Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-03-22


and at Mentor, few miles west, where
Judge Jesse Phelps, Jared Wood, Ebenezer
Merry. ChRs. Parker and Moses Parks resfd-
ed. Shortly after Gen. Edward Paine. the
frst Delegate TO the State Legislature, arrived
and settled mile distant. Shortly after the
formation Of the State Government, Mr.. Wal
worth, Solomon Griswold Of Windsor, and
Calvin Austin, of Warren, were appointed
Associate Judges of Trumbull county or the
Wester Re erve. In 1906, Judge Walworth
was appointed collector of customs for the
district of Erie and opened a collectors Of
fee in Cleveland, removing thither. He was
an extensive land agent, and held various Of
fees until his decease, September 10, 1872.
He was small in stature, and Of weekly con-
stitution; but he was fearless man, and pos
sessed of indomitable perseverance and
strength of will.
Painesville was laid out in 1905 by Henry
Champion and originally called Champion;
it was afterwards called Painesville after the
township and in honor of Gen. Edward Paine,
who was a native of Connecticut, an officer
in the Revolution. aud an early settler. The
Hon. Samuel Huntington, Governor of Ohio,
from 1908 to 1910 resided at Painesville in
the latter part of his life and died there in
1917; he came from Cleveland, thirty miles
below Painesville. Fairport was laid out in
1872 by Samuel Huntington, Caleb Austin
and others. Kirkland, nine miles southwest
of Painesville, was
THE HEADQUARTERS OF TIE MoRMoNs.
At one time they numbered 5000 souls. On
their abandoning the place, most of the
building went to decay. Their temple was
built here in 1834-5. They came to this
place in 1882, established band in Kirkland,
from which they issued a number of thous-
and more dollars than they had specie, which
gave their enemies power over them, and
their bills became useless. They were deeply
| IN debt for goods in New York, which caused
them to leave for Missouri in 1837-700 in one
day. The History of Mormonism is too well
known to need extended mention here, and it
is greatly to the disgrace of the State that
this blot ever fell upon our fair escutcheon.
Summit county was erected on March Sd,
1910, from Portage. Medina and Stark
counties. Being the highest land on the
Ohio canal, it was called Summit, or as
originally designated, "the portage summit" !"
The old Indian portage path between the
Cuyahoga and the Tuscarawas crossed this
county and it formed part of the ancient
boundary between the Six nations on the
east, and the western Indians. The first
settlement made in this county was at Hud-
son, in 1900, by David Hudson, one of the
proprietors of the Reserve. It is the seat of
the Western Reserve College, Rev. Chas. R.
| Storrs, was the first President of this college;
he was the son of Rev. R. s. Storrs, of Long
| Meadow, Mass. He was born 1894, pursued
his literary studies at Princeton, and his
theological at Andover. In 1922 he located
| at Ravenna, in 1928 was elected professor of
Christian theology, and in 1880, President of
the college. He died, September Is, 1884 at
Braintree, Mass,
| Ashland county was formed February 26th,
| 1876; Ashland the county seat was laid out in
| 1916, called Uniontown for many years, and
finally was changed to Ashland,
IN COMPLIMENT TO HENRY CLAY;
Jeromeville eight miles distant was named
after French trader named Jerome who
| resided there. The Delaware Indians had
settlement at or near Jerome which they left
at the commencement of the war of 1872;
their chief was old "Capt. Pipe" who when
young was great warrior; he was at ST.
Clair's defeat and slaughtered white men
until his arm was weary with its work.
| The facts of pioneer history and biography
| contained in the last few chapers have been
| abridged mainly from Howes History, a
| work remarkable for its fund of general in
formation, but with no system in its arrange
ment. We have tried to give only the lead
| ing facts in chronological order, as near as
possible, in the order of the organization of
counties. His work only comes down to
| 1916, and it is great shame that no complete
history of the State has been written since
then.
EMINENT MEN OF THE MAHoNING VALLEY.
We are indebted for the following facts to
''The Historical Collections of the Mahoning
I Valley, work of exhaustive research in a
| limited local field of investigation. It treats
mainly of Mahoning county, and in this
respect is very exhaustive. It was not until
after the treaty of Greenville that any at
tempt at the settlement of this section was
made. The white men found in the Mahon-
ing valley a rowing but insignificant tribe of
Indians called the Massasaugers who, how
ever, offered no serious objections to its set
tlement. In the year 1897, John Young was
engaged in surveying the valley. He was not
active in the field except in directing the
surveys. During the fall he cleared with his
own hands several acres where the city of
Youngstown now stands. In the autumn of
1913, Ephraim Quinby and Richard Storer,
from Washington county, Pa, came to the
Western Reserve, and probably bivouacked
in Young's deserted log cabin. Travellers
from the southern settlements, making their
way toward the lake, generally ''put up" at
this cabin.
JOHN YOUNG BUYS A TOWNSHIP AND NAMES IT.
During the latter part of the year. or early
in 1897, John Young, with Philo White, his
father-in-law, of Whitestown, N. Y, and
Lemuel Storrs, of Middletown, Conn, con-
trGcted for the purchase of Township No. 2,
in second range of the Connecticut Western
Reserve. Subsequently, White and Storrs
relinquished their interest in the contract to
Young, and he gave to the township the name
of Youngstown.
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