The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-01-16
OLD LANDMARK
NUMBER TWO.
John Danner Writes Interest
ingly Of an Old Block.
THE w. d. CALDWELL CORNER.
History of the building From the Time 1t
Was an Old Frame Structure to the
Present Day what Business
IL Contained.

| The block of lots on the east side of
North Market street, and first north of
the public square, for many years had
only three or four buildings on it, On
the corner where w. y. Caldwell e. Co.
now have their large dry goods store
was occupied for many years by John
Buckius as a residence and tin shop. He
was a timer and copper smith by trade,
and was the father of the late John
Buckius, whose widow still lives at
633 North Market street with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. VIM. Hawk, and of Henry
| Buckius, who was also timer and car
ried on his business for years on the
opposite side of the street, as spoken of
In my first article. The first building
occupied by John Buckius, Sr., was a
two story frame, but after giving up
the timing business he built nice two
story brick, with large hall in the CEN
ter facing Market street. This two
story brick did not extend farther north
than to withing about Is feet of the
present Clark block, and on this fifteen
feet stood a one story brick building
that was occupied for some years as the
post office. Henry Kline was postmas-
| ter at that time. One man was all that
was needful in those times to do the
L
days was 6A, 1917, 1871 and 25 cents, ac-
| cording to distance, and could be paid
at destination or by the sender, and was
thus cruel way of playing jokes on
| certain parties by sending worthless
or blank letters. This system finally
| gave way to cent and cent postage,
to be paid in advance, and eventually
the 2 cent as it is today.
| John Rnpl<ing Sr nca6 bic raJ, hrioly
house for a short time as a hotel and
called it the Franklin House. On the
| corner of the pavement stood an old
fashioned sign post, from the top of
| which swung a sign board bearing on
either side a likeness of Benjamin
| Franklin, under which was the name
of the house. After the death of Mr..
Buckius the corner room facing the
public square was occupied for some
| time by Obed H. Kline as a dry goods
| store. The room could not have been
more than 20 by As feet, but for those
| times was quite large enough. Mr..
Kline had his store fitted up quite nice
ly. 1t was considered a model store
room for the times. Mr.. Kline was a
son-in-law of VIM. Fogle, Sr. He died
when quite young man, only about 33
years old. To his memory was erected
the large shaft or monument that yet
stands near the center of the old grave
yard on the southwest corner of Tenth
street and Mckinley avenue. For a
number of years after the death of Mr..
Kline, the house was owned and occu-
pied by Joseph Crevoise and family.
Later it was bought by B. Dannemller
e. Sons. The present three story brick
was erected by them, the front half
first and eventually the whole lot was
covered with their building.
On the south part of the lot where the
| Clark block now stands, stood the old
style two story brick building occupied
first by Andrew Meyer Sr., and after
that by Andrew Meyer, Jr, and in the
front room Mr.. Meyer kept store for
quite a while. He finally built the
brick residence 2015 West Tuscarawas
street, now occupied by ]. F. T. Walker
and family and moved there. Thomas
Patton and family lived many years
thereafter in the old Meyer homestead
on North Market street. 1t is my i'm
preston that all their children were
born and raised there. Mrs. Patton was
the daughter of Andrew Meyer, Sr. No
building ever occupied the north part
of said lot as / remember, until the pres
ent three story brick was erected.
| On the north lot of said block and the
south half of said lot is where the
| Weary clothing store now is, and has
stood there for at least rs years, al
though remodeled and enlarged. 1t
J was in this building that Landon Van
Ransalear lived and kept the postoffice
| in the north room of said building
about 20 years ago, when some crook
, edness was found to exist in said office.
The postmaster was convicted and sent
! to the Ohio penitentiary for short
! time. The family were quite intelligent
and much respected, and great symEa-
J thy was manifested for them.
After this the property was owned
and occupied for years as a residence
J by Hon. d. A. Starkweather, a leading
lawyer of that time, an active Demo-
! crat, and elected to congress and ap-
pointed as minister to Chill by Presi-
! dent Pierce. Mrs. Starkweather had
been the widow Evans previous to her
| marriage to Mr.. S., and her son, VIM. r.
Evans, will be well remembered by
those that lived here 80 or 40 years ago.
; He was quite bright and promising
: young lawyer at one time, but died in
! poverty at an early age. For quite a
number of years before this property
was converted into business purposes it
: was owned and occupied by the late
John r. Miller as a residence. The
J north half of this lot never had any
building on as far as can remember
| until the present three story block oc-
: cupied by McCrea & Arnold was built,
| therefore the Weary building is the
; only one on said block that stood there
fifty years ago, and it has been very
| much changed in appearance.
; On the corner of the upper part of
, the block Of lots at the outer edge of
the pavement stood one of the public
/ pumps that had been put down by the
r town authorities as a fire protection.
: There were five of them-one at the
; northwest corner of Tuscarawas and
Rex streets and at the northeast corner
, of South Market and Ninth streets; one
| at the southeast corner Of West Tusca-
) rawas and Dewalt streets, and the fifth
1 at the southeast corner of the court
) house lot. This primitive way of pro-