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GOSSIP
CHAPTER XXXVI
The earliest mention of Sandusky is in the autobiography of Rev.
Jacob Young, an early Methodist preacher, AVIIO tells of paying a man
$96 in 1820 to carry > twenty barrels of flour from Zanesville to Sandusky.
The Clarion of August 21, 1833, advertises the Sandusky Jockey
Club races on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of September on the old
rave track Avhich Avas located south of Jefferson Street. The next year
the races Avere held on October 20th, 21st and 22d, and the committee
advertised that the charge for roulette Avheels Avill be $10 and for SAveat
cloths $5, Avhich is some evidence that they began to skin the farmer at
an early day.
In 1832 the Clarion first mentions the cholera scare. On July 4th
of that year the lot sale in Sandusky took place and was advertised by
Zalinon Wildman; and the Clarion also advertised that no boat should
land unless inspected by the board of health on account of the cholera.
The board of health consisted of F. D. Parish, G. Anderson, D. H.
Tuttle and Moors Fanvell.
The first milliners that came to Sandusky, according to the Clarion,
Avere tAvo sisters, Jane Ann and Elizabeth Davis, who advertised their
goods on June 22, 1831.
In 1833 Barney Farrell had a grocery store on the West House
corner.
Lester Hubbard, Rollin Hubbard and E. Hubbard had a store in the
Hubbard Block, and Dr. Henry Converse had a store on Water Street.
The only tailor shop in toAvn Avas kept by a man named JVVilliam
Smith.
In 1840 General Harrison, then running for president, came to Sandusky
and the ladies of Sandusky machj for him an elegant banner which
is noAV on exhibition in the historical" room in the Carnegie Library. It
Avas presented to him on the front stoop of the house occupied for many
years by Eugene Stroud, 412 Columbus Avenue, and old Judge E. B.
Sadler made the presentation speech.
The Clarion of February 22, 1845, mentions Wm. T. & A. H. West
as keeping a grocery store on Water Street.
On January 9, 1846, there Avas a county election on the question of
building a poorhouse. Ben Turner, B. Wood and Ezra Sprague were
commissioners.
The first barber shop in the city is advertised on March 10, 1846,
by A. & J. AVinfield, opposite Colt's Exchange.
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