Kidney Sources
P. 24
Nathan Alger, his wife, and four sons, Henry, Herman, Nathan Jr., and Thaddeus P., came from Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 7th, 1812. They settled on Sections 12 and 13, founding what was for years known as the "Alger Settlement." With him came his son-in-law, JOHN KIDNEY; and two days later, Benjamin Robinson arrived from Vermont. Amelia Alger married Benjamin Robinson, November 5th, 1812. About this time Horace B. Alger and Dyer Nicols came to Rockport.
P. 30-31
Elijah Herrington and his wife, Sarah Gardiner, left New York in 1820, and located in Middleburg Township.
A flaw was found in the title to their lanad, so they came to rockport om 1824, locating in the vicinity of Lorain Avenue, Triskett Road and Warren Road.
The old road used by the Herringtons is now West 150th Street. In 1843, they built their home, which was planned at the time for a tavern.
It was 14767 Lorain Avenue. The house had three fireplaces and a huge chimney. At that time there were three
other houses in the vicinity, all exactly alike and all painted red. One belonged to Joseph Triskett, one to a Mr. Stranahan, and
one to Nathan Alger. The little shed in the present nine-hole Metropolitan gold course was in Mr. Stranahan's backyard.
mr Alger gave an acre in the Alger Cemetery to the county. The inscription on his tomb reads:
I'm here, my friends,
The first to come
And in this place
For you there's room.
P. 42
Joseph Hall and his wife, Sarah, came from England to Rockport in 1840. Two weeks after their arrival, their son, John Curtis Hall, was born. Mr. Hall bought a tract of land from the Connecticut Land Company and increased his holdings until he became one of the largest land owners of the time. So great was his estate that hen the division of property came, his four sons, Joseph Jr., Curtis, Mathew and John C., each received eighty acres of Rockport land. His two daughters, ANNA KIDNEY and Sarah Barber, each received a similar acerage in Dover and in Strongsville. Once when Mr. and Mrs. Hall were returning home from Cleveland, they lost their way in the dense forest and had to retrace their steps until theu found the old Indian trail. It was this virgin forest which Joseph Hall purchased and made into fine farm land.
P. 100
That the [school] board was thrifty is shown by the fact that for years they sold the apples from the trees growing in the school yards and rented the pasture lands around the buildings. In 1871, JAMES KIDNEY, who bought the land from the Nicholsons and later sold it to James Wallace, paid ten dollars for the apples growing at East School.