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"OLD ZACH'S PTARTY."
HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 197
"You are respectfully invited to attend a party to be given at Mc-
Kenster & Boynton's Exchange at seven o'cloek on Wednesday evening,
November 29th, in honor of General Zachary Taylor, President-elect of
the United States. Managers: J. B. Camp, Eleutheros Cooke, Daniel
Tilden, A. II. Moss, George Reber, W. II. Caswell, E. F. Osborne, S. S.
Hosmer, Pitt Cooke, C. S. Higgins, George Thomas, A. Lytle, L. S. Hubbard,
William Durbin, J. A. Camp, Jr., J. W. Hollister, James B. Monroe,
C. S. Parks, J. N. Newell, L. N. Gibbs, William Hollister, G. E. French,
E. II. Wetherell. Carriages will be in attendance at six P. M. precisely.
Sandusky City, November 22, 1848." (McKenster & Boynton's Exchange
was the hotel formerly knoAvn as Colt's Exchange.)
CARNEGIE LIBRARY, SANDUSKY
In 1851 the prominent commission merchants were L. S. & L. F.
Hubbard, Sheldon & Co., Boalt & G/bbs, S. W. Butler & Co., Henderson
& Pettibone, August Smith & Co., and A. H. Barber. At the west end
of Water Street were the machine shops of the Mad River Road, employing
hundreds of workmen in building locomotives and cars. The
Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad shops at the east end of Water
Street employed many men in the same work until the road was leased to
the Baltin$>re & Ohio Railroad Company. The firm of Wetherell &
Leonard, in the west end of the city, Avere extensive manufacturers of
railroad cars and passenger coaches until they AA'ere ruined by the failure
of the Illinois Central Railroad to pay them $200,000 for cars they had
built. This failure Avas the first severe blow the business interests of
Sandusky received. The D. C. Henderson Company MoAver and Reaper
Works employed a large number of men, but had not sufficient capital to
compete with the McCormicks.
Barney Occoback & Torrey employed a number of men in their wood
Avorks and organized the Sandusky Wheel Works, then the largest con-