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162 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
The first justice of the peace was Esquire Crippen. The first doctor
Avas George Anderson, who came from New York and died of cholera
in 1834. The first hnvyer was Eleutheros Cooke, and the second one was
F. D. Parish, AVIIO crowned a long life of labor for reform by seeing
slavery abolished and advocating temperance and prohibition. He was
also the first postmaster of Sandusky, in 1818, folloAved by Erastus Cooke,
D. Caswell, E. Brink, AV. B. Smith, D. Powers, John Al. Brown, T. C.
AIcEwen, E. B. Sadler, A. C. A'anTine, John Al. Boalt, Charles AL Keyes,
George Daniel.
In 1817 the first saAvmill Avasput in operation by Dr. S. B. Carpenter
on AIills Creek, and shortly after another Avas erected on Pipe Creek.
John G. Camp built the first grist mill, still standing, and is the tAvostory
portion of the stone building at the foot of Franklin Street noAV
used by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
The first stone structure Avas built by Hon. Eleutheros Cooke on
Columbus Avenue, Avhere the Star Theater IIOAV stands. Air. Cooke AA'as
laughed at for undertaking to build of stone, and the Avise ones said he
Avould never procure enough of that material in this locality to finish
his house, but he found all he needed and considerable left over. This
house originally had tAvo Avings, one on either side, and Avas used by Air.
Cooke as a dAvelling until he moved into another stone house he had
built, and Avhere Dr. Eugene Stroud had his office on Columbus Avenue.
In this hitter house Gen. AVilliam Henry Harrison was entertained when
here in 1840, and it AVIIS from the porch of this house that the log cabin
banner made by the ladies was presented by Judge Sadler on their behalf
to General Harrison.
AVilliam B. Smith, one of the old settlers, erected the first frame
dAvelling house in 1817. It was built on the lot next Avest of Scott's
American Hotel, and a little back from Water Street. The next year
he built a brick front coming up to Water Street and made the bricks.
Air. Smith Avas a gentleman of the old school, ahvays highly respected,
having several times been placed in office of trust and responsibility by
his felloAV citizens. He visited the place as early as 1810, and lived to see
a wilderness, with its savage inhabitants, give place to cultivated fields,
to rising cities, and to a civilized and commercial people. The Register
of September 30, 1878, contains a full account of the death of AV. li.
^mith at the age of eighty-tAvo years on September 25, 1878, and of
his burial with .Masonic honors.
The second frame dAvelling Avas erected in the fall of 1817 by Air.
Cyrus AV. Alarsh, and forms the rear portion of what is IIOAV knoAvn as
The Scott's American Crystal Dome. A few years later the proprietor
added the front part and opened the first tavern, giving it the name of
Marsh's Steamboat Hotel. Since that time it has been knoAvn as Porter's
Verandah Hotel, Raymond Hotel, Scott's American.
The first stone dAvelling in Sandusky Avas erected in 1821 or 1822
on Columbus Avenue by Hon. Eleutheros Cooke, a gentleman whose
name and memory will ever fill a proud position in the annals of our city,
as also in the category of our most learned, zealous and earliest pioneers.