History of the city of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Part 181

Author: Waggoner, Clark, 1820-1903
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: New York and Toledo : Munsell & Company
Number of Pages: 1408

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Erastus G. Back to Orlando Brown, October, J.837. Edward Goodrich to Nathaniel Tremaine, August, 1841.

Jona. Bush to Blakesły H. Bush, January, 1843. Moses Cowell to Purcell C. Turner, April, 1843.

Noah A. Whitney to Joseph Smith, April, 1843.

Sarah Brockband to Richard Greenwood, April, 1843.

Sylvester Brown to Wm. T. Tremaine, June. 1842. Nancy Merrill to Seth Cothren, October, 1842. Benj. Allen to Win. E. Thorn. December, 1843.

Luke Draper to Henry Cook, January, 1846.

James Brown to Roswell Cheney, January, IS41. State of Ohio to Luke C'ahoo, October, 1843.

James W. Knagys to Jesse Turner, September,' H. Joe Marsh to Horace Marsh, 1814.

l'eter Cooney to Geo. L. Luteman, October, 1844. Erastus Cone to Henry Mercereau, September, '43. Peter Lewis to David Lewis, April, 1,840.

Roswell Cheney to Abner L. Backus. January, '45. John Lewis to David Lewis December. 18.44. David Byrne to Thos. Tyrrell, March, 1845.

Seth Wright to David B. Mooney, September, '45.

Joseph Goodrich to Moses Cowell, February. 1845. County Auditor to Thomas Corlett, March, 1845.

John Baptiste Deshelter to Archange Corneau, February, 1846.

James Myersto Adam Spees, March, 1846.

Lorenzo P. Wing to Jacob Clark, March, 1846. Benj. Mallett, Jr., to James Carter, June. 1844.

Acy Boyce to Robert and Noah Webber, June, '46.

Dexter Fisher to Hiram Bartlett and Chas. I. Keeler, July, 1835.

Conrad Kunkle to Abram Ware, November, 1845. Sarah Brockbank to Jolin Brockbank, Feb., 1848. State of Ohio to Moreau Allen, January, 1844.

John P. Freeman to Geo. C. Benn, October, 1847. Benj. Mallett to Geo. Bennett, November, J846. Jeremiah Micham to Henry Hampshire, Nov, '47. Erastus Stone to Nijah Cone, February, 1847. State of Ohio to Win. Hoskins, October, 1843. Moses Cowell to Peter Martin, November, 1841. James Myers to Nathaniel Glann, January, 1846. Elisha Stilwell to James Fergerson, June. 1847. Daniel Chase to Scantschi. March. 1847. James Myers to James Mickens, November, 1846. E. D. Potter to James Southard, April, 1847. County Auditor to Milton Barrett, June, 1.847.

Henry Cook to Philip Schram and Jacob Best. July, J847.

John Dixon to Abiah Cornwell, October, 1838. Martin Kratt to Samuel Youst, October, 1847. Thos. Bishop to Samuel Blanchard, Nov., 1848. Christopher Gunn to Geo. C. Williams, Nov .. 1848. D. O. Morton to Eliza R. Baldwin, December, '48. Peter Morone to Peter Minney, March 1846.

Eleazer N. Smith to Wm. and Samuel Leybourne, October, 1848.

Daniel Chase to Jolin DeShetler, Jannary, 1849.

Iłezekialı Huntley, Benj. Sibley, et al., to Eleazer N. Smith. April. 1845.

James Bertholf to Nicholas and Peter Roppeng, October, 1847.

John Broek to C'has. G. Mallett, November, JS44.

Amasa Bishop to Joseph D. Johnson, a lease for + years of 40 acres of land in the East half of the South- west quarter of Section 27, Washington Township, conditioned that lessee leave the land well cleared and feneed. Said lands are now included in Auburn- dale Addition to the City of Toledo.

S. L. Collins to James S. Whiting, November, '46. John Olmsted to Horace Card, October, 1847. County Auditor to Solomon A. Stebbins, July, '48. Joseph Striker to Geo. Striker, June, 1848. Jerome Myers to Henry Neahenser, June, 1846. Benj. Mallett to Allen Burk, July, 1847.

Jeniah Odell to Adrian G. Van Houton, Ang., '4S. James Cheney to Joseph D'Isay, June, 1849. Lewis Lambert to Jerry Woodward, July, 1849. Henry Phillips and Sanford L. Collins to Michael

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T. Whitney, November, 1836, one-third interest in 78 lots in the Village of Fairfield on the Indiana Road, the plat of which was recorded Inne, 1836.

Philip I. Phillips to Horace Thacher and Michael T. Whitney.

Philo Bennettto Abram Hadley, April. 1835. Efi Gray to Isaac Rush December, 1836.

EARLY SETTLERS.

Settlements were made in Washington Town- ship soon after those along the River bank, and included in the Twelve-Mile Square Reserve ; notwithstanding the Government lands outside of the Reserve were not then in market, and were not offered until after the act of Congress of April, 1820, changing the mode and manner of selling the public fands from that of credit at 84.00 per acre, to that of cash, at the single rate of 81.25. Yet. the notoriety obtained for this section of country through the efforts of operators from Cincinnati, under the name of the " Cincinnati Company," in their attempt to start a commercial Town at the mouth of Swan Creek in 1817, drew hither many adven. turers and speculators. Out of these efforts on the part of the Cincinnati Company, all that remained in 1831 was the old log Ware house at the mouth of Swan Creek and the block- house standing on the high bluff which at that time stood near the Northwest corner of Jeffer- son and Summit Streets. This block-honse, as already stated, was improvised into a store and supplied with goods by Lewis Godard of De- troit in December, 1831, under a contract with Major Stickney.

Among those who were attracted here by the notoriety given to the place through the Cin- cinnati Company, and afterwards were among the oldest and most prominent settlers of what is now Washington Township, the following may be mentioned : Major Coleman I. Keeler, in 1817, came from Onondaga County, New York, with a large family of sons and daugh- ters, and afterwards settled on the Northwest quarter of Section 26. They were a family of a good deal of prominence in after years; but few of the family are now living. Major Keeler died in 1863, aged 86 years, leaving a second wife and one son by her; the widow, a most estimable lady, still lives, in the 91st year of her age.

Contemporary with Major Keeler were Wm. Sibley and Eli Hubbard-Sibley from Monroe County, New York, and Hubbard from Berk- shire County, Massachusetts. Mr. Sibley first settled on Half- Way Creek, in the North part of present Washington. (This was prior to the survey and bringing into market of the public lands outside of the Reserve.) He resided there several years with his wife, having no children ; but, unfortunately, got into trouble with the Indians, his only neighbors, and re- ceived wounds from which he never fully recovered. Upon the survey of the public lands and the opening of a land office at Mon-

roe, Mr. Sibley entered the East half of South - east quarter of Sections 14 and 15, now part of West Toledo. In 1830, be sold to Peter Lewis and entered Northeast quarter Section 21, the farm now owned and occupied by E. N. Smith, a nephew of Mr. Sibley. Mr. Sibley died in 1836, aged about 60 years. He was a brother of Judge Sibley of Rochester, N. V.

Eli Hubbard settled first on the East halt of what is now Woodlawn Cemetery (the land not then in market), on the line of the old Military Road, where he built his first cabin, and where bis son Hiram was born. The latter, in his 70th year, is now living in Sylvania Township. Mr. Hubbard's first entry of land was that of the Northeast quarter of Section 23, and be settled on the North side of Ten-Mile Creek, now on Lagrange Street, where most of his large family were born. In 1836, he sold to

John Knaggs, and entered land in Sylvania, where he died in 1856, aged 67 years. Mr. Hubbard was a man of sterling integrity, hav- ing the full confidence of his neighbors. He was Supervisor of Port Lawrence Township when under Michigan control, after which he was County Commissioner for Lucas County for two successive terms.

Major Noah A. Whitney, with his family of ten children-five sons and five daughters- two of the latter being daughters of his then second wife (a Mrs. Rose), prior to her marriage with Mr. Whitney, and two children (a son and a daughter) by the second marriage. This family, with the exception of the oldest son, Noah A., Jr., who followed soon after, left On- ondaga County, New York, in September, 1-22, for Detroit, via Canada, with their household goods in covered wagons. One of the wagons was drawn by two yokes ofoxen, and the other by horses. In this manner they started on their journey, and in something over four weeks reached Detroit. having been nine days in getting through the Forty-Mile Woods. No accident worthy of note occurred during the long and tedious journey. Major Whitney was by profession a Manufacturer of Iron, and was attracted here by reports that large quantities of the finer qualities of iron ore were to be found in Michigan. After spending a good deal of time and money in prospecting for such ore without success, he came with his family to Monroe, and there remained till the Summer of 1824, when be purchased from the fiovernment the East half of the Southwest quarter of Section 20, now bounded on the East bay Col- lingwood Avenue, on the South by Bancroft Street, on the North by Delaware Avenue, where he built a block-house of considerable size into which he moved bis family in the Fall of 1821. This house was in the rear of Messrs. Laskey, Noel and Page's present residences. Here Major Whitney lived until his death, in December, 1834, aged 64 years.

Major Whitney was the father of Noah A.

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Whitney, Jr., and Thomas P. Whitney, who settled on the Southeast quarter of Section 27, on what is now Detroit Avenue. Noah A. died in 1873, aged 74 years, leaving one child, a son, by a second wife. Thomas P. Whitney lett three children-one son and two daughters; the son died in March, 1885; the daughters are both living, and also the widow, who resides on Monroe Street and is in the 74th year of her age. One of the daughters of Mrs. Major Whitney prior to her second marriage, Miss Mary Rose, became the wife of Dr. J. V. D. Sutphen, a young physician from New Jersey, in 1826. Dr. Sutphen wassomewhat prominent in public matters, as well as a Physician ; was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan, which framed the Constitution of that State in 1835. Of this once large family, all of whom grew to manhood and womanood, but one now remains, viz .: Mrs. Sanford L. Collins, in her 76th year.

Another settler who came to this Township in 1825, was John Phillips from Onondaga County, New York, with a family of two sons and five daughters. He settled on West half of Southwest quarter of Section 22, now part of Woodlawn Cemetery, and West half of North- west quarter of Section 27, in 1:30. This tract was transferred to the oldest sou (Phillip I. Phillips), and the father, with the second son, Captain Henry Phillips, purchased of Thaddeus R. Austin the Northwest quarter of Section 23, and there settled with his family, one daugh- ter (the eldest), Miss Catharine, having pre- viously married Cyrus Fisher from Otsego County, N. Y. Captain Henry Phillips in 1837 was married with Miss House, of Lock- port, N .. Y. Ile died in the Fall of 1838, leav- ing his widow and one child. Captain Phillips was a young man of a good deal of promise. lle was Chairman of the first meeting ealled to agitate the boundary question. After his death his brother, Phillip I., became the owner of his property and settled upon and improved it. In 1854 he (P. I. Phillips) laid off and platted the farm into 8 and 10 acre lots, which was afterwards recognized as the " Phillips Farm," now West Toledo. Mr. Phillips was most unfortunate in the loss of his wife and four children grown to man's and woman's estate. He married a second wife, by whom he had three children, a daughter and two sons, who, with the widow, are still living Mr. Phillips died in 1879, aged 78. The father, John Phillips, died at his son-in-law's in Indiana in 1849, while on a visit there; his widow, residing with her son, died some ten years later.

This once large family, like that of Major Whitney, have all passed away with the exception of the youngest, Mrs. Rebecca Bron- son, residing at Lansing, Michigan, in her 74th year.

With Mr. Phillips as a member of his

family, came Charles B. Phillips, a nephew, then a small boy, who grew up to manhood, and to be one of the most prominent business men of Toledo, while occupying positions ot usefulness in other relations. He was long identified with the mercantile and manufactur- ing interests, and in enterprises of various kinds. Early taking an active part in military affairs, he became prominent in the same, and during the war of the Rebellion commanded the Que Hundred and Thirtieth Ohio Infantry. lle now (1888), resides at Ann Arbor Michigan.

In 1825. came from Otsego County, New York, Dexter Fisher and wife-aged people for a new country-with their son Cyrus, then a young man, and their son-in-law, Hiram Bartlett and his wife. Mr. Bartlett purchased of Daniel Murray the Southeast fraction of Section 35 (now a thiekly settled portion of Toledo). He sold this land in the Fall of 1835 to Andrew Palmer, and entered a large tract of Government land in Amboy Township (now Fulton County), where he resided with his family until his death in 1875, at the age of 85 years, leaving a large property. His aged widow (90 years old), and three children (one son and two daughters) survive him, and reside in Amboy Township. Mr. Bartlett was much respected as a citizen, was Clerk of the Town- ship of Port Lawrence for many years. Dexter Fisher's wife having died the year after they came, he resided with his son-in-law, Bartlett, and died at their residence in Amboy Township in 1847, at the advanced age of 77 years.

Cyrus Fisher purchased of Moses G. Benjamin of Otsego County, New York, the Southeast quarter of Section 23, and built and settled on the Northwest quarter of same Section, between the old Territorial Road and the United States Turnpike, in the Fall of 1829, having been married the same Fall with Catherine, daughter of John Phillips, whose family have been before referred to. He commenced the building of a block-house of considerable size, and completed it during the following winter and occupied it both as a Tavern and a Store. This house was of great convenience to the settlers, it being the only place of entertainment between the Bay Settlement and Hubbard's, at Miami ; and, with two exceptions, the only house of any kind. This Store of Mr. Fisher's was the first one established in the territory embraced in Washington Township, as originally set off from Port Lawrence; and, like the house of enter- tainment, was a great public convenience, although the settlement at that time was very small.

There were at that time some 1,500 or more Indians residing on the two Reservations on the North side of the River, and with no store nearer than Maumee ( Hunt & Forsyth's), it was a good point for Indian trade, and con- tinued so until the Indians sold out and left for the far West.

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Ilere, too, was the one Post-office between Vienna and Maumee, its name being Port Lawrence, as that of the Township, then em- bracing what is now comprised in Toledo, Manhattan, Oregon, Washington and Adams Townships. Cyrus Fisher was Postmaster. The mail at that time from Fremont to Detroit was carried on the line of the Government Turnpike, before mentioned, three times a week, generally on horse-back, but sometimes, when the roads were passable, a light wagon would be used. It was at this Port Lawrence Post- office that Allen & Hathaway, of Lockport, New York ; Major Stickney, of Port Lawrence Township (then in the Territory of Michigan). and others associated with them, in the com- mencement of the new commercial Town on the River called " Vistula," in the winter of 1831 32, obtained their mails. Mr. Fisher continued in the triple capacity of Tavern and Store-keeper and Postmaster until the Fall of 1832, when he was succeeded by Calvin Tre- maine, from Vermont, a worthy gentleman as well as a good business man. Mr. Tremaine also succeeded Mr. Fisher as Postmaster, he (Fisher) resigning in Mr. Tremaine's favor ; so that in a very short time after Mr. Tremaine's arrival he was fully enstalled as Merchant and Postmaster, Mr. Fisher removing to one of the Southern Counties of Ohio to engage in School teaching, intending, however, to return, which he did in 1834.

Late in 1832, the proprietors of the two River Towns (Port Lawrence and Vistula) sat abont seenring postal accommodations nearer home. A meeting of citizens of these places was called to consider where a Post-office should be located, and who should be the Post- master. It was decided that the office take the name of that on Ten-Mile Creek (Port Lawrence), the latter to become Tremaines- ville. This plan was carried into effect, with S. B. Comstock as Postmaster. he then holding that position on the Creek. A mail route between thetwo offices was established, with Major Stick- ney as mail carrier, the sum to be paid him to be the net proceeds of the new office, provided the same did not exceed the sum of $15.00 per quarter. Under this arrangement, Tremaines- ville became the Distributing Office for Port Lawrence and Vistula, instead of their delivery office, as it had been. All this occurred in January, 1833.

About the time of the settlement of Mr. Tremaine with his store, Townsend Bartlett, a brother of Hiram, purchased of Captain Ilenry Phillips two acres of land on the oppo- site side of the Turnpike from the Fisher block-house, and built a Wagon-shop and dwelling, settled and continued his business till 1837, when he sold to J. D. Sutphen, father of Dr. J. V. D. Sutphen, and removed to Illi- nois. Mr. Tremaine continued his store till the fall of 1835, when he sold his property,

including his store of goods, to Dr. Sutphen and removed to Sylvania, where he died soon after.

Sanford L. Collins succeeded Mr. Tremaine, in the Tremainesville Post Office. In 1835 the mail route was changed from Miami down the River to Toledo and Manhattan, and the Tre- mainesville office after a few years was discon- tinued. Tremainsville had considerable im- portance among the early settlements and quite a business from 1834 to 1838 in two stores, a tavern, blacksmith and wagon shops, tailor shop, shoe shop, ete .; but the diversion of travel from the turnpike and the depression of 1838 to 1843, crippled its business and it be. came again a farming community, as it had originally been. (See biography of Mr. Collins, elsewhere).

In February. 1834, Morgan L. Collins a younger brother, came from Orleans County, New York, with his wife fhaving been recently married with Miss Imcinda Lewis of Albion, in that County) ; this brother remained and he. came interested in the store and lands; soon contracts were made for clearing and fencing, for it was all woods on both sides of the Territorial Road (now Collingwood Ave. nue) from Major Keeler's, near Delaware Avenue, to Ten Mile Creek, except a little patch near Tremaine's store and the Fisher tavern kept by Mr. Smiley. In the fall of 1834 the Collins Brothers built a tavern on the Southeast corner of Manhattan Road and the Turnpike ; this house was burned in the sum- mer of 1848.

In November, 1834, Mr. John W. Collinscame with his wife and two children from Jefferson County, New York, and became a partner with the brothers under the firm name of S. L. Col- lins & Co., Mr. S. L. Collins having purchased Mr. Godard's half of the Burgess tract, con- veyed an undivided one third to each of his brothers. John W. Collins, like other brothers, was a man of energy, perseverance and good judgment, and withal an excellent farmer. S. L. Collins & Co., sold their store and goods in the spring of 1836, to Horace Thacher and Michael T. Whitney. Morgan L. Collins went to Adrian and there engaged in mercantile Imsi - ness till 1841. when he returned to Toledo. where he engaged in forwarding, and was among the first to have a line of boats on the Wabash and Erie Canal ; the business of trans. portation, including vessels on the Lake, was continued by him for many years, He died in April, 1865, aged 58 years, leaving a wife and two daughters (Mrs. Henry Neel, residing on Collingwood Avenue, and the other with ber mother in Batavia, New York). John W. Collins died in December. 1885, in his 85th vear, having been many years afflicted with deafness. lle lett two sons by his second wife, J. P. and J. W. Collins, and one daughter, Miss Agnes Collins, by his third wife. The fourth

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wife (widow) is still living and resides with her daughter in Albany, New York.

Horace Thacher of Niagara County, New York, came with his family to Tremainesville in the fall of 1833. le settled on the North side ot Ten-Mile Creek. Being a good Me- chanie, he contributed largely to the building of the Methodist Church which was erected on that side of the Creek in 1835-6. Mr. Thacher was highly esteemed by his neighbors ; was a Local Preacher in the Methodist Church ; was a Justice of the Peace under the Territory of Michigan; was subsequent Recorder of Lucas County for two terms, Probate Judge, and again Justice of the Peace in Toledo. He is now (June 1888), aged 88 years, living with Mr. John Daiber, a son-in-law.

In the summer of 1834, Dr. J. G. Littlefield, from Delaware County, New York, settled in Tremainesville : he purchased a lot and built a small dwelling house on the West side of the turnpike, but sold ont and went. West in the fall of 1836.

Among the prominent early settlers in the Western part of the Township, were the Haughtons-Lyman, Stephen, Marvin and Cyrus-who came from Monroe County, New York, and in 1833-4 took up large quantities of Government land on both sides of what is known as Haughton Street. Lyman Haughton had sons Smith, Hiram, Nathaniel and Solon ; and danghters, Ruth and Delia. Ruth married George Ferguson and Delia married Michael Best, farmers of this Township; Hiram married Sylvania Roop, of a family prominent in business circles in Toledo, where he died in 1883, leaving two daughters and one son. Stephen Hanghton was married with Huklah, sister of Eleazer N. Smith, of West Toledo. He lived in the Haughton neighborhood till his removal to Fulton County, some years ago, and in 1882 settled in Wauseon, where he died May 28, 1887; aged 87 years. He was the last of the original family who came here in 1833. The farm on which Mr. Haughton lived in this Township was the original one on which Thomas Secor now resides. Mrs. Haughton died in 1883. Their surviving children are : William Edgar Haughton, of Fulton County ; Susannah (late widow of E. Hinkle of Lyons; Ohio; now Mrs. Smith Hanghton of Washing- ton Township); Palmyra ( Mrs. Naaman Merrill of Wauseon, Ohio, deceased ); Emily ( Mrs. John Mckay of Wauseon); Clarissa (deceased), wife of Rev. Warren Hendricks; Malvina, wife of Amasa Verity, of Bay City, Mich .; and Clark, who died in Rome, Indiana. Marvin Haugh- ton was married with Maria Bristol, and to them were born six children. Cyrus Haughton was married with Marina Adams, and to them were born six children, two sons and four daughters. Nathaniel Haughton, of Toledo, a son of Lyman Haughton, now married with a daughter of Dr. B. H. Bush, formerly of Toledo.

SANFORD LANGWORTHY COLLINS was born on April 4, 1805, at Brownsville, Jef- ferson County, New York. He is a son of John W. and Mercy (Langworthy) Collins, who were natives of Connecticut, and were married at Stonington in 1793. In 1794 John W. Collins, with his wife and his wife's parents and family, emigrated to Oneida County, New York, and settled in the Town of Bridgewater. In 1802 John W. Collins removed to Jefferson County, New York, where he was one of the organ- izers of the Town of Brownsville, and was chosen its second Supervisor, as stated in the history of Jefferson County. He died in De- cember, 1810. Sanford L., in 1812, at the age of seven years, went to reside with his mother's brother, at Bridgewater, where he remained until he was 15. His opportunies for educa- tion, meantime, were limited to a few terms at the District School during the Winter months. Possessed of vigorous intellect and remarkably retentive memory, combined with studions and industrious habits, enabled him to acquire knowledge rapidly in the school of observation and experience. On leaving Bridgewater, he engaged with his brother-in-law in keeping a hotel in the Village of Gaines, Orleans County, where he remained until after he was 21, and subsequently followed the same occupation for two years at Lockport. In 1829 he engaged in mercantile business, connected with the lumber and stave trade, at Pendleton, a small port on the Erie Canal, at its junction with Tonawanda Creek, which he carried on quite successfully for two years.

Much attention being directed to Michigan about this time, Mr. Collins decided to make a prospecting tour in that Territory. Accord- ingly, he sold out his business, and with his youngest brother, Morgan L. Collins, loft Lock- port in July, 1831, tor Detroit. Their first business there was to find their old friend, Lewis Godard, a former merchant of Lockport, who came to Detroit in the Spring previous and engaged in the same business, and whom they desired to consult with reference to their trip. His advice was, that the tour of obser- vation should extend through the Southern tier of Counties, which, beyond Ann Arbor, were almost entirely unsettled.

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History of the city of Toledo and Lucas County, Ohio, Part 181

Author: Waggoner, Clark, 1820-1903 Publication date: 1888 Publisher: New York and Toledo : Munsell & Company Number of Pages: 1408

Author: Waggoner, Clark, 1820-1903
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: New York and Toledo : Munsell & Company
Number of Pages: 1408