Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Law Partnership of F.D. Parish and E.B. Sadler




Two of Sandusky's most prominent early lawyers, F.D. Parish and E.B. Sadler were partners in a legal office in Sandusky, Ohio. Hewson Peeke wrote in A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio (Lewis Publishing Company, 1916), that F.D. Parish was the second lawyer in Erie County, following Eleutheros Cooke. In 1836 F.D. Parish went into a legal partnership with E.B. Sadler. Their office was on Public Square in Sandusky, near the old Courthouse, often known as the Academy because it once served as a school.


It appears that F.D. Parish was the senior partner, because his name always appeared first in the listing.


The partnership continued until 1847, when Mr. Sadler left to take the position of presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the 13th Judicial Circuit, which then included the counties of Erie, Huron, Sandusky, Ottawa, Lucas, Wood and Henry. On February 15, 1847, the partnership between F.D. Parish and E.B. Sadler was dissolved.


A copy of the dissolution notice is found in the historical files of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. Though the partnership ended, it appears that E.B. Sadler was trying to tie up loose ends. In the letter below from Mr. Sadler to a “Brother Norman,” E.B. Sadler requested that fees owed in some recent legal matters were to be paid.


F.D. Parish went to become well known as an abolitionist who took an active part in the Underground Railroad. E.B. Sadler served as Mayor of Sandusky from 1844 to 1845.

2 comments:

Ed Daniel said...

I guess that explains why there is a Parish Streeet and a Sadler Street in Sandusky, out near Perkins Ave. Anybodny know who Perkins Ave was named for???

Sandusky Library Archives Research Center said...

According to the Perkins Township website: It was named after Elias Perkins who was one of the members of the board of proprietors who surveyed the land and laid out the roads. The street is on a boundary line between Sandusky and Perkins.