A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . s to get at the cash. Finally,late at night, to .save the safe from damage, the assignees gave up thekeys, and the hard-earned money was carried away by the were .$400 in gold and $1,460 in I)ills. The liabilities of the 1854] A i\ON-SECTARIAN AGENCY 231 bank were $308,000 and its assets $282,000. In that day, such afailure was a iiKinientous tiiiaiicia! event. Young JLens Christian Association Organized It is pleasant to turn for a moment from the consideration oftire losses and bank f
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . s to get at the cash. Finally,late at night, to .save the safe from damage, the assignees gave up thekeys, and the hard-earned money was carried away by the were .$400 in gold and $1,460 in I)ills. The liabilities of the 1854] A i\ON-SECTARIAN AGENCY 231 bank were $308,000 and its assets $282,000. In that day, such afailure was a iiKinientous tiiiaiicia! event. Young JLens Christian Association Organized It is pleasant to turn for a moment from the consideration oftire losses and bank failures to that of an enterprise that has beenproductive of increasing good through all the years that have sincepassed. On the evening of ]Monday, the sixth of February, 1854, ameeting was held for the purpose of organizing a Young MensChristian Association. The Rev. S. C. Aiken was chairman; SamuelB. Shaw was secretary; and, on motion, S. II. Matlier, Presbyterian;Loren Prentiss, Baptist; L. M. H. Battey, Congregational; E. , Episcopal; and E. P. Young, Methodist, were appointed as. Northrop and Spangler Block a committee to draft a plan of operations, a constitution, and by-laws, and to report at as early a date as possible. On the twenty-eighth of February, a second meeting was held in the lecture room ofthe Fii-st Baptist Church on Seneca (West Third) Street. Sixtynames were included in a list of members, the constitution and by-lawswere adopted, and officers were chosen: John S. Newberrj-, pi-esident; E. W. Rob}, vice-president; Samuel B. Shaw, recording secretary;Loren Prentiss, corresponding secretary; A. W. Brockway, treasurer;Dan P. Eells, R. F. Humiston, James M. Iloyt, J. J. Low, and , directors; S. W. Adams, G. W. Whitney, F. T. Brown, F. B. Culver, E. F. Young. D. C. Hoffman, T. G. Cleveland, HenryChilds, L. M. II. Battey, :\I. C. Sturtevant, S. L. Severance, and Churchill, board of managers. The first rooms of the associationwere in the Nor
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