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336 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
here he received on board thirty-six Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
volunteers from Harrison's army; and here he AA'as visited by General
Harrison and his aids, Cass and McArthur, to talk over and plan the
coming battles, which were destined to close the Avar.
From 1812 to 1818 it is not known that there were any Avhite settlers
on Kelley's Island. During the latter year a man named Killam, with
his family and one or two men, came here and built a cabin.and remained
until 1820. It was at this time that the first steamboat was
built on the lake, and called the Walk-on-the-Water. A sailboat also
made short trips between Sandusky and the island to meet the steamboat,
which could not go to Sandusky every trip, and received her passengers
from Venice and Sandusky in this Avay. The Walk-on-the-Water
was wrecked October 19, 1820. During these tAvo years Killam AVIIS cmployed
to supply the fuel for the boat, and this had to be cut and boated
GLACIAL GROVES ON KELLEY'S ISLAND
out to the steamboat. It was red cedar, which was very abundant in this
locality. After the wrecking of the Walk-on-the-Water, this business
was stopped, and Killam left the island in 1820. From that time until
1826 there were no permanent residents here. About that time a couple
of men employed by Killam to get out wood continued their work from
time to time, and one of them is connected Avith the history of the island
from the Point, which bears his name. Barnum's Point is on the east
end of the island, and carries with it the memory of these times, when
these two men became enemies, and Barnum killed Grunmet, who Avas
preparing to shoot him. It was decided that the act Avas done in self-defense,
and Barnum moved aAvay from this section of the country.
In 1826 Elisha Ellis and Peter Shook obtained contracts for two
pieces of land, and Ellis proceeded to build a house on his into Avhich his
wife and himself moved.
Shook went a\vay and never returned, and in 1828 Henry Ellithorpe