OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 46 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 46 Today's Topics: #1 Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Frank [Betty Ralph ] #3 Fw: A Brief History of Columbus... ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <2.2.32.20000212172350.006e1348@HiWAAY.net> Subject: Bio - 1885 - Portage Co, OH, Franklin # 6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bios: Clark, Crane, Cross - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885 Copyright © 2000 by Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. bralph@hiwaay.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ ALBERT D. CLARK, real estate, insurance and Notary Public, Kent, was born in Kent, April 21, 1842, son of John F. and Eliza (Dunning) Clark, His paternal grandparents were George W. and Martha (Laird) Clark, native of Pennsylvania, who located in Stark County at an early day, where the father of our subject was born January 13, 1814. George W. was Associate Judge of Stark and Portage Counties at an early day, also one of the first surveyors in this part of Ohio, and laid out the stage road between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. His children were William L., the first Sheriff of Summit County; Robert; James H.; George W., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a professor at Allegheny College, Meadville, for twenty years; John F.; Jane; Juliette; Martha. John F., the father of our subject was educated in the academies of Tallmadge and Randolph, and at the age of sixteen went to Hudson and served an apprenticeship of four years at the carpenter's trade, which occupation he has followed all his life. He married in 1839 Eliza Dunning, formerly of New Milford, Conn., by whom he had five children: George F., Albert D., Amelia (Mrs. Lorenzo Fessenden), Almira (Mrs. Anson Pritchard, deceased), and Hattie (Mrs. Charles Coyle). He located in Kent in 1838, where he has resided ever since. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Ambrosia Dunning, one of the first settlers of Ravenna Township. Our subject was reared and educated in Kent. He enlisted April 24, 1861, in Company F, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving three months as Corporal was honorably discharged. He re-enlisted August 13, 1861, and served as Sergeant in Company A, First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery, and was Acting Orderly over two years, and commanded the Second Section of artilleries over a year. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga (he was recommended for promotion for bravery on the battle of Chickamauga by Maj. Wilbur F. Goodspeed), and was in many other engagements, and honorably discharged at Chattanooga, Tenn., September 12, 1864, paying a flying visit to friends in Ohio. He then went into the Quartermaster's Department at Johnsonville, Tenn., serving eighteen months as Assistant Superintendent of laborers of that place, also in the vicinity of Nashville. When Johnsonville, Tenn., was evacuated by the Union forces he went to Nashville, thence to Franklin and Duck River; returning to Nashville took passage on the transport "New York" for Eastport, Miss. On the steamer's arrival at her destination he accepted and filled the position of Chief Receiving Clerk under Lieut. Samuel W. Treat, commanding river and railroad transportation. On resigning this position he returned to Ohio. He then went West and engaged in railroading, visiting all the principal cities of the West. In 1869 he returned to Kent, and accepted a position as foreman of the brass foundry of the A.&G.W.R.R., which he held until 1883, when he embarked in his present business. He was married August 18, 1870, to Sarah J., daughter of Harvey C. and Flora B. Newberry, of Kent. The issued of this union was four children: Lenah, Scottie O., Lewis C. and Ezzie L., of whom two are now living: Lewis C. and Ezzie L. Mr. Clark is a member of the K. of H., and has filled all the chairs of that order. He now holds the office, to which he was appointed by S.S. Bloom, Grand Dictator, K. of H., of Ohio, of District Deputy Grand Dictator in and for the Twenty-fifth District of Ohio, comprising the following counties, to-wit: Ashtabula, Geauga, Portage, Lake and Trumbull. He is C.C. Commander of the K. of P., and a member of the G.A.R. He has served the village of Kent as Councilman two terms. In 1877 he was the Greenback candidate for Representative of Portage County, and ran ahead of his ticket. He was also candidate for Mayor of Kent in the Republican caucus in the spring if 1884. In politics he is independent. JAMES CRANE, hotel proprietor, Kent, was born in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, August 6, 1830; son of Ira R. and Lucy B. (Rawdon) Crane, natives of Connecticut. His father settled in Warren in 1824, where he embarked in the boot and shoe trade, which he carried on there for twenty years. He then located in West Farmington, and continued in the same business until his death. He died September 17, 1884, at the age of eighty-two years. Our subject was reared in his native town in West Farmington, and was educated in the schools of the latter place, and clerked for his father for many years. In 1852 he embarked in the dry goods trade in West Farmington, in which he engaged up to 1857, when he removed to Illinois, where he resided three years. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the three months' service, in the late war of the Rebellion, being the first man to enlist in Geauga County, Ohio. He was Orderly Sergeant of Company E, Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served his time. He re-enlisted March 12, 1862, and was appointed Captain of Battery E, Fifth New York Artillery. He participated in both battles of Winchester, Va., Fishers Hill, Va., at the evacuation of Harper's Ferry, and in the battle of Cedar Creek, where he was captured October 19, 1864, and taken to Libby, and from there to Danville Prison. He was paroled March 12, 1865, and was honorably discharged from the service the same date at Annapolis, Md. He then returned to West Farmington and re-entered the dry goods business, in which he was engaged up to 1879, when he located in Kent, and with his brother-in-law, F.K. Lewis, Esq., rented the "Continental Hotel," the principal hotel of the place, which, under the excellent management of Crane & Lewis, has become widely known throughout the state. Mr. Crane married Amelia E., daughter of Leonard and Mary (Smith) Lewis, of West Farmington, by whom he has two children: Minnie and Jay. Capt. Crane is one of the live, enterprising citizens of Kent. He is a F. & A.M., a member of the K. of P., and G.A.R. In politics he is a stanch Republican. JOHN CROSS, foreman, New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad wood-machine shops, Kent, was born in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, May 1, 1835, son of John and Elizabeth (Norman) Cross. He was reared and educated in his native place, where he learned the trade of brick mason, serving an apprenticeship of seven years. He landed in New York City April 1, 1860, where he remained until the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when he enlisted, May 1, 1861, in Company E, Sixty-seventh New York Infantry, serving until January 1, 1863, at which date he was discharged at Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D.C., by reason of being appointed Hospital Steward in the United States Army. He re-enlisted January 23, 1863, for five years and served as Hospital Steward up to August 22, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was married, December 27, 1856, to Sarah B., daughter of Joseph and Mary A. (Watkinson) Pearson, of Ely, England, by whom he had two children: Alexander and Sarah. Mr. Cross located in Kent, this county, in October, 1865, and entered the employ of the Atlantic & Great Western, now New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad Company, with whom he has been engaged to the present time, and since 1871 he has held his present position as foreman of the wood-machinery shops of the company. He and his wife are members of the Universalist Church. Mr. Cross was elected to the Council of Kent in the spring of 1883. He is a F. & A.M., and a member of the G.A.R. In politics he is a Democrat. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:14:52 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <097201bf75bf$baf53a60$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: A Brief History of Columbus...Taken from Columbus City Directory 1852 - Part I Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Ficarra Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 10:05 PM A Brief History of Columbus...Taken from Columbus City Directory 1852 The Legislature during its session in 1810-11, held in Zanesville, in order to establish a more central and permanent seat of government, received proposals from various places offering inducements for the location of the seat of government at the points designated in the proposals. Among the proposals of Lyne Starling, James Johnston, Alexander McLaughlin and John Kerr, the after proprietors of Columbus for establishing it on the high Bank of the Scioto River opposite Franklinville."which site was then covered with its native growth of timber"... The proposals of Starling and Company were accepted by an act of Legislature passed Feb 14, 1812., and the proprietors , Lyne Starling , James Johnston, Alexander McLaughlin , and John Kerr laid out the town in the spring following. The lots are 621/2 by 1871/3 feet . The streets cross each other at right angles , varying 12 degrees to the right of the cardinal points. High Street running 12 degrees east, crossing Broad Street at the north west corner of the Public Square, (the principal street ) is 100 feet wide and extends from the northern to the southern limits of the city. Broad Stret , which runs east and west 12 degrees south is 120 feet wide, and extends from the bridge on the National Road to the eastern limits of the city, passing the northside of the Public Square. All the other streets were laid out 881/2 feet wide and the alleys 33 feet wide...... On the 18th of June 1812 the first public sale of lots at auction commemenced and continued three days. The lots sold were principally on High and Broad Streets, and were generally struck off at from two hundred to a thousand dollars. The only cleared place at this time, within the limits of town plat , was a small spot on Front Street, a little north of State Street , and a small spot and cabin on the bank of the river about where the Jewett buildings now stand. Some time after laying out the town plat, and eastern out- lots, the proprietors laid out some forty or fifty out-lots north of the town, represented on the record by a separate plat, containing a trifle over two acres each, and from part of two of these lots they conveyed to the town an acre and a half for a grave yard. Immediately after the sale of lots , improvements commenced rapidly-By the erection of small log and frame houses and shops, the frames were generally enclosed with split-clapboards........ For some years but little attention was paid to improving the streets or alleys-gradually however they were cleared by the inhabitants for firewood and building materials. Abouth the year 1816 a subscription of some two hundred dollars was raised by the citizens and apporpriated for the removal of the remaining obstructions out of High Street........ Among the first houses erected, was a brick building( in the fall of 1812) on High Street, on the second lot south of State Street, west side by John Collet. In 1813 it was opened by a John Payne as a tavern. Mr Collet took possession of it , and kept a very nice tavern for a new place, until about year 1818, when he sold it to Robert Russell, who continue to keep it as a tavern until 1847 when the building was fitted for store rooms, and is at present occupied by Sessions and Harris's Dry Goods Store; Oriman's Boot and Shoe Store, and Samuel Buck's Jewelry Store. Other taverns were opened about the same time of Mr. Collet's-One by Daniel Kooser, on the east side of Front Street, corner of Sugar Alley, in a log building. One by Mr. McCollough on the north-west corner of Front and Broad Streets called "The Black Bear" . Another at the northeast corner of High and Rich Streets was kept by a Wm. Day. ,( who had been a boatman) called a "Grocery"-it was the common consort of all boatmen engaged in boating stone, and those who came up the Scioto,( at which time a large amount of the heavy articles such as salt, iron etc. for the supply of the town and surrounding country were brought up the river by boats")and so frequent were the broils between the citizens and boatmen and the boatmen themselves that the House was called "The War Office". On some occasions as many as ten to fifteen men might be seen at one time stripped of all clothing , but pants and a girt around thier waist, preparatory for a regular fight. After the excitement had cooled down the constables, would venture to hunt up the combattants and take them in before Esquire Shields to receive Justice according to law-sometimes agains; the loudly expressed disapprobation of the delinquent receiving it. The Squire, however never suffered the equanimity of his temper to be disturbed by abusive words, but disposed of the business before him by a go aheadative short hand system. He done the principal part of the business belonging to justice of the peace, for the township , and with two constables , was generally known as "Pontius Pilot and his two bull dogs". Mr Shields was a native of Ireland , endowed with a full share of mental and physical abilities. he had become fully Americanized and was a progressive Democrat in politics and equality. As a bricklayer he coulkd do two common days work in one-in surveying and platting he was equally expeditious and although actively engaged during the week in business- he generally appropriated Sunday to preaching in town and country,-his sermons always gratis, and probably discoursed as eloquently(or he was a good speaker) as any of our $1000 clergymen. He was also a poet and frequently wrote his own hymus. He was generous and philanthropic having little of the love of money "for the sake of money"-consequently he never accumulated much beforehand-after a residence of some fourteen years in this place he emigrated to the south and has since deceased........... Among the first settlers, or as early as 1813 were George McCormick, Geo. H. Harvey, John Shields, Michael patton, Alexander Patton, William Altman, John Collet, William McElvain, Daniel Kooser, Peter Patham, Jacob Hare, Christian Heyl, Jarvis Pike, George Pike, Benjamin Pike, William Long, A. Meneley, Dr. John Edmiston, John Kerr, and Jeremiah and Robert Armstrong......... More later...... ==== OHFRANKL Mailing List ==== ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 20:19:41 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <097901bf75c0$6741cf40$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: A Brief History of Columbus...Taken from Columbus City Directory 1852 - Part II Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Ruth Ficarra Part ll Brief History of Columbus -- Jeremiah Armstrong while quite a youth was a captive among the Indians for some time. Robert Armstrong in Gen. Waynes Indian campaign was employed to visit the Indian Tribes of the Northwest Territory and ascertain their disposition towards the government......... Doctor John Edmiston was the first physician to locate in the town; Drs. Parsons and Ball practised in Columbus but resided in Franklinton. About the year 1815 or 16 Dr. Parsons moved over to Columbus where he resided ever since. The First stores opened in Columbus, were one belonging to the Worthington Manufacturing Co., kept by Joel Buttles in a small brick building on the west end of the lot now covered by the Broadway Exchange building; and one belonging to McLean and Green , kept in a cabin on the south side of Rich Street, just east where the Mechanics Hall now stands. About where the Mechanics Hall stands in two or three cabins connected together, Christian Heyl kept a bakery and house of entertainment where he continued until about year 1816 when he erected the front part of his tavern now the "Franklin House" where he continue to keep a public hotel until the spring of 1841.......... In the spring of 1815 the cencus of the town was taken by James Marshall Esq. and amounted to something over 700. By this time, ther were half a dozen more stores of which are recollectedthose of Alexander Morrison, Joel Buttles, Henry Brown, Delano& Cutler, and J.&R. W. McCoy, and a printing office, issuing a weekly paper called the "Western Intelligencer", owned and conducted by P.H. Olmsted, and Joel Buttles........ The first building erected in Columbus for public worship was a cabin by the Presbyterians on Spring Street in 1814, but was not used long for that purpose,the meetings being moved to the Franklinton meeting house.where they continued to be held until 1818, when the first Presbyterian Church was organized in Columbus and a frame building was erected on the west side of Front Street, on the second lot from Town Street where Dr. Hoge administered to the Congregaton until the present brick building called "The First Presbyterian Church" was erected at the corner of Third and State Streets fronting the Public Square in the year 1831. In 1814 the Methodist Church of Columbus was organized, and the same year they built a small hewed log-house on Town Street between High and Third Streets where Zion Chapel stands now, which for some time used for a school house as well as a meeting house, when a frame was added to the log , and permanent seats were fitted. In 1823 or 24 the present brick building was erected...... The First Penitentiary was erected in 1813-14 on the south west border on the town, on a ten acre lot conveyed to the state by the proprietors of the town. The building was the same that is now occupied for an arsonal.- The yard was enclosed by a stone wall was about 150 feet square, on the west sid of the building. In August 1815 the time that the first Penitentiary law went into force the improvements were completed. Capt Jack Kooken was appointed keeper of the prison and Col. G. Thomas was by him appointed clerk. In 1828 an addition to the main building was erected and the yard extended to the foot of the hill, embracing some eight to ten times the area of the original yard. The yard upon descending the hill contained three levels and at the time much admired, though it was afterwards condemned and the avowed cause of the removal of the institution to its present location.The plan as far as regards health was probably far superior to the present prison. The second and three levels from the west wall were above the top of that wall and permitted west winds which prevail almost constantly during the summer and fall months to sweep the greater portion of the yard and thoroughly ventiate the yard, the main building and work shops and is the most rasonable theory for accounting for the general good health of the convicts in the prison. In 1822 Barzilla Wright was by the legislature elected keeper in the place of Kooken. Wright died in the summer of 1823 and Nathaniel McLean was appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy, who was continued by the election and re-election by the Legislature until the spring of 1830 when Bryum Leonard was elected. In 1832 W.W. Gault was elected who continued until the convicts were removed to the new penitentiary in the fall of 1834. The spacious elegant and durable edifice situated on the east bank of the Scioto River about a half a mile north of Broad Street and facing south. It is composed of a center building 56 feet long, about 40 feet wide and four stories high, with two wings each 200 feet long and three stories high built of cut limestone and of beautiful proportions. The center building contains the wardens house, the office, and guard room, the last so situated as to command a view of the interiors of the wings. Each wing contains 350 lodging rooms for prisoners. These rooms are seven feet long, seven feet high and 31/2 feet wide, admitting but one prisoner each. They are entirely detached from the surrounding walls by a hall 11 feet in width which extends from the pavement to the roof and passes entirely round them. Galleries, supported by iron framework , planted in the wall are placed round each tier of rooms and suitable stairways erected at one end of each block by which the prisoners are enabled with ease and without cofusion to arrive at their respective lodging apartments.......Each apartment is secured by a grated iron door, safely locked on the outside. The light admitted into these rooms passes through the outside windows, and thence Through the grated doors and is sufficient to enable the prisoners to read in their rooms....... Ventilators are placed in the roof of the building above the halls. The prison yard is in the rear, and is enclosed by a stone wall 22 feet in height surmounted by watch boxes at the angles............. Within the enclosure are the workshops, chapel, dining room, kitchen, hospital,&c. These are erected parallel with the outer walls and at a proper distance from them, so as to leave a hollow square of ground in the centre , containing about one and a half acres. In the center of this there is a large stone reservoir erected which contains a sufficient supply of water for prison purposes and greatly facilitates the putting out of fires....... part lll next ==== OHFRANKL Mailing List ==== -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #46 ******************************************