History 
of
Lorain County Ohio
With Illustrations & Biographical Sketches
of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
By Williams Brothers,  1879
373 pages, Illustrated, Searchable



-      Bonus Book -
A Standard History of
Lorain County Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past,
with Particular Attention to the Modern Era
in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social
Development. A Chronicle of the People,
with Family Lineage and Memoirs
In Two Volumes
By G. Frederick Wright  1916
554 + 549 pages

-      Bonus Book -
An Early History
of
Lorain County, Ohio
An Address by
 W. W. Boynton
Delivered
July 4, 1876 at Elyria, Oh 
35 pages, Searchable


 
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Named by early settler Herman Ely for the
French province of Lorraine, its county seat is Elyria and its largest
community is the Lake Erie port city of Lorain.


Of the first settlers, some men walked the
entire distance from Connecticut and other places. Some rode in ox carts, some
came part way by land, and the rest by water. Some came by sled in mid winter,
some plowed through the mud of spring or endured the heat of summer. Thousands
of primitive structures, covered with the bark of basswood and elm were built
and occupied in the Lorain woods.


The first family to settle in Black River
Township was that of Azariah Beebe, who came in 1807 as the advance agent of
Nathan Perry, Jr., son of Nathan Perry of Cleveland. These people were from
Vermont. Perry built a house a short distance east of Black River, in which he
opened a store for trade with the Indians. The Beebes lived in the Perry cabin
and Perry boarded with them. John Lyons, son of Ralph Lyons, was the first
white child born in the Township (1812). In April of 1811, William Martin came
from Pennsylvania with his family. The Gillmore Family from Massachusetts also
came to the Lorain area in 1811.


Up to 1830 little or no settlement was made
in the township away from the Lake. The unsettled portion was a dense
wilderness principally covered with white oak timber. In 1833, a number of
sturdy Germans arrived who made their mark on the township. Among the family
names were: Feber, Baumhart, Friend, Bark, Haulkauer, Hageman, Hahn, Vetter,
Harwick and others.

Heman Ely first came to the area in the early
1800s. It reminded him of the pleasant times he had spent in the Lorraine
Region of France. His influence we felt when Lorain County was formed from
parcels of land from Cuyahoga, Huron and Medina Counties. He donated land and
money for the construction of the courthouse in Elyria, swaying the
legislator's decisions to locate the county seat there.


 
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