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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 203
Schaub & Company made sash, doors and blinds on Railroad Street between
Jackson and Columbus Avenue, and Peter Gilcher had a lumber
yard on Water Street. The city had three neAvspapers, the Register and
tAvo German Aveeklies, the Bay Stadt Demokrat and the Intelligenz Blatt.
The city had tAventy-three laAvyers, L. S. & J. T. Beecher, J. G. Bigelow,
Henry C. Bush, F. W. CogSAvell, J. W. Cowdrey, John J. Finch, Homer
GoodAvin, A. W. Hendry, William Lane, Samuel LeAvis, O. C. McLouth,
John Mackey, John G. Miller, S. Miner, Geo. Reber, Stryker, J. M.
Root, E. B. Sadler, R. R. Sloane, W. F. Stone, T. Sullivan, S. C.
Wheeler.
It had three banks, Barney Hubbard & Durbin, Avho had a bank at
20 Columbus Avenue; Converse Brothers, Avho had a bank on Columbus
Avenue, and Moss Brothers, AVIIO had a bank at 413 Columbus Avenue.
The toAvn had thirty-five shoe stores and fifty-tAvo groceries. It had
sixteen doctors, A. IT. Agard, A. Austin, C. Cochran, II. J. Donahue, C.
Enderly, Philip Graefe, D. T. Kramer, I. Hargett, Lane, F. R.
Lange, R. R. McMeens, II. D. Mann, I. V. Massey, F. E. Pape, Louis
Silva, Mrs. M. A. VanTine.
It also had sixty saloons.
There Avere 11 Protestant churches and 3 Catholic churches and 14
school buildings, of which five the high school, the first grammar, the
second grammar, the third grammar and the preparatory school stood
on the public square Avhere the high school and courthouse IIOAV are.
According to the Register of March 9, 1863, the northeast corner of
Market Street and Columbus Avenue, IIOAV occupied by the Commercial
Bank, AVIIS then occupied by the third stone building in Sandusky, the
back part of the residence of F. D. Parish, then standing, in 1863, Avhere
the east end of the Kingsbury Building does IIOAV, being the second stone
building, Avhich Avas built in 1828. The old building which AA'as torn
down to make room for the building IIOAV occupied by the Commercial
Bank AVIIS begun in 1829 or 1830, for Dr. Anderson, Avho died of the
cholera in 1834, and AVIIS built by a Mr. Fairchild Avith stone brought
from Castalia., Fairchild carried his OAVII stone and made his own mortar,
and completed the building by the 4th of July, 1832, when a cannon
AA*as fired from the roof. When the streets of Sandusky were laid out
this building and the ToAvnsend House AA'ere landmarks. For many
years it Avas occupied as a cabinet shop by West & Scovey and by a man
named Ballard, Avho died of the cholera in 1849. In 1852 the Daily
Register AVIIS born there and Avas issued from there for tAvo years. Later
the building AVIIS used as a postoffice, and Homer Goodwin and others
had offices there.
The Sandusky resident of today will hardly appreciate the description
of the parks given by the Register of May 30, 1866. The Register
says:
"We Avould like to see the tAvo beautiful parks north of the Court
House and churches open to the public. When passing by on a warm
day, tired and hot it is tantalizing to knoAv that you are forbidden to
enter in and sit beneath the umbrageous trees and rest. Of course it