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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 469
He Avas deeply grounded in legal principles and his career as a
judge was so creditable that when he left the bench the bar of Toledo,
including at that time Morrison" R. Waite, afterwards chief justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States, unanimously signed a testimonial
of their appreciation of his courtesy and judicial abilities. lie
was singularly kind to young lawyers and at the time of his death had
long been an ornament to the profession to which he had given his
active life. There has been none at the bar more deeply missed or
greatly mourned, than Judge Sadler in the last generation.
Rev. Josiah Strong, who wrote the book, "Our Country," after he
left Sandusky, frequently made the statement that he preached the
entire book in different lectures to the membership of the Congregational
Church in Sandusky and they went dead.
William Townsend was the first and only merchant AVIIO patronized
the "Clarion" by advertising. His store was a small building on
Water Street nearly opposite the Colton House and for many years
forming part of the old Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnati Railroad
depot, until it was torn down in 1865. He built a small clock opposite
his store which is now part of the Big Four dock. He lived in a frame
house on Lawrence Street a little south of the Colton House. He had
a habit of building new houses out of several old ones. Some wag discovered
that his house was made up of as many separate houses as he
had daughters in his family, and for several years whenever he bought
an old house his neighbors would enquire after the health of his family.
A brief biographical sketch of Hudson Tuttle, the prominent writer
on spiritualism, will be found in the second volume, and some mention
is also made in the history of Berlin Township.
0. J. Victor, the newspaper writer, was connected with the Register
from 1851 to 1857. He went to New York where he achie\ r ed a high
'standing. He wrote a life on Lincoln, a book on the City of New York, a
history of American conspiracy from which Horace Greeley largely took
bis history of the "American Conflict." His sister, Meta Victoria Victor,
wrote many stories for Godey's Magazine, a magazine which was published
up 1o about, 1864 and was a great favorite with our mothers and
grandmothers. She wrote; a continued story in Godey's Magazine,
entitled "Miss Sliinmen's Window," the heroine of which was a milliner
who was supposed to look out from the millinery shop Avindow and fish
for men. A Miss Quick, who in those days kept a millinery shop on the
present site of the postofh'ce, conceived the idea that, the story was
written especially for her benefit.
The Register of October 12, 1908, contains a sketch of Eugene
Walter, the author of "The Easiest Way" and several other plays.
Many Sanduskians will remember him as a little freckle-faced boy, whose
father was proprietor of the Sloane House for several years and who
removed from here to Cleveland.
Just as the 14th of June, 1899, came 1o an end William T. West.
closed his career. lie was eighty-four years of age. He used to boast
that fifty cents covered the cost of his education received at the old dis-