Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-20


ls34 stone. cedar, wood and pork to tre
valne of twelve hundred doha[s'
were shipped from it. In 1929 M
Addison Kelley was in charge OF me bus-
moss bis father. Datus, still returning 10
he farm in Rockport TO spend hey winter
In Ihe snring of 1886 MIR. d. heHey
moved his family to the island, ana pun
n log house for a home, to when a snall
frame was added in 1888. In 1887 ME-
! Addison Kelley purchased the farm now
ownad NV him. and in 1888 erected the
second frame building. The same season
Mr. George C. Huntington, of Cleveland,
so~n-in-law of Mr.. ID. Kelley, removed to
the island, purchased a farm of W hum
bred acres, and commenced the cottage
house in which be now lives. During the
same wear Mr.. Horace Kelley, now OF
Cleveland, purchased the farm on the west
end of the island where Mr.. Charles Car
penter now lives, built adock for shipping
stone. and a log house. At this date, 1888,
there were twelve families resident on thu
island, all under the patronage OF Mr.; u;
Kelley. About one hundred acres bad
been cleared, the balance OF the Island
being an unbroken forest.
The founder of the settlement on hel-
lev's Island Is a man of intelligence as
well as enterprise, and the first thing MI
Kelley turned his attention TO after get
ting business started was the education OF
the Young. He built a frame school house
at the expense of himself and brother and
in later wears he erected a fine hall
for lecture, lyceum, and other public pur-
poses. Mr.. X. added industry and sobri-
ETY. to education as the foundation of pros
perity in the new community, and among
the earlier entries in his accounts are cash
" paid to certain of his men for temper
ance "a reward in addition to their reg
ular paw for dispensing with the use of in
toxicating LIQUORS. In 1889 Messrs. d. &
l.. Kelley, Addison Kelley, Horace Kelley,
and G. G. Huntington, built the mo. IT,
a small sail vessel for the use of the Isl
anders. Mr.. Addison Kelley furnished a
model differing in some points from the
usual one for such q craft. She was very
narrow and deep in proportion to her
length and burthen. Her keel was an oak
plank seventeen inches in depth and four
inches thick, and on the bottom OF this
WIS an iron shoe weighing nearly a ton.
To capsize such a craft was impossible, Tor
il th1ow1 upon her beam ends, she would
right herself. The mo. |" braved IN
safety the terrific gale which carried down
the Helen Mar, Capt. Judah Ransom, OF
Sandusky, one of the well known pioneer
Lake officer, with all on beard. The "No-
l" composed the principal commercial
fleet of Kelley's Island until 1876, when
the steamer Islander was built by MI u
Kelley and others, forming a regular
means of communication with Sandusky,
Venice. Fremont; etc. She proved a de-
cided success, but in 1853 was sold and the
Island Queen built, a boat larger and bet
ter adapted to the increased trade and
travel of the island route between San
dusky and Put-in-Bay. A daily trip IS
made between these points, touching al
Kellev's Island, and to the attractions OF
the lovliest land and water scenery OF the
Lakes, Capt. Orr and Clerk Hamilton
add the safeguards and courtesies OF com
petent, careful and obliging officers
In ls49 the population Of kelleys Isl
and had increased to one hundred and
eighty, their fleet consisted Of one steam
boat of about eighty tons, and sail
boat, and the exports, coast-wise and for
eign, red cedar. lime stone, steamboat
wood, corr, wheat, and pork, were valued at
SIL,679. Up to 1910 the Island had formed
a part of the township of Danbury, now in
Ottawa. county. That year an act was
passed constituting the island a township
bv the name of Kelley's Island. Aat the
election which followed the whole number
of votes polled was fifteen, and but six of
the voters were taxpayers at the time.
The new township was attached to Ottawa
county, but in accordance with the wish
of the inh bitants, in 1915 was transferred
to Erie county.
Kelley's Island now has a population OF
eight hundreds forests have given place
to well-tilled fields and vineyards-it has
some thirteen miles. of good country roads
three school districts with school-houses
and four schools-a Catholic church and q
town hall-a wcll-flled store kept by Mr.
Alfred Kelley-a good hotel, the Island
House, Mr.. j. d. Bourne, of Springfield
Mass, proprietor Catholic priest and
Congregational clergyman, the latter
without a church-five docks-three extern
siyely worked stone quarries-valuabl'
hsheries-and about seven hundred acre
of bearing vineyards, with q grape croI
this year valued at three hundred anc
sixty thousand dollars!
The kindness of Mr.. Addison Kelley ha
enabled US to visit the principal vineyard
, and wine-cellars of the Island, and witt
this brief retrospect of the past and pres
entof this pleasant and interesting locality
we must defer statistics, etc. TIL the NOR
l row. y. a. u