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Summary

Village located in northeastern Ohio at mouth of Chagrin River, about three miles northwest of Kirtland, Ohio, and four miles from Lake Erie. Area settled, 1797.1

Holzapfel and Cottle, Old Mormon Kirtland and Missouri, 120.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Holzapfel, Richard N., and T. Jeffery Cottle. Old Mormon Kirtland and Missouri: Historic Photographs and Guide. Santa Ana, CA: Fieldbrook Productions, 1991.

Township formerly named Charlton, then Chagrin.2

Overton, Ohio Towns and Townships, 437.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Overton, Julie Minot. Ohio Towns and Townships to 1900: A Location Guide. Edited by Kay Ballantyne Hudson and Sunda Anderson Peters. Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 2000.

Became home of Willoughby Medical College, 1834, after which both village and township were renamed Willoughby.3

Lupold, “From Chagrin to Willoughby,” 25–26.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Lupold, Harry F. “From Chagrin to Willoughby: The Maturation of a Western Reserve Village and Township.” Lake County Heritage: A Magazine of Local History and Culture (Dec. 1990): 18–29.

Became part of Lake Co., Mar. 1840.4

Lupold, “From Chagrin to Willoughby,” 25–26.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Lupold, Harry F. “From Chagrin to Willoughby: The Maturation of a Western Reserve Village and Township.” Lake County Heritage: A Magazine of Local History and Culture (Dec. 1990): 18–29.

Incorporated as village, 1853.5

History of Geauga and Lake Counties, 256.

Comprehensive Works Cited

History of Geauga and Lake Counties, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Most Prominent Men. Philadelphia: Williams Brothers, 1878.

Population in 1835 about 750.6

Chapin, Complete Reference Gazetteer of the United States, 341.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Chapin, William. A Complete Reference Gazetteer of the United States of North America; Containing a General View of the United States. . . . New York: W. Chapin and J. B. Taylor, 1839.

Population in 1840 about 1,900. Described in 1843 as having two churches, nine stores, one mill, and two tanneries, in addition to college.7

Haskel and Smith, Gazetteer of the United States of America, 730.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Haskel, Daniel, and J. Calvin Smith. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America. . . . New York: Sherman and Smith, 1843.

JS and wife Emma purchased goods in Willoughby, 12 Oct. 1835,8

JS, Journal, 12 Oct. 1835.

and visited Shadrach Roundy near there, later that month.9

JS, Journal, 31 Oct. 1835.

JS, accompanied by other church officers, attended lecture at Willoughby College, 2 Nov. 1835.10

JS, Journal, 2 Nov. 1835.

Links

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• History, 1838–1856, volume C-1 [2 November 1838–31 July 1842]
• Declaration to the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas, 7 May 1838 [ JS for the use of J. Granger v. Smalling and Coltrin ]
• Deed to David Elliott, 26 September 1836
• History, 1834–1836
• History, 1838–1856, volume B-1 [1 September 1834–2 November 1838]
• Introduction to Bailey, Keeler & Remsen v. JS and O. Cowdery
• Journal, 1835–1836
• Kirtland Safety Society Daybook, circa 4–16 January 1837
• Letter from Emma Smith, 3 May 1837
• Letter to Emma Smith, 6 June 1832
• Letter to Oliver Cowdery, circa 9 April 1836
• Minutes and Blessings, 28 February–1 March 1835
• Minutes, 16 June 1842
• Pay Order from John Wandell, 26 July 1836
• Petition to Arial Hanson, 7 November 1836
• Praecipe, 7 September 1837 [ Bailey, Keeler & Remsen v. JS and O. Cowdery ]
• Revelation, 2 November 1835

TownshipWilloughby TownshipTown/CityWilloughbyCountyCuyahoga County (now in Lake County)State/ProvinceOhioCountry:United States of AmericaAlternate NamesChagrin, Ohio