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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 161
for the year 1829. The list includes the names of those who lived in the
town as well as those within the township and outside of the town.
This enrollment was made in May, 1829, by the trustees of the township
for the purpose of dividing the same into school districts, and to
be numbered one and tAvo, respectively. All that part of the town and
township lying east of Columbus Avenue and a line drawn south in continuation
thereof to constitute School District No. 1, while the land to
the west of Columbus Avenue and the line above mentioned should
form District No. 2.
The resident householders of District No. 1 were as follows: Thomas
GalaAvay, McGovern, Jerome Hardenbrook, David B. Smith, Chaun-'
cey Terry, John Hamer, William Chapman, James Foreman, James
Wright, Alichael Green, Marble Tatie, Gurdon C. Burnham, Davis
Dougherty,. AVilliam Lisle, Joseph Darling, WidoAV Amsden, Alexander
Clemons, Isaac Darling, Jesse Withington, Conrad Rhodes, Thomas
T. White, Presley Thompson, Leicester Walker, Samuel Walker, Richard
Hill, Daniel R. Ellsworth. Lewis Ellsworth, Abner Lyman, Aaron C.
Corbett, Winslow Corbett, Abner Root, Roswell Jennings, Widow Cook,
William CogsAvell, John Turk, Charles F. Drake, David Campbell, Erastus
Cooke, George Anderson, Cyrus AV. Marsh, Judah AA T . Ransom, Darwin
H. Tuttle, Jacob Goodrich, Alartin Eldis, Adolphus Woodbridge, Thomas
AIcGee, Hezekiah Bigford, WidoAV Hurd, Widow Hancock.
Householders of District No. 2: Benjamin Gregg, Francis D. Parish,
Daniel NeAvton, Erastus S. Gregg, Ezra Wells, George Lantes, Benjamin
Withington, Elijah Belknapp, Isaac Tupper, Jacob Bouck, Rufus G.
Carter, AVidoAV Alartin, Daniel Wisopp, George Dorrell, Joshua Fairchild,
W. D. Colvin; Kelly Smith, Knoulton Youngs, HeAvitt Hastings, Augustus
Cook, Elias Hand, Andrew Grimes, Isaac Rice, Richard Martin, Amos
McLouth, Samuel PenneAA'ell, Widow Henderson, Widow Bishop, H. H.
Wilcoxen, E. D. Clemons, Michael Gill, John M. Sloane, A. M. Porter,
William Louther, Lucas Hoskins, John Poorman, William Townsend,
John Alorgan, Joyn Wheeler, Henry Victor, Russell Woodruff, John
Wedden, AVidoAV Costello, WidoAV Falley, A. AL Aloore, George S. Reynolds,
Henry I. Slater, Perry Darby.
In 1816 Zalmuna Wildman laid out the toAvn and called it Portland,
and built the first frame building, Avhich AA'as long known as the old
"White Store, and occupied a portion of the" ground covered by the east
end of the Reber Block on AVater Street, where the United States Express
Company is now situated; and back of this store Mr. Wildman built the
first dock. In 1817 William B. Smith built the first frame dAA'elling house,
on the lot next west of Voltaire Scott's American Hotel, a little back
from Water Street. The next year he built a brick front coming up to
Water Street, Avhich still stands. In this^ear C. W. Marsh erected the
first frame at the corner of AVayne and Water streets, and called it
Marsh's Tavern. Next year it Avas again christened the Steamboat Hotel,
because the first steamboat, the Walk-in-the-AVater, had commenced her
lake trips, and it bore that name till 1847, Avhen Alexander T. Porter
built a veranda across the front and it was called the Veranda Hotel.
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