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It was her lot to outlive all her brothers and sisters, and to lose some of her children. Her last days were spent with her son H. M. Brainard in his beautiful home on the heights of East Cleveland, where she died in 1912 at an advanced age.
The children of Silas and Emily Brainard :
Charles S. Brainard, d. 1897; m. Minnie L. Wetmore.
Henry M. Brainard, m. Francis A. Hills.
Fanny M. Brainard, m. Eugene L.
Graves, son of Luther Graves of Bennington, Vt.
Emma Louise Brainard, d. 1883; m. Louis M. Brussant.
Annie M. Brainard. Laura C. Brainard.
Silas Brainard died in 1871, aged 57 years.
Henry Mather Brainard, second son of Nathan, married Laura V. Mould, sister of Mrs. Silas Brainard. They were the daughters of Henry and Anne Schrivener Mould of Cleveland, formerly of Chertsey, Eng.
H. M. Brainard died at 31 years of age. His widow outlived him 46 years. Their children were:
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Alice Brainard, m. Edwin C. Whitte- more.
Alfred H. Brainard, m. Mary Helen Judd.
Walter M. Brainard, m. Florence Chamberlain. He died 24 years of age.
Prof. George W. Brainard, third son of Nathan, married Louise Hills, daughter of Nathan C. Hills of Cleveland. He established a music busi- ness with his brother J. M. as a partner, in Louisville, Ky. He was a fine musician, and after his return to Cleveland became an organist and music teacher. He spent his declining years in the city, and survived his brother, thus being the last of his generation.
His children were:
Florence Brainard, m. Paul Condit Mary Brainard, died in young wom-
of the pioneer family of that anhood.
name.
Joseph Mather Brainard, fourth son of Nathan, married Helen Cush- man Hills, a sister of Mrs. George W. Brainard. He was in business with his brother Silas for a few years, then removed to Louisville, Ky., and in company with his brother George W. started a music store in that city. He returned to Cleveland and became connected with the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company with which his son-in-law was identified. He is said to have been genial and very generous, and his personality won for him many friends and admirers. His only child Nelly Brainard married Wilson Chisholm.
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KELLOGG
Burr Kellogg was born in a New York town, bearing the distinctively Indian name of "Oswegatche," and when he was nearing 30 years of age, three events occurred in his life that made for change and circumstance, the gift of a physician's diploma, his marriage, and his removal to Ohio.
He was a son of Wells and Mary Sage Kellogg, and his wife was Juli- ette Andrews, daughter of Noah Andrews. Her mother, Ruth Griswold, was a niece of Bishop Griswold, and therefore kin to some of the bluest blood of New England.
Dr. and Mrs. Kellogg were married in 1834, and came immediately to Cleveland. He may have become established here previous to that time, but no records are at hand either to prove or disprove it.
1834 was a year that brought many young professional men to town, its reputation for rapid growth seeming to justify them in cutting loose from eastern homes and native traditions to a western one that held out glittering hopes for the future.
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But only a few years later they saw the flourishing little city still flaunting with pride its new municipal finery, but stricken with a financial panic, impoverished of money and population, the latter rate cut in two by the streams of people who left it, many on foot and penniless to hunt for luck and a living elsewhere.
Had Dr. Burr Kellogg been more optimistic regarding Cleveland's future and possessed his soul in patience, he might have spent the re- mainder of his days here and shared in the great prosperity that over- took the city a little later on, but he removed with his family, about the year 1844 to Ashland, O., thus making his residence in Cleveland a period of only ten years.
He became a very successful physician and surgeon of Ashland, and his practice there extended over 30 years. He died in 1863, aged 59, and his wife outlived him ten years, dying at the age of 63.
Dr. Burr Kellogg was a brother of Mrs. William Shepard and Mrs. Geo. Tibbitts, pioneer residents of the city.
Children of Dr. Burr and Juliette Kellogg:
Wells Kellogg, b. 1835, in Cleveland ; m. Matilda Sutton.
Jane Kellogg, b. 1842, in Cleveland; m. Thomas Lacy.
Hiram Kellogg, b. 1844; m. Elsie Willard.
Augustus Kellogg, b. 1846; m. Jen- nie Hershey; 2nd, Anna Grove. Frank Kellogg, m. Julia Dill; 2nd, Mrs. Jane Miller.
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ELY
George Beckwith Ely was one of the foremost citizens of Cleveland for many years. His brother Alfred Ely, 15 years his junior, came at a much later day, but was equally well known as a business man of the city. They were the sons of Alfred and Patience Beckwith Ely of Great Bar- rington, Mass., and Ellsburg, N. Y. George B. Ely came to Cleveland in 1834, at the age of 17 years. He was book-keeper for Pease and Allen, pioneer forwarding merchants on River street, until 1843. About that time, Milan, Ohio, was having a business boom, and Mr. Ely left Cleveland and for a few years was associated in business with John B. Wilbur, then of Milan, but later of Huron, Ohio.
Some time in the early '50s, he returned to this city and engaged ac- tively in the coal trade and in railroading. In 1856, he was the treasurer of the Cleveland and Erie Railroad, and his brother Alfred was paymas- ter of the Pittsburgh Railroad. Mr. George B. Ely married Gertrude S. Harman, born in Oswego, N. Y. Their children were:
George Frederick Ely, m. Mattie Helen Ely, m. Ralph Worthington. Keller.
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Any day before the centennial year of 1876 one might meet on Supe- rior street or on the Public Square the noticeable figure of an elderly gen- tleman with quantities of snow-white hair inclined to curl, and brushed straight back from the forehead in pompadour style; his neck swathed in a high, white-stock, such as our grandfathers used to wear; in his hand a heavy gold-headed cane.
You would have known at first glance that he was no ordinary man; not one who had spent a long life in pursuit of pleasure or gain. The expressive face, moulded into scholarly lines, the stately, leisurely bear- ing hinted of long-continued thought and research. Were you inter- ested in people you would be sure to ask at the first opportunity, "Who is that man?" and not be surprised at the answer,
"DR. PIERRE MATHIVET,
one of Cleveland's pioneer physicians and surgeons."
The name at once suggests sunny skies and a foreign tongue. But though born in France, Dr. Mathivet had left his native village of Belnec so early in life that his English had but slight accent.
From the first, Cleveland has had few French settlers; not a half- dozen families, probably, before 1860. But that half-dozen were a high type of their nationality, educated, refined, industrious, sufficient unto themselves, but most valuable members of our community.
To them Dr. Mathivet was bound by close ties of national kinship and of personal friendship. He was a leader in everything pertaining to their happiness as well as the welfare of the city of their adoption.
Dr. Mathivet was 28 years old when he came to Cleveland. He had received his medical education in Philadelphia. In 1830 he married Miss Mary Wentworth, who was born in Utica, N. Y., but had spent most of her life in Oswego. The young couple lived in Philadelphia, also in Watertown, N. Y., then came to Cleveland. Their home was on Seneca street, their nearest neighbors Josiah Harris and his sons.
During the first year of his practice in this locality Dr. Mathivet was of the old school of medicine. He was thoroughly versed in the science of botany, and all things growing were familiar, and classified objects to him at a glance. He often took his sons with him to the country side into its fields, woods, and fence-corners, and taught them the names and often the uses of the herbs he gathered for medicinal purposes.
Afterward, he became a convert to the new school of medicine. It required bravery those days for a physician to make so radical a change in his profession. The difference between the old and the new school was much greater than at the present day, and prejudice was deep, and some- times bitter.
Mrs. Mary Wentworth Mathivet was an American of the seventh generation. The first one was Samuel Wentworth, who came to Boston in 1636. He was a cousin, but once removed, of the historic Anne Hutchinson, who suffered religious persecution at the hands of the Puri- tan fathers. When driven out of Boston and the state by Governor Winthrop, she took refuge in New Hampshire. Samuel Wentworth and his wife Elisabeth Kenney followed their unfortunate kinswoman into exile, and because of this, three of their name became governors of that state, two grandsons and a great-grandson.
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The New Hampshire Wentworths were loyalists, as office-holders un- der the crown were wont to be. There was one exception, however, Josiah Winslow Wentworth was living in Connecticut at the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. He sympathized with the patriotic side, and enlisted in its militia.
The soldiers of the Revolution sacrificed and suffered much, none more so than Josiah Wentworth, who by his adherence to principle for- ever lost his wife and child.
Mary Hanford Wentworth was an aristocratic, proud-spirited young woman belonging to a wealthy and prominent Tory family. She bit- terly resented her husband's enlistment; therefore, when the Went- worths and Handfords shook off Yankee dust from their feet and hied themselves to St. Johns, New Brunswick, Mary joined her relatives, tak- ing with her little Thomas Handford Wentworth, her only child. This child was the father of Mrs. Pierre Mathivet.
He was raised and educated in St. Johns. In young manhood, he returned to the "States," perhaps in loyalty to the memory of his patriotic young father. He married Hannah Smith and settled in Oswego, N. Y. His first child, however, Mrs. Mathivet, was born in Utica. She was gifted as a child, and as a woman, and this found expression in verse and in prose. Years after her death, a printed poem was found in a scrap- book, which had been one of her cherished possessions, and accompanying the verse was a note from the editor: "The following beautiful poem was received at this office from an unknown writer, and signed simply M. W. M."
Previous to her marriage, Mrs. Mathivet had no knowledge of the French language; but her ambition and wifely devotion led her to the mastery of it, and she became not only fluent in speech, but in French translation as well. Her last years of life were spent as an invalid. She was 27 years of age the year she came to Cleveland, and 54 at the time of her death.
The children of Pierre and Mary Wentworth Mathivet:
Jean Victor Mathivet, b. 1831, in Eugene Mathivet, b. 1833, in Water-
Philadelphia, Pa .; m. Mary Chid- town, N. Y .; m. Laurie Curie, b. gey. (See Chidgey sketch.) in France.
J. V. Mathivet was in the gas-fixture business, corner of Superior and Bond streets. 'Mrs. Mary Mathivet, his widow, resides in Lakewood.
Eugene Mathivet was a lawyer. He died in New York City.
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Samuel Richards Hutchinson and Amos Shepard Hutchinson were brothers. Their father was Major Samuel Hutchinson of Alstead, N. H., a prominent man of his day, and their mother before her marriage was Hannah Hathaway Pratt of Pomfert, Conn. She died in Cleveland in 1867, aged 84.
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S. R. Hutchinson was in partnership with Josiah M. Goodman in the forwarding and commission business on Merwin street previous to 1836. Just when he came to this place has not been determined.
He married Catherine White of Granville, N. Y., and his brother, A. S., married her sister. Their parents were Elijah and Mary Scott White, who removed to Plattsburg while the sisters were young.
The first home of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Hutchinson was on Superior street nearly where Bank street was extended through to Champlain. In time they were living on Euclid ave., just west of where Bond street now cuts through from Superior to Euclid ave. His brother purchased the ad- joining residence, and they lived side by side for years.
Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Hutchinson were well known in the earlier days of Cleveland. They were prominent in the Old Stone Church society. They were buried in Erie street cemetery, but in late years were removed to a safer spot.
Their children, none of whom married, were:
Samuel Marritt Hutchinson. Jane White Hutchinson, yet living Edward White Hutchinson. 1913.
Mr. Samuel Hutchinson died 1869, aged 57.
Mrs. Samuel Hutchinson died 1855, aged 35.
Amos Shepard Hutchinson, familiarly known as "Shepard," was in the milling business, and in the later years of his life in Cleveland he was associated with his brother Samuel Hutchinson.
He married Harriet Elisabeth White, a sister of Mrs. S. R. Hutchin- son. They resided on Prospect ave. at the head of Cheshire street, at first, in what was then called the "Kingsbury Cottage."
It was convenient to the home of Mr. Hutchinson's sister, Thankful Hutchinson, wife of Elijah Bingham. The latter laid out Cheshire street, named it, and after long years of residence there, he and his wife died in the old home, the first one erected on the street.
Mr. A. S. Hutchinson built or bought a house adjoining that of his brother on Euclid ave., and removed to it, where his wife died in 1847, aged 36 years, leaving two young children.
Mary Frances Hutchinson, m. Henry Hutchinson, unmarried. Charles Taylor Kissam of New York City.
After his wife's death, her half-sister, Mrs. Sackrider, cared for the household and children.
In time, Mr. Hutchinson removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., and engaged in business there.
He married 2nd, Miss Ann Channing DeWitt of Norwich, Conn., and born in that place 1819. Her father was John DeWitt, and her mother was Harriet Smith Huntington DeWitt, whose four brothers were fa- mous in the Revolutionary War. The children of Amos S. and Ann DeWitt Hutchinson :
Samuel Huntington Hutchinson, m. James Wilde Hutchinson.
Addie L. Richardson, lived in
England.
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Capt. Isaac Brayton and his wife Lois Mitchell Brayton were early settlers of Newburgh.
He was formerly a sea-captain living in Nantucket, Mass.
Mrs. Brayton was a Quakeress of Rhode Island, a sister of William Mitchell, the astronomer; consequently, was an aunt of Maria Mitchell.
Capt. Brayton lived in Newburgh for a few years, then removed to Ravenna where he became an associate judge with Benjamin Wade.
The children of Isaac and Lois Mitchell Brayton :
Mary Anne Brayton, m. F. W. Lydia Brayton. John Brayton.
Woodbridge. She is a well-known temperance worker.
George Brayton.
Henry Swift Brayton, m. Marion Shepherd, dau. of Elias Shepherd.
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BOLTON
Judge Thomas Bolton, a talented member of the bench and bar, and a popular citizen of early Cleveland, came to the city in September, 1834. He was the son of Thomas and Hannah Henry Bolton, and had graduated the previous year from Harvard College, bearing away with him high hon- ors in mathematics. He entered, as a student, the office of James L. Conger, a well-known Cleveland lawyer, who had settled in this village ten years previous, and who took young Bolton into partnership as soon as qual- ified to practice law.
This lasted but a short time, however, for, while in college, a Damon and Pythias friendship had been established between Mr. Bolton and Moses Kelly, one that lasted until death parted them. So, after a year's practice with Mr. Conger, he opened a law-office of his own, and sent for his beloved classmate, also a newly-fledged lawyer, to join him.
Thenceforth, "Bolton and Kelly" was known all over Northern Ohio as a firm that clients trusted and opposing litigants feared.
Mr. Bolton was considered a handsome man. The portrait of him establishes this. His strong intellectual face gives one an impression of great dignity, but the expression of his fine eyes hints of much sense of humor.
The year following Mr. Bolton's arrival in Cleveland, he returned east for his promised bride, Miss Elisabeth Cone of Moscow, N. Y. He was 29 and she 20 years of age at the time of their marriage. She be- longed to an old New England family. Her parents were Festus and Elisabeth Lewis Cone. Mr. Cone was a captain in the 25th U. S. Regulars during the War of 1812, and at the close of hostilities he settled in Moscow.
Mr. Bolton's first Cleveland home was on Lake street. From there he removed to 121 Euclid Ave. where he was living in 1846. Mrs. Bolton lived but nine years after her marriage. She died at the birth of her youngest child in 1846, leaving four little children, the eldest but six years of age. They were:
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Thomas Bolton, b. 1840, d. 1879 ; m. Theodosia Ranney; 2nd, Miss El- eanore C. Hale.
Elisabeth Bolton, b. 1841; m. Judge Fritz Bach of Brunswick, Ger- many.
Festus Cone Bolton, b. 1844 ; m. Elis abeth Cowdry.
James Bolton, b. 1846; m. Minnie A. Cornish. He removed to Sioux City, Iowa.
Judge Thomas Bolton married 2d, Mrs. Emmeline Fairchild, daughter of Alanson Russell. Child :
Charles C. Bolton, m. Julia Castle,
daughter of William and Mary Newell Castle.
Thomas Bolton purchased many acres of real estate on Euclid Ave. upon which he built a picturesque and comfortable cottage in 1850. This is now 7030 Euclid Ave. and on the south-west corner of Giddings Ave.
It has been a conspicuous landmark for over 60 years. In it, Mr. Bolton died, and but recently his widow passed away, having occupied the old home until the last.
Her son resides just west of the homestead.
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BAILEY
There were two men by the name of Robert Bailey, in the early years of the city. One was a dry-goods merchant, the other a copper, tin, and sheet-iron manufacturer. The latter's place of business was 14 Superior street.
Though coming to Cleveland from Prescott, Canada, Mr. Bailey was of old American stock.
Mrs. Bailey, Fidelia Kingsley Whittemore, was born in 1818, married to Robert Bailey in Utica, N. Y., in 1832, and two years later removed to Cleveland. The family resided for many years on Huron street near Euclid avenue, and later on Brownell street north of Prospect. Mr. Robert Bailey was a good citizen, always to be depended upon in any effort for the moral uplift of the town. He had an interesting family of bright boys and girls which enabled him to give practical and valuable service as a member of the Board of Education.
The children of Robert and Fidelia Bailey :
John Bailey, b. in Utica, N. Y. Elizabeth Bailey, m. John A. Benja- min.
James Bailey.
Helen Bailey, died in St. Louis.
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Mrs. Bailey died when thirty years of age, and Robert Bailey married secondly, Lucy Case, daughter of Joseph Gaylord and Mary Whitney Case of Utica, N. Y.
The children of Robert and Lucy Bailey :
Dr. Robert Bailey. Gaylord Bailey, died by accident, as Lucy Bailey, m. Ernest Barnum, of a lad.
Chicago.
While her first child was yet an infant, Mrs. Lucy Case returned to Utica to visit her parents. The first stage of the journey was by steam- boat to Buffalo, and her whole after-life was saddened by the remem- brance of an incident of her passage. It was in 1849, the year of the terrible cholera epidemic. The stateroom adjoining that of Mrs. Bailey was occupied by a mother and a very young child. In the night the poor woman was stricken with the dread disease. Her pitiful moans and strug- gles could be as distinctly heard by Mrs. Bailey as if she were in the same room. Death relieved the sufferer before daylight, and the little one was left absolutely alone.
Doctor Robert Bailey, the only living son of the second marriage, has been a life-long resident of the city, and naturally is an authority on many of its past events. Long an active member of the Old Settlers' Association, he has been most kind in furnishing suggestions and data for this work. He resides on E. 55th street, and is unmarried.
John M. Bailey, brother of Robert, married Mary Caldwell, daughter of Lucinda Hickox Caldwell, and granddaughter of Abram Hickox, the pioneer. Mrs. Mary Caldwell died in Utica, N. Y., and was buried there. The family had been living in Sandusky, Ohio. She left two young sons, and a daughter, Mary Bailey, three years of age.
John M. Bailey married secondly, Miss Sarah Harris, daughter of Eliphalet and Harriet Taylor Harris. Mr. Harris was born in Flushing, R. I., and married Miss Taylor in Glastonbury, Conn. They removed to Perkins, Erie Co., Ohio, at the same time and in company with the cele- brated Cook family of Sandusky, who were relatives. Mrs. W. A. Price of Euclid Ave. is a daughter of John M. and Sarah Harris Bailey, and her half-sister Mary Bailey resides with her.
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BOND
Jonas Bond was born in Lincoln, Mass., in 1761. At the age of 14 years, he enlisted in the Revolutionary army. With him as companion and chum was a lad named "Dearborn," who became a general, and com- manded the center forces in the War of 1812.
Young Bond was with Arnold and at the siege of Quebec, one of the few who scaled the walls in safety. He was also in the seizure of Ticon-
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deroga, at the battle of Crown Point, and lastly, as a lieutenant he was present at Yorktown when the British forces surrendered.
In 1789, he married
Their first children were born in Guilford, Vt., the others in Maine. There were four boys in the family, three of whom came to Cleveland. Samuel, the eldest, died in early manhood, William, the youngest, removed to Wisconsin. Henry Bond soon followed his brother Newell to this city, and became his partner in the grocery business in the old City Building on Superior street near Seneca. E. I. Baldwin's dry-goods store after- ward occupied the site.
Henry Bond married Marian Merrill of Portland, Maine, in 1826. Their only child was a daughter. Mrs. Marian Bond died of consumption in 1843.
Newell Bond, third son of Jonas, was born in Calais, Maine.
In 1831 he was living in Oswego, N. Y., where his first child was born, and as his second one was born in Cleveland in 1835, he removed to this city sometime between those dates.
He was a tailor, and in the directory of 1837, his employment is given as stockmaker.
He was a very positive man in his opinions, and fond of argument. With all a good man and very pious. He belonged to a religious society called "The Church of God," which is represented today in an edifice on Lee Road. He was devoted to its peculiar views and to its literature.
His wife was Mary Blinn Bond of New Britain, Conn. She was the daughter of a sea-captain. One of her sisters, an elegant woman in ap- pearance and finely educated, was the wife of Judge Judd of New Britain. She often visited Mrs. Bond, and her children frequently spent their sum- mers here. They were greatly admired by Cleveland people.
The highest tribute a woman can receive comes from the lips of a daughter-in-law who praises and extols her, and in this case the testimony is-
"Mrs. Bond was the best and the dearest woman I ever knew. She was a mother to her sons' wives, and could not do enough for them."
The Bonds lived first at 25 Bank street. Afterward they bought two houses on Euclid Ave. near Brownell street, and adjoining the Third Presbyterian church. Mr. Bond prospered in his business, and invested to some extent in city real-estate.
The daughters of the family were very artistic, and in after-years spent much time in Washington, D. C.
Newell Bond bought a large farm in Hendersonville, North Carolina, to which he retired in his old age, but died, while on a visit to his daugh- ters, aged 91 years. Mrs. Bond also died in Washington, and both par- ents were buried there.
The children of Newell and Mary Blinn Bond :
Frederick H. Bond, b. 1835; m. Meli-
tia Chase, dau. of Donald and Nancy Gregory Chase of Atkin- son, Maine.
Eugene Bond,.b. 1831; m. Jennie Mills.
Frances D. Bond, unmarried, an art-
ist; present address, Via Cas, Ca- pri, Italy.
Josephine Bond, died unmarried in Washington, D. C.
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Dr. Asa B. Brown, physician and surgeon, with an office in the Cen- tral Building near the foot of Superior street, was practicing his pro- fession in this town in 1834, perhaps earlier.
He married in that year Hannah Bliss, 19 years of age. She was the daughter of Asahel and Lydia Griswold Bliss. Her father was a far- mer and teacher who lived in Canton, Conn., until about 1821, and then removed to Whitestown, N. Y. His wife died there in 1830, and he came west to Elyria, O., where he lived until his own demise in 1846.
Mrs. Brown had several brothers who became prominent men in the several localities to which they removed. One was an eminent lawyer; another, also a member of the bar, was Chief Justice of Dakota, and Su- preme Court Judge of Missouri; a third brother was an Ohio state treas- urer.
Dr. Asa Brown's Cleveland residence was at 56 Bank street.
His wife died a year after their marriage, and was interred in Erie street cemetery.
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