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When Butler moved to his farm his tavern passed into other hands, and among the landlords about that time, who followed Butler were David Ash
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and John Davidson, Marylanders. Ash was much of a gentleman, and kept the tavern for a number of years.
The second tavern in the town was started on Main street, in a log building which stood on the lot next to and north of N. N. Hill's brick block. John Haron kept it awhile and then moved to his farm, located in what is now the northeast part of town, a little beyond the present court house. He turned his tavern over to his son-in-law, Got- leib Zimmerman, who was from Hagerstown, Mary- land. Montgomery Brown, another son-in-law, fol- lowed Zimmerman, and kept the tavern as long as it was used for that purpose. Upon the sign (which was one of the most important things about all the old taverns), was painted a full sized portrait of General Wayne.
The third tavern in Mt. Vernon was a frame building, and stood on the lot on Main street, where Warner Miller for many years kept store. It was two stories in height, painted white, and was called the Green Tree Tavern, having a green tree painted on its sign. It was kept first by Mordecai Vore, who sold it to Judge Eli Miller, and he in turn sold it to Charles Timberlake, who kept it some years. After him came Constance Barney, who rented it, kept a hotel and run the first stage line from Mt. Vernon to Sandusky. He subse- quently continued this stage line to Columbus. After Barney, the hotel was kept by Andrew Plum- mer and others, until it was taken away to make room for the present brick block.
The Kenyon House was the first brick hotel in Mt. Vernon, and was built by T. W. Rogers, who occupied it some years as a private residence, then remodelled it for a hotel. This became a very popu- lar hotel and was well patronized for many years. Killin Winne was the first landlord. The first building was a large white frame, which, after some years, was taken down and the fine brick erected. It stood on the southwest corner of Main street and the public square, and was taken down by Mr. A. Wolf, who erected the present large business block in its place.
George Lybrand erected in 1840, the building, yet standing and for many years known as the "Lybrand House." It stands on the west side of Main, between Front and Gambier streets, and is
owned at present by Jerome Rowley, whose son is the present landlord.
The Curtis House, on the southeast corner of Main street and public square, was erected in 1876, by Henry B. Curtis, and is a fine building.
Gas works were established in Mount Vernon in 1857; the incorporators being John Rite av Judge Eli Miller, Henry B. Curtis and .... The capital stock was thirty-five thousand dollars. This company erected the presen- works on Water street, at the foot of Mulberry. About 1858, N. N. Hill and Columbus Delano purchased a controlling interest in the works and thereafter managed them until within a few years. About eight miles of pipe were laid under the superintendence of Mr. Hill, who was secretary and treasurer of the company more than twenty years.
The first postmaster in Mount Vernon was Gil- man Bryant, who also kept the first store. His little store room stood on "stilts," on the south- west corner of Gambier and Main streets, diagonal- ly across the street from the "War office," on the lot for many years occupied by Mead's store. It was swampy and muddy in that region and the building stood five or six feet above the surface of the ground on piles driven into the ground, and was reached by several steps, from the street. Bryant and Burr were the merchants and principal men in the new town. Bryant kept the post office a number of years and was followed by Alexander Elliot, Judge Eli Miller and Isaac Hadley-the latter still living in the city. Miller kept the office, the next door north of where the First National bank now stands (northwest corner of Main and Vine streets). Isaac Hadley says the next post- master after himself was Benjamin Sınith, and was selected in the following manner: A wire was stretched between two trees, quite high, and the man who could throw a coon's tail over the wire, was considered qualified for the office of the post- master. A man named Jones was the first to throw the coon's tail over the wire; he accomplished the feat by purchasing a few shot at a neighboring grocery, and attaching them to the tail, thus giving it weight. Jones did not take the office, but gave it to his friend Benjamin Smith, who was a son of James Smith, a Methodist preacher and justice of the peace many years. For half a century or more
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the post office has been kept in the neighborhood of the corner of Vine and Main streets. James McGibeny was postmaster in 1825.
In 1825, when Dr. J. N. Burr came to Mount Vernon, the larger part of the town was still west of Main and south of Chestnut streets, but there were a number of houses scattered along Main street and perhaps half a dozen on Gay street, which is east of and runs parallel with Main. Hazelbrush and timber covered the larger part of the eastern part of the city. There were also half a dozen or more houses on Main street, north of the square. The principal merchants at that time were Burr & Bryant, John Moody, Daniel S. Norton, Samuel Mott, Eli Miller, J. B. Rogers and Anthony Banning; all carried general stocks of merchandise, and did business almost entirely by exchange, money being very scarce. Rogers was located on the southwest corner of Main street and public square; Gilman Bryant was opposite, where the Knox county bank is now located; under the Curtis house, and below Bryant, in the same block, were three or four other stores. Norton was located on the present site of the Woodward block.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
MT. VERNON-CONTINUED.
EXTRACTS FROM THE OHIO REGISTER AND NORTON'S HIS- TORY CONCERNING THE EARLY DAYS OF MT. VERNON, 1814 TO 1830 .- GROWTH OF THE CITY .- ITS BOUNDA_ RIES .- POPULATION .- A PICTURE OF MT. VERNON IN 1830.
THE OHIO REGISTER, published at the vil- T lage of Clinton in 1814 and 1815, is a relic of the past, containing a few items worthy of preser- vation. It was printed in quarto form, pages nine and one-fourth by seven and three-fourth inches, three columns to a page, and published by Smith & McArdle. Mr. Smith was the proprietor of the village of Clinton, and made gigantic but unsuc- cessful efforts to have his village selected as county seat. He was a man of great energy, and his ad- vertisements showed that he was engaged in many enterprises, among which may be mentioned a dry
goods and grocery store, drug store (with Dr. Tim- othy Burr as prescription clerk), a book store, tan- yard, real-estate agent, etc. His grocery depart- ment was both a wet and a dry one, as appears from the following extract from an advertisement:
I also intend to keep on hand, for sale by the barrel, or less quantity, whiskey of the very best quality.
Matters worthy of record are to be gathered more from the few advertisements than from the editorials, for the latter are scarce, indeed, hardly ever embracing more than four or five lines of the paper, as the following will make evident:
We have received a copy of the charges exhibited against Brigadier General Hull. Their great length precludes their in- sertion this week. We shall publish them next week.
That was the amount of editorial matter in the paper for May 24, 1814.
The selections of the Register were mostly de- voted to the events of the War of 1812, which to the citizens of that day was a theme of great interest.
April 19, 1814, a Dr. Burge offers his services to the citizens of Mt. Vernon and the neighboring country. "Having," as his advertisement pro- claims, "been a successful practitioner in physic, surgery, and midwifery, he solicits a share of pat- ronage among other gentlemen of the faculty."
A cotemporary of his, and a successful practi- tioner, was Dr. Timothy Burr.
James Miller informs the trade that he is in im- mediate want of a good journeyman tanner. All interested are invited to apply to him or Dr. Burr, in Clinton.
June 21, 1814, John Wheeler advertises for "two hundred bushels of wheat, to be delivered at Wil- liam Douglas' mill during the month of August next."
Gilman Bryant, postmaster, advertises the fol- lowing uncalled for letters remaining in the office at Mount Vernon, July 1, 1814: Abraham Albert, Samuel Arbuckle, William Biggs, Jonathan Burch, James Crage, Simon Dudgeon, Peter Doty, George Dial, Frederick Herring, Mr. Kratzer, Samuel Lewis, William Lydick, John McKee, John H. Melleck, John Mills, George Melleck, Abraham Rader, James Selby, Michael Schafer, George Sapp, Philip Smith, Samuel H Smith, James Strange, Isaac Setton, Joseph Workman,
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James Waid, Jane White, Thomas White. Such advertisements as the above aid in recalling to memory many of the old pioneer settlers of the city and county.
August 9, 1814, Samuel and James Selby inform the people of Mount Vernon, that they have lately established themselves in the hatting busi- ness.
Under same date John Sawyer and Abel Cook, blacksmiths of Clinton, give notice of having dis- solved partnership-Sawyer continues.
Dr. G. B. Maxfield informs the citizens that he has opened an office in Fredericktown for the prac- tice of his profession, and that he has taken board at the house of John Kerr.
November 19, 1814, Dr. W. Hastings calls upon all those indebted to him to come forward and pay up their liabilities by the twenty-fifth day of Decem- ber next.
Married-On Tuesday, January 22, 1815, by Joseph Walker, esq., Mr. Abraham Emmett, to Miss Sally Zerick, both of Mount Vernon.
J. Brown opens a house of entertainment in Mount Vernon, at the sign of "General Wayne." The location of the house is not stated.
Married-On Tuesday evening, January 24, 1815, by Ben- jamin Barney, esq., Mr. Seely Simpkins, aged eighty-eight years, to Mrs. Elizabeth Ask, aged twenty-eight.
Mr. George Girty, having purchased the stock in trade of Mr. Gilman Bryant, gives notice under date of February 28, 1815, that he has just re- ceived and is now opening in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Bryant, a general assortment of dry goods and groceries from Philadelphia and Baltimore.
George Dickinson gives notice that he has on hand a quantity of chairs and trunks, to which he invites the attention of the people of Mount Ver- non and vicinity.
The Register of March 14, 1815, contains a copy of the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States.
Died-In Clinton, on Friday, April 14, 1815, Mr. Seely Simp- kins, sr., aged eighty-eight years. He left a young widow of twenty-eight years of age, and had been married two months and three weeks. About a week previous to his death Mr. Simpkins had been elected to the important office of fence- viewer.
May 9, 1815, Hosmer Curtis, esq., inform the
citizens of Knox county that he has changed his place of residence from the town of Newark to that of Mount Vernon. He respectfully asks a share of the legal practice in the courts of the county.
· June 13, 1815, Robert Irvine announces to the people that he has opened a drug store in Mount Vernon.
April 21, 1816, the Ohio Register appears in the town of Mount Vernon, under the sole manage- ment of Mr. John P. McArdle, Mr. S. H. Smith retiring, devoting himself to his many enterprises in Clinton. No doubt Mount Vernon afforded better facilities for the enterprise than Clinton, then in its decline, while Mount Vernon was rapidly in creasing in population and business.
So far as editorial enterprise is concerned the Mount Vernon Register is no improvement on the Clinton Register ; marriage and death items gen- erally appearing at the head of the editorial column.
Major Samuel Kratzer has, by purchase, become interested in the town with Messrs. Patterson, Walker, and Butler, and through the agency of Joseph Brown, offers forty in-lots and out-lots for sale, April 24, 1816.
May Ist, Messrs. Bryant & Burr give notice they have just received a large invoice of new goods. It is presumed the firm was formed by Gilman Bryant and Dr. Timothy Burr, although that fact is not made patent by their advertisement.
As an item of interest in these latter days of cheap postage, the following will be interesting :
Rates of postage .- On single letters, for any distance not ex- ceeding thirty miles, six cents; over thirty, and not over eighty miles, ten cents; over eighty and not over one hundred and fifty miles, twelve and one-half cents; over one hundred and fifty and not four hundred miles, eighteen and one-half cents; over four hundred miles, twenty-five cents.
Married-on Sunday, May 5, 1816, in Mt. Vernon, by Rev. James Smith, Doctor Timothy Burr, to Miss Rachael Thrift, daughter of the Rev. William Thrift.
Sudden Death .- Departed this life on Friday afternoon, May 17, 1816, Samuel Zimmerman, son of Gotleib and Eva Zimmer- man of this town, aged eleven years, one month and twenty- nine days. His death was the consequence of eating a small portion of the root of a wild parsnip, said to be rank poison. His illness was short, but pains excruciating, which terminated his existence in about ten minutes.
May 22, 1816, Miss Fulton opens a milliner's shop at H. Curtis', second door southwest of the court house, on High street. One peculiarity
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of this advertisement is the peculiar spelling in two words; southwest appears as "sow west," and sew- ing is "sowing." These errors may be charged to the printer, and not to the faulty education of the young lady who offers her services to the fair ladies of Mt. Vernon. The editor in his next issue cor- rects the typographical errors.
Francis Wilkins notifies the public that he will, on the 2d day of June offer sixty merino sheep for sale in Mt. Vernon.
In the Register of May 30th, A. and T. Gormly announce that they have opened a new store in Mt. Vernon opposite Mr. Zimmerman's inn, and John Wilson, "with the greatest respect" informs his cus- tomers he has just received a fresh supply of new goods.
Married .- On Thursday, the 23d of May, 1816, by Elder James Smith, Mr. John Shinniberry to Miss Ruth Yoakum.
A meeting of the citizens of Mt. Vernon and its vicinity will be held at the court house to-morrow evening, June 6, 1816, for the purpose of devising ways and means for constructing a bridge across Owl creek at this place .- Many citizens.
As no further notice of this meeting is taken by the Register the people of the present day are left in the dark as to its result.
In the Register of June 12, 1816, the following item of distressing interest is given:
Died .- On Monday, the 3d instant, Mr. Abner Hill, aged 25 years. His death was occasioned by the fall of a limb of a tree. The premature exit of this young man is sincerely regretted by all those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Survivors remember, "In the midst of life we are in death."
Mr. Abner Hill was an uncle of Mr. N. N. Hill, a venerable citizen of this city.
June 19th, John Mocabee notifies the public that he has taken the tavern stand well known as the "Rising Sun," in Clinton, formerly occupied by Mr. E. Ogle. His "bar" is supplied with the best of liquors, foreign and domestic.
July 3d, Jonathan and Eli Miller request those indebted to them to come forward and pay up, as they are about proceeding to Philadelphia to pur- chase their fall goods.
On the same date N. C. Boalse informs the pub- lic that he has commenced tavern keeping at the well known stand of John Davidson, in Mt. Ver- non, at the sign of the "Traveller's Rest."
J. Brown openes a tavern in Mt. Vernon, "sign of the Ohio Hotel."
John Sawyer and Adney Colman opens a butcher
shop in Mt. Vernon, July 27th. July 24th Mr. Thomas Irvine also announces that he is engaged in the butchering business.
Robert D. Moore, July 31st, offers his services to the people of Mt. Vernon as physician and sur- geon.
Married .- On Sunday evening last, August 11, 1816, by the Rev. James Smith, Mr. Daniel S. Norton, of Connellsville (Pa.), to Miss Sarah Banning, daughter of Mr. Anthony Banning, of this town.
August 2Ist Mr. James Miller turns his adver- tisement upside down, and says he has opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. John Wilson, wherein can be found a large and elegant assortment of dry goods, groceries, etc.
The same date appears a notice of a petition to be presented to the next legislature, praying for a law to be framed for incorporating the town of Mt. Vernon.
Mordecai Bartley of Richland county, represented the district composed of Richland, Knox and Lick- ing in the senate, and Jonathan Mills represented Knox county in the house of representatives, in the legislature the winter of 1816-17.
A careful perusal of the columns of the Register fails to give any information as to the fate of the petition to incorporate Mt. Vernon.
Samuel Kratzer gives notice, August 28, 1816, "to all whom it may concern," that he shall make application to the next court of common pleas, "to vacate certain streets and alleys in the town of Mt. Vernon, viz .: The east end of Chestnut street, the length of one lot adjoining the graveyard; also, the west end of Sugar street, the length of one lot; like- wise, certain streets in the second addition of said town of Mt. Vernon.
September 4, 1816, B. Bentley gives notice that he has just received for Joseph S. Newell, an ele- gant assortment of merchandise.
About November 20, 1816, the gentlemen of Mt. Vernon desire to put on airs-they advertise for a barber.
William W. Alexander, November 27, 1816, no- tifies the citizens that he still continues to carry on the tailoring business at his home in Mt. Vernon.
Same date Jesse B. Thomas offers at public auction, "two hundred lots, in the town of Mt. Ver- non," the sale to take place on the twelfth of De- cember next.
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Perhaps nothing so quickly indicates the decline, or increasing prosperity of a place, as the publica- tion of the uncalled for letters at the post office- thus Samuel H. Smith, postmaster of Clinton, Jan- uary 1, 1817, publishes a list of seven uncalled for letters-so much for the decline. Gilman Bryant, postmaster for Mt. Vernon, publishes a list of simi- lar letters at the same date, which contains the names of eighty persons doing business with the Mt. Ver- non post office.
There swims no goose so grey, but soon or late, She finds some honest gander for a mate.
Married .- On Saturday evening, February 22, 1817, by Wil- liam Douglass, esq., Mr. Elijah Webster, to Mrs. Elizabeth, dis consolate widow of Mr. - Ask, alias , alias alias Simkins.
Died .- Suddenly, on the 8th of March, 1817, Master William T. Bryant, infant child of Gilman Bryant, esq.
March 26, 1817, the following notice appears:
Ohio Missionary Society .- We are authorized to state that a society has been formed in this State, for the laudable purpose of propagating the Gospel among the everlasting heathen of Con_ necticut and the parts adjacent. The first meeting of the society will be held in Zanesville, on the 20th of May next, for the pur- pose of selecting suitable missionaries for the performance of the arduous undertaking. It is hoped that all who are favorable to the cause will contribute their mite to effect so desirable an object.
March 19, 1817, Coleman & Dixon open a boot and shoe shop in Mt. Vernon.
The following item in the Register of April 30, 1817, was of great interest to the citizens of Mt. Vernon and of Knox county :
At the last session of the general assembly of this State, sixty thousand dollars of the three per cent. fund was appropriated to the laying out, making and repairing roads in this State; and appropriated equally among the several counties. For the county of Knox is as follows:
On the road from Mt. Vernon to the north line of Knox county, leading to Mansfield, one hundred and seventy-five dol- lars; and two hundred and twenty-five dollars from Mt. Vernon to the south line of said county, on the road leading to Newark by Azariah Davis; and fifty dollars on the road leading from Jonathan Hunt's to Robinson's mill; and one hundred and fifty dollars on the road leading from Mt. Vernon to Coshocton by Abraham Darling's; and fifty dollars on the road leading from John Tibits on Moheken to Mt. Vernon; where the said road in- tersects the road leading from Coshocton to Mt. Vernon; and two hundred dollars on the new State road leading from Mt. Vernon to Columbus, to be laid out in opening said road; and the sum of two hundred dollars on the said new road leading fiom Mt. Vernon towards Wooster, to be laid out in opening said road; and the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, on the State road leading from Mount Vernon to the county line in a direction towards Zanesville, to be laid in opening said road. and fifty dollars on the road from Mt. Vernon to Granville.
The above appropriations from the State were highly appreciated by the people of Mt. Vernon.
Sixteen dollars per month were paid laborers in those days-and that amount was considered high wages.
On the eighth of January, 1817, says the Southern Patriot, it was so dark in the city of London that candles were lighted at mid-day. Every American knows that the eighth of January is the anniversary of the glorious battle of New Orleans; the result of which literally put the city of London in mourning. It was indeed a dark day for England .- Ed. Register.
About this time Samuel H. Smith gives notice that he intends to apply to the court of common pleas to vacate the greater part of the town of Clinton.
May 14, 1817, Wilson and Martin it appears have recently established a cabinet shop in the house formerly occupied by I. Wilson as a store- house, Market Square, Mount Vernon.
May 20th William W. Alexander, William Petty- grew and William Cranch, give to the public a schedule of prices for tailoring.
The subscribers to the new school-house, proposed to be erected in Mt. Vernon, are requested to meet at Messrs. Rich- ardson and Vore's tavern on Saturday afternoon, June 7, 1817, at four o'clock.
This year the fourth of July was honored by military display, banquet, toasts, songs, etc., both at Mt. Vernon and Fredericktown.
July 9, 1817, Dr. William L. Brook commences the practice of physic and surgery in Mt. Vernon.
Married-On Thursday evening, July 17, 1817, by the Rev. James Smith, Mr. Isaac Vore, jr., to Miss Polly Martin, both of Mt. Vernon.
In 1817 there were twenty-two chartered banks in Ohio, among which were the German bank of Wooster, the Granville bank and the Owl creek bank of Mt. Vernon.
On the twenty-sixth of August, 1817, John Wil- liamson, Samuel Pyle, Peter Zarby, James King and William Giffin, millwrights, met at Zimmer- man's inn in Mt. Vernon, and established a sched- ule of prices.
One peculiarity of pioneer days was that all houses kept for the entertainment of "man and beast" were known as "taverns" or "inns." In 1880 such places are unknown. The pioneers copied the English inn, and also the manner of making "signs" for those establishments. The sign was the most important thing about them, and
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the most noticeable, being generally suspended in a frame placed on top of a high post in front of the door, and consisting of a brilliantly .painted horse, eagle, or some other animal or bird, or the head of some general or other prominent man.
February 4, 1818, another milliner offers her ser- vices to the ladies of Mt. Vernon, viz .: Miss Ann Davis, also Miss Mary Lindsey, March 18, 1818, offers " her services as milliner, mantuamaker and glovist." She could be found at the house of Ben- jamin Martin, corner of Vine and Market (now Main) streets.
Died-Suddenly on Friday, March 13, 1818, Mr. Matthew Bonar.
Moody and McCarthy opens a new store in Mt. Vernon, April 1, 1818.
During this year Alexander Elliott is the post- master at Mt. Vernon, and Andrew Clark is assis- tant postmaster at Clinton.
James Smith, April 4, 1818, advertises new goods for sale, in the house of Gilman Bryant, and concludes as follows: "Clerk's office removed to this stand, and young ladies for sale at seventy- five cents."
In 1814 there were only eleven newspapers published in Ohio; of this number were the Ohio Register, the Zanesville Express and Muskingum Messenger, printed at Zanesville. Books of all classes, school, history and literary, were published from these early printing-offices. Even the Ohio Register office helped to swell the number, that the literary taste of the early pioneers might be in- dulged. The first noticed in the columns of the Register of 1814, was "James Smith's Vindication."
August 1, 1814, Putnam & Israel, of Zanes- ville, issued notice of their publishing in the office of the Zanesville Express Rollins' ancient history, in eight duodecimo volumes, of four hundred pages, at the low price of one dollar per volume. Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians were the themes of the different volumes. A great under- taking for a pioneer press.
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