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Noble learned printing and founded a Democratic newspaper in Cleveland, the Cleveland Advertiser , in 1830 , when he was but 17. As the type was too wide for his display head-line he left out one letter and changed the spelling from “Cleaveland” to “Cleveland,” and the public adopted the change. In September, 1833 , he located to Fort Defiance , when all the Northwest Territory was "a howling wilderness inhabited by Indians". Mr. Noble was employed as a fur buyer for the American Fur Company , fur being the primcipal source of revenue in NW Ohio at the time. He later became agent for the American Land Company , and then laid out the city of Bryan , Ohio, which became the county seat of Williams County, Ohio . He served in the Ohio House Of Representatives , then as County Recorder and County Commissioner of Williams County. In 1856. Noble moved to Paulding , and became Probate Judge. For 12 years, he also collected the leases of the Miami and Erie Canal, the canal having ceased operations. Judge Noble died at Paulding, April 10 , 1889 . Source: Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, by Henry Howe, 1903. |
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