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There is no way to know what the structure was. It may have housed the equipment for cutting
<br />and fabrication of the stone blocks used in the house.
<br />In addition to the importance of the Knight's new home, Richard and Emma were early active
<br />members of the Olmstead Universalist Church. They had first attended in 1838 when services
<br />were held in the Union House of Worship at the southeastern end of Butternut Ridge Road. In
<br />1847 the congregation had built a church at the corner of Lorain and Butternut Ridge roads.
<br />Richard Knight and Asher Coe were elected in 1849 to represent the congregation at the
<br />Universalist Association's annual meeting at Huntington in Lorain County. Knight served as
<br />chairman. On November 5, 1851 Knight introduced a resolution to rent pews for the church in
<br />order to defray the expenses of ministerial labor for the coming year. His name disappears from
<br />the church records after that date.
<br />Richard Knight was also active in the township, acting as one of the trustees in 1857, along with
<br />N. H. Austin, G. W. Laughlin; clerk, Eli Clemens; and treasurer, J. Spencer. Richard and Emma
<br />Knight's fourth child, Howard W. Knight was born in 1861, most likely in the new home built by
<br />his father.
<br />Sidney Beebe's wife, Sylva, passed away on December 20, 1863, at the young age of 33. Sidney
<br />Beebe remarried and, on December 1, 1865, Sidney and his second wife, Adaline, sold Sidney's
<br />original sixty-eight and one half acres of Lot 4 to Richard Knight, and his son, Eber Knight for
<br />$3,425. Less than a year later, on November 3, 1866, the Knight's sold Beebe's land, for $4,000,
<br />to William Geiger, owner of many stone quarries. Geiger purchased sixteen acres of Lot 14 from
<br />L. G. Porter for $2,400 on August 19, 1871. Seven months later, on March 19, 1872, Knight and
<br />Geiger traded small pieces of land, most likely to give Geiger full control of the stone quarry.
<br />Knight deeded a piece of Lot 4 to Geiger, and Geiger deeded a piece of Lot 14 to Knight.
<br />On January 13, 1873 Richard Knight sold his Lot 4 and Lot 14 properties for $9,300 to Paul and
<br />Mahitabel Jenkins, thus continuing the profitable journey, begun by Nehemiah Hubbard, for the
<br />owners of the Knight home and property. After the sale, Richard and Emma Knight moved to
<br />Akron. Richard eventually became the publisher of the Akron City Times, serving in that role
<br />"with great devotion" from 1875 to 1883.
<br />Paul Jenkins and his wife lived in their new home for almost two years before selling the house
<br />and farm to Clinton and Ellen Fauver, for $10,000, on December 17, 1874. Fauver owned the
<br />house and farm for less than four months, selling it all to Spicer H. and Selina Shaw for $11,000,
<br />on April 1, 1875. Spicer Shaw had previously owned land in Olmstead Township, having
<br />purchased 20 acres of land on Lot 5 from Charles Olmstead, on August 5, 1854. Less than two
<br />years later, Spicer sold that land on April 21, 1856. Little else is known about Spicer Shaw. His
<br />son, Arthur B. Shaw, lived on Railroad Avenue in Olmstead Falls and was described in later
<br />years as an efficient and capable station agent on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway,
<br />in Olmstead Falls, Ohio.
<br />Richard Knight's brother-in-law, Sidney L. Beebe died in 1879. His second wife, Adaline Beebe
<br />lived to the age of 80. She died in 1913. Both are buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
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