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160 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
school Avas held in the basement of a church that stood out on the common
not far from the present courthouse."
A correspondent who signs his name "G." writes the Register a
letter published in the issue of December 24, 1885, in Avhich he says:
'' I Avas born in 1827. Aly first school Avas between Fulton and LaAVrence
on the Bay Shore. It Avas a stone house situated on Water street
opposite the AVestern Exchange or Hammond Hotel near Jackson street.
The school was kept by Air. Tower. My next school Avas on Water street
between Fulton and Decatur one door East of John Wheeler's store.
Jay Cooke went to this school kept by* 'Alandy Rogers.' Aly next school
Avas at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Water street where the West
House stands. This school Avas kept by Air. Roscoe and some of the
scholars Avere Henry, Pitt and Jay Cooke, Philander Gregg and John
THE TOAVNSEND HOUSE. THE CRACK HOTEL OF THE CITY IN THE FIFTIES
Homegardncr. The next school Avas kept by Air. Cooke, the father of
George, AVilliam and Charles Cooke, in the basement of the original
Methodist church, a stone building on the AVest side of the courthouse
square. The first shipyard Avas at the AVest battery where the steamer
'Sandusky' was built."
THE GERMANS IN SANDUSKY
NorAvithstanding a popular impression to the contrary, there is
abundant evidence that the Germans began to come to Sandusky early.
In a paper sliQAving individual research, written by Airs. Sarah Sloane
and published in the memorial to the AVestern Reserve pioneer Avomen
on the subject of "The AVomen of Sandusky," Airs. Sloane quotes Airs.
Martha Eldis as saying she came to Sandusky in 1828, and that for four
years her family Avas the only German family in the village.
The folloAving is the list of names of residents of Portland ToAvnship