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Six years later, Colonel Massie laid out the town of Chillicothe, which became the first capital of Ohio, and in the same year, 1796, the earliest settlers from Connecticut landed at Conneaut in Ashtabula County.
Hardly able to keep their feet, the firemen toiled away, scattering shovels-full of coal evenly over the fires, wielding their slice bars ... greeting with oaths and comic curses the awkward coal passer who spilled with his laden wheelbarrow into the slightly lower pit where they stood. I quit the James Eads Howe at Ashtabula, after several round trips in her, the length of the Lakes.
There was the excuse, in this last name, of its being a family one, as far as Yaw went; but However, as I said, language is wholly inadequate and weak for some purposes. There was a lower deep than America, that was some comfort. Hiram Yaw wasn't sent to college, but to Ashtabula, wherever that is, and I never wish to see him.
When I came on deck, the air seemed to be sweet with perfumes; the water sparkled brightly, and the blue sky hung cloudless over the placid mirror of Lake Erie. Thus, favored by the weather, the majestic steam-yacht resumed her voyage. After the lapse of two hours the harbor of Ashtabula came in sight, and at about 10 o'clock we approached Fair Point.
At the age of twenty-one he removed to Ohio and engaged in agriculture. He subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. Thereafter he successively held the offices of Justice of the Peace, Prosecuting Attorney for Ashtabula County, State Senator, and Judge of the Circuit Court.
Ely closed up his connection with the place in the Spring of 1852, and removed to Cleveland, where he had engaged a warehouse with the intention of continuing in the forwarding business, but was induced to take the secretaryship of the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad, many of his old business and personal friends having become interested in that undertaking and desiring the benefit of his business tact and experience.
The most tragical of these events took place at the opposite extremities of the state, in Cincinnati and in Ashtabula, and they occurred at the beginning and the end of an interval of nearly forty years.
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