Acting as an agent for Joshua Stow, owner of the township, William also gave permission to Francis Kelsey and Isaac Wilcox to build a dam across the Cuyahoga River and to erect a sawmill.
)[2] Wetmore and Joshua Stow owned 210 acres (0.85 km2), the southern border being Portage Trail, and began developing Cuyahoga Falls in 1825.
Wetmore's sons, William Jr. and Henry, supervised 30 men who constructed a dam, gristmill, sawmill, paper and linseed oil mills.
[3] On the occasion of Edwin Wetmore's 21st birthday (1823), parents William and Anne gave him a 95-acre (380,000 m2) plot of land in the Village of Silver Lake, along an upscale suburban street, Kent Road, then it was the farm that helped sustain his family and in 1820, Edwin had already built a 2-story Connecticut style farmhouse on this property.
This tree-lined neighborhood stretches from the Wetmore house present site of the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, and runs several blocks.