wellington c. cornell of warren county, ohio

8/9/2019 Wellington C. Cornell of Warren County, Ohio

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WELLINGTON C .

CORNELL

Wellington

C Cornel l

was

born

in

I836

in

Clear

Creek

Township

nea r

Waynesv i l l e .

He was

th e son

o f

Samuel

and Susannah Corne l l .

Well ington s

grandfa ther

was

Daniel

Cornwell

born

in 1758 in

Dutchess County, New

York.

Danie l was th e descendant

of

one

of

f o u r CORNWELL/CORNELL brothers

who came

to t h e

Un i t e d

t tes f r om

Wales in 1698 .

Dan ie l

Cornwe l l mar r i e d i n New York

and fter h is

mar r i a ge a bou t

1778

moved to

Chemung,

New York

on

th e Susquehannah

River

where

they

were

l i v ing

in

1790. In 1792,

Danie l moved th e

family to

Water loo,

Ontario

Canada

where

Samuel

was

born

on iaayo2,

1798.

Dan i e l was a s o l d i e r

in

th e Amer ican Revo l u t i o n . He moved h i s f am i l y

to Clear Creek, Warren

County,

Ohio in 1809. In

1819,

he f i r s t

app l i ed

fo r

a Revolu t iona ry War s e r v i c e

pens ion

bu t was

re fused

because he had

no

proof

o f s e r v i c e ,

th e

documents

having been

des t royed

with many

o f

h is personal

posse s s i on

in

a

f lood a long th e Susquehanna

River . He was

f ina l ly able to

ge t

the

pension in 1829 when

some

men

from Clea r Creek

swore in

wr i t i n g t h a t t hey

had

known Dan i e l

f o r

20

yea r s .

The

fami ly records h in t a t some kind o f d i s loya l t y to the

American co lon ie s dur ing th e

Revolu t ion

s ince Dan i e l had l a t e r moved

t o Canada

and

was a f r a i d th e move had

been

I que s t i on ed

th e

first

t ime

and cos t him h is pens ion th e first t ime he made app l i c a t i on .

Dan i e l

and

wi f e

an d

Samue l

and

Su s ann ah

a r e

ll

bu r i e d

in

a

sm a l l

ear ly cemetery on

the

East s ide of Sta te Route 48 near Ridgevi l le .

Samuel and Susannah bo th

d ied

i n Oc tobe r o f 1846 .

Well ington and Samuel

were

fa rmers j u s t

l i ke Danie l .

They

farmed

and a l so owned and opera ted The Corne l l

House

Hote l in

Waynesv i l l e .

They opera ted what had or ig ina l ly been a sta ge co ac h in n under the name

o f Samuel Co rn e l l and Son . The Co rn e l l House which

was

o r i g i n a l l y

The Miami

House

was a

two

s to ry br ick inn bu i l t in I826 on

the

No r t h e a s t co r n e r

o f

Main

and Nor th

S t r e e t s th e site

s i n c e 1955

o f

former r e s t au ran t

ca l l ed

The

Stagecoach

Stop .

He bought a

farm

on Ohio Route 4 th ree miles nor th of Waynesvil l

in

1868.

He

became

the

proprie tor

of

the

Rogers

House

about I869.

By

1870,

Wellington

and h is fa the r purchased The

Rogers

House

and

changed th e name to

The Corne l l

House .


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WELLINGTON C. CORNELL Page

n i tem

in

th e

May

25

1870

ed i t ion of Waynesvil le^s newspaper

The

Mi am i

Gazette

stated

Mr.

Wel l .

C. Corne l l has pu t

a

new

pump

i n t o h is wal l

oppos i t e

the Rogers House-cleaned

and

repa i red the

wal l s re la id

th e s id ewalk

and otherwise

f ixed up.

He has a lso had a new

s ign

pain ted which

g l i s t ens in the

sunbeams

l ike

gold

l ea f .

In 1880 Wellington re t i red

from

farming and

Samuel

h is

fa ther

retired f rom their Co r n e l l

House

p a r t n e r s h i p .

Wellington bu i l t h is

Vic tor ian

res idence

on

North Main S t ree t in

1881 .

The

home

r ema ined

t h e Co r n e l l r e s i d en c e

whi l e

th e Co r n e l l

House

Ho t e l

op e r a t e d .

Wellington

Cornell

was a

civic

leader in Waynesville. n ay

14

1873 he helped

organize th e

Waynesville B ra ss Band. He was o f f i c i a l l y

made a char t e r member and band pre s iden t

on

May 26.

By 1900 The Cornel l House was closed and sold to John

Keys.

Wellington

r e t i r ed

from a l l business

and

moved to Dayton Ohio

where

h e died


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By: Dennis E. Dalton

Everyone s home is that per

s o n s c as tl e a nd w hile there a re no

castles technically in the village by

any stretch of definition or the

imagination there are those build

ings that do rank right up there with

them in historical integrity.

One of the gems of Victorian

architecture is the Wellington

Cornell h o m e

at

142 N orth M ain

Street. It is truly an asset to the

property values

of

the residences

a ro u n d it .

Bruce and Jan Jameyson, for the

Th e Wellington Cornell house, no w

owned by Bruce a n d J a n Jameyson is

on e

o f the historic gems ofNorth Main Street

in Wdynesville

past several years have owned and

preserved the one and a half story

frame dwel ling which was built in

1881. Thanks to them its original

wrought iron fence and louvered

shutters

ha ve

been retained.

I have been chiding Bruce for

the past several years to replace the

original shutters which were

re m o v e d

w h e n the

h o u s e s

exterior

was painted. Until about two

months ago he d carefully stored

them in the garage. To help prod

Bruce along I enlisted help from Jan

and I gleefully harped on the subject

whenever

we

could

find the oppor

tunity and prodded Bruce with a lot

of good natured heckling.

Finally all the griping, prodding

the tilt out of the Leaning Tower of

Piza.

A tip of the hat to Bruce for

restoring the shutters, which com

plete the fine historic residences

original look.

The interior o f

the house

ha s

some interesting Victorian wood

work which was for many years pr e

served by Mary Stansberry Crane.

S o

often tlie w o o d w o rk inside hous

es of this vintage is often painted

(several coats).

Wellington Cornell built the

house for a h o me w hen h e

was

co-

owner and manager of The Cornell

H ou se d ow n M ai n Street. The hi s

toric Cornell Hoiise, a hotel, wa s

located

on th e southeast

corner

of

M a i n

a nd N or th Streets.

T h e C or ne ll H ou se

Hotel

w as

originally named The Miami House

and

w as b uilt in 1826. T h e Little

Miami

Railroad Waynesville

National

Bank

an d Wayne

Township Public Library all got

their starts there at

v ar io us t im es

throughout the building s history.

Samuel Cornell Wellington s

father, bought the Miami House

a b o u t

1879

w h e n

it w as c al le d T h e

Roger s House. It was operated

u n d e r

th e

firm

S a m u e l C o rn e l l

a nd S on

until

after

1900.

Wellington Cornell had a fasci

nating fami ly tree. Hi s father,

Samuel,

was

bo m May 2, 1798 at

Chemung

Ne w

York along the

Susquehanna River. Daniel

Cornwell (notice the change in

spelling - Cornwell was the original

spelling when three Cornwell broth

e rs c a m e

to

th e U nit ed S tates f ro m

Wales about 1698),

Samuel s

father,

was born in Dutchess County, New

Y ork an d w a s

a s o l d i e r

in th e

American Revolution. In 1792

Daniel moved to Canada, for politi

ca l reasons farmed

and

reared a

family including Samuel. During

the early 1800 s he moved with his

wife and family to Clear Creek


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Special to Tlic Joiiriiat

WAYNESVILVE

O.

July

25.

One of the oldest homes in the

Miami va lley is

that

occupied by

W. E. Cornell who lives

three

miles nortP^of WaynesvlUe on

rou te 42. The dwelling a lt ho ug h

modernized is 107

years

old

hav

ing been btiiit in 1829

The figures 1829/; written in

steel in the ancient bu t s tur dy

wails att ract the . attention of

many motorists who often stop to

inquire about the house. ^

The res idence is on a^

120 acre

farm purchased by

Mr.

Cornell in

1868 but in hia family for; years

before that. Amos Har ts oc k

grandfather of the present owner

and pioneer resident of the

Waynesville vicinity lived in it for

many years.^ith.

exception

of

a spacious fspfttAcross the front

the house looks much as it did

[when built more than a century

lago^

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