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The location of a turnpike from Cleveland to Wellsville being decided upon in this year, 1825, Street, who was a very enterprising, and when the occasion arose, a very liberal man, offered to donate land sufficient for the road if the managers would run said road through the township, which was agreed to, and he made the company a deed for 840 acres, which was an exceedingly wise business transaction, as this liberal policy soon brought his land into demand, for at the completion of the road settlers flocked in from all quarters to secure the fine farms offered at the low price asked. The road was
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completed in 1827, but before that time the township was rapidly settling up. In 1826, or thereabouts, came George Powers from Connecticut, who took up his quarters in a cabin erected by the workmen while building the road. It stood just a little west of the Center, and gave place many years ago to better improvements. About this time came Chauncy Case, Jr., Alvin Loomis, Alpheus Streator, Gideon H. Mills, Heman Thomas, Alonzo Root and others.
In 1826 Col. John C. Singletary built a log-house on Lot 45, the northwest corner of the Center, into which Riley Cochran moved, and the following sum- mer he boarded the hands while they were constructing the frame building into which Col. Singletary moved the following spring of 1828. He opened there the first tavern in the township, and his was the first frame house at the Center, and in which he lived till his death in 1851. In the spring of 1827 Frederick Nighman bought a portion of Lot 80 and built a log-cabin upon it.
Streetsboro was the last township organized in the county, leaving Gar- rettsville out of the enumeration. It was, in 1800, made a portion of Hud- son, now a township of Summit County, and so remained until 1806, when it became a portion of Aurora, under whose convoy it sailed till 1821, when Aurora cut loose from it, and Mantua took it under her wing and kept her safely there till 1827, when the township thought herself big enough to go alone, which she has done, and with credit to herself, too, standing for years No. 1 in the manufacture of cheese, and high in other products.
April 2, 1827, an election was held for officers. Levi M. Cochran, Chauncy Case, Jr., and Alvin Loomis were Judges of Election, and Ephraim Wood, Jr., and George Powers, Clerks. The following were selected: Trustees, Ben- jamin Doolittle, Daniel H. Johnson, Ephraim Wood, Jr .; Clerk, Alpheus Streator; Treasurer, Chauncy Case, Jr. ; Overseers of the Poor, Alvin Loomis, Levi M. Cochran; Fence Viewers, Riley Miller, Alonzo Root; Constables, Gid- eon H. Mills, Heman Thomas.
Benjamin Doolittle was elected Justice of the Peace, and the first suit before him was George Powers vs. Alvin Loomis. Loomis hired Powers to do a piece of work on the turnpike, but Powers not finishing it in a manner sat- isfactory to Loomis, the latter refused to pay for it, when he was sued for the amount. The Justice found for the defendant and Powers appealing to the Court of Common Pleas was beaten there also. The expenses of the township in those early times did not exceed $20 annually.
The Overseers of the Poor, who more properly should have been termed the Rooters-out of the Poor, were very efficient officers, and were determined that Streetsboro should have no poor to oversee; so, accordingly, three days after the election of those officials, they issued an order to Constable Thomas to notify James Walker and family to leave the township, to which they paid no attention, but a second order being served some time afterward on Walker, ac- companied by the information that if he did not wish himself and family to be put up for sale to the highest bidder, they quickly took themselves off. In 1829 Erastus Smith and family, and in 1830 Atlander Eddy and family, were ordered to vacate the sacred soil of Streetsboro. One old woman, Sally Fleming, would not leave, so they put her up on the block and sold her for $12 for two months. This was March 1, 1831. In 1832, January 11, Justus Welen, was ordered to leave; on the 12th, Micah Richardson and family, and on the 17th Julius Granger and his daughter Almira were notified. About the same time Mrs. Catharine Dexter and family, and William Beeman, received their walking papers. Where the poor people came from, and what their condition was, doth not now appear, but no drones were wanted in the Streetsboro hive.
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It has already been stated that through the wise foresight and liberality of Titus Street, the road from Cleveland to Wellsville was constructed through Streetsboro, he contributing largely in land for that purpose. The road was the first extensive thoroughfare through this section, and was the route over which the famous old mail carrier and contractor, Jabez Gilbert, of Palmyra, familiarly known as "Moses Jabe," and "Old Mose," passed over, an account of whom and his exploits may be found in the chapter on Palmyra. Street gave an acre of ground at each corner of the Center, exclusive of the roads for a public square, and a stone was placed in the center thereof, to desig- nate the exact center of the township. He also donated two acres a short distance south of the Center for a burial ground, and gave $60 to have it and the public square cleared off.
The first frame house in the township was built by David Johnson, at Johnson's Corners, in the spring of 1827. Street had offered to give $50 to the person who would put up the first frame house, and Johnson won the prize. The first house erected at the Center was by Levi M. Cochran, in the sumn- mer of 1825. It was a log-house, and stood on the southeast center lot. The first saw-mill was erected at Johnson's Corners, in the northwest corner of the township, by David Johnson. The first stage coach over the State road passed through in 1829, Jabez Gilbert driving.
In the fall of 1823 a child was born to Samuel Walker, which lived only a few hours, that being the first birth and first death in the township. The first death of an adult was the wife of Solomon Carlton, shortly after the burial ground was laid off, and she was the first interred there.
The first wedding was that of Frederick Nighman and Parmelia Van, November, 9, 1826. The ceremony was performed by Squire Mills, of Hud- son.
The first school was opened in June, 1826, by Clarinda Case, in the north- west corner of the township. She also cooked for her father and other men employed on the road. This schoolhouse was erected by David Johnson, the owner of a saw-mill at Johnson's Corners, and attending it were five of his chil- dren, and three of Case's children. Three and one-half years later a district school was opened in Singletary's original log-house, by Almira Taylor. The growth of educational interests since that time is shown by the following statistics: Revenue in 1884, $5,657; expenditures, $3,642; 9 schoolhouses valued at $3,800; pay of teachers, $34 and $31; enrollment, 103 boys, and 88 girls.
There is at the Center a Presbyterian Church with a good membership and a prosperous Sabbath-school. Rev. A. C. Barrows is pastor and Newton Sperry Superintendent of the Sunday-school.
The Methodist Episcopal Society have a neat building and a fair member. ship, with a good Sunday-school. Rev. Mr. Jacobs is pastor and E. E. Olin Superintendent of the school.
A Baptist Church having a good membership and a thriving Sunday-school is also at the Center. Rev. A. M. Eley is pastor and J. T. Judd Superin- tendent of the school.
In addition to the burial-ground donated by Mr. Street, there is a very beautiful spot devoted to the dead-Evergreen Cemetery-which also is town- ship property. Evergreen Cemetery Association, of Streetsboro, was organized May 10, 1864. W. S. Hill was Chairman, and Albert Doolittle, Clerk; Enos Payne, John Thompson, Elin Olin, Osmund Thomas, Lewis Green and Albert Doolittle, Trustees.
Township Officers .- Trustees, Wallace Root, E. H. Wait, J. W. Ellsworth; Clerk, F. M. Wilcox; Treasurer, N. D. Peck; Assessor, Lynn Hawkins; Con-
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stables, Erving Niman, William Ferguson; Justices of the Peace, N. D. Peck, P. Y. Barnes.
At the Center there is a general store, by N. D. Peck, and a grocery by C. W. Stewart. N. D. Peck is Postmaster. The Central Telephone Company have a toll-station here. A fine brass band furnishes excellent music occasionally. There are five cheese factories in operation in the township, and cheese making is the principal industry, averaging over 600,000 pounds of cheese annually. There is a singular industry carried on about one mile southwest of the Center, there being very few factories of the kind anywhere: Charles E. Peck is engaged in the manufacture of glass cutters' tools. N. S. Olin & Son conduct a large stock farm two miles southeast of the Center, known as the Cuy- ahoga Stock Farm, and have a fine herd of short-horn cattle. The township furnished eighty-one soldiers for the defense of the Union, and eleven were either killed or died in the service, and eight disabled.
The statistics of the township for 1884 are: Acres of wheat, 738, bushels, 7,067; rye, 3 acres, 25 bushels; buckwheat, 5 acres, 20 bushels; oats, 555 acres, 22,178 bushels; corn, 602 acres, 8,801 bushels (shelled); meadow, 2,329 acres, 3,143 tons of hay; 295 tons of clover, and 108 bushels of clover seed from 259 acres; 76 acres of potatoes yielded 7,169 bushels; home-made butter, 8,09S pounds; factory butter, 138,292 pounds; cheese, 397,992 pounds; maple sugar, 7,340 pounds, syrup, 1,894 gallons, from 7,923 trees; honey, 1,710 pounds, from 75 hives; eggs, 5,160 dozens; orchards, 183 acres, apples, 2,846 bushels; wool, 3,669 pounds; milch cows, 1,594; dogs, 69; killed, 11 sheep; animals died of disease, 13 hogs, 25 sheep, 29 cattle, 2 horses; acres cultivated, 4,331; in pasture, 7,693; woodland, 1,881; waste, 564; total, 14,469 acres. Population in 1850 was 1,108, including 392 youth; in 1870, 706; in 1880, 702; in 1884 (estimated), 700.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
SUFFIELD TOWNSHIP.
A FINE TOWNSHIP-ONE LONELY SETTLER-BENJAMIN BALDWIN, AND THE "BALDWIN" APPLE-OTHER SETTLERS-HONEST JOHN FRITCH-A NOTED HUNTER-TWO ORGANIZATIONS-A "FLUSTRATED" JUSTICE-FIRST MILLS, STORES, ETC .-- COMING OF THE GERMANS -- FIRST CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS- FIRST BIRTII AND DEATH -- MOGADORE-SUFFIELD CENTER-A DUPLEX TOWN, ETC .- STATISTICS, ETC .- BUSINESS, RESOURCES AND OFFICERS.
SUFFIELD, at the division of the Reserve lands, fell to the lot of par ties in Connecticut, living at Suffield, the principal one of whom was Benejob Kent. Royal Pease also owned a considerable portion of the land, and as he was the first to come out the township was known as Pease- town, being in the surveys Town 1, Range 9. The township was slow of settlement, and although it was one of the first in the county to receive a set- tler, yet some sixteen years elapsed before it was regularly organized. The land is highly productive, and although somewhat hilly throughout and swampy in the lower sections, it is finely adapted to wheat. It is excellent for sheep and general grazing, and the soil being principally a sandy, light grav- elly loam, with the many southerly exposed uplands, makes it peculiarly well
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adapted to grape culture. Fruit is raised easily and abundantly, and it is here that originated the famous "Baldwin" apple. One of the first settlers, Ben- jamin Baldwin, brought with him from his home in Connecticut a large quan- tity of apple seeds, gathered at different times and from many orchards. He planted some of these seeds and gave some to his neighbors. In a few years he had a fine young orchard, and among the bearing trees he found an apple that was particularly fine. Only here and there was a tree of this kind, so he wondered where he had obtained the seed that grew such good fruit, and no mat- ter how much he puzzled over it, he could never think where they came from. From those few trees the "Baldwin" apple has spread, not only over Ohio, but to many other States.
About the 1st of May, 1802, Royal Pease started from his home in Con- necticut and made his way slowly and with many hardships to his land on the Reserve, arriving here in June. He located on what was known as the Kent place, where he made a clearing, built a cabin, and put out his first crop. It must be remembered that 1802 was quite an early date to be in the woods of Ohio, for there were at the time probably not much over a dozen families in the county of Portage, or rather what is now Portage. There were no roads leading to where Pease settled, and not a human being nearer to him than five or six miles. He had many neighbors, however, in the dense forests that sur- rounded him-entirely too many-and their howlings through the long and dreary nights of this first winter in the wilds was enough to " fright the souls" of sterner men than Royal Pease.
In April, 1803, arrived Benjamin Baldwin from Connecticut, the origi- nator, as stated above, of the "Baldwin" apple, and at the same time came Elia- kim Merriman, also from Connecticut. In the same month David Way and family moved in, and located on the northern part of Lot 9.
The first birth was that of a daughter, Rebecca, to David Way, in Decem- ber, 1803. The first death, that of Orestes Hale, son of Samuel Hale, occurred in June, 1805. The first couple married after the organization were Alpha Wright and Lucy Foster.
In 1804 John Fritch, a Pennsylvania German, arrived, and made his set- tlement at the small lake southwest of the Center, for whom it has since been called Fritch's Pond. This lake is about one mile in diameter, and is one of the sources of the Little Cuyahoga River. Here honest John, the first of the Germans to make this township their habitation, but who have since come in in such numbers as to form fully three-fourths of the population, erected a mill, which was a great accommodation to the settlers, but in the construction of the dam it uncovered considerable soil, which bred malarious diseases, and it had finally to be destroyed, thereby putting an end to the mill as well. Also in this year came from Connecticut Daniel Warner, and soon after Ezekiel Tupper, Bradford Waldo and Champlin Minard, the latter in 1816 removing to Brimfield Township, where he remained. Waldo built the first house in Mogadore on the Suffield side
In 1805 Martin Kent and family, and Jonathan Foster, a single man, came in. Foster afterward married Betsey Eggleston, of Aurora, moved to Mantua, became a prosperous farmer, a useful citizen, and for many years was a Jus- tice of the Peace, besides filling the position of Associate Judge. Both him- self and wife died in 1867. In this year came Samuel Hale and his two sons Thomas and Orestes, the latter dying shortly after his arrival, from small-pox, which he had contracted at Pittsburgh. The father died in 1808 and was the first person interred in the grave-yard north of Josiah Kent's.
Settlers now began coming in more frequently, and in 1808 quite a number
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arrived, among whom was Moses Adams from Massachusetts. He had a large family of children, but his wife died on the road out. In 1810 he was elected Justice of the Peace and served nine years; he also represented Portage County in the Legislature. Mr. Adams took as his second wife Sarah Packer, a widow with six children. His son Horace, born in 1811, is now a hale and hearty old gentleman. His father settled on Lot 48. Moses Adams, Jr., was a noted hunter in his day, also Miles and Hiram Culver and John Fritch, and many are the stories related by the old settlers of how they would bring a fine buck in before breakfast, or a bear, or a brace of turkeys.
In April, 1808, Springfield Township was organized, embracing the terri- tory of six townships now included in this and Summit Counties. Benjamin Baldwin was elected the first Justice of the Peace, and about his first official act was to marry Freeman Upson and Sally Culver.
Suffield with its present boundaries was organized April 6, 1818, and at the request of some of the land owners in Suffield, Coun., was so named in place of retaining the unofficial title, Peasetown, by which it had been known. At the election held at the house of Thomas Hale, Martin Kent was chosen Chairman; Thomas Hale, Clerk, and Samuel Hale and Isaac Miller, Judges, the election resulting as follows: Trustees, Martin Kent, James L. Van Gor- der, Ebenezer Cutler; Clerk, Thomas Hale; Treasurer, Samuel Hale; Overseers of the Poor, Isaac Harget, John Martin; Lister and Constable, Arad Upson. On the 7th day of May, following, Thomas Hale was elected Justice of the Peace. On May 15, 1818, the first list of taxable property was filed by Arad Upson, with the Township Clerk, Thomas Hale. The present Township Offi- cers are: Trustees, G. F. Newbaur, Joseph Paulus, George Lutz; Clerk, G. D. Fritch; Treasurer, Lawrence Memmer; Assessor, J. B. Stine; Constables, Lewis Knapp, Henry Weaver; Justices of the Peace, William Paulus. M. O. Martin.
Suffield sent to the war for the Union 104 gallant boys in blue and twelve of them were sacrificed on the altar of their country:
In 1807 Harvey Hulbert presided over a school of nine pupils. In the summer of 1809 Laura Moore (Mrs Thomas Hale), presided over a school of six pupils in the same house where Hulbert taught in 1807. The present con- dition of schools is shown by the following statistics: Revenue in 1884, $4,- 936.48; expenditure, $3,083.15; number of houses, 10, valued at $10,000; pay of teachers, $20; enrollment, 220 boys and 185 girls.
Mogadore Union School District. - Revenue in 1884, $497.70; expenditure, $414.35; one schoolhouse valued at $2,000; pay of teachers, $35 and $55; enrollment, 66 boys and 59 girls.
Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1875, a house of worship erected in 1876, is served by Rev. Harshman, of Mogadore. The membership enrolled is about thirty. John Royer is Superintendent of the Sunday-school, and Isaac Slabaugh, Steward.
Suffield Reformed Church was founded in 1841, by Rev. Ham, of Manches- ter, under the name German Reformed Church. In 1883 the society was reor- ganized under the present name with sixty-five members, and Kev. J. H. Beek, pastor, who was succeeded by Rev. J. A. Novinger. The house now occupied by the Newbauer family contains the logs of the first church; the frame of the second building is now Smith & Walter's store. In 1882 the present church was erected at a cost of $3,500. The Trustees are G. F. Newbauer, Daniel Bolander, Ambrose Garris and Newton Cook.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Randolph Township claims a large number of its members from this township (see Randolph Township).
The first store was opened in 1816, by James L. Van Gorder, at the mill,
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when he was trying to find out, like the rest of the owners of that property, what it was best suited for. The next store was opened in Mogadore, in 1827, by William Richards, on the lot owned by Dr. J. C. Ferguson. The first postoffice was established in 1833, one mile and one-fourth west of the Center, and Benjamin Fritch was the first Postmaster. The first tavern was opened in 1840, by Seth Dustin, at the Center.
In 1835-37 a large German immigration set into the township, and as lands were cheap, soon largely increased the population. The emigrants brought with them principles of strict economy, industry and honesty, and they have made Suffield "blossom as a rose." Some of the best farms to be found any- where are here; splendid orchards everywhere, and the finest barn on the Reserve can be seen on the road between the Center and Brimfield.
On the 18th of May, 1825, a fearful wind storm passed through the town- ship from southwest to northeast. It was a genuine cyclone, and tore down trees as though they were so many dry weeds, killing quite a number of cattle and destroying all buildings in its path. It also passed across the southeast corner of Brimfield, and other points to the northeast.
Mogadore .- This village lies exactly upon the line dividing Portage from Summit County, and most of the business is on the west side of the line. The name is singular, and it is not known who suggested it. There is only one other Mogadore, and that is in Africa. The stores are in Summit County, but there are here two large potteries, operated respectively by Monroe & Son, and Martin Bros .; also a steam clay-mill, a water clay-mill, a cider-mill and a grist-mill. There is a tile factory one mile from this village, and a pottery two miles therefrom. S. Bitterman keeps a hotel. Drs. Ferguson & Bowers are the physicians. Dr. Francis Schuck lives in the east part of the township.
Suffield Center .- General stores, Geidlinger Bros., Smith & Walter. Car- riage factory, Michael Bletzer. Harness shop, F. E. Schumacher. Carriage shop, Nicholas Luly. Tinners and slaters, F. C. Sweeney & Co. Physician, Dr. F. P. Russell. Postmaster, C. R. Geidlinger. There is at the Center a Reformed Church, no pastor, and a Methodist Episcopal Church, pastor, Rev. G. L. Norris.
The Fritch Mills at Fritch's Pond were erected in 1805 or 1806; but owing to the miasma generated by the damming of the pond, the whole industry was declared a nuisance, and the dam destroyed. The second mill was built by James Shields, who sold it to Van Gorder. After passing through many hands, Daniel Harper converted it into a carding shop. Sometime after this David Ely put in saw-mill machinery and operated it for some years. In after years David and Samuel Ely established a pottery here.
Nicholas Luly's carriage shop on the east side of the village was estab- lished many years ago. About 1878 Mr. Luly established it as a carriage shop. He gives employment to five men.
The new Fritch saw-mill was established seventeen or eighteen years ago, by G. W. Fritch. This mill employs three men annually. In 1884 he put up a cider-mill and operated it that fall.
The harness shop was established by F. C. Sweeney and Jacob Ebell three years ago (February, 1882). In 1884 they sold their interests to F. E. Schu- macher (at the time he sold his carriage shop to Michael Bletzer) who carries on the work of harness making. Ambrose Garris is employed here. He has worked at this trade in the township over twelve years.
The carriage and wagon factory of Michael Bletzer was started by F. E. Schumacher seven years ago. This industry gives employment to three hands.
George Michael established the first harness shop and Ambrose Garris the second.
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There is a Schweitzer kase factory near the southern border of the town- ship, where is manufactured an article almost equal to the imported. A num- ber of schoolhouses dot the township at different points. The business of pottery is the largest interest in the township, the clay being obtained across the line in Summit County.
The statistics of the township for 1884 give the following figures: Acres of wheat, 2,556, bushels, 41,005; rye, 2 acres, bushels, 26; oats, 1,226 acres, 46,544 bushels; corn, 1,203 acres, bushels, 33,851; meadow, 717 acres, 1,062 tons of hay; clover, 977 acres, 1,373 tons of hay and 547 bushels of seed; flax, 15 acres; potatoes, 151 acres, 18,938 bushels; home made butter, 53,835 pounds; honey, 462 pounds from 77 hives; eggs, 22,887 dozens; vineyards, 3 acres; sweet potatoes, 1 acre; orchards, 362 acres; apples, 11,832 bushels; peaches, 154 bushels; pears, 97 bushels; plums, 82 bushels; wool, 5,595 pounds; milch cows, 520; dogs, 142; killed, 6 sheep; animals died of disease, 48 hogs, 161 sheep, 27 cattle and 10 horses; acres cultivated, 7,564; in past- ure, 2,223; in woodland, 1.904; waste land, 1,410, total, 13,101 acres. Pop- ulation in 1850 was 1,275, including 626 youth; in 1870, 1,444; in 1880, 1,530; in 1884, 1,550 (estimated).
CHAPTER XXXIV.
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WINDHAM TOWNSHIP.
THE BECKET LAND COMPANY -THE MARCH WESTWARD-SOME EARLY SETTLERS - ORGANIZATION AND OFFICERS - CHURCHES AND PREACHERS - INITIAL EVENTS OF INTEREST-PRIMITIVE EDUCATORS-BUILDING AND ENTERPRISE- BUSINESS-GRAND ARMY-TOWNSHIP OFFICERS-STATISTICS.
W INDHAM was owned originally by Gov. Caleb Strong, of Massachusetts, Lemuel and Asahel Pomeroy and Ebenezer Hunt, Strong owning twelve-thirteenths of the whole property which in the survey was known as Town 4, Range 6.
On the 11th day of September, 1810, the following persons met at the house of Thatcher Conant, in Becket, Berkshire Co., Mass., for the purpose of forming a company to purchase a township in New Connecticut and remove there: Bills Messenger, John Seeley, Jeremiah Lyman, Aaron P. Jagger, Benjamin C. Perkins, Elijah Alford, Alpheus Streator, Benjamin Higley, Elisha Clark, Isaac Clark, Ebenezer Messenger, Thatcher Conant, Nathan Birchard, Enos Kingsley, Gideon Bush and Dillingham Clark. The company being formed, a committee of one, Dillingham Clark, was appointed to wait upon Gov. Strong and ascertain upon what terms they could purchase the township, nearly all the land of which he held. A favorable report having been made by Clark, the company appointed him and Jeremiah Lyman to pro- ceed to their proposed purchase and explore it, which they did, returning in about six weeks with accounts that the purchase was closed with the proprietors, Strong and the Pomeroys. Hunt in the meantime had disposed of his interest to the two latter. The terms of the sale were that the purchasers should turn over to the sellers their property in Massachusetts at its appraised value, and in this way Gov. Strong's interest was entirely paid for. The sale
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