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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 02 : Issue 233 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] Fw: Manx Settlers in Ohi ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <017701c28e91$e0c675e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Manx Settlers in Ohio Part 12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: <73777.25@Content-Watch.com> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 4:52 PM Subject: Manx Settlers in Ohio Part 12 Contributed for use in USGenWeb archives by Darlene E. Kelley Oct 20, 2002 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio And Then They Went West S.L Kelly Diaries Series of Articles by Darlene E. Kelley *********************************************** The continuation of the Manx Settlers in Ohio -- Article 12. NOTE** In previous articles I mentioned and printed a letter which appeared in the local newspapers written by Thomas Kelly. I must confess that these articles are two fold. First the interest of tracing my family ties and then second my fasination of the marvelous families whom contributed much to the growth of Ohio. Much has been written about the biographies of the Manx people of Ohio and valuable sources can be found at The Western Reserve Historical Society's Library and the Cleveland Public Library in Cleveland, Ohio. Because of the City's unique ethnic groups, Cleveland indeed, was the center of the Manx immigration in the U.S. [ On the 14th of March, 1975, the Isle of Mann issued 4 postage stamps to commemorate the settlement of Manx in the Western Reserve. ] Most of the Cleaveland Manx came from the Kirk Andreas section of the Isle of Mann located in the Irish sea. Dr. Harrison, a physician in the British army, had visited the Reserve, and after a visit to the Reserve, returned to the Isle of Mann, told his brother, Rev Harrison of the opportunity in Ohio for Manx farmers, many who had faced adverse conditions in agriculture and fishing, and who had resented class distinctions, welcomed this news. The Corlette family came to America and leased 50 acres of Newburg land from the Connecticut Land Co, and became succesful farmers and enthusiastically encouraged their fellow Manxmen to follow. My interest was with the Kelleys, Tears, and Kneens, who arrived in Cleveland and settled in the Newburg area near E. 93rd St. and Miles Ave, with each family purchasing a farm, establishing a settlement that drew further immigrants.** *************************************************************************** ******************* In Warrensville about 70 Manx families settled in the area, who were primarily farmers and also engaged in weaving, tanning, shoe making, chair making and button making. They had their own unique Gaelic language, which they used almost exclusively with each other and their own religious services. Eventually the growth of the Manx families and their descedants would grow to 3,000, and scattered through out Ohio. The first religious services in Manx were offered by Rev. Patrick Cannell, a Methodist preacher who came to Newburg in 1826 and held services in his own log house, and later in the log schoolhouse on the Corlette farm. This original schoolhouse was replaced in 1842 by the Manx St. Schoolhouse. which was located at Manx Ave ( Union ) and Rice ( E. 116th St. ) which in turn was replaced in 1871. Like other ethnic communities, they came to have a need for a mutual aid society, so a group of 21 Manxmen established the Mona's Relief Society in 1851. It was designed to provide temporary relief for those who needed emergency assistance. On December 7, 1899, a ladies auxiliary was organized. ( and by 1913, the group affiliated with the World Manx Society. ) Many local publications on individual families are as listed; Cannel Family; Memorial Record of Cuyahoga County -- Lewis Publishing -- 1894 Eli W. Cannell. Cleveland Its Aim; Progress, Perseverance and Public Spirit -- 1897 Eli W. Cannell. Pioneer Families of Cleveland -- 1918 Eli W. Cannell. A History of Cuyahoga County -- William R. Coates -- 1924 Cannell Family. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History-- Van Tassel & Grabowski -- 1987 Cleveland Manx History. Corlett Family; Memorial Record of Cuyahoga County-- Lewis Publishing -- 1894 C. Corlett. A History of Cleveland-- J.S. Clarke Publishing -- 1910 J. Corlett & C. Corlett. Pioneer Families of Cleveland -- 1918 William B. Corlett Family. Cleveland and its Environs --1918 Spencer Dudley Corlett. Representative Clevelanders -- 1927 Spencer Dudley Corlett. Kelly- Kneen- Teare Families; Pioneer Families of Cleveland -- 1918, Kelly- Kneen - Teare. Case Western Reserve University --1987 Grabowski. Cayahoga County Memorial -- 1894 A History of Cleveland -- 1910. Local Newspaper Archives -- reprints of Thomas Kelly's letters. Western Reserve Historical Society -- Manx World Society.-- *************************************************************************** ******************* Familiar Manx Names-- Callow, Caley, Callin, Cain, Chistian, Corlett, Corrin, Cowley, Cowell, Craine, Faragher, Garrett, Kaneen, Kennaugh, Kewley, Kerruish, Kissack, Kneale, Kneen, Kelly, Ouine, Quayle, Quilliam, Quiggin, Mylchreest, Shimmin, Quirk, Sayle, Qualtrough, Cally, Kelley, Mitchell, Cannell, Teare, Coates, and Gill. But no matter what the name is They shared a common birth For they came from the Island That was the grandest place on earth And like the cushags blooming in the fields, >From Rushen to Lezayre Those omipresent Manxman were blooming everywhere. *************************************************************************** ******************* --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 11/6/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:49:15 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <017e01c28e93$f2f0cfc0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Recollections of Early Ohio Governors -- Part 1 & 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: <73777.25@Content-Watch.com>; Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:05 AM Subject: Recollections of Early Ohio Governors -- Part 1 & 2 Contributed for Use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley October 30, 2002. ================================== Historical Collections of Ohio Series of Articles by S.L. Kelly And Then They Went West Recollections of Early Governors reprinted by Darlene E. Kelley. Article 1-- ================================== Article 1-- The importance of these articles are to refresh our memories of our early governors who did so much in the history of our State of Ohio. Much can be written about these men who unselfishly gave their time to create the political development of the State. In the following articles, I will try to show some of their accomplishments. ********************************************* EDWARD TIFFIN. 1803 -- 1807. The State of Ohio was organized in 1803 from the Northwest Territory after a bitter struggle between the governor of the territory, Arthur St. Clair, and the Chillicothe Junto which favored immediate Statehood for the section east of the mouth of the Great Miami River. The leader of the latter group was Edward Tiffin, who was elected the first Governor of the State. Edward Tiffin was born in Carlisle, England, on June 10, 1766, and attended school in that city. He apprenticed as a student of medicine at the age of 12 and completed this apprenticeship in 1783 and came with his parents, Henry and Mary Parker Tiffin, and four brothers and sisters to America, where they settled in Charlestown, Virginia. [ Now in Jefferson County, West Virginia. ] Here he began the practice of medicine while he was still only seventeen years of age. He soon acquired a sizable practice. He soon became a respected member of the community and his name appears on the lists of Gentlemen Justices that was appointed by the Governor of Virginia. In the late 1780"s, he married Mary Worthington, daughter of a wealthy landowner, Robert Worthington, and sister of Thomas Worthington, who was to become Ohio's sixth Governor. He was reared in the Episcopal Church, and in the Methodist revivials in 1790, he and his wife joined the Methodist church. Two years later Edward Tiffin was ordained as deacon and throughout his life, he continued to serve the Church as a lay preacher. Like so many other Virginians, Tiffin felt the appeal of the West, and in 1798, emigrated with his family and the family of Thomas Worthington, and settled in the wilderness village of Chillicothe on the banks of the Scioto River. He was thirty two years old at the time. He continued to practice his profession in the new frontier. When he came from Virginia, a recommendation for public office addressed to Governor St. Clair and signed by George Washington came with him. A few months later the Governor appointed him Prothonatary of the territorial Court of Common Pleas. This began a long beginning of public career for him in Ohio.In 1799-1801 he served as speaker of the territorial house of representatives, and in 1802 as president of the Constitutional convention, where his authorty to determine the membership of committees was an important factor in policy making in that body. In 1803, Tiffin was elected Governor of the newly organized State of Ohio and almost without opposition again in 1805 for a second term. It was during his second term that he received a commendatory letter from President Jefferson for his efficiency in foiling Aaron Burr's expedition. Before the close of his second term, he was elected by the general assembly to the United States Senate. He took his seal in 1807 but resigned in March 1809. After the death of his wife in 1808, he expressed his desire to return to his home near Chillicothe to resume his medical practice and farming. He did not long remain a private citizen, however, as for a few months after his return home, he was elected to the Ohio House of representatives, where he served two terms as speaker, in 1809 to 1811. In the fall of 1812, he was appointed by President Madison, commissioner of the general land office, an office newly created. He successively organized the land records, and his foresight saved them from destruction when the British invaded Washington in 1814. In the same year, he secured the approval of the president to exchange offices with Josiah Meigs, then surveyor general of the Northwest, in order to be able to reside at home. Tiffen by this time had remarried and had four daughters and a son. He continued in the office of surveyor general for fifteen years under the administrations of James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, of all who praised his work. During the last four or five years of his life, Tiffin suffered severe nervous headaches. In spite of this, he continued to work and supervise the work of his office and farm and to give his professional services to the poor of the community who called on him. The city of Tiffin, Ohio is named in his honor. The State may well take pride in their first governor. Edward Tiffin died on August 9, 1829, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery at Chillicothe, Ohio. He was a skillful public servant, and able lay preacher, whom we shall always find repect and pride in his high integerity, and dedication to the people of Ohio. ================================= Article 2-- THOMAS KIRKER -- 1807-- 1808. When Edward Tiffin resigned the governorship of Ohio in March 1807 to take a seat in the United States Senate, Thomas Kirker, then speaker of the Ohio Senate, became acting Governor until December, when Tiffin's term expired. In the election of October 1807, Return J. Meigs, Jr., received a majority of the popular vote over Nathaniel Massie, but the general assembly ruled tat Meigs was ineligible because he had not resided continuously in the State for four years prior to the election, as required by the constitution. As a result of the decision, Kirker continued as acting governor for the 1807-8 term. Ohio's second Governor, Thomas Kirker, was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, in 1760. His father being unable to make a living for a large family on the poor soil of his native country, brought the family to America when Thomas was nineteen. They settled in Lancaster, Pennslyvania, where in a few years the father died. In 1790, he married Sarah Smith, a young woman from a good Lancaster family. Not long afterwards they moved to Kentucky on a hazardous journey from there to the journeys end on the frontier conditions. One account states that they were targets for Indian arrows during the trip. Thomas Kirker and family left Kentucky, [ whether for economic conditions or because of his opposition to slavery is uncertain ] and moved to Manchester, Ohio, around 1793. About two years later he settled on a farm in Liberty Township, Adams County, which was his home for the rest of his life. This is said to have been the first settlement in the county outside a stockade. In family tradition, the future governor and his wife, leaving three children at home, would take a gun and walk twelve miles through the woods to church and back. From 1808 until his death Kirker was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at West Union, as also were four of his five sons. In 1809 he was appointed one out of three to receive subscriptions for a stone church building , and his name heads the subscription lists. He became a leading citizen of his community and often called upon by common consent to arbitrate disputes among his neighbors. He was appointed by Governor St Clair as a justice of the peace and was therefore a member of the first court of quarter sessions which met at Manchester in 1797. He was chosen as one of the delegates from Adams County to the first constitutional convention. In March 1803, he represented his county in the lower house of the first general assembly. That fall of the same year he was elected to the State Senate and was reelected to that body for eleven consecutve general assemblies (1804 thru 1815), serving as speaker for seven terms. After the close of the thirteenth general assembly Kirker was absent from the legislature for one term. Then he was elected to the house of representatives fo the fifteenth and to the senate for the twentieth through the twenty third general assemblies ( 1816-17, 1821-25), serving as speaker of the senate in the fifteenth. It was while serving as speaker of the senate in the fifth general assembly that he became acting governor. Kirker was a kind and loving father and was very devoted to his wife. The settlers in the western section of the state, during his first year as acting governor, was alarmed by the threat of an Indian uprising. In order to provide for the security of the outlying settlements, in September of 1807, Governor Kirker issued general orders, calling up the first and second divisions of the Ohio militia. Also at the same time he sent Thomas Worthington and Duncan McArthur on a mission to Greenville and other towns on the frontier to ascertain whether there was danger of an attack by the Indians. In their report, they found no indication of hostility on the part of the tribes and brought one of the chiefs to Chillicothe to convince Governor Kirker of their peaceful intentions. Therefore Kirker countermanded his orders mobilizing the militia. In 1808, there were three candidates in the gubernational race, Kirker, Worthington, and Samuel Huntington, all Democratic Republicans. The main issue in the contest was the question of judicial review of legislative acts. Huntington, who was the chief justice of the state supreme court, favored the power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional, while Worthington was the chief advocate of the supremecy of the legislature. Kirker held the position simular to Worthington and this divided the vote of those who opposed a strong court. Huntington won the vote. After his defeat, Kirker returned to his duties as a legislator and to other public services. From January to October 1821, he was an associate judge of the court of common pleas in Adams County, and in 1824, he served as a presidential elector, casting his vote for Henry Clay. At the end of his career as a public servant he retired to his Liberty township farm. His wife had died in 1824. He lived on until 1837, and upon his death was buried in the family burial plot on the farm. ==================================================================== Continued in part 3 -- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 11/6/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:52:20 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <018f01c28e94$616e0760$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Recollections of Early Ohio Governors -- Part 3. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene & Kathi kelley" To: <73777.25@Content-Watch.com>; Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Recollections of Early Ohio Governors -- Part 3. Contributed for Use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley October 30, 2002 ================================== Historical Collections of Ohio Series of Articles by S.L Kelly And Then They Went West Recollections of Early Governors reprinted by Darlene E. Kelley Article 3 ================================== Article 3 -- Before Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1803, it was part of the Northwest Territory. A Governor and three Judges appointed by Congress made all the rules. Not until the territory's population reached five thousand free male inhabitants of full age were settlers given the right to elect representatives. The territorial legislature consisted of a House of Representatives and a five member Legislative Council ( the predecessor of today's Senate.) In February 1799, the House of Representatives chose the first members of the Legislative Council. The first constitution, prepared in 1802, established three branches of governmemnt with a General Assembly consisting of a House of Representatives and a Senate. Thirty representatives and 14 senators took their seats as the first legislature was called to order in Chillicothe on March 1, 1803. The leaders of each house were called speakers. In 1851, the people adopted a second constitution imposing limits on the legislature's authority. Executive officers and judges were now to be elected by popular vote. A new officer, the lieutenant governor, would preside over the Senate. The Senate majority leader became the president pro tempore. Social reformers were disappointed that the constitution failed to address many issues. Blacks were still denied the vote, and woman's suffering failed. Although voters had amended the 1851 constitution on many occasions, it was still the fundamental law of the land. ================================== Governor 3. SAMUEL HUNTINGTON. 1808 - 1810. The third governor of Ohio, Samuel Huntington, was born in Coventry, Connecticut, on October 4, 1765. His father was Joseph Huntington, a minister of libral views and a descendant of Simon Huntington, who emigrated from England in 1633. His maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Devotion, was also a minister, as were three of his paternal uncles. As a boy, he was adopted by his Uncle and namesake, Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Connecticut in 1786-96. He attended Dartmouth College until the end of his junior year ad then transferred to Yale, graduating in 1785. He was at the age of 20, and his Uncle, upon graduation sent him abroad for a tour of Europe. Upon his return Samuel studied law and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1793. There he practiced law in that state until 1800. In the same year, he made a trip to the Ohio country on horseback, visiting the Western Reserve and the Ohio Valley as far south as Marietta. In the earlier years, Samuel Huntington married Hannah Huntington of New London, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Judge Andrew Huntington and his wife Lucy Coit. Hannah was born at Norwich, Connecticut, and it was there she became a bride. in 1791. Early in the summer of 1801, Samuel Huntington brought his family ( wife and four children ) to Youngstown and soon after settled in the village of Cleveland. Amos Spafford had built for them a double log house, the largest in the settlement. It stood on a bluff on the south side of now Superior Street, near west 6th, and commended a beautiful view of the Cuyahoga River Valley. Along with their arrival they brought with them was the children's Governess, Miss Margaret Cobb. In a letter to Moses Cleaveland in 1801, Samuel Huntington describes the trip west as follows; " I have moved my patriarchal caravan through the wilderness to this Canaan. I was nine days on the journey, with two Waggons, ten oxen, three horses, seven cows and eighteen persons in my retinue. We slept seven nights in the open air after leaving the settlements in New York State. Amos Spafford has built a log house for us and was very comfortable when we arrived." ( present site of the Erie Railroad depot. ) " We have about 200 Indians going up the Cuyahoga. They have a jealousy of my coming here, owing to a story that has been propagated amongst them, that I am raising soldiers to drive them out of the country. I have had a great number of workman here who they think are soldiers in disguise." It is related that one night in 1802, he was attacked by a pack of wolves. He fought them off with an umbrella, and his horse running at top speed, reached home safely. The Indians stiil continued to roam freely about the little settlement. A different danger also threatened the settlers; the prevalence of malaria arising from the swamps. This last peril probably induced Huntington to move to Newburgh at the falls of Mill Creek, where he bought a grist mill, which had been operated by W.W. Williams for two or three years. In 1807, he traded three hundred acres in Cleaveland for a tract on the grand River owned by John Walworth and moved to Painseville Township. There with two others in 1812, he founded te village of Fairport, where he erected the first warehouse in Lake County. Soon after coming to Ohio, Samuel Huntington was filling positions of responsibility. Governor St. Clair appointed him lieutenant colonel of the Trumbull County militia in charge of the troops of the Western Reserve. In 1802, he was elected one of the supervisors of roads and in the same year was appointed Justice of the Peace and was give the priority on the court of quarter sessions. he favored statehood and opposed the arbitrary rule of Governor St. Clair. he was elected as delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802, where he acted in harmony with the Chillicothe Junto. He was elected to the senate of the first general assembly and was chosen speaker, but in April 1803 the general assembly selected Huntington as judge of the supreme court. His commission is said to be the first issued under the authority of the state. In 1804, he succeeded Return J.Meigs, Jr., as chief justice of the court, making many important decisions. In the 1808 elections, the court question was the principal issue and Huntington had the support of the Federalists and the Quids or pro court Republicans, defeated Worthington and Kirker, who split the anti court Republican vote. Huntington's administration was a stormy one. There was much excitement over the impeachment trials- both judges were acquited by a single vote over Tiffin's sweeping resolution, the principle of which was enacted into a law terminating the tenure of judges holding seven year terms under the constitution ( including interim appointees ) in 1810. Another major concern was the threat of war with Great Britain, which would leave Ohio in a crucial position. There was much agitation also over the temporary location of the capital at Zanesville and the question of its permanent location. It was during this administration that Ohio's blue laws were passed, but there appears no evidence that Huntington, though a New Englander, had advocated them. Governor Huntington was not a candidate for reelection but ran against Thomas Worthington for the United States Senate. He was defeated, howver, and at the close of his term, he returned to his splendid estate near Painesville. In 1813. he was appointed army paymaster under General William Henry Harrison and with the General visited a fort at Cleveland named in Huntington's honor. He died on June 8, 1817, of injuries received while supervising repairs on the road from his estate to the Fairport Harbor. Samuel Huntington was a man of small stature but had abounding energy. Well educated, a natural leader, and loyal to his adopted State. He was interned at Evergreen Cemetary, along side his wife, at Painesville, Ohio. ================================= continued in article 4. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.416 / Virus Database: 232 - Release Date: 11/6/02 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #233 *******************************************