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57 Ibid., July 22, 1875.   58 Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 19, 1878.   59 Leader, January 31, 1856. 60 J. H. Mansfield, Great Lakes, Vol. II, p. 281   61 Leader, December 5, 1855. 62 Plain Dealer, May 27, 1876.   63 Forest City Democrat, February 6, 1854.   64 Leader, August 17, 1857. 65 Ibid., July 21, 1860. 66 Ibid., January 15, 1863.   67 Ibid., August 11, 1868. 68 Ibid., January 10, 1872. This is in reference to the propeller Peerless.   69 Ibid., May 25, 1858.   70 Ibid., September 21, 1866.   71 Ibid., January 8, 1872. Black River (Lorain) 72 "History of the City of Lorain," as compiled by the Lorain Times-Herald, Perry Centennial, 1913, copied in Ms form, Lorain Public Library . 73 Geneological and Biographical Record of New London, Connecticut (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1905), p. 706. 74  W. H. Root, "Early Reminiscences," printed in the Republican about 1873. Copied from a book of clippings owned by Miss Helen Fox, Ms., p. 9, Lorain Public Library. 75 Frank H. Severance, "Walker Manuscript," pp. 302-303.   76 Herald, April 21, 1831.   77 Ibid., April 28, 1837. 73