A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . bed by our citizens, for the pur-pose of securing the charter of the railroad, as will amount to twohundred thousaiul dollars, and that, in conjunction with the direc-tors of said railroad, innnediately take measures to procure a suffi-cient amount of subscription to said road from Clevelandto the Pcinisylvawia line, and then to borrow the aforesaid two hun-dred thousand dollars on the credit of the This step, in aid of the tirst railway project thathad taken on definit
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . bed by our citizens, for the pur-pose of securing the charter of the railroad, as will amount to twohundred thousaiul dollars, and that, in conjunction with the direc-tors of said railroad, innnediately take measures to procure a suffi-cient amount of subscription to said road from Clevelandto the Pcinisylvawia line, and then to borrow the aforesaid two hun-dred thousand dollars on the credit of the This step, in aid of the tirst railway project thathad taken on definite shape shows that the city had begun to emergefrom the village influences that had hampered it in the first year ofnnmicipal rule. As to the cost of city maintenance at that time, a 205 206 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XIV report of the finance comiuittee of the council states that the amountthat would probably be required for general purposes for the yearwas $16,745, exclusive of what would be needed for the support ofthe poor; that the amount to be collected from licenses and debts. Dr. JaRED r. KlRTLANI) due the city would be $4,500; thus Iciivin;, tlic sum «)f $12,265 to beraised by the tax levy. Dr. J.\bed p. Dr. Jarcil P. Kirtland was born in Wallinpfford, Connecticut, in1795. in 1810, he visited the Reserve coiiiinpr in company withAlfred Kelley and Joshua Stow as already .stated; his father at that 1838-39] 1)K. KIRTLAND 207 tinit was agent ul the Connecticut Land Company at Iolaml inTrumbull County. He studied medicine in Philadelphia and, aftertwenty yeare praetiee in Trumbull County, lectured for a year ata medical eollewe in Cineimiati and, late in 1838, accepted a i)ro-fessorship in the newly orgranized medical college in Cleveland. Hisassociation with Colonel Whittlesey on the first geological survey ofOhio has already been notetl. Soon after his coming to Cleveland,he bought an estate at East Roekport, near Rocky River. Here heestablished an expe
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