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78 Ibid., April 4, 1838.   79 Ibid., June 1, 1838.   80 Ibid., July 10, 1838.   81 Mrs. H. D. Root, "In Early Days: Review of a Half Century in Lorain," Ms., p. 5, Lorain Public Library. 82 Ibid., p. 5.   83 Herald, May 16, 1837. 84 Elyria Courier, September 14, 1847, quoted in Robert Samuel Fletcher, Eureka, From Cleveland by Ship to California, 1849-1850 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1959), p.13.    85 Mrs. H. D. Root, p. 5.     86 George H. Teague, Lorain (Lorain: Daily-News Democrat, 1903), p. 15.   87 W. H. Root, p. 9. Vermilion 88 Herald, November 16, 1838.   89 Ibid., August 28, 1840. Huron    90 Ibid., August 28, 1840. 91 Ibid., May 10, 1839. 92 Ibid., June 20, 1839.   93  Dana Thomas Bowen, Memories of the Lakes (Daytona Beach, Fla.: D. T. Bowen, Publisher, 1946), p.79.    94 Wallace B. White, One Hundred and Fifty Years, Milan Township & Village (Milan: Ledger Publishing Co., 1959, p. 17. For a fascinating account of early Milan commerce, see Mr. White's "The Ghost Port of Milan and a Druid Moon," Inland Seas, Winter, 1951, and Spring and Summer, 1952. 95 Herald, November 17, 1847. 74