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Beside these were some 30 business build- ings of wood, costing $30,000, while $30,000 was expended in the erection of dwellings, a total of about $130,000. The lot 162 Summit was bought of C. B. Phillips, by Judge Miller, at $100 per foot front cash, which was consid- ered a fair price. The Blade pronounced that year " the most prosperous Toledo had seen," and predicted that by 1860 its population would be 25,000. The census of that year made the number 13,768-not the only case of overestimate of prospective population.
Under the heading, " Improvements on the Point," the Blade in September, 1853, stated that, " busy as our little City is, there is no part of it which just now exhibits more evi- dence of permanent prosperity than does the Point." The locality thus referred to was that of which the Oliver House subsequently be- came the eenter. At the time named, Mr. Friend Whittlesey was erecting a fine two-story dwelling, while several other dwellings had been constructed the previous year. Joel W. Kelsey had commenced cutting down the bluff bank of Swan Creek; while the Michigan Southern Railroad Company was removing the bank to the West, to make way for its tracks to the new depot then in procees of construction on the Middle Ground, the exca- vated earth being taken to fill up the low level. The Railway bridge across the River was then being constructed, passengers and freight therefore having always been ferried between
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the Michigan Southern Depot, Water Street, between Adams and Oak, and the Cleveland and Toledo Road Depot opposite foot of Jeffer- son Street. The change since wrought in " the Point " and throughout what is now the Fifth Ward, could not have been anticipated by the most hopeful imagination in 1853.
In June, 1858, the following sales of Toledo real estate were made at publie auction, to wit :
Lot 155, Port Lawrence Division, St. Clair Street. near Madison, sold to R. H. Bell at $39 per foot front.
Lot 301, 120 feet deep and 63 front, on Erie street, East Side, and North of Monroe to C. H. Coy, at $14 per foot.
Lot 591, 100 feet square, corner of Monroe and Eleventh Streets, to T. C. Stewart, at $13.50 per foot.
Lot 665, 100x63 feet, corner Forrer and Eleventh, with front on Railroad Street, to W. M. Riley, for $240.
Lot 714, on Fourteenth, between Washington and Monroe Streets, 100x100 feet, to V. H. Ketcham, at $6.75 per foot front.
Lot 836, on Indiana Avenue, 200, feet square, to W. W. Griffith, for $700.
Two lots of land of nine and sixty-seven one- hundredth aeres each-one just beyond the intersec- tion of Indiana Avenue and the Plank Road, at $250 per aere, to Fred. H. Brown ; the other, just beyond, lo W. W. Griffith, at $145 per acre.
Sales of Port Lawrence property by order of Court were made in April, 1861, as follows :
To II. S. Walbridge, riparian rights in River Tracts 1 and 2, for $1,000.
Lot 484, to James Myers, for $3,225.
Lot 35, except 20 feet, to W. J. Daniels, for $1,805 ; South half of lot 109, to same for $1,805; and North half of same lot for $4,805.
Sonthwest half of Northwest half of lot 110, to Fred. Bissell, for $600; Northeast half of Northwest half of same, to W. J. Daniels, for $1,705; Northeast half of Southeast half of same, to W. J. Daniels, for $1,075 ; and Southwest half of Southeast half of same, to Fred. Bissell, for $600.
Southwest half of Northwest half of lot 111, to John W. Fuller, at $545 ; Northeast half of Northwest half of same, to C. H. Cov, for $1,670 ; Northeast half of same, to W. J. Daniels, for $1,650; and Southwest half of Southeast half of same, to J. W. Fuller, for $545.
Northeast half of lot 119, to Fred. Bissell, for $2,575; and Southwest half of same to same, for $2,500.
November 20, 1861, W. J. Daniels soll to Ex-Gov. W. Hunt, of Lockport, N. Y., three-eighths interest in 542 aeres in subdivision 12 of traet 6, lying be- tween Broadway and the River and fronting on Western Anenue; the price was $20,000, being at the rate of about $1,000 per aere.
In October, 1862, the following sales of Toledo property were made :
To C. A. and F. J. King, 40 feet on Summit Street, Northeast corner with Madison, for $325 per foot.
To. S. M. Young, 80 feet on Summit Street, Nos. , between Madison and Jefferson, North Side, for $250 per foot.
To M. C. Worts, 34 feet on Summit, Northeast corner of Oak, at 150 per foot.
To Vineent Hamilton, 35 feet on South side Water Street, between Madison and Adams, for $80 per foot.
April, 1863, sales were made as follows:
Southwest half lot 588, Port Lawrence, $600; lots 453, 454, Vistula, $1,600; lots 455, 156, Vistula, $2,000; lots 649, 650, 651, 652, Vistnta. $3,560; lot 493, Vistula, $600; North half lot 83, Vistula, $125 ; lot 389, Vistula, $2,200; lot 238, Port Lawrence, $840; lots 381-387, inclusive, $5,000; lots 182-187, inclusive. and 201-206, inclusive, Williams' Addition, $273: 20 feet lot 444 and 40 feet 445, Port Lawrence, $1,200; lot 70, Hill's Addition, $500.
Same time-J. P. Kilbreth, sokl to E. B. Ward, Detroit, 8,177 acres in Oregon Township, near month of Crane Creek, for $14,996, or $1.83 per acre, fl. D. Cornwell to E. B. Ward, 320 acres, East half Section 7, Town 10 Sonth, Range 10 East, $1,920.
In January, 1863, C. A. King purchased 153 acres on Dorr Street, East of Ketcham's Addition, for $270 per aere. The briek block (40 feet) on Summit Street, near Adams, known as the " Scribner Block," sold at that time for $7,000 ; and the Hanks bnikling, 60 Cherry Street, to J. W. Scott, for $7,500.
In February, 1863, Washington Hunt and Hiram Walbridge purchased 600 feet River front, commene- ing at the South line of the property then occupied by IIall, Surith & Co., lumber dealers. The price paid was $36,000, or $60 per foot. The West end of Cherry Street Bridge is on this property.
Public sale was made June 2, 1863, of lots in Oliver's and Hall and Morris's Additions to Toledo. Among the parcels sold and prices paid were the following :
Oliver's Addition-Lot 48, $355; 612, $365; 343, $177; 707, $170; 619, $140; 668, $104; 657, $116; 568, $123; 559, $195; 245, $100; 624, $150; 433, $360; 453, $195; 548, $203; 518, $60; 525, $67; 527, $61; 529, $95; 531, $100. Hall and Morris's Achti- tion-Lot 31, $150; 1, $59; 2, $111; 57. $77; 34, $130; 35, $125; 32, $145; 33, $236; 36, $135; 37, $146; 38, $144; 39, $140 ; 40, $125 ; 4, $31; 5. $200; 6, $145; 7, $151; 8, $137; 9, $131; 12, $146; 51, $125; 13, $120; 15, $128; 27, $142; 41, $120; 45, $120; 30, $233; 46, $155; 18, $200; 50, $121; 17, $225; 55, $139; 58, $130; 62, $125; 64, $180; 234, $531; 67, $82; 79, $200.
The foregoing sales averaged 33 per cent. above the appraisal of the property. The stim- ulns incident to the rapid increase of currency caused by heavy war expenditures which were then met chiefly by the issue of Government notes, had then fairly begun to take effect. The results were seen, not only in appreciated values as shown by sales, but even more in the large amounts of lands then being platted for market. On nearly every road leading to the City, property was being thus prepared for sale.
An important sale of property in Dunlap's Addition to Toledo (bonuded by Jefferson and Madison and 10th and 11th Streets), took place December 23, 1865, when the following lots were sold to the parties and for the prices named, to wit:
Lot 1, to Dennis Coghlin, for $940; lots 6 and 7 to F. J. King, for $2,000 each ; 8 and 9, to G. A. Bishop, ror $1,620 each; 10 and 11, to Wm. Rotf, for $1,820 each ; 12 to Calvin Bronson, for $1,535; 13 to Dennis Coghlin, for $1,705; 14 to Win. Roil, for $2,200; 15 to J. A. Corbusier, for $1,700; 16 to same, for $1,80 0
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17, 18, 19 and 20 to Toledo Board of Education (for school purposes), for $1,340 each; 21 to Minot I. Wilcox, for $1,310; 22 to same, for $1,225; 23 to Den- nis Coghlin, for 8935 ; and 27 to F. J. King, for $1,500.
This sale was made the more important by the subsequent improvement of several of the lots purchased in the erection thereon of sub- stantial and elegant residences, and the location of the Jefferson Street School Building.
In December, 1865, sales were made of lots in II. P. and E. S. Platt's Addition, East To- ledo, as follows:
Lot 109 to W. L. Haskins, for $315; H10 to Timo- thy Tredwell, $330; 107 to same, $320; 108 to Geo. E. Pomeroy, $375; 106 to M. A. Scott, $355; 105 to Geo. Stebbins, $290; 104 to G. S. Thurber, $290; 190 to C. R. Miller, 8260; 66 to W. L. Haskins $335; 65 to Osear White, $330; 64 to M. A. Scott, $290; 33 to T. K. Seaman, $455 ; 205 to J. W. Fuller, $225 ; 26 to same, $395; 133 to John Quinn, $285; 84 and 85 to J. W. Fuller, $300 cach.
In December, 1865, Coleman I. Keeler sold to Wm. B. Messinger blocks 34 and 39 and East half of block 18, Manhattan, for $12,000; Geo. W. Reynolds sold front part of Private Grant 581, United States Re- serve. 116 acres, to Coleman I. Keeler, for $10,000; and A. B. Wright soll to same, central part of said Grant (65 acres), for $6,000. Mr. Keeler sold 25 lots (Nos. 124, 125, 126, 127, 143, 146, 163, 164, 136, 137, 153, 154, 155, 170, 171, 172, 180, 185, 186, 187, 194, 199, 200, 211), Manhattan, for $500, or $20 each.
At a sale of property in Spring Grove Addition, East Toledo, May 23, 1874, lots were sold as follows : Nos. 88 and 89, $500; 79 and 86, $570; 53, $280; 69, 72 and 77. $840; 37, $220; 33, $205; 92, $266; 99 and 100, $500; 6, $228, 55, $350; 64, $350; 87, $290; average of sales, $251.60 per lot.
Sales were made at auction during May, 1874, in King's Addition, East Toledo, including the lots named below, the price being per foot front : No. 1, 88.15; 2, 3 and 4, 88.00; 10, $9.25; 11, 12, 13, 87.00; 42, 89.50; 47, $7.50; 49, 88.75. Total sales, 50 lots.
Prominent among the owners of real estate in Toledo, at an early day, was an association known as the " American Land Company," composed of John B. Jones, Ami C. Lambert, Edward N. Nicholl, Chas. Butler and Erastus Corning, most of whom lived in New York City and Albany.
The list of lands subject to taxation in Port Lawrence Township, in the year 1838, con- tained the following names of owners, and number of parcels of lands as there given :
PORT LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP.
Andrews, A. T., 1. Corneau, Peter.
Briggs, Elkhanah, 3. Cone, Erastus, 2.
Brown, Daniel, 2. Cowell, Moses.
Brown Orlando,
Curtiss & Stillman.
Bartlett, Townsend, 23.
Clark, Charles, et al., 2.
Bissell, Edward, 12.
Cheney, Roswell, 2.
Baldwin, John T., heirs of Cranker, Peter. Bissell, Fred.
Bush. B. H.
Deshetler, John.
Burton, C.
Daniels, W. J. & Myers, 2.
Burton, D.
Evans, Alvin, 2,
Bernor, Lewis, 3.
Evans, Charles, 2.
Bowman, Baxter. East Manhattan Co.
Bush, Jonathan.
Comstock, S. B., et al., 5. Fisher, Cyrus, 2.
Collins, J. W. & Co, Forsyth, Robert A.
Comstock, D.D., heirs of, 6 Glenn, Nathaniel, 2.
Converse, John P.
Greenwood & Brockbank.
Gunn, Christopher, 3. Guion, heirs of, et al.
Gardner, John B. or A., 2. Pinney, James P.
Hollister, John. Hunt, John E.
Page, Sherman. Patterson, C. S.
Ilolmes, heirs of. Ilatch, Israel T.
Sntphen, J. V. D. Smith, Silas.
Ilarvey, Henry, et al.
Jessup & Ileywood.
Swelia, Benjamin.
Keeler, Coleman 1.
Sibley, Wm., heirs of, 3.
Knaggs, George B.
Stevens, Oliver.
Knaggs, John, 2.
Stiekney, B. F., 2.
Knaggs, James W., 2.
Kunkle, Conrad, 2.
Leybourn, John, heirs of. Thomas, Levi, heirs of. 2.
Lewis, Peter, 5.
Tervener, William. Whitney, Noah A.
Lewis, D.
Lewis, Catharine, 2.
Whitney, Michael T. Worden, Nancy.
M'chigan School Lands.
Whitney, Thos. P., 2.
Mercerean, Henry, 2.
Whitney, James S.
Mulholland, Daniel.
Wakeman, Maurice, et al.
Mason, Hezekiah D., 3.
Williams. H.
Mott, Richard.
Worden, Isaac B.
Merritt, Naney.
Whitney, Milton D., 3.
Mott, Richard, et al.
Wadsworth, Deeius, et al.,2
MeKay & Fitch.
Wilkison, W'm.
Miekens, Peter.
Wilkison, John J., 2.
Navarre, James.
West, M. W., 3.
Oliver, William, et al.
Walbridge, Heman.
Oliver, William, 3. Whitlesey, Elisha, et al. 2.
Phillips, Henry, 2.
Wade, Benj. F.
Phillips, Philip I., 2.
Whitman, Swanton.
PORT LAWRENCE DIVISION OF TOLEDO.
Bissell, Edward, 40.
Myers, James, 12.
Bissell, Frederick, 30.
Mott, Richard.
Birchard & Van Gorder.
Myers & Hicks.
Butler, Charles, 70. Moffett, Lemnel.
Baldwin, John & Co., S.
Belknap, Frederick.
Carley, Jeremiah E.
Comstock, Stephen B., 30. Piteher, Theophilus.
Card, Platt.
Palmer, Andrew. Porter, Converse.
Cheney, Roswell.
Shaw, C. (i.
Chapman, W. H.
Stevens, Oliver.
Carr, Thomas.
Smith, Ira.
Clark, Sarah G.
Smith & Macy, 10.
Daniels, Harriet.
Swift, Albert.
Daniels, W. P. Stow, Amos.
Daniels, Russell C. Spaulding, Volney.
Daniels & Goettell.
Turner, Joseph W.
Dent, Ashbell.
Union Hotel Co.
Fasseg, Wm.
Wilder, Horace.
Foster, Richard.
Williams, Jos. R.
Keeler, Charles G. Whitney, James M.
Lathrop, W. H.
Wheeler, Lyman.
Lynde, C. W.
VISTULA DIVISION OF TOLEDO.
Allen, Samuel, 2.
Daniels, Harriet.
Ayers, John B.
Draper, Luke, 8.
Bissell, Edward, 330.
Dart. Ashbel.
Bowman, Baxter.
English, Joseph.
Bissell, Frederick, 35.
Eddy, Samuel, 5.
Berdan, John & Co., 8.
Baker, Wm.
Butler, Charles, 75.
Fox, Mereeno.
Greenwood, Richard.
Gillman, A., 2. Gillman & Wright, 2.
Ewing, A. H., et al.
Bush, Isaac.
Foster, Richard. Flagg, Junius, 3. Fassett, John, 2.
Collins, S. L. & Co., 5.
Baldwin, John & Co., 8. Belknap, Frederick. Bevins, Wm.
Palmer, Andrew. Peckham, et al.
Showler, James.
Scott, J. W., et al. Sullivan, James.
Myers, James.
MeKnight, C. G. Giddings, J. R.
Oliver, Wm., 45.
Comstock, Calvin.
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Calkins, James, 4.
Howland, Charles, 3. Hawes, D. D.
Chapman, Calvin.
Carr, Thomas.
Irving, Ebenezer, 9.
Clark, Sarah G., 2.
Giddings, J. R.
Smith & Macy, 80.
Swift, Albert.
Moffatt, Lemuel.
Manning, Gabriel.
Spaulding, Volney, 3.
McKnight, C. G., 2.
Stickney, B. F., 104.
Marshall & Eddy, S.
Murray, James P.
Theologieal Institute, Windsor, Conn., 4. Tilden, Myron H., 3.
Nicholas, -, 4.
Olmstead, Oliver P., 3.
Porter, Elijah, 3. Prescott, Oliver, 2.
Van Blarcum, John, 15. Williams, Joseph R., 4. Way, Geo. B.
Redding, George, 2.
Woodruff, Lorenzo E., 7. Walbridge, Ileman, 5.
Root, James, 4.
In a letter writen in January, 1870, the late Jessnp W. Scott furnished the following inter- esting facts tonching values of real estate now in the very heart of Toledo :
In 1827 or 1828, the Southwest fractional quarter of Section 36, embracing the ground on which M. A. Scott's Block on Adams street, Judge Potter's house, on Jefferson street, stand, and having its center near the High School Building, and containing 86 acres, was entered, as Congress land, at $1.25 per acre, by Judge John Hollister of Perrysburg. Within the next five years, it was sold by him three times-the first two sales at $3 per acre successively failed, be- cause the purchasers were unable to pay, so the land was taken back by Hollister. The third sale was made to Dr. J. V. D. Sutphen at $6 per acre, after the demonstration by Major Stickney and partners to start Vistula, at Lagrange Street. In June, 1832, Dr. Sutphen sold to Jessup W. Scott, 70 acres of this tract at $12 per acre. In 1835, Scott sold to Edward Bissell, for himself and others, an undivided half of the seventy-acre piece for $6,000.
Dr. Sutphen changed his investment by purcha- sing the West half of the Northeast quarter of Sec- tion 35, embracing the Swayne Tract, the ten acres where Judge Fitch lives, and land of Wm. II. Scott and others, bounded West by Collingwood Avenne, for which 80 acres he was to pay $480. In 1835, Sutphen sold it to Scott & Wakeman for $30 or $35 per acre. In 1838, J. W. Scott sold an undivided half to N. II. Swayne at $200 per acre. On division with Wm. H. Scott, who then owned the other half, Scott took the North 37 acres and Swayne the balance, a little less than 43 acres, the section being short measure.
In 1834, the lots on the corner of Monroe Street and Market Space were offered for $50, and the North corners of Summit and Monroe for $25 con- ditioned that a two-story house painted white, was to be put up thereon, in a given time-say one or two years. A half-acre piece about where White's Hall stands, with a log house on it was offered the same year for $50 to my brother, J. Austin Scott, who was looking for good bargains, but failed to see one in that piece of ground.
The above first named 70 aeres, without im- provements, are now (1887) worth the gross sum of $1,600,008. This estimate is based on actual sales made during the past few years, and is under, rather than over, the present salable value. It makes the present value per acre about $22,000. The most valuable prop- erty in the 70-acre tract is now on Adams
Street between the Court House Square and Superior Street; and is worth from $200 to $400 per foot front, or about $50,000 per acre. The best residence property on the tract is on Madison, between Tenth and Seventeenth Streets, and is now worth (100 feet deep) say $80 per front foot, or at the rate of $20,000 per acre including Streets. The lowest priced property in the same tract is that on and adja- cent to Oak Street, and is now worth from 88,000 to $10,000 per acre, including Streets. The Swayne tract, now Swayne Place, bought in 1838 at $200 per acre, has of late years been selling at the rate of about $15,000 per acre; and the whole 160 acres which Collingwood Avenue bisects North and South, has an average value of $10,000 per acre, on the basis of the sales of the past year. It may here be stated that portions of the tract bought by Mr. Seott in 1832 at $12, and now of the average value of $22,000 per acre, have not changed hands . during the intervening 55 years, save as such portions passed to the heirs on Mr. Scott's death in January, 1874.
JOHN W. HIETT was born in the Shenan- doah Valley (Jefferson County), Virginia, Nov. 11, 1824. He is a son of George and Lydia Hiett. His parents were Quakers, as were their forefathers, who came from England about 170 years ago, and settled in the Shen- andoah Valley. From early days they were actively identified with every cause having in view the promotion of sound morals, justice and good government. They were among the organizers of the first Anti-Whiskey and Anti- Slavery Societies in Virginia, and served their day in support of those great reforms, when that required a degree of courage for which there is now comparatively little demand. When the son was yet a child, the family removed to Ohio, and settled near Titlin, Seneca County, and he passed the earlier years of his life amid dense forests. His educational priv- ileges, in common with most children of pioneers, were very limited. When he was 15 years old, the family returned to their former home in Virginia, where School advantages were better. He attended and was graduated at Jefferson Academy, and chose teaching for his vocation. In 1847 he opened the second Free School of that State. Returning to Ohio in 1851, he spent some time at Oberlin College, when he was appointed Superintendent of Public Schools at Fremont, Sandusky County, and first organized the system of Graded Schools at that place. He was subsequently a Student and a Teacher in the Normal Depart- ment of the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and afterwards was for 10 years a Trustee of that institution. He was also Super- intendent of the Public Schools at Delaware.
Irving, Pierre M., 19. Jones, Anthony S. Mason, Hezekiah D., 17. Mott, Richard, 3.
Scott & Richardson. Sill & Cook, 2. Stow, Amos.
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In 1860, assisted by Mrs. Hiett, as Preceptress, he opened the Elm Grove Normal School at Mau- mee, which after one year was changed to Cen- tral Ohio Conference Seminary. His health fail- ing in 1864 he came to Toledo, and became one of the proprietors of the Toledo Commercial. Since that time he has been a resident of Toledo, engaged in general business, devoting most of his time to dealing in real estate. He has been actively identified with nearly every move- ment having for its object the building up of the City, serving for some time as Secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers Exchange. Ilis active connection with the general interests of Toledo, has enabled him to be specially useful in gathering and arranging facts and statistics bearing upon the advantages and growth of the City. Mr. Hiett from carly years has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been both active and prominent, as indicated by his relations to the Educational work of that denomination. In Toledo, and as a member of St. Paul's Church, he has been specially identi- fied with Bible instruction. In 1872 he was a Delegate to the first General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Brooklyn, New York, to which laymen were admitted in such capacity; and in 1876 was again a member of that body at its meeting in Baltimore. In 1861 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. Mr. Hiett was married August 3, 1858, with Miss Mary E. Beecham, daughter of Joseph Beecham, of Plymouth, Ohio. Four children have been born to them-Ella F., Irving B., Oliver N. and Russell M. Iliett. Mr. Hiett's father died at Fremont, in the 83d year of his age. His mother is living with her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Kenyon, in the suburbs of Toledo, in the 90th year of her age.
JAMES WILSON HONE was born at St. Catharines, Upper Canada, June 18, 1824. He is a son of John W. and Margaret (Charles- worth) Hone, who were natives of the State of New York, and having but recently removed to St. Catharines, had not lost their American citizenship. Both his grandfathers-Christo- pher Hone and John Charlesworth-were Sol- diers in the Army of the Revolution, each serv- ing throughout the seven years of Colonial
struggle for the independence their descen- dants now enjoy. The former was born near Albany, New York, and the latter in New York City, being of Scotch-Irish parentage, In 1833, Mr. Hone's parents removed to North- western Ohio, settling in the Maumee Valley. where they passed through the trials of priva- tion, hard labor and sickness incident to such life. School advantages were very meagre, while the limited means of the parents made it necessary that the son at an early age begin his life of self-reliance When but 15 years of age, he shipped " before the mast " on a Vessel plying on the Lakes, and for seven years ex- perienced the hardships, dangers and poor pay incident to the position of the common Sailor of that time. In 1846 he permanently located at Toledo, and in 1847 became Master of the Schooner Temperance. For 12 years he continued in command of that and other Vessels, including the Ottawa and the Hia- watha. By the exercise of the closest economy he was enabled during that time to save a sum sufficient to purchase an interest in a Vessel, and in time, by like prudence, was able to secure an interest in several crafts. For several years he was co-owner with Dennison Steele in the Schooner Minnie Kinnie, which plied be- tween Toledo and Buffalo. In 1860, after 21 years of active service on the Lakes and River, Captain llone abandoned navigation, and has since directed his attention to dealing in real estate. He is politically a Democrat, but takes little active interest in political matters, except as they specially concern the public welfare. The only official position held by him was that of member of the Toledo City Council from the Sixth Ward, to which he was elected in 1875, serving for two years. Of quiet and re- served disposition, his chief enjoyment is found within the circle of his own household. Cap- tain Hone was married December 25, 1850, with Miss Harriet W., daughter of Hon. James Parks, of Sandusky County. They have had seven children, of whom five sons are now living. Their only daughter, Minnie H., a re- markably brilliant and promising young woman, died in 1881, at the age of 21 years. She had but recently graduated from the Toledo High School with highest honors, and her loss was a severe blow to her parents and a grief to a large circle of agnaintances. A son, Charles C., died in June, 1882.
J.M.Hone
PART VI. JUDICIAL.
CHAPTER I.
LUCAS BENCH AND BAR .*
NTO incident or event connected with the early Bench and Bar of this County or of the Northwestern Counties of the State, is so old but that it remains vividly in the recol- lection of members of the profession still living. That is a wonderful thing to contem- plate. Lawyers who attended the first Courts held under any organized division of the State embracing the territory of the Northwest, are able, with the eyes of the living, to see the magic growth of but little over a half-century from swamp and wilderness to a great City, with its numerous thriving neighbors, mag- nificent farms, and population numbering hun- dreds of thousands. Lawyers who attended the first Courts held in the County at which any business was attempted, still attend upon the sessions of the same Court, participate in its deliberations, and are able to pass in review every event in its half-century's work, from its organization with half a dozen lawyers gathered from different parts of the State, its meagre business diposed of in a few days in each of its semi-annual terms, to the overbur- dened dockets of the multiplied Courts, its hundreds of lawyers and perpetual sessions of to-day.
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