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TINKER

     Not every Cleveland pioneer resided continuously in town following his arrival here.  Several of its best known citizens, Elisha Taylor, for instance, only remained a few years, sold out their local business and returned east only to remove again to Cleveland to spend the remainder of their days.
     John Tinker was identified with the village in its infancy, but lived here intermittently, leaving when business dictated, yet always returning later on.
     He had several occupations, each one of which seems to have been lucrative.  He was a farmer, first of all, then a hotel-keeper, and some times a merchant.  The first glimpse of him, and only a glimpse, is in 1828, at which time he was in the salt business.  Years later he was landlord of the Burnett House, and afterward of the Prospect House on Ontario street.
     Naturally, his town residence was frequently changed through these various fiittings. We find the family living on Cheshire, Granger, and lastly on Eagle street.
     Mr. Tinker owned a large town-lot in Bedford, O., upon which he resided at intervals, also a farm outside of that village.  While located there, he was a justice of the peace.  All these various activities made him well known in Cuyahoga County as well as in Cleveland.
     Mr. Tinker bore the Christian name of his American ancestor, John Tinker of Boston, Mass., 1635.  His parents were Almerin and Leafa Stowell Tinker of Guilford, Vt.  His grandfather, Nehemiah Tinker of Windham, Conn., was a Revolutionary soldier who had married into the famous Huntington family of Connecticut.
     This branch of the Tinker family acquired the pioneer habit.  At the close of the Revolutionary War it removed from Connecticut to Vermont, and the next generation was prompt in joining the exodus from the latter state to the wilds of western New York.
     Almerin Tinker and his family settled in Columbus, Chenango County.  To this place John Tinker returned in 1828, a Cleveland, O., pioneer, to claim his bride, Marilla Holt, daughter of Elijah, and granddaughter of Jeremiah Holt, both soldiers of the Revolution.  Her maternal grandfather, James Dickey, was also a veteran of that war.
     The wives of tavern-keepers were closely identified in those early days with their husbands’ business, and, doubtless, Marilla Holt Tinker, like Mrs. Spangler, Mrs. Scovil, Mrs. Harrington, and other well-known Cleveland women, was more responsible for the efficiency and popularity of the Tnker hotels and taverns than was John Tinker himself.

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     Little else can be secured concerning her save that her “crown of glory” was an abundance of beautiful brown hair, and that she was a skillful and generous cook.  She died while the family were living in Bedford.
     John Tinker was tall and dark. In the late years of his life he wore always a high silk hat, and, as the two usually went together, he probably carried a cane.  He was a money-maker, and a money-spender.  While engaged in active business he gave his family of children unusual opportunities for education.  The sons attended private schools and academies the daughters were sent away to boarding-schools.  In his old age, Mr. Tinker lavished affection upon his grandchildren.  On one occasion, while on a trip to New York, he shipped an Indian pony and a basket-phaeton to a little granddaughter, now Mrs. May C. Whitaker of this city.
     He died on Prospect street at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. John D. Sholes, aged 69 years.

     Children of John and Marilla Holt Tinker:

     Leverett Tarbell was long a prominent citizen of Cuyahoga County.  One of his sons was for many years an East End merchant and yet resides in that locality.  His only daughter, formerly a member of the Cleveland Board of Education, is a prominent club woman of this city and a writer.

     Children of Leverett and Mary Tinker Tarbell:

1828

RUGGLES

     Cyrenus Ruggles and his wife came to Newburgh in 1828.  They were well along in years, and brought with them eleven children.  There was yet another one married and living in Milford, their former Connecticut home.  Mrs. Ruggles, before her marriage, was Anna Stilson, daughter of Philo and Anna Bennet Stilson.  When her youngest child was but eight years old, Mr. Ruggles died, and she was left to struggle along on

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a partly cleared farm, and to raise her seven sons and four daughters.
That indicates the story of her life in succeeding years. She was a won
derful woman. Only the period in which she lived could produce her
type.
One of her children, Dr. Philo Ruggles, became a physician. He was
about the only one in Newburgh for many years, and therefore made him
self a blessing to the community. His fee for services was a secondary
consideration with him. He was far from strong himself, but went
about year after year, carrying help and hope to poor patients who had
nothing to return save love and blessings.

     Children of Cyrenus and Anna Stilson Ruggles:

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1828

CORLETT

     William B. Corlett and his wife, JAne Cannell Corlett, arrived in Newburgh, in1828, from the Isle of Man.  Accompanying them were their daughters, Margaret and Jane Corlett.
     The party traveled y canal-boat from Albany to Buffalo and from thence to Cleveland on a vessel.  The captain of the latter would stop at every port, get drunk, and remain long enough to sober up, then start his craft on its way again. Consequently, it was six weeks on the trip.
     The Corletts purchased a farm in Newburgh of Mr. Ellsworth, the original land-owner.  They built a log-house and lived seven years in it without a door or window.  When the ground was covered with snow, the deer would congregate about the cabin at night, huddling against it to keep warm.
     Mrs. Corlett was a charitable, industrious woman.  She spun and wove every yard of flannel used in her family from the time of her marriage until her death.
     William B. Corlett was a blacksmith as well as a farmer.

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      Children of William B. and Jane Corlett (not in order of age):

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1828

KELLEY

     Capt. John Kelley of Virginia, born 1760, served in the Revolutionary War.  He married in 1780 Mary Manning, who died 1840.  One of their family of 13 children was Dr. James Manning Kelley, born 1787.  He served as a surgeon in the War of 1812.
     He married in 1807, Laura Howe, 19 years of age, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Mabel Dudley Howe.  After the death of her husband in 1834, Mrs. Kelley resided with her daughter Mrs. Joseph Crittenden of this city until her death in 1844.
     There are several Cleveland women yet living who were personally acquainted with Mrs. Kelly, and she is remembered by them as a lovely, refined woman.  She was interred in Erie street cemetery.

     The children of James M. and Laura Howe Kelly were prominent in the business and social life of early Cleveland.  They were:

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     The second wife of Madison Kelley was Julia A. Barlow.

     Children of Madison and Julia A. Barlow Kelley:

     The family was living in 1856 at 186 Kinsman street.  The burial lot was in Erie street cemetery, but changed recently for one in Warrensville.

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OMMICK

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DORSET

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1830

KELLOGG, KELLEY, CLARK, CAMP, BINGHAM

     These families, all related through marriages, came to Cleveland from 1830 to 1836.
     James and Polly Kellogg were the children of James Kellogg, Sr., and Lydia Nash Kellogg, and were born in Northfield, Conn.
     James Kellogg, Jr., left Northfield, and engaged in the paper business in Lewiston, Pa.  In 1830 he removed to Cleveland, and continued the manufacture of paper in this city.  He also engaged in the business of contracting and building.  His office was at 48 Superior street, and his residence at that time was 93 Bank street.  He built the American House with its stores below, hotel above, and a third story in which was a large room that served as a hall, the scene of many functions quite opposite in character, but equally important to the citizens who attended them.

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     Here the Stone church members worshiped before their own building was ready for them, in 1833, and here was the scene of many a festive gathering, terminating in a ball that lasted till the cock crew for sunrise.
     Mr. Kellogg erected other buildings, and was a well known man in town for many years.  He was a vestryman of Trinity church, and all the family were members of it.
     He married his second cousin, Susannah K. Camp, b. 1791, in Norwalk, Conn.  She died in Cleveland aged 83 years.
     She was a daughter of Isaac Camp and Elisabeth Nash Camp.  She had a brother living in Cleveland, Charles L. Camp, a sketch of whom will be found elsewhere.

     The children of James and Susannah Camp Kellogg:
 

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