650 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD township, Summit county, June 19, 1835. He was a farmer and also traveling salesman, and married Catherine Hull, daughter of John and Catherine Hull. Mr. Laudenslager settled in Suffield township and moved in 1874 to Brimfield township, where he bought too acres of land and had a good home and farm. He was a life-long member of the German Reformed church, in which he was a deacon many years, taking his father's place. He was an active church worker and assisted to build the present Reformed church in his township. His children were Allen, Emanuel, Lyman, George, Frank and Mary. Mr. Laudenslager was an upright and practical business man, greatly respected in his community, and a good friendly neighbor. He died May 27, 1897. Lyman Laudenslager, our subject, received a good common-school education in the district schools, and was reared to farming. He next became a foreman of a company of men in the roofing business with his father, and afterward, in 188o, a foreman in the Carriage Gear works of Hudson. He married, February 24, 1886, Miss Aurie Post, who was born at Twinsburg, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1861, a daughter of Ebdyingr and Maria (Davis) Post. Mr. Post was a pioneer farmer of Twinsburg and a prominent stock dealer and speculator. Mr. Laudenslager engaged in the livery business in Ohio in 1886, in company with H. Wehner and Andrew May. Mr. Laudenslager and Mr. May bought out Mr. Wehner two and a half years later, and Mr. Laudenslager bought out Mr. May in 1892 and became sole proprietor, and has since conducted the business. He has a well-equipped stable and keeps a first-class livery—one of the best in he county. Mr. Laudenslager is entirely a self-made man, having accumulated his property solely by his own exertions. In politics he is a stanch democrat and has been twice a member of the council of Hudson. He is a member of the German reformed church of Suffield township and assisted to build its church. Mr. Laudenslager is a man of straightforward honesty of character among the people of the county, and as a business man is exceedingly popular. He has prospered by his thrift, industry and integrity. Mr. Laudenslager has just bought, in company with E. W. Eby and Robert Adams, a large and first-class flouring-mill at Clinton, Ohio, but will still continue to reside in Hudson. He is a very public-spirited man and takes an active interest in all public improvements. RICHARD LIMBER, a practical builder and carpenter of Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, and an ex-soldier, is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Keller) Limber, and was born in Tallmadge, May 12, 1838. Isaac Limber was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, and is thought to have been of Irish ancestry, the surname being at one t me in tie past spelled Lambert. His wife, Nancy Keller, was of Pennsylvania-Dutch and English descent. Isaac was a carpenter by trade, and came to Tallmadge township from Mahoning county about 1835, and here passed the remainder of his life, d3ing at the age of sixty-five years. He and wife were the parents of twelve children, viz: John, Alexander, Jefferson, Allen, Jesse, Otto, Richard, Hiram, Sarah A., Elizabeth, Fannie and Valentine who died at the age of three years. Five of these boys were soldiers in the Civil war, viz: Jefferson, Allen, Jesse, Otto and Richard. Of these, Jefferson was in the One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio, 100too-day service; Allen and Otto were in the three years' service in the Sixty-fourth Ohio infantry, and Jesse was in the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio infantry, in the three-year service. Richard's mil- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 651 itary record will be mentioned more fully. Isaac Limber was a skillful mechanic, was a man of good education and fine intellectual capacity and genial disposition, and was much respected by all who knew him. Richard Limber received a fair common-school education and was reared to farm labor. He enlisted at Tallmadge, August 22, 1862, and was mustered in at Massillon, Ohio, under Capt. Joseph W. McConnell, in company I, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, Col. J. A. Lucy, to served three years or through the war, if sooner ended, and end it did before he received his honorable discharge at Cleveland, Ohio, July 5, 1865, having been mustered out at Murfreesboro, Tenn.--just two months short of three years from the date of his enlistment. His services in the army were rendered at Cincinnati, Ohio, for about a year; thence his regiment was sent to Nashville, Tenn., where it was divided, part going to Murfreesboro, and to this part Mr. Limber was attached, and there he remained, guarding the military works and the city until discharged. His only time off duty was when he was laid up a month with typhoid fever in Cincinnati, and one month at Murfreesboro. After the war Mr. Limber returned to Tallmadge, and learned carpentering, bricklaying and plastering, and is now able to construct all kinds of buildings, and building has since been his occupation. January 2, 1869, he married, in Tallmadge, Miss Hattie G. Ogle, the nuptial knot being tied by Rev. Benjamin F. Wade, a Methodist clergyman. Miss Ogle was born in Barrow Waterside, Lincolnshire, England, December I I, 1848, a daughter of Richard and Sarah (Thompson) Ogle. To Mr. and Mrs. Limber the following-named children have been born: Edward L. (who died at the age of three years), Perry R., Philo E. and Clinton B. The surviving children have all been well educated, Philo E. being a grad-. uate of the Tallmadge high school. Richard Ogle, father of Mrs. Limber, was a brick and tile foreman for his father in England. To his marriage with Miss Sarah Thompson were born George, Elizabeth, Atkin, William, Sarah, Hattie G. and Mary in England, and after coming to America, in 1851, there were born to him Richard, Henry, Charles, Thomas and Rebecca. After coming to America, Mr. Ogle located in Tallmadge. township and engaged in farming; two years later he sent for his then family, who arrived in the spring of 1853, and here remained until 1868, when he removed to Clark, and then to Edgar county, Ill., where he died at the age of seventy-one years. Two of his sons served in the Civil war—Atkin in the One. Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio infantry for co days; William was in the Ohio cavalry, in the three-year service, acted as scout for Sherman in his march to the sea, was captured by the enemy, and eventually died from the effects of prison life. Mr. and Mrs. Limber and family are members of the Methodist church, and Mr. Limber is a member of Buckley post, G. A. R., at. Akron. In politics he is a republican and has held the office of township supervisor, but has been content rather to pursue a profitable private business than to trust to the precarious profits of public position, and in this respect he shows the sound sense for which he is given. universal credit, as well as for his many other good qualities. LORAIN H. LOCKERT, of Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, is one of the old soldiers of the Civil war, is a respected citizen and the head of an excellent family. He was born in Richfield. township, January 24, 1840, a son of James 652 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD and Minerva (Moon) Lockert, or, as the name was originally spelled, Lockhart. He received a common-school education, was reared as a farmer and enlisted August 29, 1864, in company H, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, at West Richfield, Ohio, and was mustered in at Camp Cleveland, Ohio, and served until honorably discharged June 15, 1865, from the hospital at David's Island, New York harbor. He was in the battles of the Cedars, at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Fort Fisher, Town Creek, Wilmingion, and in the last of the Atlanta campaign, and at Goldsboro. Mr. Lockert was always an active soldier, prompt and cheerful in the discharge of his duty, and was in all the campaigns, battles, skirmishes and marches in which his regiment took part. He was not wounded, nor a prisoner, but at Raleigh, N. C., he was taken sick with camp fever and was in hospital at Raleigh and New Berne, N. C., thence taken on a hospital boat to David's Island, New York harbor, and was in hospital altogether about seven weeks. After the war Mr. Lockert returned to Richfield township and resumed farming. He married, January 6, 1870, in Richfield township, Helen Andrew, who was born December 17, 1844, in Boston township, Summit county, Ohio, a daughter of Emanuel and Eleanor (Moffit) Andrew--both natives of England, and who settled in Boston township at an early day, where Mr. Andrew died soon after arriving. Their children were Emanuel, Robert, Ada, Lydia and Helen, of whom Emanuel and Robert were both privates in the Eighty-second Ohio regiment during the Civil war, in the three years' service. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Lockert settled on their present farm of 116 acres. He has greatly improved his farm and built an attractive residence, and is a good, substantial farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Lockert have been born Harley L. and Wilbur H. In politics Mr. Lockert is a republican and is a member of A. N. Goldwood post, G. A. R., at West Richfield, Ohio, and he has held the office of senior vice-commander and quartermaster. James Lockert, father of subject, was born in Galway, Saratoga county, N. Y., of Scotch origin, was a farmer and came to Summit county, Ohio, and settled in Richfield township about 183o or 1832 and bought a small piece of land in the woods, which he cleared up, and then bought the farm where Lorain H. Lockert now lives. He married, in New York state, Miss Minerva Moon, also of American extraction, and the children born to this union were Elizabeth, Julia, Mary, Minerva, James, Alexander and Lorain H. The father, James Lockert, was a member of the Baptist church and a deacon many years. In politics he was a republican and a strong Union man. He went to David's Island, N. Y. harbor, when subject was sick, took care of him for about one week, secured his discharge and brought him home, as he was not expected to live. Mr. Lockert was a well-known and much respected citizen, and was township trustee one year. Lorain H. has also been township trustee five years and holds the office at the present time. CHARLES M. LUSK, of Hudson, Ohio, an ex-soldier of the Civil war, but now a respected farmer, descends from pioneers of Summit county. His grandfather, Capt. Amos Lusk, came from Connecticut, settled in Hudson township in 1801, when it was a wilderness, and cleared up a farm. He was married in Stockbridge, Conn., to Mary Adams, who was born OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 653 in Stockbridge May 15, 1768, a daughter of John Adams, who was a cousin of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Diantha, born January 12, 1801, was married to John Brown, of Osawatomie, Kan., and Harper's Ferry fame, and by him she had five children—John, Jason, Ruth, Owen and Frederick. In June, 1812, the little settlement of Hudson was startled by the announcement of the war with Great Britain. A company was formed at Hudson and surrounding townships and Amos Lusk was appointed captain of the company. The news reached Hudson that Hull had surrendered Detroit, and that the French and Indians in great numbers were making their way down the lake. The settlement was much excited, and preparations were made for placing the women and children in a place of safety, and the militia company was summoned to the place of rendezvous, and on a Sabbath morning Capt. Lusk paraded his company on the green and was prepared to act on the first order, when a messenger from Cleveland announced that the forces approaching were paroled troops of Gen. Hull. Later Capt. Lusk's company was ordered to old Portage, was placed under Gen. Wadsworth's command, and afterward was ordered to Hudson and Sandusky, and served three months, but saw no battle. Capt. Lusk settled in Hudson township on the farm now occupied by Charles M. Lusk. He cleared up a good farm from the woods, became a substantial citizen, and died May 24, 1813—aged forty years—from the effects of a fever contracted during the war of 1812. His children were Minerva, Lorin, Edward, Milton A., and Sophia, who married a Mr. Clow. Milton A. Lusk, father of our subject, was born June 2, 1803, in Hudson, Ohio, on the homestead, received a pioneer education, was reared a farmer, and learned the hatter's trade. He married, at the age of twenty-three, Dency Preston, born in Canton, Mass., and their children were Henry, Lorin, Charles, Lucy and Amos. Mrs. Lusk died, and he married Sallie Secoy (nee Post), born September 14, 1815, in Westbrook, Conn., a daughter of Joshua and Mollie (Dee) Post. She was the eleventh daughter of a family of thirteen children—all living to be over sixty years of age, with one exception. Mr. and Mrs. Lusk had one daughter, Dency. Mr. Lusk was a substantial farmer, owning the old homestead of 116 acres and was a respected and industrious man, and was a strict abolitionist. His house was a station on the Under Ground railroad and he assisted in carrying runaway slaves to places of safety. He was a member of the Congregational church, a teacher and superintendent of the Sunday-school, and his father, Amos Lusk, was one of the founders of the first Congregational church at Hudson, September 4, 1802. He lived to the venerable age of eighty-one years, and died at Macedonia, Ohio, a highly respected citizen. Charles M. Lusk, our subject, was born October 28, 1832, on the old homestead, received a common education and learned farming, engineering and steam fitting. In Bedford, Ohio, at the age of twenty-seven years, in April, 1860, he inarried Mary J. Snow, a native of Independence, Ohio, and by her he , had one child—Nellie E.—the mother being now deceased. Mr. Lusk first settled in Bed-, ford, Ohio, and then went to Newberg, where he was engineer at the State Lunatic asylum. He next returned to the home farm and enlisted, at Hudson, in December, 1863, in Capt. J. R. Sanford's company E, One Hun-- dred and Twenty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Columbus, 654 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Ohio, July 5, 1865, the war having closed. MOst of his service was ion Johnson's Island, as guard at the celebrated prison for Confederate officers, and where there were at one time, 3,300 prisoners., Mr. Lusk assisted in calling the roll in the prison for eighteen months, and has a correct knowledge of the treatment of these men. He says that they Were well supplied with United States blankets, and plenty of wood was furnished for fires. The prison was a stockade and barracks, and as good as was furnished for the guards. The food was good, with fresh bread daily and fresh meat was furnished three times a week, and other rations were abundant. They were furnished with tea and coffee until late in the War, when, as the Union prisoners were starving in rebel prison-pens, these luxuries were shut off. Medical attendance was given them. Several plans were formed by the Confederates for escape, but they were frustrated. After his service, Mr. Lusk returned to Newberg, and was an engineer a few years; then was first engineer for the city work-house four years, and then engaged in steam fitting in Cleveland for three years; was next janitor of the Central high school at Cleveland, and afterward did repair work for the Cleveland board of education and followed stationary 'engineering. In June, 1895, he came to his present farm of thirty-five acres, which he had purchased the year previous, and built an attractive residence. Mr. Lusk married, for his second wife, Mrs. Jane Louise Nelson (nee Giffin), born in Auburn, N. Y., a daughter of William and Jane W. Giffin. Mr. and Mrs. Lusk had the following children: Nellie E., Rollin W. and Milton W. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lusk and Nellie, Rollin W. and Milton W. are members of the Congregational church, and in politics Mr. Lusk is a republican. He is a member of the Knights of Honor of Cleveland, and at one time held the office of financial reporter. He is also a member of Gen. W. T. Sherman post, G. A. R. JOHN H. McCRUM, treasurer of the Akron Varnish company of Akron, Ohio, was born in Altoona, Blair county, Pa., July 3, 1865, and is a son of Ephraim B. McCrum, who was born at Mifflintown, Pa., October 7, 1833, and is a son of John H. and Margaret M. (Grier) McCrum, also natives of Mifflintown, Pa. The McCrum family was one of the earliest to settle in Juniata county, Pa. The grandfather of J. H. McCrum was a farmer and miller. He was very prominent in the whig party, was twice elected under its auspices to the Pennsylvania legislature, and died in 1854, at the comparatively young age of thirty-seven years. The Grier family was also among the early OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 655 settlers of Juniata county, the maternal great-grandfather of the subject of this review having come from the north of Ireland. His wife bore the maiden name of Priscilla McClellan, and was a relative of the famous Houstons, of Texas, and also distantly related to a former president of the United States, James Buchanan. The grandparents of Mr. McCrum were members of the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian church, the father being a man of unusual public spirit and active in all things that tended to the public weal. John H. McCrum was educated in the public schools of his native city, and shortly after his school days were over he entered an insurance company's office, where he performed clerical work for two years. In January, 1882, he entered the office of the B. F. Goodrich company of Akron, Ohio, with which he held a position as clerk until the fall of 1883, when he accepted a situation as corresponding clerk with the King Varnish company, and in May, 1886, was elected its secretary. In 1889, in conjunction with D. R. Paige, he bought out this company, which was later incorporated as the Imperial Varnish company, and Mr. McCrum became its president. January 27, 1897, the Akron Varnish company was incorporated, with a paid-up capital stock of $250,000, as successors to Kubler & Beck and the Imperial Varnish company, and is officered as follows: E. G. Kubler, president; J. M. Beck, vice-president and general superintendent; J. H. McCrum, treasurer, and S. H. Kohler, secretary, its plants being Factory A, corner of Main and State streets, and Factory B, on North Canal street. Mr. McCrum has always been active in promoting the business interests of Akron since his residence in the city, has interests in its mercantile or manufacturing concerns, outside his interest in the Akron Varnish company, and is altogether a wide-awake, up-to-date young man of business. The marriage of Mr. McCrum took place January 14, 1891, to Miss Sarah E. Motz, daughter of Henry M. Motz, of Akron, and this happy union has been blessed by the birth of two children—Ralph and Helen. The residence of the family is at No. 208 Adolph avenue, and a happier one is not to be found in Akron. In his politics Mr. McCrum is a stanch republican, but has never sought official preferment. ROBERT ALEXANDER McKENZIE, a respectable young farmer of Northampton township, Summit county, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, April 25, 1861, a son of James and Nancy (Karr) McKenzie. His grandparents, Brodie and Jane (Young) McKenzie, were natives, respectively, of Scotland and Ireland, and were the parents of four sons and two daughters. Brodie McKenzie came to America in 1818, and Jane Young came to America with her parents, William and Elizabeth Young, here married and settled in Holmes county, Ohio, about 1823. James McKenzie was reared a farmer and also learned the carpenter's trade. He served in the 100-day service in a Holmes county regiment of volunteer infantry during the Civil war, and in 186 settled in Northampton, Summit county, where his death took place in 1890. He had led an industrious, upright and honorable life, and had won the respect and good will of all his neighbors, without exception. The nine children born to him and wife were named,. in order of birth, Martha Jane, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Ellen, Matilda Ann, Robert Alexander, William Gibson, Clemenzie, Nora and John Calvin, of whom 656 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD the younger two were born in Northampton township. Robert A. McKenzie, whose name opens this sketch. remained at home with his parents until eighteen years of age, when he hired out 'on a farm; two years later he began working at the carpenter's trade, and this trade he has followed ever since in connection with farming. March 6, 1888, Mr. McKenzie married Miss Irena May Wild, daughter of Frederick and Susan (Brumbaugh) Wild, of Northampton township, and of whom more may be read in the memoir of Solomon C. Wild, a brother of Mrs. McKenzie, to be found on another page. Three children have blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. McKenzie, viz: Nancy Leota, born August 17, 1891; Olan Alexander, born November 3, 1892, and Ruth Irene, born November 20, 1895. In 1896 Mr. McKenzie bought a good farm of forty acres, on which he has already made many notable improvements, his skill as a carpenter coming into good play in this respect. As he had passed his early life on his father's farm, he is as well qualified for the calling of an agriculturist as he is for following his trade of carpenter, and his success in the former will be merely a matter of time. In politics Mr. McKenzie is a stanch republican, and with his wife is a member of the United Presbyterian church. He is very popular in his township, is respected as an upright citizen, and esteemed as an industrious young man who has earned his property by his personal efforts. BRYAN MARTIN, one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and a popular and careful official of Northfield township, Summit county, Ohio, was born January 6, 1829, in county Meath, Ireland, a son of Patrick and Elizabeth (Kiernan) Martin. Mr. Martin received his education in Ireland and came to America when a young man, embarking at Liverpool, England, March 29, 1849, on the good ship Silas Greenwood, and landing in New York city May 4, 1849. Mr. Martin came directly to Ohio, via the canal and steamboat. He worked on the state boat three years, making repairs on the Miami & Erie canal, and also worked at farm work until July 5, 1854, when he married Miss Mary Howard, who was born in county Wicklow, Ireland, in March, 1834, a daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Highington) Howard. Benjamin Howard was an English soldier and was at the battle of New Orleans. He married in Ireland, and his children were Benjamin, Thomas, Edward, Catherine, Ann and Mary. Mrs. Martin's mother died when Mrs. Martin was about two years old and the latter was reared by her father until twelve years of age, when she came to America, in 1847, with her brother Thomas and her sisters Catherine and Ann, and settled in Northfield township. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Martin settled in Northfield township, and Mr. Martin was engaged in various kinds of work until 1865, when he enlisted, at Cleveland, February 15, 1865, for one year or during the war, in company B, One Hundred and Eighty-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, Capt. John H. McGrath, and served in Tennessee at Murfreesboro and Tullahoma. Mr. Martin was company clerk, and after a month's service was detailed to be clerk at Gen. Dudley's headquarters, in Tullahoma, as he wrote a clear and beautiful hand, and served in this position until honorably discharged, September 2 2 , 1865. Mr. Martin then returned to Ohio and engaged in farming, bought his present premises in 1881, and now has a pleasant home. A republican in politics, he was elected assessor of Northfield township, in 1882, and has held this office to the satis- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 657 faction of the people since that time. His books are very clearly and nicely kept in the plainest of old-fashioned handwriting.. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin have been born Thomas, September 4, 1855; John, October 4, 1857; Mary E., November 22, 1859; Bryan, February 5, 1861; Catherine, July 13, 1863; George, February 16, 1865; Ellen, July 14, 1869; Hattie A., October 14, 1870; Jeannette, November 17, 1871, and Emma M., September 4, 1874. Mr. Martin is a member of George L. Watterman post, G. A. R., at Peninsula, and has always been an industrious and respected citizen, well known for his straightforward dealings and honest character. WILLIAM M. MARTIN, of West Richfield, Summit county, and an old soldier of the Civil war, who has reared an excellent family, springs paternally from sterling Irish ancestry and on the maternal side of sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch stock. He was born May 7, 1839, in Wayne county, Ohio, on a farm four miles north of Wooster, on the old mud pike, a son of William D. and Abigail (Fetterman) Martin. He received a common-school education, was reared to farming, and enlisted when about twenty-one years of age, at Marshallsville, Wayne county, Ohio, September 25, 1861, in company G, Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war, under Capt. Hamilton Richardson and afterward under Capt. Philip Smith, and was honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, November 1, 1864, having served one month, five days, over time. In February, 1862, he was engaged in general reconnoitering at Cumberland Gap, and August 6, 1862, had sharp fighting against a surprise force at Tazewell, Tenn. December 27, 28, 29, was engaged in the battle at Chickasaw Bayou, where the regiment lost very heavily in killed, wounded and missing.. In a charge, December 29, Lieut.-Col. Kershner, eleven company officers and 139 men were taken prisoners. January I r, 1863, Mr. Martin was at the battle of Arkansas Post; April 29, he witnessed the bombardment of Grand Gulf; May 1, he was engaged in the fight at Port Gibson; May 16, 1863, took part in the battle of Champion Hills; May 17, 1863, was in the battle at Black River Bridge; May 19, was in the first charge in the rear of Vicksburg; May 28, was engaged in a general and bloody charge on the enemy, Shotwell, at Vicksburg; July 6, left with the expedition in pursuit of Johnson, and arrived at Jackson, Miss., July 10. Our subject was not in this battle, having been taken prisoner, with seventy-one of his comrades, while acting as guard near Clinton, Miss., but was paroled five days later, the rebels being surrounded at Brandon, Miss. Mr. Martin was sent to St. Louis, Mo., thence to Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., and New Orleans, La., where he was exchanged in November, 1863, and rejoined his regiment there. In April, 1864, he was on the Red River expedition, and was in many skirmishes near Alexandria, while company G was engaged in constructing the famous dam across the Red River, after which they were in camp, most of the time on the Mississippi, until discharged. Mr. Martin was always an active soldier, was not sick in hospital and was prompt and cheerful in the discharge of all his duties. He was in all the battles, skirmishes and campaigns and marches in which his regiment took part, except when a prisoner on parole. After the war, Mr. Martin returned to Stark county, Ohio, and September 17, 1872, married Susan Miller, who was born at Bryan, Williams county, Ohio, July 10, 1855, a daughter of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Martin located in Stark county, 658 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Ohio, at Canal Fulton, and Mr. Martin engaged in drilling for coal and farming and threshing. In 1884 he came to Summit county and worked at Cuyahoga Falls in the rivet works three years, and in 1887 came to Richfield and farmed, and bought his present farm six years later. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have had born to them the following children: Adam I., Clifford D., Ethel M. and Edward W. In politics he is a republican, and is a member of Goldwood post, No. 104, G. A. R., at Richfield, in which he has held the office of senior vice-commander. He is also a member of the Knights of Maccabees. Mrs. Martin is a member of the Presbyterian church. William D. Martin, father of William M., was born in Lancaster county, Pa., a son of a native of Ireland, who came to Pennsylvania before the war of the Revolution, in which he was a soldier. William D. Martin was a farmer and married in Wayne county, Ohio, where he came when a young man. He had been a soldier in the war of 1812. His wife, Abigail Fullerman, was of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, and a daughter of Peter Fullerman—a farmer of Wayne county. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin were born the following children: William M., Francis M., Peter C., Susan and Lorinda. In politics Mr. Martin was a democrat. He died in Canal Fulton, aged seventy-seven years, a member of the Lutheran church. He had two sons in the Civil war. Francis M. was in the One Hundred and Fourth regiment, company A, Ohio volunteer infantry, in the three years' service and was wounded in battle, being in the Atlanta campaign and with Sherman to the sea. Mrs. William M. Martin is the daughter of Henry Miller, who was born in Lebanon county, Pa., and is from an old Pennsylvania-Dutch family. His children were Susan, Franklin, Nora, Mary J., Nathan and Edward C. Mr. Miller was a farmer and moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in Williams county, where he married. He then made his home in Stark county, where he died, aged sixty-three years, and was a hard-working, industrious man, respected by all who knew him. JAMES E. MARQUITT, of West Richfield, Ohio, an old soldier of the Civil war and a prominent farmer and respected citizen, was born in Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio, June 20, 1835, a son of Zachariah and Susan (Seaton) Marquitt. He received a good common-school education and taught school six years in Berea, Hinckley and Brunswick. He enlisted at Brunswick, June 22, 1862, in company K, One Hundred and Third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war, served out his time and was honorably discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, August 22, 1865, having been mustered out at Raleigh, N. C. He was in the battles of Covington, Ky., during Morgan's raid, shirmishes at Georgetown, Lexington, Frankfort, Louisville, Bowling Green, Danville, all in Kentucky, and at Stanford, Crab Orchard, Somerset, and he was with Burnside on the mountains of east Tennessee, and during this raid every man carried fifteen days' rations. There was skirmishing at Knoxville, Tenn., and there the regiment struck the railroad, having marched between 300 and 400 miles, and Mr. Marquitt was much worn out and much weakened by dysentery. After destroying the railroad from Knoxville to Loudon, Tenn., they went into Knoxville, guarded the city for about one month and were hemmed in by the rebels nineteen days on one-fourth rations and suffered greatly from hunger. They were in this vicinity until the spring of 1864 then went from Knoxville to Chattanooga, joined Gen. Sherman, and were OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 659 all through the Atlanta campaign. He was in the battles of Dalton, Resaca, Pumpkinvine Creek, Buzzard's Roost, Kenesaw Mountain, and in the battle in which Gen. McPherson was killed and saw him carried from the field, and he was also in the great general battle before Atlanta and in the battle at Jonesboro, and then his regiment went after Hood, and was in the battles of Franklin and Nashville; they followed Hood to Clifton and took part in the battle, and then took transports to Louisville, Ky. Being transferred to Cincinnati, Ohio, by rail, they went to Washington, D. C., and Alexandria, Va., and saw at the latter place the hotel in which Col. Ellsworth was shot; they next took transports from Alexandria to Fort Fisher and were in the bombardment of that fort and were in a skirmish at Smithville, N. C., where they captured 400 prisoners and fought through to Wilmington, N. C., which they captured. They had fighting at New Berne and shirmishing through to Raleigh, N. C. (Mr. Marquitt being color bearer by detail) and here his regiment captured rebel Gov. Vance, whom Mr. Marquitt and four comrades and an officer, Lieut. Spencer, were detailed to take to Washington, where they turned him over to Sec.-ofWar Stanton. Gov. Vance gave each of the guards $20, Confederate money, and said: " Boys, if these were greenbacks I would see that you fared better." When they turned him over to Stanton, the secretary, seeing the lieutenant in charge had a furlough home, said, " Boys, would you not like a furlough home?" and gave them free transportation home and back to their command by any route they chose to take. Mr. Marquitt rejoined his regiment at Raleigh, N. C., but the war was closed. They took boat via the ocean to Baltimore, took train on the Pennsylvania Central, and eighteen miles from Altoona a car wheel broke and piled up several cars, and threw several cars full of soldiers sixty feet, down an embankment; fifteen soldiers were killed and many injured. Mr. Marquitt escaped serious injury. His car went down endwise and several soldiers inside it were killed. Mr. Marquitt was on top and held on to the break, and his comrade, Hiram B. Floyd, of Medina county, was killed at his side. Mr. Marquitt served two years as color guard, a position of importance and great danger, and was mustered out of service with the rank of corporal.. At the battle of Resaca, Ga., a piece of shell struck the " U. S." in his belt and knocked him down, but he arose and valiantly took his place in the ranks. This happened while they were making the charge, and while in line of battle in the same action a minie ball struck his blouse sleeve and tore it from wrist to elbow while he was in the act of capping his Enfield rifle. At Frankfort, Ky., his wife's cousin, James Abbott, of company E, took sick, and Mr. Marquitt attended him till his death, and his remains were sent home to Cleveland. After the war Mr. Marquitt returned to Hinckley and resumed farming. He married, April 16, 1859, in Hinckley township, Isabella Clyne, who was born at Westfield, Medina county, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Norman) Clyne, natives of Scotland. To Mr. and Mrs. Marquitt have been born Elizabeth, Charles J., Jessie J. and John N. In politics Mr. Marquitt is a republican and an ex-member of A. N. Goldwood post, G. A. R. He is an honored citizen, a substantial farmer and straightforward, industrious man. MARTIN H. MARQUITT, whose post- office address is West Richfield, Ohio, is one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and a respected citizen of Hinckley township, Medina county, 660 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD where he was born March 17, 1839, on the old Marquitt homestead, a son of Zachariah and Susan (Seaton) Marquitt. The name was originally spelled Marquette, and is of French origin. He was brought up a farmer and enlisted, April 23, 1861, at Akron, Ohio, and was mustered in April 27, at Camp Jackson, Ohio, to serve in company K, Nineteenth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, for three months, Capt. A. J. Konkle. He served four months and fifteen days, and was honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, August 31, 1861. His service was in West Virginia, and he took part in the battle of Rich Mountain, and was in many skirmishes after the guerrillas—a dangerous and arduous service. He returned home after his term expired, and re-enlisted in Hinckley township as a member of Capt. Charles Cotter's company A, First regiment Ohio light artillery, was enrolled on the fourth day of September, 1861, at Columbus, Ohio, to serve three years, or during the war, and was honorably discharged December 31, 1863, at Cincinnati, Ohio, by reason of reenlistment as a veteran volunteer. He re-enlisted in the same organization, under Capt. W. F. Goodspeed, and was enrolled January 1, 1864, to serve three years, and was again honorably discharged as corporal of company A, First Ohio light artillery, July 31, 1865, at Cleveland, Ohio, his captain being Charles W. Scoville—having served his country faithfully four years, three months and eight days—this being the longest service of any soldier from Medina county. He was promoted to corporal, for meritorious service, September 13, 1864. He was in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, siege of Corinth, skirmish at Shelbyville, Lawrenceburg, Ky., Dog Walk, Perryville, Danville, Crab Orchard, Mill Creek, Murfreesboro or Stone River, Chickamauga, and on the famous Atlanta campaign, where the troops were under fire 120 days; at the battles of Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Dalton, Resaca, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahooche River, Peach Tree Creek, battle in front of Atlanta from July 22 to July 28, Lovejoy Station, Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Marquitt was always an active soldier, was not wounded nor sick in hospital, but was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and marches in which his regiment took part. In the rout of the right wing at the battle of Stone River, his gun was captured, and Mr. Marquitt motioned to the colonel of the Fourth Ohio cavalry, and he made a charge with his company, and they recaptured the gun. At the same battle Mr. Marquitt saved one gun of his battery and six horses, which had been abandoned. His comrades, William Gargett and John Marquitt, came across the gun on the retreat. William Gargett and John Marquitt rode off a team of horses each, and Mr. Marquitt rode the wheel team with the gun under an enfilading fire. He lay on the side of the horse and got away safely. The middle team were down and entangled when he came upon them, and he, assisted by his comrades, straightened up the team under fire. Battery A fired, on the Atlanta campaign, 3,680 rounds of ammunition, and lost in killed, captured and abandoned, 119 horses. Zachariah Marquitt, the father, was born March 28, 1804, in Sodus Point, N. Y., a son of Daniel and Catherine (Tremper) Marquittan old New York state family, Daniel Marquitt being a farmer. His children were Catherine, Louisa, Maria, Betsey Lucinda and Zachariah. Daniel came to Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio, about 1835, settled in the woods and cleared up a good farm. He took great interest in the Methodist church, his house being the home of the pioneer Methodist preachers. He lived to be eighty-seven years of age. He was a man of excellent OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 661 character and of kindly and mild disposition, was never angry and lived up to his profession. Zachariah Marquitt was married in New York state and two of his children were born before he moved to Ohio, in 1835, when he settled on 114 acres of land in Hinckley township, and by thrift and energy he increased this to 300 acres of good land and was a substantial farmer. His children were Mary, Daniel, James, Martin and John. In politics he was an old-line whig and republican and served as township trustee. He lived to be eighty-five years old, and died December 23, 1889, at Wellington, Ohio, where he had retired to pass his days. He was a strong Union man during the war and all his sons were soldiers in the Union army. John A. was a private of battery A, First Ohio light artillery, enlisting in the spring of 1861, and was in all the marches and battles during 1862-1863. At the battle of Stone River he assisted his brother Martin and William Gargett in saving the gun from falling into rebel hands, as mentioned above. He re-enlisted as a veteran, and while at home on veteran furlough died of consumption, April 12, 1862—having taken a severe cold in Kentucky by fording streams in cold weather on his return home. Daniel J., another son, enlisted in an Ohio regiment, but saw no service. Zachariah Marquitt, father of subject, was a man of unblemished character, well known for uprightness and honesty. Martin H. Marquitt received a common-school education and attended, one year, Baldwin university, and when the war broke out he enlisted. After his return from the war, September 12, 1866, he married Maria B. Gargett, of Hinckley township, Medina county. She was born January 11, 1844, in Hinckley township, a daughter of John and Mary (Woodward) Gargett. John Gargett was born in England in 1804, a son of John Gargett, a farmer. John Gargett came from England when a young man and settled in Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio. He was a stonemason by trade and farmer. He built the Perkins house in Akron and his stone residence on his homestead in 184o. He married, at Sharon, Medina county, Ohio, January 1, 1837, and settled in Hinckley township, on 120 acres with good improvements, paying $4 per acre, although it was almost in the woods. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian church, and in politics he was first an old-line whig and then a republican. Their children were Mary, William, Maria, Robert, Laura, Alice, James, Henry and Elizabeth. Two sons were in the Civil war—William and Robert. William J. was in battery A, First Ohio light artillery, and served through the war; Robert was in the Second Ohio cavalry, served one year and was in the battle of Pea Ridge. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Marquitt settled on 16o acres of good land and have made many improvements. Their children are Delno, Clifford and Lura. Mrs. Ma, quitt is a member of the Methodist church in Richfield, and in politics Mr. Marquitt is a republican. He voted for A. Lincoln on his first nomination for the presidency, and was one of the original republicans of Medina county. He is a member of Goldwood post, G. A. R., at West Richfield, has served as township trustee two times, has been a member of the school board twenty years and reared an excellent family. MINOTT L. NEWTON, a well-known farmer and stock raiser, was born and reared on the farm which he still owns and occupies in Richfield township, Summit county, Ohio, his birth having occurred March 6, 1845. 662 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD John Newton, grandfather of subject, was born in Connecticut February 24, 1787, and came to Ohio in 1806, locating in Hudson, where he lived about four years, then returned to his native state, where he married, in 181o, Miss Laura Thompson, and in 1815 came back to Hudson, Ohio, with his wife and two children—Marcus and Lucius. A few years later he came to Richfield, where he soon rose to prominence as an agriculturist and statesman, becoming a member of the state legislature and an associate judge of the state supreme court. His death occurred in March, 1867, and that of his wife about four years previously, leaving a memory still held in honor throughout the county and state. Beside the two children, Marcus and Lucius, born in Connecticut, two others were born in Ohio—John T. and Rebecca. Of these, Marcus was a farmer and a local minister of the Methodist church, and died in January, 1874, a pious and earnest Christian; Lucius will receive further mention in the following paragraph; John T. became prominent as a lawyer in Toledo, and Rebecca, now Mrs. Weld, is living in Richfield. Lucius Newton, father of subject of this memoir, was born December 19, 1814, and began the battle of life at the age of twenty-two years, locating in Royalton, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, where he purchased 640 acres of timbered land, 200 of which are cleared and fenced, and devoted his attention to farming and stock-raising for about five years, and then came to Richfield township, Summit county, where he resumed the same calling, of which he made a decided success and followed until his death, which occurred on December 4, 1896. He owned at one time fully 1,000 acres of fine land, the greater part of which he divided among his children. He was married in May, 1838, to Miss Caroline Brockway, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, in 1818, of Connecticut parentage. The children born were five in number, viz: John T., an influential farmer-citizen of Hudson township, Summit county; Homer E., deceased; Minott L., our subject; Laura, wife of J. M. McKinstery, secretary of the Royal Arcanum of Cleveland, Ohio, and Virgil L., deceased. Minott L. Newton was educated in the district schools of Richfield township and at Oberlin college, and later went through a business course at Hiram college. April 15, 1885, he married Miss Emma Ellas, a native of Summit county, Ohio, born February 21, 1861, a daughter of Louis P. and Amanda (Munday) Ellas, who was born in Tioga county, N. Y., in 1834. Loren Ellas, father of Louis P., was a native of Vermont, was married in that state to Sarah Hardy, a native of Connecticut, and later went to New York state, where he was engaged in farming and lumbering until 1837, when he brought his family to Ohio and settled on a farm in Northampton township, Summit county, where his death took place in 1867, when his widow removed to Steuben county, Ind., where she expired in 1874. Louis P. Ellas, when a young man, learned boat-building and carpentering in Boston township, Summit county, Ohio, and followed these trades about thirteen years, and then for two years kept a grocery in the same township. Removing to Bath township, he kept hotel three years, or until April, 1863, when he settled in Richfield township, kept hotel at West Richfield a year, and then removed to the East Center, where he kept a popular and prosperous hotel and also engaged in buying and selling live stock until 1874. He then sold his hotel and bought a farm, which he cultivated three years, making a specialty of raising stock on his land. Again he engaged in the hotel business, opening up a most favorite resort in Richfield, which he operated until April, 1881, when he retired. To his OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 665 marriage, in April, 1856, with Miss Amanda Munday, who was born in Tioga county, N. Y., in 1831, there were born three children, viz: Elmer C., Emma and Ella. Mrs. Elias, is now deceased, but Mr. Elias still resides in Richfield, a most respected gentleman. To Mr. and Mrs. Newton was born a bright little daughter, March 15, 1891, now the sunbeam that shines the brightest in the household. Mr. Newton's splendid farm of 400 acres is one of the best in the township and is excellently well improved. He makes a specialty of raising Durham cattle and as a breeder his fame has spread far and wide. In politics he is a republican, but has never been ambitious to hold public office, but as a citizen he has always been public-spirited, and is greatly esteemed on account of his individual merits and progressive proclivities. CHARLES A. WIGHTMAN, district agent of the John Hancock Life Insurance company of Boston, Mass., with headquarters at rooms Nos. 1 and 2, Odd Fellows' temple, Akron, Ohio, has had the charge of his company's affairs in this city since the spring of 1893, when he succeeded Frederick E. Smith, now vice-president of the Second National bank. The district over which Mr. Wightman holds control in the interest of the John Hancock Insurance company covers Summit, Portage, Medina, and parts of Cuyahoga and Wayne counties, and within the short time Mr. Wightman has been its agent, the business of the company has been increased over a half a million dollars—an instance of the wonderful energy and business ability of Mr. Wightman, who had previously been in the insurance business three years only, having before that time been a shoe dealer in Akron. Mr. Wightman was born August 5, 1852, - 27 - in Bedford, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, a son of Horace F. and Mary P. (Burgess) Wightman, of old Connecticut stock, his grandfather, John Wightman, having come from the Nutmeg state and having settled in Cleveland when it was little more than a village. John Wightman kept the first house for public entertainment in the embryo city, which house was known as the Old Red hotel. Of his five sons who came with him, one became sheriff of Cuyahoga county; one went south and became a planter near Natchez, Miss., one became a real estate dealer in Cleveland, and one sought his fortune in the west. The fifth, father of subject, settled down to farming, became very active in local affairs and died, an honored man, about 1869. His children were six in number, and were born in the following order: Anna, the wife of Edward D. Benedict, of Bedford, Ohio, and with his filial daughter the venerable mother now makes her home at the age of seventy-eight years; George, a wholesale dealer in oysters on Antonio street, Cleveland; Permilia, who died at the age of four years; Frank A., in the oyster business with his brother, but residing on Harvard street, Newberg, Ohio; Charles A., the subject, and Minnie, wife of Theodore Lambson, with the Kinsley Paper company, of Newberg, Ohio. Charles A. Wightman was educated in the district schools of Bedford, Ohio, and at the age of seventeen years took a position in the Ohio Insane asylum as an attendant, and two years later, quitting the asylum, entered the employ of E. D. Sawyer, shoe dealer of Newberg, Ohio, with whom he remained two years; he next was employed for a year by George Sell, shoe dealer, at Ontario and Prospect streets, Cleveland, and then entered the Newberg wire mills, learned fine wire drawing and two years later was appointed foreman over a force of 300 men, which posi- 666 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD tion he filled for three years; next, was employed by N. O. Stone, of Cleveland, and then, in 188o, came to Akron and was employed for five years by M. T. Cutter. He then opened a shoe store on his own account and conducted this with varying success until 1892. In the spring of 1893 he associated himself with the John Hancock Insurance company, and has since devoted his entire time and attention to the advancement of this company's interests, with the magnificent results noted in the opening paragraph of this article. Politically, Mr. Wightman is a stanch republican, and in his societary relations is a member of the Akron lodge, No. 547, I. O. O. F., and also of Akron encampment, No. 18, and canton Expeditus, No. 2. For three years he was a first lieutenant in battery F, Ohio national guard, but resigned, through business exigencies. Mr. Wightman was married February 15, 1884, to Miss Alfretta Miller, daughter of George F. Miller, the result of the felicitous union being one child-Earl D. The residence of Mr. Wightman is at No. 934 East Market street, where, surrounded by many warm friends, they enjoy all the happiness that is vouchsafed to mankind. ELIAS MILLER, one of the most respected old-time farmers of Bath township, Summit county, was born in Stark county Ohio, March 12, 1824, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Williams) Miller, the former of whom was born October 5, 1796, and was a son of George Miller, who was born November 7, 1763. Peter Miller married Miss Mary Williams February 13, 1823, and came to Bath township, Summit county, in 1848, and settled on a farm one-half mile east of the center thereof, where he continued to follow his life-long vocation as an agriculturist and attained a considerable degree of popularity and influence with his fellow-townsmen, whom he served as township trustee, school director and justice of the peace, having been elected by the democratic party, of which he had been a member until a few years before his death, when he became a republican. In religion he was from boyhood a convert to the Evangelical faith and was a consistent member of the church of that name. He lost his wife, Mary, in 1826. She had borne him two children-Elias, the subject of this biography, and Robert S. For his second helpmate he married Nancy Sprankle, who gave birth to three children-James, Joseph and Milton. Joseph died February 25, 1843, and the death of Peter Miller occurred March 31, 187o. Elias Miller was well educated in the district schools of Stark and Summit counties, and was reared by his father to the honorable and noble pursuit of agriculture. He married, April 16, 1848, Miss Sarah Sprankle, who was born June 16, 1827, a daughter of Jacob Sprankle, who was born in America in 1798. Mrs. Sarah Miller died May 1o, 1895, the mother of the following-named children: Jacob S., who was born November 12, 1849, married Miss Mary E. Ball, of Copley township, January I, 1874, and died at Canal Fulton, May 7, 1878; Elta Ann, who was born November 28, 1851, was married to Wait Hopkins, and died January 13, 1896; Nancy, born December 18, 1854, now the wife of Daniel Mull, and a resident of Cleveland; Mary A., who was born February 27, 1857, is married to Newton Hockett and resides in Bath township, on the old homestead; Ema A., born February 19, 1859, died October 3, 1871; Sarah D., born June 13, 1864, was married to John Rothrick, and died July 18, 1892, and Peter Milton, who was born in OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 667 Bath township February 6, 1867, and died October 22, 1885. Elias Miller, the subject, married for his second wife, April 11, 1897, a widow, whose maiden name was Margaret A. Drushal, and his residence is at Hornersville, in Medina county. Mr. Miller has led a very active and industrious life, having cleared up nearly all of his 130-acre farm and made all the improvements, the buildings being substantial and neat and tasty in appearance, while the farm itself, which is situated three-quarters of a mile east of Center, of Bath, presents an aspect of thrift and good management unsurpassed by any farm of its dimensions in Bath township. In politics Mr. Miller affiliates with the republican party, but has persistently declined to accept public office. He has long been a member of and class leader in the Evangelical church, and fraternally is a member of Richfield lodge, No. 266, F. & A. M., in which he has held the chair of senior deacon. He is now living in comparative retirement, having done no practical work for the past ten years, his ample means affording him the privilege of enjoying in ease the fruits of his early industry, although he keeps a general oversight in the management of his estate. He is an honorable and upright gentleman in every sense of these words, and holds with a lasting tenure the respect of his neighbors. M. L. MILLER, a prominent young farmer of Norton township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in Medina county, January 29, 1860, and is of German descent. Joseph Miller, father of subject, was born in Lehigh county, Pa., June 3, 1823, and was there reared to manhood and married to Caroline Steckle, who bore the following-named children: Alvin D., Amos W., Ellen E. (de ceased wife of James Mohei), Joseph H., Mary M. (wife of Charles Leiby, a farmer of Medina county), Sarah I. (widow of Samuel Hoaglin), and Martin L., the subject of this memoir. The mother of this family died January 28, 1867, and the father chose for his second wife Rebecca J. Lower, daughter of Samuel Lower, and to this marriage have been born Alice V., wife of Peter Snyder; Cora A.., wife of William Disher; Charles and Oliver. Joseph Miller, after his first marriage, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and located in Norton Center, Summit county, in 1846, and in 1848 removed to Sharon township, Medina county, where he became a prosperous farmer, owning 100 acres of well-cultivated land, improved with substantial buildings. He filled all the township offices, including that of trustee, and has always been prominent as a member of the Lutheran church. Martin L. Miller has been identified with agricultural interests since his childhood, and has also been a successful educator. After a proper preparation in the common schools, he attended Ada Normal college, and for seventeen years after graduation met with unwonted success as a school-teacher. As a republican in politics, he served as township clerk of Norton township in 1885, and served as dear con and elder in the Reformed church, in which he was for eleven years also superintendent of the Sabbath-school. The marriage of Mr. Miller took place on the 21st day of March, 1883, to Miss Alice L. Strobl, who was born in Norton township January 13, 1861, a daughter of Jacob and Maria (Reamsnyder) Strobl. The father of Mrs. Miller, Jacob Strobl, was a native of Lancaster county, Pa., born in 1818, and while yet a single man came to Ohio and located in Stark county, where he married Miss Reamsnyder, who was born June 7, 1825. In 1848 Mr. Strobl came to Norton township, Summit 668 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD county, bought sixty-five acres of land and made a good home for himself and family, which consisted of the following-named children: Sarah, wife of Jacob Smith; Lucy A., ,wife of J. W. Hall; Hattie, married to Henry Everhart; Melinda, now Mrs. Silas Strotter; Mary E., wife of William Fendenheim; Mahalia A., wife of George Shook; Alice L. (Mrs. Miller); George A. ; Wellington, and Effie G., wife of Richard Lee. George A. died May 13, 1894. The family were all reared in the faith of the Reformed church, of which the father was a deacon and pillar. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Miller were seven in number and named as follows: Lucretia M. (deceased, Wadie E., Gracie M., Maud A. (deceased), Ruth A., Guy E. and Fern A. Mr. Miller has an excellently improved farm of eighty-three acres, on which he has lived ever since he has been a resident of Norton township. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum lodge, No. 382, of Doyleston, Ohio, in which he has filled all the offices, and which he has twice represented in the state lodge. In politics he is popular not only with his party, but with the community at large, and is recognized as a worthy and public-spirited citizen. SILAS PAYNE, a thriving and respected farmer of Richfield township, Summit county, Ohio, and an old soldier of the Civil war, was born July 9, 1839, in Copley township, Summit county, Ohio, a son of William and Frances (Carey) Payne, and springs from sterling English ancestry of Virginia colonial stock. Silas Payne received a common-school education and was reared to farming. He married, in Bath township, in August, 1861, Mary B. Hogue, who was born in Northampton township, Summit county, July 22, 1833, a daughter of Samuel Hogue. To Mr. and Mrs. Payne was born one son, George E. Mr. Payne, on marrying, settled in Bath township and enlisted October 16, 1861, in Capt. Jonas Schoonover's company H, Twenty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years, but was honorably discharged on account of disability February 18, 1863, at Dumfries, W. Va. He re-enlisted in Northampton township in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Ohio infantry, in Capt. Samuel J. Tracy's company H, and was again honorably discharged at Greensboro, N. C., June 24, 1865, the war having closed. He was in the battle of Cedar Mountain, W. Va., Port Republic and several severe skirmishes. He was seriously sick about three months in hospital at Washington, D. C., of typhoid fever, in 1862, but with this exception Mr. Payne was always an active soldier and was prompt and faithful in the discharge of every duty, and endured all the hardships of a soldier's life for two years and four months with fortitude and cheerfulness. Mr. Payne was in all the marches, campaigns, battles and skirmishes in which his company engaged, except the battle of Winchester, when he was in camp on guard duty. He considers his hardest march to have been from a point four miles north of Winchester, coming south a distance of over thirty-two miles during a a heavy rain storm in the spring, the march lasting two days and one night, and, including the return to camp, making a distance of sixty-four miles. One comrade, Norman Salsberry, of West Bath, Summit county, died three days later from the effects of the fatigue and exposure of this march. After the war Mr. Payne returned to Summit county, Ohio, where he remained until his removal to Eaton county, Mich., in 1880, where he settled on a farm, which he OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 669 resided on for seven years.     Here his first wife died September 17, 1887, a member of the United Brethren church and a woman of great amiability. Mr. Payne then returned to Summit county, Ohio, and married, November 14, 1890, in Richfield township, Samantha J. Kemery, who was born November 9, 1850, a daughter of Daniel and Susan (Yergin) Kemery. Mr. and Mrs. Payne settled on their present farm, which was the home of Mrs. Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Payne are members of the United Brethren church, called the U. B. Centennial, and Mr. Payne is trustee of several churches and parsonages, is a class leader and takes an active interest in church matters, as does his excellent wife. Mr. Payne cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln, and has always advocated the principles of the republican party. HERBERT A. PECK, one of the prominent and substantial farmers of Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, is a son of Anthony Peck, a pioneer of sterling English Puritan stock. The founder of the family in America was Joseph Peck, of Hingham, Norfolk county, England, who fled from England to America, on account of church persecution, in 1638, coming with his family in the good ship Diligence, John Martin master, Joseph Peck, his wife, three sons and a daughter, two men servants and three maid servants coming at the same time. He settled at Hingham, Mass., and was one of the founders of the town. The genealogy of the Peck family extends back from Joseph for twenty generations, and is certified to by the Heralds' college of the British museum, and descends from John Peck, of Belton, Yorkshire. The family is of noble origin and of sterling Saxon stock. Joseph Peck's children were Anna, Rebecca, Joseph, John, Nicholas, Samuel, Nathaniel and Israel. After them came Joseph, Samuel and Heath; then Michael and Fenn. Capt. Fenn Peck, grandfather of subject, was born in Milford, Conn., and was a sea captain. He married Sarah Treat, a direct descendant of Gov. Treat, thirty years governor and deputy governor of the old colony. of Connecticut. Their children were Anthony and Treat Fenn. Capt. Peck died at Gaudaloupe, West Indies, of yellow fever, in 1803, aged only about twenty-four years. Anthony Peck, father of subject, was born in Milford, Conn., 1799, and received a good education. He married, December, 1821, in Milford, Conn., Harriet Clark, of the same place, a daughter of Abraham and Mehitable (Peck) Clark. Abraham Clark was in the Revolutionary war when he was but fourteen years old, and with Capt. Samuel Peck, who served in Gen. Washington's army. The great-grandfather of subject, Anthony Peck, was a ship builder and well-to-do for his time. He lost his property, and came as a pioneer soon after his marriage, in 1822, in April, to the Western Reserve, making the journey with a two-horse covered wagon, and both of them walked most of the way, the road being very bad. They drove direct to Tallmadge, and Mr. Peck bought the land where our subject now lives, consisting of 16o acres, all in the wilderness. He cleared this up, and, by persevering labor and industry, added to it until he owned about 200 acres, and erected a tasteful residence. His children were Sarah Treat, Charlotte Clark, Harriet Antoinette and Herbert Anthony. Mrs. Peck was a member of the Congregational church, and Mr. Peck was a member of the Congregational society and church trustee for many years, and assisted to build the Tallmadge church. Mr. Peck was township trustee and assessor and 670 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD an honored citizen. He prospered by his sterling thrift, and educated his children well —his daughter Sarah at New Haven, Conn., and his daughter Charlotte at Canandaigua, N. Y. Mr. Peck died at the age of forty-seven, in 1845, killed by accident. He was a conservative and a stout whig and a great admirer of Henry Clay. His daughter Sarah married H. B. Eldred, who recently died in in Cleveland. Mr. Peck's daughter Charlotte married Volney Acer, of Medina, N. Y., and has four sons, all prominent men. Herbert A. Peck was born November 13, 1842. He received a good education in Tallmadge academy, and has always been a farmer. Mr. Peck is an honored citizen, has been a township trustee, and has been treasurer of the Summit county Agricultural society five years and secretary six years, and was reelected to both offices unanimously, but resigned. Mr. Peck has prospered like his father before him and has a splendid farm of 300 acres, part of which is the old homestead. His beautiful lawn, ornamented with fine evergreens and other shade trees, is one of the most attractive in the county. Mr. Peck is a man of excellent business capacity, is well read, and keeps up well with the times. His pleasant homestead is presided over with grace and dignity by his sister, Antionette, and his residence shows the taste of cultivated and refined people. Mrs. Anthony Peck reached the great age of eighty-nine years, and died May 19, 1893, a woman of high character and many virtues. SAMUEL W. PERRY, a greatly re- spected citizen of Northfield township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in Deckertown, Sussex county, N. J., November 17, 1838, a son of David and Sarah A. (Benjamin) Perry, and is a descendant of an English family which was among the early colonial settlers of New England. He received a fair common-school education, was reared to farming, and in September, 186o, left his home for the west, stopping for a month with an uncle in New York state and then working a short time at East Sharon, Potter county, Pa. June 17, 1861, he arrived at Brandywine, Ohio, and August 7, 1862, married, in Akron, Miss Laura M. Barnhart, daughter of William and Luna (Chaffee) Barnhart, and born in Peninsula, Ohio, May 15, 1839. Mrs. Perry's father was a native of Pennsylvania, and was reared as a mechanic and builder of boats. He was educated in the common schools, then emigrated to the west in an early day, when the city of Cleveland was almost a hamlet. In politics he was a republican, and fraternally was a Mason. He was born in 1812 and died March 19, 1879; the mother of Mrs. Perry was born in Boston township, Summit county, of Puritan stock, about 1820, and died in 1849. The remains of these parents are interred in the village cemetery at Boston, where a beautiful monument stands sacred to their memory. There were four children in the family, one son and three daughters—all living—and of whom Mrs. Perry is the eldest. William H. Barnhart, a resident of the city of Akron, is a painter by trade. He married Miss Cornelia Coe, a native of Summit county. They had four children, of whom two sons are deceased. Helen A., wife of A. Curtis, resides at Springer, Colfax county, N. M. Mr. Curtis is a stock-raiser, and was formerly sheriff of Summit county, from 1869 to 1873. They had two children, both deceased. Luna was one of the honored teachers of Summit county, and is now engaged as an accountant in the Buckeye Manufacturing Co. ; Harold A., a resident of Akron, Ohio, is a graduate of Akron OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 671 high school, and is now a bookkeeper in the Goodrich Rubber Co.; Mary M., wife of Lester Crittenden, is a resident of Burton, Geauga county, Ohio. Mr. Crittenden is a contractor and builder and is now postmaster at that place. They have three sons: William H., Arthur C. and Roy L. Seven days after his marriage Mr. Perry enlisted, August 14, 1862, at Northfield, Ohio, in company C, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years, and served until mustered out at Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 22, 1865, on account of the close of the war, and was honorably discharged at Cleveland, Ohio. His service was chiefly rendered in Tennessee, and in November, 1864, at LaVergne, had a skirmish with Wheeler's cavalry; one month later he and fifty comrades, while guarding the railroad at LaVergne, were surprised and captured by cavalry and artillery under Gens. Forrest, Burford and Jackson. They were taken to within five miles of Nashville and kept in the woods five days, receiving for rations two-thirds of a pint of corn-meal and a piece of raw beef, two or three inches square. They were eventually taken to Columbia and confined in the upper story of the court house, but two days later James Cassidy and David Thomas, both of Summit county, together with Mr. Perry, managed to escape, and were eight days in making their way to Murfreesboro, which town they reached December 22, 1864. There being but twenty-two of Mr. Perry's company left alive, they were detailed to lay out the cemetery on the battle field of Stone river and to inter the dead. After the war, Mr. Perry, who had bought a piece of land in Tennessee, traded it for his present farm of eighty-two acres in Northfield township, which he has greatly improved and placed under a high state of cultivation. To Mr. and Mrs. Perry have been born two chil dren—Helen M. and Sadie E. Mr. Perry is a republican in politics, and cast his first presidential vote in the ranks for Mr. Lincoln, is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and a good and useful citizen. He still suffers from the hardships he endured during the war; although never wounded, he was at one time confined in hospital at Camp Dennison with typhoid fever, and although his wife went there to nurse him, it was seven weeks before he recognized her. He and his two comrades, who escaped from the rebels at Columbia, and who reside in Summit county, have been in the habit of holding a yearly reunion, at the first of which there were but six attendants—the three prisoners and their wives—now there are twenty attendants, including their children. The eldest child, Helen M., is the wife of Marvin L. Berry, who is engaged in a manufactory in the city of Cleveland, and they have one child, by name Alvin P.; Sadie E. is at home with her parents; she is an artist of more than ordinary skill, having graduated from. the Cleveland School of Art, in 1895, and her specimens of oil, crayon, pastel and water colors, which are displayed in her parents' home, are gems. She has some specimens from nature taken in New Mexico, where she resided for five years, which would find favor in any studio. She has taught her profession for some years. HENRY PETTINGELL, an honored citizen of Hudson township, Summit county, Ohio, was born in the city of London, England, January 24, 1843, a son of William and Julia (Fosett) Pettingell. William Pettingell, the father, was also born in London, and was a habit-maker, or tailor, by trade, and there married. Mr. Pet- 672 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD tingell came to America in 1843, landed at New York, came through to Painesville, Lake county, Ohio, and bought a farm of 117 acres, improved it and made a good home. He finally sold his farm, lived in Painesville two years, then came to Hudson. Ohio, in 1853, as secretary and treasurer of the Western Reserve college, and held this position for more than thirty years with credit to himself and greatly to the advantage of the college. He was a well educated business man, a careful and skilled accountant, very accurate, and wrote a clear and beautiful hand. To Mr. and Mrs. Pettingell were born William, Eliza, Alfred, Charles E., Henry, and Julia M. Mr. and Mrs. Pettingell were members of the Congregational church, of which he was a deacon several years. In politics he was a republican and a strong abolitionist. He was an honored citizen of Hudson, was its mayor one term, and was noted for his integrity of character and sterling worth. He was a strong Union man during the Civil war, in which he had two sons—Charles E. and Henry—both in the same company and regiment. Mr. Pettingell reached the advanced age of eighty-three years and died in Hudson. Henry Pettingell was about a month old when he was brought to America by his parents. He was educated in the public schools of Hudson, and here learned the carpenter's trade. He enlisted, during the Civil war, in company B, Eighty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three months, but served four, and was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. His service was at Camp Chase, and on the Mississippi river, on a steamer, as guard of rebel prisoners on their way to be exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., and during this trip the boat was fired on several times. After being mustered out, Mr. Pettingell returned to Hudson, and married, June 21, 1871, Dency S. Lusk, who was born at Hudson, Ohio, July 31, 1847, a daughter of Milton Adams and Sallie Maria (Seacoy) Lusk. Mrs. Sallie M. Lusk was a widow and a daughter of Joshua and Mollie (Dee) Post, and by her marriage to Chester Seacoy was the mother of several children, of whom Lester, Mary J. and Pinkey P. grew to maturity. Joshua Post was born in Seabrook, Conn. , and was a soldier in the war of 1812. The Dees were an old Connecticut family of Revolutionary stock. Joshua Post came to Ohio in 181 o and settled in Boston township, Summit county, where he bought a farm of 400 acres, on which his son, Joshua Post, had built a log house, having previously come to select land. Mr. Post cleared up a large part of his farm and built a bridge across the Cuyahoga river, being a most public-spirited man. His children were Joshua, Polly, Deborah, Hannah, milt', Diana M., Juliet, Ann, Jerusha, Mercy B., Belinda, Sallie and Philo. Mr. Post died a member of the Congregational church. Since marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pettingell have resided in Hudson and built an attractive and pleasant residence. To them have been born four children—Harry M., Bessie L., Joseph W. and Raymond O. Both Mr. and Mrs. Pettingell are members of the Congregational church in Hudson, and in politics Mr. Pettingell is a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant. He is a member of the G. A. R., Gen. W. T. Sherman post, No. 68, at Hudson, and has filled the offices of adjutant, chaplain, senior and vice-junior commander, and is now commander. Mrs. Pettingell is a niece, by marriage, to the famous John Brown, of Harper's Ferry fame. John Brown married for his first wife Diantha Lusk, a sister of Mrs. Pettingell's father, Milton A. Lusk, who had previously married Dency Preston, and they were the parents of Henry, Lorin, Charles, Lucy OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 677 and Amos. Mrs. Lusk had one son, two step-sons and a son-in-law in the Civil war. Her son, Lester Seacoy, was a private in the Second Ohio cavalry, served four years and three months, and was in many battles; the other soldier boys were Charles and Amos, sons of her husband, by his first wife, and son-in-law—Charles Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Lusk had but one daughter, Dency S., who married our subject. Milton A. was a son of Amos Lusk and his wife, Nancy Adams. Amos Lusk was a pioneer of Hudson, Ohio, from Vermont, and came to Summit county among the first. His son, Milton A., was the second male child born in Hudson. Amos Lusk was a captain in the war of 1812, and contracted a fever from which he died six weeks after returning home, before the conclusion of the war. The children of Capt. Amos Lusk were Dr. Lorrin, Amos, Edward, Julian, Milton, Julia, Sophia, Diantha, (who married John Brown), Maria and Minerva. ALBERT A. VIALL, the well-known saw-mill proprietor and lumber dealer at Tallmadge, Summit county, Ohio, and one of the youngest of the volunteers of the late war, was born in East Akron November 29, 1849, a son of Emory D. and Orpha L. (Wilcox) Viall, the Viall family being descendants of old New England colonists of Connecticut and Vermont. Emory D. Viall, a lumberman, married, in Stowe township, Miss Wilcox, a daughter of L. H. and Hannah (Porter) Wilcox, who were from New England. The children born to this union were Albert A., Frank H., Arthur. J. (deceased), Alfred C. (deceased), Carrie M. (a practicing physician of Cleveland), Nellie (deceased), and Cynthia E. Mr. Via11 conducted an extensive business for many years, was a highly respected gentleman, and was killed in a railroad accident December t6, 1888. Albert A. Viall received a good district-school education, and was but twelve years of age when the first shot of the Civil war was directed against Fort Sumter. This fired his youthful patriotism, which grew with the growth of the war. Finally, with the consent of his parents, who, in fact, could not restrain him, he enlisted at Alliance, Ohio, January 26, 1865, in company F, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, for one year, unless sooner discharged on account of the war being brought to an end. He was a large lad, stood five feet seven and one-half inches high, weighed 167 pounds, and but a little over fifteen years of age at the time, and but twenty-seven days older than the youngest enlisted soldier, as reported at the reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1897. He served in Ohio, at Nashville and Chattanooga, Tenn., Bridgeport, 678 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Ala., Edgefield, Tenn., and Lookout Mountain, his duty being principally in guard, patrol and garrison service, and pursuit of bushwhackers. He was much exposed during a march from Zollicoffer Barracks to Missionary Hill, Nashville, Tenn., during a cold -rain in May, 1865, and contracted rheumatism, but he served cheerfully and faithfully, and was honorably discharged September 20, 1865, the war having been brought to an end the previous April. After his return from the army to Ohio, Mr. Viall worked for his father some time in his saw-mill at Monroe Falls, then worked by the month for some years for other parties, and in 1875 engaged in the saw-mill business on his own account in Tallmadge, this being now the largest of its kind in the township. October 27, 1879, he married, in Tallmadge, Miss Helen J. Carruthers, who was born in Northampton township, in 1848, a daughter of John A. and Julia E. (Merrick) Carruthers, and to this union has been born one daughter —Anna Trowbridge Viall. John A. Carruthers, father of Mrs. Viall, was born in Tallmadge and was a son of John, a soldier of the war of 1812 and a pioneer of Tallmadge township. John A. was a prominent business man in his day, was engaged in the lumber business, and was also a manufacturer of apple butter, making as high as 1,000 gallons per day, and was the largest shipper of of this article in the country. To his marriage with Miss Julia E. Merrick were born Helen J., Lucy M., and Clarence D. Mr. Carruthers was greatly respected by his fellow-townsmen, and died at the age of sixty-eight years. Albert A. Viall and wife are members of the Congregational church at Tallmadge, and fraternally Mr. Viall is a member of Cuyahoga Falls lodge, No. 63, I. 0. 0. F., of the Tallmage grange, P. of H., and of Buckley post, No. 12, G. A. R., of Akron. He is also a Freemason, and a member of Starr lodge, No. 187, at Cuyahoga Falls. In politics he is a republican, and is a member of the board of education at Tallmadge. He has always been an energetic business man, and his fortune is of his own making, as he began his business life absolutely with no capital, saving his hands and brains. Beside his mill in Tallmadge, which he erected in 1879, at the same time he erected his dwelling, he owns a mill in Portage county, and has been extensively engaged in the lumber business for twenty years. He is a true patriot, and on decoration day, 1897, presented to the township of Tallmadge a beautiful silk national flag, with staff, in commemoration of the heroes of 1776, 1812 and 1861, and is now interested in furthering a movement looking to the erection here of a monument to the memory of the soldiers of the Civil war. LAWRENCE B. PIERCE, a well- known nurseryman of Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, and one of the soldiers of the Civil war, was born in Tallmadge township, April 30, 1840, a son of Nathaniel and Minerva (Sanford) Pierce. The Pierces were of English Puritan stock and the name was originally spelled Pearcy, and of the old English family of the name. The name has been corrupted to Pearce—formerly Percy—until the last few generations, a member of the family finally changed the name to Pierce. Our subject received a good education in the academy at Tallmadge, and later attended school in Connecticut; he became a farmer and also acquired a good knowledge of the carpenter's trade. He enlisted, in 1862, at the age of about twenty-two years, in the Ohio national guards, in company B, Fifty-fourth battalion, to serve five years, and was enrolled at OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 679 Cleveland, Ohio, May 2, 1864, as a member of company D, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, try, to serve too days, and was honorably discharged August 27, 1864, at Cleveland, Ohio. His service was in Virginia opposite Georgetown, D. C., on guard duty. He was always an active soldier and prompt and cheerful in the discharge of his duty. He was sick with erysipelas and in hospital at Fort Strong about one month and came near death. Mr. Pierce returned to Tallmadge township and engaged in the nursery and fruit-growing business. He married, May 14, 1873, at Kent, Ohio, Miss Emeline M. Bradley, who was born in Kent, Ohio, February 16, 1848, a daughter of Ransom and Mary (Tyson) Bradley. To Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have been born Robert C. and Roger B. Mr. Pierce is a member of H. Day post, No. 115, of Kent, and in politics is a republican. He was a member of the board of education in Tallmadge township one term and he is a member of the First Congregational church at Tallmadge. Mr. Pierce is a substantial citizen and well known for integrity of character. Nathaniel Pierce, father of subject, was born at Woodbury, Conn., August 27, 1809, a son of Simon and Thankful (Hunt) Pierce. Nathaniel Pierce came to Ohio in September, 1838, via the lakes, and settled on the farm of 160 acres where our subject now lives, of which he cleared about one half. His children were Minerva S., Susan L., Frances (deceased) and Lawrence B. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce were both members of the Congregational church. In politics he was an old-line whig and republican, and a stanch abolitionist, and was one of the early and leading temperance advocates of Connecticut, being an early member of the Sons of Temperance, and his wife was a nearly member of the Washingtonian society—the first American temperance organization. Mr. Pierce was at one time mobbed in Connecticut on account of his anti-slavery utterances. He reached the venerable age of eighty-seven years and was a man of sterling integrity. Lawrence B. Pierce, our subject, is "a gentleman who is widely known as a writer for the press, especially the leading agricultural and horticultural papers, and, in his early days, was an occasional story writer. He is a clear thinker and reasoner, and writes from actual experience, and his letters are widely read. Mr. Pierce is a practical gardener and horticulturist, having passed his life in these pursuits, and for years he has been a leading exhibitor at agricultural society displays, in which he takes a wide interest. HENRY T. PORTER, of West Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, and one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and a respected farmer, springs from sterling English ancestry and was born in Richfield township, January 9, 1843, a son of Charles and Mary (Neuman) Porter. He received his education in the district schools, was reared to farming, and enlisted at Cleveland, Ohio, in November, 1862, in company I, Forty-second Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve nine months, but was discharged while sick in hospital at Cleveland, Ohio, with quinsy— having served four months on guard duty at that city. He was sick in hospital one month, when he hired a substitute and returned home. He then re-enlisted at Wooster, Ohio, in company I, One Hundred and Third regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, in March, 1865, for one year, or during the war, and was placed on guard duty at Raleigh, N. C., where he served until honorably discharged at Salisbury, N. C., in July, 1865. He was sick in hospital with measles at Goldsboro, N. C., but outside of this he was prompt and cheer- 680 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD ful in the discharge of every duty. He was transferred at Raleigh to company E, One Hundred and Eighty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with this regiment when discharged. After the war, Mr. Porter returned to Ohio and married, April 8, 1868, at Hinckley, Lydia Smith, who was born in Medina county, at Granger, a daughter of William J. and Lydia (Ingram) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Porter first located in the north part of Hinckley township, where Mr. Porter bought a farm of seventy-five acres; he bought his present farm in 1876, and has a well-stocked farm of 138 acres—advantageously adapted to stock-raising. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Porter are Minott E. and Pearl. In politics Mr. Porter has been a. republican since Lincoln's second term. Mr. Porter has always been an industrious, hard-working man, and is an honored citizen. He has held the office of township trustee, and has been a member of the school board three years. His son Minott is a graduate of the university of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and is now in the government employ in the naval observatory, Washington, D. C., being an excellent mathematician. Charles Porter, father of subject, was born at Hadharn, Cambridgeshire, Eng., was a farmer, and to his marriage with Mary Neuman there were born the following children: Martha, Charles, John B., Mary, Henry T., Robert, Alice and Harriet. Mr. Porter came to America in March, 1837, coming from Liverpool to New York, and being six weeks on the voyage. He settled in Richfield township, Summit connty, Ohio, and finally bought land in Hinckley township, Medina county, Ohio, consisting of seventy-five acres, and improved it, building a good dwelling and making a good home. He is a member of the Methodist church and in politics is a republican. He had two sons in the Civil war—Robert, who was in the One Hundred and Third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, company I, one year, and Henry T. William J. Smith, father of Mrs. Porter, was born in Lincolnshire, Eng., in 1810 or 1811, came to America when a young man and married Lydia Ingram at Granger, Ohio. Mr. Smith was a farmer, owning 156 acres of land in Hinckley township. His children by a first wife are Harriet, Mary, Sarah, Lydia and Rose. After her death he married Emma Damon, and their children are Jasper, George, Frank, Fred, Albert and Lucy. Mr. Smith is yet living, aged eighty-seven years. He has always been an industrious, respected citizen. ADAM RUBBINS, a farmer of Hudson township, Summit county, Ohio, and an ex-soldier of the Civil war, was born in Cambridgeshire, England, August 31, 1830, a son of John H. and Sarah (Foster) Rubbins. He was reared to farming when young, and came to America when about twenty years old, with the family, sailed from Liverpool, England, in the good ship Universe, of the Black Star line, in October, 185o, and was six weeks on the passage to New York city, all the family coming except Mr. Rubbins, the father, who had come two years previously. Adam at once went to Little Falls, Herkimer county, N. Y., where his father had settled, and worked at farm work until he enlisted, in April, 1861—the Tuesday after the fall of Fort Sumter—in company G, Thirty-fourth regiment New York volunteer infantry — Capt. Brown, of Oneida, who was afterward killed at Malvern Hill. Our subject enlisted for two years or during the war and served until honorably discharged at Albany, N. Y., July 3, 1863, having served faithfully for twenty-one months. He was in the battles of Edward's Ferry, Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, White OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 681 House Landing, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania Court House, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Yorktown, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, Bull's Run, Fredericksburg (second battle), Saint Mary's Heights, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Sandy Hook, and many other battles not remembered and many skirmishes. Mr. Rubbins was wounded in the nose, sustained several slight wounds, and several balls passed through his clothing. He was sick in field hospital six weeks after the battle of Antietam, with trouble in his head, falling to the ground on the march from Alexandria to the battle of Antietam, and was also troubled with rheumatism. Mr. Rubbins was always an active soldier, was always prompt and cheerful in the discharge of his duty, and was a good, efficient soldier. After an honorable discharge, Mr. Rubbins returned to New York state and was employed at farm work. He -married, July 4, 1867, at Little Falls, N. Y., Mary Esther Kent, who was born in Herkimer county, N. Y., a daughter of Jacob Kent, of Scotch parentage. He was a farmer and married Mary Widrick, and his children were named David, Sylvano, Charles, Alden, Mary E., John, Isemar, Alice and Isaac. Mr. Kent died in New York state, an aged man, respected by all. He was a soldier in the Civil war, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, New York volunteer infantry, in the three years' service, was in many battles and wounded at the second battle of Fredericksburg, but served out his time. He also had two sons in the Civil war —Charles and David—Charles in the navy and David in the One Hundred and Twenty-first New York infantry. Mr. Rubbins lived in Herkimer county until about 1868, when he came to Hudson, Ohio, and worked at farm labor until he bought his present farm in partnership with his father, in 1869, and has since lived here. He has improved his property and built a good residence. His children are Jennie M. , John W. and Charles Foster. Mr. Rubbins is a member of the Disciples' church, and in politics is a republican. He is a member of W. T. Sherman post, No. 68, G. A. R., at Hudson, Ohio, and has always been an industrious, hard-working man and straightforward in all his deals. John H. Rubbins, father of subject, was born in Cambridgeshire, England, was a farmer, married Sarah Foster and reared a large family. He came to America about 1848, and sent for his family about 1850, settled at Little Falls, N. Y., and moved to Hudson, Ohio, in 1863, and bought a place in the village in conjunction with his son, Adam, as has already been mentioned. He reached the great age of ninety-five years and seven days, having always been a hard-working and respected man. He had four sons in the Civil war, John, Adam, William and Foster, all four in company G, Thirty-fourth New York volunteer infantry, in the two years' service. William was killed in the battle of Antietam, Foster was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, John re-enlisted in the Sixteenth New York heavy artillery and was wounded in front of Petersburg, but he served to the close of the war. This family has a splendid military record-- having fought many battles for the preservation of the Union. ALEXANDER C. RUPLE, a well- known contracting carpenter of Richfield, Summit county, Ohio, and a veteran of the late Civil war, descends from colonial New Jersey ancestors of German extraction and of patriotic instinct and impulse. His great-grandfather, Baltus Ruple, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war; John Ruple, his grandfather, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his grand-uncle, James, was a colonel in the same war, when, for the 682 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD second time, imperious, arrogant and perfidious Albion was compelled to lay down her arms before the conquering Americans. Alexander C. Ruple was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, August 12, 1832, a son of Seth and Jane (Beers) Ruple, received a good common-school education, and was there taught the carpenter's trade. February 20, 1856, he married, at Richfield, Ohio, Miss Caroline E. Bailey, who was born in Goshen, Conn., January II, 1834, a daughter of Asahel and Mary (Humphrey) Bailey, and on his marriage settled in East Cleveland, where he worked until his enlistment, July 18, 1862, at Cleveland, in company K, Second Ohio volunteer cavalry, under Capt. John Clapp, who was accidentally killed by being thrown from his horse before reaching the front, his place being supplied by Capt., afterward Gen., Nettleton. Private Ruple was soon promoted to be second sergeant, and in September, 1862, was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Ohio independent battery, with the rank of second lieutenant; was again promoted, for meritorious conduct, to a first lieutenancy, and resigned his commission March 20, 1865, having fought at the battles of Newtonia, Mo., September 3o and October 4, 1862; Kane Hill, November 29, 1862; Prairie Grove, Ark., December 7, 1862; Van Buren, December 28; Brownsville, August 25, 1863; Bayou Metse, August 27, and Little Rock, September 1o, all in Arkansas, and in all the other battles of which record is made in the sketch of John Mott. Lieut. Ruple was always promptly at his post of duty, took part in all the campaigns of his regiment, but escaped all injury, excepting a slight flesh wound in his left hand. He made an excellent military record, having left his wife and three small boys at home when he enlisted, and rising from the ranks to be a commissioned officer. On his return from the army he resumed his trade in East Cleveland, where he owned a nice little residence and three acres of land, and lived there until 1868, when he came to Richfield, continued to work at his trade, and in 1878 purchased his present home, which is one of the most pleasant in Richfield. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ruple were born eight children, viz: Will, Dudley, Orian, Alvah, Asahel, May, Glen and Mark, who are settled in different parts of the United States. The mother of these children was called from earth October 4, 1895, a member of the Congregational church and a woman of many christian virtues. John Ruple, grandfather of Alexander C. Ruple, was born in Trenton, N. J., where his father had lived in the days of the Revolution. John married Betsey Craft, and had born to him the following-named children: Baltus, Cyrus, Lawrence, Samuel, Abraham, James, Seth, Sarah, Anna, Nancy and Mary. He came to Ohio in 1805 and settled in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, where he had purchased 320 acres of land in 1803, all in the woods, but which he cleared up and converted into a comfortable home. He served in the war of 1812, held many township offices and died at the age of ninety-three years, a deacon in the Presbyterian church and a highly respected citizen. Seth Ruple, father of Alexander C., was born in Euclid township, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in 1807, was reared a farmer, married Jane Beers, and to this marriage were born John, Alexander C., Dudley and Jane. Two of these sons served in the Civil war—Dudley being a private in the One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio infantry, and serving three years. Seth Ruple died on his farm in 1885, a substantial and greatly esteemed citizen, and in politics a democrat. Alexander C. Ruple was one of the founders of the republican party, cast his first pres- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 683 idential vote for John C. Fremont, and has voted for every republican nominee for the presidency ever since. He is a member of the A. N. Goldwood post, No. 104, G. A. R., of West Richfield. of which he has been commander, as well as filled all the other offices, and stands deservedly high in she estimation of all the good citizens of Richfield township. CEYLON F. RUSH, of Hudson township, Summit county, Ohio, springs from an old New York state family of German ancestry. He was born April 7, 1846, at Titusville, Crawford county, Pa., a son of Isaac W. and Mary M. (Drown) Rush. Ceylon F. Rush received a limited common-school education. He enlisted January 10, 1862, at the age of about fifteen years, and was the youngest soldier in his regiment. He was assigned as a drummer to company F, Fifty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war. His services as a drummer were for but three or four weeks, and the remainder of the time he carried the musket as a private. He was honorably discharged, by reason of reenlistment, as a veteran of the same organization, January 1, 1864, at Little Washington, N. C., and served until honorably discharged from the general hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., August 25, 1865, by reason of wounds received in battle. He took part in the battles of Portsmouth and Newton; Gosport Navy Yard, May, 1862; Zuni, October 24, 1862; Black Water, 1862; skirmish at Cove Creek, March, 1863; Gum Swamp, May 22, 1863; Batchelor's Creek, May 23, 1863; Arrowfield Church, May 9-10, 1864; Dewey's Bluff, May 14, 1864; Bermuda Hundred, May 18 to 26, 1864; Cold Harbor, June 1 to 12, 1864; assault on Petersburg, June 15 to 19, 1864; before Petersburg, June 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865; Chapin's Farm, September 29 to 30, 1864; Fair Oaks, October 27 to 28, 1864; Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, April 2, 1865, and in many smaller battles and skirmishes—twenty-two general engagements in all. He was thrice wounded September 29, 1864, at the battle of Chapin's farm, and once at Fort Harrison--shot through the left shoulder—and was in hospital at Fort Monroe, Washington and Philadelphia. He rejoined his regiment before he had fully recovered, and was at the fall of Petersburg and was sent back to hospital. His left shoulder was struck twice and he was also shot in the foot—this ball being from the rear, the first ball turning him completely around. Of his company of forty-two men at Chapin's farm, but four men escaped alive. The order for this charge was countermanded, but the company did not hear the countermand and charged in a desperate place. Mr. Rush was always an active soldier, and was in all the marches, battles, campaigns and skirmishes in which his regiment took part. He was but nineteen years old when he was discharged. After the war he returned to Pennsylvania and sold the first history of the rebellion (that was published), for one year, in Clarion and Armstrong counties, Pa., and did a good business. He was in Pennsylvania during the early oil excitement, and was personally acquainted with Col. Drake, who drilled the first oil well. Mr. Rush came to Ohio in 1867 and worked at carriage work at Wood, Portage county, one year. He married, in Lake county, Ohio, October 13, 1868, Marie A. Tyler, who was born May 29, 1843, at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio, a daughter of Miles and Sallie (Tyler) Tyler. Miles Tyler was the son of Jacob and Fannie Tyler. Jacob Tyler was born in Broome, Scoharie county, N. Y., was of Scotch descent, and was a 684 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD soldier in the war of the Revolution. He was a farmer and moved to Geauga county, Ohio, at an early day, cleared up a good farm and became a substantial citizen and lived to be an aged man. Of his children, Hiram, Polly and Miles are the only ones who are remembered. Miles Tyler was born in Boome, N. Y., was a farmer and was married in New York, and came to Geauga county, Ohio, among the pioneers. His children were David, Franklin, Elisha, Wheeler, Tammy, George, Adaline and Maria. Mr. Tyler died in Concord, Lake county, Ohio, aged about eighty years, a member of the Methodist church, and in politics a republican. He was a strong Union man and a captain, when a young man, in the old New York state militia. He had two sons in the Civil war—Franklin and George—the former a private in a Massachusetts regiment, and George was in an Ohio regiment and lost his left arm in battle. Mr. and Mrs. Rush settled in Lake county, Ohio, after marriage, and later moved to Wood county, and afterward to Portage county, Ohio, and afterward moved to Pennsylvania. Mr. Rush followed carpentering and the oil business in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in the spring of 1872 and settled in Lake county. In 1875 they came to Summit county, settling in Akron. In 1882 he bought his present residence property in Hudson. Mr. Rush now follows his business of a carpenter and is a skillful and reliable workman. To Mr. and Mrs. Rush two sons have been born: Adelbert Bruce, June 14, 1872, in Concord, Lake county, Ohio, and Raymond Clare, August 8, 1875, at Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio. Mr. Rush in politics is a republican; fraternally he is a Mason and a member of the lodge at Hudson, Ohio. Isaac W. Rush, father of subject, was born in Genesee county, N. Y. , and married, in Michigan, Mary M. Drown, of Owasso, Shiawassee county, a daughter of John and Lydia (Calhoun) Drown. Mr. Rush was a shoemaker and farmer, at one time owning a farm in Clarion county, Pa. His children by his first wife were Polly, Irena, Laura A., Ira W., Ceylon F., Manley B., Mary, Charlotte, Fanny, and Zelina. Mrs. Rush died, and Mr. Rush next married Mrs. Catherine Russell (a widow), and their children were Freelove and one who died an infant. Mrs. Catherine Rush also died, and the third marriage of Mr. Rush was to Clarissa Hine, and their children were Lina L., Ella, James, Jennie, Isaac, John, Flora, Almeda, Hattie, and one died an infant. Thus Mr. Rush was the father of twenty-two children. Two sons—Ceylon and Manley—were soldiers in the Civil war—both in same company aid regiment. Manley enlisted later than Ceylon, and when he also was but fifteen years old. Thus these two patriotic boys were among the youngest soldiers of the Civil war. FREDERICK W. WOODBRIDGE, one of the oldest and one of the best-known business men of Ravenna, Ohio, was born in Manchester, Conn., in 1824, and is a son of Frederick and Clarissa C. (Pitkin) Woodbridge, the former of whom was also a native of Manchester, Hartford county, Conn., was there married, and to his union with Miss Pitkin were born three children, viz: Frederick W., Elizabeth P. (now the widow of James W. Cone, of Kent, Ohio) and Charles D., of Cleveland—both families being of English descent. Diodate Woodbridge, the paternal great-grandfather of Frederick, was a patriot of the Revolutionary war and fought in the memorable battle of Breed's Hill, better known as Bunker's Hill. Dudley Woodbridge, paternal grandfather of subject, was a native of Con- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 689 necticut, married Betsey Pitkin, became the father of twelve children, and died in his native state at about the age of sixty years. Joseph Pitkin, the maternal grandfather of subject, also was a native of Connecticut, was one of the first cotton manufacturers of that state and died at an advanced age in New York. Frederick Woodbridge, father of Frederick W., was at one time a wealthy merchant in the east, but lost his all in the panic of 1837, and in 1839 brought his family to Ohio, and died in Cleveland at the age of seventy-two years, having some years previously lost his wife, who .died in Wisconsin, but whose remains were interred at Kent, Ohio. Frederick Wells Woodbridge, the subject proper of this memoir, received a very fair academical education in his youth, and in 1841 began clerking for Clapp & Spellman, at Akron, Ohio, and later was employed by Zenas Kent, of Ravenna. He, with filial affection, presented to his father all his early earnings to aid in buying a farm, but was able, in 1846, to enter into business on his own account, in which he continued in Ravenna until 1853— a part of the time with his father-in-law, Capt. Isaac Brayton, and then removed to Cleveland, where, with others, he built the Cleveland Powder mills, which he operated with success for several years and then re-entered mercantile life, in connection with the Cleveland Rolling Mill company, in which he continued until 1873, when he returned to Ravenna and resumed mercantile business. The marriage of Frederick W. Woodbridge took place in Ravenna, in 1847, to Miss Mary A. Brayton, then about seventeen years of age, and a daughter of Capt. Isaac Brayton. She was a native of the island of Nantucket, and in after years became famous as a leader in the cause of the Women's Christian Temperance union. To the marriage of Frederick W. and Mary A. Woodbridge were born four - 28 - children, viz: Mary Alice, who became the wife of Dr. M. L. Brooks, physician and surgeon of Cleveland, whose father is also a physician and is the oldest practitioner of that city; to Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were born two children, Thomas H. and Martin Luther, who died in childhood. The father, Dr. Brooks, met with an untimely death by an accident in 1895. Martha Mitchell, the second child born to Mr. and Mrs. Woodbridge, was married to W. E. Way, who for twenty-seven years was bookkeeper and paymaster of the Cleveland Rolling Mill company and died in 1891; to this marriage were born three children, of whom two are still living—Edith and Anna. Frederick W., the third child of subject and wife, died at the age of one year, and George Brayton Woodbridge, the youngest, married Miss May Sharp; they have one child, Frederick Wells, and reside in Cleveland, where his father is bookkeeper for a manufacturing company. The late lamented mother and grandmother of the above children, Mrs. Mary Ann (Brayton) Woodbridge, was called from her philanthrophic cares and toil of benevolence October 25, 1894. She was born April 21, 183o, the daughter of Capt. Isaac and Love (Mitchell) Brayton, who were married, by the Quaker ceremony, July 25, 1825. Mary A. was of the sixth generation born in America, and her ancestry can be traced back in England for a period of 8o0 years. Her father, Isaac Brayton, was born in Nantucket, in 1801, and early in life became captain of a whaling vessel, and April 28, 1833, landed the largest cargo of oil (2,824 barrels) ever before brought to the island of Nantucket. He also landed probably the first missionary that ever visited the Sandwich Islands, and was always a friend of that devoted band of evangelists, mention of which fact is made in the history of the Sandwich group by Rev. Hiram Bingham, who 690 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD was himself a missionary there for twenty-five years under the auspices of the American board. Even in those early days Capt. Brayton was a strictly temperate man, never. using even tobacco, and was one of the few sea-captains who daily led the crew in religious worship. He was gifted with a high order of eloquence and a tact for the management of public affairs, was recognized by his fellow-citizens as a leader among men, and by them was sent to the Massachusetts legislature in the days when Edward Everett was governor. On coming to Ohio, he served the commonwealth as associate justice with Ben Wade, later was a member of the Ohio legislature, and was the father of the law by which the charitable institutions of this state are still governed. He lived to the great age of eighty-six years, and his memory is still cherished with respect in his native as well as his adopted state. His talented wife Love Mitchell, was a sister of William Mitchell, who as an astronomer and geographer, with his daughter Maria, won a world-wide reputation. Mrs. Woodbridge was the mother of three children before she was twenty-one years of age; the fourth was born thirteen years later. Notwithstanding her maternal cares she never lost her enthusiasm for her religious convictions and her philanthopic efforts to redeem the world from the curse of rum, nor her love for books, nor the study of botany and love of flowers, with which her home was always decorated with the rarest growths; and so gracious was personality and her hospitality so spontaneous, that her home was constantly filled with admiring friends. The great work that Mrs. Woodbridge accomplished as a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union must be confined to a brief excerpt from a' memento written by the famous Frances E. Willard, confining it, as it was written, to the present tense: "She has risen to her present eminence by sure and regular gradation, being at first president of the local union of her own home town at Ravenna, then for years president of her state, and in 1878 she was chosen recording secretary of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, a position which she fills with unrivaled ability, her minutes being almost never susceptible of improvement by even the slightest verbal change. This is, indeed, a fact significant of much,' for only the quickest ear, keenest perception and readiest hand could so ' keep the run ' of proceedings to the last degree intricate, rapid and changeful. Upon the resignation of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster (at the St. Louis National W. C. T. U. convention, in October, 1884) Mrs. Woodbridge was unanimously chosen national superintendent of the department of legislation and petitions. She is now in the field addressing large audiences at leading centers of influence, and is received with the consideration due to her character, talents and influence. But the crowning work of Mrs. Woodbridge thus far was her consummate conduct of the constitutional amendment campaign, especially when the stage of submitting the prohibitory clause had been successfully passed. Her wonderful alertness of mind, facility of leadership, patience and far-reaching wisdom had here a splendid field. Political leaders in Ohio said they were outworked, out-witted and out-generaled.' Almost unaided by the partisan press, with faithlessness in camp and field, the parties making a promise to the ear only to break it to the hope, this steadfast nature still held on its way, trusted by the people of Ohio and devoutly trusting them. But in God were the hidings of her power. Whether she edited the Amendment Herald, which under her leadership attained a weekly circulation of 100,000 copies, or directed the appointments of the temperance workers who were out campaigning, stirred OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 691 the zeal of her local workers by letter and telegram, or pleaded for the sinews of war, her faith failed not,' and words of prayer were ever on her lips, or promises of God from the Book with which she has so great familiarity. What wonder that more than 300,000 voters responded by Yes' ballots to such earnest workers as the White Ribbon women of Ohio, under such splendid leadership. Later on, when the amendment was counted out, Mrs. Woodbridge has taken positions so far advanced as to the safe conduct of prohibition movements, that many good people have been unable to see light in her light," but she goes bravely forward, undaunted, undeterred, 'with firmness in the right as God gives her to see the right,' exhibiting in this the choicest quality of her noble character, viz: Fidelity to her convictions at cost of comfort and of praise. " Frederick W. Woodbridge has been a lasting honor to the generation in which he lives, and has shown in his life the characteristics of the man and the true-born gentleman. His business integrity has never been questioned, his high moral character ever precluding the shadow, even, of such a thought. His domestic life has been supremely blessed in all respects, and has been marred only by the irreparable loss of the companion to whom he was so deeply devoted. HENRY BARHOLT, a respected citizen of Hiram, Ohio, and a veteran of the Civil war, was born in Prussia, August 27, 1838, a son of Benjamin and Caroline Barholt, and was seven years old when his parents brought him to America, about 1845. His father settled in Cleveland, Ohio, but Mrs. Barholt, died soon after reaching America, and young Henry received but little education. He began to work in a tobacco factory when a small boy and sometimes worked until twelve o'clock at night; he next went to Orange, Ohio, when he was sixteen years old, and worked at farm work. He enlisted at Hiram, Ohio, September 20, 1861, in Col. Garfield's regiment, Capt. A. F. Williams, company A, Forty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, to serve three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, September 3o, 1864, by reason of expiration of service. He re-enlisted in Wayne township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, in company G, Sixth United States veteran volunteers, April 6, 1865, to serve one year or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C., April 5, 1866, thus serving a little over four years. He was in the battles of Middle Creek, and Pound Gap, Ky., and in several skirmishes at Cumberland Gap and at Big Springs. He was in the battle of Grand Gulf, Thompson's Hill, or Port Gibson, Raymond, Champion Hill, Black River, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., and in skirmishes too numerous to mention. Mr. Barholt was not a prisoner, nor was he in the hospital, but was always an active soldier and prompt and cheerful in the discharge of his duties. He was in all the battles, skirmishes, campaigns and marches, in which his regiment was engaged, and had but one furlough home for thirty days. Mr. Barholt thinks his hardest battles to have been those of Champion Hill and Vicksburg. His hardest march was in September, from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio river, which required nineteen days. The troops had no rations, and the weather was very hot. The corn had just glazed, and Mr. Barholt lived on this corn during the march. He had saved a little coffee, and this was of the greatest value to him. After the war Mr. Barholt returned to 692 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Ohio and engaged in farm work at Hiram. He married August 5, 1872, at Cleveland, Ohio, Mary Seebolt, who was born March 9, i842, in Baden, Germany, in the Black Forest. Her father came with his family to America, about 1850, arriving in New York. Mr. Seebolt was a blacksmith, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where his wife died the first year. Their children, beside Mary, were Lee, Antoinette, John (a soldier of the Civil war), Caroline, Elizabeth and Hannah, the last-named remaining in Germany. Mr. Seebolt lived to be sixty-four years old, and died in 1871 in Cleveland. He was a hard-working and industrious man. After marriage Mr. Barholt settled in Hiram township, where he had bought a farm of fifty-six and one-half acres, three-fourths of a mile west of Hiram. By his thrift and energy, he has improved his place with good buildings, and has a pleasant and comfortable home. Mr. and Mrs. Barholt have one son, Edward F., born November 3, 1879. In politics he is a republican and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Barholt is a member of the Lutheran church and of the G. A. R., formerly affiliating with Bentley post at Mantua, Ohio. Benjamin Barholt and wife, the parents of our subject, came to America about 1845, sailing from Bremen to New York in the good ship Eagle. Mr. Barholt was a weaver by trade. He lived in Cleveland until his death at the venerable age of about eighty. He was a hard-working and honorable man. His children were Charles, Henry, Frederick and Fredrica. Three sons were in the Civil war, viz: Frederick was in the Thirty-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, three years' service and veteranized, and in all served four years and was in many battles. He was wounded at Lookout Mountain, and is now deceased. Charles was a private of the Twenty-third regiment veteran volunteer infantry, served four years, and was in many battles. He was wounded and now resides in Cleveland. The three brothers, Henry, Frederick and Charles; were in the service altogether about twelve years. Henry Barholt has always been an industrious and frugal farmer, and has fully earned the reputation he enjoys as a good citizen and an upright man. JAMES B. BARNARD, mayor of Garrettsville, Portage county, Ohio, and now serving a second term, is a native of Chautauqua county, N. Y., was born April 29, 1838, and is a son of Benjamin and Gracie (Bucklin) Barnard, natives, respectively, of New Hampshire and New York states. In 1853 the Barnard family came to Ohio and first located in Trumbull county, whence they removed to a farm in Franklin township, and later went to Stowe township, Summit county, where the parent's passed the remainder of their days. The father had been a farmer all his life, was a republican in politics, and was honored with the office of justice of the peace, as well as with several minor township offices. They were the parents of eleven children, who all grew to maturity, and were named as follows: Jane, who was first married to William Southwell and next to Ransford Easton, and now lives in Illinois; Emily, deceased, who was first married to Dewey Nichols, then to George Baker, and next became Mrs. Freeman; and died in. Jamestown, N. Y. ; Nancy is the widow of Charles Curtis, and resides in Joliet, Ill. ; Martha is the wife of S: P. Merrill, of Earlville, Portage county, Ohio; Sophia is married to Frank Stowe, of Lockport, Ill. ; James B., subject, is next in order of birth; Elizabeth died unmarried; Julia married Seldon Barker, afterward became Mrs. Mansfield, and resides OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 693 in Jamestown, N. Y.; Laura is the wife of William Stowe, of Lockport, Ill. ; Daskum F. is a farmer near Kent, Ohio; Fred is also a farmer, and lives in Stowe township, Summit county. James B. Barnard attended school until fifteen years of age and assisted on his father's farm until his enlistment, in 1861, in the Second Ohio volunteer cavalry; served in the western army nearly two years as bugler, and was mustered out under an order from the war department. He next enlisted in company H, One Hundred and Seventy-first Ohio volunteer infantry, for 100 days, did guard duty at Johnson's island, as second lieutenant, fought at Kellar's Bridge, Ky., was held in service fully a year, and was mustered out with the rank of captain. After his return from the war, Capt. Barnard traveled for twenty years as a salesman in the eastern and middle states, mostly on his own account, but while thus employed established his home, in 1873, in Garrettsville. In 1890 he purchased an interest in the granite business, which is still carried on under̊ the firm name of Barnard & King, who own their business block and yards and are very prosperous in their trade, commanding a very extensive business. Mr. Barnard was married, in 1860, to Miss Philinda Lee, who was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of Seth Lee, a prominent farmer. To Mr. and Mrs. Barnard has been born one son—Jay L., who is married to Mary Levitt, and is office manager, bookkeeper and statistician for the Ohio Steel company at Youngstown. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard have also reared an adopted daughter—Edith. In politics Mr. Barnard has always been an ardent republican, is very popular with his party, has twice been elected to the town council and has twice been elected mayor of the village of Garrettsville, and is now serving his second term. During his excellent adminis- trations Main street has been paved with brick, and the electric light system thoroughly improved and perfected, and many other important improvements made for the public benefit. Mr. Barnard was one of the three commissioners appointed to build the Hiram Free turnpike or macadamized road in 1883, of which commission he has served ever since as president, of the board. In his fraternal relations, Mr. Barnard has advanced to the encampment in Odd Fellowship and is a past chief patriarch, and still affiliates as a member of the local lodge, and is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is entirely "self-made", and his residence on North street is one of the best in the village. FREDRICK W. BOIES, of Peninsula, Ohio, one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and a respected citizen, was born in Stowe township, Summit county, Ohio, September 17, 1842, a son of Fredrick N. and Elizabeth (Lewis) Boies. The Boies family were of French and Irish ancestry and settlers, in colonial times, of Massachusetts. John Boies, grandfather of subject, was born in Boston, Mass., September 27, 1760, and married July 31, 1788, Mary Parker, born at Litchfield, N. H., daughter of John Parker and granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Parker, the first minister of Dracut, Mass. In the year 1805, they settled in Maine as pioneers of Madison and Skowhegan. Their children were Thomas, James, Bartholomew, Broadus, Fredrick, John, Mary, Nancy, Mehitable, Eliza and Fannie Neil—none of them now living. In the history of Bedford, N. H., published by the town in 1851, the name of John Boies 694 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD appears as one of the Ibo men who signed "The Association Test" in April, 1776, indicating his loyalty to the cause of the colonies. He was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, enlisting in March, 1777, in his sixteenth year, and his service record has been fully verified from authentic sources. On July 7, 1777, he was engaged at the battle of Hubbardston, and October 7, following, at the second battle of Stillwater, where he was wounded in the arm. The following winter he was with Washington's army at Valley Forge, and June 28, 1778, took part in the battle of Monmouth. In the summer and fall of 1779 he was with the expedition organized under the direction of Washington, and commanded by Gen. John Sullivan, against the six nations of Indians. This army did some severe fighting and marched over 700 miles through an almost unbroken wilderness, in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1780 he was taken prisoner, put on board a vessel and carried first to Limerick, Ireland, and thence to Mill prison, Plymouth, England. With a number of others he made his escape, put out to sea in an open boat, and was picked up by a French vessel and carried to within sight of New York city, where the vessel was captured by the British man-of-war and the soldiers were transferred to the ship Essex, June 16, and committed to Mill prison again June 21, 1781. As a punishment for trying to escape, Mr. Boies was compelled to wear sixty pounds of iron sixty days. To vary the monotony of prison life he kept a diary and completed a book of sums. After his return to America he was offered quite a large sum of money for these books—the memories of prison life—but he refused to part with them, and they were afterwards destroyed by fire in a school-house in Derryfield, now Manchester, N. H. After the surrender of Cornwallis in October, 1781, he was released and returned to America. A bronze tablet has been recently erected to his memory in the memorial room of the Skowhegan public library as a tribute to his worth. The tablet bears the inscription: In memory of John Boies, a soldier of the Revolution, born in Boston, Mass., September 27, 1760, enlisted in the Sixth company, Third New Hampshire regulars, March, 1777 —serving three years; imprisoned one year at Mill prison, Eng. As a token of affection and esteem this tablet is placed here by his grandchildren. Fredrick Nelson Boies, father of subject, was born at Bedford, N. H., February 14, i800, and had the limited common-school education of his day. He left home early, was a lumberman in Maine and Canada, and married at Portland, Conn., Elizabeth Lewis, January 6, 1831. They settled in Summit county, Ohio, Northampton township, in 1836-7, east of the Center, and bought 1 so acres in the White Oaks woods, where Mr. Boies, who had come out the spring before, had built a log cabin. He cleared up his farm from the woods, and, although a small man, weighing but 130 pounds. was very tough and hardy, and could outwork most men. He made a good pioneer, and about 184o he moved to the center of Stowe, and remained there till 1844, when he bought and removed to a farm in Boston township, on which he lived the remaining active years of his life. He suffered from a stroke of apolexy seven years before death and was blind for seven years, and finally retired to Peninsula, where he died February 12, 1882. He and wife were members of the Episcopal church at Peninsula. In politics he was a democrat, served as justice of the peace three years and also as assessor. His children were Ann L., Herbert W., Helen, Mary P., Charles E. L., Fredrick C. and Effie L. He had two sons in the Civil war, viz: OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 695 Charles E. L., who was in company C, Twentieth regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, in the three years' service, and was color sergeant. Of the above-named children, Ann L. is the widow of Edmund H. Cole, who was a merchant in Peninsula. They had four children—three sons and one daughter living, of whom the eldest, Dr. A. M. Cole, is a prominent business man and banker in the city of Akron; he was educated in the high school at Peninsula, and a business college at Cleveland, and is a graduate of a medical college at Cleveland, and the College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York city. He married Miss Lucy Truscott. Herbert W. is general manager of the Star Drill Co. and the Silver Plate Co., at Akron, Ohio. Helen is the wife of Dr. W. N. Boerstler, of Peninsula; Fredrick C. is assistant manager of the Silver Plate Co. of Akron, and Effie L. is the wife of a Mr. Worthington, of Connecticut, who is a seaman. Fredrick W. Boies, subject of this sketch, received a common-school education and enlisted August 20, 1862, at Peninsula, in company C, One Hundred and Fifteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, July 5, 1865. He was appointed corporal on the organization of the company and promoted sergeant for meritorious conduct. He was first stationed at Cincinnati, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, and Murfreesboro, Tenn., on guard duty, and was detailed to the One Hundred and Fifteenth regimental band in 1864, and served as a musician until mustered out. He was present at Dayton, Ohio, when George L. Waterman was shot by a mob. After the war, Mr. Boies returned to Peninsula and was engaged in the boat yard as boat carpenter three years; then bought a canal boat and ran it for six years and did a good business. In company with Charles E. Boies, he bought a grist mill at Peninsula in 1878 and ran it three years, and then ran a meat market several years. He is now notary public and owns valuable real estate in Peninsula. In politics he is a democrat; he has served as township trustee and mayor of Peninsula. He is a member of the Episcopal church; a member of the Knights of Maccabees, and Good Templars, and of the George L. Waterman post, No. 272, G. A. R., at Peninsula, of which he has been commander and now is quartermaster. ALEXANDER BREWSTER, one of the oldest residents of Summit county, which has been his home for over eighty-five years, may certainly claim especial mention in this volume, as being one of the very few still living who have seen the county develop from a wilderness into the blooming agricultural district it now is, and its mineral resources utilized for the benefit of his fellow-men. He was born in Augusta, Oneida county, N. Y., September 10, 1808; came with his parents to Ohio in 1812, settling in Coventry township, where he lived the life of the pioneer, assisting his father to redeem from the forest a home. His early life was a busy one, and well he remembers of the game that abounded in the forest and of the numerous days of pleasure that he experienced hunting same. His education was limited to the common schools of that day. He remained under the parental roof until he arrived at his majority, having learned the carpenter trade with his father, which he followed only a short time, when he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits, following this vocation through his long life. In the year 1848 coal was discovered underneath his land and he gave some attention to the mining of same in a limited way for a few years. In 185o he with several others from that locality made an overland trip to 696 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD California, and for a year had the experience of a miner and was. one of the few that were fortunate in accumulating wealth rapidly, and during the year 1851 he returned to his home and resumed farming; also engaged in coal mining, which he has followed up to within a few years, since which time he has been enjoying the fruits of his earlier life. Mr. Brewster has been a careful business man and has prospered year by year, which has enabled him to enjoy comforts to-day which only the frugal may enjoy. In 1865 a stock company was formed with a capital stock of $100,000, under the name of the Brewster Coal company, of which Mr. Brew, ster was made president, and his two sons, Alfred A. and Austin K., were named respectively general agent and secretary and treasurer—the company mining and handling between 200,000 and 300,000 tons of coal for years. Mr. Brewster was married January 9, 1830, to Miss Margaret Ann Kinney, who also was a native of New York, and came to Summit county, Ohio, with her parents, in 1813, being reared to womanhood in Springfield township, that county. By this marriage five children were born, four of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, viz: Alfred A.; Austin K. ; Louisa, wife of J. F. Meacham, and Mary Melissa, wife of Russell H. Kent. Mrs. Brewster died in November, 1854, and Mr. Brewster married in December, 1857, Mrs. Minerva A. (Darrow) Brown, who is a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and died June 27, 1873. In September, 1877, Mr. Brewster married for his third wife Mrs. Lucy Jane Chamberlain, widow of John H. Chamberlain and daughter of Col. Justus Gale, who settled in Akron, in 1831, and became one of its substantial citizens. Mr. Brewster has done his full share in aiding to dot the county over with the hives of industry that send forth their hum of machinery in producing numberless articles of improved labor-saving implements and utensils, and in spreading the benefits of the church and the school the land over also, and now, verging on his ninetieth year, can look back with complacency on his long and well-spent life. JOHN ALLMAN, of Streetsboro township, Portage county, Ohio, is one of the most respected citizens of the township, for the reason that he served in the Civil war in the defense of his adopted country, he having been born in Switzerland February 28, 1838, a son of Conrad and Annie Allman, whose name was originally spelled Alleman, which is equivalent to the French word, Allemand, meaning German, Switzerland being a country in which many of the continental languages are fluently spoken. Conrad Allman, also a native of Switzerland, was a shoemaker by trade, and he and wife had born to them, in that little republic, eight children, who were named Conrad, Jacob, John, Ulrich, Frederick, Mary, Annie and Maria. In the spring of 1852, he, with his family, sailed from Antwerp for America, and after a voyage of seven stormy weeks landed in the city of New York in the month of June. The family all came at once to Ohio, and, passing through Cleveland, located in Stark county, where, the same year, the father, mother and two sons—Conrad and Jacob—died of cholera within two weeks. They were members of the German Reformed church, and were all noted for their probity and general excellence of character. John Allman, who was but fourteen years of age when bereft of his parents, had already learned to read and write the German language, and was bound out to Andrew Sweihart, a farmer of Tuscarawas county, with whom he lived