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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 455
banking business in Cardington, Ohio. He organized a company of
volunteers and'enlisted in the Union army. He Avas breveted colonel of
the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry in April, 1861, served three years
and resigned Avith rank of brigadier general. In 1860 he was presidential
elector, iind in that capacity voted for Lincoln, serving in Congress from
1868 to 1873 as a representative from Eighth Ohio District. In 1873
General Beatty organized the Citizens Bank in Columbus and AVIIS
president l.ntil its consolidation with the Citizens Trust and Savings
Bank iir 1903, at which time he retired from active life to devote his
time to writing, among Avhich are noted the folloAving: "High or LOAV
Tariff. Which;" "AIISAVCI- to Coins Financial School;" "The Belle o'
Meckel's Lane;" "The Aleolhuans," and "McLean." In 1884 he Avas
presidential elector at large and AVIIS defeated for governor the first time
Foraker AVIIS nominated.
In recognition of liis»service in the Avar he AVIIS appointed president
of Ohio. Chickamaugua and Chattanooga Military Park. He died December
21, 1914. and AVIIS buried at Oakland Cemetery.
On February 16, 1905, Jay Cooke died at the age of eighty-three.
He AVIIS the son of Eleutheros Cooke, AVIIO, achieved great fame as a
financier by floating Hie Government bonds of the United States in the
War of the Rebellion.
Some time in the early '90s a man named W. II. Crane came here
with one of the many successful schemes to separate Sandusky people
from their hard earned coin. This scheme AVIIS knoAvn as the Walhonding
Railroad scheme. A promoter AVIIS a. good deal of a novelty in those
days. Mr. Crane ACAV very high in those days. His meals Avere served
in his private rooifis, except that he sent his little boy (IOAVII to the (lining
room Avhere the ordinary guests ate, accompanied by bis French maid.
The doors of his suite did„iiot suit him and he had them taken off and
very expensive ones substituted. When the end came he oAA'ed the
landlord a large board bill still unpaid. In the height of his prosperity.
after extracting thousands of dollars from Sandusky people, with no
return, he had lent a JCAV neAvspaper reporter $20 and Avhen he went
(IOAVII ihe toboggan lie would call and dun the JCAV every day wilhout
result. It was Avorth the price of admission to hear him sit in the hotel
office and curse the dishonesty of that JCAV in beating him out of that $20.
Sen. Stephen W. Dorsey lived in Sandusky, until about 1869, for
several years. ,
Thomas A. Edison.—Perched on the bluffs of the Huron River, with
her Avell-kept lawns, stately elms and century-old maples, Milan is a
picturesque spot.
On account of his patriotic vicAvs forced to leave Canada, there came
to this then hustling little toAvn in '37 one Samuel Edison, AVIIO later
married a pretty school teacher, Nancy Elliot, a Scotch woman by
parentage. They took up their residence in the red brick house which
stands on the highest point of the "Hog Back."
To this every visitor is invited to pay homage, as every citizen is