Portage County, Ohio - Deekfield Township, 1885 (part 1 of 2)

Deekfield Township

Bkeakino First Ground - Settlkks of 1800 - The Elys, Days aJjd Divers - A Trip on the Ma-um-ino - Hardships and Privations - Geeat Increase- First Military Compaky - After the ORaAHlzATlOM - -A Bexarkablb Family - Some Early Facts - Grant's Tanneby - Shootdto of Diver- Hunters AND Hunting - Early Pueacuebs and Cuurchbs - Schools, BUSIKSSB AND SvATisnGa

DEEBFIELD, laid down in the Bnrveya as Town 1, Hange 6, was one o£ the earliest eettled in tiie ooanfy, and tor three reasooB, poeeibly - ^good land, well watered and being in close {nroximitj to the early western settlements of Pennsylvania; for although the very first settlers were from New England, there came in afterward such a spriukiing of Pennsylvanians as to materially alter the character of the inhabitants, for the modsa of life of the aTeragePennsylTania and New England farmers differ in many partienlan. Tour Pennsylvania farmer, for instance, bnilda him a big barn, highly ornamented, regardless of what hiB dwelling may be, while his neighbor from Oounecticut takes oare, first, that his house is oomfortable, and then attends to the ontbnildings. The original proprietors of the township were Gideon Ghrangsr, appointed Postmaster- General in 1800, and Oliver Phelps, both of Cknuieotioot; Phelps owned two-thirds of the land.

In the early part of 1799 Lewis Elj, Lewis Day, Hoses Tibbsls and Daniel Diver, of Connecticut and Massaehnsetts, purchased one-third from Ifr^ Phelps, when Lewis Day, accompanied by Horatio Day, started for his new possessions, in a wagon drawn by horses, arriving in June. Shortly after* ward, in July, Lewis Ely oame in, he having started a little later tiian the other two; he, however, was the first settler in the towmhip, as he brought his wife and family, built a cabin and settled down for life. In the fall the two Days and Ely broke the first ground and put out a crop, the Days then ^ing back to ^eir home in the &aL Ely, although at the time of Ids coming being a resident of Connoofaeil^ was boni in Massachusetts. He located on Lot V3, a little east of the gntfe*yaid, on the east of the Center. He died in September, 1826.

Febmary 10, 1800, John Campbell, Joel Thrall and Alva Day walked all the wsy from Comieoticut to their fvlnire home in Deerfield. The Alleghenies, when they crosaod those mountains, were covered with nearly six feet of snow, and they suffered terribly from cold, but arrived safely on the 4th of VandL In tms same month AIto Day and Lewis Ely went aeross to Atwater and cut a large irse tor the purpose of digging; out a canoe and going to Virginia to procure provisions, as they were very scarce. They launched their log into Yellow Creek and floated it dovm to the Mahoning, or, as the Indians called it, Ma-um-ing, meaning "the way to the market^*' where ttiey fashioned it into a canoe. It was 8ome time in April befers they arrived at their destination, but after starting back with their supplies, obtainetl opposite Steubenville, they found they could not get back by water, and returned for an or-tsam, only getting bade home the latter part of Uay. In thia year

1800, came Jam*>s Laiigblin from Washington County, Penn., bringing his wife and one cliild, a daughter. He afterward had six sons and five other danghten. Ba settled aou^ of the Oenter. Henry Rogers end several others eame at the same time. In Jxily Lewis Day, who had returned to Connecticut the year before, came out with his wife, Iloratio. ^lunn, Seth, Lewis, Jr., Solomon and Seba; also the wife of Alva Day, who came out earlier. They came with an OK«teaia and were over ftvty days makinff the trip. Mr. Day eame from Granby, Conn., and had been a soldier in the ReTomtion, being Sergeant of his company. His brother, Asa, was with him, and was killed by I Uie Lidians on the Mohawk River, at a place called Stony Arabia. The old \ ffentleman died in 1847, at the extreme age of ninety-three years. He had been a member of the Methodist Church for over sixty years. Horatio, who camo out with him in 1709, died in 1S52, aged seventy-two years. The wife of Alva Day died in 183b, and Mrs. Lewis Day in 1823, from the bite of a rattiesnake.

Fur the next four years after 1800 the population increased at a rapid rate, many settlers coming in not only from Connecticut and Massachusetts, but from Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. In 1802 Ephraim B. Hubbard, a native of Stratford, <k»nn., who had removed to Dntohess Oonnty, N. Y., where he was married, and thence to Greene County, same State, reeoWed upon Settling in the Scioto Yalloy, but on his way thither fell in company with a Mr. Penn, who induced him to change his mind and come to this county, whidi he did, settling in Deerfield, and pmrehasing a traet of land. He died in 1825 aged sixty-one years. His throe sons became prominent citizens, one of them entering the ministry of the Methodist Church. Many others, whose names are now forgotten, came in this year. In 1803 Daniel Diver came in with his wife and mnily. He was bom in 1752, in GtranTille, Ifoss., bnt the family was originally from Holland. His sons were Daniel, John and Samuel; and the daughters were Poggy, married to Simeon Card, who cnrae in with the Divers, and who died a few years afterward; Mary, married to Kev. Shadraeh Bostwiefc, who eame in at the same time his father-in-law did, and who was not only a typical circuit rider of the Methodist Church, bnt a very excellent physician; Betsey and Josey were two other daughters. In 1804 the population had so increased that a mt>eting was held for the purpose of forming a military company, whioh resulted in ihe seleotion of Henry Bc^rs, Captain; John Diver, Lieutenant and John Campbell, Ensign. Campbell afterward became General and Roj^ors Major. Numerous settlements were made during this yeiu-, most of the newcomers being from Pennsylvania. In 1805 John Iforray came in and oommenoed following hie trade as a millwright, bnt fliere not being much to do in his line, he commenced the study of medicine at New Lisbon shortly afterward. He was a man of considorablo education and natural talentfl, and became somewhat noted, locally, as a physician. A German named Borhans, a miller, Atom Maryland, eame also in tiiis year, as well as one or two from Virginia and Pennsylvania.

April 7, lRf>r), the township was organized, and the following officers elected: Jo.seph Hart, James McKelvey and Horatio Day, Trustees; Daniel DiTsr and David Daniels, Oveiseers; Amos Thorbw and Alva Day, Fence Viewers; Alva Day and William Bacon, Appraisers; James Carter, Constable; Daniel Diver. Treasurer; Alva Day, E. B. Hubbard, Amos Thurber, Asa Hall, John Vennetta and E. Baker, Supervisoi's. Lewis Day, James Laughlin and Jamee Thorber were the Judges of the Electi<nt, and Shadraah Bostwick, the Clerk. Several of these officers resided at this time in what are now adjoining townships to Deerfield, and the list includes the iirst man who settled in

Atwator nnd the first in Palmyra. Tho township was named in honor of Doorlield, Mass., the birthplace of tho mother of Lewis Day. Sr. At a Tuootini; of the County Commissioners in August, 1808, James Carter was made Colloctor of Tazee for Deerfield, and at the aninial eleotiom in October, Alva Day was sleeted Sheriff, Lewis Day a Commissioner, and Lowis Ely, Coroner, four county officers from Deertiold. In JS()9 Seth Day, one of the sons of Lewis, Sr., was appointed Clerk to the County Commissioners, and the same year was appointed Olerk of the Oourt of Common Pleas and Supreme Oourt; in 1817 he was appointed Recorder, and in iSlS Postmaster of Ravenna, holding the last three ofHcas till 1832, when he entered private business, where he became widely known.

Moses Tibbnlls, one of the original four purchasers, came this year and settled on Lot 28. He was from Granville, Mass., and died in 1841, leaving four sons: Alfred M., Aubert h.', Francis W. and Seymour S. Either this year or previously, Noah Grant settled in the township. He was the father of Jesse R. Grant, and {grandfather of Gen. T"^. S. Grant. The wife of Noah Grant lies buried in the old cemetery at the Center, but the exact spot has now passed away from the memory of all. James Carter, from Virginia, and Robert and (H(xtgfi Taylor, and William Reed, from Washington Ooonty, Penn., also came, and quite a nnmher of the descendants of the latter still live in the county. In 1807 the iutlux increased, and many names appear which afterward figured in various ways in public and private business of the township and county. Peter ICason came from Gooneeticut, in company with his brother Stephen, both youn{T men. One of them married a Day and raised seventeen children. The other married an Ely. Andrew Pownell and a brother also came about this time, both having families. Also the Hartzells.

There came Jaoob, John, George H., William, Abraham and Joseph Hartzell, from Northampton County, Penn. George H. Hartzell, the leader of the company, and the patriarch of the entire connection, had come out in 1806 and made a large purchase of land for himself, his numerous family, and two sons-in-law, John Quier and Frederick Lazarus. George H. Har^Il had a family of twelve children, eight boys and four girls, and his eldest son John had twelve children; George, Jr., had a family of eleven children; the daughtae who married Lazarus had ten childi'eu; William had ten children, and so on; George, Jr., was eighty-four; John, eighty; Christena, wife of G^rge, sev. enty fonr; Laznms, eighty, and his wife soTonty-eight; William seventy-eight years old, and so on.

Hartzell, Senior, called together his own family and organized a congregation on his own aoeoant. He was not a preacher, nor OTen an Elder, but he read from the Scrij^tures and instrnctod his flock. 1 In 1800 Lewis Ely gave a plat of ground east of the Center to be used as a burying ground, and the first person buried in it was a good Indian; he was a little boy, and they say "all good Indians die young." Two young m^u made him a nice little coffin and stained it with the juice of maple bark. The next, and the tirst white person, to die was Betsey Rogers, who died from the effects of the bite of a rattlesnake. She was the daughter of Henry Rogers. The first marriage occurred in April of this year, and the parties were John Canipbnll and Sarah Ely. They were married by Squire Calvin Austin, of Trumbull County, the nearest official to them who could tie the knot. The

Sroom wa.s known in after years as Gen. Campbell. The first birth occurred ugust 2'2, 1800, when the wife of Alva Day bore him a child, whom they named Polly. She became the wife of Jedothan W. rammn. In tiiis year

In the fall of 1801 James Laagblin finished a grist-mill on the Mahoning, which was a groat convenience, as np to that time the inhabitaut<) had to go to Youiigstowu to get their milling dona In this year, April 12, the next child was bom, a daughter, to John and Sarah Campbell, and whom they named Anna. The next weddinj^ vraH probably that of John Diver to Laura Ely, in the spring of 1804. He imme<liately settled on Lot 30 and opened a public house, which was the lirst tavern iii the township, and where there is still one kept oalled the Diver House. " Uncle John," as he was familiarly oalled, kept tlds tavern forty years. About ISHri Of] Barhans, the German, built a rude mill on the Mahoning, about one miie below Laughlin's mill, but not a vestige of it now remains. The laud tax of resident owners in 1808 was $48.78. In 1808 Alva Bay, Cromwell and Walter Dickinson and Oharles Chittenden cut out and bridged tho road from Old Portage to Range 17, week of ^lodina. John Diver, whose character resembled very much that of Jabez Gilbert, in Palmyra, was, like Gilbert, one of the earliest mail contractors and carriers on the Beserve. Diver had the first contract for carrying the mail from New Lisbon , to Mansfield, by way of Canton and Wooster. IIo was in the business over forty years, and it is said that no obstacle, however forbidding, ever prevented him from keeping to the letter and intent of his contracts. Following Indian trails when the savagee were hostile and swimming swollen streams at the dead hour of nir^bt wpre common occurrences in the oarly days. In tho lattor part of 1811 a company of men was raised for the purpose of offering themselves to the Government when hostilities would commence with the British or Indians, and John Campbell was elected Captein, Alva Day, First Lieutenant, and Lewis Day, First Sergeant, When they wore called into service in July, 1812, Campbell was sick, and Liout. Day took his place. They were first ordered to Lower Sandusky, and from there to Detroit to re -enforce Hull. While at Biver Raisin they were informed of the snrrendor of Hull, and were told by a British officer that thoy were inrlnded in the snrrendor. Several of them who were sick were sent to Maiden, where Lewis Day died. Lieut Day was elected in 1815 a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held for fourteen years. Deerfield, not only in the early times, but latterly, has furnished many men who have made their marks in the histoiy of the count V in the various walks of life.

About 1804-05 there cftmo to the township and settled near the Center a man named Noah Grant He had a wife and a son, latter named Jesse, and soon after coming started a small tannery a fourth of a mile west of the Center on the site of the present tannery owned by H. W. Mnerman. This old tanner, as stated elsewhere, who also followed nhoe making, was the crrandfather of the great General who gave the Ilebellion its (quietus and restored the Union, and whose name will go ringing down the ages as one of the ablest Osptains of the world. Noah Grant did considerable work for the Indians and was, conse> qnently, well known to most of them in the southern part of the county, and, being familiar with his dusky customers, possibly drank with them sometimes. ^

The correct account of Diver's murder as near as it can now be gathered, is, ^ in a notsholl, about as follows: John Diver had traded a mare and colt to Nickshaw, an old Indian, for an Indian pony, and who got the best of the trade will never now be ascertained, but that Diver cheated the Indian is not reasonable from the fact that they were on good terms afterward, several months elapsing from the time of the trade till the shooting. BesideSfthe wary character of the Indian and his knowledge of hoxse-fiesh, preolndea any probability of his being cheated in that kind of a trade. It is said, ho\vover. that Nick-^havr VH>came dissatisfied because the mare would not ' eat sticks" - browse - in the scant imdacgrowth, not being raised on that kind of food, as the Indian rarely feeds bis horse. The truth of the matter, no doubt, was that tho troachorous and revengeful nature of the savage prompted him to get even with Diver, not because the maro was not a good one, Dor that he was cheated, but that she was not snited to Indian moow of living, for he never asked Diver to trade back. He being an old man and not qnitp sxiro of his aim, employed John Mohawk, a young buck, to shoot his fancied aggrievor; so, on the night of January 22, 1807, lilohawk watched his opportunity and sent a ball through the temple of Daniel Diver, the brother of John, he being mistaken for his brother. He was shot between where the monument now stands and the blacksmith shop. The bullet destroyed the optic nerve and rendered the victim blind for life; he afterward raised a family. A party was collected who followed the Indians, who immediately fled into Biehland Township^ in what is now Summit County, where S^ickshaw and his sqnaw wore killed. Big Son, the chief, and several others were captured and brou^'lit back, tried and acquitted ; Mohawk escaped. It was a case of proxy all around, for neither Daniel Diver nor Mohawk had anything to do with the affair, except as shooter and "shootpe."

In 1S02 Henry Shewell preached the tirst sermon in Deertield Township. In 1803 Bev. Shadrach Bostwick, who married a daughter of Daniel Diver, eame to the eettlement with his father-in-law, and from that time made hia home in the township when not engaged in ministerial duties. He was one of the very early circuit riders of the Methodist Church, and was a man peculiarly fitted for the arduous duties of the position. His endurance was wonderful, and. although not having much culture, his sermons wwre powerfnl, and just what was suited to the primitive ideas of the pioneers. He, of course, preached the tirst sermon in Deertield, and the next was, doubtless, Rev. William Shewell. Rev. William Swayzey, also, was an early preacher ot'the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he would get so excited that he would jump down from the pulpit and rake his hearers over the coals from the floor. The first church society organized in the county was the Methodist, about lt>03 or 1S04, and consisted of the Lewis Day and Lewis Ely families; their first ehnroh edifice, however, was not erected ontil 1818, when a frame building was "put np " on the Bouthwost corner of the square. The next was in 1S35. by the same denomination. The present substantial structure was dedicated July 26, 1874, and is an honor to the taste, piety and liberality of the Methodists of the township. This edifice cost $8,000, and ia handsomelj finished and furnished. The present pastor is Rev. J. Vi. ^loore.

In 1816 Rev. Bruce organized a Presbyterian Church of the Old School, and they erected a small building on Lot 11, but it afterward passed into the hands of another branch of the church. Rev. Beers also proached here. The Disciples of Christ organized a church in 1828. They have a very neat little church now, with Bev. Pioi-son as pastor. The Deerfield Free Presbyterian Church was inocMrporated in 1853. John, F. and L. Hurtzell were elected Trustees, Caleb Steel, Treasurer, and Jacob Shuts, Clerk.

The first school taught in the town was presided over by Robert Campbell, somewhere about 1803. The house stood on Lot 20. In the following statistical review is shown tbe present condition of the Deerfield schools; Total revenue, $2,600; total expenditures, $1,024; eight school buildings, valued at $3,500; average pay for teachers, $30 for males and $22 for females; pupils enrolled, 102 boys and 101 girls. The schoolhouse at Deerfield Center is a commodious and substantial building.

Dserfibld Towm0Hip

Yale. - Postmaster, Hiram Farham; wagon and blacksmith shop; steam Mw-mill. Deerfield Station - waMlimieAf John S. Wilsra. Benton Depot - warehonso, Bosworth & Shafer. Gi^t and saw-mill water-power, one mile south of Deerfield Center. Steam, saw and grist-mill, three miles southeast of Center. Steam saw-mill, two miles northeast of Center. Tannery, onefourth mile west of Center. Tannery on soathem line of township. Cheese faotory, two miles southwest of Center. Town mill, two and one^half mi lea Boatheast of Center. Gunsmith, two miles northeast of Center.

Township Officers. - Trmteea, C. M. Smith, F. D. Tibbals, Ely Day; Clerk, James For^the; Treasorer, H. P. Hoover ; Assessor, O. P. Mowen; Constables, H. N. Hntaon, jrames Wataon; JoatioeB of the Peaoe, J. H. Hoffinan, O. S. Tibbals.

Deerfield Agricultural Society was organized at Deerfield February 0, 1874, with Charles O. Betts, Harmon D. Hutson and Charles Parham members. This was a aodety for the diffurion of useful knowledge, of whioh the ladiea of the township were honorary members.

The township is one of the best in the county, all things considered. The land is excellent, and it is well watered, the Mahoning River and its tribntariea aflbrding ample irrigation for Ihe southern and western portions, whilst nnmerons small streams supply the l alance. The soil is mostly a clay loamp and the land lies handsomely. Considerable wool is grown, in addition to a large sorplos of the ordinary farm products. The Cleveland, Yoongstowu & Pittsburgh Bailrottd passes through the towndiip. A heantifnl monument stands at the Center, erected to the memory of the gallant boys in blue who 80 nobly marched and bravely fell that their country miorht live. Deerfield sent eighty-six soldiers to the held, and fifteen of them were killed or died in the ssrrioe.

Ghaptbr Xix

Early Settlkment - Abbott and Chavman - Other Pioneers - Rial Mo- Arthi k and R. M. Hakt - Some Xoted Nambs - Organization and Officers - Tin: Champion Hunt - Old Time Adventures, Facts and Social Events - CuLKcHiiJi and ijciiooLb - Edinburg Center - Business, Ke-

Soukces Amd Statistics

EDINBUKG, at the partition of the land of the Western Reserve, was drawn by Gen. William Hart^ of Saybrook, Conn., who owned, in addi* tion to thia township, which in the survey was laid oflf as Town 2, Kang9 7, Sheffield and Saybrook on the lalco and fractions of other townships. Gen- Hart was a very wealthy man for those times, and invested $20,000 in Western Bewrre stock. He was a Major-General of Militia, and served in the Bevo- Intiomuy Army in Bbode Islaiid. He died in 1817, at the age of wTenty-two years.

In the spring of 1811 Eber Abbott, of Tolland County, Conn., arrived in the township and settled on Lot 2, Subdivision 5, being the southwest corner of the nortnwest quarter of the townahlpw He bailt a cabin and made a cloaring, but mot with an accident that rontlorod him a cripple for life. A tree fell x\\Hn\ one of his feet, and broke several of the bones. His wife afterwai'd dying, he removed to liavenna Township, and settled on a piece of land owned tiy Dr. De Wolf, atxmt the aame time marrying a aiater of Jacob Stongh, who lived near by. Abbott afterward moved to Michigan, where he died.

Shortly after Eber Abbott came in, Lemuel Chapman, Jr., whose sister waa the first wife <tf Abbott, aettled on Lot 2, Sabdivision 5, being the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the township, made a clearing and built a cabin. He boarded with his father, who lived just across the line in Bootstown. The winter following his settlement he returned to Coldbrook, Tolland Go., Oonn., for hb wife and children, but just before starting, his wife died, and ho brought his six children, part of whom lived with their grandfather, Lemuel Chapman, Sr. He afterward married a Widow Waller, of Palmyra, who also died, when he married as hia third wife a maiden lady. Dorothy Bond, by whom he had five diildren. He waa the father of fifteen children, eleven of whom were living at the time of hia death, which occnrred in November, 1^57, he being a little over eighty years of age. Hia yoongeat child, a boy, was only twelve years old at the tima

Isk 1818 a man by the name of Howard settled and made an opening near Silver Creek, where he resided till 1815, when he exchanged his place for one near Sandusky to a James Stoops, who cnnie in and still further improved the Howard settlement. Stoope was originally from Beaver County, Penn., and in 1700 the Indians made an attack on the settlers at Brady's Bnn, when his father lived, and carried off a nomber of prisoners, among them being Stoops, who was then a child. Thev were elapsed before they were released.

Bdinburo T0Wm8Hip

In February, 1815, Alanson and Justin Eddy started from tboir bomo8 in Williamatowii, UasB., and came all the way through in sleighs, wilh their families. Alanson made the first settlement on the farm afterward occupied by C. EL Rowell. and Justin broke the first p;ronnd and made the first clearing on the splendid farm now owned by Theodore Clark. Justin had been out the year previously with his father and made his seleotion. A young man, who drove one of the teamn for the Eddys when they came in. afterward married and fiottled down, and in after years becamH an excellent owninj^ a fine, highly cultivated farm, all the retiult of his own industry and perseverance. This was BiismII Olark, who not only was a good driver, bat an esfMrt in f handling an ax ; the first trees cut on many of the farms of Edinbnrg were laid low by his sturdy strokes. He used to point with pride to many a hage«tiunp, as the result of his early labors.

In the year 1816 a large aooeaeion was made to the population. Besides Boveral others there came from Connorticut in sevpn wagons forty-two persons, bein^j the families of Henry £k)tMford, Amasa Cantield, Capt. Trowbridf^o, Edmund Bostwick, Elizur Bostwick, Cyreneus Buggies, Itial McArthur and Ifr. Oowell, the father-in-law of the latter. They stfurted sometime in Angnst and arrived on the 3(>th day of September. This number of persons arrivint; in one body, gave an impetus to immigratiou that made the little settlement feel like putting on organization airs, and it materially advanced the price of land.

Robert Calvin, a bachelor from Virginia, came in about this time and settled on Lot 8. He afterward married Miss Fisher, of Palmyra, and Juno 15, 1820, his son, John Calvin, who now resides in the northeast comer of the township, was bom. David Trowbridge and Sylvester Oilbert also eame in 1816, and settled in the northeast corner of the township.

Bichard M. Hart, who was born May 0, 17U5, and who still resides upon a portion of the land whereon he settled, was a nephew of Gen. William Hart, the original proprietor of Edinbnrg, and went to live with his uncle when he « was six years old. The rich old uncle took a liking for the boy and provided well for him. giving him the entire northeast quarter of the township; so the young land-holder in May, 1817, came West to look up his possessions, and liking them so well, went back to Connecticut, married his sweetheart, and in the spring of 1818 returned and 'settled down for a good loner life, which he certainly has enjoyed. He first settled at Silver Creek, near the east line of the township, cleared eight acres and put it in wheat. At the organization he was the first Treasnrer, one ol the Jnstioes of thePeaoe and one of the Supervisors.

In 1819 many settlers came in; among the number was Adnah H. Bostwick, of New Mil ford, Conn., who settled on Lot 8, Subdivision 2, being in the northeast uuarter of the town. He firRt came to Ohio in 1805 with his father, who settled in Canfield, and from there went to Bootstown, then to Palmyra, iritere he married, and from there to Edinbnrg.

The township had now arrived at the point when the inhabitants desired to become organised and have their own officers, and, application being made to the Commissioners and granted, an election was held April 5, 1819. Edmnnd Bostwick, Justin Eddy and Daniel Trowbridge were the Judges of the Election. The following officers were chosen: Trustees, Alanson Eddy, Daniel Trowbridge, Edmund Bostwick; Justin Eddy, Clerk; Fence Viewers, Enoch Martin, Benjamin Brown; Overseevs of the Poor, Amasa Canfield, Robert Calvin; Appraisers Lemnel Chapman Jr., Amos Thurber; Lister, Lemuel Chapman, Jr.; Supervisors, Lemnel Chapman, Jr., Justin Eddy, Bichard M. Hart; Con* stablee, Daniel Trowbridge, Benjamin Brown; Trrasurer, Riohard 11 HaxL

At a Bubeeqiieni eleetioii Jmtin Eddj and Biehard M. Btatt mm ohoaen Jxntices of the Peace. There were twenty Totea cast, and sixteen tax-pavers in I the township. The name of the township arose from the fact that Levins FA(\y

I had purchased the first land in the township (although he nwot came into posaession of a foolt of it, he not having complied with the eoiitrad; of porehaae, and it paased to another), coupled with the fact that the two other Eddja wore among the first settlers and prominent men. It was called Eddysbiirg and from that the transition was not great to Edinbnrg. It had, originally, i been called ** Hart and Mother," but just exactly why, doM not now appear, I nnleia it was in honor of the mother of Oen. Hart, an ezamplary old lady, I who had been known to somo of the first settlers.

Edinburg was not settled up as rapidly as some other of its neighbors, owing to the fact that the southern half had not yet regularly come into market; but it mnat not tie auppoaed that it was entirely nnaettled at that time. Several "sqnnttnrs," as they would be called now, took up lands, and when they came iuto Tiiarkt't bon!.;'ht them. This accounts for the settlement of 1611 by Abbott and Ciiapiuun, as some have supposed that date was too early for them. Besides, where they settled was near the Bootatown Hne, and Rootstown Tit that period wns far advanced, a number of Chapmans, relatives ; of the one who settled in this towuship, being there as early as I'^'U. It is I altogether probable Lemuel Chapman< Jr., and his brother-in-law, Abbott, rea<£ed this place from Chapman's fathw'a aettlement acroes the line in ' Eootstown, as all east of them was what might be called a howh'jig wilderness, and very correctly so, for the accounts the old settlers n[ivo of the number of wolves in thoee primitive forests, eepecially at night, was something t not to be ignored.

About the biggest hunt that ever happened inside of Portage County was I the Army Hunt of ISl'.). participated in by Edinburg, Rootstown, Atwater i and Palmyra. It took place on the day before Ohristmae, and the slaughter - I groond was the sonth half of Edinbnrg and the north half of Atwater. It 1 was conducted in the usual way, having offiaam and a cordon of hunters within seeing or hearing distance all the way around. Trnmpeta were sounded by the leaders, which signal was passed along the line, taking about five minutes to I make the circuit. This being thesnmmoiM to advanoe, a forward movement waa I made by all till they enclosed a space of half a mile square, when shooting besz^an. After nothing else could be seen alive, the hunters gathered their game, and found they had 1U3 deer, 21 bears, 18 wolves and about 500 turkeys, which were equitably divided, r Lemuel Chapman, late one evening whilst in search of his cows in the woods east of his house, lost his way, and night coming on had to remain where he was, as he knew that wandering around would, possibly, take him ' farther away from home; so he "clnm" a tree and prepared topaaa the night in that position, in order to be safe from wolves. His family getting uneasy about him wont in search of him and found him, but thoy approached his tree, not knowing he was there, one of his sons, Jool, remarked: " Well, I guess the wolves have got daddy." when the old man sang out, " Til get yon when I come down," almost scaring the boys out of their senses.

Justin. Polly and Sall\ Clark and Hairiet Canfield went nutting one day, and were caught in a rain storm, and had to stay in the woods all night Justin helped each of the girls up a tree, placed the nut bags around them, and made them as comfortable as possible, and there they stayed till morning, but they were all terribly exhausted from their strained positions, and their hands badly swollen. Polly afterward married Seth Day, of Kavennai Sally married

In the ledge of rocka on the land where Justin Eddy settled, there was an"^) immenae den of yellow rattle snakes, and the boys tued to pass many a Sanday killing the ''varmints." Seventy-two were killed at one sitting, as it were, and the Jumbo of the lot was hailed out and tormented by luivinr^ sticks poked at him, until, finally, a green stick with the bark taken ofif was tiurost at him, into whidi bo slriidr his fangs, and the Tiros coald be seen, we are told, ascending through the pores of the wood, twent74wo inches, and ahnoet dripping out of the end of the stick!

" Uncle " Thomas Brigdon says that the first corn he planted was put in ground plowed with an ax, the *'ball plow*' even in that day being Hcaree. He cleared the land where the town house now stands. Also, that since he came here, there have died in four fnmilios thirty six persons. Justin Eddy and John Campbell built the first saw-mill in 1816, on Barrel Kun, on Lot 2. Heiuy Botsfora built another saw-mil) and mn it for many years. The first hoose was built at the Center bj James Stoops in 1818, and the tirst orchard was set out by Lemuel Chapman in 1815. In 1819 Frederick Wnds worth donated an acre of ground about three- fourths of a mile north of the Center, for a burying place. It is said that a oabin was seen in the township as early as 1808, by Lonael Chapman, Jr., while on his way to his father's in Boots* town, but it is possible it may have been just over the line in the township named, as no settler can be traced here earlier than Abbott

The first child bom in the township was a danghter to Lemnel Ohapman, Jr., bom July 23, 1815, and the next was Richard, son of Amasa Canfield, born April 24, 1818, he being the tir-st white male child born in the township. Tbetilird birth was a son, Asa U., to Harvey Boteford, born October 13, 1818.

The first death was Maiy J. Eddy, aged four years, a danghter of Alaason and Rachel Eddy, who died August 4, 1819, and the grave of this little girl, which remained solitary and alone for nearly a year in the grave yard north of the Center can now be seen surrounded by others so thick that one csanot walk without treading upon them. The nest death was that of Mrs. Nancy Bostwiok, wile of Elizur Boetwick, died July 17, 1820.

The first marriage was in February, 1817, when Greenbnry Keen and Betsey Hitchcock joined fortunes. The ceremony was performed by liev. Caleb Pitldii, a Congregational minister, at the honse of Alanson Eddy, with whom the young lady had conto to Ohia

During the early days there was no regularly organized church in the township, but occasional sermons were delivered by ministers of the Connectioot HBssionary Society and the Methodist oirooit riders, the first sermon being about 1812, by Rev. Nathan Damon. In 1823, however, a Congregational Church was organized by Keva. Calnb Pitkin and Charles B. Storrs, the members being Edward Bostwick and wife, Benjamin Carter and wife, Mrs. Alanflon Eddy, Uib. Amasa Gsofield, lira. Giesnbury Keen and Ethel Strong. They afterward erected a small ehurch, but in 1844 pot np a neat and beantifal building.

In the latter part of 1820 a Methodist organisation was effected. They had no honse of worship^ bnt Bot. P. D. Horton and Bev. Phillip Ghreen ofBoiated ing almost unfit for use it was roraodelod and rededicatod January 23, l80d» Bishop Kingsloy preaching the dedicatory sermon. The building was finished in a modem and tasteful manner.

The lirst Hchool was taught in a log-honse on the land of Amasa Caniield in 1S18, and the teacher was Miss Clarissa Looniis, of (^harlestown. Her scholars were Jnlietto A.. Edwin A, and Harriot Kddy, cliildren of AlanBon Eddy; Henry, Julia, Harriot, Tolly and Charles Canheld, children of Amasa CauAeld. The second school was tanght by Hiss Electa Bostwick, in 1819, diating the gnmmor, and another was taught in the following winter by Jesse Buoll, near Campbellsport. In 1823, howPV(»r, tho fathers and niothcrs becoming a little more ambitious^ desired a school of a higher grade thau those up to that time, BO they employed Anstiik Loomis, of Atwater, to fill Uieir bill, who entered into a contract with them as follows: " December 3, Agreed with Austin Loomis, of Atwater, to teach school in Edinburg three months for twelve bushels of wheat per month, one-half to be paid at the end of three months in gralDf and the remainder in aome other trade, such aacatUoi aheep and whiflt^.** A reference to the school atatistica of the present day ccnTeya a fall idea ox a half century's progress:

Edinburg Schools. - Revenue, $2,500; expenditure, $2,375; 7 school buildings Talned at $4>000; pupils enrolled, 106 boys and 75 girls; average pay of teachers $25 per month.

Kdinburg Special District. - Revenue, S1.8U8.66; expenditure, $1,178; 2 school buildings valued at $4, (KM); average pay of teachers, $40 per month; pupila enrolled, 89 boys and 27 girls.

There is an excellent high school at the Center with Prof. Work as Principal, and Misses Georgia Gladding and Hattie Frazier aasistants. There are seven other schools in the township. An excellent brass band, with W. G. Gano as leader, furnishes music for the Edinbnrgers. There is also at the Center a Methodist Episcopal Church, He v. Joseph Gledhill, pastor; Congregational Ohnrdi, BoT. A. E. Colton, pastor; Disciples Chnrch, Elder Wmte, pastor. There is a Methodist ZSpiscopal Chapel, a branch of the church at the Center, hut with no regular pastor. At Silver Creek is a good sized tannery owned by Shultz Bros., and a saw-mill one mile southeast of the Center, F. B. Chapman, proprietor. Campbellsport, which partly lies in Edinburg Township^ need to be a place of considerable importance during the old canal days. It now haa one store kept by James Beardsley who also has the post* office.

Tmtmship Officers: - Trustees, Channcy Porter, P. L Byers, Joseph Featherby; Clerk, H. A. Mai-sh; Treasurer, IL H. Spiers; Assessor, Thomas H. Clark; Constable^ D. P. Hill} Justices of the Peaoe, John B. Giddings, \V ill.

Edinburg is strictly an agricultural township, and has some of the finest land on the face of the globe, although hilly in some sections, and splendid crops nro raised besides being finely adapted to grazing. Aruch improved stock are bred and handled, and at their fairs an excellent showing is made. In 1850 the hrst sale and show exhibition occurred, at which, on March 22 of that year, seed com, oats, spring wheat and potatoes wore placed in the Town Hall for inspootion and sale. The Cleveland 4^ Pittsbm<^h Railroad just touches the southwestern corner of the township. Edinburg furnished forty*nine soldiers for the Union, nine of whom were lost in the servica

Grange Hall Bnilding Society of Edinbmg was oi^anized Pelmiary 2, 1878, with the following members: Smith SanfcHVl, Isaac Williams, M. O. Gano, L. B. Wright. E. B. Higley. E C Myers and Hezekiah Harin. The purpose of organization was to build houses for a store and hall, and conduct the name at Klinbiirg.

Edinbnrg Farmers' Mntnal Insurance Company is one of the best conducted associations of this order in tli;» wholp lip^erva The entire Board of Managers fdr 1885 are named as follows: President, J. B. Giddiugs; Vice-President, T. H. Clark; Treaanrer, D. D. Davis; Secretary, George P. B. Merwin; Directors, Ve«pu Clark, B. W. (lilbert, Calvin Hutson.

First BrnYiNo r; khtm) - i; i i i)«snuRY - Ouoaniza ! rn\ I'tkst J.wv Si it - ("ackleh's (;iii>i: - 1 Mi'oKi am Phimitivk Imh > I iMi.s - KiNii Watku- I'owKK - The MANrKA( ti he of Glass - The Twin ^'^,I,A«l x in 1827 - Tin: Rival Taveuns - Eaiu.y Meiuhants, etc., etc. - Pbookess or Impkove- , MKNT - Zen as Kent - Franklix Land Comfant - The Canal OrTRAOB -

Standino Kock Cemeteky - Names. Aof-s and Dkaths of Some PLvuly Set rr.ERs - John Bi'.oavn - Buady's Leap - J'uimi tive Sriiooi.s -.d Ke- LioioN - Sketches of the Cihtuciies- Free and Accepted Maso-ns - Odd Fellowship - Other Orders and Socibties.

FKANKLIN was the tirst civil organization ett'ecttni in what is now Portage County, after the admission of Ohio an a State in 1802, it being formeid the same jear. Originally it comprised the \\)H>Ie of the present Portage and parts nf Trnmbull ami Snmmitt ('(ini;tit>s. The ]>rpsont territory of Franklin, Town 3, Range y, containing 10,(>IK) acres of land, was purcba.sed in 1798 by Aaron Olmsted, of Hartford, Coon., for 12^ cents per acre, and in 1803 Eseldel Hoover and Balph Bnckland were employed to snrvey it into lota. A> enrly as 1808, before there was a snttlor or a clearing of any kind, Benjamin Tappan, of Kavenna, and others from Hudson, had cat a road through the township from Ravenna to Hudson, and built a bridge ovor the Cuyahoga Biver about four yards from the spot where Capt. Brady made has famous leap in 1790. The late Christian Cackler, then a lad of thirteen years, passed over this bridge with his father in 1804, on their way to the southeast corner of Hudson, where they settled.

About the let of November, 1805, John Haymaker, bis wife, Sally, and their three children, Jacob, Eve and Catharine, came into the townshi[) from "Warren, where they had located a year previously, having come from Pittsburgh, Penn. They were of German descent and members of a large ooniiee> tion of that name in central and northern Pennsylvania, many of whom are still residents of that State. The falber of John Haymaker had prospected through this section of country daring the spring of 1805, and liking the looks of Franklin, generally, purchased from Olmsted's agent a tract of hmd ^ covering the present site of Kent's mill. Arriving at the Gnyahoga John and his family took possession of a rude cabin, left by the surveyors in 1803, which stood just west of where the upper bridge now is. This hut had been used for several years indiscriminately by the Indians as 9 stabJe for their horses, and as a shelter by the deer and other wild animals, and was ahnoet a foot dee}> with excrement, which had to be sboveled out before occupation. During the time they occupied this hovel the Indians came around them in great numbers, as the headquarters of the red skins was at the Falls of the ' Cujahoga, and on a small stream in what is now Streetsboro Township, One day while the Haymakers were occupyint^ this rabin, a few Indians came there and the squaw, as usual, took her pappoose from her back, and stood the board to which it was attached against uie logs, as they never took their children into the houses of the whites except in very cold weather. After the mother had gone in, a wild bog came through the brush, and grasping the ' Indian baby ran off with it. The mother hearing the noise ran out and resoaed her babe, bat not imtil the infuriated hog was badly beaten.

In the spring of 1806 George Haymaker, brother of John, and their father, Jacob, came in. Jacob built a honsp on the west Bide of the river near where Kent's mill now stands. In April of this year iSamuel Burnett was employed by Judge Quimby, of Warren, to make a clearing on Lot 65, and to receive as payment eighty acres of land in that vicinity. He made a clearing and [)nt up a cabin with the apsistance of the father, Christian Cackler, but he did not remain there loi^, as Judge Quimby died and Burnett failed to get f his eighty acres. During the following fall Krederiek Haymaker came in and I porohased a tract of land that inelnded most of the npper vi Ilnge. Frederick, j also, was a son of .Jacob, and was a man of fine edncational and natural abilities. He had served as private secretary to the brilliant but unprincipled Aaron Bnrr, on the famous expedition for which he was tried for treason, and is said to have possessed the secret reasons and motives? and plans of his superior, but he never divul<^od a word in regard to them; the facts, known to no one else, dying with the faithful secretaiy. Frederick was the father of twenty* ssfen children, having been married three times. The Haymaker family owned about 000 acres on the pres«'nt Rite of Kent.

Dnrinrr ISO? the Hnyrnakers built a small mill, the stones nsod for grinding beiug those known as ' 'hard heads," and were prepared by Bradford Kellogg, of Hudson. The mill, of course, was a vary mde affair, and was need before it was'entirely finished. Crotch ed poles were planted, upon which other poles were placed, and a roof thus formed. A coarse cloth was used by hand nspd. with vory little improvement, for several years. Androw Kolso wan the miller. From tho fact thai this mill was located hero the name, Franklin Mills, as desigaatiiig the Tillage, originated, for in time the settlement became known throng the mill, it reoeiTing patrooago trom a Uurga section of tbo surrounding conntrj'.

The first white child bora in the township was John F., son of John and Sally Haymaker, this event ooenning September 11, 1807; Emily, a danghter to the same parents, was born November 26, 1809. The first death was that of Eve Haymaker, the wifn of Jacob, and father of the first f-ettler, John, and his brothers George and Frederick Jacob died in 1819, John in 1827, George in 1S38, Frederick in Tnimbnll Coonty in 1851, and Sally June 15, 1809, at the advaneed age of ninety-foor yeara, having lived in the township sixtyfonr yf»arfl

During the summer of 1807, after the organization of the county, there was a very heated competition to secure the county seat for Tappan's town mills. Benjamin Tappan, of course, wanted to gain the prize and brought much influence to bear; but Olmsted, the proprietor of Franklin, and John Campbell, although a resident nearer Bavenna, endeavored to secure it for the Haymaker settlement Campbell was instmoted by Olmsted to offer to the Locating Committee a plat of ground for the public buildings, and to give them the necessnry assurance, also, that he would defray the ex}>pnBe of erecting a Court House and Jail. A beautiful site was selected by Campbell on a rise just north of where now is Standing Rook Gemeteiy, and it was deemed osrtain by all concerned that the county seat was secured, but Olmsted returned to liis borne in the East and died, lenvinrr all his iinBokl lands to his grandchildren; so, when the committee came to make the necessary arrangements, they had no title to the land. Thus, Kent lost the ooanty seat, but she fally makes up for it in natural advantages, and bids fair to outstrip her rival in population, as she has in manufacturintr, ^

In 1811 Jacob Reed moved into the township from Rootetown, where he and his brothers Charles and Abram had settled in 1804. Reed purchased the little mill from the Haymakers and improved it, rooting and aide^boarding it. From this old miller tho settlement came to he called for several years Reodsburg, but, he selling out in 1816 to William Price and George B. DeFeyster, the mill was again very materially improved, and the name Beedsbnrg waa dropped, the original designation of Franklin Mills being generally adopted.

The old burying-gromid in whinh Kvp Haymaker was buried in 1810 was donated by one of the Haymakers and contained about two acres of land. It was used nntil Standing Book Cnnetery was laid off^ and in that old and hallowed ground lie the remains of many of the early settlers.

In 1814 Christian Cackler was married to Theresa Nighman, the ceremony being performed by Frederick Car is, of liootstown. This was the first wedding in Franklin Township^ and when we consider that nearly ten yeaxe had elapsed since John Haymaker had eat his first tree there, it will be seen how slowly the settlement grew.

In 1814 Elisha Stevens erected a saw-mill, the first in the township, wbieh stood npon the spot where was afterward erected the Lane foondry. Up to this time very little timber was used except in the rough. As soon aa Stevens got his mill in operation the settlers actually built frame houses.

The township was organized in 1815, and an election held, at which twelve votes were east, the voters being Amasa Hamlin, Elisha Stevens, George Aqrmaker, John lEhymaker, David Lilly, HnblMnrd Hnrlbnt, Jaeob.

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Alexmul' r Stewart, Adam Nighman, William ^Villiam<i, Christian Cackler, Sr., and Andrew KcIbo. This was the entire voting popumtioa in 1815. The offioere elected were: Trnsteeii, Amaaa Hamlin, Blislia Sterena, Qec^ge Haymaker; C'kik, Hubbard Hurlbui; Justice of the Peaoe, John Haymaker; Jacob Rt>L»d and John Tuckor wert» tbo Judoi;os of Eloftion.

Not long after the organization, the lirst lawsuit in the township occurred. It was a ease for dams^es institntod by Christian Caokler, whose geese had trespasst'd upon the lands of David liiily, add was a revenal of tbo ordinary mode of procedure. Lilly killed several of Cuckli'r's fjooBe while dt'Htroyinp; his (^Lilly's) oats, and was sued therefor, and forced to pay fur them, the Justice holding that there was nothing in the law to prevent a goose from destroying a man's oats, but that there was a penalty for killing the same gooee, even if caught.

Some time in the twenties a couple of cases arising from the ultra-religious sentiments of a few of Ihe early settlers, occurred, which created a great deal of feeling. A man named Brown, who was working at one of the mills, wont out on Sunday, having no other time thron<,']i the week to do so, to gather a few chestnuts for his little ones. He was observed by the son of Deacon Andrews, informed npon, as a Sabbath-breaker, and fined $1 and eosts. About the san)e time Jacob Stough and Sylvester Babcock, of Ravenna, drove through the Hettleniont and the next day were arrest*»d at the instance of a fellow named liusseil, who was studying for the ministry. The teanisters were on their way home from having delivered some gotxls to Zenas Kent. They were also lined, but the good people of Franklin Mills went to Stoagb, and told hitii that if he wotild cowhide Russell Ihev would foot the bill, in order to clear their township of such fanaticism, and Stough did it, yet there was no one to make complaint against him for the act, so just was considered the drubbing he administered to the ])ious man.

The present otVicers are naniecl as follows: Justices of the Peace, Isaac Russel, John Bentley, N. L. limber; Constables, Oliver Newberry, John F.Clark; Tmatees, Willard Moody, S. W. Bart, William Bassett.

In 1818 Joahna Woodard moved into the township from Bavonna and commenced erecting, in conjunction with Frederick Haymaker, who had removed to Beaver, Peon., a number of buildings. They put up a woolen factory, dye bonse, cabinet shop, toming-lathes, and a nnmber of dwelling bouses; also a hotel. liavmaker & "Woodard continued in partnership till about ]82(), when they dissolved, the former takiii«r tlic mill property, and the latter the hotel and other buildings. In 1S22 Woodard had formed a partnership with Benjamin F. Hopkins and David Ladd, who bnilt a glass faotoiy near where the npper mill now stands. They also built a tannery on the east side of the river, near the upper bridge; a woolen factory, saw-mill and ashery one mile east of the village, on the Breakneck Creek, and a woolen factory and aiivil-miU in the lower village, and opened a stock of goods in the basement of the house of George B. DoPeyster. In addition they erected a numlier of private dwellings, antl did a large business till 1831, when the firm dissolved and divided their property.

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In 1824 James Edmnnds, and Honrv Park and his brothor, built a gllH factory on land now belonging to the Cackler estate, and for about ton years ending in 1681, William H. Price and George B. DaPeyster had in operation inthelLower Tillage a grist-mill, saw-mill, forge and trip-hammer and a hemp factory. They also ran a general stote and did a fine busineBs. They manufactured scythes, ares, forks and many f flmr articles of iron and steel. De- Peyater was at this time appointed ro&tiuaster of Prankiin Mills, that being the official name of the office, although the twin eettlements were known rcspeotifely aB Upper Village and Lower Village. The name Carthage was _ afterward applied to the Upper Village. Postmaster DoPeyater kept his mail matter in a cigar box, and 25 cents was the asoal moderate fee of Uncle Sam for carrying a letter a reasonable distance. 7

A sad event dissolved this enterprising firm <^ Price & DePeyster. In IS'J l ^Tr Priop went to New Lisbon, where he procured a lar^a grindstone to be used in his factory, and was ou his way home, having the heavy stone upon a wagon. It was in I'ebruary, the ground being covered with ice, and through some jolting or jerking of the wagon the stone slipped off and t«Xi . upon the unfortunate owner, icflictinf^ such injuries that ho died shortly afterward. Anotlier mihfortune in connection with the Price & DePeyster mills came in March, 1633, in the shape of a tremendous freshet that swept everything before it, oarrying away the entire mill proporfyand inflicting an almoat ' iirep arable loss upon the proprietor.

In 1831-32 Frederick Haymaker sold bis property, consisting of 100 acres of land and a tine water power in the Upper Village, to Pomeroy He lihodos, who bnilt a grist-mill, woolen faotoiy and a cabinet shop, and set np tnming« lathee, which they operated for several years. About this time J. C. Faircbild purchased the tannery put up by Woodard and others and ran it for .some years. Mr. Fairchild erected the first brick house in town, it being a small bailding aonth of the John Thompson reaidenoe on the weet aide of the riter» and in thia boiUling waa bom the aon wlio became Gov. Fairohild of Wifloooain. ^

With the enumeration of the above industries, we are brought to what might be teamed the end of the first era of Franklin, or rather Kent, alfhongh the aettlement was not known as yet by that name, it being called Carthago for the upper, and Franklin Mills for the lower settlement. It will be noted that the tastes and enterprise of the original settlers of Kent ran strongly in the direction of mannfactoriee, and it is very remarkable that^ with a popolationao sparse, so many mills and factories should riae^ considerable in size, too; yet, what^she has since accomplished in thia way make her original e£E(NrtB appear pigmoan. ,

JhNjm an address delivered at the seventh annual meeting of the Portage- Sommit Pioneer Association, by'Kev. W. F. Day, the following facts are gleaned. In 1827 the spot now occupied by Kent contained two villages, having each about half a dozen families. They wore known originally as Upper Village and Lower Village, bat, in addition the upper one bore the clasaio title of Carthage, whilst the lower was Franklin Milla, the postal station. The name Carthage, however, died out, and until the present appropriate name wafl adopte<l, the villages were called Upper and Lower respectively, and j Franklin Mills, collectively. The tirst house built in Upper Village about that time waa by Eber Phelps, on the aite where now Uvea S. P. StinaA

Another amaU hooiie stood a few rode below Phelps, and was ocoapied by the Froets. The third, and more pretentions building was erected by Frederiek Haymaker, a part of which is still standing. The fourth house, as yon oome down, was the residence of Rev. William Foljambe. This hoose was on

' owned a cow that knew when Sunday came as well as her master, and woald pack off to where they held services on tbat day with the human regularity of those early church-goers. The animal, doubtless, knew when Sunday oame by connecting the faet of wagons ooIleotiu<; together, all of which contained hay or straw for the use of the horses that hauknl them, and to which she would i make her way and filch a good feed. The fifth house was the Woodard Tavern, owned and kepi by Joshua Woodard, and is the present Dewey place. Another, and the sixUi house, stood a few rods west of the tavern. Passing southward through the woods to a point a few rods sonth of whoro the Episcopal Church now stands, you come to the residence of William Stowart, whose danghier Maria became the wife of Hon. Marvin Kent. In the Lower Tillage was located fhe Lineolii Tavern, on the opposite side of fhe way a small house, and to the east was the residence of George B. DePeyster, who was Justice of the Peace for several years, and a Judge under the old county system. Franklin, for many years after the date mentioned, had no lawyer or scribe, and DePeyster drew np all docnments requiring the peculiar and nonsensical phrBBeology of the law - his "hereonto attached," " fetch, bring and conv'v Iho body of," and his "for, and in consideration of and by." bein^ deemed absolutely essential to the legality of any paper between man and man. On' the opposite side of fhe street was the reeidenoe and stors of Gapl Price, and on the brow of the hill above the grief-mill was a small building ill which was kept a store by Samuel Foljambe, now of Cleveland. There were two dams to the river, each village having one. The upper dam was nearly againsf fhe Woodard Tavern, raf was afterward moved a few rods fartfatr down, where a grist-mill was built. The lower dam was across the river, a little above the present location of the flonring-mills, and a flouring mill, the only one in the two villages, stood near the site of the present mill, whilst on fhe other side of the river was an oil-mill. In fhe Lower Village was a saw. mill. There was also a small glass factory, a woolen-mill and a tannery, and f these, added to the others, with possibly the addition of two or three small houses, constituted the two villages.

'''' were each kept by more than ordinarily shrewd nien, and both of the proprietors were accommodatirj^ and pleasant hosts, coming fully up to the standard of knowing **how to keep a hotel." And they both exerted their powers to obtain custom, using all fair means to divert travel one from the other. There were two roads of travel between Ravenna and Cuyahoga Falls. About one mile west of Ravenna was the Black Horse Tavern. There the road to Cuyahoga Falls divided. The northern ronte^ starting off where it now does, ran about where the prssenf road does, save tiiat it crossed direeflj between, flie lakes, instead of turning to the north as it does. After reaching the Wood* ard Tnvern it dropped south a few rods, when it turned west across the woods and came out near John Perkins' place. The other road, after leaving the Blai^ Horse Tavern, crooked around somewhat, though running in the same general direction as the present one, until, within abont a mile of the town, it turned off to the southwest, crossing the Cuynho<:fn on a bridge a little below the grist-mill, then continuing on until it intersected the other. One road, theceftne^ waa the road to Woodavd'a, and the oilier to Linoola'a, and the

Btrife between the rival tavern-keepers was which should succood in turning the travel at the Black Horse Tavern, or at the Porkina place. They had handbills and sigoa ealogizing their respective houses, each showing ooaola> | tivelj wh J hifl route mm the Mat tat general trsvel, end whj the other wee a ' great deal farther, a great deal rougher, and entirely unfit for any sane man to think of taking, unless compelled to do so. The Cleveland Pittsburgh stage was then running, and the great point was to get the stage route. Sometimee laneoln wonld indiiee the stage oompany to nm by his roate» and th«n "Woodard would get tbem to adopt his. The matter was finally compromised bv running: on the Woodard road from the IMack Horso Tavf>rn to Woodard's, when the stage would then drive down to Lincoln's, and then on weet^ Aboat the date 1827 Jairos Oassios Fairohild came into the Upper YiUage^'^ built a house opposite Woodard's, and opened a tannery on the other side <^ the river. He then bnilt the brick store which was taken down some years ago, that being the tirbt store in the Upper Village. A Mr. Boot was associated id^L him. There were then two etoree in the Lower Village, but shortly after* ward a Mr. Button opened a store in the "Cppor Village, and Carthage for a time ran ahead of its rival. This store wius in the south end of Woodard's Tavern, but the proprietor dying, G. D. Bates, now of Akron, carried on the baainetB.

No douht it was the fact of there being two distinct dams, that two villages grew up so close together, but when the Pennsylvania \' Ohio Canal Company destroyed the water-power, and especially when the brick buildings, own^ xeapeetively by Zenae Kent and Joy H. and Nelson Pendleton, were erected, all competition ceased, and everything has moved harmoniously since.

Outside of the vilIap;os there were, })osBibly, about twelve or fifteen families, and taking these with those iu the villages, gave a population of not far from lS» souls in the entire townships The following in regard to those outside of the villages is gleaned from a source considered to be as accurate as can bo obtained at this lat« date. There may have been a few others who afterward passed away and became forgotten. In the northern section Jaoob Lilly lived on the east banks of the East Twin Lake; John Haymaker waa occupying the 01 in place, half a mile or so below, where the roads fork. Edward Farnham Ijad a small clearing on the east side, and Paul Davidson on the west side of the lake; a little further down was the settlement of Amasa BM/oHvLf whose wife, familiarly called Avnt Bailie, was a holy terror" to the young men who attended "meeting" where she did, for if the piotis old lady would detect any one of them whispering or misbehaving, she would march over to where he sat and take a seat beside him. As everybody knew what Annt Sallie meant by that, the nnfortnnaie offender became "spotted" forever after. In the northwestern part of the township lived the ("acklers; John Dewey lived where he died some years ago. In the eastern part of the town, Barber Clark, a Moore family, the Busts, the Clapps, Deacons Andrews and MeBride, Timothy Wallace, Andrew Kelso, Alexander Stewarti Adam Nighnan, Hubbard Hnrlbat^ Bliaha Stevens, tad a few others also were residenta.

Peyster property, the mill on which had been swept away the preceding February, they paying for the entire site §7,000. The property consisted of 300 acres of land, including the fine water-power of the Cuyahoga. In the course of a year Mr. Kent bought his partner's interest and continued the improvenento. In 1886 Mr. Kent and Messrs. Pomeny & Rhodes sold their entire interests, the first for $75,000, and the latter for $40,000. Kent received in cash $25,000, and P. C. B. $d0,000 from the Franklin Land Company. The partiM baying were known as the IVuJdin Land Company, whieh in the year following transferred its inteveot to a company incor]>orated as the Franklin Silk Company, the foUowinf^ gentlemen being the members: Normnn C. Baldwin, Truman P. Handy, Alexander Seymour, David H. Beardsley, Sherlock J. Andrews, John A. Foote^ Solomon L. Seyeranoe, John S. Potwin, Seth AV. Crittenden, Flavel W. Bingham, of Cleveland; A\i<xustu8 Baldwin, John B. Clark, Van K. Humplirey. of Hudson; Elisha Beacli, N-ith.m Button, of Franklin; Theodore Noble, of Middlebory; Zenas Kent, George Kirkham, George Y. Wallace, of BaTenna; Frederick Wadsworth, of Edinbnrg; and James AV. Wallace, of Boston. This company made great impvo^ementa. They erected the line stone dum ;uul the woodou bridge, where now ptands the tine stone bridge, and seemed to lay out a splendid future for Franklin Mills. The company contracted with the canal company to L>uild the dam, but, as the canal people, besides controlling the water at this point, were interested in the then rival town of Akron, they diverted nearly the entire volume of the Cuyahoga to their canal, OHteusibly for navigation purposeH, but really to furnish waterpower to Akron. This was a terrible blow, as well as an outrage on the stniggling, yet plnoky and enterprising people of the twin Tillages. The property of the Sill Company depreciated, it became emban-assed, their circulating \> notes wrri' n tiii d, and it finally went into insolvency. But, fortunately, by legal procebs and purchase, the property fell into the hands of a man whose stamen and abilify were eqnal to the emergencies. This man was Zenaa Kent, who did all in his power to revive the flagging interests and to recover from the effects consequent upon the loss of the water-power to the villagea In iH-ib the property was sold to Henry A. and Marvin Kent, who for thirtyfive years, have been engaged in promoting the interests of the now ctmaolidated villages. They erected a large cotton-mill, but through the failure of Eastern parties to fulfill their obligations in the matter, the factory was not stocked. Glass works were erected, and other enterprises inaugurated, but the village langniahed nntil the completion of ttie Franklin & Warren Bailroad, now the New York, Lake Erie & Western, late ly kn .wn^as the N. Y., P. & O. R B. This great road was a conception of the brain of Marvin Kent, who early saw that the future would require a great thoroughfare to nm diagonally across Ohio, and he ceased not his labora till he heonl the whistle of the first paaeenger train of the Atlantic & Great Western Eailroad as it approached Franklin Mills on the 7th day of March, 1803, in which year the name of the duplex villages was changed to Kent, in honor of the projector, executor and President of the now coloesal raiboad system. The location of the principal shopa at Kent, and it being the termini of two divisions, gave a marked stimulus to the village, and it being the geographical centre of the road, an elegant depot and dining-rooms, to which U. A. and M. Kent donated grounds valued at abont |10,(X)0, were erected.

John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame, came into the adjoining township of Hudson with his father in 1805, and moved into Franklin Mills in 1885, being then thirty live years of age. He built a house which he intended opening as a boarding house, but failed in his v.enture 'through some cause or another. The hoose atili stands in Kent, and was need some years ago by a party for the very purpose Brown intended it. Brown & Thompson's addition to Franklin Village was platted by John A. Means, surveyor, in 18H8, and recorded October 22, that year. This embraced twenty-one acres, extending from the bend of the river to the east line of Tbwnship Lot 12, and from the ncwth line of Towndsip Lot 12 to the aoath line of same lot. This plat was vacated. The

Island tract and extension to AVater Sli'eet of fort\ fivp arros was pnrrlia«e<l by Marvin Kent from Capt. Heman Oviatt, tu wbuui it was conveytxl by John Brown. The dMoriptioi» on the original plat, now in Marvin Kent's possession, are in John Brown's handwriting.

On May 7, 1867, Kont was incorporated, and the first Mayor f loo^od was John Thompson. Five Trostees, correeponding to Couucilmen, were also seleeted, they Lxnng C. Jobm, Jamee Glass, Jos(q»h Bethel, E. A. Parsons and A. D. Power. The Baoorder was John F. Catlin.

On October 26, 1875, the Connoil authorized the pnrohase of a Silsby online, hose eart, hose, etc., for the sum of $3,400. In Mardb, 1876, the Fire Department was organized as a department of the village.

The issue of bonds for $6,000, money reqaired to make additions to the triple-aiehed bridge at Kent, over the Onyahoga at Main Street, was aathoriaed March 25, 1877.

The first school in the township is said to have been taught in the winter of 1816-16 by Abner B. Lanphare, of Brimfield, in a small cabin that had been erected by a Mr. Bne in 1811, but just where it Hii xtd !i;ia now been forgotten. In the summer of 1817 the inhabitants erected a building, regardless of religious proclivities, to be used as a meeting-house for all sects, and for school purposes. It stood on the east side of the river near where Dr. Crain need to live. Among the early teachers, in addition to Lanphare, maybe mentioned Amaaa Hamlin, who tan^'lit I'vliilc more for aocommodntion than pay) also Miss Orpha Cortiss, and a Miss i hayer. Up to about lb'60 there was only one scfaoolhonse here, the one bnilt in 1817, and one teacher. The growth educational interests since that time is shown by the following statistics:

There is one of the fineet educational buildings in the State to aocommodate the exoelleot union schools, under the able management of Frof. A. B. Stntcman, Superintendent of Instmction of the oify. The Principal is Miss

Anna M. Nutting. The teachers are Mfc. A. L. McClellan and Misses Stella M. Pearson, Addie E. Stewart, Qeorgie Gladding, Nellie Jonee, Nellie Gettja, Belle Bradley and Anna Ohristian.

Religioas services were held at an early day, but just exactly where and when is not now definitely known, nor is itcertainly remembered who preached the first sermon in the township. Bev. Shewell is thought by many to have been the firet to expoand the Word of God in tiiis portion of the wilderness, and others think that Rev. Shadrach Bostwiok, a MeUiodist Episcopal minister who came to Deerfield in an early day, came np here about the first. Rev. Joseph Badger preached in Mantua as early as 1802, and it is altogether probable that he addroaaod the settlerB here as elsewhere afterward. Ber. Caleb Pitkin was also quite a noted Congregational minister, and it is more than likely he preached here at an early day. But the Congregational Choroh has the earliest documentary evidence and must be accorded first place.

Congregatkmai GhurcH. - ^By an amagement entered into between tiie authoritiee of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches, a plan of union was adopted by which in a community where there were a few of each they might unite in a common society and thus sustain religious services when neither oonld have done so alone. There being a few Ctongregationaliats and a few Presbyterians scattered through the township, they came together June 18, 1819, and organized themselveB into a society under the cnre of the Portage County Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, the following persons being the members: Samoel Andrews and wife, Samnel Ii. Andrews, John Jonee and wife» Mrs. Roxana Newberry, Mrs. Jared Thayer and Mrs. Amos Loomifl. They held public services in the schoolhouse, and had occasional preaching from missionariee till 1825, when Rev. George Sheldon became their pa^or. Ifr. Sheldon was a yoong man of qoiek perceptions and a high order of intellect, but extremely sectarian in his religious views, so much so that he would not at first fraternize with other denominations, but this wore off in time and he became a portion of the community like anybody else. He bnilt a lai^ two-story frame house about midway between the villagea, jnst north of the Kent residence, which was the finest house for the time in this section. He remained with the church till 1831, when the congregation was without a pastor until 1836, at which time Mr. Sheldon was again called to the pastorata In the meantime the society had ereoted the neat briek edifice which was dedicated in the year named. In 1839 Rev. S. W. Burritt was called as their pa.stor. During the pastorate of ^Tr. Burritt a remarkable revival occurred and a large number of persons were converted, among whom was W. F. Day, afterward a well-known preaoher. These meetings were in charge of Rev. Avery. Burritt was reserved in his manner, and thereby ffii](>d to attract the sympathies of his entire flock. At one of their " confessional " meetings some of the members honestly made it known that they did not like their pastor, which so shocked the good man that be resigned his charge, went to Cleveland, and abandoned the ministry. The church was then without a minister for some time, when Mr. Bates, who also taught an academy here, took charge. Rev. Ira Tracey came in 1846, and liev. John A. Seymour from 1852 to 185& In 1858 the new ohnrch was built, daring the ministrations of Rev. T. M. Dwight. In a short time after this came "Rov. Jdhii C. Hart, who was followed by Rev. D. B. Coiikling in 1808; then ca!i!o Rev. A. C. Barrows. The present pastor is Rev. Chase. The church is in a ywy fiur oondition.*

Methodist Episcopal C/iurcA. - - Not far from tbe date of the orgonization of the Clongregational Chorcb, the Methodists came together and f omed a class and held oocasional meetings. In 1822 fbe Deerfleld Oircnit was formed with Bey. Ezra Boothe and Bev. William Weetlake as the preachers, and Franklin was one of their charges. Then came Bevs. Dennis Goddard and Elijah H. Fields. In 1824 Bev. Ira £ddy and Bev. B. O. Pljmpton were the pastors. ! These gentlemen fbnnd thesoeiety in « tenrihle wrangle. Some claimed to be members and others were denying it; so^ after one of the preachers bad liBtened to thpir disptitpH, he took the church records and throwing them into the fire, told the people that if they wanted to be members of the Methodist Episcopal Ohnrdi tiiey would have to join over again. This out the Gordian knot, and harmony was vsatoted. The society in its reformed oondition, consisted of tho following persons: Amasa Hamlin, wifo and two sons, Hubbard Hurlbut, wife aud son, Jacob Lilly and wife, John Dewey and wife, John Perkins and wife, Bev. William Foljambe afbd wife, Samnel Foljanibe and a Mrs. Bnq^ier. The society worshiped for several years in the schoolhonse, but in 1828 they fitted up a small building, which of Inte years is kno^n as the Morris Honse, a little above 8. P. Stinaffs, on the opposite side of the road. This was really the first church building in the township, being need ezelnsively tofr religiooe purposes, although it was afterward used as a schoolhouse. The Methodists occupied this building until they erected their regular church in 1840. Some strong preachers held forth in that first little building, and among those may be mentioned Bev. Charles Elliott, who was Presiding Elder in the early days. He was an Irishman and full of wit. On (me occasion when holding class meeting, several of tlie penitents expresped groat rlosiro to leave this wicked world aud go to Heaven. Elliott slopped one of them short and said that as far as he was concerned he wanted to go to Heaven when his time came, but just now he wanted to go home to Phoebe, his wife. Father Eddy was also a / strorif^ character. "With Eddy in 1825 was associatod -John Snnimorville, who was followed by Eevs. I'hilij^ Green, Pet«^r D. Horit n, E. H. Taylor, George "VV. Bobinson, J. W. Hill, J. C. Ayers, (Joruolius Jcues, C. Mofiitt, Thomas Carr, John B. Aikin, Wilder R Made, John McLean, Aorora Gallender, Hiram Gilmore, "William Stevens, W. S. Warallo, Edward J. Kennov, Alfred G. SturgiH. K. J. L. Baker, \V. F. AVilson, L. D. Mix. ]). M. Stfmrns, I. H. Tackett, E. lieevee, J. McLean, A. Burroughs, J. L. Holmes, A. ^l, iieed, W. H. Hnnter, M. H. Bettss, T. Bw Tait, W. H. Bear, W. A. Matson, 8. Heard, L. "W. Ely and a host of others of recent date. "Mr. Jones, who was here in the early days, is remembered for his almost angelic temperament. Wilder ii. Mack was one of the most graceful of pulpit orators, and Alfred G. Btmcgis was considered a very impressive and eloquent man. The diureh has a good membership and is in a very prosperous condition, with a large Sunday- S<^oo]. The prpsent pastor is Rev. J. E. Smith.

Church of the Jjisciples of Christ. - The next church in the order of its organization is the Disciples, which was formed into a regnlar societ} in 1827. They encountered very bitter opposition at first, more 80 than any Protestant denomination of (ho century. The violence of the opponents of the teachings - of the Cain]ibells was one of the most unaccountable features of the early religions days, bat this violence and opposition was met fay thesHnrdy blows of a number of powerful expoundoi-s, in tho persons of such men as Revs. Walter Scott and Sturdevant aod Bosworth. Churches which disagreed in everything else joined hands in attempting to put down tbe efibrts of this sect, but, like all peRwented eanses, it uriv^ upon tibe very weapons hurled at it The soeiety at its oiganisation consisted of Selah Shurtliff and wife^

Lytlia Sluirlliflf, Desin Shnrtliflf, Lnraan Shurtliff, Naham Smith and wife. Setii Corbetfc and wife and William Converse. The following have bven pastors of this church: Bcvs. A. Sturdevant, G. Boewortii, A. B. Green, Moore, T. Mnnnel], Griffin, Oronemeyer and one or two others. They have a neat mtkI comfortable church edifice and aro doiup^ a goo<l work aftor the »>ac0iitrated opposition offered thpui. Disciples Chiircli was orrrnnizpd under State law, Deoember 12, 1^58, with George Van Selah, S. C. Clapp and James G. Wallaoe, Trostem, and Eleassr W. Crane, S«eretarf.

Pri)fi'stant Episcopal Church. - Pr«^vious to IS^'!,' tlioro had been a number of Eyiiscopaliana ih the township, but there was uo or<xJinizRtion as a church. In the year naniied, on October 1 1, Bev. A. Saudiord formally instituted a ohnrohf the Berviees being lield in the red tehoolhotue in the Lower Village^ at which time the following persons became members: Edward Parsons, Levi Stoddard, Francis Furber, Thomas Cartwright, Lucius M. Lattimer. George B. DePeyster, David McBride, Asa Stanley, Chaoncy Newberry, David Fraaier and Tileman Wagoner, being the male members and representing heads of ftunilios. Asa Stanley was Senior Warden and Edward Parsona* Junior Warden. The Vestrymen were Levi Stoddard, Francis Furber, Thomas Cartwright and George B. DePeyster; L. M. Lattimer was Clerk. The present ehnrdi building was eonseerated June 12, 1888 by Bishop MoIlTaine. Rev. Grin Miller wastbo first Rector, servinr^ from 1S34 to 1841. The Rectors following the last date have been: Revs. G. S. Davis, A. Bronson, A. Phelps, S. Hollis, L. L. Uoiden, S. S. Cheevers, J. F. Curtis, T. Taylor, W. H. Capers and A. J. Brockway. Thejr have no Beetor at the presoit time.

Baptist Church. - Not far from the year 1885 a small Baptist society was formed in Frankliu, but the mombers wero von^ few, the Knowlton family being the principal adherents. This denomination, strong in many localities, for some reason or another has never snooeeded in gaining the foothold most of the other churches have, althourrh the aparse meinbersbip has consisted of some of the most excellent people. For years they were without preaching at all. and have generally been very irregularly supplied. This church was reorganized March 14, 1875. The original members were L. Twitohell, E. B. Smith, W. H. Van Horn, R. Dillon, A. Newton, George Botham and George Bolham, Jr., Rev. Lambert Twitchell preachinpj gratuitously for it for four or live years, during which period they erected a very neat, though small church edifice. The society is on a better footing than it ever has been, and they now have stated services. Rev. M. N. Smith bein)^ pastor.

Free-Will Bn]>tist Church, of the Rapid^. rloctod D. B. Crafts. Clpi k; A. U. Crafts, Arii^l i'roctor and Oscar Chamberlain, Trustees, and John Bartholomew, Deacon, at its reorganization.

UnivermliBt Church. - ^There being a Universalist Church established at an early day in Brimtield. the niprnbors of that denomination in Franklin attended divino thoro. Alvin Olin and family boiiig about the first who held to that iuith in the townnhip. Ou the fourth Sabbath of May, 18G0, an organization was effected. A reorganization of the Franklin UniTersalistConferenoe took plact^ March 18(57. Alvin Olin, P. Boosinger and J. D. Haymaker, wore elected Trustees; A. IVI. SInunan, Treasurer, and Nelson Olin. (Jlerk. Among the members were Ransom Olin, J. G. W hitcomb, T. H. Marshall, Mary R. Haymaker, Eliiea Wrif^rl^t, Mary J. Pavsona, Mary Boosinger, Afanira Russell, A. Merrill. ^lary A. Furry, Sybil Bradley, Effie Parsons and Rhoda Boosinger. The pastors of the church have been Revs. Andrew Willson, J. S. Glodbill, Edward Morris; the present pastor is Rev. R. B. Marsh. The flhnrdi building, costing $17,000, is a tastefnl and ocmmodioosatniiitiire, and ia

St. Patriok^a CaihoUe Church. - ^Thia ohturah was organized in Kent iu . 1867, by Bev. P. H. Brown, at the time pastor of Hudson, Kent then being Cme of the out-miBsions under his charge. Forty families comprised the chnrch orpnnizaiion at first, but in after years it has run up to about 100 families, liie church edihce was erected in 1868, at a cost of $12,000, and ia praotiflally free from debt They have a very taatefully laid oat eemetery. The priests in charge have been Revs. P. H. Brown, W. J. Gibbons, J. P. Carroll, J. D. Bowles, Fathers O'Neill, Louis Braire. and Bev. J. T, Cahill. In Pebmary, lb85, a priest was appointed for this parish.

Evangelieal Lfkheran Cfcurcft. - For several yearn past tiieve have been a number of persons holding to the tenets of this church, and have had occasional preaching to them by ministers of this denomination, but during the year 1884 they built a very neat little structure in which Bev. Mr. Paulsgrove preaehea for them. It ii^ though flmall in nnmbers, an aetlve and sealoas helper in the work of the Lord.

Knights of Honor - Cuyahoga Lodge, No. 316, K. of H., was chartered June 30, 1876, by the Supreme Lodge of the World, J. N. Ege, S. D. The charter members were G. S. Howdon, Robert McGhee, A. C. Hines, N. W. Gregg, E. B. Smith, W. R. Emery, F. W. Root, A. D. Clark, W. H. Van Horn. A. B Bertram. E. Herman, E. M. -Tdnes, E. Parkinson, W. M. Stokes, A. D. Orr, J. T. Wishart, George Fulsinger, John StouflFer. D. H. Plump^ J. S. Smith, M. A. Norris, W. I. Cook. They have seventy-six members. I Royal Aroamiin, No. 106, was chartered Jnne 18, 1878, with twenty-seven members. The chief officers or Regents were W. "W. Patton (1878), J. D. Davis, M. A. Norris, L L. HorrifT, O. S. Rockwell, N. J. A. Miniiicb, Martin Uoldridgeand N. B. Bynard. The Secretaries were J. O. Judd, James Wark, U. A. Thorpe, Orlando Thorpe^ L. a Beed, W. B/ Jones and A. B. Statsman. The number of members at presMit is forty-nx. The financial standing of the lodge is good.

A. H. Day Fost, No. 185, G. A. ii. , was organized December 11, 1882, and was chartered December 80, 1882, and named in honor of the late A. H. Day, of the Seventh Ohio Infantry. The charter memberB were James Grane^ L. G. Reed, N. B. Rvnard, F. L. Allen, C. P. Rodenbaugh, M. L. Robinson, F. B. Allen, G. A. Furry, J. S. Sweeney, W. M. Stokes, B. A. Brewster, R W. Fessenden, Sam Dobbins, D. P. Holoomb, A. D. Clark, A. 0. Hioda, A. P. Powell»

Bistort Of Portaob Coubtt

E. Mmnich, L. N. Eaw, John Bubbine, H. W. Eirk, B. F. Hargeayes, C. H' Barber, Hugh B. Deads, F. H. Vickers, H. L. Atkins, Leaoder JohssoD, W. E. Greanfield, I. L. Heriff; B. McGhee, Ed. AN ulb, AVilliam Ropeon, W. fl. Van Horn, H. M. Foltz, George Hfirter, F. L. Dunning, Thomas May, A- A. Rogers, S. J. Rouse and iiobert Smith. F. L. Dunning was First Commander in 1882 and 1888. J. 8. Sweeney was elected in 1884, and Robert McGhee in 1884-85. N. IV llynard was First Adjutant; F. B. Allen, Second AdjuUnt, in 1883-84, and Ezra Fowler in 1884-85. The members not mentioned in the foregoing record are John Bechtel, George Meacham, M. B. Norton, William Tncker, G. W. Myers, M. N. Smith, H. H. Snyder, M. V. Merrill, P. Y. Barnes, George L. Audrews, Jefferson Thomas, \V. H. Fergurson, C. D. Buggies, J. S. Cook, H. U. lloUlen, L. L. JohnBon, M. C. Clark, J. H. Howell. J. M. Irwin, Charles Waldron, John Fitzpatrick, John Allman, A. B. Stutzman, Cbarlee S. Tyson, D. Baker, Fredfliriek Myers, Henry J, Shook, H. D. Sawyer, John Cross, John "Willeston. W. Champney, George Gangle, John I. Hiist ings, O. Champney, G. Bertholf, Phil. Ulm, Ezra Fowler, Levi Reed, S. B. Cuthbert, S. B. Bailey, Paul Clark, L. M. Chapman, Dallas Moulton, Geo^ Moon, I F. Wilcox, H. O. Barton, W. S. Ni<&ezson, a A. NickotBon, H. W. GMdley, William Miller and Moaea Owen. This is one of the most progroe sive posts in this district.

Sent Draviafic and Literury Association gave the first entertainment in February, ISSH. The drama adapted waH "Green Buphes," in which the following named members appealed : F. H. Yickers, W. Donaghy, B. F. Hargreaves, A. O. Hind, T. 0. Ruggles, R. HcKeon, Thomas May, A. Wilder, A. B. })t rtram, Thomas May. Jackson, Harry Vickers, Alexander, W. Stratton. Jones, Holmes, Hastings, McNeal, Davis, Rnssell, Miss Polly May, ^lins ^Nlaud Jackson, Miss Rose Green, Mrs. Thomas May, Miss Emma May, ^lisa Bertha Uargreavea and Miaa Ada Minx. Robert McEeon is Secretary and Treasnrer.

Franklin Manufacturing Company was ale^o organized Judo 16. IS51, for the purpose nf mainifncturing cotton, wool and flax. The Rent brothers. S. Hoggins and A. H. Allen held 4,000 shares of $50 each. This company was, in reality, fonned for the purpose of holding the water-power of fheOnyahoga Biver at this point, and oilier property, aneh aa the woolen>milla, aaw^ mill, etc.

Franklin Cotton Mills Company was organized June 13, 1851, with Zenas, tCharlea and Marvin Kent, Sylvertw Hn^^ns and Fred Whipple, incorpora* tors. There were 6,000 aliaree, yielding a capital of $150,000. This was organized for the purpose of manufactnrinrr cotton. Gen. James, of Providence, was one of the projectors. The cotton industry was never established, as the plant was not supplied under the contract.

Joseph Turner & Sons Manufacturing Company was organized March 20^ 1880, with Joshna Turner, Mrs. Martha Turner, J inas Hey, John (4. Turner and Alice \L Hey, members. The object of this association was the manafaotnre of alpaca doth and othor textile fabrica The capital was placed at $100,000. In 1878 the firm of Joseph Turner & Sons leased the old cotton factory from H. A. & M. Kent, introduced English machinery in 1^79, and inaugurated the manufacture of alpaca early in 1879, employing seventy-five Tbe firm now employs 120 hands annually. There are 114 looms and 1,800 spindles. The machinery is valued at Ifr)0,{X)0. The buildings are some of the finest devoted to indu.stry in the Westei-n Reserve. John Q. Turner is President, and Joshua Turner is Secretary and Treasurer.

Franklin Glass Company was organized Jane 13, 1851, with Charles H. and ICarvio Kent, H. M. Onnoall, George W. Welb and Horaoe 8is«r, stookbolders. There wave 800 shares, aggregating $20,000. Joseph Lyman was a member of this company. The works were bnilt in 1849-50.

Day, Williams &> Co., Rock Glass Works, were established in 1864 by Ed. L. Day and Oharlea T. Williama. The works were ereoted by Kent, Wells & Co. in 1840 and 1850, and piiiahased in 1864 by the present owners. The industry' employs 100 men nnntially; the capacity of the works is 70,000 boxes.

Franklin Glass Company was founded January 24, 1873, with £ben Applegate, Heniy Brooks, Lewis 0. Haler, Alex. Papa, Philip Demnfel), William L. Snydor and B. W. Jooes, members, for the purpose of manntaoturiag window glass. The oapital stook was plaoed at $50,000. This eompanj nerer erected boildinsi.

and the buildings completed in 1862. Marvin Kent donated the land on which the shops stand. The number of men employed is a decrease of 300 in the working force within a few years. The buildings and location are peooliarly adapted to a great Indnstrjr like this. The Snpmintendent is S. B. Smith, and shop clerk, J. P. HalL

Franklin Lath Machine Company was formed February 25, 1859, with William Merrill, J. S. Fiak, M. Kent, C. Feck, Jr., H. Ewell and A. M. Sheridan, memherfli The capital etock was placed at $20,000. This company erected buildings on Water Street, and carried on the manufacture of machinea Mr. Merrill, the inventor, gained control of this iodostrj and Car* ried on the Inisiness for some years.

Railway Speed Recorder Company was organised November 2, 1875, with the following members : J. B. Miller, William W. Wythe, J. H. Holway, A. L. Dunbar and W. H. Stevens. The capital stock was placed at $250,000, and the location of factory at Kent, with branch office at Meadville, Penn. W. H. Stevens, President, ud A. L. Donbar, Secretory and Treasnrer, 1876-77. £. A Parsons was elected Secretary in 1877. In 1878 A. L. Dunbar was elected President and re elected annually since that time, while Mr. Parsons has served as Secretary and Treasurer. The Directors since 1877 have been William W. Wythe^ J. B. Miller (now Superintendent), B. A. Parsons, A. Li Donbar. J. T. Blair waa a Director until 1879, when Charles Miller was elected. This industry employs tifty hands. The value of annual product is placed at $80,000. Buildings and madiinery are valued at $37,000. To J. B. Miller is doe in great measure the sQCoess of this enterprise. Ueitwaa who perfected the Kecorder, and placed before the company's salesmen a moat useful and reliable invention.

The Center Flouring Mill Company was incorporated February 13, 1850, with Edward Parsons, Robert Olark, ^r., Alvih Olin, James Woodard and Thomas Earl, Directors, and 141 stock- holders. The capital subscribed was $10, 0<^), increased to $20,000 in 1852. Thoma.s Earl was General Manager, and under this management the industry was transferred to Dr. Earl's son, who rented it to parties. The buildings were used for milling purposes until their destruction in the winter of 1884.

1879. In this yonr a brick buildiiii^ was erected and mnohinory placed therein at a cost of about $40,000. In 1S82 an addition was made to the mills at a 00ft of $5,000. liiere ara sixtem sets of roUera used in this miUt with a capacity of 200 barrels i>er day. The numbor f^mployed in all departments of this inihie^try averages twenty-five. Their shipping busineaa is oonfined to the Eastern btates.

The Kent Mills, now operated by QeoKge Bamett, give employment io three men. Machinery for grinding new oonit diopping and floor raanufaoture has been introduced.

T. G. Parson's plauiug-miii was established in 1800 by Porter Hail and Ed. A. Paraona, in what was known as the Old MitL About seven yean ago the old building was moved to the present site, and a new boilding eraoted.

Franklin Steam .Saw- mill is now operated by J. S. Sweet and M. M. Smith, and was bnilt in 1884. This linn deals laigely in all kinds of hardwood lambar, sash, doors and blinds, etc.

Kent National Bank, successor to the Franklin Bank, uf Portage County (fonnded by Zenas Kent), was ehartered in 1864 This eharter was renewed August 31, l^S t, to continue until 10<H. Slarvin Kent is President, W S. Kent, Vice-President; Charles K. Cla]>p. Cashier, and W. H. C. Parkhill, Clerk, The capital is ;&U)0,000, and surplus, $20,000.

Kent Savings and Loan Aasociation was organised Jnly 28, 1878, with Charles H. Kent. H. Y. Bradley, Tbeo. C. Bradley, Byron B. DePeyster, John Thotni)son, Henry Magan and David .L. BockweU, members. This oompany ceased business.

In early days the pioneers devoted themselves to the task of building np a town on the Cuyahoga, with remarkable energy. Not, however, until the various euterprisa*! wore taken hold of by Marvin Kent, did the tbo<jries of progress put forward by the old settlers assume practical shape. In 1848-49 many of those great industries whieh make the town their home were eoo> ceived, and shortly after thnpe busy hives of inanufacturing industry were constructed. The master-hand, in those pretentious beginnings of a manufacturing town, was Marvin Kent. A decade later we see him leading in railroad building, and snooeeding not onljr in oonstmoting the great road now known a? the New York, Pennsylvania &.*Ohio Kailrond, but also in securing the car and machine shops of tho road for his town on tlie Cuyahoga. The great sum of money which he dedicated to public enterprise, has been repaid by the fact that evofything he sees around him - a thousand sons of industry earning fair pay, and numerous trains exchanging people and products between tho East and West - may be considered the result of his enterprise. In tendering this reasonable tribute to Mr. Kent, the historian takes great pleasure, alao, in being able to make the statement thai the aotnal operators of |praaft manufacturing industries of the village are just empl<^er8 and enterpnaing jcitizens.

The township, in addition to the Cuyahof^a River and Romp smaller reams, oontains several beautiful lakes. The two largest are known aa the £abt Twin Lake and Weal Twin Lake, and ore plaoea of eonsiderable local Teeort dnrin^ the warm season, as they afford tine tishin^^ and comfortable camping gronndb. Pippin Lake is in tho northeast, Stowart's Pond to the west of Twin Lakee^ and several smaller ponds or lakes dot the township, but the most noted i» Birad3^8 Lake, about one mile aod a half east of the village.