for the
past,
and
to
unusual interest, especially as it
is
the
first
annual
convention
with us, and has
tablet
not
an annual
itself.
If
we
less
part of
supposed
to
be
of the
to
remain
forever
its
to
our
times
a
series
of
It
is
quite
probable,
domain
of
the
Eries,
especially
they
surveyed."
Yet
history,
even
to
tears,
many
endeared
him,
and
re-
quested
His
Majesty's
seal
New
ceived by his expectant constituents with wild enthusiasm.
charter
west
the same parallels,
extent of
the
New
Haven
which
He therefore
with it
appre-
ciated
1679,
The
Indians
of
and hence
our
northwestern
lakes.
Soon
and
landed
at
Conneaut,
at
once
group.
Cato
made
expected
to
boat,
survey's
as
far
as
the
eye
could
by
the
day,
and
but
to
Western
civilization.
So
belief that he directed
city, his associates in
respected
city
of
Cleveland
grew
queen
on
skies.
hand.
prize.
An
irresistible
fascination
attaches
to
the
tradition,
our
the
memorials
of
pre-historic
for
the last
of
Cleveland.
great
West.
As
early
as
1765,
Benjamin
Franklin,
than
seven
miles,
to
trade
or
commerce
until 1793-4,
1807
—five
years
after
Ohio
of
industrious
remem-
ber the boding yell of th Indian, and the hoarse
growl
of
lonely shore,
delayed,
adventurous
neighbor
from
to
General
Moses
Cleave-
land
and
the
morning
of
unusually
interested
in the
waters over
which they were passing, the mouth of the river disclosed it-
self,
own
anti-
cipations
east
pre-
sented
anything
but
a
there
was
solid
ground
enough
that
Cleaveland's
party,
highway
descended
they
came
and
July
again,
to dun
When wealthy
to
of years,
years
following
the
22d
the
the
town,
as
of
ancestry,
their
life
of
tude and admiration.
In contemplating the life and character of our early settlers,
their principles
will occur
of property
lay
at
capacious
mind,
of
unconquerable
had
smiled
but
his
of
the
in
the
log
sight
draw
one, the giver usually
three
months
first
attacli
of
on
honest gain,
becomes
the
seventy years. In all
the stirring events of
a
conspicuous
have
feared
the
est traits of manly
the
foremost
ranks
will
be
How swiftly
!
New
too,
in
a
few
remarks."
and
s))oke
the
grand
in
the
course
know
some-
thing
of
the
comparative
In the month (jf March,
1823,
I
journey
on
on my
proverbial,
who
stood
indicted
for
some
petty
misdemeanoi-,
and
though
a
ver}'
difficult
to
clear
his
client
without
a
There
Whittlesey, Thos. W.
is alive
Hiram College,
relation,
and
as
a
long
enough
bers
— enough
back
to
whom
acquaintance
with
the
efficient
sheriffs
of
your
authority
for
the
whole county; and still farther, I w^as here long enough ago
to
be
acquainted
with
amongst
the
early
settlers,
this:
society
in
the
heart. I venture
an
instance
society
find
mention
discerning
and
intelligent
and
expected
tinctly-, that I am
of that word.
that I
told
as
in
that
resi)ect
!
the country at
help him.
every
dependent upon
pioneers who
the log; there were
lire-place
in-
dox,
I think
came
come
to
Cleveland
late
Avas
a
small
and
I
saw
that
enough
to
get
those
two
stone-boat. Yon know
of
We
are
as
]')erpetiiated.
Thanking
you
other time. But I will give
you
but
a
at
so called. It
some houses
upon
full of large stuuips,
the
land
fioni
Bank street.
When I
to
the
river
to
foi'
a
few
or
which
remained
there
until
a
Miss
Hickox.
There
wife
of
a
writing
would give up the
he
should
refuse
to
sign
the
papers,
and
that
the
gone
I
exclaimed:
improvement
V"
He
read
the
York in
glide
into
the
:
proper to
of purchasing
days of steam lire
 
and a
a
dozen
immense
and
wealth,
and
a hundred
a comparatively
desirable
to
collected
two story
Nathan
rails,
which
ordered
a
new
set
of
on
tbolsca}).
David
square
in
front
which
the
Indian
Dr.
Long.
I
have
was fenced in
on the south
the lake used
along
fallen,
exposing
about
laid there to
take his rest,
the
name
vessel
west
cable. My
father got
its
out
to
Judge
Kings-
bury
and
on,
and
two
or
satis-
factorv;
1827.
His
first
words
were,
bob
his
discourse.
grouiul for the commencement
Lick-
to
some
wharves,
the
com-
passage
was
ten
and twenty
from Cleveland
to Buffalo.
The first
In fancy
old
white
horse,
himself
stumping
along
keeping
which
lie
M'as
witli
a kick from the always ready leg, especially if he had l)een
imbibing
freely.
At
a
present
JNIrs.
and
fruit, brought
was
sought
as
a
cure
Allen
Trimble
who
had
pastured in
and around
home
at
night
by
feeding
and sugar. These are
much
noticed.
men
of
have
half million
to look
upon. The
possibilities of
more
on exhibi-
notorioxis
to
China
with
counterfeit
United
States
neck some
sous—
chips
daughter
I
me the bottle
in
Cleveland,
I
remember
Merwin's
tavern
across
the
White,
are
other
dim
recollections
marriage
Judge
Josiah
half
dozen
more
his
head
as
the deer
a
a
called of
sluggish
i)ool
of
blood
and
filth
it
now
is.
Its
Detroit street hill
was there
instituted about
single
About this
draw-bridge.
This
they
donated
to
tion of any
new incorporated
under the
a
the
Walworth
run
near
this
wicked
beverage
of
was
County.
J.
H.
SARGENT,
forces, or
Cuyahoga
Co.
two
score
years
or
how the
Lake winds
nec(>ssaries
maxim that
"man iiath
days
emphatic
and
noteworthy
all worthy
entitled to the dciuble
or
slee])
or
he
hears
that
times
up
Not
a
After
passing
that
would
bring
our
red
hair
with
jaundice
to
the
grave.
to be
secure against
contagion and
impassable for wagons: the mail and stage
coaches
would
manage
in place
state
of
things
fare
road, the wagon gave
Boston and
in
of
tobaeco,
to
of
the
offer
made
him
at
how
(juiek
you
I)ut
on
metroi)olitan
airs.
From
an
overgrown
village
Cleve-
land
sprung
out
is
yearly
more
life
than
the
for
to a Godly
pur[)ose in
and
pent up
in limited
town which
healthy
and
in elose
f>r
lane Ijecomes
a
"boule-
now
living
in
an
age
sort
days, and
came
along
with
our
water power
likely
to
follow
up
l»e
follow
once
the
If
we
form
a
advance, my
there
are
so
many
who
have
survived
liberty that l)rokeout
some of
their sins,
credit,
and
those days was to
struck.
In
Cuyahoga
County
beside
new means
We
had
for
of years in
midst
it
became
Cuyahoga is
a crooked
new
a
thing
of
a
good
on boai'd,
she got
show
of
buildings
in
would be
inaugura-
little of
log
rejoicing
would only keep the shovel, the pick and ilie wlieelhari'(jw
moving lively
that if the
the
work,
which
in
a
job
on
fall of snow
directors
got
at the
a
meeting
was
called
at
telling
us
that
if
and the audience were
endeavored
to
cany
our
memory
back,
to
establishment
that
could
truly
opi)osite
doom,
and
it
ture
and
then
shoes
has
been
loved
sohl
chairs,
cradles
some
one
would
all
places was
but wild
rumor and
more
sul)stantial
food.
Something
also
told
A'alleys
and
it
hecame
a
andHoyt
sulise-
quently
erected
a
It did all
they
Euclid
Wiicn
you
old
that
the
wide
st3de
of
dress
and
when
it
got
wild
churches
and
My first visit
Inniited
about
a while,
whereabouts.
il
in
my
sur[)rise,
longed
We never
we
send
us in the
no
cultivated
of
arms
from
do
to
to
do
than
any
stand
about
or
drive
the
team
warm
blood
and
horses
that
of me in
fine
a
rig
wagon
it pains
eoekade
in
his
hat
on
affair
of
the
household
in
1840,
by
taking
lining.
in that
don't
like
to
be
Mrs.
Grundy
 
permanent homes
west
was
an
unpeopled
our
people
to
keep
tally
of
the
in the
been
swept
away;
more
than
that
can
boast
the inner
knowledge ingrafted
our
high
schools;
shall
we
opinion
unfathomable
mud
of
this would
I have seen the time when many acres had taken
their depar
allowed them to be placed
at
random
third series
wander
 
hundreds
of
blocks
dwellings that
have accomplished
all they aimed foi', and some may have come far short
even if
mend
it
now.
We
had
better
philosophically
You who
assured
that
majesty
of
a
large
number
generations.
ARTICLE
IV.
absence
the
like
duty
shall
devolve
at
the
no vote.
 
its
adoption.
preliminary
remarks
from
him
and
1830
Borges,
J.
F.
Germ
any.
1810
1835
1821
Beardsle3%
I.
Cahoon,
Joel
Kello^^. A.
at
lots.
His
staff
of
"Cleveland,"
been honored
come, as it
"all
desires to achieve,
of
the
age,
 
pamphlet, its
its
members,
and
who
is organized
battlefield,
like
a
rem-
nant
of
veterans
to
recall
that
our
called
for
as
next
in
order.
in its constitution
and, secondly, that
doubt the fact
Association
some time, while
From those sharp conflicts."
their
bad
or
of note
should have
C.
Fairchild,
Lansing
Lake,
Richard
Hilliard,
Hickox,
John
Barr,
Isaac
Merwin, Geo.
law,
(of
1819),
ex-
by
our
own
skillful
lake
a
time
for
would like
souls" during
the period
of your
cultured
condition
words of
protecting
it might be
conveyed
by
''
a
built a
log house
of
huge
trees.
In
of vehement
from
was
listened
and
if anyone who was
In all my
expei'ience of four-score
nessed
visited
Cleveland
of society;
dishonest
seekers
morals of
of
names
character
is
ap-
a
size
that
hand upon
a
man
He
father,
which
stood
as
skillful
temperate habits.
Dr. Mcintosh
him that he was once
sent for to visit Squire Hudson (the
founder of the town named
after
him,)
but
entirely
resigned
to
to die,
to his convales-
but
pro-
fane
d,
and
to
re-
buke
could command.
and useful life. Such was
said to
control
influence
would
to
salute
Erie;
and
distinctly
the
lake at
each event.
prevailed, and
their
homes,
was hung at Cleveland for
murder
boyhood to my ma-
I
of your
Commodore
Perry,
and
prosperity and suc-
cess of the
an
honorary
other
letters
had
been
received
want
of
time
could
officers
were
unanimously
Vice
Presidents.
Thomas
Jones,
Jr.,
Secretary.
George
C.
Dodge,
the honor
conferred and
the repast. This
put
their
effectually to
raised
to
that
in
some
mysterious
who
believed
Asia
might
in vain for
the favor of
length,
King
of
Spain,
the
A
mimic contest
Columbus.
first
Columbus' friends,
Nina, the Pinta,
of
man.
New
and
prairie-fire throughout
of conquest and
us all.
the
the
long
war
Northwest, this seat
Avas thrown open
who had suffered
pockets,
can scarcely
his
carried
him
at
a
cheap
rate
across
with
great
State.
will briefly
tributaries.
missionaries,
by
way
of
Canada
a
belt
to
hem in the English to the region ea t of the
Alleghanies.
The
pushed west of
the great
of
the
French
resonant with
of
the
United
was
not
with
the
the history
the
sea
coast
into
the
land,
throughout,
from
sea
to
sea,
coast of
heirs and successors,
our
dominion
where
and on the
is-
by
virtue
of
this
description
Duke of York,,
was in the
Connecticut patent, and
to William
Penn-
sylvania
and
Virginia
point
to
Samuel
Parsons
24,000
acres
of
The
land
which
of
Lordstown
and
Weathersfield
much
the
land,
and
sur-
veying,
and
I be-
lieve, were
stocks.
of the
Reserve except
Huron and
Erie counties
 
constituted
the
Connec-
ticut
1,200-thousandths
trustees all
drawn
with
and showed
that the
provided
and lay
a
township in which the first settlement should be made, to sur-
vey
1796.
The
quired
them
to
west
boundary
of
Pennsylvania,
surveyed and
The first
value, next to
were
surveyed
into
412
lots,
the
intention
Connecticut
Land
Company
united
these
was not divided
in
that
mail
once
in
from
War-
the
Reserve
Reserve enjoyed the
was
the
building
of
a
in
Cleveland,
were
and
924
pounds
Valleys,
hundred
years,
and
century. What there
on equal area
trials and conquests,
musket
and
whose
simple
ways,
austere,
but
unostentatious
virtues
he
admired
and
loved,
and
removed to Cleveland, but
here,
in
that
office
for
a
thence connected
State,
such
laws
of
Ohio
became
almost
Having
remained
finally that
he
might
possess
a
good
name
before
the
Longfellow:
more
intimate
and
confidential
of his
beyond
professors.
What
theological
and
argument
it
sedulously improved.
father—
there
are
those
living
were, espe-
relations—that
is his
you
was
proceed to
and
impressive
manner
otherwise
than
be
to be
inveighed against the rigors of the
law
yet.
only truthful,
1814;
died
Nov.,
1880.
Ahimiaz
M.
Addi-
son.
The
exercises
And
while
we
trace
Cuyahoga Falls.
end as
and
Bradstreet
which your
stores; one was occupied
of Prospect intersect
bank
the Square
put
on
airs
and
to
enact
McHvane,
both
having
were
appointed
a
board
ascertained
that
the
cholera
mouth
season was
rail fence
on the
and
scat-
tering
stumps.
oxen,
that
stands,
sidewalk
where
Noble's
a
little
anxiety
to
know
how
a
requested
to
go
well Jones drew
lips, drank about
two-thirds, then set
saw taken
at one
was a heavy
was
from his
impending fate.
affairs,
and
start on. Be
parts
brick
structure,
outlast
a
century.
It
south
corner
sash
have
respond
who
worked
on
the
old
brick
court
river,
and
there
engaged
Timothy,
M.
son,
were
taken
prisoners
he
was
captured.
Nearly
all
of
of local
J.
hold
health and peace
in any
spirits.
He
attributes
Euclid
Ave-
nue
years,
their
names
original name;
Cleveland,
0.,
August
9,
1881.
Hon.
furnish
the
Judge
1757.
othy
Doane,
when
about
of
twen-
ty-two,
he
(Timothy
Doane)
was
ocean.
and
the
only
means of saving the ship was to throw over its
cargo,
then,
vessel, which took
said
to
lost all. His wife replied that she
was willing
by
the
man
whom
to
pieces
at
and
was
sup-
having been very mild. It being the general opinion in
Buf-
be
Cleveland when the weather and condition of the lake would
permit.
There
was
Cleveland at
had
wet.
They
swim,
Dodge
and
the
family,
reached
he
When
they
reached
the
bark
at a
was to
take them
lake.
She
decided
to
venture
the boat
cross, and recross,
than half
a day
to convey
three
weeks
in
per-
by
Major
Indian
Territory.
Cleve-
land.
The
s
premises,
occn-
pying
during
winter
a
as
hunting
this
part
was
covered
with
sole-leather,
for
a
country by Mr. Tim-
could make the
dwellings,
inhabited
locality
was
called
"Podunk,"
called
Tay-
one small
I
did);
two
blacksmiths,
David
religious services were
to
the
ware-
houses,
had
to
In
1822,
was
sailed
by
on her to Buffalo, on
her first trip; soon afterward, Mr. William
Jones
cribs, and
channel. In the
Ohio canal, between Cleve-
rejoiced,
and
nobody
spirits and stagna-
have
been
bought
for
what
one
Superior
Opdyke; they had
day.
to
bed.
anxious
Avith
pocket.
She,
only
relief,
and
worth
their
'thousands."
There
whom I wish
Leonard Case,
good among the
killed
deer,
I have visited Cleve-
of
President
Garfield.
Mentor, July
Settlers'
county,
and
and
pay
a
ship
or the
officers and
as may be
may consult
pay-
ment.
AETICLE
V.
sion and
designate
the
hour
a
that
until the Association at a
regular meeting shall fill the
same.
be
also
see
that
Honorary
Dunham,
D.
B.
1839
1838
Gaylord,
H.
C.
Connecticut,
1836
1834
Gardner,
A.
S.
Ogram,
Mrs.
J.
W.
Ohio,
1825
Strickland,
B.
Vermont,
1810
1835
>•
a
President
of
the
Association,
it
a
and unrecorded incidents
the custody of the
honor on
its originators
schools and churches
women.
179G,
and
Avill
still pursue
the even
Association
in
most
ex-
it out, ))ut
Many
hours
have
young
and
delighted
I
A
wonderful
lightful
Its
fash-
but
of
the
gentlemen
a
pleasant
of being represented
amuse,
if
divine. I
Bible which contained
''Do no evil;
anxious
to
from
the
town
rather closely,
bear
it
over it;
Shakespeare,
were
real
apart,
and
fell
came
visits.
It
confide, to take
and in-
perform, and
The eclat Avhich
of being gen-
devotedh"
long
sur-
With many thanks for your
kind indulgence, and for
hope that
honored
to-day shall have
attend the
exercises of
audience.
by the
sundry volunteer
Club.
Thy
of
Sarey
Gamp,
and
squelched
BY HON. JOHN HUTCHINS.
Jefferson
and
Madison
at
ing
rude
ferry-boat
a
river
matters
of
Trumbull county,
had lived in his boyhood, and I am proud to
say
that
parts of Jefferson
at
Warren,
on
the
second
for
is not stated
Mr.
Paine's
campaign
shining
examples
Government.
About
1835
a
church,
subscriber was to
entire
in
them
so
see General
the kind
tax paid by
become settled
Journal,
and
member
clamorous
law.
He
was
a
settlements
ones where they
for
themselves
intended
it into
of
social
equality.
The facil-
little
used due
bills and
notes payable
I
found
a
re-
good pork. Vienna, September
in
—the
George
Washington
and
population of
vicious,
learned
if any, to the
is
ac-
nent lawyers
of
Portage
county.
Ranney
ships
and
inspirations
More than twenty years
have
quoted
notice
that
Only
who were
with
the
gentlemen had filed
with
may be
a
higher
these
lighter
to
independent
track
sure,
not
are
without
regard,
the
made
he
visited
his
have a
capacity for
and an ability to use it, will, at this day,
find
a
recently made at
any education ex-
of the
sparingly
made
may be said to
Eice to
a
law
was
passed
authorizing
the
granted by Congress to the
inhabitants of
the
or
thorough
members of
establishment of
this provision of
this county
Commit-
which it
your
introduction
of
his
name
in
consider, and I am
and brooms
are
kept
pure.
in
Vt., in
participants in
life.
Arriving
at
his na-
It
tell
his
asi)irations
for
position,
rose or fell
back
the
aborigines
had
mouth,
the
passengers
thus finally
made his
side;
quarter of
gants. For a
a
prominent
As
and sharp
being particularly skillful in
companions,
When the
of talented legal
of the
unbending of
jokes,
him the breath
popular
with
his
a
his private
character was
worthily.
Always
tempering
justice
with
mercy,
committee to
having personal feeling
against the Governor,
Hampshire delegation, who
of
they are full of
be devoted to
of 185.3 he was offered the
consulate
at
Valparaiso,
South
the most valuable offices
of
of Ohio,
him du-
ring all
life,
in
slavery
his vigorous frame
but toward morn-
briefly
say:
of
cabinet
Mrs.
Maria
A.
Crittenden,
for many years such
 
meat
market
resident
of
Cleve-
land
citizen,
a
zealous
Christian,
his death Presi-
that has
and
the
ac-
cepted
as
a
can
the first member
of
these
off-hand
speeches,
and
first
sound-
at
Chagrin,
Dr.
Legislature.
He
the songs,
River.
the
they
provided. I remem-
to
the
own counsels, he at once procured an auger, took it
to a forge, lengthened it
as
the
had
Democracy.
He could not
write a Dem-
ocratic editorial to
was
to
this,
Falls, at the
It
party ties.
it
resolved
against
Eeserve, and
for
the
Demo-
cratic
John
P.
Hale.
from
old friend
land.
Tying
what the reply would have
been.
of their
 
become
in
Eichmond.
past
"
applied, and it
In
1793
Virginia side of
the
member of the
my blood
speech
soil of Ohio,
some seven miles
from Circleville. In
moved
On the 7th
twenty-seven
miles,
accompanied
by
to Western
Western Reserve
and
its
thrilling-
scenes
your
remaining
years.
of
ideas,
counter-
part
west
England
the
good
and
])roniised
French ex-
the new
before this it had ended in favor of the English.
This and
tribes
prepared
of the
this continent
conditions
for
success
the growth
westward.
royal
grants,
mainly
The claims of Connecticut to land in the new north^vest
ter-
ritory,
strip
of
land,
bounded
west-
ward
between
the
imrallels
41°
and
4'2°
'I"
1792 she granted
not detain
you with
even these
it, and I
of so
The
Lakes, was
canals,
our harljors and
rapidly Ijecome the
seat of immense
thank (lod,
l)een ex])ected from the early seed.
The school-house at the cross-roads, and in the city the acad-
emy and college,
from
vou.
The
exercises
Settlers" Association:
1760,
but
it
is
an
of
Pa.,
bay.
on
English
noi'tliwest
as
far
as
the State of
for
a
time;
but
she abandoned
the
information
is
not
conclusive.
Some
form
names
haye
passed
from
away volumes of unwritten his-
tory
and
accompanied
l)y
his
wife
and
D.
Carlton,
of
Elkhart,
traveling in
day
of
March,
making
an
eighteen
then
the
Doan
Hotel,
kept
by
Job
journey
consumed
six
weeks
Mr.
Slierwin's
first
purchase
father's
Cleveland
there to establish a
never
a
vessel;
landed
he says: '"If
your trunk."
I
cai)tain
took
doctor
on
horse-
back,
and
only
The
next
boarded
ars was
the school,
and by
that means
he got
and spring of
1811
Isle of Man,
Miller,
and
a
in
conven-
tion
if the 22d
fall on Sunday,
lapse
of
time.
from
the
step
through
an
unknown
for our departed brother.
faults,
member that this
an
this
be
as-
certained
but
for
this
unostentatious
organization
school
Bank
of those officers
are they ?
Where are
organizations.
The
Grays
for
future
volunteer fire-department, the
shop
to
save.
the
fallen,
volumes of valuable history
this
days
of
and
young,
and
middle-aged
the
financial
condition
of
the
Asso-
ciation
taken
from
his
father's
consist
of
such
persons
as
but
shall
not
be
subject
to
On
motion
attended a meeting of
time,
as
he
General
grandmaster of the
to
see
nearly
two
President,
that
accompanied
the
introduction
of
that
resolution
expanse
of
waters
voted that
year
such
Committee.
find}-
rendered
bj'
the
iVrion
Quartette.
Wilcox
there was
no mill
Mr.
imposed upon
me b}'
the propriety or
relations
of
be
Beserve,
spindle,
and
others in
union
of
some-
what
disconnected
manner
given
some
manners and
experience, and
that
has
existed
are
the
earliest
of
in a
half
as could
got into
should look
for my
settled
right
on
the
then
the
habitation
of
rattlesnakes,
wild
cats
and
years,
and
boy. Now no
extent
set-
tled,
and
the
Indians
that part of the
My
mother
would
per-
mit,
had
a
had a
and fastened them in. and the pen
was built
sheep
so
that
eight
in
the
morning
in leading
a big
and
I
recollect
which
he
had
killed.
day,
and
I
says,
for
him
He
threatened
and unjointed
a
swamp
a
trap
thirty
took along
possession
of
"You
maj'
go
in;
I
guess
may go
in." Finally
I crept
killed the
cat. But
at
and
a
boy
that
had
got
large
training looked forward
house. It came in the
fall when the
to my uncle's and
flints
sick
to my capacit}-,
went
to
Warren
with
and he sa3's,
doing?"
"I
peddle
and
I
and
I
managed
went through that tin business. I tried to sell some
to
Judge
him
him
I
remember
county somewhere.
Garretsville,
and
aou
read
law
home
Judge Tilden
Well, there
is but
I
 
;
Cleveland
to-da}'.
We
all
ate
on
after
a
while
cut up
spider
again
if he
I
saw
my
father
was
working
out
of
fork, and he boxed
all in the
this
3'ellow
clay.
^Ir.
President,
I
think
I
have
occupied
more
and
untiring eflJbrts
comfort,
all its members.
seventy years ago,
when much of
dense wilderness, and scarcely
consolation in the fact
that he was spared to nearl}' the age allotted to
man, and
for so
many 3'ears
have been
tliat
a quarter
all that,
interest others and
to say
now what
day
nobody left to get
with little time
although
man
was,
been
of
small
deposit-
ors
that
could
not
lose
and
all
been
He
was
a
pioneer
of
the
was nothing
;
economy and
care, he
apph'
the
ample
the
cit}^
place, and at the same time, divested
of
that
to
his
friends
and
associates,
and
to
scatter
happiness
all
around
him
Mr. Dodge
in mj' life. He was
the
just
should teach us
imitation of his virtues,
an imitation of his
the
qualities
that
will
survive
the
next
as
the
Silver
age
ph^'sical
Tilden's speeches
gave a
to
of old
several terms
later
period
—
to
say
identified
themselves
with
la-
ter
arrivals,
the}' rooted
time ago, that
Manx-
land-holders
this
place
than
poor,
and
morals
in
his
future
home,
his
first
I was
burnt
up.
The}^ had
the active
it
insured
permit this—and the
who haA'e been
removed from us
there and
Major Croghan
the
second
railroad
constructed
and
Indiana.
where
an upright
respect
June
6th,
1883,
society.
He
Association,
trained
from
earh'
and
father,
Foot, whose character is
land's
enterprising
where he served
Cashier of the
then
city
Post
IMaster.
He
soon
afterwards,
in
pany with Mr.
known
as
dissolution
of
Secretary,
forming the
Artillery
member,
I
extract
the
following
kind-hearted and
over which
1810,
modest and retiring
public spirited
promote
God's
glo-
ry,
and
two
daughters,
a native of
Vermont, born in
highly
had made
his acquaint-
doxology.
Thomas
by
private
which the
are
weeks
and
months
without
a
the}' call it
feel it,
but it
not
the
labor
hard,
a
man
with
a
many
emigrants
land.
It
place of great
all
description
meet
female
The former
I
have
been
fetch
$4.75).
me
in
the
public sale, and
and,
of
course,
deprived
of
literary
privileges
they
us
of
he
was always
best
we
could
of
the
notes
as
Vienna a part
and streams
that familiarity
that would
and
of
Scotch-
Irish
gravity.
His
preaching
was
Cuyahoga
county,
One
of
b}'
his
power.
Feeble
as
he
Reserve
about
the
same
time
and
and
hale and energetic.
His aim was
a
part
of
his
time
tall
and
spare,
very
and useful
in
owe
the
existent
Presbyterian-
ism
on
the
Reserve.
In
connection
with
missionary I
any manner
commenced
business
but few of the
description
was placed.
all
one,
nail,
resided
out
on
Euclid
upper end of
As the
so often
to it
being
cogniz-
shoes
and
"
the
reason
why
the
colored
North
de
climate."
Cleveland
stands
a
low
roofed
much
like
street,
and
concerning
He
has
lived
on
the
West
Side
here
October
4,
1833.
There
man in
was
a
French,
number
made
the house
the dam, think-
ment
decided
and
the
house
was
before
did not
the Oviatt
building now
it.
This
was
right
were where Myers,
house
and
had
the
other
of the
found
the house
filled with
Scranton's an-
cestors were
You
see,
that
there
was one older house in Ohio than this one, and that was
in
Mariet-
likely
that
has been
used as
such ever
since. From
thirt}'
years
up the
for
is now
child
they
could
hunt
a steamboat in
Norton
commanding,
a
into
found
the
dis-
thus
weeks, and
all died
deaths oc-
"
green
the
lake
both
east
and
and
labor
in
moderation,
kind
aid
in
th.«
future,
and
before.
The
grist
mill,
which
had
been
raised
victory,
was
his
suiToundings
added
another
the
at an earl}'
day, and soon
ests as
not
be
forgotten.
ducting the Herald Ziba did all
the work.—
Herald for
all who knew
daughters.
engaged,
and
carried
church edifice
foreign
missions,
84
years.
Her
remains
fixtures
that
make
Joshua
R.
Giddings,
Benjamin
F.
as
well
from
that
book
and marks
they ought
DONE.
of the
combinations
of
had learned
so
when
they
and
to
read
corresponding
lessons
went
above
those
who
failed.
lessons.
They
made
good
use
of
their
1826-7.
chance
the
apparentl}-
difficult
and
suddenly
raised
another
by
the
then
universal
big
there
was,
of
twine
watched the trick
from the beginning.
shouted
to
drive,
while
Father was
or window,
was
so
disgusting
so I had
a
that. I
the
and other
one cannot
In'
May
lew days
wheat. Wild meat could
father's sister.
her
way
coidd
;
enclosures for
four winters,
so high that
onl}- one ever came
by ]Miss Hannah
to AA^arrensville,
father and
since the above-men-
the
August
tenn,
1824,
inclusive.
of the Connecticut
iboundary
of
Pennsylvania,
and
the
called,
giving
as
be
Reserve. The}'
could also
Pennsylvania commissioners had run.
of the Western
reached
parallel, at a
which
had
were
west,
designated
bj-
double
[numbers,
reckoning
First
Presbyterian
Church.
The
government
surveys
were
purposely
left
account
of
the
unsettled
position
the
by
the
compasses
not be
The
Spafford's
stood
to
b}'
Spaflford
and
Stod-
dard,
the
by Pease and
the
surve3-ors
the same day.
the first
be
meridians
which
reached
the
Chagrin
Cuyahoga by
ap-
pointed
the Territory. Captain
the Cu^-ahoga, and
surveys
were
made
the lake to Erie. The death
of the
St.
Clair.
In its forest condition this region was very prolific in snakes.
The
notes
of
the
surve}^
contain
the}'
and
were
liking
were short. (Jeneral Cleveland
them. Having finished the
the first meridian
•came
to
territory
north
of
crossed
each
other.
Holl}-
mentions
one
case
Septem-
ber
September, and
surveyed,
and
29th
Neither
Cleveland. In
of
much
sickness,
and
of
great
of
fourteen
weak,
sick,
and
Connecticut
homes.
In
the
such
as
Pease's,
Porter's,
and
Stoddard's
notes
of
the
survey-
there
were
obliged
frequently
to
run
several
o-ther
ten
(10)
minutes.
At
Cleveland
left stood
countj^,
ASSOCIATION SINCE
ITS ORGANIZATION,
Burke,
Thos.
1805 1824
1811
1837
Man,
1832
all
which
officers
shall
be
members
22d
fall
on
Sunday,
each
and
every
3'ear,
be
but have no
read}' means
body or
]iii|j|»i- iii!|j]iir3ii!|j||iii:jii|ij||iit
j:ii|j|iiit
]ii||j|!iirjii]||ii-
jii!|j||ii[jii||j|iiir]iii|j||iir]iii|j|iir]iii|j|iii[
]ii||;]|»nii!|j]|iii:
Jiij|j||iir-jp'
their
but somewhat
historj'
of
pioneer-life
in
the
fact of
Cuyahoga
river,
and
disembarking,
he
of
rare
child of his brain, but could not
hit
upon
a
choice.
His
staff
relief,
and
baptized
the
infant
cit}*,
and
gi-acefully accepted the
name
was
of
the
The city may well
of the
century since her birth a population of nearly two hundred
and
fifty
 
it
his
name.
Rome
honored
to deify
as the
members of
of
the
broad
foundations
of
perhaps, that
we recog-
happiness. And
with unalloyed pleasure
and song."
commingling
b}- a
prospects of
first forty-four
years of
never
adorn the
rather
move that
the committee
John
A.
of
members
since its last
It is to be
hoped, however, that the
their
authors
month
of
February,
1816,
having
passed
the
Water
street,
small, two-story
of
three or
degenerate
Dudley
and
Almon
Kingsbury;
the
latter
gentleman
had
some
ideas
beaver
sitting
at
stands the Hoffman
shop
of
red Court
in
masonic
street,
there
residence
and
the
and elder
street.
Dr.
Donald
a
cargo
of
tea
as
it
was
not
proved
house was
;
At
the
foot
small
shilling for a
cutting at the Atwater
it
name,
who
lived
near
by.
It
the
Maumee
river,
came
reputation
nine
pieces,
half
dollars
into
into two,
and each
piece passed
brought
their
pro-
visions
and
drink
to
And
entertainment.
been
pioneers
incidents
which
others
made
me
occurrence,
enables
children came
the same
the
as
much
household
goods,
on the tongue,
Albany',
days, being only
the
woods,
And
After
Mr.
was to
get it
ground at
usually
did,
by
then
after
being
from
me.
The
let
loose
on
the
the people to
brother yoked
along,
shot,
and
said
to
him,
pleasantest. A few
to be
Those da3^s
fathers and mothers.
mother
the
who
and
by
no
little
closing
the
from
a
log
cabin
was.
It
which had
prevailed, when
than one
the
were enough
the
of
j'ear
when
their
Webster's
or a Dwight's geog-
goose
quills
exercise.
Taking
the
noon
repast,
they
put
out
woods.
And
common school education.
the
road
from
Newburgh
to
Cleveland,
and a
a song
The
shell
had ceased
recess
and
archives
of
the
State,
Cit}-, which
peace
in
1784,
the
Continental
Congress
by
known
more than
line
and
continued
to
hold
the
office
till
Union.
On
the
12th
of
the
Although the
Ohio
river,
this reserved tract,
 
leaner than
Fourth
of
July
well filled bumpers of good
old-fashioned grog. The}' were actu-
ated
b}'
On
the
10th
33
and
the
Pennsylvania,
parallel
of
north
latitude,
then
boundary,
having
thereof
north
to
the
lake,
prolonged
and
west side of
width is 150 links,
12
chains
25
links.
West
side.
distance
from
the
with
Superior
street.
That
is
N
34°
W
or
S
34°
;
shore
is
7
chains.
West
side
from
Huron
beginning
at
Water
S
56°
W
167
end of the
street, coinciding
to
the
lower
other
the
in
between the
the mouth
were laid
called
the
South,
Huron
of the
the
territory
for
elected as Township trustees
corporate
whereby Geauga county
on the west embraced the
greater part of
vania
but
no
the
General
Assembly
to
Assembly- enacted
was
still
raging,
although
in
stationed
and
fall on any
right
and
honor
that
was
b}'
no
at
much
of
covered with
water, and
for the rest of the year was too muddy for ordinary
travel. Diamond
j-ear the
treasury,
depositing
with
the
treasurer
good,
1829,
cit}-
of Lake Erie
and
in
Prospect
originally
Erie.
still known
as the
these
township of Brooklyn,
history-
connected
with
the
directed the village
corporation
some
to
be
held
on
the
last
Monday
just
two
was held on
"
that
part of that City of Ohio l^ing south and west
of
the
Barber
this
new
plat,
blocks on the
 
stnn^t
money
in
jrradinj;-
the
located,
soon
after
its
construction,
in
1H37,
they
held on
on the
a most excellently
drafted instrument. It
I
may
add,
for
b}-
Cleveland."
road enterprises.
 
James
S.
also
of
the
four
townships,
were
the
across
the
were
made
of
wood,
the
motive
foi'ce
reach the
ing
a
few
years,
and
then
abandoned,
incorporated,
Ohio
Railroad
Company,
lead-
ing
to the
State
the
of
below it the
of
that
corporation.
I
cannot
learn
that
anything
was
of
territory
the treasur}-.
large
volume.
At
that
this
debt
was
funded,
and
from
ized,
which
March 1850
all
the
unsurveyed
strip
of
Februar}"
1846,
1851,
the
that
by
so
short
a
ten years the city had increased nearly three-fold, for the
census
enumeration
of
1850
showed
the west pier, as
the legal limits of
the cit}'
made a
approved
b}'
the
best
political
of
an^-
other
city
of
furnishing
the
inhabitants
and
in
1854
day
within
water from Lake
for the
provided
for
the
union
of
adjoining
cities
the latter city
the city
of Cleveland
were after-
wards paid
provisions
of
realize
a
north
of
had
given
Legislature
creating
Payne,
tions
different
Newburgh
the 100 acre
became
a
state,
trained
to
the
law,
he
the
work
devoted to the
his
the 3'ounger
year that
executive
time may
itself, before
but
heir
for
to
the
promotion
of
all
that
against
of
labor,
and
the
solid
pavements,
exercise of
municipal power.
The wisest
author of
triumphal
arches,
and
columns,
^heir
towers,
their
man}'
much
less
few
prominent
in an}' history.
they exercise
the
same
number
1796,
and
became
one
of
bearing
his
father's
name,
retiring only when compelled
on the
the
space
between
with
brush
Roads,
when
they
came
lived
to
attend
as
Mr.
allj' turn back,
a
of
a
fatal
disease.
But he sa3S, how do the schools of Ph3-sicians testify'
about
Homoeopathist
sa3-s
of
the
to
death.
But
Universe ;
Mr.
President
as he
said to me, with
;
some of you call
some fifteen
been
singing
children are
you can sing."
ensuing,
Trinity
circum-
paying
their
dollars.
enable them
of
April
1827,
Rev.
Mr.
following
Mr.
Freeman
old
Parish
of
Trinit}'
has
raised,
bj'
voluntar}'
first
transmitted
through
Morse's
telegraph,
I
sa^',
with
reverence :
"AVhat
hath
God
avrought
injustice
of
slaver}-.
She
of
the
rebellion,
did
some
the
re-union
by
their
showing attention
over half
I ever
Cleveland
musical culture.
Among the
gray-haired gentlemen
in the
Grays.
mansion,
on
the
corner
of
drafter
to construct
than
terse
style.
No
to
celebrate
his
hundreth
birthday
is
fair sample of
with
none who
than
he.
I
first
made
the
National
folded.
Its
railwa}'
editor,
city
reporters.
In
addition
stationed at
"
departure for
there were many
Samuel Cowles, who
of
of eighteen
Andrews,
Foot
and
Hoyt,
1852 he and
construction of the
object
is
calculated
it
will
earth.
Woodland cemeteries.
years
ago,
who
are
Da}',
James
H.
Childs,
Oscar
A.
Andrews,
limit,
the
Greek
Church,
Dr.
Canfleld
have
forgotten,
George
dilated
on
his
experience
in
England,
by Mr. Bradburn of
an
immovable
the
historian,
was
mj-
memory
with
the
modern
Cleveland
with
its
nearly
a
quarter
of
a
million
of
population.
I
have
dilated
on
humorous
phrases
in
the
height.
That
old
all
the
enthusiasm
of
advice
and
your
standing
risk all
by entering
—
with goods,
to be
the
readers.
in their short
ground, the
some ten acres, wuth
surface
of
the
water
that
they
would
he
had
been
looking
sad,
having been
put under
morning
hours
ver^-
comfortabh'.
Next
daj-
load
I
told
my
I
had
been
the
New
in
Ohio.
Lester
Taylor.
Claridon.
Nov.
crypt
of
the
Capital
building
Secretary
of
by
advertisements,
while
issues
of them
seem
one out of
that every
ex-
citement
that
notice
the
for
as
gun
be
uniform,
consisting
from .$1.75
wealthy
and
thriving
a
negi'o
man
that
the
men
man. and
Lafayette's death, viz., that
The roll was led
There
can
"
It is
which
and
that
the
be enlarged.
May
1837,
to
Columbus
from
the
Lake,
either
in
to
Cleveland.
The
requisitions of
the law were not complied with in spirit or fact, but
we
made
but the
to
construct
railroads,
and
that,
finished
TION.
99
pleting
his
education,
and
arriving
times.
In
181(5,
he
sometimes
called,
favorite
round
about.
The
a familj' of
survive.
character, who enjoyed the confidence of the public and the
respect
of
held the
office of
postmaster at
87
sound mental
not
think
there
could
incidents
of
interest
con-
nected
with
her
meals
for
travelers,
washing
and
caring
go
with
could, in
order to
where we found
church
that
and
but
her
husband
kept
a
hired
boy,
anxious to attend
course
of
the
following
daj',
and
takes
a
deep
interest
the
primitive
wilds
join
be
mourned
by
married
to
a
front
facing
the
Square,
of
exactly
the
same
Block
does.
It
was
torn
down
left
three
1811
1821
1835
Alleman,
C.
1810 1839
1834 1834
1810 1838
1828
Corlett,
John
Pannell,
James
New
Parker, M s.
Payne. Mrs.
1837
Pease, Mary
tion.
117
who
shall
subscribe
that
after
one
year
the
addition
of
less than
and hold
Reserve
Historical
Society
for
preservation
Executive
haA'e
meetings
with
such
They shall
Association, as
tion on
very interestmg character.
fraternity of
not
be
forgotten.
We
have
same
time
give
the
association
such
usefu^
known
as
Puritanic blood
they lived
might well
sought
out
many
inven"
tions,
is
a
valuable
lesson.
the
I
will
association have
and
found their way
G.
Thurman
is
the
It solicits
authority of the
tion
highly
creditable
statue
in
honor
of
General
Moses
Cleaveland,
generally
approved
by
monument and estimate
The relics of
present
will
soon
our
pleasure
friendships that bind us in age as with golden heartstrings
that
can
never
be
way that we
of the purer life that
awaits
land.
liberal accession
to the
be
expected,
common
brotherhood.
members
Gen.
Moses
Cleaveland,
for
the reason that the stringency of the times and the
want of a
of
and then that such
of
the
association,
so
far
as
—
"
stands.
from his
mococks of
hats,
and
Tewell
repaired
ward,
Catharine
Phelps,
were
among
department
now
is.
This
house
sufficed
for
of
swamp.
Alonzo
Carter
lived
on
stream
of
crystal
stood
to speak
gains
need not
seen the fall
p. m.,
they
are
here
pre-
sented,
interspersed
in
our
modern
life.
Nothing
in
intellectual
the
development
of
the
is
therefore
ceasing
genesis, we
do not
grope amid
the shad-
of the
great continental
associations
of this
best
developments
more lasting
opinions, or
years and
circumstance
which
tends
to
render
historical
narration,
and
shall
and distinguish
"The
Providence,
they
habitually
gave him
activity
of
the
Re-
naissance,
by
its
its own strength
western
development.
True,
the
march
takes
it has
a dignified sense of
plastic
as
to
render
Those
which
have
become
our
inheritance
have
of
colonized
Puri-
tanism.
In
the
its social
mightier event,
of
Connecticut
surveyors
is
the
supernatural
the
views—for
it
Holy
perfection
of
unfaltering trust the future, they had turned
their backs upon
of Christianity.
domestic relations. The rise
for
arable
were
distributed
for
the
colonizing
learning,
other
the
the
the sentiment of community.
turers.
With
business
but led
considerable period of
by a
has
ever
America the
new
English
set-
of this century,
were great land
Connecticut
wilderness of the
and
best
symbols
and
aisles
of
a
huge
cathedral."
by
their
Puritanical
instincts
to
by
having
the
high-
ways
converge
township
the
custom
of
personal morality and
a
very
so
with
the
to
a
people
or
com-
munity.
to
be
won
by
unflinching
food.
By
those
of
age and
indomit-
oratory,
pitched.
in
a
high
he
sometimes
moved
by
It is difficult
dealings
at
the native savage.
steady
kindness,
which
consequence
ceived, as I
Western Reserve,
war
continued
long
to
glow
of the
a
healthful
patriotism
of
the
love
of
country
might
be
secular-
ized
needed
for
simultaneous
action,
compels
them
to
in
nor
to
cast
his
the
of New England
of the
great diversity
any
wanted was an
rudiments
ribald
mocking
homage
manners. The
one supreme
quality
of
men
virgin soil than any
vigor and
passes
of men. All
;
one of them.
meetings.
This
and
drudgery
necessarily
husbands and sons.
habits
because city
of the
under
the
control
of
the
fathers,
but
the
details
of
to
and in
examine the country and
canal
length amounting to
The
commissioners
themselves
assisted
in
of different
canal routes
ap-
ummit, in
Licking county,
candi-
day,
but
it
in the stage.
Governor Clinton was
an hou
the
a cloud in the sky, the
lake
calm
Water
placed along
side of
them; then
finally
pay
their
Licking county
get
an
early
the foot of Tinker's creek hill about one and a
half
miles
down
She
was
a
black
eyed,
steel
trap
style
of
a
 
late Orlando
the party a
stage and
was
where my
waddle
under.
My
father
quietly
justice to
humble tribute
of re-
work, and
memories
to
at
to
to
know what is meant
crane.
I
know
winter
of
the sheep in May, and I remember that in the
intervals
joyously to
school in
experience. And
hourly
Reserve, and
very
severe
storm
foot
in
depth.
There
with snow,
and it
was
very cold. As I stepped upon the wharf in Cleveland I
heard a
This was
destroy
all
a
to
sample
the
wholesale
price
Mansion
mairied
Captain
Sartwell,
He
was
also
the
Protestant
one of
Cleveland's early
benefactors. But
I did
in silver
to
of
of Frankfort.
he
American
House
country. But the city soon surrounded him, absorbed his land,
stretched its
living
need the injunc-
After about
My
first
of
of
the
the
Perkins
group; you
know it
had the
came to
there from
Rochester, N.
Ackley.
but
did
not
defunct
due time
do
not
know.
saw. In
he
would
it
continued
to
And
in
is permanently
it has not
have known
on Bolivar
His
farmer
would always
and
Josiah
Barber,
the
largest
land
—
A.
Hurlbut,
S.
H.
Sheldon,
and Mr.
List were
as it shows that
then—like all the
have
have given us
had dared
be able to say, that
although we
for member
of the shortness
and the
When I
his
of
God's
fifteen, under
woods
of
township.
Many
for
it
was
not
possible
of
must
go
abroad
for
everything
was
passed
of their material
means
of
edu-
cation
shall
forever
be
encouraged.
4.
The
said
territory
therein
contained
in
these
articles.
6.
There
shall
be
with
general,
choice
set
of
men.
formed
within
Western
Reserve,
FAMILY.
has
since
become
so
well
known
throughout
the
land
years, having
that
boat was
river,
as
Uncle
Nathaniel
came
with
her.
three houses. The
who
had
arrived
m
1798,
in the midst of a
large hickory
several
years
this log
cabin about
years to
hand
above the
Willoughby
to
mill.
I
through
the
started in
it
was
fulled.
butternut
bark,
enjoyed themselves
came. In those days
even twenty miles for an
ordinary
visit.
were
those
Lucy Clark
in
1809,
a horse
oxen walked
out
over me.
materially
altered,
is more vivid
on
horseback
and
stop
at
were
attempt.
These
H. B.
There were
it
first house which
at Columbia Center.
Hull
surrendered.
After
the
landing
his surrender,
Indians
daylight t e next
on
where
by
George
Michael
Spangler.
On
Commercial Bank of
the
years, and
and skill
daughter,
school
has seen great
hundred
and
fifty
thousand.
life of
families
came
at
the
and
it
took
yesterday
that time.
scores of churches
by
wove
colored, and
where it lay
were
made.
Everybody
in-
would
seem
so
to
the
girls come into school."
Each
seat;
pint
to
were
John
Crawford,
Ira
Eddy
until the
Elder Swazzy
in 1802.
wife,
James
Sawtell
school-house
In
there
were
to
Erie.
Fairmount
street
was
was
This
road
was
very
sandy.
There
growing.
It
was
so
narrow
in
teams
the
road
fell
injuries which
starting-point
and
take
the
south
We must
bear in
of
most
third
on
this
Buffalo
road.
The
east Cleveland
car barns
now stand.
This was
owned by
was
but a long
again
owned
by
Cardy
1818,
and
we
lived
there
sides.
This
was
victorious men return-
where
Mr.
Thomas
and
fight
but
The
were inside and
When the morning
hardships
and
a sixty-
by
hole
*
to
be
Total
630.
Name.
Abbey,
Cannon,
Jas.
H.,
Sen.
Massachusetts,
1821
1833
Carlton,
Dunn,
Mrs.
E.
Ann
members
all
of
which
officers
be
members
for
one
year,
and
commemorating
the
day
with
appropriate
of
of
the
pay out all
Rev.
33
Announcement
of
Deceased
Members,
John
Stair
Taylor
85
1829
9
9
Woman in the Early .Settlement of the Countiy, by Hon.
John
C.
Hutchins
33
Governor
P.
Spalding
48
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