Early History Of Cleveland Ohio

Local history of Cleveland, Ohio from approximately 1796 to 1896. Also includes early history of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...to the list of original proprietors already given, it appears that he was an owner of $32.000 stock in the Land Company. After the business of 1796 was closed, it is not known that he afterwards visited the Reserve. Of his Indian name-sake, Paqua, or "pawquaw," Mr. Atwater says: " He was not a large Indian, but straight and handsomely built, with a fair and pleasant countenance, lighter than most Indians." JOB P. STILES. Job P. Stiles and his Avife had a cabin built for them on the hill, before the surveyors left. RichArd Landon, one of the surveying party, was left to spend the winter with them, upon this dreary spot. From some cause not yet explained, he soon after abandoned. the place, and Edward Paine took up his residence with the Stiles family. During the winter a child is reputed to have been THE PIONEEU FAMILY. 253 bora in the cabin, which had only squaws for a nurse. The Indians who were quartered here at that time, constituting by far the most numerous part of its population, treated these lonely settlers with great kindness. Paine was a trader with the Indians during the winter of 1796-'97, who afterwards became a prominent citizen of Geauga county. Stiles left here in 1800, and survived to a good old age, dying in Leicester, Addison county, Vermont, about the year 1S5O. The courageous Mrs. Stiles lived to a still later period, but when her death occurred I am not informed. Pease's Journal of the return from New Connecticut, agrees closely with Holley's. In getting out of the river, on the 18th of October, he says: " It was much obstructed by a sand bar, occasioned by a violent gale from the northward the day before. It was with some difficulty we reached the lake. "We put ashore where two small runs empty into the lake, in the...