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158 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
died of cholera in 1849. David McAIurray, in the fall of 1817, built a
store on the site of the Register Office Building, in which he started the
drug business. One year later AVilliam Kelly became a partner of Mr.
AIcAlurray. There Avas in trade here as early as 1819 a Hebrew named
Colin. Avho had a small jewelry establishment on Water Street. In this
same line Avas John N. Sloane, but the latter did not commence business
until some years later.
Other of the early tradesmen in various branches of business but
Avhose location and time of coming cannot in each case be definitely
fixed, were: Galin Atkins, 1820, boots and shoes; D. C. Henderson, 1820,
baker; AVheeler & GalloAvay, about 1821 or 1822, hotelkeeper and merchant;
A. At. Porter, 1820 or 1821, tanner and currier; S. PenneAvell and
S. II. Stearns, tanners; Alilton & Jennings, 1819, cabinetmakers; Alexander
Clemons, 1820 or 1821, cabinetmaker; J. C. Hurd, 1823 or 1824,
hatter; Col. A. Root, 1822 or 1823, harnessmaker and saddler; Sylvanus
A. Cone, 1820 or 1821, butcher; Bush & Hollister, merchants; O. & L.
Cook, dry goods; Bassett Bethel, tailor; D. H. Tuttle, lumber dealer;
Samuel and Leicester Walker, carpenters; Abner Lyman, carpenter;
George Anderson, physician.
The early plats of Sandusky SIIOAV AVater Street as the most northern
street in the city, Railroad Street and the land north of W T ater Street*
being mostly made land. In a decision of Judge W. F. Stone, printed
in the Register of November 27, 1871, there is a meagre description of
the history of the street. In August, 1848,-a petition was filed in th»
Court of Common Pleas, asking that a street to be called Railroad Street
be laid out north of AVater Street from the east side of Lawrence Street
to the west side of Franklin Street. The petitioners were lot OAvners
and their petition Avas heard in the October term, 1848. The court
ordered the street established on condition that the street 'be kept in
repair free of cost to Portland Township or Sandusky City. In 1852
the council of the city authorized the filling up of the street to the prescribed
grade and the cost AA'as assessed upon the adjoining lot owners.
In 1853 the street Avas extended to the east line of the city, and the city
council, by contract with the Alad River road and the Junction Railroad
authorized both of these companies to extend their tracks through this
street.
The Register cf July 14. 1873, contains a column obituary notice of
Judge Samuel Ik Caldwell, one of the old associate judges of the Common
Pleas Court. Il\ was a veteran of the AVar of 1812, and came to Ohio
in 1817 and to Sandusky in 1825. He hoarded at the Steamboat Hotel,
IIOAV Scott's American. Avhich AVIIS kept by Air. Boalt, the father of John
*AI. Boalt, afterward postmaster at Sandusky, and Susan Boalt. AVIIO became
later the Avife of Judge Caldwell. In 1835 he built the stone house
IIOAV standing_next north of the Presbyterian Churcli as his family residence.
He had been mayopbf Sandusky, and died July 13. 1S73, at the
age of eighty-one years.
In the Sanduskv Register of Alarch 19, 1909, T. R. Davis, of Leaven-