Cuyahoga Falls Names.
Mainly intended to be 1850-1870 by Hosea Paul
I began this book __ written a list on scraps of paper in 1905.
Originally an attempt to name the Taylor pupils 1854-1860 and the Delano pupils. Information could not easily separate them from many others. The school records are supposed to have been lost in the bank building in about 1867.
___ list has outgrown __ it surely has __ original intention it is ____ __ _____.
I was born in 1845, and at _____, some of the old names are not easy to recall, and memory of names, once _____ ___ one, is not so good.
About 1897 I made ____ a list with the help of my sister Mary of families in Cuyahoga Falls persons in 1850.
___ ____ it was to be de______ in the N.O. Historical Society building at ___.
I shall __ ___ entrust this list to others and add to it in this and other ways as best I can.
I hope if made sufficiently complete that it may ____ by deposited in some public library.
signed Hosea Paul – December 30, 1906
Bankers
E.N. Sill
C.S. Sill
Chas Curtiss
Thos W. Carnell
James H. Stanley
Ezra S. Comstock
Carpenters & Millwrights
Sylvester Gaylord (Monroe)
Elijah Waters
Israel James (later Forge)
Austin Babcock
George Dailey
John Haines (Wetmore & Stow)
William Wright (pioneer paper maker)
Carpenters
Rositer? Marshall (lived to old age)
T.J. Holmes (1852-1858 removed to Iowa)
Richard Blood
Ephraim Blood
John Haines
French, C.D
Cole, Henry
Gaylord, George
Blacksmiths
Orrin James
Roswell Fitts
Wm Barker
Levi Brock?
Wm A. Allen
Jackson
Cochran, John
Cochran, James S.
Joseph Jones
Masons
John Patterson (stone mason)
Arthur Carney (stone mason)
Louve? (stone mason)
John Weir (plasterer)
Geo W. Koons (plasterer)
Richard Heathcock (plasterer)
Geo H. Lodge (Mason on Newberry House)
Shoemakers
Henry Plum
Jabez Hamlin
Gilbert Morgan
Henry Ormsby
Peter Morris
Samuel Wills
Richard Foster (moved to Darrowville)
Samuel B Porter
John Lyons
Ezra Moore
Isaac Gill
Tailors
Enoch Adams
Nathaniel Head
Charles S. Gaylord
John Watson
Peter Freely?
James Blong?
Mrs. Sessions
Mrs. Crandall
Michael Moore
Fickes
S.A. Powers (removed to Adrian, Michigan)
Preachers
J.S. Leeds – Cong 1852-1860 (died Hanover, NH 1911)
Romkin
E.V.H. Danner
T? S. Clark
L.L. Holden – Epis
T.B. Fairchild
Methodist
Dillon Presser? (m. Holloway)
Dean C. Wright
Stubbs
E.J.L. Baker
E.S. Gillette (during war, Bible __ ___)
Kingslewry?
Chesbrough
Chapin
E.A. Squier (1873)
R.M. Bear
Lyons
R.M. Winters
S.M. Hickman (1880)
W.J. Wilson (retired to Atwater, OH)
E.A. Miller
Physicians
Chester W. Rice
John Davis
George C. Upson
Theodore F. Heath
Porter G. Somers
H.M. Carter
Albert H. Bill
Wayland S. Hough
Merchants, General
Ezra Comstock
Saml Comstock
Calvin J. Comstock (moved to Clevd)
Sylvester Pease
Erastus Van Dusen (___ 1852 ___)
George A. Waite
Oliver B. Beebe (son W.O. succeeded)
Henry C. Lockwood
John Inskeep
E.W. Crittenden
Chas F. Inskeep
Grocers
Isaac Lewis
Edward S. Rockwell
Joshua L’Hommedieu
Henry Dowd
H.B. Sasce
Oliver York (Wetmore street near Front)
(in all early merchants sold groceries.)
Taverns
Henry Cook
A.W. Hall
Henry Dowd
E.B. Morgan (m. Canad?)
John F. Perry
John B. Perry
Dentists
C.P. Bailey (1854-1874)
P.G. Somers
W.P. Byrne
A.B. Curtiss
Leake?
E.B. Lodge 1894-1896
Justices & Notaries
Shubal H. Lowrey
Hosea Paul, Sr.
Joseph T. Holloway
Charles Clark
“Mayor” Charles W. Wetmore
Geo L. Dow
Lawyers
Grant B. Turner
Saml W. McClure
Henry McKinney (d. 1911)
Allen E. Wolcott
Martin Hays
Charles Fillus (1876-1883)
John C. Castle
Orlando Wilcox
Charles Howland
Emory Prior
Furmtion? /Undertaking
Joseph T. Halloway
Simon Brown
A.J. Konkle (Capt)
Painters
P.J. Lee?
W.A. Lawson
Ja Richardson – Tallmadge
Upson? Marmi? – Stow
Henry Patterson
Geo M. Patterson
Drug Stores
John Davis
F.S. Heath & Co
Dwight Shumway
H.L. Shumway
Jewelers
E.J. Sill
E.E. Stedman (1867-187(6)9)
C.M. Hibbard
O.B. Carr
Stores & Tinmen
Harrison M. Gillett
Collins
George Parks Sr.
Harvey E. Parks
Lewis W. Loomis
Paper Mill Men
William Wright
J.M. Smith (1851)
Prentiss Dow, George Dow
W.A. Hanford
George Dow
William S. Hanford
Charles Hanford
J.B. Harrison
Edwin A. Yoemans
George Allen
John Allen
William Walsh
Peter Fage (?)
Thomas Post
Machinists
James A. Vaughn (Turner, Vaughn & Taylor Co)
Lyman Hatfield
Isaly Bill
Henry W. Bill
Frederick Bill
Charles W. Chamberlain
Henry Insande
Turner, Vaughn, & Taylor Co
Charles Hunt (patterns)
Orange Folsom
Farmers
Seymour Dommig (?)
Benj (or Berry) R. Noble
Alex Allen
Geo Allen
T.L. Miller
Charles Curtiss
George Sackett (d. 1907)
Lucius Home
Josiah Gaylord (d 1906)
Martin Griswold
Comfort Bailey
Nelson Sears
Shelton
Jonathan Barker
Diefendorf
Charles P. Richardson
Joseph Babb
William Prior Sr & Jr
H.W. Pior
Samuel S. Prior
Eli Benedict
Seth Ely
Anselius Combes (?)
Lewis Gilbert
Legrand Hanford
David Zimmer
James Cowan
Gerious Huddleson
C.R. Sears
Herman (?) Gaylord
Thomas Mills or Wills
Flour Mills
David Santom
Hosea Paul (mill burned about 1842)
Henry Newberry Jr
Samuel Damp
Joseph Damp
John Scupholm
Giles L’Hommedieu
Van Ime
Yoekey
Teachers
O.O. Baldwin
Miss Bentley
Miss Quay (Big Spring School)
Miss Wright (Big Spring School)
Eliza A. Parmelee (from Norton Tp, d 1916, sister was Mrs W.G. Rose Leland)
Hudson K. Taylor 1854-1860 (d. 1901)
Humiston 1848-1851
Chas Clark
Lewis H. Delano
I. Chamberlain (Hudson)
Miss L. Doolittle
Lucy Lee
Mabel Fenn
Miscellaneous
Jennings – match maker
Elisha N. Sill
Charles S. Sill
W.F.A. Sill
Henry Sill
Edward Sill
Ethelbert Sill
Alfred H. Sill
Edward R. Sill – Poet
Horace A. Miller – Stow
?? – Auditor ???
W. Moulton – book keeper
Geo Dow – paper maker
Prentiss Dow
Henry Wetmore
Nathaniel D. Wetmore
Josiah Wetmore
John Brainard
Charles W. Wetmore “Major”
Ogden Wetmore (m Newberry)
James Rattle
Francis Rattle
William Rattle
Livery
Charles Tifft
John Tifft
George Bowden (abt 1856)
Doming Lowrey
Elisha Turner (quit about 1878)
Shaffer
Charles Moon (until 1906)
George Moon (until 1908)
Harness
George S. Husted
Comfort Starr
State & Co-Officers
E.N. Sill – State Senator
McKinney – State Senator Pro Attny
W. McClure – Rep
McKinney – Pro Attny
Newberry Jr – Co Auditor
W. Rice – Co Treasurer
Hosea Paul – Co Surveyor, Mayor, J.P
G. Somers – Rep PM
Geo Sackett – Co Com
Giles L’Hommedieu – Co Com
Birdsey Booth – Auditor
N. Russell – Rep
Geo Paul – State Bo Pub Wks
Elkanah Richardson – Asso Judge
Geo Sackett – State Bo 1880
Hosea Paul – Co Recorder Board 1913
Post Masters
Henry Newberry [1st post master]
O.B. Beebe
Pierce Adam
Joshua L’Hommedieu 1852
Dr. P.G. Somers (Lincoln, 1860)
Dwight Shumway (Grant)
John I. Jones (Garfield)
Thomas Francisco (illerdmd?)
John C. Reid (McKinley)
Henry Thomas (Roosevelt)
Richard Moore (1906)
Clarence Crumb (Wilson)
Teachers
B.B. Tremlin 1868
Almeda A. Booth 1870
Virgil T. Kline 1867
George L. McMillan
Edward Rowland Sill – poet, d Feb 1887
Augustus N. Bernard
Frederick Schnee
Ellen K. Crawford d. 1915
W.H. Richardson 1906
Eliza Blong
Sarah Rici (Howard)
Helen Bill (Pitkin)
Susan Hatfield (Taylor)
Helen Carter (Jagger)
Miscellaneous
I.C. Pendleton
R.S. Williams
Charles Curtis – farmer, banker, ___ 1862
George Lewis, 4th St
Julius Upson – sexton
John Eddie – sexton
Corydon Holcomb
Thomas J. French
David Homscom
Shellhorn
Alexander English
George C. Hubbard
William Radcliff – wagon maker
James H. Byrne – Clerk, boiler work, grocer
Willam A. Taylor
Crandall
Vansine
Philo Lowrey
S.R. Perkins – sexton
Coopers
Risser
Jacob Staph
Jacob F. Weidner
John Kelly
John Lapp
David Hawn
Manufacturers
John Hinde – 1856, Flax
Norman Hayner – Flax
E.W. Crittenden – Flax
Stow & Wetmore – paper, flour, and ?
Phelps & Cornell – distillery
William Rattle – distillery
E.C. Frost – distillery
Samuel Rattle – tannery
Francis Rattle – tannery
Israel James – carascals ???
George Lewis – Oakum,
Ashery at Wetmore St
Ashery at Portage St
Standish – webbing works
P.H. Standish – Chain Works
Camp & Fosdick – sewer pipe
Camp & George Germain, J.H. Cooke, Babb – made sewer pipe from about 1867 to [blank]
Wire Cloth, Taylor Co.
Turner, Vaughn, Taylor Co
George Stanley – soap & candles
Kittelberger – tannery
– glue factory
– starch factory
– shovel factory
Matherson – chains
California Gold Seekers “Argonauts”
Austin Babcock
William C. Hitchcock – 1853-1856
Henry W. Prior – 1849
William Rattle
McNeal – lost
Andrew H. Allen – staged turn or stayed item?
John M. Allen ” ”
Holloway Taylor
John Scupholm 1849
Jeremiah Yockey 1849
Clark Elliot 1849
Benum ? 1849
Bradley
Charles Curtiss
Orrin Cooke
Comstock
C. Gilleth
James
Frank Rumrill
Elias Randall
David Santom
William A. Taylor
Sultana Disaster 1865
In April 1865 big steamer sultana sailed from Memphis with ? and 1500 discharged union soldiers,
It was wrecked. among the passengers were members of the 115th Regt among the lost were:
Deming N. Lowrey, Capt
John C Ely – Lieut
John Eadie – Lieut
James Eadie
Clarence Wilcox
James J. Patterson
Civil War
The first to enlist was Nelson Marshall
About April 20 1961 a war meeting was held in a small room over Tiffs & Vogan office, Crowd & speeches,
19th Ohio Regt org. volunteers for 3 months
Lucius Hitchcock
William H Hinde
Albert E. Holl___ (Holloway?)
William H. Pease – 1st Sergt
Nelson – Lieut
A.J. Konkle – Capt
This and another company occupied county fairgrounds later (miller or wilson) property.
Konkle’s Battery
Capt A.J. Konkle
Lieut H.C. Grant
Josiah Brown
H. Pease
115th Ohio Regt
Deming N. Lowrey, Capt
J.C. Eadie, 1st Lieut
A.L. Conger 2nd Lieut
John C. Ely 1st Sergt
29th Ohio Regt
Col L.P. Buckley
Gurley Brown – drum major & Lieut
190 da men, 1864
George W. Rice – d 1910
Norton L. Upson
Edgar L. Somers
George Paul – US Navy
George M. Patterson – Marine
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U.S. ? ? ?
Dr. John S. Newberry
Charles Sill
Henry Holbrook
Herbert W. Bill
Albert H. Sill
This fragile document is located at the Cuyahoga Falls Library’s Local History Room. Transcribed by Jeri Holland.