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112 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
The Clarion of April 27, 1850, notes the dedication of a new Alethodist
Church on the farm of John Graham, to be dedicated by E. R.
Jewett on May 5,1850.
In February, 1851, Huron Township voted by 199 majority $20,000
of bonds to aid the Huron & Oxford Railroad, which ran in the
direction of Bloomingville and has been abandoned for more than half a
century.
On November 26, 1874, the Sandusky Register announced the birth
of the Huron Times with Alessrs. Larcey & Blair in charge.
In 1893 the town received a heavy blow by the failure of J. W.
Wickham & Co., which was a prominent fish firm, whose failure gave
the town a setback from which it did not recover for many years.
On April 17, 1903, two large fish houses of the village belonging to
Hermes & Scott and W. G. Heyman were destroyed by fire, which
inflicted a further injury on the town.
The mayor of Huron Village is A. E. Spear. The clerk, F. R.
Toomey; treasurer, P. A. Sperry; marshall, Ben Ackerman. The members
of the council, C. Egbert, F. Wilkes, P. Hermes, J. Post, L. Gackstetter,
C. W. Sales; the board of education, Doctor Houghtaling, Doctor
Pollock, S. A. Cunningham, John Fisher, John Holliday; board of public
affairs, H. Hull, F. AlcCormick, A. J. Gustavus; health officer, Robert
Day; street commissioner, Geo. Hinderer; watenvorks superintendent,
J. C. Britton.
The population of the village according to the census of 1910 is 1,756.
The town has two banks, The First National Bank, and a branch of
the Berlin Heights Banking Company. It has seven churches. It is
the center of a large fishing industry and the estate of Valentine Fries
conducts a large lumber yard in the village.