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sounding cheers, and Levi Johnson received his first 

 congratulations from his fellow-townsmen. This was 

 in 1814. He afterwards built a steamboat and gave 

 it the name of one of his own characteristic traits, 

 " Enterprise.'^ 



In 1816, although the itinerant preachers who had 

 visited the place would scarcely have credited it, a 

 church was organized and an Episcopalian form of wor- 

 ship established, which later grew into Trinity Church 

 and Parish. Hitherto a bugle had called the people 

 together when a clergyman appeared, and the most 

 primitive services followed. On one of these occa- 

 sions, well-known to those who lived in Cleveland 

 when it was still a churchless community, Lorenzo 

 Dow was announced to preach. He was an eccentric 

 man and the place reputed to be a bad one. His con- 

 gregation, who were waiting under a large oak, did 

 not recognize the solitary figure approaching in his 

 shirt sleeves, and, as he quietly sat upon the ground 

 in their midst, and his head dropped upon his knees in 

 silent prayer, one in the crowd enquired if he were 

 Lorenzo Dow. Some one answered, ^' Yes,'' but an- 

 other irreverently said in an undertone, " It's the devil." 

 Dow overheard the remark, and rising, preached to 

 his hearers such a sermon on Gehenna that they never 

 forgot it, or him. 



In 1821, the "Academy" became an institution, and 

 began a course of instruction upon a very liberal 

 basis, giving its pupils the full course for four dollars 

 a term, and separate branches for much less. 



In the year 1836 the city was incorporated, and 

 with the new honor seems to have looked to the im- 

 provement of her appearance. The public square, 



