LORAIN CITY'S EARLIEST HISTORY; A New Look at the Old MYTHS, and the TRUTH

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Partial surname index to the booklet: LORAIN CITY'S EARLIEST HISTORY; A NEW LOOK AT THE OLD MYTHS, AND THE TRUTH --- by T. Derby, 2015 [free download (in "PDF" format) at archive.org --- see the complete booklet (in "pdf" format) for further references to these families.] The primary names mentioned in this booklet, are: John S. REID (whose wife was Ann SCHUYLER REID) [ John's parent's were probably named Cornelius VAN REIDE and Elizabeth (SWACKHAMER) VAN REIDE.] Sophia REID BALDWIN-HAWLEY (wife of Daniel T. Baldwin, and later the wife of Uriah Hawley); Elizabeth REID SMITH-GILLMORE ( widow of Wm. Smith, and wife of Quartus Gillmore ); Ann REID MEEKER-KLINE ( wife of Barna Meeker, and later the wife of John Kline); Conrad REID. Additional primary names (in "page order"): Rev. David ZEISBERGER; Nathan PERRY, Jr.; Azariah BEEBE. also: George KELSO; John LAYLIN, Sr.; Ralph LYON; William MARTIN; Joseph QUIGLEY; Jonathan SEELYE (not "SEELEY"); Jacob SHUPE; Joab (not “Jacob”) WOODRUFF; and also (Maj.) Theodore "T.W." MAURICE. ........................................................ Here is a surname list (alphabetical) of most of the earlier German families who had arrived to Black River Township, prior to the year 1850. See the maps within the complete booklet ( LORAIN CITY'S EARLIEST HISTORY), for further references to these families of Germanic heritage. [ The names within brackets/“quotation-marks” are just a few of the many 'phonetic' misspellings as they were erroneously written by the non-German record-keepers.] --- APPEMAN ["Appleman"] --- BARK ["BERK", "BERG"] --- BAUMHARDT --- BECKER --- BICKEL ["Pickle"] --- BOBST ["Boops"] --- BRAUN a.k.a. BROWN --- DESCHER --- DIEGEL ["Deal"] --- DUTE ["Duty","Drudy"] --- FABER ["Faper"] --- FREUND a.k.a. FRIEND --- GERLACH ["Girlark"] --- GRILLENBARGER ["Gillenbesh"] --- GONDERMAN --- HAGEMAN ["Haggerman"] --- HAHN ["Hahan","Hawn"] --- HASENPFLUG --- HEIDENREICH (or HEIDERIECH) ["Hydendrige"] --- HERWIG ["Harrick", "Harwick"] --- HEUSSNER ["Hysner"] --- HILDEBRANDT --- HIRSCHING --- HOLL a.k.a. HULL [“Hole”,"Hall"] --- HOHMANN a.k.a. HOMAN ["Haman"] --- HOLZHAUER ["Haulsaure", “Holchauer”] --- JAKOB a.k.a. JACOBS --- KELLER --- KOENIG a.k.a. KING --- KNIERIM --- KOTHE --- KRAPES ["Crapes"] --- LAPP --- LEIMBACH ["Limboh"] --- MEISTER --- MILLER --- NIEDING --- SCHROEDER --- SCHNEIDER a.k.a. SNYDER --- SPIEGELBERG [“Spulbark”] --- VETTER ["Vedder"] --- VON BAUMBACH ["Baumbush"] --- WEIFENBACH ["Vaginburgh"] ---- JUNGMAN a.k.a. YOUNGMAN ["JUNKMAN"]. {'a.k.a.' indicates a family's own adopted 'Americanized' spelling}

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