Letter to the editor The Cahoon Pioneer Celebration

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Bay Village Historical Society

Name/Title

Letter to the editor "The Cahoon Pioneer Celebration"

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2000.FIC.02.297

Scope and Content

Letter to the editor of the Leader entitled "The Cahoon Pioneer Celebration". Author recounts the events of that day in 1876. He notes who attended, who has passed away, children born and tells of the speeches given. Author is I.M.C. [assumed Ida M. Cahoon], ...the family records for the past year showed one marriage of Abby F. Cahoon of Elyria to Dr. Frederick W. Schneerer of Norwalk, then a son was born to Reuben and Minerva Cahoon Hollenbaugh of Wellington and a son to Charles and Clara Johnson Penfield of Jamestown, NY. The first death was registered Emeline Hackett Cahoon, widow of the late Benjamin Cahoon of Elyria, where she had been a resident for more than forty years. Clara Johnson whose name last year appeared upon our record of the bride of Chas Penfield appears upon this years chronical among those who have passed. Out of the darkness into His marvelous light. In May another name was added when George Otis, son of James and Selina Cahoon Wright,"went to join the mother that he loved."

Collection

Early Family Papers: Cahoon

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Wright, Selina Cahoon

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Wright, James

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Cahoon, Abbie F.

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Cahoon, Benjamin

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Cahoon, Joel B.

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Cahoon, Joseph

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Cahoon, L.J.

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Cahoon, Laura E.

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Cahoon, Martha W.

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Cahoon, William O.

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Day, Norman

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Garlick, T., Dr.

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Goss, A.P.

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Harris, J.A.

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Johnson, A.P.

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Merwin, G.B.

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Merwin, G.B., Mrs.

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Penfield, Charles

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Penfield, Clara Johnson

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Rice, Lewis L.

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Rice, Louis G.

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Root, William

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Schneerer, Frederick, Dr.

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Wright, George Otis

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Cahoon, Emeline Hackett

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Winsor, Martha Cahoon

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Kirtland, J.P.

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Hollenbach, Reuben

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Hollenbach, Minerva Cahoon

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Felton, E.R.

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Beebe, Laurel