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EARLY SCHOOLS.
Mrs. Harriet Russ, formerly Miss Harrict Edwards, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Edwards, then living in
Greenfield, taught the first school held in the town- ship, in the year 1822, for the sum of fifty cents per week, paid not in money, but labor at clearing land. This school was in the southwestern section of the township. The first school meeting was held also in 1827. A school house was erected in 1832, near the northeastern corner of the township, princpally through the efforts of Daniel G. Barker. Sallie Fowler was the first teacher at this school.
PHYSICIANS.
The first practitioner of medicine known in the township, was Dr. Moses Saunders, of Peru. He, for a number of years, had the whole of what little practice there was in the settlement. Afterwards, Dr. Wm. M. Ladd, of Fitchville, and Dr. Morton, of Greenwich, practiced in the township. The only res- ident physician of any note, in Ripley, was Dr. Cyrus Paine, who began here in 1833 and continued in practice for about five years, giving very general sat- isfaction.
DELPHI.
Delphi was onee quite an active little village, and its future looked roseate enough to satisfy nearly all that it would one day be a thriving place. It had two or three taverns or hotels, in its most prosperous days, and several well-stocked stores. The railroads, however, developed other places at the expense of Delphi, and for the past score of years or more, its interests have waned. It has, at present, two stores, kept by "Uncle William" Robinson and George E. Miller, a wagon and blacksmith shop, kept by James Irwin, and another by Charles Harrison. The first store in Ripley township was opened here by Uvat Close.
ROADS.
For a number of years after the first settlement was made there was but one road in the township upon which travel was possible. This was the one running east and west through the center. The timber had been chopped along the line, but the road was unim- proved, and it was only with difficulty that vehieles could be moved over it. The road cut through the township for Harrison's army to pass through, was grown over with bushes and small timber. and it was allowed to remain in this condition for some time after the settlement was commenced. Many of the early settlers cut their way into the township through the primeval forest.
POSTAL MATTERS.
There was a mail route through Ripley before the township was settled, upon which a man went once a week, between Mansfield and Norwalk. The first eastern mail was carried from New Haven through Ripley, Greenwich, Ruggles and Sullivan. For a few years the settlers were obliged to go to the older settled townships for their mail; but about 1830 a
OUR SABBATH HOME
F. C. PAINE
MRS. F. C. PAINE.
PROHIBITION
RESIDENCE OF F.C. PAINE, RIPLEY, HURON CO., OHIO. 1879
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post office was established at the locality now known as Edwards' Corners, and the Rev. Joseph Edwards was made postmaster. When Delphi begun to be a place of trade, the post office was removed there, and designated as Ripleyville-the name by which it has ever since been known. There is another post office in the township, upon the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnati and Indianapolis railroad, named Carson.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
The water power of the township being insignifi- cant, there have never been any very successful flour- ing or saw mills run by this power, and for the same and other reasons no branch of manufacturing has ever been extensively carried on. There are now two saw mills in the township-one at Delphi, at present owned by David Truxell and John Howard, built in 1860, and one in the northern part of the township, upon lot twenty-one, section three, owned. for the past three years, by Robert Maynard. These, and a small manufactory of drain tiles, owned by Hubbard Hoak and located at Delphi, are the only manufactur- ing interests that Ripley possesses.
STOCK RAISING.
A far more important line of business in this town- ship is the raising of blooded stock by a number of enterprising men. So extensively has this branch of the farmer's calling been carried on that it has made Ripley famous, wherever in our State an interest is taken in the improvement of cattle, sheep and horses, particularly the former classes of animals.
S. W. Thomas is deserving . of the credit, in all probability, of owning the finest flock of sheep in Ohio. Mr. Thomas, a native of New York State, came to Ripley in 1854, and about ten years later began the business of raising. He selected from the flocks of the following gentlemen in Addison county, Vermont: Messrs. C. D. Lane, C. W. Mason, W. H. Cook, Tyler, Stickney & Son, E. G. Farnham, S. J. Northrup & Son, F. & L. E. Moore, Rockwell & San- ford, Hall & Holden. J. A. Wright, H. Jones, George W. Paine, C. P. Crane, Mrs. C. W. Hayward and H. M. Perry (the Culting flock) and a few others. These purchases were followed up in the years 1865 and 1866, also in 1871, 1847, 1878 and 1879, the object constantly aimed at being the improvement of the flock through the introduction of the best blooded stock procurable. In purchasing, Mr. Thomas has spared no pains to secure the best sheep in the coun- try, often paying as high as one hundred dollars per head, and in one instance one hundred and fifty for ewes. The rams used in the flock have cost from three to twenty-five hundred dollars a piece. The flock, at this writing, consists of something over two hundred and .forty sheep. Of these, some of the ewes shear as heavy as seventeen, eighteen, mineteen and even twenty pounds of wool. and the rams from twenty-four to twenty-eight pounds a piece. Mr. Thomas' sales of sheep, during 1878 and the first two
or three months of 1879, have amounted to upwards of four thousand dollars. Although giving most of his attention to sheep raising, Mr. Thomas has a very good herd of short horns (Durhams). He commenced breeding cattle in 1874.
A man who makes more of a specialty of cattle breeding is W. P. Noble, formerly of Richland coun- ty, but for the past fifteen years a resident of Ripley. He has a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in the south part of Ripley, upon which are to be seen some of the best specimens of thoroughbred Durham cattle that the country can produce. He has also quite a herd in Morrow county. Mr. Noble also raises some fine wooled sheep of the Spanish Merino variety. There are several other farmers in the township who have some remarkably fine thoroughbred cattle, among whom J. S. White is particularly deserving of mention.
Sol Lofland, the veteran breeder and trainer of running horses, is also a resident, and has been for over thirty years, of Ripley. He has upon his farm about thirty-five head of valuable horses.
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Ripleyville Grange, No. 707, was organized March 16, 1814, with sixteen members. Following are the first officers elected: S. E. Peck, master; D. S. Wash- burn, overseer; William Baker, lecturer; Stephen Case, steward; B. L. Alverson, assistant steward; J. M. Maynard, chaplain; O. G. Hall, secretary; E. Bene- dict, treasurer; J. Sattison, gate keeper; Mrs. M. A. Hall, Ceres; Mrs. H. E. Maynard, Pomona; Mrs. Sarah Washburn, Flora: Mrs. S. E. Peck, stewardess. The grange has now a membership of forty-five persons. Following are the ladies and gentlemen in office in 1879: Ira Paine, master; James R. Knight, overseer; G. L. Childs, lecturer; Robert Watts, stew- ard; John Howard, assistant steward; Mrs. Mary Childs, chaplain; David Lyon, treasurer; Mrs. A. D. Stotts, secretary; David Truxell, gate keeper: Mrs. Ira Paine, Ceres; Robert Watts, Pomona; Mrs. S. Washburn, Flora; Mrs. John Howard, stewardess.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
F. C. PAINE.
The subject of this sketch disclaims the possession of any qualities that entitle him to the mention that his friends believe should be made of him. Ile says that the most that can be claimed for him, is that he is one of that number whose effort and aim. thus far through life, have been to make the world better for his having been in it.
F. C. Paine was born November 23, 1819, at En- field, Tompkins county, New York. In the spring
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of 1833, he removed, with his father's family, to Ripley, Huron county, Ohio, which county has ever since been the place of his residence. Ripley was then an almost unbroken forest. All of the educational advantages afforded in the township, were small schools held in two rude log huts. The following winter after his arrival, with Cobb's spelling book, the English reader, Kirkham's grammar and Dabol's arithmetic under his arm, he sought to avail himself of the advantages offered by these small schools. The teacher informed him that he was not hired to give instruction in grammar, but would do all he could for his new pupil, in arithmetic. Before night the teacher found a limit to his ability in this branch of education, the bridge which it was impossible to pass being one of the hardest sums in simple division. At night young Paine graduated, and, after that, studied at home under the direction of his father, taking as his school hours, the evening time, when he lay in front of the fire-place and conned his books over by the ruddy blaze of a huge log fire. This was because his days were occupied in chopping.
In the fall of 1836, he commenced teaching, his first school being at Conatnt's corners, near where the village of Greenwich station is now located. He taught seventy-two days, and received, therefor, thirty dollars.
In the spring of 1857, he made a profession of re- ligion and joined the Methodist Episcopal church .* Two years later, he was licensed to preach. In the fall of 1842, he was received into (what was then known as) the Michigan conference, and was stationed at Toledo. After several months, his health failed him, and with the advice of several physicians, he abandoned, very reluctantly, the idea of making the ministry of the Gospel, his calling through life.
October 12, 1843, he married Miss Mary A. Jen- nings, of Fairfield township, formerly of Fairfield, Connecticut. They had no children, but what was their misfortune may have been much to the benefit of many with whom they have met in life. Whether their love and kindness have been the more freely be- stowed upon others, because children of their own have not claimed it, cannot be known, but certain it is that they have been kind and careful in providing for the poor and those in distress.
Mr. Paine, though a farmer, is a lover of the beau- tiful, and one who is ever finding the beautiful in the simple and wonderful things that lie around him in his every day life. He has preached occasionally but most of his efforts have been in the interests of the Sunday school cause. Through his efforts, to a great extent, was formed the Huron County Sunday School Union. Several churches have grown out of Sunday schools organized by him. He has acted in the capac- ity of Sunday school superintendent for forty years.
The term "radical" is properly applied to Mr. Paine. Policy has never made him act contrary to his convic-
tion of duty. Early in life he embraced anti-slavery sentiments and fearlessly defended them. He was waylaid by some of his neighbors, one dark night, near Edward's corners, and treated to a shower of eggs, for having publicly expressed his opinion on that subject. " The nigger man," was the term frequently applied to him. His first vote was cast for James G. Birney, an ex-slaveholder. After the formation of the republican party he affiliated publicly with that organization, and all through the dark days of the Rebellion he stood firm for the Union, and with influ- ence and means advocated the cause of the north. Since the organization of the prohibition party his sympathies and efforts have been naturally with that body. Though now in his fifty-fourth year he has never purchased a glass of anything that would intox- icate. His firm conviction is, that to a great extent the church is responsible for the prevalence of intem- perance throughout the nation. His motto is "prohi- bition," and, as he says, for this he faithfully works and prays, fully believing in the good time coming, and in the fulfillment of the master's promise: " That every plant not planted by his Heavenly Fathers' hand shall be rooted up."
A. D. STOTTS.
Illustrative of the success that attends honest, manly, well-directed endeavor, industry and the con- scientions adherence to duty, is the life of the subject of this sketch, A. D. Stotts, of Ripley township. His grandfather, Abram, and father, John Stotts, natives of Maryland, but for some time resident in Belmont county, Ohio, came to New Haven in 1824, and in the year 1826, moved into Ripley where there were not more than half a dozen families of pioneers. John Stotts had married Eve Winter, of Virginia, and A. D. Stotts was the first born of this family of nine children. He was one year old when his parents removed to Huron county. He grew up in Ripley, following the hard routine of farm life from the time he was old enough to drive a horse, and under his father's care and direction, early became accustomed to the active habit of life which he has ever since followed. When twenty-one years of age, he "was his own man," and as a start in life, his father offered him his choice between two hundred and fifty dollars in cash and a piece of land uncleared, which consisted of fifty acres, with the condition, however, that if he chose the latter, he should give in return two years' labor. He took the land, and after his agreement with his father was fulfilled, began the labor of pre- paring it for farm purposes, which in time he accom- plished to his satisfaction. He turned all of the avails that he could spare from this small farm into the pur- chase of various small parcels of land adjoining his first possession, and finally through thrift, and by
* See religious history of Ripley-"The Great Revival."
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many slow but successful steps, accumulated the large property of which he is now owner.
The old house which is shown in illustration, Mr. Stotts built when he was twenty-seven years old, and it answered the needs of himself and family up to 1867. when he erected the spacious and elegant brick residence which has since been his home. The brick house, south of his residence, (which appears in the plate) was the house of his father. Upon his death, the subject of this sketch, bought out the other heirs and thus came into possession of the old homestead.
Mr. Stotts was married October, 23, 1850, to Mary- ette, daughter of John and Susan Boughton, of Fitch- ville township, who is still the partner of his joys and sorrows. Their children are: Flora A. (Mrs. Hop- kins), of Ripley; Dellie E. (Mrs. F. A. Hilton), of Coldwater, Michigan; Clarence Eugene and Elmer A., the two last named at home.
Mr. Stotts is one of those men to whom the trite term, "self-made," is appropriately applied. He had only the most narrowly limited advantages for an early education, there being no school of any kind in the township until after he was twelve years of age, and his father being unable to give him any instruc- tiou, even in the rudimentary branches. Though lacking these advantages in youth, he supplied them as best he could in later life, and has attained much of that most valuable education of all, which comes from observation, experience, and general reading of
books-and men. Whatever he has attained has been by his own unaided efforts. Beside achieving an independence, so far as pecuniary position is con- cerned, he has made for himself a character and rep- utation that place him in the highest regard of the people who know him best. The feeling of confidence in his judgment and probity is attested by the fact that he has not only been called upon to serve, in offices of trust, in the township in which he resides, but has been chosen to fill an important place in the civil list of the county. He was elected county commis- sioner in 1875, and re-elected in 1878 for a term of three years.
Politically, Mr. Stotts was a Democrat until the formation of the Republican party, since which time he has been an unswerving supporter of the cause which that organization espoused.
He has long been a member of the Baptist church, and his christianity is of that type which is a credit alike to its professor and to the faith.
Mr. Stotts has now lived in Ripley longer than any other resident ; has been prominently identified with its interests, and is looked upon as one of its solidly worthy citizens, a man who has worked hard and lived well, in the best significance of the term, and who is appreciated for his earnestness, sincerity and honesty.
His father, John Stotts, died May 16, 1863, and his mother in March, 1856.
FITCHVILLE.
FITCHVILLE, known originally as town number two, range twenty-one, is situated in the southeast quarter of Huron county, and is bounded upon the north by Hartland. east by New London, south by Greenwich, and west by Fairfield. The surface is rolling and the drainage good. The soil is elay with a plentiful ad- mixture of sand and gravel, which predominate upon the ridges. It was originally heavily timbered with oak, walnut, hiekory, maple, black and white ash, beeeli, basswood, elm and other varieties of trees. The Vermillion river, which heads at two little lakes near Savannah, in Ashland county. enters the town- ship near the southeast corner, flows near the center, and then northward and on through Hartland, Clarksfield, Wakeman, and Erie county to the lake.
ORIGINAL OWNERS.
For explanation of the following table the reader is referred to the history of Wakeman township:
CLASSIFICATION No. 1, SECTION 1.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed
€
S
d
Peter Cyphus
20
13
William Knapp
19
0
0
David Bush
159
5
11
Hr's of David Bush 159
5
11
Jeremiah Chapman
3
12
1
William Knapp
3
12
11
Mary Peck
8
5
8
8
5
Reuben Rundal
44
0
Daniel Palmer
35
19
5
..
35
19
Abraham Close
17
0
0
Jabez Fitch & Wil- liam Knapp
17
0
0
Joseph Close
144 60
15
0 00692 5
William Knapp
6
0
0
John Loudon
7
10
0
44
51
16
3
James Cunningham
12
0
0
12
5
0
Hannah Rundal
15
0
0
Hannah Rundal
8
18
5
William Waters
11
12
..
4
15
5
Obadiah Banks
41
17
10
9
10
10
9
116 1037
3
4
11
0
Mindwell Hitchcock
18
7
10
Thomas Hitchcock
18
10
Joseph Chamber
Daniel Carter
4
10
0
4
10
0
0
Daniel Darson
19
0
10
13
10
James Ferris
12
13
3
27
5
Timothy Ferris
16
10
0
6
17
6
0
7
Reuben Holmes
32
10
2
63
10
10
S
44
20
0
11
Nathaniel Hobby
12
41
15
1
0
7
0
3
23
3
25
5
10
13
15
9
9
11
9
9
11
Joseph Lockwood 30
19
00
10
15
0
9
James Lyon
58
19
5
11
9
William Marshall
14
16 11
Rev. William Seward 25
8
0
15
0
..
-2
11
Charles Knapp
11
146
Q
Joha Hobby
146
Isaac Howe
83
19
Jonnh Mead
24
12
0
Jonalı Mead
12
0
Reuben Holmes
322
10
2
Samuel Seymour
5
0
0
Elisha Belcher
39
1
Elisha Belcher
39
1
0
Footing of Classification No. 2. €1.844 -2
CLASSIFICATION NO. 3, SECTION 3.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
Josiah Thatcher
400
6
5
Ann Hays
57
3
816
Peter Quintard
401
0
0
Peter Quintard
13-
0
0
Benjamin Betts
11
11
Hezekiah Whitlock
..
5
6
0
Abigall Weeks
3
10
400
6
Committee
30
15
Daniel McAuley
218
7
0
44
30
19
3
Thus. Fitch's heirs
415
3
10
12
2
=
4
10
11
Henry Studwell
85
17
6
Jonathan and Am- brose Reynolds
18
1
5
276
17
0
Abiah Allen
13
13
92
Charles Sabin
5
6
11
John Cottin
7
19
3
1
0
44
12
19
6
Silas Kimberly
193
16
0
193
16
0
Footing of Classification No. 3, £1,345 8
734
CLASSIFICATION No, 4, SECTION 4.
Original Grantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't Classed.
William Blake
€ 3
8.
d.
Jabez Fitch
3
1
3
Jacob Conkling
63
1
3
63
1
3
Eben Knapp
147
12
6
1-47
17
6
John Mead
162
0
9
18
1
1
Sarah Mead
71
Susannah Reynolds
18
16
4.
18
16
4
Lydia Fitch
19
19
10
..
19
19
10
Thos. Fitch's heirs 415
Hannah Fitch's h'rs 141
95
17
10
Jabez Fitch & Wil- liam Knappu.
95 13 41
17 18
10
Andrew Sturges
13
18
0
6
William Kaapp
Isaac Bush
4
10
S
4
6
8
13
13
8
John Mead, Jr
54
16
3
46
10
5
5
Rachel Marshall
10
5
5
..
22
1
1
12
2
Samuel Ask
11
18
416
Committee
6
216
8
Jeremiah Mead
18
18
10
4
..
44
5
0
Silas Betts
217
1
Frederick Betts John St. John
217
1
Nevil Conklin
Odle Close, admin'r
3
10
11
15
15
10
Thomas Hitchcock
33
2
0
Heirs
63
14
7
11
Nathaniel Finch
27
16
3 Nathaniel Finch
27
16
3
James Barnes
51
9
H'r- of Jas. Barnes
51
9
1014
William Rundal
7
H'rs of W'm. Run .. al 81
36
1
4
15
0
John Mackay, Jr.
11
1
Footing of Classification No. 1, £1,344
CLASSIFICATION NO. 2, SECTION 2.
Original Girantees.
Am't Loss.
Classified by.
Am't classed.
£
8
Israel Wood
182
0
11
David Wood, Jr.
182
0
11
Odle Close
257
10
Gideon Close
257
10
3
Samuel Seymour
195
15
3
Samuel Seymour
195
15
3
Rev. Jo't'n Murdock 79
14
Rev. J. Murdock
14
1
Drake Seymour
123
19
Drake Seymour
123
19
5
Nehemiah Brown
31
5
1
Benjamin Brush
5
1
3.
Mary Town
4
10
0
3
3
Joanna Reynolds
12
0
12
2
0
Benj. Brush, Nehe- minh & Maj. Brown 14 John Mackay, Jr.
16
11
Anna Rundal
I sân
11
N
10
1
3
John Hobby
Isaac Howe
83
19
7
miah & Maj. Brown 94
16
2
31
5
1
Roger Southerland
10
12
0
10
0
Horse Neck Church
0
0
0
Jonathan Connery
63 9 12
21
Zaccheus Mead
11
1011 1
15
0
0
15
10
10
Moses Husted, Jr.
Meeting House
20
0 0 0 0000
090
.4
41
15
1
James Johnson
8
10
1
5
7
Jonah Knapp
Nathaniel Kuapp
15
8
1-4
13
14
13
3
08-
Hannah Lockwood Amos Lyon
19
19
5
4
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THE FIRST SETTLERS.
Fitehville was first settled in the summer of 1817. Peter Mead, Abraham Mead and Amos Reynolds were the pioneers. They made their beginning upon the
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2
10
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Charity Banks
7
10
0
7
10
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'ames Brundage
30
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44
6
Samuel Bush
13
13
William Lee
7
30
1
1
0
Peter Cyphus
13
0
Daniel Marshall
22
1
1
15
5
18
18
John Bush
2
15
116
147
13
1037
co
Hannah Fitch's h'rs 141
Thomas Fitch's h'rs 415
3
..
44
9
916
Odle Close, Jr.
15
Solomon Finney Ann Gregg
17 43
6
12
1
26
15
63
0
J'n'th'n Hubbard, Jr. 31
1
14
13
15
0
Eunice Knapp
John Knapp
Ezekiel Knapp
Widow Kinch
10
0
Caleb Lyon
0 9100
17
17
4
S
3
11
Timothy Rundal
5
0
10 5
4
Peter Brown
5
147
13
19
15
514
19
30
12
0
Timothy Finch
8
60
8
5
Samuel Palmer
6
0
4 8
6
9
William Bush
41
0 0-100 --
44
92
5
11
7
7
3
1
0
William Trowbridge
12
19
6
.
3
10
0
Josiah Thatcher
Auley McAuley
30
19
2
11
17
1
Royer Southerland
3
1116
Rufus Avery
13:
18
David Austin, Esq.
276
17
3
14
11
William Lyon
5
William Ward
Zacheriah Candy
19
0 6 08029
Silas Hotchkiss
£
S
d.
£
8.
d.
Dan'lThatcher's h'rs 7
1113
0
93/4
Bevley Arno d
12
0
2.18
0
6
6
83
€
8
5
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14
416 934
Ephraim Burr
14-
15
Benjamin Husted
10
Israel Knapp, Jr
41
17
Samuel Banks Rover Brown
19
2
25 4
Thomas Davis
Zaccheus Mead
Deborah Close
2
Hannah Rundal
Anna Ruadal
0
s.
et.
2
16
Benj. Brush, Nehe-
Enos Lockwood
13
11
14
-
2
15
4
71
5
41
0
Ebenezer Fitch
10
33
0
9
12
1
Isaac Holmes
Thomas Johnson
10
3
0
8
14
3
11
Timothy Lockwood
d.
44
..
Dehornh Brush
..
0
3
329
HISTORY OF HURON AND ERIE COUNTIES, OHIO.
east line of the township, upon the farms now occu- pied by the widow of Peter Mead and by John Golden, Peter Mead taking up lot thirteen and Amos Rey- nolds lot fourteen, both in section one. The Meads came to Ohio from Carmel, Putnam county, New York, but were originally from Connecticut, and Reynolds was from Westchester county. They were obliged to cut a road into the township. Immediately upon their arrival they prepared the ground for a crop of corn, and then built log cabins for the acconimo- dation of their families, who, while they were plant- ing had had no shelter but that of the wagons. Abraham Mead, after clearing several acres of land, became dissatisfied with his location, and wishing to get as near the center of the township as possible, he measured it off, each way, by the use of a rope and pocket-compass, and took possession of the land lying near the center, and upon which the little village of Clinton was afterward built. Here he resided about twelve years, when he sold out and removed to Nor- walk where he died in 1851, aged seventy-six years. His wife's name was Deborah Barker. They had six sons: Alson, William, Sanford, Madison, Joel, and David; and three daughters: Mary, Samantha, and Arvilla, one of whom married John Bell, now of Rip- ley. All of the sons are dead but David, who resides in Fairfield. Peter Mead died in Fitchville, in 1854. He was twice married, and reared a large family of children, of whom the living are: Norman, Edward B., Fanny (Mrs. G. Jackson, of Ottawa county), An- geline, (Mrs. Eaton, in Michigan), and J. F., who lives upon the old homestead in Fitchville. Those deceased are: Newberry, Varney P., Cyrus, Zacchens, and Mary.
The Palmers came in 1818. They were from Fair- field county, Connecticut. Rundel, Alvah, Seeley and Linus came first, in the spring, and Samnel Palmer came in the fall, bringing with him Rundel's wife and four children: Isaac, Samuel, Mary and Marcus; and two of his sisters: Adelia and Hannah. Twenty-five persons bearing the name of Palmer came during the year 1818.
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