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Bradley Fauver, transferred to Invalid Corps. Orfield Stearns, transferred to Invalid Corps.
SECOND REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.
Sergeant Theodore H. Robbins, Third Battallion, not accounted for on Muster Out Rolls.
Stephen A. Mason, not accounted for on Muster Out Rolls.
Frank Brooks, not accounted for on Muster Out Rolls.
This regiment was organized at Camp Wade, Cleveland, O., from August to October, 1861, for three years. A portion of the men became veterans; the remainder were mustered out on expiration of their term of enlistment.
COMPANY H.
Mustered into service October 8, 1861. Mustered out of service Septem- her 11, 1865.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain Aaron K. Lindsley, discharged February 15, 1863. Second Lieutenant Franklin S. Case, promoted Captain.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Theodore P. Hamlin, promoted First Lieutenaut.
Quarter-master Sergeant Edwin June, mustered out with company. Sergeant Sumner L. Drake.
Sergeant Newton D. Fisher, promoted First Lieutenant August 9, 1865. Corporal Edward F. Webster.
Corporal Franeis Finch. Corporal Lucius D. Leach. Corporal Ezra L. Burge, promoted Sergeant July 1, 1865. Corporal Albert C. Houghton, promoted Captain December 25, 1864. Corporal Walter P. Ledyard. Corporal Peter L. Mason. Bugler Newton E. Adams. Bugler Delos B. Haynes. Farrier Robert C. Piekworth. Farrier Henry Ormeroid. Wagoner Roswell E. Thayer. Saddler Calvin Sage.
PRIVATES.
Martin H. Avery. Calvin C. Allen, discharged September 25, 1861.
Hamline S. Bigelow, Veteran Volunteer, mustered out with company. William P. Bushnell, discharged September 25, 1864, James W. Bonney. Harvey Bonney. Henry W. Chester, promoted to First Sergeant. John Cushing. William Challacombe. Spooner C. Crapo. Almeron Codding.
Jabez B. Challacombe.
John W. Devlin.
William M. Davis.
Charles G. Fairchild.
Henry R. Fenton.
Charles W. Fenton.
Joel E. Field. Milton M. Geer. Daniel M. Hall.
Franklin H. Howk. Alpheus Howk, discharged for wounds, March 5, 1865.
William F. Johns. Henry Kingsbury.
Thomas Knowles.
Hiram A. Knapp.
Edward T. Kirby.
John P. Larmdon.
Charles E. Lanphear. William Lindsey.
Amon Litchfield.
Robert B. Lucas.
Albert N. Litchfield.
Enoch Leavitt, Veteran Volunteer, discharged May 25, 1865.
Noah Long. Robert E. Mernfield.
Aurelian P. Matthews.
Henry Maple. James C. Miller.
Wilbert D. Manchester.
William T. Norton.
James R. Ogden.
Charles Patterson.
Alonzo Perkins.
Oliver Rulison.
Homer H. Stark, discharged September 25, 1861,
James W. Shaffer.
Otis L. Sexton.
Philip B. Stroup.
Chauncey Smith.
Luman II. Tenny.
( 'harles Webster.
George Whiton.
Frank R. Whitney, discharged June 2, 1865.
Henry M. Waters.
Oliver Vader.
COMPANY K, TENTH REGIMENT OJITO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.
Mustered into service, January 15, 1863, for three years. Discharged at the close of the war.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant John W. Williams.
COMPANY F, THIRD REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.
Mustered into service December 11, 1861. Mustered out of service August 4, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Warden W. Welsher, mustered out November 4, 1864. Sergeant James Hart, promoted to Sergeant January 15, 1865.1 Corporal John Barnes.
Corporal Henry S. Barker, promoted to Corporal June 17, 1865.
PRIVATES.
Josiah Coates, mustered ont November 4, 1864. William Campbell. Peter Dagnon. John Hanley. A. Richards. Daniel LeClear.
George S. Mitchell, promoted to Corporal; mustered out November 4, 1864.
Sidney G. Mitehell.
Andrew J. Pierce.
Henry Smith.
Joseph B. Shepard, mustered out November 4, 186-1.
John B. Taylor.
Henry Van Sickles, promoted to Corporal, June 17, 1865. William H. Blair-date of discharge not given.
Lewis La Duke-date of discharge not given. John Robinson.
Men not otherwise marked, mustered out with the Company.
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COMPANY F, TWELFTH REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.
Mustered into service, October 29, 1863. Mustered out of service, Novem ber 14, 1865.
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Lieutenant Reuben II. Sardane, promoted to Captain and assigned to Company F.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant Milo L. Blanchard, promoted to Second Lieutenant, Com- pany A; transferred to Company F. June 1, 1865.
Sergeant William W. Worcester, died October 19, 186 1. Sergeant Charles H. Sherburne, died from wounds December 13, 1861. Sergeant James F. Davis, died October 6, 1864.
Sergeant Richard HI. Sheldon, promoted First Sergeant Veteran. Corporal Howard II. Hall, promoted Sergeant. Corporal George C. Rising, died March 20, 1861.
Corporal George H. Houghton, discharged June 8, 1865.
Bugler Henry Moore, promoted Corporal September 1, 1865. Bugler Judson Chamberlain, mustered out with company. Farrier Ephraim Knapp, mustered out with company. Saddler Wyatt T. Judson, promoted Sergeant.
PRIVATES.
Wilson Ager, promoted Sergeant September 1, 1865. Erwin E. Baldwin, discharged July 21, 1865.
Tenny Blair, promoted Corporal September 1, 1865.
Erastus W. Bailey, discharged September 30, 1561. Milo Barnes, mustered out with company. Wells A. Chamberlain, promoted Sergeant September 1, 1865.
John Dagner, mustered out with company.
Frank W. Ellsworth, discharged September 2, 1865.
Charles M. Hall, died from wounds June 16, 1864.
Henry C. Hopwood, promoted Corporal. Daniel M. Hall, promoted Sergeant. John Jackson, mustered out with company. John Kirkpatrick, mustered out with company.
Joseph King, mustered out with company.
Charles M. Knapp, discharged August 27, 1865.
Charles W. Kelley, mnstered ont with company.
Charles E. McLean, mustered out with company.
George HI Mosher, discharged March 27, 1865. Albert B. Probert, discharged June 8, 1865.
Sylvanus Phelon, promoted to Corporal September 1, 1865. James Richard, discharged August 16, 1865. Edward Scoville, Jr., discharged July 11, 1865. Orson P. Smith, discharged May 15, 1865.
Eli Smith, mustered out June 15, 1865.
William Soules, mustered out with company.
Richard J. Staples, promoted Sergeant September 1, 1865.
Emerson G. Stone, mustered out with company.
William Turner, mustered out with company. John W. Wilson, discharged February 25, 1861. Eugene A. Burrell, mustered out July 19, 1865.
Sergeant Carlos A. West, mustered out June 15, 1865.
Benjamin A. Briggs, killed in action June 8, 1864. Corporal John McGee, committed suicide August 3, 1865.
MUSTER ROLL OF THE "HART GUARDS," COMPANY G, FIFTEENTHI REGIMENT OHIO NATIONAL GUARD.
CONMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain P. I. Reefy. First Lieutenant Fred N. Smith.
Second Lieutenant S. T. Sawyer.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
First Sergeant A. Rawson. First Corporal George Teasedale.
Second Sergeant HI. Schwartz. Second Corporal G. W. Gilbert.
Third Sergeant S. C. Nickerson. Third Corporal G. R. Kelley.
Fourth Sergeant C. B. Faux. Fourth Corporal Charles Hackett.
Fifth Sergeant Irving Taylor. Fifth Corporal F. D. Wathen.
PRIVATES.
A Dickinson. A. Ilause.
R. Storer.
E. Herney.
D. M. Hurst.
Fred Lane.
( T. Nichols W. Maddock.
A Vogeley. F. W. Miller.
Fred Weigand.
A. Miller.
John Bishbangh. James Melin.
J. L. Cunningham. George Melntyre.
H. Foreman. John Ingram.
Thomas Fitzsimmons. George L. Sears.
Charles Flood. L. W. Semple.
E. A. Gilbert.
John Wiler.
Musician Frank Goodspeed.
Regimental Drum-Major A. F. Parsons.
Regimental Hospital Steward Frank Burgert.
The " Ely Guards," since changed to "Hart Guards," were mustered into the service of the State July 2, 1877, to serve for a period of five years. The Company was soon after assigned to the Fifteenth Regiment as Company G., with head quarters at Cleveland, Ohio. The whole number enlisted is seventy men. Those whose names do not appear above have heen discharged for various reasons, princi- pally on account of removal from the county.
HISTORY
OF TIIE
TOWNS AND VILLAGES OF LORAIN COUNTY
ELYRIA.
THIS TOWNSHIP was named for its principal pro- prietor, the late Hon. Heman Ely. It originally embraced the territory now contained in Carlisle, number five, and Elyria, number six in range number seventeen, of the Connecticut Western Reserve. It is situated on and between both branches of Black river, in north latitude forty-one degrees and forty- five minutes It is twenty-four miles west of Cleveland, and eight miles above the mouth of the river.
TOPOGRAPITY.
Above the village it is generally level, the banks of the river being low. An excellent quality of sandstone erops out along the river banks, which forms good building material, and is used extensively for flagging the streets. There are over nine miles of stone side- walks within the limits of the village. Several quar- ries are extensively worked. The largest is owned by Mr. Henry E. Mussey, situated on the west side of the west branch of the river. He has built a spur branch of the C., T. V. & W. railroad to his quarry, and the work of turning grindstones, raising the stone from the quarry, loading cars, etc., is done by steam power. The stone are shipped by railroad to many parts of the country. Mr. John Weller has also a fine quarry below the town, which is worked by steam power. Stone are extensively quarried on the east branch for building and tlagging purposes.
Below the village, the banks of the river are generally high and rugged, though there are several fine farmns of alluvial bottom lands, which are easy to till and very productive. The sandstone terminates and the Iluron shale crops out along the river bank about two miles below the village. On the east side of the river there are several small streams running at right angles with it, and discharging themselves into the main stream. These have worn deep ravines in the soil, and extend a mile or more back from the river, but the roads are graded and the streams bridged so that they are quite passable. Running parallel with the lake are two, and in some places three or more ridges, composed of sandy loam, and in some places gravel. The first is abont four miles from Lake Erie and is called the North Ridge. The second passes through Elyria, and extends east through all the northern counties of the Western Reserve. They
were formed by a subsidence of the lake at some remote period of the world's history ; but after the growth of timber, as large trees are found, in digging wells, twenty feet or more below the surface. These ridges make excellent roads, and the soil is warm and productive, well adapted to fruit growing and early gardens.
COL. JAMES SMITH.
Perhaps no more fitting preface to the history of the early settlement of the township of Elyria could be procured than a brief sketch of the above named person, who was doubtless the first white man who ever lived for any considerable time in what now con- stitutes the above township. Weare indebted for the facts to a book called "Our Western Border." written by Charles MeKnight, and published during the centennial year, which was kindly loaned ns by G. G. Washburn, Esq., and also to an article published in The Elyria Republicun, in 1876. We have not space to publish the entire narrative of Col. Smith, but shall, as far as possible, give it in his own quaint and terse language:
" In May, 1755, the Province of Pennsylvania agreed to send out three hundred men in order to cnt a wagon road from Fort London to join Braddock's road near the Turkey Fork, or the three forks of the Yohoguina. My brother-in-law, William Smith, was commissioner, and though but eighteen years of age, I concluded to accompany the expedition. We went on the road without interruption until near the Alleghany mountains, when I was sent back in order to hurry up some provision wagons that were on the way after us. I proceeded down the rond as far as the crossing of the Juniata, where, finding that the wag- ons were coming on as fast as possible, I returned up the road toward the Alleghany mountains in company with one Arnold Vigoras. About four or five miles above Bedford three Indians had made a blind of bushes stuck in the ground as though they had grown naturally, where they concealed themselves, about fifteen yards from the road. When we came opposite to them they fired upon ns at this short distance and killed my fellow traveler; yet their bullets did not touch me, but my horse making a violent start threw me, and the Indians immediately ran up and took me prisoner. The one that laid bold on me was a C'unasa- tangee, the other two were Delawares: One of them could speak English. Two of them stood by me while the other sealped my comrade. We slept on the Alleghany mountains that night withont fire. The next morning they divided their remaining provisions and gave me an equal share, which consisted of two or three ounces of mouldy biscuit. They continued their journey to Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh) and when they reached the bank of the Alleghany the Indians gave the scalp halloo, which was answered by the firing of guns and the shouts of the French and Indians who were in and abont the Fort."
HE RUNS THE GAUNTLET.
" I saw numbers of Indians running towards me stripped naked except breech-clouts, and painted in the most hideous manner. As they ap- proached they formed themselves in two long ranks about two or three rods apart. I was told by an Indian who could speak English that I
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must run between these ranks, and that they would flog me all the way as I ran, and if I ran quick it would be so much the better.
"There appeared to be general rejoicing around me, yet I could find nothing like joy in my breast; but I started to the race with all the reso- Tution and vigor I was capable of exercising, and found it was as I had been told, for 1 was tlogged all the way. When I had got near the end of the race I was struck by something that appeared to me to be a stick, or the handle of a tomahawk, which caused me to fall to the ground.
"On my recovering my senses I endeavored to renew my race, but as I arose some one cast sand in my eyes which blinded me so that I could not see where to run. They continned beating me most intolerably until I was at length insensible, but before I lost my senses I remembered wishing them to strike the fatal blow."
He was conveyed to the Fort and the French doctor dressed his wounds and applied remedies.
"Soon after I was visited hy a Delaware Indian who could speak broken English. I asked him if I had done anything that offended the Indians. He said no, it was only an old custom the Indians had, and was like 'how do you do?' After that, he said, I would be well used."
After this Smith was taken by his captors to an Indian lown on the banks of the Muskingum river in Ohio.
IIIS ADOPTION INTO THE TRIBE.
This ceremony being somewhat interesting we take the liberty of giving it at length in his own words:
" The day after ury arrival at the aforesaid town a number of Indians gathered about me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. He had some ashes on a bark in which he frequently dipped his fingers in order to take a firmer holl, and so he went on as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair clean out of my head, except a small spot, three or four inches square, on the crown. This they cut off with a pair of seissors, excepting three locks, which they dressed up in their own mode. Two of these they wrapped around with a narrow beaded garter, made by themselves for the purpose, and the other they plaited at full length and stuck it full of silver brooches. After this they bored my nose and ears, and fixed me off with nose and ear jewels. Then they ordered me to strip off my clothes and put on a breech-clout, which I did. They then painted my face, hands, and body in various colors. They put a large belt of wampum on my neck, and silver bands on my hands and right arm, and so an old chief led me out in the street and gave the alarm halloo several times repeated quick, "coo wigh " and on this all that were in the town came running and stood round the old chief who held me by the hand in the midst."
"As at that time I knew nothing of their mode of adoption, and had seen them put to death all they had taken, I made no doubt but they were about putting me to death in some cruel manner. The old chief, holding me by the hand, made a long speech, very loud, and, when he had done, he handed me lo three young squaws, who led me by the hand down the hank into the river, until the water was up to our middle. The sqnaws then made signs to me to plunge myself into the river, but I did not understand them. I thought the result of the council was that I was to be drowned, and that these young ladies were to be the execution- ers. They all three laid violent hold of me, aud I for some time resisted them with all my might, which occasioned loud laughter by the multi- tilde that were on the bank. At length one of the squaws said, no hurt you; on this 1 gave myself up to their ladyships, who were as good as their word, for, though they plunged me under the water, and rubbed me. I could not say they hurt me much. They then led me up to the council house, where the tribe were ready with new clothes for me. They gave me a new ruffled shirt, which I put on; also a pair of leggins done off with ribbons and beads; also a pair of moccasins and a tinsel- laced cappo. They again painted my head and face with various colors. When I was seated the Indians came in dressed in their grandest man- ner. At length one of the chiefs made a speech as follows: 'My son, you are now flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone. By the ceremony which was performed this day every drop of white blood is washed out of your veins.' After this ceremony I was introduced to my new kin and invited to attend a feast that night, which I did."
We must omit many of the events that occurred at the camp on the Muskingum. The name of one of the chiefs was Tecanvaterighto, alias Pinggy. Dur- ing the fall Pluggy headed a war party to the frontiers of Virginia. While they were absent, Smith and a party of Indians went south on a hunt. On this hunt they encamped at Buffalo Liek, where they killed several buffaloes. This lick must have been in the
Ilocking valley, between the Muskingum and Seioto rivers. While here with their small kettles they made about a half-bushel of salt.
It was here that our hero, while following buffalo, got lost in the woods, where he spent the night. The Indians found him in the morning. For this offense his gun was taken from him, and he was reduced to a bow and arrows for nearly two years.
They were on this tour for about six weeks. When they returned, Pluggy and his party had got back, bringing with them a number of sealps and prisoners. They also brought with them an English Bible, which they gave to a Dutch woman who was a prisoner, but as she could not read English, she made a present of it to Smith, which was very acceptable.
"I remained in this town until some time in October, when my adopted brother, Tontileaugo, who had married a Wyandotte squaw, took me with him to Lake Erie. On this route we had no horses with us, and when I started from the town all the pack I carried was a pouch containing my books, a little dried venison and my blanket. I had then no gun, but Tontileaugo, who was a first-rate hunter, carried a rifle gun, and every day killed deer, raccoons or bears. We left the meat, excepting a little for present use, and carried the skins with us until we camped, when we dried them by the fire."
They struck the Canesadooharie (Black river) pro- bably near its source, and followed it down for some distance, when they must have left it as they reached the lake shore some six miles west of its mouth. As the wind was very high the evening they reached the lake, our traveller was surprised "to hear the roaring of the water and see the high waves that dashed against the shore like the ocean." They camped on a run near the shore, and, as the wind fell that night, they pursued their journey in the morning towards the mouth of the river on the sand along the side of the water. They observed a number of large tish that had been left in the hollows by the receding waves, and numbers of gray and bald eagles were along the shore devouring them.
Some time in the afternoon they came to a large camp of Wyandottes at the mouth of the Canesadoo- harie, where Tontileaugo's wife was. Here they were hospitably received and entertained for some time. Smith says: " They gave us a kind of rough, brown potatoes, which grew spontaneously and were called by the Caughnewagas, ohenata. These potatoes, peeled and dipped in raccoon's fat, lasted like our sweet pota- toes." (Query: what were they?) They killed while here some deer and many raccoons which were remarkably large and fat. They kept moving up the river until they came to the great falls. These were, doubtless, the east falls of Black river, now within the corporate town of Elyria. They buried their canoe and erected a winter cabin. This was probably located on Ever- green Point, somewhere in the vicinity of the present residence of T. L. Nelson, Esq. The narrative pro- ceeds:
" It was sometime in December when we finished our winter cabin but then another difficulty arose, we had nothing to eat. While the hunters were all ont exerting their utmost ability, the squaws and boys (in which class I was,) were scattered in the bottom, hunting red haws and hickory nuts. We did not succeed in getting many haws, but had tolerable success iu scratching up hickory unts from under a light snow. The hunters returned with only two small turkeys, which were but little
RESIDENCE OF A. BEEBE, SR., 26 BROAD ST., ELYRIA 0.
RESIDENCE OF EDWIN HALL, EAST AVE, ELYRIA, O.
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TAVERN OPENED, 1820, BY A. BEEBE SR., BROAD ST, ELYRIA, 0,
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ARTEMAS BEEBE, SR.
This day, March 17, 1879, brings to the memory of an aged man March 17, 1817. Sixty-two years ago, this day, Mr. A. Beebe first visited the log house, only sign of the now pleasant town of Elyria. Only living member of the little band that first settled Elyria, in his eighty-sixth year, he alone is left to tell the birth and growth of said town.
Of a family noted for longevity, his father was born at Waterbury, Conn., and removed to West Spring- field, Mass., where he died at the advanced age of eighty-six, in the year 1852. His faithful wife died in 1851, seventy-nine years of age.
Mr. Beebe, of whom we write, was born at Rus- sell, Hampden Co., Mass., Oct. 7, 1793. Scantv were his educational opportunities. A clerkship in his father's store, and the district school, however, gave to him much that in after-years he used so well. Like many young men of his day in New England, he had a strong desire to " go West." Ohio then was almost the end of western civilization. A fel- low-townsmen coming into possession of a large tract of land on the Western Reserve afforded a chance to gratify his wish. On the 20th of February, 1817, a company of six left West Springfield, Mass., for Ohio, composed as follows : Heman Ely, founder ; Ebenezer Lane (afterwards chief justice of Ohio) ; Mr. A. Beebe; Luther Lane (so well known in after- years as the good deacon) ; Ann Snow, housekeeper ; and Ned, a colored boy.
Mr. Becbe received twenty dollars for expenses, and the privilege of riding as far as Buffalo, N. Y. From that place through the forests, over unbridged streams, on foot, he arrived at the "log house" on the aforesaid date, late in the day. Using his own words : "On the morning of the 18th of March, 1817, I got up to see where the sun came from, and found it came up all right, and it has ever since." No time did he have to regret the comforts of a New England life. A new life was to commence; that life that did so much for over half of a century in making Elyria what it is. Carpenter and joiuer his
calling, his first work was the crection of the first frame building in Elyria, built on the corner of what is now Broad and Cedar Streets. In this building were born many others. Used for a shop for one year, it was filled in the ensning year, with such goods as filled the limited wants of pioneers, by Edmund West & Co.
In the latter part of the year 1817, Mr. Beebe and Mr. Douglas jointly purchased of Heman Ely the first city lot ever sold in Elyria. On this property, in 1818, they built the building so well known to this day as the "Old Beebe Tavern" (hotel being a term as yet unknown). For years was this place the home of all new-comers until their own fireside was established. Under its roof were held many social gatherings. There was held the first meetings of Elyria's original Masonic lodge. At the expiration of one year Mr. Beebe purchased of Mr. Douglas his share of said property, and in him has the title ever since remained. Constant work was Mr. Beebe's mission until February, 1819, when he, with a horse bought for the purpose, left Elyria for the old home, via Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and New York, to regain health injured by constant toil. A short visit, and the little "gray horse" and one-horse lumber-wagon landed him once more in Elyria. Now a few months are spent in various activities. The following February again witnessed his departure for New England. This trip was performed in great share on foot. Arriving at West Springfield, there and in its vicinity he remained until the following October. Of this visit came much to him,-much to Elyria. He gained the life-partner of his early hard- ships, of his later prosperity, and Elyria won one of its truest women. One of the first meetings of Mr. Beebe with his future wife was at West Springfield, where she was a member of the Congregational Church. She was also a member of the choir, of which Miss Celia Belden, afterwards first wife of Judge Heman Ely, was also a member. Short was the courtship, but long and pleasant the many years
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