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stock company. She was launched on June 22, 1837, and was towed to Cleveland to receive her engine and boilers. On May 19, 1838, the steamer Lawrence was launched by George W. Jones, and was towed into Cleveland on June 18 by the steamer United States to receive her engine and boilers. George W. Jones also built and launched the steamer Fairport the same year. In 1846, the Lockwoods built the schooner Stanley L. Noble. Joel Norton, who was a well-known builder at Madison Dock, built the propeller Monticello at Fairport in 1847. He was assisted by Lawson D. Custin. She was launched on October 29, 1847 for Colonel D. Russell and the Geauga Iron Company. She was said to be "the finest craft of the kind (and the only one up to that time) ever built at that port."26 The first established shipyard appeared in Fairport in the early 1850's. This was the Hayes-Herrick yard. Ebenezer Hayes was born on January 15, 1785 at Russell, Massachusetts. He came to Burton, Ohio, in 1800, then in 1810 returned to Massachusetts to visit his mother. After the War of 1812 he came back to Burton where a son, Roswell, was born on December 10, 1816. By 1820 he had moved to Fairport where he purchased a water-front lot on the Grand River. Ebenezer owned a pile- driver and helped to build some of the first piers at Fairport.27 Son Roswell rode a horse around in a circle on the deck of the pile-driver, providing the source of power. Although Ebenezer died on December 3, 1848, there is a possibility that he built the shipyard in a bayou on the east side of the Grand River, at a spot about where the coal dock is today. If so, it was used largely as a repair yard. Roswell entered into a partnership with Ezra L. Herrick whose father, Simeon, had come from Vermont. The first vessel they built was the scow-schooner N. G. in 1852. Herrick was twenty-six years old at that time. This partnership lasted until 1857, at least, with the building of the scow Ada. It is possible that Herrick's fondness for "John Barleycorn" brought an end to the partnership, for "Fairport was a very tough little harbor town - more than one young man came to grief there."28 Roswell did not drink. It is assumed that Herrick went to California in 1858, since his wife died at Los Angeles on November 29, 1858. It was probably about this time that Roswell's son, Daniel, entered the shipbuilding trade with his father. Daniel was born in 1838, and in his earlier days was known as "Handsome Dan," with his black, curly hair and blue eyes. He was reputedly one of the best skaters at Fairport.29 Roswell died in Mentor, Ohio, on November 27, 1897, of smallpox. Daniel carried on the business alone until 1888 when he broke his leg. It was a clean break, but the doctor who set the leg was under the influence of liquor. As a result, one leg we shorter than the other, causing Daniel to wear a heavy 27