FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHVERMILION, O.
FROM MY DESTOP TO YOURS: ‘Twere a hectic week, but I’ve not idea why because I really didn’t accomplish much. I spent an inordinate amount of time messing with my computer at the museum. Somehow my email got tangled up and I could neither send nor receive anything from there since last Thursday. I had high-speed DSL installed this past Thursday afternoon and then nothing worked.
Go figure.
I was still able to use my brother’s Internet via a router I’d previously installed so I could slowly (and I mean very, very slowly) access the net. Then, after speaking with the ISP technician for about an hour I was able to access my email again and discovered that my publisher had contacted me on Monday asking for permission to start printing my book. (No matter that I’d repeatedly asked them to email me at home.)
As least I got that settled (for now).
The high-speed DSL still doesn’t work. I spoke with both a ISP tech and their business rep about it and they seemed to think that the order has not been completed. That is – the installation person had not formally indicated that the installation work had been completed. They told me that the order was scheduled to be complete on Tuesday (05/08/12).
Go figure some more.
MARIAN GREENE: I don’t as a rule mention it when someone I know moves on to the life beyond the one we know. I figure such things are covered quite adequately elsewhere. But am compelled to mention the passing of Vermilionite Marian Greene on Thursday last (05/03/12).
One reason I make mention of Mrs. Greene is because she was probably the first person to see me when I was born – at least she used to tell me so. I was born at home, and Marian being a nurse assisted my mother.
The other reason is that aside from being a really nice person she was among the last of a generation of truly homespun Vermilionites. These are folks who somehow always knew what was going on in town – and it wasn’t gossip. These people evidently had some sort of social network sans Facebook. When someone was born, died, or had the flu – they knew, and responded in kind. She was, in many ways, one of the reasons so many people across the world call Vermilion home.
She was 96.
Historically,
A CLASSIC
CORRECTIONS: I've obviously not yet corrected in on the pic - but thanks to Molly Milner I learned that I had misspelled Mr. Patterson's first name. It is Hyatt, and not Haytt as it appears on the photo.
I did use the copy that appeared on the back of the photo for the captioning. But I didn't do any background of any of the folks pictured or I might have caught it.
It may be that however spelled the name sounds the same when pronounced. I'm guessing (of course) but it must have sounded like the word "hate". Ergo the misspelling. But no matter. I likely would have misspelled the word anyway. (Methinks I have a touch of dyslexia to go with my alzheimers.)
E.P. BRADSTREET – MADE HIS OWN WAY IN THE WORLD: Part Two:Edward Payson Bradstreet was born at “Vermillion” in Ohio on the 5th of June in the year 1830. In his own words, which were later published in a Lorain, Ohio newspaper in 1930 Mr. Bradstreet said: “I was born on the farm of my mother's sister, Mrs. Horatio Perry, where my mother had gone to spend the summer. The farm was a fine place right on the lake, a little west of the Ruggles place. At that time the house stood about 400 yards from the bank of the lake but it has long since washed away.” [Note: 1.) Horatio Perry - as related in the first part of this essay - was among the first half dozen settlers to arrive in the area. 2.) Bradstreet’s mother, Anna Dana Smith was from Amherst, Ohio and not from Amherst, New Hampshire as incorrectly stated in Part One. She was the twin sister of Roy Hurlbut of Vermilion.]
After Edward’s father died in 1837 he lived with relatives in Russia Township and in MIlan. Like his father he was interested in religious work and intended to follow in his footsteps. But due to an appreciable weakness of his throat he was compelled to alter his course. He attended high school in Elyria, and then studied at Western Reserve University in Cleveland (an institution his father helped found) and Yale University, graduating from the latter with a B.A. in 1853, and an M.A. around 1856. After teaching in the public schools for a very short time, and reading law for the firm of Ferguson & Long of Cincinnati, he was admitted to the bar in 1857, and soon joined the company as a partner.
Eventually Edward started a private practice specializing in the settlement and management of estates; becoming one of the foremost authorities on probate and bankruptcy law in the state and nation. It was, he later reflected, a long way from the carefree days of his childhood when he used to lie with a boyhood friend named Harris, and his dog Rover, in the front yard of his Uncle Perry’s home in “Vermillion” watching the white-sailed. ships on the lake “that seemed to float in the air; and wonder what they were doing a way out there”.
But there was very little time for daydreaming during the early years of his practice. And as the years turned - as Edward busied himself establishing that practice - it is likely that his good dog Rover died of old age. The fate of his childhood friend Harris was not, however, so ambiguous. He lost his life defending his country at Vicksburg in 1863.
In 1883 Bradstreet married a gal named Harriet B. Herrick. Miss Herrick was the daughter of the Rev. William D. Herrick of Amherst, Massachusetts. The couple had three children: Marjorie, Edward P. Jr., and Annabel. As his law practice and family grew Edward, true to his father’s memory, was extremely active in church matters. He served as a “vestryman” (i.e. a member of a church administrative committee) for several churches in the Cincinnati area. And for over twenty years he served as a Sunday School superintendent as well as a convention delegate for his church.
Aside from his church activities and legal practice he helped found the Cincinnati Vigilance Society for abolishing white slave traffic; was vice president of the Cincinnati Bible Society; life director of the American Bible Society of New York; a member of the Literary Club; and The Queen City Club. He was a cofounder of the Yale Club; a long time president of the Cincinnati Gymnasium - for three decades served as a member of its board of directors; was also active with the Masonic order, R.A.M. of Cincinnati; and, shortly after the Civil War, had helped found the Ohio Humane Society. He was, to say the very least, a very busy person during his lifetime.
That lifetime, as fate would have it, lasted for over 100 years. And Edward Payson Bradstreet remained reasonably active until it ended on February 14, 1931. His last public appearance as a trial lawyer had been at the age of 96, when he defended a one-armed man who had been charged with assault and battery. Newspapers reported that “The courtroom was crowded with attorneys when the word went around that ‘Old E.P. Bradstreet was trying a case’”. It is said that scenes of the trial were preserved in news reels. [Note: I have yet to find any of them.]
The summer before he died Bradstreet was invited aboard the steamer “Tom Greene” to witness “a race for supremacy of the Ohio River” between it and another steamer called the “Betsy Ann”. I found no record of the winner of that race. And it really doesn’t matter. But I can’t help but wonder, when upon the river that day, if Edward didn’t look back and recall a yesteryear when he lay in the long grass at his Uncle’s home in Vermillion - his dog and his friend at his side - watching the white-sailed ships on the lake that seemed to float in the air; if he, finally, understood what they were doing - a way out there.
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SHOPTALK: SHOPTALK: This week we began painting the newsroom of the print shop. The computer color match was fairly accurate. Consequently, the paint doesn’t make the room look as though it’s been newly painted. It simply looks as though it’s been cleaned. Hopefully it will be finished by Tuesday.
A TREE: We also planted a tree in front of the place. It’s a little red maple. We waited until we’d had some rain to plant it so the digging would be easier. The digging, however, was harder than we thought it would be. For some reason there were a good number of rocks just beneath the grass atop some thick clay.
But the tree is in the ground and looks nice. Hurrah!
POST OFFICE BOX: Please note that the MUSEUM has a post office box now. Now we won’t have to use our home address, nor the one at the shop for mail.
MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships to the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are now available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum P.O. Box 792 Vermilion, Ohio 44089
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AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
VOL. VII. NO. 48. – May 5, 1904
Mrs. Henry Shaffer who resides near Birmingham, attempted suicide by taking Corrosive Sublimate Friday evening. Dr. Boss was called and has been doing all in the power of the medical profession to save her. Her husband has been serving on the jury at Sandusky and Mrs. Shaffer had been left to care for the farm work and a cow died while she had been caring for the stock, which might have had something to do with the attempt. It is thought that she is mentally deranged. Mrs. Shaffer is only 24 years of age.
Later – Dr. Boss informs us that Mrs. Shaffer has fair prospects for recovery although her mouth throat and stomach are badly burned by the poison.
Monday evening the Village Council held their regular monthly meeting with all members present. Several important measures were passed upon including a sidewalk resolution and the tax levy for the coming year.
A petition for a new road south of town was read and referred to the street committee. This road is near one recently asked for. The sidewalk resolution will be found elsewhere in full, and is important from the fact that cement is allowed as a material for construction as well as stone.
The tax levy will be considerably heavier this year on account of water works and the payment of the bills incurred during the smallpox epidemic, and is as follows.
Tax Valutation……….$465,900 General fund………………….1/2 mill Road Fund………………………..1 mill Fire fund………………………….1/2 mill Street Lighting………..1/2 mill Public Grounds & Bldg..1/4mill Cemetery…………………………….1 mill Sanitary…………………………….3 mill Fund for interest on Water Works Bonds…………………………………..8 mill Total………………………………..14 3⁄4 mill
Several funds have been reduced as a surplus has usually been found therein. The total levy will be 14 3⁄4 mills. The valuation on which this levy is made is $10,000 more than that of last year.
The Board of Public Affairs were granted a salary of $100 each to the second Monday in January when their successors enter into office. This condition was brought about by abolishing spring elections. At a late hour council adjourned.
D.P. Evens who is wheeling a wheelbarrow from Cleveland to San Francisco on an election bet arrived in Vermilion early Wednesday afternoon. His wheelbarrow is a light affair with an iron wheel and is painted a dark green. He left here for Berlin Hts. at 2 o’clock.
Mr. Evens is a native of Bowling Green, and a cook by trade.
He came to Cleveland about a year ago and during the gubernatorial campaign made a bet with Wm. Shaw, a traveling man, that if Johnson was not elected he would wheel a wheelbarrow to San Francisco and back.
The terms of the trip are that he was to start without a cent. If any one wants him to work he is to do so but not charge a cent for his services but can accept a present of money from anyone. He carries one large advertisement out of each town. From Vermilion he took Lewis Englegry’s Clothing Adv. He is given 3 years and 4 months to made the round trip and as he expresses it “will have much fun,” on the trip. He hopes to make the trip in two years.
He can neither shave or [sic] get his hair cut on the trip.
After six days of disagreeable weather last Sunday dawned bright and fair, and remained so except for the heavy fog of the late afternoon and evening. The morning and evening attendance was good. The Sunday School attendance was 143, the largest since March 13th last, when exactly the same number attended. Miss Charlotte Goodell conducted the Endeavor service and spoke interestingly of her work at Berea, Kentucky to a larger number than usually attends. The lessons study subject for this evenings meeting is “Watchfulness.” Luke 12; 35-48.
The Philadelphia mint broke all previous records last week, when it turned out $11,302,600 in gold coin, or nearly $2,000,000 a day. More than forty-two tons of gold were required to coin that amount of money.
The new Carnegie Library at Lorain will be dedicated tomorrow.
Lawn Mowers from 42.00 to 414 at W.E. Bailey’s
Mrs. C. Bachman is suffering from the effects of an accident. While attending to her household duties Friday, she slipped and fell striking her head against the wall. She has had a Goiter on her neck for a number of years and the shock of the fall so injured her and cased the loss of so much blood that it was thought for a time that she would not recover. At present writing she is resting comfortably.
A handsome ceiling has been completed in the record room of the court house [sic].
Prosecuting Attorney Williams leaves Wednesday morning for Columbus to bring the Marble case before the supreme [sic] court. He returns Thursday morning.
The case of Fries vs. Hebblethwaite was farther continued in common pleas court Monday on account of the attempted suicide of the wife of one of the jurors, Henry Shaffer, of Birmingham.
A Russian is not of age until he is twenty-six years old.
There was an unusual number of sidewalks ordered replaced by the sidewalk committee at the council meeting Monday evening.
Mark Bennett of the Press Bureau of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition has our thanks for passes to the exposition.
The blacksmiths of Lorain, Elyria, Carlisle and other towns of Lorain Co., have established a uniform county rate for all work. This means an increase in prices in several places.
Hon. A.H. Jackson is reported as saying that he will again make the race for Congress. He said that while he thought it almost impossible for any Republican to win out, he would put up a stiff fight.
Many of our citizens are busily engaged in removing the rubbish and debris which has accumulated during the winter. This not only improves the general appearance of the premises but is a great remedy for bodily ills. Rubbis breeds disease and there are several sections of the town that would be greatly benefited by a general ‘clean-up.’
The “health officer ‘ill git yer, if you Don’t Watch Out.”
Miss Lottie Goodell, formerly of Vermilion and now of Berea, Ky., spent several days of last week and last Sunday in town. She will spend the summer at Lorain.
The farmers will be pleased to learn that the Vermilion Flour Mill will open for business and start to grind feed Saturday. Monday or Tuesday the mill will commence to grind flour.
Two strangers purporting to be polishers, obtained a nights lodging, two meals and a lunch from one of our hotel keepers the past week. One of the men was given a job at the stove works but failed to go to work. Reports from other towns tell of many schemes being worked by strangers.
May 4. The Keystone’s six big tugs are fishing out of Ashtabula and the tug OE. Ogel is carrying their catches each day to Erie. They are averaging 800 to 1000 to a boat. There is no fishing in Erie and boats here are all pulling out.
The tug Frank W. came here from Cleveland after the B. & O. fuel scow which was picked up off this port some time ago.
Tug Kate Wilson arrived here from Ashtabula this evening being called home by her owner and will be laid up till summer fishing comes on.
No more ice in sight off this port.
For Sale – A good work horse. Enquire of John Nieding, Sr.
Go to F.V. Pelton’s for Bear & Ruth Bros. smoked and salt meats.
Dr. J.W. Boss now hails from Birmingham having recently purchased the practice of Dr. Jacobs. He is well located and we wish him success.
Lewis Englebry our popular clothier has just received a handsome hat cabinet, which will show, off his fine line of hats to great advantage.
Frank Schomer, the expert sidewalk man is again in town making contracts for laying stone walks.
Sunday afternoon, a farmer living on West Ridge, by the name of Morgan Hill, shot and killed himself with a revolver. He was fifty-three years of age and the act was the result of family differences his wife refusing to life with him.
With the new school code, provisions have been made whereby teacher of the state will have uniform questions prepared in the office of the state school commissioner. This will do away with a teacher being obliged to have certificates in counties where he wishes to teach.
L.J. Decker & Co. have secured the contract for hauling pipe and fixtures for the Water-works and teams have been at work distributing pipe this week. The pipe laying will only be a matter of a month’s time or there abouts [sic] as we are informed that a steam digger will be used.
Several wagon loads of Gypsies stopped in Vermilion Tuesday noon for a short time. As soon as the vehicles came to a pause a dirty ragged lot of women and children scattered through the town and proceeded to beg. They were very bold, some even entering houses and attempting to carry away articles of food. They departed however, without much delay as the reception tendered them was not cordial. They will probably afflict or infest some other community. It is probably the same tribe that the police drove ont [sic] of Sandusky Monday.
C.O. Basset has moved from Cleveland and is now occupying his residence on Huron street. The house and grounds have been much improved.
How about the weather; good for ‘flowering’ isn’t it?
Miss Mary Allen has been spending a few days here, the guest of her sister Mrs. Fred Gegenheimer.
John Blowers is erecting a new fence in front of his residence. How about find the hitching post.
Richard Banefield is riding a fine new wheel.
Hmmmmmm....
"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."
THE LESSER KNOWN BAUMHART BROS: A Synopsis: Sometime in the mid-19th century a man named Augustus Baumhart, his bride, Margaret, and his parents Martha and E. [Note: the hand-written record of his father’s name is too indistinct to be used with any certainty] emigrated from Hesse-Kassel in Germany and settled in good ol’ Vermilion, O.. In 1859 Augustus and Margaret became the parents of a daughter they named after her paternal grandmother. By 1880 the family, which had come to own and operate a very productive dairy farm on the west side of the village, had added seven more children to their brood: Henry; Emma; Charles; Otto; George; Albert; and Mary / “Mayme”.
The family is, to say the least, one of great interest to local historians. For they and their offspring have certainly contributed to the positive development of our community. Thus, it is no accident that Henry, the oldest, and “A.D.” (Albert) the youngest boy, have been primary subjects of previous “Yesteryear” essays. But what about the other 3 brothers? What follows are their stories as best I could trace them:
Charles “C.C.” Baumhart: (pictured top left) was the fourth child, and second son, born on the family farm in 1866. He is described as having been “a man of more than usual intelligence, enterprising”, and an overall good citizen. As a young man he owned and operated a drugstore business in Vermilion. Persons who are inclined to browse through the earliest editions of The Vermilion News will repeatedly come across his name as both a local entrepreneur and as a caring and responsible citizen of the community.
Near the turn of the 20th century he married a gal named Carlena Martin. (Carlena’s sister, by the way, was married to another well known Vermilion man named J.C. Gilchrist.) The young family eventually moved to Oberlin where Charles was, again, involved in the prescription drug business as well as real estate. It has been said that the parents were drawn to the nearby college town solely because they believed it offered better educational opportunities for their children. The veracity of that claim, however, remains to be seen. For at the time Vermilion Village had several drugstores in operation along its streets. One belonged to Charles’s youngest brother Albert.
On October 11, 1910 Charles died. He had been in ill health for six months, and confined to his bed for six weeks suffering with a severe heart problem. He was only 44 years old.
Otto E. Baumhart: (pictured bottom right) was born on the family farm in 1869. Of all the brothers Otto was probably the least visible in the community. Although his wife Inez, as sundry news brevities of yesteryear readily testify, was active in various social circles about town.
But Otto’s main interests, like those of his older brother, Henry were steam boilers. Consequently Otto became a railroad engineer. He worked for the Nickel Plate Railroad, and his homecomings were, like those of many of Vermilion’s sailors, reported by the local press. Almost as much as his wife’s many social engagements.
Otto died at the relatively young age of 57, on the 15th day of July in 1926.
George E. Baumhart: (pictured bottom left) was born on his parents dairy farm in 1872. Unlike his brothers George never left the farm. Also unlike his brothers he never married.
He did, however, share something with his brothers. That something was a passion for politics. This undoubtedly had something to do with their respective vocations. For it is important to participate in the process which makes the rules one must follow in both life and business. But it is also a matter of civic responsibility.
Although the Vermilion farm kept him busy - and it was a very successful operation - George, like his elder brother, Henry, was a prominent member of the Vermilion Village council until his death on May 1, 1923. He was 51.
Were that the full sum and total of this pioneer family it would have been enough. But that is hardly the case. For the roots of the family are deep and the branches as prolific as they are strong. From it we have not only been provided with a nationally recognized engineer, local council representatives, a Vermilion Mayor, and a U.S. Congressional Representative; we have been given a history - a yesteryear - as rich as any in our nation.
In 1865 George Westinghouse, at age 19, obtained his first patent, for a rotary steam engine.
THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
was born October 8, 1837, in Jefferson county, New York, and came to Peru, Huron county, Ohio, 1844, with an uncle. At this time he was an orphan, and he lived with his uncle a short time when he went away to work on a farm by the month. At the age of twenty-one he had saved one hundred dollars from his wages, having no other patrimony. He married November 14, 1850, Eveline Mead. Mrs. McKellogg was born April 23, 1831, in Bronson, Ohio, daughter of Alson Mead, and granddaughter of Abraham Mead, one of the pioneer settlers of Huron county.
He came to this county with his family, consisting of his wife and ten children, at a very early period. They passed through great and almost unendurable vicissitudes, the children all attaining mature age. Alson Mead, during these years of severe labor and great hardships, contracted an illness, which left him a cripple.
He married and located in Bronson, working at shoe making for a number of years, till he became possessed of means to purchase a farm. He lived there until his death, which occurred January 6, 1865. He left seven children and a fine property. Mrs. McKellogg is a life member of the American Bible Society.
Mr. McKellogg worked different farms on shares until he was able to purchase one of his own, buying a small farm in Fitchville, and exchanging that for one in the eastern part of Fairfield, and finally selling that and buying the one he now occupies, which is situated one mile south of the center of Fairfield.
The original farm had sixty-four acres, and the rest has been added at five several times. The only son of this family, Frank E. McKellogg, is a student at Oberlin College. His parents intend to remove to Oberlin this present year, to afford him the benefit of a home while pursuing the remainder of his college course, and also to give their only daughter, Ida, the best educational advantages possible.
Mr. McKellogg is one of the prominent citizens of Fairfield. He is a representative self-made man, having raised himself from poverty to affluence. Energetic and determined, he is always found at the head of all enterprises in which he is engaged. He and his wife are active members of the Congregational Church, and their large and elegantly furnished house is opened to many social entertainments.
Mr. McKellogg has for some time owned the greatest amount of farm stock of any one individual in Fairfield. He is a shrewd dealer, a close buyer and a successful operator in this line of business. His fine farm of two hundred and forty acres is well situated for this business. It is watered by a beautiful stream, which affords living water for his herds of animals all the year. Besides the church and Sabbath school, Mr. McKellogg interests himself in the common schools and the judicial interests of his immediate district and the country surrounding.
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
FAZED ME: This is one I'd never heard of until a fellow named Jim Jenson sent me this flyer scan last Saturday with this note:
" I've enjoyed reading what you posted about dancing at "The Note" in Ruggles Beach. It's my understanding that "back in the day" it even hosted such notables as Glenn Miller. My dad says he saw Glenn there, back around 1940. More recently, somewhere in the mid-70s, The Note reopened as Faze Four, a "disco nightclub" catering to the late evening Cedar Point young adult crowd. It wasn't open for long that way, perhaps a couple years. It was run by a young man out of Sandusky, who ran a store there selling stereo equipment. I was wondering if you had ANY further information about the club. I was the disk-jockey who played at its opening as Faze Four, playing under the name Scott James. I'd love to know dates that it was actually in business, and honestly, ANYthing more that might be available. I've attached a copy of the flyer that was used at it's re-opening."
More recently, somewhere in the mid-70s, The Note reopened as Faze Four, a "disco nightclub" catering to the late evening Cedar Point young adult crowd. It wasn't open for long that way, perhaps a couple years. It was run by a young man out of Sandusky, who ran a store there selling stereo equipment.
I was wondering if you had ANY further information about the club. I was the disk-jockey who played at its opening as Faze Four, playing under the name Scott James. I'd love to know dates that it was actually in business, and honestly, ANYthing more that might be available. I've attached a copy of the flyer that was used at it's re-opening."
A perfect spring day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
ZIP AGAIN THIS WEEK: This week no podcast again. I continue to think about this section of Views - looking for a better way to present these videos.
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
Also, please note that all the video (MP4 and MOV) podcasts (when used) are done in the "Quicktime MP4 / MOV" formats. If you don't have a "Quicktime" it's easy to find and free to download.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
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