NEWS EXCERPTS
Source: Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph
Dated: Mar. 20, 1850 At Madison,
Lake Co., on the 12th inst. of Apoplexy, Mrs. Mary, wife of
Mr. Roger Fowler, aged 74 yrs. |
Source: Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph
Dated: April 10, 1850 March 26, at Mentor,
of Disease of the Heart, Joseph Saywer, Jr. aged 40.
At Painesville, March 25th, Wm. Edwin,
son of Alvah and Roxanna Stuart aged 7 years 8 months 15 da.
At Painesville, March 31, Aurelia, wife
of Moses L. Knapp, in the 40th year of her age.
At Madison, March 20th of disease of the
Liver, Olive, wife of Bemsley Carpenter, aged 64, formerly
of Sandisfield, Mass. |
Source: Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph
Dated: April 17, 1850DIED:
At Kirkland, Lake Co 30th ult. Mrs.
Caroline, wife of John Warren, Jr. aged 30 yrs.
At Perry, on the 28th ult. Henry E. only child
of Edward A. and Annis D. Wright, aged 3 yrs. 3 mos. 19 ds. |
Source: Plain Dealer - Cleveland, Ohio
Dated: Oct. 26, 1850
Death on the Plains
The St. Louis Republican gives the deaths that have been
reported at Fort Laramie during the summer. The number of names
given is 262; many more deaths are said to have occurred, but not
reported. The record was kept and furnished by the officers at the
Fort. We give the names from Ohio and Indiana, contained in the
Melancholy record:
Wm. M. BURR, Lake county, Ohio, died of diarrhoea, June 15th, 140
miles west of Ft. Kearney, aged 40 years. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Vol.: XLI Issue: 303
Page 2
Dated: Monday, Dec. 22, 1884
CAPTAIN George E. Paine has been furnishing the
Painesville Telegraph with some pioneer reminiscences. We
make two or three extracts:
At stated, Captain Edward Paine, jr., came to
Painesville in 1780 and died at Chardon in 1848. One son,
Edward Paine, and an only daughter, Mrs. Colbert Huntington,
as well as his sister, Miss Eliza Paine, are still living in
Painesville. Mr. Colbert Huntington was the son of
Governor Huntington, who came to Painesville in 1806, and died
here in 1817. The son died in 1883. Another son of Governor
Huntington, Julia C. Huntington, is now living in Ashtabula.
Eleazer Paine died in 1804, at "New Market," of
apoplexy, while reading in the "Columbian Orator," His son,
Franklin, died at Painesville in January, 1884, aged 93.
Another son, Colonel H. E. Paine, removed to Illinois in 1855 and
died in 1881, aged 92. Captain Skinner died in1826; one
son, Augustus, died in 1880; one daughter, Mrs. Homer Hine,
died in 1882, aged 93; while one daughter, Mrs. Nathan Perry, is
still living in Cleveland. General Edward Paine died in
1841, aged 96; and one daughter is yet living,
Miss Eliza Paine, of Panesville.
These persons, except Mrs. Hine and Colonel
H. E. Paine, have lived all their lies with brief exceptions,
at Painesville, Chardon, Cleveland and Ashtabula. Thus it appears
that the winter and March winds winds from Lake Erie were not fatal to
the children of the first pioneers of Painesville. |
Source: Cleveland Leader (Cleveland, OH) Page: 6
Dated: Nov. 23, 1892
OHIO SUPREME COURT
The court refused to accept a petition in
error from John H. Jones, the Lake county saloonist, who was
given a jail sentence for selling liquor to "habitual" drunkards.
John H. Travis, the Lake County editor of the
Advertiser, must also serve out his jail sentence for libe_ing the
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, whom he sought to "roast" during the
campaign of 1891.
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Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 2
Dated: Thursday, June 6, 1895
The funeral of D. M. Eddy Tuesday afternoon was
very largely attended, Mr. Eddy was a pioneer merchant of
this place, coming here in 1831. He was eighty-five years of
age, and the oldest Odd Fellow in Painesville. The funeral was
under the auspices of that order. He was also a member of the
Masonic Lodge. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Issue: 129 Page 2
Dated: Friday, May 8, 1896
PAINESVILLE NOTES:
Painesville, May 7. - (Special) Arthur W. Green, son of
Mrs. H. B. Green, died at the home of his mother, on Erie
street, Wednesday morning, after an illness of several months.
The funeral will be held from the residence, on Erie street, Friday
afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
The judicial convention, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for judge, to succeed Judge Howland on the common
place of the third sub-division of the ninth judicial district, will
be held in Painesville Thursday, May 28. There is no contest
for the office, and Judge Howland will doubtness succeed
himself.
The citizens of South State street have organized and a
determined effort will be made to rid that part of the town of the
saloons and other indecent places which are a disgrace to the
village of Painesville. An attorney for the citizens appeared
in Mayor Reynolds' court Tuesday morning in the first case to
be prosecuted. The fight will continue to the bitter end.
There is a splendid prospect for fruit of all kinds in
this vicinity, unless visited by the usual May frost.
Senator James R. Garfield will deliver the
memorial address before the high school on the 29th. The
memorial address in Painesville will be delivered by Dr. B. F.
Pratt. |
Source: Plain
Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 13
Dated: Sunday, May 16, 1897
M. R. DOOLITTLE DEAD
Veteran Newspaper man of Paiensville Passes Away.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER
PAINESVILLE, May 15. - M. R. Doolittle, sr.,
ex-editor and owner of the Painesville Advertiser, died at his home
here at noon today, aged seventy-three years. Mr. Doolittle
was a son of ex-Supreme Judge Joel Doolittle of Vermont and a
very able newspaper man. He founded the Painesville Advertiser
in the '50s and had an extended acquaintance with newspaper men
throughout the state. He served Painesville as postmaster
during the Harrison administration. A son, M. R. Doolittle,
Jr., and daughter, Mrs. W. G. Hawkins, and a sister,
Mrs. S. P. Alvord, all of Painesville, survive him.
The funeral will take place here on Monday next at 2
p.m.
NOTE: See biography
CLICK HERE |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Issue:
30 Page: 7
Dated: Sunday, Jan. 30, 1898
PAINESVILLE NOTES.
Funeral of Arthur D. Donaldson, Who died at Sea
Special to the Plain Dealer
PAINESVILLE, Jan. 29 - Next Thursday evening the
Episcopal Church club will give a banquet at the COWELS
house. Several people form abroad were expected to respond to
toasts.
Miss JENNIE BARTHOLOMEW of Willoughby died at
San Diego, Cal., the 26th inst. Her body will be brought to
Mentor for interment.
The funeral services of ARTHUR D. DONALDSON, who
died while en route from Costa Rica to New York, and was buried at
sea, will be held tomorrow at St. James church. He was for a
long time a prominent member of St. James vested choir.
Mrs. ALBERT MINCHELL, an old resident of North
Hambden, died Friday afternoon.
The operetta "Red Riding Hood's Rescue" will be given
by the Episcopal church at the armory, Feb. 11 and 12.
DANIEL EATON, aged ninety, died at his home in
Hambden Friday.
Mrs. MARY ANN OWEN died at her home in Fairport
Friday morning, Jan. 28.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen will give a social and dance in Forester's hall Wednesday
evening, Feb. 2.
The members of the Citizens band, formerly Fifth
regiment band, will have a series of concerts, the proceeds of which
will go to the purchasing of new uniforms. The first number of
the series was given Thursday night.
The annual installation of officers of the L. O. T. M.
occurred at the Macabee hall Friday afternoon.
Twenty young ladies of the congregational church gave a
very enjoyable entertainment at the church parlors Friday evening.
Over 200 guests were present. The proceeds will go to paying
for a study for the new pastor, Rev. Arthur F. Skeele.
Prof. A. H. Currier of Oberlin, who has been
filling the pulpit at the Congregational church for some tie,
delivers his farewell sermon Sunday. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 6
Dated: Sunday, Nov. 27, 1898
DIED AT MANILLA
John Lynch of Painesville Succumbed to Typhoid Fever.
Relatives of John Lynch, son of W. J.
Lynch of Painesville, have received news of his death, which
occurred Nov. 3, at Manilla. Lynch of
Painesville, have received news of his death, which occurred Nov. 3
at Manilla. Lynch was twenty years old and had many
relatives and friends in Cleveland. His father formerly owned
a meat market on Pearl street. At the outbreak of the war he
was visiting an uncle in San Francisco and he enlisted in the
Thirteenth California volunteers. In a letter written by his
captain Oct. 2, his relatives were informed that he was ill with
typhoid fever. Another letter announces his death Nov. 3. |
Source: The Geneva Times
Dated: April 26, 1899DEATH OF MR. THOMAS J. WOOD
Thomas J. Wood, an old and respected
citizen and former business man, died at his home on South Broadway early
Sunday morning of pneumonia, aged 77 years. He is survivd by his
wife and four children. Mr. Harrison Wood and Mrs. Frank
Hawes, of Geneva; Mr. Will Wood, of Cleveland, and Mrs.
Chas. Allen. The funeral occurred Tuesday at 10 o'clock at the
First M. E. Church, the pastor, Rev. W. H. Dickerson, officiating,
and was conducted by Geneva, Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he was one of
it's oldest members. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 2
Dated: Sunday, Oct. 26, 1902
HE DIED IN NORTH DAKOTA.
Painesville Resident Passes Away While in the West.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER.
PAINESVILLE, O., Oct. 25. - Word has been received here
from Cassellton, N. D., of the death, at that place, of Col. A.
E. Fenton, a prominent resident of Painesville. Col.
Fenton had large farming interests in North Dakota and for the
past few years he has spent a large part of is time there. He
was fifty-nine years of age and served in the civil war. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 1
Dated: Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1904
DIED AT AGE OF 91.
Aged Painesville Woman Passed Away Monday - Aged Warren and
Coshocton Man Dead.
PAINESVILLE, O.., Jan. 5 - Mrs. Catherine Doty, one of
the oldest residents of Painesville, died yesterday at the age of
ninety-one years. Mrs. Doty is survived by eight
children. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 1
Dated: Sunday, Feb. 21, 1904
PAINESVILLE, O., Feb. 20 - Milford
J. Wilson, a prominent citizen of Painesville, died this
morning. Mr. Wilson was an inventor of considerable
reputation and was a member of the Globe Manufacturing Co., makes of
hardware novelties. Mr. Wilson is survived by a widow
and a son, who resides in Cleveland. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Page 2
Dated: Sunday, July 24, 1904
FORMER CLEVELAND ATTORNEY.
Alfred Elwell Died at His Home in Mentor Yesterday.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER
PAINESVILLE, O., July 23. - Alfred Elwell, an
aged resident of Lake county, died today of paralysis at his home in
Mentor. For many yeas he was an attorney in Cleveland, with an
office on Euclid avenue. He lived at Willoughby and made the
trip to his office in Cleveland daily. He retired about four
years ago. A year ago he was stricken with paralysis and had
since been failing gradually. Alfred Elwell was eighty
years old and he leaves a widow and son. A brother, Gen.
John Elwell died a year ago at his home in Cleveland. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 4
Dated: Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1904
FUNERAL AT PAINESVILLE
Mrs. Emily B. Cory Died of Heart Disease at San Antonio.
Mrs. Emily B. Cory, aged sixty-eight years, wife of
Rev. J. B. Cory of Cleveland, died Sunday at San Antonio,
Tex., of heart failure. She left about a week ago to spend the
winter in San Antonio and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
C. A. Wilson. She leaves five daughters, one of whom is
Mrs. L. C. Thompson of No. 32 Tilden avenue. The body will
be taken to Painesville for interment. Mrs. Cory was a
member of the Epworth Memorial M. E. Church. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Page 1
Dated: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1904
AN ASSOCIATE OF MARY LYON.
Mrs. Roxanna Marshall of Painesville Died Sunday.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER.
PAINESVILLE, O., Sept. 19 - Mrs. Roxanna Marshall,
aged ninety-four, a pioneer of Lake county, died yesterday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Marshall was a
graduate of Ipswich seminary and was associated with Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoke college. Mrs. Marshall was
prominent in woman suffrage movements. She leaves four
daughters. A nephew, J. G. W. Cowles, and John
Lincoln, a grandson, live in Cleveland.
Mrs. Samantha Devoe, eighty-four years, also of
pioneer of Lake county, died yesterday at the home of her niece,
Mrs. W. L. Shepard, after a long illness. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Issue: 107 Page 1
Dated: Tuesday, Apr. 17, 1906
DEATH FOLLOWS CASE.
Two Principals in Panesville Lawsuit Have Died Since County Was Made
Defendant.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER.
PAINESVILLE, O., Apr. 16. - The death death here today
to Miss Harriet Young will here today of Miss Harriet
Young will probably be the termination of the famous courthouse
suit. The suit was brought in behalf of Miss Young
against the Lake county commissioners. The death of Miss
Young has occurred at a critical time, while the attorneys are
resting to await the decision of Judge Metcalf, which had
been set for Wednesday morning. The decision will probably not
be given then, as a conference of the attorneys will undoubtedly be
held before any further proceedings.
This is the second dramatic development in the suit.
While the case was still being tried the plaintiff, Mrs. Stella
Whetstone of Cincinnati, a sister of Miss Young and a
taxpayer of Lake county in whose name the case was brought, died.
The controversy began at the fall election, when it was
voted to build a new courthouse. Among the sites put up for
consideration was the home of Miss Young facing on the public
park and adjoining a lot owned by the county. The fact that
Miss Young, who had been an invalid for twenty-five years, would
be compelled to give up her home and might not be able to survive
the change of residence, aroused considerable feeling.
Petitions were circulated and it was finally taken into court. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 3
Dated: Monday, September 5, 1910
CORONER WORKS ON GIRL'S DEATH
Relatives Confident That Painesville Woman Died by Accident.
Body to be Brought Back to Childhood Home for Burial
The body of Miss Ellen Hoffman, who met her
death under unexplained circumstances in a fall from the window of a
Pullman car on the Pennsylvania railroad near Hillside, Pa., Friday
night, will be brought to her home in Painesville and then taken to
Newton Falls, O., for interment.
"I am very positive that it is not a cause of suicide,"
said H. E. Weatherbee, 83 Windermere-av., East Cleveland, who
is a cousin of the girl. "I explained the whole case to the
coroner and I believe that he will render a decision that it was not
suicide. I signed a paper relieving the railroad company of
all responsibility for the affair and the officials decided that it
must have been an accident."
At the time of her death Miss Hoffman was on her
way to Paris to study art. She was to meet a friend in
Philadelphia and when she failed to do this an investigation
followed that resulted in the finding of the body. The wire to
the screen in the window to her berth had been broken outward as she
went through.
Her relatives told Coroner H. A. McMurray at
Greensburg, Pa., that Miss Hoffman had no reason to take her
own life. They explain her death on the theory that she was
sitting on the edge of her berth and had just finished unlacing her
shoes when the train lurched and she was thrown backward across her bunk
and through the screen. Her shoes were found near the body beside
the track |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Pg. 18
Dated: Monday, Nov. 3, 1919
PAINESVILLE -
- Miss Helen Sporn and Raymond D. Davis were married.
- George W. Benson, Westfield, N. Y., and Eliza B. Pardee,
Painesville, were married.
- George W. White of Franklin, Pa. and Jessie E. Hill of
Willoughby were married. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page 1
Dated: Monday, May 31, 1920
EIGHT HURT IN AUTO CRASHES
Newark Machine Overturns; Crash in Painesville.
(Special to The Plain Dealer)
NEWARK, May 30 - Otto Reinbold's back was
broken, his chest crushed and skull fractured when his automobile
overturned near Alexandria. Three others in the automobile
escaped injury.
William Simons, 39, was perhaps fatally hurt
when two wheels on his automobile collapsed while he was going to
his home in High Water. A baby was hurled twenty feet but
escaped with slight bruises.
Three others were slightly hurt.
(Special to The Plain Dealer)
PAINESVILLE. May 30 - Marshall Doolittle, Robert
Collacott and Carl Brick, Painesville, were bruised and
cut by flying glass today when their automobile and another collided
here. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) Page
185
Dated: Sunday, Mar. 9, 1969
DOOLITTLE
Mrs. M. C. (Lou) Doolittle, Fairfield Drive,
Painesville, beloved wife of M. C. Doolittle, mother of
Mrs. Donald R. (Marcia) Holland, and M. C. Doolittle II,
all of Painesville, grandmother of three. Services at St.
James Episcopal Church, Painesville, Tuesday, March 11 at 2 a.m.
interment Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville. Friends will be
received at the Nixon Funeral Home, 176 N. State St., Painesville,
MONDAY 7-9 P.M. The family suggests memorials to St. James
Episcopal Church Memorial Fund or The Heart Fund. |
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