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lished.  For several years she has maintained at her home on Euclid Ave. the annual meeting of the board.
     Mrs. Bradford's cousin and adopted daughter, Ella Bradford, married Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, Bishop of Arkansas.

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ARMSTRONG

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SOUTHWORTH

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COWLES

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BURGESS

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BLAIR

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1819

BROOKS

One of the early pioneers of Newburgh was David Brooks.  He was of New England stock, having been born in Bristol, Vermont, in 1782.  About the age of 31, he went to St. Lawrence County, New York, and there married Miss Mercy Holcomb, a young woman of sterling worth whose father had been an officer in the American Revolution; she also was born in Vermont, in the town of Panton.
     In the year 1819, Mr. and Mrs. David Brooks came to Newburgh, settling temporarily in the western part of the township.  Three years later, Mr. Brooks purchased 100 acres of land of John Hubbard, on the south west corner of what is now Harvard street and Marcelline Ave., but which then were scarcely more than bridle-paths, and the immediate neighborhood an unbroken wilderness.  He immediately erected a log house on Harvard street, in which they lived many years, and afterwards he built a frame-house on Marcelline Ave., where he and his wife died.
     Mr. Brooks and Mr. Greenleese, who bought adjoining land on the west, used to make yearly pilgrimages to Madison, Ohio, on horseback to make payments on their land to Mr. Hubbard, who lived in that place.
     There were nine children born to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks.  They were:

     Betsey Brooks Andrus often talked of her girlhood days, and one of her stories told to the younger generation she was compelled to repeat over and over.  It seemed so incredible and so thrilling.  One day, a huge black bear came lumbering across the road in front of the old log house.  One can imagine the scampering in-doors, the fright, and the anxiety as to what the creature would do.  But he went steadily about his business, whatever that may have been, and passing west of the house, he disappeared down the big gully, yet in a state of primitive wilderness.
     Harriet Brooks Ferris, the youngest daughter, who removed to Hammond, N. J ., says that the women of the family grew tired of the limits and inconveniences of the log-cabin, and were all delighted when the new frame-house was ready for occupancy.  And yet, in looking back upon the earlier home, she realized that they had lived happy, peaceful lives, that the expression “Log House Hospitality” indicated all that it meant to express, a never-failing one.  Wayfarers asking for lodging and food were never turned away.  Somehow, and in some way, sometimes with much over-crowding and discomfort for the family, room was made, even for quite a party arriving hungry and worn out with travel.
     Caroline, Malinda, and Lydia Rathbun, who married the Brooks boys, were the daughters of Edmund and Julia Rathbun.
     Samuel Brooks died in his 47th year, and his wife survived him for many years.
     Charles Brooks settled in South Bend, Ind.

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     Freeman Brooks removed to Madison, Ohio, and died there in his 69th year.  His widow returned to Newburgh, and lived several years after her husband’s death.
     The members of the Brooks family who remained in Newburgh and held on to their property were well repaid, as in time it became of great value.  The farms were cut into building lots, and are now the most populous part of that part of Cleveland.  Several of the grandchildren have made much of their lives, and today are highly respected members of society.

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BLAIR

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HUBBARD

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BLAIR

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MATHER

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1820

POPULATION, 150*

TOWN OFFICERS

COUNTY OFFICERS

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     * More than doubled in past two years.

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MAP

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1821

SPANGLER

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MARKS

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PRITCHARD

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TITUS

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WEDDELL

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WIGGINS

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SHEPARD

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ANDREWS

     Nathaniel Andrews of Whitestown, N. Y., and descended from John and Mary Andrews, original settlers of Farmington, Conn., furnished two sons to the hamlet of Cleveland, who became valuable citizens.
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four years of age.  He had married the previous year, Catherine A.
Tracy, and within a few months of his arrival, she died, and was buried in the Ontario Street Cemetery, from which she was removed to Erie Street Cemetery, when the former place of burial was destroyed.  In 1822, he married Mary Johnson, a sister of Capt. William and Capt. Harpin Johnson, pioneer settlers of Cleveland.
     Philip Andrews was a gunsmith, a valuable trade in those days of dependency upon wild game, and dread of Indians, but gradually he worked out of this specialty and became an iron founder, and a manufacturer of engines.  He removed to Detroit, but died in Three Oaks, Mich.  Mary Johnson Andrews died in 1856.  They were charter members of the Stone Church.  Their residence was 38 Bank Street, and Mr. Andrews’ foundry was on River Street.

Their children were:

     Lydia Root Andrews, a sister of Capt. P. B. Andrews and his brother Edward, married in 1824 the celebrated Oberlin clergyman Rev. Charles G. Finney.
     Five years after his arrival in Cleveland, Philip B. Andrews was joined by his sixteen-year-old brother Edward W. Andrews, who worked with him in the gunsmith business, and continued it at 26 Bank Street, after his brother had relinquished it for the foundry.  In 1833, the brothers bought a farm of 100 acres at the corner of Superior Street and Addison Road.
     Edward W. Andrews married in 1835 Margaret McMillan, daughter of Alexander and Elisabeth McMillan.  She died in 1841, and he married secondly, Delia E. Fenn.
     Like his brother, he left the city in the early ’50s, and died in Oberlin, Ohio, 1899, and Mrs. Andrews in 1882.

     Their children:

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DAVIS

     Thomas Davis’ previous estimate of Cleveland’s size and population cost him a tiresome and useless journey of nearly 12 miles, for upon landing here in 1820, he went past the small houses that clustered about the corner of Superior and Water streets, not dreaming that they spelled “Cleveland,” and journeyed on to Newburgh, and back again after learning his mistake.
     He was an honest, unsophisticated youth of 21 years, fresh from Northampton, England.  What causes within causes led him to leave eastern cities and towns far behind in order to settle here at that early day is another story.  He was very independent, having mastered a useful and lucrative trade, that of shoemaking.  He became very well known and had a clientage that reached from the river to East Cleveland.  Old residents of Collamer recall meeting him when they were children.
     He married Minerva Short, daughter of Peter Short the Cleveland pioneer, and he established a “boot shop” and a residence on Erie Street, now East 9th.  The south end of the Cleveland Trust Co. building over shadows the spot.  Here the Davis children were born.  Thomas Davis was a very earnest Christian man, and before a church was established in this village, he used to walk, rain or shine, every Sabbath, way out to Collamer to attend religious services held there.  A very pretty and characteristic story is related of him in this connection.
     His very first customer, after opening his new shop on Erie Street, came into it the Sunday morning following, and requested him to mend a pair of boots at once, as he was leaving town early the next day.
     “But,” said Mr. Davis, “I never work on Sunday.”
     “There’s no such day in this town,” declared the man.
     “Then I have brought it!” replied the young Christian.
     Mr. and Mrs. Davis were among the earliest members of the Old Stone Church, and the former’s simple convincing piety is tenderly remembered by people yet living who were children of that day.  The family moved out to a large farm on Woodland Ave.  It adjoined the Short property and the two families lived in close proximity.  Years afterward the two farms were allotted and put upon the market.  The streets laid out through them became fashionable residence streets.  Hundreds of the best families in the city built homes in that vicinity.  To live out Woodland way in the ’50s and ’60s, was to be “in the swim.”

     Mr. and Mrs. Davis had an interesting family of children.  They were:

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     Mrs. Mary Davis Buchan, daughter of James and Helen Hunt Davis, has in her possession many Colonial and pioneer souvenirs handed down through her great-grandmother Minerva Short Davis.  They consist of foot-stove, warming-pan, candle-moulds, spinning-wheel, silhouettes, etc.

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CLARK

     Hannah Cole, widow of Joseph Clark, a native of Haddam, Conn., settled in Brooklyn at an early day, perhaps some years earlier than 1820; the correct date not given.  She had 10 children, all of whom married, and lived in Cleveland, Brooklyn, or Newburgh.  They were:

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DUCKWORTH

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village a glimpse of what high society life was in the eastern cities.  But her kind heart won the affection of all, and no gathering was complete without her presence.
     The writer regrets that Mrs. Duckworth’s maiden name cannot be ascertained, and begs that if in any future time some reader of this possesses the needed data, it will kindly be forwarded to the Western Reserve Historical Society, for insertion in its copy of this Memorial

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BURTON

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HARRIS

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