Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-18
Canton, Personal, dc.

uaVluS Occi5lOu 10 take our lam
lily to Canton, Ohio, our former place
of residence, on last Friday, we Start
cd on the 3 a. IN. train and arrived
there about o'clock. Breakfast te-
ing disposed of and our family in the
hands OF relations, w. K. Miller, OF
the firm of Russell & Co.. soon had
his horse and buggy in readiness and
inyi ed US to take ride. We at once
proceeded to the Mower and Reaper
establishment of Russell & Co., i'm
mediately south of the R. R. depot,
and were shown through its various
and admirably arraigned departments.
This is emphatically a gigantic struc
ture, which was begun about eighteen
months ago and is now in full run
ming order. The capacity of the es.
tablishment is sufficient for turning
out 5000 or 1000 Mowers and Reapers
per year. The building cf these works
was mainly superintendent by W. X.
Miller. who is also the inventor of the
celebrated Mower and Reaper manu-.
T lctured by the company. While 90
ing through the works we were much
gratified to meet with several old and
valued friends. We now resumed
our seat in the buggy and afforded a
view of the different parts of the town
The southeast first. When we came
to Canton, in 1856, its population
was about $500. There were scarcely
half dozen houses south of the rail
road Now the vast fields which were
then devoted to farming and grazing
are occupied by neat, handsome res
licences, which indicates such wealth,
growth and prosperity. especiall,
withiI the last six years, as to seem
almost incredible. We next drove
to the Northern part of town. Here
like cnange is noticeable. The old
Wise Hill, upon which the clover
grew so luxuriantly till about ten
years ago. has been dressed, more
ground hauled upon the same and on
It's summit stands the magnificent res
ldence OF our esteemed friend, Cor
nelius Aultman, which costs a little
less than one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. May he long live to
enjoy the pleasures such home af-
fords. Beautiful residences. with
EIansard roofs adorn the north part
of town. We now drove to the CEN
trail part. The old Court House has
been replaced by costly and splen-
did structure. The small, Presbyte
rian- brick church has disappeared
and magnificent stone structure ia
ken its place. After dinner we Wis
tied the establishment of Aultman &
Co. They too have made wonderful
additions to their already very large
works. Here we were pleased to
meet so many old comrades, fellow
toilers, esteemed acquaintances In
our stroll around town, we met but
few of those who were prominent cit
liens in Canton when we first came
there, especially in the various pro
fessions, but what Is still more sad
is the fact that so many of those who
have departed this life prematurely,
fell victims to that fell destroyer of
human life-infernal whisky.
While the town has made amazing
strides of progress, its intelligent,
thinking, reading indefatigable me
chanics and young men have nobly
done their parts. But as our article
is already too lengthy for our space,
we will here record a few incidents
which came up fresh in our memory
during our brief stay there, and then
close. About seven years ago, MI /.
j. v. a mechanic who was then in the
employ of Aultman Dc Co., and whom
we still found there on Friday, and
Mr.. A. B., now in Mansfield, and in
the employ of Aultman & Taylor,
both then married men, possessing
nothing but their trade and character,
in company with others, came to us
co nlglit school, in the winter, to learn
the rudiments of arithmetic. About
that time, these gentlemen held a
conversation in regard to making
some efforts to adopt habits of econ.
''mv and as to the propriety of the
same. They had been initiating the
bad custom of so many mechanics,
and o.her people, even Of this day
that is, Of consuming the entire in.
come. The first discussion resulted
IN no decision. A second meeting
was held which lasted till near mic
night. A resolve was here made tc
save certain amount Of their income
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