Origsize: 5.75" x 8.625"; Origformat: Artifact; Resolution: 600 DPI
Name/Title
Newspaper article "Cahoons Came to America Early"
Entry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.301
Scope and Content
Two copies of a newspaper article entitled:
CAHOONS CAME TO AMERICA EARLY
Akron People attended Family Reunion at North Dover
Article about the 47th annual reunion. It tells of the Scottish origins of the family who arrived in America 1669 in Rhode Island, and the earliest arrival in the Cleveland area of Cahoons in 1810.
Joseph Cahoon established the first gristmill west of the Cuyahoga river. This mill was erected on the day Perry won his great victory on Lake Erie.
The members of the family heard the booming of the cannon and mounting the high cliff above the site of the mill tried to locate the scene of the battle.
