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The number of Soldiers and their families relieved through the different departments of the special relief
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work reached sixty thousand five hundred and ninety- eight ; many of these received aid through long peri- ods, and often to a considerable amount. No statistics can give the true record of what was asked and granted in individual cases. The Soldiers' Home, which was the chief channel of special relief, was conducted upon a broad principle which allowed always of favorable doubt in temporary cases. Its general government rested exclusively with the Soldiers' Aid Society, either the secretary or treasurer being in attendance every morning at the Home office.
The financial support of the Soldiers' Aid Society was, as a whole, purely voluntary. Contributions were obtained by means of frequent public presentation of the necessity for the relief work, and of the success at- tending its operations, rather than upon direct solicita- tion. An exception was made when for a certain period the society asked and obtained monthly membership fees, whereby a small but fixed income was secured. The Soldiers' Home was also built by funds solicited for the purpose. The general revenue of the society was derived from the free-will gifts of the people of Northern Ohio, either directly contributed, or received through the frequent successful amateur entertainments. A portion of California's grand contribution to the San- itary Commission came to its Cleveland branch, but the society's great work subsequent to 1864-when several carloads of hospital supplies were sent weekly to the front, when the hospital steamers and trains were sup- ported, and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and ninety-two . Soldiers were individually relieved-was only made possible through the results of the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair which was opened Feb. 22, 1864. By means of this fair, the Soldiers' Aid Society was enabled to show at the close of its operations a grand total of supplies disbursed amounting in value to $982,-
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481.25. To this should be added the amount in caslı paid for the special relief service $36,636.33, and $5,000 contributed to the State Soldiers' Home at Column- bus. The whole amount expended in the purchase of material and vegetables and the shipping of the same amounted to $59,993.09. The total of caslı contribu- tions received from every source during the War was $119,938.26, advances to societies or Soldiers which were repaid, or commissions to be executed for U. S. Sani- tary Commission not being of course included. The whole amount expended to 1869 was $115,751.28, ex- clusive of the above commissions. The balance of cash on hand was employed for the benefit of individual Soldiers in the Columbus Home or in Northern Ohio, and what remained was, in October, 1884, turned over to the Grand Army of the Republic, in Cleveland.
The Northern Ohio Soldiers' Aid Society contribut- ing towns were as follows : Ashland Co., II towns.
Ashtabula Co., 33 towns. Carroll Co., 4 towns.
Chautauqua Co., N. Y., I town1.
Kelley's Island, I town. Lake Co., S towns. Lawrence Co., Pa., I town.
Livingston Co., N. Y., 2 towns.
Columbiana Co., 15 towns. Lorain Co., 24 towns.
Crawford Co., Pa., 3 towns. Mahoning Co., 12 towns.
Cuyahoga Co., 26 towns.
Medina Co., IS towns.
Deer Creek Co., Pa., I town. Monroe Co., N. Y., I town.
Erie Co., 7 towns.
Oakland Co., Mich., I town.
Olivesburgh Co., I town. Ottawa Co., 4 towns.
Portage Co., 22 towns.
Richland Co., 2 towns.
Sandusky Co., 2 towns. Seneca Co., 5 towns.
Jackson Co., Mich., 1 town. Stark Co., 20 towns.
Jefferson Co., 3 towns.
Summit Co., 25 towns.
Erie Co., Pa., 14 towns. Geauga Co., 19 towns. Hardin Co., I town. Harrison Co., I tow11. Holmes Co., 9 towns. Huron Co., IS towns.
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Trumbull Co., 28 towns. Wayne Co., 6 towns.
Tuscarawas Co., 4 towns. Williams Co., I town.
Warren Co., Pa., 2 towns. Wood Co., I town.
OFFICERS NORTHERN OHIO SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETY. President.
Mrs. B. Rouse.
Vice-Presidents.
Mrs. Win. Melhinch, Mrs. Lewis Burton,
Mrs. John Shelley, Mrs. J. A. Harris.
Secretary. Miss Mary Clark Brayton.
Treasurer. Miss Ellen F. Terry. Office Assistants.
Miss Sara Mahan, Miss Carrie P. Younglove, Mrs. Emma L. Miller. Committees.
Mrs. Geo. A. Benedict,
Mrs. Dr. Isom,
Mrs. S. Belden,
Mrs. H. Iddings,
Mrs. T. Burnham,
Mrs. J. Lyman,
Mrs. L. Alcott,
Mrs. Joseph Lyman,
Mrs. D. Chittenden,
Mrs. C. W. Lepper,
Mrs. John Coon,
Mrs. Win. Mittleberger,
Mrs. J. H. Chase,
Mrs. H. Newberry,
Mrs. Win. Collins,
Mrs. Stanley Noble,
Mrs. Bolivar Butts,
Mrs. Joseph Perkins,
Mrs. Hiram Griswold,
Mrs. J. M. Richards,
Mrs. C. M. Giddings,
Mrs. O. B. Skinner,
Mrs. Charles Hickox,
Mrs. Southworth,
Mrs. D. Howe,
Mrs. W. T. Smith,
Mrs. L. M. Hubby,
Mrs. W. E. Standart,
Mrs. J. Hayward,
Mrs. J. H. Sargent,
Mrs. W. H. Hayward,
Mrs. Philo Scovill,
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Mrs. C. A. Tracy, Mrs. S. Williamson,
Mrs. Peter Thatcher, Mrs. J. H. Wade, Mrs. M. C. Younglove. Assistants.
Mrs. H. G. Abbey,
Mrs. Hunt,
Mrs. Dr. Arter,
Mrs. A. M. Harman,
Mrs. T. Bolton,
Mrs. A. Foote,
Mrs. W. J. Boardman,
Mrs. T. M. Kelley,
Miss Bixby,
Misses Kellogg,
Mrs. James Barnett,
Mrs. S. A. Jewett,
Miss Annette Barnett,
Mrs. R. Lauderdale,
Mrs. Beverlin,
Mrs. H. H. Little,
Mrs. John Crowell,
Mrs. Dr. Long,
Mrs. Win. B. Castle,
Mrs. Merritt,
Mrs. Bradford,
Miss Mahan,
Mrs. S. W. Crittenden, Mrs. Geo. B. Ely,
Miss Pickands,
Mrs. J. T. Stevens,
Mrs. A. Fuller,
Mrs. A. B. Stone,
Mrs. E. F. Gaylord,
Mrs. L. Severance,
Mrs. H. B. Hurlbut,
Mrs. E. Thayer,
Mrs. S. O. Griswold,
Mrs. Dr. Thayer,
Mrs. Dr. Hopkins,
Mrs. Whitman,
Mrs. G. A. Hyde,
Mrs. R. C. Vates.
Document Clerks.
Miss Annie Carter, Mrs. F. W. Parsons,
Miss Belle Carter,
Miss Nellie Russell,
Miss Annie Baldwin,
Miss Mary Shelley,
Miss Nettie Brayton,
Miss Sterling,
Miss Carrie Grant, Miss Stewart,
Miss Georgia Gordon, Miss Lily Walton,
Miss Helen Lester,
Miss Clara Woolson,
Mrs. Geo. Mygatt,
Mrs. Willey,
Miss Vaughan.
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NORTHERN OHIO SANITARY FAIR EXECUTIVE COM- MITTEE.
Chairman. T. P. Handy. Secretaries.
Mary Clark Brayton, H. M. Chapin,
Ellen F. Terry.
Dr. J. S. Newberry,
Peter Thatcher, Jr.,
Joseph Perkins,
Amasa Stone, Jr.,
George B. Senter,
Stillman Witt,
Samuel L. Mather,
Win. B. Castle,
Mrs. B. Rouse,
Mrs. Chas. A. Terry,
Mrs. Win. Melhinch,
Mrs. Geo. A. Benedict,
Mrs. Lewis Burton,
Mrs. S. Williamson,
Mrs. J. A. Harris,
Mrs. L. M. Hubby,
Mrs. John Shelley,
Mrs. Win. B. Castle,
CHAIRMEN OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Peter Thatcher,
William Edwards,
I. U. Masters,
Win. J. Boardman,
T. N. Bond,
T. P. Handy,
J. G. Hussey,
George Willey,
M. C. Younglove,
D. P. Eells,
Wm. Bingham,
John F. Warner,
J. V. N. Yates,
A. W. Fairbanks,
H. F. Brayton,
Col. W. H. Hayward,
John N. Frazee,
Mrs. Dr. E. Sterling,
Mrs. Fayette Brown,
Mrs. M. C. Younglove,
Mrs. A. G. Colwell,
Mrs. T. Burnham.
MRS. BENJAMIN ROUSE.
Rebecca Cromwell was born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 30, 1799. She married Benjamin Rouse in Boston, Aug. 12, 1821, and, after living a few years in New York City, removed in 1830 to Cleveland, Ohio, to engage in mis- sionary work under the auspices of the American Sunday School Union. The early years of Mr. and
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Mrs. Rouse in Cleveland were devoted to nuremitting, earnest work in the cause of religion, and in visiting the sick and poor. Mrs. Rouse early showed those qualities which distinguished her after-life. She was identified with the various charitable organizations in Cleveland-the Dorcas Society, the charities connected with the First Baptist Church, and the Cleveland Or- phan Asylum, whose president she continued for many years to be.
Mrs. Rouse was elected president of the Northern Ohio Soldiers' Aid Society in April, 1861, and held this office till the close of its operations. Gifted with a re- markable degree of native eloquence, Mrs. Rouse was able to stimulate the audiences whom she addressed in the interests of the Sanitary Commission to a point hardly to be reached by the most practiced orator. Her own loyal convictions and fervent sympathies were trans- lated into simple yet forcible language, intelligible to all who heard her.
She visited Wheeling, Va., in 1861, Louisville and Perryville, Ky., in 1862. In the latter year, she went with some other members of the society to Pittsburg Landing, on the second trip of the hospital steamer Lancaster, No. 2. The information she gathered dur- ing these journeys was communicated on her return to the societies of eager workers in Northern Ohio.
Mrs. Rouse's personality was undoubtedly a powerful element in the success of the Soldiers' Aid Society. With her small, erect figure and shrewd, kindly com- tenance, she conveyed the impression of quick intelli- gence and decision of character to all with whom she came in contact. Her nature was possessed of great strength, patience and endurance, which her delicate physical constitution hardly foretold.
With the close of the Sanitary Commission operations, Mrs. Rouse's connection with public charities ceased,
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save that she continued as its president her active in- terest in the Orphan Asylum. She died Dec. 23, 1887, peacefully, in the fullness of years, leaving behind her the record of a long life, worthily spent.
MRS. WILLIAM MELHINCH.
Mrs. William Melhinch, whose maiden name was Rosamond Spooner Dexter, was a native of Ogdens- burgh, New York, and came to Cleveland to live in 1850, Mr. Melhinch being a commission merchant in this city. She was elected vice-president of the Sol- diers' Aid Society at its inauguration and continued in office throughout the War. Her special work lay in the superintendence of the hospital stores-in their recep- tion and repacking-and the influence of hier joyous, sunny nature was felt not only by her associates, but by the soldier-visitors to the Aid Rooms to whose wants she ministered. Mrs. Melhinch died in Cleveland in ISSS, after many years of grief and suffering. Her memory is honored by those friends who survive her for the loving nature and patient courage which she manifested under all circumstances of personal trial. She was the last to realize her own worth, or to believe herself entitled to commendation.
MRS. JOHN SHELLEY.
Clarinda Russell was born in Adams, N. Y., June 7th, 1820, and was married to Mr. John Shelley, of Cleve- land, January 17th, 1840. Actively engaged from her early connection with Trinity Church, Cleveland, in the charities of that parish, she was known as a woman of ability in affairs and possessed of excellent judgment. In April, 1861, she was elected vice-president of the Soldiers' Aid Society, which office she held until early in 1863, when she tendered her resignation, upon hier temporary removal from Cleveland. During her
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connection with the society, she gave it her time and the benefit of her practical knowledge in executive matters. In the direction of the work room, and in the councils of the office, she was always to be depended upon for calm, reasonable judgment, and unswerving devotion to the interests of the society. Mrs. Shelley died in Cleveland, August 27, 1877.
MRS. LEWIS BURTON.
Mrs. Lewis Burton, wife of Rev. Lewis Burton, Rector of St. John's Church, of Cleveland, West Side, succeeded Mrs. Shelley as vice-president. Mrs. Burton's term of office extended to November 1, 1864, when she resigned the position. Her services were most valuable to the Soldiers' Aid Society as representing its interests to members who living at a somewhat greater distance from the central office were yet among the most constant contributors to its stores. Mrs. Burton was very faithful in the duties of her position, and her withdrawal was greatly regretted by her associates.
MRS. JOSIAH A. HARRIS.
Mrs. Harris was born in Egremont, Mass., in 1810, and removed at an early age to Ridgeville, Ohio, with her parents. On her marriage in 1830 to Mr. J. A. Harris, she came to Cleveland, where she has since lived. Mr. Harris was connected with the Cleveland Herald during almost his entire life in this city and was distinguished by his literary appreciation and quick sympathies. Mrs. Harris has been connected with many forms of charitable work since her marriage, and has seen the growth of the city of Cleveland from its feeble beginnings to its present development. On the organi- zation of the Soldiers' Aid Society, she became one of its most active and valuable members, present almost every day at the store-room, engaged in the business of the special committee of which she was chairman,
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and also in attendance at the Soldiers' Home, when regiments were to be entertained, or an increased num- ber of sick Soldiers required care. On the retirement of Mrs. Lewis Burton, Mrs. Harris was elected vice- president, November 1, 1864, an office for which her long familiarity with the work of the society and her devo- tion to its interests had peculiarly fitted her. Mrs. Harris is still living in Cleveland, and in full sympathy with the charities with which her life has been asso- ciated.
MARY CLARK BRAYTON.
None who ever knew Mary Clark Brayton could fail to be impressed with the strength and individuality of her character. Strong to bear, as she was quick to feel and prompt to act, her nature was marked by a depth and breadth which disclosed no symptom of over- growth, or partial development. This conscious power enabled her to assume and bear the burdens of lives in close association with her own, to hold them in sacred trust, so long as her ability to serve should last.
At the outbreak of the War, her mind found in the Sanitary Commission work a field for the exercise of powers whose activity had been hitherto comparatively limited. It had noble work to engage her matured in- tellect, arousing its resources and bringing into play her remarkable executive abilities, while touching the springs of passionate enthusiasm. Of the officers of the Soldiers' Aid Society, elected in April, 1861, to direct its work, none save Mrs. Rouse, the president, had been accustomed to public service, or, indeed, to trained work of any kind. As secretary of the Cleveland branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, Miss Brayton met the demands of an unprecedented and comprehen- sive office with quick resource and inexhaustible energy. Her correspondence with the five or six hundred soci- eties which composed the Northern Ohio Soldiers' Aid
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Society exemplifies-perhaps more than any one thing- her intellectual resources. She maintained constant intercourse with each of them throughout the War, explaining to thiem the Sanitary Commission system, aiding in the solution of local difficulties, stimulating them with information from the seat of war, always en- couraging them with her own belief in the efficacy of the relief work. There are twenty-one volumes pre- served of the letters from these auxiliary societies, but the collection is incomplete without those of the secre- tary of the central office.
In the interests of the supply work, Miss Brayton visited Washington in 1861, at the time of the first battle of Bull Run, and again in 1862, when the great rotunda was filled with empty beds waiting for the wounded from the battle of Antietam, and the city hospitals were overflowing with patients. In April, 1862, Miss Brayton visited Nashville, where, on the fall of Fort Donaldson, a depot of supplies was established, and on the news of the battle of Shiloh, went down to Pittsburg Landing on the first steamer which carried relief to the wounded. In October, 1862, she visited, with Mrs. Rouse, the hospitals at Perryville, and in May, 1863, accompanied Dr. Read, Sanitary Com- mission Inspector, to Louisville, Nashville and Mur- freesboro.
The history of the supply work Miss Brayton has herself recorded, with the operations of the Sanitary Fair. She was not less interested in the special relief service. With the close of the operations of the Soldiers' Aid Society, and the issuing of its final report in 1869, Miss Brayton's public service ceased; her na- ture, too deeply drawn upon, on its intellectual and emotional sides, needed temporary repose. That her subsequent life was clouded by illness and was all too brief, seems now but a tale that is told, since what she
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hoped for has at last been realized, in God's own time and way.
Measured by time and in the light of human seeing, the life of Mary Clark Brayton seems sadly short, for she died in 1879; but measured by energy and work ac- complished, who can call it incomplete ?
ELLEN FRANCES TERRY.
Ellen Frances Terry was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 26, 1837, and was the daughter of Charles Augustus Terry, M. D., and Julia E. Woodbridge, his wife.
On the organization of the Soldiers' Aid Society in IS61, she was elected its treasurer, which office she held throughout the society's existence. Her duties coll- prised not only those specially appertaining to her office, but the keeping of the records of receipts and disbursements of hospital stores. Her warmest interest lay in the special relief work, especially in the Soldiers' Home, built through the efforts of Mrs. Win. Melhinch and herself, and to which a large part of her time was devoted. The history of the special relief service in the final report of the society, with the accompanying detailed tables and the statistics of disbursements of stores, are Miss Terry's work.
I11 1872, Miss Terry left Cleveland upon the death of her parents, and in 1881 accepted the office of general secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, of New York City. This position she held for two years, re- signing it, upon her marriage, in 1883, to Charles Fred- erick Johnson, M. A., Professor of English Literature in Trinity College, Hartford, Con11.
SARA MAHAN.
Sara Mahan was the daughter of the Rev. Asa Mahan, first President of Oberlin College. She was born May 4th, 1840, and early adopted the profession of a teacher,
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in which her success was very remarkable. She entered the office of the Soldiers' Aid Society, August, 1862, with an unusual equipment of methodical training and business experience. In the rush of impetuous fervor which, with its passion of generous giving, at times severely tried the resources of the Aid Society, such qualities as Miss Malian possessed were most valuable. In the printing office, where she acted as forewoman in charge of the amateur corps, she rendered most efficient service, as well as in the clerical work, which was her chief employment.
The strain of these duties was severe, and from their effects Miss Mahan never entirely recovered. At the close of the War she took up other occupations, which her failing health compelled her to lay aside, one after another. But neither illness nor the sure decay of her physical nature could conquer the resolute will and indomitable courage. The end was long delayed, but came at last, on the twenty-second day of January, 1875.
Associated with Miss Mahan in her sanitary work, and in close friendship, was
MRS. EMMA L. MILLER,
whose connection with the Society extended from April, 1864, to October, 1865, when, at the strong recommenda- tion of the Cleveland Branch Sanitary Commission, she was appointed to the position of matron of the State Soldiers' Home at Columbus, Ohio. On the establish- ment of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, she received the commission of matron, and has since that period performed the important and comprehensive duties of the office with the same energy, wisdom and executive ability that was indicated in the Sanitary Commission days.
CARRIE P. YOUNGLOVE.
Associated with the Soldiers' Aid Society through
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almost its entire history, Miss Younglove, though not officially connected with it, must always be identified with its work. In the little Aid Room office, overseeing the body of youthful document clerks, setting up type at the forms in the third story of 89 Bank Street, she was constant to whatever duties for the time engaged her, and brought into all her own personal enthusiasmn. It was Miss Younglove who, by her personal efforts, aided in the establishment of the Sanitary Commission gardens in Tennessee, and who, visiting them a year later, when in successful operation, wrote from Chatta- nooga such charming accounts of the results. Miss Younglove accompanied the Sanitary Inspector, in 1863, on an extended tour of the hospitals in Kentucky and Tennessee, and her letters from various points visited are remarkable for their vivid descriptions and general literary merit. She married Major Willard Abbott, of Rochester, N. Y., and now lives in Cleveland.
MRS. PETER THATCHER.
Mrs. Thatcher was born in Arlington, Mass., January 20th, 1820. She came to Cleveland in 1850 with her husband, Peter Thatcher, a noted engineer and bridge builder. Mrs. Thatcher was one of the first volunteers in the Sanitary Commission service, and the last to be mustered out at the close of the War. Unfailing in her attendance at the Aid Rooms, her important duties upon the Committee on Fruit and Groceries were scrupulously performed so long as the necessity for such services lasted. No picture of the old store-room at 95 Bank Street, in the minds of the survivors of that busy corps of workers, would be complete without the figure of Mrs. Thatcher. Quick, alert, cheerful, inde- fatigable, she was also as ready for service at the Soldiers' Home when occasion required. Her husband always remained the Soldiers' Aid Society's firm friend
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and counsellor. Since his death, Mrs. Thatcher has continued to live in Cleveland, and is still interested in the local charities, with which she has been long con- nected-the Dorcas and Humane Societies and the Woman's College and Hospital.
It has fallen to the only survivor of the office corps of the Soldiers' Aid Society to commemorate its work, and to prepare this memorial sketch of her associates. Those whose figures the panel has preserved do but typify the patriotisin of the women of Northern Ohio in the War, and personal enlogy would do their memory wrong. This they neither desired nor felt it deserved, believing the cause they served worthy even the great price that was paid for it. To find their work worthy of record beside that of the Soldiers of the Union is all that they would claim.
ELLEN TERRY JOHNSON.
THE SISTER OF CHARITY.
In the memorial panel devoted to the recognition of the valuable aid of the patriotic women of our county, the architect and sculptor fittingly includes and im- mortalizes a representative of the Order of the Sisters of Charity, whose work was for the whole country. In the midst of battle, wherever there was death or suf- fering, the kindly Sister was always to be found. With many of the women of the War, more or less of personal interest was mingled with patriotic fervor. Their love for the general cause was deeper because in- terpreted to them by individual sympathy for its de- fenders. In the hospital work of the Sisters of Charity this element was entirely wanting. Love for man as the creation of God's hand-not as brother, father, or husband-inspired them, and filled them with a divine compassion which had no root in personal feeling. Their work on battlefield and in hospital is too well
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known to need recapitulation. Their name has become a synonym for devotion to the sick and wounded, irre- spective of flag, creed, or race-of calin, unshrinking courage and limitless self-sacrifice. They represent on the Soldiers' Aid Society panel another side of the same great principle which animated home and cloister in those strenuous days. The devoted work of the Sisters of Charity during the War created for that band of heroic women the respect and admiration of every loyal American.
LUCY WEBB HAVES.
In this, the first memorial erected to the women of the War days, the thoughtful sculptor recognizes a daughter of Ohio, whose gracious womanhood may well be claimed by all its citizens.
We are pleased to be able to give a full sketch of one of America's noblest and gentlest women :
Lucy Webb Hayes was the only daughter of Dr. James Webb and Maria Cook, and was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, August 28, 1831. Both of her grand- fathers, three of her great-grandfathers, and two of her great-great-grandfathers served in the Revolutionary War in regiments of the Connecticut and Virginia Line. Awards of land made them in return for military service lead to the ultimate transfer of the family resi- dence to Kentucky and Ohio.
Her father, Dr. James Webb, when quite young, served in the War of 1812 as a member of the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, and was a member of Ball's Squadron, which had several engagements with the Indians just south of Lower Sandusky, now Fre- mont, Ohio, prior to the memorable defense of Ft. Stephenson by Major Croghan on the 2nd of August, 1813. Dr. Webb died while at Lexington, Kentucky, whither he had gone from Ohio to arrange for manu-
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