A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 8 First reproduction from the original copy, by the courtesy of The Western Reserve Historical Society. to the nearest paper supply establishment, and the trij) took twoweeks. On the twenty-tirst of March, 1820, the publication of thepaper was discontinued; probably the result of the competition ofa better equipped rival that appeared in 1819. 118 CLEVELAXD AND ITS EXVIROXS [Chap. VIII In this year (1818), the first Methodist chureli in what is nowCleveland was organized in what was then Brooklyn. Th
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 8 First reproduction from the original copy, by the courtesy of The Western Reserve Historical Society. to the nearest paper supply establishment, and the trij) took twoweeks. On the twenty-tirst of March, 1820, the publication of thepaper was discontinued; probably the result of the competition ofa better equipped rival that appeared in 1819. 118 CLEVELAXD AND ITS EXVIROXS [Chap. VIII In this year (1818), the first Methodist chureli in what is nowCleveland was organized in what was then Brooklyn. The Centenaryof ^Methodism in Cleveland was celebrated (Sunday, September ) with a parade of many thousands and two large memorialmeetings, one at the Euclid Avenue Opera House and the other atthe Hippodrome. Reuben Wood In 1818, came to Cleveland from Vermont a lawyer, Reuben soon acquired an extensive legal practice, became a member ofthe state senate, eliief-justice of the supreme court, and in 1849 and1850 was elected governor of Ohio; he died at Rockport in Cuyahoga ffS--. Keupen Wood County in 1864. In the same year came Ahaz Merchant, a surveyorwho did a great deal of engineering for the city and county priorto the emi)loymcnt of a city cngincci-, laid out the most importantallotments in Ohio City, a ])art of tlic original Brooklyn townshipon the west side of the river, and, in the early railway building era,built the Angler House, now long known as The Kcnnard. Hewas the father of Silas Mcrcliaiit, a famous business man and liii-:dpolitician of a later generation. The A\\i\/. Merchant map of Cleve-land in 1SI55 ai)pcars on a later i)agc of this vohunc In the sameyear also came Oilando (niter who began business iiere witli a stockof goods valued at .()(J—a big store for Cleveland in that year also brought by schooner Levi Sargent and his Iamily. His 1818] TIIH FIRST STEAMBOAT 119 soil, John II. Sargent, became a fanious civil engineer, early
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