(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 200 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY The subject of this sketch was reared in Conneaut, Ohio, where he received a common- school education. At about the age of twelve years he entered the employ of his brother, a successful liveryman and stage proprietor, with whom he remained until he was about twenty years of age. Mr. Jones, of this notice, then took charge of a hotel at Union Mills, Pennsylvania, which his brother had bought, and in which city his brother conducted a stage line. In 1865, the brothers went to Erie, Pennsylvania, where they purchased a flouring mill, which they successfully operated six years. The subject of this sketch then went to Kansas, and there entered the stock business, which he profitably continued five years. He then returned to Ashtabula county and entered the employ of Bailey, Paine & Weatherston, successful millers of Jefferson. Subsequently, Mr. Jones bought out the interest of Mr. Weatherston in the business, and afterward other changes took place in the firm, until, in 1878, Mr. Jones became sole proprietor of the plant, which he has since successfully operated. This mill has a capacity of seventy-five barrels a day, is supplied with all the latest improvements and turns out an excellent grade of flour, which finds a ready market at profitable rates. This prosperity is due to the careful and efficient management of Mr. Jones, who adds to his thorough knowledge of the business, indomitable perseverance and industry, a combination capable of accomplishing wonders. October 30, 1868, Mr. Jones was married to Emily Blinn, daughter of Rev. T. D. Blinn, who died leaving one son, Elmo B. In 1885, Mr. Jones married Helen Deveraux, and they have one child, Ruth. Of thorough integrity, public-spirited, liberal-minded and progressive, Mr. Jones has taken an active interest in the welfare of his city, and holds a high position in the regard of the community. Mr. Jones is a member of the Masonic order, Tuscan Lodge, No. 342, and the I. 0.,O. F., Ensign Lodge, No. 400. In politics, he is a Prohibitionist. TIMOTHY C. STRONG, JR., a prosperous and influential farmer and dairyman of Ashtabula township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, is descended from one of the oldest and best known families in this county. His ancestors were hardy New Englanders, his grandfather, Nathan Strong, one of the earliest settlers of Ohio, having been born in Connecticut in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He was a man of unusual ability and energy, and was easily a leader in any community in which he resided. He was for many years Sheriff in his native county in New England and afterward in Trumbull county, Ohio, when it included Ashtabula county, and when Warren was the seat of government for that territory. During the Revolutionary war, he was Quartermaster in the patriotic army, serving with efficiency and distinction. In 1808 he came West with a deed from the Connecticut Land Company for a large tract of school land, aggregating. several hundred acres, situated on the town site of Ashtabula. He married Lucy. Cornell, and they had nine children: Polly, Nathan, Lucy, Samuel, Jabez, Nathaniel; Timothy, father of the subject of this sketch; Elihu and Sarah. Timothy Strong, father of Mr. Strong of this notice, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, May 12, 1795, and accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1808, being then thirteen years of age. He attained his growth in OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 201 Ashtabula county and became a successful farmer and dairyman, in which dual enterprise he was engaged many years, when he substituted sheep culture for dairying, an occupation which he followed until the time of his death. He was an enthusiastic Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, and gave much thought and labor to the local organization of his party, he and a few others controlling the politics of Plymouth township. One great desire of his life was to live to see the election of a Democratic president after the war, but this he was not permitted to do. He thought he was entitled to a pension for service in the war of 1812, but when the papers were submitted to him for his signature, placing him on the rolls, he could not conscientiously sign them, though many other individuals secured such recognition by signing the documents without hesitation or conscientious scruples. This is but one of many instances of his upright and honorable disposition. He married Althea Cook, daughter of Erastus Cook, originally from New York State, and an early settler in Ohio. They had four children: Harriet P., who married A. Pattison, formerly an Indian trader, and later a wealthy merchant of Monmouth; Erastus C., deceased; Erastus, the second; and Timothy C., the subject of this sketch. The last mentioned, whose name heads this notice, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, November 20, 1837, and secured his education in the district schools. He was reared to farming, in which he has been engaged all his life, having lived on his present place for fifty-five years. In connection with general farming, he was for a number of years employed in raising sheep, but later devoted his attention to the more profitable business of retailing milk. He owns 400 acres of as choice farming land as is to be found in the county, all of which has been carefully cultivated and improved with buildings and all modern conveniences, until it is now one of the show places of the vicinity, and evinces plainly to all who see it that Mr. Strong is a practical and energetic farmer, with the industry to do and the intelligence to guide his efforts to successful accomplishment. January 5, 1859, Mr. Strong was married to Mary A. Willey, a lady of intelligence and refinement, daughter of Andrew Willey, whose biography immediately follows, and who was an early settler of Ashtabula county. They had five children: A. W., born October 12, 1859, married Hattie Umstead; Carrie A., born in 1863, died April 13, 1864; Lewis E., born January 15, 1866; Frank E , born December 29, 1871, and Julia B., born October 13, 1874, died February 7, 1880. In politics, Mr. Strong follows in the footsteps of his father, although he is not quite as active a worker for Democracy as his immediate progenitor. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Royal Arch Masons and the Knights Templar. As a business man and citizen, he enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him, and, with his family, is held in high social esteem. Another old and prominent family of Ashtabula county and closely connected with the Strong family, both by marriage and friendship, is that bearing the name of Willey, a family which is also from New England and of Puritan ancestry, the sterling qualities of which race they inherit in a strong degree. Charles Willey, their ancestor, was horn in New Hampshire in 1742, and was an efficient soldier in the Revolutionary war, being a pensioner at the time of his death. He was a farmer, and when an hundred years old took active part in the work of the hay-field. After a useful life of remarkable longevity he died 202 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY at the age of 107 years. He was the father of four children, of whom Andrew, previously referred to, was the youngest. Andrew Willey, the founder of the family in Ashtabula county., was born in Nottingham, New Hampshire, March 2, 1792, and grew to manhood in the State of his birth. At the age of twenty-four, he joined the western tide of emigration and came to Ohio, settling in Ashtabula county. He and party came overland on horseback, and were several weeks on the way, many incidents of more than usual interest being connected with the journey. He was a blacksmith by trade, and he resumed this occupation on his arrival in Ashtabula county, in partnership with Holl Smith, Deacon Fisk and other early settlers. About 1820, Mr. Willey built, on his farm, a shop, where he followed his trade for a time, until he began teaming from Ashtabula to Pittsburg. He followed the latter occupation successfully until 1853, when the canal between Cleveland and adjoining points was completed. This new channel of transportation drew to itself most of the carrying trade, thus injuring his business, which he abandoned. He then turned his attention to farming, which he continued until his death. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, being held in reserve at Lundy's Lane, but was not called into active service. His colonel was ex-Senator Silley and his captain was Josiah Bartlett. In politics, he was a strong Democrat and participated prominently in the cause, being known throughout the county asa leader and untiring worker for the Jeffersonian party and as a Freemason. He was married January 22, 1820, to Almira Jones, who was born August 26, 1803, and was a daughter of William Jones, a well-known pioneer, whom we will mention more at length later on. They had eleven children: William J., born May 14, 1821, deceased; Lucy, born August 11, 1823, deceased; Lydia, born February 2, 1825, married W. A. Robertson; Lucy, born August 13, 1826, married Mr. Allcock ; Julia, May 12, 1828, became the wife of Henry Ripley; Charles, March 14, 1835; Albert P.; Almira, December 11, 1838, deceased; Mary, September 29, 1840; Horace, May 13, 1844; Elizabeth, November 8, 1847; and John, May 23, 1849. William Jones, previously mentioned, was born in Connecticut in 1783, and was a carpenter and joiner by trade, but in later life followed farming. He came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1808, and his daughter, Almira, previously mentioned, is probably the oldest living pioneer of this county. Mr. Jones served faithfully and well in the war of 1812. He was married October 31, 1802, to Lucy Hubbard, who was born November 24, 1784, and who also belonged to an old and respected family of the county. Their children were: Almira; James, born May 13, 1805; Susan, born December 12, 1806; Julia, November 5, 1808; Horace, February 9, 1813; Lucy, May 10, 1817; Elizabeth, October 11, 1822; and John, November 9, 1821. After his wife's death, Mr. Jones married again in March, 1826, and the children by the second marriage were: Rosalind, born March 9, 1827; Mary E., May 8, 1828; William J., June 17, 1832; and Peter S., in August, 1835. Mr. Jones died March 8, 1869, universally lamented. Albert P. Willey, the seventh child of Andrew and Almira (Jones) Willey, for many years a prosperous and influential farmer and citizen of his vicinity, was born in the house in which he now resides, in Plymouth township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, March 29, 1837. He has worked on the same farm all his life, with the exception of one year,1864, which he passed in California. He owns a OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 203 tract of 250 acres, which is devoted to general fanning, and which, evinces by its thrifty condition the excellent care and management of the proprietor. Mr. Willey was a member of the regiment called the " Squirrel Hunters" at the time of the late war, and went with his command to Cincinnati when General Kirby Smith, of the Confederate army, was threatening that point. August 22, 1873, Mr. Willey was married, by Rev. J. M. McGiffert, to Mrs. Fannie Ford, daughter of Lewis Gilbert, who came to Ashtabula county in 1848, when he was fifty years of age. He was the father of five children: Emily, born February 22, 1829, married Dr. P. E. Hall ; Amiral, December 19, 1832; E., February 21, 1837; David, March 13, 1840; and Fannie, now Mrs. Willey, born in Seneca Falls, New York, January 24, 1843. Mrs. Willey had one child by her former marriage, now Mrs. Fannie Osborn, who was born December 28, 1864. The children of her present marriage are: Albert L., born December 10, 1874; Andrew, born January 15, 1876; Sophia A., born October 19, 1879, and Laura E., September 22, 1883; all of whom bid fair to reflect credit on the State and county of their birth. JOHN WINSHIP HASKELL, deceased. —One of the representative men and pioneers to whom Ashtabula owes much of her growth and present development, is the late John W. Haskell, the subject of this memoir. He was a descendant of old Puritan stock, and was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, August 16, 1810, being the son of Aretas Haskell and Betsey Moody. Upon the death of his wife Betsey, the father married Annie Folsom, who was of that family from whom Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland descended. The elder Haskell (Aretas) was born in Vermont, in 1783, of Welsh ancestry. He spent his entire life in that State, dying in 1858, at the age of seventy-five years. John Winship was reared at home, securing his education at the common schools. His youth was spent in various kinds of work until he arrived at the age of twenty-four years. At this period, 1834, he started out in life for himself, seeking the West as the most advantageous country in which to better his condition. He first located at Conneaut, where for a time he was engaged in school- teaching and in peddling goods, in the northern part of the State. Later on he settled at South Ridge, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for several years. In 1846 he removed to Conneautville, Pennsylvania, where he continued his mercantile business and also engaged in the manufacture and sale of lumber. He and his partner, Edwin R. Williams, erected the first steam sawmill in that section of the country, the same being located at Steamburgh, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. The enterprise created quite a sensation and people came from Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and many other points to see it. It was predicted by the people in that vicinity that this mill would cut up all the timber in that part of the country in a few years. It is worthy of note that this mill is still in operation, and that there yet appears to be plenty of timber for it to work upon. This mill marked the introduction of steam power fog running mills in this section of the country. In 1857, Mr. Haskell again moved to Ohio, settling this time in Ashtabula, where he followed the same business, making lumbering and the shipping trade on the lakes special features, together with railroad building. The 204 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY advantages of lake transportation were the principal cause of his removal. He, with his partners, Oran Baldwin and Edwin R. Williams, under the firm name of O. Baldwin & Co., secured the contract for the construction of the Ashtabula & New Lisbon Railroad from Ashtabula harbor, on lake Erie, to the Ohio river. The work on the road was suspended on account of hard times brought about by short crops. The firm took mortgages on the road-bed and other property, which subsequently they disposed of. The road was finally completed and is now known as the Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula Rail road. In 1836 Mr. Haskell was united in marriage, at South Ridge, to Mary Ann, daughter of Jacob and Lydia (Wright) Williams, a native of Ashtabula county, Ohio. , Four children were born to them: David Williams, Marshall Harrison, William Cassius and Ida, now Mrs. Frank Sherman. They also adopted Fannie Harriet as their daughter. Mr. Haskell departed this life at Ashtabula, Ohio, November 1.2, 1885, having lived to the same age as did his father. Mr. Haskell was originally a Free Soiler, but upon the formation of the Republican party he became an advocate of its principles, never, however, seeking public office. During his earlier years he was a member of the Baptist Church, but later on in life he joined the Presbyterian Church, of which he was for many years an Elder. Mr. Haskell was eminently a self-made man, the architect of his own fortune. By his energy, perseverance and good financial judgment, by his strict integrity and honorable business methods, he accumulated a fortune and established an enviable reputation. He was a man of noble character, public, spirited, liberal and charitable, giving generously to the poor and to the church. To his family he was much devoted, looking carefully after their wants, and making the domestic hearth his place of rest. He died as he had lived, a Christian, holding the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. David Williams Haskell, the oldest son of John Winship Haskell, was born at South Ridge, Ashtabula county, Ohio, April 14, 1838. He was educated at the common schools, and in 1857 accompanied his father to Ashtabula, which has since been his home. For a time he was associated with his father in business, but subsequently started in business for himself, conducting a dry-goods store for about ten year in a very successful manner. He is now conducting a lumber business and has also extensive interests in real estate, operating chiefly in his own realty. Mr. Haskell was married at Ashtabula, December 24, 1861, to Harriet E., the accomplished daughter of Honorable Henry Fassett, whose portrait and biography will be found in another part of this volume. This estimable lady met an untimely death, departing this life in October, 1862, to the great sorrow of her devoted and loving husband and her numerous friends. She was a woman of fine culture and rare musical talent, of a sweet, winning disposition, and much beloved by her many admirers. June 12, 1867, Mr. Haskell was married the second time, to Julia Ann, the amiable and talented daughter of Joseph D. and Lucinda C. (Hall) Hulbert, whose portraits and biographies appear in this work. This union has been blessed with eight children: Harriet Fassett, born May 16, 1868; Mary Lucinda, born August 22, 1870; Josephine Dewey, born April 10, 1872 ; Phyana Hulbert, born April 29, 1874; Julia Dewey, born January 2, 1876; Alma Chadwick, born No- OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 205 vember 16, 1878; Andrew Stone, born September 4, 1880; and Ethel Williams, born November 22, 1882,---all living but Josephine, who died October 10, 1872, and Julia, who died April 28, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Haskell are members of the Congregational Church, the former holding the positions of Trustee and Treasurer. He is a member of the Masonic Order, and has taken the Royal Arch degree. Mr. Haskell is a gentleman of good presence, genial, social disposition and winning manners. He is liberal in his views, progressive and interested in the development of his native Aunty; he is a worthy representative of his noble father and is held in high esteem by the community in which he was born and reared, and by all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. MARQUIS D. TOWNSEND, Post-master of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Windsor county, Vermont, October 23, 1835, son of William and Hannah G. (Bigelow) Townsend, the former a native of MassaChusetts and the latter of Vermont. Grandfather Thomas Townsend and his brother Daniel were Revolutionary soldiers, Daniel being killed in that war. William Townsend went front Massachusetts to Vermont at an early day and settled on a farm. He was twice married in that State, first in 1806, to Miss Susan Smith, a native of New Hampshire, all of his children 14 her having passed away, the last one, Aurelia, wife of Rev. Horace Herrick, dying in 1801, at the age of eighty yéars. Mr. Townsend and his second wife, Hannah 0-. Bigelow, whom he wedded in 1820, had eight children, the oldest dying in infancy and the others being as follows: Eliza, a fine scholar and popular teacher, has been engaged in teaching for many years in Vermont ; Frederick V. A., who married Aurelia Royse, lives in Vermont; Isabel, wife of Henry Waterman, is a resident of Kansas; F. Torrey, who married Charlotte Stebbins, is a merchant and Postmaster at Clay, Iowa; Van Buren mar, tied Anna Austin and lives in Florida; Yelette P. married Emily Stebbins, and after her death Eliza Ann Hallet, and at this writing he is Postmaster of Quinsigamond, Massachusetts; and Marquis D., whose name heads this article. The mother of this family died in 1884, at Redding, Vermont, aged ninety ,years. She was a member of the Congregational Church. The father passed away'in 1865, at the same place, at the age Of eighty-five. Mr. Townsend was reared on his father's farm in Vermont and was educated there. In 1856, he went to Washington county, Iowa, where he settled on a farm and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until the war came on. August 15, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Fifteenth Corps, and served two years, participating in numerous engagements, the siege of Vicksburg and the battles leading up to that siege, etc. Twice his clothes were pierced with bullets. About the time of the surrender of Vicksburg he was taken sick and as this unfitted hint for further field service he was sent to Catnip Chase, Ohio, where he served as Librarian and General Ward Master of the Hospital until July 15, 1864, the date of his discharge. After his discharge from the service, Mr. Townsend came to Conneaut and engaged in the mercantile business, he and his partner, James Babbitt, conducting one of the two leading stores in the town until 1878, when 206 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY they closed out. Mr. Townsend was then on the road as traveling salesman for about ten years, the most of the time representing the Record Manufacturing Company, of Conneaut. He traveled until he received from President Harrison his commission as Postmaster, in February, 1891, since which time he has been serving in that capacity most efficiently. He has been Councilman and Recorder of Conneaut several terms and has served as Cemetery Director eight or ten years. September 19, 1858, Mr. Townsend married Miss Cordelia Hicks, of Conneaut, daughter of Josiah and Julia Ann (Badger) Hicks. She died October 21, 1870, at the age of thirty-five years, leaving one daughter, Carrie C., now the wife of D. B. Phillips, of Conneaut. Mrs. Townsend was a granddaughter of Elder Badger, the noted Congregational missionary. September 29, 1874, Mr. Townsend wedded Miss Mary A. Palmer, his present companion. She was born in Girard, Erie county, Pennsylvania, October 25, 1846, the oldest of a family of four children, her parents being James and Nancy (Martin) Palmer, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of New York. Her father was one of the early pioneers of Erie county, where he developed a farm and reared his family, and where he lived for thirty-six years, his. death occurring in 1870. He was seventy-six years of age, and his wife, who died in 1885, was aged seventy-seven years. Both were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the rest of the Palmer family we record that William H., the second-born, a farmer and dealer in produce and agricultural implements at Girard, Pennsylvania, died in 1874, aged forty-three years; Fanny is the wife of Hon. C. G. Griftey of Michigan, at one time member of the State Legislature; and J. G. Palmer is a druggist in Conneaut. Mrs. Townsend was a popular and efficient teacher in Girard for several years previous to her marriage. They have had two children, namely: Fanny G., born January 7, 1878, a pupil in the public high school, is devoting much of her time to music, for which she has already developed a special talent; and Mildred, who died in 1886, aged seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Townsend are members of the Congregational Church of Conneaut, the former having served in various official capacities. He was Sunday-school Superintendent several years, and at the present time a Deacon of the church. He also served on the Building Committee during the erection of the new church edifice. He is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Honor, the Royal Templars, and the Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., in all of which his influence is felt for good, he frequently being chosen to occupy important official positions in these orders. Mr. Townsend has been a very influential G. A. R. man. He was chosen Commander of the Custer Post in 1876, and was re-elected four consecutive terms; was chosen. Assistant Adjutant General in 1878, and Chaplain in 1880 and 1881. On account of disabilities incurred while in the service he is drawing a pension. He has been identified with the Republican party ever since its organization. In the Lincoln campaign of 1860, he laid aside business affairs and gave his whole time in helping to organize the Republican party in his county (Washington, Iowa). Such is a brief sketch of one of the most highly respected citizens of Conneaut, and of one who has contributed largely toward its developments. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 207 GEORGE W. DICKINSON.--None , more justly deserves mention in these pages than the subject of this sketch, who has been identified with the best interests of Ashtabula, Ohio, since 1859, contributing by his financial ability and moral worth to its general advancement. He descends from sturdy New England ancestry, whose progenitors came to America from Wales in 1638 and settled in Hadley, Massachusetts. Ozias Dickinson, his grandfather, was a native of Wethersfield, Connecticut, and a farmer by occupation. He was an efficient soldier in the war of 1812, serving principally on Long island. Be married Chloe Belden, also a native of Wethersfield, descended from an old and honorable family. They had five children: Moses, Julia, Edward, Nathan and James, of whom Moses, father of the subject of this sketch, is the sole survivor. In 1856, he removed to Ashtabula, county, Ohio, and died in Sheffield, that county, in 1881, at the advanced age of ninety-seven years, universally lamented as a man of ability and worth of character. He and his devoted wife were spared to each other for nearly seventy-seven years. For seventy-five years he voted the Democratic ticket. In religion he was a Presbyterian by preference, although not a member of that church. Moses Dickinson, father of the subject of this sketch, was born November 12, 1805, in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was reared and educated, afterward learning the profession of architecture, at which he worked through life. He was married in Guilford, Connecticut, to Miss Julia Hubbard, born in Saybrook, that State, in 1809. In 1848, he removed with his family to Ashtabula, Ohio, where he soon afterward established a sash and blind factory, the first one in northern Ohio to be operated by steam, and this he successfully conducted for ten years. He and his worthy wife were the parents of seven children, six of whom attained maturity, five now surviving. Their married life was sixty-three years in duration, the faithful wife and mother dying in Ashtabula, November, 1890, aged eighty-one years. The father still survives and resides in Ashtabula, which has been his home for forty-five years, and where he is as highly respected as he is widely known. He was originally Democratic in politics, but became a Republican on the organization of that party. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. George W. Dickinson, whose name heads this sketch, was born in Watertown, Connecticut, August 11, 1831, and was reared in New Haven, that State, where he attended the public schools. He learned the jewelers trade in the City of Elms, after which, in 1850, he came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, whither his father had preceded him. He spent two years here, when, in 1852, he re, moved to Memphis, Tennessee, remaining there seven years, at the end of which time, in 1859, he returned to Ashtabula, where he has since been successfully engaged in the jewelry business, gaining foremost rank as a man of financial ability and enterprise, During the civil war, he was Military Corn-, niitteeman for Ashtabula, and put every volunteer there in the field from the first to the last call, and has since served in various municipal positions of trust and importance. In 1854, Mr. Dickinson married Miss Mary J. Loveland, a lady well known in Ashtabula society, and they have two sons and three daughters. Mr. Dickinson and family are members of the Presbyterian Church, to which they render much valuable aid. 208 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Politically, Mr. Dickinson advocates the principles of the Republican party. Socially, he belongs to the Masonic order, which he joined in 1852. He has arisen to the rank of a Knight Templar Mason and has had all the honors of the order conferred upon him through all the chairs in the blue lodge, the chapter and the commandry. Thus is honorably transmitted a name which has been handed down by a long line of illustrious ancestors, distinguished in the civil and military history of the country. PETER H. WATSON, assistant in the War Department during the late rebellion and for many years an honored resident of Ashtabula, Ohio, now deceased, will long be remembered with affection by his many friends and acquaintances. To them no extensive notice is necessary to recall to their minds this once honored friend, and only a brief summary is given to prove that though departed he is not forgotten. He was essentially a self-made man. Beginning his career in Washington city as a solicitor of patents, he gradually rose by indefatigable industry and perseverance to the highest point in his profession. When Mr. E. M. Stanton was called as Secretary of War to the cabinet of President Lincoln, Mr. Watson, at Mr. Stanton's urgent request, abandoned his law practice and became the Secretary's assistant in the war office, and during those stirring times rendered important and valuable service in his department. On the close of the war, like many other members of that remarkable administration, he returned to private life unheralded to resume the quiet pursuits once abandoned at the earnest call of his country. He engaged in scientific research and kindred pursuits, to which he was inseparably wedded, and, although little before the public, was none the less personally known and esteemed by the great men of his day. Not a little. singular is the coincidence that he died July 22, 1885, on the same day as did General Grant, for which patriot and soldier he had the highest admiration, having known this great commander intimately at a time when men's souls were truly tried. If he lived unnoticed in private life, not so did he die. His death, at the age of sixty-eight years, occurred in his apartments at the Albert Hotel, corner of Eleventh street and University place, Ashtabula, Ohio. This event was a signal for wide-spread mourning and general expressions of sorrow. The scientific world hastened to accord to him a full meed of praise for his efforts in its behalf, while his faithful and indefatigable services throughout the rebellion enlisted for him the sincere admiration of the people, and his name is written in letters of gold in many sympathetic hearts. ELTON H. STILES was born in Warrensville, Ohio, February 10, 1853. In 1858 he moved to Rome, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where the greater part of his life was spent until 1887, when he moved to Newton Falls, Ohio, where he was engaged in the ship-timber business for a number of years. There he met with the sad accident which caused his death. His leg was caught in the machinery of a sawmill, and was wrenched from his body, his death resulting three-quarters of an hour later. This occurred May 17, 1889. Mr. Stiles was formerly engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was a prominent and active member of OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 209 the Presbyterian Church, as also is his wife, and with the Odd Fellow and Knights of Pythias lodges he was prominently identified. By nature he was generous and charitable, ever giving of his means to promote all enterprises he deemed for the best interest of his community, never turning a deaf ear to the poor and needy. In politics, he was an ardent Republican. He filled several local offices. For several years he was Township Clerk, and he also filled the office of Assessor and Census Enumerator. Mr. Stiles was the youngest brother of Captain A. W. Stiles, a well-known resident of Ashtabula county. At his death Mr. Stiles left a widow, also three children, namely: Lee, born November 29, 1879; Emir, September 25, 1882 ; and Elliot, August 27, 1884. Mrs. Stiles was before her marriage Miss Carrie J. Crosby. Her father, Elijah Crosby, was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, and in October, 1831, was married to Elizabeth L. Chester. In early life he followed the trade of carpenter and joiner, but for many years he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a Republican in politics, and has held various township ofikes, always performing with the strictest fidelity the duty entrusted to him. The year he was married he and his wife joined the Presbyterian Church, and since that time have remained active and consistent inembers of the same. Their family of children is as follows: Lydia A., born December 23, 1832, was married May 3, 1861, to J. W. Springer; Frank E., July 29, 1834, married Emma Wood, September 12, 1863; Orietta M., born August 5, 1836, married Oliver Smith, August 31, 1856; Elliot M., born February 28, 1839, married Betsy Crowell August 20, 1865, and died January 5, 1876; Albert C., born January 24, 1842, married Sylvia Fobes December 23, 1870; Sarah K, born May 2, 1844, married E. J. Crowell December 16, 1866; Plicebe C., born February 22, 1847, died Ootober 29, 1876; Alice L., born April 22, 1850; and Carrie J., born November 18, 1856. LUCIUS D. BADGER.-There is no more representative family of Ashtabula county, Ohio, than that by the name of Badger, whose early ancestor in this State, Rev. Joseph Badger, was a pathfinder, not only blazing a way through the wilderness for others to follow, but by his upwright living and moral teaching, making it a good place in which to live. He was the first missionary in the Ohio Western Reserve, and was born in New England in 1757, of hardy Puritan stock. In 1766, his father removed to Partridgeville, Connecticut, from which place young Joseph enlisted in the Colonial army in February, 1775, becoming a member of Captain Nelson Watkins' company and Colonel Patterson's regiment, stationed at Litchfield Point. His service was active and faithful and was terminated by request of the society having charge of mission work on the frontier. On severing his connection with the army, he was appointed to an itinerancy in the Black River settlement, in New York State, where his labors were protracted until it became apparent that he was the right man to successfully undertake and execute a more difficult work. He was accordingly urged to accept work in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and he therefore, on November 15, 1800, began his journey thither on horseback, reaching the field and preaching his first sermon in the State at Youngstown, on the last Sunday in December of the same year. He 210 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY visited the scattered homes, swam streams and underwent all the hardships incidental to pioneer experience for nearly a year and a half, finally returning to his home, which he reached January 1, 1802. He then began to prepare his family for the journey to their new home, where they arrived a few months later. He built bridges, cut roads, blazed trees and guided his little flock through a hitherto unexplored country, his being the first wagon west of Buffalo, New York. His salary was $6 a week, at a time when living expenses were as high as now, and on this amount he was expected to support himself and family. At the time of the war of 1812, he was appointed chaplain in the army, and was much of the time busily engaged in caring for the sick of the service, near Ashtabula. Rev. Dr. Badger, on account of his familiarity with the country in Michigan, to which his ministerial duties had often taken him, was selected by General Harrison to pilot the army through from Ohio to Fort Meigs, which service he performed most creditably. Rev. Dr. Badger was married in October, 1781, in Connecticut, to Lois Noble, and they had five children: Henry Langdon, Julian, Lucius, father of the subject of this sketch; Sarah and Joseph. His wife dying, he was married a second time, in 1819 to Abigail Ely, who survived him six months. His death occurred in Maumee, Ohio; in 1847, while he was in the active exercise of his duty, thus terminating a life which was rich in good works and in all things tending to glorify the Master. His loss was widely and deeply mourned by those in whose interest he had so unselfishly labored, while his name is still held in grateful remembrance by their descendants. Lucius Badger, his son, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1790, and early became familiar with pioneer life. He accompanied his father on many trips through the wilds of Ohio and Michigan, enduring the fatigues and hardships without a murmur, although but a boy of fifteen. On attaining his growth, he chose the pursuit of farming, which he successfully followed during his whole active career. He was called into service in the war of 1812, but was not needed. He was married March 8, 1811, to Hulda Pringle, daughter of Gideon Prindle, of Vermont, and they had eleven children: Julia Ann, married Josiah Hicks, deceased; Sallie Lois, wife of John Crowell, of Ashtabula: Joseph, in Washington county, Iowa; Hulda deceased, who married Walker Richmond: William, deceased; Gideon Noble; Lucius Day, whose name heads this sketch; Gideor Noble, the second; Fidelia, now Mrs. Mona Waterman of Washington county, Iowa! Milton, living in Colorado; and M. Elenor wife of John Farly, a resident of Hill City, Kansas and County Clerk of Graham county Lucius D. Badger has been variously employed as a sailor, farmer and dairyman it Trumbull county and at Wayne, Ashtabula county. He discontinued the latter enter. prise after twenty years in the business am devoted himself exclusively to farming. This also he dropped in 1890, and has since beer interested in the Barber, Noyes & Company' foundry at Ashtabula, with which he is stil connected, and which has been very success. ful. November 28, 1849, Mr. Badger was married in Gustavus, Trumbull county, to L Maria Cowden, an estimable lady, born December 11, 1828. Her parents were Truman and Eliza (Simons) Cowden; the former originally a shoemaker but later a farmer who had nine children: Cornelia, who married Orin Gridley; Marietta, wife of Jackson OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 211 Williams; Rosanna, married Edward Fitts; Jane married Edward Bladon; Triphenia; Clarissa married Nelson Sawyer; Sophronia died unmarried; and Louise, who married Erie Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Badger have had three children: Milton, born April 9, 1854, died aged three months; Lilly, born July 28, 1856, wife of E. E. Taylor, a prosperous farmer of Ashtabula township, Ashtabula county, of whose life an extended sketch follows; and Truman, born April 6, 1858, who married Clara Meacham, who has been born to him three children: Ethel Mary, born April 14, 1881; Grace Helm, born November 5, 1884; and Susie Genevieve, born September 3, 1886. In religion the family are Congregationalists, and are worthy members of a community in which their ancestors have been for so many years representative and influential residents. Mr. Badger has been an acceptable Deacon in the Congregational Church for a full quarter of a century and is still serving in that honored capacity. E. E. Taylor, previously mentioned, widely and favorably known in Ashtabula county as an intelligent and progressive farmer and citizen, was born in Rutland county, Vermont, July 3, 1853. He comes of good New England stock, his father, Charles W. Taylor, having been born in Weathersfield, Vermont, September 12, 1818, and Levi Taylor, grandfather of the subject Of this notice, having been a native of Connecticut. The latter, a farmer and stone mason by occupation, removed his family to Vermont in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His children were: Harvey, C. W., Guilford, and two other sons, deceased; Lannira Ann, and Hester Ann. Charles W. Taylor, the second child, grew to manhood in the State of his birth, Vermont, where he lived until thirty- nine years of age. In 1857 he proceeded by boat and rail to the extreme Northwest, his objective point being St. Paul, Minnesota, and he there engaged in stone and brick work. He expected to make that country his future home, but the sickness and death of one child disheartened the family and they decided to return East. On their way thither, the father became ill, and on reaching La Crosse, Wisconsin, he died, and was buried February 1, 1859. His devoted wife, whose maiden name was Harriet J. Smith, was a daughter of Roswell Smith, of Vermont, and inherited all the sterling qualities of her Puritan ancestry. Her father was born about 1790, in the same year as was his wife, whose name was previously Sarah Currier. They had four children: Harriet J., previously mentioned, who was born March 26, 1818 ; Lyman, Hiram, and Roswell, now living in Cavendish, Vermont. E. E. Taylor was reared and educated in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and owing to the limited means of his mother his early advantages for attending school were limited; but possessing a naturally active intellect and quick observation as well as a strong and incisive judgment, he has become self-cultured and well read. He early became self-dependent, being variously employed for many years, working for wages, but, in 1876, he married and settled down to farming, working the first year for his father-in-law, Mr. Lucius D. Badger, mentioned at length in the first part of this notice. Mr. Taylor then bought a farm on Middle Road, on which he resided and which he industriously cultivated until he sold in 1882, and removed to his present place of eighty-five acres, previously owned by W. W. `Castle. Of this farm Mr. Taylor's father-inqaw, Mr. Badger, owns fifty-four acres. Mr. Taylor is engaged in mixed farm- 213 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY ing, in which he is very successful, being a practical and careful manager. He also follows the dairy business quite extensively and at the same tune very profitably. His continued prosperity is entirely due to his mire- matting energy and industry and careful watchfulness of details, and he is amply deserving of his good fortune. April 6, 1876, the Centennial year, Mr. Taylor was married, in Ashtabula, by Rev. S. D. Pete, to Lilly M. Badger, daughter of Lucius D. Badger, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Ashtabula county, They have two sons: Lloyd Raymond, born in December, 1879 ; and Lucius Everett, born in April, 1883. Fraternally, Mr. Taylor affiliates with the Royal Tempiars, and is religiously a useful 'member of the Congregational Church. As a. business man and citizen he enjoys high esteem, and is worthy of the unqualified confidence of his fellow men. HON. EDWARD C. WADE.—The legal profession of Jefferson, Ohio, has no more worthy representative / than the subject of this sketch, whose ability has been repeatedly endorsed by election to one of the most honorable positions in the gift of the people. Judge Wade, an able lawyer and public spirited citizen, was born in Andover, Ashtabula county, Ohio, February 13, 1838. He was the only son of Samuel S. Wade. His father was one of nine children, six sons and three daughters, one of his brothers being Senator Benjamin F. Wade, of Jefferson, and another, Hon. Edward Wade, for several terms a member of Congress from the Cleveland district. The subject of this sketch passed his youth in alternately working on the farm in summer and attending the district schools in winter. At the age of seventeen, he entered Kingsville Academy, at which he graduated in 1859. In 1860 he came to Jefferson, where he began his law studies in the office of Messrs. Simonds & Cadwell, during which time he superintended the high school in that village four terms. In 1863, he was admitted to the bar, and the same year accepted a position as clerk for Hon. D. Cadwell, who was appointed Provost Marshal at Warren for the Nineteenth District. Mr. Wade remained in that position until the close of the war, and on his return to Jefferson, in 1865, formed a partnership with Hon. E. J. Betts, under the name of Wade & Betts. This partnership was dissolved on the election of Judge Betts to the position of Probate Judge, Mr. Wade at the same time becoming Prosecuting Attorney, both entering upon their duties in January, 1872. Mr. Wade served in that capacity four years, after which he resumed his private practice for a time, again entering public life in February, 1882, when he became Probate Judge, which position he filled until February, 1891. Judge Wade gained the universal approbation of his community by his impartial and able decisions as a jurist and his honor as an official and man, and carries with him into private life the confidence and esteem of his fellow men. The Judge was married in 1864 to Miss Ella M. Sawyer, of Austinburg, whose death he was called upon to mourn three years later. In 1869 he was married to Miss Louise M. Simonds, an estimable lady, and daughter of Hon. C. S. Simonds, a well known lawyer of Jefferson. Three children blessed this union; Alice L., Grace E., and Charles S. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 213 In the enjoyment of the comforts of life, gained by years of honest toil, and crowned with the approbation of all worthy men, Judge Wade has attained true success. In politics, the Judge has always supported the Republican party by his vote and as a public speaker. Judge Wade is an able lawyer and a force- fill speaker, and has never ceased to be a careful student, not only of matters pertaining to his profession but of literature. He is a good example for young men who are ambitious to excel in any profession, showing how scholarly attainments may adorn the same. He has a thorough knowledge of the elementary principles of law, and in the argument of questions of law to a court, is clear, concise and able, and excels as an advocate before a jury.             t 4 OLIVER C. DARLING, a contractor and builder, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula county, this State, September 27, 1836. His parents were James and Maria (Hogle) Darling, the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Genesee Flats, Otsego county, New York. They were married in Rochester, where the father learned the trade of carpenter. They came to this county about 1825 and settled in Conneaut, where he bought property and where he was engaged in work on vessels in the harbor. Subsequently he exchanged his town property for a farm in Pierpoint township, moved there about 1833, and lived at that place until his death, in April, 1861, at the age of fifty-six years. He was a fine workman, had a good education, and stood high in the community in which he lived. Both he and his wife were worthy members of the Congregational Church. She died May 6, 1885, at the age of seventy-eight years. They had ten children, nine of whom are living to-day. They are as follows: Mary E., wife of Alexander Marvin, of Pierpoint; James Ephraim, who married Matilda Stanton, and has three children, lives in Marysville, Missouri; Francis Marion, who died at the age of nineteen years; 0. C., the subject of our sketch; Susan Alvira, wife of Orsemus Peters, lives in Winslow, Illinois, their family being composed of two children; Jane D., wife of Jonas Scramlin, of Climax, Michigan; Caroline, wife of Albert Hildum, of Warren county, Pennsylvania, has two children; Harriet P,, wife of Edwin Trevit, Monroe, Wisconsin; and Esther Jane, wife of Richard Marvin, Corry, Pennsylvana; has two children. O. C. Darling began his trade at the workbench with his father, in this county, when a mere boy. In 1856 he went to Illinois, and from there in 1859 made a prospecting tour to Pike's Peak. On his return he stopped at Platte City, Missouri; and worked at his trade there for a time. He built a commodious residence for Colonel Burns, a wealthy planter, and while he was there the Colonel took a great fancy to him. It was about that time that secession fever arose to a white heat. Colonel Burns was an enthusiastic rebel. He offered Mr. Darling a commission, $100 per month, and a horse and saddle, if he would enlist in the Southern cause, and when the offer was emphatically but respectfully declined, the Colonel said, " Then you must leave these parts." That night, with a colored slave as driver, and the Colonel's own family carriage and fine horses, he was driven with his effects to the river, and upon their reaching the landing the negro begged him 214 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY to sell the carriage and horses and take him along to "God's country," which, of course, Mr. Darling would not do. At Quincy he enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Regiment, was drilled and stationed on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment came on to Ohio. From Ashtabula county he went to the oil fields of Pennsylvania, and at Titusville followed his trade until September 8, 1862, when he enlisted for three years in Company D, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry. He enlisted as wagoner, and had charge of a train of wagons until, on account of rheumatism, he was compelled to go to the hospital. April 9, 1864, he was discharged on surgeon's certificate of disability. This ended his army career. The war closing, he returned to Titusville, and for two years was unabled to do any work. Indeed, he has never been very strong since. He was engaged in contracting and building for some time in Titusville and afterward at Corry and North East. He came to Conneaut in March, 1889, and has since been identified with the interests of this place. He and his son are both master workmen and are doing an extensive business here. Many of the nice residences in which Conneaut abounds are examples of their handiwork. Mr. Darling is a generous and public-spirited man, and while a resident of North East held various minor offices. He was married, Christmas, 1861, to Miss Elizabeth Bright, daughter Of Josiah and Amy Bright, old settlers of Trumbull county, Ohio. Her parents were the first white couple ever married in Trumbull county. Mr. Bright died in Newton Falls, that county, at the age of forty-five years, his death resulting from the bite of a mad dog. He was born August 13, 1805, and died September 2, 1851. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The latter died July 18, 1881, at the age of seventy-eight years. Their seven children are as follows: Josiah, who died at the age of two years; Rebecca, who died at the age of sixty- two; Jonathan, a resident of Dallas, Texas; David, of Kalamazoo, Michigan; Amy, wife of A. P. Swartz, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Darling; and Margaret, wife of Sidney Thompson, Pierpoint, Ohio. Marmaduke Bright, Mrs. Darling's grandfather, was born in England, August 23, 1773, and his wife, nee Amy Duffield, was born in the same country, September 20, 1775. Their four children were Elijah, Josiah, William and Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Darling have four children, namely: Burton A., who married Bertha L. Huffleman, of Chicago. They have one child, Lester Edwin; Ida May, wife of William Huller, of Climax, Michigan, has two children; Floyd C. and Claud; Louella A., wife of Melvin Scramlin, also of Climax, Michigan, has one child, Henry; Frank Ulysses, who married Elma Jenkins, lives in Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. Darling and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Conneaut, of which he is a Trustee. He is also a member of the A. 0. U. W., and Custer Post, No. 9, G. A. R., of Conneaut. Mrs. Darling belongs to the W. R. C., and the Royal Templars of Temperance. They are among the most excellent people of the city. CHARLES LAWYER, JR.--The life of one of the most brilliant and deserving of the younger members of the bar of Jefferson, Ohio, is briefly outlined in the fol- OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 215 lowing sketch, which cannot fully do justice to his superior ability and many deserving qualides of mind and heart. The subject of this sketch was the son of Charles and Caroline E. (Brown) Lawyer, the former a prominent physician and surgeon, of Andover, Ohio. Charles Lawyer, Sr., is a native of Pennsylvania and of German extraction. He is now a resident of Andover, Ohio, where he enjoys an extensive practice in his profession. He is a Republican in his political proclivities and was a Representative in the Legislature of his native State for two terms. His wife was of Welsh descent. They were the parents of three children: Mary, now Mrs. Chauncy Marvin; our subject, Charles, Jr.; and Frank, who is now engaged in the general music business at Butler, Pennsylvania. Charles Lawyer, Jr., was born at Penn Line, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, December 7, 1857. The first ten years of Mr. Lawyer's life were passed in his native town, when the father removed with his family to Andover, Ohio. Here the subject of this sketch attended the common schools, and later the high school in. Jefferson. He then taught twelve terms during six successive years, in the meantime working on the home farm and learning and working at the trade of tanner. This, however, failed to satisfy the growing ambition of the young student, who subsequently went to Jefferson and began reading law in the office of Judge W. P. Howland. In 1881 Mr. Lawyer entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at which he graduated in March, 1883, being admitted to the bar in Jefferson in May of the same year. Shortly afterward Mr. Lawyer was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace, which position he filled creditably for four years. He was then elected solicitor for the city of Jefferson to which position he was re-elected, serving in that capacity two terms of two years each. In 1889 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Ashtabula county, to which office he was re-elected in 1892, and is now serving his second term. In 1885, Mr. Lawyer was married to Miss Flora A., daughter of Horatio and Eliza (Cracy) Lindsley, a lady of social tastes and prominence and a resident of Jefferson, Ohio. Politically, Mr. Lawyer is a Republican, and, fraternally, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. Such universal commendation leaves little further to be added than to emphasize those noble traits of character which have secured for Mr. Lawyer professional and social prominence and gained for him the friendship of many honorable men. L. I. BALDWIN, a venerable citizen of Conneaut, for several years engaged in ^ milling, and now retired from active business, dates his birth in Oneida county, New York, October 26, 1811. The facts in regard to his life and ancestry have been gleaned and are herewith presented. The Baldwins trace their ancestry back co Nathaniel Baldwin, of England, whose son, Samuel, was the father of Nathaniel Baldwin, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of our sketch. Nathaniel Baldwin and his wife, nee Abigail Camp, came from England to America and settled in Milford, Connecticut, in 1639. He was born in Bucks county, England, and died in Connecticut in 1658. His wife died March 22, 1648. At the time they came to America his brothers, Timothy, Jo- 216 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY seph, John and Richard, also came. Nathaniel and Abigail Baldwin had seven children: John, Daniel, Nathaniel, Abigail, Samuel, Sarah and Deborah. Samuel, the fifth, was born November 28, 1744, and died February 22, 1804. His wife, who before her marriage was Mercy Stanley, died January 6, 1768. They had a family of six sons and five daughters, one of whom, Enos Stanley Baldwin, married Charlotte Bailey, and had four sons and four daughters. Enos S. died October 20, 1828, and his wife died February 26, 1815. One of their four sons, Remus, the father of L. I., was born in Milford, October 5, 1791, and his wife, whose maiden name was Julia Ives, was born December 20, 1787, she, too, being a native of Connecticut, Remus Baldwin moved to New York and subsequently to Pennsylvania, in Erie, in the latter State, spending the closing days of his life. He was for some time engaged in farming and afterward in various occupations. HE and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church for many years, he being an officer in the Church. They were married September 9, 1810. Their family of five children is as follows: L. I.; Almira C., wife of David Brand, is deceased, as also is het husband; Samuel, who married Abigail Snow, is deceased; Horace and his wife; Nancy A. (Welton), are both deceased; and Caleb Parker, unmarried, died on the Pacific ocean, July 29, 1852, while on his way to California, the supposed cause of his death being cholera, The father of this family died in Erie, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1853; the mother at the same place, February 10, 1873. L. I. Baldwin removed with his parents from Oneida to Genesee county, New York, and in 1820 to Cattaraugus county, same State, whence they afterward removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania. He remained on the farm with his father until after they went to Erie county, when he located at Erie for the purpose of learning a trade, that of woolen manufacturer. After remaining there six years, he went back to the farm. For many years he farmed in Erie county. In the spring of 1872 he located in Conneaut, and here for four years ran a gristmill. He served as Justice of the Peace of Conneaut three years, having filled the same office while a resident of Elk Creek and Girard, Pennsylvania. Mr. Baldwin was married August 10, 1837, to Miss Rosanna Battles, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Brown) Battles. Her father was born in Massachusetts, April 10, 1786, and her mother in Vermont, May 9, 1787. The former died in. 1848, and the latter in 1868. In the Battles family were six children, as follows: Rosina, the oldest, born June 27, 1815; George, a resident of California; Alsina, of Girard, Pennsylvania; Lucina, also of Girard ; Asa, deceased; and Rush, a banker, manufacturer and farmer Of Girard. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin have had twelve children, namely: Byron A., a real-estate dealer of Chicago, is married and has two children; Julia, wife of James A. Moorehead, Erie county, Pennsylvania, has six children; Narcissa, wife of J. C. Denslow, died at the age of twenty years; Remus Asa, who married Adaline Foot and has seven children, was in the war two years,and the past twenty-seven years has been in the employ of the Pittsburg & Cleveland Railroad, being now a resident of Cleveland; Georgia A. A., wife of Morton H. Gould, of Arizona, has seven children; Gorham Ives, an engineer, was killed in a railroad wreck in 1882, and left a widow and three children; Florence E., who died at the age of thirty-six years; OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 217 Rush Emerson died at St. Louis, at the age of twenty-one years; Lucene, wife of C. R. Goddard, of Conneaut, has four children; Leslie, who died at the age of twenty-six years; Kent Kane, married and living in Chicago, has three children; Elmer E., of Conneaut, is married and has one child. There are forty grandchildren in the family and five great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, August 10, 1887. M. J. WARNER, proprietor of the Chestnut Hill stock farm, in Concord township, Lake county, Ohio, near Painesville, and a prominent citizen, was born in Hampden, Geauga county, this State, June 23, 1851. His grandfather, Daniel Warner, was a native of New York State, who emigrated to Leroy township, Lake county, Ohio, in an early day. He there cleared and improved a farm in the woods, whence he subsequently removed to Geauga county and later to Cleveland, finally going to Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, where he passed the remainder of his days. He was a successful farmer and stock raiser and took a prominent part in the early development of the country. He died at a ripe old age, leaving many friends to mourn his loss. His son, Martin J. Warner,. father of the subject of this sketch, was also a native of the Empire State and one of a large family. He accompanied his parents to Ohio, where he early engaged in the stock business, buying cattle and driving them over the mountains to Eastern points,-----Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and other large cities,----and although but a boy when be commenced he was very successful. He followed this business most of his life, shipping over the railroad after the completion of a line to the East. He was a hard worker, and by perseverance accumulated a comfortable income. He married Marcia Beckwith, a native of Lake county, Ohio, and daughter of an old and prominent pioneer, her mother being a Huntington, a relative of the first governor of Ohio, and they had four children, two of whom survive. The father died in 1873, after a long life of usefulness, followed by the regrets of all who knew him. He was an active member of the Congregational Church, to which he liberally contributed, as he did to all worthy objects. The mother still survives, happy in universal esteem. She also is a useful member of the Congregational Church, and is prominent in all good and charitable works. The subject of this sketch was born on a farm on which he lived until ten years of age, after which he resided in Painesville, in which city he attended school. He early engaged in farming and stock-raising, being interested with his father until the latter's death, when he, in September, 1879, removed to his present farm in Concord township, on the old State road. For the last few years, he has been a breeder of high-grade horses, mostly the Wilkes stock, in which he has been very successful and which enterprise has proved very remunerative. He has greatly improved his farm, on which, in 1892, he erected a commodious and handsome residence and large, well-arranged barn, besides other; valuable modern facilities for the prosecution of his business. His farm includes 174 acres of as choice land as is to be found in Ohio, besides which he also owns valuable land in Wisconsin and Missouri, and is numbered among the substantial men of the country. Mr. Warner has been twice married, first, in 1878, to Miss Carrie Benjamin, a highly 218 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY estimable lady of Painesville, where she was born and reared. Her life was spared but a short time after marriage, her death taking place in 1880, to the general sorrow of all who knew her. She left one child, Kate G. In 1881, Mr. Warner married Mrs. Hattie Valentine, an accomplished lady, a native of Geauga county, Ohio, who has been a worthy helpmeet. Mrs. Valentine had one daughter, Lavern E., by her former husband. Politically, Mr. Warner has been a Republican, but of late years has inclined toward Prohibition. He is a member of the Home Guards Military Company, a local organization of merit. Although not belonging to any religious denomination, he is always first to assist any worthy cause. His wife is an active member of the Methodist Church. Few men are more heartily in accord with all that tends to advance the welfare of the community, and few more thoroughly enjoy the respect of all who know them. A. O. HOSKINS, dealer in general merchandise at Conneaut, was born in . Ashtabula county, Ohio, in May, 1850. His parents, W. L. and N. A. (Trimmer) Hoskins, were natives of Vermont and New York respectively. W. L. Hoskins was a tanner by trade and carried on the tanning. business at Pierpont for many years. He came to this county with his parents at an early day when the place where Conneaut now stands was covered with dense forest. He held township offices from the time he was a voter until he died. He was Town Clerk for perhaps more than twenty years, and for a number of years was Postmaster, his wife taking the office at the time of his death and serving the rest of the term. In church work he was also prominent, being a member of the Baptist Church and an officer in the same for many years. Politically, he was a Republican. To know him was to respect and esteem him. Indeed, few men in the county had more friends- than he, and his untimely death in 1872, at the age-of forty- nine years, was a shock and a bereavement to all. He was found dead in one of the vats in his tannery. The cause and particulars of his death were never known. Be had been complaining of dizziness during the morning and it is supposed he in some way lost his balance or tripped. His widow, born January 29, 1829, is still living, well preserved in body and mind. She, too, has been a member of the Baptist Church for many years. This worthy couple had a family of six children, A. O. being the oldest. Frank L., a merchant of Edinborough, Pennsylvania, married Miss Louise Thompson, of that city. Marion Adel, wife of A. S. Venen, and a resident of Oregon, has five children; Linn died at the age of five years; R. T., a partner in the store of A. 0. Hoskins & Co., married Lizzie Griffin and has one child, Benjamin Harrison; Nina J., the youngest, has been an efficient clerk in the store for some time. A. O. Hoskins has been in the mercantile business for a number of years. At the age of fifteen he went behind the counter as clerk for T. S. Winship, of Pierpont, and remained in his service for five years. Then he clerked for S. J. Smith, of Conneaut, five years, at the end of which time he became a partner in the business, under the firm name of Smith & Hoskins, at Pierpont. Two years later Mr. Smith sold out to Mr. Hoskins, who continued the business under his own name seven years. Then, disposing of the store at Pierpont, he established himself in business at Conneaut under the firm name of OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 219 A. O. Hoskins & Co., Mr. Smith representing the silent interest for one year. Then Mr. Hoskins bought out Mr. Smith's interest and took in his (Hoskins') brother as partner. The firm carry a full stock of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, crockery, etc., and are doing a successful business. Mr. Hoskins has served as Councilman of the city two terms. He was married May 31, 1872, to Miss Emma Bartlett, daughter of N. W. Bartlett. She died in July, 1883, at the age of thirty- one years, leaving an only child, Lois Pearl. Mrs. Hoskins was a devote member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Hoskins affiliates with the Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a Republican. FRANCIS B. BLOOD, a prominent and wealthy farmer and stock dealer of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1837, son of John and Caroline (August) Blood. John Blood was born in Franklin, Venango county, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1807, and died December 31, 1892, lacking four days of being eighty-six years of age. Left an orphan when he was six months old, he was adopted by Francis Buchannan, of Corn Planter township, Venango county, and was reared by him. December 7, 1828, he married Elizabeth Masterson, who died in 1834, leaving three daughters. A year after her death he married Caroline August, daughter of Benjamin and Mary August, and with her he lived in ever growing affection for fifty-six years. She, too, was born in Venango county, Penn., sylvania, is still living, and will be eighty- two years old her next birthday, September 22, 1893, She has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over forty years. Few men in northeastern Ohio were better known or more highly esteemed than John Blood. Fifty-four years of his rugged life were spent in Pennsylvania. He moved to Ohio in 1861, and here for thirty-two years he went out and came in, a man among men, much respected and beloved, a man of sterling integrity, fearless in defending what he believed to be right, at heart as sweet and tender as a child. He was converted in 1843, and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which church he lived to adorn its fellowship and communion for over a half century. In this church he lived and died, —nay, not died, but sweetly fell asleep. His song on earth is hushed. His chair in the church is vacant. He will not soon be forgotten. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. John Blood and his second wife had a large family of children, five sons and eight daughters, of whom we make record as follows: Two of the daughters, Caroline and Julia A., are deceased, the former, the wife of Adison Bugby, dying at the age of forty years, and the latter at the age of eight years. Those living are Hiram, the oldest, who married Belle Read; John, who married Sarah Baker; William L., who married Lucy Root; Benjamin, who married Alice Ashley; Mary, wife of William Pierson; Nancy, wife of James Pierson; Margaret, wife of Howard Brooks; Almira, widow of William Lilly; Jane, widow of R. Rockwell; and Hattie, wife of Charles Sharley. Francis B. Blood began life on his own responsibility when he reached his majority, having had 200 acres of land in the oil regions of his native State willed to him by the gentleman for whom he was named—Mr. Francis Buchannan, his foster grandfather, 220 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY who died about 1848. On this land he operated in the oil business himself, and had others to sink wells from which he received a royalty. In this enterprise he was very successful. Selling out in 1864, he came the following year to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he has since been extensively engaged in farming. He has three farms, altogether containing 400 acres. One of 160 acres is located just across the Ohio line in Pennsylvania. The other two are near Conneaut, one west and the other south of the city. These are rated with the best land in the county, and will soon be laid out in town lots. Mr. Blood has given considerable attention to buying, selling and raising stock, sheep, cattle and horses. As a public-spirited and enterprising man, Mr. Blood ranks with the leaciing citizens of the county. He is now serving his sixth year as Township Trustee, his term to expire in April, 1894. He is a stockholder and one of the directors in the Conneaut Mutual Loan Association. In educational affairs he has ever taken an active interest, having served as School Director for fifteen years. Politically, he is an ardent Democrat. He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the blue lodge; chapter, council and commandery, and at various times holding official position in the same. During the Denver conclave he was the only Standard Bearer who carried the banner from beginning to end of the parade without .being overcome by fatigue. Mr. Blood is also a member of the Knights of Honor and other fraternal organizations. Mrs. Blood is a lady of culture and refinement and presides with ease and grace over their charming country home. Her maiden name was Miss Angeline Steward, she.being one of a family of eleven children and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Steward, all natives of Venango county, Pen nsylvania: She and her brother James are the only ones of the family living in Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Blood were married February 18, 1862, and have five sons, namely: Charles C., who resides on the Pennsylvania farm above referred to, and who is married to Nellie Lamphier and has one child, Pearl; Francis B. and John C., residing at home, are associated with their father in his farming operations; Otis K., a mechanic of some notoriety; and Ralph A., a student in the public schools. Mrs. Blood has been a member of the Christian Church for nearly twenty years. JAMES E. ALLEN, the efficient and popular Sheriff of Ashtabula county, Ohio, residing in Jefferson, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, November 12, 1844, and is a son of Russell and Annie (Fossett) Allen. His father, a native of New York, was a cooper by trade. He followed the westward tide of emigration to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1857, moving thence to Ashtabula county in 1864, where he and his worthy wife passed the remainder of their days. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and received a common-school education. He early began to work out until he secured sufficient means to commence farming for himself, which he continued until 1876. He then removed to Jefferson, where he entered the butcher business, but a short time later embarked in the livery business, which he successfuly conducted for fourteen years. During all these years his sturdy qualities of mind and heart had been making frien4s for him, and in 1887. he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Ashtabula county, which position OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 221 he held for four years. He then became candidate for Sheriff on the. Republican ticket, to which office he was elected in 1890, and- served the interests of the people so well that they re-elected hint to the same position in 1892, for a second term of two years, which he is now filling. Mr. Allen was married in 1867, to Flora M., daughter of Sylvester and Eliza (Coleman) Ward, of Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have one son living, Ward, who is now. Deputy Sheriff. Fraternally, Mr. Allen is a Master Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. As a citizen and man he is intelligent, progressive and honorable and-enjoys the highest regard of his fellow men. HON. HENRY FASSETT.—Few men of Ashtabula, Ohio, have been more closely identified with her advancement, or contributed more fully to her general welfare, than the subject of this sketch, who has fought for her cause as no knight of old ever battled for lady fair. His remote ancestors figured conspicuously in the colonial history of this country, being residents of the New England States. His great-grandfather, John Fassett, removed, in 1761, from Hardwick, Massachusetts, to Bennington, Vermont, of which town he was one of the earliest settlers, and in the history of which and of the State he took a prominent part. He was .a member of the first legislature held in that State, and was clerk and choir leader of the First Congregational Church of Bennington, the same being the first church organized in Vermont. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Jonathan Fassett, was a youth when he came with his father to Bennington, where, in manhood, he took an active part in public matters, and served as an efficient officer in the Revolutionary war. His son, Samuel Montague Fassett, father of Hon. Henry Fassett, of this notice, was born in Bennington, Vermont, October 5, 1785, where he was reared to manhood. October 18, 1807, he was married to Dorcas Smith, daughter of John Smith, one of the earliest settlers of West Rutland, Vermont. About 1810, he removed to Western New York and subsequently to Canada, in which latter country he died November 3, 1834. He left seven children to perpetuate his memory: Silas S., Harriet M., William, Henry, Mariette, John S. and Samuel M., all of whom, with their mother, removed to Ashtabula, Ohio, in October, 1835, except the eldest son, Silas, who had preceded them to this city a year previous, and who died April 17, 1893, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Hon. Henry Fassett was born in Beverly, Canada, September 14, 1817. When of sufficient age he was sent to the St. Thomas (Canada) Seminary, where he. studied until he was fourteen; when he became an apprentice ill the office-of the St. Thomas Journal, the earliest paper ever published in that city. He continued to fellow the newspaper business in Ashtabula; painesville, and Newark, Ohio, until January 1, 1837, on which date he became one of the proprietors of the Ashtabula Sentinel, with which paper he was connected, most of the time as proprietor and editor, until January 1, 1853, at which time he sold the establishment and it was removed to Jefferson, the same State. While connected with this paper, Mr. Fassett took strong grounds in favor of the anti-slavery movement, which was just then beginning to attract attention; and it is mainly to him and 222 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY the Sentinel that Ashtabula county is indebted for arousing marked public sentiment on the slavery question. Mr. Fassett was, politically, from youth until 1848, an uncompromising Whig, but at this time abandoned the party, because of its adhesion to the slave power, and became an ardent Free Seiler, which he continued until the organization of the Republican party, in which he has ever since been an earnest and influential worker. From the time he sold out until September, 1859, he was engaged in general business, but at this date was appointed Probate Judge, which office had been left vacant by the death of Judge Plumb. On the expiration of his term in the following October, he was elected to that office, which, rather than remove his family from Ashtabula, he resigned at the end of a year. On the organization of the internal revenue department of the Government in September, 1862, Mr. Fassett was appointed Collector for the Nineteenth Ohio District by President Lincoln, which position he held until the consolidation of districts in 1876, when the business was removed to Cleveland. Few, if any, of the collectors of the country stood higher with the department than he, the special compliments of the Commissioner having been extended to him for the ability and integrity with which he discharged the duties of this office. For eight years prior to 1880, Mr. Fassett was Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee of the Nineteenth Ohio District, a position which brought him into frequent personal intercourse with General Garfield, who represented the district dUring those years, and for whom Mr. Fassett learned to entertain the deepest regard. Mr. Fassett was active in the organization of the Ashtabula National Bank, of which he was for many years President. He was a Director and the Secretary of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon Railroad Company, and rendered valuable assistance in finally transferring it to the Pennsylvania Company, thereby securing for Ashtabula its present system of railroad connection with the coal and oil fields of Pennsylvania. March 23, 1842, Mr. Fassett was married to Mary Nellis, youngest daughter of J. I. D. and Elizabeth (Clock) Nellis, and they had five children: Hattie E., who was married to D. W. Haskell, and died September 7, 1862; George H.; John N., who died October 18, 1871; Samuel M. and Henry. January 5, 1859, this happy family were called upon to mourn the loss of the devoted wife and mother, whose Christian virtues had gained for her the esteem of all who knew her. October 3, 1860, Mr. Fassett was married to Maria Jones, an estimable lady, daughter of Colonel Lyndes Juries, but this happy union was destined to be of short duration, for on December 20, 1865, the beloved wife and mother passed from earth, leaving the son, Willie J., who was then two years old, and who died September 23, 1872. June 12, 1867, Mr. Fassett married .Mrs. Lucia A. Williams, whose death occurred July 8, 1881, causing deep sorrow to her many friends. April 16, 1884, Mr. Fassett married Mrs. Mary C. Post, eldest daughter of John B. Watrous, a late prominent resident of Ashtabula. In religion, Mr. Fassett has been true to the faith of his New England ancestors, and, on May 12, 1838, he united with the Presbyterian Church of Ashtabula, at that time congregational in its government. He was for several years one of its Elders, and in 1852 was elected, by the Grand River Presbytery, a delegate to the General Assembly, which met that year in Washington city. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 223 On the organization of the First Congregational Church of Ashtabula, May 9, 1860, Mr. Fassett and twenty-five others united with that body by letters from the Presbyterian Church, and he was chosen one of its Deacons, in which office he has served to the present time. He was elected in 1871, by the Grand River Conference, a delegate to the National Council, held at Oberlin; and, in 1874, was a delegate to the National Coun cil at New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Fassett labored earnestly to secure for Ashtabula the union-school system, and served some thirteen years as one of the Board of Directors, and most of the time as President. He has been at all times an earnest supporter of the temperance cause, in which he has faithfully labored, as well as in all enterprises tending to promote the public welfare. PLATT ROGERS SPENCER, celebrated as the founder of the "Spencerian" system of penmanship, was born September 7, 1801, in Dutchess county, New York, the son of Caleb Spencer, a native of Rhode Island and a soldier of the Revolution. The name of Platt's mother before marriage was Jerusha Covell, and she was from the town of Chatham, on Cape Cod. Platt, the youngest of a family of eleven children, nine of whom were brothers, was reared mainly among the beautiful hills of eastern New York. It was while living in Windham, Greene county, New York, that the boy, at the early age of seven years, began to exhibit his peculiar fondness of the art in which he afterward rendered himself so noted. Poverty prevented him from enjoying any advantages whatever, and even before he began to handle the pen he would criticise chirography with remarkably good taste, and penmanship reform so constantly occupied his mind that even while playing as a boy he would spend much time in practicing graceful outlines in the sand with a stick, or even with his toes. Up to the time he was seven and a half years old he had not been the happy owner of a full sheet of paper. At that time, having fortunately in his possession a cent, he dispatched it by a lumberman to Catskill, which, though twenty miles distant, was the nearest market, for the purchase of the coveted full sheet of paper. The lumberman returned to the residence of the boy about midnight, with the sheet tightly rolled up and tied with a black thread, and it was considerably wrinkled, as he had carried it all the way in his bosom; but with all this young Platt was especially happy in beholding the treasure. He was considerably disappointed, however, with his first efforts at writing upon it. His father dying in 1806, his mother moved with her family to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810, and soon after the older boys began to find business and homes elsewhere. The enthusiastic boy found much pleasure in spending his leisure time on the lake shore, practicing his favorite art and studying the graceful outlines of nature. He had in him the elements of a true poet. It is indeed doubtful whether a person brought up in a city can become poetical; but certain minds, in the loneliness of rural retreats, are sure to be " born again" into the kingdom of poetry, in which they ever after linger despite all the vicissitudes of life. In his twelfth year our lad enjoyed his first. year at school, at Conneaut, where he par= titioned off his desk in a corner that he might pursue his studies undisturbed, and make"thei. 224 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY most of every opportunity. He furnished the copies for the school, with the accompanying instructions, and here also he made his first attempts at versification, in which during all his life he frequently indulged, with considerable ability and taste. Being anxious to study arithmetic, he walked twenty miles barefoot over a frozen road to obtain a copy of Daboll. On this trip his only food was a raw turnip, which he chanced to find. Night overtaking him on his return, he, being too bashful to ask for lodging at a residence, sought lodgment in a barn. After leaving school he clerked awhile in stores, where he had much opportunity to practice his penmanship. Before he reached, his twentieth year he invented what has ever since been known as the " semi-angular" system of penmanship, which proved so graceful that it served all the purposes of beautiful chirography and gave the inventor a notoriety throughout the United States. For many years Mr. Spencer taught penmanship in a small log schoolhouse south of Geneva, and afterward removed to a better building in the town. The first publication of his system by himself was in 1848, and in the form of copy slips with printed instructions. In this he was associated with Victor M. Rice, a former pupil, who afterward became Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of New York. In 1859 he was induced to present his system in a copy-book form. In 1861, in connection with his sons and J. W. Lusk, he revised his system, which was published by Phinney & Co. of Buffalo, and afterward by Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., of New York. Since Mr. Spencer's death the care of the system has fallen to his sons, who do it honor. During life Mr. Spencer adopted the temperance and anti-slavery reforms. Taking also a deep interest in historical subjects, especially in those relating to his own locality, he joined the Ashtabula Historical and Philosophical Society, and remained a member until his death, which took place May 16, 1864, after an illness of several weeks, . —the event being mourned by all who ever knew him, and that circle of acquaintance was remarkably large. He was a gentleman in every good sense of that term, a man of sweet spirit and irresistible influence for all that is noble. ILLIAM M. MORRIS, foreman of the Nickel Plate machine shops, Conneaut, Ohio, is a man of high moral standing and in every way a most worthy citizen. He is a true Welshman, remodeled on the American plan. William M. Morris was born in Wales, June 24, 1850, son of John and Jane ( Davis) Morris, both natives of Wales. In his native land John Morris served an apprenticeship of seven years at the trade of machinist, and worked at his trade there and in Ireland. He was also an engineer in Ireland for some time, having charge of engines in the mines. He came to America in 1853, and after making his home in New York city two years, came west to Columbus, Ohio, where he found employment in the shops of the Little Miami Railway, and subsequently, for four or .five years, ran an engine in the Columbus yard. In 1861 he went to Cincinnati, in the employ of the same company, which had moved its shops to that city. In 1872 he went to Dennison to work for the Pan Handle, and remained in their shops two years, going from there to Delaware, where he was in the employ of the Big Four six OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 225 years. The last work he ever did was at Columbus, for the Pennsylvania Railroad company. He died at Columbus, Ohio, at the age of sixty-one years, and his wife passed away at the age of sxity-seven. They were highly respected people, and were attendants of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. In their family of ten children William M. was the sixth born. He has two brothers and one sister still living. All three of the brothers are machinists, having learned the trade of their father. John, the oldest of those living, is in the employ of the Pan Handle at Columbus; married Anna Rutherford, and has two children. David D., of Conneaut, works in the same shop as does our subject; he married Anna Owens and has one child. Their sister Margaret resides at the old homestead at Columbus. Sarah Jane, a bright and accomplished young lady, and a popular teacher in the schools of Columbus, died at the age of twenty-one years. The other children died young. Under the direction of his father, William M. Morris learned his trade in the Little Miami shops at Cincinnati, commencing in August, 1867. He worked there until 1873, after which he spent four years and a half in the Big Four shops at Delaware, Ohio. Next, we find him at Columbus, working for the John L. Gills Plow Works and other individual concerns. He spent six months in the wood-work machinery shop of J. A. Fay 6z, Co., of Cincinnati. Returning to'Columbus, he was employed in the Pan. Handle round shops, under the present master mechanic of the Nickel Plate shops, E A. Miller. Re came to Conneaut in the fall of 1882 and has been working in the shops here ever since, and in his present position for the past five years. Mr. Morris was married September 28, 1882, to Miss Clara Harrell, daughter of James and Ellen (Kain) Harrell. Her father, who served as a private in the late war, is now a resident of Columbus, being about fifty years of age. Her mother died when about thirty-five. Mrs. Morris is the. second of their children, the others being Frances A., and William. Frances A., wife of George Wolpert, died at the age of about twenty-two years, leaving an only child, George. William, a coal dealer in Columbus, Ohio, married Tenie Longhenry and has two children,. Clara and Mary. The maternal grandmother of Mrs. Morris, Jane Kain, is a resident of Dresden, Ohio, being now eighty-seven years of age. For many years she has been a member of the Baptist Church. She has had eleven children, only one of whom, Dwight, with whom she is living, still survives. Mr. and Mrs. Morris have four children, viz.: Harry, William M., James Hiram and John Raymond. Mr. Morris is a charter member of Maple Lodge, No. 217, Knights of Pythias. He votes the Republican ticket, but gives little attention to political matters. Mrs. Morris is a member of the Christian Church. ARTHUR L. REEVE, of Rome, Ohio, is a son of Honorable L. C. Reeve, of whom further mention is made on another page of this work. He was born January 31, 1852, and received his education in the academy at Austinburgh, and the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa. September 28, 1872, he married Jane E. Stineman, daughter of Abram and Ann Stineman, formerly of Pennsylvania but now of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Reeve have had 226 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY three children, as follows: N. Leander, who died at the age of three weeks; T. Effie, born September, 27, 1873, is now a teacher in one of the primary schools of this county; Amelia D., born February 12, 1876. Mr. Reeve and his entire family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He joins issue with the Republican party, and at this writing, 1893, is serving as Justice of the Peace. For a number of years Mr. Reeve has given special attention to the breeding of fine horses, and as a dealer in fine horses he is well known all over Ashtabula county. DR. JOHN C. HUBBARD.--When a great and good man passes away, one whose every act and thought was replete with beneficence to his fellow men, no words can adequately express the loss which humanity sustains or attempt to soothe the world for its bereavement. The Hubbard family are of English ancestry, their progenitors having settled in Connecticut in 1640, and the heads of the first six generations in this country were farmers. In 1697, one branch of the family, led by Captain Isaac Hubbard and wife (nee Ruth Coleman), removed to Trenton, Oneida county, New York. .Among their children were Matthew Hubbard, well known as a prominent pioneer of Ashtabula county, Ohio, and Colonel William Hubbard, father of the subject of this sketch. Matthew Hubbard left the parental home at Trenton in May, 1804, and was the first of the family to blaze his way to the frontier of Ohio, coming to Ashtabula county as land agent, arriving June 21, a date remote in its history when the condition of the country is taken into consideration. His family accompanied him as far as Erie, Pennsylvania, where he left them temporarily to precede them to the frontier and prepare a rudimentary home for them in the western wilds. His journey, in company with some friends, from Erie to Ashtabula county, Ohio, was made on horseback along the lake shore and through the primeval forests of the Buckeye State, through scenes at once romantic and sublime. On arriving at Ashtabula creek, Mr. Hubbard's horse slipped down the bank and on reaching the bottom Mr. Hubbard exclaimed, " Here is my pitch," and there he pitched his tent. He built a rude cabin on the western bank. June 3 he selected a farm and located a town site. It was there he established the first post office in the county. This very soon became the business center of a small community that formed the nucleus of the present city of Ashtabula, which in all probability would have been situated on the eastern side of the creek had not accident led Mr. Hubbard to build where he did. On such trifles does history depend. A few weeks later, Mr. Hubbard returned to Erie for his family and, accompanied by them, -retraced his way once more to his pioneer home. His faithful horse, companion of his former journey, was again in requisition. On reaching Ashtabula creek, what was their dismay to find that usually mildly flowing stream very much swollen. No settlement being on the eastern side and no means of crossing existing except by fording the stream, Mr. Hubbard at once plunged his horse into the water and swam to the other bank. He repeated this as an example for his wife to follow, when the plucky woman, with baby Amos in her arms, accomplished the same feat and climbed the steep bank on the western side, beholding for the first time OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 227 her future home. Mr. Hubbard was a very heavy man and he feared that his horse would fail to ford the stream successfully with a double burden; consequently the child was left in its mother's charge, while Mr. Hubbard essayed the fording of the stream. On awakL ing the first morning after their arrival, they found their beds covered with snow, a circumstance which would have dampened the ardor of a less determined and hopeful couple. The red men were everywhere to be seen, those both hostile and friendly. These often visited the little cabin in the absence of the husband and would by signs ask for bread, and when Mrs. Hubbard would start for her larder, Mr. Indian would often follow with knife in hand,—for what purpose the little woman was afraid to guess, but it always happened that he only meant that the loaf might be more easily and promptly cut with his own knife. On one occasion, some weeks after a hungry Indian had been fed, and while the Hubbard household were sitting around their, fireside at night the door was stealthily opened and a large object was cast into the room, which proved, on investigation to be a ham of venison, believed to have been intended as a reward for former kindnesses. Mr. Hubbard was Ashtabula's Postmaster in those days, the post office being kept in his parlor. Thus lived these hardy pioneers, contributing to the early development of a country which was to become a center of civilization. Colonel William Hubbard, a brother of Matthew Hubbard, with his wife ('nee Catherine Hulbert) and children, came to Ashtabula in 1834. Their six children were: Catherine, who died in 1859, was the wife of O. H. Fitch; William F. died in 1880; George C., a merchant, died in 1876; John C., whose name heads this sketch, died in 1883; Amos F., deceased, was a prominent banker of Ashtabula; and Edward, deceased. All of these did their share toward the advancement of the country and deserve to be enshrined in the memory of future generations. In this long line of worthy and distinguished men, no one is more deserving of mention than the subject of this sketch, Dr. John C. Hubbard, who by his learned and unselfish devotion to humanity and his efforts in their behalf, won the everlasting gratitude of the people. This truly great and good man was born in Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York, in 1820, where he passed the first fourteen years of his life, receiving a liberal education. At that age he accompanied his parents to Ohio, in which State the residue of their lives was passed. When twenty years old, he began the study .of medicine at St. Catherines, Canada, under D. Beadle, and subsequently under the preceptorial direction of Dr. Stephen H. Farrington, an able physician and surgeon of Ashtabula. He later prosecuted his studies at the medical college at Willoughby, Ohio, and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city. He graduated from the last named institution in 1845, with high honors. Be was essentially a student and added to this excellent training by continued study to the time of his death. At the age of fifty-five, when most men have lost their desire for increased knowledge, Dr. Hubbard suspended a profitable practice to enter Guy's Hospital, in London, England, the largest institution of the kind in the world, for the purpose of studying diseases of the eye and ear and learning the best treatment of the age in this branch of medical science. Before returning home he made a pleasure trip to Paris, that great center of modern art, and largely added to his store of knowledge. 228 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY When sixty years of age, Dr. Hubbard again temporarily stopped his practice to attend a general course of medical and clinical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and combined with his study and observations abroad a daily research among books and reviews at home. His professional ambition was to possess the best knowledge, not to outrival his confreres, but, more laudably, to cure diseases, and the daily throngs at his office fully attested the confidence reposed in his skill. During the latter partof his life his attention was given more generally to ophthalmic surgery and gynecology. He belonged to a number of medical associations, being, President of the Ashtabula County Medical Society, Vice-President of the Ohio State Medical and Corresponding Member of the I3oston Gynecological societies. He was chosen in 1866, one or the censors of the medical department of the Wooster University, of Cleveland, and in 1876 was a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia. During the Civil war, he was Surgeon of the Forty- first Ohio Regiment, but resigned this post on account of ill health, greatly to the regret of the regiment. In October, 1863, Dr. Hubbard was married to Mrs. Catherine Logan, nee Hubbard, widow of Linus Logan, a steamboat captain who died just after transporting some of the Federal army to the battlefield of Shiloh. Mrs. Hubbard had five children by her former marriage: Caroline M., the wife of W. S. Talliaferro; Margaret died aged one year; 'Catherine, who was married to Samuel Tyler; John H., a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cornelia, who died in 1857. There were no children by the second marriage, but the children and grandchildren of Mrs. Hubbard lived at 'the Doctor's house and received from him most fatherly care, his treatment of them showing his warm affection for the young and dependent. In personal appearance, Dr. Hubbard was a perfect type of intellectual and physical strength, with a fair complexion, classical features, blue and expressive eyes, and a well poised head. His face indicated intelligence and calm emotions, while his manner was kind and gentle. He was a good friend and neighbor, easy in conversation, to whom to listen was to learn. He was deservedly popular among his associates, and in 1878 yielded to the solicitations of friends to become a candidate for Congress. He knew his defeat was certain, for his competitor was the lamented Garfield. His defeat caused him no regrets, his ambition being not to govern but to serve his fellow men. He was a leader, counselor and authority among the professional fraternity, and his name was a household word in his community, where he was universally beloved and revered, and where all hearts still cherish his memory. GEORGE HENRY, a prominent and well-known engineer on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in the city of New York, May 19, 1855, son of Peter and Agnes (Crozier) Henry. Peter Henry was born in Roxburyshire, Scotland, September 12, 1826, and December 28, 1850, married Agnes Crozier, of the parish of Sprouston, Scotland, the date of her birth being March 16, 1828. March 3, 1851, they sailed from Glasgow; were shipwrecked in the English Channel, and after some delay, but without any serious loss, the voyage was continued, and April 16, 1851, they landed OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 229 at New York city, their destination. Mr. Henry had learned the trade of stone-cutter in the old country, and after his arrival in New York continued work at that trade. He bought a farm in Erie county, New York, and, while he worked at his trade, superintended its cultivation. The mother and a sister still reside on the old home place in Erie county. Mr. Henry served as Assessor for twelve successive years, and was also for some time Supervisor of his county. He was perhaps as well known as any man in that part of the State. He was one of the finest mathematicians in western New York. His educational advantages were poor, but he was one of the most indefatigable students. He was well read in general literature, was a fine reasoner and an impressive conversationalist. He died of cancer of the stomach, October 18, 1890. Both he and his wife were reared in the Presbyterian Church. Following are the names of their nine children: James, who married Miss Harriet E. Holt, died March 24, 1885, aged thirty-two years; George; William, who died at the age of six years; Frank, who died at the age of five; Agnes, wife of Levi McCullor, resides at Evans, Erie county, New York; John, a resident of Angola, Erie county, New York, married Nellie Clark; Susan, wife of F. L. Culbertson, Conneaut, Ohio, has one child, Mildred; Isabel, wife of J. J. Brown, lives at West Spring Creek, Pennsylvania; and Maggie, who resides with her mother. George Henry received his education in the Angola Academy, of which institution he is a graduate. He worked on the farm and also learned the trade of stone-cutter. On account of ill health he quit work at his trade, and in 1878 secured a position on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad as fireman, continuing as such four years. He began work on the Nickel Plate June 15, 1882, and has been on that road ever since, serving as engineer. He has never been in a wreck of any kind, but has made some very narrow escapes. He was married January 1, 1878, to Miss Ada Elsie Parker, daughter of John K. and Mary (Smith) Parker, of Evans, Erie county, New York, of which State she is a native. Her father, born March 19, 1824, is still living. Her mother is deceased. The seven children composing the Parker family are as follows: Anson S., Brant, Erie county, New York; Elizabeth, wife of George Fuller, Collinwood, Ohio; John H., Grand Rapids, Michigan; Charlotte Jane, wife of A. S. Far- rand, Cleveland; Samuel A., North Collins, New York; Sarah Ann, wife of E. S. Webster, Brant, Erie county, New York; and Mrs. Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have had two children, Mary Agnes and Lulu Belle. The latter died in infancy. Mr. Henry is a full-fledged Mason, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter, council and Cache Commandery, all of Conneaut. He is also a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, in which he is First Engineer; and of the Protected Home Circle. In politics he is an ardent Republican. HENRY BLAKELEY, late of Conneaut, was for many years a prominent factor in the business and social life of this town, and few men stood higher in the estimation of its people than did he. Mr. Blakeley was born in Erie county, New York, October 10, 1815, and was married in Conneaut, April 4, 1841, to Miss Sarah Ann Wade, also a native of Erie county, New York. It was about 1838 that he landed in 230 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Conneaut, and from that date until January 26, 1889, the time of his death, he was identified with its best interests. For some time he was engaged in the livery business here. He built the Tremont Hotel, and as its genial landlord catered to the traveling public for a period of twenty-five years, during which time he made hosts of friends. After he sold the Tremont it was enlarged, and has since been known as the Commercial Hotel. Mr. Blakeley was a member of the F. & A. M. and the I. O. 0. F., and for many years was a Deacon in the Congregational Church. He was a man of pleasing address, warm heart and generous impulses, and was eminently fitted for the position he occupied. At his death Conneaut lost a valued citizen. His good wife, too, has passed away, her death having occurred August 14, 1883, at which time she had attained the age of sixty years. She was a member of the same church as was her husband, and for more than forty years their lives were happily blended together. Of the five children of this worthy couple we make record as follows: Mrs. Sarah J. Loomis, of Conneaut, is the oldest; James H. is the next in order of birth; Charles P. died at the age of five years; Ellen E., widow of George B. Humphrey, resides in Conneaut; and Emma A., wife of Charles P. De Hart, is also of Conneaut. C. P. DE HART, decorator and paper hanger, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in this town, April 3, 1847. His parents, Dr. Hiram E. and Charlotte De Hart, natives of Pennsylvania, are now residents of Detroit, Michigan. Dr. De Hart practiced medicine in Conneaut years ago, and as a skilled physician was well known all over the county. He and his wife are each about seventy years of age. The subject of our sketch and a brother and sister are the only ones living of their family of eight children. The sister, Mabel, is the wife of Frank O. Dunwell, of Ludington, Michigan, and the brother, Harry, is a traveling salesman for Macauley, a Detroit wholesale milliner. Mr. De Hart received his education in Conneaut and Cleveland, completing his schooling with a commercial course. With the exception of two years spent in Detroit, he has been engaged in his present occupation in Conneaut since 1873, employing from seven to ten men as assistants during the summer months. Mr. De Hart has a wife and family of bright children, and his comfortable and attractive home is located on one of the beautiful streets of Conneaut. He was married February 9, 1874, to Emma Blakeley, daughter of Henry Blakeley, an honored pioneer of Ashtabula county. They have had four. children, namely: Sherman, who died in infancy, and Sarah Wade, Charlotte Blakeley and Daphne Louise. REV. F. E. MORRISON, Superintendent of the Schools of Kingsville township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in Jefferson, this State, January 18, 1863, son of Rev. C. and Sarah M. (Goodale) Morrison. His maternal ancestors were natives of Connecticut. His father, Rev. C. Morrison was born in Geneva, Ohio, June 19, 1823. He now resides on a farm near Richmond, this State, where he has been engaged in agricultural pursuits for some seventeen years. He was for a number of years a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, but withdrew for the purpose of organizing OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 231 a new church, to be known as the Zion Church, in which he was a traveling preacher . for many years, until age disqualified him for active work. He and his wife have had a family of ten children, all of whom are living except two. Seven are in Ashtabula county, and one resides in Kansas. Professor F. E. Morrison is next to the youngest in this family. He received his education in the Jefferson public schools, Grand River Institute, and New Lyme Institute. At the age of sixteen he began the study of telegraphy in a railway office. It was three years after this that he entered New Lyme Institute, where, the following fall, he accepted the management of the telegraphic department of the institution, which he conducted in a very acceptable manner until the time of his graduation. Since his graduation he has devoted his time to public-school work, and has conducted the schools under his charge in a manner that has gained him a reputation among the best teachers and managers in the county. Two years he has held the superintendency of Orwell Normal Institute. Under his management the schools prospered to an extent highly gratifying to all. From a list of twenty-nine applicants of leading educators, from this and surrounding States, Professor Morrison was selected for Superintendent of the Kingsville Schools by the board of education. The favorable opinion formed by the members of the board of education at that time has been imparted to. all the people of the township, and greatly strengthened since Professor Morrison has taken up his work here. He has recently been retained for a term of two years as Superintendent of the Kingsville Schools, with an increase in salary of $100 per year. He was married March 26, 1885, to Miss Inez H. Campbell, daughter of John C. and Lodema (Scribner) Campbell. Her father and mother are natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have an only child, Hazel May, born May 1, 1889. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he takes an active interest, being a local preacher and holding the office of president of the Epworth League. He is also a Mason and an Odd Fellow, being a member of both the subordinate and encampment lodges, having passed all the chairs in the subordinate lodge of the same. W. P. HORTON, an aged and highly respected citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, is a dealer in groceries, provisions, furnishing goods, notions, etc., corner of State street and Bartlett avenue. W. P. Horton was born in Alexander, Genesee county, New York, October 15, 1814, son of Solomon and Philena (Peters) Horton, the father a native of Hartford, Connecticut, and the mother of Vermont. His parents were married in Vermont and their oldest son was born in that state. In 1813 they moved to the Holland Purchase, and in the woods of Genesee county, by dint of hard work and good management, the father developed a nice farm. In 1831 he moved to Alden, Erie county, New York, where he improved another farm. The same year he settled in Alden he and his wife and four of their children united with the Freewill Baptist Church. His wife died at the age of fifty-five years, five months and five days. She was a most devout, earnest Christian woman, whom to know was to love. Her 232 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY great concern in life was to see all her children converted and have a working place in the church. This precious boon was granted her, she being permitted to live until they were all zealous Christian workers. After the death of his first wife Mr. Solomon Horton married a widow who had grown children living in Wisconsin. They moved to that State, and there he died at the age of about seventy-seven years. For many years he was a Deacon in the church. His nine children were as follows: Rev. H. W., who was a minister in the Baptist Church for over forty years, and who was, like his father, a great Abolitionist, passed to his reward some years ago; William P., whose name heads this article; Sallie, who married a Mr. Dow, died in Illinois; Cynthia, who is married and living in Lansing, Michigan; Orsemus, who has been a Deacon in the Baptist Church at Grand Rapids, Michigan, for more than forty years; Orville, a farmer of Union, Pennsylvania; Amanda, wife of Josiah Kilburn, died near Grand Rapids, Michigan; Almira, widow of Dr. Ingals, resides in Illinois; and Alonzo, a resident of Michigan. In this large family all reached mature years, and the oldest was over sixty before there was a death in the family. W. P. Horton was reared on his father's farm and assisted in developing it. He also cleared a farm of his own, and after his marriage settled thereon. He was married in Darien, Genesee county, New York, October 2, 1836, to Dennis Almira Carter, who was born in New York, August 21, 1810, daughter of Seth and Almira Carter. Her parents were born and married in Connecticut, and were pioneers of the Holland purchase. Of the Carter family we make record as follows: Mrs. Horton was the fourth born in a family of two sons and four daughters. Two of the latter, Mary Ann and Caroline, are married and living in Kentucky, and the youngest daughter, also married, has her home some place in the west. Samuel lives in the northern part of Michigan. William died at Union, Erie county, Pennsylvania, in 1890. The father's death occurred in 1851, at the home of Mr. Horton, in Conneaut, Mrs. Carter having passed away some years before in Erie county, Pennsylvania; both are buried in the East Conneaut Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Horton had three children, Caroline S., Miles L. and Burrel W., only one of whom, Miles L., is living. Caroline S. became the wife of B. F. Thompson, by whom she had two children, Lida and Alice. Her death occurred December 1, 1881. Mr. Thompson is a farmer and resides in East Conneaut. Mr. Norton's first wife died April 6, 1859. December 31, 1859, he married a widow, Mrs. Mary C. (Knox) Folsom. Mr. Folsom, her deceased husband, had two children by a former marriage, one of whom is the wife of Miles L. Horton, above referred to. Of Mrs. Mary C. Horton's family be it recorded that her parents, Hugh and Martha Knox, had eight children, viz.: Anna, wife of Pyatt Williamson, is deceased, as also is her husband; John, who married Catherine Bow, died February 18, 1861, at the age of fifty-five years; James, who died April 24, 1842, at the age of thirty-three years; William, who died June 8, 1873, aged sixty-one years; Mary C., born October 10, 1815; Thomas S., residing near Warren, Ohio; Jane G. Scott, also living near Warren, Ohio; and Robert, who died March 14, 1842, aged twenty-two years: Mary C. Horton died May 30, 1893, leaving the subject of our notice a widower again in his old age. Mr. W. P. Horton removed from New York to Union county, Pennsylvania, April OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 233 12, 1843, and there developed another farm, on which he remained until he came to East Conneaut, May 5, 1855. About this time he began selling medicines, traveling in the interest of Dr. John S. Carter, of Erie, making his home in East Conneaut, his son having charge of the farm. Following his experience on the road, he was sick seven years, with white swelling, and not able to get out or in. He is still afflicted, although he is able to get around, chiefly, however, in his chair. In December, 1883, Mr. Horton moved to West Conneaut and opened a store at his present location, where he has continued to do a successful business. Mr. Horton, at the age of eleven years, was baptized, and, with his father and mother, united with the first Free-will Baptist Church ever organized on the Holland Purchase, so Called, the church being located at Bethany, New York. For over sixty-seven years Mr. Horton has been a member of the Free-will Baptist Church, and for more than thirty years of that time has acted as chorister in the church. He also served as Church Trustee. Mrs. Horton is a Methodist. Mr. Horton and his son, Miles L., both affiliate with the Republican party. SOLYMAN CLARK OSBORN, second son and child of Samuel Osborn, Jr,, and Polly (Webster) Osborn, was born in Franklin, Delaware county, New York, January 1, 1807. He removed with his parents in the fall of 1813, to Jefferson, Ashtabula county, Ohio, to Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1814, to Huron county (now Erie), Ohio, in 1817. Here his father died in September, 1819, and the family returned to Jefferson. His residence has been since in Ashtabula county, where his time has been consecutively passed at school, learning the clothes-making trade, running a cloth factory, merchandising, milling, and lastly on the small fruit farm on which he now lives in Ashtabula. He was married in Conneaut, Ohio, October 5, 1831, to Harriet Sanford, daughter of Eli Sanford and Sarah (Wheeler) Sanford, of Conneaut, who was born in Conneaut, September 16, 1815, and is still living. Both he and his venerable wife are in comfortable health and actively engaged in labor,—he with his grapes and fruit and she keeping the house. Both united early in life with the Baptist Church, and have been always active working members in good standing. Mr. Osborn's paternal and maternal grandfather were Revolutionary soldiers; his father was long connected with the militia of Delaware county, in some command. Of these offices he can only remember that of adjutant of the regiment. He was out for some time as a volunteer in the war of 1812. He was a farmer, lumberman and a breeder and lover of good horses, and he was also a hunter and natural mechanic. He possessed great physical strength, which proved, however, to be no defense against the malaria of the section known in those early days as the West. Mr. Osborn and his wife are of New England stock, his father coining from East Windsor, Connecticut, and his mother from Litchfield county, Connecticut. Mrs. Osborn's father and mother also came from Connecticut. It may be said of his ancestry on both sides, if not great they were good, being pious, honest, temperate and industrious. Mr. and Mrs. Osborn have not been blessed with children. An adopted daughter, now Mrs. Charles Hall, of Conneaut, holds them 234 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY in loving, grateful remembrance, as do also two motherless nieces of Mrs. Osborn —Mrs. Aaron Pickett and Mrs. Hulbert, of Ashtabula, both of whom were tenderly reared from childhood to maturity at the home of their aunt. ETHENER BEALS, a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born at Burlington, Genesee county, New York, February 13, 1816, a son of Edson and Jane (Turner) Beals, natives of Massachusetts. The par eats came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1818, settling first in. Pierpont township. Edson Beals moved to Cherry Valley in 1828, where he resided until his death. He was a prominent clergyman in the Universalist Church. The children were ninein number: Ethener, Artemas, Amos, Susan, Hannah, Fidelia, Anna, Lydia and Maria. The mother died at the age of ninety-two years. Ethener Beals, the subject of this sketch, now owns a good farm of 108 acres in this county, where he has a good dwelling, barns, orchard, and every convenience necessary for a well regulated farm. He was married in Erie county, Pennsylvania, at the age of twenty-two years, to Lucretia Lowe, a daughter of Isaac Lowe. To this union was born five children, two now living,--Ensign and Abileno E. Two children died in infancy, and Josiah departed this life at the age of twenty-two years. The wife and mother died July 8, 1872, and February 25, 1874, Mr. Beals married Orazetta Gleason, a native of Steuben county, New York. He had been a Republican ever since the formation of the party. A. E. Beals, a son of Ethener Beals, was born September 15, 1848, and received his education at Austinburg and Oberlin. He afterward taught school for a time, and in 1870 located on his present farm in this county, known as the old Trask Creesey place. He owns 200 acres of the finest farming land in this township, where he has a good residence, a barn 34 x 75 feet, and a fine dairy. In one year Mr. Beals raised 333 bushels of wheat on eleven acres of ground. February 24, 1870, at Jefferson, Ohio, he was united in marriage to Elcena J. Spellman, a daughter of Charles and Sally (Mason) Spellman. The mother was born at Fort Ann, New York, a daughter of Nathan Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Beals have two children,--Frank S., aged seventeen years, is attending musical college at Jefferson; and Birney, born in April, 1880. Three of their children are deceased. Mr. Beals affiliates with the Republican party. IRA H. PARDEE, M. D., an able Homeopathic physician and public-spirited citizen of Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, was born in Windham, Portage county, this State, May 12, 1859. His parents, Samuel A. and Diadema E. (Owen) Pardee, were early settlers of Portage county, of which they are still honored residents, the father being a practical and enterprising farmer. The subject of this sketch remained on the home farm until about seventeen years of age, at first attending the district schools and afterward going to Hiram College and the Northwestern Ohio University. He began to teach school at the age of seventeen, an occupation which he followed twelve consecutive years. He first taught in Trumbull county, Ohio, for two or three years; then taught some time in Portage county, after which he became principal of the public schools in Palmyra, this State, and later was OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 235 principal of the schools at Mantua. In the meantime he was diligently reading medicine, and in 1886 entered Pulte Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, at which institution he graduated March 12, 1889. In March, 1888, he went to Mason, Wisconsin, where he taught school and practiced medicine until July, 1889, at which time he settled in Harbor, Ohio, in which place he has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession, meeting, from the first, with gratifying encouragement. He educated himself, both scholastically and professionally, by earning at intervals the cost of tuition, which may well presage success, inasmuch as our self-made men are the ones who attain the greatest prosperity. In 1881, Dr. Pardee was married to Miss Ella R. Pierce, an intelligent and prepossessing lady of Hiram, Ohio. They have one son, Azro. Politically, the Doctor is a stanch supporter of Democracy, while he is fraternally a member of the Knights of Pythias and the National Union and Independent Order of Foresters. He also belong to the State Homeopathic Medical Association. As a physician he is judicious and careful, while as a citizen and man he is upright and progressive, and is justly esteemed by his fellow men. JUDGE EDWARD J. BETTS.—The legal profession of Jefferson, Ohio, is ably represented by the subject of this sketch, whose natural ability and scholarly attainments would have rendered Min a sue cess in any walk of life. Judge Betts, eminent lawyer and progressive citizen, was born in Norwalk, Connecti cut, June 4, 1838. His parents, Josiah and Jane Betts, removed from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in an early day, whence they afterward moved to Ohio, at that time on the frontier of civilization, finally settling in Ashtabula county in 1853. The subject of this sketch passed most of his youth in Portage county, Ohio, from which place his parents removed to Ashtabula county when he was a lad of fifteen years. He has ever since resided in the latter county, and since 1863 his home has been in Jefferson. His education was attained in the academies of Orwell and Kingsville, after which he pursued the study of law under the instruction of Mr. S. A. Northway, of Jefferson, and was admitted to the bar in May, 1864. Possessing an analytical and comprehensive mind, gifted with legal acumen and insight, combined with unflagging energy, he was calculated to push his way to the foremost rank of his profession. In December, 1871, he was appointed Judge of the Probate Court, to which position he was re-elected three successive terms, his incumbency lasting until February 9, 1882. His judicial record was characterized by justice and honor, his rulings being rendered in thorough accord with the evidence and the law, and he carried with him into private life the approval of his fellow-men and the higher endorsement of his own conscience. His attention has since been devoted to his legal practice, in which he easily takes the lead in his community. The Judge was first married in 1868, to Miss Olive A. Dodge, but her presence was destined to brighten his home for but a short time, l:er death taking place in 1873. In 1874 the Judge was married to Miss Maria T. Houghton, an accomplished lady. They have one daughter, Cora M. Betts. 236 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY In politics the Judge has been v, Republican since the organization of the party. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Knight Templar Masons. He has been for many years a member of the Congregational Church. In the various walks of life Judge Betts has always been the same upright, genial gentleman, and enjoys the highest regard of his fellow-citizens. EDMUND L. MORSE, M. D., a representative physician and surgeon of Ashtabula, Ohio, was born in Geauga county, this State, June 16, 1838. His parents, Moses and Lydia (Thomson) Morse, were natives of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, respectively, but were married in Geauga county, of which their respective parents were early and prominent settlers. The father of the subject of this sketch was a mechanic and raised a faMily of ten children. Dr. Morse, of this notice, was reared in his native county and attended the public schools, at which he secured a fair English education. He early learned the carpenter and joiner's trade of his father, remaining at home until eighteen years of age, when he started out in life for himself. He worked at his trade four or five years, when the Civil war broke out, and he was soon caught in this maelstrom of internecine discord. August 20, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, of the Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was placed in the Nineteenth Brigade, Fourth Division, Second Army Corps, serving throughout the war. He was a non-commissioned officer (Sergeant), which rank he held for three years, and at the close of the conflict. he had risen to that of First Lieutenant of the same company and regiment in which he had enlisted. He took part in the battle of Shiloh, where he was slightly wounded, and was subsequently engaged at the siege of Corinth. He next fought at Murfreesborough, Perryville and LaVergne, then taking active part in the Tullahoma campaign and that of Chattanooga. He was next engaged, in turn, at Ringgold, Chickamauga, Brown's Ferry, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. With no rest for the wearied soldiers, then began the march to Knoxville for the relief of Burnside. In May, 1864, the Atlanta campaign opened, and our Subject was a participant in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge, Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Adairsville, Cassville, Kenesaw Mountain, Nicojack Creek, Peach Tree Creek, and the siege of Atlanta. After the fall of Atlanta he was engaged at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station, and then was in the pursuit of Hood, taking part in the battles of Franklin and Spring Hill. From there he went to Huntsville; thence to North Carolina, and finally to San Antonio, Texas, where he was mustered out. He was paid off and discharged at Columbus, Ohio, November 17, 1865. After the close of the war he began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. J. W. Atwood, of Geauga county, with whom he studied four years. He then practiced medicine four years with his preceptor at Chardon, after which he went to the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, at which he graduated in 1878. Returning to Chardon, he continued with Dr. Atwood two years, when he removed to Ashtabula and at once engaged in eclectic practice. In 1883 he took a post-graduate course at St. Louis Medical College. In the winter of 1884 he took charge of a hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he remained two years and OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 237 a half, when he again returned to Ashtabula, where he has since continued in active pract:ee of medicine. In 1876 Dr. Morse was married to Miss Lydia J. Atwood, daughter of his preceptor in medicine, thus, like Othello, using the charm of noble manhood to win the daughter of his benefactor. Politically, Dr. Morse is a Republican, and, socially, belongs to the Paulis Post, G. A. R., the Knights of Pythias and Masonic order. As a citizen and man he stands justly high in his community, where he has passed so many busy and useful years. JAMES H. JUDSON, a prominent business man and enterprising citizen of Conneaut, Ohio, )vas born at this place, September 28, 1848, son of Hiram and Azuba (Horton). Judson. Hiram Judson was born in New York -in 1812, the oldest of three children of Elisha Judson, his two brothers being Ephraim and Isaac. Ephraim went to Michigan, where he died when about twenty-one years of age. Isaac died in Elkhart, Indiana, about 1886. The mother of J. H. Judson was born December 10, 1809, oldest of the two children of James and Asenath (Mann) Horton, natives of Connecticut and Massachusetts respectively. The other child, Sarah, was born in May, 1811; became the wife of S. A. Pelton, of Connecticut; died March 1, 1883. After the death of her mother, which occurred when Azuba was three years old, she went to live with her grandparents, Nathan and Elizabeth Mann, by whom she was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Judson were married March 6, 1835, and in 1840 settled in Conneaut. Of the three children born to them only James H. is living. Elisha, the oldest, born June 10, 1838, died at the age of seventeen, and Sarah, born October 22, 1844, lived only four years. James H. Judson was educated in Conneaut, for a time receiving private instructions under William F. Hubbard. He has been identified with the interests of Conneaut for many years, beginning his business career as a clerk in the store of Mr. Keyes. Afterward he and Mr. Keyes were engaged in the fish business, next he was in the shoe business with Joseph Douglas, and still later. became a partner in the dry-goods business With Mr. Higgins. The firm of Higgins & Judson continued to do a successful business until about 1884, when Mr. Judson sold out. For the past fifteen years he has been interested in the lumber business. In the lumber business he succeeded Mr. Lake, who was a partner with his father, the firm then becoming H. Judson & Son, and now being Judson-& Parker. His partner, L. R. Parker, is-a resident of Fostoria, Ohio. Mr. Judson is also interested in California fruit- growing. He has .forty acres in oranges; of three years' groWth, all .budded fruit, and in good growing Condition. He takes great pride in his orange 'grove, especially since it was a project of his-lamented father; and he visits the place annually as a sort of diversion from his other ,business exactions. Mr. Judson is a. man of genial, benevolent nature, sound busin-ess- principles and strict integrity, and is a worthy representative of his father. August 11, 1870, James H. Judson married Miss Louisa Houck, a native of Buffalo, New York, and a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Pflau) Houck, of that place. They have four children: Hiram, Clara M., Lina A. and Margaret—all in school. Mrs. Judson is a member of the Congregational Church. 238 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Mr. Judson votes with the Republican party, taking, however, little interest in political matters. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the Scottish rite degrees. In connection with the life of James H. Judson, it is fitting that further mention be made of his honored father, and the following sketch will be of interest to many. Hiram Judson, deceased, was born in Penfield, New York, September 29, 1812. He and his wife came to Conneaut in 1840. For a number of years he, in company with Mr. Asa Shepard, conducted a woolen mill and store on South Ridge, and in 1859 he moved into Conneaut and engaged in merchandising, E. A. Higgins being his partner. He also, with Hiram Lake as a partner, carried on a lumber business. With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, he went to the oil fields and for a number of years was one of the busy men in that busy section. He returned to Conneaut, however, in 1864, far from being a wealthy man. At the death of Mr. Lake, James H. Judson came into the firm, and he and his father continued a successful business in lumber. On Tuesday, October 14, 1890, Mr. Judson, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Brayman, left Conneaut in the best of spirits for California, to engage in a new enterprise, the planting of an orange grove, an undertaking, as he expressed to the writer, from which he knew he could not live the requisite length of time to receive any benefits, but which he believed would eventually prove one of the most profitable investments. Little did he think he would not live to reach the Golden State, much less that his death would he the result of his falling from the train that was speeding him to his new field of labor. We have no details of the sad acci dent. The following Saturday, the sorrow stricken family received the following dispatch: " Mr. Judson fell from the train and was instantly killed." This was a sad ending of a life so grand and useful, making a mournful impression upon the mind. Hiram Judson is dead. These are the most painful words we have written in many a day. They have cast a pall of sorrow not only over the family and its immediate connections, but also over the entire city of Conneaut. No man was better known or more highly respected than the deceased, and therefore this universal mourning. The feelings of sorrow and sadness that hold sway in every breast is but a just tribute to the man whose departure has been so sudden and unexpected. A resident of this place for nearly a half a century, and identified with all its interests as a leader among the many of our active citizens, his worth became known to us all. No enterprise of a public nature was ever inaugurated without, if according to his judgment it was proper and for the best interests of the community at large, receiving the hearty support of his active brain and liberal purse; and if it met with his disapproval he was equally bold and fearless in opposing it with voice and action. He was a man of strong convictions, fearless and bold in his dealings with municipal officers, and no measure of a public nature was ever undertaken without the result that his voice was raised either for or against it and in no uncertain tone. During the time we were laboring for the establishment of the Nickel Plate shops, be was one of the active men; again, when working with might and main for our Southern railroad scheme, his voice was loud and strong, and his purse wide open. He served the OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 239 city as Councilman for a number of years, and as a member of the Council, as in every other place, he was a power for good. In his private business enterprises he was possessed of rare tact and foresight, great activity and indomitable perseverance, and whatever he undertook to do he carried to a successful issue. In his vocabulary there was no such word as "failure." With all the push and energy he applied to his various business enterprises, and the process of acquiring a handsome fortune, there is not a man living who could give expression to a suspicion that in all his business relations he was not the soul of honor, honesty and uprightness. In social life he was an example worthy the imitation and emulation of all--calm, dignified and active. In all measures that had a tendency to elevate mankind and to make better, he was a leader. Every appeal to relieve the sufferings of his fellow-men found him not only a ready listener but also ready with an open hand to assist and succor. There are many in our community who will sadly miss his fatherly advice and his many acts of charity. Although not a professor of religion, he was a regular attendant upon divine service and a most liberal contributor toward the support of the Gospel. He lived the life of the follower of the Lamb. He was merciful and he shall receive mercy. In Evergreen Lodge, A. F. & A. M., he was a pillar, and in his younger days was a most active worker. Here, as well as in business circles, in the church and in the family, is a vacant place. In his death the aged and invalid wife, the only son and his family have met with an irreparable loss. HON. AMOS AND MARTIN KELLOGG, - Amos Kellogg was born in Alford, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, June 17, 1782, was married to Paulina Dean, July 30, 1805, and was the seventh in a family of nine children, all of whom lived to maturity and reared families of their own. Amos and his brother Martin, two years his senior, who had previously married Miss Anna Lester, remained at home as the joint owners of and cultivating the old homestead until 1811, when one Colwell, of Albany, New York, who was the owner of a large tract of wild lands in western Virginia, by representing his land to be valuable for farming purposes and just coming into market, and offering him the position. of surveyor and general agent for the sale of his lands, with a liberal compensation, induced Martin, who was a practical and skillful surveyor, to accept his offer. Accordingly, after the necessary preparations, June 12, 1811, Martin with his family, consisting of his wife and two children, aged respectively seven and three years, started from the old homestead to seek a new home in the then far West, their outfit consisting of a pair of horses, wagon, and harness, carrying the family and household goods. The route taken was from Alford to Newburg, where they crossed the Hudson river, from thence to eastern New Jersey, Bethlehem, Allentown, Reading, Harrisburg, Carlisle, and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania; Cumberland, Maryland; Clarksburg and Parkersburg, Virginia, to Belpre, Ohio. On arriving at his destination, after a journey of some 600 miles, occupying some five weeks, having crossed the Blue Ridge and seen the country, he became satisfied that nothing could be done in the way of selling lands that then were hardly worth surveying. He was, therefore, 240 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY on the point of turning back, without unloading his goods, when he was offered a house to shelter him for a season. This induced him to remain until he could better determine what to do. He remained at Belpre, on the Ohio river, until the death of his father, late in the autumn of 1812, when, on the 24th of December of that year, he started on foot to return to the old homestead, following the same route traversed on his journey the year previous arriving at Alford about January 1, 1813. On the failure of the land enterprise, the death of their father, and the return of Martin, the brothers concluded to embrace one of the then many opportunities to exchange cub tiveed farms in the East for wild lands in what was then known as New Connecticut. They accordingly made such exchange, receiving for the old homestead 1,150 acres of uncultivated land situated in Ashtabula and Geauga counties. Early in 1813, Martin returned to Belpre, and with his family removed to their new lands in Salem, in this county, in time to erect a log house, one mile north of the present village of Kelloggsville, in which they spent the winter of 1813—'14. In February, 1814, Amos with his family, --consisting of his aged mother, wife, two daughters, aged respectively eight and six years, and a son, aged two years, with a hired laborer,—started from their old homestead for their new home in the wilderness of New Connecticut, the outfit being four horses with two sleighs, carrying the family and household goods. Arriving at Phelpstown, Ontario county, New York, where his wife had expected to meet her father, two brothers, and a younger sister, who had preceded her the year before and settled in that locality, she learned for the first time, by a messenger whom she met but a few rods from the door, that her father had died since she had started on her journey. They arrived at their new home early in March, after a journey of more than 500 miles entirely on runners, and occupying four weeks. On the arrival of Amos with his family, in the spring of 1814, the brothers, who were still partners, and held both real and personal property in common, commenced clearing and opening up their new lands preparatory to cultivation, and during the following six years, while they so remained in company, they cleared, fenced, and brought under cultivation some 200 acres of original forest lands, being very largely assisted in their labors by John Hardy. They continued to reside together with their families until February, 1815, when they purchased from the late Hon. Eliphalet Austin, of Austinburg, a large part of the tract of land now covered by the village of Kelloggsville, then known as the " Foggerson settlement." Martin moved upon this tract, where he remained until 1819, when they dissolved their partnership and divided the property, Amo3 taking what was known as the Foggerson farm and Martin going back to the new one. Amos' business occupations were farming, merchandising, buying, driving, and selling cattle, and keeping a village tavern. He was appointed to and held the office of Justice of the Peace in his native township for one or more terms before his removal to Ohio, and in March, 1816, was elected one of the Justices for Salem township. Soon after the expiration of his term in Salem he removed to Monroe, and in July, 1822, was elected Justice for that township, which office he held until he resigned to accept the office of Associate Judge, to which he was elected by the Legislature, December 31, 1823, and took his seat at the March term, OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 241 1824, of which office he discharged the duties until his decease, April 27, 1830. He was the first Postmaster in Monroe, and from him was derived the name of the post office and village of Kelloggsville. At the time of the severance of two miles in width of the territory from the south part of Salem and annexing it to Monroe, in 1818, the brothers were very much interested and were probably influential in procuring the annexation, for which they did not at the time receive very many thanks or congratulations from the citizens of Salem. Having had the advantages of a fair New England common-school education, and being a man of good judgment, Amos was very competent to transact such business as he had been accustomed to but having been induced, in 1821, to engage in the business of a country merchant, and intrusting the management of the business to younger men, like most enterprises of that kind, the venture proved a failure, and caused him much embarrassment during the remainder of his life. He united with the order of Freemasons in early life, was a member of the Evergreen Lodge, in Salem, and adhered to that organization through the troublous times subsequent to the alleged abduction of Morgan. Politically, he was of the old Federal school, but ardently supported Mr. Clay for President in 1824, and Mr. Adams in 1828. He was a kind, indulgent, and sympathizing husband and father, and, in short, " that noblest work of God," an honest man. SAMUEL WORCESTER PECK was born at Tyringham (now Monterey), Berkshire county, Massachusetts, September 23, 1821, a son of Horace and Abigail (Allen) Peck; the father was born April 7, 1794, and died August 20, 1884, aged ninety-one years; the mother was born August 19, 1793, and died December 25, 1856, aged sixty-three years. Horace Peck was a carpenter and joiner by occupation, as had been his father before him. He emigrated to Ohio in 1834, locating at Chardon, Geauga county, in September of that year; here for nearly fifty years he followed agricultural pursuits and carpentry. Samuel W. Peck was also engaged in the carpenter's trade for a quarter of a century, and assisted in the erection of many of the buildings in the township of Geneva. He has given some attention to farming, and has owned several valuable tracts of land which he has managed with excellent success. He is one of the original stock-holders of the First National Bank of Geneva, and has continued his connection with that institution since its founding. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., the teachings of which fraternity comprise his religious belief. July 1, 1892, he was presented with the Veteran Jewel by his brother members; he has a record of attending over 1,300 consecutive meetings of the lodge, and has rarely missed a meeting. He is a Past Grand, Past Patriarch, Past Special Deputy and Past Representative. Mr. Peck was married January 16, 1845, to Louisa Webster, who was born January 22, 1824, a daughter of Norman and Ruth (Norton) Webster, pioneers of Geneva township. The father was a native of Durham, Greene county, New York, and the mother was from the same county; he died April 11, 1867, at the age of ninety-two years, and the mother, April 17, 1878,, aged eighty-seven years. Mrs. Peck's grandfathers, Timothy Webster and Ambrose Norton, were soldiers in the war of the Revolution. Her father 242 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY traded a fine farm in New York for a tract of 700 acres, extending from the creek east of Geneva village to the Saybrook township line, and south to the Geneva township line. He was a man greatly respected for his many sterling traits of character. Mr. Peck's great-grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and served as Major under Washington. Politically Mr. Peck supports the Republican party, and is an ardent advocate of temperance. THOMAS CASE, of Andover township, Ashtabula county, was born May 7, 1830, a son of Orren B. and Delia A. (Cresey) Case, the former born in Massachusetts in 1804, and the latter a native of Cherry Valley township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Timothy Case, was a native of Massachusetts, and the family came to this county in 1822. O. B. and Delia Case had thirteen children, seven now living: Thomas, Morris, Birney, Eliza, James, Levacia, and Edd P. One son, Hon. A. T. Case, died in Michigan, at the age of fifty-three years; and another, Timothy, departed this life at the age of twenty years. Mr. Case was one of seven Birney men in Andover in 1840. He held the positions as Clerk and Trustee, and was a prominent man in his community. His death occurred in 1880, and his wife departed this life in 1874. Thomas Case, the subject of this sketch, enlisted for service in the late war, February 24, 1865, entering the One-hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, and served until the close of the struggle. He was discharged at Salisbury, North Carolina, July 14, 1865. Mr. Case resided for a time in Richmond, but he now owns 162 acres of land in Andover township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. This is one of the finest farms in the neighborhood, contains all the necessary farm buildings, a sugar grove of 400 trees, an orchard, a patent evaporator for syrup and sugar, and a dairy of twenty cows. In his political views, Mr. Case is a Republican, and was the choice of his party for Assessor and Trustee. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R., H. Kile Post, No. 80. He was married at the age of twenty-one years, to Lucinda, a daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Adams) Halmon. Mrs. Case died in November, 1855, and in 1857 our subject was united in marriage to Sarah A. Laughlin, formerly a successful teacher and a daughter of Hugh C. Laughlin, a prominent early settler of Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Case have three living children: Mary E., wife of F. S. Higden; Cora, of Montana; Hugh L. and Stiles C. Their deceased children were: Azalia Strickland, who had charge of the Bloomfield public school for a time, died December 4, 1892, at the age of thirty-three years; Charles, deceased at the age' of four years; and a son died at the age of six months. Mrs. Case is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. JAMES BROWN, a merchant of Dorset, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in Scotland, September 30, 1843, being a son of Thomas Brown, also a native of that country. The latter was foreman of part of the Markland Iron & Steel works in. Scotland, then the largest in the world, and on leaving that country for the United States OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 243 received a valuable gold watch as a token of respect and esteem from the workmen of that establishment. He first located at Johnson, Trumbull county, Ohio, and then came to Richmond township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. At his death, Mr. Brown left seven children, three sons and four daughters. James Brown, our subject, came with his parents to the United States at the age of nine years. In 1864 he enlisted for service in the late war, entering the One-hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry Company D, serving under General Sherman. He bought his present store of W. K. Gates & Son, the building occupied being a two-story structure, 22 x 50 feet. He carries a general stock amounting to $7,000. Mr, Brown was married in 1868, to Mary E. Brown, a daughter of Michael Brown, a pioneer settler of Venango county, Pennsylvania, but now deceased. To this union have been born five children: Linn W., M. Raymond, Bessie M., Edith C. and Winefred M. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dorset. Our subject has served his city as Postmaster, and his township as Trustee. He is a member of the G. A. R., Hiram Kile Post, No. 80, at Andover, Ohio. Mr. Brown is a man of intelligence of broad and progressive views, favors education, religion and temperance, and is one of the most popular citizens of his community. R. S. WORK, a photographer, of Andover, Ohio, was born in Evansburgh, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1863, a son of M. M. and Mary E. (Miller) Work, residents of that city. Our subject was reared and educated in the public and private schools in his native place, and at the age of seventeen years began the study of photography. He began business for himself in Evansburgh, but during the same year, 1881, located at Andover, Ohio, where he has since continued his profession. Mr. Work soon afterward erected the building he now occupies, 68 x22 feet, two stories high, located on the east side of the public square, where he has all the modern conveniences for the prosecution of his work. His operating room is one of the finest in this part of the country. Mr. Work does all kinds of photographic work, and finishes portraits in crayon, India ink, etc.; also carries a full line of mouldings, and manufactures picture frames to order. He is a thorough master of his art. Mr. Work was married at Adamsville, Pennsylvania, in August, 1881, to Miss Maggie J. Hazen, a daughter of David and Sarah Hazen. To this union have been born three children: Merrill R.; Maxwell M., died June 17, 1888, aged seven months; and Boyd H. Mrs. Work is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ALONZO GREEN, who holds prominent rank with the earlier settlers of Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, was born in Rensselaer county, New York, May 2, 1823. John Green, the father of Alonzo, was also a native of the Empire State. He was a farmer in Rensselaer county for many years, and died in Malone, Franklin county, that State, at the advanced age of ninety years. He was twice married. His first wife, nee Nancy Vial, died in 1827, leaving eight children, of whom Alonzo was next to the youngest. By his second marriage he had 244 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY one child. Four of the nine are still living. Alonzo Green attended the district schools in his youth, his educational advantages being limited to them. When he was twelve years old he began. work in a cotton factory at Bennington, Vermont, and was employed there for three or four years, afterward working two or three years in a cotton factory in Middlebury, Vermont. During this time he mastered every department of work connected with the manufacture of cloth. In August, 1840, at the age of seventeen, he landed in Willoughby, Ohio, making the journey hither by canal boat and steamer, and being eleven days en route. His brother James was living here at that time. For more than a year after he came to Willoughby, Alonzo was sick and unable to work, but as soon as he recovered he turned his attention to the blacksmith trade and worked at it for two or three years. After that he began farming in Willougby township. In August, 1851, he located on his present farm, 115 acres of fine land, on Willoughby Plains, which he purchased a few years later. To the cultivation and improvement of this place he devoted his energies, for some years living in a log house. He has cleared all of the land and now has an excellent farm. At the time he located here much of the land in this section of the country was in its wild state and there was still plenty of game in the forest. Mr. Green relates that he once killed a deer in this vicinity. He worked hard in those days to clear his land and provide for his family, and to the loving assistance and cheerful companionship of his good wife he attributes much of the success he has attained. She spun flax and wove the material for her children's clothes and also wove the woolen carpets for their home. Her old spinning-wheel and loom are still in good repair and are pointed to with pride by Mrs. Green as she refers to their early life on this farm, where she and her husband have shared each other's joys and sorrows for over forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Green were married in 1851. Her maiden name was Harriet A. Star, and she was a native of Leroy township, Lake county, her parents having emigrated from New Jersey to this State at an early day. Her father, at an advanced age, and also her mother, are still living, being residents of Missouri, and the mother being nearly ninety years of age. Six children compose the Green family, their names being as follows: Linda S., Ida A., Clara M., Willie A., Hattie N. and Eddie G. Mr. Green was formerly an old-line Whig; in 1856 he joined the Republican party, and for several years past he has been a Democrat. WILLIAM P. SIMMONS, an old established florist at Geneva, was born at Stubton, Lincolnshire, England, January 5, 1828, a son of Thomas and Grace (Parker) Simmons. Thomas Simmons was born on the estate of Sir Robert Heron, and lived there all his life: he was head gardener until the last twenty years, during which period he has been in charge of the menagerie of the place. William P. Simmons, at the age of twenty years, went to the estate of the Marquis of Westminster, Eaton Hall, where he was employed as foreman for some time; he then took a position with the Joseph Knight Nurseries, London, where he remained until he went to the estate of the Hon. James Dutton, where he became head gardener. At the age of thirty years he emigrated to America, OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 245 and for some time was engaged in farming. In 1861 he came to Geneva and first did some landscape gardening. He has had charge of one cemetery for more than twenty-five years. In 1871 he turned his attention to floriculture, and has since established a very extensive business; he does some exporting, and has an importing trade with all parts of the world. His two sons, William H. and Ansel T., are members of the firm. Mr. Simmons was married to Vincy Louisa Ackley, April 19, 1855. She was born November 24, 1823, at East Haddam, Connecticut, a daughter of Ansel and Lydia (Rowley) Ackley. Both her maternal and paternal grandfathers were soldiers in the war of 1812, and her great grandfathers were among the soldiers of the Revolution. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons are the parents of three children: William H., born February 8, 1856; Lydia A., horn September 3, 1857, wife of Edwin Booth, proof-reader on The Leader, Cleveland, Ohio, and Ansel T., born December 16, 1859. Mr. Simmons and his son Ansel are stanch Republicans, while William H. affiliates with the Democratic party. The family are worthy members of the Episcopal Church. HON. JONATHAN WARNER was born at Chester parish, in old Saybrook, Connecticut, December 11, 1782. His father, Jonathan, was a farmer, and also owned some interest in vessels engaged at that time in the coasting trade. The young man was bred principally upon the farm, but had acquired some experience as a sailor upon his father's vessels, and had at one time made a cruise to the West Indies. In the fall of 1804, in company with a man named Olmsted, he ventured on an exploring expedition to the western country. He was provided with a letter of credit, which spoke of him in high terms of praise. At Buffalo they procured a boat, and started upon the lake for New Connecticut, and his nautical experience was of value during a violent storm, .which compelled them to run their boat ashore, where they spent a night under its shelter. They landed at the month of. Ashtabula creek, and made their way to the interior as far as the present village of Jefferson. Here Mr. Warner selected lands embracing a part of the present village, while his companion made his settlement in what is now known as the township of Kingsville. At that time there was but one resident of the township of Jefferson, a man by the name of Mapes, who had previously settled upon a part of the same land, and had built a log house and cleared a few acres. Mr.Warner purchased his improvements and made provision for a future home, although before locating permanently he went back to Connecticut. In the spring of 1805 he returned, and fixed his permanent residence in Jefferson. In 1806 other settlers came into the township. Among them came Edward Frethy, with his family, from Washington city. He was the first postmaster, the first justice of the peace, and the first merchant in Jefferson. Mr. Warner was pleased with the wilderness in which he had located, and which he was making every effort to destroy. As a matter of choice he had settled in a hermitage far from human habitations, and yet he found it not good to be alone, and on the 4th day of May, 1807, he was married to Nancy, a daughter of Edward Frethy. His residence was three-fourths of a mile distant, and he went for his bride on horseback. After the ceremony was performed he took her upon 246 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY the crupper and carried her to his cabin, near the same spot where she now resides, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years, and where she continued the partner of his joys and of his sorrows through his life. The first selection of land made by Mr. Warner embraced the land upon which the courthouse was afterward located; but to accommodate the new village and to secure the county seat he was induced to exchange a portion of his selection for lands lying farther west and adjoining the proposed town. In the year 1815 he was appointed Recorder of Deeds for the county, for the term of seven years. In the year 1825 he was appointed Treasurer of the county. Soon after this time anti-Masonic excitement prevailed in politics, and Mr. Warner was an active leader in the anti-Masonic party. In the fall of 1831 he was elected a Representative to the State Legislature, and in the spring of 1839 he was elected by the Legislature of the State an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, for the term of seven years, his term expiring on April 1,1846. He was always an active partisan in politics, and always in sympathy with the Democratic party, except during the few years that the anti-Masonic party had a political existence. He had eleven children, one of whom died in infancy. Of the ten who reached maturity,--four sons and six daughters,—all but one are now living, and all have families of their own, who now hold respectable positions in society.. George, his second son, was killed by accident, March 25, 1877, in Washington Territory, where he left a wife and two children. Judge Warner died at his old residence in Jefferson on the 12th day of April, 1862, in his eightieth year, respected and honored by all. He was a vigorous man, possessed of a strong will, a kind heart, and affectionate dis position. He was a valuable. citizen, exact and trustworthy in all his dealings, as well in public as in private life; and as one of the pioneers of the county, who has helped to found and build up its institutions, his life and character are worthy of commemoration by the present as well as by the future generations of this county who may follow after him.   JOSEPH ADDISON GIDDINGS.—The relation of the subject of this sketch to Jefferson and Ashtabula county, Ohio, is like that of a son to a mother, his birth having occurred in this county February 17, 1822, his father having been the distinguished jurist and worthy citizen, Joshua R. Giddings. Mr. Giddings, of this sketch, was reared in Jefferson, receiving his early education in the schools of this city, which instruction was supplemented by a course in the Allegheny College, in Pennsylvania. He afterward read law under his celebrated father and was admitted to the bar in Cincinnati in 1843, and shortly afterward commenced the practice of his profession in Jefferson, which has ever since been his home. Here his energy and inherited ability soon made their influence felt and gained for him almost immediately a lucrative clientage. This, however, he partly surrendered to publish the county official paper, the Sentinel, which he bought in 1849 and continued successfully to publish until 1853. At this time he was elected Probate Judge of Ashtabula county, and in order to give his attention to the important duties devolving upon him, he sold his interest in the paper. He continued to be an incumbent of his OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 247 judicial position for six years, serving the people with ability and honor, and retiring with the best wishes of the community. Having come into possession of large landed interests in the meantime, he entered extensively into farming and stock-raising, grazing many cattle, horses and sheep, and doing a large dairy business, which fruitful enterprises after all these years have left him scarcely nothing to hope for or desire in the way of temporal acquisitions. He has been a director in the First National Bank since its organization, and to his financial ability and known business integrity is due much of the phenomenal success of this institution. Mr. Giddings was married in 1858 to Miss Mary Curtis, an accomplished lady of Sheffield, Ohio. They have one son and three daughters, all of whom have enjoyed liberal educational advantages, the son being now one of the leading farmers of Ashtabula county. Politically, Mr. Giddings was first a Whig and afterward a Free Soiler, since which time he has been a Republican. Thus is briefly given a few facts germane to an eminently busy and useful life, which has been crowned with the world's fullest success. J. H. CLARK, a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1836, a son of John K. Clark, a native also of that county. His father, John Clark, was born of Irish parents, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and his death occurred in Williamsfield township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1857, at which time he had attained the age of eighty-three years. The mother of our subject, nee Emily Harris, was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Joseph and Anna Harris, pioneer settlers of that place. The mother effected the opening of the first store at Warren, Ohio. In 1838, John K. Clark, father of our subject, located in Williamsfield township, Ohio, where he remained until 1879, and in that year went to Greenville, Pennsylvania. He still resides at that place, aged eighty years. His wife died in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Clark had five children: William, J. H., Henry, Mary and Travilla. After the mother's death, the father married Mrs. Elizabeth Cook. J. H. Clark, the subject of this notice, was reared on the old home farm. In 1860 he went to Illinois, and in 1861 enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Rosecrans and Major R. B. Hayes, and was in the same regiment as was William McKinley. Mr. Clark participated in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, Winchester, and many others, and was honorably discharged from service in July, 1864. He now owns 167 acres of fine land in Ashtabula county, and a sixty-four acre farm at Kingsville. The latter is known as the old Daniel Smith place, is one of the oldest farms in the county, contains a good residence, a barn 38 x 50 feet, a sugar grove of 650 trees, and numerous other improvements, resultant of time and labor. In his political relations, Mr. Clark is a Republican, and has held the position of Township Trustee eight years. He was married, July 9, 1863, to Annette Smith, who was born on the farm where she now resides, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Reed) Smith, natives respectively of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Clark, William Reed, was a soldier of the war of 1812. At one time his wife was lost in the woods, and was obliged to spend two nights in the branches 218 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of trees with a child two years old in her arms. A panther followed their path the second night out, and came under the tree and gave a most unearthly scream and then retraced his steps. They finally came to some raftsmen on the Shenango river, who kindly took them home. Daniel and Mary Smith had five children: Corintha (deceased), Emeline, William, Daniel and Annette. The mother died at the age of eighty years, and the father at the age of eighty-five years. The father was a farmer and fuller by occupation, a Republican in his political views, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have three children: Lizzie, J. Reed and Mary E., all of whom are successful teachers. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Presbyterian Church. Socially, our subject affiliates with Kile Post, G. A. R., and is one of the prominent and popular citizens of Ashtabula county. MRS. PALTLINA KELLOGG.—Paulina Kellogg, wife of Amos Kellogg, was born in New Marlborough, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, May 21, 1782, and was married in the county of her birth July 30, 1805. She was the daughter of Captain Walter Dean, who entered the Massachusetts line at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and remained in the service during the entire war, leaving the service with a captain's commission. Having the advantage of a common-school education, she taught a district school one season, hut, being the oldest daughter, early the death of her mother made it necessary for her to assume the entire charge of her father's large family until her own marriage; after which, the duties of a mother and the care of her own household devolved upon her. Nine children were born to her, two of whom died in infancy, and seven reached maturity. Being a woman of vigorous health, she was able to and did perform most of the household labor for a large family, composed of the husband, children, and farm-laborers engaged in clearing, fencing, farming, and keeping a village tavern, and manufactured the cloth and made much of the clothing for her family. On the death of her husband, in 1830, she caused herself to be appointed administratrix of his estate, and with only the aid of her oldest son, then but eighteen years of age, she continued to keep the tavern, manage the business, and settle the estate; and to her good management and wise economy was her family largely indebted for the retention of a home to which all were very greatly attached. After giving up the responsibilities of business to her son, who relied upon her advice and counsel in reference to important transactions with great confidence, and sought it for many years, she made her home with him, and spent much of her time with her several sons and daughters, rendering such assistance in nursing and caring for their young families as only a devoted mother and grandmother could. Her affection for and kindly remembrance of her children, grand and great-grand-children, never faltered, as she was always impartial, and always anxious to aid them in any lawful enterprise. Except the death of her husband, to whom she was ardently attached and a most devoted wife, the death of her youngest daughter Paulina, who married at the age of .twenty and died at twenty-one, was the greatest affliction of her life. Being her youngest daughter, delicate and lovely, recently married with fair prospects of a happy and prosperous life, her OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 249 death was long and deeply mourned. She died at Conneaut, in this county, on the 21st day of June, 1875, aged ninety-three years and one month, in the enjoyment of her mental faculties unimpaired, leaving behind her two aged sisters, two sons, and two daughters, twenty-four grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren, to mourn her departure. She was an affectionate. and devoted wife, a kind, indulgent, and wise mother, and in all -relations of life performed her duties with a conscientious devotion to the right. MAJOR LEVI GAYLORD.—Levi Gaylord, well known in early history of northern Ohio as " Major Gaylord," was horn March 30, 1760, in New Cambridge (now Bristol), Hartford county, Connecticut. He was the oldest son of Captain Levi Gaylord and Lois Barnes Gaylord, and grandson of Benjamin Gaylord and Jerusha Frisbie Gaylord, for many years (about 1720 to 1742) residents of Wallingford, Connecticut. The Gaylords (written also Gaillard, from the French mode, and sometimes Gaylard) now living in the United States are chiefly descendants of French Protestants who, in consequence of cruel and long-continued religious persecutions, left their pleasant homes in Normandy, about the year 1551 and took refuge in more tolerant England. From the period of the Lutheran Reformation they have usually been sturdy Protestants, doing their own thinking, both in religions and political matters. The subject of our notice was a lineal descendant of Deacon William Gaylord, who, with his family, came to America from the city of Exeter, England, or its vicinity, at the beginning of the year 1630, and who is also the ancestor of a majority of the Gaylords in the United States. He and the other immigrants of his company had one chief object in view in coining to America, viz., "freedom to worship God ;" and before embarking at Plymouth, England, formed themselves into a church, of which John Warham and John Maverick were chosen pastors and William Gaylord a deacon. They reached America in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, near Boston. In the years 1635, 1636, and 1638, Deacon William Gaylord was a Representative in the general court at Boston. At the end of 1638, or beginning of 1639, he removed westward through the wilderness, and settled upon the banks of Connecticut river, where the Farmington river joins it. The place was named Windsor. Deacon William Gaylord was a " Deputy " or Representative from Windsor in the first general court of Connecticut, held at Hartford, in April, 1639. It is recorded of him that he was elected to the same office at forty-one semi-annual elections. Levi Gaylord, Sr., was a soldier in the old French war of 1756–'57, and at an early period of the Revolutionary war (June 10, 1776) was commissioned by Congress as an " Ensign in a regiment in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defense of American liberty." At a later period he was made Captain in the army, a post of considerable honor at that period. NATHAN A. GERMOND, contractor and builder, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Dutchess county, New York, in 1843, son of Barton and Harriet (Davis) Gerrnond, also natives of New York.