SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY: Clyde, Woodville, Gibsonburg and others
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Historical Collections Of Ohio
Henry Howe LL. D.
Published 1904
copyright 1888
Sandusky County
                            
Clyde is eight miles southeast of Fremont at the crossing of the
L.S. & M. S., B&W and W.&L.E. Railroads. 

City Officers, 1888: Mayor, H.F. Paden; Clerk, Chas. H. Eaton;
Treasurer, E.D. Harkness; Marshall, John C. Letson; Chief Fire
Department, N.T. Wilder. Newspapers: Enterprise, Independent,
B.F. Jackson & Co., editors and publishers; Farmer's Reporter,
Neutral Reporter Co., editors and publishers. Churches: 1 Baptist,
1 Episcopal, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, 1 Universal, 1 Catholic, 1
United Brethren and 1 Advent. Banks; Farmers' and Traders', S.M.
Terry, cashier; Peoples Banking Co., C.G. Sanford, president,
John C. Bolinger, cashier. Population 1880, 2,380. School census
1888, 760; Frank M. Ginn, Superintendent of schools. 

Clyde is a wholesome, cleanly appearing town. It has an enduring
memory in having given to the Nation, in the person of Jas. B.
McPherson, a great soldier and the best type of a gentleman. The
sites of the log house in which he was born and the blacksmith
shop where his father labored are both within the cemetery where
today stands his monument, and rests his mortal remains. 

Clyde also was the birth place of James Albert Wales, caricaturist.
He was born there in 1852, died in 1886, and lies buried in the
McPherson cemetery. He was a highly valued artist. On the
occasion of his funeral A.B. French, an old resident of Clyde,
delivered a touching eulogy upon his boyhood, and Rev. O.
Badgley preached the funeral sermon. "Appleton's Cyclopedia of
American Biography" says of him: "He learned wood-engraving in
Toledo and Cincinnati, thence going to Cleveland, drew cartoons
for the "Leader" during the Presidential canvas of 1872. Later he
went to New York and engaged to illustrate "Puck". He eventually
became one of the founders of "The Judge", and was for some
time its chief cartoonist. Wales was the only caricaturist of the
newer school who was a native American. He was also clever at
portraiture and his cartoons excellent." 

Woodville is fourteen miles northwest of Fremont on the Portage
River and on the N.W.O.R.R. It was laid out in 1838 by Hon. A.E.
Wood on what was known on the Western Reserve and Maumee
turnpike, being on the great travelled route between Cleveland to
Toledo. School census 1888, 232 

Gibsonburg is eleven miles northwest of Fremont on the
N.W.O.R.R. Population 1880, 589. School census 1888, 217; J.L.
Hart, Superintendent of schools 

Lindsey is seven miles northwest of Fremont on the L.S.&
M.S.R.R. Population 1880, 409. School census 1888, 152. 

Townsend is five miles northeast of Clyde, on the I.B. & W. R.R.
Census 1890, 1,358.


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