Improvements on Front Street

The Marietta Register September 28, 1865

The easterly side of Front Street is improving in a very satisfactory manner - except that old frame between Philip Schramm's shoe store and the store of Andrew Ross. That work going on there can hardly be called an "improvement," considering its fine business location, on which ought to be a handsome and substantial brick block.

The new building of the First National Bank, corner of Front and Greene streets, is well nigh completed. It is a very fine building - handsome and substantial, inside and out - one that would attract the attention of strangers, and one in which our citizens may take a just pride. The work has been done under the plans and supervision of M. H. Needham. Stone work - which is of the first-class - by N. S. Alcock. Painting by Klintworth. The first floor will be occupied by the Bank itself - main business room, 24 by 36; a large Director's room; and a massive vault. The second story - two rooms occupied by the Petroleum Exchange, and another by the Agency office of S. Newton & Son. Third story - one room occupied by the Book Agency of James P. Matthew. What the other two rooms are occupied for, we are not advised.

Messrs. Buell & Bro. began to lay the foundation of their new building Tuesday morning of this week - for a first-class Drug Store - on the ground so long occupied by T. P. Harshberger. It will be a brick, a nice front, three stories in height - the first 14 feet high, 27 feet wide, and 80 feet deep. It is expected to be ready for occupancy in February next.

John W. Stanley's new building, farther up street, approaches completion. It is a brick of three stories, 20 feet front and 80 feet deep, admirably arranged for a Furniture Store, with six floors, rising from one to another by an easy ascent, whereon will be dealt out House Furnishing, Carpets, Sewing Machines, etc. Mr. Stanley will occupy it in course of two or three weeks.

W. F. Curtis has his new and handsome building, just below Butler Street, close upon completion - brick, ornamented with stone work, by N. S. Alcock - three stories in height, 20 feet wide, 60 feet deep. It will be the handsomest front of any building of its size in Marietta. It is already rented to Le Roy Brown for a Dry Goods and Clothing Store.

The very handsome building of Bosworth, Wells & Co., a business house "hard to head" in any other city the size of Marietta, on the westerly side of the street, has recently been "touched up" and now looks as "bright as new" as, indeed, it is nearly new. That Cincinnati scrub who lately wrote that: "Marietta has nothing to offer in the shape of a handsome, modern building, public or private," could not possibly have seen the store of Bosworth, Wells & Co.

And generally, there is a "brushing up" along Front Street. The business corner of Front and Putnam is beginning to present altogether a different appearance by its present proprietors, West & Varley. The Post Office has been recently painted, improved, and now shows creditably. The Biszantz House, but one building from Front, greatly improved. Donahoe's China Store, and Morse's Clothing Store, painted a short time since, etc. Besides, the "frog-ponds" in the gutters begin to disappear.

Census Items

The Marietta Register, August 25, 1870

Palmer Township returns:
  White males - 281
  White females - 303
  Colored males - 3
  Colored females - 1
  Total - 587
  Loss in ten years - 34

Fairfield Township
  White males - 403
  White females - 421
  Colored - 0
  Total - 824
  Loss in ten years - 19

Decatur Township
  White males - 622
  White females - 595
  Colored males - 112
  Colored females - 108
  Total - 1,437
  Gain in ten years - 215

Wesley Township
  White males - 646
  White females - 660
  Colored males - 106
  Colored females - 112
  Total - 1,524
  Gain in ten years - 20

We have before given Union - total 862; Barlow - 1,190; Watertown - 1,458. Muskingum was largely taken from Union Township, since 1860, so that no comparison of gain or loss can well be made there. The net gain in the other six townships is 197.

 
   

William Lucius Buell

American Friend & Marietta Gazette, November 20, 1830

Died on Wednesday, November 10, William Lucius, son of Daniel H. Buell, Esq., in the 13th year of his age. While the circumstances resulting in the death of this youth were of a nature peculiarly afflicting to his relatives, a deep sympathy was generally felt and manifested by the friends and acquaintances of the family of which he was a member. On the 11th of September last a Liberty pole erected near the Court house fell upon the deceased, by which his skull was very extensively fractured. By the assiduous attentions, however, of skillful surgeons, he was, until a few days previous to his death considered convalescent. The injury hitherto hidden in its full extent, at length manifested itself by inflammation and dropsy of the brain, producing inveterate spasmodic affections and stupor, ending in dissolution.

 

News From Marietta

The Massachusetts Spy, April 16, 1789

Extract of a letter from Marietta: "The progress of the settlement is sufficiently rapid for the first year. We are continually erecting houses, but arrivals are faster than we can possibly provide convenient coverings. Our first ball was opened about the middle of December, at which were fifteen ladies as well accomplished in the manners of polite circles as any I have ever seen in the old states. I mention this to shew the progress of society in this new world, where I believe we shall vie with, if not excel, the old states in every accomplishment necessary to render life agreeable and happy."

Buried Dog in Mistress' Grave

Marietta Daily Times, March 6, 1916:

Well Known Resident of City Called

Mary Frank Hart, one of the well known residents of Marietta, where she was born and had spent the greater part of her life, died early Monday morning at her home, No. 310 Front Street, after a brief illness which developed into uraemia.

Her passing came as a shock to many friends. Not until Thursday morning had she complained of illness, and until a few hours before the end, when uraemic poisoning developed, her condition had not been regarded as grave. The deceased was a daughter of the late Dr. Benjamin F. Hart and Sallie M. Hart. She was born in West Marietta on January 27, 1850. For more than a half century she had occupied the house wherein her death occurred.

Mrs. Hart for many years had been a member of St. Luke's Episcopal church and took an active interest in the affairs of that denomination. She is survived only by one brother, Dr. Charles S. Hart, and a nephew, James F. Hart, both of this city.

Funeral services will be held from the residence at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and friends of the family are invited. Rev. J. M. Hunter will officiate, and burial will be in the Mound Cemetery. 

Duluth News-Tribune [Minnesota], April 9, 1916:

Marietta, Ohio, April 1. Gratifying a wish which Mrs. Mary Frank Hart had often expressed before her death, and which is said to have been embodied in her will, Trixie, pet fox terrier of Mrs. Hart, whose funeral was held recently, was chloroformed and buried in the same grave with her mistress. For years the terrier had been the constant companion of Mrs. Hart, who was 66 years old. She was a sister of Dr. Charles S. Hart.