This book is dedicated to the citizens of Elyria and county who are interested to know something of the pioneer characters who have gone the way of all the earth, to whom we own, as will future generations a debt of gratitude in founding our fair city, noted nation wide. For its beauty, enterprise, and battles for humanity. I trust that after the writer has passed away, others will be inspired to take their pen in hand, to recount the good deeds of those now active among us, after they too, have gone to that undiscovered country. Only the portraits and sketches of deceased persons, who wrought for the common good, appear in the book. To have written the history of the living, would require volumes.