On August 14, 1841, several members of the Wildman and
Mills families deeded property to Martin Eldis. (Zalman Wildman and Isaac Mills were original property owners, and are considered founders of the city of Sandusky.) The property was No. 29 Water
Street, which was in the city of Sandusky, bounded to the north by Water
Street, to the east by Lot 28, to the south by Lot 22, and to the west by Lot
30.
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The property sold for $2, 082.83. A fee of ten cents was paid to the Erie County Auditor, Orlando McKnight. The deed was recorded in Volume 2 of the Records of Erie County, on pages 258 and 259. Horace Aplin was Erie County Recorder in 1841.
The deed was witnessed by Mayor S.B. Caldwell and by
Associate Judge Moors Farwell.
The names of several pioneer residents of Sandusky
appear on this deed. F.D. Parish, well known abolitionist, served as the
attorney for Julia Ann Wildman and Mary Starr. Isaac A. Mills, attorney for
Abigail Mills, was the son of one of the proprietors of Sandusky, also named
Isaac Mills. Martin Eldis and his wife, the former Louisa Guckenberger, were
among the earliest Sandusky settlers of German descent. They ran a bakery,
which was taken over by Mrs. Eldis
after the death of her husband in 1852.
Mrs. Louise Guckenberger Eldis |
To read more about Mr. and Mrs. Martin Eldis,
see page 94 of Sandusky Then and Now,
available at the Sandusky Library.
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