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THE BAPTIST CHURCH
was organized January 1, 1832. Upon that day there assembled at Samuel Foote's, the following persons, who became the constituent members of the church: Henry Terry, Jacob Hicks, Frederick Hicks, William Baker, Selden Jones, George T. Foote, Eben Guthrie, Samuel Foote, Epanetus Starr, Jeremiah Kingsbury, Sally Kingsbury, Roxanna Terry. Lois Hoyt, Rebecca Jones, Eliza Hicks, Rachel Hicks, Elizabeth Sum- merlain, Cemantha Baker, Sally Berdick, Eliza Foote, Huldah Starr, Avis Beam, Leah Baker, Esther Foote and Mrs. Lovell-twenty-five in all. Soon after its organization, the church was divided, a number of its members living in Bronson, and desiring to form a church of their own in that township. A conference was also formed at New Haven, which withdrew some from the Fairfield church. Notwithstanding these adverse circumstances, the church, after an ex- istenee of twenty-five years, had a membership of two hundred and forty persons. About 1860, the church began to decline and sufferred the loss of many mem- bers A good church edifice was built upon a valuable lot, and kept in excellent repair. The church has always been characterized for its liberality and has probably spent more money for its own expenses and for charity, than any other in the town. It has now, one hundred and seventy-six members. Its pastor is Rev. T. J. Siegfried. B. H. Hinkley, R. Whitney, deacons; Miss Hattie Brown, Sunday school super- intendeut; A. D. Stotts, P. L. Mitchell, R. McDon-
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ald, E. Taylor, E. Price, trustees ; R. Whitney, clerk; Ç. Taylor, assistant; P. L. Mitchell, treasurer. The present church edifice was built in 1839 and 1840.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
This church was organized February 23, 1841, by Rev. E. P. Salmon. A meeting was held at Abijah Benson's, upon that day, and the following persons, in attendance, were the original members of the church: Abijah Benson, Freelove Benson, Jonathan Fessenden, Clarissa Fessenden and Phebe W. West. Others were received soon after the organization, and the church had a vigorous growth. A church was erected in 1849, or the following year. The church has now seventy-five resident members. Rev. J. G. Aikman is pastor. Following are the officers of the . church and society: A. E. Smith, William Tilton, deacons; T. W. Place, church clerk: J. G. Oates, society clerk; William Tilton, Charles H. Kimberly, T. W. Place, J. S. Jennings, L. Conger, trustees; C. Goodrich, superintendent of Sunday school.
THE DISCIPLE CHURCH
was organized May 20, 1854, Elder Henry Dixon officiating. It started into being with twenty-eight members, and after an existance of nearly twenty-five years has a membership of one hundred and twenty- seven. Rev. Henry Dixon was the first pastor. The society erected a brick church in North Fairfield in 1857, the cost of which, including the furniture and lot, was about two thousand five hundred dollars. The present pastor is the Rev. H. N. Allen; D. H. Reed, Isaiah Cline, elders; George Cline, Thos. Leak, W. H. Johnston, Charles Rose, P. C. Parker, dea- cons; Edward Hopkins, clerk; P. C. Parker, treasu- rer; D. H. Reed, Wm. H. Johnston, Jacob Ganung, Isaiah Cline, trustees; George Seidel, Sunday school superintendent.
SECOND ADVENT CHURCH.
The four churches hitherto spoken of are all in the village of North Fairfield. The Second Advent Church is a mile and a quarter east of the center and a little distance north of the east and west center road, upon lot thirty-seven, section two. Most of its members live in that portion of the township, though some are in adjoining towns. This church was or- ganized in June, 1855. The constituent members of the Church of Christ in Fairfield and vicinity were W. H. Wakeman, Esther Wakeman, Chauncey Tut- tle and wife, James Davis and wife, William Godden and Lucinda Godden, Joseph Barker and wife, Ste- phen Tread well and Catharine Treadwell, twelve in all. The first minister of this church was Rev. John M. Judson. Elder G. W. Stetson next had charge, and he was followed by H. C. Smith, Luther C. Kerr and E. F. Sergisson. The church edifice was built in 1864, when the church formed itself into a body cor- porate with power to hold property. The building
cost about nine hundred dollars. Following are the present officers of the church: L. Peck, Wm. Che- ney, deacons; Wm. Cheney, John Harvey, Thomas Hinkley, trustees; David Harvey, treasurer; John Harvey, clerk; L. Peck, T. Hinkley, Byron Cherry, business committee.
SCHOOLS.
It is probable that Jonas . Leonard, a native of Connecticut, who had settled in Bronson, taught the first school in Fairfield, about 1824. The school house was in the northwest quarter, or third section. The township is now well provided with district schools, and the union schools of North Fairfield afford higher instruction to those who desire it. These schools were organized February 21, 1849, the board of education then elected consisting of George Silliman. S. W. Edwards, L. D. Allen, N. Burch, Walter Branch and Jacob Ganung. The main school building was built in the year 1851, and cost. with the lot upon which it stands, twelve hundred dollars. Several years later, two wings were added, which largely increased the capacity of the building. The whole property is now valued at about three thousand dollars. The first superintendent, under the present system, was P. Mead Benham. The other principals of the school have been: D. R. Whitcomb, Mrs. Lucy Oldfield, Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, John Jndson, A. Williams, L. S. Thompson, W. Hayhurst, H. W. Owen, Delilah Palmer, William Griffith, J. H. Packer, William Griffith and J. A. Cobban. E. W. Coit, the present incumbent, was placed in authority in 1872. His assistants at the present time are Miss Hattie Brown and Miss Flora Fairchild, teachers, respectively, of the primary and intermediate depart- ments. The primary school has about fifty pupils; the intermediate forty-five, and the high school forty.
PHYSICIANS.
The first physician who practiced in Fairfield was Dr. Moses Saunders, of Peru. The first resident physician was Dr. J. N. Campbell. IIe was a regu- larly and thoroughly educated medical man. He came to the township in 1832, was received as a partner by Dr. Saunders, and opened an office at the center. The country was at that time a wilderness for miles each way. A year later the doctor removed to Green- field's corners (North Fairfield). He continued in the practice of his profession with great success. The partnership existing between Dr. Saunders and him- self was dissolved in 1834, and in the same year he erected an office building which he occupied until 1837. when it was burned. The doctor had, during his long practice, many office students, who received great benefit from his excellent education and exam- ple. He was married in 1835 to Miss Levanthia W. Smith, and sometime after her decease married Jane Smith (no relation to his first wife). His children were D. N., Annabel, Joseph Read and Oscar Kent. The eldest (D. N.) now lives upon a farm of over
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a hundred aeres, in lot twenty-three, section two. Dr. Campbell, after a long, useful and blameless life, died July 23, 1868.
Following Dr. Campbell, eame Doctors James La Dow, Abraham Bronson, Park Leonard, E. R. Fuller, Edward Webb, Mulford Skinner, Jacob. W. Long and others, who had a more or less long residence and practice in the township. None of them are now in practice in Fairfield. The resident physicians are Dr. D. H. Reed and Dr. D. M. Keith. Dr. Keith is of the Eclectic school. He came from Peru in 1853. Dr. Reed belongs to the Homeopathic school, and has been in Fairfield since 1853. He began practice in 1854. He was born in Greenwich. Both of these physicians have an extensive practice.
FAIRFIELD LODGE NO. 261, F. AND A. M.,
was organized October 23, 1854, and the following were the first officers elected: HI. W. Owen, W. M .; Elisha Seymour, S. W .; William C. Huestis, J. W .; S. S Smith, S. D .; N. W. Thayer, J. D .; H. E. Stevens, tyler. The lodge has been in a prosperous condition ever since its organization, and now has a list of fifty members in good standing. Following is a list of the officers in service in 1879: Jonathan W. Huestis, W. M .; Alexander C. Taylor, S. W .; B. T. Day, J. W .; Wilber Huson, treasurer; J. D. McCord, secretary; O. L. Colvin, S. D .; William H. Smith, J. D .; J. McCord, tyler.
NORTHI FAIRFIELD GRANGE NO. 806.
The North Fairfield Grange P. of H. was organized April 7, 1814, with the following charter members: C. P. Irwin, D. F. Irwin, James Woodworth, Frank Wright, George Hinman, J. W. Cook, A. L. Sim- mons, Clarence Conover, S. Wakeman, A. R. Wright, J. A. Cherry, E. Hoyt, J. Hinkley, E. Hinkley, P. L. Mitchell, E. B. Mitchell, O. Ganung, L. Adams, T. W. Place, Mrs. N. D. Irwin, Mrs. N. Cook, Mrs. A. L. Simmons, Mrs. M. Conover, Mrs. S. S. Wood- worth, Mrs. S. Wakeman, Mrs. E. A. Wright, Mrs. J. E. Wright, Mrs. P. Cherry, Mrs. E. Hoyt, Mrs. E. Hinkley, Mrs. L. C. Mitchell, Mrs. H. Ganung, Mrs. L. Adams, Mrs. R. M. Place, Mrs. E. B. Mitchell, Mrs. E. Hinkley. The following officers were elected: P. L. Mitchell, worthy master; J. A. Cherry, overseer; C. P. Irwin, lecturer; Lyndon Adams, steward; Frank Irwin, assistant steward; Frank Wright, chaplain; Sherwood Wakeman, secre- tary: Elmon Hoyt, treasurer: James Woodworth, gate- keeper: Mrs. J. Cook, Ceres; Mrs. M. Conover, Pomona; Mrs. E. B. Mitchell, Flora; Mrs. A. R. Wright, lady assistant steward. The Grange con- ducted a co-operative store in North Fairfield for about one year from April 1, 1872.
MANUFACTURING ITERN ESTS.
Fairfield has some quite extensive manufacturing interests, but the most prosperous days of the town were long ago. Important enterprises were projected.
Some never advanced to completion: others were realized.
Ebenezer Foote, Sampson Baker and Dr. Campbell, built, in 1834, a steam saw mill. This was the begin- ning of the manufacturing interest at what is now the village of North Fairfield, then named "Steam Corners," and later "Steamburg." In the period be- tween 1847 and 1850, there were six steam powers at North Fairfield, and five dry goods'stores. Besides Foote's steam mill, there was a wool carding estab- lishment, the property of Nelson and William Tur- ner; a grist mill, run by Whitten and Rowland; an oil mill, started by George Silliman; an iron foundry, the property of A. J. and E. Wakeman, and a machine shop, owned by R. Seymour.
THE OLD CHAIR FACTORY.
Messrs. Ruggles, Kirtland & Burr bought out, in . 1850, the cabinet making interest of Nelson and Wil- liam F. Turner, and began, upon a large scale, the manufacture of chairs. The business proved a re- munerative one for the men engaged in it, and a very valuable aid to the advancement of the general busi- ness of the place. The firm employed as many as fifty men during the time of its most successful busi- ness, and never less than twenty-five or thirty. It was a severe blow to the village, as well as the com- pany, when, in the winter of 1856-7, the factory was destroyed by fire. The loss sustained by Messrs. Ruggles, Kirtland & Burr was so large that they were unable to resume business upon the ample scale they had before conducted it, and so, in a single night, North Fairfield lost forever its most valuable manu- facturing establishment, and one which, had it re- mained, might, very probably, have become the nucleus around which other extensive works would have clus- tered in time.
NORTH FAIRFIELD PLOW AND IRON WORKS.
At present the principal manufactory of the village, and one of the leading ones in the county, is "The North Fairfield Plow and Iron Works." The building was erected in 1847, by J. A. and E. Wakeman, and as then constructed consisted of an upright brick, two stories high in front, and three in the rear; sixty- five by twenty-eight feet in size, with a one-story moulding room, fifty by forty feet in dimensions. The Messrs. Wakeman manufactured stoves. plows, and did general foundry work, carrying on, for two years, a heavy business. The works were then closed and remained idle until 1855, when they were pur- chased by Mr. N. Burch, of Eaton, Madison county, New York, who at once commenced the manufacture of stoves from new and then beautiful patterns. He saw that the country was in need of better plows than were then being put upon the market, and made ar- rangements to manufacture the Curtiss Iron Beam Plow. The plow department was, for a number of years, conducted by Mr. Robert Park, who rented a part of the foundry building and bought castings of
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Mr. Burch. This was the first introduction of the Curtiss plow in Ohio. About 1862, Mr. Park sold his interest in the plow business to Mr. Burch, who soon after enlarged the building by putting up an addition two stories high, besides basement, and in size twenty-four by forty-two feet. From this date, the manufacture of plows has constituted the principal busi- ness, the manufacture of stoves being almost entirely abandoned. The Curtiss plow was manufactured until 1843, when Mr. Burch invented and patented a new one, npon which he bestowed his own name. It combines the best qualities of iron and modern beam plows, and has been manufactured in large quantity to fill the demand. N. Burch sold out in 1825, to his son, Charles A. Burch, and removed to Toledo, where he embarked in the same business. The son having grown up in the plow business, was well qualified to keep up the reputation which the plows of the Fairfield foundry had gained, and he has done so. He continued the business alone until the summer of 1878, when he associated with himself, as partners, D. W. Slocum and S. J. Stevens, under the firm name of C. A. Burch & Company. The new firm went to work at once to make arrangements for increasing their business. They put np a sub- stantial brick addition to the building and made ex- tensive repairs throughont, put in new machinery in the place of the old and considerable in addition. They have increased their facilities for manufactur- ing so largely that they have, at the present writing. ability to make twenty-five plows per day.
SAW AND GRIST MILLS.
The first saw mill in the township was the property of Philip Moffatt and was located on the west road. and built about the year 1828. The first grist mill was that of Reuben Draper and John Mitchell, and was located at Steamburg (North Fairfield). At pres- ent there are but two saw mills in the township: that of Isaac D. Small & Son, about one hundred rods north of the village center, and another owned by Hanvill & Taylor, a mile north. With the former there is also a grist mill. The I. D. Small mill was built abont 1855 by Elisha Seymour.
CHEESE FACTORIES.
The only regular cheese factory in the township is owned by B. H. Terrill, by whom it was started in 1877. This factory uses the milk of about one hun- dred and fifty cows, and Mr. Terrill turns ont a " full cream" cheese for which he finds a good home de- mand. The principal market is Norwalk, and the villages of the county and vicinity. The factory is located upon the township line, north of North Fair- field.
R. M. Hopkins has a dairy factory upon his farm in lot thirty, section two. where he makes both cheese and butter. The dairy was started in 1820.
Weber Pinkney and Oliver Ganung have a similar
dairy upon lot thirty-eight, section three, which they started in the spring of 1828.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Frederick Parrott has a machine shop, near his res- idence, on lot twenty-four, section three, where he has carried on business for a number of years.
A turning establishment and chair factory in North Fairfield is owned by Hantill & Allen.
David H. Platt has been in the carriage making business since 1838. Others engaged in the same in- dustry are J. H. Curtiss, William Harris and John Madden.
NORTH FAIRFIELD VILLAGE.
The first store in the township was opened at the center in the year 1831, by Ezra Smith, of Macksville, but soon after several enterprising men made efforts to establish a village at what was then known as Greenfield's corners. They were so far successful as to create all that now exists in North Fairfield .. and in fact much more, for the village was at one time a flourishing business center, and had bright prospects of future prosperity. William Greenfield, Samson Baker, Walter Branch and Samuel Foote were largely instrumental in securing the location of various indus- tries at this place. Horace S. Moulton opened the first store at Greenfield's corners, in 1832. Union White, of Fitchville, Woodworth and Holmes, Clark Sextou. A. R. Eastman, and a man by the name of West, began at an early day. D. S. Stevens opened a dry goods store in 1838. Mannfactories were estab- lished, and the village developed for a few years at a rate, which, had it been long continued, would have prodneed a little city. A newspaper, The Fairfield Gazette, was established, and had, for a time, a fair patronage. The first copy was issued April 23, 1856, by Robert MeCune. Afterwards the paper was under the charge of J. Ralph Robinson, and still later of O. B. Chapman. He moved it to Bellevue. The canses of Fairfield's failure to become all that its residents fondly hoped, were numerous. Chief among them was the building of railroads all around the village, at a distance of ten or a dozen miles, and the failure of the projected Clinton extension, which was (upon paper) a link in a long chain extending from New York to the great west. Over seventy thousand dol- lars of Fairfield money went ont of existence with this bubble. The Milan canal was another failure. The largest manufactory in the little village-the chair factory-and the steam mill, built at an early day, vanished in fire-ended in smoke. Other evils assisted in thwarting the plans of the would-be founders of a city, and slowly, but surely, the last hope of making North Fairfield a large and live business town passed away. All that was left the people was the reason- able certainty that the village would always be, what it now is, a peaceful and pleasant home, in which there will never be an excess of bustle and din and
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sordid strife, but always well being, good manners and better morals.
North Fairfield village contains four of the five churches which have come into existence in the town- ship, and most of the manufactories.
Following is a list of the business houses in North Fairfield, in 1879:
TIN AND HARDWARE .- B. F. Roberts.
GROCERIES .- David Johnson.
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS AND SHOES, ETC .- C. Rowley. BOOTS AND SHOES .- I. B. Rice.
DRUGS .- C. H. Chapman.
GROCERIES .- D. S. Stevens.
PRODUCE, GROCERIES AND CLOTHING .- W. S. Felton
GROCERIES AND DRY GOODS .- E. Hoyt & Co. HARDWARE, TIN, ETC .- Reed Bros (A. P., A. L. and C. S.) GROCERIES .- L. Carr.
SHOES .- O. L. Colvin.
LIVERY .- A. P. Reed.
UNDERTAKING .- W. H. Johnson.
DENTIST .- Dutton Jones.
HOTEL .- Fairfield House, A. H. Stringham, proprietor. BLACKSMITHS .- H. Woodworth, Richard Price, And William Fullman COOPER .- J. T. Parker.
MEAT MARKETS .- Odell Bros., J. Wood, Burton & Mott.
POST OFFICE.
Walter Branch was the first postmaster. He was commissioned January 1, 1829. He held the office four years, and then resigned in favor of Horace L. Moulton. The other postmasters, down to and in- cluding the present occupant of the office, are as fol- lows: Z. B. Stilson, Horace L. Moulton (reappointed), David Johnson, Thomas Smith, D. L. Stevens, Frank Evans, Moses Tompkins, Dwight Kellogg and Isaac Harrington.
CEMETERIES.
The first cemetery laid ont was the one in lot eleven, section three, upon the ridge road, near the northeast corner of the township. The first settlers located in this vicinity, and the little piece of ground was set apart for burial purposes at an early day. There is another cemetery upon the same road-lot one, sec- tion four; one on the Bronson town line road-lot six, section three; and one in North Fairfield village, just east of the corners. This is under the charge of the township.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
WILLIAM BAKER.
Prominent among the pioneers of Fairfield was William Baker, son of Abijah and Mary Baker, of Rhode Island. He was born May 10, 1797, and re- moved with his parents to Onondaga county, New York, when a lad. Here he grew up and received a good, common education. When twenty-one years of age he married Leah, daughter of Solomon and Margaret Davis, who was born in Orange county.
September 22, 1797, and was, therefore, his junior by four months and twelve days. This marriage occurred upon the 12th of February, 1818, and, in the follow- ing year the young couple removed to Ohio and com- menced almost empty-handed the struggle for the formation of a comfortable home in the wilderness. At that time there were but five families in the town- ship; not a single road was laid out, and scarcely an aere of land was cleared. Upon one side there were dangers, difficulties, disadvantages, upon the other two brave people to meet them, empty-handed to be sure, but full of strength, anticipation and laudable ambition. The days were full of toil; they brought many privations, few positive pleasures, yet they rounded into years of happiness to be looked back upon tenderly and lovingly, when poverty had changed to plenty, and the wild forest that they cut their way through with difficulty when they made their settle- ment had been cleared away to make place for hun- dreds of happy, thrifty homes.
William Baker and his wife bore the brunt in the battle, and they both lived to realize the condition that they labored to bring about and witness the changes and improvements that they, perhaps, but vaguely anticipated. The wife is still living upon the old farm which became the home of these pioneers two years after their arrival. The husband did not pass away until 1859. His long career of useful ac- tivity closed upon the 11th of February in that year, over half a century from the time of his arrival. During his more than fifty years' residence in the community he was looked upon as a man of solid worth and strict integrity. His religious faith was that of the Disciples, and he was a stannch supporter of the church. He held aloof from public affairs, not from lack of interest, but rather because of retir- ing nature, and his life was quiet, but active and in- dustrions to its close.
ISAAC DE WITT
is a representative of the second generation of the pioneers. He is the son of John and Betsey De Witt, and was born in Fairfield in the year 1833. His mother's maiden name was Sample, and she was a daughter of the first woman who became a resident of the township. The subject of this sketch began life with but few of the advantages that the people even of a new country possess, but good habits, in- dustry and thrift, won for him the race in which many have failed who have had less to contend with. lle has all of his life been a resident of his native township, and is, to-day, one of its representative farmers. Isaac De Witt married Mrs. Abigail Morse, by whom he has had five children, all of whom are now living. Their names are: William Augustus, Jennic Almira, Isaac Ellsworth, Duane Edwin and Harry Elmer.
WM. BAKER.
MRS.LEOH D. BAKER.
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CLINTON McKELLOGG
was born October 8, 1827, in Jefferson county, New York, and came to Peru, Huron county, Ohio, 1844, with an uncle. At this time he was an orphan, and he lived with his uncle a short time when he went away to work on a farm by the month. At the age of twenty-one he had saved one hundred dollars from his wages, having no other patrimony. He married November 14, 1850, Eveline Mead. Mrs. McKellogg was born April 23, 1831, in Bronson, Ohio, daughter of Alson Mead, and granddaughter of Abraham Mead, one of the pioneer settlers of Huron county.
He came to this county with his family, consisting of his wife and ten children, at a very early period. They passed through great and almost nnendurable vicissitudes, the children all attaining mature age. Alson Mead, during these years of severe labor and great hardships, contracted an illness which left him a cripple.
He married and located in Bronson, working at shoe-making for a number of years, till he became possessed of means to purchase a farm. He lived there until his death, which occurred January 6, 1865. He left seven children and a fine property. Mrs. McKellogg is a life member of the American Bible Society.
Mr. McKellogg worked different farms on shares until he was able to purchase one of his own, buy- ing a small farm in Fitchville, and exchanging that for one in the eastern part of Fairfield, and finally
selling that and buying the one he now occupies, which is situated one mile south of the center of Fairfield.
The original farm had sixty-four acres, and the rest has been added at five several times. The only son of this family, Frank E. McKellogg, is a student at Oberlin college. His parents intend to remove to Oberlin this present year, to afford him the benefit of a home while pursuing the remainder of his college course, and also to give their only daughter, Ida, the best educational advantages possible.
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