[OH-FOOTSTEPS] Fw: Know your ohio - Tid-Bits -- Part 103

[Maggie Stewart]

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Historical Collections of Ohio
And Then They Went West
Know Your Ohio
Tid-Bits -- Part 103
Notes by 
S Kelly

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          Cleveland Pier Company

In 1816 an attempt was made to build a pier on Clevelands open Lake. For
this purpose an act of incorporation was procured and an assocation was
formed under the name of the " Cleveland Pier Company, as follows;

" We the undersigned, hereby covenant and agee to associate and form
ourselves into a company, to be known and distinguished by the name and
title of the
" Cleaveland Pier Company," for the purpose of erecting a pier at, or
near the village of Cleveland, for the accommodation of vesels
navigating Lake Erie. Agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the
State of Ohio, passed at thie session in 1815-16, authorizing the
incorporating of a company for the aforesaid purposes. "

signed by;

Alonzo Carter          George Wallace
A.W. Walworth        Darius E. Henderson
David Long             Sam'l Williamson,Sr
Alfred Kelley           Irad Kelley
Datus Kelley           James Kingsbury
Eben Hosmer          Horace Perry
Daniel Kelley           Levi Johnson

These works were built as schedled, The base was constructed on
quicksand and without the use of pile drivers. The Kelley's were
responsible for do smething about this and soon made it usable. The pier
did not last too long due to the quicksand along the Lake. It served its
purpose for a while and withstood the fury of the lake storms.

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               The Spencer Family

The year 1832, added a large element of strong, conscientious, gifted
men, and refined,spirtual women, who reinforced the religious and
intellectual life of the village of Cleveland. 

One of the former was Thoma Phelps Spencer, who came from Hartford,
Connecticut, and with Horace Canfield started a printing establishment.

Thomas was the son of John and Mary Adams Spencer, and was born 1809 at
Hartford. His mother was a strong willed woman, one of great strength of
mind and after Mr John Spencer died, she raised eleven children, the
youngest of these, were twin daughters, Barzilla and Rosilla Spencer,
and a ltttle blind son.

I reflect that the cares accountulated of such a household rested upon
her widowed head, and that she raised all eleven children to become good
and talented useful men and women is deserving of respect and reverence.
She was a sweet, dignified woman, with a keen, but soft dark eye, an
erect figure, with a graceful carriage. She died in 1852, stricken with
Cholera, while on a visit with her son and his family and was buried at
the Erie Street Cemetery.

Timothy P. Spenser was an ardent Democrat in his political faith, and he
and his partners bought the " Cleveland Advertiser," which had been a
Whig newspaper, and made it a domocaratic 
paper. Within four years with their success, they were able to change it
from a weekly paper to a daily one It was the small parent of the
present Plain Dealer.
In 1841, Canfield and Spencer sold te Advertiser to the Gray brothers,
who changed its name, but not its politics.

After the sale of the Advertiser, Mr. Spencer was postmaster continued
in the book and job-printing business. Mr. Horace Canfield returned
east. At that time, Mr. Spencer was postmaster of the city. He went into
the manufacturing business, and previous to his death in 1885, was
connected with the Waterworks department.

The inauguration of President Grover Cleveland gave Thomas P great
happiness. He was as enthused as a small boy, declaring that the account
in the evening paper, made him weep. He walked briskly home from the
office that day, erect and vigorous and droped dead the next morning. He
was a genial man, of sunny temperament, who had scaores of friends who
felt deeply his loss..   

Timothy Phelps Spencer married Elizabeth Reeve, daughter of John Reeve.
Elizabeth died 10 years previous to her husband's death. Their children
were;

T. Reeve Spencer, b. 1838, died 1867

Rosella Stewart Spencer, b. 1842; married William H. Kelley , youngest
son of Irad Kelley

Annie Elizabeth Spencer, b. 1845; married Charles Long Cutter, son of
A.D. Cutter.

Mary Adams Spencer, b. 1855, died in Cleveland, 1896.

Fannie Spencer, b. 1859 and died in Cleveland, 1880. 

The sudden death of their only son , Capt. T. Reeve Spencer, was a
severe blow to his parnts and sisters. His life promised much to all his
friends. He had served his counrty throughout the civil war, and at the
time of his death by yellow fever, was a Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue. Hs district was on Lake Ponchartrain, 60 miles north of New
Orleans. Reeve Spencer was a amiable young man, of sterling integrity,
and had fine business
capacity.

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