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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 760 Today's Topics: #1 Pioneer Marriages in Allen County ["Linda D" ] #2 Allen County Probate Court Notices ["Linda D" ] #3 1900 Akron Riot [part 1] ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000101bf2539$0f7431e0$71030ad0@Linda> Subject: Pioneer Marriages in Allen County 1855 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Lima Democratic News April 1855 By J. Hill JP, Samuel AKERMAN to Eve FISHER By (Blank), Edward WALKER to Sarah HALL By M. Hard, Joshua PURDUM to Rachel ARBUTHNOT By same, William HART to Hannah COHORN By same, James COOKSTON to Maria MUSSER By W. Hutchins JP, William TANNERHILL to Pauline LEISER By same, William HILAND to Sarah PAUGHENMIRE By Rev. A.R. Krebs, John HAND to Elizabeth SIGAFOOSE By same, Thomas PRICE to Mary MERL By Thomas Dalzell JP, Robert BODLE to M. BIDINGER By Simon Whetstone, Michael SHANKS to Nancy CONKLE By (Blank) Lewis KOHLEIVER to Margaret BIMMEL By John Miller JP, Henry FREDERICK to Mary RITNER By Benj. Byerly, Samuel CLICK to Susan MILLER By Wm. Scott JP, Joseph MULENOUR to Adaline RIDENOUR By L. Newell JP, John PERKINS to Ann COGEN By J. O. Bredeick, John O'CONNELL to Catharine MOONEY By (Blank), Henry VECORT to Elizabeth NODEL By J. DeLeal, Alfred McKEY to Elizabeth PROTSMAN By Harrison Maltbie, Daniel McCOY to Clarinda HAYS May 1855 By I. Yost, John ROTH to Mary AMSTUTZ By J. Newell JP, Daniel SNIDER to Mary SMITH By same, David CULVER to Mary LONGWELL By same, John HARDESTY to Catherine HALE or GALE By same, Ichabod GALLASPIE to Sarah HEFNER By Thomas Elcock, Samuel BROWN to Mary SKINNER By J. Conyer, Joseph ARMSTRONG to Emma SAINT By R.M. Badeau, James BARR to Amy CUNNINGHAM By same, J. BARR to Jane HAMILTON By S. Sutton JP, Thomas MITCHELL to Mary POWER By Wm. Moorman, Andrew BELLIS to Mahala SIMPSON By Joseph Griffiths JP, William JONES to Elizabeth OWENS By J. DeLeal, Jacob MYERS to Emelia COCHRAN By Rev. Sam'l Downey, William FOSTER to Angeline BERRYHILL By same, Daniel CRAMER to Rose MYERS By Jacob Klinger, John KOHLER to Rachel MOSSER By Nahum Smith, William BOGART to Catherine FENSLER By Archelaus Martin JP, James MONTFORT to Jane SMITH By Montrose Irvin JP, Jackson BOLANDER to Elizabeth KRIDLER By J. Armstrong, Isaac SATTERTHWAITE to Martha McHENRY By same, James HARVEY to Martha HANTHORN By Thos. Delzell JP, Daniel WOOLET to Mary McCLURE By same, John DIXSON to Sarah CORNS By Rev. A. R. Krebs, R. HUGHES to Charlotte CLIPINGER By M. Hard, Charles FAUROT to Henretta WORTHINGTON By Geo. Goble JP, Benjamin MEEK to Barbary MANNER By Sam'l Wilson, Armeal ENGLE to Sarah HALL June 1855 By Rev. A.R. Krebs, C. HULBERT to Sabria BATES By same, William McCLELLAND to Lydia RUMBAUGH By R.M. Badeau, Moses SMITH to Mary STEWART By same, Thomas KIDD to Eleanor CORRAN By same, John PRICHARD to Angeline KELLEY By Wm. Yoakam JP, John STALEY to Nancy SNODGRASS By same, George BRESLER to Mary JIMISON By John Webster JP, John ROSS to Suzannah ROBISON By W. Hutchins JP, Samuel BAXTER to Mary ROBERTS By S. Bower, George BAXTER to Margaret CHANEY By Harrison Maltbie, Isaac DARLING to Eliza REED By M. Hard, Samuel WILSON to Henrietta FREET By E. Purdy, John COLLETT to Vesta PURDY By Benj. Byerly, Jermiah PARKER to Jerusha CURTIS By Rev. Sam'l Downey, Lewis McBRIDE to Mary BOWERS By Thos. Delzell JP, William LAYFEVER to Sarah BIRD By same, Frederick NEWCOMER to Ann LAMA By Isaac Hardesty JP, Nathaniel MAY to Nancy LOCKRIDGE By Adam Wilson JP, John REEDER to Elizabeth LEWIS Nov. 2,1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz---Ohio Proud Rootsweb Sponsor Member Allen Co,Genealogy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 08:57:45 -0500 From: "Linda D" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000101bf253a$3f09c900$71030ad0@Linda> Subject: Allen County Probate Court Notices 1861 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Taken from Allen County Democrat The following accounts have been filed in the Probate Court of Allen Co., Ohio, and will be for hearing Sept. 2,1861. Final account of Smith TALBOT, admr. of Thomas W. GRANGE, dec'd Second account of Robert MEEK, guardian of Mary FREET First account of H.W. BAYMAN, admr. of John ARSPACH, dec'd First account of V.B. PANGLE, guardian of the heir's of Ferguson PANGLE First account of James K. BELL, admr. of James MAXWELL, dec'd First account of W.D. BREESE, admr. of Alexander IRWIN, dec'd T. M. Robb Probate Judge Nov. 2,1999 Submitted by Linda Dietz---Ohio Proud Rootsweb Sponsor Member Allen Co,Genealogy Soc ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:10:42 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <01c201bf2587$7c733180$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: 1900 Akron Riot [part 1] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From Doyle's History of Summit County: The Riot Of 1900--The Darkest Night In Akron's History. Wednesday, the 22d day of August, in the year 1900, was a day of rejoicing in America. The wires under the Pacific had throbbed with a message of joy for all Christendom. Pekin had fallen--the capital city of China. The Imperial Court had departed in hasty flight to the interior. The American troops were the heroes of the allied armies. They had attacked and repulsed the Yellow Horde laying siege to the British Legation, where the American minister and his family and other good citizens had taken refuge when the Boxers arose. America rejoiced that her sons and daughters had successfully escaped from the perils of the 4,000 shells that fell into that legation; from the famine and sick-ness of the long siege, and especially from the ferocity and torture and barbarism of the legions of Chinese savages. Akron is a representative American community. Her people were just as glad as any on account of the glory which had come upon the American .armies. In the evening of that day a large part of the beauty and wealth and culture of the city had met on the beautiful grounds of the Perkins homestead where a lawn party was being held for the benefit of a splendid charity. Sounds of mirth and music filled the air and countless lights and colors made it a brilliant scene. It is a common sight in any center of culture and fashion. Out in Lakeside Park the beautiful summer night bad drawn a large company of spectators to the Casino, and they were enjoying to the full the delights of the theater. But the night in Akron had not been given over to pleasure alone. What strange contrasts human living presents sometimes! The darkest night Akron had ever seen had fallen with the coming of dusk that night. The perfect picture of' Hell, that was to be beheld before the coming of dawn again, was then in the making. The Antithesis of joy and light and love and good-will was gaining followers in other parts of the city and they were preparing for the crowning of Hate, and Revenge, and Lust for Blood.. If little Christina Maas had not been playing by the roadside, near the home of her parents on Perkins Hill, on Monday evening, August 21, 1900, in all probability Akron would have been spared her deepest shame. Not that the innocent child, in her sweet play, was the cause of what followed, but that she was destined to form a link in the chain of circumstances, without which completed action could not be had. She was the little, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Maas. As she played by the roadside in the early evening with her girl friends, a negro drove by. He called to her. She did not fear him. He persuaded the older children to leave and promised little Christina a gift of candy. He asked her to get into his buggy and she responded in her childish confidence and natural faith in mankind and all. He assisted her as she climbed in. He whipped up the horse and drove down the country road. The negro was Louis Peck. He was a stranger in Akron. He had been here but a short time, having come from Patterson, New Jersey. His reputation there was very bad and the authorities wanted him there for a long list of crimes he had committed. Since coming to Akron he and his wife had been working in a restaurant. He was about forty years of age and black, and unprepossessing. After his arrest, he confessed freely all he did that evening, after he drove into the country and until he left the little girl crying and injured by the lonely roadside with night coming on. He had hired the horse and buggy from a Main street liveryman. After driving back into town he abandoned them and they were found soon after by the police It was by means of the horse and buggy that the officers were enabled to learn the identity of the perpetrator of this outrage. As soon as the police department was informed of the crime every policeman on duty was notified and instructed to be on the lookout for such a negro as Peck. Every place in the city likely to harbor him was searched and the railway tracks were watched with sharp sight, but Peck succeeded in escaping from the city. He had lost no time in beginning his flight. Not a trace of him could be secured. On Tuesday the officers patrolled the railway tracks, rather expecting that Peek was still in the city, in hiding, and would try to make his escape. A number of them were scattered along the tracks on Tuesday night. Shortly after midnight a freight train rolled into the Union depot from the east. Officer Duffy was patrolling the tracks in that vicinity and, as the train passed him, standing in the dark, a negro jumped from one of the cars almost into his arms . Officer Duffy arrested the man. It was Peck. He was taken at once in the patrol wagon to the city prison. The prison-keeper was awakened and spent the rest of the night talking with Peck about the crime. By adroit leading and skillful questioning Mr. Washer succeeded at last in getting Peck to make a full confession. R. W. Wanamaker, the prosecuting attorney, was summoned, a stenographer secured, and Peck's statement was taken down verbatim. At 9 o'clock he was arraigned before the mayor, W. E. Young, in the mayor's court. He pleaded guilty to a charge of rape and was bound over by, the mayor to the Common Pleas Court to await the action of the Grand Jury at the coming September term. His bond was placed at $5,000, and he was committed to the prison because of his inability to furnish bail in that amount. Greatly exaggerated stories of his confession and of the criminal act were circulated throughout the city. The appearance of the evening papers (especially one, very imprudently printed in red ink) and the cries of the newsboys selling them, stirred up a feeling of resentment. Excitement was slowly kindling. Many heedless remarks were made by persons whose words usually carry weight. An Akron professional gentleman was on his way home at 5 o'clock that bright Wednesday afternoon. He stopped in a store and listened to a recital of the outrage by the merchant. Said the professional man in the hearing of a little company, "I'll be one of a hundred to go over and take him out of the jail and hang him." Not a man in the company protested. No one deemed the sentiment extravagant or the speech incendiary. There was an echo in their own breasts. Every man felt a personal interest in having so great a wrong redressed and in having it done at once. Many such intemperate remarks were made that afternoon as the story spread. As early in the day as noon, threats were made to the authorities that the negro would he lynched. The executive departments of the city government heard the mutterings of the coming storm all afternoon. The county officers heard it also. None of them can be heard to say now that they were taken by surprise. They were totally unprepared when the hour of trial came, but they were not taken unawares. They had full warning more than ten hours before the storm broke in all its fury. They paid this much attention to the threats and warnings they had received--they ordered Sheriff Frank G. Kelly to take the prisoner to Cleveland during Wednesday afternoon for safe keeping. Another colored man named William (alias "Bug") Howard had been locked up in the prison awaiting commitment to the county jail as he, too, had been bound over to the Common Pleas Court on a charge of shooting a white man in the leg. It was deemed best to take Howard along, as a. mob might easily mistake the identity of the negro they sought, or .might be so incensed at the whole black race, that they would not ,hesitate to hang another than the one sought. These two black men were soon secure behind the gray walls of the Cleveland prison The Akron authorities were congratulating them-selves on so successful an issue of their wise plans. When a mob appeared they would laugh at them and enjoy their discomfiture when told the quarry had flown. They know more about mobs and mob nature now. Crowds began to collect at the intersection of Main and Howard streets a short time after 6 o'clock. Knots of men stood about the prison talking over the affair. Some were already discussing the advisability of trying to make an example of the prisoner. Considerable sentiment in favor of such action had been aroused during the day in several of the big city factories. Some of these men were present and made up their minds that, if an opportunity offered, they would make good what they had said they would do. As it began to grow dark and to become difficult to distinguish objects across the street, the crowd, much augmented, closed in about the old brick building which Akron people had known for many years as "The City Building." They began to call for Peck and to hoot and jeer the police officers who were within. The chief of police had become alarmed and had summoned every available man for duty at headquarters. Much parleying took place between city officials and the members of the crowd. They tried to push into the building through the Main street doors, but the officers prevented them. There was still much daylight remaining when the first attack on the building was made. A shower of stones and bricks broke the windows and bombarded the stout doors. Then a ladder was brought out and quickly manned. This was used as a battering-ram on the north doors, which lead into the Mayor's Court. The stones and bricks continued to fly. The doors were rapidly giving way beneath the repeated blows of the improvised ram. Then one of the front windows was raised and a policeman emptied his revolver over the heads of the assailing party. This was a foolish move. There was no ammunition in the city building beside what was already in the chambers of the policemen's revolvers and part of a box which was in possession of the prison-keeper. The scarcity of ammunition was a cause of much alarm to the policemen in the building. They had sent outside to secure more, but were unsuccessful. Across the street were a large number of spectators watching the efforts of the men in their attack upon the building. Among them were a few carriages and buggies. In the one of the latter sat John M. Davidson, with his wife and four-year-old daughter, Rhoda. They had been out looking at some work Mr. Davidson had taken the contract for and were returning home by the way of Main street. They had started to go up the Quarry street hill and were told that the Fire Department was coming down. They turned back on to Main Street and other buggies crowded around them so that they were forced to remain. Mrs. Davidson was looking at the policeman in the window. She saw him shoot his revolver directly at them. She heard bullets fly about their heads. Her little daughter said, "Oh, mamma," and her head fell forward on her mother's knee with the blood flowing from a mortal wound in her head. Glen Wade,. a boy of ten years, was also standing among the spectators on the opposite side of Main street and he received one of the bullets from this same policeman's reckless--yes, criminal shooting. He was instantly killed. Hundreds of shots were fired afterward, and charges and charges of dynamite exploded, and two large buildings were burned to the ground, yet these two innocent children were the only persons who lost their lives by reason of the riot. The injuries received by other parties that night were mostly of a minor character. The party within the walls was increased by this time so that it consisted of Mayor Young, the four city commissioners, Chief of Police .Harrison and seven or eight police-men. A hurried conference was held and it was decided to allow the crowd to appoint a committee to enter and inspect the jail to make sure that Peck was not in it. The mob selected a committee of six, headed by a member of the City Council, who was one of the loudest and most strenuous of all the seekers for the blood of this negro. When the doors were opened to admit the committee, the crowd poured, in after them. It was impossible to stem that impetuous rush. They filled the building and searched every nook and corner of it. The cells of the prison were opened, but the mob found no negro within the building. Even Mr. Washer's private apartments were invaded and the garments of himself and wife torn from the closets where they hung, to see if any one was concealed by them. Their cellar was ransacked, and every spot which could possibly contain or shelter a man was searched. The disappointment of the mob was plain. Some one shouted that Peck was in the county jail. The entire crowd started for the jail. Deputy-Sheriff Simon Stone was on duty. Sheriff Kelly was absent for some unexplained cause. His continued absence through all the stirring events of that night and until the hour of danger had passed caused much comment. The deputy sheriff met the mob in front of the old brick jail, which stood on the east side of Broadway, opposite the Court House, and which was torn down on the completion of the new jail. Standing on the old stone steps at the front entrance, he made them a short address, telling them that Peck had been taken to Cleveland that afternoon and that he had never been brought to the county jail. He offered to allow a committee chosen by themselves to make a search. This was done and the same committee searched the jail thoroughly and reported that no negro could be found. The crowd moved over to the old Court House; battered in the wooden doors, and trooped into every room in the building except the office of the treasurer. Here the heavy iron doors resisted their efforts to make an entrance and caused them to desist in their purpose. They hastened back to the City Building and filled the space in front of it. They were still shouting and calling for Peck, and occasionally a stone or a brick would fly through the windows on both the Main street and Viaduct sides of the building. When the mayor appeared at a window in the rooms of the board of health and motioned for silence, the crowd listened to him with comparatively good attention. He told them that Sheriff Kelley had taken Peck to ,Cleveland that afternoon and that there was no use hunting longer for him. Some one insisting that this was not so, the mayor offered to bet $20 that Peck was not in Akron. He urged them to disperse and let the law take its course in bringing Peck to a full punishment for his crime. Of course, this did not satisfy them. It was a mistake to suppose that it would. They were not there for oratory. They had come on a serious business. They sought vengeance. Nothing but blood would satisfy them. It was a maddened, blood-thirsty pack of wolves, and to advise, and to temporize, and to try to compromise with such was entirely unreasonable and a waste of effort. It was the temporizing policy of the authorities up to this time which had helped bring the mob up to its present pitch. The attack was renewed with increased vigor. It was no longer a crowd of men confronting the officers; it was a furious mob. Many of them carried pistols in their hands and a few shots were fired at the building. Occasionally a policeman would come to the window and discharge five or six shots toward the sidewalk. Prison-keeper Washer had been spending the evening with Mrs. Washer and friends at one of the summer resorts south of Akron. He had gone out of town on the earnest solicitation of the chief of police, who explained to him that, if a mob did form, it would make the story more credible if it could be said that the prison-keeper was out of town with the prisoner. When the fish supper was con-eluded, Mr. Washer tried to reach the city building by telephone, but was unable to do so. He became apprehensive that all was not right and started for Akron about 8 o'clock. He drove into the mob at Main street about 9 o'clock and they dragged him and Mrs. Washer from the buggy. They shoved two revolvers into Mr. Washer's face, boring the barrels into his flesh, saying they wanted Peck and meant to have him. One man, in a perfectly fiendish condition of mind, kept scratching Washer's face shrieking, "It's blood we want, blood, blood, blood." He succeeded in drawing some of Mr. Washer's. Mrs. Washer finally succeeded in reaching their apartments at the rear of the building, with a large part of her clothing torn from her body Mr. Washer tried to make a speech to the mob The noise and tumult was so great he could not make himself heard, except to a few immediately surrounding him. He saw a man with a brick in his hand working his way up to the front. A, minute later and this brick struck the speaker on the side of the head and he dropped senseless to the street. The blow nearly fractured his skull and he suffered from the wound it made for several years afterward. Continued in Part 2 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #760 *******************************************