Calvin L. Noble, born October 13, 1813 in Trumbull County

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, Ohio

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, United States

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 is known primarily for spelling the name of Cleveland, Ohio

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 incorrectly.

Noble learned printing and founded a Democratic newspaper in Cleveland, the Cleveland Advertiser

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, 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

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, when all the Northwest Territory

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 was "a howling wilderness inhabited by Indians". Mr. Noble was employed as a fur

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 buyer for the American Fur Company

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, fur being the principal source of revenue in northwestern Ohio at the time.

He later became an agent for the American Land Company, and then laid out the city of Bryan, Ohio

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, which became the county seat of Williams County, Ohio

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. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives

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, then as County Recorder

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 and County Commissioner

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 of Williams County.

In 1856, Noble moved to Paulding

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, and became a probate judge

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. For 12 years, he also collected the leases of the Miami and Erie Canal

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, the canal having ceased operations.

Judge Noble died in Paulding on April 10, 1889.

Source: Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, by Henry Howe, 1903.