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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 201
building containing Mrs. Quick's millinery shop and George Reber's
laAV office. Then two or three small houses, one of them Doctor Donahue's
office. Then a tAvo-story brick building occupied by Doctor Mc­
Meens. Then on the corner the house and garden of Eleutheros Cooke.
Beginning at the southeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Water
Street, there Avas a tAvo-story frame building with the hardAvare store of
W. V. Moss, then a one-story frame building occupied by the Moss Bank,
then a one-story cobbler's shop, then Nellie BroAvn's grocery, then the
Moss Bank Building under process of erection Avhere the Donahue hard-
Avare store is noAV, then the alley, then a book store, then the office of
Giddings, Converse & Giddings in the old Cooke house, then the onestory
brick Union Bank Building, then the Union Block, noAV part of
the Cooke Block, then a rough white stone building where-Lane, Stone
& Lane and Mackey & McLouth had their IIIAV offices. Where the Interurban
station IIOAV stands Avas a one-story frame building occupied by
Mrs. Humphrey's millinery store, then Francisco's harness shop, then
a stone residence occupied by S. E. Hitchcock, then a COAV stable belonging
to the residence of David C. Campbell, the publisher of the Clarion,
Avhich stood on the corner.
Beginning at the east end of Washington Row came the residence of
A. F. Porter on the corner, then the residence of General Mills, then the
residence of Frank D. Parish, then the residence of Walter F. Stone.
Crossing Columbus Avenue on Washington Row came, first, the residence
and office of Doctor Cochran, then a small brick building, the office of
L. S. & J. T. Beecher, then Beecher's residence (now the telephone office),
and his garden extended to Jackson Street.
The directory of 1858 shows the city had at that time tAvo breAveries,
three dentists, twenty-two lawyers, six barbers, three banks, eleven shoe
stores, eight dry goods stores, twenty-eight groceries, eleven hotels, four
ncAvspapers, fifteen doctors, tAventy-seven saloons, fourteen churches.
The directory of 1873 SIIOAVS fifteen attorneys, three banks, twelve
barbers, thirty-five shoe stores, four breweries, fourteen dry goods stores,
fifty-four groceries, nine hotels, fifteen doctors, ninety saloons, tAventy
churches.
The directory of 1874 SIIOAVS thirty-two shoe stores, tAventy-one kwyers,
eighteen dry goods stores, forty-five groceries, fifteen hotels, eighteen
doctors, five dentists, ninety-four saloons, five breweries, tAventy churches.
SANDUSKY IN 1860
The directory of 1860 gives the names of the business establishments
as folloAvs:
J. M. Frisbie had a photograph gallery at 135 Water Street; W. V. *
Latham Avas a merchant tailor at 145 Water Street. The Townsend
House at the corner of Decatur and Market Streets was then conducted
by J. E. Bourne. The toAvn had three breweries, one by E. G. P. Mittleberger
at the Avest end of Water Street, Avhere also Philip Dauch had a
breAvery. The third breAvery Avas on Harrison Street, kept by W. Fox.