750 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD tery, company C, First Ohio light artillery. Joseph was poisoned by eating pie which he bought of a rebel pie-peddler, and died from this cause at Nashville, Tenn., aged only seventeen years. He was a good soldier. James was in the Twenty-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served four years and was in many battles, and was wounded, captured and imprisoned. Richard Flemings, father of subject, died aged about forty years. He was an upright and respected man and reared an excellent family. He was a cooper by trade and a very skillful mechanic. George W. Flemings, subject of this sketch, was one of the charter members of Bentley post, G. A. R., Mantua Station, Ohio. HENRY A. FRITZ, manager of the American Straw Board company's mill at Barberton, Summit county, Ohio, was born in Wayne county July 2 I, 1863, and is a son of John and Emma .(Clark) Fritz, who were the parents of five children, viz: William H., deceased; Frank 0., of Nebraska; Henry A., the subject of this biography; Charles M., and John C., the last named also deceased. Martin Fritz, great-grandfather of Henry A. and the progenitor of the American family of that name, came to this country from Germany, after his marriage, and fought under Washington for American independence, serving in the army of his adopted country eight years. After the war, he came from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and with his land warrant, granted him for his services in the war of the Revolution, entered 16o acres of forest land in Milton township, Wayne county, and was absolutely the first white settler there among the red men and wild animals of the primeval woods, and died a member of the United Brethren church, and in politics a democrat. Philip Fritz, grandfather of Henry A., was a boy, when he came to Ohio with his father. He received his education in the pioneer schools and ably aided his father in clearing up the wildwood farm, and married, at maturity, Ann Long, of Wayne county. He was a Jackson democrat in politics, a charter member of the United Brethren church of Shinersville, Wayne county, Ohio, attained prominence in his community, and died full of honors at the age of seventy-eight years, his wife following to the everlasting home at the age of eighty-three. John Fritz, the father of subject, was born on the old Fritz homestead in Wayne county and was reared to farming, and received his education under more favorable circumstances that those which had been granted to his father, and, although an industrious man, lived, comparatively, in greater ease. His wife, Emma Clark, was born near London, England, in 1843, and was a daughter of John A. and Martha Clark. This lady was bereft of her husband about the year 1873, by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-mill, thus leaving her, with her five children, whose names have already been given, and the eldest of whom was then but fourteen years of age and the subject but nine, not only to mourn his untimely death, but to wend their way through the weary world alone and unprotected. But the widow was equal to the task, and by some self-denial so reared them that they never failed to honor her. After accomplishing this worthy duty, she become the wife of W. F. Long, to whom she has borne one son, George M., and now has her pleasant home in Barberton. Henry A. Fritz, prior to the death of his father, had started out in life for himself at the age of twelve years, and was in the em- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 751 ploy of one farmer until he reached the age .of nineteen years, and during this interval of time he not only clothed and educated himself, but devoted considerable of his earnings to the support of his father and mother, and more particularly to that of the latter. At the age last mentioned he entered the telegraph office of the railroad company at New Portage (now Barberton) and a year later was made " supply " operator, which position he filled two years, after which he filled the position of station agent four years, ending with 1888. He then entered into the employ of the American Straw Board company of New Portage as shipping clerk, and was promoted to be bookkeeper a year later; the nex year he was made manager of the plant, which is the largest and best equipped of its kind in the world, and this position Mr. Fritz has held with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his principals until the present hour. The felicitous union of Henry A. Fritz and Alice L. Davis took place September 2 1 , 1886. The lady was born in 1861, on a farm adjoining Lake Annie, near the center of what is now Barberton, a daughter of Frederick M. and Louisa (Richards) Davis, the former of whom died in the faith of the United Brethren church in February, 1893. To the union of Henry A. Fritz and wife have been born three children, who were named, in order of birth, Claude C., Howard E. and Roy D. In his politics, Mr. Fritz has from earliest manhood been a democrat, and as such was a member of the school board when the $12,000 schoolhouse was erected in Barberton. He is at the present time a member of the town council, and has ever been active in the promotion of the interests of the community in which he now has his home. Fraternally, he is a member of lodge No. 568, F. & A. M., of which he is secretary, and in his society relations holds a most enviable standing. THERON GILBERT, one of the oldest and most respected farmers of Deerfield township, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Palmyra township, November 25, 1823, a son of Charles and Amelia (Batterson) Gilbert, natives of Litchfield, Conn., where their marriage was solemnized. Truman Gilbert, paternal grandfather of Theron, a native, also, of Connecticut, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and in 1806 came to Ohio by means of ox-teams, settling in Palmyra township, Portage county, where he engaged in farming until called away by death. He reared a family of nine children, of whom the names of eight can be recalled to memory, viz: Charles, Truman, Lyman, Marvin, Walter, Champion, Ezra and Rebecca. The maternal grandparents of Theron Gilbert were of German descent, and the grandfather, on this side of the house, was a skilled blacksmith. Charles and Amelia Gilbert, parents of Theron, came from Connecticut to Palmyra township, Portage county, Ohio, in 1806, and the father followed the vocation of farmer the remainder of his days. To their union were born nine children, of whom only one survives —Theron, whose name opens this biography. The deceased eight were named Reilly, Noble, George, Champion, Theodore, Martin, Warner and Laura, the last named of whom was first married to Ebenezer Olmstead, and then to David Waller. The parents both died in the faith of the Disciples' church, and were highly honored as pioneers of the township and as most respectable citizens. Theron Gilbert was reared on his father's farm, in the meantime receiving as good an education as the district school of his early days afforded, and also learned blacksmithing. He remained on the home farm until twenty-one years of age, although, previous to reach- 752 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD ing his majority, he had married, August 31, 1843, Miss. Elizabeth Kibler, daughter of Henry and Barbara (Frank) Kibler, which union has been blessed with five children, viz: Julian, who is married to Sarah Folk, and resides in Palmyra township; Caroline, wife of James Derwechter; Laura, now Mrs. John H. Grate; Harriet, married to James Shilliday, and Amy, wife of Thomas G. Ewing. Theron Gilbert is an expert mechanic, and in addition to his knowledge of the blacksmith's strade, is well posted as a gunsmith and in bicycle repairing. While still a young man, he went to Meadville, Pa., where he was employed by the then Atlantic Railroad company as a blacksmith and assisted in the construction of the company's bridge across French creek, and on his return to Deerfield was employed by the county for six months in constructing a bridge on the public road. In 1844, Mr. Gilbert purchased a tract of land in the woods of Deerfield township, cleared away the timber, and began its cultivation, and in 1847, settled down to housekeeping in a log cabin, which, in 1861, he replaced with a commodius frame dwelling, also building a substantial barn, and this farm is now known to be one of the most productive in the township. His attention has been devoted almost entirely to general agriculture and blacksmithing since residing here, although for some years he was engaged in raising live stock, owning, at one time, some of the best horses in the township. He has served his fellow-townsmen as school director and is one of the most highly esteemed residents of Deerfield township. Henry Kibler, father of Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert, was born in Virginia of German descent, was a miller by trade, and was married in his native county of Shenandoah, and there were born to him three children, viz: Elizabeth (Mrs. Gilbert), August 31, 1824; Andrew, who resides in Edinburg, Ohio, and Alexan der, of Palmyra township, Portage county. In 1828 Mr. Kibler brought his family to Palmyra township, purchased a farm on which stood an old grist and saw-mill, which he ran a short time, when the plant was destroyed by fire; but he at once erected a larger and more substantial structure and followed his occupation until his death at the age of eighty-four years, a member of the Methodist church, his wife having died at the age of seventy-six, in the same faith. Thereon Gilbert has always been a most industrious farmer and mechanic, and in consequence has met with a success that has won him deserved esteem throughout the township and county. His name is the synonym of honesty and respectability, and his wife and children enjoy with him the good opinion and respect of the community in which they live. JOSEPH B. CARTER, one of the most respected agriculturists of Northfield township, Summit county, Ohio, as well as an ex-soldier of the Civil war, descends from sterling English stock of colonial Connecticut ancestry and was born February 28, 1839, in Twinsburg township, a son of Thaddeus A. and Esther (Marshall) Carter. He was reared a farmer, received the usual common-school education, and enlisted in Twinsburg township August 24, 1861. He was mustered into the United States service at Camp Ford, Alliance, Ohio, for three years, or during the war, and was assigned to company K, Nineteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, under Capt. Paul Kirby, and served until honorably discharged at Indianapolis, Ind., in October, 1864. He was in the siege of Corinth, battles of Perryville, Wild Cat Gap, Iuka, Shiloh and Stone River, and in skirmishes too numerous to mention. On the last day of the battle of Stone River, a minie ball struck the clasp of OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 755 his army belt, and although this is very heavy metal, it passed entirely through and hung just at the end of the belt. This ball struck the U. S. on the belt exactly in the center. Mr. Carter had pulled the belt around to the left side, to more conveniently get hold of his cartridges, and he was further protected from the ball, which had spent its force on the belt clasp, by his heavy clothing and the give of his body. The shock rendered him breathless, and, immediately after, he was shot in his left leg, close to the knee-joint, and the ball is still imbeded in the bone. The stock of his rifle was also shot. He remained on the field until night, and was taken to field hospital and thence to Nashville, where he lay in hospital eight weeks, and was then in hospital at Louisville, Ky., four weeks, at Camp Dennison, Ohio, one week, and at Cleveland about six months. Not fully recovering, he was sent to the invalid corps, in which he remained until the close of the war. He has, however, always since been troubled by his wound. Mr. Carter was in all the marches, campaigns, battles and skirmishes in which his regiment took part until disabled by his wound January 2, 1863. After the war, Mr. Carter returned to Ohio, and married, at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Miss. Amarilla Spafford, of Northfield township, where she was born August 4, 1852, a daughter of Jason and Philena (Cranson) Spafford. Jason Spafford was born in Solon township, Cuyahoga county, to which his father, Nathan Spafford, came from one of the eastern states as a pioneer. The latter was a soldier in the war of 1812, married Mary Morrison, and their children were Almon, Lydia, Amarilla, Zeloma, Seth, Mary and Jason. Nathan Spafford passed all his remaining days in Ohio, but moved at any early day to Northfield township, Summit county, and died at the age of sixty-six years. Jason Spafford was a farmer, owning a large - 31 - farm, and was prosperous. He died, at the age of forty-five years, a respected citizen and a member of the Baptist church. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Carter settled in Twinsburg township, where Mr. Carter bought the Carter homestead, consisting of 117 acres, and then the Jason Spafford homestead, consisting of 275 acres, a part of it being inherited by his wife. In 1889 Mr. Carter moved to his present homestead in Northfield township, consisting of 274 acres, and is a prosperous farmer. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Carter are Lena May and Thad B. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the Methodist church at Twinsburg, in which he is steward and trustee. As a republican he held the offices of township trustee and assessor and is a member of the school board. Thaddeus A. Carter was born in Connecticut, came in 1826 to Ohio, and returned in 1828 to Connecticut and married Esther Marshall. He then settled in Twinsburg township, on 16o acres of land, and made a good home. His children were Nora A., Samuel N., Rollin B., Mary E., Esther A., Joseph B., Hiram W. and John E. Of these, John E. and Joseph B. were soldiers in the Civil war. John E. was in the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in the three years' service, was in several skirmishes, and died in hospital in North Carolina. The military record of Joseph B. has already been given. Thaddeus A. Carter was a member of the Methodist church and in politics was first a whig and later a republican. He lived to be sixty-nine years old and died on his farm, a much respected citizen. Joseph B. Carter is one of the substantial farmers and respected citizens of Northfield township and has reared an excellent family. His daughter, Miss Lena May, is a student at Mount Union college, at Alliance, Ohio, is a 756 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD member of the class of 1899, and has been a student here for two years. His son, Thad B., is a student at the Northfield high school. JAMES SMITH FRY, a representative farmer of Suffield township, Portage county, Ohio, was born on the old Fry homestead February 14, 1854, a son of Wyerman and Martha (Brown) Fry, both natives of the Buckeye state. His paternal grandparents were natives of Pennsylvania. The grandfather served in the war of 1812, in the army of the Center, afterward became an early settler of Stark county, Ohio, where he was a shoemaker; from there he moved to Suffield township, Portage county, located on a farm of zoo acres, on which he spent about a year and a half, and died of a fever in 1828. Then his. wife and part of his family moved to Knox, Ind., where she died in the year 1874. They were both members of the Presbyterian church. Wyerman, the father of James S., remained on the old homestead, where he passed nearly all his life, and which is now occupied by his son, James S. He had born to him six children, of whom but two survive—Margaret Jane and James S. He was a republican in politics, and honored by his fellow-citizens by election to various offices of trust in his township; he died at the early age of forty-five years, a member of the Reformed church, in which he had filled all the offices. His widow, now about seventy-five years of age, is still in good health, and resides with her son, James S., who is affectionately caring for her in her declining days. The paternal great-grandparents of James S. Fry were natives of Germany. James S. Fry has passed all his life on the farm on which he was born, with the exception of four months spent at school in Deerfield, for which he had been prepared by an attendance at the district school in his native township. February 20, 1879, he was married to Miss Ellen Myers, daughter of Simon and Catherine (Crist) Myers. The fruit of this union is five children, of whom three still survive: Elson M., born January 9, 1880; J. Cleve, born June 13, 1882, and Lester R., born January 11, 1892. The deceased were H. Floyd, who died May 13, 1887, aged six months, and Lillian Grace, who died March 30, 1890, aged one year and twenty days. Mrs. Fry, who was born September 12, 1856, and died February 1, 1887, a devout Methodist for nearly twenty-three years. Her father, Simon Myers, is a farmer of Summit county, Ohio, and to his marriage, in 1854, to Catherine Crist, were born five children, and of the survivors Hattie is the wife of Allen Cook; Delilah is the wife of Charles Adams; Wilson is married to Ella Gates, Florain to Lulu Wise. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Fry were natives of Mahoning county, where the grandfather was for a time a merchant, but later became a miller, and then a farmer, and was the owner of a large estate at the time of his death. He was the father of three children, of whom Catherine (Mrs. Myers) and Harrison are still living. The grandfather of Mrs. Fry died April II 1891, and the grandmother January 14, 1892, in the faith of the Evangelical church. James Smith Fry is a stanch republican in politics, and was a warm advocate for the election of William McKinley. MRS. SYLVESTER GAYLORD, of Munroe Falls, Ohio, widow of Sylvester Gaylord, was born May 2, 1817, at Middletown, Conn., a daughter of Selah and Anna (Newell) North. Sylvester Gaylord was born in Middletown, Conn., November 1, 1808, and was a son of OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 757 Jonathan and Martha (Thomas) Gaylord. Jonathan was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Goodham) Gaylord. The Gaylord family descended from the English Puritans who were the founders of Connecticut. Jonathan Gaylord, father of Sylvester, was born in Connecticut, at Upper Middletown, and his wife was born at Haddam, Conn., and by calling he was a farmer and ship carpenter. His children, born in Connecticut, were Isaac, Eliza, Mary A., Joshua and Sylvester; Eli and Martha were born in Ohio. Jonathan Gaylord moved with his family to the Western Reserve, Ohio, in 1809, starting June 1, and made the trip with oxen, and Capt Stowe (father of Albert Stowe) and family came at the same time. Mr. Gaylord brought his father and mother with him, and some of his brothers and sisters came at the same time. These were Thomas, William, Betsy, Abiah, and Margaret. They were forty-one days on the way and walked the greater part of it; in fact, Jonathan Gaylord walked almost all the way. The roads were very bad and they were obliged to cut through the woods most of the way, and slept in the wagons. They arrived about the middle of July and settled in the southern part of Stowe township, a part of the homestead being still occupied by our subject. The farm contained about 200 acres, covered with timber, but Jonathan cleared it, assisted by his sons. He built a log cabin, in which he lived some years, but finally built a frame house. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He was accustomed to work in the ship yards at Cleveland, and on his way home from that city was stricken down in middle age, probably with heart disease. Sylvester Gaylord had the usual common-school education of his day and was an infant of nine months when he was brought by his parents to the Western Reserve. He learned, in Cleveland, the carpenter and builder's trade of Mr. Hill, and began work for himself when but twenty years of age. He married, when about twenty-two years of age, Ruth Nickerson, who was born in Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, of English descent, but whose parents were pioneers of Stowe township, where her father kept a hotel at Stowe Corners. The children by this marriage were Helen and Sylvester. This wife died, and Mr. Gaylord next married, April 29, 1839, in Stowe township, Julia A. North, born May 2, 1817, at Middletown, Conn., a daughter of Selah and Anna (Newell) North. Mr. Gaylord was a farmer as well as a carpenter and settled on a farm in Stowe township, but sold it and bought the present farm—part of his father's original homestead. To Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord were born Lucy, William, Julia, Charlotte, and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord were members of the Disciples' church, of which he was trustee for years. In politics he was a republican and served as township trustee several years. He was a much respected citizen, well known for his sterling worth. He died at the venerable age of eighty years, June 17, 1889. Mrs. Gaylord, who still survives him, is possessed of an active mind and excellent memory, and is a woman of high character. Charles Gaylord, son of above, was born March 14, 1852, on the present homestead. He received a common-school education and attended the academy at Tallmadge, and was reared to farming and paper finishing, working at Munroe Falls about fifteen years. He married June 3, 1874, in Stowe township, Lucy Sothmayd, born May 13, 1855, in Stowe township,daughter of William and Martha (Willson) Sothmayd, the former of whom was born in May, 183o, the third son of Erastus and Clarissa (Rice) Sothmayd. Clarissa Rice was a daughter of Capt. Rice, and was the first white child born in 758 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Stowe township, in which township Albert Stowe, still living, was the second child and the first male child born. Erastus Sothmayd was born in Middletown, Conn., and came to the Western Reserve a single man. He was a farmer, and married, in Stowe township, Annie Wetmore; his children were Charles, Lucy and Leonard. Mrs. Sothmayd died, and he married Clarissa Rice, and their children were Walter, William, and the twins, Horace and Henry. Mr. Sothmayd had a good farm one-half mile north of Stowe Centre, which he cleared up from the woods. He also kept a hotel at Stowe's Corners for some years. He and his wife were members of the Disciples' church, and in politics he was a republican. Mr. Sothmayd lived to be seventy-nine years old and died on his farm. William Sothmayd was a farmer and school-teacher, educated in the public and high school, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He taught school in Summit county ten years and settled on the home farm, but later in life moved to Cuyahoga Falls, where he died, aged fifty-seven years, December 8, in 1887. He was one of the Summit county infirmary directors for many years, was a republican in politics, and served as clerk of Stowe township, and also treasurer for many years. He and wife were members of the Disciples' church, in which he was an elder. He was a highly respected citizen and a well-read man. He married, November 4, 1859, in Medina county, at Brunswick, Martha Wilson, who was born in Pompey, Onondaga county, N. Y., December 27, 1831, a daughter of Darius and Temperance (Chase) Wilson. Darius Wilson was born of Connecticut of English Puritan stock, and one of his remote ancestors was a signer of the declaration of independence. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were the parents of Homer E., Martha, Milton and James D. Darius Wilson moved to the Western Reserve, Ohio, in 1835, and settled at Brunswick. He was a farmer and carpenter and died aged seventy-four years, on his farm, a much respected citizen and a republican in politics. Charles Gaylord and wife settled on the Gaylord homestead and still reside there. The children are Howard and Stanley. In politics he is a republican. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, being a member of the lodge at Cuyahoga Falls, of which he is past chancellor, and is a K. A. E. O., of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is an honored citizen and township trustee, and was for several years a justice of the peace. He and wife are members of the Disciples' church, of which he has been deacon twenty-one years. Two of his brothers were soldiers in the Civil war, and Sylvester was in the United States navy, in the three years' service, and was at the bombardment of Charleston and New Orleans. He married Maria Hahn, and his children are Eugene, Edith, Ruth and Sadie. William was a private of battery D, Fourth Ohio artillery, and served four years; he was a veteran, and in 106 engagements —among them Stone River. LAVORUS GRATE, a prominent resident and prosperous farmer of Pal-. myra township, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Deerfield township, in the same county, July 36, 1839, a son of Lewis and Catharine (Kibler) Grate. George Grate, the paternal grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio about the year 1820, settling in Palmyra township, Portage county, where he passed the remainder of his days in farming. To his marriage with Susan Fatcher were born eight children, who were named, in order of birth, Jeremiah, Ellen, Betsy, John, George, Lewis, Benjamin OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 759 and Isaac. His death took place at the age of eighty-two years, but his wife had been called away some few years previous to his own departure. Henry Kibler, maternal grandfather of subject, was a native of Virginia, a miller by calling, and was twice married in his native state, prior to coming to Ohio. To his first marriage were barn six children, of whom three are still living, viz: Martin, Catherine Henry; the deceased were named Annie, George and Amelia. To the second marriage of Henry Kibler, which was with Barbara Frank, three children were born, viz: Andrew, Elizabeth (wife of Theron Gilbert, of whom further information will be found on another page of this volume) and Alexander. Lavorus Grate remained on the home farm until twenty-five years of age, acquiring in the meanwhile a sound district-school education, and assisting his father in the cultivation of the farm. September 28, 1865, he married Miss Jane Arbuckle, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Caruthers) Arbuckle, and the same year settled in Palmyra township, where he has since been continuously engaged in agricultural pursuits. Lewis Grate, father of subject, was born in Palestine, Pa., July 16, 1808, and his wife, Catherine Kibler, a native of Virginia, was born in 1814. Both were quite young when they came to Ohio, and located in Palmyra township, Portage county, whence they removed to Deerfield township and passed the remainder of their days. To their union were born six children, who are all still living, viz.: Emeline, wife of H. S. Randall, of whom more may be read on another page; Drusilla, unmarried; Mariette, wife of Daniel Kimmel; Angeline, widow of John Forder; Sarah, wife of Wallace T. Gilbert, and Lavorus. The father of this family was a highly respected farmer, was for many years township trustee, school director and supervisor, and died June 7, 1893, at the age of eighty-five years; his widow is now eighty-four years old and is in excellent health. Thomas Arbuckle, father of Mrs. Jane Grate, was a native of Philadelphia, farmed for some years in Washington county, came to Ohio when in middle age, and engaged in farming in Mahoning county. He first married, in Pennsylvania, Nancy Watson, who bore him one daughter. After the death of his first wife Mr. Arbuckle married Miss Caruthers, and to this union were born eleven children, of whom Mrs. Jane Grate, who was born in Washington county, Pa., January 8, 1838, is the only survivor. The deceased ten were named Sarah, Ellen, Margaret, Francis, Thomas, John, George, James, William and David. Mr. Arbuckle passed away in 1861, at the age of seventy-two years, and his wife in May, 1864, at the age of sixty-two, both members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Grate has always been an industrious and skillful farmer, and no family in Palmyra township is held in higher respect than his. DANIEL H. HARTZELL, of Deerfield township, Portage county, Ohio, and for years recognized as one of the township's best educators, was born here June 27, 1853, a son of Solomon and Clorinda (Loomis) Hartzell. He received his early education in his district school, and this was supplemented by an attendance at Mount Union college and Canfield Business college, and also by a course through the business college at Cleveland, from which he gaduated in 1878. Thus much for the educational career of Mr. Hartzell, but it is necessary to explain that he assisted on his father's farm until sixteen years of age, and at the age of twenty years began his career as 760 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD a teacher, which profession he followed for eighteen consecutive terms, one of which, or, perhaps, two, he passed a' s tutor in the business college where he had received a portion of his instruction—that of Canfield—a position seldom accorded a graduate, but always one that fully recognizes the competency and ability of the pupil who has successfully passed through its curriculum. August 28, 1884, Mr. Hartzell was united in marriage with Miss Lois Shinn, a daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Woodruff) Shinn, the union being blessed with two children—Gertrude H. and Russell S. He had some experience in the drug trade for a year in partnership with P. D. Stratton, at Cortland, Ohio, and in general merchandizing at Damascus for three years, and in 1887 came to Deerfield township and bought the farm formerly owned by T. R. Mowen, and here he has since been most successfully engaged in farming. To revert to the progenitors of Daniel H. Hartzell, it is necessary to state that his father, Solomon Hartzell, was born in Deerfield township, August 13, 1813, was reared a farmer, but in early. manhood became a clerk in Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, in which capacity he was engaged several years. In 1840 he engaged in mercantile trade fn company with a Mr. Bricker, whom he later bought out and united with Dr. Leonard Hanna, of Cleveland, under the firm name of Hanna & Hartzell, and for several years carried on the business on his sole account, then sold a half-interest to C. K. Greiner, of Salem, and under the style of Hartzell & Greiner did a flourishing trade several years longer. Mr. Hartzell eventually sold his interest in this concern to W. H. Reed, cashier of the First National bank, of Alliance, and thereafter devoted his attention to real estate and stocks and bonds. He was eminently a man of business ability, was one of the organizers and a stockholder in and director of the First National bank of Alliance, and gave success to every undertaking in which he participated. Solomon Hartzell was united in marriage, November 6, 1844, with Miss Clorinda A. Loomis, a daughter of Chester and Elizabeth (Matoom) Loomis, the union resulting in the birth of five children, viz: Chester W., Stratton, Daniel H., Sophia (Mrs. James R. Dickson), and Emma, the wife of J. E. Detchen, of North Benton. October 2o, 1855, Mr. Hartzell was ordained and installed an elder of the Presbyterian church of Deerfield, now Benton, Mahoning county, to the membership of which he had been admitted June 28, 1843, and the duties pertaining to this sacred charge he performed with faithfulness and zeal until death closed his earthly career, November 2, 1897, at the ripe age of eighty-four years, two months and nineteen days. Daniel H. Hartzell, as a farmer, has met with abundant success, and as a citizen has won the esteem of the entire community in which he lives, having been selected by his fellow-citizens to serve them in various township offices. He is an honored member of Alliance lodge, No. 266, I. 0. 0. F., and in all the various stations in life which he has been called upon to fill he has performed his duty faithfully and well. CALVERT HARDEN, the well-known miller of Twinsburg, Summit county, Ohio, and one of the ex-soldiers of the Civil war, was born at Indianapolis, Ind., January 1, 1846, a son of John and Lucinda (Beatty) Harden. John Harden was born in county Down, Ireland, in 1803, and when a boy came to America with his father, who settled in Baltimore, Md. He received a common education and married, in Millersburg, Ohio, Lucinda OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 761 Beatty, who was also born in county Down, Ireland, and came to America with her parents when thirteen years old. Mr. Harden moved to Boone county, Ind., where he was a merchant about fourteen years at Zionsville and Lebanon. His wife died at Lebanon, in 1863, and he then moved to Mount Gilead, Ohio. His second marriage took place in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Amanda Merriman, who bore him no children. Mr. Harden died in 1878, in Mount Gilead, aged about seventy-five years, in the faith of the Christian church, of which he had been a member for more than sixty years. In politics he was a republican and held the office of justice of peace. His children were named William, Marilda, George, Samuel, Beatty, Martha, Mary, John, Addison. Milton, Calvert and Harriet. Of these, Marilda married a soldier—Luther M. Oliphant—and six sons served in the Civil war, viz: George, Samuel, John, Addison, Milton and Calvert. George was in an Indiana regiment in the three months' service, and in the battle of Richmond, Ky. Samuel was in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Indiana volunteer infantry, three years' service, was in several battles and was wounded at the battle of Richmond, Ky. ;. was seven times shot and taken prisoner, but escaped before the battle was over. His wounds were all flesh wounds. John was adjutant of the One Hundred and Tenth Indiana volunteer infantry in the three years' service, and in many battles, including Shiloh and Mill Springs, Ky. Addison was in the three months' service in the Tenth Indiana volunteer infantry, and in the battle of Rich Mountain. Milton was sergeant in company Eleven, Indiana volunteer cavalry, three years' service, and among his battles was that at Nashville. Calvert Harden received a common education atLebanon, Ind., and enlisted in August, 1862, at the age of between sixteen and seventeen years, in company G, One Hundred and and Sixteenth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, at Lebanon, Ind., Capt. Robert Harrison, for six months, and was honorably discharged at LaFayette, Ind., in March, 1863. He was in the battles of Walker's Ford, Tazewell, Evans' Ford, and Greenville, Tenn., and Bull's Gap and Blue Springs, Ky. He then returned to Boone county, and re-enlisted in company F, One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, Capt. R. W. Williamson, and served until honorably discharged at Indianapolis in 1864. Mr. Harden was never sick in hospital, wounded, nor taken prisoner, and performed all his duties promptly and cheerfully. After the war he returned to Lebanon, Ind., and finished his trade of miller; then came to Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and married there, January 28, 186z, Miss Sarah A. Donaldson, who was born April 1, 1851, a daughter of Rev. and Elizabeth (Merriman) Donaldson. Rev. Donaldson was twice married, and by his first wife had two sons—Wesley and Alonzo—both soldiers in the Civil war, in an Ohio regiment and Rev. Donaldson was also a soldier in an Ohio Regiment. There were two children by his second wife—Sarah A. and Ella. Rev. Donaldson died at the close of the war at Cardington, Ohio. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Harden settled at Ottawa, Kans., where he worked in a mill eight years; after his return to Ohio he located at Brecksville and ran a flour and feed-mill. In 1893 he built a similar mill at Macedonia. He came to Twinsburg in 1895 and built his present flour and feed-mill, and equipped it with first class machinery and is doing a very prosperous business. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Harden are named John F. and Pearl A. Mr. Harden is a member of the Congregationalist church and of Logan post, No. 282, G. A. R., at Brecksville, Ohio, and has held the office of commander and other posi- 762 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD tions. In politics he is a republican, is a strong temperance man, and a member of the Good Templars, Twinsburg lodge. He has always been an industrious, hard-working man, and stands high for his integrity of character. AARON MORRISS, deceased, was one of the honored old settlers of Tallmadge township, Summit county, Ohio, and a prominent and respected citizen, and was born at Winstead, Conn., October 8, 1797, of remote Scotch descent. He received an academic education, and possessing naturally an active mind he became a wide reader, having access to one of the finest libraries in Georgia, and, together with his varied experience in life, acquired an excellent education. He learned the carpenters' and joiners' trade, in the thoroughgoing old-fashioned way, at Milford Center, Conn., under Chauncey Isbell, and when twenty-one years old visited the state of Georgia and soon became a contractor and builder, employing sometimes as many as thirty men. He erected buildings at Millersville, Augusta, Sparta and the Savannah Mills on the Ogeechee river. He built Dr. Wm. Torrell's palatial residence, a beautiful and typical southern structure of the olden days befors the war—this firm structure requiring three years to erect; he also built many churches, including a beautiful Congregational church, costing $80,000. He passed thirteen years of a very active life in Georgia and other southern states, and became widely known as an architect and builder. Mr. Morriss returned to Connecticut, and married, at Milford, in March, 1834, Sarah Isbell, a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Pardie) Isbell. Sarah Pardie was the daughter of Rebecca Beecher, a sister of the famous divine, Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher. After marriage and during the next October Mr. Morriss moved to Ohio in it 834, having been out the previous year and viewed the country, and settled on the present homestead, consisting of 155.42 acres. Mr. Morriss gradually improved this homestead, making additions and alterations, and attached a fine southern colonnade, very roomy, commodious and elegant. It is colonial in style, and is as well preserved as when first built. The finely carved and fluted columns are of solid black walnut, and give an air of strength to the structure. Mr. Morriss, while not reared a farmer, possessed a practical business turn of mind, and when he first gave his attention to farming soon became an accomplished agriculturist—succeeded in his farming operations, and developed a really model home and farm. He made his success in life while he was yet a young man, and while in the south laid the foundation of his success. Mr. Morriss was a fine tenor singer, and sang in the church choir in New Haven, Conn. In Connecticut he was also a member of a military company. Mrs. Morriss was of a fine family--the Isbells of Connecticut, who for generations was well known in that state. She brought with her to Tallmadge some fine specimens of colonial furniture, among them a rare mahogany sideboard; also some fine matched tables, and the fine old homestead is filled with rare and valued family relics. Mr. and Mrs. Morriss were the parents of two daughters, America and Corene, born in Tallmadge, Ohio. Mrs. Morriss had been previously married to Capt. F. Coggeshall, and they were the parents of George, now deceased, and one child who died in infancy. The sisters, America and Corene, were both well educated at Ravenna and at the Hudson Young Ladies' seminary and finished their education at the Ontario Female seminary, Canandaigua, N. Y. Their education in- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 767 cluded a thorough course in music, in which they both became proficient. Miss Corene is now deceased; Miss America manages the home farm, and her other interests, having a goodly property, beside the fine old homestead, with a substantial sum on interest. She is an excellent woman, of good judgment and shrewd financial ability. Mr. Morriss was of the highest character and very greatly respected and one of the best citizens in Summit county, being of a nature to command the love and esteem of all who know him. He was an honored citizen of Tallmadge township and held the office of township trustee. Lewis and Robert Morriss, who signed the declaration of independence, were relatives of subject's family. MORRIS E. HASKINS, a well known business man of Mantua Station, Portage county, Ohio, and an ex-soldier of the Civil war, is a son of Alman M. and Lucy (Scott) Haskins, and was born in Friendship, Allegany county, N. Y., November 8, 1845. Alman M. Haskins, also a native of the Empire state, was born in Louisville, St. Lawrence county, and was by trade a hatter. To his marriage with Lucy Scott, daughter of Justus and Annie (White) Scott, were born four children—George A., Mary L., Morris E. and Arthur, but they were not all born in the same part of the state, as Mr. Haskins worked at his trade, after marriage, in Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, Friendship, Allegany county, and died in Wirt, Allegany county, at the age of eighty-seven years, doubtless having pursued his trade at other places than those mentioned, during his long life. In politics he was an ardent republican, and was a strong Union man, giving to his country two of his sons—George A. and Morris E.—to save it from destruction during the war of the Rebellion. George A. served as a private for three years in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth New York volunteer infantry, and although he was in many battles, escaped unwounded, but suffers still as the result of exposure while in the service. The military record of Morris E. is given in the following paragraph: Morris E. Haskins, after receiving a good common-school education in Friendship, enlisted in company A, Fifth New York heavy artillery, and served until disabled at Piedmont, Va., June 5, 1864, where a ball passed through his right arm, entered his body just below the heart, and through the lower lobe of the left lung, which is still in bad order. He fell on the field near the breastworks, was picked up and taken to the field hospital, where the Union troops left a small guard and pressed on to Lynchburg. The following day, June 6, Mosely's guerrillas came along, captured the hospital, and carried off the wounded soldiers to Lynchburg, and, a few days later, to Richmond, where he was kept a short time in Libby prison, but, as he was desperately wounded and death imminent, he was transferred to another old tobacco warehouse, where he lay, in durance and distress, fully five months, living on the meanest and scantiest rations possible, washing and dressing his wounds with his own hands, and being furnished with clean bandages by the Sisters of Charity, who paid much more attention than the Confederate surgeons. All this time he was without even a blanket, having been robbed by the rebels, when taken prisoner, of his arms, clothing, and nearly $5o in greenbacks. He was finally exchanged, and honorably discharged at Annapolis, Md., May 15, 1865, his emaciated anatomy turning the scale at ninety-two and one-half pounds, although he had weighed 1671 pounds when he enlisted. 768 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD After the war, Mr. Haskins returned to New York, and after a short stay at Friendship went to Wirt, Allegany county, where he was engaged, for three years. in mercantile trade in partnership with his brother-in-law, Albert S. Brainard, who had married Mary L. Haskins, sister of Morris E. While at Wirt, Mr. Haskins married, January 1, 1866, Miss Sallie M. Hunt, who was born in that town June 8, 1850, a daughter of Christopher A. and Roxana (Harris) Hunt. Christopher A. Hunt, father of Mrs. Sallie M. Haskins, was born in the state of New York, July 12, 1818. His wife, Roxana, was born July 7, 1820, and bore her husband six children, viz: Austin A., James L., Sallie M., Susie J., Asia M. and Ai A. For more than thirty years the father, who was a descendent of a Mayflower pilgrim, kept a hotel in Champion, Jefferson county, N. Y., but is now living at Mantua Station, Ohio, at the age of severity-eight, his widow being seventy-seven, and both respected members of the Methodist church. Morris E. Haskins, just after marriage, located at Ceres, Pa., where he was engaged in the lumber business for two years, next passed a year or so in Warsaw, Pa., and in 1869 came to Mantua Station, Ohio, thence moved to Auburn, Ohio, where he remained for six years, then returned to Mantua, and here engaged in mercantile trade, but, on account of suffering from his unhealed lung, has been little able to attend to or push his business for some years past, as otherwise he would have done, being naturally a bright and keen trader. His marriage has been blessed with two children, Mary L. and Nellie M., who still remain under the parental roof. In politics Mr. Haskins is a stanch republican and has held the office of constable of Mantua township seven years. He is a member of Bentley post, No. 294, G. A. R., of Mantua Station, having been one its charter members, and in this post he has filled all the minor offices, advancing to those of adjutant, junior and senior vice-commander. He stands high in the esteem of the community as a brave defender of his country's flag and as a straightforward business man and incorruptible citizen. JOHN HAAS, a well-to-do farmer of Shalersville township, as well as a prominent and successful merchant of Mantua Station, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 15, 1839, the son of Adam and Catherine (Filins) Haas. John Haas was reared to manhood in the city of Cleveland, and was educated in the public schools of that city, and in early life learned the trade of saddlery and harness-making with his father. He became quite proficient as a workman, and soon was an able assistant in the shop to his father. He early became a member of the Cleveland Light Guards, then an independent military company, with which he was identified from the age of twenty until twenty-two years, during which time he became quite proficient in the drill and the duties of the company. Mr. Haas, being of a patriotic spirit, became imbued with a spirit of protecting his nation and flag, and early in 1861 enlisted in the Twenty-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, in his native city. This was the same regiment in which President William McKinley served about eighteen months' time as a private soldier. During the first year of Mr. Haas' enlistment he was elected second lieutenant of company A, but was never mustered, as he was afflicted with chronic diarrhea, and compelled to resign and return to his native home. Mr. Haas soon recuperated and engaged in business with his father, at which he con- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 769 tinued steadily until May 1, 1864, when he enlisted the second time in defense of his nation's flag. His second enlistment was for three months, and he was appointed orderly sergeant of Capt. John Nevin's company G, One-Hundred and Fiftieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He served out his enlistment and was honorably discharged at Cleveland, Ohio, August 15, 1864. His services were near the city of Washington, D. C., at Fort Lincoln and Fort Slocum, and he was in the engagement at Fort Slocum when Gen. Jubal Early made his famous advance on Washington, and attacked both Forts Lincoln and Slocum, and during this short engagement the Union troops lost 35o men in twenty minutes. Mr. Haas was always an active and willing soldier, and cheerfully obeyed every command from his superior officers. He enlisted from purely patriotic motives, and would have been in the early part of the war had his health not prevented him from doing so; however, having a knowledge of military drill, he taught many of the officers and soldiers of Cleveland while at home. Mr. Haas continued in the harness business with his father for four months after his return from the war, when he was taken with malarial fever, with which he was afflicted for several months, but finally recovered from same, and, soon after, was married to Miss Sophia Brodbeck, of Cleveland, Ohio, but a native of Medina county. By this marriage they became the parents of four children, John A., Hattie, William and Lottie. In the spring of 1865, Mr. Haas left the city of his birth and located in Shalesrville township, Portage county, Ohio, where he purchased a farm of 10o acres, where he has resided ever since. Mr. Haas being a practical business man, has applied his early education to his agricultural life, and has been very successful, owning at the present time a farm of 300 acres, which is under a high state of cultivation. He is also proprietor of a hardware store at Mantua Station; also is engaged in the manufacture of wire nails, which he has followed for two years, and the products of his factory are giving good satisfaction, both as to the quality of his goods and the revenues derived therefrom. Mr. Haas has prospered year by year and had early learned the secret of gaining wealth, which was, from a practical standpoint, that it was what a man saved from his earnings instead of what he made, that aided him to accumulate property. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R., Bentley post, and is the present commander, having held this office three terms, and he is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, Mantua lodge. Adam Haas, his father, was born in Germany, near Frankfort, and at the age of twenty years came to America and settled in the Mohawk valley, in New York state, where he followed his trade as a harnessmaker for several years, then came west and located in Cleveland, where he continued his trade and reared his family, and became a well-to-do citizen. He died at the age of seventy-four years at the home of his son John, in Shalersville township. He was a substantial and successful man in his day, practically self-made. HENRY HENTZ, a respected farmer of Streetsboro township, Portage county, Ohio, and for over three years a gallant soldier of the Civil war, was born in Massena, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., May 16, 1845, a son of Peter and Mary Hentz, the former of whom was of German descent and the latter of French descent. Peter Hentz, whose birth occurred May 770 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 12, 1793, was a son of Henry Hentz, who came from Germany and was one of the first settlers of St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Peter was the first white child born in the county, and was taken forty miles through the forest to be christened, his parents being rigid Catholics. Peter was twice married, but had no children born to his first union. His second marriage, late in life, was to Mary Buissever, the name being ordinarily pronounced Bouvia, and signifying, in English, Greenbush. Two children, Henry and Sarah, were born to this second union. Peter Hentz served against the Indians in one of their insurrections, and in later life became a lumberman and rafts-man. Ten years prior to his death, Henry, the son, went from Ohio to New York and brought the old gentleman hither, and here he died, at his son's home, at the age of ninety-three years. Henry Hentz attended school in the Empire state until eleven years of age, when he came to Ohio, in 1856, with his mother and sister, who located in Ashtabula county, but he found for himself a home on a farm in Summit county, on which he worked four years, attending school the meanwhile, and continued farming as a laborer for different parties until he became a soldier. Mr. Hentz enlisted, when but sixteen years old, at Ravenna, October 7, 1861, in Capt. H. H. Wiliard's company, Forty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, of which James A. Garfield, afterward president of the United States, was then lieutenant-colonel. Mr. Hentz served in this regiment three years, one month and twelve days, and was honorably discharged at Columbus, Ohio, at Camp Tod, November 19, 1864. He fought at Middle Creek, Ky., when he was seized with typhoid fever, and was confined in hospital at Ashland for .about six weeks. His next battle was at Tazewell, Tenn., and on the fatiguing retreat from the rebel raider, John Morgan, marched 240 miles continuously through the mountains of eastern Kentucky, day and night. He was in the Chickasaw raid in Mississippi, at the capture of Arkansas Post, Ark., and back to Mississippi, again, taking part in the battles of Thompson's Hill and Champion's Hill, his eighteenth birthday occurring on the day the last-named battle was fought. He was also at the battle of Black River, and later, in a charge on the rebel works at Vicksburg, March 19, 1863, had the end of his left forefinger cut off, but he remained with his company throughout the charge. Later, he fought at Jackson, Miss., was in a raid at French Bayou, and another up the Black River, and was always a cheerful and willing man to perform his duty as a soldier. On returning to Ohio, Mr. Hentz resumed farm work, and was married at Shalersville, July 5, 1868, to Miss Cornelia E. Kimes, who was born in that town October 9, 1849, a daughter of John and Mary (Doughty) Kimes. John Kimes was a native of Butler county, Pa., and was of German descent. He came with his father to Portage county, Ohio, in 1837, and here married Miss Doughty, of New Jersey colonial ancestry, who bore him five children, viz: Cornelia E., Alma, Amos, Lucy, and Mary. Mr. Kimes was a democrat in politics, was a prosperous farmer, and died at about sixty years of age, leaving 280 acres of good farm land. After marriage, Mr. Hentz located in Shalersville township, on his father-in-law's farm and cultivated it several years; he then worked in the Cleveland Wire mills at Newburg as a wire-drawer for a few years, and then settled on his present place of 100 acres, on which he has erected a comfortable residence and which he has converted into a profitable farm and a pleasant home. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hentz has OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 771 been blessed with three children, named, in order of birth, John, Birdie, and Emerson K. In politics, Mr. Hentz is a republican, and as a citizen is regarded as one of the most useful in his township, and as a man is respected for his integrity and straightforward course of life. ROSWELL B. CUTTS, of Garrettsville, Ohio, was one of the old soldiers of the Civil war and is a highly respected citizen. He was born in Paris township, Portage county, Ohio, October 3, 1840, a son of Daniel B. and Lucy R. (Smith) Cutts, received a common education and attended several terms at Hiram Eclectic institute. He enlisted at the age of about twenty-one years, October 8, 1861, at Paris, Ohio, and was mustered in, same day, at Ravenna, in Capt. H. H. Willard's company F, Forty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, Col. James A. Garfield, to serve three years or during the war, but served three years and nearly two months, owing to an error in date of muster, and was honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, November 19, 1864. He was in the battles of Middle Creek, Ky., Cumberland Gap, Tazewell, Tenn., Kanawha valley campaign, Vicksburg campaign for about three months, Chickasaw Bluff, Miss., Fort Hindman, Ark., Port Gibson, and Raymond, Miss. He was sick in hospital at Raymond, Miss., with chronic diarrhea, and was captured by the Confederates while he lay in hospital, and sent to Jackson, Miss., thence to Mobile, Ala., thence to Augusta, Ga. , and thence to Richmond, Va. , where he was confined in the infamous Libby prison. He was a prisoner four and a half months—the latter part of this time being spent in Libby prison. He was exchanged in October, 1863, and sent to Camp Chase, and rejoined his regiment at New Orleans, and was then on the Red River campaign, and in the battles of Atchafalaya Bayou, under Gen. Banks; then to Morganza Bend, La. Then they were ordered to the mouth of White River, thence to St. Charles, Ark., to fortify that place, and then went with his regiment to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., to build fortifications there, where he remained until sent home for muster out. At the battle of Chickasaw Bayou he was struck on the left shin by a spent ball. He was on the Cumberland Gap campaign three months and marched about 400 miles. The troops were short of rations, the supplies being cut off by the rebels, and they lived on green corn for about twenty days. They were in skirmishes every day and drove the rebels every morning from their breakfasts for some time, driving them from two to twenty miles daily, and removing the blockade of trees filled by the rebels to impede their progress in their march. The Union soldiers suffered greatly from hunger on the march, and subsisted on roasted and grated corn from the fields on the greater part of this march to the Ohio river, where they received supplies, and were on one-fourth rations before leaving Cumberland Gap. During the war his regiment traveled about 3,700 miles; of this, 1,500 miles were by steamboat, 1,000 miles by rail and 1,700 in marching order. This was exclusive of drills and picket duty. They participated in ten general engagements, sieges and in many skirmishes. Mr. Cutts considered his hardest battle to have been at Port Gibson, when the regiment lost seventy-five killed, and many wounded, in a few hours. Mr. Cutts was sick with diphtheria during the first part of his enlistment at Camp Chase, Ohio, followed by chronic diarrhea through his whole service, and did not recover for twenty years after the war, and still has some trouble. He was always an active soldier, served through-: 772 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD out as a private and was in all the campaigns, marches, battles, and skirmishes in which his regiment took part, except while a prisoner. He considers his worst experience as a prisoner just after his capture. From this time until the arrival at Mobile, four and a half days later, the captives had nothing to eat whatever, and drank water from the swamps pumped into tanks for use of engines. He and his comrades were robbed of everything of value—their good clothing being stripped off of them, and filthy, ragged, rebel clothing given in exchange. At Mobile they received rations of a small piece of bacon and some hard tack, and had to drink swamp water. They were taken to Libby prison by boat and rail, and there they were searched, and those that had money were robbed of it. Wirtz was the examining officer. He was afterward the brute who persecuted the prisoners to death at Andersonville, and was after the war hanged, at Washington, D. C., for his crimes. Mr. Cutts had $45 in new greenbacks concealed in the bottom of his pants, which were too poor to be taken, and he rolled these up at the bottom. His pocketbook was taken, and in this he had $28 in Confederate money and a comrade's note for $18. This was thrown on the table, and Mr. Cutts protested to Wirtz that the note could do them no good, and if he lived to get out would be of value to him, and that they could have the Confederate money in welcome. Wirtz said. "How do you know you will ever live to get out? Here, take your d—d pocketbook; we don't want it." Mr. Cutts had just bought the Confederate money for $5 from a Richmond business man. The rebels had no confidence in their own money. In Libby prison Mr. Cutts received as ration a pint of cow-pea soup and a small piece of bacon, twice each day; it was horrible stuff and could hardly be eaten. He was sergeant of the mess, and, being too liberal in portioning it out, had none for himself. He was sick all the time he was in prison with chronic diarrhea, and the miserable food kept him so. Mr. Cutts was very independent and outspoken, but learned to win the respect of the rebel officers and the doctors in charge. Every morning at roll call an offer was made that any one of the prisoners who would take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate government and again not to take up arms against it, would be allowed to go free and be given plenty of food. Although starving slowly and in a vile prison, not a man was ever known to step from the ranks and accept this offer. The experience in this prison was too brutal to describe. Mr. Cutts saw Wirtz kick a soldier in the mouth and break his teeth because he was too weak to stand up at roll call. Mr. Cutts and another comrade assisted this poor fellow to stand during roll call, with his face covered with blood from the kick of the inhuman Wirtz. Mr. Cutts was finally taken to Annapolis, Md., with other prisoners, and there paroled in the camp. The prisoners presented a most pitiable sight. They were covered with vermin, and many of them had hardly a spot on their person not bitten or sore. They were stripped of their ragged and filthy clothing, given soap, and allowed to take a bath in the waters of the Chesapeake bay. The old clothing was burned and they were furnished with a suit of Uncle Sam's blue. It is right to state here that the physician in charge at the hospital at Libby prison was a kind-hearted man, and did the best he could with the resources and medicine at his command. After the war Mr. Cutts settled in Portage county. He married, the first time, in Windham township, December 16, 1864, Celia Yale, who was born in Windham, Ohio, a daughter of Edmund and Nancy (Russell) Yale. Mrs. Cutts died four years after mar- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 773 riage, leaving no children. She was a member of the Congregational church and a woman of many virtues. Mr. Cutts' second marriage took place January 4, 1871, in Hiram township, to Ellen S. Leach, who was born October 28, in Champion township, Trumbull county, Ohio, a daughter of Daniel and Mary A. (Shiveley) Leach. Mr. Cutts has since the war been a farmer. He first settled in Windham township on a farm, but after his second marriage settled at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and was there engaged for a time in the nursery business. He then returned to Ohio and settled, in 1873, on the present homestead. Mr. and Mrs. Cutts have been blessed with two children—Lucy L. and Willis R. Mr. Cutts is a member of Mark Horton post, G. A. R., at Garrettsville, Ohio, and has held the office of adjutant for many years. Politically he is a stanch republican. Mr. and Mrs. Cutts and their daughter, Lucy L., are members of the Congregational church, at Garrettsville, Ohio, in which Mr. Cutts was a deacon four years. Mr. Cutts is a public-spirited man and takes an active interest in public improvements. He was among the most active promoters of the pike between Hiram and Garrettsville, and held the office of pike superintendent during the grading and building, and is now holding the office for the third time. He was the first master of Garrettsville grange, No. 1436, and is at present chaplain. He is well known for his straightforward character and is a respected citizen. Daniel B. Cutts, father of Roswell B. Cutts, was born at Orwell, Addison county, Vt., and a son of Thomas Cutts. Daniel B. married, in Vermont, Miss Lucy R. Smith, a descendant of an old colonial Vermont family of English descent. The Cuttses were also of English stock and soldiers in the war of the Revolution. Two brothers of the name settled in Vermont, and one of these finally settled in Virginia. Daniel B. Cutts was a shoemaker and tanner and currier. He came to Ohio in 1829 and located in Windham township, Portage county, but a few years later removed to Paris, Ohio, where he followed his trades of tanning and shoemaking. He sold out in 1864 and removed to Minnesota; subsequently, however, he returned to Garrettsville, where he died in 1873. His children by his first wife were Mary, Ira, Sarah A., Henry D., Roswell B., Emily J. and Fanny M. Mrs. Cutts died in 1864, while he was in the army, a member of the Methodist church, and Mr. Cutts next married in Garrettsville, Ohio, in 1871, Mrs. Eliza A. Frisby, who is still living. Mr. Cutts was also a member of the Methodist church and in politics was first a whig and then a republican, and was an honorable and upright man. He died in February, 1873. ARVIN O. HAYMAKER, one of the prominent farmers of Franklin township, Portage county, son of James D. and Mary R. (Olin) Haymaker, was born April 5, 1844, on the old homestead of his father, and received a common-school education, afterward attending a term at Mount Union. He was early taught to work on the farm, his father being a thrifty farmer and a very industrious man. He married, April 5, 1866, in Brimfield, Portage cOunty, Ohio, Miss Harriet E. Norton, who was born September 3, 1846, in Edinburg township, same county, a daughter of Joseph and Jeannette (Graham) Norton—Joseph Norton being of New England ancestry, born in 1813, in Litchfield county, Conn., and a pioneer of Portage county. He lived to be an aged man, and died in 1895, a member of the Methodist church. In politics he was a democrat and an honored citizen. His children were William, 774 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD who died young; McKendree D., deceased; Charles, Angie, Hattie E. and Maxwell S. Mr. and Mrs. Haymaker settled on their present farm of 134 acres, and by his thrift and industry improved it. His first wife died April 7, 1869. The children were Charles Anson and Hattie Eliza. Mr. Haymaker married the second time in Columbiana county, Ohio, May 26, 1870, Harriet Powell, daughter of William and Catherine (Burger) Powell. William Powell was a native of Maryland, born in 1803, of English ancestry, a son of Thomas Powell, who was a well-to-do farmer. His children were Samuel, Michael, Levi, Eli, Thomas, Rebecca, Betsey, Nancy and Mary. Thomas Powell moved to Ohio and settled in Stark county at an early day, and was a member of the Baptist church. He lived to be an aged man and died in Stark county, Ohio. William Powell moved to Ohio with his father when but eight years old, in 1811, to Stark county, and then settled in Columbiana county, he being a good farmer, and had a good home of 140 acres well improved. He married, October 5, 1836, Catherine Burger, of sturdy Pennsylvania-Dutch ancestry, born near Gettysburg, Adams county, Pa., September 26, 1804, and when a child came to Columbiana county, Ohio, with her parents, Michael and Catherine Burger. William Powell and wife lived together over fifty-eight years. The children were Sarah, John, Simon, Jonas, Mary, Daniel, Lydia, Anthony, Harriet, Luther and Franklin B. Mr. and Mr. Powell were devout members of the Lutheran church, and he was nearly all his life elder in his church. He was always a genuine republican in politics. He lived to be eighty-one years old and died in his home January 7, 1885. He was a man of upright character and highly respected by all who knew him. Arvin 0. Haymaker, our subject, has now a farm of 140 acres, well improved, on the borders of Twin Lakes, and it is beautifully situated, with a delightful prospect. The children are Homer A., Deborah J., Franklin P. and Abbie R. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is church trustee. Politically he is a republican and has held the office of township trustee four years. Mr. Haymaker is a man of excellent character and well educated. He taught school in his neighborhood for twenty-five winters, and was a successful teacher and well-known educator. His children are also well educated; Homer A. is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan university and Franklin P. and Deborah J. will graduate from the same institution the present year. At one time Mr. and Mrs. Haymaker had five children together at this excellent institution. The Haymaker family is one of the best-known and intelligent in Portage county. JAMES NORTON, a prominent citizen of Garrettsville, was born in Hiram township, Portage county, Ohio, September 9, 1833, a son of Thuel and Harriet R. (Harrington) Norton, who were the parents of ten children, viz: Anna, born October 21, 1823; Seth D., a lawyer, born August 19, 1825—died in Ravenna; Edwin, born July 16, 1827 (deceased); Amelia C., born January 4, 1829; Julia M., born April 24, 1831; James, our subject; Lois E., born November 28, 1835—died in Trenton, Mo. ; Emily E., born May 6, 1838; Richard C., president of the Southeast State Normal school at Cape Girardeau, Mo., born June 16, 1840, and Harriet R., born January 28, 1846. Thuel Norton was born in New Hartford, Oneida county, N. Y., March '0, 1801, and was the third son of Peter and Elthina (Thompson) Norton, who came to Ohio when OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 777 Thuel was but six years of age, and for two years lived in Trumbull county, then for a short time in Tallmadge, Summit county, and finally settled in Springfield, at that time in Portage, but now in Summit county—the site of Akron being then a mere wilderness. Here Thuel grew to manhood, and became renowned for his great physical powers. August 4, 1822, he married, in Hiram, Harriet Rebecca Harrington, who was born July 15, 1803, in Salisbury, Litchfield county, Conn., a daughter of John and Asenath (Marvin) Harrington, the result of the union being the children already enumerated. Mr. Norton died in Hiram, April 2, 1880, from injuries received by being thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse, and on August 30, 1880, while on a visit to a son and daughter in Garrettsville, Mrs. Norton was called to everlasting rest. James Norton, the subject of this memoir, passed his early life virtually on the home farm in Hiram township, but when about thirteen years of age was injured by being thrown from a horse, and for three years his health was so poor in consequence that he was not even able to attend school. At sixteen, however, although still in poor health, he resumed his studies, walking to and from the district school at Freedom with the aid of a crutch and cane. In the autumn of 1i8851e entered the Western Reserve Eclectic institute, well advanced in the common branches. During this term, a physician, learning that young Norton was still suffering from a dangerous sore on his arm, engaged with his father to heal it for a stipulated sum, and at the end of about six months the doctor's efforts were rewarded with complete success. After an attendance of three terms at the Eclectic institute, Mr. Norton engaged in teaching school, a vocation he followed until the close of 1861—keeping up his own studies in the meanwhile, chiefly at Hiram college, although he attended one term - 32 - at the Shalersville academy. He next took a commercial course in Cleveland, and special lessons in penmanship under P. R. Spencer, Sr., at Geneva. In January, 1862, he entered the recorder's office at Ravenna, to which position he had been elected in October by a handsome majority. His duties here actually began January 6, 1862, and were concluded six years later in January, 1868—and during this period he was never absent a single business day. He declined to run for a third term, for the reason that disabled soldiers were at that time seeking the office. In the winter of 1868-69, Mr. Norton, with others, organized a banking institution in Garrettsville, of which he was for a time the cashier, but resigned—an act afterward considered to have been a mistake. He was then engaged as superintendent of the Garrettsville public schools, to fill a vacancy, and filled the position four terms. Subsequently he was twice elected justice of the peace and served until 1895; twice as mayor of the incorporated village of Garrettsville, seven times as a member of the board of education, serving twenty-one years, and also served as clerk of the board twenty years. He is now a notary public, and is engaged in the real estate, insurance and collection business, and has frequently been called upon to act as executor, administrator, assignee and guardian in the settlement or management of large estates. The marriage of Mr. Norton took place December 17, 1859, to Miss Ann Eliza Taber, a native of Garrettsville. John Taber, father of Mrs. Norton, was born in Providence, R. I., April 29, 1798, and was married, in Providence, October 19, 1819, to Mary Henrietta Greene, who was born in Barre, Mass., June 21, 1799, and was a relative of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Taber was carpenter on board of ship, and made some very long sea voyages. His ship was at Callao 778 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD when Bolivar entered Peru with his Columbian army. They took a ship load of royalists to Cadiz, Spain, with immense quantities of gold and silver. This was a six years' voyage, mostly in South American waters. The next was a three years' voyage, chiefly doing a coasting business in European seas. In early life Mr. and Mrs. Taber were members of the First Baptist church of Providence, which was founded by Roger Williams. They moved to Ohio in 1829, and after a residence of four years in Mogadore, Summit county, they moved to Garrettsville. Mr. Taber spent about three and a half years among the gold mines of California, starting for that then faraway country in the spring of 185o. Mr. Taber died suddenly, while on his way to worship in Garrettsville, March 12, 1871, and June 2, 1884, Mrs. Taber passed away, dying in the house in Garrettsville in which she had lived over half a century. They were the parents of four children, viz: Mary Henrietta (Mrs. Dr. A. M. Sherman), born November 15, 1829—died October 26, 1853; John Herman, born August Jo, 1832—died in Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 8, 1856; James Hunter, born June 21, 1835—died in Adrain, Mich., December 5, 1866, and Ann Eliza (now Mrs. Norton), born September 23, 1837. To the felicitous union of Mr. and Mrs. Norton have been born three children, of whom the firstborn died in infancy; James Edgar, born in Ravenna, March 18, 1866, and John Herman, born in Garrettsville, February 12, 1869. Of James E. and John H. further mention will shortly follow. James Norton, the subject, has for forty years been a newspaper correspondent. In politics he has always been a republican, and has always filled with credit to himself and satisfaction of the public every office he has held. In religion he and wife have been members of the Disciples' church for many years, and he is at present clerk of the church board. He has made a success of life and is well provided with this world's goods, having overcome by his energy all the impediments on the road to fortune, and is still an active business man, honored and respected by the entire community of which he is a member. James Edgar Norton, son of James and Ann Eliza (Taber) Norton, began attendance at the Garrettsville schools in the fall of 1873, and graduated from the high school June 1, 1883. In the fall of the same year he entered the senior preparatory class for a classical course at Hiram college, and triumphantly passed through to the junior class, at the annual exhibition of which, April 5, 1887, he greatly distinguished himself. Although his height was six feet precisely, and his average weight between 154 and 160 pounds, his health was never rugged nor robust, and it was probably owing to this circumstance that he met with an untimely death. On the evening of April 29, 1887, young Norton had been assisting in the preparation of the decorations of the chapel for a college entertainment, and, having answered to the supper bell, took a slight repast, and hastened back to complete the unfinished work of decoration; but the weather had been inclement, the college steps at the front were slippery, and, missing his footing, he was violently dashed against the corner of the step-stones, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death, shortly after six o'clock, Tuesday morning, May 3, 1887. The blow was a most distressing one to his parents, and was the most severe they had ever suffered or have suffered since. The noble young man was deeply beloved by the faculty and students of Hiram college, and many were the letters of condolence forwarded to the despondent parents from friends in various parts of the country. John Herman Norton, the youngest son of OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 779 James and Ann Eliza (Taber) Norton, now one of the editors and proprietors of the "Scientific Machinist" of Cleveland, was graduated from the high school at Garrettsville, and from Hiram college with the class of 1892. For some little time after graduation he traveled as a solicitor for advertisements for the Scientific Machinist, and in the fall of 1892 his father purchased one-quarter interest in the concern, and presented it to the son, who now is one the managers of the business and is treasurer of the company. Mr. Norton was married, in 1892, to Miss Carrie P. Patch, daughter of A. J. Patch, a wealthy farmer near Hiram, and to this union one child has been born—Harold P. Mrs. Norton also graduated from Hiram college with the class of 1891. Mr. Norton and wife are members of the Disciples' church, on Euclid avenue, Cleveland, and of this church Mr. Norton is clerk. JEROME B. HINMAN, janitor of the new school-building at Mantua Station, Portage county, Ohio, and a faithful ex-soldier of the Civil war, was born in Oswego, N. Y., July 9, 1835, and is a son of James and Dorothy (Fox) Hinman, the Hinman family being of German origin. In somewhat early times, three of the brothers of this German family came to America in company with each other, but separated on arriving, one settling in New York state, one in Ohio, and one in Michigan. Of the brother who settled in the Empire state, Jerome B. is a descendant, and was but two years old when brought to Ohio by his mother, then a widow, who was accompanied by her parents. Daniel Fox, father of Mrs. Dorothy Hinman, settled on a new farm in the woods at Auburn, Geauga county, but died one year later, and Dorothy came to Portage county, was married to William Springer, of Streetsboro, and bore him two children—John and Henry. Jerome B. Hinman was reared to farming in Streetsboro township, and August 13, 1862, enlisted, at Shalersville, in company D, One Hundred and Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry, and served until honorably discharged, June 17, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C., the war having been brought to a close. He took part in the following battles, among others, these mentioned being the hardest fought: Covington, Ky., September 10, 1862; Danville, Ky., March 24, 1863; Knoxville, Tenn., November to December 4, 1863; Dallas, May 25 to June 4, 1864; Kenesaw Mountan, Ga., June 9; Pine Mountain, Ga., June 13; Lost Mountain, June 16, and again at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27 to 30, 1864; Atlanta, July 28; Eutaw Creek, August 6; Columbia, Tenn., November 24 to 29; Atlanta Ga., September 2; Franklin, Tenn., November 3o; Nashville, December 15 and 16; Fort Anderson, N. C., February 18, 1865; Town Creek, February 20, 1865. At Dallas, Ga., he was shot slightly through the left breast by a Confederate cavalryman, and for a few days was confined in field hospital. Mr. Hinman was a brave and faithful soldier, was never absent from his post with the exception just mentioned, caused by his wound; was on every march and in every battle in which his regiment was engaged, and in every skirmish, excepting what may have taken place when, for a few weeks, he was on detailed duty as guard at a railroad station at Knoxville, Tenn., and for meritorious conduct was promoted to be wagon master, a position he held for two years. The commander of the One Hundred and Fourth Ohio infantry was Col. James Reilly. It captured eleven Confederate flags—more than half the number captured by the entire brigade, which was twenty. After the war, Mr. Hinman returned to 780 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Portage county and settled in Shalersville, and December 10, 1865, was married, at Freedom, Ohio, to Miss Mary H. Chalker, who was born in that town July 5, 1835, a daughter of Enos and Eunice (Austin) Chalker. After marriage Mr. Hinman lived in Shalersville one year, then bought a home in Freedom, where he lived twenty-seven years, and then came to Mantua Station in 1893, since when he has been janitor of the new school building. To his marriage there has been born one son, Clayton J., who was married to Miss Clara Gary and has one daughter, Mary D. Enos Chalker, father of Mrs. Mary H. Hinman, was born in Susquehanna county, Pa., was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and was reared a farmer. He married, at Turin, Lewis county, N. Y., Miss Eunice Haskins, a daughter of Thomas Haskins, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, and who died in Portage county, Ohio, in 1844, at about seventy years of age, his remains lying in an unmarked grave in the cemetery of Freedom. Enos Chalker came to Ohio in 1832, and located on a farm, but later removed to the Thomas Haskins farm at Freedom, on which he passed his remaining years, dying in February, 1897, at the age of eighty-six, the present age of his widow, who still resides on the old homestead. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Chalker were five in number, and were named Mary H., Eunice A., Edna V., James W. and Martha A. John Springer, half-brother of Jerome B. Hinman, was a private in company K, Twenty-third Ohio volunteer infantry, in the three-year service; re-enlisted as a veteran in the same organization, and went through the entire war, participating in all the campaigns in which his regiment had any part. Mr. and Mrs. Hinman are consistent and conscientious members of the Disciples' church, and freely contribute toward its support. Mr. Hinman is a charter member of Bentley post, No. 294, G. A. R., at Mantua Station, in which he has served as quartermaster and as junior and senior vice-commander. As a citizen he is highly esteemed for his strictly moral character, and is equally respected for his excellent record as a soldier. MRS. MARY R. HAYMAKER, widow of James D. Haymaker, is a daughter of Arvin Olin (born at Shaftsbury, Vt. , July 13, 1797), son of Ezra Olin, a son of John Olin, third, and born in Rhode Island, March 23, 1772. Ezra Olin was three and one-half years old when his parents removed to Vermont and settled in the town of Shaftsbury. He was five and one-half years old when the battle of Bennington was fought on August 16, 1777, and well remember hearing the booming of the cannon on that memorable day, his home being near the battle ground. Ezra Olin had but a limited education and and was reared a farmer; he was early taught the lessons of industry, thrift and economy. In March, 1791, he married Ruth Green, a daughter of Samuel and Ruth Green, natives of Rhode Island. Ruth Green was born in Rhode Island and moved with her parents to Vermont when she was quite young, and resided there until she was married, and soon after they moved to the old place, some two miles northeast of the center of Shaftsbury, which afterward became the homestead where the children were all born, with one exception. Ezra Olin and wife (Ruth Green Olin) were the parents of fourteen children, all born in Vermont. They were John, Samuel, Betsy, Arvin, Asa, Philip, Ezra, Ruth, Maria, Paris, Heman, Truman, Mary A. and Almira. Ezra Olin was a farmer of Vermont and had a comfort- OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 781 able pioneer home in the midst of the Green mountains, and by their sturdy thrift and industry lived in frugal comfort. Mr. Olin was a Whig in politics and a man of sterling 'worth and integrity and reared his family in the paths of honesty and virtue. In 1824 he sold his farm in Shaftsbury and moved by team to Genesee county, New York state, where six of his sons had preceded him and were busy in clearing up the farm. His wife and four of the children were left to follow the next June. They went from Albany to Rochester, N. Y., by canal boat. He settled on a farm partly cleared by his son Arvin. He finally cleared up a farm at Perry, consisting of about too acres, and made a good home, and here passed his remaining days and died November 5, 1858, aged eighty-six years. The Olins descended from sterling Welsh ancestry. John Olin, the first of the name in America settled in East Greenwich, R. I. He had been pressed on board a British man-of-war on the coast of Wales, but deserted at Boston, Mass. Tradition states that the name was originally Llewellyn, and that the original John changed it to Olin. John Olin was a Welshman and had red hair. He was a farmer and made his home near the head waters of the Narragansett bay and here reared his family. He was married in East Greenwich, R. I., to Susannah Spencer, October 4, 1708, by Thomas Fry, justice. She was a daughter of John and Susannah Spencer, who emigrated from Wales. The genealogy of two of their four children, John and Henry, comes down to us with unerring accuracy. John Olin, the first, died at Newport, R. I., June Jo, 1725, aged sixty-one years. Of the other children, there is no record. John Olin, second, son of above, was born in Rhode Island in 1714, was an overseer of the poor and pound keeper, and a freeman of the town of East Greenwich. He married in East Green- wich, December 8, 1734, Susannah Pierce, daughter of Jeremiah Pierce, of Rhode Island. They lived in Rhode Island, where they reared their family, but in later life they returned to Shaftsbury, Vt., where they had four sons living. The following children were born of this marriage.: Phebe, Jonathan, Anna, John, John (second), Gideon, Giles and Barbara. During the struggle for independence this family took an active part, and some of them were raised to the rank of officers in the colonial army. John Olin died in January, 1797, aged eighty-three years, and Susan his wife, died in February, 1802, aged eighty-seven years. John Olin, third generation, and the third son of John, was born September 17, 1741, and married Sarah Card in Rhode Island about 1764, and moved to Vermont to escape. the lawlessness of the British soldiers on the coast, and in 1775 settled in the Green mountains. His children were Paris, Hannah, Ezra, Phebe, Henry, Nancy, and Joseph. John Olin, third; died September 24, 182r, aged eighty years, and Sarah, his wife died Tune 12, 1819. Arvin Olin, son of Ezra and Ruth (Green) Olin, was born July 13, 1797, and at the age of thirteen years was bound out to a farmer for seven months of the summer season, until nineteen years old. During a part of each winter he was allowed to attend school, and at nineteen his father gave him his freedom. The first summer he worked for a farmer for $16 per month and taught school during the winter in a district school. Here he won his wife, who was Miss Betsy Bennett—one of his pupils—and they were married March 9, 1817. On the 18th of March, not finding employment in his neighborhood, he shouldered his knapsack and started in pursuit of employ ment and a home. After a journey of 300 miles on foot, he arrived in Perry—then Genesee county, N. Y., where his elder brother 782 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD had settled the year previous, and with his assistance he bargained for fifty acres of land, of which six acres had been cleared, and on which a small house had already been built. The price was $1,300, all on credit. He remained here through the season and worked part of the time on his land and part of the time for wages, and having made some preparation for living, in September he walked back to Vermont for his wife. About October 1st of the same year they packed their few effects in a two-horse wagon, which he hired, and with a teamster started for their new home in the west, as that part of New York state was called, and they arrived at his small log cabin in the woods about the 20th of October, and he, by working for others and the help of his brother John, and making potash, was quite enabled to get through the winter. He was joined by his brother Samuel, who came out the second year, to whom he sold a part of these fifty acres, and they worked together for three and one-half years. Mr. Olin then sold Samuel the place and bought another partly-improved farm near by, to which he added during the succeeding eight years, until he owned 210 acres, and here lived until November 22, 1834; having sold his farm, he located in Portage county, Ohio, where he lived for a few weeks in Mantua, and in 1834, late in December, settled on the farm in Franklin township, where he passed the remainder of his days, and died June 7, 1870, aged seventy-two years. His wife, Betsy Bennett, was born February 6, 180i, at Bennington, Vt. Her parents were Francis and Cynthia Bennett. She attended the district school in Bennington at the time it was taught by Arvin Olin. She was married in Bennington, and while her husband was away west, she was busily engaged in spinning, weaving and making articles of use for her western home. In the spring of 1835, he made brick and built a two-story brick house, which is still standing in a good state of preservation, and by his steady industry he greatly improved the farm. He had a farm of 240 acres, and was an excellent citizen and served as township trustee several years, and justice of the peace many years. He was a member of the board of education and of the Universalist church. He was a man of strong character and reared an excellent family. His wife Betsy died January 5, 1872, aged seventy years; they were the parents of. thirteen children, viz: Cynthia, Mary R., Franklyn, Ransom, Henrietta, Nelson, Merilla, Sarah A., Laura, Almira, Anson, I)iantha, and one died an infant, nine days old. Mary R. Olin received the usual limited school education and married at fifteen years of age, November 29, 1835, in Franklin township, James D. Haymaker, the son of Frederick and Rachael (Davis) Haymaker. John Haymaker, son of jacob and the father of Frederick, came to Portage county with his wife, Sallie, and children, Jacob, George and Catherine, and settled in Kent, on the Cuyahoga river, coming from Warren, Ohio, where they had located a year previously, having come from Pittsburg. They were of German descent and members of a large connection of that name in central and northern Pennsylvania. The father, Jacob, had prospected through this section of the country during the spring of 1805, and, being pleased with the country, now Franklin township, purchased of Olmstead's agent a tract of land consisting of the present site of the Kent mills. Arriving at the Cuyahoga, John 'and his family took possession of a. rude cabin left by the surveyors, in 1803, which stood just west of where the upper bridge now is. This hut had been used for several years indiscriminately by the Indians and a shelter for deer and other wild animals, and was about a foot deep with OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 783 excrement, which had to be shoveled out before occupation. During the time they occupied this hovel, the Indians came around in great numbers, as the headquarters of the red-skins were at the falls of the Cuyahoga and on a small stream in Streetsboro township. One day, while the Haymakers were occupying this cabin, a few Indians came there and the squaw, as usual, took her papoose from her back and stood the board to which it had been strapped up against the logs of the cabin, as they never took their children into the houses of whites, except in very cold weather. After the squaw had gone in, a wild hog came through the brush, and grasping the Indian baby ran off with it; the mother, hearing the noise, ran out and rescued her babe, but not until she had badly beaten the hog. In the spring of 1806, George Haymaker, brother of John, and their father, Jacob, came in. Jacob built a house on the west side of the river where the Kent mills now stand. During the fall of 1i8o6 Frederick Haymaker came in. He 806another son of Jacob. He purchased a tract of land including most of the upper village. He was a man of fine educational and natural abilities, and served as private secretary to the famous Aaron Burr on the well known cxpedition for which Burr was tried for treason. Frederick was the father of twenty children by three wives. The Haymaker family owned about 600 acres on the present site of Kent. The older Haymakers were Indian traders. During 1807 the Hay-maker's built a small mill. The stones for grinding were those known as hard heads and were prepared by Bradford Kellogg, of Hudson. The mill was a very crude affair and was used before it was entirely finished. Crotched poles were planted, upon which other poles were placed. A coarse cloth was used as a bolting-cloth—the work being done by hand. This primitive affair was of great convenience to the settlers and was used with but little improvement for several years. The first white child born in Kent was John F. Haymaker, son of John and Sallie Haymaker, born September II, 1807. The first death was that of Eve Haymaker, wife of Jacob, father of the first settler, John. Jacob died in 1819, John in 1827, George in 1838 and Frederick died in Trumbull county Ohio, at Leavittsburg, in 185o. Sallie died on June 15, 1869, at the great age of ninety-four years, having lived in this township seventy years. The old burying ground in which Eve Haymaker was buried in 1810 was donated by one of the Haymakers for burial purposes and consisted of two acres of land. In 1831-2 Federick Haymaker sold his property, consisting of 100oo acres of land and a fine water pour in the upper village of Kent. Frederick was born at Little York, Pa., November 7, 1772. He married Eleanor Robertson, who was born in Pittsburg, Pa., March 9, 777, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and died at Pittsburg, Pa., November 19, 1807. By his first marriage to Eleanor Robertson he was the father of the following children, John, Sarah, Mary, Andrew, Margaret, Sarah, and Susannah. Mrs. Haymaker died, and he then married Rachael Davis, who was born December 12, 1788, at Shippensburg, Pa., and she died September 15, 1809, in Franklin township, Portage county, Ohio, the mother of one child, James Davis. Frederick Haymaker married, for his third wife, Mary Swan, born June 19, 1789, in Westmoreland county, Pa., and bore the following children: Allen, William D., Rachael, Eliza, Rebecca, Frederick, George, Cynthia, Jesse, Francis, Marion, and Henry Clay. A period of over thirty-six years elapsed between the birth of his first child and his last, who was born seventeen years before his death. His first child was born when he was about 784 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD twenty-five years old, and the last when he was about sixty-one years old. Frederick Haymaker was a prosperous man, of excellent character and much respected among the pioneers. In early days he built a woolen-mill at Kent, Ohio, which he ran several years. He was a man of marked ability and had a good knowledge of medicine, which he practiced among the pioneers. In his earlier days he was a well-known Indian trader. James D. Haymaker was born September 2, 1809, a short distance from the spot where Brady made his leap across the Ohio river in Franklin township, Portage county. He received a very limited education in the district school and gained much of his knowledge himself. He worked in the woolen-mill with his father when he was young, and at the age of twenty-two years he engaged in the manufacture of wooden pails with his brother, William, at what is now Kent, Ohio, then Franklin Mills. For two years he had charge of a hotel at Fairport, on lake Erie, and returned to Franklin township, where he engaged in farming, a pursuit which he ever afterward followed. He married November 29, 1835, Mary R. Olin, born February 22, 1820, in Genesee county, N. Y., a daughter of Arvin and Betsy (Bennett) Olin. Mr. and Mrs. Haymaker were the parents of fourteen children, viz: Franklin, Oscar F., Rachael D., Ann M., Arvin 0., Mary R., James A., Clarissa L., Almira B., Martha A., Cora E., William J., Abbie M., and an infant unnamed. Mr. Haymaker was a strong Union man, and a stanch republican. He had one son in the Civil war—James A.—a private of company 1, One Hundred and Ninety-third regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, who served seven months, enlisting when sixteen years old. Mr. Haymaker was a member of the Universalist church of Kent, and was church trustee many years. He was an honored citi zen, township trustee many years, and justice of the peace several terms; also a member of the school board. He lived to be seventy-nine years old, and died January 31, 1889. He was a pioneer of great worth, always industrious and frugal, well known for his honesty, and he accumulated a goodly property, owning a well-improved farm of 200 acres. Politically, he was a life-long republican. He was of an active mind and strong character. Mrs. Haymaker is yet living, and is a venerable lady of over seventy-seven years of age. Her faculties are remarkably well preserved, and she possesses an excellent memory. She is a woman of very wide experience and for many years has taken an active interest in historical matters pertaining to the county, and to her family, and possesses a wonderful fund of fact and reminiscences. She has since her husband's death managed her homestead with wisdom and prudence, and has succeeded in preserving it in good condition. Her daughter, Abbie M., resides with her mother. She married Edmund W. Case, son of Henry and Mary Case. They have one daughter, Lona M. RUFUS L. WILLARD (deceased), formerly one of the respected residents of Cuyahoga Falls, was a descendant of Revolutionary ancestry. Major Willard, the founder of the family in America, came with an English Puritan emigration between 1630 and 1640, and settled near Boston, Mass. On the maternal side, the subject also descends from Revolutionary stock, his maternal grandfather having served as a soldier in the war for independence. John O. Willard, father of Rufus L., was born in Hartland township, Windsor county, Vt., in March, 1788. He was a lumberman, and married, in Vermont, Silinda Lamb, who was born in 1787. Mr. Willard came to Ohio OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 789 in the fall of 1818 and worked one season, then walked back from Cleveland to Vergennes, Vt., in 1818, a distance of about 700 miles, making this long distance in fourteen days, or at the rate of about fifty miles per day. Mr. Willard, in 1820, moved his family to Cleveland, Ohio, in May, coming on the first steamboat, Walk in the Water, on Lake Erie. The passengers were landed in Cleveland in small boats. Mr. Willard's family consisted of his wife and four children—Sarah, Harrison, Adelia and Anson; Elliott S. and Rufus L. were born in Cleveland. Mr. Willard bought land where the northwest corner of. Euclid and Wilson avenues now is, and cleared up a farm of fifty-four acres, built a residence and other buildings, and engaged in the manufacture of wagons. He lived to be forty-four years old, and died, in 1832, in Cleveland. In his day Cleveland was a small village, mostly composed of hewed log houses. His widow passed all her remaining days on the old place and died in June, 1865, having been a member of .the Christian church many years. Rufus L. Willard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 8, 1825, on his father's farm and received the education of the pioneer schools in that city, attending district school in a log school-house during the winter, and a select school in summer. He learned the painting business and made a specialty of marine work and fine painting. He married, November 17, 1847, Mary Tifft, who was born September 24, 1829, in Cato, N. Y., a daughter of Charles and Jane Ann (Chase) Tifft. Charles Tifft was born at Danville, Vt., March 25, 1800, a a son of Matthew and Sarah (Carr) Tiff t. The Tiffts were of English ancestry and probably came with the English Puritans to New England and were early colonial settlers in Vermont. Matthew Tifft was born in New York, September 12, 1771, and was a shoemaker He was a member of the Methodist church and he and wife were the parents of Charles, Joseph, John, Keziah and Polly. Mr. Tifft was killed by accident May 31, 1829. He was a prosperous farmer, in comfortable circumstances, and was buried on his old farm. Charles Tifft, son of above, received his early education in the public schools and married in New York state, at Cato, Jane Ann Chase, who was born August 14, 1809, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a daughter of Joshua and Mary (Hackett) Chase. Joshua Chase was born in Rhode Island, being a descendant of one of three Chase brothers, John, Aquilla and William, who came from England in 1730 and settled in that state. The original Joshua, the founder of this branch of the Chase family, married a Miss Johnson, and they had the following children: Polly, Mary, Joshua, Job, Johnson, Nathan, Maxon, Merza and Electa. Grandfather Joshua Chase married Mary Hackett. Their children were Austin (born in Connecticut), Nathan, Edwin, and Jane Ann (born in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.), John A. (born in New York), Johnson (born in Red Kill, N. Y.) and Northrup (born at Cato, N. Y.). Joshua Chase was a shoemaker and substantial citizen. He died at Cato, a Methodist in religion and a man of many virtues. Salmon P. Chase, the great war statesman, was a descendant of this family. Charles Tifft, after marriage, settled at Cato, N. Y., and was a manufacturer of potash. In 1833 he came with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, and lived on a farm on what is now Wilson avenue for four years, cleared up 100 acres of land of heavy timber, and then came to Norton, Summit county, and bought a farm of 200 acres, where he lived for five years, and in 1841 moved to Cuyahoga Falls, where he established the first livery stable and a hack line to Hudson, and continued in this business many years. Mr. Tifft was also en- 790 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD gaged in the pottery business, and was at one time proprietor of what is now the Clifford Inn. He prospered and bought a great deal of real estate. He and wife were the parents of twelve children: Sarah, Mary, George, Caroline, born in Cato, N. Y.; Adaline, born in Cleveland, Ohio; Mark, born in Barberton, Ohio; Lucinda, Euphemia, Julia, Jane Ann, Willard H. and Edwin H. Mr. Tifft was a well known and prosperous citizen, was highly respected, lived to be eighty-five years old, and died June 30, 1885. After marriage Mr. Willard settled in Cleveland and followed his business of painting for nearly fifty years, and then engaged in glass staining ten years. He built a substantial residence of brick at the corner of J and Pearl streets, in which he resided with his family for nearly thirty-seven years. He and his wife were the parents of one son, Charles A. (now deceased). Mrs. Willard is a member of the Christian church, and in politics Mr. Willard was a republican. Fraternally he was a Mason, a member of Biglow lodge, Cleveland, Ohio, and of Thatcher chapter, and had been master of his lodge and held numerous offices. He was also a K. T. and a member of Oriental commandery, No. 12. Mr. Willard was entirely a self-made man and was always noted for his industry and integrity. Mr. Willard was a member of the school board of Cleveland eight years and president of the board one year. Mr. and Mrs. Willard came to Cuyahoga Falls in 1892, having retired from active life, and here he died June 6, 1897. In the death of Rufus L. Willard, Ohio lost one of her noble and true men. To his funeral there came from his old lodge at Cleveland nearly loo members, to do honor to his memory. Charles A. Willard, born April 3o, 1849, in Cleveland, Ohio, received a good education in the public schools and engaged in the wall paper business. When he was a boy of sixteen years he enlisted in Capt. Russell's company, in the One Hundred and Eighty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served one year, when he was disabled and was confined for some time in a hospital. He married, in Cleveland, Catherine Arntz, and they had three children, Silenda, Jennie and Frank W. Charles A. Willard was a member of the Masonic fraternity, Thatcher chapter. He was a man of strict integrity, and was greatly respected wherever known, and died April 6, 1896. CLIFFORD S. HIDDLESON, M. D., of Atwater, Portage county, Ohio, was born in Randolph. in the same county, May 8, 1860, and is a son of John and Mary (Prosser) Hiddleson, both of whom were born in Ohio, the former in 1843 and the latter in 1843, Mrs. Hiddleson dying, however, in 1891. Mr. Hiddleson, a harnessmaker by trade, has followed this business upward of thirty-eight years, and has always been respected for his straightforward dealing and unswerving honesty. He was a soldier in the Sixteenth Ohio volunteer infantry during the Civil war, and is now a member of the G. A. R. Dr. C. S. Hiddleson received his early education in the district and high schools of Randolph, and pursued his Latin and German studies under a Catholic priest named Rebholtz, and also under the Lutheran minister. After leaving his tutors he entered upon the study of medicine under Drs. Price and Perkins of Randolph, with whom he remained four years, and then went to Cleveland and took a course of study in the Western Reserve College of Medicine, in the meantime reading for six months in the office of Dr. X. C. Scott, of that city. He then went to Cincinnati and OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 791 there completed his medical studies at the Ohio Medical college, in March, 1883, and then returned to Randolph, where he formed a partnership for practice with Dr. J. Price, which partnership continued for three and one-half years. He then came to Atwater, met with unequivocal and unqualified success in his profession, and here he has since remained. Dr. Hiddleson was united in marriage October 1, 1885, with Miss Ella Mendenhall, a native of Randolph, and the accomplished daughter of W. P. and Aseneth Mendenhall, of Atwater, this union resulting in the birth of two children, viz: Robert M., July 1, 1887, and Dorothy, June 3o, 1889. The doctor and wife are members of the Congregational church, in which he holds the office of trustee, and are rearing their children in the same faith. Fraternally, the doctor is a member of Unity chapter, No. 12, R. A. Masons, of Ravenna; holds the office of chancellor commander in the Knights of Pythias order, being a member of Atwater lodge, No. 164, and is past commander of the Knights of Maccabees, Atwater tent, No. 64. In politics the doctor is a sound money republican and protectionist; holds the office of health inspector of Atwater and is a member of the board of education. He is genial and courteous, is respected for his professional skill, and socially he and wife are always welcome at the homes of the best people of Atwater township. WARREN T. HAYES, one of the most respected citizens of Streetsboro township, Portage county, Ohio, and a gallant soldier of the late Civil war, springs from an old colonial family of Massachusetts, and was born in Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, May 31, 1846, a son of Elijah and Sallie (Fowler) Hayes. He received a good common-school education, and enlisted, at the age of eighteen years, at Cleveland, Ohio, March 3, 1864, in company K, Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, and served until honorably discharged at Camp Chase, Ohio, July 13, 1865—a period of one year, four months and thirteen days. He was always an active soldier, except one month, when he was home on sick furlough with lung fever. The winter was extremely cold and the summer hot, and Mr. Hayes suffered a great deal from exposure, from which he has never recovered. Warren T. Hayes, as a defender of his country's honor and her flag, was unswerving in his efforts. He was faithful to the trust imposed upon him, and his services as a private in company K, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, were promptly recognized. His arduous duties were guarding and taking care of rebel prisoners at Johnson's Island, but he was frequently called upon to help form detachments for important services elsewhere. His work during the enlistment ofttimes called him in pursuit of the rebels in western Virginia, during the year 1862. Mr. Hayes enjoys the confidence of his comrades, as well as those who know him in his vicinity. He is possessed of a genial, cordial disposition, is sympathetic in manner and has a good word for all. The citizens of the United States should ever honor those brave men who offered their lives, if need be, as a sacrifice upon the altar of liberty. Mr. Hayes returned to Geauga county after the war and engaged in farming until 1870, when he came to Portage county, and here married, March 22, 1871, in Streetsboro township, Laura A. Trotter, a native of the township, born September 17, 1842, a daughter of John and Harriet (Johnson) Trotter, the former of whom, an old settler of Streetsboro, was born in Ireland and came to New York state, and thence to Aurora township, where he died 792 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD a venerable man of eighty-three years. His children were Laura A. and Annie. Mrs. Hayes was the eldest in her father's family. Her sister Annie was the wife of Melville Smith, of Streetsboro township. They had one child, Annie, and she is the wife of William Bell, who is a farmer. Mrs. Smith died October 20, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes settled on the present homestead after marriage, and their children are Fred A. and Annie Z. In politics Mr. Hayes is a republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant ; is a member of the G. A. R., William T. Sherman post, No. 68, Hudson, Ohio, and is at present officer of the day. Mr. Hayes is a straightforward, honorable man and a good citizen. George, great-grandfather of Warren T. Hayes, was a farmer of Connecticut and was born December 12, 1726. The first of the name of Hayes in America was born in Scotland in 1655, came to Windsor, Conn., in 1680, moved to Simsbury, Conn., in 1698 and died there September 2, 1725. He married, the first time, at Windsor, Conn., about 1682, and had born to him a son, George, who died an infant, April 3, 1683. The first wife died in 1698, and he next married, also at Windsor; Conn., Abigail Dibble, only daughter of Samuel Dibble, of Windsor, by his first wife. She was born January 19, 1868, and died in 1725. Eleven children are mentioned in his will of April 30, 1725, viz: Abigail, born in Windsor 1664 and married Paul T. Thompkins; Daniel, born in Windsor, April 26, 1686, ancestor of president R. B. Hayes; Sarah, born in Windsor, 1687-8, and married John Gossard; Mary, born in Windsor, 1690 and married William Rice; Joanna, born in Windsor, 1690 and married James Hilyer; George, the third, born Windsor, March 9, 1695 and died in or after 1765; William, born in Windsor, June 13, 1697; Samuel, born in Simsbury. 1699. George Hayes, the fourth, was born at Windsor, March 9, 1765, and by his marriage became the father of the following children: Jonathan, Zera, George, Elisha, Jane, Mary, David, Benjamin, Jacob, Elija, Amos, James and Sarah. The Hayes family is of undoubted Scottish ancestry, although, since the days of William the Conqueror, branches of the family have lived in England. Four families by the name of Hayes are recorded in New England in the seventeenth century—one of them in New Hampshire, and the other three in Connecticut. First—Thomas, of Milford, Conn., 1645, whose descendants removed a few years later to Newark, N. J., where they remain to this day. Second—Nathaniel, of Norwalk, Conn., 1651, of whose family no trace is found after the year 1729. Third—John, of Dover, N. H., who came in 1640, from Scotland, and was the founder of a widespread and honorable New England family, many of whom still cluster around the old homes in New Hampshire and Maine. Fourth—George, of Windsor, Conn., who came, also, from Scotland as early as 1680, being then about twenty-five years of age, and whom an early tradition among his progeny calls a brother of the New Hampshire emigration. No proof of this nor any relationship has yet appeared, but the tradition shows the undoubted Scottish descent of both families, and their coming to New England about the same time and the unmistakable coincidence of names. From George Hayes, of Windsor, Conn., ex-President Hayes descended, and many of the Ohio branch. A manuscript record, written or dictated by Ezekiel Hayes, first, of New Hampshire (born 1724 and died 1807, grandson of George, of Windsor, Conn.), says that George Hayes went from Scotland to Derbyshire, England, and lived with his OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 793 uncle. He was anxious to see London, whither he went. Having received some account of America, he took passage, and came to this country. He married, and three children were born to him. His wife died, and also his children. Afterward he married Abigail Dibble, of Long Island, and settled in Windsor, Conn., and by her he had ten children. George Hayes died at Simsbury, Conn., September 2, 1725; Daniel is the next in this line; then Ezekiel; then Rutherford, and then Rutherford, the father of R. B. Hayes, ex-president of the United States. Of Daniel, the second generation, it is stated that when he was about twenty-two years old he was taken prisoner by the Indians, almost in sight of his old home, and carried a captive to Canada, and held four years. An interesting account of this is given in Phelps's History of Sunbury. For full Hayes genealogy, see life of George Hayes, of Windsor, and his descendants, by Rev. Charles Wells, M. A., Westfield, N. Y., printed at Buffalo, N. Y., by Wells, Jones & Co. Eli Hayes, grandfather of Warren T., came to Burton, Geauga county, Ohio, in 18o1, and cleared up a farm of about 100 acres, and here remained until his death on his farm—a venerable man of about ninety-three years of age, and a respected pioneer. His children were Simeon, Elijah, Amos, Amanda, and Polly. Elijah Hayes, father of Warren T., was born at Russell, Hampden county, Mass., in 1784, and came with his parents to Ohio when seven years old. He was always a farmer and owned a farm of [17 acres of good land. To his marriage with Sallie Fowler were born the following children': Eber B., Arvilla L., and Warren T. Mr. Hayes lived to be eighty-seven years old, and died at Chardon, Geagua county, Ohio. He was a member of the Methodist church from the age of twenty-one years, and was a class leader. In politics, he was a whig and republican, and was an honored citizen and upright man. WILLIAM H. HARR is a respected citizen of Mantua Station, though he was born in Green county, Ohio, August, 1, 1845, the son of Jacob and Maria Harr, both of whom came from Washington county, Md. William H. removed, with his father, to Dayton, Ohio, when he was about eight years old, and attended first the public school and then the free academy, and gained a good education. He attended school until 186o, and then began learning the milling business at Tippecanoe City, Ohio. He enlisted in August, 1862, at Cincinnati, Ohio, as a seaman on the United States gunboat Tyler for two years, and served until his time of enlistment expired, receiving an honorable discharge at Cairo, Ills., on the Clara Dolsen, a United States receiving ship, August, 1864. He was in the battle of Lake Providence, skirmish at Millican Bend, and at Vicksburg, Hayne's Bluff, and in the Red River expedition and a battle at Helena, Ark., and in several minor engagements. Mr. Harr was a good soldier, and prompt and cheerful in the discharge of all his duties, and served his country faithfully. He considers the hardest battle he was in was at Helena, Ark. His captain was James Pritchett, a regular naval officer, ranking as captain. After the war Mr. Harr returned to Tippecanoe City, Ohio, and continued the milling business as soon as he was able, one year being wasted on account of his disease—the chronic diarrhea, incurred in the war, and from which disease he has ever since suffered. He came to Portage county about 187o, and bought Fenn Valley mills, which he still continues to run. He, in company with his father, Jacob 794 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD Harr, built in 1876 the Mantua City mills, which burned in 1879, and W. H. Harr, who then owned the mill, lost about $9,000. He then returned to the Fenn Valley mills and one year later went to Xenia, Ohio, and bought a mill which he sold one year later, and then operated a mill in Tippecanoe City for two years, and thirteen years ago returned to the Fenn Valley mill, which he has operated since. Politically he is a republican and a member of the G. A. R., Mantua Station, Bentley post, of which he has served as adjutant; also is a member of the K. of P. Mr. Harr has always been a hard-working, industrious man, and was a good soldier, and has always stood high for his integrity of character. Mr. Harr married, August 18, 1878, Nannie J. Crocker, born July 27, 185o, at Hiram, Portage county, Ohio, daughter of Amos and Mary Jane (Mannis) Crocker. Amos Crocker was the son of David and Nannie (Warren) Crocker. David Crocker was born in Connecticut and came as a pioneer to Portage county, settled in Freedom township, where he owned and cleared up a large farm, and was a substantial farmer. He was the father of Thomas, Amos, Orlando, Lucretia, Charlotte, Salomie and Nancy. David Crocker lived to be an aged man and died on his farm, a much respected pioneer. Amos Crocker was born in Connecticut, and came when a boy to Ohio with his parents, and here married Mary J. Mannis. He was a blacksmith and wagonmaker, and lived in Freedom and Hiram townships all his life. He was a mechanical genius and could make anything of iron and wood. He made guns as well as wagons, and many other things, and was a well-known man. His children were Nannie J., Emma D., Mary L., Lillie G., Olive A., James T., Ella M. and Rose. Mr. Crocker was an industrious man, much re spected by all. He died aged fifty-three years. His widow lives in Hiram, aged sixty-three. Jacob Harr, father of subject, was the son of Rudolph, who was the son of Rudolph, and this name has been handed down to this branch of the Harr family in America for five generations. In early times two brothers came over—one named Rudolph. They left one family home to hold the old family name, which was of noble ancestry. The family settled on the line of Maryland and Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary war. Rudolph, grandfather of subject, was a pioneer in Washington county, Md., where he was one of the best and largest farmers of that county. He sold out and bought a farm in Montgomery county, Ohio, as a pioneer, settling in Dayton, at Shakerstown. Here he had a good farm of 160 acres, and here passed his active life. He was drowned in the Miami river at Tippecanoe City. Jacob Harr, father of subject, was born in Washington county, Md., and came to Montgomery county, Ohio, when a young man. He had learned the milling trade in Maryland, near Baltimore. He was married, in 1837, in Dayton, to Marie Howard, by Rev. D. Winters, and their children were Nettie A., William H., Amanda E., Mary C., and Anna M. Mr. Harr worked at his trade, of a miller in Dayton, and in the early 'fifties owned the largest mill in that city. He located, in 1858, in Montgomery, Ala., and engaged in milling, but was interrupted by the Civil war, when he returned to Tippecanoe, re-engaged in milling, and then came with his son, William H., to Mantua Station, where he died, in 1876. He was a member of the old Dunkard church, and an honest and upright man. Marie Howard was of German ancestry, and was the daughter of H. Hunt. Mr. Hunt, the grandfather of Mrs. Jacob Harr, was a commissioned officer in the Hessian army during OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 795 the Revolutionary war, and resigned. his commission from the British army and joined the patriot army. He was captured and was to be shot as a deserter, but through Gen. Washington's influence he was exchanged. Mr. and Mrs. Harr have the following children: Rudolph Howard, born August 20, 1879; Blaine, born January 9, 1881; William Oliver, born January 14, 1883, and John Benjamin, born February 10, 1885. ABRAHAM HUFFMAN, a pioneer farmer of Edinburg township, Portage county, Ohio, is a native of Red Bank township, Armstrong county, Pa., and was born January 27, 1821, a son of William and Christina (Money) Huffman. William Huffman was a native of Vermont, and his wife of Pennsylvania, in which latter state they were married, and about 1825 came to Ohio, and for six years lived at Deerfield, Portage county. Mr. Huffman then purchased a farm of l00 acres in Rootstown township, where he followed farming until his death at the age of eighty-six years, his widow living to reach the advanced age of ninety-two. They were the parents of nine children beside the subject, who were named Philip, Henry, Adam, John, Martha, Catherine, Jacob, William, and Anna, all now deceased, with the exception of Abraham (the subject). Abraham Huffman, who was but four years of age when brought by his parents to Ohio, was educated in the only school-house then in his neighborhood. This was a rude log structure, the light to which was admitted through holes cut in the log walls, and protected by cheese-cloth. The teacher generally boarded with one patron and then with another, and his fee was $1 per term of three months for each pupil, and this old building was situated on the farm Mr. Huffman now owns. He well remembers the wild animals and birds that inhabited the woods when he was a boy —among which were bears, foxes, deer, wolves, squirrels and turkeys; and he also recalls an incident which occurred to his father one bright Sunday morning when the latter was on his way to church at Atwater. The father was threading his way along a narrow path through the woods, when he sighted a bear in his way, which he succeeded in " treeing, " calling for help, he was soon joined by his sons, who secured a rifle from their home at no great distance, and bruin soon became the victim of the deadly aim of the father, who then pursued his way to the meeting house, while the boys lugged the bear to their home, to be further discussed at future meals. After leaving school subject went to farming with his parents in Rootstown. He married, January 2,1842, Miss Jane Summerill, who was born March 23, 1824, in Lexington township, Stark county, Ohio, a daughter of Harrison and Hope (Crockford) Summerill, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of New Jersey. The father of Harrison was of English descent, was a slaveholder in Virginia, and met his death at the hand of one of his own slaves. Harrison was born in 1789, served in the war of 1812, and died in Indiana in 1861, while on a visit to some of his children and his wife. Hope, who was of Scotch descent, born in 1800, died in Lexington, Stark county, Ohio, in 1833. After marriage Mr. Huffman started farming on his own account, leasing land from his father, in Rootstown, on which he remained several years, and then, disposing of his lease to a sister, moved to Edinburg township, where he purchased a farm three-quarters of a mile south of his present place, and this farm of fifty-eight acres of improved land he sold to Stacy Dole. He then purchased from Stacy Dole and John Wilks a tract of 102 acres, of 796 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD which he sold one acre to the township as a site for a school building. This tract Mr. Huffman has converted into a comfortable home, and here resides with his wife and daughter and two grandchildren. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Huffman has been blessed with three children—Alvira Rosalia, Marion J. and Hope Victoria. Of these Alvira R. is the wife of Lucius F. Butler, an agriculturist, of Rootstown, and is the mother of two children—Mary Lillian and Clarence Metz. Mary Lillian is the wife of Dr. Mallott, of Rootstown Center, a man of brilliant education. Marion is married to Emma Bow, resides in Randolph township, and is the father of one child, Mertie B., who is the wife of Charles Colton and the mother of one child, Glen Colton. Hope Victoria was first married to William J. Stratton, to whom she bore one child—Marion J.—and after the death of Mr. Stratton was married to David Luli, by whom she became the mother of another child—Helen Jane. Hope Victoria resides with her two children on the home farm with her parents. Mrs. Huffman had three sisters and two brothers, and of this family of six there are only three survivors, viz: Mrs. Huffman, the eldest; Susan, wife of David Wood, a native of the Highlands of Scotland, and residing in Waterville, Minn. ; William, a farmer, of Michigan, who married a Miss Howe (now deceased), and had born to him seven children. Clarence Metz Huffman is employed in the pension office at Washington, D. C. In April, 1881, Mr. Huffman rented his farm and retired to Atwater, where he conducted the hotel known as the American house for eight years, when, failing health disinclining him for further business pursuits, he rented his hotel and returned to his farm, where he is passing his days in peace, as a wealthy and honored citizen is well entitled to do. Mr. Huffman is not connected with any secret order, nor has he ever held a public office, although in his political proclivities he is a democrat. No man in the township, however, is more respected or more favorably known throughout Portage county. LIEUT. ASA WHITESTINE, of No. 1001 East Exchange street, Akron, Ohio, is one of the veteran soldiers of the Civil war and a member of Buckley post, No. 12, G. A. R., of Akron, Ohio. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, March 4, 1841, a son of James and Massie (Shreve) Whitestine. He was taken by his parents to Huntington, Ind., in 1841, when he was but six months old. There he grew to manhood and enlisted, and was mustered into the United States service at Camp Sullivan, Indianapolis, Ind., October 11, 1861, for three years or during the war, in company F, Forty-seventh regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, under Capt. Sextus H. Shearer. He was honorably discharged at New Iberia, La., December 16. 1863, to enable him to re-enlist, on the same date, as corporal in the same organization, three years as a veteran. He then served until honorably discharged as first sergeant, by reason of the close of the war, at Baton Rouge, La., by Capt. Jefferson F. Slusser, October 23, 1865. His first promotion was from corporal to fifth sergeant, January 1, 1864, at Algiers, La., next for meritorious conduct to be first sergeant, April 10, 1865, at Blakely, Ala., and received his commission as first lieutenant July 1, 1865 (but was not mustered in as such), his commission bearing the signature of the famous war governor of Indiana, Oliver P. Morton. He was in the following-named battles: New Madrid, Miss., Island No. to, Riddle's Point, Fort Pillow, Memphis, Tenn., Brown's OF PORTAGE AND SUMMIT COUNTIES - 799 plantation, Haines' Bluff, Bolivar Bluffs, Ark., Arkansas Post, Yazoo Pass expedition and siege of Fort Pemberton, Miss., Bruimbury and Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Bayou Bridge, Mill Creek, Champion Hills, Big Black River, siege of Vicksburg, the Jackson, expedition to Carrion Crow Bayou, La., Grand Coteau, Red River campaign and Sabine Cross Roads, Cane River, Alexandria Dam, Atchafalaya River, Moscow, Tenn., Spanish Fort, Ala., and Fort Blakely and Mobile, Ala. Lieut. Whitestine was in a fighting regiment. He was in twenty-five battles, and in skirmishes too numerous to mention. He has a splendid military record, saw fighting from the beginning to the end of the great war, but never received a wound nor was a prisoner. He was, however, confined in hospital with bloody flux at Helena, Ark, ten days—many of his regiment dying away quickly of that dread disease. He considers his hardest battle to be Champion Hills, and the next hardest Port Gibson. In front of Spanish Fort, the rebels charged the picket line at daybreak. He was sergeant of the picket, and held his position until the line broke, and he found his squad surrounded, but he escaped, leaving but few men killed. For his gallant conduct on this occasion he was promoted to be first sergeant. He considers the Vicksburg campaign to be the most severe in which he was engaged, as in this he carried eight days' rations, and 120 pounds of ammunition for several days. Mr. Whitestine was a very hardy soldier, and endured all the hardships of a soldier's life with fortitude, and served the country faithfully. After the war Mr. Whitestine returned to Huntington and engaged in contracting and teaming. He married there, October 8, 1868, Rebecca Immel, a native of Ohio, and a daughter of David and Elizabeth Immel. Mr. Whitestine moved to Columbus, Ohio, in - 33 - 1871, and engaged in contracting, and in 1877 came to Akron, where he has since lived and has prospered. Mr. and Mrs. Whitestine are the parents of the following children: David, Celenia, Chester and Jessie. Mr. Whitestine is a member of the G. A. R., Buckley post, Akron, in which he has held the offices of officer of the day, senior and junior vice-commander. In politics he is a republican. He is also a member of the Knights of Honor, Spartan lodge, in which he has held office of director, and likewise a member of the Royal Arcanum, at Akron. Mr. Whitestine is yet well preserved, for a man who saw so much exposure and service as a soldier. His brother George was a private of company E, Seventy-fifth regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, and was killed in the battle of Stone River, when he was but seventeen years old. THOMAS T. HOPKINS, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Palmyra township, Portage county, Ohio, is a native of southern Wales, and was born April 9, 1818, a son of Thomas and Eleanor (Davis) Hopkins. Thomas Hopkins, father of Thomas T., was a farmer in Wales and one of the most extensive dealers in live stock in his section of the country. To his marriage with Eleanor Davis were born eight children, of whom Thomas T. is the sole survivor, the deceased having borne the names of Samuel, Hopkins, Daniel, David, Mary, Margaret and Hannah. The father died in 183o, at the age of sixty-one years, and the mother in 1861, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. The father never left his native land, but the mother, after her husband's decease, crossed the ocean to visit her son, the subject, and then returned to Wales, where she passed the remainder of her days, honored by all who knew her.