Lorain City (part 21 of 77)

John J. Kendeigh

The Kendeigh family is of Genuan origin, the progenitors of the present stock having settled in Lancaster Co., Pa., some years prior to the commencement of the present century. Henry Kendeigh, Sr., of Lancaster, had two sons, Henry and John ; the former born Jan. 20, 1796; the latter, Jan. 8, 1800. When John was quite young, his father removed to Lebanon Co., Pa., and to Carlisle, Perry Co., in 1812. In 1823, Henry and John Kendeigh were induced to move to Ohio by their brother-in-law, Abram Rice, starting from Westmoreland Co., Pa. They occupied two weeks in making the journey. John made the entire distance of three hundred miles on foot, driving before him thirty sheep and three head of cattle, and keeping pace with the team which brought his family, and which was driven by his brother-in-law above named. Henry drove a team consisting of three horses and a Pennsylvania wagon, in which were his wife and two sons, Daniel and John J., together with their goods and chattels. Henry married Nancy Rice, and John married Mary Rice, sisters of Abram Rice. After coming to Ohio, John J. Kendeigh married Cecelia Tooze, of Tiverton, Devonshire, England, March 18, 18G3. She was born May 11, 1839, and came to Oberlin in the fall of 1856. To them were born three children, namely, - Henry B., born Feb. 19, 1866; Jonas E., born May 3, 1867 ; Mary Emma A., born March 27, 1873. The two latter were born in the old homestead at Kendeigh 's Corners.

Mrs. Kendeigh was an old and succe.ssful teacher, having spent some time in study at Oberlin. She taught school in Pittsfield, Oberlin, Russia township, and South Amherst, and also in the district in which she now resides.

John J. Kendeigh was born in Fayette Co., Pa., Aug. 5, 1820. His father died in 1836, leaving a family of five sons and one daughter to the care of his widow. John J., the subject proper of this sketch, being the eldest, though only sixteen, had to take the place of his father to some extent in assisting his mother to care properly for the other children. The fidelity with which he fulfilled this mission is best known to his brothers and sister who survive him, and remember with grateful aifection his labors of love for them. Through the whole of his life, Mr. Kendeigh has had more than an ordinary share of responsibility on his hands. For fifteen years his mother was a great sufferer from that painful disease, chronic rheumatism. For many years he cared for her alone, much of the time attending to the farm and doing the work of the house. After his marriage, as above stated, his wife proved a helper indeed to him, and cheerfully assumed a part of the care of his afflicted mother. Faithfully and well did each fulfill their mission of love for the dear one until her sufierings were terminated by death, July 14, 1871, after having been bedridden for four and a half years.

]Mr. Kendeigh was a mechanic by nature, especially as a carpenter and joiner. At an early day he acquired a dexterity and aptness for tools used in that branch of business, and buildings erected even in his boyhood arc among the most elegant in his neighborhood, and are regarded as superb pieces of workmanship. Mr. Kendeigh was a man of natural taste and refinement. He was a genuine musician ; sang well and played excellently. He had a fondness for sacred music, and held a place in the choir of the Congregational Church for many years. His soul was attuned to music, which had a harmonizing and refining influence on all the social elements of his life.

After an eminently useful and honorable life, he died June 2, 1876, and his earthly remains repose in the family burying-ground at Kendeigh's Corners. He left a most amiable and loving wife and three children (mentioned above) to mourn the irreparable loss of a fond husband and an affectionate father. They enjoy the consolation, however, that, owing to his blameless and meritorious life, their loss will be his gain.

seems only to luive been equalled by their cureless disregnrd of retaining records. Eiohteen or twenty churcbes have been organized, and ten are in existence at the present writing, but the older organizations which have the most interesting history, liave witiiout exception failed to preserve their early papei's, and in two or three instances have nothing whatever worthy of tiienanicof record. The historian has, therefore, been conij)elled to rely solely upon the menioi-y of early residents. A strange anecdote, but one of which the truth is attested by many persons, is related of the building of the first

A class had been in existence for some time, but no church building had ever been erected up to 1830, or perliaps 1833. Some time between the years here mentioned, Captain Stanton Sholes, an eccentric, but honorable man, of whom mention has been heretofore made, became the instrument, in the hand of Providence, for the establishment of a .place of worshij). He was riding his horse along the road one day, when the animal, making a vicious sidelong movement, unseated him. His foot remained fastened in the stirrup, and he was dragged along the rougli road for some distance at a terrible rate of s])eed. Ilis life was of course in great peril. Captain Sholes testified afterwards that he was never so thoroughly frightened and overcome with the fear of a horrible death as at this time, lie instinctively, as persons will when in danger, prayed that^ his life might be spared, and made a promise within his heart that if God delivered him from death, he would build llim a house of worship. Almost instantly the horse stopjjed, and hastily extricating himself from his perilous position, he resumed his ride. Within three days from this occurrence, the captain, true to the sacred promise he had made, began preparations for the building of a meeting house. Tlie work was soon pushed to comjiletion, but some obstacles to its i)rogress were met with and overcome. When the frame was in readiness to be raised, a large crowd gathered to assist in tlie work; but Captain Sholes, who was a staunch temperance man, refusing to furnish liquor, tlie men could not be induced to exert themselves. They had assembled with the expectation of having a wild carouse. They could not forego the pleasure, and they succeeded before they dispersed in having what was probably tlie largest spree ever known in Amherst. When they found that there was no hope of getting any li((uor from Captain Sholes, they purchased quite a quantity, procured miljc and sugar, and bringing a large churn out on to the village green, made up a collossal punch, of which all who chose to, imbibed, some so freely tliat the effects of the li(|Uor were very plainly visible. There are not a few gray-haired men now in Amherst who i-emember the scene presented upon the little park that day; and there are some who look back to the occasion as the first and only time they were ever under the influence of the ardent. The church was not raised until some days or weeks later, wlien Captain Sholes gathered together the total abstinence men of several adjacent townships, and had the pleasure of seeing the building go up.

There is no record left to show who was the first preachei' in this historical house, or who were tiio early otlieers of thechun^h. The building remained in use until it was replaced' in 1875 by a more commodious structure, at a cost of three thousand dollars. The trustees in 1878 were James .Jackson, Walter Seeley, E. C. Shuler, V. A. Criffin aud James Abel. Following are the stewards: James Jnckson, Walter Seeley, E. CI. Shulei-, Alvah T. Johnson (recording steward). Kev. S. E. Breen became ])astor in 1878.

None of the early records of this church are in existence, aud the information which the historian has been able to glean in regard to it, is not of an exact nature, as dates cannot be supplied. The church came into being soon after that of the Methodists, in whose house it was organized by the assistance of Kev. Dr. Betts and the Rev. Brown, of Brownhelm, Father Eells and the Rev. Goodell, of Birmingham. The original members were John Cliapin aud wife, A. S. Moffatt and wife. Freeman Nye and wife, Nathan King, Miss Bassett, Almond Chapin, Homer Tyrell,

Miss Harriet Chapin. John Chapin and A. S. Moffatt were elected deacons. Father Eells preached for a short time after the organization of the church.

The church split, in two or three years, upon the rock of abolitionism, several members who lived on the South Ridge withdrawing and forming a separate association. The church was one-half or two-thirds composed of whigs, with a sprinkling of democrats and abolitionists. A. S. Moffat, who is mentioned as one of the first members cast the first abolition vote in Amherst. The present church building was erected in 1840, after a long and tiresome exertion on the ]»art of a few strong sup[)i)rters of Congregationalism. The lot was a gift from Judge Harris. There were two factions iri the church. One of them strove to keep the church within the Congregational Association, and the other endeavored to achieve an independent organization. The latter was successful, but the church, after several years' existence in an inde ]icndent state, went back into the association. The preaching for a number of years was almost entirely by the professors from Oberlin College. At the close of the year, 1878, the church makes a favorable showing as regards membership) and general prosperity. The membership is sixty-five. Present pastor. Rev. H. C. Haskell. Officers of the church : clerk, Mrs. George Bryant ; deacons, E. P. Tuttle, Alexander Lambertson. Officers of the society: trustees, John B. Clough, A. L. Spitzer, A. Riggs ; secretary, E. H. Hinman; treasurer, Charles E. Cook.

Tills chui-cli was organized in the fall of 1824, and meetings were held at Welilj's house and other dwellings until 1838, when a jjhice of worship was raised which has since then been In use. ifcv. Charles Elliott was the first minister. George Dlsbrow was elected clerk.

The pastor, in 1878, was Rev. S. E. IJreen, who also has charge of the M. E. Ohuroii at North Amherst. The trustees at present are 0. A. Feleh, Jolin Petty, Edwin Durand, James Wyatt and Jonathan Messoll ; stewards, John Petty, Edwin Durand and James Butson.

The North Amherst Baptist Church

It is probalde that ]ireaclinig was Ijegun t)y the Baptists in North Andierst at a very early day. The Rev. Geo. R. Bryant is known to liave oceaslonallv preached there. The present Baptist church was organized in the winter of 1854. The Rev. Geo. W. Allen, having resigned his pastorate at Birmingham, came to reside up.ni the south ridge, and being disengaged, was urged to pi-cach fur the few Baptists in the vicinity. Tiie lirst meeting held Ijy him was in the Metiiodist ciiurch in Decembei' of 1853. In the following winter a series of meetings were held and many persons experienced religion. A strong desire for church fellowship being engendered, notice was given of the intention to organize a church, and on the 8tli day of Feliruary, ]8.")4, a number of persons holding, lettei-s of dismissal from various Baptist churches assembled in the Methodist meeting-house, where, after preaching by the Rev. S. Wadsworth, the regular Baptist cluireii in North Amherst was organized with the following members: Rev. Geo. W. Allen, Lewis R. Cook, Liith; r Owen, Beujamin Iirdfeni, Luther IJonner, Ansel F. Wattles, Reuben Allen, Phebe A. Bonner, Emellne C'ook, Rutli Crocker, Elizabeth A. Blanchett, Eliza Bonner, Mary Wilford, Lucy A. Barney, Nancy Owen, Hannah 0. Allen and Pearly Allen. Lewis R. Cook was chosen clerk. L. Owen and L. Bonner were made deacons. Rev. Geo. W. Allen was the first minister of the church. The first persons ba.]itlzed were Abigail Wattles, Bliss Remington, William Wilkinson, Anna Medlnirn, Anna Maria Foster and Emily G. Cook, March 12, 1854. The place of meeting was for two years the old school house or town hall, but In 185G was commenced the erection of I be l)resent cliurch edifice. It was dedicated in December of the same year, the Rev. J. I). Fulton, then of Sandusky, otficlatlng. The lot upon which the structure was raised was beught of the Cleveland and Toledo railroad company. Rev. Anuisa Heath became pastor in 1857 and was superseded in 1800, after nine years efficient service, ])y the Rev. Charles II. DeWolf, then of Seville. In Septendjer, 18G7, Rev. S. Jones, of Rldgevllle, became pastor, and two years later gave place to the Rev. William U. Stenger, of Zanesville.

Rev. C. C. Park entered upon his pastorate in November of 1870. The present deacons of the church are N. L. Cotton and Frank Snyder; and the clerk, Lester Cook. Ezra Straw, Frank Snyder and Lester Cook are trustees.

'J'iils German church was organized in 1845. The presiding elder was J. G. Zinger, and the constituent members were J. G. Tliouer, Adam Iloll, Phil Rau, John Berk, Philip Beal, John Holzhauer, Jacob Vetter, Geo. Miller and Geo. Ilosenfplug. The new church was established in l.sri4, and the building was brougiit from Browiihelm. Tlie j)ai'sonage was built in 1861. The jiresent jiastor is the Rev. Jacob llonnecker. Tills church Is in the village of North Amherst, but has a lirancli u]ion the south ridge road, of which Rev. Leonard Li ler was tiie first minister.

The Concregational Ciiurch Of Soi'Tii Amiieust

was organized on "the second day of December, 1834. Addison Tracy was clerk; Alexander Gaston was ajipolnted deacon in January, 1835. The church building was erected in the winter of 1838 and 1839. H. Tyler is the present supply pastor, and the following are the present officers of the church: Deacons, Lyman Cole, Alonzo Wright, Sr. , J. W. Humphrey; clerk of the church, George Prince; clerk of the society, Alonzo Wright; treasurer, D. J. Dulmage; trustees, D. J. Dulmage, (ieorge Prince and Luther Clark.

was established in North Amherst in 1874, and luis, at the present writing, a nienibei'siil|i of thirty-seven persons. Rev. Louis Damuiaiin is pastor, and has held that office for three years. The trustees elected for 1878 were L. Boeslng, William Ilintzand WiUiani tirugal.

was constituted ir. October, 1857. Tiie lirst trustees were Adam Ilargeniann, B. Ilililebnuid, Henry Young and John Sehaiier. 'I'he present pastor is the Rev. Jacol) Von Tabel, and the trustees are John G. Bans, (i. Cotli, H. Scliunch, John I'reidrlch, F. Reffennlg, (i. Roth and V. Fey. Tlie cburc-li is' in North Amherst.

of North Amherst originated in 18G8. Previous to that time Rev. L. Molon, of Elyria, had been for three years holding monthly services in a room belonging to John Plato, in the old Reuben Wooleott building. About six families attended. The congregation having considerably increased, it was decided, in 18G8, to have a snitablc place for holding religious services, and accordingly a lot was bought of Joseph Trost, on Tenney Street, upon which was erected a church building thirty by forty feet m dimension, which was consecrated ou the 15th of

August. Ill 1873, Rev. R, Roucliey was settled as pastor of the Vermillion and North Amherst Catholic churches, and, after he hud been with the society for one year, it was found that it had grown so as to necessitate an enlargement of tlie building. The addition was built in 1873. Rev. Roucliey was in charge of the congregation up to August, 1875, after wliich, the present ])riest. Rev. Joseph Roemer, was sent liy Bishop Gilmour to take charge of the church, and also that at Vermillion.

School houses wore built at an early day in the north and south parts of the township. It is now impossible to ascertain vyhich jiortion of the settlement tlie j^enple first did honor unto themselves, by providing for the instruction of their children. A school house located on lot forty-eight, ujton tlic south ridge, is said to have l)een the first in the township. Sophronia Rlair taught a small school tliere. Another was built upon lot thirty-eight, just east of "the corners" n,nd outside of the present corporation line of North Amiierst. Miss Fanney Barnes (now Mrs. David Smitii) was teacher here in the summer of 1823, and afterward Miss Philania Barney, (Mrs. S. N. Moore), taught in the same log building. Joseph Quigley erected a building near his home for the quaker Mollenoux to preach in, and it was also used as a school-liouse until Henry Walker bought it and converted it into a dwelling house. Miss Murray of Carlisle, afterwards the wife of Clark Eldred, of Elyria, was the first teacher in this school-house. The first male teacher was either Wm. H. Root of Sheffield, or J. A. Harris. Both of them taught at an early day in the (Quigley school. Joseph L. and Daniel G. Wliiton were also teachers.

The present district-schools of Amherst, and the public schools of North Amherst, compare favorabl}' with those of otlier places of similar size. Passing from the mention of tlie smaller district and sub-district-schools, we will follow the growth that ha.s created the present school of North Amherst village. It was not long before tlie accommodations of tlie old school-houses, with their rough slab seats with pegs driven in them for legs, were found insufficient for the growing needs of the community. The old town-liall, a frame building twenty-five by thirty-five feet in dimensions, was used as a school-house until 184!), when it was removed to its present location, on Clnirch street. Hereafter being made more appropriate for the use intended, by refitting, it was again made to serve as a jilace for the education of the youth until 1856, when it was found to be too small for the increased number of pupils. In the year mentioned the village of Amherstville, as it was tiien called, was organized into a union school-district, with Josiah Harris, Alvah T. Jolinson, Dr. A. A. Crosse, Dr. A. C. Moore, Daniel Axtell and M. Wilton as directors. Judge Harris donated a piece of land as a site for a school-house, and the directors, after some delay,made arrangements for the creation of a brick building. Charles Tjeach drew the plan, and the contract for Iniilding was awarded to Daniel Axtell and M. Durand. The building was erected, two stories in height, and twenty five by forty feet. The brick were made from clay taken from the cellar and baked upon the spot. 'I'hc cost of this building was about three thousand two hundred dollars. In 1874 the building was found inadequate to accommodate the cliildren of the village, and an addition was built, which nearly doubled the capacity of the school. Plans for the addition were drawn by L. Dickenson, and the eontract was let to Pliilip SilHe and Adam IIoll. The new part, and rejiairs ujion tlie old, cost six thousand dollars. 'I'liis Iniilding affords, at the present writing, ample accommodation for over five hundred children. The jtresent suiierintendent is J. P. Yarrick, and the school board is composed of John P. Jenne, president; George E. Biyant, secretary; E. C. Shuler, Joseph Barber, John G. Bans and Henry A. Plato. The first superintendent under the system now in vogue was 1j. a. Gray.

Prior to 1830 there was no resident physician in An;herst. Dr. Baker, of Florence, and Dr. Chairman, of Elyria, administered to the sick up to that year. Dr. Samuel Strong came in 1830, and was the pioneer of a host of medical gentlemen who came after. Following is a list of the physicians in the order of their coming : Drs. Samuel Strong, Cook, Smith, Luman Tenney, Wright, L. D. Griswold, B. F. Blackmer, II. F. Hulibard, A. A. Crosse, Sladiel, Tompkins, Smith 2nd, Charles Crosse, C. C. Orandall, J. Bryant, Woigaud, Evans, Price, A. C. Moore, Wilsey, More, Tuttle, Leuse, Gibbs, Oaks, Arndt, Mrs Arndt, Schenck, Schraeder, Reitel, Charles Rockwood, D. W. Starkey, H. Lilly, 0. P. Maynard.

Tlie present Middle Ridge road was opened as a trail at a very early day, and it is probable that the first mail was carried through the township upon the line of this road. Roliert Wolverton was the first mail carrier. The Telegraph or South Ridge road was next opened and put in good shape, and the stage coaches carrying mail and passengers went tlirougli on this road. The Cleveland road was next laid out, Hiram Belden doing much of the surveying.

Burial I'Laoes

The burying grounds in Amherst are more numerous than in most townships. The first one laid out was that on the Cleveland road just east of the village of North Amherst. There is one upon the Middle Ridge (lot sixty-three), one near Kendeigh's corners, lot (ninety-four), one at Webb's corners, one

The first tavern kept at South Amherst, was that of the Webbs. Stephen Cable kept soon after. At North Amherst, when it was known as "the corners," Judge Harris had a log tavern very soon after his arrival in 1818, and was landlord for many years. The Henrie house, or rather a small portion of it, was originally built by Dr. Samuel Strong. Following is a list of landlords at North Amherst down to and including thejjresent proprietor of the Henrie house: Josiah Harris, L. Foster, Father Champney (Old Pie), J. B. Whelpley, Wm. F. Ringland, L. P. Harris, Thomas Case, Ira B. Tillotson, Thomas Brown, .Tames Allen, .Joseph Hamlin, Franklin Blackmer, Smith E. Crandall, Orimel Barney, H. F. Hubbard, Smith Steele, John Steele, Horace Steele, Samuel Ketideigh, Joseph Trost, .James Jackson, M. .Jackson, Latliro]) & Walker, and M. .Jackson.

The vast formation of sandstone underlying a j)ortiou of the State, seems nowhere to be of better quality for purposes of architecture, than in the township of Amherst and its vicinity. Tlie quarrying business is here most eminently practicable, and the stone laud being near the lake, the question of transportation was ready solved, as soon as the work of taking out the treasure was commenced. The close pro.Kimity of the L. S. & M. S. R. R. offers another great advantage to those whose business it is to delve for a nation's building material.

Nature has formed here, and left accessible to man, what is practically an inexhaustible sup[)ly of the best building stone upon earth. Estimating the thickness of tiie stone at an average of only lifty feet, - -and good authorities say that it must be nearer an hundred, - the number of cubic feet afforded by one acre would be over two million. One hundred men could scarcely <juarry out a full aero from top to bottom in less than ten years" constant labor. Vast as has been the amount of stone taken from the Amherst quarries, it sinks into insignificance in comparison with that remaining. The stone lies almost entirely above the ground, and above the drainage level, and the huge blocks sent to all parts of the United States, Canada, and even Soutii America, are quarried without any of the obstructions found in other parts of the country. A list of hundreds of buildings built of the Amherst stone might bo given, imt we have space for only a few of the most important as follows:

The Stone business of Amherst, like all great industries, had a small and humble beginning. Before the great value of the stone was known, owners of the best quarry land in Amherst and vicinity would gladly have taken for an acre of the so called "waste land" what is now-a-days paid for fifty cubic feet of building block, or its equivalent in grindstones.

Henry Warner first opened the Browniielm quarry, now owned by the Worthingtons, in 1847, and is believed to have shiiqiod the first stone sent out from this section. The blocks were hauled on wagons to Vermillion, and from there shipped to their destination in Canada, having been jjurchased by John Worthington, then a contractor. Mr. Warner gave for this quarry six hundred dollars, worked it six years, and then sold it for six thousand dollars. He was a native of Middlesex county, Connecticut, and had a varied experience before he became one of the pioneer ([uarrymen of Lorain county.

Grindstones were taken out of the John Elliott quarry, lots fifty-nine and sixty in Amherst, in 1848, by Sylvester Silsby. There were no lathes then in use, and the work of shaping the stones was done entirely with the chisel. This quarry was worked for fifteen years by William James, who finally bought it of Elliott. Parks and E. C. Foster were the next owners, and they sold to Ceorge E. Hall, of Cleveland, who, ill turn, sold to Worthington & Sons. lilock stone was furnished from this quarry for the building of the abutments of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southein Kailroad bridge at Ashtabula, when -the road was established. It was taken out by Ackley & Smith.

Henry Warner was associated with Mr. Clark in the ownership of the middle quarry, now owned by the Clougli Company, in 1854. Baxter Clough bought into this quarry, and soon became the sole owner. Warner afterwards became owner of what is at this writing the Ilaldeman quarry.

Nearly all of the stone quarries of this townshi2i have l>assed through the ownership of many parties, and been developed in different degrees by each until to-day they form such a collossal interest as to have brought together ciiougli jteople to form a village of one tliousaiul and five luiiulred inlnibitaiits. North Anilierst has grown almost entiri-ly from the stimulus given by the development of the stone, and as it is lioth literally andfigurativelylniiltuponarock, its safety of existence and jirosiierity is assured. A great change lias taken place since tlie first small opening was made for tlic purpose of taking out stone. The whole northern and western part of the township may be said to fairly liristle with heavy iron rigged derricks which, worked t)y powerful engines, swing ponderous blocks of stone from the deep rugged walled caverns to the ground above, and deposit tiiem upon railroad cars, or swing them to the saw mill and turning lathe. Hundreds of men, assisted by the giant slave, steam, are toiling in the ledges and pits, taking out the rough stone, which under the chisel of the artizan shall be conformed into shapes of grace and beauty and strength, to lend majesty to the Iniildings in the great marts of trade.

Most of the growth of the stone industry of Amherst and tlie adjacent country has Iteen the result of the business, energy tact of the present proprietors of the quarries. Wo have endeavored to secure facts, which briefly related, will convey to the reader an idea of what has been acconijilished.

Ti[E WoKTiiiNfJTON QuAURiES are extensively worked by James M. and George H. Worth ington. The elder Wortliington was a man of great energy and business shrewdness, a native of Canada, and a large contractor upon government buildings. He came to Amherst and bought into the quarries in 1853. The business once embarked in, it was not long before he became one of the most extensive owners and operators of quarry property, in the country. His sons carry on the business in a large way, at present. They have quarries in lots fifty-nine and sixty, Amiierst, (formerly known as the Hall), also in Krownhelra, lots twenty-seven and twenty-eight, also valuable quarry projierty at Grindstone City, Huron county, Michigan, and an extensive dock at Vermillion harbor, from which point their Amherst and Brownhelm stone is shipped. This is supplied with three heavy derricks. They run seven engines, nine lathes, and six gangs of saws. Their houses and tools were valued in 1876, at fifty-eight thousand dollars, and tlieir real estate at one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. During the years 1871, 1873 and 1873, their sales of grindstones amounted respectively to fractions over seven thousand nine hundred and fift}', nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-six, and nine thousand two hundred and twenty-six tons. The sales of block stone were in 1871, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand two hundred and thirtythree cubic feet; in 1873, two hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and thirty-nine cubic feet, and in 1873, two hundred and five thousand four hundred and ninety cubic feet. Beside their office in North

The Wilson & Hughes Stone Company own quarries in lots fifty-nine and sixty-two. Their office is in Cleveland. The (juarries were opened in 1803, and all of the stone taken out of them at that time had to be hauled either to Black River, or the village of North Amherst, but in 18(18 a contract was made with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Company, wherel)y they extended tracks into the quarries from the main road, and since then the business has been largely increased. The business has been successful from the first, and the average yearly sales have amounted to from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. The quarry property consists of about thirty-seven acres, and the company has all of the modern improvements, such as steam derricks, engines, saw mill, lathe, shojis and dwelling houses for the employes. The quarries are in good condition and working order, and among the best in Amherst. A. Hughes is president of the company, and William and J. F. Wilson are superintendents.

L. Haldeman & Son. - The quarry property owned by this firm, having their office in Cleveland, consists of about thirty-five acres in lots eighteen and nineteen, and the first stone was taken out by Wilson & Cook in 1808 or the following year. Messrs. Haldeman & Son purchased from McDermott & Cromwell, in March, 1873. The quarry had been worked but little nntil the ju'esent jiropriotors bought it. The valuation of the projierty is, including machinery, tools, etc., seventy-five thousand dollars. Average sales for the years 187-1:, 1875, 1876 and 1877, have been in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand dollars. The firm has excellent facilities for quarrying and shipping building and grindstone, and is largely interested in the manufacture of the latter. Their trade includes the prominent axe, edge tool and saw manufacturers throughout the United States and Canada. Block stone has been furnished for the construction of some of the largest buildings in the leading cities.

TriE Amiiekst Stone Company has for its officers: president, Truman Denham; vice-president, J. E. French; secretary and treasurer, W. S. Dodge. The office of the company is in Cleveland. Their property in Amherst is known as the old Quigley jjroperty, and consists of twenty-nine acres in lot four, and twentysix and a half acres in lot ninety-seven. The quarry was opened by the company in the fall of 1872, and is now ])rovided with seven derricks, grindstone lathes and a saw mill. The sales since the opening of the ffuarry have aggregated about two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

The Turkey Rock Quarry - so called because the tracks of turkeys were found at an early day in tiie rock near the foot of some large trees - is the ]iroiierty of W. H. Bryant, who pui chased it in 1874 from Nathaniel Bryant. The quarry was opened the same year that this transfer was made. The projierty lies in lot fourteen, and consists of about twelve or thirteen acres. Most of the rock taken from this quarry has been made into grindstones because of its peculiar grit, and tliey rival the famous Wickersley stones of England. The grain in the rock pitches toward the north at a uniform angle, showing tliis was once the shore line of Lake Erie. The stone found below the shore formation is soft, and very much more open than any other fnund in tlic noigliborhood, and this soft stone is made a s})ecialty by Mr. Bryant for tool-grinding. The product from tlie quarry has amounted to six or seven liiiiidied tons, ])riucipally of the variety known as the American Wickersley.

.Tames Nichol, a native of Dundee, Scotland, came to tliis country in 1853. He was a stoae cutter by trade, and for the next nine years after arrival in New York followed this occupation iu various cities. lie took tlie management of the Messrs. Wortiiington's Urowuholm ([uarry until 1870, when he removed to Andierst and took up his residence upon a farm which lie bad bought of llaunab Hubbard and Sally Owen. Adjoining this farm, in lot fifty-nine, was the quarry which he purchased of Joseph Barber in 18G7, and which lias since been generally known as the Nicliol i|ii;irry. Mr. Nichol remained some time as silent partner of the Messrs. Wdrtliington, acting as general superintendent of all the quarries ()j)erate(l by that firm. At the expiration of that partnership, in 187<), he immediately entered the niarket on his own account, operating his own quarry, and manufacturing building, grind and scythe stones. In February, 1877, with Dudley Miller, of New York, he entered into the partnership of Nichol & Miller, each owning one balf of a quarry containing fifty-tliree acres, located in Florence township, Erie county, Ohio, with main office at North Amherst, Ohio. Tlie thorough and extended accpiaintance that Mr. Nichol had with all the details connected with the stone Inisiness, enaliled this comparatively new firm to at once occupy a prominent jiosition in tlie market. At the pivsent time they have a large and constantly increasing trade in building, grind and scythe stones, in the markets of the United States, and a large share of the export trade.

Besides the quarries heretofore described, there are a number of others which are small, and either not worked at all, or conducted u])on a plan iiuich less extensive than those mentioned in the foregoing. We mention the names and the location of each by lot number: Ohio Stone Company, fifty-nine; James Wyatt, ninety-seven; Grove Quarry, ninety-seven; J. D. Bothwell, fifty-nine; Samuel Keudeigh, ninetythree; Joseph Barber, ninety-three (opening); Butler Quarry, ninety-eight, owned by the heirs of Charles Collins. Besides these, again, there are many still smaller quarries located u]ion farms, and used only as a mine from which the owner may procure what

The first grist mill and the first saw mill were Iniilt by Jacob Shuiio, about 1814 or 1815. A few years after, he moved iiis grist mill from Beaver creek up to the corners, and connected with it a carding machine, which was at that time the only one in a largo stretch of country. He endeavored to run this mill with a horse power, but was not satisfied, and moved back to the old site and run it again by water power. The second grist mill was built at North Amherst, on the site that the brewery now occupies, by Hildebraud & Snider. A Mr. Smith built the third mill in the south part of the village, upon the Elyria road, and the same man, in 18G1, built the stone mill at the foot of the hill west of North Amherst park. Mr. Hitchcock built a mill on Church street, which was taken jiossession of, in 1865, by Hazel & Thompson. After this, Daniel Frees and Mr. Boardman built a mill on the flats between the east and west parts of North Amherst village. At present, those engaged in this business are John Ueyman and Jolui Uerloek.

After Jacob Shupe's mill, built on Beaver creek, at the north line of the township, Eliphalet liediiigton built a saw mill at South Amherst. A. T. Johnson limit one between the North and JMiddle ridges, and a Mr. S;i wtell built one in S.iuth Amherst just north of IJedington's. .Tosiah Harris ]nit up a mill on Harris creek, just south of North Amherst. Royal Barney, and a man by tlie name of Norton, built a mill on Barney creek (then called Beaver), in 1820, and sawed a great deal of lumber. Good whitj^'- wood was at that time worth but four dollars jicr thousand feet. In 1831, John T. Clay constructed a mill on the same creek, and Ephraim Tovvne had one a few years later. David Smith built a mill on Smith creek, near the South ridge, about 1S30. Pliilii> Oustine, the Graves Brothers, and Harry anJ William Oustine also had saw mills at an early day. Most of these were what were known ns '-thunder shower mills," and were only in running order during a small part of the year. Three steam saw mills have been built in the village of North Amherst, and four more in the township. Those now in operation are G. C. Prince's, South Amherst, lot ten; J. E. Keudeigh's and George Gill's, in North Amherst village.

MiscELLAXEous. - J. J. Ricc, Lcck & Cook, have an iron foundry ujion lot ninety-five, where they carry on the manufacture of plows and agricultural implements. It was started in 1843, or the following year, by members of the Rice family. "'

There are two cheese factories in the township. Eggleston, Braman & Co. own one which is located upon lot ten, just off from the south ridge road. They take the milk of about six hundred cows, and in 1878 manufactured nearly two hundred thousand pounds of cheese, and about thirty-five thousand pounds of butter. This cheese factory and creamery was established in 1874.

Henry Warner

Henry Warner was born in Middletown, Middlesex Co., Conn., Oct. 16, 1801. He was united in marriage April 21, 1825, to Elizabeth Whitcoin, of Wayne Co., N. Y. By this union were born eleven children, viz. : William H., John V., Esther A., Maria J., Malita A., Augustus A., Jerome B., Cyrenius P., Vandalia S., Irving N., and Valeria E., two of whom are living. Augustus A. resides in Ashtabula Co., Ohio ; Cyreniiis, in Michigan.

The subject of this memoir moved to Brownhelm, Lorain Co., Ohio, in 1847, having previously purchased the stone quarry now owned by the Worthington Brothers. From this quarry he shijjped, it

Some time in 1854 or 1855 he was associated with Baxter Clough in the quarry business, and was owner of the Haldeman quarry in 1847. He spent his days on the fai'm where he died, which is now owned and occupied by his son-in-law, J. R. Miller, and located about one mile east of North Amherst village, on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.

Another factory, the property of Eggleston, Horr & Warner, is located upon lot cighty-seveu, a few rods from the Elyria liuo, and near the telegraph road.

North Amherst Village

Early iu the history of Amherst township, the nucleus for a village was formed upon tiie north ridge, about a mile northwest of the center of the townshii). This settlement, - the embryo village of North Amherst, - was known for many years as "the corners."' .Judge Josiah Harris had (piite a tract of land here, and he laid out a portion of it in lots, and founded the village of Andierstville. Through the decades, beginning with the years 1830, 1840, and 1850, the gi-owtli of the village was slow, but it received an impetus from the building of the Lake Shore railroad, then called the Cleveland and Toledo railroad, and gradually increased in size, and built up in business importance until 1870, when the stone tjuarries began to lie worked upon a scale of enterprise much further advanced than ever before, and then for several years the population increased quite rapidly.

About this time Milo Harris purchased the interest of the other heirs of his father's estate, laid out an aildition to the village, changed its name from Amherstvillo to North Amherst, and in 187.'5 the jjeople secured a charter of incor])oration from the legislature.

The charter was gi'anted in April, and the cor})oration was organized by the election of the following ollicers: A. A. Crosse, mayor; J. W. (rilbert, clerk; .Joseph Trost, treasurer; John B. Robertson, marshal; tieorge Fuller, William Brown, and John Nathan, couucilmen for one year; F. 0. Barney, J. H. Clouse, and .James Manning, councilnien for two years.

In 1874, three couucilmen were elected to fill vacancies caused by the expiration of the short term, as follows: .J. M. Worthington, Daniel Freese, and Henry Hirsching.

In 187-5, the following were elected: A. C. Moore, mayor; C. (J. Hirsching, clerk; Joseph Trost, treasurer; .John B. Robertson, marshal; E. C. Foster, M. C. Sieley, John G. Bans, and Joseph Barber, coiTncilmen.

The officers in 1877 were: J. W. Gilbert, mayor; C. 0. Hirsching, clerk; Josejjh Trost, treasurer; John B. Robertson, marshal; Joseph Robbins, Henry Clouse, Jacob Hildebrand, Joseph Barber, and Conrad Fey, councilmen.

Masonic

Pl.ito Lodge, No. 303, was organized January 31, 1853. The original members who signed the petition for a charter were Theodore J. Eamcs, Orimel Barney, Robert B. Carhart, Milo Harris and James Walker. The present officers are N. G., A. E. Stiwall; V. G., J. B. Barrance; recording secretary, Ohas. M. Parsons; permanent secretary, G. H. Barnes; treasurer, Joseph Robbins.

Jaeger Lodge, No. 440, was organized July 7, 1870, by members of the order, who, previous to that time, had been in Plato Lodge. Following is the list of officers first elected: N. G., Wm. Jaeger; V. G., L. Horn; corresponding and recording secretary, John G. Bans; treasurer, Wm. Brown. The charter members were Henry Uthe, Sr., William Jaeger, Edward Biveus, Adam Holl, John King, L. Horn, John (}. Bans, Chas. Jaeger, Wm. Brown, Peter Meutz, Geo. Ashenbach, Daniel Freese, C. 0. Hirsching, Fondine Geolach, Henery Hagemann, AVm. Fullmer, C. Fey, P. Fey. The officers for 1878 are: N. G., John Kothe; V. G., L. Holzhaner; corresjjouding secretary, Wm. Beilor; recording secretary, C. Fey; treasurer, C. 0. Hirsching.

Knights Of Pythias Ancient Order Of Uihernians

Division No. 1, A. 0. F., was organized in A])ril, 1876. The first i)resident was Peter Brady, and the other officers were as follows : Vice President, James Smith; secretary, John Shelly, Jr.; assistant secretary, Thomas Kelch ; treasurer, J. W. Duress. The officers elected in 1878 are the following : president.

St. Joseph's Society was founded in the niontli of December, 1871, by members of the Catholic Church. Its object is benevolent. Members are entitled in case of sickness to tlie aid of the society, and in case of deatli assistance is extended to the family. The officers elected at tlie time of organization were : jiresident, liev. E. Roucliey ; vice president, Ilerrmanu Kauders ; secretary, M. Z. Gach ; financial secretary, Henry Plato ; treasurer, John E. Plato. The present officers of the society arc: president. Rev. Josej)!! Roomer; vice president, Henry A. Plato; secretary, M. H. Fehreubacli ; financial secretary, John H. Plato; treasurer, .loiin E. Plato; Marslial, Joseph Wesbecher.

The Amherst branch of the National Christian Temjjerance Union was organized May 2'J, 1877, at the Metliodist Episcopal church, and the following officers elected for six months: president, Milo Harris; first vice president, W. H. Clougli; second vice president, E. C. Slmler; secretary, A. M. Hazel, corresponding secretary, C. S. Aiken; treasurer, E. C. Foster; executive committee, M. W. Axtell, chairman, James Duress, L. Horn, J. R. Miller, M. C. Seeley, Mrs. E. E. Mussey, Mrs. G. E. Bryant. The following are the officers of 1878: president, E. C. Foster; first vice president, T. M. Lewis; second vice president, E. C. Shuler; secretary, S. Crocker; treasurer, H. C. Haskell; executive committee, A. L. Spitzer, chairman, Thomas Milford, C. M. Parsons, A. C. Moore, M. C. Seeley. The society, though but a short time has elapsed from the date of its organization to the present writing, has accomplished considerable in the line of its intention. ITpwards of one tliousand persons have signed the i)ledge.

A volunteer fire department was organized in tlie sjn-ing of 1S7G, and a good hand engine purchased for tlie protection of the village from fire. H. C. Smith was twice elected foreman, and then chief of the department. The first chief was one Steele, and the second Josejjh Trost. He resigned and John Northam was elected ti) fill the vac;incy.

I'Ost Office

Tlie first post office at North Amherst was kejit in a frame dwelling house on Main street. Judge Josiali Harris was the first postmaster, and his term of office extended through forty-one years. He was followed by Dr. A. A. Crosse, who held the position but eight months, and he by Homer Terrell, who occupied the office four months. Tlie present postmaster, A. M. Crocker, has held the office for eleven years, and given universal satisfaction. North Amherst post office was originally known as Plato. The name was changed in 186U.

The first store in the village was built by a Mr. Mills, and now stands on Elyria street. William Walker built a store on tliis street in 18o7. John Goodell, the first blacksmith, settled at the corners in 1828. The following is believed to be a complete list of the merchants, (firms and individuals) of North Amherst, down to the year 1878, and not including those in business during that year: Mr. Mills, Stanton Sholes, Orlum Winton, Harris & Dyer, Fury & Harris, Lewis Shupe, William Walker, E. L. Goodrich, Landon Rood, Mr. Prime, Hall & Moffatt, Hall & Carliart, Hall & Woolcott, Jackson & Baunnister, W. Parsons, L. Rood & Barney, 0. Barney & Rood, M. Belden, J. B. Whelpley & Blackmer, J. B. Whelpley, L. P. Harris, M. Winton & Co., W. Norton & Brother, E. Norton, L. Sherman, Wilson & Houghton, H. Houghton, Houghton & Boyer, H. Osborne, Steele & Brother, Luther Rood & Brother, Luther Rood, Milo Harris, E. E. Mussey & Harris, Mussey & King, Mussey, Mussey & Steele, Hirsching & Harris, Hirsching, Clough & Sons, Hurst, Hirsching & Son, A. A. Crosse, J. B. Robertson, Huehire & Hirsching, William Jaeger & Son, Charles Jaeger, Jaeger & Huessner, R. Kelch, M. Jackson, A. Kline.

Manufactories, Business Houses, Etc., 1878 South Amherst

The little village in the southern part of the township, is known as South Amherst, though the post office is Amherst. Its early settlers have been noticed | in the first part of this chapter, and as the village is not incorporated, and in fact consists of only a few people and a small cluster of houses, there remains but little to be said about it. The place was known many years ago by the uupoetical title of "Podunk." It was also known as the " Little Whig hole,"' for nearly all of its residents were whigs. All of the j)ost masters up to the time the party died, were of this political persuasion. Eliphalet Redington was the first. He was followed by A. H. Redington, his son, and he by Peter Lunt. Joseph Reynolds was the next jiostmaster, and then came J. C. Jackson. The present incumbent, Heiii-y Jackson, followed him.

The first store at South Amherst was kept by Addison Tracey. Stores were kept later by R. E. Gil- i lett, Elijjhalet Redington, George S. Everett, J. C, !

and H. S. Jacksou. Roswell Cune had a tannery tliere as early as 1835. The only business and industrial interests reprcsente'i in 1878, are Henry Jaokson, keeper of a general store; Stephen Barnes, harness maker; (}. (Iriffiu, shoe maker; and Wni. Biggs, wagon maker.

Agricultural Statistu'S

Following are the statistics for 1878, showing the amount of the most important productions of the townshii), also the poi)ulatiou in 187i>, and tlie vote for president in 1876: was l)orn in Canterbury, New Hampshire, September 15, 1807. He was the fourth child of a family of fifteen, of Deacon John and Judith (Gerrish) C'lough. His mother was granddaughter of Joanna Hale, who was a near relative of fJaptain Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of revolutionary fame, also a descendant of Sir Matthew Hale, of England. In childhood and Ciirly manhood he did not enjoy firm health; he attended the district school (wliich was two miles from his home), a limited time; and it may 1-ie said tiiat his only education was obtained \>y observation and reading, which his vigorous, thougiitfnl mind digested to good purpose. He vvas naturally inquisitive and inventive. Many incidents illustrating this are related; among the rest he discovered a living spring of the purest water near his father's residence, and brought it to the house and barn, which was of incalculable l)euefit. His father and grandfather before him had lived on the farm, and not suspected the existence of such a spring. Another time his father had his orchard grafted. Ba.xter did not think it was done in the best way, and thought he could do it better. In his father's absence he did it as he thought best. His father, on his return, very sorrowfully said, "Baxter, you have ruined my orciiard;" but he saw his mistake when, in a few years, it sap]>lied him bountifully with choice fruit, and it was an original idea with Baxter. His ancestors were eminent christians, and he was naturally serious and thoughtful; and at the age of fifteen made a public profession of religion, and united witli the (.Congregational church. He had a musical bass voice of great power, and was of great assistance in the cliurch choir; was also quite a proficient on the flute. He assisted his father in the cultivation of his farm, and in his seventeenth year, his fatlicr, while overseeing the building of a church, left the management of the farm to Baxter, who emiiloyed men, and did the haying and harvesting without the use of rum, a thing considered im- ])ossiiile at that time. Much against his parents' and friends' wishes, who did not give him any pecuniary aid, in 1830 he came to Ohio. Tlie journey was made by stage as far as Albany, and from there by Erie Canal to Buffalo. Cleveland being his destined point, he took a sailing vessel from Buffalo, but the wind not being favorable for landing, passed by, up as far as Black River (now Lorain), and then returned to Cleveland. Soon after arriving there he was taken sick, when his " clothes and the small amount of money he had were stolen from him. He recovered, and with courage undaunted sought employment, and found an ojiportunity to peddle tin ware, which suited him, as he wished to look over the country before locating. He finally bought one hundred and forty acres of land in Solon township, in Cuyahoga county, then an unbroken wilderness, to go into the dairy business. A cousin from New Hampshire, and himself, cleared a small place, and erected a log cabin, and commenced clearing the land of its heavy timber, keeping bachelor's hall in the mean time. July 10, 1833, he was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Gerrish, formerly of Boscawan, New Hampshire, at that time residing with her brother in Solon. It was the first wedding in that town, and their sufferings and enjoyments were many and ]ieeuliar to ]iioneer life. He was active, public spirited and enterprising in all that related to the future welfare of the town, such as making roads, arranging for schools, etc. He went into the work of l)romoting the worship of God and Sunday schools with all his heart. His feelings, however, were deeply injured by the lack of sympathy and hard criticisms of those less zealous than himself, so that for many years afterwards he did not take an active part in church matters, but was always a firm believer and friend of the cause. He owned and worked this farm with success for seven years, but during the time his health not being firm and strong, commenced traveling through Pennsylvania and other States, building hay scales, the e.xercise of horseback riding being beneficial to him. In 1839 he disposed of his farm, and moved to Cleveland; and commenced making scales of different kinds, and during this time was appointed city weigher. As he was unable to get such castings as he needed in the maiuifacturing of scales, he added a foundry to his business.

And now his ingenuity and inventive mind came into play, and enabled him to make many improvements. During this time he invented a stove called the Regulator, which was considered the best extant at that time. In 18-10 lie moved to Berea, and engaged in the business of nianufai'luring pig iron. U'his venture was disastrous to him, as a change in (he tariff caused a decline in the price of pig iron from fifty dollars to twenty dollars per ton. Here he was taken sick with typhus fever, and his life was despaired of for a time, but he recovered, and he always said and felt sure his life was spared in answer to prayer, that he might provide for his family. After his recovery h(^ manufactured small grindstones for a short time, when his attention was called to the qnarries at North Auilierst, Ohio, where he moved in 18.52, and formed a jiarinership with P. & Tv. Dean, which was of short duration, he having jnirchased the interests of the Mes^^rs. Dean, when he commenced alone themanufactureof grindstones, which amounted to from two to four hundred tons a year. 'I'hcy were hauled by teams to Hlack River, and sliii)ped by water to Cleveland, and exchanged for goods of various kinds. ITp to this time, his career had not lieen specially notalile, but. peaceful and useful, winning for him the respect and esteem of a wide circle. He conceived the idea of obtaining for them a more extensive sale throughout the east, and in order to do that, went east, and introduced them successfully among the large manufacturers of edge tools, and to increase the supply as was needed, invented machinery and applied steam for turning large grindstones, and from this time was continually inventing and applying dilferent kinds of machinery to facilitate the working of the ipiarries. The trade increased raiiidly from year to year until 1860, when the annual manufacture amounted to three thousand tons. Aljout this time there sprung up a demand for block stone for l)uil(ling jiurposes, and he turned his attention more particularly to tluit branch of the business, which increased I'apidly until the year 1871. During the next four years there were manufactured and delivered the amount of nine hundred and sixty-one thousand eight biindred and sixty-eight cubic feet, the greatest amount being shi])iied in 1872 - two hundred and seventy-eight thousand seven hundi'ed and eighty cubic feet. During these years he built a dock at the lake so as to ship by water, hauling his ])roducts there some two and one-half miles with mule teams; but always progressive, went to work, and built a railroad, and eijuipped the same with steam engine and Hats, having then what no other <piari'y owner possessed, a direct outlet of his own to ship by water. He was always making experiments witli machinery to cheai)en the manufacture of stone, the majority of which proved successful; other (|ua.rry owners waiting the results, thus reajiing the benefit of his experience. He also purchased and developed what is known as the Independence and Columbia (piarries; manufactured large amounts of both block and grindstones which found a I'eady market at remunerative prices. He was loved and respected by all, especially the men in his employ. He always used his iiersoiial inlluence to hel]) them to be industrious, steady and frugal, to save their wages and secure homes, which a large number have done. lie died very peacefully, in November, 1872. A short time before his death he united with the Congregational church, of which for many years he had been a zealous friend, and liberal supporter. He was a man of fine person, good address, pleasing manners, strict integrity, faithful to the duties and requirements of a varied life. His wife survives him, and this biography would be incomplete if we did not add that through his married life, she was a true heli)meet, always labor ng and economizing to jiromote his inteiests and the welfare of their hii'ge family. Their eldest son died in infancy; their youngest daughtci', Ella J., died eight months ])revions to the time of their father's death, and Mai-y E. , wife of 0. P. Mc- Millan, live months later. The son.s, J. I>. and JI. H., continue the large and ])ros])erous business left by their father. Mattie A., wife of N. C. Gibson, resides in Hamilton, Missouri. Sarah J., wife of J. K. Hunt, resides in Cleveland, Ohio. Ilattie II. remains at home, and cares for the mother who, though now growing feeble, has always labored faithfully and clieerfully for the best interests of the society in which she moved.

Asahel Allen Crosse, physician and surgeon, was born in Cincinnatus, Cortland county. New York, on the 23d of August, 1824. His parents were in mod- / crate circumstances, and he early learned the lesson of self-dependence and self-help. At the age of thirteen years he left home to make his own way m the world, and henc-eforth relied entirely upon his own resources. He went to work on a farm, and such school education as he obtained was by going to a district school during the winter months, his summers being too much occupied in farm labor to give | him any o])i:ortuuity for summer study. Not long after leaving home he went to Ashtabula, Ohio, and there, in addition to the oppirtunities afforded by the district schools, he for a time enjoyed the advantage of attending tiie Ashtabula academy. From thence | he removed to Mentor, Lake county, Ohio, where at the age of sixteen he commenced the study of medicine. After having attended three full courses of medical lectures he graduated at the Willoughby university, in Lake county, Ohio, in the year 1842, and went at once to Amherst, Lorain county, Ohio. He had, when he arrived in Amherst, fifty dollars, and on the day after his arrival he made the uncomfortable discovery that forty-six dollars of his little fortune consisted of bills of a bank known a-^ the Ohio Railroad Bank, lotated at Cleveland, Ohio, which had failed the day before, and were perfectly worthless, so that his available assets amounted to just four dollars. Fortune was not stubborn against him, however, for almost immediately he formed a jJartuership with Dr.

Luman Teniiey, an old physician of the place, and so was introduced to a practice that speedily became large and lucrative. His partner died at the end of tlirce years, and tlien he took the entire charge of the jiractico. Ilis diligence, ability and skill, added to the liigh reputation he had already earned, made him well known as one of the most successful physicians in tlie county. As a citizen, no less tlian a piiysiciau, is he appreciated in the community, and from time to time that appreciation has been shown by placing him in several of the elective offices of tlie township of Amherst. He has successively held the offices of township assessor, township clerk, justice of l:he])caco, and was the first mayor of the incorporated village of Nortli Amlicrst. Ho was postmaster of Amherst during President Jolmson's administration. Politically he is a democrat, and, although the renuirenients of liis profession do not leave him much leisure to devote to politics, he is nevertheless one of the leading spirits of his party in the community where he lives. Althougli lie has acquired a fair competence, liis experience lias not been one of unmingled prosperity. On the 1st of March, 1858, he was thrown from his carriage, and his right leg was broken at tlie ankle. Being a heavy man, the ends of the broken Ijones were forced througli the skin and boot-leg, and were driven three or four inclies into the ground liy the violence of his fall. It was found impossible to save the limb, antl it was amputated bejovv the knee by Professor Horace A. Ackh^y, his former preceptor. He has been three times married. His first wife, Diantha Walker, he married in 1844, by whom he had four children, three daughters and one son, one of whom, Mrs. II. W. Barnard, is now living. His wife, Diantha, dieil in 185.5. On the IGth of September, 1859, he married Sarah E. Post, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by whom he had one son, now living. His second wife died in 18G6, and on the 18th of November, 1875, he married Ella G. Pelton, of Vermillion, Ohio. The doctor has a vigorous constitution, and from present appearances he will feel of pulses, look at. tongues, and deal poisons for many years to come; that is, he is hale and hearty, and the youngest in the community always find him a pleasant social companion.

Curtis Bailey

was born in Potton Township, Canada East, February 17, 1830. He was the fifth child in a family of ten children : his father was Jonathan B. Bailey, who was born at Peacham, Vermont, October 31, 1794, and died October 6, 1875.

He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his father bcfoi-e him, Abijah Bailey, had been a soldier in the revolutionary war, and died at the age of eighty-four years.

and up to 1844, in Orleans county, Vermont. His occupation was farming, at which he was engaged nearly all his life. In the fall of 1844 he removed to Lorain county, first stopping at Brownlielm, where he remained four years. The next four or five years of his life were passed in Henrietta township, from whence he removed to Ransom, Hillsdale county, Michigan, where he spent the remainder of his life. He always lived an honest and industrious life, and at the same time an humble and unostentatious one. His friends and ac(piaintances will bear us out in the assertion that he was a man of irroproachalile personal integrity and general worth. He married Hannah Dufur, who was born in New llampsliire, May 15, 1797, and died in Ransom, Michigan, .January 3, 1879. They were both exemplary and consistent members of the Congregational ciliircli. They had a large family, to the bringing up of whom, in a jiroper manner, was expended almost all he could accumulate. He was never very successful in the acquisition of wealth, but was always generous, according to his means.

Curtis Bailey's early life was confined to agricultural pursuits, which he followed until lie attained his twenty-fifth year. In the spring of 1855 he removed, with his family, tti Amherst township, and entered the employ of Baxter Clough, to work in his stone quarries. At the end of the first year he became foreman, and has continued in his and the employ of the Clough Stone Company, as superintendent of tiieir stone (juarries, ever since, with the exception of one and one-half years, in 1804-05, at which time they lived in Hillsdale county, Michigan, one year, and at Wellington, six months. At tlie age of twentytwo years, and on the 30th of March, 1852. he was married to Lovina, daughter of Arvy Whitney, and Lucinda Remington, of Camden township, who was born in Sherbouriie, Chenango county. New York, March 10, 1802. She was born in Clarendon. Monroe county. New York, April 1, 1832. They have four children, namely : Ida J., born January 10, 1853, married Horace Seeley, of Amherst township, March 30, 1872; Edna C, born December 11, 1857, married F. M. Lewis, editor of the Amherst Free May 9, 1878; Florence H., born January 27, 1800; Warren C, born August 7, 1872.

The ancestors of both Mr. and Mrs. Bailey were of New England origin. The i)aternal grandfather of Mrs. Bailey was Elisha Whitney, who was born in Vermont, August 25, 1707, and died August 27, 1822. His wife was born in Connecticut. Her maiden name was Mariam Eaton. She was twice married, first to Ezra Taylor, January 10, 1780 ; second, to Elisha Whitney, March 24. 1791. Mr. Bailey's maternal grandfather was William Remington, who was born in Stephentown, New York, January 25, 1775; died in Sweden, New York, September 13, 1827. He married Lovina Hill, who was born in Steplienson,

Joseph And ,1. J. Rice

A balf century ago, wbcn tbe territory embraced witbiu tbe present limits of Lorain county was mostly an uidiroken wilderness, witb berc and tbere, at considerable distances, a solitary clearing, Josepb Rice, witb bis wife and four sons, arrived and effected a pernnment settlement in wbat is now the town of Amberst. We quote from a series of bistorical reminiscences, by "Squib," publisbed in tbe Amberst Free Press, tbe following information relative to these pioneer settlers:

"Joseph Rice, son of John and Ann Rice, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, MayG, 1788. After arriving at mature age, be married Betsey E. Fiery. In tbe spring of 1829, he came to Amberst, bringing with him bis family, consisting of bis wife and four sons. He ]iurcbased a farm, a little west of Kcndeigb's cornel s, and began clearing and improving it for bis future borne. But in 1835 bis health failed, which resulted in bis death, September 30 of that year, at the age of forty-seven. His widow continued to live on the ftirm, surviving ber husband thirty years, and died October 3, 18(1.5, at the age of eighty years.

Tbe four sons who accompanied their father to Amiierst, we judge, were all tbe children born to Mr. Rice. Tbeir names were as follows: Henry, born July 13, 1810; be moved to Crawford county, Wisconsin, where he died March 5, 184!); bis family came to Amberst. Peter J., born February U), 1818, who lives at this date of writing (September, 1870,) about two miles west of Oberliu. Samuel B., born February 1, 1825; he went to Wisconsin in 1846, and from tbence went to California in 1852, and died September 23, of tbe same year. Josepb J., born September 17, 1828, aiul is living on the old homestead, which bis father first purchased in Amberst.

son of Josepb and Betsey E. Rice, was born, as above stated, Septemlier 17, 1828, in Fayette county, PennsylviLiiia. He remained with bis father until the death of tbe latter. On tbe 29th of October. 1857, he married Emily .)., daughter of L. R. Cook, of Amherst. By this uni(jn were born three children, namely, Arthur J., Virgil K. and Tracy J., all of whom are living, and reside at home. Mr. Rice engaged early with his brothers, Henry and Peter J., in tbeir foundry, first as a laborer, and subsequently as a partner; and finally, in 1857, be became sole jiroprietor of tbe business by purchase, and has continued to conduct the same ever since. He is also engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning about one buudred and forty acres of land, being tbe old homestead, which be has continued to improve from time to time, until it is quite a pleasant home and a highly cultivated farm. A neat and natural illustration of bis place, together with the portraits of himself and wife, appears on another page of this volume.

In politics, Mr. Rice is a republican, and has been since tlie organization of that party, having been a whig prior to that event. He is a liberal minded gentleman, and bas always contributed bis full share to all public enterprises tending to jiromote social ])rooress. To religious and educational interests he is ever a cheerful giver. He is now one of the oldest living settlers, having resided in the place where he now lives for fifty years. He is a deservedly i)opular and nuieb respected citizen.

Lewis Rodman Cook

For upwards of thirty years, the gentleman whose name beads these lines, was a prominent and well known citi/.en of Amberst township. He was born in Franklin, Delaware county. New Y'ork, August 5, 181-1, and was tbe youngest of a family of six children. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, . and died when Lewis was three months old, leaving bis family in a poor condition, financially. At the age of nine, therefore, it became necessary for Lewis to work for himself, and at the age of sixteen be learned the carpenter and joiner's trade.

In tbe year 1835, he was married to Miss Emeline Remington, daughter of Daniel and Nancy Remington, who are of New England origin; berfatiicr having been born in Vermont February 15, 1785; ber mother, Nancy Rich, at Bristol, Connecticut, December 17, 1795. Mr. and Mrs. Cook had three children, all living and married, as follows: Emily J-, now tbe wife of J. J. Rice, of North Amberst; Arniina J., wife of John S. Perry, of Browubelm; and Newel, who married Miss Eliza Ilarley, of Camden township. Lorain county. After his marriage, Mr. Cook continued to work at bis trade, making Franklin bis headquarters, until tbe fall of 1843, when he moved to Norwalk, Huron county, Ohio, remaining tbere three years. In 1840, he moved to Amherst township, and purchased the fiirin on which he spent the remaining days of bis life.

At the age of twenty, he became a zealous christian worker, was baptized in the Baptist faith, and lived a consistent member of that body to tbe end of bis days. Mr. Cook was a man of some faults; who is not? but his good qualities greatly predominated, charity Ijeing a leading trait in his character, and all who knew him can testify to his willingness ever to help tiiose in sorrow, sickness, or distress. He was a scrupulously honest and economical person, and during his lifetime accumulated a comfortable competence; liut lilierality, in deserved cases of poverty or trouble, was a leading feature of his disposition.

He was a faithful husband, a kind and indulgent father, a liberal provider, and a highly respected member of society. His loss is not only felt in the church, where iiis zeal and activity were greatly beneficial, but his family, and a large circle of friends, will sorely miss his kindly presence and genial worth.

On Sunday, Septembers, 1878, he was taken sick with jaundice, but was not confined to his bed entirely till six weeks later. From the commencement of his indisposition he seemed to have a premonition that his disease would terminate fatally. He sank slowly but surely, ever bearing up under his affliction with christian fortitude, and a longing to be with his God. At last, on Sunday evening, November 10, 1878, the soul returned to the God who gave it, and Lewis Rodman Cook passed quietly into eternity.

His widow and three children survive him. Mrs. Cook is a devoted and earnest member of the Baptist church, with which she formally united, at Franklin, thirty-eight years ago. She is an eminently christian woman, and a worthy relict of the good man whose faithful wife she was.

Casper Bute

was born in Rutt.inburg, (Jermany, on the 38th of January, 1837. He was the tnily child of George and Ann Catharine (Miller) Dute. Tlie latter (George) had one brother and four sisters; the brother died in Germany and two of the sisters emigrated to this country, whither George Dute also came in 18:54, landing at Hlack river on the 18th of September of that year, and located in Black River townsiiip, aiwut one mile and a half north of the i^resent residence of his son Casper, and half a mile from the lake shore. A rude log cabin, floorless and generally dilapidated, was then standing on the farm, which, with slight repairs, was used by the family for a dwelling for nine years. Tiiey then sold the place and purchased the one upon which Casper Dute now resides. An opening had to be made in the then unbi'oken forest, and a log house was erected for the use of the family. The farm contained fifty-one acres. The parents of tiie subject of this Ijrief sketch are both dead. His mother died December 22, 18(i8, and his father August 9, 1875. Tiiey were a worthy and highly respected couple, and were among the pioneers of tiie town in which they passed so many years of their lives. Casper Dute married Mary Ileidenreich March 1, 1850. By this union were born fifteen children, of whom fourteen are living, namely: J. George, Catharine, Elizabeth, .John A., Anton, Ann Martha, J. Henry, Valentine, .Julius, Annie Dora, A'nton August, Mary Orelia, John Harvey, Henry .Jacob, Casper Cleine, Orlie Ferdinand (deceased). Of these, two are married - J. George and Catharine; tiie former to M;irv Shupe, the latter to Ferdinand Jischtruth.

In politics Mr. Dute is a democrat, and h;is always acted with that party. He has been a liberal contrilnitor to religiou;^ as well as to educational interests. By unremitting industry and careful management of ills affairs, he has become possessed of quite an extensive property, consisting of over three hundred acres of land. A sketch of his farm ami buildings is inserted in this work, as one of the finest in the town. Mr. Dute has always held a prominent position among his own countrymen.

Captain E. P. Frink

Among the prominent navigators and sliip owners on Lake Erie, none have had greater general success or enjoy a fairer record than the subject of this sketch. He was the son of Eli and Hannah (Squires) Frink, both natives of Massachusetts. They had eight sous and one daughter, of whom six sous and the daughter survive. At an early day they removed to Rochester, New York, where Mr. Frink erected the Strong's flouring mills. He died there about 1829, one of the most respected citizens of the then comparatively small place. Two or three years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Frink removed, with her family of seven children, to Elyria, ai'riving there m 1832. They came from Buffalo to Cleveland on the steamer Superior, the second steamer sailing on Lake Erie.

Captain E. P. Frink was born at Rochester, Monroe county. New York, December 27, 1822. He accompanied his widowed mother to El^'ria when about ten years of age. From 1832 to 1831 he worked for a half sister in Carlisle township, and also for an uncle in Elyria township. During, or about that time, he was apprenticed to a tailor, but, not liking the trade, he only remained about four weeks, concluding to move and do for himself. He proceeded to Black River township, where he remained until about 1839, during which year he first went on the lake, busying iiimself in the meanwhile as best he could. He learned the caulkers trade about 1839. From that time until the present he has been interested in sailing and maritime matters, having an interest in four sailing vessels. He has been quite successful, never having lost but one vessel. He has bought and sold several farms, mostly at a pecuniary advantage.

In October, 184(3, Captain Frink was united in marriage with Aurilla Gillmore, of Amherst township. Her parents were of New England ancestry.

She hiid eight sisters and five brothers, of whom five of the former and fonr of tlie latter are living. Her mother used to relate how she rode all the way through the woods to Elyria to get married. They were among the pioneers of Amherst, and all their family were born in that township. The father was a farmer, and a good practical business man.

Captain Frink stayed ashore during the season of 187S, for the first time since he commenced sailing, about forty years ago. In politics he is a republica)!, and liberally supported the government during the war of the rebellion, being true to the iirincijtles of his party and the best interests of the country. He neveraffiliated with any religious organization; neither did Mrs. Frink, although both are true christians in the broadest and best sense. He has generally supported all religious enterju-iscs, donating one hundred dollars toward the building fund of the Methodist house of worship at Black River, among other similar acts of generosity. He is noted for his boundless charity, particularly to tlie poor and needy. In his business career his motto has been S(juare dealing, and the triteness of the phrase is significant of a broad interpretation; for personal honor and a regard for righteous dealing have characterized all the acti(uis of his business life.

Wellington

In the thirty-ciglith draft by the members of the Coiincctieiit hind comiiany, April 4, 1807, Ephraim Root and James Ross drew township number three in ranL,'e eighteen, witli other hmd.s, and in tiie division, Ei)hraini Root heeunie the original proprietor of Wellington.

The township contains an area of twenty-two and otie-halF miles and a fraction over - by tlie original snrvey, thirteen thousand nine hundred and twelve acres of land. It was divided into forty-eight oi'iginal lots. It was six lots deej), running from south to iiortii, and thence from north to south, and numliered in tliis order consecutively. It is eight lots in length east and west. They are of uue((ual size; tlie lots west of the center road are the larger. The first tier of lots is on the east side of the township. The s(uitheast corner lot is number onl^ numbei'ing thence north consecutively; number six is the northeast corner lot, returning thence on the second tier of lots to the south line; so back and forth, ending with lot forty-eight, in the south-west corner.

February 18, 1812, the general assembly of the State of Ohio fixed the territorial limits of the county of Medina by an act of that date, wherein it was provided that all tliat part of the (Jonnecticut Western Reserve lying west of the eleventh range, south of number five and east of the twentieth range, shall be attached to and be a i)art of the county of Portage.

The territory thus set to Medina embraced townshiii number three, range eighteen - Wellington. On the organization of Medina county in Januai'y, 1818, it was a part thereof, and so remained until the organization of Lorain county, January 31, 1834.

At the organization of Medina county, the sound of the woodman's axe had never been heard within the township. The only works of civilization were the blazed trees indicating the lot lines made by the surveyor's hatchet. The wilderness was unbroken. The Wyandots were still here, and here remained for several years after the arrival of the first settlers. Remains of their old wigwams, near an orchard of wild plums in Penfield township, were seen as late as 1840.

The township is traversed by several affluents of Black river, Wellington creek in the eastern, Charlemout creek and the west branch of Black river in the western and northern parts. It is therefore well watered, and has a diversified soil of alluvium and upland. The surface is level, and much of it back from the streams was originally regarded as swale lands, but their adaptation for meadow and grazing purposes is unsurpassed. There is not an acre of waste laud in the township. In the eastern jjart are still seen the remains of an old beaver dam, which in an early day served to Hood an extent of fifty or seventy-five acres, and was known as Wellington swain|i. It ali'orded a secure retreat for wild animals. It was the haunt of the bear and the wolf. Its impenetrable thickets afforded an effectual screen from the hunter's vigilance. The wolf, for miles away, when closely pursued, headed for Wellington swamp, and it was a struggle of skill and endurance on the part of the hunter to cut him off' from that retreat. The east and west center road, when constructed, crossed it in the middle. The road was made by felling the brush upon the surface of the morass, upon which stringers were placed lengthwise upo;i cross i)ieces placed on the brush; over these stringers the corduroy covering was laid. The road was literally a bridge, which, as used, would gradually settle below the surface, when other stringers were jilaced aud more corduroy was laid. It was too narrow for teams to meet and pass thereon. If two met, the lightest loaded was unhitched, load removed, wagon uncoupled and crowded to one side, team backed to terra finiin, while the other jnished on. Such hindrances rarely occurred, however, for the noise of the jolting wagon ujion the rough corduroy gave timely notice that the road was occupied.

The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis railway traverses the townshi]) diagonally, from the northeast to the southwest corner. It is crossed by five roads running north and south, and by three east and west. It is about midway between Elyria on the north, Ashland on the south, Medina on the east, and Norwalk on the west, and on the most direct road to each. This fact, at an early day, gave Wellington importance as the center of local trade, and rendezvous for land owners and settlers.

Ei)hraim Root, the original proprietor of Wellington, sold the township to Colonel Francis Herrick, Harmon Kingsbury, P'rederick Hamlin, and Norton and Stocking, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts. In the record of transfers of Medina county, for the year 1819, the first transfer from Ei)hraim Root to Francis Herrick of three thousand five hundred and sixty acres, township three, range eighteen, is entered. From the same to Joseph Kingshury, two thousand two hundred and seventy-eight acres. In 1820, the same to Amos Adams, six hundred and fifty acres; to Adams, Norton and Stocking, tiiree tlionsaud four hundred and seven ty-eiglit acres; to Lyniau and Saaford Brown and Frederick Hamlin, two thousand acres; to John ('Htford, tliree hundred and fifty acres; to .liilin (Milford, Ji'., seventy-five acres; to John llowk, seven liundred and thirty-four and threefourths acres. Tliese transfers were nuide to actual settlers. And it was a happy thing for Wellington that theso lands did not fall into the hands of speculators, in >[arch, 181S, the first settlers arrived. They were: E])hraini Wilcox and (Jharles Sweet, who came out in the employ of Frederick Hamlin; John Clifford and Joseph Wilson, of Berkshire county, Massachusetts; and William T. Welling, of Montgomery county. New York. The first four left Berkshire county in February, with i)acks and tools loaded upon a cutter, drawn by one old mare. One drove while the others walked. Welling joined them en route. In M:irch, they reached Grafton, the most advanced out-j)()st in the direction of their lands. They at once commenced cutting a " trail " to townshi]i number three, of range eighteen, and entered the townshijt at the northeast corner thereof, and thence to the center lots.

They reached their destination in the latter part of March, at night-fall. They camped for the night, and the next day commenced and nearly comjileted a temporary cabin, which was to be their home for months. It was erected near the corner of lots twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-seven and twentyeight, upon the ground where the house of Mrs. J. P. Nickles now stands. They made benches for chairs; matresses of dried leaves for beds, placed upon bedsteads made by driving four crotched stakes into the ground, with stringers stretching from stake to stake, and white oak shakes crossing from strinoor to stringer, upon which the leaf matresses were laid. These rude beds soon gave place to more luxurious couches, made by the pioneer with axe and auger, consisting of four posts, four straight ])oles for the side and foot rails, extending from post to post, of requisite length and width, inserted in auger holes and interwoven with liasswood bark, which, until the bark got too dry and brittle, made a bed a kins might envy, if invparcd for its enjoyment by the toils of pioneer life.

Their temporary cabin completed, they at once commenced work upon their lands, finding them liy the surveyor's plat, and the marks upon the corner stakes of the lots, Ephriam Wilcox u])on lot twentyeight; John Clifford upon lot sixteen; Joseph Wilson upon lot fourteen; and Charles Sweet, for Frederick Ilamlin, upon lot twenty-seven. By the 1st of Ajiril the ringing of the woodman's ax, the crash of falling trees, gave token of the advent of civilization, of the dawn of that struggle to plant the institutions of New England in the forest, which it took a generation to complete.

On the 4th day of July, of that year, they wei-e joined by the family of Ephraiin Wilcox, consisting of wife and child, Theodore Wilcox and sister, Miss Caroline Wilcox, accompanied by Dr. Daniel J. Johns, Frederick Hamlin, and Austin Kingsbury. The log house was ready for their reception, into which they were received on this glad fourth of July, after a sejjaration of live months, passed by the husband and father in the depths of the forest, far from the sound of woman's voice, or children's )irattle.

These women were the first white women in Wellington. The site of their first home, - that first log cabin, - is still seen, about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the center of the townshiji. An old peach tree, an apple tree, a hop vine, the rums of the old stone and clay cliimney still mark the place in a field now owned by Daniel J. Johns. It is remote from any road, for it j)receded roads. No lovelier place for a home could have been chosen, facing the east, upon a gentle declivity, at the foot of which a bubbling brook sent up, in those days, the music of its unceasing murmur, and near by, an unfailing spring sent forth an abundant su])ply of the purest water. To such a home and such sceneiy were these women welcomed. The welcome and lovely scene was not unappreciated by them, which appreciation wiis manifested by Mrs. Wilcox in the most timely and fitting manner possible, to wit: by the j)resentation to her husband and infant colony of a num child, John W. Wilcox, born on the twenty-fifth day of Se])tember, A. D. 1818, the first white child born in the township. He grew to manhood, and died heii\ leaving a widow and two sons, Stanley and Arthur.

The journey of these last arrivals was performed from Massachusetts, in just four weeks' time. They came with horses and wagons, bringing such household goods as were absolutely necessary. Dr. Johns was then just twenty-one years old, and fi-om that day to this has been closely identified with every interest of Wellington and the surrounding townsiiips. He was for years the only jihysician in a circuit of fifteen miles. Here he j)urchased and cleared a farm, built a home, married and reared a family of children. He helped to organize the township and the county, filled various township offices, and was an associate judge of the Lorain court of common pleas from February, 18;i8, to February, 1845, inclusive. No further accessions were made to the settlement until in the late fall of that year. One morning the tinkle of a strange cowbell was heard from the direction of the center. Curious to see from what it proceeded, the sound was followed, and an emigrant's team was found grazing, and the first shanty ei'octed was found occupied, not by strangers, hut by friends from their old Massachusetts home, Josiah Bradley and wife, John and Alauson Ilowk, and their mother. Miss Electa Ilowk, and a sister and "Dean," a female servant, a relic of Massachusetts slavery, who had continued to live with her old mistress after the adoption of the constitution of 1780, and had folo lowed her into the wiklenicss. They had reached tlie center of the township after dark tlie night before. Their trail ended tliero. Tlie deserted slianty was found and occiii)iea until morning slioiikl reveal the whereabouts of the settlei-s. They were never accorded a more joyful welcome than that which then was given tlicm. The meeting of those pioneer women in the depths of the forest, months having intervened since two of them iiad looked upon any of their own sex save themselves, was one of intense emotion. Encircling arms, tear-dimmed eyes were the exi)ression of a joy too great for utterance. Alauson Howk sedled upon lot twenty-two ; .lolin llowk upon lot fifteen, and .losiah Bradley upon lot number forty.

Frederick Hamlin, having conii)leted his log-house on lot twenty-seven, that fall returned to Massachusetts for his family. The next year he returned with his wife, Mrs. Nancy Hamlin, and four children, viz: Frederick M., Lucius, Homer and Jane.

The providence that sent this family into the wilderness was beneficent to Wellington. Active in the organization of schools, earnest in promoting the interests of society, prominent in the civil affairs of the township and county, filling some of the most important places of jiublic trust in both, the name of Frederick Hamlin, and after hiui of his son Frederick M., ajipears on every ]iage of its history for the first forty years. , The father was one of the tirst common pleas judges of the county, sat u]iou the bench at the first term of court ever held in the county. May term, 182-t, and continued to serve until the March term, 1831. In after years, when the county had become populous and wealthy, the son, Frederick M., wa,^ chosen treasurer Of the county for two successive terms. He entered into the office in September, A. D., 1865, and retired September, 1869, and no man ever served the iniblic tlu-rein more acceptably.

Homer Hamlin removed to Iowa after seeing the township all settled and a large village springing up around the very spot where the old log house, the home of his childhood, stood. They have all passed away now, the work of their hands, and a fragrant memory are all that remain to speak for them.

On the 13tli of November, 1819, Ahner Loveland, from Otis, Massachusetts, came. He journeyed the entire distance on foot, reached the settlement on Friday, hired to Judge Hamlin (mi Saturday as a woodchiipper, and commenced his job on Monday. He linally settled in Brighton, but returned to Wellington in after years, where ho lived until his death, in March, 1879. At a very early period of the anti-slavery movement he identified himself therewith, and suffered bonds and imprisonment because of his devotion to the cause of hunuin liberty. This same year came Lyman Howk, who located upon lot ten, where he continued to live until his death.

returned with his family, consisting of his wife and ten children, six sons and four daughters, viz: John Clifford, Jr., Daniel, Luther L., Flijali M., (ieorge W., Benjamin F., Hannah, Theodosia, Harriet and Polly, a noble force for the woi-k in hand. They at once commenced the erection of a log house, and in one week their luuise was ready. Shortly after, an addition was built to it, and here was taught the first school, by Miss Caroline Wilcox, Mr. Clifford furnishing not only the house but over half the pupils. In this house was preached the first sermon, by Rev. Mr. McMalioii, pi-i'siding elder of the Methodist Episcopal church. And here Kev. Adam Foe jircached his first sermon. The old log house, in a few years, gave place to a substantial frame house, in which Mr. Clifford lived from thence to the day of his death, September 17, 18()9, aged ninety-two years, surviving his sons, Luther L. and George W. This was the first frame house built.

This year Mr. Hamlin opened a small store in a log house at the center, and here the first post office was kept by him, the first postmaster.

In 1847, Rev. Ansel R. Clark delivered an historical sermon to the First Congregational church of Wellington. Speaking of the progress of the settlement, he said tluit in the beginning of the year 1821, there were thirty-seven inhabitants in the township. That year came Amos Adams, Milton Adams, and their sister. Miss xVtlurnira Adams, who married Austin Kingsbury, Russell B. Webster, Ithel Battle. Whitman De Wolf, Loren Wadswor; li, Judson Wadsworth, William Foote, Daniel Smith and .Insiah B. Miinlev. The latter, with his wife and three chihiren, journeyed from Massachusetts with an ox team, and was forty days in making the journey, the last night of whii'h was spent in the woods within four miles of the settlement, without food for themselves or team; surivuiuded from dark till dawn by legions of howling Wolves. They arrived at the settlement at early dawn, aud found every man absent.

The wonl had been sent the night before from Sullivan, that a child was lost in the forest, and lielp was wanted to search for the wanderer. These tidings liy faithful messengers, were for\varded to adjacent settlements in Brighton and Pittslield, with a recpiest that all should engage in the search and they assembled at Sullivan at sunrise on the next morning to organize. Many had come a distance of fifteen miles. It was a bleak November day, Init that morning beheld a column of men three miles long, asseudded at the l)lace of designation. As the child had last l.iecn seen east of the dwelling of its iiarents, the commander of the forces conceived the idea that the little wanderer was to be found east. The order to march was given, and the line moved forwai'd into the dejjths of the wilderness. They crossed Black riverand penetrated into the wilds beyond, where no child could [lossibly go. In the afternoon a violent snow storm came on.

It was thouglit the child must perisli; :i backward inarcli was made and the chiki was left to his fate. The next spring its remains were found, partially eaten by the Avolves. The child had crawled under the body and upturned roots of a fallen tree;, evidently for shelter, and thei'e had perished, west of the house and within half a mile thereof. Among those from Wellington was Ifiissell B. Webster, a young man of stalwart frame, with great jiowei-s of endurance, and possessed of mental force to malch. Exhausted with the long tram]) to Sullivan in the night, the fruitless march, and the ri'turn tramp home, some (jf tliecoml)any sank down exhausted by the way. Wel)stei' lifted, led or carried these to places of safety, where rest could be had. Webster besought the leader to let the company search the woods around the house on all sides first, but was unfortunately overruled.

To get lost in the woods was no uucom?non occurrence to the pioneers themselves, but over children such careful watch was kept that it was rare, and but ftnv instances of the kind happened. If a man at nightfall did not return it was surmised he was lost. Tin horns were blown and guns were fired to direct his course, should the sound reach him, while the man himself would climb a tree the better to catch the sound he know his friends would make, and if no sound reached him the Ijranches of the tree were his resting place till morning, unless the rigors of the season demanded constant walking to i)revent freezing. The craft of the experienced w(jodmen soon taught them when the sun was hidden to follow the wafer courses; sooner oi' later these would lead to a settler's path. Every nuin's house was a home, the latch string always hung out, the wanderers, the weai'y aiul the hungry always were welcomed with a hospitality that ]nits to shame the cold civilities of nu)re modern life - the hospitality of the heart.