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His life covers almost the entire national period of our history. He was born in the second. year of Washington's first term, and was over eight years old when he (Washington) died. He was eligible to vote for fifteen presidents. His life runs back through Victoria's long reign-past William and George IV. to the middle of the stupid misrule of George III. Louis XVI. was still a monarch, the French reign of terror was yet unknown, and the great battles of Na- poleon nnfought. Nicholas and two Alexanders had not yet come to the throne of Russia, and the Empire of Austria was yet unborn. He has seen spring into !
being the wonderful mechanical inventions and scien- tifie discoveries that have so materially changed the economy of life.
He received from his mother religious instruction which. at eighteen. ripened into definite conversion. His religious convictions were welded in the white heat of early controversy. and ever bore the marks of their origin. He died firm in the faith that he would awaken amid the glories of his heavenly home.
CALEB H. GALLUP.
In Lorraine. part of the debatable territory be- tween the French and German people: wasted and seared and , carred by many battles, now in possession of one people and then of the other, there is an ancient family of the name of Kolopp. From time immemo- rial the tradition has been handed down by its mem- bers, from generation to generation. that one of their number went to western Europe as a follower of Wil- lium, Duke of Normandy, and never returned. This tradition was recently imparted to the writer by the Rev. Peter Kolopp. a member of that family now in charge of St. Peter's (Catholic) church of Norwalk.
Hume. in his history of the ". Conquest," says: " The situation also of Europe inspired William with hopes that, besides ms brave Normans. he might eu- ploy agamst England the flower of the military force which was dispersed in all the neighboring states. France, Germany and the Lower countries, by the progress of the feudal institutions, were divided and sub-divided into many principaliries and baronies. *
* * A military spirit had universally diffused itself throughout Europe: multitudes crowded to tender to the duke their services, with that of their vassals and retainers. " (Hume's History of Engle:3. Boston edition of 1854; volume one. pages one hundred forty one and two. ) Readers of history will remember that there urements of "William the Conqueror" were brushed with success at the battle of Hastngs. October 14. 1uge.
As correlative of the tradition in the Kolopp family of Lorraine, a condition also exists in the Gal- lup family of Ame fra thor the fomider of the Eng- lish branch cano into England at the Congnest, from France. "This tradition has often been related to the writer by the late Hallet Gallup ot Norwalk.
The different spelling of the name by the two fam- ilies is no indication of a difference in origin. In those early days education was confined to the monas- teries, and family names were perpetuared by the me- din of their children more than by written records. Afterwards, as education became more general. and men learned to write their names. the manner of spelling them was purely arbitrary, depending upon the sound. or the fancy of the individual. Kolopp is a correct phonetic spelling of the German pronuncia- tion of Gallup.
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
Early in the seventeenth century. and previous to 1636, two brothers, John and William Gallup, came over to this country from England and settled at Boston, then but an infant settlement. John was an English sailor and soon became a Massachusetts fish- erman, and with his little fishing smack became historic in the Indian troubles of that time -- 1636 -- (Palfrey's History of New England, volume one. page four hundred fifty-eight; Life and Letters of John Winthrop, pages one hundred fifty-eight, two hun- dred, and three hundred eighty-seven). He died at Boston about 1652, without issue.
Soon after the settlement of New London, Connec- ticut, and about 1618, William, who is supposed to have married at Boston, became a resident of that part of New London since called Groton, where he brought up two sous, Hallet and William (second), and probably other children.
In 16;5, Hallet received warning, from a friendly Indi in, of the trouble soon to enlminate in that historic event known as " King Phillip's war." That warn- ing was the present of a waiapum belt, or rather, a belt made out of the long coarse hair of the black bear, ornamented with white beads set in the form of a " W." This indicated war. He raised a company of soldiers and took them into that "direful swamp fight" of December 19, 1745. The following quota- tion shows his fate:
" The legislature of the colony. in a representation of the services they had performed in the war, say: ' In that signal service, the fort fight, in Narragan- sett, as we had our full number in proportion to the other confederates, so all say they did their full pro- portion of service. Three noble soldiers. Seeley, courageous Marshall and bold Gallup, died in the bed of honor; and valiant Mason, a fourth captain, had his death's wound. There died many brave officers and sentinels, whose memory is blessed. and whose death redeemed our lives."" (Barber's Connec- ticut Historical Collections, page 21: see, also, Pal- frey's History of New England, volume III, page 11?).
William (second) survived the war and raised a large family, one of which was a son named William (third), who also raised a family of two boys, William (fourth) and Hallet (second), and ten daughters, of whom there were six twins.
This William (third) removed from Groton, Con- nectient, to Kingston, Pennsylvania, in October, 1774, and was living there at the time of the " Wyom- ing massacre," of July 3, 17:8. His son Hallet (second) was in the fight, and escaped by floating down the Susquehanna river, with his body under water and his face protected from view, between two mails grasped in his hands.
Two of his twin daughters, Sarah and Hannah. aged about five years. were captured and carried off by the Indians, painted and adopted by a squaw, but soon after ransomed.
Hannah, born at Groton. Connecticut, March 4. 1743. was the Mrs. Hannah Jones who died at Kings-
ton. Pennsylvania, about 1869. Sarah, born at Gro- ton, Connecticut. March 4. 1713, was the Sarah Hoyt who died at Norwalk, Ohio. in 1858. She first married Peter Grubb, Jr .: after his death she married Mr. Agur Hoyt and removed to Danbury, Connecti- cut: from there they removed. in 1831, to Norwalk, Ohio. She was the stepmother of Agur B. Hoyt, now of Norwalk, and mother of William R. Hoyt, now of Toledo, Ohio.
Another daughter, Mary, was engaged to be mar- ried to James Divine, of Philadelphia. He was at Kingston to visit her, and was one of the victims of July 3, 1778. She never married.
William (fourth). then a lad. escaped the massacre, and, at maturity, married Freelove Hathaway, sister of sea captain Caleb Hathaway, of Philadelphia. Their children were William (fifth), Hallet (third). "James Divine" and Caleb Hathaway.
William (fifth) came to Norwalk, Ohio, in 1818, and. on May 2. 1826, married Salley Boait, danghter of Captain John Boalt (the first marriage in Norwalk ). and- their children are: William (sixth), now living in Tithin. Ohio: Matilda ( Mrs. Wm. Bombarger). How of Boulder, Colorado; Mary, dead; Francis, how of Denver, Colorado; Ruth Ann (Mrs. Lafayette S. Lyt- tle,) of Toledo, Ohio; George, of Tiffin, Ohio: Susan (Mrs. Thomas Thresher. ) of Granville, Ohio; Samuel C., now of Pueblo, Colorado; James Divine (2d), now of Greensburgh. Indiana: John (2d), now of Boulder, Colorado: Rose (Mrs. Albert Nusley, ) of Sardasky City, Ohio).
Hallet (3d) was bora at Kingston, Pennsylvania. in 1296, and, upon his birth, a relative at Groron, Con- necticut, sent on to his parents the wampum belt given by the friendly ERdian to Captain Hallet (Ist) in 1245, with the request to name him Hallet. That belt is yet in almost perfect preservation in the pos- session of Carroll Gallup, of Norwalk, Ohio.
In 1812, Hallet (34) joined Captain Thomas' com- pany of Pennsylvania volunteers and served in the artillery under Harrison. On being mustered our of service at the close of the war, he, in 3816, came to Bloomingsville, then in Huron county. and, in 1818, came to Norwalk. In 1819 he was appointed col- lector of the then Huron county. On April 9. 1820, he married Clarissa, daughter of Platt and Sally Benedict. and died in his eighty-second year on July 11, 1877, at Norwalk, Ohio.
His wife, Clarissa, died at Norwalk, Ohio, just six months afterwards. on January 11, 1875, in the eighty- second year of her age.
Their children were: Catharine, now living at Nor- walk: Maria, (Mrs. M. A. Dunton) now living at Nor- walk: Lydia, died in childhood; Carroll. now living at Norwalk: Sarah, (Mrs. Henry Brown) now Eving at Norwalk: Eliza, died in infancy; Caleb Hathaway. (second) now living at Norwalk: Lizzie Francis, now living at Norwalk.
James Divine, think son of Williama. (fourth) spent. the greater part of his life as a mining engineer. in
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the then just developing coal regions of Pennsylvania, and died at Manch Chunk, Pennsylvania, in March, 1856; aged about fifty-eight years: never married.
Caleb Hathaway, fourth son of William, (fourth) was born at Kingston. Pennsylvania, in 1802; came to Norwalk, Ohio, in 1825, and opened a cabinet shop on the lot so long occupied by the late John H. Foster. He died at Norwalk, September 20. 1827: not married.
Caleb Hathaway, (second) whose picture accom- panies this memoir, son of Hallett, (third) was born at Norwalk, Ohio, May 10, 1834.
In 1856, he graduated at Madison University, Hamilton, New York, from the "Literary and Scientific Course," and was the first student upon whom that institution conferred the "Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy."
In 1856. he commenced the study of law with Worcester and Pennewell, of Norwalk, and in April, 1858, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School with the "Degree of Bachelor of Laws," and shortly after. wards opened an office at Norwalk.
In 1859, he removed to St. John's, Michigan, and on July 19th, was admitted to practice law in the courts of that State.
The next summer he removed from St. John's to Port Austin, Huron county, Michigan, arriving there on June 24, 1860.
In the fall of that year, he was elected the first prosecuting attorney of that county, to which posi- tion he was re-elected for four succeeding terms, hold- ing the office until Jannary 1, 18;1, -ten years,
He also held the offices of circuit court commis- sioner and injunction master during most of the same period, as well as that of township treasurer, and several other minor offices.
During the war of the rebellion, he acted as deputy United States Marshal for the western district of Huron county, Michigan: was himself "drafted" and
instead of being sent to the "front," was ordered back to duty as deputy marshal.
In 1866 he was elected a member of the Michigan legislature for two years, and while acting in that capacity introduced and obtained the passage of. a. joint resolution calling on Congress to provide for and construct a harbor of refuge at or near Point Au Barqnes, Lake Huron. He also had printed and circulated, at the different cities bordering the great. chain of lakes, a petition to the same end. This was the first step ever taken to obtain such a harbor, and did not meet with immediate success; bur it set the movement on foot that eventually culminated in the magnificent harbor of refuge now nearly completed at Sand Beach, Haron county. Michigan. Hundreds of vessels, thousands of sailors and millions of dollars worth of property now find safe shelter there from the terrible storms on lake Huron.
In 1867-8-9 he made repeated efforts to obtain an extention of the Western Union telegraph line from Lexington, seventy miles, to Port Austin, and with success.
June 20, 1860, he married Kate M., daughter of John V., and Mary S. Vredenburgh, then of Pera, Huron connty, Ohio. She died May 25, 1863.
The issue of that marriage was one son, Richard Carroll. born September 2, 1861, at the Peru farm. November 3. 1869, married, as second wife, Helen A., daughter of William and Mary Glover, of Trenton, New Jersey, and niece of Hon. Joel Parker, of Free- hold, New Jersey, the only person who has twice held the position of governor of that State. She died April 8, 1872, at Port Austin, Michigan, aged twenty-nine years. and is buried at Norwalk. Ohio.
The issne of this second marriage was one daughter, Mabel Parker, born September 17, 1870, and one son, Herbert Alphens, born April 5, 1872, both at Port Austin.
July 9, 1822, removed with his children back to Norwalk, Ohio, his present residence.
WAKEMAN.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
Ix the year 1792 the State of Connecticut granted five hundred thousand acres of land, on the west end of the Western Reserve. to those of her inhabitants whose property had been destroyed by fire by the enemy during the revolutionary war. The grantees organized under the name of " The Sufferers' Land Company," and on the Sth of November, 1808, the directors of the company met in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, and devised a plan for a division of the land among its members, which was made by lot.
The four classes drawn for the four sections of Wakeman are exhibited in the following table, the first column of which contains the names of the "sufferers" as the grantees were called. The fig- ures opposite the names show the amount of each individual's loss in pounds. shillings, and pence. The right hand column contains the names of these persons who became owners of the claims. either by purchase or by heirship, and the amounts set opposite their names show the amount paid for the claims in the different sections. The value of each section of the township being arbitrarily fixed at one thousand three hundred and forty-four pounds and seven -hil- lings, each classifier was apportioned a quantity of land in the same ratio to the total amount as the amount of his claim bore to the total value. In the distribution of the lands, which, as previously stated. was made by lot, it sometimes happened that a claim- ant received land in each section of the township and in other townships.
WAKEMAN, TOWN NUMBER FOUR, IN THE TWENTIETH
RANGE.
CLASSIFICATION NO 1, SECTIONS 1
Original Grantees Am't Loss. Classified by Ain't Claged.
Mable Osborne
John Davis
Nathan Godfrey
Caleb Disbrow.
two nights
Isaac Hars.
two riglits 115
Isaac Hubbei
Josiah Thatcher.
John & Daniel Ev-
ersler Titus Hurlburt
David Burr
N. Thompson Nich-
N Thompson Nich.
Jobn Whitehral Abigail Thompson Abigail Wynkoop
10
:
Parang of Clanstheation No. 1 21.311 -
CLASSIFICATION NO. 2, SECTION ?.
Original Grantees. Am't Loss.
Am't Classed.
£
d.
Jesup Wakeman
160
11
11
Mabel Osharce
605
0
175
10
Nath'l Wilson
10
17
Ebenezer Jesup,Jr. 8
16
Thomas Bennit
3
2
2
3
3
Sarah Briant
17
10
0
17
10
0
Jason Disbrow
16
4
Hezekiah Hull
10
John Hyde
11
3
17
11
3
John Hydle, Jr.
-
3
Joseph Hyde
05
0
Benjamin Maker
15
17
4
15
4
Peter Whitney
- 1
9
0
9
0
Josiah Bulkley
10
0
10
0
Samuel Beers
3.
5
..
1
24
Francis Forgue
151
16
=00
=
10
Isaac Bronson 211
Bridget Ledyard
403
G
1
Jesup Wakeman ..
37
16
Moses Bulkley
50
0
31
11
6
David Beers
164
161
1
6
David Burr
388
9
93
3
Footing of Classification No. 2, €1.3H
CLASSIFICATION NO. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
don't Classe.
Stephen Thorp
515
1
Jesup Wakeman
1
John Smedley
:63
10
Jesup Wakeman
1º
11
12
18
Olive Buikley
20
Abel Gould
113
0
David Barlow
374
11
Ebenezer Jesup, Jr 187 2
1-0 0
Hezekiah Jennings
1
0
Martha Jennings
James Penfield"
0
6
n
Sarah Redfield
15
firace Spalio
Evenever Squire
11
14
1
Richard Wajn
5
Giteon Wills
20
J.
4
S
Namnaniel Wilson
17
0 Isaac Bronson 135
210
11
124
Seth Sturges 403
=
10 1 Jesup Wakeman 336
1
9
Footing of Classification No. 3. 21,34
1.
0
CLASSIFICATION NO. 4, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Mabel Osborne
0
Jesup Wakeman 93
11
Joseph Squire
Stephen Thorp
515
1
.6 C
.
=
John & Daniel Ev.
154
9
Ebenezer Jesup, Jr. 12
913
Titus Hurtburt 1961
13
1
1,5
5
1
Ebzah Abel
:19
14
1
Jesup Wakeman 251
14
15
O
Daniel Goreham
20
=
20
C.
Seth Sturges 43
0
1
1
Footing of Classification No. 1, 81,344 7
NAME.
The township was named for Jesup Wakeman; one of the original proprietors of ite soil.
NATURAL APPEARANCE.
10 1 The surface is generally undulating, the eastern portion being more rolling than the western. The
S
d.
Jesup Waksman 339
1
13
54
0
..
..
10
1
1 :
9
131
1
:
Nath'i Benefiet
854
12
Isane Bronson
10
Elvenezer Hol:
Elizabeth Shapely
5
0
.-
14
11
Nathaniel Burr
5
1
4.
1
6
Benj. Rumsey
15
15
=
John Davis
60
14
16
1115
Jere'h Miller, Esq. 2535
18
5
2
Seth Sturges
6
15
1
Solomon Gray
1
3
1
10
0
1000
0
Rebecca Nash
5
6
7
d
Reuben Beers 510
1
8
2.
S
1.
140
66
30
Ann Caldwell
Joseph Gould
1
1
2:
0
15
0
10
0
Elizabeth Shapely
5
Jere'b Millen, Esq. 2335
15
8
d.
11 11 Ebetiezer Jesup, Jr. 10
12
=
=
-
10
+
111-
Stephen Suerney
66
: 0
0
G
1
2
Classified by.
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERLE COUNTIES, OHIO.
Vermillion river enters the township from the south. near the center of the town line, and running a won- derfully crooked course, passes about a mile east of the center and leaves the township a short distance west of the section line. Brandy creek enters the sonth line of the township, in the southwest part, and forms a junetion with the Vermillion a short distance northeast of the center of the town. La Chapelle creek rises in Townsend, enters this township south of the center road and leaves it a mile and a quarter east of the northwest corner. The stream is said to have derived its name from a Frenchman by the name of De La Chapelle, who discovered and explored it to its sonree, long before the country was settled.
The soil is generally a clay-loam with a mixture of sand and gravel in many places. and is adapted to a varied cultivation. The first settlers found this town- ship heavily timbered, the principal varieties being whitewood, white oak, beech, maple. black wahut, butternut, chestnut, hickory and basswood. On the river bottoms the sycamore. elm and sugar maple were chiefly found.
NATIVE ANIMALS.
The principal species of wild animals originally found in the forests of Wakeman, were the bear, deer. wolf. wild-eat and fox. Bears, though not numerous. were occasionally seen. Deer were very numerous, and were frequently captured. They were the settlers main dependence for meat, while their skins were used as an article of clothing by the male inhabitants. Suits made wholly of buekskin were worn only when absolute necessity required, a single wetting and dry- ing making them very uncomfortable. It was more generally used for facing the exposed portion of the pantaloons. The neck was sewed on to the seat, and the balance of the hide on to the front of each leg above the knee.
Wolves were plenty, but they were a shy animal, and perhaps were not as often seen as bears. They were exceedingly vexations to the inhabitants, ren- dering night hideons with their almost incessant howl, and often attacking and killing sheep if not inclosed in pens. Large hunting parties were sometimes formed for the purpose, chiefly. of ridding the coun- try of them, but they were rarely caught in this manner.
The wild turkey was the most important of the bird species, and was found in great abundance.
INDIANS.
For about ten years after the arrival of the first settlers, a band of Indians. consisting of fifteen or twenty families, came regularly into the township twice a year-in the spring to make maple sugar and in the fall to hunt. They were from the region of Upper Sandusky, and were probably of the Wyandot and Seneca tribes. They made their trips in canoes of their own manufacture. which were made usually ont of black walnut or white wood. On their return
their canoes would be loaded with sugar or fars and venison.
In reply to an inquiry from Erastus French, who had a curiosity to know how they would get their boats over the dams across the river, the answer was, "Yankee cow." (They would get a settler with a yoke of oxen to draw their boats around the dams. ) They had a sugar camp east of the Vermillion, on land afterwards owned by Mr. Bance. Their huts. were made of elm bark, and their sap-troughs of the same. The last time they visited the place was in the spring of 1827. They left everything. evidently expecting to return, but they never came again. The troughs were carefully packed up inside the huts. the doors were tightly elosed, and a stick placed against each one, signifying that no one was at home.
On one occasion three Indians came to the house of Erastus French, and presenting a certificate of their honesty from Judge Meeker. asked for a " Yankee hack." Mr. French was unable to understand what. they meant, until one of the Indians jumped upen at log and gesticulated as if digging ont a canoe, when he rightly inferred that an adz was wanted, but hail none to give them: They would frequently call at the houses of the settlers for whisky, for which they would invariably offer something in exchange. When refused on the ground that they would get drunk ("cacoosic"), the plea would be "Injun no cacorsia how; caeoosie to-morrow." They would rarely get drunk away from their camp.
Mr. C. C. Canfield relates the following incident of his first sight of Indians: In that portion of the township formerly called the " windfall." there were, in the early settlement, great quantities of blackber- ries. In the summer of 1817, himself, his brother Royal, Lemuel and Bennett Pierce, all lads whose ages ranged from sis to nine years, mounted Captain Pierce's old mare, the only horse in the township that year, and started for the blackberry patch. When they arrived at " the windfall," about a mile west of where the depot now stands, they suddenly discovered a party of Indians only a short distance away. mounted upon their ponies and coming directly toward them. The boys stood not upon the order of their going, but weut at once. The old nag developed a rate of speed on that homeward trip of which she had never beeu suspected. Over logs, brush and mud holes she went. and fortunately arrived at Mr. Canfield's without a boy less. The Indians followed along up to the house, greatly amused at the boys' fright, and with many gesticulations described to the family the ap- pearance of the lads during their flight.
SETTLEMENT.
In 1816. Burton Canfield, Bennett French, Joel Crane, Waite Downs, and other gentlemen living in Southbury, Connecticut, organized themselves into a company and purchased of Wakeman, Bronson and Jesup. section three and subsequently the northern tier of lots of section four, the purchase amounting to
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HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
about foar thousand eight hundred aeres, the price per acre being two dollars.
This company entered into an agreement with the original proprietors, who recognized the benefit it would be to their adjacent laud, to have the tract sold, speedily settled, to furnish one settler each year . for each one hundred and sixty acres of the purchase until each quarter section should be thus occupied. As the entire tract contained thirty qquarter scetions, the company had thirty years in which to fill this pledge, and, long before the limit of time was reached, the agreement had been fulfilledl.
In consequence largely of the above agreement, the character of the population that took possession of Wakeman was of the genuine Yankee sort; they were, almost without exception, from Connecticut. Most of them came from Southbury, New Haven county, come from Litchfield and Fairfield counties, and a few from other parts of the State.
The first family to take up its abode in the wilder- ness was that of Augustin Canfield. Mr. Canfield started from New Milford. Litobfield connty, with his wife and four children, his brother Burton Can- field, Seymour Johnson and his hired man, for the Fire-lands on the 29th day of April, 1812. While journeying through the "four-mile woods" west of Buffalo, the emigrants experienced a break-down, one of the axletrees of the wagon breaking off at the wheel. The company fortunately possessed sufficient mechanical skill to repair the damage, cutting out a piece of timber from a tree and splicing it on to the remaining part of the axle, and thus completed the journey without further mishap.
Many anecdotes are related illustrative of the con- dition of the roads through Cattarangus Swamp, or, more particularly, that portion of it known by early settlers as the " four mile woods." A traveler, seeing a hat floating on the mud, procured a pole and tried to secure it. when a voice from below cried out, "Let me alone: I have a good horse under me, and I shall get through all right."
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