(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 850 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Yet, although eminently successful in all his business enterprises, he has been much afflicted by the death of his loved ones, the angel of sorrow having been a frequent visitor to his home. His first wife, Elizabeth Eaton, of New England birth, and excellent family, died April 18, 1862, at the comparatively early age of forty-nine years. Previous to her death, death claimed their first-born son, George, who died at the age of six. The two sons surviving her death were Clay- born A. and Burdette. The first of these was a brave soldier in the late war, serving as Sergeant in Company K, of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio "Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded on the last day of a battle in North Carolina and died in McClellan hospital, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1865, at the age of twenty-one years. He was a young man of much promise and his death was a great blow to his parents and friends. Burdette, the youngest child, now resides in Youngstown, Ohio, and is official stenographer of the county. He is also an attorney, having been admitted to the bar in 1874, and is a graduate of the law department of the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The second wife of the subject of this sketch was Mrs. Lorinda Payne, whose maiden surname was Barnard. They had no children, but a son of her's by her former marriage is now a prosperous book dealer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Eddy's third and present wife was Mrs. Maggie A. Parsons, whose parents, Alexander and Frances Quayle, were both natives of Ireland, but came to America when children. Her parents had eight children, six sons and two daughters: James; Maggie, wife of the subject of this sketch; Thomas, John, William, Lawrence, Anna E. and Homer. The de voted and loving father died at Greensburg, Trumbull county, Ohio, in December, 1874, aged forty-eight years. His widow re-married, becoming the wife of George Parker, Sr., a prominent and respected citizen, who died in the spring of 1889, and Mrs. Parker now makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Parker is now sixty-three years of age, bright and active as ever and enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends. Mrs. Eddy had one child by her first marriage, Nellie J., born August 13, 1881. By the present marriage there are no children. It is such men as Mr. Eddy who give stability to a community, by his upright and generous methods, hard-working industry and intelligent management contributing to the general welfare, and he justly enjoys the highest regard and best wishes of his fellow- citizens.JOHN JOHN A. HARTSON, a well-to-do and highly respected farmer of Richmond township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, came to this county in 1845, and was born in Norwich township, Chenango county, New York, January 18, 1824. He is of New England ancestry, his parents, Ebenezer and Polly (Clark) Hartson, Loth being natives of Connecticut, the former born in Windham county. Grandfather Andrew Hartson was one of the seven brothers, all of whom served faithfully in the Revolutionary war. Andrew met his death by being murdered by the Indians, his wife and son escaping, and from this son have descended all the Hartsons. In 1845 the parents of the subject of this sketch came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, and settled on land which they industriously improved, making of it a valuable piece of property, and in time were numbered among the prominent OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 851 and influential residents of their township. Their ten children were as follows: Caroline, Ebenezer, George, May, .Harriet, Washing- ton; John, the subject of this sketch; Clark; Nelson and Franklin. The old folks passed their declining days in peace and comfort, surrounded by their children and children's children. The devoted mother was the first to pass away, who died at the age of eighty, the father surviving to the extreme old age of ninety-six years and eight months, expiring at Pierpont, this county, greatly lamented by all who knew him. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the district schools. n 1815, he accompanied his parents to Ashta- bula county from the East, he being then a strong, intelligent and ambitious young man of twenty-one. He worked for some time on his father's land, but in 1851 removed to Richmond township and began to work for himself. By industry, careful management and economy he has been greatly prospered, and is to-day one of the most substantial farmers of his vicinity. He remained on that place until 1888, when he removed to his present farm of sixty-five acres, which he has greatly improved, with a fine residence and good barns, besides other improvements of a modern character. He also owns 210 acres of excellent land in Richmond township, on which his sons live. All of this prosperity has come by hard and incessant hard work. Mr. Hartson justly deserves his present success. Mr. Hartson was married in Richmond township, in 1851, to Lucinda Ann Oatman, a lady of domestic tastes, who was born and reared in Wayne township, Ashtabula county, and a daughter of Andrew and Phoebe Oatman, well known residents of that township, where they died. Her parents had twelve children, and those surviving fill honorable and prominent positions in business and society. Mr. and Mrs. Hartson have had six children, two of whom, Frederick and Lucy, have died. Those surviving are: Ralph, mar- ried and has one child, Zelah; Rolla; Mary Jane, wife of Ira Falkner, a prosperous farmer of Richmond township, has two children, Zoa and Edith; and Electa, wife of W. J. Hall, also ofl Richmond township, has one son, Glen. Politically, Mr. Hartson is a Democrat, and has been Trustee of his township three times and served with ability on the School Board. e is a man of progressive disposition and public spirit, and is always ready to aid any movement tending to benefit his community, and is justly held in high esteem by all his associates. WALTER A. CHENEY, a prominent lumberman and esteemed citizen, of East Orwell, Ohio, was born in Fly Creek, Otsego county, New York, November 20, 1818. His parents, William and Matilda (Dennis) Cheney, were prominent and highly respcted people of the Empire State, the former of English bid'', a veterinary surgeon by occupation. The father enlisted in the Revolutionary war at the age of fifteen and served his country faithfully and well. He died in 1851, at the advanced age of ninety- three years. The mother of the subject of this sketch died when he was young, and he was, consequently, reared in Colebrook, Ohio, by his half-sister, Mrs. Patience Perry, until he was thirteen years old. The Civil war then coming on, he enlisted in Captain Crowell's company of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment of Ohio Voluntary Infantry, but was 852 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY rejected on account of his age. He soon afterward enlisted in the Forty-first Ohio Regiment, by which he was also rejected for a similar reason, when, on September 13, 1862, he enlisted as a recruit in the same regiment and was accepted, but transferred to Company C, of the One Hundred and Twenty-flfth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was organized in Cleveland, and he was mustered into service before attaining the age of fourteen, being the young- est soldier ever enlisted from Ashtabula county. He served in the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment three years and twenty-six days, first as a musician, but after the battle of Chickamauga he carried arms. He participated in twenty-seven engagements, principal among which were those of Franklin, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Rock Face Ridge, after which latter en- gagement he was sixty days under fire until the capture of Atlanta. He was wounded in the right leg at the battle of Dandridge, Tennessee. October 26, 1865, he was honor- ably discharged at Camp Irwin, Texas, lacking then twenty-four days of being seventeen years of age. Immediately returning home, he at once began working at the carpenter's trade, continuing to be thus occupied for flve years, when he began the manufacture and sale of lumber, which he has followed ever since, being now situated in East Orwell. His energy and perseverance have been rewarded with prosperity, until he is now one of the most substantial citizens of the county. He owns seventy acres, known as lots eighty-three and eighty-four in Colebrook, and has some of the finest buildings, two business blocks, besides which he has thirty acres in Green township, Trumbull county, Ohio, and ten acres in East Orwell, on part of which he is now (1893) building a handsome residence and otherwise improving the place, whieh, when completed, will be one of the most attractive and comfortable homes in the city. All of this prosperity is entirely due to his own unaided efforts and intelligent manage- ment, and he justly deserves his present good fortune. Mr. Cheney was first married June 28, 1868, to Momild J. Witter, a lady of many excellent qualities, the second of three children of Ira and Jane Witter, well-to-do and highly esteemed residents of Ashtabula county. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney had two children: Wallace W., born April 6, 1869, graduated at Delaware (Ohio) College and is now teaching his ninth consecutive term in a school in Colebrook. Sadie L., born December 15, 1870, married G. H. Older, a well-to-do citizen of Colebrook, and they have one daughter, Jessie, born October 8, 1891, who is the joy of her grandfather's heart. August 30, 1883, the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the loving wife and mother, whose life had been one of devotion to her home and family. She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an earnest, zealous and Christian woman. May 25, 1881, Mr. Cheney was remarried, his second wife being Miss Edith V. Denslow, a lady of domestic and social accomplishment, daughter of B. F. and Josephine Denslow, of Cherry Valley, Ohio, where her father is a prospeous farmer. She is one of the most useful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Cheney is a stanch Republican and served his constituents three years as Township Trustee of Colebrook, which position he resigned when he settled in East Orwell. He is, fraternally, a member of the A. F. & A. M., in which he has OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 853 filled all the chairs; the organizer of the G. A. R. Post in Colebrook, of which he is Commander; and is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Domestic in his disposition, Mr. Cheney finds his greatest pleasure in the society of his family and intimate friends. He is active in church matters, a liberal supporter of all objects tending to advance the interests of the community, and, in all things, a representative citizen of his county and State. NEWTON I. WATTS, one of the old settlers and successful farmers of Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, dates his birth in Claridon, Geauga county, this State, December 27, 1827. George Watts, his father, was born in New Hampshire in 1798, and Isaac Watts, grandfather, was also a native of New Hampshire. The latter, a farmer by occupation, came to Ohio at an early day and died in this county, at the age of eighty-four years. George Watts came to this State in 1819, at the age of twenty-one, carrying a knapsack on his back, and walking along the lake shore on the ice most of the way from Buffalo to Cleveland. e hired out to cut wood and make sugar for a farmer in Portage county, and while thus employed he and the farmer took two yoke of oxen and the sugar to Pittsburgh, finding their road through the woods by the blazed trees, and upon reaching their destination sold both the sugar and the oxen. They walked home. n those days it was hard for the pioneers to get money to pay their taxes. There were plenty of Indians throughout this section of the State, and then the forest abounded in wild game of all kinds. To kill a bear, a wolf or a deer was no till usual thing, and Mr. Watts' experience as a hunter was similar to that of many other early settlers, In due time he returned East, and in Connecticut was married to Lois Dimock, a native of that State. Coming back to Ohio with his bride, he settled on Cuyahoga river, where for some time he ran a fulling mill. From there he moved to Claridon, Geauga county, and took up a claim of 100 acres. He built a log cabin and himself manufactured most of its furnishings. The bedstead he made of poles and the bed of brush and straw. A board fastened across the corner of the cabin afforded a table, from which they ate their frugal meals. Although he worked hard and improved his land, he could get but little money, and at the end of five years, not being able to pay for the claim, he went to General Perkins, the land agent, and offered to give it up. The general renewed his article, and he flnally paid out on it. He came to Perry township, Lake county, in 1837, and here passed the rest of his life, dying at the age of sixty-four years. He and his wife had three children, namely: Harvey D., deceased; Newton I., the subject of our sketch; and Mrs. Lucinda B. Pike, a resident of Denver, Colorado. The mother died at the age of sixty-two years. Both were devoted members of the Methodist Church, and he was a Class-leader in the same. Politically he was first a Whig and later a Republican. Newton I. Watts, born and reared amid pioneer scenes, received his education in the common schools of Geauga and Lake counties, conning his lessons while he sat upon the slab benches of the old log schoolhouse. When he reached his majority he started out on his own responsibility, and has been engaged in farming ever since. His present farm comprises 110 acres, and is well improved, he having erected the buildings, planted the 854 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY trees, etc. The general appearance of the premises at once stamps its owner as a man of good management and thrift. Having an interest in the cheese factory of Perry, he keeps a dairy and disposes of his milk at the factory. May 4, 1852, Mr. Watts married Lois Thompson, a native of this township, who died in 1865, leaving an only child, George T. In 1867 he married Louisa E. Thompson, a sister of his first wife, whose death, Sep- tember 16, 1891, again left him bereft of a loving companion. November 16, 1892, he wedded Elizabeth G. Sterens, his present wife, she, too, being a native of Perry township. She is a member of the Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. Watts is a Republican. For many years he served as Trustee of his township. During the war he enlisted, in April, 1864, as a member of Company E, Seventy-first National Guards, and was on guard duty on Johnson's island: he was mustered out in August of that same year. He is s member of the 0. H. Haskell Post, No. 462, G. A. R., of Perry. Such is a brief sketch of the life of one of Perry township's successful farmers and highly respected citizens. D. C. HUGABOON, one of the worthy citizens of Conneaut, and for many years conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad, dates his birth in Erie county, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1852. His parents were James and Mary (Russell) Hugaboon, natives of Vermont and Pennsylvania respectively. His father was engaged in farming and stock-raising in Pennsylvania, and at one time made a specialty of fine horses. e was well known in his county as a man of the strictest integrity, and fully lived up to his high ideas of morality. He died June 13, 1868, at the age of sixty-one years. His wife passed away May 14, 1880, aged forty-six. Of their family we make the following record: Mary, the oldest, is the widow of W. D. Feidler, and lives in Erie; Helen M., wife of G. N. John- son, is also a resident of Erie; Margaret, wife of T. H. Collins, lives in Ashtabula; Nettie, who died at the age of twenty-eight, was the wife of H. R. Bissell; Frances Lill- ian died at the age of twenty-three years; Charles J., a resident of Erie, is machinist in the Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad shops. D. C. Hugaboon, the fourth born in his father's family, remained on the home farm until he was eighteen years old. At that time he entered upon a railroad career. He served four years as brakeman and has ever since been a conductor. He was on the Erie & Pittsburgh until 1883, since which time he has been on the Nickel Plate, with the exception of the winter of the Ashtabula disaster. At that time he was braking on the Lake Shore Railroad. That night the engine of the freight, on which he was em- ployed, was taken from the train to assist a passenger, there being deep snow and a heavy storm, This gave him and his fellow brakeman, William Burrell, a chance to take a much needed sleep. They were in the caboose when the wreck occurred. They were awakened by the pumpman and told of the disaster, and at once hastened to the scene. Only one man had reached the wreck before them, and he, with ax in hand, stood appalled at the sight before him. Mr. Hugaboon, rushing up and taking the ax from his hand, knocked open the door of a sleeper and, un- aided, carried six of the passengers to a place of safety before the fire reached that OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 855 car. In other cars he found trunks of human beings with head and limbs burned off, and the screams of the injured and dying rose above the storm of the night. He carried out a child which was still living, though perhaps unconscious, its legs being burned off below the knees. For six hours in the slush and snow he worked, thinking all the time that his sister might be the next he would carry out of the wreck, for he thought she was on the train. She and her husband went to Erie, expecting to board that train, but, owing to its lateness and the extreme cold and severe storm, they returned home, and were thus saved from an awful death. n all the twenty years of his railroad experience, Mr. Hugaboon says that was the worst night he ever saw for a wreck. In 1882 he located in Conneaut, and has been here ever since. His on railroad experience has been a remarkably "lucky" one. He was never suspended a day in his life, has never had to made out an accident report for a person hurt on his train, and is to-day the oldest freight conductor on the road. He was chosen a member of the City Council since coming to Conneaut, and served two years, at the end of that time declining a second term. Mr. Hugaboon has been twice married. In 1875 he married Mary C. Uber, daughter of Jacob Uber, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania. Their only child, Alice May, died at the age of eight years. The wife and mother died March 10, 1892, aged thirty-six. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His present wife, nee Lydia Brown, is a daughter of Abijah and Emiline (Galloway) Brown, the latter a relative of Hon. Samuel Galloway. Her father died in 1858, aged fifty-one years, and her mother in 1871, aged fifty-two. Mrs. Hugaboon is the older of two children. Her brother Alonzo, a resident of Conneaut, is a decorator and paperhanger. Mr. Hugaboon and his wife are members of the Christian Church. e belongs to the Order of Railway Conductors, the I. O. G. T., and the Protective Home Circle. He was formerly a Republican, but now affiliates with the Prohibition party. H. N. HAVENS, a member of the firm of Wright & Havens, proprietors of a planing mill and contractors and builders, Conneaut, Ohio, is one of the substantial and highly esteemed citizens of this place. H. N. Havens was born in Chautauqua county, New York, July 13, 1846, son of Nelson and Eliza (Ashley) Havens. His parents were born, reared and married in New York, and his father was a well-to-do farmer of that State, living an active and useful life and dying in 1866, aged flfty-eight years. He took an active interest in the educational affairs, and served as School Trustee for many years; religiously, was an Universalist; politically, a Republican. He was connected with the Underground Railroad. He believed in a vigorous prosecution of the war and was deeply interested in the success of the Union forces. Few men in his vicinity had more friends than he. His good wife, who shared in his religious belief and who was a member of the seine church, passed away in 1849. The subject of this sketch is the youngest of their eight children, four of whom are still living. In early life Mr. H. N. Havens learned the trade of shoemaker and worked at that trade for five years. Then he began working at the carpenter's trade and has since been en- 856 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY gaged in contracting and building. e is a natural mechanic. Since 1888 he has been identified with the firm of 'Wright & Havens, which firm has from the beginning done a most successful business, their business amounting the past year to about $50,000. Mr. Havens was married September 3, 1867, to Miss Mary E. Loucks, daughter of John R. and Eunice Loucks, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Havens was a devoted wife and loving mother and was a member of the Christian Church. Her untimely death oc7curred in 1874, at the age of twenty-six years. She left two children, Eunice and Ralph B. The former died at the age of eleven years. Ralph B. is an expert wood turner, probably not having a superior in the State, and he is in the employ of the Glenville Standard Manufacturing Company. He married Miss Kate Woodbury, daughter of T. W. Woodbury, of Conneaut, and has one child, Nelson. After the death of his mother, Ralph B. spent six years in the Wade family at Andover, this county, Mr. Wade being a brother of Mrs. Colfax, wife of the vice president. He was educated in the schools of that place, and while he was there the Colfax family visited Mr. Wade and one of the Colfax boys and Ralph became fast friends. The subject of this sketch, like his father, affiliates with the Republican party. DR. C. F. RODGERS, a dentist of Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Hamilton county, this State, June 16, 1863, son of Robert E. and Clara R. (Allison) Rodgers, natives of Ohio and Virginia respectively. Robert E. Rodgers started out in life as cashier of the First National Bank of Iron- ton, Ohio, of which institution his father, James Rodgers, was president. James Rodgers died some time in the early '60s. After leaving the bank Robert E. turned his attention to the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, in which he was engaged previous to the war. When President Lincoln called for 75,000 soldiers he enlisted as a private for three months, and at the end of that time re- turned and raised a company of his own Company C, which was a part of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry. With that company he served until late in 1864, when, having contracted chronic diarrhea and being unfitted for service, he returned home on furlough. A few months later he was discharged on account of disability. He participated in numerous engagements, and a braver and truer soldier than he never went into battle. He was promoted to the rank of Major and also served as Colonel, but was discharged before he received his commission as Colonel. Twice he was wounded. After his discharge he went to Minnesota, hoping a change of climate would beneflt his health. He, however, received little relief and his disease finally merged into consumption, of which he died in 1872, aged forty-one years. His widow is still living, now a resident of Ithaca, New York. They had a family of four children, namely: H. 0., manager of the Acme Oil Company at Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Dr. C. F., whose name heads this sketch; Mirina H. and Eleanor, who reside with their Mother. Dr. C. F. Rodgers received his education in the public schools of Cincinnati. He spent two years with Dr. Charles Mason, at Wheeling, West Virginia, from which place he went to the Philadelphia Dental College, graduating there in 1888. After practicing his profession nearly two years in Philadelphia, he entered into a partnership with Dr. W. E. Magill & Son in Erie, Pennsylvania, OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 857 and remained there until December, 1891, when he came to Conneaut. Here he has built up an excellent practice and is regarded not only as a skillful dentist but also as a most worthy citizen. He was married July 22, 1891, to Miss Catherine Nellis, of Gerald, Pennsylvania, daughter of P. H. Nellis, a prominent hotel proprietor of that place. They have one child, Geraldine Allison. Both the Doctor and his wife are members of the First Congregational Church of Conneaut. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, of which organization he is Vice Chancellor. ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Denmark township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in West Kelberg township, Simcoe county, Canada West, on Christmas day, 1827. His parents, William and Margaret (Gunn) Sutherland, were natives of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, the former born in 1777, and they grew up arid were married in that shire. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Captain of the Forty-second Highlanders, and was one of the survivors of the battle of Waterloo. The father was a farmer and gardener by occupation, which he followed for a number of year in his native country, but with a view of availing himself of the enlarged opportunities afforded by the New World, he and his worthy wife sailed for Canada in 1809, in a colony of eighty persons, sent to Canada by Lord Selkirk. This voyage was accompanied by rough weather, which lasted many weeks, the vessel at last losing its course and the colony being finally landed on the Pacific coast. The colony secured a French guide and heroically started on foot for Toronto, Canada. The hardships and privations they encountered and endured on this long and perilous journey would make a long story. They were eighteen months on the way and traveled by way of Fort Wayne, Indiana, at that time a military post far out on the frontier, surrounded by a small settlement. The oldest sister of the subject of this sketch was born in the wilderness on the way. From Fort Wayne they proceeded to Toronto, Canada, which was then called Little York, and consisted of a small settlement of log huts, but which was very welcome to the weary wayfarers. Here the father worked by the month for three years, and by economy finally accumulated sufficient means to buy a farm, which he did. This was situated in West Simcoe county and consisted of 100 acres of unimproved land. On this he built a log cabin and thus made a start for himself in the New World. This continued his home until the remainder of his life, and by careful cultivation and continued improvements became a valuable farm. His industrious helpmate was an efficient aid in Securing their new home, her labors and wise economy contributing in no small measure to their prosperity. She was married at the age of sixteen, and was the mother of four sons and six daughters, all of whom attained maturity. The family were deprived by death of its head and protector on April 1, 1837, and the care and support of its members fell on the bereaved mother. How well she performed her part is attested by the honorable positions held by her children, and at once mark her as having been a woman of more than ordinary ability and strength of character. This noble woman survived until 1891, dying at the good old 858 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY age of ninety-six, in the enjoyment of the esteem of all who knew her. Both parents were devout members of the Presbyterian Church, in which the father was a Deacon at the time of his death. The subject of this sketch was but ten years of age when his father died, and owing to that and the newness of the country and lack of educational facilities, received but slight schooling. This, however, was com- pensated for by a naturally quick intellect and a studious disposition, which led him by self-culture to acquire extensive and useful information. resided at home, contrib- uting his share of labor, toward the general support until he was married, at the age of twenty-four, when, with his wife and ox team, he commenced life for himself on 100 acres of unimproved land. He built a log cabin in the midst of the woods, and, com- mencing to fell the trees and burn the brush, in time cleared his farm for cultivation. After this followed a few years of hardy pioneer life, when he sold out in June, 1866, and removed to Ohio. He at first rented a farm near Jefferson, from which he moved the following year to Wayne township. Here he remained until 1870, at which time he bought a farm in Lenox township, and in 1877 purchased 128 acres of his present place. This had a small clearing, and he immediately engaged in removing the rest of the timber, preparatory to the cultivation of the land,. He later bought 260 acres more, south of his farm, which was covered with hemlock and bard-wood timber, and which he manufactured into all grades of lumber, realizing from his investment a handsome profit. He lost in the forest fires of 1881 much valuable timber. His farm is now all cleared and under a good state of cultivation, ranking with the best in the county. He is extensively engaged in the raising of fine horses, which, in connection with his agri- cultural products, brings him in a comfort- able income'. He now has a neat and attract- ive house of nine rooms, well equipped with all modern conveniences, and ,a barn, 24 x 50 feet, • also provided with all necessary im- provements, besides out-buildings, sheds, etc. His home occupies a pleasing site and ren- dered attractive by surroundings of trees and shrubbery, all breathing an air of thrift and contentment. June 5, 1851, Mr. Sutherland was married, in his native county, to Miss Agnes Tanner, a lady of rare worth of character, who . was born in London, England, August 11, 1823, and received the best educational advantages. Her father, George Tanner, was a native of Tenterden, county Kent, England, and a graduate of Lind Veterinary College, his occupation being veterinary surgery. In 1831 he also sought a home in the New World, settling in Aurora, Ontario, on Young street, where he practiced his profession for a number of years. He later removed to the vicinity of Essy, where he bought a farm and followed agricultural pursuits in connection with surgery. He subsequently went to En- nisville township, and died in Wellington Square (now called Burlington), Halton county, Ontario, in 1865, regretted by all who knew him. Mr. and Mrs. Sutherland have nine children: John, born May 14, 1852, is a prosperous merchant of New Lyme, Ohio; William, born November 5, 1854, is a dealer in real-estate and building interests in Ashtabula Harbor; Hugh, born July 3, 1857, is a veterinary surgeon and resides in Andover; Samuel, born April 23, 1859, is a merchant and the Postmaster of Denmark; Benjamin, born April 14, 1861, is variously engaged in business at Ashtabula Harbor; OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 859 Ada and Emma, twins, were born June 26, 1868, the former married to Arthur Griffith, of Andover, and the latter the wife of Homer Chapin, of Eagleville; Agnes, born May 24, 1865 (the queen's birthday), now wife of William Morton, of Ashtabula; and Betsey, born June 16, 1867, wife of V. L. Chapin, of Jefferson. Politically, Mr. Sutherland is a Republican, and has been honored by his constituents with various offices of trust. He is now an efficient member of the School Board, and has ably filled the office of Township Supervisor. Mrs. Sutherland is an active member of the Presbyterian Church and prominent in all good works. She is a model housekeeper and good neighbor, and enjoys the esteem of all who know her. Although not belonging to any particular church, Mr. Sutherland is equally interested in the promotion of all objects of moral worth, while few, if any, of his fellow-citizens have contributed as much to the general material advancement of his community as he has, and he justly deserves the high regard which he so universally enjoys. JAMES B. FRENCH, a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born in Genesee county, New York, January 6, 1824, a son of William Manley French, who was born near the State line of Maine. The latter was a soldier in the war of 1812, and in 1838 located on a farm in Williamsfleld township, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he died at the age of sixty-four years.. His wife, nee Hannah Beebee, a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, departed this life at the age of seventy-two years. Their children were: Lucia, William, James B.) Clarence, Homer, John, Rachel, Chauncey and Nelson. The father was a farmer and carpenter by occupation, and a Jacksonian Democrat in his political views. James B. French drove to Chicago in 1846, which was then a small village, and later made his way to Marengo, sixty miles west, locating on a farm of 260 acres. On his way there he was compelled to drive through deep water for a distance of six miles. Owing to the wet condition of the country at that time he contracted the ague, and was forced to return to his old home in Ohio. After living in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, two years, Mr. French located on his present farm of ninety-six acres, in Ashtabula county, where he is engaged in general farming and dairying. He owns a fine blooded horse, sired by Gold Leaf, which gives great promise. At four years it made a record of thirty-one and a quarter. Mr. French was married at the age of twenty-three years, to Louise Veits, a native of Connecticut, and a daughter of Zophar and Tassa (Hillyer) Veits. To this union was born four children: Ellen A., Volney F., Ida W. and Homer D. The wife and mother died April 23, 1857, and February 11, 1858, Mr. French was united in marriage to Miss Sophia Houghton. They had the following children: Clarine M., Florine L., James M., Agnes, Frances, Edith, and two sons and a daughter deceased in infancy. Mrs. French died January 21, 1884. October 28, 1885, our subject married Mrs. Jane Clark, who was born in Andover township, this county, and a daughter of William Smith, an early settler of his locality. By her former husband, William Y. Clark, she had two children: Alda, wife of William Johnson, of Pennsylvania; and Pleyra. Mr. French votes with the Democratic party, and has held the 860 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY position of Township Trustee several terms. During the late war he assisted in raising troops from this township, and he is one of the representative citizens of Ashtabula county. S. R. KINGSLEY, one of the well-known early settlers of Andover township, Ashtabula county, was born at Whitehall, Washington county, New York, January 29, 1814, a son of William Kingsley, a native of Long Island. The latter's father, Peleg Kingsley, was of English ancestry. William, father of our subject, moved to Washington county, New York, when seven years of age. He married Miss Zorado Norton, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Captain Joseph Norton, who was engaged in sailing whaling vessels. His death occurred at the age of ninety-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley died in this county, the former at the age of seventy-six years, and the latter at the age of eighty-two years. They had eight children: Lucy, Aaron, Samuel R., William, Martha, Ursula, Adeliza and N. C. The father was a farmer by occupation, and a Republican in his political views. S. R. Kingsley, the subject of this sketch, located in Andover township, Ashtabula county, .Ohio, in 1853. In 1871 he came to his present farm of 133 acres, located one and a half miles south of West Andover, all of which is well improved. He is engaged in general farming and dairying. Mr. Kingsley was married at the age of twenty-one years, to Miss Mary Mason, a daughter of Calvin and Polly (Burgess) Mason. The maternal family are of English descent. Our subject and wife have had the following children: George, a florist of Wooster, Ohio; Algernon, a soldier in the Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the late war, was wounded during his service, and now resides in Andover township; Charley, deceased; Alameda, who married L. R. Bartholomew, died in 1874, leaving three children: S. K., Minnie E. and A. Melvina, the two latter engaged in teaching; Ida, wife of H. A. Lewis, of Andover township; and William Calvin, deceased at the age of thirty-seven years, leaving a widow and one child, Ida. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley have eleven grandchildren. They celebrated their golden wedding February 27, 1885. Mr. Kingsley is a stanch Republican, and has held the offlce of Township Trustee. He is a Deacon in the Baptist Church. ISRAEL F. HUGHES, a typical pioneer and a man honored and respected by a wide circle of acquaintances, is worthy of the space that is accorded him in this record of the leading men of Geauga county. Quickly responsive to all calls for church and charity, he has won the deep gratitude of the needy and a warm place in the hearts of those laboring for the uplifting of humanity. He is a native of New York, born in Greene county, March 13, 1826, being a son of Ira Hughes, a New Yorker by birtb, born February 22, 1796, and married October 13, 1822, and grandson of Israel Hughes, of Connecticut. The last named was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and died in the service. Ira Hughes was a cooper by trade, and in 1834 he removed to the West, making the journey by the Erie canal and overland by team. From Buffalo he traveled by the lake to Cleveland, reaching that city in its infancy. In Huntsburg township he OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 861 bought land which constitutes the farm of our subject, only ten acres being cleared at that time, and the only improvement being a log house: With the aid of his sons he placed the land under cultivation. His wife was not idle during this time, but made every effort to bear her share of the burden; she spun and wove all the clothing of the family, and reared eleven of the thirteen children born to her. Her maiden name was Sarah Serrin, and she was a native of New York State, born in Greene county, January 6, 1799. She died at Huntsburg, September 15, 1863, at the age of seventy years. She was a consistent member of the Baptist Church and a most excellent woman. The father lived to the age of eighty-two years, departing this life in January, 1878. His ancestors were Democrats, and in early life he supported that party; but, changing his ideas of government, he joined the Free-soil party, and later gave his vote to the Whigs and then to the Republican party. Three of the sons, Harrison, Ira and Howard, took an active part in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting September 10, 1861, in the Forty- first Ohio Volunteer nfantry. Harrison was killed by a shell while guarding a battery at Murfreesborough, and was buried on the battlefield; Ira was killed May 7, 1864, near Dallas, at the beginning of the Atlanta campaign, and the place of his burial is not known; Howard survived the war. Israel F. Hughes is the third-born of the family. He attended school in Greene county, New York, and after coming to the frontier was a pupil in the pioneer log schoolhouse of that period. At the age of twenty-one years he began life for himself, although at the age of fourteen he had worked for wages, giving his money to help pay for the farm. He was married March 26, 1851, to 54 Mary A. Scott, who was born at Rome, Ashtabula county, Ohio. Her parents, Joseph and Polly (Faunce) Scott, were natives of New York State, and were pioneers of Ashtabula county. The father was a skillful hunter, and brought down many a bear, deer, wolf and panther. He died at the age of fifty-two years, and his wife lived to the age of sixty-two years. They had six children, four of whore grew to maturity. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes became the parents of seven children: Edgar, deceased; Friend J.; Lillian A., deceased; Adelbert; Ina M.; Myrtle, deceased; and Lina B. Mr. Hughes worked at carpentry for a few years, and then bought his father's place, on which he has since resided. He has 125 acres, well improved and in a high state of cultivation. Politically he is identified with the Republican party, and has served as Trustee of his township. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. He and his wife and children are worthy and consistent members, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are highly esteemed in the community. SIDNEY S. STULTS, senior member of the well-known firm of Stults & Son, proprietors of the flouring mills in East Orwell, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in Colebrook township, this county, November 21, 1836. His parents, Peter and Sallie Ann (Jayne) Stults, were natives of New York State, born in 1807 and 1806 respectively, and both were members of old and respected American families. n 1874 Peter Stults died, aged sixty-seven years, leaving his fam- ily and many friends to mourn his loss. He was a hard-working, intelligent, honest farmer, kindly in disposition and a favorite with 862 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY all who knew him. His worthy widow still survives, in the enjoyment of moderate health and universal esteem, with the prospect of many years of usefulness before her. The subject of this review was afforded excellent educational advantages. His father, who had necessarily been deprived of the means of securing a liberal education, realized the practical value of such training, and was solicitous that his son should be thus fortified for the work of life. Our subject was given an opportunity to attend the home schools, and subsequently rounded up his educational training by attending Hillsdale (Michigan) College for two terms and Oberlin (Ohio) College for one year. He also enjoyed the added advantage of a cultured and refined home, where he was trained to habits of industry, honesty and economy, themselves an education of the highest importance. By close application to the practical affairs of life, Mr. Stilts became in time a thorough business man. After a few years at farming he engaged in the milling business, purchasing a flouring mill in Rome, making extensive repairs upon the same, and operating it successfully for fourteen years. He then sold his property there and removed to East Orwell, where, in 1884, in partnership with Salem Kile, he erected the Orwell Flouring Mills. After four years Mr. Kile's interest in the business was purchased by Mr. Stults, who then admitted to partnership his son, Edwin M., and the business has since been conducted under the firm name of S. S. Stults & Son. Since the building of their plant they have greatly remodeled and improved their mill, placing in it a complete roller process and other modern machinery, until they now have as thoroughly equipped a plant as is to be found in the country. Its capacity is eighty barrels daily and its prod uct is unexcelled, finding a ready and profitable market. In connection with their milling interests, this firm is largely engaged in shipping all kinds of grain, besides which they also have a coal yard, from which they supply their numerous patrons. This prosperity is not by any means a matter of chance, but is entirely due to thorough business principles, perseverance, industry and close attention to details, success following as day the night. Mr. Shills was first married to Miss Emily Martin, a lady of estimable worth of character, and they had four children: Etta M.; Elwin M., who married Miss Nettie Babcock, daughter of Charles Babcock, a pioneer of Orwell township; Helen A.; and Bernice A., a musician of talent and note. The family were deprived by death, in September, 1877, of the loving wife and mother, whose interests had ever been subservient to their welfare. She was a devout member of the Baptist Church at Colebrook, and an active worker in that and all worthy causes. June 10, 1878, Mr. Stults was married to Miss Mary J. Bassett, an intelligent and refined lady of engaging disposition and manner. They have no children. Mrs. Stults is a member of the Baptist Church. In politics Mr. Stults strongly supports the principles of the Republican party. He is, fraternally, a member of the Masonic order and also the I.O.O.F. His enterprise has materially aided his community, and he justly ranks as one of its best citizens. T. B. MILLER.--Among the enterprising business men of Jefferson, Ohio, the subject of this sketch holds first rank as being a man of energy and thoroughly alive to the needs of the public in his line. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 863 T. B. Miller, a prominent grocer and respected citizen of Jefferson, was born in Austinburg, Ohio, August 3, 1858. His parents, Benneville and Elizabeth (Poorman) Miller, were natives of Pennsylvania and New York State, respectively, the former born near Meadville. Grandfather Daniel Miller was a native of Holland, who settled in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in an early day, where he was a merchant until his death. Benneville Miller was reared in his native county, spending most of his life in the manufacture of cigars, but later engaging in farming. He was married in New York to Elizabeth Poorman and they lived in several places in the Empire State, until, in 1848, shortly after their marriage, they moved to Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where they spent the rest of their lives. The father engaged in farming on coming to this State, which vocation he afterward successfully followed. He enlisted in the Federal army at the time of the Civil war, serving as a private three years, his eldest son also serving with him. This worthy couple had five children, three sons and two daughters: C. V.; E. 0.; Clayton H., deceased; R. K; and T. B. It is a singular coincidence that the parents died within an hour of each other one night in 1880, the father at the age of sixty-one and the mother a few months older. They were well and favorably known throughout the community, where their loss was generally mourned. The subject of this sketch was reared in Austinburg and educated in the Grand River nstitute. He afterward learned the carpenter's trade, which he subsequently followed live years in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1884, he removed thence to Jefferson, Ohio, where he worked at his trade until 1889. He then entered a grocery store as a clerk and after one year as an employe engaged in the gro-, eery business on his own account with his own capital, in which he has ever since successfully continued, evidencing what energy and careful management can accomplish with small means. In 1881 Mr. Miller was married to Miss Cora Adams, an estimable lady of Jefferson, and they have two children living, having lost two in childhood. Fraternally, Mr. Miller is a prominent member of the ndependent Order of Odd Fellows, to which he has belonged for a number of years. By correct business methods and a genial personality he has secured the confidence and esteem of a large community, and enjoys the best wishes of all for his future success and happiness. E. O. WORK, one of the prominent citizens of Conneaut and a locomotive engineer on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, is a native of Harrison county, this State, born July 20, 1853. His parents, Samuel and Ruth (Gren) Work, are natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the father born in 1818 and the mother in 1824, For many years Samuel Work was one of the prominent farmers of Ohio. About the time of the war he kept a station, Hopedale, on the line of the " underground railroad," and many a poor wanderer he assisted to freedom. He and his good wife now reside in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio. They united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at the ages of sixteen and twelve years respectively, and have sweetly held to its communion ever since. They have reared a large family to occupy useful and honorable positions in life, 864 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY and of them we make the following record: Julius, the oldest, married Ella V. Smith of Virginia. They now reside in Chicago, where he is employed as purchasing agent of the city for the public institutions. During the war he was a member of Company G, Fifty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and took part in several battles, serving until, on account of ill health, he was honorably discharged. After recovering his health he returned to the army and was detailed as clerk in the Quartermaster's department at Washington, District of Columbia. This position he held for nearly eight years. He subsequently served as Postmaster of Lynchburg, Virginia, four years, and as deputy in the same office four years longer. Rev. Granville Work, the second of the family, is a Methodist minister stationed in Indiana. He married Jane M. Cudough of Ohio. Josephine resides in New Philadelphia. Alvin married Sarah J. Cummings of Ohio. They live at Pullman, Illinois, where he is master car builder for the Pullman Car Company. E. O., the subject of our sketch, was the flfth born. Alexander S., the next in order of birth, married Callie Shipman of Ohio. He is travelling engineer on the Nickel Plate Railroad and makes his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Ella, wife of J. B. Wand, died at the age of twenty-nine years. Mary lives in New Philadelphia. Samuel G., an engineer on the Nickel Plate, married Ella Crooks, and has one child, Laura. They reside in Conneaut. Laura I. died at the age of eighteen years. O. E. Work was reared on his father's farm, and when he grew up he learned the trade of cabinetmaker. Then he sailed on the lakes for three years. In 1875 he entered upon a railroad career, starting out as fireman. In the fall of 1878 he was promoted to engineer on the Pan Handle, and as such ran between Pittsburg and Columbus until 1883. Then he severed his connection with that road, came to Conneaut and accepted a position on the Nickel Plate, and has since been engineering on this road. Mr. Work is a careful engineer, and in his experience on the road has never hurt but two persons; one had his hand mained while coupling cars, and the other was killed. The latter is supposed to have been a suicide, as the man placed himself on the track in front of the engine when it was impossible for the train to stop. Mr. Work has always taken an interest in public affairs. Before he left the farm, and when he was only eighteen years of age, he was elected Constable. In 1890 he was elected Councilman for the Second Ward of Conneaut, has been re-elected, and is now serving in that office. He was married in 1881 to Miss Rosanne Ross, of Fort Washington, Ohio, a daughter of Benjamin Ross. Her parents are both deceased. Mr. Work is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of American Mechanics. He is in politics an ardent Republican. DR. ALMON G. PHILLIPS, a well-known physician and surgeon of Painesville, Ohio, where he has successfully practiced medicine for the past five years, was born in Youngstown, this State, in 1853. John Phillips, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Washington, Pennsylvania, whose parents came from Germany in an early day and settled in the Keystone State. He was a millwright by trade, who emigrated to Mahoning county, Ohio, about 1816, and operated a grist and saw mill on the Mahoning river above OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 865 Youngstown for about forty years. He removed to Geauga county, the same State, later in life where he died at the age of eighty-four years. The father of the subject of this sketch, Jacob Phillips, was born in Weathersfleld, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1826, where he was reared and educated. He learned carpentry and building and afterward settled in Geauga, county, where he lived about twenty-five years, erecting many of the best structures in that vicinity. He now resides near Youngstown, and the powder works of that city, comprising twenty buildings or more, is a fair sample of the excellence of his work. He married in Mahoning county; Mary A. Ripple, a native of that county, of which her parents were pioneers, John Ripple, her father, being of German descent. They had eight children, of whom five are now living. n 1887, the family were called upon to mourn the loss of the devoted wife and mother, who died aged fifty- two years. She was a woman of superior worth and was deeply lamented by all who knew her. She was a devout member of the Methodist Church, to which the father of Dr. Phillips also belongs. The father is a Republican in politics and takes a commendable interest in all public affairs of importance. The subject of this sketch was the oldest of eight children, and was reared mostly in Geauga county, Ohio. He was educated in district and select schools and at the high school in Chardon, and when eighteen years of age began teaching. he taught four winters in his home district and three terms in others, and when twenty-five years of age began to study medicine. e read medicine under the two Drs. Atwood at Chardon, and attended the Eclectic Medical Institute, afterward taking a special course on the eye and ear at the University College in Cincinnati, at which he graduated in 1888 in this special line. He then settled in Painesville, where he was at once favorably received, and has successfully prosecuted his practice ever since, winning universal confidence and esteem by his thorough and conscientious work. He was married February 25, 1877, to Miss DeEtte Ridley, a lady of many sterling qualities, a native of Hamden Junction, Ohio, and they had one child, Ethel B. In 1888, his devoted wife died, leaving an infant to his care. In the spring of 1889, he was again married, his second wife being Miss Ella Raplee, of Madison, Ohio, who has been a faithful helpmate. Politically, he is a Republican, and when twenty-nine years of age was elected to the important and responsible position of Justice of the Peace, in Middlefield, Ohio, which he filled with impartiality and ability. He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, and is an active member of the Ohio State Medical Association. He has a comfortable residence on the corner of Erie and St. Clair streets, in Painesville, besides which he owns other property on Bank street, which he rents, and is altogether a prosperous and worthy citizen. PROF. C. E. CAREY, Superintendent of Schools, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Dutchess county, New York, November 20, 1860, son of John and Julia (Williams) Schoonover, both natives of New York. John Schoonover, leaving his wife and four children, enlisted in the army at Stan- fowl, New York, August 28, 1862, for three years, and was mustered into Company 866 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY C, One Hundred and Fiftieth New York Volunteer Infantry, as a private, October 11, 1862. During his absence in the war, in the early part of 1864, his wife died, leaving her little ones to the care of friends and relatives. About three months after her death, news of the father's death reached them. He died at Louisville, Kentucky, June 28, 1864, aged forty years. He was a man of sterling qualities, was in the prime of a vigorous man- hood, and freely gave his life for his country. Of his army experience little is known. Three of the Schoonover children were reared and educated by three of their mother's sisters, each taking the name of the aunt who reared him, and all growing up to occupy honorable positions in life. Of them we make the following record: William, the oldest, retained the name of Schoonover. He married and settled in life, and his untimely death occurred at the age of twenty-six years. Richard S. Thomas, the second-born, has been a teacher ever since he was fifteen years old. For two years he was superintendent of the Jefferson, Ohio, schools, and is now superintendent of the schools at Warren, Ohio. He married Miss Stella Saxton, of Madison, this State. Calvin T. Northrop, the third of the fam- ily is also a teacher. He has been engaged in this profession for the past thirteen years in the schools of Ohio, and is now superin- tendent of the Garrettsville schools. C. E. Carey is the youngest. He and his brothers are all prominently identified with the leading educators of the State, and wherever known their scholarly attainments and ability as instructors and organizers have been recognized. The subject of this sketch received his education at Cazenovia and Syracuse, New York. He first began teaching in the country schools, and taught there several terms. Then he was two years at Masonville, New York, and in 1885 located in Conneaut, where he has since been superintendent of schools, having rendered a high degree of satisfaction here. He is a member of the County Examining Board and also of the Board of Health. Professor Carey's being selected for these important positions and his long continuance here are ample proof of his qualifications. He was married February 25, 1885, to Miss Elsie M. Smith, daughter of Frederick W. and Electa M. (Wells) Smith. His pa- rents are natives of New York, and her father is a farmer in that State: Of their family we make record as follows: Mrs. Carey is the oldest; Olivia died in 1872, aged eighteen years; Hosea died at the age of six months; Fred W., a New York farmer, married Mattie Vail and has one child; Jennie B., wife of John Hochtitzky, has three children; Addie died at the age of two years; Delia died in childhood; Jessie, wife of Fred Ostrander; and Frank A., at home. Mrs. Cary's grandfather was Hosea Smith. The Professor and his wife have one child, Charles Schronover Carey. They are members of the Congregational Church, and he is also identified with the Masonic fraternity, being W. M. of the blue lodge. Politically he is a Republican. C. W. POOLE, traveling engineer on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Essex county, Massachusetts, December 25, 1847, son of Charles and Eunice Eliza (Pison) Poole, both natives of Massachusetts. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 867 Charles Poole was born in 1820, son of William and Mary Poole, who were natives of England, came with their parents to America when children, and were reared in Manchester: Both were highly respected people and were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had a family of five children, Charles and Anra being the only ones now living. The latter is the wife of William Alden and resides in Brooklyn, New York. Charles Poole is a merchant tailor and is well and favorably known in Massachusetts, having been engaged in business there for more than half a century. For the past year tie has been located at Worcester, having moved to that place from Newburyport. He is a member of the Episcopal Church, as was also his wife. She died in September, 1886, aged fifty-four years. They had thirteen children, seven of whom died in early life; the other six are still living. C. W. Poole was a mere boy when the war broke out, and in June, 1862, before he was fourteen and a half years old, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteer nfantry, and, young as he was, rendered efficient service for the Union cause, remaining in the army three years and two months. He was with the forces that operated in the East, and participated in numerous prominent engagements. June 16, 1865, he was mustered out of the United States service at Richmond, Virginia, and, July 16, out of the State service at Boston. He never received a wound nor was he ever taken prisoner. At the close of the war, and before he was eighteen years of age, he entered upon a railroad career. e began as brakeman, was then fireman, and in November, 1869, was promoted to engineer on the Worcester & Nashua Railroad. He came West to Norwalk, Ohio, in 1870, and was employed as fireman on the Lake Shore Si Michigan Southern Railroad, serving in that capacity several months. Later he " was fireman on the Grand Rapids & Indiana, afterward was engineer on the an Handle, and then passenger engineer on the Nickel Plate. For the past five years he has occupied his present position as engineer on the New York, Chicago Si St. Louis Railroad. August 20, 1871, Mr. Poole was married to Miss Mary E. Howe, a native of Peru, Illinois. They have two daughters, namely: Winnefred, wife of C. C. Cadle, of Conneaut; and Mattie, at home. Mrs. Poole and daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, Mr. Poole is a Republican and takes an active interest in politics. He is a member of the B. of L. E., in which he is secretary of insurance. he also affiliates with the I. 0. 0. F. RUSSELL BECKWITH, a prominent and well-to do citizen, of Dodgeville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, was born in New Lyme township, this county, in 1821, son of Silas and Eunice Beckwith, natives of Lyme, Connecticut. He was one of a family of nine 'children, and his father was a wealthy farmer and stock-raiser. Both parents were worthy Christians and highly respected people. Mr. Beckwith was married, in 1852, to Elmira Jones, who was born in 1821, daughter of Mary and John M. Jones, Vermont people. Her father was a Freemason and a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. For thirty years he was a Class-leader. Her grandparents were natives 868 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY of Scotland and came to this country in early childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Beckwith have two children, both of whom died in infancy. They have resided at their present location the past three years. Mr. Beckwith also owns a fine residence in Paipesville, and at one time he had 1,000 acres of land in Missouri. He is a public-spirited and gener- ous man and has contributed freely of his means toward the advancement of religious and educational interests. He gave $200 to- ward getting a church organ. Mrs. Beckwith is a member of the Presbyterian Church. FREDERICK L. CHAPMAN, ex-Postmaster, of Andover, Ohio, and proprietor of the comfortably appointed opera house in that city, who now enjoys in retirement that well-merited repose, the reward of years of active industry, was born in Windsor, Connecticut, April 11, 1827. His grandfather, Rev. Frederick Chapman, was a close coin munion Baptist minister, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war on the side of American independence. He survived to the good old age of ninety years in the enjoyment of universal esteem, and died in the light of independence, to the attainment of which he had contributed his share. His two children were: Edwin, father of the subject of this sketch; and Delia, who married Samuel Wilson, of Windsor, Connecticut. Edwin Chapman was born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1800, and was reared on the old homestead in that city. He was married in Windsor to Miss Abigail Drake, a native of that city, daughter of Lemuel Drake, a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake, a member of the English Parliament and Vice-Admiral of the English fleet in 1588 who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for being the first circumnavigator of the globe. In 1833, Edwin, with his wife and children, joined the westward movement of emigration, coming overland to Ohio and settling on wild land in the woods of Ashtabula county, near West Andover, where he cultivated a farm. This remained his home until just prior to his death, which occurred in Jefferson in the spring of 1849, subsequent to his election to the office of County Sheriff in 1848. He was a magistrate for a number of years in Andover, discharging his duties in that capacity with his usual wisdom and impartiality. He was a generous-hearted, genial-mannered person and enjoyed the esteem of numerous friends throughout the county. His worthy wife survived him many years, dying September 21, 1887, at the age of eighty-eight, leaving a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. Their five children were: Edmund D., residing in Monroe, Michigan, served as Quartermaster during the war and is now City Inspector of Chicago; Frederick L., whose name heads the notice; Ann M., deceased; George H., residing in West Andover; and James F., a prominent real-estate dealer, of St. Louis, Missouri. Frederick L. Chapman, the subject of this sketch, was six years of age when his parents removed to the western wilds of Ohio, and his boyhood days were principally passed on the farm, his education being received in the pioneer schools of his vicinity. On attain- ing his majority, he assumed the manage- ment of the home farm, and when his father erected the old Andover Hotel, Frederick operated it for three years, when it was sold advantageously. The war coming on, Frederick served two years as wagonmaster at St. Louis, On the close of the struggle, he OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 869 returned to Ohio and engaged in the mercantile business in West Williamsfield, where he remained about twelve years. At the end of that time he removed to Andover, where he erected the present comfortable and tasteful opera house, and also his handsome residence, and has since lived in retirement from active business pursuits, with the exception of managing the opera house and filling the office of Postmaster four years under the flrst administration of President Cleveland, a position bestowed in recognition of his stanch support of Democracy. March 5, 1856, Mr. Chapman was married to Miss Abbie J. Bishop, a lady of cultivated tastes, a native of West Williamsfield, and daughter of Thomas and Phoebe Bishop, early and prominent settlers of that city. Fraternally, Mr. Chapman affiliates with the I. 0. 0. F. Of a progressive disposition and the strictest probity of character, with ample means to contribute to the advancement and welfare of a community, Andover may well be congratulated on the acquisition to its midst of so worthy a citizen. ALDEN E. SANBORN, a prominent old resident and well-to-do farmer of Kirtland, Lake county, Ohio, is a native of New Hampshire, born December 20, 1816, son of Enoch S. Sanborn, also a native of New Hampshire. His grandfather; Mark Sanborn, it is supposed, was born in England; and it is a certainty that he was early engaged in farming in New Hampshire, and that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Enoch S. Sanborn and his wife, Louis (Elliott) Sanborn, were both natives of New Hampshire. They emigrated to Cattaraugus county, New York, where they bought a farm and where Mr. Sanborn also worked at his trade, that of carpenter, remaining there thirteen years. n 1831 they came to Kirtland, Ohio, and here purchased land and lived three years. Both were members of the Mormon Church. In 1837 they went with the Mormons to Missouri, subsequently to Quincy, Illinois, and from there to Nauvoo, that State. He and his wife both died at Nauvoo, in 1840. They had three children, of whom Alden E. is the oldest and the only one now living. Their only daughter, Eliza E., was the wife of William Smith, the patriarch of the Kirtland branch of the Mormon Church. He is now a resident of Iowa. Alden E. Sanborn was eighteen when he came with his parents to Ohio. He went West with them, and continued a member of the home circle until their death at Nauvoo, in 1840. He was well acquainted with the Mormon prophets, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, his sister having married the brother of Joseph Smith. In the fall of 1840, Mr. Sanborn returned to Kirtland, Ohio, and was engaged in farm work by the month for some time. In 1843 he established a one-horsepower turning-lathe, and began the manufacture of chairs. He was the only one of several here at that time who made chairs complete from the tree. He subsequently worked at the blacksmith trade. In 1855 he began farming, and for the past twenty-nine years he has lived on his present property. At one time he owned 400 acres of land at Kirtland, but, having divided with his sons, now retains only about 200 acres. For a number of years he has been engaged in stock-raising, and has given special attention to horses and sheep. Mr. Sanborn was married March 7, 1841, to Laura L. White, a native of Washington 870 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY county, New York, born in 1815. Her parents, John and Rnbie (Cleveland) White, were both natives of Connecticut. Her grandfather, Joseph White, came from France as a body-guard of General La Fayette. In 1822 the White family emigrated from New York to Ohio, making the journey by ox team and settling in Kirtland township, Lake county. Her father died here at the age of ninety-three, and her mother at sixty-seven. Two of their five children are still living. Mrs. Sanborn's maternal grandfather, Tracy Cleveland, came to Ohio at an early day and died here at the age of eighty-eight. He was a native of Connecticut, and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn have bad six children, namely: John W., a blacksmith in Painesville, Ohio; Enoch T., a blacksmith in Kirtland; Daniel M., a shoemaker in Kirtland; Alden E., Jr., a farmer and fruit-grower; Caroline, wife of George Markell, died, leaving five children; and L. B., a farmer and fruit-grower. They have four great-grandchildren. Mr. Sanborn is a Republican in politics, and has served as Township Trustee several times. THOMAS M. MORLEY, a wealthy and influential farmer of Mentor, Ohio, has long been identified with the best interests of Mentor township, and a sketch of his life will be read with interest by many. Thomas M. Morley was born in .Mentor township, Lake county, Ohio, August 14, 1828, and is of English descent. His grandfather, Thomas Morley, was, it is supposed, a native of Massachusetts. He was a Revolutionary soldier and drew a pension for services rendered in that war. In 1815 he emigrated to Ohio and settled at Kirtland, Lake county, coming hither by wagon and bringing his family with him. He cleared and developed a farm on East Branch river, where he set out a grove of maples, the place having since been known as Morley's Grove. He died here in 1844, at the age of eighty-six years. He and his wife were among the original members of the Kirtland Congregational Church, with which he remained in loving fellowship up to the time of his death. His wife lived to be eighty. They had a family of eight children, one of whom, Thomas, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Montague, Massachusetts, in 1794, and was twenty-one years old at the time he came with his parents to Ohio. He was reared on a farm and was educated in his native State, and January 2, 1817, two years after he settled in the Buckeye State, he married Lillis Russell, a native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Abel Russell. Mr. Russell came to Ohio in 1811 and settled in Mentor, where he passed the rest of his life and died. After his marriage Mr. Morley settled on the farm on which his son, Thomas M., now lives. At that time this land was nearly all in its wild state. He built his log cabin in the clearing, and from year to year made improvements on the place until his farm was one of the best in all the country around. He died in 1877, in his ninety-third year. Few of the early settlers in this vicinity were better known or more highly respected than he. In early life he was identified with the Congregational Church at Kirtland, but in later years joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he remained a devoted member until his death. His wife died in 1852, and he subsequently married her sister, Miss Mona Russell, whose death occurred some time before his. His first wife bad six sons and one daughter, all of whom are living except one.   OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 871 Thomas M. Morley received his education in the district schools and the seminary at Kirtland, and at the age of seventeen began teaching, continuing that occupation several years. His whole life has been spent at the old homestead, and since he was twenty-four he has had charge of most of the farming operations. He is now the owner of 330 acres of well-improved land, utilized for general farming purposes, and among its attractive features is a tine sugar orchard. Mr. Morley was married in 1864 to Lucy Martindale, a native of Kirtland, this county, and a daughter of Timothy Dwight Martindale, who emigrated from Massachusetts to Kirtland about 1817, when he was twenty-two. His whole life was spent in agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Morley was educated at Kirtland Seminary and at Mount Holyoke College, in Massachusetts, and for some time previous to her marriage was engaged in teaching. They have six children: Lillis, Thomas Dwight, Lucy H., Nelson W., Mary and Bertha. The three oldest children are graduates of Oberlin College, Ohio, and have taught school. Nelson W., formerly a student at Oberlin, is now in the Case School at Cleveland. The two youngest are also in school. Politically, Mr. Morley is an ardent Republican. Actively interested in the educational affairs of his community, he has served as Clerk of the School Board for nearly twenty years. During the war he was among the first to enter the Union service. He enlisted August 9, 1861, in Company G, Second Ohio Cavalry, and after serving in that company about one year he was transferred to a battery. This battery became the Twenty-fifth Ohio Independent Battery, and he was commissioned its Second Lieutenant. He was with the forces that operated in the West and continued on active duty until July, 1864, when he was taken sick, and the following September was honorably discharged on account of disability. During his sickness he was in a private family at Little Rock, Arkansas, being at the point of death for several days. Mr. Morley and his wife have a membership in the Congregational Church at Kirtland. JAMES W. ROGERS, another one of the successful farmers and representative citizens of Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, was born on the sea coast of New Jersey, June 3, 1827, son of Abner and Lydia (Jeffery) Rogers, both natives of New Jersey. His grandfather, Jesse Rogers, was also a native of that State, his ancestors being among the early settlers of New Jersey. Abner Rogers was a sailor in early life and later turned his attention to farming. In an early day he emigrated to Indiana, and engaged in farming at Newberg (now called Newport), where he remained until after the death of his wife. Then he removed to Shiawassee county, Michigan, and while in Michigan his second marriage was consummated. His next move was to the plains in Lake county, Ohio, and from here he subsequently returned to New Jersey, where he died at a ripe old age. James W. Rogers is the only one of his father's family now living. When quite young, and while residing in Michigan, he left home and worked out by the month, thus earning his own living. It was not until he was twenty that he returned home. He has had a varied career, and is familiar with all the ups and downs of life. Coming to Lake county, Ohio, when a young man, he pur- 872 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY chased land in Willoughby township, on the west branch of the Chagrin river, on the development and improvement of which he has expended a great amount of hard labor. His farm comprises 138 acres. He has a choice variety of fruits, and has been successful in his farming operations. Having started out in life without means, his present prosperity is the result of his own unaided efforts. Mr. Rogers was married in New Jersey, in 1852, to Miss Amanda Rogers, a native of that State. Their five children are as follows: Lydia, wife of Arthur Brown, Sedalia, Missouri; Isabella, wife of Edwin Williams, Willoughby, Ohio; Salina. wife of Amos Cleverton, Kirtland township, Lake county, Ohio; James W., who is married and engaged in farming in Mayfield township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio; and Eva, at home. Mr. Rogers affiliates with the Democratic party.   EDWARD THOMPSON.—A history of Geanga county would be incomplete without a sketch of the life of this venerable pioneer. He is a native of the county, born at Middlefield, December 18, 1813, a son of James Thompson, who was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The grandfather, Isaac Thompson, was also a native of the Keystone State, of Welsh extraction; he was a farmer by occupation, and served during the Revolutionary war, contributing his aid to secure independence to the colonies. He removed from Pennsylvania to Mentor township, Lake county, in 1799, unaccompanied by any member of his family. He wa3 an expert hunter and trapper, and found an abundance of wild game. In 1800 he came to Geauga county, and built a log cabin on the present site of Middlefield, being the first settler in the township. He died at the age of eighty-four years. James Thompson, his son, went from Pennsylvania to Virginia in 1798, coming afterward to Lake county. It was in 1800 that he came to Middlefield township; he, too, was a hunter and trapper, and in this occupation earned enough money to buy 100 acres of land; there were many bear, deer and wolves, and numerous Indians dwelt in this locality. Milling was done up near the Lake, the trip being made on horseback. Mr. Thompson cleared 100 acres .of land, and as his means increased made another purchase of 200 acres. He erected the first sawmill in this section of country, and sawed all the lumber used in the construction of pioneer houses. He was a man of fine constitution, his years of toil seeming to add to his length of days. He had just passed his ninety-eighth birthday when he was called to his final rest. He married Sarah Wells, of Pennsylvania, and they had a family of six children; she died at the age of thirty years. He was married a second time to Mercy Tracy, a native of New York State, and they had a family of eight children; the mother died at the age of sixty years. Edward Thompson was the fifth-born of the second family of children. He received his education in the common schools, and in early youth became inured to the hard work of pioneer farming. He assisted in clearing the land, and aided in all the duties of the home; wild animals roved at large, and it was necessary to protect sheep and calves at night. He was a good marksman, and became an excellent hunter and trapper, laying low many a proud deer, ferocious wolves and cunning foxes. Mr. Thompson kept the tavern in Middlefield for a period of eight years during OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 873 the early times, but turned his attention to farming; he also had seine commercial interests, but finally settled on his present farm, a good tract of 115 acres; be does a general agricultural business, and has.a dairy in connection. In politics he supports the Republican code. Mr. Thompson was united in marriage in 1843 to Jane E. Alden; a native of Massachusetts, having emigrated with her parents to the West in 1830; they have had a family of six children: Arte L., Mary, Nellie and Emily are deceased; Rosetta and Albert survive. ALANSON LOVELAND, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, has been an industrious man all his life, and to his honest industry he attributes the success he has attained. As one of the representative men of the county, we present a sketch of his life in this work. Alanson Loveland was born in Rutland county, Vermont, March 2, 1823, son of Alanson Loveland, and grandson of Treat Loveland, both natives of Vermont, the family being of English descent. Grandfather Loveland was a farmer all his life. He came to Ohio about 1826, and died here at the age of eighty years. The father of our subject, Alanson Loveland, Sr., was a cloth dresser by trade. Moving to Ohio in 1826, he located in Thompson, Geauga county, everything being in its wild state here then. For some time he lived in a lug house without doors and windows, the openings being screened by blankets. Subsequently he removed to Licking county, Ohio, and a short time later to Painesville, this county. At the latter place he worked at his trade for awhile. His last move was to Madison township, where he died at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, Sophia, was a daughter of General Orms, who served in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Loveland reared two children, Cornelia and Alanson. The mother died at the age of fifty-eight years. Alonson Loveland was three years old at the time his father emigrated to Ohio, and in the primitive log schoolhouses of this State he received his education.. With the exception of eight months spent in work at his father's trade, his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits. After his marriage, which occurred in 1843, Mr. Loveland settled on a tract of timber land in Madison township, and after clearing and developing 100 acres sold it. He then located on his present farm, 107 acres, nearly all of which is improved and which is devoted to general farming and stock-raising. Mrs. Loveland's maiden name was Laura Long. She was born in New Hampshire and has been a resident of Ohio since her girlhood. Their three children are: Henry, Lamar and Ella. In his political views, Mr. Loveland is in harmony with the principles advocated by the Republican party. STEPHEN B. BUSS, a self-made man and representative farmer of Ashtabula county, Ohio, is deserving of some personal mention in this work. William Gilman Buss, his father, was born in Vermont, in 1810, and about 1849 removed from the Green Mountain State to Ohio, making the journey hither by way of the New York and Erie canal and lake, and 874 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY settling in Conneaut township, Ashtabula county. Here he remained until his death, in 1862. By occupation he was a farmer. Politically, he affiliated with the Republican party, and, fraternally, with the I. O. O. F. His father, William Buss, the grandfather of our subject, passed his life and died on a farm in Vermont. The Buss family have resided in America since before the Revolutionary war. Electa S. (Cook) Buss, the mother of Stephen B., was born in Vermont, January 19, 1814, and died December 1, 1892. She was the daughter of John and Phoebe Cook, natives of Germany. William G. Buss and Electa S. Cook were married in 1841, and in time became the parents of three children, viz.: Minerva, wife of G. W. Salisbury, of Conneaut township, Ashtabula county, Ohio; Maranda, wife of Frank Willard, of Cleveland, has one son and seven daughters; and Stephen B., the oldest of the family and the subject of this article. Stephen B. Buss was born October 16, 1843, and remained with his parents as lung as they lived. When he was twenty-five years old he bought the home farm, about 100 acres, upon which he has since been engaged in farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of the sheep business, in which he has been very successful. He was married in 1867 to Della Smith, who was born in this county in 1848, daughter of Barlett B. and Eliza (Cheney) Smith, natives of New York and Vermont respectively. Her father passed away June 5, 1891, and her mother in March, 1872. Both were members of the Universalist Church. Mrs. Buss is one of a family of ten children, two of whom are deceased—an infant and Lovina. Those living are: Sidney, of Hazel ton, Pennsylvania; Bessie, wife of J. R. Warner, Special Pension Examiner, Washington, District of Columbia; Abbie R., wife of W. F. Richards, Conneaut, Ohio; Della; Frank W., Sunbury, Pennsylvania, is in the employ of the Reading Railroad Company, as station agent; Fred F., Conneaut, Ohio; John C., a Wichita farmer; and Willis, a grocer at Elmdale, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Buss have three children—Gracie, Warner and Helen. Mr. Buss is a Republican and is now serving as Trustee of his township. He is a member of the Knights of Honor. JOHN GAFFNEY, proprietor of the I Conneaut House, Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Ashtabula county, this State, July 11, 1866, son of John F. and Bridget Gaffney. His parents came from the old country to America previous to their marriage. The father was a traveling man for many years—traveling until the Conneaut House was built, after which he was its proprietor until the time of his death, February 28, 1892, at the age of sixty-six years. He had been a resident of Conneaut since before the war. Mr. Gaffney was a devout Catholic, as is also his wife. The names of their children are as follows: Janie, Margaret, Elizabeth, Delia, John, Frankie, Agnes and Thomas. All are at home and unmarried except Janie, who is the wife of Thomas E. McGinnis, a railroad engineer and a resident of Conneaut. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis have two children: Benita and Eugene. Of John F. Gaffney's brothers and sisters We record that one brother, James, resides in Erie, Pennsylvania; that Elizabeth is the wife of Patrick Cozens, of Conneaut; that Patrick, another brother, is deceased; and that Mary is the wife of Peter Mc Gordy, Chicago. Mrs. Gaffney had a brother and OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 875 sister who came to Conneaut, Terrence Quinn, who died here; and Mrs. Edward Tinney, still of this place. She has two brothers, Thomas and John, farmers in Iowa, and one brother, Henry, in St. Louis. John Gaffney's first employment was that of yard clerk at the Nickel Plate, where he remained for two years. After this he clerked in his uncle's store in Erie some time. Then he went on the road as traveling' salesman, being in the employ of S. Peterson & Co., a wholesale grocery and flour house of Chicago, and continued on the road until after the death of his father, since which time he has conducted the hotel. The Conneaut House is situated on the west side of Mill street, south of the New York, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad, being conveniently located for railroad men, who are its chief patrons. Mr. Gaffney, having spent some years on the road, is acquainted with the wants of the traveling public, and he knows how to cater them in a courteous and pleasing manner. Indeed, he is eminently fitted for the position he occupies. He affiliates with the Democratic party, and is a member of the Catholic Church. RAYMOND FREEMAN, County Commissioner and a prominent and wealthy farmer residing in Madison township, Lake county, is an excellent example of the self-made man. Following is a resume of his life: Mr. Freeman was born in Lorain county, Ohio, January 28, 1836, son of Henry Freeman, a native of Brown county, New York, and grandson of Joseph Freeman, also a native of the Empire State. The Freemans are of German descent, their ancestors having located in this country previous to the Revolutionary war. Grandfather Freeman passed his life and died on a farm in his native State. Henry, his son, was also a farmer. He made the journey to Ohio with an ox team in 1831, bought seventy-five acres of Government land in Lorain county, and there built his rude cabin and went to work to develop a farm.. It was all thick woods there at that time. Wolves were abundant, and the wildcats were so numerous that on one occasion they fought on the roof of Mr. Freeman's cabin. Deer were also plenty. When his children grew up and began to go. West, Mr. Freeman moved to Dane county, Wisconsin, where he spent the rest of his life, and died at the age of seventy-two years. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Noles, and who was a native of Rutland, Vermont, also lived to be seventy-two. She was an active member of the Disciple Church. They had a family of nine children, Raymond, the subject of our sketch, being the eighth born. Raymond Freeman was reared in Lorain county. He began life on his own responsibility when he was seventeen, at which time he went to Geneva, Ashtabula county, this State, and commenced working on a section of the Lake Shore Railroad, at ninety cents per day. This was in 1852. He continued in railroad employ for twenty-eight years, and during all that time never lost a day. Starting in as a common laborer, Ire was promoted as foreman of the section and had charge of ten miles of road, and afterward was made road master between Cleveland and Erie. He had charge of building twenty miles of that road. Finally, on account of failing health, he was compelled to quit the business. At this time he was offered six months' vacation with steady pay and free transportation to wherever he wished to go, 876 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY if he would continue with the company, but he refused it. Subsequently he turned his attention to contracting. He built twenty-five miles of the Nickel Plate Railroad, and built yards at Ashtabula and Collinswood for the Lake Shore. Afterward, on seventeen miles of road he built for the West Shore line, he cleared $25,000. He erected the high-service reservoir at Cleveland, which cost $150,000, and he also built the waterworks at Findlay, Ohio. His last contract for railroad work was nine miles for the Lake Shore, near Youngstown. Mr. Freeman bought his present farm, 165 acres in Madison township, in 1884, and has since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. This land is composed of a great variety of soil and is well adapted to general farming, for which purpose it is utilized. The fine residence, good barns, and general appearance of his premises are all indicative of the prosperity which has attended the owner. Mr. Freeman was married December 25, 1856, to Anna Rennington, a native of Rutland, Vermont. She is a member of the Congregational Church and is a most estimable lady. Their three children are: Cora, Mary and Frank. Politically, Mr. Freetnan affiliates with the Republican party. He was elected Commissioner of Lake county in the fall of 1891, and is now serving in that office. Socially, politically and financially, he is ranked with the leading men of the county. ALMERON FOLLETT, a venerable pioneer of Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, was born in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, September 13, 1810, son of Rogers and Elizabeth (Cady) Follett, natives of Connecticut. The father, a mechanic by trade, died when Almeron was eighteen months old. The mother reared her family of eight children, and lived to be seventy-five years old. When a boy of ten years, the subject of our sketch came with his older brother and mother to Lake county, Ohio, making the journey here by team, and being twenty-one days en route. They settled in the southern part of Madison township, on the river road, there being few improvements here then, and the forest abounding in game of all kinds. That was in 1820. Young Follett frequently indulged in the sport of hunting, and after settling here attended school some. At the age of sixteen he began self-support. After working out on farms for a while, he learned the carpenter's trade and worked at that trade for thirty years, many of the buildings in Madison township having been erected by him. He settled on his present farm, fifty-seven acres, in 1835. At that time there were only a few acres of this land cleared and all the improvements upon it have been put here by him. He also owns fifty acres south of his home place, and twenty-five acres West of here. He had another fifty-acre tract still further south, which he sold some time ago. Mr. Follett was married in this township in 1832, to Clara Miller, who was born and reared here, and who died at the age of fifty-five years, leaving nine children, namely: Sylvester, Granville, Harmon, Mary, Ransdier Alta, Elizabeth, Edgar and Ellen. November. 9, 1871, Mr. Follett wedded Clara Orcutt, who was born in Parkman, Geauga county, Ohio, June 18, 1824. Her father, Samuel Orcutt, was a native of New York, and was one of the first settlers of Geauga county. Mrs. Follett is a member of the Methodist Church. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 877 Mr. Follett started out in life a poor boy, and by honest toil and judicious investment of his earnings worked his way on to success, and now as old age creeps upon him he is comfortably situated and is enjoying the fruits of his early years of labor. Politically, he is a Republican. CLARK O. WILEY, another one of the representative citizens of Ashtabula county, Ohio, dates his birth in Sheffield township, this county, in 1828. Of his life and ancestry we make record as follows: William Wiley, his father, was born in Vermont in 1796, and in 1828 came to Ohio and settled in Sheffield township, Ashtabula county. Here, with the exception of a few years when he lived in Michigan, he spent the rest of his life, the last few years making his home with his son, the subject of this sketch. He died in 1875. During the war of 1812 he served under Colonel Miller, in Company L, Twenty-first Regiment, participating in the battles of Lundy's Lane, Chrystler Farm and Little York. Miller's regiment stormed and took the British regiment on the Heights, and in that engagement Mr. Wiley received a bayonet wound through the thigh. He was honorably discharged at Vert Erie, August 18, 1814. He was a Whig until after the organization of the Republican party, when he gave the latter hia support. For some years he was a member of the Christian Church. The Wily family originated in Ireland, some of them having come to America previous to the Revolutionary war. James Wiley, the father of William, was born in Ireland, and he, too, was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was killed in the battle of Plattsburgh. William was reported as killed at Lundy's Lane, and on his return home on the day of his father's funeral there was a scene of mingled joy and sorrow. The Wileys were for several generations'engaged in farming. Martha (Howard) Wiley, the mother of Clark 0., was born in 1800. She removed with her parents from her native State, Vermont, to New York, where, in 1825, she was married to Mr. Wiley. Her parents, William and Mary Howard, were also natives of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Wiley had nine children, viz.: James W., a contractor and builder residing in Michigan; Nelson A., also a carpenter, died in Cleveland in 1881; Clark 0., whose name heads this article; Henry P., deceased, was at the time of his death a conductor on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad; Melissa, who died in New York in 1852; Seth S., a resident of Michigan and a farmer by occupation; Edwin F., a resident of Kelloggsville, Ohio; Carrie. wife of George 0. Parker, Jus tice of the Peace at Ashtabula; and the youngest died in infancy. Clark O. Wiley resided with. his parents until he was about eighteen years of age. At that time he went to Kelloggsville and learned the trade of tanner and currier, at which trade he continued to work until 1881. He then turned his attention to farming, in connection with which he has also been doing an insurance business. He was married in 1853 to Ann M. Clute, a native of New York, who came with her parents to Ohio. Her parents, John and Caroline Clute, were also natives of New York. Mr. Wiley and his wife have had five children, as follows: Edgar A., who died at the age of seventeen; Herbert J., an engineer; Mattie C., wife of M. H. Porter, a Florida fruit-grower; Laura and William A., both at home. 878 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Mr. Wiley's political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is now serving his eighth term as a Justice of the Peace, and before he entered upon the duties of this office he served sixteen or seventeen years as Constable. He is also a member of the State Police. HENRY H. SHEPARD, a prominent and wealthy produce dealer and an old settler of Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, dates his birth in Berkshire, Massachusetts, November 13, 1836. Mr. Shepard's father, John M. Shepard, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, May 9, 1804, son of Samuel Shepard, also a native of Massachusetts, born January 12, 1778, second in the family of eight children of Daniel Shepard. Samuel Shepard married Ruth Wilkinson, whose birth occurred at Berkshire, Massachusetts, December 25, 1778, and they reared five children, as follows: Electa, born December 23, 1799; Sarah, August 18, 1802; John M., May 9, 1804; Clarissie, September 26, 1807; and Ruth W., May 26, 1813. John M., the father of our subject, was reared and married in Massachusetts. In 1837 he came West with his family and settled 4 mile and a half west of the village of Perry, where he developed a fine farm of 105 acres. At the time he settled here only six or eight acres of the land had been cleared and the only improvement on the place was a log cabin. He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-four years, honored and respected by all who knew him. His wife, whose name before marriage was Laura Adams, was born in Berkshire, Massachusetts, July 3, 1810. They had a family of six children, namely: Samuel W., born October 10, 1830; Warren S., October 29, 1832; Henry H., November 13, 1836; Eunice A., December 26, 1841; Julia J., May 6,1844, died at the age of four years; and Henrietta M., December 6, 1847. The mother died here at the age of sixty-five years. Both she and her husband were Baptists and took an active interest in church work. In politics Mr. Shepard was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Warren Adams, and he, too, was a native of Berkshire, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in farming for many years, living to a ripe old age. Henry H. Shepard was only six months old when he was brought by his parents to this county, and here he was reared and educated. He has been engaged in business for himself since he reached his majority. For about six years he kept a dairy at Harpersville, Ashtabula county, and from there came to his present location, where he ran a general store three years. Since that date he has been engaged in the produce business, shipping annually from seventy-five to 100 car loads of fruit and vegetables, his chief points of shipment being Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. He also runs a large, cooper shop, where he manufactures all his own shipping barrels. he belongs to that class of men, who, starting out in life without financial aid, have by their own pluck and energy won their way to success. Mr. Shepard has been twice married. In Ashtabula county, December 23, 1858, he wedded Mary F. Hutchins, a native of Perry township, Lake county, but a resident of Ashtabula county at the time of her marriage. They had four children, namely: Mrs. Sarah F. Gleason, born December 22, 1864, is now a resident of Seattle, Washington: Walter H., born July 2, 1866, is a merchant; Agnes L., born January 29,.1868, is a gradu- OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 879 ate of the college at Delaware, Ohio; and Kate E., 'born February 11, 1871. The' mother of these children died May 22, 1885. She was a member of the Methodist Church, and hers was a beautiful Christian character. March 2, 1887, Mr. Shepard married Mrs. Anna E. Quinby, of Ashtabula. Both he and his wife, and indeed the whole family, are members of the Methodist Church. They stand high in the community in which they reside and are justly entitled to the respect and esteem in which they are held by all who know them. Mr. Shepard affiliates with the Republican party, and has filled the office of Township Treasurer. WILLIAM E. BENDER, a conductor on the Nickel Plate Railroad, resides 1 at Conneaut, Ohio, where he is well known and much respected. Following is a sketch of his life and ancestry: William E. Bender was born in Fostoria, Ohio, May 18, 1856, son of Captain William H. and Prudence E. (Doke) Bender, natives of Pennsylvania, and Ohio respectively. William H. was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Kinsey) Bender, of Pennsylvania, the former dying in December, 1892, at the age of eighty-two years, and the latter still living, aged eighty-one. He was the oldest of their family of five sons and three daughters, the others being as follows: John, an attorney of Fostoria; Rev. Daniel, a minister in the United Brethren Church, stationed at Westerville, Ohio; David, Charles and Henry, farmers at Coldwater, Michigan; Mary ; Libbie; and Amanda. William H. Bender had a good education and taught sixteen terms of school in Ohio. Subsequently he was a commercial man in the employ of ex-Governor Charles Foster, for many years, until the war opened, when he enlisted, in 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering the service as a Lieutenant and six months later being promoted toa captaincy. He was wounded in the battle of Winchester, receiving a shot through both hips, and with many others was captured. He was taken to Libby, then transferred to Andersonville and later to Columbia, South Carolina, where he died of yellow fever, after an illness of three days, having been a prisoner sixteen months. His treatment while in prison was horrible in the extreme. His remains rest in the national cemetery at Columbia, South Carolina. He was a valiant soldier and a princely man. As a husband and father he was affectionate and devoted: as a citizen he was held in high esteem; as a soldier he was magnanimous, brave and true. His death was almost as a personal bereavement to all who knew him. He was married at Fostoria, in 1855, and some time after his death his widow became the wife of his brother, Jeremiah Bender. William E., the subject of this sketch, is the oldest of three children, his two sisters being Effie Augustus, wife of Chance Reynold, of Fremont, Ohio; and Frances, wife of W. F. Boley, a teacher in Fostoria. Mr. and Mrs. Reynold have two children: Georgia and Bessie. The subject of our sketch has been engaged in railroading since 1872. He began as breakeman on the Lake Erie & Western, being in the employ of that company six months. Then he was brakeman on the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo nineteen mouth's, after which he was in the employ of the Chicago & Alton, eight months, four months as brakeman and four months as extra conductor. In the fall of 1881 he began service with the 880 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Nickel Plate. He was three years brakeman on this road and for the past nine years has been conductor, and during this long term of service he has never had a collision or any other trouble for which he was responsible. Mr. Bender was married, January 24, 1878, to Miss Ida B. Miller, daughter of Louis L. and Sarah Miller, residents of Conneaut. They have one child, Emory J. Mrs. Bender is the fourth in a family of seven children, six of whom are living. Her three brothers are William A., telegraph operator at Cleveland, Ohio; Roy, operator in the Postal Telegraph office at Atlanta, Georgia; and Newton, a Western Union Telegraph operator at Cleveland, Ohio. By her mother's former marriage, to Mr. Lesher, there were two sons and two daughters: John, a travel: ing salesman; Frank, owner of a large stone quarry in Colorado; Mary, widow of George Fishbaugh; and Ella, wife of J. W. Will, of Denver, Colorado. Mrs. Bender and her parents are members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Mr. Bender is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the order of Railway Conductors, having served as secretary and treasurer of the latter organization for three years. Personally, he is a man of fine physique, pleasing address and generous impulses. WILLIAM WOODFORD, a prominent fruit-grower and wine-manufacturer in Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, was born in Oxfordshire, England, February 4, 1838, son of John and Johanna (Wilkes) Woodford, both natives of England. He is the fourth in a family of five children, and one of the three are still living. His father, a builder by trade, died in England: at the age of sixty-eight years. His mother came to America in 1861, and made her home with him until the time of her death, November 20, 1884, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. While in England she was a member of the Methodist Church. Four of her children came to America, and one daughter went to Australia and died there. William Woodford was reared in his native village and had good educational advantages. He worked at garden marketing and helped in the store which his parents conducted. He came to America in 1861, and upon his arrival here located in Cleveland, where he engaged in the bakery business for about two years. After that he was variously employed for some time. He spent one year in market gardening near Cleveland. In July, 1869, he purchased his present farm in Willoughby township 123 acres of land on the Chagrin river road. Since that time he has devoted his attention to general farming, wholesale butchering, fruit-growing and wine-manufacturing. For nine years he did an extensive wholesale butchering business. The last year he was engaged in butchering he slaughtered 1,600 calves, besides other stock, finding a market for the same in Cleveland. He hauled his product to that city three times a week; a portion of the time employing five teams. For thirteen years he has been cultivating fruit. At this writing he has over forty acres of vineyard, nearly five acres of quinces, and two acres of pears. For several years he did an extensive business in manufacturing cider and vinegar, and recently has devoted his attention more particularly to the manufacture of wines, using all his own vineyard product and considerable besides. He makes from 15,000 to 20,000 gallons of wine per year. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO- 881 Mr. Woodford was married in 1874 to Ellen Wilkes, a native of Cleveland. Her father was an Englishman and her mother was of German birth. They resided in Cleveland for many years. Her father is deceased and her mother is now a resident of Brecksville, near Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Woodford have had eight children. The youngest died in infancy. Those living are William, John George, Ellen, Olive G., Mabel R., Mary M. and Bessie M. Mr. Woodford is another example of the self-made man. He started out in life without capital, and that his career has been a successful one is due to his own untiring energy. DANFORD SMITH, another one of the well-known and highly respected farmers of Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio, was born in Spafford, New York, March 8, 1819, a son of Sylvester Smith and a grandson of Asa Smith, the former a native of New York and the latter of Connecticut. His great-grandfather Smith, a native of England, came to America at an early period in the history of this country and settled in Connecticut, on the Connecticut river. Asa Smith, a brick mason by trade, turned his attention to farming in the latter part of his life. During the Revolutionary war he was a teamster is the employ of the Government. His death occurred at the age of eighty-six years at Evanston, Indiana, where he had resided for some time. Sylvester Smith emigrated from New York to Ohio in 1827, and was among the first settlers of Willoughby township, Lake county. Here he purchased a piece of land, built a log cabin and at once went to work to clear and improve a farm. He died at the age of sixty-eight years. He was a member of the Reformed Methodist Church and a man of many sterling qualities of mind and heart. His wife, whose maiden name was Lucretia Lyons, was a daughter of Luther Lyons, a resident of New York, who died at the age of one hundred years. She was seventy-three at the time of her death. The subject of our sketch was the fourth born in a family of seven children, three of whom are living, and in the pioneer schools of Willoughby township he received his education. Mr. Smith was married in 1842, to Miss Prudence Whelpley, a native of Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, Ohio. Her father moved to Ashtabula county, Ohio, at an early day, and while clearing land was killed by a falling tree. His wife died of a cancer. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six children: Sarah, George H., Cyrus S., Harriet, Amelia and Willie. After his marriage Mr. Smith located on his present farm. For fourteen years he carried on boot and shoe making, and since that time has devoted his attention exclusively to his farming interests, having cleared and drained the whole place. He has seventy-five acres of choice land, all under a high state of cultivation, and is engaged in general farming and stock raising. Politically, he is a Republican; was formerly allied with the old-line Whigs. Such is a brief sketch of the life of one of the successful farmers of Willoughby township. ORRIN B. GRIDLEY, a successful " Waite Hill" farmer and horticulturist, is one of the representative citizens of Willoughby township, Lake county, Ohio. Of him we make mention as follows: 882 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY Orrin B. Gridley was born in Oneida county, New York, November 16, 1819, a descendant of an old New England family. His father, Lot Gridley, was born in Bristol, Hartford county, Connecticut, and his grandfather, Luke Gridley, was also a native of Connecticut. The latter died in his native State. Lot Gridley moved to Oneida county, New York, in 1804, where he was engaged in fanning until the time of his death, which occurred in 1849, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Religiously, he was a Methodist. The mother of Orrin B. was Dorcas (Lindsley) Gridley, he being the youngest of her three children. She was Mr. Gridley's second wife. He was married four times, having one child by the first wife, three by the second, one by the third, and two by the fourth. Orrin B. Gridley attended the district schools and for two or three terms was a student in a select school. He taught school two terms. Remaining at home and cultivating the farm until his father's death, he then bought the old homestead and continued farming on it for ten years longer. Selling out in 1856, he moved to Oneida, Madison county, New York, where he lived till 1864, engaged in the manufacture of soap and candles. In 1864 be moved to Willoughby township, Lake county, and purchased the property on which he now lives. This place consists of twenty-three acres, and besides this he also owns two or three other tracts of land in this vicinity. He has given considerable attention to fruit culture, raising peaches, grapes, etc. Mr. Gridley was married, in 1843, to Cornelia Cowder, a native of New York, who died in January, 1883, leaving two children, viz.: Eliza J., wife of George Waite, an enterprising farmer, living near her father; and Eugenia, deceased. In 1888 Mr. Gridley married Mrs. Olive (Allen) Norris, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Abner T. Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Gridley are Presbyterians, he being an Elder in the church. Politically, he is a Republican. He has served as Township Trustee one term. JAMES S. MARTIN., a farmer of Ashtabula county, was born at South Crawford, Chenango county, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1822, a son of Robert Martin, a native of Ireland. The latter located in Pennsylvania when nineteen years of age. He married Jane Stanson, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of James Stanson, who was born in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Martin had seven children: James E., John, Susan, W. M., Emeline, Samuel L. and Robert. W. M. was a soldier in the late war. The father died at the age of fifty-eight years, and the mother at the age of sixty-three years. The former was a Democrat in his political views, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. James S. Martin" was early inured to farm life, and received his education. in the common schools of Pennsylvania. he learned the carpenter's trade in early life. In 1852 he came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he now owns 321 acres of good land, and has three residences and three barns. Mr. Martin owns a fine drove of Durham cattle. In 1851 he was joined in marriage with Clarene French, a native of this county. They have three sons. The eldest, Robert H., was born July 14, 1859, and was married in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, September 9, 1886, to Elizabeth M. Burrows, a daughter of James and Amanda Barrows. To this OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 883 union was born two children: Lottie Clarene and Ada Amanda. William French married Jessie Allen, a daughter of Elias Allen, and they have one son, Edson. The youngest son, Nelson J., was born October 15, 1868, and is now at home. Mr. and Mrs. Martin lost two 'children: Emma Jane, born September 19, 1852, died April 10, 1861; and Flora, born April 25, 1855, died June 4, 1856. In his political relations, Mr. Martin affiliates with the Democratic party.   DAVID QUINCY, a prominent and well-to-do farmer of Mentor township, Lake county, Ohio, is a man who has made his own way in the world and is justly entitled to the place he occupies among the representative men of the county. Mr. Quincy was born in Northamptonshire, England, February 18, 1834, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Drage) Quincy, also natives of that place. His father died at the age of fifty-two years, and his mother at seventy-five. They had a family of nine children, three of whom emigrated to America. His father being a farmer, David was reared to agricultural pursuits, and has been engaged in farming all his life. When he was nine years old he worked out, receiving thirty-six cents a week. In 1854 he sailed from Liverpool for New York, landing at his destination after a voyage of nine weeks and four days. From that city he went to Rut land, Vermont, where he found employment as a farm hand and where he continued as such until the war came on. In the tall of 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Vermont Volunteer Infantry; and went South with his command. He participated in the battle of Pearl River, Louisiana, and was at Baton Rouge and Grand Gulf. At the time he entered the service he weighed 187 pounds, and in less than a year, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability, he was reduced to ninety-six pounds! He was promoted to Sergeant, but was discharged before he ever got to fill the office. After leaving the army Mr. Quincy returned to Vermont and remained there one year. Then he came to Lake county, Ohio, and settled in Mentor township, where he has since resided. Upon his arrival here he purchased land, to which he has added by subsequent purchase until he is now the owner of 188 acres, all nicely improved. Mr. Quincy was married in the fall of 1863 to Jane Kelley, a native of Washington county, New York. After her father's death, which occurred in New York, her mother came to Ohio with her family and settled in Lake county, her death occurring some years later in Willoughby township. Mr. and Mrs. Quincy have six children: Emma, Belle, George, Myra, Willis and David. Mr. Quincy is a member of the Masonic order and the James A. Garfield Post, No. 591, G. A. R., of Mentor, having served as Commander of the Post three years. Politically, he is a Republican, and has served in various local offices. WARREN E. SPENCER, one of the progressive farmers of Geauga county, Ohio, was born in this county in Claridon township, October 18, 1841, a son of Erastus Spencer, a native of Connecticut, born September 30, 1805. The paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Spencer, was born in Connecticut but removed to Ohio as early in the century as 1811. He bought 600 acres from the Connecticut Land- Company, a considerable portion of which he developed. He 884 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY was Captain of a company in the war of 1812; his death occurred February 3, 1849. His wife, Lydia Douglas, was born at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1795; she died June 27, 1845. Erastus Spencer was a child of six years when his parents came to the West. He received his education in the pioneer school, and when a young man taught several terms of school in this locality. He was Sheriff of the county in 1840 and for two terms thereafter; he was a member of the State Board of Equalization, and one of the directors of the Painesville & Hudson Railroad Company for fifteen years. He owned 400 acres of good land and carried on a general farming business. In 1873 he retired from the farm and settled in Chardon, where he died September 2, 1884. He was married September 25, 1834, to Miss Julia C. Kellogg, who was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, November 17, 1810. She came to Ohio with her parents in 1816, and received her education on the frontier; she became a teacher and often had to take her pay in various commodities, as money was a scarce article. She was the mother of six children: Elenora A.; Clinton C.; Warren E.; Tracy A.; Lucy S.; deceased; and Lucy M. Mrs. Spencer died August 31, 1891. She and her husband were consistent members of the Congregational Church, and were charter members of the society at this place, which they supported liberally. Mr. Spencer was a strong Abolitionist, and kept a station of the underground railway. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Asahel Kellogg, was an early pioneer, and with his brother, Cotton, built the first mill in Claridon township; he died March 17, 1843. Warren E. Spencer is the third child of the family. He was reared to man's estate surrounded by the rude and meager comforts of the frontier. He attended the district school, and at the age of nineteen entered Oberlin College, where he spent one term. He was married December 31, 1872, to Miss Nancy Douglas, a native of this county and a daughter of I. Douglas, who was the first white male child born in Claridon township; his father, Elijah Douglas, settled in the county in 1811, having removed from Connecticut; he developed a fine farm before his death, which occurred at an advanced age. Mrs. Spencer's mother was Susannah Taylor, a native of Connecticut; she came to the West in 1828, and is still living at the age of eighty-two years; she is the mother of five children. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are the parents of three children: Walter A., Tracy C. and Roy E. On June 7, 1862, Mr. Spencer enlisted in Company B, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered in at Camp Chase; he was sent thence to Johnson's Island, where he did guard duty until he was mustered out September 26, 1862. Mr. Spencer owns a finely improved farm of 224 acres; he raises stock and grain, making a specialty of thoroughbred Shorthorn and Durham cattle; his father was the first to introduce these famous breeds in this locality. He has excellent improvements and all the comforts that energy and thrift bring together. He is a Republican in politics, and has served very acceptably as Township Trustee. J. H. BROWN, one of the leading merchants of Perry, Lake county, Ohio, is what in these days is called a hustler. Mr. Brown was born in Painesville township, this county, in 1856, son of Moses and OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 885 Mary A. (Goad) Brown, being the fourth in their family of six children. His parents were born and married in County Wexford, Ireland, and in 1849 came to this country, first settling in Painesville township, Lake county, Ohio, where the father engaged in farming. In 1851 he came to Perry, where he improved a farm of twenty acres and where he spent the rest of his life, dying in 1889, aged seventy years. The aged mother is still living, having reached her seventieth mile-post. J. H. Brown was reared in his native county and received his education in the village school. He began life on his own responsibility when he was about fifteen. For six or eight years he was engaged in buying and shipping cattle to Buffalo. He opened his present establishment, a general merchandise store, in 1887, and has since. conducted it successfully. He carried a well-assorted stock of general merchandise, including dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, paints, oils, hardware, etc., and by his genial nature and honorable business methods has secured and holds a good trade. The success he has attained. is due solely to his own energy and good management, he having started out in life a poor boy. Mr. Brown affiliates with the Republican party, takes an active interest in political matters, and has served as Judge of Elections. GEORGE HURLBURT, a prominent farmer and venerable citizen of Perry township, Lake county, Ohio, is a native of this township and a son of one of its earliest pioneers. He was born September 10, 1822. Moses Hurlburt, his father, was born in Vermont, as also was his mother, whose maiden name was Betsey Parmley. They were married in Vermont and came out to Ohio in 1813, making the journey with an ox team. They settled on the lake shore in the northeast part of what is now Perry township, and here in the midst of the wilderness they built their cabin and established their pioneer home. The Indians were numerous in this part of the State at that time, and the forest abounded in deer, bears and wolves. Mr. Hurlburt cleared some land, but for several years he was engaged in sailing on the lakes. He owned two boats, one of which was lost in a storm. His wife died at the age of thirty two years and he lived to be seventy-four. He was a member of the Methodist Church, and in politics was a Whig. They had four children: Hannah, Betsey, Johial and George, all having passed away except George. George Hurlburt was reared in his father's frontier home and received his education in one of the primitive log schoolhouses of the county. When he was twenty years old he started out in life as a stage driver, and subsequently was for three years employed on the Ohio canal. After his marriage, which occurred in 1856, he settled in the northern part of Painesville township, and two years later moved to a place on the lake shore north of where he now lives. In 1886 he located on his present farm, 110 acres, most of which he has improved, and which he is now devoting to general farming and stock-raising. During his lifetime Mr. Hurlburt has witnessed the many changes which have been wrought in this county, developing it from little more than a wilderness to a fine farming country, dotted over with enterprising towns. 886 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY He was married in 1856 to Mary Norman, a native of England, who came to America at the age of eleven years and was reared in this county. They have four children: Bessie, Sarah, Marion and Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. Hurlburt are members of the Disciple Church, and, politically, he is a Republican. F. W. TUTTLE, for many years a prosperous farmer near Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, is a native of this county, having been born in Concord township, November 9, 1833. He comes of an old and respected family, who were pioneers of this section and took a prominent part in its early development. His ancestors were originally from England, from which country they emigrated to Connecticut in 1635. In this State was born John Tuttle, the great grandfather of the subject of this sketch, who was a wheelwright and stonemason by trade. In 1659, he removed with his family to Sunderland, Massachusetts, where he died. He was a brave and efficient soldier in the French and Indian wars and was ever an American patriot in the truest sense of the word. His son, Joseph Tuttle, grandfather of the subject of this notice, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, August 31, 1756, and was thus but three years of age when his parents removed to Massachusetts. He passed his earlier life in the latter State, but on attaining maturity he joined the tide of emigration setting in toward the West, going to Ohio and settling on land near Palmyra, Portage county, where he arrived August 12, 1807. His journey was made overland by wagon drawn by two yoke of oxen and consumed forty-eight days, a distance now made in less than that number of hours. He passed through Painesville, which then comprised two frame houses, where he stopped over night in what was known as the Little Red Tavern. He purchased sixty acres of land, about half of which had been improved, which was situated on the road leading from Palmyra to Deerfield. The country was in its primitive wildness, with but few white settlers but plenty of Indians and wild game. Provisions of all kinds were scarce, especially salt, which then brought from $3.50 to $4 a bushel. This was but one of many instances of the privations endured by those early pathfinders. Thus, it is not surprising that Mr. Tuttle should have recalled with homesickness his Eastern home, nor that he should have sold his farm in 1809 . and returned to New York State, dying in Lowell, Oneida county, May 13, 1816. He was twice married: his first wife, Lovice Mock, was a daughter of an old sea captain of Sunderland, Massachusetts. A sister of hers married Joseph Smith and became the mother of Joseph Smith, the celebrated Mormon prophet. Mrs. Tuttle died fourteen years after marriage, without children. His second wife, Hannah Messenger, came of an old Revolutionary family, whose father with six of his brothers fought for independence, three of whom participated in the memorable battle of Bunker Hill. The father of the subject of this sketch, also named Joseph Tuttle, was the eldest of nine children, and was born in Bridgewater, Oneida county, New York; May 10, 1796. He accompanied his parents to Ohio in 1807, being at that time eleven years of age, and two years later returned with them to New York State. Being the oldest of a large family and his father in limited circumstances, he was early thrown on his own resources, thus learning those lessons of self-reliance by which so many men have achieved OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 887 greatness. He lived for a time with his grandfather Messenger, working on the farm and doing odd jobs, until that gentleman's emigration to Ohio, February 13, 1817, with his wife, when young Joseph Tuttle accompanied his grandparents. The journey was made overland in a sleigh, and they arrived at an uncle's, near Little Mountain, then in Geauga county, March 4. In March, 1818, Joseph Tuttle purchased of Milton Armstrong a contract which he held from Judge Kirtland for 120 acres of land in what is now Concord township, Lake county, Mr. Tuttle making the payment in lumber, with which the land was covered, at $10 a thousand feet, and in grain at a moderate price. On this land, young Tuttle and his grandfather Messenger built a log cabin, with a one-sided roof, made of white ash bark, and borrowed lumber for the floor of a neighbor until they could have some sawed. Into this house his grandfather's family moved May 8, 1818. In 1820, Mr. Tuttle built a more pretentious log house, and in 1822 erected a house for his grandfather, a few rods west of his own house. This latter arrangement was in conformity with the proverb that a young man should provide a home for his bride before securing her. June 2, 1823, Mr. Tuttle was married to Mrs. Mary Adams, widow of Martin Adams, Jr., and daughter of Moses and Mary Kibber, of Connecticut. In 1833, he erected another house in which he resided the remainder of his days. He cleared and greatly improved his farm, making it one of the most valuable in the county, and by industry and economy accumulated a comfortable income for himself and family. He figured prominently in the early affairs of the county, being a man of ability and unusual energy. He was in politics an old Henry Clay Whig, and later a Republican, and was honored by his constituents with various local offices. He was one of the earliest anti-slavery men in his section and belonged to the underground railway, often feeding and aiding fugitive slaves. He died April 20, 1884, aged about eighty-eight years, sincerely lamented by all who knew him. The subject of this sketch was reared on the home farm, which his father reclaimed from a wilderness, and attended the district school, which was partially conducted on the subscription plan, some wood being furnished for each scholar. Mr. Tuttle began life for himself at the age of twenty-one, but resided at home until ten years after his marriage, during which time he managed the home farm. In the meantime he bought with his brother a farm near Little Mountain, and at the expiration of the time mentioned, they divided the land between them, Mr. Tuttle of this notice taking the north sixty acres. He resided on this five years, building a comfortable house, good barns for his grain and stock, and making many other valuable improvements, also planting numerous fruit trees of various varieties and setting out many grape-vines, all of which are now bearing fruit, rendering it one of the most desirable places in the county. On the death of his father, Mr. Tuttle bought the interest of the heirs in the old homestead, and made his home there five years, then renting it to another of his brothers, himself settling, in the in the spring of 1889, on his present farm of 200 acres, which he rents and which is pleasantly situated two miles north of Painesville. He is engaged in mixed farming, stock and grain raising, has 120 sheep and keeps ten cows, which furnish a quantity of milk which he sells. His continued industry has been rewarded and he is now numbered among the most substantial farmers of his county. 888 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY In 1867, Mr. Tuttle was married to Miss Henrietta Smith, a lady of many estimable qualities, born in Parkman, Geauga county, Ohio, and they have one child, Roy A., who is now attending Adelbert College and is a very promising scholar. In politics, Mr. Tuttle follows in the footsteps of his father, whose influence was always cast in the scale of human liberty and progression. Mr. Tuttle was formerly a Republican, then a member of the Greenback party, and is now a Populist. Enterprising, upright and of commendable public spirit, he has done much to advance the interests of his community, of which he is a representative citizen. LOWELL CRAM, one of the oldest set( tlers of Lake county, Ohio, now living k retired at Madison, is well known and highly respected here. Mr. Cram was born in Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, April 15, 1811, son of Nathan Cram and grandson of Ezekiel Cram, both natives of New Hampshire, descended from English ancestors. Ezekiel Cram was a farmer. He lived in the town of Weare, New Hampshire, where he and his wife reared a family of nine sons and one daughter, and where he died at an advanced age. Nathan Cram was also a farmer by occupation. He moved from his native State to Ohio in 1818. This journey was made by wagon, and Lowell, although at that time a small boy, drove the team the most of the way and his father walked. Landing in Madison township, June 12, 1818, Mr. Cram settled on the Middle Ridge, where he built a log house and log barn, and where, as the years rolled by, he developed a fine farm of 114 acres. At the time he came here there were only two frame buildings in Madison. Nathan Cram was twice married, and had two children by his first wife and one by the last. Sally Dow, whom he first wedded, was a native of Hillsborough county, New Hampshire. She died November 23, 1826, leaving two children, Lowell and Polly. The latter died in Cleveland in January, 1892. Mr. Cram died at the age of eighty-five. Lowell Cram, although not eight years of age at the time they emigrated to this State, distinctly remember the journey from New Hampshire, and remembers, too, the nights when, from their cabin in the woods, they could hear the howling of wolves. There were plenty of deer and wild turkeys here then, and also some bears. The first school he attended in this township was a summer term of three months, held in a barn. Later, he went to school in a log schoolhouse, which, with its open fireplace, its slab benches with pin legs, and its rate- bill system, was a typical one of that time. After he was twelve years old, Lowell was permitted to attend school only during the winter months, having to assist his father on the farm the rest of the time. His father bought the first cook stove Mr. Cram ever saw, buying it second-handed and paying $50 for it. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Cram began on his own responsibility. He still, however, continued to work on the home farm, his father being in poor health, and he remained at home until he was twenty-eight. At that time he bought ninety-six acres of wild land near the lake, which he cleared up and upon which he erected buildings. There he made his home from 1840 until 1850, when he sold out and bought a farm near Middle Ridge. He sold the latter farm in 1882, and has since lived in Madison, having bought the commodious frame residence in which he lives. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 889 He started out in life without means. That he has succeeded in acquiring a competency and is surrounded with all the comforts of life in his declining years, is due to his own well directed efforts. Early in life he was a Whig, but since the organization of the Republican party he has cast his vote and influence with it. Mr. Cram has been married three times. In 1842 he wedded Martha Butterfield, who died in 1846, leaving two children: Sallie, who subsequently became Mrs. Blood, and who died in 1892; and Walter, now a resident of Saginaw, Michigan. His second wife, whose maiden name was Mary A. Ford, and who was a native of Herkimer county, New York, died in 1887, without issue. His present companion, who before her marriage was Miss Louise Barney, is a native of Madison township, this county. ROBERT KILE, one of the best known mechanics of Andover, was born at Lake Champlain, Essex county, New York, December 29, 1829, a son of Leonard and Susan (Thompson) Kile, the father a native of Lewis, that county, and the mother of Hebron, Vermont, but reared in Essex county. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Robert Kile. Leonard Kile and family subsequently moved to Canada, where they remained until 1846, and in that year came to Andover, Ohio. The father followed blacksmithing most of his life, and his death occurred at Johnson, Trumbull county, Ohio, at the age of sixty-three years. His wife survived him a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Kile had eleven children, viz. : Hannah, deceased; Juliet, deceased; Robert, oar subject; L. W., who served in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio Infantry, during the late war; J. T.; Hiram, also a soldier in the late war; Susan, deceased; Salem; Elizabeth; Mary and Edson. Hiram was Orderly Sergeant of the Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, Company I, was wounded at Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862, and afterward died. The G. A. R. post, of Warren, was named in his honor. Robert Kile, the subject of this sketch, was reared in Essex county, New York, and in Canada. He learned the blacksmith's trade from his father, and followed that occupation forty-five years. He came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1847, and is now one of the finest mechanics of his community. He has spent one year at Tuscola, Michigan. Mr. Kile was married February 1, 1855, at Espyville, Pennsylvania, to Matilda Wilson, a native of Crawford county, that State, and a daughter of Hugh and Ann (Wells) Wilson. To this union was born one daughter, Matilda A. The wife and mother died at Tuscola, Michigan, April 4, 1857, and September 12, 1858, Mr. Kile was united in marriage with V. L. Rose, a native of this county, and a daughter of Abner and Cynthia Rose. Our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and has served as Township Trustee. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic order, No. 506, and of the Royal Templars. E. D. KEENER, a prominent furniture dealer and undertaker of Painesville, --I Ohio, a young, intelligent and enterprising business man and esteemed citizen, was born in this city, July 25, 1854. His father, Charles L. Keener, was born in Ger- 890 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY many, July 25, 1827, where he learned the cabinet-maker's trade. In 1847 he accompanied his parents to America, landing in New York city, whence they came to Painesville, Ohio. Here the father of the subject of this sketch worked at his trade five years. In September, 1854, he was married in Madison, Lake county, to Miss Elizabeth Burkorhardt, a native of Germany, who came with her parents to America in 1833. Her father served for ten years in the army under the great Napoleon. He settled on a farm near Madison, Ohio, where he died at the venerable age of 104 years. He was a man of sterling worth of character, and enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him. After marriage, Charles L. Keener settled in Madison, where he engaged in the cabinet-making business, which he has successfully conducted ever since, and is now a prominent and well-to-do citizen of that place. This worthy couple were the parents of five children, all of whom survive. The subject of this sketch was the only son, and was reared in Madison, where he attended the common schools. .He learned his father's business, which he managed from 1873 to 1878. In June of the latter year Mr. E. D. Keener removed to Painesville, where he has since been successfully engaged in the general furniture and undertaking business. He has eight floors of furniture, and enjoys a large and lucrative trade, while his care and general discrimination commend him to all requiring the services of an undertaker. February 21, 1878, Mr. Keener was married to Miss Carrie C. Ellsworth, a native of Lake county, Ohio, of which her parents were early and respected residents. They have one child, Charline. Mr. Keener and family reside in their comfortable and pleas ant home on St. Clair street, No. 122, surrounded by all that makes life enjoyable. He has been a worthy member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for twenty years, and also belongs to the Knights of Pythias. His enterprise in business is only exceeded by his worth and public spirit as a citizen, by which he has contributed to the general advancement of the community and enhancement of the public welfare. HIAL ANDREWS, a farmer of Cherry Valley township, Ashtabula county, was born in Wayne township, this county, April 17,1826, a son of Benoni Andrews, a native of Chautauqua county, New York. The latter's father, Samuel Andrews, came to Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1814, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Wayne township. His death occurred here in 1843. He was three times married, and Benoni was a son by the first marriage. The latter came to this county with his parents at the age of seventeen years, and in 1864 removed to where he died, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was married at the age of twenty years, to Betsy Parmentrel, a native of Chautauqua county, New York. Her father died at the age of ninety—seven years, and her mother was formerly a Miss Swift. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews had ten children, nine of whom grew to years of maturity: Hial; Sally; Philo, deceased; Candace; Oliver, of Conneaut, Ashtabula county; Sylvia; Harrison, born in 1840; Sabra, of California; and Edd, deceased at the age of nineteen years. The father was a farmer by occupation, and a Republican in his political views. The mother, a member of the Baptist Church, died at the age of eighty-four years. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 891 Hial Andrews, our subject, came to his present place about forty years ago, then known as the J. H. Giddings farm, and consists of 135 acres of well-improved land. He has 1,000 rock maple trees, and manufactures the best sugar in Ashtabula county. He also has a good dairy, and a number of fine horses. He was married in Trumbull county, Ohio, at the age of twenty-four years, to Sophronia Von, who was born and reared at Fowler, that county, a daughter of John and Betsy (Burr) Von, natives of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and both deceased in Trumbull county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews have one daughter, Stella A., now the wife of James Tangdon. They also have one daughter, Myrtle. Our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and has served as Township Trustee, and as Assessor three years. Socially, he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Golden Rule Lodge, No. 331. E. B. GRISWOLD, a prominent farmer and ex-County Commissioner of Lake county, Ohio, residing in Concord township, this county, is a member of a pioneer family and has an ancestry of which he may justly be proud, his father being a direct descendant of Governor Griswold of Connecticut,. and his mother a descendant of Governor Trumbull of that State. Following is a review of his life: E. B. Griswold was born in Groton, Tompkins county, New York, April 22, 1832, son of Homer F. Griswold, and grandson of Franklin Griswold, both natives of Vermont. The Griswolds are of English descent. Three brothers of that name came over to America in colonial times, and from one of them is descended the Griswold family now under consideration. Franklin Griswold was a farmer by occupation. He died in Vermont in middle life. Homer F. Griswold was a cloth-maker. Early in life he settled in Tompkins county, New York, where he followed his trade until 1827. That year he came to Ohio, making the journey by canal to Buffalo, and thence across the lake to Lake county. His father-in-law, Colonel Luther Trumbull, had come here in 1823, and had started a cloth mill on the Grand river, and in this mill Mr. Griswold worked until 1840, when he settled on a farm and devoted his attention to the work of its improvement. Of his wife we record that her maiden name was Laura Trumbull, and that she was a native of Connecticut. Her father was a Colonel in the war of 1812. Besides the mill before referred to, he was the owner of nearly 800 acres of land in this county. He died here in 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold had three children: Ellen, who died at the age of twenty years; Edwin, who died when he was twenty-two; and E. B., the subject of this article. Both parents lived to an ad-, vanced age, Mr. Griswold dying March 28, 1891, at the age of eighty-your and a half years, and Mrs. Griswold March 1, 1893, aged eighty-two. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and their home was the stopping place of the Methodist preachers, who were always sure of a cordial welcome there. Mr. Griswold was the last survivor of the original organizers of the Methodist Church of this community. He served as County Commissioner of Lake county for twelve years, and for a number of years was Trustee of his township. E. B. Griswold attended the district school and spent several terms in the Madison Seminary. Being their only child living, he remained with his parents and cared for them 892 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY in their old age. His whole life has been spent on the home farm, with the exception of two years when he was in California. He now owns 240 acres, in two farms, nearly all improved. His well-cultivated fields, his fine sheep and cattle, and the general thrifty appearance of his premises, all show the attention of a careful farmer. Mr. Griswold's California trip, above referred to, was made in 1861. He went overland in company with others, taking a large number of horses, being four months en route, and meeting with many hardships. At a point near Soda Springs the Indians stole all their horses, and shot Mr. Griswold's brother-in-law, breaking his leg. Thus they were left with nine wagons and not a horse. Mr. Griswold and James Hogan started on foot to get help, and after walking 100 miles met a train of emigrants who let them have eighteen horses. With these they proceeded on their journey. After carrying the brother-in-law on a litter for some time, they fixed a swing for him in a covered wagon, and thus they hauled him for 1,000 miles, all finally landing safe in California. Mr. Griswold spent two years in mining, at the end of which time he returned via water to Ohio. He was married in 1856, to Marian Hogan, a native of Vermont, who came to Trumbnll county, Ohio, when young. She died in 1870, leaving three children: Edward, Fred and Carl. In 1873 Mr. Griswold married Maria Wheeler, who was born in Concord township, this county. Her father, Luman Wheeler, a native of Swanzey, New Hampshire, came on foot to Ohio in 1813, in company with William Long. At that time there was but one house south of the river here. He was subsequently married to Anna Sherer, a native of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and eight of their ten children grew to adult years. The father died at the age of eighty-four years, and the mother at seventy-two. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold have three children: Glen, Grace and Lucy. Politically, Mr. Griswold has been a Republican all his life, having cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. He has held all the township offices, and served as County Commissioner from 1879 until 1885. Mrs. Griswold is a member of the Methodist Church. RICHMOND E. STONE.—Among the prominent and influential citizens of Orwell, Ohio, the subject of this sketch deservedly holds a high place as a man of superior energy, ability and worth of character. His father, Stukley Stone, was born in New York State, July 4, 1801, and was reared to farming, which vocation many of his ancestors had followed, and like them he enjoyed the reputation of being a man of judgment and integrity. He was married in that State and at an early day removed to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he settled on a farm and became one of the leading men in the county. He died in Orwell, October 15,1882, of heart trouble super induced by old age. His wife, mother of the subject of this sketch, was also a native of the Empire State, where she was born December 19, 1803. Her father, Rev. Edmund Richmond, was a noted pioneer minister of northeastern Ohio, who settled in Rome township, Ashtabula county, more than half a century ago. Here, he at once commenced to make a home for himself and family, which eventually numbered eight sons and four daughters. He was industrious and en- terprising and was prospered in his efforts, accumulating a comfortable income. He was OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 893 not forgetful of his duty as a minister, but simultaneously with his settlement in the county organized a little group of worshipers, ten in number, which in a few years increased to fifty. He afterward removed to Sheffield, near which he bought land, that became in time a valuable farm. He was a moving spirit in all enterprises of a beneficial nature and labored energetically in his Master's cause. Besides caring for his large family, he. erected a comfortable church edifice on his own land and donated the building and site to the regular Baptist Church, of which he was a minister. Three of his sons were ministers of the gospel and are notable for their able and earnest efforts in the cause of the church. Judah L. was a graduate of Hamilton College, New York; Charles M., also a graduate of Hamilton College, practiced medicine for the last twenty years of his life, but never entirely gave up his ministerial duties; Cyrus R. was ordained. a Baptist minister; Horace was insane for forty years; John L., a leading pioneer politician of Democratic principles, was a member of the Kansas Legislature; and D. T. is Mayor of Breckenridge, Missouri. Mrs. Stone, mother of the subject of this sketch, is still living (1893) in Orwell, in the enjoyment of excellent health. Her children were evenly divided between sons and daughters, five of each, of whom but five are now living: the subject of this sketch, the oldest of those surviving; Homer (T., of Orwell; C. R., of Kansas; Marietta, wife of Charles Babcock, of Orwell; and Susan, wife of Mr. A. Lamb of Rome. Richmond E. Stone, the able and popular proprietor of Stone's Hotel, a life long resident and representative citizen of Orwell, Ohio, was born in Milford, Otsego county, New York, May 18, 1826. When he was but four years of age, his parents removed from the East to Orwell, which has ever since been his home. He received his education in the primary and advanced schools of his county, finishing with a course at Kingsville Academy. These advantages, combined with a naturally active intellect, have placed him in the front rank of financial and mercantile circles. he possesses fair ability as a mathematician, grammarian and historian, and is a beautiful penman and expert stenographer. A diary of 1851 which he has, with all the entries made in the Pitman system of shorthand, is a model of neatness. He was for thirteen years one of the few successful school teachers in the county and was for a time township Superintendent of Schools. His business life has been somewhat varied; he was successively engaged in different mercantile, pursuits, in all of which he met with gratifying success, principally owing to his superior financial ability. He is at present (1893) the capable and popular proprietor and manager of Stone's Hotel, known far and near for its neat, prompt and satisfactory service. He owns property and has shown his generosity by deeding to the township of Orwell a desirable piece of land for a park, which will ever be a monument to his public spirit. September 17, 1854, Mr. Stone was married to Miss Mary Ann Williams, an estimable lady of Parkman, Ohio, who was born September 17, 1833. Her parents, Joseph and Mary Williams, were natives of England, whence they emigrated in 1826 to the United States, on account of the strict entailment laws of inheritance. They settled in Ashtabula county, where the father was a successful farmer. He died July 27, 1865, at the age of seventy-two years, and as if unable to endure a separation after so many years' as- 894 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY sociation, his wife followed him to the tomb two weeks later, dying August 6, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Stone have three children living: Ward B., born July 30, 1855, has two children ; Lela D., born July 18, 1883 ;and Etta B., born February 23, 1892. Maryette C. died in infancy; Hattie R, born September 20, 1862, married S. E. Payne, of Orwell, and has one child, Clarence, born August 21, 1891; and Emma Grace, wife of L. A. Cook, a newsdealer of Warren, Ohio. Politically, Mr. Stone is a conservative Republican, is well informed on the general topics of the day, honest in his convictions and energetic in his support of them. He has filled a number of offices of trust, having been Postmaster from 1869 to 1882, and during his term was instrumental in securing a money-order department for the post office at Orwell. He was for many years Clerk of the township and has been a Notary Public for thirty years. Fraternally, he affiliates with the A. F. & A. M., to which he has belonged since October, 1858, and is a charter member of Orwell Lodge, No. 877, I. 0. 0. F. Industrious, public-spirited, liberal and progressive, he has attained financial prosperity and advanced the interests of his community, besides deservedly winning the esteem of all right-minded men. THOMAS H. BELLARD, one of Colebrook's leading farmers, was born in Howland, Ohio, October 5, 1839. His father, Thomas Bellard, was a native of Virginia and came to Ohio midi his parents when he was a small boy. From Howland he moved to North Jackson, with his family, and there passed the rest of his life and died, the date of his death being January 11, 1860. Mary Bellard, his wife, died at the home of her son, Thomas II., April 30, 1885. They had a family of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the sixth born. Elizabeth, the oldest, now the wife of Thomas Caldwell, resides in Columbiana county, Ohio; Mary Ann, wife of Joshua Weaver, lives in Sharon, Pennsylvania; John, the third, died in Colebrook in 1885; William, the next in order of birth, is in Colorado; Minerva, the fifth, died in Ohlstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, in 1857; Robert P. lives in Michigan; George is a resident of Ashtabula, Ohio; and Olive, the youngest, is the wife of John Courtleyon of New Lyme. During the late unpleasantness Thomas H. Bellard served with the Forty-first Ohio, enlisting October 10, 1861, and receiving an honorable discharge January 1, 1863. He participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and several minor engagements. At the close of the war in 1865 he moved to Colebrook, purchased the farm he now occupies, and immediately began the work of improving it, the result of his earnest efforts being one of the finest farms in this vicinity. Some time afterward he also became the owner of eighty acres of land in Wayne township, this county. Mr. Bellard was married October 10, 1867, to Margaret Gault, daughter of Robert Gault, of North Jackson, Ohio. She is a descendant of German and Scotch ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Bellard have a family of three children, all excellent scholars and all teachers of considerable local reputation. Clifton, the eldest, born May 16, 1869, has recently been admitted to the Sophomore class of Oberlin College. He graduated at the New Lyme Institute in 1890, and afterward served one year as instructor in that institution. Lillian May, the second, born January 1, 1872, is OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 895 engaged in teaching at Colebrook. Arrie E., born June 24, 1876, is also employed as teacher at Colebrook. Mr. Bellard resided in Niles from 1869 until 1877, where he conducted a large sawmill. Since his return to Colebrook he has devoted himself exclusively to the management of his farms. Thoroughbred Jersey cattle have been his specialty, and he has some of the finest strains of this variety to be found in Ashtabula county. He is a Republican. WILLIAM BUNKER is a worthy representative of one of Colebrook's oldest and most influential families. His father, Jacob Bunker, was born in Gorham, New York. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Betsey Collins, was also a native of New York. She was first married to a Mr. Crittenden, by whom she had five children, all of whom have passed away. Jacob Bunker removed with his family to Colebrook, Ohio, when his son William was a lad of thirteen years, and at that time purchased the farm now owned by this son. Of the Bunker family we make record as follows: Solomon, born December 12, 1818, is a resident of Colebrook, Ohio; William, born January 17, 1821; and Edward and Edwin, twins, born January 12, 1823. Edwin resides at Colebrook and Edward is deceased. William Bunker remained with his parents until he attained his twenty-second year. He was then married to Betsey Powell, daughter of Daniel Powell, who came to Colebrook about 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Powell have both passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Bunker had four children, two of whom survive: George R., the oldest, born August 26, 1845, served as messenger during the war; he died, unmarried, March 28, 1871; Orlando FL, the second, born January 28, 1849, died September 25, 1881; Lydia I., born September 27, 1851, is the wife of Carlos Stebins, a prominent farmer residing near Sherman, New York; Dalzell A., the youngest, was born August 10, 1843, and has attained a success equaled by few. Graduating at Grand River in 1879, one of the brightest of a class which has attained considerable distinction, he immediately entered Oberlin College, where he received his degree in 1883. He then took a course in Union Seminary, New York city, after which he filled several positions in Pennsylvania during the following four years. Then he received a very flattering proposition from the king of Corea, through the Government officials, to assume the principalship of an English academy to be established within his majesty's domain. Mr. Bunker was one of four selected at this time and owed his selection to the flattering recommendation of the faculty of Union Seminary. He has served with signal ability in the position to which he was called and enjoys to an eminent degree the personal friendship and confidence of the King. Ho receives a salary of $250 a month and sev eral valuable perquisites. Dr. Bunker affiliates with the Republican. party and has served most acceptably in sev eral of the township offices., CHARLES McMACKIN is prominent among the progressive and successful farmers of Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, and is a man whose life has been characterized by honest industry and 896 - BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY whose efforts have been crowned with success. He was born in the township in which he now lives, September 10, 1820, son of John and Beeda (Ellis) McMackin, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of New York. His parents were married in New Jersey, and soon after their marriage emigrated, with an ox team, to northern Ohio, landing in the northeastern part of Madison township, Lake county, after a journey of six weeks. Here, in the midst of the dense forest, which abounded in game of all kinds, including deer and bears, Mr. McMackin built his cabin home and developed a farm of 160 acres. He was a hard worker all his life. He died at the age of seventy-one, and his wife also lived to an advanced age. Both were members of the close-communion Baptist Church, of which he was a liberal supporter, and in politics he was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. They had ten children, nine of whom reached adult years, and whose names are as follows: William, Casier, Charles, James, Eliza A., Lazarus, Levi, Rebecca and Nancy. Charles McMackin was reared on his father's frontier farm and conned his lessons in the log schoolhouse hard by. He remembers having seen deer in the woods not far from his home. As soon as he was old enough, he was put to work on the farm, and indeed before that time he did many a hard day's work. When he was ten years old, he husked twenty bushels of corn in a half day, thus making a record of which few men can boast. After he was fifteen, he was employed in digging iron ore during the winter, and, money being scarce, had to take most of his pay in store goods. After his marriage, which occurred in 1845, Mr. McMackin engaged in farming. He located on his present farm, 112 acres, in 1850, and the most of the improvements on this place have been put here by him. His commodious residence, good barns, well-cultivated fields and fine stock all combine to make this one of the most attractive farms in the township. Mr. McMackin's marriage has already been referred to and the date of that event given. Mrs. McMackin's maiden name was Clarissa Burchard. She was born in Concord township, this county, and died in Madison township in the prime of life, leaving three children—Jonah, Matthew and Francis. While he has been a Republican, Mr. McMackin is now independent in his political views. He served four years as Supervisor of his district. WALTER L. GREEN, another one of the prominent and progressive farmers of Madison township, Lake county, Ohio, was born here January 3I, 1851. The Green family are of Scotch extraction. Three brothers of that name came over to America previous to the Revolutionary war, and from one of them the subject of our sketch is descended. Jesse M. Green, the father of Walter L., was born in Chemung, New York, in 1803, son of Joseph Green, also a native of New .York State. Joseph Green was a soldier in the Revolution, probably the youngest-soldier in that war, he having entered the service when he was twelve years old. In after years he received a pension. He came out to Ohio in the fall of 1815, and subsequently returned to New York for his family, which he brought here with an ox team, following blazed trees a portion of the way. He settled on the North Ridge in Madison township, Lake county, OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 897 where he built his cabin home and began life in a true pioneer style. There were some Indians here at that time and the forest abounded in deer, bears and wolves. On one occasion Mr. Green had a hog carried off by a bear, and at other times the wolves entered his sheepfold and made havoc therein. He took great delight in hunting. To kill a deer or bear was no unusual thing for him. He cleared and developed the land on which he settled, spent many prosperous - years here and died at the advanced age of eighty-six. Jesse M. Green was thirteen years old at the time his father's family located in Lake county. He contouced his lessons in one of the primitive log schoolhouses near his home, and, when not at school, his youthful days were spent in hard work. He helped to clear his father's land and worked in the mines. When he grew up, he married Zilpha Lovell, a native of Massachusetts, who came here when she was six years old, with her father, Ebenezer Lovell. Mr. Lovell was one of the first tanners in this vicinity. He ran a tannery near Unionville for a number of years, and died there at the age of forty-five. Mr. Green owned 130 acres of land, on which he lived and reared his family of six children, namely: Lucius, Mary, Nelson, George, Walter and Marion. Mary became the wife of a Mr. Warner, and is now deceased. Father and mother both passed away at the age of seventy-two. The latter was a member of the Baptist Church, in which she took an active interest. In polities Mr. Green was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. Walter L. Green received his education in the district school, the Madison Seminary, and the high school at Hudson, Michigan, being a student at the latter place three winters. He was married February 24, 1875, to Lillie Clark, a native of Fairport, New York, who died in October, 1885, leaving three children, Jessie, Mary and Marion. August 25, 1887, Mr. Green married Libbie Lockwood, a native of Geneva township, Ashtabula county, Ohio. Their two children are Mildred L. and Walter J. Mr. Green owns 107 acres where he lives and twenty acres in the northern part of the township. His home farm is well drained and highly improved, all the result of his own well-directed efforts. He built his barn in 1880, and his fine frame residence he erected in 1887. His farming operations are diversified. He has given some attention to the breeding of trotting horses, in which he has been very successful. He has a fine peach orchard, comprising 1,400 trees; also raises large quantities of onions. Mr. and Mrs. Green are members of the Congregational Church at North Madison. Politically he is a Republican. E. F. ENSIGN, dealer in agricultural implements, Madison, Lake county, Ohio, was born here July 13, 1829. As a successful business man, a representative citizen and a member of a prominent pioneer family, he is entitled to more than a passing notice in the history of his county, and it is with pleasure we present the following review of his life and ancestry. The Ensign family is of French origin. The name first appeared in England in 1395. In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Richard I. at Chilham, near Canterbury, there was the " Ensigne Manor" of William de Ensigne. The family coat of arms was in Chilham Church, and was recognized as valid in 1563 under King Henry VIII. Thomas and 898 - BIOGRAPHIC OF HISTORY James Ensign appeared in New England in 1634—'35. James went with the Haker colony to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and removed to Hartford, Connecticut, with it. He was a man of prominence and wealth, and died about 1670. His wife, Sarah, died in 1676. Their son Thomas was the father of twin sons, John arid Jacob, born at Hartford. Jacob was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was' an early settler of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In a map of the vicinity of Pittsfield, dated 1794, Silver Lake is called " Ensign's Pond." Jacob Ensign's oldest son,. William, a native of Massachusetts, was a large landowner, and for some time resided at Dalton, Berkshire county, that State, where he had about 300 acres of land. Selling out all his interests there, he came to Ohio in 1815, and in Lake county, retired from active life, he spent his closing years and died at about the age of eighty-six. His son Horace, who was born in Dalton, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, came to northeastern Ohio when a single man, making the journey here on horseback as early as 1812. He first settled in Ashtabula county, but, not liking the country there, came tb Lake county a few months later. Upon his arrival here he bought over 200 acres of land just west of Madison, and here settled in the woods. He was an industrious man, worked hard and cleared his land and developed his farm, and at the time of his death was well off. He died here April 6, 1880. His wife, whose maiden name was Celestia Raymond, was a native of Sherburne, New York, and a daughter of James Raymond, who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and who came here with his family and .settled in Unionville when Mrs. Ensign was a girl. The Raymonds are of French Huguenot origin, their ancestors being among the early settlers of Connecticut. Horace Ensign and his wife reared two children, Frances A. and E. F. The former was the wife of bimeon Waters, a graduate of Yale College and a minister of the Congregational Church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Waters are deceased. Mrs. Ensign died at the age of seventy-four. She and her husband were among the most prominent and highly respected people of this community. Mr. Ensign was one of the founders of the Congregational Church here, and was the first Sabbath-school superintendent in Madison. He also took the lead as an Abolitionist in this part of the country, and as the keeper of a station on the Underground Railroad he assisted many a poor colored man to make his escape to Canada. He was one of the original fonnders of the anti-slavery party, working with such men as Wade and Giddings, whom he secured to lecture here. During his long life he affiliated with various political organizations, belonging successively to the Whig, Liberty, Free Soil and Republican parties. W. F. Ensign was reared on his father's farm. He attended the home school, and at an early age entered the Grand River Institute, where he graduated when he was seventeen, being the valedictorian of his class. The following winter he taught in the public school at Madison, some of the scholars being older than himself. He engaged in business at the age of twenty-one, and his whole life has been spent here. For the past fen years he has been dealing in agricultural implements, aside from which he also does an extensive insurance business: He is the owner o' valuable real estate, having fifty acres within the corporate limits of Madison. From 1876 to 1884 he was State agent of the Grange in Cleveland. OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO - 899 October 4, 1854, Mr. Ensign married Elizabeth II. Hazelton, a native of Connecticut. She moved with her parents to Leroy, New York, where she received her education, being a graduate of the university at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Ensign have three children: Ralph Waldo, Frances H. and H. Raymond. Miss Frances is a graduate of Oberlin College, and at this writing is the State organizer of the Y. W. C. T. U. of Ohio. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, in which he has been a Deacon for many years. He has also served as president of the Church Board, and for fourteen years was Superintendent of the Sunday-school. Politically, he is a Republican. All his life he has taken an active interest in educational affairs. He has served as president of the School Board here. In 1878 he was appointed one of the trustees of the Ohio State University, receiving the appointment from Governor Young and serving as such until the law was changed, reducing the number of trustees. JAMES E. FORD, a farmer and the j owner of valuable real estate at Conneaut, Ohio, was born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1830. Mr. Ford's parents, Thomas and Catherine (Rick) Ford, were both natives of Pennsylvania. Thomas Ford came to Erie county, Ohio, at an early day, and during the war of 1812, on account of Indian depredations, he and others returned to Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he volunteered as a private in the war, and served until the emergency was over. He had one of the best ordered farms in Pennsylvania, was well known as a man of more than ordinary ability, and passed his whole life engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died in his native State, March 21, 1861, aged nearly eighty years. His wife died about 1834. They had a family of fourteen children, of whom three daughters and two sons are still living. The family was well represented in the Civil war, two of the sons losing their life's blood on the field of battle. Daniel enlisted in 1861, as First Lieutenant in the Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry, was in the Army of the Potomac, and was instantly killed in the mine exploded by General Burnside at Petersburg. He was about thirty years of age. Alexander, aged about twenty-two years, was in the Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was killed instantly in the battle of the Wilderness, in 1864. His friends saw him fall, but his remains were never recovered. He had been in the service since 1861. Andrew, another brother, enlisted in 1862, in the One Hundred and Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; served all through the war, and came home at its close a physical wreck. He is still living, in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and has been an invalid all his life. The names of this large family, in order of birth, are as follows: John, who died in 1863; Eliza, a resident of Pennsylvania, now nearly eighty years of age; Julia, of Crawford county, Pennsylvania; Thomas, Jr., who was kicked by a horse and died a few hours later, in 1863; Andrew, above referred to; Loretta, a resident of Wisconsin; David, some place in the West; William, who died in 1857, at the age of twenty-seven; Silas, who died in 1893 of lagrippe, aged sixty-four years; James E., whose name heads this article; Daniel; Margaret, who died at the age of thirty-five; Sarah, now Mrs. Johnson, residing at the old homestead in Crawford county, Pennsylvania;. and Alexander.