Old Marietta Papers - Number 35

 The Marietta Register, May 27, 1864

"Old Marietta Papers" was a series of columns compiled and published in 1863 and 1864 by Rodney M. Stimson, editor of "The Marietta Register."

It seems a little singular that with all our advertising, we have been able to obtain only three copies of the Marietta Gazette for the year 1838, but so it is.

The Gazette of Jan. 6, 1838, is before us - edited and published by Isaac Maxon.

Mr. Maxon, if we are not in error, began to work at the printing business in the office of the American Friend, under Royal Prentiss in the year 1822, or perhaps 1823. At any rate, he worked in that office in 1823. For several years, from about 1830 or 1831, to 1837, he published the Spectator at Athens.

He bought the Marietta Gazette of Caleb Emerson about Dec. 1, 1837 - published the paper four years, until near the close of the year 1841, when he sold out, after which only three or four more numbers of the Gazette were published until it was discontinued. Mr. Maxon then quit the printing business. For years past he was engaged in farming, about two miles from Marietta, just east of Duck Creek. This spring he removed to Richland County, Illinois, near Olney, the County Seat.

At the October election in 1838, Washington County voted for Governor - Joseph Vance, Whig, 1384; Wilson Shannon, Democrat, 1264. The total vote was 2643, the largest ever cast in the County to that date - 145 larger than in the year before.

The Gazette of Nov. 3, 1838, notes the escape of Wallace Dodge, formerly of Marietta, from prison in Quebec. He had joined the Canadian Patriots and was taken prisoner the winter before.

Nov. 9, 1838, Slocomb & Buck - William Slocomb and Frederick Buck - advertised their "New Boot and Shoe Store" on Greene Street, connecting with it a Bookbindery.

Nov. 22, 1838, Thursday evening, at about 8-1/2 o'clock, the extensive Carriage Manufactory of Milo Hoadley on the Plain took fire and was, with nearly all the stock, entirely consumed. Loss said to have been about $10,000, with no insurance.

Marriages:

Oct. 18, 1838, John Fletcher [John Fulcher] and Nancy Olive Stanton, of Warren.

Oct. 29th, David Scovill and Rebecca Shears, of Warren.

Nov. 4th, Sereno Hollister and Cynthia Ann Brooks.

Nov. 18th, William H. Stewart and Cynthia A. Morton, both of Harmar.

Died - Nov. 21, 1838, in Fearing, deeply regretted by all his neighbors, Augustus Caesar Tuttle, in his 27th year.

He ceased to breathe at high noon sun!

His race on Earth he then had run.

A man unknown in distant place,

But round his neighborhood a grace.

Retired was he, though good and kind;

To faults in others ever blind.

All - all around him felt distressed;

One pang of grief their hearts impressed

When death did seal his honest fame,

And Justice honored his good name.

Ye who would live in peace and love,

In Tuttle's track be sure to move.

We don't know, but we guess that the late Edward Postlewayt Page communicated the above obituary.

The Gazette of October 30, 1841, still published by Mr. Maxon, is before us. He soon after sold out. This must conclude our notice of the Marietta Gazette.

This brings us down to the time the Intelligencer was started, in August, 1839. How much longer these notes from the "Old Marietta Papers" will be continued we can not tell, but we shall make some notes from the first years of the Intelligencer, beginning next week.