. Sanford, and Milo Harris were elected directors. The citizens subscribed and took stock to the amount of nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-five dollars, and a loan of six thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars was obtained from the State, for which a bond was given with Ralph Granger, Addison Hills, Grandison Newell, Peleg P. Sanford, Jonathan F. Card, Solon Corning, and Henry Phelps as sureties. The road went into operation in 1837,.
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Corn, Rye, Barley.
105,690 bushels
52,850
Iron, manufactured
pig metal.
745 tons
22,350
1,524,000 feet
9,144
Articles.
Steamboats arrived and departed.
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and continued until the spring of 1841, when a freshet carried away the bridge, near Mr. Skinner's house, and, the company being unable to rebuild, the road fell into disuse.
Two of the men upon the bond died, three went through bankruptcy, and the remaining two, who were responsible, were relieved from paying the loan to the State by the passage of a bill in the legislature.
Another railroad, the Fairport and Wellsville, was projected, and a survey made by E. E. White, but the project fell through. The Painesville and Hudson rail- road was commenced in 1852, and that too never reached such a stage of advance- ment as to be of any value to the building of Fairport. An effort was also made to secure the projected Ohio road, but this too failed.
Fairport was incorporated as a town in 1836, and its first mayor, according to report,-the records have been destroyed,-was Ralph Granger.
RICHMOND AS A RIVAL.
Richmond settlement proved a powerful rival of Fairport for a number of years after its settlement. Its proprietor was Thomas Richmond, an eastern man who, while on a journey through the Reserve in 1832, chanced to hear that the tract of land lying west of Grand river was for sale, and immediately went to Warren, where its owner lived, and bought it. Richmond was a man of consid- erable means and ability, and of great activity. He soon had quite a model settlement on the bank of the river, and did a thriving business in the purchase of produce. Business fell off in Fairfort and steadily gained in Richmond, and for several years the star of the latter settlement was decidedly in the ascendant. But a change came. Thomas Richmond endeavored to have the weaver cross-cut canal brought to his little village, and in this he failed. It went another way, and he became convinced that the place could not prosper without it. Then came the bank panic, and Mr. Richmond was seriously crippled. He worked on, however, taking prompt measures to save himself from disaster, and finally not only paid all liabilities, but came out with a few thousand dollars ahead. He was after- wards elected to the State senate, where his services were found to be of great value. Richmond, under the sway of the proprietor whose name it bore, was, according to the best accounts obtainable, about as nearly perfect in morals and manners as a new settlement can possibly be. Mr. Richmond was a strong tem- perance man, and he enforced his doctrine upon the people who purchased land of him. He repelled those whom he did not like, and favored those whom he found agreeable to his ideas of what a man should be. The result was that he soon had around him a law-abiding, industrious class of people, congenial in their tastes, and who fully appreciated the rigid enforcement of the rules by which the little village was made and maintained.
Mr. Richmond was a man of great generosity, and assisted the people about him in many ways, among other good deeds building, at his own expense, a church of large size, which was for the exclusive use, except upon very rare occasions, of his own denomination.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOHN WALWORTH,
who came from Aurora, New York, to Mentor, Lake County, in 1799, was one of the most prominent settlers of the Reserve. After remaining in Mentor through the winter he returned to New York, and in the following year brought his family to Painesville, arriving on the 8th of April. As an evidence of his capability,-for capability to fill an office was regarded in those days as one of the qualifications a man should possess to entitle him to the favor of appointment or election,-it may be stated that Mr. Walworth was appointed as justice of the peace for Trumbull county, 1802; as associate judge, 1803; as postmaster at Painesville, 1804; inspector of the port of Cuyahoga, 1805; collector of the district of Erie, 1806; associate judge of Geauga County, 1806 ; and postmaster at Cleveland in the same year, and that when the county of Cuyahoga was or- ganized he was made county clerk and recorder. Mr. Walworth remained in Painesville but a short time, going from there to Cleveland, where he had an office, which was, we believe, the first frame building erected there ; at any rate, it was the only one standing in 1810. Mr. Walworth was born at Groton, New London county, Connecticut, in 1765, and died in the dark days of the war, September 10, 1812. His wife, a native of the same place in which he was born, died in 1853, at Cleveland.
ABRAHAM SKINNER
was born at Glastonbury, Connecticut, October 18, 1755, and married October 13, 1788, to Mary Ayers. In 1795 he made a trip to England, and brought back from that country four thorough-bred horses, from which have sprung some
of the finest horses in the United States. He made a visit to Ohio in 1800 or 1801, and came to settle in 1803, when he completed his purchases of large tracts of land in what is now the township of Painesville, also in Springfield and Twinsburg, Summit county, and Breckville, Cuyahoga county. In February, 1805, he brought his family to his new home. Three large two-horse sleighs were used to convey the family and household goods. From Buffalo the journey was made on the ice of the lake, arriving on the 5th of March, and having much difficulty in getting on shore because the ice had separated. Mr. Skinner first moved into a log house which stood on the ground now occupied by the residence of his son, Augustus Skinner.
That same season he erected a frame house, which he moved into in the fall, and in which he lived until his death, January 14, 1826, aged seventy years and three months. His wife, Mary Ayres Skinner, died October 7, 1812. The building Mr. Skinner then lived in forms the main part of the house now occu- pied by his grandson, Homer H. Hine, and is perhaps the oldest frame standing in this part of the State, being seventy-three years old. Captain Skinner was a genial, warm-hearted, hospitable, and enterprising citizen, to whom this section of country was indebted for much of its early prosperity. He laid out and was the original proprietor of Fairport. He also laid out a town which he called New Market, some three miles, by the course of the Grand river, above Fairport, and at the head of vessel navigation on the river. New Market at one time bid fair to be quite a thriving place. It contained three warehouses on the river, one or two stores and taverns, a number of residences, and a distillery. The first jail in the county was built by Captain Skinner, and stood in what is now Mr. Hine's garden. The first court held in the county was held in a large frame barn be- longing to Captain Skinner, the frame of which barn, still in good repair, stands in the rear, to the north of Mr. Hine's house.
Captain Skinner was in active correspondence with numerous parties at the East, trying to induce the emigration into this country of an enterprising and val- uable class of citizens. Among those whom he nearly persuaded were the Hon. Gideon Granger, postmaster-general of the United States, and General Champion, of Connecticut.
Captain Skinner was noted for his liberality in aid of all public enterprises. He built a large hewed log building at New Market for a court-house, composed entirely of black-walnut logs cut from his river-bottom land. He was also noted for the free-handed liberality with which he aided the early settlers in furnishing them with seeds, provisions, and other necessary aid. His heirs have now in their possession promissory notes, representing thousands of dollars, given during those early days, which still remain unpaid. Many of those early settlers re- member with gratitude the aid then extended to them.
The children of Captain Skinner were Mary, born September 20, 1788; Abram Ayres, born October 19, 1791; Paulina, born March 14, 1794; Roderick Washington, born July 3, 1796; and Augustus, born July 7, 1798. The oldest daughter, Mary, was married in 1807 to Homer Hine, a lawyer of Youngstown. She was the mother of Homer H. and Augustus Hine, of Painesville, with the latter of whom she now resides, at the age of ninety. Paulina Skinner married Nathan Perry, of Cleveland. R. Washington Skinner died January 17, 1871. Abraham Ayres died in 1831, after an active life. Captain Skinner died Janu- ary 14, 1826, and his wife, October 12, 1812, and the community lost in their taking away two of the most worthy settlers it had.
URI SEELEY
was one of the most widely known of the old settlers in Lake County. He came to Painesville township about the year 1817, and soon after purchased the large farm which he owned throughout his life. He was the embodiment of all that we are accustomed to look upon as the pioneer spirit,-a man whose most promi- nent characteristics were energy, intense activity, fearlessness, and integrity. He was practical, brusque, rugged, and, above all, a man of strong convictions and unflinching devotion to duty. With these qualities as his most prominent ones, it was not strange that he led a career which left its mark and influence upon the community, and in some measure upon the whole country. He was sheriff of the old county of Geauga from 1824 to 1828, and during his occupation of the office exhibited the same rigid adherence to principle, and the same unbiased, uncompromising sense of justice, that made him a mighty force in the long and severe campaign against slavery. He was perhaps the most prominent man of this neighborhood in the anti-slavery movement, and worked side by side with Wade and Giddings. He had a most fierce hatred of slavery, and his whole strength was exerted in the battle for its overthrow. He was a member of the first National Anti-Slavery convention, later a delegate to the Free-Soil conven- tion, and was the first representative of the abolition element in the State legis-
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lature, his constituency being embraced in the counties of Lake and Ashtabula. Mr. Seeley was one of the oldest members of the Presbyterian (now the Congre- gational) church, and through his long connection with the society was one of its leading men. Uri Seeley died August 10, 1877, aged eighty-six years.
COLBERT HUNTINGTON.
Of the six children of Governor Samuel Huntington, all born in Norwich, Connecticut, two only are alive at this writing, and but one resident in Paines- ville. The children were Francis, Martha Devotion (wife of John H. Matthews, M.D., late of Painesville), Julian Claude, Colbert, Samuel, and Robert Giles.
Julian Claude was until recently a resident of Painesville, but lately of Ashta- bula, Ohio ; and Colbert, the subject of this sketch, is now living in Painesville
COLBERT HUNTINGTON.
at the advanced age of over fourscore years, though as well preserved in mind and body as most men are at sixty or seventy. He was born at the governor's old house in Norwich, October 17, 1797, and came to Ohio with his father and mother in the first year of the century. He was married, May 8, 1833, to Ellen Paine, who was born May 9, 1809. Upon the death of his father, in 1817, Mr. Huntington came into possession of a share of the land originally purchased by the governor in 1807, from John Walworth and Charles Parker. This farm, described as being lot one in tract No. 2, has ever since been in his possession, and until the year 1861 was the place of his residence. His life has been that of a farmer, though he followed for several years the profession of teaching, and also for quite a number of years practiced surveying, being at one time county surveyor. Quiet, and comparatively without incident, his life has been passed in a manner useful to himself and others. Reserved and retiring in nature, he took only such part in public affairs as he deemed it his duty to take for the advance- ment of the best interests of the community, and never sought anything like personal benefit or aggrandizement through the plea of laboring for the well- being of the people. Whatever he has done has been done without consideration of self and as quiet and unostentatiously as possible. He has always been looked upon by all who knew him as a solid, substantial citizen, conservative and re- liable. His character is blameless, and he has the unqualified respect of all who have known him, either through business connection or socially. Mr. Hunting- ton removed from his farm to the place at present occupied by him, on Erie street, in 1861.
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