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Laundon House
Courtesy of Jeff Sigsworth: "The following was based on the research our Historical Society team compiled in 1975 for the court case that saved the building."
Original property owner – Heman Ely, Sr. (1775-1852) – 1817 to 1829
Founder in March 1817 of the future city of Elyria
Jonathan Trumbull Parsons (1805-1838) – 1829 to 1834 (never built here)
Came to Elyria in 1828 from Conn. with his wife Mary Catherine (Griswold) Parsons, sister of Dr. Luther Griswold; Jonathan owned a 110-acre farm on Lake Avenue which he sold in 1833 to Arad Smith
Heman Ely, Sr. (1775-1852) – July 10-13, 1834 (owned it again for 3 days)
1. Frederick Hamlin, Sr. (1783-1860), 1834-1845
(built the original 2-story north “wing”, 1837)
An original purchaser of property (and early pioneer) of Wellington Twp.
2. Heman Ely, Jr. (1820-1894) & Mary Harris (Monteith) Ely (d. 1849),
and Mary F. (Day) Ely (m. 1850) – 1845 to 1860
Mayor of Elyria (4 terms), real estate dealer & banker; son of Elyria’s founder
3. Thomas Winckles Laundon (1819-1897) – 1860 to 1897
(added the main part facing West Ave., Italianate stucco, in 1868)
From about 1845 to 1870, T. W. Laundon was associated in the dry goods business in downtown Elyria with Seymour Baldwin, the Starr brothers, and Thomas L. Nelson; in 1870 becoming president of the Elyria Savings & Deposit Bank (later the Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Co., and then First National Bank of Elyria)
4. William Eells (1839-1909) and Mary F. (Stacey) Miller – 1897 to 1905
(they never lived here; but rented to others, including E. E. Williams)
The Lorain County Historical Society was started in 1889 in their home at 318 West Ave. (now the Elyria YWCA)
5. Edward Everett Williams (1846-1913) & Laurette A. (Williams)
Williams – 1905 to 1919 (added the south garage wing, 1908)
Edward was a manufacturer & banker, and served 1876-1890 as Lorain County Treasurer. They lived in Avon Twp. until 1881, when they moved to Elyria – and their son Harrison C. Williams (1872-1953), was a NYC mega-millionaire before, during & after the 1929 Stock Market crash, and through the Great Depression
6. Ashton Garrett Bean (1871-1935) – 1919 to 1935
(added the billiard room over the garage wing, 1919)
St. Louis banker, came to Elyria in 1906 to reorganize and head up the Dean Electric Co. (later Garford Manufacturing); he later “rescued the White and Studebaker Motor companies from difficulties” and was president of the White Motor Co.
7. Frances Ashton Bean Vair (1895-1975), dau. of A. G. – 1935 to 1975
(a clause in her will ordered that the house be razed upon her death)
Mrs. John Stuart Vair (born 1898 in Scotland, died in 1950) – they were frequent world travelers
8. Lorain County Historical Society, Inc. – 1976 to 1990
(overturned the “must be razed” stipulation in Probate Court under Judge Harold S. Ewing, 1975; and briefly used it as a museum)
9. George Thomas Aden family (1914-2010) – 1990 to present
Courtesy of Jeff Sigsworth: "The following was based on the research our Historical Society team compiled in 1975 for the court case that saved the building."
Original property owner – Heman Ely, Sr. (1775-1852) – 1817 to 1829
Founder in March 1817 of the future city of Elyria
Jonathan Trumbull Parsons (1805-1838) – 1829 to 1834 (never built here)
Came to Elyria in 1828 from Conn. with his wife Mary Catherine (Griswold) Parsons, sister of Dr. Luther Griswold; Jonathan owned a 110-acre farm on Lake Avenue which he sold in 1833 to Arad Smith
Heman Ely, Sr. (1775-1852) – July 10-13, 1834 (owned it again for 3 days)
1. Frederick Hamlin, Sr. (1783-1860), 1834-1845
(built the original 2-story north “wing”, 1837)
An original purchaser of property (and early pioneer) of Wellington Twp.
2. Heman Ely, Jr. (1820-1894) & Mary Harris (Monteith) Ely (d. 1849),
and Mary F. (Day) Ely (m. 1850) – 1845 to 1860
Mayor of Elyria (4 terms), real estate dealer & banker; son of Elyria’s founder
3. Thomas Winckles Laundon (1819-1897) – 1860 to 1897
(added the main part facing West Ave., Italianate stucco, in 1868)
From about 1845 to 1870, T. W. Laundon was associated in the dry goods business in downtown Elyria with Seymour Baldwin, the Starr brothers, and Thomas L. Nelson; in 1870 becoming president of the Elyria Savings & Deposit Bank (later the Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Co., and then First National Bank of Elyria)
4. William Eells (1839-1909) and Mary F. (Stacey) Miller – 1897 to 1905
(they never lived here; but rented to others, including E. E. Williams)
The Lorain County Historical Society was started in 1889 in their home at 318 West Ave. (now the Elyria YWCA)
5. Edward Everett Williams (1846-1913) & Laurette A. (Williams)
Williams – 1905 to 1919 (added the south garage wing, 1908)
Edward was a manufacturer & banker, and served 1876-1890 as Lorain County Treasurer. They lived in Avon Twp. until 1881, when they moved to Elyria – and their son Harrison C. Williams (1872-1953), was a NYC mega-millionaire before, during & after the 1929 Stock Market crash, and through the Great Depression
6. Ashton Garrett Bean (1871-1935) – 1919 to 1935
(added the billiard room over the garage wing, 1919)
St. Louis banker, came to Elyria in 1906 to reorganize and head up the Dean Electric Co. (later Garford Manufacturing); he later “rescued the White and Studebaker Motor companies from difficulties” and was president of the White Motor Co.
7. Frances Ashton Bean Vair (1895-1975), dau. of A. G. – 1935 to 1975
(a clause in her will ordered that the house be razed upon her death)
Mrs. John Stuart Vair (born 1898 in Scotland, died in 1950) – they were frequent world travelers
8. Lorain County Historical Society, Inc. – 1976 to 1990
(overturned the “must be razed” stipulation in Probate Court under Judge Harold S. Ewing, 1975; and briefly used it as a museum)
9. George Thomas Aden family (1914-2010) – 1990 to present