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Local Historical SketchesBetty Shinn2019-04-17T22:27:41+00:00
These sketches were written for the Cambridge Jeffersonian by C.P.B. Sarchet who was a historian in this time period. The sketches on this page speaks about the lots and the people who lived there. Below these sketches will be links to other articles he has written. If you enjoy early history of Guernsey county you should take the time to read them. It is like taking a trip back into time seeing how the Pioneer's cleared the land and how things changed throughout the years.
Historcial Sketches
Cambridge Jeffersonian
November 30, 1893 – Page 3
Miscellaneous Events from 1883
Written for the Jeffersonian.
We have a very distinct recollection of a moving day in the Spring of 1833 when my father moved from the old house, corner of 7th Street and Wheeling avenue, in which the writer was born, a part of which still remains as a last link connecting the past with the present, to our new home, corner of west 8th street and Steubenville avenue, Cambridge, Ohio. These three score years of Cambridge life, measuring up its growth, with some historical reminiscences social, religious, political and otherwise, we wish to give to the readers of the Jeffersonian, in a series of papers, as there are but few links now in Cambridge, that can bind together '33 and '93, in one continuous chain of events. Of our new home, now the Burgess property, we wish to speak from our boyhood remembrance.
We saw it grow from the clay and water in the mortar-box, tramped by oxen, paddled and tempered with spade, the brick hand moulded and backed and dried ready for the kiln, and from the wood-heated arches, after being cooled, carried and laid one by one in the wall.
"Mort and more mort, brick and more brick," was the cry of the masons on the scaffold, as the hod carriers scaled the long inclined slatted gangway sweating under their loads, as the walls raised up from pud-lock to pud-lock to completion. This old pud lock way with the scaffold on the out-side, bound together with poles and withes, is a thing of the past, as is also the header and stretcher bond of the wall. Then the wall went up round by round, giving to the whole structure a gradual, equal settling.
Now walls are run up one side course first, by a skilled workman then comes a slashing of mortar and brick behind, and the result is that few if any of the brick houses, of to-day are without cracked walls, and cracked plastering, the result of an unequal settling and an improper bond."
We live to-day, we say, in a new age, an age of progress, but in it is much of shoddy, much that is superficial, that won't stand the blast of time. There is a change of architecture. It is not the imposing Dorte, the graceful lonic, the magnificent Corinthian, or the arch surmounting Etruscan, but a blending together, destroying the distinct features of each in a congloruerate of designs, that was to be seen everywhere in the Columbian Architecture of the late White city, on the lake. But enough of this. The growth of Cambridge from 1806 to 1833 had been slow, emigration was deterred from fear of Indians through they had been subdued and brought to terms of peace, in their defeat by Gen. Wayne, in 1794, and had entered into "the treaty of Greenville," yet they roved about filled with hatred and revenge, at the encroachments of the whites in the occupancy of their hunting grounds.
The war of 1812-15 had a stagnating effect. All efforts toward improvement were checked. The men flew to arms for the protection of their families and firesides, but uncertainty and distrust reigned among those who were left behind to await the result of the arbitrament of war.
"The blast of war had blown." "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war," and a new life seemed to open up on the frontier settlers, and the click of the axe, and the whack, of the mattock, meant war for civilization, for home and native land.
The country was now a purely protected one, Cambridge was a protected town, consumer and producer stood side by side. The inhabitants could not say; "No pent up Utica confines our powers, the boundless universe is ours." They wore shut in so far as traffic was concerned. A then resident said "that his boys made a quarter apiece every Sunday trading penknives." So it was the trade went on but the capital stock remained the same. There had to be a reciprocley, a looking out for new fields of trade and traffic, and the hopes of the people were exultant when the projected "Cumberland road," fathered by Henry Clay, sprang into life and began to make its way through the wilderness. New life, new vigor inspired the citizens of Cambridge. The labor in building this road made a market for surplus, that had a money value, and the citizens began to prepare for better homes.
Among the first, after the completion of the National road in 1830, was our home, where twenty and more years of our life, of boyhood and young manhood centers as the ever memorable "halcycon days of youth." The Cambridge then platted contained 140 lots. On Main st., north side 34 lots, south side 38; on Steubenville st. on the north side 36, on the south side 34. The cross streets name, from west to east; Walnut, Spruce, Pine, Market, Chestnut, Mulberry and Lombardy.
The old court house stood in the square and the old log gaol, a terror to the evil-doers, stood side by side. From the one justice tempered with mercy flowed, in the other punishment, shorn of wrath, as administered to all as equals before the law.
There were on the lots and streets 78 dwellings and shops. Of the dwellers and their avocations, is the beginning of the three score years life in Cambridge.
We begin at the west and, south side. The first three lots contained the Beatty tan yard. The old house on the corner of the alley, is a part of the original house. "Christopher Duniver the head tanner, lived in this house. Of this family there are now living in Cambridge Mrs. Lemnel Bonnell, and Mrs. George D. Gallup, "Chris" Dunifer had been the wagoner, of Capt. C. P. Beatty's Co. in the war of 1812. And when a war cloud again arose in the northwest, and the call to arms was made by Gov. Robert Lucas in 1835, drum and fife, inmartial strains inspiring the latent patriotic spark to blood heat; "Chris" again kept step, as a recruit, to go and hurl the invading "Wolverines" from Ohio's sacred soil. This war cloud blew away but its heroes yet live in history.
On the next three lots Col. Z. A. Beatty one of the proprietors of the town, had chosen his home, where the McPherson house now is, he built the first frame house in Cambridge. There he lived and died in 1885. On the lots were planted apple, peach and pear trees, the earliest in the town, and the garden and lawn, fronting the street was adorned with the choicest shrubs and flowers of the day.
The National road was a complete and perfect bed of lime (unreadable – ink smeared) Guernsey county and in 1810, and votes for Return J. Meigs, for Governor; and 31 votes for Thomas Worthington. In 1812 for Return J. Meigs 183 votes and 143 for Thomas Scott. Out of this number of voters, the county sent to the war three companies, which shows the patriotic sentiment of the people of that early day. The name of Governor Meigs has a peculiar origin. His father Jonathan Meigs sought the hand of a young quakeress in marriage and was at first refused. On the evening of the refusal, he parted from his intended and walked away from the house, in a rather depressed spirit. After going some distance, she called to him, in a sweet quaker accent, "return Jonathan." He returned, they were afterward married, and to commemorate this happy change in their lives, they called their first son Return Jonathan.
In 1816, Thomas Worthington, for Governor had 483 votes, James Dunlap 179 votes. In 1882, Andrew Jackson had for President 1856 votes. Henry Clay 1295 votes and William Wirt Antl Macon, 22 votes. A total of 2678 against 664 at the close of the war. This shows the great influx of immigration between the periods.
The opening of the Zane Trace in 1798 turned the tide of travel along it which had heretofore followed down the Ohio river by boat and up its tributaries. The National road afforded a still better outlet into the hear of the first state to be formed out of the North west Territory. All along its line were taverns and houses of entertainment and the indispensable cake and bread shops. Between Cambridge and Zanesville was a sign, the letters scratched on a board with charcoal. "Pie and cakes for sail." Zoth Hammond who kept a tavern on the Marietta road had up a sign, "Know licker, but sider for sail hear." The schoolmaster was not around yet. The freeschools of Ohio began in 1835. On lot 7 was the old Holler tavern. A large two story L house weather boarded. It had been built to conform to the natural lay of the ground. The grade of the pike left it somewhat elevated, and its main entrance was reached by a flight of stone steps. At the time we write of it was not occupied as a tavern but had been converted into a tenement house. It had in its palmy days been a noted place under the management of Joseph Holler, Col. Woodrow and James Turner, father of Elza Turner, Esq., Joseph Holler was his grand father.
On lot eight was the Beatty store, a two story brick with the gable to the street. It was said in its day when there was but little difference between the price of whiskey and water, there was placed on the counter a pitcher of each, and the drinker could choose and mix to his taste. In the rear of this store on the lot, Green's animal show exhibited, it was among the first shows that visited Cambridge. It was not a great aggregation, with miles of display in a free exhibit and droves of elephants and camels loose in the street; but it was a show and drew a large crowd, and the monkeys and ponies, the zebra and the lion, were a change from the bears and catamounts, and wolves, foxes and deer that bounded in the wilderness. With this was the "flying horses," the merry-go round turned by stout men with levers. This show wintered in Cambridge, and left an impress in the youthful minds as an epoch notable in the life history of Cambridge.
On lot nine was the Tingle tavern, with the large sign of the crossed keys, this meant safety and security. George R. Tingle had come from Morgantown, Va., by boat down the Monongahela and Ohio rivers to Marietta, and up the Muskingum and Wills Creek to Cambridge in 1800, building first a log house, that was the tavern in which the term of court was held, April 23, 1810 at which the Commissioners appointed to select the county seat of Guernsey county, Isaac Cook, James Armstrong and William Robinson, reported that Cambridge should be the seat of justice for Guernsey county. In this tavern the Masonic lodge, under the name of "Guernsey Lodge" had its beginning. The dispensation was issued by John Snow, Grand Master, Thomas Corwin, Deputy Grand Master. There were present; Z. A. Beatty, Lloyd Talbolt Francis Dousuchett, Benjamin F. Bills, Andrew Metcalf, James M. Bell, George H. Sin Clair and William Taylor, Masons of the Ancient York Rite. Robert B. Moore of Frankfort, Guernsey county was the first admitted member. The next lot was sub-divided as now, on the west half, Isaah McIlyar, father of J. O. and W. H. lived in a small frame house set back in the lot, on the front was a log shop in which he carried on shoe making. On the east half lived "Commodore" White father of Mrs. A. P. Shaffner and the late Hon. J. W. White, in a two story house; he was a tailor and had his shop on the upper floor. He was a great sneezer, and when he had a good sneeze on could be heard all over town. He was for many years constable and court crier. He would make proclamation, from the steps of the old court house, "Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye all manner of persons, who sue or implead or stand bound by recognizance, or have other wise the do before the Honorable court, draw near, and they shall be heard, for the court is now open, God save the state of Ohio." The White house was made notable as being the birth place of the Hon. Frank Hatton, Ex-Postmaster General, and now the leading head of the daily Washington City Post, his father Richard Hatton being at the time the editor and proprietor, of the Guernsey Times. On the next lot in a house standing back from the street lived C. O. Lybrand, Methodist Episcopal preacher. At this time the preaching place was in the old Masonic lodge, of which we will have something to say further on. One of the church members, moved by a spirit of thanksgiving, brought his offering to lay before the minister in the shape of a good fat hen, disregarding, it may be the lesson taught to the sellers of doves, in the temple, he chose the Sabbath day as the time, placing his offering in his big bell crowned hat and covering it over with a yard wide cotton hankerchief, he repaired to the church placing this hat under the slab bench.
By some mishap the covering became misplaced and the chicken's eye opened to light and freedom, with a squawk, whether of denial we don't know, but it was a squawk of alarm, that opened to the congregation the secret intention of the giver, and although the minister got the offering, this squawk from the boys of that day, followed after the giver.
On lot 12 was the store and dwelling of Jacob Shaffner, brother of the late A. P. Shaffner. This house was partly built by William B. Kilgore and sold to Shaffner in 1825 and by him enlarged. Part of the old house remains, changed into (rest of this column is black and unreadable) the town of a scholarly character. Per haps there is now no one living, who was a scholar of this school. The late Judge Tingle and Moses Sarchet Esq., were of its scholars. During the time the Campbells lived here, Alexander visited at his fathers, preaching in Cambridge. R. J. Campbell, of the South side Cambridge, is a nephew of Alexander Campbell.
Jacob Shaffner, was the postmaster during the Jackson and Van Buren Administrations, the postoffice being kept in his store. In the cross street here was a great depression. This is shown by the drop of the culvert now. At this time the water entered directly into its mouth. One of our boyish pranks was to crawl backward and forward through this culvert, and remain in to hear the rumbling made as the heavy loaded road teams, or the coaches passed over. The first brick house built in Cambridge was on the Carnes corner, by John Sarchet, the next year after his brother Thomas Sarchet, in 1807, had built the old land mark across the street. With this old brick our next will begin. S
Sketch courtesy of Elizabeth Garland
Transcription courtesy of MaryLu Metz
December 7, 1893 Page 3
Miscellaneous Events From
1833 Up to the present Time.
In the old brick spoken of in our last, Peter Corbet, a Guernsey man kept a little store and bread and cake shop. The house was afterwards used as a dwelling and for a printing office by the late Hon C. J. Albright, after the Whig campaign of 1840. In a one story log house on this lot Isaac Niswander and his good wife, "Peggy" kept a cake and beer shop. Isaac and his wife were noted characters in the Cambridge of their day, and are yet historical characters.
Peter B. Ankney edited and published at Washington, Guernsey county, the "Democratic Star," the forerunner of the Jeffersonian. He was a relative of Mrs. Niswander. At this day newspapers were not distributed through the postoffice as now, but had to have some place for special delivery. Niswander was a Whig. The Whigs expostulated with him and said he ought not circulate Democratic papers. He excused because of "Peggy's relationship. But Niswander seemed to look at it in a more business way. It made an increase in the beer and cake business. As the delivery was for several of the western townships, it brought to the shop many of the Democratic leaders. As they opened up their papers if the news was good they took a drink by way of rejoicing if it was bad a drink would help to drown the defeat.
The late Newell Kennon about this time came into prominence as a Democrat, having been elected treasurer of the county, and took up his residence in Cambridge. He was also a leading Methodist and a class leader. Mrs. Niswander was a member of this class. Kennon was reelected several times, mostly by Whig votes cast for him, among the number was Isaac Niswander, and when he was confronted by Whigs for his duplicity, he would say he "had to vote for Peggy's class leader." Niswander was a good old mason and was, unfortunately, coach-wrecked and railroad-wrecked and had to have a good deal of care by the order, Masonic, but it was a good place to be, with ale, beer, oysters and pies. The average Mason freely spent a night watching by the side of his unfortunate brother. We might write much of these caterers to the citizens of Cambridge. All things in a restaurant way are measured by the older citizens in comparison with the days of "Isaac and Peggy."
On the next, the Albright lot, old Samuel Wilson lived in a one story brick house, where the grocery room now stands he had a large two story frame shop. He was a chair and cabinet maker and painter. He received a fall from a ladder that gave him a halt in his walk. For the power to turn his lathes he used dogs. He had a large drum erected on the outside of the shop, connected by bolts to the lathes within. In the drum he tied the dogs at such an incline as gave the power when walking to turn the machinery. He kept a number of large dogs and kept them in a dog pen and fed them with heads from the butcher shop and refuse meats. These dogs were placed in pairs in the drum, tramping in the turning season, day in and day out, and the old man Wilson would make the chips fly from the chair rounds and bed posts. The drum would squeak and the dogs at times would get refractory and lie down. The old man from his perch near a window would stir up the dogs with a long pole. Sometimes the boys would throw into the drum meat or bread, to see the dogs have a set-to and the drum stop. Then the old man would out with his pole and stir up both dogs and boys. The late Wilson Cosgrove, of Cumberland, learned his trade with the old man Wilson. He introduced a dog power into his factory and the ravine on which it was located is known in the history of Cumberland as Dog Run.
Samuel Wilson concluded to go west and grow up with the country. He built a keel boat in which to place his effects and family, and float off down to a more westernly home. He built his boat near the National road bridge, and awaited for the time when the waters would be right for a speedy voyage. This opportune time came on Sunday; the creek was full and beginning to recede. This is the time, according to boatmen, when a boat can be easily kept in the center of the stream. Wilson was a Presbyterian in faith and practice, and his wife was one of the charter members of the church at Cambridge. But the time had come to haul in the line and gang plank and float off on the muddy waters of Wills Creek. Two of the members of the church walked down to see the Wilsons off, all unmindful of any infractions of any church law, but some prying eye whose jacket was straighter and stockings bluer, made a report to the session, and the brothers, like the poet Burns were cited to tell "How they did with the session sort." These brothers put in a plea of nolle contender received a suprimand, and were restored to full faith and fellowship. After Wilson the Dunlaps, occupied the premises, Maj. Dunlap had been in the war of 1812-15, and was with Gen. Scott at the battle of Lundy's Lane and Chippews. He was a tailor by trade, a man with a fine military appearance, and a most polished gentlemen. He was the first marshal of "the Incorporated Village of Cambridge," which office he held for many years. Ansel Briggs, first Governor of Iowa, then living with the Maj. was his son-in-law, marrying his daughter Nancy Dunlap. We learned on our late visit to Iowa, that at Iowa City, the capital of the state when Ansel Briggs was Governor, the past summer in the removal of the first city grave yard, a large petrified body was found, in the removal, and a coffin plate marked "Nancy Briggs." She died at Iowa City shortly after he ceased to be Governor, and was buried in this old grave yard. After more than forty years had passed few if any of thy citizens knew any person named "Nancy Briggs." Ansel Briggs moved from Iowa City to Council Bluffs, where he died a few years ago. The Dunlaps were large people, and this petrified body was said to weight near 1,000 pounds.
The Burt house was a large frame L house enlarged from time to time until it covered the full 66-foot front. It was elevated above the street and was reached by flights of stone steps. The present entrance to the dwelling of the Zahnizer house will give an idea of its original elevation. David Burt was a lieutenant in the war of '12 and the father of Mrs. Nancy Miner, of Cambridge, and R. F. (ink blurred the next three lines).
Father of 7. ________ Thomas, of Cambridge, and Ray Allison, now of Steubenville, Ohio. Then it was occupied as a band room by the Mozart band. After this it again became a printing office for the Jeffersonian, under the management of Arthur T. Clark, Joseph McGonegal, Wagstaff & Wagstaff, and Thomas W. Peacock, and another part of the building an office for the same under the management of George McClelland, late of Barnesville, and Lewis Baker, now minister to Central America. Robert Burns, postmaster under the Polk administration, kept the postoffice in it. The house, perhaps, taken as a whole, had in it as many different occupants and varied occupations as any other in the history of the town. The Schaser and Zahnizer buildings are parts of the original house. We may say here that all along the south side of the street, except at the ravines, there was a side cut in making the pike. Its original width was 40 feet from the water-table to water-table. This would leave 20 feet on either side to be taken down by the town or property owner, and these lots next to the square were the first to be brought to conform to the grade of the pike. This was done by the owner or by the supervisor before the town was incorporated.
The next lot was a musical one. The Millers, Thomas and Williams, kept store in a one story frame on the west side. They were the leaders of the singing in the Methodist meetings. In this house William Keltz kept a cake and beer shop. A. P. Shaffner a general store and the last R. H. Atkins, began his business life in Cambridge in it with a book store.
It a large two story frame house set back off the street lived Ebenezer Smith. He had been Sheriff of the county, and a Justice of the Peace, of the township. He was the singing master of this day. "When music heavenly maid was young." When the old buckwheat notes, before the patent notes. Do Ra C patented notes by some one who was going to strike it big on some Sacred melodies, were heard of in books. The late "Old time Singin School" was an attempt to reproduce these old melodies, and the "Singers of ye Olden time." There was no Ebenezer Smith, Z. C. Suitt, Stewart Patterson, Charles Magee, Jesse Barcus, Ann Metcalf or Susan and Evaline Tingle or Jane Magee who were the leaders in the musical circles of the day. There were no tuning forks or instruments from which to take the sound. The voice of the leader as he waved his hickory stick and cried out "take the sound." All parts in unison, me, fa, sol," set all the parts in harmony with the key, and the trible could sing. Oh, for a man, Oh, for a man, and the tenor, Oh send down Sal, Oh send down Sal, and the bass close in with, a "tion and sion" in the skies, this was all in perfect harmony and the want of a man and the sending down of Sal, was made expressive in the voice of the singer. In these old singing schools it was as the poet describes:
"Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise
Or plaintiff martyrs, worthy of the name,
Or noble Elgin bears the heavenly flame
Compared with these Italian trills are came
Nae unison hae they with our Creator's praise"
On the next lot, Thomas S. Beatty was building the original Rainey corner. It was intended for a hotel. The brick were made by the father of the writer and sold at the kiln, for $3.50 per thousand. The house when completed was used as a tenement house and for shops and offices, until it came into the possession of the late William Rainey who occupied it for a store, "The old red corner," and enlarged it as it is at present, covering the full 66 ft. front. The cross street here was called Market St. It was the intention that some day a market house would be built in it with driveways on each side; but that day has not come yet and may never come. These was a market house in Cambridge's history. It was built on the street east of the Court house. For a time it was a place where the meat was sold on stated mornings; but the regular market was not kept up. The house became a sort of a nuisance, and some one offered William McMurry, then hauling wood to town, ten dollars if he would hitch the hub of his wagon to a corner and pull it down; so one day he came along with a big four hose team, hooked to it with the hind hub, cracked his whip and away went the market house. It was a private enterprise and for a time there was some fuss made about its demolition, but this soon died away. The town was not yet incorporated but soon after its incorporation the public square was improved and planted in trees and the people were well satisfied that the old unsightly market house was no more.
Thomas S. Beatty was in many respects a remarkable man. He had a memory so retentive that he could read chapter after chapter of any work and close the book and repeat what he had been reading. He had been a scholar in a high school taught by William Sedgwick, the pioneer Baptist minister. He also had a Bible school on Sunday in the old court house which was largely attended by persons of other denominations and of no denomination, in which the scriptures were read and commented upon. In these readings Thomas S. Beatty could repeat the chapters read and was often called upon to recite.
If we were writing a history of the Bible schools or Sunday schools we would call this school the first in the county, being in 1826. Thomas S. Beatty was unfortunate, lost his patrimony and began life anew in one of the western states.
12-14-1893, page 2
1833 Up to the Present Time
____Written for the Jeffersonian.
We will stop at the square and go back to the west end. Almost directly west of Main street was the old 'Bridge House," a large two story L house, a noted tavern before the days of the National road. Its fronts were south and east. The old toll bridge over Wills creek, was opposite its south front. On its site was the first cabin erected, perhaps the first in the county, in which lived a ferryman named Mahoney. Wills creek at this day contained more water than now. This ferry-man, with ferry-boat was placed on the creek by Ebenezer Zane after the opening of the trace in 1796. Mahoney was followed by a Mr. Graham who enlarged the cabin, keeping the ferry and a house of entertainment. He was in possession, as a squatter when Beatty & Gomber acquired the title; he was followed by George Beymer. On the 23d of April 1810, the county organization was begun in these cabins. James Dillon, Absalom Martin and William Dement took the oath as commissioners of the county and appointed Elijah Bealle their clerk; John Beatty, treasurer; Elijh Dyslon, lister; Thomas Knowles, sheriff; George Metcalf, surveyor, Peter Wyrick, auctioneer and Joseph Smith, coroner.
The large tavern was not erected until after 1810. One of the conditions, in the building of the Court house, as to time, was founded on the time of the completion of the "Gomber saw mill." The lumber for the building of the "Bridge house," was sawed at this mill. It was occupied after its completion by Thomas Stewart until travel began on the National road and over the present bridge, which was erected in 1828.
All the grounds now in use by the railroad west of the pike was condemned for railroad purposes, and the old Early tavern, an old land mark, whose history written would fill many pages was torn away. It was last occupied by Wm. Bonnell, who had married one of the Beatty heirs.
How tenaciously we cling to old things especially to old homes. We read but a short time ago, the condemnation of an old home, in some city for public school purposes. The owner an old lady, clung to her home until it was torn down over her head, and she had to be carried away She died a few days after grief stricken from the loss of her old home.
No sweeter lines were ever written than those of John Howard Payne.
"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam Be it ever so humble there's no place like home: A charm from the sky seem to hallow us there, which, suck through the world, I ne'er met elsewhere.
Home, home, sweet, sweet home:
There is no place like home."
The First survey of the National road passing through Cambridge, continued on west striking the creek near the present railroad bridge and wound around the hill through the gap at Marshals Brown's and on through Crooked creek bottom, striking the hill at the present cross on the Brown farm.. It was charged at the time that the change was made to the present line through some inducement of Judge Metcalf, who then owned the McPherson farm through which the Zane Trace had been cut, and the road known as the "Old Wheeling road, then passed. Had this change not been made the "Bridge house" would have continued to be one of the prominent places on the road. Theodore Ross, had a gunsmith shop, near to the Arcade hotel, which stood on the dump left after the present change was made. He was married to Margaret Beatty.
March 15th 1836, was chosen by the citizens of Cambridge and vicinity, to celebrate the "Wills Creek Improvement bill," passed on the 8th of the month, by the Legislature. The object of the bill was to prepare Wills Creek for slack water navigation, many of the citizens of the county came to town to participate in the rejoicing; bon-fires were burned in the public square, and the entire town was illuminated, a tallow candle burnt at every pane of glass in the windows, and the spirit of rejoicing animated every breast over the future greatness of Cambridge, at the head of navigation on Wills Creek Imagination ran high, and the steamboats were seen puffing and whistling as they passed along through the placid waters. A cannon planted on the eastern hill belched forth, with continuous roar to the denizens without the unbounded joy. A steam-boat company was formed and Capt. "Sam" Hanes, began at once the building the "Tickle-pitcher." The passage of the passage of the Wills creek improvement law, caused the survey of the creek, from Cambridge to its mouth. This survey shows that the fall of the creek is about eleven inches per mile. This survey is about all that came out of the hoped for future greatness of Cambridge by slack water navigation. But Capt. "Sam" Hanes built is boat. It was not large neither was its paddle-wheel of much force. At a good flood tide. It made some voyages down the creek, to Dresden and Zanesville, but it required a good deal of labor in poling to make headway up stream It was said that Matthew McKinney, a blacksmith, and powerful man, father of Jessie McKinney, of Cambridge could take the boat line, and lying down on his back and planting his wheels well in the ground, could hold the boat, with all the power that could be applied. The boat was afterward used on the canal the steam machinery being taken out. Matthew McKinney worked in a long shop on lots 69 and 70 and lived in a frame house, where the Schultz and Rankin houses now are. With him worked Wm. McCortle, father of Thomas McCortle of Cumberland and a Martin Swift. Swift was a fast and expert workman. By those who got work done his name was reversed to Swift Martin.
There were many blacksmith shops this day to supply the demand for work in shores-shoeing, repairing of wagons, making axes, mattocks and chains used in hauling and rolling logs by the farmers. The stage lines and moving travel gave employment for many blacksmiths.
On lots 67 and 68, was the old mansion house and stables, the Judge Metcalf tavern, of this house when it was torn down to give place to the present, Stoner-Scott block, we gave a very full history which we do not care to repeat here, further than to say that it was the second house built on the town plat. First a one story double hewn log house, built in the usual custom of those days, with an opening between, which was clapboarded up and used as a hall entrance. It was enlarged to a two story and after the cut, made in the hill for the national road, was made a three story by taking out the ground under and filling in with a heavy frame structure. On the outside on east wall was a long flight of steps leading to the grounds above. This house during the management of Judge Metcalf was first class, not only to Cambridge, but also to (unreadable) by the (unreadable) stage office, both before and after the national road. These stage offices were not only the places for relays of horses and to take on passengers but were the news centers. Every stage brought the news from east and west in advance of letters or the newspapers. With each stage there was a "way bill." This contained the names of the passengers, where they took passage from, and the destination, and the amount paid for the passage. From this "way bill" was made out the monthly settlement sheet, with the different stage office keepers. It also contained the number of trunks or packages carried for each passenger. There were no checks or tickets. The purchase of a passage, either inside or outside of the stage, entitled the purchase to hold it until reaching the place of destination. On these "way-bills" were noted any startling events or important news, along the line. At these places the newspaper reports, would have been found. In times of political excitement, the politicians were found at the stage offices, and the stage passengers also gave out the news. The stages carried news in other ways. In 1841 when President Harrison died, the news of his death was announced all the way by horses and stages being drapped in mourning. In 1844 when James K. Polk was elected President this news was given out by the horses and stages being trimmed with polk stalks. News carried in the way described was often many house in advance of letters or newspapers. People gather at the depot, today to await the coming of the trains, so in that day the people gathered at the stage offices to await the coming of the stage. We may have something more of stage further on.
On lot 66 above the hotel, high upon the bank, an eccentric old German had a saddler shop. He was very fond of pets and had gathered about him in and out of the shop many pets, foxes, rabbits, otters, cons and birds and most noted among these was the talking raven Bony. This raven the old man had taught to talk as prompted. In the warm summer days "Bony" would set on his perch in front of the shop, the observed of all observers, for he would keep up a continual jargon, and old many would prompt him, to call the dogs, and then cry, "get out." To hello to a passer by, "where are you going" and then say, "go ahead", etc. The stage drivers about the tavern did a good deal of swearing, "Bony" took to cuss words very readily and would amuse himself by repeating the "dirty talk" as the old German called it. One morning the old German with his gun and pets, "Bony," and an otter and a water Spaniel dog, started for a stroll in the woods. Halting on his return on the Crooked creek bridge, west of town, he seated himself on the stone copeing of the bridge, to let his pets enjoy a play. Whilst so seated two travelers, going eastward road up. These men had noticed the old German, in his quaint garb, short hunting shirt, trimmed round with fur, buck-skin leggings and otter cap and had said we will have some fun with that old fellow. They rode up and bid the old man good morning and began at once with ply him with jokes and questions, which would imply to the old man that they thought him a greeny. The old man, in good humor took the jokes, giving an occasional reply, when suddenly he gave a shrill whistle and "Bony" flew out of a tree near by and perched himself by his side, then another call brought out of the creek below, the otter, which perched itself on the other side, another call brought out of the woods, the Spaniel dog, who took a station in front. Then the old man taking from his pocket, his leather purse, containing quite a sum of money, threw it over into the creek, telling the dog to go and get it. The dog returned in a little time and handed the purse to the old man. These jokers and fun makers did not know what to think of a man that could call the birds and animals to him in that way. They inquired where he lived, he told them they came, to judge Metcalf's and repeatedly substantially what we have given here, and proposed to the Judge that when the old man came to town they would order him made a new suit of clothes and a new hat The Judge told them that the old man would be insulted by such an offer, that he was amply able to buy clothing for himself. They waited until the old man came along. The Judge called him in and they took a drink with the man that they proposed to sport with. If you can find a man today, who traveled through Cambridge about the time we write of, and say anything to him about the Cambridge of that day, he will most surely say something of the talking raven and the old German, Elias Entz. S.
December 21, 1893 – Page 2
Up to the Present Time
We are glad that J. Sterling Thomas has come to our rescue. His critical mind and historical knowledge, coming as it does second handed, may lead him into some errors as well as corrections. At the proper time and place, in our laid out plan, we will have something to say of his grand father and of Thomas Manly Faggs. History of events is but a description as seen from different stand points. This is clearly shown in the two histories of Gen. W.T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston, describing the movements and battles of the Union and Confederate armies.
The old William Rainey house on the corner was known as the Thomas Metcalf house. He and the Judge were brothers and married sisters, daughters of Jacob Gomber. Thomas Metcalf died early in life. His widow married Col. Gordon Lofland. Mrs. Lambert, Thomas J. Sterling's mother was a daughter of Thomas Metcalf. She inherited this house, and after her marriage to Lambert Thomas, the Thomas family occupied it. Richard Thomas, a printer, then boy, uncle of J. Sterling who is of a fighting family, was a school fellow with the writer. He was no match for a Guernseyman for we have sent him to his corner many a time. J. Sterling must get his fighting qualities from the Metcalf side. They were both fighters and runners.
"He that fights and runs away
May live to fight some other day.
Robert B. and James B. Moore married daughters, of Jacob Gomber. There were no sons of Jacob Gomber who grew to manhood. He was one of the first Associate Judges of the county.
We spoke in a former paper of the impetus given to the town after the building of the National road. The old Gen. Bell house, standing on the now Berwick Hotel corner, was among the number built in 1882-83 whilst he was a member of Congress, and patterned after the style of houses in Washington City of that day.
Section 20 of the 8th article of the Constitution of Ohio of this day provided, "That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State." In conformity with this guaranteed right, Ohio was divided into 17 Military divisions, each commanded by a Major General. The 15th Division was commanded by Major General James M. Bell. These districts were divided into 56 brigades, each commanded by a Brigadier General. The 15th Division was divided into 8 Brigades, Gen. Christopher Hoover commanding the 1st Gen. Robert B. Moore the 2d and Gen. Elijah Dumm the 3d. This was got from the Ohio Annual Register for 1835, compiled by John A. Bryan. Of this work the compiler says: "This work, the first of the kind, it is believed, ever attempted in Ohio, and perhaps in the west." It is made up of a short history of Ohio, an almanac of 1835, a list of the counties and the time of formation, a list of all the State offices, and of the different State institutions, a list of the Senators and Members of Congress, and of the Senators and Representatives of the State legislature, a list of the Supreme Court and Circuit Court Judges, and a list of the Military officers of the divisions and brigades. Also a list of the banks, newspapers, insurance companies, canals and distances from place to place, on the principal throughfares to the capital of the state. This register is now made up yearly, by the Secretary of State. Copies of this register are rare at this day. The military spirit engendered in Ohio after the war of 1812, was kept until 1842 when these old militia musters ceased. The martial spirit seemed all at once to go out. W ould not undertake to discredit these, old Regimental and General Musters, composed of companies, uniformed and equipped after the army regulations, mounted light horse companies, and the unequipped militia as they gathered yearly to do and perform military duty. These were indeed gala days. The whole county turned out, men, women and children, it was a grand county picnic and the beating of the drums and the shrill notes of the fifes as the martial airs, of Yankee-doodle Boine waters floated in the breeze caused every heart beat quicker and every step marked time, as the yeomanry, many of whom lived over again the days they had spent on the frontier form in marches and battles to free their land from Indian treachery and British invasion, marched by in column of platoons or in echelon. The colonels, Lieut. Colonels, and Majors in full regimentals mounted on their caparisoned horses galloped on either side holding in check the moving columns and closing up the laggard wings. Of these old Colonels, were member, Gordan Lofland, Seneca. Needham, David Burt, Otho Brashears, Simon Beymer, William Cochran, Alex. D. Taylor, John Frame, Charles Carrell, Sam'l Bigger, James R. Johnston and James Laughlin.
How well we remember the old "Cambridge Guards." My father was one of them. How often have we seen him on the morning of muster day, burnishing the bright barreled musket, with glittering bayonet, and flint lock, chalking the white bands that carried the big wooden leather covered cartridge box and the bayonet scabbard, and taking the position of a soldier, at order arms not through the manual, and with musket at a shoulder go through the steps and wheels, preparatory to a day's march, on the big muster field.
All that part of Cambridge east of 11th street and west of the quarter township line, which was the east line of the Beatty & Gomber purchase, had been in the early settlement of the town denuded of the timber, for fire wood and other purposes, and was a general common on which roamed at will the loose stock of all kinds of the citizens. This was known at this day as the "big muster field." Here in the early morning of these musters could be heard the long roll and the revelees, these morning drum beats which Great Britain once proudly boasted encircled the globe. On this muster field these militiamen proudly marched feeling that the British flag had twice been lowered and trailed in the dust before the militiamen of the first and second wars, that the self evident truths that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness should be enjoyed by all.
On the middle lot of the now Taylor block, Joseph Stoner carried on a shoe-making shop. Of him we will have more to say further on. The next lot was the John Beatty lot, on which was built the first house on the town plat. With this house on the west was a large (unreadable line) Jacob (unreadable line) the J. W. Potwin & Co, Rogers & Warren Mackey & Mason and Sam' McCulley, who was occupying it at the time of the "Shaw fire" when the entire row of houses was burned. This was the first great fire in Cambridge and the bucket brigade, in containing this fire did better and more effective work, than the fire brigade, with engine and hose did in the late Berwick Hotel fire almost on the same ground. The old log house was destroyed in this first fire; but its old log walls stood as a breast work, preventing the spread of the fire south and east, and were the last to fall before the fire head. In this house was, we believe, the first suicide in the history of Cambridge, Cyrus Beatty, son of Col. Z. A. Beatty suicided by cutting his throat with a saddlers' knife. He was working at the time for B. A. Albright, who was carrying on the saddlery business. On the next lot Captain Samuel Fish lived in the frame part of the now Schairer corner, and had a blacksmith shop on the corner next to the Lyndon hotel. On the Lyndon hotel lot James B. Moore had a large frame house In the east end was a store room. At the time we write of, Richard Thomas grandfather of J. Sterling, lived in this house and kept a store. Old "Ned" Bratton, a pioneer, said he remembered the time when Old Tommy Sarchet opened the first store in Cambridge, "with a shirt tall full of goods." This store of Thomas's was a shirt tail store, as in fact all the stores were, small and diminutive compared with the stores of this day.
The family of one of the Marquands, had at this time bought goods largely from this Thomas store. When pay day came they were unable to pay and Marquand was sued, Judgment rendered, and he was committed to prison under the debtor law of the time, which allowed imprisonment for debt. This judgment was afterwards paid by the grandfather of the writer, and Marquand released from Imprisonment, Marquand securing, Thomas Sarchet, by a conditional deed for a square section of land in Muskingum county. This conditional deed the writer has now in his possession. Richard and Thomas was a Mason and a member of the lodge in Cambridge. He was a portly dressing man and prided in his good looks. The father-in-law, Thomas Manly Fagge, was intensely English and most notorious nuisance, both to Thomas and to those who visited the store. We can best describe his character by the following old story told many years ago: An Irishman coming early in the history of Ohio settled in one of the futile valleys, where he opened up a new home, and surrounded it with the choicest fruits of the time. He became fully Americanized, and firmly attached to the country of his adoption. He wrote back to his brother in the "old sod," of his success, describing in glowing colors, the richness and abundance of the crops and fruits of his adopted country and urging his brother to come over to the land flowing with milk and honey. His brother came but he was disappointed-saw nothing so good as was in Ireland, His brother seeing his persistent determination to not to be pleased with anything American, determined to make a final test. He had shown his brother, his orchard of fine young thrifty trees just in full fruitage; but this was far excelled by the fruit of Old Ireland. He gathered a number of green gourds of good size and tied them on a young pear tree. A few days after he had salted the pear tree he said to his brother, I have forgotten to show you my nice large pears. We will go down to the orchard an see them. It was a nice balmy moonlight evening. As they stood looking at the pear tree, the limbs bending with the weight of the luscious pears, he saw that his fault finding brother was somewhat nonplused and thought he had scored a mark on him; but his brother rallied and said, "you may think these are large for this country, but there is growing in Lord Bellarney's orchard in Bellamally, pears twice as large as them."
Richard Thomas was buried by the Masonic order according to its rites and ceremonies, which was among the first in Cambridge if not the first. Morganism was having its effects on the order at this time, and there was east in Guernsey county 22 votes for William Wirt, anti Mason for President in 1832.
James B. Moore afterward opened a hotel, the Eagle, in this house and it has been since continuously a hotel center of the town. In these papers we do not pretend to give all the occupants of the localities named, but only those that seem to us the most noted in the history of Cambridge life and events. Col. Gordan Lofland and Moore, were brothers-in-law but were never on very friendly terms. In front of the next lot was a large shade tree known as the "Aunt Nancy Beatty locust tree." In the evenings and mornings in summer, the citizens gathered in the shade of this tree for pleasure and gossip. Among those was Col. Lofland. At one time he and Moore had a quarrel and Lofland drew a pistel on Moore. Moore retreated behind the tree. After this (unteadable) Campbell, a young lawyer would (unreadable lines) bark of the tree, saying to any inquiry, that he was picking out the balls. This would make Moore very mad, but he had to bear it as the tree was beyond his control opposite the Beatty lot.
We stop at the postoffice. Our next will begin with the first postoffice. S.
Dec. 28, 1893, Page 3
Mail in Ohio
The Stolen Bag of Gold—Primitive Punishments.
The First mail carried in Ohio, excepting messages, sent by carriers to the military posts, was carried from Marietta military posts, was carried from Marietta to the cable of William McCullouch, located at the crossing of the Muskingum, by the Zane Trace, in 1798, McCullouch, was in charge of the ferry established by Zane, he was made the postmaster. A mail was established on the trace by the Post Master general, the same year. One to leave Wheeling, W. Va., and one to leave Limsestone, Ky., (Maysville) to intersect at the McCullouch, cabin. There were to be weekly carried on horse back. At what time the service began at Cambridge is not certainly known. The Beatty's were the first to have charge and the mails were opened at the John Beatty house. C. P. Beatty was the first regularly appointed postmaster after Cambridge was laid out the postoffice taking the name of Cambridge. There is in the postoffice, today a letter box made by him which has been in general use in the office from its beginning After the establishing of the post route, letters were sent by travelers passing along. The postal rate was high and at this day. Twenty-five cent pieces were not as easily obtained as two cents stamps are now. We have in our possession letters upon which the postage was 87 ½ and 25cts., 87 ½ cts., from Philadelphia and 25 cents from Washington city to Cambridge. John Magiffen, was one of the first postboys, from Cambridge to Zanesville. He was a soldier of the war of '12 and is buried in the Cambridge cemetery. C. P. Beatty after his marriage in 1810, kept the postoffice on the lot where it now is. He became the editor and publisher of the Guernsey Times in 1825, the second in its history, and conducted it on the same lot until his death in 1827, so history ahs repeated itself. There is much history connected with this lot which we have before written and will not repeat, but give a note of the first court instituted at Cambridge and how criminals were dealt with in this and other parts of Ohio.
When the Sarchets and Ferbraches were making their journey through the Allegheny mountains, they came across a little girl, a wal? by the road side, who gave her name, "Betty Pallet." She said she had run away from a Catholic school, and that she had no relatives or friends. She was cared for by these families, and brought to Cambridge. She was large enough to do some work and to look after the children, and was frequently left in charge of the cabin and the children. This log hut covered with brush was located on the site of Carnes livery stable now. The water used was carried from a spring, on the ravine, east of the present D. D. Taylor residence, the path from the cabin following down the ravine. One evening after all hands men and women had been out at work preparing an other cabin, on the southeast corner of the White lot, opposite the Rev. L. B. Moore's, "Betty" having been left in charge of the children and the cabin, on their return they found that the chests had been opened and a considerable sum of gold in a sack had been taken. On questioning "Betty" as to whether she had been away or any person had been about the cabin, she gave rather evasive answers, and denied that she knew anything about the money. She was guarded during the night, and in the morning a general search was made for the missing sack of gold. It was found sunk in the bottom of the spring. After it was found "Betty" acknowledged that she had taken it and hit it in the spring, with the intent to slip away during the night with the money. There was no judicial officer nearer that Zanesville. A court of the citizens was called. There were not enough citizens for a jury of six without using some of he parties in interest. The court and jury heard "Betty's" confession, and returned a verdict that she should be whipped and sent out of the settlement. Peter Sarchet was appointed to do the whipping. More than seventy years after this first court at Cambridge was held the writer was seated at the bedside of a dying uncle. He turned himself in the bed and said "I wonder what ever became of "Betty Pallet." We said we had not heard of her and then he repeated what we have written. We said that looked a little barbarous, and that maybe she wasn't whipped very hard. He said "he thought uncle Peter laid it on pretty heavy." He was, at that time, a boy of twelve.
In the early history of Chillicothe, a man named Brandon stoled a great coat, shirt and handkerchief. He was tried by a court of citizens. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and that the judge should fix the punishment. The judge decided that the culprit should receive ten lashes on his bare back, or that he should ride his pony on a bare pack saddle, his wife to lead the pony and cry before every house in the village, "This is Brandon, who stole the great coat, shirt and hankerchief." The culprit chose the latter, and James B. Finley was appointed to see the verdict of the court carried out. James B. Finley was afterward the great pioneer Methodist preacher in Ohio. S.
January 18, 1894, Page 2
We will give as we now remember a description of the court house. On the front were large double doors, the elevation was by two steps. On either side were two large windows, the sash filled with 8×10 glass. On the east was a circular chancel in which there were three windows, elevated higher than those in front. The north front corresponded with the south, a door and two windows. On the west was a center door, with windows on either side. The glass all 8×10. The roof was elevated from the sides to a circular cupola in the center. This 10 or 12 feet high and 12 or 14 feet in diameter, with upright and latticed siding. Surmounting all was a tall wooden spire, capped with a rod of iron, on which was a large and a small ball, and between these was a fish-shaped vane. On the inside, the floor above was supported by two columns. The architecture was of the Corinthian order. Between these columns was a high banistered railing with a gate in the center. From the columns the railing extended to the wall on either side, and in each was a gate. On the north side within the railing was the jury box which was railed with a gate for entrance. On the south side was the witness box of similar construction. At the north column was a railed space, called the prisoner's box. At the south column was a similar space, called the sheriff's box. In the chancel on the east was the judges' bench. This was elevated and reached by five or six steps on each side. The balustrade was so high that the judges could barely see over the top. Here they sat on the "wool sack," the four dispensers of Justice, the presedent judge and the senior associate in the center. The clerk's desk was in front of the judges. A large circular table was in the center of the bar for the use of the attorneys. Open stairways on each side led to the rooms above. Two small rooms and a large grand jury room. Outside of the railed space, being half of the court room was the tile floor. This was a solid foundation, for those without. The space out side of the railing was not yet seated, and the tramping around on the tile floor, and running up and down the stairs caused much confusion in the court room, and the cry "silence in the court" was frequently heard from the "tipstaff." But this continued until 1830, when a contract was let to John Blanpied to paint the court house inside and outside, and one to John McCleary, to seat the outer space and to put up partitions to separate the stairway from the main room. Very plain seats were put in leaving a center aisle to the west door.
The court room was heated by two ten plate stoves in which both wood and coal were used as fuel. In 1834, a permit was given by the commissioners to the citizens of Cambridge to make such alterations in the court as they saw fit. This was turning over some part of the court house to the town. At this time, the tile floor was taken out. The outer space reseated the seats being elevated. The railing was lowered, and the Judge's bench lowered and changed also the jury box and the witness box, the prisoners' box were taken away. In 1825 the building of two fire proof offices for the Clerk and Auditor, were let to John Davis for $530. These of brick with tile floor and the arched brick ceiling. In 1829 the clerk and Auditor were permitted by order of the commissioners to place a board floor in their offices, they to find the flooring and joice, the county to pay for putting down. Before the building of these offices, the Clerk and Auditor had to find their own offices. Ebenezer Smith was the first treasurer elected in 1820, all previous Treasurers were appointed by the commisioners. The Treasurer used one of the small rooms in the court house as an office to receive taxes, but there was no place to keep the money. Lloyed Talbot, Ebenezer Smith and Hamilton Robb in succession were each in default as Treasurer. The commissioners at the time of building the two offices were Wm. McCracken, Turner G. Brown and James Gilliland.
With the record we have given and history, of the building of the first public buildings of the county, we leave the Public square, with the Court house and offices painted, the brick work red, the cupola and latticed windows, green, the tall spire, brown, the two balls, yellow and the van between white, the wood work inside white. John Blanpied the painter, gave himself some notoriety, by painting the tall spire. He had been a sailor used to going aloft. He constructed a rope ladder, suspending it from the top of the spire. On this he stood to do the work, and was moved around the spire, by those in charge of the guys below. The jail was located east of the court house, with a kitchen addition, it was an L shape.
A well with an old fashioned windlass in the front for the use of the jail and Court house. The front and rear of the square filled with the remains of Stumps of the large oak trees, which the people in attendance at court sat on or stood around during their waiting on court days. From the top of one of these the eccentric Lorenzo Dow preached in 1819. He visited Cambridge twice during his travels through the West. The second time during the Clay-Jackson campaign, on election day in 1828 he using this call of the people, for his theme of election and reprobation. He traveled hurriedly through the country, preaching wherever he could gather hearers. He usually mounted a stump or box and began by singing:
"Hark from the tombs a doleful sound,
My ears attend the cry;
Ye living men, come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
And for a text, "What thou doeth, do quickly."
On lot No. 19 the Craig corner, Levi Rhinehart kept a store, in a part of the frame front of the present building. He was succeeded by Joseph Bute, Bute & Hyatt, Craig & Bumgardner, Craig & Foy and James J. Squires. The late Samuel Craig made the present improvements. The original dwelling house was a one story frame set back in the lot with a veranda on the front. Joseph Bute was sheriff of the county, elected as a Democrat in 1838, defeating Jacob G. Morton, Whig. He was the first Sheriff to occupy the second jail built for the county in 1836. This jail was brick and stood on the site of the present jail. Of this jail we will have more to say. Lot 20 was known as the "Knowles tavern," built by Thomas Knowles, the present Mellyar block. Thomas Knowles, Wyatt Hutchison and Joseph Noble, were in succession the landlords. In 1882 it was sold to James Wier, of Belmont county and in 1836 to Robert Yates, father of Thomas Yates, of Cambridge. Whilst the old tavern was in possession of James Wise (ink blurred next several words) house being occupied by several families at times. One night they were aroused from their peaceful slumbers, by a sudden noise and shaking of the building. Those in the upper story hurried below, and those below awoke to find their rooms open to the bleak north atmosphere. A portion of the front in a triangular shape, extending from the corners up with the center window of the upper story had fallen into the street. This we think was build up again after the house came into the possession of Robert Yates. He was a tinner and copper smith and build the frame on the east.
Lot 21 is the only one in the history of Cambridge, that has been kept in the same family, handed down from 1807 to 1894, from grand-father to grand-son. It was the Ogier in 1867 and is the Ogier lot in 1804. The log part of the present building was built by Wm. Ogier, of the Guernsey emigrants of 1807. Lots 22 and 23 here owned by original Guernsey emigrants. Mrs. Hubert, John Lenfesty and Nancy Marquand and were conveyed to Col. Seneca Needham. On lot 22 was a two story log house, to this was added a two story frame, covering the entire lot, and was occupied by Col. Needham for a hotel. "The Globe Inn." He was a Colonel of one of the Militia regiments. He was a fine looking portly man of good address. We need to think when we saw him mounted on his prancing steed, crowned with a three cocked hat and long waving plume, with drawn sword at the shoulder, and scabbard dangling at his side, that he was a prince royal of the Militia Colonels. This may have been by way of contrast with the cornstalk militiamen trudging on behind.
On lot 22, William Shaw had a hatter shop. The late John Severns and "Stormy" Thompson, brother of "Archie," working for Shaw made the fur, silk, wool and roram hats, for the gentry of this day. These roram hats were a sham made to imitate a stiff silk hat, but when wet they would wilt down. It was not an uncommon sight to see a fellow caught out in a rain with this roram trying to protect it from a wilt by tying it up in his handkerchief and taking the rain on his bare head. Shaw was one of the dram drinkers, and could be seen in the morning going from hotel to hotel, taking a three cent drink at each, and "by goshens it nobody's business." Shaw afterwards kept "The Globe Inn" and was the Democratic candidate for sheriff in 1842. Old "Billy" Lindsey a Whig and something of a poet composed a song on Shaw. We give a verse,
"He rode both day and night
Upon his old bay pacer.
And you'd a thought to see him ride,
That he'd been a racer, for a Lo-co."
In this tavern, when managed by G. W. Hown, the celebrated drunkards' convention, assembled as described by the late Judge Leech, of Washington City. A number of old topers gathered in the bar room, and after taking several drinks all around, gathered in a circle around the fire and went off into a dream land. It was during the time of the submitting to the people of the question of license or no license for the sale of intoxicating liquors. These topers had been discussing this pro. and con. One of them awaking up out of a dreamland said, "And what did Paul say?" Where upon they all awoke and took another drink for their stomach sake. The next lot was sub-divided, on the west-half James Mottee, a tailor, lived and carried on his trade. It was afterward sold to the Methodist Episcopal church and used as a parsonage. On the east-half, the Kirkpatrick corner, Jeremiah Jefferson, a tailor, lived and carried on his trade. He was the father of Dr. M. Jefferson, of California, late of Cambridge.
On the west half of lot 26, the J. M. Ogier lot, Jessie Johnston lived and had a hat shop. We went to his shop to have our head measured, for our first hat, a wool hat. It was to us a thing of beauty and joy forever, on the east-half Dr. John G. F. Holston lived; he was a prominent physician and surgeon removing from Cambridge to Zanesville and during the late war was called to Washington City and placed in charge of the army hospitals. On the next lot John Ferguson lived, he was a carpenter. During the Jackson administration he was appointed to a clerkship in the land office, and took up his residence at the capital, where he continued to reside until his death. He was an uncle of the late Col. Ferguson.
On lot 28, where Dr. Arnold's office and drug store are Andrew Marshall lived in a two story log house weatherboarded. He was one of the early Esquires, at the formation of the country. William Forguson kept a hotel and stage office on the next lot, using the next for a wagon yard, and for a show ground, for the small shows of that day.
Our next will have some history connected with this hotel. S.
LOCAL HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
Up to the Present Time.
The rear part of the Ferguson hotel was among the first houses in the town, built by Andrew Marshall, who dug the well in front, that has afforded, an abundant supply of good pure water. It passed from him to Reuben Whittaker, who built the front part. He sold to William Ferguson. It has been continuously a hotel, except for a short time when occupied by Dr. Al Wall. It was one of the stage offices, for many years, where the passengers assembled to engage passage. The coaches were often crowded, and it became necessary to engage passage. First come first served was the rule.
We understand that an order was issued, by the board of health, for the vaccination of the school children, at the holiday recess, to get ready for small pox. In 1886 this disease broke out in the Ferguson family, they were all afflicted. This was caused by William Ferguson handling a drink of water to Benjamin McNutt, a wagoner, who had taken sick on his return trip, from the east. He had hired a driver and was riding in the front end of the covered wagon. The team was being watered at this pump. McNutt got to his home in Westland township. He soon broke out with small pox. He and the hired driver died. All the McNutt family took it and several of the neighbors, who had called to see McNutt, before the disease was developed. We well remembered seeing the pox-marked McNutt boys, afterward.
In 1832 Cyrus Wilson, uncle of C. B. Wilson, of Cambridge, one of the old road teamers, came home from a trip east, not feeling very well, he stopped with his brother William, living in Cambridge, his sickness developed into small pox. The Wilson family had it. The writer was vaccinated at this time by Dr. John B. Thompson, who took the scab formed on our arm, to be used as vaccine matter. This vacation was effectual as we have never been able since to have it take effect.
The Ferguson hotel, "The United States" was the Democratic rallying place, for conclaves and caucuses. Col. Richard M. Johnston vice president, of the United States, and a candidate on the Van Buren ticket of 1840, made a speech at Washington, this county, on July 30th 1840. The next day he was followed to Cambridge, by a large number of Democrats. They stopped at the "United States" hotel, where Col. Johnston received the citizens who called upon him, both Democrats and Whigs. He was one of the heroes of the battle of the Thames, in which his horse was shot from under him, he being wounded. The great chief Tecumseh was killed by him, in this engagement. The Hon. William Allen then Senator of Ohio, and Hon William Medill, were of the party Col. Johnston in his speech paid a high tribute to his old commander, Gen. Harrison, as a brave soldier and upright citizen.
In the winter of 1830, a drover with a large drove of hogs, having many men employed as drivers, stopped at the Ferguson hotel. The drove was placed in a field south of the hotel, now part of Gaston's addition. During the night there came a heavy storm of snow and sleet which made the road so slippery that the hogs could not be moved for several days. On the west Farrar lot there was a cabin in which lived a family named Parrish, some of the women of this family were not above suspicion. The hands in attending to the hogs, passed back and forth by the Parrish house. One night they came to the house, roughly pounding on the door and demanded admission, and continued their importunity, by going around the house and rapping on the windows. These acts so enraged Soloman Parrish, one of the family, that he took down his gun and rushed to the door, shooting out into the street. The shot struck Henry McGaraghty one of the drove hands. His partners picked him up and carried him to the hotel. On examinations he was found to be badly wounded, having been shot through the abdomen. He was placed under the care of Andrew Marshall in his house adjoining, where he lingered for some time and died. Solomon Parrish was arraigned and bound over to the next grand jury. At the July term of the Common Pleas Court 1881, he was indicted for murder in the second degree. At this term of court he was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury having separated before returning, their verdict late court, the Judge set aside the verdict, and ordered a continuance until the next term. Parrish had the sympathy of the people as is shown by the bond given for his appearance at the next term, signed by the leading citizens, Thomas Sarchet, Wyatt Hutchison, Richard Thomas, Robert R. Moore, Adam Clark, Wm. Ferguson, John Clark, John Dixon, B. A. Albright, Peter Sarchet Sr., James M. Bell, Ebenezer Smith and Francis Donsouchett. At the next term Oct. 15th, there came the following jury, good and lawful men; Amos Day, John Linn, John B. Dyson, Hugh McCullough, Alexander Mackey, Edward Roseman, Samuel Hawkins, John Jenkins, Henry Stull, Samuel Lindsay, John Porter and Alexander Arneal, James M. Bell, prosecutor, represented the state, and John M. Goodenow, of St. Clairsville, and Samuel W. Culbertson, of Zanesville, were appointed by the Court to defend the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Parrish was sentenced on the next day to serve three years in the Penitentiary of the State at hard labor by Judge Jeremiah H. Matlock. It will be seen that this case, tried more than three score years ago, occupied one day. The late case from Quaker City, this county was of no more importance and for the same offense, occupied the time of court almost a week, with a cost bill of over $1,000 to the county, while the other one did not cost one tenth as much. Will it be said that Judge Hallock, John M. Goodenow, Samuel W. Culbertson and James M. Bell, were babes in the law as compared with the Cambridge bar now, and that therefore justice was not weighed and the rights of the State and of the accused were not accorded that judicature that is given in this day by a more advanced judicial acumen? Well it may be so, but it don't look so to one who is writing of Cambridge history three score years ago. S.
Feb 1, 1894 Page 3
The cabin in which the Parrish family lived, was built by "Billy" Hooks. He was one of the hands who assisted George R. Tingle, on his flat boat voyage from Morgantown, Va. to Cambridge. He lived in this cabin but later took up land in Jackson township, this county. With him hangs a tale. After he removed to his farm he had sold and was to deliver a dressed hog to some one in town. Early in the morning before daylight, he wrapped the hog in a cloth and used a rope to secure the covering. He placed the hog before him on his mare and started through the woods for town. From his house there was no opening only at the Nicholson farm. As he was passing along, on what was called the "Old Logger road," which was cut through the timber on the ridge south of Wills creek, and the Morton farm, something made a jerk a the hog, "Billy" stopped but could see nothing. After going some distance another jerk was made, "Billy" was now somewhat alarmed, and did not like the looks of things, when a more persisting jerk was given this so alarmed him that he threw the hog off, saying "beburned if you want the hog take the hog," and put whip thought he woods as fast as the mare could go. On getting to town he told of his being followed by some unseen spirit jerking at his hog. When day light came some persons from town went back with him to the scene of his discomfiture. They found the hog is the road u disturbed. The sequel is that a colt was following behind, unknown to "Billy," and the rope that secured the covering of the hog coming loose trailed along on the ground, and the colt stepping on it was the cause of the jerks; but old "Billy always said in speaking of the mishap, "beburned if I did'nt think it was a devil."
On the east Farrar lot lived the Mottee family in a log cabin, and on the L. G. Haines lot the Williamson family, in a log cabin, Thomas Williamson married a daughter of old "Jimmy" Brown. She was not "a wee thing like her mamma," but grew to be so ponderous, that having laid out to make a visit, using the stage coach for conveyance, she was unable to get through the coach door. Her name was Isabella. Her father called all of his children, by way of endearment "honey." After Williamson married his daughter he called him "Tommy my honey." This soubriquet stuck to him during the time he lived in Cambridge, and he was called "Tom Honey, by old and young.
The Baltimore Sun, of Jan, 1858, says of the great stage coach system of "Admiral" Reeside, which was connected at Wheeling by the Ohio stage company. "The gallant and enterprising Reeside, who was by means of horse power and coaches, been pushing the mails and passengers through to Wheeling from points on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, has been driven off the track, by the completion of the road to wheeling. It is a remarkable fact that the father of the "Admiral" was the first man to run a line of stages over the mountains on this route, and his son now the last coaches, He has crossed the Ohio with his stock and stages and will run two lines a day over the National road, connecting other railroads 75 miles west of the river." This was a very busy stage year, with Reeside an the Ohio stage company, moving the travel over these 75 miles until the railroad links were connected in the summer of 1854. the progress of the railroad was as follows; Ellicotts Mills, May 22d, 1830, Frederick, December 1st, 1831, Point of Rocks, April 1st, 1832, Harpers Ferry, December 1st, 1834; Washington City, August 25th, 1834,
Hancock, June 1st, 1842, Cumberland, November 5th, 1842; Piedmont, July 21st, 1851, Fairmont, June 12th, 1852; Wheeling, Jan. 1st, 1854, Wheeling to Cambridge, Oct. 28th, 1854. The railroad west from Cambridge was opened April 27th, 1854. The train of six passenger coaches, filled with people from Zanesville and Columbus and other points on the road, drawn by the engine "John Bradley" came through the tunnel between 11 and 12 o'clock, stopping at the crossing of the National road. On the train were the two military companies of Zanesville, the "Greens" and "City Guards," commanded by Capt. W. Hall and Capt J. C. Hazlett, Major General Winslow who was in command of the Brigade, with his staff were mounted on horses which were in readiness. The procession headed by the military, followed by the directory and engineer corps of the railroad company, editorial staffs, officers of the cities and towns on the line and the citizens of the county, marched up Main street to the east end of town, and back to the front of the public square, the who under the marshalship of Col. Gordan Lofland. At the square an address of welcome to the visitors, on behalf of the town was extended by the Hon. Nathan Evans. Appropriate replies were made by George James, Esq. of Zanesville and Samuel Brush, Esq, of Columbus. In the upper story of then Park boarding house, an excellent dinner was served to the guests, under the direction of Abraham Rainey and wife. The day was unpropicious, cold and rainy, so that a good part of the program had to be omitted. The return train left at 4 o'clock. The military were left, returning to Zanesville the next morning. This coming of these military companies, was the stimulus to forming the "Cambridge Guard," during the summer of 1855, W. R. Wagstaff, Capt.; James Anderson, 1st Lieut.; James McCully, 2d Lieut. These were afterward changed to J. W. White, Capt.; Abraham Rainey, 1st Lieut.; C. P. B. Sarchet, 2d Lieut. The organization was kept up until the beginning of the war in 1861. B. S. Herring was the last Captain. Some one at the beginning of the war borrowed the writers military suit, coat, hat, pants, sash and sword. It was never returned. Perhaps they did duty in putting down the "late unpleasantness," and better duty than if they had been worn by the writer, who was soon after commissioned by Gov. Tod, a Col. of militia, and in connection with the late Alexander Johnston, Sheriff of the county, caused the enrollment and muster of these regiments in Guernsey County, known as the 1, 2 and 3 regiments of the Ohio militia.
On lot 84 was a log house weatherboarded known as the John Blanpled house. This was a house of entertainment, kept on temperance principles. An old sign screaked to the winds, back and forth on a tall sign-post, announcing "Entertainment by John Blanpied," but it drew but sparingly of the travel. The bar of that day had attractions as well as the saloons of this day, and the weary traveler sought for some place where the debilitation effect of hot water, might be compelled by a drink of (unreadable) The (next few lines unreadable) for ale and whisky and games and gaming. But this house was a place where prayer was made. It was a prayer-meeting and class-meeting place, in the days of the Methodist itineracy, when the preacher in charge would be for weeks away on his circuit. John Blanpled was a local preacher, of the M. E. church. Slab benches were provided for use, and the large room was often filled to over flowing. Blanpled would preach and exhort in his broken French and English, and it was not uncommon for the preacher on his return to find a meeting of revival in full blast. John Blanpled was admitted into the Ohio Conference and continued in it until his death. He was an uncle of Judge Mathews, of Cambridge. On the next lot in the present old house on the west Morton lot, Benjamin King lived, father of Miss Sarah King, of Cambridge. He was a shoemaker and was for many years the sexton of the old grave-yard. In every town or community there are persons who are noted characters in history. They are remembered not as the promoters of great enterprises, or of having held high and honorable positions, but because of certain eccentric traits, that left an impress, that time does not destroy, and their drama of life is one of tradition handed down, and will live in history as long as granite shafts, or memorial plies. Of this class, lived on the present Morton lot, in two log cabins, Thomas Williams and Captain James Pendell, Williams was a sort of jack of all mason work and was therefore in demand in chimney building, grate setting, bake oven building, and corner settings for the cabins of this day. And growing to manhood during the frontier war of 1812, and patriotic to a degree that led him to be called, the "Tars of Columbia," which was abbreviated down to "Tom Tars," and "Old Tebolion." This came from the fervor in which he sang, the "Jolly Tars," beginning "Ye Tars of Columbia give ear to my story, who fought with brave Perry, where cannons did roar" And this with him may have been intensified from the fact that William Reed, a volunteer from Guernsey county, was with commodore Perry at the "Battle of Lake Erie," and was one of the sailors manning the boat when Perry made his change of flag ship from the Lawrence to the Niagara, this perilous passage of a half mile in an open boat, with the shot of the enemy falling thickly around. In the painting of "Perry's victory" that hangs in the rotunda of the Capitol, at Columbus, showing this daring feat, the sailor playing the car, with the handkerchief tied around his head, and the blood trickling down over his face from the wound, is William Reed. He learned his trade, blacksmithing with William McCracken, in Cambridge.
James Pendell was a hunter and fisherman filling in the intervening time making split baskets and hickory brooms. He was a fair specimen of the"Virginia sand hillers," the "F. F. V." of the "old Dominion." Toward the close of the militia military spirit, in Ohio, one of the companies made up in Cambridge township, had to elect a Captain, to succeed Capt. John Marline. The call for election was made by the Colonel commanding to be held in the court house. On the day of election two candidates were brought out, James Pendell and Ezra Evans, a young law student, now Judge Evans, of Zanesville. One of the participants said it was Plebians vs. Aristocracy. Pendell was victorious by a large majority. He was carried around in triumph, and placed on a stump in the public square, and addressed his victorious supporters, they cheering and throwing up hats in honor of the victory. Pendell encouraged by the shouts of his jubilant supporters, and filled with patriotic emotion, closed with an eloquent peroration of himself saying that he had not "spent four years at North Point for nothing." S.
February 8, 1894, page 2
No 9.
The first house in what is now Gaston's Addition, was built by "Katy" Whetzel, who built a cabin on the north end of the J. C. Beckett lot. She lived for a long time with Judge Spears, in Adams township, in the old tavern on the old Wheeling road. She was said to be a relative of Lewis Whetzel the great Indian fighter, "whose gun was always loaded." This cabin and the first Methodist church, that was on the Simons Foundry lot and the first M. P. church on the present site, were all the houses in this part of town sixty years ago. Over the creek all was woods except a small field known as "Beatty's meadow." In the corner of this, about the site of Mrs. Long's residence, were two cabins. In one of which lived Gen. Jackson, father of the late Samuel Jackson. He was one of the old road teamers, before and after the building of the National road. In the other lived old Tom Lawrence. Two of his sons were the makers of history, connected with the courts of Guernsey county. Andy was sent to the penitentiary at Columbus for stabbing with intent to kill, and was among the first to be confined in the first brick jail of the county. He was a teamster while at the Penitentiary, and engaged in hauling the stone at the beginning of the erection of the present State Capital. John had an altercation with Jerry Nubia, a colored Quaker. Jerry forgetting the teachings of peace, went home and "with malice a fore thought," armed himself with a gun and went out gunning after Lawrence. He shot at him from the now Mellyar corner, toward the Davis corner, Lawrence at the time making toward Nubia, with a stone in his hand. Nubia used a shot gun. One shot took effect, entering Lawrence's eye. The writer and others were standing on the then McCracken corner. The shots and slugs flew around us, rattling against the side of the building, and came near enough for us to know that we were in the line of fire. Nubia was sent to the penitentiary for a term of years. Lawrence suffered the loss of an eye. We had the opportunity of knowing the Lawrence family well, and as far back as we can remember we heard of a great fortune that was awaiting claimants in connection with this family. We think not long ago we saw an item to the effect that some of this family, living in northern Guernsey county, had struck a fresh trail leading toward this hidden treasure. It has been more than two hundred years since Capt. Wm Kidd, the renowned freebooter and buccaneer, sailed from Plymouth England bearing a commission signed by the King, to prey upon the French commerce on the high seas. He exceeded his authority and became a great pirate instead of "the trusty and well behaved Capt. Kidd." He was executed in London, in 1701. His name became famous and was known in the ballad; "My name is Captain Kidd, as I sailed, as I sailed." He was said to have buried a large treasure, on the coast bordering on Long Island sound, the reward of his buccaneering. The search for it has been repeated off and on for all these years, and yet the Kidd treasures" are an unknown quantity. And the Lawrence treasure is yet waiting; but with it is the somebody behind the screen drawing every now and again a fee, and the treasure, like Kidd's is still hidden away. Better to find the treasure, and then buy the field.
On the east end of Wheeling avenue, in a small log house, where the Hutchison house now is, old Mrs. Williams live, she liked the; "Old woman who lived under the hill, kept cakes and whiskey to sail. This house was called the "light house," as a light could be seen at all hours of the night. It was a place for drinking and carousal, "which even to name would be unlawful." Opposite over Leatherwood creek was "Dixon sugar camp." All around was a dense forest. One sugar season old Harvey living in town, was running the sugar camp. He used for the back wall of his fire, a large poplar tree that had fallen out of root. The kettles being suspended over the fire by the use of poles and forks. One morning after Harvey had started up his fire, and was busily engaged in gathering in the water he was surprised to see a large bear drinking his syrup from one of the kettles. The bear had taken up quarters ion the log, and the fire aroused him out a little in advance of the close of the hibernating season. He was now disposed to take the camp, Harvey and all and was for a time master of the situation, for Harvey retreated for town as fast as he could. He reported to aid John Dixon that the bear had taken possession and was eating all the sugar and drinking the syrup. Dixon was an old hunter, he hurried over to the camp and shot bruin, as he was standing up at one of the kettles, trying to get out the forming syrup. This bear was of large size and Harvey and Dixon made up their loss in sugar and syrup, by the sale of the meat, and the skin. We have eaten bear meat but not of this one. S.
February 15, 1894, page 3
We have given the history of the town south of Wheeling avenue. Before we change to the other side, we will tarry for a time in the old grave yard. It may be said that it was a mistake to locate it so near to the town. That maybe, but it is there, nevertheless. Whatever mistake was made, should not result now in removal or in desecrating the sacred place. To the donors the broadest charity and highest gratitude should be given. Like Abraham they set apart a place to bury their dead. Their ashes rest there and the remains of many of the first settlers of Cambridge. It is a central and beautiful site, and with a more generous liberality on the part of the town authorities, might be made a park, attractive to visitors, and a commemorative spot, in the future history of Cambridge. That the donors meant that it should be perpetuated, may be seen from the deed of trust given to William McCracken and others, to be held until the town should be incorporated. We quote from the deed. "That is to say in trust for Wyatt Hutchison, Levi Rhinehart and Seneca Needham and all other persons being citizens and residing within the limits of the plat, of said town of Cambridge, as the same now remains of record, and for all persons who shall at any time hereafter become citizens and reside within the limits of said plat, of said town for the time being, for the purpose and to be used, by the said citizens, resident as aforesaid, for a burial ground or place or interment of the dead, and to be conveyed by the said William McCracken, by deed accurately describing the above granted premises, or in case of his death, by his heirs, to the corporation of said town of Cambridge, by whatsoever name it maybe incorporated, so soon as the said town shall be incorporated, at any time hereafter, to the end and for the purpose that the said corporation shall hold and enjoy the said bargained premises, forever in trust and for the use and purpose of a burial ground as herein before expressed." This deed was made for, and in consideration of ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents in hand, paid by William McCracken to Z. A. Beatty in 1885. The first ground used extended east as far as a large sycamore tree now in the center of the graveyard. The ground was extended to its present boundary, within the memory of the writer, and by the sale of lots and a public subscription the purchase money was raised. This extended part was then known as the new graveyard, the entrance gate being changed from the west side to the north side opposite the alley, between the Ogier and Orme lots. The town council, in an attempt to widen the alley running east and west, threw out 10 feet of the north side into the alley, assuming a right that they did not possess, without any attempt to condemn, for the same purpose, from the lot owners on the same alley. A further attempt was made by the same council to erect on the grave yard a building for the use of the town, and for keeping the fire engine. This question was submitted in a vote of the people and was voted down, as it should have been. Since the graveyard ceased to be a place of burial, the town, outside of the cemetery trustees, has given it but little attention. The present fence and wall around it was not built by the town, but the county and through the action of the writer and C. L. Madison, who made application, under a law requiring county commissioners to fence unused or abandoned graveyards. This law was in force but one year, and had not this action been taken, it is altogether probable that the graveyard would remain unprotected by a fence unless done by individual subscription by those interested in its preservation. It would seem that it is so abhorred by the town authorities that all the filth and rubbish of the town would find a dumping place in and around it. We believe that the town owes a higher duty to its promoters and a proper sense of right and reverence for the dead of the past, should lead to its better preservation and adornment.
After the result of the election in 1844 was known to be Democratic in the election of James K. Polk, president, the Democratic leaders of Cambridge fixed a day for a general demonstration to rejoice over the victory of Polk and Dallas. The headquarters were still at the "United States hotel," kept by John A. Scott. There was at that time an old six pound cannon, that had been used by an artillery company, during the militia muster days by a company at Cambridge. This cannon was common property, and was used on public occasions of rejoicing by the citizens. At a jollification by the Democrats in 1842, over the election of Wilson Shannon, as Governor, some Whig succeeded during the excitement, in spiking the cannon, which stopped that part of the program. This spike, a rattail file, was afterward drilled out by A. W. Beatty, Esq., who claimed that a war with England was in the air, and that the cannon must be made ready for the defence of our frontier, from northern invasion. At the demonstration in 1844, the cannon had been kept under guard, for several days by the Democrats for fear the Whigs would play the '42 game again. It was hauled into the field, now Gaston addition, and unlimbered and made ready for use. Its boom reverbating up and down Wills creek announced the Democratic victory. As the firing went on, the enthusiastic cannonier became more jubilant, and kept increasing the charges as the number of Democratic states, were one by one counted in the victor's boom. When it came the time to give the boom, for Tennessee, the home of the president elect, the cannonier put in an extra charge ramming down well with wads of dog fennel. Just before the match was to be applied, a cry of fight was heard and the crowd hurried in the fight leaving the cannonier, in charge. The match was applied and the old canon gave its last boom. The fragments of the cannon and carriage filled the air flying in every direction. Alvin Maxfield, the cannonier reaching over one of the wheels to apply the torch, was unhurt, although the wheels were torn into splinters and the tire thrown hundreds of feet away. The fight drew the crowd away from the cannon, and no doubt resulted in saving many from being killed or wounded. The fight was not a political one, although the parties were Whig and Democrat. Walter Carr and John Clark, were the belligerants, Carr was a shoemaker, and Clark charged him with taking some of his leather he had left at his shop. The fight was one of advance and retreat, chasing each other up and down the alley, consuming a good deal of time, and creating a good deal of fun for the on-lookers, but there was no blood drawn, or blows struck, except beating the air. It was a war of words and feints.
At the time of the formation of the military company, "Cambridge Guards," a fellow named Graham appeared in town as a teacher of the sword exercise and fencing. The members of the company who carried swords and some others who wished to acquaint themselves with handling the sword, got up a class to which Graham was to give a certain number of lessons. The class met in an unfinished room in the old "Eagle Hotel," kept by the late James B. Moore, which was then being enlarged, Graham being a guest of the hotel. At this time there was working at the tunnel a big Hungarian, named Kenewashey, a refugee of the Kossuth and Georgy rebellion. He came to the drill room several times as a looker on, and took an occasional tilt with Graham. At last a challenge passed between the friends of each and a night fixed for the encounter. It was to be a battle to the finish. The disarming of one or the other. Graham had measured his opponent and came to the conclusion that discretion was the part of valor, and on the evening of the day set for the battle he left town and the last seen of him, he was making good time for the east on the national road. This is we believe the nearest to a prize fight in the history of Cambridge, and it is well perhaps that it ended that way. Konewashey was about Cambridge for a long time, but no one cared to play swords with him. He married one of the Miller girls, sister of Louie, the barber, and Charley, east of town. He and the late Frank Schick, took an occasional spar. They were both great admirers of Carl Schurz who fled from Germany, and has been conspicuous in the military and political history of this country.
The now W. S. Heade, Esq., lot was bought by John Moffit on which was built a cabin. He was a soldier, of the Revolutionary war and recived 200 acres of bounty land for military service, known, as the Moffit Davis land, and now a part of the B and Cambridge coal companies land. He removed to this land. He rests in the old grave yard in an unknown grave. He was followed in the cabin by Thomas Bayan he was one of the first constables at Cambridge, was a wheelright and chairmaker, making spining wheels and split bottom chairs. These spinning wheels, the big wheel and the little wheel, are things of the past, with the reel, long and short, that measured the cuts. These were among the attractions at the Columbian Exposition. At the little wheel the old woman sat turning the wheel with the foot on the treadle, holding the roll that was spun around the flyers, smooth and even. At the big wheel the young woman, connecting the roll to the flyers turning the wheel by hand skipped back and forth across the room giving the yarn a measured, even thickness. The poet Burns describing this, says in "Bessy at her Spinin Wheel"
"O wha wad leave this humble state,
For a' the pride of a' the great?
Amid their flarin, idle toys,
Amid their cum brous, dinsome joys,
Can they the peace and pleasure feel,
Of Bessy at her spinnin' wheel.
East of the quarter township line, in the 4th quarter township, known as the "MCluney quarter township," lived Peter Sarchet, Sen., where the Adam Broom residence now is. William McCluney was a deputy surveyor, engaged in surveying the land district west of the 7th range and received for pay for his services, the 4th quarter township, reserving therein the lands taken up as military bounty land, these were estimated at 1,700 acres. The remaining 2,800 acres were sold to Peter Sarchet Sen., in 1812. Peter Sarchet, Sen., had but one son, Peter Sarchet, Jr., the father of Theophilis T. Sarchet, who died in Kansas some years ago. He was a printer and was for many years the foreman of the Jeffersonian and Guernsey Times offices. Peter Sarchet, Sr., had several daughters who married men who were conspicuous figures in the early history of the county, Lloyd Talbott, Benjamin F. Bills and Francis Dousouchett, Capt. McCriadell who commanded the ship that carried the first Guernsey "emigrant not a source of profit and soon the large part of the patrimony was squandered. Peter Sarchet's residence although built of logs of the primitive style, was for many years noted as a suburban residence, of commanding view with grounds well laid out and planted with the choicest fruits, of the time, and adorned with shrubs and flowers, but adornment with imprudent son's-in-laws, was not in keeping with the rugged toll of the backwoods beginner.
Nicholas Bailbachs lived at the G. D. Gallup place, he was a relative of Peter Sarchet, Sen. He was an esquire and postmaster, and was the third editor and proprietor of the Guernsey Times. His brother John Bailbache, was for several years editor and proprietor of the Ohio State Journal, and wrote as an anti mason Whig, in the campaign of 1832 though not a supporter of William Wirt the anti mason candidate for president.
Augustus Talbott, son of Lloyd Talbott learned his trade as printer with Nicholas Bailbache, drifted down to New Orleans on a flat boat, from Cambridge and took up his residence in Louisiana. He afterward controlled a newspaper in the celebrated plaquemine district in 1844, and, came into considerable notoriety as a Whig leader of the state. Lloyd Talbott died in Cambridge. The Bill Bailbache's and Dousouchett's drift farther west, into the French settlements of Indiana and Illinois. This Sarchet family were only connected in name with the present Sarchets of Cambridge.
The Old Wheeling road, on the line of the Zane Trace, entered Cambridge as now platted, between the Children's Home and the G. D. Gallup residence, angling south and west of north 12th to the east end of Main Street, crossing the Millner lot. The original Zane Trace passed through the town in a zizzag course north of Wheeling Avenue, striking Wills creek, at the point of the hill above the B.&O. railroad bridge. Lots 37, 38, and half of 39, now the Milner property were owned first by Wm. McCracken, George Gibson and James Brown. Valentine J. Dilley, father of J. H. Dilley, of Cambridge, owned and occupied lot 38 afterward on which was a small frame house and a shop. He was a shoemaker and was married to Amanda Hutchison, daughter of James Hutchison who was one of the pioneers of Cambridge, and a merchant in its early history. Richard Hutchison, late of Senecaville this county, was his son. At this time James Hutchison lived in a log house on the same lot and carried on butchering. The Dilley family afterward removed to Senecaville. Walter Carr followed Dilley in the shoe making business. His history if written in all its parts would be one full of witticisms and eccentricities, with good and bad shades political and otherwise, could be made a novel founded on facts.
James Brown lived on the east half of lot 39, in a two story log house. He was an Irishman and was engaged as a hand in the construction of the national road. It was he who gave the sweet name of "honey" to his children. He had three daughters and they were endeared 'Eby my honey," "Peggy my honey" and Lizzie my honey." This was a divided family, religiously and politically. Mrs. Brown was a Seceder and a Democrat, "Jimmy" was a Methodist and a Whig. On the Sabbath, they all took off their several ways, she to the old brick Seceder church that stood on the Capt. Anderson lot on Steubenville Ave., to hear Rev. Daniel McClain preach election and reprobation, and he and the children to the old first Methodist church to hear the shouting Methodists, who were then turning things up side down, and preaching justification by faith and free grace and singing
"We are on the old ship Zion,
And don't you want to go,
To the City of the New Jerusalem,
Hoist every sail, etc."
During the campaign of 1842, which was one of the most closely contested of any in the political history of the county. Wm. Shaw was the Democratic candidate for sheriff and John Beymer, the Whig candidate, James Brown at this time lived on the part of the Frazier farm, lately sold to Dr. McPherson. One vote was of great importance and all sorts of strategy and persuasion were used by both parties to secure it. The vote of Brown was eagerly sought after by the Democrats, by the use of the influence of Mrs. Brown, and she was supplied with Whig tickets containing the name of Shaw for sheriff. The Whigs were on the alert and supplied Brown with the regular straight Whig ticket. Both parties gave to the Browns a good deal of attention, and would walk out to the Browns on the sly in the evening. This looking after the Browns became so noted that "Jimmy" Smith, a Nast or Puck of that day, drew a caricature, that showed Shaw and Wm. Lindsey, his leading henchman, in Cambridge, holding the Brown cow, one by the horns the other by the tail, while Mrs. Brown was milking. Off in the distance, in the fence corner was shown John Lindsey the Beymer henchman, with Brown, in apparent glee, which said "you can't come it Brown's sot." The vote of Brown was claimed by both sides. Shaw was defeated by five votes. The political county contests of fifty years ago were more closely contested than now, as but a few votes turned the political scale. S
March 1, 1894, Page 2
No. 12.
Between the Brown house, on lot 30 and the Clements lot 31, now the Morrison saloon and Maple property, the later vening space was low and marshy. The Clement's house was elevated, and reaching by steps in front and rear. On the opposite side was the same depression, the grade of the national road being a hill of 8 or 10 feet. The Blanpied house already spoken of was reached by a long gang way from the pike. The travel was on the pike from the foot of the hill to the crossing of 10th street. "Jimmy" Clements was one of the old roadteamers driving usually a five horse team. The wagoners use to say that they could tell in the darkest night when Clements was coming as he kept up a continuous call to one of his horses, to "come up bob," Clements was a relative of the Barrs of this township, and afterward lived on a part of the Barr farm north of town. In a former paper we spoke of the Blanpied house being a place where the Methodists held prayer and special meetings. On our way in one of these meetings when a small boy, we were alarmed at the crying and mourning going on, in the house of John Dixon, who lived on the William McIlyar lot. Two stages had just halted at the Ferguson hotel, John Dixon somewhat intoxicated, had been walking on the pike from the Williams house, where the Hutchison house now is. He turned off for the first stage and staggering back into the pike was run over by the second and killed. This word had just been brought to the family as we passed. At the meeting we learned the cause of the cry of the family. Dixon was walking on the fill that extended from 10th street to opposite the Blanpied house.
The late William Halney, under a contract with the town, filled up the sides of the street to correspond with grade of the National road, in 1843. The dirt for the hill was taken out of 11th street opposite the Heade and Morton lots.
North of the national road and on down the ravine to the crossing of 10th street where the Hood and Adamson residences are now, in wet weather was a large pond known as the "goose pond" This in the winter time was the skating rink of those days, and many a game of "shinney" resulted in bloody noses and bumped heads, in which the shinney clubs were brought into use. This pond was caused by the first work in filling up the ravine with logs, leaving the water way between the logs. Many feet below the surface no in front of the Hood and Adamson houses could be found the remains of some of the logs that were used to make the first crossing of the ravine. The hollow was very deep as now indicated at Dr. Arnold's stable, but sixty years ago it was an almost impassable gull John Dixon had a butcher shop on the north end of the McIlyar lot and this hollow was used as a place for the debris from the shop. Health officers were not yet. They draw pay now.
On lot 12 where the Hood grocery now is, in a log cabin, lived Mrs Briggs. She kept a cake shop Some of the girls were man??nmakers Ansel Briggs, the first governor of the State of Iowa, was her son. There was a large family of the Briggs boys and girls. The father was a household tenant on the lands of Benjamin ? Bills, afterward known as the Britton land, now mostly owned by the Guernsey coal company. Most of the Briggs boys were stage drivers or teamsters. Ansel managed to be the gentleman of the family, he came constable and jailor of the old jail and captain of a light house company, and was a contractor to furnish metal on the National road at the time of the Yohns Mulrvan swindle, noted in the political history of Ohio from ?? to ?0. Briggs was not regarded as governor timber by Guernsey county people, and the old adage may apply, "that there is no telling the out come of a stunted call."
Old "Jimmy" Britton came into possession of this lot, and built on the corner where the show bill boards are now, a two story frame house. It was a rickery constructed frame ??ler at the top than at the bottom. It was built by "All" Briggs, a sort of a hatchet carpenter. We give some of its history at the time it was torn down, for the Jeffersonian, which we will not reproduce now. North of this house fronting on 10th St. was a small frame house, in which lived for many years, Alexander Clark, now living on the South Side, then known as "little Aleck," There were two brothers George and Alexander, the heads of several Clark families of this day. They were expert axe men and noted as rail makers and general woods men of the early days. Strong and athletic, they were the Corbetts and Sullivans, and delighted in "a mill", and when in a fighting humor were shunned by most of their associates.
Wm. McIlyar improved the Dixon house, coming into possession after the death of Dixon. A part of the present house was the original Dixon house, and one of the early frame houses of the town. John Dixon made the first improvement on the McConkey farm west of town. He came to Cambridge in its early settlement and was a man of some means, and of good education. He was a great hunter and marksman with the rifle; but sport, gaming and whiskey soon make war with him and his means, resulting in an untimely death to one who might have been an influential leader and prominent among the early pioneers. George T. Bryan lived in the house before McIlyar. He was a saddler and for many years a constable and court bailiff.
There were two Bryan families. The heads were Thomas and William of the first family there were James who was an agent of the Ohio stage Company, George T. already mentioned, Thomas was a stage driver and was driving the stage between Cambridge and Washington, at the time that Otho Hinton, a government mail agent, opened the mall sacks, taking there from a considerable sum of money. As the agent he carried a key to open the sacks. There had been much rifting of the mails, and agents had been using decoy letters to catch the postmasters along the time. Hinton was riding on the outside with the drive. He made an excuse to the driver that he would get back on the top of the coach where the mail sacks were and take a sleep. Under the pretense he was opening the sacks and letters and taking out their contents. At Wheeling it was found that the mails from the west had been filled, and the suspicion pointed to Hinton. He was placed under arrest, and was brought back to Columbus and a hearing had before a United States commissioner. The evidence of the driver Bryan, was a strong circumstance in the case and he was committed to await the action of the United States grand jury, at the next term of the court Hinton gave bail for his appearance, but before the court convened he fled to the Sandwich Islands where he died a few years later in 1855. It may be that today some of the Zealous Republican patriots who are clamoring for the dethronement of Queen Lill, and who are bitter in their denunciations of Grover Cleveland and his policy are of the Otho Hinton class of patriots, who fled their country for their country's good. David and Wm Bryan, of this family were twins and when boys "looked as much a like as two geese" David lives at Senecaville, this county, is an invalid pensioner and Wm. Lives in Zanesville, O. They were both tailors learning their trades with D. K. Wiser and Jeremiah Jefferson.
On the Steubenville road near to Centerville, this county, lived David Kinkeade and Wm. Parkinson two respectable farmers. They both kept geese. At one of the geese pickings it was charged that Mrs. Parkinson had picked one of Kinkeade's geese The subject became the topic of general talk among the women of the neighborhood, at the wool pickings and quiltings, and finally resulted in a law-suit for slander. The suit passed through many trails in the courts resulting in the end in crippling both parties financially, without settling in the minds of the people, whose goose was picked. Kinkeade was a Justice of the Peace, and after passing through this long siege at law, came out of it a full fleged pettifogger In a case on trial in a Justice's court in Center township, in an action of trover in which a silver watch was in dispute, Kinkeade was one of the attorneys. Old Tommy Noble, of whom we wrote in connection with "Who is McAvoy?" had been a witness in the Kinkeade Parkinson trial, was a witness to prove the identity of the watch, having once owned it. Kinkeade in cross examination asked Noble if he had not seen watches so near alike that he could not tell one form the other Old Tommy answered by saying, "Yes, as much alike as two geese"
Of the other Bryan family one of the daughters married "Billy Batton Smith" an eccentric character in Cambridge history. She had been unfortunate and had a son before her marriage to Smith. He went by the name of Isaac N. Cook or Smith. He was a paymaster during the war and succeeded in gambling away at Pittsburg and Cincinnati a large amount of money placed in his hands for the payment of the western army. Another son, Wm. Smith, was a noted rebel bushwhacker in West Virginia, and was finally captured and spent a term of imprisonment in camp Chase and at Kelly's Island. Another son, Fremont Smith was a printer learning his trade in the Jeffersonian Office, and is still on the tramp somewhere. S.
March 8, 1894 Page 3
Lot 44 the S. J. McMahon residence was first owned by George Beymor. He was one of the first settlers at Cambridge and kept the hotel at the cabins, at the crossing of Wills creek, in which we said something in a former paper. Soloman Tomlinson came into possession. He was a leading Methodist of this day. And was one of the "radical split" that began the M. P. church. He was a hatter by trade and carried on a shop. He conveyed the property to Mitchel Atkinson, he was of the Atkinson family who settled as pioneers at what was known as "Atkinson Ford" on Wills creek, below Liberty. He learned his trade blacksmithing, with Wm. McCracken in Cambridge. Atkinson built the present frame front behind which there was the original Tomlinson house a frame of one story. Atkinson had on the southeast corner a log blacksmith shop, where he carried on blacksmithing for many years. He afterward built, on the west Farrar lot a long blacksmith shop, in which were many fires. And on the same lot Stewart Patterson had a wagonmaker shop, one of the early shops in the town. The old half patent plows, half wood and half iron, were just coming into use and these two shops did a large business making there improved plows. Yet with this improvement in stubble ground it took two to plow, a boy had to go along and with a forked stick unchoke the plow. We look back fifty years and more to the days we spent at this kind of work, when almost every stump contained a swarm of yellow jackets, and between unchoking the plow and fighting the bees, the plowing time was livelier than now with the Oliver chilled steel plow of his day.
Michael Atkinson and John Ferguson married sisters. The Ferguson family after they had removed to Washington, D. C. visited at Atkinson's, and gave to the people of Cambridge, a foretaste of the style of dress and gaiety of the city life in the 40's. Both of the women were highflyers, and the linsey-woolsey of Cambridge women cut no figure, with the latest cut, from the federal city.
Alfred Tingle, father of A. H. Tingle, of the west end, Cambridge lived on the next lot. He was a hatter and carried on a shop. In these papers we have spoken of four hatter shops, all doing a good business, at the time, in Cambridge, now there are none. Why is this? There are more heads to cover now, but the hat industry, that is the little ones, had to stand aside. We may be answered that, they could not compete with the improved machinery of the larger shops. The same answer will apply to the plow business. Is this not caused by a concentration of capital or in other works, by a protected industry, giving the "big fish a chance to swallow the little ones?" A fine stiff silk hat today, is not cheaper than one made by Tingle or Shaw sixty years ago, the "big ?sh" swallowed the Jonahs'. They "went down to the bottom of the mountains, and the earth with her bars was about me forever." And the McKinley bill, the great fish has not thrown them upon the dry land, Indiana and Michigan furnish the plows and New York and Philadelphia the hats; but the small shops that were to make the home market are no more.
On the next lot 48 John Tingle lived. He was a brother to George R. Tingle. He died early in life leaving a widow with a large family of children. The old house came to be known as the widow Tingle house. Samuel Drummond and James Hunter came to Cambridge young men and started a cabinet-making shop, in the Tingle hatter shop, that stood where the Hunter house now is. Samuel Drummond married one of the widow Tingle's daughters. We will have something to say of James Hunter farther on. Samuel Drummond was known as guide board Sam." Drummond was a Democrat, a neighbor across the street James Jenkins was a Whig. The political campaign of 1844 was full of acrimony and bitterness. The Whigs old and young idolized Henry Clay. The Liberty party with James G. Birney and Thomas Morris at the head was looming into prominence, and the question of the further extention ol' slavery, with the candidates of two of the parties from slave states, Clay and Polk, was the main issue in the north. The Liberty party being the live coal that was to scorch one or the other parties. Some Whig paper made the statement that the Democrats had to carry a "guide board" to know how to vote. On the morning of the election Drummond was going to the poles to vote; Jenkins meeting him on the way said to Drummond, "have you got your guide board?" Drummond knocked Jenkins down and the guide board episode resulted in several fights. Drummond removed from Cambridge to Missouri, and the father-in-law of Elza S. Davis, also of Missouri, late of Cambridge. About this time there broke out in the families of Judge Zaedock Davis and Robert Maffit who were brothers-in-law, living east of Cambridge, on Leatherwood creek, a strange and fatal disease which the doctors thought at first was caused by eating something poisonous. It was confined to the children several of them dying. It for a time battled the skill of the doctors. They then called it the "black tongue fever." It turned out to be that dreaded disease diphtheria, and the first of a violent type in this community.
In our last paper we got the Smith boys mixed. There were quite a number of these boys, We learn from Capt. W. A. Rainey, who was at Gallipolis, Ohio, when the bush-whacker was captured and brought there a prisoner, that his name was James not William. He as a printer learning his trade in one of the offices in Cambridge. James after his imprisonment, returned to the south and was killed in some bush-whacking raid later in the war.
Sketch courtesy Elizabeth Garland
March 22, 1894, Page 1
The widow Tingle house was for many years a tenement house, the old house was torn away by Dr. M. Jefferson to make the present improvement. The late David Sarchet built on the south-west corner of the lot a small frame house, in which he started a small grocery. It was not a success. The time for groceries was not yet. This he moved down to his late residence on north 8th street. On the E. C. Riggs lot John Wagstaff, father of the Judge Wagstaff, of Kansas, lived and had a blacksmith shop on the southeast corner. Long John Robinson, when a young man more than fifty years ago worked at blacksmithing in this shop. He was the father of the "Robinson giants," three brother who traveled as curiosities in side shows throughout the country several years ago. Robinson was of the Robinson family of this county, at Washington, in its early history. He was a relative of old John McFaren, the tinner who lived opposite on the now Fulton lot, where he had a tin shop. He was strongly anti-Mason and took great delight in pounding on a tin pan, making all the noise he could, when the Masonic order had any public demonstration. He said; "the nearer they come the harder I pound."
On the next lot where the Boden grocery now is, in a small frame house lived old Harvey. We have already told of his warming out the bear at the sugar camp. He was a butcher and had a log slaughter house on the northwest corner of the lot where the Brown frame house is now. At this day it was the law to mark all stock that ran at large. The mark chosen by each owner was recorded by the township clerk. These marks were made in the ears of the animals, and were crops, slits, swallous and holes. The mark of one might be a crop off of the right ear, of another a crop off the left ear or off both, so that these marks could go around in a sort of progressive change and apply to many owners. There was one mark denominated the rogue's mark. This was to cut off both ears. It was said that this was Harvey's mark. By this he could obliterate all other marks and claim ownership, and thereby carry on his trade with sheep, hogs, and young cattle that belonged to other persons. This we give as a story of the times.
This lot belonged to Wm. McCracken and the McClary's. It was for a long time an unsightly corner. The deep ravine running through it made it not a desirable location. The front of the lot was finally filled with a one story frame with an L extension on 9th street. Joseph Gregg came into possession of it. He was a cabinet maker, and a leader in the musical circles of the day. He made for himself a base viol, the first to be brought to Cambridge. He organized a musical quartette composed of himself, Z. C. Suitt, William Smith and J. A. Metcalf and perhaps others. They on invitation gave at different houses in the town musical entertainments. Gregg was one of the leading Methodists of the church in Cambridge. He removed to Georgetown, D. C. When the late Hon. C. J. Albright was in congress, he one day concluded that he would go to Georgetown and call on his old friend and church brother. Getting into the part of the city in which he supposed Gregg lived, he inquired of an old colored woman if she could tell him where a Mr. Joseph Gregg lived. She said, "lord a massa air, I knowed Massa Gregg well, he been gone to heaven for these two years." Although Albright didn't get to see his friend and old church brother of former years, he had the satisfaction of knowing that had kept his integrity and left behind a good report. Isaac Niswander followed after Harvey as a butcher and had a cake and beer shop in this row that was afterward known as "Nelson's row." The late James Nelson, father-in-law of John E. Sankey, of Cambridge, came into possession and more than forty years ago, occupied the property and carried on cabinet making. Very many families have lived in this row, a good part of it being used as tenement houses. Perhaps the most noticeable one being Sophia Giba?lx, the Guernsey giantess monstrosity, who died in one of the apartments. At this time there was on the Brown lot a flowing spring of pure water of great volume. If this spring has not been preserved in the changes made it should have been. There were few points of the area of Cambridge and its suburbs, in Ohio, that had as many flowing springs of the purest water. These springs now north of Cambridge, if concentrated into one basin, would afford water supply for the town.
Lot 49, the J. W. White property, was first owned by the Neftels, of the Guernsey emigrants. They built on it a log cabin, and lived in it until they made improvements on their out-lots north of town now owned by the Hon. J. D. Taylor. Old Thomas Naftel became partially deranged and strayed away to Wills creek, where he found a canoe. He took it and paddled off down the creek, and the next heard of him he was safe in his native Isle of Guernsey. He never returned to his family. Joseph Rhinehart built the frame now on the north end of the lot, which was removed to give pace to the present brick. Rhinehart was a brother of Levi Rhinehart, of whom we spoke in connection with the Craig corner. On the south-west corner of the lot, was a frame shop occupied for many years by Jeremiah Jefferson, for a tailor shop. Afterward in this shop the late Frank Schick began his new married life, living in it for a number of years.
We have now reached the old Hutchison house lot. Of this house we gave a description at the time it was torn away to be replaced by the present brick hotel and business block, built by Orme & Cosgrave. We will give here some history of the attaches of that famous old ?ueterly under the management of uncle Wyatt Hutchison. Temperence Mitchell was one of the colored servants, and kitchen maids. She was unformate and had two children out of wedlock, Delitha and Asbury. Delitha took the name of her mother and married Sol Kimmey. He was the chicken killer and picker and out door cook, confining his labors between the kitchen and the smoke house. In these days large quantities of pork and beef were stored for future use. Delitha was born at the old Woodrow hotel half way between Cambridge and Washington on the old Wheeling road. Se after her marriage to Kimmey was a washer woman in Cambridge and the mother of Amos Kimmey of the west end, Cambridge. Asbury was born at the Hutchison house and took the name of Hutchison. There he was a picinnlony? and grew to young manhood as a sort of a servant of all work. He was about the same age of the writer and Asbury Hutchison was a figure in the boyish sports of that day. He learned the barber trade and the last we knew of him he had a shop in Columbus, Ohio, and prided himself on his Hutchison name. Black Thornton was the wood hauler driving two black horses as black as himself. Old Sam Grimes, Neddy Simpson and Sim Dickens were the off and on wood choppers. Wood being then in general use for fuel, it required much chopping and splitting to keep the fires up in winter. Maria Thornton, wife of the wood hauler and Pink Morgan were the washer women and scrubbers. Old John Hutchison, brother of Wyatt's was the stable boss, calling to his aid in times of need several of the (unreadable) colored from Washington, and also the Kings. These Kings reigned only in the stables.
Temperence Mitchell in her old days married Peter Jackson, colored. Peter had been a sort of a roustabout around the hotels east of Cambridge and finally turned up in Cambridge, and married Temperance, now known as "old Tempy." Peter and temperance did not mix well, he was rather of the other persussion, and "Tempy" had more trouble with Peter. "Tempy" worked around the kitchen f the late Samuel Craig and others earning the bread while Peter spent his wages in riotous living. Peter worked about a foundery carried on at times by Clark Robinson and B. A. Albright. These two after they dissolved partnership, were engaged in many lawsuits and Peter was a witness pro and con. In one of the cases Peter was brought forward to substantiate a statement made by one of the parties, and when asked as to the truth of the statement answered "I wodent believed that lie if I told it myself." Peter and wife later moved to Washington, this county, in the old house in which they lived there was a colored school. This drew to the house a good many of the colored folks. On morning Temperence gave Peter a dime out of her wash money, to go down to Craigs' store to get a jowl. After some time Peter returned having no jowl. "Tempy" said Peter, where's dat jowl?" He had spent the dime for whiskey at Beymer's tavern. Peter said, "that dime you give me was a bogus, Mr. Craig he put in right in the stove; you'd better look out how you send me to Mr. Craig's with spurious money." Then Tempy said, "I got that dime from one of the academy boarders." Peter said, "I just tell you what it is; I'se as much in favor of the larnen as any man, but I'se a goen to break up this academy; you want to have me tooken up."
Old Moman Morgan, colored, had a barber shop just east of the hotel. On his off days he was a table waiter and general helper about the house. He was the husband of "Puck" Morgan. They had two children Dave and Beck. Morgan was the sexton of the old grave yard, and was buried in the south-west corner under a sycamore tree he had planted, and at the time requested he should be buried under it. He was struck over the head by a man named Sothern, which at the time did not seem to have hurt Morgan. He afterward died from its effects. A post mortem showing that his skull was cracked. Some years ago in doing some work around the place where Morgan was buried, a cracked skull was found suppose to be the skull of Morgan. Morgan was succeeded in the barber business by Eli Marsh, Colored. At this time the old Wheeling stogie cigars, were on sale at most of the stores and shops in town at three for a cent. Marsh sold them at his barber shop. Asbury Hutchison was then learning the trade with Marsh. Some of the stage drivers around the Hutchison house had induced Asbury to give them four cigars for a cent. This came to the ears of Marsh. He called Asbury into the shop saying, "Asbury come in hur sar. I'le larn you how to sell four cigars for a cent, undermining the rest of the merchants, McCraig and McCracken are makin' thar complaints!"
Dr. A. C. Thompson, married Matilda, daughter, of Wyatt Hutchison, and lived with the family at the hotel. He died young leaving two children, Caroline and Alfred C. These were raised by their grandfather. The widow Thompson and her mother were the head mistresses of the hotel. Fanny Hutchison, sister of Wyatt's was the head cook and baker, and her biscuits with fried ham, poached eggs, and coffee had a wide spread reputation, and stage passengers were always eager to make the Hutchison house a dining place. This house noted as it was, doing a larger share of the hotel business, with a public bar in full blast was not a financial success, to its manager and after years of worry and labor, Wyatt Hutchison was little better off when he left the hotel in his old age, than when he began. Everything, flour, meat, groceries of all kinds, feed and whiskey all provided in plenty, were open to the great gang of helpers, who reveled in "the come easy, go easy," and Uncle Wyatt, moved around humming his little dirty, in apparent contentment. S.
April 26, 1894, Page 4
In the winter of 1848-49 the California gold excitement was at full-tide. Meetings were held in the lower room of the lodge, at which the latest news from the gold diggings was read and discussed. These were the preliminary steps to the formation of the "Cambridge California Mining Co." This company was organized under a constitution, which provided that the company should be a company of equal shareholders, and equals in the distribution of the proceeds, and should continue in existence for two years after arriving in California. Each member was required to pay into the treasury of the company $100 and was to furnish his outfit of gun, clothing, etc. and sign the constitution as a pledge of his faithful discharge of the contract. At these meetings the constitution was read and reread and much stress laid on the mutual pledge of equality, and the "share and share alike" benefit that each would receive. To read this old constitution is would seem like a band of brotherhood. Under the joint pledge men were sent as substitutes, and the sender relied on the joint pledge of all the company as his protection, after making terms with the person sent. We have here a full list of the company at the time of its starting: Capt. Z. Beatty; Secy., Jacob G. Moore; Samuel Johnston, Absolom Sunnyfrank, Henry Shively, Campbell D. Bute, Wm. Lofland, N. I. Wovlerton, John Beall, Aaron Patterson, James Allison, David S Suydam, John M. Clark, John A. Scott, John W. Davis Alfred Cook, Benj. Plummer, Thomas Beaham, Jacob Ferguson, Jas. Kirkpatrick, Jacob Gray, Joseph Ax, Adam Conrad, John Boyd, John McKelvey, Andrew Hanna, Saml. M. Roberts, Seth J. Dickinson, John Hutchison, Wm. M. Ralke, James V. Davis, Gen. R. B. Moore had a company consisting of C. P. Moore, Thos. A. Lofland, James Adair, Simion Shively, Peter Dennis and his son, Andrew Moore who joined him at St. Louis, Joseph Stoner had been chosen Treasurer of the Cambridge company, but his name does not appear on the list.
There were other companies from other parts of the county. Jonathan P. Cunnard, Joseph Morrison, Gilpins and others we can't now remember, took a number of men in lesser companies. The Cambridge companies left April 19th 1819 having in the train five wagons, by way of Wheeling. At Wheeling the steamboat, De Witt Clinton, was chartered to take these companies and others, to Independence, Mo. At $15 per man. The Cambridge companies left Kansas, Mo. To begin the journey May 9th. Thomas A. Lofland, son of col. Lofland and brother of Mrs. A. J. Hutchison, died of cholera at Kansas, April 26th. Several of the members of the company were at the time down with the disease. The companies left Kansas, May 9th and arrived at the Yutha or Bear Creek diggings, Cal. Oct. 3d. John A. Scott, bother of Ross Scott, of Cambridge, died Oct. 19th, 1849. The Cambridge company had disbanded long before reaching the diggings, and the share and share alike pledge had gone gleaming. General Moore in his first letter after reaching California, says, "The company is disbanded, those sending delegates have no security but the honor of those they send." This was not very joyful news to many in Cambridge who had sent out delegates. Gen. Moore also said, "gold is plenty here; but not to be picked up, it takes work to get it" we believe the Cambridge company disbanded at the Black Hills. We know of but few of the companies from Cambridge that are now living Capt. Beatty, is in Galesburg, Illinois, John W. Davis and Peter Dennis are in Cambridge. This exodous from the states both by land and water in 1840 and 1850, was a mad rush for sudden wealth that was not realized by one out of every hundred. Many came back broken in health and poorer than when they left, some never returned, other made something.
Gen. R. B. Moore writes from Sacramento City, Oct 16, 1849. "This place is (unreadable) bustle. Population about 8,000 all men. Houses are made of tents. Every thing is high. Men who are industrious make from $10 to $31 per day.
Travelers who have written on this country, and the guides who profess to direct us in distance to pasture and water, are all impostors. There is nothing true so far as my observation extends but that there is gold here."
The first mining was called placer-mining, washing out the fine gold in a pan with water, the gold settling to the bottom. The chorus of the song of the '49'ers was'
"Oh Susanna don't you cry for me,
I'm going to California,
With my tin pan on my knee'
The first to return to Cambridge were John Beall and William Lofland in July 1850.
1840 was a cholera year all over the country. The 3d of August, President Zachary Taylor, set apart for a day of national fasting and prayer, which was generally observed throughout the country, business being suspended and preaching and prayer services were held in the churches. In Cambridge there were union services in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches morning and evening.
The first session of the Cambridge Academy began in September, 1838, William Ellis, teacher. This called an academy was only perhaps a school of a higher order than heretofore. Ellis was a Scotchman. One of his hands was withered from palsy. He was living a few years ago in Oregon. The Masonic room was fitted out with double desks and chairs on each side, facing the east. The raised dais, the seat of the worshipful master of the lodge, in the east was left for the seat of the teacher and for the rostrum, from which the young ideas were to shoot. The walls of the room as papered by the order were left undisturbed. This paper showed Chinese scenery-rivers and mountains, the great Chinese wall, built against the Tartars, towers, imposing buildings, lagoons filled with boats and Chinese boatmen with pigtail adornment, and great triumphal marches representing, perhaps, the days of Confucius or some other great mogul of the days before the Christian era. The border around the ceiling was the heads of Washington and Lafayette alternately. So that two of the great father of liberty and Fraternity, of America and France, were looking down on the future some-things that were trying to master "the abstruse knowledge of the physiological world. This school was continued under the management of Ellis, Mitchel Miller and Thomas Brown, its last teacher. The writer entered it with a class of ten boys. He only remains to write this little scrap of history of a five years' association of the school days in the old lodge. Time's unrelenting hand ahs marked his changes and we only are left, to live over in memory this class beginning in 1838. Of all who were class mates with us during the terms of the Academy, we only know of Rev. Walter Brown, of Cadiz, and Dr. W. F. Clark, of West Virginia, that are now living. Of the girls, Mrs. Ellen Foster, of Kansas and Miss Anna M. Beatty, of Millersburg, O. During the terms of the Academy the lower room was used by the school district of the free school. The Academy boys took on some college airs and wore caps and badges, and had sacks made of green balze in which to carry books, state an atlas, to and from school. These were carried on the back, kump-sack? fashion.
This gave rise to a phrase used by the boys of the free school below, the lower crust, the others being the upper crust of "greenies'" This caused many a fight and bloody nose, and it was all the teachers of the two schools could do, with caution and threat, to keep down the spirit of fight engendered by boys in these two schools, other wise socially equals. What sham there is in caste and position; true worth is measured in another way.
In the lodge room the "Cambridge Mozart Band" had its beginning, the first band in Cambridge, C. L. Madison, coming from Putnam to Cambridge in 1841, and having been a member of a band, and a musician of some note on the band instruments of that day, brought with him his bugle, which was the nenoles? around which was gathered band instruments and a band that became noted for years in the eastern part of Ohio, having carried off the prize at a great band gathering at Newark, Ohio, in the political campaign of 1844. We give here the original members: J. A. Metcalf, C. L. Madison, A. B. Moore, W. A. Abbott, Richard Hutchison, John Beall, James Beall, James Suitt, E. A. Bratton, W. F. Clark, Jesse Motte, Thomas Yates, Jacob Ferguson, L. L. Bonnell, L. N. Rogers, A. C. Thompson, A. J. Dunlap, John S. Gaff, Bazil Cochran, John Harris, J. M. Bushfield, Chandler Robins was the first teacher, followed by Theobold Stork, William Stoey and William Hunter. This was in the band wagon days; the band boys were full of fun and frolic, and C. L. Madison had in store many a reminiscence, which he imparts to his friends, of the band journeys by night and by day, and of the trip to Newark with an eight- horse wagon a la circus, and of the band concerts at the towns and the college exhibitions of Concord and Antrim "these were the days before the war."
Cambridge California Company No. 2. This organization was also made in the lodge. This company started from Cambridge, April 8th, 1850, for Wheeling, Virginia with four wagons. The following are the names of the company, Joseph Stoner and son, John R. Plummer, S. M. Oldham, Nat Neeland, Jacob Danifer, Thomas Sarchet, Joseph Sarchet, John M. Sarchet, E. W. Mathews, James Mason, Thomas Wilson, James Dennis, Manloff Davis, James Rainey, Lemuel Funk, Samuel Luccock, John Buchahan, William Preistly, _ Lovell, Jackson Bradley, Robert Simpson, _Rose, J. B. Stottler, _ Corothers, _ McWilliams, J. W. Turnbaugh, Charles Scott and Alex. Woodburn.
Company No 3, left on Tuesday, April 9th composed of James McDonald, Hugh Parke, James Campbell, A. B. Metcalf, John Anderson, I. M. Walters, G. W. Whitaker and Edward Little.
Company No. 4 was composed of one lone traveler, William Phillips. The departure of this man affords a fine illustration of the pursuit of a fortune under difficulties. He came to Cambridge a few days after the other companies, No. 2 and 3 had left. His capital stock was a "fipeny bit" With this he bought a pipe and some tobacco. Coming across some old friends early in the morning, he made known his purpose of going to California, and showing a cent as the foundation upon which he intended to make "California or bust," declared that it was his object "to bring money into the country, not take it out." His early found friends of the morning increased his wardrobe and capital stock and gave him a fife. He left for Wheeling, Va., marching out of town to the tune played upon the ear piercing fife, "O, California, you are the land for me" Some years after he returned moneyless and lifeless but declaring that he went through "like a bird." The promoters of the Phillips company were the late C. J. Albright, C. L. Madison, Elza Turner, Esq., and the writer. Phillips brought back with him a fiddle. He said that he was a deck passenger on a steamboat, that the boiler exploded, throwing him out high and dry on the land and that he ??t on the fiddle. He came back into town fiddling "Over the river in Charley." Reporting to his friends who had sent him off rejoicing that with him it was "California or bust," and he had busted.
In the lodge the "Thousand and One" order was organized. Of its grips, passwords and ceremonies of limitation, it being oath bound, would be unlawful to mention. It was cosmopolitan in its character. Its chorus was "The Cosmopolites are coming to the thousand and one." Like wildfire it kindled quick and went out quick. It was an order of fun-you laugh at me and I'll laugh at you. The secret midnight conclave, the "Know-Nothings," met in the lodge, and the "coony wooseys, waggy wowtails" plotted with political effect for a time their secret machinations. S.
May 3, 1894, Page 4
In 1850, the question of adopting what was called the Akron school law was submitted to the voters of the Cambridge school district, and the question for adoption was carried. The Academy building had been already purchased. It was enlarged by the addition of two rooms. The Akron school law was the forerunner of the present law, or the Union school law. This was a bringing together under one superintendency all the school children of the district. The first superintendent was William Lyons, a brother of Lord Lyons, of England. The other teachers were Dorcas Reed, Kate McCluskey and Lou Hill. This school was not of as high grade as now. The General text books were the McGuffey's series, Piuneo's Grammar, but the grading in books was not so strict as now. An occasional pupil would bring in a Western Calculator or Cobb's Arithmetic and a Smith's Grammar and insist on being a whole class. We now leave the lodge, connecting the school and the band with the following that was written in 1881:
"There is much being said by the press of late concerning the silk gown to be presented to Mrs. Garfield by the ladies of the Silk Culture Association, of Philadelphia, Pa., who are now reeling the raw silk from cocoons raised during the summer, the web to be manufactured at Patterson, New Jersey. It is claimed that this garment will have the distinction of being the first all silk fabric manufact-in the United States. Perhaps in this fast, busy age the great Morns Multicanlis fever of 1841-1842 has been forgotten, when fortunes by the labor of the silk worm larvae, feeding on the leaves of the Morns Multicanlis, were to spring up in a day; that silk fabric was manufactured at that time is a matter of history. A Mr. Laboiteaux in Hamilton county near Cincinnati, engaged in the silk culture and manufactured fabric. A history of the manner of culture and manufacture was published in the Plow, Loom and Anvil, an Agricultural and mechanical journal, published in Philadelphia, Pa. in the interests of American labor, by Skinner & Co. Mr. Laboiteaux presented to "Tom Corwin, the wagoner boy, a vest pattern of his fabric, which Corwin wore in the Corwin-Shannon campaign of 1842. Those who heard Corwin will remember how he took pride in his plebeian origin, and was ever pointing to the leaders of Democratic party as the silk stocking gentry, the pliant tools of the English nobles, and how he in his inimitable wit, facial expressions and eloquent appeals to the yeomany, would stroke with pride his silk vest as the production of exclusive American labor, the question of its fostering and protection being the principle question dividing the parties of that day.
The Morers Multicaulis fever struck Cambridge, and A. Wright, B. A. and C. J. Albright, Dr. S. P. Hunt and others sickened, but did not dye.
In the year of 1842, the ladies of Cambridge, presented to the Cambridge Mozart Band, a silk flag, the fabric of which was grown and manufactured by Mr. J. M. Gill, of Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county Ohio, which the Mozarts threw to the breeze in the campaign of 1812. The flag presentation speech was made by our preceptor Thomas Brown, Esq. The Mozarts were mostly whigs an whilst they blew good music that could sing as well.
"Shannon, Shannon you'l get a tannin,
From Tom, the wagoner boy" S.
May 10, 1894, Page 4
(with others written in this time period I concluded this must be sketch 18)
On the north side of the next square of lots divided east and west, now the Dr. Moore, Dr Milligan and S. W. Moore property was the John Hersh residence. He was a justice of the peace and the fourth proprietor of the Guernsey Times. The little frame office was located where the Milligan residence now is. The two offices were in the same building. Hersh was elected Auditor of the county as a Whig in 1838, succeeding Gen. R. B. Moore. He removed to Zanesville and was cashier of the Muskingum branch bank. The south half of these lots was owned by the Presbyterian church and Moses Sarchet. The first Presbyterian church was built in 1833. It remained for some years after being built in an unfinished condition. It was used by the school boys as a place to play ball, corner ball, or sock. There is no record when the church was first used for services, or by whom. The first organized Sabbath School, in Cambridge was in this church in 1836 or 1837. Ebenezer Smith, Samuel Wilson and his wife, Mary Gibbs, Sarah Hersh were connected with this school. The present Presbyterian church is the third church on the same site. Dr. Milligan the present pastor was the first stated pastor and is in the 41st year of his pastorate. The next two lots were divided east and west. The north side being our old home, the Burgess corner, of which we have already written. The south half was owned by Samuel Lindsey, the dwelling on the Wall corner, where the Moss home now is. Lindsey was a cabinet maker and the principal undertaker of his day. At first there was no delivery of coffins, the people came for them. Then he began to haul them out with a one horse wagon. This was improved on by a coffin shaped body, which was called a hearse, the whole outfit not being worth $25. It was the beginning. The custom of the town and vicinity was to carry the dead on a bier. Then a coffin cost for a large one $6. to $8. It was cheap to die and be buried, compared with this day.
We have given an account of the building of the old log gaol. The second was of brick, built on the present site, in 1838. Jacob Shaffner being the principal contractor. It was also the Sheriff's residence, containing five rooms two down and three upstairs. The front was to the west, and entered by two doors. The cells were on the east side, and the hall entrance was from the south. There were three cells, one of these was a dungon, a place of solitary, confinement and darkness, into this was committed persons who had committed crimes not punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard lador. The cells had iron grated windows on the east. This jail though not a place of absolutely security, was as secure, as the jail now built on the more modern place for safe keeping. On the upper floor on the east were rooms for debtor prisoners, and women. Most of the stone for the foundation was from the abutments of the old toll bridge, the hauling out of the creek of these stone, was the last demolition of the that old primiture structure over which the first tide of emigration passed seeking homes in the west, prior to 1828. The brick for the jail and for the old part of the Shaffner building, were made and burned on the Shaffner lot. The first person to occupy the jail was Col. Seneca Needham, as jailor and deputy for John Beymer, of Washington, who was then sheriff, Joseph Bute, Democrat, elected in 1838 was the first sheriff to occupy the jail, and Walter B. Barnett the last. S.
Concluded.
On the next square lived the two Johns, John Entz, son of Elias Entz, the German of whom we have written, and John Mehaffy, father of J. P. Mehaffy of the Cambridge Herald. These owned the square, and the well beaten path beaten the two houses, told of the intimacy of the families. The great hollow across Steubenville avenue fronting these residences, was then a subject of much controversy, as to how the water was to be disposed of. The Entz residence, the present old house on the corner, seemed to be up high and dry But when the hollow came to be culverted and filled, it left the Mehaffey house, as now, below the street grade. This we said in a former paper, was a mistake and could have been remedied at the time. It is yet the subject of controversy, and must continue until the proper remedy is taken, on the part of town. These two Johns were members of the same church, the Methodist Protestant. They were both hunters and faberman, and spent much time together in sporting with the gun and the rod, in the days when game was plenty, and no game laws prevented the taking, and the black bass and perch were plentiful on Wills creek ripples. Entz was a saddler and Mehaffey a shoemaker, and Mehaffey's shop was as great a resort, as is the Baxter shop of today. The Prohibition of today was not yet born. Some how or other shoe-maker-shops have an attraction for loafers; whether this is brought about, because it is a place where soles are mended and new soles made, we don't know: but with all the shoe maker shop gossip and controversy, the question has never been satisfactorily settled whether it was the awl or the last that the shoemaker threw at his wife.
John Entz, like his father was a lover of pets and kept about him New Foundland and Spaniel dogs, white rabbits and Muscovy ducks. He had also a raven, "Bony" the second, but it was a mute so far as raven talk was concerned, Entz was a great skater and as much of an expert on skates as J. W. Moore on the bicycle, being able to cut legibly on the ice his name. This he would often do on his skating tours up and down the creek. John Mehaffey and Joseph Stoner, of whom we have written, were partners in the shoemaking business in a frame shop that stood where the Gillespie & McCulley cabinet store now is. Later John Mehaffey built and carried on a shop where the Sherrard Furnishing Goods store now is. A great many boys learned the shoemaking trade with him, some are now preachers and lawyers. One is engaged in saving souls, and another in trying to give "soulless corporations" a lift.
These days of trade learning and freedom suits are passed, and there is no more "top, tickle and spread, the boss finds the wax and thread."
The next square, broken by hollows, remained for years a jimson and dog fence patch where the town cows slept at night and quietly chewed their curds, all unconscious that once in the long ago, the phiz of the steam engine in old Hardins; saw mill, gave squeak louder then their snore, but such is history. On this square was steam first used as a motive power in Cambridge. It was destroyed by fire one night while the citizens slept, how the cause or who the cause no one ever knew but it was said that Harden's boys burnt it to keep from work. He said his boys made a quarter a piece every Sunday trading knives in the haymow, then they must have thought that trade was better than milling, and burnt the little rickety mill, to put in the whole time in barter in knives; certainly this was an unprotected home market, for trade.
On the first J. B. Taylor lot Edward Roseman, an old coverlet and carpet weaver lived in a log house with a loom shop attached. He was an early settler, and connected with the family of Rosemans, that were about Fairview, in the early history of the country. On the last lot of the original plat 140, Samuel M. Oldham lived, father I. A. Oldham, in a one story house. He was a tanner, and became the owner of the Beatty tan yard spoken of in our first paper on lot No. 1 where the McFarland steam mill and Green's grocery now are. We are now through with the original town plat; have tried to give some history of the houses, business and inhabitants of fifty and more years ago, when there were fewer hundreds than there are now thousands of inhabitants; when we knew by sight every man woman and child of the town; when there was no telegraph, or railroad or telephone; when the coach and four was the fast line for news, form point to point; when the newspaper head lines gave as latest foreign news a month old news from Liverpool. We have advanced until the prediction of old Mother Shipton is fulfilled, "when the people shall talk through the water and air and carriages without horses shall go," and while this is an advance from the old way, to the new it is on advance that is bringing with it troublesome times. Is it not fearfully true of to-day "Oh liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name." All the houses on Wheeling avenue have been built or remodeled, within our memory and so of those on Steubenville avenue. So that the city of to-day has grown with our growth, and the town of our early remembrance has decayed as sixty six years marks our downward journey to decay.
Sweep! Sweep! Chimney sweep!, what has become of these black, sooty sweepers, who used to pass along to brush down the chimneys, in the days of wood fires. That would seem to be an industry displaced by stoves and ranges for cooking. When the cooking was down on the open fireplace, the soot would come tumbling down, at unwanted times. How many in Cambridge to day ever saw a chimney sweep? We may in the future again take up our pencil, but for the present, adieu. P. B. Sarchet.
May 17, 1894 Page 4
The next two lots were owned by the McClary's some of them were cabinet makers. We spoke of the McClarys as the contractors to complete the old court house. One of the McClary boys, "Joe" was a tanner, working at the old McCracken tanyard. He originated the dog skin story. A boy brought to the yard a dog skin for sale. He asked Joe if they bought dog hides? Joe said yes if they suited. Then he asked the boy if the dog was fat? The boy said yes, "he was da-n fat." McClary then said, "we don't buy fat dog hides." The boy then answered, "well, he wasn't so da-n fat." The boy showed a willingness to adapt his merchandise to the demands of the market, whether fat or lean. On east 8th street was a row of houses called "McClary's row." These were used for tenants and shops. The old McClary cabinet shop was used for a school room, for subscription schools Richard Hatton father of Frank Hatton, taught school in it and lived in the old corner frame house still standing. There lived in these houses preachers, lawyers, teachers, editors and office-holders. The next square of lots was used by Wyatt Hutchison and Bazil Brown for a truck patch. The frame house, now belonging to Miss Balless, was built by James Marling. The next square of lots was cut angling through by a ravine, and as Steubenville avenue began to be filled made what was called the "goose pond, on the middle lot.
Moman Morgan, colored, of whom we have written in connection with the Hutchison house, as a barber and sexton of the old grave yard, made the first improvement on the J. B. Sarchet lot. A small frame building in which he lived for many years, and dying there, from the effects of the cracked-skull, in his altercation with the ruffian Sothern. James Stanley, father of Alexander, of Cambridge, built a log cabin on the east lot, now the Albaugh property. This cabin built against the bank, had an under story. Stanleys kept many green as did others and this middle lot was the general paddling and washing place for all, which gave rise to a general mix of geese, that resulted sometimes in a hot war of words, as to ownership, when gathering in the flocks at picking time. There was a fuss in feathers in these days. Old Joseph Logston occupied this Stanley cabin for some time. Logston was a man of all work, was a hand in building the national road, a grubber and clearer of land, a free and go easy liver always happy and content whether the larder was full or empty.
To go out and kill a wild hog was a common custom. This afforded grease for the messes of greens in spring time, and sop for the pone and with diting tea, was a diet simple and wholesome having a medicinal effect cathartic, purifying the blood and building up the system by natures own remedy.
"A little nonsence now and then,
Is relished by the best of men"
It was said that in the early history of Ohio, that the wild hogs that roamed in the forests bounding on lake Erie, were sometimes blinded by the red sand, of which there are three distinction nations of sand ridges bordering the lake at intervals of several miles distance, this sand drifted in dry seasons and filled the air to an extent, as to be very disagreeable to the early settlers, who located on these ridges, and along which the first roads were laid out. Lower Sandusky, now Freemont, in its early history was at one time threatened with afamine, this famine was raised, according to the story, in this way: A hunter on short rations started out in search of game, after traveling for some time in the forest without success, he heard in the distance the squeaks of the wild hogs, which seemed to be doming towards him. He secreted himself to await developments, he soon saw in the distance a string of hogs coming in single file, led by a large boar with huge tusks. They were all blind but the leader, and were kept together by holding to each others tails. The leader having the eyes for the whole gang. The hunter at once came to the conclusion, that if he could shoot off the tail of the leader, he could capture the whole lot, so he waited until they came nearer, when he let drive with his trusty rifle that threw an ounce ball, and off bounded the leader with a boo, boo, away into the forest, leaving his tail behind him and his blind followers in dismay in the loss of their leader. The hunter leads them into the town which gave rise to the tale, "How the hunter raised the famine of Lower Sanduskey."
Old Sol Kinney, colored, of whom we spoke in connection with the attacks of the Hutchison house, died in this cabin. He made a record as a traveler, in beating the stage coach from Janesville to Cambridge. Sol wanted to "divy" his passage, but the stage driver objected. Sol, to show that coaches and four were no match for him in speed said, "I'le beat you to Cambridge," and he did, trotting all the way ahead. Down the hills and on the level stretches, the driver chased Sol close at times, but Sol made his time on the up grades, and came into Cambridge, a good winner and was resting himself on the bench in front of the Hutchison house when the stage drove up. It is forty years since Sol was carried to his burial, in the old cemetery, by eight white pall bearers, the writer being one. This was before the "Dred Scott" decision. S.
17 May 1894, Page 2
On the next two lots there was a Still-house, built against the bank on the alley on the south side. This still-house was managed by William Ferguson, who was connected with the old United States hotel. The distillery was in full blast at the time of building the National road, and was the scene of many fights and brawls, among the hands, mostly Irish, Corkorians and Tipperarians, who when in the spirit, fought over again the Hoyue-Water, of old Ireland. It was said that eyes and ears, could be gathered up after one of these brawls, that had been chewed off and gouged out. At one end of the still-house was a balling alley for playing hand ball. This alley ball was a game, that the Irish took great delight in, and on off days and on Saturday afternoons, the alley way a lively place. All the Ferguson boys were expert ball players, and the other boys of the town began their ball apprenticeship at this alley. The distillery was afterward changed into an oil mill, for the manufacture of flax seed oil, by Nicholas Martel.
On the Dr. Arnold lot, Z. C. Suitt father of P. T. Suitt, of Cambridge, made the first improvement. He was one of the early carpenters of Cambridge. He had a frame shop on the Martel lot, which was burned down, being one of the early fires in the town. The carpenters of that day had to hand dress all the material, and this work was done in the shops, working in the winter time at night. This shop was burned after night, the fire originating in the shavings, having caught from the stove. On the next lot Dr. Plummer one of the early physicians of Cambridge lived. He died in the present old building. Where the C. C. Black residence is, was an old house built by Andrew Metcalf. He was one of the early Sheriffs of the county and a prominent character in its early history. The two J. M. P?terson lots were the show grounds for years. The old showmen, Van Amburg; Sam Stickney, Dan Rice, Bill Lake, Sol and Mike Lipman, Jan and Yankee Robinson, spread their tents, on these lots and stirred up the monkeys, the lions and tigers, and went through the grand and lofty tumbling, to the delight of the people. These were the days of spangles and saw-dust in one ring, and when the master of cermonies, stepped into arena and called out, "this way Mr. merryman", Dan Rice was the reigning king, and merry-Andrew of the ring and Van Amburg, with the little child and the lamb, entered the lions den, fulfilling in a sense the prophetic day, when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and a little child shall lead them. Then the show was on the inside, now the show is on the outside, and when you pay your money and are on the inside, the humbug is complete, and a "fool and his money soon parted."
On the last lot on the Steubenville street, in the original town plat, John Burton lived in a log cabin. He was followed by John Sloan, he was a great reaper when with the sickle the reaper gathered in the grain by hand fulls Sloan was the leader of the gangs. He was followed on the lot by James C. Hunter who built the present old house on the corner, where he lived for many years. He was one of the charter members of the order of "The Sons of Temperance," of Cambridge and was in the treasury, which were but little. He was the father of Mrs. Capt. Anderson and Dr. Hunter, of Cambridge, They doubtless remember the old log house. These log cabins, the homes of the pioneers were to us more beautiful than palatial mansions. They represent the beginning of civilization. Around these was cleared year by year the acre that grew into the field, the meadow and the farm. By the cabin door was the holly-hocks, sweet-williams, jonny-jump-ups flags and marigolds, with a privet and snowball. This and these were the primals, to the secondary mansion, as the log school was the primal, the college the secondary. We have grown away from these, farms have grown larger, wealth had concentrated. The legislation of today is an attempt to reach wealth by taxation on the one hand, and to concentrate wealth by legislation on the other. Coxey's armies are gathering at Washington City, however misguided this way of petition may be, it teaches a lesson that legislators should heed. If these armies of Coxey's can claim to be fed by the people; if they can demand free transportation on railroads, then any other class can make the same demand. This would be a total disregard of individual and corporate rights. If the public must feed these, then the public may feed all, either by threat or intimidation and they that have will be at the mercy of them that have not. We are writing of the days when there was work for all, when there was no combination on either hand. The laborer fixed his wages, the employer fixed his price, if they agreed, the work went on, if not each looked out for other work or help, it was a free barter by each, without intimidation or coercion. We believe that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and this should be subject to the law of supply and demand. Combinations tend to destroy individual rights. All laws should be general as nearly as can be, classes and class legislation, endanger the stability of free government.
Lot 105, now the Doyle grocery corner, was owned by-Sothern, a relative of the Clarks, Dr. S. B.'s family. He was a plasterer. He built a little frame house, that was lathed and plastered on the inside and outside, did not stand the influence of the wet and freezing and soon began to crumble and fall off. This Sothern is not the one connected with the Morgan scrap. They moved to New London, Ohio. The next building was the old Seceder brick church on the Capt. Anderson lot. This building the first in town, was not well constructed and was never finished. The front gable had to be propped with two large props to hold it in place. Daniel McClane was the minister. He was succeeded by James McGill, and while he was the minister the building was abandoned. On the John M. Ogier lot, R. D. Salmon, built a frame house and shop. He was a painter and chairmaker. We spoke of him as the first Mayor of Cambridge. S.
June 21, 1894, page 4
We gave some little history of the Niswanders, in a former paper. As the old house is being torn away, we make this digrestion to give further history and in correct some mistakes made by writers of Cambridge history. This lot was purchased by John Sarchet in 1804, Cambridge then being in Muskingum county. The record of purchase being transferred to Guernsey county after his formation in 1810, Some historians make the Guernsey emigrants settle in Cambridge, in June 1806, and they say on the day of the public sale of town lots, when the facts are that there never was a public sale of lots, nor did all the Guernsey emigrants settle at Cambridge, as is said in June 1806. The Sarchets, Thomas, John, Peter and Nicholas, four brothers, the three first named having families, and Daniel Ferbrache, brother-in-law, having a family landed in America, at Norfolk, Va., June 3d, 1806 and from there sailed up the bay to Baltimore, Md. They left Baltimore on the 14th of June 1806, to begin their overland journey. On that day there was a total eclipse of the sun, They stopped at Cambridge, Ohio, on the 14th day of August 1806. Nicholas Sarchet a single man, a blacksmith by trade, remained for some time at Richmond, Va. And worked at the Tredegar Iron Works. The three Sarchet brothers and Daniel Ferbrache, were the first Guernsey settlers. Eight other families came the next year 1807. As we have said there was no sale of town lots. There were posters stuck up along the trail, of a new town called Cambridge, on big Wills creek, in Muskingum county, Ohio, where lots and land were for sale. The Niswander house was built in 1817, by William Allison, a carpenter. He had been Sheriff of the county, and was a brother-in-law of William Lindsey Jr. a son in law of Isaac Niswander, who was connected with Niswander in the building William Lindsey Jr. was the father of Mrs. Maj. J. T. Rainey, of Cambridge. Isaac Niswander kept a restaurant, beer and cake shop, which the older people of Cambridge of today will remember, and although there are now tiuer and more stylish resorts, yet the old people look back to the Niswanders, as caterers in this line unexcelled. Niswander was unlucky enough to be badly hurt in two accidents, one in the coaching days, in 1851 being in a coach that upset, near the first mile stone, west of Cambridge, on the National road, in which his shoulder was dislocated, rendering his arm almost useless for the remainder of his life. Rev. Dr. Milligan was in this upset but not much injured. Niswander was in a railroad collision shortly after the opening of the Central Ohio Railroad, to Cambridge, in June, 1854. This added to his other injury made his for the reminder of his life an invalid and great sufferer.
Niswander although a Whig and Republican, kept the place of distribution for the Democratic Star, the forerunner of the Guernsey Jeffersonian and the Cambridge Jeffersonian, then under the control of Peter H. Ankeny, and of Lord and Gill, the paper then being published at Washington, this county. This was before the free distribution of newpapers. Niswander was one of the old members of the Masonic Lodge of Cambridge, and his photo is among the galaxy of the Lodge members of the years long ago. He died May 15th 1866, the day before the assembling of the Chicago convention of 800 that placed in nomination Abraham Lincoln. His near neighbors on each side, C. L. Madison and C. J. Albright and long friends, were in attendance at the convention and returned home, to learn that their friend had passed to the other side. S.
June 5, 1894, Page 4
At the time of the formation of Noble county there were before the legislature petitions for the formation of six new counties all of which asked for a slice off Guernsey county, Cumberland, with county seat at Fairview; Chester, with county seat at West Chester, Orange with county seat at Newcomerstown; Freeland with county seat at Cumberland; Noble called McGarry's with county seat at Sarahsville; Noble called Parrish's with county seat at Sharon. There was some difference in the boundaries of the two Nobles. The Parrish Noble did not take as much territory from Guernsey, as the McGarry Noble. In an editorial article, in the Zanesville Times Recorder from Caldwell, to which Judge Chambers made a correction in relation to Isaac Parrish, the writer says that the formation of Noble county "became a prominent issue in 1847." This is certainly news to us in Guernsey county. The formation of Noble county first came into prominence in Guernsey county in 1849 and had the effect of defeating Naphtall Luccock, Whig, for representative and electing Mathew Gaston, Democrat. The writer further says that the Bill was introduced by Warren P. Noble of Seneca county, who was intent on perpetuating his family name, and who only consented to support the bill after having received the assurance that the new county should be named after him," Now the fact is Warren P. Noble was not in the legislature when Noble county was formed. Nor was he so great a man that his name should be this perpetuated. If it were true that Noble county was named for Warren P. Noble, from rock ribbed Democratic Seneca, that afterward sent to the legislature John C. Breslin, who was the defaulting State Treasurer, and Gen. Gibson who afterward covered his tracks was from the same county, this might account for the flopping about politically of Noble County. But according to Henry Howe's History of Ohio, Noble county was named for James Noble one of the pioneers of Morgan county, after whom Noble township was named. This writer further says "This new county was formed in 1851, and Parrish succeeded in gaining his coveted prize." Parrish's county was not formed the McGarry, was the one formed and the bill provided for a commission to locate the county seat. This commission was composed of George McCollough, of Jefferson county, Martin Heckard, of Meigs county and Lafayette Emmet, of Knox county. They located the county seat at Sarahsville, but the first court was held at Olive.
If ever Isaac Parrish made the John Gilpin ride of 100 miles in twenty-four hours from Columbus to Sarahsville, and killed a horse as related by the Times Recorder writer, it was to meet this Commission and lobby for the county seat to be located at Sharon where he lived and had a mill and other property.
Isaac Parrish was about the legislature a good deal but it was as an attorney for the "McCuneclaim" which was pending in the legislature. Isaac Parrish was a good long distance rider, as he demonstrated when in Congress. He found a route from Cambridge to Washington City, over 800 miles long on which to charge mileage. But he was not alone in this, and even this day, there are members of Congress who go around "Robin Hood's barn" to get to the Federal city.
James J. Grimes and Alexander Mitchell, Whig representatives from Guernsey county, voted against the formation of Noble county, although it took Democratic territory, from the county and made it more reliably Whig and afterward Republican. James Okey and Ezra McKee were representatives from Monroe and Morgan counties. Isaac Parrish was elected the first representative, but was not admitted. Oliver Keyser was the first, elected in 1861. S.
On the next lot, the A. W. Brown residence, Peter B. Sarchet built the first house a small frame, in the 40's. He made himself notorious in the slave rescue case in 1854. Taking from a passing train two slave boys that were in charge of an agent, taking them from Virginia, where they had been bought, to the owner in Kentucky. The Seceders, during the pastorate of Dr. James McGill, built on the next lot a frame church, which was torn away to give place to the present building erected under the pastorate of Dr. McFarland, who is now in the 36th year of his pastorate, unbroken only by his three years, service as Chaplain during the late war. On the Union school lot in a log house lived Richard Clark, an uncle of Dr. S. B. Clark and grandfather of Mrs. Ella Rosemond of Cambridge. He was a mason and plasterer. His good wife "Aunt Patsey," was one of the best of women. The writer has a very vivid remembrance of her kind acts, and cheerful happy tact in giving to the children in their sports full swing, and at times getting back herself to childhood to help "on with the dance let joy be uncoutined?" The Clark families were mary-landers, from the chinquapin and herring bone regions. Old "Uncle Levi" Clark use to say that he had heard of some who had eaten so many herring, that the bones protruded through the skin so that they could not get off their shirts. The older Clarks all had a part as Maryland militia, in the "Bladensburg races" under Gen. Ross, took Washington City. James J. Grimes and Dr. J. T. Clark, during the campaign of 1852, attended a great Whig demonstration at Erie, commenmorative of the battle of Ft. Erie, at which Gen. Winfield Scott was present. At the hotel these two young men, sons of father who took a part in the war of '12, registered "James J. Grimes, Esq son of Col. Elijah Grimes, who fought with Scott at Lundys Lane. Dr. J. T. Clark, son of John Clark who ran with Gen Winder, at Bladensburg. The Richard Clark family moved to Washington, this county, where he kept the toll gate on the National road for many years. Arthur L. Clark, a son was the editor and proprietor of the Guernsey Jeffersonian, during the Scott-Peirce campaign of 1832. The three lots of the union school, belonging to Eikelberger and McDonnel, who were engaged in building the National road, and from them came into the prossession of Isaiah McIlyar, father of J.O. and W. H. H. McIlyar, who lived in the old log house for many years and was buried from it. The Methodist church lot belonged to John Carlo, a son-in-law of Thomas Lenfesty, of the first Guernsey emigrants, on this lot was built a log house, which was rented until it went to decay. The lot coming into the possession of William McCracken. The late John M. Bushfield built in it a frame cottage, this is now a part of the Methodist parsonage building. On the Carnes lot Mrs. McKinley lived. She was a relative of the Clarks, and the grandmother of J. F. Salmon of Cambridge. The next lot belonged to Eli Shryock, who was also connected in the building of the National road, and was conveyed by him to William Allison. Allison was Sheriff of the county, and built on the lot a frame house now a part of the Daniel Broom house, and on the corner of the lot, where the brick building now is, he built a Sheiff's office. This office was afterward moved up where the Judge Campbell block now is and was used for an office by Dr. S. B. Clark. Hon. Isaac Parrish lived on this lot during his residence in Cambridge, and was living on it in 1838 when he was elected to congress as a Democrat, from the Belmont-Guernsey district. He was a law partner with Mathew Gaston and this firm stood prominent, in the legal profession in this and adjoining counties for many years. Isaac Parrish was a member of the house of representatives, in the Ohio legislature of 1887-1888, and Mathew Gaston was a member of the house in 1840-1850. Isaac Parrish was defeated for congress in 1840 by the Hon B. S. Cowen, Whig. Parrish moved to Sharon, Morgan county, and was elected to congress from the Perry, Morgan-Washington district, in 1844. In our next we will have something to say of his connection with the formation of Noble county.
The late Hon. J. W. White began his married life in the old house on this lot, and Samuel J. McMahon, President of the Old National Bank, of Cambridge, (whose interesting letters from the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga, New York, published in the Jeffersonian, were rich and spicy, but left as "still in doubt whether he was coming in or going out" on the unerrancy of the Scriptures) began his married life in the old house. At that day, having the full lot with the house set back off the street, and shaded with trees, it was considered one of the cosey and desirable residences on Steubenville Avenue.
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The McCartney corner was known as the Judge Gomber house. The present old front is of the first building, being one of the early brick houses. To it was attached on the north s one story frame. This corner came into the possession of Gen. R. B. Moore whose first wife was a Gomber. He built the present north end of the main building. He was elected the second Auditor of the county, in 1830, and removed to this residence from Frankfort, on the old Wheeling road east of Washington. This being the first town laid out within the bounds of Guernsey county, the plat being made in 1804. We have spoken of it as "Smith's town." It was laid out by Joseph Smith and took the name, as did Washington for many years take the name of Beymer's town after its proprietor. Gen. R. B. Moore had the honor of being the first mason adunited to the Cambridge lodge, as its opening Aug. 20, 1822. Of the town of Frankfort which grew to have a population of one hundred, there is nothing now remaining. Its site has long since been plowed up. At the time of its location and plat, it was in Belmont county.
Gen. Moore lived on this corner until 1843. On the front were three large locust trees; under the shade of these trees was built the speaker's stand, for the great Whig rally, of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" in 1840. At which Tom Corwin, who was then in the height of his renown as a stump orator, was to appear for the first time before the people of Guernsey county. This was the largest out pouring of the people ever held in the county taking into consideration the population at the time. Whigs and Democrats alike flocked from all parts of the county and neighboring counties, in wagons, on horse back and on foot. The space behind the old court house and the streets was filled with the masses. The morning mail from the west brought a great disappointment. A letter came that Tom Corwin was so unwell as not to be able to fill his appointment. Speeches were made by Hon. B. S. Cowen, John A Bingham and N. B. Guille. Hon. John A. Bingham and, was then just entering on his political career. Napoleon B. Guille, a young Frenchman was a rising young lawyer, of the Muskingum bar. His father lived for a time on the Mrs. Thompson lot. Andros Guille, of Zanesville, O. who was wounded in the late war, having his nose shot off, and otherwise disfigured in the face, is his son. He has now an artificial nose, Old Dr. Guille, the father, was a great admirer of the first Napoleon, and of the Lioneparte, dynasty, but was dead before the plebiscitum of 1832, which revived the imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon, under the title of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.
We stop a moment at the square around which our young life and manhood was spent. We look back to the old fire side gatherings, in the kitchens, around the glowing wood fires, cracking hickory nuts and popping appleseeds on the shovel, to test the truth of this:
Jean slips in twa, Wl' tentie e'e,
Wha Twas she wadua tell,
But this is Jack an' this is me,
She says la to hersel;
He gleez'd owre her, and she orwe, him
As they w?d neter mair part,
I ?ll blu?, he started up the lum,
And Jean had e'en a s?i? heart,
To see 't that night
These nights of childish glee and frolic are passed, and the participants are, most of them, inhabitants of that unexplored country, whence no traveler e'er returns. No face of fifty years ago is to be seen around the square. The changes of time and death's ruthless hand, claims dominion now. Tis ours to ponder the past. S.
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