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Hiram College was one of the first
to take up basketball. Its teams dom- inated college competition in the early part of the present century and in 1905 won what was called the world's championship in this sport at the St. Louis Fair.
NEW INSTITUTIONS COME
In 1956 announcement was made of the purchase of approximately 300 acres of land in southwestern Hiram, by the Methodist church organiza- tions of northeastern Ohio. The land was to be developed into a recreation- al area for the youth of that denomin- ation, with buildings and equipment for this purpose. It was to be known as Camp Asbury.
The same year saw the establish- ment of a home for old and unfortun- ate men at Hiram Rapids. This was done by the Brotherhood of St. John of the Orthodox Catholic Church in the purchase of more than 100 acres southwest of the Rapids, with remod- eling of buildings and new construc- tion.
An electric line, the Eastern Ohio Traction Co., was operated for several years. It ran from Cleveland via Cha- grin Falls to Garrettsville, coming in 1901, and lasted about fifteen years, doing both passenger and freight bus- iness. Another line called the Dodge Line was partly graded but never fin- ished. Some grading work was done near the Rapids and remains of it can be seen today.
Outstanding Hiram men came mainly from connection with the col- lege, but Perry L. Green, a Hiram resident 40 years, was prominent in other ways. He was a state representa- tive, state director of agriculture and a Farm Bureau leader and official for many years.
Hiram was incorporated as a village in 1894 and almost immediately a
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municipal electric power and light generating plant was installed. The plant was on North Hill road. It is still in operation today.
In 1907 the Hiram Telephone Co. began operations and continued in that name until 1926 when it was sold to the Western Reserve Telephone Co., of Hudson. Dr. H. C. Hurd was a leader in the organization of the telephone system.
Hiram's fire department was organ- ized in 1897. John Hedges and David Stockman were two of the early chiefs. Gilbert Wakefield is the present chief.
The Hiram Grange was organized in 1924 and Arthur Beton was the first master. A waterworks system was authorized and installed in 1898, after
a typhoid fever epidemic attributed to contaminated well water, had devel- oped.
Present village officers are: Jack Streeter, Mayor; L. C. Underwood, Treas .; Mrs. DeWight Berg, Clerk; Council, Arthur Benedict, George Breckett, Michael Bennett, Ruth Whitcomb and L. C. Pettit.
The school board is composed of Charles Sanborn, Chester Orcutt, Mar- ian Bennett, Grace Goodale and Forrest King, with G. E. Bennett, Clerk.
The Township Trustees are Carl Nichols, Nelson Hayes and Ralph Geiger.
Rev. Hunter Beckellymer is pastor of the Christian Church.
Charles (Blinky) Morgan, a name well known in Portage county criminal an- nals, was given his nickname because of the fact that he was blind in one eye.
The first law set the size of Western Reserve townships at six miles square. Before any of the townships were laid out a new law set the area at five miles square as they are today. In many other parts of the state a township is still six miles square.
In 1920 the McElrath Tire & Rubber Co. of Ravenna advertised for laborers at $6.50 daily wages-a new high for common labor in Ravenna up to that time.
Passenger traffic on the canals was at first heavy. In 1843 a band of Mormons, enroute to Nauvoo, Ill., was held up one week at Campbellsport because of a mistake in routing. They then went back to the Ohio river and proceeded via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Sidney Rigdon, the intellectual of the Mormons, was pastor of a Baptist Church in Mantua in 1826. In the following year he organized a Campbellite (Dis- ciple) Church there, taking with him into it nearly all his former parishioners. In 1830 he left that church to become Prophet Joseph Smith's main advisor in the Mormon Church.
James A. Garfield wrote that he owed much of his political fortunes to Lyman W. Hall, once a Ravenna publisher. Sen- ator Ben Wade also said that Lyman W. Hall, in his opinion, did more than any other man to bring about the birth of the Republican party.
In November, 1896, Marvin Kent wrote a letter to Senator John Sherman seeking a better job for Dr. J. W. Shively, former Kent physician, who was employed in the Pension Department. Kent hestitated to approach William Mckinley, Whom he knew, because it was soon after Mckinley's election as president and he knew Mckinley would be pretty busy. It is not known whether Shively got a better job.
CHAPTER XXIX
Mantua
BY DORIS L. ODELL
Your appointed scribe is honored to be writing this chapter in the his- tory of Portage County, since she represents the fourth generation de- scending from the pioneers who came from Connecticut and Massachusetts -the Cobbs, Wilmots, Taylors, and Blairs.
In so doing she sits at a desk made from the Mantua woods of black wal- nut by Henry Cobb of the second generation-crude, but full of space and secret compartments where many documents were filed during his of- fice as justice of the peace for many years. He was also a writer of some renown.
His father, Samuel; Harriet, his wife, and sons came from Connecti- cut in 1833 and established a home near Silo. Henry later married An- toinette Hubbell Taylor, who lived just a mile to the north. Here Samuel became the first postmaster, serving seventeen years. It was known as Cobb's Corners.
The pigeon-holed, slant topped desk of black walnut also served for sort- ing mail. Today it reposes at Woods Store there. The few communications of that early day, sealed with wax, many bearing no stamp, and requir- ing days of travel by horses, undoubt- edly told stories of romance, heart- break and adventure-enough to have made many an unwritten true story.
AMZI ATWATER HERE EARLY One of Mantua's first citizens,
Judge Amzi Atwater, was land agent, one of 52 persons sent out to survey the Western Reserve in June, 1796.
Mantua township, containing 17,- 659 acres, was organized in 1810 and included Shalersville, which was cut off in 1812. Preceding this date, log cabins were crudely fashioned from the plentiful woodland. In 1806 there were 27 men here. David Abbott sur- veyed the township. He was a member of Ohio's first constitutional conven- tion.
The Cuyahoga River flows at the foot of Derthick Hill. Here Abraham Honey in 1798 made a small clearing, built a log hut and sowed wheat. It was the first known settlement with- in the township. Others soon followed -Basil Windsor, Rufus Edwards and others. Edwards was a brother-in-law of Honey, who probably owned the land where the wheat was planted for he harvested it and constructed a hand mill and distillery east of the bridge below Derthick Hill. He was married to Letitia Windsor, Basil's daughter, for the first marriage cere- mony, and Judge Atwater was offi- ciant. The next settler was Elias Har- mon, who married Sabrina Sheldon, coming to the new land from Con- necticut in a two-horse sleigh. She was the first white woman here. To this union were born six children. Eunice, the first, was Mantua's first born white child. The first death oc- curred in 1804, when Mrs. Anna Jud- son took arsenic by mistake. A Davis
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Buckeye Pipe Line storage tanks at Mantua
Crooks is mentioned as the third set- tler. Pascal McIntosh came in 1799.
BRINGS APPLE SEEDS
More and more pioneers soon ar- rived; McIntosh, Burroughs, Moses Pond (who put out an apple orchard from seeds carried from his father's home, and who was probably the first tanner). Others included Darwin At- water, Jotham Atwater, the Hines and Samuel Moore, who arrived with a wagon, yoke of oxen, two horses, a cow and seven children.
Given names have been handed down for several generations to the present so that we of this last cen- tury seem almost personally acquaint- ed with those of the 1800s-years of Moores, Derthicks, Harmons, Plums, Roots, Reeds, Bards, Bakers, Ridges, Blairs, Wilmots, Tinkers, Snows, Frosts, Algers and others. Still others were Joseph and William Skinner, Ray, Wareham Loomis, Capt. William Messenger, Jonathan Foster, the San- fords, Ladds, Judsons, Carltons, Squires and their families.
TAVERN IS FAMOUS
A log hotel stood east of the pres- ent "Brick Tavern" where Jotham Atwater had purchased some land,
and wherein he and his wife, Laura Kellogg, entertained early visitors. In 1825 he built the "Big Brick", famous as a hostelry. The log hotel was near the intersection of the old Pittsburgh and Cleveland road with the diagonal road. It was here that the first July Fourth celebration was held in 1815 and Judge Atwater wrote a poem for the occasion. Atwater and Elias Har- mon were instrumental in court es- tablishment and laying out a road be- tween Parkman and Ravenna via Mantua. Judge Atwater surveyed it. Years later the road was closed and the present road between the two "Big Bricks" was set up.
In 1810, Mantua had a population of 234.
In 1826, a man named Childs had a store at the Corners and in 1829, Alonzo Delano ran a store there suc- ceeding Joseph Skinner. Calvin White opened the first store at the Center in 1835.
The first bridge over the Cuyahoga River came in 1814. It was built by Rufus Edwards on the Hiram Road crossing, at a cost of $100.00.
Among the original party of sur- veyors was a Mr. Leavitt, who selected the name, Mantua, it is said, in honor
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of Napoleon, who in 1796 captured the city of Mantua in Italy, and so was one of the heroes of the day. Mantua had the distinction of being the parent township of the county, being settled more than six months ahead of any other township.
EARLY MILLS
Portage County industry got off to its first start when Rufus Edwards constructed his hand mill in 1799. In 1802, Moses Pond constructed a tan- nery. Dan Ladd took over the tannery in 1812. Pond is credited with bring- ing in the first sheep. A distillery was set up in 1810 by William Russell. Ezekiel Ladd also later operated this distillery, followed by Patrick Ray. In 1819, Hezekiah Mooney and Dr. Ezekiel Squire jointly operated a dis- tillery. Thomas G. Washburn had an ashery at the Center for ten years after 1810. The first saw mill was erected near the Geauga line by the Dresser family in 1818. A glass factory was started by David Ladd in 1821, but two years later it was moved to Kent. Noah and Nobel Rogers had a tannery near Mantua Center in 1825.
Mantua today has almost all town facilities-municipal officers, electric- ally lighted streets, homes and power for factories. It has been known chief- ly as a fine residential town, with ex- cellent sewage disposal, good pave- ments and sidewalks.
The waterworks plant was installed in 1902 on the Cuyahoga River flats, and is supplied by three deep artes- ian wells, with a pump house. The Reservoir is atop the hill on Reser- voir Drive. Water is forced up hill by electric and Diesel pumps, pumping an average of 40,000 to 50,000 gallons daily. The pure water is one of the town's greatest assets.
In 1912, many sidewalks were laid.
For this, one man, Alpheus Russell, editor and mayor, was largely respon- sible.
The Erie Railroad has been the chief transportation outlet. Much pro- duce has been stored and shipped here. In past days, potatoes (selling for 80 cents a bushel in 1902, to $5.00 a bushel in 1955) have been stored, as many as 50,000 bushels at one time. Large quantities of hides, wool, and maple syrup have also been shipped out. M. R. Coit and I. A. Spencer were two of the better known deal- ers. Maple syrup at one time sold for 50 cents a gallon. James and John King were popular station agents and telegraphers here for years.
As the Cuyahoga River flows through the flats, the surrounding land was called Atwater Grove in hon- or of the judge whose home was along the main street. In 1892, this home was sold to Martin Merryfield for $200.00. This is the present site of the Samuel Moore & Co. plant. The building was erected in 1947. In the Atwater Grove, many picnics were held and sports played.
HOTELS THRIVE
The Lower Hotel, or present Cuya- hoga House, was the scene of much merrymaking in the old days, both as hotel and ball room, with an ever present bar room. The Taylor House and Mantua House were thriving ho- tels. Another hotel was in the Rhodes block, south of the tracks. There is no hotel today.
In 1910, N. D. Parker Sons pur- chased the lumber business of Hine & Cook. The Parker sons have owned it up to the present time. Wells Truck Line offices are located here.
Along the river, near the south bridge, about 1858, there existed a cider mill, a saw mill and a foundry.
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Sawing machine manufacture was a chief activity there.
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan flourished here for a short time and many a fiery cross lighted the hillside beyond the river.
The Erie Railroad came through in 1855 and the depot was built in 1872. One agent, Eugene Pratt, got $37.50 per month as telegraph opera- tor. Other agents here since 1909 have been J. M. Folger, E. E. Eyester, W. D. Alexander, J. F. Pritchard, Mr. Hyatt, J. A. Shannon, I. B. Sonnedecker, Ar- thur Jackson, Ed. Flack, Nelson, Nick- les, D. H. Davis, C. S. Angelmyer, and H. E. Miller. Today many local people commute to work in the city daily.
Another railroad was projected be- fore the Erie, but was never finished. This was the Clinton Air Line. Grad- ing was started on this in 1853, and the old right of way can still be seen, though rails were never laid. It en- tered northeastern Mantua from Hi- ram township and proceeded toward Hudson diagonally with a southwest- erly course.
ELECTRIC POWER COMES
The municipal light plant was in- stalled on the south side of the Erie tracks opposite a crystal spring which provided water for its steam power. Light rates were first three lights for 75 cents a month, with no meters. Ed. Williams was manager. The plant was unprofitable and was closed. James Coit then bought it but the plant burned in 1917, when council granted a franchise to the Ravenna Gas & Electric Co. thence to the Ohio Elec- tric Power in 1927 and finally to the Ohio Edison in 1933.
MUD HILL METROPOLIS
The first collected industries of
Mantua were at Mud Mill, north and east of the first hotel. Here, in 1819, William and Joseph Skinner operated a grist mill and distillery. Joseph was a master mechanic and inventor. On the east side was Ladd's blacksmith shop, a store on the west side was managed by George Houghton; an ashery was nearer the river; on the east bank was Alexander Pomeroy's grist mill; further east was a carding house, dye house and distillery; a saw mill, tannery, and Ladd's brick kiln and a glass factory on the diagonal road from the Brick Tavern. A sec- ond glass factory operated near.
After these industries declined, Mantua Corners became a trading center. The first store was built in 1820. A man named Childs had a store there in 1826. On the northwest cor- ner stood the Yellow Store, opened by Joseph Skinner about 1828; on the northeast corner J. W. Foster had gen- eral merchandise for sale. Later Co. C. H. Ray occupied, still later moving it to Mantua village. Alonzo Delano also had a store there, as did Milo Wheeler in 1842. The Corners had started to assume city airs but its prospects were nipped by the coming of the railroad in 1856. A fire in 1857 destroyed many of the Corners business places. Calvin White had the first store at the Center-1835.
SCHOOL BUILDING CHEAP
In 1842, Judge Amzi Atwater do- nated land for a frame school house, corner Main and East High. The school cost $315.75, plus donated shingles, some other lumber and la- bor. In 1868, Darwin Atwater re- modeled the building into a church for all denominations.
In 1867, the first brick school house was erected-now the Town Hall. A second floor was added for a hall. In
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1893 another school was built which lasted well into this century. The cor- nerstone of a new and seemingly huge new building was laid in May, 1929.
The first school in Mantua was taught in Amzi Atwater's home in 1806-1807. Patty Cochran taught a school after this as did John Harmon. At the Center, Elizabeth Kent taught a school in 1815-16.
The first organized fire department came in January, 1909, with Thomas King as chief. About 1918, Mantua had the only motorized fire truck in the county.
A war memorial built by Dr. E. H. Houghton in the lower yard of the village was put on a more permanent footing with a plaque for the 1950 Home Coming. One of the distin- guishing marks of Mantua is the statue and fountain in this yard donated to the town by Mrs. C .H. Thompson.
A fair grounds, with a grand stand facing east, and a race track, were in existence in the 1890s, across from the present park.
FAMOUS MAPLE DELL
To mention Mantua to old resi- dents, their minds quickly revert to Maple Dell, or the Spiritualist Camp Grounds, along the Cuyahoga River in the northeast lower section of town. Cottages, a hotel and summer school were erected. The circular tabernacle stands today. Maple Dell was a favor- ite picnic spot of the 1900s and was visited by many celebrities. One was a member of the original Floradora sextette of the Gay Nineties. She pos- sessed a fine soprano voice so that her appearance on the sage was mo- mentous and she always drew admir- ing crowds. Later she came here and taught dramatics. A steamboat plied the river at ten cents a ride. In 1912, A. J. Griffa bought this land for pri-
vate enterprise and a fish hatchery. He is still owner but gladioli are now raised commercially here by Chas. Hopkins.
East of the river and north of the oil tanks stood an old log house wherein the original of "Fred War- den", hero of Riddle's "Portrait", is said to have lived. After 1841, this hillside became known as Farr's Hill but today is called Wintergreen Hill.
CHANGES COME
On Main St., the same buildings have housed the same businesses through the years. After the 1858 sur- vey, Edwin Farr built the first house which later became the O. P. Hayes place. It is now a business block for Haylet's Foods, Chalker's store and the Park Dress Shop. Next door is the fine new bank building dedicated March 25, 1953. The old brick bank building was opened in 1885 by Hine & Crafts, which was re-organized in 1900 as the First National.
The first house on Prospect is now the rear of the former Mark Kellam home. Reagan St., below, was next settled. The Vaughn & Crafts block, on the hillside, still bears the owner's name. Vaughn and his wife had a millinery store there at one time. To the west about 1945, the Bell Tele- phone Co. built a new structure to accommodate the dial system. The first Home Telephone Co. was or- ganized in 1901 and in 1903 was con- solidated with the Portage County Telephone Co. with 175 subscribers, increasing to 310 in 1909. Charles Marshall and Charles Scott were man- agers. When Ohio Bell took over in 1942 there were nearly 800 subscrib- ers.
To the westward, at the top of the hill, the old palatial homes of Hine, Crafts and Bowen command the scene.
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W. H. Crafts was a former state rep- resentative and built his home in 1882. There are 14 rooms. The south stairway winds to the third floor with a lavish use of curly maple. Walnut and maple are used all through the mansion. The present owners, Mr. and Mrs. Haylett, have made only a few changes. The Hine home, a 24-room house, is now Haylett's "Auction House". It is said that in building the house in the '90s, Mr. Hine used a different wood for each room. It has three stories and basement, with ball room on the third floor. The Bowen house to the west was spacious, but probably not as elaborate.
LOAN COMES HIGH
The Folger block along the Erie tracks was the first brick building here. It was five years in building and it is said the owner rode a pony all around this section to borrow mon- ey to complete it, paying as high as 10 percent for loans. It was later bought by J. B. Coit and called the St. James Hotel.
"Progressive Mantua", a 1912 pub- lication, lists these businesses; "C. W. Brainerd, P. M. Mrs. J. C. Vaughn, millinery; C. M. Powers, Gen. Mer- chandise; Mantua Hardware (Stim- perts); I. J. Hayes, clothing, etc .; C. J. Welf, Jeweler; A. F. Pash, Res- taurant; V. A. Proctor, Central Ho- tel; A. L. Jones, Blacksmith; Buck- ley's Jewelry; Weber Hardware; Turner & Rathburn, Livery; Mantua Grain & Supply; Harris Bros., Res- taurant; F. L. Warner, Blacksmith; Fred Weber, Grocer; J. G. Ritter, Shoes; N. D. Parker & Sons, Lumber; Wm. Peters, Harness; Dr. Algernon Payne, Dentist; G. W. Franklin, Har- ness Dealer; J. W. Sullivan, General Merchandise; A. E. Frost, Druggist; Hammel Bros., Meats; Conrad Lor-
enz, Barber; A. B. Zidenberg; Fruit Store; First Nat. Bank; E. W. Morgan, Barber and Julius Schallheim, Tailor. Of these, only four exist today. R. M. Wheeler succeeded Brainerd as post- master, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Crafts and Mrs. Lillian Goodell who retired in 1955 and now Ray Lucht. Glenn, the druggist, succeeded Otto Steinbrueck, while Frank Lange & Son are plumbers. J. H. Wheeler has an insurance and undertaking busi- ness and across from the school house is the Woolf Memorial Home.
MANY PHYSICIANS HERE
Stranhan's Creamery to the west was always an interesting place. Jos- eph Smith and Ed Noble bought milk to make butter and cheese, first in- troduction to creamery butter.
Physicians are listed in order of succession as far as possible: They were Drs. Ezekiel Squire, Samuel Whipple, Edwin Coles, Cromwell, Henry Powell, Jason Moore, S. K. Wilcox, John Smith, O. Ferris, Tuck- er, A. S. Crafts, John Crafts, A. M. Erwin, Geo. Way, F. Morath, May, S. D. Good, G. R. French, D. Rear- don, D. S. Detchon, Marion Squire, E. S. Hannum, F. E. Bard, Geo. Hull, E. H. Knowlton, F. C. Newcomb, Ray T. Odell, Lloyd Drossell and E. A. Knowlton. Odell has limited his prac- tice to ophthalmology and is physician for the Cuyahoga Tuberculosis Hos- pital at Warrensville.
Dentists: Chas. Trask, A. A. Carl- ton, D. M. Walker, Algernon Payne, J. P. Schock, Lindsey and D. S. Gray- son.
Lawyers: H. L. Moore, Edward Fos- ter, William Holbrock, C. D. Ingell, Geo. Canfield, E. P. Wilmot, Andrew Squire, O. S. Ferris, C. S. Bentley, Chas. Sanborn, and Wm. Silenius.
Mantua has given the military and
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naval forces an honor group both at home and on foreign shores. Individ- ual records attest their loyalty. To them Mantua owes an enormous debt. Peter King of Mantua was one of the first to die in action in World War II. Ironically, three of our soldiers were not killed in actual warfare but in a motor accident while in service. They were Clyde Crafts, Donald Wil- son, and Leon Hopkins.
During the 1860s a box factory op- erated on Main Street. It burned in 1870, rebuilt in 1871, then used by Frost & Kimes as a flour mill. Other changes were made later but it was long known as the Centennial Mill, with Gardner & Kitzelman, owners. The present building on this location was long the home of the revered bank cashier, Ira Hine, and his wife.
CHURCHES START EARLY
At this writing there are five churches in Mantua village, the latest being the Lutheran on Main St. in the former "Teddy Franklin" home. The second story was remodeled as a par- sonage for the first pastor, Rev. Ver- non Trahms. Mr. Bentrup is pastor at present. Bethel Church building has a dual function as church and school room, the latter because of an over- flow in public schools. Other churches are the Hilltop Disciple, the Metho- dist, and the St. Joseph's Catholic.
Construction of a large new pub- lic school building went well and it was ready for classes by the fall of 1956. In 1950 the Mantua and Shalers- ville school districts were consolidat- ed as the Crestwood District. Enroll- ment in 1956 was 1130.
First religious services were held early. They were scattered, usually di- rected by missionaries, including Rev. Joseph Badger and Rev. Shadrach Bostwick.
The Methodists established a church organization in 1807 with Rev. H. B. Roberts, pastor and in 1821, a log cabin church erected at the Center. This building burned, but was re- built. Later a new church was built, but a period of lagging interest and inactivity followed. Activity was re- sumed in the village. There was no regular organization until 1880 and about 1885, Rev. Norris directed a program for a new building in 1887, which also burned, followed by a larger structure in 1890. At times it was a church center for Shalersville, Streetsboro, and the Center Metho- dist.
Among Mantua's Methodist pastors have been the well known Rev. W. T. S. Culp, Ferris, Windsor, Bump, Moore, Baker, Rhodes, Walter, Hyatt, Anderson, Jacob, Morris, Miller, Shaf- fer, Allen, Fast, Bowland, Lloyd, Or- rin, Cope, Neeley, Evans, Hunscher, Beard, Hollinshed, Hughart, Hoag- land, Scott, Bowers, Bretz, Thomp- son, Pennell, Birney, Chaffee, Haines, Norwood, Wannerstrom, and Han- sen. Present pastor is Rev. Henry Maier.
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