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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 315
The committee Of the Sons of the Emerald Isle were: Barney Farrell,
Daniel Larkins, James Cullenan, Francis Mullen, William Dart, Michael
Malaney, James Haggony, Thomas Harnetty, Charles Cross.
At a meeting of which John McCafferty Avas chairman and Jeremiah
CroAvley Avas secretary the above committee Avas appointed and a written
resolution passed to join with the Washingtonian Total Abstinence
Society in celebrating St. Patrick's Day on temperance principles.
The Masonic Lodge then met in Townsend Block, the south side of
Water Street betAveen Wayne and Columbus Avenue. The Odd Fellows
met in the fourth story of West's Block, corner of Water and Columbus
Avenue. The Sons of Temperance and the Good Templars met in Hubbard's
Block at the nortlnvest corner of Columbus Avenue and Water
Street. These were all the secret societies.
There Avere four military companies, and for the purpose of caring
for the wounded, the Erie County Medical Society organized in 1850,
and met, the second Wednesday in each month.
The first temperance meeting in Sandusky Avas advertised in the
Clarion to take place at the Portland House on the 15th day of August,
1825, but no program is given, nor is there any further record of what
Avas done. The first temperance society wds organized by F. D. Parish
in 1831.
The Huron County Temperance Society is advertised to meet at
NorAvalk, September 17, 1832.
The Clarion of January 20, 1844, describes a meeting of the Sandusky
Washingtonian Society at the courthouse. It is signed by S
Kneen, secretary, AVIIO Avas a fashionable tailor here at an early day.
On August 24, 1844, a temperance drama was given by the Washingtonian
Society at the courthouse, entitled "The Drunkard's Return,"
Avhich AA-as Avritten. by Mr. Merritt. (">
On November 9, 1844, a meeting to consider prohibiting the sale of
liquor Avas advertised to be held at the courthouse on November 15th.
The call is signed by H. Kneen, president, and H. D. Ward, secretary.
On August 22, 1845, a temperance meeting was advertised for August
25, to be addressed by Dr. Clark Jewett, F. N. Kellogg and Dr. James
Warren.
On October 6, 1846, there was a temperance meeting at the courthouse
addressed by H. Hamilton, of Milan.
On January 15, 1847, the Sons of Temperance of Sandusky celebrated
their first anniversary.
On April 13, 1847, there were toAvnship local option elections, in
which Portland voted no license by a majority of 162; Milan Township
by a majority of 20, and Vermillion by a majority of 3, and the remaining
toAvnships of the county Avent Avet.
On August 19, 1850, Mrs. M. M. BroAvn addressed the Daughters
of Temperance in Sandusky. Beginning then, she Avas for many years
very prominent in the Daughters of Temperance, the Good Templars,
and later was the real inventor of the idea at the base of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.