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History of Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
Published by D. W. Ensign & Co.,
1879

HISTORY OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY,

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CHAPTER XLVI

THE VILLAGE FROM 1815 TO 1825

First Village Officers - General Depression - Another Vessel built inland - N. H. Merwin - Mrs. P. Scovill - Going to Church by Buble-call - Leonard Case's Description- The Traveled Streets - Woods, Swamp and Brush - The Residents and their Families - Moses White - Prominent Men of Newburg - "Cleveland, Six Miles from Newburg" - The Euclid Road - Laid out to the Corner of the Square - Framed Warehouses - Stone Quarry and Mill at Newburg - Commercial Bank of Lake Erie - Orlando Cutler - Samuel Cowles and Reuben Wood - Land on the Square sold for $100 per Acre - Ansel Young - Steamboat and Newspaper - "The God of Lake Erie" - Carding Machines and other Items - P. M. Weddell - Michael Spangler - Religious Matters - A Theatrical Performance - John Brooks and other Newbergers - Killed by a Limb - Hunting Deer - The First Bridge - Business Rivalry - The Cleveland Academy - The Cleveland Forum - The West Side - Poor Harbors - The Canal - The Turning Point - J. W. Allen.

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ON the first Monday of June, 1815, the first village election took place. The following officers were unanimously elected; each receiving twelve votes: Alfred

S. Williamson

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Kelley, president; Horace Perry, recorder; Alonzo Carter, treasurer; John A. Ackley, marshall; George Wallace and John Riddle, assessors; Samuel Williamson, David Long, and Xathan Perry, Jr., trustees.

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"AGUEAGUESHAKESHAKE,

THE GOD OF LAKE ERIE,

Takes this opportunity to announce his high satisfaction for the devotion offered at his shrine by the new converts on the shores of his dominion. He would feel much pleasure could he continue his residence through the winter, but, having lately experienced much rough handling from his enemy. Jack Frost, the Demon of the Forest, he is now under the necessity of holding his court among the alcoves of Erie, among his liege subjects, the Muscalonges and Catfish. On the 1th day of July next, he will remove

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