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decent respect for the rights of others, the common sentiment that all are free and equal before the law, and entitled to the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” a community of interests that makes every man a neighbor of every other citizen—all this and more contribute to make of Massillon not simply a summer and winter resort,” but an ideal home for all time.. But-it was not always thus. This city did not spring into existence—did not attain its development in one night. It did not always carry such a beautiful and euphonious name as Massil-jLON. In the times long gone it was known to the aborigines and the first families as “Duncan’s Mill,” “The Rotch Settlement,” “the Kendal Community, and within the recollection of some of our staid and sober pioneers who still linger on the footstool, as “The Wheat City.” But while we could not it we would deny its common origin, it is now our “dear, delightful Massillon,” the moafc cherished spot on this wide round earth. “Sweet Auburn was Goldsmith’s “loveliest vilk]age of the plain.” But we can readily forgive Mr. Goldsmith, for he lived before Massillon had a local habitation. Mark Twain never was in Massillon, or else he would not grow so ecstatic over the island of Mauritius, which is somewhere outBide os the Universe offland.The commissioners of Stark county held a meeting onthe'ith of December,1813, and authorized the voters of Perry township to meet in Kendal on the la9t Saturday in February, 1814, for the election of officers for the new township of Perry. This was accordingly done, and the township which was named in honor of the great hero of the naval battle on Lake Erie, Commodore Perry, had a being and existence.Among the most prominent of the early settlers in KeDdal were Thomas Rotch and his wile Charity Rotch, Arvine Wales and C. K. Skinner, all of whom came from New Bedford, Mass., in 1812.Captain James Duncan, the proprietor of Massillon, came to Kendal iu1814, and purchased the quarter section of land on which a large part of this city was afterwards laid out. He erected a flouring mill and saw mill, near where the The Item office now is, and the place was then known as “Duncan’s Mill.”After the declaration of war between England and America in 1812, all classes of business were greatly paralyzed, and this continued for a number of yeara. When the reaction came, wheat sold for 25 cents a bushel, potatoes, 124 cents, and salt went up in price to H3 a bushel.
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Massillon Item
Massillon, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1897
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