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Children of Alonzo and Adaline Doan Gardner :
Darwin Gardner, b. 1835; m. Lizzie Berry.
Virginia Gardner, b. 1839; m. 1st, Lorenzo Jackson; 2nd, George H. Kidney.
Orlando S. Gardner, b. 1840 ; m. Ma- ria Bowers.
Hampton F. Gardner, b. 1841; died from wound in Civil War.
1833
GALLUP
Jabesh Gallup of Groton, Conn., came to Cleveland when he was about 36 years of age. It was in the early '30s. He was the son of Isaac and Anna Smith Gallup, and his wife was Lucy Meech, daughter of Gurdon and Lucy Swan Meech, also pioneers of the city, who came here about the same time.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallup were married in 1816, and brought a family of four or five young children with them to their new home, which, for a short time, was on Water street. Mrs. Gallup was a sister of Mrs. O. M. Burke, Mrs. Isham Morgan, Mrs. Calvin Baker, and Mrs. Henry Blair, and, like all the daughters of the Meech family, she was an excellent wife, mother, friend and neighbor, kind-hearted, and most pitiful when sorrow or distress appealed to her sympathy.
The children of Josiah and Lucy Gallup:
Lester Meech Gallup, b. 1824. Mary, Elihu, and Henry Gallup, Lucy A. Gallup, m. Morris Pomeroy of Cleveland. died in infancy. Henrietta Gallup, b. 1838 ; m. Daniel G. Thompson.
In 1843, when the youngest child was five years of age, Mr. Gallup married 2nd, Louisa Avery. They had two children, Avery and George Gallup. The latter died at the age of 15.
Within a year or two of his arrival in the city, Mr. Gallup bought a farm on Broadway, west of Willson ave., now East 55th st., and estab- lished a flourishing nursery business for that period. He also planted a
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large vineyard. The Gallup homestead on Broadway is still a landmark of that residence district, and the family name yet recalled with respect. Mrs. Louisa Avery Gallup died in 1873, and Mr. Gallup in 1879. The family were buried in Erie street cemetery.
1833
CHIDGEY
Early one morning in the year 1819, a small, slight woman and a lad about 12 years of age trudged together along an English road. The child carried a stick on his shoulder. On the end of it was a small, compact bundle. It contained the little fellow's change of linen, his clean smocks, his Sunday shoes, and, doubtless, a prayer-book of the Protestant Episco- pal Church.
He was on his way to live among strangers, bound out as an ap- prentice to a mason for a term of years. His father, a typical English- man of a certain class, had made a custom of turning his many children out of their home soon as any tradesman would accept of their services. No choice was given them regarding the work, or where they would have to live. All that was settled by the father, when signing away his rights in them to any one who needed an apprentice.
The boy, John Chidgey, had started very early in the morning of that day, as he had to walk many miles in order to take a river-boat that would carry him the rest of the journey.
His mother, dear soul! accompanied him as far as the boat, for he surely needed her tenderness and her symapthy that morning. She un- derstood it all, and cheered and encouraged him with motherly wisdom and tact.
To her son, in all the years that followed, a long life-time of years, she was ever to him his "Little Mother," her memory one almost too pre- cious for words.
John Chidgey served his apprenticeship, mastered his trade, and, in- cidentally, helped to build the massive pier of Dover, Eng., the stones of which stand as staunchly today as when placed there over a hundred years ago.
About this time, at the age of 25, there came to him a wonderful piece of fortune which shaped the rest of his life along happy, peaceful, pros- perous lines, and ultimately took him far afield from his native Devon- shire. He met, wooed and won Eliza Chalker. She was the daughter of Rev. John Chalker, rector of a parish in Bath. A portrait of this clergy- man hangs today in the library of a Cleveland home where it is referred to as "Grandfather." The nobility of the face, its mentality and its spir- ituality are very striking.
At the time of his daughter's marriage, he was 50 years of age, and his wife Elisabeth Pidgeon Chalker was about the same age. Both are
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buried in the churchyard adjoining the rectory in which they lived and died.
Anna Chalker, another daughter of this couple, had married a Mr. Paul, and in 1833, the latter with John Chidgey fell a victim to the emi- gration fever. Both wished to try the American life then locally the favorite theme of every conversation. Their father-in-law sympathized with their ambition and advised them to go ahead, and if affairs did not at first turn out favorably and they fell short of funds, call upon him and he would help out to the extent of his means.
The two young couples started May ninth, and were seven weeks cross- ing the ocean. They arrived in New York harbor while the city was enjoying an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration, cannon booming, guns firing. Thus was little Mary Chidgey ushered into the new moun- try. Then she was less than a year old. Today she is Mrs. Mathivet, 81 years of age.
The Chidgeys and Pauls did not find Cleveland a very active village in 1833. They arrived here two years too early, two years before the boom of 1835, which raised its population from 2000 to 5000. There was little business transacted at the former date, and less building. John Chidgey had relied on mason work for his own start here, and that failed him, almost wholly. Father Chalker, back in England, was as good as his word had been. He stood by his children, sending them money steadily for two years or more.
Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. Paul became discouraged and returned to England. Some years later they made another voyage of hope, this time to Australia, where they prospered mightily in family and fortune.
- John Chidgey's first Cleveland home was on Bolivar street, then sparsely settled. His last one was at 132 St. Clair street, where he had lived many years. Mr. Chidgey was a forceful man and competent in business affairs. His family was his first thought, and it enjoyed through him many comforts of life. The household was an unusually peaceful one, its members bound closely by cords of mutual affection.
Mrs. Eliza Chidgey was a tall, erect woman, who carried herself with much dignity. She carried a gentle but firm hand with her children who loved, but implicitly obeyed her. Mr. Chidgey always spoke of her as his "Queen." She died in 1892, and Mr. Chidgey in 1889.
They were laid away in a stone vault which the latter had built in the western side of Erie street cemetery.
During the controversy over street railroads, Thomas L. Johnson ran a track through an alley adjoining the cemetery, and wishing a wider passage took in several feet of the burial-ground through its whole length from Brownell to Erie streets. In this strip was located the Chidgey vault. Consequently it was destroyed, and its contents removed to Lake View cemetery.
The children of John and Eliza Chalker Chidgey:
Mary Chidgey, b. in Bath, Eng .; m. Emily Chidgey, m. Byron C. Har- J. Victor Mathivet, son of Dr. ris, son of Josiah Harris. Piere Mathivet. Alfred Chidgey, died in Alabama,
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while serving his country in the civil war. His body was not re- covered.
Elisabeth Anna Chidgey, m. Morris R. Braggins.
Eliza Chidgey, m. Charles C. Gale. Henrietta Chidgey, m. Joseph M. Odell.
Jeanette Chidgey, m. Dr. Daniel B. Smith.
1833
HURLBURT
Heman A. and Hinman B. Hurlburt were the sons of Abram and Polly Barrett Hurlburt of Charlotte, Vt. Their parents were Connecticut people who joined the exodus from the state of Vermont at the close of the Revolutionary War.
Heman A. Hurlburt was a lawyer. In 1831, at the age of 25, he mar- ried Amarett Sheldon, 19 years old, daughter of Medad and Lucy Bass Sheldon of New York State.
She belonged to the Deerfield, Mass., Seldons, whose ancestral home, showing marks of the Indian attack upon Deerfield in 1699, still stands in that town, a Mecca alike for posterity and for strangers interested in Colonial history.
Two years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt came to Cleveland. They boarded for a time at the Franklin House on Supe- rior street, and there made the acquaintance of several men and women who became life-long friends.
The first Cleveland home of the Hurlburts was the "Kingsbury Cot- tage." It was built of stone and stood in the center of a tract of land now confined by the limits of Perry and Huntington streets, and occu- pied subsequently by the Stair family. They lived afterward on the near the court house, and finally Mr. Hurlburt built the attractive cottage, now 2819 Prospect street, afterward for many years occu- pied by W. J. Hayes. This cottage faced Euclid ave., but the extension of Prospect street made new conditions, which were met by turning the house around.
Here Mr. Hurlburt died in 1882.
Mr. Heman A. Hurlburt practised his profession in Cleveland and maintained his family in comfort. But he was not a money-maker, and therefore never acquired the wealth of his younger brother. He was identified with the various early movements tending to elevate the moral tone of the city, and was a charter member of the Young Men's Library Association.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt had an interesting family of children. They were :
Frances Hurlburt.
Mary Hurlburt.
Harriet Hurlburt.
William Hurlburt.
Clara Hurlburt, m. Theodore Sim- mons.
Jennie Hurlburt, m. Erastus C. Lockwood of Painesville, Ohio.
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RANNEY
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Ranney reached Cleveland from Rochester, N. Y., about 1833. He was a boot and shoemaker when all footwear was made by hand. He opened a shop at 10 Superior Lane, and his family lived in the new, and popular street called "Orange Alley," after renamed Johnson street. Many of the best-known people of the city lived there because it was close to the heart of town, and though narrow, was pleas- ant and very convenient. Joseph Ranney also lived there.
Horace Ranney, a brother, lived not far away on Bank street.
Mr. Sylvester Ranney's shoe-shop grew to be a big shoe-store on Superior street, doing an extensive business, and not until recently has the name ceased to be a familiar one.
Mrs. Sylvester Ranney was a Miss Anna Stilwell, a quiet, domestic woman, conscientious as to detail, a lovely house-keeper. She could do beautiful needle-work, and never lost her eyesight nor hearing, although living to be 91 years old.
She was considered beautiful in her youth, and no less so in her death, scarcely a wrinkle on her face.
For many years previous the family had been living on Lake street. Their children were:
William Ranney.
Helen Ranney.
1833
CRITTENDEN
Joseph Hungerford Crittenden was born in Conway, Mass., in 1804. He was the son of Chester and Azuba Abbott Crittenden, of Conway. His wife was Eliza Ariadne Kelley, daughter of James M. and Laura Howe Kelley, whom he married in Canadaigua, N. Y., in 1834.
Joseph H. Crittenden began a shoe and leather business on Superior street in 1832, which he continued until 1857, when he retired and went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died in 1874.
He always kept his interests in Cleveland, and the last of his real- estate holdings was sold recently to the B. of U. Engineers.
The first home of the Joseph Crittenden family was 78 Seneca street, and afterward on the present site of the New England Bldg. They were members of the Old Stone church on the Public Square, and Mr. Critten- den was one of the donors of the building fund at its erection. Mrs. Crit- tenden died in Plainfield, N. J., in 1898, aged 84.
The children of Joseph and Eliza Kelley Crittenden :
Mary Beulah Crittenden, m. David B. Palmer, of New York state. Had six children.
George Nash Crittenden, married Olivia Headley. Had one child.
Minnie Sarah Crittenden, unmar- ried. Living in Plainfield, N. J.
Ella Azuba Crittenden. Died in in- fancy.
James Manning Crittenden. Died in infancy.
Josephine Abbott Crittenden, m. John Henry Carman, M. D. Liv- ing in Plainfield.
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SWAINE
Valentine Swaine was a son of Captain John Swaine, an old Nantucket seaman, who had rounded the world on many a voyage. His wife was Sarah Turner Swaine, and when their son Valentine was born in 1811, the family was living on the Hudson river near New York city.
Valentine served an apprenticeship at sail-making, and in 1833, when his time was up, he had just reached his 21st year.
He then came to Cleveland and started a sail-loft, and afterward a ship-chandlery, a business that proved very successful and profitable. Upon his retirement from this he was succeeded by the Waltons, who oc- cupied the stand and carried on the ship-chandlery trade in it for many years.
Mr. Swaine was a very quiet man socially. He went through life blowing no personal trumpets. But he was a most useful man who was mourned in death; for he had a tender heart, and had been in the habit of helping poor families by sending baskets of groceries to them out of his store. His many kind impulses were never mentioned, even to his fam- ily, and only learned through accident.
He was fond of expressing his opinion on public affairs through com- munications to the daily papers under a nom de plume which was not made public until after his death.
In 1841 he married Lucina Drake, daughter of Reuben and Ruth Jackson Drake. She inherited attributes of character that made her mentally strong and very capable.
The Swaines lived first on Wood street, later on Woodland Ave. After Mr. Swaine's death in 1871, his widow built a home on Prospect street which she occupied until her own death.
The children of Valentine and Lucina Drake Swaine:
Isabelle Swaine, unmarried.
Reuben Swaine, m. Rose Bates. Re- sides in Kansas.
Harriet Swaine, unmarried. Valentine G. Swaine, m. Susan Reed. Franklin, Edward and Alfred Swaine, unmarried.
1833
HUNTINGTON
George Cabot Huntington was one of the earliest crockery merchants of the town. He carried on a wholesale and retail business at No. 5 Superior st. In his advertisements, he called attention to his sign of a big pitcher, as a guide to customers.
He was the son of Erastus Huntington of Norwich, Conn., and about the year 1833, when 26 years of age, came to Cleveland. At the same time he was married to Miss Angeline Porter, daughter of Asahel Por- ter of Waterbury, Conn.
She had two children, and died at the birth of the second one, and was laid away in Erie st. cemetery. Both children died in infancy.
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Some time in the '60s all three were removed to a Kelley Island ceme- tery.
In 1837, Mr. Huntington married secondly, Emmeline Kelley, daugh- ter of Datus Kelley of Kelley's Island. She lived to be 80 years of age, dying on Christmas day, 1909, in Denver, Colorado. Five years after his second marriage, and following the disastrous panic of 1837, Mr. Hunt- ington removed to Kelley's Island, where he remained until 1870, when he took up his residence in New York City, and died 6 years later in Wallace, Kan., and was buried on Kelley's Island.
The children were:
Erastus; a merchant in Kelley's Is- land until 1895, when he removed to Cleveland, and died here in 1907.
Simon; died in 1863 from wounds received at the Battle of Stony River.
Daniel K .; now living in North Olm- sted, O., and engaged in fruit- growing.
Joseph A .; lives in Denver and en- gaged in real-estate brokerage.
1833
J. F. WARNER
John Fletcher Warner was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry War- ner. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1817, and, when 16 years of age, joined his brother, W. J. Warner, who had preceded him to Cleveland two years previous.
John F. Warner's first employment was in H. B. Wellman's red ware- house on the river, where, because of his youth and inexperience, he worked at anything he was called upon to do. Mr. Wellman removed to Massillon, O., and in 1837 we find young Warner advanced to the position of book-keeper for Ransom, Baldwin & Co., forwarding and commission merchants on River street. John G. Ransom and Stephen A. Baldwin, members of the firm, were non-residents, living east. In 1837, John F. Warner was boarding at the Franklin Home, Benjamin Harrington, land- lord.
Mr. Warner, like his brother, was a warm-hearted, genial man, with hosts of friends, and, probably, not an enemy.
He married Abby Kingsley, who was born 1821. She was a daugh- ter of Rev. Phineas and Parnel Keith Kingsley of Rutland, Vt., and a sister of Mrs. O. A. Brooks of Cleveland.
The family lived and died on Euclid Ave.
In the fall of 1867, Mr. Warner and his wife went to Florida for the benefit of Mrs. Warner's health. She died there the following March. Mr. Warner survived her but eight months, and passed away December, 1868, aged 51 years.
The couple were laid to rest in Erie street cemetery.
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HICKOX
Jonathan Hickox of Washington, Litchfield Co., Conn., married Elis- abeth Taylor of Salisbury, Conn., who was born at the close of the revolu- tionary war. They came to Canfield, O., in 1815, therefore were pioneers of that town. Some time in the '30s they removed to Cleveland, and lived on Superior street, now number 421, long occupied by the gas office.
Jonathan Hickox died in 1845. Elisabeth, his wife, lived with her son Milo until her death twelve years later, aged 84 years. They had four sons, two of whom became prominent citizens of the city.
Milo Henry Hickox, the eldest one, was a carpenter and contractor. He married Miss Harriet Craw, who was born in 1808, in Troy, N. Y. The young couple lived in Rochester, N. Y., until after the birth of their first child, George Craw Hickox.
The summer of that year, 1831, they came to Cleveland, and, accord- ing to a letter written by Mr. Hickox soon after their arrival, their pros- pects were far from alluring.
"About four weeks since, we awoke one morning and found ourselves shaking with the ague. My wife had it every day for a week, and my infant son every day for three weeks; and what made it worse, my wife and child shook at the same time. I spent a week in search of a girl, gave up the chase, and engaged passage for my wife to return to Roches- ter the next morning, when I met an acquaintance to whom I told my troubles. He found a maid for me, and we remained."
But the young wife must have gone back to Rochester the following year, for she died there in childbed in 1832.
Her son, George C. Hickox, was for many years a well-known citizen of San Francisco, Cal. As a member of the firm of Hickox & Spears, he carried on a successful banking business in that city.
He died in 1902. Although through a second marriage his father subsequently had a large family of children, this first one only left pos- terity. He married, and a son, Arthur Milo Hickox, of the Bank of Cali- fornia, is living in San Francisco, and assisted with data for this sketch of his family.
Milo Hickox, Sr., married (2) Harriet Pelton, daughter of Deacon Jonathan and Elisabeth Pelton, of Pelton's Corners, East Cleveland. She had seven sisters, and four brothers, all of whom married and had fami- lies.
The Hickox residence was on St. Clair street, and for some years their nearest neighbor was Silas Belden, whose wife was Mary Pelton, sister of Mrs. Hickox.
Mr. Hickox prospered in his business, and soon, from the wages of a dollar a day, which he received upon his arrival in Cleveland, he was earn- ing many times that as a building contractor.
He was a tall, fine-looking man, dignified and stately. Mrs. Hickox was of medium height, with dark hair and eyes.
According to the story mutely told in the long row of graves in Wood- land cemetery, the close of her life was most pathetic. She had eight children, three of whom died young. The remaining five lived to maturi- ty, only to die, one after the other, of consumption, that relentless scourge of early Cleveland.
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Julia, died 1856, aged 16.
Martha, died 1864, aged 20.
Elisabeth, died 1858, aged 23. Mary, died 1867, aged 24.
Henry A., died 1864, aged 26.
The family, meanwhile, had removed from St. Clair street to Euclid Ave., just east of Dr. Streator, and at the head of 97th street.
Mr. Hickox died, and his wife was left alone. Three young relatives shared her solitude from time to time, and a devoted house-keeper re- mained with her to the last. They were Viola Blake, Helen Briggs, and Althea
Charles Hickox, younger brother of Milo H., and born in Connecticut, 1810, came here from Canfield in 1837, and with his parents lived on Superior street opposite the Arcade. He also was a carpenter, and worked for Jacob Lowman, the pioneer wagon-maker. Afterward he began a commission business on a small scale with Jonathan Gillette.
He married in 1843, Miss Laura A. Freeman, daughter of Francis Freeman of Warren, O. It is said of her that she was a woman "of rare excellence, highly educated, and possessed of a strong character, who brought to her husband's home all the noblest qualities of womanhood, and made it for 47 years the spot about which clustered everything he regarded most dear."
Mr. Hickox developed great business ability, became interested in ves- sel property at a propitious time, and eventually invested in milling prop- erty, which brought large returns. He was a charter member of the board of trade. His sons built the Hickox building, which displaced the First Baptist church that stood, so many years, on the north-west corner of Euclid and Erie streets.
Children of Charles and Laura Hickox :
Elisabeth, m. Harvey Brown. Ralph W. Frank F.
Charles G.
1831
WARHAM JUSTUS WARNER
Warham Justus Warner received his unusual Christian name from his grandfather. He was born in Burlington, Vt., in 1808, and was the son of Justus and Polly Sperry Warner. The parents had quite a fam- ily of children, four of whom came to Cleveland, W. J., John F., Jane R., and Mary A. Warner.
Jane R. Warner married William Giffin of Huron Co. in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Giffin lived on East 82nd street, and were prominent members of the Euclid Ave. Congregational church.
Mary A. Warner died in Painesville, O. She was possessed of con- siderable property at the time of her death, and in her will left $5000 and some valuable pictures to the city of Cleveland toward the establish- ment of an art gallery, an institution the city had never possessed.
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The paintings were stored for long years in the basement of the City Hall. Some were ruined, meantime, and others stolen.
Warham J. Warner was a carpenter, mason and contractor. He came west from Burlington to Black Rock, near Buffalo, in 1830, intend- ing to make that his home. But Elisha Sterling of Cleveland met him, and took a fancy that he should build Mr. Sterling's home, then in con- templation, on Euclid Ave. He persuaded Mr. Warner to remove to this city. The latter was then but 23 years old, but no young man of his age ever was better equipped for life in a young, growing town. He was pro- ficient in two trades in constant demand. He was mentally strong, very ambitious, and possessed a powerful physique. Withal, he was a man whom people instinctively trusted. His integrity was never doubted. He was whole-souled, generous-hearted, and sympathetic to a degree.
A pretty story, and, doubtless, one typical of the man, was told to the writer concerning him by an aged lady, one of a family whom he assisted in dire need. "We came to Cleveland about 1840 from England, and settled on Sheriff street. The expenses of the long journey had exhausted father's means, and here he was in a strange land, practically penniless, with wife and several children looking to him as their only support.
He was a carpenter by trade, and in making inquiries for work re- ceived little encouragement. When almost in despair over his dilemma, some one suggested that he apply to Mr. Warner, who lived just around the corner in a log-house on Prospect street.
Mr. Warner's big heart warmed at once to father's appeal for work. He called, and in his hearty way put new life and courage in us all, and promising plenty of work with which to repay it."
Mr. Warner erected many public buildings, among them the American House in 1836. He was associated in business for a time with Milo Hickox, and they built some of the beautiful homes which made Euclid Ave. famous from 1850 to 1900.
Mr. Warner was one of the founders of St. Paul's P. E. church, and a charter member of the Old Settlers' Association. He was street com- missioner in 1837.
In 1832, Mr. Warner married Miss Jane A. Morse, 22 years of age. She was the daughter of Benoni Morse of Burlington, Vt. Her moth- er's maiden name was Smith.
Mrs. Warner was the mother of six sons and two daughters, to whom she was devoted, but not to the extent of ignoring duties outside of her family. She stood shoulder to shoulder with her husband in much of his philanthropic work. She was active in her church society, whenever her presence and services were required.
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