Cuyahoga County, Ohio - Chapter 74: East Cleveland, 1870

Chapter 74: East Cleveland

A Broken History - Irregular Boundaries - Timothy Doan - Shaw, Ru ple, McIlrath and Thorp - Asa Dille - Samuel Ruple - A. L. Norris - A Live Griddle-Cake - Deadly Battles - Scaring a Bear - Going to Pennsylvania for Flour - A Banquet of Baked Pumpkins - The First Church - Sleeping with the Cows - First Tavern - Abijah Crosby - A Barn-Raising interrupted by Cannon - Settlers in Various Localities - The Big Elk - The Householders of 1828 - School Districts - Collamer in 1840 - Formation of the Township of Hast Cleveland - Annexation of part of Euclid and Warrensville - Name of Euclid Village changed to Collamer - The Railroad - The War - Sandstone Quarries - Present Condition of Collamer - Collinwood - Grape Culture - Glenville - Shaw Academy - First Presbyterian Church of Collamer - St. Paul's Church - Free Congregational Church of Collamer - Disciple Church of Collamer - Disciple Church at Collinwood - First Congregational Church of Collinwood - Principal Township Officers.

Kast CLEVELAND has had more varied municipal relations, and has-more irregular boundaries than any other township in the county. 'The territory of which it is now composed, originally belonged to the township of Cleveland; then to Cleveland and Euclid; then to Cleveland, Euelid, Newburg and Warrensville. Having remained in these townships for many years, the several fragments were in 1845 formed into the township of East Cleveland which then contained not only the present district of that name, but all that part of Cleveland city cast of Willson avenue,

In 1867 an irregular tract about two miles east and west by three miles north and south, on which had been built the large and flourishing village of Kast Cleveland, was annexed to the city, leaving a district nearly six miles in extreme length, north and south, and a little over five miles in extreme width, but so irreeular that it contains an area of only a trifle over fifteen square miles. 'his remains the township of Hast Cleveland, yet the name had become so firmly attached to the portion which was annexed to Cleveland that a resident of the city, on hearing '' Hast Cleveland" spoken of, would more probably understand the expression to refer to the eastern part of the city than to the township to which the name legitimately belongs.

This sketch is intended to be confined to the territory now comprising the township, the name of which heads the chapter; yet that township has been so closely united with other territory on both the east wnd the west, that the annals are liable to become somewhat intermingled, especially in the case of the official records. Nearly all the township officers who resided in the present East Cleveland before 1847, are to be found in the records of Euclid, while many of those who appear in the records of Kast Cleveland since that date, were residents of what is now the eastern part c_ the city.

The first white resident of the territory now comprising the township of East Cleveland, was Timothy Doan, a Connecticut sea-captain, already forty-three years old, who brought his family to Cleveland in the spring of 1801, left them there while he built a log house and made a small clearing, and in the fall of that year removed them to his place on the west line of the old township of Euclid, a part of which is still occupied by his youngest son, John Doan, Mr. Timothy Doan steadily worked on his new farm, having for two or three years no neighbors nearer than his brother, Nathaniel, at ' Doan's Corners," in the present city of Cleveland. Timothy Doan was a man of good ability and of the highest character; he became the first justice of the peace in the territory now constituting East Cleveland, and was afterward a judge of the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county. He died in 1828, on the farm on which he had moved in 1801, at the age of seventy, respected by all.

In August, 1803, John Shaw, John Ruple, Thomas Mcllrath, Garrett Thorp and William Coleman, all from Washington county, Pennsylvania, visited this part of Ohio together, and two of them selected land in the present township of East Cleveland. Shaw chose the lot where Shaw Academy now stands, and Mclilrath selected the one now occupied by the main part of Collamer village. Mr. Ruple located a little farther to the northeast, in what is now Euclid. All these locations, like that of Timothy Doan, before mentioned, and that of William Coleman on Euclid - ereek, were on the main road which had been laid out from Cleveland to the Pennsylvania line, parallel with the lake shore, but which was then hardly passable even for ox-teams; an axe to clear away fallen timber

The second actual settler in the present township of East Cleveland was Asa Dille, a brother of David Dille, of Euclid, who moved from Pennsylvania in March, 1804; putting up his cabin in the unbroken forest near the south-vestern corner of the old township of Euclid. There he lived and died, raising a large family of children.

In April, 1804, Messrs. Shaw and Mellrath began work on the locations before mentioned, and Benjamin Jones, a nephew of Mellrath settled farther southeast in the neighborhood of Asa Dille's residence. Shaw brought his family that spring and became the third settler in the township. He was a native of England, and, having been brought up in a woolen factory, he was entirely unaccustomed to the use of the axe; yet by indomitable industry he succeeded in subduing the dense forest where he had chosen his home, and made him an excellent farm. He was a man of good intelligence and fair education, was the teacher of the first school in the county, held various civil offices and was the founder of the Shaw Academy, of which more will be said farther on.

the winter. The others depended principally on hunting, both to obtain meat for their families and to procure skins and furs, which could be traded in the rude markets of the day for articles of absolute necessity. Coon skins came pretty near being legal tender at that time, and several hundred of them were harvested that winter by the residents of East Cleveland, who were thus enabled to eke out a subsistence, Ilrath was especially noted as a hunter, and as he had several sons, who had nearly or quite attained to man's estate, they made great havoc among the denizens of the forest.

In 1805 John Ruple settled on the line between Euclid and East Cleveland. He, too, was a noted hunter, and. is credited by Wilham Coleman with killing the first panther slain in the old township of Euclid by a white man; the beast measuring nine feet from tip to tip. He raised a large family and lived to an advanced age, on the place where he first located, amid the respect of all who knew him.

Samuel Ruple settled at Nine Mile creek, in the eastern part of the present village of Collamer, in 1806, and during the same year Caleb Eddy located himself in the southern part of the township on a stream known as Dogway brook.

Abraham L. Norris came the same yea) and settled on the ridge back of Collamer. His daughter, Mrs. Myndert Wemple, narrates many incidents connected with early life in the forest. Mr. Norris' family were two miles from their nearest neighbor, David Hendershot. Like most of the pioneers, they had only a ''puncheon" (or split-log) floor for their cabin, and during the first summer a coverlid did duty instead of a door.

The next. year Mr. Norris had a good sized clearing chopped over, and, according to pioneer custom, invited his neighbors (some of whom lived five or six miles away) to a ''logging-bee." After a while they got several log-heaps ready for firing, and Mrs. Norris, who was out watching the operations, ran 'nto the house to get a shovelful of coals. The fire was nearly out, and on the warm hearth lay a griddle which had been used for baking cakes. he first thing Mrs. Norris saw, on entering the house, was an enormous yellow rattlesnake comfortably curled up on the griddle. She screamed and fainted. Her husband ran in, and, having no weapon with which to dispatch the enemy, called for his father-in-law, Mr. MclIlrath, who came with his ox-goad, and soon slew it. The reptile had no less than twenty-four rattles.

These pests were extremely common in both East Cleveland and Euclid; finding ample shelter among the rocks which abounded in the numerous ravines that intersected the ridge. Every man when he went out took a stick, as a matter of course, to kill rattlesnakes. John Ruple is credited with killing thirtyeight rattlesnakes (piled and counted) near Collamer, and Luther Dille with slaying forty-three in the

Mr. Norris was obliged to go to Newburg to work, leaving his wife alone in the cabin. There was a halfgrown shote in a rail pen covered with bark, near the house. One night Mrs. Norris was awakened by the crackling of bark and the squealing of the pig. Running to the door she saw a bear trying to get out of the pen with the shote clutched by the neck, somewhat as a cat carrries a kitten. There was a large bed of ° coals, and filling the big fire-shovel full of these she ran out and threw them on the dry bark, which in a moment wasinabrilliant blaze. The bear meantime, had got his prey out of the pen, but being frightened at the sudden light, dropped the vig (badly scared but not seriously hurt) and made his way into the forest.

At this period there was no church in the township. People went to ''Doan's Corners" on Sunday, where "Squire Nathaniel Doan read a sermon. Mrs. Wemple remembers going to meeting at the corners; her mother riding a horse, she riding behind aud another child in front, while her father walked by the side of the patient animal.

It is needless to say that luxuries were exceedingly scarce. Once Mrs. Norris sent clear to Pennsylvania, by a couple of young men who were going thither, for a pound of tea and two yards of calico to make the baby a dress.

There were two or three gristmills within ten miles, but they were very poor concerns, and were frequently out of repair. On one occasion when, through defective machinery or lack of water, no grinding could be done in this part of the country, John Shaw took an ox-cart loaded with a grist for every man in the township and went eighty miles, to Erie, Pennsylvania, to get it ground. He was to be back in two weeks, and on the day fixed for his return Mrs. Shaw invited all the people in the township to her house, to cook and eat of the expected supply. The people came, but Mr. Shaw had been detained by the badness of the roads and did not arrive, and his hospitable wife could only furnish her guests with a feast of venison and baked pumpkins.

Indians, squaws and papooses were frequently seen passing toand fro, They had a camping-place just back of where the academy now stands. 'The fierce appearance of the warriors frequently frightened the children, but there is no account of their doing the slightest harm.

The first church (Congregational) in the township, which was likewise the first in the county, was formed in August, 1807. The first meetings were in the houses of the settlers, but in 1810 a house of worship was built of logs at the point then commonly designated as Nine Mile creek, but afterwards known as Enclid village and now as Collamer. This was also the first house of worship in the county; there being none in Cleveland until more than ten years later.

Amid the hardships of these times, women, as well as men, developed the courage necessary to mect the emergencies by which they were often confronted. Late one afternoon in autumn Mrs. Timothy Eddy went to look for her husband's cows. hey had strayed a long distance, but at length she heard a bell, and, guided by that, made her way to where they were. But when she undertook to drive them home, she found she did not know the way. After various efforts night came on, and she was still as much at aioss as ever. . The quadrupeds discovered none of the intelligence in path-finding which is sometimes attributed to them, but when their mistress stopped driving them, quietly lay down for a night's rest. Satisfied that she could not find her way home, Mrs. Eddy lay down in a warm place, between two of the animals, and in this living boudoir she remained until morning. Meanwhile, her husband had returned from his labors at night fall, and, finding his wife absent, had roused the neighbors to search for her, All night long the few settlers in that part of the township went shouting to and fro through the woods, their lighted torches of bark flinging fantastic shadows among the trees, but they did not approach her sleeping place. In the morning she made her way home to her frightened friends.

The first tavern-keeper in the township, of whom we can hear, was David Bunnel, who kept on the main road, a short distance southwest of the site of Collamer, before the war of 1812.

Among other settlers in the township was Abijah Crosby, father of Deacon Thomas D. Crosby, who came in 1811. Ife was one of the earliest scttlers in the vicinity of the lake shore. Benjamin Thorp, who had first settled at the mouth of Euclid creek, came

When the war of 1812 broke out there was great excitement for a time, especially just after Hull's surrender when rumors of murdering Indians came on every breeze, and the people once or twice abandoned their homes in their alarm. These rumors, however, were soon found to be false, and during the war the work of planting and clearing went on much 'as usual, though emigration nearly ceased.

On the day of Perry's victory, September 10, 1813, the people were busy raising William Hate's log barn, below Collinwood. Mr. Cornelius Thorp, who still resides in the township, was one of the number. The neighbors were still few in number, and men had come from Warrensville on horseback to help in the work. The vaisers were divided into two squads, who were engaged in a hot strife to see which should get up logs the fastest. At each corner was an expert axeman making notches and ''saddles" to fit the logs together. Of course neither squad could really get ahead of the other, because all four sides of the

"'That's Perry!" 'A fight!' '<A battle!" '* A battle!' cried a dozen voices, and, in another minute, twenty or thirty men were racing away toward the lake shore, eager to hear even the faintest echoes from the great contest which was to decide the supremacy of Lake Erie. Perhaps they imagined, from the distinctness of the sound, that they could see the conflict, or, at least, could discover on the far horizon the smoke which must mark the scene of battle. But, on their arrival, nothing could be seen, as was not strange considering that the battle was seventy-five miles away. Yet the constant successions of subdued shocks, now alone, now in broadsides, hour after hour, gave notice that the conflict was still going on. At length the sounds died away; only a few scattered shots were heard, and finally all was still, and the last listeners returned slowly to their homes, querying anxiously whether Columbia or Albion should henceforth be the mistress of Lake Erie. The next day a swift-riding express, on the way to Washington, brought the news that Perry was victorious, and that British or Indian invasion need no longer be feared. Of all who were present at that '' raising," Mr. Cornelius Thorp is the sole survivor.

Immediately after the close of the war in 1815, emigration set in with more force than ever, on account of the temporary cessation. At this time began to be seen a slight appearance of a village where Collamer now s.ands; though it was then called Euclid. Enoch Murray started a store there shortly after the war. Davis Crocker also established a tannery there, on Nine Mile creek, about 1815 or-'16, which he carried on for nearly twenty years. In 1817 a framed church was erected in place of the old log one before mentioned, and then the residents of '' Euclid," or '' Nine Mile Creek," as the hamlet was variously called, could indeed boast of their progress; for there was still not another church edifice of any kind in the county.

In 1818 Benjamin P. Beers and Myndert Wemple settled in the township. Mr. Wemple, who still survives, says that Enoch Murray was then keeping store at Euclid (now Collamer). He sold to Thomas Mcllrath about 1820, and he in a short time to John Gardner. 'Taverns, too, began to be opened all along the main road soon after the war. Ben. 8. - Welch kept one at Nine Mile creek. A little later, Enoch Meeker had one a short distance farther west. Seth Doan kept one where George Doan now lives.

their dens among the rocks; the deer often bounded past the clearings of the pioneers, especially in the southern part of the township, and occasionally more noble game fell before the hunter's bullet. Old settlers still mention that it was about 1820 that the "« big elk was killed;" an event long remembered and often discussed by the residents of the vicinity. The unlucky wanderer was chased down from the Chagrin river into East Cleveland, and was there killed. He weighed five hundred pounds, and his horns were seven feet long.

By about 1825 or '30 the face of the country began to take on more decidedly than before the appearance of civilization. More than half of the log houses built by the pionecrs had been exchanged for framed ones, and in ail the north part of the township nearly every lot had a settler upon it, and about half the land had been cleared from timber. In the southern section the settlements were much fewer and the country still retained that pioneer look resultant from log houses, scattered clearings and far-spreading forests.

In the township book of Euclid is a list of the voters in 1828, arranged by school districts. Euclid, as before mentioned, then embraced something over half of East Cleveland. We give a list of the names recorded in those districts either wholly or partly in what is now East Cleveland. <A few of them may have been in the present Euclid; but if so, they were close to the line:

A full list of all the voters in the old Logaisnit of Euclid in 1828, including the above, is to be found in the history of. that township. Of course, the foregoing list does not include any residents of that part of East Cleveland, except what was formerly in Euclid. There were, however, very few in that part of East Cleveland, which was then Euclid, except on the main road. The Elijah Burton, who is mentioned as a resident of District number two (Collamer), was a young physician who had very lately arrived there, being the first physician in that village. His widow still resides there, and his son is a practicing physician there.

During the decade from 1830 to 1840 there was a large emigration checked during the last three years by what was known pre-eminently as the 'hard times."

Sargent Currier had become the storekeeper at Nine Mile creek, acting in that capacity some fifteen years. He had a sawmill near there, and afterwards built a steam gristmill. Abner Mcllrath opened a tavern in 1837. Samuel Lester started a new tannery in 1838, which is stiJ] operated by his son.

When Mr. R. H. Strowbridge (now of Euclid) came to Collamer in 1840, Sargent Currier was still carrying on a store there, and Alvin Hollister was keeping a tavern. The township was well settled up, and framed houses were generally in use; yet there

. was still a rough appearance on the face of the country. The deer and wolves had all disappeared, and even the rattlesnakes were becoming scarce. Originally emigration had come from the East, and the western part of the present township was the last to be settled. By 1840, however, people began to overflow from the then growing city of Cleveland, and the western section was rapidly cleared up.

At the June session of the county commissioners in 1847, the township of Hast Cleveland was formed from Cleveland and Newburg; no other townships at first contributing anything to its area. Of Cleveland it embraced lots three hundred and thirty-eight to four hundred and six inclusive; of Newburg, so much of lots four hundred and nine to four hundred and twenty-two inclusive as lay north of the road, (now Ingersoll street. )

The first town meeting in East Cleveland was held on the 26th of June, 1847, when the following officers were elected: Trustees, Theron Woodworth, ~ Samuel Erwin; clerk, Ansel Young; treasurer, Joel Jones; declined, and Isaac N. Pillsbury appointed; assessor, Freeman Whitman.

Atthe June session of the commissioners in 1848, the west part of Euclid was annexed to East Cleveland; embracing lots eight, forty-nine, sixteen, fifty-seven, twenty-four, fifty-six, fifteen, forty-eight, seven, six, forty-seven, fourteen, fifty-five, twenty-two, twentyone, fifty-four, thirteen, forty-six, five, four, fortyfive, twelve, fifty-three, twenty, fifty-two, forty-four, eleven, three, two; all of lot forty-three west of the road-raning through it, and all of tract sixteen north of lot one and west of the road runing to the lake. By the same act lots one, two, three and four lying in the north part of Warrensville, were also annexed.

After the new arrangement was consummated, it was found very inconvenient to call the village situated in Kast Cleveland by the name of Euclid, when there was a township of Euclid close beside it. The people therefore began to cast about for another appellation. They adopted that of Collamer, and in time the growing village was generally known by that name; though it was long before all the old settlers could get rid of the habit of calling it Euclid.

For many years after the formation of the township, the interest regarding it principally centered in the village of East Cleveland, which. grew rapidly into very extensive proportions, becoming an important suburb of the city. In 1852 the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula railroad (since becoming a part of the Lake Shore and Michinan Southern), was opened from Cleveland to Erie, running through the northern part of East Cleveland, only a short distance from the lake shore. The beauty of the locations along the main road at the foot of the ridge, between the city und Collamer, began to be observed by the denizens of Cleveland, and occasional purchases were made, especially around Collamer. :

All was progressing pleasantly and prosperously when, in 1861, the tocsin of war called the sons of America to the defense of their country. Hast Cleveland promptly responded to the call, and the records

In 1862, James Haycox opened a valuable sandstone quarry in the southern part of the township, on the farm settled by John Welch. The character of the stone is similar to that which crops out in various 'parts of the county, and is described in the chapter _ on geology. Since the war, few townships in northern Ohio have progressed more rapidly than Kast Cleveland, although, as before stated, the village of East Cleveland was annexed to the city of Cleveland in 186%. Collamer has become a large and thriving village, an especial favorite with Clevelanders desirous of a more retired life than that of the city. Th main road from there to the city line is thickly stud. ded with pleasant farm houses, and with handsonx residences situs'ed on small but most desirable tracts. _ In fact the whole road which is an extension of Euclid avenue, seems like a delightful suburb of the city. Collamer now contains churches, one academy, four general stores, one post office, one physician, two carriage shops, two blacksmiths shops, two meat markets, one cider mill, one shoe shop, one tannery, and about a thousand inhabitants.

On the railroad, a mile north of Collamer is to be seen the flourishing village of Collinwood, the seat of the great repair shops and round-house of the Lake Shore railroad. It is laid out on the most liberal scale, with streets enough for a small city, which indeed it promises to become. It has churches, three public schools, six general stores, four physicians, two drug stores, one hardware store, two boot stores, one clothing store, two millinery stores, one hotel (the Warren House), two livery stables, two news depots, one wagon and blacksmith shop, one harness shop, three meat markets, and about fifteen hundred inhabitants. The repair shops and round-house were begun in 1873 and finished in 1875, and the village has mostly grown up since the former year. The post office was established in 1875.

There is also a post office at Lake View, near Lake View cemetery, where there is the prospect of another fine suburban village. The Lake View and

On the ridge, grape-growing has flourished greatly of late years, the soil being of the same general quality as that in Euclid, and likethat, admirably suited for grape-culture. The grapes are genarally sold in bulk, but a few gentlemen are engaged in wine manufacture; Mr, J. J. Preyer's Lake View wine farm, east of Lake View cemetery is one of the most celebrated wine-producing places in the county.

The village of Glenville on the lake shore, adjoining Cleveland, was laid out in The corporate limits inclose an area of about three square miles, but only a small portion of it is built on in village form.

The Lake Shore reilroad passes through its entire width and has a depot in it, while the Lake View and Collamer road skirts its southern border. 'The Northern Ohio fair grounds.are situated a little west of the center of the village. The association owning them is described in the general history.

Glenville was incorporated in the autumn of 1872, for special purposes. In April, 1874, William Brasie, In September, 1874 it was incorporated as a village. In April, 1874, Wm. J. Gordon was elected mayor for two years. He was succeeded in 1876 by Benjamin Lamson, and he in 1878 by W. H. Gaylord, the present incumbent. The village now contains three stores, three hotels, one blacksmith shop, one shoe shop, one carriage shop and about five hundred inhabitants,

The whole of East Cleveland, except Glenville and a few farms in the southern portion is incorporated for special purposes; the authorities being empowered to build roads and bridges, maintain a police, build police stations, ete.

Shaw Academy

In 1835 the old pioneer, John Shaw, died, and having no children he left his property to found an academy in the locality where he had so long lived and prospered. 'The property consisted mostly of a farm situated a short distance southwestward from Collamer. This was sold for five thousand dollars. The people of the vicinity subscribed a sufficient amount to erect the necessary building, and the fund left by Mr. Shaw was used only for the support of the school.

A board of trustees was appointed and the school was maintained in the usual manner of country academies until about 1868. At that time, as the institution did uot prosper as well as was desirable, the building was leased to individuals. Public school money was applied to its support, and it became partly a district school and partly an academy. In 1877 the trustees of the academy leased the building to the directors of the Collamer sub-district by whom it has since been used for a district school, though of a higher grade than usual.

First Presbyterian Church Of Collamer

This church was organized by Rev. Wm. Wick, on the 27th day of August, 1807; being by at least ten years the first church in Cuyahoga county. It was formed on what was known as the '' Plan of Union," adopted by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, and the general association of the Congregational church, of Connecticut. The individual church was at first Congregational, but it was connected with the Presbytery for purposes of discipline and mutual encouragement. It took the name of 'The Church of Christ in Euclid;" that being the township in which it was then situated.

The first members were Nathaniel and Sarah Doan, John Ruple, Thomas and Elizabeth McIlrath, Sarah Shaw, Eunice Eddy, Abram L. and Abigail Norris, George and Almira Kilbourn, Andrew and Abigail -Mellrath, Anna Bunnel and Isabella Mclrath.

The strictness of the discipline and the existence of pleasant amusements among the pioneers are both shown by the next entry after the organization, made on the 29th of the same month, according to which A. L. and Abigail Norris confessed to dancing "not long before" (evidently before joining the church) and professed contrition. Sarah Shaw admitted the fact of dancing, but would not make a public acknowledgement and was suspended, This was pretty strict in regard to acts committed before joining the church.

The next record, dated in August, 1808, shows a meeting of the church to have been then held at the house of Nathaniel Doan. Caleb and Nancy Eddy admitted joining the " Haleyon Church," supposing them to be christians. They expressed their sorruw for having done so. 'I'his '' Haleyon" church was a heterodox institution which started up suddenly in Euclid, flourished for a brief period and disappeared. The members claimed to be christians, but their right to the name seems to have been seriously disputed. At this time Mrs. Shaw publicly professed repentance for her dancing of long ago, and was duly reinstated ip the church.

On the 15th of March, 1810, the church unanimously adopted the Presbyterian model and put themselves under the charge of the presbytery of Hartford. The next month the Rev. Thomas Barr was called to the pastorate and accepted. He was ordained on the 23d of August following, and on the 27th of the same month Andrew Mellrath and John Ruple were appointed ruling elders. It was during this season that the log house already mentioned was built, which was,

Numerous cases of discipline occurred during all the early years of the church; mostly on account of the members attending balls or allowing their children todo so. In the summer of 1811 nearly all the members publicly acknowledged their wrong-doing in permitting their children to attend the Fourth of July ball.

Nevertheless the church continued to flourish, and in 1817 a framed house of worship replaced the log one; the new house, like the old one, being the only church building in the county.

Rey. Mr. Barr closed his services in 1820. After this the records unfortunately do not give the employment of pastors with any regularity, but it appears that Rey. Randolph Stoner, pastor of the Cleveland church, acted as moderator in the various meetings from 1820 to 1823, and doubtless supplied the pulpit. Rev. Stephen J. Bradstreet acted as moderator from 1823 to 1825. On the 26th of February, 1825, Rev. Stephen Peet was ordained as pastor; holding that position until January, 1833.

Rev. H. 8. Scott and Rev. E. Adams were in charge of the church, the former in 1833 and '34; the latter in 1835 and '36. Rev. H. Blodgett served us pastor from May, 1837, to February, 1843. Rev. E. N. Nichols was in charge a few months, and was followed by Rev. J. Burchard, the celebrated revivalist, who conducted a powerful revival during the winter of 1843-44. Rev. Benj. Page was the acting pastor in 1844, *45 and '46.

Rey. William H. Beecher (eldest brother of Henry Ward Beecher) began service as stated supply in May, 1847, and continued until December, 1849. He was succeeded the next month by Rev. Jonas Bigelow, who died in service January 26, 1854. During his pastorate, in December, 1851, fourteen members withdrew to form the Free Congregational Church. Rev. Andrew Sharp was installed as pastor in April, 1854, and closed in April, 1856. Rev. Hiram Bingham began service as stated supply in October, 1856. Rey. F. Maginnis was installed as pastor in January,

Until this time the church had been known as the First Presbyterian Church of Euclid, although for nineteen years the house of worship had been in the tewnship of East Cleveland, and the village where it was located had been known as Collamer for nearly an egeal time. In September, 1867, it appears for the first time on the record as the Presbyterian Charch of Collamer.

At that Gime Rev. R. H. Leonard began service as stated supply, remaining until July, 1872. Rev. H. P. Barnes was installed as pastor in August, 1875, closing in May, 1877. He was succeeded at that time by the Rev. 'L. S. Scott, the present pastor.

The following month (June, 1877,) a'union was efected with the Free Congregational Church of Oellamer, by which each society was to keep its own organization, but they were to unite in all work, in religious service and the employment of a pastor. People are admitied by the jomt action of the two eharches, but are dismissed by the separate action of ene. They meet in the Presbyterian church.

The present membership of the Presbyterian consrezation is now about seventy-five. The elders are Jehu Aldrich, J. M. Page. T. D. Crosby, Joseph Day, Joseph Parks, Frederick King and Isaac Brush. The two churches maintain a union Sabbath school of two handred members, of which William H. Coit is the superiniendent.

The church edifice of this body is on Enclid avenue im the center of Collamer. Ii is of stone, rural in Style, fifty-three feet in length and thirty in width. It was commenced in 1846, bnit was not finished and consecrated uniil 1856. The services were sustained ait first by the aid of clergymen in Cleveland. The Rev. Eli Adams officiated m 1853-4. In 1856 Rev. Thomas Corleii was called as the first settled rector, who filled the rectorship for ten years. The Rev. N. P_ Charlot waz called in 1566, and resigned in 1869. The Bev. Thomas Lyle has been the rector of the parish smce June 1, 1569. The sittings are free; the nevenme being obtained from the weekly offertory and from subscriptions. The number of persons registered as communicants has been one hundred and ten; one hundred and seven have been baptized, and sixtyfive have beem confirmed. A rectory, adjoining the eeurch edifice, was built in 1867. A small cemetery lies beyond the chancel. The officers of the church are at follows: Wardens, John Doan, J. W. Ogram; vesirymen, BR. Gerrard, G. Doan, W. Oliver, J. W. Doan. B. Gray, and L. B. Beers.

For several years before 1851 there had been a strong feeling among some of the members of the Presbyteriam church at Euclid, or Collamer, that the Presbyterizn denonsimation should bear stronger testimony against slavery than it had previously done. On the 27th of December, 1851, fourteen members presented a memorial declaripg that they could not continue in connection with the church while it maintained fellowship with slaveholders. This memorial was signed by John Ruple, Asa Weston, R. Dutton, Asa Cady, Teresa Cady, Alma Ruple, H. A. C. Adams, Ezekiel Adams, Orpha Adams, L. C. Ruple, Mina Ruple, H.-L. Ruple, Hannah Ruple, John Perkins.

The Presbyterian congregation voted to dismiss them with letters to any church they might desire to join. They then proceeded to organize themselves into the Free Congregational Church of Collamer. For three or four years they worshiped in the schoolhouse; at the end of which time, their numbers haying materially increased, they proceeded to build the brick church at Collamer, still owned by them. They maintained a separate existence with varying fortunes until June, 1877, when they formed a union for working purposes with the Presbyterian church, as narrated in the sketch of that body.

Disciple Church Of Collamer

This church was constituted in the fall of 1829. The first members were Luther Dille, Clarissa Dille, Eri M. Dille, Lurilla Jones, Leonard Marsilliot, Edittea Cranney, Desire Perry, Mary Anne Perry and Fanny Cranney; soon joined by Nancy Hale. The church was organized at the log school-house west of E. M. Dille's residence. Luther Dille was set apart as the first ruling elder. Much was trusted to the efforts of the elders, or overseers, and pastors did not succeed each other with the regularity that marks ministerial changes in some churches. Nor are there any available records regarding the early history of this church.

The Disciple society, however, continued to flourish, and about 1840 a framed house of worship was erected at Collamer. Rev. A. 8. Hayden was one of the principal ministers who, at different periods, carried on the work of the church. In 1861 it had thriven so greatly that the members were able to begin the erection of a brick house of worship, which was completed in 1862. Mr. Hayden was pastor from 1863 to 1866, and Rey. A. B. Green from 1866 to 1868. In the latter year Rev. W. B. Hendrix held two protracted meetings, at which nearly a hundred members united themselves with the church.

This church has been particularly distinguished as a nursery for others; not less than twenty Disciple churches, in various parts of the West, having been founded by emigrants from Euclid and East Cleveland, who had belonged to the Collamer church. Notwithstanding the recent organization of a Disciple church at Collinwood, the one at Collamer is in a yery flourishing condition and has over a hundred

Disciple Church At Collinwood

In February, 1878, at -the suggestion of HK. M. Dille, the zealous overseer of the Disciple church of Collamer, who offered to pay the expenses of such a proceeding, Rev. W. B. Hendrix began a series of Disciple meetings at Collinwood. They were blessed with marked success, and on the 16th of April .a church was organized by Mr. Hendrix, with fifty-nine members.

It was immediately proposed to build a house of worship, and in ten days less than two months from the organization, a handsome framed edifice was completed, costing=about two thousand five hundred dollars, of which Mr. Dille contributed eight hundred. It was dedicated on the 4th of July, 1878.

The church has now about seventy members; being still under the pastorate of Mr. Hendrix. The overseers are the same as those at Collamer, E. M. Dille and Wm. Hudson; the deacons are George Morse and Alexander Mcllrath.

First Congregational Church Of Collinwood

The supporters of the Congregational creed, and others who were desirous of having religious worship in Collinwood, united in erecting a framed house of worship in 1874, before any church had been organized. A Congregational church, with the above title, was formed in 1875. The first pastor was the Rev. Josiah Turner. He was succeeded by the Rev. C. E. Ruddick, who closed his services in 1878. There are now about sixty members. The deacons are L. Cody, J. Pronting, ©. Hoagland and George Reading; the trustees are L. Cody, Wm. Greenlees, Benj. Carter and Wm. Jonghin.

John Doane

The distinction of being the earliest surviving male resident of the county invests Mr. Doane with public interest and the facts regarding his ancestors and his life will be read with pleasure. He is descended from one of. the oldest families in this country, and the family is also an old one in England and is thus alluded to in the ''Patronymica Brittanica:" '' Done. - A great Cheshire family whom Omerod designates as a "race of warriors who held Utkinton (supposed to be the Done of Domesday) as military tenants of Venables from the time of King John. The chiefs of this house will be found in the battle rolls of Agincourt, Bloreheath and Flodden. _ * zs cfr blive name is pronounced Done (0 long) and is also spelled Doane by members of the same (Cheshire) family."

'The original John Doane, the founder of the Doane family in this country, crossed the Atlantic in one of the first three ships that sailed to Plymouth, landing at that famous spot in the year 1630. A brother came after and settled in Canada; another brother settled in Virginia ard founded an extensive connection.

Asie Doane took a prominent and useful part in the Plymouth Colony, and in 1633 was chosen assistant to Governor Winslow. In addition to this and to the civil offices which he held he was made a deacon in the church at Plymouth and at Eastham. He died in 1685 at the advanced age of ninety-five years.

He had five children, all of whom were the progenitors of large families. The youngest, Daniel, had four children by his first wife, among whom was Joseph Doane, born in 1669, three years after the fire and plague of London. Joseph had twelve children; the first was named Mary, after the mother, and the second Joseph, after the father. Joseph, Jr., was born November 15, 1693, and married Deborah Haddock in 1725. He removed to Middle Haddam, near Middletown on the Connecticut river, and there en gaged in ship building. His third son, Seth, was born June 9, 1733, and married Mercy Parker, by whom he had nine children: Seth, Timothy, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Job (who died in infancy), Mercy, Job, John M. and Deborah. The twoSeth Doanes, father and son, were taken prisoners by the British, from a merchant vessel in 1776, during the revolutionary war, the father at the time being mate of the vessel on which he was captured. They were released in 1777, and soon after the younger Seth died from sickness contracted while a prisoner, and due to-his captivity.

Nearly all the children of Seth Doarie removed West, and among the prominent pioneers of Cuyhoga county were Timothy and Mary Cary Doane, parents of the subject of this sketch, who moved hither from Herkimer county, New York, early in the present century.

Timothy Doane was born in Middle Haddam, Middlesex county, Connecticut, on the 8th of November, 1759. In early life he adopted the calling of a sailor, which he followed nineteen years, a part of that time baing the captain of a merchantman.

In 1782 he married Mary Cary, by whom he had ten children, viz: Nancy, born May 6, 1783; Seth born April 11, 1785; Timothy, born April 7, 1787; Mary, born May 16, 1789; Mercy, born September 23, 1794; Deborah, born January 11, 1796, and John, the subject of this notice, born on the 21st of June, 1798. guve up the sea, and removed to Herkimer county, New York, where he engaged in farming. It was during his residence in that county that John Doane was born in the town of Frankford.

Mr. Doane remained in New York seven years, and then determined to move still farther West. He accordingly disposed of his farm, and with his family set out for Ohio. They traveled to Buffalo with one team of horses and one of oxen. At that place the family remained while the father pushed forward through the unbroken forest - it being then in the month of February - until he reached the residence of his brother Nathaniel, who had lately settled at Doane's Corners, now in the eastern part of the city of Cleveland. He immediately purchased two lots of land, in what was formerly called Euclid, but for thirty-two years has been known as Kast Cleveland.

In the spring of the same year (1801) he sent for his family. They came in an open boat to Painesville, where the boat became disabled and sank, so that from there they were obliged to travel overland - the party of five riding on two horses, and finding their way through the forest by the aid of 'burnt trees" etc. They arrived at their destination. after a long, wearisome and eventful journey. Their nearest

For a number of years Mr. Doane found constant employment in cutting down the timber, tilling the land, and building a home for his family. In later life he became prominently identified with many of the public interests of the county, and wherever known was recognized as a man of staunch principles and unvarying integrity.

He was a justice of the peace when the county was first organized, and was also a judge of the court of common pleas. He died on the 14th of November, 1828. His wife survived him twenty years, her death occurring in the same month in the year 1848.

He remained at the paternal home, assisting in clearing and tilling the farm until he reached his twenty-second year. He then commenced farming upon his own account, which he continued uninterruptedly until 1874 when he retired from active business. He has lived upon the farm which he still owns for seventy-eight years; having seen an unbroken wilderness displaced by fruitful fields and pleasant homes, while small settlements have grown into populous cities.

Mr. Doane, although yery plain and unostentatious, isa man of strong principles. He was among the first to abandon the objectionable pioneer custom of Throughout life he has been strictly temperate in his habits; never using tobacco in any form, and although now in his eighty-second year, he possesses a fair amount of physical vigor and undiminished mental powers. In his early days he was an active member of the militia cavalry, in which he held the office of sergeant. In politics he has uniformly acted with the Republicans, but has never in any way sought public office. Since 1839 he has been a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and both as a christian and a citizen he has ever been highly esteemed.

Mr. Doane was married January 17, 1820, to Annolivia Baldwin, daughter of Seth Baldwin, of Cleveland, who died in February, 1821. He was married the second time to Sophia .Taylor, daughter of Jonathan Taylor, of Middle Haddam, Connecticut, on the 27th of September, 1822. By this union he had six children: Mary F., born November 20, 1823; Abigail, born September 16, 1825; Edward B., born January 17, 1828; Annolivia, born September 16, 1829; Harriet S., born August 18, 1831, and John W., born August 17, 1833.

Mrs. Doane died on the 3rd of October, 1870. The majority of Doanes or Doans in this section spell their names without the final letter, but Mr. John Doane and- his descendants prefer to adhere to the original form, which is the one in common use throughout the country.