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List of Early Settlers of Mentor

The following article is from the Painesville Telegraph 23 January 1890, page 3. This was retranscribed from "LakeLines" Vol. 18, No. 2, Pg. 18, April 1992 by Cathi Salmi.

List of Early Settlers of Mentor

John Walworth 1799 Jerrod Wood 1800
Moses Parker 1800 Charles Parker 1802
Clark Parker 1802 Orris Clapp 1806
Jonathan Root 1803 Erastus Root 1803
Moses Kerr 1812 Benj. Sawyer 1813 or 1818
Jonathan Russell 1811 Warren Corning 1810
Nathan Mown 1816 Abel Russell 1817
Ralph Bacon 1811 Thomas Carroll 1819
Warren Goodale 1815 David Olds 1812
James Prouty 1819 Truman Griswold 1817
Benj. Hopkins 1805 Erastus Crary
Hercules Carroll 1806 John Carroll 1806
Calvin Ingersoll 1816 Nathan'l Darroll 1817
Robert Seeley 1816 Garry Brass 1812
David Jewett 1815 Wm. Fletcher 1813
David Wilson 1815 Asa Webster 1820
Aaron Daniels 1813 Thomas Morley 1815
Lemuel Forbes 1813 Grandison Newell 1825
Joel Rexford 1817 Egelston Mathews 1813
Stephen Losey 1819 John Stevers 1817
Simeon Raynolds 1819 Elihu Booth 1815
David Chandler 1818 Elias Randall 1816
Arthur Ruark 1814 Isaac Baxter 1821
Russell Beckwith 1817 Dudley Nolan 1819
Ashbel Munson 1821 Asa Hall 1820
Ebenezer Merry 1809 Calvin Ingersoll Jr. 1816
"Mr. Ingersoll, of the same name as his father, was four years old when the family removed from Massachusetts to Mentor. He is now the oldest resident of Mentor."

Compiled by Calvin Ingersoll

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