OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Know your Ohio: Early Towns in Erie County--pt 2
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Historical Collections of Ohio
The Kelley Family Collections
Newspaper article, Plains Dealer
compiled by S.J. Kelley-- 1925
And Then They Went West
by Darlene E. Kelley  1998
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Part 2 -- Pioneer Settlers --Sandusky --

    The first settlers were William B. Smith, Moses Farwell, Cyrus W.
Marsh. These were certainly there as early as 1817.  During 1818, they
were reinforced by the following; John Weeden, George and Wesley
Anderson. Lyman Farwell, Samuel and Leicestor Walker, Abner Lyman.
Ebenezer Ransom, Hector Kilbourn, Capt. Ezra Wells, Joshua Martin, ----
Haskins, Benjamin Grey, Isaac Darling, Nathen T. Jennings, William
Townsend, William Hull. Daniel Newton, ---- Clemons and his sons, John,
Andrew, Alexander, and Elijah, and Benejah Wolcott.  Between 1818 and
the spring of 1822, accessions were made as follows;  William Kelley,
Wyat and Alfred Hartshorn, Darius C. Henderson, John Wheeler, James
Galoway, Sylvanus A. Cone, William J. Bills, Frederick Devoe, John N.
Sloane, John G. Grunlief, Galen Atkins, David and John K. Campbell,
Sarah Henderson, Abner Root, Eleutheros Cooke, Milton Jennings, Thomas
McGee, Amos McLouth, and F.D. Parish, and probably a few others.
    The first merchant was Zalmon Wildman ( by Moors Farwell ), then
followed William Townsend and Jennings & Darling.  Mc Murry and William
Kelley, druggists. Tavern Keepers: 1-- Cyrus W. Marsh;  2-- E. Wheeler
and Galloway;  3-- Mrs. Sarah Henderson and hers on-in-law, Colonel
Abner Root.  John N. Sloane, Jeweler.  Darius C. Henderson, John G.
Grunlief and Colonel Thorp, bakers.  Samuel and Leicester Walker, and
Abner Lyman, carpenters and joiners. William Kelley, stone mason.  S.H.
Stearns, Samuel Pennewell, tanners and curriers. Galen Atkins,
shoemaker. Milton Jennings and Alexander Clemons, cabinet makers. Abner
Root, saddle and harness maker. Sylvanus A. Cone, butcher.
    The first physician was George Anderson, who commenced practice in
1818.  He was from the State of New York, having been a pupil of Dr.
White, of Cherry Valley.  He was the only physician in the place for
many years.  He died of the cholera in 1834.
    Eleutheros Cooke was the first lawyer in the place.  He had resided
in Bloomingville, three or four years, removed to Sandusky in the fall
of 1821.  F. D. Parish followed in the spring of 1822.  The next
accession occurred about 1825-6, -- Lucas S. Beecher and John F.
Campbell, and others appeared too fast to count.
    The first school was opened in a log cabin on lot one, Wayne street,
in 1818. Miss Sallie Stimpson was the teacher.
    The First Congregational Church was organized in 1819, by the name
of " The First Christian Church of Sandusky. No other Christian church
then existed in the place before then. There was no preaching, the
Sabbath exercises were mostly conducted by Samuel Walker and William
Kelley.
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