ASHTABULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, JEFFERSON, OHIO TRY THE NEW SEARCH ENGINE AND LET ME KNOW HOW IT WORKS SEARCH ENGINE When you reach the page you have been referred to by the search engine, search this page by going to the top of your browser, click Edit and then click find on this page. Type in the desired search word and click. This will take you to the places on the page where this word is found. It will take you through all of the places that this word is found on this page (RETURN TO THE HOME PAGE) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 1 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 PREFACE. FOR many months the author has given his diligent attention and study to the compilation of this volume. A great mass of material, sufficient perhaps to fill a book twice the size of this, was at hand, and, through the friendly offices of the county historical society, placed before him. It needed sifting; the facts obtained in many instances needed verification; important data not given had to be gathered. The problem was: a given amount of matter to he published and a safe limit prescribed, what should be taken and what rejected ? An error of the author's judgment may be frequently and palpably manifest to some, but his honest endeavor has been to include those fads and topics which seemed to him most pertinent and important ; his aim has been the attainment of relevancy and accuracy. If he and his associates could place in the hands of the patrons of this work a book absolutely free from inexact and irrelevant matter, he and they would deem their success a marvel. This is not to be expected. It would be unreasonable. The hope is that these defects will be few and of trifling character. The biographical department will be found to he an attractive feature of the history. A variety of excellent literary talent has contributed to the production of this portion of the work. The author believes the public will appreciate the publishers' suavest in securing the sketches of Joshua R. Giddings and Edward Wade, from the pen of Hon. A. a Riddle. The biographies of other prominent persons have been prepared by writers of acknowledged ability. The treatment which the author and the publishers have received at the hands of the people of Ashtabula County has been so uniformly kind and courteous that they feel incompetent to make fitting acknowledgment. Several leading citizens from the first have shown a personal interest in the publication of this history. This fact has served to greatly facilitate the author's and the publishers' labors, and to render. certain their success in producing a work that should be satisfactory to their patrons. The historical and philosophical society, in the appointment of committee in each township for the careful revision of the work, did the people and the publishers a great kindness. Each department of the history, save the biographical, has been submitted to these committees for their revision, and their certificates of attestation to its correctness obtained. The author's and the publishers' thanks are in a special manner due to the society's president, Hon. O. H. Fitch, and to the secretary, Hon. Henry Fassett, to A. C. Hubbard, Esq., and to Dr. J. C. Hubbard, to Hon. Abner Kellogg (whose unexpected death at the moment going to press we are called upon to deplore), to C. S. Simonds, Esq., to Hon. Edward H. Fitch, to all the county officers, including the county commissioners, and to the several township revisory committees. Others are entitled to mention ; but, if we were to begin, with whose name would propriety and justice permit us to stop? The anther's and publishers' gratitude can in no other way be so fittingly shown as in the inspiration which the people of Ashtabula County have given to them to labor elsewhere with increasing fidelity and earnestness. This they will do. With these words they place the book in the hands of its patrons, trotting that it will fill the measure of their just expectations. WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS, The Author. WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS, THEODORE F. 'WILLIAMS, The Publishers. LOUIS A. WILLIAMS, CONTENTS. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE   PAGE HISTORY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY I.—The Progress of Discovery           . II.—The Connecticut Western Reserve III—The Connecticut Land Company IV.—The Geography of the County V.—The Geology and Topography of the County VI.—The Mound Builders VII.—The Indians   VIII—The Parent State   IX.—Pioneer Settlements X.—Means of Communication XI—Civil Organization XII.—Social Life in Early Times XIII—Ashtabula's connection with the Anti-Slaver. Movement XIV.—Religious and Educational XV.—The Press.   XVI.—Societies XVII—The Ashtabula Railway Disaster 7 8 9 10 15 16 20 24 24 27 28 31 33 35 38 41 45 XVIII —Statistics   XIX.—The Military History of the County      Roster of Soldiers from Ashtabula County           War of 1812      Roster of Soldiers from Ashtabula County           War of the Rebellion HISTORIES OF THE TOWNSHIPS Andover Ashtabula Austinburg Cherry Valley Colebrook Conneaut Denmark Dorset Geneva Harpersfield Hartsgrove 48 49 57 58 215 130 185 236 211 154 213 209 173 169 254 Jefferson Kingsville Lenox Monroe Morgan New Lyme Orwell Pierpont Plymouth Richmond Rome Saybrook Sheffield Trumbull Wayne Williamsfield Windsor ERRATA 146 204 222 200 194 225 231 234 221 227 218 183 238 228 243 241 250 256 BIOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT Allen, Hon. D. C. Andrews, Benoni Atkins, Josiah Atkins, Hon. Q. F. Austin, Hon. Eliphalet Badger, Rev. Joseph H. Bartholomew, Rev. J. B. Beals, A. E. Bedell, Henry Belts, Iron. E. J. Blakeslee, Joel Booth, Charles Booth, Philo Brown, John Burington, N. Burrows, S. S., M.D. Cadwell, Hon. Darius Castle, Amasa, Jr. Caswell, N. S. Churchill, John Clark, Wesley Coleman, Elijah, M.D. Coleman, Nathaniel Cook, S. H. Cowles, Alfred Cowles, Miss Betsey R. Cowles, Miss Cornelia R. Cowles, Edwin Cowles, E. W., M.D Cowles, G. H., Cowles, Giles H. Cowles, Joseph B. Cowles, Capt. Lysander M. Cowles, Hon. Samuel Crosby, D. L. Crosby, Elijah Crosby, Levi Crowell, W. H. Crowell, William, Sr. Curtiss, C. E. Dibble, A. C. Farnham, Elisha Farrington, S. H., M.D. Fassett, Hon. Henry Fifield, A. K., M.D. Fifield, Greenleaf, M.D. Fitch, E. H.  Fitch, Hon. O. H. Fobes, Ferdinand 166 168 225 113 114 86 193 238 181 125 facing 212 92 143 230 167 120 93 143 182 230 238 119 248 126 103 100 101 97 99 93 192 192 193 102 126 220 220 125 220 208 167 167 120 104 121 127 92 90 249 Fobes, Henry C. Fobes, O. P. Fobes, Simon Follett, N.  Gaylord, Harvey R. Gaylord, Maj. Levi Gibson, Thomas Giddings, Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, William Gist, D. D., M.D. Hall, Rev. John Hammond, Edward Hardy, H. F. Harmon, Austin Harmon, Edward Hart , Elijah Holbrook, S. G., M.D. Howard. A. W. Howells, J. A. Howells, Hon. W. C. Howland, Hon. W. P. Hibbard. Henry Hubbard, J. C., M.D. Hubbard, Hon. Matthew Hubbard, William Hurlburt, E. O. Jones, Linus H. Jones, Samuel, Sr. Jones, Samuel, Jr. Kellogg, Hon. Abner Kellogg, Autos Kellogg, L. D., M.D. Kellogg, Martin Kellogg, Paulina Kellogg. Hon. William Kelley, Dr. D. E. Keyes, Gen. Henry Middle, John King, Mrs. Lydia Kingsley, M., M.D. Latimer, V. D. Lee, Ferdinand Leonard, Hon. E. B. Lindsley, H. Maltby, Nelson Mason, E. F. Mills, Deacon Joseph Morse, Rev. Eli. Northway, Hon. S. A. 180 249 249 235 118 116 107 72 242 between 148, 149 128 208 203 217 218 100 126 193 121 103 91 124 119 123 124 256 246 246 246 106 115 120 115 116 107 115 168 249 167 facing 208 198 123 125 237 181 125 194 242 92 Parker, Luther Peck, E. O. Peck, S. W. Pinney, W. K. . Poole, Calvin, Jr. Randall, B. C. Romney, Hon. Rufus P. Ramsom, Miss C. L. Raymond, D. W., M.D. Reed, James Rieg, J. P.  Robertson, J. P. Salisbury, Capt. O. Schramling, Alvin SeCheverell, Col. G. SeCheverell, Dr. J. H. Simonds, C. S. Simonds, W. T. Smith, Hull Smith, L. W. Smith, Plin Spelman, Dr. Luther Silencer, H. A. Spencer, H. C. Spencer, L. P. Spencer, Platt Rogers Simmer, Platt R., Jr. Spencer, R. C. Spencer, W. P. Spring, R. Captain A. W. Stone, James Talcott, Charles Tolima, Henry Thorp, Hon. Freeman Tinker, Charles Wade, Hon. B. F. Wade, Edward Warner, Hon. Jonathan Watrous, John B. Webster, E. M., M.D. Webster, H. H., M.D. Wilder, Hon. Horace Willard, George Woodbury, Hon. H. B. Wright, M. W.. Wyman, Rev. O. T. Young, Thaddeus S.. 181 228 179 203 168 facing 199 85 111 166 122 123 146 166 235 172 172 105 185 145 145 168 246 110 110 110 107 110 111 122 between 176, 177 126 199 180 153 119 between 176 177 67 84 115 144 127 127 89 144 91 208 169 125 6 - CONTENTS. ILLUSTRATIONS Court-House(Frontispiece) Map of Ashtabula County County Jail and Recorderss Office, with portraits of E. O.      Peck, E. G. Hurlburt, and W. T. Simonds County Infirmary Buildings, with portraits of Edward      Hammond, C. E. Curtiss, and M. W. Follett facing Ashtabula Disaster-Ruins of the Bridge Residence of Hon. B. F. Wade “ ” Portrait of Hon. B. F. Wade (steel). " " Joshua R. Giddings     . " " Edward Wade " " Rufus P. Ranney   " of Rev. Joseph Badger “ of Hon. O. H. Fitch " " Horace Wilder " " Abner Kellogg Portraits of Group of Attorneys : Hon. W. P. Howland, Hon. H.B. Woodbury, Hon. Edward H. Fitch, Hon. S. A. Northway, and Charles Booth Portrait of Hon. Darius Cadwell " C. S. Simonds " Edwin Cowlos (steel) " E. W. Cowles, M.D. (stool) " Miss Betsey Cowles (steel) " Miss Cornolia Cowles (stool) Portraits of Physicians' Group: Dr. John C. Hubbard, Dr. A. R.Fifield, Dr. L. D. Kellogg, Dr. S. S. Burrows, Dr. Elijah Colonies', and Dr. S. H. Farrington Portrait of Hon. William Kellogg " W. C. Howells " Henry Fasset Portraits of Editors' Group.: J. A. Howells, James Reed, Warren P. Spencer, J. P. Rieg, and Ferdinand Lee Portrait of Hon. Q. F. Atkins           . " Harvey R. Gaylord Portraits of Physicians' Group : Dr. S. G. Holbrook, Dr. H. H. Webster, Dr. Greenleaf Meld, Dr. E. M. Webster Portrait of lion. Freeman Thorp       .             . Portraits of Spencer Group: Prof. Platt R. Spencer, R. C. Spencer, H. C. Spencer, H. A. Spencer, Lyman P. Spencer, and Platt R. Spencer, Jr. Portraits of the Hubbard Group lion. Matthew Hubbard, William Hubbard, and Henry Hibbard Portraits of the County Officers' Group : Hon. E. J. Betts, W. H. Crowell, E. F. Mason, Hon. E. B. Leonard, D. L. Crosby, A. W. Stiles, T. S. Young, and S. H. Cook ANDOVER. Residence of Austin Harmon " C. Stillman, with portraits " and mills of C. H. Fitts  title-page facing 7 facing 31 facing 48 facing 45 facing 70 facing 67 72 84 86 86 90 89 106 facing 91 93 105 facing 99 facing 99 facing 101 facing 101 facing 121 107 103 104 facing 123 113 118 facing 127 119 facing 108 facing 124 facing 125 facing 217 facing 215 facing 216 ASHTABULA. Portrait of Philo Booth " Dr. D. E. Kelley Residence of George Willard; and interior and exterior Views of Store, with portraits Residence of John P. Robertson M. G. Dick " Wm. M. Eames " James P. Jennings Phoenix Iron-Works Exterior Views of Store and Opera-House of L. W. Smith & Son Interior View of Webb & Son's Store Carriage-Works of F. D. Fiokinger, with portrait 143 145 between 144, 145 facing 138 facing 130 facing 130 facing 135 facing 140 facing 142 facing 142 between 140, 141 Carriage-Works of Thorp & Pfaff. Flouring-Mills of Seymour & Son. AUSTINBURG. Portrait of Deacon Joseph Mills Residence of A. W. Howard, with portraits Residence of the late Rev. G. H. Cowles. Church at Austinburg CHERRY VALLEY Portrait of Joel Rice Williansfieldd Group) Residence of Wesley Clark, with portraits " A. E. Beals " " " H. Lindsley, " " COLEBROOK. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Blakeslee CONNEAUT. Portrait of Hon. D. C. Allen.  " General Henry Keyes Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Plin Smith. Portrait of Dr. D. W. Raymond " Nelson Burington " A. C. Dibble " Aunt Lydia King Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Bnoni Andrews Christian Church, with portraits of Rev. O. T. and Mrs. O. T. Wyman Residence of J. P. Rieg " S. J. Smith. Business Block of S. J. Smith Town Hall           . Residence of Thom. Gibson, with portraits   " Captain Salisbury, "   " Calvin Poole, “ Mill Property of Benton, Ayers A Cushing Portrait of E. Farnham DENMARK Residence of J. C. Andrews facing 138 facing 138 facing 188 facing 193 facing 188 facing 188 facing 242 facing 236 facing 238 facing 237 facing 212 between 166, 167 between 166, 167 between 168, 167 between 166, 167 between 166, 167 between 166, 167 between 166, 167 between 166, 167 facing 162 facing 162 facing 156 facing 156 facing 154 facing 160 between 158, 159 between 158, 159 165 facing 203 facing 213 GENEVA. Portrait of R. Spring   " Charles Tinker Residence of Charles Talcott, and exterior an interior Views of Store Residence of S. B. Munger   " N. S. Caswell, with portraits  “ N. H. Dickerman   " R. Spring   " H. W. Forman   " Henry C. Fobes Portraits of H. C. Fobes, Electa Fobes, Sanfords L. Fobes, Flora H. Fobes, David A. and Fanny C. Fish Public School Building Hotel of Thomas B. Taller Residence of Luther Parker   " Henry Bedell, with portraits   " Nelson Maltby, “   " Samuel W. Peek, "   " RobertWoodruff,; "   " Cynthia Hart, " Geneva Congregational Church HARPERSFIELD. Portraits of Dr. J. H.SeCheverelll and wife  “ Col. G. H. " “ Residence of M. Wharram between 176, 177 between 176, 177 between 178, 179 between 174, 175 facing 182 facing172 between 176, 177 facing 178 between 180, 181 between 180, 181 between 174, 175 facing 173 facing 176 between 180, 181 between 180, 181 facing 179 facing 177 facing 175 facing 183 facing 171 facing 171 facing 172  JEFFERSON Portrait of Dr. D. D. Gist Residence of H. P. Wade Property of Henry Talcott, with portraits Jefferson Educational Institute Residence of E. L. Mullen    " John Waters KINGSVILLE. Portrait of Dr. M. Kingsley Residence of Dr. E. M. Webster (Frontispiece) Kingsville Cemetery Residence of John Holmes   " H. P. Newton   " Stephen Sabin   " J. F. Blair   " Charles H. Crater MONROE. Portrait of H. F. Hardy   " William K. Pinney Residence of Hiram Griggs MORGAN Portrait of B. C. Randall   " Alonzo Moses Residence of the late James Stone, with portraits,   " E. O.Miller. Stores of Latimer & Thompson       .             . PIERPONT. Residence of Alvin Schramling, with portraits, ROME. Residences of L. and G. H. Crosby, with portraits Residence of Elijah Crosby SAYBROOK Residence of Isaac Brooks   " O. H. Calloway   " D. H. Kelley between 148, 149 facing 146 facing 153 facing 150 between 148, 149 between 148, 149 facing 208 facing 204 between 206, 207 facing 206 between 204, 205 between 204, 205 facing 207 facing 208 facing 203 facing 203 facing 162 facing 199 facing 199 facing 104 facing 196 facing 196 facing 234 facing 218 facing 220 facing 183 facing 183 facing 184 TRUMBULL Residence of John and Eleanor Churchill   “ John Brown, with portrait WAYNE Portrait of Roy. E. T. Woodruff   " Dr. Spelman   " Nathaniel Coleman   " Mrs. N. Coleman   " Samuel Jones, Sr.   “ Linus H. Jones   " Samuel Jones, Jr.   " Anson Jones Residence of O. P. Fobes, with portraits of  “ Simon and Ferdinand Residence of Rollin L. Jones, with portraits   " Wm. Kiddie WILLIAMSFIELD. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. William Giddings  “ Rev. Elias and Mrs. Abiah Morse WINDSOR. Residence of F. R. Smith   " S. C. Wilson   " Prof. E. Hamilton   " Thompson Higley facing 196 facing 228 between 248, 249 facing 245 facing 245 facing 245 between 246, 247 between 246, 247 between 246, 247 between 246, 247 between 248, 249 between 246, 247 facing 243 facing 242 facing 242 facing 250 facing 261 between 252, 253 between 252, 253