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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 103
In 1811-12 William B. Smith and his mother started a hotel at the
mouth of the Huron River, and continued it during the war. Air. Smith
remembered hearing the guns of the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10,
1813. With his father he started for Put-in-Bay the next day, arriving
there the folloAving day, and saw Perry's fleet and their prizes at their
moorings. He was married in 1819, moved to Sandusky in 1820, and was
elected county treasurer in 1840. He was esteemed as one of Ohio's best
citizens by all Avho knew him.
In 1816 Reed & Sanford opened a trading post at the mouth of Huron
River, near the old Smith Hotel. J. B. Flemond and F. Graham had
direct charge of the business, which was very successful. Mr. Flemond's
command of the Indian dialects, and his genial disposition and knoAvledge
of the tastes and habits of the Indian made him very valuable in
such a position.
N. AL Standart and Cyrus Butler opened a general store at the
mouth of the Huron River in 1819. They dissolved partnership a year
later, Standart going to Milan and Butler to Norwalk.
In 1824 Daniel Hamilton and N. W. Standart opened a general
supply store and commission business at Huron, Charles Standart and
P. Adams serving as salesmen. Mr. Adams boarded men working on the
harbor improvements about this time, and later, removed to the old
Adams homestead on the Sand Road. AVhen Air. Adams left the store
the stock was purchased by Charles Standart and G. H.- Gibbs, Avho conducted
the business until the winter of 1826-27. Air. Standart then took
the business alone and conducted it a year or two, Avhen he built a warehouse
and dock, and embarked in the general storage and commission
business.
ToAver Jackson came to Huron in 1819 from Alilan. He was married
at Alonroeville in 1822 to Sarah Clock, a lady Avidely known and highly
respected, and an aunt of D. II. Clock, editor and proprietor of the Erie
County Reporter, of Huron. He engaged with H. W. Jenkins in the dry
goods and grocery trade on his settlement at Huron, remaining with him
for several years. In 1830 he Avent into partnership with R. E. Cole in
the general merchandise and vessel building business. They built the
Steamer DelaAvare in 1832. Air. Jackson removed to Racine/Wisconsin,
in 1846, and 1848 to Cleveland, Ohio, where Airs. Jackson died in 1854.
He returned to Huron a year or IAVO later, and was married to Aliss
Button. He built the Huron House in 1832 and the American House in
1840.
II. AV. Jenkins built the Ohio Hotel in 1832, or thereabouts, Avhich
was burned down on the Fourth ol July, 1854. He went to Cincinnati
in 1840, and afterAvards removed to the Isthmus of Panama, and engaged
in the carrying business across the isthmus. He died there in 1850.
In 1827, Squire Alerry, of Alilan, as agent of the United States Government,
took charge of the harbor improvements at the mouth of the
river. He was assisted by a number of efficient mechanics, among whom
T. Clark is considered worthy of mention. He was in charge of the extensive
carpenter work, which was very important from the fact that the