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SETTLEMENT.

     The first settler of Carlisle township was John Bacon, of .....

     There was no further settlement made in the township until the spring of 1819, when Samuel Brooks and family......

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as for favors shown us in our labors at the court house); Emeline L., now Mrs. Foote of Tabor, Iowa; Mary L., who died young; and William M., who is now president of Tabor college, Iowa.
     The children of Hezekiah and Hannah Brooks, not before given, are, James, a physician, residing in New York; Hezekiah, Jr., of California; Sophronia (Hall), of Oberlin; George, who is the only descendant residing in the township of Carlisle; Harriet, of Newburgh, Cuyahoga county, Ohio; Emily (West), living in Wellington, this county; and Ellen (Ruggles), who resides at Newburgh, Ohio.
     The children of Phinehas Johnson, a gentleman well and favorably known, in the earlier years of the settlement of Lorain county, are, Sophia, wife of Samuel Brooks; Hannah, wife of Hezekiah Brooks; Cornelia, wife of D. Griswold, now living in Washington Territory; Samuel C., who died before the family came to Ohio; Julia, who married Edmund West (deceaesd); Irene, who was twice married, and is now deceased; William H., who married Alma Otis (deceased); Lucretia, who died at the age of nineteen years; Phienhas M., who married Orra Ann Collins (deceased); Delia M., who married H. N. Gates, and lives in Cleveland; and Isaac M., the youngest who married Cornelia Mussey.  She died, and he married Mary Hale, his present wife.  He resides at Oakland, California.  This gentleman is the father of the present deputy county treasurer.
     The Brooks' and Johnsons' were of Puritan ancestry, and the journey to Ohio, which was of nearly seven weeks' duration, they religiously observed the Sabbath day, by encamping promptly each Saturdaynight, and not resuming the journey until Monday morning.

     William Webster, in his "reminiscences," published in the Elyria Republican, April 7, 1876, says that "Asahel Kelsey came from Connecticut at the same time," referring to the Brooks' and Johnsons', "and settled on the south side of the east branch  of the Black river.

     Philo Murray and his family, a wife and five children, from Connecticut, made settlement in the township in 1820 or '21.  His location was in the western part of the township, on the ridge bearing his name.  As non of teh family are now residents of Carlisle we are unable to obtain further data concerning them.

     Salmon Sutliff, of Erie county, New York, came to Lorain county in August, 1820.  He made a temporary location in Avon township, coming to Carlisle the following January.  The journey from the east was made with a horse team, and three cows and a few sheep were driven along.  The family consisted of a wife and four boys: Silas B., William H. H., Asa G., (who afterward became the pioneer settler in Waseca county, Minnesota) and Oliver H. P.  Another child, a girl, Lovisa, was born and died previous to emigrating to Ohio.  Two months after they reached Avon a son was born, Charles B.  the place of their location was on one hundred acres of land in section ten, now occupied by S. M. Mason.  Upon this farm they remained until 1831, and during this interval the following children were born: Ralph O., Lucetta, Warren C., Lucinda, and Jesse S.  In May, 1831, Mr. Sutliff removed to section one, locating on the farm now owned by the son, Oliver H. P., where the father and mother remained until their decease.  The former died in November, 1857; the latter May 18, 1870.  Of this large family of children ten are now living, seven of them in Ohio.  Warren Co., (to whom we are indebted for the data of this sketch) married Jane A. Bennett, and resides on three hundred acres of land in section twelve, Carlisle township.

     Chauncey Prindle, of Waterbury, Connecticut,  was the first settler at the center of Carlisle township.  In the spring of 1823 he came through with his family, a wife and two children.  He came overland with a team of horses.  Mr. Prindle stopped at Capt. James Brooks' until he could cut a road to his farm, on section number thirteen, distant one and one-fourth miles, and erect a log cabin thereon.  He then moved into the woods and began in earnest to make a farm.  the children above mentioned were Maria, who married Aaron Bacon, and resides in Oberlin, and Henry H., who married Christiana E. Spafford, and resides on the old homestead.  One child was born to Chauncey Prindle and wife, subsequent to their removal to Ohio.  This was Mary J., who became the wife of J. C. Slaughter, and is now deceased.  Chauncey Prindle died in May, 1872.  Mrs. Prindle died on the 23d day of the previous September.

     Obed Gibbs, also from Waterbury, Connecticut, settled in Carlisle in 1822, on the farm now occupied by his son Ransom.  With him came his wife and two children.  Ransom, the eldest child, had a wife and one daughter, Jane, who eventually married George Boughton, and removed after a few years, to Nebraska, where she died.  Sally the second child of Obed Gibbs married Merrett Clark.  They did not remain long in the wilderness, ere they became homesick, when they returned to their native New England.  Obed Gibbs died in Carlisle in 1840, and his wife a few years later.  the children of Ransom Gibbs, born subsequent to his removal to Ohio, were:  Harriet, who married Alson Wooster, and resides in Elyria; Lewis, who married Martha Jackson, and lives in Nebraska City; and David, who married Jane Slaughter, and occupies the old homestead.

     We find the name of Akin Sexton among the early settlers on Murray ridge, but are unable to learn any thing further of him.

     Daniel Bennett, from Londonderry, Windham county, Vermont, came to Ohio in 1827, and purchased one hundred and twelve acres of land in section twelve, Carlisle township (now occupied by his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Sutliff).  Mr. Bennett then returned east, and, the following spring, came to permanently settle on his farm.  His family consisted of a wife and niece.  In May, 1828, they arrived in

Residence of Lorenzo Clark, Carlisle Tp., Lorain Co., O

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Carlisle.  For a short time they lived in a small log house standing near where is now the Hart Cheese Factory.  There was at this time but one family in this vicinity, that of Lewis Shumway, who had a wife and two children.  He was from the east, but only remained a year or two, going still farther west.  Mr. Bennett erected, on section twelve, the first fame house in this part of the township.  Here he lived, reared a family of six children, brought the land to a profitable state of cultivation, and died July 16, 1863.  His firt wife died Aug. 10, 1829, and Feb. 6, 1830, he married Jane Gilpin, of Elyria, who survives her husband and lives on the old homestead.  From this marriage the following children were born:  Polly, who died at the age of fifteen years; Jane, who married Warren C. Sutliff and occupies the old farm; Emerett, who married Curtis Webster and lives in Elyria; Celestia, who died in infancy; Melvin R. and Cassimar D., who live with their mother.  Daniel Bennett was  a justice of the peace for many years, and a very worthy citizen.

     William Webster, of West Hartford, Connecticut, married Abigail Johnson, of Berlin, same State, Jan. 4, 1800, and removed to Onondaga county, New York, in 1818, and to Carlisle in 1828; arriving there on May 15th of that year, he settled and cleared up the farm one mile north of Laporte, now owned by William Brush. In 1832, Mr. Webster removed to the southeast corner of the township, where he died Oct. 27, 1844.  Mr. Webster died Aug. 16, 1862.  The children were as follows:  Harriet, who married Joseph Weston; Amanda, who married Calvin Brooks; William, Jr., who married Catharine Phillips (a daughter of this couple is now the wife of Dr. Kelsey, of Elyria); Abigail, who married Levi Lee; Bethuel, who married Roxa Andrews; Louisa, who married Abram V. D. Bergh; Nancy, who married Harris R. Shelden; and Henry, who married Sarah Johnson.

     The first settlers in this corner of the township were John B. Andrus, Paul Taylor, John Randall, Thomas Girard, Cornelius V. D. Bergh, Elias Morgan, William Cook, James V. Baker, Enoch Forbinder, Stephen Winchell, and a family named Shepard.  Of these, but two are now residents of the township, Stephen Winchell and William Webster, Jr.

      John Patterson

     Daniel Tenney

     B. F. Marlett

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large hotels were

PHYSICIANS

INDUSTRIES.

portrait of WM. PATTERSON

portrait of CHAUNCEY PRINDLE

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in district number two, then comprising the entire eastern half of the township were Samuel, Hezekiah and James Brooks, Phinehas Johnson, Asahel Kelsey, Thouret F. Chapman and Dudley Griswold.
     Carlisle township had in 1878 eight school houses whose valuation, including grounds, was seven thousand dollars.  The total amount paid teachers for the same year was one thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars, and there were of the requisite school age two hundred and eighty-five children.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR 1878