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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 554 Today's Topics: #1 HURON COUNTY - PART 2 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 UNRETURNING BRAVE-HURON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:26:58, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907280226.WAA10814@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HURON COUNTY - PART 2 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS BY Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HURON COUNTY - PART 2 In this transaction the various Indian tribes evinced a commendable willingness that the laws of the whites, should be carried out. Many of them attended the execution,and only requested that the bodies of their comrades should not be disturbed in their graves. -Old Edition. The larger part of the Indians that settled on the Firelands were tribes of the powerful Iroquois nation. Some of them, considering their environment, were noble characters, and years after, when all hostilities had ceased, and as the country began to fill up, were even disposed to hold not only peaceable but friendly relations with the whites. The Senecas, who were in the habit of passing through the southern part of Huron county, on their way to eastern hunting grounds, were particularly fierce in appearance, bedecked in their barbaric garb of feathers and skins, but nevertheless were specially friendly. On these hunting trips they would trade baskets, trinkets and game with the settlers in exchange for bread, meal or flour. Strong and disinterested friendships sprung up between some of them and the whites. Their appearance was so frequent, and their actions so decorous and kindly, that even the children became attached to them, and in some instances strong affections were formed. Seneca John, the famous chief, used to carry the children of Caleb Palmer, the pioneer settler of New Haven, upon his shoulders. So strong was their affection for him, that when they saw a band of Indians coming they would rush forward with cries of delight, and when the tall, stalwart form of Seneca John greeted their eyes, they would run to him, climb to his shoulders and ride, thereon to and from school. The children of the whites and Indians intermingled in their games, and each were on as friendly terms with the others as they were with their own kind. Mrs. Platt Benedict, in her last years, said: "We gained the friendship of those denizens of the forest, and they brought us many, many presents in their own rude way." NORWALK, the county-seat of Huron, is a beautiful city of the second class, fifty-six miles west of Cleveland, about ninety-five miles north of Columbus, and fifty-seven miles east of Toledo; is on the L.S. & M.S., W. & L.E., and S.M. & N. Railroads. It is on what are known as the "Firelands," in the Western Reserve. On account of its fine streets being well shaded by beautiful trees of that species, it is called the "Maple City." It is surrounded by a rich farming country, has a fine commercial trade, and considerable manufacturing interests. County Officers: Auditor, Jonathan S. White; Clerk, Albert M. Beattie; Commissioners, Commodore O.H. Perry, James A. Fancher, George Bargus; Coroner, Frank E. Weeks; Infirmary Directors, James D. Easton, Uriah S. Laylin, Jonathan W. Huestis; Probate Judge, Henry L. Kennan; Prosecuting Attorney, Theron H. Kellogg; Recorder, Robert A. Bloomer; Sheriff, Alfred Noecker; Surveyor, Luther B. Mesnard; Treasurers, Orin S. Griffin, Amos O. Jump. Newspapers: Chronicle, Republican, F.R. Loomis, editor; Germania, German, George J. Lenz, editor and publisher; Reflector, Republican, C.Wickham and James C. Gibbs, editors; Experiment and News, Democratic, H.L. Stewart, editor. Churches: one Episcopalian, three Catholic, one Congregational, two Methodist Episcopal, one Baptist, one Universalist, one Presbyterian, one Lutheran. Banks: First National, Theodore Williams, president, George M. Cleveland, cashier; Huron County Banking company, D.H. Fox, president, Pitt Curtiss, cashier; Norwalk National Bank, John Gardiner, president, Charles W. Millen, cashier. Manufactures and Employees. -G.M. Cleveland & Co., flour, etc., 6 hands; W.B. Lyke, general machinery, 5; B.C. Cartwright, fanning mills, idle; E.S. Tuttle, grain elevator, 2; C.H. Gove & Co., iron foundry, 3; Stewart Dowel Pin Works, Dowel pins, 17; The A.B. Chase Company, pianos and organs, 160; L.S. & M.S.R.R. Shops; railroad repairs, 80; W. & L. E.R.R. Shops, railroad repairs, 99; Norwalk Machine Works, general machinery, 9; C.H. Fuller, carriages, 9; N.H. Pebbles, carriages, 5; The Laning Printing Company, printing, 26; Norwalk Electric Light and Power Company, electric light, 3; S.E. Crawford, pumps, 3; Theodore Williams & Son, flour, etc., 10; D.E. Morehouse, planing mill, 5; C.W. Smith, planing mill, 10; Smith & Himberger, novelties, 225; The Hexagon Postal Box Manufacturing Company, post-office furniture, 20; William Schubert, planing mill, 6; Bostwick & Burgess Manufacturing Company, carpet sweepers, etc., 53; State Reports, 1888. Population in 1880, 5,704. School census, 1888, 2,338; W.R. Comings, school superintendent. Capital invested in industrial establishments, $345,250. Value of annual product, $575,000. -Ohio Labor Statistics, 1887. U.S. census, 1890, 7,195. Up to 1852, the era of railroads, Norwalk was an academy town. It was the seat of the famous Norwalk Academy, having been the largest and most famous institution of the kind in all the West, and almost as well known to the pioneers as Yale or Harvard. The society of the town comprised mostly the teachers and their families, together, with the few families who moved here while educating their children. Charles H. stewart, Esq., in an address delivered March 27, 1883, at the farewell reunion of the High School alumni, said: "Everybody kept boarders; in fact, that was the main occupation of about nine-tenths of our able-bodied citizens during that period. Board was very reasonable in those days, too. A young man could get the best room and nicest board in town for from $1.00 to $1.50 per week. Mutton sold for two cents a pound, and as everybody kept cows and pigs and hens, which all ran free in the streets, milk and eggs and pork were almost given away. These rooms were divided up into a large number of smaller ones, where many young men roomed. "Our late President, R.B. Hayes, and present Governor, Charles Foster, and several of our Congressmen, were dormitory boys, as they used to call them, who cooked and ate and devised mischief there. The boys had their bread baked, did the rest of their cooking, and used to live here nicely for forty cents a week, including room rent, which was $1.00 a term. In the fall of the year (as can be guessed), the boys used to live on the fat of the land. On almost any night, along toward midnight's witching hour, mysterious figures could be seen, surreptitiously gliding into the old school-building, with large, mysterious bags on their shoulders. If you would glide up behind one of them, you would see the contents of those bags disgorged in the ruddy glow of the firelight which lit up the laughing faces of half a score of future senators, congressmen, governors, judges, or -must we say it? -preachers. There were big watermelons and roasting-ears, and sweet potatoes, apples, now and than a plump pullet from some neighboring roost, and there was a banquet for the gods." -continued in part 3 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:27:05, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907280227.WAA05710@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: UNRETURNING BRAVE-HURON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume I "THE UNRETURNING BRAVE" Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker is reported to have said that the real heroes of the World war were those who made the supreme sacrifice, who gave their lives in the service of their country. To this class belong more than 6,500 of the Khaki-clad boys of Ohio, who won the golden star in the greatest of all the wars of history and in the supreme effort to win a peace, which we fondly trust shall be perpetual. * Killed in action + Died of wounds # Died as result of accident Where no mark is used the soldier died of disease. HURON COUNTY ALT, Jacob, Norwalk, May 7, 1919 BARNEY, George F., New London, Nov. 8, 1918 BARNSWORTH, Clarence L.*, Bellevue, Aug. 30, 1918 BEATTIE, Arthur J.*, Norwalk, Oct. 15, 1918 BELL, Harry R.*, Fitchville, Sept. 26, 1918 BROWN, Clarence E., Norwalk, Oct. 8, 1918 BUCKINGHAM, Huron+, Chicago Jct., Sept. 15, 1918 CARSON, George M., Bellevue, Dec. 30, 1918 CHERRY, Dear D.*, North Fairfield, Aug. 21, 1918 EDELMAN, Bernard C., Norwalk, April 20, 1918 ENDLE, Walter H., Bellevue, Dec. 8, 1917 HEYMAN, Carl J., Monroeville, Dec. 3, 1918 HEYMAN, Harley L., Bellevue, Oct. 12, 1918 HEYMAN, Stephen C.*, Bellevue, Oct. 25, 1918 KELLY, Kail H., Chicago Jct., Oct. 27, 1918 KENYON, Ivan Wayne*, Wakeman, Nov. 4, 1918 LOEW, Rudolph, Monroeville, Oct. 6, 1918 MARTIN, Homer H., Greenwich, Oct. 12, 1918 McCLAFIN, Harold H.*, Clarksfield, July 28, 1918 MEAD, Theodore E.*, New London, Sept. 30, 1918 MILLER, Merrill M., Greenwich, Oct. 4, 1918 MILLER, Ray S., Bellevue, Oct. 5, 1918 MUMFORD, John C., New London, Oct. 12, 1918 MYERS, harold L., Norwalk, April 15, 1918 NAVIN, Charles A., Norwalk, Nov. 25, 1918 NOLAN, Cecil E.+, New London, Oct. 30, 1918 NORMAN, Percy C., Norwalk, Oct. 6, 1918 O'MARA, George L., Monroeville, Oct. 11, 1918 SAVAGE, lewis F., Willard, Oct. 5, 1918 SCHICK, Jacob F., Norwalk, Oct. 4, 1918 SCHMUPF, Carl R.+, Norwalk, Oct. 6, 1918 SHERMAN, Carl E., Oct. 17, 1918 STONE, Charles L., Wakeman, Jan. 1, 1919 SULLIVAN,Joseph J.*, Norwalk, Sept. 29, 1918 VROOMAN, James E., Norwalk, March 17, 1918 WATROS, Paul K., Norwalk, Nov. 4, 1918 WILSON, Harley D., North Fairfield, Oct. 7, 1918 MARINE CORPS HEYMANN, Henry P.*, Bellevue, June 25, 1918 HILL, Ralph O.+, Bellevue, June 6, 1918 NAVY DENMAN, Cyrus M.#, Norwalk, Nov. 10, 1918 MYERS, Ernest C.#, Bellevue, April 17, 1918 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #554 *******************************************