550 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Popham, Maine, being accompanied, as chaplain, by Rev. Richard Seymour, a younger son of Sir Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, but this colony was not successful, and in two or three years returned to England, where Rev. Richard Seymour passed the remainder of his life. In 1639 the eldest son of this reverend gentleman came from Barry Pomeroy, Devonshire, England, and located in Hartford, Conn., but removed to Norwalk, Conn., in 1650, and there died in 1655. John Seymour, the second son of Rev. Richard Seymour, returned from Norwalk to Hartford, married Mary, daughter of John Watson, and died .in 1713, the father of nine children. John, the eldest son of John Seymour, mentioned above, was born June 12, 1666, was married December 19, 1693, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Hannah (Treat) Webster and granddaughter of Gov. John Webster. Mr. Seymour died in May, 1748, leaving a farm to each of his eight sons; his widow survived until May 15, 1754. The eldest of these boys, also named John Seymour, was born December 25, 1694, and was first married June 25, 1718, to Lydia Mason, who died in 1732, but soon after that bereavement he married Hannah Ensign. He moved from Hartford to New Hartford, Conn., in 1750, as one of the earliest settlers of that town, and there died July 25, 1758. John Seymour. the sixth child born to John and Lydia (Mason) Seymour, mentioned in the foregoing paragraph, was born in Hartford, Conn., November 24, 1726. He was inspired with patriotism and a love of freedom (amor patri), as may be shown by the fact that he enlisted, at the early age of fifteen years, in the colonial army, and performed a brave and noble part in the French and Indian war; in the second war in 1756-58, against the French and Indian invaders, he also took an active part, and his military service culminated in his bearing arms in the war of the Revolution. He married June 19, 1749, Lydia Wadsworth, daughter of Sergeant Jonathan Wadsworth, of West Hartford, Conn., and died February 2, 1809—his widow surviving until 1817. Asa Seymour, fifth child of John and Lydia (Wadsworth) Seymour, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Judge Gideon Seymour, was born in West Hartford, Conn., September 16, 1757. He, also, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was married, November 14, 1781, to Miss Abigail, daughter of Gideon Deming, and afterward moved to East Granville, Mass., where he died in 1840, a member of the Congregational church. His children were born in the following order: Abigail, Asa, Alexander, Laura, Ardon, William, Elijah, Ruby ,and Gideon D. Gideon D. Seymour, father of subject, was born in East Granville, Mass., April 18, 1801, and in 1841 settled in Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, but in 1845 died from an attack of black erysipelas, which at that time was epidemic throughout this section of the country. In his politics he was a Whig, and in religion was a member of the Congregational church, in which he was a deacon for many years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Corinthia Gibbons, a daughter of Bildad Gibbons, of East Granville, Mass., became the mother of two children—Judge Gideon and Deming. The latter was born May 21, 1840, and came to Ohio with his father, and here married Harriet Hallock, daughter of W. R. Hallock, of Rootstown, and died in Windham, Ohio, in 1888. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Corinthia Seymour was married to Philo Stilson, but bore him no children, and died in Ravenna June 11, 1878. Gideon Seymour, the subject of this biographical memoir, was born in East Granville, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 551 Hampden county, Mass., February 23, 1836, his parentage being given above. He was reared on the old Seymour homestead, and in 1841 accompanied his father to Ohio, and was here educated in the district schools of Rootstown, Portage county. At the early age of eighteen he began teaching school, devoting himself to this vocation in the winter months and in the summer lending his aid toward the improvement of the home farm, assisted by his brother, the untimely death of their father, after reaching Ohio, rendering this course necessary. In 1859 he purchased the interest of his brother in this homestead, and continued its cultivation, devoting himself, however, during his farm life, to the study of the law at home, with Hart & Reed, of Ravenna, as his preceptors. In 1872, prior to his admission to the bar, which did not occur until 1875, his legal ability was fully recognized, and he was elected probate judge of Portage county, an office he filled with great credit to himself for nine years. On retiring from this office he entered upen the active practice of his profession in 1881, in Ravenna, and was rapidly advancing in his profession, and had obtained a good practice, but, unfortunately, at the expiration of three years of active and onerous work, his health failed, and he felt it incumbent, in order to restore his shattered energies to their pristine vigor, to return to his farm and recuperate, although the law has not altogether been abandoned, as he still gives his attention to special probate business. Among the minor offices that have been held by Judge Seymour may be mentioned that of justice of the peace of Rootstown township, which he filled twelve years, and to which he was first elected in 1864, and frequently thereafter; he was commissioned notary public in 1884, also served as township clerk several terms, and as treasurer of his township from 1859 to 1861. In his politics the judge has been a life-long republican, has always worked energetically in the interests of his party, and was a delegate to the convention that first nominated Maj. McKinley for member of congress from Ohio. Fraternally he has for thirty years been a Freemason, and is now a member of Unity lodge, No. 12, and of Tyrian chapter, R. A. M., No. 91, of Ravenna; he is also an Odd Fellow, being a member of Ravenna lodge, No. 65, and of encampment No. 129, and is, beside, a charter member of Ravenna council, No. 376, Royal Arcanum; also a member of Ravenna grange, No. 32, Patrons of Husbandry. In religion he is a Congregationalist, has been a member since 1864, both at Rootstown and Ravenna, has been a deacon up to the present time, and also has served as superintendent of the Sunday-school at both places, and was for fifteen years a singer and leader of the choir in his church. The marriage of the judge to Lucy J. Parker, daughter of F. A. Parker, of Newton Falls, Ohio, occurred September 15, 1859. This lady led him a happy life until May 6, 1893, when she was called to a higher sphere. The children that blessed this happy union were three in number, and were named Corinthia M., Mary L. (who died in 1876) and Frederick P.—the last-named being now associated with his father on the home farm, known as " Bonniebrook Farm," where, in addition to general farming, they make a specialty of breeding Durham cattle and Oxford-down sheep. Few men in Portage county have passed through so varied and successful a career in life as Judge Seymour, and fewer still have maintained so high a position in the esteem of their fellow-men for so great a length of time, and he is a gentleman of whom his many friends and the population of Portage county may well feel proud. 552 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORDH HEMAN SWIGART, a well-known general farmer and dairyman of Copley township, Summit township, Ohio, was born in Edinburg, Portage county, Ohio, June 3o, 1871. His father, George S. Swigart, was born November 12, 1838, and March 28, 1862, married Miss Laura Oviatt, who was born March 6, 1843, and this union was blessed with six children, viz: Nellie A., born February 27, 1864, and now the wife of Charles Adams, of Cleveland; Sherman G., born June 28, 1865, and at present a prominent civil engineer of the same city; Louis A., born September 30, 1868; Heman, the subject of this biography; Freddie, born February 16, 1877, died in infancy, and Maggie, who was born May 11, 1879. Heman Swigart was educated in the high school of Copley, and September 4, 1895, married Miss Pearl Wager, who was born in 1876, a daughter of Edward and Anna (Graham) Wager, and to this happy marriage has been born one child—George—June 24, 1896. Mrs. Pearl Swigart is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a lady of many womanly graces and virtues. Joseph Swigart, great-grandfather of Heman, was a native of Pennsylvania, was a farmer, married Elizabeth Peiffer, daughter of George and Catherine Peiffer, and became the father of eleven children, named George, John, Joseph, Samuel, Jacob, Catherine, Polly, Susan, Peggie, Sarah and Martha. Jacob Swigart, grandfather of Heman, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., October 18, 1815, was reared on the home farm until fourteen years of age, and then learned the carpenter's trade; he married, in Stark county, Ohio, Miss Abigail Stover, also a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of George and Catherine (Dauner) Stover. To this union were born four children, viz: John, deceased; George S., father of subject, who died June 15, 1895; Alfred, and Maggie. Mrs. Abigail Swigart died June 8, 1877, at the age of fifty-nine years and nine months, a devout member of the Reformed church, of which her husband was also a member. Heman Swigart and his brother, Louis A., rent their grandfather's fine farm at Copley Center, and in connection with general farming do a large dairying business under the firm name of Swigart Bros., and have the largest milk route in Akron. Their buildings are all of modern construction, and both brothers are highly respected for their strict business integrity, as well as for their genial dispositions and social good qualities. WALTER BRONSON TAYLOR, one of the ablest of Ravenna's salesmen, was born in Palmyra, Portage county, Ohio, September 9, 1843, a son of Salmon A. and Mary Ann (Caulkins) Taylor, the former a native of Hoboken, N. J., and the latter of Old Lyme, Conn. Salmon A. Taylor was of English and French extraction, his mother having been a Peret, a family well known in the commercial circles of New York city, and one of the family is now the Episcopal bishop of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Taylor, who was a merchant, opened the first store in Palmyra, Ohio, was married in Middlebury, Summit county, in 1841, and in 1848 removed to Ravenna, Portage county, opened a grocery and established the first ice business in the city. September 18, 1863, he expired in the house now occupied by subject—his death being the result of an accidental fall. The male members of the Caulkins family were mostly seafaring men, four brothers of the subject's mother having been captains of ocean-going vessels. Her father, David Caulkins, however, was a captain of land forces in the war of 1812. The OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 553 death of Mrs. Mary Ann Taylor took place at the home of subject April 6, 1894, in the faith of the Congregational church. She was truly a christian woman, and spent her life for the benefit of others. Wherever there was pain, poverty or suffering, there was she, a ministering angel to the suffering. There were two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, the youngest being Catherine D., who is now the wife of Ezra Fowler, a justice of the peace and business man of Kent, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Fowler have two children, viz: Mary Addie, a teacher of instrumental music, with classes in Kent and Ravenna, and Lizzie Jennings, wife of John Arighi, of Kent. This lady is also a proficient instrumentalist, making a specialty of the violin. Walter B. Taylor, the subject, attended the schools of Ravenna until seventeen years of age, and then entered the office of his cousin, Judge Taylor, as a law student. On the removal of the judge from the city, Mr. Taylor placed himself under the tuition of the law firm of John L. & H. C. Ranney for two years, at the end of which period the firing on Fort Sumter took place. Mr. Taylor then promptly enlisted, in April, 1861, in company G, Seventh Ohio voluteer infantry, under Col. Barney Tyler, and for three months served within the bounds of the state. After a few months passed in the office of his former preceptors, he engaged with the government as contract nurse, and spent four months in Louisville, Ky., and it was while there his father died. On the expiration of his contract as nurse for four months, he returned to Ravenna and re-enlisted, for 100 days, in the One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio national guard, and was sent again to Kentucky. At Cythiana the regiment was captured by the rebel raider, John Morgan, the subject and two comrades only escaping by swimming the Lickng river. All of the captured, however, were paroled with the exception of these three, who found their way to the Union lines. Subject was discharged at Johnson's island, Sandusky bay, at the expiration of the 100 days, and he then enlisted, at Alliance, in company D, Twenty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, October 3, 1864, and joined his regiment at Port Royal, S. C., where he was assigned to regular duty, then sent to Charleston, S. C., and then to the front. He was promoted to be corporal and company clerk. He took part in six regular engagements and numerous skirmishes during his service, acted as clerk of a military court at Columbia, S. C., under Gen. Ames, and was finally mustered out at Charleston, S. C., in November, 1865. In May, 1867, in the Keystone state, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with Miss Rosamond McKee, a native of New Castle, that state, and daughter of James and Amanda McKee, the former of whom is deceased and the latter now a resident of Salem, Ohio; there also reside William, the only brother of Mrs. Taylor, and a sister, Carrie; another sister, Mrs. Jackson Cotton, resides in Sabetha, Kans., where her husband is engaged in the banking business. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have been born two children —Effie B. and Percy M. Miss Effie B. has been for several years the leading lady clerk in the dry-goods establishment of D. M. Clewell, of Ravenna, and Percy M., a cigarmaker, is employed in Kent. After his return from the war, Mr. Taylor no longer felt an inclination for the study of the law, and so relinquished his legal studies. He has principally been engaged in the clothing trade and has also been identified with the hotel husiness. He was at one time proprietor of the Poe (now Columbia) hotel, of Ravenna, having been trained to this line as clerk of the old Exchange hotel at Ravenna. In 1888-89 he conducted a winter resort in South Lake 554 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Weir, Fla., and was then a clerk in the Columbia (now Revere) hotel at Kent. He then established a hack line in Ravenna, over which he kept control for eight years—but in the interim traveled as salesman of gents' furnishing goods, two years as clothing salesman, and then for two years was a salesman in a clothing store in Ravenna. He is now in the contract painting business. In politics Mr. Taylor is a stanch republican, is a member of the Garfield club of the Nineteenth district of Ohio, and of other republican clubs, and is a member of the National Union. He attends the Congregational church, and is never backward in his contributions to its support. Mrs. Taylor was a member of the Dorcas society, attached to this church, and also of the Ladies' Cemetery association, but was called from earth in June, 1897, a truly good woman and devout Christian. ERASTUS R. TAYLOR, the prominent and very popular grocer of Ravenna, was born in Randolph, Portage county, Ohio, October 5, 1845, and is a son of Levi K. and Emily R. (Rossi-ten Taylor, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Massachusetts. These parents had born to them four sons and three daughters, of which family all the sons and one daughter are still living, viz: Prentice A., William K., Louisa J. (wife of I. S. France), Erastus R. and Joseph W. Levi K. Taylor, the father of this family, was a farmer in his native state and early came to Ohio, settling in Randolph township, Portage county, where all his children were born, and where he resided until 1881, when he removed to Marlboro, Stark county, Ohio, where his wife died in June, 1896, at the age of eighty-three years, a member of the Methodist church, of which church Mr. Taylor is still a devoted member. The paternal grandfather of subject died in the east, at an advanced age, the father of a large family, and the maternal grandfather, Erastus Rossiter, who was a farmer and an early settler of Randolph township, Portage county, Ohio, also reached a good old age and there reared his family and there passed the major part of his useful life. Erastus R. Taylor was reared a farmer on the home place in Randolph township, and there received his education in the district schools. Remaining at home until he reached full age, he became a clerk in a general store in Rootstown, and while thus employed, at the end of seven months enlisted in company H, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, receiving an honorable discharge at the close of the war. After his return from the army he passed two years on the home farm, and then for a year was re-employed as a clerk in Rootstown. June 18, 1866, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Rosella Stanford, daughter of Chauncey and Katurah (Redfield) Stanford, to which union was born one daughter, Ina, who was married to C. F. Slaughter, a lithographer of Chicago, Ill., and now the mother of one daughter, Nina. Mrs. Rosella Taylor died in November, 1868, and in 1870 Mr. Taylor came to Ravenna and for three years was employed as a clerk by Nelson Converse, and then by Smith Brothers. While in this employ he married, March 2 1, 1 8 77, Mrs. Emma Kearney, a daughter of Albert and Rebecca Chamberlain) Christy, to which marriage has been born one daughter. To her first husband, however, Mrs. Taylor had borne a daughter—Cora Kearney--who is married to Frederick L. Root, of Ravenna, but now a resident of New York city, in the employ of the American Cereal company. After a faithful service of eleven years with OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 555 Smith Brothers, during which time he materially promoted their interests, Mr. Taylor bought a half interest in the grocery house of Orlando Risdon, with whom he was associated until the latter's death, twelve years later, when he bought the interest of the Risdon heirs and has since been in business on his sole account, and has been very successful. Albert and Rebecca (Chamberlain) Christy, the parents of Mrs. Emma Taylor, were both natives of the Buckeye state and were the parents of five daughters, of whom two are still living--Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Jennie Davis, widow of A. R. Davis, of Cleveland. Albert Chamberlain was in early life a farmer, but later became connected with the coal-mining interests of Tennessee, in which state he died about the year 1869, a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which religious body his widow, who is residing with her daughter in Cleveland, is still a faithful member. Capt. James Christy, the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Taylor, was a man of mark in his day, was a pioneer of Trumbull county, Ohio, was a farmer, and had a family of five sons and two daughters; he was also a justice of the peace, held several minor offices, and died an aged man, respected by all who knew him. Joseph Chamberlain, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Taylor, was a native of Trumbull county, was also a farmer and a substantial citizen. Mrs. Taylor was reared to womanhood in Brookfield, in the same county, and was there first married. She was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she is still a devout member, and in which she has always been an active worker. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Royal Arcanum, and in politics is a republican, but has never been an office seeker. The business career of Mr. Taylor has been one of steady progress and withal remunera tive, and to-day he stands before his fellow-citizens with a name for rectitude that is enviable in itself and which will be forever prized by his descendants. REV. JOHN THEIN, pastor of St. Joseph's church, at Randolph, and of St. Peter's mission at Rootstown, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Luxembourg, Germany, September 8, 1848, a son of Philip and Elizabeth (Lux) Theirs. Philip Theirs, father of Rev. John Theirs, was a gentleman of some importance in his native province, having been mayor of Luxembourg for a number of years, as well as being a farmer and an extensive dealer in lumber. To his marriage with Miss Lux were born eleven children, of whom three are still living, viz: John B., in Germany; Rev. John, our subject, and Margaret, wife of Michael Eilembecker, also residing in the old country. Six children were called away in infancy; Henry died in 1890, and Nicholas, who was in the furniture business in Oak Harbor, Ottawa county, Ohio, passed away in 1897. The father of the family died in 1873 at the age of sixty-four years, but the mother still survives, and, at the venerable age of eighty-two years, resides at the old home in Luxembourg. Rev. John Theirs was graduated from the college of Luxembourg, and on coming to America studied philology at Montreal, Canada, and in 1871 entered St. Mary's seminary, Cleveland, Ohio, and for three years was there a student of theology. He was ordained in holy orders July 4, 1875, and his first appointment was to the church of the Immaculate Conception at Port Clinton, Ottawa county, Ohio, with St. Joseph's mission, at Marblehead, same county, attached to his charge; in 1880 he was transferred to Toledo, as pastor of St. Louis congregation, where he remained 556 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD until 1887, when he was appointed to the pastorate of St. Martin's, Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio. In February, 1892, he was placed in charge at Randolph. His congregation numbers about 1,200 souls. Here, as elsewhere, he has done an immense amount of arduous work in elevating the spirituality of his people and in improving their temporal condition—winning the affection and respect of his flock. Rev. Thein is a profound scholar, an eloquent orator, and a pious Catholic, ever alive to the good work set before him, and is, moreover, an author far above mediocrity, having published two works that have attracted much attention in church circles--Christian Anthropology and Answers to Difficulties of the Bible. MRS. VIRGIL M. THOMPSON is one of the lady pioneers of Summit county, and is the widow of the gentleman whose name she bears—Virgil M. Thompson, who was born in Hudson township, Summit county, Ohio, March 14, 1810, a son of Dr. Moses and Elizabeth (Mills) Thompson. Dr. Moses Thompson was born in Goshen, Conn., and in that state married Elizabeth Mills. He practiced medicine in Goshen, Conn., until 1800, when he came to Hudson, Summit county, Ohio, and became a well-known physician among the pioneers. His children were Susan, Louvira, Ruth, Emily, Mary, Sarah A., Martha, Elizabeth, Mills, Sylvester, Virgil M. and Guy, the last named dying young. Dr. Thompson was one of the early Masons of Hudson and a prominent and respected man. He owned and lived on his farm two miles south of Hudson for many years. This land he bought in 1800 and cleared it from the wilderness, making a good farm of 200 acres, and here resided until his death, at the age of eighty years, in 1859. The farm is still owned by his heirs. Virgil M. Thompson, deceased husband of our subject, received a good education, attending for a time the Western Reserve college, and was reared a farmer. He married, the first time, May II, 1836, in Hudson township, Maria Smith, who was from Vermont. There were no children by this marriage. She died twenty-two months after marriage, and Mr. Thompson next married, in May, 1842, in Cuyahoga Falls, Marie Antoinette Turner, who was born May 2, 1821, in Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Rosanna (Owen) Turner. William Turner was born in Orange county, N. Y., September 5, 1782. He came to Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818, bringing his family and making the journey via Pennsylvania with wagons, and was six weeks on the way. He was a carpenter and followed that work in Cuyahoga Falls, where he settled in April, 1828. His children were Grant B., Edward B., Marie Antoinette, and Harriet 0. Mr. Turner was in politics a whig and republican. He was an energetic, industrious and honorable citizen, acquired a comfortable property, and brought up an excellent family. He lived to be about sixty-five years of age and died at Sea Falls in the year 1847. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Thompson settled on the farm where Mrs. Thompson now lives. Mr. Thompson bought this farm in 1835, and partly cleared it, especially the north half, which he purchased from the Connecticut Land company. He prospered by his thrift and energy, and finally acquired a goodly property, consisting of 35o acres of valuable land, which is now owned by Mrs. Thompson. Mr. Thompson was a member of the Presbyterian church of Hudson, Ohio, and Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Episcopal church of Cuyahoga Falls. In politics he OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 557 was an old-line whip and afterward became a republican. He was an honored citizen, served as township trustee, and also held several other offices. He was a well-known and public-spirited gentleman, and highly respected for his sterling character, uprightness and excellent morals, and died January I 1, 1894, aged about eighty-four years. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born three children, viz: Celia M., Mary A. and Emma P. Of these, Celia M. married Henry H. Chamberlain, of Hudson, Ohio; she is now deceased, leaving no children. Mary A. married Mr. Chamberlain above mentioned; they have no children; he is now in the milling business in Hudson. Emma P. married Edward D. Ellsworth, a farmer of Stowe township, now deceased, leaving two children—Fred Thompson and Mary Antoinette. Mrs. Thompson is now a venerable lady with an excellent memory and well preserved faculties, having furnished the matter for this biography. Edward D. Ellsworth was born July 30, 1847, in Hudson, Ohio, a son of Edgar B. and Mary (Daws) Ellsworth—was of New England ancestry, and Edgar B. was a merchant of Hudson, Ohio. Edward D. Ellsworth received a common-school education and became a farmer. He married Miss Thompson March 27, 1867, and settled on a farm in Stowe township. He' was an industrious man and good citizen, but is now deceased. Fred Thompson Ellsworth, son of above, was born October 8, 18__, and married November 4, 1893, Elizabeth B. Harrington, a widow, (née Dillon), a daughter of Nathaniel and Lucy (Connor) Dillon. ALBERT B. TINKER, attorney at law, with his office in the Savings Bank building, Akron, was born in Mantua, Portage county, Ohio, January 28, 1852, and is descended from one of the oldest families of Ohio as well as of America, as will be found from the following record. John Tinker, an attorney, came from England to America in 1637 and located in Boston, Mass., where he practiced law many years and was a member of the general court at the time of his death. From him descended the Tinker family of America. He left three sons and three daughters, of whom Amos married Sarah Durant, who also bore six chilerenJohn, Sarah, Mary, Amos, Samuel and Jonathan. Amos, the fourth of this family, married Lucy Lee, and had twelve children—Joseph, Amos, Lydia, Lucy, Benjamin, Sylvanus, Parthenia, Phineas, Eunice, Martin, Jehiel and Belle. The second of these, Amos, married Hannah Minor, who bore four children—Joseph, Jane, Azubah and Silas. Silas Tinker, the youngest of the above-named four, was born in Lyme, Conn., November 25, 1748, and in September, 1776, enlisted in the patriot army in the war for independence. He fought at White Plains, Berlin Heights, and at other points, and served until the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne, and was honorably discharged in November, 1777. He also participated, on three other occasions, in the defense of New London. He was a farmer and extensive land owner in the east, and in 1806 sold his property and came to Ohio by ox-team, and first located at Mantua, Portage county, when there were but eleven families in the township; in 1808 his son, Silas, Jr., was the only delegate from Mantua township to the convention held to nominate county officers. Silas Tinker eventually removed with his family to Kingsville, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he died in 1840, in his ninety-second year. He had married Lois Wade, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Chadwick) Wade. This lady was mentally, morally and physically strong, and died at the age of eighty-one years, in the faith of the Presby- 558 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD terian church, and the mother of eleven children, one of whom died in infancy; Sylvester, a machinist, who invented a carding machine and operated it in Westfield, Mass.:, he married Sally Riley, and died at Conneaut, Ohio, whither he had moved in 1818; Cynthia married Edward Bancroft, in Massachusetts; Clarissa married William Skinner, Jr.; Giles was a mechanic and later a manufacturer of cotton goods, was a captain in the state militia, and married Zilpha Knight; Patty was married to Jacob Pettybone, of Mantua, Ohio; Hosea died unmarried; Silas married Betsey Randall, and served in the war of 1812, defending Cleveland under Col. Nathan King; Guy married Lucretia Kellogg; James died unmarried; Chauncey was born at Chester, Mass., February 28, 1793, served in the war of 1812 as fourth sergeant in the Third Ohio militia under Capt. J. D. Jackson, was a farmer by vocation, was a well-informed man and of great muscular strength, was first married to Betsey Rice and next to Lydia Andrus, and died in Howardsville, Mich., October 25, 1873. Horace Tinker, second child of Chauncey Tinker, was born June 28, 1824, in Kingsville, Ohio, was reared on a farm and was educated in the Kingsville academy. In 1848 he went to California with a train of ox-teams, and after two years of successful operations in the gold mines returned to Ohio and married Miss Sophronia Skinner, a daughter of John and Rachel (Clapp) Skinner. He then purchased land in Mantua township, Portage county, Ohio, where he followed the pursuit of agriculture until 1884, when he retired from toil. His faithful wife died May Jo, 1891, the mother of five children, of whom Albert B., the gentleman whose name opens this notice, is the eldest; Frank P. was born November 5, 1854, is a leading and prosperous farmer of Mantua township, Portage county, and is the husband of Ida Plum, a daughter of Anson Plum, of the same township; Ella M., born in July, 1858, is the wife of W. L. Carlton, formerly of Mantua but now of Akron, where he is bookkeeper for the Aultman, Miller Company, is a member of the city council, and ex-member of the board of health; John S. and Jefferson C. died in infancy. Albert B. Tinker, the subject proper of this memoir, was reared on the home farm in Portage county and received his early education in the district schools; he next attended Hiram college four terms, and in 1873 entered Buchtel college, from which he graduated in 1876, having completed his literary and scientific education. He began his preparatory law studies under Green & Marvin and completed them at the law school of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1883, and was the same year admitted to the bar, In 1879 he was elected financial secretary of Buchtel college, which office he held twelve consecutive years, also for seven years delivered lectures to the senior class on constitutional and international law. From 1885 to 1891 he was a member of the city board of health. In the last-named year he resigned his offices, both in city and college, to devote his attention to the duties of his profession, although he is still a trustee and the treasurer of Buchtel college. For four years he was president of the Ohio Universalists convention, and at the same time a member of its board of trustees, and has been very active in benevolent work. He is a member of the American Bar association, as becomes an attorney of his extensive practice, and in politics he has not been idle, although not an office seeker. The marriage of Mr. Tinker took place December 25, 1876, with Miss Georgie Olin, of Windsor, Ashtabula county, Ohio, a daughter of George Olin, and this felicitous union has been blessed with seven children, born in the following order: Olin Dale, February 19, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 559 1878; Gertrude Ellen, March 20, 1879; Frank Burk, August 20, 1880; Sophronia Mary, June 29, 1882; Abbie, June 8, 1888; Donna Alberta, June 6, 1890, and Albert, January 27, 1892. The parents are members of the Universalist church, and have their home at No. 552 East Buchtel avenue. HON. NEWELL D. TIBBALS, a leading lawyer of the city of Akron, Ohio, and a member of the prominent law firm of Tibbals & Frank since 1889, is a native of Deerfield, Portage county, and was born September 18, 1833, a son of Alfred M. and Martha H. (Swem) Tibbals. The father, Alfred M. Tibbals, was born in Granville, Mass., August 4, 1797, was brought to Deerfield, Ohio, by his parents, in 1804, and here died in 1858, at the age of sixty-one years; his wife, Martha H. (Swem) Tibbals, to whom he was united in marriage in 1821, was a native of New Jersey, was born in 1800, and died in 1891. Both were strong in the faith of the Methodist church, and both were honored as pioneers of Summit county and for their sterling personal worth. Newell D. Tibbals received a liberal education and graduated from McLain academy, Salem, Ohio, in 1853; he then read law in the offices of Otis & Wolcott and Wolcott & Upson, was admitted to the bar in 1855, at once opened an office for the practice of his profes sion in Akron, and the details of his professional and political career, as given in brief below, give ample proof of his capabilities for performing the duties he had selected for his life-work. An ardent republican, his party quickly recognized his legal, administrative and political merits, and elected him, in 1860, prosecuting attorney and re-elected him in 1862. In 1865 he was elected Akron's first city solicitor, and was re-elected to the same office; he was next elected state senator to represent Summit and Portage counties, and in this capacity he served in the sessions of 1866 and 1867. In 1870 he was a factor in the organization of Buchtel college, and has ever since been a member of its board of trustees. In 1875 he was elected judge of the court of common pleas, second subdivision of the Fourth judicial district of Ohio, and the duties of this office he filled so well that a reelection followed in 1880, but the demands in his practice as an attorney were so extensive that he felt it to be incumbent on him to resign his seat May 1, 1883, and resume the handling of the cases of his rapidly increasing list of clients as an attorney at law, or, in simpler terms, as a lawyer. In the scenes of war Judge Tibbals has played his part, and in 1864 served in defense of the capital of his nation — Washington, D. C.—as fourth sergeant of company F, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth regiment, Ohio 560 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD volunteer infantry. On his return to Akron he was elected major of the Fifty-fourth battalion, Ohio national guard, and was commissioned by Gov. Brought in 1886 he was appointed judge advocate for the department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, by Commander A. L. Conger, and in 1890 was appointed as aid-de-camp to Commander-inChief Russell A. Alger. In 1890 also he was again appointed judge advocate of the Grand Army by Department Commander P. H. Dowling. In 1894 Mr. Tibbals was elected commander of Buckley post, No. 12, G. A. R., and the same year was sent as a delegate to the national encampment of the order at Pittsburg, Pa. October 26, 1856, Judge Tibbals was united in marriage with Lucy A. Morse, the fruit of the union being seven children, of whom five are still living, viz: Martha A. (Mrs. Wilson M. Day, of Cleveland), Jessie A. (Mrs. Dr. Albert Hoover, of Akron), Newell L., Gertrude A. and Ralph Waldo. The amiable and accomplished mother of these children was called to rest October 27, 1894. She was born at Randolph, Portage county, July 9, 1835, being fifty-nine years, three months and eighteen days of age, at the time of her death. She was a daughter of Huron and Alethea Morse. In 1852, together with her parents, she came to Akron, Mr. Morse keeping what is now the Empire house. Mrs. Tibbals made a host of friend's during the war, when she took an active part in securing food and clothing for Union soldiers. She was one of the organizers of the Dorcas society, out of which grew the Akron board of charities, and at one time was superintendent of the industrial branch of this board, and was an active member of the Woman's Relief corps as a trustee and a member of several committees. She was president of the Ladies' Cemetery association one term, and was always promi nent in all its movements. Mrs. Tibbals took an active part in the formation of the Summit county children's home, the first meeting for the same being held at her residence. As a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church and Woman's Home Missionary society, she was recognized as a hard and faithful worker. Beside the numerous public charitable institutions to which Mrs.. Tibbals belonged, she did a great deal of individual work that was never known outside of her home. When the death of Mrs. Tibbals was announced at the Akron court house, a meeting of the bar was called, over which Judge A. C. Voris presided, and a resolution that its members attend the funeral in a body was unanimously adopted. Buckley post, Grand Army of the Republic, and the Woman's Relief corps also attended the services. Judge Tibbals, notwithstanding his severe bereavement, is still in the active practice of his profession and is one of the prominent attorneys of Ohio, honored alike by his fellow-lawyers and the citizens of Akron, whom he has so long and faithfully served in civil as well as official life. SMITH D. TIFFT, one of the prominent citizens of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and the head of a respected family, is a son of John D. Tifft, who was born April 2, 1807, in Vermont, was of old colonial ancestry and was a lumberman. John D. Tifft married, November 23, 1822, Louisa M. Abbott, who was born January 27, 1812, and died November 11, 1836, leaving no children. Mr. Tifft came to Ohio in the 'thirties and cleared up part of the Case estate, on what is now Euclid avenue, Cleveland. He married, the second time, November 5, 1837, Anna Bang, of Waconda, Ill., born in Vermont, July 21, 1818, a daughter of Mark and Lydia Bang. John D. Tifft came OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 561 to Cuyahoga Falls in the autumn of 1840, and engaged in buying cattle and in the butcher business and prospered. His children by this wife were Smith D., Louisa M., Horace, John and Johnson (twins), Alice and Hattie I. In politics Mr. Tifft was a republican and a strong Union man, and had one son n the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Tifft were both members of the Methodist church, in which he was an officer in early life. He lived to be seventy-one years old and died in Cuyahoga Falls November 19, 1875. He was always an industrious and respected citizen, very temperate in his life and of excellent habits. Smith D. Tifft, the subject, was born March 16. 1840. at Western Star, Ohio, where his father spent a short time. He was brought to Cuyahoga Falls in November of the same year, where he received his education in the public schools, including the high school. A reunion of this school was held a short time since of the class of 1868-69, and many of the old pupils were present. Mr. Tifft was engaged in the stock and butcher business for twenty-five years. He was afterward in the carriage business and later with the Howe & Company Flour mills four years; then in the implement business four years, and has generally been successful in his undertakings. He married, January 29, 1863, in Cuyahoga Falls, Julia E. Allen, born December 21, 1839, at Cuyahoga Falls, a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Harper) Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Tifft have no children, but have reared two—Harry E. Allen and Julia T. Allen. Mrs. Tifft is a member of the Episcopalian church, and in politics Mr. Tifft is a republican and has held the office of town clerk and other minor positions. Mr. Tifft was one of the early members of Starr lodge, F. & A. M., and has held the office of treasurer. He is vice-president and director of the Falls Saving & Loan association, is greatly honored for his integrity of character, and is acknowledged to be one of the best and foremost business men of Cuyahoga Falls. REV. LAMBERT TWITCHELL, a native of Brimfield township, Portage county, Ohio, was born August 12, 1827, a son of Arba and Sallie (Barber) Twitchell, the former of whom was a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Connecticut. Jonas Twitchell, paternal grandfather of the Rev. Lambert Twitchell, was born in Scotland, and came to America prior to the Revolution, in which war he took an active part. He was the father of two children—John and Arba—was an early pioneer of Ohio, and he and wife ended their days on the farm where Rev. Lambert was born and where he still resides. Joseph and Susan (Coe) Barber, the maternal grandparents of subject, were natives of Connecticut, also were among the pioneers of Ohio, and, beside Mrs. Sallie Twitchell, had born to them ten children, viz: Dorcas, Minor, Turner, Lyman, Edwin, Polly, Lucy, Maria, Jemima and an infant that died unnamed. Arba Twitchell, father of Rev. Lambert Twitchell, came to Ohio in 1816 and settled on the farm on which subject now resides, and to his marriage with Miss Sallie Barber, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Coe) Barber, there was born one chi d only—the subject of this memoir. Arba Twitchell was a man of great influence in his time, and for a number of years was a justice of the peace in Brimfield township; he held all the secular offices in what was then known as the Brimfield Baptist church, of Brimfield, and died in its faith April 7, 1849, when fifty-five years old—his widow surviving until March 28, 1866, when she expired at the age of seventy-six years. 562 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Rev. Lambert Twitchell attended the district school of Brimfield until sixteen years of age during the winter seasons, and assisted on the home farm during the summers. Later he devoted all his spare time to private study, and at eighteen years of age began teaching school, a vocation he followed for several years when not otherwise employed. For some time he traveled for Garguer & Co., of Philadelphia, as agent for a Sunday-suhool journal, but, on account of ill-health, returned to his home and began studying theology. In 1874 he was ordained a minister of the Baptist church, was assigned to Kent, Ohio, and for six years acceptably filled the pulpit and then retired to his farm. The marriage of Mr. Twitchell was solemnized October 30, 1851, with Miss Julia M. Sill, daughter of Sedley and Maria (Barber) Sill, of New York, and this union has been blessed with three children, of whom only one survives—May, who still has her home with her parents. Of the two departed, Josephine died April 13, 1868, aged eight years, and Russell died in Detroit, Mich., June 12, 1885, at the age of thirty-three years. Mrs. Julia M. Twitchell was born in New York, April 11, 1822. Her father was a machinist by trade, and was one of the first to suggest the idea of a cylindrical printing-press. In 1820 he married Miss Abigail Barber, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Coe) Barber, and of the eight children born to this union four are still living, viz: Mrs. Twitchell; Allen, of Hot Springs, Ark. ; Elizabeth, wife of S. H. Phinney, of New York, and Josephine, wife of Enos Graham, of Detroit, Mich. Those who passed away were named Henry C., Frank, Cyrus and Ann. The last named died August 17, 1894, at the age of seventy-three, and was the widow of A. R. Knox. The mother of Mrs. Twitchell was called away February 9, 1843, at the age of forty-three years—her husband surviving until 1864—and both died in the faith of the Episcopal church. Since his retirement from the pulpit, Rev. Mr. Twitchell has lived on his farm, which, under his skillful supervision, has been made quite profitable. He and family are greatly respected by their neighbors, and the pious and useful life of Mr. Twitchell has won for him imperishable honor. CORNELIUS E. TRASTER, justice of the peace of Green township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in Springfield township, in the same county, April 3, 1853, a son of Daniel and Margaret (Krieghbaum) Traster, of whom further mention will be made. He attended the district school until seventeen years old and was reared to that age on his father's farm. For three years afterward he worked out as a farm hand, earning sufficient money to enable him to pay his expenses during the winter months at school and his tuition fees for four terms at the Greensburg seminary, and in the fall of 1873 began his career as a school-teacher, a vocation he followed twenty-two terms in all, at different places, in subsequent years. In 1875 he took a course of study in the Northwestern Ohio Normal school, at Fostoria, to better qualify himself for his profession, the practice of which included one term in District No. 9, one in No. 7, one in No. 10, five in Springfield and Green townships, five in District No. 1 1, five in No. 2, three in No. 4, and four in No. 3. In politics Mr. Traster is a democrat, and in 1881 was elected township clerk for one year, and then moved to Clinton, engaged in agricultural pursuits for three years, and then removed to Coventry township, where he fol- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 563 lowed the same calling for five years, then returned to Green township, where he has since followed the same vocation, In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace, and re-elected in 1895, although his township is strongly republican. Fraternally, Mr. Traster is a member of Hadassah lodge, No. 405, I. O. O. F., Greentown, Ohio, of which he is a past grand, and is also a member of encampment No. 18, at Akron. Mr. Traster married, September 13, 1877, bliss Lovina A. Raber, daughter of Henry and Sarah E. (Benner) Raber, and this union has been blessed with one son, William Earl, who is now attending school. Mr. Traster and wife are consistent members of the Reformed church, of which he has for some years been a deacon as well as a teacher of the Bible class. Daniel Traster, father of Cornelius E., was a son of Martin and Catharine (Shout) Traster, was born in East Buffalo township, Union county, Pa., January 1, 1820. His father, Martin Traster, was born in Tulpehocken, Berks county, Pa., in 1773; died April 4, 1848. His wife, Catharine, was born near Youngstown, Westmoreland county, Pa., March 5, 1781, and died March 1, 1858. The parents of Martin Traster came from Germany. Margaret (Krieghbaum) Traster was born in Lenkers township, Dauphin county, Pa., June 22, 1822, and died February 12, 1897. Her father and mother, Peter and Margaret (Trout) Krieghbaum, were also born in the Keystone state. Daniel Traster was about twelve years of age when brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled in Springfield township, Summit county, on a farm, on which he was reared to manhood. February 17, 1840, he was married to Miss Krieghbaum, the result of the union being eight children, viz: Hester Ann, born April 16, 1841; Sarah J., July 27, 1842, the widow of Samuel M. Ritzman; Jacob W., February 15, 1844, married to Maggie Bixler, and a farmer of Whitley county, Ind. ; Rebecca M., April 13, 1845, married to James Housel and living on the old homestead in Springfield township; John, November 21, 1846, married Sarah A. Young, and resides in Lake township, Stark county; Hiram, July 20, 1846, married to Savilla Swinehart, and lives in Springfield township; Cornelius E., our subject, and Mary, born April 10, 1855, and now wife of Henry Sauseman, also of Springfield township. The father of this family died November 4, 1896, at the age of seventy-six years, ten months and three days, and the mother February 12, 1897, aged seventy-four years, eight months and twenty days-both devoted members of the Lutheran church. Mrs. Lovina A. (Raber) Traster was born April 4, 1859, in Green township. Her father, Henry. Raber, was born in the same township June 14, 1831, on the farm he still owns, but from which he retired in 1890, having his present residence in Myersville. He was three times married-first, September 13, 1856, to Sarah E. Benner, who was born May 20, 1840, a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Kintz) Benner, the union resulting in the birth of six children, of whom five are still living, viz: Lovina A. ; William M., married to Ida Shaffer; Anna E„ wife of M. G. Buchman; Minnie L.. wife of William H. Swinehart, and Norman D.; the deceased child was named Mary Alice. The mother of this family died May 10, 1882, at the age of forty-two years and ten days, a member of the Reformed church, and in May, 1886, Mr. Raber married Miss Catherine Swinehart, who bore him no children and died June 20, 1896, a member of the Lutheran church. The third marriage of Mr. Raber took place April 8, 1897, to Miss Amanda Rhodes, who with her husband is a member of the Reformed church. Cornelius E. Traster and wife are among the 564 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD most respected residents of Green township, and personally Mr. Traster is one of the most popular. AARON B. STUTZMAN, A. M., Ph. D., superintendent of the public schools of Kent, Portage county, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, March 23, 1842, a son of Henry and Catherine (Miller) Stutzman, who were of German descent. His great-grandfather, on the paternal side, came from Germany to America about the time of the Revolutionary war, and settled in Easton, Lancaster county, Pa., where the grandfather of Prof. Aaron B. Stutzman was born, but in manhood removed to Somerset county, where he followed farming as his vocation. Henry Stutzman, the father of Aaron B., was born in Somerset county, Pa., and there married Catherine Miller, a native of the same county, whose father, Christian Miller, a farmer, was accidently killed, at an advanced age. Henry Stutzman, soon after marriage, came to Ohio (in 1826) and settled in Wayne county, being accompanied by his wife and his brothers, John and David, making the journey by ox-teams, and each pre-empting a quarter section of heavily-timbered land. Here Mrs. Stutzman died in 1848, the mother of nine children, all of whom attained their majority, and were named, in order of birth; Jeremiah M., who was a teacher and farmer, served as sergeant in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry through the Civil war, and died in Wayne county, Ohio, the father of two daughters and one son; Susan is married to J. P. Fouch and resides in Canaan, Wayne county; Daniel died at the age of twenty-two years; Elizabeth was married to Rev. Elias Schrock, but lost her husband by death in June, 1896, and she is now a resident of Wayne county; Christian C. resides in Akron; Ezra was a volunteer in the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and died at Memphis, Tenn., while in the service; Aaron B. is the subject of this review; Anna is the wife of David M. Yoder, a farmer of Wayne county, and Henry lives in Johnstown, Pa. The father of this family succeeded in clearing up his farm from the wilderness and developed it into one of the best fruit farms in the country. He was one who cared more for the comfort and training of his family than he did for wealth, and died a greatly honored man in 1876. Aaron B. Stutzman, the subject proper of this biography, was reared on his father's farm and received his elementary education in the country schools, and later attended the Smithville high school, and, still later, the Mount Union college at Alliance—attending during the summer and teaching during the winter, thus earning the means to defray his expenses. He graduated from Mount Union college in 1871 with the degree of A. M., and for the following two years was the principal of the schools at Dalton, Ohio, then for two years at Doylestown, Ohio, and then for three years at Wadsworth, Ohio, where he was also a member of the board of examiners of Medina county. He resigned the superintendency of the Wadsworth schools to accept a like position in Kent in 1878, at which place he has been superintendent of the public schools since, and is now serving his third term as member of the board of school examiners of Portage county. When Prof Stutzman took charge of the Kent schools there was but one central school-building and a one-room primary school; there are now three large school-buildings, in which there are employed eighteen regular and two special teachers. In order to strengthen his professional efficiency, Prof. Stutzman took a full post-grad- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 567 uate course at Wooster university, and in 1888 this institution conferred upon him the degree of Ph. D., since which time he has still more assiduously endeavored to advance the schools in their usefulness—revising and extending the courses of study and placing them on a higher plane of educational excellence; he has also contributed many valuable articles to the educational journals of the day. In 1878, Prof. Stutzman was granted a life certificate of high qualifications by the Ohio board of school examiners, which is valid in any public school in the commonwealth. During the Civil war Mr. Stutzman served in the Union army as a member of company A, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, as a faithful soldier. He is now a member of A. H. Day post, No. 185, G. A. R., of which he is past commander, and has also represented his post in the grand encampment. Of other fraternal societies, he is a member of Rockton lodge, No. 316, F. & A. M., and of Brady lodge, No. 183, I. O. O. F., in which he has passed all the chairs; he is also a member of the encampment at Akron. In politics Mr. Stutzman is a republican and cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Stutzman was united in marriage August 15, 1872, with Miss Jennie Clippinger, daughter of Israel Clippinger, a dry-goods merchant of Dalton, Ohio, and an ex-soldier of the Civil war, in which his son, Edwin, and his son-in-law, Dr. F. F. H. Pope, also served. To this happy union have been born four children, viz: Edwin, who died at seven years of age; Grace E., William G. and Charles A., and of these Grace E. and William G. are graduates of the Kent high scnool. Mr. Stutz-man built his commodious residence at the corner of Park and Woodard avenues, and has a delightful home, where he enjoys the association of hosts of admiring and ardent friends. - 22 - JUDGE CHARLES R. GRANT, a distinguished lawyer of Akron, Ohio, and senior member of the firm of Grant & Sieber, with offices at Nos. 40 and 42 Akron Savings Bank building, is a native of Connecticut and was born in New Haven county October 23, 1846. At the early age of fifteen years, inspired with patriotic ardor at the firing on Fort Sumter, he enlisted in the Twelfth regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, and was assigned to the perilous position of bearer of dispatches on the staff of Gen. B. F. Butler, in the department of the Gulf, and was later transferred to the staff of Gen. Banks, under whom he served until October, 1863, when he was honorably discharged, having done good and faithful service. After his return from the army he paid a brief visit to his native state, and then, in April, 1864, came to Ohio and located at Cuyahoga Falls, where he engaged in farming and private study until prepared for college. In September, 1868, he entered the freshman class at the Western Reserve college of Cleveland, where he passed through the entire curriculum, and graduated in 1872 as valedictorian of his class of eighteen students, and soon afterward entered the office of Judge N. D. Tibbals, at Akron, as a law student. After a course of study extending through a period of a little over two years, he was admitted to the bar of Akron, in September, 1874, but, on account of impaired health, re-engaged in farming for two years, and then, in 1876, formed a partnership with H. B. Foster, of Hudson, and in November of the same year located in Akron as member of the firm of Foster, Marvin & Grant, which firm conducted a prosperous business until September 16, 1883, when Mr. Grant was appointed probate judge of Summit county by Gov. Foster, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Judge Goodhue. In 1884, Judge Grant 568 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD was elected to succeed himself in this office, and in 1887 was re-elected, a flattering tribute rendered by the people to his ability, faithfulness and integrity. The first marriage of Judge Grant took place October 9, 1873, to Miss Frances J. Wadhams, who was called from earth September 14, 1874. November 9, 1876, Judge Grant chose, for his second bride, Miss Lucy J. Alexander, of whom he was also bereft, she dying June 8, 188o, leaving one child, Frances Virginia, who was born September 24, 1877. The third marriage of Judge Grant was consummated August 19, 1891, with Miss Ida Shick. Judge Grant is the senior member of the law firm of Grant & Sieber. JULIUS A. UPSON, a venerable and respected citizen of Cuyahoga Falls, was born in Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, October 11, 1818, and springs from sterling English Puritan stock. John Upson, founder of this family in America, came from England about 1635, with the Puritan emigrants, accompanied by two brothers. The great-grandfather, Stephen, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. John Upson, grandfather of subject, lived in Connecticut and was the founder of Litchfield, and his children were Stephen, Daniel, Horatio, John, Thurman, (the latter a sailor who followed the sea all his life), Reuben, Hulda, Sylvia and Lucinda. In his old age, in 181o, John Upson came to Tallmadge township and lived with his son Reuben until his death, a member of the Congregational church. Reuben, son of above, and father of subject, was born in Waterbury, Conn., August 14, 1771, received a good common-school ed ucation for his time, and taught school in his younger days. He married, December 25, 1798, in Waterbury, Hannah, born October 18, 178o, a daughter of Ebenezer Richardson. Mr. Upson learned the trade of carpenter and joiner in New Haven, and worked at both trades when young. In 1808 he came to Ohio, with his family, and his brother Stephen and his family, making the journey with a five-horse team and covered wagon. They were six weeks on the way, cutting through the forest much of their road. They settled in Portage county, Suffield township, where the brothers had bought land of the Connecticut Land company before they came out, and were among the first settlers. The brothers had a large tract of virgin land, covered with heavy timber, which they bought at seventy-five cents per acre. The children born to Reuben and wife in Connecticut were Phebe, Emma, Reuben and Polly. Mr. Upson cut logs with which to build his log house, and had to clear a place from the forest to erect same. The Indians were numerous but friendly, and used to stop at his cabin to obtain food. Mr. Upson cleared up sixty acres, sold out and went to Tallmadge, Summit county, and bought a farm of Priest Leonard Bacon, a celebrated character who lived at Tallmadge, too acres of which he also cleared. Mr. and Mrs. Upson lived here until 1818, and then moved to the northeast part of Tallmadge township, and bought 30o acres of land, but, not obtaining a clear title, he received, in lieu of it, too acres in Tallmadge township, too acres on the Cuyahoga river, and too acres near by. He cleared up a good farm, or hired much of it done, as he worked at his trade. He improved his farm with good buildings, and here died, aged seventy-seven years, in 1844. He was a strict member of the Congregational church and in politics a whig and a strong anti-slavery man; was also one OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 569 of the earliest Masons on the Western Reserve, belonging to lodges at Canfield, Mahoning and Columbus. He was much respected and a man of high character. The following children were born to him in Ohio: Chloe, Hannah, Julius A. and George. Mr. Upson was deputy county clerk for many years, was a skillful penman, and one of the school-teachers in Springfield, Summit county, for several winters in early pioneer times, and taught in a log school-house. He was very strict, and had an unruly school of rough pioneer boys and young men, who had carried out a former school-teacher and ducked him in the brook, but Mr. Upson ruled them with a rod of iron. Julius A. Upson, whose name opens this memoir, was reared among the pioneers, and during his long life has witnessed the entire improvement of the county. When he was seven years old he went with his father on a load of wheat, probably forty bushels, drawn by three horses, to Cleveland, and received for it one barrel of salt, calico enough for a dress for his mother, and one pound of tea, all of which could now be bought for about $2.50. The father stated that if he had stopped over night at the tavern, the cash value of his sale would not have amounted to enough to pay his tavern and feed bills. On this occasion he and Jul us A. slept in the wagon two nights in October, it being twenty-eight miles over rough roads, and carried their food with them. Julius A. received a good common-school education for his day, and was reared a farmer. He married, at the age of twenty-two years, Lucy A. Lowrey, who was born February 3, 182o, in Tallmadge, a daughter of Shubell H. and Anna Peck (Norton) Lowrey. Shubell H. Lowrey was born May 7, 1788, in Canaan, Conn., and was of Scotch-Irish descent. The Nortons were of French descent and also early settlers in Connecticut. The Pecks were of English stock. Mr. Lowrey married, October 3, 1811, Annie P. Norton—born April 6, 1794. They came to Tallmadge in 1808, and there Mr. Lowrey cleared up 198 acres. He was a blacksmith and a great worker, and noted for his industry. He lived to be eighty-two years of age and died April 14, 1871, in Cuyahoga Falls, a member of the Methodist church and highly respected. His children were Henry, Leonard, Elthina, Lucy A., Susan, Deming, Philo and Hiram. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Upson settled in Huron county, Ohio, in a Quaker settlement, on a farm of 260 acres, and there cleared up 16o acres, and nine years afterward moved to Cuyahoga Falls and engaged in paperhanging for nine years, and was fairly successful. Then he engaged in the livery business, also conducted a flouring-mill thirteen years and has generally been successful. To Mr. and Mrs. Upson were born Lucy M., Leonard, Norton L., Charlie N., Sarah and Helen. In politics he is a republican and has held the offices of constable and marshal fourteen years. Mr. Upson is one of the highly respected citizens of his county and has always been an upright and honorable man. His wife died in 1893, aged seventy-three years. Norton L. Upson, son of Julius A., enlisted at Cuyahoga Falls, when but sixteen years of age, under Capt. Dudley Sward, to serve 100 days, in company F, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry. He served out his time and re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, in the Second Ohio cavalry, for three years, or during the war, and served about one year, when he was honorably discharged on account of the cessation of hostilities. Julius A. Upson himself enlisted, when aged about fifty-eight years, at the time of Morgan's raid, in the organization known as the Squirrel Hunters. Lucy M. Upson, eldest daughter, married Benison Babcock, who at the age of eighteen years enlisted in the 570 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD One Hundred and Fourth regiment, company H, Ohio volunteer infantry, under Capt. Hope Ford, and served through the war. ELAM UNDERWOOD, a well-known and very prominent farmer of Brimfield township, Portage county, Ohio, is a native of this county, was born March 6, 1833, and is a son of Lybia and Julia (Minard) Underwood, both now deceased —the former a native of Massachusetts and the latter of Connecticut. Lybia Underwood, the father of Elam, came to Ohio about the year 1812, located at Brimfield, and for a number of years dealt heavily in live stock, as well as farmed on a large scale. He here married Miss Minard, and to this union were born nine children, of whom four still survive, viz: A. H., Elam, Bruce, and Millie, the wife of Charles McLoye. The deceased were Juliet (Mrs. Charles Os-burn), Mary Ann (Mrs. Harry Hunt), Parmelia (Mrs. C. H. Chapman), William and Candis E. Mr. Underwood was a greatly respected citizen, and served about twenty years as a justice of the peace, and for a number of years was a township trustee; he died in 1878, at the age of seventy-six years, a member of the Universalist church, but his wife had preceded him to the grave in 1849, when but forty-seven years old, and the remains of both were interred in Brimfield. Elam Underwood attended the district school until twenty years old, and passed his life on the home farm until attaining his majority, when he engaged in the lumber business, which he followed twenty or more years, traveling a great deal through the pine districts. November 20, 1855, he married Miss Emeline Minora, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of Tallman and Elizabeth (Rawson) Minard, and this union has been crowned by the birth of one child--Emerson A. The parents of Mrs. Underwood were natives of Connecticut. The father was a farmer and filled various offices in Brimfield township after settling here, being a straightforward and respected citizen. To him and wife were born five children, of whom three still survive, viz: Luther, Mrs. Underwood, and Amanda, now wife of Servilleus Hoskins; the deceased were named Mary and Albert. Both parents, now also deceased, were members of the Disciples' church. Mr. Underwood has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for the past thirty years, has also been actively connected with the Rootstown Protective association for a long time, and for the last five years has adjusted all its losses. He is still engaged in farming, and his premises show that he well understands this prime industry. His name stands without reproach, and few families in the township stand higher in the public esteem than his. In politics, he is a democrat, though, in most cases, he votes for the man, rather than the party. JOSEPH WAGGONER, M. D., deceased, who was one of the oldest and most experienced physicians of Ravenna, was born near Richmond, Jefferson county, Ohio, December 3o, 1821. His father, William Waggoner, was a native of northeastern Maryland, was of German-Irish parentage, and married Miss Sarah Jackson, who was born in the northwestern part of Delaware, and was of Scotch-English descent. Immediately after their marriage they came to Ohio, and in 1804 settled on a quarter-section of land near Richmond, Jefferson county, built a log cabin, there passed their honorable and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 571 useful lives, and reared a family of eight sons and four daughters. Dr. Joseph Waggoner, the tenth child of this family, was reared on the home farm, receiving his education in the district schools during the winter months. At the age of eighteen he began teaching, devoting the summers to study in a select school, and at his majority entered the academy at Steubenville, preparatory to a collegiate course, but failing health debarred him from classical study, and rest for nearly a year became requisite. In the spring of 1843 he commenced the study of medicine under Drs. Johnson & Henning, of Steubenville, finishing in the fall of 1846. The winter of 1846-47 was passed in attending lectures at the Cleveland Medical college, which subsequently conferred on him the degree of M. D., and in the spring of 1847 he located for practice in Deerfield, Portage county, and for sixteen years steadily gained in reputation and remuneration. In the spring of 1863 he sought the broader field of practice in Ravenna, where he found a wider scope for the exercise of his consummate skill, which immediately met with an appreciative recognition. Feeling, however, that the disasters of war were demanding all the experienced medical talent available—although it could be ill-spared at home—he went to Washington, D. C., and tendered his services to the government, which eagerly accepted them, and he was appointed at once assistant surgeon in the army and placed on duty at Lincoln hospital. But in a short time thereafter the health of the doctor's wife became precarious, which fact induced him to resign and return to Ravenna, where he was long assiduously and actively engaged in attending to the requirements of his constantly increasing list of patients. In June, 1862, Dr. Waggoner was most happily united in matrimony with Miss Mary M. Regal, of Deerfield, who, through her many domestic virtues, proved to be a true helpmate, indeed. But still affliction found a foothold within the doctor's otherwise happy home, and was the only shadow that lowered over his domestic felicity. Of the four children born to this marriage but one survives—George Joseph, the eldest, of whom further mention will be made. Arthur and William, two manly and promising boys, aged eleven and eight years, respectively, succumbed to that dread disease, diphtheria, and were buried on the same day, January 18, 188o, and, to add to the grief of the doctor and wife, their only daughter, Mary Josephine, was called away July 18, 1888, at the age of eleven years. Bearing up against the afflictions, however, the doctor still continued on the even tenor of his way, and never neglected one case that required his attention in the prosecution of his responsible life-work. The doctor not only stood high in the esteem of the general public, but was equally respected by his fellow-practitioners, with whom he heartily affiliated. He was a member of the American Medical association, the Ohio State Medical society, the Northeastern Ohio Medical society and the Portage county Medical society, and his contributions to these, whether of a professional, literary, social or even political tendency, were eagerly and carefully perused. The doctor was very liberal in his professional views, and fraternized freely, at the call of humane interests, with gentlemen of other schools. A Freemason in good standing, he was tolerant in matters theological, and would have gladly welcomed the day when religious differences might disappear. He was generous in his contributions to the various churches, as he believed in Christianity and in its ennobling influence over mankind. In politics the doctor in early life was a whig, and was a great admirer of Henry Clay, for 572 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD whom he cast his first presidential vote, but became a republican after the organization of that party and voted for all its presidential nominees — Fremont, Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Blaine, Harrison and McKinley. The doctor was a genial, yet austere, straightforward, honest man, and it has been well said of him that He is courteous and gentlemanly in manner, genial in disposition, and liberal in spirit and action. He enjoys the esteem of all those with whom he is acquainted professionally or socially. As general practitioner and family physician he has few equals—always endeavoring to keep his patients well as much as to cure them." No higher compliment than that conveyed in the last sentence could be paid a physician. Dr. George Joseph 'Waggoner, subject's eldest and only living child, was born May to, 1865, graduated from the Ravenna high school, and later graduated from the literary department of the university of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in 1887, with the degree of A. B. In 1890 he graduated in medicine and surgery from the university of the city of New York, and since then has been in active practice with his father. He is a member of the Portage county Medical society, and of the Ohio state Medical society, and the American Medical association, and also of the Zeta Psi fraternity of his alma mater. He was united in marriage October 14, 1891, with Miss Mary A. Clewell, daughter of D. M. and Mary (Beebe) Clewell. Two children have come to bless this union—Mary C. and Joseph D. He is a master Mason, and his moral character is irreproachable. He has lived all his life in Ravenna, his college days excepted, and has won the respect of all the citizens who have ever known him. Modest and retiring in manner, he is yet firm in the prosecution of his responsible profession, with which he is greatly in love, and in which he has made a decided success. He and wife stand high socially, and, with his present bright professional prospects, it is doubtful that he will ever wish to abandon his native city. Dr. Joseph Waggoner died June 6, 1897, of neuralgia of the heart. Sickenss had never confined him to his bed an entire day during his lifetime. AARON WAGONER, cashier of the Akron Savings bank, was born in Franklin township, Summit county, Ohio, September 19, 1844, a son of George and Rebecca (Sours) Wagoner, both natives of the Keystone state. George Wagoner was reared to manhood in his native county of Cumberland, Pa., and there learned the cooper's trade, which he began at the age of fourteen years. In 1812 he married Sarah Rhodes, and shortly afterward came to Ohio and settled near Canal Fulton, Stark county, and engaged in farming and teaching school at their proper seasons. There his wife died, after having given birth to four children, and after a due season of mourning Mr. Wagoner married Rebecca Sours, a native of Lancaster county, Pa. , and a daughter of Henry and Catherine (Harter) Sours, also of Pennsylvania birth and of German descent. Shortly after this marriage Mr. Wagoner came to Summit county and settled near Manchester, in Franklin township, where his remaining days and those of his wife were passed away. To this second marriage were born ten children, viz: Catherine and Sarah, both deceased; Harriet, wife of Michael Herpster ; Ann R., wife of David Keller; Amanda, wife of John Spangler; Henry L., Philip, John J., a deceased infant, and Aaron, the subject. In politics Mr. Wagoner was first a whig and afterward a republican, and held the office of township treasurer many years. He was very popular and influential in Franklin township, although of a quiet, unassuming disposition, OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 573 and won his prominence through his personal merits. He earned a competence through his industry, gave all his children a good education and left them the means to start well in the career of life. Aaron Wagoner, the subject, was reared on his father's farm and also had the advantages of a good education both in public and private schools. At the age of seventeen years he took charge of a school in Steuben county, Ind., where he taught one term, and then returned to his native county, where he enlisted, October 10, 1862, for three years, in company B, Sixth Ohio cavalry, and was mustered into service at Cleveland, being then eighteen years of age, was assigned to the army of the Potomac, under Gen. Phil Sheridan, and served until receiving an honorable discharge at Washington, D. C., July 1, 1865, as first lieutenant. The brilliant career of the Sixth Ohio cavalry, under Sheridan, in the Shenandoah valley and elsewhere, is so renowned as a matter of history, that no repetition thereof is here necessary, and of his own heroic acts Mr. Wagoner is too modest to permit a recountal. Suffice to say that he performed his duties bravely and well, as the terms of his discharge from the service amply prove. On returning from the war, Mr. Wagoner was employed by Oberholser, Keller & Co., of Akron, with whom he remained five years, and then entered the City bank as teller, and held this position eight years. In 1880 he was elected county auditor by the republican party, served one term, and was re-elected to a second term, but, six months before the expiration of the latter, resigned, to become cashier of the City National bank, which position he resigned at the close of the year, when he assisted to organize the Akron Savings bank, with William Buchtel as president, Hon. C. R. Grant as vice-president, and himself as cashier, and with a capital stock of $200,000. Mr. Wagoner was united in marriage April 30, 1868, with Miss Amanda S. Smith, who was born in Franklin township, June 30, 1843, a daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Diehl) Smith, natives of Pennsylvania and of German extraction. This happy union has been blessed with two children, viz: Mabel B., who is the wife of J. V. Cleaver, M. D., of Akron, and is the mother of one child—Josephine; George Edward, the second child, is receiving teller in the Akron Savings bank. Fraternally, Mr. Wagoner is a member of Akron lodge, No. 547, I. 0. 0. F., of which he is past grand; also of encampment No. 18, and Canton No. 2, patriarchs militant, of which he is past chief patriach, and also past colonel of the Third regiment, patriarchs militant of Ohio; he is also a member of Buckley post, G. A. R., and of Ohio commandery, Loyal Legion. In politics he is a republican and as such has served in the city council of Akron, and in 1892 was chairman of the republican executive county committee, of which he is still a member. Outside of his banking business, Mr. Wagoner has an interest in the Diamond Pottery company, and is also assistant treasurer of the Akron Street Railway & Illuminating company. The accomplished wife of Mr. Wagoner is a member of the board of lady visitors of the Girls' Industrial home at Delaware, Ohio, under appointment of Gov. Bushnell. WILLIAM WAGGONER, one of the oldest and most successful agriculturists of Copley township, Summit county, Ohio, is a native of New York state, and was born in Schoharie county, November 13, 1829. The father of our subject was also named William, was likewise born in the state of New York, and there married, in 1816, Catherine Spohr, also a native of the Empire state, 574 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD born in October, 1800. To this union were born eight children, viz: Matthew, who died in infancy; John, who was a mason by occupation, married Miss Lora Walker, and died in Akron, Ohio; Christina, who was married to Delos Bosworth, she second white child born in Copley township, both now deceased; Anna, who was married to Dr. P. G. Somers, of Cleveland, but, with her husband, also deceased; William, the subject of this biography; Peter, who died at the age of sixteen years; Almira, wife of Oran Henry, a cooper and boatbuilder of Astoria, Ore. ; Amanda; and Matilda, who died in infancy. William Waggoner, the father, was a cooper and stonemason by trade, but began his business career with only a small capital. In 1835 he brought his family to Ohio and located on Pigeon creek, in Copley township, Summit county, where he remained about one year, working as a stonemason. He then removed to a farm about a mile south of the center and engaged in coopering and farming until his death. He and his wife were devoted members of the Universalist church, and in politics he was a republican. William Waggoner, the subject of this biography, while assisting to clear his father's land, attended the district and high schools, and at the age of twenty years began teaching. At the same age, also, he went to Akron and commenced learning the bricklayer's trade with his brother, John, serving an apprenticeship of three years, after which he worked at the trade to a considerable extent in the summer season and taught school in the winter months. In April, 1857, Mr. Waggoner was united in marriage with Miss Ann B. Stearns, who was born in Copley township in 1837, a daughter of John C. and Orpha (Clark) Stearns, who were then residents of the township, but later moved to Kansas, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Immediately after marriage, Mr. Waggoner and wife went to Iowa, where he worked at his trade for about six years. On returning to Ohio, Mrs. Waggoner died November 15, 1863, and in December of the same year Mr. Waggoner enlisted, at Cleveland, in the Sixth Ohio battery. He participated in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, and in those of Franklin and Nashville, as well as in many others of less note, and was honorably discharged September 1, 1865. He then came to Akron, Ohio, and worked at his trade until March 4, 1869, when he married Miss Lydia Randolph, and at once bought and moved upon his present farm of ninety-six acres in Copley township. The second Mrs. Waggoner was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, January 16, 1832, a daughter of William B. and Deborah (Carroll) Randolph, by the second marriage of Mrs. Randolph. Her father, of English descent, was born in Virginia March 16, 1778, and died October 15, 1863. He was a son of Thompson Randolph, who was born May 3o, 1746. Deborah (Carroll) Randolph, mother of Mrs. Waggoner, was born September 15, 1791, in county Antrim, Ireland, and became the mother of two children, viz: Thompson, a farmer of Columbiana county, and Lydia. Mrs. Lydia Waggoner was educated in the high school and at Salem seminary, taught school a number of years, and is at present a member of the school board of Copley township—being the first lady to be elected to this position in the township. The parents of this accomplished lady were pioneers of Columbiana county, Ohio, and were married April 1o, 1831. They were of ante-Revolutionary descent, and the grandmother of Mrs. Waggoner met a tragic end at the hands of savages. Mr. Waggoner is a strong republican and has been called to several positions of trust and honor by his party. His first presidential vote OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 575 was cast for Winfield Scott, but at the birth of the republican party he espoused its principles. He is at present a justice of the peace, an office he has filled for three terms. He was also a member of the school board and has been connected with the schools in an official service for almost fifteen years; he has been a township trustee for a number of years, and is, indeed, one of the most prominent citizens of Copley township. In 1781 Thompson Randolph, grandfather of Mrs. Waggoner, with some of his neighbors and their families of Prince William county, Va., concluded to try pioneer life and removed to Kentucky, lured by the glowing descriptions of Daniel Boone and other pioneers. They embarked at what is now Pittsburg, and descended the Ohio river in flatboats till they reached Kentucky, where they ascended one of the small rivers, and finding a location that suited them they built log cabins for homes and a fort for defense against the Indians and named it Kinslow station. They cleared out ground on which to raise corn and flax, having to depend on their own efforts for food and clothing. For a couple of years they were unmolested by the Indians, though other settlements occasionally had trouble with them. Some whites had been taken prisoners and carried into Ohio, and after being kept there a while the Indians called a council of war, at which they planned an attack on a fort some little distance from Kinslow. Permitting two of the prisoners to learn their plans, they allowed them to escape and return to their homes, where they gave the alarm. All the available help from neighboring stations was collected at the place to be attacked. When the summons for help reached Kinslow station all the men at home repaired at once to the threatened fort. Mrs. Waggoner's grandfather and three other men were out hunting when the alarm came and were the only men left to defend the station. But as the Indians were not supposed to be near, no fear was felt. When the darkness of night had settled down on the little band and the women and children wrapped in peaceful sleep, they were suddenly aroused and appalled by the war-whoops of the relentless savages. They fully realized the fate awaiting them if they fell into their hands, and bravely and untiringly they loaded the guns with which the four men were trying to defend them. The defenders succeeded in keeping the Indians at bay until the latter gathered flax and other combustibles and fired the roofs of the buildings, after which resistance was useless and the only thing they could do was to try to escape. Mrs. Waggoner's grandmother took her infant son in her arms, and going to a small door that opened on the outside of the fort, unfastened it to pass out. Two Indians were lying in wait, and as she appeared, shot her and her child. Maddened at the deed, her husband shot the larger Indian, and in a hand to hand encounter sent the smaller one to join his companion. The burning buildings made everything about the fort as light as day, so that the escaping inmates were nearly all captured or killed. After Mrs. Waggoner's grandfather had avenged his wife's death, he took her father, a boy of five years old, and succeeded in reaching a high brush fence inclosing a corral, in which the cattle were confined at night, and hid him under it, telling him to remain there till he came for him. The shadows of the fence enabled him to escape into the darkness of the woods, and, concealing himself in some logs, he eluded the savages. At one time he was tempted to seek a tinkling bell, thinking it was attached to a horse, but fearing it was an Indian decoy, he waited, and another man, hearing it and going to it, was killed. He remained concealed until the next day, 576 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD and when he was sure the Indians had left, he took his little boy, and, with nothing to eat except a piece of dried venison he happened to have in his pocket and that he had taken with him on his hunting excursion the previous day, he started afoot on his trip of several hundred miles across the wilderness back to Prince William county, Va. They subsisted on wild fruits and roots, excepting once, when they came across a deserted mission founded by some Jesuits, where some turnips were growing. He kept his gun with him, but, as he had no ammunition, it was of no benefit to him. The gun is now in the possession of Mrs. Waggoner's brother, an heir-loom in the family. After many hardships they at length reached their old home in safety. Two of the maternal uncles of Mrs. Waggoner's father were officers under Gen. Lafayette during the war of the Revolution. JOHN WAITE, one of the early settlers of Ravenna, and a continuous resident from 1830 to 1867, was born at Oaks Corners, Ontario county, N. Y., May 24, 1810, and is a son of John and Abigail (Cranston) Waite, also natives of the Empire state. John Waite received his education in his native county, and there followed various occupations until eighteen years of age, when he learned the cooper's trade, which vocation he followed for about thirty years. About the year I830, he removed to Ravenna and carried on the coopers' trade for many years, subsequently conducting a marble shop and also contracting for the construction of railway water tanks. In Ravenna he was married to Miss Martha A. Clark, daughter of Ephraim and Ala Amelia (Sperry) Clark, and was born in Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, February I, 1819. Her father was a native of Massachusetts; her mother of Connecticut. Her parents emigrated to Ohio in 1796, at a time when the state was very sparsely settled, following a trail which was marked by the blazing of trees. Mr. and Mrs. Waite have had three children, born in Ravenna: Amelia, who died when three years old; John L., now manager and editor of the Burlington (Iowa) Daily Hawk-Eye; and Mary Ella, who became the wife of John M. Eads, of Burlington, and after his death married Randall M. Hartzell, a farmer of Peru, Chautauqua county, Kan. In 1867, John Waite removed to Burlington, Iowa, where he embarked in the retail grocery trade and subsequently in the commission business, finally retiring to a farm near the city. He died at the age of eighty-four years while visiting his daughter at Peru, Kan., and where his widow still resides. Mr. and Mrs. Waite were lifelong and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, devoted to every moral reform movement and enjoyed the esteem and friendship of their neighbors and acquaintances In politics Mr. Waite was an anti-slavery whig and a republican, and, as a citizen, progressive and public spirited. EDWIN A. WALDO, of West Richfield, Ohio, one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and a respected citizen, springs from old England ancestry, who came to America in the Puritan times. He was born September 11, 1844, at Hinckley, Medina county, Ohio, and was reared a farmer, receiving a common-school education, and enlisted in the Civil war when but eight- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 577 een years old, running away from home for that purpose, as his parents objected. At Cleveland, Ohio, September 19, 1862, he entered the Twentieth Ohio light artillery, for three years or during the war, and served until honorably discharged at Cleveland, July 13, 1865. He was in the battles of Liberty Gap, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Franklin, Tenn., on the Atlanta campaign, and in the fight at Peach Tree Creek, and in the battle of Dalton was taken prisoner, was kept four days, was then paroled, and kept right along with the regiment without being exchanged, and was in many skirmishes. He was sick in camp with bloody flux in 1864, but would not go to hospital, and held out, although unable to do duty for about one month. Mr. Waldo was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and marches in which his regiment took part, but was never wounded, although under fire in many battles. He had never had a furlough, as he never asked for one. After the war Mr. Waldo returned home, resumed farming and married, July 4, 1866, at Hinckley, Ohio, Alice A. Porter, who was born October 3, 1847, at Hinckley, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Newman) Porter, both families coming originally from England. To Mr. and Mrs. Waldo one son was born—Phillip, November 23, 1876. Mr. Waldo bought fifty acres of land at Hinckley, improved it, and erected a good house and barn. He then came to Richfield, bought property and retired from active life. He is much disabled from his sufferings as a soldier and is unable to work. He is a member of Goldwood post, G. A. R. , No. 104, at Richfield, Ohio, and has held offices of adjutant and sergeant-major. In politics he is a republican, cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and is a man of well known integrity of character. His great-grandfather, Thomas Waldo, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; Jado than Waldo, grandfather of our subject, was from near Boston and well-to-do. He came to Hinckley, Ohio, as a pioneer, cleared up a good farm of loo acres, and here 'passed his remaining days, a respected citizen, and died at about seventy years of age. His children were Edward and Seth, who lived to reach maturity. Edward, father of Edwin A., was born March 20, 1811, in New Hampshire, and married, in Ohio, Elizabeth Damon, who was born at Chesterfield, Mass., October 14, 182o, Mr. Waldo having come with his parents to Ohio when about twenty-one years old in about 1832. Edward Waldo and wife were the parents of Lucy A., Anson, Edwin A., Justice, Esther, Prentice, Silvia, Elida H. and Ira. Mr. Waldo was a republican in politics and held the office of constable. He was a substantial farmer, owning 300 acres at one time, was prominent in his church, holding the office of deacon, was a well-known citizen, and died on his farm at the age of eighty years, a member of the Free Will Baptist church. He had three sons in the Civil war—Anson, Edwin A. and Justice T. Anson was in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regiment, Ohio volnnteer infantry, in the one-year service; Justice T. was in the One Hundred and Third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, in the ninety-day service, and after the close of the war was three years in the United States service. Mrs. Waldo's father—Charles Porter, was born in England, married there Mary Newman, came from Cambridgeshire to America, and brought his family with him, in 1837, and located in Richfield. He later moved to Hinckley and bought a farm of Ho acres, sold it, and bought a small farm in Hinckley township and there passed his remaining days, dying at nearly eighty years of age, a member of the Free Will Baptist church. His children were Charles, Martha, Mary, John, Henry, Robert, Alice and Hattie. 578 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD PETER L. ALLEN, an enterprising and prosperous saddlery and harness merchant at Richfield, Ohio, was born in New York city September 8, 1826. He is a son of Peter and Naomi (Morrell) Allen, both natives of New York state. In 1836 they moved from New York to Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio, where they resided for several years, afterward moving to Cleveland, where our subject's father died. To Peter Allen and wife were born the following children: John F. ; James; William: Mary, wife of J. Darrow, of Kent, Ohio; Charles; Peter L., our subject; Ann, wife of L. Burdict, of Kent, Ohio; Isaac and Hamilton. Peter Allen was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. At the age of seventeen years our subject came to Richfield, entering in the employ of Jonathan Page, under whom he acquired a mastery of the harness and saddlery trade. After serving a competent apprenticeship in this line he opened a store and factory of his own and has continued in business at that place until at present he has a very large and growing trade in this line, the excellence of his manufactured goods commanding for them a large sale, his harness being shipped to all parts of the country, and his name is widely known as a manufacturer. On the 4th of October, 1848, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Marrietta Seeley, daughter of Amasa and Mary (Baldwin) Seeley. A word concerning Mrs. Allen's ancestry: Her father was born December 19, 1792, a son of Eli Seeley, who came of stern and hardy old Puritan stock, his parents, David and Mary Seeley, being decendants of historic pioneers; Eli married Sally Lewis and had the following children: Julia, born January 16, 1786; Eli L., born July 27, 1790; Amasa, December 19, 1792; Nabbie, April 8, 1796, and Walter, March to, 1798. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Allen were David and Catherine (Tod) Baldwin, who had the following children: David B., Rubie, Lucy, Stephen, Esther, Catherine, Daniel, Joseph and Mary, (Mrs. Allen's mother). Her parents were among the early settlers of Bath township, corning here before the " twenties." Her mother taught the first school in the township, receiving the munificent wages of fifty cents per week. In those days the only products which could be converted into cash equivalents were tallow and hides. Her parents were married in 1825, and upon an acre of ground which her father bought for $10 their home was erected. Amasa Seeley also built a blacksmith shop and manufactured all the hardware for his house He also erected the first frame barn in Richfield. The lives of these pioneers were lives of constant usefulness. They raised the following children: Edward, born in 1816 —died in 1840; William, born in 1818; Abigail, born November 26, 1821; William H., died in infancy; Lucy Ann, born February 4, 1826; Marietta (Mrs. Allen), born March 8, 1830; Julietta K., died in infancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Allen have been born the following children: Francis, August 14, 1849; Virgil, October 28, 1852; Ervin, October 9, 1854; Lucy M., August 30, 1856, wife of William Whitney; Elmer E., February 13, 1864; Emma G., May 31, 1866. Both Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are fervent in their faith and earnest in the work of the church. He has several times been the superintendent of the Sunday-school, and is now one of the stewards of the church. Politically he is a strong republican, but has never been tempted by a desire for office. He is a member of Richfield lodge, No. 266, F. & A. M., with which he has been connected since 1855, and through which he has passed all the chairs. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 579 EDWARD S. BLACKMAN, one of the soldiers of the Civil war and a respectable citizen of Hudson township, Summit county, Ohio, is the capable and careful superintendent and manager of Evamere Hall, the country home of James W. Ellsworth, of Chicago. Mr. Blackman was born April 28, 1842, in Mount Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Ann (Phillips) Blackman. He was brought by his parents to Hudson when about three years old, and when a young lad clerked in Hudson for D. D. Beebe for seven years; next worked at the carpenter's trade for three years, and was then clerk for R. P. Williams for fifteen years. He then enlisted at Hudson, Ohio, in company B, Eighty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, for ninety days, and served until honorably discharged on account of disability at Camp Chase, Ohio, having nearly served out his time, chiefly at Camp Chase, on guard duty. He was sick, but not in hospital, and attended to his duties promptly and cheerfully. In 1890 he became superintendent for Mr. Ellsworth, and has entire charge of his beautiful country home, and of all the improvements of the grounds, which he maintains in a high state of cultivation and tasteful ornamentation. Mr. Blackman is very industrious in the performance of his duties, and possesses great skill and ability. Mr. Blackman married, August 18, 1869, in Hudson, Ohio, Martha J. DeGraw, born in New York state, and daughter of John and Hannah (Burgess) DeGraw. Mr. and Mrs. Blackman are the parents of Frederick, Grace Maud, Charles E. and Heber. Mr. Blackman is a Freemason, is a member of the G. A. R., Gen. W. T. Sherman post, No. 68, at Hudson, and in politics is a republican. He has served as a member of the town council, has been city marshal and has also been a member of the board of education. Both Mr. and Mrs. Blackman are members of the Episcopal church and are highly respected throughout Hudson township. AMOS BARR, of Northfield township, Summit county, Ohio, was born May 16, 1845, in Lancaster county, Pa., son of John and Martha (Groft) Barr, of German descent. He received a common district-school education and was reared to farming. He enlisted, June 29, 1863, in Lancaster county, Pa., in Lieut. Samuel Boyd's company G, First battalion, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was honorably discharged January 9, 1864, at Harrisburg, Pa., by reason of expiration of service. He then re-enlisted at Lancaster, Pa., in Lieut. Frank B. Groff's company C, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania veteran volunteer infantry, February 27, 1864, to serve three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1, 1865, the war having closed. He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, Appottomax, Petersburg, and in many skirmishes. He was wounded at the battle of Petersburg March 25, 1865, being shot near the joint of the left hip, and still carries the ball. He was taken to the hospital at City Point, Va., near Washington, D. C., and remained six weeks, received a furlough of thirty days and was discharged before it expired. Mr. Barr discharged all his duties faithfully, promptly and cheerfully, and was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and marches in which his regiment took part. After the war Mr. Barr worked in Lancaster county, Pa., in the iron-ore mines, and at farming. He married, August 18, 1868, in West Hempfield township, Lancaster county, Susan C. Varnes, who was born November 15, 1851, a daughter of Albert N. and Leah (Wade) Varnes. Albert N. Varnes was 580 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD also born in Lancaster county, Pa., and was a private during the Civil war in a Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, in which he was taken sick and from which he was discharged on account of disability. He married Leah Wade and their children were John W., David, Henry, Lilly, Sarah, Albert, Nellie and Susan C. Mr. Varnes, on coming to Cleveland, Ohio, engaged in teaming for the paint works and drove for that company seventeen years. His death was caused by a runaway team in 1887. He was a republican in politics and a hard-working, industrious man, respected by all. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Barr remained in Lancaster county until 1878 and then came to Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Barr worked in the steel works until 1894, when he came to Northfield township, and engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Barr have had born to them the following children: Harry, Jennie, Ella, Charles and Harvey, and five deceased. Mrs. Barr attends the Presbyterian church at Northfield. In politics he is a republican and is an ex-member of the G. A. R., Commodore Perry post, Newburg, Ohio. John Barr and wife, parents of Amos, were also the parents of David, Landus, John, Elam and Mary. Mr. Barr had two sons in the Civil war—David having the same military record as that of Amos. He escaped without wounds and served five years in the regular army after the war. John Barr father of subject, was a hard-working, industrious man and died in Pennsylvania about 1857. Mrs. Barr's second marriage was to George Kisscaden, and their children are James and William. Amos Barr and wife are among the most respected people of their township, and have reared an excellent family. They have three children, viz: Henry, who married Nora Jones, of Newbury; they live in Macedonia, and have one child—Ella, married to George Nutt, they live in Northfield township, and have two children. Jennie is married to Frank Flick, a painter and paper hanger, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has one child. GEORGE L. BISHOP, the well-known merchant and present postmaster of Northfield, Ohio, and one of the veterans of the late Civil war, was born. in Northfield, January 23, 1842, a son of Orrin A. and Celina L. (Lillie) Bishop. He received a common education and enlisted in August, 1861, at Northfield, at the early age of nineteen years, in company K, Nineteenth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war, and re-enlisted as a veteran in the same organization at Flat Creek, Tenn., in 1864, for a similar term, and served until honorably discharged at San Antonio, Tex., in November, 1865. He was in the great battle of Shiloh April 6 and 7, 1862; the siege of Corinth. battles of Perryville, Ky., October 8, 1862; Stone River, Tenn., December 3o-31, 1862,. and January 1, 2, and 3, 1863; Chickamauga, December 19-20, 1863; Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, 1863; Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863; Pickett's Mills, Ga., May 27, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 22, 1864; Pine Top, in 1864; Peach Tree Creek, July 19, 1864; Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864; Jonesboro, September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station, September 2, 1864; Columbia, Tenn. ; Franklin, September 30, 1864; Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864, and skirmishes too numerous to mention. He was promoted for meritorious services to corporal, was shot through the right thigh at the battle of Stone River and was in hospital, five months, at Nashville, Tenn., and Louisville, Ky. He was never a prisoner, and was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and marches in which his regiment took part, and was always prompt and cheerful in the discharge of OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 581 his duties. When wounded at Stone River, the rebels charged over the field where he was lying, and for a few moments he was within the rebel lines, but the Union troops soon retook and held the position. After the war Mr. Bishop returned to Northfield and engaged in traveling for a New York drug house, in which employment he continued eight years and then bought a farm in Northfield township, on which he lived fourteen years. In the spring of 1888 he engaged in business in Northfield, in which he still continues. Fraternally he is a non-affiliating Mason, and is a member of Royal Dunham post, G. A. R., No. —, at Bedford, Ohio. In politics he is a republican. Mr. Bishop married, December 31, 1879, at Northfield, Miss Martha W. Way, who was born in England May 14, 1849, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Way. Martha W. Way came from England with her parents to Northfield when eight years old. She was a devout member of the Methodist church and died very suddenly in 1897, a woman of many virtues. Orrin A. Bishop was born at Burlington, Vt., and his grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Orrin A. Bishop married in Vermont and came as a pioneer to Northfield. His children were Clark B., Orrin A. and George L. In politics he was a democrat, was a well-known pioneer, and cleared his farm at Northfield from the woods, and here he died. Orrin A., the younger, volunteered in the three months' service at the first call for troops for the Civil war, and in 1863 enlisted for three years, or during the war, and served until the close, in the One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry. George L. Bishop has been very successful through life, and his career as a farmer, merchant and soldier gives indication of more than ordinary mental and physical power, and his name to-day is honored wherever it is known. In politics he is a republican, and received his present appointment under President McKinley. FRANCIS W. BLISS, an ex-soldier of the Civil war, springs from sterling Vermont colonial stock from England, and was born in Northfield, Ohio, March 20, 1834, a son of Lucian and Laura (Wicks) Bliss. He received a common education, became a farmer, and enlisted in January, 1864, at Cleveland, Ohio, for one year, in the One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, but was transferred to the One Hundred and Eighty-eighth regiment, company C, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and was honorably discharged in August, 1865, the war having closed. At Murfreesboro, Tenn., he was detailed with a surveying party, and most of his service was passed in this duty. He was taken sick with fever at Nashville, Tenn., was confined in hospital there about four weeks, and in hospital at Louisville, Ky., two weeks, and was thence transferred to Camp Dennison, Ohio, from which he was honorably discharged a few weeks later. While in Tennessee with a surveying party, which consisted of but sixteen gnards and the surveyor, the party narrowly escaped capture by old Champ Ferguson, a noted guerrilla, who was afterwards captured and hanged in Nashville. After the war Mr. Bliss returned to Ohio and married, in Independence township, Cuyahoga county, January 23, 1873, Miss Harriet E. Eldridge, who was born February 28, 1844, a daughter of Erastus and Julia (Hosmer) Eldridge, and to this marriage have been born George (who died aged three years and nine months), Julia, Timothy and William. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss are both members of the Methodist church in Northfield; in politics Mr. Bliss is a republican, cast his first presidential vote 582 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD for Lincoln, and is a member of Royal Dunham post, G. A. R., at Bedford, Ohio. He has always been an industrious and respected citizen, and is fully worthy of the high esteem in which he is held by his companions in arms and by all his fellow-citizens. Lucian Bliss, father of Francis W., was born in September, 1804, at Burlington. Vt., married there, and came to Ohio as a pioneer, and settled in Northfield township, Summit county, and cleared up several farms, becoming a substantial citizen. He was a practical, energetic business man, had a contract on the Miami & Erie canal, and also a contract on the Valley railroad, but died before the completion of the latter, September 28, 1873, aged sixty-eight years. Of his children, George, Francis W., Lucian, Fannie and Laura are those who lived. Francis and Lucian were soldiers in the Civil war. Lucian was in the One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in the three years' service and was in several battles. Lucian Bliss, the father, was one of the founders and mainstays of the Methodist church in Northfield township, contributed liberally from his means, and practicaliy kept up its integrity. Erastus Eldridge, father of Mrs. Harriet E. Bliss, was born in Springfield, Mass., July 25, 1802, and married Julia Hosmer, a daughter of Eleazer and Clara (Needham) Hosmer, and their children were Eleazer, Clara, William, Finette, Mary, Harriet E. and Jane. Mr. Eldridge, on coming to Ohio, settled at Independence, Cuyahoga county, where he carried on a stone quarry many years. He lived to be seventy-five years old and died in 1876. He was a democrat in politics, was an honest, hard-working, industrious man, and much respected. He had one son, William, who was a member of company A, One Hundred and Third Ohio volunteer infantry. At the battle of Armstrong Hill, he was struck by a piece of shell and died in hospital at Knoxville, Tenn. Eleazer Hosmer, grandfather of Mrs. Bliss, was of English descent, and was among the very early settlers in America. Grandfather Hosmer was a soldier in the war of 1812, but never was a pensioner. ALBERT ALLEN (deceased) was ranked among the leading and most enterprising business men of Akron. He was born in Coventry township, Summit county, Ohio, March 12, 1827, a son of Levi and Phebe (Spicer) Allen, of whom full mention is made in the biography of Miner J. Allen, which is published in proximity with this notice, and to which the attention of the reader is respectfully called. Albert Allen was reared on the farm, with a common-school education; on attaining his majority learned the millwrighting trade, at which he worked about nine years, in 1856 converting the Perkins woolen-mill, on Canal street, into a flouring-mill for J. & J. Allen & Co., and on its completion assuming the management of the mill, and ably tilling the position for about ten years. In 1867, in connection with Alexander H. Commins, he purchased the Stone mill, the firm of Commins & Allen doing a phenomenally successful business until the death of Mr. Commins in 1880, the firm name continuing, with Mr. Allen as executor of Mr. Commins' large estate, until it was merged in the F. Schumacher Milling company, April 5, 1886, of which company Mr. Allen was a director and the vice-president until the time of his death, September 25, 1888, at the age of sixty-one years, six months and thirteen days. Mr. Allen, though never married, enjoyed the comforts of a fine home on Bowery street, with his sister, Miss Cynthia Allen, as his housekeeper, rearing and educating his niece, Miss Minnie E. Allen, now wife of OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 585 Henry M. Stone, of Denver, Colo. Mr. Allen was an ardent republican and a zealous member of the Disciples' church. In his will, after devising twenty per cent of his large estate to his sister, Cynthia, bequeathing ten per cent of the residue (about $10,000) to Hiram college; ten per cent to the Christian Foreign Missionary society, he bequeathed ten per cent jointly to the general Christian Home Missionary society and the First Disciples' church of Akron, beside having pledged the payment of $1,000 to Buchtel college. MINER JESSE ALLEN, one of the very prominent business men of Akron, was born in Coventry township, Summit county, Ohio, November 11, 1829, a son of Levi and Phebe (Spicer) Allen, and paternally is of ante-Revolutionary descent, his grandfather, Nathaniel Allen, having sacrificed his life in the war for American independence. Jesse Allen, grandfather of subject, was born in Cornwall, Litchfield county, Conn., in 1770, and there learned the trade of shoemaking. While still a young man he went to Tompkins county, N. Y., where in t797 he married Catherine Fiethrick. who was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1776, of Holland-Dutch ancestry. He soon after relinquished his trade of shoemaking and bought a farm near Ithaca, Tompkins county, N. Y., but lost nearly all his property by "bailing" an acquaintance. With the few hundred dollars left in his possession he came to Ohio, arrived in Middlebury July 4, 1811, with his family—a wife and seven children—in company with a brother and family, and bought land in Coventry township, Summit county. During the war of 1812 he was a soldier under Maj. Miner Spicer, and while away on duty an Indian spy crept to the house, but his little children, - 23 - working in the clearing. espying their mother's danger, rushed to the cabin with their axes with the intention of annihilating the savage, but the latter made good his escape, and it is thought that he was afterward killed near Summit lake. Mr. Allen was a member of the Baptist church and an excellent reader and elocutionist, and it was his custom, before ministers of his denomination made their advent in his neighborhood, to read sermons in the pioneer meetings. He succeeded in clearing up his farm and in developing a comfortable home, where he died in the Baptist faith September 12, 1837, the father of ten children, viz:- Jonah, who married Cynthia Spicer; Levi; David, who married Beulah Jones; Jacob, married to Catherine Van Sickle; John; Jesse; Catherine, married to Mills Thompson; Sarah, wife of James M. Hale; Hiram; and Christiana, now Mrs. Charles Caldwell. Levi Allen. second son of Jesse and Catherine Allen, and father of subject, was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., February to, 1799, and was in his twelfth year when the family came to Ohio. He walked all the way, driving cattle and sheep, while the younger children, with their mother, goods, etc., were conveyed by ox-teams, arriving in Middlebury July 4, 1811. He assisted his father in clearing up his farm and remained with him until reaching his majority, when he purchased a farm in Coventry township, which he cleared and improved until 1868, when he retired to Akron. He was married December 1 o, 1823, to Miss Phebe Spicer, daughter of Maj. Miner and Cynthia (Allyn) Spicer, of Portage township, Summit county, and this union resulted in the birth of six children, viz: Levi, Miner S., Albert, Miner J., Walter S. and Cynthia. Mr. Allen was always prominent in local affairs, and took an active interest in politics, both local and general. For sixty years he 586 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD was an ardent worker in the Disciples' church, in the faith of which his wife died January 10, 1879, and his own death took place May II, 1887. He was an extraordinarily enterprising and industrious man, and enjoyed the personal regard of all who came within the circle of his acquaintance. Maj. Miner Spicer, maternal grandfather of subject, was born in Groton, Litchfield county, Conn., May 29, 1776, married Cynthia Allyn in 1798, and in 1810 came to Ohio on horseback and purchased 260 acres of land in what is now Portage township, Summit county. He then returned for his family and came back by ox-team, the family arriving on the new farm in June, 1811. During the war of 1812 he served as major of militia, and on the organization of Portage township was made a trustee, and later served as justice of the peace many years. He lost his wife September Jo, 1828, and in 1829 he married Mrs. Hannah (Allyn) Williams, widow of Barnabas Williams, and sister of his first wife, Cynthia Allyn. Maj. Spicer was ever popular and influential in the affairs of Portage township, and died September 11, 1855. Mrs. Cynthia (Allyn) Spicer, maternal grandmother of subject, was a daughter of Ephraim and Temperance (Morgan) Allyn, and Temperance Morgan was a daughter of Capt. William and Temperance (Avery) Morgan. Capt. William Morgan was a son of William and Mary (Avery) Morgan, and William was a son of John and Elizabeth (Jones) Morgan—the latter a daughter of Lieut.-Gov. Jones, first governor of the New Haven colony—while John, her husband, was a son of James and Margery (Hill) Morgan, Puritans of New England and of the same family as the late Gov. Edward D. Morgan, of the state of New York. Temperance Avery, wife of Capt. William Morgan, was a daughter of Col. Christopher and Prudence (Payson) Avery, granddaughter of James and Deborah (Stellyon) Avery, and great-granddaughter of James and Joanna (Greenslade) Avery. Capt. William Morgan served under Col. Parsons during the Revolutionary war, having enlisted September 9, 1776; he was honorably discharged for disability November 9, 1776, and died April 11, 1777. Miner J. Allen, the subject of this memoir, was reared and educated in Coventry township, Summit county, and was there engaged in farming until 1867, when he came to Akron and was employed as local and traveling grain buyer for Commins & Allen. In 1884 he took a fifth interest in the Akron Milling company, which, in 1886, was merged into the F. Schumacher Milling company, in which Mr. Allen was a stockholder and director, and which was merged into the American Cereal company, with which he is now connected. In 1891 he purchased an interest in the Akron Silver Plating company, and since July, 1896, has been treasurer of this thriving corporation. June 1, 1876, Mr. Allen was united in marriage with Miss Frances C. De Wolf, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (King) De Wolf, of Vernon, Trumbull county, Ohio, and granddaughter of Joseph and Sarah (Gibbons) De Wolf, of Granby, Conn., and pioneers of Vernon, Ohio. Joseph De Wolf, a Revolutionary soldier, was a son of Matthew and Esther (Higby) De Wolf—the former a son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Burchard) De Wolf. The last-named Matthew was a son of Matthew De Wolf, of Bolton, Conn., and he is a son of Charles and Prudence De Wolf. Charles was a son of Edward and Rebecca De Wolf, and Edward was a son of Balthasar Dc Wolf, who was first known in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1664, and in 1668 at Lyme, Conn., where several of his descendants still reside. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Allen were Robert and Isabel (Dunbar) King, of whom the former was a son of James and Jean (Knox) King, and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 587 is said to have been a descendant of the celebrated reformer, John Knox. Robert King was born near Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Kinsman, Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1808. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Allen have been born five children in the following order: Albert Mark, Miner W., Margaret P., Christine C. and Frances De Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are consistent members of the First Disciples' church of Akron, their social standing is of the highest, and Mrs. Allen was one of the first two ladies to be elected to membership of the Akron school board after the passage of the law granting women that privilege. Mr. Allen has always been a republican in politics, and while a resident of Coventry township was for several years a member of the local school board, of which he also filled the position of clerk. Since his residence in Akron his multifarious business interests have precluded him from taking an active part in local politics, and he finds himself content with doing his duty as a good citizen, and as such he is justly esteemed by the entire community. JOHN THOMAS BRITTAIN, one of the oldest and most respected farmers of Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, descends from ante-Revolutionary ancestors, being on the paternal side of English origin and on the maternal side of German extraction. Of six Brittain brothers born in England, three came to America and fought through the war for the independence of the colonies; the other three were drafted, or impressed, into the British army in England, and came to America to aid in suppressing what was then termed, by the Engl sh, the rebellion. Of the latter three, one remained in Canada after the war, and two returned to England. Of the Fortner three all remained in the United States, the existence of which they aided in establishing. Zeboth Brittain, one of the three brothers who risked their lives for American independence, and the grandfather of John T. Brittain, of Tallmadge township, was born in England, January 9, 1746, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, September 2, 1748. To their union were born Mary, July 7, 1767; William, April 4, 1769; Joseph, March 1, 1771, David, April 2, 1773; Elizabeth, June 28, 1775; Rachel, January 17, 1777; John, June 20, 1779; Ellen, February 24, 1783, and Sarah, February 24, 1788. Zeboth was a farmer of Maryland, but died in Sandusky, Ohio, at the home of a married daughter. John Brittain, mentioned above as the son of Zeboth, was born in Maryland, but when a young man went to Pennsylvania, where, April 17, 1806, he married Margaret Albertson, in Columbia county, where she was born August 27, 1786. To this marriage was born Henry, February 27, 1807; Allen, September 17, 1809; Zeboth, February 18, 1812; Jane, May 13, 1814; Elizabeth, March 12, 1817; Catherine, April 22, 1821; John Thomas (subject), August 6, 1823, and Matilda M., June 19, 1826—all born on their father's farm in Columbia county, Pa., where the mother died November 4, 1831, aged forty-five years. In April, 1832, John Brittain and his family came to Ohio and settled in Springfield township, Summit county, on the farm which his son, John Thomas, now owns. In coming here the family made the journey across the Alleghany mountains with a three-horse team and were fourteen days on the way. Here Mr. Brittain hewed the forest away from 206 acres which he purchased, and, in course of time, by hard work, developed as good a farm as ever existed in the county. He here married his second wife, Gainor Mettlin, but to this union no children were born. Mr. 588 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Brittain was a whig in politics and held several offices. His death took place April 5, 1857, in the faith of the Methodist church, and no man in the township was more respected than this upright pioneer. John Thomas Brittain was born in Columbia county, Pa., and was nine years old when he came to Ohio with his father. He received the usual education granted pioneer lads and was reared to farming on his father's homestead. He was first married to Hannah Rogers, who was born in Geauga county, Ohio, a daughter of Gordon and Sarah Rogers, and to this union were born Amanda, John, Sarah and Hannah, of whom John served in the Fourth Ohio artillery and was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea. He now lives in Springfield township, Summit county. Gordon Rogers was born in Connecticut, was a pioneer of Geauga county, Ohio, where he cleared up a farm, and had born to him six children, viz: Hannah, Sarah, Ann, Monroe, Hiram and James. He later moved to a farm near Corry, Pa., where he passed the remainder of his life. Mrs. Hannah Brittian died March 20, 1 8 5 3 , and September 1, 1853, Mr. Brittain married, at Tallmadge Center, Miss Catherine Potts, who was born January 1, 1831, in Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, a daughter of Israel and Mary (Cook) Potts, and to this marriage have been born eight children, viz: Olive, Lemuel, Alice, Martha C., Cora, Grace, Edith and Millie C., and he now has thirty-five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren, among whom there has never occurred a death. Israel Potts was a son of Joshua Potts, a native of Scotland and who was a pioneer of Suffield township, Portage county, where he cleared up a farm of 140 acres from the woods, but, prior to 1859, came to Summit county, then a wilderness. He served in the war of 1812 and had born to him eleven children, viz: Israel, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Lewis, Jonas, Ann, Betsey, Joshua, Christina, Catherine, and one who died in infancy. The eldest of these, Israel, was born in Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, October 3, 1809. He was reared a farmer and was married, at Randolph Center, by 'Squire Merriman, December 25, 1830, to Miss Mary Cook, who was born in Suffield township, Portage county, May 13, 1812, a daughter of David and Chloe (Moore) Cook. David Cook was born in Connecticut, was married in that state, and prior to 1812 settled in Suffield township, where he cleared up a farm from the forest. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was a typical pioneer. He had born to him a family of nine children, viz: Mary, Nathan, John, Lee, Calvin, Orange, Rachel, and two who died in infancy. He lived to be about sixty years of age, and died on his farm in April, 1854. Nathan Moore was one of the early pioneers and surveyors of Ohio and surveyed the site of the present city of Cleveland, in company with its founder, and afterward settled in Springfield township, Summit county, with his family, but his body lies interred in Suffield township, Portage county. Israel Potts, after marriage, settled in Suffield township, cleared up a good farm of about 100 acres. His children were Catherine, Levi, Eli, Nathan, Mary, Louisa, Jonas, Israel, Mendel, and Elizabeth. Of these, Israel served three months in company D, Seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in several battles, including Cedar Mountain, and Nathan served in the Fortieth Ohio battery of artillery. Mr. Potts was a democrat in politics; was an upright citizen, and died in Kent January 1, 1877. Chloe Cook, maternal grandmother of Mrs. Catherine Brittain, lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years, and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 589 died in Suffield township, Portage county, in April, 1880. John Thomas Brittain, after marriage, remained on the old homestead until 1888, when he settled on his present farm, which then consisted of fifty-six acres, but which, by good management, he has increased to about 200 acres, and is now one of the most substantial farmers of Tallmadge township. In politics he is a republican, has held the office of township trustee, and been a member of the school board thirty years. He has always been an industrious, public-spirited citizen, and no man in the township is held in higher esteem than he. GEORGE M. BUEL, an old soldier of the Civil war and a respected citizen of Akron, springs from old colonial Connecticut stock. George M. Buel was born February 7, 1828, at Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., a son of Samuel and Lavina (King) Buel. He came to Summit county, Ohio, in January, 1837, with his parents, and at the age of twenty-three years engaged in running stationary engines in Hudson, Richfield and Copley townships, and in Iowa, where he went about 1855 or 1856 and resided a few months, and then returned to Summit county. He was in this business about thirteen years. He married, November 2, 1863, in Richfield township, Julia A. Poor, who was born November 1, 1845, a daughter of Elijah and Harriet (Humphrey) Poor. Mr. Buel enlisted September 1, 1862, at Piqua, Ohio, in the Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years unless sooner discharged, and was honorably mustered out at Winchester, Va., March, 1863, on account of disability. His services were in West Virginia, where he contracted lung fever from sleeping on the frozen ground. He was for a time in field hospital and then in Taylor hospital at Winchester, Va., two months, and was discharged as incurable. It was a year before he was sufficiently recovered to do any regular work; he then ran a stationary engine two years and then went to Akron, Ohio, where he was employed in the Moffit & McNiel boiler foundry, and remained with them seven years; he then worked in the Buckeye shops thirteen years, and retired from business in 1885. He is disabled by rheumatism and lung trouble, and obliged to spend his winters in Kentucky. In politics he is a republican and is a member of A. N. Gold-wood post, No. 104, G. A. R., at west Richfield, Ohio; he is also a member of Meridian Sun lodge, F. & A. M., West Richfield, in which he has held the offices of senior deacon, and senior and junior warden. Mr. Buel is a respected citizen and has always been an industrious and upright man. Samuel Buel, father of George M., married Lavina King at Riga, Monroe county, N. Y., and their children were Sidney K., Leman C., Samuel M., George M., Eliza A., Elizabeth M. and Elsie M. Mr. Buel was a farmer, moved to Ohio in 1836 or 1837, bought land in Royalton, Cuyahoga ccunty, yet never settled on it, but sold it and settled in Richfield township, on thirty-five acres, and added to this by his thrift and industry until he owned 105 acres, and became a substantial farmer. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and a respected citizen. He died in this township. aged sixty-three years, in '856. He was a very industrious and honest man. Ichabod Buel, father of Samuel, was a soldier in the American Revolution, was of Welsh ancestry, was a blacksmith in Connecticut, married there, and his children were Ichabod, Samuel, George and Anna. Samuel Buel had one son in the Mexican war—Samuel M. —who enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was 590 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD in all the battles. He died of brain fever in the city of Mexico. Another son, Leman C., enlisted in the regular United States army after the war with Mexico, and died at Tampa, Fla., during his service. Elijah Poor was born in New York state and was a cabinetmaker by trade. He married in Hinckley, Ohio, Maria Oviatt, and they had one daughter, Maria. Mrs. Poor died soon after the birth of the daughter, and Mr. Poor next married, in Richfield, Harriet HuMphrey, daughter of Julius and Rhoda (Oviatt) Humphrey, and their children were Julius, Julia A., Lucy A., Carrie, Benjamin, May and Mark. Mr. Poor moved to California about 1851 and engaged in gold mining. His children, Lucy and Mark, are the only members of the family now living, and they reside in California. LEVI BURROUGHS, at Northfield, Ohio, an old soldier and ex-prisoner of the Civil war, and a respected citizen, comes of New England ancestry, and was born June 15, 1843, on his parents' farm, a son of Allen and Betsey (Honey) Burroughs. He received a common education in the district school, and was reared to farming when young. He enlisted, at the age of twenty years, July 30, 1862, at Northfield, Ohio, in company G, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, Capt. H. Fitch, to serve three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged June 17, 1865, at Camp Chase, Columbus. He was on guard duty at Covington, Ky., Chattanooga railroad, Tenn., was captured nine miles south of Nashville by Hood's men, and taken to Meridian, Miss., being three weeks on the march. The weather was rainy and the rations raw corn meal. He was held a prisoner at Meridian a month, and there, also, the rations were corn meal and a very little beef. From there he was taken to Andersonville, Ga., arriving at this infamous prison stockade February 3, 1865, remaining about three months. The rations were very poor beef, corn meal and beans, which, when cooked, made one meal, and the remainder of the day they went hungry and many died. Mr. Burroughs had no shelter except to bunk with some comrades, who made a tent of two blankets and retained two blankets to cover over them; they lived on the ground and suffered greatly from the cold and wet. Mr. Burroughs was strong and hardy and managed to keep well while many of his comrades became sick. About the middle of April, 1865, the prisoners were released and Mr. Burroughs was sent to Jacksonville, Fla., with others, or to within fifteen miles of Jacksonville, and released on April 29. At Jacksonville he received clothes and food. After the war Mr. Burroughs returned home to Ohio and resumed farming. In 1867, November 20, Mr. Burroughs married Sarah F. Nichols, who was born in West Virginia, near Wellsville, on the Ohio river, September 17, 1839, a daughter of Harbin and Lorena (Viers) Nichols. Harbin Nichols was born in 1799 in Maryland, and his father was a slave owner. The Viers family were of English ancestry and early residents of the Isle of Jamaica, but finally settled in Steubenville, Ohio. Harbin Nichols was a shoemaker by trade and moved to Summit county, Northfield township, during the early 'fifties, followed his trade here and at Little York many years, and here died, aged sixty-five years, in 1864. His children were Harriet M., Margaret V., Matilda N., McCourtney B., Beersheba L., Sarah F. and Thomas Benton. During the Civil war McCourtney B. was a soldier in company I, Twenty-fourth Iowa volunteer infantry, and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 591 died in hospital at Winchester, Va., from wounds received in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. Thomas Benton was in the Seventh Ohio regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and re-enlisted in the Twelfth United States infantry, regular service, and after the war re-enlisted and served five years longer. He was in seventeen battles during the Civil war, and was wounded at Gettysburg, and after the war was out on the frontier. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs settled on their present farm. The children are Eva M., Harry A., Thomas B. and Shepard H. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs are members of the Methodist church at Northfield, and in politics Mr. Burroughs is a republican, and while in the army cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln. He is also a member of Royal Dunham post, No. 177, G. A. R., at Bedford, Ohio. Allen Burroughs, father of subject, was born in 1799 in Vermont, and was a son of David and Polly Burroughs. David Burroughs was a blacksmith by trade, and came to Ohio and settled at Cleveland in 1811, and died there an old man. Allen came with his father to Cleveland, a boy of twelve years, and became a farmer. He married Miss Betsy Honey, of Northfield township, Summit county, located, after marriage, on a farm in this township, but the same year moved to their present homestead, of which he cleared up forty acres from the woods, and on which he made all the necessary improvements. His children were Tryphenia, Dorsey W., Sabrina (who died a married woman), Marinda, Wealthy, Mary and Levi. Mr. and Mrs. Burroughs became members of the Methodist church at an early day. In politics he was a republican. He was always a hard-working man, respected by all, and lived to be about eighty-two years old. He had two sons in the Civil war—one of whom, Dorsey M., was in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, three years. Levi Burroughs, the subject, has always been an industrious hard-working man and is much respected. His daughter, Eva May, married Frederick E. Plank May 1, 1894. Mr. Plank was born in Michigan, near Detroit, graduated at the Ithaca (Mich.) high school, attended Adelbert college, Cleveland, the medical department of the Western Reserve college, and was principal of schools several terms in Michigan. Their children are Gladys M. and Winifred. Mr. Plank died June 29, 1896. Shepard H. Burroughs is a student in the high school at Northfield, and will graduate in the class of 1899. HOMER S. CARTER, one of the respected citizens of Tallmadge, Summit county, Ohio, and a retired merchant, has done business in this town for over a third of a century. Adonijah Carter, the grandfather of Homer S., was born in Vermont. He was a farmer, and married, in his native state, Lucena Munson, and their children were Guy, Bushnell, Adoniram and Lucy. Adoniram Carter, father of Homer S., was born in Warren, Litchfield county, Conn., March 2, 1792, on a large farm, and there lived the remainder of his days. He was a member of the Congregational church and a man of goodly property and sterling worth. He married Arrilla Sackett, who was born in 1792, also in Warren, Conn., a daughter of Homer and Sarah (Carter) Sackett. Of the children born to this union, Flora M., Homer S., Patty L., are those who lived. Adoniram Carter owned a homestead of 300 acres; was township trustee, and held other offices and was one of the pioneers who were looked up to by all. He was a member of the Congre- 592 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD gational church, and lived to be fifty years old, dying in Illinois of typhoid fever when on a visit, in 1842, to his daughter, Flora M., in Morgan county. Homer S. Carter was born on the homestead, in Litchfield county, Conn., April 6, 1817, and received a thorough education, fitting him for college. He taught school one winter, in 1837-8, in Litchfield county, and then, in May of 1838, came to Tallmadge, Ohio, and bought a stock of goods of E. C. Sackett. This stock was brought from New York and Philadelphia by canal. Mr. Carter's father had bought a third interest in what was known as the Chuckery company of New York, or Portage Canal Manufacturing company, which was founded for building a canal from Cuyahoga river, at the falls, to Akron. Not being satisfied with the solidity of the enterprise, Mr. Carter withdrew and bought the stock of goods as above stated. In this Mr. Carter sold an interest, after one year, to William A. Hanford, of Cleveland, Ohio, who remained with him two years. After that he was in company with E. V. Carter, C. Wright, B. D. Wright, George M. Wright, Cyrus Treat and D. E. Wright for one-third of a century. By his attention to business and strict integrity he always conducted a safe and successful business, and his credit was impeached by no one. His children are Homer W., Mary A., Howard H., Alpha Wright, Starr V. V. and Charles E. Mr. and Mrs. Carter are both members of the Congregational church of Tallmadge. In politics he was a republican, was postmaster at Tallmadge for about twenty-five years and township trustee many years and treasurer of the Congregational church. Mrs. Homer S. Carter is a daughter of Alpha and Lucy (Foster) Wright. Alpha Wright was the son of Capt. John and Sarah (Case) Wright, and was born near Boston, Mass. Capt. John was a farmer and pioneer. His children were John, Amos, David, Alpha, Lydia and Sarah. Capt. John was an officer in the Revolutionary war. He came with his family to Ohio about 1806 and located in Morgan township, Ashtabula county; about 1810-11 he moved to Tallmadge township and settled in the woods south of Tallmadge Center, on the 120-acre farm now owned by Cornelius Johnson, and here he passed the remainder of his days, dying a member of the Congregational church at Tallmadge. Alpha Wright was born at Winstead, Conn., December 3, 1788, and came with the family to Ohio in 1806. He was possessed with a great desire to acquire a collegiate education, but his father removing early to a pioneer country he was denied the privilege; nevertheless, being a great reader, he acquired an excellent education and was very well informed on most subjects. He had a good knowledge of music, and was a fine bass singer, lead the church choir at Tallmadge for forty years, and at the time of his death was still a member of the choir. He married, in Suffield, Ohio, Lucy Foster, who was born in 1790, a daughter of William Foster. Her parents were citizens of Hanover, N. H., but both died when she was young and she was reared by Martin Kent, of Suffield, Ohio. Her father, William Foster, was a lawyer, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and received a bullet in his hat at the battle of Acton Bridge. Alpha Wright and wife settled on the old Wright homestead and here passed all their active life and in their last days made their home with Mrs. H. S. Carter. Mr. Wright lived to be sixty-seven years old and died March 1, 1855. His wife reached the age of eighty-six years and died in 1875. Their children were Philo, William W., Lucy A., Clement (deceased), Abigail, Clement, second, Amelia, Martha and Mary (twins), Benjamin OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 593 D., Handel and Charles S. Mr. Wright was a strong anti-slavery man and his house was a station on the underground railroad, and he assisted several slaves on their way to Canada. He voted for James G. Birney, first and only abolition candidate for president of the United States. Mr. Wright was a man of excellent character and a substantial farmer. His wife was the first school-teacher in Tallmadge, teaching in 1809. Dr. Leonard Bacon, LL. D., son of David Bacon, the home missionary, who was one of the original proprietors of Tallmadge, Ohio, attended this school, and he afterward became famous as a professor in Yale college. Elizur Wright was also a pupil. He was the son of Deacon Elizur Wright and became famous as an actuary in Boston. Mrs. Wright also taught a pioneer school at Hudson, Ohio, and among her pupils was the famous John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. These, and others, almost equally famous, were accustomed to visit her in after years. When seventeen years old she came with Mr. Kent's family, in 1807, through Tallmadge. The roads had not been cut through and she sat on a log in Tallmadge Center while a way was cut. She taught but the two terms above referred to and then married Mr. Wright. Alpha Wright was a soldier in the war of 1812, was called out to protect the frontier and was stationed near Sandusky for a few months; a son, Philo, was born while he was away. His house was a rendezvous for the home guard during part of that time. This branch of the Wright family has always been educated—Philo and William, brothers of Mrs. Carter, were both graduates of Western Reserve college; a sister, Mary, married Sidney Edgerton, who later became governor of Montana; two sisters married clergymen. Two of Mr. and Mrs. Carter's sons are graduates of Oberlin college—Rev. Homer W. and Charles E.—and Howard is professor of music at Oberlin, having spent three years in Europe in studying this art. Charles E. is studying medicine in the New York university. Rev. Homer W. Carter, of Beloit, Wis., is home secretary of the Home Missionary society. The first school for the deaf and dumb was held at the residence of Alpha Wright in 1828– 29, and was taught by Col. Smith, who died in the Sixth ward in Akron. He was the founder of the institution for deaf and dumb at Columbus, and was formerly from Hartford, Conn. Mary A. Carter, the daughter, was educated at Oberlin, and taught a missionary school at Selma, Ala., one year. She went to Montana in 1884 and in 1886 took up a ranch—pre-empting a claim of 160 acres, situated near where the city of Great Falls now is—then a hamlet and now a city of 12,000 persons. She is a lady of literary culture and assisted in editing the Pioneer Women of Tallmadge under the auspices of the Western Reserve Historical society. MRS. HENRY CASE.—This lady is the widow of one of the prominent and substantial citizens of Hudson township, now deceased— Henry Case—who was born on the Case homestead October 3o, 1817, son of Chauncy and Cleopatra (Hayes) Case. Henry Case received the common education of his day, became a farmer, a pursuit which he always followed. He married Mary L. Goodman, October 27, 1847. She was born in Connecticut September 7, 1828, at Hartford. Henry Case and wife settled on the Case homestead after marriage, and she now lives on part of the estate with her daughter, Mrs. Hood. Mr. and Mrs. Case were both members of the Congregational church. Politically he was a republican. His children were Nelson, born September 13, 1848, now living 594 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD in Hudson township, where he is a prominent farmer; Eugene was born June 27, 1850, lives in Mentor, where he is a merchant; Eliza E. was born February 13, 1854, and died July 22, 1875; Frank was born January 17, 1852, and died June 14, 1858; John Goodman, born August 11, 1856, graduated from the Western Reserve college in 1881, and is now a farmer in Hudson township, near the homestead; Edmund W., born November 1, 1858, is a carpenter and builder at Earlville; Hattie S., born January 13, 1861; Frederick C., was born July 19, 1863, and died October 24, 1890; Mary L. was born October 26, 1865, and Clara C., born March 25, 1868. Mary L. was married, August 24, 1892, to John B. Hobart, a native of Ohio, a descendant of ante-Revolutionary ancestors, a graduate of Adelbert college, Cleveland, and also of a theological institute in the east, and now a minister in the Presbyterian church. Politically Henry Case was a republican. He inherited and purchased the Chauncy Case homestead, consisting of about 275 acres, and by his thrift and industry he added to it until he owned a handsome property of 375 acres. He greatly improved the buildings and erected, just prior to his death, a very substantial modern barn. He was a prosperous farmer, well known for his sterling worth, and had justly earned a reputation as a straightforward and honest man. The genealogy of Mrs. Henry Case is as follows: She descends from Deacon Richard Goodman, who came to Cambridge, Mass., in 1632; to Hartford, Conn., in 1639, and was one of the original proprietors of that town. His house-lot was on Main street, directly north of the " meeting house " yard. He was " townsman ," " surveyor of common lands and fences ," " fence viewer ," "juror ," "sergeant of the train band ," " constable." He married Mary, daughter of Stephen Terry, who was one of the settlers of Hadley, and was slain by the Indians in 1676, aged about sixty-seven years. The above facts about Deacon Richard Goodman entitle the ladies of this family to be members of the " Society of Colonial Dames ." His son, Richard Goodman, was born 1663 and died 1730. His son, Timothy Goodman, was born September, 1706, in West Hartford, and died 1786; married in 1735, Joana, daughter of Joseph and Jane Wadsworth and granddaughter of Capt. Joseph Wadsworth, of Hartford, who in 1687 saved the charter of Connecticut from seizure by Gov. Andros, and hid it in the Charter Oak of that city. His son, Richard Goodman, born April 10, 1748, and died May, 1834, married Nancy Seymour, of West Hartford, in 1771, and had thirteen children; Richard Goodman served from April 21 to June 6, 1777, in Lieut. Seymour's company of Col. Belden's regiment of Connecticut militia. His son, the twelfth child, Sylvester Goodman, born April 18, 1789, married January I, 1810, Rebecca, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Rebecca (Ives) Hough; she was born August 29, 1789, and resided in West Hartford many years. He died in Wolcottville, Conn., November 8, 1834. She moved to Atwater, Ohio, in 1835, and died in Hudson, Ohio, in 1853. They had seven children, viz: Nancy Seymour; Emeline; Henry; Eliza A., who married John Buss and died May 21, 1889; Thomas Richard; Susan Gaylord; Mary Lucia, married Henry Case October 27, 1847. There was a John Goodman who came to this country in 1620. He was, however, a single man, and died in 1621; nothing further is known about him. The ancestry of the Goodman family is taken from the records in the state library of Albany, N. Y., by Mrs. Ella Buss Seymour. Of Chauncy Case's children, Laura died November 30, 1825, in Hudson, a single lady OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 595 aged about twenty-three years; Chauncy married, first, Dollie Blair, and then Sarah Wilcox. He moved to McComb, Ill., and there died. Clarinda married Alvin Loomis; Perintha married Amos Woods; Lucian married Julia Pitkin and for his second wife he married Lucia Lyman. He moved to McComb, Ill. Amelia married Charles Hunt, now deceased, and lived in Cuyahoga Falls; Maria married John W. Gross. Frank F. Barlow, of Hudson, Ohio, is a substantial farmer and respected citizen. He was born on April 25, 1858, at Mariaville, Schenectady county, N. Y. He married Hattie S. Case December 12, 1883. She was born on the old Case homestead January 13, 1861, daughter of Henry and Mary (Goodman) Case. To Mr. and Mrs. Barlow have been born three children, viz: Henry C., born December 22, 1885; Harley E., born February 14, 1887, and died February 16, 1894; Clara M., born June 22, 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow are both members of the Congregational church at Hudson. Politically he is a republican. Mr. Barlow is one of the representative and practical farmers of Hudson township. James M. Hood was born in Tennessee at Flat Creek, August I, 1863, son of Hezekiah and Emily (Jones) Hood. It is believed that William Hood, the grandfather, was born in Connecticut, fifty-four miles east of Hartford, of English descent. He married and settled in Tennessee, near Flat Creek, where he bought a large plantation and was a slaveholder. He was a brother of Gen. Hood, of the Confederate army. He freed his slaves a few years before the Civil war and after the war he removed to West Virginia, where he bought a farm and passed his remaining days. He lived to the venerable age of eighty-eight years and died in 1890 or 1891. Hezekiah Hood, father of James M., was born about 1831, in Connecticut, and was a small boy when he went with his father to Tennessee. He was a blacksmith by trade and married in Allegheny, Pa. He settled in Tennessee and moved to Virginia during the Civil war, passing through the Confederate lines to the northern army. He died near Marietta, Ohio, aged about forty-five years, the father of six children and a member of the Presbyterian church. James M. Hood received a common-school education in Noble county, Ohio, and early began to work on the farm—was fireman for a time on a railroad, carne to Summit county in 1887, and was clerk for a time in Ravenna in the hardware and agricultural implement business. He married, November 13, 1895, in Hudson, Ohio, Clara C. Case, born March 25, 1868, daughter of Henry and Mary (Goodman) Case. After marriage Mr. Hood settled on part of the old homestead, and has a good farm of too acres. LORA CASE, one of the most venerable and honored citizens of Summit county, a pioneer and a man who was always identified with the best interests of humanity, sprang from sterling English descent on the Case side, who came from England in the old colonial Puritan times. Richard Case, great-grandfather of subject, was the father of Richard Case, the grandfather of subject, who was a farmer of Hartford county, Conn., and to his marriage were born Richard, Sterling, George, Chauncy, Gideon, Ruth, and others not remembered. Richard, the grandfather of subject, lived to be an aged man and died in Connecticut. He had a brother who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and was killed by a spent cannon ball. A premium was offered for British cannon balls found in battle, and he and another soldier attempted to stop an apparently slow-moving ball and was instantly killed. 596 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Chauncy Case, son of Richard, was the father of Lora Case, was born in Hartford county, Conn., November 20, 1775, and became a farmer. He married, in 1801, Cleopatra Hayes, born September 4, 1779, and the children were Laura, born August 30, 1802; Chauncy, born October 26, 1803; Clarinda, born January 27, 1808; Parintha, born April 10, 1810; Lora, born November 17, 181i; Edward, born August 15, 1814; Lucian, born July 3, 1816; Henry, born October 30, 1817; Amelia, born November 6, 1819; Maria, born May 8, 1822. Chauncy Case owned a good farm in the town of Granby, Hartford county, Conn. He moved with his family to Summit county, Ohio, arriving at Hudson July 4, 1814, having made the journey with a two-horse team, and had a milk cow tied on behind for milk for the children. They were six weeks on the way. His brother-in-law, Gideon Mills (who had married his wife's sister, Dorothy Hayes), and his family came with the party. Chauncy Case settled in Hudson, in the east part of town, on a farm of 160 acres, about twenty acres having been cleared and a hewed log house having been built, but not finished, having neither door, chimney nor window nor floor. Mr. Case put in a puncheon floor, and improved his house, and built, the second year, a frame barn. He cleared up his farm and became a substantial farmer and made a good pioneer home, and here the last five children were born. Mrs. Case was a member of the Congregational church and Mr. Case was an old-line whig in politics and an abolitionist. He was a sturdy pioneer and lived to be about eighty-four years old, and died in May, 1865. He was a very industrious and hard-working man, much respected as a substantial farmer and good citizen. Lora Case, son of above and the subject of this sketch, was born November 17, 1811, in Granby township, Hartford county, Conn., and was about two and a half years old when brought by his parents to Ohio; was brought up among the pioneers and received a pioneer common-school education in a log house at Darrowvi!le, but always took a great interest in reading good books and a wide interest in all political matters, and improved his mind. He worked hard at clearing land and on the farm when young. He married, at the age of about twenty-five years, May 10, 1837, in Hudson, Ohio, Sarah A. Wright, born May 8, 1814, in Sharon, Conn., a daughter of Thomas and Clarissa (Hollenbeck) Wright. Thomas Wright was a farmer born in Connecticut and married there, and was of English ancestry. Their children were William, Samuel, Sarah A., Mary, George, Jeremiah, Henry and Fredrick. Thomas Wright moved to Summit county, Ohio, in 1815, and settled in Hudson township, cleared up a farm from the woods, and there passed the remainder of his days. He was a member of the Congregational church and highly respected by all. He died at the age of seventy-five years. Lora Case and wife settled on a farm of 160 acres in the woods in Streetsboro township, Portage county, near the line. He cleared up this farm and had paid $5 per acre, his father giving him the first payment of $5, and by diligence and hard work, aided by his helpful wife, he made a good farm and home, and in 1864 sold this farm and moved to another, which consisted of 164 acres when he bought it, but he sold all but sixty acres. He built good buildings and made a good home. To Mr. and Mrs. Case were born Chauncy, Ellen, Julian and Wilbert. Mrs. Case died December 8, 1888, a member of the Congregational church at Hudson, and a woman of many virtues. In politics Mr. Case was a whig and an abolitionist, and was one of the founders of the republican party in Portage county, and voted for John C. Fremont. He OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 597 was a stanch lover of freedom and was connected with the under ground railroad, and his house was a station on this famous secret route, and he, a number of times, afforded shelter to the down-trodden slaves on their way north. At one time in the fifties, in the fall of the year, a colored man from Ravenna (a hackman for Samuel Taylor, who was a Quaker tavern-keeper of that place), drove out in the uight and called upon Mr. Case and told him that Samuel Taylor had sent him seven fugitive slaves, and that men were on their track at Ravenna. Mr. Case's house was selected because it was a little off the usual route, which was via David Lane's, who lived at Streetsboro, and thus the pursuers were thrown off the track. Mr. Case kept them from Friday night until Sunday night, and then drove them to Hudson to John Markley, who immediately drove them to a Mr. Johnson's, at Northfield, who drove them to Cleveland, where they were placed on a steamboat and taken safely to Canada. This party consisted of four men and two women—all young—and a child. They kept very quiet and seemed depressed and fearful, and said but little and kept close to the barns, and could not at first be induced to come to the house for food. This kind of work in the cause of liberty was dangerous, for many would have gladly given information and caused the arrest of those who aided the slaves to escape, as they were liable to a fine and imprisonment and the price of the slaves. Thus these fearless men risked their property and even liberty to help the down-trodden to freedom—who were strangers to them and whom they never saw again. They were simply instruments for the great cause of liberty, and many a slave was thus taken to Canada and freedom. Mr. Case was always industrious and has all his life been an active temperance worker, and voted for prohibition during its advocacy by GreenClay Smith, and was a faithful laborer in the good cause. He was a much respected and well-known pioneer, was a man of intelligence and ability, and died July 14, 1897, deeply mourned by the entire community. His reminiscences are just now appearing in the Hudson Independent. WILLIAM E. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D., of Akron, Ohio, is of sterling English descent, and is the son of a physician, who reared four sons to the profession of medicine, to which complicated science natnre seems to have peculiarly adapted the male members of this honored family. The ancestors of the doctor, on coming to America, settled near Charleston, S. C., and from these descended Jacob F. Chamberlain, the grandfather of Dr. William E., and the father of Dr. Charles W. Chamberlain. The last-named is a renowned practitioner and has had an extended experience in Cumberland, Md., Wheeling, W. Va.. and in Ohio, and is still in active practice. He married, in Allegheny county, Pa., Miss Lovinah LaCock, daughter of David LaCock, and to this union have been born Dr. William E., Dr. G. W. E., Dr. Jacob F., Dr. Norman W. (deceased), Louisa, Adelaide (deceased) and Lovinah P. Of the sons, three served in the Civil war—Doctors William E., G. W. E. and Jacob F. Dr. G. W. E. serving as chief of saddlery in the Sixth Ohio cavalry, and Dr. Jacob F. in the Second Ohio, same branch of service. Dr. William E. Chamberlain was born in Allegheny City, Pa., November 29, 1840, and received his preparatory education at Marietta, Ohio. He then studied medicine under his father, Dr. Charles W. Chamberlain, and also pursued a course of study in chemistry and pharmaceutics; in 1863 and 1864 he attended 598 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD the medical department of the university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and later graduated from the Charity Medical college, at Cleveland, Ohio (in the spring of 1879), receiving his degree of M. D., and still later received an ad eundem degree from the medical department of the Wooster university, Cleveland, and is now, also, an alumnus of the Western Reserve college of Cleveland, a member of the Northeastern Ohio Medical society and of the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical society; he possesses a valuable library of well-selected works pertaining to his science, and keeps well abreast of every advance made in its progress. Dr. Chamberlain began the actual practice of his profession at the age of seventeen years, at Peninsula, Ohio, in conjunction with his father, with whom he remained until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in company D, First Ohio light artillery, and was soon afterward detailed as surgeon. He served at Ivy Mountain, Green River, Preston-burg, East Liberty, Louisa, Ky., and was also in many skirmishes, but was finally taken sick from exposure during a severe snow-storm, which led to his confinement in hospital at Louisville, Ky., and at Columbus, Ohio, and also received other injuries, from which he never fully recovered, being still deprived of hearing in one of his ears. His term of service continued through thirteen months, when he was honorably discharged on account of disability, although he was a man of very robust constitution prior to his enlistment. The first marriage of Dr. Chamberlain took place March 31, 1862, at Liverpool, Medina county, Ohio, to Miss Mary Prichard, a native of the place, and a daughter of Sheldon and Marietta Prichard, and to this union was born one child— Myrtle M., February 3, 1868. Having been deprived by death of his first companion, the doctor next married Miss Elizabeth R. Greer. January 10, 1875, Dr. Chamberlain came to Akron, and here has made a reputation that might be envied by any physician, being indisputably recognized as the most skillful practitioner in the city, to which recognition he is well entitled, having now been in active practice in Summit county for over thirty-two consecutive years. Here his social relations are of the most pleasant character, and fraternally he is an honored Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of Buckley post, No. 12, Grand Army of the Republic. The doctor's maternal ancestors, the La-Cook family, were of sterling Scotch-Irish origin. The founder of the family in America settled in Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1727, where he purchased several hundred acres of land, and reached the patriarchal age of 107 years, and then met his death by violence, being shot with arrows by Indians in the war of 1812. David LaCook, the maternal grandfather of the doctor, married a Miss Pattent, the union resulting in the birth of five children, viz: Sarah, David, Joseph, Mary and Lovinah P. The father of this family also lived to a great age—100 years—and at his death his hair had not turned gray and his teeth were still perfectly sound. His wife also reached the age of 100 years, and the demise of both took place in Pennsylvania, where they were among the most honored of the pioneers. CHARLES C. CONAGHAN, one of the old soldiers of the Civil war, and a respected citizen and merchant of Tallmadge, Ohio, was born in Carey, Wyandot county, Ohio, October 16, 1842, a son of Charles C. and Mary A. (Bardoon) Conaghan. The Conaghans were of Irish, and the Bardoons of French ancestry. Dennis Conaghan, the grandfather of C. OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 599 C. Conaghan, the subject of this memoir, was born in Ireland, first settled in Adams county, Pa., and was a pioneer farmer of Stark county, Ohio, where he settled about 1825, but moved to Wyandot county. Charles C. Conaghan, the father of subject, was a farmer of Wyandot county, Ohio, and his children were Charles C., our subject, and A. F. Mr. Conaghan died a young man, aged thirty-two years, and his widow then marrried William Best, to which union four children were born, viz: Mary E., Agatha, Louisa and Matilda. Charles C. Canaghan, the subject of this memoir, was reared on a farm in Wyandot county, and enlisted in Tiffin, Ohio, August 12, 1861, in company B, Forty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, under Col. W. H. Gibson and Capt. B. S. Porter, served out his time and was honorably discharged at Chatanooga, Tenn., September 5, 1864. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Liberty Gap, and Chickamauga, where he was wounded September 19, 1863. He was also in the Atlanta campaign and in the battles of Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Adairsville, Cassville, Pickett's Mills, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, and the siege and general assault of Atlanta. The Forty-ninth Ohio has 113 men buried at Marietta, Ga., in the National cemetery. Mr. Conaghan was taken prisoner at Lawrenceburg, Ky., October 8, 1862, by Kirby Smith's command and paroled on the spot and sent home. The wound Mr. Conaghan received at Chickamauga was by a shot through the right leg just above the knee, from which he was confined in hosaital No, 5, at Nashville, for four weeks and then received a furlough home for sixty days; after partial recovery he served with the Sixty-eighth Indiana volunteer infantry two months, not being able to join his regiment, but finally rejoined it at Cleveland, Tenn. Mr. Conaghan considers his hardest march to have been from Battle Creek, Tenn., to Louisville, Ky., a distance of about 30o miles, leaving Battle Creek, Tenn., August 16, 1862, and arriving at Louisville, about September 29-3o, 1862, suffering severely from heat and dust, lack of salt and food, living on green corn and bread which the soldiers baked at the camp fires themselves. Mr. Conaghan crossed, with his regiment, the state of Kentucky three times and five times across the state of Tennessee. His regiment traveled about 12,000 miles on foot, by water and by rail. Pickett's Mill he considers to have been his hardest-fought battle. Mr. Conaghan was always an active soldier, and with the exception of the battles fought while he was wounded and a paroled prisoner, was in all the battles of his regiment, its skirmishes, marches and campaigns. After the war Mr. Conaghan returned to Carey, Wyandot county, Ohio, and in the spring of 1865 went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he took a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's college and immediately thereafter engaged in bookkeeping in Cleveland, where he remained six months. In February, 1866, he came to Akron, Ohio, and engaged in the coal trade, at which he continued one year. He married, while living in Akron, Miss Olive R. Ellis, who was born December 15, 1847, in Akron, a daughter of Joseph D. and Mary A. (Brown) Ellis, and to this union were born two children—Nellie L. and Mary B. After marriage Mr. Conaghan located in New Portage, where he was engaged for one and a half years in the grocery business, and came to Tallmadge in 1870. Here he was employed as clerk for W. E. Hinman until 1885; in 1886 Mr. Conaghan engaged in business at Tallmadge with Frank E. Hine, but Mr. Hine died in 1892, and since that time Mr. Conaghan has conducted.the business alone. Mr.