A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . ntious mansions. ... 1 came armed with no other weapons thana letter of introduction to a leading citizen of the town, and acollege diploma printed in Latin, which to my name the vain-glorious title of A. B. With these instrumentalities I succeeded, onthe secoiul day after my arrival, in sei-nring the position of classicalteacher and principal of tli(> Clcvohind Academy. In 1825, ground was broken at Ijicking Summit for the OhioCanal, the details of which will be given more fully in Chapt
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . ntious mansions. ... 1 came armed with no other weapons thana letter of introduction to a leading citizen of the town, and acollege diploma printed in Latin, which to my name the vain-glorious title of A. B. With these instrumentalities I succeeded, onthe secoiul day after my arrival, in sei-nring the position of classicalteacher and principal of tli(> Clcvohind Academy. In 1825, ground was broken at Ijicking Summit for the OhioCanal, the details of which will be given more fully in Chapter XI, 1825] THE CLEVELAND HARBOR 135 and the national government made its tirst appropriation for theimprovement of the Cleveland harbor. At that time the bar at themouth of tJie river still impeded navigation and, in ]\Iarch, congressappropriated $5,000, all of which was spent in building a pier intothe lake from tiie east shore of the river. As the channel stillremained precarious or impassable, eongi-ess made a larger appro-priation and the government sent a member of the United States. Sherlock J. Andrews _ engineer corps iinder whose direction a second pier was built parallelto the first and still further east. Then the channel was changedand the river made to flow between the paiallel piere. The workproved successful and resulted in giving Cleveland a good har-bor. By 1828, there were at least ten feet of water in the canal and the harbor improvements gave the village a new impe-tus and, from that time, there was a marked growth; the populationincreased ten-fold in a decade. 136 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. IX From the list of arrivals in 1825, I take the name of MelancthonBarnett, who began life in the village as a clerk in the store ofThomas P. May; subsequently the firm name became IMay and Barnett served as a member of the Cleveland city council andwas a vice president of the City Bank of Cleveland, which was incor-porated in 1845 as an i
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