The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-02-28
DIED.


BLINN.--After a lingering illness, at his resi-
dence in Perrysturg, February l9, 1868, Judge
NATHANIEL d. BLINN, in the 65th year of his age.
We copy from the correspondence of the Toledo
OoMnercini, the following interesting obituary
notice of the late Judge BLIxN.
Judge Dinn was emphatcally a pioneer of the
Maumee Valley. He was born at Doanes Cor
ners, now East Oeveland) in October 1903. The
families of his father and mother were among the
first settlers of Cuyahoga county-his grandfather
Nathaniel Doane, having settled at Cleveland in
l79S was sent out bv the Governor of Connecticut
to assist in survey ing the lands comprised in the
Connecticut Reservation. In 1923, Judge Blnn's
father had contract to open portion oftho road
leading from Perrysburg to what is row Fremont.
The Judge, who was then 20 years old, came out
To assist his father, and remained in the Black
Swamp about year, opening a road for the trans
portation of the mail from the East through to De.
trOit. Two years subsequent 20 this lie married
Miss Anna Maria Parker, at Doaue's Corners and
five years after his marriage he removed to Per-
rysburg, where he has since resided. He there
fore lived in thus place for period of over thirty
eight years. At the time of his settlement here
Perrysburg was but mere mail station with but
II few families, and the surrounding country was
almost solely inhabited by Indians.
In 1916 MIR. Blinn was elected an Associate
Judge TO- Wood County BY the State Legislature,
which position he filled until the Office was abol-
ishcd by the adoption of the new Constitution. He
has had eight children, but three of whom are liv-
ing-Alrs. Col. Norton, aud Doan Blinn, Of your
city, and daughter living at home. Judge
Blinn was fair sample Of the pioneers of his
day. lie was trained to use both mind and mus
Gle, and he had good quality Of each. Few men
have preserved reputation as fair as his
Strictly honest and upright in all his transactions
hnspitable kind, and ever cheerful, he won the
respect and esteem Of all who knew him.
But what change in this country since his first
visit to it, The opening which he helped to make
in the woods through the Black Swamp, often
working in the water up to his knees, is now the
line of one Of the finest macadamiz d roads IN the
couHtry. What was then vast wilderness sur
rounding Pcrrysburg, now teens with life and in
dustry. Perrysburg, from rude and uninvitng
mail station, has grown to be handsome town,
and Toledo-then inhabited by but two or three
families-has become of the greatest grain
markets in the world! And all this in 3S brei
years! Gould the days of the Judge been length
ened out to five score years, whata history tley
would have embraced Thus silently, but surely
are the pioneers of the Maumee Valley leaving
the scenes Of their trials, tolls and hariships
But comparatively few had the requisite powers
of endurance TO carry them through the terrible
trials of pioneer life in the Black Swamp, and the
few who survived, came out Of the conflict with
shattered constitutions, and are rapidly passing
away. But they merit monuments of everlasting
praise and gratitude for the willing sacrifices they
have made to redeem this country from its wild
and nninviting state converting it into garden of
lruitianess and beauty. Let their Successors
study their characters, and emulate their virtues.